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Mornin’ TAY! I expect to hear plenty about the Zombie fun(?)-times that were had over the weekend!
I burnt a good chunk of time screwing around in SWTOR. Turns out I’m a pretty great Sith. So much for consistently being the good guy…
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You evil? In a fictional video game environment?
I cannot fathom
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You should see him play Sniper in TF2…
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I was a good Sith. Like an actual good Sith. Using my dark powers to save kittens from trees and stuff.
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Using Force Lightning to power an orphanage and the like?
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Of course. What else would you use force lightning for?
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Medical experiments and lightsaber testing.
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That’s always what got me. How can you be a good sith? I would prefer if it was a Lawful/Chaotic or Pure/Corrupt system.
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Good/light side Sith as presented in TOR is more about putting the Empire first over your own personal gain. For example, you’d come accross a weapon cache and you’d give the weapons to Empire troops, rather than keeping them for your own use. It’s also not needlessly causing pain, you kill, but you’re not a sadist like some Sith, and giving people second chances, if a commander fails you, you give them a chance to redeem themselves rather than strangling them to death.
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Isn’t the whole point of the Sith that they’re selfish and competitive?
Jedi use the Force for the benefit of all, Sith use the Force for themselves. Maybe I’m not really up to date on my lore (there are probably like seventeen “good” Sith in the EU that have fought Boba Fett, barely won and then went on to do something or other and things) but that does seem odd.
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Yeah but that’s not really good / evil because in the end you are still evil. What you described sounds more like Lawful and Chaotic.
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The game’s a bit odd when it comes to alignment. In lore, lightside is about letting go of your emotions and darkside is about embracing them, and that’s represented in the game, but the game also uses lightside and darkside to simply mean good and evil. It leads to some odd encounters where you’ll be playing a Sith character that is very emotional (and not in an angsty teen sort of way) and you’ll make lightside choices that will benifit the Empire, but than you’ll have characters act like you’ve gone full on Jedi, when you’re anything but. It’s quite jarring at times.
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The jarring sensation is the result of bad writing though.
The game contradicts KOTOR 1 & 2 on more than one occasion – a bizarre feeling that’s only compounded by the fact that it’s supposed to be the same company behind the games.
Try playing a Chiss as an actual tactician – probably 90% of my choices were Light Side, until I got to the end of Epsiode 1 (~level 35) and every choice I made – using the same logic I had made in choosing the Empire over myself – resulted in HUGE Dark Side gains.
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Fronds!
I have a story, recently (I think about 2 weeks ago) the family cat disappeared. Unfortunately she has not returned which is sad. Just this morning I went to pick-up a kitten from my cousin. Her boyfriend’s dad’s cat had a litter of kittens 3 weeks ago. So now I have a 3 week old kitten! He’s so FLAPPING ADORABLE, I wish I didn’t have to work today.
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Nawwwww! I wish I had a kitten. I want a kitten.
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I want one too!
A few years ago I begged Mr. Strange to let me have a kitten to keep me company while he was at work and he kept refusing. I jokingly said “Well if you won’t let me have a kitten we’ll have to have a baby instead” and he replied “I’m fine with that”. So now I have a three year old.
But I still want a kitten.-
HAHAHA!
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Actually truth be told I want a puppy. Put a kitten would suffice. I just dont like the pee smell that seems to take over houses with kittens.
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But*
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I want a husky pup! 😀
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No, you don’t. Trust me. Huskies destroy everything.
Then again, Huskies are awesome.
So it all balances out I guess.
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Bug him for a kitten again! And point at the three year old when he says no :p
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hahaha!!! ^^^^^THIS!!!!! eventually at some point he’ll give up! you might be up 5 or 6 kids till then however 🙂
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Kittens are the best. I hope your family cat returns home too.
I want a kitten, but i dare say my current cat would eat it. which is a shame, coz my current cat is pretty damned cute when she isnt being psycho.
Guild Wars 2 is pretty fun. The story and questing is a bit lame but the dynamic events are fun. Divinity’s Reach looks amazing. World vs World vs World pvp is a blast.
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We should make a TAY guild.
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We should, but I have no idea what servers everyone is on. I rolled on Sea of Sorrows because it’s the unofficial oceanic server.
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I think many have rolled Crystal Desert because Nobshot is on there 🙁
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Yeah my school friends all started on there. They are also in a guild, if you want, we can probably join them or we can do a TAY guild, I’m not too fussed.
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I’m happy to join that if they are cool with it; I just don’t want to be running around all ronery.
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If GW2 adopts the same system as GW1, we can make a TAY guild and join your friends’ in an alliance.
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I think I read somewhere that you can join as many guilds as you want in GW2, you’re not limited to one guild per character like most mmos.
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Oh wow, that sounds awesome.
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I just looked it up to confirm. It seems that guilds are also account based, rather than character based. Join a guild on one character and all your characters will become part of that guild.
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Yeah GW1 had that system, and you had the option to wear the guild cape or not 🙂
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Problem solved, if true of course 🙂
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I’m on Crystal Desert as well.
GOOD MORNING VIETNAM!
How are we all this fine day? I am full of positivity and rainbows and not a shred of cynicism.
Anyway, HI!
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ohaiyo!
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Morning Aleph! Hope this day finds you well!
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Oh it found me, alright. I tried hiding under the covers, but it found me 🙁
I replied to your comment on the last TAY, although it’s possible you didn’t see it due to it being oldTAY. It was in response to the “chained to your history, bound to sink fast” post. So I guess that means you shouldn’t go back and read it 😛
Hope you’re well mate 😀
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I did read it, man. Was going to bring it up here, but didn’t want to contaminate your optimistic mood. 😛 Thanks, though. Made me feel a little less crap about it all. :S
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Guys! Guys! I love my 3DS XL. That is all.
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We need to organise a Meat for Streetpasses. Or I’ll just leave mine on and you can drive past my house. 😛
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Hahaha! I went to Garden City on the weekend and my first thought was ‘ohman there’s so many people – I could have got so many street passes!!’. Also, so far, I have exactly no street passes :'(
Probably because I have not left home with the 3DS. Because… its big.
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Me too. Haven’t got any 3D games yet but so far it’s awesome. So many streetpasses this weekend 🙂
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I love mine too! We can be 3DS XL buddies! BIG 3DS LOVE
Week 3 of using a standing desk.
I nearly gave up on it last week when I had a moment of tiredness and my stool didn’t suffice. I wanted to laze back in a chair. But I set out to do this for a month (roughly, 4 weeks) at minimum so I will stick to it.
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What made you decide you were going to do it?
Hi everyone,
The two year came down with a trifecta of infection: middle ear, upper respitory tract and conjunctivitis. Fun times. I’ve slept 4 hours and 10 minutes in the last two nights, and am starting to catch it all, too. Pretty miserable nights, but a good excuse to hit the Play School hard during the day.
In other news, I have a big stack of The Lesser Evil books at my place going nowhere fast. Anyone looking to buy any missing volumes or see what all the (non)fuss is about? Email me: shane AT shanewsmith.com.
Hope you all are well.
Sincerely yours,
Shane (aka Who’s This Guy?)
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Good to see you around these parts still, Shane. You still on leave? How’s fatherhood 2.0 treatin’ you?
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One more week of leave. Fatherhood is a pretty good deal, but thoroughly exhausting at times like this. The addition of a second small person increases the work by a factor of at least four. I have no idea how that maths works.
How are you going?
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Same ol’, same ol’. We’re just all holding the line until your triumphant return! 😛
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Mr. Strange spent most of his paternity leave playing Valkyria Chronicles. 😛
Hope the little one gets better soon, I hate it when they’re sick. You just feel so helpless.
Hope you get better soon, too and it doesn’t just keep making the rounds of you all. *hugs*
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So I had an amazing time at the weekend (for the most part). Got some great shots done and went through a whole lotta blood. A WHOLE LOT!
Saturday went pretty good. Every one seemed really excited and we tried to film the shots in a sort-of order, shuffling what had to be shuffled. I was pretty out of my depth as we started shooting by by the end of the day’s shoot we’d definitely worked out a system. We didn’t shoot nearly as much as I’d hoped so finishing the movie off on Sunday was looking like less and less of a possibility. We did perform a daring escape of a locked car park! (see twitter or Alex’s upcoming documantary)
I managed to get 4 hours sleep on Saturday night (edited together a sequence for the guys to watch and finished the Kotaku special) and was ready to start again.
We met up and reviewed the scene I’d edited. People seemed genuinely surprised at the quality of the footage so we may be on to something. We spend a great deal of time faffing and waiting and then it became a bit of a mad dash to film the work scene and then Blaghs’ scene before he had to head back to Cranberry. We got there but I think this is about the time when enthusiasm began to wane. We rushed to get ready for the zombie fight (having FAR fewer zombies that we’d hoped.) and boredom began to set in. I tried to rush through the fight as fast as I could but that didn’t stop Shiggy getting so bored he started to play with nerf guns and constantly shout out about how he wanted lunch. (He missed his afternoon nap). We walked to an area to shoot Mark’s death-by-chainsaw. We then discovered that we had lost the bag of clothes and I lost my chance to make my reappearance on screen. By now it seemed frustration had well and truly set in so, rather than risk having everyone stop talking to me forever, I shot everything that was left in one take shots so we could break and go home.
I was still having fun though.
And I’d do it all again!
Also: http://www.flickr.com/photos/70715946@N04/sets/72157631249454258/
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I don’t think we were really bored on Sunday arvo. Just hungry. Guess I shouldn’t speak for everyone there but I had a blast the whole time.
Also those one take shots at the end looked great anyway! And sounded great. That death cry…-
You know you guys could have just eaten, right? 😛
The one take shots, not so great. The chainsaw scene really suffers. To the point where, if I could, I’d reshoot the whole thing.
And that’s not because I’m really picky. It’s just way too rushed and quite a few shots just don’t work.
The fight scene looks pretty awesome though. Flu is terrifying. TERRIFYING!
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Oh? Damn thats a shame. D:
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The were. But Flu growlong with the phone in his mouth!? Terrifying?
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did the shots turn out poorly, or was it just a bit rushed?
I mean, it was pretty dark by the time the chainsaw scene was done…Still… hopefully its workable.-
The shots were pretty poor. I think all we needed was a few more takes, but we were losing light and we’ll just have to make do.
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Gotsta keep busy on a set. The devil makes work for idle hands after all.
Photos look great man. (Listened to Potaku on the weekend too. Did not care for the ending song. :P)
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Yeah, I remember shooting a film when we were 15 and we had problems staying amused on set. The director stopped talking to all of us for a week.
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Who’s the guy on the left, here? http://flic.kr/p/cYNFzJ
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That’s #35 I think
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I think so too.
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Hi Mr. #35!
I recognised all the other people but I don’t think I’ve ever seen a picture of you before.
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#35!
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Good times.
I think I looked at the camera too much and kind of just stopped doing stuff before you called cut. Hope I didn’t botch too many takes.-
It was all great, dude! I think kids will have nightmares about you in the future.
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EPIC, this shit is gonna rock balls 😀
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Coco Crispex: Breakfast of Men
Good Morning TAY
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Morning, man. I’m cooking vegetable pies. I can taste the remorse already. 😛 How are you?
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Great, going on air @ midday so I have that to look forward to, then I get the rest of the day all to me, Mwuahahahahahaha! Ha!
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Soooo… Over the weekend they announced the new Warhammer 40k box set – Dark Vengeance.
http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/wnt/blog.jsp?pid=3700032
This is BY FAR the coolest set they have EVER released – and as a Dark Angels man, myself, my loins yearn for it…
But sooo many money points 🙁
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I actually spent a lot of the weekend looking at this set quite longingly. lol
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You could be addicted to all the drugs and still shell out less than with Warhammer
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Crack is cheaper.
It’s the slogan of many a nerdy hobby.
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Indeed it is.
Although, for all that is in the pack, its actually realllly good value.. but still… $180… lol-
loops, buy from the US. It’s that simple.
Discount Game Shop on Ebay that I told you about previously are doing it for $77 +about $20 international shipping. Apparently that’s not the limited edition though, so you miss out on the chaplain. That being said… sub $100!
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I’ve already ordered my limited edition one.
Especially since I recently stared a Dark Angels army (before the announcements)
Guys you should play 30 flights of loving! It’s super short but super great. $4.50 on steam, only 10-15 minutes long, but it has more story and interesting characters than your standard modern military fps. You may struggle with the price to time ratio, but think of it as a cup of coffee or a handful of iOS games you play for 5 minutes then give up on.
Here’s two glowing and spoiler free reviews, at least read them!
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/08/22/wot-i-think-30-flights-of-loving/
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-08-23-thirty-flights-of-loving-review
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I would, but I only have like 23cents in my steam wallet. It’s by the guy who made Gravity Bone though, which was an absolutely fantastic game.
Started watching Six Feet Under for the first time on the weekend. I loved the pilot, but was concerned I wouldn’t be able to deal with the bleakness and morbidness for an extended period of time. By the time I got to episode four all that had gone away. What was confronting in the first episode was now strangely funny now. I guess that’s that new fangled dark comedy folks are always talkin’ ’bout. 😛 Weird how I recognize most of the cast from their family friendly follow up shows. (Rachel Griffith from Brothers & Sisters, Peter Krause from Parenthood…)
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That is a fantastic series. Keep watching, you’ll love it.
Also if you get the time watch Big Love as well, sooo good.
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Best show ever made, bar none.
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Agreed!
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Hahaha, don’t hold me to something I said 12 months ago! I’ve watched a LOT of truly exceptional TV since then. SFU is still in the running though. Totally 😀
Edit: How long did it take you to find this post?
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Haha! Was just randomly time travelling and stumbled across it. XD
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HI TAY!
So I’m thinking tonight I might actually play something. GASP. But I can’t decide what Borderlands or Darksiders?
GO, GO INTERNET.
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Sleeping Dogs! Spec Ops! 😛
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BORDERLANDS BECAUSE BORDERLANDS 2 IS OUT SOON!
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Borderlands multi! GOGOGOGO!
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If you decide on borderlands I’ll co-op with you
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Darksiders! Because I’m about to start playing it, finally.
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Depends on what you are doing. Forever alone mode (singleplayer :P) I would say Darksiders. If you can get 1 – 3 people to join you in Borderlands then I would say Borderlands
How’s the tattoo healing up, Freeze? Hurt at all?
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Actually the sorest today then it’s been yet. The skins all gone tight and itchy. Should start peeling soon and feel better.
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Peeling? Peeling is really bad for a tattoo man…just saying. You want to keep it as moist as possible while its healing up. Lightly apply Bupanthen to the whole tattoo until it feels slightly greasy when you touch it. Keep applying every time it gets dry, tight or itchy.
Source: Plenty of tattoos myself.
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Morning TAY.
I love Diablo ]I[ …. Just sayin.
Also i need a new computer. I think i nearly melted the casing on my laptop as it struggled so hard to deal with all those monsters on screen and stuff.
Also like to say that Naruto ninja storm Generations (yes i shortened the name) Is surprisingly difficult even on Normal mode. It might be that im not getting hang of the controls as well as i thought, but Gaara is a right pain in the ass
Just read that article “Why I’m Rallying For Shorter Games” and the general response really annoys me.
People seem to think that a longer game is a better game.
I take the opposite approach. I think a lot of games are needlessly long, suffer from poor pacing and have excessive padding.
If a game only has 5-6 hours worth of content, padding it out to 20 hours is a terrible idea and it will just drag on.
Games like VVVVVV, LIMBO and Portal are fairly short. Most people wouldn’t pay full price for them but I haven’t met many people who were disappointed with them. They were as long as they needed to be.
Part of the problem comes from the very rigid pricing structure. Indy and smartphone games tend to get away with having more variable prices and we tend to see shorter games out of them. Major retail games are different. We’re locked into this ~$90 pricing for them and we expect ~$90 worth of content.
For some reason, people have equated this dollar figure with a set amount of hours.
This makes very little sense.
Assassin’s Creed games are as expensive as Final Fantasy games but they have completely different story structures and pacing, resulting in the FF games being much longer. Call of Duty has incredibly short single player campaigns but the game is sold for the multiplayer, so it is unfair to say it is too short when people are paying for a possibly unlimited length multiplayer experience (that being said, I loved CoD4’s single player and felt like it was well worth the price of admission).
On the other hand, Red Dead Redemption is a very slowly paced game. Most of the time, things just kind of happen when they need to happen. You can stop and do your own thing for a little while, enjoy the surroundings, skin some furry critters and the like and then get back to shooting people in the face for being dicks. It’s longer because that style of game simply doesn’t work if you tried to cram it in to something less than ten hours long.
In short, games don’t have to be long to be good value.
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I completely agree.
Now go play 30 flights of loving 😀
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You’ve got a point. Spec Ops, Heavy Rain and Uncharted are some of my favourite games of this generation and all their campaigns can be completed well under ten hours. Can’t fault the pacing either. I think people are more concerned about shorter games really meaning more disposible or lazy games, though.
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All media is disposable these days. We are a consumption culture. Finish something and then toss it aside. Very few things manage to intrigue us enough to keep coming back.
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I should probably point out that many short games are actually better produced than the longer ones. Good pacing comes from knowing what to cut and knowing what to keep. Many of the longer games have additional content that adds nothing. They simply wanted the game to be longer, so sacrificed a good experience for more of an experience.
JRPGs are an obvious offender but I think the best example here is the first Assassin’s Creed. Let’s be honest, it was a glorified tech demo. A good idea that lasted a couple of hours and probably two or three of the assassinations before the game just ran out.
Instead of admitting that they really only had that much content (which would have caused uproar because that would have been at most 4 hours long), they padded the ever loving fuck out of it. Repetitive side-missions, pointless flag collections. Many things that added nothing to the game but time.
I’d have much preferred that they admitted that they didn’t have enough content and polish what they had.
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See this i the thing, i can love a short game sometimes. Its all about the experience. Just like a 3 hour movie can reduce you to a dribbling lump if its bad, it can also keep you on the edge of your seat, but same can be said of an 80 minute movie.
I think people have the wrong idea of “value for money” when it comes to digital entertainment. I mean, current COD games would in all likelihood sell close to what it does now was no single player campaign. The way the studios gear these games is entirely for the multiplayer aspect. That said, i didnt mind “some” of the single player campaigns.
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Spiderman 3 felt like it was about 5 hours long.
My point, at least my point now (this was rather ranty and unstructured), is that time spent alone isn’t an indication of value.
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I think the point is that yeah the single player is shit in cod. but the value for most comes from the structure in the multiplayer. I’ll be the first to say that the mechanics in COD are at best broken, but the way multiplayer works and keeps you coming back for more vs other games is where the value is.
Value is defined by the individual i guess, thus nullifying all my previous arguments 🙁
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My issue is with paying $5 for a 10 minute game as she suggested. I have no issue with short games, but price accordingly.
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For example. I think Journey was well priced for why it offered. If they asked $30-40 I probably would have gotten cranky.
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I would gladly have paid double for Journey now that I’ve finished it (in fact, I bought the other games from thatgamecompany of the strength of Journey, thinking that even if I didn’t like them that I could just consider it a donation for how awesome Journey was).
I wouldn’t have paid that much when I first did. It was right at that point where I figured “yeah, this isn’t too much”.
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Yeah, I agree. In some ways I think if gaming was to go that way it wouldn’t inherently be a bad thing, it would just need a subscription kind of model instead. Pay a monthly fee for access to an assortment of games instead of a lump sum for every single one. Maybe. (That goes against me wanting to own a game and have a box on a shelf, though.)
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It was a bad example. Mainly because the majority of the readers haven’t played the game so it looks like they’re being told $5 for 10 minutes is a good idea. It might be but it’s a rather extreme situation.
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you got it! I wont buy anything that hasn’t got a good review now. Especially when it comes to mobile games. Having said that, i did fall victim to a game that got a good review on touch arcade, but was way too short for the money and had little to no replayablilty, which sorta upset me a little. The same goes whether you are paying $5 or $100 you want to feel you are getting your money’s worth.
You’d storm out of a expensive restaurant if the food come out and was burnt to a crisp or raw, however you couldn’t do the same if you just ordered something you should knew you dont like. (ie vegetarian ordering a steak). Read your reviews, check what your buying into .
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Hola y buenos días señoras y señores
Over the weekend wifey and I celebrated our 10th anniversary of being together. To celebrate this event she bestowed upon me a pair of Turtle Beach XP500’s. They are a surprisingly good set. Very clear, next to no hiss or crackle in them and great sound reproduction. I only just realised Death jingles when he walks.
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Congrats!
Yeah, some times when I’m walking around in DS2 I pay attention to that noise and it makes me feel..I dunno…like there’s treasure nearby, or something? I think I got that from another game…
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Congrats on 10 years! i will be shocked if my wife has not killed me by 8 years…i got just over 2 years to live *cries*
Also Turtle beach = epic even on their cheap ones.
Howdy Tayberinos
Hope you all had a good weekend- I went and saw the new Bourne movie (Competent, but unnecessary) and bought and played a bunch of Carcassonne (Thanks McGarnical et al for the twitter recommendations).
So a Monday Morning Question: What board game or tabletop game do you really want to see make the leap to digital? I’d love Castle Ravenloft as a tablet-co-op game
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Truthfully? None of the ones I’ve played.
There’s much to be said for the charm and atmosphere that is had from playing a tabletop/card/boardgame. You just can’t replicate that, and I think that’s half the issue.The Magic: The Gathering videogames can’t hold a candle to actually competing against someone sitting directly opposite from you. Not only that, but you’re heavily restricted with regard to deck construction in-game, etc.
Board games may be better suited as they’re typically very rigidly structured to begin with, although again, I’d much rather play with a group around a real table.-
There’s an online version of Magic: The Gathering that is literally the same as the cardboard version. You have a collection of cards to make decks from, there are even sealed deck events and the like.
The big problem is that it is just as, if not more, expensive as the cardboard version without that satisfying physical side.
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I agree with this. As someone who got into Warhammer 40k at a young age, none of the games in that universe have captures the charm of table top. Nore have any of them succeeded in bringing the full rule set to life. They Day they make a game with space marines, and can have chapter set rules, and full unit/race availabilities i might be close to happy.
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I think the DOW series did pretty well.
It’s a bit tired now but was good at the time.
I’m still waiting for an awesome 40k MMO with the wealth of lore and history in the universe, it’s just asking for it. Though I doubt any current developer would do it justice.
Also Space Marine was pretty good for a fairly basic hack and slash.-
Yeah my issue comes down to the fact that each chapter of space marine has different rules in table top. Where is my blood angels falling to the black rage! and things like that. Sick of the ultra smurfs.
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I’ve never actually played one of those table top games. :S
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Hungry Hungry Hippos.
Obviously.
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Dreadfleet, as a large scale multiplayer battle style game.
I haven’t played much of it, but it seems like it would be brilliant, and relatively unique these days.
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Tabletop game to digital:
probably Twilight Imperium, the obvious would be a 4X game. I’d also play, say, a RPG set in the TI universe. Something like a cross between KOTOR and Freelancer, where you’re a starship captain amidst the galactic turmoil, you’d have the option to take different sorts of jobs – espionage, smuggling, transport, assaults, etc.
In fact, I think maybe a “re-imagining” would be better than trying to simply digitise the tabletop game. Quite often these games have specific rules in place, and often something key gets left out because it’s too hard to dev or whatever. A game that tries to amplify the universe with a different perspective would be cool.BONUS ROUND: Video Game to Table Top
One of the many “Tactics” games. I’d probably go with Final Fantasy Tactics Advance 1 or 2, since they’re about the simplest.-
If they had Final Fantasy Tactics Advance with larger scale battles, more character customisation and better AI I’d so buy that. The original’s AI made the game too easy
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Yeah, it’s also lacking in “balance”.
Some classes were outright better than others, heck, some races were outright better than others.
I guess it’s just a case of a too small player base but handheld games are patchable, and those games would have really benefited from some AI and base stat tweaks. One can always dream.-
Yeah like my ninja fighter who had dual blades, doing over 400 damage with basic attacks, he even did 999 in a combo before, crazy!
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Yeah. I had a Ninja Paladin with Dual Wield + Counter. Less per hit, maybe 300-400, but had huge defences, so took almost no damage and iirc Counter could activate multiple times in the enemy round ( I believe they changed this in TTFA2).
I also had a Moogle Gunsmith Juggler, basic attacks were hitting for 999 from 8+ squares, and Juggler evasion meant he rarely took damage at all.
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Hahaha try Strikeback with Addle, basically making your character completely invincible xD
I never knew there was a TTFA2 though! :O
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Blue Mage or Elementalist with DoubleCast.
FFTA2 was on DS. It added a bunch of new bits and pieces, the story didn’t grab me quite as much as FFTA (I think ending the “dream” is still one of the toughest “emotional choices” I’ve had to make in a videogame). It’s probably the easiest FF Tactics game, and it certainly doesn’t compare to, say, Tactics Ogre, but it’s not horrible, and does have a few hardcore challenges.
I’d love either a new Tactics game on 3DS or Virtual Console FFTA on eShop.
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I loved Freelancer!
I just bought the ticket to ride game so hopefully that has made the transition well
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I want this on android.
I fact, there are quite a few small steam game’s that I’ve purchased lately that are iOS ports and have come to steam before android… they are much better suited to the mobile platform
Good TAY to you!
I hope you had a weekend of excellence. I seemed to spend an inordinate amount of time in shopping centres (seriously, those things create anti-Time or something). Everything was ok though, since 3DSXL. Also, now that my girlfriend has a 3DS, I’m getting All the Streetpasses (just None of the New Picture pieces).
JB Hi-Fi has Theatrhythm back in stock. Why haven’t you bought it yet?
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I’m in exactly the same boat with my streetpasses. I bought a bunch of pieces so my girlfriend is getting plenty of new stuff, though…also, I MUST HAVE A YELLOW SHIRT FRIEND TO BEAT THAT STUPID GHOST.
Also, Canberra shopping centres are terrible for getting streetpasses…-
Haha, yeah, I got told to change my shirt colour. And then during our shopping time, she managed to get 4 streetpasses and I only got 1, even though we were together the whole time. I don’t even
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Because no 3DS/XL and JB are poo.
Also, I think Valve’s secretly plotting against GMT. They’re the best/worst when it comes to time-modulation!
Controversy at MLG’s LoL tournament.
Curse and Dignitas (the two finalists) have been disqualified for collusion.
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Oh yikes…
Also Dyrus accidentally sold his Bloodthirster in a match on his stream recently, mistook it for a health potion. Oh Dyrus…
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It’s like the women’s badminton doubles all over again.
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That’s just … wow. How did they do this? Did they go up against eachother and surrender / throw the game at 20?
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From what I can tell, they talked about Dignitas throwing the game so that Curse could get the points for Regionals and they would split the prize money as a result.
Then they played an ARAM as one of the matches because they didn’t want to give away any strats.
Don’t know what happened in game, but I’m going to guess that Dignitas threw the games that they lost.
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Interesting that half the comments are rage directed at the MLG.
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But of course.
This is the internet after all.
Openly talking about match fixing and pot splitting should be an instant DQ. No doubt about it for me.
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Isn’t that also a major breach of the summoner code? They’re lucky they don’t get their accounts banned.
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Riot can take a little while to decide the best course of action.
They might not be able to do anything about these guys’ main accounts because they were playing on the tournament realm.
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I noticed it said that they won’t be awarded any circuit points. Does that mean they still get to keep the already earned ones and get to keep competing?
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Probably.
This sort of thing has been an issue in eSports. MLG has had to ban Super Smash Bros players for this sort of thing before. Korean Brood War players almost completely destroyed the scene with a match-fixing scandal (much more elaborate though and involving bookmakers, not just people trying to sway things their way). Pot splitting was common in the fighting game community for a time, which I think took cues from the poker scene where almost every major tournament ended with people being involved in some sort of pot split (but they would not agree to change their play, it was simply a safety net).
It’s … complicated.
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Which section of it though? Not sure which one you mean…
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Well ok ill put it this way. If someone were to cheat their way to the top of the solo ranked ladder and riot found out. They would be banned no question. Only difference I see here is that they are a big team and they still broke the rules of the tournament and the rules set out by riot.
While its not particularly in the summoner code it is still breaking the rules. I don’t know about you but I think people that break the rules should be punished.
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I agree about people breaking the rules should be punished. I hope Riot keeps their backbone and not letting them go just because they’re basically LoL celebrities.
They’ve punished high profile players before with Saintvicious though publicly being toxic on his stream so I’m sure they’ll stick to their guns.
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They could probably tie it into “Enjoy Yourself, but not at Anyone Else’s Expense” if it gets raised as a defense
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Yeah that’s a possiblity
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Either that or as top teir players they have the lead by example creed to follow
someone mentioned it before, but so sad that some people are gettting angry at MLG… they made the right decision, whether they played seriously for those games or not (but playing a game ARAM does not seem serious to me)
however, the international prelims are on now! DOTA 2 AWAY!!!!
Morning all. Looking ahead to a busy week with no Internet.
Muhahahahahahha!
Don’t mind me, I have finally successfully resurrected a Microsoft Exchange Server that I have been working on for the past couple of days, it decided to die halfway through a migration to a new server, but it is all good, I have saved all emails!! Including this one guy who has a 9GB mailbox, now I don’t know if anyone here knows (or cares) about Exchange 2003 but 9GB is crazy large, over 2GB and you start to see problems so 9GB is like a huge mound of gunpowder sitting next to the smoking section of a truck stop, only a matter of time before everything goes bye bye.
All I can say is, I hope they pay their invoice…
Excuse me whilst I coffinate, I think I’ve earned it.
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Thumbs up to you human, a good show of skill 🙂
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9 freakin’ gig?
Anyhoo, well done. Wanna come fix my DHCP memory leak? I tried an official MS hotfix and nearly screwed the whole server…
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Did you try disabling the dynamic update feature?
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Yeah, I was told to leave that if possible…not sure why.
Also, I’m just going to disable it, cause I know it’ll resolve this, and see how everything goes.
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Yep
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gigBloke must keeps damn near everything, and they haven’t heard of auto-archiving, or upgrading 10 year old software. Outlook 2010 allows 50GB mailbox sizes, so I’m going to use his mailbox as a reason to upgrade. The problem is I have fixed this issue now, so in their eyes nothing was/is wrong, so desire to upgrade is small.
Did you try turning it off and on again? I hear that helps!
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Yeah you need to tell him about auto-archiving and how to set it up. That’s just not right for one human to have.
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Yeah, after the new server got installed, part of setting up the new profiles was enabling auto-archiving. They are a new client so I can’t be ‘too’ brutish about such things….. yet..
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In that case leave that decision with your manager, just best to let him know about it so he can sort it out at his convenience 🙂
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I’m my own manager lmao
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Oh hahahaha sorry human xD
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Did you try rebooting it?
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(Splicer’s got some tattoo advice on the previous page, in case you missed it. Seems important, maybe?)
Recently heard from the server room
Yum yum Bumble, Bumblebee Tuna
I Love Bumblebee, Bumblebee Tuna
Yum yum Bumble, Bumblebee Tuna
So I decided to enter the Ludum Dare 48 hour comp instead of the 72 hour jam. You can play my entry here: http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-24/?action=preview&uid=15359
It’s a HTML5 game, but don’t try playing it on your phone, because it won’t work 😛
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I played. I died. Nice work, buddy. Retro music totally sent me into a frenzy too. 😛
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Had a quick game and I keep getting stuck down the edges. Also doesn’t help that I have type to search enabled on my firefox so it keeps going into search then I move
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i may have just yelled the fbomb at full volume in the middle of the office =)
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Glad you enjoyed it 😛
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65 days till Assassins Creed 3 \o/
I’m not convinced on the Wii U yet, but ZombiU looks pretty damn good. I think it’s the once you die, you stay dead element. I like the idea of the new hero hunting down the old one too. I hope these characters have depth and personality, though, if they’re just generic avatars than some of the magics lost right there. Ubisoft might be an evil publisher, but they’re always an interesting developer.
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(Was the developer diary that got my attention, btw. Here’s the link if you’re interested: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6RhqEbUlWQ, I also like the idea that the game never pauses. Got to keep an eye on the touch screen and an eye on the TV.)
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I disagree somewhat. I think the generic avatars are for the player to embody. Granted the game hasn’t released yet but to me the game seems more mechanics focused compared to story. ‘Survive as long as you can’ being one of the game’s major taglines for example. I think it would be really hard to create a large number of compelling characters especially with the player being able to apparently play with an infinite number of characters. I’d prefer it if the characters’ traits affected their abilities. For example if you spawn as a buff man/woman, you have more stamina and strength but slow speed compared to say a teenage boy/girl who has less strength but more speed.
I do agree that the game looks awesome though. Zombi U, Rayman Legends and LEGO City Undercover are the 3 games I’ll be getting once I get the console. However, I’m still thinking whether I’ll get it on day one or not. I might wait to learn if the console has any day one issues like overheating, dead pixels on the controller etc.
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Don’t forget about Pikmin 3. That almost single handedly makes me want a Wii U!
You make good points on the Zombi U front too! Either way, I’m sure it’ll be fun.
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Bit of a complaint about Darksiders 2.
Was immensely enjoying the game, the puzzles were just the right difficulty, combat was flowing and made you feel like a badass. Then I got to Earth. Whoever thought that was going to be fun has rocks in their head. And it’s been going on for waaaayy too long.
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Yeah that whole sequence was painfully unfun. In theory going to Earth should have been awesome but it’s easily the worst part of the game and it fucking drags and drags. 🙁
I think someone on the dev team really likes that whole shooting sequence stuff from the first game and decided they had to have it in again. I hope they aren’t allowed to do it a third time. Then again, maybe if you end up playing as Strife in the third game it’d be more of that, since he’s the pistol guy…
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Keep the spoilers to a minimum please.
A year 1 kid just came up to me:
Kid: “Are you Mr. ?”
Me: “No, I’m someone else.”
Kid: “Your face is made of plastic” *pokes me in the face, walks off*
…what just happened?
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You’re wearing a mask?
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If the kid did that to Nicole Kidman I’d understand but why you? 😛
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I’m not saying that Rize is actually Nicole Kidman but have you ever seen them in a room together?
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Are you suggesting I used to be attractive, and now look weird?
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Last night, I made the happy discovery that Quarter Pounders are infinitely more delicious when they are coated in Sriracha. Following on from this logic, I thought that I would make use of the tabasco source I keep on hand and added it to my steak sub.
A damned good decision.
In Thailand, even the fast food chains had hot sauce readily available (and all the local restaurants had containers of different types of chilli sauce to coat your food in). This needs to be a reality in Australia.
This needs to go all the way to the Prime Minista!
Hey! Mr. Prime Minista! HEY! HEY ANDY!
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All food is better with some form of ghost pepper *nods*
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I can’t go that far. This tobasco is (I think) made with habeneros. That’s a pretty good level of heat for me.
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Habanero is typically the upper limit for people. It’s a damned nice burn, nothing too painful or tear-jerking!
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I don’t particularly like pushing my upper limits.
Aside from the obvious discomfort factor, there’s the much more important issue of availability. I want to be able to still detect the heat and quite a few “hot” dishes simply don’t register if you can cope with higher levels of spice.
That being said, those preserved jalepenos you tend to get on pizza or Subway doesn’t register for me. They just taste like vinegar.
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I actually find Tobasco too sweet for my tastes. and the wrong sorta “heat” if any.
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I normally don’t use it. I grabbed some the last time I went and bought a burrito, figured it might be nice to have on hand.
Turns out that a steak sub with all the salads benefits nicely from it. There was enough heat (for me) to notice it and a decent flavour to it. Might not be appropriate for all dishes but it seemed to work there.
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Yeah admittedly i tend to add it to things that are very rich flavours, like bolognese sauce and what not. So not really enough heat to break out, but does bring too much sweetness. Would probably benifit better from a fresh straight chilli sauce.
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The Chilli Factory’s Hot Embers salt is where it’s at! (especially on cheese pizza)
I’ll be sur to bring some peppers with me to a meat next year 😀
Source, oh Bunny =P
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I guess I’ve spent too much time on the interwebs. Too often I see “sauce” and know that it means “source”. Guess my fingers now translate it too.
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haha yeah, I know that one.
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If your in Sydney you should get down to the Rocks markets and find the chilli stand. They sell the world record holder for hottest chilli sauce. (not a fan myself. But I bought it for a mate who’s into chilli and he gave it a seal of approval)
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Quite a lot of stores in the Hunter Valley seemed to have some variety of chilli sauce. Was tempted but this is the sort of territory where I like to send a forward scout.
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I came across a decent looking habanero hotsauce recipe. I’ll be exchanging habanero for bih jolokia, as that’s probably the closest I’ve got 😛
Papaya and mango chili chutney, I guess you could call it 😀
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What is the obsession with mango in chilli sauce?
I sometimes like the sweetness, but it seems odd that it gets used so often.
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Honestly, I’ve not tried it. I typically stick with straight chili in my food, no sauces. I imagine the fruit would really complement it, as chilis themselves are typically quite sweet, albeit piquant beyond that of any other fruit 😛
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@Splicer
The Internet is giving me its usual completely conflicting advice and te artist pretty much shrugged and said just let it heal. Seems you have plenty of personal experience (and my last one was almost 10 years ago) is this a problem and if so how do I fix it?
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You’re lucky bud, you can still save it 🙂
It hasn’t started to scab very badly yet. Scabbing on a tattoo increases the risk of it bleeding and/or fading.
As I said on the previous page, go grab a tube of Bupanthen (baby bum cream) from your chemist. The antiseptic version might be better if you can get it. It’ll fight off any infection you might get. Think of a tattoo as a big open wound that you don’t want to scab. You want the skin to always feel supple and moist(sounds corny I know), you want to be using the Bupanthen as kinda like a moisteriser on your tattoo. You’ll find that if your tat is dry it will soak up the cream very quickly and you’ll need to re-apply. Generally speaking, your tattoo should only really be sore for about 24 hours after having it done. If it hurts for more than a few days, starts getting red or puffy, see a doctor IMMEDIATELY.
As for your tattooist, any artist that just shrugs and says ‘let it heal’ without giving you advice or tips on how to care for your new tattoo wouldn’t be worth a return visit in my opinion. It’s guys like that who give the industry a bad name. So that’s my 2c…but to avoid fading and scabbing, just follow the tips I mentioned above.-
Thanks man. I’ll go grab something and put it on ASAP.
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I swear by Bupanthen! Also don’t cover it in unbreathable materials, just wear light clothing over the area.
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Even splicer’s son could tell you the problem, he hasn’t coloured in all the way to the line 😉
Looking good, still one more session to go?
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It’s looking awesome, man. Going to kick ass when it’s done!
Dear Diary,
Today, I was a surveyor! I went to a quarry and played with a tape measure, then I walked around the place with a wheel on a stick. It was fun!
Too hot though, won’t do it again because I don’t enjoy peeling my shirt from my back. Now I’m back at work, but it was a fun little adventure. There were rocks!
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Oh, wow. The things you must’ve seen. 😛
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I actually took some pictures, but it just looks like any other quarry 😛
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Was it haunted by the ghost of missing teens who vanished twenty years ago to this day on Prom night!? Most of ’em are, don’t you know…
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Send this message to 20 others by 11:11 tonight or your mother will die, your girlfriend will get run over, your sister will be buried amongst the ashes of your burnt down house, your dog will get stolen and you will get herpes/gonorrhea/stigmata.
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Bards will sing songs of your deeds. Children will be entertained by the tale Aleph and the quarry and the will tell their children and so on.
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A stick AND a wheel, and they say that NT is technologically behind the times
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And they were connected by some sort of axle thing! AMAZING!
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Apparently I missed a Sci-Fi/Games/Anime/Something Convention in Toronto this weekend.
I don’t normally go to SuperNova or anything of the like, but hey, excuse to roam around the city.
I mad.
But then I read that attendees were treated like cattle and there was horrible mismanagement, so now I less mad. David Hayter was supposed to be there but pulled out at the last minute.
Shame, I suppose. Would have been neat to go regardless.
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Was it the BiMonSciFiCon?
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Hi Bish!
Have you seen a moose yet?
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Or a mounty and his wolf companion, possibly due south. 😛
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That was the best show!
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There’s no canada like french canada it’s the best canada in the land
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ergh, so that TWEWY related countdown was just an ios port…
why can’t i have nice things?
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We live in a world where we have countdowns to announce the countdown to an announcement for a trailer.
That’s why we can’t have nice things.
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I thought the internet was why we can’t have nice things?
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Also because you touch yourself at night.
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Squenix are the masters of disappointment.
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Don’t worry!
Seeing as we live in Australia we will probably get a staggered release date and pay a 50% Australian tax!
So I finished Beyond Good and Evil on the weekend, quite enjoyable even for its age, but it felt very brief for me. When the game ended it felt very abrupt, and I was only just getting to know Pey’j.
Basically I wanted more Pey’j in the game. Double H is okay and all but Pey’j is just plain awesome.
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well don’t worry, a sequel is coming out!
sometime…
whenever they feel like releasing it…
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Yeah I think they finished the game expecting to make a sequel pretty soon afterwards.
Oh well, best laid plans…
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…and to be honest some of the lesser NPC voice acting could have been better 😛
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Seen the teaser trailer for the second game? This is all we’ve had to go on for years now. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkCXE1l5MVI
I loved taking photos of the critters. I suspect it’d work well on Wii U or the 360 Smart Glass too.
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Yeah I remember seeing that teaser years ago, it made me all the more sad once I finished the game that there still isn’t a sequel out yet.
Although Pey’j’s voice in that teaser sounds different, I prefer his voice from the game. For some reason I found his accent very endearing 🙂
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Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages,
fled proudly brings to your the awesome batguy taaaaaaaable-oooooooof-leeeeeegends
And if you ain’t down with that, I got two words for ya… ________ ________
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HAHA – Just checked, and post #1000 is about Rick Astley.
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Hmm, Sughly posted more than I did.
That’s… worrying.
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I wasn’t here on Friday and I still came second. That’s also … worrying.
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HAHA! My return is (semi) glorious! I’m pretty confused as to how I managed 12th spot actually.
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because you’re cool! \o/
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Random confession of the day:
For several weeks after I played the first Deathspank, my inner monologue was using Deathspank’s voice.
Played a fair bit of GW2 over the weekend. Seems okay!
Rolled on Northern Shiverpeaks due to some other friends being on there (Sea of Sorrows was full).
Then I found 10 silver.
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i don’t play MMO’s but, GW2 is awesome, so much fun.
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This might just be an ‘early days’ comment that I’ll completely disagree with next month, but…
The quests/dynamic event stuff feels much less grindy than is the norm for this sort of game. I find myself often opting to join in dynamic event stuff happening in my general vicinity, just for the hell of it. (I just recently found out that I had been earning some sort of currency from doing these, and so now have a huge stack and not quite sure what it’s useful to spend it on (karma, iirc?))
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You know the “side quests” that come as hearts on the map? When you complete them talk to someone with the filled in heart above their head. They will sell good gear / items which costs karma instead of the normal currency
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I’ve checked those merchants out a little, but have yet to find them selling better gear than I’ve found through drops/quest rewards. Int he main cities, the only karma merchants I’ve seen seem to trade only in cooking stuff (?!) :/
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Casual aside: does anyone else who does a fair bit of programming find themselves often muscle-memory typo’ing “in the” as “int he”? I find it so very frustrating 🙁
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I found I was doing this in the Beta as well. But it felt a bit mindless, basically just stacks on the bad guys. And it’s not as if it’s the only MMO that has it – it’s in Rift as well, and public quests in Warhammer Online too.
The dynamic side of things is well implemented in GW2 but I wish the actual moment-to-moment (i.e. not what you’re doing but how you’re doing it) was a bit more exciting.
I think when it comes down to it what I want is basically a Monster Hunter MMO.
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Speaking of Guild Wars 2, anyone else sort of get Fable 2 and Elder Scrolls vibes from the game? Some of the towns I’ve run around in, by the general artstyle of the game, the designs of the buildings and clothes, the little “funny” remarks I’ve heard NPCs saying to each other and the music, I feel like I’ve stepped straight into Fable Online. And then there’s this one song I’ve heard while out and about that sounds like it was ripped straight from the Oblivion soundtrack and makes me feel like I’m trekking across Cyrodiil again.
I think it would be fun to pay a visit to a busy public restroom, lock myself in a cubicle and make reallllly looong and drawn out straining and groaning noises for just under half an hour, before finally screaming out “IT’S OVER NINE THOUUSSSANNNNDDD!!!”
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You can probably adjust your diet to provide opportunity for such an experience!
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As long as you film it
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I’d be more concerned about the fellow who hung around long enough to know you’ve been at it for half an hour.
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I think I may have just done that…
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This is just the unpleasant kind of conversation that would make a perfect page get. 😛
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and then drop a brick or two into the bowl and leave 🙂
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An alternation to just yelling vegeta’s line – i could also kick the door outwards, dressed as vegeta, yell the line, then make the “flight pose” as i run away.
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Also, cruashing a pair of sunglasses as i say the line
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i can see you feebly trying to crush the sunglasses up to the point you throw them on the ground and stamp on them 😛
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Best thing is that i can too! 😀
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So, last weekend, Whilst I was out in Westfield Parramatta, I happened to be reunited with an old love.
Now it’s been quite a few years but we went back to my place together and, after a brief show off to Blaghman (who was staying over for the zombie film) and Pyrean, we headed up to my room. Even after all these years my moves came back naturally. The Barrel roll, the u-turn and even the Loop-de-loop. That’s right. Star Fox 64 is still awesome!
Also, I made Blaghman watch Another so I consider it a successful weekend.
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Ha Ha. Nice intro there.
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Man, I still love me some Lylat Wars! Except for the jerks who run around in multi as a non-vehicle character..damned tiny jerks! 😛
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I would have asked Blaghs if he wanted to watch…
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I did show him the barrel roll move 😀
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That explains all the “Yes ….. Take that” I heard being screamed from up stairs then grin when he came down and the red flushed cheeks ……. all those barrel rolls must have been exhausting = P
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Oh Pyrean.
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He’s just jealous.
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Man, Another was awesome.
I also watched Berserk last night, thanks to your recommendation, and I’ve decided to finish watching HotD(for the fan service lulz) and Elfen Lied.
Then I just need to catch up on the Hellsing remake, and then I can worry about finding something new to watch.
The number of people alive who have walked on the moon is decreasing when it should be increasing 🙁
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Though we live in an age of Mars occupied by robots!
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Yeah we got there first! Robots rule!
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Incidentally with that headgear on, young Neil Armstrong looked kind of like Serrels…
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There’s something he’s not telling us… 🙂
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I can’t really see us going back to the moon until we either have the means to colonise it or space tourism becomes a thing. We already know a lot about the moon so it’d just be a waste of money sending people there just for the sake of it.
Super sad news about Armstrong though.
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We’re whalers on the moon
We carry a harpoon-
But there ain’t no whales,
so we tell tall tales,
and sing a whalin’ tune!
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SPLICER!
I grabbed some of the Bepanthen and both the scaling and pain disappeared almost instantly. Thanks a bunch!
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I’m surprised your tattoo artists didn’t recommend it, every tattooist I know swears by the stuff as essential for post tattoo care.
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It could possibly be that as its not my first one he just assumed I already knew. Which I vaguely remember using it so I probably did.
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Ah good 🙂
A tattooist who doesn’t tell you how to look after your tat anyway? Inexcusable. Sorry, but it’s pretty obvious the one on your back is a bit older. It doesn’t take much to say ‘hey, put this stuff on it, i’ll even sell it to you!’
Glad you got it sorted though, i look forward to seeing the finished piece!
For those who may not be in the no quite yet – The Black Keys are fething amazing 😀
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in the no???
What the feth is wrong with me? What does that even mean?!?!
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Stay out of my no! It’s sensitive.
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But it’s so warm and moist…
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Is it weird that I check Facebook somewhat frequently just so that I don’t get a massive build up of notifications and whatnot? I honestly think the only thing that I’ve done on that site for the last few months is clear out my notifications.
Maybe I’m to blame for their stock price not being worth much. I didn’t participate! I should have liked all of the things!
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Eh I do that too. I use mine as an inbox and nothing else for 5 minutes a night
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I deleted mine in October 2010. Honestly can’t say I’ve missed it. I understand the appeal of social networking, it’s not going to go away any time soon. Not worth it for me, personally.
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PAY THEM MONEY SO YOUR COMMENTS SHOW-UP HIGHLIGHTED!!!
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Then I’d have to make comments. Do you see my conundrum? Do you?
DO YOU REALLY?
#hashtagsforharli
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Radio Numbers Highlights – August 27 2012
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – Learning To Fly
Santana & Rob Thomas – Smooth
Savage Garden – I Want You
Smash Mouth – Can’t Get Enough Of You Baby
Masters Aprentices – Because I Love You
Simple Plan – Shut Up
INXS – Devil Inside
Swingers – Counting The Beat
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Whoops, This is meant to be it’s own post
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I check facebook somewhat frequently in the hopes that someone will say hi. A boy can dream 😛
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I’d say hi, but y’know you never added me you MONSTER!
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Hello All.
How was everyones weekends? Mine was spent taking people to the airport and entertaining. soooo exhausting. And then today I had an interview\o/ and possible leads to work!
Now to work out what to do next…
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I drank wine, had a nap, shoved olives in my face and then took the scenic route to the airport.
Good times.
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I continued building a hallway cupboard.
Exciting stuff
Can’t…stop.. thinking…. of… 40k…..
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It’s just a ripoff of Starcraft.
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FLAME ON!
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I was going to go with “Warcraft in space” but that seemed too nuanced.
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Yeah – it sounds too much like a theater production
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That being said, I would play the ever loving gentle caressing out of that game.
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And Space Marine was a bad Gears of War clone.
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Only because they couldn’t think of names as cool as ‘Marcus Fenix Fitness’
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PS.
SPAAAYYSSSHHHH MAAAUURRREEENNNN!!!!
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Yeah I can see they made the melee combat much worse in Space Marine compared to Gears of War. Relic made the horrible decision of having different kinds of combos and execution animations based on the button combo and weapon you were wielding, while Gears of War did so well keeping it so simple by holding B for single canned animation of chainsawing an enemy. Bloody hell Relic lift your game! 😛
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Gears has chainsaw duels.
All other arguments are invalid.
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BLOOD ON THE SCREEN! SURREAL!
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Another thing that was, unfortunately, ripped off from 40k. lol
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If you’re going to assume that any instance of recurrence is ripping off, then in that regard, 40k ripped off Motel Hell.
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I assure you that i said that with tongue firmly in cheek, my friend 🙂
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Even this makes me think of orks.
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WAAAGH! #helping
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OO! Fresh meat! I can make so many improvements!
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John Madden.
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Cervix
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40k as in warhammer or $40,000 the amount it will cost you if you don’t stop thinking about warhammer 40k?
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Both, unfortunately 🙁
Radio Numbers Highlights – August 27 2012
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – Learning To Fly
Santana & Rob Thomas – Smooth
Savage Garden – I Want You
Smash Mouth – Can’t Get Enough Of You Baby
Masters Aprentices – Because I Love You
Simple Plan – Shut Up
INXS – Devil Inside
Swingers – Counting The Beat
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I’m certain you listed Santana/Rob Thomas last time you posted too. What’s the deal? 😛
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1, that was 2 weeks ago
2, shut up
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:'(
Aleph-Null will approve, though. He loves Savage Garden. 😛
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Are you sure that’s true? I didn’t think he was quite mad enough for that sort of thing. Or did he start out in the deep end and I just didn’t realise it?
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BADABOOM!Lucifer, I highly approve of this list, less Pimple Clan.
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I’ve said it before, but I don’t pick the music, I just have Veto rights
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I want to listen to you radio show so badly, is there a chance you can record it and send me a copy?
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Possibly, but I doubt I’ll be able to do it at the station
Still running one page behind…3 pages on a monday?
This is madness!
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Madness?!
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This
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*kicks greenius into the hole before he can say it* No! Bad Greenius!
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*applause*
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*STANDING OVULATION*
BRAVO, SIR!
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SPARTAAAAAAA!!!!!
I did it, for Greenius. He shall be missed
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I suggest “It’s Not Easy Being Green” for his memorial tribute.
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Yes, and we shall wait till March 17th. Then honnor him every year there after.
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Ah he’ll live, you humans always land on your feet right? Or is that cats…? Uh oh…
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Either way, they both bounce. Especially the young ones. They bones tend to have a rubbery quality before becoming more rigid through puberty.
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Now he’s deadius
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+1 Schwarzenegger
@Chuloopa,
Give up Space boy, Nids will ultimately consume you all.
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Chaos will consume you all! Blood for the blood god!
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There will be blood you can be sure of that. *tyranid noises*
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Ah silly nids, you
humpeat anything that moves-
Sometimes both Techie, sometimes both. True story.
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There’s a reason the Venomthrope is just tentacles
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Oh dear…
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Bukake?
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Please be to pet puppies and kittens.
Please be to pet puppies and kittens.
Oh please, for all that is good in the world be to pet puppies and kittens.
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Preparing for the invasion of Japan?
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Heh.
Invasion.
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Heh.
Japan.
Wait a minute…
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I’ve played enough 40k to see where this is going…
Zealotry and explosions?
Deep-throating doesn’t get you everywhere – a lesson the nids will learn in time.
IMPERIAL MIGHT!
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The Red terror would like to disagree with you.
Burn the Hive Fleets!
The Dark Angels shall purge the xenos!
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No…. screw the xenos, we hunt the Fallen!
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Hahahaha the amount of times the DA have abandoned some poor sods on the battlefield because they found a Fallen is HILARIOUS!
“Umm.. hey… guys… where did our support just go???”
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I’m a bit annoyed that the DA hate the Inquisition though ( I guess everyone does really), coz I’d love to include an Inquisition task force as allies.
Guess I’ll have to just leave the task force with my Sisters army. Least they fit in well there. -
But the Dark Angels would have to slaughter the Inquisition troops afterwards (or probably beforehand) to cover up the Fallen.
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Loops loopsloopsloopsloops!!!!!!!
40K game. Videogame version of the tabletop one. Complete painters section to colour your army. Game has basic armies with Micro transactions to build your army (knowing GW be more like macro transactions amirite haaaa haaaa ha…. Sorry.) play your friends online. Tournaments with prizes.
Think man! THINK!
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Suprised it doesn’t exist already…get on it ‘Loops! NOW!
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I have always been a vehement supporter of this.
GW should be smart about this – the only reason they haven’t done it is because they believe (rightly so) that they wouldn’t sell anywhere near as many minis.
THEREFORE – this is what i think GW should do, which would be awesome.Imagine if every time you bought a mini or a set, you got a code(s) with it, that could be redeemed online. That code is used for a fully funtional and animated version of the table top game for PC. You can then tranfer the units you have bought to your game and customise them the same as you would your physical minis – thereby alowing players to use their actual armies against players both nationally and internationally.
To me, i think this would be the fairest and best way for GW to go about it. We get the game we have always wanted and they get to retail (or increase) their cash flow.
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So Skylanders 40K?
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Pretty much 🙂
But I do like that idea ‘Loops. It wouldn’t be very hard to roll out i’d imagine. The only thing is, I doubt GW would stand to make much money off it and therefore wouldn’t be very interested….-
I dare say it’d increase sales, as you’re likely to tap into the gamers that may not touch tabletops. Definitely a good idea 😀
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Perhaps…but I can also see another market opening up on eBay etc for people selling codes or minis without codes…
Why not pitch the idea to GW, ‘Loops? Or someone who isn’t me? -
But to get either product, a mini+code would need to be bought. As each code would be single-use, GW win either way.
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As i said, if the only (legitimate) way to obtain the codes is through official GW merchandise, then they would benefit from it greatly as people would need to buy the mini’s to get the codes – therefore their sales would be greatly supported, plus regular royalties from the game makers would be more than enough.
Either way, they’d still be making more than what they are currently making, as it’s a new source of income.
If they were that worried, they could go with a small monthly fee to access the game state and for updates (new tables etc). Even if it was $5 a month, the amount of people taking advantage of the thing would insane.
Just think of all the people who had always wanted to play, but never had the opportunity to due to having no one to play with. Now they’d have the best of both worlds. -
It’s the way to transition the traditional players into the new medium while getting new players to play that are intimidated by parts of the tabletop game. More importantly, it’s how you create an online community that isn’t segregated from the meatspace one.
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Man, my Night Elves are going to wreck some face!
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Night Elf + Heavy Bolter = instagib.
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They can’t carry heavy bolters 😛
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My bad – I meant Heavy Bolters used on Night Elves, not carried by them. Their frail arms wouldn’t be able to withstand the sheer awesome.
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Night Elf + Soul Flayer?
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Bah, I’ll just build a wall of Moon Wells. Then what are you going to do?
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cry
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One word: Defilers
You wanna turtle up? Okay Lets see how long you last >:D
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This would be the easiest way to get me to part with my cash for 40k products again. Always tempted, but it’s just so much money (and time)!
That’s actually a pretty good idea. It would also be easy to then track your army’s or character’s progress, wins, etc
Something I just remembered from trivia night on Saturday. One of the tasks was to spell ‘Drunkenness’.
I apparently hit a sore point with someone at my table, as they were certain it was spelled ‘drunkeness’, citing his best subject in schooling years was English.
He proffered his left testicle as a wager, to which I responded that I would wager both of mine, along with $50.
$50 wasn’t enough for him, so I put $300 on the table. He was too frugal to put his money where his mouth was, and too proud to concede.
Dammit, I could’ve made off with an extra testicle and $600…
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How all saturday nights should end…with more money and extra testicles. Thats right isn’t it?
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Bahahaha!
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If only. I’d have ALL the testes!
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god damn. the comments in these Samsung v Apple articles make me want to rage-puke almost as much as the court case itself.
I know, its my own fault for venturing into the ghetto of the internet…
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“So he starts to roam the comments at night,
and he learns how to troll and he learns how to fight,
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I love how hilarious they sometimes are. In some cases, both sides of the argument are equally right(but mostly wrong). Did Samsung copy Apple/were they influenced by the success of Apple’s devices? Almost Certainly. Were Apple the first to use that general design? Oh dear lord no. Does this mean that whichever companies did it first should be able to sue Apple for more money? Probably. Could they? No, because the whole “system”(screw THE MAN) is borked.
While it’s a friggin’ stupid case, I feel like the system that can allow this sort of thing to exist is at as much fault as anyone who abuses said stupid system.
@ Techy – what do you think of those new chaos models in the new 40k Box set? I know how much fo a chaos lover you are! haha
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Would love to look it up sir, but I’m at work atm, you can link it to me and I’ll check it out later? 🙂
Most importantly, are there Raptors in this box set?
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Sorry buddy, no raptors – But some killer chosen and a Hellbrute among other things.
here’s the linkage
http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/catalog/productDetail.jsp?catId=cat440160a&prodId=prod1700011a$180 at GW, or $140 at Black Cultist online.. my local Mind games offered me $158… so not bad all around considering what you get, and the full rule book on its own is $125… so i’m happy to take the one with most the fluff removed.
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Raptors are the masters of surprise and terror, then there’s the Talonmaster 🙂
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You didn’t see my post on the last page loops.
non limited edition – via well respected ebay store – $77.22 + $14.50 postage
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Hometime at last! Seeya tomorrow TAY!
I approve of 40k TAY.
Emperor be praised.
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I thought you would.
You’re welcome.
Glory and Death, brother!-
For the Lion.
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…I never got into Warhammer. I tried, but it never happened.
I had a Space Ork bike figure that I spent hours painting, only to realise that one figure wasn’t quite enough for a game.
I then received a 40K vidyagaem, (something with Dark Eldar?) and it was dreadful. Thus, my experiences with Warhammer ended quite some years ago.-
Such a rich gothic lore. So much fun. I enjoyed the video games, and I enjoyed assembling and painting my Dark Angels, but the lore was what really drew me in.
And that 40k video game may have been Firewarrior (with the Tau)?-
Firewarrior was the worst game I have even seen shipped. I think to date, it’s still the only game I have ever taken back and gotten a refund on. Back when you could actually return PC games
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urgh Soulstorm was unbalanced and broken as hell.
Get up to Dark Crusade, NOT Soulstorm
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Oh, he was talking Dawn of War. That makes a bit more sense.
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Dawn of War 2 I really enjoy playing. Always wanted to try out multiplayer but never had anyone to tag up with/skirmish with
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I dont have the money or motivation to play table top anymore but I still love 40K and Fantasy. So for me now its just Dawn of War games and anything else they put out (Space Marine etc). I’d love for a game like Loops mentioned above the 40K Skylanders thingy but what ya gonna do.
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Yup, Dawn of War sounds right.
I remember seeing the ads for Firewarrior in PSN magazine, man that game looked SO FREAKIN’ COOL (I mean hot)!!!
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One of my mates was complaining about having some pack that included (only) up to Dark Crusade just yesterday (having not talked about the game in years)! Seems strange to be reading this particular comment today 😀
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Bahahaha! Maybe it’s just cuz he didn’t get all the races. You look a little closer you see how imbalanced the Dark Eldar are for instance. Then there’s the aircraft… oh machine god the aircraft, getting stuck all over the map, being clunky as hell with movement. I highly prefer up to Dark Crusade
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There were Dark Eldar in a 40k game?
*gasp* which one?!?
I loved my Dark Eldar army. Had a mate who always banged on about how unbeatable his Mephiston was. Well when I changed from Eldar to Dark Eldar web they came out, my Archon with a shadow field proceeded to shove Mephistons sword down his stupid face quickly followed by the rest of his gear 😀
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The buggiest and most imbalanced Dawn of War expansion (I think it was expandalone), Soulstorm
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Fleet of foot <3
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Pyrean tried to get me into Warhammer 40k table top and failed. I didn’t mind some of the games but what I’m really curious about is if there is any really good fiction for it out there? It strikes me as the sort of universe that I could relay love.
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Oh that was me. I’m a work computer and apparently Pyrean was the last one to post form here.
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There are heaps of awesome 40k novels – I’m sure Loops would be glad to fill you in. Or you could look up the Black Library.
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Been listening to blues all day today.
Feth, i feel goooood
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Havn’t seen a Feth since I last read Gaunts Ghosts. uh Necropalis was it? the one in the Hive city.
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Necroplis. Yeah.
That was a pretty damn good book, that one.-
*Necropolis
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More 40k stuff:
Just to let you guys know, the next army to be getting a complete do-over is the Dark Angels – all new minis and new rules!
This rumor has been floating around for a little while now, and is now all the more solid with the release of the new box set as well as the fact that when i looked on the GW site just now, they have removed the stand-alone Dark Angels section from the 40k Armies list. This would mean it’s down while they load it up to set it free with all new goodies.
Needless to say i am SOOOO BLOODY EXCITED to see what goodness is coming up for the sons of the Lion.
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They are still Space Marines so you know whatever the come up with will be soulless and boring 😛
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I gotta say, there was a time, years ago, where i would have agreed with you, but all the extra effort GW are going into to flesh out each major chapter to give them their own personality has been quite extraordinary.
Now there are some truly stunning mini’s that appeal to a range of people.As for the Dark Angels, man they have always been so great. They are everything i think a SM chapter should be – they are warrior monks – the robes just suit power armour so well. They hold the dark and terrible secret that they almost fell to Chaos during the Horus Heresy, and now spend their days hunting their fallen.
Best of all, they are one of the few chapters who’s Chapter Master is still with them (albeit in stasis)……anyway i’ll shut up now – i know you were trolling me, but i had to fanboy out! lol
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Loops have you read the Horus Heresy?
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No i haven’t read the books yet, unfortunately – but i have read a lot of Horus Heresy Fluff, just need to get around to the books – just unsure as to where to start when there is sooo many of them.
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OMG you don’t know what you’re missing!!!
I’m halfway through Fallen Angels. If you want to know more about DA then get the 2heresy books that focus on them.
Decent of Angels
Fallen Angels
You’ll get your lore fix that’s for sureanyway I’m going home!
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Loops: More replying to your stuff upthread, but I enjoyed Space Marine muchly.
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Such a great game 🙂
Hey Loops btw. The Chaos Legion I’m most interested in are the Alpha Legion 🙂
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I find that really surprising – i thought you would be far more into the Night Lords, given that they are VERY Raptor heavy
NEW DARK ANGELS MINIS?! ZOMG…
Methinks I’m suffering from a severe case of PMD (Post Meat Depression). The last 2 weekends have been some of the most fun I’ve had in ages. And everytime I go back to work after a meat all I can think is how great it was. Why must TAYbies be such awesome people?
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I know that one Q_Q but it’s usually when I get to hang out with friends in general not just TAYbies. Wish I was able to be more social =(
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I see my two best friends once a week for a trivia night at the local bowling club, but otherwise meats are my main social outing. Sometimes people at work organise a night out but someone has to work and as I’m the only male who can be in charge I usually get stuck with it. That’s why I try and make the effort to get to as many meats as I can. Otherwise I’d never get out 🙂
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What’s this social interaction you speak of?
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Who knows. Let’s just nod and smile. 😛
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So as some people know I re-installed windows not too long ago. However, my back up did not back up everything. Mainly my artwork. Should I decide to work on it some more, I can’t.
Does anyone know a way to find the lost files on my PC? I know there is no such thing as a real delete.
Any help is appreciated.
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You can take your computer to a repair place and see if they can retrieve anything but of they are anything like the ones near me, they charge you $50 or something just to look at it. Then they charge more if they are able to help
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I don’t want to do that. they take forever D=
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All I can really suggest is the sooner the better – the longer old data is floating around your hard drive, the more likely it is to be overwritten with something else.
There’s a few free undelete programs floating around if you google for them, but it’s been a few years since I had to use one so I couldn’t point to which ones are OK and which ones are a bit dodgy.-
thanks. It was about a month ago since I re-installed windows. I haven’t really done much since then so I’m hoping I can get it!
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Recuva is a great free tool – just make make make make sure you run the scan from another PC (don’t install and Recuva on the PC you want to recover from). If you can, pull out the drive with the data on it, install Recuva on another PC, connect your hard drive to it and scan.
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Ooooh. Firewarrior. I’ve tried so many times to finish that, if only to say I have, and never get further then when you pick up the bolter for the first time. It’s just so retardedly wrong an piled on top of everything else wrong with that damnable game just completely destroys me.
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Gosh darn poopy fluffy flap. That was meant to be a reply to Inquisitorz up there.
By the way, did you get that thing I senchya?
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I finished it several years ago, mainly to say that I had. It wasn’t a very good game =|
The book, however, was rather good. Focussed on the main character’s descent into madness and his internal struggle against the influence of Chaos.
@Loops
Used to run a Sons of Medusa army. It wont happen but I would flip out if they made them into a major faction, but it’ll prolly go to them lame Iron Hands.
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Yeah, unfortunately i don’t see the sons getting a official release – but there are a lot of GREAT greek themed 3rd party conversion kits that could really set a SoM army apart!
Afternoon, TAY.
Today has gone rather quickly , I must say.
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This comment doesnt involve 40K. Fix that
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I must mention in this post today,
That I’m not into 40K.
Sorray.
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I didn’t see this post before my reply. Now I feel bad for 40king your thread. Hopefully you like cosplay!
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But now its about 40K so it is fixed
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For anyone who missed it on the weekend, I ran into some crazy good 40k cosplay
http://imgur.com/a/RZiJn#3-
Not bad, but he doesn’t look like he could crush my car by looking at it, and he doesn’t look zealous enough to be a Black Templar.
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Did you click through the other pics? He looks a bit meaner with his helmet on.
This one looks like he’s just done crushing someones car.
http://imgur.com/a/RZiJn#1He also appears to have some history written on some toilet paper that got attached to his pants whilst he was zipping up which as far as I understand it fits the Warhammer universe.
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Happy I backed this one… now to claim the new reward…
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That’s cool but what are they making??
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Looks cool, Ill keep an eye out for it. I assume they havn’t got a release date yet?
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Going beta in October, then they’re doing the Minecraft thing from there and keeping the updates rolling as they’re done.
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October just keeps getting better. Three Days Grace Album, ASSASSINS FREAKING CREED 3 ZOMFG YEUSH!. This game.
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Dishonored too, man. Don’t forget that. 😛
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Wow, that is really awesome and the video is funny as well.
So, Sleeping Dogs is uber kickass. I’ve only played a couple of hours, but it’s already so freaking awesome. And I kinda like the social element with the friends’ records showing up during driving etc.
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My favourite thing in the whole game was at night when it rained, the neon reflections on the pavement. So awesome looking! Crazily immersive, huh?
So in light of previous discussions today, I’m having fajitas for dinner.
This pleases me. I shall save burrito consumption for the mainland.
…Burrito night shall be Wednesday night, because Tuesday night is schnitzel night.
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Where’s the love for enchiladas?
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They’re just fajitas with cheese and sauce on top. It’s the same thing, only fancier 😀
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Thursday.
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They were mentioned. Absolutely no love for Quesadillas or Chicken Mole 🙁
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Monday night was chicken nugget and cheese cake night. 😛
Random thoughts and venting, feel free to ignore
Just wanted to apologise in advance for all the random crap, I just needed somewhere to say something because it might make me feel a bit better :P. So yesterday was one of the most stressful days in a long while because I couldn’t figure out how to do this assignment. It was the first time where I literally had no flipping idea what to do. I’ve been to every tutorial and lecture and everything we covered there was pretty much not related to what was in the assignment I tried looking up stuff in both my textbooks, the internet, lecture notes etc. and I couldn’t find anything and it made me hella stressed.
I know for a fact tomorrow is going to be even more stressful. I have two assignments due in on Wednesday, the one I was stressing about yesterday and a marketing essay (which I’ve briefly mentioned before). I have Uni pretty much from 7-6 on Tuesday so I’ll be working on my assignments for the whole night, something I’ve never done before. I’m definitely not looking forward to it one bit…
Now you’re probably wondering why I left it until the ‘last minute’. Technically I’m trying to start a bit before and not starting both on Tuesday but I’ve got 4 assignments due in this week on top of homework and other assessment crap so I’ve also been working on them. Like, I’ve left things until the last minute before but something about this time is just making me go bonkers.
Now I was wondering if I could get some help on my marketing essay. It’s about the role of brands in video games. I’ve got some basic ideas planned out and some examples but anything at all will help. I’ll post what I’ve written later and I would really appreciate any input since I still got a long way to go… At about 380/2500 words at the moment but that doesn’t include extras like referencing and an executive summary. It’s mainly about the theory but examples always help. Thanks in advance.
Again, I apologise for such crap :P. It’s stuff that doesn’t really need to be said and people probably don’t care about. I know some of you have gone through much worse situations that were out of your control. This whole thing is partly my fault but I’m hoping venting can help.
For those of you who read all of it or skipped to the end, here’s a .gif of a dog ‘flying’! http://i.imgur.com/62UQo.gif nawwwwwwww!
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Do you need examples of different product placement? Like Alan Wake, the Energizer batteries from his flashlight and the horrible, scene breaking Verizon commercial? (http://www.g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/704876/alan-wake-the-worst-product-placement-in-gaming-history/) Or something more specific? I’m sorry you’re feeling so bad, man. 🙁
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(Oh, major spoilers in that link. Only click if you’ve played Alan Wake.)
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Despite knowing in advance about the Verizon thing, I didn’t notice it while playing the game. :/
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Obviously you weren’t looking for the Night Springs episodes. Something the game had you conditioned to find from the start, so you click on all the TVs. Then midway through the game they make you watch a commercial. Kind of evil. 😛 I remember The Movies from Lionhead had a billboard at the front of the studio, if connected to the net it had real world advertising. Ubisoft had integrated stuff a few years back too. (Possibly still do?)
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This link talks a little about Chryslers ad in The Movies too. (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13960083/ns/technology_and_science-tech_and_gadgets/t/product-placement-rise-video-games/)
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No, no, I was watching Night Springs. I just tune out ads. It’s a useful ability.
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Sounds like it! 😀
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Left Behind: The Video Game (that christian RTS that came out a while ago) had big EB Games signs on the sides of some of the buildings. I thought it was a little odd considering the target audience, but it made the game seem a bit cooler. I suppose that’s a case of the branding helping the game, rather than the other way around.
Feel like I’m spamming, so I’ll post just this last example. In the 1998 FMV adventure game, there’s a much more subtle form of production placement. Agent Wilmore carried FBI issued equipment such as a mobile phone and palm pilot thingy. They had clear and specific branding on them. I think the phone was Nokia. I’m not sure if this is useful at all. *shrugs*
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*1998 FMV adventure game, The X-Files…
Oh, one last thing before I get outta here for the night. L.A. Noire had time period related branding scattered through out the city. Kellogg’s Cornflakes in store windows and the like. I think this was one example where they weren’t paid for the placement, but chose to set the scene and era. I’m pretty sure there was a disclaimer in the credits saying they weren’t affiliated with the production? Good luck, Greenius. If you’re feeling stressed take a break. You’ll find it easier to continue when you’re more relaxed.
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One last thing (for real this time…), I’m not sure if this fits within your assignment but there’s plenty of fake brands scattered through out games. Often parody of real world stuff or designed to ground a world in realism. Might be an interesting angle to cover?
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This. Since I started my Fallout: New Vegas playthrough this week – there are many fake brands throughout that game, they’re used as part of the atmosphere and setting.
I guess it takes the regular expectations of advertising in the ‘real world’ and populates this one with its own to aid in the realism.
Don’t know if that line of thought can help you at all.
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Check this link Mr Greenius…not sure it’ll help but hopefully it does…
http://www.cracked.com/article_16798_the-10-least-subtle-product-placements-in-video-game-history_p2.html
I wrote a review of a game
http://rufflesrants.wordpress.com/2012/08/27/review-assassins-creed-2/
It doesn’t exactly do wonders for the idea that I hate all games. But you can’t blame me, it’s Assassin’s Creed.
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First thing first, I am a fan of AC.
Whilst I can understand and agree with you on several points (Venice was weaker then Florence and a bitch with that giant river in the middle and now good way across to get around) but what erked my most in your review was your comments on Watch Dogs.
Your idea of it originally being an AC title is wrong and easy enough to find evidence to support it not being. It put a bad stain onto the end of what was otherwise a well written/researched critical review.
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It is very obvious however that some of Watch Dogs’ design, especially the UI elements, has been borrowed from AC. Which shouldn’t be that surprising given they’re similar games. It’s like how Sleeping Dogs has a very similar UI in ways to GTA4
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No doubt, I’d say its free running mechanics are more AC inspired. UI these days are fairly universal to each genre.
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Dat Breaking Bad.
Played some Diablo with Nobfrond, Jo and Farts. Just doing Diablo runs on Hell so that Nobfriend could get to level 60 and we could do Inferno another time.
Loot is greatly improved. We were regularly finding items that were an improvement for someone, including quite a few weapons that had obscene damage stats. Elite mobs seem to have been changed and most of the changes for the better. I approve so far.
Just need to do group stuffs in Inferno.
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stop living in the past
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Argh so annoyed right now. Just finished off the Zombie Island of Doctor Ned DLC, finished all the quests, killed off the main boss and was wondering what the point of all the zombie brains that I’d collected were. Then and only then do I find the start point for the quests to collect the brains. AND ALL THE ONES I’D ALREADY GOT DIDN’T COUNT!!! Argh, so now (having looked up the quest chain) I have to go and collect another 400 odd brains. WHY?!?!
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Yeah I was semi-angry about that too as I heard it was better to collect as many as you can at the start but I didn’t know you had to have the quest first! Luckily I Googled it and got it during my playthrough, I don’t think I would’ve found it otherwise!
It’s your first time playing isn’t it? PC? I’m looking to get through the DLC sometime, preferably before Borderlands 2 comes out so if you’re up for a game, let me know 🙂 (I’ve only played Zombie Island)
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Yep this is playthrough 1, on pc. Yeah hit me up any time if you want to jump on co-op. now that ive all but finished zombie island I’ll be moving on to the other dlc. Which character did you roll as? I went with the Siren. Stealth escapes ftw
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I have a low 20 Mordecai and high 20 Brick. If you went through all the other stuff you might be a bit higher :/, bummer
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Yeah I’m level 41. That’s ok though, just means we can rip through stuff easier, or if everything goes to my level you’ll level up really easily
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Sounds like it’s something that’s been… on your mind.
…Yeah, that’s the best Brain pun I can come up with.
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I’d say it was a waste of brain power…
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Thanks for the tip, I’ll have to make sure I get that quest to begin with
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So I wrote about 400ish words for my 2500 word essay and have a general idea of what I’m going to write about. I figured I’d post what I wrote here in case anyone wants to add anything, might save me some time tomorrow night and give me a new perspective. I read what everyone has said last time and on the last page and thanks for that. I really appreciate it! <3
Brands play a major role in the realm of video games and brand managers can consider the video game industry as a viable option when managing their brand. Existing brands have chosen to enter the video game industry though mediums such as branded video games and in-game advertising, and video games themselves have established successful franchises and brands. These have created brand extensions, alliances and awareness, all of which can greatly influence brand equity, loyalty and image. By entering the video game industry, there is a chance to build upon these areas and affect the brand from not only a financial standpoint through potentially increased profits and sales, but also through the consumers’ perspective by influencing how the consumers perceive the brand (Erdem asdasdasd, 1999).
The video game industry is one of the largest and fastest growing entertainment industries. In 2012, DFC Intelligence put the global games industry figure at $67 billion which is set to hit $82 billion by 2017 (Gaudiosi, 2012). To put this into perspective, other big entertainment industries such as the film and music industries are estimated at $31.8 and $35.1 billion respectively. The top three highest grossing video games over five days all come from the same brand, Call of Duty. These are: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 ($775 million), Call of Duty: Black Ops ($650 million) and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 ($550 million), each released roughly one year apart and breaking the records of the previous entry (Stuart, 2011). In comparison, the top three highest grossing movies over five days are Marvel’s The Avengers ($244 million), The Dark Knight ($204 million) and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 ($203 million), all of which are from well established brands (Box Office Mojo, 2012). The huge success of the Call of Duty brand demonstrates the profitability and power of the video game industry and truly opens it up as a potential market for the brand manager to consider. However, video games as a medium will not only financially affect the brand but also gives it an opportunity to increase consumer awareness.
While video games sales have been increasing, the number of people with access to and playing them have also increased. In an industry still considered to be for children, the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) conducted a research in 2012 and determined the average age of the ‘gamer’ (defined as someone who plays games) is 30 years old. The study also finds that the average U.S. household owns at least one gaming platform asdad (Johnson, 2012) (going to talk about how more people are gamers and can be reached through advertising etc.)
Games for mobile, smartphones and tablets are driving much of the growth
Branded video games In-game advertising
How awareness affects….
Big video games brands, didn’t start out as video games brands (Sony, Microsoft etc.).
Brand alliances? Brance licenses Brand extensions
How this affects….
Equity loyalty image/identity
What can they do? Market performance – successful long term?
Most hated – COD/Angry Birds/ Zynga – successful financially, consumer level not so much
Unwanted associations, hurt brand
Movie video games – generally considered bad, star wars, Indiana jones
Basically it’s just some vague ideas at the moment with only the first 2 paragraphs being ‘complete’. I figured I wouldn’t lose anything if I asked for help so I might as well so don’t feel obliged to help or say anything, I’ll be perfectly fine if this went unread. Being a bit selfish but I figured it’s vidya gaem related so hopefully it’s somewhat interesting :P. Thanks in advance!
For reading this far or skipping ahead here’s a little fun fact! I just got teary while watching this show before. It was from the Steve Wilkos show and it was all about this racist guy who wanted to change. Got real emotional in the end and I let my manly tears flow. SHHH YOU READ NOTHING
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Treatment of consumers can also play a pretty large part in the image of a company.
– CD Projekt Red curried favour with their anti-DRM stance and removal of the Australia Tax (eventually).
– Capcom’s monetisation of their games (DLC) is largely frowned upon. We’re just cows to be milked.
– Ubisoft’s PC crowd… is not very happy.
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Hi Bish
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I found a Chip brand called “Ruffles” here.-
We had Ruffles here back in the day. Now you only find them as 2 year old out of date packets at go-lo
But, yeah they are still the best chips because they have my name in them.
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I remember Ruffles! Haven’t seen them in yonks.
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Sega 4 Lyfe! Genesis does what Nintendon’t! BLAST PROCESSING NYYYAAAGGGHHH!!!!
Ahem.
Brand loyalty has always been around in videogames. Even when the clearly superior Commodore was derided by some deluded fools who called themselves “Spectrum Enthusiasts”. More like Spectrum Stupid Faces amirite?
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SEGA!
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“SEGA”?
Or “SAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYY-GAAAAAAAAAAAR!”?
Think about it.
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Maybe talk about something that Serrels has discussed before – gamers and their need to belong (article was about the term ‘gamer’). Part of belonging is adopting something to be identified with, and brand loyalty (particularly to the console manufacturers) is a very relevant way for gamers to do this. For example, many people would still identify with and categorise themselves as either Nintendo or Sega from the 16-bit era (SEGA FOR LIFE!), despite acknowledging the merits of both systems and enjoying games from both consoles. Brand loyalty isn’t just about acknowledging the good things companies do, or supporting them in the hope of future success – it forms part of our identity.
I’m a Sega Kid.
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“I’m a Sega Kid”
Boooo!! Hissss!! 😛
I haven’t really considered Steam and Valve, what can I write about them? The only thing I can think you were referring too was maybe brand loyalty to buy from them over other digital distribution means (GoG, Origin etc.)
Thanks for all the feedback and I’ve mainly been thinking of this from a “how can existing brands use video games” perspective rather than from the video game brand side of things. The topic I made up was “branding in video games” so its not entirely out of topic.
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Ooh… wasn’t there a thing a few years ago with games having real world advertising in them (i.e. billboards), that updated to new ads every now and again with an online connection?
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Some games have them but I can’t really remember any other than Obama billboards being in Burnout and Alan Wake having actual Verizon and Mustang commercials.
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Or how about in God of War when Just after Kratos pulls out the first Cyclops’ eye then stops for a few minutes to talk to you about proper planning for your retirement with the correct managed super fund for you?
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Or in the middle of a cinematic in MGS4 Old Snake starts talking about funeral plans. Like those creepy adds on TV.
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Splinter Cell Conviction had billboards for a Denzel Washington movie…
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You could write whole essays on how awesome Valve is.
everything from free to play games (TF2), brand loyalty, the first commonly accepted digital distribution model, their support of indie developers, being a well known and respected player in the games industry etc etc.
A big part of the valve branding is that they want to appeal to the everyman. When they were trying to get the image of the guy with the valve for an eye the model agency kept sending them people who were too beautiful.
They ended up dragging some randoms in off the street to show the sort of thing hey want. The agencies couldn’t deliver what they wanted to they went stuff it, might as well go with these examples. Not sure if they did find out but for a long time they actually had no idea who the guy in there logo was.
Not sure if the is relevant but it’s a cool story. There is also the giant valve thing that they always interview around in their foyer?
Morning gents and the other kind. Was just wondering if someone could direct me on where to send Noms again.
Thanks in advance, not gonna be back for sometime
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Thanks Canadia Bish
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He’s such a helpful guy, not like that Australia Bish.
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Yeah he was a jerk who used to call me names.
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No problem, eh?
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This Bish is my favorite Bish.
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Yeah, but to match the outfit, then his clothes would be white, which would would make for a very boring/monochrome Trainer.
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Also, that took me, like, an hour to do, pixel by pixel in Paint.
Clearly have nothing better to do.
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So, maybe it’s because I’ve lived in Sydney all my life and never bothered to seek things out, but it feels like there are a lot more niche gaming/comic/anime stores here?
Off the top of my head, Kinos, King’s Comics, that other one I saw but can’t remember the name of, Hondarake for Japanese things.
I’ve been spending my free days poking around for things to do in Toronto, but I seem to end up looking for nerdy/geeky/gaming/otherwords things to do, probably because they are what I enjoy the most. Going to Sportsball (baseball) to see the SkyDome is neat and all, but that’s a novelty. The spectacle of the game is something to behold when you walked down the seating aisle and realise how many people are there, but then it’s 3 hours of pretty much people mostly not hitting the ball, or hitting it badly.
I’m not really a tourist. The Bata Shoe Museum may intrigue some, but certainly not me. It’s a pretty wanky looking building.
So anyway, I Google around.
– A & C Gaming, a specialist in Used Games. Like for Japanese NES game and Atari and WonderSwan and all that, too.
– The Beguiling. I admit, I’m not a comics sort of guy, but it’s considered the best store around, and has even had Neil Gaiman do promo stuff there. Impressive.
– Dueling Grounds: “The real selling point of the locale, however, is the absolutely pristine gaming area located in the basement. Larger than the main shop floor itself, the room hosts everything from Pathfinder Society play to Yu-Gi-Oh tournaments. ” That’s pretty neat.
– The Silver Snail is some sort of legendary shop. It’s in the middle of moving, though, so I probably won’t check it out anytime soon.
– Snakes and Lattes, a cafe where you can play board games (Hello, 1950s! (;D)).
So that’s pretty cool. I think? I don’t know. Is this sort of specialty common in cities? Do Australian cities have the same thing, but I’ve never cared enough to look?
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Gold Coast has exactly one comic book store and it’s the saddest looking store I have ever seen. Looks like a flea market stall set up in a back woods community hall. It’s also a nightmare to track down if you don’t know where it is.
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I HAVE THE INTERNET, nothing else.BUT THATS OKAY
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Go to “The Dueling Ground” and yell out “BELIEVE IN THE HEART OF THE CARDS” and “I SUMMON THE DARK MAGICIAN”
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I know of an awesome comic shop in canada called the 4th wall but its in montreal I think…
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Man, I would frequent the hell out of snakes and lattes
Over 2,000 different games a $5 for as long as you like. There was a couple of places like that recent opened in melbourne but they are hugely expensive, pay by the hour kinda deals
All those automated emails you get from companies that beg you not to respond to the email. I wonder what would happen if you did? Some clause that states if you do you become company CEO? Your monitor will explode into your genitals? Break the Seventh Seal?
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Man, I hate when that first one happens.
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I remember when I became a CEO once for replying to those emails, worst day ever. Luckily I didn’t forward one of those chain emails 20 times so I lost my job.
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After watching Breaking Bad last night, I can’t help but think that the writers love the characters in very different ways. There are the characters that they get to be all writery with and make do interesting things and then there are the characters where they’re a little bit mushy and want to do right by.
It’s a weird dynamic.
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It has gotten quite odd that way, hasn’t it?
Hello my wonderful TAYpes! I hope you’re all well!
I just got back home from my weekend away (I say ‘just’ but I got back yesterday…) and had a lot of fun! I went to Cairns/Port Douglas with my Dad for a combined birthday/Fathers Day thing. He’s always wanted to go to the Great Barrier Reef and probably realised I couldn’t afford to take him so he took me instead. 😛
Anyway, it was a great couple of days. We stayed in Port Douglas and went reef snorkelling (I didn’t realise how far out to sea the reef was. I don’t know why but I expected it to just be right there on the beach or something… silly.) We saw humpback whales while on the boat :O The Snorkelling was great too! So many colourful fish. I have a picture of me holding a massive red sea cucumber, which I was going to upload to show you, but probably not… It’s mighty unflattering haha
On the second day we went for a drive to/through the Daintree rainforest. It was good but really when you’ve seen one rainforest you’ve seen them all 😛 Still had a good time though. We also went to Mossman Gorge which is basically a big freshwater river that you can swim in. I’d forgotten how nice it is to swim in freshwater! I’m so used to salt/chlorine. Oddly relaxing even though the current was strong and the rocks were slippery.
Last day we just bummed around Cairns until our flight home. Not much to say other than I got no Streetpasses the entire time I was in QLD. Holiday ruined. (Oh, and on that note I finally managed to finish Pokemon Conquest on the plane. Love the post-game stuff!)
Aanndd, that’s about it. We left Cairns while it was 29 degrees, arrived at Sydney when it was 16. Not ideal. It’s good to be home though. And I got 5 Streetpasses as soon as I landed. Thanks, Sydney!
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Oh, and I was trying to keep up with the Zombie movie filming while I was away. Looks like you all had a lot of fun! All the behind the scenes photos were amazingly entertaining. Can’t wait to see what it turns out like.
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What post game stuff have you done? Not sure if its happened to you yet, but watch out when you run into an Officer and his Gabite. You’ll know when it happens, things ramp up pretty quick then
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I’ve only done a couple of the easiest stories. I’m working my way up!
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“We saw humpback whales while on the boat”
That’s a big boat.
Sounds like you had an awesome time! I was a little jelly, and then I read that you got streetpasses. Now I mad.
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I want to go on a trip around the world. Not for the sights. For the Streetpasses.
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Powalen: The Snorkeling
Just sounds awesome.
Now for a sequel…
Help me Obi-TAY Kenobi, you’re may only hope!
Tried to recharge my phone today, Virgin pre-paid, and the bloody thing wouldn’t let me, as it said it had done to many credit card verification checks???
WTCF???
I had only tried it once and I don’t think I have used my credit card for ages?
Any thoughts, ideas or plans for world domination would be appreciated.
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You have to call customer support and get them to unlock the verification check thingie. I’ve been through this too, it’s not fun.
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HUNT DOWN AND KILL DOUG PITT!!!!
Morning Fronds!
Last night: Bunny, Jo, Farts (Freyr) and I play some D3. I just wanna thank you guys for giving me gear and leveling me 2 levels. 😀
Also I gave Inferno act 1 a go last night after everyone had logged off. I’ve gotta say it actually seems possible to do. I got upto and beat the skeleton lord. Elite packs are actually possible to beat aswell. I didn’t even go to my backup plan off curling up into a ball and crying. \o/
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We shall do more of that stuff tonight!
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Wooo! Stuff!
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I really feel no pull to return to that game. Probably in part because I have a crapload of other stuff, but even without that I doubt I would. Good to hear someone still enjoys it 😛
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Someone else described the changes as turning the monsters into loot pinatas.
Throw in the significant balance changes for Inferno and you can see why it would appeal to people who are keen on the whole clicking thing.
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I must add you peoples on D3 im only just starting myself, and need people to run with.
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I stopped at lvl 16 or so, beginning of act 2. Hit me up if you need someone to play with 😀
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What region you guys playing?
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Everyone on TeamSpeak plays on North America, because it’s the default region for Australia.
I think I might have a low level Wizard that’s in Act 2 of Normal and a low level Barbarian in Act 1.
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ahh my mains are on americas. I started one on the asia region before i realized it was no better with lag n stuff. 😛
Only toons i got so far are a wizzard and a barb. but fairly low level. Will be hitting it harder in a week or so when i have a better machine i can play on. My current laptop has a habit of over heating and frames go down to 2 a second lol.
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My MacBook Air didn’t like playing Diablo. Glad I finally got my PC working again so that I can play at a stable 60FPS, compared to the slideshow that I had to endure.
Act 3 is particularly hilarious on a low spec machine. Dat fire.
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yeah i’ll be borrowing the wifes new shiney laptop for d3 i think. I have not bought or built a new pc in many many years. My laptop is just a big thing my wife decided was too big for her a few years ago, and its done me fine up until now, but its definitely showing its age on diablo. Think im up for a new pc or laptop in the next 6 months if not sooner.
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I’m playing on whatever the default AUS uses!
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Should be Americas but there was a little moment in the early days where people played magical realms. They’d log in, find themselves in a different realm without notice and think their characters were gone. So they made a new one and kept playing on the different realm.
Act 1 is ok…. I gave up at the start of Act 2, the jump is pretty huge.
Gais!!!
I am THIS close to caving!
I can get the new 40k Limited Edition from my local mind games store for only $158, instead of the $180 GW price!!!
Plus i would be supporting a local business that i really like!!
This is getting harder and harder to resist (thatswhatshesaid)
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Sounds like you’ve got to do it, man. The fate of the store rests in your hands! 😛
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It WOULD be a shame if the store went out of business because they couldn’t get the last few dollars they needed for their rent… It would be all my fault!
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For the Lion, Loops. For the Lion.
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This is a very VERY good argument
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Don’t.
#helping
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You’re like my thrifty and un-fun but very sensible conscience.
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I know you won’t do it. You’re way to scared.
Pussy.
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I know, right?!
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Hey Loops, my 40k lore isn’t as strong as yours, hence why I did not know of the Night Lords until you told me. Reading up about them now. I have a friend in the US who was telling me about the Alpha Legion being the not-so-insane chaos space marine legion that were more or less infiltrating chaos in order to one day destroy it for the emperor, but they still really hated the space marines.
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The night lords are pretty bad-arse, my boy! You’ll love them. Plus their Primarch has one of the most kick-arse names! 😀
I don’t mind the Alpha Legion, but their armies focus much more on regular converts rather than space marines – they have spread themselves quite thin
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I do love the look of their armour, but are the bat wings on the helmets necessary?! 😛 j/k They look really badass indeed! I’ll read more once I get the time to 🙂
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Just read up on the Night Lords. Yeah I like them quite a bit, they destroy everything through fear and terror, even shun chaos itself. A completely rogue legion
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Yeahhhhh booiiiiii!!! hahaha
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Death Guard is where it’s at yo…
Word Bearers are also pretty awesome.
That is all.-
You play as the Word Bearers in Dark Crusade/Winter Assault chaos campaigns of Dawn of War IIRC
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Indeed you do. But I found it to be a lame watered down version of their true awesomeness. Look up the 3 books from Black Library, Dark Apostle, Dark Disciple and one other I forget the name.
Well worth reading if you’re a fan of Chaos Undivided.
Also, Death Guard need good fiction! Somebody remedy this! Pronto!
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Luckily im too lazy to paint any more. Though im going to canabalize my box set to replenish some missing units from my space crusade board game 😛
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I was actually thinking of buying all the board pieces off ebay at some point and using new models to rebuild the game. Twould be awesome!
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well im pretty sure i got all but 1 or 2 of the minutures in there still. So not too much effort.
If i didnt wanna ruin the charm of the game, i’d paint up all the pieces, but the coloured plastic is part of the fun.
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I’ve told you heaps Loops, you can get it online for under $100
Most recent winner of the “Most Unfortunate Surname” award goes to…..
Mrs Nothard.
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Actually, it would be most unfortunate for her husband.
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How about Mrs Cocks? Or her poor son…
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True story: I once met a lady named Aenis Puzard.
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Disclaimer: it was the name she gave me so I can’t tell if it’s her real name or not.
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I once met someone with the surname “Kittyporn”, at least, that’s what was written on their driver’s licence.
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‘Porn’ is pretty common in names in Thailand I think.
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there’s a student on our system called kitty miao
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HOW DO YOU STOP YOURSELF FROM PATTING HIM/HER!??!
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Restraining order
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My wife’s old table tennis coach and Australia’s Olympic entrant is Miao Miao
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Any one played XIII? (http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/xiii), vaguely reminds me of Borderlands mixed with No One Lives Forever. Worth playing?
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That was an excellent game – Seriously I would Highly Recommend it!
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Certainly looks stunning for an ’03 game. Thanks, man!
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Don’t play it!
It’s an awesome unique game with a really interesting story that was the first part of a series and ends in a massive cliffhanger.
Naturally it got cancelled
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Aww, man. That’s too bad.
:'(
But damn, Ubisoft were doing interesting stuff in ’03. Beyond Good & Evil, Prince of Persia: Sands of Time, Splinter Cell…
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Actually, do play it. I don’t think I’ve ever played anything else like it. Just be prepared for that Gaaaaahhhh!!! Moment.
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I don’t think I can, man. I’m still mourning that Invasion show from a few years ago. I was hooked. Excellent series that almost stands on its own after just one season… then the last five minutes had to happen… 😛
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I’ve found that there was a sequel on phones last year but I cant find it. There also seems to be a canadian TV series doing the second part of the story.
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Seems to be airing on Foxtel on FX. http://www.fxtv.com.au/shows/xiii/about
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Downloading the Miniseries (which looks like it takes on the game story) and the actual series. WOOOO!
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HOLY BAWL ZACK REALLY?!?!?
Now I can’t wait to get home. Dang it.
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My copy of Fall of Cybertron just arrived, shipped from Ozgameshop last wednesday. That is some damn speedy shipping.
Now those ‘cons are gonna bloody get it! 😀
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Fething awesome!!!
FRAG ON, AUTOBOT SOLDIER! -
I’m starting to get hyped for that game purely because other people are getting hyped…I should look into it some time.
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While I am a big TF fan I can say from what I played of the demo that they have drastically improved the gameplay over War for Cybertron. It is extremely solid and definitely worth a look.
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will prob buy this next pay depending on how my current games are progressing. As it is i dont have enough time for D3 and naruto. Though i have almost made max level on cod so i can put that down for a month or two now.
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That’s annoying, I’m well into week 2 of waiting for Spec Ops
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It’s worth the wait, if that’s any comfort.
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you guys have been hyping the game up so much… it better not suck =P
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A little pop up box keeps popping up whenever I open a new Kotaku, Giz, Lifehacker article saying Allure media is requesting a log in and password. Anyone know what that could be about?
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Same thing here, man. Odd.
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Yeah, getting that too.
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I just had the same thing. I hit cancel, comment still appeared.
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Testing the new account system!? Wild speculation go!
ps. I’m not having this issue 🙁
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They have been planning on implementing accounts for a while now
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WordPress is screwing up and thinks that you’re trying to get into the backend or something. It happens from time to time.
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Heh, ‘back end’.
Actually, it happened to me not to long ago. Wondered what the hell was going on.
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Oh wow….just goes to show, it’s not what you know, it’s who you know….talk about justice! I do feel kinda sorry for the guy after it’s all said and done.
Take the time to read this email transcription, well worth it.
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Don’t feel sorry for him (Paul Christoforo) – he did not learn his lesson, despite its severity, and he was at it again earlier this year.
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If he didn’t learn a lesson from all that…wow…sympathy all gone now….
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So uh apparently I applied for a sales job at Ford that is conveniently located at the end of my street.. I don’t remember doing this, but hey I have an interview tomorrow night \o/
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Lol win
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Yeah, i’m stumped because I can’t find any email from seek or any other place like that saying I applied for it LOL
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Back to 40K for a moment. The best space marine chapter are the guys who got lost in the warp and are now badass mutes. Legion of the Damned I think they are??
Also I never much cared for Eldar until I read about this one guy who single handedly fended of a entire tyranid invasion of the planet he’s hanging out on.
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Eldar are pretty awesome, very under-represented and misunderstood.
Legion of the Damned get very limited coverage too, though they recently got some new models.
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The Wulfen are pretty boss too.
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sorry but best chapter of all time go to the flame falcons.
They were part of the same founding as the Legion of the Danmed (formally fire hawks), the cursed 12th founding.Basically what happened to the Flame Falcons though, is they all spontaniously burst into flames in the middle of a battle, but the flames didn’t burn them. Thinking it a sign from the emperor the crushed their enemies with renewed vigour. The Inquisition saw it as a Chaos taint and almost completely oblitorated them, so they retreated through the warp..
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I do remember reading that actually.
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Interesting problem with my co-worker’s iPhone.
The phone’s timezone is set to Brisbane, Australia. The calendar app adjusts all of the times for appointments as if she is in Brisbane, California (I think it’s there anyway, we’re talking 18 hours behind so something for this afternoon shows up as yesterday evening).
Anyone have any idea how to force the calendar app to play nicely?
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Get an android device….
#nothelpingI have no idea about iphone calendars sorry =P
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Work issued phone.
I just find it amazing that the time zone is correct for everything but the calendar. Doesn’t make any sense. Everything is right on the iPad just not the iPhone.
Yay. /o\
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Finally worked it out.
Time zone support for the calendar was set to Cupertino. Was on the wrong track there but I did at least manage to pin point which time zone it thought it was in.
Just changed the time zone support to the right city and it’s working just fine. How obnoxious.
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It’s called a feature.
Don’t blame the device because you can’t calendar right.-
“It just works”
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It did just work. It worked exactly as intended. Just not how I, or any reasonable person, would have intended it :p
Defaulting to Cupertino is just plain silly.
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What’s that saying…. Home is where the heart is.
Everyone loves (or …..”hearts”) Apple, who are based in Cupertino, so therefore home is in Cupertino!
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Anyone interested in a seeing a scene from the zombie film?
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Sure!
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I feel like you’re toying with us, setting us up for some hard core trollin’…
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Not really. If there was enough interest, I was going to post the scene where I die and Blaghman eats a burger.
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Man, that burger… Certainly something.
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Sure, do it!
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I’m very interested, but I think I’d rather see it all at once when it’s finished!
So whats the next announced release you guys are looking forward to? Me personally, can’t wait for
Bioshock: Infinite, The Last of Us, AC3, Aliens: Colonial Marines and Dishonoured…
How about you?
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Dishonored, Assassin’s Creed 3, X-Com, Hitman, Tomb Raider, The Last of us, Aliens: Colonial Marines, BioShock Infinite, Tex Murphy: Project Fedora, Moebius (Jane Jensen kickstarter) and Double Fine Adventure! I’m sure there’ s more. :S
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*Watch Dogs, Remember Me… possibly Pikmin 3 if I get a Wii U… also ZombiU. 😛
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Oh, oh! Star Wars 1313. I’ll stop now.
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That awesome looking co-op Star Trek game too. I’ll stop for real now. 😛
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Borderlands 2!
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Oh dear…i’d forgotten some of those titles…my wallet hurts 🙁
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Good, but expensive time to be a gamer, huh? (Totally meant to mention Beyond: Two Souls too.)
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Damn you!!!
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Dishonoured
and I’m still waiting on my copy of Spec Ops to arrive so not really a “release” but I’m waiting for that too.
Also waiting for the 40K Dark Vengeance Starter Box!-
Oh yeah and Watch Dogs and Last of Us but they are probably a fair few months away still …
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Pokémans!
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Yes, I agree with this guy, eh!
I’m totally wearing Pokeball colours too!-
Wait, you like Pokemon games? Really?
Damn, that’s something I was not expecting.
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Torchlight 2
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This year has been awesome for surprises too. Spec Ops and Sleeping Dogs in particular. Always good when a game shows up that wasn’t even on your radar.
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FarmVille 2: The Farmening.
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ACIII, ACIII: Liberation, Borderlands 2, Dishonored, um… probably others.
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X-com is probably the one I am most looking forward to. Dishonoured looks cool and as D.C said my sci-fi fanboi is hoping that both star wars and star trek are good
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Far Cry 3- sharks, tigers, bears and general wildlife \o/
Plus hunting, finally!
I loved Far Cry 2 and unless the developers mess it up it looks like Far cry 3 will be just as good if not better especially with the changes they’ve made
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ASSASSINS CREED 3 OMFG YUSH!!!! only 64 days I think.
Far Cry 3
Borderlands 2
BF3 Armoured Kill (its DLC but shush)
Maybe Pokemon B/W 2 idk yet.-
“Maybe Pokemon B/W 2 idk yet”
Don’t make me come over there!
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You dont know where I am!
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I guess that the definition of this is stuff I’ve got preordered or intend to purchase day 1? Keeping to stuff that has something approaching a release date / window:
Preordered: Mugen Souls, Borderlands 2, Ni no Kuni, Persona 4, Hatsune Miku: Project Diva f, Zero Escape: Virtue’s Last Reward, Assassin’s Creed 3: Liberation, Code of Princess
Day 1/Will Preorder at some point: Dead or Alive 5, Halo 4, Sim City 5, Assassin’s Creed 3, Tomb Raider, The Last of Us, Bioshock Infinite, Tales of Xillia, new Professor LaytonI have a suspicion there’s others I’m forgetting too.
@Inquisitorz
Sorry buddy – i forgot to reply to you yesterday.
Thanks for the heads up, but i really want the limited edition – that Chaplain is awe-inspiring.
Also, i don’t want to wait lol.
Thank you though – you’re a gem. 😀
Has everyone gone to lunch? No new TAY in 40 mins makes me a sad panda.
🙁
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Um… How about that movie that came out recently. I hear it’s a good movie and stuff.
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IKR, I’m so bored that I have resorted to actually working! Shame on all of you 😛
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Not my fault! Honest!
I was just installing a printer and fixing multiple iPhone settings.
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Why bunny
WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
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Oh you know… reasons.
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That’s a fairly REASONable excuse.
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Geddit?
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…no?
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Hmm strange, why can I hear crickets and was that a tumbleweed?
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If you think it’ll help, I can list out more games that are coming out soon…
GTA V, South Park RPG, Wasteland 2…
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Quiet you!
My wallet was just coming to terms with it’s impending losses and you keep assaulting it with more and more titles!
My wife is going to kill me. But it’ll be worth it, i’ll have ALL THE GAEMS!!!11!! -
Already “pre-ordered” wasteland 2 so finally one both my wallet and I can be happy with
I just came back from lunch.
Homemade chicken exists only to make your soul smile.
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Soup.
Homemade chicken soup exists only to make your soul smile. -
Homemade chicken?
What sorcery is this?
And the awkward silence is over…it was so…awkward.
@Aleph
Is there something special about Tuesday nights? I’m not quite sure if there is, maybe I am just imagining things. 😛
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I already yelled at Pez about it on twitter.
TUESDAY NIGHT IS CERTAINLY NOT CHICKEN CASSEROLE NIGHT! /o\-
Takeaway night?
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MOTHERFLIPPIN’ SCHNITZEL NIGHT \o/
Seriously, you guys need to get on this. It’s a thing. Has been for ages.
I’m a trendsetter. Also possibly a little sad that I get so hype for schnitzel night.BECAUSE SCHNITZEL NIGHT \o/
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I gots me a lasagna waitin’, so pffft…
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I have to do grocery shopping after work. I imagine that it could possibly include schnitzel.
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I approve of this statement.
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You’re all heretics. Consume thy schnitzel lest ye burn in the eternal fires of nonschnitzelness o.0
I don’t do it for me. I’m sacrificing my health for the schnitzelgod. I’m trying to save you guys! Repent! Consume the schnitzel! BECOME ONE WITH THE VEAL!
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Tuesday night is usually Schnitzel night here. But not tonight Tbone instead.
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I have a crazy idea….
T-BONE SCHNITZEL!!!!Think about that for a second…..
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……………I’m not sure, t-bone should be juicy when you cut it and I don’t like my schnitzel coating to be soggy -
I did say think about it, and that it was a crazy idea
Personally, I’d perfer a medium-rare t-bone topped with a schnity..
mmm
I think the pub will be hosting my feeding tonight -
Perhaps an eye fillet or something. Flash fry, essentially a deep-fried/crumbed blue steak. I must try this.
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Question, why doesn’t this article have comments allowed?
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/08/5-ways-sleeping-dogs-improves-on-grand-theft-auto/
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Kirk must really hate feedback 🙂
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Someone called him the next Luke the other day? Maybe he cracked!
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Nah, he just knows that everybody is going to say that Ruffles review was better
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The Journey one doesn’t either. I just figured there was a glitch in the matrix.
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Someone knows we’re here.
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Comments are back if you wanted to post
I just got a 50% off any Saints row: The 3rd DLC so if anybody wants to get Genki bowl or just bought vanilla and wants one of the expansions let me know and I’ll send it across
So I just talked mum into joining me for SCHNITZEL NIGHT.
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Whats that? A Friday?
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Wednesday man! Sheesh!
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I just told my wife that Tuesday night is Schnitzel night and she said, no that is Wednesday. So you are correct
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Bought some Xbox credit for Mass Effect 3: Leviathan DLC. I always feel slightly ripped off whenever I do. 😛
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Probably because the whole MS points system was developed with the intention to make customers part with slightly more money then they otherwise would have were they paying in more traditional currency.
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That’s exactly it.. Always just a little bit left over, not enough to buy any thing… might as well just top up again… cycle continues.
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25 hours ago I sat down to start my assignment due wednesday. 24 hours later I finally opened a text document and wrote donw 11 headings. Its now an hour later and I’ve made no progress. All I have to do is write 11 paragraphs and its so easy I have all the info but I just cant bring myself to start.
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Because TAY.
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I think its more the first topic is equipment list and its over there in a folder and Im right here with Tiny Wings on my phone.
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I was trying to think of good reasons for procrastinating…came up with TAY.
Also, i haven’t had to do any form of assignment for over 12 years, so i wouldn’t know whats actually involved anyway. and i’m rambling.
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I’ve been there so many times it’s not funny 😛 It usually takes until the “this thing is due TODAY” period when I finally get motivated…
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Chill out, have a schnitzel. It’ll all come to you afterwards 😀
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I think you have a problem
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But it’s not Wednesday…
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Wednesday? Thursday is the schnitzel’s time to shine!
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If only someone could tell me what night it’s supposed to be. Tell me with conviction.
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My wife says it is Wednesday and I’ve been married long enough to know that is therefore the correct answer
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I wasn’t going bite, but by god, well done. Wednesday is now schnitzel night for the married and enslaved.
TUESDAY NIGHT IS SCHNITZEL NIGHT FOR THE FREEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeee…
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Married and enslaved?
Huh, I didn’t know Ninja Theory made a sequel 🙂
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Well played Sir
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I know there’s a good joke here Im just not getting it. T_T
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wait I get it
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So I just tried out the beta to the new steam community page. Still not sure on if I like it or not but initial impressions are it is good but needs some streamlining.
Friends
The friends tab is nice and I like the fact the achievement icons are listed rather than the former titles. Seeing the screenshots is good, however not being forced to click on them could lead to spoilers if people are posting late game or cut scene info.
There is also too many comment boxes for my liking, it breaks the page up to much, I would prefer click to comment rather than always having the box there.
Game hubs
Game hubs are looking interesting but could be even more spoileriffic than the friends as you can’t control who is posting there.
But I can see contests and meme type things happening here that get many more people involved. For eaxmple just looking at the mount and blade hub there a a number of screenshots of people posting shields with as many arrows in them as possible. Seeing things like this could give another reason to replay a game you completed or got bored with.
As for discussions I will have to see how the develop, currently it is getting much more random chatter than you got in the forums. Not sure if this is good or bad.
workshop
No real changes here that I noticed but I haven’t spent much time in this
Greenlight
Looking forward to it but not launching until the end of august
Well that’s my quick and dirty feedback on the new options, has anybody else tried it and what do you think
Just spent an hour trying to tune a ukulele. I think I finally got it! I’ve never played any type of string instrument before so I had/have no idea what I’m doing 😛 I didn’t really plan on learning to play this thing when I bought it (it’s only a very cheap one), but it’s cool to know that it doesn’t sound terrible 😀
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Turn all the knobs \o/
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Most of the time was spent turning knobs, only to realise that they were the wrong knobs for the string I was using. Ah, the life of the musically challenged! 😀
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Don ‘t worry. In a couple of weeks you’ll be posting vids like this.
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Eddie Vedder from Pearl Jam solo album, entire album is ukulele.
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Use an online tuner if your ears are decent.
I have a ukulele. Tabs are very easy to read, so maybe try those.-
Also I use this tuner
http://www.get-tuned.com/online_ukulele_tuner.php-
Thanks Scree! That’s actually the one I used (good to know I wasn’t too far off :P).
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Actually I just found a cool electronic tuner Android app. Good news is, my ukulele is now properly tuned. Bad news is, I was way further off than I thought I was! haha
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I remember when someone I knew decided they had absolute pitch, grabbed my guitar and started ‘tuning’ it. Poor thing would have sounded better after being hit by a truck.
Using a tuning guide was defiantly a smart decision.
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I think I used a wrong word there 🙁 crazy English.
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Haha, when I was younger my brother got a cheap guitar for Christmas. He would spend ages ‘tuning’ it pretending like he knew what he was doing despite never having lessons. I don’t think that thing ever got properly tuned.
ps. I would never have noticed that mistake if you didn’t point it out. Rookie error!
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Caterpie’s dont have the limbs to play string instruments. Whats going on here?
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Wizardy!
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Powalen used String Shot.
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Hahaha
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@Freeze and D.C. – Re XIII – If you are going to watch the series watch the mini series first, just saying 🙂
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Like Battlestar Galactica? Mini-series sets up series or are they two seperate productions based on same thing? Also, any good? 😛
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Yeah – The mini-series set up everything. I Cant complain. I’m liking it, and the use of one of the voice actors from archer just leaves me with a giant smile on my face.
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Sounds decent. Right now, though, only one show has my heart and that’s Six Feet Under.
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Mass Effect: Leviathan is downloading. I’ve got this and the extended ending I haven’t seen yet, looking like a second playthrough is imminent!
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I’m waiting for all the proper DLC to appear before I do a second playthrough. I wasn’t actually very upset with the original ending (I chose the green option) because I think I basically ignored the cutscene and filled in the blanks for myself.
I haven’t brought myself to do a renegade playthrough because I think it would require me fucking over several of my favorite characters’ entire species just to be a dick, and I really find the paragon/renegade dichotomy and the fact that getting a good ending essentially requires you to go all one way or all the other incredibly stifling from a role-playing perspective as it prevents me from choosing what I think my Shepards had established throughout the trilogy would do.
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Renegade isn’t handled very well in ME3. It’s pretty much just being evil for the sake of being evil.
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Have they said how many more story based DLC they plan to release?
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Woo 12 Angry Men is on the bottom of this page! Amazing film, everyone should go see it 🙂
Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee procrastinatingggggggggggggggggggggg…..
It’s good to hear that I’m not the only one procrastinating today (CJ :P). I’m so glad I took the day off today, there’s absolutely no way in hell I would’ve finished both my assignments from 7pm-7am and I just spent the whole day finishing ONE of them. Safe to say I’m not looking forward to tonight and I’ve only ever stayed up the whole night once in my life :/. I don’t drink coffee or energy drinks either so who knows what’ll happen to me tomorrow.
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Right of passage for a uni student, you’ll be stronger for it, man. I’m glad you’ve got one down, though!
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*Rite
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FRIENDS!!!! URGENT IMPORTANT FREEBIES
http://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/78435
Marked as expired but it still works. I did it earlier today but never received my code, sent them a message over FB, received a reply, just entered the code and BAM! Free $10 iTunes voucher. I also did it for my dad and I can confirm it still works. WOOO FREE STUFF
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Stop that! You’ve got work to do!
tsk tsk.
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I’m still waiting on my code =(
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Did you send them a message through FB? I did it at 7am, 9am and 11:30am and still no code, even now I never received anything :P. Sent them a message and received a reply sometime today giving me the code.
When I did it for my dad he received the text instantly.
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Woohoo! Your first all-nighter!
Healthy snacks and regular breaks.
Breaks being time spent AWAY from the computer. Take a 10 minute walk around the block or something at least once every two hours. A trip to the shops to buy healthy snacks counts too.
And if it comes down to it, if you really can’t get a reasonable assignment together tonight, as a last resort, calculate what the penalty is for late submission vs submitting very sub-par work. It may be worth losing 10% a day or whatever if it means the difference between a pass and a fail.-
Second actually :P, I’ve been up late before but I just slept instead of staying up the whole night because there was no reason to. Leaving the house isn’t really an option so I might just accept the 10% penalty for being a day late or hand it in half-assed tomorrow. I had one of the most stressful days trying to figure out what to do but I’m glad I spoke to this random guy who helped me out. Thank you random guy!
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Random guys can be a font of knowlege. Almost as good as “some guy in the pub”! 😛
And that doesn’t count as an all-nighter. All-nighter is when you get zero sleep, then print your essay and go straight to Uni ‘cos the clock is ticking! This is not recommended.
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10%?! All of my subjects have been 2%
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Lucky ducks! Most of my subjects lately have been 20% off your final mark for every day that it’s late. 5 days late and you get 100% of your mark taken off. D:
Thankfully I’ve never had to worry about that… yet.
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Good luck, greenius
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Best of luck with it!
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I don’t know what I’m doing :/
STUPID SUBJECT RUN BY STUPID PEOPLE
(stupid Greenius for not doing the allocated ‘work’ every week, pfft)
HEY TAY, HEY.
GUESS WHAT?
I DON’T LIKE CHICKEN SCHNITZEL.
I also have nothing else to say but wanted to say something.
How’s life, internet fronds?
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I don’t like schnitzel either! High Five! o/
I grabbed Avengers and Brokeback Mountain on Blu-ray, as well as South Park Season 15 on DVD!-
Oh, Avengers. That Captain America booty…
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Everytime I see a woman swoon over Captain America I can’t help but think of this: http://www.explosm.net/comics/2820/
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You like brokeback mountain, I guess that explains why you don’t like chicken schnitzel.
You know, because they are beef farmers and all
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I only got BM because of uni.
After watching it I might give it to my mum…
If I can drag myself away from South Park, that is…
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Try turning them into chicken parmigiana. You may like it then.
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But I can’t eat cheese /o\
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Oh no, all hope is lost! ? /o\
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I DON’T EVEN KNOW WHAT A SCHNITZEL IS /o\
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I’m not sure if you’re serious…
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I know it’s a kind of food something or other. Other than that… :/
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Can anyone suggest something for me to buy on the Club Nintendo website? I have enough stars to buy anything currently available but nothing has really jumped out and screamed ‘buy me’.
A fair few on the European Club Nintendo site have but that is another issue entirely. . .
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Honestly, wait for something special to come around. Don’t be tempted to waste your points on something you don’t really want. They bring out a ‘limited time only’ items every now and then like the gold Wii nunchuk (that I bought :D) or NES controller that you’ll want to save those points for!
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Agreed. I missed out on the SNES Wii controller, but did get one of the absolutely fantastic Mario anniversary T-shirts (http://purenintendo.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/classic_mario_tshirt_big_1.jpg in sky blue). I’m up to about that many stars again so I’m eagerly awaiting the next special deal myself…
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Don’t the star points have an expiry date or something though?
One of the mini trophies currently available on the European site would be awesome. . . too bad we could probably expect them down here once hell freezes over. . .
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I think the expiry is just for using the code. If you use it you should be fine but I’m not 100% sure.
As to what to get? I’ve gotten 3 things from the Nintendo store. Originally had a bunch of points so I got what I thought was the best thing on the store at the time (back when it first came out) which is the Mario pencil case. It’s what I expected… a Mario pencil case. I wasn’t going to use it and I only got it cause I had spare points.
Next thing I know a few months later they released a limited edition SNES classic controller, d’oh! Should’ve saved up.
My next ‘purchases’ were the set of Zelda: SS posters, which are cool but I’m not a poster person so they just sit in their tube and the limited edition Golden Nunchuck which great since it goes well with the Golden WiiMote.
My advice is if there’s nothing that catches your eye on there at the moment, then just wait for something limited to pop up. If I recall the SNES classic controller specifically said it was only for a limited time but the Golden Nunchuck didn’t so it’s hard to say for sure what is and will be limited. As far as I’m aware everything on the store now isn’t going to disappear any time soon.
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Used to expire, but don’t any more.
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@Greenius
I’ve pulled many all nighters in my time but never for work of any kind. Only for fun and games. However that was another time and these days I find it hard to pull an all nighter (it’s only been like a year but shush)
My fave tale from these times is when I woke up 7am Friday morning for school (early by my standards) and finally went to bed after 2am Sunday morning. Only because I thought I had developed mind powers and time controll.
Anyway my zoo assignment still isnt done but I’m going to wake up and do the last two paragraphs tomorrow and then prey the printer is working.
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Good luck to the both of us!
I wish I hadn’t read that article on guild wars 2 giving suspensions for 3 days without warning for names that go against their rules. I’m paranoid I’m gong to get a ban at any moment even though my names are perfectly harmless.
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What are your characters called?
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Well they all start with Gorzilla or Gorzilless (male or female) which they might decide sounds too much like godzilla. I’ve got Gorzilla AU, which is the hole national thingy, Gorzilless Misty (Looks like Misty form Pokemon) Gorzilless AU and Gorzilla Fizz (looks like Fizz from LOL)
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Hi Bish?
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What’s up, eh?
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I’ll post this here so I don’t create another ‘topic comment’.
So I just realised both of my GOTYs so far are downloadable games, one for the PS3 (Journey) and the other for the Xbox (Trials: Evo), I don’t think I’ve ever had a downloadable game as my definitive GOTY so this is interesting. I guess it’s more to do with not much else coming out. I never played ME3 which was probably the other well received game this year (correct me if I’m wrong) and while I had fun with D3 it’s kind of bland. I really liked Borderlands but I’m still not feeling the hype for 2 yet. Eh, who knows!
I haven’t seen or read much about B2 so going in ‘blind’ will be kind of fun. I used to watch and read a lot of gameplay, trailers, previews, reviews etc. so it was like I was almost playing the game. At least when I go in blind I don’t know what to expect and I’m less likely to be disappointed :P.
Anyways that Journey art book looks pretty good!
*ahem*
JJJJJOOOOOOUUUUUURRRRRNNNNNNEEEEEYYYY(buy it masha)
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Go to bed.
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Play Spec Ops, Greenius. (After you finish your assignment. :P) Still haven’t gotten around to Journey. :S
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Does anyone know what it’s like on PC? It went down to $25 at one point so when it goes cheaper than that I’ll reconsider :), I’m definitely interested in it though thanks to someone.
I’m also keen on Sleeping Dogs which I’ll also pick up on the master race at some later time when it’s around my ideal price range. Don’t think either will be my GOTYs but I know I’ll have a whole lot of fun with them.
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Someone sounds like quite influential.:P I’m not sure about how it plays on PC, but it was the internet activation that put me off. I think here’s a demo on Steam, though. Might be worth checking out. Just know the campaign isn’t insanely long, so you don’t want to spoil too much of it. Sleeping Dogs is apparently the best version on PC, though. So you can’t go wrong there. (Also internet activation, tough.)
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My copy of spec ops on PC arrived yesterday. Seems to run fine and controls are fine – so as far as console ports go its pretty good. Even the menus work well.
Limited graphics options and all that but overall its good. I’m not a massive fan of cover based shooters but I’m enjoying it so far.
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HI Bish!
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Get back to work!
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Hey iOS friends I was wondering what are some good apps (mainly games)? I’ve generally stayed away from those “kind of like console” games because of the price. Ya know, the type made by Gameloft and whatnot that try to emulate the console experience.
I see that N.O.V.A(hkiin) game is on sale but it seems to have the lowest rating of the 3. I’m still a bit of a tight ass so if a suggestion isn’t on sale then I probably won’t get it but I’ll keep your suggestions in mind :). I guess there’s that Horn game but that’s relatively new (and full price). I haven’t purchased much but what I have are your standard physics puzzle/arcade type of games (Cut the Rope, Where’s my Water). But I don’t have much anyway so I might not have your suggestion, generally anything new in the past year or so I won’t have or heard of.
As for normal apps I haven’t paid for any but if there’s “must-haves” then I’m interested :). Once again, thanks in advance! If you haven’t done so already you can get free $10 iTunes cards through the AEC Facebook app, tax payer’s moneyyyy.
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Man, I would totally buy a Kairosoft game if I had an Australian number or Facebook.
I don’t know, phones, gaming consoles and gaming portables are all different beasts. I personally don’t want a console experience on my phone. I want something quick and easy and a bit addictive to pass the time. My 3DS is for actual portable gaming.
So basically, #NotHelping-
Oh, I hear that Infinity Blade and Dead Space are kind of okay though.
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Yeah that’s why I haven’t really got those “try to be console games”. I tend to play something here and there on the bus because I don’t take my portables out of the house :P. I have both Infinity Blades but I’ll check out Dead Space if it’s cheap. Cheers!
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Game Dev Story get! I didn’t know what you meant by Kairosift game :P. It was full price but I’ve been wanting to play it for a while. No retina support? :'(
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I… don’t know what that last bit means.
Shame though, on Android, Game Dev Story is (inexplicably) half price than on iTunes.
And if you were paying ‘full price’ for Game Dev Story, I hear Mega Mall Story is the ‘best’ of the bunch. But hey, Game Dev Story has that extra charm because gaems! I like vidja gaems.
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I tried the original NOVA a couple of years back but I just get used to the controls. Two pseudo-joysticks on screen, I couldn’t wrap my head around it. It seemed like an ok game if you can get past that though
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Heh, by the time I posted that it was no longer on sale :(, back to $7+ now.
@Bish – retina support is the HDness of the newer iOS models. So instead of looking sharp it’s pixelated.
If you like word games you can’t go past Quarrel Deluxe. If you like adventure games than Monkey Islands, Broken Swords, Machinariums will serve you well. Scribblenauts is always damn fun.
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I don’t mind word games but I think I’ve had enough of them for now. Quarrel Deluxe looks pretty interesting though! I have both Monkey Islands on Steam and I’ve played and beaten Machinarium as well. (MachinariumS?!). I have the second Broken Sword which I picked up when it was free but I don’t have any interest in playing it :P, is it related to the first? I don’t usually like skipping ahead.
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It’s a sequel, but not a direct sequel so there will be recurring themes and characters but nothing essential to know. The first game is generally considered the best, though. As for Machinarium, I didn’t put an ‘s’ at the end. You’re clearly crazy. 😛
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Oh and I forgot to mention Scribblenauts which I “have” on DS and not really interested in. Thanks for your suggestions though!
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Theatrhythm is certainly something.
From a quick dabble and playthrough of one of the beginners levels, it’s no EBA, but as a vessel for nostalgia, I think they’ve tapped into something really clever here. You remember playing the game to these memorable themes and that’s a pretty nice feeling, I guess.
I say “I guess” because FF’s composer Nobuo Uematsu has done some good stuff, but I think games like Chrono Trigger/Cross had more memorable music (for me, at least). So neat idea, Squenix, but expand a little to include other games.
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Then make one with 80’s music 🙂
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If only there were some online retailers that sell to Australia that actually had some stock!
You know i haven’t written a massive TAY rant in quite a while, i haven’t written anything in TAY for a little while. Over the past few months it has become abundantly clear to me that our little family that once was, no longer is. People no longer shelve there opinions for the sake of bot stiring up trouble. Everyone blurts out exactly what they are thinking, perhaps i am the most guilty of this out of everyone for i have not won over anybody, in fact i believe i have made a great deal of you lose respect for me. I suppose that the longer that a group of people spend together there is a more relaxed nature to the group. This relaxing while sometimes a good thing is in my opinion leading to people becoming complacent and not only “hating on” on another actually being quite rude and innappropriate. In fact i believe that i am again the worst offender for this. So I just want to tell you guys that the ways i have acted over the last few months is not appropriate. Calling people names and bitching behind peoples backs is a dumb thing to do. I apologise.
TL;DR
I am a rude bastard and i am sorry.
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You’re not that bad, Rocketbuddy.
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And yes, I do realise I was bitching about this sort of thing just the other day. I’m not innocent in all of this either but at least I’ve been rather consistent about it all the entire time that I’ve been here.
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Not you, i ussually reduce you behaviour down to eh he has always been like that.
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Er, what? You’re a pretty cool guy that I’ve never noticed anything to “hate on” about. Same with anyone in here.
Unless…Everyones bitching behind the back…I’m oblivious to what it is…*sob*
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The thing is i am a pretty okay person, just i can be quite annoying and rude alot of the time.
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“The thing is i am a pretty okay person”
woooooaaaahhhhh, let’s not exaggerate, huh
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I don’t know what’s going on, I don’t think I’ve noticed anything out of the ordinary, but it’s nice of you to apologise to whoever you’ve offended.
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You should all know I have a little ledger rating each and every one of you out of 5 Shiggys.
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Poor Shiggy. He’s only able to get a rating of one Shiggy because he is but one Shiggy.
On the plus side, it means that someone with less than five Shiggys is still doing pretty well because just one Shiggy is a pretty good rating.
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Actually, as I figure it, Shiggy is like, all the Shiggys (Shiggies?) condensed into the human form of Shiggy we see before us.
Because if you take away a Shiggy from Shiggy, then he is no longer Shiggy, at which point the definition of the rating system would be meaningless. So Shiggy must be all the Shiggys, ever.
Everyone else is just rated relatively to ∞ Shiggys / 5 Shiggys.-
This post needs more Shiggys in it. I rate it 4/5 Shiggys.
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What is a Shiggy without Shiggy? There can not be no Shiggy, for there exists Shiggy. There can not exist a fraction of Shiggy for Shiggy, for he is Shiggy, whole and complete. A simpler mind imagines 5 Shiggys out of 5 SHiggys is a whole Shiggy, but if you rate others out of Shiggys, you take away from the complete Shiggys.
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That’s better.
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I hate it when you don’t let me call you HoTross 🙁
But yeah, not sure what the situation has been lately and I hope I don’t have anything to do with it (YOU’RE NOT TALKING ABOUT ME BEHIND MY BACK ARE YOU?! – GOSSIPROSS) but if I did anything wrong then I apologise (to you and anyone else).
You’ve been fine to me though as far as I can tell 🙂
I hope you’re feeling alright, man. I’m sorry if you feel this isn’t the place it used to be. Just know people only gravitate here because of the awesome, friendly community you old guard types built.
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(Though now I feel compelled to go back and read my posts for the last month, make sure I haven’t wrecked TAY. Hooray for self-esteem. :P)
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NO D.C. IT’S ALL GOOD!
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I like you Rocket. I’m glad you feel more comfortable around us now.
You know what the best thing about Darksiders 2 is?
No damnable QTE’s during the cool cutscenes so you can,you know, actually watch the cool stuff happen.
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Heh, I actually liked that aspect of Assassin’s Creed 2 and was bummed when they took it out. :S
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Yeah, it’s great. Getting old every time it happens in GoW and every other game that does it.
What I also find annoying is QTE in actual cutscenes. Sometimes I’ll put the controller down and do something else and then BAM I have to do some stupid QTE…
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I like the God of War QTEs they are often part of the gameplay and the game leaves them out of major cinematics.
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My GW2 personal story bugged out 🙁
Hopefully it gets fixed soon, because I’ve already out leveled it. I mean, I’ll get scaled down so it doesn’t become super easy (the scaling down mechanic is really, really cool), bu t I still don’t want to out level my story too much.
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That is unfortunate. Which race?
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Human. I’m supposed to fight off waves of undead but after a certain wave they just stop spawning and the quest won’t advance any further.
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Just outside the service station is a ridiculously good looking blonde girl with thigh high boots and a mini skirt leaning over the open bonnet of her car.
Call me cynical but if anything screams “It’s a trap!” it’s that. There’s got to be a hidden camera or reporter somewhere.
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And then Tracey Grimshaw herself jumps out from the car bonnet and accuses you of being a paedophile for supporting your baby daughter one-armed by her butt.
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If the woman turned around and WAS Tracey Grimshaw. Nightmarish.
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What monster have I become?
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I feel I’ve spent too much time in the dark recesses of the internet because after reading the words “good looking blonde girl” and “trap” my mind went to entirely different places than hidden cameras and reporters.
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I’ve been watching Jerry Springer lately so safe to say I didn’t immediately think of hidden cameras and reporters 😛
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Start dancing like an idiot cuz you’re not the father!
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I think that was from Maury, not Springer. Still, all those shows are pretty similar.
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Yeah Jerry Springer is all fights 😛
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The hatemachine strikes again.
A question for the TAY collective, has anyone watched Falling Skies, and if they have, is it any good?
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I watched and enjoyed the first ep but apparently not enough to watch the rest of them.
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I’ve watched the first two seasons and it’s enjoyable.
It’s a typical post alien invasion survival story but the characters and scenarios they get into are interesting. Give it a try.
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I never started watching it despite being mildly interested before it began. A lot of Sci Fi TV shows lately really fall flat for me. I think it’s because they try to stretch them out as long as possible right from the start, so you never really get a well paced story (and then they inevitably get cancelled making it even worse). I mean, I was SO excited for Terra Nova last year (because dinosaurs) but half of the episodes didn’t even have dinosaurs in them 😛 V was the same before that.
/mini-rant
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I started watching it on Foxtel a while back, when it started. Lasted about 5-10 eps, then got distracted. I am disappointed I didn’t stick with it, because I rather enjoyed it. Also, Noah Wyle.
Given my only MMO experience is with Runescape (When I was a boy…) I’ve pretty much ignored everything relayed to Guild Wars 2. But then someone told me there’s no monthly subscription. Is this true? Because now looking at some stuff it looks pretty interesting. The monthly payment has always put me off MMO’s. I’m one of those people who thinks “I’ve got the game, I should be able to play it without continually paying for it”. (Probably a symptom of playing single player games almost exclusively).
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WHEN I WAS A YOUNG WARTHOG!
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Very nice
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You. I like.
A Lion King reference never goes astray.
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You were informed correctly, there’s no monthly subscription.
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Sweet! I haven’t looked up much on GW2 (I’m not really interested) but the no monthly fees is what originally drew me towards the original.
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I’m the same way. No monthly sub suddenly has me intrigued. Or it would if I could run the damned thing.
STUPID PC SPEED TGE FUDGE UP!!!!
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Think of it like Call of Duty. Pay once but you can play for as long as you want at no extra cost, and except for an FPS progression system it’s MMORPG style progression with awesome story and art style.
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But I don’t like Call of Duty…
Good thing GW2 sounds sooo much better 🙂-
I meant in terms of purchase, human xD
Since CoD is mainly played online like an MMO sorta…-
I know, just had to play the anti-CoD persona for a little while 🙂
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NO MONTHLY FEES?! I might actually but GW2…
Diablo 3 tonight anyone? 😛
…or am I going to be the 5th wheel? :'(
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The 5th wheel is what makes the car into a robot.
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I’ll be game if Inferno is the go.
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I’ve nearly finished Hell and I’m level 59. I heard you ran through with Nob a few days ago so I’m not sure how keen everyone is on doing it again 😛
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I’m trying to get my Witch Doctor up to speed. He’s only in Act 1 at level 51, so you could help me rush him up to Act 4 to try and get that last bit of experience you need.
Or I can just run you through what you need with my Monk. It really doesn’t take much to finish Act 4. We cleared it a few times when levelling Nob.
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That is, assuming there isn’t an Inferno game going on :p
We can do it before dinner time, seeing as most of the people doing the Inferno thing play after dinner.
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I guess we’ll finish Act 4 first to unlock Hell and if I’m not 60 yet I don’t mind helping you out but I’d rather play Act 4 a few times for more experience. I’m assuming I need to be level 60 for Hell?
I guess it’ll be the usual time of like 8ish or so, I’ll sign onto TeamSpeak around then and hope the server doesn’t go down for maintenance 😛
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Level 50 for Hell, Level 60 for Inferno :p
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Hell = Inferno*
That’s the last one right? Been a while since I played 😛
And I’ll be hope sometime in the afternoon so I can play before dinner 🙂 (not during though because I need to catch up on Breaking Bad!)
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Yup. That’s the last one.
I don’t mind helping others get up to speed. I did it a fair bit with my Monk before we all stopped playing. Just kind of wish someone would return the favour on my Witch Doctor now that they’re apparently good :p
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I’ve helped you plenty of times in the past 😛 but like I said, I don’t mind helping but I would prefer Inferno since I haven’t played it before :).
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Indeed you have. It’s all been rather communal.
We’ll get you up to Inferno. It is rather fun. I’ll probably end up just asking whoever is on at the time to help my Witch Doctor get up to speed while there isn’t an Inferno run going on.
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You know, each extra wheel would generally add extra stability to the vehicle.
Just sayin’.
Most probably!
I was doing Act 1 Inferno with my Monk.
Had the most glorious death while doing the bit where you try and find the Skeleton King’s crown. I was up against an elite mob and stuck in a corner. I tried to use Dashing Strike to get out of the corner and somehow ended up getting stuck in the animation.
I could wiggle about a little but was stuck in a state of undeath, with my health constantly dropping to 0 as I was hit by the mob and then regenerating a little thanks to my whole Monkiness thing. It could have gone on forever but I wanted to eat dinner.
For those that remember me doing the hardest difficulty playthrough with my Infiltrator in ME1, I’m currently doing my Insanity playthrough on ME2 with him and I took Legion with me to the Tali loyalty mission yesterday evening. Gotta say it was a really cool different style of events and dialogue taking place. Legion is just boss 😀
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Yeah, I loved that the game had different scenario in mind if you took Legion with you. Insanely good game. I missed the loyalty quests in the third game. In some ways they had become like Mass Effects version of ‘Origin’ stories from Dragon Age.
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The loyalty missions are pretty neat cuz it focuses on one character that’s not you and you can see more about what they’re like instead of being just your minion in battle. I wish they went further though to be a spoiled robot, like a series of missions to make the character loyalty events more unique and exciting to take part in.
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I loved the loyalty missions, though it was a bit disappoiting how often your choice for second squadmate didn’t matter as they almost never said a word.
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Except for that one I just did! Legion said a few things and he had some dialogue in the discussions with characters, they pointed him out a lot, it was really a breath of fresh air.
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Depends on who you take, some characters do engage if you take the right one.
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Yeah, I always took Miranda and Jacob on missions together. Usually if there’s some thematic connection or link there will be something said.
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In ME3 I highly recommend taking the DLC character with you when you visit the Asari world. Worth it just for the stuff he talks about.
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Guys, what game is the pic from this article from? Its got me intrigued, the costume she’s in… http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/08/new-final-fantasy-isnt-called-lightning-saga/
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I thought it was new game art too but then I remembered Squareenix did some sort of catalogue for some Italian clothing using their FF characters. The guy from Versus XIII was in it too I think. Nothing to get excited about 🙁
She aint no Vivi.
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I’d guess FF13 or FF13-2. Has she been in any other games?
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Wait, just saw your comment in the article. Now I feel a bit silly for my comment. I have no idea which of the two games it’s from. I’d assume the second one, as I haven’t seen her wear anything like that in the first. Keep in mind though that I’ve only put about 20 hours into the first, so there’s always the chance she wears that at some point in the game and I just haven’t reached that point yet.
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That’s sort of cool. I think more clothing companies should model their clothes using game characters. It would certainly make me care more about the fashion industry.
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w…t…f? Well, I still reckon Lightning looks awesome. Should go with some trendy threads for her in this third game it seems
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It won’t happen. There’ll be more zippers and more belts 🙁
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SIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGH
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After like a month and a half of myself, Pez, Klutar and Cake attempting, we finally got some Borderlands played \o/
Moxxie’s a jerk.
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Still sits untouched in my pile of shame. :'(
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It feels like it’s too late for me to get into Borderlands but the sequel seems like a perfect time to jump into the action.
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There’s no real reason to play the original as far as I can tell. Seems to be a huge improvement in almost every way :). Hopefully we get the same sort of thing we had with D3 with a bunch of people dropping in and out for the first few weeks of release.
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@Greenius again
Spec Ops plays really well on PC. The control scheme is a little unique but it works.
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Cheers. I guess that’s another purchase I’ll get on the master race. I don’t recall reading anything saying it was a bad port or anything superior so that’s good to hear.
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I swapped the space bar and left shift controls around… using space to sprint is weird.
Other than that it’s all good (i posted about it on the last page green)
Could do with a few more buttons though. Like why have vault and melee bound to the same key? If there is nothing to vault the guy does a melee animation, which stops him running which can hurt.
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Thanks :). As long as it runs fine then I’m happy. I’m slowly making my shift towards the master race 😛
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Welcome brother!
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So I’ve been thinking about what I would do if I were designing Nintendoland.
The basic premise would be that the “dashboard” would be an MMO. As soon as you turn on your console, you are launched straight into a space (like Summer Wars) where you control your avatar and can fly around. Everyone else is in the same space but I would also make an easy to find friends system where it will create a tracker. Once with friends your avatars can hold hands and take each other to Nintendoland games or your standard games that have multiplayer components.
Nintendoland games will not launch into a separate area, these games are all happening in the same space and will not be overly complex either – things like basic kart racers, paintball or soccer etc., It will be easy to participate (just join a standard queue) but it will also be easy to sit in some stands on the side and watch.
Achievements in games will give you points that can be spent on an avatar shop where you can purchase clothing/items. Obviously a game company would probably want to make it possible to physically purchase these points as well.
Throughout the space there will be rooms/environments that seem like a homage to some of Nintendos classic games. These will serve as chatrooms and will support both typing and talking.
Obviously there will be a shortcut menu button for you to skip this all together so you can launch straight into your game.
Thoughts?
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It sounds cool, but I don’t know how practicle it would be. Also personally I feel it wouldnt hold my interest for long, maybe a week or two.
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Sounds like more or less what it should be.
Take a page out of the Streetpass “games” on the 3DS.
Nintendoland games can be played as often as you like, but you can only earn “reward tickets” (like from an arcade) from each mini game once per day. Those tickets can be cashed in for avatar gear, and/or used similarly to the pedometer tokens on 3DS in other games to purchase whatever small unlocks (Sound Trial mode, pay tickets to unlock songs from a game’s soundtrack).-
EXCELLENT
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Those of you interested in Torchlight 2 –
The release date is being announced on Friday (yeah, I know. they announced an upcoming announcement).
I’m gonna guess & say the 13th Sep.
As long as it doesnt clash with Borderlands 2, I’m happy.
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I have no idea if I want it to be sooner or later. I have so many things to play, and many more up and coming.
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Woohoo!
Already got it pre-ordered.
Although the waiting has been a bit tedious.
“Lift me, won’t you lift me above the old routine. Make it nice, play it clean. Jazzman.”
The more I think about it, the more I like Lisa Simpson’s version of Jazzman compared to Carole King!
I think that moment was the pinacle of The Simpsons to me.
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That’s probably one of the best episodes.
“Hello, I’m doctor cheeks. I’m doing my rounds, and, uh, I’m a little behind.”
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When the Jazzman’s testifying, a faithless man believes, he can sing you into paradise or bring you to your knees.
@Greenius
I was being serious. Other knowing that it’s a kind of food something or other, I have no idea what a schnitzel is :/
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Don’t worry, man. I’m fairly sheltered when it comes to food too.
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Same but everyone knows a schnitzel! Oh I guess you’re (lambo) a vegetarian though. Fair enough!
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O_o
Well…imagine a chicken and a loaf of bread both have the ability to fly really fast. One day, they crash into each other and fall out of the sky, landing on a plate, next to some mash potato, gravy, and veggies. Then someone ate them.
I could have said “crumbed chicken”, but that seemed too boring.
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Smushed crumbed chicken is less boring.
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Crumbed meat.
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It’s an autosomal recessive genetic blood disorder.
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Generally either chicken or veal, smushed down to a thin slice (maybe around 1 cm thick) and then crumbed.
Generally pan fried and served with mixed veggies and in the case of veal, a slice of lemon to squeeze over the top.Often consumed on Tuesdays
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Oh lambo.
MMO speaks incoming
So I picked up Guild Wars 2 yesterday, after it turned out that just about everyone I know was getting in on the game, and I had somehow missed the memo.
It’s good; it seems a little simplified (skills linked to weapons/equipment, said skills slots not adjustable) yet that same simplification actually lends itself to a greater flexibility in class roles. I’m playing a Guardian – which is basically a Paladin – and with a Scepter equipped, I become a ranged spellcaster, with very healing focused abilities; but switch to, say, a mace and shield and I get some support abilities including AoE defensive buffs.
I like that resource gathering isn’t a profession in and of itself, and many materials are actually components for a range of professions.
I like that mail can be accessed anywhere; I like that they didn’t try and explain it with some convoluted lore.
I like that there seems to be a lot of “go out into the world and explore” rewards (find Vistas, events, etc..) and I like the idea of daily and monthly “task list” achievements, which encourage you to play the game, and can be completed solo – no forced PvP.
I like that it’s got a very distinct visual style, that’s (imo) neither cartoonish nor realistic.
In other news, I had a quick peek at WoW this morning (5.04 patch).
I haven’t been following any of the pre-release announcements, so my half-empty action bar was a surprise.
The new “talents” is a thumbs down at the moment, at least for Shaman; about 50% strike me as useless. Then I noticed that Shamans have also had some class rework done (totem “sets” are gone, no “permanent” buffs, they now are supposed to be designed for short burst, situational use). That being said, there does appear to be some improved synergy for the stuff that got left behind (chain heal + healing rain). Probably going to take a bit of time to process. Definitely going to require some new key bindings.
Huge number of new achievements – mostly Pandaria related – make me happy.
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My Housemate is playing it atm.
We’ve dubbed the game as a /dance simulator.
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Ok, you pretty much got rid of my last doubts about getting this.
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Was that meant to be a reply to redartifice 😉
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No…. Well, not entirely
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Do eet! Crystal Desert server is where it’s at.
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Is that where most of the TAYbies are?
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Yep: me, Pyrean, Blaghs, Nobshot, B-Funk, Gorzy? so far I think.
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Ah.
Aw.
I’m on Sea of Sorrows.
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Sea of Sorrows high five o/
We can be sorrowful together.
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I was looking this up yesterday, and apparently you can join your friends as a “guest” on their server, to do some questing, the only thing your home server really sets is your position in World v. World v. World.
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(And to Mr wolf)
Blame Nobshot it was all his fault <
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Yes, but I’m on Sea of Sorrows (best server, also unofficial oceanic server). There’s some sort of feature planned that they haven’t implemented yet called guesting, which lets you play with friends on another server, so it may not matter too much which server you decide to roll on.
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I’m on Northern Shiverpeaks… maybe we should TAYNAMES this up?
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I’m not really liking crafting in GW2 at the moment. It’s cool that gathering isn’t it’s own proffesion, though the limited use picks, axes and hoes is sort of annoying, but the actual crafting itself requires so many mats and it looks as though the whole thing is going to be really, really grindy.
I do like that the game wants you to go out and explore the world. I love those Assassin’s Creed style view spots. It’s always rewarding to climb to one of them and get a nice little cutscene showing the area.
Haven’t checked out WoW yet since the patch. Might jump on when I get home to check out the account wide mounts thing. Thanks to that, I should have unlocked the Albino Drake with the 50 mounts achievment. Other than that, I don’t really care too much about the patch until the Theramore event unlocks. From what I’ve seen, the new talents look a little lacklustre and I’m not in a hurry to check them out. Apparantly all of the mage’s main mana regain stuff has been moved to level 90 talents, which sort of sucks.
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Wait, mounts are account-wide now? So like if you’ve unlocked some rarer ones like the Green Protodrake or some grind-specific ones like the Cenarion Hippogryph, all your characters get them? :O
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Yep. There’s some exceptions though, like the Gladiator mounts.
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Fair enough on the criticism re grindy professions.
I agree that crafting does appear to have been set up to be particularly grindy – limited use gathering tools, every recipe requires at least one merchant-bought item. I actually enjoy a good mindless grind – it’s what I spend most of my time on WoW doing. I think that crafting was done that way to encourage the purchase of “boosts” with real world monies, seeing as GW2 doesn’t have subscription; so they’re going to target other areas for additional revenue.
But even in light of that, they’re not really forcing it either – since resource nodes seem to spawn for individual players. That is, you can’t have a node “stolen” from you by another player.
As for WoW, I thought Theramore was supposed to start this morning. Spent nearly 30 minutes trying to work out where the starting point was and why nothing was being spammed in chat. I eventually just assumed it hasn’t actually begun yet.
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It’s in game but they’re not going to activate it until a week out from MoP. This information was only really made public some time last week by some blues on the forum. I really think they should have let us know a while ago because I think a lot of people were expecting to be playing it today.
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Regarding the WoW talent thing, that’s the whole point of their new design. Basically you’re choosing between a few utility talents. This is apparently their ‘solution’ for the fact that people would minmax talent builds and once people figured out the best setup, everyone would just basically cookie-cutter their builds and be exactly the same, to the point that not having the ‘best’ build would lose you raid spots etc.
I think they’ve gone the wrong way with it personally but I can understand the logic.
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The problem though is that a lot of the new talents are still pretty much must haves depending on your spec. For a fire mage you’re always going to take scorch over the other two abilities on offer for example. It’s only one or two tiers where you really get to choose based on your playstyle rather than your spec, but even than I still imagine people will come out with, this talent’s best for raiding, this one for pvp etc.
Because I haven’t screamed it to the heavens recently;
SKYRIM!
Also just heard that they have released some info about the next DLC.
It’s a house.
Maybe not as exciting as vampire/werewolf perks, crossbows, dragonbone weapons and the ability to morph into a vampire lord, but still.
SKYRIM! HOUSE!
Oh and the ability to adopt a kid.
But only human kids.
Racists.
I want my Khajiit cub/baby. Baby combined with kitten, cuteness level of over 9000.
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Eh, now that I have it on PC DLC seems almost pointless.
I have a mod that lets me build my own house from the ground up with in game materials; it’s pretty cool. -
I thought they were planning on having the DLC be more expansion pack level of content, rather than just little things like houses or horse armour. Adopting a kid’s sort of cool though. Hopefully there’s a bit more to it than just having a kid running around your house. Also, I did not know Dawnguard had dragonbone weapons (I’m assuming that’s were they’re from). That’s cool, though a bit useless since I’ve got Daedric stuff. Surprised they didn’t include them with the original game though.
So I just saw the article about the live action Rurouni Kenshin adaption. Colour me intrigued.
No idea if/when we will see it over here but it is certainly something I will be going to see if it is released
I can’t believe the amount of people here that don’t like schnitzel, don’t know what schnitzel is, don’t believe Tuesday night is schnitzel night, and would rather pizza over schnitzel.
I died a little inside last night after reading this. You guys have cut me real deep 🙁
@Lambo, no idea what it’d be like, but TofuSchnitzel *could* work? I’d rather agadashi tofu though, personally 😀
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Its ok Aleph, I’ll schnitzel night with you anytime. But I uh cant make it myself so have to go out.
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Huzzah! \o/
So long as ‘anytime’ is ‘Tuesdays’ 😀
I don’t make it myself either, the pub here does $20 schnitzels every Tuesday, so that’s where I head!-
$20 SCHITY!?!?!?!? Why are you not outraged!
The pubs around here have schnitys for $10 – $12 Mon to Wed, normal price is around $20, but then I think for $20 I could get a tbone or pay a little more and get a nice bit of steak.
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Aye, this be the case for me local too…Arrrr
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Aleph lives on the outskirts of no where, though. Sounds like there’s not a whole lot of options on that front.
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Sadly not, ye schnitzels be only of the one variety. ‘Tis a sad day for ye, truly. Arrrr
On a side note, I have no idea why i just started speaking pirate. It just seemed appropriate.
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I used to love schnitzel when I was a kid but I’ve since gone off it. I love chicken parmigiana though.
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Chicken Kiev is where the magic’s at, man. Don’t you forget it.
(Though for full disclosure I’m pretty close to trying the vegetarian thing!)
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I would have supported you previously but I’m a recent covert to the church of turkey kievs. So good
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That’s just a schnitzel with awesome on top. Parmigiana is excellent 😀
Aleph-Null, why make it a competition between schnitzel and pizza? You gotta think big.
That’s right, I’m talking….
Schnitzel Pizza. MAKE IT SO.
I make a Chick-Pea Cutlet which could be classified as a schnitzel. It works awesomely. If anyone wants details let me know. I make awesome food, (or so say the vegans I have cooked for)
I’m not a huge fan of Schnitzel, it’s edible but there are tones of things I can think of nicer. Makes a good pub meal though.
@tofu schnitzel
I remember reading the books that came with preording skyrim form game or EA (can’t remember which) and they were talking about inventing a new kind of flavor that’s the absence of taste like silence in musicale piece. I remember thinking and thus tofu was invented.
Well I finally finished my assignment, now if you’ll all excuse Im im off to the zoo/school. Have a good TAY day.
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Nice work, buddy! Don’t get mauled by any animals today!
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No no just class tonight. The mualing is on friday
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You’re living the dream, man!
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Coolest school ever 🙁
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Zoo/school?
We should call it… ZOOL!Zuul? I AM THE KEYMASTER
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Ray, when someone asks you if you’re a god, you say YES!
Also,
Doe, Ray, Egon!
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Finished reading most of my TAY commets for the last month. One thing’s obvious, damn, I need to proof read. :S
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OH GOD DC IS SHOWERING COMETS AND METEORS UPON TAY
FLEE!
THE END IS NIGH!…
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NO D.C.! I said NO!
😛 (best face)
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I’m convinced I haven’t (single handedly) destroyed TAY, though. So hour well spent. 😛
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This stuff lately has been happening when I haven’t been on TeamSpeak. Maybe I’m to blame!? WAS I THE PEACEKEEPER!?
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It’s all your fault, Greenius. You’re the voice of reason. The rock on which we all stand. 😛
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Wow did I miss an epic meteor shower?!
Sigh.
I’m probably going to get Guild Wars 2 sooner than I was planning.
But..but, SWTOR and BL2 and AC3 and Driver:SF, and and…yeah, I’m going to end up leaving some games behind…again.
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It should be noted that the two main reasons for this is cause everyone is loving it at the moment, and that Reddit thread made me laugh my arse off.
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Ah don’t feel bad Rize, i’m gonna reactivate my WoW account this week, and buy Mists of Pandaria, so yeah there goes any games I was gonna finish before September 25th.
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I need to pick up my Ezio gauntlet from EB tomorrow – might grab Guild Wars 2 while I’m at it, and join in on the TAYbie fun.
I can easily sympathise with the ‘games left behind’ thing. Again.
I caved… I pre-ordered the new 40k…. and the special carry case…
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Lol so not only did you cave, you even got sucked in to extra purchases.
Did you at least listen to 4 pages of my advice and get it for under $100? =P
I got an email from GW today saying mine has been shipped!-
He did but limited edition was where it was at for loop’s loins.
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Hey mate.
I replied to you a cuple pages back on a new thread. It’s all good.
I didn’t get the under $100 version, as i wanted the chaplain pretty badly.I ordered it from my local mindgames, so it’s $158 rather than $180 🙂
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yeah that’s pretty much what mine will end up costing after the redirect service from the US.
That being said (and I thought this all along but wasn’t sure) a friend of mine who is a manager in a GW store said there are no limited/non limited editions. Every box is the same until they run out of the chaplain model.
So unless they have all ready run through pre-orders, every box sold for the next month or 2 will have the chaplain.
I’m actually considering ordering another box for sub $100… but I’m worried that I would then have too many models that look the same, since they are all 2-3 piece models. They look great but they are a little bit too individual to have multiples of.
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Guild Wars 2 bought \o/
Currently downloading, and its probably a good thing its so big. Gives me time to decide on a race/profession etc. I’ve got the race narrowed down to 2 but a profession? I have no idea. Can you swap between them whenever you want? Or are you locked in once you choose it?
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My will is strong! I will be resilient!
I’ll probably end up buying it if people are still playing after the Borderlands 2 hype dies down.
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By profession I assume you mean class rather than crafting profession? If so, it functions like most other mmos. Once you’ve picked a class you’re stuck with it unless you reroll.
If you mean crafting profession, which I don’t think you did but anyway, you can learn them all but you can only have two active at once. Unlike WoW you won’t lose your level progress with a crafting profession if you decide to switch to a different crafting profession.
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Yeah, I meant the class. They all sound really interesting. Except maybe the Guardian and Warrior. I’m not big on the generic sword and shield style. But the other 6 all sound really good
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[a href=”http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Profession”]Wiki[/a] if it helps.
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Dammit
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Warrior’s main trait is being able to wield the biggest variety in weapons IIRC, and in turn, the most amount of skillsets/strategies for battle among the classes
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Play all the race/class combos! \o/
#halping
#hashtags4HarliSylvari (elves) glow in the dark. That should help your race decision.
That being said, I’m playing a Norn.
Humans have apparently one of the best starting zones. I was very impressed with Norn zone, so if human is as good/better, that would be something.-
I’m thinking about going as either a Sylvari or Asura
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I’m going to main CHARR! 😀
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The human starting zone’s nothing special. It’s pretty much basic farmland and you spend most of the time fighting bandits. Basically it’s a better looking version of WoW’s Elwynn Forest. Divinity’s Reach is amazing though. I’ve said that before but it needs repeating because it really, really is awesome.
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Gaaaahhh TAY marketinggg! Now I kinda want GW2! I won’t get it soon though since Borderlands 2 is just around the corner.
Hi guys. I’ve basically given up on TAY for a bit as work is crazy right now. In a teleconference now so thats the reason I have a few seconds.
Hope all is well. I am one of the dudes who was really impressed with the quality of the work that What! and all of the actors have put into the movie thingy. Sucks I couldn’t attend but I really hope to contribute in the post production side of things…
Anyway, Just stopping by to say Hi and stuff.
Oh also, I started playing Batman AC having never played any batman games.. and WOW that is an awesomegame so far. only an hour or two in so far.
I’m also getting sleeping dogs for Fathers day so thats kinda cool!
Lastly, My car is in such mad shape, my visit to get a pink slip turned into a trip to the wreckers so as of next week I will be riding a bike to the station… should be good to make FatShady = Shady but still sucks a little, going back to 1 car for the family will take a bit of getting used to. 🙁
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Hope life’s treating you good, man! Sleeping Dogs is pretty excellent, so you’re in for good times a-plenty.
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Real life trials bike to work instead
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Good to hear from you Shady.
Haha, I should never be given mod powers on a Minecraft server that runs a mod that has Nuclear things because this happens =D
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Oh, Virus__ (this feels weird when it’s not Rocketmang)
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It was all in the name of science, yeah science!
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motherofgod.jpg
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I might do it again somewhere like the starting area on the map, for a laugh.
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Do setting those off still kick you from the server cuz it crashes after it explodes?
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Nope =D using my jetpack sometimes gets me kicked though, stupid server =(
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You’re using iTunes…
*Bops Virus__ on head with rolled up newspaper*
Bad Virus__!-
But but, i’ve been using it since something like 2004 for music on Windows.. It’s just the most efficient media player that suits my needs =P
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*bops on head again*
Bad! 😛
I just use Windows Media Player. Good enough for me. I don’t need anything fancy. 🙂-
Bad Lambo, no bopping! =P
And unlike everyone else i’ve never had a single issue with iTunes, unless it was my fault =P
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The only problems that I’ve had with it is that it’s slow and takes forever to start up, whereas wmp is almost instant.
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iTunes starts up instantly for me =P
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*bops Lambo on head*
Bad Lambo!WMP lost my custom when I came across VLC. Still haven’t installed Foobar, but it’ll get there.
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I use VLC sometimes. Mostly for video files that WMP won’t play, or ones that need to be stretched into the right aspect ratio. I don’t use it for music though. Don’t see any need to.
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Y’all deserve a bopping for not using Media Monkey!
But yeah – I use iTunes too since I got an iPhone. Genius instant playlists are kinda cool.
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God damn, my chrome issue is pissing me off, lots of links (mostly images) try to automatically redirect through a site called gophoto.it and it breaks things (gophoto.it smash)
Getting sick of it and would like TAY’s help to remedy the issue
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Ditch Chrome. Acquire IE 9. 😛
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I cannot listen to your advice, you don’t even know what a schnitzel is
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Is it a chrome extension? Looks like it from the website. Have you tried going into settings/extensions and removing it from there?
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That’s the thing, I don’t have that extension, I wouldn’t even want it anyway, cause it only does facebook, apparently
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Odd. You tried doing a virus scan? If all else fails, you could just uninstall and then re-install chrome, if you haven’t already done that. Also, does the same thing happen in other browser, i.e. IE? (see what I did there? :P)
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Did you ever install it in the first place? If it’s not in the extensions list it might be impossible to remove short of nuking Chrome completely.
To actually clean out Chrome entirely, you need to uninstall it through the usual means then go to:
C:\Users\\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome (Assuming Win7)And delete the whole folder. Chrome lives entirely inside your user profile instead of program files, so they don’t need to issue UAC dialogs etc, which is completely bullshit and I wish they wouldn’t do it.
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Can you post a list of extensions you ARE using in Chrome if that’s ok? It might be something else has included the gophoto crap in it.
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reinstall did not fix, sadface
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Ditch Chrome, disregard IE9, use Firefox.
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Use Netscape Navigator 😛
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So Firefox then?
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IE 9 is so 2011. Cool kids run IE 10 now.
Firefox all the way.
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Switched from FF since it started slowing my computer down, I may actually go back to it now
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Tried uninstalling Chrome and then reinstalling it?
I’ve had issues with Chrome (I use the dev build) not rendering pages properly, or just not working and uninstalling/reinstalling it works well.Not really a ‘fix’ but it should get rid of any annoyances.
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I think that Chrome (21, apparently) and IE9 are both better than FF 10.
Try Opera?
One of the guys in the office installed Netscape Navigator 3 the other day. That wasn’t pretty.-
FF10? That’s so like 3 months ago, us cool kids are using uh.. *checks version* 14!
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I’ve encountered that problem. I found simply clearing the search history fixed it.
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A virus scanner would be a good start, seeing as you’ve clearly got some malware installed.
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Yeah that was what I was thinking too. Sounds spyware-ish at the very least.
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I’m not seeing any references to gophoto / gophoto.it on the Microsoft Malware Protection Center encyclopaedia or the Symantec site either. Interesting.
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A quick Google says that oneclickdownload and FB Photo Zoom are possible culprits here.
It definitely sounds like browser hijacking.
Clearing out all of the Chrome Extensions and then reinstalling them one by one might be another way around it.
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Rize – Have I told you how much I hate you and your train simulator gift? Now with Steam Update news, I get told of NEW DLC FOR YOUR GAME!!!!
On a side note, I can buy a GE44 Tonner for cheap…
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Haha, JC2 & Saints Row The 3rd have been doing that to me of late. I was all “No, don’t tempt me!”
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I have a 50% off for saints row DLC if you want it
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So do I haha, I have all the DLC but this new piece, which I don’t need but want. haha,
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Is that the unlock? Isn’t that just giving you access to what you get playing the game anyway?
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Yep. Stuff I am too lazy to reply & unlock, alternate stuff mostly from what I gather.
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Bahahahahaha!!!
D= I found footage from the Slash show in Brisbane last week, QUALITY footage and it upsets me that I was not there! *boo*
Also it’s my dad’s birthday today ima go bake this cake for him before I forget and before he gets home!
Chrome Disengaged…
Enabling Firefox…
Firefox Enabled…
Mentioned this above, but comment will probably get lost in the TAYstream.
So…. added a GW2 section to the MMO page of TAYNAMES.
Only got minimal-ish info there but feel free to expand the columns (level seemed a bit unnecessary with zones auto-scaling you).
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I was about to mention that we really should start exchanging names. Guilds are cross server, and it sounds like the friends list is cross server to, and I’d like to see if we can maybe get something set up between those of us on Sea of Sorrows and those on Crystal Desert. A cross server TAY guild or something.
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But I’m on neither of th… oh, I see.
Okay.jpg
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See below. We haven’t forgotten you, I’m just a little slow on reading/replying.
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Also Northen Shiverpeaks, because that’s where you are.
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Now we just need to come up with a guild name.
Kotaku AU
TAY
Knights of TAY
Legion of TAY
Order of the TAY
TAY Incorporated-
Knights of the Round TAYble
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I like that one.
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I like it too, but my worry is a lot of people will see it and just assume we’re illiterate.
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You meen were not illiterat?
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Then you can sing this, whenever you like…I can totally picture it too…
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Taybonauts
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The Kotaku AU Alliance
Cuz people are going to be going “WTF is TAY?” if you do any of the above 😛
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Possible problem with that is most people will probably see Kotaku, ignore the AU and associate us with the US site, and thats just bad 😛
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If they can’t tell AU from US we don’t need them anyway.. humans with that low of an attention span will only pull us down. 😛
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The alliance of people who originally read kotaku AU and lurked in tay until at some stage posted there before becoming frequent enough posters to wish to join other regular posters
of glory
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Well not everybody in KotakuAU is on TAY, so just saying it’d be easier for the community to get together, TAYbies or not.
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Good point
Serrel’s Angels?
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Less obvious:
Keepers of the Thorny Oar
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I like that one.
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I like the idea of going with something along these lines
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Sounds rather Python-esque…I like it. See above for more Python-ey goodness…
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Or like something Terry Pratchett would think up…
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Mark Serrels Fanclub
Looking into it, when you create a guild you choose a guild name (31 character limit) and then a guild tag, which is 3 letters that will show up next you your name. So no matter what we do choose to call the guild we can have TAY as showing up next to our character name.
MOOOOOOON!
or
BOOOOOOOK!
…if Pixel were here, he would laugh at my incredibly obscure GW1 joke.
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And the rest of us can just laugh at you 🙂
@Inquizi – i replied to you above – sorry, it’s been a busy day
Walking dead peeps
I saw that walking dead is currently cheap on steam and considering if I should get it.
A couple of questions for those who have played it.
Firstly is it worth getting, what is it like?
How long roughly is an episode.
As I understand it their are choices to make that effect the ongoing gameplay. How long to you have to make a choice, are they quick flash QTE events or game play stopped while you choose.
Considering if it would be a good choice to play with Mrs Tigs instead of watching TV, but think it would be lacking if only one gets to make the choices.
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The Episodes are maybe 2 hours long, some of the “choices” you don’t have long on, and some of them you have all the time in the world. Most of the choices are rather… Mass Effecty. In that they make a temporary superficial difference, and they might affect how someone thinks of you, but they don’t really alter the story.
And I’d say it’s definitely worth it. Easily Telltale’s best work.
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Tried to search Xbox Live and couldn’t find it… is it available?
#DrivingInTheSlowLane
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Not in Aus, Telltale didn’t want to bother with local classification.
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Should be available
http://www.xboxworld.com.au/games/xbox-360/the-walking-dead-episode-1/review.htmNot sure how or where but should be able to get it
#HelpingKinda-
Or based on D.C’s reply
#NotHelping-
Master Race
Join UUUUUUUUUUUUSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!
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I think I’m gonna wait to buy it in a boxset at the end of the season.
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This. I’ve got so many games on my plate at the moment that I can afford to wait for the set 😀
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That’s my plan as well.
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Yes, definitely get it.
@WHAT!!
This is a public apology that I never got back to you about the script you sent around. For the record, I didn’t have any changes to suggest, though. Can’t wait to see the finished product
I think I need to start a Kickstarter/Pozible campaign.
To get me a new job.
Setting up and curating one of these for Australia. Maybe UNSW? I don’t think it’d fly at USYD.
So yeah, get ready to pay your monies so I can look after old video games for you.
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If I get back to the US, I have to check this place out. What a great idea. Too many old games and systems are being lost to the aether. Its great that some people have got together to try and save as much as possible
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Hmm I wonder if this would work for Southern Cross Uni near me..
A pox on printers! A pox I say!
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This is an appropriate page get.
You prepare the lynchin’ rope, I’ll grab the pitchforks. Together, we’ll rid the world of this evil.
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Interesting.
It would appear that my link did not work and somehow I made a blank post. Didn’t know that you could do that.
That’s the link, anyhow.
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I thought you were just quoting Squall from FFVIIII
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A pox on the phony king of England!
That word always reminds me of Robin Hood
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You get a pox, you get a pox, you get a pox, Poxes for everyone!
Continuing GW2 discussion from last page, I think we’ve narrowed the name for TAY’s guild down to two choices.
1: Knights of the Round TAYble
2: Keepers of the Thorny Oar
We also have to decide who will be the one to make the guild. All you have to do to make a guild is go to the guild page in game, fill it out and pay 1 silver to create, or so I’ve read.
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I will almost definitely never play Guild Wars 2, but I vote for the second option. Because it’s awesomer. 😛
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Orsimmer?
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Enchantment!
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Also, I’m heading home now, and I expect all this to be sorted when I check back in in about an hour. Cause if not, there will be consequences! Namely we’ll have to spend more time organising all this instead of playing the game.
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Even though I suggested “Knights” I gotta vote for “Keepers”.
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Does this mean you have taken responsibility of organising said guild? 😛
Also, Keepers.-
If no one else wants to, I’ll put it all together. I’ll get on right now and do it. Seems like we’re going with Keepers of the Thorny Oar.
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Except I can’t right now because the game’s not letting me log in. Will try again in half an hour or so. In the mean time I’ll check out WoW’s latest patch.
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And I can’t do that either because the game has to reconfigure or something and it might take up to an hour.
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I’m never happy with a team name, i have no idea why. So I’ll let you humans decide while I keep working on my GW1 character epilogues 🙂
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I kept trying with those and never got it done, so I think I’ll get the bare minimum bonus from GW1 and move on 😛
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Not talking about the achievements 😛
I made bios for all my characters (Not completely 100% with the lore, just with a few extra twists in) so since GW2 is set in the future, I want to write down how their stories close out to prepare for the coming threat, cuz all my characters were special to me 🙂-
Oooh, fair enough.
I’ve tried to get in to RP in previous MMOs, and for various reasons I’ve gotten sick of it. I’d like to stick with it, but always kinda stop doing it. To make it more odd, I love DnD…
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Well I’ll probably try to be in character, I might have some friends joining that’ll RP too (If they decide to continue on from GW) 😛 Who wouldn’t want a big badass charr as a friend/brother-in-arms? 🙂
I used to RP in Neverwinter Nights servers as well. I had a half balor character that had split personalities 🙂
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I never actively RP but I do enjoy coming up with backstories for my characters.
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I started doing that with Skyrim, but then I got totally sidetracked by SR3
I’ll continue with the stories once I get back into Skyrim properly
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I vote for 2!
KEEPERS OF THE THORNY OAR!
I think I’ll pick GW2 up at JB today or tomorrow.
But yeah, Oars.
And we can spam out the Oar speech when we enter battle!
What is GW2, how many TAYbies are playing and how do I insert myself into the fun times? 🙂
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Guild Wars 2, I don’t know, buy the game and have fun
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Interesting looking MMO, on PC, no subscription!, several TAYbies. Just to keep it current – which server should I be joining if/when I get the game?
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I think most people are on Crystal Desert or Sea of Sorrows. I’ll be trying to get on one of them one it’s finished downloading. Fled is on Northern Shiverpeaks so that’s another option
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It doesn’t matter, you’ve got pretty much zero chance of actually getting onto the same shard as your friends, even on the same server. 🙁
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I’m going to wait for it to go free to play 😛
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Oh Lambo
Midget Doctors???????
how hard is it for someone to put cashews and honey together with a little salt?
Very hard apparently
LOUD NOISES!
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CHANGE PLACES!
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Every time I see/hear something like this, I think of
Every. Time.
Linked to this on twitter earlier, just now realised not everyone uses twitter…anyway. I’m ‘sort of’ in charge of behind the scenes stuff for Doc’s film, so I spent a lot of the weekend recording background stuff, which was also a lot of fun. But I’m very new to video editing, so I’ve spent my downtime this week fiddling around in movie maker and getting some practice in. So here’s just under three minutes of people doing stupid things accompanied by some stupid music!
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You say stupid music, I say, shut up, you’re wrong
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I agree, great music choice. Camera work is pretty good too
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Stupid as in ‘wacky’, not bad. :p
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When you say “movie maker” I’m assuming you mean “windows movie maker”. You poor soul. 😛
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As a newbie, though, it probably wouldn’t be smart to sit down in front of AVID. 😛
Awesome video, Alex. You Sydney TAYbies seem close! Can’t wait to see the finished product.
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We despise each other.
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That’s just because nobody could ever dream as being as dapper as you.
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Based off observation, all the outgoing, well-organized TAYbies live in Sydney and all the shy passive nerd TAYbies live in Melbourne. 🙁
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The Sydney TAYbies are slowly turning me into an outgoing person, one Meat at a time. Before I started going to Meats, I’d never driven more than half an hour away from home (let alone meet up with internet weirdos) 😛
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Yeah, my first meat I was pretty nervous too. I mean, all those horror stories you hear of meeting strangers from the internet… But I’m so glad I did. You people are amazing, even those I haven’t met (yet)
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“internet weirdos” :P. Yeah it was the first time I met randoms too, I even got a lift with one and didn’t get murdered (not yet anyway).
I’ve met friends of friends before on the internet then in real life but that doesn’t count.
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I know where you live now so can murder you whenever. 😛
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Hey, I don’t live in Melbourne… 😛
Though I was born in Victoria! It all makes sense now! 😉
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Eh, each state seems to have a different approach to meats. You guys are quieter, we’re louder, the QLD folk seem to do a lot more house party/bowling/trivia stuff. None of them are bad approaches, so long as everyone is having fun in the end.
There’s also a boatload of Sydney folks, so a lot more people to organise things and a lot of smaller meats. :p
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Aleph-Null’s probably the most prolific meater. He meats with all the NT TAYbies on a daily basis. :S
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I hear they have schnitzel nights on a specific night of the week…
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Fridays?
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Aha, indeed, but it works for just learning a few simple things at the moment. I’m well aware that there are much better programs out there.
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I think pretty much everyone starts off using Windows Movie Maker. I liked the Win XP/Vista one much more than the current Windows Live Movie Maker.
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I started off on Premiere…
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Well, yeah so did I. At a workshop though. So I suppose that’s cheating, then? 😛
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Looked like a whole lot of fun, damn Sydney TAYbies and their constant meats 😛
But man those glasses are the most hipster glasses I’ve ever seen in my life.
That’s it, I’m going to organise another Melbourne meat.
Maybe I should organise one every season =D
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Go for it. Don’t even need to necessarily do anything specific.
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28th/29th sep. I’ll be down your way. MEAT DAMMIT.
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Wooo meats! I think Strange was coming down in January too 🙂
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Yes I am. Sabaton/Nightwish Meat! \o/
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Sounds like as good a date as any honestly.
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You should call it Meat 35. Will give the impression you meat often.
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We need to have a meat D.C. meat at your house and everyone from all the states should turn up.
I can’t see anything going wrong with that.
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“Local hermit shoots intruders, self.”
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“bodies found in various states of undress”
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“sources say video games to blame”
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“Police suspect thorn covered oar found in vicinity used in satanic ritual”
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What an odd thing to say… 😛
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GOD I WISH I’D BEEN THERE BUT I BLAME DELICIOUS WINE
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Delicious wine and a GPS unit with no sense of direction.
Anyone know who jamiedeecee on Steam is? The name rings a bell, and I keep thinking that I should know who it is, but I just can’t place it :/
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D.C. ?
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Nope. Though Greenius linked the TAYnames thing in Ask Kotaku today, so it could just be a lurker.
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I’ve had the friend invite for a few days now. TAYnames says its Tech Knight, but I’ve already got a Tech Knight in my friends list /o\
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Skyrim Avatar, I vote for one of our loveable barbarians
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That name sounds familiar to me as well. Though if it’s not listed in TAYNAMES then I have no idea. I’m always checking it because I forget who people are outside of TAY (If you were all smrt like me you’d have the same name for everything!)
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I do that too, though I used my real name so am reluctant to list it. Good planning. 😛
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Techie’s older brother
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Yeah, I think this is it. I remember wondering who the same name was on Twitter and he said it was his brother.
Personally, I suspected it was Techy’s human alter-ego. 😛
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WHOO! Room is clean!
For now.
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Invite Sid in, he will fix that
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We share a bedroom. Mum doesn’t ask me to clean his stuff (bed, blankets etc.) So I’m good. =D
For now.
Once I need something I will mess it up then =P
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I give it… 26 minutes.
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We’ll find out
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26 minutes later….
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Messy yet?
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It’s still clean! Mainly because I took Sid to the park
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wait, are you asking who’s room is clean?
I don’t know .. is it me?
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It sure isn’t mine…
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I don’t think I’ve made my bed for about a week. 😛
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Wait, you make your bed that regularly? Doesn’t it have like, screws and stuff? 😛
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Pipe down, you. 😀
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Does this mean…games?! \o/
I’m not really one to care too much about nice days, but today was a really nice day. Unfortunately I spent most of it inside. As I was walking to the train station this afternoon though I got to experience it. The sun was out, there were a few fluffy white clouds in the sky, a gentle breeze in the air and the perfect temperature, not too hot, just a pleasant warm. I even saw a rabbit hopping around while waiting for the train. The whole thing reminded me of this song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeVV2KD1GqU
I’ve been alive and on this earth for twenty years yet I still find myself becoming awed by the beauty of nature and life.
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Starting to feel like Summer in Brisbane. I generally like the winter, but it’s a nice change.
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I can always tell when winter’s broken and spring is starting. Hayfever… Love it
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I found myself humming this to myself today as I walked in the sunshine.
No rabbits though.
So I’ve found my files using the easeUS recovery wizard. The only problem is it’s the free edition so I can only recover 1 gb. My artworks are a lot more then that. I can’t afford the $70 they’re asking for and I’m really not sure what to do. I’m trying to select only the most recent versions of each artwork, but I’m short by 100gb, on AI files alone.
So basically, help D=
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Try seeing if you can *cough* find a *cough* copy online that *cough* may be… unlocked. *cough*
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I was hoping someone could help me with this. This is still so freaking new to me
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What’s the problem exactly?
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I formatted the computer and lost some stuff and I’m trying to recover it
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You’re not even on Steam =P
Okay, GW2 guild is made and I’ve invited people to my friends list. From there I assume I’ll be able to add you to the guild. If you haven’t already, can you please put your GW2 character’s name in TAY names or if you want you can just post it here and I’ll add you.
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ADDDDD MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
NooBHeadshoT.1507
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Decided to roll a Sylvari Mesmer named Verdanicali. Verdani were a race of photosynthetic humans from the Saga of Seven Suns novels that were telepathically connected to their home forest, it seemed appropriate
So I’m looking for egg videos on Youtube and this thing shows up (NSFW):
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Not opened video but… looking… for egg videos?!?! Is this something you do regularly?
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Firstly, egg videos… wtf?!
Second,
AHA! AHAHAHAHAAAA! BAHAHAHA! BWAHAHAHAHA*cough*AHHHHhhhh… -
all the egg videos you’ll ever need 😛
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So that vid is fine to share with your TAY friends, but your real “egg videos” are too embarrasing? 😛
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The other ones aren’t good enough… 🙁
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The beginning kind of reminded me of that RSPCA commercial… I’m glad the similarities stopped there.
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ON NO WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!
I just watched that on my mum’s computer.
Clear history. CLEAR HISTORY!
Guild Wars 2 acquired. Will make character etc later, then join TAY guild.
So, my quest to get AVENGERS on bluray from JB saw me get GW2, Falling Skies bluray, Shaolin soccer dvd and Young Master dvds as well. I am like the enemy of thriftiness.
In Ukulele news (because you guys are incredibly interested): I broked it! D: One of the knobs got a crack in it and won’t turn anymore. It wasn’t a real instrument anyway (it was bought in a souvenir shop after all :P) so it doesn’t matter. I went and bought a $30 one from a local guitar shop. It’s the most garish shade of yellow and I love it. My goal (once I actually learn to play this thing) is to learn the Super Mario Bros 2 Theme. It’s one of my favourite video game tunes! I saw a video of a guy who just used the ukulele for rhythm and whistled the tune, so I think I can do that! Give me several months…
In other life news: Nothing.
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This one?
If you use that website you used to tune the ukulele, you should be able to find the fingering for the chords
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Might’ve been. I watched a lot of them 😛 But yeah, something like that. I’m not looking at tabs and things yet though. I have no experience so I’m working through beginners tutorials very slowly. One day!
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It’s not that hard once you wrap your head around them. Sometimes the easiest way to learn the chords is to play a song you like.
Ukulele is a lot easier then learning guitar.
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I’m back TAY. Did you miss me?? I missed me.
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My hitman missed you….
But, seriously, yeah. I missed ya, CJ.
*bro-hug*-
Yeah but I’d didnt miss him.
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My god, I’m sorry. I need another favour guys DX
I’m looking for this pattern
http://www.mccalls.com.au/Shop/Kwik-Sew-Patterns/Misses/Dresses/K3521
but the two stores near me have both sold out. I was going to buy it online but it cost an extra $7 postage. I think I’ve been spoilt by Ebay with cheap or free postage
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$7. Look if ya run out/can’t find other options I can just give you $7
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I am a pensioner okay! I can’t always afford $7 ;_;
I was just hoping if someone in Vic could pick it up maybe and next meat I could pay them back.Speaking of Meats, what does all the Melbournians want to do?
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Doesn’t mean I can’t. The offer is there if ya need it (doubt ya will)
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It’s alright, I’ll ask my friends who live over the other side of Melbourne, they may have more luck then me
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Re Melbourne Meats.
You just need to go ahead and plan one. “Build it and they will come.”There’s never going to be a time that is good for everyone. So pick a time that’s good for most, and build a meat around that. Perhaps organise something on Friday night 28th September when #35 will be in town. It’s as good an excuse as any for a meat.
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You should have a Meat where everybody goes out to eat schnitzel for dinner. The trouble is figuring out which night to hold it…
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I hear Thursday is traditional for Schnitzel Night.
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Makes me laugh that this has become a thing. 😀
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I hate you all 😛
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KARAOKE! EVERY MEAT! XD
I mean, I love it, but I don’t know about everyone else and it can be quite expensive.If anyone has any meat suggestions shoot my an email at scree(at)y7mail(dot)com
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Neg suggested a Hobbit meat sometime 🙂
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Hobbit meat as in whenever the Hobbit releases we have a meat around it and watch it, similar to the Batmang one 🙂
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This time we should book IMAX ahead of time. Hobbit is December I think.
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It’s here http://sewingpatterns.com/sub_item.php?item_num=3521ksp if you want to download and print it. It’s tedious and paper/tape consuming but I’ve done it before and it worked fine. If you do grab it from there just a tip that their platform doesn’t work in Chrome. It works fine in Firefox though. 🙂
Failing that, it seems like a pretty generic dress pattern so you could probably find a very similar pattern from another brand at your local stores.
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I don’t trust my printer. I’ll check the postage and if it’s not too much, I’ll get it from there. It’s a lot cheaper from the official website, which is charging $16.50 for the pattern alone
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Never mind, just realised it’s because of it being an American website.
Thanks for the help!
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Burdastyle .com has something extremely similar: http://www.burdastyle.com/pattern_store/patterns/022011-tank-dress-with-gathered-skirt
$5.40 for the pattern and you can download it to take to a copyshop for them to print for you, seeing as you don’t trust your printer. Be aware the sizes are european and tend to the small-side though. Burdastyle also have some free patterns so you could download one of those to test out your printer and practice putting the pattern together.Also, if you plan on getting a few patterns at a time ever, you should keep your eye on that sewingpatterns site I linked to before because they often have sales where a particular brand of pattern will all be under $5, so even with shipping it works out quite bargainy sometimes. 🙂
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Also, this one: http://www.burdastyle.com/pattern_store/patterns/swing-dress-082012 It has cap sleeves but you could leave them off.
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I was after the boat neckline, it suits me more.
The plan is to get this pattern and to use it to make a few dresses. I tend to reuse my patterns a lot.
Thanks for the advice though. I just wish I had another Lincraft or Spotlight near me aside from the two I’ve been to already. -
That second one has a boat neckline so that might help. And yeah, I know what you mean about the limited places to go into a physical shop to buy patterns. It’s a bit frustrating at times.
Anyway, the great thing about Burdastyle is that you can download and print the pattern as much as you like, also once it’s printed on paper it’s way hardier than the tissue patterns so it’s easier to re-use. It’s really time-consuming to use downloaded patterns though so sometimes it’s a bit of a relief when I get to use a pre-packaged tissue pattern. 🙂 -
Well, I wanted to make it more of a weekend project and if I have to print it, it may blow out into a week long project. Mum tells me there used to be lots of shops that sold patterns. Also, I’m very careful with the tissue paper patterns. It drives Mum mad =P
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If you remind me tomorrow scree I can duck down and see if spotlight south melbourne has it for you
There is a party, everyone is there.
Everyone will leave at exactly the same time.
When this party’s over, it will start again.
It will not be any different, it will be exactly the same.
Heaven, heaven is a place, a place where nothing, nothing ever happens.
When this kiss is over it will start again.
It will not be any different, it will be exactly the same.
It’s hard to imagine that nothing at all could be so exciting, could be this much fun.
Heaven, heaven is a place, a place where nothing, nothing ever happens .
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Wut…..
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Heaven! Must be there!
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I think it is song lyrics
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Just a song that’s been stuck in my head.
Trying to exorcise it from my mind.-
Oh well in that case
We all want to hold in the everlasting gaze
Enchanted in the rapture of his sentimental sway
But underneath the wheel lies the skull of every cog
A fickle fascination with and ever lasting god(bonus points for artist guess)
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Everlasting Gaze by Smashing Pumpkins.
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I’m currently listening to Anamanaguchi, which is chiptune. No lyrics in my head =P
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So in light of more Meat discussions, I’d really like to see when/where fits the majority of TAYbies, ‘Straya wide.
I’m looking around Christmas/NYE time, as I’ll theoretically have a month off work.
Ideal day/night would be Tuesday. Because schnitzel.
But really, what’s everyone’s thoughts? Would those interstate to the as-yet undetermined location be willing to travel an as-yet undetermined distance? If so, how far?
(Also, an ambiguous and empty threat for the non-believers. Schnitzel night is Tuesdays. Tuesdays is schnitzel night. You’re totally missing out)
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I will be 100% guaranteed to be working those actual days.
YAY EMERGENCY.Um, but may be able to arrange less desirable days off on Tuesdays?
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How dare you choose to help others instead of hanging with TAY peeps
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Oh, I didn’t mean specifically 25th or 31st December. I understand there’s familial commitment 😀
Just saying around that actual period 😀-
I also meant to add ‘professional responsibility’ to ‘familial commitment’.
I’m not very good at this >.
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Pretty much the same for Pyrean and I. Horray shift work!
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Should you find yourself in Melbourne, we promise to get off our collective arses and show you a good time.
But I gotta set this straight for you buddy. Where you’re from Tuesday night may be schnitzel night, but around here Tuesday night is Pub Trivia night. And that means one of two things – either a Chilli Parma, or Bangers and Mash!
But seriously, should you find yourself in Melbourne give me a shout and we’ll go to the pub.
http://www.micawbertavern.com.au/beer-garden-
Parmigiana is a schnitzel with more awesome on top. Chilli means it’s even better 😀
If I end up going to Melbs, I’d love to head to the pub for a few drinks with you! Ideally I’d like to get everyone possible in the one place for a HUGE meat. It’d be super wikkid funtimes \o/
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You are truely a speaker of truth, oh wise one.
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That would be awesome, though I probably wouldn’t be able to make an interstate trip (with the exception of Canberra). If you do come to Sydney, however, I’ll be there!
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Didn’t you already post your weeks quota a few days ago?
Not a criticism. Just sayin…
Just sayin it’s good to see you here mang!
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Nah, that was last week, I’m good for this week.
Good to not actually comment that is, despite the fact that I still read everything.
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I was just looking at TAY names and noticed there is a pokemon online column.
Is it any good? Is it worth looking into?
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Yep! I’ve played a bit but it’s basically Pokemon battles on your computer!
I never bothered with the nitty gritty and making my own teams and whatnot but when we briefly played we messed around in a random battle mode that gave each person random Pokemon at random levels, with random moves. I’d like to say it’s based on luck but I completely dominated the last time I played so I’m going to pretend it’s all skill 🙂
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Yeah, what Greengo said. The good thing about it is that it’s only as complicated as you want it to be. We usually just muck around with the random battle feature when we play because it’s the most fun/accessible for everybody (not everybody that plays is into the competitive scene). But of course you can organise a more serious match with someone if you want.
If you put your username down in that column we’ll be sure to let you know when we play next!
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I’ll have to look it up when I get home then. Provided I don’t forget and go straight into Guild Wars 2. Someone may have to remind me at some point.
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So I just searched for ‘pokemon online’ and it’s difficult to ascertain which game you’re talking about :S
If it’s free, I’d love to battle you guys (with the first 15(0/1/2))!
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Yeah that’s the problem. It’s a pretty unassuming name… http://pokemon-online.eu/ This is what we’re talking about (this link is also as a comment in the TAYNAMES column, but it’s easy to miss :P)
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Loving all the attention Spec Ops is getting atm so I thought I’d share my relation to the main character briefly.
In short at games start I was very much playing the character go about my business as I saw fit, but it was shortly after the first major decision in the game. The choice I made was the one I would of taken had I truely been in that position with only the options A and B (which it turns out are not the only options) but as the game went on and the envents unfolded I pushed the character away from myself and I started to play not as myself but through the mindset of what would Walker do. I guess it became a role play of sorts. The decisions made in the late game were not of my own choosing but what I felt Walker would do in his twisted reality. Decisions made in his mindset, which came to its final reveal in the epilouge.
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I was having this discussion with D.C a while back when he called me a monster (:P) for getting the A Line Crossed achievement. That’s exactly the way I played it.
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But see, I got into that same mindset too, but still made different decisions. I think Walker can be intepreted differently which is part of the appeal. Besides, you’re all still monsters. 😛
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The Last Story! Got past the stealth section yet? That’s near the end if I recall :), final thoughts? Are we up to the rot13 levels of discussion yet?
And most importantly, when are you getting into Xenoblade! Earlier this year your excuse was FFXIII-2 and now it’s The Last Story but now there’s no reason not to get into the good stuff now :D!
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I never had an excuse, the plan was always FFXIII-2 followed by The Last Story followed by Xenoblade. I’ve come to a slight hiccup though because Darksiders and PS+. 😛
Also, it doesn’t help that we don’t actually own Xenoblade yet, but we do own Catherine and Sleeping Dogs and Kingdoms of Amalur. So yeah, Xenoblade may be delayed somewhat. Maybe I’ll get lucky and get it for Christmas.
As for The Last Story, I haven’t bothered since coming across that stealth section. I haven’t been in a stealthy mood yet. I will definitely get around to it again soon though.-
Plus you don’t want to get RPG fatigue! Xenoblade deserves better!
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:P, close enough!
I recall you saying something like you wanted to focus on each game and you wanted to play The Last Story first before moving onto the amazingly superior beast known as Xenoblade.
How’s Darksiders then? 🙂
The stealth section is short so I wouldn’t worry too much about it, it only took me like 2 tries (the part inside the castle?).
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Darksiders 2 has been knocked over and Gung jnf.. Noehcg. Rcvp onggyr gb trg gb gung cbvag gb svtug gur rnfvrfg obff rire gura unir gur tnzr svavfu 30 frpbaqf yngre. Qn shd?
Time to attempt to wake those canines perhaps?
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Lrnu, gung raqvat jnf jnl noehcg. V yvxrq jurer gur fgbel jnf tbvat, ohg gurl arrqrq gb chfu vg zber. Vg frrzrq yvxr n zrer whfgvsvpngvba sbe tbvat nebhaq nyy gurfr qhatrbaf naq xvyyvat fghss, juvpu vf n funzr, orpnhfr vg unq n urnc bs cbgragvny.
Also, Sleeping Dogs is phenomenal. It’s so easy to look past the flaws, because the story, voice acting, and mechanics are overall just so well done. Kung Fu GTA!
Aleph, weren’t you considering some huge road trip to go around and visit everywhere there’s a Taybie?
Cos I could very well be down for abandoning my life for a few weeks to join you on that one.
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Count me in as well if I have nothing better to do at that time 🙂
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If this is a thing then let me know when to book some leave. Massive road trip would be so cool! This sounds like an awesome way to both spend a couple of weeks and meet some TAYbies.
Unless of course you all turn out to be a bunch of @#$% s. Cos that would suck. 😛
What are the chances of getting a mini-meat going for the Brisbane peoples on Saturday afternoon?
Sunday’s obviously out, what with Father’s Day and all, but hanging out for a few hours on Saturday afternoon might be a good way to pass some time.
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I’m thinking just hanging out in the CBD, grab some food and maybe go to the arcade or something. General meandering and the like.
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I would except for that pesky work thing getting in the way. If it were to run in evening could be a different story.
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Dang.
Evening’s only an option if it’s at someone’s place. I suggested this thing, so it’s only fair that I should host. I’d prefer not to but I can probably be persuaded if that’s what it takes to make this happen.
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I just came up with a cunning plan.
Board game meat.
My place.
Saturday.
Bring board games to my place, we play them. How could it go wrong?
I should probably buy Risk or Settlers or Ticket to Ride or something, right? Anyone got any good board games for this sort of thing because otherwise it kind of falls apart :p
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I have talking Cluedo and Atmosfear!
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Yeah ok, not much. Also have Scene It and Screen Test (Scene It with older more random MGM films.) -
Oh! And I have this brilliant example of creativity and original thinking.
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Haha, oh man, I thought you were talking about Atmosfear for STALKER.
Would have been an odd thing to bring.
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Dammit…it’s Mr. Strange’s birthday on Saturday. 🙁
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hide your couch
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Somewhat unlikely I’ll be there.
Not certain yet, just a hunch.
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Your hunches suck.
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GORRAM IT BISH, YOU’RE RUINING EVERYTHING!
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Run Home Bish!
Run Home Bish!
Run Home Bish!Smee, no! They’ve got it backwards! Tell them to turn it around!
Home Run Bish!
Home Run Bish!-
And here I thought I was the only one who knew that movie existed
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Best movie.
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It feels late… I should really go to bed…
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It’s not even 12.30am. WEAK.
But g’night 🙂 May you dream of unicorns that vomit ice cream.
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So …. thats Neapolitan ice cream right ? = P
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DAMIT! apparently someone has started living in the Gym across the rod from my workplace and came over and complained that someones bagpipe practice was waking them up at 0100.
There’s a reason I do it in an industrial area. BECAUSE NOBODY SLEEPS THERE AT NIGHT! GET A REAL HOME! I’m thinking if i move it further up the block to the shopping center parking lot he should be right.
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…who lives in a gym?
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Rainier Wolfcastle?
Just so that he can shout slogans at people throughout the day and night. -
Someone very concerned with their fitness?
It’s also a kick boxing gym and I’m guessing that since hes living a a gym he’s probably currently stressed by relationship/financial problems. Could be interesting If i continue to wake him up. There are security cameras here so I promise it’ll go on you tube!
Submission holds work well against kick boxers right?
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Oh Gorzy, you blowhard.
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There’s got to be a better way to say that (Arrested Development o/ )
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Hey, I never said I’d win.
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Trjn, I’m ashamed to say I didn’t get “blow”hard until I was actualy out playing the pipes.
I went and did my practice a few parking lots over so that may have been far enough not to wake him up or he just can’t be bothered actually coming down and telling me so he’s going to wait until tomorrow afternoon to have a winge again.
Now I’m at my mums place to look after her animals. She’s been away on holidays for a few weeks and has been paying someone to feed them but she’s got a few more to go and didn’t want to pay someone to look after them the whole time. I didn’t get a vote in the matter.
I’m covered in animals right night. Mum mums kind of turning into the crazy cat lady, only with cans AND dogs.
I’m also looking after my sisters cat still which is back at Pyreans and my place. She’s back in the country but couldn’t be bothered to come and pick her cat up. She requested I drop the cat off on the way to mums. She lives about an hour out of the way between my place and mums. No.
I’ve told them both I’m going to get a pet crocodile and then go overseas leaving them to look after it and they’ll have to brush it’s teeth every night.
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Keeping cans as pets is probably some sort of sign of madness.
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ahaha. You’re probably right there.
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Just as long as you name the Pet Crocodile …. Renekton ……or Chomps because chomps are awesome = D
The Circle Pad Pro for the 3DS could certainly use an in-game sensitivity option.
Still not use to aiming with analog sticks/nubs.
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I bought a Circle Pad Pro as soon as I bought Resident Evil Revelations and haven’t used either yet.
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Revelations seems like a pretty okay game so far.
I bought on the basis that The Cracks was saying it was one of the best 3DS games, so I figured I’d give it a shot. It’s certainly pretty (…for a 3DS game), though I feel that maybe a bit too much attention was devoted to certain parts of character models.-
That’s exactly why I bought it, too. That Cracks has a lot to answer for. 😀
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I trust you, that’s why I bought it. 🙂
I know I’ll have fun with it when I finally get around to playing it. -
I thought it was good too.
I thought it was worth buying the CPP too.
Equal blame! Equal blame! Eq-that’s not what we’re going for?
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You’ll get used to the CPP and the controls. I think certain games like RE:R has in-game sensitivity options.
RE:R is fun but while playing it all I could think was “why is this on the 3DS?”. It could’ve been done on on console or the Vita :/
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But Threeeeeeee Deeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
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This. The 3D in ResEv: Rev is really well done. Didn’t turn it off at all while playing.
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I can’t remember if I played with them on or off :P. Only major complaint I could renember was using the scope with the rifle while in 3D was hard since it never lined up
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Yup – in-game sensitivity options. Use them.
Also, the more I play and hold it, the more it doesn’t quite feel right. It’s shaped vaguely like a controller, but the extra space it needs for the ZL and ZR triggers makes it heavier towards the end. Shape-wise, it seems somewhat ergonomically minded, but I don’t think it quite translates to the physical construction of it.
This Nyko alternative seems pretty nice, but alas, seems to be an American product.
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Do Canadians have something against American products?
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Hehe…this is what I was wondering, too. 😛
Also, Hi Shane!
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Hi, Strange!
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Seems to be a bit of national pride on both sides.
I’ve noticed a lot of American sites won’t ship to Canada despite being on the same continent. I know it’s a big continent, but it’s not like you’re going to a completely foreign country with clashing cultures or anything.
When I checked, no Canadian stores seemed to stock it.
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It’s Mr Stranges birthday AND Fathers Day this weekend? Someone’s getting spoiled by the sounds of it 😛
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Is it Zoidberg?
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Eh, why not?
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I’m kind of dreading the weekend. Birthdays and Dads’ Days are exhausting enough by themselves but two in the one weekend is gonna be hell.
I’m also scrambling for last minute gifts for Fathers Day because for some reason I thought it was next week and the things I bought online haven’t arrived yet. Maybe I’ll jokingly do the old socks and undies for Fathers Day thing. But buy the most hideous ones I can find. 😛
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My birthday is coming up.
I’m sorely tempted to ask for socks and jocks. People struggle to buy me presents as it is and I’ve been putting off buying new socks and jocks for months.
They’re a classic gift for a reason. People almost always need new socks and jocks.
Also it’s fun to say socks and jocks over and over again.
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Yeah, they’re not something you prioritise when you’re spending money on yourself.
Also, I’m now mad at myself for missing the opportunity to say socks and jocks. 😛-
Not to mention that wearing clean new socks is amazing.
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Just so it doesn’t get lost on the last page:
Brisbane TAYbletop Meat at my place on Saturday afternoon.
I don’t have any board games, so bring your own. I’ll try and pick up a copy of Ticket to Ride or Settlers of Catan before Saturday though. Been meaning to for a long while anyhow.
We’ll go from mid-afternoon until people start flipping tables. There’s a new Crust pizza near my place if we want to be a little fancy with the eating or we can just grab pizza from Eagle Boys instead.
@DC: Odds are this is going to be a fairly small meat because it’s so last minute. Perfect chance to get your feet wet.
Email me at trjnrabbit {circley A thingy} gmail {little dot thingy} com for the address if you need it.
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Brisbane TAYbletop Meat or Bunny’s Big Boardgame Before Birthday Blowout Bash?
I’ll be there, albeit not until 6ish or so. Dang work always getting in the way of things.
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I want to stick with TAYbletop Meat.
The whole reason I decided to do it this way is because I was watching Tabletop on YouTube right after suggesting some sort of last minute meat.
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But I have plaaaaaaaans!! I want a board game night so badly too :'(
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We could make it a regularish thing. Do it on a weeknight that people are likely to be free on and play a different game for a few hours.
This could be considered the test run.
I wouldn’t necessarily object to doing this on Friday night instead of Saturday, if that means more people can come. It just makes it slightly more difficult to get my house in a state where people are actually able to enter without contracting some sort of ailment from the state of my kitchen :p
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The other option is putting it off until Monday and then trying to make it a regularish thing (assuming it’s a success) where we try out new board games every couple of weeks.
I do miss playing board games, they’re pretty awesome.
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But I can’t make it on Friday nights! /o\
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What about Monday?
If this becomes a regular thing, I’m thinking a weeknight is probably the easiest way to go about it. For this first time, I’m fine with Saturday, it just seems like there are a few people who will miss out is all.
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Aw, man. Thanks for the invite, but it turns out I’m a coward. I realize one of these days people are going to stop asking me and that’ll be sad. 🙁 You guys have fun, though. I’m going to eat a loaf of garlic bread and contemplate the broken man I’ve become…
You’re a gentleman and scholar, Trijn! 😛
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If it’s on Saturday, the only confirmed people are Lambo, Freeze and me.
I’m really liking the idea of making this a semi-regular thing though. So if that happens, consider this an open invite to join in any time you feel like it.
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Hide your fans!
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Thanks, man! I appreciate it!
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Unsolicited advice from a fellow coward: things are mostly only scary the first time you do it. The fear of the unknown is the worst, so after you do something once it ceases to be unknown and therefore ceases to be quite as scary.
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Let it not go unsaid that this fellow coward offering unsolicited advice is awesome.
Should you start joining us in our misadventures, you’ll get to meet her and it shall be grand.
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😀 Thanks, guys. I do feel like I’m getting closer to attending one of these things, if that’s any solace. 😛 Does sound like an awesome idea too. I haven’t played a board game in years.
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Now would be a bad time to mention the ‘pre meat panic’ I have before each meat, right? 😛
It’s not so bad these days though. Definitely worth getting over to hang out with you cool guys 🙂
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OK I have a couple of things to say about this thread:
1) regular board game night is an AMAZING idea and should be done
2) friday night would be great for me if it were to be changed, hypothetically… >_>
3) D.C. – you are in Brisbane!?! For reals, come you idiot! I need moar adventuring friendses! These other jokers are all like wut adventures lul! And I’m left all sad faced and alone. But you should SO come to a meat, would love to meet you!-
But then we’d get in a fist fight about Quantic Dream being the future of the genre. 😀
I’m pretty sure the rule says no two adventure gaming fans can be in the same room at the same time either. We’re so damn rare. It’s like when they do the State of the Union in the U.S., there’s always a designated survivor who can’t attend in case something were to happen. 😛
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I would like to witness that.
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Just to explain my thinking for this whole thing.
Saturday is a bit of a test run. I think we’ll go with Saturday evening, even if that means only Lambo, Freeze and I are joining in.
After that, I’d like to do something like a fortnightly (or maybe monthly, depending on interest) board game night. Preferably on a weeknight but that’s a detail to work out based on when everyone can make themselves available. Sunday afternoons might also be rather spiffy.
Mainly, I want this to be an excuse to start buying board games. So every time, we’ll try out a new game. I’ve got my eye on Ticket to Ride for Saturday. After that maybe Settlers of Catan, maybe Discworld, maybe Game of Thrones. Probably not Monopoly because fuck Monopoly. I’m not sure, I’m open to suggestions and I’m happy to buy any of these games if nobody has a copy for us to play.
It can be at my place every time, or other people can offer to host should they prefer (and it’s convenient for everyone else).
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This sounds like a rather amazing plan! Also…
‘Probably not Monopoly because fuck Monopoly’ – lol!
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I am usually free on the weekend (hurray for having no friends/life). I don’t know if I can do it during the week (except Friday)
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Join us!
Freeze said he can’t make it until evening on Saturday because of work and whatnot but if you (and Lambo) want to show up mid-afternoon, we can derp around anyhow.
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Wooo derping!
Yeah I can head around Saturday sometime. Is there any certain time to head around.
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Let’s say 3pm. Not sure how late Freeze is going to show up but if you and Lambo show up around then, we can probably get a game or two of something else in before he shows up.
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Hi.
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Hi buddy
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Hello
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Yo.
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Habari, bwana
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Konichiwa!
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SDOG
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Hope this day finds you well, Shane! Good to see you here through out the week. I notice a trend of old guard types posting one comment on Monday and not showing up again until the next Monday. Bah! 😛
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Niatea
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Bah weep granah weep nini bong.
Who’s this guy?
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Freeze S. Preston Icequire
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The reply fail guy? 😛
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Who’s that guy?
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^ ?
IS IT SATURDAY YET?!?!?! 😐
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It’s been Saturday for days now. Get with the times Chuloopa.
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God damn it…
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Okay looks like I got some explaining to do after reading Lambo’s post… okay let me tell you a small story.
A long time ago, when my programming wasn’t refined enough to get things done on my own, my human older brother made a steam account which we shared for several years for games like Half Life 2 and Counter Strike. This steam account was used by both of us since we shared the same computer, and having two accounts was not a good idea in terms of the financial complications we had. Over the years, his passion for gaming was dropping (Mainly due to school) while mine grew quite sharply, due to my high school heavy depression and loneliness years. Eventually we discussed and he agreed for me to commandeer his steam account and claim it as my own after he finished high school.
Unfortunately, due to how Steam like to do things, I cannot change the SteamID that was initially set up, so I’ve been stuck with the name that my human older brother goes by, even today (That’s him on twitter for those getting tweets/followed by jamiedeecee). He’s recently got his own Steam account set up for when I gifted him Bastion after buying the humble indie bundle and he’s now got Portal 2. The main thing that was holding him back from having his own Steam account and PC games was that he had a not-so-good PC, now that’s changed and he’s able to make a possible comeback to PC gaming.
So to reiterate and to make the short version of this, the entires in TAYnames are mine and mine alone. The jamiedeecee on twitter is my human older brother. I hope this fixes any confusions.
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Woo, answers!
Do you think that dirty human would be a good addition to Teamspeak if he wanted to play any multiplayer games?
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We’re already planning that for Portal 2 co-op. If he is to integrate into Teamspeak successfully we should slowly ease him into it, talking to 10+ people he’s never met on Teamspeak might be a bit weird for him. Lets just say he and I are quite different.
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Would he like a copy of Torchlight?
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Oh yeah I’m sure he’d love that game, go for it!
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Whats his new SteamID? I’ll get right on it
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Can’t remember off the top of my head, if you got him on twitter, go ahead and ask him, otherwise I’ll let you know either tonight or tomorrow 🙂
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pies?
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As in he consumes them and I don’t? Even that 😛
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pretty sure you can change your display name on steam & still be found by searching that. well, thats what I did at least.
cant change your account / login name though…
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Yeah you can change the name displayed, but not what you login with, that’s what I meant
Not weird at all, man. I had a similar arrangement with my sister. We both buy games on my Steam account to this day, that’s why there’s so many damn Total War games I wouldn’t touch with a ten foot pole. 😛
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If I could I’d transfer all the games he bought to his account, but I can’t without buying gift copies
This explanation is too rational. I prefer my theory that JamieDeeCee is your human alter-ego. 😛
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Sorry that’s not my human alter-ego, barely anybody knows my true human alter-ego… you’d have to find out by coming to a Melbourne meat Strange… hint hint 😉
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I’ve seen pictures of you before. Good enough for me :3
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And it’s one of the best pictures, me dual wielding arcade uzis xD
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I know your real name!
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Don’t you “hint, hint” me, Techy…I was in Melbourne and asked for a Melbourne Meat but nobody wanted to Meat me. *sniffle* 😛
P.S. I’ll be there at the end of January….
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I’m sorry Strange! Please don’t hate me /o\
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I like TF2 trading, It’s interesting to say the least
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I never know the value of anything, so I just keep my stuff to myself 😛
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I only really trade weapons and metal; hats have too high an entry gate for me, but Strange Weapons are cool when I can get them
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Me too! Sometimes I use http://www.tf2wh.com/ though (you ‘trade’ your items to this website for points which can be spent on other items later on). It’s not as profitable as regular trading, but at least I don’t have to bother with knowing the value of everything/scammers 😛
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Right, added my character to the GW2 list in TAYnames.
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I’ll invite you to the guild when I get home tonight.
@Freeze S. Preston Icequire:
I am indeedy looking at a road trip, if that’s what it takes 🙂 The more the merrier, a 7-12 seater van could be awesome if we have more than 5 coming along for the ride 😀
If I can get a definitive number (and how long we’re all available for) we may be able to get the ball rolling somewhat. Keep in mind this will be a fairly big road trip, depending on where you’re getting picked up from 😀
This is under the proviso that we have enough people interested, can manage to buy a car within the timeframe and which meets our purposes, and no-one brings an axe.
I won’t know for certain until next week perhaps which specific dates I’ll be able to take off, though my company shuts down for 2 weeks over Christmas, and I’ll be taking a week off either side of that too. I’ll fill you in on the details once I know more.
Perhaps this could be an unofficial signup sheet for those that wish to join in on the Road TrAYn?
AND GO:
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Well, if I can’t bring an axe I’m out. 😛
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No axe? BUT THEN NOBODY CAN SAY ‘AND MY AXE!’ IF SOMEONE NEEDS HELP!
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Oh man, good call!
EVERYONE BRING AN AXE! WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG?
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Any other implement is fine, just no axes 😀
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Also open to further naming suggestions.
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UnTAYmed Highways.
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It’s my TAY or the highway.
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Aleph-Null’s TAYste of Freedom!
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I like it! Probably drop my name from it, but I really like the ‘TAYste of Freedom Tour’ 😀
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You know, I like this idea of Aleph coming down alone in a big van picking up TAYbies as he goes until we eventually stop somewhere and have a big party.
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Sounds suspiciously like what a cult leader would do, lure you into their fan to party at some undisclosed location. Next thing you’ll be linking hands, twirling in circles and singing that Welcome Table song. (http://www.comedycentral.com/episodes/9j2a00/strangers-with-candy-the-blank-stare–part-1-of-2–season-2-ep-208)
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Na-na-na-na-na-na leader.
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The leader is good, the leader is great. Surrender your will, as of this date.
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I’m keen if I’m not doing anything else :). Applied for some vacation positions but doubt I’d get any so we’ll see later on :P.
Would be great to see more of Straya as I hardly know or remember anything outside of Victoria. Also be great to meet some of the TAYbies :).
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I keep seeing “Victoria, the place to be” as “Victoria, the place to flee” on number platers
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But Radelaide wasn’t rad and well… I don’t remember Queensland.
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“Mexicans of Australia”
Victoria had a civil war over soft-shell tacos and hard-shell? (Or so I am led to believe by watching the Old El Paso ads)-
No the civil war we currently have is the war between Collingwood supporters and everybody else
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Such ferals :/
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Why don’t we have both!?
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Unions… that’s why
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Man, you guys and your road-trippin’ plans (le Pez also had a roadtrip in mind, but for a different purpose).
Jealous. Somewhat.
Screw you, bringing it anyway.
Also, I have no idea about the logistics of this endeavour, but I’m pretty keen.
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I doubt they are going to cruise through Queanbeyan man…. they have some pride….
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Hey man, Queanbeyhole would be worthwhile if only to rescue a TAYbie.
Also Central Cafe. We’re stopping there for breakfast.
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You may need to change your no axe rule then…. jus sayin…. 😛
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I don’t think you’re aware of where Aleph is from 😀
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The way I see it currently, (VERY rough outline here) I’d buy a car in Cairns/T’ville and proceed to drive to Brisbane (I think that’s the location of the northernmost TAYbies aside from Rockets and Steve-O?), have a meat/party and pick up whoever’s coming, go to Sydney, do the same again, head to Canberra, same again, and finish in Melbs, trying to sell the car once there (with the sale earnings being split amongst TAYbies)
Ideally, people would be chipping in for the purchase of the vehicle/fuel/whatever, although I understand it’s a bit of an ask :S
Still not 100% sure how it’ll work, but I figure if we talk it out now, we should have 3/4 of a plan by the time it comes to fruition 😀
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Where’s the inevitable Wolf Creek style murder expected to go down, Aleph?
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I’m in Brisbane… and am liking the sound of this… give me some more time to consider it, but I might be in on this!
TF2 i46 Spectator’s Posters
http://i.imgur.com/lP5nP.jpg Demoman, NA style
http://i.imgur.com/BH5Wc.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/2BfhX.jpg re: 2 dropped ubers
http://i.imgur.com/F21IV.jpg ditto
http://i.imgur.com/89e7u.jpg re: overall placing
http://i.imgur.com/6bUOm.jpg ditto
Terry Crews…. you are a champion among champions I swear
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Yeah, that was awesome.
I’ve had this song stuck in my head since last night. I thought the only civil thing to do would share the pain around: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mGBaXPlri8
You’re welcome. :S
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Holy damn, haven’t seen that video for years. Probably NSFW.
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You want NSFW?
Go watch the clip for “Girls on Film” by Duran Duran.MASTERPIECE!
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HOORAY FOR BOOBS!
Seriously, Duran Duran are awesome.Also more NSFW (and huge WTF) suggestions:
DyE’s film clip for their song “fantasy”. It’s all anime and stuff.
Song’s awesome too 😀
Just… don’t watch it at work. Or with your parents/children.-
WTF did i just watch 😐
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@Loops, I REALLY like that song/video man. Iunno why. It’s just… really, really cool. I know it’s got some serious WTF in it the first time you see it, but watch it a few times. Wait ’til you get accustomed to the weird crap, and it really kinda grows on you.
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Garlic Bread is the king of all forms of bread.
Especially when it’s extra garlicky.
There can be no arguments
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None whatsoever. Garlic Bread is kind of deliciousness when it comes to bread
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I see you common sense receptacles are functioning flawlessly, as always
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My spelling isn’t functioning properly though it looks like… that’s two I’ve done wrong this morning. I might need another dose of caffeine 🙂
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I assumed they were intentional mistakes, to make you more approachable for the filthy meat bags sake. 😛
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That’s my saving grace about it, but I prefer to keep my programs flawless on a personal level
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An improvement, if I may be so bold?
Garlic naan bread.
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This guy gets it.
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I don’t know, bro – i’ve had a WICKED garlic sour-dough…
Hmmm.. let’s just say that any form of savory toasted bread with garlic is amazing??
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I am pleased with this arrangement. Also curious to try garlic sour-dough now.
Must make a mental note on that one.
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As long as they don’t use that terrible garlic powder.
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Noooo, real garlic!
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People that do that should be charged criminally.
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You know it, man. Breakfast of kings this morning!
You are wrong.
Bread is too great to have a measly king.
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Can you suggest one that would be more superior than the bastard child that results from the marriage of garlic to bread?
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I was more thinking along the lines that bread should have an Emperor, not a king.
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ooooohhhh…. i like your train of thought.
You are truely a greater mind than I
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The marriage of cheese and bread.
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Better yet…chilli, cheese and bread.
Hmmm…maybe I’ll make some chilli cheese pretzels for my lunch.
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If you make chilli cheese pretzels, I’m afraid I’m going to have to demand that you come to my work with some.
It’s just not fair for you to do otherwise.
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My pretzels disagree with you. 😛
Besides….garlic pretzels. That sounds kind of awesome.
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Pretzels. So salty. So addictive.
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I make great pretzels. Seriously. I’ll make them for whichever Meat you decide to attend that I can also attend.
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Oh, man. You’ve just got me one step closer to a meat!
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Sorry – i can’t hear you over the awesomeness of Garlic Bread.
Pretzels may be good – but you don’t eat them with EVERYTHING!!
“Oh.. dinner time is it?? BETTER ADD SOME MOTHER-LOVING GARLIC BREAD TO WHATEVER THE HELL I’M ORDERING”
You just can’t do that with pretzels
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I eat them with everything. Have you ever had a proper pretzel? Not those crunchy chip-like things, bread-like pretzels. They are insanely good and go with anything. Also you can make sweet ones. Can’t really do that with garlic bread. 😛
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I really want to try them out one day
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I love Garlic Bread.
In the words of Ramona Flowers, ‘Dude, bread makes you fat!’
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And garlic makes you smelly.
But you know something?
WHO GIVES?!?! EAT ALL THE GARLIC BREAD!
40K STUFFS – TIME WASTER EDITION!!!
What is your space marine name?!
http://www.heresy-online.net/forums/misc.php?do=page&template=smnames
hit ‘shuffle names’, then ‘generate name’ and post your result!!!
I AM …….
Paulus Kempla!!!
…well that doesn’t sound as cool as i thought it would… maybe you guys will have better luck?
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Uriel Thorin
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Yours is already better. Damn it.
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Vigilus Fenix
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Damn it!! Also cooler!
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Hah my work blocked it, oh well, will have to find out later 😛
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Daenyathos Ironfist
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FETH IT!!
lol
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Cissero Invictus
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Chief Apothecary Flaminius
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Dargus Asmodi
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Company Champion Juron
Suddenly, NPH & Elmo
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Mannn that’s hot
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He’s actually doing a lot of thrusting towards Elmo…
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He’s clearly thrusting towards the man below camera who’s controlling Elmo. It gets even more creepy/hot when you realize it’s entirely possible NPH isn’t wearing any pants.
I’ll let myself out now.
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I… really hate replyfails. Like, smack-them-in-the-face-with-a-shovel hate.
Mostly because ineptitude.
The shame, oh the shame 🙁
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If you want shame, I’ve been to trivia with some friends a bit recently. and Certain things that I know and they dont come out…Two weeks ago it was Twilight and Boyzone, Last Night it was Boyz II Men and Katy Perry…
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ahhhh the epic trivia dilemma
Do we miss out on victory or do I admit to knowing this-
We did win, for the third time in a row, so I believe I did the right thing 😛
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But… at what cost?
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It seems the COD care package is already sold out in all Australian stores in less than 24 hours… that must be some record it even took Skyrim a few days to lose all the statue’d editions.
The store I’m going to today to buy board games sells mahjong sets.
I am so sorely tempted to buy one and try to teach people how to play.
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There was Mahjong Poker in Sleeping Dogs. I lost every hand. 😛
Mahjong is an excellent game!!! I have a set as well. I have the problem of never enough people to play with or too many
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When you have too many people, make people share a hand. Makes for some hilarious results when people argue which tiles to go for.
Too few? If you’ve got two people, they can play two hands each. If you’ve got three, just deal out the fourth hand and leave it. Only one? Cry.
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This is a fair point 🙂
I might do this tonight actually. You are a clever bunny 🙂
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You do need to make up rules for the two hands thing. It can be a bit tricky.
Either you have people play opposite hands (so East and West vs North and South), they play their second hand after they finish the first one (you won’t finish the second hand very often unless you get a great first hand) or simply make it so that people can’t discard to themselves.
Haven’t really tried it.
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I either hadn’t realised or had forgotten that Mahjong is a multipler game.-
Mahjong as it appears in windows etc isn’t how you actually play Mahjong- the “tile matching” version is called (often) taipei.
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Pretty much.
I hate that the tile matching game gets called Mahjong.
What we’re talking about is essentially gin rummy with tiles. Four players and a lot of noise.
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The tile matching game is an abomination and garners very strong looks of disapproval from me.
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You can play MahJong 3-handed pretty much straight.
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Do you bother with the whole gambling and position side of things?
I could never get my head around most of that and neither could my friends.
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It’s only worth gambling if you’re doing complex hands, which is where the positioning comes into play more.
I’ve never bothered
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I’ve never played gambling, but I do own the chips for it.
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Yeah, most sets come with the chips
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Also, my favourite hand ever is Civil War, but it’s a bitch to get.
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The only names for hands I know are “holy shit, I think I just won”.
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You should totally buy Yakuza 4 just to play Mahjong in it all the time.
Getting the trophy where you get 7 pairs?
Feels good, man.
Hey guys, do any of you know what those cases that video rental stores or places like GAME use to protect their games are called?Those clear plastic boxes that prevent theft and keep the box safe.
Also where I can buy them or something similar.
I have some older games that came in cardboard boxes and I was hoping to store them better and maybe prevent the small tears and folds that happen as the game is moved around on the shelf
Thanks.
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these are the ones we used at my old workplace.
those boxes are an absolute pain in the arse for storage, coz they need another piece of equipment to unlock the boxes.
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Thanks 35
The price on the boxes is acceptable but the detacher is over $200. Wow.
Hopefully I can find some that don’t require the detacher or find a large DVD-sized plastic box.
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@Scree or Strange
If I go into a store and ask “Do you have the Kwik Sew Pattern K3521” will they know what I am talking about?
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Holy damn, man. That’s going above and beyond the call of duty. You have my respect! 😀
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If it helps a taybie I’m happy to do it. I need to basically walk past the store anyway.
Plus if they have it I can buy it and then Scree has to organise a meat so she can collect 😉
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SCREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
I have a pattern for you, now hurry up and organise a meat 😛
i think they might have had a sale on or something so with that and the loyalty card discount it worked out about half the price of the website you were looking at \o/
And no shipping \o/
Aleph Aleph Aleph!
ParTAY Bus.
Done.
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The ParTAY bus is coming!
And everybody’s jumping!…etc.
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There’s a compromise here: the TAYste of Freedom ParTAY Bus: UnTAYmed Highways Edition — “It’s my TAY or the Highway”
FLANGE GIBLETS!
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AKA. Bored at work
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Your 2nd Space Marine name?
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Don’t joke. I will probably actually name a marine that 😀
Still need to make up a Kotaku Marine – ‘twould be awesome.
Just need some ‘rines to paint!-
Do a terminator model/hero and dub him “The TAYMinator”.
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I want to make a mark serrels in an epic hero pose… but i need to work out how to make space marine armour with no pants… 😛
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@Freeze (sorry didnt reply earlier but TAY got too big for my phones browser and kept crashing.
I also got that achivement in Spec Ops, but I tried to walk away/through it but they wouldnt let me. Then they started to through rocks and I panicked.
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excellent now he’ll have to see it
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Here are the major achievements I got, ro13-style:
N Zna bs Npgvba, Qnzarq vs lbh Qba’g, Sevraqyl Sver, N Yvar Uryq, N Snerjryy gb Nezf. V ercynlrq gur raqvat gb frr gur bgure bhg pbzrf, ohg sbe fbzr ernfba N Snerjryy gb Nezf enat gehr sbe zl vapneangvba bs Jnyxre.
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Also, here’s how I saw his predicament:
Nyfb, V gevrq gb xrrc gehr gb ubj V fnj Jnyxre’f cerqvpnzrag gbb. V fnj uvz qrfcrengryl gelvat gb fnyintr gur hafnyintnoyr. Rira gubhtu ur xarj nyy jnf onfvpnyyl ybfg, ur fgvyy znqr gur rssbeg gb or gur tbbq fbyqvre fubjvat erfgenvag naq gur yvxr. Ur yrq Yhcb naq Nqnzf ba guvf cngu. Gurer jnf ernyyl bayl bar jnl bhg sbe uvz. :'(
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Holy crap – my day has been made!
AWESOME SAUCE!
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wait for the wub… trust me
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Best wobble wobble wobble base evar.
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EVAR!
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oh my golly goodness.
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And my day has been made too!
Bunny, you won’t be seeing me at your work today because I am lazy and couldn’t be bothered making anything more complex or labour-intensive than a sandwich.
Also, Loops I think it’s quite telling you didn’t respond to my suggestion that pretzels are greater than garlic bread because you can have sweet varieties. I’m going to take this as a win. 😛
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Sorry i must have missed that one..
One does not simply claim a win because it has a sweet variety.
When you have garlic bread, who needs sweet???
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Wait, there are sweet pretzels? When did this happen and why wasn’t I informed?
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Oh man, when I was in the US I had an amazing sweet pretzel with caramel fudge dipping sauce. I had it for dessert after eating a pepperoni pretzel with a cheese dipping sauce and it was pretty much the perfect lunch. I still dream of this experience. 😀
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Hey guys! Guys! GUYS!
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Yes your plans are set but what about us who are unable to attend the meat? :'(
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Be jealous?
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Be green with envy 😛
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Sounds like you Melbourne folk have a scree’s sewing kit meat coming up soon. Hardcore! 😀
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Melbourne City Sewing Circle of TAY, I can see that becoming a thing 😛
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I guess you could say the Melbourne TAYbies are a “close knit” community.
Hahaha … Sorry, I’ll leave.
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It’s the thread that binds us together
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I OWN MUNCHKIN!!!
I was actually thinking of holding a boardgame meat a few months back.. then i went MIA… lol
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Your 40k obsession is partially to blame for this.
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That;s a good thing, right?
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Looks like the basis of a supremely awesome night. Now I’m really sad I won’t make it.
I do like the idea of a new game each game night though, then someone who misses a night won’t need to be the only one learning a new game next time.
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Right now, while people are still keen, I am considering having another games night next week.
Honestly just need to know what date works for what people and if anyone can bring other games to help with the variety (I can’t buy all the games :p).
Let me know when is a good time for you and I’ll try to make sure the next one is at a good time for you.
Munchkin is effin’ boss.
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I made it to Mind Game with my mind set on getting Ticket to Ride but I figured I should get at least one other game.
Saw Munchkin, knew that it was the only real choice.
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Is that the one in the Myer Centre?
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That’s it. The guy there was pretty helpful and they appear to have everything.
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NOOOOOOOOOOO D:
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You’re just going to have to come to the next one. No excuses.
MUNCHKIN!!!!! 😀
Hey I have Munchkin also and the mount expansion. cept my expansion cards are new and colourful and my base cards are old style sephia
Fairy Bread.
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Fairy floss.
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He’s got a point there.
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Fairy Park.
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@Trjn: Civil War is 1 8 6 1 in one suit, 1 8 6 5 in another suit, 3 North Winds and Three South Winds in a concealed hand.
US Civil War.
We created a hand in a Mahjong group a while back called go to hell- 666, 666, 666, pong of Red Dragons and a pair of West winds (which apparently has some hell connotation in China)
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That’s genius.
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Just thinking that you could swap the sixes for fours and that second hand still works or make it eights, green fortunes and East winds for the opposite hand.
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Cause it’s on the last page, everyone look at this!
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/08/talk-amongst-yourselves-177/comment-page-8/#comment-779460
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I saw it, mostly because I was curious about what changed the page get
Fav would be the pop it, don’t drop it
Just saw something amusing caught in our work email filter. Someone has sent themselves a copy of the desktop shortcut for a game on their PC.
I’m really hoping that they call me when that doesn’t work, wanting to know why it doesn’t work.
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HAHAHAHA!
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Lordy, that’s brilliant
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My god.. .that is … AMAZING
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BAHAHAHAHA! Ahhh humans…
Hey guys!
News I have some! I had a jerb interview last night to sell dem cars (Ford brand to be specific) interview went rather well and best part? They have spots for 3-5 new employees and only 3 of us out of 7 showed up to the interview.. Other best part about it? It’s about 150 metres walk from exiting my place!
I should know by tomorrow if I actually have a job there or not, if I do i’m looking at a 60 hour week though oh well! Be worth it considering the potential money I could make! Or as the bloke from new car sales put it “The coin you can make” lol.
So how is everyone?
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That’s awesome, Virus! Way to go, hope it all goes your way!
I’m watching Six Feet Under right now. It was you who was marathoning through it a few weeks back, right? If so, you’re right. Amazing show.
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I was! I stopped at Season 3 and am currently watching Miami Vice =P will continue with Six Feet Under after season 1 of Miami Vice and cheers man!
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I said ‘right’ three times. :S
Once I had a job interview with three friends I went to Uni with. We were all friendly and had good will, but I’d be lying if I wasn’t nervous about who would get it. We all got it. Was an amazing moment. 😀
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Yeah I was nervous leading upto it, then forgot bout then my mate reminded me, what a jerk!
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Six Feet Under is best show. That is all.
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This.
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Pretty damn good! The highlight of my days at the moment.
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It is rather amazing, I do agree!
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Wow! I’d say you certainly have a good chance. Good luck!
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Cheers Powalen =D
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You should celebrate by coming up for the board game night at my place on Saturday.
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O’rly? We shall see =P
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All the best then man, car sales is a pretty cut throat business isnt it? I hope you do well!
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Yeah sounds it, funniest part is I do not recall in the slightest ever applying for it..
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Is it commission-based? If so, slit all the other employee’s throats. Get ALL THE SALES!
Good luck man, and congratulations on getting this far in a job you didn’t apply for 😀
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Nah retainer & 10% commission on profit of any car sold, if you sell more than 13 a month you get a 5 day working week the following month!
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Good luck man!
Ask them where the heck my new Ford Focus is… :/
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Cheers Green man! As if you want a Focus! You want a Holden Cruze, diesel 2.0 litre model! Wait i’m doing this wrong.
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Mighty Mighty Bosstones. This day is wonderful.
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Have you ever been close to tragedy?
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Or been close to folks who have?
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Never. But I know someone who has.
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Harvy Danger!
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Yes! Awesome!
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AHAHA! They announced it as Green Day.
It’s Manson.90s was awesome.
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Oh man, SUBLIME! \o/ best
@Shane
The Lesser Evil has finally started showing up at my house – seems to be happening one volume at a time. The first volume that I received today? Book three.
Now I have this book and I can’t even look at anything but the front cover and *flips table* ahhhhhhh
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That sounded like a refreshing table flip
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That’s like when I ordered The West Wing. They all arrived in reverse order. It’s… madness!
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And then, as if the universe heard me flip that table, another parcel appeared at my door. I fully expected it to be volume 2, but it was volume 1. Sweet! Thanks universe.
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No probs
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Haha wow, look at that. Universe has the same avatar as me! How bout that
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Once it gets moderated… just wait. This joke will be funny later. Well, slightly funny. Maybe.
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OMG I’m failing at TAY so badly right now D:
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Ha Ha 🙂
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Commence the laugh riot. 😛
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…heh.
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I HATE YOU GUYS
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Hey so someone gimme the rundown on this TAY road trip. I am intrigued, but sadly too lazy to properly figure out details. TELL ME MOAR, for I wish to partake
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Aleph has decided to gather up all the TAYbies and transport them to wondrous new lands. I’m imagining that he’s basically a TAY version of Moses, and he’ll part the Tasman, or something.
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Aleph is planning a road trip for his holiday. Planning on collecting as many Taybies on the way and heading to
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Yup, hoping to get those TAYbies willing to pool funds together to purchase a car, and drive it ’round ‘Straya meeting other TAYbies over the xmas/NYE period. Nothing’s set in concrete as yet, very open to suggestions 😀
Did Sughly break TAY? 😛
BLAME LAMBO
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ALWAYS BLAME LAMBO! AAAAALLLLLWWWWWAAAAYYYYYSSSSS!!!!!!
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(yes he did :P)
I skimmed over the broken comments before but when reading Pant’s comment I also thought of changing my name to Universe and saying “no problem” D:
GET OUT OF MY MIND (or maybe I’m in yours?)
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Which one though? 😛
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QUICK QUESTION FRIENDS (posting here instead of making another ‘topic’)
What’s 7-11’s food like? Lunch options are limited around Uni so I’m thinking of getting food from them but I’ve never really eaten at 7-11. I generally don’t have wraps and sandwiches and whatnot and I was wondering whether their selection was decent :P. I always hear stuff that mocks gas-station/service store foods so I don’t know what to expect. I had a ham and cheese sandwich from them last year and it was okay I guess, but I only had it cause a friend bought one too :P. Do they sell pies, hotdogs and sausage rolls and other basic things?
I also ask because of this
http://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/78669Like I said I haven’t really eaten proper wraps so who knows…
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Sandwiches and wraps should be fine. Hot dogs are a terrible idea, pies/sausage rolls are purely a store by store basis but probably an okay idea if the store gets a decent amount of customers.
Source: former 7-11 employee.
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They sell Krispy Kremes now so you can at least fill up on sugar (side note: I find them vastly inferior to regular cinnamon doughnuts :P)
Why don’t you eat at the Uni though? Surely they have places to eat there?
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I do but I meant options are limited so we keep going to the same places over and over and it’s getting meh for me 😛
And with 7-11 food I can eat it on the bus so it might be a good alternative 🙂
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You’re one of those monsters who defy the sign and eat on the bus!? Shameful.
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I don’t but the people who do make me hungry!
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I see! I see! I always used to take something to eat because I was/am too cheap to buy anything. If I ever did have to eat at the Uni it was usually a $2 sausage roll from the Unishop and a bottle of water that I brought from home. haha
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On 2 days this semester I forgot to take a bottle of water… got so thirsty :'(
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I quite like their chicken roll things, but there is likely some nostalgia tied up with that so your experience may vary
So, TAY, I take it things have been going well apart from the breakage?
NEW THREAD TO MOVE AWAY FROM THE TRAIN-WRECK THE UNIVERSE CREATED.
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Side note: pretty sure The Universe stole Sughly’s avatar and that he is, in fact, innocent.
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I like this reasoning
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It’s been a while since an old fashioned TAY break.
Yay for Sughly breaking TAY!
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^_^
Who’s up for some Counter Strike: GO tonight?
In related news, thanks Crazyguy 😀
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Would be if I wasn’t going to end up in Bro-derlands.
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Ooo, who’s playing?
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You’re welcome! 😀
I close TAY for 5 minutes and a TAYbreak happens! This is the worst Christmas ever.
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CHRISTMAS IS RUIIIIIINED
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Never leave again
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It’s the only safe guard we’ve got.
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SCP-POW
Object Class: Safe Euclid
Containment
SCP-POW is to be contained within a digital realm, given full communications access. -POW is to be dealt with in a congenial and respectful manner at all times. It is imperative to the FounTAYtion’s survival that SCP-POW remain within whichever ‘Kotaku TAY’ (Herein defined SCP-POW-1) is current.Description
Whilst SCP-POW is safe, it is considered a ‘Gatekeeper’ For this reason, -POW is to be reclassified Object Class: Euclid. The absence of SCP-POW from SCP-POW-1 will invariably lead to an instance of SCP-POW-2, resulting in chronospatial anomalies and any manner of [REDACTED].While SCP-POW is not to be the source of any monitoring, it is understood that SCP-POW-1 is to be kept under Protocol POW-Alpha-Tau at all times. If SCP-POW is not sighted for five (5) minutes or more, evacuation procedures and [DATA EXPUNGED] to maintain integrity and safekeeping for [DATA EXPUNGED].
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9001/10 Shiggys.
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I don’t know what I just read, but I like it…
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This is an example of why I want a Like button for comments. Nothing to add, just silent appreciation.
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God bless us, every one.
I am so sick of all the Nintendo hate =(
So Nintendo is creating too many half arsed sequels? What about COD then?
I seriously don’t understand console wars and the whole PC superior race.
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Don’t get mad about it, who cares if some random on the internet doesn’t like something as much as you do.
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A lot of people seem to hate Nintendo. It’s considered a lesser console.
It just irritates me. I like all consoles and I think it’s stupid to debate which is better-
But Sega is better.
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Many of those people are the kind that think if a car goes faster it is better, if a meal is bigger it is better, it is all about power.
So the can run at x fps and can process this much info, there for it is better. Ignore them and enjoy your nintendo and whatever other console/handheld/system you like.On and PC is clearly the superior system 😛
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Yeah, I think the Wind Waker article recently showed that Nintendo was doing in 2002 what most developers still can’t do today.
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Sadly, it is the nature of the internets. I agree that the it is stupid to debate which console is better, unfortunately there are stupid people out there. As Rocketmang said you should try to not care what some random person on the internet thinks. 🙂
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I think you will find their is a lot of negative comments about CoD being basically the same game and them rebadging it each year
For many people there is a sense of belong that comes with their choice and they feel the need to ensure that their tribe is better than the other tribe. As rocketman says just ignore themBut don’t ignore this
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/08/talk-amongst-yourselves-177/comment-page-8/#comment-779755-
Thank you! \o/ I was wondering if I should try again later X3 Thanks again for the pattern!
How about a September meat?-
#35 is coming down towards the end of the month so we can have a meat around his visit
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Okay! Now I just need to find something interesting to do.
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Yoyogi’s it is!
What dates is Numbers coming down?
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I know, but I just think that it’s a stupid idea. A system doesn’t matter, rather the games that are on it, do.
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There’s a lot of angry, ignorant people in the world. Just ignore them and GIVE ME STREETPASSES!
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All hate based on what other people like is dumb.
COD is a good series, if becoming a bit overdone, but it still has a place-the games have a unique feel which I enjoy.
Nintendo is still doing innovative things both hardware and software based, I think people were a bit under-whelmed by the recent Mario game and some people are frustrated by the lack of Wii-u info so there is more attention on Nintendo this time.That’s actually why I like it during the latter years of a console cycle, the needless Wii vs xbox vs ps3 articles and threads disappear. I really hope we avoid them next gen, probably not, but I know I’ll be ignoring them.
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As will I. Unfortunately it’s still going. I know some people of High school age where 360 is king and if you play Nintendo games, you’re not even a gamer.
I think the whole thing is stupid. I also know that the COD games are not for me, so I don’t play them
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Sheesh I finally start to play Orcs must die 2 (Thanks for the game last night Inquisitorsz and mystery random voice) and see that the first DLC is out already
Does anyone have a site I could try to look in to the technical information of the 3DS’s sleep mode? I want to learn more about how it operates.
I’m assuming such a knowledge base wouldn’t exist, with Nintendo generally not sharing this sort of info.
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Um, you shut it and it sleeps?
That’s pretty much the extent of my knowledge-
=*The more you know*=
😀
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Yeah I doubt any official information is available, but there might be something. What are you trying to find out?
Or just ask me! I AM a 3DS Ambassador after all! /smug
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I wanna ambass some doors…
More curiosity than anything. For example, want to know what is required via wireless to contact another device and exchange information while reduce the strain on the battery to allow a longer life. Obviously the lack of screen helps a huge amount, but…I wanna know more 😛
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Also no 3D effect and also no volume. I never use 3D because it drains the battery, Same with the volume.
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3DS talk
So all this 3DS talk has got me wanting to play mine again :P. Anyone up for some Mario Kart or some hardcore letter sending? 🙂
I’ve just added everyone else who I didn’t have from TAYnames as a friend.
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Letterboxing, yes. Mario Kart 7, also yes. We’ve got a TAY MK7 community already set up though we’ve never used it 😐
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Yeah I saw that yesterday in TAYnames and I was like “we have this!?”
Oh and btw, do you 3DS peeps take the console with you when you go out? I never do and my Wi-Fi is usually turned off :P, explains why I have no street passes but doesn’t it get annoying lugging it around? :O
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I have a small backpack that I bought specifically to lug my 3DS around
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I carry a large hiking backpack around, cause it’s the only thing my 3DSXL will fit in to…
But yes, I do. I also may be addicted to attempting to Streetpass…
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Almost always, especially when heading to a shopping centre or to the city. Gotta Streetpass ’em all.
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I put it in my bag when I go to uni. For the past three weeks or so I’ve picked up the same people a few times, so it’s worked out well.
Plus, all these meats and whatnot. I’ve streetpassed Shiggy at least ten times in the past month.
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SEND ME LETTERS.
I WILL START A SERIES. THE ADVENTURES OF PANTS AND GREENIUS.
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THE ADVENTURES OF PANTS AND GREENIUS and where Powalen interjects sometimes but not always.
Nice ring to it 😀
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Consider it done.
You know, after this assignment.
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But then I have to pull mario kart out and I’m busy farming D=
I need to get two ores for Eileen to make the bed bigger even though all I really want to do is clear the tunnel
#harvestMoonProblems-
Is that the newest Harvest Moon? What’s it like?
I was a HUUUUGE fan of Harvest Moon on SNES, but every other one I tried was just not as great.
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Tale of two towns. I would suggest waiting for Rune factory 4 on the 3DS.
I just love harvest moon so I pretty much try to get all of them.-
Yeah I keep wanting them all to be SNES HM though, and they keep over complicating things. Just… farm, girls, crops, cows, go! None of this complicated bizness! >:(
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Well then, what about Harvest moon DS? It’s similar to the Snes one I think.
I like the extra things. Which reminds me, I still need animal parade on wii =/
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Ore would make a terrible bed. Have you tried a softer material.
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No no, Eileen wants the ore, not to make the bed it’s in exchange for the bed.
Or something.
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Letter sent to everyone who replied here!
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SEND ME A LETTER!
I never get mail.-
Because you don’t own a 3DS!
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oh.
REPLYING! I’ma going to reply and see what happens
How does everyone feel about Saturday lunch at Yoyogi’s when Numbers comes down?
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A place in Melbourne I know of! *gasp*
Yeah sure as long as I’m not busy then :P. May need to scab lifts and whatnot though (Inquis? 🙂 )
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I’m not really sure how I feel about it.
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Betrayed? Defiant? Sleepy?
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At least one of those, probably.
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Oh and he said something like the 29th of Sep. Have to ask him for 100% confirmation and dates though 🙂
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Well i tried to make it lunch because then it’s easier for people to get to and such.
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When I say Numbers, I mean #35, not numbers as in Lucifer[insert numbers here]
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Why is this the first I heard of this?
oh– carry on
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Had to take the day off work. Fever and migraine at the same time. 🙁
And of course, my 3DS XL finally arrived at work today.
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Aw, man. Doesn’t sound good. Hope you feel better soon.
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Did you end up getting a US or UK model?
I saw you post about Theatrhythm but what other games did you end up getting?
Remember to add the TAYbies and partake in the Letterboxing 🙂
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US.
I ordered it with:
– Theatrythm
– Ryhthm Thief
– 999 (yes, the DS one)
– Tales of the Abyss
– Devil Survivor Overclocked
– Kid IcarusUnfortunately Theathrythm and Rhythm Heaven are both still backordered with Play-Asia, I got sick of waiting and had them do a partial shipment.
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Also ordered a huge stack of DS games that I’d missed due to ditching the system mid-lifespan.
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Ah, so you decided to buy Abyss again :).
Let me know how Kid Icarus is. I’ve been wanting to get it for a while. Did you ever get around to finding Professor Laytons, Dragon Quests and Phoenix Wrights?
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I have all Dragon Quests. All Laytons ordered with Play-asia but they’re taking a long time, I may just buy locally as they’re all available here again.
I found out I’m getting a pretty nice bonus for the last year’s work so I decided to order some stuff from OGS as well:
– Phoenix Wright 3 and 4
– FF12 Revenant Wings
– Spirit Tracks
– Last Window
– Okamiden
– Radiant HistoriaI already have Phoenix 1 and 2 somewhere if I can ever find the box I put all my old DS games in, so I’m just missing the Edgeworth game.
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Oh man I totally missed the migraine and fever part 🙁
Hope you get better soon and you get time to try out your new gadget!
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Welcome to the Streetpass-machine alliance!
Oh man, if your friend offers to buy you a Chico Roll, don’t accept. I haven’t had this much food regret since I last had KFC.
Well, ok maybe I’m exaggerating
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Chiko Rolls are the boss!
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More food I don’t know about! :/
KFC regret… so bad…
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What?!
Chiko rolls are awesome!-
Why did it double post?
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Why did it double post?
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Chiko rolls are the blurst mang. Blurst.
Chiko Roll
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiko_Roll
Thanks Wagga Wagga! (ish)
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Australian cultural icon? Really? 😛
I don’t think I’ve ever seen one in person or see someone I know eat them. I’ve definitely heard of the name before but just assumed it was a type of roll rather than a brand.
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You’ve not seen the old posters with Harleys and obligatory ‘bikie chicks’?
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Man, you really need to get out to some country towns
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Do I really though? 🙂
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Or into any fish&chip shop anywhere, ever.
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If only there was some sort of interstate road trip being planned.
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Although isn’t Melbourne the last stop? Short ride for Greenius. 😛
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Wooo roadtrip! *gets in parTAY bus*
Oh? We’re not moving? What do you mean Melbourne was the last stop?
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We resent being called a country town! We’re clawing our way to the city one bogan at a time! …Though you are entirely correct haha They still sell them everywhere around here.
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Ha ha.
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Melb meat
Currently proposed lunch time meat for tasty japanese food at Yoyogi on Saturday 29th (to be confirmed by #35)
A chance for us all to meat another interstate Taybie. Suggestions on what to do afterwards are accepted and at some stage we will ask #35 if he wants to join us. Actually let’s not worry about that we can just kidnap him if he causes trouble.
I should be fine for lunch as long as it isn’t an early one as I work on Saturdays..
Scree is that early enough for you to get the pattern, I can mail it to you or you can organise a pickup from my office if you need it earlier
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29th September right? I’m there.
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Especially if good JP food is on offer.
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I’m not sure, depends if I want this dress for my Mums birthday.
Where is your office?Sounds all good to me =D
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South Melbourne, email or sms me if you want the address but it is just off clarendon st
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Is that anywhere near St Vincents Hospital?
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On the other side of the city from there. Why are you going to be in that area? I can always head home via the city and meet you if you need
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Mum has an appointment with her cancer Dr, but it’s in the morning.
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No problem, email me your address and I’ll get it out to you: tigerion at google’s mail service
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I might be interested… that is if i’m welcome 😛
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Paulus Kempla is always welcome *snigger*
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Paulus… just sounds so… lame… *gah!*
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The king of competitions!
Thine must tellest thee thy secrets!
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Placeth your hand upon my glorious glutius and all shall become clear, mein fruend
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Niiiiiice
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Re; Suggestions for after lunch. I still haven’t been to Game Masters at Fed Square.
I don’t find myself in the city too often, so I’d be keen to go to Minotaur as well.
Is Beavwa’s gf going to be there? … I’m asking for a friend.
I should be available.
Someone remind me closer to the date
I’ll agree to everything mentioned here. especially the kidnapping.
Go with the Flow by The Queens of the Stone Age is not only one of the greatest songs around, but one of the coolest clips
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Songs for the Deaf is a great album.
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No, it’s a fantastic album.
Also, lullabies to paralise *nods wisely*
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Our Pub Trivia team name was inspired by that album.
We are called Radio for the Deaf.-
My Team is Norfolk ‘n Chance
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Man, I’m so excited for animal crossing 3DS
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Man, I’m so excited for Fire Emblem 3DS
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Man, I’m so excited for Adventure Time 3DS.
That works…right?
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But it’s not announced for PAL regions as far as I know! >:(
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C-C-C-ombo breaker
Man, I’m so excited for the New 3DS Zelda
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Man, I’m so excited for Adventure Time 3DS.
If we say it enough times, then it has to be accepted.
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I meant to also ask if anyone else cared because I have a feeling that I’m the only one
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*sigh* You made sure there was a dot in the middle of the photo just so I’d have to photoshop another UFO conspiracy picture, didn’t you? WE’LL IT AIN’T HAPPENIN’, BUB.
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dooo eeeet!
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Wait a minute, you are reusing photos. WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO HIDE!!!!!!
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I feel ripped off. Where’s my new content!
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You believe in aliens? *cough*wackoconspiracylunatic*cough*
It’s obviously just a secret government spy drone recording data and statistics on our bowel movements to sell to the Freemasons so they can bring forth the drugpocalypse using the Inter Alpha groups of the worlds leading banks.
Sheesh. Why complicate things.
100% completed Spec Ops
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Nice work CJ, worth the time and money?
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Yes, although the best way about it is probably to play the story once and then no go back. Cause other wise it lessens the impact/decisions
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What did you play it on?
What’s the best console? It’s hard when you own them all =(-
I think there’s a demo on all the platforms if you want to try one out.
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There is a demo out on everything, I played mine on PC. Dont usually like 3rd Person Shooters on PC but it worked well. Its controls were a little different (e.g E is to swap weapons)
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I’ll try it on my PS3.
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I played on PS3 and had no problems at all. I’m just one of those weirdos that prefers the PS controller.
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I played on the 360. Seems we’ve got all the bases covered. Plays well on all.
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I’m actually used to a 360, but I’m still pissed at Microsoft
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Why what’d they do to you? Do you need a comical band of misfits to go ruff em up and get back your mcguffin?
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Three words. Xbox live gold. It’s absolute bullshit that you have to pay for services that are free on the other consoles.
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Bought Tony Hawks Pro Skater HD.
Instant regret.
The game feels like it’s too slow moving, the bails can’t even be recovered from quickly, and the amount of levels is just bad.
Avoid this at all costs and just pick up one of the first three games off of eBay.
It won’t cost you as much and you’ll have more fun with them.
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Such a shame. I loved the original games…
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Or I could just play Skate 3 =D
So how do we go about Mario Karting?
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As far as I can see, you put in the Community ID (in TAYNAMES, for anybody who doesn’t know) and ‘TAY Kart’ will be added to your favourites list. Once you’re sitting in the community, it will just sit searching until other people join (you can send pre-written messages while you wait).
Not 100% though, as I haven’t actually used it yet 😛
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Kart 7 on thirdDS?
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Indeed!
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Is that on Wii?
I have a Wii. I also have Mario Kart Somethingorother for Wii.I’ve never touched my Wii.
I like saying Wii.…Wii.
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Streetpass Machine only I’m afraid!
…Best put your Wii away.
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POWALEN NO!!!!!!!!!
XENOBLADEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
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This is what happens when you leave me alone at work with no customers, no work and an engraving tool.
Please note I’m a terrible artist who struggles with stick figures so leave me alone 😛
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For a “terrible artist” that’s good 🙂
http://www.flickr.com/photos/62480489@N03/7098335211/in/photostream/
The last time you were alone at work with no customers, no work and an engraving tool?
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That’s awesome! gold plated Mario too!
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That’s really cool!
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Do you mark it out in pencil before engraving or something? It looks good!
Definitely NSFW. And while I hate the word, the sentiment rings true.
Another post just because: If anybody would like to play Mario Kart 7 (on the 3DS) with Greenius and I, we’re about to start playing soon. Make sure you join the TAY MK7 community (info listed on the Servers page in TAYNAMES)
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I would but I have to go to bed soon, so maybe next time.
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Do you need to have the game to join? Or can you run it all from one cartridge? I remember hearing something like that at some point, could be totally wrong
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One cartridge is only for local multiplayer sadly. We can play it at the next Meat! 😀 You should buy it one day though it’s a great game (and the online runs really well).
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Yeah I definitely will. Someone’s gotta stop you from thinking you’re all that
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Hahaha!
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After 4 races, I’ve come to the conclusion that I am better than Greenius in every way ;D Just kidding! (But I totally beat him). gg, Greenfrond! Also gg Scree!
We’ll plan it further in advance next time to give people some more notice 😛
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I HAVEN’T PLAYED IN MONTHS!
I forgot how to accelerate. True story. But gg! That time I boosted forward and hit that shell… oh man…
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I saw you had a mushroom so I was just waiting for you to pass me then I’d try and shoot my green shell at you. You just saved me a step by running into the back of me haha
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MMMMMMM. New AC vid is awesome.
Tax return went in today \o/ Which is amazing considering I only lodged my return last friday
As a completely separate topic, GW2 has the same system as Xenoblade where you get exp for exploring and discovering new landmarks. I’m in so much trouble, I can see this sucking me in so deep
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Man I loved that in Xenoblade and I’m guessing I’ll love it in GW2, let me know how it goes :). I really haven’t seen much on GW2 even though I really enjoyed the first. Kind of over MMOs at the moment but I love me some exploring!
AHAHAHA! Mitsubishi Nimbus could be a top-contender for the TAYmobile.
Need some thoughts on potential vehicles for the road trip too.
But first and foremost, do we have a tally for who’s coming so far?
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Guys. Hey, guys. This is it.
http://www.carpoint.com.au/all-cars/private/details.aspx?R=13253841&__Qpb=1&Cr=12&__Ns=pCar_RankSort_Int32|1||pCar_Price_Decimal|1||pCar_Make_String|0||pCar_Model_String|0&keywords=&__N=834%201216%201246%201247%201252%201282%20900%20442%201779&SearchAction=N&silo=1011&seot=1&SeatsFrom=1779&__Nne=15&trecs=32&__sid=13979CBD185B
THIS IS THE ONE.
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Awesome. Just. Awesome.-
Rape van.
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Can it have ‘Free Candy’ scrawled on the side?
Also what road trip be this? Also if I end up being a car salesman should let me hook you up 😉
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You totally should. Christmas/NYE road trip. Need a TAYmobile. Cheap.
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Ex army vehicle imo 😀 some sort of personnel carrier! We could totally just borrow one from Canungra just outside of Brisbane or one from Amberly which is down the road from Lambo!
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I wonder how much it’d cost 😛
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Probably too much, but if you like adventure and being shot at by armed personnel with .45 M1911’s and Steyr rifles then we can borrow one =D
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Also the little icon in the tab is a little disconcerting when it reads ‘CP’ for this website..
Damn it dude, now you have me looking at cars i’ll never afford (70’s Chargers, Challengers & Trans Am’s) oh god how I love muscle cars.
I could be in, But let me see what happens with getting a job first. That will cement my availability 🙂
Put me down as a tentative, somewhat unlikely ‘maybe’. It sounds like awesome fun, but I’d have to convince my parents to let me go. I’d be 18 by then, so that should make it a bit easier.
And you should totally get a Kombi. 😀
Don’t think I’ll be able to do the road trip, but I’m definitely there when you stop in Sydney
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Same for me. Sounds like fun though. Just make sure you give plenty of notice before coming to Sydney so I can organise things! (I would suggest you stop by Wollongong on your way down but there’s really not much to do here… haha)
What’s the deets of this trip?
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Aleph is going to buy a rape van, offer free candy to the TAYbies and drive clockwise around Straya finishing up in Melbourne. I think that’s the vague plan anyway since nothing is final yet 😛
I’ve never met any of you. But a greesy road trip with complete strangers across states sounds a lot of fun.
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“I’ve never met any of you”
I have an idea to fix this. It’s a little crazy, but it just might work!
Gonna play League of Legends with my cousin and his friends.
One of the friends asks “Do you play Ranked?”
“Nope”
“…Oh.”, he said with a hint of disdain.
Why did I agree to this.
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Dude play some ranked, it so fun to get people raging at you because their ELO is on the line. No joke one guy was like THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT LOL GAME YOU WILL EVER PLAY.
He the feed 2/11/4-
Sure, but I like enjoying games, unlike some other people who play this game.
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To be fair I was playin AP Tryndemerh against Yorick. And I believe it was more like 2/22/4. It was an important game though.
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I remember when I used to be good at Alistar.
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I remember when rock was young
Me and Suzie had so much fun
Holding hands and skimming stones
Had an old gold Chevy and a place of my own-
but the biggest kick i ever got
was doing a thing called the crocodile rock
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I remember when i thought i was okay at it. now i just play ARAM’s with random people and laugh at how bad i am.
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I miss jungle Alistar sometimes. Then I remember how terribad he is late-game and it’s k.
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but dem early ganks.
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Oh man, I remember one time when we did a ranked team game. The enemy team just did a 5 man hank squad. After that Freyr wouldn’t play a lol game if I was involved in it.
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Hank squad, really phone =/
Gank squad.
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Hank is a nice guy.
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Nope, he’s a jerk. He kept killing us in LoL.
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next season we should rise from the ashes of our defeat and cheese our way to victory.
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Sooooo. Geeky things I am going to admit to doing,
Board Games with my partner last night – Finally opened up Frag http://www.sjgames.com/frag/
This is an insanely simple game (once you read through the instructions) Alot of dice rolling, and then walking up to the person and shooting. :p Alot of fun, Anton scored all the frags. Stupid boyfriend, fragging me at point blank 🙁
And the rest of yesterday (after being told my interview was today not yesterday) was setting up my Star Trek CCG Deck for the World Championships next week. A friend took me to a beginners event earlier this year and I’ve played a in a few tournaments since. and the locals are hyping my success so far. So we shall see how I do. Warm up tournament on sunday and then if I dont have a job next week I’ll be there on wednesday and thursday and then the actual tournament happening on saturday and sunday.
Yeah I think thats my life at the moment 🙂
How is everyone?
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Let’s get this out of the way: Board games, ‘bored games’, 1950s, etc etc, Western Australia, Hi Cracks, etc etc.
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Aww Bish, I do miss you 🙂
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Grrr.
Board games are fun, dammit!
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I purchased my starter set for WarMachine last might. Loops will probably disown me, but it’s cheaper than WarHammer. Plus steam-punk necropheliac mechs? Hell yer! http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v229/bwride/deathripper5.jpg
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Lol Nice, I haven’t tried Warmachine yet, but I am told that it is good. Plus the price of warhammer is very high.
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THE PRICE OF WARHAMMER
IS TOO DAMN HIGH!
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Why would i disown you?
I’ve heard FANTASTIC things about warmachine – and the mini’s look AMAZING!Also, yes, it is much cheaper. I’ve actually been quite interested in Warmachine for quite a while now, just haven’t made the plunge.
Another one that is good to look into is Infinity – they sell the stuff super cheap at the site i buy all my supplies from, slavetopainting.com.au
A starter army costs as little as $40 and the mini’s look phenominal. Only downside is it requires lots of terrain, but the rules are quite simple.Which army did you go for in Warmachine?
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I bought a Cryx battlebox. My friends who play tell me that Cryx are a real arsehole team (lots of tricks and debuffs) and that they would suit me. I also like the idea of Bonejacks and Helljacks (their necromantic version of warjacks).
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I would disown him….
I’m not a fan of warmachine minis…
As for the price… I was looking online and it doesn’t seem that much cheaper. Perhaps because the armies are smaller? But I don’t know enough about it to really comment. (also I’m comparing US prices not rip off AUS ones)-
The armies are smaller – you can build massive Warmachine armies that will cost just as much, but most people play with smaller size armies.
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GOOOOD MORNING LADIES AND GENTS!!!
Tomorrow is going to be a FETHING AWESOME day!
Squash and the release of Warhammer 40k: Dark Vengeance!
Can-Not-Wait!!!
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http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/wnt/blog.jsp?pid=3800002-gws&_requestid=2030652
Check out the 360 degree shot on the ravenwing sergeant *squeee*
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*drools*
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It will be glorious.
My copy will be a few weeks off still I think…
Just out of curiousity is that theme park meat still on and would it coincide with Aleph’s road trip?
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I like your thinking
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It’s damned good thinking. I also like it.
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It could. It was meant to be a few weeks ago according to the Tales calendar. I think it kinda fell apart.
No reason we can’t make another one for then though.
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Might solve Aleph’s problems. People who fly up to Brisbane for the meat could have an awesome way home onboard the ParTAY bus?
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I was thinking of doing this but I’d need a buddy 😛
(also money but shhh)
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Justice League: Alien Invasion 3D opens at Movie World in September too, if that seals the deal. 😛
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I won’t have definitive dates for a while, yet I’m planning on having a month free. 1 week in TSV prior to road trip, and 3 weeks of awesome TAYles to be had 😀
Played more Diablo 3 last night with Jo, Blaghs, and Nob. Going through act 1 Inferno with two Wizards, a Barbarian and a Monk is pretty damned fun. Made it all the way through and slaughtered the Butcher without too much fuss.
Act 2 was a little different. Jo and Blaghs went off to war with some guilds so it was just Nob and I until Greenius showed up. We ended up with two Barbarians and a Monk. Not the perfect composition for dealing with the monsters in Act 2, particularly the Sand Wasps.
Some of the friends we encountered along the way were complete dicks. Good thing they balanced the game a lot so that if you really tried, you could beat the elite monsters with the perfect set of abilities to screw you over. It just takes time, a lot of kiting (which does not come naturally to a Monk at all) and quite a lot of prayer (which does come naturally to Monks).
I’m really enjoying playing this game again. Can’t wait to get to Acts 3 and 4 or to get my Witch Doctor up to Inferno so that I can see how I manage with a completely different play style.
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I’d help but loot would be crappy and XP would be low so there’s not much motivation 😛
Is that Nephalem Valor just for Inferno or is it for level 60s? If it’s the latter then I can at least increase my chances for loot.
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It’s for level 60s.
My WD is 54 right now at the start of Act 2. With someone rushing me through to Act 4, I should be able to hit 60 pretty quickly.
Shame I can’t use my Monk to do it. She’s perfect for the job.
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Out of curiosity how does everyone keep up with comments they post on other articles?
I rarely comment but if I do I’ll favourite/bookmark it and check it periodically to see if anyone replies. It’s not the best system :P. Then after a day or so I’ll delete it since it’s unlikely anyone else will comment.
As for TAY? Same sort of thing. I’ll just favourite/bookmark the latest page until there’s a new page. I’ll go back to previous pages until the new one fills up about half way and then move on. Again, not the best system but it works 😛
We need accounts and notifications!
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A dedicated team of psychic dolphins that work for minimum wage.
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I find that platypuses (platypi?) are more efficient, although slightly more expensive.
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And the males are slightly more deadly
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Since I do most of my TAYing at home, either on my laptop or phone, I’m usually the only one to use it so I generally keep Firefox open and refresh it a lot. If I comment on an article (much rarer these days) I usually keep it open in another tab and check back every so often
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Sad, but true. I gots no friends and plenty of time, perfect conditions for obsessive comment checking. 😛
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I just remember the names/pics/subjects of the articles I’ve commented on and go and manually find them when checking for replies. For TAY, I just click on it under “Most Commented” off to the side, then head straight to the latest page.
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Tea-leaves and various other forms of divination.
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Get a spare minute at work, reload Kotaku site on mobile and look for bigger comment numbers. Second tab has TAY open so i just refresh that and scroll to the bottom.
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I usually refresh the page that I commented on a few times for an hour or 2, mainly in case someone replies and I need to defend myself or answer a question.
Most of the time the refreshing ends in disappointment =(
Mornin’ y’all!
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NO!
*pouts*-
Want some schnitzel, Aleph?
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Dammit, got me trained like a dog.
THEY KNOW MY WEAKNESS!*throws smokebomb, screams unintelligibly whilst running out of room*
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That wasn’t a smoke bomb apparently.
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Mornin’ lla’y
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Oh Loops, how goes it?!
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It goes well.
How goes you?-
Not bad part from the bruised foot lol, stupid dress shoes D=
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Morning
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*waves*
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Hey, buddy. Hope this day finds you well!
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Cheers, likewise to you D.C.!
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Morning, my favourite infectious agent! 😀
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Morning!*
*Even though it now 3:25PM
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Whole department being made redundant \o/
Be out of a job in a month or so \o/
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Aww, sucks to hear that. 🙁
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I’m sorry, man. Probably not much to say that’ll make you feel better. 🙁
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Yeowch
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Oh no. That news is never good. I hope you manage to land alternate employment. 🙁
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Let us know if there’s anything you need, okay?
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Crap, man that sucks. 🙁
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When you said the district manager only brings bad news, you weren’t kidding /o\
On the plus side, redundancies are the best ways to get laid off. Hope they give you a decent package and a good reference. Not as good as having a job but it’s still not the worst possible situation.
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Agreed, but still sorry to read this news Jo 🙁
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Shit… sorry, man :s
That;s bloody terrible. Is it a Gov job? They have been relentless with layoffs recently.
My dad works for the education department and they are in the middle of sacking literally thousands of people :S-
My mum works a government job in Brisbane. Her entire department was sacked except for her and another lady. She currently works eleven hour shifts and hasn’t had a day off in two weeks.
Fuck Campbell Newman.
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That’s going to get worse long before it gets better 🙁
The problem was never too many public servants costing tax payer funds. It was inefficient practises in the public service. Gutting the workforce exacerbates the problem, that’s just common sense.
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Since when has common sense ever been a factor in the decision making process?
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He is possibly one of the worst things to happen to Queensland, I feel sorry for you guys they’re fucking it up worse than Fatty O’Barrell and his league of scum here in NSW.
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Ouch. Hope you can find something else, and hopefully better too, when it comes to it.
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Not good man, Best wishes on you finding an awesome job soon 🙂
Hi all, time for one big catch-up post.
For those who missed it on Twitter, I’ve started the countdown to the wrap-up to the competition on my website. http://shanewsmith.com/competition/ I don’t know yet what I’m counting down from, so there’s still time to get your reviews for The Lesser Evil in if you want to be in with a shot. At this stage, I have received precisely zero entries, so you have a decent chance of winning! 😛
The reason for this countdown is that I have completed Death’s Feast. 558 pages ready to be revised, rewritten and critiqued. Hoping to get the whole thing finalised and completed and to my publisher by New Year’s. I should be excited, but I tend not to get that way when I complete a project. Instead, I get all empty and directionless and irritable for a few days, then I start working on something else.
To fill the void, I picked up Dark Souls again for the first time in three months. Progressing through Anor Londo at a decent clip. Amazing how much an equipment switch can help you in different situations – not something I’m used to in other games. I tend to pick a combo I like and stick with it, but that’s a strategy that’s doomed to failure in the Souls games.
Am about to try storming the Silver Knight archers again this afternoon if I can get Play School off the TV.
Also, it’s my fourth wedding anniversary today! It was raining four years ago, and was the day the drought officially broke in Canberra. True story.
In other news, this is the last weekday I have off work. Next week, will be back to my regular TAYing goodness (finally!)
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Congratulations on your anniversary 🙂
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I keep meaning to get around to that but haven’t found the time. Happy to review death’s feast but not sure I would have the time to do it properly which is why I haven’t pushed it.
You do strange things up north, sacrificing a virgin to end a drought. Oh well whatever works I guess.
Good luck getting play school off the tv
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It’ll be good to have you back, man. You’ve been missed! Awesome to see progress on the writing front too!
My tummy is grumbling…
It must be the emperors wrath…
Hmmm.. note to self; create Space Marine Chapter ‘The Grumbling Tummies’
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This may make you hungrier:
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l7czuodXBZ1qa68j2o1_400.gif-
Or this 😛
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BAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Mannn that tasted pretty good… 😀
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One of the best parts of Alex Kidd 😀
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BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!
MILK FOR THE KHORNE FLAKES!-
Oh Steve-O… why you so Khorney?
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*slow clap*
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So I tried out lunar lander for the first time last night. Man that game is complex and difficult. If it ran at about a quarter the speed that it currently does I might have a chance. but yikes trying to manage thrust, velocity and the angle of the module and the direction does my head in. Started to get the hang of it so will give it another try.
I also managed to defeat the Stygian in darksiders so that is progressing nicely now that I’m through the road block. I just got Ruin so having fun with him.
In other news I have a copy of psychonauts and beyond good an evil on steam that I picked up earlier. Both are great games that everybody should play. If anybody is interested in either of them let me know and I’ll gift them across, the only obligation is that you actually play them.
Jumping off from the new No Right Answer episode, I want to hear everyone else’s thoughts – Best Animated Disney Movie Ever?
My absolute favourite is probably Hercules. I’d always had an interest in Greek mythology, and getting to see it on screen was amazing for my 10/11 year ols self. Tarzan, Mulan, Lion King 1 & 2, Oliver & Company, Aladdin and The Rescuers are other favourites too
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I think it’d probably be The Lion King. Movie that left such a mark that I remember exactly where I saw it, what we were doing at the time, conversation we had before and after movie. Brilliant. Aladdin probably would be a close second. I’ve never seen Mulan. The animation style looks exception, though. Jerry Goldsmith’s score is amazing too.
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Lion King is also the only Disney movie that had a halfway decent sequel. 3 was terrible but I almost prefered 2 to the original
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You should definitely watch Mulan. It was criminally underrated until the internet realised that “Make A Man Out Of You” was one of the best Disney songs from that era.
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Yeah, man. Definitely on the list. Looks amazing. Have you guys seen Tangled? Captures that special brand of Disney magic. I particularly loved this song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bate_tvVUpk
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Tangled could easily have been released in the mid-90s if it was hand drawn.
I really enjoyed it.
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Still on the to-watch list. But that video moves it a lot higher on the list
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Lasseter has really turned Walt Disney Animation around since Pixar merged with ’em. Quality has gone insanely high. Still haven’t seen Princess and the Frog, though.
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Princess and the Frog is okay. Right idea but there was something off about it. Almost as if they hadn’t quite worked out how to capture that magic yet (unlike Tangled which nailed it).
It was also rather dark. Hunchback of Notre Dame levels of dark.
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It’s still enjoyable though, good to see them going back to 2D. Tangled was better though but I still miss 2D 😛
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I kind of like Randy Newman music too. Stop throwing stuff at me! 😛
Definitely will see it eventually, if only to see 21st century animation in HD.
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I’m okay with Randy Newman music. When it works, it works fantastically.
When She Loved Me was written by Randy Newman and is one of the reason my mother cannot watch Toy Story 2. That song is just too good at getting you right in the feels.
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One of the best musical moments in any movie. Ever
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Yeah definately. I wanted to like Princess and the frog so badly, but just… couldnt.
Tangled was AMAZING.
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Toy Story, it was my first cinema experience. I went to see it with my older brother and my dad.
Ratatouille.
Never have rats been so adorable.
Are we counting Pixar?
Because then I can’t give you an answer. It would be either Wall-E, The Incredibles or Toy Story 3. I’m a sucker for that.
If we’re just counting those from the Disney Animated Canon, I would probably have to go with The Lion King. Aside from it happening to come out at the right time for a guy my age to be blinded by nostalgia, it just has the right mix of everything.
Tragedy and comedy, romance and betrayal. There’s good character development from Simba (and Inala) with the characters you would typically consider the talking animal sidekicks are actually pretty well fleshed out.
I’d also just like to mention Pocahontas. Not the greatest movie but damn was it pretty. Seriously. People completely forget how beautiful that was.
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Oh and Scar is one of my favourite villains.
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I look once more, just around the river bend!
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Pixar is seperate to me. Even now a Pixar branded movie has a different feel to the Walt Disney Animation movies. There’s a place for both, but I don’t think they’re comparable to one another. Favourite Pixar movie is definitely Up, though.
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I was ignoring Pixar just for the reason that it would make a difficult task nigh on impossible. How do you narrow it down when there’s just so many good ones. Incredibles, Wall-E, Any of the Toy Storys, A Bug’s Life, Finding Nemo… Where do you even start to pick out a favourite?
Lion King.
It was the first movie I saw at the cinema as well.
Either that or Aladdin, I liked the singing/music in that one.
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Aladdin, cuz Robin Williams 🙂
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And Gilbert Gottfried!
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The Lion King!
I actually didn’t think much of hercules, I don’t know maybe I was a little too old for it at that stage.
Clsoe with lion king, Aladdin and Mulan but would have to give it to The lion king.
Although Under the sea is still one of the greatest disney songs of all time. After all, it has a hot crustacean band.
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I think Circle of Life is my favourite Disney song. Just that entire awe inspiring sequence. (Although after seeing the Broadway version, I’m kind of bummed Shadowlands isn’t in there somewhere.)
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That is is another great song. I think with the visual that tops under the sea
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The problem with the Beauty and the Beast, and The Lion King stage shows, is that they’re just too good. The songs they added are fantastic, and, for me at least, it makes the movies just seem a little flatter.
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Yeah probs Lion King, but I gotta give a mention to Beauty and the Beast. The characters/settings/animation was probably my fave in this one
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Actually no what am I saying – Sleeping Beauty. Probably tops all of them. Such a well made film.
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I watched that again recently. It is really magical how well those films hold up even after all this time
Beauty and the Beast is my favourite, I’m unwilling to quantify with “best.” Aladdin has a massive nostalgia factor for me, but it hasn’t aged all that well. I love The Lion King, even if it is just Kimba the White Lion. Pocahontas’s songs were by Stephen Schwartz(And Alan Menken, of course), which makes it amazing by default(Not to mention Christian Bale playing a non growly angry role)…
But yeah. Beauty and the Beast. Lovely animation, a great mix of thematic darkness and light, very quotable songs, and an unoriginal story told well.
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“An unoriginal story told well” is pretty much how I’d describe most of the Disney Animated Canon.
I’m one of those suckers for execution. I don’t care if something is overdone if they just do it well.
Disney’s animators themselves have said they’ll never top The Lion King.
Lion King.
Because James Earl Jones and Jeremy Irons.
Well, this has been a pointless morning. So many useless meetings, so little done…
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Sounds like somone needs some Chuloopa leg-humps!!
Uh-huh
My humps.
My humps, my humps, my humps
My lovely leggy humps-
*sigh*
l’ll go get the squirt-bottle….-
No need, give me a few more go’s and I’LL BE the squirt bottle!!!
Uh-huh
My humps.
My humps, my humps, my humps
My lovely leggy humps-
Then I’ll get the flamethrower instead…
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But things are already hot enough!!
Uh-huh
My humps.
My humps, my humps, my humps
My lovely leggy humps -
Methinks it be time to break out the barbed-wire wrapped cricket bat…
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Wait… let me get my gimp mask.. What’s the safe word?
Uh-huh
My humps.
My humps, my humps, my humps
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The safe word is FGJRIEJFJSWAjfsajkhwjeeSRJEFEJGXICOwejnsakdn.
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Reply-fail…
Shout out to Doc, Shiggy and Sughly.
Thanks for the awesome Zelda Potaku last night. I had an absolute awesome time.
Sorry for not stopping talking /o\
I hope my strong opinions don’t make me sound like too much of a dick – just a little bit would be fine.
Let me know when the next Zelda episode is, because I’ve thought up more things to say this morning that we didn’t cover!!
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Haha, yeah I know right… we’d move on from something and I’d be thinking oh but hold on, I wanted to talk about this and that and this. Sadly though that wouldve meant a 4 hours session instead XD
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Furthermore though I dont think I managed to articulate too well. I forgot that my point about storytelling was that Windwaker in the end was probably my fave zelda… was the point I was building up to and forgot 🙁
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Windwaker \o/
It is the best Zelda!
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Haha, I had the same thing after my and Cracks’ episode 😀
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Everyone keeps tormenting me with Windwaker. I wanna play it so damn bad. Why won’t Nintendo re-release it. :'(
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Do what I do. Play it… in HD!
Except that it’s a tad buggy via emulator, and there seems to be about a 50/50 chance that whenever I enter a doorway, the game will crash…
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They might offer Gamecube games on the WiiU Virtual Console, so hope is not lost!
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Just add Super Mario Sunshine and Luigi’s Mansion and they might be onto something. (Haha, I missed the GameCube in case you couldn’t tell. :P)
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I thought every episode was a Zelda episode.
Do a Pokémon theme next time ;D
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I would definitely be up for that
If you guys haven’t seen this, it’s looks fun and awesome. Their captain on this journey was so uncoordinated 🙂
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/08/5-networked-computers-6-players-one-hell-of-a-starship-simulator/
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I’ll admit, that does look pretty awesome…
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I like this a lot xD
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Bahahhahaha!!!
That looks so amazing!!! 😀
I’m so glad winter is almost over. No more long sleeve shirts! \o/
Nevermind the fact I haven’t worn one once in the last three weeks anyway 😛
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I’ll miss wearing my hoodies. Now my scrawny arms will be exposed for all to see. 😛
Team Liquid is going to cover DOTA2.
This is kind of huge. TL is a massive (and incredibly popular) StarCraft fan site. They field their own pro team and it’s pretty much the go to site for everything StarCraft related. Adding another game to the mix is a pretty big deal.
Things are looking good for DOTA 2. Really good.
And the International is on this weekend (along with a shitload of other things at PAX). AWWWWWW YEEEAH!
Because i love you all – i’m sharing the love
You could say, it’s for du….
I went to JB Hifi to buy Tangled. I realised after we were talking about it that I didn’t own it on BluRay, which is a sin because dat lantern scene.
Also picked up Mirror Mask, Source Code and Hanna. Hanna I only grabbed because I saw it on the queue rack, the DVDs/BRs sitting next to the register. Apparently that rack is the source of some debate. JB is planning to get rid of them but the guy serving me thinks that they work.
I just unwittingly aided his argument.
Doesn’t matter, with the buy 2 get 1 free, Hanna was essentially free (Tangled didn’t qualify, so it would have cost the same if I did or didn’t grab Hanna).
Funny that. Does anyone actually grab stuff from that rack? Normally I have a glance to see if there was something that I missed but there’s rarely anything there.
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Tangled looks amazing on Blu-Ray, you’re in for a treat, man. (I’m almost ashamed to admit I own Enchanted on Blu-Ray too. 😛 I like it for the same reason I like Elf and The Santa Clause. Fish out of water comedy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-Ra7nwZRN4) Source Code was an insanely good movie. Not as good as Moon, but that’s okay. I never look at the rack. I’m too busy avoiding eye contact with the sales people, I like the piles of cheap Blu-Ray’s in the bins though.
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I can tell you that with Source Code, I will be stopping the movie at the point where it should have bloody well ended. It’s not Moon but I think that’s largely because Jake Gyllenhaal is not Sam Rockwell.
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I know the exact moment you speak of.
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Everyone does.
It was the perfect ending. Then they kept bloody going. This makes me a lot angrier than it should.
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I’ll look but there’s usually nothing I’m interested in. I really liked Hanna, have you seen it before? Source Code is another one of those movies I meant to see but didn’t
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Saw Hanna on a plane. Would like to be able to watch it properly. I really liked how stylised the characters were.
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Is that the sequel to the Samuel L Jackson film?
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Fun fact, I have never seen Tangled. Maybe something we can do until everyone arrives on Saturday?
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Freeze and Virus are showing up around 6-6:30, if you and Lambo appear around 3 we can play a few games of something while watching it.
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\o/ I love Tangled! One of my most favourite movies 😀
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It has a great “Villain song.”
That’s my input.
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CJ’s mini log: Noon
No animals attacked me so far. Although if I were suseptable to the whims of ring tail possums I would be in the belief that I am infact a tree.
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Don’t feel compelled to steal it and take it home. Don’t. You know you don’t want to. 😛
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Filling up browse pots with water while two possums run around my shoulders in front of a small crowd of passers by.
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TELL US IN 25 WORDS OR LESS: What game do you most want to “XL” on the Nintendo 3DS XL and why?
CHULOOPA (and others) GIVE ME A WINNING ANSWER PLEASE
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Also:
TELL US IN 25 WORDS OR LESS: If you could turn anything into gold, what would it be and why?
But everyone would rather a 3DS XL over New Super Mario Bros. 2
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Cooking Mama…because food?
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Question 1: Gears of war obviously
Question 2: Yo mamma, cause she’s so fat I would be the richest man alive
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Trauma Center 3. Having an XL version means that the game exists and I want that so very much.
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So you can rage at it? 😛
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It’s a furious love affair.
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I would turn money into gold just to fuck with those people who want the gold standard.
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Who’s running the competition? If it’s Nintendo then you might want to choose a Nintendo game 😛
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Super Smash Bros XL
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Obviously both questions have the same answer.
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…penis?
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penicl?
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I hereby withdraw my answer and accept yours as the correct and superior choice.
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“Silver. That way those who came 2nd in the Olympics feel like winners because being 2nd in the world is far from losing.”
suck-ass answer but who knows…
Still can’t think of anything decent for the XL one but if anyone is interested it’s from Nintendo’s website. You’ll need an account to enter though but I can vouch for their legitness since I’ve won a DSi XL from them.
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SHOULD’VE MENTIONED AUSTRALIA’S HIGH SILVER MEDAL COUNT FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU MISSED OPPORTUNITY
NO ONE WANTS SERIOUS ANSWERS
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Xenoblade 3DS!
Imagine the Streetpass…
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“I want Super Street Fighter IV: 3D Edition to be released as the Arcade Edition made specifically for the XL just for the extra suffixes.”
I was in the competition mood so I also found this
http://tvwinners.com.au/Competitions/Competition.aspx?pageId=1165No idea if it’s legit or not but it’s as easy as just entering your details for a chance to win so eh, why not!
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Ohhhhh and if anyone else is thinking of entering keep in mind they LOVE stupid answers.
The first time I won I got Whacky World of Sports which is a horribad game. The question was something like “If you could invent any sport what would it be?” and I said something along the lines of “Who could enter the most Nintendo competitions without winning” (I used to enter ALL of them just for the sake of it).
Next one was “What is your favourite Mario moment?” this was to celebrate the 25th anniversary and I said something along the lines of “Winning this competition” and safe to say it’s a moment I’ll never forget :P.
The thing with stupid entries is that if you lose it doesn’t really matter since about 1 minute of thought and effort went into your entry and if you win you feel like Captain Amazing.
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1. Muscle March
2. The new 3DS I just won.
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Where’s this? I think I need to enter =P
FRIDAY NIGHT IS PASTA BAKE NIGHT. \o/
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Tuna bake? I love tuna bake!
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Mushrooms, ham, tuna, three kinds of cheese. Good eatin’…
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Doesn’t have quite the same ring to it
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Yet. Repetition is the key. *TAY growns collectively* 😛
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Is repetition the key? I think it is. I think repetition is the key.
The key repetition. That’s what I think. Repetition is the key. The key to this is repetition. Repeating things through the act of repetition is the key.
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Could you repeat that please. I didn’t quite get your key point
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I am the Gatekeeper. I keep gates, because gates require keeping.
The keeper of gates, that’s what I am. The gates of keeping.
Because I’m the Gatekeeper.…are you the keymaster?
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This is what happens when I’m bored.
I should probably try to be less bored.
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Or stayed bored forever and continue to make great posts
Any of the PS+ people, if you haven’t yet grab Retro/Grade which is currently free. Rather stylish side scrolling shoot ’em up rhythm based music game you can play with the guitar controller. I’m really digging it at the moment.
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Oh and the whole thing is played in reverse.
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Damn kids and their backwards playing devil music
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But I like my Black Sabbath /o\
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PS Plus is way too good value, I’ve not finished a whole bunch of games from it!
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Ah was wondering if it was decent. Picked it up last week but haven’t tried it yet
hmm… so Runic Games just announced that Torchlight 2 is released on the same day as Borderlands 2.
damn… why oh why did they have to clash?
source
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When it rains it pours!
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There are going to be so many loot-filled dreams that night
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Less than three weeks! \o/
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Yay!
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Awwww, crap!
Sort of!
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Ferret with goggles!
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The ferret was such a brilliant companion, and the goggles elevated him to “best companion ever” 😀
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It was do darn adorable with his little goggles and backpack
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It turns out that Reddit has a subreddit called Mildly Interesting.
This definitely qualifies (they’re British coins).
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That is pretty nifty.
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Hmm, that’s kind of cool.
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Yeah I’d say that’s a level above mildly interesting
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I think I have one of those coins!
I mean, I don’t have a coin collection…what? I think I hear someone calling me. Bye.
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GOTTA CASH ‘EM ALL!
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*slowclap*
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i think i may have a very specific type of tourettes that makes me yell out the worst puns possible.
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I doubt it’s something you could change easily
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I guess the best tip I could give is that he shouldn’t bank on people finding it funny. It’s a good idea to cheque that the audience is receptive to this and keep note of when it’s best to be quiet.
If only I could bring myself to use the American spelling of cheque but it’s wrong!
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That left me chuckling for several minutes, nice one 🙂
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No worries but I think I’m spent now.
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The best kind of Tourette’s.
You can’t leave! Come back >.<
It’s been far longer than 5 minutes, we’re all doomed 0.0
I collect coins too. Every country I visit I try and come home with at least one of each type of coin, because who knows when I’m going to get back, if at all
The Adventures of Pants and Greenius…and Powalen. It’s a thing now!
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And what a thing! Subscriptions are now available.
(Translation: We’re making mini-comics on 3DS Letterbox. If you want to see them, just say! I don’t want to spam everyone on the friends list :P)
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Just do it. They signed up for the newsletter, and waived rights to sale of personal information to business partners. It’s all in the fine-print.
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I’m keen to see it!
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I just sent you the one I wrote (There’s 4 so far!) I can’t forward the letters I’ve received from Pants/Greenius, but I’ll put you on the list for when I make another!
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Yeah I struggle to pick who to send my letters too 😛
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Sure, let’s see it
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Shit… I just drew one! I’ll send it to you anyway but don’t feel left out… k? I’ll do another 🙂
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So steam greenlight has launched and it is a snarky as a bag full of cats
Will have to have a good look at it tonight
You gotta love how generalised gaming is around this office when I speak about spending time with playing games being included in my weekend plans. They immediately ask me “What games do you play?” in the most “acting-like-I’m-interested-but-really-I’m-not” manner possible, the after I tell them I always get as a response “Are they like WoW?” as if it’s the only game in existence. I’m thinking of every time someone tells me they’ll be doing some reading over the weekend, I’ll ask “Is it like fifty shades of grey?” 😛
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It’s either WoW or CoD. Or Mario. Other games don’t exist TK, you know this. Circuits must be fried again.
*Hits Techie with a Hydro-spanner doing 1d6 + 4 dmg-
Well I did have indian for lunch today, it all makes sense now…
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I bought a new mouse at lunch time. Decided to test it out on my work computer.
It’s a lot more sensitive than my work mouse, so I keep missing everything I try to click. This might take some getting used to. Or I could just change the settings so that it’s less sensitive but that seems like it might take effort.
Apparently i’m a personal assistant now
been spending the last hour and a half looking for a present for my boss to give to his dad for fathers day. lol
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You’ve become the boss’s pet now ‘loops….have you seen Disclosure….you know what happens next…
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Actually, i haven’t seen it… Is it sexy, though?
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I dunno…I haven’t seen it either. It’s the one with Demi Moore trying to have relations with some guy….Michael Douglas I think….She’s his boss.
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If only my boss was Demi Moore…
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I was thinking more “secretary”
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Team Fortress 2’s respawning mechanics explained.
And yes, there are hats. They are warranted.
Diablo 3 is fun again!
I am a freaken beast now that I have decent gear AND I’m no longer underleveled. Nephalem Valor makes everything a lot more fun and I kind of see the appeal of your love for Magic Find Trjn but… no… 😛
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I haven’t stacked Magic Find in a while.
It’s still damned good though. Especially now that it isn’t shared, I can keep it all to myself!
It was great to be the least squishy out of the three of us. Then again, three of my skills healed (one has a small heal and breaks crowd control, one is a straight up heal that also heals allies and the last was my mantra that gives 10% extra Vit as well as life regen and a small shield). Makes for being rather unsquishy.
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And now that it isn’t shared I can’t leech it off you… DAMN!
I have lag too, but yes I’m quite squishy 😛
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I think that the lag is the only thing really giving me an advantage over you right now :p If our connections were the same, I’d be dying a lot more than you.
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I’m thinking of putting my A Night At The Laboratory game up on Steam Greenlight. Not the one I’ve linked to before, that one’s been demoted to a prologue. I’m turning it into a full game, and I’m thinking it won’t hurt to put it up there. When you look at the quality of some of the other games on there, it sure makes mine look not that bad 😛
So I’ve written up a description for it, if you guys could give me some ideas on what’s wrong with it and how I can make it better, that’d be great thanks 🙂
Larrson Labs and Partech Robotics. What once was a friendly rivalry has become something more. Something fierce. The first shots have been fired, and you’ve been caught in the crossfire. Trapped in Larrson Labs, your place of employment, you have nothing to do but find out what’s going on and find a way out, alive. You are not alone down there. You can’t see them, but you can hear them, growling and whirring in the dark, predatory sounds indicating their harmful intentions towards you. Can you unravel the mystery you’ve been thrust into…and survive?
A Night In The Laboratory is a platform/adventure game where your main goal is to find out what’s going on and what’s gone wrong, and to live to tell the tale. It was originally created for Game Jolt’s 8th Official Themed contest, the theme being ‘fear’. The game didn’t end up being anywhere as big as I was initially thinking of, so I turned my entry into a prologue for the full game, which I have started development on.
Features:
‘Open World’: One big 2d open world set in Larrson Labs, no levels or loading screens.
Gripping story: Discover the history behind Larrson Labs and Partech Robotics, and the events that have led up to this catastrophe.
Heaps of secrets: Hidden secrets that add to the story, and fun ones that have nothing to do with it at all.
Mix between Platformer and Adventure game: the best bits from both genres mixed into one. Exploration and puzzle solving and daring 2D action all combined in the one game.
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You should avoid switching perspectives, it makes it seem less professional, and is a bit awkward. I’d consider something more like this for the second paragraph:
A Night In The Laboratory is a platform/adventure game where your main goal is to find out what’s going on, what’s gone wrong, and what’s needed to survive. Originally created around the concept of “fear” for Gamejolt’s eighth Official Themed Contest, the project was far smaller than initially planned, and so has been turned into a prologue for this new, *dramatic and relevant word* entry.
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There are a few things I’d change. But only slightly. Would prolly be best if I’d played the game when you put it up the other day
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Your thoughts will still be helpful though. Like, does it make you want to play the game?
You can play it here if it does. Or if it doesn’t 😛 http://gamejolt.com/freeware/games/platformer/a-night-at-the-laboratory-prologue/9108/
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Not really in the right mindset to offer any thing constructive, but good luck with it, man!
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Good luck lambo, I can’t wait to see the snarky comments you get for that
Consider me one upvote once you post
Nothing tried to eat me today!! \o/ (a koala got close but that’s likely cause my hands smelled like eucalypts) I also learnt that I am some kinda possum magnet. Had em crawling all over me, one even did a bit of an Alien face hugger jump at my neck.
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The day’s not over yet…
dun dun dun
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Also, the day before new warhammer 40k!!!! 😀
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Loops and others
If one was interested in starting to read up on the lore of the warhammer universe what is the best place to start?
I see you guys talking about book series and the like, but seem like the are seperate stand-alones so not sure what I should read first.
Or does it all just pile up into a mass and it doesn’t matter where you start.Currently my knowledge is basically just from the games
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Honestly just find a 40K wikia online. Such as http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/
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Or you could aquired yourself several army books/codex
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Yeah, as CJ said lexicanum is great for light reading. it’s almost youtube like in your hopping around from article to article.
I also commonly use this one:
http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Warhammer_40k_Wiki-
For background on where everything started use this:
http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/index.php?search=age+of+strife&fulltext=SearchThe age of strife, dark age of technology, Age of apostasy and age of imperium are all common fundamentals.
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buying old codexes and rule books also give lots of insights…
Books can be hit and miss at most times. You should ease yourself into it with the Gants Ghosts novels.
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Here’s even in chronological order!
http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Chronology_of_EventsRead up on the Primarchs and their chapters as well – damn interesting stuff.
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Thanks guys, looks like a good starting point to see if it is actually something I want to spend additional money on
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LOOPS!
I’ve barely spoken to anyone in TAY the last week or so because work has been insane, but I assume you have Fall of Cybertron. We need to set up a multiplayer playdate soon yes.
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Actually, you assume wrongly. 2 things stopped me from pre-ordering
1. i have a MASSIVE backlog of games to get through
2. i’ve been spending all my money on painting stuff 🙁
Sorry buddy – i will be getting it, just not quite yet.-
I assume P-Licks is talking about the Xbox version? I just entered a competition for the PS3 version. so you might as well enter Loops for a chance to get it for free :).
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I like the base, base, base, base. I like the buttery biscuit base.
So that’s been stuck in my head ever since I saw the video yesterday… I’m not sure whether to thank you or despise you Loops 😛
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Thank me because it’s awesome. I’ve listened to it sooo many times!
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I literally just went downstairs to turn the heater on and on the way there and back I was dancing and saying that phrase. Oh god…
At least it kept Gangnam Style out of my head :P, is that another good or bad thing?
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Hey! If you’re getting thanked for that, I want thanks for all the times I posted Friday 😛
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Have a damn good weekend, folks!
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Sigh. If I have to…
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Enjoy your weekend as well D.C.
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Thanks, man. Much obliged!
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Gotta paint my flat this weekend. How ridiculously exciting…
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Should’ve had a ‘Paint Flu’s Apartment Meat’…
Make sure to play some montage music, will make time fly! 😛
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I totally would’ve gone to that. I love painting! No sarcasm or anything 😛
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Here’s an approprite montage song, if you need it, man: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7pvy37XaRw
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That does fit! I’m now imagining Flu going through all the typical montage moments: Opening the paint tin and it spilling a little. Clumsily painting with a roller. Accidentally slopping paint on the cat. Slumping down on the wall after a long hours work. Going into the bathroom and trying on different types of increasingly interesting hats.
Good times.
(Plus, I’m pretty sure I already have this song on my ipod… Coincidence? I think not)
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Don’t forget the paint fight with the best friend, falling back onto the ground giggling moment.
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*cue gratuitous alcohol-fueled yet distinctly unsurprising sex scene*
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I… you… OMFG so much love right now.
I’d forgotten the artist’s name, and thus the song. I’m in the process of burning it into my mind with a soldering iron RIGHT NAO!
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Well, the link could’ve been yours ages ago, pal. You just needed to trigger a montage.
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I’m home. My pants are off. My tea is tasty. Time to finish reading Making Money.
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I hope you’re wearing pants tomorrow!
Oh Diablo 3. One day I will be able to run you and we can get reacquainted.
One day.
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dat lag… I was having fun with it today until my game pretty much completely froze and I died instantly. This happened 3 times…
*sigh*
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That’s just like me, except instead of Diablo, it’s every fucking game in existence!
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Don’t worry. I don’t even have a video card. Still running integrated graphics.
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Yep, Intel HD integrated graphics.
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You could probably put in a cheapo card like a GTX 540 or 550 and it’d run the games =P
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ALL THE GAEMS!
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500GB External Hard Drive hooked up to my new WDTV Live Media Player…
I think I’m set for the evening…. 😀
Oh, and Guild Wars 2 as well.
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How good are those WDTV’s?! Pretty much only reason why I wouldn’t build a HTPC is because of these.
My friend apparently lost 30 Humanity going through Sen’s Fortress.
Thirty Humanity. whydoesheevenhavethatmuchhumanitytobeginwith.jpg
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Eek! I never hold that much humanity, I get stressed enough when I’ve got one or two. 😛
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Me too. Much easier to go through the game hollowed 😛
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I lost that much once but I was messing around with that glitch…
Shhh!
All that Fable 2 bashing in the GOTY thread makes me want to replay Fable 2. 😛
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All that Deus Ex Bashing (was it? I have no idea) makes me want to replay it!
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That guy insisted they had small heads. :S I think it was the high collars and weird shoulder pads on the futuristic clothes in reality. It’s an incredibly good game, though. I would’ve liked more open city locations like Detroit. (Though I’d take better boss fights any day. :P)
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Yeah boss fights were that because they had a different studio do them I was told. And yeah it was an excellent game, i’m the same I wanted a bit more open world and to go back after the story ended and do more!
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Fable 2 was a disappointment
Fable 3 was a bigger disappointment and I wasn’t even expecting that much!-
I love Fable 2.
Your opinion, since it differs to mine, is objectively wrong.
Wrong.
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I’m not saying it was horrible, it was still fun but I felt it was really short 😛
Still a disappointment but probably because I wanted more…
Fable 3 on the other hand… UGH
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I dunno, Fable 2 felt like a good length to me, I consider it the best of the series. I lost my copy. I’m sure one of my friends has it, but ehh.
Fable 3 though… yeah… I liked the dark tone, I liked what they tried to do with the story, but the actual gameplay was just meh, and that last act was super rushed.
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I’d rank ’em like this: Fable 2, Fable: The Lost Chapters, Fable 3. I suspect Fable: The Journey will give Fable 3 a self-esteem boost 😛
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So I decided to buy one of those “tries to be a console game” type of game for iOS. I went with the Modern Warfare rip-off with Modern Combat 3. Played it for a good 30 seconds and it’s kind of meh, touch screen controls are the worst!
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Idiot 😀
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Haha hey it was 99 cents out of a free $10 voucher I had. No real loss, I’m playing it a bit more now and it’s okay I guess! I didn’t expect much but it should give me something to do on the bus to Uni
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… I shouldn’t have had coffee so late… now I’m freaking out slightly…
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Also, welcome to spring.
Bye winter, don’t let the door hit you on the way out.
Substituting a beef patty in a burger with a deep-fried crumbed piece of big ole’ mushroom cap and cheese (so that the cheese melts inside the crumbed piece as well) is pretty good.
But what’s even better is not removing the beef patty at all and having both pieces wedged between a bun with some extra topping. Such is the basis for Burger’s Priest ‘The Priest’ burger. The burger itself is a small, humble thing, only about 4 or 5 inches in diameter, but it seems to be that the burgers are stacked upwards. So, from bottom to top: Bun, beef patty (real meat too!), cheese, chrumbed mushroom and cheese thing, toppings (I chose lettuce, tomato, mayo) bun. The buns were weird and malformed but tasted like actual bread, rather than the preserved stuff you get from Maccas, the beef patty was fairly meaty and moist, but needed some seasoning. Their cheese blend was fantastic. Slightly cheesy (taste-wise), melted beautifully across the patty and inside the crumbed mushroom piece. The toppings I had; lettuce and tomato seemed a bit limp. When I have lettuce and tomato, I expect something a bit refreshing and neutral to the burger to perhaps balance out the saltiness of the patty, but these seemed a bit old and limp though. Might have wilted from the heat? It didn’t really contribute much.
I look at their website, now reading that I could have had a burger consisting of The Priest, but with an extra beef patty and an extra crumbed mushroom, wedged between two cheese grilled buns, and this tiny sample I got from them today is more than enough to want me to go back.
The Burger Priest’s ‘The Priest’ burger: A good burger with a few great ideas and ingredients. 8/10.
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“Internationally acclaimed” the sign said. Sure, why not, I thought. I was in St Lawrence Markets, which is some famous-ish farmer’s market place in Toronto. Produce is fresh and good there.
I open up my breakfast and… it’s just bacon in a bun. Look, I like bacon, I do, but I need something more substantial than that.
But ahmahgawd. The bacon is cut in thick pieces, it’s a bit sweet, it’s not too salty, it’s lightly rolled in cornmeal (or so I am led to believe) so when it’s fried there’s a light crumbed effect to it, it’s meaty, it’s bacon but not and it’s good. Perhaps plop an egg on top next time, and it would have been an amazing breakfast bun. Simple, great ingredients, would eat again.-
Imma gurna get fat.
Next Gravatar idea! Fat Bish. I will just stretch his body pixels out wide.
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Or… I’m already fat, hence the poorly lit restaurant last night.
As Effluvius was kind enough to point out, apparently that’s supposed to make you eat less.-
Also, I totally had a Mountain Dew today for the first time in years. Because I’m a big ‘ole fat gamer. Where my Cheetos. Or Doritos. Or whatever we’re supposed to gorge on.
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I will wear it and people will ask “You went to University of Toronto??” on account of it saying “University of Toronto” and I will reply “No?” and look at them like it is some sort of random question out of nowhere. Maybe I can work out a backstory where Toronto is actually a fictional place and the whole UoT thing is just some fashion label trying to be hip and trendy with young adults. -
Hi Bish!
I just woke up and you’re making me hungry for things I’ll never eat…
Why would you buy a hoodie for a Uni you didn’t go to? D: (apart from the redness of course)
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Well, if you’re going to exclude the reason I got it, then I’d have to say I got it for no reason at all, no?
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But then people will ask you about the Uni!
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What uni?
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Oh my god, Bishy. Oh my god. I know what sammich I’m making when I finally get around to making my own bacon. That cornmeal idea is interesting, too. I might try it with the american bacon for Mr. Strange’s Father’s Day breakfast tomorrow.
I had beans on toast for breakfast.
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It’s the simple things in life, Nob. The simple things.
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I had chocolate pancakes with yoghurt and honey!
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I had Hungry Jacks. Only slight remorse. 😛
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I made Mr. Strange fried eggs with oyster sauce, chillis and spring onion for his birthday breakfast. He thought it was awesome. 😀
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Probably because it was! Sounds nomderful!
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I am so proud of our paralympians ^^
Also, up vote this please
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=92915524
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I tried the demo I got the the end of the first level but I can’t beat it. D=
Ugh, why can’t kids these days (Get off my lawn *shake fist*) just work when they are supposed to? Guy at my work has been trying to swap out his shift for today pretty much the whole week without success, and then today “rings in sick”. So now I have to go in and work his 4 hour shift and then go straight into my own 7 hour one.
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I hear that Nova, got a close next Saturday and its my first shift as senior/supervising staff and the girl I have to work with is soooooo lazy when the boss isnt around.
Just realised TAY has gone over 2K posts this week. That hasn’t happened for a very long time.
All these 3DS letters people are sending each other are great. Keep ’em coming!
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WHERE ARE MINE :'(
I should mention that I haven’t connected mine to the internets for a month, so yeah.
Eh, some of the negative comments on the Fitmodo article on Giz is annoying me. People finally get in a mindset to get healthy and improve themselves and people diss their efforts. I’m talking mostly about Ramjet’s loose skin comment. :S Stupid humanity. 😛
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His comments seem to have been deleted? I only spot one. But yeah people will be jerks on any article no matter what the topic is. makes me sad.
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Not too many bad comments actually. That one particular one just riled me up. 😛
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Ah, fair enough and yeah it was uncalled for!
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KFC’s Five Star Box: Wrap, Popcorn Chicken, Wicked Wings and piece of chicken.
That’s only four!
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You forgot the self-loathing! 😛
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This box came with an extra large family helping.
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The regret … ALL THE REGRET
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Doesn’t come with a drink?
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Chips and drink come with every meal so they’re more the roadies than the star.
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So I’m making this: http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2012/08/bourbon-roasted-peach-cheesecake-recipe.html for my husband’s birthday cake. It’s in the oven and if it all works out it will be amazing.
All the individual components have been some of the tastiest things I’ve tasted for ages.
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Oh god that looks tasty.
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Why must you tease us? 😛 In high school I did a semester of hospitality. Made a cheese cake that was so damn good it haunts me to this day. That looks insanely awesome, Strange!
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We haven’t eaten it yet if you want to come over and have some, D.C…..
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Now that’s just cruel. 😀 (I used to have a reputation amongst my family for having a sweet tooth. If ever there was any thing nice to eat in the house there was a short window of opportunity to eat it before it was claimed as mine.)
I might go watch a Blu-Ray, take my mind off tasty foods. 😛
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Just saw this on Twitter and thought I should re-post it here since some people don’t check Twitter as often as this :).
NotoriousR found a Steam pricing error on the Borderlands 2 DLC Season pass. It’s $15.95 instead of $30 *gasp*
Buy it quickly before they fix the error!
Now… since the game isn’t out you have to buy it as a gift for yourself and store it in your inventory. It should work (it better!) but if it doesn’t I’m blaming NotoriousR 😛
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I ACCEPT NO RESPONSIBILITY!
I know nothing, NOTHING!
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http://www.amazon.com/Desert-to-Sea-Bundle-Download/dp/B0091T6FQO/ref=zg_bs_2445220011_4
I also just picked up Spec Ops (and BioShock 1 + 2) for $20!
Now when are you Spec Oppers going to pick up Xenoblade? That’s how it works, right? 😛
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I’ve never been more proud of you Greenius. You better like it. *shakes fist*
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Also, go into BioShock 2 with an open mind. It won’t have the awe factor of the first, but tells a weirdly smaller character story. Plenty to like there.
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I rented the original around release and liked it. Never got a chance to play it again :P. Bought the Sexy Edition of 2 recently while it was cheap but I was waiting for Infinite to come out so I can get a free copy of 1 on BluRay. But now things get complicated with the master race machine… :/
Still missing out on the DLC though but oh well!
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I haven’t played any of the DLC. I don’t feel like I’m missing out, though. Both games are fairly modest graphic wise. It’s the art direction that makes it so damn good, so you should be right on your master race machine. 😛
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Oh complicated in “WHAT PLATFORM DO I BUY THIS FOR!?” it was hard enough with Xbox/PS3 (decided on PS3 since Infinite came the original free). Also master race is so much cheaper. Damn think I’ll have to go mater race now for Infinite! Now I’ve got a brand new unplayed copy of BioShock 2 on PS3, oops!
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Don’t know if this bothers you, but 2K like their internet activations. That makes the consoles appealing, to me atleast.
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Am I right in saying that before the last Steam sale you hardly played on PC?
If so, then Welcome to the Dark Side! Muahahahaha!
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Yep 😛
MASTER RACE
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Annoyingly you can’t buy it unless you also preorder the game. But I’m buying the physical daschund box edition
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But Negggggg
Now… since the game isn’t out you have to buy it as a gift for yourself and store it in your inventory
If I recall all copies require Steam anyway so that should allow you to redeem it whenever the game releases.
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Ah cool, missed that. Purchased.
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BISH WATCH OUT!!! THEIR IS FLYING BEARS IN CANADA!
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Hello?! Is anyone there?
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Always. :'(
How are you, man? 😛
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Holy moly people!
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If you’re looking for somethin’ to do, the new Potaku’s up. If you’re not a fan of Zelda, though, you best set up base camp because it will be a long couple of hours. (Haha, actually I loved the podcast, just think most of it went over my Zelda apathetic head. :P)
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How long is it ? O.o
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Almost exactly two hours! They love them some Zelda. 😛 (I might’ve fast forwarded some. Take no offence guys, just had no idea what you were talking about is all…)
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2 hours, I have work in the morning. Also I never know what to do when listening to a podcast cause if I start doing something I losse focus of whats being said.
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Haha! My problem with podcasts in general is sometimes all the voices tend to blend together and I can’t tell who’s who. I’m glad Doc What’s got an accent. The Shiggy/Sughly/Mawt hybrid is great and insightful too, though. 😛
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We should demand video feed and silly costumes
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Sup AEF CJ ~ ||| ~ \ X
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Thats AEF CJS.pd Lt Col. to you Noobius. No wait… Purple-ius
Barely, I’m afraid. I’m at some house.
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Do we need to call the police for you?
Sorry, busy being mauled by flying bear.
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Damn… Can I have your pokemanz?
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He works at a zoo, you know he’ll look after them…
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I just go to school there, sadly only have 2 working days left.
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Aw, man. That sucks. Something you’d want to do full time eventually?
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I’d love to make a career out of it but unfortunately almost all proffessions in the industry are minimum wage and maximum hours. So I feel I’ll likely pursue other interests (Coffee) and stick to volunteer keeper work when I get a vehicle/lisence cause its a big time and money investment to get from where I am living atm to Taronga by 6:30am.
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I took all my Pokemons with me.
Seriously, I brought 5 DS Pokemon games with me and when I realised I was all “Man, that’s a lot of Pokemons.
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Ugh Diamond and Pearl. I dont know what it was about Gen 4 but my god. (Loved the lower screen gadget though that showed party hp and stuff)
Also for the love of god bring back the Vs Finder Game Freak, I dont understand the point of the Vs Recorder!!.
Damn! Too much postin’ today. I’ll make myself scarce tomorrow. 😛
Good night, folks.
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NO D.C.! NOOOOOOOOO EMBRACE THE POSTS
I’ve posted a crap ton the past few days and I feel like I should cut back… but…
I can’t…
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This entire bottom section right now belongs to me juding by post numbers 😀
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So here’s the thing, I need people to play Borderlands 2 with. People who aren’t loot hoarding dickbags, people who will share weapons. And more importantly, and more difficultly, is people who will play one character per group of people they play with, and not level grind. Games like that aren’t fun when there’s one uber powerful dude that kills everything and makes the game a cake walk. Not saying I don’t want people to play with me and only me, but the character you use to play with me will be the only character you use to play with me.
Sounds demanding? Probably is. Up until recently, this wasn’t an issue because I had the friends who were like that. But since then, they’ve either stopped playing games or gone on to different platforms. Since I play on Xbox.
I IS DESPERATE! Not really.
Oh, also, maybe another deal breaker, is that since I work two jobs, I only really have Saturday and the occasional Sunday off, so yeah….
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The one char/play thing is a bit extreme but I’m sure some Xbox TAYbies wouldn’t mind playing. Surely you’d be okay with them using different characters as long as they’re the same level?
Anyways weekend TAY is usually rather deserted, try again during the week and more people can see it :).
I can’t help since I’m on PC. Good luck though!
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Well yeah, different characters are find, just as long it’s the same level, or at least within two levels.
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I think the real diificulty you might find with that is the whole 360 thing.
I think it’s pretty safe to say a bunch of us will be playing with each other, but as far as I know, there’s a lot of us getting it on PC.
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Well hey, if everyone’s playing it on PC, anyone feel like dropping a copy on me? =P I would, but my wife says I’m no longer to buy games on multiple platforms.
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It’s $37.50 at GMG for a Steam copy. In addition to that the season pass has a pricing error and is $15.95 instead of $30. I was going to get it on Xbox and re-buy the ‘complete’ edition on PC but there’s really no reason to!
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And the season pass is back to $40 for us. OUCH
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I’m mostly getting it to play with irl friends but I can probably play with you, depends on stuff.
Add me – Jocon89 and shall see how we go.
Goodnight whats left of TAY, when I check back in tomorrow round noon I expect 2500 commets.
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D.C. CJ IS C’TN ON U
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What? No wait I got it
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@Greenmang
“Game downloads are only available to US customers. We apologise for any inconvenience.”
Now, I already have Bioshock 2 LE, but that’s too good a deal to pass up.
…If I were ‘Murrican.
WHY MUST THEY DO THIS /o\
HAI GUYS!
Meat write up for Bunny Brilliant Board Game Meat (Working title)
Was good fun, pizza was consumed, The Avenger, Source Code & Pulp Fiction was watched. Munchkin & TIcket to Ride? was played, both pretty fun games. Bunny is a pretty awesome host, thanks for having us n all that jazz, also Nob sorry we didn’t get to consume the tasty apple pie (yet again) D= I think a reminder for all future meats you bring pie to a remind on your phone needs to be set!
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Nob, you should know that if you ever attend a meat I am also At, your pies will never go uneaten
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This is why you need to come to a brisbane meat or some other meat in Australia. It is my dream that we actually consume a pie i bring to a meat. Help me bish-i-wan kenobi. You’re my only hope.
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I took garlic bread out of the oven without breaking anything or setting anything on fire! \o/
We also watched Tangled, but that was before Virus__ and Freeze showed up. And I left before they watched Pulp Fiction.-
You messed up big Lambo. The best home cooked garlic bread I ever had was the one that was momonterily set on fire.
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Oh yeah I forgot this important milestone! haha.
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Also Munchkin is possibly the most fun table top game I have ever played. I somehow ended up being a female dwarf wizard. \o/
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That was so much fun. Also female dwarves don’t exist! We went over this =P
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Finished Sleeping Dogs. Awesome game.
GUYS! Looks like KOTOR II is FINALLY available on steam \o/.
Great game, just wish it had an ending.
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Am I the only one who’s never played KOTOR? 😛
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Man, you’re a bit slow. I think it’s been on there for two weeks now? Or maybe it’s just one. 😛
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Controversial, but true. I like the KotOR games more than the movies. ALL the movies. Prequels AND originals. Also, there’s a restoration pack available for the second game. Fixes the ending and adds the missing droid factory. Made a huge difference when I replayed. I’m not certain what it was called, though. :S
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I think it was this one, but I can’t be certain: http://www.moddb.com/mods/the-sith-lords-restored-content-mod-tslrcm
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Oh, can’t be sure if it’ll work natively on the Steam version too.
Back to making myself scarce today. 😛
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Ah, one last thing. This thread looks like it’ll be helpful: http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2900469
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Yep, that’s the one. I’ve used that mod on my retail copy of kotor 2. Makes it do much better. I already loved the game but getting all the cut content back in just made it better
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I would totally not argue with the opinion that Knights of the Old Republic surpasses any of the movies.
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No controversy here. I fully agree.
In fact, Lucas should get in making a movie vers… Oh god no, wait, I didn’t mean to d…. What have I done. NNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!
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Happy Fathers Day, Fathers o’ TAY!
(it’s rhyme time)
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Oh yeah, that’s happening. Thanks for the reminder Pow.
Happy Father’s day all you awesome TAY dads.
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Bowling, Arcade games and Teppanyaki with wifey and kids. Oh yeah.
Gemini Rue, damn fine adventure. I think I prefer the Azriel sections at the moment, but that might be just because of the constant downpour of rain. Atmospheric goodness. Had to turn it off, though. Was getting annoyed at something I’d usually love about an adventure, so I’m guessing I’m not in the right mindset at the moment. So now I’ll play the refresh TAY game. 😛
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Refresh all you want, no one will anwser
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:'(
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It’s like ringing the doorbell and hiding, only for no-one to answer the door and stamp out the flaming bag of poo.
Next thing you know, you’ve got the harsh scent of charred poo invading your nostrils, you’re standing amidst the wreckage of what was once your neighbours house, and your head starts spinning as red and blue lights, sirens and screams surround you.
Charged with arson and locked away, you can’t help but wonder what it would’ve been like had they been there to open that damned door. If only they’d stamped out that bag as you had planned.
“If only”…*sigh*
Refreshing TAY. It’ll only end in smoke, tears and a jail-sentence…
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All these absent TAYbies… flauting their social lifes.. I bet they’re not even out. They’re probably reading this right now pretending to be out. So they look popular. Well I’m onto you all, every last one of ya.
*shakes fist*
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Crap, you’re on to my secret!
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I wasn’t anywhere I was sadly busy making dinner and stuff sorry =(
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Any TAYbies have a US Amazon account perchance?
For some reason they’re only able to ship a download code via email to US customers. Must be something about the freight costs being too high, what with the excessive packaging that comes along with download codes these days.
Anyways, if anyone happens to have a US account, please get back to me 😀
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Why not just make one yourself?
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BUT ALEPH I TOLD YOU TO JUST ENTER A FAKE US ADDRESS!
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Oh I think you need a credit card too, not sure if debits work but they should!
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I can now verify that an AU debit card works. I now live in Idaho. My surname differs depending on whether you look at my shipping or billing address. I don’t even know where Idaho is, but I now have SpecOps: the Line. Let’s do this! \o/
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Spec Ops! A grand choice indeed.
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Living in your own private Idaho?
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I went to the beach and everyone was wearing matching towels.
…it was WEIRD, man. Freakin’ WEIRD.
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Somebody went under a dock,
And there they saw a rock.
It wasn’t a rock,
It was a rock lobster. -
Best song
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Now I’ve got that guitar riff stuck in my head…
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You could do a lot worse…
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But D.C, I’m not out . You’re so mean. :'(.
I’ve been playing Sleeping Dogs. Game was frustrating the beshizzle outta me for a while there. Had the game set to easy and was still getting my ass handed to me every second fight. Now I’ve started to unlock some new moves and face rewards I’m starting to feel a bit more of a badass in the game.
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Yeah, I upgraded the variation of the ‘x’ combos first, so if I button mashed it’d do something cool eventually. Soon enough muscle memory will kick in and you’ll be doing crazy combos, counters and the like effortlessly!
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Food and drinks are surprisingly helpful too. Easy to ignore, but always worth gettin’ before going into a hard mission.
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The big thing I found aside from hunting down health shrines (call up the American chick and ask her on a date and it’ll add the locations of all the health shrines onto the map if you don’t know already) was when in combat not to rush. Always be ready to hit the counter button. Also, take out the grapplers first because they’re by far the most dangerous and hardest to get rid of since you can’t grapple them into environment stuff.
Posting on the off chance people see this:
We’ll be playing Mario Kart 7 on the 3DS at 8:30 tonight! Community details in TAYNAMES, I’ll be on Teamspeak while racing as well!
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DAMN YOU TOP HAT CATERPIE!!! Im in a meeting
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Next time then! We’ll probably play again pretty soon. Greenius seems to have developed a taste for losing ;D
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I prolly need to charge me DS anyway
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OMG seven comments off 2400. We need to make it there and end on an EVEN NUMBER!!!
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What happens if it end with an odd number?
Does the world end?
IT’S TOO MUCH PRESSURE.
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Now just 3 comments to go!
OMG! The tension is… faint… more of a mild curiosity really.
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I really want to end on 2401 comments now.
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It said 2400 before I posted this.
*insert Blaugh* (that’s Blaghman’s evil laugh)
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You do realise that now CJ and yourself have to push on ’till you have 2500!
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I really want to end on 2501 comments now.
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Everyone would destroy my face. I’m fairly sure I’m already top of TABTOL by a landslide :/. It’s up to you folks!
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I’ve slid down the ranks the past few weeks 😛
What’s with the whole “do work while at work” crap? Who thought that was a good idea, ever?!
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Well, If you set yourself a reputation and you can’t live up to it…
I dunno Greenmang, that’s pretty poor form! ;p
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I’ll reply when necessary!
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Do it.
94 posts to myself before 8am
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You’ll be right mate! I’m here. 🙂
For the next 15 minutes or so.
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Idk man. Sounds like a lot of spam
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I’m sorry TAYbies who believed in me. But I’m not going to do it. It’s too much, I’m a failure. Instead of leaving this TAY at a might 2500 it shall be cast aside, incomplete and ugly. Forgotten like so many TAYs before it.
If my life is but a grain of sand in the hourglass of time, how truly brief and insignificant must a TAY be. Yet here I had the chance to push but one into glory and significance and I have chosen to through it all away for a simple bed.
I was not worthy for such a task and have brought shame and dishonour upon myself. My only relief if that within the fading twilight of this TAY almost no one will see my shame as written here about these walls.
-CJ
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At least we’ll always have this moment.
Watching the fading embers of a dying TAY.
Together.
Alone.Hold me?
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Never fear!
Freeze is here!
Wherever there is an unjust number.
Wherever there is a calamitous fountain pen.
Wherever there is weather patterns of a moderate and agreeable nature.
There will be….FREEZE S. PRESTON ICEQUIRE!!
With a stylish flick of his gilt edged cummerbund he sweeps away the false accusations and cake crumbs.
With a single stern glare from his twin monocles he silences the silent protests.But mostly he’s just going to bed.
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Looks like you’ll do the job then.
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Hold me?
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Hi @saturday!
Now we’re even.
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WHAT’S THAT? YOU WANT THINGS TO ESCALATE AT A PACE IS THAT FAR TOO RIDICULOUS FOR A MINOR THING SUCH AS THIS OCCURRING JOKE?!
IT’S ON
LIKE DONKEY KONG
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