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Who knew playing golf was so tiring? Yesterday I planned on playing in the morning with some friends and then spending the afternoon doing work… but when I got home I just slumped down and had a nap, then went to bed early. So productive. (Olllllllddddddddd!)
Hope everybody had a good weekend!
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You play golf?
Its such a fun way to spend a afternoon with mates, i used to play fairly often in highschool. 4 dudes one golf cart and a free golf course. So much awesome . We also wore terrible old men hats sometimes 🙂
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No, it was my first time playing. A couple of my friends go every now and then though. I just tagged along this time. It was more fun (and cheaper :P) than I thought it would be.
Ended up with a score of 163… The total par of the course was 70… So yeah, I’m not the most skilled haha. Was still a good time though.
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Putt putt golf is still the best golf
I NEED A JOB*!
*yes still, I’m getting worried now 🙁
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Calmness buddy if you get worried and stressed you will freak out and spiral. Just take it one day at a time. You will be okay.
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What kind of employment are you looking for? I understand it may not be your thing, but the mining boom is still in full force.
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Yeah, you just need years of mining experience already… cuz you know mining is such a widely available job in Australia that you can magically get your first years of experience from nothing at all
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depends what kind of stuff you wanna do techy? It really is a case of who you know, not what you know, its pretty easy to get in as a apprentice if you know someone who already works there.
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This, oh god this.
From what I’ve experienced, Rocket’s words ring true.
The insane ineptitude found here is, well, insane. If you know someone within the industry, hit them up for a job. My plan is to drive the trucks in/out of the quarry for my last year here. You know they’re actually turning down people that already have their HR licence? It’s because they want you trained *their* way. I stand a better chance at employment as an outsider by remaining unqualified in the positions I apply for.
Logic doesn’t seem to have a place here :S -
Infiltration? I splendid idea 🙂
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I don’t know anyone in the mining industry 🙁
I’m doing Tech Support and have been doing it for a while but other places won’t hire me for some reason.
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Oh yeah, I had a video to share this morning, huh.
I present: two minutes of TAYbies pushing balloons into Cakesmith’s hair. Plus a Balloonicorn.
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Haha! Poor Cakey. Those balloons just didn’t want to stick.
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Why do you have to make feel worse about missing meats?
That Cakeman… Such a good sport
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It’s me! My balloon is the only one that stuck!
Hi, TAY.
How goes things?
Channel 7’s Morning show talking about online hacking and Blizzard’s recent problems are talked about…. Set to images of MW2. *head desk*
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Does Channel 7 have a high standard of piss-poor journalism, or is it just me?
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No it’s not just you. I used to watch the news of a morning but now it’s 95% crap, selling useless products or just plain bad.
At least Seamus was on this morning. At least he would know a bit about Internet security
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*General Media body’s research method*
Type “video game” into search engine.
Done
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Modern Warfare seems to be the default footage all media in the western world uses whenever video games are discussed.
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Wait, you mean there are other games other than Modern Warfare?!?
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It takes a while to get over the initial shock, you’ll be okay 🙂
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*faints*
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it’s either that or WoW
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Actually it depends on the news story
If they are talking about violence its MW
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That’s the thing though, the quote was something along the lines of “Blizzard, the company behind popular online game World of Warcraft…” and they still used MW2
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It fits the image mainstream media loves to portray. Violence, guns, uberalpha character stereotypes (on second thought, I don’t think I’ve ever played a CoD where there was any emphasis on the character).
Although yeah, Channel 7 (is it still called Prime down south?) doesn’t seem to be the most upstanding of channels. I recall channel 9 (WIN, right?) being similar to T/T with ACA.
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And humans wonder why I never sat down and watched TV for years on end
I’m alive.
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Yay!
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Like that game? I am alive?
Also Hi Scree! How close is the cosplay event you’re going to?
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THIS WEEKEND!
CORSET STILL NOT WEARABLE!
NEED TO BUY MAKE UP AND STYLE WIG, OH GOD!-
You will be fine, stress less you will look beautiful.
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OH GOD, COMPLIMENTS! WHAT DO I DO?!
I WILL CONTINUE TO WORK HARD, PROMISE.
I’m sorry, I will stop with the caps, I don’t mean to yell. Stress D=
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I’ve always wondered, are cosplay corsets proper shove your guts into your chest corsets or are they just for looks and are lose fitting?
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Depends on the character and the person.
Mine fits to my body shape, but it will probably still be a bit hard to breathe.
If they’re lace up corsets then yeah, they are rib crushingly tight.
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Eeek, sorry Scree!
Anyway you will be fine. You have been working hard on this cosplay so it’s sure to be awesome. 🙂
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It better be!
I hope
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Bishy!
;'(
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Someone said he’ll be gone for a year, is that true? D:
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From what I have heard, it could be anywhere between 6 – 12 months
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I hope not. 🙁
Still, gives us a chance to organise the mother of all welcome home meats-
Oh boy oh boy oh boy!
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This idea sounds awesome. A SUPER MEAT!!!!!! 🙂
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I will so attend that!
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Everyone from all the states should be there (transport provided by Novahkiin)
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No one will read this 🙁
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I’m in for Novahkiin transport! 😉
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All we need to do is get an eccentric millionaire into TAY. Then it will be “To the TAYplane” for a Canadialand meat
Also Bye Bish
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I was reading NeoGAF a while ago, some random rich music producer popped in to show his stuff off. He made friends with a guy then he picked the guy up in a limo and took him on the tour of the house. Freaking crazy.
Maybe we should just try and make pez famous 😛
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Can’t we just have someone kidnap him & send him back here? =D
Ugh.
Monday.
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Ah, but soon…Friday.
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Not for me. Today starts my weekend… Sad isn’t it
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I agree
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It’s Monday, Monday, gotta get up on Monday, everybody’s lookin’ forward to the weekend!
Recall for work has left me so traumatised I can’t even risk playing a game online or leave the house. I had the whole house to myself this weekend, no parents \o/ and couldn’t do anything or invite people over :'(
Both days I got recalled for stupid things that took me hours to fix for them (Or couldn’t fix at all since it isn’t really us causing it), with the work I needed to do in both days didn’t match what was agreed to in the job description for recall to begin with… I really hate work today. Dunno why I came in this morning -.-
New game idea.
Hitler and Stalin at the Berlin 1936 Olympics
http://instagram.com/p/OLFScZRlX8/
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Take my money!
Morning all.
Now the Olympics are over we can return to our regular horribly crap programming.
I’m so glad I don’t watch TV
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I can’t even remember what I used to watch. I’ve watched nothing but the Olympics this whole time 😛
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DVDs and Blu-ray are the only option…legally.
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There was Olympics on and it’s over already?! All I saw every day I glanced at the TV was Channel 9 doing interviews with very few teams that won gold medals.
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There are a few good shows on, it’s just hard to spot them inbetween all the rubbish.
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We got top 10 on the medal tally.
For for the requests for another $100 million to get top 5 in 4 years time
This reheated pie tastes like glue.
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They all do, that’s why fresh is better. 🙁
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I wouldn’t be surprised if a few hooves went into making it.
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Horse meat pie?
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i read that as redhead pie.
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I do like me some redheads. More so if they don’t taste like glue though.
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Depends on what sort of glue we’re talking about. Clag is great for flavour, but not so much for texture.
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And that was the exact glue I was referring to. Not good :S
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MEAT!
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Cakemang! Is there any chance that I could get admin power rights to the minecraft server? I doubt we will see Bish on it much for a while.
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Whats happened to Bish? I’m so out of the loop
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He’s left to go to Canada. He could be gone anywhere between 6-12 months. 🙁
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I miss him already. And you are now on the OP list nob.
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Mmmmhmhmhm, mwahahaha
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MWAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA.
I mean, I will not abuse my power 😛
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Oh poop forgot to thank you Cakemang.
THANKS CAKEMANG!
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Great vid man. Loved how it ended there with Shiggy’s Anti-gangnam style face.
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Also Pants’ face with the ‘heeeeeeeey sexy lady!’ line is pure gold. Love it.
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I’ll have to investigate this when I get home…
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That might’ve been done on purpose.
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I have no idea what i just watched, but boy did it look fun!
Just gonna be that guy who makes someone lose their page get 😛
Morning guys and gals.
So i FINALLY started playing saints row 2 on the weekend, and i gotta say, it’s way more entertaining than most other sandbox games i have played and has actually managed to keep my attention. bloody brilliant.
I’m sure plenty of you have played it before, so, any tips for a noob? lol
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Are we talking 2 or 3? I only have 3 so no idea about 2. I understand it was a lot less derpy than SR3
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Yeah, #2.
I got 3 for $16 when HN had that sale, so it’s inspired me to finally play #2.
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Oh no. Turns out the ACL was right.
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We’ve still got time! There’s 3 years before this happens. If we manage to get the KotakAU people to spread the word, we may have a chance to rectify these mistakes and save ourselves!
So the weekend was fun, one of my good uni friends got married so got to get all snazzied up and take the wife out for a night out.
One of the readings was Dr Seuss \o/
I got the crab balls instead of the pork belly /o\
But I got the 12 hour slow cooked beef (so tender) \o/
As usual the night we so quickly but everything went mostly to plan and we home before we turned into pumpkins
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“I got the crab balls instead of the pork belly”
Pretty sure that’s also the title of an adult movie i once say.
It’s possibly the reason i’m so messed up.-
Just one of many reason my friend, just one of many
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So i just sort of caught up in a way to learn that Bish is going (on gone?) away to canananananada???
Dude – best wishes to you! I have no idea what you’re doing, but surely it’s awesome?!
GL,HF,GG – you’re an absolute king!
Just going to be that guy that makes someone lose their page get :3
Aaaaannnd now no one will be able to enter the mens at work without a hazmat suit for at least a week.
Shouldn’t have had that pizza last night… phew…
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wow…. worst page get ever…
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You mean greatest page get ever…
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No, I’m pretty sure he meant worst
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*applause*
God, I love terribad page gets.
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Mornin’ all. I think i’ve finally stopped sneezing which means I can start today’s tasks!
Happy birthday, Doc. (Assuming it actually is, there’s been no definitive proof on that front. :P)
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Happy 30th Doc!
Anyone ever heard of GameJolt.com before? They’ve got a contest on where you have to make a game in a week, starting last Saturday. I’ve joined it, because I don’t have much to do this week 😀 They’re encouraging people to live stream their PCs as they work, which is what I’ll be doing, starting shortly. You can check it out here http://gamejolt.com/community/contests/
Wish me luck 😀
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Good luck Lambo
Are you going to do a game about making a game in a week and live streaming your PC during the process. Cause that would scare the hell out of me.-
I heard he was making a game about making a game about making a game about live streaming your PC during the process of making a game about making a game about making a game in a week and live streaming the PC during the process.
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G’luck lambobambo!
@Greenmang
I read it.
Unfortunately, I don’t like the chances of me getting anywhere 😛
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“Ooo I have some free time, time to catch up on TAY! Ooo I’ll reply to this comment! Oh… new page already…”
Sadpanda
I want to go on a roadtrip interstate meat one time. Maybe mix it up with a tour of the state (if someone offers :P) since I haven’t seen much of Straya
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I’ve never been on a road trip, but the fact I can’t drive and can’t read a map might prove screwy. (I think I’ve already had this conversation with Strange and NovaCascade a couple of months back. :P)
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Everyone should totally come on a road/plane/boat trip to the NT. Because we have heaps of exciting stuff here. Like red dirt. And warm beer.
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And flies.
Don’t forget the flies.
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New way to amuse myself. Go through some of the more obscure stuff in my music library and see if Shazam can recognise it. Results have been mixed.
Demons Souls soundtrack and Black Mages had no luck whatsoever, neither have a few rave mixes.
It recognised Goblin Cock but can’t tell me what song it is.
Brocas Helm had no joy.
Electric Wizard posed no issue.
No luck with Fredrik Thordendals Special Defects.
Neophyte and DJ Rankin were found in record time.
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Thanks for reminding me of Neophyte! I need to find my old/obscure stuff again ^.^
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It’ll only give results for stuff that’s on iTunes or whatever the music store is for the platform you’re on.
Woke up at a normalish hour, figured that meant I was returning to a normal sleeping pattern.
An hour later, fell asleep and only really just woke up.
So much for that. I blame Bish for leaving us.
Happy Monday, TAY!
So I resubscribed to WoW over the weekend, since I wanted to catch up on the new stuff added, and I’ll want to see Pandaria in September. But oh my goodness; what happened to the writing? It was never going to win any awards but all the new content (that is: Firelands story) is horrible.
And that “wedding”? That is literally the worst writing I have ever beheld. Blizzard needs to hire someone to beat Metzen around the head with a lead pipe anytime he tries to put pen to paper.
I stopped playing at the start of January 2011, right after blitzing most of the early Cata content up to raiding. I really liked the position that Thrall was in late-LK/early-Cata, and I thought that the last 12 months of people calling him a “Mary Sue” was just some innernets trolling. How wrong I was. I feel sorry for the people that actually cared about the game’s Lore. Because, yeah, Warcraft is dead.
Don’t get me wrong, I’ll still get the MoP CE I have on order – I like the art, and I can always make up my own stories.
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Woah, AND
Happy Birthday Doc! I hope you don’t have to shave too much of your beard.
Farewell Bish! I wish you all the best in your attempt to become crowned the new King of Canadia.
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I suspect that they’ve shifted most of their ‘A team’ off to their new RPG and to Pandaria immediately after Cataclysm shipped, and have basically just moved the game into maintenance mode now.
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Have you run the Fall of Deathwing raid yet? Thrall fires a kamehameha wave at Deathwing.
So once in a while I venture out and look for other gaming sites based around AU. Inevitably this took me to IGN AU. I’ve listened to a few of their “pubcasts” and I also read some of the comments by the “journalists” in the comments section. What a bunch of embarrassing, foul-mouthed nitwits. A complete lack of intelligence, humour or cohesion. Thank God for Mark Serrells. I promise to never wander again 🙁
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You can’t spell ignorant without IGN!
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You can’t spell awesome without TAY!
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It works, shuddup.-
ToTAYlly awesome?
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I enjoy the IGN AU pubcast (although they are a bit foul-mouthed) and some of the AU features are ok but I agree the comments section on IGN is usually really bad.
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It seems to be a blanket rule that comment sections are just cesspools. I like the fact that TAY differs from that rule.
Perhaps because it’s not at all topical, thus no-one can call ‘shopped. -
Some of the comments I am referring to are actually coming from IGN staff taking things a bit personally.
At best, Pubcast can be okay. It’s a bit like being a designated driver at a pub, They might be having a great time but from an outsiders view, the vast majority of what they say is incredibly stupid.
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ha ha, good analogy
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TAY last posted: Monday, August 13, 2012 at 7:17 AM: 1400 comments
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Post #1: Freeze S. Preston Icequire on Monday, August 6, 2012 at 8:31 AM
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I … I tied with Bish for 10th? I will cherish this memory in the coming “Bish free” months. I’m not crying I’ve just got something in my eye.
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Wow DC. Just wow.
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Inb4 DC thinks he’s spamming
Don’t worry you’re not!
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Totally is. 😛
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More he doesn’t comment all that much usually. It’s not a bad thing. He should post more. I say it’s more Greenius and Aleph not posting enough and letting everyone down you big meanies.
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Yup, I support any cause that blames Greenius. 🙂
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I think my biggest week was 340-350 posts or summin’. Oops :S
I just like talking with you all!
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You should’ve seen old new TAY where the total posts were like 6000 a week. Blaghs got over 10% of TAY in one of those weeks :O
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:'( I knew this was coming, dreaded it all weekend in fact. This week will be about restraint, I swear. In my defence I had to spread the word on Spec Ops. If I didn’t, who would?
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NOOOOO D.C., POST MORE!
I thought this too when I was constantly up the top (which I still am because the Usual Suspects decided to stop posting as much 🙁 ) but some peeps (Strange!) reassured me I wasn’t too bad. Strange knows everything so I take her word for it :).
It’s not like you’re spamming a bunch of things, you’re genuinely talking and sparking up conversations and discussions.
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Thanks, Greenius. Always a class act. Just spent the last hour analysing every thing I wrote last week. (!!!)
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Heh no problem man, you worry too much! 🙂
You posted a bit when I first joined but then you disappeared for a while. Good to have you back though! Strange said something along these lines when I was in the same situation “take a break from TAY for yourself and not for others”.
At times I feel like I’m posting too much or being annoying but I can never really tell… just know that you’re not as bad as me since they’re not calling you D.TROLL.C. (the meanies call me Trollius, I’m Helpius I SWEAR :P)
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The Green One speaks the truth.
Not necessarily about me knowing everything, but about being up the top not instantly meaning you’re spamming and should slow down.
Your posts are interesting and quite often insightful, and I don’t recall seeing you ever post just for the sake of posting. You shouldn’t worry, D.C.. 🙂
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Thanks, guys. 🙂
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69 words. Giggity.
Ladies, Gents and Greenius, I come to you in an hour of need. Actually, thats a bit over the top. I find myself in need of some new music. So throw some recommendations at me. Probably looking at game soundtracks as thats what I usually listen to, but you can suggest anything. If I like it, I’ll grab some
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And Greenius 😛
Billy Talent! I have other artists I can recommend but it’ll be hard since I’m not sure what you’re into (I have a feeling you might not like BT but they’ve had their songs in games before, that counts right?)
As for game stuff (apart from the usual) Lost Odyssey, Nier, VVVVVV and probably others I’m forgetting 🙂
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Nier and VVVVVV are awesome, already have them. I will have to go looking for Lost Odyssey
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Anything Katamari is good (preferably the PS2 games as later ones tend to just have remixes of the older tunes), Journey (the game) and The Last Story isn’t too bad (I can’t really remember much tunes but the main theme was good).
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Dark Void may have been an average game( I still enjoyed it) but it had a great soundtrack. It was by Bear McCreary the composer for Battlestar Galactica so it’s pretty good.
This is one of my favourite tracks http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgfdARh6nI4&list=PL70154A108D577FEF&index=97&feature=plpp_video
I hope you enjoy it, if you don’t that’s ok. In my experience I’ve found that game soundtracks are often intrinsically linked with the gameplay experience and sometimes the music on its own does not elicit any emotions if you haven’t played the game.
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Oh wow, sold. Thats a great song.
I know what you mean. Some soundtracks have never clicked with me, just because I didn’t play or like the game (Bastion is the biggest offender for this). But then there are others where I find a soundtrack to a game I’ve never even heard of and fall in love. Most recently Shadowrun and Terranigma, after watching one of the recent Extra Credits episodes.
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Wow, good to know you liked it \o/
Also thanks for this topic. Now I’m listening to a bunch of soundtrack videos on YouTube and realising that I still love the soundtracks to games like :
God of War – especially the ‘God of War 3 – Overture – Main Theme’ which acts as a recap of the previous games
Driver San Francisco- the game has a good mix of licensed tracks but the original tracks are pretty good as well. Try out the ‘Driver San Francisco Demo Theme Song’ for example. It sounds like it’s ripped straight from those cheesy but awesome cop shows
Finally, I’ve discovered that flash games have some really great music as well. If you don’t play them try some out, most are crap of course but there are a few gems. This game called Escape from the underworld for example is a fairly decent platformer but I love this track that plays as you navigate the world.:
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The original Rocket Knight Adventures soundtrack from the Megadrive.
Best. Soundtrack. Ever.
Morning friends!
I realise it isn’t actually morning anymore. I blame Stevo for booking a flight out that involved me taking him to the airport at 0430.
I’ll be working on a meat wright up soon but apparently I have to go to work for an hour or two even though I’m on holidays. Hooray!
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I’m very interested in hearing about what happened to the couch.
HELLO LURKERS( YES YOU, THE GUY/GIRL LOOKING AT A SCREEN :-P)
I KNOW YOU ENJOY FOLLOWING TAY WITHOUT POSTING, BUT FEEL FREE TO POST A COMMENT ONCE IN A WHILE AND JOIN IN ON THE FUN AND DISCUSSION. WE ARE ALL FRIENDLY AND WOULD LOVE IT IF YOU JOINED US.
🙂
REGARDS,
MASHA
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Oh god! He sees me watching!
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Yes splicer! I see you! 🙂
Anyway, how’s it going man? Everything going well with the family stuff etc.
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Wait, you’re still here?
Awesome!
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LOUD NOISES
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MY EARS ARE STILL RINGING AND IT FEELS WEIRD
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Hi Negative, how’s it been?
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Dammit, I’m trying to pretend I’m working on the cosplay!
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Ha ha, that’s ok. 🙂
Good luck btw, I’m sure it will turn out awesome.
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I’ll try to take photos, or video (I tend to always forget)
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Is that directed at me? I’m confused.
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No. Yes. Maybe?
I don’t know any more 🙂
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I’m not friendly…. 😛
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You’re super friendly!
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Morning TAY people, or afternoon Powalen to keep you quiet.
Over the weekend I rekindled my love for ArmA by playing ArmA 2 for the first time, not DayZ. Nothing quiet like a foot patrol with some old team mates turning into an ambush crossfire. The rush of trying to get an injured man out of heavy fire and electing to stay behind cause the car could only hold 3 people.
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Hah!
So I’m sewing and listening to Elton John.
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yeah.
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(As you may have guessed, I’m still really bored)
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That sounds awesome. Except if it was me, I’d be sewing my fingers together. Try and avoid that 🙂
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I kept accidentally stabbing my fingers with the needle. It was sharp =P
Oh god, I feel like playing Aquaria now, dammit.-
Me too, I think I played the first hour or so before I went away. Then when I came back I started again and got to the same point before I got distracted by Pokemon Conquest which is just devouring my life at the moment
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I got pretty far in it and I did love it, but I got distracted by other games
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Cracksmeister mentioned this webcomic site on twitter last night and I spent the next hour going through its entire (at the time) 23 pages of archives. It might be old news, but linking anyway:
It’s rather awesome!
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Speaking of webcomics, some folks I know from my uni days have one. They’re doing quite well and they’re kind, good people too. Worth checking out if you’re interested! http://www.spacepyrates.com/comic
I always liked Tasha’s comic on the Double Fine website too: http://www.doublefine.com/comics/Tasha/
Sughly’s got one too. Funny, surreal observational stuff: http://www.procrastoonation.com/
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It is glorious. Get to it!
So I was going to go to Sydney in October to visit my sister. Except now she’s moving back to Melbourne next month. Plans = ruined. 🙁
Will probably still head up there (have some event tickets paid for) but now won’t have transport. Thinking road trip instead because fuck playing for plane tickets & rental car / public transport.
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I CALL SHOTGUN
Is anyone going to manifest as well?
Also, would you like video footage of manifest?
I can video for people interested
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I’m sure a few people will be interested (me included) of photos / videos. Don’t feel obligated to do it though.
Hello Taybies, this is a community service announcement
An article by the one and only fatshadylive has been posted
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/08/the-redlynx-pilgramage/
So why are you still here, read it now
That concludes our community service announcement
SOUNDWAVE pre-sale on Wednesday!!! Webpages loaded in anticipation!
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Billy Talent are confirmed!
I’m still not sure whether Soundwave is my thing or not 😛
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Friday for me. Calling in late to work that day.
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Turns out my account has presale if you need it btw, Soundwave emailed me saying I was lucky and got it or some shit lol.
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Dayum that was a busy as hell morning, only found time for TAY now.
So what’s happenin?
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Chuloopa took a smelly demp and told us all about it.
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Or a dump. You know. Whatever.
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Scree is alive, the person to use the loo after loops isn’t.
FatShady’s article is finally live.
Nobody bought Xenoblade
Weekends were enjoyable and DC is a spammerThat’s about it
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Fair enough, thanks you all for the updates 🙂
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Any musical TAYbies!?!?!?
URGENTLY REQUIRE YOUR MUSICALNESS!
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I’m musical-y depends what kind of help you need? 😛 (I doubt I’d be much help though)
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Some incidental music stuff for the Zombie Film.
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Yeah, I can’t help there :P. Sorry Doc!
I just play music rather than write/record and all that jazz.
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If you’ve written anything, I’m looking to get back into playing my sax. Not that I’ll be any good straight up, but I’d love to give it a shot! (I guess this means I need a decent mic amongst other things. Perhaps a proper recording studio. Oh god, why did I do this? It’s going to cost money! LOTS OF MONEYS /o\)
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MONEY! \o/
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What do you need Doc? I can chug a riff and sing a bit.
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He can sing more than a bit by the way, Gentleman What?.
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Aww Strange.
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Preordered the Darksiders 2 LE and grabbed Rayman Origins and Rage while I was at it.
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Rayman Origins is super awesome. Love that game.
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Why must you tease me with your non-Xenobladeness? 🙁
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You know, if it wasn’t on the Wii I’d absolutely have it by now. But it’s not so chances of me getting it aren’t great as playing the Wii is like getting my teeth pulled, at least for me.
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Wii U perhaps? There’s always PC emulation but if I recall you didn’t have a powerful PC 🙁
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Rayman origins is a great game. Good choice.
I enjoyed the RAGE demo on PSN but I haven’t played the full game. Let us know how it goes, opinion is split about its quality on online forums and reviews.
Howdy Tayberinos!
I’m bogged down at work analysing our annual survey, I have my Excel hat on.
So, my Monday ARVO question: Best video-game-as-a-spreadsheet? By this, I mean complex game that requires tweaking of numbers and factors to win. I’m getting into Crusader Kings 2- yourselves?
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I don’t know if it is the best but the most involved I got was with Luminary: Rise of the Gonzu.
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The only game I’ve ever used a spreadsheet for is XENOBLADE. Though that’s not really what you were asking, hah.
Anything that involves a large amount of micro-management I generally steer clear of 😛
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Haha really? What for? 😛
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That spreadsheet that tells you where everything is 😛
Nothing to do with the question asked really, but still a spreadsheet!
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I could imagine using a spreadsheet for Persona games, though it would be overkill
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How are you finding Crusader Kings, I bought it for the game of thrones mod but haven’t installed it yet
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I enjoy it, but it’s one of those games that would take a very long time to master. I haven’t got around to putting the GoT mod on yet (Which is what I bought it for) because I’ve been having fun being King of Sweden.
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Gran Turismo 3 got into that territory a bit. There were 2 races (Lotus and Yaris) that had a certain limitation on what you could have in the car so fine tuning everything for each track was absolutely crucial.
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Eve Online. Spreadsheets in space!
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I personally tend to use sqlite/python rather than spreadsheets, but that might just be me 🙁
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You really can’t pass up Runescape in this regard. I think that’s why I loved the game so much, for so long.
Seriously, deliberating over the most efficient ways to gain experience per hour, finding how you value (in terms of hours/in-game-gold) time thus determining which training methods you could “afford”.Tweaking the way in which you level your character’s combat stats so as to skew/manipulate the game’s mechanics in your favour.
That game is just one huge number-crunching-gasm.
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wouldn’t EVE online be the logical choice for video-game-as-a-spreadsheet?
otherwise, hardcore WoW character and gear optimisation is very mathematically heavy. Or any reasonably complex RPG really.
@ Masha2932, The Cracks, et al
Yeah I lurk here from time to time. Usually check on you lot once a day at least if can.
Family is going well, the young fella is recovering from his surgery very quickly and is almost back to normal…almost. If I could only get him to sleep through the night again.
Still, just glad he’s home and healthy. I can understand now how its a parents worst fear that there is something wrong with your child and theres nothing you can do to fix him/her. It certainly takes its toll.
Anywho, how’s everybody else doing? I spent my weekend refereeing paintball. I refereed and played for years before my son was born and had to give it up when he came along.
Now that he’s a little older i’ve gotten back in to it all. About 4 months ago a mate of mine asked me to come help him out and i’ve been back doing it since then. So now I ref whenever I can( and play when i’m not reffing) and hopefully next year i’ll be playing with the club guys in the PAV tournament(if you’ve ever seen paintball on TV, it’s just like that but without the massive sponsorship deals).
So all blabbering aside, how is everyone? All is good I hope…
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Good to hear your son is doing well.
I’m ok, still looking for work but I’m staying hopeful.
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Have you looked at your local councils? I recently applied for a job that was a comfortable $50,000 a year plus super, penalties and benefits. 9 day fortnight with no weekends. Thats just driving around, maintaining parks and gardens…
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Hmm, thanks. I’ll check this out.
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Today’s highlights from The Numbers Show
*Tal Bachman – She’s So High
*Evermore – Underground
*Supertramp – Give A Little Bit
*Barenaked Ladies – It’s All Been Done
*Teddy Geiger – These Walls
*Skyhooks – Livin’ In The 70s
*Verve – Bittersweet Symphony
*Toto – Africa (You’re welcome Rocketman)
*Steve Miller Band – Fly Like An Eagle
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At least it’s Toto’s Africa not that horribly butchered version the radio stations use as every second song.
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I remember when covers were a fun B side, not the main single for someone who doesnt have the talent to write their own song to make it with.
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Hey old man freeze, i think there is a cloud over there that you should shake your fist at 😉
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Kids these days probably think those covers are the original version. Like how everyone thought the Green Manalishi was a Judas Priest song back in the 80s.when it’s actually a cover of Fleetwood Mac. Except not like that because they were talented, wheras the manufactured autotuned twerps doing covers as their lead singles are not.
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Cover, blasphemy, I would never stoop so low.
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you said you don’t have the ability to change it, so i should thank the computer.
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If I had the choice, originals would beat out covers every time, but since I put that song in myself, I had the original version play , not some crappy cover
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Maybe I should have put my comment below in this thread anyway. I don’t have too much of an issue with people doing covers, but prefer if you are going to then have your own take on it rather than trying to copy the original artist.
But old man Freeze does make a point that you should have to earn the right to release a cover by writing and performing your own stuff first.
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Humble brag fun fact:
My dad played with Skyhooks once.
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Pretty sweet.
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Your dad is an awesome person for this.
Skyhooks, man I wish I got to see them at their prime in the 70’s the old man got to see them open for Deep Purple, so much envy Q_Q
Even though I got home at like 1:30am this morning after pretty much a full day out, I’m not really tired at all. I only managed to fall asleep around 2:30am and I woke up at 6am yet I’m relatively fine considering the lack of sleep/coffee/energy drinks. I also had an extremely boring lecture and tute yet I’ve been more tired in previous weeks despite sleeping for double the time…
My ears are constantly ringing and it’s getting kind of annoying :P, hopefully the damage isn’t too bad :/. Any advice on how to get rid of/prevent it? I tend to avoid places with loud noises so it’s a first.
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PLAY EVEN MORE BILLY TALENT
CAST OF THE CRUTCH THAT KILLS THE PAIN-
THE RED FLAG WAVING NEVER MEANT THE SAME
omg so awesome live!
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I saw them live accidentally once. I thought the lead singer was taking the piss with the South Park style Canadian accent until I realised that was actually him.
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THE KIDS OF TOMORROW DON’T NEED TODAY WHEN THEY LIVE IN THE SINS OF YESTERDAY.
im mad jelly of you and stevo.
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I wear ear plugs at concerts. It saves your ear from any damage, and lets you go right up the front and still hear everything clearly.
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This. I do this for the gigs in the tiny places or even open arenas where I literally in ear shot of the PA System, I found though I didn’t need such at Soundwave or Big Day Out though.
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Yeah the venue was fricken tiny. Anyone know where I can get some? 😛
I saw one guy with them in so I guess that’s the norm. Thanks all!
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Pick some up from your local chemist. They’re cheap as!
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I get mine from Bunnings or the local safety store, just the disposable foam ones, like a dollar a pair or something. Totally worth it to protect your hearing!
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Has anybody else watched the Goyte clip on Giz that is at the bottom of the page?
In an era that has artist’s issue DCMA and sueing people for inappropriate use of their songs (putting a cover on youtube) it as fantastic to see somebody embracing the fact that people like their music
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It’s awesome. That sax player near the start of it is a god.
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This and that ^ ^
I was thinking about letting TAYbies know about it. Ya know I don’t go on the other Allure sites but ever since they’ve started popping up down the bottom I’ve been clicking on them (yes, even Fabsugar ones :P). It’s good though since there’s a lot of stuff I would have never seen if it wasn’t for them being advertised there.
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Gizmodo is the best!
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FabSugar FTW! 😛
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nah.. popsugar is where it’s at!
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Ha ha, I’ve been clicking on some Popsugar/bellasugar/fabsugar articles as well since they started popping up at the bottom. The weird thing about those sites, other than the beauty stuff that isn’t relevant to me , is the fact that most articles have no comments. None at all.
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That’s sorta sad to hear. I wonder how they must feel about the void of comments when they post their articles 🙁
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I guess it’s atonement for unleashing that goddamn song on the world.
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I think his atonement was when he left out the vocals from most of those covers
Honest question:
Has Michael Pachter ever seen one of his industry predictions become true?
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I would say ‘no’, but I’ve really only hear about him when he makes ridiculous that-is-never-going-to-happen claims 😛
Unless those ARE all of his predictions…
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He is quite knowledgeable on the business side of the industry and on some episodes of Pach Attack he actually explains videogame company stocks and finances very well, I just think sometimes he becomes attention seeking and makes ridiculous claims. I think some of the ‘fame’ he has got from always being quoted might have gone to his head.
I’m not sure if any of his predictions have come true though.
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Yeah the guy does sound like he knows what he’s talking about, I mean how else would people have listened to him in the first place if he didn’t have some cred to back it up.
But still I would like to know if even one of his big claims came true, I can’t think of a single one that has off the top of my head.
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NFI but I was listening to Freakonomics a while back and they were talking about economists predictions. A common thing for them to do is that they make slightly more wild predictions. The one time it turns out to be true, all the times they were wrong don’t matter anymore as they got one big prediction right. A good example are a lot of the GFC predictors who have just as bad a history of prediction as everyone else.
Amazing…
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I love the reaction to bowser near the end XD
So if your husband is looking for work and after an interview last week he’s now being flown to Melbourne to meet the big boss…that’s a good sign, right?
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That sounds like a very good sign. Hopefully, everything goes well.
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I’d say so.
Does that mean the job is in Melbourne?
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I almost wish it was…I love Melbourne!
But no, it’s for up here in Brisbane.
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Not necessarily. When I joined Telstra my manager was in Sydney and he flew down to meet me during the series of interviews.
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But there is a big difference in the boss going on a junket and the company forking out cash to flow a prospective employee around.
Good luck Mr Strange
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Big boss? He’s not going to work for the mob is he? 😛
If not, then yes it’s a good sign.
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Nah…it’s the La Li Lu Le Lo. 😛
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The what?! 😛 haha
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METAL…. GEAR….???
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ohhhh… yeah that completely went over my head since I never played MGS
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But if he’s meeting the Big Boss, he’d be joining the MSF, not the La Li Lu Le Lo…
I’m thinking Mr Strange is actually Solid Snake.
the only way this could possibly not be a good sign, is if Mr Strange’s blood type & organ donor status was asked during the initerview & the Big Boss turns out to be an ailing octogenarian in desperate need of a new kidney.
but really, it’s probably a good thing 😀
good luck to the Strangers!
There only room for one Snake and one Big Boss – Solidus Snake
Soylent Corporation?
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Great with people!
Somewhere today I was reminded how annoyed I get about companies copying other companies instead of making sure they do what they already do to the best of their abilities.
It’s like Microsoft and Sony looking at how well the Wii was selling and thinking “Oh, it must be the motion controls” so they make their own…but in reality it was more the price point of the Wii that was making it sell loads. So instead of spending money to develop motion controls that not the greatest amount of people use, they should have been offering their consoles at a more competitive price.
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Note: Not really “annoyed” more like slightly confuzzled. 😛
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With the Wii stuff, it might not be so much of “hey, we gotta make motion control games, that’ll sell” than “hey, our customers buy our competitor’s software/hardware because we can’t provide this experience. Let’s try to address that, so they can play those sorts of games without needing to shift to a different console”
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Yeah, maybe my example was a bit skewed by my disdain for motion controls. 😛 You raise a good point.
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I’m also not a fan of motion controls. Well, probably more not a fan of “using motion controls in situations where they don’t really add to the experience, but they’re new and cool and ZOMG WAGGLE WAGGLE”.
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Mapping actions 1:1 => actions in game is cool, but hard to do well… I guess Okami’s drawing stuff works pretty well? Even in Skyward Sword though, it was pretty much *motion detect one of these motion paths and play the canned animation*. I really had to push myself to finish that game (had about a 6 month break in the middle of playing it, finished it off for shameless gaming). I think I would have enjoyed it more if it had some sort of gamepad support.
Rant rant rant… I suspect I’m preaching to the choir.
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This was exactly my problem with Skyward Sword. The motion controls felt utterly pointless and made the entire game a fight with the controls rather than enjoy the game.
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This is why I didn’t even bother doing the first proper dungeon. Irritating, non-functional controls and bad design decisions (eg the stamina thing which adds nothing but frustration to the gameplay). And the constant desire to hold your hand and explain everything, plus the mindlessly linear level design. If it’s how the series is going to be now, I’ll stick with my happy memories.
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Okami was born to be a Wii U game. Sadly it was two generations premature 🙁
The Wii controls in that game suck just as much as trying to do the brush strokes with the PS2 controller.
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I’m 6’2 and the way my lounge is set up the Kinect cuts my upper body off, didn’t even detect my arms in The Gunstringer. There’s no way to change the room around and I really don’t want to just to play their games any way. I’m a huge fan of the voice functionality, though. Not so much in-game, but for other purposes. Seems like if they want people to use it, they’ve got to deliver something that’s not a novelty.
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It wasn’t the price point, it was Wii Sports.
You guys will probably do it anyway but can you please post your thoughts on Darksiders II tomorrow? 🙂
I haven’t really been following it but Neg0 said it’s out tomorrow on Steam. I pre-ordered it on PS3 so it won’t be out until Thursday (but I probably won’t play it til the weekend). I really enjoyed the first but haven’t replayed it since launch and I haven’t seen much on Darksiders II so I’m pretty much going in blind and I don’t know what to expect.
Should be good!
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I haven’t really paid much attention to the hype either.
What I know:
– It’s bigger
– You get the horsie earlier and use it more \o/
– The upgrade system is heavily expanded, with random stat drops, more RPG-ish
– Skulls are to Darksiders as Zippers are to Final Fantasy
Just watched the latest Breaking Bad.
No spoilers. No ROT13. Just holy shitballs!
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Soooooo, pretty amazing but not worth a f-balls or c-balls?
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Just saw it and holy footballs!
(Not c-balls worthy)
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Holy shit indeed. Wow. Powerful shit man.
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Well at least Todd’s got one thing going for him. He knows how to follow orders.
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I dunno, a minor complaint about TV shows for me is that everytime they do a “last time on _____” and they show old clips of characters you just know something is going to happen involving them. Kind of ruins the surprise but at least there’s a mini-recap for whatever happened previously in the show.
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rot13! Gbqq vf tbaan or rssrq, fb boivbhfyl yrnqvat hc gb gung. Jnyg xrrcf tvivat uvz gur ‘lbher tbaan or qrnq fbbare be yngre’ ybbx
Also, ep wasnt as good as last, but it was always gonna be hard to follow that scene with Walt and Skyler. But the last scene was pretty amazing. And the interrogation scene was pretty great
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I hate Skyler, I wish someone would just off her already, she’s much like Betty in Mad Men or Laurie in The Walking Dead, I see what you’re doing AMC making the most intolerable lead female characters…
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I’ve just started watching Breaking Bad, and already she is winding me up massively…
I like Bett Draper though. Brilliant character.
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Yeah, while she does irritate me at times she is really interesting. The whole thing with her and the neighbour’s boy was brilliant.
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No waaaaay! Her scenes in this season have been amazing!
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There’s a pair of meatheads wandering aroun the gym abusing and intimidating everyone for not being as hardcore as them. This is why I hate gyms.
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Hate wankers like that, they’re probably insecure and all that too.
Arrgghhh! Everytime I try to launch Corel Painter, it freezes and crashes…
Why won’t the bundled software work for me? 🙁
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Never mind, works fine now. 🙂
So I’ve been playing Lego Batman 2.
Lots of Lego Batman 2.
As in I’ve unlocked all but 4 characters (that I think are Martian Manhunter, Supergirl, Bruce Wayne and … maybe I miscounted, that might be it). Got to go back and get all the cannisters in all of the story missions, pick up another 90 or so gold bricks (got more than 100 of them today) and get all vehicles and cheats.
This is disturbingly addictive. Even grinding out this little infinite studs thingy I’ve found was somewhat fun.
What the hell is wrong with me?
You know, judging by SMB 3, I would have thought raccoons resembled middle aged Italian men, not tiny, furry cute animal-like things.
Just me?
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And then he refreshed, hoping for a reply, before realising he was probably 12 hours out of sync with everyone.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_exermAXkU-
Yup. Totally outta sync.
But… YAY BISH !!!
You in Canadialand yet?We need stories.
And Bacon!
And stories about bacon!!Oh yeah – and we miss you Bish!
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Hi Bishy! I was awake at 1am. I wish I’d checked TAY. NExt time I am awake at silly hours I will make it my business to check TAY for any signs of Bishyness.
And are you trying to say a middle-aged Italian man is not tiny, cute and furry?! D:
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It’s a Tanuki suit in Mario. Tanuki are not raccoons, they look a bit similar.
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At least you have a US region 3DS 😛
Wooo Bosch!
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I dunno why I thought about NSMB3DS…
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Wait, you mean raccoons DON’T look like middle age Italian men? My whole world has been turned upside down. /o\
Also, HI BISH!!!
Morning TAYtertots. It’s GamesCon this week what’s everyone keep an eye out for?? Personally AC3 BF3 CoH2
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Sony stuff and B2 I guess :). I try not to get hyped for things nowadays so I don’t get disappointed. So I tend to not watch as many trailers or read about games so I can go in ‘blind’ and enjoy it more.
G’Mornin!
I finished the Saints Row 3 story missions last night! I was starting to get open-world fatigue so I thought I better finish it off before it became another Skyrim 😛 Anyway, it was pretty good! Well worth the $9 I paid.
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I was quite surprised by how much fun that game was. (Hadn’t played a Saints Row game before so didn’t know what to expect)
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The last mission was really good as well. It was pretty funny how quickly things escalated towards the end. I spent the very last part of the game just thinking “what…”
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Darksiders II preloaded? Check
Public holiday (in Brisbane) tomorrow? Check
I am going to play so much Darksiders II when I finish work. \o/
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Opinions n thoughts plz! Biggest ‘fear’ is that it won’t be Zelda-y (which was my favourite aspect) so lemme know if it’s still there :D. GET HYPE
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Wow just saw a giant Darksiders II billboard, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a video game one.
THQ are really going all out with the marketing, I hope for their sake (and ours!) it sells well and we get more Darksiders!
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1 game for each horseman atleast 😀
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Exactly what I was thinking! The end of 1 just made me want more involving the other horsemen.
They COULD do co-op but I really hope they don’t do some crappy 4 player horsemen co-op beat them up…
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Yeah Darksiders is getting a HUGE marketing push from mTHQ, billboards are popping up everywhere.
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I really should get around to playing Darksiders before my PS+ expires.
Hmmm…I wonder if my father-in-law would mind if I just sat there all day today and played it? 😛-
See reply fail below :/
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Is there an easy mode? That might make it even quicker to play through. I don’t really care about Trophies.
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Yep there should be! Battles were kind of generic so that should speed things up. There’s barely any exploration either so under 10 hours should be easily doable.
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But your self respect!?! 😛
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Do it! It is definately a great game worth playing.
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Okay, I might give it a go today. Father-in-law needs something to watch now that the Olympics are over, anyway. 😛
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Yay!
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Oooooooohhhhhh. Now it all makes sense. I was wondering why I had zero interest in Sleeping Dogs.
Now I realise it’s because I never did. It’s Watch Dogs I was keen for. Now I just feel silly.
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It’s roughly 12 hours on a normal playthrough. Add a few hours if you wanted to get all the goodies.
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NOOOOO! It’s been a few months since the last one…
Anyways I always get the two mixed up too (seems like others do too).
“NEW SLEEPING DOGS GAMEPLAY”
Oooooo!
Ohh…
From what I’ve seen Sleeping looks a bit average but who knows!
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Failius.
Of the genus Replyius.
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Damn you replybuttonopus?
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I kind of like the look of Sleeping Dog. Don’t get me wrong, New York City is just about the best place I’ve ever been too but it’ll make a refreshing change to play an open world game not set there. (Or Mafia-like Empire City stylized versions.) Gameplay looks a lot deeper than you’d think too. Hacking mini-games. Disguises like in Hitman. Martial arts. Watch Dogs looks mind blowingly good, though. I can see how it would pale in comparison.
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I am actually quite hyped for Sleeping Dogs, and any Infernal Affairs fan should be too 🙂
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Sleeping Dogs was in development for ages so it visually looks a bit dated relative to contemporaries, but I’ve been hearing really good things about it so far. Out at the end of the week so we’ll see.
Methinks October will be a good month for the Vita
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Lots of games coming out for it, isn’t there?
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Good month for gaming in general, like usual. Dishonored, X-Com, Assassin’s Creed — then Hitman going into November. It’s probably a good thing Tomb Raider and BioShock got pushed back. It would’ve been chaos.
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Wait…Dishonored and Assassins Creed 3 are coming out at similar times? How will I choose?!
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Tough decision. Assassin’s Creed is the end of a trilogy, Dishonored is a quality new IP. There’s only one real option, buy ’em both. 😛 (Just like Fable 2 and Fallout 3 in 2008, Fable 3 and Fallout: New Vegas in 2010. )
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What’s the line-up like?
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ooooo… elaborate?
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Little Big Planet – September, but what’s the difference, really?
Jet Set Radio HD – 16th October
Street Fighter X Tekken – 19th October
PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale – 25th October (“But it’s a Smash Bros rip-off” “Who cares?”)
Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation – 30th October
Need for Speed Most Wanted – October
Persona 4 Golden – Maybe in October?
Call of Duty: Black Ops Declassified – Maybe in October? (Probably wrong)Possibly others. Not sure.
Not all games to everyone’s tastes, but games none the less.
Day 2 of using a standing desk.
By 5pm yesterday I felt like I weighed 10000 kilos. I can’t wait for my body to adjust to this.
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I’m seriously considering building one of these for home – keep us posted 🙂
You should all go and check out Page 2. I hear there’s a pretty cool page get on it 😛
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Oh I saw your little ploy last night! Sneaky.
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you’re a horrible person.
Almost as horrible as my colon
Huzzah, I got us back online! No, no, you’re right. It’s all my fault, and you’re the saviour for calling me in and telling me to fix it. No, I don’t have your keys, perhaps you left them with your common-sense at home. Congratulations on your far superior skillset, sir. No, I don’t want to hear about the time you went to Vietnam in search of orphans.
MORNING ALL!!! WORK IS FUN \o/
Good morning TAY o/
Quick question for the more I.T. oriented among you…
I’m having a new PC made for me and was wondering if I’m getting a good deal for just over $2K?
i7 3770 CPU, GigabyteZ77X-D3H MB, 8GB Corsair DDR3, 240GB SSD+2TB HDD, 2GB GeForce GTX 670
Thanks for your input 🙂
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The language of the Master Race. I’ll never understand it!
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you and me both, bucko
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Raw component cost is about $1400 depending on brand etc, no mention of case so who ever you are buying it from is making about $400 off you, minus labour charges etc works out to be pretty good deal for retail.
Why not buy parts yourself and assemble at home?
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Or pay the local computer store to put it together, Umart here charge around 60 bucks to put it together and test it.
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I shall call in the borther techmarines to bless the most holy Machine Spirit.
*Ric Flair style Woo!* WOOOOO!
Wifey surprised me this morning with tickets for a week in Bali for our anniversary. So we’ll be going there instead of Melbourne or Sydney now.
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Dude… nice!
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*macho man Randy Savage oh yeah*
Built my last rig and it’s just a hassle I don’t want to deal with so I don’t mind paying a bit extra for them to put it together. It does come with a case but I’m not sure the model or anything, I told them I don’t care if it’s pretty as long as it does the job, pretty sure it’s a ‘gaming’ case though (meh). Getting a mechanical keyboard too n I still need to check out the mouse yet.
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Ah… It seems I have not shaken the reply fail bug (comment system fail bug 😉
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Ah fair enough, 2 grand isn’t excessive, and if you’re happy to pay for someone else to put it together/configure it for you then yeah, sounds like a alright deal to me.
At my place of business, we aim for around 15 – 20% profit on a sale, so $2000 does seem a touch on the high side, but without knowing exact component brand/model you might save $100 somewhere else, which is much of a muchness really.
Just make sure you ask about warranty and what not, some places will offer extra warranty than what is actually offered per part (video card might have 1 year warranty, where as your SSD might have 2) or others will just leave it up to you to deal with the manufactures warranty if you have an issue, in which case hold onto your receipts!!
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Cheers mate 🙂
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Must do work! Must resist… 100%ing… Scott Pilgrim! Gah!
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“Hey, Scotty, check out my ring.”
“Ssscotttt…”You know what you must do Sughly.
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I’m still reading the comics, I only just started them a few weeks back! I know I’m a bad person but I admitted it and now I feel better that it’s been said :'(
Now that that’s out, I also am resisting reading the rest 🙁
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If your life had a face, I’d punch it in the balls.
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I KNOOOW I’M SORRY!! I’m loving them so so much, I have no idea why it took me so long
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Can’t wait for the online multiplayer.
From previous page (for those interested):
Little Big Planet – September, but what’s the difference, really?
Jet Set Radio HD – 16th October
Street Fighter X Tekken – 19th October
PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale – 25th October (“But it’s a Smash Bros rip-off” “Who cares?”)
Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation – 30th October
Need for Speed Most Wanted – October
Persona 4 Golden – Maybe in October?
Call of Duty: Black Ops Declassified – Maybe in October? (Probably wrong)
Possibly others. Not sure.
Not all games for everyone’s tastes, but games none the less.
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Still no real system seller. You’d think Sony would have organized one at least by now.
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I think CoD will sell systems. Maybe not the kind of boost Monster Hunter would provide, but notable.
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All-Stars might be an outside chance as well. Hard to say.
I hope it picks up for the Vita if only to give Nintendo another big kick 😛
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Yeah, this.
CoD is known to sell units – and a CoD that people can play anywhere? I dind it hard to believe that wouldn’t get quite a number of people on board.
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I would buy a PSV for AC:Liberation. It sounds really cool.
I’m actually considering grabbing a PSV for my husband for our Anniversary in October. And then borrowing it. 😛
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It does looks pretty bloody awesome.
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Yep, that’s the main one on my radar.
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I wanted to facepalm when i read that… but in actuality i have to agree and disagree with your there, mate.
The system, in a way, sells itself – it is an amazing piece of hardware with some AMAZING games.
Uncharted is awesome, modnation is awesome, fifa is awesome (if you’re into that kind of thing). Metal Gear, Disgaea, Lego batman 2, Resistance, Mortal Kombat, an entire back-catalog of PSP games and upcoming support for PS1 games, plus digital content and the aforementioned awesome upcoming titles like Assassins creed, Persona 4, Need for Speed, etc…I’d argue there is nothing wrong with ‘system seller’ thing with respect to games.
What they do have, however, is missed opportunities and a complete failure to market and advertise it and its games/features.
Sony never shows any love to its handhelds – it just lets them free and sort of hopes for the best, meanwhile we’re constantly assaulted with images of 3ds and its games.For me, personally, there is far more on offer in the Vita that what there will ever be in the 3ds, plus a much higher ratio of great games compared to shovel-ware and utter pap – the problem is Sony itself and the perception they allow people to have that it has nothing on offer.
Case and point – E3 – what the hell. That was the perfect time for Sony to really get people excited about the PSV – but they just tossed it aside almost completely.
The Vita and its games are much MUCH better than the general public gives it credit for.
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Oh.. side not – Gravity Rush – how could i forget to mention that one?! 😛
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Gravity Rush does look awesome but besides that, every single title you just mentioned has a superior brother on the consoles. There’s nothing to elevate it from just an on the go system to something you have to have. Nintendo has Pokemon and in my rather uninformed and useless opinion it’s a smart move to keep on handhelds and not move it properly to consoles for that reason.
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IMO Sony should do all it can to get the Monster Hunter series to move to the vita and stay there. They could make that one of their “vita only” titles. Although getting Monster Hunter to stay on one console would be impossible.
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Actually I find the Disgaea games work better on portables than consoles, and Persona 4 Golden is an expanded port so better, not worse than the old one. But whatever, you’ve obviously made up your mind and I doubt anything will convince you.
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Yeah I find Disgaea better on portables as well. They might as well just keep them on there instead of making it on console, then making a better one on portables later 😛
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Yes and no.
Uncharted is an all new game exclusive to the system.And making these game portable and retaining the graphics is a massive thing. It’s whole idea to make games you know and love and make them portable, which is a point some people seem to miss.
It is good to have original and exclusive titles, which the vita will have, but i don’t think it’s everything.
But it’s all personal preference anyway 🙂
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The VITA is worth its asking price alone, that’s true, but in the current climate the price point is not competitive compared to the 3DS and mobile phones. $349 is a lot to ask for when you can get a 3DS and a bunch of games for that price.
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I thought AllStarsBattleRoyale was pushed to november?
Battle Royale I’d really like if they refined the combat a bit more so that it’s actually not incredibly jerky to actually defeat your enemy. IIRC atm you have to use a finisher or something to have any chance of beating them, there’s no knocking them off the edge or using strong attacks to smack them off screen.
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Yeah, the point is to score hits, which basically have no effect other than filling your super meter. Then you use supers to score kills.
Hmmm, I’m still not sold on PS all-star battle royal. The SSB series has always had this charm about it but whenever I see “PS all-star blah blah” all I can think is “generic fighting game”.
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Personally I wish it was a 1-on-1 fighter. Sony games have always had good graphics and seeing the characters up close and in detail would have been nice. Also a one on one fighting game would suit the vita better. Seeing footage of the game on the PS3 is confusing enough as it is, I’m sure it will be even harder on the VITA’s small screen.
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I think Nintendo is doings something like this. The SSB being released on handheld will supposedly be more story /single player based. Which, when you think about it, is a smart think to do. I agree that it would be hard to follow the craziness that goes on in those kinda of games on a tiny handheld screen.
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US Releases:
Ragnarok Odyssey – 11th September
Zero Escape: Virtue’s Last Reward – 23 October
Persona 4: Golden – 30 October
By the end of the year the system will have new Ys and Legend of Heroes games from Nihon Falcom in Japan as well, with luck those will make it here too.
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I’ve been meaning to ask, is Ragnarok Odyssey an MMO (like a sequal to Ragnarok Online)? Or is it going to be a single player game?
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Wow I always thought Ragnarok Odyssey wasn’t related to Ragnarok Online :O. I loved ROnline so hopefully ROdyssey is good and it’ll give me another thing to add to my “games to get if I have a Vita list” which is extremely low at the moment :/
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Single player and Coop MP
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Online or local? Being foreveralone I hate handheld games that only have local co-op because I can never play it…
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Both. (Pretty sure)
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It’s a single player or co-op action RPG in the same universe as Ragnarok Online, by the same developer.
I am expecting to be able to collect cute hats.
Jet Set Radio HD is coming out on the Vita? I did not know that. That’s cool. I sort of want a Vita, but I don’t know how much I’d play it. I never played my psp all that much.
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If you didn’t play your PSP much and you only “sort of” want a Vita, then it’s probably not a wise investment for you. Unless something spectacular gets release and you are compelled beyond moderate desire.
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I think for me, the definite must buy a Vita release would be if they released a Vita only RPG set in one of the RPGs I love. Like a handheld version of any of BioWare’s games, an Elderscrolls or Fallout game or a game set during DE:HR. I’m not sure something like that will ever happen though.
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Actually, I’d also probably get a Vita if L4D2, with all L4D maps included, was ever released on the system. I remember that video a while ago of the guy who got the game running on his Vita and it looked awesome. Yes please to portable zombie killing.
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MAN I WANT PERSONA 4 SO GOSH DARN BAD
Sigh. Luigi’s Mansion pushed back to 2013. Fire Emblem pushed to 2013. Ni no Kuni 2013. The Last of Us 2013. Bioshock Infinite 2013. Sim City 5 2013.
The only thing left for me this year is Pokemon White 2! Thank god for my Steam backlog 😛 (and the TF2 update! :O)
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Man I haven’t updated TF2 in so long, I dread to think how big a download I have waiting for me if I ever decide to get back into it.
PS Pokemon \o/
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ALL THE NEGAULTRABYTES.
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Racist 😛
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I don’t know about B/W 2. If I buy it I don’t think I’ll ever finish it. Just like every Pokemon game I’ve ever owned (Cept Leaf Green smashed that one right through)
Morning everyone, how are we today?
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Sick, hungry, bored and tired 😛
So much easy points in WWF! :). I’m surprised people still play that (and Draw Something). I hop on every now and then when I’m extremely bored, heh.
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Are you sick because of the concert the other night? Or did you catch some form of sickness?
Also shush you about WWF, scoring that 99 point word this morning. The games been giving me alot of letters with no vowels of late SO UNFAIR.
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Sure, sure 😉
You were beating me for a while but you keep opening up easy spots for me :P.
Not sure about the sickness but I had a runny nose last week (before the concert) so I doubt it was that. Went away for a bit but it’s back now but nothing too severe :).
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Not too shabby. 2 days off! Have drugs. Killing lung germs all day long
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I like to think in those drugs was little guys armed with laser rifles that are not waging war inside your lung =P
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hahaha that would indeed be pretty cool 🙂
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I like to imagine the inside of my body is similar to what was shown in Osmosis Jones.
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Interesting line up.
Got to admit, I’ve been looking for Liberation, but recently been playing Gravity Rush, TiTS, and the GTA portables. Not in a huge rush to buy something new.
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Reply fail.
HAI GAIS!
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Happy birthday, man. Hope it’s a damn good one!
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HAI, happy birthday & all that stuff 😀
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Happy Birthday, man!
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Happy Birthday, Doc.
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Hi Doc, Happy Birthday 🙂
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Have a great day Doc, get all the spoilts \o/
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Happy day that coincides with the date of your birth.
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Happy birthday, Doc! 🙂
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Happy Birfdae Doc. You get a free birthday dance from me. What costume would you prefer?
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Happy Birthday!
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THANKS EVERYONE! 😀 You guys are the best!
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Happy Birthday!
May you live to be old and wise… 🙂
Hello guys I need help,
So I had written a large block of text intending to post it on TAY. However, I wanted to refresh TAY first, so I copied the text I had written then refreshed TAY. Unfortunately as TAY was refreshing I went to another site and saw some interesting text which I copied. Now when I paste whatever I copied it reverts to the latest thing I copied. Is there a way to get back what I had previously copied or is it lost?
I’m using chrome.
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try opening word. sometimes it’ll pick up the last few copies from your clipboard
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if you have 2003 version, you can go to Edit > Office Clipboard. That’ll show everything on your clipboard that it’s able to see. If it’s not there, it’s gone
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Thanks for the answers guys. I’ve tried the above methods but I think it’s gone 🙁
Hopefully I can remember what I wrote.
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“It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times…” 😛
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AHMAHGAWD.
Finally got some downtime. Enough to prepare a coffee and heat up some lunch at least.
HAPPYBIRTHDAYDOCMANG \o/
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Heat up lunch? What is this sorcery you speak of?
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Based on that last video, it’s probably called fire
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That better not be instant coffee
Delicious sambousek for lunch.
HAPPY DAYS!
Darksiders II has suddenly had $30 Australia Tax added on Steam. I’ve had it ordered for ages so I don’t care, but I’m disappointed in THQ.
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Steam have market dominance.
They should make it a policy to disallow the AU tax and refuse to list games that use it.
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I think doing so will actually breach the contract that THQ has with their Australian distributors. So on the basis on penalties for broken contract they would not release it on steam.
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It’s been that price for me for a while now.
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I’ve been refreshing the page for a while and it’s always been $49.99.
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Nope, I grabbed it last night for $US50.
Kind of interesting, last night the prices were:
Darksiders 2: $US49.99
Darksiders 2 + Prima Strategy stuff: $US59.99now:
Darksiders 2: $US79.95
Darksiders 2 + Prima Strategy stuff: $US109.99the base game gets bumped up $US30, and factoring that in, the guide gets bumped up $US20.04 (from $US10 to $US30.04) …. that’s even crazier! (Don’t know who buys that stuff, but the numbers are weird.)
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Someone needs to get in touch with THQ support to let them know that they’ve forgotten to shaft New Zealand as well: http://store.steampowered.com/app/50650/?cc=nz
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So they’ve basically bumped it on release day, i.e. preorder it and get the normal price, but now that it’s ‘out’ on Steam you pay the AU tax to stop undermining the retailers. I guess that’s about as fair as Australia Tax can be.
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Yeah that seems how it often works. I would assume that’s a loop hole in the contracts that allows them to offer pre-launch sales or the wording of the contract happens to have the term, for the date of launch or something in it
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Wow, really? I grabbed it last night when it was still at $50… *phew*
To the parents on TAY with children old enough to play games and to follow game series, I have a question.
How do your kids feel about the game series they like? Do they still look forward to each new entry, are they still excited about games?
This question could apply to younger TAYbies as well.
The question came to mind after I watched this Jimquisition video: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/jimquisition/6147-Old-Man-Mario
The short of it, If you don’t have the time, is that Mario games are not what they used to be. This is a sentiment I’ve seen repeated hundreds of times, not only about Mario but about other game series as well. Especially when it’s about franchises people enjoyed when they were younger
While a lot of the time these criticisms are correct sometimes I think it’s also an issue of age and where we are in our lives as adult gamers. Games or industry trends may be different compared to what we remember, but is it all bad? Maybe the kids enjoy what’s on offer now.
For example, I used to love splitscreen when I was younger. I still do actually. Nothing beats the playful and competitive nature of couch co-op. The competitive and cooperative sessions we have had at meats have been so much fun as well. However as much as I love splitscreen it’s so much more convenient to just play online. My friends’ schedule might differ from mine, they might live far away and maybe online is just better when we only have an hour or two to spare in the day.
Does this mean splitscreen should disappear? Of course not. The joy I see in my little cousins’ eyes echoes the same joy I felt as a kid. Seeing them jostling for controllers or covering each others eyes during a splitscreen race is awesome.
Sometimes in this industry all we hear are the voices of journalists and gamers in their 20-50s that it’s easy to forget that their are children under 18 years old who may enjoy what is on offer.
Thanks for reading and I hope I communicated myself well in this post.
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Oh no, I read through this thing twice and there are still punctuation omissions and errors. Plus, I confused their with there. Sorry /o\
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:0 Blasphemy! Just for that, I’m not reading it!
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Seriously tho, I dun have kids, so not much to say on the matter
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That’s ok 🙂
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Good post, Mashaa. Sorry you lost the original.
I can’t answer your core question, don’t have kids and not even close to having kids, but as a gamer I personally feel the NSMB games are trading on nostalgia rather than innovation. Mario HAS been a series that’s hugely innovative, just look at how they’ve effortlessly adapted the classic formula to the Galaxy games. I might be wrong and this is just my opinion, but that’s kind of my feelings with Nintendo as a whole lately — just phoning it in, coasting on past reputation and shovel ware. Even the art direction of that new game looks bland next to Rayman Origins and the Galaxy games.
Saying that, the New Super Mario Bros. Wii was fun and I had a lot of fun playing two players…
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(Which is totally not your point at all. If it helps, I try my best not to be cynical and jaded and generally a half-glass full kind of guy when it comes to games. :P)
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Thanks. Yeah, it sucked that I lost the previous version but I think I remembered most of what I had written.
I haven’t played a lot of Mario games so I don’t have an opinion on that. However, my feelings on the Pro Evolution series of soccer games echo your Mario sentiments. Despite a lack of licenses the guys at konami always innovated and brought new and exciting feature to soccer games. In the PS2 era the series was king, with this generation the developers seem to have rested on their laurels and were quickly surpassed by FIFA.
This year’s version sounds like it will be better, I’ll just have to wait and see.
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Just some thoughts on splitscreen/online.
Online is definitely a lot more convenient these days, but I’ll always prefer splitscreen. As kids we have a lot more free time on our hands, at least from my experience I was either at a friend’s place or had a friend over nearly every weekend in primary school, and there was a lot of time dedicated to splitscreen play. So I think it’s more that the services have evolved as gamers have grown up, and now, because we are more frequently busy, online play better suits us.
What is a shame is seeing older series where splitscreen play was an absolute joy simply throw it away in favour of online-only multiplayer. SSX is my primary example. I must have spent hundreds of hours playing Tricky splitscreen with a friend, it’s one of my most memorable gaming experiences, so it was a bit of a downer to find the latest entry had a very stripped down online play as a replacement.
On Saturday I played some splitscreen Halo with Shiggy and it was an entirely different and much better experience than playing online with a mic. Having the other player/s in the room with you is simply more fun. It’s just a bummer that we don’t get the opportunity to experience that as much these days.
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Portal 2 was amazing in spit-screen as well. Talking theories with the person next to you. I wonder if there would be an added level of frustration if you couldn’t point with your fingers and had to rely on the in-game mechanic?
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They actually implemented that mechanic quite well. It’s still not enough for someone who’s been dumped headfirst in the deep end of portal mechanics to begin with (which was my experience taking a first-time player through the game) but it makes it easy enough to get your point across, with just enough obscurity to make it absolutely hilarious without degrading from the gameplay at all.
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Man, now I feel like playing Portal 2 co-op again. 😀
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If you’ve got it on PC (obviously :P) I’d be happy to play 😀
We could try some custom maps!
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Strangers terrify me. 😛
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True. More games need split screen options.
That is one of the major reasons I play COD games. The splitscreen. Spec Ops mode in Modern Warfare and zombies in Black Ops is so much fun.
I love splitscreen. My cousin lives next door so when we find a split screen game we love, we play the crap out of it. We’ve poured hundreds of hours into gears, borderlands, Nazi Zombies and Uncharted 3 is our current kick.
I understand the convenience and why people like online (and I do too), but I always get sad when there’s online only MP and no split screen, especially with Co-op!
My daughter’s been obsessed with Spyro since she was really little. She even played the bad ones and struggled through them (with tears and tantrums) because she loved Spyro so much.
These days she’s more obsessed with Zelda and Paper Mario. Um…I forgot where I was going with this. Oops. 😛
I do feel the voice of the jaded/older gamer/journalist is louder than that of the incredulous kid (and the incredulous kid in all of us) though. Like who cares if the PC port of Dark Souls is just a “straight port”? It means that more people get to experience this great game.
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are people really complaining about that? *sigh* internet
and i will probably pick up dark souls now that it’s gonna be on PC
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…and that was a submit fail…I wasn’t done yet. 😛
I was going to continue by mentioning how I see things like reviews for Skylanders and games based on Pixar movies and the reviewers are not looking at the games from the point of view of the intended audience, but more from their own as a player of more “mature” games. Kids have very different priorities than adults. And while we celebrate that games as a medium are growing up and we can have games with mature themes, we shouldn’t decry games for being too focussed on the young. This is where we all came from and there’s room for all types of games and gameplay in the medium.
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@strangee About reviewers and kids games, I like how IGN did their review of Double fine’s Happy Action Theatre. http://au.xboxlive.ign.com/articles/121/1217687p1.html
The reviewer brought his kids to the office and allowed them to participate in the review process. The kids even wrote part of the review.
It was probably a one of thing but it was a nice touch.
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At the same time there’s a lot of terrible things made for kids, just because they’re young doesn’t mean gameplay and design has to be an after thought.
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Yeah. Sometimes it helps to let that little kid in all of us out a bit. Criticism is important and I wasn’t advocating we get rid of it, it’s just that sometimes it’s good to look at a game(s) in a different light.
If it wasn’t for split screen, my daughter wouldn’t be able to reach over, touch my hand and with big moist eyes say “Daaaaadddyyy. Pleeeeeaaase?” when she is losing at Mario Kart.
The dirty cheater. 😛
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Ha ha, Awwww. Your daughter is using her cute powers to overpower you. 🙂
(this is my 2cents on the issue)
I will probably be killed for saying this but I don’t think the quality of games has decreased at all. Infact they have vastly improved over years I have been growing up. I think a lot of it has to do with, when you’re a child, everything is new and exciting and fun. We all say “back in my day things were much better” but were they? I personally don’t think so. It’s just, when you’re a kid you have no responsibilities the reality of life hasn’t crushed our imaginations (that sounds a little dark, I don’t mean it to be). Do I think in 20 years people are going to say games aren’t as good as they were today? Hell yes! Infact I van guarantee it.
A great example of this is that most people in our generation would say the original series of Star Wars is the best. But, younger generations say that the later trilogy (episode 1 2 3) are superior.
I’m not quite sure if any of that makes sense. I have no children so I cannot answer your question.
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(Sorry for the terrible grammar / spelling. I had to type this up on my phone.)
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Why would you be killed for saying that? 🙂
Actually, I agree with you about the games. Today, there is an abundance of games for everyone. Whatever type of gamer you are, I bet there is a game for you. Do you want retro style games? check out the downloadable stores or the various indie games being released. Want big budget explosions? There’s a game for that.
Game mechanics have also become polished to a point where even the worst games today are playable compared to some of the stuff that was released in the past.For me, it’s just some of the business models today that are a bit off-putting.
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I actually get a bit disillusioned playing HD remakes of games. There are some points where I’ve reached a part of a game I loved as a kid and thought ‘hang on, this is actually kinda bad.’
Dear Master Race – are these specs good for $450??
Gigabyte MA790FX-DQ6 motherboard
AMD Phenom X4 9750 2.4 Ghz processor
ATI HD3870 512MB ASUS Video card
Thermaltaketoughpower 759W PSU
750GB Harddrive
3GB RAM
Pioneer DVD-RW 20X
Asus DVD-RW 20X
Antec 900 Case
Proview 22″ Widescreen monitor
Microsoft Sidewinder X6 gamin keyboard
Logitech X540 5.1 surround speakers
Microsoft IntelliMouse
Genuine Windows XP home edition
Genuine Windows XP Professional
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Its a little dated by considering your getting a whole setup for a little more then then what my Graphics card costed me I’d say its alright. Is this a custom build? or premade?
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custom… just browsing ebay, actually lol.
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Yeah, I’m no pro but all in all it does look a little dated. Should try and future proof yourself a bit better if you can loops
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God the wording in that reply was rubbish.
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Needs moar ram. Ram is cheap as chups too. Probably needs moar hdd too
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and graphics card looks a littlerubbish, yeah?
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I… dont know… 🙁
I’m so out of the loop (no pun intended) on cards, have been for years now. I just ask my brother all the time XD
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Well your card is a HD3800 series, mine which I bought almost a year ago is a HD6900 series. But yeah RAM is cheap get RAM and a 64bit OS so the RAM isnt wasted. Also what sort of budget are you looking at?
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probably between 600-800 max i think
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Do you already have a mouse, keyboard, screen, speakers/headphones?
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nope. lol
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I’m sure a lot of us have plenty of spares that we can provide you for that. I’ve got lots of mice and keyboards that I can hand over to you, one’s a Razer Arctosa, not great on low lit desks but still good 🙂
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Might be an idea looking at a few “premade” custom builds a la whirlpool’s budget box, etc.
For example, a “basic config deluxe” will run you ~$600 including peripherals.
The “Gaming/Multi-Purpose Config El Cheapo” is the same price.
A little over budget at $950, you get the
CPU: Intel Pentium G850 $82
Mobo: Asrock B75M $69
RAM: Kingston 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3-1333 $49
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 500GB (ST500DM002) $69
GPU: 2GB AMD Radeon HD7850 $245
Case&PSU: Thermaltake V3 Black Edition w/ 500W Litepower PSU $71
ODD: DVD burner $21
Peripherals: [ 24″ LG E2441V-BN / Coolermaster QuickFire Rapid / Logitech G400 / Edifier M1350 2.1 ] (+$327)Total: $606 ($933)
http://whirlpool.net.au/wiki/rmp_sg_whirlpoolpcs_gaming_configs_1
It’d be worthwhile checking other sites too, as they quite often come out with new best-bang-for-buck builds.
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Oops, didn’t notice you had OS included there. Could always try a linux distro (WINE or similar for windows gaming etc.) or just run an unactivated version of windows.
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I like the look of that list very much, if you can get this, then go for it
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Except swamp the assrock board for gigabyte or asus or something thats not assrock
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swamp!
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Agreed on the Asus there 🙂
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I had that series of card, it didn’t work well with Windows 7, but did fine with XP when I used it. Basically when I used windows 7, after installing the drivers from CD I got a black screen on windows after rebooting. Hopefully you won’t have as much trouble as I did.
That was my first and last Radeon card, never leaving nVidia ever again 😛
While we’re talking all MasterRace-like, anyone know where the HELL I can find another HIS Radeon 6990?! I’m most likely not going to buy it, but I can’t for the life of me find another one!
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yeah, they sort of disappeared since I got mine 6 months ago… not that I think I’d need a second one, but well… you never know.
theres no kill like overkill after all.
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I hear you, brethren. Great card, just wanted some unjustified security in knowing that it was possible to purchase a second one at some point. Turns out we can’t T.T
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I guess we could always hold a tournament between the two of you, the victor taking ownership of the loser’s graphics card.
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Oh. My. God.
Aside from the fact that I love my card dearly, what would this tournament entail? I’m kinda curious 😛
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I …don’t …know.
I originally had “martial arts tournament” written there, but that seemed a bit out of place given the nature of this site.
Maybe best of 3 matches – each in a different genre/style of game.
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I’m only good at Plants Vs. Zombies /o\
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Martial arts tournament sounds perfect. I’d pay to see that! 😛
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It’ll just look like I’m dancing. Because I can’t do that either.
People will just see me on the floor doing random kicks :S
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Good idea, a few rounds of “Just Dance” or similar.
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But…but…nunchuks! 😛
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It will be a gun stringer style contest but each of you will play as the gunstringer not the puppeteer.
Using a large number of levers and pulleys each of you will be controlled by a team of taybies and will battle to the sounds of One Must Fall
Onwards to vctory
I’ve never even heard of gunstringer :S
TO GOOGLE I GO!!!
(Also, can I request this be the soundtrack? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLvJZ3yToXM)
Request granted, however we are still using one must fall sound effects
It just depends what you are after…. If you just want something to check your email on or play some indie games, then you’d probably be better off dropping $500 on a mid range laptop.
It will be newer, comes with the OS, doesn’t require assembly etc.
If you’re after something that can run battlefield 3 and any of the “current” AAA games, then this won’t cut it.
A few other points…
I didn’t even know motherboards supported odd numbers of RAM. Also more RAM is better and RAM is cheap. That being said XP doesnt support more than 4GB… which brings me to my next point – WHY OH WHY XP? Do you have some special old software you have to run?
Other than that I would say away from AMD and ATI but that’s more of a personal preference. The slightly cheaper cost is not worth the drop in performance and support.
Also I have no idea about “Proview” for the monitor, I’d stick to more reputable brands.
Happy to answer any more questions. =)
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$600 … I’m dropping over $2K on my new rig (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻
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I did say “mid-range ” laptop. My laptop is only slightly less powerful than my main rig and it cost $800.
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I’m upgrading from my old gaming laptop. An MIS job, can’t recall the model exactly. Think it runs a GeForce 8600M. Forever crashing though, I’m not sure if it’s the video drivers or just overheating, still cost me $1800 when I got it though 🙁
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TUESDAY NIGHT IS SCHNITZEL NIGHT!!!
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The man’s consistant. 😛
Man, the internet sure is extra-strength crazy today. Here’s my attempt to off-set some of the gaming angst with some good gaming stories. Feel free to add your own/ignore. 😛
When my brother was in the second grade he had trouble reading, didn’t interest him and there’s nothing the teachers could do. After the school holidays, the teacher pulled my mum aside and asked what happened, my brother suddenly could read like freakin’ crazy. That was the summer we got our NES and Amiga, the summer we hunched over the monitor playing type parser and point-and-click adventure games. Exploring Maniac Mansion. Unravelling mysteries of The Colonel’s Bequest. Investigating a Cruise for a Corpse. Taught him how to read and spell properly almost single handed. Time-and-time again on adventure gaming sites foreign folk told similar stories of how they mastered English through this method out of sheer will to get through the story and be part it.
Long before Hurricane Katrina put New Orleans on the map I explored the city and its history in Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Father. Frequented Jackson Square and the French Quarter, spoke to the locals about their culture and mythos. A complex, exceptionally told story seen through the eyes of a local writer and his research assistant. This captured the imagination and explained history in a way school never had. (I’m certain Assassin’s Creed is doing something similar to this day.) Years before the issue of women in gaming was brought up Jane Jensen wrote and designed this classic at Sierra Online, a company whose very existence was built on the shoulders of Roberta Williams. (King’s Quest, Laura Bow, etc.)
Women might be considered niche gamers, I’m not certain how true that is, but can be thanked for some of the finest work in games today. Kim Swift with Portal. Amy Hennig from Naughty Dog, making incredible games from way back including the insanely good Legacy of Kain series. Jane Jensen continues to work in gaming to this day, pioneering at the crowd source funded Pinkerton Road studios proving there’s still a place for strong stories and clever adventure gaming. The idea that girls don’t game is kind of surprising to me, because my sister has been an avid gamer for as long as I have. We discussed the dramatic end of Gabriel Knight 3 back in the day, just like we discussed the dramatic end of Spec Ops last week.
This is an industry that is maturing in an awesome way, even if it might be finding its feet still. We’re truly in a golden age, as pretentious as it is true. Fact we’re talking about all these controversial issues might be irritating but it’s a necessary evil. The kind of discussions that coincide with games exploring ethics in war (Spec Ops) and the limits of a father’s love (Heavy Rain) means something. Fact we care so much means something too. It’s a good thing. These days if given a choice between a great game or great film, there’s no hesitation — gaming’s going to win every damn time. They’re only going to get better as well. This is all part of the process.
Bottom line is gaming’s fun. Gaming’s a source of good. If you want to dig a little deeper that’s cool, there’s room for that and it’s not something to fight. If you just want to play a damn game just for the fun of it then that’s fine. It’s good to live in interesting times. It’s good to be civil too.
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Well said DC friend, well said indeed…
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Saying Hurricane Katrina put New Orleans on the map is a little odd.
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* brought the eyes of the world onto New Orleans.
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I’d never really heard of it before that.
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Really?
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That’s news to me. I’ve always thought of it as ‘that place that had the hurricane’ :/
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It’s generally regarded as the birthplace of jazz.
It’s also the hub for Cajun and Creole culture, music, food, etc.
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This song will tell you all you need to know. 😛 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z529z1OZc9k
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That’s the context I meant that sentiment in any way, sorry for being an inarticulate fool. 😛
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No worries. I get what you mean. I just thought the original statement was a little inaccurate.
Enjoyed your post overall.
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Permission to say something about the whole ‘girlfriend mode’ thing? Don’t worry, it’s rather positive, and I’m not trying to start a big discussion/argument that will only end with weeping and gnashing of teeth, plus numerous fist fights and broken bones and maybe someone being thrown out a window and someone else being dunked in the toilet…wait, what was I saying?
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If you get permission to post about the girlfriend thing, I request permissoin to talk about Big Brother and why it’s got a soft spot in my heart. 😛
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Can I have permission to admit that the Bionic Commando remake wasn’t that bad a game?
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Can I have permission to admit that I never played a Zelda game before?
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As long as the Zelda game in question is Skyward Sword.
Wait… you meant ANY Zelda game?!
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Looks like I don’t have permission then, forget what I said! 😛
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Flu gave a blanket permission. Flood gates are now open. 😛
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You can talk about whatever you want in TAY.
… Except LoL 😛
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Yeah see I’m behaving… and heavily quiet! 😛
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I just wanted to see if some people had a problem with me bringing this discussion here.
I was too busy so I didn’t check twitter that often, but dayum there seems to have been some dramas today eh?
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Yup.
Dear Doc,
14th August 1885: Japan issues it’s first patent to the inventor of rust proof paint.
Much like this paint, I hope, as the years go by, that you maintain your glossy lustre and resist oxidisation… What the hell am I going on about!?
Who cares what happened in 1885!? The only 14th August I give a rats arse about is 1982! ‘Cause that’s when our main man Mr. Watt, Kotaku’s favourite Scot (don’t tell Serrels), burst forth into this plane of existence and graced us all with his genius!
Happy Birthday you jokey jock!
See you on the battlefield.
Kind regards,
– Effluvium Boy
Can’t bring myself to watch the new Big Brother and not for the reasons you might expect. The original production gave me my first industry job, my first production credit after I finished university. Left me with a bizarre sense of brand loyalty, a comradery with the crew and fond memories of the sights and sounds of the backlot. (Still have my credentials burried in a drawer with my degree some where.) Even the little moments attached to it: the late night McDonalds runs, car pooling back to Brisbane while singing loud and terribly to the radio. There’s a sense of bitter sweet nostalgia there.
To this day, there’s a strong urge to defend the show to any one who disses it. 😛
I won’t be watching, though. That’s part of the past…
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My aunt was a HUGE fan, going to all the live shows etc.
Never understood it personally, and although I watched the odd epsiode of S1, it quickly lost appeal. Each to their own, though I can’t help but feel bitter about the “creative spark” that causes these kinds of entertainment.-
Heh, don’t get me wrong, I’m objective enough to see the flaws. The rose-coloured glasses sure are pretty lookin’, though. 😛
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I personally can’t stand anything that’s a reality show, it just feels like such a show mainly for attention seekers from facebook and it just makes me shake my head every time I see a commercial about them with the announcer trying to make it sound as epic as possible… sorry if this offends humans that do like reality shows but yeah that’s just how I see it.
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Even people who hate reality shows should watch Top Guns. So cool.
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It’s a spin-off of the reality show Top Shot but without the drama. No drama, just guns. And cool slo-mo shots of bullets impacting on stuff.
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Thanks Strange, I now have a 3rd gun show to add to my arsenal 😀
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But that isn’t a reality show, that is a documentary and therefore classy 😉
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Those documentary can take a fake dramatic twist at any moment after the network suits retool it though. Must stay vigilant.
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I think I must be wired wrong. It’s not normal for people to think the best of each other, right? When I first read the article that ‘girlfriend mode’ was mentioned in, I thought to myself, “Wow, that’s a pretty cool idea.” Then I ended up thinking about something like that would be great for my sister, because a few times she’s wanted to play Halo with me and my brother, but she hasn’t been all that good at it, trying to pick up first person controls (it’s because console controls suck :P). Something like this would make it more fun for her while she’s learning, meaning she’d be more likely to stick with it and become a ‘gamer’ herself. Don’t get me started on the word ‘gamer’, that’s a discussion for another time.
Then, when I started hearing the uproar over it all, I was like “What the..? That’s not what it’s even all about…GAH! They just don’t get it!”
What’s more important, the words we speak, or the intentions behind those words? Intentions can often get lost when translating from speech to text. I always try to think the best of people, which is what I naturally did in this case. The whole point of ‘girlfriend mode’ isn’t that this guy thinks girls are worse at games than guys, but that this guy wants to make it easier for us to share our passion with those that we care about the most, whether it’s our girlfriend, boyfriend, sister, brother, mother, father, cousin, nephew, niece, friend or whoever. And I think he should be applauded for that.
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Yeah, I can’t help but think his remarks were just a catalyst for something else that was a-brewing beneath the surface. Probably an arguement worth having, not one worth repeating. (In the sense that I hope whatever the lesson is sticks and it doesn’t have to be said again. :P)
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Oh Lamb. Way to miss the point.
Nobody actually had a problem with the skill-tree itself.-
Like I said below I haven’t actually seen much about this.
Do you think that there was a problem with the term? If the developers were adding this with the understanding that a large number of their play base were in a situation that having a way to help their girlfriend join them in the game would be appreciated.
They aren’t saying that all girls need this, just that the designed goal for this was for guys to help get their girlfriends who didn’t play that style of game to join with them.
From what I can see it isn’t an actual term used in the game or anything (I could be wrong) but more of an internal development term that was casually (carelessly?) dropped into a conversation-
Here is my thoughts on it:
P.S. It shouldn’t even be an internal develop term, but that’s a whole ‘nother can of worms.
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Thanks for the link
I can see your point and you made them well. It can be easy for me to get fatigued and switch off on “Oh just another on these” but forgetting that you don’t have the option to do that.A big issue with the internal dev name is likely to be a lack of women in development to bring that vision but that becomes an even bigger can of worms. Still the point remains that even internal terms like this are going to prevent girls from moving in that direction.
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I think I missed the bit where it was said that ‘girlfriend mode’ was an actual internal development term. It sounded more like it was a term he chose to use while he was being interviewed, so as to get his point across.
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It was me who said that
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It’s not an internal development term. At least, not in the interview, not in any of the articles I’ve read today.
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Sorry, I’m not trying to be rude, but did you even read the last paragraph? (I’m tired and I haven’t had the best day today, sorry) I was trying to say that I don’t think the reason he called it ‘girlfriend mode’ is because he thinks girls suck at gaming, but because it’s meant to help us introduce gaming to those that are close to us, and who wouldn’t normally be interested in it. In his case, it sounds like it’s his girlfriend that he wants to share it with, a situation that I think many people can relate to.
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*relate to or at least understand
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Of course I read the last paragraph. I’ll always read a whole thing before commenting.
I’m tired too. And I’m also tired of people not understanding why it’s worrisome. I’m just going to direct everyone to the comment I linked to for Tigerion from now on to explain things.
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Please ignore my first sentence. I shouldn’t have been that rude 🙁
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Look, I really shouldn’t have said anything here. I feel bad for my first comment at you here. I think you just had the misfortune of being in my way at the wrong time. 😛
I really do think that understanding his intent behind the silly words doesn’t mean one can’t still be disturbed at the connotations of it all, though.
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Grumpy people hugasaurus? 😛
I have to disagree with your last sentence though. Understanding his intent goes quite a long way into figuring out if those connotations of big name devs thinking girls need games dumbed down for them are true or not.
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Well said, Lambo.
It’s the internet, you would be surprised how many people will claim to be outraged at something as long as it gives them a soapbox to stand on, and all the arm-flailing usually ends up drowning out most of the rational discourse that these situations require.
I agree with you lambo but I have only had a very brief read of any of the drama and nothing as far as what the twitterati are saying.
Borderlands has a majority male fan base. It is fun to play co-op. If the objective of that skill tree was to give gamers the chance to get their girlfriends to play with them then the term is totally accurate. It is basic understanding your client base and providing a solution to their needs.
Is that to say girls are worse gamers? I don’t think so, it is saying that this is a mode that guys can use to assist their girlfriends to join them in a hobby they enjoy without as large a barrier of entry.
Could it be used as a boyfriend mode, sure but the most common use the team who developed it see for it is as a girlfriend mode.
You’re a gem, Lambo. Gembo henceforth.
Thanks for providing a different outlook for me.
Don’t worry, Lambo, how you have interpreted his statement is probably exactly how he wanted it to be interpreted.
The problem is that statements like these can be interpreted in different ways, by different people. Perhaps if the dev had elaborated and explained it from a personal perspective (that such content would help his girlfriend get more enjoyment from the game), or specified that the same concept could be applied to all people, from all demographics, who struggle with FPS’s (like what you’ve said), it would have saved him from the scrutiny he received. However, he left it as a gender-specific generalisation.
It’s a simple matter of political correctness, but, when coupled with a community’s frustration with a male dominated industry, it pushes all the wrong buttons.
Maybe the person who made the statements actually disregarded most females as gamers. I highly doubt it. But in an environment like this, where an industry is trying to escape an atmosphere of sexism that has be prevalent for years, he should have been more careful.
In addition to that, when one side of the community responded with outrage, the other side responded with dismissal. There’s nothing wrong with people having differing opinions, but one opinion doesn’t cancel the other out. This caused conflict on its own behalf, separate to the original divergence.
Anyway… It’s unfortunate that something like this, which is meant to encourage people to take interest in the genre, has caused such division due to a minor case of miscommunication (or something more sinister – if you’re inclined to believe it).
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I think the main problem may actually be people not taking/having the time to look into things properly, and just going on what they’ve heard other people say. Right after he said ‘girlfriend skill tree’* he said “This is, I love Borderlands and I want to share it with someone, but they suck at first-person shooters. Can we make a skill tree that actually allows them to understand the game and to play the game? That’s what our attempt with the Best Friends Forever skill tree is.” http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-08-13-borderlands-2-gearbox-reveals-the-mechromancers-girlfriend-mode
*the term ‘girlfriend mode’ isn’t mentioned until later when they talk about the hardcore mode.-
*hardcore skill tree
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Yeah, I suppose he did elaborate.
Oh well, what can you do?
He upset some people for whatever reason and now it’s spiralled out of control. Probably best to just sit back, relax, and wait for 20th September.
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This is the first I’ve heard about this whole thing. My opinion is, if a straight male gamer comes up with this sort of idea, than initial thinking “girlfriend mode” is perfectly fine, as the thought process behind it probably went something like “hey, I wish there was a way for all those non game girls I’ve dated to share my passion, I know, how about a girlfriend mode”, but to keep on calling it girlfriend mode beyond that initial “hey I’ve got an idea” moment, to keep calling it during that during it’s development, even if that’s not what it’s actually called in the game, and to call it that during interviews, is a problem, for the same reason Strage said in her post she linked, because it’s indicitive of a larger problem that’s still plaguing gaming to this day.
Friendly reminder: Everything you read about Borderlands 2 for the next two days is going to be knee-jerk reactions, fuelled by base emotions.
Some of you may be aware that the world is ending this year. That’s right. Ka-blooey. Bye-bye world. Except for those of you with beards. For you, you shall inherit the Earth when the rest are ashes.
And by that, I mean The Beards are touring this year, and they’re playing The End Of The World (for beardless people) Tour. Tickets are cheap as chips (twenty bucks mate. Bargain.), and they’re playing pretty much all over Australia. I’ve already got tickets for their show on the 6th of October at the HiFi in Brissie. Beards are not required, but are encouraged. As is the act of bearding for you lovely ladies who love beards.
BEARDS! \o/
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My facial hair is too multi-coloured and patchy to pull off a beard.
Would compliment my crazy hermit ways nicely, though. Hmmm. *strokes patchy chin stubble* 😛
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Perhaps this may help.
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Dammit! http://www.beardhead.com is what will help you 😛
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So lifelike. Just might work, man. Just might work. 😉
(Though the only time I’ve ever been harrassed by air port, TSA types was when I hadn’t shaved for eight weeks. Discrimination, I tell you.)
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I’d like to go, but I’d be cast out like yesterdays trash. I can’t grow a beard to save myself. On top of that, my dad doesn’t have a beard, so I’ve got 2 mums! :0
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Does your soul have a beard? It’s what’s on the inside the counts.
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I have a mighty Goatee, will I be among those saved?
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I’m almost at goatee level. Kinda. I’ve got that creepy 70’s pornstache goin’ on, along with some wispy bits on my chin.
…I’m catweazel 🙁
Oh win they’re playing The Cooly Hotel.. 25 bucks at the door is a bargain, totally need to go!
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Definitely.
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Gonna try & make my mates go!
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SPREAD THE BEARDED MESSAGE!
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CHILLIES!
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You guys have no idea how hype I am for this. Seriously. Ugh. SO MOTHERFLIPPIN’ HYPE YO.
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First schnitzel, now chillies? Make up your mind, damn it!
Unless… seeds?
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Seeds arrived today!
In ascending SHU measurement, we’ve got:
Cambucci
BrainStrain 7pod
Bih Jolokia (Bhut’s big brother)
Trinidad Scorpion MorugaSO HYPE \o/
Only issue is, from plantation to harvest is 6 months or so >.<
On the plus side, the climate up here is optimal for capsaicin production within the fruit, meaning hotter chillis on average 😀-
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I’ve been putting up some designs on redbubble and getting them printed because I want them, I figure I may as well share them with you chumps. There’s no commission on any of these, mainly because a lot of these are just images downloaded from the net that require a bit of tweaking. Some required more effort (ND and Dishonored ones), but yeah.
http://www.redbubble.com/people/notoriousr
It has:
25 years Naughty Dog
Dishonored
Batmang
Last of Use
MGS/KFC
25 years of Metal Gear
Journey
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Come to think of it, I wouldn’t mind a shirt with my Journey emblem on it. Those are unique to your username, right? Would be kinda cool.
(Not that I want you to make one for me. Just thinking out loud :P)
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Woah, I had no idea they were unique! I must find out…what mine is….how to do…. 🙁
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A quick Google is telling me that they’re not unique. I always thought they were generated from your username (like you see on some forums). Bit let down now 😛
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Brisbane folk doing any thing special for the public holiday tomorrow?
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Working. Double time and a half though, so I’m not complaining.
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Well that’s not too shabby at all!
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Absolutely not. It’s paying for my Soundwave ticket.
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nothin special for me. Still craving Pho, but can’t find anyone to go with. Dun feel like eating alone. I can do that at home :0
“Hot Robert Pattinson Emerges For Cosmopolis Premiere in NYC”
Actually, no. He looks more creepy than hot in that pic.
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I don’t think you understand the appeal of Robert Pattinson.
That guy’s a dream boat.
Always.
Always.
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“I just got out of bed but I had time to comb my hair before coming over here”
Is what his picture looks like to me.
Evening, TAY, and Happy b’day ,Doc What? !
So, Darksiders 2.
I’m not convinced.
I’m enjoying the game a lot, but it feels like it’s in spite of the changes they’ve made, rather than because of it. They’ve made it all RPG. You’re picking up random loot drops rather than unlocking appropriate upgrades as you play. You’re picking up gold coins that you use to buy said loot, instead of souls. There’s no more bottles that you fill with whatever, you’re just picking up potions now. Gear has level requirements and you’re getting XP from killing stuff and doing quests. And there’s even a talent system.
It just gets in the way. It feels like they saw all the people saying ‘this is just like Zelda’ and took that as being a criticism. It wasn’t.
Thankfully the level design is roughly the same, though with faux-open world areas (effectively large corridors) linking stuff together that you have to traverse on your insanely slow horse. I stumbled upon a couple of dungeon areas which I assume are side areas but I don’t know.
Also, most terrible of all, I found a pair of portal panels. The portal gun is back 🙁
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To be fair, a lot of people who remarked “this is like Zelda” did mean it as criticism.
🙁 at that damn Portal gun. That part completely did my head in in the first.
So I found this Facebook page this afternoon i’ve spent the last 2 & a half hours looking through the pictures, Brisbane you have some fantastic buildings that are now abandoned, it is so sad.
But at the same time it’s fascinating to look at all these places.
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My brother’s into that urban exploration stuff, some of the links he’s shown me through out the years have been crazy. Then there’s the international stuff: abandoned subway stations in New York City still looking like it did when they sealed it off. Amazing.
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Holy shit, they look amazing.
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One of the reason I love New York so much. A city constantly building over itself, plenty of crazy secrets to find. That station totally remind me of the Ninja Turtles lair/Ghostbusters 2. 😛
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Reminds me what my dad was telling me about the abandoned train tunnels in Sydney, sealed off since the 1930’s, some have now been opened and are in use though.
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Insane! I hear they reguarly find plauge pits in London when expanding the lines.
I’ll leave you with this: http://www.thecoolist.com/abandoned-places-10-creepy-beautiful-modern-ruins/
(I’m outta here, feel like I’ve worn out my welcome here today.)
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Noooooo D.C.!
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I meant for the night! I’ll be back tomorrow. It’s good to know you care. 😛
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Us hermits have to stick together!
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That’s written in the hermit code and you don’t mess with that shit! 😉
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Oh man these are sweet 😀 I wish Tweed had more cool places to explore, as far as I know all we have is the old Country Club which is a hangout for local thug life teenagers & an aquatic club which never got off the ground.
I’ve seen the Ukraine Sub base before, it’s so freakin’ cool.
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I remember eating at that Aquatic club. Seafood buffet where everything was past its use by date and was way overcooked to try and compensate.
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LOL, i’ve never heard that about it. Probably a reason why it went bankrupt so fast.
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I am pretty sure some of the trains from the 1930s are still in use as well.
The locomotives themselves? I’m sure the were in a museum, unless you meant the tunnels, then yeah they most certainly are, some of them were expanded into the eastern suburbs rail system I believe.
I’ll try to find the link during my lunchbreak but I saw some photos this guy took in abandoned/locked off train tunnels and linked rooms in Moscow, the Russians built during the Cold War.
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Oh, that sounds insanely cool. Soviet era stuff is always mildly creepy for some reason.
This is very, very cool.
@NegativeZero
re: Mario suit stuff on page 3, there is Tanuki/Tanooki (the full body suit) but also http://www.mariowiki.com/Raccoon_Mario
(Tanooki is linked in the “Mario’s Transformations” box at the bottom. I’m avoiding including a second link to avoid moderation.)
Reposting from the end of Page 4:
Darksiders 2.
I’m not convinced.
I’m enjoying the game a lot, but it feels like it’s in spite of the changes they’ve made, rather than because of it. They’ve made it all RPG. You’re picking up random loot drops rather than unlocking appropriate upgrades as you play. You’re picking up gold coins that you use to buy said loot, instead of souls. There’s no more bottles that you fill with whatever, you’re just picking up potions now. Gear has level requirements and you’re getting XP from killing stuff and doing quests. And there’s even a talent system.
It just gets in the way. It feels like they saw all the people saying ‘this is just like Zelda’ and took that as being a criticism. It wasn’t.
Thankfully the level design is roughly the same, though with faux-open world areas (effectively large corridors) linking stuff together that you have to traverse on your insanely slow horse. I stumbled upon a couple of dungeon areas which I assume are side areas but I don’t know.
Also, most terrible of all, I found a pair of portal panels. The portal gun is back 🙁
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Damn it.
Back there <-. Reply. Dang new pages.
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Hmmm…
The loot thing in Skyward Sword wasn’t too bad but it was barely implemented and used. Hopefully Darksiders II does it a bit better. It’s sounding more like your standard action/adventure which I have nothing against but I love it when games have that ‘Zelda’ aspect of using X to solve Y.
And I didn’t mind the portal gun 😛
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It also appears to be $50 again? Judging from previous posts they added the Australian tax during the day? Hmmm strange…
I also looked at the season pass and it looks a bit meh
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I suspect the Australia Tax was added accidentally.
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This is loot in the way Diablo has loot. Stats, green / blue / purple / yellow for rarities etc. Not what I expected and I don’t really like it. But I suspect for a lot of people this makes the game ‘better’.
Also makes it easier for them to churn out shitty DLC items I guess.
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As far as I can remember, most of the Zelda/God of War comparisons were criticisms.
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Those people are morons then, the fact it was a straight-up Zelda game was the best part.
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I forgot to mention: the platforming is fantastic. Death is lighter and more agile than War, he platforms like the Prince in Prince of Persia. Wall running and stuff. Feels fantastic. And the level design in the dungeons is pretty much exactly the same as the original Darksiders so I’m pretty happy with that element. I just feel like the loot and stat building is unnecessary.
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Does it still have that “use X for Y” Zelda gameplay mechanic?
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I haven’t unlocked any new gear yet – two main dungeons down. Bosses are just straight up tank & spank or have a simple gimmick.
There’s no pieces of heart to collect. 🙁
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I don’t remember the portal gun being that bad man
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Neither did I.
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I just felt like it was “oh hey this portal game is pretty cool, let’s copy it!” Never really minded it but a lot of people hated it.
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Is it just me or is there something rather unsettling about that picture in the David Jones Spring Summer Fashion Show article down there?
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I’m assuming you’re referring to the Aboriginal girl in that pic? I know her ha, went to school with her, her grandfather lives behind us..
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She needs to dial down the lipstick a notch or twenty.
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Lol, agreed!
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Longhead is loooooooooooong.
But yeah, lipstick doesn’t help.
@ Strange (HI STRANGE!), @Lambo
It’s nice to see a more mature level discussion about the story than elsewhere on the net.
I’m still of the view that he was coming from a place of context and experience himself, which was not explained properly, and by not explaining it properly it definitely should not have been said.
I really believe the context of “I’ve had gf’s who aren’t really gamers, but would love to get involved, so….” could have completely turned this into a positive situation. It’s a shame it gets covered in crap. That said, it could have equally been “I’ve had friends who aren’t good at FPS’s, so…”
Calling it something like “girlfriend mode” with no contextual explanation really leaves the door open to all sorts of misunderstandings and bullshit, as seen.
Also, man, the internet sucks. So many people making this into both extremes of “WOMAN HATING MYSOGINIST STUDIO!” and “STUPID PC FEMINAZIS” replies and articles.
Makes me glad I don’t do twitter.
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Not to sound like I’m repeating myself, but he did try to give it some context in the sentence right after he first mentioned ‘girlfriend mode’.
“I want to make, for the lack of a better term, the girlfriend skill tree. This is, I love Borderlands and I want to share it with someone, but they suck at first-person shooters.Can we make a skill tree that actually allows them to understand the game and to play the game? That’s what our attempt with the Best Friends Forever skill tree is.”But anyway, enough about that. Time for something cheery instead http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bZkp7q19f0
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I’ll raise you this:
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You dare to raise something against the Holy Gangnam Style?? HERETIC! D:
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I opened twitter and it was full of people asking if it was safe to come out yet…
But yeah, this is why devs get shielded behind talking PR heads so much these days.
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Zap, for avoiding controversy, I will say that twitter is among the best websites. The reason is you only converse with people you want to. I follow some people who engage in discussions I’d rather not, and it’s annoying, but I choose to still follow them because other things they say are worthwhile for me. I could easily unfollow anyone who is spreading discussions I don’t want to be part of. Or, with some twitter software like tweetbot you can actually create mute filters. I mute all Q and A and Big Brother discussion, for example.
I suggest starting an account and just follow a developer or two you respect and also Raygun Brown.
I’ll just leave this here, I advise checking the 6th title from the bottom.
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And I’ll leave this and that here.
(your link doesn’t work xD)
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Damn it, oh well Mark posted a story 40 minutes later of what I posted anyway =P was about Gamescon & HL3.
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It’s controversy time! I just came across a post on facebook that’s garnered quite some attention:
“first of all i would like to say that this comment is in no way offensive to 9 news.
Im 19 years old and feel the need to express my opinions.
When seeing the ads on t.v about the news story coming up with refugees and illegal immigrants getting housed in australia with families etc, i don’t need to see the story to know what its about. in fact i am ashamed to see australia for what it is today, WE as a country need to realise that before we put hard earned tax payers money into housing and looking after refugees and those less fortunate from other countries.. WE need to think about our OWN first. Take a trip down to melbourne or sydney or brisbane just to name a few, look at all the homeless on the streets, in freezing winters and rough conditions, why cant we house those people first? why cant we put them in a detention centre with tv’s and a nice comfy bed, food and a nice warm shelter. WHY do we just look past this and leave them on the street and give people from other countries an opportunity and somewhere to stay before we do with our OWN? WE as a country need some form of real leadership, to take priority with our own born and bread before we as country will lose what we once called “home”.
Please take the time to read this.
Thanks”
Now, I’m not well versed in the politics of the situation (else I’d be a politician. I like arguing, and I like decent perks in my jobs), but I think it’s fair to say that the homeless Australians have made some untoward decisions in their past. I hate to say it, but it’s a genuinely rare case when people are simply kicked out on their arse for no damned reason. They’ve chosen – one way or another – to be jobless, homeless, helpless. There are solutions available.
The people “jumping the queue” from overseas are – so far as I’m concerned – far more deserving of funding and assistance. Why? Because they’ve actually done something to change their situation. Sure, we may not be able to handle the influx. Maybe we can, who knows. But I hardly think it’s fair to say that the bums and parkies of Australia are more deserving of a handout than a (assumed) hardworking international visitor.
Sure, we’ve got issues as a nation. Yes, this whole ‘boat-people’ debacle is a sham from the get-go. Personally, I’d like to see a nice little swap between nations.
I’ll take a refugee over a bum any day.
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As I briefly just mentioned on twitter, I was a homeless child for some time and the statement that I made an untoward decision or that I chose “one way or another” to be homeless is so horrifically insensitive I don’t know what to say.
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Again, it does happen. I know this. But where are we now? Neither you, nor I are homeless any longer. We’ve managed to do something with ourselves, MAKE something of ourselves.
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So because we managed to get out it should be a case of stuff everyone else they are clearly doing it to themselves or not trying? I am all for foreign assistance and asylum aid however to say we should be disregarding our own homeless issue … doesn’t make sense? I don’t know how to word it. Is just wrong at it’s very core?
Oh well, back to my hole of not reading TAY!
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Oh, before I go… please don’t call homeless people ‘bums’!
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Ok, I’ve crossed the line in what I had said, and for that I apologise. I guess what I was attempting to convey was that of those homeless and down-on-their-luck individuals, the ones I’ve spoken with, shared food with, 90% of them have said the same damned thing. They don’t want a job, they don’t want to help themselves.
Perhaps that’s the sign of a broken person. Yes, the world’s been tough. Why bother? I’ve been there.I struggle to respect someone if they can’t respect themselves though, which invariably led to the negative comments above. It’s a shortcoming of mine, and I recognize that. I’m sorry for offending you, although I feel that my point still stands. We can’t be expected to provide handouts for everyone that’s cold, tired and lonely if they’re not willing to help themselves too.
For better or worse, that’s how the (capitalist, at least) world works.Once again, I’m sorry I touched on a sore point for you.
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‘I struggle to respect someone if they can’t respect themselves though, which invariably led to the negative comments above.’ Self-esteem isn’t something every has, alas. Some people look in the mirror and feel nothing but self-loathing. Some people have felt the burden of depression or addiction for so long that they don’t feel apart of society at large. Some people are born into a situation where they haven’t been taught the means to escape. Some people have been unemployed for so long that they feel useless and a drain on society, resenting the oxygen they inhale. Some people aren’t born grounded with mental health. You’re right, these are broken people, but being broken shouldn’t write you off. Empathy for our own people and the way of life we hold sacred is one of the reasons these refugees are travelling here in the first place. I like to believe there’s room to help both. Optimism is always better than cynicism.
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That’s not really directed at you, Aleph. Just clarifying what I was trying to say below.
Everyone is most definitely entitled to their own beliefs.
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I’m not gonna prattle on much, but there is some truth to what is said. And not all bums are there by choice. I was close to being homeless myself earlier this year, and bankrupt. Not by choice, but because I was married to an ungrateful immigrant. I got screwed over with legal fees and stuff, which is probably a similar situation for a lot of the so called bums. If the govt did more to look after their own before handing out millions in donations to other countries, we might find things improved on the home front. Once things are under control here, then worry about other people. Perhaps if we didn’t send millions overseas, and spend millions on these “boat people”, the govt might be able to help out in situations like what’s happening in QLD, so 20,000 people wouldn’t have to be put out of work. I understand there’s a need to help refugees too of course. Some of them have horrible lives at home, but we’ve got some pretty serious shit happening here too. Some of those 20,000 people in QLD may end up as bums, not by choice, but just as a matter of circumstance. I’m not in favour of one side in particular, but there’s plenty of reasons to accept both sides of the argument.
I don’t agree with what you’ve said about the homeless population in Australia. I think they are just as deserving of help and assistance as those seeking asylum.
I don’t like the general attitude of most of the Australian public when it comes to illegal immigrants, or ‘boat people’ as the media likes to call them. Most of the general public of Australia are unaware of the United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees even exists, least of all what’s actually inside that convention.
Article 1 of the convention defines what a refugee is:
“A person who owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion, is outside the country of his nationality and is unable or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country; or who, not having a nationality and being outside the country of his former habitual residence as a result of such events, is unable or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to return to it..”
The other important part is the section which gives a refugee the right to be free from any penalty relating to the illegality of their entrance to the country, so long as they identify themselves to the authorities and declare themselves as a refugee:
“The Contracting States shall not impose penalties, on account of their illegal entry or presence, on refugees who, coming directly from a territory where their life or freedom was threatened in the sense of article 1, enter or are present in their territory without authorization, provided they present themselves without delay to the authorities and show good cause for their illegal entry or presence.”
A lot of Australians who like to talk crap about illegal immigrants coming into ‘their’ country are immigrants themselves at some point down their family tree. On one side of my family, they came here to escape the religious persecution they suffered in Germany. The other side of my family, the Wondunna clan of the Badjtala tribe of aborigines, saw the first influx of white men come into Australia and claim their homes of thousands of years for themselves.
I think it’s very easy for those without perspective to pass judgment on refugees in a heartless, callous manner. The people I tend to engage in negative discussion about refugees would likely never know what it’s like to have to make the choice to leave their entire lives behind, or risk being killed for their beliefs and choices. I think it’s also very easy for those of us who’ve never found ourselves homeless to pass judgement similarly, because we simply don’t know what it’s like.
This has been a bit rambly, eh? Ah well. I guess what I’m saying is that you can’t just say either/or. If there’s someone who’s doing it tougher than we are, and we can help, we should help in any way we can.
I don’t get why it has to be one or the other. Call me irrationally idealistic for saying this, but we should be helping both equally (as well as other groups not mentioned here). That might not be the way the world works, but I ‘ll always find it wrong to decide that one life is worth more than another like that.
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I believe it may be irrationally idealistic, although that’s not to say that’s a bad thing. It’s difficult knowing that a line must be drawn, yet deciding where that line is to be drawn. Ultimately, I can’t see a utopian future for all of mankind without that breaching on certain freedoms we maintain as individuals in the current day and age.
I’m not willing to give up the freedoms I have, just as much as the next person. It’s unfortunate (and damnably selfish) that we as a society possess this mindset, but unless we hold a blanket, worldwide reform, nothing’s going to change.
The only constant we have currently is change. Tumultuous and violent, yet constant. We get rid of that, and all the problems disappear.
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I tried writing something to explain myself further here but found I really couldn’t. It’s just a moral stance that’s been hammered into me, and I find it very difficult to see things from your perspective here. I’m aware of hose cheesy and ideal/hopeful it reads, but that’s how I see it.
I’m just gonna go around in circles if I try to stay involved in this further though, because I really don’t have much to say on this topic, so…backing out now.
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Much obliged, kind sir. Thanks for the input 😀
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Hey, that’s what I think.
Yay, helping!
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“It’s controversy time!”
Well, you were certainly right on that point Aleph! 😉
There’s a lot of work to be done on both fronts. A LOT of work!!!
Regarding the issue of Australians who find themselves homeless – there are any number of issues that contribute to Aussies living rough.
Some find themselves there as a result of poor choices, as you suggested. Others find themselves there through a combination of sheer bad luck and the lack of a support network of family and friends that most of us take for granted.
Others slip and slide thier way down there through the huge cracks in our mental health system.
And then there’s the (very tiny) handful who you refer to as ‘bums’, who have none of the other probelms, yet choose this life over engagement with society and the responsibilities inherent therein.
As for the ‘boat people’ or ‘asylum seekers’ or ‘queue jumpers’ or whatever the media decides to call them this week, let them come! Let them apply for political asylum, or refugee status, or immigrant status, or whatever the legal trend is.
And let them do this process on Australian shores. Let them contribute to Australian society while the paperwork makes its lengthy way through the system.
Perhaps we didn’t hear it enough at the Olympics, but our national anthem even says it;
” For those who’ve come across the seas
We’ve boundless plains to share”
Anyway, yeah. Two sides and all that.
For me, it’s two seperate issues. It’s like folks who insist NASA’s funding should be spent on other things, there’s no need we can’t just prioritize and help both. Doesn’t have to be us vs. them. I’m all for more refugees, in all honesty, but I also have empathy for those broken people too. No one has ever chosen to be broken, their spirit crushed. They can’t be written off, though. Where there’s life there’s hope and they can be fixed.
I’m not well versed on the homeless situation here in Australia, but from what I understand, there are quite a few systems already in place to look after homeless people. Housing, foodbanks, people who help them get jobs etc. Those are things that refugees never had access to until they got to Australia, and even then, Australia still treats them like crap. Everytime I hear a politician go on about how we need to “stop the boat people” I just feel disgusted. These are people who are fleeing poverty and violence and trying to make a better life for themselves and the national response is to bar them from coming or send them back. It really makes me ashamed to be Australian.
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When a friend pointed out to me the location of Christmas Island is it became pretty clear how much of a joke all this business really is. http://www.shire.gov.cx/location.html
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Well that is another kettle of fish. We want to retain the land for the phosphate mines but can’t then disregard it from the laws and obligation of an Australian territory. You then get into the east Timor oil situation, should we even have any rights to the area at all.
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I think being in charge of a country means sometimes you have to make hard decisions like splitting hairs over what is more worthy of time and money.
But I also think the “leaders” we usually have these days do not properly feel the weightiness of these decisions and make them according to political agenda/whims instead of according to what’s the right thing or even the smart thing to do.
You got to tell me, brave Captain,
Why are the wicked so strong?
How do the Angels get to sleep,
When the Devil leaves his porch light on?
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I listened to this last night, pretty powerful stuff man!
Waits is certainly an interesting individual 🙂
Sleeping Dogs has been getting some solid reviews. 8.5/10 at IGN they praise the story too. (In all honesty, I feared the story would be the weakest link. I’m always more willing to forgive other flaws if there’s a good story so this makes me happy.)
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It’s suddenly out on Steam now too, despite that it was supposed to be out Friday last I checked.
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Oh, cool! JB lists it for tomorrow, might pick up the console version. Prefer to play these sort of games with a controller, couch and HDTV. 😛
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That RE6 sure does look scrumptious. I was tempted to wait a year for the inevitable Capcom DLC to finish but I don’t think I’ll be able to. It’s looking like day one for me.
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I still can’t look at the 6 and not see a Giraffe getting a blowjob.
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I can’t either. But still, I’m trying to look past that. I do wish they’d change it.
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Day 1 for me too. Co-op buddies?
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I’d be up for that. I’m very hard to pin down for gaming though, with long hours at work, a long commute, and a newborn at home. But I should be able to find the odd window and just see if you’re free at the same time too! Friday nights are probably my clearest gaming time as I can justify staying up really late.
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In the meantime, I’ve never played RE5 co-op!
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Today’s goals:
Purchase potting mix.
Plant chilli seeds.
Dog/bird/person-proof chilli plantation.
Clean house.
Pick up mother dearest from the airport.
OH GOD PUPPY!!!
What’s everyone else up to this fine day?
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Sounds pretty productive by my standards, pal. It’s a public holiday in Brisbane today, so I figure most regulars from these parts will be AWOL. Not me, though. I’ll be keeping watch on TAY. 😛
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I’m waiting for my unreliable brother-in-law to pick my father-in-law up for the day because it’s a public holiday and my husband is in Melbourne until really late tonight.
And then I’ll ban the kids to their rooms and play Darksiders. \o/
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Best plan \o/
Better yet, make the kids clean the house and cook dinner while you play Darksiders. It’s a win/win!
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I enjoy your Brisbane public holidays when my account happens to be based there…
kicks legs up on chair*
*is what I would be doing if I didn’t have these stupid late EOM reporting.
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Day 3 of using a standing desk.
I hate my legs and I hate my body but I shall persevere. I plan on doing this for an entire month and will then decide if I stick to it or go back to sitting.
I need to use the stool for 20 minutes every hour but will cut that back to 15 minutes next week, then 10 minutes the week after, or even sooner if I feel I can take it. Going for the occasional stroll seems to help as well.
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How long are you standing at it per day? I know there are pros and cons with the whole thing but it seems interesting, given the supposed health benefits.
Is this just at your workplace or only at your home?
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I work from home so it’s 8 hours a day at the desk, with breaks on the stool as well as sitting down for lunch.
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Keep at it! You’re a real stand-up guy, Stevorooni!
/puns
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I’ve had positions in retail that required me to stand for 10+ hours of the day in the one position. I’m not sure whether I’ve got bad joints or not, but I’m certainly not able to stand for much longer than 30-45 minutes these days without feeling sore/tired. If I’m walking, I can go a little longer.
I found that at about the 6-7 hour mark, my legs would go numb, which I found quite worrying. Have you experienced any of this, or does the occasional stroll seem to mitigate those effects some?
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My legs ache a little bit by the afternoon but regular breaks on the stool seem to help with that, as well as the walking, plus I’ve been doing a little stretching as well.
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Soundwave tickets have been reserved! I can slowly un-tense and return the 5 calls I ignored whilst ordering.
And I must say, a very seamless and hasel free presale event, pre-filled my info and ticket selection, waited for the timer to count down and clicked order and BAM done.
I do feel slightly stupid having 3 laptops and 2 desktops on my desk with the same page open just incase it got swamped..
But woo! Soundwave!! Tallica here I come!
Dear McGarnical,
This is what I’m listening to all day today, thanks for jogging my memory yesterday 🙂
Sincerely,
Puppylicks
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Fun fact: this album used to scare the living shit out of me as a kid.
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I’m listening to it right now!
Farewell Thunderchild!
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ULLAAAAAAA!!!!!
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In a brave new world, with just a handful of men…we’ll start all OVER AGAIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNNNNnnnnnnn……
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sorry, that song always gets in my head whenever i think of WOTW
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I also like the Pastor’s wife singing about there being something worth fighting for
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I love the whole damn thing, especially the funky-ass guitar work 🙂
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Oh god, the sounds of the lid unscrewing from the enclosure… Shivers up and down my spine just thinking about it!
Such a great album!
Some of my absolute favourite music.
I had 2 copies of it on cassette tape. Then I got the CDs, then I downloaded some.
Now I have it on Spotify.
That being said – I need to find the full unabridged versions. Most places only seem to have the songs without the full story.
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The spoken word bits are awesome. I wish there were more excellent spoken/sung albums like this!
Trying very hard to resist getting Darksiders 2, especially since I haven’t finished the first one yet.
Also, HI TAY, I have been trying to cough up my lungs for the last two days, how are all of you?
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Lurking, lurking, lurking….
Otherwise good 🙂
I’d talk more but not much to say really.
How about them vidya gaems eh?
Morning TAY! Been slack on the posting this week. Holiday now seems like a distant memory.
Can you guys believe Lame Game Marothon is happening again. You guys are insane #justsayin.
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Oh, I believe it 😀
The LGM2 is going to rock balls and fingers crossed we can smash our last donation amount.-
Well i’ll gladly come taunt you in the middle of the night again. 🙂
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Awesome, bring coffee 🙂
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coffee and what is your choice of cold caffeinated beverage? I think it was 8 cans of mother we delivered last time. 😛
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So, how ’bout them vidya games hey?
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Who are you? Don’t matter. Want some rye? Cause you do!
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I’m more of a wholemeal man.
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I miss dem vidya games.
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Me too.
Finishing Anna’s Quest music this Saturday so I can’t wait to play DS 2 after that!
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Also, does anyone know the min specs on Sleeping dogs for PC? I see its pretty cheap on steam, so debating getting it on a pc rather than console. But im at work and too lazy to research. Maybe i should just spend my money on a console game instead. Thinking of picking up naruto Ninja storm generations.
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What was it priced at?
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It’s $50 on steam, or you can buy it via greenmangaming for $45 which gives you a steam code.
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Minimum:
OS: Windows Vista Service Pack 2
Processor: Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz or Althon X2 2.7 GHz
Memory: 2GB
Hard Disk Space: 15GB
Video Card: DirectX 10 or 11 compatible Nvidia or AMD ATI card, ATI Radeon 3870 or higher, Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT or higher
DirectX®: 10
Sound: DirectX compatible sound cardCopied from Steam, so not sure how helpful that is. There’s also a HD texture pack for the PC version. If the reviews are any indication it isn’t going to blow your mind on the graphic front, so SHOULD be fairly modest specs.
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cool, not sure bout the GFX on my notebook, might struggle a little bit. might just be worth getting on the box. There is too many games. TOO MANY. end of this year will be chaotic for me. Just looking for something new to get me through the next 2 months. although between cod skyrim and SFxTK i really dont NEED new games lol.
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I’ll be getting the 360 version too. Just the way I like to play those kind of open world games.
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You could of course just get a 360 controller for your pc. That is what i plan to do when/if i ever buy/build a working computer lol.
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Guess i’ll just google it then…
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Oh, sorry man. Meant to respond: $49.95 US.
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Not just controls, also HDTV and comfort of couch for long haul games.
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Also, based on my experience of SR3, a consistent framerate between indoor and outdoor areas. Man, my computer chugs big time outdoors. I stopped playing after a few hours even though it was fun.
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@D.C (I know you’re there)
Spec Ops. I just passed the A Line, Crossed. Going by the trophy list I’m only 2/3 of the way through but everything seems to be wrapping up and this part is driving me mental (stop going down Adams damn it.)
Is that about right or…
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You’ve basically got one major set piece left. An hour and a half at most I reckon. Don’t let the achievements fool you, there’s lots associated with the final decisions and the like.
I got A Line, Held by the way. What did YOU do? You’re a monster. 😛
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I really really can’t wait to play this… smifcaek was awesome enough to gift me a copy. Just a few more days to get a few music tasks out of the way and I can get in touch with my nerdy roots for a week or so.
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I usually try to make choices based on how I see the character making them, not how I would. The way I see it Ur’f nyernql grrgrevat ba gur oevax naq ybfvat yhtb jbhyq unir chfurq uvz cnfg vg. Va snpg V oryvrir vg qvq nf uvf pheerag nggvghqr vf “Xvyy gurz nyy yrnir abar fgnaqvat”
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That’s a good point, man.
V fnj zl Jnyxre qrfcrengryl nggrzcgvat gb fnyintr fbzrguvat gung jnf nyzbfg hafnyintnoyr. Qnzntr nyernql qbar ohg gelvat gb xrrc uvf bja uhznavgl. V svtherq ol guvf cbvag ur’q or svyyrq jvgu fb zhpu thvyg gung ur zvtug’ir npprcgrq gur pebjq fhetvat naq xvyyvat uvz, pregnvayl haqrefgnaqvat jurer gung ubfgvyvgl jnf pbzvat sebz nal jnl. V cebonoyl jbhyqa’g unir orra noyr gb bcra sver ba gur pebjq nf n cynlre, gubhtu. Fb V’z tynq V tbg n pubvpr.
Pez: Seems like a game most either really love or hate. It’s game of the year for me.
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Hey everyone, I need some help!
A friend is interested in studying here and she asked me if I knew of any sites to apply for for scholarships, I have no idea of anything like this can anyone help me out?
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“here” as in Australia or a specific Uni/School/whatever?
Most Uni’s will be able to tell you what scholarships they offer if you look at the specific faculty website. Just do a search. Failing that, she can email or call student services and they should be able to point her in the right place.
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Yeah Aus & yeah uni!
Ah cheers Powalen 😀
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If your friend is lucky enough to have a generous employer, they may be able to get a scholarship through them. My partner works for the NSW Health and got a very large scholarship through them to complete her Masters Degree.
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Ah cool, not sure if it’s for her or a friend of her, wasn’t very specific D=
But thanks!
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Email I just received:
“Thanks for your gift purchase of Darksiders 2!”
I’m sorry, what?
I believe Steam might be having an issue…
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or someone hacked your account.
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Nope. I don’t have card info saved, and no charge on my account.
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who did you gift it to? If it’s in your inventory still… free game?
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You bought me Darksiders 2? Wow I… I don’t know what to say…. 😛
So, what’s all this about then?
;D
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Uhhh, that was supposed to be a link.
http://a2.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/482121_485720774773040_1294249816_n.jpgFixed?
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I saw this on Twitter last night, I feel sorry for these guys.
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We’ll live, it’s all for a good cause after all 🙂
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At what cost? AT WHAT COST?!
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Has anyone here used Cityofgames.com.au before? Wanna buy nfl 13 for vita and this is the only place I could find selling it. Or Game-lane.com.au? Cheers
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Never heard of it, sorry.
My game site of choice is Ozgameshop and sometimes TheHut.com, but thats about it.-
Yeah, I’ll mostly use OZGS, but I they don’t stock nfl for vita 🙁
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Hey TAY!
Only just recovering now from an epic trip to Sydney. I’m pretty lazy so I won’t do a big meat write-up, but here are some of my trip highlights:
1. Pyrean and Gorzilla are awesome hosts! They even made sure there was alcohol in the fridge to make me feel at home when I got there.
2. Eating beef tongue and drinking sake!
3. BILLY TALENT! Nothing like a good rage circle!
4. Meeting randoms. Some tried to take me to Oxford Street. Others were just crazy train people who touched me.
5. Licking Bish’s face! Is it my fault he left for Canada? 🙁
6. Behaving myself and being the perfect gentleman at the housewarming
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You far north Queenslanders sure know how to party =P
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I just like to have a good time man.
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I wish I did D=
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…Bish went to Canada?
Hi Steve-o!
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Hi Rize!
Yeah he’s moved over there for work, so I’m told. Hopefully he will still visit us.
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Sony, doing Gamescom right!
Just watched the trailers for Tearaway and Puppeteer and both looked awesome. I didn’t see anything but they also showed more AC:L, Killzone and CoD. Now I want a Vita!
I love new IPs 🙂
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Pretty happy to see the results this morning.
Working here having engraving as one of the main things I do, it’s seriously depressing the amount of people I meet that have lost young children. I never know what to say to them either as all I do is have mild panic attacks thinking what it would be like losing my kids.
/depressing subject.
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And the award for worst page get ever goes to….
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OH YOU.
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Damn dude, that’s sad to hear.
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its a hard thing when young children die. I had a niece pass away at only 7 months old. And its niot pleasent. but you know, my brother and his wife are very philosophical about life now, and my nieces short time in this world left a lot of great lessons for the family.
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Every parents worst nightmare I think.
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Just realised how innappropriate that question is on a reply to your post…
Mods! Edit button please!
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I’m loving the sound of the new TF2 update. It sounds like a completely different game (in a good way!) The upgradable stuff sounds great! Can’t wait to give it a go.
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I said ‘sound’ three times 😛 Sounds like I have such a wide vocabulary!
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Sounds like you have a sound grasp on the language! 😀
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Oh wow this is awesome.
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Yeah, I’m pretty damned keen on it. Regardless of what’s happening this weekend, I probably won’t get a chance to play until Monday though 🙁
@greenius
Tearway for the VITA and RAIN for the PS3 are my favourite new gamescom announcements. I love the Tearway trailer, Media Molecule always make really charming trailers.
Now all Sony needs to do to get me is announce a significant price drop for the VITA.
Also, the new cross-buy initiative is really good. Buy certain PS3 games get the VITA version for free. The games confirmed so far are: PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale, Ratchet & Clank: Full Frontal Assault and Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time. Need for Speed Most Wanted might be a contender but EA hasn’t confirmed it yet.
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Out of interest, why do you capitalize all the laters of Vita? It’s not an acronym…
Personally none of the games that Sony are announcing are system sellers for me. They’re games I’ll buy because I already own the system, but when it comes to portables I want stuff that’s suited to portables, not ports of console franchises. Disgaea 3, Persona 4 & Gravity Rush were my main ones, and also the new Ys and Legend of Heroes games which I’m hoping XSEED will bring over. Those for me are portable-oriented games, or at least games I would enjoy as much on a portable as on a full console.
Sony doesn’t need a price drop. It needs Monster Hunter or even a MH clone like God Eater. It needs that big portable-oriented experience. A price drop would help sales, but only briefly unless there’s some actual software.
Wouldn’t mind a DLNA video player too.
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It needs a price drop for me, it’s too expensive compared to competitors.
About the capitalisation of the Vita. I don’t know, I just did it.Although you’re right it’s not an acronym so it doesn’t need to be capitalised.
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I haven’t heard of Rain until then but I just looked it up. It looks interesting but I need more footage/info before I can make any judgement. I also completely forgot about Unfinished Swan!
Whaaa serious? That’s awesome on the free Vita front! Looks like I need a job to buy dat Vita 😛
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Are you sure that the cross-play thing allows you to have both games free? There’s a few that do this already when you buy digitally (I think Marvel vs Capcom 3 is one?) but I thought you paid extra to get both.
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Both games free? No.
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Not both games for free! You pay retail price for the PS3 version for example($60 in the US) then you get the Vita version for free.
You get a download code for the Vita version of the game.According to the EU playstation blog http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2012/08/14/sony-at-gamescom-2012-all-the-announcements/
‘Vita Cross-Buy:
As of later this year, buy either the PlayStation 3 or PS Vita version of a compatible game and you’ll be able to download the other at no additional cost. PlayStation All Stars Battle Royale, Ratchet & Clack: QForce (yes, that’s now a Vita title too) and Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time are the first games confirmed to support this new feature.’-
You have to buy the games off PSN though. It’s a trojan horse.
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Both for the price of one. i.e. you get the other one for free. That’s what I meant at least.
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Man… reading up on Sleeping Dogs (downloading it on Steam at home at the moment) and now I’m torn. Do I continue with Darksiders II and finish it, do I swap to Sleeping Dogs? Both seem like they’re ~25-30 hours of content, both are also seemingly really solid games. But Fall of Cybertron is on the 24th and I don’t think I can finish both the others before it comes out. And then Borderlands 2 isn’t far off too. Release rush 🙁
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If you’re enjoying Darksiders I’d keep playing that. Sleeping Dogs will keep. September is pretty light on the gaming front too so might be nice to fill the void then. I will be playing it tomorrow, though. 😛
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Give up on all of them and play Xenoblade! 😛
Could always swap between the two, hour here an hour there. Or do as D.C. said and just stick to Darksiders II until you beat it then worry about Sleep Dogs after Fall of Cybertron or play it before if you have enough time. Only problem with swapping between so many games is that you’ll often get sidetracked and never finish them 🙁
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I can’t swap between games. I stop playing one to play another, I don’t graze. I hate leaving things unfinished and the only time I’ll actively drop a game is if something more interesting / important comes along, or I get stuck or lose interest.
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Might be my heritage as an adventure gamer, but I don’t swap between games either. I play primarily for the story and that would be like pausing a movie to watch another movie then going back. It’s not right.
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Watching some of the sleeping dogs reviews has reminded me that I actually liked the first true crime. For a GameCube game.
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#BackhandedCompliments
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TIL ALL ARE ONE!
If there was any remaining debate over whether games are art, then Beck’s ‘Cities’ level in Sound Shapes (and Sound Shapes in general) is the final nail in its coffin.
@Virus__ I’m not sure how your friend would go about it, but Macquarie uni in northern Sydney always had a ton of international students when I was there. They get a lot of support, accommodation organised for them, all that jazz. Most of them came over and did internships through the uni as well.
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Most international students have to pay their ridiculous fees upfront, which the uni is more than happy to accept.
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And you said you’d only be around at 3 in the morning. I knew you couldn’t keep away 🙂
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It is 3 in the morning for Bish
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Spose it woulda helped if I mentioned she’s in new Zealand lol.
I get out of Toronto Domestic. Tim Hortons.
Getting driven back to my uncle’s place. Tim Hortons.
Randomly lost near downtown. Tim Hortons.
So I finally ask, What’s the deal with Tim Hortons?
“Well, Tim Hortons was a [local sportsitem player], very famous, and when he passed away, he was sort of honoured by the Tim Hortons shop; a coffee shop.”
“Is… that how it works?” I ask, but am ignored.
“I find Tim Hortons coffee to be the best, it’s… very Canadian. You know how Canadians are sort of mild, not very loud, and laid-back?”
“No”, I say to myself.
“Well Tim Hortons coffee is like that; it’s not all loud and strong like Starbucks, an American coffee.”
Canadian coffee pride. There exists such thing.
Bish goes to Tim Hortons
I’m walking ‘home’ a few kilometers lugging my brand new laptop, and I stop in Tim Hortons for a drink. I struggle with the door system for a while (why would you have two doors leading inwards, one that goes in and one that goes out where is the consistency /o\). There’s no bottled water apparently. I spy a Peach flavoured drink, but the label is in French, and although it says Peach, it kind of looks like a lemon and I do not know if it is juice or tea or what. I settle for an apple juice, and ask the counter lady for it, and she gives me a look of disgust. I… what? Is apple juice not good enough for you lady? Huh? HUH? I exit with my apple juice, taking another embarassing stop trying to figure out how doors work.
So what was Tim Hortons like? nobody asks.
Well let me tell you.
I may or may not have tripped on a completely flat footpath walking home from Tim Hortons and got apple juice up my nose.
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You did it wrong, sorry.
Tim Hortons is where you go for the disgusting horrible hot water dripped through dirt scraped off the bottom of old sewage pipes that North America thinks is coffee, and Donuts. Donuts are thus the only reason you would go to Tim Hortons.
(Yes, I suppose I’m a coffee snob)
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no i am pretty sure drinking tim hortons apple juice through your nose is the right way to do it
man what country do you even come from not knowing that
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But then you found $10, right? RIGHT?!
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Ten Canadian dollars!
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Wait… what was the name of the coffee shop again?
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I miss Tim Hortons 🙁
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Bish tells the best stories
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Tim Hortons is the fucking bomb. Awesome candy coffee.
Get the double double. Always the double double. The largest double double they sell.
Regarding Darksiders / Darksiders II borrowing all its ideas from other games, I think John Walker at RPS has the best quote regarding that:
There’s barely a single original idea in here – and yet that never proves a bad thing. Instead this is a lucky dip of great game ideas from everywhere else, compiled together in one enormous project, dwarfing its inspirations in terms of size, if not always in design. Within the game you’ll find one huge chunk of Prince Of Persia, a generous slice of Zelda, no inconsiderable lump of Metroid Prime, and a car park full of Ratchet & Clank. Then there’s the bucketfuls of Shadows Of The Colossus, all served with a massive side order of Diablo. And these aren’t reaches – these are bold, clear influences, and what a bloody good thing that is. What a fantastic list of games to be reminded of, all at once.
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Playing through the first one, I felt much the same way. Except every time I was reminded of another game, I was reminded that they did whatever they did better.
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This is true, but it’s not as if Darksiders did any of those elements badly.
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My only problem with seeing the prince of persia 2008 style grooves(the things he grabs onto when he wall runs), wall running and platforming in darksiders is knowing that that game may never have a sequel. 🙁
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Apparently the two of us are the only people that liked that game 🙁
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Make that three.
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Random boredom induced rambling –
got up today feeling like utter crap (nothing unusual about that. I’m not a morning sort of guy). get on thetrain to work, coffee in hand & These Arms Are Snakes on the headphones & then I felt it – the first hints of spring.
I like spring. its got its own vibe to it. stuff happens in the spring.
Other stuff. Just finished re-watching the original Neon genesis Evangelion series. Nowhere near as much of a mind screw as I remeber it being the first time through. Still, sitting there with a hot chocolate (total comfort) watching the last few eps (total philosophical & exestential horror) was a nice contrast. Now I want to track down the alt-ending films. but it seems they’ve been discontinued in Australia. TO THE INTERWEBS!
Also, MELBOURNE FRIENDS!!! flights down your way have been booked. going to be there 28th-30th Sep. At some point I think we should meet up & exchange pleasentries / get noms & stuff.
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I tried rewatching it recently and the amount of fan service and navel gazing was just too grating for me these days.
That said the 1.11 and 2.22 redos are amazing and they are taking way too long to finish them all.
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Looks like the third Rebuild of Evangelion movie isn’t out in Japan until November. Which could mean quite the wait for the next English dub/release.
Why are they taking so damned long? The third one is where everything looks to be deviating quite a lot.
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for the first two there was a two year wait between the Japanese & western releases… so yeah… mid 2014 for 3.0?
& yeah, 1.0 was pretty much the series, but 2.0 really began to go somewhere different toward the end… Pretty keen to see what happens in the next ones.
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It’s meant to be how whatshisface wanted the series to go. Seeing as there were severe budget issues and the whole sarin gas thing, the show took a pretty big turn from what was planned.
I think it was pretty neat that they didn’t really deviate from what we knew until towards the end of the second one. Makes the hype for the last two so much more and changing too much early on would make it feel like a completely different show.
So overall, I’m pretty happy with how it has panned out so far.
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Sarin gas? I don’t think that had anything to do with it. Anno was suffering from clinical depression, they were way over budget (Gainax had never made a profit of anything they animated pre-Evangelion) and their content was way over what their timeslot should have been showing and was getting a lot of complaints.
Also it’s pretty clear watching it they were making a whole lot of it up as they were going. It’s amazing how much twisting and turning the fanbase does trying to make sense of some of the stuff. I know, I spent many years doing that when I was younger and less cynical.
End of Evangelion was Anno – who was clinically depressed and had a whole load of issues – effectively making a feature length “fuck you” to everyone who complained about the TV series ending. There’s a whole series of angry fan rant letters which are shown rapid-fire at one point in it, even. Elements of it may well have been things they planned to do all along, since there’s several character shots etc in the TV ending which make sense in that context but the tone has such a massive switch to it that it’s impossible to think it was the ‘planned’ ending.
The Rebuild films are effectively Anno going back and doing it all with a more mature worldview and without his crippling depression problems, fixing the continuity up a bit and improving characterization and so on. There’s also some not-so-subtle hints that the whole thing is happening after the original End of Evangelion…
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I’m fairly sure the sarin gas attacks were at least partially responsible for a subplot being abandoned in the original series.
Something I remember hearing a long time ago and may not be entirely accurate.
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Sounds like bunk to me. I mean it’s possible, but the Aum terrorist attack on the subways was March 1995 and the anime started in October that year, so if that was the case that plot element was canned in pre-production.
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Considering the turn around time on pre-digital animation, 7 months is long enough that they might have had half the season in the can before having to make changes.
It might have been mentioned in some making of featurette on some random Eva DVD I watched. I’m sure that I’ve seen the attacks mentioned in relation to the production of the series.
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There was a sudden shift in tone around episode 16 of the series. This was partly due to scheduling restraints, which drastically reduced the number of frames that could be drawn for each episode,[5] and partly due to the Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway on March 20, 1995, which occurred while the series was under production; Anno decided to remove elements of the series plot that he felt were too similar to the real-life attack.[6]
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The tone shift is toward the dark and horrible so I’d hate to imagine where he was going to go originally.
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Anime is usually produced on a much tighter schedule than that, even in the pre-digital days they were usually putting stuff to air 5-6 weeks after it was made, not 5-6 months, especially a small studio making a low-budget close-to-the-wire production.
Ignore all the commentary on any Evangelion media unless it’s actually people involved in the production. There’s a massive amount of unmitigated bullshit, theories spouted as fact and general fanwankery among people involved in the US productions. They don’t know shit and a lot of it is speculation.
As I understand it, the Aum attacks caused a general backlash against violent and/or psychological themes in all production at the time, including anime. I know for sure there were special interest groups trying to get the show taken off air because of its content, which I believe sort of exploded toward the end of its run when it got really dark. Terrorism may have played into it, but you could equally speculate that the fact it was running over the 1-year anniversary of the Kobe Earthquake would have been relevant, especially given the post-apocalyptic setting.
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They’re deliberately timing things so that the final film hits home video in 2015, in time for Third Impact :V
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truth.
/tin foil hat
Wait what, the Rebuild films are discontinued? How the hell did that happen. Or do you mean the old films? B/c you only need End of Evangelion there, and IMO it sucks crap. Rebuild films are where it’s at. Third one should be hitting Cinemas in Japan later this year.
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no no no… Sorry, I meant that the End of Evangelion DVDs have been seemingly discontinued in Oz. I’d be mighty pissed off if the Rebuild series was canned.
I’ve always wanted to watch this series, but sort of got intimidated by all the different… stuff. Different shows, different mangas. Doesn’t feel like there’s a point I can just start and get my teeth into.
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The TV series is the starting point. Everything else is remake or spinoff. It’s not like this is Gundam or something where it’s super complicated with multiple timelines and stuff.
Dayum, I’ll be busy the 28th and 30th with the Lame Game Marathon.
But yes the End of Evangelion episodes are a total headfook, love it 😀
So, I nearly choked on my pie.
Fun times.
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*high five*
Man you are so extreme!!!*headbutts a wall*
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Today I sneezed and no-one was there to bless me.
AM I GOING TO DIE?
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Yes.
Can I have your stuff?
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Just amending my will.
“To Trjn I leave… all my stuff.”
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You said it on the internet, so it must be true!
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Lost two hours today cause I didn’t set my alarm properly. Now I can’t walk around the zoo before class and I’m falling behind of Gamescom news and there was something horribly wrong with my short black and I can’t decide if I’m at fault or the Barista.
Truely my problems are the worst anyone have ever had to deal with.
Hai gais – is it just my imagination or is this a stupidly good deal???
http://www.mln.com.au/product/?itemID=4034&typeID=special
Is this a gaming laptop that should last for a while???
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Not sure if I’d call it a gaming laptop, but that is definitely a good deal.
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awww man…. but it’s in the gaming section.. damn it to heck.
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how is it compared to the top 2 options here:
http://whirlpool.net.au/wiki/rmp_sg_whirlpoolpcs_gaming_configs_1-
Definitely better than both of them.
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Oh seriously???
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Have a look at MSY if you’re on a tight budget. Recently picked up an Acer laptop with almost the same specs for under $450…
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I don’t play a lot of games on it at the moment but it runs my Steam games just fine. Walking Dead stuttered a little at first but seems good now.
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Yeah I was thinking of buying my next PC from those guys and then replacing the chassis (Maybe graphics card too) with one of my choice 🙂
The main issue with MSY is buying parts, you’ll need to have done your research first and know exactly what you’re getting.
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Yep, spot on there TK. It’s all a bit daunting at first. I was lucky to have a tech-savvy friend along to help.
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With the budget you have I would only be looking at desktops. You are going to lose a huge amount of power when you drop down to laptop level.
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Yeah i know – i have only been looking at desktops, but stumbled across that as i’d really prefer a laptop as i just don’t have the room for a desktop…. catch 22 lol
He is a benchmark on the graphics card
http://www.techpowerup.com/162357/GeForce-GT-640M-Benchmarked.html
You should be able to play most modern games (but you will get stuttering) if you turn the graphics down but certainly not going to have any future proof
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That’s massively helpful – you’re a gem.
That’s a bit of a shame.. maybe i should keep looking.. hmm
LOOOPS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I really hope you see this ASAP!!!!!
If someone has his email – let him know
This is a good laptop – and it’s a great deal. How do I know? Because that’s exactly the same laptop I just put in my bag 1 minute ago as I get ready to head home. Mine has 8GB of RAM though. Just ask MLN to chuck some more in there – it will cost you like $50. (or do it yourself)
I got my laptop about 3 months ago from good guys (on sale) for $810. So $600 for a bit less RAM is pretty damn good.
Very happy with the laptop it’s nice and powerful and battery life is great (as long as you’re not trying to run diablo3 on high on battery).
I gotta say I havent tried to put BF3 on here yet but it’s run everything else i’ve thrown at it fairly well. Obviously it’s a smaller resolution because it’s a laptop screen but you could always plug in a monitor…
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actually I just checked – mine is the GT630M that one is the GT640M so slightly newer.
Looking at the comparisons that Tigerion posted – it’s a bit silly comparing a $600 laptop with an alienware laptops… Those retail around the $2K mark.-
The main thing there was the graph of framerate for the different games, not that it was worse than anything else.
Having somebody with the actual laptop provide advice is much better. I’ve dropped him a message on twitter as well so hopefully he sees it.What do you currently run and how do they perform?
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@Virus
What’s your email address?
I’ve had a lot of experience with this, as well as cross-Tasman scholarship grants.
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ah cheers man!
My email is; marc[dot]c[at] live.com.au
Can’t stop watching Siglemic. This will be the run!
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What hours is he usually on? I know it’s 12 per day, but I think it may be well out of my schedule aside from weekends…
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Early morning to mid-afternoon for us. Pretty good for “I can’t be bothered getting out of bed just yet” type days.
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Weekends it is \o/
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I’ve never been able to sit for longer than 10 mins watching it. Respect the skills though.
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I watched it (read: it played in the background) whilst doing other things the other day. It blew me away not only the skill involved, but the amount of patience it really takes to get “the run”.
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Anyone had any experience going to Bali? Being the sheltered untraveled shut in I am in half terrified of going. The smart traveller website isn’t helping either as it’s making it sound as if being killed in a terrorist attack is a forgone conclusion.
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My sister was there last month and did not die in a terrorist attack.
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My human older brother went to Bali for his honeymoon, he didn’t have any issues at all… except running out of money but that was more his fault 😛
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Havent been to Bali, but have friends who have and survived! Just don’t drink water that isn’t from a sealed bottle (even then be careful…) and don’t have ice in drinks (made from tap water). I’d probably stay away from hiring motorbikes/jet skis as most places will take your passport (might just be for security but I wouldn’t trust them..), respect the locals, and don’t be a typical Aussie yobo abroad and you will be fine, Bali is great, cheap and beautiful place to visit.
I’ve been to Thailand and soon to go to India, and the one thing that stands out is how bad some Aussies are over seas, I don’t know if its because I can pick out someone from my own country better than a Yank or Pom, but more Aussies tend to be drunken, shirtless dicks abroad!
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According to my sister, Bali is worse than a lot of places if you want to avoid yobs and bogans. It’s close to Australia and cheap to get to unfortunately.
And yes, those people are the worst. Especially the ones that believe that showering is optional and that it’s okay to talk really really loud on overnight flights while everyone is trying to sleep.
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My mother went there some years back. She’s now suffering from anxiety and such.
I guess I should also mention that the two have naught to do with one another 😀
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You’re a step ahead of other travellers going to that website, buddy. They don’t mess about, if there was something credible they’d tell you. Just be vigilant and smart, you’ll be fine. (I’ve never been there, so can’t give any first hand knowledge, alas.)
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I’ve been to Bali plenty of times. It’s fine. Just be a smart traveller, don’t drink the water and if they ask if you wants drugs, chances are its an undercover cop.
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Leave your boogey board at home
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Thanks guys. I’ve never been outside of the country really (does NZ really count?) and find the thought of a completely different culture a bit intimidating. I barely fit into my own. But I can’t miss out on life from being nervous so off I go!
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That’s the spirit, I’m a crazed hermit and I freakin’ love to travel. I was nervous at first, though.
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OK, so im in desperate need of a new controller for my xbox. To i go the classic official controller, or do i buy something different? I also dont want to pay a bazzilion dollars for it.
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I’d go with the classic controller, atleast you can connect it to a PC and it’ll have native support. (Assuming you have a bluetooth dealy or wired version.)
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This is where I’d start. Anything less and you’re just cheating yourself.
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WAT
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You missed the “N.”
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I do kinda like the new super expensive grey Xbox pad. Don’t even really have a reason why!
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I have one of those, one of the best controllers made in my personal opinion
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+bonus d-pad thing to mess around with on loading screens.
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Sent this on twitter 😛
http://www.mightyape.com.au/search/?i=All&prev=&s=xbox+controller&SearchButton=Search
Found it on OzBargain and the wired was $22 yesterday so it looks like they increased the price by a bit. Shipping is $4.90 I believe but it’s still a pretty good price.
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mightyape reliable? never heard of them before. admitedly i dont shop online that much.
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Yep they’re perfectly fine! Me and some other TAYbies have bought from them before.
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They can be a bit hit and miss with preorders but are generally reliable. I believe they’re New Zealand based, one of the bigger online retailers there.
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Mighty Ape are pretty good. They have good daily deals with usually at least one game in there, and they still have some great deals on collector’s editions of games. Plus they sell stuff from QMx and ThinkGeek so there’s a lot of cool stuff there.
Which reminds me, one of their ‘daily deals’ yesterday was The Witcher 2 on 360 for $39 and I forogt to grab it. 🙁
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While we’re talking controllers – who has the cheapest PS3 controllers, now that my 360 is gone ? 🙁
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What do you mean by something different o.0
http://www.etsy.com/listing/103584603/xbox-controller-themed-crop-mature-bdsm-
Man i’d be up for that
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Ha Ha Ha, wow.
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Free shipping \o/
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Also, the Razor Onza is a great option if you feel like somehting different – i have the regular version and it’s awesome, if not a little different to start with.
I think it’s pez who has the Tournament Edition which, if i remember correctly, he speaks very highly of and has the added bonus of adjustable sticks, although is a bit more expensive.
@loops – look up to your laptop post!
should i buy Diablo III y/n?
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Depends. I enjoyed my time with it, and don’t regret buying it, that said, I haven’t played it in a while, and have no urge to. However, their upcoming patches do look interesting. Hmm, not really helping here, am I?
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i enjoyed chapter 1 with the demo……thats all i have to go buy other than people complaining bout the lack of end game.
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I’d say yes since I had fun with it but it depends on whether or not you have friends to play it with.
Most of my fun came from co-op with the TAYbies and other friends, just dropping in/out with whoever was online at the time was really fun. But… since pretty much no one plays it anymore that’ll be harder to do.
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Wait until Torchlight II is out and then get whichever is better.
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never got into touchlight, so thats not a decision i need to make.
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I had more fun with the first Torchlight than I did with Diabo 3.
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Just had a thought, does anyone remember an old late 90s game called Gazillionaire?
Basically ,it was a trading simulation set in a far off galaxy where an emperor grants companies the right to begin trading .
The player who got their company to a net worth of one million kubars would be declared the winner.
That and it had some cool looking ships.
It was a really enjoyable game, if I say so myself.
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I think I played a demo that came with an edition of PC Gamer. Was fun.
Just had a thought, does anyone remember an old late 90s game called Gazillionaire?
Basically ,it was a trading simulation set in a far off galaxy where an emperor grants companies the right to begin trading .
The player who got their company to a net worth of one million kubars would be declared the winner.
That and it had some cool looking ships.
It was a really enjoyable game, if I say so myself.
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Why does it go through twice when I only clicked “Submit” once?
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Because it loves you so much =D
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Also, Is it worth getting Sniper Elite V2 just to shoot Hitler in the groin?
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As far as i can recall i never got to shoot Hitler in the game. But for a sniper game it was loads of fun. The Mortal Kombat style x-rays make it worth it.
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And now available to play free http://www.lavamind.com/gaz.html
I vaguely remember that one, it has positive memories though
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Thanks for the link! 🙂
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Hello!
Semi-set up now.
I has laptop and I am totally stealing my cousin’s internet (but not really, sort of).
Pretty cool things that have happened:
– Being stuck in Vancouver for hours after immigration made me miss my Domestic flight
– Air Canada delaying my checked-in luggage
– Being questioned by Scotia Bank about whether or not I had enough valid ID to open a bank account.
– Getting sick
– Toronto’s lacklustre Classic Hits radio stations
– Their taxes aren’t included in the final price of stuff. Also retail tax is like 13%. What an odd number.
– One cent coins. Why.
Actual cool things:
– Seeing my aunt for the first time in 15 years, and her ending the first thing she says to me with “eh”.
– Food is amazingly cheap here. $3-5 for a pound of Lobster. So 10ish bucks for a small lobster.
– Canadian government efficiency. SO yesterday I went to Scotia bank, HSBC, Service Ontario, Service Canada and somewhere else semi-important. Head to Service Canada for my Social Insurance Number, I’m told to wait, so I sit down, and one minute later I’m called to a desk, 5 minutes later, I have my SIN and I’m good to work in Canada. Whaaaaaaaaaat.
– Speaker for the Dead is pretty awesome
Okay I will stop being boring and being all OMG CANADIA
How are y’all?
How about dem games?
Anyone willing to shoot me the TeamSpeak details? Twitter or email or what have you would be super.
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Okay, 97.3 is playing Under Pressure.
YOU HAVE REDEEMED YOURSELF FOR NOW, CANADIA RADIO -
Hi Bish!
Twittery message sent.
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Thanks Beav!
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Hi Bish!
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Bbbbiiiiissssshhhhhh….
Hi!
Probably not your thing but Canadians love Billy Talent 🙂
Darksiders II mini review thingie!
Combat had been improved.
Multiple secondary weapon types is good, each weapons feels different.
Loot system is OK, very basic but it gets the job done.
Dungeons, and there are a lot more of them, are still puzzle-ee (shut up it’s a real word).
Game seems much bigger.
Early horsey & fast travel system means you spend lest time running from place to place.
I really like the skill tree system (it could have been laid out a bit better though). You are never locked down to one skill tree like so many other games seem to love doing.
Wrath abilities are actually useful and worth using.
Death moves around a heap better then War.
Final thoughts: Darksiders II is a “jack-of-all trades but master of none” but that doesn’t mean its bad. Infact that’s what makes it brilliant. If you want to only play a Zelda game, then don’t get this. If you want to only play a God of War game, then don’t get this. If you want an RPG, then don’t get this game. IF you want a brilliant game with dungeons filled with puzzles, very action orientated combat and a basic RPG elements then what are you waiting for? BUY THIS AWESOME GAME ALREADY!
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Thanks for the insights, man. Sounds pretty decent! Will post some thoughts on Sleeping Dogs later too!
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Has anyone played the DLC? I’m supposedly supposed to get ‘Tomb of Argul’ and ‘Death Rides’ since I preordered from EB. The latter is supposed to add 2 hours of gameplay. However, the season pass on Steam doesn’t mention either of them :/
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I got a message when I openned the game that said the DLC will be out soon.
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Just had a moment of game nostalgia…for some odd reason Onimusha just popped in to my mind. Man i loved that series of games. Then Jean Reno got on board and something about time travel…wat.
Still, I really enjoyed that samurai Resident Evil clone.
Anyone else get gaming related nostalgia?
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Dude the intro to Onimusha 3 is still one of THE BEST videogame intros ever, period.
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Samanosuke! *swoons*
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Remember panda suit mode? That panda could kick some serious ass.
Back to work after a week and a half off.
Where did all this paper come from? I’m going to have to do something about all this…
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Shredder? Paper planes?
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Practice your origami skills?
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Start a spit-ball war?
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Make a giant paper machè model of Lego Batman?
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Make a flip book featuring yourself punching a Nazi?
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Get a papercut from a radioactive piece of paper and become “paper man”. Then dish out justice in the form if papercuts.
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I vote for this one
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Fire. The solution to every problem.
paper fort?
Just downloading my MSDN copy of Windows 8 Pro, so far I’m downloading at 2 MBps which is great! Will be Windows 8ing shortly. Will be interesting to see how different it is from preview builds.
While I catch up on the backlog of TAY… just a reminder that I’ll have a livestream again o n Friday at 8pm! http://www.jamesflamestar.com/
Also, if you haven’t been exposed to my campaigning on Twitter/FB, please go check out my album campaign on http://www.pozible.com/jflamestar and send some foldin’ moneys my way! You get a lot of cool stuff and you get the warm fuzzy feeling of helping out indie/gamer music 🙂
Any have a spare $1099 to drop on a GTX690 4GB?
http://www.scorptec.com.au/computer/47279-p-gtx690-4gbd5?utm_source=Scorptec+Mailing+List&utm_campaign=42aa0d8f67-48HR_Moshi_ML&utm_medium=email
If you got the money – do it!
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I have the money but that costs more than the rest of the parts in my PC combined.
So I’ll pass, thank you very much.
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My GTX 580 will make do for now 🙂
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I dont have the money. but that is indeed a sexy piece of hardware.
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Pure nerd porn.
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Hey so… say I’m using Windows 7 on my PC and my laptop, and they see each other fine until today when they don’t. What would one suggest is going on here?
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hmm… getting any error messages? connected wirelessly?
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A messy break up. The two need to spend some time apart, to find themselves, before they decide whether they continue the relationship.
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HAHAHA! They are ebing slelfish and not thinking about their mutual friend in all this though. Which is me.
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Wow I sound drunk
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Were you using homegroups? Or just seeing them in the network folder? Did either get automatic updates recently? Check that discover network locations (something like that, can’t remember the exact name) is on.
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Yeah but theyre both on a workgroup I made, ‘WORKGROUP’, which was working fine before. And yes 35, the laptop is wireless, pc is by ethernet cable to the modem/router. Ahhhmmmm… actually yes, my sister for some reason allowed updates on the laptop. but both still have that discover network thing turned on, checked that just before 🙁
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Force a connection by typing in \\
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Stupid site ate half my comment. If your laptop’s name was SUGHLY and your desktop was THEPOSTMAN then you would want to enter \\THEPOSTMAN\ into the address bar in Windows Explorer on SUGHLY.
Sometimes the discovery stuff breaks and that just tries to manually look up a connection.
Failing that I’d reboot both machines and hard reset your router (unplug and plug back in, or switch off and back on) to clear the router’s IP tables etc.
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Haha, yeah it wasnt working from my pc to laptop, but I tried it vice versa on a whim and it worked. Still cant see from pc to laptop, so I just made a dump folder. Which is a bit of a lazy workaround for now but whatevs :/
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Have you tried turning it off and on again?
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Reply fail! Reply to Sughly
@Tigerion
Reply to your laptop question.
The most intensive thing I’ve thrown at my laptop so far has been Diablo 3 and Photoshop =P
D3 runs perfectly fine, with the obvious D3 issues, which make testing difficult. The graphics card is fairly powerful though, it gets quite hot running D3 and chews throw battery like crazy.
I’ve played some other things like TF2, Quantum Conundrum and lots of other Indy games, no problems there.
I got the extra RAM so that I could run solidworks on it. handles that fine too.
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“I got the extra RAM so that I could run solidworks on it.”
That’s what she said.
#DansTriumphantReturn
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Doesn’t even make sense ya dillhole. You stretched that humour more than goatse.
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Anyone know much about soundcards? My brother bought a pair of 7.1 surround sound headphones. What is the average price if a 7.1 surround sound soundcard? Is there any company to avoid? Any company that is better?
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Bahh, submit fail.
*my brother bought a pair of 7.1 surround sound headphones and is asking me if getting a soundcard is worth it.
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Onboard soundcards are more than good enough for most things these days. If your brother is only going to be listening to games / music / movies, the onboards should be good.
Personally though, I’m a bit of a sound snob & I do a bit of recording, so I go for mid range sound cards at ~$150-200 & I’ve not regretted it.
as far as brands go, I like Creative but I’ve not used many other brands so I cant comment.
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Yeah, mid range will easily do. Given that most people have cloth ears and won’t notice the difference higher quality makes, that’s all you need.
Another option to do on the cheap – if your onboard has a SPDIF out (digital out), just get a headphone amp. Not sure how that would tie in with 7.1 however (I don’t think it would), but I’ve never dabbled in anything beyond stereo.
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‘Surround’ headphones are a terrible gimmick. 🙁
Morning TAY.
So i took the plunge lastnight and bought Diablo III. Shame it starts you back at the start of the game even though i finished the first chapter in the demo. On the upside, its kept my character stats, so that should be no challenge. Will hopefully get to have a serious sit down and play tonight, was a little unwell lastnight so my gaming concentration was rather low.
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I’m kind of tempted to see what the 1.0.4 patch has changed with the game. Might make it worth playing again but to be honest, I don’t think I could play D3 solo. Needs party members to be worthwhile.
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I’m pretty much in the same boat. Keeping an eye on 1.04 to see if it adds anything to the endgame.
Personally, I’m not much into grinding for grindings sake. theres gotta be some sort of reward involved to keep me going. & because of the low drop quality, that incentive disappeared after beating hell difficulty.
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Yeah, I hit the wall at Inferno Act 1.
Had the gear to do it but just couldn’t be bothered. Especially when I would have had to have played very defensively and probably by myself. Who wants to solo a tank-specced Monk?
Nobody, that’s who.
Although with the new legendaries, maybe it’s worthwhile. Maybe.
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Ills plays! Get the old gang back together! I never reached level 60 or beat Hell.
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@Inquisitorsz
Cheers for the heads up mate! Much appreciated! I’ll have to keep them in mind once my tax return turns up.
I’ll probably have to have a chat with my Step-dad too, as he’s a Manager at CPL, which could also be beneficial. Hmmmmm….
Problem is i need to make it viable for at least another 2 years… bloody technology – STOP PROGRESSING!!!
Anyone know any good websites for renting out a room? I’ve got an ad on Gumtree. I’ve tried a few others like easyroommate and flatmates and I’m not having much luck and they want to charge you for sending/receiving msgs. I remember a few years ago I found a website that was perfect when I was looking for a place, but no matter how much I google I can’t find it anymore =/
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This is what I used when I was leasing out some office space, not sure how relevant for you but have a look
http://www.gumtree.com.au
http://www.spaceout.com.au/index.php
http://www.officeshare.com.au/
http://www.creativespaces.net.au
@Bish.
Where do you get off calling me AEF and then leaving for a life in Canada. I thought what we had was special. But last night I found out you’ve just upped and left. T_T
(serious though have fun and don’t hug the polar bears.)
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HI AEF
YOU HAD YOUR CHANCE
I WAS ALL
COME TO THE PYREAN AND GORZY MEAT
And then you did not.-
I was scared!
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Spec Ops: The Line FUBAR edition on Ozgameshop for $35.99
That’s PC btw
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[Insert rambling fanboy endorsement here.]
So good.
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I’m surprised at how good that game is.
Thought it would be another gung-ho USA saves the day military wank fest, but holy shit… its anything but.
Especially after the bit I played through last night o_o
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Yeah, it’s a really interesting game. Clearly a lot going on in symbolism and stuff. I like how as you progress through the game the US flag on the main menu screen gets darker and more tattered and eventually falls off. Heaps of nice touches like that. Plus the plot actually makes you stop and think about stuff.
If the actual core gameplay was a bit better it would be Game of the Year stuff IMO. Unfortunately it’s a bit flawed and trips itself up a bit, ends up being a bit frustrating at points. Could have been better.
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So TAY ate my post because it had two links 🙁
Take two:
While I catch up on the backlog of TAY… just a reminder that I’ll have a livestream again o n Friday at 8pm! the url is double you double you double you dot james flamestar dot com yay.
Also, if you haven’t been exposed to my campaigning on Twitter/FB, please go check out my album campaign on http://www.pozible.com/jflamestar and send some foldin’ moneys my way! You get a lot of cool stuff and you get the warm fuzzy feeling of helping out indie/gamer music 🙂
“Your comment is awaiting moderation.” NOT ANYMORE SUCKAS.
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Oh Pez, you comical bastard you!
I shall be there Friday me hopes.
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GIVE THIS MAN MONEY
also, I’ll pick up some beverages & lurk on the livestream. you’d better be damned entertaining.
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It gets even more interesting when the live stream has stopped & Pez forgets to turn the web cam off. But then it’s $5.95 a minute.
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man, I’m tuning out too early.
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Just decided to check my prepaid balance for my phone right, and I get whatever 400mb a month in data or maybe it’s 300mb, I thought since having an iPhone i’d use it faster, but i’ve got 280mb to use in 4 days apparently, can’t be right since I am constantly using 3G on it when I am not at home on the wifi.
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You’d be surprised at how little straight browsing goes through – especially if you’re on a plan that doesn’t include twitter/fb usage.
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I do get free Facebook from Telstra on 0.facebook.com, but that’s mainly because the FB app & mobile site are complete arse and load pathetically. As for Twitter pretty sure that’s not free unless I use Tribe, like hell i’d wanna use that.
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Yeah straight browsing uses pretty much nothing. Just gotta be careful when watching videos (YouTube, GameTrailers, PORN).
My phone usually has more reliable internet than my desktop so sometimes I’ll tether it using the USB cable and use my phone for internet when playing online games since it’s less laggy :P. It doesn’t use THAT much but since you only have 300mb or so I probably wouldn’t do it.
I finally got around to starting Red Dead Redemption again (although I’ve since been waylaid by Lego Batman 2) and the first thing that I noticed was how deliberately slow the pacing was.
It’s a nice change.
Most games completely fuck up the pacing of their plot and/or action by breaking things up for unnecessary exposition (or necessary exposition that really should have been handled better). Others rely on the Dan Brown/Michael Bay approach of just having things constantly happen so that you don’t notice that none of the things that happen make much sense.
I should probably do a big rant about this. Pacing is one of those things that really bugs me because it’s often that little thing that you know is wrong but don’t actively realise.
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It’s excellent, huh? I loved the down time at the start. Doing odd jobs around the MacFarlane farm, taking Bonnie into Amadillo. Truly a thing of beauty.
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My favourite part of the game was the bit with John on the homestead. Sure it wasn’t exciting gameplay but it was the reward that the character had earned through all of the hardships you went through earlier in the game. It was a good demonstration of character because it showed you what he did everything for.
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So many subtle character moments in the game, I particularly liked when… Wbua naq uvf jvsr ivfvgrq Obaavr gbjneqf gur raq, abg n jubyr ybg jnf fnvq ohg Obaavr’f obql ynathntr… cerggl qnza znfgreshy.
Favourite Rockstar game by far.
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You know what absolutely killed the game for me? The fucking goddamn horse racing shit you have to do.
Also the fact that I had an awesomesauce horse at one point and then the game glitched out and suddenly the horse died and was replaced with another one and I’m all THAT’S NOT THE HORSE I JUST SPENT TWENTY HOURS WITH. And then I stopped playing.
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A cougar killed my horse once when I was riding off the trail and I got sad so I reloaded an old save 😛
Then I accidentally lost the same horse and gave up on the game completely 🙁 (thankfully I had finished the story and just had ‘extra’ stuff to do)
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Fun fact. Provided you’ve aquired the horse you can go into ANY general store in the game and BUY a Deed to said horse so that if it dies you can just call a new one for free. As many times as you like.
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But it’s not the same horse! It might look the same but it isn’t!
Admittedly, I did this during the end game after I had lost both Cookie and Binky. After they had died, I didn’t care so much about my horse. It was just easier that way.
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IIRC that was for buying the deed to a specific breed of horse. Not the same horse.
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I followed Greenius’ lead, reloading after an unfortunate incident with a cougar.
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Given half of TAY hasn’t played RDR, September is now Official Finish RDR Month. the rules are, you finish RDR.
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That’s surely inaccurate. What were they all doing in 2010!?
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Finished RDR and RDR:UN for shameless gaming…ahhh Grand Theft Palamino…good times
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Sorry, September is Borderlands 2 month.
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But what about the first half of September?
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Hype train?
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Or Borderlands! I still want to get through the DLC
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One of Sleeping Dogs and Fall of Cybertron. Also my 3DS XL should arrive around then. Also DoA5 in September and I’ll spend some decent time with that since I like those games a lot. There’s a few others too.
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Speaking of Sleeping Dogs:
I’ve anticipated it for an entire week excitedly? Check. I wake up early to buy it? Check. I install it on the 360? Check. I feel like playing it? No dice. I hate it when that happens. 😛
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That happens to me so often 🙁 I’m all like YES LET’S PLAY THIS GAME and then it has to install or download or whatever and I can’t be bothered waiting and play something else or go watch TV or whatever and then it’s too late. 🙁
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Hey friends, I was browsing my usual sites and I stumbled across this deal.
Ubisoft are having one game a day for $1. These are:
H.A.W.X.2 (Thu), From Dust (Fri), Silent Hunter 5 (Sat), Driver: San Francisco (Sun).
There’s also some other ‘deals’ where over priced games are slightly discounted. These games are:
Thu – Adventures of Tintin, Anno 2070
Fri – All Assassin’s Creed games (on the page) and Prince of Persia.
Sat – Shaun White Skateboarding & Heroes VI and its expansion.
Sun – Settlers 7 & Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell.
(stuff copy/pasted and slightly changed from ozbargain so all credit goes to whoever put up the deal)
TAY marketing says Driver:SF is good so I’ll be picking up that and I hear From Dust is pretty averagey but for $1, who cares! Safe to assume that these are UPlay and not Steam but yeah… $1! 😀
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I liked From Dust. Then again, I played it on 360, which was the better version. It’s ai was massively deep, but the rest of its tech was amazing.
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I’m not sure if you meant deep or derp. This dramatically alters what you’ve said.
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Ducking autocorrect. Derp* so very, very Derp.
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I thought it was pretty damn good when it worked properly, annoying when villagers decide the best path is through the lava instead of the bridge you built.
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Thanks greenius, for a dollar I grabbed HAWX2 but not sure I’ll play it with the whole uplay thing.
If not I think I can live with wasting $1I enjoyed From Dust and I think I already have driver SF but haven’t played it yet
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There’s also more free games from GMG if anyone cares (free 20% off code and store-credit!)
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Driver SF is well worth a dollar. Hell, it’s worth double, maybe triple, that!
Also, play From Dust. I think the word average does it a disservice because it is a great game and like Blaghze said, has great tech.
Has anyone had any experience with Roccat products?
world wide web (dot) roccat (dot) org
Coz they got some awesome ideas going on, and by the looks of things their products are fairly affordable compared to things like logitech gaming devices…
http://power-grid.roccat.org/?
This power grid thing looks awesome.
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I’m keen to see how powergrid would pan out, though I can’t say it’d be a very elegant solution. Buttons on a keyboard are one thing, buttons on a screen, another. Buttons on a screen on your keyboard? Now it’s getting difficult 😛
I think for the purposes of displaying minor game-related info on your smartphone, or hell, allowing media functions w/out alt-tabbing would be awesome. Additional macros and whatnot just gets a little difficult, in my mind.
Aside from that, I’ve no experience with roccat devices, sorry.
MORNING TAY \o/
What’s that? It’s afternoon?! Wow, time flies >.<
What’s everyone been up to?
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Work /o\
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Inorite?! Power’s been out since 7, so I’ve been running around like a headless chook trying to ensure that I’ve got enough extension leads coming from the generators /o\
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… that you stole from the neighbouring town ship, after breaching their fortifications?
(I won’t let that go. :P)
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Naww, I actually had to ensure that they had power too. LOOOOOOOONG extension leads man 😛
It’s crazy, we run on dirty power here, which is fine. But it’s been off at LEAST once per day for the past fortnight. Oh well, the more issues, the more I remain employed!
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Now I’m suspicious of you secretly sabotaging things to remain employed…
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Aww, man. Damn ninja. 😛
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Haha, not quite. This place is bad enough without me screwing around \o/
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Well, hey, if they fix the troubles there’s always sabotage!
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I ordered a copy of A Dance With Dragons back in March through Fishpond and around May I gave up hope of ever receiving it, so I bought myself another copy.
The one I ordered through Fishpond came in the mail today. Now, I don’t need two copies of the book. Does anyone want it?
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If you’d had it two weeks ago, I would’ve said yes. As it is, I’m now a third of the way through it. Good book… #NotHelping #HashtagsforHarli
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Oddly enough, I got my copy yesterday.
Ordered it a lot more recently though. Yay for book depository!
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Agreed, so much better than Fishpond
#formerFishpondcustomer
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What are these tales of the Dragons with whom you Dance?
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A Dance With Dragons is the most recent book in the Song of Ice and Fire series. aka, Game of Thrones.
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Ahh, I see! I’ve not read the books, nor have I seen the show. I’m terrible at this stuff /o\
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Fishpond aren’t very good with delivery 😛
I’m very slowly working my way through the series, I don’t own any but I’m borrowing them from a friend.
The kindness in here never ceases to amaze me :’)
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If I still have it in my posession when it comes time for you to read it, let me know!
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Thanks man 🙂
When I say “slowly working my way through” I mean very very slowly. I started watching the series before the books so I found it hard to read GoT since it was so close to the TV series which was still pretty clear in my mind. I read about 100 pages of it a few months ago and haven’t touched it since, since S2 was starting soon and it would’ve been annoying to jump back between an old book and the new book.
I HOPE to read book 1-3 before the third season starts and re-watch season 1 and 2 but there’s no rush for me at the moment :).
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I haven’t bought from them in a while but I never had delivery problems. Some of their stuff is warehoused in the US I think, which is why it can take a while.
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I bought a MS 3000 point card off them once and it took months for it to arrive despite it being “in stock”. I hear books and other things are generally fine but I probably wouldn’t buy from them again.
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Is Fishpond actually any better than thebookdepository though regarding shipping times/cost? I mean, thebookdepository has never let me down, always been cheap as chips and always arrived within two weeks. I’d definitely suggest it over Fishpond, though I did get a Lego kit from there once.
That was rad.
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I guess the only positive Fishpond has over BookDepository is that they sell non-book things. I’ve only used Fishpond once but it wasn’t the best experience, they just had what I wanted for the cheapest price.
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Aaaaaand Lady Strange has claimed the prize.
Because Onimusha was mentioned on the previous page, and I assume there are a few of you who haven’t played it, I present to you the intro cinematic from Onimusha 3, in my opinion one of the best videogame cinematics ever made.
SAMANOSUKE!!!
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\o/ Yay!
Samanosuke!
So I got an issue with my fans GPU, of late when i’ve loaded up a graphic intensive game as you would expect the fan increases to keep it cool, when my fan speeds up it makes a clicking noise? I’m thinking it’s a bearing or something, is it something I should be worried about?
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Check there’s no stray cables falling in. Clean it out, the heat sink can get pretty dusty. Are your GPU temperatures stable and in a safe range?
Depending on the make of the card you can probably buy an aftermarket replacement cooler which will work better, but it might be cheaper to replace the card if it’s an older one.
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Well it’s 4 month old GTX 560, temps are stable, max load nothing above 55-65 as per usual, I checked for cables the other day and nothing was there.
And now I can’t seem to hear the noise.
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usually stray cables or dust build up can do that. If it was the bearing it would be constant
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One of my older cards got so hot playing marathon WoW sessions in the summer with no aircon that the case’s fan mountings (which were rubber) melted and dripped into the card and that caused the fan to get pretty noisy…
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I’m genuinely impressed, sir!
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I feel like I’ve missed so much TAY even though it’s only been one page and I didn’t actually go anywhere 😛 It’s times like this I’m glad we don’t go through several pages a day anymore.
I’ve actually been doing work (for once)! Which is good, because now I have enough breathing room to be able to get a 3DS XL when they come out. New-gadget-guilt free! \o/
Now that that’s over though I need to resume jub-hunting /o\ Oh well, I’ve got Doc What’s birthday Meat to look forward too!
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Ha ha, nice change in username 🙂
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MORE LIKE POOALEN
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HI TAY.
I have a problem. I just went and watched the G1 Retro trailer for Transformers: Fall of Cybertron, and I realised something. Hound is in there. He hasn’t actually been officially announced yet, which is pretty sweet. But. I’m having trouble trying to identify the Autobot on the very far right. Part of me wants to say it’s Trailbreaker, but another part of me doubts it. He also kind of looks like Drift… Any ideas??
Hi TAY, boy have I had a day. For those not in the Twittersphere, I got a phonecall from someone, claiming that I was the father of their child(and insisting that I knew who they were), and the builders managed to break two-thirds of the power in my house. Sadly though, I did not find ten dollars.
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LOL at the formerer
🙁 at the latter
🙁 at the latterer
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Those calls are rather unpleasant man. A previous partner had one of her friends call me on her behalf for the same reasons. Hope things get sorted for you!
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Believe me when I assure you that it was a wrong number. It was just awkward, and she wouldn’t believe me as I assured her that I was not who she meant to call.
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Your first mistake was answering the phone. Hermit rule #141.
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I know, but I forgot to add one of my three friends to my phone, so I thought it might have been him…
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Oh, well this is awkward…
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Hahaha. Though you’ve at least made me consider how hard that call was for her. I may have been a tad abrupt…
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Not at all, man. Hope things went well for you too.
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Wow, sounds like you’ve had an odd day. :S
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Don’t worry, Blaghs – you’ll always the be the father of the child in my heart.
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Well, if I was, at least I’d have had some action… :p
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So I now own Minecraft, yay I guess? So does the TAY server exist still? Am I allowed to join you all?
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It should still be up. You need to be whitelisted so give Nob your username (the one you use to sign in) and he should be able to whitelist you 🙂
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That’s easy, since it’s my TAY name =P
I’m on a quest to build the Vercetti estate from Vice City in Minecraft 😀
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Hmm…
So I just opened my jaw normally a few minutes ago and now it hurts when I open it widely or bite down. The pain is a weird sort of sensation where my ear is on the left side and I was wondering if anyone else has had this problem before or knows what it is?
I guess I’ve had weird little ‘pains’ in the same sort of spot every few months but nothing this severe. I’m trying not to open my mouth for now and hopefully it’ll be gone by tomorrow. Something tells me it won’t though… :/
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By no means am I a medical professional, but is it muscular or skeletal in nature? If it’s the former, it’s possible you’ve strained the muscle?
I have weird clicks and grinds all over my body, jaw included, although it’s not as frequent. It kind of… iunno, snaps back into place every now and then, without me realising it was out of place?
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I’d say muscular. I’ve had a similar sensation of pain before in the same spot but it doesn’t happen often and it’s nowhere near as painful.
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I had something similar to that a while back, but I had a cold, and an earache that went down to my jaw. And as someone who gets regular pain in the left side of their head, if it persists I’d recommend seeing a doctor.
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Not sure what you mean by earache but I do currently have a cold. I also went to a concert on Sunday and my ears were ringing constantly until today (doubt it’s related though).
I’d say I do get regular pain on the left side of my head too. Usually to do with some sort of gland below my jaw and above the neck. I can feel it tingling now.
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@ Greenius,
Obviously the only helpful treatment is to amputate at the neck. This will surely relieve your pain and prevend any re-occurence.@ Bish,
Should you become trapped on a bus in a foreign country, clearly the only course of action is to bury your head in whatever hand-held you can get your hands on and pretend it isn’t happening!
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Wisdom teef!
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Bish! I got nothing. Just wanted to say hi.
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Hola!
Was going to pop onto TS a few hours ago, but I have to figure out this weird public transport system!
If you never hear from me again, assume I am trapped on a bus.-
Well, if you had, it would have saddened me immensely, since I can’t get on there atm. Anyway, good luck with the transport stuff!
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I agree with Bish, when my wisdom teeth went bad it felt like a shooting pain all the way up my head.
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Fun Fact: One time I yawned and my jaw locked into place for a second. It hurt because I panicked and forced it shut.
No relation to this story. Just wanted to share a fun fact. Now you know.
Mann vs Machine TF2 is the best waiting-in-line simulator I’ve ever seen!
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Better than Diablo 3 on launch week?
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considering I had zero issues at launch for D3…. yes this one is much better
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Ladies, gents, and TAYbies of all ages;
I present to you, the newest member of the -Null clan, Smudge.
pic.twitter.com/MdOr94Q2
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AAWWWWWWW
…put a shirt on.
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Maybe he was feeding it?
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Thanks for the warning. I’ll wait for the non-nekkid version. 😛
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Nice tits!
Also dogs cute 😛
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Awww, super cute!
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Hahaha! That’s pretty cute!
Do you know what he/she is breed-wise?
And yeah – Listen to Powalen. Shirts are good!
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The Bloodhound Gang had it right. Hooray for boobies!!!
Perhaps I should have added a NSFW tag on that post 😛@Smurfy, I believe she’s a fox terrier X chihuahahauhauhauhahaahauhauhauhauhuuua.
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Truely a dog for the ages! You just wanted to post shirtless pics, though. Didn’t you. DIDN’T YOU.
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PUPPY!!
At some point recently, Darksiders II has completely clicked with me and fuck this game is awesome.
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Yeah it is. I am also loving it.
Do any TAYbies know if Battlefield 2 works on Windows 7 64 bit?
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I don’t but I do know Battlefield Vietnam does, that’s possibly no help though.
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I have bad company on steam (is that the same thing?) but haven’t tried in on 64 bit. I can install and try it out if nobody else has experience with it
Awesome. I put Darksiders 2 in, put in the Death Rides code and it’s not valid.
Anyone had this trouble before? What the best way to go about fixing it?
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PS3? Nob said something about a messaging saying DLC was coming soon for the PC version. Death Rides and Argul were the main reason I preordered it…
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Yup, when I logged in on Wednesday (i think) it said something along the lines of “keep your DLC code safe as we are releasing the DLC soon”.
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Wait, you preordered a game for the DLC and bot the game? That’s a little weird.
Weirdius 😛
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and not the game?*
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Well it was more to do with EB having retailer exclusive DLC which supposedly adds 2 hours of gameplay :P. I would’ve imported it or bought it elsewhere for cheaper if it wasn’t for that. I could always return it and keep the preorder goodies though… but eh, effort!
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Jaw still hurts :'(
@Aleph – put a shirt on!
@Bish – it’s 3AM so Hi!
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needius
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Are you sure it’s not wisdom teeth, man? When they went bad for me it felt like a shooting pain up the side of my head. Couldn’t sleep. Couldn’t relax. Then came the headaches. If you think it is, man, best to get it sorted sooner rather than later.
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It might not be since the pain occured the second I opened my jaw. I’m seeing the doctor in a few minutes so I guess we’ll find out. Thanks all for the replies!
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Good luck, man. Hope you feel better.
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Moot comment I suppose, since you’re off, but you have to remember there’s a nerve that hangs around there as well.
I know DC’s agreeing with me, but I’m co-agreeing with him. Used to happened to me randomly sometimes. Got my first two out and that stopped it for a while, but then my other 2 decided they’d cause a consistent dull ache (which is a million times better than sharp pain, though).-
Yeah it doesn’t hurt normally though and only when I move my jaw. Doctor said it’s likely the TMJ joint in the jaw (which is what I suspected from Googling :P) and it could be really bad or just a slight strain. Since it’s only been a few hours it was hard to tell but I guess we’ll find out in a week or so.
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Aleph, Trjn: The Newsroom IS a damn good show. It’s got an agenda, but it doesn’t try to hide it. News media is all kinds of fucked up right now, so it’s got something that desperately needs to be said. Helps that it’s excellently written and has the Sorkin voice too. (This is why you don’t link to Twitter, Aleph. Stalking!) Don’t watch too fast, Trjn. Only a ten ep season alas. Has already been picked up for another year, though.
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Also, Jim’s my favourite character. Olivia Munn is surprisingly awesome. The opening credits kick ass. Maggie’s got the same kind of charm as Donna in The West Wing. 😛
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Maggie is Donna, Will is Tobey and MacKenzie is Sam.
Neal is also kind of Donna.
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Will has a little bit of Josh too, I reckon. Just the immature unexpected things he does and says from time-to-time…
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I kinda bought lots of stuff Last night
Logitech G400 Mouse
Razer Lycosa Keyboard
Scott Pilgrim Boxset
A massive collection of X-men comics done by my favourite artist
Some More Naruto manga
and some other random books that i have wanted to read. Retail therapy is real, i feel better and have no guilt because i haven’t bought anything for myself since i went to Sydney 🙂
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Buy Dead Silence!
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Not a fan of horror little one. In fact i would say that i pretty much dislike horror movies and books.
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Dead Silence is Billy Talent’s new album 😛
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Aww, man…if I’d known you wanted to spend craptons of money I could have helped you by making you buy me return tickets to Sydney so I can go to Gentleman What?’s birthday Meat! 😛
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A noble cause!
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Hi Bishy! Eaten any superb foods in Canadia yet?
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Oh! I just saw that McGriddle pic on the Tweeters.
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The food I’ve eaten has been good; good produce, cheap prices, cooked well.
The problem is that I haven’t had anything distinctly Canadian or American yet.
I’ve eaten out at Chinese, Italian and Vietnamese, and whilst they’ve been good, they haven’t been anything unique or things I couldn’t have had back in Australia.
The McGriddle’s a start I suppose.
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Why would i do that for you and not for myself?
Answer: BECAUSE I WOULD DO IT FOR BOTH OF US
Now im bummed im not going. THANKS STRANGE
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Well if you’re bummed you kn ow what to do…more retail therapy! 😛
Seriously though, I’m glad buying cool stuffs made you feel better. Added bonus if you buy online is how awesome it is when they start arriving.
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Yes! There was a time when I constantly bought all these things online so I’d just get one every few days or so. Best feeling!
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I think its a bad way to deal with stress, but i don’t do it very often and i can afford to so i think its okay to splurge every once in a while.
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Retail therapy is the best thing ever. I may or may not have a job at the end of the year so I am buying all the games. Probably not the smartest thing to do but it makes me feel good. 😀
A fascinating ‘burger’, to be sure, comprised of two pancakes filled with small pockets of maple syrup, egg… sorry, ‘egg’, cheese and bacon. Allegedly introduced in Australia in the last few months of 2011, I had one of these this morning.
It comes presented in a neat little package, tidily tucked up in the Maccas paper wrapper, none of the elements too much bigger than any of the others. When you take your first bite, you pass easily through the pancake, cheese and layered egg, but then hit the bacon which is satisfyingly crispy. But then you take a moment to absorb the flavour, which is just all sweet. The egg and cheese have no significant flavour (powdered egg, rather than the real egg we have in, say, Sausage and egg McMuffins), but the bacon is drowned out by the overly-sweet pancakes.
And here lies my problem with it; as an item seemingly constructed of two different breakfast menu items (Bacon and Egg McMuffin and Pancakes/Hotcakes/whatever they call it), it should as such lean towards the Breakfast tastebuds, which can be a little sweet, but more savoury, I think. But these pancakes ruin it by being too sweet, more suited for a dessert-ish item.
I admit, the more I think about it, the more I can accept sweetness in breakfast items; pancakes with maple syrup, Fruit Loops, stuff like that. But personally, I think the McGriddle’s sweetness is too much. I imagine it’d be pretty weird with the sausage instead of bacon, which at least in Australia is salty and spicy. Super-sweet with a hint of salty and spicy would be too weird, I think.
Bacon & Egg McGriddle: 4/10
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More food reviews please 🙂
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That’s quite the report there Bish! Despite a poor review, I’m now salivating. You’re the new Pavlov.
(Dammit, times like this I could eat 10 sausage’n’egg muffins)Should I ever meet you in person, we shall eat ALL the sausage’n’egg muffins. Providing there’s a maccas nearby.
Also, HI BISH! \o/
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They sound sub par, but this still made me hungry.
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Metareview? Aww shit son.
But yeah, definitely hungry now. Might see if staples are edible :S
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Let me on the band wagon too, it made me hungry as well!
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Where are you again Bish?
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Oh, Canada. His home and not-so-native land!
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I don’t like Maccas breakfast at the best of times. That looks disgusting 😛
Zelda Historia is coming to the West :D! Dark Horse Comics are publishing it and I know a lot of TAYbies are big comic book fans so I was wondering, how am I supposed to get this thing?
It was just announced so I don’t think any pre-orders are up at the moment but do you buy directly from them and do they ship at a modest price to Australia? Would somewhere like BookDepository have it too? It retails for $35 USD which seems fine to me (I’ve never bought an art book) since most stuff I see on eBay are like $60+ for the Japanese imports.
I know there’s a lot of Zelda fans in here too so if anyone finds out more details on when and where to pre-order it could they holla? :). Thanks! I resorted to buying the strategy guides for no apparent reason just for the art, now I don’t have to!
Day 5 of using a standing desk.
I’m getting used to it now, but I get sore feet so I am going shoe-less today to see if that’s any better.
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I wonder if you’ll go nuts after this experiment like Mark did with his sleeping one. 😛
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I used to do a job that involved standing, no walking and 10 hour days. After 2 and a half years of it I found I was quite comfortable standing around all day in most situations.
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Maybe you need a cushy mat to stand on.
I’m really interested in working standing up too, shame people at work would think I’m nuts and I don’t have the space to do it at home :/Oh well, when I move house and get an office… SOON
Recall ends tonight! \o/
Look out LoL, I will return soon with Full Metal Rammus!
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JOIN US ONCE MORE SIR, We MISS YOU
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Got it first night 🙂
I made it my mission to main champions that are robots or have robot skins. Show the fleshlings how it’s done! 😀
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So how many people have played TF2 MvM? I jumped in a lobby with a few TAYbies, and we all got sick of waiting in the huge queue. I think we started with a 23 minute wait listed, and after 20 minutes it was at 18, so we gave up had played regular TF2 (which, incidentally, was awesome!).
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I think there’s dedicated servers, there’s just not enough of them (at the moment anyway). Also the new team matchmaking doesn’t seem to be very efficient.
I’m sure they’ll sort it out over the next week or so.
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Yeah, there’ll be a few bumps in the road while this all comes up.
They do have dedi servers, but (based on numbers showing up in the lobby) there wasn’t nearly enough for the number of people trying to play. It’d be nice if we could run it through listen servers.
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They really should make it easy to host one so humans don’t have this issue
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I’m not in a rush. I’ll just wait until sometime next week to try it out 😛
The other night, my sister was raving about The Newsroom.
Turns out that HBO went up to Aaron Sorkin, threw some money at him and said “go write a show about an idealised prime time news show that /r/politics would consider fair and balanced.”
Worked out pretty well. I ended up watching four of the eight episodes that have been released.
If you like Sorkin-style writing, you’ll like this. Particularly The West Wing. Most of the major characters bear striking resemblance to the major characters from The West Wing, although there’s no Bartlett-esque character.
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Charlie Skinner is almost like a Leo/Bartlett hybrid, though. (Even after eight episodes, It’s still jarring to see Sam Waterston outside of Law & Order. :P)
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He has definitely got a bit of Leo in him but I just don’t see the Bartlett.
I really like that Wil is essentially a less prickly and more charismatic Tobey. I liked Tobey.
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Me too, for such a surly guy he was idealistic.
Have you seen Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip by any chance? If you haven’t it’s definitely worth watching. Only went one season, but incredibly good show. (At times it could be a little too preachy for its subject matter. There’s been lots of thematic connections to that show on Newsroom, works better here I reckon.)
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Studio 60 was not an incredibly good show :p
It was decent but the casting was just off. I also found that I just didn’t care for the characters in the same way that I did in other Sorkin shows.
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The notion that TV was being dumbed down for the lowest common denominating was interesting, though. Also Matthew Perry’s drug addiction storyline was an interesting insight into Sorkin’s season four West Wing melt down too. I can see why it wouldn’t be for everyone, though. The West Wing and Newsroom can get away with being pretentious because of the weightiness of their subject matter, a comedy show was never going to cut it. 😛 (I should disclose that I studied film/television so the behind-the-scenes aspect appealed to me greatly. :P)
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*denominator, I wish I could blame that on auto-correct, but it’s all me. 😛
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The biggest problem with Studio 60 is that I didn’t see whathisface and that guy, I saw Chandler and Josh. That’s a big casting flub right there.
Another problem (this was a conversation my family had the other night) was that everyone on the show was too old for the problems they were facing.
If I don’t care about the characters, I just can’t get into the show. Not this type of show where it’s very character driven.
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I liked the extended ensemble, though. Harriet Hayes and Tom Jeter mostly. There was a twisted, universe imploding episode with Allison Janney talking to Danny Tripp about The West Wing, though. He must’ve looked awful familiar.
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I refuse to believe someone high up in HBO cares what Reddit thinks.
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They don’t, it just happens to be that in the four episodes that I’ve watched the issues covered are pretty much straight from /r/politics. The BP oil spill, tearing down the Tea Party as far right extremists taken over by the Koch Brothers (who are actually named), Republicans lying about Obama spending $200m a day in India, Republicans lying about Obama trying to take away Second Amendment rights and the shooting of Sen. Gabby Gifford.
These are all things /r/politics went ape shit about. Sure you could trot out the “reality has a liberal bias” line but really, it looks like Sorkin sources his news from the same places as /r/politics.
Oddly enough, Wil (who refused to mention which side of the political fence he’s on in the first episode) now counters every reference to him being a new Liberal something or other with “I’m a registered Republican!”
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The show is plowing through the timeline, though. Part of me thinks they’re about to catch up and go on an alternate path soon.
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Hard to tell. 4 episodes covered 6 months. This season could finish on this pace and be fine, then it’s just a matter of when the second season comes out that tells us how fast the timeline can go without branching off into some alternate reality.
Seeing as the point seems to be how Sorkin would like the news to be covered, basing it off of real events that actually happened seems very important. The only way to do a branching timeline is for there to be an appreciable impact from the news team’s approach to journalism, which is optimistic, even by Sorkin’s standards.
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You’re probably right, plus there’s so many key players already established that an ‘alternate’ Washington D.C. would still be up of the usual suspects. One of my only criticisms of the show so far is their tendancy to tell instead of show, I’m talking specifically of the Arab Spring episode but I don’t wanna spoil. If you ever wanna ramble about the show, hit me up man! 😛
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I’m sure I’ll get to the Arab Spring episode very soon. Like, tonight soon.
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I quite like Newsroom, watched about 3 episodes. It’s very american so I can’t relate to some of the topics, especially the political ones, but over all it’s interesting and fun.
So I logged into steam this morning and I have a 75% of Portal 2 voucher. Who wants it? it’s tradeable.
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I received the same voucher too. Hmm , weird. If anybody wants mine as well feel free to ask.
Huh, is this true?
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/08/select-gamers-can-try-out-steams-new-community-features-right-now/
So apparently I’m one of the “exclusive” people with it. I woke up this morning to find 2 of those things in my inventory and I have no interest in it.
So does anyone want them? 🙂
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Can’t see inventory from mobile so no idea if I got it too.
I feel like talking about LoL and since this place is so busy these days i am sure so many people mind.
I had planned a tournament to be had amogst TAYple because i enjoy playing with my friends and its a enjoyable way to pass the time. Not enough people nominated or register interest (read: No One emailed me like i asked) so i decided to cancel it. I have $50 worth of RP cards now.
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Aww 🙁
LoL people are such monsters!
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HI ROCKETMAN!
I have never played LoL. honestly, I’ve only got the most vague idea of what it actually is.
I suppose the main reason I never got into it was because of how you guys spoke of it, it always seemed like a super-competitve thing. I’m not exactly the most competitive guy. & I’d feel guilty if I had to be carried by a team…anyway… more on topic, it sucks that you went to the trouble of organising a tourney & didnt get the numbers. Hope you can put the RP cards to use yourself.
Back off topic. on the twitters you said you got the Scott Pilgirm set. I applaud your fine taste in graphical readables. Just finished reading it myself & it was such a great book. only question is – did you get the colour version?
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I only got the black and white version but i was so tempted to get the colour version. But i had already read the first book so i decided against it.
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I think more planning needed to go into it man. A more structured one would probably go down better.
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STRUCTURE, STRUCTURE STRUCTURE,
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Ah the first time is always the hardest in terms of organising something like that. Take it down under experience for next one, and it’ll be better than ever 🙂
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Speaking of LoL: Syndra. http://na.leagueoflegends.com/news/syndra-dark-sovereign-revealed-gamescom
Looks interesting. Encourages you to prioritise a skill based on what you want it to do at max level, rather than its utility prior to then.
Will undoubtedly be OP on release.
Hi guys,
Does anyone know where I can buy a US PSN card online? I don’t have a credit card so Best buy and buying from the US store itself are out of the equation.
The store I buy from at the moment charges an activation fee and I was hoping to avoid that.
Thanks.
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Maybe give Play-Asia a shot.
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Thanks crazy. It seems Play Asia charge extra on top of the normal price of the card.
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Best Buy is the only place I’ve found that will sell to Australians that doesn’t charge an activation fee
Picking up new computer this afternoon, I am so plucking excited! I can’t wait to see how the GTX680 GPU performs \0/ might have to download that Sleeping Dogs game.
Someone just dropped off a newsletter from the Citizens Electoral Council and wow. These guys make the ACL look like bastions of sense and rationality. Half of it is some crazy incoherent rant about Prince Charles and the WWF collaborating to exterminate 6 billion o the worlds human population and are doing so by using the “Inter-Alpha Group” of the worlds banks to spread illegal drugs across the world.
It’s a fascinating read, not so much the content but the insight into the mind of the writer.
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They sometimes hand out flyers near my work. Great for a chuckle, they always look like they’re holding back the words “lizard people”.
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That’s just because they wouldn’t want our reptilian overlords to know they’re onto them.
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I just discovered the article about EA making Command and conquer Generals 2 a free 2 play game.
This is a joke right?
It has to be a joke.
It has to be the game I’ve been looking forward to the most in the last 5 years or so and they they do this?
I mean it could theoretically still be good but I’m sure I’m far from the only one who has no faith in EA making a good free 2 play model.
I hate the world so much right now.
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C’mon Gorzy, let me speak from the book of George Michael.
“Last Christmas, I gave you my heart, and the very next day, you gave it aw-”
Wait, no, that’s not what I meant.“You gotta have Faith, Faith, Faith, You gotta have Faith.”
No, but in all seriousness, I may have cried manly tears of sadness when I heard that.
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Free to play, pay to win.
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Yeah, that’s the problem with F2P. The term is so misleading. Generally you get a demo you can play with other people and then have to buy most of the game a piece at a time, then pay a subscription, then pay to have your units powerful enough to stand up to other people who are paying.
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$15 for permanent Ion Cannon cooldown reduction
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Its got to be a joke… how dare they ruin the title even more! =(
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I was dismayed when I heard that Mechwarrior Online was going to be F2P, but I have been surprised.
Tribes Ascend as well has proven that F2P can work well without adopting a play to win model.I’m not sure how an F2P model will work with an RTS, but I’d say to hold your judgements until you see the game in action, you might end up pleasantly surprised.
Dear clever people of TAY,
I have a question. You may have the answer. I think we could come to some arangement…
So, I bought Game of Thrones season 2 from iTunes. 1080p version. Now, when I go to play it, it says one of two things –
1) Your computer does not support 1080p playback (this is utter BS. I have a monitor with 1080 native resolution)
2) This file is too large to play back. (what?!?!?)
Fine, I say to myself, I’ll play it back in VLC. Oh, that doesnt work either. oh well. I didnt really want to be stuck at the PC watching it anyway, I’ll stick it on a USB & play it back through the PS3, which I know supports MP4 videos. Oh That doesnt work either. OK. Fine. Screw you Apple you bunch of bastards. I’m gonna go & cry in the corner.
So the question is – how can I get this video to play (in decending order of preference) :
1) on the PS3
2) in VLC
3) at all.
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When I put things on the USB to watch on my PS3 it always says there’s nothing on it. You’ve got to click the triangle button (I think…) and Display All. If it’s not showing up maybe try that? If it’s any thing more complex, here’s what you’ve got to do…
*throws smoke pallet, runs away*
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nah, I’ve had other video files working on the USB / PS3 setup before. Just gotta have the stick formatted to FAT32 & have a folder on it called ‘video’ which you put your files in. that way it should see the files right away.
but yeah, i think this is justa shitty apple DRM problem. which really annoys me. I paid for the damn thing, & apple are dictating to me how I can use it? shouldnt be surprised really.
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Oh, I’m sorry to hear that. 🙁
Thanks for the advice on the PS3 front, though. (Mostly use the 360 for that kind of stuff.)
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Some DRM can be really finnicky about how you’re connecting the PS3 to the TV.
My capture card has a hissy fit with the PS3 when connecting with HDMI because the capture card isn’t supported as an output. Have to switch to component cables to get around it. That might be the same reason why you get the “your monitor doesn’t support 1090p”, because you probably need an Apple monitor through a DVI connection (or something else rather obtuse).
No ideas on the PS3 side though.
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I was mistaken, the itunes format is m4v, which isnt supported by the PS3.
but still… last time I use itunes for video content.
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You could always try running it through Handbrake to turn it from .m4v to another format that your PS3 does play nicely with (which should probably break any encryption on it, letting you use VLC to watch as well).
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I’ll give this a go tonight. thanks for the suggestion.
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It’s my “when all you have is a hammer” approach to any video problems.
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And that’s why we pirate stuff
YOU HAVE A PALLET OF SMOKE?!
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:'( I’m always too eager to post. One of these days I’ll try that proof reading thing, but it won’t be today my friend.
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I’m just envious. Proofreadgnis for fools anytway 😀
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That’s probably the DRM screwing you. Bet your monitor or your GPU doesn’t have HDCP. :\
Maybe the problem is you bought it on iTunes?
awesomenauts anyone?! I’ve been loving it this week. Soooo good
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What is awesomenauts, Mr. Duzzward?
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It is a 2d MoBA game for Pc available on steam, It looks pretty great but i only really want to try it if i had a group of people to play with. MoBA’s aren’t really fun by yourself.
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Thanks, Rockets. 🙂 It does look kind of cool. Maybe you guys should organise one of them there Community Playdate thingys for it?
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Matchmaking is pretty good. Its really easy to find a group. The community also aren’t jerks if you’re new.
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Aha..a quick search tells me it’s a MOBA-type platformer. Looks like a very cool art style, but the gameplay is not my thing.
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It is a 2d platformer 3v3 MOBA game, yogscast & totalbiscut both have good videos on it. Its quite comical, and doesn’t have the complexity of games like LoL or HoN.
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2D platformer 3vs3 MOBA?
I understand all of those words but I do not understand how you combine them.
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It looks okay fun but i don’t really like the 2d nature of it. For only $10 ducks though i might check it out . If you are up for a game just add me on steam: Rocketman
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Is that an in-store-only deal?
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Be glad you were never on 4chan around 2005-2006. Be very glad because it would dramatically change how you read that last sentence.
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Watch a video, it explains everything.
The Dig!
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Le Sigh?
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Pepe le Shane!
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How’s the writing room coming, man?
Man, I’m in my mid-20s. Had a hair cut today, lots of grey hair. I don’t really care about it on the colour front, I care about it on the symbolic front. The what have I done with my life front. Brought me down… :'(
… then I found $10?
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I’m late 20’s and half my hair has just vanished into the ether.
Along with my $10.
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If TAY’s any indication, there’s always a $10 around the next corner. 😛
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Ah, fuck this emo shit.
The Muppets’ Kokomo makes every thing better. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3ii-Df1Hs8
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i don’t like when people say “what have i done with my life”
Life has no point, our exsistence has no end goal. We just are here”
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Grey hair just means you’re all wise and stuff, doesn’t it?
“What have I done with my life” is always a depressing thing if you think about it too much, no matter what you’ve actually done with your life, or how old you are. Success at life is measured in way more things than just milestones and obvious achievements though. Don’t worry about it. Or if you end up really worrying about it, just implement some small changes (like coming to a Meat 😛 ). Small things can often make a huge difference.
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I’ll go to the next meat for sure. (On the condition I can back out at any moment and call you a damn liar for citing this posts existence. :P)
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I’m in my late(ish) 20s & I’m proud of the greys I have. I want more.
as for ‘what have i done?’ I’ve never thought that was an important question. sure everything we do, both the good & bad stuff, is what makes us who we are, but I think the more important question is ‘what am I going to do now?’ and then doing it.
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but then again, I’ve been noticing recently that I’m no longer as young as I think I am. I see somone & think yeah, they’re probably 1 or 2 years oplder than me… actually, no. they’re probably my age. & then I feel old.
theres so many other 27 year olds who have good jobs, married / have families, have bought their own places etc. & theres always that idea that success and maturity is measured by what you’ve accomplished.
you know what though? to hell with that. I dont want to get married, I dont want kids, I’ll probably never own a property & instead of having a ‘professional’ job, I act somewhat (totally) immature, play video games, watch bands & dont really want to give that up. I’ve had people tell me that I should grow up. but screw that. I’m happy with what I have & with what I’ve done. & that, i think, is the measure of success. being content with who you are.
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NERD
But i agree with you, i am not against the idea of being married, but i like being immature and acting the way i do. Why the hell would i want to give that shit up. I already had a very serious childhood. I have freedom to be fun now.
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FYI: Clint Eastwood’s career began when he was almost 30.
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As in it’s never too late to do amazing things, you just have to go and do them.
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Alan Rickman was 42 when he got his first feature film role (Die Hard).
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i was 32 when people magazine picked me for their handsomest guy ever shoot. I imagine thats whats gonna happen.
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Pre-ordered.
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That’s like preordering Duke Nukem Forever when it was first announced. Long wait and inevitable disappointment.
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Zing, that was quite good 🙂
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They probably wont put me on the cover, the earth will run out of paper, from all the boys that i bring to the yard to buy it 😛
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Hey I just met you, and this is crazy, but here’s my Delorean, jump in maybe?
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The only thing that makes life a waste of time is sitting around wishing things were different.
Everything else is a good way to spend time… unless you’re drowning puppies or something. There are some exceptions.
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I feel your advice while helpful wasn’t well thought out 😛
Thanks for all the kind words, folks. I always feel embarrassed for posting stuff like this three seconds after I hit the submit button, but I’m glad I did in this instance. You’re all good people and don’t let any one tell you otherwise.
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You’re all terrible people
#DoingItWrong
Dear Tay
I think I am becoming addicted to Crusader Kings 2.
SWEDEN SHALL RULE ALL OF EUROPE
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Just have a decree that Starcraft 2 shall decide all future leadership challenges. Sweden would rule Europe quite comfortably.
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What about France?
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Silly Rocketman, Stephano is American.
Also, just serve booze at the events. He’ll get too drunk to play (or be too hungover on the day of the finals) and then Thorzain and Naniwa can battle it out to see who is King of the North.
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I don’t even get points for knowing stephano?
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USA! USA! USA!
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In that case, Korea is the next superpower. What have you done!!
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Better make it a gaming triathlon and throw in Counter Strike and Quake. Problem solved.
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The world’s first kekekekeogeniture
@Gorzilla RE: EA making Generals 2 Free-2-Play:
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DAMNIT! Now I am crying.
Finnaly a meat write up!
Pre Meat – Stevo
Wednesday afternoon and Stevo is flying in. Bish is also busily arranging a mini-meat in the city.
I drive Pyrean and myself into the airport and then hang around awkwardly realising that I have no idea what Stevo looks like. I wish I’d made a sign but somehow that didn’t happen. Fortunately Pyrean had seen a picture of stevo so had some idea of what to look for. I considered enquiring more about this picture exchange but Pyrean was on the phone to Stevo asking him what he was wearing so I decided it’d be best not to go there.
Stevo found successfully. We decide to drive back to our place and drop off his stuff then come back to the city for the mini meat. I follow my navman which instantly leads us into tunnels and becomes useless. I do my best but Pyrean and Stevo have little faith in my navigation skills so when we see a sing pointing to where the mini meat was happening we decide to abandon the go home idea in favour of find a pub. As I take that exit I spot a sing to western suburbs. Apparently I was on the right track.
We find awesome all night parking for $10 recommended by Bish. Have a drink at the first pub we spot and try to work out what’s happening for the mini meat. Unfortunately Bish was organising the meat and his phone seems to have died as he’s not answering anyone. We stumble around the city a little until we find Techi and then head to where we think the meat was taking place.
Turns out Bish’s organising skills are so mad that even without his phone we’ve still got a few people there. We find Bish, Mort and NAME. We eat Japanese food which is good. Then head to Galaxy world. Apparently I chose the wrong galaxy world as most of the games have no English instructions. We all play a few games and stevo trolls us at racing. Mini meat concludes with Pyrean, Stevo and myself meeting a couple of friends at Imax and watching Dark Knight Rises. I still only understand half of what Bain says.
Pre Meat – F4ction
Thursday begins with Pyrean, Stevo and myself playing some LOL for something different, then bed time. That’s right, got back from mini meat and straight into LOL . In the afternoon the three of us head to Ikea to pick up a table Pyrean is buying just for the meat! (and because we need a table anyways). We show Stevo the wonder of Ikea food, get home and listen to McGyver theme as we put it all together and then it’s Pyrean’s turn to drive into the airport. We time this one perfectly. Arriving at the entrance to the domestic terminals only moments before F4ction sends us a text saying he’s just landed. I have a sign and everything this time.
Unfortunately there seems to have been about ten planes land at once due a bunch of delays caused by crazy winds. This means it’s about 30 min later before we get to the pickup area and spot F4ction and his glorious ginger beard. I’m somewhat disappointed I didn’t get use the sign as we spotted each other too early.
There was probably more LOL when we got home.
Pre Meat- Friday
More LOL this time with 4 computers all in the one room! I’m going back and forth trying to get Balloonicorn ready in time for the meat. There is another mini meat on in the afternoon but Stevo has his concer to go to (the whole reason he came down in the first place) F4ction, Pyre and myself spend the afternoon getting ready for our meat.
Bish kindly meets us at our place so he can help Stevo find his way to his concert. I’m still working on ballonicorn when they both arrive with Harli in tow from their return trip. Stevo is very proud that he made a good impression on some random guys he met. There was much helloing and then Bish and Harli went home.
Pre Meat – Blaghman
Bish was kind enough to organise Blaghman catching a bus up to Sydney so I printed off my second sign. I was going to get Pyrean to meet him a central station but LOL addict that he was he couldn’t help himself from starting a normal game with himself , F4ction and Stevo 10 min before we had to leave so instead I had him pretend he’d been disconnected so he could drop me at the train station.
I arrived in central about ten min after Blaghman and instantly recognised his beautiful flowing hair. I really wanted to use my sign though so I walked up to him with it held forth like some flimsy magical ward.
We then caught a train back to Parramatta and I forced him to walk to my place from there on his injured foot as F4action, Pyrean and Stevo had apparently just left to buy booze. We both tripped over a time or two on the way but otherwise made it unscarred.
Blaghs and I had been home for all of 10 min and I was just lovingly putting the last finishing touches on Balloonicorn when people started arriving.
THE ACTUAL MEAT!!!
Bish arrived with Cackesmith and Pants and my plan to keep Balloonicorn as a surprise was rapidly falling apart (though fortunately, he wasn’t.) Suddenly there were 3DS’ everywhere and whist they were all busy street passing each other (or whatever it is the kids do these days) I went and stashed Balloonicorn in my room.
People go hungry so we went for another walk and whilst Bish and I went shopping for some party essentials the rest walked on to McDonlads. I’m on the phone to Stevo because I have no confidence Pyrean remembered to get anything other the alcohol (he didn’t) and stevo sees someone who looks just like Blaghman, Cackesmith and Pants walking down the street and jokes about it until I realise that no, that was them.
We ended up at home at some point. Shiggy turned up with his lady friends Patience and Girl germs who also had with them a tub of mash mellow paste. We headed to Youtube for entertainment which may have been a mistake as things quickly spiralled downward into trying to out weird video each other.
The alcohol started to flow by this point and Bish, with a little encouragement, made himself a beard from the mashmellow paste – snake moustache included. Stevo volunteered to lick it off for him which Bish looked like he enjoyed as much as a trip to the dentist. Fortunately for Bisssh he soon worked out it was more efficient to shave with a spoon then Stevo’s tongue.
I think Harli and Ruffleberg showed up at some point during this and we decided to play Kings. This is where things get much more hazy for me. It involved cards and drinking and the rules were largely made up by stevo. Now things become a buch of events in no particualar order in my memory.
There was drinking. Floor is lava. Talking and the like. Gungnam stye was played. At some Pont Freyjr showed up and I was too drunk to work out who she was at first even though I’d seen pics. She took this to mean I’d thought she really was a midget. I was too polite to point out that she actually is.
Bish disappeared at some stage and we invited him back after he finished what he had to do. Little did I know what he had to do was to move to Canada. Invite still stands though.
Balloonicorn came out at some point and I just kinda threw it at everyone hoping they’d smash it before it hit the ground. I think everyone just dodged and one ear and the horn fell off due to air friction. I regret not taking a picture of it before this stage but there was then a very nice pic of Freyjr nursing the wounded balloonicorn. As the whole thing was inspired by a pic she posted I gave her the honour of destroying it. She proceeded to bob Stevo on the head a few times, Then she held it whilst Stevo and Pyrean head butted it until I decided I’d grab it off her and bring it down on Stevo’s head with all my might.
Luckily Baloonicorn gave way before Stevo’s head. Candy, Glasses and a Tiara few everywhere and then someone found $10 .
At some point there was some Halo going on followed by Perfect Dark. Harli and Faction organised getting dinner from the pizza place across the road. I wanted to go over and make sure it wasn’t paid for by then but They wouldn’t let me at Pyrean’s insistence that I was too drunk to risk near the road regardless of the fact that I’d stopped drinking for a while and he was fare more intoxicated then my by this stage. Fortunately Pyrean had trusted F4ction with is credit card (see, he was sooooooooooo smashed) so they didn’t have to pay.
I noticed Stevo had his concert bandanna out so I decided to give a concert and came down the stairs playing my bagpipes. It was oh so bad. I couldn’t even remember how to play amazing grace but I think most people were too drunk to care at this point.
There was more Gungnam Style. Much drunken dancing. Steveo got his shirt off. Pyrean followed Stevo around trying to put his shirt back on. There was drunken LOL playing and also we decided to share the love on Teamspeak.
Pyrean, Frejy and someone who I can’t recall were sitting on my couch when Stevo decided to give Freyjr a lapdance whilst trying to fondle Pyrean. The couch exploded in disgust. Stevo ran away outside and decided the safest place to be was on top of teh carport. I came out side and had horror images of Stevo being sliced to pieces by corrugated iron as he fell though the carport. Someone took a picture of him looking like a lost possum. People started heading home.
The remainders played a bit of guitar Hero whilst lying on my couch which is really now just a thick mattress. More people left, we found space for some people to stay. It was good.
I wonder who ended up keeping the tiara?
Apologies to anyone I’ve forgotten. It was a big night.
Post meat: Seriously you’re still reading this? I’ve written enough already!
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Woah. Write-up and a half! Going to have to get comfortable for this one.
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Still waiting to find out who found $10 post meat?
Sounds like a great night, day, week
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Was it me? I didn’t get to go so I wouldn’t want to miss out!
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Great write up. It has been a while since I read one.
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Nice write-up Gorzy! Although I think you’ve just ruined any chances of me getting invited to another meat! 😛
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You were the highlight of the meat Stevo!
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I’d invite ya to one =P
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Great write-up man!
Hey guys, long time no talk! Just popping in to say hi! I’m sorry I haven’t been able to speak to you guys for so long. Work’s been really hectic and due to recent restrictions, I’m no longer able to personal browse during work hours.
Quite a lot has been happening with me, I got the promotion to Senior I had been going for, and the advance in pay associated! Still not earning a huge amount but makes life a lot more comfortable. I’m also getting given a team of 13 people to supervise and coach, which is pretty cool.
I know I’ve missed quite a lot in my absence and I’ve missed you guys heaps. I hope to be able to pop in every now and then now that my schedule is going to be a little more free, but please don’t hate me if I can’t!
2nd Soundwave announcement —— Slayer, Cypress Hill, Billy Talent, and various others. Looking like a decent lineup once again, thankfully my ticket is on its way! 😀
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Is it wrong I find it hilarious that Cypress Hill are on it? But I want to watch them anyway.
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I hope they get on stage with Slayer.
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LOL, that’d be kinda cool. Not lame like that rapped 360 getting on stage with The Living End & ruining one of their songs.
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Oh psh! I’ve never really listened to them, apart from when I was made to against my will (lols)
I have my reasons for not listening though, mainly because someone who is now a total douchebag/hipster/other rude words go here who I once was in a band with creamed on about them like they were the 2nd coming of Jesus or changed music like The Beatles & the bands that came before them.
But it could be worse, he tried to make us play Papa Roach, now that was pure torture D=
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Apparently Bring Me The Hairspray was announced too!
LOLWUT, just saw the 2nd announcement for Soundwave & Cypress Hill are on it, I did not see that coming. \o/ for Slayer /o\ for no Megadeth though.
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3 outta 4 aint bad though!
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Very true. Though after Mr. Mustaines public appearance this week saying Obama is behind several shootings, I think he might go into hiding LOL.
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I’ve got a spare beta invite to the new steam community if anyone wants it.. First in here gets it!
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DO NOT WANT. Change is bad, y’see.
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Actually it’s just a change to community & friends tab in the main steam window lol.
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I simply wanted to post first, without saying ‘first’. Because idiocy.
So there’s not much to the changes on face value at least?-
Yeah just some UI stuff by the looks, just making it easier to filter the friends part what you see from your friends & groups, and the community section looks a lot nicer etc
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I have 2 as well, posted last page but seems like no one wants them 😛
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I’ll take it off your hands!
Sleeping Dogs, I will play you tonight.
Have a good weekend, folks. (I say that like I won’t be online for hours and hours tomorrow. Watching. Waiting. :P)
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Commiserating.
Say it ain’t so, I will not go
Turn the lights off…
carry me home!-
Na na na na na na na na na na….
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Have fun as well D.C.
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Thanks, buddy! Right back at ya!
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I’ve played a bit of it. A pretty cool guy, I must say. Sadly it hates my controller, so my plan of using it for car controls has fallen through.
And when I say it hates my controller, I mean that it mistakes the left and right triggers for what I can only assume are the start and select buttons.
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What sort of controller are you using?
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Hmm, I thought I’d tried to reply…
It’s a wired PS3 afterglow controller(The one with thumbsticks and triggers more like a 360s). Works fine for other things, just seems to be bound weirdly here.
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You should give us a mini-review. I need to know if I should play it or Fall of Cybertron next (assuming Darksiders II takes me until or past the 24th to finish)
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Will do, man. I’ve played a little now but not enough to give more than just first impressions. The world is different and vibrant, lots of personality. The combat is pretty unique, probably the best part of the game so far. It does feel a little clunky and unpolished, though — in fact that can be said for a lot of the gameplay. The story hasn’t sucked me in yet, but the set up seems like it could once it gets going. The basic undercover cop premise is pretty interesting. I’ll keep you posted!
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Just had a go of Mann vs Machine! It’s REALLY fun! It’s also really difficult, especially with random people. You really need the full 6 players if you’re going to stand any chance (we only had 3).
Only took me about 10-15 minutes to find a game as well. There seems to be A LOT more servers than there was last night (though I was playing solo so that might have had more to do with it).
Anyway, in conclusion, I really can’t wait to properly play this mode with TAYbies.
Hey guys, long time no talk! Just popping in to say hi! I’m sorry I haven’t been able to speak to you guys for so long. Work’s been really hectic and due to recent restrictions, I’m no longer able to personal browse during work hours.
Quite a lot has been happening with me, I got the promotion to Senior I had been going for, and the advance in pay associated! Still not earning a huge amount but makes life a lot more comfortable. I’m also getting given a team of 13 people to supervise and coach, which is pretty cool.
I know I’ve missed quite a lot in my absence and I’ve missed you guys heaps. I hope to be able to pop in every now and then now that my schedule is going to be a little more free, but please don’t hate me if I can’t!
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Obligatory “Who’s this guy? ^”
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Also …hi JamesMag!
Good to hear things are going well for you. 🙂
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Hi Strange! Thank you!
What’s been happening with you? I have so much to catch up on!!
Also, that was deserved, it’s been way too long.
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I’ve just been sewing a whole bunch of stuffs mostly.
Also, did you see Bishy left us with no warning to go to Canada?! D:
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WHAT?! Really? But I never even got to say goodbye D: Canada is an amazing place.
Awesome 🙂 I think I saw some stuff posted in the Kotaku Facebook Group, looked awesome 😀
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Congratulations on the promotion
Like all good TAY stories you found $10 at the end, even more maybe thanks to the promotion 🙂
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A little bit more 😛 another 4 or so grand a year, which is pretty cool. But thank you!
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You’re welcome 🙂
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MMMMAAAAAAGGGGGGGSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hello! Grats on the promotion 🙂
I’ve seen your name before but I don’t think we’ve ever talked since I joined after you left.
wow dood! nice work! Great to hear things are going well for you 🙂 happy stories are best stories! We miss you tooooooooo2222ooooo!
Hey, man. Don’t think we’ve ever met, but it’s always nice when some of the old guard comes home to TAY! Welcome back and nicely done on your promotion!
Is it a tumah
Afromag! I was just wondering about you a few days ago!
Isn’t 13 an unlucky number? 😛
I just want to say, I love you guys. =D
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But what about the girls!?
I love you guys AND gals. =D
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I love you too, Greenius.
*awkward silence*
Wait, no, not like that!
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It’s okay Greenius, I despise you with the burning fury of a thousand suns.
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Then why u no spend more time with us :'(
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You’re awesome as well Scree. Good luck with the cosplay.
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What did we do?
HEYO TAYO, its been a long day of animals trying to eat me and Ill be back later to catch up on events but for now I leave you all with this 100% legit Ice Cream ad.
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CJ. You’ve mentioned a zoo previously and you mention animals again… do you… *gasp*… work in a zoo? (Cause that would be awesome.) Hope you’re well too.
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Or he’s an international animal smuggler. Perhaps specializing in budgies 😛
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Close I’m a student of Taronga Zoo and as part of it I get to do work experience days. Today I was working mainly with 2 Tree Kangaroo’s an Emu and a few Quokkas. Plus a couple of possums and tawneys and 3 differnt species of mouse/rat.
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What do you mean by student of Taronga Zoo? That’s pretty cool 🙂 I thought you were a barista?
I also just Googled Quokka, didn’t know what they were 😛
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I am a Barista thats my Job, but Im doing a Certificate II in Animals Studies at Taronga Zoo.
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Oh cool, didn’t know Zoos offered programs like that. You must get to see and work with so many badass animals… mad jelly bro.
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Wow, really that sounds awesome. Seriously.
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So it is looking increasingly like we need to organize a Meat DC Meat. It’d be awesome if we could do it in Washington and have a Meat DC Meat In DC but that’d would be a little pocket draining.
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Not if DC comics sponsored it!
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Meat DC Meat In DC presented by DC.
Perfect.
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With AC DC as the music of choice?
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D.C. says:
Next Brisbane meat, I’m there!
:O! Everyone go to the next Brissy meat! Thanks for the lift Nova!
@D.C.
Also I’ll reply here since you’re more likely to see it: Mark is scary but once you hit SEND you can become bros. He once signed off an email with Markius! And once for all the crazy kudos tags were a bunch of “____ius” words. That made me smile 🙂-
Haha! Not too shabby!
Speaking of meats is that theme park one still on? I’ve got a soft spot for theme parks. (I’ve been to 15 of ’em. :P)
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Not too sure, DAN! was the one organising that I believe.
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I hope so! I’ve been saving a little bit just in case 😛
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WOOOO! DC at the next Brismeat!
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D.C., would you like your Meat to be at someone’s house or somewhere public?
DC DC DC DC DC DC DC DC
Yet to be eaten: https://twitter.com/Bish_Mang/status/236423455849975808/photo/1
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When phrased like that, I just imagine you with a spoon, digging in to it.
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Vom.
I mean… I support your decisions!
D:
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Tastes like weak generic fruit marmalade, but with a smokey aftertaste. Small little bacon chunks inside.
It was… not horrible.
Would probably eat again.
Welp, that looks like the end of Darksiders II for me until they release a patch. I’m in a side quest area which is way too hard for me to beat, in a spot where I can’t get back to the exit without fighting through a gauntlet of enemies which I don’t have enough healing to get through. The map system on PC is bugged, you can’t switch back to the overworld map so I can’t fast travel out, and it requires you to play with a single save game that it’s constantly autosaving over, so I can’t revert to a previous save.
So my options are start over (11+ hours in) or wait for a patch 🙁
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oh man, are you using an xbox controller on the PC version? You need to press in the left controller stick to see the world map (even though it tells you to press A)
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oh man, are you using an xbox controller on the PC version? You need to press in the left controller stick to see the world map (even though it tells you to press A)
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well, poop double post.
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Oh awesome, I hadn’t thought of pressing that. Thanks, that’ll be super useful to know.
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Nevermind, fast travel menu works with keyboard / mouse controls. Thank god.
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Lucky duck!
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Even though I haven’t bought the game yet (and yet is becoming more and more appropritate) the Darksiders 2 soundtrack is all kinds of awesome. I’ve heard that Jesper Kyd has done some good stuff before but I don’t think I’ve played any games with his music before. He’s done a fantastic job on this one.
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Yeah it was pretty sweet when I popped in the disc and heard it in the PS3’s XMB 🙂
Darksiders II talk and other stuff too!
I’m liking it so far, but…
STUPID RETAILERS AND THEIR EXCLUSIVE DLC!
EB had exclusive DLC which I wanted to get so I pre-ordered it from there for a not so reasonable price (compared to the standard $50-60). I only found out recently that if you pre-ordered it from THQ directly they include the whole season pass AND Metro 2033 (which I bought during Steam/GMG sales) so that seems like a better deal. It’s been a while since I’ve played a ‘new’ console game (last one I played was MGS3 HD remake) and I can really tell the difference between the graphics of them and PC games.
I think I’m… I’m slowly turning into a PCMASTERRACE kinda guy and sort of regret getting it on console :/. I’m not a graphics whore per se but more the technical stuff that bothers me, I already noticed some screen tearing but thankfully it’s not too bad. I guess now I have “Death Rides DLC” which is still supposedly exclusive, a physical copy (which I prefer to digital downloads) and it on console.
I guess I’ll buy it again with all the DLC during some sort of sale, hopefully this time THQ screw us over like they did with Saints Row: The Third and have it even cheaper on the last day *grumble grumble* 😛
#PCMASTERRACE
In other news, I’m interested in Sleeping Dogs now. I’ll probably pick that up when it’s cheap though as like everyone else, I’ve got plenty of games to get through :). The combat looked a bit like Yakuza’s. Has anyone played both and can they comment on it? Yakuza is awesome but the actual open world sandboxyness of it isn’t too great.
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I can’t remember all that well Yakuza’s combat(I owned… 4… I think? But I gave it away. And I played the demo for 3), but True Crime’s is probably best described as like a less polished version of Batman AA’s combat. Though it does have some cool environmental interactions.
And its city feels better than Yakuza’s did. Actually, a good way to describe it would be as a westernised Yakuza game. It even has karaoke, except the song list that I’ve seen thus far are the types of songs that I like.
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Yakuza had more of a combo beat em up brawler type of combat. Ah that’s good about the Batman comparison since I really enjoyed its system, especially counters. Thanks for the quick reply Blaghman, good to see you’re back to your standard creepy avatar 🙂
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I only had that one to celebrate NASA’s accomplishment.
And no matter what avatar I have, I’m sure we all know that I can never stop being creepy.
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Also, I’ll try to describe the combat a bit better. It’s made up of a grapple, an attack button, and a counter button. The counter button is what makes it very Arkham City. Attacking involves tapping the attack button for a light attack, and holding it for a heavy one, with the number of light to heavy causing different combos. If someone’s blocking a lot, you can grab them, then either throw them somehow, beat them up a little, or slam them into an object to cause tonnes of damage. It’s pretty fun, but would benefit from being slightly more polished.
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Does it have the heavier attack combo where if you hit attack with the right timing you’ll do more damage? That’s my favourite part of Batman’s combat.
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I’m going to say no, but since all I do is rhythmically mash… anything could be true. It’s far less combo dependant than Batman, though.
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I don’t know why and I know it’s all kinds of wrong but I’ve always associated PC gaming with being hunched over a little table and getting all worked up and antsy rather than the consoles more chill couch setting. There’s something about games on the PC that make me aggressively competitive and angry that I don’t feel comfortable with at all whereas with a console I’m far more chill and find I unwind and relax.
Probably just me but its the biggest factor in why I’m avoiding the Master Race.
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But… don’t you play CoD on PS3? 😛
All the rage.
JOIN USSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!
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The PS3 screen tearing and load screens make me sad 🙁
@Blaghman RE: Burning fury of a thousand suns; I present to you “A million exploding suns”
@Pez RE: Livestream; I’m so sorry I missed it T.T I’m a terrible person who has just spent an entire hour making sure this comment is legible and spelt correctly. I am not at all intoxicated due to attending the pub. In fact, I raise the excuse that the power went out and I was unable to connect to the internets whatsoever. I most certainly did not go to the pub for one drink prior to viewing the livestream only to get sidetracked by a beautiful English woman whom is certainly not responsible for preventing me from returning home after my one drink. It was all due to the power going out, I swear.
(Seriously, it took me an hour to make sure this was spelt correctly. Fuck grammar)
I’ve just discovered Skrillex’s remixes of Lady Gaga’s stuff. My two secret shames….together……
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Ruh roh!
HYRULE HISTORIA PRE-ORDER!
http://www.amazon.com/The-Legend-Zelda-Hyrule-Historia/dp/1616550414
40% off as well which brings it to $20.99 USD! I have no idea how much shipping is but someone said they got it for ~$37 which is bloody awesome!
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I was playing Link’s Awakening when I read this comment. I will take this as a sign to Pre-order it!
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This is very tempting actually. I wonder what the chances are that somewhere like Book Depository will stock it though.
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I would say fairly high but it’s gone nuts on Amazon. It’s been #1 in Books for ages (even knocking down 50 porns of porn) so who knows what stock for other places will be like. I doubt it’ll be much cheaper than $30 shipped but at the lowest shipping cost it’s fairly slow from Amazon (but the next option is within a more reasonable time and is only ~$35).
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I’ll post a fuller comment on this Monday morning but:
Dragons Dogma has the weirdest relationship system I’ve ever encountered outside of real life.
I somehow accidentally made my character gay with a guy I didn’t even recognise. .
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Suuuuureee. “Accidentally”. It’s okay mang. We’re all friends here.
Winner winner chicken dinner
Thanks Beavwa, you are a scholar and a gentleman
so i bought Diablo 3. Strange game. The fact that as a Wizard, a cross bow can increase my spell damage just seems odd.
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Well it must be a magic crossbow. 😛 Or an amplifying crossbow…..
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Crossbow or a staff with a bow duct taped to it?
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Don’t worry, it’ll all make sense soon enough.
Actually, it won’t but you’ll stop giving a damn about what the magic damage stat works across the board and start stacking Int and Vit.
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Or magic find % 😛
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Nothing wrong with stacking MF. Especially now that legendaries don’t suck.
Well, if I still played anyhow :p
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I am such an idiot. You know that game making comp I said I’d entered earlier this week? I thought it ended today, so I was in a mad rush to finish yesterday. Turns out the comp doesn’t end today, but goes for another 2 days xD
Well, that gives me time to polish it all up then!
Anyway, here’s the link to the game: http://www.gamejolt.com/freeware/games/platformer/a-night-at-the-laboratory/9108/
If some of you guys could try it out and leave me some feedback as to bugs I’ve missed, and things that are just plain odd, that’d be great thanks 🙂
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Downloading now 🙂
Procrastinating ftw!
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Didn’t encounter any bugs but I suck at the game and didn’t get very far 😛
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Was that because it was too hard, or just because you suck at it? 😛
Also, was it easy enough to figure out what to do?
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Bit of both. From what I gathered there was 3 main floors. The top one is where you start out, I found the flashlight (accidentally though). The middle floor had the dog thing and it was too dark so I figured I wasn’t supposed to go there yet and the bottom had the pew pew aliens with some light so this is the floor I spent the most time on. It was kind of hard dodging them but not too difficult but I got near the end and died so I ragequit 😛
It’s mainly hard because of the lack of light. I’m fine with timing but it’s hard when you can’t see them (when they get inbetween the computers in complete darkness).
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Did you try turning the flashlight on? 😛
But you picked up on the hiding mechanism, didn’t you? That’s what I’m most concerned about.
I die a lot when playing it too, and I made thing! 😛 You don’t lose anything when you die, just get respawned. I was originally going to have the game end when you die, but I decided against that. Also, it’s not entirely pitch black, you can see if you look close enough. I may have to bump the brightness up a bit though if it’s a bit too hard to see.
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Yep! I think it was in the tutorial/elevator ride down so it was one of the many buttons I pushed first. I’d say finding the flashlight could be a bit hard and I found it completely by accident. Since you did include instructions for it and to shoot, people might be pressing the buttons only to have nothing happen if they didn’t pick them up.
The no death penalty is good!
I did have the flashlight turned on but the lit up area was still a bit small. The dark looked completely black to me so maybe it was just my monitor 😛
And no problem :). Hopefully I’m not being too nitpicky since you did only ask for feedback on whether it was glitchy or not!
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Hey Lambo. I played it. I got the hiding mechanic, but that’s probably because I have a habit of mashing buttons as I run around. I can’t speak for other people. I could see just enough if I put it on full screen on my monitor, but I play in the dark, so I’m probably a poor example case.
Got the watch, so now I’m curious does the time actually change anything? I stopped playing after I got past the robots and fell down a hole, since I have no patience.
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Yeah. I should probably explain that. Once it’s 8 am (or was it 9 am?) all the lights turn on (because the other scientists arrived at work). Then if you make your way to the elevator and use it, you get taken to the surface and you win the game. I should probably put something about that, tell the player what they’re supposed to do…
But thanks you two. Getting another perspective on the game really helps. It’s kinda hard to judge what it plays like when you know where everything is and everything that happens. I thought I was making the game too easy, actually…
But I’ll try out fixing some things tomorrow, maybe get rid of the flashlight and shoot controls on the elevator screen. I’ll make the flashlight bigger, make the world a bit more bright, and actually tell the player what they’re supposed to do 🙂-
No problemmo, it’s pretty good, I’ll give you that. What did you make it with, out of curiosity?
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I used Construct Classic. http://www.scirra.com/construct-classic
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Bahaha. Yeah, sometimes the names of things can be a real pain. Cheers for that, I’ll probably be too slack to actually look at it, but whatever.
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I need to mess around with Construct 2 more. It’s for making HTML5 games, and you can also export them as Visual Studio projects for the windows 8 appstore, which is pretty cool.
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Hmm, interesting.
Hey Lambo, feel like making a game for me? 😛
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Ah, its good to be an All Blacks fan. It truely is.
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I couldnt of asked for a better PAGE GET, or 1500 comment.
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actuallu I think it was 1501 but w/e
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Who knows! My comment was also posted at 10:59 PM 😛
SPORTS
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Revolvers at dawn is the only way to settle this
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I got bored and looked at some old TAYs, it’s funny how many people forget there’s a new TAY 😛
And god it was madness trying to keep up in the 5000+ comment TAYs :O
Guuuuuhhh. Need to pee so chroniclly. Instead sitting in line at an ATM to get some girls some money out. Yes i know the girls. I’m not that sad. Yet. Also Taying irresponsibly. Don’t drink and Tay people. This PSA was brought to you by Budweiser. Lots and lots of Budweiser.
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Nope I was wrong. Turns out its more Magners. My mistake.
Darksiders 2 is huge. I think I’m about 2/3 the way through and sitting at 23 hours. Also played until 3am, completely absorbed. Haven’t gotten sucked in like that in a while.
Unfortunately I’m stuck on a puzzle involving the (sigh) Voidwalker. Though when combined with some of the other abilities it’s pretty interesting. Shame the game only lets you have 4 ability quicklots and the usable abilities are shared with the wrath attacks. :\ I’ve also encountered a few weird glitches that required me to quit and reload. Thank god the game is immaculately checkpointed (Darksiders 2 should be the textbook example of how to do checkpoints and how to handle deadly falls correctly) and autosaving all the time.
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Should I sell my old rarer loot? I know some games let you break them down and whatnot for parts and I’m not sure it it has that system. Should I also bother with buying gear?
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You can use gear to “feed” possessed weapons which basically increases it’s level. Also I have found no use in having gold. I bought all the abilities / combos like 1/2 through the game and, like all RPG’s, I keep getting gold with nothing but “meh’” gear to buy.
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Buy gear to feed weapons!
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Don’t do this. There’s a white artifact you can buy from Vulgrim for 25k which is good for about 3/4 of level for possessed weapons. Currently I’ve got insane amounts of cash (~600,000) because there’s really nothing to spend it on.
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FUUUUUCK.
Boss you have to fight with the goddamn fucking portal gun that DOES NOT AIM WHERE YOU POINT because the PC version of this game is so buggy 🙁
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Beat him. Easy enough once you figure out the method.
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I never ever want to see a portal gun in this franchise again, ever.
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Wow, turns out I was actually nearly finished. Just one major dungeon & a few bosses (the second last one was fucking crazy difficult and the final one a pushover that I nailed first go).
Kind of a non-ending in the end. I haven’t done all the sidequests and there seems like there’s a few gear slots I haven’t unlocked. I did notice some enemies which were invisible except for a faint outline, was expecting to get a mask to see them like in the first game, but Death already wears a mask… dunno what’s up with those. Maybe need to do more sidequest stuff to find out but honestly I think I’m all Darksidered out now. Steam says it took me 26 hours, probably about right.
Now for some Sleeping Dogs I guess.
This video completely sums up my feelings on the 3DS XL, and adds in a completely awesome LOTR video twist: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5axETLzQ1uo&feature=g-all-c
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I kind of agree but don’t see why people get so worked up about it. We’ve known all along that Nintendo would do a hardware refresh on the 3DS pretty fast, the original release was fairly flawed and the XL is effectively the same thing as the DS Lite. They always fuck their early adopters.
Disagree that the Vita’s only got 3 games though. I’ve got about ten and a fair few more ordered.
Just realised, I was in a car with Nova for at least 40 minutes and didn’t call him Novahkin or the Driverbon. I’ve failed!
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You’re the worst person
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And I went to a whole Meat with Nova and didn’t once harass him to finish Xenoblade. I’ve failed as well!
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WORSTER
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We’re horrible people!
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WORST
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WORSEST FOR NOT COMING AT ALL
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Someone didn’t offer me a lift!
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I shouldn’t have to offer. I am the Driverborn, the offer is always there 😛
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New version of my game! http://www.gamejolt.com/freeware/games/platformer/a-night-at-the-laboratory/9108/
Version 1.1
Made the flashlight beam larger
Fixed text so it doesn’t disappear as quickly
Fixed the player being to use stuff when dead
Showed what the goal is at the beginning of the game
Made a logo for the title screen
Added a story
If someone/s could try it out and give me their opinion, that’d be great thanks 🙂
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Wooo… died 35 times. I’m not very good at this.
So from what I can tell, once I hid behind everything it was the end of the game?
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I don’t think I’m very good at making the aim of the game clear. *headdesk* 😛
You’re trapped in the laboratory for the night, and all you can do is just wander around. When morning comes, the lights turn back on and you can hop in the elevator and go back to the surface. There’s also a watch you can pick up that will tell you the time. Each ‘hour’ lasts for 1.5 minutes real time. You don’t have to do anything to make it morning. You could even just sit there in the elevator for 15 mins and win the game that way 😛 Maybe I should just give the watch to the player at the start of the game. That might help a bit.
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I played for a short while.
At first I died many times.
Then I found the flashlight, found how to hide, and died several more times.
But no bugs and no complaints. Your game does what it says on the box.
Good luck! 🙂-
It’s the Dark Souls of PC Gaming!
Wait..
😛
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If anyone has an iOS device and likes puzzle games and/or wants Eets, World of Goo or Puzzle Agent on Steam then I suggest you check out The Heist application. It used to be $1 but it’s currently free. It has 60 puzzles in 4 different categories, some of them are more fun than others but the main catch is when you beat them you get emailed a code for Eets and when you beat them all you get emailed codes for the other 2!
Can’t really comment on the games other than World of Goo which is good fun and is worth $10, let alone free :). World of Goo is apparently supposed to be for the first 25,000 to beat the game but the promotion has been going on for months, the app is #1 in many countries and I just got mine so I doubt it’s really that limited.
Oh and best of all is that ALL the solutions can be found online. While I did some of the legitimately most of them were kinda tedious rather than fun. Woo for cheating!
I’m alive, I’m just dead tired
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How’s the sewing going? 😀
/rhyming
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It’s finished!
For now.
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You must be looking forward to when you can sit back and relax
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Scree!
I’m probably a bit late with this, but I spotted a whole stack of those LED shower heads that you were after at one stage. At the Queen Vic markets.
Seriously.
450km to Ottawa and not a single Streetpass.
Do people hate fun there or something? I don’t understand.
So, the Premier League is back on.
And my beloved Chelsea are 2-0 up over Wigan in the 65th minute.
Good times. 🙂
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