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GAH! I just beat Uncharted 2. I played the entire game on Normal except for the last last boss. I got frustrated and decided to do the last boss on very easy (I just wanted to know what happened!) And the game unlocked the achievement for very easy -_- I completed 99% of it on Normal D=
Not pleased
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Do you have a save just before the boss that you can load and go back to? Just do the last fight on normal and get that achievement?
Also did you get the pattern? I haven’t been on TAY much so entirely possible I missed if you told me previously.-
No I did get it, thank you.
It autosaved at the end, I’m sure I could do the chapter again on normal
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If you played 99% on very easy and then kicked it up to hardest you’d prolly of gotten the Hardest achievment
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true, but now I’m accustomed to normal =P
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Nah, it takes note of the levels you completed and on what difficulty.
Normal to Very Easy? Completing on Normal implies completing on Very Easy, but certainly not vice-versa. So of course if you play through most, but not all of the game on Normal, that last part still needs to be completed on Normal.
Uncharted 2 has a chapter select option. Just play it through the last chapter on Normal if you want that trophy, and you should get it.
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My PSN profile is vastly underpopulated in terms of trophies, but I am totally okay with that.
The ones I have from Dark and Demon’s Souls? They mean something.
Also really chuffed I got the 7 pairs in Mahjong in Yakuza 4.
They’re the only trophies I need.-
I like this comment, and I award it a trophy.
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I will treasure it and take unreasonable amounts of pride in it just to spie you.
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Also spite.
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That boss is possibly the worst boss ever. It is the biggest fault of the game IMO.
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I didn’t know you could shoot behind you while you were running until I found out (by necessity) in that bit.
Good times.-
It wouldn’t be so bad if it didn’t auto-aim at Lazara-vich (yes, I can’t spell his name).
Also the fact that you can’t see where you’re going.
And then the section i kept getting cornered in. >_
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I’m standing at the front desk of the doctors surgery / office. I notice a sticky note infront of one of the receptionists desks. On the note is Tue following “That kids had a big head”. Oh man, I nearly burst out laughing.
So I mentioned this in Old Tay but I finished Corpse Party last night at like 3am. 🙁 Super tired but no regrets! Amazing game, really shows how important good voice acting is. Incidentally it gets pretty damned disturbing toward the end as well. ROT13: V jvyy abj nyjnlf tvir nal yvggyr tvey nezrq jvgu fpvffbef n irel jvqr oregu.
Anyone else played this?
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I remember reading about it ages ago and thinking it looked interesting. Never went anywhere though because I don’t own a PSP 😛
So I finally managed to spend a significant chunk of time in Skyrim (Hi Hugo) over the weekend. Finally starting to get into it, but will really need to get back to writing if I’m going to record any of my adventures.
However I have found an unexpected outcome from the roll out of the new steam community pages, because of the Skyrim game hub I really really want to upgrade my PC.
I mean look at this: http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/560952790379068557/0E43395404F4E2B695BF0C118CE2153CC19E6A2B/
Some of the screenshots that people are posting are ridiculously beautiful, I installed the HD textures recently and they look good but some of the mods that are out there take it to another level. I haven’t done anything with mods yet, I want to play through the full game before I introduce anything potentially game breaking.
I started playing around a little with taking some screenshots myself, and worked out the console commands to free the camera and stuff but think I’ll play the game first then worry about getting the pretty pictures (at least mostly)
But those screenshots, oh my
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Also for those who don’t really use steam the pictures can be found here http://steamcommunity.com/app/72850/screenshots
Also NSFW warning on some of them, uncommon but bikini mods and the very occasional nekkid mod do exist so depending on your work policies be careful
IDK if it was said yet or not but
You can start pre loading Borderlands 2 on Steam
So, F4ction left a message on my FB wall over the weekend.
Apparently all my 40k Talk is poisoning him and tempting him back to the dark (see empty wallet) side.
MUHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
More shall succumb to my will!!!
It also helps i’m wearing my Space Marine hoodie today 😀
Celbratory song!
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Wait.. cancel that.
Better celebratory song! 😀
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PROPAGANDA PAGE GET!
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Is really live to get back into it but having noone to play against us somewhat a hindrance.
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*I’d really like
Stupid autocorrect.
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Yeah, that;s my biggest issue too, but there is a gamers guild in geelong i may have to check out if worse comes to worse
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I never did 40K but there were these magazines that came with LOTR things you had to paint. Those were so awesome! …and expensive
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Yeah they were by games workshop too.
Believe it or not, but GW are still expanding their Lord of the Rings range to this very day. Has a massive core following.
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Following on from my lost post at the base of page 2, you should just play Skyrim
http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/918986422830490254/26E630CE3FD578A4E5F7FBA8ACE5CF1C9434FB3D/-
BAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
That is perhaps one of the greatest pictures EVER-
For some totally unknown reason I thought you might like that one
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.NET dependency hell 🙁
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Import all of the libraries
Stupid question: Where do you get Black Mesa? It doesn’t appear to be in Steam. At least from my inexpert searching.
Also, do you have to have HL2 for it to run?
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http://release.blackmesasource.com/ no you don’t need HL2. Only the Source SDK 2007
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Where do you get the SDK from?
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Assuming you’ve got a Source game, you just click on the All Games drop down menu in your library and go to tools. Should be down near the bottom!
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Oh sweet. So if I have Portal 2 I should already have it? Thanks guys.
Welbot, you’ve been a massive help for the past few days. Thanks man.
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🙂 no probs man. always happy to help when I can.
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You have access to it, but you’ll still need to download it I think. :S
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(Or just click on View and Tools, way to complicate things D.C. :P)
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Thanks, welbot. I assumed you needed Half-Life 2. (Don’t actually own that game, played it on my brother’s steam account back in the day.) Downloading Source SDK now.
You should be able to grab it here http://www.blackmesasource.com
It has been approved by Valve to be released on steam but hasn’t been organised yet
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Thanks, man.
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Thanks for thanking him D.C.
(What? I just wanted to join in)
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Thanks for thanking me as I thanked him. Meant a lot man. 😀
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Ah man I could’ve hooked you up yesterday, I should’ve done so. Damn it!
Attention anyone who wishes to send out emails pretending to be from DHL but actually contain viruses: they would be a lot less suspicious if you did not send out several hundred of them at once. Also, I’m fairly sure that DHL sends emails from an @dhl.com address.
Just a heads up.
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Same goes for all those people sending me Diablo 3 account notices when I haven’t even bought the bloody game
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You seem to be crediting spammers with a undeserved level of intelligence.
My cat’s not back yet. No sign of her at the RSPCA either. This week is gonna suck. 🙁
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Oh no. 🙁 I hope you find her. Was she microchipped?
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Thanks, man. Nope, not microchipped. Lesson learned. 🙁
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Hope you guys are hanging in there with the tough dog news too, man. :'(
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Tough but not unexpected. Our previous two retrievers only made it to 10 and 9 respectively so making it to nearly 14 and a half is pretty good work on his part. We’ve been expecting it for a while, he’s getting pretty slow and frail now anyway. Still in good spirits.
My mum refuses to microchip the pets b/c she thinks it’s some grand conspiracy for the local council to shake you down for extra rates. I know when execute step 2 on NegativeZero’s Life Plan (get new kitty) I’ll be getting a pedigree cat so definitely chipping it.
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Sounds like an awesome dog. 🙂 If the cat ever comes home, microchipping will be on the cards for sure. (Maybe one of those GPS tracker things to put on a collar too. Can never be too paranoid. :P)
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That’s crap man 🙁 Hopefully she will come back
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The waiting game sucks. Sucks even more to know there might never be any resolution to it. :S
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@Sughly/TAYlocke-rs: I was thinking of making a quick blog for the TAYlocke this morning, but didn’t really want to spend the time if people wouldn’t use it. Especially since we’ve already got TAY/Twitter to talk about it.
But if people want a proper place to write stories or whatever, I can do it.
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Is this going to be “Locketober”?
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Hopefully not because that’s when B2W2 comes out! New games take precedence over this!
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What the heck is B2W2?
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It’s the fourteenth movie in the Fast and the Furious series. 2 Black 2 White. It’s the storyt of a black guy, trying hard to compete in street races against white dudes, who dominate the field, before he realises that he doesn’t need to play by their rules. Introducing, GHETTO RACING! #NotRacist #SocialCommentary #>.>
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Hahahah!
(It’s actually Pokemon Black 2 and White 2! The new sequels that’re coming out October 11! :D)
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Ahhhhh yes yes, of course. I was gonna be all like WAAAT what could possibly take precedence over Pokemon!? The answer can only be… newer pokemon
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They’re so ugly T__T
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2 Blastoise 2 Forretress
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HAHAHA!
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My mind’s been a little blown this morning. I found out Family Force 5 have done acoustic versions of some of their songs. Like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxdleDb0TrM
SO GOOD. I can’t stop listening to it…
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I’ve not heard of Family Force 5… I’m assuming they’re some band, right?
I keep thinking of Bear Force 1 every time you mention the name though…
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That’s exactly what I think of when he says it.
I blame FatShady.
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I blame good tatse.
BEAR FORCE ONE FOR THE WIN!!!
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^ This.
All of this.
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Wikipedia tells me they are a Christian Crunk Rock group.
The fudge is Crunk?
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Umm, I think it’s a kind of shouty call and response music, with a heavy bass. Or something. It’s a style of hippiy hoppity music, I believe.
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I have basically no idea what different genres sound like, which is really awkward because when people ask me what kind of music I like to play, I’m like “Um…I don’t know?”…
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A Christian band that’s had a bit of mainstream success as well. I saw them live last Friday night which was awesome.
‘Radiator’: probably my favourite song of theirs.I’ve never heard of Bear Force 1 before…
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DO EEEEET
Youtube. Bear Force One.
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Power glove love \m/ -.- \m/
They are ok, not really my thing so sounds a bit generic for me. Lead singer has a decent voice whic is important for the style they play. They look like they would put on an awesome live show though, was it a small venue, that would rock?
But are they Christians or worships of Ra
#AstrophysicsJokes #NotFunny
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Day made??
Almost….
Almost…
Finally caught up on TAY : D
I apologise to page 2 as I kind of skimmed you but page 1 was read so here’s so random replies to it.
– Pokemon! : D Pokegames have been obtained and I’m about to start again on SoulSilver. Good to see this thing take off with the other TAYbies! Although Powalen is doing the hard work I’m still taking some credit : )
– Trjn and his Diablo III magic find… Are you playing with anyone Freeze? While the game is okay most of my fun came from the drop-in/out co-op with a bunch of friends and you’ll find the game just isn’t that much fun when you’re playing solo (at least in the earlier difficulties).
– NotoriousR – woo! My scores are higher :D. Freeze did you play Super Hexagon yet?
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And that was comment #799000
Yay!
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http://www.colorhexa.com/799000 Another of the 50 Shades of Greenius?
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800 000 wll happen this week. Who will be the lucky?
Probably BlaghSpam-
Wait, good sir, are you accusing me of spamming? How dare you. THIS IS AN OUTRAGE!
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Challenge him to a duel. Slap him with your glove.
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All of the magic find!
I still need more! MORE!
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Sadly I think I may be a little late for the co op thing seeming as everyone is well past the level 3 mark. Luckily Bubbles the Barbarian does not need help. Bubbles the Barbarian will smash all!
I did play Super Hexagon. The sensitivity of the controls is throwing me a bit. I think I may be a tad heavy handed on the screen.
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Yeah it’s hard to position yourself correctly but you get used to it. So intense though :O
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It’s not exactly a stretch for me to start up a new character and keep it roughly level with you.
Bubbles could team up with Geoff With A J as Barbarian Bash Brothers (patent pending).
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Best name (before Farts)
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Oh man I swear they took out Poison damage while walking. Must’ve been introduced in 5th gen then 🙁
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Did something die!? :O They got rid of DYING from Poison in Gen 5, I think (which I really didn’t like honestly 😛 Too dumbed down)
I’m working on a small blog at the moment for TAYlocke stories and things. Stay tuned.
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Nah, thankfully nothing died but it’s quite an annoyance. My starter (and only Pokemon at the time) nearly died though D:
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You still take damage while walking but “the poison fades away” when you get to 1HP
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Oh really? So I can’t actually lose Pokemon from it?
I’m pretty sure they could faint in older gens but I never let it get to that point it later games.
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You still lose them from poison in battle, but not while walking
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Dear Lambo
You’re welcome.
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Haha! That triggered a flashback. Were you the guy that dressed as a bear to a party once. 😛
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You mean Dancing Bear? 😛
I’m pretty sure the person that dressed as a bear to a party was Fatshady
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Rich tapestry of history here in TAY. Haha!
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Is ‘dancing bear’ what I think it is :S
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O_o
What. On earth. Was that.-
The greatest cover group of all time?
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Boardwalk Empire! It’s back! Now in Season Three form!
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Not sure if want…
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OH GOD MORE STUFF T WATCH I AM SO BEHIND /o\
But thanks for reminding me DC, legend 😀
I’m pretty over today. Barely got anything done but I don’t think that matters too much.
Just want to lie down with a cup of tea and watch Malcolm in the Middle until I pass out.
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Sounds like the makings of a rich and fulfilling night. 😀
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Throw in some fried rice and that pretty much covers all of my Sunday.
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We are (re)watching MitM at our house! LOVE that show. We are 1/2way through season 6.
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You’re a bit ahead of me. I’m just getting to the end of the first season.
It’s such a shock to watch the pilot and see how young everyone is. Hell, even by the second episode they seem to be several months older. By the time you get to where you are, they almost appear to be real human sized :p
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Also a shock to see Walt not as crazy bad drug dad but just regular crazy dad
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Oddly enough, there is such a huge disconnect between the two characters that you barely realise that it’s the same guy.
Aside from the hands. He talks with his hands the same way. And the explaining. Walt and Hal both explain things the same way, the difference is that Walt is a genius and Hal is very much not.
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There was probably a gap between pilot and being picked up for the first (half-)season.
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I was amazed to learn that the kid who plays Malcolm is older than the kid who plays Reese.
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And he got to retire as a teenage millionaire, whilst the rest of the kids went on to do pretty much nothing.
Apparently Dewey still looks just as goofy.
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http://tv.yahoo.com/photos/emmys-malcolm-in-the-middle-where-are-they-now-slideshow/
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So Lois married Josh from The West Wing. Was that part of her ploy to get Malcolm elected as president?
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Dat Black Mesa. I’m envious to find any easter eggs (I just heard a guard saying “Say hi to Dr. Cross for me.” )
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Installing now, I will finally play through HL1 fully. I remember being blown away by the scripted in game cutscenes and the like at the time. Was my brothers game, though. We didn’t share like bros should. 😛
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You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means 😛
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OH GOD MY INTERNET CREDIBILITY.
Alright, that was more a shout-out, but I’m pretty sure that wasn’t in the original game, so eh.
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I was actually talking about envious 😛
Eager, excited, hoping, {long list if words supplied by Shane here}.I just wanted to quote the princess bride 😉
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that just further hurts my internet credibility. 🙁
I’m just gonna go back to hitting things with crowbars now.
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Dat game…. Maaaaaan Dat game…. Got stuck into it on the weekend… Fallen in love with HL all over again… It’s a mod, of a 14 year old game and still manages to poop all over most games…
Today’s musical highlights!
Roachford – Only To Be With You
Evermore – Underground
Little Heroes – One Perfect Day
Vanessa Carlton – A Thousand Miles
America – A Horse With No Name
John Lennon – Stand By Me
Thirsty Merc – Mousetrap Heart
Sick Puppies – Maybe
Mondo Rock – Come Said The Boy
Deborah Conway – It’s Only The Beginning
Vengaboys – Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom (After vetoing Ice Ice Baby, I replaced it with this)
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I think your playlist computer is becoming sentient. There’s a message here. But what does it mean. :S
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That he only wants to be with one person… In an underground… For one entire day… They’ll travel 1000… That special someone is a horse O.o… With no name… Which he wants to stand by him… His heart is caught in a mousetrap… Maybe… Then he said “come”… It’s only the beginning and then boom boom boom…. Too literal?
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My mind is blown! 😀
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Your mind and the gutter must be good friends
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Ohhhh my lordy. This list is… concerning
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Concerning how?
(Sincere Question)
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Haha no I’m sorry that was a dicky thing to say, I just have very different tastes is all. To each his own Lucifer, to each his own
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Your veto power, and furthermore your choice of replacement is FANTASTIC
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*pride*
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Nice. Nice.
Any Melbourne TAYbies going to the Games Masters talk on Thursday night? Tetsuya Mizuguchi (Rez, Space Channel 5, Lumines etc) talking about stuff. If anyone else is going we should meet up!
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No one? 🙁
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I’ll have to have a look at what is on. I still haven’t been yet so have been planning to get there. This might provide the added incentive
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6:15pm Thursday.
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I have some kind of crappy training at work I have to do all day, finishing around 5, so it’s pretty good timing overall.
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Man I have so many different things I want to do. I want to play guild wars, I’m doing the HeartGold Nuzlocke (no deaths so far, Powalen you monster). I also have my secret project that I’m working on too, although that’s more of a long term thing. Too much stuff not enough time
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Forget playing games, just work on Project Nova so I can see what it is! 😛
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Look at you two with your secret projects!
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I have a day off tomorrow so I’ll be able to get quite a bit done. I imagine it will still take weeks to be finished.
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Ugh…sooo tired. Must drag face to coffee.
Good afternoon TAY, how are you?
Good? Glad to hear it.
Me? I’m also good, although very tired. Why, you ask?
I heard what I thought was a brutal killer who hunted men as trophies on my roof last night around 4am. It kept me awake until dawn.
What I am referring to is what’s known as a possum. A rather large one by the sound.
After the sleepless night last night, I wish it specific harm. However I lack the means and willpower to follow through on this threat. Instead, I’ll just call a possum guy I think.
I’m also rather sore. Spent all day yesterday running around a field full of inflatable structures, with a gun in hand, frantically trying to avoid being shot at. Yes, i’m referring to paintball and oh damn my thighs are sore from all that running.
I’ll tell you this piece of trivia. You’ve never run so hard in your life until you’re being shot at with paintballs moving around 320kph through the air toward you.
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Is your roof beneath a tree or something? If so, throw some fishing line over the branches, and tie a can to one end. Fill the can with an oil drenched sock and light it, ensuring it smolders away nicely (you don’t want an actual flame, as the line won’t hold too long then) it should burn for some time. Hoist the can up to the roof, and you shouldn’t have any further possum issues.
If there’s no tree, that means there’s no refuse to fall on the roof.
Meaning that you can implement adhesives to trap the bugger. You could also call the council and borrow a catch’n’release style trap, or you could make your own.If you wish harm to it as mentioned though, I’d be opting for spring-loaded spike strips. A favourite here is welding/adhering fishing hooks to the metal springbar of a mouse/rat-trap, and waiting for someone/thing to step on it. Trust me, that trap’s gonna stay there a while.
Another idea may be to isolate the roof, and run some chicken wire/mesh across it, hooking the mesh up to the mains power. The possum’s only going to touch it once before it realises it’s really not a fun place to be.
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All that is very sensible, yeah, but seeing as he’s out for revenge and he has paintball experience the obvious thing to do is have a psychotic breakdown a la rambo and shoot everything with a paintball gun until your past superior officer arrives to talk you into surrendering yourself to the authorities.
obviously.
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I see nothing wrong with this plan.
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Nope, no tree. And close neighbours may call the EPA on me stinking out their homes with an oil fire.
I was just going to put pigeon spikes around the awnings etc to it’s discouraged from using my roof to sing on.
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Slingshot’s fine, 12Ga is better 😀
better yet, http://www.1612shotgun.com should fulfill your needs 😛
How big is the possum? Perhaps a lightweight tripwire + incendiaries could be put to good use here.
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Alternatively, find some RIDICULOUSLY hot chillis. Crush and smear along the perimeter of your roof (Better to fix some timber planks to the roof first, and smear it onto the timber. It’ll eat your paint otherwise). Ain’t nothin’ gonna go near it. Re-apply crushed chillis ever 2-3 months.
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Hell, I can send you some eventually, just as soon as mine get going 😀
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I’m not sure you’re allowed to send things like that in the mail are you?
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Y’know, I don’t know either!
Umm, I could send some seeds down once mine get going? I got mine posted as seeds, so I’m assuming that’s fine.
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I found that it isn’t so much the running that does it to you but the couching and going from crouch to full sprint.
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Yeah, between the two i’m one sore mofo. I normally pull up ok after paintball.
Oh well, it’ll pass.
I am making a sponge cake! \o/
Let’s hope it turns out this time /o\
Can’t find anyone to beat me on the new arcade pong thingie… So many n00bs!!!
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If I was extremely wealthy I would totally donate 10k to the Obsidian kickstarter. Chance to play a Pen & Paper RPG of your choice with Chris Avellone, Tim Cain, Josh Sawyer & Feargus Urquhart. So awesome.
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Could naked twister be an option?
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They do say any board game or RPG. Twister is a board game right?
Maybe if I start a kickstarter for 10k…
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The Monte Cook Numenera one had a similar top bracket, and also one or two where he’d do it via a google + hangout
Am… am I supposed to read this contract thingy for work? 😛
So much words D:
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Just wait for the movie.
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or the audio book as read by Samuel L. Jackson
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Go the fuck to sleep!
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But do workplaces expect you to read ALL the documentation and whatnot?
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Hire a lawyer!
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Finally caught up on the first page. Good luck with the pitch, Shane. All the best, I sincerely hope every thing goes your way buddy! (Unfortunately I’m not really in the right mindset to offer any thing constructive, so I hope a little good will directed your way will suffice. :D)
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Okay fine… Page 2, I’ll read you!
@Shane – When did you need this read by? I probably won’t be able to do it for a while as I have a lot of things on at the moment. Sorry! 🙁
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YES, best of luck Shane. My fingers are crossed for ya.
You go rock the balls off Dark Horse with your comics!
Sughlyyyyyyyy! Your ear is forever mangled. Sorry. 😛
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Wait what?
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I mangled your ear when I was doing that thing, you know…with the things. 😛
And I can’t be bothered fixing it so it’ll have to stay that way forever.
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Can’t stop thinking about how awesome FTL is!
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Can’t stop thinking how awesome Black Mesa is 😛
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Black Mesa is pretty damn detailed, though. Going through slowly, taking in the sights and sounds.
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same, mostly just seeing stuff and thinking “was that in the original or did they just add that?”
but yeah, excellent quality
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Can’t stop thinking about my missing cat! (Mood ruined. :P)
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:'( I just learned that my childhood dog died so I there with pet woes man… Hope she comes back soon
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Aw, man. That’s horrible news. 🙁 Sorry for your loss, buddy.
Thanks for the kind word. 🙂
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Sorry didn’t try and steal thunder or anything, just showing that i can empathize :P… Hope she shows up soon though… My old family cat once disappeared for 14 days but then out of nowhere showed up again
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Haha! That’s crazy talk, man. No thunder stolen. We can all empathize together. 😛
😀 That’s reassuring. Hopefully the same will happen. Thinking about plastering the street with signs in a second. Old schoooool. 😛
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Bahahaha I have no plan to turn this page into sad page 3…. THAT’S HOW SEXY PAGE 18 STARTED *dun dun duuuuuuun*… But yeah… How long has she been missing for?
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Just over a day, but usually a house/yard cat. Never explored beyond the fence line. All uncharted. :S
Anyways, I get the feeling my mood is infectiously bleak right now. Might be time to stop posting. 😀
Thanks for the concern, though. Means a whole lot, my friend!
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Tay is amazing for support, so when your mood is bleak its awesome to come here… Certainly brightens my day… Also helps to talk about it…
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Expect Captain’s logs from me soon enough 🙂
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With my Engi Cruiser btw, the mostly Engi crew with one meatbag manning the engine room 😛
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Or maybe I should do layout B, you’re entirely a lone Engi commanding an entire ship with drones to help you repair and defend it… I think I’ll do that, make it interesting
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Wooo Borderlands 2! I’m getting it on PC but who do I play with :'(? No one seems to be going as Turret guy so I’ll play him. I like playing the less popular classes.
Good thing my week long Uni holiday starts next week which gives me ALL the Borderlands time so I’m pretty much free to play most days (I have an assignment to do in between). He probably won’t see but I can play at your weird Canadian times Bish since I don’t have a job to attend to :).
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You students and your free time 🙁
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To be honest I don’t see any of the classes as unpopular, they all have something epic to bring to the table.
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I’ve just seen more people talk about playing Gunzerker or Zer0. I was originally going to go as one of them but even though I don’t know much about the game, I think I’ll still go Turret guy 🙂
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I’ll admit that gunzerker is my first pick, but I might play Turret guy on one of my other run-throughs, and I will pretend that he is Michael Fassbender the entire time as well.
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Don’t tell me what I can or can’t see, you’re not my real uncle!
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It’s true, I’m not.
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Nova’s Pokemon HeartGold TAYlocke Log – Entry 1
Well, I’m off to a flying start. I decide to go with Cyndaquil as my starter, and name him Kaiser. I was lucky enough to score one with a Modest nature, which raises special attack and lowers physical attack. As most of Typhlosion’s attack are special, this is one of the best natures to have.
Make my through Route 29 without any dramas. Get abducted by the “Guide” in Cherrygrove City. Side note, the auto run feature in these games is the best thing since the physical/special split in Diamond and Pearl. Why get rid of it GameFreak? WHYYYYY?
Route 30 starts with a problem. My first 2 encounters (before I get pokeballs) are Spinaraks. With poison sting. Both times I get poisoned by their first attack. BOTH TIMES. Luckily the Pokemon centre is nearby so no harm done. Collect the egg from Mr Pokemon and return to Prof Elms lab, kicking my rival’s butt on the way back through Cherrygrove City. Level 9 Cyndaquil > level 5 Totodile. I named my rival Powalen 🙂 Because Greenius wouldn’t fit.
Next is a string of captures and training
Route 29 – Hoothoot – level 3 – Nicknamed “Sophos” in honour of YouTuber NBZ.
Route 30 – just completely forgot to catch anything. I think my first encounter was a Rattata but I have no idea.
Route 31 – Spinarak – level 3 – nicknamed “Piper”
Dark Cave – Zubat – level 2 – nicknamed “Eclipse”
Arrived at Violet City and proceeded straight to Sprout Tower where I was lucky enough to catch a Gastly – level 4 – nicknamed “Pandora”.
Insert grinding montage here
In preparation for the battle with Falkner, I made my first crucial error. I sacrificed safety for speed and I paid the price. I decided to train in the Ruins of Alph, where Unowns make their home, and offer more exp points than other wild Pokemon. But their only attack (Hidden Power) can be any type and a range of strengths. As such, until they attack you for the first time, you don’t know if an attack will be super effective, neutral or not very effective. In the end it was my Zubat, Eclipse, who paid the price for my lack of judgement. At level 10 I thought it would be powerful enough to live even a super effective hit. And it was. Until one of those super effective hits was also a critical hit. My poor Eclipse was killed in a single strike.
Farewell Eclipse. I hardly knew you at all. I fear you will be but the first to fall. I pray you will be the last.
Next time – first gym battle. Who will live, and who will die?
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Haha! I named my rival Nova! True story.
Continuing from this, would you rather post your stories here or on a possible blog-style website? I worry that non-participants are going to get annoyed, but I don’t know if people are going to want to post on another website 😛
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I don’t mind one way or the other. I’m happy to go with whatever everyone agrees on
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Same. Wouldn’t want to annoy the TAYbies who aren’t interested in it but I’m less likely to go to another site 😛
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OK, how about we try it out and if we don’t like it, we can stop. http://www.powalen.com/taylocke/ I just used a pre-made theme so it didn’t take too long (Effort? I don’t do that!)
Some people are probably too polite to say, but I’m sure a few weeks of this kind of posting would annoy some people 😛 You’ll have to sign up for an account with that website though (once you do, I can upgrade it to an “Author” status and you can post whenever and as often as you like!).
Posting is pretty straight-forward but if you need help just say!
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Signed up :). Cheers Powalen! (still preferred the green speech bubble though grrr!)
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Ok, I’m registered. Author-ise (authorise? 🙂 ) me please
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And you call Powalen a monster for losing a Pokemon!
Greenius’ steals some of Nova’s thunder with his TAYlocke Log – Entry 1
And so our adventure begins with Lonny! (obtained using the game’s random name generator). But wait! …what’s this? I can’t save because there’s another save file!?
And thus ends the adventure of Lonny.
Existing save file cleared and the adventure of Green (as Nova said, Greenius doesn’t fit :'( ) begins! Sprinkles the Totodile was obtained! My adventure has been boring so far but I named my rival POOP because I’m an adult.
Pokemon captured:
Munchkin the Setret – Route 29
Blingle the Pidgey – Route 30
Borise the Spearow – Route 46
Princess the Bellsproute – Route 31
Battie the Zubat – Dark Cave
Lemmy the Ratata – Sprout Tower
Squiggles the Bellsprout – Route 32
Except for the last 2 Pokemon and my starter, they’ve all been female :O. As for the names? I never nickname Pokemon so I just went with whatever crap I came up with at the time.
TAYlockes are fun! (you’re all monsters for getting your Pokemon killed)
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I did tell you that my previous nuzlockes have only served to highlight what a terrible person I am. It’s a shame, because I really wanted a Crobat.
OK, so I can actually post in TAY with a degree of continuity now. What’ve I missed?
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Drama on the high seas! Espionage! Reprisals!
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Man, look at us and our quick replies 😛
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Wrong way around!
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POGEYMONS
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I CAN HAZ POOGAIMUNZ?!
OK time to listen to Potaku whilst I start my Nuzlock
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I should listen to Potaku as well!
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…What’s a Nuzlock?
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Some dude named Nuzlocke made a comic about POOGAIMUNZ and in it he basically set out some rules that pretty much said you can only catch the first Pokemon in each area and once they fainted they were considered ‘dead’ for good.
Then a bunch of people started doing Nuzlocke runs 😀
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Oh man, that sounds tough! I wish I had my old Gameboy Colour and POOGAIMUNZ Red again…
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See top of page 🙂
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All this Pokemon talk got me wondering, does anyone know if Black and White 2 will impose the same restrictions on trading and what Pokemon you encounter as Black and White did? That is, will you only be able to encounter the new Pokemon in the wild and be unable to trade over old Pokemon until you beat the Pokemon league/main story?
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ROT13 please! I don’t want to know! (I know it’s not a major spoiler, but still :P)
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I see what you did there
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Powalen doesn’t!
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Read it Powalen, I triple doggy dare you.
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Argh, Rot 13 disappeared twice, sorry Powalen DONT READ PAST HERE
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They’ve extended the pokedex a bit, I think around three hundred will be available before the elite four, but the rest you’ll have to cath or transfer over post game
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So you’re not limited to 5th gen only from the get-go? I don’t exactly remember how it was in Black/White but I remember something like they didn’t let you have any of the older Pokemon up until a certain point, which was after the Elite 4?
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Pretty sure thats how is gonna work in B2W2.
Yep you’re right, no older pokemons till after Elite 4
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All this pokemon talk got me thinking about playing Disgaea for some reason.
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Disgaea 4 specifically b/c while I like Disgaea 3 I find it a bit irritating to grind in due to there not being many good levels for doing that. Disgaea 4 has the one level with 150% XP on the whole map and all the enemies conveniently laid out in 2×2 squares for optimum stompage. So awesome for boosting mages.
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Disgaea is similar to Pokemon, is it? I’ve honestly never looked it up before now 😛 Actually it looks a bit more like Fire Emblem at first glance. Maybe I should give it a go.
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Not really :P. It’s more of an SRPG, so like Fire Emblem I guess. But Disgaea is very Japanese-y and thus, crazy. There’s a whole lot of weird and complicated things you can do in it too! 😀
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Hi, guys and gals!
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Hey, man. Hope life’s treating you well!
Poke friends
I can’t remember which Type > which Type and I used to play using a little table that showed what was super effective against what. Except it was a pretty dated table and I remember it being wrong while I was playing White. Anyone have a quick link to a similar sort of table/chart which I can easily use to know which types are super effective against what?
Thanks in advance! Good luck Nuzlocking!
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This one is my favourite: http://veekun.com/dex/types It let’s you choose secondary types and things which is helpful!
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Perfect! Thanks!
You also just helped me gain an advantage in future Pokemon Online battles! *insert Blaugh*
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Not really an advantage, just brought you up to a level playing field
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TAY Nuzlock Challenge!!
Upon reaching Violet City. “Cannot save over old save. Press ieughpiregu on title screen to delete”
DAMNIT WHY!
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🙁 Yeah, had the same problem. Luckily it was only after I left the house but I still saw the intro at least 5 times.
quick nuzlock info bite 1 –
i am Batman, with my noble and trusty cyndaquil “Oh no, I”
Pokemon Nuzlocke people:
To avoid TAY becoming “Talk Amongst People-Who-Are-Nuzlocking”, go to this website: http://www.powalen.com/taylocke/ and register an account! (Once you’ve registered, let me now and I’ll upgrade you to ‘Author’ status) There you can post as much as you like about TAYlocke and the people who are interested can follow it!
Sorry for the overload of Pokemon talk today, everybody!
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Registered Im CJ
Why am I remembering the thinking chair song from Blue’s Clues right now?
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Here’s the mail it never fails, it makes me want to wag my tail. When it comes I want to wail “MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIILLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!”
Why cookie Rocket?
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Is that some sort of riddle?
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Don’t mind me, been watching too much Rise of the Planet of the Apes. 😛
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Hello TAY! Hope everyone is well.
I don’t think I can catch up on 4 pages, so what’s news?
@DC, did you cat come home?
@ Greenius, what’s news re; new job. Found our where and when you go for training yet?
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Hey, SmurfyDog. No dice on the cat front. Listed her with the RSPCA and put fliers up around the block. Done all I can really, so now I wait. Thanks for asking, thoug. Means a lot! 😀
How are you, man?
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Pretty good mate. Busy day at work today, which is always better than a slow day.
No missing pets, and lasagne is in the oven.
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Heya! Yep, received the contract, tax stuff, super stuff etc. in the mail today and received an email on the weekend with the details. Still not sure when I’m working or where but at least I know when and where the training is. I assumed I’d be working both Friday and Saturday at 10-2 but it seems like since I’m casual I’ll probably only get a few shifts, so less money :(. Guess I’ll find out Wednesday!
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Good luck with it all 🙂
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Cheers, thanks for asking : )
Hopefully I do get all the shifts since it’s far away so I’d rather not go all that way for just 1 shift and then I can use all the money for all the things for all the TAYbies!
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Six Feet Under. Boardwalk Empire. Black Mesa. (Not necessarily in that order.) Good night, folks.
Hey, cool news for me!
Ubisoft have asked me to help out with a Trials Evo come at EBExpo… so it looks like im going to get to see it… also i get to play Trials for a weekend. Not sure if anyone is going but come find me if you are. I’ll post more details as I know them. Sounds like there will be some pretty sweet prizes!.
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Oh man that’s awesome :D! I still haven’t faced you in Trials but I’m too scared to! 😛
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Next you’ll be telling us you’re moving to Finland because RedLynx wants you to work for them 😛
Awesome news man. Dont think I’ll be going but it’s sounds like it’ll be a great weekend. Have fun.
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That’s so damn cool, man. The makings of another Kotaku article too, maybe?
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Wow, that’s awesome congratulations.
Do you need an assistant? 😉
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thanks dudes. yeah all kinda crazy. I’ve wanted this for so damn long so glad its happening. and what I’m really hoping for is that this goes well and I get to maybe do the same at PAX?
Anyway yeah i’ll totally do something for it for sure. i might write something if people are interested?
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Nice one man, you’ve become THE Trails guy in Australia, that’s bloody awesome.
Well I powered back to where I was in Silver and now my team is currently of 4 with no losses
Cyndaquil – Kuma
Hoothoot – Gussy (named after an owl at the zoo)
Rattata – Rat
Zubat – Batguy
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Cyndaquil brothers o/
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\o He’s the best fire starter there ever was. Shame him and Totodile are same game I like them both.
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Cyndaquil > Torchic but Blaziken > Typhlosion (just)
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W/E, Blastoise man he wrecks shop on all them Fire Fighters. Typhlosion too sadly but atleast hes special in being a single type.
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Typhlosion is bestest Pokemon! I ALWAYS go him so decided to do something different for my Nuzlocke (Totodile) and I’ll go Chikorita for my grass/green run 😀
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I’ve been ‘obtaining’ the old TV show Monkey over the last few weeks.
(You know, for archival purposes… for the public good and all that.)
Man, that show is so awesome! I was afraid it might have aged like other old shows I remember, but I’m glad to report that it’s still got the same weird charm it had back when I was a kid. \o/
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I used to watch it every Sunday after RAGE!
Oh man, right in the nostalgia.-
That’s right! I always assumed that it was some global cult show, but Wikipedia tells me that it was only really Australia where it was a huge cult hit.
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But so good! Best memories of spending time with Dad on a lazy Sunday afternoon 😀
I actually find it a little difficult to understand how it’s only Aus that got into it though!
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If any TAYbies are interested, the Sam and Max complete pack is available on Steam for$15.
Hurry, it ends in five hours.
Nobulus Log Chapter 1:
My Totodile (Cya-Later) and I have began our adventures into the unforgiving world of Pokemon. Where there are no second chances, no fainting, only death. We managed to fight our way through the merciless trainers. We arrived in Violet city only to find out that we need to get to the top of Sprout Tower. Luckily it was no problem for me and my team, Weedle even got enough power to Evolve into a Beedrill.
Route 29 – Sentret (KIA)
Route 46 – Rattata (Caught) – IMMA-RAT!!
Route 30 – Weedle (Caught) – Nelawop
Route 31 – Bellsprout (Caught) – IMMA-PLANT
Sprout Tower – Rattata (KIA)
Highlights:
So far I have had no deaths in my party! \o/
Also my Weedle has evolved into a Kakuna then to a Beedrill! \o/ \o/
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*Next time on Pokemon: The Nobulus Chapters*
*Nobulus takes on the gym of Violet Town.*
*Will our hero be able to earn his wings by defeating the gym leader?*
*Or will Falkner fly too high and send our hero crashing back to the earth?*
*Find out next time on Pokemon: The Nobulus Chapters*
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http://www.powalen.com/taylocke/ 😀
(Register/post these stories there if you don’t mind. Before the non-Pokemon TAY folk get sick of us :P)
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There’s so much Pokemon on this page I feel like we’ve alienated the others 🙁
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Yeah that’s what I keep thinking about… Didn’t expect it to get this big of a response. It should be OK once everybody knows to post on that blog though.
Sorry, all! /o\
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I think it’ll be ok as we get further in, our games will spread out and we’ll be posting together less. I think it’s just because we’ve all started at the same time that there’s so much poketalk
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If you think it’ll help, I could talk about Spec Ops. 😛 (In other words, relax, you guys are entitled to talk about whatever you want!)
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Ugh, why did you have to remind me about Spec Ops. I still need to buy that. This list of “things I need/want to do” is getting longer by the day
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It’s great, but you probably almost certainly won’t like it. (New disclaimer after killing it for Greenius with the hype. :P)
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Hey! I still liked it just not as much as I thought I would : )
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But you could have loved it, man. You could have loved it. *sobs*
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I want to talk about D.C. and how he should attend meats!
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A valid topic of conversation. I’ll take my business else where, though. 😛
I’m skimming past them. I’m about to play White and I’m scared it could spoil things for me. Otherwise I’d be reading them because I’m very interested to see how you guys are all going.
Oh KIA as in you killed it while trying to capture it? I thought it died but then you said no deaths in your party :P.
IMMA WITCH
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Yup KIA as in killed in capture. Maybe it should be KIC.
Also, has anyone figured out why my weedle / beedrill’s name is Nelawop?
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Because its the opposite of Caterpie, which you would obviously name Powalen 🙂
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Yeah! 😀
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What’s up, puny humans?
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Our collective gazes at your triumphant arrival? 😛
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I like you, pig-man.
I was originally planning to turn you into assorted meats, but I’ve changed my mind after taking a shine to you. 🙂
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Do you bring death and destruction or has Monday treated you well dark lord?
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Today has been pretty uneventful, honestly.
Just people screaming in torture as buildings crumble around me, creatures begging for mercy as I send them to R’lyeh, and some hooded people walking around who look like they’d be fun to step on.
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*throws pokeball at Cthullu*
So it’s raining. There goes my missing cat posters before they saw the light of day.
FUCK.
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Aw man, sorry to hear that. I have no experience in this but you could try putting them in those plastic covers so they’re somewhat water proof.
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Good idea! These ones have somehow held up, though. Atleast the ones on my street! 🙂
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It’s almost Tuesday, so I’m off to bed.
Goodnight, TAYbies.
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Goodnight Crazy. It’s Tuesday!! \o/
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haha totally didnt read your post before typing mine.. so very very sweepy!
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you are a crazy guy…. it IS Tuesday… and I have to be up in 5 hours! oops! damn games and such.
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Goodnight Shady 🙂
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… So, in hindsight, staying up all night playing FTL may have not been the wisest plan.
Since I am perfect, I choose to blame society.
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BLAGHMAN UP IN THE AM?!
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You know it!
Also, last night I decided to join in the Nuzlocke run thing.
After I’d made my way through the opening area, and I’d just started catching Pokemans, the emulator glitched, and all progress was lost. I think I will avoid participating now.
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Thus why I save before and after anything vaguely significant. Dem emulators are flaky.
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Save states are good to use too.
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Hey Blaghy! I had a dream last night that you became a moderator of TAY. You had a green username and started posting everyones real names and emails.
What do you think it means?
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It means that my plan is finally coming to fruition! http://soundcloud.com/blaghman/blaugh-v-1
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“First their dreams. Then… THE WORLD!”
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Morning all.
@Greenius, @DC, don’t worry about it guys. I’ve gotten a lot of valuable feedback already, and I don’t want anyone to put themselves out (more than necessary, anyway) just to do me a favour. I’ll be sending the pitch their way on Thursday if all goes well.
@Puppylicks and everyone else, thanks for the well-wishes! They mean a lot!
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I bought my laptop to work and plan on reading it/making notes during my lunch break.
Yay for Scrivener.
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Good luck again man! Sorry I couldn’t be of help 😛
So apparently I have $67.72 worth of credit at EB Games.
Suggestions?
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Petition their head office to start stocking red frogs.
Buy $67.72 worth of red frogs.
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Xeno…
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Clash?
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Phage.
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Shepard.
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Wrex
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AH DAMNIT LOOPS.
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*hugs*
*adorable smile*
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Wrex.
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Already have Saga 2 on my PS2, thanks.
Does that translate into Canada EB money, or do you need to pay for shipping? It would make more sense to buy some TAYbie a game if that’s the case…
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Canoodian dollars, Shanely.
I bought a thing here then I was like “Oh… I didn’t need to buy that thing wat” and now I have store credit with them because they wouldn’t exchange money.-
Rats.
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New Super Mario Bros Wii U Steel Case edition!
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Bleh. Steelcases suck.
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But McGarnical wants one 🙁
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Morning all.
How bout them FTLs? Pretty cool way to keep your pants up.
Giggity.
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I’d never heard anything about this… then all of a sudden everybody is like FTL IS THE BEST.
I don’t know what’s going on anymore!
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As I understand from the game title, and acronym for ‘Faster Than Light’, it’s a game about going at somewhat high speeds.
So seemingly a racing game where you have to shout “GOTTA GO FAAAAAAAAST” everytime you want to accelerate.
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I have no idea what you are saying.
Dat Canada accent.
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Paint your ship red, then you will go faster then all the non-red ships.
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American version of Australian accent = Gorta gew fahst?
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This.
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Yeah i’m in the same boat, and i am still yet to get any sort of hype from it…
Maybe i’ve been head of TAYbie marketing machine for so long i’ve become immune to it?!?!
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Once you watch a Let’s Play or see it in action you’ll want it :O
I randomly stumbled across some Let’s Plays. I kind of want the game but I have enough things to play at the moment 😛 (BORDERLANDS 2!)
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Not gunna lie – that looks ever so tedious. lol
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Yeah, Loops is only interested in high action activities like painting minis 😉
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Touche’
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Oh, man. Probably less than 500 words released and I’m already psyched for Dragon Age 3. I suspect they’ll have a lot to prove as team after the previous game. I think this will be amazing!
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As much as I loved DA:O, I’m really not hyped for 3. The second one was such a big disappointment after playing (and replaying) Origins.
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To me the core story was interesting, it was just the rushed/lazy implementation. Even the idea of an entire RPG set in one city was decent, it just needed to be varied and interesting to make you want to explore. Didn’t help that they reused the environments. I freakin’ loved DA:O though.
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The core story to DA:O was amazing IMO. Then 2 comes around and it’s like Bioware didnt give a shit about the franchise. I really have trouble finding a core story in DA2. There’s this whole sub-plot of mages being persecuted but it just seemed … pointless. The whole adventure was pointless, it was like a filler game and to me the only reason that Bioware made the game was so they could all buy a new car.
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Yeah, you guys are right, when I say core story I really mean some of the ideas and concepts behind it. Slow burn, brewing conflict kind of stuff. Could’ve been implemented better, though.
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I’ve been meaning replay the first game, but it’s just so damn long. (A good problem to have. :P)
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Also, I played DA:O a whole bunch of times and I love the game…but the story really wasn’t very good. Predictable generic as all hell. But it didn’t matter to me because the world, the character interaction and the gameplay were enough to make it a great experience.
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To this day, the Morrigan/Warden romance is my favourite one BioWare’s ever done.
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You are right, without the lore / characters it wouldn’t be as good. That’s another reason I disliked DA2, I didn’t really like any of the characters and I especially didn’t like Male Hawk’s voice. I have no idea why, something about his voice just rubbed me the wrong way.
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I wholeheartedly agree with this.
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Agreed, though I found the world and many of the characters pretty generic too.
But still enjoyable.
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I’m playing DA2 right now and really enjoying it. I think because it’s been so long since I played DA:O it’s not such a jarring difference. Would have been better if they’d waited to release DA2 until now instead of rushing it out though. 😛
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There was something about the male Hawke’s accent I found incredibly annoying. Haha!
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I’ve got a female Hawke. I love it when I pick the mischievous/sarcastic conversation option, her voice is perfect for it. 😀
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Yeah, I’m playing it now too, and I too am Fem Hawke(because boobs… shut up), and I agree that her voice is perfect for the sarcastic/jokey/whatever ones, but whenever she tries to be serious it sounds so very wrong.
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Snarky FemHawke is the correct approach. I can’t imagine playing it any other way.
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YES! I have no idea why, but I just dislike his voice so much. :/
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I am very glad I chose to be female, then!
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I think he just comes across as smug and douchy, without it serving the character at all. If he was an interesting jerk than that might have off-set it a a little. Haha!
What was wrong with DA2 was mainly technical & implementation of the ideas, not the ideas themselves. Though the railroading toward the end (where your decisions make no difference) really still pisses me off.
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No wonder they were so shocked when that approach didn’t work in ME3. They’d tested it out in DA2 and there wasn’t a petition to change it so they thought they were safe with ME3. 😛
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DA2 was far worse. ME3’s ending was just a bit disappointing because it felt out of place. DA2 was all ‘fuck your decisions, we’re going to do the exact thing we’ve spent the whole game saying we would never do’. Hawke’s story because of the framing narrative was always going to have a completely pre-determined outcome, all you can do is influence some minor details on how she gets there.
Seriously, you can’t even decline the story quests. You go ‘fuck no I don’t want to get your stupid doodad’ and the quest giver is like WELL OKAY BUT IT’S OVER HERE IF YOU CHANGE YOUR MIND and then you have to do it anyway. Railroading. 🙁
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Wild speculation based off the name and the scant details so far (minor DA2 spoilers included):
– You will play as an inquisitor for the weird faux-catholic religion in the setting. Possibly a Templar, maybe just a Seeker. You’ll probably start out in Orlais.
– This means you’ll end up working with the Seeker from the second game’s meta-story, who will be a playable NPC. You will also as a result have Varic and Leliana as party members as they are the most logical fit and are among the most popular characters from the previous games.
– The Warden will be referenced but given the options for the ending of DA:O will not actually be in the game, same as DA2
– Your task will be hunting down Hawke because of what happened at the end of DA2.
– The plot will dovetail into hunting Flemeth and by extension Morrigan. Flemeth is at the heart of the whole story, since she aided the Warden *and* was instrumental in Hawke’s rise to power and is clearly plotting something at a different level to the rest.
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I smelled smoke, looked outside saw some smoke coming from the lawn, probably from the lit cigarette dumped by the dude who was sitting on the nearby bench. And I put that shit out like a good citizen 😀
A bin was on fire once at Uni. Gave me a surprise when a flame came out of nowhere 😛
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Smokers are jokers. 😛
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I see humans doing that all the time and it sickens me… how hard is it really to 1. Put it out and 2. Put it in the fricken bin!?
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There’s bins ALL around campus and to make it worse there were like 30 people from Bangladesh, probably aged 40+ who were here on some sort of business thing and one of them did it…
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This summarises why I’m not a fan of smokers (in general. I still love you #35!). The health concern stuff doesn’t phase me cause I’m not exposed to much second-hand smoke (health concerns of which are still debated about, apparently) but seeing people throw lit butts out of a car, or dump them on the ground really shits me.
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I’m exposed to second hand smoke every day because of my human parents not giving a shit about my health. I now have breathing problems and I can’t laugh properly anymore (It’s more a huff now, lots of TS would notice it I’m sure). I can’t help having a general hate for smokers on a personal level, especially the ones who smoke when they’re not supposed to (On the train or at a station). I get really sick of paying my health for their choices.
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I smoke TK, do you hate me?
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Well I guess it’s more the ones that have no care for those around them, blowing smoke into people’s faces and other things like that. I don’t remember you doing that when we were at Armageddon Expo last year
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Yeah, I was.
But generalising like that might upset some people. Tarring people with the same brush isn’t exactly fair.
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You’re right, sorry I’m just in a rotten mood again this morning.
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Don’t worry about it TK 🙂
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Without singling out any choices made by people, it’s because of a lack of common courtesy. I will remove myself from the house/restaurant/office/people when I go for a smoke, and I dispose of my butts appropriately. Hell, I take a little baggy with me on fishing trips so I have an exclusive bin for my butts.
When feasible, I’ll brush my teeth/reapply deodorant so as to have a less pervasive smell on my person.
Doesn’t matter what you do, we’ve all got little things that don’t rub people the right way. That’s fine. It’s how you mitigate the reaction that counts :S
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^This. So much this.^
We aren’t all bad people.-
No, but we *do* smell terrible ;P
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Agreed.
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You’re better than fireman sam.
Just sayin…
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Or Smokey the Bear
http://www.smokeybear.com/
Relevant!!!!Also hi everyone
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Hey!
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@Greenius
Yay for jobby stuff!
But READ ALL THE THINGS!
Definitely before signing anything. Make sure you know EXACTLY what all that paperwork entails!
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Yay job! I got bored last night and read through it. Most of it was just repeated stuff from the online induction anyway so it was easy to get through :). There’s always stuff on TV shows/movies where there’s some giant contract with a hidden term that screws someone over so I thought I should read it.
If I recall from law, anything you sign or accept too, regardless of whether you actually read it or not counts as you agreeing to its terms.
Thanks for the advice though :). It’s just a casual job so nothing complicated but I know to read things and any other contracts in the future, before signing. But I’m not reading user licenses, terms of agreements for games/programs 😛
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Yeah fair enough. I never do.
But as far as work contracts go, I go through them multiple times and actually have someone else go over it too to make sure i’m not getting screwed in some way.
Some employers love slipping in a clause regardingnot paying long service leave entitlements.
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Posted on the previous page about ze Pokemans:
“I’m skimming past them. I’m about to play White and I’m scared it could spoil things for me. Otherwise I’d be reading them because I’m very interested to see how you guys are all going.”
So yeah, I wouldn’t stress overmuch. The posts appear to be entertaining enough. 🙂
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I think they’re all out to get me for saying I don’t like pokemon. At all.
Damn you TAYbies! Damn you all!
*shakes fist*
But I tend to just scroll past anyway.-
Haha! I’m right there with you buddy, but I don’t mind if they post about it.
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Don’t worry we’re playing SoulSilver/HeartGold (completely different games!). What we’re saying could be spoilery to those games though in terms of the events/gyms.
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I’m about to smash up the 8th Gime in White, but I’m waiting for my Treasure Hunter’s egg to hatch. No idea what it is, cause I didn’t play this far last time. Looking forward to the surprise, cause I haven’t had this sort of chance in ages.
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Please don’t respond to my comment about being about to play White with spoilers from White. I read it before I realised I shouldn’t have. I’ve never played a Pokemon game before. White is going to be my first.
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Oh, I made sure there’s no spoilers in there, which is why I used generic names.
My other half is playing through Black at the moment, and it’s her first time too, so I’ve been practising censoring myself when she asks me questions 😛
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Have fun with White, Strange! I’m eager to hear how you find it!
WUB WUB CONSENSUS INTERLUDE
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I LOVE IT!
I’m starting to find a lot of places that are back to saying Borderlands 2 is out on the 21st, not the 20th.
Where’s Aleph? I need Confus cause I am confus.
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EB and JB still say the 20th. JB are selling it for $69 :O, that’s an awesome local price. I haven’t bought locally for a while but is this the norm now? Good to see them bringing the prices down : D
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I paid $70 for it on Steam.
I think we’re starting to see local prices start to settle around that point now. Took them damned long enough.
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$70 for Borderlands 2 on Steam!? Damn :(. Bought it before GMG’s sales?
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Forgot to check, figured it was a good price and just paid it.
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When I was looking for Xenoblade in JB on the weekend I was pretty impressed with how cheap most PS3 and 360 games were. A whole bunch of non pre-owned games were under $40. Think I’ll be checking JB before buying online next time.
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If I recall new releases are ~$60 on Zavvi and ~$65 at OzGameshop. If local releases are going to be ~$70 then it’s definitely worth it for a few dollars more and to get it weeks earlier 😀
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From what I’ve seen, I’ll continue to buy Wii games online because they’re still priced high, but I’ll definitely be more likely to buy PS3/360 games at retail now. And waiting for postage from the UK often means by the time the game gets here, I’ve become engrossed in something else. 😛
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Going by the estimated prices on the EB website I’d say the Wii U will follow the same pricing trends as the Wii.
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Yeah, almost regretting pre-ordering off Ozgameshop now 🙁
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You’ll have to double-check whether the JB ones are imports or not, I guess. Some people are OK with them, some aren’t.
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Yeah, it becomes a problem when there’s DLC or Club Nintendo points etc. I haven’t been in a JB recently since they started saying they’d be importing games but they clearly specify when a game is imported, right? If I recall they had stickers on them. It’s easy enough for me to tell based on the rating but others might get confused.
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My local JB has a small imported section separate from the other games. I assume it’s the same everywhere?
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Last one I saw (Woden JB), there was a little sale sign on the shelf that said they were “imported”, but that was it. They were sitting next to the Australia copy of the game which was at normal price, so it seems they’re trying to make the difference less noticeable to the average customer.
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HALP
No-one wanted a 4-pack 🙁
Also ambiguous release date is ambiguous OMGFHALP
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Did you buy a 4 pack and no-one chipped in? I hopes not.
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Nah, I didn’t manage to buy the game because no-one wanted the 4-pack, and I can’t really justify paying RRP (or indeed anything) since I kinda went well over my annual budget with the steam sales :S
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1 day 15 hours on Steam!
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So 20th if my math is correct..
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IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII
This many.
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19?
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I know. But I’m almost certain I just made you recount it 😛
Cue Greenius moaning about Troll S Preston.
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UGH TROLL S. PRESTON!
‘moaning’? :/
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I counted it twice over before posting, in an effort to avoid just this.
It didn’t work…
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Yeah, I just visited the EB website and it’s wrapped around with an ad screaming that Borderlands 2 is “AVAILABLE THURSDAY!”.
Well I grabbed JB3Textures for DA:O and installed it last night before going to bed, hopefully the game doesn’t strain my eyes from the blurry dialogue scenes anymore
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I did something similar with Planescape: Torment. Installed it and all the mod packs. Got in game, then remembered you had to read every bit of prose. I’ve been so spoiled by full voice RPGs since KotOR. 😛
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I just quickly looked up the top 5 mods to use and this was pretty much number 1 so I pretty much just grabbed that. The less you read, the better 🙂
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Holy crap – 40K’s Assault phase rules have become WAYYY more complex than they used to be!!
Some really cool improvements made to the infantry system – but so much new to remember! lol
Virus! Did you change your name on Gizmodo and Lifehacker because you thought your name was getting you moderated? http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2012/09/aussie-team-re-invents-the-lightbulb/comment-page-1/#comment-353897
Did it work? Do those sites like you now?
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I did change my name, it was filtering Virus from my name AND email! But only on Gizmodo and Luke still has no idea why it was doing it lol.
It only works if I don’t type something with X amount of characters like that post got moderated because too many characters lol.
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I added you to filter list on Giz after you went on an italics spree in comments. Hit me up on email if you want it removed man. Always happy to chat.
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I’m going to complain about Steam!
BRACE YOURSELF, FOR I DARE TO INSULT THE GREAT DIGITAL GAME GOD
The Borderlands 2 Season Pass is now $40, and the Canadian Store prevented me from buying it when it was $16. Nuts.
:C
You may now email Gabe Newell about the heretic.
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Holy crap, wasn’t it like $25AUD a week ago?
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Not on Steam I think. Pretty sure after the pricing error it went straight to $40 AUD and stayed there. It did drop to $22.50 on GMG though.
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It is right now, I believe. $30 and there’s a 25$ off coupon floating around.
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25$ off! I’ll take 10.
If I recall the 25% off code expires on the 17th so very, very soon. But knowing GMG, there’s always another coupon waiting around the corner.
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I preordered the loot chest, so that’s all included. Think I’m now happy I made that decision.
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After watching the launch trailer for Borderlands 2, I have decided that my first character will be Maya.
Dat terrorist fist jab.
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I played as Lilith in the first game, so Maya is a distinct possibility for the second. But I don’t think I’ll be getting it day 1. Too much other stuff going on. I’ll probably end waiting for the GOTY edition like I did for BL1
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After a brief glance at abilities I will probably roll Salvador or Maya.
Maya mostly because she can heal allies which was invaluable in the first one.-
The supporty stuff looks good and depending on how her phase lock ability works, her non-supporty class trees could be rather fun as well.
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Indeed, also I favour elemental weapons which she gets bonuses to.
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I noticed that. Her Cataclysm skill tree looks like it’s going to be particularly fun when you just want to break some shit, man.
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Problem is the main dude I will be playing with is a bit of a dick in Borderlands.
I just know if I roll a supporty class he will just charge into every fight, get all the kills, ninja all the loot and expect me to keep him alive :/-
Make 2 characters. One to out-dick your friend 🙂 and the other the way you want to play
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We should get the Diablo gang together for this. We were pretty damned co-operative, particularly when it came to loot.
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Does this include me? 😛
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I’ll be going Turret guy so it seems like we’ll have a nice variety again 😀
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Yeeeeah but I am getting it on 360.
I could PC it too but I worry I will burn out on the game pretty quick that way.
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i’m either going to play zero or axton, i love me some melee in first person games, so zero will probs be my choice
Morning TAY… More Black Mesa last night… Man Dat mod… It’s amazing what they’ve done… Also @SPLIIIIICER it looks like I’ll be going to the Armageddon expo on the Sunday as I’m working the Saturday if you’re still keen to meat up? Or any other taybie for that matter?
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I would love to go, I really enjoyed myself last time, though my leg parts hated me for it
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Jooooiiiin uuuuusss the more the merrier… Yeah it was awesome last time! And this time I’ll b able to use BOTH my arms \o/
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\o/ I can easily train in for it
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Which burb do you live in? I can possibly give you a lift
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Nah no need, I’m fine with trains on weekends. They’re actually better and more relaxing than weekdays (despite that they’re late, but Metro trains are always late so hah), plus I won’t be annoying the driver anymore just because I may want to go home earlier than he/she/it wants. It’s all about being considerate to the TAYbies. 🙂
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Black Mesa is awesome! (Except for the loading screens midway through hallways, but I remember thinking that same thing in ’98 and again when I played Portal 2 only last year. :P)
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Those loading screens are just pure nostalgia for me XD
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Haha! That might be taking the concept of nostalgia too far. 😛
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Hmmm…I may end up going both days although I haven’t looked that far ahead.
If I only go for one day, it’ll be the sunday though 🙂
Sorry Greenius. I’m in a bit of a foul mood today and the dickishness is coming out a bit strong.
Maybe I should just avoid posting today.
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It’s fine man, I don’t have a problem with you trolling and you know I only say it as a joke, hopefully it doesn’t annoy you either. Feel free to keep posting, your comment didn’t seem dickish to me :).
Hmmm…is an extra 10 dollars for bonus DLC for Dishonored at EB worth it…or is $10 less and a bonus t-shirt and keyring worth pre-ordering it at JB? Decisions. I’m terrible at them. 😛
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Wait… does that mean it has Day-1 DLC now? First time I heard of this
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I’d go t-shirt/keyring :D. Could always pre-order at EB, return and keep the DLC goodies 😛
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Yeah, I think I’m leaning towards t-shirt/keyring. Could probably use my giftcard to pre-order and only have to pay $54, too.
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Would you wear the shirt and can you pick the size? Or is it one of those M for All sizes?
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Size doesn’t matter. (That’s what she said? :P) I’d just sew it into a girl-shape, regardless of the size.
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Similarly torn between the Freedom Edition of ACIII at EB with its pretty statue, or the cheaper Join or Die edition at JB with the prettier packaging and tiny pewter figurines.
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I’d go for the packaging, since it’s something you’d actually look at more. Though for full disclosure, I rarely collect gaming stuff outside of the games themselves. 😛
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I have a pretty good collection of AC statues, thought the Connor one would look good with them. Think my husband’s paying for our copy of ACIII though, so I’ll probably just let him decide.
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Haha! Don’t want to deprive the statue collection. It’s a predicament! 😀
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I went with the Join or Die edition at JB.
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I went with Freedom. I wanted Connor to join my Ezio statues. 😛
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Oh, man. Dishonored’s on the DLC bandwagon too? :'(
Either way, I don’t think I’ll pre-order. Definitely a day one purchase for me, though. Looks so damn fun and old school. Plus I like the bizarre world they’ve created! Next month is going to be nuts: XCOM, Dishonored and Assassin’s Creed all within a two week time frame. :S
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You’re not pre-ordering but buying it day one? Might as well pre-order for the goodies!
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Eh, last time I pre-ordered was for Mass Effect 3 and it arrived a week late. 😛 (Even the in store ones would require me to talk to people to collect it and that’s a deal breaker. :D)
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I’ll pick it up for you and give it to you without making you talk to me. 😛
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Like a CIA brush pass or something? That’s just crazy enough to work.
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Just tell me where and when. I’ll recognise you from that picture you drew me! 😛
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Haha! That made me laugh like an idiot! 😀
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Success! 😀
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I hate preordering unless I have to. Mostly due to when the DS came out I fully paid a preorder for one off and the EB I got it from sold it to a girl and told me I’d have to wait another 2 weeks for new stock.
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WTF? Isn’t the whole point of pre-ordering so- ARRGH! That’s nuts!
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WTF indeed. They shouldn’t do this at all. Pre-ordering should reserve the stock for you.
I don’t usually pre-order either unless there’s pre-order exclusive goodies (ugh…). I do get burned though since these are at EB and the price is significantly lower after the game has come out. I could’ve saved $20 on Darksiders II at JB or even more if I imported. The EB exclusive DLC that supposedly adds ‘2 hours of additional content’ did not do so 🙁
You guys have helped. I’ve decided to grab the JB Dishonored pre-order. Both for the shirt, because I love the subtlety of it, and because you reminded me I hate pre-order-exclusive DLC.
I really like that keyring, but I think the EB one is a better deal.
I wonder if the keyring will be available separately somewhere…
It’s not really DLC is it?
It’s just bonus retailer content. It looks like an extra skin or slight mod to a skill.
Not exactly extra content.
Personally I’ll be ordering mine from ozgameshop for $41…
Also – The JB box says Games for Windows …. can anyone confirm this? Please God…. NO!
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Aw, man. I hope not. (Though atleast it’ll give me achievements! Which will ease the pain when GfWL deletes my save games. :P)
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Ah damn ozgameshop box has GfWL too =(
Damn I really hope it doesn’t ruin the game too much . Least it’s only single player….-
Arkham City was only single player too. Oh, man. Took months before it was even playable for a lot of people. 😛
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I’ve posted something above, but since it’s two links it’s awaiting moderation, but to put your worries to rest, “Games for windows” does NOT mean GFWL will be on it, the box will say so specifically. You’ll see the proof in my above post
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Excellent! Thanks Tech Knight!
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Ok i’ll keep an eye out for your links.
Cheers for the heads up-
It’ll be directly above this one you replied to 🙂
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Yeah, it’s not game changing stuff, just a couple of perks that boost existing skills, etc.
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Well, it’s content and DLC is downloaded content so yeah, it’s DLC. 😛
Dear Bunny
You will be pleased to hear that even after a trip to the pub and a nights sleep I still have your theme song stuck in my head.
Regards
Tigs
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I had Freeze’s Mr Sandman stuck in my head for longer than I care to disclose. 😛
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Your theme makes me think of Victoria. 😛 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEqtcmn-ePU
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That’s where I first heard it.
Doesn’t hurt that running away is a frequent occurrence in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, where I got my name from.
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I’m kind of tempted to get the cheapo Wii U.
– I pefer the aesthetics of white consoles over black (not racist)
– I doubt I’ll buy very much off Nintendo’s store thing so the 10% discount isn’t compelling
– Nintendo Land looks like shit on a biscuit
– Extra 32gb SD memory is what, $30-40? And given I’d probably only be using it for game saves the basic 8gb isn’t really that bad.
So basically the only things the ‘premium’ SKU appears to have for me is a Wii sensor bar or something? I think they’re insane not putting that into both versions incidentally. How does the basic SKU support Wii games like its marketing pitch says if you don’t get a sensor bar with it?
$70 difference can almost get you a Pro controller (why the shit are those things $80 RRP?!)
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I’ll probably get the premium if I get one, but I’m not fully convinced yet. I kind of like the black aesthetic (not racist. :P) Helps my 360 and PS3 are black too.
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My PS3 is white. I am special and unique.
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WHITE POWER
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Hmm good points, I never really thought about them and most of them apply to me too. I don’t think I’d buy Nintendo Land on its own but if it gets good enough reviews I might as well play it if I get the Deluxe. And like you said, the black is more likely to show fingerprints :(.
I really hope we get the ZombiU bundle though (for a reasonable price of course) since that does include the Pro Controller. Seems like the best value so far.
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If Nintendo Land was free I’d probably play it one or two times. I might even pay $10 for it. But by only being packed into the ‘premium’ SKU I feel like I’m paying $70 extra for it and I don’t think it looks remotely worth that sort of cash.
I think I’ll probably wait on Wii U until someone actually announces a decent JRPG (Xenoblade dudes saying ‘we might make a new game’ isn’t enough, b/c it could be multiplatform, might never come out in english and might be years away)
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I want a white version of the premium/advanced/ultra/hyper/mega one.
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This is what I actually want. 🙁
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I don’t really care about the colour of home consoles (I’ll be using my gold wiimote anyway), but I never actually thought about the memory like that before. Why bother getting the 32GB one if I’m going to be plugging an additional beefier USB harddrive in anyway…
I’m pretty much already sold on the launch window lineup, I’m just waiting to see what the WiiU eShop offers before I jump in (Not that I’m getting one this year :P). Hopefully we get a couple of new things like we did on the 3DS.
After reading Strange’s Dishonoured (I’m gunna keep spelling it like that cause I can) post, I had a look at the difference between EB and JB’s bundle, and it made me acutely aware of something:
I really, really hate day 1 DLC.
It’s nothing to do with the financial perspective. At the end of the day, a business will do what it can to make money. It’s because it almost always removes some of the challenge from the game in question.
Starting with abilities better than you should, or a weapon that gives an insane bonus (Darksiders 2: axe that heals and gloves that freeze, for example) annoys me. I don’t play a game so I can win. I play a game to enjoy the experience, grow my character, my skills, my knowledge, and not to drop $10 and be stronger for it.
Think I’ll get me a shirt and key ring.
/rant
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Day 1 DLC always tends to be dodgy fetch quest, not at all well intergrated diversions too. 😛
I agree. I don’t have a problem with DLC, but atleast make it good damn it!
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For me it depends on the day 1 DLC. If it’s just a new item that gives you heaps of power or something, yeah, it was most likely made as a way to make a quick buck. It doesn’t really bother me though because I just don’t buy it.
If it’s a full on mission or level or whatever, then I’m fine with it. Once a game’s finished it can take months before it goes up for sale, the devs may as well use that time to work on more content rather than just sit around and do nothing.
The only time day 1 DLC really bugs me is when it’s something that was obviously meant to be with the full game, but then was cut so they could make it part of a pre-order bonus or limited edition. Like a certain companion character in ME3.
Yay for DA3 announcement. I’m really looking forward to this. After the reception DA2 got, and to a lesser extent ME3, combined with the dev responses I’ve read on the forums to what people would like in DA3 I think they really know what to do and what not to do for the next game. That’s not to say they’ll add in everything fans want, if they did that we’d pretty much be getting DA:O with prettier graphics. I expect we’ll still play as a voiced character, but I think that character will be handled more like Shepard and less like Hawke and that there will probably be origin stories to go along with it, or if not full playable origins than at least a selectable backstory like ME1 had.
Also, the news about the graphics engine is nice. Hopefully this means we won’t have those awful Na’vi elves we had in DA2.
Still not sure I like the name of the game though. Dragon Age: Inquisition sounds a lot better to me. I’m just not a fan of having both a number and a subtitle in a games title.
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Pandering to the general populace?
I mean, there’s feedback and constructive criticism, but if you change every little thing just because someone on the internet got mad, you’re going to have a patchy game. We have no right to demand any more from them. You didn’t like the game ending? You should deal with it. SImple as that.-
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NO I WILL DEMAND A DIFFERENT ENDING – and get it. They set a pretty bad precedent :/
I agree that we have absolutely no right to demand any more from them. It’s their game, not ours.
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I got sidetracked with the Mass Effect 3 rant there.
Basically, liking games and playing games? Doesn’t mean you know how to make or what makes a good game-
Bish, you’re coming close to the territory of, you can only criticize something if you can do it yourself. Like watching movies but have never made a movie? You have no idea what makes a good movie and have no right to complain about Alien 3, Phantom Menace, Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, . Can’t sing or play an instrument, can’t complain about Biebers newest song. Can’t build a sky scraper, can’t complain about the poor layout of your office building.
People know what they like and dislike, it’s up to the creators to meet those. If they can’t, their creation is going to fail. It’s no use flailing your arms and crying “But you can’t make a game! You don’t know what it’s like! Clearly the decision to turn Dragon Age into an FPS where you shoot by mashing your face against the keyboard and a story where you play as a leprechaun on the hunt for Atlantis was the right one!”.
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I’m sounding a lot more harsh than I intended to and I apologise. I’m not angry, I’ve just seen far too many well written and legitimate criticism to games, not just DA2 or ME3, be dismissed with “don’t like it, go away” and “why don’t you go make your own game?” over the years. I’ve also seen the “don’t like it, go away” response used for various cases of bigotry and it’s made me take quite a dislike to anyone who uses it. Though I still like you Bish, how could I not?
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If you read the forums, they’re not pandering at all. They’ve clearly stated there’s things they will and will not do and that it’s still their game. You should really read some of the responses given by BioWare over the past few months over on the DA2 forums. It’s good stuff. http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/category/315/index
Also, I think the “don’t like it, go away” response to critizism is, quite frankly, bull. It’s a basic human right to express your displeasure over something, no matter how stupid it may be. It’s also a human right to not listen to that feedback, though if you’re dismissing well written feedback simply because you don’t want to hear it then in my opinion, you’re the one with the problem. With video games, feedback is absolutely vital to the development of a good game and the minute people stop giving feedback because the developers have blocked their ears or the fans “don’t have the right” is the minute video games go to hell.
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What was wrong with the elves? At least they looked like a visibly different species to humans, rather than just being dudes-with-funny-ears like DA:O.
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In DA:O, they were their own thing. Dragon Age’s own take on elves. In DA2 they became typical Tolkien elves mixed with Na’vi cat people and looked really, really ugly. Sloping faces and noses, wide eyes. One of the worst character models I’ve seen in modern games. Reading what people have written about them on the DA forums, both after the release of the game when it had a lot of people on them and now, years later, they’ve been negativly recieved by a lot of people, as have the darkspawn in DA2, which is why I don’t think they’ll look like they do in DA2 in DA3.
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Just had this photo pop up on my facebook feed. No idea where it came from, but I want one
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TV’s too high damn, it! Too high!
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Did you notice that it is angled downwards?
To me it looks like it is setup to be played from a beanbag on the floor, I could live with that-
What about when it falls and crushes you to your death, huh? HUH? 😛
Even with a bean bag it’d still feel like sitting in the front row at the cinemas. (A special brand of madness that only Strange likes if I recall correctly. :D)
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That looks amazing. Impractical, but amazing.
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Impractical???
THIS
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GAMING!!!*Tries to kick Rize with his atrophied leg, but it snaps*
Damn gaming…
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I’ve seen that one before – and i still love it to bits!!!
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I think I have about six of those in my entertainment unit, a good start 🙂
Would it be cheaper to buy the GOTY of Borderlands if it is $24-$29, or would it be cheaper to buy the individual content on xbox live?
If i buy it new, i’ll probably be picking it up on PS3, seeing as my 360 is DEAD
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Wait till after the Borderlands 2 release date and store price will probably go down.
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http://www.jbhifi.com.au/games/borderlands-2-game/
Helpful? DLC is pretty expensive if you buy it individually so GOTY is your best bet. $15 is a good price for the GOTY on console, but you do have to buy Borderlands 2.
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What up, home slice?
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Hola
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Aanyong.
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*waves*
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Howdy howdy howdy
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I WANT TO BELIEVE BUT I DON’T WANT TO GET HURT AGAIN!! D: D: D:
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Don’t want.
I like the old Killer Instinct in my memory, and get the impression this’ll ruin it for me 😛-
The ONLY way a new Killer Instinct would work is if it was all ridiculous 90’s-era extremeness.
KI was the embodiment of the late 90’s era for me, the EXTREME characters, the over the top combos, the music, OH GOD THE MUSIC.If a new Killer Instinct embraced it’s 90s-ness like Double Dragon has with Double Dragon Neon, then it will be a winner for me.
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Wow okay, so TAY swallowed my post… I thought we were friends TAY :'(
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Okay I’ll do it here then:
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Thanks for that Techy. I look forward to my dishonoured not being ruined =P
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No worries, if you see the word LIVE on the top of the box, that’s when you worry 🙂
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Getting one of these bad boys this week: http://www.sony.com.au/product/kdl-46hx850
(Cue people informing me that it’s rubbish)
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Awesome, man! What’s rubbish about that? Hang onto your CRT too!
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First HDTV too? If so, savour it man. It’s awesome. I suggest you put on Uncharted 2. That’s what I did when I got my LG last year. Blew my mind. Almost brought a tear to the eye that it was almost too pretty. 😛
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Yep. Popping my HD cherry. It shall be glorious.
The only concern I have is viewing distance. My couch will be about 3.5m from the TV. I’m sure it’s fine for normal TV viewing, but might have to sit a little closer when gaming.
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I have two CRT’s. Not sure what I’ll do with them, but I’m not the sort to chuck out a perfectly functional television.
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Sony’s TVs are generally anything but rubbish. People who put them down usually are doing so because they think the better tech doesn’t justify the higher price point is all.
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Honestly I prefer Samsung TV’s.
The new range of Smart 3D TV are really awesome.
But I’ll admit I have a biased dislike for Bravias
What price are you looking at though? That RRP seems quite high for a 46inch-
I was thinking about the Smart TV’s, but I’d had this model in my sights for a while.
Why a biased dislike for Bravias?
It’s paid for already. Considerably less than Sony’s price.
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HDTV? You’ll finally be able to see what the on-screen writing in games says! Yay!
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Probably the best part of having a HDTV. 😛
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YES! Darksiders II is driving me bonkers at the moment. I can’t see stats for weapons (I just go off green number = good, red number = bad) or read any of the descriptive text without squinting.
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Sony TVs are fantastic man! In my opinion they are the best TV brand (followed closely by Samsung). Although, ewww, 3D.
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That’s reassuring. I’ve been a bit of a Sony fanboy since I bought my first walkman (cassette) as a kid.
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Aww man, you’ve left our little CRT TV club Flu, why? *cries*
The TV looks good though, congrats, you’ll finally be able to see the in game text and play games in their full glory.
So does this mean we are one step closer to the elusive effluvium encounter ? (meat ) 🙂
DAMN YOU UNIVERSE! GET ME A JOB ALREADY SO I CAN BUY STUFF!
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Was it a Sofie’s Choice between a fridge and TV? If so, you made the right call!
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Can’t turn my back on my CRT roots! I’ll put a little CRT screen next to it, to maintain the balance.
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I’m happy with that. 🙂
Let us know how the experience is once the TV is delivered, installed and has been used to watch a few blu-rays and some games.
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There was a period where Sony TVs were overpriced trash but that was before they put crazy Ken in charge. I think that that period allowed companies like Samsung & LG into the market and they’ve taken hold because they offer a cheaper product that’s ‘good enough’.
If I had the cash I’d totally buy a Sony TV over the rest.
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I don’t like the Sonys because the stuff housing the screen is the ugliest. But then, I’m shallow like that. I’ll often go for form slightly above function when buying technology. 😛
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If it’s down to housing, Samsung are the ones with the bezels that annoy me the most. Especially with the way their marketing loves to stroke themselves over how stunningly well designed and beautiful their products are.
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This one has glass laid over the screen and frame, so it’s a little bit sleeker than some of the other models.
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When I looked at the picture I was surprised how pretty it was, actually.
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I’ve never understood why people hate 3D (except for those who can’t see it or get motion-sickness or headaches from it). I love it. I prefer when there’s no cheap things-coming-right-at-you tricks, but I do love it anyway. It’s Threeeeeeeeeeeee Deeeeeeeeeeeee! What’s not to like?
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I get pretty bad headaches from watching things in 3D. Also it seems like a scam. Some TVs require you to buy special 3D glasses so you can watch things on them. You get 1 (2 if you’re lucky) sets of glasses so if you have company over and want to watch a movie on the big screen. You need to buy a bunch more of them so everyone can watch it in 3D.
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I have not issue with 3D, but you are correct about the glasses. This TV is active 3D so the glasses are fairly bulky and expensive (compared to Samsung which uses passive 3D, so any cheap glasses like you get in the cinema will work). I prefer active 3D. I think the picture quality is better and I don’t have trouble with the shuttering causing headaches, etc., but the glasses will be expensive (I’ve saved a lot on this TV buy getting it through work, so I can spend the money I’ve saved on an extra pair or two)
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*no issue
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Actually, Samsung uses Active too. It’s LG that has the passive. We were tossing up between Samsung and LG but ended up going with LG because we have kids and don’t want to have to worry about expensive glasses being broken. So in a few weeks we’ll be buying the LG LM76000. Buying new TVs is exciting. 😀
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LG’s are freakin’ awesome in my experience. Great picture and enduring quality.
Didn’t end up getting the 3D one, though. I find there’s a disconnect between the 3D I like at the cinema and what the TVs can offer.
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We went looking again on the weekend to make sure we’d decided exactly which TV to get and the LGs at Harvey Norman and JB all had some sort of K-pop in 3D going with loads of glasses lying around to test out. I was actually surprised how good it looked. Also pleasantly surprised by the viewing angle of the 3D stuffs. This is something I was worried about due to the shape of our loungeroom but going all the way out to the side of the TV barely made any difference to the 3D.
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Haha! TV shopping is daunting. Especially at JB when you’re standing in front of a wall of nearly identical HDTVs. Took about an hour of walking back and forwards to pin point the one I liked. 😀
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Oh, so they are. Whoops!
I was so confused when we first started shopping around for 3D TVs. There was this one guy who tried to tell us to “Always buy the Samsung. All of the brands except Panasonic use the same software for 3D” when I asked about the two 3D TVs we were deciding between. He didn’t have an answer when I asked how that worked when Samsung use Active 3D and LG use Passive 3D. So I’m still confused. 😛
Awesome. Love my 46″ Sony.
Nice. I like how you’re going all out for the transition from CRT to HD/3D. I actually really would like to play Killzone 3 and Uncharted 3 in 3D, but monies! (Secretly hoping that Oculus rift would have console/3D support some time during the future. But I doubt it. But I can dream!)
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Yeah, I’m keen to check out some games in 3D. I don’t have Killzone or Uncharted, but pretty sure I have a couple of others that support it.
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One of the first things I’ll do with our new TV is check out Ico/Shadow of the Colossus in 3D.
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so i’ve beeen thinking…
techinically i have borderlands 2, it’s on my hard drive
but i can’t play it…
it’s literally right there
but there is some sort of metaphorical wall blocking me from getting to it…
I mean… it’s RIGHT THERE
and thus, this is me right now, with the cupcakes being borderlands.
http://www.wtflmao.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Dog-stare.gif
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You have 99.9999% of borderlands 2. Steam still has to deliver you the final few hundred kb.
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yeah – you have everything except the exe file (for example)
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Out of curiosity (I don’t have the game), what lengths would one need to go to to bypass or create the missing few hundred kb?
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I believe it would involve bribing/sleeping with Gabe Newell.
Possibly Randy Pitchford (which I woul totally do. I love that man.)
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I imagine you’d need to start by stealing source code from the developers. Then you’d need to disconnect the internet so Steam doesn’t find out you’re playing early (which would of course turn it into a single player game)
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Or what Freeze said.
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Well the data is encrypted, so you would need to somehow reconstruct the missing data and then encrypt it with the steam keys etc and then advance the encrypt/decrypt along to the boundary where that final bit of data lies and make sure you’re in the correct state, then encrypt it in place. I think.
Leaving the encryption aside (assuming Valve use strong encryption, you’re talking about hundreds of years of processor time to brute-force crack it) assuming 100kb that you have to generate the correct byte sequence for, assuming a random generator, there are 256 possible values for a byte, and 102400 bytes to fill, so you’re talking 256 ^ 102400 possible combinations. That calculation is too big to do on calc so I can’t tell you how big it is but you’re probably talking about randomly generating sequences until the Sun expands far enough to burn the Earth to a crisp, assuming a single processor. Obviously it’s possible to massively parallelise though, and you might be able to determine some elements of the data already (eg if it’s an EXE that’s missing then you know it’s a Win32 PE, starts with an MZ header, has particular structure and is more likely to have areas with large runs of null-bytes etc) but regardless it’s faster to just wait for it to unlock on Steam.
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Exactly what I was looking for, thanks!
I think I’ll just be the meat in a Gabe/Randy sandwich :S
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I was under the impression it was a layer of encryption over all (if not all, an essential subset?) of the downloaded stuff, not just some missing chunk? I haven’t poked the preloaded stuff at all to see how legit that idea seems, I just always thought that’s how Steam did preloaded stuff.
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That might be the case actually, it might be that what you download at the end is the keys to decrypt the data you preloaded.
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Holy crap, thats the funniest gif I think I’ve ever seen
Just realized I haven’t done this for a while: PREPARE FOR PUPPY CUTENESS!
My puppy has become a biiiig snuggler and when we watch tv at night this is pretty standard 😛
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So damn cute. Reminds me of my family dog. Boxer/Great Dane cross. A bumbling oaf, but so damn lovable.
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Yeah she’s gorgeous… Labrador/Kelpie a little energy bundle she is…
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hahahaha so adorable.
“Hey I’m trying to sleep here!” 😛 That’s what it looks like
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https://pbs.twimg.com/media/A3CoLqxCEAAv0nj.jpg — Here’s my dog. 😀
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Naaaaaaaaaw *heart melt*
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Hahah all the happiness : D
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AWWWWW! I love the face when looking at the cake. CAKE! 😀 hehe
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Nice coat!
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Wearing a bathrobe… Just for you… *wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiink*
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I was talking about the dog’s coat/fur.
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Aaaahhh 😛 yes, very shiny actually… And soft
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Only problem with black dogs, though. You can never take a good photo because they’re always too damn shiny!
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Lol very true… I feel very fortunate though… She’s gorgeous and smart (she’s worked out how to open doors :P)
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😀 Dogs are awesome.
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Puppy! I was browsing Imgur before this so the person sitting behind me in this lecture must think I really love cute animal photos 😛 (who doesn’t!)
So one of the guys from paintball uploaded some photos from sunday.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/87166762@N06/7998383668/in/photostream
I’m the one in the red mask and jersey.
Awesome day 🙂
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Looks crazy fun. Add it to my list of things to do one day when people don’t terrify me. 😛
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That looks fun.
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Yeah it’s a hell of a lot of fun.
Those guys are nearly all playing tournament paintball across Victoria. They’re a skilled bunch, so instead of getting hit once and out, it’s usually at least 3-5 hits very close together. The guns we’re using shoot around 15-20 rounds per second. At that rate of fire, the paintballs are travelling about 20cm apart from each other as they come toward you. You can practically aim it like a hose. Great fun 🙂 -
WE WANNA SEE BRUISES… BRUISES!!!!! Bring on the PAAAAAAIIIIN :P… Does look fun… I want to do that soon
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Our paintball games usually end up with me and my mates holed up in a little area defending it until we get bored and end up turning on each other. In a confined space and a range of less than a metre, pain is the inevitable outcome.
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I am jealous of the fun.
Looks great.Did you get to shoot any children though?
We all know it’s not REALLY fun until you shoot some children.
Tuesday night means taco night \o/
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That beats any Schnitzel related meal any day! (Though I’ll be eating Schnitzel. Go figure. :P)
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Welcome to Salvation, land of the free!
Schnitzel isn’t the greatest meal, not by a long shot. But we appease the Schnitzel Gods with this culinary sacrifice so as to ensure safe passage through the week. It is the burden I carry, and the message I spread in the hopes of saving more from an untimely doom when the Inevitable Third Coming of the Parmigianapocalypse.
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Tastiest apocalpyse evah!1!
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I figure if I at least have it once a week then I’ll have a chance to have my case heard before Chickodus, Vealaphon and Breadadias.
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Schnitzel-thulu must be appeased.
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I DON’T KNOW WHERE TO GO FOR LUNCH AND DINNER D:
The Uni bar/bistro used to have an awesome parma deal on Fridays but then they went all shitty and no one goes there anymore… Been months since I’ve had a good parma or schnitzel :/
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Just spent my lunch break making a bajillion comments on Shane’s comic. Only halfway through it, which means that once I finish I have to go over it again and see if it all makes sense the second time :p
I forgot about this side of writing. The peer reading thingy.
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I endorse this lunch break as time well spent.
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There are multiple comments per page so far. Not all of them are necessarily useful but I figure that you might as well get my critical thoughts and can dismiss any that don’t contribute anything :p
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I’ve read advice that says that any issue that gets mentioned should get revised, even if you don’t accept the reader’s proposed solution. And I’ve found it to be good advice.
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You do not want to give me that much power :p
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Oh, but if you make me cry, I probably won’t send the pitch at all 😛
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Rumours going around that Gametraders have started selling Borderlands 2, but I’ve seen no evidence of it…
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Did you start those rumours…?
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Meanwhile, on PC…
http://i.imgur.com/PQM8l.jpg-
Everyone seems to think I don’t know that… 😐
If it’s out early, I have my retail copy preloaded, and I have my loot chest stuff!
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Are you aware that it’s locked by Steam Rize and you won’t be able to play it anyway?
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Yes, but … you don’t know this.
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You’re both horrible, horrible people.
Well, not that horrible.
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EB won’t break it real willingly, they have midnight launch parties lined up
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This is true. They will only break if EVERYONE else starts selling first. Not just 1 franchise.
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Eeyup.
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cake!
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So i’m thinking of starting on some new shirts and i’m taking suggestions – is there anything you guys think would be cool that you haven’t seen much/any of before?
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SPAYYSSSSSHHH MAUUREEEEEEEEEEEN
(Am I doin’ it right?)
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Would it answer your question to tell you that i now have an erection?
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Ahem so this ere- I mean spayce Maureen, tell me more
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Also I condone the notion of some custom made loops spayce Maureen shirts
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I’ts rigid and righteous
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FOR THE UNDERPANTS \o/
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A space marine squished flat and covered in breadcrumbs. Title it Tuesday.
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I’LL TAKE 20!
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That is so bizarely brilliant
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Maybe some sort of crudely drawn penis-monster?? Certainly one of the things that hasn’t made the transition from net to shirt
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Doesn’t Shin Megami Tensei have a recurring enemy that is literally a penis monster?
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I would have no clue at all.
But if it does, i’m all over it!
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Oh, you should do something like the word TAY, but make the letters formed out of all the Taybies names.
Rather niche market but you’d sell a few.
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General market is too full of apathy and competition to truly succeed.
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So… we’re all fanatics??
I like this idea, though
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Plus you get that hipster market who wear it “ironically” even though they have no idea what the shirt or the word ironic mean 😛
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I know what ironic is.
It’s what you do to take creases out of your slacks, yeah?
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It’s like rain on your wedding day? 😛
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WRONG. It’s a black fly in your chardonnay.
But who would’ve thought?
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A clown on fire, doing cartwheels, being chased by an angry elephant?
Does anyone know of any good, cheap/free budgeting software? I just found out that due to some financial woes I’m going to have to cover most of my parents’ rent for probably the next few months and I need to start really saving cashes so I can implement step one and possibly two of NegativeZero’s Life Plan.
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If you have Excel, you can put together something pretty quickly for no additonal cost.
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Yeah that’s my fall-back but it feels kind of like using a chainsaw to shave.
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Manly!
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Bee and i did our entire budget that way – it works pretty well, really.
Budget software would really be overkill and a lot can be difficult to get a hang of
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I might set something up with that then after all.
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Pen and paper, just like grandpappy used to use.
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That’s hardware!
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Definitely checking that out.
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Been listening to Alanis Morissette all morning after Mark’s first album thread. So much nostalgia, so much shame. 😛
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NO SHAME.
I sing Alanis loudly and proudly.
…I guess that’s why everyone thinks I’m a self-deprecative, man-hating feminist. I have no friends 🙁-
Her angst resonates to this day. 😛
I remember hearing Forgiven for the first time as a kid, who went to Catholic school. Resonated with me. ‘No fun with no guilt feelings.’ First time someone articulated that Catholic guilty thing I felt but didn’t know was an actual thing… 😛
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I got bored last night and started a blog, here if you’re at all interested:
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I would probably read/watch punkpunk and I would eagerly devour Gatepunk!
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WE AREN’T INTERESTED!
GO BACK TO WHERE YOU CAME FR….oOoOoOoOoooo… DICE! 😀I love the punk post – great start.
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Good luck with the blog..Just keep a consistent pace to avoid getting bored and moving on.
Ergh, I have to re-apply for my position tomorrow, I is being ALL the nervous!
Plus for the last two days, I have had my bosses circling me like a bunch of vultures.
No TAY make Hugo a sad barbarian.
How be all of you TAY?
Obligatory “Has Borderlands 2 broken street date yet?”
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Show them clubby, no one can resist clubby right? RIGHT?
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PILLAGE THEM!
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Good luck with it, buddy!
@Shane: Played about with Scrivener yet?
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No, but I will when the kids are asleep tonight
Loops, I give you the Stroper from Final Fantasy IX.
The best part is if you use Soft on it it instantly dies.
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Oh gods, I remember doing that fight manually
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And I never saw the phallicity until just then. YOU’VE RUINED MY CHILDHOOD! Not that I was a child but I just wanted to yell something. 😛
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Bahahahaha!!!
Serious?!!
THAT IS AMAZING!!I need to plug in my ps1 again, me thinks..
Parma obtained, happy Greenius 😀
And happy Aleph
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All is right with the world.
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*meh.
Also, this seems cool – but totally out of my price range
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/872546-REG/Lenovo_209942u_IdeaPad_Y580_2099_42U_15_6.html -
Iffy on Lenovo, what’s it to be used for?
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vidya games…
Bee still doesn’t want me to get a laptop, though, as i can’t upgrade it… but i have no room for a full PC at the mo
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That being said – is it just me or is this an insane deal!?
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/874517-REG/Acer_DT_SJPAA_002_Predator_G3_Intel_Core.html-
Sooo many desktops…
I have no idea what i’m even looking at?!?
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/search?atclk=Category_Desktop+Computers&ci=9594&N=4110474293&cm_sp=Filters-_-Category-_-Desktop_ComputersIs it just me or are half of these cheaper than actually building one here?
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US pricing is a bit different than local.
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ok.. apparently that video card is rubbish… lol
I need to stop looking at these things. It’s clear i have no idea what i’m doing
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Loops I’ll be happy to assemble any rig for you… I have put together a few in my time… So let me know
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Why are you looking at a US store?
Could be worth learning to make your own. Whirlpool tends to have up to date information on what sort of systems you can build on a pretty good range of budgets. The buildapc subreddit is a good place to look for help as well.
Failing that, why not ask Welbot to put something together for you?
Thanks for the helpout guys.
I just get a little crazy when i see something that looks like it could be a good deal and requires little effort.
That being said, my stepdad works for an IT place and has already offered to build one when i get the spare space, for which he can do a good price. I would just really prefer a laptop, but i know that won’t happen due to costs and the such.. so lame. lol.
EVERYBODY STOP WHAT YOU ARE DOING AND CHECK OUT LEGION’S NEW HOODIE!
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HAHAHAHA!
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I like these things you bring my attention to
@Pixel
Check you gmails yo!
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@Splicer
O.o OUCH!
So is anyone going to be playing Borderlands 2 on the PS3? I never really played the first one online and I’d love to do 2 right. I know Red Artifice is. Anyone else?
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DAN!, Doc, Ruffles and Flu.
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I will. Eventually.
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I’ll be playing on the 360 =|
Today has been boring. I blame a global conspiracy by the lizard people headed by the Queen of England.
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It really, really has been
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I concur with this sentiment… Can someone make the hamster that’s spinning the wheel of time run just a little bit quicker perlease?
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TIME!
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It won’t stop raining, and I’m waiting for Torchlight 2.
Plus I have to do a uni assignment… 🙁
Powalen’s Drive Home (where he also talk about the weather and crazy people):
Finished Uni today, after walking for 15 minutes I hopped into my car (the ticketed parking will never get a cent out of me!). Nice, mostly sunny afternoon. A bit cool, but not unpleasantly so!
Once I merged onto the highway towards home, I realised I had a car right up behind me. I couldn’t see her lights! Thinking “what a tool”, I went about my calm driving at the speed limit as normal. She began swerving from side to side as if trying to get around me. Finally, a break in the right lane appeared and she zoomed around me, only to rejoin my lane in front and started the same swerving and zoomed off at the next moment. Normally I try to give people the benefit of the doubt, but… I dunno. She clearly wasn’t heading to the hospital (we were heading away from it).
ANYWAY, now that she was gone I can enjoy whats left of my drive. It’s a half-hour trip from Uni to my house. It was now that I realised how dark the sky had gotten in the last 10 mins. Lightning strikes! Oh no! Small drops of rain started hitting my windshield, so I put the wipers on the lowest setting. Suddenly, WAM. Pelting rain! Lightning! Thunder! Turned my wipers up to max setting! I thought to myself “this has got to be the hardest rain I’ve ever driven in!”. I then noticed that it wasn’t just rain, but hail! Lots of cars were parked on the side of the highway and underneath the crossing bridges.
Then, it all subsided. Light came back out, with just a soft pattering of rain all the way home. Luckily there doesn’t seem to be any hail damage! 😀 I’ll check again once it’s dry though.
And then I found some new books that got delivered at my doorstep. Luckily JUST undercover from the rain. And then I checked my Streetpass (none :\) and then I wrote this.
The end (True story)
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Interesting story, nice twist ending.
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How much money did you find?
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Well written story but lack of $10 findings only scores this story 4/5 penicl-pigs
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What? DLC to discover where the woman went? This is an outrage. Never have I been this personally insulted by a story. And that ending is terrible and I demand it be changed.
This story is terribly implemented only saved by the decent content that is actually included. Mediocre at best.
7.9/10
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I give this review 9/10 Dollars.
And then I found $9.95
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BUT WHERE IS THE DISCOVERY OF A PARTICULAR AMOUNT OF CURRENCY?!
You know what they say about the best laid plans… I was all set to do a bunch of work on Project Nova today, I had a day off from work so it seemed the perfect solution. In the end I spent over 5 hours cleaning my room, going through old clothes to give away. putting out washing, rescuing the washing from storms. I might get some work done on it tonight, or I might jump on to Guild Wars. Haven’t played that in a few days, I need my exploration experience fix
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If it took 5 hours to clean your room, I think you’ve already had your exploration fix!
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It was more having to take everything off my desk/bookcases/dressing table etc to wipe off all the dust and then put everything back. I’d uh… let it accumulate for quite a while. Plus interruptions from mum wanting help with various other jobs that my sister couldn’t be bothered helping with
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This is why it’s best to sell little sisters at the earliest possible time.
Increase cash flow and avoid any stuffing around as you will always know what needs to be done ahead of time.-
I find recurring monthly payments for renting or leasing my sister out have proved far more financially beneficial in the long run.
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Because that sounds soooo much more seedy….
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Over 5 hours?!?!
*crushes sunglasses in hand*
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How’s that shattered glass in your hand feeling?
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You mean plastic?
And surprisingly comfortable
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Remind me NOT to shake your hand… For various reasons XD
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Operation: Missing Cat Posters Day #2 — It rained last night. Went to put more posters up. Only two of the last batch remained. Printed thirty more, starting again. Good times. Then I found $10.
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There sure are a lot of no good punk kids in my neighbourhood too. 😛
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Still no sign of mr. Putty tat? :'(
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No sign. I saw a cat of almost exact colourings staring judgmentally at me. But where’s its black spot, man. Where’s its black spot! Stop taunting me with your black spot free coat! 😛
:'(
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Aw man that’s torture… Hang in there man cats are devious and resourceful… It’s probably just out on a mission to murder someone then he’ll come home
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Here’s hoping, man. 😛
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Hope you find your cat soon. I’d be an absolute mess if one of my dogs went missing.
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Sorry to hear that, DC! 🙁
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Thanks guys. Feels good to be doing something, even if it’s just putting up posters.
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Anyways, back to it. Peace out.
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Sucks bawls, hope you find your cat soon 🙁
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🙂 Thanks, man.
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Asking again: any TAY Fronds coming to Mizuguchi @ ACMI on Thursday night? #solonely #hashtagsforharli
Ladies and Gentlemen, may i present ‘David Tennants Hands’, as masterfully performed by Chritopher Bowes of Alestorm fame as you’ve never seen him before – playing with his organ.
Day = Made
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This pleases me.
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I posted that before and nobody liked it. It even freaked Sughly out. 😛
Chuloopa caused page increment so reposting the repost:
Asking again: any TAY Fronds coming to Mizuguchi @ ACMI on Thursday night?
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I did what to who now?
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oh shit – so i did.
That’s no good.But also quite good
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Also – isn’t it really your fault for not counting the posts before hand/waiting for an the obligatory loopsdaymade post?
You only have yourself to blame, my friend.
Only YOU can prevent forest fires
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It’s okay we can still be friends
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you’re lucky you’re so damn cute
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Also i would attend, but Thursday 🙁
Enjoy, though! 😀
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2 more reposts and you get a FREE repost!
(I would go if I was in Melbourne!)
I would love to but I’m flat out with LGM work this week, hope you all have a blast
Work function. Would have been interested.
I’d dearly live to buy unfortunately I’m a little bit of a drive away. 🙁
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*Dearly love to but
FTL is halfway downloaded with Black Mesa queued up next.
I’m loving actually having a graphics card for a change.
Thanks again Welbot.
I had plans to do sewing today.
Yeah, it didn’t work out.
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I had plans today too. They didn’t work out either
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Hooray for things not working out? /o\
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I mean I got stuff done, just not the things I wanted to do
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…I had a nap =D
I got nothing done /o\
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So I just bought FFVII. Never played it before, and I know it won’t be anywhere near the hype/nostalgia that most people have for it, but I’m interested to see what its like
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I’m pretty sure it was the first FFVII I finished despite it not being my first. Downloaded it on an emulator and beat it sometime in 2006 (so well after it originally came out). I had a lot of fun with it but it’s nowhere near as amazing as it’s made out to be or as it would’ve been back then. Remember it’s an early PS1 game and the first 3D FF so they still had some kinks to work out. Now, FFIX on the other hand…
MMMMmmmmMMm SO GOOD!
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I wasn’t playing games in the NES/SNES era, and I had an N64, so I’ve never played any Final Fantasy. It will be an interesting introduction, I’m sure
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I wasn’t playing in the NES/SNES era either (babby) and while I did have a 64 and a PlayStation, I didn’t have Final Fantasy. I did play Legend of Dragoon (Sony’s version of FF) though which was amazeballs.
My first was X which I liked but didn’t finish for years after. I messed around with all the older ones through emulation and I think the order I beat them in was VII, IX, VI, X, XIII, XIII-2.
If I recall you didn’t play much JRPGs? VII is an enjoyable game so I’m interested in what you think about it 🙂 (BUT THEN PLAY FINAL FANTASY IX!)
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If you saw my game collection, I don’t play much of ANYTHING. I’ve played a couple of JRPG’s, namely Chrono Trigger (amazeballs), Dragon Quest IX (really good) and Xenoblade (still unfinished [please don’t hurt me]). So every JRPG I’ve played I’ve really enjoyed, so I don’t know why I don’t play more of them.
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FF7 was amazing at the time. It was a poster child for what games could be and resonated really strongly with teenage audiences especially at the time. Remember it was also the start of the boom in anime in the west as well.
It was pretty much a defining moment for me. I hadn’t ever actually thought there could be a game like that. I was a PC (Mac 🙁 ) gamer at the time so my experience with RPGs was more like simple isometric D&D-based stuff. FF7 blew my mind with how new and different it seems, and I was instantly hooked.
I think divorced of that sort of context it’s not a very good game. The development system is a bit limiting though fun, the art is all over the place in terms of quality and consistency, the plot has huge chunks that make little sense or are utterly unimportant or unnecessary to the plot as a whole and it’s kind of juvenile in a lot of places. Even the soundtrack’s not that great compared to other entries in the franchise (with a few exceptions).
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Which ones did you think were better? (not asking rudely just curious). I thought FFVII had an awesome soundtrack, one of the best in the franchise.
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6 and 8 and 9 are all better soundtracks. There are individual moments of brilliance in FF7 but overall it isn’t as good (and a lot of the better points eg Aerith’s theme are just variations on FF6 stuff)
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Haha, I think I may have been blinded by awesomeness or just blown away with the game as a whole. Either that, or we were playing different games 😛
Always intriguing seeing differing viewpoints though!
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I’ve not read the replies to this as yet, so forgive me for reiterating anyone’s points.
I’m a HUGE FFVII fan, it was directly attributable towards my love for RPGs (Super Mario RPG being the other one) and remains to this day my favourite videogame, hands-down.
With that said however, I’ll try to keep the nostalgia glasses and bias out of it.FFVII was graphically (FMV at least) incredible upon release, it really opened my eyes to just how beautiful CGI could be. The in-game graphics were… somewhat less desirable, but still conveyed the same depth of setting. It’s basically a bunch of polygons set on gorgeous static backdrops, for the most part.
As for gameplay (speaking from a PSX standpoint, I’ve never played the PC release), it defies some of the conventions of the time, such as “O” being the primary command/accept/continue button as opposed to “X”. Getting used to that took some time at the beginning, especially if you played any other PSX titles with any degree of regularity.
The story is by far the most engrossing aspect (as with any RPG), and while I haven’t delved into it for years, I still feel it’s a well written, deeply enticing tale. If you can look past iffy, glitchy graphics at times (I don’t recall many issues, but I wouldn’t be surprised if there were) it’ll pull you in headfirst, dragging your face along for the ride.
I’ve heard that the MIDI files are pulled from the PC release, and aren’t any good in comparison. I’d recommend obtaining the PSX MIDI files, as they’re really quite beautiful. As a side note, the operatic and orchestral editions are wonderful, and well worth the investment, although they’d certainly boast more emotional impact were you to play through the game first.All in all I think it’s pretty much like any other RPG, it just seems to tie in all the elements just that much better than the rest. There was nice level progression, the scenery and indeed the world itself is gorgeous, challenges and ‘bonus fights’ really felt like an accomplishment, and the story has stuck with me for years.
I can’t imagine it’s aged well regarding graphics, although that’s to be expected.…I may have put my nostalgia goggles back on at some point during that.
Either way, I’d love to hear your thoughts on it man, I really hope you enjoy it! Let us know how it goes 😀
I have to write an essay for uni.
I want to write, but I just feel like I can’t be arsed.
Please help me get motivated, TAY.
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Woah, woah, woah. You’ve come to the wrong place, buddy! Nobody gets any work done ’round these parts!
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I stopped doing work after year 10 and I still passed HSC. Work is for the foolish clearly.
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Write your essay and your reward will be great.
An infinite supply of cat pictures.
INFINITE.
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First comment for the week, and you’re promising infinite cat pictures. You know how to make an impact
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Felt something weird on my hand and looked down at a decent sized spider just happily chilling ready to fuck shit up on my hand. So I tried to shake the little guy away but the genius was attached by a web somewhere and just came swinging back and landed on my leg. So I slapped it with my phone and got spider guts on my jeans and iPhone. And then I found a street pass.
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Horrifying!
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Greenius defeated by a Genius.
Poetic, in a way.
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I don’t get it as I defeated the little bugger in the end. OR DID I!?
A friend thought I was shaking it towards him so he immediately flicked it towards another friend after I had hit it with the iPhone. Maybe it’s alive waiting in the darkness of the campus shuttle bus for his chance of revenge.
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This is really a story about how you had your first lost in your Nuzlock but dont want to admit it.
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Spider is a metaphor for a Spinarak. Mind Blown
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Pretty sure Soul Silver doesn’t have useless spider thing 😛
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You get useless ladybug thing instead
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The street pass was probably sent by the spider.
Maybe it just wanted to be your friend….-
Damnit Milton from Victoria! You thought you could trick me by trying to be a human… Crazyguy1990 and I see through your cunning plans.
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So you know what I was saying earlier about how bad I am with decisions? Dat 999….
Which door do I choose?!!! What do I answer with?!!! Eeek! Paralysis! 😛
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Not spoiling anything…. So I can’t help 😛
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Pick the door with a number!
😛
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If you’re anything like I was, you’ll want to play multiple times anyway to find out what happens in every possible scenario!
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I’d like to, but that writing goes by at a snail’s pace. Not sure I could handle it all over again.
I’ve picked 3 numbered doors so far, so I’d imagine I’m getting close to the end, or one of the endings as I assume there’s more than one?
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There’s 6. But you can’t get the best ending first time around, so you can use that as an excuse to see some of the other stuff
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You can speed up writing that you’ve seen before on repeated playthroughs 😉 And the good thing is is that it stops fast-forwarding when you hit text you haven’t read before so you don’t miss anything new!
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Oh, yay!
I’m actually really engrossed in the game. I’ve been playing it instead of Dragon Age 2 any time I get a chance to play games, and I was really enjoying DA2 so that says something about how much 999 has grabbed me!
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I am actually just about to start playing that.
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Just in case it wasn’t clear, when I mentioned paralysis I was talking about me being paralysed with indecision and not anything in the game. Just in case you thought I was being spoilerisy. 🙂
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Well isn’t this a slight predicament.
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And so ends the journey of the SS Boobship, with Captain Mack Daddy spacing himself rather then face an eternity trapped in the bridge, alone, drifting in the black void of nothingness.
Hey pokemon fans!
Limited pokemon available at EBGames with a copy of pokemon black or white =D
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Any ideas which one it is?
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Keldeo, perhaps?
There’s a similar event over here.-
‘Tis!
It’s not worth leaving the house for 😛 Whenever I get legendaries they just sit in a PC box because I don’t want to ruin them somehow…
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Ok, not worth getting then. I’ll probably grab Genesect when B2W2 comes out, but it’ll end up getting deleted when I decide to replay the game at some point
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Haha yeah I never use them either :P, too scared!
That’s why I like Soul Silver and all the Wi-Finess. I never have to leave the house for Pokemons!
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I knew I should have set my Steam Friends list to Offline.
It’s too early in the morning to be suffering abuse for trying to play Borderlands 2.
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What class you rollin Mr Canada?
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i saw pez’s twitter post
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you bastard
http://www.vooks.net/wii-u-buyers-guide-launch-games-the-window-and-beyond/
Very nice Launch Window guide for Wii U games from VOOKS. If I were to get a Wii U at launch I’d probably go for Rayman Legends, New Super Mario Bros. U, ZombiU and Nintendo Land (only if I got the Deluxe).
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Why is it that the best looking launch titles on the Nintendo console are from Ubisoft?
I’m watching Adventure Time again.
OH, GOD. WHY DID IT TAKE ME SO LONG TO WATCH THIS?!
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You’re not going to start telling me to watch it now too, are you!? I’ll get around to it! Geez!
…One day.
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NO. YOU WILL DO IT NOW.
NOW.
NOW.
Or whenever.
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MATHEMATICAL
My Cyndaquil FIREBOOBS is actually a boy.
And is naive.
Why did I not know they had their own personalities?!
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Subsequent question: I haven’t gotten far at all, should I restart and get one with a different personality thingy?
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There’s 25 different natures, so getting one that you want is a long shot. It really only makes a difference if you’re playing competitively. So no, I’d stick with it. Naive is a decent nature (+ speed, – spec defense)
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Cool, cool.
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Do a Nuzlocke run!
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I don’t think I could handle the stress! 😛
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I didn’t think I could either but give it a shot! This is my first theme run and I nearly had a game over at the first gym (I was under levelled). It was so intense and exciting though, a feeling I don’t usually get in Pokemon!
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Howdy TAYberinos!
What have I missed today?
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D.C.’s cat is still lost
Flu gets a new TV
Chuloopa wants penis looking things
Some sort of food was most likely consumed today-
1. 🙁
2. \o/
3. o_O ???
4. 😀
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I go to play some Diablo III and the server is down tonight. Guess I won’t be playing it then. There goes my plans for the rest of the night.
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Oh man that was the worst. Me, Trjn and the usual gang were going to play on Tuesday right after the released the new patch (with Paragon levels). And waddaya know… server is down 🙁
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First real foray into Master Race territory so not used to it.
So I figured now I have the night free I might attempt a poogiemun run with your nuzlocke rules. Should be interesting considering the last one I played was Red. Should I go HeartGold or SoulSilver?
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Any really. I always play the 2nd game so I went with SoulSilver even though I own both Gold and HeartGold. You can look up the list of exclusives each one has but I doubt it’ll be much of a difference for you since the last game you played was Red 😛
I recommend checking a wiki or a Pokemon site for info as my lack of Pokeknowledge nearly screwed me over.
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It appears that Mankey only appears in HeartGold so decision made.
Hopefully he’ll be one of the ones I can actually catch…
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Woah, doing a Nuzlocke on your first playthrough of this game? Someone’s brave!
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I laugh in the face of danger! I say bring it har….What do you mean abusing save states is cheating?
I’ll give it a go. Worst case scenario I get frustrated and stop.
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Dirty cheat!
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Yeah the whole “first Pokemon in each area” thing is really intense. Luckily I’ve captured all the ones I’ve encountered and I’ve only doubled up once :D. I would’ve liked a Gastly but oh well!
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Argh, fucking maintenance! I hate Tuesdays solely for this. All Blizzard services every god damn Tuesday Q_Q
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You’d think they would spread them out a little. I would have played Starcraft if it wasn’t down while Diablo was down.
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Yeah, I know!
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Urrrgh!! Everything I click on in Steam gives the message “This feature is not available at this time”.
?? 🙁
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Are you just clicking Borderlands 2 repeatedly? Because if you are, I might know the problem… 😛
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Hahaha – no. Steam just doesn’t seem to be working for me atm. I’d reboot and try again, but I should really head to bed.
Thanks Shane, and good night TAY.
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And so begins the epic journey of Poogle and his Brave anteater/rat/fire, uh, thing, Mr.Stimps as they become the very best, like no one ever was.
Guess whos been playing Borderlands 2 cause proxy bypass but only single player
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Bish!
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Moving to Canada is a proxy bypass of sorts.
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Its me… =)
Powalen, Jo and I all have our 2nd Nuzlocke logs up. Go on, click here , you know you want to
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and Greenius!
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And now Freeze!
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You found a shiny starter?!
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I’m all caught up on your Pokemon adventures.
YOU’RE ALL GOING TO BE THE VERY BEST LIKE NO ONE EVER WAS.
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Only one can be the best, otherwise you’re not the best 😛
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But you’re Team TAY and I’m your cheerleader. Gary had cheerleaders, you all deserver at least one.
But if that’s the way it is…*retires pompoms*
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I’LL ACCEPT ANYTHING, PLEASE COME BACK. I’LL EVEN TAKE CAKESMITH IN A WIG, THAT’S CLOSE ENOUGH!
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Nooo, come back!!! I’ve never had a cheerleader before, I don’t know how to react
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I actually have pompoms.
CAN THIS BY MY THING?
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I expect to see you in full cheerleader glory at the next meat, pom-poms and all 🙂
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If I still have that Halloween costume than yes.
And if I don’t I WILL FIND ONE.
But only if the next meat is at someone’s house.
How fun is catching public transport going to be that day?!
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Oh man, are we having a Halloween Meat? 😀
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It’s my birthday so certain possibilities of a Halloween meat in melbs
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@Nova
FFVII response, up top!
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Cheers mang. It’s always been a title I’ve been interested in, and with Square Enix re-releasing it on pc with updated graphics now seemed as good a time as any to grab it. I’ll definitely be posting some thoughts when I’ve given it a good crack.
Where are you Cthulhu?
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INQUISITIVE MASHA: Hey Masha, why are you asking for cthulhu?
REGULAR MASHA: I don’t know, he’s usually around at this time.
INQUISITIVE MASHA: Why are you referring to him as a he, cthulhu could be a girl you know?
REGULAR: You’re right, I’m sorry. DO fictional cosmic entities have genders?
INQUISITIVE: I don’t know. I only ask questions mate, I’m inquisitive Masha remember?
REGULAR: Right.
INQUISITIVE: So how have you been, anything new?
REGULAR: Nah, same old same old. I was about to ask you how you’ve been but I know you will not answer.
INQUISITIVE: Or will I?
REGULAR: I don’t know will you?
FASHION CRITIC MASHA: Hey guys inquisitive just left the room what’s going on?
REGULAR: I ask him how he was and I guess he couldn’t figure out how to answer me with a question. I guess he’s not too clever.
FASHION CRITIC: Yeah, for smarts I think you need clever Masha. Where is clever by the way? I haven’t seen him in a while.
FITNESS MASHA: I know right? Our body has been making some poor decisions lately. I’m getting rusty here, I need to move about.
REGULAR: Eh, we’ll do it later. Go back to your cage fitness masha, we’ll discuss fitness matters soon.
FITNESS: You always say that and here we are in September and you’re still fat.
REGULAR: We’ll see.
FITNESS MASHA: Oh yeah, why was I here again? I remember! There is a bellasugar article below with a picture of a lady in a leopard print bikini. I never really liked leopard print, always seemed, I don’t know, tacky.
REGULAR: Yeah, I think it’s all those movies you’ve watched with fat guys in leopard print underwears.
FASHION CRITIC: True, those films were comedies but I think they should be re-classified as horrors *shudder*
REGULAR; Ha ha, true.
CRAZY MASHA: HA HA HA, we’re all laughing at our own jokes. HA HA HA, Weeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
REGULAR: Oh dear, this guy again. God help us all
FASHION CRITIC: Help us all? I’m out of here, I’ve got to go and criticise some red blood cells in your heart. I don’t think they were read enough. Almost pink actually, for shame.
REGULAR: Noooo, don’t leave me here.
CRAZY MASHA: Relax dude, I’m not crazy, I’m just misunderstood. Fact is, I’m SUPER CRAZY!! HE HE HE HI HI HI HA HA HA HO HO HO
REGULAR: I need help here! Police masha where are you?
INQUSITIVE: There’s a police masha? Weird, how many of us are there?
REGULAR: I don’t know, it’s a big head. Oh look, I think crazy is gone.
TIRED MASHA: It’s midnight we should probably go to bed.
REGULAR: Yeah you’re right. We stay up any longer and crazy will gain more influence.
INQUISITIVE: And no one wants that do they?
REGULAR: No they don’t
CRAZY: Hey guys, want to hear my theories on sex and life?
REGULAR: OH HELL NO! Abort ship everyone, abort ship.
INQUISITIVE: Ship? I thought we were in Masha’s head?
REGULAR: It’s a figure of speech you idiot!
INNUENDO MASHA: I’d like to ride that figure of speech, if you know what I mean? *winks*
REGULAR MASHA: Oh dear, we need to stop this.
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That’s a lot of Mashas. Mashi? Mashedes? Distinct Mash units?
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Ha ha, I don’t even know. 🙂
Mashas sounds good.
We’d have to ask clever masha though but he hasn’t been seen in a while . He probably went on one of his vision quests or something.
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I’m really not trying to rub it in, but let me say Borderlands 2 so far is exactly as you hoped.
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INQUISITIVE MASHA: Is it though? Is it really?
INNUENDO MASHA: Oh yeah rub it in. I’d like to border those lands too you know.
REGULAR MASHA: Go to sleep you two!
SELF DOUBT MASHA: Why don’t we have a cool username like ‘Red artifice?’ It sounds so clever, not a silly name like masha.
REGULAR: The guy was just telling us about a new game and you guys are ruining it.
IRRITATING INQUISITIVE MASHA: Are we though? Are we really?
REGULAR: Aargh. Stop it! Any more of this and I will call discipline masha and have him beat you guys.
INCREASINGLY IRRITATING INQUISITIVE MASHA: Will he though? Will he really?
REGULAR: I don’t even know why I live here any more. This head is too much. Maybe there is some room in the man boobs department. It’s probably warm as well what with all the fat and everything.
SUPER IRRITATING INQUISITIVE MASHA: Is it warm though? Is it really?
REGULAR:I might just snap.
SANDMAN MASHA:
The Sandman’s coming in his train of cars
With moonbeam windows and with wheels of stars
So hush you little ones and have no fear
The man-in-the-moon he is the engineerThe railroad track tis a moonbeam bright
That leads right up into the starry nightSo put on you ‘jamas and say your prayers
Goodnight all of you. I have been forced to come here because you wouldn’t sleep.
SELF DOUBT MASHA: You are so uncreative you couldn’t make up your own rhyme so you Googled it.
REGULAR: It’s still a good lullaby
INQUISITIVE: Is it though? Is it…*yawns*
SANDMAN: Yes, the lullaby is working
REGULAR: Thanks man. Goodnight
SANDMAN: Goodnight regular. Goodnight TAY.
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Crazy masha is back!
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RIP Rambo 🙁
Warning . Sad dog-related comic ahead.
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/dog_paradox
Arrrr! Today be talk like a pirate day, ya scurvy dogs! ARRRRR!
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Is it really? It seems like this day comes around multiple times a year 😛 Though maybe I don’t pay close enough attention.
…yarr.
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Yo ho ho and a bottle o’ page gets, aye!
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Anything is better than talk like Jar Jar page.
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No. Nothing is better.
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That wasn’t pirate talk!
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…YARRR!
Does that be better for you now, you land lubber?
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Whoosa, meesa?
Moi moi!
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I prefer talk like a bandit day.
STRIP THE FLESH, SALT THE WOUND!! AAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAA-
Yarrr, I heartily endorse this!
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NOBODY SHOOTS MY BUDDIES BUT ME!!!!
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YARRR, BOOTY!!!
@Freeze – you found a shiny starter?! D:
If the last and only Pokemon game you played before this was Red then this means your first Pokemon in the first game with Shinies you’ve played was a shiny… Damn you!
I’ve played for hundreds of hours and never encountered a single shiny :P. Too bad you’re on an emulator.
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Because I sure didn’t understand it.-
Which bit? 😛
First gen (Red) didn’t have shiny Pokemon as they were introduced in the 2nd Gen. So if this is Freeze’s first time playing a 2nd Gen game then the very first Pokemon he’d encounter is a starter. I’m saying if he found a shiny starter (without cheats) then that’s crazy luck.
And the other bit is about me playing G/S/C, R/S/E, LG, P, SS, W for hundreds of hours (total) and not seeing a single shiny, thereby reinforcing his crazy luck.
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The fudge is a shiny?
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Yeah, I think he meant ‘shiny’ as in ‘new’ haha
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Quoted the wrong person 😛 ANYway, a shiny is an alternate colour Pokemon that are extremely rare (1 in 8192 chance). If you get far enough to the game you’re playing now, you’ll encounter one as part of the story 😉
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😛 I REFUSE TO BELIEVE
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Morning, folks. I hope this day finds you well!
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It would but work. I wonder what would happen if I spoke to every customer like a pirate?
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More free time on your hands? 😛
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I’ve had a good morning so far! The sun is shining after the storm last night! Also, no cows blocked my jogging path this morning 😛
And now I’m eating Oats. Because I suddenly like them now.
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Haha! Those unpredictable cows. Who knows when they’ll foil you next. Rained here too. Unfortunately that means another Missing Cat Poster adventure is on the cards. :S
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Laminate them this time.
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Don’t have access to one, alas. 🙁 I walk around the neighbourhood atleast once a day looking for the critter anyway, so might as well just include this as part of the ritual. (That or buy those plastic sleeves Greenius suggested. :P)
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LAMINATE THE COWS! That’s how I read that…
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Arrrr!
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Excellent, was about to call you out on the lack of piratey talk. 😛
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Hey guys, the Humble Bundle 6 is out now. http://www.humblebundle.com/
The games on offer are : Rochard, Shatter, SPAZ, torchlight, Vessel. If you pay above the average 5.58 at the time of writing you get Dustforce as well.
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Bought and paid for. Thanks for the heads-up
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Ooh, Dustforce.
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Bish, Bish, Bish, Bish, Beesh, beesh BEEEEEEEEEEEEEESHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH?
Dustforce \o/
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Thanks! Good to get in before the average rises 😛 (cheapo)
That was hard to buy on a phone…
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If I didn’t own most of those, I’d be there right away, what a great bundle
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Own most of them, just donated because love HB.
Took bad about Muzyka and Zeschuk, but I get the feeling they haven’t been hands on with actual game development for a very long time. Though it sucks, these guys were clearly allies of the smart kind of games BioWare wanted to make. Here’s hoping that doesn’t change.
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Bioware is officially dead to me with their ‘retirement’. 🙁
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I think Casey Hudson means more to me than they do, but it’s definitely not reassuring. 🙁
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*Too
Arrr me mateys, these be the results for me game in the recent Ludum Dare Comp.
Ratings
(Out of 1006 entries)
#170 Audio 3.00
#284 Graphics 3.14
#297 Fun 2.93
#357 Overall 3.00
#549 Innovation 2.43
#598 Theme 2.29
#932 Coolness* 26%
I be mightily pleased be these results, aye!
*Coolness be a rating of how many of the other land lubber’s games you rated.
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Congrats! 😀
Is this game design something you’re wanting to get into or is it a hobby type thing?
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Yarrr, ’tis like a sleek schooner sailing the seven seas, full of the finest gold, treasure and rum. I must get into it. ARRRR!
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Awesome work man!
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Out of 5 or 10 😛
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But seriously, good work dude. Above average \o/
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He clearly stats that is is out of 1006, so I choose to believe that his audio was better than 1003 of the other entries
Nice work lambo, and I still think that your first game was even better
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So I’ve been attempting to contact manufacturers/distributors of mobile audio products. All sorts of stuff, from amps and woofers to H/O alternators and stupidly big fuses.
Good: They’ve all responded, and are very excited that I’m in the NT (apparently no-one’s tapped the market here?)
Bad: They all shy away when I say that I’ll be running a business from my house because there’s only a population of ~3,000… which is to be expected, I guess.
Still, I reckon this thing’s got potential, just gotta keep trying!
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Sounds awesome, man. Here’s hoping they come around. Operating from your house doesn’t seem unreasonable given the circumstances! Good luck with it, pal!
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Cheers man 😀
Even if I just stick with reselling, there’s huge potential here just with the local folk. Add to that the young, overpaid miners that bring stupid rocketcars to the eylandt (OMFG fully sick hit boost to 40kph), and there’s some money to be made 😀
I think the issue is that I won’t be able to keep much in the way of promo material. There’s no space.
But with a captive market, you don’t need it. The only competition I have is someone 30Kms away selling 10yo shitty Kenwood subs for $500 a pop. Word’ll spread 😀
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Don’t tell them that then. Tell them theres a ‘shop’. Your garage is the shop. Give them your address as the shop address.
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Perfect! …except there’s no garage, and the cyclone shelter already houses the fishing shop 😛
I may have to try that actually. Thanks mate!
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Cyclone shelter! Crazy!
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Yeah, really no different from a mechanic!
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Well yeah, I guess you’re right 🙂
I’ll be working on the cars in my yard, I just won’t be doing the mechanic-y things 😛
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Ooh, industry insider contact, hook me up brah! 😛
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Haha, I’m no industry insider 😛
Trying to get my foot in the door! I lost all my ‘contacts’ a few years ago when I dropped out of the scene. Hopefully attacking it at another angle will help 😀Oh, and as for hookups, I can help you out. You’ll have to pay ridiculous freight costs though!
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ERMERGERD THPS HD IS OUT ON STEAM, IDC HOW ‘BAD’ IT IS I NEED THIS!
So the Resident evil 6 demo appears to be out.
I think I might just grab it =D
So with Kudos being postponed last week, I wonder if I should refrain from sending in any noms this week seeing as he has my last week’s noms?
I always hesitate to send Mark stuff because I know he gets a bazillion emails each week even without including Kudos nominations and I don’t really want to add to his workload any more than necessary. Hmmm…unless someone does something supermega awsome, I may just include my this week’s noms in next week’s email. What are you guys all planning on doing?
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The same thing I do every night, try to take over the world!
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As soon as I read your response, a whole bunch of Kookaburras started laughing outside my window. Creepy!
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Ah good, my new minions are actually performing, as per their contract. You’d be amazed how hard it is to get wildlife to do what you tell them.
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I was going to send another batch, reiterating last weeks noms in the same e-mail too!
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Heh, that might actually be the wisest plan….he does tend to forget stuffs, doesn’t he? 😛
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Helps that my last weeks e-mail was about five words, max. Felt bad afterwards. Haha!
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I always forget to send Kudos anyway so it doesn’t make a difference 😛
I should really start setting a reminder…
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I’m sure Mark doesn’t mind, but I see where you’re coming from.
As for me, I plan to send some in because as far as I remember I didn’t send any in last week.
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I’m sending him a locket of my hair.
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Well, now I’m just jealous. 😛
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Talking like a pirate all day be mightily awesome, nay? 😛
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WHOAAAA!
Totally thought this was Scree and Trjn was you Strange (mobile Kotaku gravatar swap). I WAS CONFUS
I’ll probably send a short one this week and hope he remembers my awesome nom from last week.
New Minitaku Potaku dealy: http://potaku.podbean.com/2012/09/18/minitaku-wii-u/
Was funny how insanely hyped up DAN! seemed, contrasted by AlexPants extreme mellowness.
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I am the mellowest.
Dan is a very energetic guy!
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Haha! Even ShiggyNinty seemed daunted by the energy. 😀
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HEY GUYS! I picked up my brand new 240GB Intel 520 SSD yesterday! Hopefully this will cease the BSoDs I’ve put up with for the last year. Also got my video capture card, so expect Potaku game videos in the near future!
I went to see From Up On Poppy Hill last night and I absolutely loved it. It’s up there with Whispers of the Heart.
How have you guys been?
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/wave Hi Doc! Nice one on the SSD & capture card.
I’ve been good, hows things for you?
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More ups and downs than a game of snakes and ladders.
But overall, good.
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Hey, man. Hope life’s treating you well?
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Life’s a bitch, man. One minute she’s giving you sweet, sweet kisses, the next she’s twisting the knife she buried in your gut. *skulls a scotch and dons a fedora and trench coat*
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I still need to watch my copy. 🙁
Need to get off and see Wolf Children
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It’s REALLY good. Like, surprisingly so.
I skipped the blu-ray cause I was a bit meh. Ordering it today.
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I’ve been sad because I haven’t received a simple Doc What? self-portrait yet. 😛
Actually, I’ve been pretty good…played 999 every chance I got yesterday. Haven’t touched it yet today though, because I’ll never get anything done if I start playing it. 😛
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I haven’t had a chance to work on it. But I will!
In the mean time, here ‘s one I did 8 years ago.
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Holy shit! That is amazing dude!
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Woah! Luckily I asked for simple, that one’s way too awesome for my purposes.
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Okay, uh, what constitutes simple then? 😛
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I guess not quite as detailed makes it simpler. I could probably attempt my project with that picture but I’m really scared I wouldn’t do it justice.
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So I resigned my job on monday.
Last day here is Oct 31st. Followed by two weeks of sun and adventure on holiday.
Then i’m moving down to a coastal country town and living out my days as a country bumpkin.
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Kinda daunting though.
No job for a little while.
Eep.
Totally not worried at all though. Really, truly i’m not 🙂-
Sounds like an adventure either way, man. Good luck with it! 😀
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Cheers DCfrond!
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Good luck!
Make sure you play plenty of Halloween tricks on colleagues who won’t be able to retaliate.
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Oh, I shall. Indeed I shall.
MUHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAAAAAA!
*cough*
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Ooh all the best man! Which coastal town you planning to be a bumpkin in?
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I assume he’ll be looking for a banjo too! 😀
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Boy, go cut me a switch. I gotta show this city fellar I ain’t someone to mess with!
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*yeehaw*
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next, buy a 1969 Ford Falcon, paint it orange and put the Eureka stockade flag on the roof and call yourself the Splicers of Dalyston…. doesn’t roll off the tongue as well as dukes of hazard, but it’s a start XD
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I think this is a smashing idea old bean!
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Dalyston. It’s a small town about 10 minutes out of Wonthaggi(where the Desal plant is in Vic).
*Country bogan fist bump*
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*Lock it*
*Blow it up!*
NOOOOOOOOO you can’t leave uuuuuzzzz :'(
which coastal town are you moving to?
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^up dere mang^
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phew, at least you’re still in driving distance XD… what prompts you to move there?
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Been wanting to move to the country for a while. It’s more realxed and i’m down there practically every second weekend visiting my best mate. Now that my son is no longer needing any more surgery at the Royal Childrens and work here is really dying down, it seemed like the perfect time.
And yep, definitely still in driving distance. Only about 90 minutes or so to Melbourne.
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*thumbs up*
sounds awesome mang… in all honesty good on ya, i fully agree with country town life being a bit more relaxed
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Coastal town you say, eh?
*turns to navigator*
Quick, set sail for Dalyston! There be treasure there that calls for me, like a land lubber at sea calls for the soil from whence he came from! ARRRR!
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Hahahahaha!
Funnily enough I was looking at a job for a deckhand just last night.
Deadliest catch here I come!
What is everyone doing, this morning?
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Got an RDO, so i at home and will be cleaning the dog and walking the house… wait… other way around :P…
what about yourself?-
*i will be at home
damn pre-coffee grammar
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I at home is perfectly acceptable. 😀
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I agree, perfectly acceptable.
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o/ *dog walk five*
i’m just looking forward to a moderately quiet day of house chores and a few games… yes, i am getting old when i actually look forward to house chores XD
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I don’t mind most chores but I hate drying up and mowing the lawn =P
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On the train to job training! Exciting/scary!
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Good luck, buddy!
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JERBS \o/
first day is always intimidating… but then you get there and realise that it’s pretty OK… don’t worry too much Greenmang… Best of luck to you and have fun
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*obligatory country yeehaw*
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Congratulations/Good luck with the first day!
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Congrats green man. Knock them dead with your professionalism
Yarr! I be swashbuckling and rolling in piles of dough!
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Which is to say I be doing general bookkeeping stuffs for me dad’s little business…yarr…
Making an AUX port so the new iPhone will continue to work in the other halves car. Stupid Suzuki going propitiatory with their input connections! Also, stupid Apple for changing their dock connector!!
But, $5 worth of parts means any phone can be plugged into the car stereo is a good thing regardless.
Also
Work somewhere in there…
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Work is always a side note =P
Also, the trailer for Zombie Movie (AKA Julie VS The Dead) is FINISHED!
Hopefully it will be up by Friday for y’all to see. (Need to get the new SSD installed and such or you’d be able to watch it now.)
Are you excited?…
Does anyone care? 😛
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We care Doc! We care!
Make sure we get the linky link when its all ready to go!-
I WILL! I’ll post it here and on the Potaku blog.! And on twitter!
I’ll just spam everone with it!
Not sure if Serrels will post it on Kotaku. He IS one of the stars after all.
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SPAM, SPAM IT ALL!
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Hopefully he will and it goes viral!
*gangnam style dance*
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Looking forward to it!
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I’m excited! I have excitement of Big Kev proportions! 😛
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Hahaha. I’M EXCITED!
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I care, I can’t wait to see it!
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BOSS!
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I sure am!
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So awesome 😀
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\o/ Pure Pwnage is returning, this is the best news! I can’t wait.
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Probably because of all the attention whatshisface has been getting lately from hosting eSports events.
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Uh, Jarett Cale? aka Jeremy from the show? I don’t see Kyle doing that, since he’s all filmy n shit.
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Maybe it’s FPS Doug!
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EVERYBODY knows you run faster with a knife!
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BOOM HEADSHOT!
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That’s his name. He’s been on stage at IEM or something like that doing player interviews and pre-match introductions.
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Oh cool, didn’t realise he was still into the whole gaming thing, last I heard he moved to LA/Cali to raise his son & pursue more acting shit.
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YES!
however, are they reeturning to the internet? or doing another season on tv?
i loved the show, but i have a feeling it wasn’t a success, and didn’t think they’d be getting another season.
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Not sure, the TV show was okay, but, It derived too much from the Pure Pwnage web series. I would think it’s gonna be another TV series.
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Yarrr. Every pirate captain worth his salt should never forget to remind people to be calling him “Captain”…
So apparently I’m an adult. Booking hotel rooms and stuffs.
When the hell did that happen?
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Just now?
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I think it might have been earlier and I’m only just realising. Oh woe is me!
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Don’t want to know anything related to you booking rooms and adult business, k thx
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I was thinking more in terms of being organised and responsible. Got a work thing down in Sydney in early October.
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ew grosssssss
TMI
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Booking hotel rooms as a child is so much better though!
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All I am thinking is home alone!
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It’s a weird thing. I’m married with two kids, have a mortgage and a full-time job, and some published books, and still don’t feel ready to join the ranks of adulthood.
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This be for EB Expo weekend, aye?
You have no idea how badly I wish I was able to be down there on the Saturday for a meat /o\ arrr…
Man, all this fuss about street date breaks does my head in. Why can’t us nerds keep our collective dick in our pants and just wait for the official release?
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Because it’s out in America already! The physical discs are sitting in the back rooms of some stores! Those with the PC version have had it pre-loaded for days!
Exclamation mark!
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I generally can’t afford games until release + 6 months. If the game breaks a day early, then it’s only release + 5 months + 29 days. I GET EXCITED OK!!
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This!
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Haha! Fair point.
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It’s the point where people get angry about it that gets me. As in, I can understand being excited and wanting to play something straight away, but last year people were basically being abusive on the EB Games Facebook page because they weren’t breaking the street date for AC:R and Saints Row.
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It kinda annoys me tbh… seriously a lot of fuss for it being released in shops a day or so earlier than planned? That’s cool that the game came out earlier than planned but seriously just calm down about it… it’s basically become a catch phrase for every future upcoming game nowadays and it’s just silly when I see it
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The ADHD generation.
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Because it’s FUN!
Oh, the horrible moment where you’re close to finishing a lengthy and difficult mission in a game and your console decides to randomly freeze and ruin your progress.
Super sadface.
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Play super mario land on game boy or something
Nearly at the end boss and the prick runs out of battery…
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I had something similar at the end of my playthrough of PoP: Sands of Time (or was it Two Thrones? :S)
I didn’t have a memory card for my PS2, so it stayed powered on for about a week. I got to the final puzzle/skill section before the boss, and kept getting stuck/dying.
Until the PS2 had a fit, and all the traps disappeared. To this day, I still feel like I kinda cheated myself out of it :S
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Something, something PC master race
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Pfft: windows decided to crap itself last night for no reason; I will be spending the next day or to trying to fix it.
Somethingsomethingmicrosofthatedyinginafireuselessfuckingcraposthisisthesuppesedbestwaytodothingsihateyouallhailournewconsoleoverlordsvivalerevolution.
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Only been back at work for a week and already completely over the bullshit all my coworkers carry on with.
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Slap them, slap them hard man!
Hey all!!! hope this morning finds everyone well? just caught up on about 8 pages worth of TAY. So here goes! If ive missed anything important let me know!
@Shane, best of luck on your submission! hope it all goes well! If you want any extra peeps going over it, email me (myhandle) at the hotmails!
@Powalen,@Greenius, @Nova – you guys are nuts on the suicidal pokemon playthrough!
@Everyone RE: Black Mesa Source – Though you need to own a source game to play, dont forget, that Team Fortress 2 is Free-to-play, and also, its a source game, meaning no other purchase necessary.
@D.C. – Hope you find your cat man, that sucks real hard…. I’m always scared to let out our two cats, but we let them out for about half an hour to an hour a day, and the moment they’re out of sight, the worrying kicks in everytime… especially since our house is surrounded by a couple of really busy roads… Is she de-sexed? if not, and she hopefully comes back, get her de-sexed,it stops them from wandering around in search of a mate.
@FatShady – RE: Trials evolution times – I dont like you!!!
@Aleph-Null – Trick is, just dont tell them you are running the business from home; most of the time they wont ask, and if they do, just tell them its an online store servicing australia wide. Also an online store might help you get some extra business across the borders. 🙂 I ran into these hiccups when i used to run my own business selling pc parts…
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Re: Black Mesa, thought all you needed was Source SDK2007 installed, i’ve been misleading people /o\
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Correct, but in order to install source sdk, you need to have a Source Game in your library 🙂
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Oh, damn /o\
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just partially install Team Fortress 2!
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” just caught up on about 8 pages worth of TAY”
I just skipped 8 pages of TAY 😛
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ahahaha lol!
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Thanks, man. Much appreciated. 🙂 Cats desexed, not microchipped unfortunately. First thing we’ll do if she comes back. :'(
And every time B-Funk isn’t on TAY people should be going “Where’s B-Funk?”
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Since you’re a Grandmaster, I’d assume you were playing chess.
Hi, TAY.
I think I’m the only one here who won’t be playing BL2 tonight…
I’ll get it on Friday. 😀
Well that does is, I have completely blocked Kotaku US posts from my feed.
Congratulations to Tina Unprofessionalamini for the inspiration.
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WARNING SPOILERS IN THIS POST!
*puts said spoiler on the second line, visible to all*facepalm
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Tina Unprofessionalsalami.
I read salami. I want salami.
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Page get huh?
and then I found $10 dollars? -
Is that the BL2/MC thing?
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What annoys me is how unprofessional it is to give generous spoiler warnings yesterday and then today just crap all over it.
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What did she do this time?
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Arrrr! She be walking the plank for this, me hearties! Bring the ship to starboard! Raise the mainsail! Sweep the poopdeck! Ready your blades you scurvy dogs, for justice be served before the day’s end!
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Why be we moving so slowly? We won’t be making good time at this rate!
TAYFronds: I shall be in teh Sydneys in mid October. My sister and I intend to be driving up and arriving on the evening of the 16th (Tuesday) and we have an event to attend on the 18th, and will probably head back mid-day on the 19th. So it looks like I’ve got nothing at all planned on the 17th (Wednesday). Any Sydney people interested in meat? Note: may have my sister with me but may not, she used to live there so may be catching up with friends.
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If something gets planned, I’ll do my best to make it! 😀 Though the 17th is right in the middle of when all of my Uni assessments are due.
Wow…Kotaku was being screwy and took forever to load and when it finally appeared back the fonts were different or a different size or something. Is this just me or did they change something?
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Yeah some of the fonts are slightly different. Probably just testing something.
(User Accounts system! Get hype! :P)
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Yeah, the fonts appear a little different. It wasn’t loading for me for a little while either.
FEAR THE CHANGE! REPEL THE SCHNITZELLESS HERETICS /o\
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I saw it go down too, then the CSS wasn’t working so it was in plain text and screwy on formatting. Good to see it back up though 🙂
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Not just you.
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Yeah. That was happening to me too.
Oddly enough at the same time, someone was clearly playing about with the web filter here at work. Pretty much everything that wasn’t a search engine, banking website or (for some reason) YouTube was timing out. Except Kotaku with its lack of functioning CSS.
No idea what the hell was going on there. Suffice to say that it’s over now.
So I woke up today feeling pretty bad. All shivery and shaky with a terrible pounding in my head.
Just over and over, buy buy buy. Damn you tay marketing machine, get out of my head
THE INTERNET IS DOOOOWN!
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KICK SAND IN ITS EYES!
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Calm down, older brother, it’s fine! 😛
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NO I WILL NOT CALM DOWN*
*Will leave my CAPS LOCK shenanigans on twitter, soz. ;___;
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FRONDS!
I’ve been crazy busy at work /o\
Then got a call saying I can pick up ky loot chest at midnight. I CAN’T BECAUSE I WORK YOU JERKS. /o\ /o\.
It is now lunch so that’s something.
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Can you send someone you trust in your stead?
Or blow off work?-
Or just pick it up on the way home from work because it’s unlikely he’d play it at 12:30 am if he’s busy at work?
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Ahh Bish; common sense has no place in the gaming world. Apparently.
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Well I won’t actually be at work, but I need to wake up at like 4am so I don’t really want to wake up at midnight pickup the game then try to sleep again.
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Blow off work. I think I suggested this 😛
Priorities!-
I slid but the stuff I’m doing is actually important (unlike what I usually do). Hmmm maybe I can throw myself down a set if stairs.
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Ok phone you have outdone yourself this time. How the hell does would turn into slid? HOW?
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Anyway, enjoy your lunch break
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WELL THANKS TO MIZUGUCHI I CAN’T PICK UP MINE UNTIL FRIDAY 🙁
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(And because it was an online order I need to pick it up myself, can’t delegate responsibility)
Finally got around to playing some Space Marine. I rather like it. It’s like a cross between Gears of War and God of War, a combination that works surprisingly well.
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something something SPPPAAAAAYYYYCCCCEEEEE MMMMMMAAAAAUUURRRRREEEEEEEEEEENNNN!!!!!!!!!
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Such a solid game, shame there wasn’t any singleplayer DLC. Multiplayer is great but it needs local servers.
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SPACE MAUREEN! FOR THE EMPEROR!
@Zetrox2k: Thanks dude, I think at this stage I’ve gotten just about enough feedback, but the offer is much appreciated!
PS: catching up on 8 pages of TAY is quite an achievement (blo-blooop *unlocked*).
So question for some…. any of you still retro game? With technology advancing at an incredible pace, its gettincg ridiculously hard to get a decent image using old consoles on newer hardware…. (recent example, n64 on 55″ samsung led tv)…. I’ve just bought myself an RCA/RGB/S-VIDEO to HDMI upscaler, which should hopefully arrive in a couple of weeks, which will solve issues such as image blur, colour correction, etc… ive been dying to whip out my old consoles for some old school gaming….
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My family still has a couple old TVs sitting round the house that I can use for retro gaming.
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One of my monitors can take the old R/W/Y cord. So I have my SNES / SEGA MEGADRIVE connected to my monitor.
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It’s quite hard to find SNES / Megadrives with composite video though, most of them did stuff over the Aerial port.
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You can just buy special plugs off eBay for like $10.
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Yeah but the video quality using an adapter like that is shithouse even by composite standards. There are actually systems out there (Megadrive at least, dunno about SNES) which output proper composite video. Might be from toward the end of the production run. IIRC the SegaCD / 32X was able to output composite properly too.
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SNES, N64 and cube all use the same cable.
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Really? That’s good to know.
Speaking of which, I found my old Gamecube a while back. Still works, but not sure if I want to keep it given that the Wii is backward compatible.
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I remember when it was cheaper to buy a GameCube with 2 controllers than it was to buy 2 controllers.
Since I got the Wii it’s just been a paperweight, but given the Wii U replacing the Wii, would you prefer the Wii or cube for those GameCube games?
I have a black cube so I’ll probably ditch the Wii and resurrect the cube if I get a Wii U.
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Yup! i only have one cable for my snes and 64, and i just bought a cube for $5 but it didnt come with av cable. I grabed the cable i had and thought tomyself…. “i wonder”…. and SUCCESS!!!!!
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But … It’s SNES, if I want top quality graphics I’ll play the PC.
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You want as good a signal as possible if you’re viewing on an LCD, because it’ll upscale all the blurs and artifacts and make them look even worse.
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I attempted to retro game on the weekend with my sister b/c she really wanted to play Sonic Adventure for some reason, only to find my Dreamcast is half dead. Can’t detect the VMU half the time, keeps crashing back to the dashboard mid-game and I can’t get any sound out of it. T_T. So we downloaded Tomba for PS1 off PSN which was one of her favourites back in the day.
Incidentally when it was running I was reminded how surprisingly good the Dreamcast looked, graphically. I was expecting a horrible grainy pixellated mess and didn’t get that at all, which was surprising. Best system.
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Especially running on an LCD/LED A box….. looks incredible to this day
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i meant to say on an LED/LCD tv using a VGA box :/
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Yeah, that’s what I was using. Renders at a higher res when you do that I think.
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Yes, I have quite a few retro consoles, I also have a PC hooked up to my TV that emulates all sorts of retro and arcade games. So bloody awesome.
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Yeah ive got a dedicated emulation machine with about 300GB of roms (for archival purpose 🙂 )
sometimes though… you just feel like undusting some old hardware and going for it 🙂
That’s what CRT TV’s are for.
also, anyone got that link to TAY names again? need to update my details and lost the stupid link again….
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Just put tayname docs into google and click on the first link.
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Yeah, googling “taynames” brings up both the spreadsheet and the Tales of TAY blog. Though I’ve visited both so many times I now just type “tay” in the address bar and it brings them all up anyway 😛
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I know I’m not a regular (regular lurker, yes) but I’ve added my stuff in there should anyone need a vidja gaems wingman.
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A guy with a cat gravatar is more than welcome around these parts! 😀
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Especially if it’s an awesome robot’s human older brother
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That too.
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You’re a DC, I like you.
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This essay has been posted over on /r/starcraft.
Ignore the fact that it’s about Starcraft. That’s not really the point. The point is the essay itself.
The reactions to it are fairly mixed. Half are praising it for being well-written, the other half for being terribly written. I’m in the latter group. This sort of unnecessarily verbose writing is a pox, a pox I say!
Sure, it works just dandy in high school when you need to pad things out a little. It makes you look smarter because you must have a better grasp on the English language if you can use all of those fancy words and such. Shame that it completely obfuscates any point that you’re trying to make.
Looking for a reference point to enter the maze that is Stephano my mind is drawn to the history of competitive South Korean Brood War, seemingly my rosetta stone for decoding life itself.
Face, meet palm. Palm, face.
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Those sure are some words. I was always taught that if there’s a simple word for something, you should use that word rather than a longer, less known word that means the same thing. Same with sentence structure, keep it simple. It helps make what you’ve written easier to read and understand and the point you’re trying to make has less of a chance of getting lost on people.
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My reply mentioned an ornate golden crowbar.
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Cut out his tongue! Wait, that won’t help. Cut off his fingers! Arrr!
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You should play Corpse Party.
You’ll never make jokes about cutting out people’s tongues again. /o\
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Reminds me of the Malazan Book of the Fallen.
Great story, world, and characters. Shame the entire 10 tome epic was written like that.-
This is why I ended up giving up on those books. Content was great, but the way it was written made it hard to enjoy that. First couple it was okay but after a while it just got too heavy.
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Understandable, it’s a bit of a slog. The story kinda lost traction and coherency in the last few books anyway. Full of irrelevant (and way too long) side plots, chapter length philosophical rambling from minor characters and a lack of resolving/explaining pretty much anything.
Which is a shame as the story had so much potential.
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Arrrr, for the what lies yonder, is it a newbie player, easily defeated, likened unto the soft embrace of a shiny schooner laden with the finest gold, as if it be a golden elephant of opportunity headed towards me direction? Or is it a professional player, like a galleon full of brigands and scallywags, oft undefeated no matter haw many cannons be fired asunder into it’s hull, like a hardened cannonball deflecting me cannonballs like seagull’s feathers? Arrrr.
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His responses are pretty amazing:
No need to worry unduly, my aim is always only to get my work out to as many people who might enjoy it as possible, rather than as many people as possible.
I think anyone undertaking a creative endeavor should assume the best of the audience and try to pull even the lowest up to his level, rather than cynically assume the worst and go down to theirs, for profit or fame.
It’s difficult to think of any pieces of great art* that don’t require a little work on the part of the audience to truly enjoy their essence. Better that a few have to google something than the guy who has the requisite context/palette is left unsatisfied by oversimplification.
*Yeah I know, esports writing as art “lol, pretentious much?” etc
I has a job interview tomorrow \o/ It’s at a really good company, they are looking for 2 juniors. So excited, I hope I get it. *fingers crossed*
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Remember, pooping on the bosses desk is what you do when you get fired, not what you do when you get hired.
That sort of confusion happens more often than you’d think.
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Oh that explains what happened last week, thanks
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Remember, poopdeck and poopdesk are two different things, me hearties.
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If they ask you about your travelling experiences, make sure you talk about your current quest to become the very best, like no one ever was. Say that while catching them is your real test, training them is your cause.
If that fails, tell them about Finland or whatever.
ps. Good luck!
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Best of luck! 😀
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Good luck, friend. All the best!
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good luck nova
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Luck, I wish it to you.
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Go get those scallywags! Show them who be the man! Arrrrr!
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Thanks everybody. You’ll be the first to know how it goes
Piratey music to be going with this most piratey of occasion, yarrr! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaWU1CmrJNc
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I think you accidentally linked something else when you tried to link an Alestorm video.
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Nah, I’m more of a grog person meself.
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Voltaire is best for pirate music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcgvLiNYCcA
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Also, obligatory link to Why is the Run Gone?
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THE RUN?! NOT THE RUN?!
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lol, damn it. TAY needs an edit button.
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I think this is fitting!
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Yeah xD Alestorms version is just better!
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Agree, though I do like the Lazy Town parts with the girl singing.
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DA FUQ?!?!?
“Due to suspicious activity, this account has been locked. A message has been sent to this account’s email address containing details on how to resolve this issue. Visit http://sea.battle.net/account/locked.html for more information.”
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I got that the other day when trying to login from my PC after a fresh install of Windows.
Just go to Battle.net and login, follow the prompts for a password reset and you’re good to go.
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Surprised Blizzard didn’t make you get an Authenticator because Diablo III
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I haven’t touched the RMAH and I haven’t got any financial details tied to the account. They don’t seem to force the authenticator on most people, just strongly recommend it.
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Hmm, I had heard those that were “hacked” were told they need it or they wouldn’t be allowed to play..
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I wasn’t one of them.
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Shush you!
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I too poorz for Diablo III at the moment 🙁
First time logging in from a new IP. I used to get that periodically if I logged into WoW using a SSH proxy to reduce ping times.
Navigator! Veer to starboard! We’re headed to, uh, sea.battle.net.
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We shall keep sailing until we find this mythical net that be waging war upon the sea, and slay it to avenge your misfortunes! ARRRRR!
Pure Pwnage Returns!
http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/1031tv/pure_pwnage_returns/
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I expect to see this on front page in…. t-minus 2 hours
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HOLY SHIT DUDE, I have no seen you around since the PP forums! I’ve changed handles a few times since then though =P
I have no idea what I just watched, but it was the featured video from the Lazy Town video I linked above. What sort of mind could possibly come up with something like this? What sort of person could agree to be part of it. I just don’t know the world anymore.
Slightly NSFW warning.
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Yup, ten seconds was enough for me. *close*
😛
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Is that the Lil’ John/LazyTown Cake Song/BendOverToTheFrontIHaveNoIdeaOfTheTitleOfTheOtherSong mashup perchance?
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that is a fantastic video
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Incredibly well done, although slightly NSFW 😛
Due to the above NSFW label, I think I’ll leave it ’til I get home though.
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It’s not whatever you said, but I sort of want to see whatever it is you said.
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Is this what you were talking about?
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yes that is it
and NSFW warning for the link 😛
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This may be one of the best things I’ve ever seen…
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People are only discovering this now!?
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Search for Lil’ John + LazyTown, and be amazed/appalled.
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Ha ha Steve Harvey made that segment.
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Just added 2 new 24/7 Minecraft Servers to TAYNAMES, one for Creative, one for Survival… I myself will be lurking around survival mode. Also, offline mode is supported, automated server backups, running latest CraftBukkit. If anyone is keen, hop on!
servers are currently down as im re-imaging the server, should all be running by 7pm… anyone who has already been on my servers, all your content is backed up. These maps are all new, If you would like your old content transfered over, just email me at (myhandle) at the hotmails!
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I haven’t been keeping up with Minecraft stuff, are these replacing the Minecraft server TAY already had or are these in addition to the Minecraft server TAY has/had?
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The TAY server is still running as far as I know. It’s just that the Minecraft hype phase has sort of… diminished 😛
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Not really, i guess we all just co exist? i run these servers for some friends, so figured since they’re up anyway, ill share them 🙂
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Just added my mates tekkit server to that page, I had no idea such in TAYnames existed!
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Now I have a new SSD to replace the old one that randomly crashed, Minecraft is a tempting idea…..
so im thinking of adding a 3rd minecraft server to host some MC Hunger games, anyone interested?
for those that have no idea what im taking about,
you really need speakers to understand whats going on.
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That actually looks pretty fun. I’d ask around to see how many people would want to play before getting another server, though. Not many people are active in Minecraft these days.
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(Having said that, I’d much rather see a Battle Royale game than a Hunger Games one ;D)
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I host the servers from home powalen, so its costing me $0
running dual xeons with 16gb ram
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If it’ll be uploaded for Kotaku to watch I don’t see why not 😛
Arrr, I be drinking Solo right now. It may not be grog, but what’s an underage pirate captain ta do, aye?
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Eat an orange
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This
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It be good for treating scurvy.
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And being K.
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Add a drop of lavender to your bath.
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Once my old man spoke to good King Triton and asked, why all this senseless fightin’? Why can’t us men express emotion? Now I’ve got a friend in the ocean!
What do you think Somali Pirates will be doing today?
Will it be “talk like yourself day”…
orrr “talk like an overly-romanced fictional pirate day”?
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Kidnapping people, stealing boats and ransoming them for large sums of money?
So, same as any other day.
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Ahhh the life of a pirate
Do you think they still have troubles with ninjas?
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They seem to get along just fine.
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Training finished! My first payment for stuffs :O!
It went from 10:30-2:30 and now I’m waiting for my train. Didn’t have lunch but ate a bunch of mentos 😛
First shifts start Thu/Fri next week and each go for the full 4 hours. I also got the location I wanted which the local bus goes straight to (it’s still like 50 minutes away though). The product is pretty exciting but it’s going to be hard to ‘sell’ (we’re not actually selling just promoting).
Gotta suport Lame Game, Pez and Shane when I get paid :).
Good luck other job people! I’m pretty sure there was stuff on previous pages but I saw Nova’s above. Good luck Travelborn!
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You allowed to say what you’re doing yet? 😛
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Soliciting>?
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I’ll give you $2.50, and that’s my final offer.
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Promoting Tapit and QR codes for Telstra which is a NFC scanning thing similar to how you can scan a credit card or Myki :). More of a demonstrator.
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Promoting stuff and the hermit lifestyle don’t usually go hand-in-hand, you’ve changed. You used to be all about the shunning of people. What happened, man? (Also, congrats. Sounds awesome! :P)
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I didn’t know what I was getting myself in to :D!
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So you’re like one of those ridiculously attractive people with bizarre accents in the middle of shopping centres that incessantly offer me the secrets of minerals found in oceans and lakes long since dead, with the promise of smooth, supple skin whenever I actually do happen to find myself in a shopping centre only to find that I’m actually completely disinterested in the product you’re trying to hawk, except that instead of ridiculously attractive you’re an as yet undetermined number on the colloquial 1-10 scale of attractiveness and you may or may not have a bizarre accent, and instead of secrets of minerals found in oceans and lakes long since dead, with the promise of smooth, supple skin
you’re promoting something I’m actually likely to be interested in, and would actually stand there in the shopping centre whenever I may actually find myself in a shopping centre and actively engage in discussion on the product at hand with the intent on learning more about it?*breathes*
That actually sounds really cool man 😀
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OH GOD LINEBREAK WAT
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So I’m looking at purchasing Borderlands 2 on GreenManGaming at the moment because hey it’s a pretty decent price and the marketing machine has got a hold of me again. But I was reading through some stuff on their site and one thing struck me:
“Unfortunately, as the game has now been released in North America, we can no longer sell pre-purchase keys. Customers outside of the United States and Canada can still pre-purchase the game up until release day.”
I’m entirely new to the concept of buying games off sites like GMG, so it’s all rather confusing to me. If I buy it today, as I’m not in the US/Canada, will I get a key and be able to play when it unlocks on steam at (hopefully) midnight?
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No idea but my guess is that they mean keys with pre-order goodies. This is the 2nd time I used them. First was during Steam sales and they actually ran out of Metro 2033 keys so that came a week later. Sent them an email, things were sorted out, no biggie since I wasn’t in a rush. Preordered Borderlands 2 a few months ago and got the key last week. So absolutely no issues. However, I’ve heard cases like with Sleeping Dogs that people who preordered didn’t get keys but those who just purchased it after release did.
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I pre-ordered from GMG, got my key last week, so you should really just get yours straight away.
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Thanks for the comments, you two! Went ahead and bought it, works perfectly and whatnot. Seems to have the preorder goodies too!
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Now to play the first part of Borderlands 2 – the waiting game
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Today could quite possibly be the worst day I’ve had in a very long time. I’ve actually developed a tic in my right eyes and my hands won’t stop shaking.
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🙁 I’m sorry to here that, man. I hope things will start going your way. We’re all here if you wanna talk, always!
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*hear
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Bummer dude.
@Strange
Sorry it took so long. I’m a terrible artist so I outsourced it. Here is me and Mrs Tigs
http://s1218.photobucket.com/albums/dd405/WNxTigerion/?action=view¤t=viewer_zps16febb88.png
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Damn it, here is a better version http://i1218.photobucket.com/albums/dd405/WNxTigerion/TigsAndMrsTigs_zps669f12ca.png
OBORO MURAMASA FOR VITA \o/
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Most excited I’ve ever been to buy a game I already own \o/
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Never heard of it so had to Google it. Looks cool and I love the way that she sprints
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Vanillaware make beautiful games. Hand-animated everything. It was the game that convinced me to buy a Wii actually, always wished it was on something with better graphical ability though.
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Groovy
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Apparently Marvelous is also doing a Senran Kagura port to Vita as well so there goes one of my secret reasons to get a Japanese 3DS…
Anyone notice that DOA 5 was moved to the 28th? how peculiar
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Hadn’t noticed… Weird.
Go to work coffee machine for coffee.
Coffee machine is out of coffee.
Make chai latte instead.
Put spoonful of Nescafe Blend 43 in there and hope for the best.
And we’re back. Ask Kotaku: What did you do during the great Kotaku blackout of ’12?
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Accused Mark of going Buddhist. It’s was dark days, dark days indeed /o\
Serrels. Inventor of the Serrels Stare and the newly released, highly innovative, Serrels Server Shakedown Headbutt (patent pending).
Also I hear that Ben guy fixes things good too 😀
So I had an experience rather unique to guild wars 2 the other night (some of the team speak guys know this story already) when my life was saved by a wild boar.
I was attempting to kill a veteran creature by myself and it managed to knock me down to the “fight to survive” mode with about 1/5 of its health remaining. So I’m there madly throwing rocks at it and trying to bandage myself when all of a sudden a passing wild boar somehow gets agreed by it, rams the shit out of it and draws agro away from me. I instantly start healing myself hoping I can get back up and kicking before it kills this boar but what actually happens is the boar kills the veteran before I can heal myself and I get insta rezzed.
I was so happy I celebrated with bacon. People are horrible.
Also, we were talking about Final Fantasy XIII-2 and I thought it worth mentioning that as far as I’m concerned by far the best part of that game is the loot chests.
They are these odd spherical things that just kind of bob gently by themselves but when you get close they excitedly spring to life picking themselves off the ground and turning to face you. But the best part is, now you can jump at will in FFXIII-2 they jump with you! before I loot any chest I always jumps around with them It’s like they are excited to find a new friend!
There is a down side however. When you loot these chests it seems to suck the very life out of them. Suddenly you’ve killed this being of pure innocence and joy that only ever wanted to be your friend. I’ve never felt this guilty for looting things in any game before. Even when you break into random peoples houses and start smashing their shit you can justify it as a tax designed to support the budding hero industry and support traditional professions such as pottery.
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I’ve managed to get two or more creatures fighting each other a few times in GW2. Aggro one creature with an aoe attack, run off and aggro another creature, wait until the first creature casts its aoe and then stealth and watch them fight each other.
Who turned out the lights?
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Probably the same guy who let the dogs out.
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That guy…
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Someone needs to learn him some responsibility.
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People aren’t evil! Putting up more posters, see guy lurking behind me. Get ready for him to tell me to stop spamming his street with flyers. Was generally interested about cat and said he’d look out for her. Faith in humanity restored. That’s what I did during the great Kotaku downtime. 😛
My sister locked the keys in her car at Westfield about 20 minutes away too. Walked there with the spare too. No Borderlands on sale, for any one interested. 😛
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*genuinely. 😛
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What I hate is seeing posters up for missing pets that someone’s gone and drawn all over. Why would you even do that?
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Faith in humanity lost agian. 😛
I was pretty damn apprehensive about putting phone number on there. So far, so good.
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Isn’t social interaction fun?
(no it’s not)
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I wouldn’t mind being marooned on an abadoned island. Only source of communication? An internet connection to TAY. 😛
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Hey, Bernadi quit. Something’s gone right today.
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Is this someone you share a workspace with every now & then?
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Senator for South Australia, colossal bigot.
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Ah right.
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Only as secretary, he’s still in the Senate.
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Was it because he sucked off a horse?
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LOL!
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@Neg – Can’t speak for FF8’s soundtrack as I’ve barely played it but I agree that 6 and 9 were both excellent (I think 9 is probably my favourite). I’d say 6 is on par with 7 though but I think 7 has more memorable songs for me.
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FF7 has some memorable songs but 6’s is overall a better soundtrack – especially if you’re comparing pieces with similar levels of orchestration i.e. not comparing the music directly out of the game. It’s probably more memorable for you because the game itself was more important. 🙂
9’s soundtrack is awesome. It’s all gone downhill since Squenix dumped Uematsu 🙁
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I didn’t think X or XIII was that bad. I play the piano so I like messing around with the Final Fantasy Piano Collection books and the older games work well since there’s more distinct melodies.
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FF9 piano collection is the best piano collection.
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Today started awesome, a fight with someone I consider a close friend over something stupid that ended with us calling each other nasty names and stop talking. Awesome sauce.
Next I find my 2 days off next week, days 2&3 for the month have been cancelled because the guy who works 1 day a week wants to go fishing. Amazeballs.
Then I spend all day driving 120kms on my own fuel and getting scramed at by an angry customer while trying to fix another staff members fuck up (I had zero to do with it) which he just straight up refused to have anything to do with. Didn’t help the customer had to miss his flight to London an rebuy the tickets. Now I’m stuck working until 8 tonight because I work with dead shits. Greetest.
Best. Day. EVAR.
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Jeez man =( What a load of shit. Can you claim fuel expenses for work? If not that’s real dick!
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It’s tax deductible if nothing else.
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What a waste of a day. Went to school to hand in stuff and pick up other stuff but person I needed to see wasnt there so instead of wandering around the zoo for an hour and comming back I just left. Idiot.
But Im on the internet again and was able to update my Nuzlock log, nothing exciting but suck it all those who wanted a Ghastly I caught one and I aint even gonna use it.
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Damn youuuu!
Arrr, me hearties! What be it that I missed this fine afternoon whilst I was out pillaging and plundering distant lands, eh?
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You didnt do any of that Lambo. Your a liar and a scoundral
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…I be a pirate. It’s to be expected.
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Phew, I think I’ve managed to catch up on 3 TAYges now :S
@Zetrox/N3RD10110100101
Thanks for the heads up man! I don’t think they’re interested in such small demand (even though I’m confident I’ll get more per capita than most ‘big-smoke’ establishments), but I’ll keep it in mind for the next one. Just gotta keep plodding along ’til I find a supplier!
@Lambo
gorram it, you’ve made my day. Such dedication!
@Freeze
Any chance of these guys meeting with management due to unacceptable behaviour/performance perchance? I know what it’s like being the fallguy and fixing other’s mistakes. Not cool :S
@DC
Hope you find your kitty soon man. As much as I dislike cats, I dislike lost cats more 🙁
@Everyone
Keep it classy, and for the love of god SLOW DOWN /o\
I actually think my workload has increased about threefold, so my postcount will have been dismally low for the past couple weeks, hehe. I can’t seem to keep up!
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Thanks, buddy! If I wasn’t on Twitter I would’ve had to make Missing Aleph posters too. 😛
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Arrrrr, dedication! It be part of the pirate code. A pirate never does a half done job, aye. When ya loot the ship, ya take all the loot! When ya make them walk the plank, ya make them walk all the plank! Don’t let ’em jump off only half way! Arrrr!
Hey Everyone.
Man, this is the second day in a row that I’ve gone from feeling happy to feeling like crap.
Thanks world.
Hope you all had better days then I did.
@Freeze, i can’t complain too much, your day sound a shit ton worse. Hope tomorrow is much better for you.
Been thinking I’ve got this big stack of unplayed games, maybe I should cancel all the stuff I’ve got on order aside from the really important ones and not buy anything for six months or so, focus on finishing some of what I have instead. Because I have too many.
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That’s kinda what I’ve been doing too. Steam sales made me feel guilty for buying too much! Sorta broke that by buying the indie bundle and multiple eShop games though 😛
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Team Xenoblade assemble!
Play Xenoblade NegativeZero!
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My CPU isn’t fast enough and I can’t afford to upgrade 🙁
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Wii!
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Haha! Bad time of the year to make that call. Maybe you should wait until December. A few quite months to ease you into it. 😀
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It actually really isn’t. Borderlands 2 is basically it for me in terms of stuff I’m super excited about and must play Day 1. And I’ve already paid for that. I wouldn’t cancel Persona 4 Golden b/c I got the super premium US set on order, and deffo won’t cancel Ni no Kuni, but the only other console stuff that I was interested in is Assassin’s Creed 3 and Halo 4 and maybe DOA5 but I’m kind of hesitant on that at full price unless the single player is meatier than normal.
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Oh, I’ve got Dishonored, XCOM, Assassin’s Creed 3, Hitman: Absolution and Epic Mickey still.
(That’s just until the end of November. :S)
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Stuff I have ordered:
– Mugen Souls (PS3, not cancelling)
– Persona 4 Golden (PSV, not cancelling)
– AC3: Liberation (PSV)
– Theatrhythm (3DS, backorder, not cancelling)
– Rhythm Thief (3DS, may cancel since it’s going to iOS)
– Ragnarok Odyssey (PSV)
– Zero Escape (PSV)
– Code of Princess (3DS, probably won’t cancel)
– Professor Layton & the Miracle Mask (3DS)
– Epic Mickey: Power of Illusion (3DS)
– Ni no Kuni (PS3, not cancelling)Pretty much everything that is in that list will not be hard to get if I wait 6-9 months and let the smoke clear, and none of the big console games are going to be hard to find. Zero Escape might be a pretty limited run but it’ll be on PSN at worst case, so the only one that’ll likely be hard to get post-release if I cancel my order is Code of Princess and I’ve got an order in on the premium one so don’t want to cancel anyway. So thinking I should save some cashes
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That’s true. Not like you’ll be starving for games too if you’ve got a quality back log to play through!
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Ah, so how much was shipping for P4 Sexy Edition and what did you end up doing for it?
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Yay! Home from work before ridiculous-O’clock \o/
After a quick scan through the current page, it looks like a few people are having crappy days.
@ Freeze, can you talk to your boss about having too much put on you?
@ Scree – hope you feel better soon.
@ DC’s kitty, please come home kitty. You are loved and missed!
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Hey, man! Good advice on the cat front. If only she’d listen! *shakes fist* (Make the mistake of looking at my suburb on Google Maps. Shouldn’t have done that. A lot of ground to cover. :P)
Hope your day was good, man! What’s new SmurfyDog? What’s new everyone?
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Stupid question but have you called the shelters or local vets?
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Yup. :'( My mum’s been on it for the past few days on my behalf. (She loves the little critter, used to live with her when it was a kitten.) I’ve been doing the leg work around the street.
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Nothing new here. Just another day in paradise working for the man.
Good luck mate.
And Kitty, if you read this, it’s time to swallow your pride and go home. You won’t get in trouble, just lots of hugs and pats and a nice bowl of food.-
And a trip to the vets for some old fashioned microchippin’ goodness. 😛 Thanks man! 🙂
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Thanks Smurfydog!
I hope yours was better. A lot better.Also, what work do you do? (if you don’t mind me asking)
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Thanks Scree. My day was OK. Probably better than yours. But I’m pretty exhausted – I sat down for maybe 15 minutes all day. I work in retail.
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Oh, man. That means dealing with people? People are the worst. 😀
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While it CAN be hard to deal with people and have to be “on” all day, I have a lot of regular customers who I really like. Seeing them can give me a real lift when I’m having a rough day.
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A people person. I’ve heard stories but never quite believed them. 😛 That’s awesome, though! Constant parade of new folks probably keeps things interesting too!
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I treat them all with respect. I just have social anxieties, which makes me not want to talk to any one. It’s not them, it’s me. 😛
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Depends on the person. I don’t mind talking to them but some people are real dicks.
At Christmas time last year, I just wanted to know if they had any more slat and pepper shakers.
I ran around trying to find someone with no success. I went over tot he entertainment counter to wait to be served. These two people were holding up the employee by asking the same questions over and over. You may think I’m paranoid but I think they were doing it on purpose. The woman kept looking at me. Pretty much they were asking what the difference was between the two products multiple times. I’d been there a while and several people lined up behind me, also waiting to be served.
I ended up cracking it and saying something about the the people holding up the employee.
I found an employee helping someone and followed him around. Once he was done with that person, i went to ask for his help but he wouldn’t even acknowledge me.
I found him in another aisle, chatting with a family friend.
I’d had it by then, and Mum was waiting outside for me. I’d been trying to find someone for 30-35 minutes by then. I lined up at the counter and waited to be served. When I got there, I found out there was no other salt and pepper shakers and I wasn’t buying these ones that had been pulled out of the packaging and used. I didn’t take my anger out on the lady at the register as she didn’t do anything wrong. But that guy who brushed me off and those two in the entertainment area. I have not been that angry since. -
I’d usually leave, blame myself for being goofy and dwell on the encounter for the next week. 😛
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I was too angry to blame myself. It’s easier to blame everyone else =P
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(Haha! Wasn’t implying that you were goofy either, I just blame myself for everything. Even if it’s clearly not my fault. :P)
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Years ago, in a different store, I had a young guy working with us who was the most socially timid person I think I’d ever met. His job meant he worked alone away from customers but I asked him about learning to use a cash register, as we like all staff to be able to help out in a squeeze.
Well, he was terrified at the thought. Told me outright that he was not really a “people person” – even did that air-quote thing with his fingers.About 6 months later, changes in the business meant that his position would no longer exist, but we had shifts to fill working the cash register, so it was that or no job. So he agreed to do it.
Over the next 12 months his personality turned around 180º and now, several years later he is one of the most popular and outgoing people in the store.Just saying…
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I can talk to people but I prefer not to 😛
I quite like the quiet hermit lifestyle
Now have a job where I have to talk to people constantly
:/I COULD BE THIS GUY! 😀
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Where there’s life, there’s hope. 😀
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It’s the boss that’s putting it on me. Unfortunately the company seems to operate to accommodate everyone’s work ethic. So the deadbeats get away with doing nothing an have nothing asked of them, whereas if you actually put some effort in and do your job they get you to pick up the slack of the others. In the end they just see that everything evens out and that’s all that matters.
On the plus side I’m home now. Nothing quite destresses me like reading the girls a story while putting them to bed. They get so excited and the stupid voices I use have them in hysterics. Makes everything else seem unimportant.
Plus, Humble Bundle purchased! With Dustforce included. Interesting that Robert Bowling (@fourzerotwo) is the biggest contributor so far.
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Sounds like a good recipe to lose the good employees in the long run, though. :S Hope every thing works out, man. The police thing still on the cards? Be careful not to anger up the blood again, stay de-stressed. 😀
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Sure is. Have the written test on Friday as a matter of fact.
Means I have to shave my beard off. Devestation.
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Sweet! Good luck with it. You’ve got plenty of incentive to do well too. 😀
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(Oh, the beard thing is decidedly UNSWEET, though. :P)
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Claim religious reasons, keep beard. If you don’t subscribe to a pre-existing beard religion, create your own. I think you need ~10 people for it to be recognised as a religion?
Religion is fun 😀
Also, I’ve said religion just a few too many times here.
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You’ve surely converted ~10 folks to Schnitzology! What’s your stance on beards? 😛
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I am beard-ambiguous. The Schnitzel Overlords decree that all beings are borne unto this world the same, beardless and Schnitzelless. One can be remedied, and leads to salvation. The other is purely subjective, and holds no standing on judgement come the Parmigianapocalypse.
The choice is left for us to decide. We are the masters of our own fate.
Praise be to Their Breadiness!
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Best of luck mate.
Shame about the beard though. Hope it doesn’t freak the girls out too much.
Your boss sounds like a believer in that old saying. “If you need something done, ask a busy person to do it” Which does work, but sucks for you.
Glad you got home in time to do the bedtime story. Reminds me of a Terry Pratchet book.
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‘If you want something done, ask a busy person.
If you want something done right, do it yourself.’I think I’m the busiest person I know, online/present-company notwithstanding 😀
That second paragraph just made my soul sing with that stupid ‘angels choir’ AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH sound. Thank you.
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Haha! Agreed. Could feel the weight lift of my shoulders. 😛
NOOOOO CYNDAQUIL!!!!!!!! T_T
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OH NO! Not your starter!
Aww no Taylocke update yet D:. I’m keen to find out what happened! Sorry for your loss 🙁
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I didnt even get to evolve him *sniff*
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Gonna spill the deets now or should I wait for the update? My guess is the Gym battle.
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Itll be in part 3
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:O Losing your starter is always bad news. Sorry CJ.
Is it bad that I’m refreshing the TAYlocke page just as much as TAY?
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Haha, I have been as well 😛 Poor Cyndaquil, though! (Now who isn’t going to use that Gastly? ;D)
By the way, don’t feel like you can only make one log per day on the TAYlocke site. Use it as much as you want! That’s what it’s there for!
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NO!
It’s more of a discussion thing so I’ll post it here but what are some good grinding areas? All your Pokemon are wayyyy higher than mine and your opponents so I’ve fared pretty well considering the whole underleveledness.
I was also thinking we could see who could beat the E4 the quickest, not in terms of “oh I beat them on Friday” but who had the lowest game time. Would be fun to see who did it with a low amount of time and levels but I guess that’s hard to judge since some people leave their game on (does it count playtime if the DS is in sleep mode?)
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Just pulled a Greenius and forgot to nickname. Oh well can fix that when I get to Goldenrod
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Hey everyone.
Cricket ‘s on right now.
Amazing how the internet has gone from being having you sit with a phone line plugged into a modem, with a painfully slow data rate, all the way up to high speed bit-rates allowing pepole to stream live sport over the web.
It’s really mind blowing stuff, honestly.
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Only going to get better too. 😀 The future is awesome.
Why oh why did I decide to start weight training at the gym tonight. My body is currently SOOOOO pissed at me right now.
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For the slim hope that Rainier Wolfcastle would walk up to you and shout slogans at you?
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A man can dream.
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So I’m at the gym this evening and I lie down to do chest press and as I stretch out I rip out a massive fart. So embarrassing. 🙁
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Ahahaha and post it on TAY for more embarrassment? 😛
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That’s just your body relaxing….
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Same thing happened once in primary school. I was mortified. The children laughed. :'(
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Haunts me to this day. 😛
Probably not going to be going to hear Mizuguchi tomorrow night at ACMI any more. Came home and my dog has taken a turn for the worst. Bleeding from the mouth. I think it’s time. 🙁 His usual vet (for the last 14 years) isn’t in Fridays so might have to be tomorrow, don’t know if it’s right to stretch him out all weekend.
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I’m sorry to hear that, man. That’s horrible. 🙁 Not much I can say to make you feel better, but atleast you’ll all have the opportunity to let the little critter know how much you him. (Even if it doesn’t need to be said.) Poor little guy.
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These games masters events are fucking cursed though. I bought a ticket to see Tim Schafer and had to have my cat put down. Now I get one to see Mizuguchi and this happens 🙁
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Truly sucky predicament, man. I’m sorry you’ve got to go through it. 🙁
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That’s horrible. Sorry to hear it.
I don’t know what else to say so I’ll just offer these INTERNET HUGS.
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Probably not really my place or appropiate but are you going to take him for a run or something before anything? When we had to put my wife’s dog down we took her for a run along the beach and threw the ball around for about 2 hours first. It actually made it harder but we would have regretted it if we didn’t.
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He’s too old to last that long but I think we will probably try to do something like that if possible. Maybe take him back to the park we used to walk him on when he was a puppy.
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I think somehow instinctively dogs know you’re helping them too. My old dog licked my brothers hand and wagged his tail before moving on. You’ve given the critter a great life, man. Take solace in that to get through it. 🙂
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I have to go to the hospital tomorrow. Second time I’ve ever been to one and the first time was maybe when I was in Year 4…maybe a bit younger.
DO NOT WANT.
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Nothing serious one hopes?
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Shouldn’t be. Just precautionary.
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Hope everything goes smoothly! 🙂
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Seems a lot of people are having a hard time this week. Take care everyone. Your handy support group is here for you! (I don’t know what else to say that isn’t really cheesy)
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Oh, now I look silly reposting what you said since it isn’t at the bottom of the previous page anymore 😛
If everything feels bad, TAYbies, just remember that it’s Wednesday, and it’s all downhill from here!
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That is the worst way to start a page man
But it’s true
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Good point
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God I wish that were the case, I’m right up against a deadline and probably will have to work on Saturday to catch up on stuff 🙁
Oh damn that XCKD strip for today
Don’t know what I’m talking about? Google that shit up.
Just.. damn.
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maaan… took me a while to get it, but geez… he put some work into that XD
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Oh yeah. I saw that this morning. It was pretty amazeballs.
I loved after scrolling along for a while there was World 1-1 from Mario.
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Oh wow! That. Is. Amazing!
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That’s awesome. Took me a while to figure out what I was supposed to do though.
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I want to see a print of it, just so I can put it on my wall.
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In case anyone wants the whole thing: http://www.mrphlip.com/xkcd1110/
Only problem with that version is that you can’t see any of the fine detail without loading a new image. :/
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Viewed big-scale, some of those tunnels look like they form a bifurcation diagram.
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Copy that, Gold Leader!
Repost for my friend AlexPants as I was thinking the same:
Seems a lot of people are having a hard time this week. Take care everyone. Your handy support group is here for you! (I don’t know what else to say that isn’t really cheesy)
Personally I can’t do much to help but if there’s anything I can try to do, just let me know :). *hugs for all who want them*
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e-hugs for all! Even if you don’t want one. ;D
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*hugs for all, even if I feel uncomfortable with the human contact thing.* 😛
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*hugs while staring straight into your soul*
*no seriously it is pretty damn creepy*
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But what if we don’t have one?
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But you’re not a redhead *confused*
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But I am left handed.
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BURN THE WITCH!
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I love hugs. Giving and receiving. Hugs for everybody (>^-^)>
It has indeed been a crappy week for many…
Just caught on up last page and my thoughts go to @NegativeZero…
It’s hard to loose a pet mang… i’ve had 2 family dogs die in the past 6 months, my missus and mine (mine died 2 days ago)…
All the best mang, take solace in he had a great life
*E-group hugs for all*
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Oh, Pixel and Neg Zero – special internet hugs for you both! ((((( \o/ )))))
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🙁 I hope you guys feel better soon. I know today’s going to be tough, especially for NegativeZero. Thoughts are with you, buddy. Sorry about your dog too, Pixel. :'(
@Greenius: There’s not really any ‘good’ grinding areas. Just don’t waste trainer EXP on things that you don’t plan on actually using 😛
Then just train in the furthest patch of grass you can reach until you are around the level of the gym leader (or a bit over if you don’t have type advantage)
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I honestly have no idea how much to grind. I walked out of town and hit the very first patch of grass and didn’t leave until my starter was evolved. Hence why I haven’t caught anything yet.
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I took on the first gym leader with pretty much two Pokemon, one the same level as their highest and one 2 levels lower and I really struggled. Same sort of thing with the surprise rival battle. Part of those were me not having a “super effective” attack but it was mainly to do with my low levels. So now I’m planning to have at least 4 Pokemon who are equal to, or higher than the next gym leader’s highest Pokemon, it’s going to take a long, long time time grind :/
I highly recommend checking out some sort of Pokemon wiki site with information on the levels of the gym leader’s Pokemon and your Rivals (also when they’ll attack you). But I guess you’re save stating so it’s not really an issue if you get surprise butt sechs
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Well… let’s just say that you’re well on your way haha Use this as a guide: http://www.serebii.net/heartgoldsoulsilver/gym.shtml (It’s not really cheating to look at this. A couple of us know it all anyway :P)
You want to have your Pokemon at least around the same level as the Gym Leader you’re about to face (so around 12-14 for the first gym). You can get away with less levels if you have a type-advantage. But you may want to go a few levels over if you don’t, just to be sure you can still win.
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I swear I’m gonna grind to about 25 for that miltank
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Im fearing it already T_T
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DAMNIT I picked Cyndaquil for his type advantages over several gyms and now hes freaking dead and I have no fire type to take on the steel gym
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My team is pretty Rock weak. Quilava, Hoothoot, gastly has pitiful defenses. It was even worse when I had Zubat and Spinarak with me. If miltank gets a rollout going….
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Oh god I forgot it had that move… FUCK
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A question for those who grabbed the Humble Indie Bundle. How did you split the money? Just curious.
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I usually go 1/3 each. If I do an uneven split I tend to give more to the developers or charity over the bundle tip.
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The 1/3 split is the way I went.
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Also – re-post from last page.
Hope your girls aren’t too freaked out by your soon-to-be beardless face.
After all… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmFnarFSj_U-
Haha. Truer words were never spoken.
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Ok, Bundle purchased. I split it (as best I can using that slider) to be 1 part to Bundle, 3 parts to devs, and 3 parts to charity.
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I saw that coming.
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Usually 50/50 between charity and developers with a dollar or two towards the Humble Bundle ‘tip’ or whatever they call it 😛
Log update!
Man, Blizzard’s really pushing the next WoW expansion. I’ve seen at least 10 ads for it in the past hour on TV. It’s actually sort of refreshing given that you almost never see games advertised in this country, plus it’s a whole lot better than that Borderlands 2 ad that’s been going around with the really annoying music.
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I saw a Professor Layton ad on TV once. That was pretty cool since it didn’t seem very popular (this was way back when the first one came out)
Mentioned this on Twitter but reposting here: if anyone in Melbourne is free at 6:15 PM tomorrow and would like to hear Tetsuya Mizuguchi (Rez, Space Channel 5, Lumines etc) talk about video games at ACMI, I’m giving away my ticket as I can’t go.
Email me @ atomicstrawberry (at) gmail (dot) com or Twitter DM. It’s a digital ticket so I can just forward the PDF to you.
@Batrabiesgirl
Yarrr, visitation to the hospital be the highest honour for the pirate kind! I be shocked at your lack of visitations, you wimpy sea urchin, aye! You wanna be a real man, you gotta learn to take pain head on instead of dodging it like a rat dodges a broom! Arrrrr!
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Wait, you be a lass, not a man…
😛
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Can you always talk like a pirate?
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Nay, sadly I can not. Were I t’ do so, it would eventually carry over to me real life, and before I know it, I’ll be wearing such fine clothing as this here pristine example of fine piratehoodness, aye http://gasdisc.oakapplepress.com/images/essgee-pirpk.jpg
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Penzance?
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Aye.
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So Play-asia are now listing Rhythm Thief & the Emperor’s Treasure as out of print. 🙁
The two games I got my 3DS to play were Theatrhythm (out of print, no ETA on reprint) and Rhythm Thief (out of print, getting iOS port) 🙁
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🙁 can’t speak for Rhythm Thief but Theatrhythm seemed popular enough to merit a reprint. Have you played the demos for both? That might keep you occupied in the mean time but then it can also make you want them more 😛 (hurry up Theatrhythm – I want to play you!)
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I don’t play demos.
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I don’t usually either but both are easy enough to obtain from the eShop. Theatrhythm had two demos with 3 songs total (I think we only got 1 demo though, with 2 songs) and that was good for showing off the mechanics of the game. I thought it would be a lot simpler than it actually is.
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If I can’t actually *buy* the games then playing the demos is useless.
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Saves me ~$100 not buying them though I guess. :\
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Heh, true and gives you time to play other stuff 🙂
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Doesn’t help my 3DS Regret though. So far haven’t enjoyed anything on it.
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That’s because you weren’t drawing letters with the rest of us 😛
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Goodnight, TAY!
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Whoa! So cool
100% Sleeping Dogs!
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Congratulations.
I guess someone has to do it… You can finally let the sleeping dogs lie…on your shelf that is!
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Wei was missing a few clothes. I went to seemingly all the stores and still had three pieces missing. I decided it’d be compulsive achievement whore behaviour to travel around to get them all again. Keeps me awake at night sometimes, knowing just how damn close I am. 😛
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Some of the clothes are in lockboxes, others tied to in-game acomplishments (such as jobs, events, fight clubs, etc).
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Finished all the quests and got all the collectables. I’m certain I just missed ’em in one of the stores, but too daunting to drive about to all of them again. 😀
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Cat is back. I repeat, cat is back. Hungry and skittish, but seemingly fine. Waiting at back door after spending four days in the wild. Now to take down the forty posters around the block. Good problem to have. Thanks for all the concern here and on Twitter. Meant a whole damn lot, more than you know! You guys rock!
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😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀
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YAY 😀 BEST NEWS!!! Awesome mate.
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😀 Who’d have thought a small ball of fur could cause so much angst!
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Well said! 😀
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Woooooooo! Congrats man, I’m glad everything worked out 🙂
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Me too, man. Me too. Feels like a weight has lifted. The thought of having no closure was daunting.
The critter is sleeping. Not a care in the freakin’ world. 😀
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Yeah, unfortunately about 2 months ago my family cat just disappeared and never came back 🙁 She had lived to be 13 so she was really old, still the closure would have been nice.
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:'( I’m sorry to hear that, man. Whatever became of the little critter, I’m sure it knew and appreciated how loved it was.
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Awesome, you must be so relieved.
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Most definitely, man. Will be thinking of you today, Neg! Hope things won’t be too tough. :'(
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Excellent news man 😀
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\o/ Cat seems to have missed the point, though. Meowing at the door to get out. 😛
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Make sure she’s not in heat or anything!
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Haha! How do I make sure? 😛 (She’s desexed, though. I think it was just the promise of birds. The critter seems content and sleeping off the troubles now.) Got vet appointment tomorrow. Microchip will be installed.
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Borderlands 2 day! I imagine this place’ll be a ghost town for the next few days. 😀
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Do you guys play through the campaign by yourself first or co-op?
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I believe alot of us will be doing co-op, although I finish work late so I will probably miss out on all the fun.
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Oh, cool! Do you use mics and talk over the action or just play your roles accordingly. (Having no experience with the previous game, I wonder how the coop goes down, whether chatting breaks immersion and all that. Haha!) The screenshots are freakin’ beautiful.
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We will be using TS most likely.
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😀 Have fun everyone who’ll be playing. Looks like it’ll be all kinds of awesome!
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Are you getting it or still resisting? Co-op with us D.C., you know you want to! You don’t even have to talk, some chumps still use text chat.
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Haha! I’d like to play it, but probably won’t for a little while atleast. The fact the first game sits untouched on the shelf should mean something. 😀
So, today is the big day. I have bundled up my submission to Dark Horse, complete with a multitude of edits suggested by TAYbies, and will be posting it at lunchtime. Huge thanks to everyone who got involved – I really appreciate the effort and time, and believe the package is about twice as strong because of y’all.
In other news, my son is three months old now (how did that happen!) http://colourmekatie.blogspot.com.au/2012/09/bumbo-boy.html
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That’s awesome, man. Here’s hoping it all goes your way! 😀
Three months? Wow! Time flies. Seems like only the other week we were talking about e3 and impending paternity leave! You’ve got an awesome family! Must be proud! 😀
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Oh damn – i didn’t think you were submitting it already – i only just downloaded it last night but still haven’t had a chance to read over it.
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No worries man. Like I said, got lots of awesome feedback.
Feel free to read it or not, I still wouldn’t mind hearing any comments you have.
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All the best! Sorry for not being able to help but it seems like you got plenty of (better) input anyway 😀
And obligatory naaaaawwwwwwwww :3
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Good luck Shane!
Morning ladies and gents!
Does anyone know if there are any decent deals on 360’s starting to pop up yet?
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Nothing that I’ve seen, alas. Best bet would probably be around Wii U launch/boxing day sales but that’s still a while off. :S
No excuses:
http://www.ozgameshop.com/xbox-360-games/dark-souls-prepare-to-die-edition-game-xbox-360
Comes with:
•A stunning 150 page Art Book (featuring art from the new Artorias of the Abyss game content)
•Original Soundtrack CD
•DVD containing the complete behind the scenes video series
•Poster
•Postcards
For $38.99
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Wow! That’s not too shabby at all!
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Much better than I was expecting.
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From what I can remember, the 360 doesn’t require you to have the stupid gold subscription. So there is no reason why everyone in the world should not have a copy 😀
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I don’t have a 360, so that’s my reason!
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I have a great excuse!
I already own it on PS3 and on PC
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Arrrggggggghhhhh!!!!!!! hope its still available on the 15th of oct….need to wait for next pay!
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Itll be the ps3 version for me 🙂
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News.com.au have an article on the decline of Nicholas Cage chronicled by his movie posters. Seems like such a petty and hateful thing to do. No real reason either. Why am I still going to that site? :S
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Self-loathing.
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That must be it! 😀
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Crap. I’m sorry Shane. I didn’t even get a chance to even look at your stuff. I’m a terrible person.
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Geez.
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Although with sentence structure like that it’s probably for the best I didn’t…
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It’s times like these we need a like button
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Nah, don’t worry about it. Feel free to read or not at your leisure and provide comments (or not)! 🙂
Mornin’ TAY!
Actually expecting to get a full day of work done today. Then, Broderlands 2!
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I refuse to adjust that spelling.
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I’m expecting to be at work for a full day. That’s almost the same thing, right?
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Attendance and productivity are not mutually inclusive 😉
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Hooray! This means people will stop abusing me for trying to play a game!
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No Bishfrond. That will never happen.
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Something something you are the worst something something. Also HI BISH!
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…people were abusing you? Steal their credit cards and use them to send out troll gifts on Steam! 😛
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Well… if this morning is anything to judge my day from help me now….
Get a call early on, a client can’t access their documents, no biggy, nothing out of the ordinary… until I get and look at the server, it has a big arse pop up saying ‘We have taken control of your server, all your data has been encrypted and only we know the key. Please email us at blahblah@gmail.com with the ID blah blah and we will contact you on how to deposit $3000 USD to retrieve your encryption key.
About 80% of their data has been encrypted, including financial files, checked their backups, thinking pfft restore and away we go, only to find that the backups have been failing for 5 days now…. I check the event logs, and for the past 15 days, every 12 hours there is a block of remote access attempts that last about an hour, until they get in, then install stuff, run the software they installed, delete system files (to stop the backup).
So, my day will now be filled with trying to brute force some encrypted files (YAY!!!!!), whilst rebuilding a server as quick as I can and recovering what data I can so they can get back to work.
I feel obliged to give a PSA here…
CHANGE YOUR PASSWORDS PEOPLE!!!!!!!!
A backup isn’t a backup unless you check that it works!!!!!
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Wow, that’s all kinds of absolute shit. From the sounds of it you may have to roll them back that far, so here’s hoping they’ve had a quiet week 😐 . Have you reported it? Probably won’t help much, but worth a shot.
Let me know if there’s anything I can do to help out.
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Oh, man. Here’s hoping you a stress free day, real quick! Interesting problem to have, though. (Suppose that’s not helpful in the slightest. :P) Good luck, man!
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Sounds like you’ve got quite a bit of fun in store today :S
I gotta say though, they’re not really asking for much cash, considering the position they’re in.
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I think there might be different levels of police priority depending upon the amount of money being extorted
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You let people randomly try passwords for a whole hour? Should be blocking the account after 3-5 failed login attempts IMO, stop brute force attacks like that. Not an excuse for bad passwords but still…
I’ve had a bit of experience with ransomware on PCs (I work in Antivirus) and a lot of the time their ‘encryption’ involves overwriting files with the output of /dev/random or the like, script kiddies are rarely actually capable of writing a proper encryption scheme let alone one that’s reversible if you provide a key. I’d assume that machine is toast and restore from backups, don’t waste your time trying to reverse the damage. 5 days isn’t too bad really given the circumstances. Be glad the assholes disabled the backup, you’d probably find that your good backups had been overwritten by the destroyed version.
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Yeah, if we fully support a client, we have it locked down pretty well. This particular customer decided against taking that service from us, so its a harsh lesson I guess. The server was installed by some other company years ago, and we just get calls from them when things go wrong, but when we offer to do a full audit, they always decline. I feel bad for them, but at the same time we have tried to help in the past to prevent this sort of stuff happening, so it really was just a matter of time. I’d rather restore from a older backup than a newer one, for all I know they have been in the system for a while (logs show attempts for around 2 weeks though, so thats promising ish).
I’ve had many an experience with ransomware, and in all cases I’ve opted to not pay, cause in my mind, as soon as you pay, they will just up the price again and again. I don’t like chances of brute forcing the files, which seem to be self extracting exe files. This server is dead, I’ve got them back up and running on a spare machine whilst I sort through their data, trying to get what I can out. Then I’ll restore from backup, scan the shit out of that, and repeat the data transfer process….
Long long day ahead!
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Morning TAY,
I have two requests from you today to help our with the Lame Game Marathon than DanMazkin, Klutar and I are putting together.
Firstly, could you guys list any little troll games that you may know of?
Small little games designed to give you the shits like Multitask, I wanna be the guy, Open Syobon and QWOP. If you know of any others I could add to this list lemme know.
And for my second request, just post any awesome youtube youtube videos or video loops that you would like to see played during the marathon.
THANKS MUCHLY 😀
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Hah thanks Loops for the loops 🙂
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I gifted Ship Simulator Extreme as a troll gift, but that might be a bit pricey.
Also it’s not a little game.
/helping
There was a game Scree wad talking about a little while ago that would make a good troll gift / game. I think it was called “Ayri’s Action” or something like that.
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Oh, you mean Eryi’s Action. It’s going to cause that effect, you will be going for the “troll gift” approach and odds are the trolled one will end up loving it, lol! We’ve had spanish, german and swedish people doing some Let’s Play of the game, most end up laughing out loud.
I troll gifted Greenius ‘Dinner Date’ during the Steam sales. Except he loved it.
thanks for the game suggestions guys, but we’re after small free games as well. like the sort of thing you would find on lunchtimewaster except it’s designed specifically to piss you off or be balls-hard as hell 🙂
Secret of the magic crystal….. i want to shoot myself for even mentioning it.
@DC
Glad your cat’s back mang! Awesome news!
@Neg-zero
Sorry to hear about your dog and I hope you get through this tough time as quickly as possible! Losing a pet is as bad as losing a best friend I think. Chin up man!
@Freeze
That’s some serious BS regarding your job dude. It’s stuff like that that pushed me to resign from my job.
Glad reading to your girls cheers you up though. And yep, I know, as a dad, you gotta do the voices or it’s not the same!
@Pixel
Sorry to hear about your dog passing away. Truly this is a bad week for a lot of TAYbies.
@TAY in general
Hope everyone’s week starts picking up as of right now! Y’all deserve some good stuff happening now!
Also, Borderlands 2 hype has me browsing JB and EB websites to buy after work.
*grumblegrumbleTAYhypegrumbleeffectivemarketing*
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Solid points all round! Even the TAY marketing machine one. I’m really tempted. :'(
Hope this week gets better for everyone!
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Man, don’t mention Borderlands 2 to me. I have the loot chest waiting for me but I’m working until 9 so I can’t even pick it up. *muttered obscenities*
This is a load of shit, TAFE NSW only just increased the god damn fee’s end of last year for this year, fucking Liberal gov’t. They’re just making it harder or almost impossible for people like myself who don’t have a lot of money that are’t on Centrelink to study at TAFE…
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Argh worst page get >.
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The state government is pulling $1.7 billion from education funding over a bunch of years, so it’s going to get a lot more expensive.
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Yeah, and they just announced the other day they’re supposedly putting 2 billion into the pacific highway, yeah right. As my old man said there will be a catch like, only if federal and local match whatever.
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It’s really sad, TAFE is what got me my job in Telstra and my managers of late have even called me brilliant with my work and problem solving
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Yeah, when I was at TAFE they were pretty limited for budget as it was, all my IT teachers were great, even those who believe in aliens lol. I hope they get to keep their jobs =/
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To be fair, NSW’s Labor government was a complete and utter shambles and needed to go.
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Yeah, but why did you have to replace them with the Libs? Wasn’t their, I dunno, a dog candidate, or something?
Maybe I should have run simultaneously in all electorates. Probably would have had a decent chance…
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Don’t blame me. I voted for Kodos.
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Because we’ve also seen what happens when too many independents win seats.
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What I’m really saying is “WHY ARE ALL OF NSW’S POLITICIANS SO BAD?”
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The Federal government has actually passed a lot of legislation since forming the minority government. Similarly the Tasmanian state government (also a minority government) has been reasonably effective.
Most nations that use the Westminster system tend to have minority governments and it tends to work out pretty well. We’re just used to majority governments that can pass whatever the hell they like through the House of Reps and then depend upon the Senate to try and fix things.
I actually like the idea of more independents (or at least representatives from outside of the major parties). Means that we can’t just have legislation made purely along party lines.
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Fun fact, Canberra’s only had one majority government in the history of our legislative assembly. Admittedly, it was only formed in 1989, but still.
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You’re talking about Canberran politics. You sure that fact is fun?
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OF COURSE IT ISN’T!
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Yeah, one party having a majority in both houses is a serious, serious problem. Minority governments, assuming both sides are actually willing to negotiate stuff, are generally a good thing for our systems b/c they require compromise and taking into account a broader set of rules and values than just the big parties (especially for Australia where Labor and the Coalition often feel like two sides of the same coin)
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Yeah, but we didn’t need to replace it with a bunch of fuckwits that will stop funding anything to say they’re “helping”
For those that didn’t see it on Twitter, board games at my place on Sunday afternoon from 3pm.
Sughly is rather excited about Ticket to Ride.
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Olay, Freeze & I should be there!
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Excellent!
By the look of it, we’re going to have enough people that we’ll need to have multiple games running at once. I like this.
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Brisbane is fast becoming the place that holds the most Meats!
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That sounds like a challenge to me…
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‘Most’, not ‘Best’ 😉
ps. Halloween Meat!
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Most and best!
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Keep lying to yourself, Bun Bun.
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It’s the only way to ease the pain.
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This is what happens when I decide to hold a regular board game night.
Preparing for PAX.
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Best part about Brisbane meats are ;
A) Awesome people show up
B) This circle of friends it’s not all lumped on me to organise everything =D
There will also be Nob’s Pie. NOBS PIE IS BEST PIE. 😛
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Sure.
If it ever gets eaten.
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We all know the REAL reason you are hosting this. You want to beat me by 1 point in ticket to ride.
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On the way back last time Virus and I were going to go to Yatala Pies and eat one. But it was closed.
I could have sworn Yatala Pies used to be 24hr.
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Yeah worst pie shop ever! So un-Australian to not be open 24hrs
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And now I can’t find the premiere club edition of BL2 anywhere 🙁
Except Ozgameshop.
All the people I had lined up to play BL2 with today are missing =(
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Conspiracy? I still have my missing cat poster template around if you’d like to adapt that for people? 😛
So thanks to management, I’ve had my weekly earnings drop by about $300, which is balls. Always fun when people are petty (including myself, I know :S) and start trying to play by the rules so long as it suits their agenda.
*sigh* I should have a better idea come Monday whether I’ll have another position elsewhere to go to. Hopefully this audio business will come to fruition too.
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Oh, man. That sucks. Here’s hoping something better is coming your way!
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That sucks man 🙁
Maybe you can make and sell schnitzel’s to people one night a week to make up the lost money?
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How did that happen??
Reposting this because it’s a new page and I NEED YOUR HELP! 😛
Morning TAY,
I have two requests from you today to help our with the Lame Game Marathon than DanMazkin, Klutar and I are putting together.
Firstly, could you guys list any little troll games that you may know of? Something free and easily downloadable or even browserbased, something you might see on lunchtimewaster that is designed to piss you off or just be balls-hard.
We’re thinking small little games designed to give you the shits like Multitask, I wanna be the guy, Open Syobon and QWOP. If you know of any others I could add to this list lemme know.
And for my second request, just post any awesome youtube youtube videos that you would like to see played during the marathon. We can loop the vids ourselves so we don’t need 10 hour loops, but yeah if theres anything nerdy and funny you wanna see just post it below 🙂
THANKS MUCHLY 😀
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Sticky Buddy dub!
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I wonder if AlphaProspector could set you up with a copy of Eryi’s Action. That game is the very definition of a troll game. They have a demo version that has the first two levels at least? It’s ball-kicking hard. You see a pit, try to jump over and out of nowhere will hit an invisible block and fall in, or some random monster will jump on you, or it turns out that some unmarked tile is an insta-kill spike trap or all sorts of stuff like that. Designed to make you want to punch a hole in your monitor.
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It’s even more brutal than I Wanna Be the Guy
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That’s the game I was thinking of. I definitely recommend this game as a troll game.
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this on repeat the entire 24 hours
So I bowled a 217 last night and put some elitist ten pin bowlers in their place with a massive series win by over 400 points. Good times
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Mental note: Avoid bowling with Techy.
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That’s a very rare score for me, I usually get a 140+ 🙂
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Ohhhh.
Mental note: Avoid bowling with Techy 😛
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I barely ever break 100 when I bowl 😛
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I’m frustrating because I’ll have runs where my bowls are just shitty, then suddenly out of nowhere I’ll get 3 strikes in a row and everything will be working and then I’ll go back to sucking terribly again. 🙁
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I started playing Professor Layton & the Curious Village last night. First Layton. I liked it enough that it had me up until 1:30am. Done maybe 20 puzzles total so not that far in.
I have to say though, a few of the puzzles made me yell ‘that’s bullshit’ when I saw the solution they wanted. “Rearrange these matchsticks so that this abstract representation of something looks like some other thing, except we’re not going to tell you what that thing is supposed to look like”. “Which one of these objects is best for some purpose based off some property of the object which is not self-evident from the picture and is not explicitly stated but is critical to the solution”. “We’re now going to tell you a riddle and the solution involves splitting hairs over the exact wording.”. “Here’s a puzzle that has some conditions which we will not say in a precise enough way so you’ll think they’re a trick rather than an actual restriction”. “Find the single-digit values of A, B, C, and D that satisfy these four simultaneous equations. By the way, despite that 0, 0, 0, 0 is a completely correct solution we’re going to reject it because you’re just being a smartarse”
Still kind of like it. Thinking I’ll probably burn through it in a few days though if the puzzles don’t get harder.
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Played one of those games and it made me feel like a simpleton. Not unlike the Nelson Tethers series from Telltale. (Puzzles based on knowledge of U.S. coins? No thanks. :P)
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Damn that puzzle, random guessing to find the solution doesn’t make me feel smart.
I also found the number 2 to be a lot more limited in puzzle styles than 1. I think the insect fencing puzzle was my favourite
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Some puzzles have stupid solutions but they get less bullshit in later games. Most of the story ones aren’t that hard either except for a few ones towards the end or extra ones unlocked after. Still good fun though!
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Yeah, the later games are considerably less abstract with their puzzle solutions.
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Haha! Yeah I know what you mean. Even though I only played the first Layton (apparently they get better as the series goes on? No idea :P)
So, how many people’s are coming to splicer’s meat shenanigans? And would anyone be interested in a game or 2 of munchkin?
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I am going and yes! I played munchkin weeks back. I was an elf bard with a chainmail bikini, it was weird.
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I got star munchkin so I might just bring that XD
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“Female” Dwarf Mage with a Rat on a Stick for a weapon, I don’t know how it happened but I just rolled with it.
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I’ll be going and I can certainly play Munchkin but I am seriously not a fan of the game, primarily because it’s too random to really strategize with. The winner is the player who is about to hit 10 when everyone’s fuck-you cards are exhausted, not the player with the best strategy or anything.
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That said I would not stop other people enjoying it!
I might swing by with a few of my own board games if people are interested. Haven’t gotten anything new for a while but I quite like euro games so I’ve got a few. 🙂
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Please do 🙂
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It’s next weekend on the 29th right? I should probably email you for your address?
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Yes, yes it is…email is splicerkid at gmail.com
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As with many other card games that require shuffling? Sorry but randomness can’t really be helped in a card game…
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Missing the point, you can have an utterly randomized game that still has a lot of strategy, and where a solid strategy will usually beat a weaker one. Carcassonne or Mahjong are good board game examples. Something like Five Hundred or Pinochle or hundreds of other card game variations are the same.
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Believe me, winning is simple, you just have to be happy sharing it. So, either play an Elf, hold on to your nuke cards, and threaten people to level you up until you win on someone else’s turn. Or get the Elf to help you win, so you both win on your turn. I’d rather share a victory than have a loss.
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Maybe it’s partially a product of the people I’ve always played it with, because the concept of a joint win would never enter into consideration.
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But that’s the best part… I seriously reckon its not as much about as it is about the ridiculous narrative you can add to each move… ” here I am, a lvl 8 half orc half elf with a dragon on my shoulder and a leather armor that looks more like spandex and a dancing and singing sword as my companion, kicking down the door; oh lo and behold its a duck… OF DOOM *dies*
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Gah! Need to opt my caffeine intake
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It’s more impressive when you’re fighting, and there’s a fungus. And then it gets biggened, so you’ve got a humungous fungus. And then there’s a Humungous Fungus Among Us.
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That bastard has killed me so many times XD
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What is Munchkin?
If its fun, yes, bring it 😀
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Card game that takes the piss out of D&D… Or more specifically, I have star munchkin which makes fun of anything star trek, star wars, war hammer 40k and general scifi 😛
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cheers pixelfrond!
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Wow I just lost a bit of faith in Gizmodo after seeing that article biting at Samsung’s “Anti-apple” ad. I’m actually wondering what they thought of the Mac vs PC ads, cuz it was pretty much the same thing.
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This is an ad attacking people who use the product, not the product itself. And in that regard, I agree, it’s a little frickin’ sad.
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The Mac vs PC was essentially doing the same thing. Although it was personifying the product itself, it was also making a statement about the users of said products.
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I thought it was pretty light hearted. I didn’t mind all that much, it was clear they were focusing on stereotypes. I think Giz even posted ‘Apple fanboy’ stereotype videos last week. The part that makes the add dodgy is when the stilted sales pitch kicks in.
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I quite like the GS3, but damn Samsung is trying hard to make me dislike with stupid shit like this.
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I thought those Mac VS PC ads were stupid as well not just because the fact a Mac is a personal computer, but how they treated the audience that wasn’t an Apple user. Like I get it, you have a product which you think is the best thing since sliced bread, but you don’t need to call the oppositions product shit in the most TV friendly way possible.
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Very very true.
Unfortunately that is what marketing is. There comes a point where things get so competitive that is results in oneupmanship.
While Apple haven’t held the market share in a while, it is still regarded by many as the pinacle, so we get this thing now that once Apple announces its new phone the maketing department of Samsung say “hey wait a minute, we already do this and more”, so to really drive the point home you end up with things like this.
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The Mac vs PC ads backfired because the Mac guy came across as a smarmy elitist hipster twat, which is exactly the Mac user stereotype.
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Lol, so true. I know a few who are exactly that. It’s like yeah you own a Mac or work at the Apple store, no need to be a complete jerk off about the product.
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I grew up with Apple. My first computer was a Mac SE which my Dad purchased for insane amounts of money in 1986 so he could be ahead of the tech revolution he could see coming (he worked in advertising at the time). We had Apple desktops at home right up until the mid 90s when the Sugar Water Salesman had basically run the company into the ground and their computers were expensive pieces of shit. Even after that, my Dad cracked the shits after having a fourth badly made Toshiba laptop die on him in a 6 month period and got a Powerbook which I ended up inheriting, so I was using that for years as well (first laptop). Apple is a lot of the reason that I learned to write software and now work doing that as a living. Despite a period where we were completely Wintel as a family, I still have a Macbook Pro at home (and incidentally still have that old Powerbook and it still works!)
And with all that said: Apple fans are the worst fans. Seriously. They make me ashamed to have ever owned those computers.
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Yeah, i’ve got nothing against Apple products, hell I own an iPhone, iPod Nano & a MacBook (first laptop here) and they’re great items. But yeah the extremists that are Apple fans are the very reason why it’s hard to own an Apple product at times, like never say to one of these extremists the product is good, but you prefer X other brand for whatever. That really grinds their gears lol.
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Why are people getting so upset?
I think the ad is actually pretty damn funny.
Sure some bits are really lame and overdone, but otherwise i think it’s pretty good 🙂
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Yeah I got a chuckle out of it too, since I have actually heard people acting that way about the product they use, and it’s not just iPhones, though it is more common than most since so many people that I see on the train own iPhones.
I dunno. I watched the ad and didn’t really like it. Just came off to me like a bunch of Samsung fans patting each other on the back. It did have some funny moments though.
Having said that, if I was in the market I probably would get a Galaxy over an iPhone (my ol’ HTC is still chugging along). But that ad wouldn’t be the reason for it 😛
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Yeah, i don’t see me trading in my HTC any time soon. LOL
I think the actual problem of the ad was the length. It should have made it’s point, got a couple of chuckles and then been done with it. Instead it was a little drawn out, which creates more room for resentment
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Yup, I agree completely.
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YAY!! I LIKE AGREEING!!!
Let’s all go down to the burger joint and get an ice cream soda and talk about how swell everything is while we plan the school dance! 😀
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Pow, you could do that. Or you could come up to Make Out Point with me and smoke cigarettes and flag a street race when another greaser insults my honor.
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Golly gosh Freezie-ray.
You’re such a rebel!
I don’t get it, it’s like there isn’t even a cause for it!
Just wait ’till ma n pa find out! There’ll be a fussin, don’t you doubt it!
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Today
Cons- stuck working until 9.
No Loot Chest for me tonight.
My arms and legs have decided to protest the weight training from last night a little too much.
I’ve just realized how much I’ve been spamming TAY this week.
Pros – my friend called me today as happy as Larry and acting as if nothing happened. I swear, living with three females has brought me no closer to understanding them.
Tomorrow off.
Tuck shop day today.
Wife will be in bed when I get home so gaming time!
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More FTL? 🙂
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Man I suck at that game. Still think its awesome but.
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I still haven’t been able to finish it yet. I’ve managed to get to the final sector but got shredded due to hull attrition, slowly getting picked to pieces so I kept having to waste scrap on repairs so then I got stuck with no scrap, not enough upgrades and got smashed in a single fight.
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Only managed to get to the boss fight once and barely got it to half hull before dying. Though that was on easy, I should probably bump it up.
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Yeah I was on easy when I got that far on my playthrough. I want to beat it with the Engi cruiser too, cuz Engi are boss!
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I started on normal, but eventually switched to easy so I had more time to learn the game. I got easy mode down fairly quickly, and am trying to unlock some of the more advanced ships before switching back to normal. Got a few so far \o/
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I only got the Engi Cruiser A and B unlocked, which quite frankly are all I want cuz… well Engi bro 🙂
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*POSSIBLE SPOILERS?*
I have A and B of the Federation ship you unlock by beating the boss, as well as the engi ship, the cloaked one, and just about to get B of the starter ship.
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Spamming TAY? That’s crazy talk, if any thing you should be posting more. Always look forward to a Freeze post!
Tomorrow going to compromize soley of Borderlands? 😀
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*comprise… wtf? 😀
I’m legging at lunch time to pick up my loot chest, then will be doing a mad dash to finish off as much moving stuff as possible before staying up far too late.
I kinda wish Borderlands 2 came out a month ago so I had time for more FTL and for Torchlight 2.
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Torch light 2 *swoons*
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Can’t wait for Torchlight 2, going to smash so many humans with my giant battle wrench. I’ll feel like I’m playing Dark Chronicle all over again
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Dark Chronicle! 😀
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I’d play Torchlight 2 but I only just got Diablo 3. And Torchlight 1. I think I have enough clicky clicky for now.
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I’m not a fan of randomly generated maps. Sounds cool in theory, but you can ALWAYS tell if a levels been crafted lovingly by human hands.
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I have my 40k rulebook with me at work….
Work… or learn the finer points of Melee combat, initiative and morale… hmmmm
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that’s me at uni, except replace 4ok with dungeons and dragons or Gamma world (another tabletop rpg).
see that guy who looks like he is studying very hard in the library? he’s actually just writing his campaign.
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Niiice 😛
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I can see how those three things could be brought into your workplace. Call it on the job training 🙂
Got an email from PSN saying I was being rewarded for taking part in the LBP Vita Beta.
I didn’t realise I’d been selected for the Beta.
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*HIGH FIVE*
So the big Pure Pwnage announcement of it’s return that came about yesterday turns out they’re finally doing the web series movie!
I remember this was always planned after season 3 or was it 2? of the web series, but sadly it never progressed past S2 ep 6 because of the sudden death of one of the actors in the series.
But damn! This is awesome news! Also it’s got some kickstarter thing where it has some cool tiers of stuff to get. http://www.indiegogo.com/purepwnage
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i love how they state in the description that they want to go to south korea, i’m laughing already, will be donating some money for this 🙂
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Yeah I just watched the video, I laughed when Jarett was all “If you loved the Web & TV series” then was all “No, if you loved the Web Series” I think someone was not impressed with the TV series ha.
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i think they are a bit sour that the tv show got canned, see this line “In 2010 its network home underwent a re-branding and despite the show’s critical acclaim (nominated for Best Comedy Series, Best Writing in a Comedy Series and Best Directing in a Comedy Series) and healthy viewership, it was not renewed.”
sounds like they are a little pissed that the show never came back. i enjoyed the tv show, but i guess they didn’t like that they couldn’t use some real games (like the rock band episode, which i don’t think they ever actually mention that it’s rock band if i remember it correctly…)
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Yeah, I also think that they’re a bit sour they couldn’t recreate what they did in the web series, or have more than just the core 3 characters from the web series in the TV series or follow the Web Series’ plot a bit more. I remember a post from Jarret on the PP forums about a year back now it would be he sounded upset that they didn’t get renewed and that the network was screwing him & Geoff around on a proper release of the series on DVD & Blu-Ray. Whilst I liked the TV series because it was Pure Pwnage, I also didn’t like aspects of it, mostly how it was too different to the Web Series.
and yeah I expected more Starcraft in it or C&C, not Rockband.. The Warcraft stuff did fit though with October because in the web series Taji was a Warcraft player, but I found it weird that Jeremy was in ways oblivious to October and girls in general sort of.. I might rewatch the TV series sometime soon
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I liked the TV series. Felt a lot more like the early days of the web series (okay, that might have been helped by them stealing half of the jokes from it). The later episodes of the web series just got weird.
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Yeah, I know what ya mean with the web series, I got over it when they went too mainsteamish with the episodes and started focusing on Halo 3 when it it launched etc.
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So… Starbarians….
Amazing
Interview went really well. I have a good feeling about this. I’ll find out if I got it either tomorrow or early next week
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That’s good to hear, man! Hope things go your way!
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I have a goood feeling about this /Harrison Ford
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Let us know NovaChuloopa! (you have his gravatar, good job mobile TAY…). Good luck man 🙂
Nerd Heard, Assemble!
Does anyone have any experience with Internode as an ISP and recommend or condemn them?
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I think most people will say Internode is one of the best ISPs you can go with.
Not the cheapest, but great service and decent features, free downloads from certain places (Steam etc). No problems recommending them.I use TPG though, cheap, reliable, and because I can fix 99% of my own internet issues, their crappy service doesn’t worry me!
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I enquired with TPG once. I didn’t like what they offered and said no but they went ahead and signed us up anyway. Took 6 months before we got it cleared up. Never again.
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Yeah, believe me, I’ve heard many a TPG horror story….
But at the moment, I pay $59 per month for ADSL2+ and get 200GB download with no uploads counted (old plan). So, until the NBN arrives at my door step, this will do!-
I’m paying the same with them for unlimited downloads.
Does the trick quite nicely but I wouldn’t be telling people to switch to their service.
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You’re one of the lucky people to be near their DSLAM!
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i’ve played a lot on their battelfield 2142 servers?
#helping
I’ve never used them but they have a great reputation generally. Every ISP has their share of issues if you ask for personal stories though.
*Herd
Does this seem like a decent deal?
http://www.internode.on.net/residential/adsl_broadband/easy_naked/special/
I’m thinking I don’t really need a home phone at the moment.
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I’m with a company called Spin. Been with them for 5 years and never has any troubles. If we are struggling to pay the bill they are always happy to postpone payment for a couple I weeks with no fees. We pay $109 a month for unlimited ADSL2 without throttling and a home phone with unlimited calls.
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Don’t think I can afford unlimited, and I don’t usually use up much quota anyway.
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Rize has dealing with Node, RIZE YOU LAZY SONOVABITCH!!!! ANSWER!!!!!!!
So, I’ve done it. The submission is on its way to Dark Horse Comics.
I thought I’d feel excited or relieved or something, like I have when I’ve sent stuff off in the past. But I just feel tense, like no muscle in my body is capable of fully relaxing, and for some reason a little stressed. I guess it’ll go away eventually.
It costs $14.10 to air mail a 380g document to the USA. If it was 120g heavier, it would cost in excess of $30. Weird system.
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Proud of you, man!
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I’m sure they’ll like it.
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Thanks for your help – if they do like it, it’s because of your detailed input, and the input of other TAYbies with a strong eye for detail
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‘Merica?!?
Also – awesome stuff man – totally stoked for you! 😀
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Good luck Shane
Oh my god
Torchlight 2’s Engineer class has a monocle.
Just like in real life!
GOTY
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GOTM!!!!!
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…Month? Minute?
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MILLENENINIMUMMMM!!!
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Dammit phone. If you hadn’t have crashed, I would have been first, now I just look silly 😛
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I assumed. I was just being… what’s the word?
Annoying.
Like a buzzing blowfly.BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
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Facetious?
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Millennium
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That’s standard issue in engineering. Slide Rule + Monocle.
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It’s true. They hand them out with the degrees.
Wow….
‘Merica
In other news, there’s already a couple of dozen people queued up outside the Apple store for the iPhone 5 launch. I don’t understand. Yeah it’s nice to have a new phone, but why line up for a day or more just you can say you were one of the first?
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Apparently people started lining up the day after it was announced. 8 days of just waiting in front of a store. :/
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Gods, I wish I could afford 8 days off from work just to queue.
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That said, how good would it be to be the first one to get a model in major city and then place it on the concrete and stomp on it? Like, if you had won a small fortune in the lotto and had nothing better to do with it.
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I loved this comment, and wish I had the money to do this.
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Because WE MUST FEEL SUPERIOR TO THOSE WITH 4S.
Yeah, I don’t get it either.
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I guess it’s not so different from midnight launches or concert ticket sales. Midnight launches because you want to play with it as early as possible (presumably), and concerts because you don’t want it to sell out before you ‘get around’ to getting one. That said, I do agree that it’s pretty odd behaviour for a phone.
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But unlike concert tickets, we know more phones are going to be produced and go up for sale. There aren’t going to be a limited number of them.
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Yeah, but not immediately. Might take months for stores to get them back in stock.
Also, sold-out bands often announce extra shows. Not something you really want to rely on, though.
Finally, it’s only a matter of time before Apple decides to ‘limit’ product, Jennifer Government-style. Best book is going to come true one day soon.
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Not trying to justify this bizarre behaviour, but among the hysteria it’s not quite 100% illogical.
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Because they know that if they line up super early, they’ll get to be on the news!
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There’s easier ways to get on the news, like stab someone or something..
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I work near there and have seen it a few times over the last few days.. crazy people man, thats all!
I can’t subscribe to to the cake decorating magazine. Why does it hate me so?
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I SUBSCRIBED!
If I end up going a good job expect cakes at Melbourne meats!-
You can do it Scree *
* Comment in no way has to do with my desire for cake**
** Actually comment was totally to do with my desire for cake
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Hey Scree, if you’re interested in cake decorating they have video courses at the same place I get a lot of my sewing classes from: http://www.craftsy.com/classes/cake-decorating. The everyday prices are a bit expensive but there’s often sales on, and if you buy a class there’s usually a link in the email to get your next class for $25-ish.
Also, about yesterday, I really am sorry. I was grumpy but that’s no excuse for transferring my real-life ire into a virtual space and onto a person who didn’t deserve it.
@DC – KITTY’s BACK!!!!!!!!! HAZAAR!!!!!!!! \o/
I’d lock myself away for a month if something happened to my kitties (x2)
To celebrate i think we should team up and Co-Op the Borderlands 1 Beast that is also sitting in my pile of shame, assuming you’re part of the PC MASTER RACE?
@NegativeZero – Not so Hazaar…. Sorry to hear about your dog man, you’ve shared some great times together, stay strong!
@Pixel – Sorry for your loss man. Stay strong and hold on to the good times. as the saying goes, It’s better to have loved and lost, then never to have loved at all.
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Haha! The critter seems so damn content. Lying by my feet purring for an hour non-stop. Taking her to the vets around 4pm for a check up and microchipping. She won’t like that. :'( I’ve… never played multiplayer with strangers and am too frightened to be called names. I am part of the master race, though. The offer’s tempting too. VERY tempting. I don’t even own a microphone, though. :S
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Thoughts are with the others with no so good news too. :'(
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Well hit me up on steam if you’re interested, no mic necessary 🙂
I definetely cant do TUesdays or thursdays cause of my after hours programming course commitments 🙂
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also, name calling????? CHILDISHNESS!
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Thanks, man! I wonder if there’s any other pile of shamers out there. 😀
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Pokemon friends! I keep forgetting to bring my 3DS with me when I’m passing an EB, so no unicorn Pokemon for me yet. Just curiois, do you have to catch it or do they jist give it to you? I prefer the former…
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Just give it to you
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Boo. They have these cool items and areas for catching these Pokemon and then just go ‘lolnah just take it’
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Yeah, agreed! I like it when you give you a boat ticket or something that takes you to a new island. Even better if it adds a little bit of extra story!
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So, guys, The Duke’s Archives in Dark Souls really is taking its toll on me. Bloody crystal mobs, argh. And I’m not even close to New Londo, Lost Izalith and whatever awaits after that, including the DLC. Still, man, Dark Souls is pure addiction and this Prepare to Durante Edition really was worth every single penny.
In other news, Jet Set Radio HD came out on Steam today. I know a certain someone is probably hyper at this. Especially if it leads to the other game also making its way into the STEAMZ.
But, like I said today, WE NEED MOAR DREAMCAST GAMES ON STEAM. (Or PC in general.)
And for the love of god someone make PC ports of Panzer Dragoon Zwei, Orta and Azel while we are at it!!!
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The Archives was the last area I did, maybe you should try for New Londo or something first, get a few more levels on.
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I’m in Anor Londo right now, fighting Ornstein and Smough over and over and over. Not sure why, but I figured it would get a bit easier after this 😛
I really don’t know why I thought that.
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Just if you are tempted to, NEVER shot Gwynevere (sp?). Trust me, NEVER do it. Or do so if you want to meet another boss, heh. Either way, the result will make Anor Londo a much darker and scarier (yet safer) place.
I’m at lvl. 66 right now. Perhaps I should indeed go to New Londo first. I fear to face Seath the Scaleless at this rate!
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Possible spoiler:
Seath is easy as.
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So the only competition I’ve got here is selling their product at a minimum of 300% markup on RRP.
This’ll be a cakewalk.
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Man, if you try and undercut them you can only have a 290% markup. I don’t think that’s worth the cost of doing business.
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That’s a bare minimum markup, too. There was a 500% markup on an amp that I saw. And this is on RRP…
I could buy retail, resell and manage to cover the cost of freight plus turn a tidy profit.
Holy crap.
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That reminds me of something I’ve been meaning to ask you. What would you recommend to put into a Commodore Ure cabin in terms of bass. The highs and mids are pretty decent stock but low is beyond terrible. Biggest problem is space.
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In the cabin, you’re pretty limited due to space only. If you’re down for spending big bucks and sacrifice some space, find yourself and engineer willing to sign off on it, and do a cut-through.
Essentially you’re putting a hole through the space between the cab and the tray. The height of your tray dictates the maximum size of your subs, and your subs will typically dictate the optimal size of your box.Box sits in the tray, subs are flush with the back of the cab. You’re left with a full-size cab, although you’re sacrificing space in the tray (and possibly structural integrity if it’s not done right). That’ll give you the optimal sound and space to throw in some monster woofers.
Otherwise, you’re pretty much stuck with small form-factor 10″s or 12″s usually. Another option is to create a custom center console, which typically houses an 8″ too.What’s your budget and willingness for modification etc?
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Uh, seeming as its brand new, not very willing. I’m not really after anything huge. Just want to improve the sound somewhat. Bit tired already of the distortion at even a slight volume. A small 10″ would probably be fine.
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I’m not too familiar with the slimlines, although brands I stick by (please note, yes, I’m biased towards them in particular fields)
-Rockford Fosgate (I know it’s out of EVERYONE’S budget, but don’t even bother wasting the energy of thinking about the Jackhammer. It’s a joke sub, and wouldn’t fit in my kitchen let alone a ute’s cab anyway :P)
– DigitalDesigns (not sure if they do slimlines, but they’ve got some of the best SPL subs on the planet)
-JL Audio (their lower-end stuff isn’t the greatest, but if you’re looking for SQ, they do some insane high-end stuff)
-for amps, I’d suggest Sundown Audio for the subs, and possibly Phoenix for mids/highs.I’m assuming you’ll be going for quality over pure punch, in which case JL is probably the way to go from that list, although again, it depends on your budget.
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To eliminate clipping, I’d actually look at investing in an amp first and foremost. Assuming your headunit has a 50w pre-amp, it’ll be bottlenecking the rest of your stuff. The stock speakers in new cars are actually quite good, and a $150 investment could solve your issue.
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Thanks dude. I’ll try that. I’ll probably press you later on for specific models so be ready 😛
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Cut me a slice! ;D
As long as you can make the relationships with prospective clients or advertise effectively, sounds like you’re set.
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Advertising is free, and predominantly word-of-mouth. Due to the small size and population of the place, I’ve essentially got a captive and friendly market. I’m actually feeling fairly positive about this.
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Awesome mate. If you needed startup investment and if I had money, I’d be asking to see a business plan right now 🙂
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haha, awesome! I’ve got a little bit stashed away, and it should be enough to cover a little bit of inventory and freight (the real killer) to get the ball rolling 😀
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The ANZ website has a pretty good business plan template, helps you think through all the stuff
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Cheers mate! That’ll be sure to come in handy, before I just dive headfirst into it.
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If you are getting to the stage that you need to present a business plan to a bank or anything let me know and I’ll happily look over it for you.
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Cheers mate, I may have to take you up on that in the near future 😀
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Wow, this thread of posts and replies was encouraging. So many people willing to help. It feels like a communal village of some sort. Various people with different skills coming together to achieve a common goal.
What is that called btw? I don’t think it’s communal village, but that’s what came to mind.
Anyway good luck Aleph
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I’ll be on Borderlands 2 (on the baaaawks) tonight from around 7pm Perth time (so, 9pm for just about everyone else), if anyone’s interested. Probably gonna roll as Zer0.
HEY FLU!
Was on lunch, sorry.
I’ve been with Node for years and they’re fantastic! The only downside is they’re usually $10-$15 more than other providers, but you sure as hell get that back in service.
The plan you’re signing on to is the one I’m getting connected to at my new place. It’s plenty of limit and any Australian gaming servers (content and hosting) is unmetered (great for my, PC gaming focus). Competitive price, too, which is nice.
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Thanks for the rundown!
So I’ve managed to tear my audio system out of my car in under 15 minutes. I think I should buy a car to put it in.
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CRX was long held as the king of ‘burping’. Great resonant frequency if you’re looking at competitions!
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Nah, it’s a basic system. Essentially I don’t like how stock speakers in most cars tend to make music sound like a giant fart.
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Haha, well said!
In that case, I guess whichever car takes your fancy, eh? Got any in mind?
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Man I wish there were more hours in the day. So much to do, no time to do it.
BRING ON THE COFFEE SUGAR!
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Operation finish the fucking rupee cushions is having problems D=
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Sounds like you need something harder than coffee/sugar. Hope it all comes good!
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Possibly =P I haven’t even had the coffee sugar. I need to buy syrup, coffee and a coffee machine.
I was hoping to get most of the rupee cushions done and then I could work on the dress for Mums Birthday party (in two weeks D=)
And i also need to sand and paint some drawers, oh god. /o\
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:O
Scree said a no no word!
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I’m fed up with making mistakes and stuff, sorry =(
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I’m still trying to decide if its use was for emphasis or as an adjective.
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It was for “Scree is sick of making mistakes on you, make yourselves”.
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Bahahahaa!
Self-propagation through fornication? BEST CUSHIONS EVER.
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If only.
And then I have to make more for monies.
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If she had said “rupee fucking cushions” I’d be more concerned.
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Repost from previous page:
“Hey Scree, if you’re interested in cake decorating they have video courses at the same place I get a lot of my sewing classes from: http://www.craftsy.com/classes/cake-decorating. The everyday prices are a bit expensive but there’s often sales on, and if you buy a class there’s usually a link in the email to get your next class for $25-ish.
Also, about yesterday, I really am sorry. I was grumpy but that’s no excuse for transferring my real-life ire into a virtual space and onto a person who didn’t deserve it.”
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Why are you apologising? I’m sorry, did I upset you? I didn’t mean too D=
I wanted the cake book because it has recipes that I’m actually able to cook. I’ve never successfully made a sponge from scratch before. I managed to with this recipe from the magazine.So that why i also wanted the rest.
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No, you did nothing wrong. I said something horrible though.
I reported my comment and asked Mark to delete it because I didn’t want you to have to see it, so thankfully it seems he got there in time.Anyway, yeah you should still check out that link. They do classes on all kinds of stuff and even have a few really cool free classes. This place is how I’ve been teaching myself to sew. Oh, and the cake classes will usually have recipes for you to download.
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Everyone does it occasionally. I forgive you anyway, even if you aren’t asking for forgiveness.
I will definitely check out the site properly afterwards. I don’t think I would use the cake making classes (the magazines can be used by Mum as well, so it’s worth the $7 a week). But I would like to see what else there is.
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Has anyone read the cam girls article over at Gizmodo yet? It’s actually an interesting read, even if you get the sense the author enjoyed the research a little TOO much.
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No and I don’t see it over there. And I really don’t want that search coming up on my work proxy server 😉
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http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2012/09/the-crazy-secrets-of-internet-cam-girls-nsfw/
It’s more about the exploitation and abuse that goes on behind the scenes. It’s all pretty seedy.
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Yes I read it first thing this morning, pretty interesting.
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Luke said on twitter last night that it was tiring to edit that. Was tempted to make a joke, but I didn’t.
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I have it bookmarked. I’ll read it later tonight
So that’s it for Anna’s Quest Vol. 1. The game is officially uploaded to the online store and ready for release! Sadly though, with basically the whole world going gaga over Borderlands 2 I’ve opted to not release it until next week in an effort to not become a forgotten article between the articles about Borderlands 2.
Might not make much of a difference in the end but whatevs… I’m gonna go get drunk and celbrate now 😀
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Way to go, man. Can’t wait to play it. Really looking forward to it actually, especially after the prologue. Be sure to let us know the second it goes on sale!
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Haha, believe me you will. I will spam you all so hard you will probably block me, BUT I’M WILLING TO TAKE THAT RISK!
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Just spend more munniez on advertising than they did on BL2. It’ll work!
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Of course! *opens up wallet, moth flutters out wearily*
Errr…
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You can afford moths????
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Obviously he invested all his money into a rare albino moth. A wise investment.
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Awesome. Keep us posted.
Day 1 purchase for sure 😀
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Thanks Shaaaane! 😀
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Been doing the sales pitch on my sister too. “See, the interface looks a little like CMI! Look how pretty it looks!” 😛
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Don’t forget an amonynonnymuss tip to Mark about the release.
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Or I don’t mind doing this. Just don’t want to double/triple up on this, because that might look a bit contrived 😛
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Haha! Dont worry, this is not something to be forgotten by me very easily…
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Celibate or celebrate?
Congrats mang, given how hard you have been working on this I really hope that it pays off for you.
Also for anybody who is interested the domain ISN’T http://www.annasquest.com/ as I recently found out. I realised this when the first blog post is “Jeju – Snow, Sex and Sledding!” which can’t be right because Sughly is getting drunk and celibate.Make sure you let us all know when you are ready to take our monies
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I knew there was something else I needed to ask.
Does this mean the triumphant return of the postman?-
… or his own game! 😛
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I like your brand of genius D.C
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I HOPE SO! Depends if I’m not busy getting drunk. Like, every day
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Shane will do your marketing.
“Everyone should check out this awesome new game called Anna’s Quest!
😛
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Which ‘online store’ do you mean?
Also, congratulations! 😀
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An invisible one that will appear on the website when I tell it to 😀
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Ahh, I see. I thought you meant Steam or something 😛
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Exciting! Your little game is out there in the wild now, ready to take its first baby steps. 😀
I wanna get drunk too, but I’ll have to wait until the kids are in bed. 😛
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Wooo man! Time to celebrate at bunny’s boadgame meat by building non-sensical train lines.
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For suuuure! CHOO CHOOOOO!
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Aww…I can’t make this one.
You guys’ll have to celebrate extra for me, then.
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Put it on Steam and get it Greenlit =D
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Mebe not for the first volume. I’ll wait and see how it goes, might try and do this when all 3 are out!
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Something that has been bugging me while watching The Wire is just how obsessed Americans are with race. You have Frank Sobotka, who will proudly identify as a Polak and then in the same breath mention that his family has been working proudly at the Baltimore docks for generations.
It’s always been something that’s there, particularly when it comes to “Irish” and “Italian” characters. It just didn’t seem to click how pervasive it is in American media. In a show like Boardwalk Empire, it makes sense. A good chunk of the people who identify as being a certain nationality are first or second generation immigrants.
After a few generations though, surely you stop being Irish-American and just start being American.
American culture is weird.
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Everyone is proud to be an American but noone wants to be an American
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My theory is is that Australian culture was very similar a couple generations ago, but it got washed out as we have a smaller population with a huge amount of multiculturalism.
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I’m sure it happens in most multicultural societies where immigrants from different backgrounds form their own little enclaves. I’m also fairly sure that it’s not as common in America as TV shows make it out to be. It’s still rather weird.
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I think it still is just as ingrained in our society, it’s just not quite as confronting. I happily state that I’m Scottish (Sorry DOC?! and Serrels!) even though I’ve never been to Scotland, I don’t have red hair, don’t wear skirts or throw trees (I’ll change all of this at some point, I swear). My stepfather likes to claim he’s both Italian and and British, and not the least bit ‘Australian’.
Regardless of this, I’m still Australian. I’m not a Scottish-Australian, I’m an Australian with Scottish ancestry. Iunno, I think it stems from pride of heritage/lineage, perhaps? It means very little to me, as I’ve not known my ancestors, I don’t put too much value on it. They were people just like you and I.
Patriotism doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to me.
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So I went into JBHiFi in The Strand at lunchtime today to pre-order a WiiU. Staff member didn’t know what a WiiU was. She asked her colleague and he didn’t know either. Eventually they figure it out, but is this some sort of sign?
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Sounds like a pretty good summary of many of the JB staff I’ve dealt with in the past… 😛
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At least they were hot I suppose..
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Always a bonus!
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Haha! Hate those awkward moments when you’re standing at the counter while people are having a conversation about something you asked, pretending you’re not there. I wouldn’t worry, though. I assume most folks became aware of the orginal Wii through marketing campaigns.
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(Oh, but that implies that those particular staff members have taken no pre-orders. Hmmm.)
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Yeah its like pretty much any CD I ask for. “Zola… Jesus?” Yes, Jesus like in the holy bible, just go look it up because I know you have it and I want to buy it you idiot
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Honestly not sure I the WiiU is going to as much of a success. The Wii made squillions off the “casual” market who had the draw of simple controls. “Hey look, I can bowl a ball with the motion of bowling a ball! Easy!” the WiiU has all the buttons that a normal controller has ply the added intimidation of a second screen. My wife has already said it would just confuse her with too much going on. Then you have half the “hardcore” market who is deriding it as a catch up that will be obsolete almost as soon as its released.
Don’t get me wrong, I really hope I’m just a horrible cynic and it proves me completly incorrect by being a huge success. But Internet hype doesn’t always mean real world success.
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I honestly have no idea what to think. Their website doesnt even acknowledge the WiiU existence unless you do a search (no where on the front page). When going to the counter, they had big signs for pre-ordering lots of other things but not a single mention of WiiU (only in a corner in the gaming section).
I suppose we might see promotion and media coverage ramp up over the next month or so.Also, this is prob the first and last time I pre-order something at a store. Super awks.
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EB’s usually Keen as the Commander for preorders, but I’ve always received a very “meh” sort of response from JB (several stores). Pretty much means I default to EB out of any gaming store.
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Yeah you’re probably right. I’m just used to going to JB for games, but theres no price difference in the consoles.
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Every time I see that “Biopoly” image on the right-hand side of TAY I can’t help but wonder how long till Edna Kraboppoly hits shelves.
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This made me laugh heartily but I have nothing of value to say in response.
(we need a Like button on comments!)
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Me, I just drool.
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How can an iron be a landlord?
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It gets a bit steamy when you’re late on your rent.
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Jimmy Kimmel has to be the king of trolling after this one – he hit the street to show people the new iPhone 5, only it was actually the current model he was showing them.
AMAZING! 😀
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HAHAHA! Amazing
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Now everyone is looking at me weirdly for laughing out loud 😛
This company is best run company. Instead of setting up the registers to track the stock we use, they just get us to do 2 full stocktakes a month.
Efficient.
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Fortnightly stocktake would certainly do the trick!
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At quiet times, or…?
This week has been wasted, productivity-wise because I’ve hit a wall with all projects I’ve currently got going.
Thankfully I’ve had 999 to play so I feel like I’m being productive even though I’m not. 😛
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Eeeek, Strange’s picture thingie has changed. Change is scary.
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Says the one that changed his name!
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I changed it back to who it was before, so it’s not really change. 😛
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Change D:
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Did you start Pokemon yet? Let us know what you think about it 😀
It came out when I was a kid so it was all the craze, haven’t really heard the thoughts of someone who just got into the series with such a late entry. Although I’m sure you already know a bunch of Pokemon already from other mediums :). If I recall Puppylicks(?) said he only got into Pokemon too.
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Not yet, I got too engrossed in 999. Next week will be Pokemon week. 😀
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Just been catching up on TAY.
D.C….I’m glad your cat made it home okay!
Although now I can’t check every suburb to find the missing cat signs with your phone number on it so I can call you to harass you about Meats. 😛
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Hey that reminds me. DC, We do pet ID tags here. Do you want me to make one for you so someone can call you if they find your cat? I just need your cats name and your phone number which I promises not to give to Strange unless she gives me that disapproving mum look. 😛
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Do one and put Bunny’s number on it so next time the cat goes missing D.C.’ll have to go to a Board Game Meat to get his cat back. What do you mean, that’s like kidnapping? *innocent face* 😛
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What.
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hahaha, that’s evil but I like it =D
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Thanks Strange! (That’s a whole new level of evil right there. I respect your resourcefulness, though. :P)
Haha! Thanks Freeze, but my cat would totally be one of those kind that would accidently hang itself if it had a collar. :'( I’m pretty close to going to meat even without the blackmail and trickery, though. 😛
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You guys are awesome! 😀
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So close, yet so far…
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Leaving work shortly, and wil potentiall make it to Borderlands 2 by 6 or 7! Yay sort of!
Since talking about that Samsung Galaxy ad earlier, I’ve googled around looking at new smartphones and things. I don’t even need one!
Some of the ones floating around these days are looking pretty slick though. My HTC isn’t even two years old and it feels so old fashioned compared to these 😛 And since when did Windows mobile OS look so cool? I’m so out of the loop…
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Consider sharing what you’ve found?
I have to change phones soon. My phone contract is up in Feburary-
I hear a NFC chip is pretty cool and you should use it for Tapit!
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Oh I haven’t done any in-depth research or anything. Just looking at pictures really 😛 I wouldn’t want to recommend you something terrible!
But the Nokia Lumia 920 and the HTC 8X both look awesome from the pictures. I’m a sucker for brightly coloured gadgets…
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Oh I haven’t done any in-depth research or anything. Just looking at pictures really 😛 I wouldn’t want to recommend you something terrible!
But the Nokia Lumia 920 and the HTC 8X both look awesome from the pictures. I’m a sucker for brightly coloured gadgets…
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Two posts for the price of one!
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I will avoid nokia because I hate the ringtone. I tried to delete it once.
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Wooo! Been playing Borderlands 2 a bit today and I’m around level 8 and just reached The Sanctuary. I haven’t tried co-op yet as there hasn’t really been people around my point in the story but I’d be keen to play some tonight if anyone else is up for it 🙂
Master racing it.
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Ah, you caught up to me! I just started chapter 4 which I imagine is only a tiny bit before that point. I might be up for some co-op after dinner, then!
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This is the same place I stopped last night!
Also on PC.
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That’s where I stopped playing this morning. I’m thinking I might re-roll a new character as angry little man isn’t really suiting my play style.
Seriously??
$1000 off??
Is catch just pulling our legs again?
http://www.catchoftheday.com.au/smallfish_info.php?products_id=52935
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…what’s the catch?
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souls???
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That’s… a really attractive price.
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Is that actually a decent setups?
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Oops, didn’t see it was a GT630, I saw GTX650 :S
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“Graphics Accelerator card ” lolwut
That to me seems like a 1000 dollar computer from any computer store that isn’t a chain that does pre built models..
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Yeah, on second thought, I think I’ll stick with my monster 😀
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Yeah, when Freeze & I were at Welbots last weekend he was telling us/showing us the 2 PC’s he was putting together for some friends of Blagh’s and yeah, for the amount they were spending they were getting kickass parts! and man dat thermaltake case one of them decided on was epic, also epicly massive. this one to be exact..
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I was at said friend’s house earlier today, he spent the whole time watching the front of his house, hoping that the PC would turn up. Was pretty amusing.
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hahaha, oh man that case is like waist high on me or whatever. He certainly ordered a massive case, and the fact it has something like 8 USB ports on the front is amazing.
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hahaha,
yeah as soon as i saw the card i was like “there is no way you are saving 1k on that thing”Also, that case you linked too looks like a badarse transformer!
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Yeah Freeze & I wanted one after seeing it lol!
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Just called EB to confirm my Loot Chest was there. The manager I was speaking to started laughing and said it was the last one sitting behind the counter and he has already had 2 people offer him $300 for it. He assured me he wasn’t going to sell it out from under me. Hopefully the other staff get te message.
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That’s pretty funny – it reminds me of when i was lynching children who walked out of EB with Space Marine Collectors Editions.
Now i have like 18 of them!!!!
WHO’S LAUGHING NOW, KID?!-
AHahahaha oh Loops… 🙂
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Which EB, i’ll uh collect it and make it sure it’s safe for you =P
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It’s a Trap!
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South Tweed. The password on my account is “I have a gun, put the money in a bag, don’t make a noise and nobody dies.”
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Isn’t that the common greeting in south tweed?
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Yes, but much less articulate
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Of course, needs a few more swear words in there.
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Yeah needs a few more farkens & c*nts in there with a few missing teeth!
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Okay, brb! =D Thought it’s the PS3 version totally useless to me.. Le hmm.
8AM: “It’s too early to be starting work”
10AM: “I may as well wait until after I’ve had lunch, now”
1PM: “Still plenty of time when you think about it”
5PM: “Afternoon is gone. I suppose I’ll have to leave it until tomorrow now”
What happened to me? I used to be a good student! …Oh well, back to Pokémon. No Boringlands 2 for me ;D
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I hope your Scyther becomes your bestest and most favouritest Pokemon, and it gets taken away from you. *blaugh*
Nice touch on the e for Pokemon, I’m too lazy to do it.
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Man ‘Blaugh’ is a hard word to wrap your head around when it’s written down 😛 I’m like “Blorg? Bloff? Huh? …Ohhhh”
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Yeah, I was confused when Greenius first used it. But now it’s part of my everyday vernacular. Good word, that one. Vernacular.
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It already is my most favouritist! I named it Launch! I was specifically saving that name for when I caught something awesome. Because she’s the best Dragonball character. And now the best Pokémon.
(Also, it’s only oné éxtra kéystroké to maké an é 😛 On mac, anyway. éasy péasy!)
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I feel like I’m supposed to know who Launch is :P. Although you did say Dragonball which I haven’t seen much of.
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It tends to happen from time to time…
I’m a procrastinator cause…um….y’know what, I’ll finish this sentence later….
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That was the second saddest thing I’ve done this year. But I’m glad we did it now, and not any later, because he was definitely getting worse. The tumor was big enough that it was lifting his tongue out of place and it had gotten infected as well. So by doing it today we got awesome weather in the early afternoon, 22 degrees and a light breeze. Took him to the park we used to walk him on as a puppy, which has a cafe at the other end where we stopped and had a drink before walking back. Awesome final memory.
I feel kind of guilty that I’m now going to keep myself occupied and not stewing over it all by playing Borderlands 2 though. 🙁
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Aw man :(. I’m sure he had one hell of a life, you did say he outlived the usual expected life for his breed. You shouldn’t feel guilty about Borderlands 2 either, do what you need to and we’re here for you buddy!
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Aw 🙁 Honestly though I’m glad you didn’t postpone it any longer. I was in a similar situation a few years ago when my 15-year-old dog had gum cancer that was starting to spread to his eyes/face. It’s better this way!
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Believe me, I had the same thing with our cat a few months ago and we had left her far too long, so my last memories of her are her being extremely sick. I’m glad it worked out this way for the dog.
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I’m so sorry. We’re all here for you 🙁
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I’m sorry, Neg. If you need any thing or there’s any thing I can do, just ask. 🙁 Farewell little pup friend!
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That’s horrible man, I’m sorry 🙁
You shouldn’t feel guilty, there’s a difference between worrying and caring and it is apparent you cared for your dog. Not worrying / stressing over it doesn’t mean you care any less.
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For what it’s worth I think you did the best damn thing you could for the critter. Tough, but an act of love all the same.
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I’m sorry to hear man – at least you got a nice final memory. Would have been hell hard though.
I still remember when my dog went – i was living in Port Melbourne with my dad and nan – my dog lived with my mum who had a backyard for her, but i basically grew up with her before i eventually moved out.
One night i got a call from mum that my dog has seizured and died – it was the longest and hardest drive i’ve ever made, but i kept composed until i got to mums and saw her. One of the sadest days of my life man. I’m glad I was able to ge tthere though and bury her myself – she meant the absolute world to me… ok i’ll stop now, i’m even gettin teary thinking about it even though it was like 6-7 years ago..Anyway, sorry for your loss, mate. Don’t feel guilty about playing the game, eithe, man – there’s nothing wrong with needing a bit of a disconnect.
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That’s tough, buddy.
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*hugasaurus* (Am I doing this right, Strange?)
Thinking of you and your family, man. :'(
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*hugasaurus rex*
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I’m glad that you got to choose your final memories, and made them special.
*hugs*
Got my results back from my hospital visit.
It’s all good! But I have to go back each year indefinitely.
\o/ /o\
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Am I allowed to ask what you have/don’t have that requires you to go there every year?
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Without going into too much detail it was a bit of a cancer scare.
I knew it was reaaaaaally unlikely to be that but still.
RELIEEEEEVED.
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Fair enough. Good to know that it’s positive though.
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YAY! No cancer!
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I’m glad things went well today! 🙂
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\o/ for everything being okay.
One of my bosses is a bit of a dimwit. He often drops business-y buzz words into conversations. Terms which have no apparent relevance to the discussion or just don’t fit grammatically into a sentence. I just heard him randomly insert “time and motion” mid sentence and just carry on talking. Nothing he was talking about was related to time and motion in any way.
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SYNERGY
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You stole my first word! I’ll synergy YOU!
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TIMESHARES!
POWER SUIT!
MOVING FORWARD!
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Synergy! Future! Innovation! Bold! Your Ideal Weight! Fearless! Powerful! Intense! Pleasurable!
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G-SPOT!
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HAMMOCKS!
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All I seem to learn from stories of your workplace is that if I want to succeed at life, I need to become a lot stupider.
Brb guys, getting a hammer, this can’t possibly go wrong.
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A couple of his favourites are “Procurement Strategy” and “Proactive”.
He also constantly drops idioms and proverbs that are all muddled (“You don’t look a dead horse in the mouth”) or just don’t apply.
The number of times I’ve heard him say “A fish rots from the head down” for no apparent reason…-
Poor guy…
Note: I used to say full proof for years instead of fool proof. Why didn’t any one correct me years before. 😛
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Isn’t it, you don’t look a gift horse in the mouth and whipping a dead horse?
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In his defence, I wouldn’t want to look a dead horse in the mouth. I’d probably just look for a backhoe so I could bury the poor thing.
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You’d probably appreciate a show called Better Off Ted. I loved that show but it was short lived unfortunately. Kind of Dilbert meats arrested development.
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Damn you TAY! Now you’ve got me using Meat instead of Meet all the time!
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I worry about that every time I write a non-TAY related e-mail. 😛
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I LOVED that show! Those words in my comment were pulled from that show 😛 Now I want to rewatch it again…
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And I never did find where she hid the dove.
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Dammit I wish games on Steam would stop installing the Visual C++ 2005 redistributable that doesn’t have the security fixes. Every time I run windows update I have to update that damned library back to the non-vulnerable version because Steam keeps installing a vulnerable one.
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I was wondering why that kept happening.
I had a weird moment not long I woke up this afternoon. I saw something black on the edge of my peripheral vision was instantly thinking “what the hell is that on my face?”
Turns out it was my moustache. I’ve been attempting to grow a beard recently and just got freaked out by my own stubble.
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It’s ghost stubble!
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When I wear my glasses that occassionally freaks me out. I jump, then attempt to look cool and not at all awkward. 😛
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What you need is your own flash mob to follow you around so if you suddenly jump randomly they can all break into dance and it’ll look like you’d done it intentionally.
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That’s why you earn the big bucks, my friend! 😀
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Damn you TAY marketing machine. :'( https://pbs.twimg.com/media/A3N6bJQCAAAWuDZ.jpg:large
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HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH 😀
Hopefully you can connect to people unlike me :'(
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Y U SO NO CONNECT?!
Game just fails to do it?
I played with a non-TAY friend yesterday evening, and it was laggy sporadically, but playable.
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Uh usual time out error after 30 seconds of it doing nothing “You can’t connect to host” blergh…
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🙁 That’s too bad. I’m not sure if I should play the campaign alone first, though. I like to take in the world and scenary of games. I worry people will rush me and talk through cut scenes. (Haha! Probably the worst person in the world to play multiplayer with. :P)
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You should take it back. It’s defective. Doesn’t say PS3 along the top.
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Haha! Greenius peer pressured me with the promise of Steam friends. 😛
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Horray for PC!
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Considering you only have two and one of them can’t connect, your chances aren’t very high 😛
Until you add more of us 😀
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Firewall issues? (Haha! Look at me, pretending to know how to trouble shoot multiplayer stuff. :P)
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Sounds right though. My first step would be to check its been allowed through the fire wall.
2nd step would be to hit up google and see if I need to port forward anything
3rd step would be to curl up in a ball and cry.
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That’s how it starts. He’ll make all the promises and treat you right. Soon he’ll want you to Play with one of his friends. Eventually you’ll be playing with everyone who he says you are, he’ll get all the money an beat you if you don’t.
You should have stayed home where people treat each other right.
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Oh, shit! What have I done!
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Why are you crying? I think you meant to type “\o/” or something. 😛
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And now I’m crying. :'(
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Self-control and will power, I will reclaim you one day. 😀
Wifey just picked up my Loot Chest for me. On her way out of EB someone offers her $400 for it. o_O. Are people that desperate for it?
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I PICKED MINE UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It’s so beautiful. :’)
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Seems so. They also thought “woman, doesn’t need it, would prefer money for shoes”
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Honestly if I got that box, I think I would’ve had to buy two. No way I’d want to open it. 😛 Shiny!
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I’LL GIVE YOU $401 FOR IT!
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Wow, that’s insane. Maybe I should reconsider looking for a job and just be a collector’s edition re-seller 🙂
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So, uh, played Borderlands. The first one. It’s good. Better with other people, but the lack of low-level/competent players and the fact that my wi-fi somehow finds it’s way to narnia half of the time is a deterrent.
Still great, though. I hope to play the sequel one day. One day..
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I’m wondering if I should play the first… uh… first?
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Nah, you can hop into the second no problem.
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Yeah, no point now since you just bought 2, I know you’re eager to play : )
But there’s plenty of people who still haven’t gone through Borderlands so you can all pair up for some funsies and I’m sure there’s others who would still be keen to play anyway! (me!)
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On PC?
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Yeah, I never beat the second act of borderlands…
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I literally only talked to Claptrap at the start and quit thinking, looks fun enough I’ll play it when I really feel like it though. (Then the months began to pass. :P)
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Heh, I only booted up my copy cause everybody was talking about it.. kinda. 😛
Ok, poeple to play with. Cool beans. Internet connection that makes me want to punch out a kitten. Well damn, can’t win them all.
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Are you on PS3 Saturday? We could play together if you wish.
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I am part of ze PC master race, so sorry.
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Thank goodness. I killed those dog things and got bored =P
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Don’t do it. I did and BL killed any fun I would have with BL2.
Add me on a gasseous water thingy, my username is Tigerion
Do you have the DLC? I’ve never gone through any of the DLC so happy to do that. Pretty sure i have a low level multi character, if not I’m happy to re-roll
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Will do.
Also it took me way too long to figure out you were talking about steam. :/
Out of curiosity, for those who have played it, are the Borderlands 2 quests still text only and MMOish kill X collect Y or are they a little more in depth this time around?
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So far they’ve been the same 😛
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It’s basically Borderlands with graphics enhancements, better AI, rebalanced character classes and based on Steamworks instead of Gamespy (assuming PC). The bits that worked okay are unchanged. It’s been quite clinical in what and how it’s been improved but it’s so far basically exactly what a good sequel should be.
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It’s now voiced, I think the text is still there though. Missions are about the same, except there’s bonus objectives for some missions now.
This will sound kind of douchey, but when playing coop the first time around do people usually ‘respect’ the game? Listen to cut scenes? Take time to explore and the like? (I guess it depends on the group.)
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I do, and it kinda bugs me when people don’t, so I like to do a solo run-through first (or concurrent to a co-op game) simply because I don’t like being rushed through a game on my first time through. You just gotta find the right people to play with!
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That’s why I always solo games before giving the co-op a go, I just don’t trust that the group won’t just rush through the entire thing and completely ignore the story and world.
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Yeah, it’s a mixed bag, but I would think that speedrunners would try to avoid multiplayer with random people altogether, so I think your chances are good. Always ask, though. Best be safe and all that.
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Yeah, it really depends on the group, can’t really generalise something like that :P. I’m sure people would play co-op as they usually would play it solo for the first time but I don’t really hear about many people playing co-op together all for the first time. From experience there’s usually someone who’s ahead and they will tend to rush things a bit since they’ve done it before.
I played the start bit of Diablo 3 so many times with so many different people. Some cared about the story/cutscenes etc. and some didn’t. I asked first and left it up to them to decide what to do and I followed them as a ‘support’ character. It’s their experience so I didn’t want me rushing it to ruin it for them : )
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+1 and it was muchly appreciated… I always want to invest in the story no matter how paper thin it may be… And it was refreshing to play with a person that respects that XD
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Cool! Thanks everyone. Sounds like playing solo is the way to go first atleast, but I like the idea of concurrent playthrough as well!
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See, If you hadn’t fell for Greenius you could have played with me at my slow exploratory pace.
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Damn it! 😀 Though I would’ve been a liability playing coop on the PS3 any way, my FPS/controller skills are lacking. Give me a keyboard and mouse any day…
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I hear there is a skill tree for that
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A solo playthrough is good to get a feel for what to expect in a co-op game, but nothing beats having an experienced player help you out, who will still let you explore and experience the story.
This is a good arguement for adding players who you like and respect as Steam friends. A good team can make or break a co-op game experience, and once you have a good sized list of Steam friends who you know will play well together, you are more likely to have someone who will play a new game at your pace.-
I barely even log into Steam and when I do it’s always single player games, so my list consists of only two people. Damn fine list, though — Greenius and Strange. 😀
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Make that three! Pixel! 😀
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\o/ FRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEENDS
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I’ve never felt so wanted. :’)
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one of us, one of us
*cough*
sorry, don’t know what happened to me there
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Not feeling the love now DCfrond.
I am disappoint.
Hey taaaay… 10 hours at work and then had to fix my car makes for a tired Pixel… What have everyone else been doing… ASIDE from playing borderlands 2 😛
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Playing Pokemon 😛
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Also I meant to wash my car today, but didn’t… My paint is peeling as well! D: Why can’t cars take care of themselves…
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It’s like showering, leave it long enough it’ll start to be self cleansing… Right? RIGHT? And paint doesn’t peel… It’s simply… Shedding its skin… Evolving like a Pokemon!
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Took my cat to the vet. She didn’t care for it. Check up was all good, though. Perfect health! 😀
What was wrong with your car? *pretends to understand cars and what’s wrong with ’em.*
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Glad to hear your cat is home mang, some good news this week \o/
Well, I don’t know much about cars either but I have learned that 6 cylinder car have a valve called the pcv valve, and if it jams shut it feels like the car is going to rattle itself to pieces… So I changed that \o/ and had a victory moment when the engine didn’t blow up 😛-
Success. I would’ve just accepted the car was a lost cause and started a long walk home. 😛
Thanks, man! Cat is being crazily affectionate too. Good to know she missed me as much as I missed her. 🙂
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Haha! Thanks! She somehow found her way home by herself. Woke up this morning and she was sleeping by the door. Pretty curious about what she got up to. Guess I’ll never know. :S
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Mystery adventures… No one can ever know *stares philosophically into the horizon*
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I always wonder what Sid gets up to when he disappears for several hours and I can’t find him. H ealways returns home but where he is, no idea.
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Getting a second dinner from a house down the street!
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One of the neighbours cats does that. Goes door-to-door meowing. Perfecting the ‘I’m starving’ look. Good work if you can get into it. 😛
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Strap a camera to her head for science! 😀
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So tempted to put a GPS tracker on her. 😀
Huge lines of catnip and multiple tomcats of a different race.
Bah! She’s never do that. She’s an innocent flower of the field. 😛
:S
I’ve been at work since 8:30am. Finish in just over an hour then an hour drive home. Then maybe Borderlands 2 but I gotta be in Brisbane tommorow for police entry examination so I probably shouldn’t.
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Good luck!
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Best of luck freeze, sounds like a really awesome step in the right direction
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Just go to bed if I were you man, or shower then sleep so the missus doesn’t murder you. All the best tomorrow =D
Aaaaaawwww :'(
Just caught up on TAY for the day.
My condolences mr. Negative Zero, awesome last memory and his in a better place, hope you’re coping ok!
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🙁 Might’ve had to wipe away some manly tears after reading that.
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Same dude, same, it’s always rough… But by damn all the memories are worth the hurt…
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*he’s
I’m sorry, it’s a bad habit D=
You did the right thing though. My dog had a stroke and he was put on life support for a day to see if he would recover. He didn’t.
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DAMNIT 😛 I always that… His = his possession/object, he’s = abbreviation of he is!
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*ALWAYS DO THAT!!!!!!!!!
Maaan grammar fails badly tonight-
Where’s the full stop, man? Where’s the full stop?
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*lip quiver* /o\
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I’m sorry /o\
Also, don’t you need my address for Splicer’s meat?
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yes,I was going to ask for that soon XD,
feel free to email it to me on jacob.didriksen(weird squiggly a)gmail(dot)com
which… is totally NOT my real name…
or.. you know… chat it on steam XD…also don’t apologise, i need to have these things pointed out to me if I’m ever to correct it so I appreciate it more then anything… unless your name is Rize.
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I thought your real name was Pixel T. Ferret Viking.
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yes… yes it definitely it 😛
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It hasn’t. I just wanted to look like a rule breaker.
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Ha ha ha nice
GameSpy gave Torchlight 2 a 5/5. Not too shabby if you’re into that kind of thing. 😛 http://au.pc.gamespy.com/pc/torchlight-ii/1226144p1.html
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Torchlight 2 *swoons*
Now to have a bit of spare cash XD-
I have to admit that Torchlight 2 will win out over Borderlands 2.
Main reason being the people that I will play co-op with are a LOT closer. Close enough to hit me if I choose to play Borderlands.-
bahaha, physical motivation… I can dig that XD…
I dunno, Borderlands never grabbed me… played it for a while and went “meh”…
Torchlight I just freaking love-
Let me just say I’m not the one in this household that racked up 170 hours on Torchlight trying to get the ‘Line of Kings’ achievement.
(Note: She didn’t get it because Terraria. And 837 hours on record for that).
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Oh hi guys. Just thought I’d let you know that I have not been playing Borderlands 2 all day…I can account for about 2 or 3 hours when I was doing other stuff…
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Also, Claptrap is the most retarded robot ever. 😛
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Lumping claptrap in with them I mean.
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I dunno, Wheatley was fairly… unique.
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The way to think of claptrap is like a worse Wheatly that’s been given red cordial. Believe me, five mins into the game and you’ll see Wheatly’s just no match for him 😛
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does “doing stuff” consist of looking up stuff about borderlands on the internet? because I’m pretty sure that doesn’t count.
Also, whilst we a on the topic of borderlands 2; The weapon skill levels have been replaced by badass levels now right? Maybe I’m just not looking in the right spot.
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I don’t know. I didn’t even know about badass levels until I stumbled upon them when I was at level 10. Haven’t even looked for weapon skill levels yet.
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Eurhhgh. The more I see on Dishonored the more antsy I get about not having it yet.
Also, Game Informer gave Sleeping Dogs a 7 and Darksiders 2 an 8. I can’t help but feel it should be the other way around.
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Yeah, I suspect that Dishonored will give Spec Ops some very real competition for my own personal Game of the Year.
OH GOD HALP /o\
I think I awoke my love for audio all over again. Now I’m looking at thousand dollar drivers and custom enclosures that would take me months to build, all in search for the that gorgeous flat response… I’m swimming in an ocean of infinite baffles and 6th order bandpasses, and let me tell you friends, it is glorious.
Man. I really, REALLY need my own place. That isn’t a rental. Because structural damage.
I really do miss a 30hz pulse at 125db. Oh god do I miss it.
I’ll settle for playing it safe and small for now though. ABN in the next month, and I’ll place an order for ~10 drivers plus head units maybe a week after that.
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So if I understand your correctly, you’ve got Bieber Feaver?
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I, uhh…
*ahem*
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Why, WHY did I have to mention that name on twitter… Transcript below;
@Myth:
RE: Bieber.
I will find you, and I will kill you 😛@4omhlorafds:
@Myth we’re filming in your city for a new movie that stars Justin Bieber! We want to cast you as an extra.I, uhh… umm :S
Bieber’s coming here? And they’re filming a new movie? Well, colour me really fucking perplexed. Also excited. Murder here ain’t so out of the ordinary 😛-
Groote Eylandt would eat him alive. 😛
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I’d feed him to the crocs, but I’m sure they’ve got better taste than that 😛
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…for the purposes of resale, of course. I certainly won’t be purchasing 10 drivers for myself until I’m back on the mainland 😛
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Prolly best I don’t wake my love for audio, because it’ll just be me wishing I could afford to go study for a bachelor of audio engineering again. =P
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Yeah, I’d love to, but I think I’ve found that I’m not suited to study, as ridiculous as it sounds :S
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Ha, why you say that?
It’s been a dream of mine for last 7 years since early high school or something, the production side of music & film has always fascinated me, baffles me why I chose IT as opposed to a more creative path to follow..
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ABN? You starting a business? I’ve missed a whole day of TAY, so please forgive me. (and feel free to fill me in)
@DC – I saw mention that kitty is finally home. Awesome! \o/
While I’m sure my plea last night for kitty to come home played no part, I take all the credit. 😛-
I’m sure that contributed. 😛 Thanks, buddy! Much appreciated! 😀
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Looking to start a mobile audio business here, yeah. Resale initially, although I may look into installation too.
I kinda got excited though while looking for products to order. I just gotta hold out a few more years before I’m back on mainland for all my eargasms to come to fruition!-
Ok, I guess I should go back and catch up on TAY. Are you leaving the Eylandt or am I mistaken about it’s population? Because I wouldn’t have thought there was a big enough market on Groote to sustain an audio business.
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As predatory as it sounds (it’s not my intention) there’s a large amount of people here with comparatively large amounts of money, and no idea of its value. Add to that the only other competition on the Eylandt is selling their products with 3-500% markup on RRP, and I think I’m onto a winner here. I don’t want to lie cheat and steal, but if I can share one of my passions with others here, (who absolutely adore anything LOUD) I think I’m in with a chance 🙂
It’s not going to be anything huge, I’ll likely stock 3-4 ‘kits’ at a time and sell them as a bundle package. I’ve not worked out all the kinks as yet :p
If it falls through, I’ll have 3-4 kits that I can offload at some point, and dust my hands of it I guess.
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OK, I get it now. It doesn’t really sound predatory (OK, maybe a little). Sounds like you’ll be offering a better deal to people eagre to spend. Nothing wrong with that.
Good luck with it all mate!
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Think i’m spotting a trend here, but i’m not sure XD
pic.twitter.com/2i0BkW5
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7/22 in game for me aren’t in Borderlands 2 lol. I think it’s popular..
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Nice! I’m holding off until tomorrow. Lock myself in a dark room, turn the sound up. 😀
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15 friends are playing Borderlands 2…
… That means there’s a co-op spot open?
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Yeah, everybody seems to be playing FTL these days
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I hear FTL is pretty okay.
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Who’s that beautiful green square!
Six Feet Under time! Getting to the end of season two. Amazing show. Someone needs to give Ruth a hug, though. That is all. Good night, folks. Hope you feel better, Neg. Good luck with the exam, Freeze! And have fun all the Borderlanders, I will join your ranks tomorrow! 😀
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I need to get around to that show some time : /
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Best show ever.
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Haha! Like moth to a flame, mention Six Feet Under and there’s ALWAYS a Shane sighting. It’s like your bat signal. 😛
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Bestest
Less than six hours til Torchlight 2!
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Just making a post cause I havnt today anyway gonna go do more pokemanz for Nuzlock
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I just put up my 3rd log
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I just read it
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I gotta say, I’m really enjoying reading what people are doing so far. Which is weird, because it’s pretty much the exact same thing as what I’m doing…
It’s also pretty cool how each of our teams start out fairly similar but then branch out differently as we get further along. Random number generator at work! It’s like a whole new perspective on the game, somehow!
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And the choices we’re all making regarding our teams. Who to keep, who to box, how long to grind for *cough*freeze*cough* etc etc
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You all still have your starters. But in a way I guess that makes e and my team unique. Ive never played a game of Pokemon in all it’s years without my starter in my team.
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Yeah neither. I’m hoping not to get mine killed even though I’m not super attached to it. I guess it’s just having it as your first Pokemon that makes some sort of special bond :’)
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Whenever I see you comment, I want to continue mine, but then it crashes. Because I’m a dirty pirate. And well, Ha ha ha hahaha, no.
Goodnight, TAY.
Good Morning TAY.
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Morning Frond!
How’s this morning treating you?
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Badly if he’s awake at 4:30
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Hey fronds!
Played a lot of BL2 with faction and bunny last night. Pyrean also jumped in but needed to go to work 1/2way through. Then lambo joined us for a little while. I’m really enjoying robot-Ninja-guy-that-makes-Yu-Gi-Oh-References.
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Shame your dude never shut up :p
I found a unique/legendary/super mega awesome pistol: Expeditious Thunderball Fists. Took me much longer to find my first legendary in Diablo.
Might have to move away from sniper heavy play though. Playing with you guys is way too hectic for that.
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Cracks me up when you shift and he starts chattering non-stop 😀
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T________T I saw you 4 playing and was mad jelly. I really wish they sort out these Connection Problems ASAP…
Did.. I just black out or something?
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http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity/most-gays-probably-have-aids-paris-hilton/story-e6frfmqi-1226478507279 — I’m not a fan of Paris Hilton, but I get the distinct feeling News.com.au have once against tried to get the most alarmist story. She’s talking about that hook up app, talking to her gay friend and they try to make it out like she was talking about everyone? Stop being jerks News.com.au. Stop being jerk Paris Hilton too. (Though not as jerky as the article implies. :P)
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Reply fail. 😛
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I was trying to work out what your post had to do with blacking out. I know I glaze over at that sort of talk but blacking out is a bit extreme.
Also are you ok Saturday?
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False alarm. We may now resume talking about Paris Hilton. Thanks for the concern, though/
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Borderlands 2 is currently sitting in the top 5 games of 2012 for me. I get the feeling it’s going to climb in rank, too.
Also, Zer0 is a champion.
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Hahaha, you activated my trap card!
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Man…the feeling of one-hitting a badass with melee is so fantastic!
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What spec are you going? I went with the melee spec. I just got to level 10 last night. 😀
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Yeah same, and I think I’m about level 10 too 😛
Was tempted to go sniping but after playing around with Decepti0n I figured I’d have a great time with melee
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Oh what the… I scroll up to catch up on TAY and YOU ALREADY LINKED IT…
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Haha! I missed it, so much obliged my Greenius-shaped friend.
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I am really surprised by how much I am enjoying Borderlands 2, especially going solo.
The first game was good, but I found I needed to play co-op, as going solo was so… lifeless.
But with number 2, I played about 4 hours last night solo and enjoyed every second of it!
Still, I definetly want to try out some c0-op tonight, if solo is good, MULTI MUST BE BETTER!
Plus, my love for Claptrap has only deepened.
JUST FOLLOW THE SOUND OF MY SOOTHING VOICE
Heh, awesome.
I can’t believe I have to wait another… um… lots and lots of hours, before I can play again.
*starts staring intently at clock*
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I was playing with FatShady and Batguy last night – I’m sure we’d be down for playing again tonight if you wanted to join, assuming everyone’s free?
MORNING EVERYBODY!
So how’s the Borderlands 2 Nuzlocke going?
How do the rules go again?
– You have to replace the gun you are holding with the first gun you come across in each new area, REGARDLESS of if its a downgrade or not
– If your character dies you have to bail out and rejoin the campaign with a brand new character.
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Oh god…
I died in the tutorial once with a new character. I was running ahead to ________’s house and jumped over the flame in a barrel and it instantly killed me :/
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How’s your Nuzlocke of Barbie Horse Adventures: Mystery ride going 😉
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Horrible. I keep having to kill each horse every run. It breaks my heart whenever barbie picks up her shotgun, gently removes the lace bow from the braided mane I so lovingly caressed so long ago, and..
man. the feels. THE FEELS.
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Tune in tomorrow to find out 😉
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“- If your character dies you have to bail out and rejoin the campaign with a brand new character.”
– THIS IS MADNESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’ve had a couple of people ask me about glitches in Borderlands 2. Has anyone come across anything? My run so far has been flawless.
Also, loving the higher difficulty! Haven’t died yet, but I’ve come close a few times.
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I got stuck inside a toilet door. Like physically stuck, couldn’t move, couldn’t open the menu, couldn’t to anything. =/
Also, what spec are you going on Zer0? I went with the melee spec, It rocks!
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I like how one of our solutions was “fuck it, let’s just keep going and see if that works”.
It didn’t /o\
We also had a random enemy have his head get stuck in the ceiling. That was pretty rad.
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From last page:
Yeah I’m Bloodshed, and I think I’m about level 10 too 😛
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Yup, next level Im getting the “melee increases shot damage” and “shots increase your melee damage”. If they don’t die from my melee attack, then I blast them in the face with my shotgun 😀
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Apart from not being able to find midgemong for about half hour, nothing yet!
Ended up just blasting everything in the area until I came back to the original spot and midgemong jumped at me from the top of a building, then zoomed off (no clip style) to the other side of the area, so I sniped him until he died. So success! in a way! I have a small feeling that it may be because I kept head shooting the midget until he died, and the bullymong just flipped out? I could see the midget dead on the ground, and maybe I teabagged him, what about it? But apart from that, loving Zer0 and the world as a whole! My explode on reload shotgun is pwning at the moment!-
I killed the Bullymong first and Midge-mong got stuck on a balcony, so I smashed him with a cluster grenade. Good you had a sniper rifle for your problem 😛
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Yeah, I ignored Claptraps offer of a shotgun, so I have a pretty decent sniper…. I didn’t know how they were going to do health for Midgemong, as in treat it as one creature or two seperate, so I went for the midgets head, your idea sounds easier….
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I went with the sniper too.
Got a damned good auto-sniper that looks beastly and does more damage than anything else I’ve seen so far.
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A whole mess of Bullymongs kept getting stuck in the ground at the start, but apart from that it’s been flawless.
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I’ve had the AI bug out a bit on me a few times and been hit by strange respawning too.
Gang. It’s me, Dan.
Our podcast “Dan & Karl’s Zeitgeist” has finally started it’s second season.
It would be super cool of you if you went over and listened to it at
http://dankarlszeitgeist.podbean.com/
Like, super, SUPER, cool of you.
But why should I listen, Dan?
Muhfuggah, because it’s funny as shit. Talkin’ bout sex changes, KFC, Jet Li & Vidja Gaymes.
Just go with it.
Like that time you experimented in High School.
Love,
Dan
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Nah
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Nah, do it.
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Okay.
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Thanks.
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Those are my four favourite topics, apart from beards. I’m in.
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My cherry. It’s been broken.
And splayed.And now it’s not sure it identifies as a cherry any more :S
My beard has 30mins of life left. I may just cry.
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Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!
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Make sure you keep the shaved hair. If you ever miss your beard you can tape it back on with masking tape and reminisce about the good times.
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Or, or, viking funeral. Best keep your options open.
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Ew, smell of burning hair…
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Beards are overrated anyway ;D
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GET OUT
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And that was the last anyone would ever hear from Powalen.
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Powalen who?
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CONGRATS MANG!
A bittersweet ceremony it shall be :'(But still, that means you got the jerb, right?
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The sad thing is I probably don’t have to. A friend went yesterday and said 3/4 of the people were unshaven and wearing a jeans/t shirt combo. But I figure this is the first face to face contact the force has had since everything previous is emails and phone calls so it would probably pay to be a bit more presentable. At worst it won’t hurt.
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Being presentable is indeed a bonus. You’ll look sharp, clean and WEAK compared to your manly counterparts.
Nah, you’re doing the right thing with it though. I guess you could always save the clippings and paste them back on afterwards?
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Why are you shaving? D=
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Also this I feel sorry for your kids now =P
I stuffed the rupee cushions!
Now I need to make the covers.
D=
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Progress \o/
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Pretty much =D
I feel confident, maybe I should attempt the sponge cake again *strokes imaginary beard*-
Make a cake shapped like a cushion! \o/
Or a cushion shapped like a cake! \o/
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I like the idea of making fake money and selling it for real money, but can’t help but wonder about the legal ramifications.
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You forgot to add practical fake money. You can put it on your bed, nap on it etc. etc.
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Tempted to get some, but not sure if another order would be a good thing or a bad thing for you right now 😛
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I’ll be making more after =p
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Euphemism?
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Well, she called it a fucking cushion the other day…
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I was angry with it D=
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You should have told them to get stuffed.
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Stuffed as in progress? Or stuffed as in made a mistake?
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stuffed as in progress
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Borderlands 2. So much fun.
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Got home late last night so only got to play a little bit, but, yes, much fun was had.
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Look at this party animal.
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Out until all hours. You had us worried, Flu!
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I’m out of control.
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Rootin’, tootin’ shootin’ ‘n’ lootin’!
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Assonance!
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You’re an assonance.
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Gunzerking is pretty much the best thing ever.
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FatShady seems to agree with you, based on his utter joy at the ‘don’t consume ammo’ skill for gunzerking.
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One of his head customization options is called Breaking Bald, and it’s like looking at a shorter verson of Heisenberg.
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Well, looks like I’m rolling a Gunzerker as my next character.
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WTB: Gun that shoots fulminated mercury.
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Also, I rolled as Zer0 – he’s rather fun, but I’m not sure whether I’m going to continue with his snipey mcsnipeness, or reroll. Maybe Axton, given I never played as Roland in #1.
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Yeah, I’m the same.
He’s basically Mordecai with better Melee.
But his sniper tree is very tempting.
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Another Zer0 right here.
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Last night on PC I looked across the “friends playing” list in Borderlands 2 and one person out of 15 was playing as Zer0. Apparently everyone else that chose him is on console 😛
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I rolled Maya but I’m finding I’m just sniping people now.
Shitloads of loot but none of the guns feel right except for the one incendiary revolver I got early on, and rifles. Everything else feels really odd, like I can’t hit anything. The iron sights feel really off too.
Just to try and avoid making more threads here, anyone else using Maya?
I went with her support tree (the middle one) and as nice as it is to be able to heal people by killing whatever I have my active on, I’m starting to think that just blowing shit up might be more fun.
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I went that tree but since I was soloing last night (didn’t feel particularly social) I put the points I was getting into the increased crit damage talent, which was making sniping with her pretty effective. Put a point into the heal-if-you-kill-a-phaselocked-dude one as well and found her phase lock appears to have no max range but the heal does. 🙁
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Yeah, the orbs have to seek you out and I guess there’s a range on them.
Kind of wondering if I should change mine to be mainly crit with a point or two in the heal or start working on the Cataclysm tree just so I can be all hurty and stuff.
I’m using a sniper as my main gun as well. Might go for a shotgun instead so that I can wade into the madness with everyone else.
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I think if you go into close range you’d want to start out with some points in the left-hand tree to increase her shields. She can actually be made to be extremely tough with the right build.
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My shield is pretty beefy right now. F4ction gave me his old shield which has something like 350 capacity and a decent recharge rate and recharge time. Not bad at level 11 compared to the ~150 capacity shields I’m seeing in the shops.
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I’m playing Cataclysm Maya with lots of points in addin % to elemental chance. I want everything to burn.
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And corrode and slag and explode
All this BL2 talk… I must resist. I have too many other things to play. I don’t need another. But why must you make it sound like such a good time
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Do you mean BL2 as in Borderlands 2? Yeah, that game is pretty great. You should try it some time!
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I’ve been hearing a bit about it, looks pretty cheap on greenmangaming.com
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Torchlight 2? #helping
I’ll post this again (has been a while)
Up for trade is a game you may or may not have heard of – Torchlight 2!!! On Steam, so master races only need apply!!
Also, have a copy of the first torchlight to give away!!! That’s right for free!!!!!
I have widdled my steam gifts down to just these two items, almost at gift 0!!!!
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Gimme Gimme Gimme 😛
Was looking at torchlight 2 and considering if people want to go in for a 4 pack but if you have a spare then maybe I can just do that.
Umm trade wise I have copies of safecracker, psychonauts and beyond good and evil. Otherwise I can get you a humble bundle or if you prefer you could look through my catalogue and find something you like – http://store.steampowered.com/ -
AH MAH GAWD! and at times like this I HAVE NOTHING TO TRADE *shakes fist at steam inventory*
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Hey man, I know how much of a burden that copy of torchlight must be. I will take it off your hands, absolutely free. No joke. I’m kind like that.
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My older brother said he’s tried adding you on Steam btw
Anyone else with the Loot Chest find the catch isn’t the greatest? Like doesn’t really open the chest.
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I’m really love the steelbook case but damn it why did they make it a full size dvd case? Sticks right up above the rest of my collection.
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Love steelbook. On 360, so no problems with size.
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Mine’s been OK, but I don’t really understand the middle section in the chest. It looks like it’s supposed to fit DVDs but it doesn’t.
Confus.
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You rang? :S
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It worked! \o/
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Yeah. I also suspect that the box has been scaled down in size from its initial design, because in the middle there’s these grooves which look like maybe they’re designed for game cases, but the box isn’t wide enough to take a case (needs to be ~15-20% bigger).
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Yeah, same here. Catch isn’t the greatest. Still, awesome overall package.
Another Borderlands 2 question.
Anyone else sell the Gearbox rifles pretty early on? I found most of the guns I found quite quickly overpowered them…. or did I fail at reading stats?
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Yeah they’re pretty useless once you find a decent upgrade.
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The sniper I got lasted right up until level 10ish when I got a better sniper as a reward. The other gun wasn’t even close to the others I’d picked up.
Could just be chance.
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The AR and SMG both sucked crap so I ditched them pretty fast. Kept the sniper for a while though, didn’t get any drops to replace it until a fair way in.
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Pez says the stats are relative to your rank when you open the chest.
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These are the gold gearbox guns, not the one from the gold chest (which are level specific)
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There are two things though. There’s the gear you get from the Golden Chest (using the Golden Key you get as a preorder bonus) and then there’s the Gearbox weapons that you get when you start a new character.
I’m fairly sure we’re talking about the latter while you’re talking about the former.
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Understood.
Different guns, those are the stuff from the golden chest. We’re talking about the ‘Gearbox’ guns you get when you first roll a character. I think it was EB/Gamespot-exclusive DLC? Or maybe it was the reward for having a BL1 save. I’m not sure. You get a big dump of stuff at the beginning.
Vita or Wii U?
Or do I get Mum’s tablet first. It is the big 60 for her… I don’t know what to save up for /o\
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I’ve already bought her swarovski crystals. =/ Plus I think it’d be for Christmas. hm…
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She could start swearing about the footy from her room instead \o/
😛
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Yeah I’d go tablet first, mainly because that sort of has a deadline 😛
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Tablet, then go for a Wii U! \o/
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Vita pros:
– Hardware is awesome
– Some solid games available now and in the near future
Cons:
– Will make you wish your 3DS was better
– Have to re-buy any PSP games you have on PSN
– Single PSN account
– Uncertain future since everyone is determined to hate itWii U Pros:
– Nintendo games
Cons:
– Launch lineup isn’t amazing
– Will be outdated within a year
– Uncertain future since long term third party support is questionableSo basically you’re talking about deciding between this generation’s two Dreamcasts. 🙁
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Best approach is my tried and true method: RRP of console divided by RRP of games = number of exclusive or best-on-that-platform games which need to be either available or coming near-future to justify the system.
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Some of those pros/cons aren’t valid 😛
Scree just go with the cheaper one after the tablet (I assume the games are more for you and the tablet is for her?). Wii U is new so don’t expect it to be cheap from the get go while the Vita has been around for a while. Loops posted a link to a pretty good deal below so it’s something to consider.
Remember there’s always good deals around Christmas/Boxing day so just be patient as everything will decrease in price :). You’ve gone this long without a Vita so a few extra months won’t hurt and you could save a ton of money 😀
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So Rize… I hear you should totally come down for the Armageddon expo
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Thats a question you should only axe once.
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Ooooooohhhh IGEDDIT
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I hear you should come up for the EB expo.
Seriously though, I would if they weren’t so close together. I’m not made of money!
…yet.
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Yeeeeaaaah but Chris Judge!
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He’s fallen from glory getting his arse kicked in The Dark Knight Rises 😛
Seriously what he should’ve done was “B#$@ please! I’m a Jaffa!” and kicked the snot out of him 🙂
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I disagree. Only because Batman.
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Can Batman dual wield P90s? 😛
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We have FatShady doing Trials stuff.
Your move.
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So on a completely unrelated topic to above, I made a Norn Elementalist on GW2 last night. Gotta say that the Norn story isn’t exactly grabbing me just yet. I feel like I’m playing Vanquish all over again considering how egotistical all the Norn characters including yourself are. I do like how I can change elements mid battle, and my skills can be used in different ways depending on what element I’m currently attuned to. I’m loving the Air attunement most though, UNLIMITED POWER! *zaps enemy with hands*
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I don’t know about Norn, but elementalists seems pretty fun. I’ve got a level 5 Sylvari elementalist and I love that I can either burn everything or shock them with lightning.
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Norn seem really overconfident just because they’re big beings killing huge animals. It’s like their version of e-peen, except it’s a full-on way of life to them so everybody does it 😛
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Norn are essentially Norse/Viking/Shaman combo people. I kind of like their story. Haven’t done any of the others long enough to compare, though.
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So my first foray into the wonderful world of preloading games was unsuccessful.
Pre-loaded Torchlight 2 earlier in the week…went to play and kept getting an error that it couldn’t load because it was “waiting for disc”. Have now deleted it, and I’m downloading it again. So much for pre-loading. This is why I hate PC gaming. 😛
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I’m waiting till this weekend to do the download. Can’t wait 🙂
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I guess I’m just going to have to do some work today now that my best excuse for procrastinating has been delayed. 😛
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Haha oh well. But you could be playing with us this weekend too! There’s that 😀
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It’s too late now, but did you get steam to check all the files? If you right-click the game in your library, go to properties and press the “check file” button it sometimes fixes problems.
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Pre-loaded last week and I think we’ll both be giving it a run tonight.
Probably going to be visited by a friend tomorrow so he can load up his copy as well since he has no internet connection.
Steam is having a free weekend of Saints Row 3, if anybody is interested. I’m not, but I remember it was a pretty fun game. I wait eagerly for it’s sequel, whenever it’ll come out.
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Yes I suggest everyone who isn’t stuck in BL2 who doesn’t own SR3 to load this up and give it a go! Awesome game!
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I was playing some more SR 2 just this morning lol
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The Chaser guys are in trouble because they asked Tony Abbott some questions about free speech after he did a press conference at a Bali memorial thingy.
They said that it was justified because he fielded questions about unrelated things (carbon tax, gay marriage etc) and they asked after the memorial service.
Labor attacks Abbott for holding a press conference in a memorial garden.
The Coalition then attacks Labor for politicising the event by attacking Abbott for holding a press conference in a memorial garden.
“He started it!” “No he started it!”
If they don’t get their act together, we should turn this country right around and go back under British rule. At least their bickering occasionally has substance.
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Wow I heard Chaser got in trouble again on the radio this morning, but Abbott.. really fish-man?
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Really, what a load of shit. Also holding a press conference in a memorial garden just isn’t on. Eugh.
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The one person with the ability to get rid of them all isn’t going to put her own family out of a job. Pretty clear conflict of interest.
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God i hate politicians
Quick Borderlands 2 question. Spoiler warning for achievements and boss talk.
Alrighty, so one of the achievements for Borderlands 2 is ‘complete all quests in the game’. In the Secret Armory of General Knoxx, there was a similar achievement, but was impossible to complete on your first playthrough. One of the quests you had to do was “YOU. WILL. DIE.” which involved killing Crawmerax, which is always at level cap. In your first playthrough, his area isn’t even open and I’m not even sure whether that quest showed up.
Gearbox announced that there is another boss in this game which will appear at the level cap called Terramorphous the Invincible. I’m wondering whether it will even be possible to kill Terramorphous on the first playthrough. If you can’t, then that means that it is impossible to complete that particular achievement on your first playthrough.
I’m just wondering whether it’s worth doing every little quest in the first playthrough when I’ll get superior gear from a second playthrough, and will be able to complete the ‘every quest’ achievement.
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I’d say to stick to lovin’ the game the first run. Don’t over-think it and just enjoy the experience. Then, on your second playthrough you can focus on achievements.
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Given Terramorphous is level 50, and first playthorugh apparently gets you to lvl 30 something, I think he’s a playthrough 2 kinda thing.
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Thing is Crawmerax was always a bunch of levels higher then you even if you were at the cap. So I don’t think it matters all that much. I fought him first playthrough too, you just need to get the quest first.
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I think Terramorphous is level locked at cap, not scaled to your current level.
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Just a note on BL2 Golden Keys: If you sign up for Gearbox Shift you get another one, so I have two keys that I’ve not yet used. Just thought you all might like to know.
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And how would one go about this?
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Extras option on main menu in game
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Extras -> Shift(?) -> Enter email/password -> Confirm address from email -> free golden key!
I don’t know what I did but I had 3 Golden Keys. I had no idea where the chest was nor the Sanctuary teleporter so when I teleported back there I immediately saw a shiny chest and proceeded to open it… TWICE
So now I have 1 Golden Key left 🙁
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BAM! And the beard is gone.
Somewhere a single tear just rolled down an Indian mans cheek.
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So that explained the disturbance in the force.
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As if a thousand hairs suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced..
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Haha. It’s the first time in over 10 years that my face has been hair free. It looks wrong and I’m having a mild freak out.
I shouldn’t because after all….
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WHYYYY?!?!?!
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Fun fact, that dude was an Italian American. Parents were from Sicily.
Hey guys!!
Ecogamer has alerted me to 2 really awesome deals!
#1 is a new PS Vita Bundle that trumps Big W’s offer:
http://upload.ozbargain.com/2012/09/20/9410_20120920_153321.jpg
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Second is a new indie bundle from indigala:
http://www.indiegala.com/For android – Wasted Land and Call of Cthulhu: Wasteland
For PC: Worms, Alien Breed 2, Broken Sword 1, 2 +3, Worms Blast, Worms Crazy Gold and 2 other yet to be anounced! 😀-
EVERYONE GET THIS FOR BROKEN SWORD
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That’s exactly what i was going to do – haven’t played any of them yet 🙂
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Can’t access due to a direct link to the jpg. Can you please link the page it’s on?
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Sorry buddy
http://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/80273-
Now worries 🙂
Wow…that’s seriously cheap. If I didn’t have a 3DSXL I would probably grab one right now…
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I hope it’s not JB trying to ditch stock of the thing. 🙁
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Wow, that’s really good!
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I am going to earn $200 by the end of next week… Shit be tempting, yo!
Although I don’t really have a reason to take the plunge now. I’d rather wait for a price drop or another model but… I dunno!
Vita Questions
– Does the Wi-Fi model come with a memory card, if so how big? I assume the 4GB card the bundle has isn’t enough.
– The Wi-Fi model can connect to my phone for 3G, right? I remember reading about this somewhere before launch but I wasn’t sure if it’s actually the case.
– What is FIFA Football equivalent too? FIFA12?Cheers for the deal Loops :). If you didn’t see there was also an Xbox one but it’s not that cheap. $184 for a 4GB so probably not worth it as there’s been much better deals in the past.
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Yeah I’m going to wait and see if/when they bring out a new model. Not really in a rush to own one right now (and can’t really afford it anyway :P)
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There will be a new model probably mid to late 2013 I expect, with a price drop as well. But that’s ages away.
Still, I’d probably wait right now and get the red one. Vita’s meant to be red.
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Oh yeah I saw those red/blue ones. They looked amazing!
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As far as memory goes, it really depends what you’re putting on it. I have a 16gb, it has around 2gb free at the moment. PSN emails actually tell me how much space each one takes so here’s what I have on mine:
– Lumines: Electronic Symphony (Vita) (778mb)
– Escape Plan (Vita) (842mb)
– Sound Shapes (Vita) (970mb)
– Super Stardust Delta (Vita) (209mb)
– Final Fantasy Tactics (PSP) (205mb)
– The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky (1.1gb)
– Persona (PSP) (511mb)
– Persona 2 (PSP) (906mb)
– Persona 3 Portable (PSP) (1.07gb)
– Ys Seven (PSP) (448mb)
– Yggdra Union (PSP) (535mb)
– Fate/Extra (PSP) (1.1gb)
– Riviera (PSP) (478mb)
– Knights in the Nightmare (PSP) (272mb)
– Lunar: Silver Star Harmony (PSP) (827mb)So that should give you an idea of what sort of range you’re looking at. PSP games top out around 1gb but most are half that (insert joke about TitS being large here) and Vita downloadable stuff is around 1gb. The actual retail games (Lumines was retail but let’s ignore that) are probably a lot larger.
If you are going to buy physical copies of the Vita games then you’ll probably find that 4gb is enough for starters. Eventually you’ll want a 16 or a 32 (or a 64 if Sony ever make one). On the upside, you can subsequently hook your smaller one up to a foreign PSN account and swap between them.
Regarding 3G, if your phone supports acting as a WiFi hotspot or WiFi internet sharing or whatever, then yes that works fine. I do it with my 3DS and my (3G) Vita periodically but my phone disables the connection after 5 minutes idle and it drains the battery very quickly so I don’t do it often. I have a 3G Vita but never activated the 3G SIM (it includes a Vodaphail SIM), just wanted the 3G in case it became something I wanted in the future, avoiding having to buy a second system for that feature.
No idea about FIFA.
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Cheers. I forgot how small PSP games were. I was more concerned about the size of Vita games. I figured something decent looking (graphics wise) like Uncharted would take up quite a bit of space. I probably wouldn’t go for downloads anyway since I assume they’re more expensive (from the Australian store) but with PS Plus all the freebies would be downloadable anyway so I’d definitely need to invest in more space.
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Yeah – what Negative said.
As for Fifa, it’s basically Fifa 12 with added features. It’s actually really really good.
Basically you have the option to use the rear touch panel for shooting, with the panel representing the goal, so you you touch on the panel where you would like the ball to go in the net – such an awesome feature, although it can make holding the vita a little awkward sometimes.
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Im really bad at this Nuzlock thing. Im down to two pokemon.
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There’s a story there. Was it Miltank?
I had a terrible run when I tried to Nuzlocke White for the first time. Every time I caught a 5th team member, something would happen that I would lose one and go back to 4. I think it was the 7th gym before I had a full team. You’ll be ok, we can rebuild
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Do you have any left in your PC box? Or does the 2 include them?
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I’m left with a Zubat and a Slowpoke and I lost it all to that Sycther (Under leveled Slowpoke was boss) I do have a ghastly and geodude left in the PC think I might have to take the Geodude cause I have weakness to electric on both my remaining pokes
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Well there’s plenty of places to catch things after Ilex Forest, you’re still in!
Also to catch a few more things you can back-track once you teach something Headbutt from the move tutor. Azalea Town has Headbutt Trees you can use. Violet/Cherrygrove/New Bark also have Headbutt trees, but I’m saving them for when I get Surf/a better fishing rod 😛
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Whoa 7th gym!? I was under the impression you kept dying a lot in the early game for your previous Nuzlocke runs 😛
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No, it was more that I would consistantly losing 1 or 2 pokemon here and there. Usually because I wouldn’t grind enough, or wasn’t paying attention
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Ouch! D:
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Ouch indeed man 🙁
I levelled my Geodude to level 17 and he 1 hit KO’d all of Bugsy’s Pokemon.
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Hey friends, I meant to check something, if there’s a dude in a town who is all “I’ll trade you an x for a y” are you allowed to do that?
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What an Onix, huh? ;D
Even though the rules say No Trading, but I don’t think anybody is going to condemn you for doing one of those in-game trades 😛 As long as the Pokemon you’re trading away was caught according to the rules. It’s up to you!
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What’s Ticket to Ride like?
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AWESOME!
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Pretty good. You can go at a pretty steady pace and the basic strategy is easy enough to learn. More complicated things like trying to block others is nice fun.
You don’t feel like you’re getting screwed over or that things aren’t really going your way very often. Even if you can’t do exactly what you want there will almost always be something for everyone to do until the very end.
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Often that ‘something to do’ involves predicting where your opponents are trying to connect and trolling by deliberately blocking them out, so even if you can’t win you can make other people lose. :V
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Still in the game :p
I definitely recommend this game. It seems the strike the right balance and Sughly is downright obsessed with it.
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All future meats we want Sughly at we just tell him Ticket To Ride will be present!
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The whole reason we’re having the one this week is because he wanted to play it again.
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Rofl. Thought you were having this every few weeks anyway?
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Yeah, Ticket to Ride is basically the perfect casual euro boardgame. Easy mechanics, simple explanation, lots of depth and strategy, well balanced scoring system (everyone usually ends up very evenly spaced out) quick setup and less than an hour to play the whole game.
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Most importantly, it feels fair.
I think that’s important in a board game.
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Remember that cute gif of a rabbit falling asleep at a desk?
I recommend watching it muted.
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Now that’s just adorable
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Ignored advice and watched with sound on…
Regret.
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Ignored advice and watched with sound on…
NO REGRET.
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Fuzzy Fuzzy
Cute Cute-
Fuzzy Fuzzy
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Fuzzy fuzzy, cute ‘n fuzzy!
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I can feel my manliness going even further into the red…
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And the music was rather fuzzy and cute, i think.
@LastQuestion (Slight BL2 spoiler)
My favourite achievement so far is for killing a flying enemy with a thrown Tediore gun.
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Haha awesome. Tediore guns are actually really fun to use.
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Unfortunately, I am a compulsive reloader, so I tend to chew through ammo a tad with them
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I got a Hyperion shotty with 18 shots in it. Every shot increases accuracy, so after 4 shots I can snipe with it 😀
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I’m a Maliwan man, love me some burnination.
I did have great success with a bandit gun against a boss though
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Jakobs revolvers are great. Massive rapid fire is so good for a melee Zer0!
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I’m playing Zer0 in co-op, might look at revolver/melee combo
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I have a Jakobs sniper. It’s pretty awesome.
We also found several Jakobs gattling guns. They were somewhat less awesome.
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I forget what brand it was, but just before I logged off last night I got an epic-quality sniper rifle drop that shoots burny laser beams.
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Gun porn is so weird to the uninitiated.
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Hi all, how are your days goi…
Oh, The Dig. BRB
Woooo. Gotta brute force the lyrics for 10 different songs into my head before tomorrow morning. X Factor contestants, eat your hearts out. 😛
Despite how it may sound, I’m actually really excited about this. Like, giddy schoolgirl, jumping up and down, almost squealing, excited. 😀
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Which songs? And what on earth for?
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This!
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That!
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Which?
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The Other!
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Really?
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What?
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HOW?!
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Who?
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Where?
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When?
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Erm, yeah. It would probably help if I told you that… 😛
Going on a camp this weekend. It’s a few different church youth groups coming together for it, so I don’t have to play the keyboard for each worship session. I get to sing for some of them. 😀
So yeah, just worship songs. Hillsong, Planetshakers, those sorts of ones.
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It’s funny how you can sorta cheat with those songs. You just need to memorise a bunch of bible verses, then it’s pretty easy to guess what the lyrics for the songs will be 😛
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He’s got the whooooole world, in his hands,
He’s got the whooooole world, in his hands,
He’s got the whooooole world, in his hands,
He’s got the whole world in his hands \o/Steve Buscemi can belt out a tune 😀
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I will follow Him,
Follow Him wherever He may go,
There isn’t an ocean too deep,
A mountain so high it can keep,
Keep me away, away from His looooooooove! \o/Whoopi Goldberg can belt out a tune 😀
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You sir, deserve a medal 😀
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Nothing you could say could tear me away from my God, (my God)
Nothing you could do, ’cause I’m stuck like glue to my God, (my God)
I’m sticking to my God like a stamp to a letter,
Like birds of a feather we stick together.
I’m tellin’ you from the start, I can’t be torn apart from my God.I love that movie.
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They’ve all got pretty similar structure a lot of the time too. At least that was my impression, I never really went very far with learning an instrument so I never had to play them, just sing along.
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If by structure, you mean ‘verse, pre chorus, chorus, verse, pre chorus, chorus, bridge, chorus’ isn’t that how pretty much all songs go anyway?
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More like 4/4 time signature, similar chord progression and basic vocal tonality. Psalms and hymns are very basic with regard to other forms of music (I guess they’ve more in common with pop music structurally speaking than anything else?)
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You forgot the bit where you repeat the chorus 3 times at the end and then the final line 3 times.
I’m gonna sit at the welcome table.
I’m gonna sit at the welcome table one of these days.
I’m gonna sit at the weclcome table.
Gonna sit at the welcome table one of these days.
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(Anyone who watched Strangers with Candy will remember that fondly. :P)
In the garden of eden honey
don’t you know that i looooove you
in the garden of eden baybeh
don’t you know that i’l alllways be true
Oh won’t you come with me-he-hee
and take my ha-a-annd
oh won’t you come with meee
and we’ll walk this laaaanndddd
Wait a minute, this sounds like rock and/or roll!
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HAHAHA!!!
Just FYI, worship songs =/= hymns. It’s like bugs and insects. Insects are bugs, but not all bugs are insects 😛
These are the sorts of songs I play: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etwFf3ZrABs
Haha, I DID like this song a whole lot in True Grit. 😛 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmlNaLULQbY
Dick Smith have a comp to win a copy of Fifa 13 on their facebook if anyone is interested 🙂
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All my game-playing friends go nuts for Fifa. I have no idea what all the fuss is about 😛
Bah! Sportsball games!
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They just want to get a touchdown after hitting a homerun.
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Just after the siren that goes “FORE” for the love all.
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God you guys are the worst.
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New plan: we hire a writer to make a sports-related comment for us every day so that we may use it in everyday conversation and thus appear knowledgeable about sports
“Say, [This team here] has been [Insert state of team] ever since that [coach/and/or/goodplayer] has left, damaging it’s shot at [insert title here].
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I like your thinking
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I don’t Like it…
10 minutes until the test starts. Last one of these sort of things (Uni entry STAT) I finished in a quarter of the allotted and still got in the 96th percentile. Still I’m hella nervous.
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Break a leg! (doesn’t have to be yours)
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You’re gonna do awesome, man! Good luck!
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This is well underway now, so it’s too late to wish luck. I’m confident that things will go well, though.
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GL
HF
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Gerluhhefuhguhguh?
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It’s drunk luck! 😀
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Borderlands 2 is pretty addictive, who knew? 😛
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Soo, do you like… loot? http://bit.ly/PFxApe
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Too much of it. :'( (Atleast for single player. Feel like I’m spoiled for choice.)
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\o/ another victim to the cause.
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If I start gushing about it Spec Ops style, there’s only one guy to blame. Greenius.
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D.C. Spec Ops Style?
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I’m sorry I caused you to have fun with an awesome game!
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Just read the Black Mesa review Luke Plunkett put up. Am I the only one that didn’t dislike the ending? I’m talking about the story and the gameplay.
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It did kinda get random though with the final boss and all. But it really made me think at the end of the game. I loved it. BUT WHY HAVEN’T THEY CLOSED THE SAGA! I wanted to one day know the answers D’=
A little tip who like mash and tasty things, l-la loops!
Pumpkin
Potato
When you mash, add your usual butter and milk/cream and salt and pepper, but also add a teaspoon or so (depending on your tastes) of seeded mustard.
HEAVEN!
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Potato. Sour cream. You need nothing else.
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Seconded.
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Bacon chips and shallots
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Shallots would be good. I would opt for diced bacon over bacon chips.
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I only say bacon chips because thats what Mum uses, but I agree, diced bacon would probably be better
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Mashed potato with yogurt instead of milk is awesome.
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Eh?
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Man I’d forgotten how addictive Voltorb Flip is. It’s nice that they made earning Game Corner coins semi skill based rather than all luck like the slot machines were in other games.
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It’s so much more fun than the slot machines were.
Man, I wish pokemon were real.
Then I could just cruise around doing stuff like this:
http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs48/f/2009/230/0/7/Metagross_by_Tomiokajiro.jpg
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Why own a tank when you can get THAT!? 😀
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Ha, saw that the longest time ago. Also noticeable is how everything is plugged into a magneton and there’s a pikachu in the back of one of the cars.
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This really makes me want to ask, if you could have one pokemon and only one pokemon as a pet, which would it be? I’d pick Jolteon 🙂
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I’d want something practical that could fly, surf etc. or just be plain badass. Man every time it’s bought up it’s such a hard question to answer. just like “who’s your favourite Pokemon!” 😛
Mew is pretty awesome cause it can learn EVERYTHING, likewise with Ditto, but who could say no to having a friggen dragon fly them around everywhere or an awesome Pokepal like Pikachu.
So to answer your question…
I WANT ALL
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YOU WANT TO CATCH ‘EM ALL
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Butterfree, duh.
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I SAID ONE! Urgh humans keep wanting to break the rules
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That’s what makes the great! (and terrible)
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GYARADOS.
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mmmmm gyros…
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I’m gonna pick one from each generation because I can’t narrow it down any more. I’d pick one of
Dewgong
Kingdra
Flygon
Leafeon or
CincinnoNote, these aren’t my favourites for each gen, just the ones I’d want as a pet
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Wailord.
Or MOTHEREFFING ARCEUS.
Or piplup. Damn adorable.
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Charizard! Because I’m unoriginal and want a pet dragon.
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Not Arcanine or Growlith?
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Sorry I cheated guys I had to use a dead pokemon to teach cut cause none of my living ones could learn it and nor could a weedle I grabbed hoping it could
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You can have a HM slave as long as you don’t use it in battle, I think is the offical rule
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I can’t wait for the day when they get rid of HMs all together. Replace them with passive out-of-battle abilities or something. (Or beef the attacks up so they’re at least usable :P)
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Wasn’t really stated but I don’t consider that cheating if you literally have nowhere to go. Just don’t use it in battle etc. but dead HM slaves should be valid 🙂
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Yeah I thought, shouldn’t you be able to use HMs even if they’re in fainted state?
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For Nuzlocke when a Pokemon faints it’s considered ‘dead’ so you have to release them or pop them in the PC never to be used again. I think you can use HMs when Pokemon are fainted but CJ most likely had it stored in the PC rather than his party.
His concern of ‘cheating’ (don’t worry it’s not!) was because he’s using a Pokemon that isn’t supposed to be used again but if he’s unable to catch any other Pokemon who can learn that HM then he can’t progress! D:
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All I have now is Slowpoke im so bad at this =(
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Are we on the verge of our first game over? Don’t do it CJ, you can still pull through!!!!
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Would we consider it a game over since he did get stuck? 😛
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Grind him like mad!
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Dirty
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I like the idea of dragging a dead Pokemon around and surfing on it and whatnot.
Does anyone know of a good multipurpose printer?
Preferably one that doesn’t need other colours to print black.
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Depending on funds, look at a colour laser, you can normally pick up a cheapy from Officeworks for around $200 – $300, but they come with the 4 seperate toners, good thing about lasers is that they use black for black.
That or get an ink jet (HP, Brother) and turn on print in grey scale for black and white prints, should just use the black ink then (not 100% on that though)… hope that helpfully vague!
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It’s a little steep. I don’t print too much so it’s really annoying when I run out of one ink colour
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Yeah, for cheaper than that you’re looking at an inkjet, so far I haven’t been able to definitively find one that says ‘Only uses black ink to print black’.
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Hmm colour lasers with scanner
Brother MFC-9125CN – Looking around $350.00 (techbuy.com.au)
http://www.techbuy.com.au/p/184544/PRINTERS_MULTIFUNCTION_LASER/Brother/MFC-9125CN.asp
HP M175A Laserjet Pro 100 Colour – $266 (techbuy) – slow printing though, not really recommended unless only one you can afford.
http://www.techbuy.com.au/p/174842/PRINTERS_MULTIFUNCTION_LASER/HP/CE865A.aspHP CF040A Colour laser MFC – $380.00
http://www.techbuy.com.au/p/186429/PRINTERS_MULTIFUNCTION_LASER/HP/CF040A.asp
I use that Brother one at the top everyday at work, and it goes great, toner is pretty cheap @ around $50 per cartridge. Great for printing out documents and plans, wouldn’t use it for photo reproduction though!
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3rd Soundwave announcement is up.
Killswitch Engage ftw!! Will be interesting to see how they go after their break…. Looking more and more forward to Feb!
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It’s still getting a bit of a ‘meh’ from me, unfortunately.
Killswitch are great.. but still i won’t be going – i just don’t really ‘love’ many of the bands on the list-
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For me it’s Metallica, Slayer & Anthrax. Was sad when there was no chance of Megadeth =( Though I find Dave Mustaine starting to become a bit of twit of late when he speaks.
Stone Sour & Duff McKagen’s Loaded interest me, but yeah.
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Well, I’m buggering off now boys and girls. Have awesomesauce evenings, and congratulations to the MEGA-KUDOS winner for this fortnight. I’m sure you probably deserve it, but if not, congratulations anyway! I’ll probably be around again come 8-9pm ish… ishishish…
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That reminds me, I know this gets asked every week, but what’s Mark’s email again?
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Depending on your mood, it’s either mark.serrels(at)alluremedia.com.au, or mark.serrels(at)kotaku.com.au
I tend to use the Kotaku one, but they both go to the same inbox anyway.
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Okay so I’ve been thinking, and this is coming from someone who’s experience with the game is about ten minutes plus some screenshots… Pokemon on Wii-U. Gamepad is where you issue your commands, send out your pokemon etc. While traveling it functions as a map. Animated battles happen on the TV screen, with results etc appearing on the pad. Cross-play with the eventual 3DS version which would basically be the same game. Save your game on Wii-U, transfer it over to the other to play on-the-go and vice-versa. Other players with the game, presumably your friends, can duel you by connecting their 3DS to your Wii U, playing out the same battles on screen. Packages of small collectible models sold at toy and games stores with NFC chips inside. Touch to the gamepad to import them into your game via the NFC system in the gamepad.
It all seems so obvious. And so horribly addictive. 🙁
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Hah yeah, I’ve given this a lot of thought since I heard about the WiiU 😛 I’d love a full-blown main-series entry on the WiiU, but I think the best we can hope for is another sub-series like Colosseum/XD. Personally I’d like a fully-featured Pokemon Stadium (not like Battle Revolution on the Wii, which was horrible :P). It’d be great to play with 2 Gamepads as well. Keeping your moves a secret when you’re battling, etc.
Realistically though, I think they’ll do a Skylanders-type game with Pokemon figurines. Hell, they’ve already got it with the Rumble series minus the toys! They’d be stupid not to.
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The thing with that is that Skylanders figures sit on a dedicated stand and are constantly being written to and read from. You can’t really do that if you’re using the gamepad. But if you don’t use a setup like that no one will buy the figures, they’ll just touch to unlock the pokemon then pass it to someone else or take it back to the store or the like. So you need to have a setup where you have to be constantly touching them to the gamepad to keep them active or something.
So instead it might be that instead of figures, you get accessories or something. Maybe a pokeball that you load up with your current pokemon and then touch it to the system to bring them out?
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Yeah that’s a good idea, didn’t think of it like that.
Though the games could still use Wiimote or the ‘Xbox Wii60’ controller to actually control the game while the gamepad acts as the figurine stand. There’s so many options I’d be astonished if they didn’t do something with this 😛
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I’d only use the packages for Mew-esque exclusive pokemon, but otherwise, you are a winrar
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Yeah… if only they could also put things in like getting your pokemon to use the environment, for example if it were a rocky area, you could get your pokemon to take cover behind the rocks to increase chances of evading your enemy’s attack, but if the enemy pokemon’s attack was strong enough to pierce the rock (maybe a critical hit) it could do bonus rock damage from the blast.
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I’d like to see them employ some sort of cross-over with the way battles work in the anime; that is, vaguely real-time and taking environment etc into consideration. In terms of attack timing, something like the Secret of Mana attack bar would work (for those that don’t know, sort of like Final Fantasy’s ATB system, but with real-time movement).
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So basically you want Pokemon with the Tales battle system?
Incidentally, Super Smash Bros is being developed by a team at Namco headed up by one of the (former?) Tales directors…
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Sort of?
I want to see the kinds of stuff that happens in the anime (like dodging attacks, type differences being negated by high skill), but most of this stuff seems like it could only happen with a real time system to avoid being boring and drawn out.
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Thinking about it now… NFC figurines could be applied to pretty much all of the existing Pokemon spinoff franchises. New abilities in a Pokemon Ranger adventure-style games, Playable characters in Mystery Dungeon/Rumble, etc. Not to mention anything new they could make.
It’d be cool if you could buy the figurines and they would work across multiple games.
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NFC is how Nintendo makes ItPrintsMoney.gif v2.0
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Ok, ok, hear me out.
Game pad = Camera.
Camera = Pokemon Snap
New Pokemon Snap: MILLIONS OF DOLLARS-
Please, Saturday. Make it happen. I need this. ;_;
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Sorry to do this to ya bro 🙁
http://www.theverge.com/gaming/2012/9/17/3348288/pokemon-
🙁
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Wouldn’t Pokemon Snap work better on the 3DS anyway? Especially with the AR stuff. Imagine wandering around the city and suddenly pokemon. Don’t think the tech is good enough for that though sadly.
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I LOVE discovering new music thanks to youtube.
Not only is the name of this song awesome, but the song title is so bad it’s good!!
On top of that it sounds pretty bad arse too – plus there are some INSANELY loowwww vocals that sound almost like a digereedoo at around 3 mins!
Ladies and gentlemen; Pissed off and mad about it by Texas Hippie Coalition!
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That’s throat singing by the sounds of it. Dude has skills.
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Serious skills.
Listened to some other songs, and while they sound reallly good the lyrics are pretty terrible, even by southern metal standards lol
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Fuck I think I just locked myself out of some Borderlands 2 quests :(. I’ve been doing everything I’ve come across until now but it seems like I can’t finish some quests now…
sadface
I really hope it’s just temporary and I can go back and do it later :(. If you ever come across a quest called “Mine, All Mine” that’s around the point where certain quests will become unavailable.
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I wonder if you can join someone else’s game who is further back and do it with them and get credited yourself?
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Oh good idea! It looks like Mine, All Mine is the only one locked out at the moment. It’s under “Blocked” in my quests and I can’t do anything with it…
Too bad I can’t join anyone though (except f4ction!) 😛
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Oh, so that’s the quest that’s blocked? I thought you meant don’t do that quest until last. 😛
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Aw, man. That’s too bad. Thanks for the warning, though. Will make a point to finish loose ends before playing that quest.
Well I think this pretty much sums up my mood at the moment
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You won’t hear this from me often… but DAFUQ?!?!
…I’m off to watch Bear Force One
Hahahahaha. Haha. Ha. Man, I swear point and click ARPGs have cursed launches.
Since I don’t have a pre-existing Runic account connected to my Torchlight 2 game, I am incapable of playing online games.
No, but seriously. Surely they could anticipate this stuff.
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Congratulations. That was the funniest blaugh yet.
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I should add, I recorded them all a few nights ago, when I was meant to be sleeping. That one is the “Crazy Blaugh.”
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Hey is anyone’s PSN username CrisCrazy2012?
It’s not on TAYnames and it doesn’t belong to any of my friends, I was just thinking it was one of you who maybe doesn’t have their PSN ID on the TAYnames document.
If it is I’d be happy to add you I just want to put a face to a name or rather a username to a PSN ID 🙂
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Not sure about that one but I’ve had like 3 or so random names add me somewhat recently (within a month or so) as well. None were on TAYnames and none seemed recognisable so I just ignored them :P.
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Thanks 🙂
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TAYLOCK question.
I bought a Sandshrew from the game place in Goldenrod. A) is that allowed? B) can I still get the Dratini?
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Hm… That’s a tricky question. I would probably say that the Sandshrew would count as your first encounter so that’s it. But then you can also get an Eevee in Goldenrod (once you reach Ecruteak). I don’t know.
Just go with whatever you think is right. The rules are more like guidelines anyway 😛
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Well I might go for the Dratini then as Im down to a level 6 geodude and nothing else
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Don’t forget you can go forward to routes 35/36 and the National Park to get some new things (though I’d wait for the Bug Catching Contest)! The guard in the building between Goldenrod/Route 35 will also give you a Spearow if you talk to him (even though it’s meant to be used in a side-‘mission’ you can still battle with it).
Other than that, load up on Potions (buying Lemonade on the roof of the Goldenrod department store is a cheaper alternative) and take your time!
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I grinded so much but I keep getting blind sided. Lost Slowpoke to a Magmar cause it knew Feint attack and Slowpoke had no Sp Att for Water Gun =(
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I’d say that could be considered the first Pokemon found in Goldenrod. So you can’t use it unless you haven’t already found a Pokemon by fishing/surfing/headbutting and therefore it’s either Sandshrew or Dratini. I think Pow said in-game traded Pokemon were fine so I’d consider in-game freebie Pokemon (Spearow, Eevee, etc.) to be fine to use.
That’s just me though 😛
Might download the jet set radio demo on Ps3 seeing as my printer refuses to print
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Makes sense to me…
Bored *shuffles feet*
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XENOBLADE
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XENABLADE.
YOUR MOVE, GREENIUS.
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XENAISHOT
YOUR MOVE, JUGSY.
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*does the robot*
JUST TURNED THIS INTO A DANCE OFF.
LET’S DO THIS THANG.
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DANCE PARTY
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So an unexpected update on my post a few pages back about pre-ordering the WiiU at JBHiFi. I just got a text from the girl that served me “Hey this is ____ from JB ystrdy. Up to anything tonight?”.
When I got it I was trying to interpret it for a minute, scratching my head not understanding the JB part. My gf asked what was up and I showed her the text and then the penny dropped. GF accused me of flirting with the girl but I really didn’t. All good though, we both find it a bit amusing.
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Haha! I can safely say that’s never happened to me. Good for the ol’ ego I bet. 😀
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I CAN NOW DO ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Ha ha ha.
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I wish this happened to me! Though i’d be too chicken to reply haha.
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lol I have a gf so I won’t bother replying. Hopefully she doesn’t take it personally and cancel my preorder.
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Your getting a Phillips CDI
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OR you could go with it and get a discount.
+1 ethics.
Oh man, with the whole Pure Pwnage movie it’s brought a lot back to the forums, SO MUCH NOSTALGIA and so many people I remember.
Also they passed the funding for the movie earlier today, they have 59 days to go on it, 75k in bit over 24 hours is AMAZING.
Brrr….
I don’t know why… but I feel really cold…
(Bonus points for anyone who gets the reference)
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BRR IT’S COLD IN HERE THERE MUST BE SOME TOROS IN THE ATMOSPHERE.
I SUBSTITUTE YOUR REFERENCES WITH MY OWN.
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Batgirl gettin’ her cheers on early!
SOMEONE GET THIS GIRL SOME POMPOMS, STAT!-
I already have two pairs.
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It’s not important why I have them.
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ONE WOMAN TAY DANCE PARTY
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Believe it or not I’ve only had a bit of caffeine tonight.
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Do you think there’s a Pokemon dance club and the most popular move there is the tail whip?
I WOULD GO TO THAT CLUB.
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I suppose there’d be a furry concern going to such a place.
I’ll just go as Jynx or Mr. Mime or something equally unappealing.
I would’ve made an adorable Vulpix though.
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ALL BATGIRL ALL THE TIME.
TAKING UP TAY.
SOMETHING SOMETHING RHYMING …OKAY?
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HAY
BAY
MAY
LAY
JAY
DAY
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MY BABY TAKES THE MORNING TRAIN
Can you imagine a baby catching a train?
Where would they be going?
Is there important baby business to attend to?
WHAT DO THEY DO?
*pokes TAY* still nothing?
Damn.
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NICE SPAM GURRL. ALSO PAGEGET
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I haven’t had a pageget in forever!
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Because you don’t post!
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I’d imagine that babies would go about their standard routine of shit, eat and sleep, with the added bonus of automated locomotion. You know when babies learn to crawl, and then learn to turn fucking invisible the moment you turn your head?
NOW THEY’RE TRAVELING INTERSTATE.I’M SICK OF THESE MOTHERFECKING BABIES, ON THIS MOTHERFECKING TRAIN.
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Would they have briefcases?
Is Barney their boss?
I’d bet he’d be a real jerk.
‘OH, I’M A DINOSAUR. JENKINS, I NEED THE ANDERSON ACCOUNT BY 11AM OR YOU GET STRAINED CARROTS FOR LUNCH WHILE YOU WATCH ME EAT JELLY’
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The higher-up babies would be wearing Armani suits and whatever $70,000 watch matches their tie, too.
I’d imagine they would work for Barney, yes. The theme song would play incessantly, beating like a wardrum, crushing their will into a malleable state much like their underdeveloped physique. Child labour has never looked so lucrative.
Ladies and gentlemen;
The future.
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If you’re bored, you could always draw a picture of yourself to send to me for my unknown project…. 😛
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YES!
When did you need that by?
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Soonish.
I’d ideally like all the pictures to be in by mid-October at the latest.
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Reminds me of that movie Baby’s Day Out. With less crawling around on skyscrapers.
My Dad gave employee of the month to a cat. Her picture is up on the wall next to previous employee of the month winners.
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A valid winner, for sure! 😛
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That’s either one REALLY production cat or lots of really unproductive employees. I want to imagine it’s a cat that wears a suit and can use a computer.
I’m not sure if anyone here played Dragons Dogma except me and Bish but man I am psyched for the expansion. I really hope they add scaling enemies, THAT IS ALL I WANT OUT OF THAT GAME!
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I haven’t played it because I haven’t bought it yet. been waiting to finish the games I already have but I never have enough time anymore. Maybe when the expansion arrives it will be a good time to grab it though, because people will be playing it again.
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It’s a really good game 😀
As I said, Unfortunately in NG+ enemies don’t scale to your level. So you have your endgame gear and super high level fighting level 1 enemies =/
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Wow that kind of sucks :/
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Sounds like NG+ in Xenoblade 😉
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ZING!
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It’s on my to-get list some day. I’d have definitely gotten it if it was on PC, I really struggle to justify console games now.
After spending most of the week Nuzlocking, Project Nova is back on the priority list. At least until Work decides to interrupt this afternoon.
PS Go Swannies!!! One more to go \o/
BL2 Blocked Quest Update!
So a quest became “Blocked” (under the mission log it appeared in a section called Blocked) for me in Borderlands 2, making me unable to complete it. This happened because I progressed further in a story mission. It remained “Blocked” for a while even after I did a few more story missions which would technically allow me to complete it. Turns out I needed to do a few more and the quest became unblocked and I just finished it over 8 levels than I was supposed to 😛
The quest that was blocked for me was called “Mine, All Mine” and I’ve read that two more quests can become Blocked during this period, if I recall they’re called something like “In Memorium” and “Firehawk Cult” (can’t remember the exact names). Just thought I’d give a heads up in case anyone else was planning to 100% the quests but ran into this minor problem.
TL;DR – as far as I know there’s no missable quests! If a quest becomes “Blocked” due to certain story missions then just continue on with it and they’ll be unblocked :).
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Thanks, Greenius. Just completed In Memorium and Firehawk Cult. Haven’t encountered Mine, All Mine yet.
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Also, every time I see the car I’m always sad there’s not someone sitting in the back. I think I need to play coop. 😀
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Same, especially in the 4 player car :'(
I was able to connect and play with f4ction and Pez last night though, that was fun :). Slightly laggy but I think that’s on my end and not Borderlands/Steam.
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I don’t have access to my master race machine at the moment. The withdrawal is kicking in…
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Stuck at work… This sucks bawlz… Ah well, brought my 3ds… So there’s that… How’s everyone else Saturday treating them?
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Stuck at work… This sucks bawlz… Ah well, I have internet… So there’s that… How’s everyone else Saturday treating them?
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Work buddy o/
I just purchased a DS. I thought it was a red one until I peeled off all the stickers from the machine and discovered it was one of those Mario ones. Still looks kind of terrible but special edition I guess.
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Woooo ds work buddy o/
With all these Nuzlocke shenanigans I wanted to get back into pokemans, but I’m not hardcore enough to do the Nuzlocke run XD-
Last poogiemun game I played was Red almost 15 years ago. Figured I’d give the Nuzlocke a go. Worst case I fail and haven’t lost much so why not?
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True, but I would properly break down in tears and would have to organize a funeral for each little critter I would inevitably loose… Which is a lot 😛
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That’s why I picked a fire starter. Viking funeral for all.
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I heartily condone this… Might restart black as well and do the nuzlocking in that XD
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Don’t let them die then 😀
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I just realised I now own a PC, PS3, 360, Wii, PSP, DS and an iPhone.
I think I may be overcompensating from a one console childhood.
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Hmmm, pc (and 2 laptops), ps2, Xbox 360, psp, DSXL, 3DSXL, IPhone, android tablet…. And we only had one pc in my house when I grew up XD
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You never owned a DS until now? You’ve got some catching up to do!
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I was going to name all these awesome series but then I gave up 😛
You could always go about obtaining a naughty card since it’ll cost a crapton to catch up on all the games you’ve missed out on.
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Sega kid hence never had that childhood joy memories of Nintendo. Mario was the enemy.
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The world ends with you. Must get
Layton games
Ace attorney games
Under the knife
Soul bubbles (I absolutely loved this but it wasn’t a well known game)
Rune factory series
Harvest moon if you like that
Tetris, because it’s tetris
Warioware games are always fun
OkamidenHard to get but if you can
Another code
Room 512
Last window (room 512 sequel)
Again
These four games are by Cing, a company that closed down a few years ago. I need last window and again myself D=-
Don’t forget that TWEWY is also on iOS and is apparently a really good port (it’s hard to find on DS). Ghost Trick is also very good but on iOS as well.
Also I would add the Dragon Quest games to this list, plus 999, Phantom Hourglass and *maybe* Spirit Tracks.
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Now you just need a PS2 =P
Sigh, was getting into the groove, and now I have to get ready for work. Only a 4 hour shift, so hopefully I’ll get some more stuff done tonight
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Hints pls
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He’s choreographing a solo dance routine to be performed at the next Meat.
Oops, spoilers. Sorry.
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Let’s just say I’m halfway through phase 2, phase 3 and 4 will occur simultaneously and phase 5 will probably take the longest. Phase 6 will me shouting from the rooftops that it’s finished and you can all view the final result.
Also – dragons
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Pokeporn.
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One of those phrases, that when said in public, stops the actions of everyone around and focuses their attention on you.
That, and “… That’s how I got kicked out of Toys R’ Us!” is pretty effective.
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You could combine the two.
Pokeporn is why I got kicked out of Toys R Us.
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My god, it’s essentially the combo breaker of life.
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Feels weird being home alone right now. House feels utterly empty and kind of eerie with the dog gone.
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I can’t imagine how it feels. I couldn’t stand it myself and got another dog
🙁 Borderlands providing the distraction you were hoping for?
South Park returns this week and all I’ll say about the preview is:
Avengers, Halloween.
Feth yes. 😀
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_maq0eqfUic1r4o9xho1_500.png
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Woo! New South Park!
What night?
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Wednesday night in the US.
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:/ ANOTHER Blocked Borderlands 2 quest…
This time I was about to hand it in but the character I had to hand it in to was also considered an objective for another story mission. So talking to them triggered the story one first :(. I want my reward damnit!
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oh my god… I wanted to Borderlands for just a bit but a few hours later and I think I’m near the end and the game is stuttering reallll bad :/. Think the computer is overheating or something…
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Nooooo!
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This is why I always do all side quests before continuing on with what ever the game’s main mission is. It means you can usually avoid things like this.
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Yeah, same here. I always leave story stuff until last. (Unless a side quest is annoying me. Only one instance of that in Borderlands 2 so far. The only timed mission in the game so far and I’ve only attempted it once. :P)
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Oh the timed quests are horrible :/. I assume you’re talking about the letter box one? There’s a worse one later on that requires the use of a vehicle… ugh!
As for side quests: I usually do them first but I’m working on the lower level quests first and only when I have side quests that are higher than the main quest, then I’ll do the main quest. This keeps me levelled evenly and prevents me from being too under/over levelled.
The quest unblocked itself but it was after a huge chain of events (which I assumed was the end of the game – it wasn’t).
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My 3 year old nephew is so adoreable sometimes.
He loves Batman, so when he went to Movie World the other week, meeting Batman was all he cared about. He had something worked out that he wanted to tell Batman when he met him, but when the time came he was so in awe, that he couldn’t remember what it was, and instead just blurted out “I have a Spiderman costume” 😀
I’m told Batman took it well.
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haha bless the little fella!
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Nawww, kids are adorable. Except when they’re screaming.
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The young fella pretty much only acts up for his parents. Very rarely for his grand parents, and never for me. Literally never.
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He’s probably already learnt that uncles and grandparents are more likely to spoil him 🙂
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No doubt true. One of the great things about being an Uncle.
I have a God-daughter too. Same deal 😉
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Just got back from seeing The Expendables 2. Holy crap did I love that movie.
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Oh yes infinitely better than the first. They embraced it’s campiness and it so much better for it. Needed more Jet Li, but the Chuck Norris parts was so damn good.
Morning everyone!
I’m still half asleep -_-
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Morning!
Me too, probably should get some breakfast. That will wake me up!
It pains me to do it but I restarted Borderlands 2 after a few hours of play. I realised I just wasn’t having fun with Zero. Mordecai was a way better character. So I’m going with what my heart really wanted in the first place.
Gunzerker. I’ve denied it too long.
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Axton’s where the actions at. 😛
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Turret bro!
I went Mordecai in the original and never looked back. I did have some regret with Axton but he’s getting better and I’m having less regret for not choosing Zero or Salvador :).
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Probably helped deciding going in a Borderlands newbie. DIdn’t know much about the character classes at all!
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I didn’t know much either :). I know with the first I picked Mordecai cause he has a bird :P. Good thing he was awesome :D.
I tried not to read/see much about BL2 so I was pretty much going in blind.
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Axton’s great. Drop turret, hide behind wall, rinse and repeat.
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Drop turret, drop SECOND turret, hide behind wall, rinse and repeat.
BEST.
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I haven’t gotten that far yet. So now I’m sad.
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Haha, I find it especially useful when backtracking. Drop a turret, run like crazy. Leisurely stroll back later for loot. 😛
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I think I might try coop tomorrow. :S Feel like I’m missing out on the full experience.
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I’m starting to hit a wall with Maya as well, though might try a respec before I reroll.
eh, i loved zero, and sniper rifles are fairly overpowered, especially when the AI bugs out and you can kill a boss by hiding and repeatedly shooting them in the noggin
Anyone else find the Ninja Turtles in Borderlands 2 yet?
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😀 That was outstanding., I like all the pop culture quests.
I have nothing to contribute.
HOW ABOUT THAT BORDERLANDS 2?
MAN, THAT IS A NICE BORDER.
IT FRAMES THOSE LANDS REALLY WELL.
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Bahaha it works cause cel shading
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Haha! I’ve noticed that all I’ve posted about on twitter and here for two days now has been BL2 related. I’ll stop. 😛
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I have the first one lying around, I swear I’ll get to it after my essays!
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Hey, at least you’ve been posting, I’ve been quiet as a grave!
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So, who likes Spec Ops!? 😛
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*raises hand
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That game’s okay.
Need to play more of it than I have to really have a proper opinion.
People are too busy playing borderlands 2 to talk =(
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I’M HERE, SCREE
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To be fair, they’re probably talking over comms on that game too. 😛
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But D=
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I kinda wish I bought it. But I have too many other things to play/do
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No no. Trjn, Sughly, Virus, Nob and myself are playing board games.
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\o/ YAY! Board games! Is there cluedo?
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I’m catching up on lecture recordings since ha! who goes to lectures?!
They played Gangnam Style.
What even?
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I heard it on the “radio” or whatever it is they play at Coles. I win
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Isn’t that just adverts on repeat?
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Maybe its just my store, but we have actual music. Although you can barely hear it most of the day, not until we’re almost closed anyway
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Isn’t it just a loop of down down? That’s all mine seems to be
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Down, Down! Prices are down!
;D
(But that seems to be all mine plays as well :P)
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I annoys the crap out of me D=
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It was played in my lecture the other week as well! My mother also informed me of “this weird Asian song” that she saw on the music channel…
So yeah, it’s pretty much mainstream now.
Wooo! Just beat Borderlands 2 and all the side quests (the ones I found anyway). Amazing game and probably my GOTY so far! It’s everything a sequel should be and it improves on so many aspects of the first. Pity I had really bad connection issues but I was able to briefly join f4ction and I played a bit with Pez. Weird how I could only join those two.
Now I should probably start that assignment due Tuesday that I know nothing for…
…nah!
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Its also a much better PC port then last time.
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Yeah it’s great. Borderlands wasn’t that bad but I had to edit a few files to get the settings juuuust right. This one has been perfect from the get-go 😀
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Gamespy and terrible menu navigation
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My attempt at studying has resulted in watching Horrible History clips.
I CAN ADULT GOOD.
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Sounds like you’re doing a greet job adulting
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I AM THE GREETEST.
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Man, I love Horrible Histories. So good.
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I think if I can use my degree to make a M rated version of Horrible Histories the HECS debt will be worth it.
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It will only be worth it if it includes the musical numbers.
If Les Miserables has taught me anything, it’s that violence and singing go hand in hand.
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How could I not include musical numbers?
I LOVE A JAUNTY TUNE.
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This is completely off topic, but the word “jaunty” confuses me. I know that it means like, exciting, and lively, and stuff, but it always makes me think of “jaunt” which is a short trip.
Actually, when I have a jaunty night, I do tend to have a short trip into the floor, so I guess it’s not so different…
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HEY POWALEN
How come your name is Powalen and not Caterpie/Butterfree? HUH HOW COME!?
I don’t see Castform in your Gravatar… IMPOSTER
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Because he’s too dapper to be simply labelled as “Caterpie”.
See the top-hat and monocle?
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Thank you, CrazyGuy! You understand me!
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HEY GREENIUS
How come your name is Greenius a- uhh, yeah :S
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He should be “Envious”, instead…
…or maybe not.
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Because Caterpie is too common of a username! I’d never be able to register anywhere without adding nunbers! And Butterfree isn’t manly enough. Also, I CAN LIKE MORE THAN ONE THING.
Also, your face!
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How did my phone auto correct to ‘nunbers’? haha I don’t even understand…
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I have a nearly full beer on a coaster…
Why have I not drunk it?
WHY?!
Obligatory bored post!
Inexplicable sad feels.
Go have more Pokemon adventures so I can read about them and live vicariously through you all.
My 3DS for the next few weeks will be left neglected.
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We have been! http://www.powalen.com/taylocke
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I think she wants more updates 😛
Jugs, don’t you have a copy of HeartGold!? Join in the Pokefun!
I played a bit more last night but nothing worthy of an update…
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I would but essays/exams are killing me.
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I want updates on the hour EVERY HOUR.
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I’M ONLY ONE MAN.
The spirit is willing, but the flesh is spongy and bruised.
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That’s my favourite episode!
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Is it possible to do these runs on the older versions? Not that I’ll be able to due to not owning any of them, just curious 😀
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Yeah, you can Nuzlocke on whatever version you want.
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Nuzlocke is just a type of themed run that gives some basic rules, so like Blaghs said, you can apply it to any Poke game 🙂
Jo, Freeze and Blaghs played on emulators. Freeze bought a DS and Blaghs’ game froze and he quit 😛 so there’s ways to obtain the version we’re all playing. Seems like those 3 kept running into problems with the emulator though so save often.
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It is possible like Greenius said, but if you have a DS I highly, highly recommend you get HeartGold or SoulSilver. They’re the best games in the series if you have nostalgia for the original 151 (which includes you, if I remember correctly :P)
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Blame Blaghs, Mawt and maybe Rockets(?). They were going to Nuzlocke with us but we haven’t heard any of their stories yet
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I only just reached the first Gym, haven’t beaten it yet, so I’m waiting. And it won’t be very interesting. “I caught some Pokemon.”
“I one shot some Pokemon.”
“I wasn’t paying attention and my Gastly got down to one health.”
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I don’t know how you guys can handle it. I would get far too attached to my Pokemon and I’d probably cry.
When I first started playing WoW, I picked a hunter and got my first pet. I didn’t know you could revive a dead pet so I actually cried when Cat (super creative name, MY SISTER DID IT AND I COULDN’T CHANGE IT TO SOMETHING COOL. SHUT UP) had ‘died’ and then I found the revive option and all was well.
But yeah…
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The secret is to be really good at grinding. Also, I’m really bad at names, so I look at my pokemon, and rather than being attached, I laugh at how bad their names are.
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So I played that Journey game at Bunny’s tonight, awesome game is awesome =D
Also t’was a good night tonight! Cheers to Freeze, Bunny, Sughly & Nob. Also Nob’s pie was consumed, I repeat Nob’s pie was consumed & it was tasty \o/
No new TAY? Is it a public holiday in Sydney or something?
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Mark seems to be super sick 🙁
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Ah, I was was wondering about that. I hope he feels better
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Multiple post test
This is a test.
Can youGet your wizard on?
testing this flashy new profile thingy… DO I WORK? ლ(ಠ益ಠლ)
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Haha! This is old TAY. I don’t think you need profile help any more. 😛
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I see you.
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