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Also, ROCKETPUNCHED http://t.co/pFWD1OFb
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Looks like you’re being slapped with sore udders
Good Morning, TAY! I would say something like “Yay, public holiday!” but I always have Mondays off anyway, so…
Hope everyone had a good weekend. I went and watched the NRL Grand Final at a friends house last night. It was… interesting. I had no idea what was going on. The pizza was good though.
(And, as always, there’s a couple of new TAYlocke stories up if you’re interested!)
EDIT: OH! And I watched the new Doctor Who and really liked it! I don’t know what you twitter people were talking about! Much better than the Weeping Angels’ second appearance.
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The grand final was on Saturday I don’t know what you’re talking about
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Did… did I dream it?
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AFL was Saturday, NFL Sunday I beliece?
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[was joking around :p]
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Edit? Madness!
HAS SOMEONE ORGANISED AN EB EXPO MEAT YET?
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Woops, capslock.
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Just get a normal piece if meat and then put caviar and truffles on it so it’s really really expensive – get it? – EB Meat.
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LISTEN TO THE PODCAST AND YOU MAY HAVE HEARD SOMETHING JERK
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I HAVEN’T LISTENED TO THE PODCAST SINCE THE EPISODE BEFORE THE ONE BEFORE I WAS ON. I…KINDA KEEP FORGETTING ABOUT IT… :/ ALSO I’VE BEEN BUSY. AND…STUFF.
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On a more serious note, I don’t really have time to listen to podcasts. I can’t have it playing in the background because I just phase it out and don’t hear it. So I need to be doing nothing when listening to a podcast. But, given the choice, I would much prefer to spend an hour being productive (or just doing something) than just sitting and listening to something for an hour. That’s just how my brain works. It’s not because I don’t like potaku, just want you to know.
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I don’t remember hearing that!
I still haven’t decided if I’m going or not. If we’re actually having an organised Meat then I will!
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I’m not a huge fan of expos and conventions but if there is a meat after or outside the Expo, I’m happy to attend. I haven’t done anything in a while.
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Hi fronds!
I did basically nothing on the weekend, except play Borderlands 2 that is. I am going to a BBQ today so \o/ for delicious BBQ food but /o\ for human interaction.
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you must report back on the ones you call “humans”.study their behaviour and learn what you can about their evil plots….
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I finished all the Ronin missions in SR2! 😀
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Sounds like a decent weekend by my standards. (Except for the human interaction. Who needs that? :P)
Good morning. I only ended up having an hour of sleep last night. Also, my left ankle’s been hurting and I don’t know why. That is all.
YEAH PUBLIC HOLIDAY!!
not for uni students! Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay
EDIT POWERS ACTIVATE PEEEEEEEEEEW:
oh and i got resident evil 6 yesterday, i decided to start on jakes story, because he’s the most interesting character seeing as he’s new and there’s something about him that they totally spoil in the second god damn trailer they released that would have been way cooler to find out on my own.
so far so good, however i think jakes campaign has a bit of an identity crisis, doesn’t know whether it wants to be uncharted, or resident evil 3… lke one mission you are kinda jumping around a lot, running away from things, then the next mission you are in a snow mission with limited vision and stuff… it’s interesting
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also, if you are a fan of Dota 2 (or can appreciate good MOBA players)
then watch this, it was an awesome one this week.
SO, THAT NEW CLONE WARS EPISODE, HUH? There’s like 4 people/groups chasing down Darth Maul and his brother now. Also, Maul and Bro want to start their own army. (Not spoilers)
I’m rather excited to see what happens this season 😀
ALSO, THERE’S A CLONE COMMANDO DESERTER IN ONE OF THE EPISODES THIS SEASON! And Black Sun! And MOAR MANDALORIANS!
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What season is this? I’ve only seen up to season 3.
While waiting for some demos to download on my PS3 I decided to play a game while waiting but the game had a 700mb patch. WHAT THE HELL! Aargh! So now I’m downloading the patch which will delay the demos for a while.
I really hope it’s a new gameplay mode or something, because it’s a PSN game and 700mb is almost half the game’s size. Oh the game is Sideway:NY by the way, one of the games I got through PS+
On that note, why doesn’t Sony update games on the PSN store with their relevant patches. I don’t know what it entails but I don’t think it’s too hard for them to update the games on their servers.
There are some knowledgeable people here and some developers as well, so why don’t they do it? Do the developers have to resubmit the whole game+patch again? Money maybe?
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I could play the game without the patch but I know I would have this nagging feeling the whole way through, imagining glitches when maybe there are none.
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THIS OH MY GOD THIS
i download a game of psn, then when i go to run it, it has to get a patch for the game… WHY, WHY!!!! i JUST downloaded this from the same service, you couldn’t have downloaded the patch with it as well?
HINGE BISCUIT
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^ Who is this guy?
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Judging by the avatar, i think it’s Goku?
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YOU SPELLED MINGE WRONG!
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FLANGE?
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GIBLETS!
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MINGE MINGE MINGE MINGE MINGE MINGE MINGE MINGE MINGE MINGE MINGE MINGE MINGE MINGE MINGE MINGE MINGE MINGE MINGE MINGE MINGE MINGE MINGE MINGE MINGE MINGE MINGE MINGE MINGE MINGE !!!
NORKS AND BORKS AND PORK PIES!
NYYAAHHH!!!
http://www.bearfoo.com/
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I GOT A NEW LAPTOP YESTEDAY GAIS!!!!
I’m sooo excite, but I haven’t tested it yet, as i spent all night restoring factory defaults and creating recovery discs!!
Basically I went to highpoint with the family and happened upon this in Dick Smith:
http://asia.cnet.com/product/toshiba-qosmio-f750-core-i7-2630qm-processor-2-00ghz-4gb-ram-45506304.htm
Apparently according to that it does 3d? I was not aware of that when i bought it.. hmm lol.
Maybe it’s not that exact model? But all the rest is right – 20.0 ghz i7, 2 gig geforce 540M and more… Although mine has a 16″ screen, not 15.4…
So basically, it’s last years model – apprently it retailed at almost 2k at the end of last year, but they marked it down, acording to the label, to $999 when they had 2 left… but when i walked in they only had the display model left and had marked it down to $850.
Being the one to never take the price tag at final offer, i asked a staff member what the best price he could do would be – he was actually really cool. He said they had paid $1200 for it when they got it (aparently) so he could only take it down to $844 but he would chuck it an extra 2 years warranty – taking it to 3 years all up.
I then ummed and ahhhed about it for a while and said “can you throw in a case as i’ll probably be taking it to uni too”, to which he said for me to pick out one and he’d let me know what he could do. I basically found a shoulderbag one which was $50 and really swish and perfect for uni. In the end he said he’d chuck it in for 95 cents.
DEAL..
So yeah – i think i did pretty well and i’ll finally be able to join you guys in PC games, hopefully 😀
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That’s awesome.
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SO it’s good, ja?
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The offer is good, getting the extended warranty and a free bag basically.
I’m not the best with computers so I couldn’t tell you about the machine. It looks good though.
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Shiny!
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AND RED!!!
IT’S THE FASTEST COLOUR!!!!
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Oh, cool! There’s nothing more awesome than a new computer. Fresh and full of possibilities. Haha!
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Awesome win! my work just bought me a new lappy too. unlike most businesses ours are completely unrestricted and we can do whatever we want with them 🙂
just reformatted and did a clean win7 install as well and threw on the drivers. not a fan of all the bundled software and crap they come with…
also at that price, that was a steal! I picked my lappy out specifically to do some gaming too, very similarr specs, I7 -3610QM 2.3ghz 8gb ram 750gb HDD, blu ray and 2GB Geforce GT630m, and picked that up for $1170 down from $1490.
Havent got borderlands 2 yet but skyrim and borderlands 1 are maxed out and silky smooth 🙂
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Damn that’s nice!
Good work, mate! 😀
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20Ghz i7?! How even /o\
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I was meant to say 2.0 ghz lol
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Hey, I posted this on Saturday, but thought I might just one more time in case folks missed it.
ANNA’S QUEST REVIEW:
Boarding the anticipation band wagon can be perilous at the best of times. When the promise is met, there’s no better feeling — finally playing and loving something that’s been a long time coming. There’s also a very real risk of something buckling under the weight of expectations. That’s the price you pay for riding, I guess. One of those risks you take. Anna’s Quest is a game I’ve been following for a long while now. (Since it was Anna’s Room in fact, revealed on the old Adventure Gamers forum.) In that time I’ve gotten to know the developer a little better. In some ways this makes prospects a whole lot scarier on the anticipation front. I want this to be great, but what if it wasn’t? What if I didn’t like it? I’m happy to say that ol’ waiting predicament has paid off!
Anna’s Quest is a traditional hand drawn, point-and-click adventure of a welcomed kind, one with a sense of charm and old school nostalgia. Saying the art direction is beautiful would be an understatement. It’s just so damn pretty looking: clean, sharp and colourful. A comparison that constantly came to mind as I played was definitely Curse of Monkey Island and not just in art direction, an influence found in the interface too. Those familiar with LucasArts’ adventures of the late ’90s will know what to expect, a collection of simple and intuitive contextual icons. (Examine, take and talk.) Like the beloved kick icon in Full Throttle, Anna’s Quest has a unique one too — telekinesis — an interesting hook pivotal to the story itself.
The game pretty much hits the ground running, with our protagonist Anna already in all kinds of trouble: captured in a fortified tower surrounded by woods, experimented on by an old hagged witch — truly the makings of bed time reading at its finest. This story book feel isn’t coincidental either, a stylized presentation established almost immediately in a sepia-toned opening cutscene. (Not to mention in the free, playable prologue that complements the game.) There’s something warm and endearing about it, I’ve got to say. A premise that’s simple and executed with an expert precision. I appreciated how well realized the world and lore of Anna’s Quest felt too, something helped by a generous supply of hot spots!
Ever since my formative adventure gaming years I’ve had a thing for exploring a game’s world to the fullest. Sure, you can have elaborate backgrounds with plenty of detail, but it means nothing if a character has little to say. (I’m looking at you Syberia. *shakes fist*) Hearing a character’s unique thoughts and point-of-view of their surrounds adds a whole damn lot to the setting. It’s fun to get an insight into our hero’s noggin as well, what makes ’em tick and all that. (One of the reasons I love the Gabriel Knight games so much.) Might seem pretty minor, but it’s something I really do appreciate and something Anna’s Quest happens to do well.
I like the characters too, all likable and funny. There was a goofy smile plastered across my face almost the entire time through at the dialogue, an occasional line or two that would make me laugh out loud like an idiot as well. For the most part, the voice acting serves the small ensemble nicely. (There’s a little inconsistency in the sound quality, but the performances are excellent.) This won’t be an issue to some people, but I would’ve appreciated the ability to turn the subtitles off. Often when I’m playing a game with subtitles no matter how much I’m enjoying it, I feel the need to read the text instead of watching the animation and listening to the actors. Unfairly makes the voice acting seem slow as a by-product. Just something to keep in mind.
The puzzles are the kind I appreciate, inventory based and occasionally abstract. Anna’s Quest does a good job of giving you subtle hints in the dialogue too. There’s enough advice given to help you out if you’re stuck, but not enough to hinder that feeling of satisfaction at successfully solving one good and proper. From time-to-time the game will stop you from getting one step ahead of a puzzle, for better or worse. (For example if you try to get an inventory item before you’re supposed to or have reason to you will be stopped.) This makes a lot of sense story wise, but unintentionally gives the impression you’re on the wrong path. These instances were really the only time I found myself properly stumped.
The length of the game itself is relatively short, a couple of hours at most depending on how fast you get through the puzzles. (Though a couple of hours I’m very glad I took.) It’s worth noting that Anna’s Quest is the first volume in a longer series, so story points will be left open and not resolved. There’s enough of a self-contained story to keep this installment satisfying enough, but I warn you now that you’ll certainly want more by the time the credits roll. (Ain’t that the rule, though? Always leave ’em wanting more.) There’s plenty of clues to character origins and I’m sure a little foreshadowing in there too. Honestly can’t wait to see what’s coming up next.
For such a small team, they’ve done an incredible job keeping the production values high. The score is stirring and mysterious too. (With a little bit of music box thrown in to set the mood.)
Anna’s Quest is not without a note worthy flaw, though, specifically the 4:3 resolution. To me it seemed a little out-of-date, especially on a large wide screen monitor. It looks incredibly good, even stretched though and you have the option to play full screen with black borders. You can’t really fault the game too much, just worth noting. In some ways I think it’s an ideal candidate for iOS and Android platforms. Also the lack of any auto-save makes the ol’ adventure game chest nut to save early and save often note worthy. (I’m only mentioning this because of a one off technical problem I had that skipped all the dialogue, but otherwise it ran perfectly.)
You might be wondering why I wrote such a long, detailed write-up. Truth be told it was to show my appreciation for such a cool little indie project, a kind that I hope to see more of side-by-side with the current big titles on the horizon. The game is truly a labor of love, that much is obvious. I can’t recommend it enough if you’re even remotely interested!
Shane wrote a reader review on Kotaku too.
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Anna’s Quest can be bought from the Krams Design website.
Morning TAYbies!
first off…PAX! Sorry still excited.
Secondly, i love Mech games.!!! Also, got mark of the ninja finally. Seriously, this game could breed some serious OCD. Im playing through once normal. But i have a temptation to go back and try and do the levels with 0 detections and where possible 0 kills. LOVE IT.
Morning all.
I’ll try do a Meat Write-up a bit later on today (but then I was the first to leave so it might be a bit incomplete). Could someone do a list of who attended… There were a few names I didn’t catch.
Also, Question for all you people who spend lots of time online.
Does anyone use LastPass? Lifehacker bangs on a bout it being the best password database program, but I’ve been using it for a while and I find it a bit annoying and nowhere near as useful as it’s made out to be.
Does anyone have any other suggestions or comments?
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Hooray! A write-up. (Or the promise of a write-up anyway!) Be sure to tell us who’s who in the photo Splicer posted! 😀
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This photo?
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Haha! I half expected that to lead somewhere else. 😛
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You would 😛
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From left to right(Back row): Greenius, Tech Knight(in human disguise ala Terminator), Splicer,Inquisitorsz, #35’s frond #1 (sorry dude I forgot their names), #35, NegativeZero, #35’s frond #2.
Left to right(front): Beavwa and his lovely GF Pip, JordiI’m pretty sure that’s right, I apologise if it’s now, i’m terrible with names 😀
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😀 Thanks Splicer! A good group for sure!
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me wanst to play Hawken….
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I just realised that having a new lappy means i can play not only that but mech warrior!!!
OMG!!!!!!!!
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which mechwarrior??me needs some mechanical action…
EDIT: That came out wrong….. o_O
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Sure… wrong… right…
Mechwarrior online, fool!!! 😀
http://mwomercs.com/
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not long till public BETA. Trust me, the wait is worth it.
Hey, I’ve got a spoilerific Borderlands 2 question to ask in rot13. Don’t read unless you’ve completed the game:
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Yup, you spotted a plot hole. Try not to worry about it, even though this game has a plot I still was more worried about shooting and looting.
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I love JSRF. Just wondering, who else loved this game? And if you did, which characters did you use?
I always used either Beat or Boogie. No idea why, they were just my favourites.
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Yoyo and Gum.
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I liked Yoyo’s dog also =P
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What’s JSRF?
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Jet Set Radio Future.
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JSRF is what Jet Grind Radio should have been. Better graphics, tighter controls, better soundtrack, less slowdown and no more timer.
I played mainly with Beat and periodically with Gum or Rhyth. It was in the box of missing games I finally located a couple of weekends ago actually, I should fire it up again. Backwards Compatibility <3.
Holy crap – this just made my day all the more better – so awesome! 😀
Black Metal Babysitting – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydHMU05BknE&feature=related
SHE’S SO ADORABLE!!! AND METAL! 😀
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And another one where they make clay people!!!
CHILDREN WITH GUNS! 😀
Abe’s Oddysee HD! EXCITEMENT http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlYu90j9MIk
They changed his voice though… DISAPPOINTMENT
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I like the stop motion feel! Never actually played the original for more than five minutes, alas.
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I had the demo of this game on my PS1 but I just played the first level. To be honest I just spent half the time farting on guards. Maybe I’ll grab the HD version when it releases.
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Oh man, farting in that game was hilarious back in the day (who am I kidding, it still is…) My cousins and I would play that game every time I visited them. The person playing would just walk around the level farting while the rest of us were rolling around the floor laughing our heads off.
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come on bring xcom enemy unknown out already
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The demo was freakin’ great! Unfortunately it’ll have to wait until after Dishonored for me. :'(
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yeah, why do 2 amazing games come out at the same time /o\
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Any one know why the demo was 5gb? Was it more like a pre-load thing? Definitely was too short to justitify the size.
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You gotta remember that even though the demo may be limited maps, it still has to download the engine/inner workings of the game, the used textures and all that. It’s not like you can extract 10% of the game and expect it to be 10% file size.
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The voice of reason! Still odd that much prettier games can condense the size, though. 😛
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And Borderlands 2 slides in at a what, not even 5GB for the entire game on PC?
Far cry 2 was about 3gbs on disc.
And Shogun 2 is like a 30GB download.
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Holy damn! That’d cap my internet for sure. :S
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3! Pokemon.
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oh god Bish, Canadaland has eaten your profile picture thingie or something!
Z0mg silly weekends. I like weekends. But then I don’t like working after them. I’d like to be able to bank my weekends. Work until I’ve got 6 months worth of weekends, then take an extra month off out of my leave. Shit yes.
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You need another picnic day by the sounds of it. 😀
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My aunt does something interesting.
Every year, she saves at last 20% of her income. Come the fifth year, she takes the entire year off, with an effective full year of pay saved up to do whatever she wants. Travelling, gardening, renovations, whatever.
She works for the government and reasonably high up, from what I gather, and I think she’s been around long enough to be able to do that.
A full year off. Wouldn’t that be grand.
Well, you know that patch that was supposedly downloading:
‘An error occurred during the download operation. (80710723).’
AARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
When I get a PS4 and transfer all my PS3 games and data(hopefully the PS4 can do that) I will throw this console out of an open window get a bat, wear some gloves and safety goggles, then smash the shit out of this thing. Smash and smash and smash. (I’ve always wanted to recklessly destroy a piece of technology)
The best thing is, my anger will be brewing for about a year and a half(or whenever the PS4 comes out) and it will be a sweet release when I destroy this black monster with its green lights and dust filled shiny top.
(I still love you PS3 *sniff*)
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Either that or maybe I will;
1 just switch it off and try again later today.
2. Sell it at a pawn shop
3. Give it to someone who has no console.
I don’t know what’s inside my PS3, my laptop works fine and is downloading everything really well.
Oh well, that’s life I guess. Now what to do for the rest of the day.
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I don’t think I’ve ever had an issue downloading anything on my PS3. What PS3 are you using? One of the old ones or a slim?
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One of the older PS3 models. Not the backwards compatible one but the model after, the 80GB fat.
Are the slims better with downloading? Because if i can save who knows maybe I can grab the AC3/FIFA 13 bundle of the new slims that will be released later this month.
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I don’t know if the slims are better, but as I said, I’ve never had an issue downloading anything. Maybe it’s your internet rather than the ps3?
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My internet works fine on my laptop so I don’t think that’s the issue. Hopefully it works later on.
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I liked when my PS3 downloaded 90% of Infamous and then was all ‘nah’ and deleted it all because I didn’t set it to download in the background.
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Wow, I imagine that must have been terrible.
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I wouldn’t make plans like that yet, because I’m very very sceptical as to whether the next Playstation will have backwards compatibility with PS3. Fairly sure Sony is going to go with off the shelf commodity hardware and not that crazy complicated Cell bullshit again, and PS3 games are going to be a massive struggle to run on a general-purpose CPU because of all the weirdness that thing has.
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Here’s hoping reliable emulators on the PC ain’t too far away when next gen starts.
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True. Maybe I’ll just get a new PS3 instead. I’ll see. There are still a few weeks before holiday sales begin so if I can find an awesome price on a new console I just might be tempted.
On the other hand there are some system specific save files 🙁
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So weekend was quite good, sad that I missed Splicer’s meat but with teh grand final on I was over at the in laws. Started out supporting hawks but they were so over the top with their support I had to switch to the bloods. Although I made sure it was low key so that I didn’t get kicked out of the house,
Was a great match to watch followed by various BBQ meat goodness so overall quite enjoyable.
But the most important thing was I was able to outsource my picture for Strange to my niece
https://twitter.com/Tigerion/status/252563937797758976/photo/1
She is ridiculously talented and so very happy with it
Sunday was a sleep in day followed by lots of clicky click in torchlight 2
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Oh, man. That picture is freakin’ awesome. Your niece has the skills to pay the bills.
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It is 😀
I love the way that she has the colours we wear down, even though we were not wearing those colours on the day. Also the fact she can get our height difference in there (While making he auntie a little taller to make her feel good).
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Also perspective with your eyes there
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That picture is all sorts of great! 😀
Good morning to everyone on this fantastic Monday the 1st of October. I’ve been waitIng very patiently for this month it’s gonna be awesome.
Especially the 31st cause imma wake up run in a straight line through everything from my place to EB games. Get AC3 play it for 8 or so hours then if all goes well dress up as Eddie from Rocky Horror and go see it on the big screen. (if I can be bothered to get a costume together)
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I honestly can’t wait for Assassin’s Creed 3. That early U.S. history time period interests me a whole damn lot and it will be great to see a proper AC sequel! What’s the Rocky Horror significance for October? (Only asking cause TheL4stQuestion saw it on the weekend too!)
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Halloween would be my best guess.
Also, AC3 \o/-
Of course! :S
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Several movie theatres are playing it on October 31st. Maybe for Halloween idk I just wanna see it in the big screen
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Melbourne Meat Write Up (or at least part of it).
I had an insanely busy day on Saturday but I finally got round to picking up Greenius around 3:30. Turns out he lives about 15 min away from me and it wasn’t far out of my way. We had a lovely drive down the Monash Freeway complete with torrential rain and brief hail. I actually had to pull over because I couldn’t see anything, though that only lasted a few minutes. Yay for Melbourne weather.
We arrived at Splicer’s just past 4 and were welcomed by the host himself, Techknight, Beavwa and his other half Princess Pip and Jordi. We were also greeted by alcoholic brownies which were awesome! The group was watching some youtube game videos and then we watched COPS: Skyrim.
At some point Negative Zero arrived, this may have been before or with #35 and his two mates. I’m not sure because at this stage I was busy getting my ass kicked in Mortal Kombat. Once more people arrived we moved on to some 4 player games – in this case, Twisted Metal. Jordi is truly terrifying. I think she actually won the round that she played amidst lots of screaming and profanity.
During the carnage of Twisted Metal Splicer let his dogs in, a cubby Pug named Bella (looks totally like Kristen Stewart, I swear) and an awesome cowardly Husky called Kaiser. Kaiser continued to prove how terrifying Jordi is as the poor guy hid under the coffee table every time she yelled at him.
At this stage the meat numbered about 11 meat sacks, and therefore we had to move to activities designed for the masses. Lots of people brought many board games, but it appeared that the majority wanted to give my Cards Against Humanity a go. We moved to the kitchen table and hilarity ensued. It’s hard to describe the fun we had, you just had to be there. I find the game varies a lot depending on the group of people you play it with. It turned out that this group of people was perfect and we laughed until it hurt.
At one point it looked like we had had enough and I started to back up the cards, until someone asked me what I was doing and why I wasn’t shuffling for the next game. Sometime during game 2 Pizza arrived and Splicer was spot on in his pizza – people ratio (which is never easy). A quick look at my phone revealed that it was now about 10:30, time sure does fly. I had another party to make an appearance at, so when the second game of CAH wrapped up I said my farewells. Someone I will have to fill in what happened after I left.
It was an awesome day, and I could have stayed there all night. Had a great time and it looked like everyone enjoyed themselves. Thanks again to Splicer and his very understanding wife for inviting us round!
Quote of the night (at least while I was still there) goes to Jordi “I like fingering”, no context required.
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Left to Right (back):
Greenius, Tech Knight, Splicer, Inquisitorsz, #35’s frond #1, #35, NegativeZero, #35’s frond #2.
Left to right(front):
Beavwa and his lovely GF Pip, Jordi
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Haha! Sounds like good times a-plenty! Huskies are awesome, my neighbour has one. It stands on the roof of their car port and stares through my window at me.
What did 35’s friends make of you all? 😀
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Great write-up Inquisitorsz 🙂
I think the friends already knew about us. They were pre-warned I think.
It was a great day/night and Cards against Humanity…oh dear god…so wrong but so funny.
After Inquisitorsz left we all moved to the lounge room and chatted for a bit, then it was decided another game was in order, so this time, Scene It: The movie trivia board game was the go.
We broke into teams of 2 and it looked like Tech Knight and I would trounce averybody with our spectacular array of movie knowledge. When were on the home stretch and got pinged at the post by Team Greenius.
Next time Gadget, next time. After that, we chatted some more, turns out i’d seen Pip before when she worked at Draculas. Then we looked at the time and I think it was after 1am and we all decided to call it a night.
My dogs were shattered, I don’t think they’ve ever had so many pats in a single day. Plus I showed everyone at the meat Kaiser’s lovely singing(howling) voice, which everyone though was hysterical.
Then I found leftover pizza 🙂-
That Scene it trouncing was mainly you though xD. If we didn’t get turn-skipped so many times we would’ve won miles in front, plus what the heck was with that easy set of 3 final cuts for team greenius!? 😛
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Awww man.. now i’m even more bummed i couldn’t make it.
FTL!!!!Glad you all had a killer time! 😀
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I’m still yet to play Cards Against Humanity. I have no idea what it is, but TAY Marketing makes me want to play it. It’s good to put a face to the usernames as well! (Have we ever taken a group picture with the Sydney TAYbes? I don’t even know…)
ps. It’s disappointing to find out that Greenius is not the Melbourne-Bish. Show us your cooking skills! They do both wear coloured hoodies though, so there’s that. And the asian-ness.
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Is that racial profiling? 😛
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They know I’m JOKING! Mostly.
;D
(You made me ruin my so-far perfect “No Emoticon Monday” run!)
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:'( I was going to attempt that too, as you can see… no dice so far. 😛
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There are too many Sydney TAYbies for a group photo! I have a few photos from Pez’s housewarming that are cluttered with people, and it’s still not everyone who was there.
CAH is so awesome. Cakesmith has a set. He keeps bringing it with him when we go to Pez’s but we never actually get around to playing it…
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I think most of the TAYbies I’ve seen before have been from wacky antics captured on film. Sughly riding Trjn. Flu and Rockets singing in the street. AlexPants at the children’s playground. Bohemian Rhapsody. (On multiple occassions. :P)
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“AlexPants at the children’s playground.”
Weird times.
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Can’t forget Aleph’s crazy outback adventure tours too.
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We’ll get everyone to line up holding hands and take a panoramic shot. Then we can take another picture of the first and last person holding hands and photoshop it together into a never-ending picture loop of Sydney TAY goodness.
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Panoramic Meat!
This is only acceptable if everybody is chanting something ominous so we can scare passersby.
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We tried, once. No, twice.
In that horrible, horrible picture booth at Galaxy World.
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CAH is definitely not a game for the easily offended. It’s basically as if 4chan /b/ made a madlibs game.
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Note to self: Don’t wear easily-breakable monocle when playing Cards Against Humanity.
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Peeps were all Y U NO GREEN so I Green.
I am Helpius but I ain’t no Bish.
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Cards against humanity is amazingly fun, though I think Beavwa should be banned from playing it now…
His very sick mind shows thru too much.
So that’s what Melbourne TAYbies look like! I don’t think I’ve ever seen pictures of any of you before!
I was actually there fairly early, but had forgotten my stack of board games so Beavwa and I went back to my place to grab them, which was a bit longer a drive than I had though (complicated by the fact that I made a wrong turn and didn’t realise).
Then it turned out we didn’t even need the games and it’s all Cards Against Humanity’s fault 🙁
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Yeah sorry about that 🙁
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For shame!
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I wasn’t at all worried really, we had too many people for most of my games so we’d have had to play two separate games or go in teams.
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Glad you liked the brownies.
Happy to make them for all appropriate melb MEATs.
Also, awesome night on sat guys, thanx fronds. 😀
@D.C.
Ho shit! I never thought of that before! It’s hard to say since it just kind of happened in BL1 and the original really did not have a story, so it was never explained.
Best not to think about plot holes and just pew pew pew
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Yeah, it’s something easily forgiven. Whfg obgurerq zr jura abgnoyr qrnguf unccrarq.
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Jryy, gung’f whfg zl gnxr ba vg, naljnl.
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I guess BioShock and System Shock 2 have similar predicaments too.
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Morning, TAY.
Footy’s over.
Now I have to wait nearly two months for the cricket…
…you know, cricket?
That thing were a guy chucks a ball at another guy who has to hit the ball with a plank of wood, and there are a bunch of other guys trying to catch the ball or grab it and throw it at three smaller bits of wood before the guy with the plank gets across the line…
No?
Aww… 🙁
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I used to score so many points back when I was a regular swinger of the cricket club
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And then not long until January and the Tennis!
I will accept no “Sportsball” type jokes during the Australian Open. You all have to watch and enjoy it. Actually, I take that back. I love those jokes too much…
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Runplankball? Yeah, I’ve played it. I tripped on the spikes and managed to dislocate the opposition’s defender’s shoulder while running through their gauntlet.
I hear they wear better armour these days though?-
Eyelandt hazing?
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ohhhhhh, righhhht the one where they have to get homeruns
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I like the part where they guy yells “STRIKE 3!”
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no no no. This is the one where the naked guy comes running on to the picture and all the players go “aawwww Warnie”
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Naked guys and swingers? Man I want to play your cricket.
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And pictures apparently. Not sure how you play on a picture instead of a pitch but, well it is an interesting game
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Brockian Ultra Cricket is the best cricket.
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But not much of a spectator sport. 🙁
It’s been one month- one month exactly since I came to the land of.. well, honestly I don’t know Australia well enough to make a statement about that, you guys can fill that in.
Cons:
No job
No plan for the future
Pretty broke
Feel like I’m mooching off relatives (I’m staying with them, and to be honest not really feel like so, but it’s there on the outskirts of my mind)
Pros:
Got Borderlands 2
I found out Starburst, which normally is just the little square cubes of psuedo-gum in NA, make gummy worms and all that jazz. That’s pretty damn cool.
Therefore the month has been a success. Carry on, TAY.
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I hope that con list whittles down a little bit more! You’re a welcome addition to TAY, man. Hope you have plenty of adventures while you’re here!
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You forgot Tim Tams on the pros bit!
I hope more of those cons turn into pros before you have to….
boom boom
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Tim Tams
Shapes😀
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LAMINGTONS
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Pavlova! Any thing mango related, wait until Summer comes around my friend!
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Mango sorbet is fantastic. I had it for the first time December last year and it was mmmmmmmmmm awesome.
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😀 Mango Wies bars satisfy the craving until the real thing comes along! Have you had a Wies bar yet, Saturday? If not, put down whatever it is you’re doing and freakin’ run to the store! Post haste! 😛
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I’ve actually never had Weis bars or any Weis product for that matter. I guess they are always in the none home brand sections of the supermarket and as a student I barely visit those zones 🙂
That or maybe it’s because Aldi doesn’t stock them. I’ll check them out and hopefully they are on sale next time I go shopping.
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Be sure to post a write-up after you taste them! 😀
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Pavlova is awesome but is a New Zealand invention, not Australian. Not that that matters but it should be said.
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Haha! NZ, Aus. Practically the same thing. Just like Canada is the U.S. *waits for the inevitable beating Saturday is sure to give me.*
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I’m pretty sure Bish has a better idea of what Canada’s like more than me.
“We have trees and rocks and trees and rocks and water,” etc.
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You forgot snow and ice
as i mentioned, my family made the pavlova, it is definitely not new Zealand we have a bunch of proof (seriously, we have to defend it like mad, so many angry new zealanders)
Your family has my respect then. 😀 It still warps my mind that food can be invented. 😛
Except there are recipes which predate the ‘invention’ by Sachse by half a decade.
those are a different recipe, the one in the new Zealand newspaper was for a “meringue cake” which didn’t have the soft centre that sachse made when he made it.
MY GREAT GRANDFATHER INVENTED THE PAVLOVA IT’S THE ONLY CLAIM TO FAME I HAVE.
HERBERT SACHE LOOK HIM UP FOLKS!
damn phone
Herbert sachse
Sherbert Chase
I haven’t had a lamington in years. I hate lamingtons, but I really want one :S
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But schnitzels without Tuesdays work just fine! It’s only when the Tuesday occurs without the schnitzel that the world begins to tear and the seams.
But yeah. Lamington without jam is… wrong.
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What! Lamingtons with jam are a travesty! Though they’re not as bad as those ones with that horrible fake cream in them…
Plain lamingtons are the only way to go!
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He might be a racial profiler, but I agree with Powalen in this instance. 😛
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It’s ok D.C, you don’t have to agree with a clearly wrong opinion just to make up for your previous comments.
Although any cream is wrong, fake cream is a travesty. On that we can all agree
Did they add cream at least?
Pros:
TAY
That is all
Pros: Hungry
Cons: Hungry
damnnn youuu TAYYYY
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Being hungry can be a pro? 😛
I guess it makes the next meal extra awesome. I’m hungry too, not sure what I want for lunch…
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Just thinking of the exotic desserts your land has to offer is a pretty awesome pro, to be honest.
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HELLO REVERSE ME
I know what you mean about the mooching.
Staying with my relatives in this homeland of yours, and I feel like I should be paying rent or something. But they’re too nice and pleasant and all “pshaw, naahhhhhhh” and I’m all /o\
You should meat the Sydney TAYbies, and have a grand ole night out. There won’t be any surly jerk to bring the mood down.
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REVERSE ME? I am insulted. If anything, you’re the NEGA-ME. Or Bizarro Saturday. Or Dark Link. Whatever.
BTW, I’ve been curious, but whereabouts in canadia are you at, bish? cause I’m from vancouver (west coast) and I can’t really imagine living there willingly.
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Toronto.
My experience of Vancouver was being stuck there for 8 hours while Air Canada bumped me from flight to flight because Immigration held me up so that I missed my domestic flight.
So yeah, not the best experience.-
Air Canada sucks, so yeah.
Toronto. Good, good. Quebec would’a been your best shot, but east coast is wwaaay better than west, in terms of actual crap to do. And god help you if you’re in the prairies. I dunno about the far east, aka PEI and Newfoundland and all that. Their accents are actual accents! Crazy.
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Quebec would make me feel inadequate that I can’t speak French.
When I was in Paris, parlez vous anglais was the only phrase I knew. 😛
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It helps to also know “Je ne parle pas francais,” as that helps reinforce the point.
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Fronds, I never played Zone of the Enders when it was fresh but I see that it’s getting an HD re-release soon. Should I get this at some point? I like ridable robots.
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I have the first game on PS2 but I never played it and now it’s part of a HD collection. I had the sly trilogy on PS2, never finished it. The Jak and Daxter trilogy, never finished them. Now both those series have HD collections. /o\ At this rate I think most of my unplayed PS3 games will have PS4 re-releases before I play them.
I should really change this habit.
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I feel similarly. But I did actually finish Sly 2.
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BOTH OF YOU SHOULD PLAY YOUR GAMES 😛
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I’m not buying anything (except Persona 4 and Mugen Souls because they’re actual LEs) until Ni no Kuni. So I’m trying to do that.
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I honestly dont know why people love the PS2 games so much.
They were alright, I guess, but I never got into them.
Fist of Mars on the GBA though. That was great.
Apparently in the 10 years since I was the undisputed champion of the university Tekken Tag Tournament machine I have become completely pants at Tekken. Record in online play: about 20% wins. I’m a scrub again!
It’s kinda weird though, I’ll play against characters from the good old days and I’ll be able to block stuff on reaction and feel like I’m 21 again, and then someone will bust out a Leo or a Zafina or an Alisa or something, and I’ll be like “herp derp, just use the same two strings on me 10 times in a row while I stand there like an idiot with no idea what I can duck and what’s punishable”.
And here I was thinking that fighting games basically never changed.
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If it’s any consolation, I’ve always been terrible at fighting games! 😀
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But a dirty Mario Karting cheat!
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It’s funny how muscle memory works. It’s like in Arkham City, by the end of the game your fingers know the wacky combos.
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My muscle memory never works properly in these games. I undoubtedly played hundreds of hours of Tekken Tag at university and could still screw up a basic crouch-dash motion. The good news is that I’m still just as quasi-competent at that as I always was!
Actually, what muscle memory I do have is working against me a bit. The game has sped up since TTT (I know it’s not just my imagination because I came across an old TTT machine back in July and had a few games then) and I have a tendency not to press the keys for combos fast enough. Or I press for combos which used to exist and don’t exist anymore. I have a lot of learning ahead of me… and with X-Com and Dishonored coming out, I suspect I’m not going to end up putting in the time. Still lots of fun, though.
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I found with Arkham City it wasn’t so much of a problem of learning combos as much as learning timing and movement. Especially the stuff where you have to play as Catwoman, you need to be constantly moving, quick attacks and then get out of the way. With Batman it’s all about getting the counter timing right.
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Oh, man. I feel like playing Arkham again. 😀 I find the problem with combos is learning them, then moving onto the next game with combos that are completely different. A brave new world of button mashing.
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Arrrrrggghhhh!
I got this new phone which means I don’t have my old blizzard authenticator. Which means battle.net wont let me log in. And is making life extremely difficult to attempt removing the authenticator.
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You didn’t write the code down? This is why I have my authenticator working on multiple devices and a record of the serial number stored for safekeeping. Never know when your phone might die.
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Didn’t know I had to until now. Only made a battlenet account a few weeks ago.
Just gave up and made a new account.
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Also, Dr. Phil is assaulting a muppet on Sesame Street.
Everything is normal. Nothing to see here.
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“Oscar, the reason you’re green and angry is because everyone else on Sesame Street doesn’t live in filth like you do!”
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Oh, man. I imagine the crying that’ll ensue when it’s Bert and Earnies turn. 😛
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“If you were Gay, that’d be okay, I mean cos Hey, I’d like you anyway,
Because you see, if it were me, I would feel free to say that I was gay.
But I’m not gay!”-
AVENUE Q-FIVE o/
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Ha ha ha. Nice.
Morning folks.
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Hey, man! Hope this day finds you well!
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Ghost Slime!
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Why worry? Each one of us is wearing a unlicensed nuclear accelerator on his back.
.. Morning.
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Yesssss, Ghostbusters reference. o/
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Why did I stay up to 4:30 am last night reading tvtropes.org ? WHY!
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I do that with Wikipedia from time-to-time, spend hours clicking links and tumbling down the rabbit hole. 😛
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Wikipedia always ends in Hitler or the Inquisition.
WebMD always ends in Cancer.Always.
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Learning is fun. 😛
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I do that on the 40k wiki and on any new comics i happen to stumble across that are pretty awesome
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Oh, man. Last time Assassin’s Creed came out I got hooked on the lore. Spent freakin’ ages on the Wikia. Just another link. Just another link.
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TV Tropes ruins lives.
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But your life is awesome as it goes down the tubes.
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So friends, since I’m sure you’re all desperate to know what’s happening in my life, I will be in Sydney next weekend. I’m going up on Saturday, seeing a musical(Legally Blonde. Not even I can add “manly” to the end of that one.), and staying overnight in Sydney. This means that if anything is happening on Sunday, I can totally come along, and mooch off all you lovely people!
Or I can drive back to Canberra with my family. Which will be about as fascinating as it sounds.
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A lot of people seem to be going to the EB Expo, but nobody is mentioning a time and a place to meat! Suspicious, suspicious…
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Maybe the Sydney TAYbies have disbanded.
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Yeah, I have no idea what’s going on about that.
.. SOMEONE WANNA MEET UP ON SUNDAY THEN GUISE?
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I WANT TO MEAT!
I just don’t know if it’s worth seeing if I can buy a last minute ticket to the expo, or if I should just hang around outside looking for streetpass hits…
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GO BUY A TICKET. WHY NOT. WE SHOULD MEET UP REGARDLESS.
ALSO I GUESS WE SHOULD SEE CJ OR SOMETHING. I DUNNO.
See, progress.
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BUT THOUGHT AND EFFORT AND STUFF NOT TO MENTION THAT THIS WHOLE TRIP WILL COST BROKE ME A LOT OF CASH! BUT FINE I MAY HAVE BEEN CONVINCED.
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I’ll buy you a ticket! I probably can’t go because work so I’d love it if you could go. And take my 3ds for the streetpasses.
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Maybe the Sydney TAYbies only existed in my nightmares.
CJ THE ULTIMATE DUDEMAN WILL BE AT EB EXPO FROM 9AM SUNDAY-WHEN THEY ASK HIM TO LEAVE!!!!.
@Powalen
“This is rapture farms, they say its the biggest meat processing plant on Oddworld. Thats me! My name is Abe. I used to work, well actually I was a slave like all the others.”
Like Masha I only ever had the demo but I’ve always wanted to play it proper. I never finished Strangers Wrath but I did enjoy it.
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I read that in Abe’s voice. Awesome, just awesome 😀
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I also read it in Abe’s voice. I also only had the demo, same as Tombi
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Woo Tombi
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They changed his voice for the HD remake though D:
Changed it from the first game, anyway. I haven’t played any of the sequels.
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GET ME OUTTA HERE
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Now I can’t help but see the CEO in Abe as Andrew Ryan
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Hello.
Hello.
Follow me.
OK.
Sigh..
Uni has returnethed…
But on a sloghtly happier note – only 7 weeks and 10 assignments to go and it is done! Forever! (or at least for a couple of years)
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Enjoy it while it lasts, you’ll miss it more than you know!
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Ugh Uni!
I almost died in my lecture and tute today. So tired and sick of this crap 😛
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Oh, I should say. You’ll miss the social element of Uni. Not the assignments. Not the lectures. Not the tutes. 😛
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Wrong person!
I think she’ll miss all the Terraria time ;). Btw those brownies were tasty!
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If I could change one thing about my time at Uni it would be picking a more mainstream degree so that I could’ve been in the same pool of students throughout the years (My degree was dropped after my first year and I had the choice of continuing or changing to a similar IT degree. Having to jump between lots of different classes/schools doesn’t really let you make lasting friendships :P)
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I HAVE ONLY 39 DAYS LEFT BEFORE I AM DONE WITH ALL THIS UNI CRAP! IT’S EXCITING!
Argh! This is incredibly frustrating and I’d very much appreciate some computer help.
My internet connection on my desktop has been absolutely shocking lately and it’s been pretty terrible for the past year or so. Right now it’s disconnecting every minute and it keeps saying something about not being able to connect and when doing the default normal troubleshooting problem fix/detection thing it either says a problem can’t be detected or it ‘fixes’ it and says the problem is fixed, only to have it disconnect a minute later.
I’m not sure what’s causing these problems but basically it either has trouble connecting wirelessly to my modem/network or it keeps disconnecting. Everything used to be fine until about a year or so ago. I have a few ‘theories’ as to why this is happening. I also have trouble connecting wirelessly with my Xbox or PS3 but turning the modem off and on again usually lets me connect (this also sometimes fixes my PC problems).
One reason might be that more devices are using my wireless internet so it’s interfering with my connection. Up until a year or so ago it was pretty much just my desktop and consoles using it with maybe 1-3 of them connected at any given time. Now there is something like 2 tablets, 2 desktops (one on wired connection), 3 iPhones, 2 laptops and my game consoles that use it. All these devices aren’t using it at the same time but most of the time when my parents are home, it could be something like 3-5. In my mind this kind of makes sense but right now it’s just my desktop and my iPhone and there are still problems.
Another reason might be the wireless card my desktop has. This could be having problems which may be the cause of some of the stuff I’m experiencing and it could also have a low connection range. I wouldn’t say my PC is that far from the modem but there’s a bunch of walls/floors between them (PC is in my room, modem is downstairs). Generally my desktop never displays full bars of connection range but it’s usually always in the ‘good’ section. My laptop and other devices can connect fine from the same range or even further out. It can also display the wireless network BigPond____ but just can’t connect. I assume if there was a problem with the card it wouldn’t even display it?
I do torrent a bit but I’ve never had a problem on anything I’ve downloaded stuff onto. I use Microsoft Security Essentials and from what it tells me, it doesn’t look like I have any viruses that could be interfering with this connection.
I don’t know much about computers, networks and all of this type of stuff so any help/advice/insight would be appreciated. I really don’t know what the problem is and finding a solution is going to be even harder. If you need more information I’ll type up more but this is a long shot and I don’t think it’s going to be easily fixed :/. I really don’t understand why this is happening when everything else can connect fine. Yes, I’ve tried turning it all off and on again but it fixes nothing… Thanks in advance though!
UGH!
TL;DR – I either can’t connect to the internet or I keep disconnecting. Can you please help? :’(. Thanks.
(will probably repost on the next page because I’m Needius)
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Do you have the option to plug directly into the router rather than use the wireless?
The first thing I would be trying to confirm is if it is a issue with your setup/hardware or a downstream issue with your connection.
Take out as many bits and pieces between the connection and your PC as possible and see if you have an issue. If you are having the issues when not on the wireless it is either your router/modem or a problem with you supplier-
This. The trick to troubleshooting a problem is to remove the variables.
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+1. Cut out the wireless (even just short term to test). Once you know the problem area then it’s time for solutions or workarounds.
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Is it just your desktop that has issues or are other devices on the network running into problems as well?
Most likely your router is probably being overwhelmed by too many connections, especially if you’re also torrenting anything (it opens lots of connections). It may be just wearing out. Bear in mind that signal strength on wireless is not necessarily going to mean a good connection. Put fifty wireless devices right beside your router and they’re all going to get a strong signal but poor bandwidth (because the bandwidth is shared over all your devices). Eg at home I have my desktop & laptop, my phone, my sister’s desktop, my NAS, my parent’s computer and my sister, mum and dad all have smartphones. Our printer is connected to wireless as well. And then I have three consoles and two portables which can be on the network sometimes, and if my Dad is home he has his own laptop and I also have an old half-dead NAS box I use to media sometimes, and another old HTPC which I turn on periodically for experiments… if I didn’t have a decent dual-band dual-SSID router I’d quickly run into resource contention problems at times. Also adding to the issue is that every house around us has their own wireless network.
What sort of router do you have? Are you on 802.11g or 802.11n? How old is the wireless card in your desktop (is it a discrete card or integrated into the motherboard or – heaven forbid – a USB stick?) You might simply need a larger antenna or a range extender for your network but honestly I think the problem is probably at the router level.
Try upgrading your router’s firmware too, sometimes that’ll fix problems. You could also try changing the channel you’re broadcasting on to make sure it’s clear of other networks that might be interfering.
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Start isolating components to find which one is causing the problem.
Test your wireless with other devices turned off. Then test with one additional device etc.
You can also test with a LAN cable. You can buy a really long one for like $20.
Best bet is to make everything wired (where possible). Wireless is still generally pretty shit.
Finally if you have an old router/modem it might be time for an upgrade. If they are running 802.11a/b then you have an very old router. If your running 802.11g/n then you should be fine, but yes the more devices, the slower things will be.
I would never use Wifi on a desktop, console or gaming rig. It’s horrible for long downloads, streaming and gaming. Imo wifi is for phones, tablets, and laptops.-
Greenius and I played co-op Borderlands 2 on our crappy wifi connections last week. I was surprised with how smooth it was. 😛
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Well I did join you, meaning you were the host (so it’s smooth for you 🙂 ). It was slightly laggy for me but most games are :P. At least I didn’t disconnect! It was really horrible last night and I kept getting messages saying my session was lost/restored etc. ugh…
I’ve played with Pez before and he said he had a bit of lag too in previous times but last night when we tried playing, he said it was really, really bad and he was stuttering everywhere.
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Well, that explains it. When playing coop. Be the host, damn it. 😛
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I once had an electrician in to give me a quote on running ethernet through the roofspace from where our router is to my bedroom (currently run a huge cable across the floor around the bookcases and stuff). His response? Just use wireless. My palm and face made contact with each other.
Then again a different electrician trying to ‘fix’ an internal wiring problem came in, disconnected all our telephone jacks except where it enters the house and declared the problem now ‘fixed’. Ignoring the very obvious fact I had no less than eight wired devices, several of which were just beside the router. “You’ll just have to move your router.”
From one end of the house on the first story to the other end of the house on the ground floor.
He then proceeds to leave and couldn’t ‘find time’ to come back and fix the mess for two weeks.
TL;DR: Electricians are lazy.
P.S. None of that second story would happen if I could find our Telstra pit. I think it’s been buried 🙁
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Electricians are hopeless for that sort of stuff. Best to do it yourself. Although phone lines can be tricky.
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I’ll try to answer some of what you asked but my dad set up a lot of this so I’m not exactly sure on all of it.
I guess I could connect it directly to the router but I’ve never done so with my desktop. It’s always been on wireless and it used to be fine (I did lag online when playing games but I could always connect). I do have a long cable somewhere (I think it’s currently being used by the other desktop) so I can see if I can try it out later tonight.
At the moment it seems like it’s just my desktop having these problems. Ever since we changed over to Telstra around late 2010 my consoles have had some problems connecting too but usually turning the modem off and on again fixes this. I’m not torrenting at the moment and I generally do it at night or another time when I’m not using the computer to browse. All of the devices (and probably more) that I mentioned above are connected to the network but at any given time not many of them are actually on it (or even turned on). Right now it’s just my desktop and iPhone and it’s been horrid, straight up not being able to connect and when it finally did, it only remains connected for around a minute before the whole process repeats.
As for the router/connection I just checked and it’s a Thompson TG782t which I guess is fairly new since we got it as part of Telstra/BigPond at the end of 2010. Not sure if I’m on 802.11g/n/a/b but is there a way I can check? As for the wireless card, I’m not sure but it’s an Atheros AR5005GS Network Adapter. There’s a few other things but I don’t think they’re relevant (Microsoft Virtual WiFi Miniport Adapter and Realtek RTL8168D/8111D Family PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC (NDIS 6.20) – 1 and 2 (there’s two of them but I assume that’s just saying a port for an Ethernet cable?). My dad built this PC probably late 2009 so I assume it’ll be fairly recent. I guess that’s a discrete card then?
Not sure how often the router’s firmware has been updated, or even how to do it. And not sure about the channel thing at the end but I did try some random ipconfig/release ipconfig/renew just then which didn’t seem to do anything.
I’ve pretty much just used wireless for convenience as my desktop is in my room (upstairs) while the modem is in the study sort of area (downstairs). There’s a desktop there which my parents use but it’s connected through a cable. However, I did start noticing more problems when both desktops were on. I would sometimes disconnect but the downstairs desktop would be perfectly fine (interference maybe?).
Now I used to turn my computer and router off at least once a day when I had school. I do turn it off whenever I’m out but since I’m out less often I generally just leave both on and just let it download something during the night. Could leaving both on for extended periods be the cause? I just came back from Uni so both were turned off (my PC was in sleep mode during the night but I ‘woke’ it up and properly shut it down in the morning) and so I turned both on when I came home and the problems were still there.
I’m not sure what internet connection I have but if it’s any indication it’s whatever pack had 200GB a month (now we have 500GB) and when downloading I can reach 1.2MB/s or so. Again, I can’t remember the name or anything since my dad set it up but it’s whatever connection relies on the amount of people in the area using it. Something like the less people using it, the faster it’ll be. I’ve seen at least 2 other BigPond____ routers in the wireless network search thing so I assume neighbours have similar plans. It’s not cable or anything fast since I apparently can’t get that in my area.
Another thing might be the weather since I’m using wireless. No idea if it really affects it but it’s probably safe to assume when it’s really hot or humid, cloudy, stormy – nothing is going to go smoothly. It’s a nice day today though with some clouds so really not sure if the weather is a huge factor in it.
I guess my best bet is to try and go for a wired connection or at least test it out. Since posting it, it’s been a bit better and only disconnected every few minutes but it’s being quite slow.
Thanks for the responses guys, really appreciate it :D!
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Just saw it’s a 802.11g connection Security type WPA2-PSK (probably not relevant)
My laptop can connect perfectly fine from my room (so where the desktop is) and the living room (where my consoles are) so I think it’s really just a desktop problem.
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Sounds like on-board wireless to me, Atheros make WiFi chips for Motherboards. But it might be its own card. Look on the back of the machine to see if the WiFi antennas are sticking out from where the motherboard backplate is (where all the USB ports etc are) or from an expansion slot (where the graphics card etc should be), assuming not integrated graphics as well.
Does your problem go away if you reboot the machine? That might suggest a driver going bonkers and not coming up from Sleep properly.
Most routers nowadays have automated firmware check & update stuff. You just need to access the router’s config. In a command prompt on a machine with a connection, run ipconfig and look at the address for the ‘default gateway’ and usually if you put that address into a browser it’ll bring up the router’s config page.
You shouldn’t need to shut down the router every day. My old unreliable Billion used to last about 3-4 weeks before developing problems and my current one gets restarted maybe every 4-5 months. Always on.
Here’s something to try:
http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/1933320(I suggest posting a message about this on Whingepool at some point if you can’t track down the issue as well, these sorts of problems are common)
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Went to the router config thing using the IP address but couldn’t find an ‘update’ option so I assume it just does it by itself. Everything seemed to be fine I guess. Also find a cable and connected it to the router. Forgive the stupidity but it’s pretty much get a blue (they’re generally blue) cable and connect it from the router to the PC? I found some ports in the PC but they had metal over them which I had to bend out of the way… weird…
I guess it’s working since I’m connected to the internet and it’s fine at the moment. Just started up some torrents to test it out and everything seems to be going fine, just a bit slowly (might be the torrents but browsing was also slow).
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Logs can be your friend. Look around for any logs in the router interface for internet, network, clients, etc.
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There’s some event logs on the router gateway page (typing the IP address into a browser) but it’s all jibberish to me to be honest :P. Doesn’t seem like anything was wrong though
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With regards to cables, if you plug it in and it doesn’t work, then it’s the wrong cable. Traditionally they used to be blue but these days they can be any colour.
Sounds like you got a few different network adapters, they might be doing silly things and fighting with each other. You could try disabling all but the one you are using (be it wired or wirless) and see if that helps.
I guess there are other things you could look at too such as and firewall programs, antivirus things, peerblocker (which you should be using if your torrenting). Until you start narrowing down what is and isn’t a problem you can keep stabbing in the dark for years.If plugging in a cable didn’t make a difference then it probably isn’t the wifi. If other computers and devices don’t have the problem, then it’s probably nor the router/modem. I would try to isolate the device, and then I would start looking at the programs you have running.
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Oh, the cable worked fine. It recognised and established a wired connection which worked perfectly.
I had Hamachi installed which I heard interfered and caused these sort of problems but I’ve had it disabled for months (even before getting it, I still had the problems). I just disabled everything else (including the ethernet ones) so hopefully there’s no more problems in the future.
Hmm I should probably get peerblocker or some other type of program for security when torrenting. Right now I’m not using anything and I don’t exactly feel ‘protected’.
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And… more info that may or may not be relevant:
Oops forgot to mention there’s an antenna sticking out the back of the case just under all the ports (I assume it’s coming off the network card?)
I don’t actually turn off the computer by the switch at the back. I just click shut down and let it shut down I guess when it’s technically still ‘on’. The power at the wall socket also remains on. As for the router I turn it off at the main back switch (it’s the only way to turn it off) but leave the power on at the wall socket as well.
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If you shut it down then it’s off, there’s only residual current in it. That’s not the problem.
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Disconnected from the wired connection and restarted some random torrents to see how the connection was going. To my surprise it was going fine and didn’t connect (it still hasn’t for the past 20 mins or so). Not sure why it just randomly went away but it’ll certainly come back as I have connection issues nearly all the time.
I told my dad about the problem over the weekend but he didn’t seem to know how to fix it but he just told me he bought a wireless USB adapter. Not sure what that is but I doubt it’ll help.
Anyways, thanks for all the help :). At least complaining and typing up stuff gave me something to do for the past 2 hours I had this bloody problem. Otherwise I would’ve just sat here doing nothing.
hot as he’ll and I have to wait for a bus, and catch another bus which means I have to walk a fair bit to get home… stupid public holiday bus schedules
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man he’ll is so hot…
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Funny as He’ll.
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We’re getting berated with spam from a .RU domain, ‘omahabeachs’.
Instead of worrying about it, I’ve decided to hum Martha and the Muffins’ “Echo Beach” to myself for the rest of the day.
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Seems like the thing to do!
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ahhhh Echo beach, the poor mans Kokomo
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Greatest comment ever?
Maybe….…Maybe
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You, sir.
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The Muppets’ Kokomo! Often confused with The Beach Boys. 😉 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-WAhdvygpE
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I love that
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I hear it’s far away in time
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And now, for some Camille.
Enjoy, guys 🙂
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Le Festin! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_hdmt4vpBo
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I see your Frenchie stuffs and raise you the greatest french song of all time!
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Man.. they may be great romancers, bu they sure as hades can’t dance…
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:S That disturbed me. Here’s some Mad Men. (Season Five spoilers, be warned. :P) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXoILGnHnvM
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Meh.
Here, have some rammstein and apocolyptica covering david bowie*dies happy*
*not dead yet*
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HAVE SOME CRAY BUTTON: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rX23_xaWjU 😀
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What makes a man?
Is it the power in his hand?
Is it his quest for the glory?
Give it all you got, to fight to the top, so we can know your story?
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A friend sent me that song for my 21st
My two year old daughter knows the song, because she heard me idly humming it one day and demanded to know what it was (thankfully she only knows the chorus).-
Oh god – i’m glad you ended with “she only knows the chorus”
lol.Such a bloody great song, though.
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They had a giant slip ‘n slide set up at church today. Was mad fun. Out of me and my brother and sister, I somehow ended up as the least injured, only getting slight burn marks on my knees. :/ I quickly rectified this when we got home, however, by cutting my big toe on a splinter from a wooden pallet. Now it’s all band-aided up (with band-aids from my secret stash) and I’m limping around the house (again), my reputation still intact 😛
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Oh lambo…
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Church?
But it’s Monday?!Slip and Slide?
But the weather is bollocks?!Melbourne?
What do you mean everyone else doesn’t have our rubbish weather?Space Marine?
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It rained all day in Brisbane too. Lambo’s just crazy. 😛
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I suppose more rain = more slip in your slide… so maybe he isn’t as crazy as we think…
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Some might say he’s a visionary.
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Yes, but this is me we’re talking about. Is more slip really such a good thing for me? 😛
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More slip is always a good thing
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And nestled right in the middle was a perfect, sunny public holiday for Sydney! ;D
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It was at the church, not that they where having a church service there today 😛
The weather wasn’t too bad. Was a little cold and rainy, but then it fined up for a bit.
Space Marine? I should probably play it sometime…It’s sitting in my steam account, installed, waiting for me to play it…but Borderlands 2! 😛-
Yes.. but angry and wrathful Chuloopa.
If it’s sitting there installed, you should at least give it a 30 minute or so crack before you sink yourelf into borderlands for the night 🙂
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Eurovision in 1965 was pretty awesome!
Mannnn i wish people still sang with a full orchestra like this – sounds so damn amazing!
Holy carp but I can’t stop laughing at Shooty McFace. I finished the quest and literally said Wut? aloud.
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😀 By far, one of the best quests in the game.
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In existence**
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Face McShooty rather.
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i thought it was Shooty McFacekill?
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I did that quest and just stood there for a few minutes, looking around, fully expecting there to be something more. Nope. Just that.
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I was scoping out the terrain with a sniper rifle when I first spotted him. Was expecting trouble. 😛
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Sorry I dropped the pizza you ordered on the floor and scared your dog Splicer
Sorry I spilt wine all over your table and ruined Inq’s cards
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Oh, Jordi.
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Haha! The Victorian lamboman! 😀
[deleted, no one wants to read a food post.]
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Grrr.
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You couldn’t be more wrong.
I’d like to make this as an example of something I’ve been thinking. I don’t think you should be able to delete stuff from your posts. Only add in stuff. Too easily abused.
Not that I’m saying you abused it DC (borderline) but still.
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Yes! This is what I was talking about late last week. Edit for spelling or grammar if it really bothers you, or if you forgot to say something, but no deleting. And stop assuming you know what we’re thinking. People talk about food here all the time and I’ve rarely, if ever seen complaints.
If people get in the habit of deleting, I’d hate to see what the place would look like after a drunken weekend. 😛
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You’re right. 🙂
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I’m still curious about what you were saying about food that you thought was so bad you had to delete it. You’d better tell me what it was so my mind doesn’t just keep thinking up more and more disgusting things it might have been….
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To be fair, the self-loathing told me to do it. And when he says jump, I ask from what bridge!
Haha! Eh, it was an almost word-for-word post I put up last night:
“Hashbrown/cheese melt, how I love you.”
Then the poster’s remorse began. I can feel it rising again. 😛
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Tell your self-loathing to get back in the basement where it belongs. 😛
What did you edit out of this post?!!!!!!! Arghhh…the curiosity is killing me!
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Grammar! Oh, man. I’ve lost all credibility. 😀
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It must have fled to the basement with your self-loathing. 😛
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Greenius. You’ve got to learn yourself some responsibility. 😛
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GRRRASAURUS!
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Food related post since SOMEONE didn’t want to include us.
My dinner: Lemon and chilli chicken, dill potato salad and steamed veges. Was not bad at all. I shall complete said meal with a drink of some sort containing Baileys.
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Sounds tasty. And even better, healthy.
I had one of (well, half of) those big rib steaks with the bone on, cooked on the bbq. Couldn’t figure out what to have with it that didn’t involve work so I defrosted the leftover bean chilli from the chilli dog Meat and had nachos. Nachos and steak. Good dinner. 😀
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Ooh. I love those steaks. Always have a few stashed in the freezer. The BBQ is just about the only way to cook them properly. The pan just ends up stewing it more than anything.
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If I don’t throw them on the bbq I’ll panfry them on each side for a minute or two and then put them in the oven for 10 minutesish. Works really well.
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You both had amazing sounding dinners!
I haven’t been to get any supplies so I was running mighty low. Slim pickin’s! Ended up chopping some variety of beef up to use with one of those taco kits! 😛 Plain tasting, but filling.
Note to self: Go outside and get food.
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I heated up some leftover chips from last night. They were not the best. Reheated chips are never very good a lot of the time. Actually, I don’t think I’ve had any reheated chips that taste good. I guess they are one of those foods that taste better when they’ve recently been cooked.
I had some ice cream for dessert afterwards. I bought the home brand ice cream from woolies and it sucks compared to Aldi’s. I’ll stick with the Aldi ice cream from now on.
Edited: Some spelling errors
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Reheated chips can be salvaged with a whole lot of gravy! 😀
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Haha! Reheated chips are really not the best. Every time we get any sort of takeaway meal at home I’m always saying “Fill up on chips! You can reheat the rest!” But no one listens.
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I think they’re okay if you re-fry them, anything else and they’re practically inedible though.
People should listen to you though…you is all smart and stuff. 😀
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But he’s a dirty cheat and racial profiler!
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That’s the makings of an epitaph or twitter bio if ever I saw one.
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And sneaky! Don’t forget sneaky!
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Known to use profanity from time-to-time, as well?
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Actually it takes a lot to even get me annoyed, let alone enough to feel the need to swear! I’m like the anti-Hulk.
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Oh, man. You wouldn’t like how my brother and I talk to each other then. Plenty of four letter words, mostly terms of endearment. 😛
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The only person I’ve met who can consistently make me angry enough to yell at them is my little brother. He has perfected his craft.
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I was out for dinner with some people at a Chinese Restaurant(I wish it was Italian, so that I could sing the appropriate song). I can’t remember what I ate.
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Chinese food?
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Well, yes. There was some rice. And some other things. And I ate using Chopsticks, even though I hold them wrong.
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When the moon hits your eye like a big dim sim that ai?
#coulditbeanymoreracist?
I had scotch fillet with wasabi butter, some steamed veggies and potato.
I had a quiche.
So on the weekend I had family over dinner. I went out looking to buy Munchkin for everyone to play after dinner but could only find Munchkin Impossible. Spies are pretty cool so I grabbed it.
But everyone was too tired to play it so I haven’t even opened it. Guess I’ll use it for the next boardgame meet, then.
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Cards Against Humanity? 😉
HI ALL!
That’s pretty much all I have to say
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Hey, scree. Hope this October finds you well?
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Mum’s birthday is in 3 days \o/
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Happy Birthday Scree’s Mum!
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This damned release schedule.
Torchlight 2, Borderlands 2, X-Com, Dishonoured, Pokemon.
Guys, release something during the nothing months of July or August. Everyone will buy your games because they will be competing against nothing. Ease the burden of choice during the holiday season.
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Don’t forget Assassin’s Creed 3. If it’s any thing like the others that’s an entire week gone.
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Woah!
/Keanu-
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I can delete my post if you want.
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Maybe I should just edit my post so it doesn’t look like I’m copying you. 😛
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Haha after reading both comments, this thought occurred to me too :).
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Don’t forget Assassin’s Creed III. Too many games! And I’m too busy playing to Pokemon White to worry about them. 😛
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Oh yeah, how’re you finding White so far?
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Engrossing.
I find it very difficult to stop playing once I start.
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That’s good! I’m glad you’re enjoying it 😀
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Too bad she had to start with the ugliest generation of Pokethings!
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/Greenius’ (wrong) opinion 😉
But really, if she ends up really liking the series, she can go back to HeartGold/SoulSilver and experience all the wonderfulness of the best game in the series! /Powalen’s (correct) opinion
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Those are unrelated opinions though! Gen 5 has some pretty bad designs but that’s to be expected when you come up with like 600+ of the critters 😛 (I honestly don’t remember how much there are, 693 or something?)
I do, however, believe 2nd Gen is best gen so a superior of the 2nd Gen is by far the bestest! Who doesn’t love having their Pokefriend follow them around everywhere, nawww
/Greenius’ (correct) opinion
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Xenoblade came out in August last year …and nearly no one bought it :'(
But yes, the end of the year is always crazy with releases. Which is kind of silly since the rest of the year is relatively empty and you might get a good major release every couple of months. I was going to pass on most of them but that probably won’t happen 😛
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It’s not as bad as it seems, though. It sucks for October, but with a couple of exceptions there’s barely any thing in December or January. So plenty of time to play your new games. (Unless you’re on the Wii U bandwagon. Then it sucks to be you. :D)
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I think there’s only Okami HD for me this month. Not sure of much coming out at the end of the year other than Wii U stuff and the release I’m probably looking forward too the most is Ni No Kuni in Jan <3.
TAY Marketing you will not break me!
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After October I think there’s just Hitman: Absolution mid-November for me!
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FAR CRY 3 IN DECEMBER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m really excited about that game. Almost everyday I have an internal debate whether to get it on day one or not.
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Just think how good that colourful tropical island is going to look on your new HIGH DEFINITION TELEVISION!
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Ha ha ha.
All the better to take pictures of
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So, the next South Park ep is called “Raising the Bar” and, from the looks of the preview, may deal with child obesity.
Preview below:
http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/d4nqqv/doesnt-this-bother-you
Sydney fronds: I shall be visiting your glorious metropolis in mid October and have absolutely nothing planned on Wednesday 17th or for most of Thursday 18th (busy in the evening). I’m staying in Darling Harbor. If anyone wants to meet up for something (may or may not have my sister with me as well) then let me know.
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Exciting! I’ll hopefully be there if something happens!
Late to the party: a food post.
Had red meat for the first time in AGES today (stupid living on a budget). We’ve had a BBQ at nearly-completely-assembled stage for over four years. Today the cover we bought for it back then rotted away, reminding me of the unfinished business I had with it. So I finished it, connected a gas bottle, spent a small fortune on meat, and put together a HUGE mixed grill dinner. Gods, it was epic. Best public holiday ever.
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Red meat, we were meant to eat it.
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Sam Neill is my ideal.
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Good night, folks. Hope this public holiday found you well. (Hope your regular Monday found you well in Victoria too. :P)
Completely uneducated, potentially misguided and ultimately pointless post filled with hierophantic delusions inbound.
You’ve been warned 😛
So I purchased a book some time ago, ’30 second religion’. Interesting little ‘bathroom book’, if you will. It gives a snapshot into many belief systems and religions throughout the modern world, all summarized and such. In saying that, I understand that ’30 seconds’ is in no way enough time to describe a religion in its entirety, nor is 30 seconds enough time to learn or comprehend the mechanics and syntax behind it.
Even so, something in this book really struck me as intriguing. Perhaps beyond intriguing, I’m not sure yet. Perhaps that’s why I’m typing this out, just trying to collect my thoughts, with the possibility of sharing them, and getting feedback from a non-judgemental forum simultaneously.
Anyway, let’s continue. I’ll try not to digress too much.
There was an entry titled ‘Mahayana Buddhism’. This all seems/sounds a little weird, even for me at the moment. I’ve never been one for religion (outside of reading holy books and discussing/learning of various faiths for curiosity). I think I just want to learn more about this one in particular, maybe.
But the reason for it. As bizarre as it sounds, the themes/ideas discussed in the book (I’ll write it verbatim below) have long permeated my dreams, my writing, and so on and so forth.
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Taken from “30-Second Religion” – Russel Re Manning
In Mahayana Buddhism, the historical Buddha is regarded as a physical manifestation of the true body of The Buddha – a formless, cosmic, spiritual body, which is also the ultimate nature of reality itself. Thus, the entire universe exists within The Buddha.
This formless body also emanates many other intermediary, non-physical divine forms: Buddhas and other enlightened beings that may be contacted through devotional practices.
These divine forms are also the source of freshly revealed scriptures, sutras, which describe these devotional practices and, also, a new metaphysics. Again and again, reality is compared with a magical illusion or dream. All phenomena are ’empty’ – that is, they lack any discernible substantial essence and have no independent existence outside the mind. The spiritual path no longer ends in Nirvana – a state of peace that is the end of rebirth – but involves a continuous return to embodied existence, out of compassion for others, culminating in the achievement of complete Buddhahood.
Progress on the path involves cultivating this compassion, alongside insight into ’emptiness’. More succinctly, all that is required is to purify the mind, allowing the inherent qualities of ultimate reality – the Buddha nature that exists within all beings – to shine through.
Mahayana Buddhism delights in paradox and shifting perspectives. Devotees aspire to be reborn in the realm of Amitabha, the Buddha of Endless Light, who actually exists within each person as the true nature of the mind. The path involves the laborious saving of countless suffering beings.
But, upon investigation, all beings are ’empty’. There are, really, no beings and so… no path.
Everything is perfect as it is: there is nothing to do except relax
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Now while some of it seems rather far-fetched, there’s still quite a lot that… just strikes home. It’s weird reading something like that, and noting just how much is already part and parcel of your own bastardized, unique belief of how to make sense of shit.
I’m not about to go off on some pilgrimage in search of spiritual enlightenment or any of that jazz. But I’ll definitely be looking further into Mahayana Buddhism in particular henceforth, moreso than other faiths.
Also Schnitzels. Beware the Parmigianapocaplypse 😀
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AND THEN I FOUND $10
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CLOSE ENOUGH!
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Also slight attempt at blanketing with humour 😛
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Needs more Borderlands.
Also, I’ve yet to find any religion/faith that really aligns with my “there probably is something higher power/purpose/toiletries/whatever but it’ll sort itself out just fine without my help.”
I do love learning more about others though. Some of it is truly fascinating.
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To be honest, I’ve never really looked for the purpose of finding answers in that sense.
It’s predominantly been to see what makes us tick.Without meaning to offend anyone here (or elsewhere, for that matter) I view religion as a whole to be a manmade construct. It’s a way of coping, of explaining that which we question. We’ve all got our own theories on it, I’m sure. I just wanted to see what some of those theories were 😀
Which is why I felt the need to post the above, considering one of those theories seemed to coincide so well with themes that have been near-constant in my personal life with regard to creative outlet and more.
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I’m off to bed.
Goodnight.
God damn. Breaking Bad is good and all, but that episode of Dexter just confirmed why, at its best, it’s the superior show. That one episode had more tension and intrigue than an entire season of Breaking Bad.
Was keen to see how the season played out before it started. Triply-keeen now.
Feel free to argue if you (genuinely) disagree 🙂
EDIT: Holy crap. Just realised I can edit posts now. Inserting a typo in the original just because I can.
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I’ve never gotten into Dexter. I think it was due to an unfounded hipster belief (yeah, I’m not entirely proud of that :P) that it was ripping off Death Note (seriously, that hardly makes sense to me any more).
I do love me some Breaking Bad though!
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How much of it did you watch? I seriously can’t recommend it enough. Everybody else I know who stuck with it – even those who were disgusted by the initial gore – went on to devour the remaining series as quick as they could.
Series 1, 2 and 4 are some of the best TV I’ve ever seen. Legitimate cliff-hangers every week.
And a Death Note ripoff? A quick google shows that they were originally written around the same time, so probably not. Definitely not reason enough to deprive yourself of this awesome show!
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You know, same. About the never getting into it. Which is odd, because I hold it in high regard and I’ve honestly enjoyed every episode I’ve watched.
Death Note? from what I remember it was more about the situation than the characters, and I never gave a crap about Light. Dexter’s all about the main man, and it’s a hell of a show because of it.
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Bored. Can’t sleep. This could lead to potentially crazy things. Might have to talk to myself.
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You really shouldn’t, though. You tend to get bored awfully quickly, if I can remember correctly.
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Silly Saturday. Your time has passed. It’s all about Tuesday now, man!
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HEY. YOU’RE NOT ME. THEREFORE I SHOULDN’T EVEN BE TALKING TO YOU.
But srsly nobody likes tuesday. It’s like “Oh man, monday’s over! Wait shit it’s tuesday and therefore have a crapton of days until the weekend.” Then it’s Saturday’s time to shine again, baby.
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Ha, saying that I’m a good judge of character is like saying I’m a good judge of character. Which is to say, not at all. So there.
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… I’m really gonna start this, aren’t I?
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Well, least you said ‘I’ instead of ‘We.’ It’s not bad if there are voices inside your head, but there’s a problem when they start.. well, I forget the saying, actually. See? Sleep deprivation. You’re sane enough.
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Sane enough isn’t really a good standard to hold to, though.
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And yet it’s the only standard you hold, so really, it’s all moot.
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Hmm. You know what I find interesting? In this conversation, you’re more or less replying to what I say, and not starting anything yourself- or rather, the image of yourself I hold. If I were really crazy, this would truly be a two-sided conversation, and not a ‘bounce-off-the-wall’ type of deal.
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Break.
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Two things of note. One, I like it when the conversation has enough posts to start shifting to the other side of the page. Two, I find that after a certain amount of replies I end up not being able to reply- for instance, the last comment I made I can’t reply to. Wonder why.
.. Also, hey! look! intelligent conversation between myself..ves! or at least half-decent self-reflection, which is also pretty acceptable.
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Bit of a odd place to have a moment of so-called “self reflection” though, mate.
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You and I both know we’ve had life-pondering moments in weirder locations.
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yeah, well, you and I also know our soberness varied between those locations.
also; GODDAMN IT FREEZE I WAS HALF AMUSED TALKING TO MYSELF.
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reminds of the time I cybered with myself for a whole damn half hour just to annoy random people in a chatroom. And then I got bored and started talking to myself.
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I’ve got higher standards than that, you know.
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Actually, they’re kind of low, but I suppose I’m so negative about myself that I can never reach my own standards.
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/Keanu WHOA.
… Actually, that’s not much of a epiphany , that’s just depressing.
Also, goddamn is epiphany hard to spell.
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Just as hard as finding one.
Heh.
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But no, seriously, if there’s any time to start talking about philosophical matters, the best time would be on a gaming blog forum post in the middle of the night.
To yourself.
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Philosophy indicates that I have something worthwhile, meaningful, and thoughtful enough to talk about.
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What, you’re so negative that you think all your thoughts are random pieces of disjointed logic until you think hard enough it sounds wise?
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Well, no, what you described was pretty much philosophy.
Zing.
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.. I just realized. Is it football season? like, american football? I actually give a crap about that.
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no, you don’t. Or nowadays, you don’t.
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… well, that ends this particular branch of conversation, then.
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Why is it I gotta be so melancholy whenever I talk to myself?
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er, I thought normally whenever somebody goes into self-reflection they normally end up being melancholy.
But hey, you know what? we should give each other names. Like, you’re saturday 1 and I’m saturday 2.
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.. That sounds odd. I’m fond of Saturday A and you’re Saturday B, though. Or Saturday Omega and Saturday Alpha.
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I’d say you’re a nerd, but that kinda sounds cool.
KINDA.
I blame the music. Old Adult Swim bumps are bound to get you into the chill, eternally mind-wandering part of your psyche.
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I wish I could dance.
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You’ve never tried.
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.. You know, I thought about using “You two” to bring a third me into this, but you know what? No. That’s just crazy by my standards.
.. I got the quote from earlier, btw. It’s fine to have voices in your head, but you should be worried when they reply back.
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Right, well, anyway. I wish I could dance. I can do the most pitiful robot in the world. Like, claptrap or wheatley pitiful.
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man, it’s all vidya gaems in the head these days. Read books, mang. Watch movies and all that. Get some class and societal education in your head.
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Societal Education? You’re lucky I’m not accusing your part of the head a hipster and cutting it out. Anyway, I think my tastes in movies and books are coming along. Not refined, but they’re getting better. I wanted to read that sequel to The Quantum Thief, remember? And for movies, I still gotta watch The Artist. And I love Tokyo Godfathers.
.. and American Gods. I love Anansi Boys to death. Might as well wait for the Tom Hanks TV version. Well, no, I should always check up on the source material.
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Hey hey, don’t talk to yourself in one post. Otherwise we might as well cut out the middleman. I’m not sure what the middleman is in this case, but yeah.
.. You should get writing on that little novel you never finished.
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I should, but we’re actually on a bit of a roll with this little piece of insanity, here. Might as well head straight to the next page.
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Admittingly, I would like to hit some form of personal revelation while we’re “on a roll,” though.
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HA, SO YOU ARE A PHILOSOPHER!
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oh for fu- No. Just.. like thinking, that’s all.
Although admittingly the internet connection is saying otherwise. I guess the universe doesn’t want me to have a quiet cup of “think-about-life.”
So how bout them tee-vees I hears about?
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Oh man, the wikipedias says that Doctor Who’s latest companion is the same voice who voiced Melia in Xenoblade.
That’s pretty dope
also last episode was cool and all needed more rory whatever happened to the father, man?
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This I knew.
Also she’s hot.
Also Xenoblade.
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WHAT. How did I not pick that up… It’s all so obvious now!
Now it makes me like her character even more!
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You need to get you some Borderlands.
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where were you 15 to 30 minutes ago while I was having a lovely conversation with myself
And no, I played enough borderlands today. Both 1 and 2, mind you.
Oh man. I’m compelled to get to the next page, but I’m beginning to hate talking to myself and the infernal force that is my internet connection is against me.
Still, tally on.
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SHE CANNAE HOLD, CAPTAIN.
Also, tally on? The hell man, you’re 18.
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i’m hip and cool home skillet biscuit.
Not sure if that makes me too young or too old. Ah well.
Man, I’m getting addicted to simcity on facebook. Not healthy.
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It’s something to hold you over until simcity 5.
.. I’m pleased that we haven’t just gone straight to random spam.
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Well, by the looks of things…
Heh. I’d never be able to fill a whole page by myself. Admittingly awful proud of what I got, though.
Well look at that. A yawn. Saturday’s getting tired.
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Only two hours late or so.
Man, it’s gonna be embarrassing if I go to sleep now with a page unfinished and everybody’s all like “HA LOOK AT SATURDAY HE FAILS AT HOLDING LENGTHY CONVERSATIONS WITH HIMSELF.”
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Ok, I meant.. well crap, I am genuinely tired now, huh?
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Well, now I can use my powers of talking to myself FOR GOOD! aka, for keeping myself awake long enough.
…. Also, only 2 in the morning? you pansy.
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I’m.. really getting tired. I.. didn’t really realize until it hit me like a brick. I’m getting pretty tired.
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you and me both.
You know, if the whole backpacking thing across Australia ever comes to fruition, I’m thinking about making it into a thing. Go across France. America. The Way of St. James. All that jazz.
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I’d like that. Just wander for a bit. Or rather, for a long while. Be a long time till you can do that, though.
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Stories can be condensed into two things- stranger goes to town, stranger leaves town.
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Every story is simply same one repeated again and again over time..
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sequels or remakes, then?
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prequels and side-stories.
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vague enough, I suppose. Or perhaps same universe, different stories.
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Alternate Universes? Same planet replicated a billion light years away?
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Universe is big enough. Well, no, not really. Read somewhere there is an actual end to the universe. I imagine it’s just black. Or a nice lookout with a set of binoculars to stare at the one other universe where everybody wears cowboy hats.
Or a restaurant, but hell if I know.
Sigh. You should just give up, you know. That fourth page might as well be hundreds of posts away.
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Vain hopes are all I got to live by, son.
well, whenever I look up at the sky, it’s hard to think there’s a end. Then again, I can never make much of it. Just pinpricks of light in the sky.
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you and I apparently look at different skies.
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You look through one eye, and I through another.
Random note: I’m kinda hungry. Could go for a sandwich, maybe, but hell if i’m not lazy enough to get out of bed.
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heh, never did like that. “Read somewhere…” I find then it can be a good chance of being wrong.
Ah, you did good, kid. Might as well give up now.
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Heh. whattya know.
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Good night, me.
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night, kid.
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Only a FLCL fan could talk to themselves for 2 hours straight. Dedicated!
*Tips hat to Saturday*
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Haha I just caught up. I’m impressed!
Also, Blaghs can talk to himself for hours 😛
Any last minute feedback for the beta? Closing today!!
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Mobile optimisation? 😉
Heh, nah, can’t think of anything else! It’s been great so far :).
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Haha, gotta use my sweet, sweet account on mobile!
But yeah, I was writing down things as I noticed them but they all got fixed before I could send them in. Efficiency or mind-reading?
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It’s a new feature 😉
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Notifications? =P
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The collapsing buttons don’t work quite right! Not sure if anyone’s already said stuff about it, but I’ve noticed that it only collapses the first reply thread for a comment (Win7/Chrome).
But in conclusions, I like it!
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I sent Rob and email but haven’t got a reply yet – I noticed that if you press “cancel reply” the text you had in the reply box is still there at the bottom of the page. Not sure if that’s intended or not.
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That’s the way it works in the old system too so I suspect it’s by design.
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Stuff:
– Dexter is awesome! At least most of it :P. I did find that some seasons weren’t as great but it’s generally agreed that 1, 2 and 4 are the best. Give it a go Aleph!
– Satdee u so cray. Also to answer some things, when you can’t reply to a comment just reply to the one above to continue posting in the ‘thread’. I think each page holds 25 ‘discussion’ comments so just don’t reply if you wanted to reach the next page.
– I saw an ad for The Walking Dead on a bus and remembered I gave up on it after the mid-season break. I also gave up on Mad Men also and didn’t watch any of the new season. Are both worth going back to?
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I recently went back to watching Walking Dead Season 2. I stopped about half way through when something better came along.
Played a disturbing amount of Borderlands 2 on the weekend. Nobfrond and I are near the end of our second playthrough. Turns out the game is a lot shorter if you don’t do every last sidequest as soon as they appear. Who knew?
We’ve blitzed through this stuff so fast, we’re up to missions we were only doing a few days ago.
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You played a lot on Monday. 😛
I was one level in front of you and when I came back you were one level in front of me.-
I spent a good chunk of yesterday lying in bed watching The Wire. I did do a few hours of derping around without you, levelling up in Lynchwood and whatnot.
Plus I did run through that story mission all the way up to the boss before redoing it with you. That gave a ridiculous chunk of experience. Pretty good loot too.
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We destroyed the shizz out of Bunker
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Correction: You and Bunny destroyed the shizz out if the bunker. I just died a hell of a lot. 😛
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Heh :P. Man, The Bee is so OP. I do soo much damage.
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It’s fun how much things scale with one extra player.
Sniping the Bunker is a bit silly though. I put slag on it with my active skill and then do just ridiculous amounts of crit damage hitting it in those giant weakspots. Then corrosion damage still affects it as it flies off.
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Yeah, that guy is a jerk for melee / shotgun guys. Also the fact that I suck at that game doesn’t help too.
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MORNING!
Alan Jones is a dick, no two ways about it.
I sleep very well last night, so i seem pretty happy.
Hopefully stuff will get done! WHOOOO\o/
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Hooray for sleep!
Does ‘stuff’ include throwing a giant ball at Sid’s face? =P-
Maybe. I need to take a photo of the ball and Sid =P
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Alan Jones is a dick, Michael Bolt is a dick, so many dicks out there getting paid so much more than nice hardworking people, just for being complete dicks all day and getting away with it.
The world is a shit place sometimes.-
Oh i agree completely =/
They’re no better then the Muslim leader who claims that women deserve to be raped if they’re not wearing a Burqa -
Don’t forget Kyle Sandilands, the greatest dick of all.
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Because misogyny equals violence!
But yeah, he’s a dick.
Also sleep \o/
I’ve not been sleeping well of late, so it’s nice to see that it’s still the in-thing 😀-
Aw, I’m sorry to hear that you are not sleeping well. I love sleep. Almost as much as I love games.
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Sleep is great! No matter how much I get, it never seems enough ;P
I need to set aside some alcohol-free game and sleep time this weekend. Maybe.
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I feel exactly the same
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Alan Jones is a dick but I assure you that his type of talk is pretty common at Young Liberal events.
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I just think it’s cruel to attack someone who is still grieving. Now he is saying that he is the victim.
It doesn’t matter what side of politics your support, it’s a horrible thing to say.-
Oh, I know. He complains about the hatred but he comes across as one of the most hateful men I hav e heard. The way he consistently attacks Julia Gillard on a personal level is pretty shameful. That said I’m not even left wing – generally moderate right wing.
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I’m on the fence. I don’t really care for either political leader or party.
I just think it’s horrible to attack someone whose still grieving and pretty much say “it’s your fault”.
And then tried to defend himself. Sickening.
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Greetings and salutations fellow internet peeps, how’s things? are people still all talking about sports? is it safe to go outside? why does siri not know the answer to life, the universe and everything? why won’t you talk to me?!?
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Hi you!
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goood morning green one … so how bout them video games
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I think everyone has stopped talking about sportsball. Apparently there was a big game on the weekend and both teams scored homerun-touchdown-slam dunks.
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All we ever do here is speak of the sportsballs. This is a sportsball forum, after all.
WELCOME TO SPORTSDOME, FROND!-
But … I can’t do the sportsball. I have no arms
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In that case…
Very exciting AFL final on Saturday. And I usually get bored by AFL. Two equally matched teams locked in an arm wrestle, with Sydney winning seemingly on pure effort.
NRL final was less exciting, but Melbourne won by having smart strategies and executing them perfectly, while Canterbury’s inexperience showed when they couldn’t adapt as their regular style of play was shutdown.
Sadly football is over for the year. Luckily it’s only a couple of weeks till cricket starts!
This new sportsdome thing is awesome. Keep it up!
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You lost me after “In that case…”
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What are these words?
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*melts from all the sportsball talk* my goo … my precious gooadlskjflaksjdf
good on the storm for winning … I should probably get indoctrinated into afl now I’m in melbourne.
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I can understand this sentiment, and concur*
*I have NO idea what’s going on.
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HI!
Not sure if I’ve met you yet, so welcome to TAY, unless you were here before me and you’re returning at which point I must say I’m sorry /o\-
I be new to this TAY … I am Tofu, lord of nothing in particular. Please master Scree, teach me the ways of the TAY *bows deeply*
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I can’t really teach you the ways of TAY. I generally just apologise a lot. ^^;;
PS. I’m not a fan of eating tofu either ^^;;
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Hey Tofu! Hope life’s treating you good!
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Life is good dc. finished borderlands last night, watched a movie that shipped russell brand and alec baldwin and I have all the whiskey I can drink. How’s things for you?
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Eh. Could complain, but I wont. 😛 I finished Borderlands 2 last Friday. Damn good game. 64 hours played. Some might say that’s what game addiction looks like. 😀
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*looks at his paltry 30ish hours* … aaand now I feel inadequate
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Haha! Take heart, you’re probably a whole lot better adjusted in life. 😛
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yes, let’s go with that. I am a well adjusted human worm baby <_< nah, I just get bored easily. so what class did you go through as?
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Axton! Finished at Level 34. Not too high considering the time I spent with it, but I took my time taking in the sights and sounds. Haha! What about you?
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it randomly decided to not let me reply to your last post. I finished with a level 32 Zer0 … pumped everything into the sniping tree and critical hit damage. nothing quite as satisfying as making a same level brute explode with a single shot and then having the bullet kill the guy behind him as well
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I ended up using the sniper rifle as my primary weapon. Zer0 might be awesome for next playthrough!
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Tofu, I don’t like you, sorry to say.
Pez would disagree, but he’s a tastebud-less white boy.
But it’s okay, we can still be pleasant to each other.
Just don’t try to make me eat you.
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But how will I ever go on with my life knowing that I can never be inside you Bish? To be honest, tofu kind of freaks me out … almost as much as ducks
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I don’t mind tofu, I just can’t think of a situation where there isn’t an existing food that does the job better. Even the best application of tofu, soup absorption in hot pot, can be better done by delicious mushrooms.
She does, it’s 42.
I like agadashi tofu ^.^
And fried tofu!!!
And… well, just tofu.
Saw Looper last night. One of the best movies I’ve seen in ages!
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Going to see it on Friday! No spoilers! (Or atleast, give me the heads up so I can run off screaming with my ears covered. :P) Time travel appeals to me. Can’t wait.
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My favourite scene was a when one person wants to discuss exactly how timetravel works and how consequences run through or create time shifts and the other person just tells him to “stfu, we don’t have all week!”.
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😀 The best thing to do when faced with time travel is not think too hard.
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Haha, exactly. That said, I think it dealt with the issues pretty well. On face value the logic seemed sound. No doubt the internet will find loopholes.
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Gah, looking for textures that are high resolution and seamless for use in illustrator is driving my mental, slowly.
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wotcha looking for scree? I might be able to help
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Concrete, wood pretty much anything I may use in the future.
I had a pretty impressive collection but then I had to format my computer-
I normally just get brushes and textures from a deviant art page or here http://www.texturemate.com
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Thank you! ^0^
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I read Aleph’s religion post. Good reading. I read Saturdays entire conversation. Troubling young man. 😛
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Haha, cheers mate. It kinda got swallowed by the SatSpam onslaught, but I’m semi-ok with that anyway. I was a little hesitant to post it initially anyway :S
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Haha! I know that feeling, when your mouse hovers over the submit button for ten minutes!
(Glad you did, though. Interesting stuff!)
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I guess you don’t have that problem anymore since you can just submit it THEN DELETE IT LATER >:(
I also read your post Aleph but had nothing of value to add 😛
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Hey, I did that twice last night. Only got caught out once. 😛
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Yes I made it!! I ended up on page 6 of this weeks TAY. There was nothing there
Saturday, what the everliving hell were you thinking?!
That sort of spam may be fine for a weekend but not for a Monday night, when TAY is just starting out and people get scared of how many pages there are already. Especially not on a public holiday where there’ll be people trying to catch up on what they missed yesterday,today. Not cool.
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Damn i was gonna say the same thing, now cause i was slow i have to make you the bad guy.
Yeah its probably not the best idea to spam that much though.
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I thought the same thing, but didn’t want to scare Saturday off either. We still like you Saturday!
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I don’t even want to think about what it’s like on Mobile TAY, either. Eek!
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I was able to view page 3 without crashing my phone browser
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Same! t’was a miracle
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Mobile TAY not so bad these days on Android, splits into the same number of pages as regular TAY.
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This is joke right?
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To be fair, you can’t blame someone called “Saturday” for confusing a weekday with a weekend…
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And I’m replying to myself because I’ve decided to forget an edit button exists.
I don’t really have a problem with it. I glanced at it and skimmed pretty easily.
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Yep, exactly this…skipping posts is pretty easy to do. Relax Strange, it’s harmless. No-one has an issue when Blags does it.
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And besides, how are people going to be ‘scared’ of how many pages there are on a Tuesday? Most of the country had the day off yesterday, so TAY was pretty quiet anyway. If it’s so overwhelming, people will skip it and ask whats new. I think you’re over-reacting a bit here.
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Lots of the old guard jumped off the band wagon back in the day, because of how huge TAY got. I think there’s just a concern that’ll happen again, but you’re probably right and it was fairly harmless. 😀
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Then leaving TAY is their choice. But leaving TAY for it getting ‘too big’ smacks of elitism in my opinion.
TAY is what it is because people can post pretty much whatever they like without people shooting them down for it. A lot of people on here wouldn’t even dream of talking to people like that in the real world.
Saturday-post whatever you want man, its a forum! If you’re bored at 3am and it keeps you sane, do it! -
You’re right, I admit I used to feel crappy when people said the TAY I was part of wasn’t as good as it used to be. 😀
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I’m not sure that’s an accurate statement.
Some people have been spending less time on TAY (or are totally absent) for a variety of reasons. I’d say only a small portion, if any, have “jumped off the band wagon… because of how huge TAY got”.Half a page of someone entertaining themselves isn’t going to do any damage.
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Haha! Well now I feel like shit. I swear, though, I remember reading plenty of anti-TAY sentiments a while back based on the size. It made me feel bad. 😛
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Yeah, TAY was definitely getting a bit overwhelming at one point.
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My everlasting apologies and a heartfelt promise that it will never happen again.
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Now, back to more pressing matters: have you had a Mango Wies bar, Pavlova, Lamington or Tim Tams yet? 😛
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Is it bad that I don’t know what the first two are?
Also Vegemite is considered ‘Australian’ but it’s got a unique kind of taste. I wouldn’t say I like it but I don’t hate it.
But dem Tim Tams… mmmm… ooo yerrr
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Wait… You don’t know what Pavlova is!?
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After Googling both, I guess I’ve seen them around (moreso the Wies bar) but can’t say I’ve ever had Pavlova.
Sounded like some sort of pasta dish not a cake thing 😛
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No, I’ll get on that today.
I wouldn’t worry too much about it.
Yes, it was spam and yes, it was early in the week when TAY is active but people can just skip over it if they wanted to. No one is under any obligation to read anything here and if they see a big chain of someone replying to themselves (whether it be you or that guy with the really long hair) they don’t have to read it. I get bored and read nearly everything so I didn’t mind.
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I’m not really, I’m being casual about the fact I talked to myself for 2 hours straight. But if Strange has a problem with it, I am obligated to apologize.
That being said if I ever do that again i’m taking the advice and doing it on a weekend.
Straaaange, ever heard of this thing called a scroll wheel? Makes moving around web pages a whole lot easier 😛
Oh man with 4G / LTE I can refresh and post in TAY in twice the speed.
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*sits here awkwardly*
Ummmmm, sooooooo… Borderlands 2 is a pretty cool guy.
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But does it still crash if there are too many posts??
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I haven’t had any crashes yet. Although I am using chrome so it may be better the whatever iOS has as default.
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You should get torchlight and tank for me, In fact anyone who plays torchlight should come into my game and tank for me, i feel like all my money is getting used on health potions. yes i die so much i actually have to buy health potions. With gold. WHO THE SHIT BUYS THINGS IN THESE SORTS OF GAMES?
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I have torchlight, I tried it a little but was kinda disappointed. Skills / Autoattacks didn’t seem to have the same impact as it did in Diablo 3. When you hit something in D3 you know you did but in TL2 I was constantly questioning wether or not I was hitting enemies.
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i dont need you to hit things. i need you to have lots of health.
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I’ll help!
But I don’t have Torchlight 😛
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But I like the tank type of melee/warrior types so whenever I get the game (probably not for a while) I’ll help out 🙂
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I can usually help, but I am limited by the uni timetable I now have to follow.
Sorry I didn’t reply the other night, I was sleepin… 🙁
At least 2 of my chars are tanks…
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@Masha
Missed it yesterday but also really pumped for FC3 it’s on my 3 things to do at EB expo this weekend. Loved 2 liked FC 1 up until mutant gorillas
I think I’ve figured out what my main problem with that Doctor Who finale was. I didn’t care.
The biggest mistake was letting the media know it would be the last season for Rory and Amy. It was talked about ad infinitum so by the time the season started I’d emotionally detached from the characters. So no character interaction this season had any impact on me besides the odd humorous moment .
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Yeah, I’m not a Doctor Who fan, but I hate how leaking spoilers to the media is the status quo for television these days. Ruins that sense of excitement you have when something mind blowing happens. (I remember watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer back in the day spoiler free, that was a crazy roller coaster.) A few years back Ten was weeks behind The O.C., so they decided the best way of combating spoilers was to spoil the finale on the ad with a tag ‘How does it end up here!’ — so damn annoying!
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This also is why I really enjoyed Asylum of the Daleks.
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I thought it was good … mostly because I’d forgotten all the spoilers I’d seen. I did like that the episodes weren’t in chronological order and the doctor was just flying around just wanting to spend more time with the ponds
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Yeah, thats what I liked about Amy and Rory the most. The fact that they weren’t strictly his companions and never did anything else, they just sort of went along for adventures every now and then.
Of course, that prevents much of the deep storylines that some of the other seasons had, but I liked it for what it was!
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This is a big part of why last series’ episode The God Complex was so good.
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I hated the last episode. What a freaking cop-out. “WE CAN’T TIME TRAVEL BACK THERE. BECAUSE OF REASONS. I’M THE DOCTOR, SO I KNOW WHAT’S WHAT LOL”
The whole episode just made me angry.
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Yeah I did think it was a bit weird that “we can’t go to this year because timey wimey things … well, I guess they’re lost now”but considering that they would’ve been zapped back about 40 years before that date why not just go pick them up. But Moffat waved his magic wand and made it so … on the plus side we get to look forward to Oswin being a companion before the doctor has to shove her off so she can end up on the asylum.
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well, fixed time points and the fact that you can’t time travel to the victims are part of the weeping angels, been like that since their first episode, so I suppose that particular point is valid. Having one angel survive just to spirit them away at the last second? not cool.
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If you can’t time travel to the victims, how’d the tenth doctor get back in “blink” … he was thrown into the 60’s by the angels
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….. well, shit.
I remember something like that being explained when I last watched it, (otherwise the people who died of old age in blink could’ve been saved) but that’s a damn glaringly obvious plot hole. I’m afraid I got nothing, buddy. I guess since it’s the doctor, as if that could explain everything, but that doesn’t explain Martha.
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Sooo … people should add me on the xbox, my little avatar is all lonely and junk. yes? yes Edgeman1411.
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BOOM!
Throw your details in there, friend!-
Damn you! *shakes fist* Why’d we both say friend too! Weird! 😀
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it has been done, my liege. Also, I read your comment in the merchant from RE4’s voice
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Pssst, TAY secret, there’s totally a list at http://tinyurl.com/taynames — feel free to post your details, friend.
These Resident Evil 6 reviews are pretty entertaining. Normally, I’m not a fan of X out of Y style reviews, but this list helps sum things up neatly:
Gamespot: 4.5/10
IGN: 7.9/10
Edge: 6/10
Eurogamer: 6/10
Game Informer: 8.75/10
Polygon: 4/10
G4: 2.5/5
Joystiq: 2.5/5
Famitsu: 39/40
I’m reading the Polygon review right now and it’s pretty brutal. Next, I think I need to read a positive review and see how they justify the number.
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I’m so confused about it. I usually base my thoughts on what other people playing think, not reviews but the players seem polarised as well. And then there’s the people who started out loving it and telling us all it was awesome but now are calling it a piece of shit game and telling us to stay away.
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There are effectively four campaigns, each with rather distinct flavours. People might like one of them and despise the rest.
I’m so very glad I gave up on Resident Evil. This looks like it would be a rather difficult thing for fans of the series to deal with.
So for me, this is just entertainment. Like the positive reviews of Steel Battalion that tried to ignore the fact that the controls were fundamentally broken.
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Game Informer I find weirdly inconsistent in their reviews.
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IGN’s review was fantastic. Basically says “this part is bad, same with this bit and this but there are good bits too, honest!” Really read like they were trying to justify giving it a decent score, which didn’t work for me.
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ooo Gamespot is going to get torn to shreds by butthurt fans
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I tend to not take RE that seriously. I enjoyed RE5 gameplay wise.
I think I’ll enjoy 6, but at the same time I don’t want to ruin it.
I’ll get it on PS3, but I’m getting the limited edition so it’ll take me a while to pay off ^^;;-
I thought you already had it on layby for Xbox? 😛
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Gametraders swapped it for me =D I love those guys
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39 from Famitsu. :/
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What that tells me is that Capcom didn’t pay enough to Famitsu for a 40.
So I FINALLY got to check out how my new laptop performs last night, albeit briefly.
I can FINALLY play Dawn of War 2, and not only that but it runs pretty damn smooth even with almost all the options maxed out.
I also tested Magicka, and boy-o-boy you guys weren’t wrong when you said it is a bitch to run. It now runs ok enough, but there is some definate noticeable slowdown during gameplay, which make me worry about what would happen when the screen fills with spells? Any tips on how to get the game to run a bit smoother?
Now that i have a semi-proper computer, i plan on picking up starcraft at some point and also maybe trying out some league of legends.
Also in the middle of installing Mech Warrior Online, so it should be pretty awesome to see how that runs – fingers crossed.
IS there any other PC-only games that i’ve really been missing out on? I tend to gloss-over pc-only news, as it’s never really been relevant to me before now. lol
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All gaems on PC.
Exclusives should be the only reason for a console game 😛-
I’m still much more of a console person, but i look forward to diving into more PC games! 😀
Also going to dive into monday night combat, as that never worked on my old lappy
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Ah I’ve sunk a lot of hours into DoW 2 and it’s expansions. Being a Nids played online is great cause no one else plays them, or Orcs. Mate of mine was awesome at orcs. Sadly the MP scene for it had faded away over time.
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This is why Kotaku is great – we can organise play dates! 😀
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OMG I do have a reccomendation for ya. Go on steam and buy Company of Heroes. All of them, NOW!!! Don’t listen to them Starcraftians CoH is the ultimate super fun time yeah!!
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Already have them – i’ll be installing them tonight.
CAN-NOT-WAIT! 😀
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Righto then CoH and DoW it is.
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As a Starcraftian, I actually really like CoH and can’t wait for the sequel.
That being said, one of the best CoH players converted to Starcraft 2 and was the best non-Korean player for quite some time. Huk hwaiting!
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Can’t i just love both?
If i get SC2, will you teach me the ways of the force?
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I guess you can.
I’d actually be willing to play some COH too. Need to scratch my strategy itch.
And yes, I can try to teach you SC2 but I’m actually kind of shit. Really, it’d be an excuse to play without having to jump on the 1vs1 ladder, which is just far too taxing.
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I have CoH installed but never played it. I wouldn’t mind some games either I guess as long as you don’t mind teaching me stuffs 😛
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Play as either German faction.
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Please note this only works on maps based in France.
…And Poland. Really quite a few places.
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Blaghs and Bish are much better at COH than I am, but I’m sure there are a handful of people on TS that would be happy to join in.
Probably not tonight though. I’m feeling particularly crappy today and will probably just pass out once I get home.
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Ah that’s fine, I didn’t mean tonight anyway, just sometime in the future so I can justify this purchase and not have all the regret buying a thing I’m not using :P.
Hope you’re feeling better soon.
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What?! It even had the blue “you are replying to…blah blah blah” box. How did it reply fail?
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It just happens sometimes. =(
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Must be magic. 😀
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The fail is strong with this one. 😛
Yeah, i’m definately going to be picking up Anna’s Quest – gots ta support tha surls!
Plus it looks all sorts of awesome.On a side note, did you see the little clips i posted at the bottom of page one? I think you would like them very much.
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I freakin’ loved the game! So did Shane! Room for many a more on the band wagon! 😀
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Haha, my edit and your reply: simultaneous!
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Let’s just pretend I copied you for attention. Everybody wins! 😛
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*gives dc ALL the attention*
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*Stands in the corner, leering rabidly at D.C.*
Is THAT enough attention, D.C.?
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well … if chuloopa’s doing it *stares at dc*
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Howdy Tayberinos
I am back at work after a week off, ALL THE INBOX CLEANING
Turns out, the organisation doesn’t fall apart when I’m not there.
So, a Tuesday Morning Question: Which in-game company would you like to work for, or really not like to work for? Apart from the shady dealings of it’s boss and the terrorist attacks, Sarif Industries actually seems like an OK place to work
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Such purdy architecture. The Alliance from Mass Effect or SPECTRES would take you to some interesting places, but might… uh… kill you along the way. 😛
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oooh tough question … I’d probably go with umbrella for the big spacey offices and the metric butt tonne of sick leave you’d get
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Can’t really think of many in-game companies but one that comes to mind after playing Borderlands 2 recently are all the gun companies. I would definitely NOT like to work for any of them :P. Too much corruption and shady dealings and whatnot
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There’s not many in-game corporations which aren’t corrupt or evil or generally going to be shit to work for. Sarif would probably be okay but the downside would be living in Detroit.
Mornin’ all!
So freakin’ happy that was a long weekend. Also happy that I saved a whole bunch of my tax return, so every time I came across something I needed for my new place I just bought it (Need mower? Get mower.).
BORDERLANDS 2! Still going, still played very little co op, but that’s sure as hell gunna change this weekend 😀
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I am grateful that my hoarding ways in game has translated well into real life.
Fresh $2000 in the bank account? Better not spend it! What if I get to the real life monies dungeon, guys?
The iron golem who stands in front will be all “YOU MUST PAY ME $5000 TO ENTER”, and I’d just be like, “Nah, I’d rather not spend the money and just hold onto it thanks” and all would be well.tl;dr sometimes I don’t know how you guys can spend money.
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I tend to hoard money up until a point, then throw it at life’s problems. Hopefully get to use this tactic to get a new bed soon. I’ve nearly borked my current frame and mattress.
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I did very little on the weekend that was lengthed by the public holiday that we get for pretend ing the queen had a birthday when she didn’t.
I played torchlight 2, i have notched up like 10 hours and i am up to act 3, i am fairly appropriately leveled but i am so easy to kill and when you have a group mob waiting to ambush you in one spot it is very difficult to tank for a second with 20 things attacking you. I think i will need a co-op partner to finish act 3 properly. otherwise i will probably just have to start a new character.
I have unlocked most of the stuff in Tony HAwk Pro Skater HD some of the more ridiculous score based goals allude me but i still enjoy trying. But when you play for more than a hour. The music starts to repeat itself and it gets annoying.
How is the rest of peeps?
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Not sure if you saw it but I’ll be happy to co-op whenever I get the game (probably in a few weeks) as long as you don’t mind waiting :P. I generally play those melee classes anyway.
Meat on Saturday and Sunday was a whole lot of Borderlands 2 with Pezzzzz. Monday was not a public holiday here so I was at Uni :/
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/RocketmanGrammar
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/meanbish
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I’ve seen worse :P, it was readable!
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Hey, I never said it was unreadable.
But I just like to think of someone yelling in the street “HOW IS RES OF PEEPS??” like some sort of neanderthal. Or Hulk!-
Except they’re just a loveable manchild
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*Wake up*
*Impromptu phone interview*
[RANDOM STUTTERING NONSENSE BY YOURS TRULY]
“Call back in a hour”
“Thanks.”
Tuesdays, amirite.
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Here’s hoping it went well! 😀
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well, no, I just got off the phone call and I’m looking over my resume right now. Never had a phone interview, so yeah.
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Yeah my first one didn’t go that well because they’re shitty and didn’t call me when they said they would and called twice on another day. Good job Holden…
Second one went fine though and got me an in-person interview which got me the job I currently have :). Whether you went well or not, it’s still good experience!
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Haha, I meant that the interviewer is actually going to call in a hour. Good experience all around, but screw that, I need a job.
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Treat it like a real interview, even suit up to get your mind in the zone.
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Oh, I assumed you already had it. Well here’s hoping it’ll go well. You’ll be fine!
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Today I feel the pressing need to shut the fuck up. See you all tomorrow! 😛
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GAWD, STOP TALKING DC
Kidding, I like your contributions.
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Who’s this guy? What’s he done with DC?
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO every time this happens D.C. we all say “nah, s’all good, keep posting!” but you don’t 🙁
@Saturday
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/10/the-most-effective-ad-i-ever-saw-in-a-video-game/comment-page-1/#comment-814706
Relative of yours? 😛
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AHH WHAT THE HECK I THOUGHT I KILLED HIM
This lecture sucks so it’s TAY time, the whole time!
So what’s the next game everyone is going to get? Mine’s either Okami HD or Pokemon White 2. Not sure when the release dates for those are so whichever comes first I guess!
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OCTOBER 11
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Found a place yet? I ordered mine at JB whenever I posted that deal a few weeks ago. I guess I’ll know when it’s out whenever it arrives in the letterbox 🙂
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I don’t preorder Pokemon 😛 I just turn up to wherever has the cheapest deal on the day. They always have tonnes of stock. I only leave the house on these special occasions!
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Yeah but if you preorder you get sealed copies with no stickers which means no glue residue! ofcoarse you could always request a sealed copy on the day I guess.
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Yeah that’s true. But actually, most big stores around here like Kmart/Target keep all the Pokemon games separate in those alarmed glass cases. Either they get so much stock they couldn’t be bothered to manually take out each game card, or people get really desperate for new Pokemon around here 😛
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Yeah, I meant have you found a place with the cheapest day one retail price 😛
But ugh! Leaving the house, grossssss
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Still holding out for Kmart’s price! They don’t usually bother releasing it until a few days before 😐
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Assassins Creed 3 for me, I have Borderlands and Torchlight and Medieval Despot Simulator 2012 to sustain me ’til then.
I’m trying to abstain from purchasing any new games, at least until I get through some of my shame pile.
Saying that, who knows, I’ll probably fail at my quest and my pile will quadruple in size.
I’ll be getting three at the same time Pokemon White & Black 2 and Dishonored.
Mugen Souls, because I have had it on order for quite a while with NISA.
I’ll probably violate my no-new-games ban for Okami HD too because I <3 Okami.
Dishonored, though I probably won’t touch it until Uni is over.
oooh question time … Dishonoured and the unfinished swan are definitely on my grabby hands list.
Guild Wars 2 – it’s going to be my chrissy hols game
OOH, SHINY ACCOUNTS
Ooooooo Kotaku got Windows 8-ified!
Thats just my super technical name for the new stylings
Oh….
My….
God…
I have an account!?!?!
WHAT HAVE YOU DONE, KOTAKU!??!
YOU SHOULD HAVE KNOWN I WASN’T FIT TO WIELD THESE POWERS!!!
WHAT DESTRUCTION HAVE YOUR BRUNG UNTO YOURSELVES?!
Did Kotaku just bring in the beta for everyone?
For those of who you just got it, you can click on your name at the top and edit your profile to change your display name so that it can show capital letters/symbols/spaces etc. 🙂
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speaking of top, I notice above a little thing labelled Tech Network (Goldmember)/theme-technetwork.
… woo gold member?
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Yeah I saw that, not sure what that’s about but I clicked it and it appears to have taken me out of the beta, but it’s still there (I assume the account system has been implemented for everyone now)
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Actually, I don’t think that video’s even from the appropriate movie, but close enough.
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@Chuloopa
Your new laptop has pretty much exactly the same specs as mine. Make sure you update the graphics drivers (I’m using a beta driver, because of Guild Wars 2 – go here: http://www.geforce.com/drivers/beta-legacy ).
You’ll be able to run pretty much any game on reasonably high settings, given my experience. MechWarrior Online will run just fine. Such a fun game.
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Ooooo serious!?!?
Thanks so much, mate!!! Very much appreciated! 😀Is the beta driver stable, though?
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Has been so far for me. I’ve been using 306.23 since release on Sep 13, not a single issue so far. If you aren’t intending to play GW2, though, it might be better to go for the actual release drivers.
EDIT: Oh, wait, looks like 306.23 has been certified. Well, there you go, grab it!
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I think these drivers were what fixed my issues in Max Payne 3 and made it playable as well.
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Awesome sauce -thanks heaps for that, mate! 😀
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So i just checked out my profile – lets compare post counts! 😀
Lifehacker – 1
Gizmodo – 38
Kotaku – 14,289
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Yeah, I only have on Lifehacker comment too. Weird.
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I’ve got 7 Lifehacker, so bleh.
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Gizmodo Comments
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Kotaku Comments
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Lifehacker Comments
2I normally only post on Lifehacker and Gizmodo on slow news days so I’m surprised I don’t have more.
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Kotaku – 8366 (8367 if you include this :P)
First post March 9, 2009 – MadWorld competition, did you win that :P? I still remember the winner “Abattoir Noir”.
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That’s really bizare.. mine only goes as far back as June 15, 2009 – but i know i entered (and won) the madworld comp?!
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Omg you won!? Damnit Loops!
I’m pretty sure I’ve seen your old posts before but there was no gravatar (indicating another email). If you go to your profile you can add in older emails you might’ve used and it’ll link your comments together to the one account 😀
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Wonder if it’s better to exclude TAY-totals. Hmm.
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Lifehacker – 21
Gizmodo – 181
Kotaku – 6981First comment August 25th, 2010: “Nerd :)”
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I’ve got 33 on Gizmodo, 165 on Kotaku, and only 1 on Lifehacker. NEED TO SPAM LIFEHACKER MORE 😀
Hi Strange!
Also, hi everyone else. Been (last minute) off the grid for a significant period of time.
I think there was something about applying for cross-Tasman student visa and grants. IF that’s still a thing for…person-I-forgot…let me know.
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It’s Zap!
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Hey voice of reason guy! Welcome back.
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I’m back, in Pog form!
It’s nice not to be browsing using a weird connection on a tiny screen.
@Satdee
It’s been an hour, how was your interview?
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Uh.. they haven’t called. I should probably call back.
… yeah.
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No, don’t call back, you’ll seem clingy. You have to wait for them, lure them into your trap(card), get them dependent on you! In a totally not creepy dickhead way.
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If they haven’t called you back, give it a little more time then call them. Will hopefully make you look like you’re keen on the job.
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Just realised my comment earlier let me post using my usual email and name, but without logging in. I swear that was blocked earlier.
…blue screen error for over-capacity?
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I LOL’d
Poor gizmodo is struggling with the new look I think….
More late night, low sanity twitter ramblings from yours truly.
WOOOO, here comes demented lambo!
Sorta like crazy frog, except not ugly. Also not a lamb, like crazy frog isn’t actually a frog.
I want to shoot toads out of a catapult. Maybe at the people in the estate across the creek from us?
IT’S RAINING TOADS, HALLELUJAH, IT’S RAINING TOADS, HALLELUJAH!
Maybe I should wait till December whatever-day-the-world-ends-th and set them on fire, then launch them.
THE FIRE TOADS COMETH, BRINGING THE END OF THE WORLD!
Death to the heathens that would not bow to the fire toad god!
Amphiflar, lord of the unholy flaming terrors. He sends his minions to devour the world! At least, that’s what I’ll say when questioned
Also, I shall need to set up a shrine if I want to convince people. Every dark cult needs its own fancy shrine!
I’ll make it from gumboots and umbrellas. People will fear the mighty image of his toadiness!
Or maybe that’ll just be fear of the shrine falling over on top of them and potentially causing them grievous bodily harm…
A shrine for his unholy toadiness! http://t.co/0vck0RNO
Only Pastryus, Supreme God of the Holy Order of Blueberry Muffins is capable of defeating The Fire Toad God in battle.
Pity he’s off at war with the rebelling dolphin demigods. Those pesky dolphins, always on about a giant hoop in the sky that’ll one day rule
It’s blasphemy I tells ya. There is only one ruler of all, and that’s Scrachibus, Lord of Pencil Lead.
He likes to draw moustaches on everything. The gods aren’t that great at choosing their leaders…
He only became leader because the other candidates where the God of Farts and the God of Off Milk. The God of Pasta didn’t run this year
Pastryus and Scrachibus have a sketchy relationship. He doesn’t like how Scrachibus tried to draw 57 moustaches on his wrapping one time
It’s not Scrachibus’ fault. She couldn’t help it! She has a desperate need to draw. Being a deity made of pencil lead sure has its drawbacks
Definitely makes paperwork easier to do though.
Of course, the paperwork does end up with a lot of moustaches on it. But hey, at least everything runs relatively smoothly.
Except for those pesky dolphins. They’ll rebel at the drop of a hat. And thanks to slippery fingers, hats are dropped quite often.
Perhaps if the gods didn’t eat so much oily food, the state of their politics would be so much better.
They need the fat though. It gets quite cold up there. In hell however, the firetoad sure knows how to keep a place warm!
Also toasty. One reason he’s enemies with the Muffin God. Toasted muffin does not a happy Muffin God make.
Although, one day he will smite the unholy firetoad with his Sword of Whipped Cream,and then peace shall rule through the lands.
It won’t happen until after the firetoadlings are unleashed on my hapless neighbours across the creek though.
As it has been prophesied, so shall it come to pass. Probably in the form of me launching globs of whipped cream after launching the toads
And that’s my official story for when I’m brought in for questioning 😛
Goodnight.
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WTF did I just not read?
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I don’t know what it was they had in the slip n slide you were playing with yesterday but it clearly wasn’t just water.
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Laundry liquid and dish detergent. Maybe that messed up something in my head? I thought I was already rather messed up? 😛
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or it could have been when you got hit in the head with a sledgehammer.
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Hi.
[you saw nothing]
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Comp closed at 9AM yesterday.
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Oops, I didn’t see that anywhere :P. I guess that’s good then since I already confirmed my shifts for work and don’t have to think about what would happen if I actually won.
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I would enter but I can’t honestly answer “why are you excited for the WiiU?” because I’m totally not excited for it at all.
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I’m seriously gonna laugh if I win.
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Win??
Wait – what’s happening?
What could we win?!-
Apparently nothing! Comp closed or something?
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TOWHAT?!?!
😮*tears hair out*
WHAT AM I NOT IN THE RUNNING TO WIN?!
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I HAVE NO IDEA!!!
But whatever it is, I clearly deserve to win
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LIES!
BLOODY LIES!!!
THAT PRIZE THAT I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT IT IS SHOULD BE MINE!!
I DONT’ CARE IF IT’S A LIFETIME SUPPLY OF TAMPAX – I WANT IT!!!I WILL WILL AMASS A TAMPAX ARMY TO DO MY BLOODY BIDDING!
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A paid trip to Sydney to attend EB Expo and play the Wii U!
And for those in Sydney, they can still win tickets!
But alas, comp is closed.
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GORRAM IT CHULOOPA!
You were supposed to be the chosen one, to bring balance to the threads … not destroy them. I will do what I must *raises his nerf battle axe* you will not take what is rightfully mine
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KotakuAU now has the best error screens ever.
THEY BLUE!
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I have not seen them yet, sadly 🙁
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Well, they blue.
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also GIFS
http://www.kotaku.com.au/lollolololollolEdit: Dammit! Beaten!
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I still like the new 404 page.
Now that everyone has an account – go check it out
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My god – that is AMAZING! 😀
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Best page not found screen ever.
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I was expecting something funny to happen.
So the whole editing posts thing. Call me old fashioned, but it ain’t my style.
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With great power comes great responsibility.
lets hope no one abuses it…
Recently had to start doing some development at work entirely in visual studio. Used to use Vim and the command line compiler for most of my work because that’s how I learned to code.
Gone back to working on the products that use Vim & command line and now I’m finding it’s too late for me. The IDE has already corrupted me and I want intellisense in Vim. 🙁
#ProgrammerProblemsNoOneElseCaresAbout
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I do a heap of coding in vim, too (mostly due to building for/in a linux env).
Fora short while I tried to use one of the C/C++ autocompletion extensions, but they were nowhere near as good as msvc’s. I’ve since ditched them and tend to get by with abusing splits, and just yoink/put (yeah, I realise this is nowhere near proper intellisense/autocompletion).
Most annoyingly, the code-completion stuff I used was based on source analysis (you would know more about this than me, but I understand msvc gets its info via some incremental compilation step cl.exe does?) and pretty much completely failed at anything vaguely complex, and totally failed at templates. There was also a distinct pause/delay (maybe 1-2seconds? doesn’t sound like much but gets really annoying) whenever it needed to collate possible completions. This was quite a few years ago (I want to say 6-7, by my time estimation skills are notoriously bad), so it may have got better since then.
Stuff like this seems like the modern way to do it, but my spirit was sufficiently broken the last time I tried to get it going such that I can’t be bothered investing the time in retrying it.
#SomePeopleCare
HOLY SHIT I’M LOGGED IN!
Well.
This was fun.
I’m going back to Twitter.
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It was nice seeing you here, Nef.
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At least we don’t need to suffer him telling Pez to [insert sexual act here] here.
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You’re so repressed, Bish-friend.
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FUUUUUUUUUU
So I wake up. Phone call. Phone interview. Can’t get wits together, so I ask for them to call back in about a a hour.
Hour does not pass. I wait a bit longer, call them back on own accord.
Out. (Probably for lunch, I presume.)
Bless my stupid little heart.
Major link to Lifehacker in the footnotes is to the “Page Not Found” 😛
I’ve done a very bad thing. I’ve decided to take a break from writing this essay I’m forcing myself to finish today. It may be a very long time before I go back to working on it now. Procrastination is oh so evil.
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I hope that wasn’t my fault.
PS: don’t check your email… 😛
Hnnngh. What to play, Borderlands 2 or Space Marine? Curse you Loops! 😛
Yay!!!!! TAY is n
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Wow just wow phone. As I was saying TAY is now randomly working on my mobile.
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So how long until mobile TAY gets account thingies. I feel like an old man refusing to upgrade to current technology
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Awesome irony. I love it 🙂
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I wish I could say it was deliberate. =P
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Thanks a lot TAYmarketing. I now own a copy of Borderlands GOTY to see what the fuss is all about.
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What platform?
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ex-blocks.
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you shant be disappointed. it’s a wonderful game. the mad moxxi underdome is probably the weakest bit and even then it’s still pretty decent, the rest of the game is awesome
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I’d better not be, or I’m blaming you.
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oh god, the pressure … I CAN’T TAKE IT!!! *hides in the bushes*
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I have vanilla ed on Xbox – but i want to pick up the GOTY ed as well… now i’m trying to decide between PS3 and PC… hmmm
I’d like to say things about Dexter 7.01. Anyone interested?
Rot13d for spoilers:
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Ohg gurer jrer fbzr vexf sebz ynfg avtug’f rcvfbqr.
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Naljnl, erfhzr lbhe erthyne cebtenz. Ncneg sebz gubfr gjb tehzoyrf, V guvax vg’f njrfbzr gb unir Qrkgre onpx ba! Vg’f n irel rawblnoyr fubj.
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Gurer’f n cerivrj bs gur arkg rcvfbqr ng gur raq bs gung bar (va zl pbcl naljnl), juvpu fubhyq nafjre gung sbe lbh 🙂
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Thanks for ROT13-ing!
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I’m really happy to have editing ability on my comments if only because if I ever accidentally don’t rot13, I can go back and fix it! I hate stuff being spoiled for me, so I try and be careful for others.
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My brother hit a hilarious FIFA 13 glitch – the ball was invisible. To fix it, he had to change the style of ball in the game settings. Still, watching him stop a penalty and later score with an invisible ball was sure something.
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Maybe it’s an easter egg to recreate those old “find the ball” competitions from British newspapers last century.
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“Yeah, congratulations, you, uh… totally found an easter egg and it is definitely not a bug. Just to reiterate, it’s a feature, not a bug.” *patched in next update*
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Did you ever see the EA marketing for the Tiger Woods game that had a bug where he could walk onto the surface of a pond and hit a ball that was underwater? They made a video with him walking on water to hit a ball and added the tagline “it’s not a bug… he’s just that good”.
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@Chuloopa if you go PS3 and want to co-op, hit me up
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Sounds good to me, buddy! 😀
Hello TAY!
I have decided that 7 hr breaks at uni suck. Just thought you should all know.
Oh, and… The new chatty interface is soooo shiny!
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I want a 7hr break.
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I want a break.
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I think I might take one, right… now.
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I can give you a green tea kit kat?
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Do you sneak into peoples office and leave them on their desk. If so that is one mystery solved
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Or, maybe not.
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Okay.
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Wut! Go home :P. I struggle enough with a 1-2 hour break.
Brisbane peeps (also anyone else who wants to. I’m not gonna snob you just because you live in the filthy south)
Theme park meat: Movieworld. October 28.
Yes. No. Change. Suggestions? I CRAVE YOUR FEEDBACK.
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Sounds good man!
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Filthy south? I think that may include you too, good sir!
But yeah. Wet’n’Wild or bust.
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So you are just snobbing us northerners then?
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You’re still a southerner, frond.
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We can’t all work in new guinea
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Although if we did, we’d have a grand old time.
Sweaty, but grandiose.
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Not at all. You northerners with your funny accents are always welcome.
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no themepark, please.
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I think Movie World has about three new rides since I was last there! *strokes patchy chin stubble*
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I can see you now, going on the same day, so that you can look at the TAYbies, but not actually interacting with them.
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😀 A special brand of madness that fits my hermit lifestyle. 😛
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I don’t reeeeaaaally like theme parks. Partly because of my fat arse not fitting on most of the rides 🙁
Hey, I’ll be in Melbourne around the CBD on the 29th of Oct (in fact that whole week)- anyone keen to grab a meal around then?
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I’d be up for things
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Sounds good for dinner in the city – maybe Thursday night?
Someone rang the bell at reception a little while ago, I rushed out to greet them but they had already left. But they left a package.
It was my Walking Dead prize! The one that I asked to be sent to Pyrean.
Silly Josephine. If only she had stayed around to chat. I’d have loved to be able to have a word with her.
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you would have put her in a pot and made turtle soup you heartless bastardo.
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I got mine yesterday – wasn’t it meant to be season 2?
I got season one…Not that i’m complaining as i haven’t seen it yet? lol
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I got season 1 as well. Could have sworn the prize was season 2 but I don’t mind.
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Also nobody believed that you rushed out to meet a customer, at best you slowly walked out begrudgingly.
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They probably starved to death whilst waiting, and were taken away by a medical team – hence why he only found a package?
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That does seem more like bunny
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Rushed by my standards. As in I left the chair at all.
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Wow, that latest episode of Family Guy was one of the most dismal yet. I have no idea why I keep watching as the laughter stopped many years ago.
On the plus side Bob’s Burgers is still great.
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ADVENTURE TIME IS STILL BETTER
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Adventure Time’s alright … but it’s no my little pony
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GET OUT.
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but … how will you all hear my witty comments if I’m not here?
Adventure time is an interesting one … season 3 and 4 really got mature and dark compared to the first two seasons
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Agreed, but it still makes me laugh.
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Oh it’s still crazy funny and they should all be happy that they’re making a show that sets so many positive standards for kids without being all kissy goo goo let’s shove the moral down people’s throats … hell, the last episode I saw was basically bmo going insane and wanting to be in a noir story.
That reminds me, have you seen Gravity Falls? it’s goooood
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gravity falls is fantastic, that street fighter / final fight episode was amazing
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I never actually got the appeal of AmericanGuyFamilyDad in the first place. It seemed to have good jokes, but was like a skitshow essentially. Great jokes that a rehashes of rehashed rehashes can only be hashed for so long before they feel… stale. In this case, the second episode I watched (I think?) was enough for me to not go back.
On the plus side I’ve never even heard of Bob’s Burgers. Except perhaps for a sideways comment from Pez.
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I’m not much of a fan of Family Guy, it has some good bits but generally seems to be stupid slap-stick.
I do however enjoy American Dad. I think it’s a bit more intelligent. The double episode where they get stuck in the middle east is pure gold.
Yeah, I’ve stopped watching Family Guy, the last couple of seasons are all the same stuff, brutal nonsensical violence, and terribly lame jokes. Family Guy use to be awesome, I can still watch the earlier seasons and laugh, but the new ones just don’t do it for me anymore.
Bob Burgers, really wish the would do a 24 ep season!!!
Haven’t watched much (any?) new FG stuff. Not because I don’t like it (love me some Family Guy), I just haven’t got around to it.
I’m interested to check it out now and see if it’s gone down hill. Perhaps I just have poor taste.
Oh no! change scares me!
Idiot misspelt my email while setting up account. But its all fixed now.
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Hey Cj, finally caught up with all the previous pages on TAY. Let me know how Far Cry 3 looks and feels when you play it at the EXPO.
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Will do
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I should be working, but instead am costing tours of upcoming comic conventions in 2013.
Travel is expensive.
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But also amazing.
I love me some travel-
Alas, working travel doesn’t feel much like fun travel 🙂
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I’ll be hitting up all the Oz Comic-Cons: Perth (Feb 2013), Adelaide (Mar 2013), Melbourne (July 2013) because I am lucky enough to know folks who work for them and get consideration!
And I am thinking about one or more Supanovas (depending on funds and cost): Melbourne (April 2013), Gold Coast (April 2013), Sydney (Jun 2013), Perth (Jun 2013)
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I like that you are being proactive. You take on the world little fish. You can do it 🙂
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I’m sure whatever city you choose, the inhabitants would be happy to throw you a meat.
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You should definitely do the Gold Coast one. Don’t mind the creepy guy that will seem to be spending a suspicious amount of time staring at you and taking surreptitious photos of you. He is not an immediate danger.
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Suggestion noted
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Also, if I’m still around the area I’d be sure to visit your booth!
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(Though in hindsight that’s probably a deal breaker for you. :P)
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Come for Comic-con and stay for PAX?
I don’t like hating on the editors etc, but that Tina Amini is terrible. Apart from all the spoilerific stuff from Borderlands 2 the other week, she’s now posted an article that Bashcraft already covered 4 months ago regarding the ‘deep-fried gameboy’. And she didn’t even make it an actual article, like Bashcraft did – nowhere does she mention that the ‘gadgets’ are in fact foam simulacum.
I’m usually one of the ‘don’t like it, move on’ types, but there really needs to be some accountability for the US staff.
Thankfully, Mark and co. over here are fantastic. Quality journalism.
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Tina Spoilerina!
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More like Tina Spolierina
oh you said that. Damn it creepius.
Speaking of creepy, i has seen a photo of you now.
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*ahem*
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Sorry, i thought you were greenius, cause i saw caterpie and he was green. Forgive me pow.
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Haha, I thought you did. I didn’t notice until you mentioned seeing a photo of me and I’m just thinking “Uh… I’ve met you two times. DID I MEAN THAT LITTLE TO YOU!”
We’re cool man!
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We met on my birthday and you were there when we had ramen that time with bunny. I remember. 😀
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no no no… he meant a…’photo’…
You know… wink wink… nudge nudge
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We’ve met two times.
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I was just going to ask them for a job. Clearly no experience required 😛
But yeah, the Aussie team are awesome!
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I CAN RITE ARTIKLE TWO!
Does Totilo’s h4lo article today spoil the same stuff as Tina’s?
Simulacra. Chrome tells me that’s misspelled but it is actually the plural of Simulacrum. Just thought you should know.
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Dammit! I know that simulacra is the plural, but stupidly put simulacrum instead! Stupid brain.
Next year is going to massive for me, things i hope to accomplish
1. Move to a new City
2. Get a new job
3. Live by myself
4. Travel Overseas
That ist looks more and more scary every time i look at it, not because it is a lot to do, it is. It is scary because i am afraid of failure. Moving on with my life is scary. Its easy to fall into a easy yet unsatisfying life. Right now i have a easy job (not insanely stressful and decent money). Easy living situation and lots of free time. I expect next year wont be like that at all. It will probably be quite difficult. But the fear i have is also excitement. Because finally i have the chance to make myself happy and that my friends is worth all the fear of failure.
This has been a rant by Rocketman, it probably has grammar and spelling mistakes to which i say to you “Ok”
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That’s an awesome list, truly. I mean that in the awe-inspiring sense.
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Where are you planning to travel?
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I have always wanted to travel to England, more specifically London. Ever since i was a kid i thought it was a brilliant place. The mix of old and new. I find it amazing. I also want to visit the homeland (siciliy) i kind of want to take my nonna back one last time so she can see some relatives. Also Merica.
No solid plans yet though. Just a big dream for a little country mouse.
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I know that feels man, and once you hit up the first step, it’s all uphill from there. I also plan to head to the UK one day. Stay strong, brother.
Maybe in the future if you ever feel like heading to Canada I’ll hook you up with a place to crash. Complete with bacon, maple syrup, and a goddamn snowman if I could.
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You are okay in my book satman
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unless they don’t punch back
then that’s a felony
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Number 4 is the best!!!
Hit me up if you need travel advice =)
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All of them are the best for me.
ALL.
But thanks man, will do so.
This looks like a more scary version of NegativeZero’s Life Plan:
1. Buy/Rent new place
2. Move out
3. Get cute kitty
4. …
5. Profit
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I’m stuck at #1 currently, and fear getting stuck at #4 after.
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I haven’t managed to figure out step 1 yet either. I’ve made more progress toward step 3 than step 1 research-wise 🙁
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But puppies
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No. Kitties > puppies. Deal with it. 😛
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I like both but i want a dog.
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I like dogs but they’re a lot more work than cats. And smellier. Also I like cats more. Also also, having had 3 golden retrievers over my life that’d be what I’d want to get again, and I simply don’t have time to give one a decent amount of exercise or attention plus I can’t guarantee I’d be in a place which would allow dogs or where a large dog would be feasible. Whereas a cat is fine in an apartment and stuff.
EDIT: Also kitties are softer and more cuddly.
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Well who said you needed to fill them in that order? If anything, you should have started with “profit” as the first step.
Plus, you’d be surprised what takes precedence in your life once a kitty is involved.
We had to get special permission to have our old cat in my current place, I doubt they’d allow a kitten.
I’ve had #2 down-pat, but it’s not feasible in my current location. #3 has been slightly modified, yet is crossed off.
I’m hoping to boost my way to #1 by initiating #0.5: Start a Business, which should also help with #5 😀
Good luck with your pursuit of happiness Rockets. No one deserves it more!
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You, Shane, STrange, Blaghs, bish, faction, freyr, flu probably everyone i have ever talked to here.-
🙂 Happiness for all!
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Oh stop being so negative about yourself, Rocketman. You deserve happiness far more than I do. You’re nice to people, always ready to lend a hand, and it’s frickin’ sickening. You work, you talk to your relatives, and you’re a nice guy. So stop it, or I’ll start spraying you with water.
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Possibly daunting, but definitely an achievable set of goals.
Whatever happens it’s sure to be a year you’ll never forget, even if you only accomplish half that. I’m looking forward to experiencing your thoughts on these steps as you make them.
*insert obligatory “N’aww, my little Rockets is all growed up” and “Why are all you young whippersnappers all more growed up than me?” comments here* 😛
Good Afternoon, TAY.
This morning I woke up to bad news and to make matters worse I woke up in a great deal of pain. This led to my little overreaction this morning.
Sorry Saturday, and thanks for being so gracious.
And yes peoples, I am aware of this thing known as “scrolling”. 😀
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Is that where you roll dough into a snail shape? I approve of that heartily.
Also, hope you’re okay?
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Well, that sucks.
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Oh, I almost forgot: HI ZAP! 😀
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S’ all good. Not very sane actions deserve not very sane reactions, after all. Not to say that your reaction wasn’t insane, but… er..
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You woke up in pain? Like, joint pain? That’s pretty bad. This normal?
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Thankfully not joint pain…I feel old enough already. And I may very well be insane. 😛
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That sucks. 🙁 I really hope things look better tomorrow, Strange!
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Me too! My poor kids…I’ve been yelling and snapping at them all day. 🙁
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We still love you!
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I hope the bad news and pain are not related. 🙁
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DONT BOW TO THE WHIMS OF THE PEOPLE?
that sucks strange, hope you are feeling better and that your bad news isn’t unmanagable. HuggasaurausIf you need to talk you know where to find me. 🙂
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I’m sorry about the bad news. I hope things will get better soon.
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I hope everything ends up being ok.
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Thanks for your concern everyone. It means a lot and being able to chat with you guys is an extremely valuable part of my life.
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You’re still the butter on our bread, Strange! 😀
…not in the creepy way….
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🙁 Hope you get better soon Strange and bad news sucks.
You deserve a *hugasaurous*
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Ba n unccvre abgr.. V sbhaq n orttne’f onmbbxn va GS2. Zna, V zvff cynlvat GS2 jvgu n fgnoyr vagrearg pbaarpgvba.
Nyfb V npghnyyl sbhaq 10 qbyynef naq V’z abg fher vs nalobql jvyy gnxr zr frevbhfyl sbe gung urer. 🙁
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Ubcr guvatf tb jryy ba gur wbo sebag!
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Nu, gunaxf sbe gur fhccbeg.
Nyfb yrg’f xrrc gnyxvat jvgu ebg guvegrra gvyy fbzrobql oernxf vg. Naq gura, vs fbzrobql cbfgf “FGBC GNYXVAT VA EBG GUVEGRRA,” jr pna rqvg bhe cbfgf! TRAVHF!
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well, that’s interesting.
And.. creepy. Did I just post Kokaku’s secret hidden code phrase for their personal necronomicon or something?
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Just finished Space Marine. Campaign felt a little short but still a very fun game. That giant hammer weapon was awesome. Hopefully we get a Space Marine 2 one day.
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Thunder Hammer. It’s called a Thunder Hammer. Before Loops kills you.
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It wasn’t so much the hammer as the jetpack really. Makes you feel amazingly badass.
They’ve said they’re not doing another one. Apparently THQ are jerkfaces.
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They weren’t doing a Space Marine 2 because they were focusing their attention on the Warhammer 40k MMO, which was then changed to an offline 3rd person action game.
so… yeah Space Marine 2 could technically be back on the cards.
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Campaign is awesome, it’s just that final boss fight that drops the ball a bit
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Howdy folks. Its weird, its Tuesday and this is my first post for the week, that hardly ever happens. Anyhow, I have good news. Phase 2 of Project Nova is now complete \o/ \o/ (That’s right, double Steve Holts) At this point it seems fitting to reveal my second teaser. This time its “Hell”. For those who missed it a few weeks ago, the first clue was “Dragons”. I doubt anyone knows what it is I’m working on (hopefully I’ll keep the surprise), and to be honest, the clues aren’t really to help you guess, but they are somehow related to it. At least in my mind. I’m rambling now. Phase 3 and 4 are starting now, and will take quite a bit of time.
PS I also have a new TAYlocke post up
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Hey Nova. Hope you’re well!
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I’m good DC. My weekend starts today \o/ Had to work every day over the long weekend, but I’ve got a couple of days off now. I was shocked at how busy it was on the Public Holiday. I don’t understand why people want to spend a day off at Coles. Even if you normally work and would shop on a weekend, why not keep that part of your schedule as normal and do something special with a public holiday? People baffle me
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If I know people and I think I do, they’re all idiots without exception. (Okay, maybe a few exceptions. Mostly people I know. :P) Hopefully you got all holiday rates to make up for it! 😀
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Oh yeah, double-and-a-half for Monday 😀
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\o/\o/ (Is that really double Steve Holts? It looks like boobies to me. )
Lucky I’m not a cat or you’d be killing me around about now, Nova! 😛
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Boobies?
Old lady boobies maybe. 😛
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Well, that is the only type I see! 😛
I was more thinking ones in those vintage bras of Marilyn Monroe times that made sort of cone-shaped breasts.
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Just think by the time its actually finished, you will be the Uber-feline. 81 lives 😛
Which will be done first – Project Nova or Strange’s Quilt? Place your bets people, great odds, guarenteed prizes*
*No actual prizes
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Safe money’s on Project Nova. I haven’t touched my sewing machine in over a week.
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My money’s on D.C.’s descent into madness finishing first. 😛
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I don’t take sucker bets 😛
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You’re getting a full body tattoo of dragons flying around hell?
Awesome dude.
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Speaking of tattoos, have you gotten part two done yet?
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I was meant to finish it tomorrow but my current financial situation is a little dire and can’t quite afford the $700 or so it needs to finish.
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It’ll keep! Be sure to post the finished result when it’s done, though!
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You’re starting a bikie gang called Hell’s Dragons!
What do I win? 😛
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Pretty sure that name is already taken. Isn’t that what they call the older ladies in Hell’s Angels?
(If anyone from the Hell’s Angels read that, I’m so gonna die)
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It’s okay, I don’t think Faction posts on TAY anymore.
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Ben fixed my account today so I could see both e-mail accounts properly. (Thanks Ben!) Spent the last hour reading old Gizmodo posts and responses that I never got until now. Just like DireWolf’s Fallout posts last week. It’ll be good when the notifications makes this problem a thing of the past! 😀
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I just constantly check where I’ve posted.
Too creepy? Okay.
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But what about…TWO HOURS LATER?
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Starting yesterday I have 3 days off work \o/
It’s because I have a sore back /o\
Doctor told me to see a Physio, who I saw today. I have stretches to do every hour or two and my back is taped so I can’t bend over.
Walking is good and sitting up straight in the computer chair is good.
So I decided to be productive while sitting up straight and I’ve started learning Javascript Fundamentals on codeacademy.com
if (head === dizzy);
{console.log (“learning is fun”); }
else
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I understand nothing /o\
Sorry to hear about your back though. Mum’s tends to feel pain most days.
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My Mum has had a lot of back problems too.
I’ve seen how much she suffers with it and that is why I decided not to just shrug it off, but see a Doctor early on before it gets too bad. Hopefuly the exercises and stretches do the job.-
They helped Mum to walk, so it should help you also
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Oh man, this new commenting thing is so trippy. I DON’T KNOW WHATS HAPPENING. I AM CONFUSED AND SCARED!
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There there,
there there…
Do you need a hug? I’m sure someone here will give you a hug.
*gives manly pat on the back.-
HUGS!!!!!
(>^-^)>
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What new thing?
Sid is coughing and I’m a little concerned that it’s a chicken bone. Someone keeps throwing cooked chicken bones on their nature strip and Sid keeps eating them. He’ll stop if I tell him, but one minute he was following me and then he wasn’t.
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Cooked chicken bones are bad news. Dogs love them but they don’t love dogs. 🙁
I hope he is okay.
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Who regularly throws chicken bones on their nature strip?
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Humans apparently 🙁
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@DC, so if I come to Gold Coast, you will emerge from hiding? I don’t think Strange will let me back out now, even if it means that Freeze will be stalking me.
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😀 Makings of tentative plans!?
Old Skool TAY Catch Up Replies to People Post:
@Blaghs/D.C. – “I can see you now, going on the same day, so that you can look at the TAYbies, but not actually interacting with them.” Hahaha!
@redartifice – My exams start on the 30th so I won’t be there. Maybe next time dude! (shit I just realised how close my exams are… PANIC MODE)
@Freeze – I haven’t watched it yet but it’s one of the many shows that have gone downhill. I’m not sure why I download it either, I gave up on it a few seasons ago but got back into it when I ran out of things to watch. At least it gives me something to watch every week. Bob’s Burgers is still great though!
@Rocketman/Pow – 😛 don’t insult me by associating me with that racial profiler
@Rocketman/Blaghs “Oh stop being so negative about yourself, Rocketman. You deserve happiness far more than I do. You’re nice to people, always ready to lend a hand, and it’s frickin’ sickening. You work, you talk to your relatives, and you’re a nice guy. So stop it, or I’ll start spraying you with water.” <- Listen to this long haired monstrosity!
Rockefeller you’re a pretty cool guy and I wish you all the best in your endeavours, brother! Your grammar was fine too 🙂 (IT’S LEARNING, IT’S ADAPTING! *gasp*)
@Nova – TELL US!
@Whoever – Got me first pay check thingy! (I think?) I have an email saying how much money I “earnt” from 11 hours worth of work and it seems like my training paid the same as my normal pay ($22 an hour :D). Woo!
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NEVER!!! MWAHAHAHAHAHA *cough cough* HAHAHA
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Haha! Racial profiling is bad, Pow. Is this how you conduct your life? 😛
I don’t know why I bother playing anything but Dark Souls.
Played Borderlands for about an hour and got bored of it. I guess it gets better later on…
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In all honesty, I’m not that big a fan of Borderlands 1. It’s much better with people, but that would require… well… dealing with people.
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the main problem that broderlands 2 fixed was that it gave you a motivation to beat the game, borderlands 1 had no story, i never ended up beating it…
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It gets better when you find better weapons and get more skills/levels. But yeah, it’s one of those games that should be played with others.
Borderlands 2 is pretty much superior to it in every way as well 😛
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To be honest, I would recommend anyone wanting to play the game to just start at 2. As much as I am enjoying BL2, BL1 is just … not fun unless you are with friends.
Setting Sail, Coming Home.
Bastion Soundtrack.
Still gives me goosebumps.
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I just realised that Spotify has the Bastion soundtrack. That almost makes up for its atrocious musical collection.
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It also has Bear and Walrus. And Dustforce soundtrack. And assorted 80’s and 90’s stuff. It’s awesome.
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But it lacks some Disney Musicals, and particularly, is lacking the stage version of Beauty and the Beast. I’d forgive them if they were lacking, say, the Australian cast recording of it, or something, but to not have one at all(Bar the “Broadway Cast Company” version, which hardly counts)? Horrifying.
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Oh whats this here to my left? Oh its a signed copy of the bastion soundtrack look at that. =D (I dont have much of anything in terms of “Gamer Swag” but I do have that)
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Have you seen the acoustic version! Mind blowingly good!
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Build that Wall is one of my favourite songs, ever.
CHULOOPA!!!!!!!! Have you played any CoH yet?
Six Feet Under time! Midway through season three. So good, although there’s a certain crazy character I miss that’s still in the credits. Looking forward to their triuphant return! Good night, folks!
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Dexter! (Sorry. Just watched it. Been a tad excited since I realise it wasn’t long till it was out )
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Also goodbye to you buddy. So goodbye yellow brick road. Where the dogs of society howl. You can’t plant me in your penthouse. I’m going back to my plough.
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Dexter! 😀
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Michael C. Hall definitely does have that serial killer vibe about him, even in Six Feet Under.
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I still haven’t seen any Six Feet Under. Thanks for reminding me!
Good night DC.-
It’s probably the best show I’ve seen in years! Well worth the effort to track down the eps!
Gonna watch me some Treme and Boardwalk Empire soonish. SOONISH! 🙂
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Should get some monies soon so…
PEEPS! (more specifically):
@Shane – Signed Lesser Evil 3 pls! 😀
@PuppyLicks/Dan/Klutar – still taking monies for Lame Game? I’m ashamed to admit I was too busy with Borderlands 2 to watch but I’ll happily donate some money anyway!
@Sughly – ME GUN BUY ANNA’S QUEST
Am I forgetting anyone else? 😛 (spoke to Pez already)
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“@Powalen – Sending money your way, too! You’re DaBest!”
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No, DaBest is ‘DaBest’ but also a dirty Mario Kart cheating invincible sunavvagun… waitaminnit SOUNDS JUST LIKE YOU!
You’re still not DaBest though.
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@Freeze – ZOMG YOUR SO HANDSOME AND AMAZINGLY AWESOME! THAT’S WHY I GORGIVE YOU FOR NOT SENDING ASS REV YET AND I AM SURE YOU’LL DO IT TOMORROW BECAUSE OF THE AWSOMENESS AND WHY IS THIS ALL IN CAPS I CAN’T STOP NOW ITS TAKEN A LIFE OF ITS OWNOHGODHELPMEIMSTUCK
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Actually, I can pay for shipping for that like $10 or whatevs? That’s 1/4 of Xenoblade!
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Also, I gorgive you.
(something tells me you’ll edit this out)
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Pfft. Editing is for the weak filled with regrets. Freeze don’t do that. Freeze looks to the future.
Freeze also says dont worry about shipping.
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then…
@Freeze – ZOMG YOU’RE SO HANDSOME AND AMAZINGLY AWESOME! THAT’S WHY I FORGIVE YOU FOR NOT SENDING ASSREV YET AND I’M SURE YOU’LL DO IT TOMORROW OR WHENEVER YOU WANT AT YOUR CONVENIENCE AND FOR FREE BECAUSE OF THE AWESOMENESS AND THIS IS ALL IN CAPS BECAUSE I TRIED TO COPY YOUR POST BUT IT’S FUN AND I CAN’T STOP NOW AND THIS TOO, HAS TAKEN A LIFE OF ITS OWNOHGODHELPMEIMSTUCKbutnotreally
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Shoot me da emailz and I send you literarty masterpeace.
shane at shanewsmith dotcom
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Email shot. Point blank. Twas messy.
Just a test email first in case I got it wrong. We can work out details shortly :). PayPal transfer thingy would be the best,
@ Greendudeiusness
Sorry I couldn’t make it to Chaddy the other day – the car shopping took me far and wide but not to Chaddy I’m sorry to say.
Congrats on having a job and moneys etc.
Also – how was the meat? I was in too bad a mood after my grand-final day BBQ debacle to do anything, let alone meet new people.
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No problem man. I’m working this Fri/Sat 10-2 so feel free to pop by then :).
Thanks again, all the TAYbies were really helpful!
Meat was fun and there’s a few write-ups circulating in the previous pages. I saw your post about your friends getting drunk and stuff, hopefully all is well with them and you. I think there was talk of one on October 29th when redartifice comes down so you could always attend that!
@GREENIUS:
Well that is very kind of you, I’m pretty sure the donation window is still open.
Head on over here to make a donation 🙂
http://www.everydayhero.com.au/LameGameMarathon2
I’m making a chicken burger! FOOD POST! 😛
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Greenius @greenius October 2, 2012 10:55 pm D.C. @dc OCTOBER 2, 2012 10:51 PM
I’m making a chicken burger! FOOD POST! 😛(incase he deletes it!)
(incase HE deletes it!)
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I approve of this. 😛
Edit: Just saw below… 😀
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Watching the Late News. Makes me cringe every time they ask you to friend them on Facebook. :S
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LIES! You said you were going to watch six feet under and you said good night! I even sung you a song.
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I watched it. Then I decided that I sleep when I’m dead. Now I’m making a chicken burger. I appreciated the song, though. Although was confused that you were sending me a message. BUT WHAT!? 😛
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Something theme park meat something like a fox!
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Now it all makes sense when you read between the lines!
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October 2, 2012 at 10:56 PM
Greenius @greenius October 2, 2012 10:55 pm D.C. @dc OCTOBER 2, 2012 10:51 PM
I’m making a chicken burger! FOOD POST! 😛
(incase he deletes it!)
(incase HE deletes it!)
(In case they both delete it)
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October 2, 2012 at 10:56 PMGreenius @greenius October 2, 2012 10:55 pm D.C. @dc OCTOBER 2, 2012 10:51 PM
I’m making a chicken burger! FOOD POST! 😛(incase he deletes it!)
(incase HE deletes it!)
(In case they both delete it)
(In case Freeze likes the look of that deleting bandwagon. Haha! I’ll stop now. :S)
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Look at Mr. Mobile TAY with his reply fails and [-] comment hide buttons!
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Interestingly I can’t edit the posts made from my mobile. It’s like it’s two different people. Now I’m having an identity crisis.
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@DC
Must get the recipe from you for your famous Hash Brown Cheesy melt thingy.
I’ve seen it mentioned a couple of times and I am intrigued.
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Shane’s got the patent. I’m just a convert. 😀
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but..
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Hash Brown
Cheese
MeltOr you could be a Crazy guy and put vinegar on it.
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Everyone’s got their own ways. One of the TAYbies some how makes a salt and vineger variety.
Nothing too complex. I cook two Hashbrowns on 230 degrees for 10 minutes. Turn ’em. Cook for another five. Finish ’em off on bread with cheese until toasted. Don’t trust my cooking skills, though. Fire alarm literally just went off a minute ago. :S
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Actually might want to lower that temp, my oven is temperamental. We’ve got to adjust it higher.
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Yeah, there’s not much to it. Using your preferred method (oven, frying, whatever) cook your hash browns, add them to cheese sandwich, then chuck the whole monstrosity onto a sandwich toaster.
So I’ve never played a Resident Evil game (sue me). But!
http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2012/10/02/playstation-plus-your-october-content/
Resident Evil 5 and Bulletstorm are this months PS+ games. Might download RE5 (and add it to my pile of shame), what kind of game should I expect?
I also played Bulletstorm, which is a game I did not like, for many reasons. Mainly the dick jokes and reptitivenessness of the game is what bothered me.
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A solid action game with great replay value that is in no way representative of previous entries in the series. It’s also much less frustrating playing co op with another human.
I’ll probably grab Bulletstorm to see what it’s like and Hell Yeah! Wrath of the Dead Rabbit had me as soon as I saw the title ages ago.
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Ooh, co-op! Splitscreen?
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Indeedily.
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Sweet! Been meaning to re-buy Resident Evil 5: Gold Edition on PS3 for the DLC since I lent my Xbox copy to a friend years ago. Turns out the DLC wasn’t that long/good so I decided to pass it up but at least it gives me a chance to play through the vanilla game again :D.
Bulletstorm was one of those “get when it’s cheap” games and this is the perfect price.
PS+ is proving to be awesome and my sub doesn’t run out until 2014 :/
EDIT: I should read the link before posting :P. Turns out it’s the Gold Edition! Woooooo! I’m keen for some co-op!
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Yeah PS+ is great. Doesn’t run out until Nov 2014 for me!
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I guess if it’s free then RE5 is okay. I wouldn’t want to pay more than $5-10 for it.
If you only ever play one RE game it should be RE4.
SEMI-FOOD RELATED POST
TF2sdays was awesome.
I’ve taken to purchasing two meals every Tuesday night. This is a double-edged blade. I sate my both my appetite and my palate, yet my wallet cringes.
Anyway, tonight was spicy lamb + tzatziki pizza topped with a veal schnitzel with acvodad and garlic sauce.
Yes, it was as unhealthy and indulgent as it sounds. I got funny looks.
Also TF2. Rize, Numbers, Numbers’ brothercousin (I think?) and I ended up playing a couple rounds of bog-standard TF2, followed by some medieval, and finishing with MvM.
Let’s just say that a fully upgraded Blutsauger is AMAZING. Also, being a combat medic really pisses some people off. But yeah, fully upgraded Blutsauger = invincible, yet somewhat useless (in the sense of healing/support) Medic. I love it. LOVE IT.
Also also, I’m looking at broadcasting a blind playthrough of BL2 when I get my copy with Pez and Fatshady. Should be good, although I’m slightly worried about connection issues as it’s coming up to wet season here, which typically means rain. Which typically means I unplug ERRYTHING in fear of frying it all.
But yeah. Aside from that, anyone interested in watching Aleph play BL2 for the first time, live?
What’ve I missed here, too?
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.. waitwaitwait.
There was a TF2sday?
D:
Also that pizza sounds.. amazing. Funny looks? more like envious looks.
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Are you part of the Kotaku Steam group? There was an event notification thingy 😛
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I saw, but- but I didn’t know how to join up and-
saturday is sadurday.
(edited for first sentence, not the gold that was my pun)
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… I am very impressed by myself for that little bit of wordplay, honestly. It’s not even all that great.
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I do really like that pun 😀
I’d like to get together with a bunch of people next Tuesday too.
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I didn’t have schnitzel (cue gasp) but I did eat a crapton for my size (173cmish and 65kgish). A Big Mac, Quarter Pounder, regular chips, small chips, 6 nuggets, 2 regular drinks and I wasn’t even hungry to begin with since I had a pretty decent lunch :P. Now how’s that for unhealthy!
If it was ‘nos/nosrepsomething’ then it was his younger brother.
Can I play too? :'(
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Nosrepenasnina. I think.
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That sounds about right, yeah 😀
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65kg? That’s crazy! Although I’m probably the 6’2 version. 79kg and as scrawny as a mofo.
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5’6″, fluctuate between 49-54kg here.
Dinner was amazing 😀
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Sounds like it! I made a chicken burger just before. Had eight Milky Ways. A chicken burger at lunch. Hooray for self-destruction.
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I hate you all just a bit. 6’0″ and 97kg. 🙁
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I invited any/all TAYbies I’ve got on Steam that weren’t otherwise occupied with games. I believe you were playing BL2 😛
Care to try for next week?
It’s just crazy enough that it might work!
I would watch part of your playthrough, most definitely! I tried to do a Tex Murphy live stream thing last month, but it was too damn screwy I tells ya!
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It’s an interesting little piece of kit, that Xsplit. VERY friendly from what I’ve seen thus far, aside from the crash it had the moment I installed it.
But yeah, the biggest issue will be whether my ‘net connection will be able to handle the stream + multiplayer gaming.-
From what I hear BL2 is pretty laggy at the best of times. Part of the live streaming fun, though! Your descent into madness! 😛
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‘from what you hear’ is just me and my internet sucks for unknown reasons…
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Treme is a pretty solid show. It has a huge ensemble, though, just when they get to an interesting character story they smash cut to a not so interesting one. Show wouldn’t be the same without that style. Just something that you’ve got to accept. 😀
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Couldn’t get into Treme. It wasn’t The Wire.
Oh god, I just started playing Game Dev Story for the first time. Well, I say “just” but it was like an hour ago. SEND HELP!
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And I’m still playing it…
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I only played it for like 10 mins… I need retina support!
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It’s pretty fun! Pro-tip: Save up to hire from Hollywood agent only!
Just ran in to wake my wife up.
Why did I have to do this you ask? I’ll tell you. It was because of the invasion of a Cthulu Spider into my living room. Yes. Yes that’s true. I had to get my wife to kill a spider for me. To be fair I’m pretty sure this thing would have eaten my cat, dogs, fish, children and the entire right side of my house.
I don’t handle arachnids very well…
Almost as manly as Blaghman.
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“Almost as manly as Blaghman.”
Bahahahaha. So true. :/
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Spiders are literally the servants of the devil.
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Pics or it didn’t happen
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….. Maybe it was for the best that you shaved off your beard… 😛
GOOD NEWS EVERYONE!!!
My new laptop runs mech warrior online SMOOTHLY! 😀
I know we signed the whole “we will not speak to people about the game” thing – but screw that – this game seems really awesome! 😀
…Now if only i knew what the hell i was doing….
Also thanks to Cracks for telling me how to update my gpu drivers yesterday – it’s all done! 😀
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Yeah IF I had access to that game I WOULD say that I suck balls at it 😛
Best video clip ever or best video clip ever?
Oh my god. I COMPLETELY FORGOT ABOUT TFTUESDAY!
How did that happen… I was so excited as well! Wow… I need brain medicine.
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Im guessing cause you were busy catching them all?
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Oh man, I had to stop trying to catch them all because I feared I would neglect my kids! I’ll pick it up again on the weekend when my husband’s around to pick up the slack. 😛
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Get them to help you. PROBLEM SOLVED.
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I’m enjoying a superhealthy breakfast of corn chips and coke zero whilst I psych myself up for craft day with the kids. Craft days always go either really well, or really disastrously. I’m hoping for the former. 😀
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May i ask what craft day is? do you use your son to help you make swishy dresses? Does he have to model them. My sisters made me wear dresses and platform shoes. I think thats why i am scared of heights also women. 😛
have fun strange.
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Craft day is a day where I let my kids make a hell of a mess, all in the name of making stuff. Sometimes painting, sometimes collage, that sort of thing. For this time I went to one of those art and craft shops on the weekend and bought them each a kit. My daughter will be weaving herself some woodland friends and my son will be making a felt dinosaur friend.
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Oh man that sounds like fun! Craft meat? 😀
I loved art as a kid but rarely did the crafty stuff at home. I don’t think I ever did an art attack 😛
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Where can i get a felt dinosaur friend. I want one for me and POW 😛
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With that and lambo’s sister making him dress up and pretend he’s a girl, I’m kind of glad I didn’t have to suffer the torment of an older sister 🙂
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I had older and younger. I watched anime with my younger sister. So she is my favourite 😛
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If it’s the latter, make sure you record the madness.
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Exactly. That way, you can keep them in line while putting together the celebratory vids for their 21st birthdays.
Win now, or win later. The Mother’s Code.
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Mornin’ all!
Had an awesome time with TF2sday last night (ignoring the slightly unbalanced Hoodoo match). First time in a long time that I’ve played medieval mode, and it was a great match!
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Aw you played Medieval! D: I love Medieval!
Candy Cane Scout is so much fun on that map. And Gloves Heavy. Who needs Demoknights/Legolas Snipers, really.
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The top-ranking demoknight over here disagrees 😀
Better question would be “who needs spies?”. Seriously, no fun in medieval when spies are involved.
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Watched the latest How I Met Your Mother last night and they tried to pull off a “one of these couples won’t be together by the end of the episode” thing.
This show has a serious problem about dragging along storylines that it has already told you the ending of. Robin was out of the running as the mother since episode one and they wasted seasons on her. In the first episode of this season, we were told what was going to happen to each of the main characters in those three couples. There was no “geez, I sure hope these guys don’t break up” last night because we already knew if that was going to happen.
Why do I keep watching this show? Either get on with the plot or make with the funny. don’t half ass both of those.
EDIT: Yes, I spent pretty much all of last night watching sitcoms and Starcraft. I’m up to the bit in Malcolm in the Middle where Dewey starts to outsmart everyone and MC managed to win against Flying 3-1 in the OSL Quarter Finals despite not knowing about Flying’s hidden base in game four. He kept almost scouting it and turning his units away at the last second.
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Speaking of e-sports the World finals for LoL are on this weekend. I am probably going to watch that for the entire weekend. I want to pick a team to go for but there are so many good ones i just will watch it all.
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If SC2 is any indication, you tend to go in with a team or two that you like and end up supporting one or two others that put in a good run. I’d back Azubu Blaze/Frost to win this thing, the top US/EU teams tend to get stomped by the Koreans and I can never remember the names of the other Korean teams.
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Yeah i am sure that one of the korean teams will probably win but CLG europe has Froggen and M5 is wildly unpredictable Well as unpredictable as following the exact same meta can be)
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The meta isn’t stagnant at all! Sometimes there’s a lane swap now!
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Dewey slowly becomes one of my favourite characters in that show. They did a really good job upgrading him from the ‘cute, small one’
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Dewey and Hal are two great characters.
Dewey is a goofy kid who happens to be a lot smarter than everyone gives him credit for. He doesn’t make a big deal about it, he just does his thing and makes things work out well for himself. It’s a good contrast to Malcolm, who is smart in the more traditional sense of being able to process things quickly, but has obvious blind spots that means that things almost never work out well for him.
Hal is the opposite, he’s the goofy dad who turns out to be amazing at some truly strange activities. Seriously, a regular subplot for him is: Hal does something unusual (rollerskating, DDR, power walking) and in the end is godlike at it. Things go wrong for him all of the time because he’s not that bright and is very goofy but because of his positive attitude, he makes things work for him anyhow.
Character dynamics are fun. Early on, everything plays off against Malcolm. Characters are either contrasts or compliments to him. As the show progresses, people evolve enough that they can have interesting subplots without him, letting their own personalities work (Craig and Hal is probably the easiest example of two more minor characters getting together).
I wasn’t kidding when I said I watched a lot of this show.
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We just finished our second complete watch-through. I already want to go back and start it again. It is seriously a great show, and very underappreciated.
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Also i am the same for HiMYM, like i sort of really like Neil Patrick Harris and Jason Segel they are hillarious but the rest of the show kind of makes me want to go to the writers and start kicking them.
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Nobody cares about Ted anyways.
Barney and Marshall is where it’s at.
Morning guys, anyone else playing WoW?
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Yes, though not as much as I’d like. My servers had a 2 hour queue to get on ever since MoP launched so by the time I get on I’ll only play for half an hour before I get off because it’s either too late to be playing games or there’s something on TV I want to watch.
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I am. I’m really enjoying MoP. Moreso than I enjoyed Cata. Pretty much the same as I enjoyed WotLK.
Morning!
I don’t really have anything else to say D=
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Morning \o/
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Morning.
Everyone seems so chipper-
It’s a choice, but it feels good after a while \o/
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Make something up! 😀
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Would saying I’m too tired be a legitimate excuse?
I sure do hope so.
Oh, I know. I was forced to get up early because a neighbour is building houses and has had at least 3 cement mixers and a pouring crane. Since about 7 am.-
oh no 7am thats is so early
been up since 5 sister. 😛
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I’m used to 8:30.
I usually get up before Mum, but after the show and then mowing and stuff I was pretty tired
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7am… That’s a luxurious sleep-in for me, and one I haven’t had in months!
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I can’t imagine what you’re going through with a new baby and all. Have you had any sleep?
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New baby sleeps fine. The two year old gets up with the sun 😛
Also, 6:15 is alarm time for work on weekdays.
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Its funny cause you always seem to have something to say on TS.
if you apologise i will make it my personal duty to hunt you down and throw greeting cards at you for a full day. We are talking not even relevant cards like happy 5th birthday and congrats on making the basketball team.
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It’s because I hate the silence D=
Although I think I might’ve spent most of my time forgetting I was on TS and singing
OMG! NEW TRAILER FOR JULIE VS. THE DEAD!
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What? ANOTHER one? I thought we were done with this.
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:D!
Novahkiin’s death look at the end… D:
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hahaha I loved what was said in it, won’t spoil it 🙂
So I decided to suck it up and restart Torchlight 2 in Elite mode… I’m barely through Act 1 and getting my shiny metal arse handed to me quite a lot by the bosses. I’m having to now strategise with using ranged weaponry to charge up and then switching to my hammer for flame hammer spamming until the charges run out, rinse and repeat, all while kiting. It’s making it much more exciting though and I can never just run in and swing my hammer! I keep running out of potions at the worst possible times though /o\
Gooooooood morning TAYpeeps, while I sit here silently trying to jedi mind trick everyone else in the office into wanting coffee now I wonder what you’ve all got in store for this glorious hump day … come on, regale me with your plans
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Bowling’s up tonight for me, then some more torchlight 2 elite mode 😀
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Work less than I should. Return Borderlands to EB at lunchtime. Work even less in the afternoon. Go home. Eat dinner. Wrestle the kids to bed. Watch Gruen. Profit.
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I only played it for an hour, but it’s not Dark Souls, so it’s not really my thing. 😛
Also, my credit card screamed to relinquish even those $20, so I’m giving them back.-
I have brought dishonour to my family for falsely saying you would love it … damn
One of these days I’ll actually get the courage to play dark souls
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It’s not your fault. I struggle to find motivation to game these days anyway. Something has to be pretty stellar for me to stick with it. I even put aside Dark Souls for three months.
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Humping.
A bit of reading maybe some writing. WHO KNOWS
I decided I’d buy Tokyo jungle but I can’t seem to find it on the PSN.
When I search Tokyo jungle I find a few bits of DLC, a bunch of avatars based on the game and a handful of completely unrelated stuff but not the actual game.
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I saw a Giant Bomb quick look of that game the other day. Looks amazing. Where are all the other wacky Japanese games?
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Damn I was hoping I’d get some first hand opinions in it. It looks like it’ll be interesting at first (animals! :D) but I don’t know how long it’ll last before the stupidness of it wears off.
Do you want me to see if I can find it?
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I finally found it. I clicked on all the different bits of DLC and then looked a the “if you liked this you’ll also like this” stuff. Most of it was apparently random and completely unrelated. The game wasn’t in there anywhere.
However when I gout of there back to the PSN home page I noticed it flash though on the ads on the right. I waited a few minutes and it came back again. Now I’ve got a whole new problem.
It’s $20 for non PS plus members, $15 for members. fine.
I would like to pay by credit card, OK.
would you like to pay with credit card “123abc”I used that one years back and has since expired so no.
Then it assumes that means I don’t want to by anything
would you like to pay with credit card “123abc”
yes.
“unable to add funds”
I know. I want an option to add a new credit card…… I have no idea where to find it.
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I just buy top up cards. Much simpler.
Also, don’t know if you saw but somehow that Walking Dead prize I promised Pyrean has ended up in my hands. It’s still his if he wants it but it’s season 1 of Walking Dead, not season 2.
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OK, I found where to change that with the help of google. Have to get out of PSN store completely, go to account settings. I was looking under transaction settings but for some reason it’s under system information.
Now I’m stuck trying to remember what password I set up for this three years ago and used once.
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Damn, sounds like a lot of trouble :(. A lot of people run into the “I forgot my password…” situation since the PS3 has that remember password/auto log-in system :P.
Hopefully you don’t get too frustrated with the process and give up on buying the game!
I got the PS3 years ago and stupidly put my real age (it was under 18) so I couldn’t play online. I also had to set up a master account which isn’t my main account at the moment and things get complicated when I try to buy things since I’m not the master account 😛
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NOOOOOOOOOOO. No no no no no. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
I reset my password, singed back into PSN, updated my credit card. Went back to PS store.
Tokyo Jungle is no longer in my shopping cart. I have to find it again.
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OK, took a little over an hour but I’ve got it downloading!
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ITS HUMP DAY. ELDER SCROLLS IS ON SALE.
CAPS LOCK FOR EVERYONE.
(Also, Hi.)
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no … I doN’t WaNNA CAPS LOCK! … BALLS
I beat Borderlands 2 last night, good ending. I wrote this up about an hour before I did:
http://redartifice.wordpress.com/2012/10/02/why-handsome-jack-is-a-great-villian/
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If you haven’t done so already, go back and listen to the post-story convo between the original Vault Hunters in Sanctuary.
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Jack is a great antagonist because he’s as hilarious as he is an evil jerk.
My poor wife had a killer migraine last night, which means that I also got maybe an hour’s sleep. I’m pretty much sleep-walking through my day today, daydreaming about Pandas and Pandora.
WHOOOAAA everythings… different :O
Also yes I guess you guys have talked about this already but whatever
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Um… are we gonna have that fat green bar drop down every time we comment? Can we edit prefences somewhere or something?
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It disappears after a couple of seconds, doesn’t it?
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I was wondering if it would continue to bother me like it was when I first started using the new layout, but I got used to it pretty quick.
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Downgrade to IE7 and you won’t get one at all 😛
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Hahaha! ORRRR I could poke my eyes with hot coals. I could do that instead.
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Don’t tell Ben, he might readjust the whole design again just to make it all fit!
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Sughly!
Oct 28. Movieworld. Sheet just got real.
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WHOA!
Eff. Yes.
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thats freeze not effluvium boy. Silly sughly.
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@Greenius!
If you missed my reply you can still donate to the LGM tally here:
http://www.everydayhero.com.au/lamegamemarathon2
PEACE!
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Heya! I actually did miss it but sent a small donation just then.
Great job again guys 😀
Argh why is my sense of time always out of sync? Last week I was a day ahead, this week I”m a day behind because of the Public Holiday that didn’t mean anything to me. Wednesday, Wednesday. Today is Wednesday, yesterday was Tuesday. Get with it Nova
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Behind behind a day is much better than being a day ahead or even on time.
It makes the week seem like it’s going all the more quicker.
Craft day is going okay. My daughter’s happily weaving away, but my son is making me do everything on his dinosaur. Not the plan! It’s banana break time now so I can finally sit back and relax for a few minutes.
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My mother in law is dropping the kids back to me soon. First day off in a loooong time since I had the kids by myself. I was going to bust out the plaster statues and the paints for them but that may lead to my wife choking me out when she gets back.
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What species of dinosaur is it? Tyrannosaurus, Triceratops, Stegosaurus, some sort of Sauropod?
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Based on the spines, I’d guess a stegasaurus-y dinosaur.
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My mum used to have craft days when I was really little, probably around your sons age. Some of the fondest, strongest memories I have of my early years. You’re an awesome mum, Strange!
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Banana break? I thought you had a particular disdain towards bananas.
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I can’t stand them, but my kids love them. I leave the room when they eat them so I don’t have to smell them.
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*rubs eyes, looks at blinding sunlight* 11am? That wasn’t in the sleep in plan. :S
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🙁 whenever I’m really tired and plan to sleep in I just wake up at 7am anyway. UGH!
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I don’t actually like sleeping in. Ruins my sleeping pattern and I have even more trouble falling to sleep than I usually do. :'(
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I only slept from like, 6 am until 10:30.
I blame Game Dev Story… Also, it’s hilarious being 2 years behind everyone else with this game.
So what’s everyone think of the new Steam Software stuff?
I think I might give the free version of GameMaker Studio a spin.
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So I need someone to explain things to me. Valve’s been making noise about Windows 8 apps needing code signing to run as a metro app/on their app store. Essentially, they have to submit their programs to MS so they can get certified, then put on their marketplace. And I’d assume MS takes a cut.
Isn’t that what Valve is doing? Games or software now, doesn’t matter, you would surely need to submit your product to them, then they put it on steam, who take a cut?
This is all I understand of the situation, can someone clarify?
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Yeah I’m sure Valve make a cut…. What’s your point? Stores, distributors, importers, and everyone else in the chain makes a cut from the retail side.
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I think it’s the walled garden thing. (Valve seem much more open than other places, but it has the potential to do the same thing.)
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Sort of. Not really. Compare how hard it is to get on steam to how hard it is to get on windows phone 7 (it isn’t, just look at all the rubbish apps available for it). From what I can tell, getting onto the windows app store will be just like getting onto the WP appstore.
The problem that everyone’s been kicking a stink up about is that because Microsoft’s added an optional store, it supposedly means that one day in the future they’re going to just going to make all desktop programs from the last ~20 years (going on the assumption that they do this in 10 years time) stop working. Which is a ridiculous thing to think. Plus I think Microsoft would come under a lot of legal pressure if they tried pulling something like that.
Also, I don’t hear people talking about the same thing with Apple. They’ve got an appstore, and they don’t allow non-certified apps to run by default, although you can change that in the settings. Although I suppose you don’t hear about it because it’s Apple and people sorta expect it, plus OSX has a much smaller market share. Which is why MS isn’t likely going to make their OS closed. Their market share is too huge to get away with a fundamental shift in the way the OS works like Apple would be able to.
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His point is that, so far as he can tell, Valve are making a fuss about Microsoft doing exactly the same thing.
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Good luck selling only to Linux and Mac users.
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Exactly. Will they lock it down and hold a whole OS install base hostage until they get their cut?
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In this case though, they’re providing an app store. So far as I can tell, the process is exactly the same if you don’t care about Metro/their app store, but if you want one, you have to deal with the other. I’ll admit, I’m as hazy as Notty on the details, but they are still providing a service for the cut they take.
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Yeah, Blaghs and Freeze get my point, aren’t they being a bit hypocritical?
@Beavwa From what I understand, apps need to be certified for the Windows marketplace or whatever they call it, but not necessarily to run on Windows 8 in general. (If it’s the latter, then yeah, that’s seriously f***ed. But they wouldn’t be that stupid. Right?) So essentially, MS are just making their own Distribution service, just like steam. Unless I’m horribly confused. Which I am.
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Your point is correct and all signs are pointing to it just being for a distribution service.
Playing devil’s advocate on the more hysterical fears that come with integrating that distribution platform in the OS – it gives them the ability to wall it off if they’re that stupid.
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So, so far as anyone can tell, everyone is running on the assumption that Microsoft will be arses about it?
I… Okay, yeah. I can see why it’s a problem.
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This is very true, and I understand why people don’t like it (I’m not too fond of it either). I just find it quite hypocritical that Valve are condemning them for not being open when Steam is a closed platform. Granted it’s quite open and they make good stuff and improvements, but it’s still a closed platform.
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Well the WIn8 RT (ARM) platform *is* locked down to app store only, and there’s all sorts of noise from Google and Mozilla about not being able to put their web browsers in there, so we’ll see how that turns out.
(Personally I’ll be very upset if MS get into hot water with WinRT being locked down, when WinRT is basically to Windows what iOS is to OSX, and Apple actually do have a virtual monopoly in the tablet space)
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Win 8 Marketplace is even more restrictive than that, it’s metro apps only – you’re still going to need to use something like Steam for normal games.
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Just replying to your above comment Neg,
Google and Mozilla are complaining that Microsoft will have access to certain APIs for the Metro IE version that they wont have access to. They can and will have Metro versions of their browsers but unless something has changed/ changes they will be limited slightly in what they can/can’t do. It is all very similar to Apply allowing other browsers on iOS but not to have access to some of the OS level functions, except Microsoft will let you change your default browser.They will get dragged through the coals over it, especially in the EU, the European Union has some kind of hard on for slapping Microsoft. In my books, with WindowsRT, Microsoft should be allowed the same ‘freedoms’ that Apple has with iOS, especially considering WindowsRT has a 0% market share (as of today), so the courts really can’t slap Microsoft and call them anti-competitive as they don’t have a monopoly to be competitive with, if anything, Apple should be slapped for not allowing the default browser in iOS to be changed.
Windows Marketplace is just the method for creating/distributing apps to Microsoft devices, whether it be Windows RT, Windows 8, Windows Phone 8. The idea is you build your app using WinRT, and when you compile it, your create 3 different versions, one for each OS. Then your app is a certified Microsoft Windows application, and can be purchased/installed from the Windows store. This doesn’t mean you can’t create your app in C++, compile it and distribute it through your website or Steam etc, you can by all means, it just means it wont be in the Windows Marketplace Store, and wont be able to have full Metro functionality, you will still get an icon, but it wont be a live tile full screen Metro app, it will just be a standard desktop app. Also means you will have to write seperate code to run on Windows Phone 8 and Windows RT, and to get onto Windows RT (as stated above) you need to go through the Windows Marketplace.
Its not that confusing, I don’t understand why people are rallying against it. Devs should be use to the app store model by now, Apple have been using it for 4/5 years now, not to mention Steam and other app stores. If you don’t agree with their terms of service, then don’t be in the marketplace.
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I think he’s saying that Valve is whining about having to jump through the same hoops they make people jump through and wants to know if that is correct.
Talking conspiracy / paranoia levels of fear, the difference is MS could lock down win 8 so that you can only use things from their store. Valve can’t stop you using something just because it isn’t on steam.
Not that they’re going to do that.
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Locking Windows to App Store apps would be utterly nutty. So much crazy old legacy software wouldn’t run any more, no one would upgrade and they’d lose all the business customers.
And that’s one of the main reasons people are assuming for why Gabe denounced Windows 8. They’re looking like they’ll end up in direct competition.
Yes it’s exactly what Valve are doing and it’s why they’ve been rocking the boat to try and scuttle the Windows 8 App Store.
Why did Sarah fall off the swing?
She had no arms.
Knock knock.
Who’s there?
Not Sarah.
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:'(
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Why can’t Freddie ride a bicycle?
He’s a goldfish.
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What’s brown and sticky?
A stick.
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A man walks into a bar.
He says ‘Ow.’
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What did John the Farmer say when he saw his tractor on his roof?
“Why is my tractor on the roof?”
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There were two muffins baking in the oven. One said “Blimey, it’s hot in here.”
The other said, “HOLY SHIT A TALKING MUFFIN!” -
Knock knock
Who’s there?
Annie.
Annie who?
Anyone you like.Knock knock
Who’s there?
Woo
WOOHOO!
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Two fish are in a tank. One turns to the other and says “man the turret, I’ll drive!”
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Two hats are hanging on a rack. One says to the other “You stay here, I’ll go on ahead”.
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Why did the mushroom go to the party?
Because he was a fun guy.
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Chrono Cross had a character who was a mushroom head.
His name was Funguy, IIRC.
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I love those types of jokes. The clown joke and the ongo bongo coconut jokes are great.
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My favourite is the red ping pong ball one.
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You’re dead to me now.
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AHAHAHAHAHA
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Is there a TL;DR version?
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I fail to see how that could work.
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Holy crap guys guys
When i was Younger i was very much into the idea of making my own game. A friend showed me gamemaker 7 and i was pretty much instantly hooked i spent pretty much half of grade 10 playing around with stuff and i never really made a game. My friend and i were both pretty into this so we gave ourselves a challenge and saw what we could make given a week of the holidays. His game turned out pretty incredible he had AI and realisic movement and i was thoroughly impressed.
My game on the other hand was dreadful, SO i now present to you in all of its non glory my demo of my game Jumping Jeep (formerly known as Jeep Jungle) Play the demo and laugh at how completely horrible it is. Even now i cant believe exactly how bad it is. The funny part is that even this little bit of game was pretty tricky for younger me to make. It takes alot of playing around with stuff to get it the way you want it. But the graphical interface of gamemaker makes it so much easier. Download the zip and check it out.
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LOWRIDERS. That’s all the answer you need. Awesome feature for a jeep to have, by the way. You be sure to tell all the important people in your life to stfu.
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Harlz why do you have to come in with your nice things. THE BLURST
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Oh man, the only thing I ever made in Game Maker was a game called Baby Fighter as a joke. I haven’t seen your game, but I doubt it’s any worse than Baby Fighter. I’ll see if I can find it when I get home.
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I don’t know what this game is, but it already sounds amazing!
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Has anyone had an experience with painting and modifying action figures? My first project may be a bit ambitious, but I’m giving it a crack anyway. Y’know that red and silver Claptrap from the first Borderlands with all the spikes, who calls the Vault hunters fleshy meatbags?
Yeah, I’m making him. Or at least an amateur approximation of him. Anyone who’s done any customising or model painting and has any tips would be greatly appreciated!
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I know nothing about it, but I can offer some advice I’m sure you should follow.
Don’t mess it up. 😛
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OH SOL, THE PRESSURE.
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dont get into a paint fight with your wife. It sounds fun but paint in the eye is not sexy. 😛
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ACK. The thought of anything in the eye makes me feel sick. >_
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Chuloopa does the whole Warhammer 40k thing, maybe he’s painted and modified ’em from time-to-time!
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I used to modify my 40k stuff. There was this plasticine type stuff you could get thy would go as hard as the models plastic. Green something or other. But it works really well. I wish I could remember the exact name. 🙁
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Okay. That green stuff is literally called Green Stuff. My memory was just assuming that’s what I called it.
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Sculpie?
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What sort of scale are you looking at doing.
Things like plasticard and moulding putty (eg greenstuff) will be required.
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I’ve got the base figure (NECA Claptrap figure that’s only just recently come out), plus a whole bunch of other parts from other figures that will suit and are of the same scale. I think I’m going to need to get some Greenstuff for some parts that I can’t salvage from other places.
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That looks reasonably large. Greenstuff is really only for the very very fine details or gap filling. It would take a crapload of it to make larger details. And it’s not overly cheap. If you use a lot of it you have to work in small layers and sections so they dry properly.
Also greenstuff is very hard to use with big flat areas since it’s hard to get flat and picks up fingerprints easily.
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Stuff like this is why I really hope that 3D printing continues to get more affordable. I’ve gotten very very close to buying a Makerbot a few times but the fact that they don’t have a good solution for support materials for printing overhangs etc. sort of pulls me away from it. Though most of that could be handled by simply printing in parts and assembling I guess. The other thing is that even the most advanced stuff is still about a 2mm resolution I think so you still have to sculpt in any really fine detail. I collect lots of figures and my main goal with a 3D printer would be to make custom parts and customize my collection, just don’t think it’s quite there yet.
And once it is there I bet Games Workshop etc. go on some kind of crazy anti-3D printer copyright rampage. I mean you literally could steal a car over the internet.
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Yeah the problem with 3D printing is still the resolution. Especially for the cheaper home made devices. There is no way you’ll match the detail of a fine resin cast, at least not yet.
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The new Makerbots have a resolution of 100 micros (0.10mm), which is pretty amazing.
Could always go UV printing and get down to 8 micron resolution if you wanted to go all out!
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So there is a post on reddit that shows Dishonoured for PC breaking street date…. by over a week!!!
Where’s my copy damn it!
EDIT: Disregard, seems it needs steam activation, so you won’t be able to play it early anyway.
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Oh, man. That would be so good and allow me to play XCOM on launch day too, without having to make some horrible Sofie’s Choice. 😛
I’ll just leave this here for all you Sonic fans 🙂
http://i.imgur.com/l9sJ6.jpg
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HD remakes are like taking off beer goggles.
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Putting them on in this case.
Hot.
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With a nose that flat she could give grea-yeah I’m going to stop myself there.
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Favourite song of the moment. Favourite song of all-time.
GO!
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I think Space Oddity by David Bowie or Desperado by the Eagles might be my favourite of all-time. Of the moment? Probably So Far Away by Carole King.
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It depends. If Dark Horse accept my pitch, it’ll be “Keep Your Heart Broken” by The Rasmus.
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Intriuging! 😀
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If not, it’s a bit more tricky. So many songs have sentimental value, even if they aren’t the ‘best’. For example, at my wedding, we first-danced to Bon Jovi’s “Thank You For Loving Me.”
If I had to pick a song that objectively, I would consider to be the best, it’s difficult, but right now it would probably be “Save Yourself, I’ll Hold Them Back” by My Chemical Romance.
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That’s certainly true, if this question was asked even a couple of months ago the answers would be different. (Last month it totally would’ve been Life’s a Happy Song by The Muppets. :P)
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A worthy choice. I sing that song with my two-year-old 🙂
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The moment – Short Change Hero by The Heavy. (Obvious reasons.)
All Time – I’m not sure if that’s a question that can be answered. There is so much music of so many differing styles that trying to pick a “favourite” is pretty much an exercise in futility.
It’s too much pressure. My mind has gone blank and I can’t think of any songs at all.
Favourite song of the moment is….. a couple 😛 I’m really into Dark Days by Parkway Drive, as well as Gone Sovereign/Absolute Zero by Stone Sour. Also, obligatory Gangnam Style.
All time? Not sure. Enter Sandman is one of them, because it’s the first song I learnt to play in full on guitar. Moment of Truth by Gang Starr, cos it reminds me of my younger days. Also What I Got by Sublime for the same reason. There Is by Boxcar Racer is also one of my favourites, because it’s a song my wife and I were obsessed with at the same time, even though we were on opposite sides of the world.
But honestly I could probably go on and on about songs I love and the reason, but I’ll leave it there.
Bones & Skulls – Biblo.
Favourite song? 3-way tie between Dead Right- Psyche Origami, A song unnamed that I’ll never figure out on my iTunes by Daft Punk, and a song made from a guy on the internets aptly named Saturday Morning Funk from which my name is dedicated from.
And Don’t Stop Believing. I’m not sure where that is on my list, but perhaps it’s so sacred it holds a tier all on it’s own. I dunno.
I don’t like to pick favourites, but for the sake of discussion I will say:
Moment: Somewhere Over the Rainbow – Israel Kamakawiwo’ole (It’s just been stuck in my head for a while)
All Time: The Trial – Pink Floyd
Too hard to pick favourites. If not Floyd then probably one of Iron Maiden’s many brilliant tracks. Or Mussorgsky’s Night on Bald Mountain. Or… Who knows.
World of Dreams – Future World Music
This article about the ending of Binding of Isaac has been described by Ed Mcmillen (the man behind the madness) as being
By far the most mind blowingly accurate break down of the over arching meaning behind the binding of isaacs ending.
Never playing this game.
Ever.
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It’s such an awesome game though. And only a few $
Greenius can also vouch for it-
I own it thanks to one of the humble bundles.
Still not touching it.
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Are you an easily offended? I can see how it could offend Christians.
If you like fun intelligent addictive games with some great re-playability and pop culture references, you will love BoI
If you already have it, you’re doing yourself a disservice by not trying it.
Sure it’s twisted and crazy, and initially quite cringe worthy. But the simplicity, art, randomness and craziness are part of the charm. I haven’t met anyone yet who has given it a good go and not liked it.-
I’m not easily offended and I’m not Christian. That description of what is going on is just too dark, there’s no way I’m going to enjoy it knowing that’s the subtext.
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not erry1 can b a grammer natsy all da tim
That was pretty painful to type.
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an grammer natsy*
My mistake.
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There are various films and whatnot that deal with the same themes that I’ve probably enjoyed. It’s not exactly a ground-breaking theme to deal with. Just not one I’m particularly in the mood for.
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@rocketman
I know exactly how you feel. Ever since I’ve done my gaming course, I’ve always wanted to make a decent game (ANYTHING longer then one level) but have only ever managed this
http://www.wix.com/screee/aqueous
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i will check this out when i get home, remind me if i forgets 🙂
As a man fearing his xbox may of tanked it this news of a price drop in 360s is welcome. However as AC3 is on two discs (360) and they say you wont be swapping Im worried 4GB wont be enough.
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Oh, man. My HD is completely full on the 360. (Which took a long, long while. So many games installed.) Will have to go on a deleting spree.
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Think imma have to turn my xbox on today and play it to see how it is. I have enough HDD space but if I have to buy a new one it wont take my current hard drive
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Yeah, it’s too bad you can’t use the old hard drives on the Slim system. Had to buy one last year at the Christmas sales.
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I hope swapping remains an option. I loathe mandatory installs. I have a teeny tiny HDD
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I love having the games installed, if only cause my old 360 used to sound like a Harrier taking off. I don’t think the Slim has that problem, but the damage is done. Things need to be installed before I can relax. 😀
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From the article I read the were really pushing not wanting to make users swap dics. So it may mean its a one time thing but I felt it sounded more like an install. Though they went into detail on what was filling the discs up and mentioned 2 cinematics. Maybe itll just be one for single and one for multiplayer.
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I am so undecided on AC3. My PC could play it no problem and probably look a lot better. But Ubisoft DRM. I know they’ve said they’re changing their PC DRM approach but I don’t know if I believe them. On the other hand, I have all the other AC games on 360…
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Same here, man. My master race machine could play it properly, but Ubisoft and the PC aren’t friends. :'(
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My HD has just under 4 gigs left on it. I have no idea what I’m going to do when Halo 4 comes out and requires 8 gigs free space.
http://rewards.xbox.com/myachievements/ interesting. I almost qualify for the top tier already.
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Same here, but it’s not much of a discount and seems to promote playing for rewards or street cred rather than playing for fun. (Not unlike the Steam rating.)
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I guess if there’s too much of a value on that gamerscore then there could be some sort of liability (or just an exponential jump in support requests) around achievements that bug out / don’t register.
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Or would just encourage gamers to spend more time with each game… which is exactly the opposite of what their business model would want. If you think about it, it’s much better to hype the shit out of a game that people will buy, play for five minutes, and go out and buy another game. Encouraging people to pad their gamerscores with extended playtime is contrary to their money-making plans. Also, I think this is why they charge for multiplayer.
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Hopefully it’s not a prelude to a new free-to-play model where they’d want you to spend more time too.
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Generally actually it’s faster to play many games and get 200-300 easy achievement points then move to the next one than to get a few games and get to 1000/1000. The only reason I’m at 22k is because I’ve got stuff from many games, never got 100% of achievements from anything.
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*Birthday Gift (approximate retail value (“ARV”): $0.25 USD)
They really went all out with it didn’t they.
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Woo! Two-thirds of a Chupa Chup.
360 4 LYF
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Where’s Blerghman when you need him? 😛
Not sure what they’re trying to do here. It’s not a significant enough perk to influence anyone’s gaming habits or build brand loyalty, surely?
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I don’t know the exact amount, but I’ve got somewhere in the 17,000 range at the moment. I’ve never really been one for unlocking achievments. If they happen they happen and if they don’t they don’t.
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BOOM!
Top tier, baby!*edited so I’m not calling anybody a top tier baby.
Hello Peoples
I apologise for my Silence over the last week or so.
Things have been rather hectic. But all is well now. Paricularly since I have a job starting monday WOOOOOOO!!!!!
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Fuck yeah! Way to go, man! So damn proud! :’)
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*employedfist*
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Congrats to you good sir! 🙂
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From a unemployed hobo such as myself, you sir have obtained something akin to godhood.
or to put it into more casual words
/EMPLOYEDFIST
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Congrats man! 😀
/EMPLOYEDFIST
(is that a thing now?)
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yes.
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Nice. Go forth and workulate!
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Knew you would, congrats
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Congrats man.
Z0mg h4x0rz
I managed to load a webpage! And it was TAY!
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Quickly now, fill me in on what I’ve missed. Seriously. My connection could drop again AT ANY SECOND. (in which case, I’ll likely be disconnected for quite some time. Speak to you all tomorrow/next week!)
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Just sat with the kids and watched an episode of TJ Hooker. Weirdly they loved it.
And god damn but are the opening credits for S.W.A.T awesome. All the main stars running/jumping through windows/rappelling down walls then freezing in a badass pose while their name comes up. Pure 70’s gold.
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This is going to be controversial, but TV before the ’90s (with the exception of Star Trek: The Next Generation.) was terrible, disposible garbage. 😛 Luckily we’re in a golden age now. 😀
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Big Brother, Jersey Shore, Here Comes Honey Boo Boo, Wife Swap, Extreme Makeover, X factor.
Yep, definitely a golden age.
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Mad Men. Breaking Bad. Boardwalk Empire. Six Feet Under. The X-Files. Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Firefly. Lost. Game of Thrones. The Sopranos. Alias. Boardwalk Empire. Treme. The West Wing. Gilmore Girls. Felicity. Battlestar Galactica, Freaks and Geeks… I’ll stop… Golden age in drama I should’ve said. 😛
What the hell is a Honey Boo Boo?
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Thats because that what is in your (our) era. If you grew up with Charlies Angels, CHiPs, TJ Hooker, Miami Vice, Starsky and Hutch, I dream of Jeannie, M*A*S*H, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Man From U.N.C.L.E, The Avengers, Brady Bunch etc they would have been the greatest shows ever made.
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I… disagree. I’m talking more about the production values and the writing. TV’s more cinematic than ever, bigger budgets and taken more seriously. (Haha! I’m sorry if I’m coming across as a douche bag. That happens when you’ve got a degree in television production. 😛 Oh, man. So damn douchey. :() I’ve got plenty of favourites made before the ’90s, but creatively its never been better.
(I understand this is all just my opinion too. Don’t mean to state it as gospel. I suck.)
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It’s true that these days there is a lot more money in TV. The home video market paved the way, ensuring that shows could keep earning long after they were taken off the air, and the age of collectable DVDs cemented that in place. And with more money comes much higher production values (generally speaking). In my opinion, though, the standard of writing contains the same spectrum of godawful to godlike that it always has.
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The added level of respectability alone has increased the quality, attracting people who wouldn’t touch the medium with a ten foot pole. Glenn Close in Damages. Martin Sheen in The West Wing, etc. Also from a behind-the-scene perspective too. I’m not saying that movie people automatically make it superior, but the fact they don’t shun it any more says something. (Could say the same about video games as well. I don’t even think we’re in a golden age of games yet, the best is yet to come!)
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TV revenue has moved away from syndication rights and towards DVD sales which makes a huge impact in the way the shows get made.
Before the home video market really kicked off, shows wanted to hit enough episodes to get into syndication. That’s where the big money was. That favoured long running shows that returned to the status quo at the end of each episode. Now that people are watching shows on DVD or Netflix or whathaveyou, there’s more incentive to have more overarching stories. People are watching the whole run so you want to make them stick through the whole thing.
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That’s a good point, man. Can’t ignore the reasons why TV was how it was, you’re right.
(That was directed at Trjn’s syndicated comments. This new comment system will take some getting used to.)
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Every era has good shows and terrible shows.
For every Community, there are five Two and a Half Men or King of Queens.
There are some shows that stand the test of time, like Get Smart or M*A*S*H and others that were merely good for their time (not jumping on that grenade).
Right now there are an obscene amount of great shows on TV. That’s because there are an obscene amount of TV shows being produced. We’ve never had as much access to entertainment and never had the resources we currently have to make it. Which means there’s the opportunity to make a lot of great television and also the opportunity to make a lot of irredeemable shit.
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But doesn’t the sheer amount of great stuff constitute a golden age, even if it’s just a matter of more being produced. (At arguably higher budgets.)
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Also stuff like telling an arc. Back in the day networks would shoot that down and make the show tell standalone, reset at the end episodes. We’re now getting insanely good stories that aren’t afraid to change.
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I mentioned the story arc thing above (syndication vs home video). A good example of that is Nickelodeon. Nicktoons used to have to be able to be run ad nauseum. No overaching story, status quo is god, no beginning, middle or end.
Angry Beavers is a bit infamous for having a script that dealt with the show being cancelled and breaking the fourth wall. You can find an audio recording of it on YouTube. That was meant to be the final episode but it never got that far.
Nick has since changed their policy that exploited syndication and mass repeats (well, they still do mass repeats, it is a children’s channel after all) which is how we end up with shows like Avatar.
Now here’s the kicker: just because the new method of making television allows for greater story telling does not necessarily mean that it makes for better television. Having a story arc does not necessarily make a show better.
It allows for a different type of show. Much like the difference between an opera and an album.
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True enough, but the fact we have a different type of show that didn’t exist in the past means the medium has matured, though. Probably. Maybe. *runs* 😛
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Matured is a not inaccurate way of describing things.
I’d like to think that there are more story telling tools available right now. You can craft some beautiful things with simple tools.
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Agreed!
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M*A*S*H
kbai
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You’ve got a point there. Damn you Trijn. *shakes fist*
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Oh… but that was totally before its time. *salvaged* 😛
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Thank God someone said M*A*S*H.
Also, Dad’s Army, Monty Python, Hitchhiker’s Guide, Doctor Who, Fawlty Towers, Yes Minister. Get Smart FTW.Plenty of pap then, just like there’s plenty of pap now. Only our pap now is ‘reality’ TV as often as not.
EDITED BECAUSE SMEGGING HELL I FORGOT RED DWARF (the early years :P)
EDITED AGAIN BECAUSE I FORGOT THE DAMN MUPPETS.
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Just finished rewatching Fawlty Towers a week ago. Hot damn I love that show. I posit that there is yet to be a TV comedy that surpasses it.
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Never been fond of British TV. My warped perspective is mainly about American television. 😛
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NEVER BEEN FOND OF BRITISH TV
we can’t talk anymore.
Seriously though i know bunny doesn’t watch it but DOCTOR WHO
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Haha! I said that to my Scottish lecturer once and he looked at me with disgust. 😀
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I was trying to stay clear of the British comedies because that was just too easy :p
They showed definitively and absolutely (and still do, actually, with stellar shows like Outnumbered) that you do not need a big budget to produce quality TV. No one does cheap like the Brits.
Yeah, good point. Higher budgets are just a by-product of an industry taking more seriously. Doesn’t cheapen the work done on a… uh… cheaper budget.
LJ Hooker, you’re the best!
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I don’t know how to break the news to you, so I’m not going to point anything out.
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Wait, we’re not discussing a Real Estate drama TV show? Damn.
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Oh, man. I sound like a fucking pretentious mofo. I’m sorry.
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DELETE YOUR COMMENTS BOY
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DON’T DO THAT!
SHANE! BAD!
You prefer Modern TV. Nothing wrong with that. I stopped watching TV in the late 90’s so my opinion doesn’t really count.
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I remember non-TV minded folks used to mock the medium at Uni and it would angry up the blood. 😛 I get unreasonably passionate about my own opinion in this instance, unfortuantely. 🙁 Don’t mean to dismiss the opinions of others, because you’re right, there’s plenty to like about the past too. You’re all good people I respect a whole damn lot too. 🙂
You’re right, though, it all just comes down to me liking the aethetics of TV today more than the past. 🙂
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See, I like the old school Sci-FI and some of the ingenious ways they got what they needed onto screen without CGI or any budget.
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Overuse of CGI is another topic I can go on rants about! I freakin’ love practical special effects, so you’ve got a point there. Just cause they can use CGI excessively, doesn’t mean they should. 😀
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Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull is all the evidence you need for this.
Also, actors react much more authentically if the bugs/explosions/bullets are real.
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Best sci-fi in particular has little to do with visuals to me and every thing to do with the writing as well. Just look at Next Gen compared with Enterprise. Enterprise might’ve been more of a spectacle, but people still take about Best of Both Worlds and All Good Things all these years later. Even with the less spiffy effects.
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Miniatures and muppets!
I always favour practical effects. They age so much better.
EDIT: Also limitations force people to come up with creative solutions.
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That’s true too! You’re right. (I’m totally glad no one mentioned The Twilight Zone earlier, I forgot about it and it would’ve killed my case right there… oh no…)
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So im trying to cancel my automatic renewal on xbox live (that I didnt know about) and they want to send me a code but its to an email address I stopped using in the 6th grade I dont even know how they have it
EDIT: NVM I got the solution just have to wait till 1st november
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You can cancel it online without no code mumbo jumbo. Last time I did this was a few months ago and I just went on Xbox.com, logged in then changed it in the settings.
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Thats what I was doing but they wanted to email me a code I had to enter
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*group hug*
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.. alright.
*group hug*
whoever’s hands are those, I’m flattered, but stop.
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Oh ok, if you insist
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THINGS ARENT JUST FIXED WHEN YOU HOLD ME, THIS ISNT TV 😛
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*pats Rockets on his back*
There there.
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thanks man i was choking on some corn chips. you saved my life.
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Character arcs! 😀
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*grope hug*
What?
Argh, Telstra ads slow down Kotaku so much. It’s always Telstra ads!
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Adblocker ftw
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I do use AdBlocker, but I whitelist Kotaku. Supporting the website and all that jazz. It probably doesn’t make much difference in the end, but anyway.
It’d be great to just block Telstra ads specifically though. I don’t know what they do but all the animations and things make my computer chug.
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Implying that your internet is crap and you should switch to Telstra. Its says right there, High Speed.
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That’s the funny thing, I’m already on Telstra!
EDIT: Thinking about it… that’s probably their plan! Make me think my current plan isn’t as good as this super fast 3G or whatever they’re advertising. Sneaky buggers!
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i.. believe you can, depending on your browser. I’m running chrome and right-clicking on certain ads allows me to block them. But I dunno, I block everything these days so yeah.
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Oh really? Didn’t know that! I’ll have to try that once the ad rolls around again. Thanks!
I can see an option to block ads by URL as well, but they change so frequently I don’t know what good that would do.
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I have my flash plugin disabled by default, only enable on demand for specific flash. Stops most ads dead.
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noscript for firefox and scriptno for Chrome.
Best addons ever, allows for granular permissions of all scripts running on websites, especially handy in stopping cross site scripting attacks, facebook likes, ad tracking etc
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God damn it. What is with Kotaku randomly inserting itself into my links?
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I don’t know, but it always seems to be you that it happens to haha I think it might do it when you don’t put http:// at the front of the URL? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RS2SzGUwaMI
EDIT: Nope. Must be gremlins.
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If you’re using < a > tags then you need to be clear what you’re referencing. Like so.
I hope that works, since I’m posting from mobile site and unable to edit anything serious. It would be a pretty cool break though…
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It made me laugh, but not for the right reasons. 😛 Although the fact there’s so much alternative stuff to watch instead means golden age? Not stuck watching this if you don’t want to… or something. 🙂
(Haha! There’s not much of a defense here, I admit.)
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Just when I thought there couldn’t be a show worse than toddlers and tiaras
This is pretty interesting (As Shane is probably aware):
http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2012/10/countering-negativity-with-positivity-makes-situations-worse/
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From now on, STFU is part of my everyday vocabulary.
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And… done. In my own eloquent way, of course.
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One of the PMs here used to shut down arguments in meetings by saying “I think you should Schedule Time to Follow Up on this issue.”
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“OMG, my life is totally worthless and I’m going to kill myself.”
“You are absolutely right and everything you are feeling is va-”
*BANG*
“id……ooooohhhh”It’s not always the right way.
I’m sorry if I’ve destroyed TAY today! How ’bout those video games?! 😛
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God DC, you’re like the 4th worst person on this site.
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Moving on up. 😛
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Gonna be hard to topple McGarnical.
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I was waiting for this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L09qnRfZY-k
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THAT’S NOT MODERN TV!
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Sure is catchy, though. 😛
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(Haha! One thing old TV did better, theme songs!)
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MY new album is out next month, Its called one with the animals and each track has me pretending to be a different farm animal with some heavy bass cut in. here is the album cover for all you cool cats who are super eager for this to drop
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Day one instabuy.
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If that ain’t an iTunes number one, I don’t know what is! 😀
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Sadly I would actually buy that.
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I truly hope you are serious.
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Should have titled it animal farm and made all the tracks equal except that the pig track is twice as long as the rest of them.
I’m disappointed I didn’t get in on that TV talk on the last page. My thoughts are:
Old TV was pretty cool. They had some really good comedy shows. Also nerd shows like Star Trek and Xena.
New TV is pretty cool. There’s a lot of trash but there’s also some really good drama. Cartoons are a lot better today than they were when I grew up.
I like that shows now a days have over arching plots, but at the same time I don’t like it. My favourite episodes of House, NCIS, Castle etc are the episodes where they’re just doing their job and it’s all contained within the episode. I’m not a fan of the episodes that deal overly much with House’s drug addiction, some major terrorist plot in NCIS or Beckett’s mother’s murder in Castle etc. I generally find those episodes just aren’t as good as other episodes.
Final thought, they need to make a new Star Trek.
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I find network TV doesn’t do arcs properly. Doesn’t fit with the 22 episode order. The best arcs are shows clearly designed around a serialized story. 11 episodes of Game of Thrones that are just about the arc, no filler. 13 episodes of Six Feet Under that’s just arc, no filler. Those are the best. (Though there’s plenty of good arcs on the networks too.) The problem with NCIS I find is they’re so successful that they haven’t done any thing to shake that status quo in years, just like the old days. The arcs just lead back to where they started. I needs to stop generalizing today. 😛
(And arcs like The X-Files designed to pad the story ain’t good either. Haha!)
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Shows like Supernatural (particularly seasons 3 and 4) did a pretty good job of handling the arc while still having breather episodes.
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So did Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Oh, man. I miss that show. :'(
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Stuff like Lost too. Some didn’t like the actual arc, but it was told pretty well. 😀
(Except for the Nikki and Paulo episode. :P)
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No lost did putting suspensful music and cutting away quickly at a vital point well. Everything else was meh.
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Them fightin’ words.
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*resisting urge to go on 4 page spiel on Supernatural*
The arc was never really finished. Each new arc is caused by and related to the previous arc. I quite like it. Just a bit.
That said they don’t really seem to know where they are going with the latest one. It’s kind of meandering around with no real clear goal.
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I specifically mentioned seasons 3 and 4 because that’s where the show hit its stride and actually knew what it was doing :p After they went into season 5 (the planned end), they got renewed and that screwed up all of their plans.
I stopped at season 5 and don’t regret it one bit.
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I think that tends to be the case with most shows. Season 3 – 4 are normally awesome but if they go longer than that they’ll usually start to suck. There are some exceptions of course. SVU managed to be good for many, many seasons, though the post Meloni stuff hasn’t been as good. Doctor Who is another good example, it’s still going strong, but I have to admit I haven’t been enjoying the latest season as much as I have past seasons.
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And the best shows are capable of creating episodic television that fits into a larger story without succumbing to the clumsy and artificial constraints of character/story arcs that dovetail perfectly with season breaks.
There are no perfect examples that spring to mind that aren’t Malcolm in the Middle. But Six Feet Under is a reasonable example of this. Gilmore Girls and The West Wing are better examples.
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I don’t think I can agree with you on Malcolm in the Middle.
That show has great character development. That’s not necessarily the same thing as story-telling as character development doesn’t necessarily require resolution (neither does story-telling but shut up).
I’m generally in favour of season length story arcs. I don’t think it’s any more artificial a constraint than a book. You have this much time to tell your story, there might be smaller subplots interspersed but it gives you a clear point to end things on.
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Yeah, I agree. I don’t mind mind if they complete a season arc as long as it has consequences. (Changes the characters, effects the next season indirectly.)
Xenoa…
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She was Xena, a mighty princess forged in the heat of battle.
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Hercules > Xena
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If we are talking muscle mass, then you are correct
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But strangely not if we were talking about cup size. 😛 Hercules had massive man boobs some might call pecks.
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Going to politely disagree with you on the cartoons being better these days, so much of it is just trash. There are some highlights in modern cartoons (Avatar springs to mind) but for pure class you can’t look past the 80s.
Transformers, TMNT, he-man and Dino riders.
As for you final thoughts, they don’t need to make a new Star Trek, they need to make an old star trek again.
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Samurai Pizza Cats
Ren and Stimpy-
Ducktales! Basically any thing Nick did in the early-to-mid ’90s too!
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Excuse me for a moment, need to go watch the intro
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Haha! Right there with you, pal. 😛
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AhWOOOO-OOOOO
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I kind of nostalgic towards 90”s and 00’s cartoons but i enjoy alot of newer stuff. Adventure time, young justice, legend of Korra are all wonderfully brilliant. So i think i have to balance nostalgia vs actual brilliance.
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For instance i was watching the gummi bears last weekend when i was drinking with a friend cause he saw it on my hardrive. Too me it is a sign of my childhood and each episode is a memory and i find the jokes funny but he thinks its the biggest piece of crap show ever.
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The theme song to Babar to this day brings a tear to my eye. :S Don’t know what it is…
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Because he is a elepehant price with a heart of gold. Don’t watch new Babar you will throw tables.
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Bouncing here and there and everywhere. High adventure that’s beyond compare, They are the Gummi Bears.
Animaniacs (including Pinky and the Brain but not the stuff with Elmyra), the DCAU (Batman, Superman, Justice League and Batman Beyond), a good chunk of the Nicktoons (Doug, Rugrats, Angry Beavers, Spongebob and so on), The Simpsons, Futurama, the pre-cancellation seasons of Family Guy, Archer, My Little Pony, Fairy Oddparents, Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends, Daria…
It’s easy to find a whole host of awesome cartoons over the last few decades.
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Fairly odd parents resonated with me. probably my favourite cartoon series of all time.
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Oh man, I love Fairly Odd Parents. Especially Mr. Crocker and his twitches
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Stargate.
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Seasons 1-5 and 9-10. 😛
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… is the new old Star Trek? If that’s what you’re saying, I concur… except that RDA didn’t have sex with aliens.
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Deep Space Nine and Battlestar Galactica had pretty similar tone too. (Helped that Ron D. Moore was on the writing staff of both. :P)
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In Stargate Atlantis they kinda did that with Joe Flanigan at times 😛
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RDA had sex with Joe Flannigan? Glad I stopped watching before that happened!
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Must’ve given into the slash fans. 😛
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uhh… wha?
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See, what I did was make a joke out of your imprecise usage of the pronoun “they” to make it seem like you were talking about RDA still.
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The young guy in Universe too. (I liked Universe, it had the voice of Mulan in the cast!)
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I hated that guy… everyone in Universe I just hated, except for Doctor Rush, he was awesome.
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Rush was the only one I hated. 😛 I liked T.J. the best, though. Sucks the hand she was dealt, though. :'(
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She always looked like she was about to cry, all the time!
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That resonated with me. :'(
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I liked Rush too. He was a jerk but he was also a really well written character.
Relevant 🙂 You see this yet?
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I always thought it’d make a good party based RPG.
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And it’d make a good mod for F.T.L 🙂
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You forgot the kickstarter link techie
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Dang… can’t find it
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That’s an awesome Idea.
Although TBH I think I’m going to move on from FTL now. Played it enough, and it’s too random to unlock the other ships (I’ve got 5 in total and both layouts of each one). -
Rogue-likes, human. It’s not meant to be easy to get the playthrough you want 😛
Sure have! Couldn’t agree more with the official games all sucking, too 😛
EDIT: FYI, best Stargate gaming experience I’ve ever had was in Gmod. Epic gates and awesome weapons!
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Or cancelled. 🙁
As soon as I saw the mounted staff weapon I jizzed in my pants
Just tried Junior Mints for the first time.
Tasty!
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Do you think Sammy Davis ate Junior Mints?
A separate but related discussion to the whole TV thing going on.
Best single episode of TV you can think of.
I’m going with Two Cathedrals from The West Wing. The season 2 finale where Bartlett swears at God in Latin.
It’s either that or I cheat and have Half Measure/Full Measure (penultimate and final episode of Breaking Bad season 3) but even then I think it has to be The West Wing.
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That West Wing episode was amazing, especially when Brothers in Arms by Dire Straits kicked in. I really hope Sorkin can reach those heights in The Newsroom some day.
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My favourite moment is when he puts his hands in his pockets, looks off to the side and smiles.
Edit in response to your edit: It’s not going to happen, nobody in The Newsroom is Martin Sheen.
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Sheen really had the presidential thing down. 😀
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I really liked Kobal’s Last Gleaming in Battlestar Galactica. Passion/Becoming in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. So much good TV. Can’t pin point it down. It’s like that best song predicament all over again.
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I normally hate the whole “best” idea, but I think it can spark an interesting conversation. Especially seeing as we’re obsessing over TV thanks to you.
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It’s weird, cause I can’t pin point one exact episode for Six Feet Under and Mad Men in particular. Those shows tend to be more than the sum of their parts. Speaking of M*A*S*H, Goodbye, Farewell and Amen was pretty spectacular.
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What Angelus does, possibly the evilest thing I’ve ever seen on TV.
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I liked the show before that, but season two really took it to a whole new level.
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Oh, man. Totally forgot about The Body. And then The Gift. And then Once More with Feeling. Damn good show.
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The american office season 5 episode called stress relief.
Never have i laughed so hard at any one episode of TV.
Overview
Dwight starts a pretend fire that sends the office into a panic
Stanely has a heart attack ( non serious)
Michael hosts a roast of himself.It was aired directly after the super bowl in America and still to date is the best episode of that show ever to have aired.
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There are so many.
The last episode of Six Feet Under. Just because.
The last episode of MASH. Of course.
Season 5 finale of The Shield.
Farscape miniseries.I need to think. I reckon I can come up with better.
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If you can do better than that, you’re doing pretty well.
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The flashback episode of Gilmore Girls “Dear Richard and Emily” was also pretty amazing, and while I’d put it alongside the others I mentioned, I wouldn’t elevate it above.
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Farscape! Now there’s a show I want to watch, seems we’ve got pretty similar tastes too.
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It’s funny. I try to rewatch Farscape, but there’s so much mediocrity mixed in with the brilliance. It especially took ages to find its feet, and then proceeded to shake things up (with limited degrees of success) in each subsequent season.
The post-cancellation miniseries is pure TV nirvana though. It is by a huge distance the most EPIC thing I’ve seen on TV, and one of the best-written.
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That was my impression from Season One actally, the only thing I’ve seen of the show. I had a friend who was obsessed, though. I loved the surreal feel as well.
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It’s worth perservering, purely just to see the Peacekeeper Wars miniseries. Seriously, I cannot recommend that enough. Seriously. You’ll get some amazing moments along the way too. Farscape KNOWS how to do a season cliffhanger – oh man, that’s something they never got wrong.
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And once they committed to a love-story focus, things sort of clicked. And kept clicking as long as that was the focus 🙂
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I’m a huge fan of Claudia Back. Seems like something I’ll have to commit to eventually. (Six Feet Under was on that list for a long while, I’m sure glad I got to it.)
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That iconic M*A*S*H scene where Col. Blake leaves must be up there somewhere!
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That final scene is simply amazing. The episode itself is a bit meh.
But yeah, it’s somewhere up there.
Breaking Bad have had some incredible individual episodes that are so rich in subtext that I’ve got no hope of totally unravelling them. Those really impress me, even if the enjoyment factor is occasionally lower 😛
You’re going to make me talk Fawlty Towers again aren’t you.
Waldorf Salad.
I don’t know about best, but I really liked the episode of Torchwood where Jack gets thrown back in time and meets the real Captain Jack. The scene where they dance together is one of my favourite TV scenes ever.
Two Cathedrals is very, very good.
“Peter” from Fringe is pretty devastating
Oh, oh! On the Beach. ER. I cried.
That’s pretty tough, but one definitely springs immediately to mind. The Devil’s Hands Are Idle Playthings, the original series finale for Futurama, is the best 22 minutes of television I have ever watched, and repeat viewings maintain its brilliance. Speaking of Groening, Last Exit To Springfield is the best episode of The Simpsons, but Futurama beats it out by a small margin.
There are also a few episodes from How I Met Your Mother that have been pretty good, but they’re more like specific moments instead of entire episodes (Marshall’s outburst at a funeral in season 6, Robin’s Christmas woes in season 7). I really felt invested in those moments, but the episodes around them were often fairly unimpressive.
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Jurassic Bark, The Sting, The Farnswoth Parabox and Teenage Mutant Leela’s Hurdles make that season Futurama’s best by far! 😀
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Futurama? Obviously the bestest episode is Time Keeps on Slipping, or perhaps The Late Philip J. Fry. A solid sci-fi concept with enough twists to entertain any nerd, combined with the lovable plot of romance with humour thrown in it all around.
Jurassic Bark is hella close though, just for the feelings.
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My favourite episode ever would be the Firefly episode Out of Gas (the episode with all the flashbacks). Love how they set everything up for that episode.
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Oh, yeah, that was amazing. In fact there’s only one episode in the entire run of Firefly I didn’t like. (That would be Shindig.)
Edit: Accidently said Bushwacked. I LOVED Bushwacked.
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Now, see, I enjoyed Shindig.
My least favourite Firefly episode was The Message.
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Best single episode in an animated TV series made outside Japan: Code of Hero, Transformers: Beast Wars Season 2.
GREENIUS
Your donation tipped us over the $7,300 mark.
Thank you kindly good sir, you are a gentleman and a scholar 😀
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Has Borderlands 2 rebuilt your faith in good games? 😛
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Oh so much so yes 🙂
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Great job guys!
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Oh, yeah. That too. 😛
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Woo! But you guys are the real gentlemen and scholars, putting your mental and physical well-being on the line (and even sacrificing Borderlands 2 time!) just to play some lame games for charity.
Well done 😀
CALLING ALL TAYBIES. WHO’S INTERESTED IN TAY MO’TEAM FOR MOVEMBER? GENDER-EQUAL, THE MO’ KNOW NO MO’ ‘BOUT GENDER DISPARITY.
Ok, so the alliterative effort didn’t really work.
Either way, join Motaku today!
https://www.movember.com/au/team/452897
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You’re a good man, Aleph!
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Haha, cheers mate 😀
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Haha! I’m sure that one was already out in the ether from last year. 😀
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Done. I’m in. My wife is going to kill me. How does one acquire funding for this?
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Well, I’m assuming your wife won’t help with the funding 😛
From what I gathered last year, people can either fund you personally (you should get a unique link to spam everyone with once you register) or they can fund the entire team, too. I’m unsure on the specifics, but I think that’s the gist of it 😀
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Joined!
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Thanks man! Hoping to get a pretty decent turnaround this year 😀
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I’ll be slowly yet surely adding to the team page, mainly filler text and shite, but I’ll also be annoying everyone I know to donate munniez too 😀
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What if one already has a moustache?
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Shave it off, start again. 😛
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Them’s the rules, home-skillet!
I guess you *could* be a sly dog (geddit?) and simply state that you grew such a fine monstrosity all within the confines of a month. But do you really wanna do that, tarnishing the good and pure name of Motaku?! DO YOU WANT THAT ON YOUR HEAD?!
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(Be sure to film the shaving off process too. :P)
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Hells no I’m not shaving this thing off. I’ve been growing it since January.
Surely there must be some loophole, can’t I represent Movember and raise money with my magnificent moustache as it is? D:-
Perhaps… if you were to shave something else in lieu.
Or you could just keep growing it, and raise money, and join the team anyway! 😀
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You could shave someone elses mo off by force!
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preeeeeety sure that’s called assault in most places 😛
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Only one way to find out, my friend!
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Just donate to other people’s efforts
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Yeah I might have to do that, I ain’t shaving this thing off in a hurry 😛
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I’ve always wondered how stupid I’d look with a mo but work requires me to be clean shaven :(. The campaign does end mid November though so maybe I can let it grow out over my massively long Uni holidays.
I also saw that Beavwa joined. Bringing back the porno mo? 😛
I remember Kotaku did something like this… last year? (or earlier?). I forgot about it but looked up “skinny tim schafer” one time on Google and PuppyLicks came up 😛
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It was last year, every week I made comments that they looked like sex offenders. I was worried they all hated me. 😛
i can barely grow a moustache, and it’ll look pretty terrrible, so uh yeah i’ll probs be in 😛
I just finished mowing most of the lawn. I’m so tired and hot. Bloody weather is not helping.
Imma gonna go cool down then I might do colouring stuffs!
I can’t wait for James Bond 23 – Skyfall, but I think it lands in Australian cinemas a month after the U.S premiere! Maybe 007 Legends will satisfy my James Bondian anticipation for the meantime.
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Skyfall looks great, but it’s weird with Bond, sometimes I’m extremely psyched and other times I’m not. Unfortunately at the moment I’m not really into it. That could change, though. 😀
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I know what you mean, but try this ‘Ultimate Trailer’ here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPadcOjVWxg It tipped the scales for me a few weeks ago.
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I need to rent Blood Stone. Somebody on TAY (I think McGarnical) used to say it was an ok game a few months back.
Question for you intelligent people. What makes a good trailer? 2 wheels or 4? A rear gate to sit on? Something to cover your load?
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No wait, wrong sort of trailer. Game trailers. What are some of your favourites? Mass Effect has had some awesome trailers, especially the Launch trailers for 1 and 2. Kick ass music, gives a taste of the characters and setting without giving away too much. Short, sharp and to the point.
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I dislike trailers but the Finish the Fight campaign for Halo 3 was beautiful. Gears of War’s Mad World trailer was great but not representative of the game.
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Actually, Street Fighter 4 had amazing trailers.
Here’s Ryu vs Ken but they also had Chun-Li vs C. Viper, Akuma vs Gouken, M. Bison vs Seth and Guile vs Abel (or you can just watch them mashed up by watching the intro for the game).
Just realised you can bypass moderation by editing in multiple links. Get hype, son!
Double edit: nope, can’t bypass moderation. Oops.
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So I may have edited in a handful of links into my comment below. It’s now in moderation. Go look up the SF4 trailers.
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Bugger, was all ready to discuss the pros and cons of dual axle trailers and their single axle counterparts!
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I’ll get my Dad in here and you two can go at it
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Yeah I don’t really do trailers for games. They rarely feature in-game footage, which is what I’m after when looking at a new game.
I save the cool cinematics for in game. Like Diablo 3 – damn that had some awesome cut-scenes.-
Save the gameplay for video reviews, I say! Trailers are for stirring up hype!
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Gearbox know how to do a decent trailer.
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I like trailers that don’t have any narration (though you only really see them at announcement events and things). One of my favourite recent ones was the Sim City 5 trailer. Covers the basics quickly and makes it all look fun.
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Also, this early LA Noire trailer was fantastic (I’m not even sure if it was official or not? :P) but it really got into the noir feel. It’s just that it’s too long and not informative enough to be a proper trailer, but I wish they’d kept the feel. The official release trailer borrowed more action movie tropes.
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I remember really liking that sim city trailer. I also like the effect at the end where the name Sim CIty is made from the towering buildings.
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The original GTA IV Trailer with Philip Glass (Pruitt Igoe) set the tone of Liberty City very well
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Atmosphere.
While I enjoy seeing gameplay, and watching dev diaries, etc, I find the atmospheric reveal trailers to be thrilling.
I’m thinking
Old Republic – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOLANti8UCY&feature=related
Assassin’s Creed Revelations – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo6Q14vBB1c&feature=player_detailpage
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Assassin’s Creed trailers. Because whoever it is that does them has really interesting musical taste.
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Metal Gear Solid 2 had some frickin awesome trailers back in the day. Lost count of the number of times I watched them!
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The only game trailer that has gotten me hyped up in recent years would be South Park: The Stick of Truth.
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I have to agree about the Mass Effect trailers, they have that cinematic feel to them. Uncharted 3 had an equally awesome trailer, I recommend checking the launch trailer out. You want a trailer to capture the feel/pace/excitement of the game, give a viewer a taste of the story and show some strong action, comedic, or dramatic moments, set to a song that both encapsulates the feeling of what we see and heightens the excitement of those scenes.
Why does no one pay attention to scree =(
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Scree! How are you? How’s the costuming?
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Costume? I finished it -for now-.
Mums birthday is where it’s at now.-
Ah, cool. My Housemate makes a bunch of costumes for various cons etc, she’s got a wardrobe full of them.
What are you making for mum’s birthday?
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I kind of want to make myself a Danbo costume but I think it would be difficult to get the proportions right and actually be able to fit into it.
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The only character costume I have the parts for is a Riddler one I did a few years ago, but I’ve cobbled together ones for various steampunk events
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Danbo would be a little more complicated than the Riddler. 🙂
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*leers at scree*
Wait no. That’s bad attention.
*casually and indifferently glances at scree*
No, too far in the other direction.
Uh. Er. How about stuff?
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Stuff is good. ._.
ALL THE ATTENTION!
What’s up Scree?
Also the colouring after the mowing of the lawn. In the heat… ewwww.
Yeah, sorry about my lack of interaction (with everyone) this morning, the connection’s only really picked up in the last hour or so. I’ll make it up to you, I swear!
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No one is talking in TS. I’m talking but no one is responding, so boring D=
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Waaaaait. People are on TS at this time of day?
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?? 5pm isn’t that weird of a time!
Morning TS is usually deserted though. There was some activity when the unemployed club went on but I haven’t checked lately :P. I assume it’s the same though.
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Hey scree!
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HI DC!
Did someone say something? I swear I heard a voice asking us to pay attention to them. Must’ve been imagining things.
🙂
But what are you talking about? I talk to you!
Hi Scree! How’s things? Are you colouring ALL the things?
Isn’t it a little childish to ask for attention?
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=( I suppose it’s also childish to be bored?
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We pay attention to you, just dont always have stuff to say. we arent a eloquent bunch.
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I feel like I’m just annoying everyone
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Livestreaming kittens.
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2012/10/live-streaming-kittens-surely-is-what-the-internet-was-invented-for/
Livestreaming kittens.
You’re welcome.
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Truly a golden age for humanity! 😀
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You know what we need? Cat cafes. Normal cafe where you can go and get yourself a latte or whatever, except the place is full of kitties to cuddle.
Probably would breach Health & Safety laws I guess. 🙁
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There’s one of those in Japan. Think I saw a news.com.au article about it a while back.
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Yes, it is not an original idea. But it is an awesome idea.
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I need to go to one of those. Kitty cuddles used to be a major stress relief for me. My husband is mean (aka a dog person 😛 )and won’t let me get a cat.
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Borderlands 2 PC friends:
Can you help me find an “Area of Effect” grenade mod? I don’t think I’ve ever seen one but I need to kill some enemies with it for the cheevo :). Been killing the raid boss a bunch of times and still haven’t found one.
I be hunting them cheevs and I’m 4 off from 100%. 3 of them are class related ones so they shouldn’t be too hard to get over time and the fourth is getting level 1 done in all challenges (hence why I need an area of effect grenade mod)
Thanks in advance! If you’re using one as your main I only need to borrow it for a few minutes so I’ll get it back to you safe and sound :D.
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Do you mean like the corrosive or singularity kind?
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Nah, it should be its own type called “area of effect”.
There’s challenges for the different types of grenades like singularity, mirv, bouncing betty, transfusion (probably more I’m forgetting) and area of effect
http://borderlands.wikia.com/wiki/Area_of_Effect
Might’ve seen one earlier on but I haven’t seen one recently so can’t really provide much info since I don’t know about them :P. I rarely use grenades so it was never something I actively looked for (until now)
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Oh, no dice then. If I’ve encountered one, I obviously didn’t pay too much attention. Good luck, Greenius, old friend! 😀
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Most of the incinderary and shock grenades are. They won’t say so. Just equip them and try them out.
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Also anything with corrosive cloud. Which I get friggin constantly. I prefer slag and transfusion personally. Currently using a Slag transfusion with 7 child grenades. Awesomesauce. (Not what your asking but still)
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I love the singularity kind. Makes up for my crappy grenade aim! 😀
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So it’s just normal grenades that aren’t one of the types mentioned above? I usually use Singularity grenades but I’m fairly sure I’ve used normal ones with elemental effects before but nothing has counted towards this challenge so I think it’s actually something different.
For example a Mirv grenade would be something “ABC Corrosive Mirv Grenade” and I assume an “area of effect” type would be something like “ABC Corrisive Area of Effect Grenade”.
The Wiki says there’s no explosive or slag area of effect types and most standard non-elemental grenades would be explosive anyway so I think it’s a different type.
Again, I haven’t actually seen one so can’t confirm but my kill count for area of effect grenades for the challenge is 0.
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As the wiki says, corrosive cloud, fire burst and shock…. something. Won’t actually say area of effect.
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Not shock. Tesla.
They are all classed as area of effect. I got that challenge with the fire burst.
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Ah thanks. Haven’t seen them either though 😛
I hope the cheevo is just for normal challenges and not all the ones like “get all the vault hunter symbols” etc. I guess it does add a bit of value if I have to track down all that xP
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I hope not either. It probably will. I usually don’t care too much about them but I feel obliged since borderlands is one of two games that I’ve platinumed.
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There’s some crazy location specific ones too, like shooting all the turrets or outhouses in specific locations.
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UPDATE:
Found a grenade and did everything I could… but no achievement! :P. Apparently there’s some hidden ones that require level 5 in certain challenges so that’ll take a while to get. Thankfully by “level specific challenges” they don’t mean level 50 etc. but the levels/areas/locations themselves (so all those ones like find all the vault hunter symbols don’t count)
I guess this is why it’s the least obtained achievement 🙂
Got excited about the 999 sequel’s demo, then realised it was for PSV.
I was sad for a second until I realised I’m probably going to have to play through the whole game a bunch of times anyway, so a demo is just going to make me have to repeat parts of it even more.
So I’m not sad any more. Definitely adding the game to my list of “must buy”s, though.
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Hey Strange! How went the craft day? 😀 I’ve never played a Japanese adventure game.
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Craft day was not bad, apart from the fact my son made me do most of the work. 😛 He did a fair bit of stitching but got bored so I had to do the rest. He really enjoyed stuffing it and putting glitter glue on it, though.
My daughter made three woven animals and now wants to buy more materials to make more, so I’d call that a success.
And I even managed to work on some of my own projects this afternoon. Finished piecing the first panel of the quilt I’m making for my grandmother, so I’m pretty happy all up. Good craft day. 😀-
Oh, and also 999 is really good. I think you’d enjoy it.
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They all tend to be on handheld consoles, though. I’ve never had one. :'(
Hooray for a successful craft day. Hope you were feeling better today too. I know you were hurting yesterday! 🙂
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Today was the best I’ve felt for weeks! Thanks for asking. 🙂
And I have handhelds you could borrow. I have two PSPs, a DS and a 3DS so that pretty much means when my daughter isn’t using my DS and my husband isn’t using my PSP I have a spare DS and PSP just lying around getting dusty.
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Thanks for the offer, but I’ve never been a fan of the handhelds any way. I suspect they’ll just end up gathering dust in a different location. Occassionally the iPad gets some unexpected Nintendo ports. I’ll most definitely check them out if that ever happens. 😀
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Just enter competitions for them and hope you win 😀
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I have put pictures of some of the things I accomplished today on the Twitterz, if you are interested in seeing them. My son’s glittery dinosaur friend is a highlight.
3DS TOO!
Edit: I wanted to quickly post so you wouldn’t be all unexcited and sad but then I re-read it and now I’m pretty sure you just meant the demo was only for PSV and not 3DS (3DS might have a demo but I’m not sure).
My post referred to that it’s also coming out on 3DS. To be honest until that article I wasn’t even aware it was also coming out to PSV (either that or I forgot) now I have to decide which one I want to get it on… ARGH!
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I’ll be getting it on 3DS but the article didn’t mention a demo for 3DS, just PSV.
Edit: damn you peoples and your itchy editing fingers! 😛
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Vita will probably be better. Dat screen.
That’s very true!
I’m just glad it’s not coming out until November here. I’ll be neck deep in Pokemons for at least a month (though almost certainly more :P)
Virtue’s Last Reward is being released for 3DS and Vita both though.
EB Expo bracelet came in mail. Hazzah.
Also, bought strawberry field tic-tacs. No tim tams or weis bars, yet. I’ll probably go all out and post a snacktaku post on TAY.
So yep. that’s my day.
EDIT: Well, not on the tic-tacs. I’m not sure they warrant a whole post. No pictures, either. Who am I, Mike Fahey?
Actually, I might just buy a crap-ton of food native to australia and make a actual thing out of this.
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Oh, man. I can’t wait. If you’ve got the means to record yourself eating them… wait this post is sounding creepy… 😛
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Ha ha, you have to go to a meat first D.C before you get any footage of people eating stuff 🙂
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😀 Good point!
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Tim Tams!!!!!!!!!!
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LAMINGTONS!
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All will be eaten in the name of Australian Snacktaku.
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Oh they ship you ticket bracelets? Maybe I won’t be able to get a last minute ticket the day before after all 😛 Oh well, I’ll likely be in Sydney this weekend anyway so I’ll be able to go to any spontaneous Meats!
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You can also buy the tickets at any EB games as well (reading off the website.) But yeah, a meat should totally be in the works.
I’m not sure we’re organized enough for one now, but yeah. 😛
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Be sure to post a Melbourne style group shot!
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And we’ll subtitle it with all of our names!
…under the wrong faces >:D
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Powalen is the one in the dinosaur shirt!
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Ah ok. Doesn’t sound like there’s anything major being organised though so I probably won’t end up going. Good to have the option though!
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😛 we shall see. We shall see.
But probably not no.
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Don’t forget pavolva, vegemite, dim sims and Milo.
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oh and pancakes for lunch or dinner. Apparently it is only in Australia that we eat them for all three meals instead of just breakfast
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Had vegemite, kind of fond of it, I’ve had Milo in a number of places, pavolva are on the list. Dunno about dim sim.
Also, Pancakes. Not sure what to say about that. I like pancakes.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dim_sim Here is Dim sims. As oyu can see, it is an Australian thing only.
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Added unto the list, good sir.
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Good scree is fine.
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Also, try a hamburger with egg and pineapple/beetroot (I don’t think they usually have both) on it. Drool worthy!
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Speak for yourself.
Bacon, egg, pineapple, beetroot, cheese, meat, mayo, chilli sauce. Tomato if you have no class or taste.Best thing ever.
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^ What he said. (I think they can have both. Although two low-friction ingredients are going to have that burger sliding all over the place)
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I think if you go to a fish and chip shop you can get egg and beetroot or egg and pinapple but you can always ask for the pineapple to be added
Never heard of that pancake thing.
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I don’t remember where I read it, but I checked wikipedia and it seemed I was wrong. It’s eaten at different times of day depending on the region
Pancakes for lunch and dinner?
Isn’t that a Dutch thing?
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Is it? I’ve no idea. It might just be America that only has them for breakfast or something
I used to only ever eat pancakes for breakfast and was really surprised when I learned people also ate them for other meals.
I found you a more comprehensive list
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_cuisine#Iconic_Australian_foods
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Ahaha, oh man considering i’m low on funds i’m beginning to regret taking up the challenge of doing Australian Snacktaku.
Still, no regrets. 😛
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We would help if we could. Well, I would, but I’m not near you
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We should have a ‘Introduce Saturday to Australian food’ meat. Everyone can bring one type of food and we can all sit starving as we watch Saturday gouge himself 🙂
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I approve.
So much.
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The makings of a cautionary tale when you return back to Canada. 😛
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“Hey guise wanna hear a story bout how I ate so much food provided by random people on the internet I ended up barfing all over somebody’s kitchen and/or pet?”
I dunno, that type of story does sound nice to have in case of drunken ramblings.
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Also, depending what state you’re in, you might try a Pie floater.
But yeah – get with the Tim Tams, weis mango bars, and jam lamingtons first.
Anzac biscuits are also great if baked by someone who knows how to make them not be crunchy.
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Oops! This was obviously intended as a reply to Saturday above.
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PLAIN lamingtons 😉
But yeah, the anzac biscuit thing is a good point, dry and crunchy is horrible. They’re not that hard to make yourself!
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Plain lamingtons ONLY if baught fresh from a bakery.
ALL other lamingtons need jam.
This is the truth.
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I’ve never tried that. It looks both terrifying and amazing. I want one.
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That’s…possibly the most disgusting thing I’ve ever seen ^^;;
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Your description is apt. The pie floater is indeed both terrifying and amazing. 😛
I’ve never had the pea soup version – only the mushy peas version, eaten in Sydney I think?Later I worked at a supermarket that sold cans of mushy peas for 99c, and meat pies for 49c.
I discovered that for $1.50 I could have a hot lunch that was simultaneously hearty and patriotic, and also disgusted my co-workers. Fun times!
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That looks horribly delicious. I’m just outside of Sydney, so next time I head into town I’ll pick one up.
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A pie with mushy peas is easy to find around Sydney. Can’t remember the last time I’ve seen that pea soup monstrosity though (I don’t like peas :P)
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The collective TAYmind expects a full report!
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HI TAY!
I don’t think I’ve said anything this week /o\
You all look fantastic. Did you do something different with your hair? Because it is WORKING.
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I washed it. Thanks for noticing. 😛
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Also, today should have been a really crap day. I had work which is always a nightmare and I’m cramming for an exam but then I had these awesome revelations and life is pretty good.
\o/
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YOU SAY THAT EVERY WEEK!
What happened to the Spam Jugsy we once knew and loved
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Jugsy? What an odd thing to say!
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Wait until the end of November. I will be back in force.
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HIDE YO KIDS HIDE YO WIFE
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Sup Hellstra?
This is what I’m colouring!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v247/luckydogofdeath/img007.jpg
It feels unfinished, but I’m not sure what to do.
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Yellow shorts for the guy on the left with red trim.
Red Tee for the girl with aqua trim.Disclaimer – I know nothing about this so ingore everything I said!
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Add something to the background! The winners of these sort of things always go all out!
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Yeah, I was going to add a mountain, grass and trees, but somebody else has already done it. =(
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Put a mutated pokemon in the background about to maul ’em good and proper!
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Wouldn’t that scare the kiddies though? This may be displayed
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Aren’t those for kids? 😛
Good luck!
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Why does everyone on here keep calling me a child D=
This is the 3rd time day. D=-
I didn’t call you a child/kid, I was just wondering if those colouring competitions are aimed at the youngens. I haven’t seen them often but the ones I have seen have had younger winners.
It looks good though!
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Oh fair enough :). If they told you to enter, then you should! It’s good enough to win.
You’re tight with the staff too so that might increase your chances of winning. Free game! Even if you don’t like Pokemon you could always sell/trade/give it away.
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I entered one of these competitions at a local video store when I was in primary school. I totally came in 2nd place and won a big tub of mixed lollies. So good.
/brag
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Some sort of environment and fill it up with Pokemons!
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I guess so. Grass environment it is!
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1: YAY MY XBOX DOES STILL WORK!!!
2: I had windows trouble shoot a problem and it found a soultion and it worked and all I did was click twice.
Hey fronds, went and saw Looper today, trying to work out the exact mechanics of its time travel, it’s quite interesting.
Also, bought an EB expo ticket/bracelet thing for Sunday, so uhhh, yes.
Also also, I am still addicted to Game Dev Story.
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Oh em gee imma be ther Sunday. Lets have an exchange where we see each other walking towards one another and then just nod as we pass.
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Haha! You Sydney folk meat in style! 😛
I’m going to see Looper on Friday. Looking forward to it!
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Yeah, I was thinking more that I’d follow you around like a puppy, desperately craving your attention.
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Well I can tell you right now. Ill be in a grey hat, a goatee and most likely jeans. Khaki messenger bag and Ill be around AC3 FC3 WiiU and looking for this indi dev
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My first game that sold enough to get an award was a Romance Sim.
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My studio is obsessed with robot shooters. Something like 10 of its 25 odd games are robot shooters. Including game #25, which was a hall of fame game, and game #252, its 2nd place for GOTY sequel.
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Was the movie any good? I was thinking of maybe seeing it this weekend. Got some Event Cinema gift card cash to splash.
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I liked it.
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Definitely. Its pacing was a little odd at times, seemed almost Tarantinoesque at times, though that may not help you. But its action was well filmed, it had some great actors, and I really like Time Travel.
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I want to see it but…
foreveralone
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Bribe someone to go?
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“HEY YOU! YES, YOU. OVER THERE.
How would YOU like to go to the movies with ME to see Looper? You’re paying though but it’s an honour since I’ll be there.”
Who could refuse that?
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Save your money, buy a plane ticket to Sydney, Hire a car, Drive south for 2 hours, Knock on my door, Say hello, Cry with joy, Take me to my local cinema, Buy us movie tickets, Watch the movie, Go home.
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Save your money, fly to Sydney, meet me at the airport.@Pow
Save your money, drive north for 2 hours, meet us at the airport, say hello, cry with joy, take us to a cinema, we’ll get our own tickets, watch the movie, go camping.-
Camping? Whaaaa?
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There was mention on the twitters of a NYE camping trip! FOR A WEEK! \o/
This is most excellent because cheap.
Cheaps is excellent because flights aren’t :S
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Interesting, interesting…
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So you keen?
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I like this idea!
Except we shouldn’t pay, Powalen’s treat!
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Gee, that Powalen is a real swell kind of guy!
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You’re coming too?! Aww, Powalen’s so generous to have invited THREE of us!
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He’s a sweetie!
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I’m the best!
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Question time.
Wtf is with all those meta critic bomb reviews of RE6 screaming “ansha Abdul”? I’m pretty sure I’m missing something here.
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i’m gonna guess 4chan or reddit maybe? coordinated stupid stuff usually comes from them (no offence to anyone on here who frequents those sites…)
most likely people going “CAPCOM IS EVIL I TELLS YAH, EVIL!!!!!!!! THEY KILLED MEGAMAN AND KNOW THEY HAVE RESIDENT EVIL IN IT’S SIGHTS BECAUSE THE GAME GOT 7’s, THAT MEANS IT’S THE WORST GAME EVER.”
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I used to frequent one of them. None offence taken whatsoever. It IS co-ordinated stupidity.
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Listening to this week’s giant bombcast it sounds like the game is pretty disappointingly bad. Like, 7 is high for it. :\
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Just dinged my Siren for the last time in Borderlands 2. Now to do all the sidequests!
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That sounds oddly sexual.
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What? Taking part in menial tasks on behalf of virtual strangers because I am no longer able to ding my Siren?
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EB just sent me an email about a 250GB 360 and Borderlands 2 for $299.
Not sure if that’s cheap or not but seems like an alright deal.
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Trying to dump old stock and sweeten the deal?
I remember when I bought my 360 for $150. Used.
And it needed repairs 😛
OH MY GOD.
I completely forgot to tell you.
Last night. At the pub.
There was a soccer game on the television. Arsenal was playing.
It was the PERFECT opportunity for IT Crowd lines. Guess what? THEY FECKING WORKED.
Admittedly, after ‘did you see that ludicrous display last night?’ and ‘The thing about Arsenal is, they always try to walk it in’, the whole thing fell to shit.
But those two lines WORK!
\o/
I talked sportsball with a sportsball person for a (little) while, and it worked!
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hahahahaha, that is brilliant! 😀
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I find actually knowing about sport still makes it much easier to bluff your way through. I can talk sport, i just dont like to because alot of the minor details bore me.
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There is a professor who is claiming video games make children smarter.
I’m not sure if it’s a trap
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Hasn’t it already been proven that it helps with hand eye coordination and problem solving abilities?
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Video games can make children smarter in the same way that any media that requires people to think in certain ways can make them smarter. Give it to a kid at an early age and those thinking methods become habit.
Most of the time, I would assume that it makes them smarter in dealing with video game logic (how many times have you had to explain something that appears down right basic to someone who has never played a game before?).
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I don’t like to think it makes anyone “smarter” it is really just a different way of problem solving. Its more methodical.
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“Smarter” assuming that they would not have learned this method of problem solving elsewhere and that having more ways to tackle problems is smarter than having less.
Smart is a pretty imprecise term. It means different things to different people.
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For instance in the context of this conversation i am calling you a smart ass. However i do not mean your butt is good at problem solving. 😛
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My butt isn’t but my donkey is brilliant at problem solving.
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Now back to a regular ass.
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A donkey with these sorts of skills is far from regular.
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Fine the best concession i will make is that you are like a pig from Animal Farm.
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I guess it depends on how you define “smart”. Is it IQ level? Is it the perspective from which you approach things? Is it the methods you use to solve problems, with some ways being more efficient than others?
What sort of video games. Do they mean educational games or just any sort of game?
So, after questioning a few people last night, I discovered I have a crapload of DLC for Borderlands 2, from preorders, EB etc.
A lot of it is good fun but I’m glad I got it for free…ish.
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I think I got the Slaughterdome for pre-ordering with EB, the Premiere Club for pre-ordering, and the extra Collector’s Edition skins for buying the Loot Chest edition.
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I didn’t know I had the DLC either. I read the back of the cards that came with the game and it sounded like it activated when you register the game itself with Steam, like the Catwoman DLC in Arkham City. Forgot all about it until Greenius reminded me midway through! Like The Last Question, I got the Slaughterdome and premiere club stuff. (Didn’t pre-order either. Guess they were feeling generous on the day! I appreciated it! :D)
I suspect Gaige the Mecromancer will be the best addition.
Popsugar informs me that this guy just showed up in Sydney.
THE ROBOT MASTERS ARE TAKING OVER!
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He looks like a sippy cup.
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Guess I got work to do!
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You read popsugar? ;D
Today’s episode of Bookaboo had Emilia Fox reading the story. My god can she read a story. Even having “The Spider and the Fly” a thousand times I’ve never heard it read that well. When I become a rich billionaire I’m totally hiring her to read all my books to me.
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That’s a repeat.
I can’t believe I know that.That is indeed a good one. A little too intense for my 2 yo though, so I sent her away when I watched it.
Starting to watch Breaking Bad (I’m now up to the start of the second season) has made something very clear to me. Just because a game is “interactive” does not mean that game violence is more harmful than movie/TV violence.
I’ve played loads of violent games, just for my example I’m going to use Fallout 3: when you manage a headshot or critical and it goes slo-mo as you see the enemy explode into pieces of viscera I would often laugh or be impressed. But to use Breaking Bad as my watched media example: when Tuco is doing his thing I flinch and have to look away because I find it supremely distressing.
Oh and while I’m thinking of Breaking Bad…it isn’t as earth-shatteringly great as I’ve been lead to expect. Not so far, at least.
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Interesting, isn’t it? Sometimes the violence we can’t control leaves a bigger trauma impact, because we are essentially powerless to prevent it. (My theory, anyway)
Also, something something video game graphics are not quite up to the level of TV/movie effects yet.
Breaking Bad is about to get deeper. They really start to push the subtext and subtle visual cues that serve as metaphors for the ongoing decay of Walt’s character, and that’s when it gets impressive. The story itself (all the way through so far) is almost a paint-by-numbers, but the subtext is where it’s really, really happening.
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Arghh…what did you edit? I’m getting so paranoid and curious with this everybody-editing-all-the-time thing. D:
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I added the ‘something something’ paragraph. Removed nothing. But what did I edit from this comment?
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Wow, when did you become so evil? 😀
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When I get bored. Today is a slow work day 😛
Sometimes I’ll go back and add snide comments to really old articles, just because I feel like it. Some of them are real zingers, too.
Or do I?
also, what did I edit? AGAIN
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HEATHEN! …. Says the guy who has only watched halfway through season 2. I get what you mean. As much as I can recognise its a good well written show I find it uncomfortable and hard to watch for some reason. It’s taken me a year to get as far through it as I have.
I got into Breaking Bad some time ago, and it’s one show that I’ve actually kept with. Not sure what that says about either myself or the show, but there you go.
As for the distressing nature of the violence portrayed, did you find that it was the context or the content that was most invasive?
For extreme examples of both, I’d offer A Serbian Film for context and August Underground’s Mordum for content
Both very invasive, offensive pieces of cinema, but (I feel) they go about it in very different ways. Personally, I find the contextual form far more shocking, although this may differ from person to person. When left to the imagination, some powerful imagery can come from it.
As a disclaimer, I DO NOT intend for anyone to watch these films. So far as I know, they’re still banned in Australia anyway.
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Also, in light of further discussion up top, I hereby swear never to edit a comment 😀
Woo, I too am just a couple episodes into season 2.
And yeah, it’s pretty good and stuff but dark and violent to be sure.
YAY, BREAKING BAD!
I completely understand when you say the show is distressing. My wife stopped watching after the first season. It was just too much for her. Especially the tub scene, and the aftermath of the broken plate.
I think the series really hits its stride in Season 2 and since then it hasn’t lost it. I can’t believe we’re already so close to the end 🙁
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Yeah for shizzle. Gotta stick with it. The show is at its best in my opinion from last half of season 3 through to the end of 4. So much love for s4.
I have to make a conference call later today for some work stuff 😐
I’m not really sure what they are (a call with lots of people?) or what to expect and I generally don’t like talking on the phone as I prefer to just text them instead.
Interesting!
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Good luck, Greenius. A hatred of the phone is something I know all too well. People who want to call me know my system of screening calls. They’ll know I’ll be standing by the phone when the answering machine starts. 😛
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I used to hate it but now i dont mind it. Talking to a bajillion customers everyday has made me perfect my phone manner. If they are calling you they have something to talk about so all i do is listen and help if i can. If i am calling someone i make sure i figure out the exact questions i need to ask before hand.
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I’ve got a speaking voice most don’t understand, so I’m incredibly self-concious of that too. 🙁
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…you have a Scottish accent like Mark? 😛
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Haha! I don’t know where my dodgy accent comes from. Certainly doesn’t sound Australian. 😛
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Hahaha I did that too! Never used to use my mobile so friends would have to call the home phone and leave a ‘message’. I’d recognise the voice then pick up
Gah, the telephony machine. Don’t get me started.
Good luck.
Why is it my PS3 will happily download at 2-3MB a second but my PC struggles to get over 60Kb a second? I thought it was meant to be the other way around.
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Oh, man. Crazy consoles. My PS3 downloads insanely quick, with a nice stable connection. My Xbox will download incredibly slow, then lose the wifi connection midway trough. They sit side-by-side.
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I’m the same. My consoles have stupid fast internet, but my laptop gets sweet FA speed.
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And why is it that the 360 in the bedroom, my phone and iPod when I take them in there all connect to the internet fine but my laptop throws a fit if I take it into the bedroom and kicks me off the internet?
Technology is fickle.
I think my Iphone 3GS is starting to die. Its really struggling to keep any signal, which is a problem when I have recruitment people trying to get into contact with me. Any suggestions on what I should upgrade to? Iphone 5, Galaxy, something else?
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I’m one of those rare crazy horrible people that actually likes the iPhone. I have the 5 and have yet to actually encounter any of the apparently completely broken features. (I did manage to get the purple flare after 5 minutes of angling the phone weird while pointing it directly at the sun. As everyone does when taking photos.)
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Is Apple maps realy that bad? I haven’t updated to iOS6 because of it
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Yeah, I’ve been putting off updating my iPad too.
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I have yet to have a real problem with it. It does struggle if you misspell names.
Disclaimer: I have not yet used turn by turn directions. I never did on Google maps either. I usually just check where it is and work out how to get there from that. More like a Refedex than a GPS.
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Nokia Lumia 920.
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http://youtu.be/Zjrv9-Botx8
Obligatory ad having a go at the iPhone 5 😛
Also, the red one looks pretty awesome.
But why is there no cyan??? ლ(ಠ益ಠლ)
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Whatever it is come to the Telstra shop at Chadstone City (the largest shopping center in the southern hemisphere!) and visit me during work 🙂
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I have a Samsung Galaxy S2, and the phone I had before that was an iPhone 3GS. I frakking love my Galaxy S2. I would wholeheartedly recommend it, and they shouldn’t be too expensive now.
Strongly considering going to EB Expo on Sunday. I should probably buy tickets, right? That seems like the thing to do.
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Or you could just go and stand out the front and start yelling.
“DONT YOU KNOW WHO I AM?”-
That’ll kill maybe an hour of time. Kind of leaves the rest of my Sunday open.
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That Zap guy…
He’s a good egg.
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He sure is.
That Eff guy…
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That strange woman
Has her face on a pic of a egg.
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Oh, there’s a presidential debate in an hour? Time to turn off the TV, close twitter and avoid the news for a week.
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Yeah, that Faraday cage is lookin’ like a good idea 😛
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Google “Mitt Romney with a tiny face” and prepare to lol.
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Oh god. I just lost it as soon as the search results came up.How the hell did that come about?
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It likely originated from Woll Smoth
See:
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/woll-smoth
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I am now disappointed that he doesn’t really look like that.
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Hahah oh god so funny
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You kidding? I want to see Mitt Romney’s pre-planned “zingers”.
This has the potential to be a delicious train wreck, why avoid it?
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I find the current political climate fuckin’ horrible, I’ve got to say. I can’t even watch The Daily Show any more. Makes my skin crawl that this is the world we live in.
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Call of the week goes to ‘flu!
Hi, TAY.
It feels rather warm today… what’s the weather like around your regions?
And by regions I mean cities, not the other “regions”.
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I don’t live in a city, but it is warm and quite windy which is good because i feel like marriyln Monroe when i walk outside.
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Pretty? 😛
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Now I have “I Feel Pretty” from Westside Story echoing around in my head.
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Oh, man. I’m sorry. That can’t be good. 😛
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Are you wearing a dress?
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WOULDNT YOU LIKE TO KNOW
but no i am not. im wearing shorts.
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I’m envisioning lycra short shorts. Not because I think you are but I hope you are. *dreamy sigh*
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Nah man i dont want to make anyone feel bad about themselves.
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Hot, sticky, and plain old disgusting.
Same goes for outside, too.
Mainly sunny with a few clouds in the sky. Pretty warm. I’m not wearing any sort of jumper or hoodie because of the heat and my arms feel all naked and exposed.
And I was just about to make jokes about skyscrapers too 😛
The salty breeze is irritating my freshly shaven face.
Also, it’s quite hot.
TAY’s Movember team, Motaku, was created yesterday! Join/donate/spread the word!
http://au.movember.com/team/452897
Is it my imagination or did JB reduce the price of their Dishonored pre-order from $79 to $69? I could have sworn it used to be $79.
Regardless, I must not forget to preorder this tonight. I’m running out of time and I really like that shirt.
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I think it was $69 last time I checked, I remember being blown away by that! AC3 too!
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I’m still trying to decide between JB and EB.
I really like the keyring, but I want the other stuff EB’s offering too.
D:
Reading up on those girls who were deported from Brisbane today back to Italy, I have to wonder… if it was the father who abducted the girls and kept them illegally in Australia without the consent of their mother, how differently would this story be portrayed in the media?
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Yeah, you might have a point, but still made me sad all the same. :'( (Although some of the language used in the article was clearly manipulative for the reader! At News.com.au atleast.)
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news.com.au
Well there’s your problem.
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Haha! Truer words, never spoken.
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I said the same thing to my gran,
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This. A thousand times. Society tries to pretend that fathers have equal parental rights, and although the law recognises this sometimes/often (but not always), social values are still stuck in a deeply traditional rut.
Edit: News outlets in particular are extraordinarily conservative, especially in Australia.
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Reading things like this honestly make me think that perhaps the gender roles (as touchy a subject as it is) have been flipped. There’s still little equality (not that I’m against disparity, but that’s probably for another time).
With regard to paternal laws and such, what would be the implications of a masculinist movement?
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Women working and men staying at home.
This is the big one.
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I’d support it but in truth the kids would be better off by a gigantic margin with my wife then with me. Not saying its like this in all cases but mine specifically.
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I’m the same, but in a truly equal society, this choice would be made by individual couples rather than social inertia
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See, I’m not in the same boat as you guys currently. Single male, no dependents. Forgive me if I can’t/don’t empathize.
I’m okay with people having differences, and think those differences should be praised. I’m kinda conflicted about ‘equality’ in that sense I guess. If everyone’s the same, it’d just be… boring.
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I know as a kid I would’ve chosen my mum over my dad any time too. I know that’s not true for everyone, but was for me atleast. Shouldn’t be an absolute assumption, though. I agree.
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See, I was borne into a middle-class life, with heterosexual parents. They split when I was 5, and by age 10, I decided I was going to move interstate to live with my father.
While I don’t regret it, if I were to be presented with the same choice again, I dare say I wouldn’t do it.
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I’ve never really had a strong relationship with my dad either, so there’s that too.
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🙁 I’m sorry to hear that, man. Good to hear you have your mum, though! 🙂
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Inappropriate admission in an inappropriate place: I’ve never met my father while he was sober.
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Oh, I’m not bitter/sour about it. I consider him a friend, and that’s about as far as the relationship goes, is all.
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@Freeze,
I really am sad to hear that. Everyone should have the opportunity to build a relationship with their parents.
Not inappropriate at all. (And if it is, hey, I’m glad you posted. I love that we can post this kind of stuff here and feel comfortable.) That’s got to suck, though. I’m sorry to hear it. 🙁
Also, I think this is important. A lot of men have supported the feminist movement, and even support the bits that arguably go too far.
GENERALISATION WARNING: Men are biologically wired to protect and support women, even at the expense of their own wellbeing. They will defer to women far more easily in matters of the family, in part due to their lack of confidence and relative inexperience with the kids (relative to the woman, typically), and in part due to this biological imperative.
Because of this, a masculinist movement… it’s pretty much doomed to fail! 🙂
Also, THE MYTH OF MALE POWER is a good book. If you can get past its slightly-too-far polemic, the arguments are solid. Everyone should read it.
Another big issue in the entire debate is that we are wired differently and as such the results we achieve will be different.
Taking something like wage disparity seems like a fairly cut and dried thing, men get paid more. However men are also much more likely to ask for a pay rise and when it comes to rewards men are much more likely to choose money rather than time off/flexible hours than women.
I am curious as to which industries often have that wage disparity. Is it primarily in big-business suit land? I have not personally heard of it occurring irl.
Yeah, this.
Age has A LOT to do with it as well.
A previous female employee here shared the same job title with me, had lesser responsibility and was earning double what I do. Age seems to have a far greater impact in non-suitland than gender.
The wage disparity isn’t calculated hour to hour. It’s calculated over an average lifetime of earnings.
That’s why it’s so flawed.
1) Women typically take longer time off to have a child than men. Therefore the career path is truncated.
2) After returning to work, women tend to either
a) choose jobs with flexible working arrangements (that consequently pay less)
b) work less overtime (and thus earn less money)
c) turn down promotions because it would mean less time with family
which of course *can* put pressure on the male of the family to do these things to keep ends met. Which is why there are so many men on executive boards, compared to women (not the only reason, but I don’t think the glass ceiling is the only factor, as the feminists would have us believe).
3) Industries with a higher proportion of female employees that have part-time work, family-friendly flexibilities, etc, tend to be low-skill, low-paying industries, (Exceptions are nursing and teaching, both of which are actually underpaid IMO) but are acceptable even for educated women because of the family-friendly perks.
That makes a lot more sense now that you’ve broken it down Shane, thanks 😀
I was always of the understanding that the figures were based on annual earnings, hence the confusion.
There is also a wage disparity (May have a different term) between men and woman doing the same job with the male earning more.
Which again returns to many of the factors you have listed. But there is a difference between current earnings of men and women in the same roles.
There are “Men’s Rights” movements/groups, who have some valid points but they tend to get overshadowed and radicalised into misogynist derp.
Current temp: 26.9 degrees C.
*sigh*
Much nicer inside.
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….do you mean that’s hot? I’d call 27 nice and warm myself. Hell it is about the same here and I still have a hoodie on.
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It’s ~29 outside. I’d actually consider that cool for the time of day/year too.
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…That’s meant to be a tilde, by the way. It’s *not* negative 29 in the N.T., don’t worry.
Hell has certainly NOT frozen over just yet.
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Cause we were talking about TV yesterday i think today is music day
2 questions
Favourite album/s of the year?
Favourite song/s of the year?
1) Jack Whites Blunderbuss, Passengers album self title release, Passion Pit Gossamer,
2) Laura-bat for lashes, Its not my fault im happy-Passion Pit, Madeon-Finale, Deadmau5 -The Veldt.
What about you guys?
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I honestly don’t think I’ve bought any new albums this year. (Released this year, I mean. I’ve bought Bob Dylan, Carole King and The Muppets stuff.) As for songs… uh…
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Why would you buy a bob dylan album. He is a amazing songwriter but his voice makes me cough in disgust.
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Haha! I kind of love the roughness of it. Some of his songs are amazing. Plus, this is going to sound weird, but my cat goes nuts with high pitched noises. Every time the mouth organ kicks in she goes crazy. Makes me laugh enough to justify buying the album just for that. 😛
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You are a strange kid DC, i like that 😀
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Right back at you Rockets, right back at you!
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My strangeness defines me. Its what i am.
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Life’s a happy song when there’s someone by your side to sing along…
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I love that so damn much. Especially how Kermit stays in character no matter what. Amazing!
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Thanks man. I had no idea this existed! 🙂
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1)Funkoars-The Quickening, Hilltop Hoods-Drinking from the Sun and Boy and Bear-Moonfire
2)Too many to list I guess, Gangnam style, Rattling the keys to the kingdom, Lordy may, Short Change Hero(before BL2 lol),
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I’d go with Short Change Hero to but that was after BL2. It introduced me to The Heavy and The House That Dirt Built is an amazing album.
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Agreed, I heard a while back on one of the Arkham City trailers and was instantly hooked. When I booted up Borderlands 2 and it started playing, I thought to myself ‘I already love this game’ 🙂
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I liked moonfire a few good tracks. The hoods are always pretty good at what they do just nit my style of music.
GANGNAM STYLE ISNT A GOOD SONG HORSEY DANCE IS GOOD 😛
Favourite album/s of the year: Having a Beard Is The New Not Having A Beard – The Beards, Handwritten – The Gaslight Anthem and Epicloud – The Devin Townsend Project. I daresay Atlas by Parkway Drive will be added to that when it comes out.
Favourite songs:
Dark Days – Parkway Drive
Why Having A Beard Is Better Than Having A Woman – The Beards
Save Our Now – The Devin Townsend Project
Handwritten – The Gaslight Anthem
Gangnam Style – Psy
Thrift Shop – Mackelmore & Ryan Lewis
Same Love – Mackelmore & Ryan Lewis
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Do the beards get better if you actually have a beard?
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All you need is a love of beards. Having your own is an awesome bonus.
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You, I like you.
I’m pretty confident that Atlas is going to be my favourite album this year. Get What You Give by The Ghost Inside is damn good if that’s your thing. Saw them the other night with The Amity Affliction, super heavy.
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Are you talking to me? 😛
You saw the Amity Affliction live no fair i wants to see them too.
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I think I replied to TheLastQuestion, though I could be bad at this new system.
I wouldn’t have expected Amity to be your thing.
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I like lots of stuff. I bought the new amity affliction album and i thought it was pretty good but i like young bloods better.
I know you were replying to question i just found it hillarious.
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Youngbloods is better, definitely. I miss the extra depth they got from having a dedicated keyboardist. Not that Chasing Ghosts is bad, it just was never going to be as good as Youngbloods.
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Eggs zachary, You are correct good sire.
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I’ll have to check them out. I saw the Amity Affliction back when they were just a local band, and I didn’t like them all that much. My mate was playing in another local band called Vilify at the time, and he kind of turned me off of them.
I’m not sure if I’ve heard a whole lot of stuff released this year or not.
For albums, Mezzanine has been REALLY big for me this year, although it’s certainly not a 2012 release 😀
For an individual song, that’s a whole lot tougher. I’m tempted to say Teardrop from the aforementioned album, but I want more variety than that ;P
It’d be a tossup between Teardrop and Me And You by Nero, to be honest.
Both amazing tracks.
(Also WTF?! No metal in my choices? WHATT?!)
NO LOVE FOR METRIC? You’ve disappointed me, Rocketwisp.
Also, The Beards are playing in Brisbane on Saturday. Tickets are still available. My wife, and my hetero life mate are both coming with me. If you’re in Brisbane, you should too. You don’t need a beard, just a love of them.
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Did I mention that tickets are only twenty bucks?
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Can i think the idea of beards are okay but practically speaking they seem a bit annoying?
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You can think that because I also think that!
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DID WE JUST BECOME BEST FRIENDS GREENIUS? 😛
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Whats wrong Wednesday?
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.. Nothing at all Missleman.
Nothing at all.
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Thats what the ladies call me.
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We really need a like button for comments.
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Nah my head would get as big as blaghs hair.
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C’mon Rockets, let’s be honest, your head is already way bigger than my hair. You’re like a bobblehead toy, walking around, sometimes scraping it along the ground because you simply can’t hold it up.
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Its not my fault i leave for 3 hours and people go into a frenzy.
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Also WHERE WERE YOU LAST NIGHT? I COULDN”T PLAY LoL with anyone because faction went to work. I MISSED YOU.
😛
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I was out seeing Looper, I got back before 9, and like, nobody was on TS(ok, Bunny, Nob, Jo, Gorzy at times, and a few others, but basically nobody).
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I will sometimes play LoL! Will feed like a boss but I might play!
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Yeah i went to watch The american Sherlock thing. It wasn’t bad just not as brilliant as the other one. Still for a Crime Drama it will do . JUst wished Lucy Liu would dress less like a hermit oh and also learn to act.
Abort, abort!
No wait… edit.
You can think whatever you like, but beards aren’t annoying! They’re great! You can save bits of food in them to consume later! Also, if you have budgies, they can nest in it.
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Last time I had the makings of a beard, police officers in London thought I was a drug addict.
True story. :'(
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I will take your word for it. as i will never have anything else than the fake beard i bought 😛
Jeez thanks for the 5 cents in interest bank that will really help offset the $370 in bank fees you charged me.
I got so close to finishing FTL last night, down to the final round, had his shields destroyed and half his weapons down when he killed me. I still think I might have lost because my sound derped out so I lost a number of crew members who I shouldn’t have if I got the warning sounds.
But I did unlock the Kestrel mark 2 so might have to try that out. But certainly think dropping back to easy was the way to go.
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I have only tried like 4 times to finish the game but something dumb always happens. Like i forget to put autofire on and lose my shield systems them my oxygen room. Its quite infuriating when you runout of missiles and my only shield burst weapon is unusable.
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What did you do to attract $370 in fees?!
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The company account so it is mostly credit card transaction fees. But they save them up for the month and ping you the same day as they pay their interest
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Man I almost beat it on normal the other day. Got into the third round but then the flagship teleported all but one of it’s crew over and I did not have the manpower to fight them off and repair half my ship at the same time.
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Man, that bit is tough. I was lucky I had a full crew then and they teleported in near my airlock, so I shunted my crew up one end of the ship and just opened the airlocks. They battled through my reinforced doors slowly, and were practically dead by the time I had to intervene with my crew! 🙂
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Been to the end twice, went down in stage 2 twice. I saved my scrap for the shops in the final sector the second time, then there weren’t any. Did unlock alternate engi layout on that run at least.
TAY.
Do any of you have a song stuc in your head right now?
If so, what is it?
Mine is “Slim Pickens Does the Right Thing And Rides The Bomb To Hell” by The Offspring.
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I’m listening to the Adele version of “Make You Feel My Love”, also seriously had “Rocket Man by Elton John” stuck in my head for the past three days. 😀 (It was in a Six Feet Under episode I watched last week.)
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I don’t know how to feel about that.
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You’re a Rocket Man. Roooooocket Man.
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Ring of Fire – Johnny cash.
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I love Johnny Cash, though I tend to like his later stuff more. (Which is pretty odd, usually the opposite is true!)
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Life’s a happy song when there’s someone by your side to sing along.
And it’s Rocketman’s fault.
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Blame Blaghs, he showed it to me originally.
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Blame Fantine.
>.>
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“I’ve got every thing that I need right in front of me. Nothing’s stopping me, nothing that I can’t be with you right here next to me.”
:’)
I fucking love that so, so damn much.
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I’ve had the intro of Yazoo’s Only You stuck in my head since it was on Fringe last week. ergh
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That was a beautiful moment.
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Right now – a few of the opening tracks on the Bastion soundtrack. I like that my head can play me albums at times and not just one track on repeat.
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I don’t even need to click 😛
I really want her gloves, too. Oh god, those gloves 😀
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Hi TAY!
I’m going to try and keep this short, as I’m just scoping interest/testing the waters at this stage.
I know that there are at least two or three TAYbies other than myself who have an interest in pen and paper RPGs. Given the success of the Table Top meats, I got to thinking that it wouldn’t be impossible to get some kind of RPG thing going. There were a number of obstacles in getting this going – Location primary amongst them.
Then I discovered http://roll20.net/
This looks like almost exactly the sort of software solution I’ve been after for a long time.
So, if you think you’d be interested in something truly nerdy, check it out and let me know!
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That looks AWESOME!
Mind, I’ve never played tabletop RPGs, but if people are willing to teach me, I’d love to join in 😀-
agreed.
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YES
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As someone who has never played a PnP RPG before, I might be interested in this.
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Would I be holding people back if I’d never played anything like this before? It does look like fun though.
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Sign me up.
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Iiiiinnnntttteeeerrrrreeeesssstttttiiiiinnnnnggggg.
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That said it could be something I would be interested in. As above never played so, if you are willing to do a rookie run go for it
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I have played a PnP RPG once and I really enjoyed it. Count me in!
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HELL YEAH!
I watched Toy Story 1 & 2 on Monday. Decided to finish it off with 3 last night.
I thought that, the second time around, the emotional impact would be reduced.
Oh, how wrong I was…
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I might’ve wiped away manly tears during the opening song. 😛
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Toy Story 3, man. That was made solely for the tears, I’m sure. Jesus.
Red Dog was pretty bad for it too. God-damned dog. Ugh.
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TS3: The story in the middle doesn’t matter hardly at all. That movie would succeed or fail based on the opening scene and the closing scene, and by god did it succeed. (The middle was good too, but I honestly think it doesn’t matter at all)
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In my opinion the middle is important (and brilliantly done) for a number of reasons. It helps cement the themes of endurance, togetherness, growing up (and change in general), etc, which really give some of the scenes in the final third their emotional impact.
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Of course, this is true. Thematically and practically, the middle supports the ideas at the bookends of the movie. It’s almost a perfect film in that sense.
All I meant is that the movie probably would still have reduced the world to manly tears even if the middle 80 minutes were white noise 😛
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That movie was filmed in the outback so it must explain why there was so much dust in the DVD case. So much dust!
As for TS3, I don’t even remember the middle part of the movie
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Exactly 🙂
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If you don’t remember it, I highly suggest you watch it again.
If only to enjoy some of the incredible scenes that take place in the second act.
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When I saw Toy Story 3 for the first time I was dissapoint at the ending pan to the sky cause all the clouds where the same and Pixar was being lazy. Then a week later I saw number 1 on TV and realised that the clouds were the same ones from his wallpaper.
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Hold me!
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You’ve got a friend in me, you’ve got a friend in me. You got troubles? Then I’ve got ’em too! There isn’t any thing I wouldn’t do for you. We stick together we can see it through, cause you’ve got a friend in me. You’ve got a friend in me.
Goodmorning Tayters, why you all tayting?
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Boil em, mash em, put em ina stew.
I haven’t spammed about SC2 in a little while, so let’s talk about names.
Pretty much every pro player is part of a team and they use the team tag as part of their handle. HuK is EG.HuK.RC, Nony is Liquid Nony and so on.
For a while, I didn’t think we were going to see any better name combination than ROOT Catz.
Then Team Liquid signed up a new player. Now there is Liquid Sea. Best name.
EDIT: Looks like I found a character that TAY disapproves of. Fun.
Played my first game of Dawn Of War 2 this morning…
*SQQUUEEEEEEEEE*
FER DER EMPEREERRRR!!!!
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No raptors in Chaos Rising made me cry
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Multiplayer or single? Also have you played any CoH yet?
Great news everyone!
The Mechwarrior Online NDA has officially lifted.
So let’s talk about it!
First of all, I don’t know if it’s lag or I am just a bad MWO player but I SUUUUUCK at this game. I love Mechwarrior to bits but the barrier of entry to this game is very high. Also the nature of the beta’s ‘single death’ battles means the punishment for failure is a ten minute wait for the round to finish.
Now with that out of the way, I am very fond of the Hunchback, there is just something about having a cannon that takes up almost a quarter of the mech’s body volume 🙂
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also I feel so guilty for not playing this game enough 😛
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YAYYY!!!
I’ve played 3 round so far and love it!! Got blown the feth up in one game, though.
I’ve been playing in support, which means i don’t die all that quickly, thankfully. But i do agree, the hunchback is where it’s at. So great.
I can’t wait to get more into it.. i can’t seem to work out how to customise my mechs? Is it possible in the beta??
What gives?Still – i’m hoping they bring out nova cats – then i’ll be a happy, happy little boy.
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You mean mechanically or by appearance?
I’m assuming the personalization will be more of a open beta/final game sort of feature.
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Oh I have that, even installed it. Maybe I should play it or something…
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Not too sure how FTP will work apart from just buying credits, but I hope Pirana set up a system similar to how Tribes Ascend works: allowing you to unlock mechs with cash but you have to earn the upgrades yourself.
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Being forced to pay to unlock new mechs would suck terribly IMO. That would mean the bulk of people have something crappy and the people that sink heaps of cash in have the best mechs.
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A multiplayer game does not always need progressive unlocks. Pre COD it wasn’t a must have and as far as I can remember previous mech games did not work that way.
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Grind for equipment and some mechs but there should be a fair range of stuff available in each class.
Are they handling mech variants? Maybe it’d be like, the Vulture A is free but if you want the Vulture D it’s $$$ or a bit of grinding?
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It sounds to me based off what I’ve heard (not in the beta) you basically need to be playing in a team with everyone on Teamspeak or similar to make the game work. It’s very tactical and your lance needs to be coordinated to win, if you’re simply fighting alone you’re going to get wiped out pretty fast.
Descriptions remind me a fair bit of Chrome Hounds from early in the 360’s life.
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Yeah, that pretty much sounds like my experience haha.
Lone wolf is not the most effective strategy for this game (unless you rock an Atlas damn well)-
Doesn’t matter how good you are, even an Atlas will go down if you’re taking focused fire from a few mechs at once.
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I played a bit right at the start, and honestly didn’t play much after that.
I found it got very boring very quickly during the repetitiveness. I liked the way you used to be able to build mechs from scratch, and this new system seems to be very restrictive. Though it may have changed over the last few patches.
The construction of the mechs it what really kills MWO for me.
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Remember, this is set before the Clan Invasion, and hence omnimechs and omni-hardpoints aren’t in yet. Hence most of the restrictions to the mechs.
I actually haven’t played it much. From what I played it had the big clunky clunky of a mech down and the movement was nice, but it didn’t really feel link mechwarrior to me. I think it is just the jump into the same map as a death match, there was no tactics or story line there.
I didn’t really follow the reports and stuff that is meant to be filling in the lore as it seemed totally irrelevant to the game itself.
Had it been more strategic with objectives, or even had a overall map that you locked your side to and victory advanced your area of control it might have done something for me.
But with no story in game and apparently no reason to be fighting it was too pew pew and not enough mechwarrior for me
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As the game progresses towards Open Beta and full release, they’ll be adding the story-based stuff into the game – for example, you can align yourself with one of the factions and try to take over or defened planets, etc.
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I’ll probably give it another try then. Like I said it just didn’t feel mechwarriory enough for me at the start.
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Woo!
MWO is so much fun. I love tooling around in a Gauss-equipped Hunchback, or in my go-faster Commando.
Super fast troll-mando is fun!
@alex pants
I completely forgot abut metric even being released this year i have listened to it so much.
ALBUM OF THE YEAR is most definitely synthetica
😀
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HEY, I’M NOT SYNTHETICA!
I’LL KEEP THE LIFE THAT I’VE GOT!
So who’s going to this EB Expo thing? I heard it’s about games.
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VIDYAGAEMS
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Im going on Sunday and so is Blargh from what I understand
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BLERGHLE!
By which I mean, “Yes indeedily, I am.”
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Count me in for the sunday crowd.
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woohoo! Come and say hello, i like when tay and real life collide!
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Why what are you doing there?
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She’s reporting on events on the show floor. Tune in at 11am on Saturday for news on Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2, 11:45 for the Wii U showcase, 1.30 pm for REVENGEANCE and so on and so forth.
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I’m not a creepy stalker.
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LOL Blaghzy. I think you have it memorised better then i do!
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I was cheating, reading off this article written by some Community Manager.
Edit: Wait, I should have said like “Some Community Manager with ridiculous hair.”
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But your Saturday. You cant go on a Sunday. ehhehhehheh
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No, normally Sunday goes on top.
Also, I’m unsure about my choice of handle now. Every time somebody posts “I did [blank] on saturday,” I get the weirdest mental pictures.
Yeah.
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There’s also a whole litany of creepy lines in the same vein as the ending of “The World is not Enough.”
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Worst. Line. Evah.
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I like brosnan, but his era was truly the cheesiest.
“I thought christmas only comes once a year.”
Just horrible. However, it did offer one really good one-liner.
“You won’t kill me. You’ll miss me.”
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They’re just so wonderfully dreadful. But I guess it was needed after Dalton almost killed the franchise.
Also: ‘Aston Martin call it the “Vanquish” — we call it the “Vanish”.’
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Oh man, that car. Over-the-top by bond standards.
Also- “TIME TO FACE DESTINY!”
*Pulls parachute cord*
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I dunno, the Vanquish was pretty over the top, but I don’t think it really beats the remote control car from Tomorrow never dies.
Also, so many lines that went straight over my head when I first saw these movies.
“James Bond: [Whilst being in bed with his Scandinavian language tutor] I always enjoyed learning a new tongue.
Moneypenny: You always were a cunning linguist, James. “ -
Yeah, but at least it was within the realm of possibility and it made for an amusing chase scene. The invisible car served no purpose than to be shot a few times and become visible again.
And we could go on all day with Brosnan quotes, the ratio of one-liners to regular dialogue in his movies is too damn high.
Eeyup, I’ll be in Sydney all weekend.
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I’ll also be in Sydney all weekend, but probably won’t be going to the Expo 😛
You guys should totally meat. It’ll make lambo happy!
ME! I’m going to be there on Sunday.
Also, I’ll have some free time between 4:30 and ~7:30 if anyone wants to have a meat afterwards?
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Quickly! Before everybody seperates, plan a meat!
.. somebody else other than me!
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So it’s settled. There will be a meat and you will all be attending. Fun will be had!
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With special guest appearance by…
D.C. and his grey eyebrows!
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Hey, I enable meats. Don’t go to ’em. 😛
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I will be there until Rize decides that he wants to go home. Assuming that he’s still giving me a lift, of course…
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Oh yeah, about that…
…nah, it’s all still good. I have no solid plans for Sunday yet, other than not to rush the morning due to possible tiredness, dehydration, dry eyes, poor balance, and nausea.
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I’m happy to leave very late, though I guess I’d understand if that didn’t work for you.
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What if we all go with TAY written on our arms in big letters and then we can try and spot each other. Or we could just meet outside the front doors when its over.
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… I am actually down for that.
The tay on our arms. Maybe armbands, I’m skinny as a stick.
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It’s funnier when you can’t clearly identify each other, then keep looking at people you might know and wondering if you should talk to them. Then, don’t talk to them and feel slightly more awkward.
It’s a proven method.
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Which is why I will do all I can to be recognisable.
TAY PEOPLE. LOOK FOR THE FAT GUY WITH STUPID HAIR AND GLASSES WHO IS DANCING BADLY. THAT WILL HOPEFULLY BE ME!
Actually, I could bring my cloak.
Then everyone could just assume that the dickhead wearing a cloak is me…
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Do what you’re saying is that there will be many of you there.
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Yes.
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Last year, I think Tadmod was the tallest person in the entire expo. Somehow didn’t find him until near the end though…
I’ll be in Sydney but I’m trying to work out if I’m going to be there.
My eye brows are going grey. :S
20s! \o/
😛
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Shave them off!
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NO, BAD! EMBRACE THE GREYNESS! I FOR ONE CANNOT WAIT UNTIL MY HAIR STARTS GOING GREY!
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I don’t mind all that much. For now. If any one asks I’ll say something scared me real bad like the kid in The Sixth Sense or Nadine in The Stand. 😛
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I found my first grey hair when I was in primary school.
Needless to say, I’ve been colouring my hair ever since.-
*shakes fist* Genetics are the worst, huh? 😀
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I got the short straw, certainly 😛
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One step closer to Rodrik Cassell, amirite?
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Damn right!
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I kinda look foward to the day my goatee goes grey. On a slightly related not I had a woodwork teacher with Silver hair that he always had spiked up like super syain gohan with short hair. (He was in his 40s or 50s i think)
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I kinda look forward to the day my goatee is long enough to bleach and dye the tip pink.
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Haha! I don’t know what a super syain gohan is, but I assume it’s wierd and awesome!
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shuddup lol
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Don’t worry man, grey eyebrows are a perfectly acceptable
oh man I can’t even finish that sentence I keep thinking that you have regular hair but completely grey eyebrows and it’s just pretty funny to imagine.
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You monster. It’s only a little right now. Last hair cut there was plenty of grey too. (Everyone remember my self-loathing post? :P) Probably was a subtle, slow process but I never look in the mirror, so was surprised. 😀
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It’s kind of funny, the only time I notice that my father’s hair is going grey is when we go on holidays. So it seems that he enjoys the stress of work, but going skiing brings out all the grey…
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Hey hey hey, I started getting grey hairs when I was 16, so chances are when I hit my 30’s I might just be completely grey.
But seriously, for instance you have black hair but grey eyebrows? C’mon.. that’s funny..
Yeah, I’m a monster.
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I suppose it’ll round off the crazed hermit look nicely in time. 😛
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Hey, some of the wisest people are crazy hermits. I’m sure you’ll be no exception.
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I want grey wings…(temples).
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First step to becoming a super villain! 😀
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Me too. Cannot wait for that part of my life, hope it lasts fifty years!
You see that pic from fabsugar at the bottom of the page? I thought that was a gun sight when I first saw it…
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Yup, same thoughts here mate 😀
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I don’t see a gun sight….
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Me too. It’s like some sort of Rorschach test.
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news.com.au tomorrow: “Gamers see gun sights in everyday objects”
(I saw it too 🙁 )
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oh Lambo! *sitcom style*
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I would of had no idea what it was if i didnt read the caption.
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Oh man me too! The pic didn’t appear when I first read this so I had no idea how Cameron Diaz’s face could resemble a gun sight 🙂
Awesome. Someone put a metal bin behind my ute where I couldn’t see it. Not even a month old and the back is already destroyed.
WTF is wrong with people?
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Aw, fuck. I’m sorry, man. That’s horrible. 🙁
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There’s a council member who lives down the road. Her kids spray painted penises on all the parked cars on the street one day. Among other things they’ve done. I’d say it was them. Problem is whenever anyone complains or confronts her suddenly they find all sorts of problems happening with their rates and approvals and stuff.
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Corruption at its finest. :S Fixable? You okay?
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Jesus. Did anyone catch the kids in the act with the spraypaint? Because that’s the sort of thing that should get escalated to the police, not just to their corrupt mother.
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So many levels of shithouse.
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Ohhhh man. Our local council member’s like that too. The road we live on is a dirt road, a real one, council put up a sign on the corner and everything, but they refuse to maintain it, have never done anything to fix it ever in the last 5 years we’ve lived here and neither us or our neighbours have the money or means to get it fixed so it’s fallen into serious disrepair. Our neighbours complained (there are only two properties which use the road), and now the garbage trucks don’t go down to their end of the street anymore. They have to take their bins up to the other end of the road, which is about a 600m walk away from their house. We also tried complaining once and the council member threatened she’d do the same thing to us too >:(
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You’re kidding, right? Dude, ouch :S
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That sucks man, but if insurance covers it, could of been worse. Sucks though.
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Guess its….Garbage Day!
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Silent Night Deadly Night 2? Hells yes 😀
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Bollocks.
Is it Friday yet?
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You overshot it, it’s currently 2103.
And it’s Thursday still.
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I read that as you saying that it was 9.03 pm, and I was very confused.
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Is he the doctor
TAKE ME AWAY PLEASE, ALSO FIND ME A HOT RED HEAD.-
I’m sorry Rocket, your name may share some letters with Rory’s, but you can’t hope to ever be as awesome as him. He’s amazing, and you’re… well… you’re pretty okay.
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He’s Hot Ross. That’s got to count for something, right?
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Sure, just wait, and protect that cube for.. you know.. a thousand years or so at the cost of your humanity and the fact that your hot red head never really appreciates you even though you waited a really damn long time.
Or alternatively I’m number 9 and the only female around is eternally in love with me which is kinda creepy. There’s Jack, but, uh, yeah.
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Closer to two thousand years, I believe. Since I think it’s supposed to be in England, assuming that it’s at least approximating our timeline, we’re dealing with anywhere between about 50 and… 400CE?
Oh, I forgot to add “but it’s totally worth it because she’s bangin’.”
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I guessed, honestly.
Or I could be number 10. Ahaha, I’m not gonna started on 10 and relationships.
EDIT: Yes. She is bangin.
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I like bringing cold hard logic into everything, and generally being a complete buzz-kill. It’s quite dull, though people tend to get used to it.
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Amy Pond shits me to tears.
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But… But… Boobs.
I mean, uhhh… Hmmm… Errr… Yeah.
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Oh, she’s easy on the eyes, but her character is irritating to me…and her behaviour in her relationship with Rory is… aggravating.
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Oh, don’t worry, I agree. However it’s made up for with the fact that Rory is excellent.
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Agreed 😀
You know it’s going to be a bad week when you’re asking that question on a Tuesday.
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headspin
Yes!
Wait, it’s the other thing. I can’t remember the word. What’s the opposite of yes?
So, who wants to see the inside of Valve Software?
Here you go.
Turns out they have a company hedgehog.
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So much filters D:
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but COMPANY HEDGEHOG
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Ha ha , i tried searching for the one of the pubs in my suburb and no images 🙁
Television, or rather televisual entertainment is found in both a private and public (lounge-room VS cinema) setting, right? Music is somewhat less ingrained into people as something you attend for the sole purpose of listening. Yes, we have concerts/festivals etc, and some have wonderful Hi-Fi setups at home, but the ‘typical’ person has what, an iPod with the top40 on it, as a background to day-to-day life.
I realise I’m seriously digressing at this point, but while I’m at it…
We devote time, attention and money to video entertainment. Music, not so much.
What about gaming? Do you see the potential for cinema-style public gaming entertainment? Would it work outside of the e-sports leagues, if you consider that an equivalent of this ‘cinema-style digital interactive entertainment’?
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The Mana Bar, an extension of LAN cafes might be more suitable to gaming than a cinema type setup. A Star Trek-like Holodeck thing could happen eventually too.
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While the Mana Bar sounds FREAKING AMAZEBALLS AND I WANT TO GO THERE RIGHT FREAKING NOW I see it more as a nightclub, with alcohol being the main draw, and the music (or in this case, games) being a background filler to that.
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The Holodeck thing might sound weird, but they had a similar ‘games’ type place in Minority Report too. If that tech was ever developed, I reckon it would take off like crazy.
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I reckon that augmented reality games are going to be enormous in the future. To really work well an AR system would need to be able to track exactly where you are (sensitive GPS + kinect-style depth cameras). It would need to be able to process what you see in realtime, overlaying game things directly into your vision with very low latency (Oculus Rift, Google Glass etc are the forerunners for this tech). You would probably need kinect-style depth sensing from your viewpoint too. With a couple of depth cameras overlapping in a location and extra information from your own view as well, a server would be able to cross-correlate the location of just about everything and accurately insert game entities with proper collision detection etc. Then it’d be a problem of your input to the world which probably would involve some haptic gloves or similar. We’re taking incremental steps at the moment but this is where a lot of the tech converges in 10-15 years IMO.
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The Mana Bar is a shoebox with cocktails and consoles. Don’t get your hopes too high.
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Sounds like a decent improvement on the old formula of ‘shoebox+cocktails’ 😛
Maybe I am a little hype because I’ve never seen it. I also fear it’d be PACKED with teh hipsters.
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It’s only packed with hipsters if you go on trivia night and DAN! is there.
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But I love trivia nights!
We only have an annual one here. It’s AWESOME.
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If you’re in Brisbane when there’s one on, I’m sure we can get Mario Speedwagon back together.
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COUNT ME IN! On the Speedwagon that is
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Hey, we totally won when I was there!
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I believe what you are looking for is an arcade or LAN cafe.
Outside e-sports, no, I can’t see it. I can see people attempting it, but I can’t see it ever taking off.
Edit: I mean, as Trjn said, arcades and LAN cafes, sure. But I can’t ever see it becoming something major like the cinemas.
Double edit: Actually, now that I think about it, an advanced version of that glasses 3D thing that lets two people play on the same TV with the whole screen to themselves could work. I could possibly see, in the distant future, people going into a room with a giant screen, putting on their glasses and playing a match of CoD or Halo or whatever game is popular at the time, with each person having the entire screen to themselves and only seeing their character. I can see maybe cinema or arcades offering this experience.
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Arcades and LAN cafes aren’t major in Western countries.
Japan, Singapore and Korea seem to be picking up the slack there. We wouldn’t have eSports in its current form if not for the Japanese arcade scene and the Korean PC bangs.
EDIT: Credit to the Californian arcade scene as well, and I guess New York. Without them, there’d be no MAHVEL BABEY!
Thing is games are interactive, and generally only by one person per machine/screen.
So the only really way that a large group of people could enjoy a game is by watching other people play it, a la Esports.
Games, in this way, have more in common with sport than a movie.
I don’t think it would really work out side the e-sports league.
But let’s go back a step, televisual entertainment, is, by its very definition about stimulating both your eyes, and your ears, in that sense, it works best as something that you focus primarily on while consuming it. Music is only an aural experience, and so it allows us to focus on other senses while still putting a decent amount of concentration to the sound.
The thing with games is that when you play one, it’s usually affecting your sight, your hearing, and your physical senses. When you remove one element of that, you lose a lot of what playing is really about. That’s not so say that playing is a necessity for enjoying a game, look at let’s plays for instance, it’s just that in general, watching a dude play a game is not all that interesting. E-sports typically escape this by having considerably more than what you can see on one screen going on. So you get high level thought over character or weapon choices, picks designed against a certain player, things like that, and the appeal is there. I guess, it’s akin to watching a game of AFL, rather than watching a filmed game of backyard cricket.
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Yeah, I see what you mean.
I just thought it was a little strange, in that arcades as I knew them have all but disappeared, and every single LAN cafe I’ve known has gone bust. It’s just too easy to sit in the comfort of your own home and play games.My formative gaming experiences were never solo play. Even when playing single-player games, there was always 2-3 others watching.
I guess I just want to see a resurgence in that, although I dare say it’s just not feasible.
Watching livestreams is in a similar vein – I think – which may be the underlying reasoning behind me wanting to try to do a livestream when I get Borderlands 2. Iunno, grabbing at fleeting memories, perhaps?
New conversation tree because I’m just that evil.
Looks like Freyr and I are going to be at EB Expo on Sunday and will almost definitely show up to any post Expo meat as well.
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I WILL FIND YOU AND THROW THINGS AT YOU.
One of those things is a lie.
It’s the finding you one. I’ll let you find me. Then I will throw things at you.
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I’ll give you my number on TS later tonight so that you can track us down. Forget this finding nonsense, that sounds like effort.
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Pshh. I’ll just give you my number here. It’s 0118 999 881 999 119 725… 3.
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Really? Mine’s just three.
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BAHAHAAAAAA!
I’ve now got the damned tune stuck in my head T.T
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I’m taking a phone that has access to twitter this time.
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It’s funny, a bunch of TAYbies are going and yet no solid meat plans have been made. Well, maybe on twitter, but I don’t peruse the twittersphere so yeah.
Sunday’s the magic day, though.
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Yeah, planning is effort. I vote everyone should just try and find Harli, and hang around her until other TAYbies appear…
But then, I also voted for the giant penis in the last election, so I don’t think my votes are worth much.
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I’ll be chained to the GS booth for the majority of it, so I won’t be hard to find!
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So you’re saying we should bring bolt cutter?
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Should I be getting you two an engagement present or something? 😛
(You’re not the only ‘evil’ one here :3)
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There are a few steps between becoming a couple and getting engaged but I’m not going to turn down presents.
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Cool. So I now have ideas on how to troll 4 of the taybies while at the expo :3
(Whether or not I actually follow through and put these trollish plans into motion is yet to be seen. I probably won’t though :P)
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You have to be the ring bearer Lamb.
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I’m staying in Sydney an extra night just in case something gets planned last minute. I like things to be planned well in advance! You guys will be the death of me!
(Nah, you’re all alright)
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Just you wait and see, someone will come up with a plan for a meat about 5 mins before the expo ends. 😛
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There will be a bunch of us together and someone will say “to the pub?” and the group will echo back “to the pub!”
Planning!
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But won’t lambo not be able to get in? :O
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…but I’m still not old enough to go to the pub /o\
Also, my dad and younger brother will be with me, and I doubt my parents would let me go wandering around Sydney without either of them 😛 -
“Don’t worry! The crowd of over 18s I met on the Internet will take care of me!”
Always works.
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It works most of the time. That’s what Brisbane meats are.
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No, the only reason I was allowed to go to those was because I told my mum that there was going to be a 30-something mother there as well 😛
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Just tell your mum that your doctor friend will be there :p
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@Rockets I’m gopnna revive your music thread because music is awesome and p.s. we should go see Crystal Castles.
Fav albums of 2012: Beach House-Bloom, Grizzly Bear-Shields, Metric-Synthetica, Sleigh Bells-Reign of Terror, Tanlines-Mixed Emotions, The Maccabees-Given to the Wild, Efterklang-Piramida
songs of 2012: Agreed on Laura-Bat for Lashes (so good, as is All Your Gold – gonna be an amazing album), Plague by Crystal Castles, The Fox / Tomorrow by Niki and the Dove, Holland by Cold Specks, Bones by MS MR, Fineshrine by Purity Ring, aaand Make Rain by Super700.
Probs missing stuff but those were/are amazing imo.
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I seriously reckon The Fox is probably song of the year for me. Listened to it so many times, never gets old. Heard nothing like it before.
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Purity Ring’s another BIG one for me lately. Holy crap, yes.
The lyrics are rather twisted, too. “cut open my sternum and wrap my ribs around you” if I recall correctly. Coming from that voice, it’s unnerving 😀
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Haha, yeah… but such a captivating voice. Really love how they are combining vocals and electronic synthy stuff, sounds awesome.
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Do they only have 3 songs thus far, or am I just blind?
I’ve had Belispeaks and… the other one, for a few months now I think. Heard Fineshrine a little while ago on JJJ, and new the sounds INSTANTLY.
I can’t seem to find anything else by them though.Really, really awesome stuff.
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They have a whole album, i have it its good
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I want it. Nay, I NEED it!
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Yeah what he said ^_^
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I forgot stuff when i made mine
Sleigh bells are banging to use young people code and purity ring has a sound that is so strangely calming and captavating. love it. The whole album is brilliant. I love plague but its a hard call saying favourite song this year because its only been out for a while.
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I think i listen to a little to much music, seriously i like such a variety of things my taste ranges alot. I am just remembering even more music that i have loved this year that i didn’t put on my list.
SYNTHETICA
*Kermit arm flailing*
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Every time I think of someone flailing, it’s ALWAYS the Kermit flail 😛
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There is no other way to flail.
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Well, there’s Magikarp, but it’s not very effective…
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I love you. In a very ducklike manner 😛
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Yeah, it really didnt grab me at first. I passed it off as a kind of rock album I’d heard before. But you guys got me listening again and, I dont know… something so engaging about that album. Cant put my finger on it, I think its just really solid. Has a great energy about it.
Listened to the new Ben Folds Five album yet? I’m really really enjoying it so far.
TAYing while on a conference call…
Rebel.
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I’m setting up a laptop for someone. Not my fault there’s nothing to do while everything is updating.
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Watch out! We’re dealing with a badass over here!
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Step aside, badass coming through.
Next thing you know I’ll be TAYing while at work.
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I’m already one hell of a badass then
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My god, I just made the mistake of clicking on the “gun sight” picture.
A gun sight, with the gun included would be a hell of a lot cheaper. I’ll never understand those sort of dames.
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They have large assests.
They aren’t able to be liquidated though. Unless tey have kids.
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I do? They tolerate me they really tolerate me.
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So.
How ’bout them ducks, eh?
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Oh, right.
http://i.imgur.com/xRCJN.jpgThanks to Mr. Serrels for sharing.
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I don’t believe in evolution, homeschooled. Makes much more sense now
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To be fair, just because you’re homeschooled doesn’t mean your some sort of religious fanatic or don’t have the same level as knowledge about subjects as regular school children do.
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Yeah, this. I noticed here and on Twitter that the duck thing was bringing out a fair bit of homeschool prejudice.
I was actually considering home-schooling my son because the Queensland education system is awful and I thought he might have a better chance with home-school. 😛
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I don’t think it’s prejudice, it’s just reacting to what’s in front of them.
If a 14 year old comes out with garbage like that, who is to blame? TV? School? Friends? Or is it the parents that undoubtedly drummed this sort of view into their child?
There is nothing wrong with home schooling, when when the outcome is that 14 year old…. you’re doing it wrong. -
Home ec wouldve been the best subjects with Strange as teacher
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Much of it depends on the reason for homeschooling.
One of the nicest, smartest guys I meet during my high school years was home schooled. If you are doing it because that will give your child the best chance at life then go for it (Not a firm believer but I don’t think they should be home schooled past year 9 at the absolute maximum)
If you are homeschooling them so that they avoid being exposed to world views that counteract your own and want to ensure that their opinions match your own then you are doing it wrong. IMO
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True and I didn’t mean to imply that. More that it makes sense to me that you could make that sort of logic without being questioned within an environment that is more controlled.
That doesn’t make sense either but the words, they are hard today.To be able to make that assertion with being challenged enough to counter act it is something I think could only happen in a home schooled environment.
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Yeah, I’m with you on this Tigs.
It’s not that I view homeschooling as inherently bad or wrong, it simply allows for potentially unjust/misguided notions to be brought in, without the counterbalance of an open forum. -
I dunno guys, based on my sample basis of “Lambo”(also, some of my cousins), I’ve come to the conclusion that Home Schooled people are biased against fans. Maybe they’re all knowledgeable of the fans future attempts to kill us all, and are trying to protect us in the present, or maybe it’s just a crazy bias. I don’t know.
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I’m a huge metal fan.
http://files-cdn.formspring.me/photos/20120507/n4fa845fce4b23.gif
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I don’t think it’s something that could only happen in a home schooled enviroment. You can still be in a controlled enviroment with lots of people around. How many children would have their negative views of homosexuality questioned if they attended a private Christian school? How many children of liberals would have their views questioned if they attended a more left wing aligned school?
If anything, the children could grow up to be more fanatical as their views are being reinforced by many people rather than just their parents.
Ducks are well known rapists. I’d say we’re better off not being like them.
I’ll also point out, when homosexuality stopped being acceptable and Christianity* took over humanity was plunged into something known as the dark ages, and it wasn’t until the renaissance and thanks to men like Leonardo da Vinci, who many believe might have been homosexual, that we managed to come out of it.
If anything we should all try and be more gay. Our society seems to flourish when we are.
*Nothing against modern day Christians or Christianity in general, but the ancient Christians were sort of dicks (and I guess some still are).
And I just saw her age being listed as 14. I sort of feel like a bit of a jerk now for my criticism.
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The criticism is justified, although the target itself probably didn’t warrant it.
It’s still a retarded statement, and deserves to be called out. I’m not sure that it’s the 14yo at fault here though.Which raises another point. I was deemed capable of making a life-changing (I guess? I decided to leave mum and move across the country to live with dad) decision age ten.
At what point should we be responsible for our beliefs, actions and words?
To extend upon this, what about the 14yo that was mentioned on the Huffington Post, who’s now being charged for first-degree murder over the death of her newborn child?Was I ready and responsible for my choice at age ten? Were my parents responsible for it?
Was this 14yo, homeschooled person deserving of the criticism brought onto her (directly or not) from this statement? Is the criticism itself warranted?As far as I see it, it’s all on a case-by-case study. This girl appears to have a distorted belief on homosexuality, which could be attributed towards the fact that she was not educated in a government-recognized curriculum. And I don’t see you as a jerk in any way, shape or form.
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I agree – You can’t blame a child for views like this. It comes from the parent.
More so, a child who is home schooled, for the simple fact that views like this are allowed to grow and flourish in a “walled garden” environment. Children need to be exposed to, opposing views, other cultures, other religions etc. America is horrible at this, even in state schooling they still manage to screw up general world geography and history.EDIT:
Forgot comment on your other points.In general, I’d say the age is irrelevant, it’s up to the maturity of the child.
Some children, and in fact this mostly depends on their up bringing can be way ahead of 16,17,18 year olds. This would really have to be evaluated on an individual level.
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“and it wasn’t until the renaissance and thanks to men like Leonardo da Vinci, who many believe might have been homosexual, that we managed to come out of it.”
Let’s not forget about men like Martin Luther and the whole protestant movement (although, they had their own bad parts too. *cough* puritans *cough*)Also, I think you’ll find that homosexuality becoming unacceptable didn’t cause the dark ages (that’s how I’m reading your statement, correct me if I’m wrong please), it was the other way round and just rather inconsequential in that aspect.
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Yeah, I probably didn’t word that right. I didn’t intend to imply that the dark ages were caused by homosexuality no longer being acceptable, I was just being a little snide.
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Also, I don’t think you’ll find Christianity to blame for the dark ages, just the abuse of it to gain power and control people. Some of the things in Catholicism I don’t even know how they got from the bible. Namely, having a pope, worshipping Mary and the saints as almost gods, and penance. (No offence intended whatsoever to any catholics out there)
Pretty much any religion when used for the purpose of controlling people could cause a dark age, not just Christianity.
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And yet on the other hand, without Christianity (specifically protestantism) we wouldn’t have modern science.
The most glaring problem in the whole thing is the kid’s warped view of evolution. We haven’t ‘evolved’ in the last 2000 years. We’re not more intelligent. We’re still just as human as the Romans were and they’re just as human as we are. Transplant an ancient Roman as an infant to modern day and they’d be no more or less capable. This is the same trap that batshit crazy people like the Ancient Aliens people fall into: starting from the faulty premise that the people of more primitive times were less intelligent they assume that the only way they could have built intricate devices or lasting monuments was because of the intervention of a higher power. Rubbish.
Carl Sagan’s Cosmos should be mandatory viewing for all children in school, then we’d have to put up with a whole lot less of this shit.
Wow… just wow.
Then again I spend all day reading stuff like this on Reddit.
Then I go home and weep quietly whenever I think of the future of mankind
You have to admit though, it’d make a pretty damn good premise for a sci-fi story. The kind that goes on to win multiple awards for ‘tackling the issues in our culture today’, you know the kind.
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In the year 2152, the Ducks have taken over. The human race faces extinction. Only one man can stop it. He must battle the Ducks and turn as many gays straight in 24 hours as he can, or else humanity is doomed.
Staring Mel Gibson.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jinrui_wa_Suitaishimashita the Ducks evolved into fairies.
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Based especially on the last part which reads very lighthearted, I’m going to go right ahead and assume it’s a joke and nobody can sway me from that because I don’t want to contemplate the possibility of it being an actual belief held by anyone. 😛
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Don’t read any “What’s the stupidest thing you’ve heard someone say” posts on reddit then. Your faith in humanity will be completely shattered.
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Luckily for me I stay away from Reddit. I’ve heard the US Kotaku editors repost the best stuff from there, anyway….
😛
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It’s a good thing she said ducks instead of swans. If it was swans she was talking about, she would have had your full support
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THEY’RE EVIL. GLOWING RED EYES AND ALL.
And that hiss. Oh dear lord, I’ll never forget that hiss…
The funniest part is I had written them of as crazy yanks, but then I realise they are kiwis 😀
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OI!
Wait…we have left and right wings. THEY’VE ALREADY INFILTRATED OUR POLITICS!!!
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BAHAHAHA! Oh man, it’s been the birds all along 🙁
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I’m going to blow your mind here.
Okay, so ducks are birds, right?
What are birds? Where did they come from?
The answer is that birds evolved from dinosaurs. They literally are modern-day versions.
More particularly, they evolved from theropod dinosaurs. Most closely related being the Deinonychosauria clade.
What is the most recognizable creature in that clade?
Velociraptor.
Ducks are raptors in disguise. Duck uprisings are very serious business.
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AND I WOULD HAVE GOTTEN AWAY WITH IT TOO IF YOU HADN’T GONE AND EXPOSED MY PLAN.
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So following on from a most talking about words are hard, is anybody considering doing NaNoWriMo this year?
I just received the first email talking about it and thinking I might give it a go this year after chickening out (being to busy) last year.
What do you mean you don’t know what NaNoWriMo is?
From teh website: National Novel Writing Month is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing. Participants begin writing on November 1. The goal is to write a 50,000-word (approximately 175-page) novel by 11:59:59 PM on November 30.
I get very little in the way of creative outlet with work (or even hobbies these days) so think it would be good to try and do something. I’ll probably fail terribly but well better to have tried and failed and all that jazz.
Last year they had almost 37 thousand novels written, which is a achievement in itself.
http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/about
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I’d like to do it, but for the past couple years there’s just been far too much going on in November for me to give it a go. It’s normally crunch time for handing in assignments and taking exams. I wish it was in January, I’ve normally got a lot of free time in January.
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I’m really not a creative writer, but I’d be interested in reading some of TAY’s submissions!
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I’d be more likely to do a couple short stories. Perhaps.
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I tried last year and failed so miserably it wasn’t funny. Not trying this year, I just don’t have anything I want to write.
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I have a few random ideas I am toying with but nothing that is really concrete coming together with a full story. I have bits and pieces and ideas for things that could happen, or particular scenes and characters but can’t come up with the overriding story arc to tie it together.
Oh well I guess I still have a month to get something sorted.Currently leaning towards a medievel era fantasy story set in a kingdom recently conquered by a neighbouring faction.
Not sure if the primary focus should be on a small guerrilla group or a multiple person story of how different people deal with the situation. Like the idea of a political manoeuvrings kinda story with people trying to take advantage of the new leadership to get up on ancient rivals or new feuds between previous friends as they choose to oppose or support the new leaders (Think greymane and battle-born)
As for overall arc there is an inkling that perhaps the previous leadership had a dark secret (slavery, resurrecting demons, torture for fun, something) that is revealed to the protagonists somewhere down the track.
So an emotional crossroads of implementing the status quo with the darkness that is now revealed or aiding the enemy. Also how they can justify their actions (soem of which will not have been pleasant) in the defense of something that turns out to be horrible.Not sure, hopefully that doesn’t sound terribad
I know Shane was saying something about self help books about writing. I can’t remember exactly what he was saying or if he mentioned any titles. Maybe I’ll just duck out and buy a couple anyway 😛
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I’m in a similar situation. I’ve got characters, scenes and a general setting in my mind, but I’ve yet to come up with an overall story to tie it all together. I’ve got a few ideas, but I’ve still got to connect some things together and come up with some specifics.
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“…multiple person story of how different people deal with the situation.”
Oh, Tigs. You sure know how to capture my interest! That is my absolute favourite form of storytelling across all media. Love it!
(Though obviously it’s up to you in the end. But you’d get an automatic A+ from me if you go this route ;D)
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I was thinking about maybe doing it, but then I figured I’ll probably be doing a billion other things
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Wow, those are a lot of words. I’d like to do it but I don’t think any of the crazy(possibly dumb) stuff in my head can cover 175 pages. Hmm maybe if I do a series of short stories? 🙂
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Yeah, I’m much the same mate. All my things tend to be 2-3 pages, tops. More often than not it’s just a half-page ramble with ‘big’ words thrown in to sound like I know what I’m talking about.
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Let’s team up and create a series of short stories called,
The Ramblings of the Amazing Aleph and Marvelous Masha
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I like this idea!
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I sign up every year. Only won twice out of about eight years. I’ll be there somewhere! Sign-up name is canberra_boy_redux
Can someone please send me a dinosaur card for my birthday?
That would be amazing.
Thanks.
…foreveralone
Also I think I’ve only ever told one TAYbie about my birthday because we were randomly talking about birthdays for some reason… I doubt they remember the date though but I remember theirs 😛 (not creepy). But I only remember theirs cause a few other friends have birthdays then and it’s my parents anniversary.
But I’d very much like that dinosaur card.
Please? 😀
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I like this. ‘I want a dinosaur birthday card, but I’m not telling you when my birthday is, also I know things about you people.’
Creepius indeed!
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Well no one asked T_T
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Is your birthday soon?
I’ve never seen any dinosaur birthday cards but I’m sure TAY’s resident dinosaur aficionado, POW, knows where to find some. 🙂
Pow, where are you hiding all the dinosaur cards? Greenius needs one.
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It’s in January so a while away 😛
Yeah I don’t think I’ve seen one either but someone on TeamSpeak said they got one so I was mad jelly and envious.
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Btw is it a card with a dinosaur on it or a dinosaur-shaped card?
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Who knows, but I want both.
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I had a roll of dinosaur wrapping that I used for all presents. Little cartoon dinosaurs with speech bubbles that said “RAWR”.
I originally bought it for people with birthdays near Christmas, because they’d always get Christmas wrapping. So I was thoughtful enough to get them something slightly less inappropriate, because I’m a jerk like that. -
Can I please have a dinosaur card wrapped in dinosaur wrapping?
Dream birthday present right there.
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It’s my bday in January too! Must be a good month for hermits! 😛
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With some luck, it’s possible I might be in Melbourne in mid-January! I’ll make you a special dino-cake! (A Woolies cake that has been cut to somewhat resemble a dinosaur. I eat the offcuts.)
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😀 dinosaur themed meat!
Strange is coming down late-Jan too
Hey, boyo. Dinosaurs are MY thing.
Hey Mawt,
I’m interested in the Roll 20 RPG game you were asking about a page or so back. I’ve never played the games but I’m willing to try.
I got bored and started browsing through The Escapist (It’s somehow has even more pretentious tools then when I cracked it and left the site) and Shamus Young brought up a good point about Kickstarter.
“But aside from dishonest people looking to cash in on the goodwill and excitement, there’s the wider problem that some projects just plain fail, even when the developer has good intentions. Projects have run out of money in the past, and I’m sure it will happen to a Kickstarter project sooner or later. Then we will find out how many donors understood what they were getting into, and how many were just using donations as if they were pre-ordering a game.
In business, when you invest in something you can lose money. Sometimes you can lose everything you put in. Investors take the risk because they will get a cut of the profits if the project is a success. But Kickstarter donors don’t get a cut of the profits. They just get a copy of the game, if it survives to release. Sooner or later a Kickstarted game will fail, and the backers will get nothing. There will be outrage and bad press and other projects will need to work even harder to assure potential backers they can bring a game to market.”
And it is going to happen. And everyone will scream that they are owed something and the devs are the worst people ever. God help anyone if 4chan or Reddit have backed any of them.
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Also shut up with the old news and the laughter and the get with the times.
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I have no feelings for The escapist either way, it’s an average site, I just go there for my weekly Jimquisition and Zero Punctuation videos.
Good point on the Kickstarter thing though.
So I am not in the happiest of moods.
It doesn’t help that Mum keeps harping on about the same freaking subject.
I told her not to worry about how my Aunt is getting to the party, I have left messages on her phone and answering machine. There’s nothing more we can do.
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Oh, man. 🙁 I hope you feel better, scree! A party in her honor means she shouldn’t stress! 😀
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I’m trying to tell her that but she never listens to me
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Our good pal Sughly has put Anna’s Quest on Steam Greenlight. Here’s the link!
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(Can totally buy it through his website too, in case you’ve been living off the TAY grid for the past week and a half. I liked it a whole damn lot, I’ve gotta say!)
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I did that and got totally ripped off. Something about blah blah mumbo jumbo “This does not mean that your payment has been processed or that your order has been approved.”
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Oh, yeah. I had that too.
There was a twenty minute or so processing thingy. Was getting worried. 🙁
You should get an e-mail with a download link. Make sure to check the spam folder.
(Also e-mail ’em if you think there’s problems!)
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I has linky, the postman delivers again
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Ugh…. too much…..KFC… I’m fearing an oncoming chunderstorm….
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I had KFC for lunch.
Didn’t have the usual amount of regret though! 😀
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I had kebabs for dinner/lunch from a shop near my work. Blergh. They are ok when you’re eating them but an hour or so later there is a weird taste in my mouth and I don’t remember them being so good.
The weird thing is that I’ve had them for three days this week. I think it’s because it’s on my way home and I’m too tired to cook and the owner always gives me a discount. I need to stop. Note to self, don’t eat any kebabs next week. The fat dripping from them as you finish them should be enough to scare you off .
Sorry about ruining the mood before!
I’ll try to be happier. I’ll try. =D
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Scree, you could never ruin the mood! 😀
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I always ruin the mood! Oh god, I’m so sorry! *runs off crying*
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Haha! I have the same fear every freakin’ day, but in this case I’ve got some perspective: no mood ruined!
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I worry about everything. Well really, i relax about everything until it gets close to something and then I panic.
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Hope the panic passes, my friend! 😀
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Eh, I’m used to it. Anxiety ain’t no thang.
(I say that, but I would probably panic like crazy still ^^:: )
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That D.C. guy always editing and reading his old comments to make sure no one was offended!
It ruins my mood when he’s all scared that he did something wrong but totally didn’t!
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No one hates him more than me. 😛
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It also ruins my mood every time he rejects an offer to attend a meat :'(
Are we not good enough friends for him!?
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If only that was the case! Haha! 😉
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It’s okay DC I can’t always attend meats =(
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D.C always never doesn’t avoid meats.
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He’s a broken man who’s got his reasons. 😀
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Which we respect, although that doesn’t mean we will stop offering (or bribing)
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Today was a good day!
Also, HI FRONDS!
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That’s good to hear! Hope life’s treating you decently, buddy!
Fellow TAYbies,
What’s something good to do on a Thursday night?
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Play solitaire!
I think that’s just me though-
Done!
Finished in 230 seconds.
Pity that I’m always going for under 3 minutes.
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I take it you’ve already watched South Park? 😀
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Not yet.
I think we’ve been capped… :`(-
I see you’ve been capped – that rules out a couple of my suggestions.
If you are in Melbourne and you like music, then Thursday is a great night to go to a gig.
http://www.beat.com.au/gig-guideFrom that list I’d be interested in the acoustic night and 29th Apartment in StKilda if I wasn’t so tired. Fun venue.
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I’m not in Melbourne. Sorry. 🙁
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Catch up on Rake, cool series
OK maybe reading through old material wasn’t such a good idea.
Quick, help distract me with other stuff!
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GOT BORDERLANDS 2 YET?
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I may or may not have 81 hours in the game, 96% of the achievements, a level 50 character and a level 37 character.
I hear the game is pretty good.
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No, it hasn’t arrived yet 🙁
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Did it come with the Premiere Club DLC? That’s what you want since it has an extra character 😀
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I… it came with the plastilootchestthing (shit, which one did I get?!) and stickers and a bobblehead and stuff that I really don’t need.
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I’m pretty sure you didn’t get a loot chest :P, that’s the Loot Chest Edition not Vault Hunter. The Premiere Club DLC comes with all pre-orders
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Yeah, I got the Vault Hunter Deluxe Edition? Iunno man, I’m just gettin’ me some damned BL2 😛
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Also… by the time I get it, you guys will be all Borderlandsed out.
This makes me sad, and does nothing for my sex drive 🙁
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hey hey, I’m down for a game whenever you needs it. I suspect I’m not gonna get borderlanderized out anytime soon.
Shit, it was a pageget, too? I was kinda hoping for the forgotten-bottom-o’-the-page post :S
http://xkcd.com/137/
^ This sums up my feelings at the moment.
(NSFW)
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The last line of the mouseover text. Yup.
As romantic as the whole thing is, it’s one thing to follow your dreams. It’s another thing entirely for the majority of us to chase those dreams and still maintain the standard of living we do now. It’s one of the greatest catch-22s I’ve ever known.
I like my dreams. I love the fact that regardless of the monotony of everyday life, there *is* something, someplace where the grass is greener, and it’s all. Fucking. Mine.
I like to think we’ve all got that.But yeah, I certainly see where you’re coming from man.
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That is awesome!
@Aleph! Get yourself over here and read this. Make sure to read the hover-over text after you’ve read the comic.Edited to say “Doh – too late!” 😛
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Haha! Awesome ^.^
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Yeah nice sentiment but reality called and it has bills.
While it would be nice to have grand dreams and spend your life chasing them; at the end of the day it comes down to needing food, clothes, shelter, transport and all that crap. And for that you need money and for that you need a real job.
But hey, if you are one of the few lucky people who can earn a living off doing what you love then more power to you. The rest of us will be over here doing what we can.
And spare a though for those of us who do not have dreams to chase.(Not directed at you Crazyguy, just the sentiment)
I’ve heard his name pop up a few times but I don’t really know, or care who Athene is but this was pretty cool:
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/10/that-giant-statue-over-there-its-of-the-worlds-best-gamer/
Also, she’s definitely going to get stalked on WoW now. A pretty gamer who’s also a model and whose character and server details were put on a video seen by thousands 😛
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I tried watching this video he did on Diablo 3 finishing bosses in record times… he’s such an egotistical human and his attitude when in game is not good. The guy loves to trash talk and troll
OK, sorry to keep you all waiting.
It’s time for Thursday Night Crooners. \o/\o/\o/
What? It’s totally a thing.
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Sorry for raining on the parade, but it’s a once-off Thursday Night PSY!
http://www.youtube.com/officialpsy?feature=inp-lt-psy-au-
Wow – that’s amazing!!! Why was I not told about this?
There’ll be stern words in the morning with those responsible!Anyway – for the crooners die-hard;
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Also, I’m totally in favour of Thursday Night Crooners being a thing.
I can DEFINITELY get behind this thing 😀
I have suddenly realised that I am super old.
Like, super duper old.
My “Classic Hits” radio has started playing songs that I remember from my childhood. Natalie Imbruglia’s version of Torn was released in 1997. That’s 15 years. That’s NOT long enough for it to become a classic hit. Bad radio. BAD! *Starts crying*
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Triple M plays Linkin Park. The whole world is kind of broken.
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If it makes you feel any better blaghsy torn was released LESS than half my lifetime ago.
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So now I’m listening to “Moon River.” So now I feel even older.
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Moon River is awesome!
Come join us on our “Thursday Night Crooners” adventure!
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/10/talk-amongst-yourselves-186/comment-page-12/#comment-818316-
My problem is that I really don’t know what constitutes a crooner…
Edit: I say that as I start listening to Bublé…
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Whatever you fancy will do at this point.
A crooner is any male singer who sings jazz or popular standards – mostly with a big-band/orchestra backing. So anybody from Perry Como, Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra, right up to Michael Buble (urggghh!!).Edit just to say I wrote this before I saw your edit 😛
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Hahaha, don’t worry, I can understand why people don’t like Bublé. I blame those in my house without a Y chromosome for introducing me to him…
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To be honest, he’s actually pretty good at his craft. He’s just… actually I don’t know.
I guess, to be honest, it’s just that he’s NOT the old guys he is replacing.
But I should probably champion him for continuing a fading art.
In fact, the more I think about it, the more I’m all like – “Michael Buble FTW”That’s it. I’m done with thinking!
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Gosh, you guys are so old.
Like, super duper old.
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Man, all those people born in the nineties are complete arses, aren’t they?
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Why are you still awake? Isn’t it way past your bedtime?
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Well I missed your reply because I was in bed. This is not going well
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Damn straight. I was in high school then. So not long ago at all. It’s new enough to be cool still. I still am.. Right?
Right?
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Definitely…
Oooolllllldddddd.
Hell Yeah! Wrath of the Dead Rabbit.
Um. Okay. Possibly one of the more odd games I’ve played in a good while. Not sure if I like it or not. Sort of a platformer with a touch of Warioware in it. You’re killing 100 monsters because a paparazzi took a photo of you banging a rubber duck in a bath. Then you platform around with some weird spinning blade jetpack drill…thing while hunting down monsters which when you kill bring up a Warioware style mini game. Usually consisting of mash X, then flashy random kill animation. Kill enough monsters proceed to next area.
So far it’s all style over substance but I’ve only played for half hour or so, maybe if picks up a bit but I’m doubting it.
Further listening in the Thursday Night Crooners series.
It’s after midnight…
Goodnight, TAY!
And with seeing this video, I go to sleep, with a smile smeared across my mug.
Enjoy, and goodnight 😀
THINGS:
– Vooks has a new Pokemon Black/White 2 competition up on their site. Only 1 copy to win of each game though but chances are pretty high for winning things on Vooks!
linkie – http://www.vooks.net/competition-win-pokemon-black-2-or-white-2-and-dream-radar/
– Pullblox/Pushmo sequel Fallblox/Crashmo! 😀
– I have been informed that they’ve installed a speed camera in an area which I sometimes accidentally speed through :/. HOPEFULLY I remember and don’t go over the limit. (It’s a fairly deserted area and by ‘speeding’ I mean only a couple-few over)
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Damn Asian drivers nearly worse than women.
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I’m an amazing driver, thank you very much.
Much better than this country bumpkin who just had to drive around the block for his license! Pfft
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We should race tokyo drift style and see whats what. I know that i gave you the advantage by making it a drifting contest since you would probably be quite good at it. THATS HOW CONFIDENT I AM THAT I WILL CRUSH YOU.
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So much stuff to get excited for! FallBlox and a bunch of new eShop titles (we’re finally getting Sakura Samurai :P). Though they pushed back Fire Emblem even further to the 2nd quarter of 2013… 😐
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Y U NO UPDATE KOTAKU/VOOKS
So far all I know of is Fallblox and Pikachu 3DSXL
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Must be too early for them 😛 Can’t find a good summary anywhere.
Basically what was announced for the eShop: FallBlox, Hana Samurai, Hydroventure (which looks to play similarly to LocoRoco on the PSP), Nano Assault EX, Denpa Men and 3 new eShop games published by LEVEL-5 (each co-created with a different studio, apparently). Sounds good to me!
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Level-5 news! 😀
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WOOOO CYAN LUMIA 920!
http://www.theverge.com/2012/10/4/3456914/cyan-lumia-920-att-hands-on
WOOOOOOO!
*flails*
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You should probably change your phone’s theme back from pink sometime.
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Perhaps if you hadn’t set it to pink in the first place it wouldn’t still be pink, eh?
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No, I’m pretty sure it’s your fault it’s still pink. 😛
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Get a real phone ya bum.
Psy livestreamed a concert on Youtube last night.
I watched it. I’m not actually sure why.
The crowd was ridiculously huge. Dude seems to be doing rather well for himself.
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I feel sorry for him, he is more of a joke than a star.
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But he is a rich joke.
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THE BEST KIND OF JOKE
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I’m also going to bet that he’s incredibly self-aware about this whole thing.
But hey, if you manage to release a song that gets as big as this, why not milk the bejesus out of it?
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Err no. He’s a comedian and he made it to be funny. It’s funny, he’s known for it and good on him
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I know its a little tongue and cheek but its like people ask him to performance and just point to the stage and say
” DO THE HORSEY DANCE’
they laugh and then he doesn’t even get to say what his name is.-
Yeah I guess that’s true but what Aleph said below is also true. From vids I’ve seen people weren’t all “DO THE DANCE” they were more like “OMG IT’S PSY!!”
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So you saw that clip of him on the Ellen show as well? :p
That one came off as more of a cultural thing. Koreans introduce themselves, Americans don’t.
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Yeah, but still he barely got to say 2 words.
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Cutural differences aside, I think the majority of people already knew who he was and Ellen introduced him saying he was there to do the dance so I guess that’s just what everyone wanted.
Hopefully he’s cool and happy with how everything is but from the looks of it, I guess he is :D. Also money, a buttload of it.
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It could be argued that all pop stars are jokes. It’s *not* a style known for technically challenging material, nor are the lyrics anything to write home about.
He draws a crowd, there’s TONS of smiles, and I guess that’s all that really matters. The people were happy.
He can’t sing for shit, he’s certainly not skinny, and he’s only really known worldwide for one song. He’s not the ‘ideal’ pop star, sure. But he makes people happy.
I can appreciate that 🙂
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Dammit, looks like my comment didn’t go through.
Psy is actually a rather interesting thing. KPop is normally saturated with young boy bands and girl groups. Mandatory military service tends to give these guys short careers and he managed to not only break into the scene while being a chubby, unattractive goofball but managed to keep his career going after being forced to do a second stint in the military.
He’s had multiple number 1 singles in Korea over the last decade, so he’s not just some flash in a pan thing. Yet somehow he’s managed to do what no other Korean artist has done, break into the mainstream international market.
We’re going to see a lot of imitators in the next few years.
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I made that comparison early on.
High energy music, tongue in cheek delivery, sold more on personality than quality.
On the surface, it’s definitely valid but I think a better comparison is TISM.
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And I DO love me some TISM 😀
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He’s a performer who uses comedy as the basis of his performance.
So in that regard he is a success, who are you to judge?
*I suspect I misinterpreted your meaning of him being a joke, disregard previous statement 😛
My tooth has been aching since last night. I’ve taken panadol but it’s only working for a few hours. I can’t go to the dentist as it’s Mums birthday party tonight and we’re all busy with preparations. I just want to make it manageable and so I can eat something.
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Scree your health is more important than a party. go to the dentist it might be serious.
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I can’t. Plus, we can’t really afford it and I may not even get in.
Our dentist is a special system where no matter how much pain you are in, you have to wait until your turn.-
I will send you money if its really that bad. I would rather that then you be in pain all day and something bad happen to you.
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They still won’t see me. I had an infected wisdom tooth and they were like “oh, we can only see you if there is a cancellation.”
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go to the chemist and get some stronger pain killers then. or go to the hospital.
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Yeah I’m thinking Advil for now. Otherwise panamax or something
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I heard that. Thanks Aleph!
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Something that I did when I had some dental issues a few months back was to take aspirin but let it sit in your mouth. Preferably with room temperature water.
Don’t ask me why, but it worked really well for me.
Mornin’ all!
Quiet as hell day, so hopefully I can disappear early so I get to Sydney before…well, tomorrow…
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THANKS FOR THE DoTA game Rizical. We make the best lane combo 😛
its mostly because i leave you to die then they kill me.-
Yeah, I still feel bad about the amount of times we both ran and they targeted you. Felt like I should be helping you but all I could have done is die with you 😛
I think I may learn to play endurance and buff the crap out of my health, so I can tank and save people.-
First rule of DoTA club
We all die alot its fine, i dont mind man, we are still both trying to learn characters. Also with all the stuns, its pretty hard to save someone from bots once they have been targeted. We will have to step up to play actual people next hahaha.
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It’s a real shame I don’t get to join you guys 🙁
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Next time we’ll be sure to give you a shout and see if you’re keen! There’s a fair few people playing it now, so after Borderlands/Torchlight dies down a bit you’ll probably get many more chances 🙂
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Alrighty, it was just AUPost not updating the tracking ID.
“Accepted from customer” means they’ve taken delivery of the parcel. It SHOULD now say something like “in transit”… but it doesn’t.
Apparently I’ll be getting it next week, if not today.
Woo Hawken Alpha invite! \m/
Also NDA so that’s about all I can say 😛
I am slightly disturbed right now.
It’s my 3rd wedding anniversary next week and this is a “leather” anniversary. So I decided to buy my husband the sunglasses he’s been wanting ever since I’ve known him and get him a leather case to put them in. But I couldn’t find a nice leather case so I decided to buy some leather and make one myself.
It arrived just now, a dark grey pigskin suede and even though I’m unashamed in my consumption of animal meat (I’ve even got a pork belly curing in the fridge right to make my first ever bacon) just holding this animal skin in my hands and knowing I have to now cut it up and sew it has me a bit nauseous. I don’t get why this bothers me but cutting animals up to eat them doesn’t. :S
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because meat doesn’t look like the animal. Its the same reason i hate eating whole pig on a spit. It has a face.
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Yeah, I get that but this really just looks like any other piece of fabric. I guess it’s my imagination filling in the blanks.
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In Peru we had Guinea Pig once…
It’s a completely normal local dish. Except it’s basically a skinned Guinea Pig thrown in a deep fryer.
It arrives on a plate complete with head, eyes, and little paws.
Needless to say it’s quite off-putting.
I’m not a massive fan of eating meat that still looks like the animal. I think I draw the line at the head/face.-
BLAGHMAN DON’T READ THIS
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So I shouldn’t attach a photo?
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That’s silly.
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GREETINGS TAY!!!
Oh how I have missed you all. Despite a public holiday at the start, this week has been a real *insert naughty word here*.
Also, I had forgotten just how much I hate having to apply for jobs, just gimme the damn job!
Haven’t even touched my 360 since Sunday, man I got the shakes real bad.
Oh well, hopefully I’ll be able to dust off my copy of Borderlands 2, surprising how much dust accumulates in just a few days, and give it a whirl this weekend.
A quick glance at previous pages shows that lots of TAYbies will be in Sydney this weekend, WHERE’S THE MEAT PEOPLES?!?
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All I know about a possible meat is that there will be people hanging out around where Harli will be at EB Expo. Track down the Gamespot booth and there may or may not be TAYbies there on Sunday.
So Torchlight 2 is getting REALLY BLOODY HARD now. Why am I really enjoying this punishment? 😀 haha. The bosses and champions are really tearing me apart and making me use up all my potions
Also random question to the TAYbies. Is anyone else interested in making a start on Airmech in the near future? Cuz I’m really contemplating trying it out and it can be a 2v2 team game
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When Diablo 3 got hard in Inferno Act 2 people just bitched and moaned…
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I’m really loving the challenge, I’m actually timing my hammer swings to hit without retaliation and switching to my hand cannon to charge my hammer skill up for extra AoE damage. If I run in and start swinging without though I’ll drop in seconds.
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Diablo 3 initially got hard in Inferno Act 1 and people bitched because the gear needed to clear it wasn’t available until Inferno Act 2. Only people with crazy glass cannon builds were able to make it through to the point they could farm gear by constantly dying up against mobs.
They’ve since drastically altered the loot system (and are about to do it again) to allow people to get the gear they need to progress.
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So in celebration of my previous post asking if it was Friday yet…
It’s now Friday!!!!
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\o/
Anyone still contemplating picking up Borderlands 2
http://www.ozgameshop.com/pc-games/borderlands-2-game-code-by-email-pc–
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Tempting, even though I have it on 360…
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Getting harder and harder to resist 😛
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More places need to offer this kind of service.
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I got it from GMG for $30 the other day using a code I googled…
Doo eet
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Hey, has anyone here heard of this game before?
It looks pretty neat.
Everyone should upvote it.
Heaps.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=100743534&searchtext=
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Awesome game.
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Adventure games are dead, whatever
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Ohhhhh, you!..I…hey…
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LOLOL! Jokes, everyone go vote pleeeeeease!!
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Done and done
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Meh. I totally played that game last week. 😛
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Totally not worth the ridiculous amount of time i spent on it. *SARCASM*
…crap i meant to downvote but accidently upped!
Morning all! bit of an odd request….
Ok so im wanting to run a stress test on my connection tonight from 9:30pm – whenever.
In TAYNAMES, you will see im running 2 x Minecraft Servers (one survival/one creative, offline mode, no whitelist) as well as 1 x Halo CE server (Patched).
Im hoping to seriously overload my servers so i can do some number crunching. I’d especially like to stress up the HaloCE server.
So whoever is in, let me know, and email me or skype me (my tag) with any Q’s! email @ the hots.com!
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couple more things…
Halo CE is available FREE on the internet, you will however need the Halo serial to install it.
also i know HCE is ancient but it remains a LAN favourite 🙂 …that and Halo2 PC is a very bad port with screen tearing galore…. totally unplayable.
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I’d be up for Halo CE certainly 🙂
It is really fun to scrim in-
HAZAR! Recruit number 1!
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protip: google’s first result for taynames is taynames.
Second result is baby names beginning with Tay.
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in case anyone is curious, the servers are running on 1RU Dual Xeon 3.2ghz servers with 8GB Registered ECC RAM and Dual 120gb SCSI 15,000RPM HDD’s
Re discussion about crooners: Doesn’t quite fit the same mould, but Johnny Hartman is amazing.
I found that eating things with salt doesn’t aggravate my tooth. Best excuse to eat irresponsibly? I think so.
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Bring on the pretzels and pringles party food \o/
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I’m currently eating plain corn chips for breakfast =P
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A good warm up food. I approve.
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It’s no cake but its still good.
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Clove oil.
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I will when I get to a chemist \o/
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Deep discussion incoming!!!!
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/queens/paralyzed-terminally-ill-patient-fight-death-article-1.1174383
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Euthanasia is sometimes the most humane option, especially when the patient has made their wishes clear.
I challenge anyone to watch The Sea Inside and then disagree. Had me bawling in the cinema.
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I saw that movie. Damn, that was sad. Really impressive bit of filmmaking, though.
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Damn, I didn’t want to get into heavy stuff today.
First of all, that’s deeply sad. There’s nothing in that story that didn’t tug at my heartstrings in all the worst ways 🙁
There are a few sub-issues here before we get into right-to-die euthanasia stuff.
1) Is removing a breathing tube akin to suicide? I’m in two minds about this. On one hand, the notion that inaction is itself an action is a tricky dichotomy to resolve; on the other, if you attempt to claim that it’s not suicide, the line is still blurry. Is the jump that kills, or the landing, or the two in conjunction? All you need is a panel of cardinals or something telling the parents that it’s not suicide (if that’s the case), and this whole thing could go away.
2) Things get incredibly tricky when deeply-held beliefs enter into the equation. Notwithstanding the mother’s odd assertion that her terminal daughter will get better (which I would suggest is probably quite normal parental grief and denial), the notion that they are protecting her immortal soul over her body is still a deep act of love. Regardless of your beliefs, you surely can’t condemn the parents on a moral level for doing what they utterly believe is the right thing. It’s incredibly sad that such a choice has to inflict additional anguish upon their daughter, though 🙁
3) Obviously, she can’t move much: blinking her eyes and talking seem to be the only options available to her. But I can’t find mention of actual physical pain. While I wouldn’t especially like to be hooked up the way she is, and utterly dependent on care, if there are just a matter of weeks to go… maybe it’s an option to just hold on, to end things on the right terms with your parents. I don’t know – it’s really hard, and I can’t say what I’d choose in that situation. But I think that I’d want to have all loose ends tied up as much as possible before I went, and would hate for a court case to separate me from the ones I loved at the last minute. Obviously, it seems unfair that the terminally-ill paralysed patient should be the one to compromise, but someone’s going to have to blink, or things will end wrong.
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Sorry for making you talk about sad things today. But thanks for your input. It’s an interesting read. I liked your number 2 point. Initially I was very angry at the selfishness of the parents, but you make a valid point. They truly, deeply believe they are doing the right thing for her, even if it seems crazy and stupid to us. I totally don’t agree with it, but I do see the other point of view.
However I do think it’s incredibly disrespectful to the daughter to not consider her wishes. She is an adult capable of making her own decisions, whether or not she shares the same beliefs as her parents is irrelevant.
I guess this is what most annoys me about people pushing/forcing their religion on others. I have no problem with what you believe in, but don’t make decisions for ME based on YOUR beliefs.
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I for one support her decision and label her parents as selfish and shortsighted.
Tip for all you Christians out there: the Bible does not actually say you will go to hell for suicide, that is just a Catholic myth. In fact saying so is in complete contradiction of Jesus’ message of wholesale forgiveness.-
Who goes to hell if Jesus forgives everything?
Honest question. I genuinely don’t know (didn’t know that suicide bit either). Not trolling.-
According to the chaplains from my high school(who were left wing hippies), when you die, God forgives you for all your sins. If you choose not to accept his forgiveness, then you are unable to enter heaven(and so end up in hell).
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I think, broadly, the idea is that people who have sinned greatly will be unable to accept his forgiveness. The prideful would be too proud, the guilty too racked with guilt, so on and so forth.
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This does not bode well for people with overactive guilt (watch out, for example, scree) 😛
The serial killer whom God told to slaughter folks will make it to heaven, but normal people who feel ridiculous levels of guilt for cheating on their income taxes (like Ned Flanders) will not.Or have I missed the point, and the ‘acceptance’ of forgiveness is not a choice that we make, but an automatic response brought forward by our soul’s experience of life?
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Buggered if I know. I went to an Anglican School, but my total knowledge of how everything works comes from the chapel sessions that I half slept through, and the RE classes where we actually learned about other religions, and spent half the time “meditating.”
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Pick a denomination and you’ll get an answer. Pick another and get a different one.
If you define sin as an action deemed immoral by a higher power, then things can get rather tricky before you even get to the whole forgiveness bit. Is it a sin if the person believes that they were instructed by the higher power? Is it a sin if the person is ignorant of the higher power’s teachings (think of people from nations that are not taught specific religions or children who have not reached the point where they can be taught)? Is it as simple as committing a sin requires forgiveness or is their some leeway (murder vs killing a man in defence of your family)?
Sin is a very tricky bit of a business and you won’t get the same answers about it from anyone.
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If god’s telling a serial killer to kill folks, I think you’ll find the serial killer’s been a bit heavy on the drugs 😛
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Fun fact: the only unforgivable sin listed in the Bible is blaspheming against the Holy Spirit.
Matthew 12:31 And so I tell you, every kind of sin and slander can be forgiven, but blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven. 32 Anyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but anyone who speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come.
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Those that don’t accept Jesus’s forgiveness (either by denying or defying).
That’s the broad answer. The whole hell thing is actually rather tricky and varies greatly between denominations. Some branches of Christianity don’t even believe in hell, others think that pretty much everyone is going straight there.
I prefer my solution of there being no evidence of an afterlife so no reason to believe in anything that alters what happens in it.
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I don’t care too much for the afterlife. It’s like, yay I’m saved, I’m going to heaven! That’s cool. Now let’s work on making this world a better place, because god put us here and he wants us to care for it. Getting to heaven, or doing good stuff just to get rewarded for it in heaven isn’t what I want to be the focus of my life.
I believe that you have to repent your sins for Jesus to forgive you. If you don’t repent then you end up in hell.
Which is where you can get Hitler is in Heaven and Martin Luther King is in Hell from
It’s up to the individual whether they accept the forgiveness or reject it. God doesn’t force anything on anyone, he let’s us decide what to do with our lives. Of course, there are good consequences and bad consequences to every action we make though.
If someone was dangling from the side of a building and someone else was holding a rope for them to grab so they can be pulled up, it’s up to the person dangling whether they grab the rope so they can be saved or don’t grab it and eventually fall to their death. Mind you, when there is a horde of other people standing with the guy holding the rope talking about how they’re better than you and that you can’t grab the rope unless you follow all these strict rules they have, you can understand why some people wouldn’t want to be saved.
Man, I hate christians sometimes.
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The problem with that analogy is how the person got to be dangling off of the building in the first place.
Let’s not go along those lines though, it won’t end well for anyone.
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Humans have a tendency to mess up.
Yeah that’s the thing, it is not well defined.
The general idea is accepting you have done bad in God’s eyes (past and future cause your gonna mess up later being human and all) and that nothing you can do will fix that. Repenting for said sins (pretty much being genuinely sorry and trying to not do bad from here on out.) God forgives you, and you do the best you can knowing that if you screw up it will not lead to instant damnation.
That said, there is still a judgement part. If you read revelations and probably other parts it suggests that people do not go to “heaven” or ‘hell”as such until after the end of all things when God will judge the living and the dead, not just on their actions but their character/soul/motivations/etc.
Then you get into the question of are you guilty if you don’t know you are (Old Testament suggests yes but some of the New Testament stuff (which is the important bit unless you are Jewish) is less definitive.)
It’s a bit complicated, and many concepts are misconstrued or interpreted differently by different people.
@shane “Who goes to hell if Jesus forgives everything?
Honest question. I genuinely don’t know (didn’t know that suicide bit either). ”
The problem with suicide as suggested by some Christians, is that to get forgiveness for sin, one must repent. Suicide leaves the self-murderer in no position to repent.
This belief led to a bizarre phenomenon in Europe several hundered years ago, where people wanting to take their own life, but fearful of hell, would instead kill a child. Now the child is without sin (so they believed) and will go to heaven. The killer can confess and repent, also going to heaven, and then they will be sentenced to death, also getting their wish.
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What about if you jump off a tall building and take the falling time to repent?
What if you take the pills and repent as you drift away?
What if you say sorry before you pull the trigger on the gun in your mouth?Do these count?
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Again, not trolling. I’ve just always wondered about this suicide as one of the unforgivable sins thing.
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Many believed you needed to confess to a priest.
The first case I heard about of suicide by child murder, the woman had earlier tried to poison herself and confess to a priest before she died, but didn’t take enough poison. The child murder was her second option.I don’t believe in heaven and hell so I have no idea if your examples count. But I suspect you could a hundred different theologians and get a hundred differnt answers.
Honest answer: Hell is a cage to keep you scared and easy to control while you’re alive. It’s an idea that has no basis in fact. It’s a threat like saying to a child, “If you’re bad, you won’t get any presents at Christmas time!”
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/659943965/planetary-annihilation-a-next-generation-rts
So, that looks freakin’ awesome.
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Yeah, do bloody want!
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I find RTS’s fairly difficult, Unit management and remembering where who went and what they do and how to win vs certain oppenents daunting. A game where you play multiplayer and 2 peeps control the same peeps but one handles unit management and the other resource management.
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It’s mainly where practice comes in though, the more you do it, the more you can watch things happen to keep in mind X and Y while you’re doing Z with your strike force for instance.
You should see Supreme Commander at high level play, you’ll get a headache trying to keep up just with spectating it alone with how much goes on at once.
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HAve you seen me play MoBA’s i can barely control one unit, I guess i am not cut out to be a starcraft profesional. Dang 😛 I played a little CoH with TS guys a while ago. I enjoyed that but i only had one strategy and it was the worst cheese ever. MASS MOTORCYCLES.
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You should try out Dawn of War 2 then, that’s squad based 🙂
I’ve seen you play MOBAs before (Obviously xD), and you’ve pulled out some good plays inthe past, remember our Malphite-Kennen ulti combo when you initiated and we tore up three of them with just the two of us? With MOBAs like LoL, yes doing good plays by yourself is awesome, but what’s even more awesome is working with your teammates to make a glorious ambush.
Yes there are times when you make questionable moves, but so have I as you very well know, and everybody else on TAY that plays LoL. The thing that really matters is that you analyse your plays and figure out how you could’ve done this better, from your skill combo, targetting and timing to which way you went through the jungle and brushes. 🙂 -
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I think warcraft is more tricky than SC2 cuz you got one resource that’s requiring you to be in different positions all the time (Wood) and you got hero units to look after as well.
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Warcraft has gold and wood. Starcraft has minerals and gas.
They’re functionally identical on the resource gathering (send workers to harvest the resource you need near your town hall) but there are differences with saturation and collection rates that make balancing your income different between the two games (getting more gas in SC requires more expansions, getting more wood in WC requires just getting more workers).
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Install SC2 already and I’ll see what I can teach you.
People really overvalue microing their units. You don’t need to fuss about that at all until you’re pretty good (although it is fun to derp around with micro). You can pretty much attack move your army towards their base and just focus on managing your economy all the way up to Diamond league in SC2.
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Fine fine, we shall play at some stage. 😀
I backed it. Loved TA back in the day.
Y U NO linky before it finished
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I only found out about it today 😛
Weird, TAY ate my last post 🙁 I didn’t even post any ROT13.
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I was talking about how I hate my iPad because it’s slow and clunky and Apple’s crappy apps don’t work properly and crash all the time, and can’t wait for a Windows RT tablet…
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I like my original ipad, i didn’t think i would use it much when i got it but i have gotten alot of use out of it. Especially for comic and manga reading, checking emails and watching youtube stuff.
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The pro-apple forces on Gizmodo have obviously leaked into the commenting system
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Lots of tech sites don’t like Apple hate, even if it’s legit
Gizmodo might be another one too it seems xD
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Is there anything more frustrating than having store credit somewhere, and nothing to spend it on? I think it’s even worse than not being to afford something you want! 😛
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I had a voucher for the coles myer group a while back, couldn’t find a single thing I wanted in any of the stores.
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What even groceries or games from myer?
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All the games in Myer and Kmart were shitty or overpriced, even with a voucher, and if it’s a gift voucher you kinds want to buy a gift.
Ended up buying some camping/outdoors gear.
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You could always sell the voucher to someone who would want something from that store….
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Taking a coathanger off a rail and getting it caught on another coathanger, and, regardless of how simple the task should be to untangle them, you devolve into a reckless creature, born from the fury of a thousand wars, and try to brutally tear them apart, before everything just falls off the rail. Then you take a breath, approach the obstacle with calm precision and retrieve the original coathanger easily.
I find that more frustrating than store credit.
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This comment is awesome, and helped me put everything in perspective.
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Just to continue pimping this in case anyone missed it – my game “Anna’s Quest” is on Steam Greenlight and needs dem votes. I think the vast majority of you have already done so, but if you haven’t, help a brudda out and throw and upvote my way!
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=100743534
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Sunday is Anna’s Quest day \o/
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Haha, woo!
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WRONG, everyday is Anna’s Quest day.
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Out of interest if you do make it on, does that mean that subsequent installments might be able to bypass the greenlight bullshit and go straight onto Steam?
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That is a very good question. I too, would like to know this.
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I three would like to know this. Though I kind of doubt it. I think maybe I could appeal to Steam, but would otherwise have to go through it again.
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Ok so I’m not one to brag, but imma gon do it right now anyway. I just realised what this graph represents, which is the amount of votes I got for it on day one compared to how many the top 100 games on greenlight get on average. So… freakin… cool. Nearly 3,000 unique visits and 97 faves. I honestly put this on greenlight as a bit of a marketing gimmick, but now I’m genuinely wondering if it can get on steam. So excited right now guys…
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\o/ for you. If I had a Steam account, I’d be voting too.
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I’ll just leave this here: https://store.steampowered.com/join/
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Yay! Nice work Sughly! Time for drunken celebrations? 😛
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YES! When are we all gettin drunk next? This is a very important question! Oh man, if it keeps going like this, I am making you all get SO drunk with me
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Niiiice!
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That’s amazing, man! Let us know if there’s any thing else we can do to spread the word!
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Finished BL2 last night at level 33 with Z3r0…an interesting ending.
Started new playthrough straight after…already finding better greens than some of my purples :/
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I’d replaced 3 out of four guns by Boom-Bewm.
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That makes me sad 🙁
I quite like my Jakobs sniper rifle.
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Hah, speaking of Company of Heroes previously and me cursing quietly about how I couldn’t access my disks at home, it’s on sale!
Are we starting on a CoH kick again?
Because I could be down for purchasing it on Steam just because.
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Am i allowed to mass motocycles? Cause i am doing it.
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Everyone shall be playing wit ze Germans.
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Holy cow, the CoH collection is cheaper on the AU steam store than the Canadian.
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You already own it on Steam, why do you need to repurchase it?
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I don’t. I have physical copies.
I’m sure there’s a way to just download the game by retrieving my CD keys but eh.
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Is Tales of Valor worth getting?
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Nah. It doesn’t add anything meaningful to the game, really.
‘cept Kangaroo carriers, but they were nerfed.But what’s $5 I guess?
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Sooo… New Die Hard movie out next year.
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Isn’t he dead from stress?
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Die Hard of the Dead?
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I actually didn’t mind the trailer…. Might have to go back and watch Die Hard 4, coz I never got round to it.
Ermahgerd merstershers!
http://au.movember.com/team/452897
Do it. Join. Donate. Share. Grow. Love.
Yes.
This is pretty cool: http://youtu.be/Dg_TjFSSOYg
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Oh wow. Just playing that stuff was awesome enough but to have made the instrument as well is pretty damn cool. 😀
Dammit Cakesmith. You just had to go and post that Borderlands 2 special didn’t you.
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I’ve decided I need to finish all the DLC for number 1 before I buy two, so it is tempting at all. NOT AT ALL
Look Twitch TV, I respect that you need to display ads but throwing them up in the middle of a team fight during a semi-final pro match?
F*** you.
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I WANNA WATCH SO BAD. I dont think ican at work though :\
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Yeah, I wont be able to for long.
Oh hai Own3D, you showing it too? Bye Twitch!
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Adblock!
I know it’s stealing and whatnot… but no ads is an enticing deal.-
Twitch have done something that screws up the stream if you use it.
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Once the new DLC is out, would any TAYberinos be interested in doing ME3 Multi on PS3?
Hi TAY I’m at work!!! *gasp*
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REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE.
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GET BACK TO WORK!
Account make it much harder to post as joke accounts. Just assume that the above message was from your boss 😉
Screw verbal contracts and anything to do with them.
Henceforth, I’m having EVERYTHING signed, dated, and provided to me in triplicate.
Work’s not giving me paid leave which I was originally told I was entitled to. Hell, they’re not letting up on which dates I can take, either. Oh, and not only have they knocked me back to a flat 38hrs p/w, but they want to LOWER my payrate, too?! If they’re trying to cut costs, there’s better places to start.
If they’re trying to send a message, it’s bloody well working.
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Hard lesson, man 🙁
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Thanks mate. Hard lesson indeed.
I just struggle comprehending the bizarre double-standards that plague this place.-
Name and shame?
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As a general rule, I don’t think we should be publicly talking about our employers here.
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Union. Ombudsman. Fair Work Australia.
In that order.
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Cheers man, I’ll be looking to the Ombudsman shortly. I’m not sure I pay union fees, so am not covered?
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If you’re not in the union, you won’t be covered. You may not even be in a unionised field.
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Union coverage laws are weird. Seriously weird.
The bit about leave is probably something no union can help a non-member with but the bit about changing the hours and pay rate sounds like a contract renegotiation to me. Might have some luck there.
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The union will tell him that they won’t cover people for issues prior to them becoming members. There’s a bit of leeway on that one but I doubt most unions will be able to do more than point him to the ombudsman.
But yes, try a union anyhow. You’re either under the AWU or Together.
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If I was in a unionised workplace, I’d be in the union. they take a dim view of this kind of being dicked around.
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Contact the union anyway, even if you join right away
Since they are trying to change this arrange for a negotiation meeting. have union employee attend. Their presence can make a huge difference.
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A verbal contract is only worth the paper it is written on
What is your actual employment agreement with them? Are you permanent?
They are legally required to give you paid annual leave, they may not let you take it when you want but you are entitled to the time and should have that paid out in a lump sum if you leave.It sounds very much like a message to me but I don’t know the situation. I would never lower somebodies pay rate unless I was trying to get them to quit. Cutting hours is a pain but acceptable.
If you want an outside opinion on things let me know and we can take it to emails.also /o\
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Thanks man. My title is ‘administration assistant’, however my roles go far beyond the scope of the position. I’d love your opinion on some stuff, if you wouldn’t mind?
I’m… really fucking lost at the moment.-
I work at DEEWR so know *some* things. Happy to also feedback.
shane at shanewsmith.com-
Are you able to advise in this capacity? I thought if you were DEEWR you’d have to be pretty careful
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An interesting question, and one I’ve never thought of before. It seems to me that my comments will be based on my knowledge of WR laws that are freely available to the public. Advising a mate of workplace rights and avenues of redress doesn’t create a conflict of interest that I’m aware of. I’m low enough on the totem pole that I think I can be a citizen first, public servant second.
The only alternative would be for everyone who works in the field of employment or workplace relations (i.e. the folks who know most about it) to never actually talk about workplace rights outside of work, and that doesn’t seem right either, as nothing is confidential.
Aleph, I’ll still comment as long as you promise not to take what I said as ‘official government’ advice, okay?
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I think that is a wise disclaimer
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Fair Enough. I have professional contact with a guy who works in citizenship and I know he has to be very careful.
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I understand that (especially given the politically charged and touchy nature of the area), and now that I think about it, I guess I should be a bit careful too. Thanks man!
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Just so you know, I know people who might be able to help out. Send me an email at trjnrabbit at gmail and I’ll see if I can get in touch with them.
Tigerion at the googles
Happy to help buddy
Lowering someone’s pay rate in an attempt to get them to resign is pretty strong grounds for a constructive dismissal lawsuit, I believe.
Hey mate, i’m pretty sure not giving you leave is illegal…
http://www.fairwork.gov.au/faqs/leave/pages/default.aspx#question1
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If you’re permanent, you’re entitled to leave, but not whenever you want. If you’re getting paid per hour, however, you may be a casual so you can get screwed over.
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From what i’d read, I assumed he was permanent. Hence the link to leave entitlements for full-time employees.
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If they are talking about cutting his hours it is possible that his actual contract is as a casual rather than full time.
The legality of it is really going to come down to what he has in the way of documentationEDIT: Speelings
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Documentation? I have two sheets, one signed around a year and a half ago (little over that) stating that I was employed as a casual employee working for X per hour, on fulltime hours.
The other is signed a year ago stating that my terms of employment will be changed from casual to fulltime, working for X per hour on fulltime hours.
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That’s something.
PS: Emailed you!
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Fulltime means leave entitlements.
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Yep, and *might* have implications for the pay downgrade too. Worth talking to someone in the know, for sure. Fair Work Ombudsman should be one of your first ports of call, if not first.
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Emails sent!
God-damn you guys are great.
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Don’t forget to nom them!
I can’t help in any way, sorry-
Please don’t suggest he eat us 🙁
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Don’t have any advise, but I hope every thing goes your way man. You’re my favourite person on the entire Groote Eylandt! 😀
Where I am working is switching me to 38h/pw. I will be working more then 4% per year but only getting a pay increase of 3% without any cost of living increase.
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Oh also we are losing our “no forced redundancy” clause and our flexitime. Screw the government … seriously.
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Are you a Queenslander?
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Sure am
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Kind of sad that when I hear “Loss of entitlements” I immediately think “Queensland”
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All right, who stole my teflon foot and leather needles?
I’ve been looking for ages and I can’t find them so obviously someone must have taken them. ;P
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Sorry, Guilty. I thought I could combine the two to make non-stick shoes.
On a seriouser note, Leather stitching is an interesting exercise, I did some for my steampunk gauntlet.
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Yeah, I’m slightly scared because if you make a mistake, the holes are there for good. I chose the pigskin because it was thin and soft and felt a lot like regular fabric so it hopefully wouldn’t be super-difficult to work with. I could probably get away with using some of the other machine needles I have that I can find, but I’d prefer the strength of the ones specifically made for leather.
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wouldn’t it have made more sense to make the needles out of teflon and the foot out of leather? I’d imagine a needle made of leather wouldn’t hold its point very well.
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it was MEEEEEEEEE!!!
*twirls moustache*-
Best use of a moustache ever! Now I want one so I can become a supervillain, too. 😀
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Combining a teflon foot and leather needles sounds like the solution to an adventure game puzzle.
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You get freaked out by the thought of sewing leather but the needles you use for that, are also used for sewing feet? And you don’t have a problem with that part of it? Strange indeed.
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Hehe…sewing is a weird hobby. 😛
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I’ve got a whole drawer full of them in front of me right now. Also have a speedy awl, the big curved leather hand ones and a patcher machine.
Not helping in the slightest.
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Maybe I’ll just visit you at work and get you to sew this thing for me instead. 😛
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AAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhh????????????????????????
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Me hearties?
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dont mind me, it appears as though im having a moment…… I’m so bored at work got nothing to do so im playing around with an OTDR and two Routers…. AAaaaaaaaarrrrrrrggggghhhhhh…..
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Yeah, that happens when you leave it like that for some time. I recommend just letting it sit for a bit before trying again.
I hope the resident evil ads don’t last long. I really don’t need to be reminded that a giraffe is getting more action then me every time I open a page.
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yes…. it would appear as though the giraffe is having much sexy time….
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Stupid sexy giraffe…
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“Longnecking”
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Thanks for that gorzy, really thank you.
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You’d think that after it was noticed as soon as the logo wa teased they might have done a slight redesign.
Unless that’s what they wanted everyone to see. Secret bonus level maybe?
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Hell, if we’re talking about it, they’ve done something right.
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With QuickTime events.
Mash x to blow giraffe.
Twirl stick to roll your tou—-Yeah I think it’s time to stop that line of thought.
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Needs more explosions.
Of what kind is up for debate, but there must be explosions.
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Note to self: stop reading comment threads that begin with beastiality. They never end well.
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Well, maybe just one more comment http://www.myspace.com/video/tubbs/clerks-ii-donkey-show/2021613
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I figured they didn’t redesign it because that would be admitting they allowed an official logo to feature furry oral sex.
Don’t hope for it Gorzy… 🙂
Something tells me there isn’t any left
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Y U DO THAT TO MY EYES?
Had a random whim to buy Brutal Legend yesterday, and today I had a similar whim to buy the Riddick game compilation. But DANGIT ozgameshop and zavvi don’t have stock of either.
Anyone know of any other good places to pick up new copies of old games?
By new I mean ‘not pre-owned’.
I also wanna track down a copy of Jericho, man this can’t be good for my pile of shame.
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I can’t remember if I have a new/unopened copy of Brutal Legend (360) or not. If I do, you can have it.
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Damn really?
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I’ll check tonight (or when I remember) and let you know
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I got the Riddick collection from GOG, still haven’t ventured into it. I loved Brutal Legend for the most part. (If I pretend the stage battles don’t exist.) Really excellent world, character and story.
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DECAPITATIOOOOOOON!!!
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TAKE THAT MS. LICKY!
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You can get Assault on Dark Athena on steam for $20 which also comes with butcher bay
Jericho is $5 there as well
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Riddick’s cheaper on GOG and DRM-free. Though I understand that Steam offers a whole lot that GOG doesn’t.
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I saw that, I was going to edit my post and tell him to go with your link if he wants to grab it
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Thanks guys, was aiming for an xbox version but I think it is time I paid GOG a visit.
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Nah, the man deserves options! 😛
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Loved Brutal Legend, if only for the awesome soundtrack, game world, character design, script and voice-cast.
I did enjoy the gameplay too, but it was definitely the weakest link in the chain. The hack’n’slash was fun, but I can’t remember having much of a grasp on the strategy component.-
I agree with the gameplay thing, especially towards the end with that strategy component. It was a mix of two good ideas but both were implemented as half as good as they should have been. Great, expansive world though and the atmosphere throughout the entire game is great.
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Yeah I actually feel really bad that I didn’t buy it on launch, but I had bugger all money back then and I intended to buy it sooner or later.
…turns out it was later, much later 😛
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I wish that strategy stuff hadn’t been included, it should have been just a straight-up brawler and would have been better received if so.
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I enjoyed Jericho actually, the story was good
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I hear the gameplay vastly improves mid-way through as well, gets all mad tactical and stuff.
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Is this the clive barker game?
Whenever I’m in a game store I always pick up the game and think about playing it but I never do.
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Yep, always wanted to try it out. I enjoyed the demo after all so why not?
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Don’t know if anyone reads this, but here it is.
http://trenchescomic.com/
The comic itself is actually pretty average and not very funny. But the attached blog posts are priceless. Just read through them and you’ll see what I mean.
For background – they are written by a video game industry employee who has bounced around everywhere over the years, like QA, testing, tech support and retail.
is it just me or is this posts page HUGE!
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That’s what the giraffe said.
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Bad freeze.
When you get a post that rallies the taybies to help a fellow taybie things get longer.-
… that’s what the giraffe said.. ?
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observe the RE6 logo… picture left half giraffe and ill leave the rest to your imagination…
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I know. I was adding to the in-your-end-oh.
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…………I thought you were better than that Shane.
I even resisted the urge to add (It can be yours today for 6 easy payment of 19.99)
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I posted a link to a donkey show up above. I’m not better than much 🙂
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Is anyone else watching Bathurst?
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Why? What have the Bathurstians done now? 😛
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It’s like watching one of those puerile reality TV shows, seeing how the other kind live
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I showed my wife an episode of Honey Boo Boo after we watched South Park lat night as she had no idea what it was.
She actually got upset and asked why no one had reported child abuse to the authorities.
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I almost listed that title, but I couldn’t do that to the Bathurstians
I think that show is literally the blurst
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No, not my thing, sorry
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nope but ill have some Blutwurst 🙂
damn what a day to be short on monies….
http://www.ozgameshop.com/pc-games/borderlands-2-game-code-by-email-pc–
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See if loops still has a $10 voucher up for grabs
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DISREGARD.
Thought I had a code, but it appears I’ve misplaced it.-
well lets just say im down to Zero on my entertainment allowance till the 15th 🙂 its ok though, cause it would just end up sitting there on my steam list for the next two months as ive only just started playing the first one….. then ive got all the DLC to get through 🙂
no gaming breaks for me! I honestly think if games just stopped getting made all of a sudden, id have enough games already to last me two lifetimes. my pile of shame is massive….(thats what the giraffe said?)
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Is that today’s meme? I think it will suffice if we can’t do better.
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\o/ !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Monday – Coffee talk
Tuesday – Vidya game talk
Wedesday – TV show talk
Thursday – Music talk
Friday – Giraffe porn talkEven listing it out like that it doesn’t appear overly surprising
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Sounds like a decent routine.
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You forget this is TAY.
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i for one approve!
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So, earlier I mentioned Jericho and Brutal Legend and Dark Athena,
these are games that didn’t smash the review scores and some would consider ‘middle class’ games.
These are middle-class games that I regret not picking up and would like to give another chance.
Thinking about this, what middle-class games that never got much attention do you look back on and wished you had given a proper chance?
To get things started, I would also like to add Earth Defence Force to my list of mid-class games I would like to give a chance.
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I got on the Mirror’s Edge bandwagon way too late. Last year, I think. Maybe early this year. I can’t remember.
Mirror’s Edge.
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I’ll agree with this. Still haven’t got it and its always fascinated me.
I’ll probably also throw Dark Void in there as well.
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One game I’m happy to have bought on launch. Played it about three times now, so good flaws and all. Hope to see the polished sequel it deserves!
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Yeah I always wondered what happened to Dark Void.
I went travelling overseas when it launched so it went from ‘this game looks awesome’ before the trip to ‘this game’s a piece of shit’ when I came home.
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Enslaved: Odyssey to the West and Mafia 2. I picked ’em up, played and I loved ’em, but not on launch unfortunately. :'(
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Mafia 2 was surprisingly awesome… except for those difficulty spikes 😛
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Some thinking music!
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Mid-tier games I wish I’d given a chance, I don’t know because most of them are probably still in my pile of shame.
Stuff I wish other people had given a chance though, I could talk about that a while.
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Albion (Blue Byte Software 1995) – Finally got around to it in June I think, incredible RPG….
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NeverDead
Shadows of the Damned
Baten Kaitos
De Blob series-
I never owned a wii so I didn’t play the first de blob game, but I played and finished the second one on PS3 and it was surprisingly good. My main quibble with the game was the timer in the levels during second/third playthroughs of a level. I wanted to just roll around painting stuff but it always felt like the game was pushing me forward.
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It took me a moment to understand your picture /o\
Well I have to go with the perennial favourite in the category and say Psychonauts. Still one of (in not my absolute) favourite games but didn’t get anywhere near the acclaim it deserved when it launched.
I would also have to say the grotesque tactics series. I really enjoyed both of the games but they didn’t rate well in any of the reviews.
Also beyond good and evil is a great game that was overlooked my many.Now I suppose you want me to actually answer your question about what I think I should have given a chance. I’ve recently been meaning to get E.Y.E cybermancy which looked interesting to me but got scared away by review scores. I also picked up Jurassic park recent (but haven’t played) after passing over it a few time due to reviews.
So many of them are languishing in my steam account, when I picked them up for a few dollars but never got around to them, things like legendary.-
I actually bought and played both Psychonauts and BG&E this year.
They have aged a little bit but you can see why people loved them so much, and I am glad I got the chance to play them 🙂-
I love ’em both. Bought Psychonauts on launch, didn’t play BG&E until years later. (Somehow I didn’t even know it existed until after release!)
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I actually bought them both during the steam sales just so I could give them away.
I still have a copy of beyond good and evil so if anybody wants to play that classic I am happy to throw it your way
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King Kong, the offical game of the movie version. Alas, it was instinctively thrown in the pile of crappy movie games, but then I watched my friend shoot a T-Rex..
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Also, a crap-ton of wii games. Oddly enough, I think out of the generation the wii had the most “decent” game titles.
Sky Crawlers, for one. Star Wars, the Force Unleashed (Unleash your inner geek with the wii remote, although it serves to do nothing in-game!) Fragile Dreams, although I’ve already mentioned that on the next page.
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The king Kong game is a but short but really good. The Kong levels have a very prince of persia platforming feel to them and the use of fire and spears in the FPS sections is cool. Also I like a particular puzzle in the game where you can shoot down a flying dinosaur to keep a T-rex away from you.
Freeze you should play Dark Void. The on foot segments are really bland but once you get your jetpack the game becomes a lot of fun. I’d love it if the game got a sequel to iron out its many issues.
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Company of Heroes stuff:
I’ve got them installed but haven’t played them yet so I’m keen for a game sometime!
Dempa men:
WHAT
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Ugh I don’t want no Pageget, especially when PLicks has a more interesting discussion!
Repost for him:
Puppylicks:
So, earlier I mentioned Jericho and Brutal Legend and Dark Athena,
these are games that didn’t smash the review scores and some would consider ‘middle class’ games.
These are middle-class games that I regret not picking up and would like to give another chance.Thinking about this, what middle-class games that never got much attention do you look back on and wished you had given a proper chance?
To get things started, I would also like to add Earth Defence Force to my list of mid-class games I would like to give a chance.
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Fragile Dreams for the Wii. Had a chance to pick it up and didn’t, but after looking at few walkthroughs on youtube, I’d happily get past any gameplay gripes I had with it before.
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This is me with basically half my Wii games. Xenoblade, Last Story, Fragile Dreams, Arc Rise Fantasia, Pandora’s Tower, Sin & Punishment, A Boy & His Blob… they’re all in my shelf unplayed.
I actually think the only game I finished on the Wii was Muramasa. Oh, and Twilight Princess but that doesn’t count because it was the Gamecube version.
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yeah, stay away from Arc Rise Fantasia. Broken and horrible voice acting. I would be fine with just one of those, but..
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Saturday is a cool guy and highly recommends you play Xenoblade…
right?
Also A Boy & His Blob is awesome!
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Out of that list? Start with Xenoblade and end with Xenoblade. Fragile Dreams is optional, Sin and Punishment another option.
Havne’t played AB&HB so yeah.
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Pretty sure there’s an undub but yeah, I had ARF on order for ages because it was a JRPG and at the time there was like 3 JRPGs for all the systems of that generation, and the two Mistwalker offerings bored me shitless (controversial opinion). Checked and yep, Muramasa was the only Wii game I finished. Only other one I came close was Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World but I gave up on that primarily because the way they handled the returning cast irritated the shit out of me (previously insanely powerful characters were fixed level and would be outranked within a few minutes by the monsters you were training)
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Agreed with Tales. Still nice to have it, though.
.. OH MAH GERD THERE WAS A UNDUB? I SERIOUSLY PUT UP WITH SO MUCH BAD DIALOGUE
But it’s still broken as hell (or at least has insane difficulty spikes.)
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How kind of you good sir 🙂
I just finished installing CoH the other day and need to give it a go – maybe we should get together this weekend… and… you know.. Show each other our panzershrenks
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Mayhaps we should!
Albion (Blue Byte Software 1995) – Finally got around to it in June I think, incredible RPG….
A few RTS Games (the genre never really got me hooked?)
^ Arrgh that was meant to be a reply on previous page!
Repost from another page in case anyone missed it…
Ok so im wanting to run a stress test on my connection and servers tonight from 9:30pm – whenever.
In TAYNAMES, you will see im running 2 x Minecraft Servers (one survival/one creative, offline mode, no whitelist) as well as 1 x Halo CE server (Patched).
Im hoping to seriously overload my servers so i can do some number crunching. I’d especially like to stress up the HaloCE server.
So whoever is in, let me know, and email me or skype me (my tag) with any Q’s! email @ the hots.com!
couple more things…
Halo CE is available FREE on the internet, you will however need the Halo serial to install it.
also i know HCE is ancient but it remains a LAN favourite 🙂 …that and Halo2 PC is a very bad port with screen tearing galore…. totally unplayable.
in case anyone is curious, the servers are running on 1RU Dual Xeon 3.2ghz servers with 8GB Registered ECC RAM and Dual 120gb SCSI 15,000RPM HDD’s
Thanks ALL!
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Woooo! Halo CE!
Halo CE Pocket Edition doesn’t require a serial.
You ever played the map Yoyorast Island? Love that map. Never played it with more than 2 people though 😛
Sadly, I won’t be able to join in on the Haloing tonight though. 🙁
Guys. Guys Im tired and bored.
Therefore ask me any question about anything and I will answer it.
anything.
EDIT: Closed when next page rolls in.
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See above.
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What are your thoughts on euthanasia, abortion, holy wars, and how would you make the world a place where no one feels pain or dies before their time? You have 5 minutes… GO
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EUTHANASIA: Must be given thought. I think it’s a valid option for people but I’d personally like to be educated in every way possible about my particular position and not consider it immediately if I were in a situation like that.
ABORTION: See above; also, I’m curious if there’s a specific mention of this saying “DON’T KILL YOUR UNBORN CHILD” in the bible, as I’m not very educated in both the new, old, and new coke testament.
Holy Wars: It’s war, but with a aftertaste that’s- what? it’s exactly the same as regular war? ok.
Changing the world: I’m horribly cynic in that if I had the power to make a world without pain or deaths before one’s time.. I wouldn’t change a thing.
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DAMNIT 6 minutes.
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Kill everyone. Solves all those problems*
* I am not actually advocating this as the best solution.
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The Navier-Stokes equations are the basic equations describing fluid flow. Do these equations have solutions that last for all time, given arbitrary sufficiently nice initial data? Or do singularities develop in the fluid flow, which prevent the solution from continuing?
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2D or 3D?
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3D please.
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Consider the flow along the lines of a Hopf fibration. Let r be a constant radius to the inner coil. One set of solutions is
p(x,y,z) = 3B over r squared plus x squared plus y squared plus z (zed or z, whichever you want to pronounce it) squared.
p(x,y,z) = shut up freeze.
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Should toilet paper be placed in such a way as the leading edge pulls down against the wall or away from it?
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Against, because I feel to avoid any incidents, there should be a sliver of extra effort needed in reaching out further to get your toiler paper.
what the hell do I mean by incidents, I have no clue.
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Wies bars! Mango Wies bars!
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Not even a question.
Although I have found a source of them. Also I’m getting the desert ones and the three-flavoured fruity one which I cannot remember.
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MANGO!
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Yes I’m getting them. Not today.
Not today.
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Fair enough, I guess. 😛
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First snacktaku’ll be dedicated to you, bud.
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😀 I’ll take solace in that.
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If it takes 2 men a day to dig a hole, how long does it take 1 man to dig half a hole?
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Half a day.
If the train is moving at 42km/h and the damsel is tied to the tracks 16 km away. How long will the evil monologue last for before the hero rescues her at the last second?
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Depends on form of media, but often the villain will stop within a second or two to see the damsel get killed before she is saved and the villain segues unto “CURSE YOU GADGET.”
Well do you love me?
Well do you love me?
Ah do you love me?
Nooow that IIII can daaaaaaaaaaaance?
(Watch me now!)
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Oh, work it all baby
Late reply is late, but:
Pants?
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None.
All questions asked will be answered until I close the thread down.
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Then I’m going to have some fun.
Since we were discussing them earlier, favourite James Bond film, and what is your favourite James Bond scene?
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Hooo boy.
Alright, I’m a young guy, so that means I’ve seen them all but my memory’s hazy. I’m fond of License to Kill because I felt that Dalton’s bond was quite frankly the most badass (and a re-watch proves my point, although I can see why people don’t like him) but I gotta say it’s my guilty pleasure to love You Only Live Twice. Love the theme, the villains, and say what VOLCANO BASE.
Scene? the entire end duel from The Man With The Golden Gun, just because even to my kid self I was amused at how outlandish and crazy it was to lead a secret agent through a funhouse for a duel. And I never saw the end twist, too, so props for that.
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I didn’t get into watching bond films until Tomorrow Never Dies(which, admittedly, I was like 6 when it was released, and I first saw it on DVD later), so I’ve only seen some bits of the old Bonds, but since I asked the question I thought I may as well also answer. My favourite scene goes to the ski chase from The Spy Who Loved Me, though it helps that in my younger, fitter, days I parodied it. Also the stunt at the end is magnificent.
My favourite film would have to go to On Her Majesty’s Secret Service.
Hahahaha, Oh god, I almost typed that with a straight face. Favourite would be Tomorrow Never Dies. I have no explanation for that, since I can say that it’s objectively not that great, but I still love it.
Question number 43: Do you have a hilarious accent that I’ll be able to laugh at?
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Hah, I gotta head to teamspeak with a working mic. 😛 Nah, I’m from the part of Canada so close to america that we sound american. West coast american. So I dunno if that gives you a kick.
.. I liked the theme of OHMSS. that’s really it, I remember jack else.
EDIT: Oh man if we’re talking about chase scenes the boat chase in The World Is Not Enough takes top place in my list. I lost it when he just decides to start driving the boat ON LAND. How does he steer? is it just the rocket propelling him? who cares?
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Hahaha, that scene was amazing.
And in all honesty, I can have a good chuckle at almost any accent that isn’t just Australian. Because Australian accents include “Bogan” which is the worst possible accent in the history of ever.
Aaaaannnndddd, I can’t think of any questions…
Edit, wait, I’ve got a question: Which of these are you yet to try?
Iced Vovo, Tim Tam, Jaffas, Cherry Ripe, Violet Crumble, ANZAC biscuits.I ask for reasons.
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All. I’m afraid with money slightly tight and job not yet on the horizion I have to choose wisely. I know what all of those are, at least.
Wait, not Iced Vovo. Google tells me I should add these on my list on things to eat.
First food purchase will probably be Weis bars.
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Well, it’s nearly time for me to giraffe on out of here. Have a great weekend folks, if I don’t see you. Congrats to this week’s Kudosian. I’m sure you’re an awesome person who deserves the accolades. Fare well you mad fools.
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Lazy public servants, have a great weekend Shane
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LAZY. I’ll have you know that I worked a solid 90 minutes today… and then spent the rest of the day faffing around online waiting for quitting time.
In semi-serious, I started at 7:20 this morning.-
And the two statements are not mutually exclusive 😉
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Take it easy, buddy. Hope the weekend treats you well!
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Movieworld have a Walking Dead Maze for their Fright Nights this year.
What? You want more info? Hell no. I’m Plunketting all over this shizzit. 😛
(Also I have never watched it but people do)
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I saw the ad before Looper today. Thought it was suspiciously close to your meat. I went to a Halloween one a couple of years back. Was pretty fun for riding the rides at night alone! (Queues were horrible, though!)
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You mean your first meat.
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Don’t make me tell Strange. She will get cross and then EVERYONE will feel guilty and it will be ALL YOUR FAULT.
Plus, you know, roller coasters.
Batman.
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Behind you! A three-headed monkey! *runs*
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*stands steadfast with arms crossed as D.C. tries to make a run for it and barrels into her*
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Aww I was about ready to blast his leg to stop him from running… 🙂
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Whose footprints are these?
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Now look what you have done.
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You alright? I didn’t hurt you, I hope! *runs again*
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Right, I’ve watched Mr. Strange play Red Dead Redemption, I can do this, surely?
*prepares to lasso and hogtie D.C.*
*entangles self instead*
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It was a noble effort!
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I spend too much time on minecraft.
When I saw the pic for this article the first thing I thought was creeper.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/10/confessions-of-a-teenage-xbox-hacker/
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That is a creeper. What are you talking about?
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It’s a very nice xbox you have there… it’d be a shame if something were to happen to it…
Yeah got to level 50 in Borderlands 2. Now i get to use my Super-Mega-Ultra-Rare gold keys.
Super-Mega-Ultra-Rare Gold Key 1 – Useless Pistols, like pistols that would have been good 15 levels back.
Super-Mega-Ultra-Rare Gold Key 2 – Useless Relics! 1 gave me like 6% Cooldown (I have 12% and have found multiply 10% ones) & the other was like 10% Corrosive Protection … really game?
Super-Mega-Ultra-Rare Gold Key 3 – More useless Pistols … =/ ok that is just stupid
Super-Mega-Ultra-Rare Gold Key 4 – Good class mods … BUT FOR SNIPER SPEC AND I AM MELEE SPEC. WHY YOU HAT ME GEARBOX? WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!
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Haha. I opened it once at Level 25 and got 3 craptacular pistols that were not even close to the gear I currently had. Now I don’t want to use the last 2 keys.
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NEVER SPEND THEM!
Just hold onto them forever and see how many you can collect! =P
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IS FRIDAY IM OUT!
*drops mic*
Peace out TAY, have a good weekend 😀
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You too, man. You too!
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You too. Have fun.
I had a weird dream last night (nothing new :P). Me and my twin sister got stranded on a deserted island.
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Do you actually have a twin sister?
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No. That was the weird part 😛
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You’re gonna make a therapist very happy some day. 😀
(Also, never change. :P)
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Ok, I’ll be serious here.
Was she attractive?
Cause that one question makes or breaks how a therapist is gonna treat you.
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She looked exactly like I do in the dreams where I’m a girl. Which is to say, yes. Why wouldn’t I want to look attractive? 😛
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ok, when I mean attractive, I mean would you sleep with her?
*assumes serious pose*
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No. Does that mean I’m sane then, doc?
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No, it means you hate yourself and have no self-confidence in your looks.
YOU LOSE EITHER WAY.
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I think there are quite a few TAYbies expecting me to ‘come out of the closet’ sometime soon… -
whoa, out of left field. Not serious, I hope.
It would make this conversation slightly funny, but only slightly.
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Alright, time to flip the tables with analysis!
“Not serious, I hope.” Interesting. This appears to suggest that the subject may be female and that she may have developed an attraction toward me, hence her hoping I’m not serious about potentially being gay…or it could mean something completely different, but whatever it is, it couldn’t be as interesting as the theory I’ve come up with.Also, I think I should let you know that I rarely have serious conversations. 😛
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Analysis? Fine then.
Subject is obviously a serial killer and deranged due to having weird illusions of people’s genders.
Also, possible fear of bats. Why? Because subject used a smiley face.
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Ohhh, we’re going to try out analysing each other, eh?
Well, the subject has brought in serial killers and bats into a conversation that hasn’t previously mentioned serial killers and bats. Obviously, this means that the subject was raised by orang-utans and has experienced a traumatic experience at the hands of mashed potato multiple times at a young age when he/she/it was young. Also, the subject may have an aversion to peanut butter due to perceived mutual aversion to smileys. -
I’m curious as to why you’d be in the closet in the first place. Is that where your family keeps the computer??
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Nope.
Fun story. When my family used to live in a caravan, we had our tv in a shipping container (also on our property). Whenever we wanted to watch tv we’d open up the container, run a long power cord from the generator to the TV and sit just outside and watch it. Needless to say, evening/late night tv watching wasn’t something we did ever back then 😛
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Note: Burn all files related to subject. Call local authorities and highest law agency available.
Also, subject obviously has a irrational fear of words spoken by mashed potatoes the colour of monkeys.
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Mashed monkeys and coloured potatoes! 😀
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lambogirl007 is his twin sister clearly.
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Of course! Now it’s obvious!
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I don’t know who this lambogirl007 person is…
You and your dreams, Lambo. Freud would love you.
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No, I’d probably freak him out 😛
That’s close to my idea of hell.
With my sister that is. I’m sure your sister is a lovely person.
I had a weird dream the other night where I built myself a space ship. Flew to mars and back only to get into trouble from my mum because the only souvenir I got her was dirt. She at least got me a shirt when she went to Europe.
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I’m sure the Smithsonian would’ve loved the dirt gift. 😛
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The last memorable dream I recall having that included my sister involved hearing an odd sound and then looking out the window and it’s twilight outside and my sister is sitting on a ride-on mower with the headlights on, driving in a slow circle around our back yard while singing Ievan Polkka.
I’m going to say something really controversial and I hope I don’t offend anyone with this:
I think that Community Kudos needs to either change or go away entirely.
I have no problems with it as a concept, calling out people who did cool things for everyone else is great. The problem I have with it is that there is a ‘winner’ of Kudos every week. To me this cheapens the concept. Especially because if you make a list of people who have ‘won’, you’ll find it’s the same people again and again. Which is absolutely not a slight against those people (you are awesome) but it ends up making me feel completely indifferent to the whole thing.
I have no problems with now and then recognizing when someone has gone well above & beyond the call for something, but I think everyone who contributes something toward our community should be recognized equally. Helping other community members out shouldn’t be something competitive or that should have incentives attached.
Finally, I’m worried that with the same people getting nominated and winning over and over again we are becoming too inwardly-focused and insular. From my fairly extensive experience with small groups online, that can be a dark path that ultimately causes a community like this to splinter or fade away, and no one wants that.
So can we please stop having ‘winner’s for Kudos? Let’s just keep it a spot for calling out people who are awesome.
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Note: this is not directed at anyone in particular and I have had it on my mind for quite a while so this isn’t something that was triggered by a particular event or person or anything.
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I remember back when I was new to Kotaku, hadn’t ever been on TAY and had no idea how Community Kudos worked, I’d see the same people winning week after week and it made the whole site feel a little exclusive. Like the editors were playing favourites with certain people.
Thankfully I stuck around and got to know the community, but it’s always in the back of my mind whether there are other non regulars/TAYbies out there who see the Community Kudos each week and have similar feelings to what I had when I first started coming to this site.
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You might have a point. I don’t think any one does nice things just to win a nom, though.
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Which is another reason why no one needs to ‘win’ it.
Also, not saying that it would happen but it could, imagine if you were someone that got nominated regularly all the time but someone else was always winning instead. Potentially could sour the good deeds and drive people away. Not saying that it has or ever would happen but it’s plausible and it would be a shame.
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True enough! I agree, I did feel a little like an outsider when I looked at TAY and the Kudos before I became a regular, but now I just see it as a means of expressing appreciation. Doesn’t matter who wins. That warm fuzzy feeling ain’t going any where even if no one does. Probably helped with the community building back in the day, but now it’s collectively just about feeling the love. (Giraffe style? :S)
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Nothing really different between those who win and those who don’t, except for the fact that the winners may get a prize in 20 or so years? 😛
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Somebody call for the new guy?
The TAY community in US Kotaku.. Well, it’s not that big, or it wasn’t compared to back then because of the site changes. So popping over here and seeing you guys having this community kudos thing, well, it’s a refreshing change of pace. However, I also notice that it tends to be the same people, but I see it as the community of TAY being so small and family-like that it’s just everybody patting each other on the back.
That being said, I don’t think any of the ‘winners’ has referred themselves as so. If they’re nominated, it’s basically “I love you guys too.”
*shrugs*
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It’s not as if it’s a massive problem or anything, I just could see it becoming one, or becoming irrelevant.
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Yeah, but that’s assuming one of the TAY crowd goes rogue or there’s a large enough crowd that people feel left out, but I think the community is humble enough right now to deal with either of those.
Valid points, though. In the future, who knows.
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Comment of the week would work better. I see some ransoms I’ve never seen before write some really great and thoughtful stuff before. I thought it was a great idea when it was being done. Not sure why it changed (can’t remember) but it seemed to be more site specific and more inclusive of everyone (as of outside TAY)
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Ransoms? What sort of monster are you?!
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Ransoms can’t write. They are instead written. I think you are confused, and therefore can be ignored completely.
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I think the winning part is just a way for Mark to give out all the games, t-shirts and general game merchandise that is in the Kotaku offices.
Maybe if we had more competitions or just a weekly raffles.
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A few people said relevant things but instead of replying to all of them I’ll just put a general reply here.
I agree with all of you to an extent. I know before I was a TAY regular and when Kotaku Community Service Award/Community Kudos first came out, I’d read them but they really made me feel like an outsider. It just seemed like the Kotaku Community were already really tight and it’ll be hard to join. I actually stopped reading them for a while but I couldn’t have been more wrong. We’re a lovely community that’s very welcoming but convincing an ‘outsider’ to make that first step can be pretty hard.
Community Kudos is one of my favourite posts of the week. To me a ‘winner’ isn’t really that relevant but it’s all the noms and who did what for each other that makes it awesome for me. I guess we don’t really need a ‘winner’ to be announced every week and I guess there’s a few who keep consistently winning but they’re deserving of it because they’re awesome and keep popping up on a weekly basis. Nothing wrong with rewarding them for that. I also think it’s just a way for Mark to get rid of all the gamer swag he has laying around 😛
It’s probably to do with TAY being our main form of communication at Kotaku. TAYbies are pretty much the ones nomming and getting nommed and because of it, others might not feel so welcome. There’s been a few noms and winners from non-TAYbies and I know when I first won (still not sure how) I starting becoming a TAY regular (Ynefel also comes to mind). Problem is other people might just skip over it thinking it’s a TAY club. I was actually so close to just skipping over Community Kudos like every other week when I decided to just give it a quick look only to have my mind blown finding out I won. Hell I even felt bad because I thought I was ‘taking’ it from someone else (probably was :P).
Err wasn’t sure where I was going with this (I was bored) but I think it’s fine how it is. Sure you could say having a ‘winner’ cheapens it but Mark seems to be doing a decent job of spreading it around and people really shouldn’t look into it that much. Prizes take years to arrive anyway and it’s always in the last line where he announces a winner. It’s easy enough to just skip over it and consider each nom for each person, equally as awesome 😀
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I have a few things to say here, I hope I’m not too late for you to see them, Mr. Negative Zero.
I both agree and do not agree. I think having a “winner” is good, it’s good for community spirit and gives people something to aspire to as well as probably lets Mark get rid of a bunch of stuff cluttering up his workspace, but I do agree it may need to be changed, but I’m not entirely sure how it should be gone about.
I always try and nominate from outside TAY wherever possible but the fact is, I go through stages where I’m barely having time to keep up with TAY let alone reading comments on other articles. And also nominating them doesn’t mean they’ll be picked as a winner. But when I do see someone outside TAY being particularly awesome I’ll make a note of it so I can add them in my nom email because I’ve noticed the more I nominate from outside of TAY, the more chance these people will join in more often.
I have noticed that the same people keep getting picked though and I think part of that is that Mark is not moderating all comments anymore so he doesn’t see all that goes on, so he chooses based on what we tell him and based on what he’s been aware of. He can only really choose from the people we pick out for him.So basically, if you want it to change maybe start mentioning more non-TAYers in your noms, or point out a particularly good comment in your nom email to Mark and then he can act accordingly. If anti-kudos can become a thing, then surely comment-of-the-week can too? You just have to change the way you go about nominating if you would like things to change. Mark can only go on the information we give him. 🙂
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Anti kudos isn’t a thing until Mark chooses both a winner and a loser each week 😛
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My terrible secret is that I never nominate (the few times I have, you’ll notice I have never called out anyone specific) and only really skim the kudos pages because I feel utterly uninterested and honestly fairly uninvested in it. I’m fairly sure that the bulk of non-TAY readers ignore the Kudos thing entirely anyway. So to me it doesn’t matter where the nominations come from, I have issues with the implication that some people’s contributions to the community – and by extension, some people – may be considered more important or special than others. Sometimes they actually are in completely unarguable ways, and that deserves special mention, but that person shouldn’t ‘win’ Kudos, just get special mention.
If the winner thing is just a convenient way for Mark to offload some promotional junk then I think that a separate comment of the week system or something would be a more inclusive way to do that.
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I AM DEEPLY OFFENDED. I AM LEAVING KOTAKU FOREVER.
No, actually, I have no strong opinions about Kudos. I think it’s currently at risk of becoming too frivolous (some noms are weird, unclear or just backslapping a friend for no reason), which in turn makes it insular and cliquey. Whether that’s a good thing or not remains to be seen (though apparently it’s still luring folks into TAY, so I could be completely wrong with this).
I don’t mind the ‘no-winner’ policy. Does Mark even send out stuff anymore? 😛 I wouldn’t mind if it just became a list of nice things people have done for each other… but this might create a dynamic shift that discourages people from nomming each other.
I don’t know – like I said, no strong opinions. I read the Kudos post every week, and don’t begrudge the winners a thing, but I don’t feel it like I used to. Maybe there’s something wrong in the formula, or maybe it’s me getting old and jaded.
Edit: maybe we could encourage a Kudos culture that nominates less frequently for bigger things. Or keep the regular Kudos formula, but only have winners when there’s something special happening, like TAYbies giving each other kidneys. I don’t know. I’m very tired. I’m going to stop typing n
Yes or no, do you like to dress up as an orangutan and dance in the rain?
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I like being able to edit spelling and grammar mistakes, but as this week has proven — pretty damn easy to delete posts without giving them a chance too. I say good idea, one that needs a little restraint though.
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Yes
Edit: Wait, no
Edit: Wait, yes
Edit: Wait, maybe. I don’t know.
Edit: Incase you’re wondering, yes, I actually did edit my post for each of those edits.
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No-Yes.
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Why would you ask if we’ve ever fantasized mascots in clown cars?
The heck?
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In all In all seriousness though, I do love the ability to go back and fix mistakes.
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Yes. Who wouldn’t?
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I was expecting this.
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Well, at least I’m something.
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Friday night things:
1. Man am I hyped for Sim City 5. I’ve watched that gameplay video 3 times today… I just love the aesthetic and the interface. Very awesome!
2. I’ve completely ditched Microsoft Word as my word processor and just use Google Docs now. The Mac version of Word is just awful (though to be fair it’s the ’08 version) and it doesn’t seem worth it to pay to upgrade. It’s pretty cool to have an auto-saving document that backs itself up, even if the Download As PDF is a little wonky.
3. Denpa (EDIT: Haha, that yellow Denpa Man makes me laugh every time)
4. I have to go to a group meeting at the Uni at 8:00am tomorrow because it was the only time we could find to meet… *exaggerated groan*
5. The regular 3DS looks like a little babby toy now that I’m used to the XL.
6. I’m going to a birthday party tonight. Ahh, social activities!
7, 8, 9 & 10. Can’t think of anything else.
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I’m kind of looking forward to it (edit: Sim City)but there are few things that put me off. I’ve heard it has always online DRM, the concept of which I find abhorrent. Also, It’s EA which means I’m fully expecting the paid DLC policy to be atrocious.
Gameplay looks like a step forward for one of my old favourites though so I may give it a go. I’ll probably wait until it’s been out for a while though to make sure there aren’t any nasty surprises.
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The always online is also because it’s like a SimCity MMO. Would be good if they added a single player mode though.
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yeah, the multiplayer part looks cool and I would probably spend most of my time online anyway. It doesn’t seem like justification for not having an offline mode though, just and excuse.
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TAY COUNTRY! We should try and make this happen 😛
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I would be very interested in this, if that’s how the multiplayer works. Especially if you get to see everyones progress.
/divert all garbage trucks to Lambotown
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I’m considering making a city that’s nothing but dirt cheap housing and power plants. I can sell you all power and watch as my citizens die of breathing disorders.
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Haha, I can only imagine if we all loaded up a game of civilization.
I’m totally down for a united kingdom of TAY when the time comes, though.
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I’ll make sure my radioactive waste pollutes all the rivers flowing near your cities 😛
Oh man, this could be pretty fun especially if we can set up a region for just plain trolling xD
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Yeah I’m actually really worried about that. I won’t be buying it day 1 because of it.
I heard that they recently downgraded the DRM to an online-check when you launch the game (then I assume you can disconnect freely) instead of always-online, but still. After the horror stories of some other PC games lately I’ll wait for the bugs to be ironed out first.
I just really, really hope they don’t go overboard with DLC or DRM or whatever. I want to love this game, EA!
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That’s reassuring. I’m much more likely to buy it now. Provided there is enough content to be considered a game rather then just enough to prove the engine works I’m OK with ignoring any overpriced DLC. I’m just worried it’ll end up like the sims where the game comes with almost nothing and then you have to pay $5 per shirt or something.
I’d hate to have to buy each house for my little people to live in.
That Word 2013 is pretty cool (on windows).
I like how the text cursor moves smoothly instead of jumping like it does with pretty much every text entry thing ever. Also, if you accidentally leave capslock on and you type a word that looks like tHIS, it autocorrects the word to This and automatically turns capslock off. MAGIC.
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Sounds cool! Honestly I probably would update to the latest if I had the money. It’s hard to justify it though because there are free options available. (Plus, the more recent versions only include 1 registration code while the ’08 one had 3 for no extra price :P)
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I use word just because it’s what I’ve always used but I have to admit the price is pretty ridiculously unless you can get it at the student/teacher price. My mum’s about to retire from teaching so I might have to do my last upgrade for a while soon.
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I had a collection of Denpa music ages ago. I think the definition of the term has changed over time. It used to refer to a style of particularly saccarine Japanese pop music designed to give you diabetes through your ears. Mercifully it fell out of popularity before they could weaponize it.
Used to listen to it a lot. Not sure why any more. I kind of like some of it still I guess, some is catchy.
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Oh really? I had no idea Denpa was a thing! I just assumed it was made up word for the game 😛 The more you know, huh?
Too many pages to read.
Quickly, what have I missed?!
Or take your time. I have nothing on tonight.
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And by on I mean planned.
I was like ARGH MOMENT OF PANIC when I hit submit.
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Nothing planned for tonight?
Catch up on TAY :D!
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Too much reading. All I’ve done this week is read.
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Uhhh, I was declared “greatest man in the universe,” and it’s now a law that all women have to love me.
Yeah, dunno how that happened, but hey, I don’t make up the rules.-
That seems like a weird law. You’d think I’d hear about something like that on the news or something but okay.
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Apparently they wanted me to inform people myself, so that I didn’t get inundated by professations of love wherever I went. Again, I don’t make the rules.
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But you said you’d rather stab your eyes out than have me love you 🙁
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Aaaaaaaand that didn’t work at all. Seems it gave me the wrong link.
Dang it.
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Weird. It’s telling me that’s the correct link. Huh. Maybe my phone is being screwy.
Still, of all the random images it could have given, that’s a good one.
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GUYS I PASSED OUT FOR THE FIRST TIME TODAY!
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That’s… Hmmm. That seems a little worrying. What exactly did you do?
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had a blood test because i’ve been sick for about 2 weeks, i got the test, the lady tells me to hold down a cotton bud, next thing i know i’m waking up to her telling me i passed out, i found it hilarious, other members of family did not.
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Haha, you should’ve woken up and said a one-liner.
“Am I.. IN THE WORLD OF TOMMOROW?”
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Bahahahaha, well, since you’re okay, I will enjoy this laugh, instead of feeling guilty about it.
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Holy damn, man. That’d be awkward. 😀 Glad you’re okay, though. Hope you’re feeling better too.
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Oh, noes! Hope it doesn’t happen again.
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D:
Almost finished at work. Had to phone so many giraffes tonight.
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Are giraffes good conversationalists?
I bet they loved it when wireless phones came out. I’d imagine they’d get some severe neck cramps if limited to those comparatively small telephone cords.
Not too shabby! I can’t say I’ve played most of the games there but Strange(r)’s Wrath HD on PC for $5 sounds good enough for me! I’ve bought from them before and they like to add lots of bonuses 🙂
I already have it on PS3 so probably won’t be buying this bundle unless there’s anything else worthwhile in there.
Just a late reply to NegZ’s thoughts on Kudos from earlier.
I’m not sure it makes much difference having a winner or not. The winner announcement is just one sentence at the end of the Kudos post. Mark lists all noms, comments on many of them.
It’s the noms I pay attention to rather than the winner.
I would like to see more noms for non-TAY reasons. I rearely send in noms, but I have made a point of nomming comments from regular articles. I know Strange and some others do too.
I seem to recall someone becoming a TAYbie directly after one of these noms too.
There’s no reason we can’t make an effort to nom for great comments. Afterall, great commenters make a great community. But Kudos should stay, winner or no.
Edited to add – It was reading a particularly nomtastic Kudos post that first piqued my interest to look into TAY. I quickly decided that this was the online community to replace the self-imploding forum I used to frequent daily.
Alright everyone, I have a weird confession to make.
I have 21 unread emails in my inbox. I have had 21 undead emails in my inbox for something like 9 months. That is to say, more specifically, that whenever I clear my new emails, there are 21 forcefed emails.
I’m not sure why. I think it’s just because it makes me feel popular, knowing that I’ll check my emails to find streetcred emails there.
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Must be nice, only e-mails I get these days are Twitter notifications. Before that… never. 😀
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All my twitter, facebook, and whatever other things I have that spam me with notifications go to my old email address, which has like 4000 unread emails…
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Eeeep!
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I have a similar situation. When I get my Gmail inbox down to 95, I know I’m caught up on emails! 😛
My Hotmail account is at about 900 unread… accumulated over about ten years. :S
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I think I only have 596 on my main hotmail account now but up until a few months ago I had 6000+. I had my gmail linked to my hotmail so any emails I received to my gmail one would forward to my hotmail one. BUT THEN I decided to just stick with gmail from now on and linked my hotmail to my gmail. WHICH TRANSFERRED EVERYTHING – even the forwarded gmail ones. Shit went bonkers but I managed to fix it but it considered all my unread emails as read :'(
Thing is I don’t have email notifications for things like Twitter/Facebook/MySpace (lol). I just get emails from places and read the title but if it’s not relevant I’ll just ignore it.
I think as an archaeology student it is my job, nay MY DESTINY, MY RAISON D’ETRE to play loosely based history/archaeology games.
Raid all the tombs.
Total all the wars etc;
It’ll be like how now when I watch Indiana Jones (the good ones) I want to cry. NO, INDY. STAHP. INDY. THAT’S NOT PROPER PROCEDURE. INDYYYYYYY.
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Hey, the sooner he gets to the artifacts, the sooner they can be put into a museum!
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Oh man, when your units in Rome: Total War do like, backflips over chariots, you know you’re dealing with a super realistic game!
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If thats the case, I’m pretty sure I have a free copy of Empire: Total War in my Steam inventory from Xmas last year. You want?
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You mean it doesn’t belong in a museum?
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Note to self: never study archaeology. It will ruin some good movies for you.
New, early Potaku. Good for the isomniacs! http://potaku.podbean.com/2012/10/05/episode-16-music/
RED DWARF X LANDED TODAY.
It was better than expected… but not much was expected.
Will keep watching. 3/5
And I am so bored and unmotivated to work that I’m retweeting tweets I made a year ago to see if anyone notices.
No one wants to play. Okay, I’ll look after myself.
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I’m really listless at the moment. Can’t concentrate, and feeling vague and useless. I got smashed in the head with a lamp this morning by my two-year-old.
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A little trick I like to call lambo-style.
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Anyway, I haven’t really been able to concentrate well on my writing today. Instead I put up some half-assed blog on why it’s awesome to be indie.
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http://shanewsmith.com/blog/2012/10/the-life-of-the-indie-creator/ is the link if you’re interested.
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I can’t decide whether I regret writing it. It’s not what I envisioned.
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But then, this vague and listless thing… who knows, maybe my judgement is off. Maybe it’s always been off. Maybe not. There is no spoon.
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Reality is an illusion. Illusion is the new reality. Words shift and blur the boundaries between diametrically opposed concepts. And then they whirl and blur together into a new kind of nonsense. Reminds me of something I wrote once.
Here, let me dig it out.
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While one is in complete and total accord with the honourable speaker that something must be done in the pre-eminent interests of hampering the growth and, if feasible, immobilise the alleged corruption that is, at this very moment, supposedly, one might add, subtly and pervasively infiltrating certain departments of this administration, and while one is indeed inspired by the emotive evocations of the speaker to act impulsively and rashly upon this issue, one feels that the pronouncement that immediate impartial investigation is both required and essential, is, although courageous and well-meaning in theory, is impractical and inadvisable in reality, not to mention premature and ill-considered, and one feels a strong compulsion to argue that although the merit of the proposal is admirable, there are several significant drawbacks which seem to not have been taken into account when considering the alternative pros and cons of such a plan, looking at it by and large, taking one time with another, and looking pensively and solicitously at the bigger picture here, but having said this, and not wanting in the least to appear loquacious, or to prevaricate or stall for time, for one is not generally given to procrastinate or digress from the principal point, around which the current dialogue is currently centred, in favour of superfluous and indeed tangential, possibly even ancillary concerns, or in other words, that is to say, one has no strong predilection for long-winded expression of political and ethical judgement or opinion, so one shall speak as concisely and succinctly as possible, in that one feels that one should put out that nevertheless, without, of course, making any specific reference to any official (and possibly classified) documentation on the matter currently under discussion, the susceptibility of sensitive and delicate information to innocent yet unfortunately calamitous misinterpretation must be taken into consideration when analysing the possibility of proceeding with unfettered supplementary inquisition, which could, not to put too fine a point on it, conceivably bring about an inopportune series of concurrent discoveries and revelations which in turn may very well, when viewed in a certain uncharitable light, create considerable and substantial embarrassment – and possibly even concern regarding physical and occupational security – for several eminent and highly influential individuals, whose authority is not so unassailable and whose security of position is slightly more tenuous and vulnerable than one may have perhaps unwittingly led others to believe in recent symposium – in the strictest confidence, of course – regardless of whether or not the alleged corruption and extravagance of the governmental machine, which is indeed the foremost fundamental aspect of the outrageous allegations pending against this administration, but which is essentially completely irrelevant in this matter, are in fact possessive of a single iota of truth, or to put it more plainly, notwithstanding the fact that this proposal could conceivably encompass certain concomitant benefits of a marginal and peripheral relevance, there is a consideration of infinitely superior magnitude, the consequence of public revelations and relational corroborations, not to mention recriminations of a profoundly embarrassing and ultimately indefensible nature, so, one would urge in the strongest possible sense that ongoing and indeed, precipitate, exploration and enquiries regarding the matter at hand would fulfil no significant purpose other than the disruption and eventual disbandment of the orderliness within the system that has worked so satisfactorily for centuries, and is solely and entirely responsible for the elevation of certain individuals, who are indeed upstanding and respected senior members of the hierarchy, whose monikers shall remain undisclosed for the duration of this consultation, but whose distinctive and unique identities should be immediately apparent to those participating in this present interlocutor, and without beating around the bush or wishing to overstep one’s generally accepted boundaries of appropriate and apposite conduct and demeanour, one suggests as strongly as one’s present authority allows that this detail should be carefully and painstakingly weighed with the interests of, to cite a commonly utilised and exploited epithet, not callously nor unkindly, of course, the masses, towards whom one is admittedly not entirely unsympathetic, whose diplomatic entitlement to elect the leaders of their choice is theoretically inviolate, which automatically makes any upsetting revelations against the representative’s interests against the interest of the general populace as well, something that one feels should be the principal principle in this matter, and this must be carefully weighed against the hypothetical potential achievements of an autonomous unencumbered investigation of indeterminate dependability into the inner workings of a structurally sound organisation whose reputation has remained utterly and totally untainted by allegations of corruption or general incompetence, up until the most unfortunate recent disclosure of certain facts and figures, which can, as one mentioned earlier, be open to other interpretations, to an uninformed body of individuals, who when consolidated, for the sole purpose of informal collective reference, of course, constitute a community, whose limited expertise in regards to the specific issues surrounding this affair is without doubt serious cause for concern, when taking into due consideration the actuality that any hypothetical investigation into this issue is bound to involve them, in one respect or another, and that any final decision will almost without question be within their purview, and one would further suggest that any publicity on this matter is sure not to show favour to this administration, due to whatever conflict of interest and private agendas under which the author of said publicity will likely be operating under, and will in all likelihood deliberately and maliciously generate a negative light on this administration right from the start, with the subsequent consequence that, as far as one can see, any outcome is sure to focus, unfairly and if not exclusively, at least predominantly, one fears, on any hypothetical so-called wrongdoings both within the framework of this officialdom and within the coordination of bureaucracy, administration and dispensation, concerning itself with anomalies within opposition as well as within the power in residence, anomalies which, while they may admittedly be susceptible to less than innocent interpretation, nevertheless contain a sufficient element of indistinctness and ambiguity, so that even though should they be presented an uncharitable manner to an unfavourably aligned individual, irregardless of the apparent reliability, or one might go so far as to say the lack of unreliability, or not, as the case may be, (including such factors as reputation, credibility and level of repute of character) of the author, the results could be unfavourable were they to find their way into the deliberations of an organisation of more than usual sensitivity, the result, which one shall briefly expand upon in due course, would be unwarranted, and not without displaying an unreasonable amount of anti-establishment bias, due to the aforementioned uncertainties of the information available, information that is totally innocent in both substance and demeanour, but which may well have ramifications, which may cause the influence of such near-sighted and biased inspection to spread like a contagion from national to regional governments (and back again, one is certain), due to the relative propinquity of both policy and procedure in these not at all dissimilar forums, which would be an unmitigated disaster in regards to the dangerous precedent set by the investigation, and from that point on, the entire policy of administration, and indeed the concomitant and contemporaneous procedures of administration themselves, would be under constant and considerable public scrutiny, which will in turn negatively affect the effectiveness and efficiency with which officials perform the various tasks and duties for which they were meticulously and conscientiously trained, instituting practices that impose severe restrictions on the appropriate flow and ebb of ideas between officials and will, in all probability, culminate in an inherently detrimental and disadvantageous situation of organisational degeneration and administrative congealing which will render effectively impossible the coherent and co-ordinated dialogue of the function of government and the very essence of governing, and one feels that one should point out at this time that these are results that one is quite sure that no one present here in this grand chamber really desires at this moment in time, consequences, dire, dire, consequences that could bring this fastidious and resourceful, and indeed, let’s not forget highly competent, efficient and professional (and by no means corrupt or extravagant), system to its allegorical knees and make us all wish that the latest cutbacks and reductions in unemployment benefits for redundant positions had, in fact, never occurred, and this is an eventuality that one feels strongly must be avoided religiously, so in furtherance of this cause, one is prepared to instigate a series of informal discussions, involving a comprehensive and candid exchange of viewpoints, out of which will hopefully arise a number of proposals which on closer examination should (if the situation warrants it) prove to indicate certain promising lines of enquiry, which, if pursued, might lead to the realisation that an alternative course of action might in fact, in certain circumstances, be susceptible to discreet alteration, in one way or another, leading to a neutrally-biased reassessment of the original areas of concern and pointing the way to encouraging prospects of significant compromise and co-operation, which, if open-mindedly implemented, with appropriate give and take on both sides, of course, could, have an acceptable possibility, at the end of the day, of leading, rightly or wrongly, to a mutually satisfactory conclusion, in which one feels confident, the eventual eventuality would disclose the verity that as far as one can see, looking at it by and large, in the final analysis it is probably true to say, that at the end of the day, in general terms, it would probably be found that, at this early stage, there probably wasn’t very much in it one way or the other to begin with.
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I DARE you to read that through. It’s one single sentence.
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I’m worried now about what people will think when they read this. Will they think I’ve gone insane, sitting here talking to myself, channeling the Blagh, or (more appropriately given the time)our new man Saturday (or is that gal Friday? I can never remember).
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Nope that’s it. Nothing else tonight. I’m done.
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Finished. Finito. Kaput.
86.
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No, you hang up first.
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Waffles.
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I’m a pancakes man myself.
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I made it to the end! Is it wrong that it amost made sense?
I sense the “Yes Minister” force is strong in this one 😀
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I feel like I should go to bed… but I don’t really want to…
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You ruined my train of thought.
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How dare you bring up Friday! She’s still in rehab, bless her.
Anyway, that was a impressive wall of text. Sure as hell not reading it, but impressive nonetheless.
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I guess it was….
de-railed.
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Maybe if we work together we can get this topic
back on track
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Good morning, world! *cut to picture of the earth with landmass features*
“Good morning, Blaghs!”
Oh god I just killed 300,000 people!
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I think that made more sense in my “just woken up” mind. I meant that the earth moved its landmass features, and in doing so caused catastrophic damage to millions of people.
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I still don’t get it.
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… I hate you, Pow.
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Hey hey heyyy
Was anyone else considering getting the Pikachu 3DS XL? If so could you find any pics on the inside of it? I’ve looked but all I’ve seen is just the top/bottom with the Pikachu design :/
Also any idea where you’re going to import it from (assuming it doesn’t come to Australia)?
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It’s plain white inside from what I can tell. I love the colour but I don’t like the Pikachu art they used (not fat enough! :P)
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D: two toned ughhh!
I don’t really like the design either and it looks like the two cameras are Pikachu’s nipples :/ but limited edition! Actually I might just wait for a Zelda/green one 😛
Thanks POW! you saved me money (no you can’t have it)
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Pika nips? That a feature not a flaw.
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Went ahead and bought the BL2 special that Cakesmith posted about the other day. Got my Steam Key, went to install it, and “Invalid Steam Key” pops up. Argh! Now I’m waiting on Steam Support to get back to me
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Oh wow I always fear that. Hopefully it gets sorted out quickly!
Morning people. I should probably get out of bed sometime soon….eh, nah. It’s too comfy in here.
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I heartily agree with this sentiment
Alright people going to EB expo tomorrow how are we gonna ID each other? I vote for writing TAY on our arms I’m big black letters.
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I trust that everyone will just be able to recognise me…
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(I’m not going to the expo, but…) Most of the Sydney people know what each other look like already. Just let whoever you plan to meet up with know what you look like is probably the easiest way.
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Average height and build. Dark hair.
Wearing a hat.
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Seeing as i’m the new guy I’ll probably sport a TAY armband or something.
Or.. I dunno, there’s gotta be a saner way to do this, but I can’t really figure it out.
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I wasn’t going but from what I read on Twitter some guys were meeting up near the Gamespot booth since Harli is working there. Also I think Doc and Shiggy are wearing Potaku shirts so you might be able to spot them that way. Plus, they are probably going to be in the Nintendo sections.
Finally, Fatshady is doing something with Trials Evolution so pop over to the Ubisoft Trials booth and say hi to him.
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Also for Cj and Saturday (I don’t think I saw your Twitter handles on TAYNAMES) if you have Twitter accounts follow some of the TAYbies who are going and send them a tweet. Your twitter handles may be different compared to your username on Potaku so just send a message like, ‘Hi I’m so and so from TAY’, something like that. Then from there I’m sure you guys should be able to organise something.
Finally, if this does or doesn’t work out just have fun and play all the games. 🙂
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Alas, I have no twitter-enabled device on me (archaic, I know,) so twitter is not an option. outside of home. Thanks, though.
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Text message!
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True, true. I’ve also caved in and gotten the twitters, now.
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Well imma still write TAY on my arm. I’ll be in a grey hat. 6 foot 2-4 khaki messenger bag with the Israeli paratrooper symbol on it
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I have troll plans that depend on people not recognising me, so I won’t be doing that 😛
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Lambo your one of the few TAY folk I’ve seen. You and your YouTube
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D’oh, I forgot about that.
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Goatee
I just realised that I’m not actually working tomorrow. Is there anything happening outside/after the expo? Or is it just for you cool kids that got tickets? 🙂
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If there’s any time to plan something, it’d be now.
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Nope, that time would be 3 mins before the expo ends 😛
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Well, I do believe that Lambo wishes to do something, so something might happen, and if it does I will attempt to communicate with you.
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And me! 😀
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How to identify yourselves:
Go to the Gamespot booth.
Do the safety dance.
Instant recognition.
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Go to Gamespot booth.
Walk the Dinosaur.
Instant recognition.-
I think you mean http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPiHmqeAe_Q 😛
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Actually, I meant William Tell Style
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Alright, I haven’t actually met you, and this is cray-cray, but my number’s zero four 32522145, so if you can’t find people and feel like meating me, call me, maybe.
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Noted
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Giving our numbers online? Such a risk! Well, and this is crazy..
My mobile’s 0423563082. You’d be a welcome change than telemarkters and wrong dials.
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You say that now but…
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Prove me wrong, then. 😛
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Morning.
Wait.
Morning =P
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It’s morning somewhere in the world…
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that’s true.
I have nothing else to say ^^;;
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TAY, Is getting the first season of Pokemon on DVD a good thing?
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Do you want to be the very best?
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Like no one ever was?
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HOW IS THIS EVEN A QUESTION?
IT IS THE BEST THING.
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So thanks to this toothache I have learned not to drink soft drink.
At the moment, I’m only drinking room temperature water.-
Whoa, bit strong for a saturday night, bud.
I should know my name is saturday
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Not sure if Saturday knows scree is a woman 😛
(squinty Fry face meme)I think you called her Sir once as well ;D. I hear most people mistake her for a guy though and I know I did when I first started posting in TAY. Sorry scree but I just assume everyone is a white male until told otherwise 😛
Also reply fail, scree? Not sure how that’s related to Pooogeymans but hopefully the toothache goes away soon and you can drink all the soft drink again! (don’t it’s bad for you :P).
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Racial profiling in reverse? 😛
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(New SHiFT keys available right now, in case you’ve missed it. https://twitter.com/GearboxSoftware)
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bud, sir, I don’t discriminate.
Unfortunately it’s the same in real life, and women don’t take too kindly to being called male.
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I assume the same thing, white male unless told otherwise.
I posted it in a seperate thing but TAY felt it needed to be added on, so I didn’t question it.
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I’d rather bland then pain =P
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Remember TAY pals daylight saving changes tonight so dont let that ruin your morning if your trying to make the expo early. Or anything else you may be up to.
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All it does in Brisbane is make Foxtel show things an hour earlier and live shows on free-to-air TV not be live. 😛 Stupid lack of daylight savings. *shakes fist*
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Oh hey! Thanks for the tip. I gotta work in the morning.
Having a BBQ with a few friends tonight.
Started at 6.
No one has turned up yet.
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Phone atleast or just AWOL? Sooner cats inherit the Earth, the better.
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Party at D.C.’s house!
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No one knows where I live. I’m almost certain every damn member of the Brisbane TAYbies is on the other side of the city too. Mwhahaha. (*pretends I didn’t just reveal I live on the other side of the city.*)
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Hey, if your friends can track you down and surprise you we can too 😀
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But they had years of little hints. Years. 😛
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Hints to D.C.’s whereabouts:
– Is in Brisbane
– Is on the other side of the city to TAYbiesSoon.
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Oh, man. Back to the witness protection program. 😛
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I just spent $45 on a plush South Park toy, and a South Park wallet to replace my current starting-to-be worn out one…
Why do I feel so dirty all of a sudden?
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Because you dirtied your pants with excitement!
What was the plush of?
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It’s a limited edition “Doctor Stan” plush.
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?VISuperSize&item=160891175871
It’s from the episode “Cartman’s Mom Is Still a Dirty Slut”.
http://images.wikia.com/southpark/images/7/79/CartmansMomisStillaDirtySlut07.jpg
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I have three gold keys in Borderlands now! This morning I had none. Any one get any thing good?
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Ah.. haha.. ha….
Yeah, it’s really hard to get good stuff from that chest :P.
I know people who’ve never had anything good despite using something like 4 keys. I’ve used it around 7 times and only two times I got something worth while. One time gave me an awesome explosive assault and a slag sniper and the other gave me two shields which weren’t very good but were better than what I had.
I actually recommend using them when you can, rather than just waiting until 50. By the time you’re 50 it’s really easy to farm loot and there’s really no point for the chest. I guess you could save some to use after DLC comes out and the cap is raised but if you have some to spare just use them whenever 🙂
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:'( I did get a really awesome rocket launcher at level 25 that’s still better than any thing I’ve gotten since. The second time I used a key was Level 35 and it was another rocket launcher… only worse! 😛
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ohhh that’s bound to kill an hour. A few seconds of buying new things and the rest of myself crying over the terrible loot i will get.
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🙁 If it makes you feel better, I can’t find Donkey Mong. I searched for over an hour. I also have never seen that Michael guy. I search every time I’m in the area.
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I’ve found Michael twice, also I killed Donkey Mong! \o/
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I’ve only found them both once, and by accident D:
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PISTOLS
PISTOLS EVERYWHERE
Srsly every time I use my keys it’s pistols. Yeah, they’re better than my regular guns, and I benefit from my Gunzerker skill which lets me use pistols better, but still. So much so that the word ‘pistols’ is beginning to sound alien to me after saying it so much.
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Oh, man. I was hoping the game would detect what weapon you favor most and give you one. 😀
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How do you get more?
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You sign up to the SHiFT thing in the Extras menu. You’ll get a free key just for signing up. Then follow the Gearbox twitter feed, they’ve been releasing them every few hours today. I think they’ve got more planned for tomorrow! https://twitter.com/GearboxSoftware
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Randy also tweets them 🙂 @DuvalMagic I believe.
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I still don’t have my Steam Key issue sorted 🙁
I request we all have a nice cuddle.
GROUP HUG.
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Erggh, physical contact? Get away from me.
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I know I’m late, but does 2 people constitute a group hug? If so then GROUP HUG. If not then HUG
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GROUP HUG!
Game Informer gave XCOM 9.5/10! http://www.gameinformer.com/games/xcom_enemy_unknown/b/xbox360/archive/2012/10/05/review.aspx
Ok, so I’ve watched the first 4 eps of Six Feet Under. Late to the party I know, but it was TAY that got me to watch it at all.
First impressions – this show is really, really good!
Further thoughts – this show, for me, has the risk of being like so many other shows I start out liking, in that it has a limited foundation to build upon, and must become increasingly unbelievable and increasingly dependant on the core story in order to maintain interest.
The fact that they go with a core storyline right from the start perhaps sets off some alarm bells for me.
I really liked shows like Breaking Bad, Weeds, Sons of Anarchy, but they all lost me after one or two seasons. Maybe I just have a short attention span?
Six Feet Under looks to be another show like those, but so far I love it and I’m on for the ride!
I do prefer English TV, and I suppose one of the reasons is that they put a whole US season’s writing talent into half the number of shows (or even less) – which has it’s own frustrations.
Anyway, a huge thanks to TAY (DC and Shane I think?) for getting me to finally give it a go!
Loving it so far!
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😀 That’s good to hear! I’m midway through season three and love it more than ever, I love these kinds of long haul character arc stories though. It’s a show that isn’t afraid to change too, which I like. I hope you enjoy the ride!
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I hope so too. I can stick with shows with a long arc if there are enough stand-alone stories to sustain me. Think X-Files, House.
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Hmmm, it’s weird because in some ways there’s no stand alone episodes cause there’s always the arc running through, but almost every episode has a self-contained story. I think you’ll be right! Short seasons too, so they keep the momentum nicely.
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If you’re talking about The Walking Dead, then yeah – I guess it’s a stand out for me as a core-story based series.
But hey – I’m a complex individual 😉
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Was talking about Six Feet Under actually, but if The Walking Dead is similar I might have to watch! 😀 Good night, man!
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Best show ever.
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Out of curiosity Shane, which character do you find you identify with most? Might be best to use rot13. Warn me if you spoil any thing after season three too. 😛
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I dunno, man. Mostly the Fisher kids, I suppose. Each one has stories that just grab on and don’t let go. In terms of actual identification, I think I resonate with Nate’s perspective in a lot of ways, and find it easy to warm to him. ROT13 now, but no actual spoilers really, just a snapshot into the process of their creation.
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Going to mourn the show when it’s over, which seems apt. 😀
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So it WAS you!
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I think Virus__ and Maasha are true believers too. 😀
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My tooth has been fairly good all day. It’s really starting to hurt now DX
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I’m sorry to hear that, Scree. Was your mum’s party fun atleast?
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Yes, it was just very loud.
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Did your aunt manage to get there without the worrying that preceded it? 😀
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Oh, no. I hope it fixes itself!
TAY, I’m a bit torn right now.
I’ve found this graphics editing program called ArtRage Studio Professional.
I’ve used the demo a bit and am quite enjoying it.
It’s providing a nice alternative to Photoshop for my digital art.
Also, it is available on Steam and is a small size.
That being said, however, my one issue is cost.
ArtRage comes in at $54 until October 10, when it goes back to the usual price of $60 on Steam, and I feel it’s a tad steep.
Should I go with my gut and purchase it, or leave it and wait?
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Incredibly cheap when you compare it with Photoshop, though. 😛 Hard to say, man. It’s good to have proper software that can do the more intricate stuff. I use Photoshop Elements that came with my Wacom Bamboo thingy.
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I do have Photoshop CS3, and ArtRage supports .psd files, so would it be worth it to use it in conjunction with Photoshop?
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Oh, in that case, no. Haha! Unless it’s more user friendly?
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It’s quite user friendly, and I’ve finally managed to be able to change brush size with my tablet by assigning keystrokes, so there isn’t really a lot for me to say against it.
It’s surprisingly good.
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I suppose I should go to sleep. Good night, TAY. If you guys in Sydney end up meating, I hope you have good times a-plenty.
Okay, I’m heading off to bed.
Goodnight, TAY.
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Good morning, all. Ready for a nice day?
I don’t care, because I have a expo to get ready for.
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I kid really, I care. Not a full 100% mind you but a solid, 70. 66%, maybe.
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Got TAY labeled on my left arm front and back
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You should just wear a sign saying “AEF”.
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There was a time where I almost did buy a custom hat with AEF on it
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I should buy these in case you have another dapper meat! http://www.etsy.com/listing/97940317/retro-comic-book-pow-zap-bam-bang?ref=cat_gallery_18
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Or maybe people would prefer these http://tinyurl.com/8rg5byy
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I was born ready!
Happy Thanksgiving, friends!
I don’t know if that’s actually something you wish people because I still don’t understand this holiday, but hey, public holiday Monday! \o/
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I don’t either, man.
But hey, turkey dinners! Gotta love them turkey dinners.
Well I made a miss calculation. Looks like imma be an hour early for the expo
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Oh, CJ. After you warned people to not forget about daylight savings haha
Better to be early than late though!
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Actually I’d be late if that was the case. Really came down to no coffe shop. Got early train
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Bahahaha, excellent. I’m on a train atm. Woooooo.
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I think my train is on fire or something, we’re just sitting at some station… I don’t understand this technology thing.
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With this line glad I got here early by mistake.
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Woot. AC3 poster get!!
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I wish I was there now so that I could cut in… I’m not a bad person, really…
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Well, I’m in now. Buying overpriced, bad, coffee.
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So jelly =P
It’s okay, I couldn’t afford to go anyway. Tell us all about the wiiU!
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It’s everything I ever imagined. Colours pop, it looks wonderful.
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But does it crunk?
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Is this sarcastic Blaghman or for you for cereal?
I’m interested in knowing how it is too :), post more thoughts if you can :D. Thanks!
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It’s mostly for cereal. Ass 3 was only running at 720p though.
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Did they say if Australia would get any special deals (like the ZombU pro pack thingie)?
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Controller is really nice in the hand. Buttons feel nice to press. I’m better the. Blagh at WiiU
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How was the stick placement? It looks like it’ll feel weird having the analog sticks above the buttons
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Sounds awesome! Are they showing Aliens: Colonial Marines at the show? (The website says they are, but I haven’t heard any one talk about it.)
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Gearbox tweeted about it 🙂
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Watched the gameplay walkthrough last night. (Something I don’t usually like to do.) Looks so damn good, plus it was nice that Randy’s commentary was kept to a minimum and when he did talk you wanted to listen!
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Playable CoH2 alpha. Best find.
After reading the article about Japan hoarding their RPG’s (which I totally agree with) I’ve gone and booted up a SNES emulator and started up Terranigma which got mentioned a couple of times in the comments. I heard about it on one of Extra Credits’ “Games you might not have tried” episode and it sounded good. I will report back with my findings
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It’s good.
Oh, man. I already hate daylight savings. All the post times are in the future! :S
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BUT THINK OF ALL THE CURTAIN’S THEY WILL SAVE FROM FADING!
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Stupid Queensland. 😛
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OMG YOU GUYS JERSEY SHORE IS BACK!
*waits for downloads to finish*
I ain’t got no shame.
(maybe just a little… ok a lot)
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I also contemplated getting the spin off show based on Snooki and Jwow… what have I become!?
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*Slap* Bad Greenius. You’re better than that
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A Jersey Shore addict.
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http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-ash3/41785_110349025684865_8902_n.jpg
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I was forced to watch one episode. I could feel my brain shutting down
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I’ve seen an episode and I’m pretty convinced it must be fake. I
can’twon’t believe people can be that horrible.
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Oh, Greenius.
Old school Sierra fans, just thought you should know… crazy sale on GOG today. http://www.gog.com/en/promo/activision_weekend_promo_05_10_12/
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Arghh, I can’t choose! I want at least 13 of those games but I’ve only got $20 so I need to narrow it down.
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Haha! I’d have the same problem if I didn’t own most already. Hmmm. To be honest, I think the GK games alone are probably enough out of the Sierra adventures. I think there’s some rose coloured glasses stuff happening with the other Quest games and I wouldn’t feel comfortable recommending any thing else just going off nostalgia. 😛
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Get Interstate 76!
Cars with guns!
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Vampire: The Masquerade — Redemption was pretty good too. “Christoph, thy wound!” “Tis nothing, a scratch.” (I’m hoping being able to quote it still means it was memorable. Haha!) I liked SWAT 3, but SWAT 4 did everything better. (And isn’t on GOG, alas.) I loved the Space Quest games, but can’t tell you how they’ve aged.
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I was going to get the Space Quest games but I’m not sure my kind of humour is the same as what’s in those games.
My sister and I still quote Zork:Grand Inquisitor. You should grab that if you haven’t played it. Although I may have my nostalgia goggles on. 😛
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The Zork games look suspiciously like they have Myst puzzles? Would that be true? (I’ve played some of Return to Zork, can only remember the “Want some rye? Cause you do!” guy. :P)
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Err…what’s a Myst puzzle? I’ve played Myst but can’t recall anything special about the puzzles other than obscure solutions.
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The kind of logic puzzles that makes D.C. feel like a simpleton. I much prefer inventory and dialogue based puzzles. 😀
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Haha! With XCOM and Dishonored out this week I doubt I’d have the time to play ’em any ways for a long while, so might hold off. 😀
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And now I’ve got that Cows with Guns song stuck in my head! 😛
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And now I do too. Damn you! *shakes fist* 😛
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Awesome song.
So far I’ve narrowed it to KQ 4, 5, 6 and the Zork Anthology as must-buys. Along with Gabriel Knight: SotF. I’m also thinking about Arcanum.
What’s Quest for Glory like? Or Betrayal at Krondor? They’re ones I remember being sad I missed when they came out.
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I never played Krondor or QfG. (I played Antara, Krondor’s sequel. Wouldn’t recommend it.)
Gabriel Knight 3 is my game of all-time for what it’s worth too. (Also happens to have the best AND worst puzzle in adventure gaming history. :P) The second game is pretty damn good too, though suffers from that FMV thing of little interactivity. Though I’d understand if you waited to see if you like SotF first.
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Yeah, they’re cheap enough everyday that I figure I’ll just wait and see how I feel about S0TF.
Think I’ll remove those other two from my list, too. I shouldn’t even be buying any because this is money I’d set aside to buy quilting fabric. 😛
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Good luck getting this out of your head…
HUuuuurrrr DuurrrrRRrr
Brian not werk. Jursy Sure mak me stoopidr
Yet I can’t stop watching…
I think I have a problem.
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Say the word, I’m sure an intervention can be planned.
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Another one of those random stuff posts:
– This weekend has been pretty average :/. I had one of those “I really cannot be bothered doing ANYTHING” days today. I was just not in the mood for anything and have achieved nothing. I was planning to start work on an assignment due on Thursday but I was too tired after work on Saturday and then today was just a “meh” kind of day.
– I think I might’ve had my fill of Borderlands 2 at the moment. A solid effort if I’m only getting ‘bored’ with it after 92 hours :D. Theatrhythm is fun too but I wish there were more songs I knew/liked :P. The mode with a movie playing in the background (EMS?) is kind of bullshit though since the tempo changes and it’s hard to time strokes when you literally don’t know how fast it’s going to move :(.
– It’s weird having money now :P. There’s things I want to buy but know I shouldn’t, or that there’s no real need for it at the moment – so I don’t buy it. I’m thinking of getting a Vita or Wii U at some point and maybe a 3DS XL, but who knows!
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– Weekend ScribbleTaku was pretty cool. I liked how Logan changed the pic every now and then and it totally messed with my mind :P. He also delivered on his word and put the winners’ names in a funky font with different coloured letters. I’ve always sucked at Remember This? and ScribbleTaku since most of the games are older ones I’ve never heard of or played. I did kind of get one first but the actual winner’s comment was in moderation. Mark said we both got it but I’m still not counting that as a win :P. I’ll win one day!
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– Oh! I totally forgot Trials Evo DLC came out. Does anyone have it (or played it?), and if so, impressions? 😀
Trials Evo was my GOTY before BL2 but I’m not sure whether I’ll get 400 MS points worth of content. DLC on the Xbox is usually over priced and with the announcement of the PC port that has both games with DLC I’m not sure whether it’ll be much cheaper on PC. Hmmmmmmmm it’s also more fun when more people have it but when it’s just FatShady and you, you know you’re going to get demolished 😛
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Haha! I’ve enjoyed FatShady’s EBexpo tweets, taunting new comers and the like. 😀
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XCOM! Dishonored! Assassin’s Creed 3! Plenty left to fill the Borderlands void in your heart, Greenius, ol’ pal.
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Haven’t seen much on XCOM but we’ll see how that one goes :D. I rarely play strategy games but I like them.
I’m waiting for some Dishonored reviews first. It looked awesome from what I’ve seen but there was still some doubt!
As for AC3, I’ll probably wait for Ass Revs first so I can play through Bro, Rev and then 3. AC3 does look amazing though but I was able to hold out for the GOTY ed for AC2 and I still haven’t played Bro and Revs. I can’t say I’m a huge fan so I might just wait for a GOTY/Gold/Complete/Sexy edition with all the DLC. Damn DLC complicating things!
Also it’s not so much about the releases but having the motivation to play them… I got a bunch of PS+ games I still haven’t gone through and Pokemon Black/White 2 comes out real soon. There’s also Tokyo Jungle and Okami HD for me waiting by the end of this month :). THEN there’s games which I didn’t get at launch but I’m still interested in like Sleeping Dogs and Max Payne 3 (waiting on price drops) and Torchlight II (also waiting for a price drop but seems unlikely).
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If you’re not a huge fan anyways, I’d suggest skipping Rev. Maybe even Brotherhood! :O
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I enjoy the games but not so much that I MUST play them ASAP. I already have Brotherhood and I’m apparently getting Revelations some time soon (if you’re reading this – you know who you are – there’s no rush!). Ya know I’m not even that into the overall story of the AC series with Desmond and whatnot but it just feels like I’m missing out on something by skipping them.
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Oh, man. I love the Assassin’s Creed lore! Especially the Desmond stuff they skimped on in Rev. 😛
I understand what you mean, though. Suppose it makes your October a little less frantic too.
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So if you’re a fan of Jet set radio future, can you send me an email on who is your favourite Male and female characters and what two of your favourite songs from the game are to my email address.
email me at scree(at)y7mail(dot)com
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No one?
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Don’t feel too bad. Weekend TAY pretty much consists of me, who’s never played the game. 😛
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That’s it, you’re all getting it for Christmas
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:D?
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I hope you all have xboxes.
Otherwise I’ll have to wait for it to come onto steam
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Favourite design or favourite to play with?
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My favourites to play with is also my favourite design. Whichever you prefer really.
Early impressions of Terranigma are very promising. I’ve just started Chapter 2 and the story so far is pretty interesting. There’s already been some very good character moments. Music is awesome. Looking forward to seeing where it goes from here
Meat was nice. Dunno if that’s how meats usually go. I suspect I wasn’t in my usual state of mind, but who am I to judge my own sanity.
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I expect a 1000+ word meat write-up essay tomorrow!
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Was there dodgem cars? If not, not a real meat 😛
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That, and we weren’t there!
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That too. Alright, mini-meet, then.
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You cannot be initiated into the fold without either a) Harli’s oar, now lost to the void, or b) the dodgems at Galaxy World. This is totally a long-standing rule.
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But I’ve never experienced either of those…
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Hm, that’s a problem…
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I’d like to point out that I was here before the Oar. I never felt the sharp ecstasy as it pounded my flesh, the cool feeling of my plasma flowing from my body, the release at the end of the trial…
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We like you too much to risk breaking you. There’s no rules once you get behind those dodgems.
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I’m sorry if I disappointed you by being rather sane IRL 😛
But yeah, definitely more of a mini-meat than a full one 🙂
Mr. Strange was watching Bathurst today so I didn’t get to go to the fabric shop. I ordered my fabric online from the place I would have gone to and ended up getting everything I needed…plus a bit more. I blame the fact that online shopping means I don’t actually have to talk to anyone to get what I need so I don’t hold back.
Sometimes not being able to drive is very inconvenient. Not to mention bad for the wallet. 😛
Oh, and now I’m struggling even more to figure out the most important things to buy in GOG’s sale. I thought games were an expensive hobby, but sewing is way more expensive!
Edited because I can’t speel gud. 😛
I MET TAY PEEPS IRL TODAY!!!!! and played some games. More tomorrow
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There you go, green. 1000 word essay more or less.
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Wait no I get it I just read up
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Scary! Which TAYbies ended up meatin’?
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Well today I met
Blagh
Fatshady
Trjn
Freyer (is that how its spelt?)
Lamboman, Lamboman’s lil bro minilambo and Lambodad
Saturday
Doc Wot… what… ?
and Shiggy-
Impressive! You’ve met half the Brisbane TAYbies now too then! 😀
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I’m really enjoying Dragon Age II but I’m beginning to see what people mean when they talk about lazy development and environment recycling. I’ve been to the exact same cave a bunch of times but in different locations. :S
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Avelline makes up for it, though. One of my favourite BioWare party members. So damn earnest. 😀
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I don’t like her. She’s a bit…boring compared to the other characters. At least so far. I hardly ever have her in my party, I use her sometimes if I’m doing a helping mage thing and don’t want Fenris to hate me but that’s about it.
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Haha! It’s weird, I think I liked the contrast to Morigan, my Warden’s love interest from the first game. This time Hawke spent the whole game unsuccessfully trying to court her. 😀
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I just like that she can be a bro.
Not everyone has to be romanceable, I think.
Just having an awesome in-game buddy is enough.
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I’m taking it slow, playing it bit by bit, and not feeling rushed, so I’m hoping I can avoid the feeling of repetition that sets in.
In actuality, I’ll probably avoid it by never playing the game again…
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I’ve been playing a few missions a week. I think it’s worth it though. It’s a good game.
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I enjoyed what I played, but I am so bad at finishing games.
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@Crazyguy – Curse you and your link to a Primus song!
I’ve just lost half an hour watching Primus vids. Man I love those guys.
Les Claypool is a fragging genius!
I’ll just leave this here. Primus – Tommy the Cat Live June 22 1997
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