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*Looks at watch and notices its only 7:30*
Ohmigad my time machine worked!
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I was going to say “you didn’t move your watch forward” and then I remembered that you’re in Queensland.
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I am from the future, and I urge you to invest all of your money in bacon before it is too late.
Morning everyone.
First, some TV talk. The new Ben 10 series is disappointing. The new art style is horrible, they’ve written off two of the main characters and the whole thing has just gone really childish. I mean, I know it’s a kids show and all, but it used to be one of those kids shows an adult could still watch and enjoy. Alien Force and Ultimate Alien were cool. This new season is more like the original Ben 10 and I don’t like it at all.
I hadn’t realised the Doctor Who episode on Saturday was the season final. They only showed like, four episodes. I guess cause last time they had it on they finished mid season or something. I can’t even remember. I hate it when shows do that though. Show half a season and then you have to wait months for the second half to get shown. NCIS recently did this too and it sucked.
I’m sad that Amy and Rory have left. They were my favourite companions. Unlike previous companions, it didn’t feel like they were completly hopeless and needing the Doctor to hold their hand for everything. They, particularly Amy, could actually go off and accomplish things on their own. Hopefully his next companion will also be able to handle herself on her own.
Now for some non TV talk. I drove inner city for the first time yesterday. I am never doing that again. I think I’ll just stick to the train anytime I need to go into the city.
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I loved Ben 10. After they changed his clothes from yellow to green I stopped watching the show. I usually love most iterations of any media but I think for me the original seasons were the best. The earlier shows had a lot of humour and the aliens were better. I even noticed that they started bringing back fan favourite aliens in the Alien force and Omniverse series. For example I think I saw cannonbolt in one the later series.
I think I just loved Ben’s playfulness and naivety in the original 4 series. He saved the world but had fun doing it.I follow the show sparingly nowadays, watching a show as I’m channel surfing on Saturday mornings, but my excitement ended a long time ago.
I really hope that when Ben becomes an adult he goes back to his fun loving and yellow-and-white costume wearing ways. Actually, they must, because I think there was an episode in the future where Ben met his future self( who looked awesome btw) and he had his yellow and white and green costume.
Damn, I’ve written a lot about what many people consider a kids show 🙂
I loved the show though. Not so much nowadays.
By the way, have you played the PS2 game Protector of the earth? It was an average game but it’s the best of the Ben 10 games so far. The cannonbolt levels were really fun as well.
Also I’m sure you’ve probably guessed this but Cannonbolt is my favourite alien followed by Wildmutt and Upgrade is third. Although I feel like they never really used upgrade as well as they could.
What are your top three aliens?
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There’s been a few different future versions of Ben. I’m not sure if any of them are considered canon versions as none have had his current version of the Omnitrix. There was an episode of Ultimate Alien that said the future version of him with the Ultimatrix was the canon future version and the other versions were only possible futures, but then Ben lost the Ultimatrix at the end of the season so who knows what they’re planning on doing.
As for favourite aliens, Big Chill, Humungousaur and Swampfire, in that order.
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As a fan of the Classic/Original series, and a fan of the Russel T Davies revived version – I am not liking the direction that Steven Moffatt is taking the new series.
He doesn’t seem to care how it fits into the already massive Doctor Who universe.
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How??? I disagree – What canon has he changed? Whilst I think he is a better writer than series runner – I am at a loss to see how he doesn’t care??? In fact original who continuity is a joke – look up the destruction of Atlantis for starters.
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FEED. ME. MORE.
MORNING TAYBIES. ALL CAPS IN YO ASS MONDAY.
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You sound like my son. He’s finished his breakfast so he’s now sitting next to me as I eat mine declaring he’s hungry over and over again. 😛
Morning folks, hope this day finds you well. Still finding it disconcerting everything being time stamped wrong. Guess it’s something I’ll have to learn to live with. 😛
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It’s all just part of being a time traveler.
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Yup, it is a burden we have to live with.
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True enough, friend! True enough! 😀
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Do you think a Time Lord looks at clocks and watches as silly and inaccurate contraptions?
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Maybe a Time Lord thinks of them more as compasses.
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I imagine their watches are clock faces with like 20 hands.
“This one is the minute hand, this one is the hour hand, I think this one records our position in space-time, and I’m not sure what this is for but it dings every time the toaster is done.”
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Inaccurate maybe, but silly? I guess it would depend on the Time Lord and what they think about the other species of the universe. I imagine the Doctor would see them as usefull devices for measuring the perceived passage of time relevant to the species that made them (the clocks and watches). The Master probably thinks they’re stupid, but that guys a jerk so who cares what he thinks.
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I love daylight savings because TAY and Twitter are all active when I wake up so I have lots of interesting things to read before I run out and have to get out of bed because I can’t use them to procrastinate any more.
There is only a Dr who (half) season due to two things. First = Sherlock. 2nd = the fact that its 50 years of Dr who – NEXT YEAR. MOFFAT is getting ready for the biggest year of Dr who ever!!! Stop complaining LOL. If u can’t wait till next year – go to the doctor who concerts at the opera house. Two new shows recently announced.
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…wat?
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I assume it’s meant to be a reply to my post up top.
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Yep. Sorry.
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I wish they did one of those Doctor Who shows in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney get all the fun. 🙁
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I predict we will get the doctor who stadium tour next year. The melb shows were a ‘test’ to see viability etc. I urge all fans to see the show if they can. I went and saw it in Melbourne and have tix for Sydney. The Melbourne show brought a tear to my eye. It was amazing.
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SHERLOCKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Yeah, I’m looking forward to more Sherlock.
I also have to watch closely to be able to check out Sherlock’s coat. Mr. Strange wants me to make him one. Not sure what he needs it for seeing as we live in Queensland though. 😛-
I am a massive crime show fan and went into watching Sherlock very apprehensively. 10 minutes in I was hooked and had a giant grin on my face through all of the shows. Definitely a top 3 tv show of all time for me.
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Morning all TAYbies!
I sooo had daylight savings jet lag this morning…
My cure? COFFEH!
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BEST CURE!
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That my, oh god I have to get up cure every morning
Good morning TAYters! I had a decent weekend, hope yours was good!
Spent the weekend in Sydney with my Dad (I’m still here actually 😛 Where’s my train timetable?). Didn’t do much though! Finally got around to watching The Hunger Games, which was… alright. I was hoping it would be faster than the book (which I thought was really slow). I hate to be one of ‘those’ people, but Battle Royale is totally better 😉 I should re-watch/read it sometime.
I also managed to finish one of my many un-read books. Next by Michael Crichton, which I really enjoyed! It’s all about genetic engineering and I loved the way it was written. Mini chapter stories scattered between a few bigger overarching stories that intertwined with each other. Love it.
And as always, I played Pokemons! There’s a few new TAYlocke stories up as well. I don’t like Voltorb Flip!
Happy Monday!
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I’m alright at it
I finally unlocked a new ship in FTL!
Engi Stealth ship \o/\o/\o/
Then I ran out of fuel, but worth it!
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I still need to unlock the Rock ship, the Slug ship, the Mantis Ship and the Unknown ship, which is apparently quite a beast. I got close to the Rock ship last night but I accidentally killed the guys I was only supposed to survive against… I wrongly assumed I would get a dialogue box if I beat them that would interrupt their demise. 🙁
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I’m the same. They are the only ones I’m missing.
Crap thing is, I actually got all the required events before, but because I didn’t know it at the time, I either chose the wrong option, or didn’t have the required equipment/crew.
Sometimes randomness like this sucks balls.-
I watched a video guide to get the Unknown Ship and it’s randomness cubed… as in, you have to hope for three random events to happen in the right order.
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That is so much win 🙂
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I had a feeling that you would appreciate that 🙂
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Anyone else not getting the achievement to pop when they kill Terramorphous in Borderlands 2? My wife and I have killed him twice and it’s not clear why the game has decided we haven’t earned it yet. Do you have to kill his tentacles first or something? I noticed they kept respawning so we were sitting around killing them hoping the achievement would pop that way, but they always came back.
LAST WEEK’S NEW JvtD TRAILER!
Also, the EBEXPO was fun! We should be (Hopefully) posting the video tomorrow!
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Yay! I’m looking forward to it. I can get the experience without having to brave the crowds and interminable lines. 😀
Just got word my boss isn’t in today, which is good news. Don’t get me wrong, my boss is a great dude, but I am tired as hell because I only got 3.5 hours sleep and I am not in the mood to pretend to work hard today.
Morning all.
While I am fairly early in Borderlands 2 still (running multiple characters at once will do that to ya), I have to say the Shooty McFace is the best mission EVAR.
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I don’t know, that claptrap one where he makes “cold” and “freeze” puns is pretty great. Plus the bandits wear ushanka’s
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That one was best one.
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I’m partial to Tiny Tina’s crumpockalypse, myself.
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I liked Scooter’s poem and its outcome.
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That one did amuse me.
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Oh, the Statuesque one is pretty great just for Jack’s raging at you.
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also, the bane.
OH GOD THE BANE!!!! D:
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YES. I found this one on Sunday.
Dentist update
Can’t get through at all, so I’m just going to have to bear with it for today.
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I would keep trying ever hour or so. They have to answer the phone sometime, surely. =(
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I keep getting messages. I can’t get through. It’s not as bad is it was on Friday. Panadol should suffice.
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Am I the only person who likes Tiny Tina in BL2 and finds her amusing? She’s getting a lot of hate around the traps…I think she’s hilarious. Also, sniper rifle/railguns are awesome…ricocheting rounds around corners=great fun.
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See the last questions’ response to puppylicks
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And that’s what happens when I just barge in on a monday morning and say my bit…someone beats me to it.
I’m going back to bed…-
It’s alright, I have plenty of time to memorize things that people say. =P
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Nah, I loved Tiny Tina as well! Made me laugh a whole lot!
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Climb that bridge,
to the train,
or you’ll go insane
Wut wut
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She was nowhere near the best character but she did make me chuckle a few times. It’s weird that some of the criticism of her is that she talks like a 13 year old girl. I wonder why…
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Not the best character definitely, but I think she brings a little something to the party.
Crazy teenage girl, living out in the wild instead of Sanctuary, some of her lines and Scooters are fried gold.
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I think the idea is amusing but it comes across as trying too hard to be funny.
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That’s part of her appeal, to me. I mean she’s gonna say what she’s gonna say, and since your character doesn’t actually ever respond with dialogue you decide how you react. Are you in on the joke? Are you staring at her blankly? It doesn’t even matter because Tiny Tina doesn’t care anyway. She has more stupid dialogue.
She’s not at all self-concious, which was refreshing. I mean all the other characters tend to say whatever’s on their minds, all the time, but even then they seem rather reserved in some ways.
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I wouldn’t say I hate her. I think she is a really well designed character and all the jokes she makes fits around her age bracket (12 Y/O).
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I like her. Some of the stuff she says kinda makes me want to facepalm but that’s just the character. She’s great.
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I think she’s straight up awesome.
Also, Badonkadonks. Awesome word.
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Heh, I like when you are collecting the “badonka
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Goddamn phone. Anyway as I was saying. I like when you are collecting the “Badonkadonks” and she demands the bandits give it back. Then one of the bandits say “What the hell is a Badonkadonk?”.
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I’m never eating chilli again 🙁
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but Chilli is GREAT!
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It does have a strong and compelling attraction, but it is a harsh and unforgiving mistress.
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It must be a boy thing. That or I have some weird super-power where my innards neutralise the heat before it reaches the exit. 😛 My husband and I can eat exactly the same chilli and I’m fine the next day but he is not.
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Suddenly my gender is called into question. No matter how much it burns going in, I never had a problem with it coming back out.
I only ever has one chili based exiting problem. And that was when I first got the Scorpion Strike sauce. I was making everyone try some and, when they did, I had some too so they didn’t suffer alone.
That night I pooed water. Or, possible, my stomach melted. The latter seems more likely.
SO! LUNCH TIME, EH!?
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Did a coyote tell you to find your soul mate?
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I love that they had Johnny Cash voice that coyote. Completely awesome. Also, ‘I hope I didn’t brain my damage!’
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Wait! That was Johnny Cash!? How come I’ve never noticed! :'(
(That’s awesome, though!)
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Been playing more of them Pokemons. My only complaint is I’m limited to six at a time. I want to take them ALL with me! They’re all in little balls, surely my backpack’s big enough for at least a few more? 😛
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That’s actually a really good point. It does frustrate me that you can only take 6. I try to get one of each type so i can defeat majority of trainers first go.
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Oh and I’m finding it fun that I know absolutely nothing about anything. Having no idea how my Pokemon are going to evolve makes everything a surprise. And every time I see a different one it’s awesome to me because I have no idea if it’s a common one or one that’s more rare. Well, at least until I start seeing the same ones over and over again. 😛
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I wish I could have that feeling again! The last time that happened was with Gold/Silver in 2000 😛 That’s most of the reason why I’ve been avoiding all information about the new games! (that come out this week! Ah!)
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spent so much time at the EB Expo this weekend that I fell asleep before 8pm last night. I’m STILL tired… Can’t… Stop… Yawning…
Does anyone know some sort of online community for Australian video game collectors?? Or some sort of Amazon equivalent or “Game Traders online” or something for Australian video gamers? I’ve been relying heavily on ebay, which is fine, but I was wondering if there was anything else out there.
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Gametraders is online at the moment.
http://www.gametraders.com.au/
You log in and you can buy games which are then sent directly to your letter box.
Is this what you were after?
Scored this laptop off Lenovo over the weekend:
Processor: Intel Core i7-3632QM Processor (6M Cache, 2.20 GHz)
Display type: 15.6″ W HD (1366×768)
System graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GT 635M Graphics with 2GB VRAM (WWAN or mSATA capable)
Total memory: 8 GB DDR3 – 1600MHz (2 DIMM)
Valued: AU$2,161.01
Sale Price: AU$894.00
-15%: $759.90
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Wow, decent!
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I have not been part of the master race in so long, I’m excited!
Also, it upset me that I kept seeing some awesome bargains in TAY and I would just miss out.
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Lots of new faces on TAY this morning, I like it! Welcome aboard, folks. So… what’s your story? 😀
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Want some rye? Course ya do!
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Stay a while and listen!
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Oh yeah, I noticed that as well. Welcome guys and girls. Have fun, be polite etc.
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I ate some muschrooms and took a bad trip. How do I get home?
Howdy Tayberinos (Including at least 3 names I’ve not seen before, double welcome)
I had a quiet weekend taming the forces of nature in my backyard (using a lawnmower), before heading to a Bathurst BBQ on Sunday. Not being a motorsport enthusiast, I followed along OK.
So, a Monday Morning Question: Are there any games thet you really enjoy even though you aren’t into it outside of games? I love me some Tony Hawk’s, but I’ve probably spent a cumulative less than 5 minutes on a skatboard in my life.
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SSX! I’m not opposed to snow boarding in real life, but I’ve never actually seen snow so not something I’ve ever tried.
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Any game that involves shooting?
Is that a fair response?-
That is a good response- I’ve no desire to shoot anything (which I’m aware is odd given I work in the defence industry) but I love quite a few shooty games
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Pretty much any game involving killing stuff. 😛
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I love me some killing. 😛
:S
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Banjo-Kazooie. But if there WERE shiny puzzle pieces and adventures everywhere, I probably would be doing the same thing IRL.
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Probably most games fall under that category. I know I don’t spend a lot of time irl shooting people, slaying monsters, casting spells or racing super-cars.
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Real-life platforming hurts my legs.
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You mean walking?
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Those real life Goombas are dogs you might be receiving a visit from the Police.
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MORNING TAY!
*insert something witty here*
*laugh at ‘insert’*
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What’s this, a page get?
Oh, how I missed them.
ER’RYBODY DO THE PAGEGET DANCE.
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How’s that go again?
*shuffles awkwardly*-
Yeah, that’s good enough. I imagine a lot of staring at your own feet would also be involved.
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Oh yes, I’m awesome at that.
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Dishonored this week!!!
I think I might actually do something i’ve never ever done…take a sick day to play! Probably not though 🙁
But…Dishonored!!! \o/
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Can’t wait! XCOM is out the next day too, but that’ll have to wait until after. There’s a very good chance I will mysteriously vanish from TAY for the rest of October, cause then there’s Assassin’s Creed 3 too!
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Yep, I have 2 days off after the 31st…i’ll be getting my copy of AC3 straight after work(my last day at this job), then 2 days play, then off on holiday for 2 weeks!
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Oh, no Splicer. You look like you have a terrible and very, very sudden cold coming on! Better take a day to rest up…
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Doctor Batgirl knows best!
You got your medical licence at the Hollywood Upstairs Medical College too?!
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I’m getting very excited about Dishonored. I’ve barely read/watched anything about it but I already have a feeling it will be something special.
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Yep, same here…I know next to nothing about the game…but excited whispers of steampunk and open world have me sold as a day one purchase/preorder. I got the EB version(mainly because gaming tee’s never fit me)
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This is the first batch of games being released since I implemented my ‘don’t ruin it, fool!” policy. No trailers. Only a few screenshots. Stopped reading any thing about it after I was convinced. Can’t wait for next years games, almost spoiler free for all of them.
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I have the same policy, once I know I’m getting something I stop reading anything about it.
I was so close to pre-ordering X-Com but the convict tax meant that I couldn’t. Pretty good offer considering you get Civ 5 free if you do so. Still have 4 days, maybe I’ll see if I can get key by email or something, but not sure if that will count as a steam pre-order.Not so sure about dishonoured, I think I will get it at some stage but I still have day sex to get through which is similar in style. Plus I should probably get AC:Revelations (AC:SkimOverTheStory) at some stage. Then maybe consider AC:3.
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It’s not a good offer if you already own Civ 5. Which incidentally I had to buy through a CD keys site way back when because of the same convict tax. 🙁
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I already own it as well (obtained from the same location) but I could gift it on. Was more that I was aboard the hype train so that was just a bonus and civ 5 is a pretty good bonus.
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I’m really super psyched for Dishonored but I doubt I’ll get to play it for a while. Wifey and I’s relationship has been a bit unsteady and spending too much time on games seems like a bad idea for the foreseeable future.
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Sorry to hear that man.
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Hopefully you can work out a good balance between time together and time doing things you love that your wife doesn’t.
Maintaining a good relationship after kids is hard work, my relationship hasn’t exactly been the best recently either. Although him (or me) gaming isn’t a problem, it’s more the internet. What my husband looks forward to upon getting home from work is not seeing me or the kids, it’s his laptop. And I’m not even joking. It’s worrisome. -
Man, that’s some worrying news. Hopefully you two can restore your relationship.
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I gots no relationship advice, but the games will keep. Do what you’ve gotta do! 😀
I’m going to wait for reviews before I try Dishonored. It looks cool, but it also seems like a game that could end up being a massive flop. Hopefully it can live up to the hype.
Hello there TAYbies!
Whats happening with you lot?
…thats all I’ve got.
Bye TAYbies!
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Hey buddy, hope life’s treating you decently.
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I ate WeetBix this morning.
That’s it.
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I had weetbix too \o/ .
I overdid it though and had two bananas with my cereal instead of one. In my defence, one of the bananas was basically mush. I didn’t realise it would be just as filling.
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Borderlands (2) !
I played a lot of it on the weekend.
I will say that I love how all the little details show how much of a labour of love this was for gearbox. So many easter eggs, funny and completely inconsequential sidequests, and things that you just don’t expect (especially why I’ve tried to stay spoiler free, even on the little things).
Drop in co-op has been a blast for those that have tolerated me. Hopefully with another weekend or two I’ll be able to finish it, definitely one of the better value games of the year.
So I had a good weekend of games (well a Sunday really) that was mostly due to TAY marketing.
Start out with the adorable Anna’s Quest. I’m not sure if there were any child labour laws broken but I am finding Ted’s voice acting to be totally charming. And Strange, bot me and Mrs Tigs had a chuckle at the rug comments 😛
So I’m currently up to chapter 2 in that.
Coincidentally I’m also now up to chapter 2 in Jurassic Park. After umming and ahhing over this I kept skipping over it based on mixed reviews and some people saying how much it sucked. I read a reader review on Kotaku that explained in a way I understood so picked it up soon after. I think it might have been written by Pow, is so thanks mate.
Also the review basically came down to saying: DINOSAURS \o/
Also played a little bit more Skyrim (Hi Hugo) and trialed torchlight co-op with somebody who really didn’t grasp the concept of power-levelling. Oh well.
#TAYMarketingLove #TedIsAdorable #HashTagsForHarli
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The only thing about Ted, though, is that you can tell that it was a kid who voiced him and Anna wasn’t. (The different accents probably amplified this!) Still totally endearing, though. 😀
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But you’re so smart Anna, so it makes sense she sounds older 😉
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Ah, I didn’t see this comment! That review was written by me! 😀 I’m glad you’re giving the game a go! A lot of people seemed to dimiss it.
After an hour, I have decided on my Pokemon trainer’s name.
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And… what is it?
I always just give my trainer my name.
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Chamae, short of chamaedorea, Bamboo Palm, nicknamed after his hair.
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You’re right, his hair does sort of look like one of those plants. I wish they’d just let us create our own character, or at the very least give us a couple different options for which character we play.
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You should play the new WoW expansion. Lot’s of pokemon there now. Including catching wile pokemon, and travelling the world fighting against master pokemon trainers!
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Spoilers! I didn’t know you could name your trainer!
Will Dishonored be renamed “Dishonoured” here?
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I sure hope not, I’ve forced myself to type it without the ‘u’ for months now. Not gonna add it back in now. 😛
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I’m afraid it will set a precedent for the kids though
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Not according to my preorder receipt.
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I don’t think so. Pretty sure “Dishonored” will have been registered so it’s pretty much the title everywhere, All the advertising I’ve seen in game shops and magazines here has had that US spelling too. It’s the name of the game, regardless of who spells the word which way.
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Well looking at my post above, yes, yes I do
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I’m so worried that after talking about this game for so long I’ll never be able to spell dishonoured properly again. 😛
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I write meat instead of meet these days too.
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Work emails! I’m tempted to delete the word meat from my dictionary just so spell check flags it when I do that
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You’ve just reminded me that it’s lunchtime.
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Have you arranged to meat somebody for lunch. I assume that was why you are reminded
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Morning all, hope everyone is well!
So, playing MineCraft with some of the TAY crew has made me realise just how much of a n00b i am… Whilst i can do some cool things that take me an hour, some of these guys are able to whip up stuff in minutes that make mine look like something a 2 year just whipped up… …i also love how people have made use of some materials for stuff id never even thought of! like signs for sidearms on a couch. or pistons as tables. or a touch panel as a keyboard and a picture frame to make a laptop. Kudos for thinking outside the square!
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Don’t feel bad. The most creative I can get in Minecraft is building a stone fort and adding water to it at random places.
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YOU CAN DO THAT??????
Edit: J/K We are right up there with the elite Wolf!
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To be fair, a lot of the stuff you saw was probably Nos’. He seems to know everything about the game.
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he freaked when he mentioned blaze rods and i replied “Blaze what now?”
its was as though a guy with a 350 IQ had to explain the theory of quantum mechanics to a monkey 😀
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Back in my day Minecraft didn’t have any of this newfangled fancy stuff. We had stone and wood and dirt and needed nothing else!
None of this leveling or magical enchanting and whatnot. With just a workbench and a pickaxe we would conquer the world!Seriously though I pretty much stopped playing before it even got into beta and all this crazy new stuff is just confusing /o\
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i just started a tekkit server (which is a minecraft mod) and oh my, tekkit cranks up the complicated to 11.
Also a question for those that are super psyched about a certain game and have remained spoler free….. Considering you know NOTHING about the game, how do you know you even want it?!?!? Basically what has actually enticed you to buy it???
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You read/watch stuff until you decide this is a game for me.
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Instinct mostly. Been playing games so damn long now, I know what I like. Read about these games initially, but once the excitement kicks in it’s time to stop spoiling. 😀
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Yeah, this. I already know that I’m going to like the next Zelda/Pokemon/Whatever. For new IPs, it’s all in the gut feeling!
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Recent example of new IP: Mark of the Ninja. Found a random video discussing the mechanics and about 30 seconds of that convinced me that I will love this game. I have avoided all other info while I wait for the Steam release.
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Yep, instinct.
I usually have a feel for what I like. This is also why I don’t often read reviews. Usually a synopsis or a screenshot is enough for me to tell whether I’ll like something or not. And there’s always the other information that you absorb from other people who have been keeping up to date on development.
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Yeah, walkthrough trailers in particular can spoil huge chunks of the game. If a campaign is only nine hours, I don’t want to see a thirty minute play through. (Taken from the middle of the game usually! Haha!)
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Agreed. Some games just resonate with me. I don’t need to see trailers, or hear any news, or know what it’s about, or even who makes it (most of the time). Sometimes I need a little more info, what it’s aobut, what it looks like, how it plays…
Other times I want to know nothing so I can let my sense of wonder be my guide.
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Talking about Dishonored here specifically, I saw a couple of screenshots of the world it’s set in and a brief trailer(the first one they aired I think) and I said straight away, ‘I want to play that!’…That’s pretty much it for this game. Other games are either already an existing IP or i’ve seen/read a review somewhere.
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Also studio street cred too. Only thing I’ve literally seen about The Last of Us is the Spike VGA announcement trailer with Joel and Elly in the hotel. The setting and premise appealed to me instantly and Naughty Dog’s pedigree on the Uncharted games sealed the deal.
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The same way that without seeing very much about a game I can tell I *don’t* want to play it. Eg Dishonored.
(I loathe stealth games)
Morning all. I plan to do a write up of my time at EB expo but it probably won’t be up till after 8 this evening as I’m busy
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Looking forward to it, man!
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Wii U thoughts, please! 😀
Morning, TAY.
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Good Morning Mr Crazy
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Morning 🙂
What up TAY?
I truly, really really truly, meant to play Borderlands 2 on the weekend *sigh* but I got distracted by SKYRIM! again.
I only meant to complete one quest, but ended up creating another new character, 31 levels later I still haven’t made it to High Hrothgar, so SO many distractions.
I think I may be slightly obsessed with this game, perhaps a little time away from it might do me some good.
I am thinking Dishonored is what I need right now.
Another game for a chance for obsession to grow.
Perhaps I will start refering to it as DISHONORED!… mmm only time will tell.
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DISHONORED!
Yep, it’s got a nice ring to it. -
I had to stop playing Skyrim because I was becoming addicted. And I’d barely even started. But I was neglecting my kids and my husband. 😛
Actually, I started playing Kingdoms of Amalur last week and was wondering why I was playing it, thinking I should have been playing Skyrim instead.
DISHONORED! 😀
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Go dishonored if you like but is is basically just a stealth based khajiit, focusing on one handed and illusion
Helping \o/
I’ve made the disheartening decision not to preorder/day-one-purchase Dishonored.
I’ve been so hyped for this game, but I have too much on my pile (BL2 & DSII), plus ACIII already preordered. Also, with a whole bunch of new bills on their way, I feel the need to curb my spending until I’ve got a grasp on what my new living expenses will be.
Besides, I think a fridge/bed/sofa should hold priority over a kickass video game, right?
RIGHT!?
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Don’t you want to support a new IP? 😛
(Haha! Do what you’ve gotta do, man. It’ll keep!)
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WRONG!
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YUP.
Plus, by the time you have time to play Dishonored it will probably be much cheaper. \o/
We’ll all just have to remember to ROT13 when we’re talking about it so you don’t become spoilerisated. -
What edition of ACIII did you end up with?
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Uh… Join or Die?
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That medallion thing looks sweet.
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Getting it from JB so it also has the little pewter figures.
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Just wait. The price will have dropped by the time the Christmas sales start.
Get a fridge first, spending the summer without some cool drinks, chilled fruits and ice cream will suck.
What are you using now with regards to a bed and sofa?
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I have a little old fridge and a little old sofa and a little old bed. Enough to live, but not ideal. The fridge is just big enough, but frustrating. Full-sized fridge is the top item on the shopping list. The others I can deal with for now.
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My major release games for the rest of this year are Dishonored, X-Com, Halo 4 and maybe Black Ops 2. I’ll wait for sales to pick up ACIII, Hitman and Black Ops 2.
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Considering the game is $45 and a fridge/bed/sofa can be thousands each…. I’d go the game as well as the other items.
And I’m in the middle of wedding planning, getting curtains (stupidly expensive for some silly material over a window) and possibly a new fridge.
BRING ON DISHONOURED!-
Yeah, I can definitely afford it. I just feel the need to exercise some discipline.
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I think that it’s perfectly reasonable since it’s a Bethesda published game and so probably had QA done by Bethesda and will be a horrible buggy nightmare at launch like every other game they’ve published.
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Potentially.
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Its odd, with everything I’m hearing about Dishonored it sounds like an awesome game, but I am feeling no hype for it whatsoever.
You guys ever get that? Where you see a game and know that it is probably awesome, but it just doesn’t inspire that ‘hype’ feeling from you?
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Dishonoured might be a January sale purchase for me.
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Having it with Dishonored right now, really. It looks great, I definitely want to play it at some point, but I’ve got absolutely no urge to run out and grab it the day it comes out. It’s a really weird feeling.
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Yep. (Not with Dishonored, but plenty of other games)
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Borderlands 2…right up until the day it came out, I was ‘meh’…and then I played it.
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Haha! Same for me, wasn’t on the hype bandwagon. But it was released on the day my cat came home after running away. Weight lifted off my shoulders. Impulse buy. Then 65 hours later I fininshed playing. 😛
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Currently on my second playthrough, level 42 Zer0. Started a new game with my brother when he came over yesterday, this time as Axton, while he’s playing as Maya. We already love the Phaselock/Turret combo.
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This was me with the original Borderlands. I was home alone for a weekend and it came out same day as I think Dragon Age Origins. I was on Steam and noticed it and had no idea what it was but it was on sale for cheap on the launch day and I hadn’t played a shooter in a while so I grabbed it at random. Probably the best game I’ve ever picked up completely blind like that since FF7.
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I’m that way about borderlands 2 and torchlight 2.
I just can’t get into them.
I guess it all depends on what kind of games you like. I loved all the Thief, Splinter Cell and Deus Ex games (Cept the Invisible War, that was crap), so Dishonored is a must buy for me.
It’s single player so I don’t getting it from Ozgameshop and getting it 2 weeks later, but happy to pay the $45 odd for it. -
I’ve found that sometimes it is just something that goes wrong that derails the hype train.
For me it was the convict tax on xcom. Was so hype and ready to pre-order (I almost never pre order anything) but I had that and it through me off. So now it will most likely be a Christmas sale purchase rather than a day one. -
I rarely buy games on day one so my hype levels for most games are usually just average, Also with so many people on TAY/Twitter playing on PC I usually feel like I’ll be missing out on co-op/ multiplayer fun so maybe I lower my excitement as a way of shielding myself.
That being said, I’m really excited about Far Cry 3. I’m torn on whether to buy it on day one or not though. On one hand I’ll be playing the game as soon as possible discovering all the secrets but on the other if I wait I’ll save money and maybe get a complete edition with all the DLC 6-12 months later. Also as far as i know Far Cry 2 never got a complete edition for consoles so maybe they will not release one for Far Cry 3.
The indecision! /o\
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You’re not alone. I’m pretty uninterested in it as well. When I first saw it it looked like they were making a steampunk Bioshock but then I found out it’s a stealth game which is one of those genres which irritate the crap out of me. I hate the laborious trial and error gameplay that they have, the feeling that if you ever even get spotted you’ve screwed up completely and should start over. Definitely a skip for me. Which is good since I can’t afford to buy it anyway.
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Yeah definitely. I’d say I’m less hyped for things now than I used to be and Ni No Kuni is probably the only thing I’m keen on playing and even so I’m not that super excited for it.
I also don’t watch trailers or read/see much about games these days. It’s a good feeling going in ‘blind’ and I actually got to a point in the past where I felt like I knew everything about the game without ever playing it, and that sucked!
At the moment all the new releases haven’t really got me hyped. I pre-ordered DS2, BL2 and Pokemon W2 yet felt no real urge to play them ASAP even though I loved all the previous entries in their respective series. BL2 was amazing though (GOTY for me!) and I rode that hype train after release ;D (I think I’m at 92 hours)
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The last time I got super super hyped for anything it was Halo 2 and it sucked balls. 🙁
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I think if you get super excited for something it’s more likely to disappoint. Twilight Princess and Super Smash Brothers Brawl weren’t terrible games but I expected too much from them and was ultimately disappointed 🙁
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I came away from Twilight Princess pretty happy and I was pretty excited for it. But I did play it properly on a gamecube so maybe that helped. 🙂
Actually I lie about Halo 2, the last game I got super super hyped for was Muramasa (seriously) and it delivered pretty much what I was expecting.
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yep i’m the same, i see dishonored, i can see it looks awesome and will probably be good, but i have no drive to play it… yet i pre-ordered RE6… so i think my opinion does not count…
So I bought the Ticket to ride Europe DLC yesterday. The 5th player in single player is so bugged. In the 2 games we played they opened up by playing the largest track they could, which is a 8 carriage track. They then proceeded to draw cards without playing another track for the game.
This meant that the pickup pile ran out. It was only restocked as people played tracks, but because he was just before me, he always took any cards that had been played. It was rather frustrating to have that at end game.
Posted my 2001 year book photo and 2009/2011 contrast photos on Twitter in case any one wants to gawk. I can assure you, it ain’t gonna be up for very long. First step to going to a meat! People accepting me for the horrible person I am. 😛
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I am so disappointed, you totally just look like a normal dude. I was expecting like, tentacles or for half your head to constantly be on fire or something.
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The mental illness is what differentiates me. :S
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Good God man! You’re normal!
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Baby steps D.C .
So what’s next? You’re coming to the New year’s eve Sydney camping trip right?
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Next step, upload a sample of my voice. See if people can I understand me. That’ll be make or break right there. 😛
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Get on TeamSpeak. I hear people have conversations there 🙂
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You should both go on TeamSpeak 😛
Oh and D.C. you can go on TeamSpeak and NOT talk. Some weird people do that!
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A Wild D.C. appears!
I do agree with Blaghs though, pretty disappointing that you’re just a normal chap :P. I half expected some sort of pigman Peyj just from your gravatar.
I guess this means we’ll be seeing D.C. at meats soon :D! Do it after November 12th though when I’m on holidays so we can have a massively epic “meet D.C. meat”
Oh and I totally wondered what the hell you were sitting on but then it hit me that it’s probably that … um flying thing from Star Wars? (I’m a terrible nerd but that’s because I’m totally a jock)
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Children were totally waiting for me to get off that Speeder, but hey, it was my turn damn it! 😛
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I can’t believe I almost missed those due to being busy! You look nothing like the picture you sent me for the quilt. 😛
Also…don’t take this the wrong way but you’re kind of handsome. 🙂
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I’ll just assume you’re mocking me and we’ll speak of it no more! Haha!
All those photos are out of date anyways. Now I have greying eye brows. 😛
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I’m really not mocking you. In fact, I’m rescinding my orders for you to get to a Meat because I’ll probably get flustered if you talk to me. 😀
Seriously though, even greying eyebrows isn’t going to make much difference, you’re an attractive guy. Deal with it.
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BEST.
WEEKEND.
EVER.
…I’m going to go lie down.
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The weekend was pretty good, but that trip back to Canberra really let it down. Having to sit in a car for a few hours with some guy? Horrifying.
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Could be worse, you could be left alone with you and your thoughts.
Nightmarish.-
Erggh, having to deal with myself? That guy’s a jerk.
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What’d you get up to?
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BorderlLANs 2 with Pez, Cake and Pants, then EB expo, then more LAN. Drinking interspersed throughout. Then a horrible drive back to the ACT with Blaghs.
Also go to say hi to Shiggy, Doc What?, Harli and Fat Shady!-
Oh, man! Sounds amazing! Borderlands any different being in the same room?
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Yeah, you can punch each other when loot-stealing happens 😀
Other than that, most multi stuff is just generally more fun at a LAN.
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It was the most fun I’ve had since the last time I had that much fun.
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I can’t remember the last time I had that much fun, due to my poor memory retaining capabilities.
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The point is, it was really really fun. :p
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TAY!
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ALGEBRA!
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Aleph, my old friend. What brings you to these parts? The prospect of adventure? Excitement?… LOVE?
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I’M NOT THAT OLD *sobs*
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:O so cool!
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That baton twirler guy is a beast.
On the rare occasion someone says something negetive about Anna’s Quest on Steam Greenlight, I have to stop myself from responding and getting worked up about it. I can’t imagine how Sughly feels! 😀
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(Which reminds me, vote for Anna’s Quest on Steam Greenlight! http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=100743534)
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I was just looking through them and saw that Sughly is a total tart
“I think it’s accepted lore now that yes the Grandpa is Milhouse in his older years. If this means more upvotes, then so be it! “-
That’s just asking for a 20th Century Fox lawsuit. 😛
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Hahaha! I am trying to go with the flow! I WILL DO ANYTHING FOR UPVOTES! ANYTHIIIING!
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Yeaaap, sometimes I just go ok, people… are idiots. Its cool. I just dont get the idea of criticizing a game for it’s genre, stuff like that. So dumb.
Monday, TAY!
As they say, if you can’t say anything nice, don’t say, anything at all; so Monday it is.
Moving on, Pokémon talks. I am kinda tempted to use the female protag since the male one doesn’t have anything nice for me to say about him.
Also TAYlocke. Get excited! I am nearly ready to start my journey! I’ve been grinding the first two routes to prepare and im nearly done!
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Journey? Like.. spiritual journey? The game journey? The band journey? When I think about it there is no wrong journey to take, but I’m curious nonetheless.
EDIT: Haha, derp. I still stand that there’s a lot of good ‘journeys’ out there, though.
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The band Journey? Thanks a lot Saturday, now I’ve got Faithfully stuck in my head:
“Being apart ain’t easy on this love affair, two strangers learn to fall in love again. I get the joy of rediscovering you. Oh, girl. You stand by me! I’m forever yours… faithfully.”
Also? Wies bars! Mango! Meat write-up! 😛
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FINE I’M GOING OUT NOW GAWD
but I am far too lazy to do a meat write-up and CJ’s got that covered, so yeah.
GAWD
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😀 I only ask, because I care man. 😛
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.. About the meat or the food?
Because honestly I’m holding the food in higher regard now but alright
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Both! Haha!
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All the latest Pokemon protagonists have looked rather silly to me. They need to go back to a plain looking kid wearing a cap.
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I feel as if the designers of the main characters haven’t plumbed the deep, deep world that is the world of hats. Where my fatigue (military) caps? the bowler hats? I swear if they pull off a main character that looks good with a bowler hat, I will buy TWO copies of BOTH versions of that generation.
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Pokemon: TF2 edition.
I’d buy it.
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I want customisable protagonists. Not even anything too complicated, just a couple of different hats and shirt colours or something! Obviously they’d still need a canon default design, but still!
Decided to break out a little more MWO over the weekend.
After several matches of having the floor wiped with me I now find myself browsing the ‘newbie’ page of the MWO Beta forums.
I’ve been a Mechwarrior fan since I was a pimply-faced teenager and yet I have to look at the newbie forums just to try and enjoy playing the game.
Poop.
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I hear it is quite teamwork orientated. Maybe we should have a TAY playdate.
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That might be a good idea, considering you can set your allegiance to ‘lone wolf’ the game is not very kind to single players.
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This was my main worry with the game, that it would be way too hardcore and I wouldn’t be able to enjoy it without devoting myself entirely to it for weeks to get good enough to play well.
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Lrn2ply noob. Go bak 2 barby.
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I see, I shall attempt to translate:
“Learn to play the game, you person of inadequate experience. You best be off and… return to your barbeque?”-
I believe the final line was
Go back to playing with Barbie dolls, as I believe that girls are less skilled at games. I therefore am implying that, as you should play with barbies which are a thing for girls, you are not skilled at the game.-
…I see.
I prefer the barbeque option, personally.
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Just a small town girl, living in a lonely woooorld. She took the midnight train going any where…
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Aw no man don’t do this
Just a city boy, born in raised in south detroit. He took the midnight train going anywhere..
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A singer in a smokey room, the smell of wine and cheap perfume…
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Potatoes.
C-c-c-c-c-combo Breaker!-
You. Monster.
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Rolling around at the speed of sound
Got places to go gotta follow my rainbow
(I should actually go out and do stuff now. :P)
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Can’t stick around gotta keep movin’ on.
Don’t know what lies ahead only ONE WAY TO FIND OUT!
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I am what I am.
Ug ug ug ug ug!
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They’re red, they’re white, they’re brown
They get that way underground
There can’t be much to do
So now they have blue ones tooWe don’t care what thay look like we’ll eat them
Any way they can fit on our plate
Every way we can conjure to heat them
We’re delighted and think they’re just greatRefrain
Poh tay toe Poh tay toe Poh tay toe Poh–
Tay toe poh Tay toe poh Tay toe poh Tay–
Toe poh tay Toe poh tay Toe poh tay Toe–
Poh tay toe Poh tay toe Poh tay toe!-
Boil’em mash’em stick-em-in-a-stew,
boil’em mash’em stick-em-in-a-stew,
boil’em mash’em stick-em-in-a-stew,
boil’em mash’em stick-em-in-a-stew,
boil’em mash’em stick-em-in-a-stew,
boil’em mash’em stick-em-in-a-stew,
boil’em mash’em stick-em-in-a-stew,
boil’em mash’em stick-em-in-a-stew
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Happy Monday all, How is everyone
*free Hugs*
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Hey buddy. Hope you’re well!
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*hugasaurus* Hey GingerChris! I hear you found a job? Has it started yet?
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Hey man. It’s been a while. How’s the new job?
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HA. I’m on to you. Free hugs my left foot. You just want to collect our hug data and sell the information to the Lovelot-Hugankiess Affection Triad so they can use it to influence the US government to control the worlds supply of Vicks Vaporub.
Don’t deny it.
My desk chair at home is falling apart. The seat of it has lost its padding and the faux-leather cover is cracking and peeling off in chunks. 🙁 It was a cheapo Officeworks executive chair thing. I obviously need a new one.
At work I have an Aeron which would be my ideal for home as well, but they’re super expensive and I simply haven’t got the spare cash to spend on one. I need something with a decent back to it (shoulder height at least), recline so I can lean back in it a bit (ideally adjustable tension) and I kind of like the mesh back on this, it gets less hot & sticky.
Anyone have suggestions on decent mid-price (budget ~ $200-400) chairs?
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I have one of these. It’s pretty good.
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🙁 Why is the one you linked $350 but if I look it up at the Richmond store it’s $400? 🙁
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Adelaide, it’s OK.
Just go to Officeworks, I hear they have some decent enough stuff there.
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WHO WANTS TO SEE AN ANIMATED GIF?
Edit: Now that’s a pretty awesome page get!
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what I really like about that sequence, is how casually Harli is weilding the chainsaw.
Edit: I just figured that you planned the page get. Still, well done & all that.
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I don’t have the time nor the skill to acquire a page get. This was all luck! 😛
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Yes! Haha, I love the look on Harli’s face. She’s like “Yeah, Whatever”.
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After the horrors Julie’s seen, she’s just an empty, emotionless shell.
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THIS IS TOO MUCH VIOLENCE MY CHILDREN MIGHT SEE THIS AND BECOME PSYCOPATHIC MURDER- oh wait, it’s not a game, that’s okay then.
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That’s pretty damned awesome.
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Awesome GIF is awesome!
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Dayum those are some pretty sweet VFX, Doc.
Comments like these perplex me. What sort of a bubble must one live in to have such a warped perspective on things? I fail to see how anyone can think of Serrels as someone who loves to “bag EB Games”.
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Even if it was true, which I doubt it is, who cares what a random website thinks of a brand anyways!?
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People see what they want to see, I suppose.
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Perhaps they were confusing Kotaku and Potaku.
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That is a very good point.
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You just don’t understand Strange.
It was his 4th article after he took over from wildgoose and he clearly said that he decided to go to GAME rather than EB.
This isn’t something that you can just brush under the carpet and pretend it never happened
Maybe you should kiss someone nice, or lick a rock.
Or both.
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Noted.
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Err…okay? But I don’t know anyone nice and rocks are yucky. Don’t ask me how I know, I just do .:P
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It’s a Mum thing, they know these sort of things
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Seems like the thing to do!
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Add a dab of lavender to milk
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Make friends with an orange… and pretend you’re laughing at it
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Ooh, unnecessary things!
In less important, non-pokemon news: I only have 2-ish weeks left of Uni! FOREVER! I’m so excited! (Also, Pokemon this thursday!)
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Congrats with the uni thing, make the most of those last few days. You’ll miss it. Seems crazy, but your mind will make you miss all sorts of things it shouldn’t. 😛
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I’ve pretty much already checked out 😛 I only go one day a week and most of the people I know have already graduated. It’ll just be so good not to have to worry about assignments and exams ever again! (Though I suppose it gets replaced with other grown up things haha)
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I remember my last day of Uni. Awkwardly standing outside IGA with some folks. Shuffling off in different directions. 😛
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Holy crap those are awesome.
Also woooo for Uni being almost finished!
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They also have full sets from all 5 generations! 😀 Completely unnecessary, but cool!
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WAAAANT! :O
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That Rapture pin is awesome
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Woo at Uni being nearly over!
I’ve nearly finished my 2nd year but I have 3 assignments due in by next week and then exams real soon after 😛 GAH! I wish it was over for me D: but then again I’m not really sure what I’d do after Uni…
Oh how amazing it would be to win the lottery and just bum around for the rest of my life ;D
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That would be fantastic.
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Congratulations on almost finishing uni \o/
Question for those of you who use that green man gaming site. would Dishonored (EU) version be compatible with AU steam?
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I’m pretty sure it is. The steam codes are global, it’s just the prices that vary.
The ozgameshop one guarantees compatibility, and that’s the UK version.Also I someone posted last week that ozgameshop are starting to sell just codes instead of hard copies… THIS IS AWESOME, SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!
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cheers good sir.
cant seem to find a code only version of it on OGS, but its only a matter of $2 to go with GMG.
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Have you had a look at http://stores.ebay.com.au/Egans-Online
I fitted out our office with chairs from there. We got really good steelcase chairs that retail for 800-1000 for about 7 bucks each
Not sure how you will go after just one but they often sell the larger “executive” chairs singly. Might not be wht you are after but a good place to potentially save some cash
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I’m not sure I’d want used chairs. The idea that there may have been an unknown number of unknown people’s buttocks planted on them for years disturbs me.
SSSPPPPAAAAAAYYYYYYCCCCEEE MAUREEEEEENNNN!!!!
For those who haven’t played it yet…it’s pretty cheap now
http://www.mightyape.com.au/product/PS3/Warhammer-40000-Space-Marine/7938022/
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I has it, but you need to click on Pow’s link above and check out the Rapture pin
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Oh, freaking SSSSQQQQQQQQQUUUUUUUUUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!
That’s so purty!
Me want. Now!
I’m throwing my wallet at the monitor but nothing is happening?-
Only one left?!
NOooooOOOOOO!!!
Until payday tomorrow…-
DOS attack, take down the site. Don’t let them do take it from you
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YES… ATTACK THEM WITH DOS… I’VE HEARD 6.3 IS THE WORST*
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haaaaaah lame joke i know, but it always makes me giggle thinking about attacking people with DOS…
*best
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Hey. Tay. Expect a Snacktaku post later today or tommorow. I’m taking this far too seriously than I should be.
Also, tommorow is corrected to morristown by chrome. That’s just weird.
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Probably because it’s actually spelt ‘tomorrow’? 😛
Dunno why it’d want to correct it to Morristown though. IE autocorrects it to tomorrow.-
Lambo, I should have punched you out when we met. but you’re right and I’m ashamed of my horrible spelling mistake. 🙁
… I’m not correcting that, BTW.
Also, Blagh gave me a bag full of food, but I gotta ration it so it doesn’t run out. Like I said, serious.
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Haha! Blaghman is freakin’ awesome.
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I refute these statements, this man is clearly deranged.
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My stomach is rumbling with anticipation!
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You’re a good guy, Saturday! Unless you hate Wies bars, then… we’ll cross that bridge only if we have to… 😛
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Did you want me to buy the bag of lime just in case
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Might be for the best. 😛
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And my shovel!
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Because of all the Coronas he’s going to have to drink to get over it right?
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Exactly
We are talking about the Mango Wies bars meat aren’t we 😉
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I hate the mango ones…does this mean I’m not a good guy?
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… now I don’t know what to think… it’s a brave new world…
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Pfffft, as if you were ever a good guy in the first place 😛
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You’re going to talking to me about being confused over guys and gals? You?! 😛
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Well, okay. Maybe I can’t talk about that. But I can talk about your bad grammar! 😛
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Don’t forget about Minties and Fantales.
Plus, the TAY staple; Shapes.
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I tried those new honey barbeque chicken flavoured Shapes and they were the worst flavour ever. They tasted like some of my son’s nappies smell.
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Chicken Crimpy is the only flavour.
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Wooooo! EB Expo was heaps fun. So was the mini-meat afterwards.
Those airplane flights though…
Anyone else get really sharp headaches when flying on a plane? Got them about halfway through both flights. Really excruciating. Had to stop everything I was doing and just hold my head in my hands, it was that bad. Felt like something had burst in there.
Doc Blaghsy thinks it’s got something to do with differing air pressure outside and in my sinuses, also something about possible bruising of the sinus membrane?
My head still hurts, but no where near as bad as it was on the plane.
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I was going to say this last night, but didn’t want to freak you out, you sure it’s not a thrombosis of some kind? Cause that would be… uh… bad…\
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That’s probably a little alarmist. Pretty sure you only get that on long haul flights too.
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I don’t think it’s that. I’m not dead yet and every part of me is still functioning properly 😛
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I’ve.. never had that. Is it actual airsickness (which is basically like carsickness) or just the headache? Air pressure is also a possibility- much like the bends people get when seadiving.
EDIT: Can’t be the bends, a quick research shows me that’s pretty damn serious. Air pressure is still a valid reason, though. 😛
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Nope, not like carsickness, just a really sharp headache, right above my left eye.
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yeah, I’ve had that sharp headache thing one or twice on flights. Pretty sure Doc Blaghs is right in that its air pressure related.
I’ve had some success at fixing it (or at least relieving the symptoms) by doing that thing that makes your ears ‘click’Edit: what D.C. said may also be the case. umm… yeah. might be a bad thing.
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Forcing a yawn works well!
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also holding your nose & then trying to breathe in & out through it a few times works for me.
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I tried the yawning thing. Didn’t work, although it doesn’t usually work for me anyway.
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Next flight try chewing gum from take off and see if that helps.
The change in pressure can have that effect and can give you really nasty headaches if your ears don’t pop. I typo’d that as eyes don’t pop, just a note if your eyes pop during the flight that is bad.
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I don’t know if this will help but usually when I get motion sick, I get headaches. Not as bad as you get, obviously. Did you try sleeping it off or taking meds for it?
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I got home late last night, then I slept in till about 11am xD
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Wait, it stills hurts? Might be worth seeing a doctor if you think you need to!
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Last sentence of my original post: “My head still hurts, but no where near as bad as it was on the plane.” Silly D.C. 😛
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I must’ve been too eager to give you unsolicited medical advice. 😛 I’m sorry, man.
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I forget or skip things sometimes too. Like yesterday, I replied to a tweet and it made me look like and idiot because I had forgotten how daylight savings works (the clocks go forwards an hour, not backwards) xD
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I’ll tell my mum about it and see what she thinks. I probably should have told her about it earlier actually…
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It’s all those video games. They’re bad for your health.
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Shhhhuuuuuunnnnnn
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Candy Mountain!
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Ugh, I really hate that thing. Stoopid unicorns and kidney-thieving (Sidenote, Kidneythieves is a great band) candy letters.
I’ma go listen to some Kidneythieves.
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IT’S THE MAGICAL LIOPLEURODON!
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Gasp! Smite the unbeliever!
Yeah, the fact that the pain’s still there now makes my rather rough diagnosis increasingly unlikely(as much as I hate to admit to being wrong). Did you experience the pain throughout the day, or was there a spike in the first flight, and then lasting pain during/after the second? If you’ve had continuous head pain for 24 hours, I’d recommend seeing someone who’s trained in this stuff(not just listening to some random guy on the internet with no medical training).
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It wasn’t too bad after the first flight, although I was probably wasn’t paying much attention to it because of the expo. Both flights were the same though. The pain came out of nowhere halfway through, stayed at the same level for the rest of the flight, then slowly went away afterwards. It’s just taking a lot longer to go away this time.
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Could be as simple as dehydration… due to the low humidity while flying, you should generally have a bottle of water every hour to stay hydrated… may sound like something trivial, but trust me, it works
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apparently the relative air humidity can drop all the way below 1% on some flights 0.o causing drying up of various body parts, including the mucus membranes in your nose causing headaches… huh… #themoreyouknow
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I spent entirely too long thinking about why TAY had slowed down for the day a lot earlier than usual. Then I remember it was my nemesis… Day Light freakin’ Saving.
(Possibly working with Calendar Man!)
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I’m still here.
I’m ALWAYS here.
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I take solace in that. 😀
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Uff. I have so much sewing to do in the next hour. Does anyone want to come and do it for me?
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Are you making a quilt too?
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Freaking shoes man. A whole pile of them.
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🙁 Hope you get through ’em quickly and stress free!
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*checks pulse*
nope, still alive! \o/
HEY TAY! ‘SUP?
i’m good how are you?
not much TAY time, work is taking up waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too much of my time… but possible promotion soon \o/ so should be worth it…
how’s everyone? missed me?
i kid, i kid, of course you did
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Pixel! Hope life’s treating you decently! Good to stay busy!
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and weirdly depressing as well XD not much of a life outside of work at this stage….
Though i just took the dog for a 2 hour walk, that was nice!-
I feel you with that no life but work stuff. It’s a major reason the rest of my life I falling apart but hey, at least my boss loves me.
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the way i see it is that once i’ve proven myself and done the proverbial “hard yards” i can be well off and be like Hugh Hefner… he started in IT right? RIGHT?
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Who’s this guy?
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Obligatory ‘who’s this guy?’
DAMNIT FREEZE
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No it’s okay. See yours was obligatory. Mine was said with genuine love and concern.
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Alex could learn a thing or two about compassion, that’s for sure. 😛
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Hi pixel.
Hopefully, you get the promotion soon.
I’m ok, nothing much on my end. I’m just thinking of upgrading my PS3s hard drive and I have bills to pay /o\ Hopefully, if my budgeting is correct I can pay off most of the bills by this week then think about the HDD.
Nobody talks about it but gaming is costly 🙂
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upgrade of HDD \o/
Bills /o\
gaming is costly -o-though i completely agree, it’s easy to spend waaaaaaaay to much* money on gaming
*just enough
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NO MASHA.
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Hi PIxel, of course we missed you.
Guess what, I was starting a new torchlight character and select the ferret as a pet. Clicked on the select random name and Pixel came up. Best random name selection eva.
Then I found 10 gold coins-
Bahahaha THAT IS AWESOME!!! \o/
i mean *cough*… clearly that was intended, because me and Runic games are like this
*crosses fingers*
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Well, it’s been showering on and off here…
Speaking of showering, I should probably have one…
Haven’t done so for a couple of days…. 🙁
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Uh…
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He’s living up to his name, don’t you judge him. 😛
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Dirtyguy1990!
I feel like if people asked you how your showers were, you might be more motivated to have them ;D
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I have them, it’s just a pain having to walk upstairs…
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I just hope that there aren’t any mushrooms growing in there…
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Anyone here able to create graffiti text?
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Something like these
http://www.dafont.com/theme.php?cat=606-
Ah I was trying to go for authenticity.
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A coworker just ruined the ending of S2 of The Walking Dead, which I haven’t seen yet. Ffffffuuuuuuu!!!
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Don’t go to Event Cinemas then. They showed a two minute preview before Looper. Looked to be all season three related. I think Strange was spoiled for Dexter too!
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It wasn’t that great an ending. The part when the zombies had an impromptu ballroom dancing competition and everyone learned that love is the most powerful thing was kind of cool.
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Don’t forget the part were they taught the zombies to live off tofu. Then everyone came back alive and everyone got married and lived happily ever after. Then they found $10.
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What? I loved that scene! The part where they un-zombify that woman with the power of friendship was amazing.
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Is that when she began to sing that I Am Woman Hear Me Roar song?
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I thought the bit where the show turned out to be the complete backstory for Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’ video was the best twist though.
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Ahhh, so that’s why that Walking Dead Zombie was dancing to Thriller at the EB Expo Cosplay Evolved competition 😛
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Stab them. In the face. With a soldering iron.
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Now I’m picturing soldering iron swordfights….
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Must be accompanied by Fatboy Slim’s Weapon of Choice. For reasons.
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Brilliant!
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I live! You can stop panicking now.
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Still in Sydney?
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Yup. The training goes until tomorrow afternoon. Been out up in a services apartment near Datling Harbour.
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Not too shabby?
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Complete with tasty(?) green beverages D:
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AHHHHHHH! AHH! HE’S GOT A GUN AND HE DOESN’T KNOW HOW TO USE IT! AHHHHHH! HE’LL BE THE DEATH OF US ALL! AHHHHHHHHHH!
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Ugh… this guy!
Btw I had some loot for you and Nobbob but my inventory was getting full so I just gave it to Nobuli. What else were you mainly interested in? I can keep an eye out 🙂
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LIES ALL LIES. BTW Bunny I found some amazing loot on my own and I think it might be good for you. Just give me all the credit, unless the loot is bad then it is all Greenius’ fault.
=P-
I can kill both bosses in under 10 seconds now 😀
Conference Call and The Bee are so OP
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I believe you Nobfrond.
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Hello everybody!
@everyone – Dishonored looks super shiny.
@puppylicks & co. – MWO is fun. Definitely should organise a TAYbie playdate, though.
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Will MWO have guilds or anything? Should create Clan Three-Headed Monkey.
Fucking daylight savings always ruins me completely. My sleeping patterns are fragile and delicate enough as it is. To make matters worse: 8am conference call I have to be in the office for tomorrow. 🙁
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Yeah, just what the hell are we saving all this daylight for?
A blackout?
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*hugasaurus*
Also, I typo’d that as *hagasaurus* at first. O.o
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Yeah I was totally fucked today :/
Almost fell asleep at Uni today and had to take a nap as soon as I got home (just woke up from it a few minutes ago). Was planning to start work on an assignment too but that ain’t gonna happen…
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I love daylight savings! I hated that it was getting bright so early in the morning. I can also now sit outside to eat dinner without it being pitch black!
I can see how it would screw with peoples sleep though :\
Does anyone remember Brøderbund Software?
Stunts, Carmen San Diego, Zoombinis?
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The Last Express!
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Zoombinis! 😀
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MORE TOPPINGS!
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Fleens?! You’re not Fleens!
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Roller skating zoombinis are best zoombinis.
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whoa, zoombinis, i can’t even remember what the point of that game was.. but it was awesome…
and carmen san diego is always a classic
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what- it’s Carmen Sandiego. No blank in the middle. But yeah, classics. The great chase through time was a fond memory of my childhood.
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So i was going to make some JSRF shirts because I love JSRF to bits.
I ended up giving up ^^;;;
@ MASH BASH
Tell me your email and we’ll sort out this PayPal payment thingy for the games :). Resident Evil 5 and Bulletstorm come out on the 10th so it’ll most likely be the 11th for us, so I’ll talk to you around then and we can swapsies. I think Okami HD comes out on the 30th so we can do another swap early November when the other EU content comes out (or earlier if you want to).
I’m not sure what’s new for US in October but I’ll pick up Tokyo Jungle :D. I hear someone is having a lot of fun with it despite not wanting it.
$20 good enough?
(for anyone wondering we’re sharing PSN accounts and downloading each other’s PS+ content. REBELS)
@ Shane – I sent you an email so reply when you can 😀
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Haven’t seen Shane around since I made some dark comments about Six Feet Under (That I deleted.), hope I didn’t make the guy feel awkward. I’ll assume that’s the case until he makes a triumphant reappearance. 😛
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Come on D.C! I really hope you’re just joking about that. I’m sure Shane is busy at work, with his family or working.
Stop worrying about your comments. We’re all adults so we can take criticism/offensive statements and most importantly WE LIKE YOU!!!!!!!!!!@Greenius.
Yes, we can talk on Thursday and transfer all the relevant payment details. Yeah $20 is fine.
Also, I’m really seriously considering the new HDD. Me needing to manage my demos aside, I did some calculations today and I have 53.3 GBs worth of demos. Even if I manage to delete all of them I’ll still only be able to have maybe 8-10 more PS+ retail games. Some of the PS+ retail games are 6GBs or more and getting content from 2 accounts increases that number and as a result I need more space. Also most of the time PS+ includes a PSN game as well and some of the games can be over 1GB. Also there might be games we want to buy e.g Tokyo Jungle was 2GBs and who knows how big Okami is or how big future purchases will be.With my new job( I’m still looking for something less dodgy) I can at least save a bit and be able to buy the HDD in a few weeks. It’s much cheaper than buying a new PS3 which I was considering. hopefully, I can live with the noise(I think I just it just gets to me when I’m having a bad day or I’m just tired)
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Haha! Was only half-serious, wrote some dark stuff but nothing to take offence over, was geniunely worried that it made him feel awkward. Highly doubted that’s the reason he hasn’t around though! (Thanks for the reassurance anyways, Mashaa! You’re awesome! :D)
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@Mosho – Remember, you can always delete games you’re not currently playing or you’re finished with :). I think 250GB would be plenty for me but I guess you and I have different needs :D. At least a new HDD is cheaper than a new PS3 but remember to keep backing up your saves in whatever way you can. HDDs are linked to a PS3 so if yours breaks then say goodbye to your saves!
@D.C. – +1 to what masha said!
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Ha ha now I’m imagining my name with the vowels replaced.
Masha, Meshe, Mishi, Mosho, Mushu.
Yeah, I’ll look into how much space I can save by deleting finished games and data installs but I don’t think it’s a lot.
I guess I’ll really have to do some serious soul searching and work on my issue of not finishing games. I haven’t bought many games the last few months so I guess that’s a positive step 🙂
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My brother arrived today. Freakin’ awesome 😀
And as a sidenote, he’s got a PS3. Meaning I can finally experience Journey!
WINS ALL ROUND!
HI-FIVE!
*Oprah voice*
If you look under your seats, you’ll find AHIFIVEOHMYGOD
YOU GET A HI-FIVE, YOU GET A HI-FIVE, ERRYBODY GET A HI-FIVE!
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Journey?
Just a small town girl, living in a lonely world. She took the midnight train going anywhere…
😛
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Sigh
Just a small town boy born and raised in south detroit. She took the midnight train going anywhere.
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Cause you’re his cheeseburger! His tasty cheeseburger! He’ll wait for you-oo, oh he’ll wait for you-oo, oh! You are his cheeseburger, his tasty cheeseburger, oh he will wait for youuuuu.
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Any way you want it, that’s the way you need it!
Any way want it….Am I doing it right?
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ROLLING AROUND AT THE SPEED OF SOUND
GOT PLACES TO GO JUST FOLLOW MY RAINBOW
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Good to see the Brothers Aleph have reunited too!
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Genuinely looked under my seat 😀
JOURNEY IS PRETTY COOL GUY
Writing the EB expo thing now shouldnt be too long I hope.
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Can’t wait to read it, man. All the awesomeness of a meat write up with unreleased video games!
Does anyone know how long it usually takes Steam Support to get back to people? I know it was the weekend but I sent them a message about my invalid Steam Key issue on Friday and still haven’t heard anything back.
CJ’s dope Sunday.
Or what happened and how I though about it at EB expo.
(IM NOT AEF!)
I arrived at EB Expo 20 odd minutes before I intended, in the end it worked in my favour. I stood inline waiting for the doors to open whilst monitoring TAY as Blagh updated his train trip. I drank from my coffee, not terrible, not great. Slight spice to it. Why did I let her put chocolate on top of it? Finally the doors open, early too. The line moved quickly and I darted out to the left and through the doors rather then file in behind everyone else ignoring the extra doors like the sheep they were. I’d studied the map I knew where I was headed oh sweet climby stabby goodness soon I shall play you.
BAM! Assassin’s Creed 3 booth found 7th in line. Poster get, take that all you non poster getters (by the end of the day everyone had a poster and I was no longer special.) I finised my coffee and shoved the cup into my jackets pocket and approached the Playstation. Damn its been awhile since I used a PS controller. Skipping the cut scene I found myself at the base of a cliff face and began my assent of the rock face which turned into a tower. The climbing has been slowed slightly from AC2 most likely due to the smaller buildings. Pulling a red coat off the tower and pulling myself up I realised I was stuck looking at the floor. The camera wasnt inverted and I couldnt change it in this build. Aside from this issue I found the game played similar enough but the combat has changed greatly and I found countering difficult as I kept thinking it was the batman combat and pressed the wrong button. My time was up too soon and I hadn’t gotten to climb a tree.
After discovering I had a bit of coffee left after spilling it on my hand whilst retrieving my cup for the bin I found myself in need of a tap. It was on this trip to the bathroom tap I ran into my first TAY member. Blaghman he looks very much like his, at time of writing, gravatar. After using the tap and asking what Blagh was here to see, he responded he didn’t really know why he was here and had nothing he was dying to see, we moved into the WiiU line. The pink haired EB girl at the front of the line was overly happy and soon directed us in. The gampad was light and surprisingly comfortable to hold but perhaps too big for small hands. The donkey kong themed and ninja star games I played were fine but nothing amazing and soon we moved on further into the WiiU booth. New Super Mario Brother U but not on a gampad, pass. ASSASSIN’S CREED 3 NAVY GAMEPLAY ON A GAMEPAD!! in line I did go. Playing a proper game on the pad was very enjoyable and it functioned well. A different motion was needed to reach the face buttons with the thumb and I was unfamiliar as to which was X or Y and such forth but they were nice to the touch and responded appropriately. The gameplay on the ships itself was fresh and timing the broadsides and gernal cannon fire as the waves dropped and hid boats provided a satisfying gratification when the enemy vessel exploaded and began to sink into the depths. The smaller cannons can be aimed much like any FPS and can be used to hit enemy boats weak points for an easy sink. But there was no aim assisst so they were less and “I win” attack and more “you have to earn your power”. We wandered around aimlessly for a bit before lining up for the FarCry 3 playable demo. It was there on PC!! The mouse was positioned awkwardly Ill just use the xbox gamepad. *sigh* I pressed all the buttons quickly scanned the menues (The only demo where I could) climbed a tower ziplinned off picked a flower found a glider flew off and shot some guys thus taking over a camp. Its FarCry 2 but better, with much more to do. The cover system in the game worked well and was easy to use. Simply be on the corner of anything and use the sights on the gun to poke
around or over. Releasing the sight button snaps you back into safety.
WANDER SOME MOAR!!! Then out of the corner of my eye hidden behind two other exhibits and enclosed into its own area I spotted it. Company of Heroes 2! I had no idea it would be there. Ditching Blagh I walked in and found it to be a playable alpha build of the game. With only 2 other people there it wasnt long before I was playing. It played just as they said it would and while I did encounter a few issues it is still only alpha and they were only small issues considering. Slight framerate drop and one bugged out AI. I was gifted a Beta Key for the game and departed. Hrm? Where did Blagh get to?
Moments later I found Blaghman, now from what I remember Blagh started trying to locate other TAY folk via the twitters and things like that while I played some Need For Speed. I mean Burnout Paradise 2 but with Cops. Criterion I love you. Thats all you really need to know about that. With a location of TAYfolk aquired we set about our journey. The location was not on the map but with further direction we found it and there I met Trjn Freyer and Fatshady, in his trails shirt working in a truck set up with Trials Evo in it with the new DLC. BMX bikes people. The group moved back into the main building and split into Blagh Shady and I whilst Freyer and Trjn went
off to find Hitman. We wandered the same path as before but Shady pointed out to me a few things I’d glanced over. Most notibly as Light Gun esq controler that retro fits any shooter. For memory avaliable on Console and PC. We made our way around the building and towards the Hitman booth where we reuinted with Trjn and Freyer, who was engaged in Hitman. She claimed to be searching for a fish to stuff full of drugs she’d found to poison a guy but all we saw was a lot of wandering around a busy market at night. Clearly the game is actually a Walking Simulater (not my revelation I forget who’s Shady or Trjn) and we moved over to a small open space by a bin between 4 booths. Shady had departed to find lunch and it was the last of him I saw for the day.
While we stood there pointlessly one Lamboman accompanied by his younger brother and father found us. There was a brief exchange, Lambo metioned you needed photo ID to play Crysis 3, and the two groups parted. I dont remember quiet how the next part goes but there was some joking excitement of Skylanders toys now being half price and eventually we were again in line for the WiiU, now much longer. The pink haired girl was still there and still happy. Blagh asked if she was high, she was not. Back into the WiiU area we went but this time we were doing something new. Fiver player gaming on one console. With Trjn, Freyer, Blagh and the guy showing us the WiiU playing the uh… not ghosts and I as the ghost playing via the Gamepads screen (the others using the old sideways Wiimote set up) we began. Despite it only being a small party game bundled into Nintendo Land it was alot of fun. It played as a variation on pacman and its alot of fun being the 5th player against the rest. I wasnt a fantastic ghost Trjn was much better but both roles were enjoyable and it was easily in my top 3 highlights of the show (Behind CoH2 and the mighty Assassins 3(can you tell im a filthy fanboi?)) we also played an Animal Crossing themed game that was also fun but I reallyed enjoyed Luigi’s Ghost Mansion.
Next thing I remember we were outside and realised we should call Saturday as no one has met him so we hadnt found him. Also I’d pulled my sleave down hiding the TAY I’d written down my arm to ID myself to people I didnt know. Cause I was already with the people I didnt know. To save time, we met Saturday. Hes from Canada. Thats where Bish went. We spent some time outside doing nothing really, Trjn got a aweful looking thing called a Chilli dog. We looked at various cosplayer wandering around and eventually we were back inside. I dont know where the other went but Saturday and I eneded up at the AC3 booth again this time playing the Vita version. I ran around the city climbed a small tree and couldnt complete my objective as I couldnt find the eagle vision button. Saturday played a bad canoe simulator. Ask him about it some time.
The convention drew to a close and we moved into the closing ceremony loosing Blagh before hand as he had to depart to catch his ride back to Canberra or somesuch. The closing ceremony was nothing great unless you wanted to sit for an hour collecting street pass hits on your 3DS. Freyer and Trjn did just this and even recruited Saturday into it because Freyer happened to have two 3DS’s on XL one normal. I didnt get why but I didnt say anything cause what does it matter. But I guess now I have said something but only because the closing isnt worth writing about. Though they did show highlights from the show and apparently at some stage I missed a live motorcycle show and a guy dressed as Connor from AC3 climbing some scaffolding and then doing a leap of faith off of it. Why wasnt that in the closing ceremony?? Should of gone out with a bang but it went with a whimper (Unless your really into cosplay or managed to catch one of the $50 EB vouchers they were throughing into the audiance.
The day ended with us meeting up with Lambo and his family, going to the city having dinner. Packing Lambo and family into a cab sending them off crossing the road parting with Trjn and Freyer and finally Saturday and I parted because he had to catch a rail bus cause Sydney Cant have all lines open at the same time ever. I stood on the platform plugged in my headphones bored the train and spent the whole trip nearly drifting off to sleep only to have my elbow slide off the window and wake me up.
Also at some point Master Chief stood on my foot.
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Awesome write-up, man! 😀
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OH CRAP I FORGOT! I also met Doc and Shiggy briefly.
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Wow, awesome and long write up. Sounds like you guys had a great time.
Also, it’s good to hear that Far Cry 3 is a better version of 2 with more stuff 🙂
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It also still has that crouch slide move which was literally the first thing I attempted.
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Ha ha, nice.
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Back of the box quote:
“If I had to describe the gameplay of Assassin’s Creed Liberation, it would be that this is by far the worst canoeing simulator of 2012-” Saturday
Games I played: Borderlands 2 for about an hour because, well, I’m not sure why, Need for Speed: Burnout was great, Professor Layton on the 3ds I revved up ended up making me feel very inadequate about my intelligence,, ZombiU was great, AC3 was great despite me waiting long enough to grow a beard and then shave it off, Hitman was very nice, Tomb Raider was Tomb Raidertastic, Metal Gear Rising was a fair bit of fun but the controls I can imagine can get very easy to mishandle easy, I never got to play Aliens. Kinda regret that.
I think CJ is a cool guy, Trjn and Frey and Lambo kills aliens and doesn’t afraid of anything.
Ending show made me hollow. Host kept throwing vouchers to the left side, and they showed footage of days that were obviously more superior than Sunday.
And then I ate breakfast for dinner.
Also I stared at a prop lancer for about 15 minutes before deciding I would actually like to save the money I have left.
That’s.. it, really.
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Oh, man. If I was there I’d spend the entire time with Aliens and Tomb Raider, I reckon. 😀
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Tomb Raider was pretty and played heavily on the whole survivor thing, which I thought was very neat. As far as story and plot went, I didn’t care a lot. It makes me think that if the name wasn’t attached, it would be a superb new IP on it’s own.
Aliens looked really great. It was funny because one side kept going gung-ho and like “Hey, aliens? RUN UP TO THEM AND SHOOT THEM.” I think a lot of call of duty was being channeled in a lot of places, actually.
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Stop it you guys! You’re making me want Need for Speed: Most Wanted /o\
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You also learnt what a Short Black was. bahaha!
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Sometimes I wish people had accounts so that they could be banned from commenting for a period of time if they said something majorly offensive.
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I’m going to assume that Muslim article which I refuse to even look at the comments for.
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Swish.
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What a terrible page get.
Uhm.
I made a gravy from a nice pinot noir, beef juices, peppercorns, cumin, oregano, and rosemary. It was pretty awesome.
Much better.
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Oh yum…hi Zap! When are you cooking us dinner? 😀
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Hi Strange!
If/when I can ever manage to attend a meat.
I don’t care if it ends up being in a museum, I’ll bring a camp stove.
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October 28.
Movieworld.
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Hey, if I’m across that way around that time, sure.
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That. Sounds. Amazing.
I really need to kidnap you one day and chain you in my kitchen 😛
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Somewhat scary and yet titillating?
We’d get along great.
Also I roasted a side of beef in that mix before it became a gravy. Beef was falling apart. I was pretty happy with myself.
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Remember when we had to put in our name and email address? Before we had these accounts? Feels like ages ago now. 😛
Wait, what was I saying?
Oh, that’s right. Email addresses can be…banned? I’m not sure if they actually get banned. It’s just that their comments have to be approved before they’re displayed.
…I kinda had that happen to me after I broke gizmodo’s whitenoise that one time…
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The Giz folk seem more vigilant than Mark. Though you might’ve had it coming in that instance. 😛
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Interesting idea. If people without accounts needed to be approved, and people with accounts on a watchlist also needed to be approved, that’d be pretty cool.
It’s… yeah, I ain’t touchin’ that one.
I’d likely be one of the first banned, although perhaps for all the right (wrong?) reasons.
I’ve almost stopped reading all articles aside from TAY (mainly due to time constraints, to be fair), and the comments are somewhat responsible for this.
Perhaps after a few drinks I’ll have something to add to the discussion, for better or worse.
People as a whole, regardless of race/creed/gender/sex/opinion or disposition are vile creatures. The comments in that article don’t surprise me in the slightest, I’m sad to say.
Thanks for the heads-up Zap.
Don’t miss CJ’s EB Expo write-up on the previous page, it’s good reading!
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Great meat wrap, CJ! You and Saturday should definitely come to a proper meat sometime (I don’t think there’s any planned at the moment, but there will be one day!)
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There’s supposed to be something around new years or christmas, right? That’s not far off, at least.
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Yup some people are planning a week long camping trip. Details will be posted soon I think.
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Haha! It’ll be like one of those slasher films where you’re taken out one-by-one, as you attempt to work out which TAYbie is the killer. 😀
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And then everyone blames lambo, even though he’s in an entirely different state 😛
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How convieniant…. Lambos the killer!
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I think more likely someone like Strange or Shane, you’d never suspect ’em.
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1847 words.
Shiet son, I’m proud.
he responded he didn’t really know why he was here and had nothing he was dying to see
Klassic Blaghman!
Sounded great, hopefully PAX is in Melbourne and tickets are cheap and easy enough to get and all the TAYbies can come down and it’ll be super fun and everyone is happy : D
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serious? wow I’ve taken longer to write shorter school assignments then that.
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Haha yeah before you were a regular TAYbie I wrote up quite a few long comments (essays) on vidya games and it’s surprising how much fun writing stuff can be when you’re not forced to do it and it’s on something you know about/enjoy.
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Reposting because I know I’ll get overshadowed by CJ’s totally-not-incredible-Expo-write-up 🙂
Does anyone know how long it usually takes Steam Support to get back to people? I know it was the weekend but I sent them a message about my invalid Steam Key issue on Friday and still haven’t heard anything back.
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Stupid question but did you try contacting OzGameshop first? I’d think it’s a problem on their part (faulty key?) rather than Steam.
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You know I haven’t done that yet. Simple solution. Thanks green man
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Ahhh, hmmmm. Wat do! /o\
Popsugar are having a comp where you can win a Nokia Lumia 900, but you have to like them on facebook. I can’t pull myself to do it, the shame, the shame! /o\
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Ah, who am I kidding? SIGN ME UP, SCOTTIE. 😀
Also, I wonder how they’d react if I entered a thousand or so word story? THAT’S FOR MAKING ME LIKE YOU ON FACEBOOK, SUCKAS! >:D
Nah, I’m not that evil…well, maybe I am, just not tonight though 😛
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I was going to point you towards that competition, Ram. Glad you entered. To be honest, I hope you win as I never see any comments on Sugar articles so I feel if people can’t be bothered commenting, they shouldn’t be in the running for comps. Maybe instead of making people like them on FB they should be making people comment on their articles.
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Nonono, I haven’t entered yet. I’ve…just started writing my thousand word story…yeah, I gave up on the don’t be evil thing…
But it sure is gonna be a humdinger of a story! 😛
Man, they won’t know what hit them. Sure will make them make sure they put a word limit on their next comp 😛
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I had a go of that phone in JB HiFi over the weekend and man was it ever swish! They only had a grey model on display though (doesn’t that kind of defeat the purpose? :P) I’ll definitely be doing some more research into Windows phones in future.
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YES! Another convert! 😛
Was it you that I told about Launcher 7, that program that makes your android phone look like WP7? I think it might have been, but can’t remember correctly.
But anyway, I’ve probably said this before but I’ll say it again anyway, the most exciting thing about WP8 is the fact it runs DirectX and if I recall correctly it’s really easy to make a game for xbox or windows then port it over. So that would be really cool if we ended up with more console quality mobile games. Maybe even ports of full console games one day? If they ever figure out how to make nice on screen controls, that is. 😀-
Hah, yeah, that was me. Haven’t had a go yet but I’ve bookmarked it.
Honestly the game stuff doesn’t really interest me TOO much. The main thing I use my phone for is calling/texting/etc and the Internet. It really just comes down to which phone OS has everything I need. At least now that I’ve had a go of WP I can add it to my list of things to consider once I actually need a new phone!
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Come down to Chadstone’s Telstra Shop I hear there’s a guy with a green shirt who’s pretty good at selling phones and totally might’ve sold some phones to people even though that’s not his job.
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The official twitter client for WP7 is both better and worse than the iOS/Android ones. You know how you can start typing an @ and it comes up with a list of people that have the letters you’ve typed in their name? The WP7 one doesn’t have that. Also, it doesn’t automatically show the replies to tweets, you have to hit a “Replies to” button to see the entire conversation. But it looks so much better than the iOS/Android version. Pretty sure there are other Twitter WP7 clients that are better, and they have the whole Metro styling too so they’d look pretty good as well.
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Get lambogirl to do it 😉
Ecolibrium on the PSV.
Downloaded it the other day, gave it a bit of a whirl.
Not bad. Seems a bit pay2win, though.
Anyone else had a tinker?
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Btw how are the PS Mobile games? I think the service launched last week. Some of the games looked cool but they seemed a bit overpriced compared to the same game on ios but I guess there is a smaller Vita market.
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Not sure.
I had a look at what was available, but nothing took my interest. I’m not one to buy mobile games anyway, so it’s a hard sell.
I like the fact that they’re doing this, and planning on releasing new games each week. It makes the PSV an even more comprehensive offering.
Something will eventually show up that’ll get my interest, I’m sure, but unless they’re sitting at the $1 price point, I’d probably be more likely to buy a PSV game or a PSP/PSX game I haven’t played before. Or want to play again, like the original Crash.
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Although there is that game where you have to colonise weird planets with spores and grow trees or something. Apparently that’s available on the PSV, but I couldn’t find it.
Played the demo on my PS3, but that’s about it.
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I think you’re talking about Eufloria http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eufloria
I own the game on PS3 and it’s really fun. It’s an RTS with the spores and seedlings acting as your units. It’s a good game but it gets challenging later on. I hit a difficulty wall which stopped me finishing the game.
Thanks for reminding me about it, I really need to finish it soon.
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Yeah, that’s the one.
Played the demo, although a lot of what was going on didn’t make sense. Like those volcano/bomb tree things.
I’m sure the full game would explain them better.
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Urrrgh!! So much TAY!
How is everyone?
What did I miss?
Scree’s tooth? EB Expo meat? Did I miss Snacktaku?
Tell me everything!
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EB EXPO MEAT. We caught a train, hoping CJ new his way around the Sydney train lines as well as he was saying he does. He did. Then we wandered around the city trying to find a place to eat. I mean, eat at.
I think I also may have been the most talkative I’ve ever been at a meat before.-
Eating! Talking! Yay \o/\o/\o/
How was the Expo? You get cool swag? Play jelly-inducing unreleased games? Have you done a write-up yet?-
Yes, I got to play Crysis 3 and it was awesome.
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. No. EA decided you’d need photo ID to prove you’re over 15 before they’d let you play the game. I had no photo ID on me, nor do I even have any kind of photo ID whatsoever. >:(
I got to play Tomb Raider though. Man, I’m looking forward to that game. I think they said it’d most likely have an R18 rating when it comes out though? Probably will be the only R18 thing I ever own (current games that are rated R18 in other countries non-withstanding). I really like it because unlike most other games I’ve played, the player’s character actually has emotions! Yes, she may be a bit of a blubbering mess, but that’s another reason why I want to play it. This is her origin story, and I want to see how she goes from being a blubbering mess to the strong adventurer she is in the other games. Also, I ran out of arrows while shooting a deer and couldn’t continue the demo any further because I couldn’t get anymore arrows, so I just put the controller down and left.
Also, Need for Speed Most Wanted still feels more like Burnout Paradise 2 than Most Wanted 2 🙁 Although the recent videos they showed on the website about the blacklist make me a feel a little bit better about it.-
I totally forgot about new Tomb Raider!
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I like the new direction of Lara Croft. Watching her become the character we know and love slowly but surely. She’s never had much depth at the best of times, so these changes are awesome! For me, atleast. I understand that some folks attached to the ol’ Lara aren’t as happy. 🙁
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Lambo’s had a persistent headache since his flights, we tried to diagnose him. Scree’s been attempting to get an appointment for a dentist, last time she checked in… no dice. CJ and Saturday have meat reports at the end of the previous page, no Snacktaku yet, but there’s been some progress on that front. Freeze continues to plan a Movie World meat. Lots of folks are all kinds of excited for Dishonored, some aren’t. We agreed it’s a good time to be a gamer!
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I gave up \o/
Our dental system is crap!
That was an amazing write up and I really want a wii U now and I’m wondering if I could buy a wiiU for Mum instead of a tablet!-
I’m sorry to hear that Scree 🙁
And you’re right, our dental system is crap.
But seriously, get it seen to sooner rather than later. I have a history of putting off going to the dentist, and it ALWAYS costs me more in both pain and money!
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Dude, no mention of D.C. revealing his totally normal non-drug addict face?!
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I don’t recall that. 😛
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Thanks DC. That’s actually a pretty comprehensive answer to all my questions 🙂
How’s things with you?@ Lambo – I assume you flew home last night or this morning? Hope your headache is better now. I love flying because it’s adventurous and exciting and I don’t do it often, but I then I remember that I hate flying because it always effs me up. If my ears don’t pop properly, I get nasty headaches.
I think it was Dr Karl on JJJ who gave advice to take an asprin before flying, and chew gum in the flight and drink plenty of water. I haven’t had a chance to test this out since I heard it though.-
Yeah, I think the asprin is supposed to thin the blood that helps to prevent DVTs. Can wear compression stuff too, but probably no point unless you’re flying long haul! Water stuff is probably good advice, I don’t drink enough though. Try to minimalize the times I’ve got to use an air plane bathroom. 😛
Haha! I’m decent enough, man. What about you?
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I’ll try to remember all this stuff, but I probably won’t be flying again until PAX Aus next year, so I probably would have forgotten by then xD
The flight was last night, and my headache’s still here. Hopefully it’ll be gone by tomorrow. If not, I’ll go get it checked out by a doctor or something.-
That’s a long time for a flying headache. Hope you’re better tomorrow!
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Someone spoiled The Walking Dead for TheL4stQuestion, Pixel and Freeze are working crazy hard, Journey was mentioned a few times in varied context often followed by song lyrics, Doc What posted a gif of Mark being bisected!
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Pity about Walking Dead spoilers. I’m not fussed with spoilers for the game, but I’d be pretty annoyed with spoilers for the show. It’s due back any time now!
Journey – one of the few games that make me wish I wasn’t too tight to buy a console.
I’ll have to hunt up that gif! I assume it’s from their film?-
Still no mention D.C.? Check out his Twitter for some awesome-o pics :D, he’s also planning to record something so we can try to understand him. Babby steps to attending his first meat!
There was also some daylight savings talk and how it screws with people 😛
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I don’t recall that. 😀
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@ DC – thanks mate – that is awesome!
@ Green – DLS does tend to screw me up for a couple of days.
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His patchy beard and hoodie seem to indicate a whole bunch of drugs.
And DLS made me incredibly tired today and I have achieved nothing that I had planned :'( (assignment stuff)
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DC? He’s actually handsome. TOO HANDSOME. Like, Squidward-when-he-hit-his-face-on-door handsome. Therefore, he locks himself away from the rest of the world to protect us.
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LOL! It’s nice to know he cares.
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POKéMON!
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HA! SOMEONE DIDN’T MEMORISE THE CAPITAL FUNKY E!
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Oh yeah… well… the logo has a lower-case é anyway, so 😛
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But of course!
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Powalen mentioned pokemon. Phew, you’ve finally caught up 🙂
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Haha! Every morning on TAY there should be a previously thing like at the start of TV shows. 😛
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Yep – I feel fully caught-up now!
Thanks everyone for your awesome catch-up-info-giving-ness!You guys = awesomness on a stick!
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I think “Powalen mentioned Pokemon” is a bit of an understatement. I’d replace it with “Powalen entered crazy fanboy mode and is actively holding himself back from raving about how excited he is for Pokemon”
Much more fitting!
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Haha! I didn’t think to recap the Pokemon stuff, because I always automatically scroll past. 😛 It’s not you, Pokemon. It’s me. I hate Pokemon. (Or more accurately, never watched and never played. Haha!)
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Thank you DC for being my Pokemon filter. I was too old for Pokemon when it first hit, so I mostly skip it too.
I just spent 5 minutes trying to expain myself, then realised there’s no point, so deleted.
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No need to explain, you two! It’s not for everybody!
I just get really hyped when new main-series games roll around 😛 I won’t post too often about it, I promise! 😀
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Feel free to post whenever you like, though. It’s easy to skip. Don’t want to deprive you of actually getting to talk about something you love. There’s plenty of like minded folk too by the looks of it! 😀
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Hey, Strange never played Pokemon until recently and she loved it 😀
Same with Puppylicks too I believe, so it’s never too late for Pokemon! Behind all the ‘kiddy’ stuff is genuinely an excellent and fun game.
Both of you (and anyone else) should really give it a shot! It’ll be amazing to go through that first feeling again of not knowing the Pokemon.
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I think you forgot to add ‘raving about how excited he is for pokemon…as he rides a robotic T-rex with built in seating for all the TAYbies. For he is going round Australia spreading the Pokemon spirit and giving people lifts everywhere!’
Guuuuuys where did you pre-order Dishonored (PC)?
I intentionally didn’t see/read much about the game and was holding out for some reviews but now that they’re out and they’re all excellent (just glanced over scores, about to watch two video reviews) and I have a bunch of money just sitting here, I might as well buy it!
I cannot resist. I am weak.
Is $45 at GMG the cheapest? Any pre-order goodies?
EDIT: Found it for $44 by email at OzGameshop but with a $5 coupon that makes it even cheaper 😀
http://www.ozgameshop.com/pc-games/dishonored-game-code-by-email-pc
and I just remembered I don’t have $45 in my PayPal balance at the moment and it’ll take a few days for money to transfer :/
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I haven’t pre-ordered. :'( You best believe I’ll be standing outside JB on Thursday though. 😛
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I love anything with style and Steampunk is one of my favourites 😀
MUST PLAY
HYPE TRAIN
CHOO CHOOOO
Assignments due Thursday, Monday and Tuesday, exams start on the 30th T____T
GOAWAYREALLIFE
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Oh no! Your exams start the same period that Okami HD releases. I guess you can play it as a post-exam celebration.
Most of my money has gone to bills this month but yeah having money available makes it really tempting to splurge e.g. I have been considering buying NFS: Most wanted from the US PSN store. It’s $60 on day one but that’s cheaper than the Au price, right? Right? 🙂
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But if you import it’ll be even cheaper and you get a retail copy that doesn’t take up precious HDD space!
Oh and I’m definitely playing it during the time between exams :P. I’ve never really been one to restrain myself and I think it actually helps 😀
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Good point. I’ll be waiting then.
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I know pretty much nothing about the game except it’s steampunk and openworld? Only seen 1 or 2 pics and a few seconds of video. I feel like I’m the only person in the world that isn’t interested in it 😛
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That’s pretty much what I know as well except it’s stealth. I had 2 video reviews up (IGN and GameTrailers) but gave up after a few mins of the IGN one. I’d love to go in ‘blind’ and just discover things 😀
And you probably are :). Any idea why you aren’t interested? I’m not that big on stealth games but it looks pretty enough and has style which from an art and design stand point, is something I really love.
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I’ve seen a pic of a guy with a weird mask, and some pics of some navy looking guys at a dock I think. Nothing’s really stood out and grabbed my attention, saying I need to get this game or at least check it out a bit more. Just looks a bit bland from what I’ve seen. I’m probably also not interested because I have enough games to play right now thanks to the steam sale…
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Steam Sale? What’s that? I totally don’t have like 30 or so unplayed games from it, pffft that’ll be silly!
EDIT: you know what? I might not get Dishonored now and work through what I already have 😀 (highly unlikely to happen as I’ll probably just get Dishonored anyway :P)
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It’s not actually open world, it follows linear progression, and it’s divided into levels, but the levels themselves are fairly expansive.
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“Wide linear”.
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Ozgameshop $42
Also – you can link your Paypal directly to your bank account – so you don’t have to keep money in the paypal account and you don’t have transfer from one to the other.
I’m going to watch Six Feet Under and Treme! Like usual TAY, it’s been a pleasure. Catch you on the flipside!
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Goodnight!
I’ll be finishing the Dishonored Giant Bomb quick look, which I’ve been watching on and off all afternoon (I really need to work on my media consumption habits. Concentrate masha! Don’t start something then be distracted and open a new tab ) and after that the new episode of Dexter before I go to bed.
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😀 Good night, man!
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I’m also off to watch Six Feet Under. Catch you later DC.
Good night TAY!-
Six Feet Under pals! 😀
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I played about 10 minutes of Dante’s Inferno.
It went something like this:
ARGGHHH STABBITY STAB STAB.
COME ‘ERE BUDDY…
HERE LITTLE GUY.
OH, LOOK HOW CUTE YOU ARE *STABS*
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It’s super accurate to the source material, right? I mean, it was just dripping with perfect visual representations of Dante’s words.
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Oh, it was dead on.
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I hear that in one scene, he turns to the camera and screams “DANTE ALL UP IN THIS, BITCHES! Nine circles of HELL? More like NINE CIRCLEJERKS OF HELL AMIRITE?”
Then he does a wicked-sick 50-50 grind down a skeleton’s backbone and high-fives the camera.
About right?
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He also turns to the camera and shouts SUCK IT a bunch of times while stroking his sickle.
He’s a bit of an ass.
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Well, the “bit of an ass” is pretty true to the source.
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Does he slice his hand open in order to feel real feelings while he does that?
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@Pokefriends
So I’ve got Pokemon White 2 pre-ordered and that’ll come… whenever but I was just wondering if you could please provide a (rot13) recap of the original White’s (I assume Black is fairly similar) story.
Bish also kinda asked a question about whether White 2 would have exclusives that White didn’t (or Black 2 having exclusives that Black didn’t) any more info on this? Is it true? I technically don’t ‘own’ White so it’s not really a problem but I’ll be keen on seeing some of the newer once exclusive Pokemon.
@DS/3DS people
If you still have both a DS and 3DS, what do you play your DS games on and do you *gasp* touch the touch screen with your fingers and not the stylus? I have a DS, DS Lite, DSi XL and 3DS and went through hundreds of hours on all of them without ever using my finger on the touch screen. It got annoying for some games that hinted at it or would’ve been easier with it but I was determined to use my stylus to keep it pristine :P. Finally caved in with the 3DS though since the thing is a fingerprint/dust magnet anyway and it’s made games so much easier to use.
My DSi XL is my preferred DS console but I’m not really sure what would be best for DSing and what people use. I used my 3DS for my recent Nuzlocke SoulSilver shenanigans, and originally found it to be okay (minus the short battery life) but after looking at some vids online it seems the colours were kind of washed out and much lighter on the 3DS compared to the original DS version. I was fairly surprised with how much of a difference it seemed to be. There’s also the weird pixelated stretching thing on the 3DS’s screens.
Now you’re all “DEN Y DONT U PLAY ON A DS THEN IDIOT?!” but this would mean I’d need to use the touch screen for the best experience and my beautiful clean DSi XL will be clean no more :'(. it makes me sad whenever there’s a smudge or speck of dirt or finger print on anything :/. Kind of stupid question that didn’t need to be asked but I’m bored and procrastinating so figured I’d type it out anyway, and I get to see if other people are this anal about keeping their hardware in ‘tip-top’ shape and what their DS preferences are 😀
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I use my fingernail on my 3DS’ touchscreen, but not the rest of my finger.
Helping.
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I kinda did that too but it’s still not super convenient as using my grubby little fingers
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lol story
And yeah, as far as I can tell, White 2 still has some of the exclusives from White 1 (some, not all), so having Black 1, I got White 2.
But mostly for Reuniclus.-
Gen 5’s ‘story’ was one of the better ones!
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There’s a recap of the plot here: http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_Black_and_White_Versions#Plot
I use my 3DS exclusively now (It’s such a step up from the DS Phat). I also use the touch screen with my fingers a lot of the time, mostly because I CAN now. The DS’ touch screen wasn’t sensitive enough to pick up finger presses 😛 Though obviously some things require the stylus.
I just dropped a fat stack on some gorillas for the trunk.
Shit just got real, yo.
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Additionally… business name? I’m kinda fond of my online handle.
Aleph-Industries sounds too cocky though.
Aleph-Audio? Iunno :S-
MythAMPhetamine 😛
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BAHAHAHA!!! That’s brilliant 😀
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I like the sound of “Aleph” so go anything with that 😀
What’s your surname? I saw on twitter you were considering that too.
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DM on twitter!
Don’t want the powers that be making any connections 😉*and yes, my tin hat fits just fine, thanks 😀
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Bah, foiled again!
I won’t be worrying about a website, personally. Most of my clientele won’t have internet 😛
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Alephbet.
Tagline: “It’s a sure thing”
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.com.au is still free!
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Oh. My. Goodness.
I may just have to look further into that site.See if I can get my grubby little mitts on a 1st ed. Adventures in Wonderland ^.^
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Holy crap, I didn’t even really look at the site. They have First Editions of Rudyard Kiplings books. o_O.
I may have to remortgage my house.
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Mmmyup, there’s not a lot I wouldn’t do for some of those books.
I mean, I have my morals and standards, but everyone’s got a price.…I think I just found mine 😛
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There’s a mended 1st ed of Green Eggs and Ham for $6500 and a worn and faded 1st ed of Cat in the Hat for $22000.
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Oof. 1st ed of I Wish That I Had Duck Feet for $1500. That’s incredibly tempting. I’ve read that to my eldest daughter hundreds of times. It’s one of her favourite books. It would make a great keepsake for her when she is older.
So tempted.
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Some of these are truly amazing. Just… wow.
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I’M RICH!
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1st Ed. Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland with additional handwritten note signed by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson.
$12,500.
As much as I crave it, I don’t trust myself enough with something this amazing.
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1st ed. Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
$32,500I’m getting both incredibly excited and upset by looking through this site.
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Open question:
What’s your go-to snack food when you feel like snacking and don’t care about what you’re eating?
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Beef Jerky. Preferably with a heap of chilli.
Note that I don’t class the tyre rubber Jack Links and most easily available stuff as jerky. No idea what that is supposed to be. The Geronimo stuff is amongst the best. Blazing Saddle or Flamin’ Arrow.
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Kettle Chilli chips, and Coffee Milk. Because I’m classy like that.
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I just made the mistake of eating 16 oysters on crackers with mayo and brie.
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Smith’s cheese and onion crisps. With sour cream and chives dip to dip them into.
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Haha wow I think I just got out of bed and went downstairs to stuff my face full of shapes, gummi bears and snakes at the time you posted that.
Generally I go with the chip variety so Kettle and Red Rock Deli. Shapes are good too and maybe Tim Tams if I’m feeling fancy.
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Shapes. Usually Cheese & bacon, nacho cheese are also amazing
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I eat so much horrible food that the novalty of it is completely gone. :'( Roast potatos and gravy maybe!
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The heart of a small African children.
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Miscellaneous lollies! 😀
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Fruit cake
http://www.catchoftheday.com.au/smallfish_info.php?products_id=52810
Don’t know enough to know if bargain or not. But shiny.
Oh, look at the time!
(Pro Tip: It’s always Pokémon Time!)
so… anybody else around at this time of morning?
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I am. It’s been harder and harder to sleep lately which is a pain working 10 hour days 6-7 days a week.
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hey Freeze!
That’s a pretty insane work schedule you have there mate. How’s things going for you recently anyway?I’ll admit I’m a bit jealous of you Queenslanders & your no delight saving thing at the moment…
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One of these days, autocorrect… One of us is gonna be the death of the other.
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I used to live in QLD and work NSW. Meant I was home an hour earlier. That worked awesome.
I don’t know how you guys go mid summer what with the sun still being up at 8-8:30. Bad enough at 7 here.
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It’s not usually that late, is it?
7:30 definitely, but I don’t recall it going as late at 8:30.Also, I remember when I first landed here, trying to adjust my body clock. The sun was still out at 8:30 at night. Confusing.
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Holy cow, half an hour into Pokemon and I just caught a Riolu.
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I don’t even know what that is.
Three things.
1) Thanks everyone for the positive feedback on my ramblings I really appreciate it.
2) I finally found D.C. On twitter but its private so it was a waste of time. What you hiding in there DC??
3) Back in New Zealand during daylight saving the sun is up till 10:30-11 and rises at 4am
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Pictures of himself
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I don’t recall that. :S
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Good morning all! Who wants to come and sit on my lecture?
Religious education bryond the classroom… It’ll be a hoot…
…promise…
You still 36 mins to get here…
Anyone? No?
Right
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wanna swap? I’ll sit in on your lecture & take notes for you, if you come here & deal with these students.
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Backhands?
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that would work wonderfully.
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I could do that…
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babysitting. I’m a librarian. just dont want to deal with students today.
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I would kill to work in a library. I have qualifications for that!
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senior high school.
you planning on being a teacher librarian?
& yeah, its not a bad job. just…. some of these kids. well… :/
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You mean science, right?
I’m not one to usually make a noise about street date breaks, however the arse end of this week looks to be insanely busy for me, so if someone decided to release Dishonored a little early, I don’t think I would mind that much : )
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Dishonored and XCOM, one of ’em has got to break damn it. 😛
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DOOOOOO EEEEEETTTTT!!!
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My two-year-old was up all night with a gastro bug, firing all cylinders at both ends. Very upsetting for her (and also for me, because I had to clean it all up), and neither of us got much sleep at all.
But we had a public holiday yesterday in Canberra, which I guess balances things out.
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Oh, man. That’s horrible. Hopefully she feels better soon. 🙁
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That post-tummy-bug haze of exhaustion is the worst. Hope you guys get well(rested) again soon.
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It always sucks when your kids aren’t well. I know when my son was crook it just made me feel so helpless because there wasn’t much we could do. Hopefully your little one gets better really soon mate.
I have eggs but no bacon. Why did I forget to buy bacon?! It makes it worse because I have that pork belly curing in the fridge. It’s kind of like half-bacon at the moment. 😛
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Hey eggs are still awesome no matter what 🙂
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I’d actually forgotten how nice it is to have fresh-ish eggs. We’d been buying the Coles ones and they’re always already super-old by the time they sell them. These ones were not Coles brand and they were awesome.
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I prefer just getting eggs and making my own omelette with ham I cut myself and grated cheese melted into it. We usually get our eggs from non-supermarket shops where you can get them more in bulk for less.
Best. Breakfast. Ever!
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Sitting in a quiet library getting some work done, and then I’m suddenly inundated by Kindergarteners, and they’re all repeatedly screaming out “OPPA GANGNAM STYLE!”.
The highlight was when one of the kids ran over to their (female) teacher and screamed out “HEEEEEEEEEEEEY, SEXY LADY!”
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That’s just a little disturbing.
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Wat.
The world is doomed.
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Lemme tell you about the world being doomed.
I have a friend who works in a childcare centre in Central QLD. It’s a small mining town of about 1500 people, just north of Emerald. All of the miner’s wives leave their kids there while they sit at home in the airconditioning watching their soapies.
There’s one kid there, let’s call her D, that my friend always has stories about. She’s 4. One day, D and the other kids were playing a game of make believe when D said, “Alright everyone! Get in the car!”
The other kids got into the car, and they drove around in their invisible ride. All of a sudden D yells out, “STOP! It’s time for a smoke break!” The kids then get out of the invisible car while D mimes the action of having a smoke. Shortly after that, they get back in the invisible car and D promptly tells everyone that they’re off to the pub.
Soon after this, my friend went over to find D sprawled out on her back.
“What’s wrong, D? Are you hurt?” she asks.
“Nuh! I’m lying down drunk in the gutter, just like daddy!” says D.
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Point taken. Mood… not improved 🙁
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Geez…
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Yeah, it’s much the same here unfortunately.
That’s not to say that they’re ALL like that, but by christ there’s a lot of it.Hell, alcoholism seems to be the in thing. Mining towns seem to be highschool all over again.
Don’t drink? Uncool.
Don’t smoke? Nerd.
Don’t have your kids in childcare? Well, you’re wasting daylight hours, looking after them yourself.
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Whelp, looks like it has reached to children. Oh well, the human race has a good run.
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Mostly, but humans were on the way out long ago 😛
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I shamefully admit I *love* that song… o.O
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There’s a League of Legends parody of that song called Ultin’ Gragas Style. 😛
Also a champion character in that game is getting that dance too as part of a graphical update xD
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Guys! We totally interviewed Josh Holmes of 343 Industries! CHECK IT OUT! http://youtu.be/H-06KBcSnME
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You done good, Shiggy. You done good. 😀
Morning!
One of the major downsides of this toothache is that I do not feel like working on anything. Normally once I start on something I have trouble stopping. Not since Thursday, I give up.
Also, I came runner up in the pokemon colouring competition! I’ll be annoyed if a kid didn’t actually win though. It’s not fair on the kids. =(
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Won’t somebody PLEASE think if the children!
Morning Scree! Are you going to try the dentist again?-
Oh also nice work on runner-up. \o/
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Yeah, this afternoon. I have to go shopping first.
Well, a child had pleaded to win pokemon on his/her competition. I think, they couldn’t really spell. It’s not fair for people over 12 to muscle in on them. I’m happy to get something, so should the other older entrants.
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Yeah, the right thing to so would be for the older contestants to enter for fun. Unfortunately a lot of people refuse to do the right think. =(
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Well, I took one asking if it was okay for me to practise colouring in pencil. It was the employee who told me to participate. ^^;; I wasn’t going to otherwise
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But you did it more for fun, then to win.
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Exactly =D
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A dude is planning to skydive from 120 000ft today.
Wowsers.
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Nope, I would never do that. I can’t stand heights.
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I’m fine with the height itself, it’s standing on the edge of something that gets me D:
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yeah I get that too, without my jetpack I get such a bad tingle in my legs.
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Yeah but once you get high enough that a fall will kill you going any higher doesn’t really matter!
#helping
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to put it another way, he plans to break the sound barrier. with his face
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I really like this analogy.
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That would be awesome.
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I agree with Jo.
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The stratosphere?! Geez that’s nuts! I hope the human has oxygen supplies
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He has a suit that’s basically a spacesuit.
I’d be more worried about the cold. I did a jump at 15000 and even though my hands and feet were well and truly wrapped up with 4 layers, they were painful like I’ve never felt in them.
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I’d say “I’m sure the re-entry heat would stave that off” but then I’d look stupid cuz it’s not THAT high up where he’s diving from lol
Is this where the name “Freeze” came from might I ask? 🙂
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Really? I jumped from 14k in a t-shirt and was fine. Weather I guess, not that it would matter for that guy.
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This guy’s going to be almost double that height, and it can get mighty frosty in the stratosphere and above. From -5C to -50C I think was the temperature range.
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A t shirt? Jeez. The air temp was -40 when I did it. Granted it was -6 on the ground. Does altitude temperature vary much? I have no idea.
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Sith lords don’t need to worry about the cold it seems
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Damn, where did you do it? I was in NSW in march or something, was a reasonably warm day. Definitely colder up there but not freezing.
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Queenstown, middle of winter 😀
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Morning everyone. Watched the Dollhouse final last night. Rot13 to avoid spoilers:
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That ep was… I didn’t expect it to end quite how it did.
As for your other idea, wasn’t that sort of approached in Prince Of Persia (the one with the liquid sword protruding from his arm?): Twin Thrones? Switching between two distinct characters. I’d really like to see it in a more Whedonesque style though 😀
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I really just wanted to see what was going on with Topher, Victor and Sierra. Didn’t care about the rest of them and everything I care about with them (bar the obvious with Topher) was wrapped up before then.
I think that’s fairly spoiler free. The best bits of the show were not the focus of the show.
Hello again all, I See some of you were asking about the job.
Unfortunately it hasnt started yet. Mostly because I can’t find my citizenship certificate. It’s been lost at some point.
I wasn’t even aware I needed one to start a job .
Anyway, provided a Stat Dec, waiting to see if it’s been accepted.
Also found out I’m out of money today.
Going back to bed, wake me up when everything has fixed itself.
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A heap of jobs I found online when I was hunting had a general statement of “Must be an Australian citizen”.
Just engraved a plate with a cats name. The name?
ACF.CH.AoE.SapDGC Koorahk Binkys Boy.
o_O
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Sounds like AEF CJ Mt Doom || Lt. Col Mustard ~ ~ BF3
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DAMMIT GREENIUS. Luckily I refreshed the page… I’m posting my comment anyway!
“So you’ve met CJ’s cat, then?”
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Maybe one day I will have a dog named Kirby, and instead of officially being named Kirby, I will name him “<(^.^<)” on all documents and engravings on collars.
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Fun fact, I have a dog named Kirby, though we didn’t name him after the game character.
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Ask the person you are making it for, how they pronounce it!
A man in a white suit just came up to me in Pokemon, shoved something in my face, and told me to not ask any questions.
ಠ_ಠ
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Though I’m sure by this point the writers are well aware of how suss the whole thing is, and are just taking the piss.
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I’m still creeped out by Pokemon Soul Silver. Prof Oak “Hey little boy how about I give you my phone number”.
O.O
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And then he says something about meeting you later. Sooooo creepy
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To be fair, the man is senile and will believe you if you say his grandson’s name is “Poop”.
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Or how he sends you onto another old man called Mr. Pokemon. Alone.
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“I came when I heard you defeated the Elite 4!”
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I need to dig up some pictures I had of an auto translated ROM of Silver I tried years ago. Disturbing.
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Up at 6am. In the office at 7:30. Sit in conference room for three hours waiting to do my presentation. Everyone was absorbed by “discussing” some graph instead. Never got to present anything. What a waste of time. 🙁
@Scree: I cbf emailing you re: JSRF, if I was picking character designs I like the most it’d be Beat and Mew/Rhyth. I don’t think I could pick out a pair of favourite tracks but basically like all the Hideki Naganuma ones.
@Greenius: I gave away my DS once I got my 3DS. Also I never use my finger because the touchscreen on these systems is way too crap to do it with any accuracy at all. It’s crap even with the stylus. Old-fashioned pressure-sensitive screen.
So, anyone else see the Mechromancer character full of my little pony references? ALso how are we all?
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I didn’t. Lucky me. 😛 Makes me wonder if her quotes will also be pony shout-outs then.
I am good. Throat feels a bit sore, so I think I’ll just chill in my home for today. Catch up on Borderlands and all that. And you?
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I wouldn’t be surprised if a decent chunk of her audio will be internet references. Sucks that you’ve got a sore throat. I’m at work for the next few hours and then it’s home to either do graphic design/record a voice demo/laugh at my housemate fail at playing Resident Evil 6
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Not having watched MLP myself, I kind of just assumed that that’s what the references were to.
The Ordered Chaos tree looks hilarious, but requires more micromanagement than I could really be bothered with.
The BFF tree looks awesome for co-op partners, but too much of an easy mode for me to use myself.
Little Big Trouble looks like my sort of tree, with all the pow and zap and BURN! I could ask for.-
Was the BFF tree the ‘girlfriend mode’ thing that exploded a while back?
Hope you’re well, tofu!
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I think it was, should be awesome to play with though. I’m super awesome, DC … although now I can’t make a witty remark about you’re “you you’re” typo. YOU’VE RENDERED ME USELESS!!!
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Oh, man. I was hoping no one saw that. 😛
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I see everything ^_^
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I’ve already planned to go a sniper build and go into the BFF tree. Send my OP robot to take all the bullets then snipe them, one by one. Plus once you get to the bottom of the BFF tree you can still get the zappy, zappy moves.
As I have has nothing to do with My Little Pony I didn’t see any of them. Her skills look pretty good though!
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I’m looking forward to the anarchy stacking ability … every kill/automatic reload gives you a stack and each stack gives you an extra few percentages of gun damage
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As I am someone who plays a fair few shooters, this is gonna suck for me. I’m ALWAYS reloading before emptying a mag! Shot 3 bullets? Reload! It’s such an ingrained habit now I usually don’t realise i’m doing it.
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Tediore weapons made me aware of this habit real quick 😛
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+ 1.75% gun damage per stack
150 stacks allowed
HOOOOOOOOOOLLLYY SHHHHHII
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Things like this make my choice to go mostly snipers all the more awesome
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But the last skill is basically useless if you go sniper.
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Plus -1.75% accuracy per stack is damn crippling.
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That’s an SMG/Shotty skill if ever I saw it.
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If you manage to get to level 15 and you’re a damn good sniper, you can just pour your points into anarchy, the skill that allows MORE stacks of anarchy (250!) and the skill that decreases magazine size for faster reload.
And by then I’m pretty sure you win the game by then.
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Doesn’t matter how good a sniper you are, at 0% your bullet is guaranteed to miss. =P
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Rebound skills + Fire rate. Who needs to aim anymore?
That being said yeah it would be difficult to fully play that way. Hella fun if you pull it off, though.
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Run into melee range, shoot them in head with sniper rifle.
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challenge accepted
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Am I the only person that likes the ability to headshot enemies which causes them to shoot electricity out of there corpse which causes nearby enemies to catch on fire?
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It makes me wonder where the hell your bullets go once you max out your stacks. It’s around -400% accuracy so I assume when your bullets are shot they end up in another universe and then back into yours.
but every stack also takes off 1% of your health to keep your shields up and then you have to melee to consume the stack and regen health again if you get low. It seems like a build designed for shotguns at three paces.
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Well that’s only if you invest in that skill. I’m sure you have to invest in the accuracy reducing one though but with what Blaghs said below, combining that with ricochet stuff from the left tree would be insanity
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The ricochet skill reduces damage done by 50%. Therefore you would need at least 100% bonus damage (57 stacks) to do the same as a normal shot.
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I meant insanity in terms of bullets everywhere , not so much damage output :P. But then again coupled with The Bee which adds over 48 THOUSAND DAMAGE per a single bullet then it’s pure insanity :O
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Oh yeah it would be completely (mind my French) bat-shit insane. I would like to get a gun with insane firing speed and just see millions of bullets bounce off walls and hit enemies just cause I can.
“Robots are like vampires: they sparkle when hit with incendiary rounds.”
I lol’d.
The BL2 Mechromancer skill trees look pretty interesting. Shame I’m away next week when she comes out.
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Yeah it looks pretty cool. Right tree looks the best IMO with the middle being the one I’m least likely to go under. By PT2 onwards most elemental properties are pretty useless cause everyone is resistant :'(
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Yeah right tree seems like a close ranged kind of tree (the last ability is a melee upgrade). Seeing as my Zer0 build is close ranged/melee I will probably go BFF tree and snipe my troubles away.
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I like the idea of going super inaccurate off the right tree, then getting the bullet ricochet off BFF. Spam super bullets at walls!
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Isn’t that why you’re supposed to slag enemies? Makes them weak to elemental damages again I thought?
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It’s sad that I keep tapping f5 hoping to see ‘Dishonored has broken street date!’ isn’t it?
Hurry up Thursday!
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They’ve really seemed to curb the street break thing since last year. Doubt it’ll happen for Dishonored, maybe XCOM though since it’s weirdly coming out a day or so later.
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#nothelpius
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:'( I sympathize, though. I’ve just been staring into space with Bright Eyes by Art Garfunkel on loop for half an hour. One of those days. 😛
Briiiiiight eyes, burning like fire.
(I need a game to play, damn it. :P)
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zomg, Watership Down. Yes.
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#helpius
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I’m house sitting this week, so regardless of when it releases, I can’t play it until Sunday. This makes me super sad face.
For all you Pokefans
http://features.peta.org/pokemon-black-and-white-parody/
EDIT:
Damn it – I saw this on reddit and though I would repost for you guys, but then it popped up on as a kotaku article too….
guess I’m just too slow.
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There’s an art to reposting reddit content on Kotaku. Plunkett is a master of that art. I’m afraid you don’t have what it takes. You are not “Australia’s next top Kotaku editor Master.”. Please pack your things, and leave the house.
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I don’t care if its a parody, I hope PETA get the shit sued out of them by Nintendo.
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hope this doesn’t offend anyone, but i personally think PETA are idiots, i understand their message, but the stuff they do is just plain ridiculous,and i put them on the same level as religious nuts who think that they have to force their ideals into everyones throats and that everyone has to conform with them because they think they are right…
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I agree. I like animals a whole lot more than humans and these people are some of the worst humans ever.
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I agree with what you said Techi… wait a minute!
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Wait…wut??
Isn’t PETA People Eating Tasty Animals?
You mean i’ve been doing it all wrong?!?
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It takes serious skill to get a message like “be kind to animals” and change it into “we’re a bunch of shitting wankers who you shouldn’t like”. I love animals, and I hate PETA (generalisations, but I stand by them).
Oh, while I remember. Is anyone going to Armageddon in Melbourne over the weekend?
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Would be a bad friend if I didn’t plug Space Pyrates! (Who totally have a booth in artist alley!)
https://twitter.com/spacepyrates/status/253643709583867904
They’re out-of-towners from Brisbane, so I’m sure they’d appreciate some friendly faces!
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Tell ’em Dan the (handsome) Druggie sentcha!
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That’s pretty much how I greet everyone anyway
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:S
Hermit Dan works too.
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I’d like to, but no spare funds after going to EB expo 🙁
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I yam.
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Mrs Tigs and I are considering it
Pork soup dumplings are pretty awesome. Anyone in Sydney should check out Din Tai Fung in World Square when they get a chance.
They also have incredibly green drinks. So very green.
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Sounds like good eatin’, right there!
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So green.
So skeleton jelly.
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You should go to Eastwood and go to Eastwood Garden Peking Restaurant.
Good dumplings there.
As I’ve told Pez. But I am not sure he ever went, that slacker.
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I sure do. If I don’t fly home tonight :p
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Oh, man, I remember eating that. Thought it was novel as I’d never encountered it before.
and then much soup was spilled. I kept ripping the dumplings just by picking them up and they were like grenades in my mouth whenever I bit into them.
Like.. neon green? seaweed green?
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Does it glow in the dark … Because that might not be normal.
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Is that the one with the purple scale dragon sculpture thing?!
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Lychee mojito slushie for the win! SO GREEN AND TASTY
Getting a call from the school to come and pick up my daughter is always fun. Especially when we were just about to eat lunch. :S
Picking her up entails walking a half-hour each way in the midday sun with my son complaining all the way. Yay.
My conversations with the school always go something like this: “She’s not feeling well can someone come and pick her up?” ” She’d have to walk half an hour in the midday sun, can she just stay there until hometime when someone can drive her?” “No. You need to come and get her”. GRRR. So we slather ourselves in sunscreen and trudge on up to the school. And on the way home we usually either have to stop a few times for her to throw up in the street, or sit down every 5 seconds because she’s not feeling too good. :S
And here endeth my rant. Thanks for reading/scrolling past. 😛
Now I can have lunch. 😀
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Aw, man. Hope Strange Jnr feels better!
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🙁 Hope mini-Strange is ok. Also enjoy your lunch.
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Haha, endeth rant. That sounds like the pits, big time 🙁
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Schools are touchy like that 🙁
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I gave the kids an icypole each when we got home. They both seem okay. \o/
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okay, so i read the first part of the second sentence as “picking up her entrails”….
i think i need to sleep
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It’s okay, reading it back I did the same thing. And giggled.
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me three! And that was a bit disturbing :/
PS I hope she’s feeling better and that you’re okay!
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RAISE YOUR WEAPON, TAY
The battle lines are drawn, and you have been called to battle in the battle to end all… battles.
Your chosen instrument of destruction is the weapon you last used during your last videogame session.
So TAY, what have you brought to the fight?
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DK barrel from Donkey Kong Country Returns! Gonna throw it good too!
Edit: I think it’s also fair I get to use the screeching monkey that emerges upon impact against my foes too, right? RIGHT? The deadly parasites it carries as well!
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Street pass puzzle piece.
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Corrosive sniper rifle… I think.
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Burst Laser Mk.II
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Weapon? It was telekinesis (tele-keneus?) \o/
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Last game played? Temple Run.
So I guess my weapon would be my own two feet as I flee like a coward.
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An incendiary shotgun that shoots multiple targets and the projectiles kind of attack from the sides as well as straight on. SO MUCH LAG!!!
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Hmmm I played Rayman: Jungle Run on the train this morning so my fists I guess.
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I was playing Black & White 2, so I guess I’m God.
BELIEVE IN MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! -
Hyperion Sniper Railgun from Borderlands 2…epic right?
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It’s an eridium weapon, the shots ricochet off hard surfaces…great fun 🙂
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Well, I either have arm smashy claw thingies, or them, and the power to turn into a dragon…
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worms. finger poke of doom. beat that.
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I have a feral pomeranian with me thanks to Tokyo Jungle.
You have been warned 🙂
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I think Mashaa might win! (Although we’re all winners really, this is gonna be the funnest fight ever!)
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Bad timing – you caught me with a silver pickaxe in that Terraria game I started last night.
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well, seeing as i played as nyx assassin in dota last night… i’m an insect crab thing and i use my pincers to attack and sometimes i make pikes appear in the ground for no reason to stun people, then i can make spikes come out of me… to stun more people… then i go invisible… and hit people… i dunno
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Incendiary grenade…
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An M4A1 rifle. Courtesy of Spec Ops
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SPEC OPS! We’ll talk after you finish. (Only if you want to. :P)
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Tranquilizer rifle packing ammo to take down a dinosaur. But a small one as it doesn’t do much to a T-Rex. Hmmmm so pretty much a normal Tranquilizer rifle
GUUUUUYS, I wanna do something! Is there any Bris thing meat something or rather happening? So frakin desperate to get out the house and be social. HALP ME GUYS! I think we should go out for drinks somewhere sometime soon. Thats what Sughly thinks…
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I need to do something, too! What should we do?
Also, you and your son should come over for dinner sometime so our kids can play dem vidja gaems together.
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Yeah that could be pretty rad! I think we should organise a night out with a bunch of us though, go out to dinner somewhere and have some drinks. Mebe in the city, mebe? Would anyone be up for that?
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I am definitely up for that.
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October 28.
Movieworld.
Bam.
Etc.-
Ohhh thats right! Thats a few weeks away still though, what about this weekend?
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OH! I’m going to the Craft Fair on Saturday…you could come with me and we could take all the sewing classes and seminars whilst drunk. 😛
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Haha, I like the drunk part, not so sure about the sewing classes though :/
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Well that’s what the drunk part’s for. 😉
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Hey Sughly, Hey! Hey Sughly!
I’ll be in Surfers for a week from the 10th of November until the 17th of November.
Halping?-
You guys should meat good and proper!
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What do you mean “you guys”? Don’t you mean “we”?
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I is confused?
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You guys are crazy. 😛
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Should SO do something! But no, not really helping
Bunny gets back from Sydney this week. Maybe a boardgame meat, if he’s not too stuffed from his trip.
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Ticket to riiiiiiiiiiiiide.
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I get back tonight. Just finished my training right now and fly home soonish.
I don’t think I want to host though. Can bring everything to wherever.
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Have a good flight, buddy!
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Hey I could host! I will host! ME ME! If theres enough people up for it…
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There is a new years camping trip being organised for December in Sydney. You can look forward to that as well.
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Oh for reals? Whos going???! Sounds like it could be quite cool…
Does anyone actually play games to experience, explore, experiment and discover? Or has rushing through games just hitting the checklist points the norm now? As if it is work. Articles such as The best way to play X game, achievement roadmaps and even the obsession with the pile of shame all speak of a mindset where conquering the game is more important then experiencing the game. I there is something people want to see in game that doesn’t have an achievement attached to it the cry of YouTube is usually heard.
Or maybe, just maybe, I’m turning into a curmudgeon shaking his fist at those untrustworthy looking kids.
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I enjoy the experience. That’s why I started, that’s why I keep looking for more experiences.
There’s a point (MMOs especially) at which you know the lore almost back-to-front, and become interested in the game mechanics instead. At that point, I look to break the game, find the most efficient (subjectively, the ‘best’) method of gaining experience or cash compared to time input, etc.
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I think I explored plenty in my 65 hour Borderlands 2 playthrough. Greenius was double my level by that stage. 😛 I always take my time and take in the detail. Get lost in the world! 😀
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And in a sandbox game…
COLLECT ALL THE THINGS.
WHAT’S THAT? YOU’RE OVERENCUMBERED? SHOULD’VE ROLLED AN ORC, YA DOOFUS.
LOOK WHO’S GOT TO SLOWLY CRAWL BACK TO TOWN WITH AN ENTIRE CAVE’S WORTH OF LOOT NOW, HUH TOUGH GUY?Yeah… Sometimes the story just doesn’t matter. It’s all about collectin’.
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And by sandbox, I kinda mean RPG.
Specifically referencing Elder Scrolls here.Shuddup.
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Haha! I rarely use fast travel systems too. If I’ve got to go across that map, that requires walkin’ damn it! 😛
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I *may* have used an athletics boost followed by a slowfall scroll, and hope I got both the angle and timing right.
It was reason to celebrate if I lived, let alone actually hit my target 😛
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If you add “for fun” to your list then those are the only reasons I play games.
SKYRIM! lost count of how many hundreds of hours I have poured into this game and I am still exploring!
I know this bombshell is going to shock people but my answer to this is Dark Souls. 😛
I’d expect everyone who got into Skyrim was not particularly interested in finishing the story…
Depends on the game.
I tend to try and do all the things so while I often explore it is usually along the way to something I can do or see. I have explored nearly the whole map in Skyrim for example but I have not cleared every cave/fort/camp just for the sake of it.
GW2 is good for that, thanks to Points Of Interest and Vistas all over the map I spent at least as much time exploring as fighting.
But I totally ignore achievements and care nothing for the pile of shame.
The exact reason why Skyrim was so brilliant is because if you lost yourself in the game you had such a better experience, and I freakin’ loved doing that. But yeah, games in general I try my best to take my time. Sometimes the two go hand in hand, like when I got my paws on Borderlands 1. Pretty sure I finished that game in the first 2 days it was out, doing every side mission and everything I could find.
Is anything happening in Sydney at all next week? I will be free all day Wednesday and on Thursday during the day (occupied in the evening) if anyone wants to meet up.
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I think Shiggy’s shooting his cowboy movie? That’s the weekend, though. :'(
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Hmmm. *checks flights* 😛
Seriously though, if I could I would absolutely fly to Sydney to meet you. That would have been awesome.
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I guess it’s decided then, in the next few months Strange will be flying to Sydney to officially reveal the completed quilt.
(Just kidding, or am I? :-))
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I’d be up for it, but those timeframes aren’t particularly viable for me.
I saw a nice lilac dress in supre. First I was amazed that I fit into a small, because last time I tried on a supre outfit I did not fit into the small =P But the skirt of the dress was skin tight, so i wasn’t really happy with it.
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And then you found $10?
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And then I found $160, but I told the person that she left her money in the ATM
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Scree, you’re awesome!
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If it were me, I would cry and my fortnight would be ruined. I can’t do that to someone else. Plus I’m not really one to take money if I know who it belongs to.
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That’s why you’re awesome! 😀
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But ._. isn’t that just common decency?
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not that great deal of common decency in the world nowadays
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Yes, but you guys would do the same, right?
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Definitely! No question!
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Oh wow, your too nice to have a tooth ache. There are people that are jerks that don’t have toothache’s. =(
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See my response to D.C.
On the toothache front I still can’t get through to the dentist, but I’ve been using mouthwash which is helping a lot.
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In response to this I agree with DC. You are still awesome. Most people would just not give a shit about anyone else except themselves.
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But, empathy! D=
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Ahh yeah empathy that is the word I was thinking of. Unfortunately the meaning of it is not know to many people.
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I know some people get empathy and sympathy confused.
Mrs Freeze hates Supre mainly due to them always being out of XXS size stuff. She actually got into a fight with a girl over an XXS dress once. The sad thing was the girl would have been a size 12-14 and just wanted to squeeze into it and have a super tight dress.
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Wow, your wife must be skinny! Really skinny!
And super tight dresses are not really a good look. I prefer to have comfortable clothes myself. In fact, the reason i decided against the dress was that it had a pencil skirt lining, which was quite hugging. I figured that the combination of the material it’s made out of and the shape, it’d make me more hot then cool.-
Yeah. She is 5’0 and hovers around the 39-42kg mark. She doesn’t wear tight stuff. Prefers the looser flowing style of clothing.
I don’t get why some larger girls go for super tight revealing clothing. I know it sounds horrible and shallow but people need to dress to suit their figure and accept that some things just don’t look good on them.
That goes for men too.
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I wear loose stuff to cover my scrawny arms. 😛
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You seem to have spelt rockin body completely wrong 😛
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That’s only mildly creepy. Haha!
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@Trjn
I’m more than happy to host if people are happy to travel a bit. Don’t know why they wouldn’t, myself and Virus always do it without complaint 😛
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I need to learn to drive. If I could drive I’d happily travel to your place. But Mr. Strange hates driving and gets grumpy when he has to drive for long so I have no chance of getting him to drive me to your place. 🙁
I also would be happy to host a board meat, by the way.
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Probably might go by the wayside up there but I put my hand for hosting. I’m right next to Moorooka train station, and just off Ipswich Road, so its easy access…
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If y’all want to stay for drinks and stuff and make a night of it we could move it to Saturday as well maybe…?
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Sounds good to me…but now how will you get out of the house like you wanted? We’ll have to have TWO Meats! 😛
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Haha! Good point… though staying in the house is good if it means socialising 😀
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I might add that I’m always happy to host a meat too. Plenty of space, we can be as loud as we want/need to be.
And I have Munchkin \o/-
I feel like you’re leaving out a detail. 😛
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Oh, BYO chairs.
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#helpius
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I’m cool with whatever everyone is cool going along with.
You taste like birthday, you look like New Year.
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You smell like Christmas, you feel like Easter, you sound like the Queens Birthday.
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Am I meant to be confused?
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I think I’m weirded out by this statement, but I’m not sure.
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I think this is the part where I smile and nod. Then slowly back out of the room.
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I love the responses to this.
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Jeez Blaghs. You leave such a mess.
But you’re so fun.
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And yesterday’s.
So good 😀
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Potentially lovely.
Perpetually human.
So looks like the Mechromancer DLC for Borderlands 2 is out within the next 24 hours instead of the 16th.
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Oh, wow! Hopefully it doesn’t steal Dishonored’s thunder or vice versa. 😛
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i’ve been sick and unable to beat borderlands yet, and i wanted to play her since she was announced…-
You still passing out all over the place, man? Hope you feel better soon. 🙁
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nah, the passing out was a one off, just been down with a horrible sore throat now, doctor said i don’t have glandular fever though, so that’s all good!
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Oh, damn! :'(
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Those Gaige videos have made me really want to pick up Borderlands 2, which is funny considering it was the idea of Gaige that helped me resist grabbing a copy when everyone was talking about it.
I’ll stay strong though. With Pokemon Black/White 2 coming out in a couple days, not to mention Dishonored (which I’ll wait until I read TAYbies impressions of before trying out), I don’t think I should get a game like Borderlands 2, which I assume is quite the timesink, at the moment.
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60+ hours getting near 70… So yeah it’s a time sink. =P
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SmurfyDog’s Pre-Emptive TAY Catch Up Brief 09/10/2012
Slow day on the TAY front for the most part. Scree has not seen a dentist yet, but she returned money someone left at the ATM and earned our respect. (Not that she didn’t have it already.) Possible Brisbane meats were discussed, seems there’s lots of possibilities but nothing definitive yet. Puppy Licks organized a fight for the ages using the last weapons we’ve used in games, entertaining and educational. Neg informed us that Borderlands 2 DLC is imminent! Shane and Strange both had to deal with kids who were feeling sick, we all wished ’em a speedy recovery! The horribleness of the human race was discussed from time-to-time. Potaku E3 Expo video on front page! Lambo hasn’t updated us on the headache front. We hope he’s okay.
No Snacktaku, alas. :'(
Now you know and knowing is half the battle!
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You should make this a daily thing DC! Not just for Smurf, but for all those unfortunate enough to not be able to keep up with the Tayness!
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You should use a list! (Do html lists even work on Kotaku? I’ve never tried…)
EDIT: Nope! I’ll have to settle
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Then it was decided, Powalen is in charge of the daily briefing from now on.
😀
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But… but… I have a life!
…occasionally!
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There could’ve been pages of Pokemon discussions! Don’t you want to keep the Pokemon people informed? Help them, Pow. You’re their only hope. 😛
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Yeah I’m running on valve time now. You’ll get your Snacktaku, even if it’s etched on a black monolith a few hundred thousand years in the future.
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… but it’d be stale by then
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Unless it was a Chiko Roll. Pretty sure they taste the same be it fresh or centuries old.
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Well yeah, but those things are forged by Sauron himself
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Also a cool guy called DC made a catchup post. He’s a pretty cool guy.
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Try living with the bastard. 😛
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I will have to meet you for myself to make that decision. =P
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I just get so lonely.
😀
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I’ve been thinking that I haven’t been here long enough to call myself a TAYbie, so from this point on I will be a proTAYzoa until the elders deem otherwise and the ritual can be performed.
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The Oar…
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Is dead. Long live The Oar.
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I scoff at The Oar. Scoff!
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No gods or kings. Only TAYbies. The old guard vanished Harli and destroyed The Oar so us new comers wouldn’t have to fear the wrath of initiations. (Or so the legend goes.)
You’re a TAYbie!
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… I’m guessing the oar wasn’t a fun experience? It just reminds me of Jasper from the simpsons going on about all the things that would get you a paddlin’
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The Oar was the greatest experience of my Life. The infections afterward? Not so much.
Welcome, Enjoy the scenery. Don’t feed The animals
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THE OAR CANNOT BE DESTROYED!
THE OAR IS ETERNAL!
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Also WELCOME and HERPY BORTHDAY!
I don’t think I properly introduced myself earlier, nor did I welcome you :S
So HI! I’m Aleph 😀Usually far more active than I am currently.
Also… i really like tofu. Hope you don’t mind me nibbling on you should we ever meat.
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Also also.
Take off your pants.And then find $10. I threw it over *points* that way for you.
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Pfft … who wears pants in this day and age? *wanders off to find the money* This is the best day efer!
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*sits and enjoys the show*
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Greetings Aleph … I’m fairly sure today isn’t my birthday, but I’m still trying to wrap my head around daylight savings so there could be some timey wimey thing I’m not seeing yet. In which case, WOO! Happy Birthday to me!
You are more than welcome to nibble on me provided it’s not on the face, I need it to live
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oh, so we’re going for a offical introduction then?
I’m saturday, the last new guy. To be honest i’m still pretty new myself, but hey, at least I don’t have to face the oar.
… I liked you in Resident Evil. That’s all.
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Heeee cooomeeessss froooommm Caaaannnaaadddaaa soooo peeeooopllleee thhhiiinkkksss hhhheeeeee’ssss sllloooooowwww eeeehhhhh.
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Rocks and trees and water!
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mock me now but just wait one day Canada will be a superpower and then
oh I can’t even finish that sentence. 🙁
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It’s alright Saturday, once Canada realises how to harness moose as an energy source you’ll be laughed at less
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I *really* wanna see that 😀
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I’m just jealous.
You know that scenario where you’re on a deserted island and you’ve only got 3 things?
Yeah, that’s pretty much me 😛
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Good evening, Tofu! Congratulations on bumping Saturday off the new kid pedestal!
Where abouts do you live, by the way?
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Not creepy at all there Pow.
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Hey, I’ve got to get in early!
(I’m just kidding Tofu! I only stalk Greenius)
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Finally my childhood dream of being put on a pedestal has come true! I shall tell my robotic children of this day.
I’m currently in Melbourne, trying to wrack my whiskey addled brain around daylight savings that we didn’t have in queensland
Also – Welcome, I am Gingerchris, I am a *whispers* Ginger */whispers*
Welcome, enjoy.
Don’t believe a word they say about me, Except about me groping people. Thats true :p
Also, I am using a Silken Version of yourself to make a Vegan Scalloped Potatoes right now 🙂
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You heartless monster! Using defenceless tofu to feed yourself. I want you to imagine that it has a family and they’re all waiting back at the tofu enclosure for it to come back from work, the younglings eager to impress their parentofu with what they learnt today. But now they’ll never be able to see the proud smile adorn their father’s face again. They never really coped with his disappearance and fell into a life of petty soy based crimes before overdosing on soy sauce … this could have all been avoided if you had just thought of the children. ALso, eww … you’re a ginger
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You’re going to fit in here just fine, tofu. 😀
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I agree 😀
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I also agree
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Very clever
I don’t know…I like the term proTAYzoa but I don’t think there’s a time limit on becoming a TAYbie. If you hang around here you’re automatically a TAYbie. No ritual required. Once upon a time, even The Oar was a proTAYzoa…. 😀
So … I think there should be two versions of dishonored? One with the correct spelling
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Pffft, no one likes the localized version. The original is always better. 😛
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What is it with you nerds and spelling. The only dishonouring I was learning about in school was with the cheer leading squad if you know what I mean.
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But this is the internet … spelling and grammer must be upheld at all costs
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Ugh Yellowius get back in the hole from whence ye came!
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…ALRIGHT YOU WIN.
*GRAMMARSEE WHAT YOU MADE ME DO?!
ARE YOU HAPPY NOW?-
I’m surprised it took that long. 😀
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^_^ and with that, my night was made.
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I’m just wondering how many people are gonna pick up the Gaige DLC and play her immediately after. I am, and I was thinking we should just have a whole TAY multiplayer session with just Gaiges. I expect hopping on regular multiplayer will yield the same result, but eh.
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Just about everyone on TAY who has BL2 preordered it I think and she was included free with preorders. So lots of people will be getting her. I’ll be aborting my Maya playthrough to give her a go even.
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corrected, then.
Also hilarious that I might be the only one in TAY to actually purchase the DLC for BL2.
Aw.
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That’s why I mentioned Gaige was the reason I’ve been able to resist purchasing BL2. I just think it’s ridiculous that I would pay full price for the game, same as everyone else, and then have to pay an additional $10 for an additional character just because I didn’t throw my money down before a certain date.
I’ll get the game eventually. Hopefully when it’s price has dropped a bit to offset the cost of the DLC, though my willpower could cave any minute and I’ll pick it up at full price. With Dishonored coming out soon I’m expecting the talk will shift to that and it’ll make it easier to resist BL2.
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I’ve got the premiere club thing, so I should be able to download her fine. Don’t think I’ll replay Borderlands any time soon, though.
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I’ll be getting it, though I won’t be able to play until Sunday.
Hey D.C
You should have a chat with that jerk D.C and see if he’ll let you come to the next meat.
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Hey, if I let D.C. listen to D.C. too long he’d post inappropriate, dark sentiments on TAY! 😛
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Hey D.C.
Hi.
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Hey scree! Still being respectable and awesome!? 😛
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I’m not sure. Am I?
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You didn’t track down that woman and take the money back did you? :O
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No. Never. D=
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Still respectable then. 😛
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DC we will definitely have to chat about Spec Ops once I’m done. Its been interesting so far, had to drop the difficulty to easy, there was a few bits that were kicking my ass on normal. Also I can usually only play for an hour or so before my laptop starts to overheat. V’z hc gb gur cbvag jurer V’ir whfg tbar vagb gur ndhnevhz be cbbyubhfr be jungrire vg jnf. Fb sne Vnpuvrirzrag jvfr V’ir tbg “n zna bs npgvba” (abg fher jung V pbhyq unir qbar qvssreragyl) naq “qnzarq vs lbh qb”
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Won’t spoil any thing past where you are, here’s the achievements I got out of the ones you’ve listed: V tbg N Zna bs Npgvba gbb. Vs lbh vtaber gur PVN thl naq farnx gb gur pvivyvnaf vafgrnq bs fnivat uvz lbh trg N Zna bs Cngvrapr. V whfgvsvrq zl qrpvfvba ol gryyvat zlfrys gung gur ntrag jbhyq’ir urycrq zr fnir zber crbcyr qbja gur yvar. :'( V tbg Qnzarq Vs Lbh Qba’g. V ershfrq gb cynl Xbaenq’f tnzr, fb fubg ng gur favcref vafgrnq.
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Lrnu V jnfa’g ernyyl cnlvat nggragvba gb jung Nqnzf naq Yhtb jrer fnlvat, ohg lrnu V svtherq gur ntrag jbhyq or zber hfrshy. Ubj jnf V gb xabj ur jnf tbaan qvr naljnl. Fvtu. Sbe qnzarq vs lbh qb, V qrpvqrq gb fubbg gur fbyqvre. Ng yrnfg gur pvivyvna jnf gelvat gb uryc uvf snzvyl, rira vs ur jnf tbvat nobhg vg gur jebat jnl. V gubhtug gung vs V qvqa’g qb nalguvat, gura gur favcref cebonoyl jbhyq unir xvyyrq obgu. Zvaq lbh, V qvqa’g xabj sbe fher gurl jbhyqa’g xvyy gur frpbaq thl rira vs V znqr gur pubvpr. Irel nccebcevngr anzr sbe gur npuvrirzrag. V fuhqqre gb guvax jung ryfr V’z tbvat gb unir gb pubbfr. Nyfb, gung ovg jvgu gur juvgr cubfcubebf… S zr… Abg cyrnfnag.
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Bu, zna. V fnj vg pbzvat gbb. Rfcrpvnyyl nsgre vg jnf svefg vagebqhprq naq lbh fnj gur rssrpgf svefg unaq. Pbhyqa’g fgbc Jnyxre, gubhtu. Qvfgheovat fghss.
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Especially the way they take away your ability to run and make you walk through it afterwards. There really was no getting away from what happened
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It sounds like you’re liking the game, though! (Like might not be the right word. Haha!)
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I’m liking what the developers are trying to do. I’m certainly not liking what I’m being made to do. Which is the point I guess
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I really love the fact that there’s no right or wrong choices in the game. Just which choice would you find easier to live with depending on your personal morals.
Take note Bioware.
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I’m not sure that any particular choice would be easier to live with.
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Lrnu gung juvgr ovg vf… zna… lrnu, uneq gb qrfpevor…
V jnf gnyxvat gb Nyrcu nobhg vg nsgre jr obgu whfg rkcrevraprq vg. Shyy ba fghss. Gurer’f n srj bgure ovgf (abg fher vs vg’f orsber be nsgre) gung npghnyyl znqr zr srry n ovg harnfl jura cynlvat gur tnzr. Xhqbf gb gur tnzr sbe npghnyyl orvat noyr gb qb gung.
V unq ab vqrn lbh pbhyq fubbg gur favcref va gung frpgvba hagvy Q.P. zragvbarq vg. V nffhzrq gur bgure purrib jbhyq or sbe gur bgure bcgvba. V npghnyyl qvqa’g jnag gb xvyy rvgure fb gevrq ehaavat njnl bayl gb unir Yhtb(?) naq zlfrys fubg naq xvyyrq.
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I think that uncertainty stuff was intentional too. Not knowing if you have a choice in some instances. Made it that much more of a leap or risk to commit to whatever you thought was right. 😀
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Don’t get your hopes up, DC. Nova never finishes good games D:
Xeno…
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He’s making progress. The campaign’s not too long either.
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nuzlocke
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I swear I will get to it at some point. And Greenius, you’re the one who bailed on the Nuzlocke 😛
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But I didn’t get up to the 8th gym 🙂
And I still finished Xeno… !
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I managed to get right near the very end on Suicide Mission difficulty but at the point I’m at the squad keeps going down in open area so I can’t revive. Drove me mental. After almost 100 attempts I lost it and stopped playing. Not sure why I won’t just drop the difficulty but something about doing that in the final part of the game really irks me.
It’s weird because it would be close to GOTY for me but I haven’t finished it.
You also have the same choices I had.
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If it’s a choice of seeing the end or dropping the difficulty, drop the difficulty man! It’s the story that’s going to stay with you, not the frustration. No need to torture yourself. No way I could’ve gotten that far if I played on suicide mission any way. :S
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I think it’s one of those games that keeps track of what difficulty you beat each level on so you can drop the difficulty and then go back later on Suicide Mission and still get cheevos for it.
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I think it’s just annoying me that it’s not my fault really. Freaking Adams man. He keeps running out into the open and getting dropped. If I could just make him stay in cover I wouldn’t have had any particular trouble. Well, no more than some of the areas.
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That’s one of the major flaws. Crazy difficulty spikes towards the end. I struggled with it on normal too. 🙁
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So Nova, any update on the BL2 key situation?
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Got an email back from Steam asking for a screen shot of the Key which I’ve sent them. I also sent a message to Ozgameshop this morning but haven’t heard back
IT’s 7pm already?
Wow. How the time flies…
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It’s amazing what happens when you mess with the clocks.
11:20pm tonight on 7mate (73) they are televising live that 120 000ft skydive.
So watching.
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I am so excited for this that I might even turn on my television for the first time in years.
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You sure that’ll be live? Might be that stupid DST thing where we get things an hour delayed! Greenius’ link’s probably better!
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UGH YOU! I just replied below 😛
Anyways I went on to see the stream and it said it’ll be at 13:30 GMT. According to Google it’s 12:11 GMT so Freeze is correcto and I’ll be asleepo
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This daylight saving thing is tearing us apart! 😛
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Oh wait I just realised you’re in the past so it’s still going to be 11:20pm for you… 🙁 damn this future life!
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What? It had a countdown earlier saying it was starting in half an hour (ie. 11:30 Daylight savings time)
Now I have to double check! 😛
EDIT: Red Bull website countdown says 13 minutes to go http://www.redbullstratos.com/
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@FREEEEEEEEEZE:
I saw your thing on the last page. If you want to host a meat and want me to bring board games, I’m more than happy to make the trip down. Same goes for anyone else in the area who wants to host (like Sughly, who was also keen).
I’m fairly sure that I don’t have a monopoly on these things.
Also, fuck monopoly.
@DC – Thanks for the catch up post You are awesome!
To quote Died Pretty, a great Aussie band you have probably never heard of:
“When it came time to count your foes against your friends, well
There was respect and so much love that never ends, ‘cos
D.C. you gave them happiness and hobnob days and they will
Cherish them forever and when they get the blues and greys”
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🙂 Happy to do it, man!
Though might’ve posted too early in hindsight, there’s atleast a page and a half not recapped. Mostly Spec Ops and The Oar related. Also tofu’s new, seems to be an awesome guy! 😀
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It’s all good mate. I’m really touched that you even thought to put it together!
@ Tofu – Hi. Welcome aboard the TAY train. Quick question – are you yummy tofu or yucky tofu? ‘Cos I’ve been known to get a little peckish. You may just end up in a char kway teow!
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There’s such a thing as yummy tofu? Any time I’ve tried it I thought it was terrible.
Sorry Tofu 😛-
I find it’s best if you cut it into relatively small pieces, let it soak in and absorb some sauce before cooking, and fry it so that you get a crisp outer shell with a soft inside.
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This guy gets it!
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There’s some pretty tasty tofu out there!
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There IS such a thing as yummy tofu.
And I’m not sharing mine with the likes of you!Part of the secret to yummy tofu is it can’t be cooked by my mum.
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Try a wonton soup if you haven’t before! Normally has great tofu in it!
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@Tofu – hey again! Where abouts in Melbourne are you?
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Creepius. 😛
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Pow already beat him to that creepy punch. 😛
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Hey Tofu, whereabouts do you hang out on a Friday night? ;D
(Don’t answer that (…I like the challenge (Kidding! (…sorta (OK, I’ll stop now)))))
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Hey Tofu, if you had to choose between solid black, black with with white frilling, or nothing at all, what would you choose for your négligée?
(Don’t answer that(I just wanted to top Pow(In case anyone is wondering, négligée is a type of nightgown(So I could have been far creepier by asking about lingerie(I don’t have a problem, shut up)))))
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How’s the headache Lambo?
… sweet tap dancing christ. I don’t check on this for a little while and it’s turned into some sort of inquisition. Alright, let’s get down to business <_<
I still have no bloody clue what the oar is, but it makes me giggle more than it should.
@Smurfy Thank you, everyone’s been all kinds of crazy awesome and indulging my insanity … it works well. I’d say I’m the delicious kind, but you’d have to bite me to find out. Best to do it without warning or I flee!
@JollyGreenGiantakagreenius I live in Bentleigh, feel free to come here and just start screaming about the whereabouts of Tofu … I’ll have a laugh
@Pow … Where would you like me to be? Whatever position in time and space you want, I’ll try to be there. What position would you like?
@Blagh I’ve always been a fan of really dark blue
I think that’s everyone. WOO!
I don’t know how many years late I am to this party, but I just finished Bioshock 2. I found that I was totally disinterested in the story and because I am an evil guy, I got the evil ending. To me, the evil ending was strange, but I guess it is appropriate and it is probably the first time I really paid attention past “objective there, go there”. It didn’t resonate with me early like the first did and the additions to the gameplay, such as that adopt option and the multiplayer feel hollow.
I’d still recommend it if you ever umm’d and ahh’d about it like I did and it does kind of excite me for Infinite… just not as much as I expected it would.
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I loved the whole ideology clash between Tenenbaum and Ryan.
A much smaller story too, less awe inspiring. (Probably cause we’ve already walked the halls of Rapture.) Decent game, though!
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I prefer 2 to 1. Yes, it has many a narrative issue(some shared with the first, many new), particularly due to its opening being nowhere near as good, but I found the gameplay to be far, far better.
It also doesn’t help that 2 retreads the whole “feeling” of the first game, and I played it first, so it was new to me then, and then essentially the same when I played the first…
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I’m with you Blaghhman, the better gameplay of the second one was what made me love it. Also I played it first so it was new to me.
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I still haven’t played 2 or finished 1, so I’m even later to this party 😛
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Bioshock is one of my favourite games. I didn’t want to play the sequel because I didn’t think a sequel was necessary.
I ended up watching Mr. Strange play and was extremely underwhelmed. It was bland and predictable and the gameplay didn’t look anywhere near as fun as the first. All those setpieces with the waves of enemies seemed uninspired and unnecessary. -
I really liked Bioshock 2. The overall story and villain wasn’t as interesting as the first game but I really liked the whole father/daughter thing that was going on. I played through as a good guy and thought the ending I got was really touching.
Good night TAY.
It’s time for some Six Feet Under before bed.
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Good night, man. Enjoy!
So… is anyone staying up to watch the space jump?
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I am! Starts in a few minutes!
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That yellow crane sure looks shifty lookin’… 😛
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IT’S DELAYED GUISE
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Ugh, they just bumped it back half an hour. I’m going to have to go to sleep or I won’t wake up tomorrow 😛 I’m sure someone will have the full video up for me to watch in the morning…
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Busy all day so Ive missed out on internets. But I have this to say. I beat Spec Ops The Line. On suicide run. Not braging or anything.
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Bah! We’re trying to ease Freeze off that particular ledge, you maniac! Normal mode is where it’s at, man! 😀
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Default difficulty represent!
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Pshh, one above default is the best.
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I just played through Journey for the first time.
That game is hands-down the most emotive entertainment experience I’ve had all year. Amazing, absolutely amazing.
Just… yeah, wow.
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Waiting for Trjn to say something in 3…2…
Well, it looks like the space jump has been delayed again.
And with that, I’m off to bed.
Goodnight, TAY!
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Looks like it was aborted. Very glad I didn’t try to stay up for it, now.
Morning fronds!
I wish I wasn’t at work today. Really want to try out the new character class in Borderlans 2. Also 1 more day until Dishonored & Xcom!!!!!!!!! \o/ \o/ \o/
Morning, I have news on the dentist front. I’ll be able to see the dentist on the 17th of October. A week away.
I was getting desperate enough to use my credit card. Dodged that bullet =P
Say what you want about the ME3 ending, but this proves that Bioware really listens to their fans.
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I’ll take a nap…. Destroy the world later….
Boy oh boy what a week…
Work has been a royal pain in the ass customers complaining about $17,000 freight bills (you’re air freighting the contents of a massive container from germany over 2 days tool bag!)
I want to choke the living crap out of a certain courier company that does local and interstate freight.
I found out i have to move by the 15th of Jan – again, because my landlord has decided to sell… I believe that tallies up to my 4th move in 3 years. Im so sick of this….. i had barely finished unpacking for this place…
…and the hardest part? working out how to tell my wifey….
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If we’re talking a 40′ container’s worth of goods, that seems pretty affordable.
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WHAT IS THIS???? COMMON SENSE??? WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN HIDING???
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Ha ha ha. Awesome reply.
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I stepped in it on my way to work.
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Don’t tell here. Just start packing up everything one day to see how much she freaks out.
Note: not actually good advise.-
advise not taken!
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I hate moving. It’s the worst thing ever.
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tell me about it… we’ve been married 3 years (on october 31st we will at least) so as you can imagine, we’re fully setup. 3 fully equipped bedrooms, dining tables couches coffee tables, many many computers and consoles, desks, boxes and boxes and boxes and boxes of other crap.
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I think you should start getting rid of boxes right now. It will be much easier over a period of time. My last move I had way too much stuff and so over time I’ve been getting rid of a box here and there to make myself a bit more mobile for the future.
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Back to work in Brisbane.
I kind of preferred the whole Sydney setup. I didn’t have to actually do anything.
EDIT: Admittedly, there isn’t much I need to do here but it’s the principle of the matter!
SHE SPOILS EVERYTHING!
by Freeze
Why is all the Borderlands 2 news written by Tina Amini? Seriously don’t want to click on anything written by her.
Spoiler alert: There’s a spoiler for why I don’t want to read her stuff up there.
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Which recent article? All I see now is just “Mechromancer is available… Bugs” posts 😛
But I agree on all the easter egg stuff, it’s so much more fun to discover that on your own. What makes it worse is that Steam links all Borderlands 2 ‘news’ so EVERYONE will get that spoiled just cause Tina Salami is the worst…
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I’m so glad the Salami name has caught on for some reason.
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Problem solved:
http://www.kotaku.com.au/tags/au/
@Tofu
Welcome frond!
Living in Bentleigh eh? #stalkius
Should’ve come to the Spliced Meat!
@TAY in general
Good mornink! Dishonored and an RDO tomorrow! Can I get a Stone Cold ET Oh hell yeah!
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Yeah I love morninks.
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This time tomorrow I’ll be neck-deep in Pokémon. I regret nothing!
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Neck deep in the Pokemans eh? Yeah, I got nothing.
#innuendo-
😉
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Somehow…fitting 🙂
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In before ‘that’s what she said’
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Pokemon!
I had a dream about Pokemon last night. My starting Pokemon was an Electabuzz, only it looked like a deformed Elekid. Cheren has an Elekid and Bianca had a weird looking Electivire. We were all standing on a beach having a battle. Me and Bianca verse Cheren. My deformed Electabuzz kept using lightning attacks on Cheren’s Elekid but the attacks kept on being reflected and instead hit Bianca’s Electivire, which eventually fainted.
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I told you to stay out of the tall grass!
Meeting Christopher Judge and Karl Urban on Sunday? This week just keeps givink!!!!
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Can you please give them a hug from me? They’ll totally know who you’re talking about when you tell them it’s from someone called ‘Strange’. 😛
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Here’s a hug from a Strange lady, that’ll go over well hahahahahahaha
I’ll do my best, Strange 🙂
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@Hugo
http://www.dorkly.com/comic/44961/skyrim-afterlife
I laughed, you should too. Sharing laughs since….just now actually.
\o/ Got my BL2 Key sorted. Turns out two of the letters had been swapped around in the email I got. Downloading now. And I have a day off today \o/
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Woooo! BL2 discussion 😀
I am master of BL2
Alright soooooo… what’s the dealio with this weekend? So far I have Strange and Freeze I believe saying they’d be up for board games and drinks at mine on Sat night? Yeah? Anyone else putting up a hand to join in? If so I’ll call it official and make a time and stuff
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Sure.
I’ll bring the choo-choo.
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Woo choo choo!
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I’m hosting a meat at mine on Saturday Night (No Saturday, not *on* you, however amusing that may prove) if you’d all like to come ’round!
Free drinks! And food! And MUNCHKIN!
Just BYO chairs, unless it’s only 4-5 of you coming over.-
If I could make it there I would 😛
I think I need to spend less for a few weeks to let my bank account have a rest.-
Nah man, I wouldn’t want to host a meat here for that very reason. Far better me spending $$$ than having a whole bunch of TAYbies spending $$$.
That’s like, $$$^N, which is just stoopid.@Sughly, I’d love to, but… maybe next time? I’m still keen to see you all at the end of the year/world 😀
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You forgot to add you’re paying for everyone’s flights and expenses!
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No no no, if you see the fineprint just above your signature, it states that any and all offers of goods and/or services by me may be rendered null and void without notice.
Additionally, goods and/or services not offered by me are explicitly not available.See you there!
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May be rendered Aleph-null and void?
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I was trying to slip that in somewhere 😀
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I have a bunch of beers left over from my birthday thing. Want me to bring them?
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Haha, sure why not
I’ve often thought it would be fun to do machinima redvsblue-esque videos with people. If we could pick a suitable game, would anyone here be interested? Just bouncing ideas around at the moment.
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Could be fun 🙂
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I wouldn’t know how to capture video off anything other than PC. Plus lots of PC games will have an in-game camera mod.
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Yeah I might be up for it 🙂
Loved Red vs Blue and Leet World-
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Yeah.. that’d probably end up being a lot of takes though to make sure they play out like we want it to 😛
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Yeah that actually occured to me.
Assuming there’s good multiplayer and everyones machine can handle it, maybe a parody Survivor/Lost series based out of Far Cry 3? We would be able to build our own sets as well.
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Yeah the Farcry engine would be great actually. You could even use FC2 instead, it’ll be cheaper.
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You’re probably right, FC3 might be a bit over the top.
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I would be interested if you go FC2, haven’t played that one yet so I’m a long way off buying FC3
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Oh, drinking regret.
So much drinking regret.
I need adult supervision at all times.
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Your spelling last night on Twitter was fantastic, I must say.
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I was in the drunk tweeting zone.
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I’m going to have a stash of popcorn at home, just in case drunk batgirl and drunk Aleph get on twitter at the same time
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Doesn’t help if the adults are drinking!
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That’s the best kind of adult supervision!
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There’s any other kind?
Maybe my parents are just… “different.”
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Nah, they’re just doctors.
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Damn, all of the Dishonoured stuff going around makes the game look really, really cool. I was going to hold off…
All right, so today is my 3rd wedding anniversay. Yay!
It doesn’t really seem like it though because my daughter’s home from school, my husband’s at work and his present hasn’t even arrived yet. Seems like an ordinary day.
We’re going out for dinner tonight though so that will be fun. 😀
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Happy Anniversary!
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Did you guys pick 10/10 so it would be easy to remember?
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Heh. Mine 9/9
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I didn’t even pick the year, let alone the date.
I wanted to wait to get married because I’d just had a baby and didn’t know if I was up for the planning, but my husband wanted to do it as soon as possible for some reason, and it was the only weekend for years that my sister (who lives in England) would be in the country. So I kind of had the date set for me.
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Wooo congrats! Where’s the dinner at? Fancy schmancy or humble and family like?
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http://thesmokebbq.com.au/
Sort of fancy but American food because it’s my husband’s favourite. We went there last year too but Mr. Strange booked there again this year, so I guess it’ll become a tradition now. 😛-
Ok, so now I know where I have to go eat when i’m up there in November…
Thanks Strange!-
Except it’s an hour away from Surfers 🙁
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The promise of food is enough to lure you to Brisbane, surely? 😛
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I’m working on it lol
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Happy anniversary! 😀
Grats!
How would you rate your marriage so far?
10/10
*Ba dum tish*
Congrats on making it 3 years of not following through with the urge to strangle each other 😛
Hurrah!
Congrats Strange and Mr Strange! \o/
Aappy Hnniversary.
Hmm, that really doesn’t have the right ring to it.
Congratulations.
As I said on Twitter, YOU GUYS ARE ADORABLE.
Congratulations Strange! Man it seems like only yesterday that it was last years anniversary!
Thanks, guys! 😀
Happy Anniversary Strange!
Happy anniversay to the Strange couple
omgomg Radiohead tickets finally arrived omg… how many weeks away is November 9th? Ohhhhhmg, not many… omg…
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Four and a bit!
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And Christmas is only 10 and a bit!
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Eek! That’s only 5 pays worth of moneys. I’d better start buying presents! D:
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WHAAAAAA!!! Will be the longest 4 and a bit weeks of my life. OF MY LIFE!
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“But I’m a creep. I’m a weirdo. What the hell am I doing here? I don’t belong here!”
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Would you stop beating yourself up D.C. How many time to be have to tell you you’re most welcome and we love having you around here 😉
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Monday morning catchup. Old man nob style.
@Sughly
Im totally keen for a meat at yours. Better send me your address so I can stalk you … Errrrm, I mean come to the meat.
@Strange
Yaaaaaay, congrats!
@Scree
Woooo, the dentist saga may come to an end! \o/
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Wait, it’s not Monday. YAY!!!!
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yessss! Looks like this meat is happening 😀
The Mechromancer is amazing. I’m currently writing a break-up letter to send to Salvador.
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Downloaded her this morning on PC, haven’t tried it yet. She seamlessly intergrated into the opening cutscene and the like?
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I actually didn’t watch the opening cutscene, but she didn’t come with a character echo to start with either.
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My sister’s about to start her first playthrough on my Steam account. I think Gaige would appeal to her, so just want to make sure it’s the full experience. 😀
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<3 Deathtrap.
My only problem is that she isn’t at the same level as my Zer0. 😛
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I’m finding that I’m having more fun with Gaige than I’ve had with Salvador all game.
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How are you playing her? Anarchy + SMG, Sniper + BFF tree, etc, etc etc?
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I’m only level 9 at the moment, but I’m using the Anarchy tree. I’m using a Shotgun/Sniper setup. My wife is using the BFF tree, and she’s using a Sniper/Explosive SMG setup. Two Gaiges are unstoppable. I can pretty much one-shot everything once I have 75+ stacks of Anarchy.
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How bad is the aiming once you hit 75 stacks? that’s like -110% accuracy by then, and I imagine if you’re using a sniper..
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I don’t think Snipers are affected when you’re aiming through the scope. It’s only when you’re blind-firing from the hip. Even at 100 stacks I never had issues with scoring critical hits when using the scope.
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Owch, that’s actually kinda overpowered. Good news though, to be honest.
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Anarchy makes you play the game completely differently too. You need to be really switched on and stop yourself from reloading between fire fights. Doing tha wipes all your Anarchy stacks and doing another 100 stacks is quite painful.
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That would be especially hard for me. I’m a compulsive reloader
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SO do the anarchy stacks have a time limit on them or are they active until you manually reload?
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I have three memorable gaming purchases.
The first is Age of Empires. My experience with PC gaming by this stage was fairly limited; I played the Shareware versions of games like Commander Keen and Rise of the Triad, even some Jill of the Jungle. But Age of Empires was one of those breakthrough games for me that really showed me the depth of gaming with a genre that was unique to PC. The year was 1997; I was still a kid then, not even double digits in age, but my eldest sister and I slapped down $50 each to buy Age of Empires from the local Electronics Boutique.
The second was Super Smash Brothers. I had a brand spanking new Nintendo 64, which came with Super Mario 64. Which was good. But I had my eye out for Super Smash Brothers; seemingly simple character carnage that I had only sampled whenever I went to my friends’ place. That was nearly $80 on special at an independent games store at Macquarie Center in New South Wales, which has long since disappeared. I still have the receipt, actually. The ink is all faded, and the paper is gross and yellow, but I still have it.
My third memorable purchase was the Neverwinter Nights 2 Collectors Edition, which came out in an age where we were winding down the excesses of PC game packaging (remember when their boxes used to come in a box closer to Letter-size rather than DVD cases?), but it still came with a thick, glossy page manual, an art book, a cloth map, some cheap and novel rings, and in-game bonuses. That was $120; $100 RRP for your regular edition of a PC game, plus $20 for the collector’s addition, as was the norm at the time.
Over the years, where we’ve purchased our games has changed. Electronics Boutique rebranded itself as EB Games, but still remains a specialty store, dealing mostly with video games, capturing a market more insistent on convenience and new releases, as opposed to GameTraders, who have branched out into retro games, Anime, and figurines, appealing to the collectors out there. Many independents have faded away, though there remains a few strong holdouts such as Dungeon Crawl in Melbourne who deal with grey imports. Games Wizards was eaten by GAME, which collapsed earlier this year due to troubles with the parent company in the UK. Woolworths Limited (Big W, and previously Dick Smith) and Westfarmers (K-Mart) seemed to have a stab at giving us new release games at cost price (which was ~$78 for console games) last year, but they don’t seem to be appearing in many new release price roundup lists these days. We have JB Hi Fi, which has been a go-to place for cheaper new release games ever since they started trying and we noticed them about 5 or 6 years ago. And with the strong Australian Dollar for the past few years, importing games from overseas sites such as Zavvi (based in the UK) and Play Asia (based in Hong Kong) picked up popularity to the extent that 365games created a sister site solely for Australians, OzGameShop.
Australians have choice and competition.
The Canadian retail sector doesn’t seem quite as open. The major games retailer here is EB Games, as one may expect, but there doesn’t seem like there are many other major options otherwise. FutureShop is perhaps equivalent to Dick Smith, technology retail specialists, and Walmart somewhat like K-Mart. One of the more prominent online stores is VideoGamesPlus, but they offer similarly priced games as EBGames. Even with the Canadian Dollar hovering above US parity, there doesn’t seem much incentive to import from across the border (no doubt delivery fees add enough to the total price that it’s just not worth it). So as I see it, the retail gaming sector is nothing but EB Games, Dick Smith and K-Mart equivalents selling games for the same price, $59.99 CAD RRP, for PC and console games, $39.99 for portables. Even with tax (an additional 13% here), people here seem so very… content with that.
Of course, it’s cheaper than Australia, but Canadians don’t care about that. It’s a seemingly stagnant market. No one tries to lure in customers with special deals or promotions; any pre-order bonuses are usually with EB Games, whilst most other retailers stock the vanilla game. There’s no JB Hi Fi here to try compete with EB Games, no Big W and K-Mart to try sell at cost price to lure you into the store, and no incentive to try shop online for the best price, because all the prices are the same. There’s no furore nor fuss over game pricing here, and why would there be? But there’s not even a peep about it. No one even seems to think of lower prices.
So I feel like in comparison, the Australian gaming retail sector has come a long way. Age of Empires was well worth the $100 my sister and I paid for it, but looking at JB Hi Fi and seeing Dishonored for $69? Despite the price-markup set by Publishers (most notable on Steam) we call the ‘Australia Tax’, that’s still progress. The Borderlands 2 Loot Chest Edition for only $18 more than what I paid for NWN2 is amazing, considering the entire package. Though to be honest, I have no point of reference for the prices of games in Canada, but currently the market is fairly passive. No one’s doing anything.
There’s no take home message here. I guess it’s just something I noticed.
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PS, words.
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Very interesting words. I wonder how the Australian market compares to the US one. Bish, your mission, should you choose to accept it etc etc
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So I see.
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Very professional-sounding words. They’re all sense-making and stuff.
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OH HAY THAR.
Actually, have you gone to the states? Despite the strong economic ties between the US and Canada, and the varying value of the Canadian Dollar (which I believe is higher than the US dollar?) everything is consistently more expensive in canadia. And you’re right about the stagnacy, as well. I’ve not heard of Videogameplus, and Future Shop and it’s equivalent Best Buy would have to be the second best places to get deals, but not often. I wouldn’t say Canadians as a whole are content with it, either. Where I’m from, the border is a hop and a skip away, and online services are becoming more and more prominent, so..
*shrugs*
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Canadia Tax.
Yeah, I’ve noticed the $5 CAD markup on some stuff. I should have bought more stuff when I hopped over the US border /o\
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Competition is king in retail, looks like Canada has a lack of it.
Maybe you could swoop in and launch Bish’s Gaming Emporium, under cut everyone by 10 – 15%, and who knows, 1 – 2 years you may be the King of all Canada! (except French-Canada…. I recommend you cut them off the from motherland).-
nnononono we need the french part of Canada to sound legit and cool and all french-inspired
Go ahead and annex the maritimes, though.
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My three most memorable game acquisition moments:
– Getting Marathon 2 for Christmas. But we were in the south part of New Zealand for a month. So all I could do is stare at the box and anticipate how amazingly awesome it was going to be until we got back home in mid January. And it turns out that it was actually really awesome.– Xbox launch. 9am the day it released in Australia. Saved up cash for months to be able to afford it. Grabbed the system, three extra controllers, Halo, Jet Set Radio Future, Dead or Alive 3 and that Oddworld game. I maintain that that was one of the strongest launch lineups of any system ever. Spent all day playing Halo with some friends and within a few weeks we all had our own systems and we were playing system link games.
– Halo 2 midnight launch. Memorable because of how amazingly hyped I was for the game and then the sudden terrible creeping realisation as I played it that the game was a steamy turd in every way. 🙁
(Holy crap my memorable moments are all Bungie games)
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Xbox launch for be one of mine as well. I saved up enough money from my first real job (was 15 or 16 at the time), walked into Tunzagames and bought the Xbox, 2 controllers, Project Gotham Racing, Halo and DOA3. $750 later I was in heaven! Then to add to the awesomeness, when Microsoft dropped the price a week later, I was able to get 2 extra controllers and 2 games for nothing! Ahhh I miss Xbox gaming….. might move it from my second lounge room into the main lounge room and play through my nostalgia trip…. makes me feel old when the Xbox makes me feel nostalgic… don’t get me started on the Commodore 64 though… oh man hurry up and finish day!
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I got PGR and Amped for my two free games.
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I remember having less money than I do now and still being happy to pay $100 for a game. It’s just how much they used to cost. If you wanted a game, you paid the price.
These days with all the competition we get new releases with bonus extras (and everything has Collector’s Edition) for $70-ish retail on release day and we still complain about pricing sometimes. I have no idea why we are always expecting cheaper things these days…we always used to expect base prices of things prices to go up with the years, not down. It’s definitely a good time to be a broke gamer though, what with Steam Sales and the like.
I sometimes just feel like by demanding our games for cheap we’re devaluing them. I feel like when I had to pay $100 I made damn sure I got my moneys worth, but these days I’ve bought so many games because they were cheap and they’re just sitting around waiting in vain to be played.-
That last point is definitely an issue for me. It used to be I would buy a game and I’d play it right through 5 times before I was sick of it. Nowadays I have so many games that I haven’t even started, let alone finished. There’s actually not a lot on the horizon that has me overly excited, so I might stop buying new things and just work through what I already own. Except for the new pokemon game tomorrow. I’ll get that when I finish my TAYlocke
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I only spent four months in Canada, and that was back in 2008, but you’re exactly right. The market over there isn’t very competitive. No one’s trying to make their games and their deals better than competitors. There’s ‘the price’ and you just have to pay it, because it’s the same everywhere.
I lived in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, for those four months and the only exception to this rule was a local run business calld Microplay. At Microplay, they were kind of like GameTraders, specialising in older games and hard-to-get current releases. No trade-ins or anything. They were only ever a couple of dollars cheaper. There was no such thing as going to one retailer just to get a good deal. Deals just… weren’t there. But considering how little I was earning there ($10 per hour, cash-in-hand), and how low their minimum wage is, games were still pretty expensive.
The whole cost of living in Canada was so low. We were paying $500 a MONTH rent. Here in Brisbane, we’re paying $320 a WEEK. Blech. Everything was so much cheaper there. Maaaaaaan, now I miss the place again.
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CHEAP FOOD
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Tim Hortons! Feed a family of four for $20!
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Pfftt, just lead me to the nearest dollar store and I WILL MAKE YOU A FEAST
(I’m serious it’s so plausable)
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I had something for dinner that cost $20.
That said, I eat enough for at least 3 people, so I guess that sort of works out.
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Ohoho man our Minimum Wage is horrible. What’s the lowest there, $9 to 11? horrible.
http://www.humblebundle.com/ They’re doing an eBooks bundle! I hope they do more of these.
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Purchased!
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There is some REALLY good stuff in there!
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I thought that was interesting but I don’t have an ebook reader and don’t like reading on the PC so figured I would give it a miss.
Then lambo posted this http://cybershack.com/news/txtr-beagle-ereader-only-13
It is much more tempting now-
That thing’s actually really cool-looking. And lookit the pretty colours it comes in. I have a Kindle but I’m still coveting one of these!
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I’m currently using my first gen iPad as a reader, I’ve been considering changing to a Kindle etc, but every time I go to, I decide that it’s just another device that wont be used to its fullest. Also, I can do a lot more on my iPad than a Kindle, sure it’s not e-ink, but I can browse the web easy, watch videos on it etc. But for $13….. I mean, it’s $13….. even if I just double sided tape it to the back of my iPad, I could have an e-ink reader to read with, and then flip it over and iPad to watch videos/surf web with….. interesting……..
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Shame, I should have read the full description…. maybe I could buy a Nexus 7 and do the same thing. Just money right??-
Best plan
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Doctorow? In. Rest is awesome too, I’ve already sent Pump Six to my Kindle app
What’s the best way to post video on Twitter. (Apart from YouTube?)
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Ask Josephine to do it for you. Because it is post, geddit
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Not really. 😉
Haha! Vimeo seems alright and it’s not Google affiliated, so I’ll just go with that. 😛
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Road to Meat Part #2 will be ready in half hour. Watch me speak! Snicker! Feel pity! 😛
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;D
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I’m guessing you’re just going to sound normal or something. You made us expect a monstrous appearance and you turned out to look all pretty and stuff so I’m guessing your voice is all Barry White-ish now. 😛
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Not likely. I’ve watched a couple of times I feel a pressing need to kill myself. 😛
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What!? Youre just a rad cool dude, whats the dealio? Seriously, you should come to my place and have some drinks on Sat! You’d be more than welcomed in by us, and also alcohol helps kill inhibitions!
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This! He doesn’t drink but he can sit back and feel all superior while we get all silly-drunk. 😀
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Haha! Strange and Sughly intimidate me at the best of times!
Who knows what would happen meating them together! 😛
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(Thanks for the invite too. Means a lot, man! :D)
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Yeah, never watch yourself. All the things you think about yourself are almost guaranteed to NOT be what anyone else is thinking so why put yourself through that?
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:O *gasp*
I bet he will have the voice if an angel. =P
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Like one of those angels whose real voice would kill you so they have to hijack someone’s body to speak? Awesome!
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All because of you
I believe in Angels
Not the kind with wings
No not the kind with halo’s
The kind that bring you home
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Damn, last line should be “when home becomes a strange place”
Crippled by choice between playing Pokemon, Borderlands, Dishonoured. I’ve been sitting here for the past hour going “wat do”.
Good thing I didn’t get X-Com, huh.
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Dishonored, Bish. You know that’s the truest of the lot. 😛
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Pokemons!!! You know you want to
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No, he doesn’t! Because that would make me jealous!
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Play something we can’t play yet like Dishonored. It’s your duty to gloat and play these things early if you get them before us!
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I am afraid to.
Last time I got Borderlands 2, and tried to play it, and within 15 seconds, 6 people had messaged me cursing my name to the depths of hell.-
Appear offline. That’s the hermit way. 😛
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I think you should be fine with Dishonored. Those Borderlands fans are way more rabid than the Dishonored ones. 😉
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I played Borderlands early too. Cause Colorado proxy bypass. Silly Internet I wasn’t really in America.
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Borderlands, I need somebody to play with now that I got Gaige.
But really Dishonored, the temptation must be too much.
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So glad you are spelling it with a ‘U’
So Died Pretty is quite alright
Wait Beesh lived near Macquarie Centre in Sydney??
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Huh?
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Carlingford, to be precise.
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I used to live in Lane Cove. Till 2011
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I think that’s where Cake is, although didn’t he move recently?
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One time I was walking through the centre and he yelled at me outside Woolies.
True story. *nods*
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Someone walked right on by without acknowledging me though.
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I had my earphones in. By the time I’d registered that someone was actually yelling ‘Pants’ and not something else that my ego had misinterpreted, I was already in my car!
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I’m so bad at this. I see someone as I’m walking past, but by the time I register that I actually know them the moment to say hello has long gone…
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http://www.bethblog.com/2012/10/09/protips-for-dishonored/#more-20446
The creators have tips on Dishonored. Spoiler-free from what I’ve read. I like this sort of thing way better than the patronising “Playing xxxxx The Right Way” KotUS articles.
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Awesome.
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I hate those as well. The best way to play is always self discovery!! Then ask friends if your really stuck.
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Yeah, I agree. I’d prefer to play my own way and then compose a Play the D.C. way post. 😛
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I like how this one seems to be from a place of love. Like the developers love what they’ve done so much and don’t want you to miss out on the fullest experience possible. I’ve been following Harvey smith on Twitter for a little while now and I think more than anything, his obvious pride in and care for the game he was creating is what made this a must-buy for me.
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Nonsense. The best way to play is buck-naked in a spa, surrounded by attractive people of the gender you are attracted to with a plentiful supply of delicious food and beverages being hand fed to you.
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Best way? I didn’t realise there was any other way.
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Oooh I LOVE those articles!
“We’re going to take a break from telling the games industry how to do their jobs to tell videogame players how to do theirs!”-
Next they’ll be advising you on proper Mo brushing techniques!
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And now there’s a “Playing Dishonored the best way” article.
If Dishonored has a “best way” to play it, then it has failed entirely in what it is attempting to do.
Oh my TAY on my phone broke. Guess im Powalen now. (I have your gravatar and if you want it back bring 100 rare candies to Taronga Zoo tonight)
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Identity theft!
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Ah but you are also still a Top Hat Caterpie. Guess I’m a clone then.
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It’s ok, you’re still hamster hat wearing goateed CJ for my mobile Kotaku.
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Tigs, that D.C. comment at the end of page 6 made me laugh ;D
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I laughed. 😛
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Excellent call by him and it’s lost in the void of previous pages :'(
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I also liked his “I’m going to have a stash of popcorn at home, just in case drunk batgirl and drunk Aleph get on twitter at the same time.”
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Unless Aleph has been up to it recently the last one was a few months ago, kudos to Tigs for the old reference.
He makes some good calls but has the habit of doing it a while after where they’re less likely to be seen 😛
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Recognition at last \o/
I have work, so my TAY catchup happen in rushes. In regards to drunken Aleph we had the wonderful “ARE AL GEMRAN SAS PRETYYYYYY AS THEI ONES I K NOW/ ” about a week ago 😉 -
Well I’ve never met an ugly German girl :O
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But have you ever met an ugly gemran sas?
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That was almost too drunk, I suspect he was exaggerating. 😛
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Hey guys and gals!!!
How is everyone doing this week?
So.. i’ve been painting…
http://smg.beta.photobucket.com/user/trozza/media/560343_10152140469675062_1682827927_n_zps4a6cea90.jpg.html
Still quite a bit of work to be done on him, but i’m quite chuffed so far 😀
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Oh, man. That looks amazing!
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haha cheers, mate. I’ve put quite a few hours in there and still a few more to go.. then the rest of the squad… then the rest of the Dark Vengeance box set… lol
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Time consuming hobby by the looks of it, but they’re usually the best kind! 😀
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Hi Loops! (or should I say Trozza? :P)
The SPAUCR MARHAIENE looks awesome. I remember when I used to randomly paint the LOTR ones they would be so fugly :/
*ahem* cue Greedius/Needius – did you still have that $10 off OzGameshop voucher laying around? Methinks I might try their email code thing for Dishonored
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yeah i do, buddy.
troy(dot)cleary(atthehotmailsdotcom)
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Email and Twitter DM sent (ignore the latter :P)
Cheers! 😀
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Still a lot of work to do? Looks pretty damn great to me already
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haha thanks mate 😀
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TERMINATOR! 😀
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Indeed! Sorry it’s not a raptor
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You’re on the side of the emperor, I can’t ask you to convert for me, human. It’s just one more human for the Night Lord raptors to slaughter anyway and I’m sure they’ll thank me for that later 😛 lol
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Wow, dude, that looks amazing! Moar! MOAR!
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FOR THE LION!!
Leaks say the new Dark Angels codex and all new minis are out next month1!!!! 😀
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Nice work man, that’s some solid paintwork right there 🙂
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Cheers buddy 🙂
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Space Hulk?
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Nah, just regular 40k. The space hulk ones are blood angels now, and i’m still yet to paint them up.
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Very nice loops – I approve.
I’m starting up regular hobby nights on Wednesdays with some mates, so hopefully I can get a move one with my stuff.
Hey D.C., hurry up and do your video thing because I have to get lunch but I don’t want to be away from the computer in case you take it down quickly and I miss it! 😛
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Yay! Now we can Meat you!
Good to meet you, too. Also, most of the time I can’t understand what anyone in the world is saying, especially in videos or on the phone. You were pretty clear-spoken.
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HI DC!
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You look a lot like the guy who played Neville in the Harry Potter films. Which is awesome, because I often get told I look like Harry. So together we can rule the magical world \o/
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Aww man..have you seen the recent pictures of Neville? They had a picture of somewhere with him and the other Harry Potter mains and he was the hottest of the bunch. Someone did a funny meme caption about it.
Also, can I be Hermione? 😛
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Maybe… That would mean I’d have to come to Brisbane and meet you to know for sure, how terrible for me 🙂
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I gots me a Potter-esque scar on my forehead too. So we’ve got that base covered as well!
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I’ll dye my hair red and we can complete the set! 😀
Actually, I went to a costume party once as Tom Riddle from the Chamber of Secrets. Still have that costume somewhere! (My friend was meant to go as Harry so we could have a duel, but he pulled out :P)
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Haha! Our personalities are a bit similar too, I reckon. 😛
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I did not understand what you said and therefore I am most people you know 😉
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:'(
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PEOPLE, BRACE YOURSELVES
He sounds normal.
Hahaha I forgot how quickly he deletes things :/. NO DELETING!
Oh, man. Been avoiding TAY for hours out of embarrassment. But now I feel a little better. 🙂
You guys are awesome.
Bat For Lashes fans? Here’s 6 tracks from the new album. Effing hell, want this right now, sounds so good… http://pitchfork.com/news/48160-listen-to-three-new-bat-for-lashes-songs/
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Errr, but um… album art is NSFW.
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Yes, that is a very ‘interesting’ bra and panties set
I don’t actually know of them/her so time to check it out
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Can we please keep this within TAY please and not outside of here. Can you let me know via twitter DM if you are interested in playing Trials Evolution and have an xbox but for some reason have not got it. Im only interesting in hearing from people who really want to play it and i want to help someone out from here if possible. Ask for a follow if i don’t follow you already.
Don’t mention this on twitter directly or anywhere else if you dont mind. Just don’t want to be hassled by a bunch of moochers.. i like you moochers, but not random moochers!!!
This offer may contain a free copy of the game to DL via XBLA. 🙂
Not sure if this offer is nom worthy but also would like to avoid this being called out… just a friendly offer to TAYbies
Thanks.. back to your normal crazy ways!
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FatShady \o/
I don’t have an sexbox so can’t take advantage of your generosity.
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yeah busy with stuff. With the expo work, just trying to get through this week. While it was fun, it was still work all weekend so just tired.. and I still am playing Trials like a mad man trying to get more platinums..
MiniShady and wifey are good and not keeping me that busy. It’s just work and stuff. Oh and im writing an article for Redlynx about the expo experience so just all takes time. All good though.
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Well busy is good when it is something you like and has an end result.
It is only busy for the sake of being busy that is badMake sure you linky us in TAY once your article goes live
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Shady is a boss.
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BRB, posting on Reddit.
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I can has free DLC?? (nah I’ve got enough to play. And I already have Trials Evo)
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TRIALS IS AMAZING AND EVERYONE SHOULD PLAY IT
How’s the DLC btw? I want to but… I dunno :/
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get the DLC man.. It’s freaking awesome.. all I need to say.. BMX bike!
So good!
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That bike is brilliant! Also, DLC tracks are amazing! Toy Box was soooo awesome 😀
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Do many TAYbies have it? So much fun competing (AND BEATING) with most of the TAYbies, that was one of my main concerns with the DLC (that not many people would have it).
As long as Serrels has it and I can beat him again, then all is good :D.
Shady, Sughly and Batguy… soon I will defeat you
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Keep the thoughts alive Dreamius
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I haven’t bought it yet. Gave it a good go at EB expo though 😀
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Trials Evolution? *googles* … huh looks like a interesting game. A game worthy of offering my first born for. But I’d say give it to someone more awesome than I. So how’s things Master Shady?
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all good man, nothing major to report really. Just never seem to be around here any more. Work is just crazy right now and I dont think it will stop.. this is just how things are now, but its not that bad.
Still playing stupid amounts of games, just not talking about them as much!
Well then perhaps I should just do this…
XTM47-9MHKQ-RK6VR-43FM9-CH6QZ
Might be a code to Trials Evo, might be a code to the Secret of the Magic Crystal on XBLA? You will have to redeem it to find out! 🙂
Let me know who gets it.. and remember, the DM offer still stands! 🙂
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Tries code*
Damnit, it is Trials Evo not Secret of the Magic Crystal. What a waste*Did NOT try code
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*types in code and presses submit* … huh, it’s taking a while. Guess it’s already been claimed *wanders off to check the mail and comes back to see “You have successfully redeemed a code for: Trials Evolution” *
Well, now I feel selfish. Thank you oh great and powerful Shady, I shall treasure it and love it and hug it and call it george
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Congrats dude… hope you enjoy it! you had a pretty good chance of getting it because there is really very few people on here i have not made to buy it already. 🙂
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You’re a good man Shady
I wouldnt mind some me some trials…. i cant bring myself to become a slave to the points system….. 🙁
Are there any Gold requirements for the community features of the game?
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No! 😀
Which is why it’s bloody amazing. Download and play ALL the custom tracks 🙂
Shady, you’re as generous as you are freakin’ awesome. Never change! 😀
Damn. Now I have to wait around the zoo till class starts. Don’t ya hate that. When things don’t take as long as they should.
*sigh* twitch… why do your VoDs load so fricken slowly so that it stops to buffer every 3 seconds? I only want to catch up on the world championships…
First world problems 🙁
It’s amazing seeing the media spin on Gillard’s speech in Question Time yesterday.
She launched a 15 minute attack on Abbott, calling him out on his hypocrisy and opportunism to try and decry Slipper for sexism after personally endorsing him and publicly making numerous sexist and misogynist remarks. She denounced Slipper but argued against Abbott’s motion to have him sacked as Speaker (due process is a pain but it needs to be defended).
This has been turned into Gillard having a personal go at Abbott and defending Slipper. Yes, she had a go at Abbott. She called him out on the constant attacks he has been directing towards her. I love seeing the Coalition supporters say that this is part of a deliberate Labor campaign to continually attack Abbott.
There is a very popular political tactic right now to take your biggest weakness and accuse your opponents of having it. Coalition supporters saying that Labor has done nothing but attack Abbott is exactly that.
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I watched that video, it was great to see Gillard speak from the heart and tear Abbot to shreds with nothing but the facts and his own quotes turned back on him,
but GOD DAMN do I hate politics. Looking at them all there in parliament, interrupting and yelling at each other like a bunch of school kids, it was disgusting, not to mention the sheer terror that comes with the realization that these power hungry children are running the country for us.
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Want to know the worst part?
By parliamentary standards, everyone was dead silent during Gillard’s speech. Question Time is barely better than the schoolyard.
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I know right. The first time I actually watched a proper Question Time I was amazed at how childish a lot of it was.
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I saw this picture once that made me chuckle about elections in a nutshell. “Picking who to vote for is like picking the cubicle in a public restroom that’s the least disgusting” 😛
Every time I see politicians on the news I just cringe until they leave the screen.
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You might find this interesting: Rumour has it (from an extremely reliable source) that Abbott is having an affair with his personal assistant based in Canberra. An abc cameraman walked in on them (I don’t know what they were doing) 2 weeks ago and he was paid silence money.
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It was a great speech, and hopefully it has some staying power- Abbott’s comebacks have been pretty lame.
Madam PM, more of this stuff on other issues please.
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Politicians squabbling like children over getting and holding onto the job.
My favourite line after the last leadership spill – “Now we can focus on winning the next election”… What about actually running the country?-
That always makes me laugh. You can easily see they don’t see it as running the country, they only see the paychecks. How many times you see stories about the politicians getting payrises and none of them cry foul yet for a CEO of a major company… holy carp everybody get the pitchforks!
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Actually, most of the running the country stuff isn’t done during Question Time. Really, most of the public facing stuff is the bits that aren’t necessary for them to do their job but an invisible politician can’t get reelected to do the important bits.
It’s complicated.
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Not wanting to turn this in to PoliTAYcs talk, I’ll paraphrase what I’ve said elsewhere.
N.B.: I have fairly strong (by Australian standards*) Right leaning ideals and beliefs. *So I’d be Left wing if this was America.
Tony Abbott a poopy-face meany and a jerk. He’s a fool and a bigot. I don’t really think this is up for debate. Anyone who think’s he’s level-headed and has good ideas about running the country or, say, women (in any scenario whatsoever) needs to remove themselves from any position of power they hold immediately and seek help. But golly gosh if he isn’t the greatest feint the Coalition ever had; let me know what anyone else in the Libs has been doing for the last two years.
Julia Gillard did both a very brave thing and the right thing. It behooves the government to lead by example, and this was it in action. It was actually delightful to see her passionate about something; it’s the first time during her term as Prime Minister that I believed that she actually believed what she was saying.
The timing was great; coming just a day after Labor dropped 3% in the opinion polls – ending an 18 month stint of growth (although a little embarrassing that it puts them at 30%).
The timing was horrible; the Coalition will likely hold a spill soon, and I would not be surprised to see Turnbull come out on top. He will then have a year to prepare a campaign against Labor in next year’s election. By the time we go to vote, this speech will be ancient history – the PM will have to go to great effort to show that she can be this consistent. However, there’s another problem. If Labor could only manage a minority government against Abbott, I don’t like their chances against someone a stronger leader, someone smarter and better than Abbott. If she was able to publicly tear him a new butthole, why wasn’t the last election a landslide?TL;DR: I think the speech was great. I’d like to think Julia Gillard is just as passionate about some other aspects of politics and I’d like to see more of it. I hope Turnbull takes charge soon; now that he’s finally seen what Gillard is capable of, he’s got a good 12 months to prepare Libs campaign.
Words.
Sorry, I’m not going to politics any more. Pokémon will be out tomorrow, so I’ll be distracted anyway.
EDIT: When your “paraphrasing” comes with a tl;dr you got problems, son!
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People, mainly on the left, have been cheering for Turnbull to take back the Liberal part from Abbott from some time. Any time Abbott looks weak, there are calls for him to force a spill.
While he’s better than Abbott in most people’s books (I have my own issues with him but he’s definitely better than Abbott, as is my Sackboy keyring), his time as opposition leader against Rudd and his current work as Shadow Communications Minister make me doubt his ability to lead.
The problem is that the Liberal party gutted itself after Howard was voted out.
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I think the idea that Turnbull is super different is silly. He’d bring the rest of the libs with him…
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So this is what I am thinking so far with the machinima series idea:
Done via Far Cry 2 multiplayer on PC, we follow a group of mercenaries who survive a plane crash on the way to a mission. The style will be a bit like The Office, where there will be the main story playing, with cuts to side-interviews. I am thinking 5 10 minute episodes and then we see where we want to go to from there.
So far @splicer @Tech Knight and @Tigerion have shown some interest. Would love to have some more peeps on board – even if you just have better ideas or if you want to help with a script.
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I know what I’ll be buying next then 🙂
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haha, me too. It’s $10USD on steam so that looks reasonable.
Where would be a better spot to communicate/plan? Add one another on FB and create a group?
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I know of a few options we can do:
1. Using our TS server, I can create a secure channel to discuss if need be.
2. Skype group convos (Might be best here cuz we can do voice conferences too on demand)I barely use FB more than 5 minutes a day so I’d rather not have more reason to use it other than a message box 😛
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Hmmmm maybe Skype as that is available on mobile and I can continue to make conversation easily during the day when I want to goof off from work.
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Can you make private groups on steam? That could work. Also, you could probably use google docs or something for sharing scripts.
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If the steam group can be made private so that no randoms jump in to ruin it for the rest of us, I don’t see why not
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Yep, just checked. You can make private groups on steam that are invite only.
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I think it’s decided then!
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Heyyy, I own Far Cry 2 \o/
Also, you look new. Don’t think I’ve seen you around these here parts before. Welcome! 😀
Also, also, I’ve never seen The Office before…
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Thank you for the welcome! I’ve been posting here as “Azza” and posted on Kotaku for years now. When they created the new user system I decided to actually register a username and think of a name better than “Azza”. I will still take your welcome all the same 😀
You interested in the machinima series?
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Ohhh. Well, no welcome for you then! *Snatches welcome back* 😛
Yeah, I’m interested. Sounds like it could be heaps of fun 😀
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I don’t know if I could get involved due to availability, but keen to see how it all goes.
$9.99 on Steam by the look of it. Count me in!
One main question I got, when are you planning to begin the preparations? I ask because I’m going to be in Europe for 2 weeks in November and will be unavailable (obviously :P) until I return
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I am flexible. I want to make sure we have a decent script down and everyone involved fully prepared, so I would think at least 1 month timeline to make sure we come out guns blazing (plus I’ll be on holidays for 1 week in Nov as well). Let’s throw a 1st of Dec for first day of actual recording and fit everything around that?
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I think the day I’m back in Aus will be on the 4th of December IIRC, I’ll double check the flights when I get home.
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*Rewrites script to kill Techie off mid season*
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Bahahaha
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I am thinking someones gotta die in the first 2 minutes of the first episode as a parody of Full Metal Jacket……
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Aye, and i’ll be around the South Pacific and Queensland for 2 weeks…also kinda unavailable.
Depending on timings and availability, I’m happy to put my hand up to help as an extra running around in the background or something.
I love Far Cry 2 but my Pc sucks 🙁
Have fun though.
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I’ll put in more effort in your absence, human 🙂
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If you can run FC2 even on the lowest settings it wouldn’t matter. Just the person playing cameraman would need to have a good machine.
I’d love to join in!
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I shall start tracking you guys down on steam over the next day or so!
send me a message and I can make an appearance.. i have FC2 and would be keen, if I can make the time… do you do cameo’s?
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I see you driving past in a dirt bike…
Fun story.
Last Wednesday I accidentally snapped a broom in two, then on Friday I hit my elbow with another broom. It hit a nerve, which was painful. Sooo, yeah. Revenge or something I guess. Still hurts a bit when I straighten my arm out all the way.
Also, my headache’s still here. Just vaguely though, rather ignorable now.
And I had another girl dream last night. (The increasing frequency of these kinds of dreams is almost troubling :P) This time I was trying to teach manners to a zombie. It was working, but then the army showed up and scared him back into his old habits.
Sooo, what have I missed?
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… What was the weirdest dream you’ve had?
because even though your dream has no relation to mine, I just remembered the one last night where I starred in a remake of BTTF where instead of a DeLorean, it was a time-travelling Tuxedo.
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“Quick! Clothes off! Everyone into the tuxedo!”
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That, my friend, is awesome.
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Hi Saturday, I don’t think we have actually met officially yet.
Is your real name Pandora by any chance?
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No. No it is not.
If you want it to be we’d have to discuss payment.
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I’ve actually got one of those, I just can’t run at 88mph to get it to work!
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Obviously, because the real Tuxedo belongs to Jackie Chan.
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Well there was one where I was watching a movie where batman was fighting predators, then he accidentally ripped a hole in the fabric of the universe. Then it cut to some girl (not me…) going on a date with Vin Diesel on the moon.
Also, there was another one where Darth Vader gave me a bracelet that turned me into a girl. Then I ended up printing a poster of The Joker while talking to The Joker about Left 4 Dead (which I haven’t actually played yet). Then me and Einstein (the dog from BTTF) attacked some military camp.
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Oh, man. Lucky the army showed up before that dream took a Beauty and the Beast turn.
@phail. Re FarCry 2
Sorry I can’t do a proper reply cause it crashes my phone browser. But I’m up for the project. Just pop me an invite on steam and I’ll check back later tonight here as well. My steam name is on the TAYnames doc.
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Cool bananas!
I AM EMPLOYEDIUS \o/ \o/ \o/ \o/ \o/ \o/ \o/ \o/
I decided to take the job in Orange, after interviews with places in the city didn’t pan out. I’ll get an official start date before the weekend, but I’ll start some time in November. Most importantly I will be away from Coles before the Christmas rush starts. I’m excited, nervous, happy, scared, too many other emotions right now. I’ll be working for Harvey World Travel so TAY now has an official travel agent, catering to all your Meat related needs. \o/ \o/
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/EMPLOYEDFIST
Also, awesome, I’d like to know a travel agent. Seriously.
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I just got set up on my trip to Portugal very recently through those guys 🙂
Grats on the employment! 🙂
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COPULATIONS!! 😀
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Brilliant.
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Congratulations man. It has been quite a journey, glad to see it paid off.
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Novahkiin Workaborn \o/
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Congrats! I hope you’ll still be able to come to the occasional meat!
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Me too. You’re all to good a bunch to go and leave you all now. I’ll try and get back as much as I can, especially for the Zombie Film debut. That, I’m not going to miss
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NOVAHKIIN TRAVEL BORN! Congrats man 😀
You should reward yourself by finishing Xenoblade 😉 and by flying us all out to your designated travel destination for a meat of epic proportions, Just do it after my exams though, kthx
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Heading to the big smoke!
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Awesome man! Grats!
Better start organising a housewarming! I nominate calling it the Frozen Gamboge Meat.
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Hells yeah! Way to go, man. So damn proud of you!
Mark probably should have told the Sugar girls what happens when you don’t put a word limit on your competitions…
http://www.popsugar.com.au/Giveaway-Win-Nokia-Lumia-900-Monster-Headset-25291624
Also, no permalinking and no comment formatting makes their site full of fail 😛
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Pffft – you can do better than that, my man.
MOAR WORDS!!!!!!
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But my head hurts! 😛
That was only 500 words. Imagine what a 1,000 word story would look without any formatting!
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Am I the only one that finds it weird to get to the end of an article about gender equality and stopping sexism in games and gaming culture only to find a link to PopSugar along the lines of “check out these 5 guys not wearing shirts”.
It’s been Hugh Jackman on at least two occasions, and once it was a full body shot of Chris Hemsworth. I mean, those are some good looking gentlemen, but when Bashcraft or Plunkett posts and article about Jessica Nigri then they get crucified.
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Don’t you know sexism is only men objectifying women? Silly Mawt.
Oh and suggesting that women are being sexist? That’s also sexist, for shame Mawt.-
Hey look, a ten-foot pole sitting right next to me. I think I’ll just leave that right where it is :p
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😛
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BAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
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We’ll put the elephant with the pole and they can be best buddies! 😀
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I’m glad about the articles about stopping sexism in games and gaming culture. But I don’t read the articles about Hugh Jackman on PopSugar. It’s weird but PopSugar is really aimed at a different audience.
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GUISE QUICK QUESTIONS:
– OzGameshop player points, since when do they expire? :/
– Apparently I have 1,125 points which I got from Xenoblade (<3) supposedly expiring by the end of the month. Can I just claim a $5 off voucher right now (before they expire) and use it later?
– Do vouchers work on pre-orders? I know before they introduced the player points system, they used to but not sure if they do now.
– If anyone (Novah? :D) has used their email code thing before, how long did it take to receive a code?
They used to be my main peeps for UK/PAL games but I find Zavvi cheaper and better (their customer service actually responded to me :P) as long as you don’t mind waiting a while for games to arrive.
Thanks!
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I got my Borderlands code within 24 hours. Not sure about anything to do with the points. All I know is I have just over 9000 (!!!!!!!!) of them, I got my first ones almost 12 months ago, haven’t used any of them and none have expired.
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Xenoblade was in August 2011 so maybe they expire after 14 months or so
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@Loops
Thanks again man, the code worked like a charm but I didn’t place the order yet (I’m just a couple of dollars short! :P). Hopefully applying it in the basket doesn’t get rid of it forever…
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Just keep a note of it on your email or whatever. The code that is.
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You and me both buddy – glad to have been of service 🙂
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I wasn’t aware points expired. You should be able to find all their points related info on the website.
Vouchers do work on pre-orders.I haven’t used Zavvi before but Ozgameshop always replied to my emails.
After our chat last night I cancelled my pre-order for dishonoured and ordered the email code so I’ll let you know.
They replied to my cancel request overnight.
There’s a businessman from the burbank complex loitering outside our warhouses front door, talking loudly on his mobile. All our doors and windows are mirrored, so never before have i felt so tempted to throw open the door and yell out a might “YYAAAAARRRGHHHHHHH!!!!”
@Loops
“November White Dwarf to be about Warriors of Chaos
Dark Angels release at the end of November/ beginning of December
December….. Hobbit black out.”
I don’t think we’ll see new Dark Angels for about a month.
Finally bought me some shiny new headphones. JB had some USB powered Steelseries ones that are apparently not shit, so I got those. Probably would have been better to get non-USB powered ones but this way I can use them easily on my laptop and PC (laptop is lacking in a microphone port).
Huzzah for less static!
Or more, depending on how well these work.
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😀 Nothing like a spiffy new pair of headphones.
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I have a USB set of the Turtle Beach XP500 and they work on everything and are amazing.
What do mean what’s my point? I don’t have one. Just wanted to say that.
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Oh, um. Headphones are made from Swedish supermodels and stuff.
o_O
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Nerd.
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Oh for crying out…
Are you still here? Even once you get a job you still won’t leave. Make a man of yourself.
Disappointius.
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My old headphones were USB powered. Actually, all of the headphones I’ve owned in recent memory were. It’s just that aside from the Microsoft LX3000s that I’ve used, I’ve had issues where they USB port didn’t provide sufficient power, which meant that it was a complete waste to try and use the microphone at all.
Hopefully, not an issue with these ones. Although they do light up.
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Oh, man. I hate that. My USB drives refuse to power any thing, ever.
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Honestly, I’d forgotten how awesome Tomba is until I started playing it again…
I just changed some stuff on someone’s computer which involved messing with a custom login prompt (requiring restart), but he told me he was in the middle of something and “could I hold off restarting?”. I repeatedly warned him not to log out or lock his computer until he restarts. Ten minutes later I get a call that “something is wrong with his computer”.
He locked it.
And I still give people the benefit of the doubt…I think I need to see a shrink.
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Rule #1 – People are stupid
Rule #2 – Nothing you say or do will change Rule #1*Present company excepted, of course
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(Congrats on the job, Potter! Couldn’t happen to a better guy!)
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Thanks, now you have no excuse, I can book you a flight to any Meat in the country. MWAHAHA. The truth comes out 😛
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Does that mean mate’s rates?!
In which case… hook me up 😛
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Oh, man. Sooner people are replaced by ducks, the better!
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Nooooope! As someone with a completely rational fear of ducks … they can stay right where they are and I’ll be happy
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A friend from Uni had a fear of all birds. Couldn’t wrap my head around it. Then I remember my own hang ups. 😛 Get down with the ducks, tofu. Get down with the ducks!
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Nooooope, the ducks have made it very clear that they want nothing more than to devour my tasty eye jelly and without my eyes I could never be the staring contest champion I’m destined to be.
Seriously though, they be evil evil birds and I’m fairly sure they’re planning to take over the world in the most Michael Bay inspired way possible, our only hope is to send a specially trained platypus into the past to stop them before they can wipe us out
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You make a compelling arguement.
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then Duck-tective could be real! 😀
I.T. repair:
The smart fixing the mistakes of the ignorant.
Heh. I still regularly get people screaming at me about the price of remote and watch batteries and end up saying they’ll do it themselves. It’s not hard. 75% of them come back with a broken item asking me to fix it. At which point I explain to them it can’t be fixed and they now have to spend $150 on a new remote for the sake of saving $10.
Decided to buy my first ever AAA (I think it’s AAA?) title for PC. I have never used my PC to play anything intensive on its graphics card or processor or whatever. Hell, I don’t even know what half of those words means but…
I had to buy Dishono(u)red. It was only $45 at Green Man. I’ve pre-loaded it and now I am playing the waiting game. This could end badly (like, tears) if my computer decides that it is not worthy.
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This could be the start of something good, man. 😛 Here’s hoping it works!
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Haha, indeed. I play a lot of games on here that are PC-exclusive like Torchlight 2 and FTL (recently) because I only just upgraded. Those aren’t that intensive though. I am excited.
I also just added like 7 people to Steam. I am on a roll here.
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Did you add D.C.? He has an exclusive list of friends, reserved for the bestest of people.
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He did! It was awesome, Greenius!
I’ll never forget when it was just you and me against the world, though. 😛
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http://cyri.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri/
This site is pretty nifty for checking what is most likely to work and what won’t.
I’m pretty new to master racing myself and still don’t get all that mumbo jumbo but generally the higher the numbers the better 😛
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This is very handy indeed.
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I’m crossing my fingers for you. And toes. I’m very much looking forward to tomorrow so I can play it. I hope your PC is happy with it for you.
SMURFYDOG’S PRE-EMPTIVE TAY CATCH UP BRIEF 10/10/2012
Fat Shady generously gifted a copy of Trials, cementing his reputation as a damn good guy. (If ever there was any doubt!) Trjn and the gang discussed politics, more specifically Julia Gillard’s speech and the coverage it has since gained. NovaCascade got a job! A good one too! We all congratulated him, because he’s awesome! (Apparently resembles Potter too, so don’t want to get on his wrong side!) The horribleness of people was rambled about again in an IT context this time. Loops continues to be awesome at the Warhammer 40k thing, he’s painting them like a trooper! Lambo hurt his elbow and had a gender neutral dream. Bish deconstructed the state of gaming in Canada! Brisbane meat was contemplated, looking like there will be one this weekend! The eBook Humble Bundle sale was praised! D.C. wrote the longest, most rambling of recaps on TAY.
Now you know and knowing is half the battle…
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STRANGE’S ANNIVERSARY! 😀
Again you forgot to mention news about that D.C. guy! He now stars in his very own video!
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Oh yeah!
I compartmented page six into yesterday for some reason. Sughly also got Radiohead tickets! A valiant effort, no doubt! A whole lot of Melbourne folks are going to the Armageddeon expo. (Including some pals who’ll be at the Space Pyrates booth in Artist Alley!) As for the D.C. stuff? I don’t recall that. 😛
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GEEEEE EEEEYEE JOOOOOEE!
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stop all the downloooooaaaaadiiiiiing
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D.C.! I knew you were hiding! And you had nothing to hide about.
Also, I don’t know why you think Sughly and I are intimidating. Sughly’s a lot like you, and I’m just me. I really think you’d feel right at home with any of the TAYbies pretty fast.
As well as that, personally I’d attend 1000 Meats with strangers before I’d upload a video of myself to the internet like you did. You’re pretty brave.
So now you have no excuses left for not joining us at Meats. See you Saturday. ;P
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Sughly intimidating? I mean you I get but not Sughly. 😛
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Wait, what?! Sughly’s made a game! I’m just a housewife. How am I more intimidating than he is? Not that anyone should be intimidated by either of us…. 😛
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And then there’s that Freeze guy! Terrifying!
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And don’t forget that lambo guy. He’d probably put an elbow through your eye or something 😛
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He could be the scariest of the lot!
Sure he’d apologize after maiming you, but you’d still be maimed! 😛
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D.C! You should totally come! Because when you see me, the story about me slipping an dislocating my shoulder at Chermside is so much funnier. For serious.
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Haha! I still cringe when I pass that crossing to this day, man. 😛
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Ah but Last… question is, are YOU coming on Sat???
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I WOULD LIKE TO! I @’d you on twitter with mah email. U can send me ur address lol?
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DC! I am definitely the most terrifying! BOO! See that scared you, don’t lie it totally did. MWAHAHAHA.
Anyway as a newbie to the Brisbane meats once you get over the initial awkwardness of meating everyone, they are all awesome! =D
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I’ve got no doubt, you guys are awesome! That ain’t the problem! 😛
While we’re on topic, who’s coming on Sat? I keep asking this but I’m lazu and not checking back in on the answers enough XD
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– someone
– someone
– someone
– D.C.!!!!!!!!
– someone🙂
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DID SOMEONE SAY MEAT??? 😀
WHEN/WHERE/WHY/WHAT?-
My place! Sat night! Board Games!
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Sughly, I am disappoint.
It should have gone:
WHEN: Sat night!
WHERE: My place!
WHY: Board games!
WHAT: A Scottish doctor!
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I’d love to! The only problem is you are selfish enough to not live near me!
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Oh, people.
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People indeed…
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I NEED THESE!
http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/a823/?cpg=cj&ref=&CJURL=&CJID=3363563
I hate not being able to cut straight. Not Sure if it’s just me.
Also, I tried those KFC crispy rods. They were…yeah. Even worse I can still taste them. D=
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Rotary cutter and ruler beats laser-guided scissors anyday. But they don’t look anywhere near as cool. 😛
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Straight edge and box cutter here.
Not that it’s much different.
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You guys are so low tech. If it doesn’t have some form of laser on it I won’t even consider using it.
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I like the way you think!
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You know what is super high tech? Laser guided lasers, shhhhh don’t tell anyone. It is supposed to be a secret.
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Woooo! Scissors of the future.
Also why would you eat KFC /o\. What did your body ever so to you? =(
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I wanted chicken gravy and chips. I didn’t actually want the chicken
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But, KFC. I wouldn’t wish the horridness off that regret on my worst enemy. =(
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But only chips and gravy
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Laser guided scissors are so 20th century.
I want my scissors to literally be lasers.
Gad darn it. I’ve hurt myself so many freaking times today. My hands are a mess.
I’m going to have to change my name to Freeze S. Lambo at this rate.
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Just… stay away from the clothesline! /o\
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You should get some of these:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HnghHimTrQE/T49K-l-OGhI/AAAAAAAAAcA/kVFYF8Gj6Fs/s1600/Elastoplast3.jpgAs my son would say “That will feel you better!”.
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There’s my little pony bandaids?
I mean,
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Damn, I want those bandaids.
Hands are overrated Freeze, Just think how much more awesome life would be with a grappling hook and a claw?
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I remember when it used to be all about the Wiggles. Man how times have changed 😛
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BLASPHMY! Thomas the Tank Engine band-aids were scientifically proven to heal you betterer!
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Back in my day, Dad would just seal it shut with a hot iron from the fire. Which was 25 miles away from home, uphill in a snowstorm. An we had to do it barefoot. And we thanked him for it.
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Luxury!
When I were a lad, if I were to hurt meself when doing ‘ard labour in the factory, the foreman would send me fifty miles uphill both ways to the tar pits where Ol’ Willy would rub his concoction of salt an’ searing hot tar into the wound. Then I’d have to walk meself back to the factory and work unpaid overtime to cover all that time I wasted getting ‘ealed.
Oh to be six years old again.
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Ouch. Hope it ain’t too bad.
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Nothing major. Just keep stabbing my fingers, catching my hands on the sanding belts, nicking my knuckles in the key cutter and even managed to stick my thumb with the engraver.
No real damage. Just hurts is all.
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On the hands, though. Like a paper cut. Not so much life threatening as it is painful and damn annoying!
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I might just always leave the room at meal times,
Or refuse to touch or kiss you for a week,
If you insist on putting that foul death paste in your mouth.
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It’s called toothpaste you luddite.
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MACHINE SMASHING TIME! SMASHSMASHSMASHSMASHSMASH! DIE COGS! DIE PULLEYS! SCREW YOU THINGS THAT ARE EFFICIENT, I WANT TO LOOM BY HAND!
*Cough* Sorry, whenever anyone mentions Luddites, I think of the awesome ones. Who smashed machines. Because they were unemployed dicks.
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Is it weird that I like the Dresden Dolls but don’t particularly care for her?
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Not at all man, not at all!
In that case, definitely check out Evelyn Evelyn.It’s more of her-but-with-someone-else as well 😀
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Is it weird that I read that as Dresdon Trolls? 😛
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And now I’m thinking about the Dresden Files.
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So who’s gonna stay up all night with me on TAY? 😀
Got an assignment due tomorrow which I haven’t started on and know nothing about so I guess I’ll be doing that. Fun!
I keep getting myself in this situation… I blame my timetable and the tiredness from daylight savings and my hayfever tablets, and also lambo because always blame lambo.
I see myself doing the same thing come Sunday and Monday night :/. I haven’t got a HD yet this semester but a few mid-high distinctions :). Oddly enough the two assignments I did during these midnight-early hours have been the ones I’ve got the highest marks on 😛
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Isn’t that the basic rule of uni?
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That last point happened a lot to me in High School. Best.
I’ll be up until 11:30pm, at a guess, but no later. I figure if I keep getting beauty sleep, maybe, one day, I’ll look like a normal person.
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Procrastination only gets worse each session, I’m afraid! I’ll be staying up late to get as much assignmenting done as I can before 8:30am tomorrow (when Big W opens :D)
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Once at uni there was an assignment due the next day. I freaked out and wrote it like crazy. Turned out they just wanted a paragraph synopsis. I had finished the actual 2000 word assignment a month early. 😛
(Handed it in unchanged a month later, the highest marks I’ve ever gotten. :D)
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That’s really funny how you do really well on something when you rush. I once left an assignment until the last minute. Had to do it in one night. Got 93%…
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HA. I’m always on TAY. All day and all night.
It’s sad really.
Also creepy.
But mostly sad.
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DO YOUR ASSIGNMENT GREENIUS
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BUT I DUN WANNA
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Wait, an ounce of gold worth NZ$10?
Did New Zealand’s economy go nuts while I wasn’t looking?
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The gold version of Bilbo looks like he’s flipping someone off.
Been listening to Beautiful World by Colin Hay for atleast half an hour. There’s something mellow and relaxing about it. (Angsty all the same!)
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“And still this emptiness persists, perhaps this is as good as it gets.”
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Life’s a happy song, when there’s someone by your side to sing along!
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The Muppets lie, Blaghman. 😛
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No. Never. The Muppets always tell the truth. ALWAYS!
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Well maybe I’m just a Muppet villain then. I should really think about looking for oil under that theatre. *strokes patchy chin stubble*
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What do I save up for first? A ps Vita, an iPad or furniture?
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Why do you want each one and what one do you want (i.e. like which model of iPad?, what type of furniture? etc.)
Go for the one that you’ll get the most use out of or you want/need the most.
For obvious stuff like Vita/iPad, wait until a price drop or for a new model to come out so the previous one will be cheaper.
My vote obviously goes towards an extension cord 😉
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Vita I want for games like little kings story, P4G and katamari.
The iPad is for Mum.
Furniture is a wardrobe and bed.-
I reckon there’ll be bundles/price drops/sales and whatnot around Christmas/Boxing Day for the Vita/iPad, I know I’m waiting for a Vita sale. You’ve waited this long so might as well try waiting a few more months for the off chance that you could save something like $100+.
Bed sounds pretty important but I don’t really know much about furniture :P. iPads and Vitas are pretty expensive though so it seems like you’re better off going with the furniture unless the iPad was the tablet present for your mum you were talking about a while ago.
If I were you I’d concentrate on what games I already have or have on layby (:P) rather than focus on getting more games you might not finish. THINK OF XENOBLADE
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I have a way of paying them off. I’m starting to save up now but with the iPad GT is going to start selling them, so I’m wondering if I should purchase it from them instead. I can go without the furniture for now, because I’m still working on my drawers I think. I can wait for the Vita.
On the Xenoblade front, Mum has one of those hidden adventure games on the wii. So I had to move it from my room to the main room for her. I still haven’t finished Zelda ^^;;
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:P!
I wonder who will beat Xenoblade first, you, Nova, Neg, Beavwa, hell, maybe even Freeze will BUY THE GAME LIKE HE SAID HE WOULD and beat it before you lot!
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HEYA GUY.
I never finished Xenoblade as well.
*cough*
I’m just saying this to torture you, really.
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But at least you played it and praise it and talk it up and recommend it to others and you pretty cool guy.
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Aw thanks you- wait a minute, that’s not the reaction I wanted
OOOOHHH YOOUUU *shakes fist in anger*
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iPad has probably been the best gadget I’ve bought in years, just for having portable internet in bed. Portable internet in the backyard. Portable internet! (Barely touch Apps and the like.)
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Mum wants the hidden object games
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Oh man. You are such Mactarded Apple Fanboy.
Don’t you know Samsungs phones and tablets will do your AGIHJ’s customise your GFPTs, make your bed in the morning, keep your woman satisfied, make bacon materialise whenever you want, create rips in the space/time continuum to allow access to alternate dimensions and even makes phone calls.
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Yellowius?
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As long as it does internet, we’re cool. 😛
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AND THEY RUN ON MONEY
I’M SERIOUS PRY ANY SAMSUNG PRODUCT APART AND THERE’S NO BATTERY, JUST A WAD OF $100 BILLS. WHO’S MONEY IS IT? IT’S YOURS NOOOWW
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But if you take it away the phone won’t run 🙁
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THAT’S THE THING, PUT IT BACK ALL TOGETHER AND IT STILL RUNS
I’M NOT EVEN SURE WHY THEY ADDED THE MONEY
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Now, common sense says luxuries are second to necessities and therefore furniture would be the best choice.
Awesome sense says that you should make furniture out of milk crates and save up for both the iPad and the Vita. Depends which of the two you would prefer at the moment.
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I’ve put up with this bed for a while.
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Bed? depending on how uncomfortable it is for you, you can easily make that the top priority or the lowest. Sleep is a hell of a thing to take for granted.
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eh, it’s just really old. It’s older then I am.
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then treat it as a valuable friend, one not to be replaced at a whim.
Wardrobe… well, I’m afraid I can’t answer that, I’m living out of my suitcase. If your mother wants the Ipad just for hidden puzzle games, well, I’m sure there’s a few games of that genre on any console, including the Vita.
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No, she wants her own device but she keeps telling me there is no rush
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so then we’ve narrowed it down. Wardrobe or Vita? I suppose for the Ipad you could wait until the rumoured Ipad mini comes to fruition, if it happens.
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Could always wait for a new iPad to come out and get the previous model(s) if there’s no rush. What happened to the laptop? Wasn’t she using that to play her hidden puzzle games? I’d think that would be better off getting rather than an iPad just for hidden puzzle games. And they’re technically ‘free’ on PC 😛
They’re probably a lot cheaper too. iPads are reallllly expensive for what they offer
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No point buying the games until you have the console, they’re likely to drop in price anyway! 😀
Is that netbook as in one of those tiny laptops? They aren’t made to handle games :P. I’m fairly sure a laptop around the iPad price range would easily be able to run those types of games, they’re usually not very demanding anyway.
To me an iPad is sort of like a crappier computer/laptop :P. You’re also limited to what games they’d have available on the App Store and they’re usually going to be more expensive than just buying a bunch on PC. Seems like she already likes the PC ones so it’s safer to stick with them.
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A second hand refurbished iPad is $350. I paid the same price for the netbook. Laptops tend to start at about $500. Also, big fish has those hidden object games on the IOS store and the Android store.
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Question: for consideration, are Android tablets out of the picture? Because they might be cheaper compared to their apple counterparts.
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Ah fair enough, I thought you were going new which would’ve been like $600+ anyway
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I looked at android as well. I ended up deciding iPad because she’d actually used one to play a few games.
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Oh man you could furnish an entire HOUSE if you have about $500-$600 at Ikea!
HEY EVERYONE LET’S TALK ABOUT HOW AWESOME IKEA IS.
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OH MAN. IKEA IS SO GREAT!!
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I KNOW RIGHT!?
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I’ve never been. Liked the IKEA scenes in (500) Days of Summer, though.
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Parents said they were good but apparently they don’t do some sort of “take-away” thing.
Pffft I ain’t gonna leave the house! IKEA is anti-hermit!
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IKEA HOTDOGS
Absolutely terrible.
But $1!
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Ikea’s wardrobe was like $600 which was a bit expensive.
NOOOOOOO. I wanted to play some Pokemon tonight or something stabby but I did a gazillion scalp massages at work and I’m in pain. Stupid hand cramps. Can someone come over and play games with me?
WE SHOULD FIGHT THAT GUY.
He’s a guard.
BUT HE GAVE ME THE EYE. I WILL NOT STAND FOR THAT. JUST PUNCH HIM IN THE FACE ALREADY.
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I’ll be honest, I’d watch that as a Let’s Play.
Though I imagine the humour may wear thin after… not very long.
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It’ll be a Let’s Play series where each episode is edited down to 30 second clips.
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That… would probably work quite well.
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I always try to pay my hairdresser friends to give me a scalp massage.
Don’t give a shit how I look RE: hairstyle, just gimme dat headrub.-
Boom. Resident Sydney scalp massager. PLEASE GIVE ME MANY MONEY.
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So I rarely use OzGameshop now a days but I logged on earlier and noticed it said I had two orders still waiting for payment o_O. Has anyone else had this before?
I’ve received both of them months ago and it says that orders won’t be shipped unless payments are received, which I’m 100% sure would’ve happened and that they were paid for way back then.
Now I’m kind of scared to order other things from them in case they’re all “U GOT 2 PAY FOR DESE” and the rare case that they weren’t actually paid for, they make me pay for them :/. Just weird that they’ll stay there like that…
Don’t mind me, just procrastinating 😀
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Probably you added them to your cart, started a new order and ignored the others. I’ve done that plenty of times before.
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Yup, this was the case. Thanks!
It was for two orders I made in Oct 2010 and Jan 2012, weird that I never noticed until now :/
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I had a few issues with my OzGameshop account. Can you remove the items? Otherwise, try emailing them.
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Yup! It was as easy as just clicking “cancel”
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In my irritation at not having a dedicated section on my keyboard in increase and decrease fuel and to make tyre selections in RACE 07 (Numpad won’t work with it, I’ve tried), I went hunting for my Z-Fang which I bought nearly three years ago and barely used.
But, luckily for me, I found it in a plastic container.
I’ve plugged it in, and she’s ready to go!
😀
Total monetary worth found: Equivalent to $10. \o/
Damnit Scree! Why did you link me to Think Geek? Now I’ve been browsing the site for almost an hour and have a huge cart full of stuff I desperately need, but really don’t need at all.
Except for the Titanium Spork. Everyone needs a Spork of the Gods.
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Sporks will be useful during the zombie apocalypse, as you can stab the brain and scoop it out easily with them.
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May I direct your attention here.
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That works too. 🙂
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Alright. The cart hit almost $1500 before I came to my senses (or lost them?) and closed the site.
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Mine hit $117,500 thanks to those books…
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http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/restaurants-bars/sydney-restaurant-scraps-lips-urinals/story-fn93ypt9-1226493058119
*shakes head*
What is this, I don’t even….
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The sold on ebay part is…worrisome.
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Look, it’s the closest I’ll ever get to a real female, who are you to judge me?
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@ DC – Thanks again for the awesome round-up of today’s happenings.
I know I’ve left it pretty late to check in here, but I really need a car, so I’ve been looking online to see if there’s any cars I want to look at this weekend. There are a few that look promising, so I’ll make the trek over to my parent’s place after work tomorrow and borrow Mum’s car to use for another weekend of car shopping.
Don’t suppose anyone in Melbourne knows of a Peugeot 306 going cheap?
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Gonna try to make the recap a daily thing. It’ll outlive all of us! (Unless it doesn’t, Dishonored comes out tomorrow. Might be distracted. Could die right there. :P)
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NO. Keep it up, it’s great even though I catch up on TAY the ‘hard’ way anyway! 😛
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That would be awesomness to infinity and beyond! But of course I understand if games get in the way. That’s why we’re all here.
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It’d help if I could put lots of links into specific posts, but that’ll be in moderation for decades. DECADES! 😀
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do the whole one link per post thing.
Note: I have no idea what any of those sites actually are. I’ll click on them after I post this…
EDIT: nothing and pads!
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Don’t want to spam up the place, though. 😛
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I guess you don’t really need links since you’re summarizing stuff anyway unless it’s specific (like What?’s zombie .GIF). I’m sure people won’t mind for certain things though but yeah, permalinking every comment that’s relevant in the summary could get spammy 😛
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Actually I know what I’m doing, I’m procrastinating 😛
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why are you wearing a tie who are trying to impress by being on the windows 7 bootup screen
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And put your tongue back in your mouth!
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No.
I dress to impress. Is it working?
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Well, you’re certainly leaving an impression…
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YOU CAN DO IT, GREENIUS.
SLAY THAT ESSAY DRAGON AND SAVE THE VILLAGERS. RECEIVE THE ADORATION OF THE TOWN’S WENCHES AFTERWARDS. AND MEAD. ALL THE MEAD YOU COULD EVER DREAM OF.
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BUT I’M NOT WRITING AN ESSAY T_T
Gotta do some memorandums and maths and excel spreadsheet stuffs :/. I wish this guy wrote straight forward assignments rather than all this weird mumbo jumbo vague bullshit 😛
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THEN SLAY THE MATHS/EXCEL/SPREADSHEET DRAGONS. IT’S MORE LIKE THE HYDRA. REMEMBER, THE HEADS ARE GOING TO KEEP GROWING BACK.
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HOW DO I KILL IT THEN!? How did Hercules(?) kill it anyway? I forgot…
Can I just skip to the wench and mead bit? 😀
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You drop a rock on it!
Then sing a song.
Edit: Well, actually, you have a greek chorus to sing you a song, and then your love interest sings a really rad one… But your singing part is pretty small from here onwards.
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Ok. the wenches are dead but what do I do about the Hydra and Dragons?
I DUN WANNA DO THIS ASSIGNMENT ARGUABBASBKAHDHSVAJHVSHVASA
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Ok, Dragons require you to find their weak spot, in this case, it’s probably inside their mouth. You have to let them go in for a bite, then you stab the upper side of their mouth, do it hard enough, and you should kill them.
The Hydras require fire, cut off the head, and then burn the stump. Watch out, as I think it has poisonous breath or something, so you should cover your nose and mouth.
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Maybe you’re too young to know of this.
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There’s also this: http://vsbabu.org/software/fsxls.html
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I have used those versions, I do not know of those easter eggs…
Where were you 12 or so years ago when I was in primary school!?
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Umm, twelve years ago? I was in Canberra. In Primary school.
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YOOOOOUUUUNNNNNGGGGGG
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ISN’T BLAGHMAN OLDER THAN YOU?
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If I remember correctly I’m slightly older! (Though essentially the same age, in the end…)
Respect your elders!
Greenius! Would it help if I threatened you with a savage beating if you don’t complete it soon? 😛
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I trust in Greenius, as soon as I stop distracting him, he’ll knuckle down.
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I know what will speed up his process! Playing this song on loop until the assignment is done! Just- don’t kill yourself. 😛
That motivation enough, my pal? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LmS2kmZe7E
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Funky song!
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Oh, man. That was supposed to enrage you. 😀
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You enrage me enough with your non-meatness!
Also deletion of comments 😛
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Meat is murder! *throws red paint on Greenius* (What colour would that make, I wonder. :P)
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Wonder no more.
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Brownius!
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W3 schools is the best.
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I think I stumbled upon them before when trying to learn how to use HTML tags (is that what they’re called?)
Copy/pasted a huge list of them on Kotaku and only like 4 worked 😛
does this one still work?
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Since I’ve done a whole shedload of web design and related things, they’re invaluable to me.
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*empties pockets*
I GIVES U ALL MY DRUG MONEY ALREADY, WHAT MOAR DO U WANT!?
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My weakness! Drugs! 😛
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(I’m totally a young, clean cut go-getter. Would buy a pocket protector with that money. :P)
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Would you? Would you really?
I don’t even know where one would purchase pocket protectors 😛
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I don’t even know what a pocket protector is.
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It’s the science kids code word for drugs. 😛
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocket_protector For lack of a better description.
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Protector for your pocket.
Obviously.
Although I’m pretty sure it’s that plastic thing that goes in shirt pockets so if a pen leaks ink that shizz ain’t gonna stain yo shirt!
Random true story: this guy was chewing on his pen once in year 7. It exploded. Ink went all over his face, his uniform and the table. He’s stupid.
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Yeah Greenius, that’s a stupid story, HA HA HA HA HA. Anyone who had that happen to them must have been an idiot! HA HA HA HA HA.
OK, while that did happen to someone in my year at school, I had multiple occasions where I was chewing on pens and they’d explode a little bit, so I’d promptly throw them in the bin…
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Oh you!
I’m bored so I’ll type more about this guy:
(Let’s call him Bounty)Bounty was a weird fella. He was ok I guess but a bit stuck up, thinking he was super smart and better than you, which made it so much better when he tried really hard and you beat him on a test/assignment etc. with substantially less work :D.
He was also really, really tall (like over 2 metres) for his age and he smelt really, really bad. Various students would spray him with their own deodorant because he apparently never used any. He was also quite uncoordinated and dopey.
He also has a PET PIG. I asked him what was its name once and he was all “MISS PIGGY YOU IDIOT!”, acting like I’m supposed to know the name of his big ass pig? I don’t think Bounty liked me very much 😛
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@ Greenius – I’m all in favour of pet pigs. And I don’t like to judge people.
But smelly people are smelly. And obvious pet names are obvious.
This guy sucks!
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Only cool kids buy pocket protectors.
It’s totally cool not getting ink stains on your shirt!
Right! RIGHT! o/
The only thing cooler is those mobile phone holders that clip on to your belt.
BOOM. PHONE ACCESS ALL THE TIME. NO RUMMAGING THROUGH BAGS OR POCKETS.
… You’ve got Red on you.
And here I was expecting the website “sureiscute.com” to have an actual picture of Greenius.
Turns out it’s just some dog.
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I’m a cutie pie
Ok let’s pop in some actual questions here so catchup TAYbies have something somewhat interesting to read 😀
(I’m tired so expect mistakes and nonsense blabbering)
Most disappointing game of the year so far?
I can’t really think of anything other than the ones I played somewhat recently but it’s probably Darksiders II. To a lesser extent, The Last Story and… Spec Ops (*gasp*) for me (or at least those are ones I can think of).
I’m a huge fan of Zelda games and believe it or not, it’s my favourite game series (“whaddya mean it’s not Xenoblade?!”). I loved the original Darksiders and even though I had D2 pre-ordered I wasn’t really super hyped for it. I haven’t been hyped for anything lately and now I rarely read/watch things about games so I don’t think it was anything to do with me having no interest in D2, but games in general. Anyways there was something about the gameplay I just didn’t like. Felt like there was too much dungeon stuff and combat felt a bit button mashy. Instead of the general Zelda formula of stuff -> dungeon -> stuff, D2 felt like dungeon -> dungeon -> dungeon and they all looked very similar and weren’t that long. Even the side quests stuff involved going through more mini-dungeons. I dunno, just couldn’t find myself motivated to play it. I could go on and on but I’ll be brief 😛
The Last Story has an amazing team behind it and as soon as I saw the first concept art and heard the theme I knew it would be something I’d be interested in… and then I saw some screenshots. The game was dark and brown and looked nothing like the beautiful and colourful waterpaintingesque concept art. Me was sad. The game itself felt flawed in so many ways, probably due to the hardware limitations of the Wii. I think the last two games I played on my Wii were Xenoblade and Skyward Sword so it had some very big shoes to fill (IS THIS THE RIGHT IDIOM?). Again, I had pre-ordered it but wasn’t really excited for it at all, other than we (PAL) were getting a game that the US weren’t and that made me happy. A lot of what I didn’t like with the game were little things here and there that seemed like they could easily be fixed and once again, couldn’t find myself motivated to play it. I think I actually gave up on video games for a while after playing it and took few months off before Shameless Gaming Month came along and gave me enough motivation to finally sit down and finish it.
Now hear me out on Spec Ops :P. It’s a great emotional game and I enjoyed it but I was under the impression that it was REALLY, REALLY EMOTIONAL and I just didn’t get that level of feeling. It certainly made me feel a little bit sick and uneasy at times but I thought it would have a super compelling story and ultimately my high expectations let me down :P. Combat was pretty generic but that’s what I expected and it was still fun. I wouldn’t say it’s super disappointing but the story aspect certainly left me disappointed. I love a good story, whether it’s in a video game, movie, TV show, play, book, song etc. but I didn’t feel like Spec Ops had one. I guess it was more about the experience and the ‘journey’ but eh… I dunno!
None of these were bad games, they just didn’t live up to my expectations and I can certainly say I enjoyed my time with them! This post was kind of stupid in that I didn’t really go in detail for each one but I’m really tired and still haven’t really started and my hayfever/sickness is getting annoying 😀
NEXT TIME WHEN GREENIUS GETS BORED:
What game this year has surprised you the most and exceeded your expectations?
So, what about you lot!?
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How long did it take to compose that, Greenius. Do your uni work damn it! 😛
Haha, it’s funny, because Spec Ops is my answer to your second question. Came out of no where, surprised me a whole damn lot with its awesomeness. Honestly haven’t played any thing really disappointing this year apart from I Am Alive. That game had amazing potential, let down by half-baked execution, alas. :'(
Hope things get better on the hayfever front, my friend!
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: D!
You’re not suppose to answer that question yet!
It feels like someone threw a bunch of seeds, pollen, dust and other crap into my eyes. They be itchyyyy n scratchyyyy
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*resists the urge to post Itchy and Scratchy opening from YouTube*
Well if it makes you feel better, I’m totally going to go watch TV. 😛 (Also, feel better!)
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Minor annoyances compared to what other people are going through, I’ll live : )
And it doesn’t make me feel better. Who’s going to keep me company while I procrastinate!?
Also I’m pretty tired and I have really weird dreams when I’m tired. I should post about them tomorrow 😀
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This takes me back….
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Takes me back too. Right back to Isaac Hayes – Shaft – live 1973 – YouTube
Good night TAY.
It’s time for a little Six Feet Under before bed.
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Sounds like a plan I might follow soon! 😀 Good night, man!
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Ooo I wish I could do that too 😛
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Sigh. I wish I could play games for any length of time without my laptop shutting down from overheating. This time it was Borderlands. Got about 20 mins in and then bam – shuts down. About the only recent game that doesn’t cause this is Guild Wars 2. Anyone got some suggestions about how to avoid this happening?
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Probably stating the obvious but have you tried turning down the settings so it’s not as demanding? I know my Saints Row 3 used to crash a lot but changing it from having everything at the highest, to medium settings worked like a charm :).
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Everything is on the most optimal setting apparently. I’ve tried turning things down on other games but it rarely makes a difference
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D.C., your catchup posts are freakin’ invaluable man.
Thank you so much 😀
I haven’t had time to scratch my own bum, let alone keep up with TAY (and even then, I know which one I’d prefer. Priorities, amirite?), so your posts are great if/when I catch them 😀
To everyone else, I’m so sorry I’ve not been all active and stuff. I promise I’ll put more effort in! This relationship isn’t a dictatorship. It’s more like communism (HI BISH/BEESH/COMMUNIST BISH!). We’re all equal.
Except me.
I’m more equal than the rest of you.
But yeah. Line breaks and shiznits.
Stay classy, San DiTAYgo.
Hi.
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Meant to be a reply, but I felt it would be rude to exclude the rest of you.
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Hi Bish!
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Morning all. I have to go work for a change but I have the afternoon off to TAY and such forth.
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Oop I’m still Powalen on my phone. Well then.
*ahem* Poke-e-mens. No not BW2 spoilers! My one weakness. Bug type is best cause fire ice flying don’t exist or are super rare. Poke-e-mens. CJ sure is a cool guy you should all send him a high five in the mail.
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*sigh* I wish I was in bed listening to the rain instead of at work making bad Powalen impressions.
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I cheat in Mario Kart 7 and iSketch
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Why would you cheat Greenius? You should follow Pow’s example of not cheating.
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I don’t remember writing thi- waitaminute!
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Happy Birthday TechKnight!! Hope you have a great day ahead!
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Woooo! Happy Manufactured day Techy!
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Happy warranty extension day!
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TIME EXTENSION
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Happy birthday, man. Unless welbot is using the art of misdirection. 😛
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Happy Birthday Techy!
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You remembered! :’D Thank you fellow cyborg and fellow Taybie humans/other amazing creatures
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Happy day that you rolled off the production line TK!
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Wait.. there’s more of me out there?! I wonder where they are now…
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waiting for skynet to become self aware?
Happy Womb Expulsion Anniversary, Sir Tech. may they be filled with numerous shiny things
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HAPPY BEEEEDAAAAYYYYYY!!1!
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Nah that’s for my 30th that’s when I’ve built enough dro-… uh oh shouldn’t have said anything lol j/k 😛
Thanks Strange 🙂
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Happy Birthday Techno!
pew pew pew *laser noises*
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Happy Tech Day, Birth Knight! 😀
DISHONORED 2!!!! Wait, what do you mean I have to work today? D’=
Also tried out Gaige in Borderlands 2 out. Man Deathtrap is feeling OP! It’ll be interesting to find out if she stays enjoyable throughout the entire game.
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Wait what? Ok phone I know you are just as excited about Dishonored as me but only the first one is out!
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DISHONORED 1!!!! 😛
I have to wait until my husband gets home from work before I can go get it. Think I might try and get a whole bunch of work done today so I can play without guilt tomorrow. 😀
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It’s official, he’s from the future
It’s the most wonderful tiiiime of the yeeeaaar
There’ll be much DS playing
And procrastinating
With the new Pokémoooooonnnnnn
It’s the most wonderful tiiiime of the yeeeaaaaar
Today’s the day! 😀
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WHITE IS THE SUPREME VERSION
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Hi all,
First full day at work this week. After the PH on Monday, I went home sick early on Tuesday with a lovely gastro bug passed on to me by my daughter. I’ve essentially missed three days of TAY.
DC: What’s this catch-up post thing? Can I have a catch-up for the catch-up? 😛
In other news, a finger injury has kept me from Dark Souls for almost a month. Got back into it yesterday, and am continuing to get my butt kicked by Ornstein and Smough. I think I’m getting better at them, though, so reckon I can topple them eventually.
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Yay Dark Souls!!! Good luck with that boss. They are the worst.
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I’ve tried fighting them about twenty times so far. Not frustrated yet, but ultimately realised that I wasn’t getting anywhere. So… I backtracked all the way to the Undead Parish just so I could get Quelaag’s Furysword, which I heard was effective against them… only to find that my Lightning Spear does the same amount of damage in the first stage, and has the added benefit of turtling! 😛
Last night, I took too long to bring down Ornstein to begin with, ended up using 7 Estus flasks, which didn’t leave me with a whole lot to go toe to toe with Smough. Next time. Next time…
I played it just before bed, and dreamed most of the night that I was practicing the battle. Expect to be truly accomplished the next time I pick it up 😛
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Haha nice. I remember being stuck on that boss for a while. After staying up late and failing to beat him I dreamt that I beat him. IT WAS GLORIOUS!
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I get on Dark Souls every few months and proceed to die again and again to the fire spider woman, then I get off and don’t play again for another few months.
I’m thinking that next time I play, instead of running to the spider and dying repeatedly I should backtrack to a previous area and grind a bunch to get my level up. Also maybe try and find that ring that lets you walk normally in water, since running around Blighttown is a huge pain.
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Yep, and also be human so you can get invaded by that crazy chick at the bottom of Blighttown. Defeat her, and then you can summon her to help with spider lady. True story.
EDIT: This is where you get the ring, if you’re interested: http://darksoulswiki.wikispaces.com/Rusted+Iron+Ring
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I haven’t gone human yet at all. It just feels like it would be a bit pointless considering how often you die in the game. I never went human in Demon’s Souls either apart from after boss fights, which is a feature I’m sort of sad they removed from Dark Souls.
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I didn’t either in Demon’s Souls, but it’s a decent idea for NPC summons in Dark Souls. Some of them are wicked helpful. For example, the summon in Sen’s Fortress can take down the Iron Golem by himself without any help! 😛
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Hey, man. I’m sorry to hear you’ve been sick. Hope things start looking up soon. (If they haven’t already.) Here’s what you missed, home slice!
SMURFYDOG’S PRE-EMPTIVE TAY CATCH UP BRIEF 09/10/2012
Slow day on the TAY front for the most part. Scree has not seen a dentist yet, but she returned money someone left at the ATM and earned our respect. (Not that she didn’t have it already.) Possible Brisbane meats were discussed, seems there’s lots of possibilities but nothing definitive yet. Puppy Licks organized a fight for the ages using the last weapons we’ve used in games, entertaining and educational. Neg informed us that Borderlands 2 DLC is imminent! Shane and Strange both had to deal with kids who were feeling sick, we all wished ’em a speedy recovery! The horribleness of the human race was discussed from time-to-time. Potaku E3 Expo video on front page! Lambo hasn’t updated us on the headache front. We hope he’s okay.
No Snacktaku, alas. :'(
Now you know and knowing is half the battle!
SMURFYDOG’S PRE-EMPTIVE TAY CATCH UP BRIEF 10/10/2012
Fat Shady generously gifted a copy of Trials, cementing his reputation as a damn good guy. (If ever there was any doubt!) Trjn and the gang discussed politics, more specifically Julia Gillard’s speech and the coverage it has since gained. NovaCascade got a job! A good one too! We all congratulated him, because he’s awesome! (Apparently resembles Potter too, so don’t want to get on his wrong side!) The horribleness of people was rambled about again in an IT context this time. Loops continues to be awesome at the Warhammer 40k thing, he’s painting them like a trooper! Lambo hurt his elbow and had a gender neutral dream. Bish deconstructed the state of gaming in Canada! Brisbane meat was contemplated, looking like there will be one this weekend! The eBook Humble Bundle sale was praised! D.C. wrote the longest, most rambling of recaps on TAY.
Edited in: I compartmented page six into yesterday for some reason. Sughly also got Radiohead tickets! A valiant effort, no doubt! A whole lot of Melbourne folks are going to the Armageddeon expo. (Including some pals who’ll be at the Space Pyrates booth in Artist Alley!) It was Strange’s third anniversary too, they celebrated in style at a Steak BBQ place!
Now you know and knowing is half the battle…
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Don’t you love how kids share? 😛
Things missed from the catch-up are pictures of D.C. and a video of him saying stuff.
And Ornstein and Smough are totally going down next time you play. Practicing in your dream totally counts. I’ve often dreamed up the solutions to parts of games I was stuck in. It works. 😀
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I’ve been stuck here since around May 😛
I cannot wait to see the words “VICTORY ACHIEVED” but I will think “YOU HAVE DEFEATED”… just because.
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I finished Pokemon White ages ago but I was really lax when it came to doing any of the post main game content, so last night I proceeded to catch the legendary trio and that grey dragon thing. I also grinded up some of my Pokemon using the lucky egg and finally let my Charmeleon evolve at level 70. I’ll be picking up White 2 this afternoon/evening, but before I play it I want to beat the Pokemon league one more time (I haven’t beaten it post main game yet). I’m probably still a bit too weak to face it so I’m tossing up whether I should do a bit more grinding or whether I should just transfer over one of my level 100s from a previous game and smash through it really fast.
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The post-national dex updated Elite 4 have an average level of 75, if I remember correctly.
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Wait…you’re not supposed to let them evolve? I remember a character telling me how I could stop it but what happens if don’t let them evolve?
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By not letting them evolve, I think they gain new abilities faster? It also might be easier to level them up, but I’m not sure.
It doesn’t make a difference to their end game stats though, as the moment they evolve, their stats are re-evaluated.
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Yeah, pretty much. Some Pokemon learn moves at earlier levels (or learn ‘exclusive’ moves) if you hold off evolving them for a while. Doesn’t really matter in the end, it’s just a different way of doing things.
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What Blaghs and Powalen said, though the main reason I held off evolving my Charmeleon was because Charmeleon is awesome and I wanted to enjoy his company for as long as I could.
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Okay. Thanks guys. I KNOW NOTHING! 😛
And I don’t care about learning new moves because then I have to make a decision. I’m awful at decision-making, always paranoid I’m making the wrong choice.
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It’s raining. Don’t feel like walking to Westfield. Dishonored will have to wait. :'(
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For shame mang! For shame! Dis honored waits for no man!
@PS3 TAYbies, I’ve created a new user…Splicerkid is the handle, add me 🙂-
I know, man. I’m shocked and disappointed with myself too. 😛 I sort of feel odd today any way, so might be worth picking up Dishonored and XCOM at the same time later in the week.
I’m dpclarke on PSN. Only really log in when I’ve got a game to play which hasn’t been for a while. Freeze and Strange make my list pretty exclusive. 😛
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Well I’m off to go pick it up now 🙂
Dis Honored here I come!
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Will do sir!
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I was thinking exactly the same thing.
Morning everyone!
I’m so hungry D= I have to go out to get food but at the same time I had a terrible nights sleep.
On the upside, Sid is being adorable by doing doggy things.
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Dogs do adorable things all the time, even just sitting there looking at me makes me want to pet them
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Sid is very good at milking it. Very good.
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At times like this it’s unfortunate that I don’t have a twitter account then I’d reply to Shiggy about the call for Potaku, Console vs PC? Yes please! 😛
Wait, you’re still using the Lightning Spear by that point?
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I only picked it up in Sen’s Fortress immediately before Anor Londo… what should I be using? 😛
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The spear scales terribly when you level it up. Lightning any other weapon is far more potent. I ended up using a Fire Great Axe +10 which was doing near 1500 damage per one handed swing.
Also remember Queelaags Fury Swords damage scales up the more humanity you have. So base stats look a bit average but it is capable of way more than that.-
I don’t think I have the stats to wield a greataxe, but that kind of damage would be very useful 😛
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That’s what I used to beat those mofos. But I did no grinding at all.
Curses, I am in the city all day today and won’t get the chance to make it to a jb to get Dishonored.
I am one unhappy barbarian.
And you wouldn’t like me when I’m unhappy… I sulk.
🙁
@greenius You get the assignment done, man. I believe in you! 😛
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(is totally not reading TAY as we speak)
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Good man! 😛
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There’s a British mini-series written and produced by Charlie Brooker (basically the guy Yahtzee stole his schtick from) called Black Mirror. I watched the first two episodes of it last night, knowing that it was some sort of dark Twilight Zoney thing.
The first episode was about a princess being held to ransom and the British PM having to become intimately familiar with a pig on live television to free her.
The second episode is about people being forced to ride exercise bikes to earn “merits” to pay for every aspect of their life (including skipping ads that pop up on the screens that are everywhere). Everything is done through a Kinect-like interface and people have “doppels” that are essentially avatars. To get out of this, people have to pay 15mil merits to go on “Hot Shots” (read: X Factor) to impress the judges and get given an entertainment job.
It’s actually quite good. In a fascinating “people suck” kind of way.
There’s no connection between the episodes, so if one doesn’t appeal you can always move on to the next.
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Oh wait, I got the first ep of that aaaages ago, actually on Tracey’s recommendation. When she was still working here :/
Totes forgot about it.
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I heard that it was on SBS recently, so I figured that I might as well check it out.
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Holy crap, the voice actor for Mario is mildly scary out of context. 😛
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This video is private.
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I… just watched it. :S (Ah! Doc What deleted it to get rid of the licensed music, alas.)
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ATTENTION ALL ARTISTS!!! (The drawing kind at least anyway…)
So anyway, about 7 years ago, my 21 year old self decided it was a gould idea to encrypt his word documents (silly bastard!)… about 12 so far that ive retrieved so far from old zip disks…
i mean isnt using a ZIP Disk sufficient encryption? who the hell owns a zip drive?!?
so I managed to decrypt 4 of them, and as it turned out, one of them was an old childrens book that i started at the time but never finished…. like so many other things…
stay with me….
My wifey ended up getting a glimpse of it, she’s a teacher, and started up an “OMG this is REALLY good!” reaction, followed by a “you have to finish this!”.
So I’ve been at it and getting really close to finishing it. Catch is however, i cant draw to save myself. I’m estimating about 25-32 pages worth of art.
I will be seeking a publisher for this book, and the chosen artist will obviously get a cut of whatever moneys is made…
I have been told to warn people however, there are situations where a publisher may elect to use their own artist which means that the artwork can end up in vain. i can submit just the story and let them work out the art, but thought id throw it out there to see if anyone wanted to take a risk… standard NDA stuff will be done by both of us too.
If anyone is interested let me know, if theres a few takers i might just throw a mini-comp for 1 image and choose one? i dont know, suggest away! any takers email me zetrox2k(at)(thehotmails)(dot)com, just reply here so i know 🙂
EDIT: If people are curious about what they’ll be drawing, it involves cute characters, like bunnies, and some evil character like foxes and wolves.
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Oh, wow. That’s awesome man. Good luck with it!
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cheers DC!
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I draw, but it’s completely up to you.
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sweet, send me an email if you’re interested!
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I’m interested, but I’m not sure if I can meet the criteria
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shoot me an email, ill give you a scenario, and have a crack, you’ll know if you meet the criteria….
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You’re underestimating the power of doubt here, my friend =P
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Best of luck!
If you need some misshapen stick figures drawn then I am the girl to go to.
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hahahahaha! noted! maybe we can do another book called “Stick Figure Wars!” and my extremely bad and horribly out of proportion stick figures can battle your stick figures!
Word of warning. From what I’ve researched: most picture book publishers WILL have an artist on hand to do artwork. It might be worth calling up a few prospective publishers, getting their submission guidelines, and seeing whether they prefer a completed product or a text-only submission.
I’ve got a picture book text doing the rounds (for which I’ve also drafted artwork), and I’ve found that most publishers prefer to choose their own art.
Edit: and just because I can, here’s my work: http://shanewsmith.com/works-in-progress/not-just-annies-story/ 😛
Damn. Edit edit: Meant to say good luck man! Hope it works out. If you need a pair of eyes over the words, happy to help.
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Thanks for the advice Shane! Yeah, from my initial research it would appear that many publishers do indeed have their own artists. That’s not to say that they dismiss all artwork however, if the artwork is good, they’ll stick with it.
I basically just wanted people to be aware of that so in case it doesnt get accepted, they’re prepared for it… if the art is good, im sure it wont be in vain…
The ideal outcome for me, would be for a publisher to accept my story, coupled with a fellow TAY’s art… that would be awesome.
Also Shane, how the hell do you manage to keep up with about 10 works in progress? are they all a bunch of jotted ideas that will eventuate into a book, or are you actively working on all of them bit by bit? It’s insane!
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They’re all in various states of completeness. Trying to be as active as possible with the ones actively in progress.
Not Just Annie’s Story is making the rounds to publishers whenever I remember.
Death’s Feast is nearly complete and is awaiting feedback from advance readers. I intend to get this out to my publisher by December 31 if possible.
The Game was written years ago and is awaiting some spare time to complete the artwork. It’ll be the next big project I work on after Death’s Feast.
All The King’s Men is on the backburner, despite being partially completed, as I need to get Death’s Feast and The Game out first.
Lie Hard is pretty much complete and is unpublished. Though I am considering adapting it into a one-shot comic that might help me get my name out there. Will need the permission of my co-conspirators of course. (Because what I really need is another project on the go!)
D’oh It For The Kids is in jotted notebook stage, and is a ‘when-I-quit-my-job-I-can-work-on-you’ project that I would love to undertake.
Killeroo: Gangwar’s script is done, and is currently with the assigned artist
Currently most active on James Flamestar, even though the deadline is not at all tight and the story is still up in the air.
And sadly, The Tube has fallen by the wayside for now, as I currently lack the time at work to add to it 😛
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Holly crap Shane, you really have issues my friend! 🙂
now i dont feel so alone!This question may be crossing the personal boundaries here, but do you find writing financially rewarding?
I really enjoy writing, i have a few unfinished bits here and there, however ive abandoned projects of this kind on many occasions.
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If I was a better artist I love to but at this point the publisher would wonder why your story is about mutated troll people. (unless it is. The. Sign me up :P)
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HAHAHAHHAHAHA!!!!! The first childrens book to ever get an R18 classification! I love it!
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Go the F*** to Sleep might be the first, but it would be one of few. 🙂
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lol i cant believe i found that in a bookstore, i just had to buy it 🙂
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Audio book read by Samuel L. Jackson is the way to go.
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I had someone link me a version read by Noni Hazlehurst … it destroyed my childhood and now I can’t watch playschool without thinking of it
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Best version, I just slip that into my childhood memories
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Hey y’all! Ummm… I’m not very good at this organising meat stuff, but um, who’s coming again? What are all of your emailses so I can tell you what my address is and stuff?
Also @Blaghs, when I had my web design course at uni the tutor was like ‘open up w3 school. Just use that’. That was the course. But it is an awesome awesome site.
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That was two semesters worth of IT Multimedia when I was in years 11 and 12. So bad.
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freezespreston at g. Mail doot com.
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matthew dot barbeler at the googles
I thought you were serious when you said I couldn’t come 🙁
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HAHAHAHAHA! I was.
No but for reals, why oh why would I be serious you dope. Is the mrs coming along too? Because she should!
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She’s working lates on Saturday. 9pm finish. She’d love to come, but she’s still undecided at the moment.
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strangeandalone at the mails of g. I’m 85% sure I’m going.
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Also, don’t forget to invite Jimu personally or he’ll think he’s not invited.
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Whaaaaaat! I’m 100% sure I’m gon kick your ass if you dont come
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I have germs. :S
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Girls do have cooties, it’s a known scientific fact.
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… there’s a meat? where abouts in this giant arse country is it?
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Up and to the right a bit. In Brisbane! South sieeed, to be exact. Are you nearby?
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… I used to be, now I’m in the melbourne with it’s crazy weather patterns and hipster hives
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I shall be coming. Fairly sure you’ve got my email.
So is episode 4 of the Walking Dead game the last one, or is there more? I’ve kind of been waiting for the last one to be out before playing.
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There’s a fifth episode, which people are guessing will be out somewhere in late November, early December.
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Telltale always put out a cool boxset at the end of the season too, so will be worth waiting for.
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This is what I’m waiting for. Physical product.
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I usually would do the same but I got the whole season in the Steam Sales for under $15.
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So I received my text from JB telling me Dishonored is ready. I’d be all bouncy and excited but it’s raining so I can’t go pick it up. Times like these make me miss Game and their guaranteed release day delivery for online pre-orders.
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Yeah, raining out on the north side too. Tempted to just walk down any ways. In fact, I’m going to now damn it! 😀
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I would normally do the same. Walking in the rain is way better than walking in the midday sun. However my daughter has given me her supergerms and I don’t think I should give them any more excuses to take a hold of me. I’m telling myself if I rest up for the rest of the day then I’ll be better in time to play Dishonored tonight. That’ll work, right? 😛
Oh, wait, you can’t answer me because you’re out walking in the rain….
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*crickets*
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Haha! Stopped raining and was all overcast instead! 😀 Aw, hope you feel better too! 🙁
Your plan sounds flawless! 😀
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People with Dishonored (rather than Dishonored people because that would have unintended implications) I can’t get my head around any of the reviews of this. Is it stealth a la Metal Gear Solid or Thief where everything is trial-and-error and you’re going to spend hours reloading saves over and over and over because you make a minor mistake? Or are we talking something more like Deus Ex: HR where you can kill some dudes if you screw up and continue along, and the whole game is pretty much finishable without screwing around being sneaky all the time?
Because if it’s the latter I might buy it but if it’s the former I’m not going anywhere near it as I have no patience.
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From the very little I’ve heard it’s the latter. Apparently you can play without stealth if you like but the stealthy way is the most fun way.
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One of the reviews I read said that they thought the stealthy way was the least fun.
Not because it was bad, but because you miss out on experimenting with some of the awesome abilities it gives you.
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Pretty sure it’s the Deus Ex approach. there’s multiple different ways to get to your goal regardless of the path of bodies you leave behind you. Plus there’s different endings as well ^_^
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So far the latter.
Not very far in, but those guys I choked and knocked unconscious? Pretty sure I could have shot them and continued on my merry way.
no matter what new games i buy, i always go back to playing DOTA 2, does anyone have a game like this themselves?
i think the reason why i go to DOTA 2 is that i have a bunch of friends who i don’t see much anymore due to them going to different universities, and so the only way i keep in contact with them is when we talk and play DOTA… there’s also the fact that DOTA 2 is awesome amazing, but yeah.
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Yeah LoL for me 😛
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Pokemon. I’ve always gone back and replayed older versions multiple times. It was never about catching them all for me, it was about making a team, and then trying again with a different team. Since I started watching competitive battles on Youtube, its given ideas of how to mix things up. Mono-type teams, Nuzlocke runs, BST teams. There’s always something new to try. And just because a new generation is out doesn’t mean I abandon the old ones either
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Yoshi’s Island or minecraft, Yoshi’s Island because it was the first video game I ever fell in love with and minecraft because I made a maze under my house with the sole intent to catch creepers. Anyone who I dislike goes in and has to fight for their life!
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World of Warcraft. I’ve now been playing for Rogue for 5 years, and my Death Knight for 4 years.
Favourite stealth game, GO!
Sheep Dog ‘n’ Wolf. I had SO much fun with that game.
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I normally hate stealth games but Mark of the Ninja has changed that. Even though it’s only a recent release, it’s my favourite.
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Haha I remember that, it was pretty cool.
If any gentleman or gentlelady would be kind enough to link me to the TAYby ID list, it would be much appreciated!
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Thank you!
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I think from memory you just search for TAYnames on google.
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I will keep that tip in mind!
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http://tinyurl.com/taynames is easier to remember! 😀
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*in full bro voice* HEY ALL YOU TAYBROS AND BROETTES OUT THERE, REMEMER DON’T LINK BBQ SAUCE IFF YOU THUMB IF ITS SERIOUSLY CAKED IN COFFE GRIND. NOT COOL BROS.
DIS BEEN CJ, AN I OUT.
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Link to BBQ sauce. My thumbs are coffee grind free.
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I DONT KNOW WHAT HAPPENED BUT CAPS LOCK
Hi fronds! Even though I don’t have pokemans preordered I will probably pick it up after work. It’ll give me something to play on the train. \o/
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You can train on the train!
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There’s never any real reason to pre-order Pokemon. You’ll almost always be able to find a copy somewhere on launch day and it’s not like there are any pre-order exclusives.
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Yup, exactly. I went into Big W today and they had an entire section stacked full of copies (though admittedly it was half an hour after they opened :P). You’ll find one no problem.
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@Alephfriend:
Were you around when I posted a big thing about how awesome Sheep Dog ‘n’ Wolf is? Because that game was absolutely amazing. I really wish Looney Tunes was popular enough today to get a sequel.
@Pokéfriends:
Man, BW2 is begging to be in 3D. I can’t wait until 6th gen when it hopefully will be. (Also, I’m sad that they still didn’t try and incorporate HGSS’s touch screen menus into the new game D: Still feels like such a step backwards)
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I’ll wait till genetic manipulation’s good enough to give me real pokemon … then the journey to be the best shall commence!
well at least till the psychic pokemon rise up and become the dominant lifeforms
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Alakazam has an IQ of over 5000. How they haven’t already developed an intergalactic empire in the Pokemon universe is beyond me.
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Such a gigantic brain and they still only know four specialised attacks. Personally I’d just keep trying to max out their telekinesis and teleport attacks. “Oh no, this trainer sure looks tough … Alakazam, teleport them to the sun” *blip* … well that was easy, here you go alakazam, have a cookie
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Zam, ka-zam?
Alakazam!Technically an IQ is a measure of the ability to learn, understand new concepts. It would probably be useful if their vocabulary wasn’t limited to essentially one word.
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alakazam is just shy, i mean they always just teleport away when you get near them…
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IQ over 5000 doesn’t make sense. IQ works on a normal distribution with the mean at 100 and a standard deviation of 15. Being at 5000 is impossible. Being even at 200 is statistically improbable. Getting above 130 means you’re in the top 2.5% of the distribution as it is, and getting 145 puts you in the top 0.15%.
5000 is 326 standard deviations above the mean.
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*banishes Negative to the moon for his blasphemous use of logic* … there’ll be none of that. *goes back to his conversation about why zombies eating brains makes no sense*
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I aced the IQ test, look, I got 100!
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I’m glad BW2 isn’t on the 3DS, since my sister and I still only have DS lites. Still, it would have been a good excuse to upgrade.
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The Running shoes toggle from HGSS. Why have they not been in BW and BW2.
I don’t understand. Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy-
pretty sure they’re done by two different teams (within Game Freak).
I would hope that means that the HGSS team is working on Gen 6.-
whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
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Yeah that’s what I’d heard as well. I just don’t understand why they don’t collaborate a little for this type of thing! 😛
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@zetrox2k Re: financially rewarding question
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
…no.
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Other kinds of rewarding, definitely, but there’s almost no money in it at all.
Without getting into too many details (although I’m happy to share those if you like) see here: http://shanewsmith.com/blog/2012/10/the-life-of-the-indie-creator/-
I have a cynical suspicion that the main reason the creative arts are so romanticised is that it’s the only way penniless artists can think about their vocation without slashing their wrists 😛
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https://pbs.twimg.com/media/A44sPT4CYAEk45i.jpg:large
Dishonored and XCOM! 😀
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Feel like going back out, picking me up a copy of each, and delivering them to me? No? Damn.
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I’ve socialized enough for one day.
Note: socializing by D.C. standards is saying hello and thank you to lady at counter. 😛
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Yeah, that’s the normal amount of socialising I do.
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Eeeeeewwwwwwww…….
PC.
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Haha! RTS games like XCOM without a mouse and keyboard? Crazy! First person game without mouse and keyboard? Even crazier! 😛
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Technically it’s a Turn Based Strategy, not a Real Time Strategy. 😛
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I was going to correct that, but thought no one would care.
*runs off crying*
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But I always care about you, D.C.
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YOU JUST GOT BLAGH’D!
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You know it! (In reality, I don’t have any problems with the consoles. I just suck at first person perspective stuff on ’em.)
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HOWS YOUR STUPID BABBY 720P MOST OF THE TIME CONSOLES SCRUB!
MASTER RACE RULEZZ YEAHHH!!! NOOOB CONSOLES ARGAHRGAHRGASRHJGKACJKBHAKBCDFGDFASKDG
@Aleph-Null OMG HOLY CRAP…. Major nostalgia right there with Sheep, Dog & Wolf… If ANY GAME deserves a HD Remake from the PS1 era, it wins hands down! also, some food for tay, the only stealth game i have ever played and loved!
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And Tenchu on the PS1
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Yeah I was going to reply to Aleph’s question with Tenchu. That game was so incredibly good. I had never even heard of Sheep,Dog & Wolf before today though.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eNwFgiGx1A for the first level to give you an idea. Looney Toons \o/
Have you played Beyond good and evil?
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Yes, yes I have. I loved Beyond Good and Evil.
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Something is wrong with half of my internet. I can get Kotaku and Twitter, but both Facebook and Craftsy (where I learn all about sewingz) appear to be down.
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Least you’ve got the important bases covered! 😀
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Maybe it’s because half of my face is sick and the other side of fine? One nostril is blocked, one side of my throat is sore, one side of my head has a headache and one side of my internet is busted? 😛
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Just like Harvey Dent! :O
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D: But I don’t wanna become a villain!
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Neither did Harvey Dent. :'(
I hope you feel better, Strange.
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This made me lol
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I believe in Harvey Dent.
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“Google Chrome can’t display the web page, because your computer isn’t connected to the Internet.”
But you’re clearly wrong Google, because I am posting here on Kotaku.
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“Google Chrome can’t display the web page, because Google has decided your internet browsing patterns need to be changed to suit Google’s plans for world domination.”
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New feature of Chrome. It only displays Google affiliated sites and those that pay their “appearance” fees.
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Oh well, at least Kotaku’s up to date with their fees. 😛
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strange, i can offer some techy assistance if you have teamviewer or the like:)
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Thanks! If it persists, I may just take you up on your offer. 🙂
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So Facebook’s back for me, and I used that “Down for everyone or just me” site to check Craftsy and it appears that one’s not just me. So I guess I’l just wait.
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YOU MUST HAVE A VIRUS! QUICK, KILL IT, KILL IT WITH FIRE! 😛
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NO YOU FOOL! ANYTHING ON THE INTERNET ONLY GROWS STRONGER WITH FIRE!
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I’ve already got picked out what I’m going to wear to Sughly’s meat 😀
Also, I need more shirts that are pink or have pink on them.
When I say pink, I mean like hot pink or magenta though. Not pastel pink.
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I’ve got exactly four shirts presentable for leaving the house in. 😛
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No, no you don’t.
Pink looks bad on all dudes. It’s not a matter of manliness, it’s just a fact. Male people cannot pull off pink. I am stating my opinion as if it were fact. No pink(capes).
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MANLINESS? REAL MEN LOOK GOOD IN ANYTHING; A MAN’S FORTITUDE AND WILLPOWER WILL BREAK ANY WALL THAT PINK CLOTHING’LL PUT UP! BELIEVE IN YOURSELF AND YOUR MANLINESS WILL MAKE ANY ITEM OF CLOTHING A BLAZING GARMENT OF A MAN’S SOUL!
Except high heels, those things are damn impossible to wear
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I think you’d look great in pastel pink, Blaghs. In fact, I may make a pastel pink version of your Deus Ex coat. If you ever send me your measurements. 😛
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NEVER! *RUNS OFF CRYING*
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My borderlands 2 shirt has pink on it. 😛
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YES, I MADE SURE IT WASN’T A GIRL’S SHIRT. Actually, it didn’t say so I assumed it was meant for both guys and girls. It looked like just a generic t-shirt. Its shape wasn’t distinctly feminine…
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It’s that old prom dress from the attic you’ve been wanting to dust off for years isnt it
I have a $50 budget to spend on games between now and my birthday \o/
But I want more games than there is budget for /o\
But not guilty purchases of full price games \o/
but xcom,BL2 & dishonoured /o\
But I get at least 1 \o/
Help me Obi Wan Taynobi, what should I get
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Dishonored! New IP! Awesome sytilistic direction! Thief designer!
(Unless you mean one apart from those three. Then I’m an idiot. Spec Ops! :P)
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No it is pretty much from those 3 (I do have the ops of type spec)
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a single plum floating in perfume, served in a man’s hat
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I would love to but that will send me over budget
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but in serioisness
borderlands is pretty rad
or if you want something cheaper, if you’ve never played fallout 3 or new vegas then they would be cheap and worth the money
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I have finished fallout 3 and I have New Vegas but my wife won’t let me play it without her so it is just sitting their taunting me.
I am pretty much tossing up between those 3, I get lots of games on sale down the track but my b’day present is getting a title at launch (or there abouts)
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Find out which has the longest playtime or high reply value. Then it’s a smart buy that’ll keep you busy while you save up again.
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I suspect that would be BL2!
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Longest playtime isn’t really a huge issue for me, I have enough in my pineapple that a shorter more enjoyable game takes precedence over a longer less enjoyable game.
It’s all about the fun
So BL2 could be good to get now so that I can ride the hype train with TAYbies although I still have the DLC in the original to get through
Dishonored is new IP which should be supported and looks like it has got replay with action or stealth as well as pacifist (mostly) runs
I have always been a fan of the xcom series and if I get that now I also get a copy of civ to give away. Also looks like it might be the cheapest with sale + code.-
If you have enough to play in your pineapple, maybe try one or a few of those out to see if they match your mood before going and buying something else? Apart from that, I think any of those three would be fun so whatever you decide, you’ll have made the right decision.
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Ah, I only just saw your comment about it being a birthday present. In that case, based on your list above it looks like you’re (at least subconscioulsy) leaning towards XCOM. So grab that. 🙂
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X-Com. Green man gaming, w/ 25% discount coupon is $37.50.
I think it might be getting close to the time to announce the Season 2 line up of TAY TV: Summer Edition.
Here’s that Potaku link from earlier that was set to private!
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Erggh, three seconds of hideous glory, right at the end. WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWHHHHHHHHHHHHHYYYYYYYYYYYYY????????????????
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Haha! You look disturbed to be standing next to Shiggy. So does that lady actually. 😀
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I was more just trying to avoid Jamie’s filming…
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YOU FAILED!
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SEIZURE-TASTIC!
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That was rad! but ah… wheres ep 1?
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@Shane: RE: the-life-of-the-indie-creator
A great read Shane I could relate my life to every single detail. Unfortunately for me though, I am stuck in a repetitive meaningless corporate job, if only to meet my financial needs…. I’m trying though! I’ll hit you up when i’ve got something finished.
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High five for soul-sucking full-time work. I am totally there too.
So when I’m sick I get weird game-cravings. Talking about Tenchu made me want to go play that but I can’t find my copy, so now I’m thinking of playing FFXII, even though it’s my least favourite Final Fantasy.
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I’m thinking of doinf a 12 replay, right after my 9. I’m at the end of disc 2 now, such a flippin awesome game 😀
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It’s the only Final Fantasy game of the Sony era I’ve never replayed. I’ve just stolen my PS2 back off my daughter and I’m going to play it. Prepare for loads of complaints of how vapid Vaan and Penelo are. And maybe a dreamy sigh or two for Basch and Balthier. 😛
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SPOILERETHS FOR BL2 DLC but it’s in rot13 anyway.
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so here’s a “Get to know everyone” Question:
What does everyone here do for a living?
Edit: as per Shane’s observation, i neglected to put in my job description:
Internal accounts manager for a fibre optic supplier (cabling, backbone, outside plant, active/passive) yadda yadda yadda
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Tafe student. I don’t currently have any sort of job.
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There is hope for you yet Wolf! do what you love! dont become a slave to the dollar like the rest of us!
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Author first. Reluctant public service drone most.
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Edited my comment!
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Unemployed. Not a student, taking year off to get away from studying.
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Same here. But my year is almost over…
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Admin Assistant.
Mobile Audio Reseller. (soon-ish!)
All ’round badass (I’m working on it :P)Howzabout yourself mate?
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edited my post 🙂
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Bish.
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Best response \o/
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Hi Bish!
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Hermit! Brood! Deplete oxygen! It’s a rich tapestry! 😛
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Treasury Administrator in Corporate Insolvency. Every day I die a little.
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oh my… o_0
i feel for you man. i really do…
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Mr Minit. A in the kiosks in the shops. The other one is just a nasty rumour.
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…Are you the Keymaster?
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Yes. Actually, I’m a friend of his, he asked me to meet him here.
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I run a help desk for a recruitment company … nothing says fun like dealing with people who don’t know how to upload documents for 40 hours a week
I’m also prone to overuse ellipsis and have a complete fear of ducks
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ducks? really? but they’re so cute and cuddly!
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Nope, they are evil, evil creatures that could double as gate keepers to the ninth dimension, where everything is made of pain and suffering.
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I… do enjoy using ellipses…
While I’m fine with ducks, swans can all burn in the fiery depths of eternal damnation.
…for eternity.And Technical Ineptitude Moderator is probably another one of my titles 😛 I share your pain, friend!
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Google things like a champ.
Defence industry.-
I must say i envy you red,always wanted a job in defence….
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My job is to get yelled at.
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BE QUIET
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GO EAT SOME FLOWERS.
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*quietly eats flowers*
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Bug Catcher. The pay isn’t great, but the stings and bites are worth it.
Actually, I’m a non-working student bum. (I totally should’ve done a degree in Entomology… why am I only thinking of this now?)
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I shuffle papers and occasionally tell someone to restart their computer over the phone.
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“Have you tried turning it off and on again?”
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My trick to making sure that the cable is connected properly is telling them to give the end a quick wipe.
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That’s awesome. Much less grumpy than we’ve come to expect from you.
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It gets them off the phone quicker.
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That’s more like it.
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uni student, working at a cinema at the moment for spare change
LAN/WAN TSO/NA for private schools in the ACT and a bunch of NSW.
Software Engineer at a large company that sometimes is spelled with a $ in its name. And isn’t Tel$tra.
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Ke$ha?
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http://xkcd.com/1118/ relevant XKCD
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Currently still at Coles, but about to start as a travel agent \o/
Call centre biatch.
Barbarian, I mean librarian.
Programmer, business owner, manager, coffee boy, finance admin, data entry kinda deal
Apple repair guy. For the next 3 weeks anyway, then I will be a professional procrastinator.
commercial underwriter for one of the “Big 3” general insurance companies.
Time to suck it up and get some “constructive” criticism!
I just wrote this: http://youareoverburdened.wordpress.com/2012/10/11/i-hate-that-game-youre-playing-so-lets-play-together/
It’s about vidja gaems, so if you got time =]
I can’t decide if my chose of prose has made it interesting, or grading…?
You thoughts will be… read haha.
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Second para: “but its not as “full on” (as he likes to say) as
Huey’sChip’s game.”It’s a fascinating idea, and one I’d love to see developed further. I would personally give a lot of thought to purchasing this game.
You’d need to balance the reward tiers so that everyone benefits from collaboration, but not to the extent that non-collaborators are excluded from having fun. Would also need to account for a large imbalance in player demographics (e.g. high numbers playing FPS, small numbers playing space sims, etc).
Also, would need to cater for those devoted people who want the ‘whole’ experience and want to macro- and micro-manage everything all by themselves.
Will ponder more and respond further later 🙂
PS: The style works. It explains the concept very well.
Edit: Oh and one more edit. The release schedule: games staggered, or all at once? Both have pros and cons. The biggest con for staggered release is that early adopters with no intent to MP would complain that another game has changed the mechanics of their game. The biggest con for all-at-once is that production costs would be high with no return until release…
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Thank you very much for the input! Fixed the error (the paragraphs were initially in a different order.)
Just warning, the following is “thoughts-on-page” so I haven’t proofed it haha…
In my mind, the order would be staggered. The general idea is that the publisher creates all their games in this universe. So their “thing” would be: Every game we release can be paired and rewards work all each way.
While the games could still be played solo, the idea is to integrate players. Therefore, people who want to play one of the games solo, can do so; but personally, I don’t think they’d be outside the scope of the concept. Meaning: players who pair/integrate would actually have an advantage.
But the advantages should be based around a player’s personal experience with the game; not an ability to “be better” at the game than someone else.
It’s not a competitive reward, it’s one of experience (and not the “XP” experience use of the word.)
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I think it’s written well and clearly gets your idea across. It reminds me a bit of what they’re doing with Eve and that FPS for consoles (Dust I think it’s called) only better.
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Thanks! And you’re right, this is similar to what CCP are attempting with Dust 514.
The difference is that I’m looking at it from a publisher point of view, who would have different developers making games all in the Publisher’s franchise. But each game would have this “pairing” ability, so all games would inter-connect. Kind of like “Call of Duty XP”, but across entirely different games.
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I blame Powalen for my White 2 purchase
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You love it.
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But do I play as Palm head McGeneric or Skirt Pants Laeia Hair?
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I probably would have given in to TAY marketing by now if I owned a real DS of some sort.
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Racist
Wha-hey. Just got promoted to manager.
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😀 Hells yeah, way to go man!
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So drinks are on you this weekend?
Grats.
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NAICE.
Will you abuse your power straight away or build up to the glorious moment where you announce your reign over the loyal subjects you command?
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That’s good. Set up a routine you can stick to. You don’t want your first day to be so awesome that you can never repeat it. Unrealistic expectations, high stress, who needs it. Also, showing the peons that you’re human too. Great strategy.
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and then made somebody pick it up for you. Good, practising the good ol’ delegation skill.
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You’re Mr. Manager!
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Just Manager, let’s not get ahead of ourselves.
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I know that’s Arrested Development, but I keep flashing on The (only) Office.
Gareth: “Assistant Regional Manager”
David: “Assistant TO the Regional Manager”
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Took long enough. You’ve been there, what, six months? Christ, you should own the whole bloody mall by now.
By which I mean, congratulations!
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Hell no. That’s what I want to be doing.
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What progress? Where are you up to with this?
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Still waiting on results from the tests. They said it can take 4-6 weeks.
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Awesome. Best situation.
Surprised they still chose you for manager, given your (hopeful) imminent departure. Nothing against you of course (sounds like you can do the job standing on your head, as long as someone else holds the containers full of stuff), just a bit unusual to not prefer a stable workforce. Were there any other candidates, or do the other workers take turns filing down their teeth on the key cutter, etc?
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Haha. The latter pretty much. I still card about my job and always try to do the best I can do. Half the workers in the company don’t even turn up when they are supposed to.
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Level up! Congrats Freeze!
Congratulations
A POTAKU PRESENTATION
Shiggy Plays Wii U!
Didn’t think you guys would want to miss this! Enjoy! 😀
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DC Beat me to it, eh!
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Haha! Sorry ’bout that, man. A lot of time on my hands. 😛
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It’a all good 😀 Btw, had to swap to Vimeo because Youtubes wouldn’t let the vid play on mobile devices because of the song. I’ll re-upload tonight with new music as Vimeo doesn’t allow video game content so It’ll be deleted when they realise. 😛
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I think this is the first chance I’ve had all week to check TAY!
Howdy fronds! How are things? Can someone sum up the past 10 pages for me? You will? Awesome!
EDIT: I have to use a Mac at work now and this is weird and I don’t like it because I hate change and why can’t I use Windows+D to display the desktop? Mac keyboard shortcuts are weird. Why do you insist on being different? On the plus side this keyboard is actually pretty good to type things on. Has the right amount of responsiveness and required pressure to use the key.
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Hey buddy, hope life’s treating you well!
SMURFYDOG’S PRE-EMPTIVE TAY CATCH UP BRIEF 09/10/2012
Slow day on the TAY front for the most part. Scree has not seen a dentist yet, but she returned money someone left at the ATM and earned our respect. (Not that she didn’t have it already.) Possible Brisbane meats were discussed, seems there’s lots of possibilities but nothing definitive yet. Puppy Licks organized a fight for the ages using the last weapons we’ve used in games, entertaining and educational. Neg informed us that Borderlands 2 DLC is imminent! Shane and Strange both had to deal with kids who were feeling sick, we all wished ’em a speedy recovery! The horribleness of the human race was discussed from time-to-time. Potaku E3 Expo video on front page! Lambo hasn’t updated us on the headache front. We hope he’s okay.
No Snacktaku, alas. :'(
Now you know and knowing is half the battle!
SMURFYDOG’S PRE-EMPTIVE TAY CATCH UP BRIEF 10/10/2012
Fat Shady generously gifted a copy of Trials, cementing his reputation as a damn good guy. (If ever there was any doubt!) Trjn and the gang discussed politics, more specifically Julia Gillard’s speech and the coverage it has since gained. NovaCascade got a job! A good one too! We all congratulated him, because he’s awesome! (Apparently resembles Potter too, so don’t want to get on his wrong side!) The horribleness of people was rambled about again in an IT context this time. Loops continues to be awesome at the Warhammer 40k thing, he’s painting them like a trooper! Lambo hurt his elbow and had a gender neutral dream. Bish deconstructed the state of gaming in Canada! Brisbane meat was contemplated, looking like there will be one this weekend! The eBook Humble Bundle sale was praised! D.C. wrote the longest, most rambling of recaps on TAY.
Edited in: I compartmented page six into yesterday for some reason. Sughly also got Radiohead tickets! A valiant effort, no doubt! A whole lot of Melbourne folks are going to the Armageddeon expo. (Including some pals who’ll be at the Space Pyrates booth in Artist Alley!) It was Strange’s third anniversary too, they celebrated in style at a Steak BBQ place!
Now you know and knowing is half the battle…
SMURFYDOG’S PRE-EMPTIVE TAY CATCH UP BRIEF 11/10/2012
For starters, it’s totally TechKnight’s birthday. Wasn’t too long ago he was just a prototype on the ol’ assembly line! Sentience suits him too, I’ve got to say! Dishonored and the new Pokemon game were released today, so lots of anticipation on that front. (JB Hifi were selling XCOM early too!) Shane made his triumphant return after being sick, Dark Souls discussion soon ensued as expected! Greenius was pressing on with his assignment good and proper! New Potaku EB Expo clip, this time with Charles Martinet. (The voice of Mario!) Zetrox and Shane bonded on their writing. Zetrox also sent out the call for some illustrators to help him out with his children’s book! Sughly wants confirmations for his Brisbane meat. Strange is feeling sick, but optimistic! Freeze got a promotion!
Now you know and knowing is half the battle…
(This one is crazy early, but I’m about to play Dishonored. Early brief, better than no brief! :P)
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This is truly amazing!
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just WOW…..
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RADIOHEEEEAAAAAAAD!! ZOMGZOMGZOMG
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I DISCOVERED RADIOHEAD TIX IN MY INBOX TODAY.
I’d forgotten about them until I check my email. day = made.
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JB are selling XCOM early?
*twitch*
No, must wait tomorrow and get it cheaper at Dungeon Crawl. Have no time to play it tonight anyway. Must not be tempted.
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DC actually does this now, apparently. What a champ.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/10/talk-amongst-yourselves-188/comment-page-9/#comment-825575Edit to say: Damn DC.
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Display desktop on a Mac is either F11 or F12 (well done on using Win+D though, nobody ever seems to use that one). You can also use Expose to set up hot corners so that when you drag the mouse to certain sections of the screen, it does certain things (like show the desktop or show all windows of the application you’re in).
Apple keyboards are awesome. I use one at work and at home now.
Oh and you can swap Cmd and Ctrl around (as well as disable caps lock) in the keyboard settings. Might make keyboard shortcuts a bit easier. The only major difference is that Apple keyboard shortcuts are more universal. Cmd + W works everywhere, unlike Ctrl + W.
XCOM is in JB Hifi stores.
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PC version is still locked, just so you know. Can’t install. :'( Convenient to get at the same time as Dishonored, though!
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That’s why I XBAX
(no its not, I xbax cos I like my couch)
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Just bought my Pokemons. Yes, I bought White 2 too. Did anyone get Black 2?
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Define ‘get’.
I’M POOR, OK!!?! :'(
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Black 2 over here!
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Look how different he is!
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I hate you, Powalen. D:
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For the uninitiated, what’s the difference between Black and White? Michael Jackson would have me believe it don’t matter, but then he had the skin graft, so I’m all confused.
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The pokemon games usually come in twos with a range of pokemon exclusve to each title to encourage trading.
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The pokemon games usually come in twos with a range of pokemon exclusve to each title to encourage
trading.buying the same game twice.Fixed.
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So there’s no way to catch em all in just one game? Sneaky. Can you port saves from game to game or is there no way to have a complete managerie?
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Trading with friends basically.
You can only have one save on each cart so if two people want to play you gotta buy a second copy.
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Wow, that’s shit.
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You can transfer or trade Pokemon, but it requires a second DS.
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Black/White (and I’m assuming BW2 as well) also have slightly different stories/places to visit/characters, but they’re basically the same. You can’t catch everything in a single game, but they do have an global trade building you can use if you have no friends 😛
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The most important difference is a list of about 20-30 version exclusive Pokémon – you want to catch a Vullaby? Better make sure you get White 2! – this is the keystone for the “catch ’em all” premise. It’s been a part of the Pokémon franchise since the first generation of games; originally designed to encourage a social aspect to gaming, by trading with friends, or making new friends by trading your Pokémon. Japan has a very different perception on interacting with complete strangers through the medium of video games.
It could be argued that the tradition has been kept in order to make more money by selling two copies of what is essentially the same game. Still, no one is forcing anyone to buy both versions.Additionally, Black 2 & White 2 contain version exclusive areas – these were introduced in Black and White. These areas are meant to convey the theme of technology vs. nature, and make us reflect upon the world we have and the world we are making for ourselves. The Black version have had a greater focus on technology – “Black City” is a high-tech neon city accessible after finishing the main plot. Opelucid city looks very similar – sleek finish, neon lighting, modern city. By contrast, the White versions have focused on nature – “White Forest” is a quiet serene place, with a simple log cabin the only man made structure. Opelucid city looks very rustic – cobblestone streets, lanterns/lamp posts, etc.
Black 2 & White 2 have also introduced some minor visual differences in other locations.Lastly, Black 2 & White 2 now have version coloured frames/labels in the battle scenes.
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Thanks everyone. I think I get it.
Giving it a miss for now. (Also, I have no handheld console, so… was going to do that anyways)
Damnit EB. Why did you have to put that Connor statue front and center on your counter. I told myself I wasn’t going to preorder anymore collectors editions. I just wanted to pick up Dishonoured.
🙁
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Good luck trying to find a copy of Dishonoured anywhere. Dishonored on the other hand… 😛
Alright maggots, I emailed out an info email for Sat night. If you wanted the infos but you didnt get the emails, just gimme your damn email already and I’ll forward it.
Oh, man. First impressions of Dishonored? Amazing. Might not be the most technically pretty game, but that’s more than made up for in art direction. The world feels rich and detailed already. The gameplay definitely brings back Thief/Deus Ex memories! 😀
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Back to it! 😀
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HRRRRRRN, I’m not sure if I should play it right away or wait until I finish work early on Friday. I might just keep myself entertained with the pokemans.
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I totally have been leaning into corridors, looking in key holes. How I missed this stuff! 😀
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DC’s post made me think about all the games I wish I could afford, but that I have let slip past.
My 2011/12 wishlist:
Catherine
Max Payne 3
Spec Ops: The Line
Dishonoured
[others to be added here as they occur]
And I was thinking that maybe TAY could begin a game trading/lending/renting scheme. I would be willing to pay a (small) nominal fee to rent any of the above (360) from eligible TAYbies. Etc. Discuss ideas.!
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I could lend you Spec Ops if you’re happy enough to play it on the PS3.
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But, but… my gamerscore 🙁
Edit: Thanks, I appreciate the offer, but for now at least, I’m reserving whatever tiny lifespan my PS3 has left for Dark Souls. Loud and unpredictable fan action… think it might be the beginning of the end.
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Yeah, I remember somebody suggesting this a few months or years ago and it’s an awesome idea. I’m sure we each have a game(s) we are not playing at the moment that someone else could play. We could just exchange games and return them when we are done. Also I’m sure everyone here is responsible enough to handle the discs with care and not pour juice etc on the boxes.
I’m up for it if you guys are. Also I don’t think the payment fee if necessary. If I’m sending a game to you Shane for example and you’re sending a game to me we have spent more or less the same amount so it balances.
Unfortunately I don’t own either of the games you’ve mentioned and I’m a PS3 guy 🙁
Any PS3 owners willing to participate I’m game.
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Master race miss out /o\
Maybe setup a darkadia or something so people can see what is on offer so to speak
Pack it up, pack it in
Let me begin
I came to win
Battle me that’s a sin
Oh man. High school memories flooding back.
So I feel like I made a few crucial mistakes today. Firstly, I went outside. Secondly, I went outside wearing only a T-Shirt in the rain. Thirdly, I hopped off on the wrong bus stop, which led to me wandering around in what I hoped was the direction of where I am staying.
That was a tad damp.
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So… no pants?
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This might or might not have been a mistake depending on intentions and where he hopped off the bus… 😛
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Yeah, no pants, I regret that.
Though not as much as the poor people in Woden.
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No pants and a wet t-shirt?
Hot.
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Moist, even.
My plush Doctor Stan arrived!
It’s surprisingly big….
Hey, so Shady wants to arrange a competition.. Trials Themed…not really sure where I will post it, if its a Kotaku one, or Redlynx forums, or twitter (ive got my personal account and the @TrialsEvolution one…)
But here is the swag I still have… (after a few lucky TAYBIES got a free copy of Trials)
2 X Trials Evo codes
1 X Trials Evo DLC
1 X Trials Evo T-Shirt (L)
So thats some pretty sweet swag, it’s all mine to keep but Im in a position to give this stuff away. Was thinking about a competition to give this to one or many dudes, but its difficult because i want to attract new players.. I was thinking of a track building competition, mabye a Kotaku themed one, but thats hard because you have to alrady have the game, and be good at it…
What would you guys do. Im sure if I approached Ubi and or Mark he’d be supportive?? But I don’t know…
Do we do a photoshop comp where you have to draw your ideal track, or I don’t really know.. want it to be something fun and ideally attract new people to the series, so the barrier to entry for the comp should be low>?????
any ideas?
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Create and draw a new bike with no limitations?
I’m sure the Kotaku community would love to have fun creating a technological marvel that wouldn’t be possible for the next ever. 😛
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ohh that got me thinking, in the game there are a bunch of new helmets that your rider can wear, maybe rather than a bike you can create a new helmet for the rider… that allows me to promote a cool fun new feature of the existing game while getting people creatively doing stuff??? thats not bad.
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Yeah, creative stuff is always good.
You can do track sort of stuff too but let them design it with real objects or let them draw it. That way tracks can still be designed without owning the game 😀 (same delio with bike/helmet stuff)
Personally I’d like a comp that was just ‘be Greenius’ 😛
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‘be Greenius’ is a great idea. That shall be the first comp!
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A Photoshop competition sounds good.
Btw, are you working as a ubisoft/Red Lynx PR guy or are you just doing this out of passion? Either way that’s awesome. However, knowing how much you love RedLynx I’m sure a job with them would be great.
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Certainly not employed by either of these guys. The DLC code is my own one that Ubi gave me but I’d already bought it (they thought i’d wait a few days to get a free $5 code!) lol
The shirt (Hoodie removed because I think I should give it to my cousin) was mine for the EBEXPO but was too small so they are replacing it.. and the codes were left overs that we couldn’t give away on the weekend. So this is all my stuff but Im just talking about this because of my desire to get more people into this game…
As for getting a job, I have actually talked to Redlynx about it last year i think and I have also talked to Ubi about doing more stuff with them, but to be honest, I’ve got a good job, its regular income and looks after my family. Whats better is that I control a lot about how and where I work and can really do as I please. I’d rather have a good job like I have and have the freedom and flexibility to pursue my passions as I want to. if its games, or video editing, or whatever, I do as I please… as soon as you make it a job its someone else telling you what to do I lose all passion very quickly. I see this as the best of both worlds man. I can remain as a fan and only do what I am passionate about.
and if you look at my track record, I am amazed with what this has lead to. Kotaku Articles, Good game appearance, video production (about 70,000 hits last timei checked) trip to EUROPE! and working at EBExpo. Seriously stunned to look back at that so I really dont want to change anything. Ill always network and play the cards I have to get the most out of it, but doub’t this will ever lead to full time employment. But who knows, 5 or so year ago I would have laughed at you if you said I’d work in IT and here I am.
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Fair points. All that matters is that you love what you do.
I don’t own a 360 🙁 but good luck with organising the competition, this is very kind of you.
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Photoshop comp pumping up the new DLC.
They added BMX that you were pumped for, so what is the next thing that you would add to the game if you had a choice.
Maybe give a few sample screenshots for people how don’t have the game to be able to cut and paste thing onto
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ohh maybe a caption contest.. have a bunch of screen shots of in game (I can take them) but then people have to do captions… Sorry, not directly related but thats another idea.
I have an awesome one of me sitting in a basketball hoop!
I like the idea of the next vehicle that you want to see in game or something also… man this is tough!
Microsoft Paint drawing contest?
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Yes plzzzzz. I asked Mark about having one a while ago and he seemed keen 🙂
Or, you know, you could just give the DLC code to me? 😛
How about a trials themed haiku comp? Haiku comps are popular for some reason 😛
I reckon the competition should be “who can come up with the best idea for a competition to win this swag?!”
So meta.
So very, very meta.
I wanted to ask a favour. Has anyone got a copy of Singstar for the PS3? The one that was released on launch. If anyone has a copy and are willing to sell it, I’m interested.
If not, it’s okay ^^ I’ll try GT
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Possibly? I’ll have to ask the wife. It’s her game but she hasn’t played it in an age. Plus we have all the other singstars too, ps2&3.
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You should bring them on Sat. Just sayin’…
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Only if you’re going to actually sing 😛
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He will if there’s big butts on offer.
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Its true, I cannot lie nor deny
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Oh, man. Dishonored has melee weapon on right of screen, range weapon on the left. Yet they’re mapped to the opposite buttons on the mouse. So many times I’ve accidently shot someone instead of stabbing, chaos ensues. So damn fun, though.
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Yeah, you get used to it, like in Bioshock 2.
Still weird though.
Just looking at some Star Citizen info online…
Can I have a medium-sized ship with a single launchable fighter aboard? Yes.
Can I get out of my ship and shoot people in first- or third-person combat? Yes.
Can I hijack an enemy ship? Yes.
Can other players hijack my ship? Yes.
Will there be location-specific damage on spaceships? Yes.
Will there be customizable weapons on hardpoints? Yes.
Can I play with a mouse? Yes.
A gamepad? Yes.
A joystick? Yes.
Will it support Oculus Rift? Yes.
Will it take user-created content (ships, etc) and sell it, splitting revenue with creators? Yes.
Oh my…
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Can he do this all on apparently only a 2 million budget? Fuck no.
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Well aren’t you just a brilliant shining star of optimism? 😛
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I want it to succeed so much. But I also think the scope of what he’s suggesting is enormous and so many MMO projects have failed before.
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Jeez, why so …. Negative.
(Sorry)
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Cherry-picking an interesting comment on the difference between eastern and western game design from a Eurogamer article:
Alex Jones, producer on the forthcoming DMC and a conduit between Cambridge-based developers Ninja Theory and Capcom Japan, is well placed to offer a theory. “Japanese developers tend to work from the core out,” he says. “That’s to say the core of the game is Dante, so you spend a lot of time on that character and then doing the world that character lives in which should basically just be an extension of what feels right for that character.
“Western developers, however, focus from the out in. They’ll say I want to build this world and it’ll have this stuff in then they find a character with a gun to do things in it. Not that the characters an afterthought, but I think we deal with the big picture first then hone down on what it would feel like as a character in that world. We came at it the other way in Japan where we spend a lot of time talking about Dante before you build a world around him.”
I think this is a really interesting contrast and it makes a lot of sense.
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So.. basically eastern: start with character, work way up and western: start with world, work way down?
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Basically. You can actually see it if you think about it too, since it explains a lot of the usual differences between say JRPGs and WRPGs.
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Still doesn’t explain why it’s Baldy McGruff on one side and Emo McVagina on the other.
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One look at male Japanese popstars will tell you the reason for that.
I blame (seriously) Michael Jackson.
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So, how is everyone this fine evening?
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Happy that my assignment is over (for now :P) and just chilling and playing Theatrhythm :D. Got 2 more assignments due on Monday and Tuesday (which I haven’t started yet) and exams in 3 weeks or so, so I’ll be super stressed again real soon but for now I’m riding this happiness wave :D. Going to get Dishonored soon too! 😀
All the 😀 faces!
How are you SKREE?
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Theatrhythm hate. >:(
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So much fun :D!
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So much sadness 🙁
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The hardest difficulty is… hard :/
Also I’m the only one without a reply from scree
*cue Nob’s voice*
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Because you had a nice little conversation going and I didn’t want to interrupt.
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Nonsense, it’s fine to start up another convo, you’re not interrupting 🙂
Theatrhythm is extra awesome if you’re a fan of the Final Fantasy series (which I know you’re not). Aside from being a really fun rhythm game it’s also got the NOSTALGIA IN YO FACE factor which really, really makes me want to go back and play some previous Final Fantasy games.
Sad to see the state of the series now though :'(
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I love rhythm games =D
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Working. Still. 12 hour shift today. Fun times.
And I have Dishonored sitting right here in front of me too. 🙁
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Why do you torture yourself so?
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The filthy lucre that keeps me supplied with games I never have time to play.
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I’m coo, I’m coo. Bit bored :/
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I understand that. I should be working on things but toothache means my tolerance level for everything is lowered.
Super tired. Sucks that I have to sleep early to get up early
Otherwise I’m ok.
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Yeah, but you can pretend you’re in harvest moon!
Just me?-
Never played a harvest moon game. /o\
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But D=
They are fun, the original farmville (mum keeps asking if it’s farmville and if it’s the same as farmville and then when I start fishing I can tell she’s itching to play)
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I approve of this. Except SNES when youre single, stayin up all night to chop dat wood amirite!
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Sometimes I really hate that you *must* get married.
I don’t have time for wives and courting, I have animals and crops to take care of!
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I HAVE POKEMANS. So I am good! \o/
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Jelly.
Youtube is now on the blocked list at work.
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I actually tried to do that but the desks here are rather heavy 🙁
Edit: spelling
Hello all 🙂 I miss you all so much just wanted to say ive been playing a fair amount of xbox latley in between study and basketball but that amount of gaming time should sky rocket as I have potentially torn or something my mcl 🙁 anyhoo just wanted to say why hello there 😀 also howdy doody?
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Heya, welcome back 🙂
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Herro 🙂
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Also feel free to add me on xbl my name is my gamertag 😀 oh and did I hear something about trials? I think I remember playing that or its equivalent on miniclip years ago if its on xbl I might just have to buy it
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Hey Di11! I have nothing to add…
POKEMON GET!
What starter did everyone go in this one (and the original if they played it) and why?
I originally wanted to go SmugLeaf because SmugLeaf but then I saw the final evolution (forgot its name…) and wasn’t really impressed. So I decided on penis shell otter BUT THEN I saw this amazing picture of Emboar drawn in the style of Wind Waker and immediately decided I’d go for Piggy as soon as I got the game.
Going for Oshawott this time, I like his final evo the best 😀
Also, coloured manuals make me happy 😀
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First rule o Pokemon.
The stars have the logical, intelligent persons choice (fire) and a choice for the mentally challenged (grass) and for the sex offenders (water).
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So, apparently I’m a sex offender? I always choose water starters…
Except this time. Went Oshawott in White, so chose Smugleaf (Snivy) for White 2.-
Hey hey hey. I don’t make the rules. They are why they are. 😛
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Dammit.
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I went with smugleaf because smugleaf. I havn’t got the 2nd one yet but when I saw the final evolution of Oshowat I decided he was the best one and I’ll get him when I get the 2nd game.
So apparently you and I are alternate reality versions of each other where one saw that Emboar picture and one did not.
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I’m doing a mono-bug team, so I chose Oshawatt so that my rival would choose Snivy and I’d have a type advantage >:D
I ditched it for a Sewaddle as soon as I could 😛
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Snivy for the first games
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ALSO: Don’t forget to download Genesect from the Mystery Gift WiFi connection! It’s very spiffy!
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Oh thanks for reminding me! I was gonna do it but had dinner and got sidetracked
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(Also also, once you’ve done the Mystery Gift, you can save your game before getting Genesect so you can keep resetting until you get one with a good nature ;D)
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Or just get it anyway because you’re not a hardcore Pokeplayer 😛
Btw, make sure you (or other TAYbies) let me know when new Pokes come out via Wi-Fi! I used to get them on SoulSilver but missed one sometime and then gave up after that 🙁
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Other things:
– I forgot how big the DSi XL’s screens were! Wowza, looks like I’ll need to upgrade to the 3DS XL :P. Anyone have both? How do they compare with each other (screen size wise?)
– Character/Pokemon designs have been pretty fugly in all these later gens :P. The main guy looks like an idiot.
– I played White before playing the 3DS but now I can’t help but wish White 2 is in 3D. Like Pow said, it’s definitely begging to be in 3D and I really can’t wait until Generation 6 or whatever one is on 3DS, it’s going to be amazing! 😀
I haven’t started yet but I think I’ll go with the otter. He’s a bit lame but his final evolution looks alright. I went with smugleaf in the first White so I decided I should go something else this time and I don’t really want the fire pig (I wish they’d stop with the fire/fighting starters).
Normally my sister and I will trade with each other and restart the game a few times so we each end up with all the starters. We didn’t do that with White and Black though, in part because trading was locked out for a bit longer than previous games but also because we just didn’t really like the look of any of the starters but smugleaf, and we probably won’t do it for White and Black 2.
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Damn it. Reply fail.
*flips table*
Applying for previous credit at USyd is such a hassle. And I probably should’ve done it when I started but I didn’t so I might not get anything now because I am crap.
ARM FLAILING TIME.
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Quick, let’s all climb onto the inverted table and pretend to be pirates!
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I already have a pirate hat!
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Only thing left to do do is call the Dean and tell him he is a stupid head.
Preferably from the pay phone just outside his office window.
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HEY, DEAN. IF THAT IS EVEN YOUR REAL NAME!
My name isn’t Dean, that’s just my title.
WHAT ELSE HAVE YOU LIED TO US ABOUT?!-
WHAT’S DEAN GOT TO DO WITH IT?!
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Hahah! That’s my favourite Dean scene.
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I think I went too far with this one…
I would marry him.
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STAR CITIZEN!
Looks fucking awesome.
Pardon the French.
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I AGREE!
Wow. That Lance Armstrong thing.
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What happened? I don’t follow the news 😛
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Turns out that he was one of the biggest drug cheats the sport has ever seen.
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Well shit :|. Last I heard of him was when he was accused of being a cheat but refused to take a test.
Someone made a good point in the middle of all that and that was although he may be a cheat (seems like we know he is one now), he did donate millions of dollars to cancer research and other charities.
I’m not huge on cycling anyway so doesn’t bother me but cheating ain’t cool (POWALEN)
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I’ve never taken any Mario Kart performance enhancing substances.
…I’ve just been slipping you performance suppressants 😀
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It’s … complicated.
Lance Armstrong has never failed a drug test (aside from some minor slap on the wrist stuff after he had won all of his TdFs). He’s been constantly accused and fought them for a long time. Then he stopped fighting them and that meant he got permabanned.
There’s almost no doubt that he was a cheat. Everyone during the era where he completely dominated was a cheat. Now there is sworn testimony from his former teammates confirming what has been rumoured for a long time. That he coordinated a massive drug taking ring and was involved in pressuring other riders into doing it. What’s important is that it’s not just former riders that have been caught turning on him (like Floyd Landis, who nobody listens to because the second he got caught he basically said everyone was in on everything). Not just retired riders either. Active riders who have recently competed in Grand Tours.
He stopped fighting because he couldn’t beat the charges any more and this is the only way to not admit guilt and not make it official. But he’s still gone.
The only real shock is that they’ve pulled the trigger on this after he stopped fighting the charges like a month ago. They’re cleaning up cycling and that means that they have to take down everyone, past and present, that has even the hint of doping.
Contador is going to be hounded by this same stuff for the rest of his career, as is everyone that has or is riding for Saxobank.
EDIT: I should mention that I’ve been following the Tour de France since I was a kid and have long been comfortable with the knowledge that the entire sport was tainted. It’s cleaner now, significantly cleaner but there is still rampant doping.
The only riders that I would be shocked to hear are doping are Cadel Evans and Bradley Wiggins. I wouldn’t even be disappointed if they came out and said that any of my other favourite riders had copped a ban.
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You guys are awesome. That’s all.
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I don’t have to sit here and listen to these wild allegations!
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Too bad, man. It’s time to face the truth!
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You’re kinda okay I guess…
JUST KIDDING! 😀
You suck.
😛
😀
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What did they do now? 😀
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*hides sledgehammer*
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Continued the longest stretch of awesomeness any one has ever seen! 😀
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Decided that the competition for the Trials swag was a bad idea because these would go to internet people, and they tend to be random jerks.. so i decided to give them out to TAYbies, who are also random jerks, but I know you random jerks… 🙂 So no competition, but a few TAYbies got a few free things so that is good. #TAYFTW
*Yeah that’s a hashtag. I’m Oprah today, what you gonna do? #everyonegetstrialsevo 🙂
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<3
Has anyone played Darksiders II DLC: Argul’s Tomb yet?
Got an email with the download code a few days ago but never bothered to redeem/play it since I’ve been busy with other games.
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Hahaha. Nope.
Will I?
Hahaha nope.
Which sad because I get it free but I’ve moved on and not really interested. It was an okay game but not that great.
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Yup.
no wolf make it ok… blah blah (lambo fill in the rest :P)
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I have Dishonored. Yay! I also have the shirt and keyring. Triple yay!
It was a mission and a half though. Apparently when I pre-ordered the girl didn’t put me down as having ordered the version with the bonuses. After I paid the rest of $79 she handed me a copy of the game and when I asked about the other stuff she was all “Well, you should have ordered the Collector’s Edition if you wanted the other stuff. We’ve been sold out of the pre-order bonuses for a while now”. I’m all “Well, you didn’t mention that last week when I specifically asked for that version when preordering from you” (This was the same girl who had served me last week) “Umm…okay, let me go get the Games section person”. She handed me off to another poor girl who was actually just filling in for the games guy who was on a break. She took me over to the games workstation to wait, wand what do I see but a big sign that said Dishonored was only $69. “How come I didn’t get that price?” “They charged you more?!” Poor girl let out a big sigh and took me over to refund my $10. By this time the games guy was back and he checked to see if any JB nearby had any copies with the bonuses left. Thankfully the next nearest JB had one and he called and asked them to put it aside for me.
Meanwhile, I’m close to passing out because I feel so unwell and I hope everything goes smoothly at the next JB because if it doesn’t I know I’ll burst into tears. We drive to the next JB, I go in and as soon as I arrive someone asks to help me. He gets the games guy who shows him where my Dishonored pack is and I hand over the giftcard the first JB had given me in lieu of a refund. “Have a nice night”. “Thank-you, I will now.”. 😀
Victory! \o/
https://twitter.com/Strangist/status/256322914062839808/photo/1
Now if only I wasn’t too sick to play it. 😛
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Oh, man. I’m glad it worked out though. You’re going to love the game too! 😀
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Whoa that’s some fancy packaging! :O
I always get scared that people will screw up orders :(, good to hear it turned out alright in the end though.
Now get un-sick and enjoy the game :)!
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Hope you’re better for ol’ Sughly’s meat too.
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This is where I’m supposed to say “The only thing that will make me better for Sughly’s meat is if I know you’re going”, isn’t it? 😛
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Seems like the thing to say. Then I’ll respond with some evasive, non-committal thing that will infuriate everyone. All will be right with the world. 😛
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Okay, well instead I’ll just say I hope you’re not going so I don’t have to be embarrassed that you know I think you’re good-looking. 😛
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Haha! I just assumed it was mockery, so it’s all good. 😛
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All right, I’m being very serious now. Do I often go around on here mocking people? I don’t think I do. I hope I don’t. Regardless, I most certainly wouldn’t mock someone about their appearance like that. I understand if your hermit ways make you find compliments difficult to believe but please understand I don’t try to pander to people by telling them what I think they want to hear, and I only give compliments where I feel they are due. I try to tell people things straight up because I hope I get the same honesty in return. If I don’t like something, I’ll say so. And if I do like something, I’ll also say so.
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That’s what we love about you, Strange!
Sorry if I offended you. My self-esteem just assumes the worst. 🙂
I know you’re not the kind to mock people too. That was the wrong choice of word.
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You didn’t offend me, you just frustrate me. I know from experience though that us repeating over and over that we like you isn’t going to sink in until you start liking yourself. So hurry up and see what we see in you!
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It’s okay Strange. First thing Mrs. freeze said when she saw him was “Oh my god, he is HOT!”
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A caveat: She married me so her taste is questionable at best 😛
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Hey everybody! I hope you’re all well.
Victory is mine!
Tonight I brought down great misery and horrible death upon my evil foe.
That’s right – I just killed a great big ugly nasty spider!
There was cheering and merriment and rejoicing in the streets.
…*wipes tear…
It was beautiful, man, you should have seen it.
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Tales will be told in the years to come of your triumph!
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How’s things? New games living up to expectations?
TAY looks to have been a manageable size today, so if there’s no catch up post, I’m happy to just catch myself up.
I already had a quick look at the new Potaku site. Looks good.
Videos! Blog posts! Reminders of many as-yet unlistened to podcasts!-
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/10/talk-amongst-yourselves-188/comment-page-10/#comment-826329
I put today’s catch up at the end of this post! Only half the day, alas!
Things are decent! New games are great, man. Still liking Six Feet Under? Hope you’re well!
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@ DC – Thanks for the write up mate. I’m good thanks. And yes, still loving Six Feet Under!
@ TechKnight – Happy birthday man!
@ Shane – glad to hear you are back and feeling better.
@ Strange – Hope you’re feeling better, and late wishes for a very happy anniversary for yesterday! Hope you had an awesome day!
@ Freeze – congrats on the promotion mate. Any news from the police interview the other week?
@ Zetrox – good luck with the book mate. My Nana wrote a children’s book and found a great illustrator, but due to some setbacks I don’t recall the specifics of (it must be 25 years ago now), it was never published. I hope you do much better!
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Thanks dude. 🙂
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I always approve of spider murder.
Was it the same one from last time? 😀
Congrats SmurfyDog, slayer of beasts.
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I think it was the same one.
I thought it had gone, because when I left for work one day and it was on the ceiling nearly at the back door. (remember I have stupidly high ceilings, so killing it isn’t an option) When I got home – no sign of it. I thought it must have got hungry and gone outside.
Then a week ago I saw it in a bookcase near the back door. But it’s in an awkward spot, so I can’t kill it with a broom, and I don’t want to get poison spray all over my books.Everyone tells me that Huntsmen are not dangerous, and are pretty lazy, so I decided to let it stay there. I decided this was a chance to do a little anti-phobia exposure therapy on myself and try to overcome my fear of spiders.
So I named him Barry and we shared my house for the last week or so. This would be fine, so long as Barry stayed on the bookshelf. And it was.
It kind of worked too. I’m not as scared of spiders as I used to be.But when I got home tonight Barry was out of the bookshelf and on the wall. That was never part of the deal!!! Pretty soon he started walking, and spiders look super-creepy when they walk! That’s it!! Barry’s got to go!
Armed with a can of surface spray to bring him down and a broom to finish him off, I saw Barry to his rightful place in hell.
Smoughencratz and Ornstern ARE DEAD.
Dream practice DOES count as real. Who knew.
Edit to add a \o/ that I’ve been holding in for five long months. Christ, that’s a long time to be stuck on one boss and not give up. Only Dark Souls.
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I’m the First Lady and this is my favourite comment on TAY.
😀Edited to add: I’m pretty sure I lent my copy of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead to Sughly. Maybe I can make him watch it at his meat. 😛
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First SmurphyDog and now this. It’s truly a night for heroics! 😀
Does anyone happen to know a where you can buy reasonably priced traditional Chinese instruments in Australia, preferably NSW? A Guzheng to be specific.
I’m asking for a friend of mine.
Oh god I’ve missed so much. (I’m going to try stealing Strange’s thing, because it works so much better than a TL;DR)
Dinner was a delicious disaster. Well, I think it was alright(\o/). Everyone else was… not quite so enthusiastic(/o\).
I got to leave work early today (\o/) to go to the doctor (/o\) for painkillers (\o/) that don’t arrive ’til Monday (/o\).
@Freeze S. Preston Icequire
We’re on like an ape and a plumber. Boom, baby.(\o/ \o/ \o/)
@TAY
I’m getting really anxious/nervous(/o\) and excited(\o/) about the prospect of chillin’ wit dem Sydney folk for NYE.
Also, non-Sydney folk should come to Sydney with me for NYE (\o/)
In summation:
\o/ = 8 9
/o\ = 4
And then I found $10 (\o/)
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Hey Aleph! Your continued absent makes me sad. :'(
Then I log onto Twitter and every thing is good again. 😛
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I… will probably be there for NYE.
F4ction is willing to swing by Canberra on the way up, and I should have some money at that point, so I guess we’ll see…
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OOoooo F4ction give me a lift too :D!
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What happened to Driveius?!
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Now THAT is an excellent question!
I’m sure that the green dude just got his license!
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GAH!!!!?!
So I finally decide to purchase xcom and now I find out that my bank won’t actually process an order on green man gaming. And my pay pal doesn’t work.
Could somebody do me a favour and go here
http://www.greenmangaming.com/s/au/en/pc/games/strategy/xcom-enemy-unknown/
And then see if you can checkout using paypal. When you click paypal does it have the details of your order on the left hand side?
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Tried it, paypal showed no details on the side, got bumped back to GMG with the following:
Your Payment Provider has not authorised your purchase. This may be because some banks (incorrectly) believe that Green Man Gaming is a gambling website. Please contact your bank to discuss your order. We are working with these banks to resolve this issue.
No rejected transactions saying it was an issue with my account so I’m guessing PayPal has had a few too many issues with GMG and have blocked them.
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Thanks Beav, at least now I know it isn’t just me 🙁
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To those of you who are into racing games, RACE 07 is only $3 on Steam right now!
Go and get it!
Told my boss I had the new job today. She took it well, I’ve worked with her long enough, so she’s very happy for me. Turns out one of the other supervisors is leaving next week as well, so its going to be interesting times at Coles, especially with Christmas coming up.
Now, I’m off to beat some wild animals and stuff them into tiny containers. And I chose Snivy as my starter this time around. I’ve used each of them at least once, and Snivy has gone the best. Powalen, which bugs are you planning on using?
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So are you going to be moving to Orange?
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Yep. The other interviews I had didn’t pan out so I decided to go for it. I’ll probably end up moving at the start of November some time so I can get settled in before I start
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Congrats!
But you will be so far away from Meats /o\-
I know. Hopefully I’ll be able to make it back every so often
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Exciting! 😀
I’m going with whatever I find, really. I’ve got Sewaddle and Venipede at the moment just because they’re the only bugs around 😛 I’m debating whether to use Genesect or not (I probably will, it’ll just sit it in the box otherwise :P)
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But it’s a legendary!
I never use them cause I’m scared I’ll stuff them up 😛
Interesting how it can be your second Pokemon and starts at level 15 with beastly moves.
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I feel like such a noob using it. It basically owns everything 😛 If the game starts getting too easy I’ll have to drop it.
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Oh that’s right. You didn’t want spoilers so you don’t know that ******* isn’t in this version 😛
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I can’t figure out what name you’re blanking out, but whatever it is I want it 😛
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I think it’s disappointing Borderlands 2 falls into the same trap that a lot of RPGs fall into; N grqvbhf svany fgbel obff jurer gur vqrn bs gurz orvat n punyyratr vf gb znxr gurz uvg uneq naq tvir gurz n ohapu bs UC gb gel pbairl n frafr bs cbjre.
Still, pretty cool game I guess.
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Lhc, qrsvavgryl zber grqvbhf guna ‘uneq’. V qvqa’g guvax vg uvg uneq (nygubhtu V jnf 2 be fb yriryf nobir vg) ohg vg qvq xabpx zr bhg vagb gur ynin bapr, vafgnagyl xvyyvat zr.
Rira zber grqvbhf va cynlguebhtu 2 :/
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My problem with Borderlands 2 is pretty stupid, but here goes: every single location is designed for co-op in mind. There was never a sense of intimate, close quarters. Even corridors could fit one hundred people in them. I understand the design reasons, but I played solo and felt like I wasn’t playing the game the way it was meant to be played. Still damn freakin’ good, though.
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oh, most definitely the game was geared towards Co-op altogether. I’m not sure why you played solo, but I can easily see where you’re getting at. Plus, I don’t think close quarters would be wise for the twitchy-explodious-fireworks-thehellisgoingonious vibes Borderlands has in general.
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I know what you mean, though. I guess it’s kind of unfair to expect Mass Effect style, the-world-revolves-around-your-Shep type stuff in BL2. 😀
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haha, that’s the opposite end of the spectrum
“WAIST-HIGH COVER AHEAD, PREPARE FOR A FIGHT”
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Kept on waiting for Axton’s character arc to begin. It never did. 😛
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haha, he actually has a backstory, at least.
Ok, no, at least he had a wife. That makes him the most fleshed out compared to the rest of the cast!
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I guess Lynchwood kind of fleshed him out a little. Sort of.
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I think Journey(which you can read my review of right here on Kotaku) handled the difference between co-op and single player amazingly well.
Playing it in single player, you felt like you were in this super intimate tale. Playing in co-op, it was this massive sense of bropanionship. There were elements of the game that you simply wouldn’t see in co-op, but it handled someone else being there ridiculously well.
In case you can’t tell, I really, really, liked Journey.
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Oh, man. I need to play this still! The thing that stops me is I wasn’t a huge fan of Flower.
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WHAT!? You haven’t played Journey?
Stop the Dishonoring and XCOMming and get to it!
It’s a relatively short game which can be completed in one sitting but it’s something I know you’d enjoy (because everyone does!)
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You wouldn’t know it from the amount of games I talk about, but I’ve got to be pretty picky with what I get. Don’t impulse buy and have a strict criteria. (With the occassional Borderlands 2 exception. :P) Unfortunately Journey doesn’t tick enough of the boxes to advance it to the front of the queue. The fact that it can be completed in one sitting doesn’t help. 😛
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Journey is one of the greatest gaming experiences you will ever have.
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Admittingly so, but it’s also a shooter, and in a shooter you never see a lot of variants in that area. Besides, there was Jack, who tried to shake things up.
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He was an excellent villain/character. Pure evil and you hated him for it.
@Strange, D.C. (but more at Strange)
“If I don’t like something, I’ll say so.” This is something I am rather familiar with >.>
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Just did a 10 minute sprint at 14km/h. Pretty sure a chestburster is trying to get out.
My heart rate monitor peaked at 213. That can’t be healthy.
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Also @D.C
I know I’m not serious 90% o the time but my wife really did say that.
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Your wife is a kind lady. 😛
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213? Yeah, that’s a little more than you should have :S
If I go for a run (uphill both ways, etc.) I peak at 180-185 max.
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Haha. Bear in mind I’m not exactly at my peak. About 6 months ago I was, I was doing 1-1.5 hour workout everyday and didn’t touch any food even slightly unhealthy. Then I let myself go again an lost all that hard work. I hate myself for it. Trying to get back to that stage but unhealthy food is soooooo hard to give up 🙁
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I hate that, man. It’s been a month since I’ve run. Can feel the progress slowly slipping through my fingers! Amazes me that I can force myself out of bed crazy early for 14 weeks and then stop. Will power! Haha!
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I remember looking at blood pressure in year 12 at school. My diastolic was something like 82(which is slightly over desired, but only slightly), and my systolic was like 148, which is Hypertension territory.
I was very confused.
oh man, why are the spyro games not on PSN?
seriously, i wanna play them on my vita sooooooooooo bad
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I’ve been wanting this for years…
Even though I have Spyro 3 on disc, I’d still give an arm and leg for the three of them on the Aussie PSN.
Getting so sick of the stupid bullshit around Windows 8. So many people reporting ‘news’ on it that is absolutely a non-issue and they haven’t bothered to take the two minutes necessary to understand anything before throwing yet another vitriolic rant up on the internet.
I don’t see what’s so hard to understand about the fact that the Win8 marketplace sells apps to run in the start screen environment (metro or whatever the fuck we call it now) and not full windows apps i.e. most PC games.
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I think it’s funny how nobody bothers to find out what Microsoft has said on the whole ‘windows will be closed in the future’ issue.
Wait, not funny, the other one.“In this light, the role of the Windows desktop is clear. It powers the hundreds of thousands of existing apps that people rely on today, a vast array of business software, and provides a level of precision and control that is essential for certain tasks. The things that people do today on PCs don’t suddenly go away just because there are new Metro style apps.”
“Why not just start over from scratch? Why not just remove all of the desktop features and only ship the Metro experience? Why not “convert” everything to Metro? The arguments for a “clean slate” are well known, both for and against. We chose to take the approach of building a design without compromise. A design that truly affords you the best of the two worlds we see today. Our perspective rests on the foundation of the open PC architecture that has proven flexible and adaptable over many significant changes in hardware capabilities and software paradigms. This is the flexibility that has served as a cornerstone through transitions in user interface, connectivity, programming models, and hardware capabilities (to name a few).”
Basically, read this, it says what Windows 8 is and removes all doubts that Microsoft wants to make Windows closed: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/08/31/designing-for-metro-style-and-the-desktop.aspx
@ Trjn – I thought Black Mirror was awesome!
I have only 3 episodes. If there are more please let me know.
I saw it as a frightening, dystopian take on where current tech trends may lead us in the not-too-distant future.
Like sughly, I think I got it on Tracey’s recommendation.
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I just watched the third episode last night. It was very good. We need more speculative fiction like that.
Day 1 patch for Dishonored on PS3. Gah.
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Ha. From today’s Cracked article on the 12 steps to build a PC.
Take your Bushmills Irish Honey whiskey into the office, close the door, put on the most esoteric Japanese neo-punk you can find and steel yourself: This is going to get weird.
This was a really, really cool read.
NSFW TAG, DRUG USE/DISCUSSION
I can’t recall who, but someone retweeted this on twitter. Some bloke decided to live-tweet his acid trip, with very affirming results.
http://chirpstory.com/li/21608
I’m glad the guy had such a positive time!
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At the half way point but this is pretty awesome!
So much green stuff :D. Sounds pretty fun to be on acid… I think I might tr… NO! BAD GREENIUS!
His grammar is surprisingly good for someone who’s high as a kite!
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It does sound fun doesn’t it? Damn my pedestrian straight-line tendencies! 😛
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Sorry, in no way was that meant as an advocation for consumption of illicit materials.
I found that spelling/grammar was fine and dandy (from memory, going back a little here) and my vocabulary had seemingly increased.
I… didn’t have an all-around superhappyfuntimes trip like this guy though 😛-
Haha it’s fine I wouldn’t even know where to get acid 😛 (OR DO I?)
I’ve heard stories of friends being on the stuff or magic shrooms and seeing corpses and weird stuff everywhere :/
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I’ve had very positive experiences with psylocibin, although LSD was a world of its own.
Not anything like corpses floating around or anything like that though.
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But is the drug use related to incentives or rewards?
@PUPPYLICKS
You wanted Brutal Legend, didn’t you? I have an unsealed copy here ready to send your way. (360)
Just shoot me an email with your address: shane at shanewsmith dot com
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Awesome man, thats very kind of you. Anything I can do to return the favour, just lemme know 🙂-
MAILED E-WISE
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Guys,
I don’t wanna jump the gun here or anything, but I think Ono is about to drop Darkstalkers at NY Comic Con.
http://p.twpl.jp/show/orig/cbWxG
Edit: Turns out it’s another HD remix bundle. Refunds for hype train tickets are non-refundable.
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Sooooo laaaaame :/
Dishonored gets a GOTY nom for having the Graphics Option “Rat Shadows”.
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“Dishonored [sic]”
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but Borderlands 2 has an ‘Extra Wubs mode’ that does ‘literally nothing’
Started downloading things in a perfectly legal manner 2 days ago, and I’ve nearly capped myself. I now have about 15GB of 150GB for the next two and a half weeks. Oops.
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That’s more than I get per month. You can do it! 😛
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Haha! Yeah, I’m with Shane, that’s more than enough! 😀
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How is everyones Friday going? It’s horribly rainy (and a bit haily) here today so I’m sitting here bundled up in the fattest jumper I could find.
I’ve also locked away my 3DS so that I get some work done today. I think I’ve got 6 hours clocked on Pokemon W2, so I need to slow down and get some other stuff done… (It’s a great game!)
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I beat Ornstein and Smough! Winnah. *Snoopy dance*
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They’re strange sounding pokemon 😛
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Yeah yeah, I know it’s not relevant, but I wanted to say it somewhere …
Hey, you be nice to me, or I might withhold certain postal items!-
Okay okay I’ll be nice 🙂 Well Powalen did ask how your friday’s going so I guess it is relevant 😛
But yes congrats on beating those two, right pain in the arse they are 🙂
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Have you played W1?
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Noice, might chase this one up then 🙂
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omg this video is so hilarious and extremely scary at the same time http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bG6uA7ln-c
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Next time a warning that it contains awful music would be appreciated. 😛
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Haha yeah it is pretty crap, I was looking up the band to begin with to see what they sounded like. Needless to say I will not be getting their music
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don’t talk to me about scary videos 😛
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First Impressions of Dishonoured….
It didn’t grab me my the horns like I thought it would. I was instantly disappointed by the graphics. The screenshots and videos looked awesome but it seems to have been designed for the lowest common denominator (read console). My first indication of this was the rather small 5GB steam download.
Secondly, I’m finding the true line of sight a bit irritating. It’s very hard to judge enemy “view cones” without the special power which reveals them. I’m playing on Hard and they enemies seem to spot me very very easily, and more importantly, very quickly. In previous similar games, you would usually get some sort of warning of a suspicious enemy, and you could hide again to avoid detection, here you can’t. And on top of that, once they are “aggroed” you cant slip into the shadows and disappear. You have to fight, die, or reload your save.
Which brings me to my final point. The shadows. I understand true line of sight, and I don’t have a problem with it (took some getting used too, but it’s not bad). The problem is that all enemies seem to have super long range night vision. There is no Thief-like light meter. So even though your crouched in “stealth mode” in a pitch black corner, enemies can still see you.
At one point I was walking along some pipes, just above head hight and no one saw me, but as soon as I jumped down into a very dark corner, ages away, hidden behind some bushes, I was spotted instantly. It’s just not logical and doesn’t make sense. I’m sure I’ll get used to it eventually, but as a first impression, its bloody annoying.
I’ve only played it for an hour or 2 and I’ve already given up on trying to do it without killing anyone (like I did in all of Splinter Cell Chaos Theory).
To be fair, I’ve only just finished the first “level” so as far as the “fun” factor goes, I haven’t seen any cool toys or powers yet. I’ll reserve my final judgements till then, but initially, it has been a bit disappointing, at least to stealth fan like me.
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I don’t feel so bad about letting this one slide for now. Sorry to hear you’re not enjoying it so much…
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It’s funny because this is the first negative I’ve seen about it. Everyone on my Twitter feed is raving about how beautiful it is, and how much attention was paid to every little detail and how much fun they’re having.
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SHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH, not listening!
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We’ll as far as I can tell my settings are all set to max, and I’m playing on a 42″ TV, but it basically looks very TF2-like. Maybe it’s just the semi cartoony style, but the videos made it look my sharper and nicer with better lighting etc.
I wouldn’t say it’s an overly negative opinion, it’s just a few very early initial gripes.
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I’m going to add to this.
– The PC controls are not great. But, Bethesda controls.
– Though I agree the graphics are not super great (plus, there’s limited ability to crank them up), I think the art/graphic style and setting does more than enough to compensate for it. This drab sort of Industrial and Depression-era world is pretty neat.
– Yet to encounter any night vision guards, but the vision cones are tricky. Stealth indication is a tricky thing to implement well (so that it feels natural as to how you move and as to how much you’re seen, and how much indication you’re given about them), and I certainly don’t have a solution to it that would solve all the issues, but this implementation is not great.Though there is certainly potential here.
I’m just happy hiding bodies, to be honest.-
Actually, Splinter Cell Conviction did it well.
The monochrome was pretty cool. By no means natural realistically, but worked really well as a game mechanic.-
Thief has always had a light meter AFAIK. simple and straight forward. That’s what I thought the ‘stealth mode” icon in the bottom left was going to be … but it’s just an icon.
All the Splinter Cells did it well. I think Chaos Theory has a light meter too (even though the goggles still glowed bright green). It’s also the guard reactions that kill me. Instead of them going “hey what’s that…. and slowly wonder over to investigate, they INSTANTLY yell “that’s him” and start shooting or running towards me, and then you can’t lose them.-
More realistic than something like Skyrim where you can murder a dude and have the guy he was talking to just shrug it off.
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That would be the other end of the scale. I haven’t played Skyrim but that would annoy me too.
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http://potaku.com/2012/10/11/who-is-your-daddy-and-what-does-he-do/
SEE IT NOW BEFORE THE EDITOR FIXES MY MISTAKES!
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I was just trying to help! 😛
I am sick and on drugs and have no tact. I did think your piece explains things well, probably should have said that before mentioning mistakes.-
Pft, don’t feel bad Strange! Everyone knows there was no malice behind your words! Well…I hope. 😛
Also, I fixed the mistakes. Well…I think. 😛
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What do you mean? It’s pretty clear from her behaviour that Strange is out to make every single one of us cry
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In fact, she’s made me cry a dozen times. ONE DOZEN!
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Very nice, you should permalink that somewhere on the site as a guideline for anyone who wants to come along and be all like “hurr I want a kotaku jerb I can wrote beetar thun dat look plunk guy’
As you all know, I’ve been using a vaporiser in lieu of cigarettes for the past fortnight or so (woot!)
I started out with a tobacco-flavoured, nicotine-enriched vegetable glycerin, which I then cut down with non-flavoured vegetable glycerin.
It’s a little touchy on the flavour/nic-hit side of things. Typically, I use 1:3 nic:non-nic mix, although that leaves very little flavour.
I guess you could call it ‘subtle’ :S
Anyways, I went and bought some flavoured juice, along with some non-flavoured, nicotine-enriched juice too.
It’s… really strong! The flavours I’ve tried so far are ‘espresso’ (tastes like anus… worst coffee in the damned world) and ‘chai tea’ (which is wonderful, and tastes how you’d expect!).
I think the most exciting bit about this is not only have I done away with cigarettes (I know it’s still early days, but why be apprehensive about it? I AM a non-smoker), but I’m always doing away with the psychological reliance on the taste of tobacco, too.
Huzzah! \o/
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Awesome, dude. Really proud of you. I hear it’s a hard thing to give up.
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Thanks man!
Previous attempts were really, REALLY grating.
This time ’round, I’m still maintaining the addiction, just switching the vessel/MoA essentially. Making things far easier, as I don’t have to deal with withdrawals on top of everything else 😀-
Oh yeah, I got that. Still awesome.
Wondering: is your ultimate plan to tone down the addiction too?-
Eventually (no timeframe as such) yes. I started smoking because of the headrush among other things. I no longer get that, I’m at the point that all I’m doing is maintaining a functional front. If I don’t have nicotine currently, I get headaches, shakes, it’s just not pleasant.
I’ve not had any issue with that for ages now (it was a HUGE issue when I was underage. Now it’s just whenever I fly, which should be fine with the vaporiser methinks), but it’s still a worry. “What if I don’t have enough cigarettes to get me through ’til the shops open tomorrow?” has turned into “do my batteries have enough charge in them? Do I have enough glycerin in the tank?”.I see that as an unnecessary apprehension, and one that I’d ultimately like to rid myself of. As for right this moment though, I’m happy where I’m at 😀
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I’m very happy to hear this! 🙂
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Aleph, you truly are the king of kings! Way to go!
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SALUTE!
Shane, I was thinking about your game-swap lending system thing. Unfortunately for you, most of my games are PS3 because that’s what I’ll go for whenever I have a choice but I’m willing to participate. People could post what games they’d like to borrow or lend and other people could respond. For instance, I have a lot of games but there’s a fair few I wouldn’t want to lend out so I could post 5 or 6 that I’m willing to lend so that I don’t have a great amount of lent out games to keep track of. And other people could put their hands up for what I’ve got or post their own lists of what they’re looking for that others could respond to. Maybe we could even use Doc and Shiggy’s Potaku site for something like this?
Edited to make slightly more sense. 😛
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I’d love to join in! I can offer a couple X360 games, though I’d urge everyone to try to source them from other TAYbies because postage costs and time delays.
And AusPost.
Screw AusPost.But yeah, I’ll make a list tonight 😀
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I’m happy to co-ordinate lists if people want to send them to me. I’ll make one big Excel sheet and chuck it into Google Docs ala TAYNAMES so that people can edit it as we gain participants, games, and as games go in and out.
Thoughts?
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So first question you get in the new pokemon game is “hey do you want a pokemon? Yes or no?”. Errrr…. no? Wtf would I want that for.
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I’ve always wanted a non-standard game over for answering no to those questions…
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Haha, but instead she goes ‘Whaaaat! I’m sure you do! Do you want a pokemon, yes or no?’. I SAID NO MUM GEEZ! Talk about a parent enforcing their will upon the children.
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Drawn to Life on the DS did that.
You’re a deity and a young kid prays for your help, if you respond ‘yes’ then the game begins, if you respond ‘no’ then the kid says ‘well I guess that settles it then,’ and the screen fades to black and its game over.Brilliant
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ARE YOU A BOY OR GIRL??
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No seriously, I have never met you, Sughly. I don’t know.
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I am a Goy! And a Birl!
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My current Black 2 Pokemon party:
My trainer name is Pants, my rival is Powalen.
My starter is Oshawott (Tadmod, we have a history of naming our starters after each other and it’s totally not lame!), Riolu (#35), Mareep (GirlGerms) and Lillipup (Puppylicks, this one was a no-brainer).
I’m naming all my Pokemon after TAYbies. Is gonna be goooood.
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Haha! #35 is totally a Riolu. Even more so once it evolves.
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I… I don’t even know those pokeymans.
15(0/1/2) or bust!/o\
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15(0/1/2) or bust!😀
*Holy sheet. 649. :S
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I use default names for Pokemen…
But my rival is called Gluteus, because I decided that calling him “penis” or “butt” was too immature.
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I used to just leave them as the defaults … then I started the nuzlocke challenge and got attached. My rival was normally called Derek … don’t know why, but that’s just the default name I give to everything
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I’M A POKEMON!
THATS SO BOSS
http://potaku.com/2012/10/11/who-is-your-daddy-and-what-does-he-do/
So we launched the Potaku site. Hopefully the above link explains what we’re trying to do and how that ties into TAY and Kotaku.
What we need from you guys is support. Share your thoughts and ideas for contributions, comment on articles, write articles and generally treat it as an extra bit of TAY. Also, don’t think of it as Doc and Shiggy’s thing. The reason Potaku.com exists is so you guys can play a bigger part and, after attending the EB Expo as media, we’d like some of you guys to have a go at stuff like that.
People here do some amazing, creative and interesting stuff and there are so many spin-offs and side projects and I’m hoping Potaku.com can be a central hub for as much of that as possible. So if you’re doing some TAY thing and want to do a weekly round-up, or post updates on projects, please please PLEASE shoot us an email!
Also, if you guys have the time, reading and commenting would be greatly appreciated.
WE NEED YOU!
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I wrote a thing about Canadian game prices at work. It’s somewhere floating in TAY.
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… Do I have to do everything? http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/10/talk-amongst-yourselves-188/comment-page-7/#comment-824115
It’s easy to remember that it’s on Page Seven, because it was in the D.C. Ketchup where he forgot that Page Six was part of the day.
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Lost to the ages of time.
Like sands through the hourglass.
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Congrats with the launch of the site!
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oooh shiny, I like how it’s got the TAYbies name list thingy. I always knew I’d end up on a blog/most wanted list *sighs contently* If it turns into nothing but a warehouse of Arnie, it shall still be the greatest website known to humanity!
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You can put my Dishonoured first impressions up there if you like. Or if you’re interested I can re-write it as a proper article.
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If you have the time, do it as an article and sent it to Editor[at]Potaku.com (Alex Pants) and he’ll do what needs done! 😀
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@Shane
I have a rather large catalog of games, but the only thing that may stop me from participating is price of postage =(
Also, a few special editions of games (SotC and Ico) I probably won’t lend out but others like Fable III and Alan wake I can send in their normal game cases
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That would be a help on my part. I imagine I would be the one lending games rather then borrowing them.
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Dishonored is stressing me out in the best way possible. Trying to do a Hitman-like, Silent Assassin playthrough. Hasn’t gone well. Keep reloading every time I kill someone. Think I might just accept the inevitable and play without the stress. People are gonna die, ain’t all that much I can do about it. 😛
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Just run around with the upgraded sleep darts. Is that an enemy? Doesn’t matter, they’re unconscious! Should I stealth through here? Doesn’t matter, they’re unconscious! And so on and so forth.
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There’s no penalty for it either.
In DX:HR I think you got more experience KO’ing people rather than killing them making us stealth enthusiasts more inclined to stick with being a ninja, but I don’t think it’s the case in this game. The only measure of progress seems to be bought with Coins.-
But there’s the chaos system. CCCCHHHAAAAOOOOSSSS!!!!!!!
Though it seems to me that if you’re murdering everyone, extra rats and infected people won’t make a huge difference. Since you’ll just murder them.
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I want his hands to be clean, don’t care if I’m rewarded or not. Haha! I have been using the darts, though!
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What is everyone doing?
Sometimes I’m not sure if I’m just feeling really lazy, or genuinely unwell due to the tooth.
It’s quite confusing, which wears me out even more.
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I am sitting here, wondering what I can write to make up for the fact that I didn’t update my blog yesterday…
Maybe I should Pokemon while I think…
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Do it catch all the pokemans. Old man nob commands it.
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Well, I just can’t say no to Old Man Nob.
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Why don’t you write a blog post on pokemon, while you pokemon, … I’m not even going to finish that =P
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You should write a post about old man knob and what it means to you
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Eating pizza and catching up on TAY. Produtive. Also haven’t read the articles on the front page today, so will get to that soon. The Obsidian kickstarter screenshot looks amazing!
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I read the Serrels’ articles. I just kind of looked at the others.
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Hey Scree!
I am eating morning tea/breakfast. Counting down the time until I can pokemans/Dishonored/Xcom.
Is your tooth getting better? At least you got into the dentist next week.
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I should have lunch. Because I feel like crap. \o/
And no, it’s not getting better. It kept me up last night.Lucky you! I wish i had pokeymans. It’s okay though, I’ll just play harvest moon. I can water crops now \o/
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PRESS THE ‘X’ BUTTON! Also yay for being able to actually play your wii! =D
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Top o the morn to thee, fair Scree. Today is a thrilling, whirlwind adventure of running a help desk for me and then go home, have some whiskey and either play from dust or trials evolution, Tomorrow I get to meet the voice actor for Mario at Armageddon and then I shall get a churro in celebration.
So how long has the tooth pain lasted? I know you said you can’t get to see a dentist till next week. Would a hug make you feel better?
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Have fun at Armageddon. Tell me what it’s like. I went to it about 5 years ago and the most featured thing was the wrestling.
How is running a help desk going? Run into any silly people yet?The toothache has been going since Thursday night, last week, so, not fun.
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🙁 I’m sorry you’re still dealing with this tooth ache thing. There’s large chunks of Mass Effect 3 I couldn’t enjoy because of the horrible wisdom pain earlier this year. Wouldn’t wish that on any one. Sooner you get it fixed, the better friend! 😀
(Last time I’ll plug this, I swear, but be sure to check out the Space Pyrates booth in Artist Alley. I went to uni with Matt! They’re awesome! Tell ’em Dan from Brisbane sent you. :P)
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Wisdom tooth pain is the worst. Trust me, if it were a wisdom tooth i would be in a hospital on morphine. Was your tooth infected? It makes it so much worse.
I can’t go because I’m not going to armageddon
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Wasn’t infected, but was impacted which was horrible! Haha!
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Lieing (lying?) in bed trying to keep warm, while Pokemoning. Its so ridiculously cold here today. Apparently its snowing just 20 mins up the hill.
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The one in brackets is correct.
It’s cold down here as well. I blame the snow.-
I never know which is which.
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lieing isn’t a word. Lying is used for both lying in bed and lying through your teeth. Never get it wrong again!
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Passion for correct English is awesome. 🙂
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Ma’am, yes Ma’am *salute
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I am trying to discover the root cause of an intermittent test failure.
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That sounds…like fun.
I think i’d rather the toothache/dizziness/generally feeling crap
Good luck though
I’m about to have lunch (leftover pasta from… multiple nights ago. I cooked 5+ serves accidentally :P), then I plan on working on assignments for as long as I can hold out. THEN, I will be Pokemoning!
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Extra pasta serves is the best plan. No idea why mum doesn’t- oh right, we don’t have room in the fridge.
Good luck on the assignments. I know it’ll be hard when all you’re thinking of is pokemons.
I’m at work, sourcing HR art of agricultural machinery.
Is quite interesting because heavy machinery is badass.
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I have no idea what it is, but if you’re enjoying it then yay!
i’ve been feeling lazy due to my 2 weeks of being sick, but now i’m finishing my last assignment then it shall be mass game time for all!
I have become hopelessly addicted to Last Stand mode on Dawn of war 2 retribution
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that is good thing yes?
Does anyone know much about gaming headsets? What makes headphones with a mic, “gaming” anyway? What do you think is good value for one? How do the headsets that say they work with PC/360/PS4 actually work anyway, considering they all have different inputs? Which input would I plug the headset into for PC – mic or earphones? What brand is decent? Do retail stores greatly overcharge for them?
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Are you looking at a console headset, or for PC?
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PC. I don’t think I’d ever want to chat to people over console, the little I am exposed to it is more than enough -_-
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I use Sennheiser HD598 headphones, and have a Logitech C920 for video and mic capability.
Not a headset per se, but it fits my needs wonderfully.I hear Turtle Beach is the way to go for integrated mic/headphone sets?
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The difference between a regular and gaming headset is that a gaming headset offers a +90% chance of hearing a derogatory racial slur or something about your mother. Hardly worth the money.
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Turns out my brother plays CoD multi on PS3.
Holy shit, I’ve never been barraged with foul words by 12yos in such a small window of time before.
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It’s worth noting that the gaming headset will include this additional service as part of the price. You get what you pay for.
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I have a Turtlebeach X11 (X12 has since replaced that) and I love it. about $70 and i have it hooked up so that my PC can use it for music/games and also voice chat, and without unplugging anything, I can ALSO use it on the same monitor so that I can hear xbox games and talk via XBL.
It has a direct line feed from the controller to the mic so that XBL chat works.. I can explain the rest of my set up, but I’d start with that one dude. really worth the money.
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$70 sounds reasonable! A quick peruse gave me prices ranging from $50 – $300 and I had no idea what I could be possibly getting out of it.
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Bloody buggering bastards. I can’t access Google Documents from work. Can someone please upload the TAYGameLending document to it if I email it your way?
Edited for manners.
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Only if you answer me three riddles, obtain the Lightning stick of Brad Pitt, and travel several leagues to ask the Guru if we can ask him a question.
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Blue, seven, and he’s his own father.
That’s a euphemism, right? I tried to take it, but he’d only lend it to me.
We can travel the Rugby League, WNBL and the League of Bush Pigs, but no further. What’s the question?-
That’s the question we ask ourselves every day.
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Is that a yes? 😛
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Melbourne TAYbies.
Imma be at the Tivoli in Prahran tomorrow for Oktoberfest.
Needless to say many beers (and schnapps and bratwurst and saurkraut) will be consumed and much shenanigans will be had. All are welcome 😀
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Ooooh … that is very tempting. If I have money left over after armageddon, I’ll tag along and have some drinks
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I also agree with this sentiment, as I will be there, and I will drink beer, and as many others as possible should be there to join us!
3DSXL, POKEMON and DISHONORED GET!!!
All up, came to about $300, can’t really complain about that
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I hope I’m not completely responsible for you getting a 3DSXL and pokemon
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\o/
Hermes, how’s the master race thing working for you? Dishonored end up running properly?
Found Cricket 97 and got it working on DOSBox.
I couldn’t be happier right now…
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And now I’ve found Cricket 96 after all these years of wanting to play it again!
\o/ -
shane warne cricket 99 on ps1
the BEST cricket game ever
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As much as I enjoyed Shane Warne Cricket, the batting was damn near impossible, and fielding was a pain.
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@Puppylicks – it’s a very good thing.
Does anyone have DoW Retribution and want to jump into it with me this weekend for some last stand action?!
Maybe i’ll finally get past wave 10… damn them Eldar are soooooo difficult!
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I’ve never played it (still to install retribution) but maybe.
Will probably depend on if I go to Armageddon or not-
Well that’s not the answer i wanted *glare*
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Hell yeah!
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good man!
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Dear fellow TAYbians,
For a long time, I have lamented my languishing gaming budget, as – I’m sure – many of you have as well. After many moons of angst and anguish, it dawned on me that as a collective, the spending power of a group like TAY is larger than that of an individual. I know, pretty revelatory, huh?
Anyway, what that means is that we can celebrate our diverse taste in games by sampling from the collections of the more eclectic and hectic collectors among us (say that five times fast).
Anyway, it is with great pleasure that I present to you the TAYL(end) of Games library!
This Google document should be accessible to anyone who has the link. Update it with games you have available to lend, games you want to borrow (yep, there’s a wishlist feature), contact details, and mind the conditions on the front page. (Please don’t get silly with it, or I’ll have to lock the document down, and I don’t want to do that.)
Putting games up does not impose an obligation to lend. Please respect the owner’s decision if they choose not to lend a game to you.
Thanks everyone. Namaste.
Sincerely,
Shane (aka “Shane” aka “aka Shane”)
PS: I’ll be reposting this regularly, but let other TAY folk know. This will work best with a big group of participants.
PPS: I still can’t really get into Google Docs. Can someone confirm the link is working and you have edit permissions? 😛
PPPS: I guess I’m running this show for the moment. Enjoy!
PPPPS: EDITING THE DOCUMENT
Try this please.
1. FILE/OPEN WITH “Google Spreadsheets”
(You may need to be signed into Google/Gmail)
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Link is working, buddy. You’re a good guy, Shane!
I’ll include the link in the SmurfyDog brief too! 😛
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I have no idea what that means, but thank you! You’re not so bad yourself /bromance
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I think it means he’ll put the link in the TAY catch-up write-up thingy that he does.
And I checked out the document. Looks good. I especially like the cheap postage info. Very handy. I wish I had one of those games you wanted though. 🙁
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I’m trying not to look too far and wide for games at the moment. I have so much writing to do 😛
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A noble effort, my good man. Perhaps it might be easier to list where people live so that meat-ups could potentially be arranged instead of spending a precious 2 dollars + return?
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Contact page has “state of residence” – not sure how much more detail you want to put into a publicly accessible document…
Edit: happy if you want to amend that to city/state/region whatever.
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pft, blind, just noticed it. I don’t have any physical copies of games but all the same I hope this turns out to be a huge success.
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Great work Shane! I’m not sure if I just doing it wrong but I can’t seem to add my details and games for rent…
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Yeah it doesn’t seem to be publicly editable at the moment.
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Hmmm, I’m just starting the horrendously slow logon process, and I’ll take a look and see what’s going on. I think I set the permissions okay…
If you’re still having trouble, email the deets to me and I’ll assimilate them tonight. shane at shanewsmith dot com (that goes for anyone/everyone)
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http://tinyurl.com/TAYLEND
New URL.
Now to demystify this editing thing. -
By the way, I’m happy to lend to people who don’t have anything of their own to put up for lending. As long as I know them from here/Twitter. I don’t really feel like listing games I’m willing to lend out yet but I’ll trawl the games wanted section often to see if I can help. So I guess I’m saying I don’t mind if people want to put stuff on the ‘Wanted’ page without having stuff on the ‘Available’ page. But I’m not running it so I guess it’s up to you. 🙂
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I have no problem with this.
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You’re a good egg, Strange 😀
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Okay, can someone try this to edit the document please
http://support.google.com/docs/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1110965
1.Click the link
in your emailto open your doc in Google Docs.
2.Click Download.
3.Open the doc in Microsoft Office.
4.Make any edits. When you’re done, click Sync. After your changes have been synced with Google Docs, all other editors will be able to sync those changes back down to their versions of the doc.(Or this:
1. FILE/OPEN WITH “Google Spreadsheets”)-
I went to do this for you and then realised I don’t have MS Office. I’m sure someone else is already doing it though.
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http://tinyurl.com/KOTAKU-TAY-LEND
Can you try this link please? Shouldn’t need Office at all… hopefully.-
“We’re sorry. This is not a valid spreadsheet URL.” 🙁
Edit: Should have scrolled down before replying. 😛
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What about the original link and FILE/OPEN WITH “Google Spreadsheets
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This is an awesome idea Shane. Unfortunately, most of my games are on PC which presents a problem. I do have a few Wii and DS games that I’d be willing to put up for loan though.
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Is PC a problem? I have no problem with it…
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I thought most of their installation/activation codes only worked once? Maybe I’m wrong
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I know nothing. It’d certainly be okay for older games!
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I would think it would be unwise to publish a game you can only install once. What if your computer dies and you need a new one? What if you have to uninstall due to hard disk space? You have to repurchase all your games? Unfair, surely.
Most recent game I installed was Unreal Tournament 2004. It had a serial code, but you could reuse that ad infinitum.
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Welcome to PC gaming! You’re viewed as a thief and must be punished with DRM, logic be damned! 😛
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I think it’s more so that a lot of PC games now have a single product key that would only work on one install at a time and could cause issues for the original owners, unlike consoles that tend to just run straight off the disk without any serial keys needed
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But if you lend a PC game, you wouldn’t be playing it at the same time, so a one-install-at-a-time thing wouldn’t be problematic, would it?
Maybe I don’t understand 🙂
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Depends how horrific the DRM is, also a whole lot of new releases are linked to your Steam or GfWL account. :'( Then there’s 5 install limits. Not a good time to be a PC gamer on the DRM front.
(Oh, man. I’ve been saying DLC instead of DRM. I’m an idiot.)
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Definitely agree you should be careful lending PC games then~!
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PS: Looks like you need a Gmail/Google account to have this option.
*headdesk*
I’ll sort it out later.
Gah. I was hoping this would be ready to go by the weekend, but doesn’t look like it. I guess the official launch can be postponed until Monday.
FINAL ASSIGNMENT FINISHED OH MY GOD YES HIGH FIVES FOR ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL
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Way to go, Grandmaster. Feeling less sick too, I hope? (That goes for Strange as well!)
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yeah i’m fully over it now which is nice, luckily the doc said it wasnt glandular fever, but he gave me some antibiotics and i’m good as new now 🙂
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\o/ all round, then! 😀
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Pokemon question, do any of you guys ever use your master ball? I don’t think I’ve ever used mine in any of the games. It’s like in RPGs where I hold off using an item in case I need it later but then I finish the game and never end up using it. I keep thinking I’ll save my master ball for a legendary but then I just spam ultra balls to catch all the legendaries.
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I do. Because I’m impatient
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Scrolling quickly through, I misread that as you were pregnant. 😛
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I occasionally use, but only ever on roaming legendaries, like Entei/Raikou/Suicune or Azelf/Uxie/Mesprit. If its a stationary like Mewtwo/Kyogre/Dialga etc then I just save before, spam ultra balls and reset if I kill/miss it.
Okay, forget the mess up above. Can someone please try this
http://tinyurl.com/KOTAKU-TAY-LEND
Should go straight into edit mode. Thanks.
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“We’re sorry.
That is not a valid spreadsheet URL. “ -
Nope, sorry Shane 🙁
Says it isn’t a valid doc.We’re sorry.
That is not a valid spreadsheet URL.
Find out more at the Google Docs Help Center.
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F**#$%#%^$^&%*^&(*&*^&*^#$%#@!$!@^%$%$*)
(edited for grammar)
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Okay. What about the original link and then:
1. FILE/OPEN WITH “Google Spreadsheets-
Yep, that seems to work
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\o/
/o\ <– exhausted collapse.
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Nearly finished all my work for the month \o/
One week break next week \o/
No one from Sydney available to meet while I’m there apparently. /o\
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Obviously you’re just gonna have to hunt down all the Sydney TAYbies and force them to accompany you for a drink.
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Gotta catch them all!
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Haha! Last weeks EB Expo thing was a logistical nightmare on the meat front by the sounds of it, so maybe their reputation as meaters for the ages has been exaggerated. 😛
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Us Brisbane folk have always been more organised than Sydney folk…and that’s saying something! 😛
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It’s really not saying much.
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I WILL!
I’m in the city most days because uni and books and education and learning and whatnot.
And.
And.
And.…I’m super tired right now.
Dishonored has an absolutely gripping setting. I think that from the couple of hours I’ve played, I enjoyed just walking around and observing things almost as much as the stabbity.
Best description I’ve heard for it is ‘not steampunk, whalepunk’.
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I like the slow burn story too. Advanced through detail and observation instead of cutscenes!
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I just loved how much you could infer from the short little boat ride at the very beginning.
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I played that four times, just to look at the skyline! 😀
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Did you see the whale suspended over the deck of the whaler somewhere behind you? That kind of detail really sold it for me.
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Goddamnit guys I’m trying NOT to buy this game 😛
@Loops, count me in for DoW2 stuff, I’ve only played as the chaos sorcerer before, so looking forward to starting to use other races.
Has TAY stopped for anyone else or is it just that quiet?
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I was wondering the same thing! Even tried editing and posting in threads above to see if it was hanging again.
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Ok, glad it’s not just me then…was starting to feel that ‘last man on earth’ vibe…very not cool
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It’s been doing the whole “Won’t update until you post yourself” again for me today
Damnit OzGameshop! >:(
Dishonored was $44 a few days ago, it was $45 when I checked yesterday and now it’s $47.
Not cool, man. Not cool.
I know it’s only a few dollars and I know they’re a business but raising the prices like that isn’t fun for the consumer :(. I wasn’t super into the game until a few days ago when I was riding the HYPE TRAIN with everyone else but I’m beginning to have more doubts about getting it now. To be honest I’m really keen on the art style but haven’t seen much of the game itself. I’m sure it’ll be good though but I just read Inquis’ impressions on the last page and I keep having a feeling that it’ll be a bit short.
I did just get POOOGEYMANGS WHYTE TOO and BL2’s DLC comes out real soon so I guess it’s a sign that I shouldn’t buy more games :).
There’s also assignments and exams coming up soon but… shhh…
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It sort of plays like a mix between Thief and BioShock. I’ve loved it so far, but it’ll keep! 😀
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Personally it feels like Deus Ex: Steampunk Edition
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I’ve never played Thief and I’ve only played BioShock for a few hours when it first came out (rented it) but I enjoyed the few hours I’ve played of the original Deus Ex and the whole ‘steampunk’ style/design is one of my favourites :O
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But wasn’t Deus Ex originally Thief: Cyberpunk edition? 😛
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Hi TAYbies.
…yeah. I’ve got nothing interesting to contribute.
I’m really bad at this today.
…so yeah. Hi. whats been happening ’round these here parts?
…*shuffles off awkwardly*
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Hey man! Hope life’s treating you good and proper!
What’s happening around these parts?
SMURFYDOG’S PRE-EMPTIVE TAY CATCH UP BRIEF 12/10/2012
(Might start calling this THE STATE OF TAY next week. :P)Shane has set an awesome game lend/swap concept into motion. This was discussed a bit and folks seem to be on board. Could be the makings of something special! (The guy’s also sending Brutal Legend to Puppy Licks, class act all round it seems!) It’s the day after the release of Dishonored and Pokemon, both have been a source of some solid hands-on ramblings. Inquisitorsz pondered some detailed thoughts on Dishonored of the note worthy kind. Aleph’s on week two without a cigarette, he elaborates on his progress! (The man’s doing well!) Potaku’s website launched and Doc’s put out a call for content, also outlined their editorial policy and how they differ from Kotaku. Scree still has a tooth ache. Hugo is now a proud owner of a 3DSXL! Puppy Licks will be celebrating Oktoberfest.
The mythical Snacktaku proves elusive to this day! Have a damn good weekend everyone! Sughly’s got a Brisbane meat on tomorrow night too, in case you’ve forgotten! A couple of TAYbies are also going to Melbourne’s Armageddon Expo this weekend as well!
Now you know and knowing is half the battle!
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these summaries are just amazingly helpful 🙂
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Not to mention just plain awesome.
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Again you forgot to mention D.C. related news 😛
Dan went to uni with Matt from _____? (fill in the gaps D.C.!) and they’ll be at Armageddon. So say hello and tell em Dan sentcha!
Inb4 “I don’t recall that. :P”
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Space Pyrates!
And I don’t recall that. 😛
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DC, as someone who is often very busy at work during the day, I must say that your summaries are bloody fantastic. Thank you 😀
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Haha! No problem, man. 🙂
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Thanks for this again DC!
@ Aleph – great to hear the e-cig is working out for you.
@ Scree – When are you able to see a dentist?
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I want Dishonored.
LET ME LOVE YOU, DISHONORED. LET ME LOVE YOU.
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There is much hype, I’m not totally convinced yet tho.
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…but the stabby!
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Thanks to Splicer, we now have 40 games on the lending list.
TAYbies unite!
Step 1. Log in to Google/Gmail/Google Docs
Step 2. http://tinyurl.com/TAYLEND
Step 3. File/Open With ‘Google Spreadsheet’
Step 4. Add games.
Step 5. ???
Step 6. Profit.
Step 7. Find $10, profit more.
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I still only see around 25 and just basic details by you 😛
Btw what’s this about the postage? I know I’ve (my dad :P) has been using that prepaid satchel crap for when I sold games on eBay, but it’s pretty expensive. I had no idea it could be as cheap as like $1.80 + envelope (however much that is).
Great idea though and good job with it :). I’ve never posted anything and don’t know too much about it but otherwise I’d be happy to lend/borrow.
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Yeah…did the spreadsheet attachment I sent you work, Shane?
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Got the details man, and then I entered them manually into the google spreadsheet. No idea what’s going on. Investigating now! 🙂
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Man, you have the patience of a saint!
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Living, learning, etc 🙂
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Nooo, I spent ages adding Splicer’s details in. What’s going on?
Also, yeah, prepaid satchels are a ripoff. You can buy about 100 C5 envelopes for $5 (or steal them from work like I do), stick three stamps on the front, and you’re good to go. Never failed me yet (though I don’t think I’ve tried to post really heavy (tin or multi-multi-disc sets yet).
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Gah, I’ll have to check when I get home. Goshderned thing.
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@NovaCascade RE Lying, lieing….
Shouldnt that read “Laying”?
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I don’t believe laying is a real word. But that might just be me. Lying is the/a correct term for being in a generally-comfortable horizontal position 🙂
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Lay/laid/lying.
EDIT: As I lay here/I laid there/ I am lying here
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Laying is a real word if you’re a hen laying an egg, isn’t it?
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At a primary school to pick up my son, nothin suss, I can confirm gangnam style’s sexy lady has been replaced by chicken gravy. Errr… that is all. Carry on.
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That songs street cred it plummeting by the day. 😛
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I dunno man, Chicken gravy has a pretty good ring to it
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I haven’t had a coffee since Tuesday morning. Surprisingly, I’m only on my third cup of tea for the day and haven’t had any other sources of caffeine.
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You got the shakes, man?
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No. That’s the weird thing, I feel pretty much exactly the same. Not even the headaches that normally come when I cut myself off.
Have been drinking a lot of chocolate milk though.
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😀 That’s good to hear. I always vow to quit drinking the Pepsi, but then think of the headaches. :S
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I find when I try and give up Coke Zero I don’t so much get headaches, but I do get cravings for the bitey fizz aspect you get from Coke that no other drink really has. I drink at least two cans a day, more in Summer.
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So, I got to come home a day early, as the people I was housesitting for did the same(cue me rushing around frantically attempting to clean things up), so I restarted Dishonored(on the hardest difficulty).
I played through the first level, I knocked lots of people out, and sneaked past a moderate number.
I hit the end, and it comes up with “1 Person killed.”
HOW? WHAT DID I DO? WHY AM I SO BAD?
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This will terrify you, but once I back tracked through a level and found rats killing someone I knocked out. 😐
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Yep, this. It’s annoying. I usually try and put people in dumpsters. In the game, not in real life…
ahem…awkward-
I think it was the guy I put in a dumpster who died… Not really sure though.
Replayed it in essentially the same way, one body was discovered, but I didn’t kill anyone, so GOOD ENOUGH!
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So you just leave them out in the open in real life, right?
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Don’t ya hate that?
Did Deus Ex:HR as a pacifist, knocked out some dudes for a quest in the main hub early on, did a ton of stuff, came back and found they had died, presumably of exposure 😐
Was about 20 hours in and had no save before that quest 🙁Edit: at least Dishonored has stats that say how many you have killed.
Enjoy the rest of Friday, folks. Kudos to the relevant person. Toodlepipski to everyone.
Also, do this please.
Step 1. Log in to Google/Gmail/Google Docs
Step 2. http://tinyurl.com/TAYLEND
Step 3. File/Open With ‘Google Spreadsheet’
Step 4. Add games.
Step 5. ???
Step 6. Profit.
Step 7. Find $10, profit more.
Edit: Cancelled until I can figure out Google docs.
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Have a good weekend, buddy!
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What this guys says!
Only more!
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Shane I have a pretty huge list. What should I do? ;_;
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If you can’t update the spreadsheet manually, email me with the list and i can do it! 🙂
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@Techy – sounds good, man – i play as a space marine captain – i’m leveling him up before i start on others
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Awesome! We need one more or we’re stuck with a random 😛
Is everyone still here?
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I’m kinda here…grumblegrumblemobileTAYgrumble
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Once the daily brief is done, there’s to be no more talking. 😛
‘sup Crazyguy? Still crazy?
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Still crazy as ever…
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Never change! 😀
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For another hour. Then home and no pants! \o/
Then out to a friend’s place, probably with pants /o\
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I’m still here!
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We meet again… old friend. Two sides of the same leaf. One male, one female. Who will win…
I finished my work \o/ …for today /o\ But now Pokemon! \o/
(I really have to find something else to talk about. This game consumes me!) How about that local sports team?
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We’ve all got our vices, man. 70% of my posts today has been Dishonored related. 😛
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I prefer Gigalith myself, such a badass 🙂
Do you have a preferred Pokemon type, I don’t think I align myself to a particular type, Grass Type maybe? But Dragon types are super badass too 🙂-
Powalen loves the bugs 😛
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Hah, I’ve said this before but Bug type is by far my favourite. I’m playing through this game with just Bug types in fact (ditched my starter :P)
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Did you go SmugLeaf? If so, can I have it? 🙂
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Yeah bug types are cool too, had a Scolipede in B1 for a good while, he was my poison go-to guy 🙂
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“die_caterpie_die” 😛
never realised that was the file name!
Pokefriends!
I’m curious about something in the menus and I have no idea what it does :P. In the bag menus and options there’s a little box on the touch screen next to the “sort” button. It’s sort of like a box and a tick appears when you tap it. There’s also a “X/cancel” next to it.
What the heck is this tick for!?
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The tick sets something to your quick-select menu (which you use by pressing Y outside of battle). Like registering in previous games, but not limited to Key Items.
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Wahhh really!? So I can use a Repel with a click of a button? This was something I was hoping for in a Pokegame for ages! (or some sort of auto Repel).
But the tick seems to be at the bottom of the screen, not specific to each item.
(I’m not playing the game now so I’m just describing stuff off memory, could be wrong though :P)
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So D.C, now that you’ve won Kudos your last step to conquering Kotaku is to attend a Meat. 😛
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That’s his kudos prize! 😀
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First we gotta find him though!
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I feel all weird now. Haha!
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/10/community-kudos-101/comment-page-1/#comment-828709
In case you missed it.
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It’s been a while since we’ve had a character account here!
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OMG THERE ARE FOUR MORE IN OTHER ARTICLES D:
I won’t bother linking them all as the 1 link per comment would make it a bit spammy but I can if others are interested 😛
Articles are:
What Are You Playing…
Question Time: Ron…
Tell Us Dammit: Borderlands…
The Climb: How…Was curious to whether it was a once off or a crazy Plainview triumphant return, so I Googled his name :P. I think there was another guy who posted long rambly stuff too under a different name a few months ago…
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Well, they’re certainly referencing Plainview. “VIEWED IN PLAINS” and all that.
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Ha ha ha! That is just… wow!
Where’s the summary? I missed today an there’s no summary. 🙁
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Oh. I see how it is. DC wins kudos for it and runs.
Well then…
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You get a summary! You get a summary! Everyone gets a summary!
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That was a page and 3.5 hours ago which is a billion in TAY years.
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Haha! True enough! The night stuff is never capped as well. :S
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SMURFYDOG’S PRE-EMPTIVE TAY CATCH UP BRIEF 09/10/2012
Slow day on the TAY front for the most part:
— Scree has not seen a dentist yet, but she returned money someone left at the ATM and earned our respect. (Not that she didn’t have it already.)
— Possible Brisbane meats were discussed, seems there’s lots of possibilities but nothing definitive yet.
— Puppy Licks organized a fight for the ages using the last weapons we’ve used in games, entertaining and educational.
— Neg informed us that Borderlands 2 DLC is imminent!
— Shane and Strange both had to deal with kids who were feeling sick, we all wished ’em a speedy recovery!
— The horribleness of the human race was discussed from time-to-time. Potaku E3 Expo video on front page! Lambo hasn’t updated us on the headache front. We hope he’s okay.
— No Snacktaku, alas. :'(Now you know and knowing is half the battle!
SMURFYDOG’S PRE-EMPTIVE TAY CATCH UP BRIEF 10/10/2012
— Fat Shady generously gifted a copy of Trials, cementing his reputation as a damn good guy. (If ever there was any doubt!)
— Trjn and the gang discussed politics, more specifically Julia Gillard’s speech and the coverage it has since gained.
— NovaCascade got a job! A good one too! We all congratulated him, because he’s awesome! (Apparently resembles Potter too, so don’t want to get on his wrong side!)
— The horribleness of people was rambled about again in an IT context this time.
— Loops continues to be awesome at the Warhammer 40k thing, he’s painting them like a trooper!
— Lambo hurt his elbow and had a gender neutral dream.
— Bish deconstructed the state of gaming in Canada!
— Brisbane meat was contemplated, looking like there will be one this weekend!
— The eBook Humble Bundle sale was praised! D.C. wrote the longest, most rambling of recaps on TAY.Edited in: I compartmented page six into yesterday for some reason:
— Sughly also got Radiohead tickets! A valiant effort, no doubt!
— A whole lot of Melbourne folks are going to the Armageddeon expo. (Including some pals who’ll be at the Space Pyrates booth in Artist Alley!)
— It was Strange’s third anniversary too, they celebrated in style at a Steak BBQ place!Now you know and knowing is half the battle…
SMURFYDOG’S PRE-EMPTIVE TAY CATCH UP BRIEF 11/10/2012
— For starters, it’s totally TechKnight’s birthday. Wasn’t too long ago he was just a prototype on the ol’ assembly line! Sentience suits him too, I’ve got to say!
— Dishonored and the new Pokemon game were released today, so lots of anticipation on that front. (JB Hifi were selling XCOM early too!)
— Shane made his triumphant return after being sick, Dark Souls discussion soon ensued as expected!
— Greenius was pressing on with his assignment good and proper!
— New Potaku EB Expo clip, this time with Charles Martinet. (The voice of Mario!)
— Zetrox and Shane bonded on their writing. Zetrox also sent out the call for some illustrators to help him out with his children’s book!
— Sughly wants confirmations for his Brisbane meat.
— Strange is feeling sick, but optimistic!
— Freeze got a promotion!Now you know and knowing is half the battle…
SMURFYDOG’S PRE-EMPTIVE TAY CATCH UP BRIEF 12/10/2012
(Might start calling this THE STATE OF TAY next week. :P)— Shane has set an awesome game lend/swap concept into motion. This was discussed a bit and folks seem to be on board. Could be the makings of something special! (The guy’s also sending Brutal Legend to Puppy Licks, class act all round it seems!)
— It’s the day after the release of Dishonored and Pokemon, both have been a source of some solid hands-on ramblings.
— Inquisitorsz pondered some detailed thoughts on Dishonored of the note worthy kind.
— Aleph’s on week two without a cigarette, he elaborates on his progress! (The man’s doing well!)
— Potaku’s website launched and Doc’s put out a call for content, also outlined their editorial policy and how they differ from Kotaku.
— Scree still has a tooth ache. Hugo is now a proud owner of a 3DSXL!
— Puppy Licks will be celebrating Oktoberfest.
— The mythical Snacktaku proves elusive to this day!Have a damn good weekend everyone! Sughly’s got a Brisbane meat on tomorrow night too, in case you’ve forgotten! A couple of TAYbies are also going to Melbourne’s Armageddon Expo this weekend as well!
Now you know and knowing is half the battle!
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Again with the omission of D.C. related news!
D.C. WINS KUDOS!
Inb4 “I don’t recall that. :P”
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You know what I realized
Aside from the fact I still haven’t made a Snacktaku
I still find these too lengthy to read. I SAY WE MOVE UNTO BULLET POINTS.
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TAY catch up Saturday style.
– Saturday is just the blurst due to lack of Snacktaku.
Fin.
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See? Perfectly understandable.
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Done! I thought it’d be amusing having huge, rambling paragraphs. Suppose it could be made more user friendly though! 😀
Better?
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*thumbs up*
Honestly, all I’m missing is like 2 pictures for Snacktaku. Just two, and I have a working camera on me and a whole lot of free time. Ah well.
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Ideally I’d link to all the start of the conversations too, but that would mean moderation. SNACKTAKU!
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I want to have a Snacktaku with Saturday! Next meat that we’re both at, we’ll track down a bakery somewhere and have a lamington or six.
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Sounds like the makings of a meat right there, my friend!
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I’m going to have to start doing more interesting stuff if I want to feature in The State of TAY!
Man… Friday nights suck, now that there isn’t any footy on….
I know this is a long shot but I’ll repeat my question from last night incase someone actually knows and missed it yesterday.
Does anyone happen to know a where you can buy reasonably priced traditional Chinese instruments in Australia, preferably NSW? A Guzheng to be specific.
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Thanks for reminding me. Ebay has nothing for sale in Australia, so it doesn’t look promising.
I asked around a few folk I know last night and today and there was no info or tips, aside from the suggestion that you ask actual chinese people active in community cultural activities. They may point you to musicians who have contacts here in Australia or China.-
Yeah, though my Google powers the only thing I could find was a Chinese cultural center in SA that said they give lessons and sell them though they had no indication of pricing. I gave him their number and suggested his best bet would be to call them and see what their prices are like or if they can recommend anyone in the area if shipping proved a barrier.
I was actually a little surprised that I couldn’t find more. I’m thinking any shops that deal in this kind of things probably live of word of mouth in areas densely populated by Chinese immigrants. But still… the internet is supposed to have everything!
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If you(?) end up going with them but they won’t ship it maybe I can arrange something.
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It’s for a friend I work with. He was looking at importing direct from China but as they are rather large and somewhat fragile the shipping costs about as much as the instrument. Hopefully a courier from within Aus would be more in his price range.
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Also, thank you to both of you (any anyone else who looked but haven’t said anything) for trying.
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Ill ask my friends in the chinese society at my uni its in canberra though hope thats not too much of a stretch for your friend
Can someone try to edit the TAY Lend list please? Tell me if it works.Don’t do this please. Google docs is doing something I don’t understand and everyone’s time is being wasted. Sorry.
Also, I’mma just leave this here.
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=542176902474389&set=a.310134969011918.97548.221601821198567&type=3&theater
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I just attempted to and it wants me to download/purchase an app?
Also slightly confusing as to what I’m supposed to do.
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Hmm… doesn’t appear to have worked
I wrote “(test edit)” and let it save (just like I’d normally do on TAYNAMES). Closed it and went back to the doc and it doesn’t show up.
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Does anyone know anything about google docs? I have no clue 🙁
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Did Doc make the TAYnames one? Maybe he’d know!
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@ Shane – I don’t know what I did right or wrong, but I AM able to edit the doc and my edits show up for me. I edited the “Games for lend” and the “contact details” pages by adding data. I haven’t yet tried to change data.
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But when I go back to the original link the edits are not there. /o\
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Fucking thing
Sorry you wasted your time, man. I can’t see anyone’s edits 🙁I’m going to have to do some research into Google Docs and probably start again.
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That sucks, man. Don’t get too stressed out, though. Take your time, we all understand!
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Oh, man. Didn’t see the facebook link before! Way to go, man!
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Yeah this! Sorry man, got caught up in trying out the doc for you I forgot to check/comment on it!
Next stop NY Times Best Seller!
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@ DC – It has given me a warm, fuzzy, kinda-tingly feeling all week to see your fantastic catch-up briefs feature my name in the title. Thanks for the warm-fuzzy-tinglies mate! \o/
But I agree with you that if you are going to continue these excellent briefs that we have all loved so much this week, they need a new title. (Not least because I don’t want to be blamed when this seemingly impossible endeavour eventually drives you to therapy!) 😛
The State of TAY. Today in TAY. Your Daily TAY. TodAY at a Glance. Your TAYly Roundup. This TAY Tonight. Notes From ToTAY.
Heck, why not call it “D.C.’s TAYtastical, TAYacular, TAYly Roundup!!!”
There’s a lot of better names than SMURFYDOG’S PRE-EMPTIVE… Just sayin’…
And thanks again for the week of catchups, DC, you’re a ledgend!
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D.C.’s TAYtastical, TAYacular, TAYly Roundup +1
Or D.C.’s TAYly Roundup
I like “TAYly” 😛
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Duck TATles.
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Woo Ooh.
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TATles?
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Haha! Could change it on a daily basis until the word play well drys up. 😛
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Funnily enough, that was a suggestion that I deleted from my comment before I posted it!
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DCs tay round up sounds good to me.Simple is better I think.
It’s all up to DC of course
I’m so tired D= and I wanna play harvest moon. But I put movies on for Mum
Compromise.
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What?
Can’t your mum watch TV and you play Harvest Moon on your 3DS? I don’t get it? 😛
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Harvest moon wii. I’m close to finishing the one on DS
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Ah! Makes sense now 😀
Hurry up and beat it (and Zelda) then you can move onto Xenoblade 😉
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With the Nindough WiiU you wont have that problem anymoar
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Woot got my BW2 team all done. Otter dude, Sewaddle and a Growlithe i ran into
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Dangit gonna get an Elekid aswell its one too many but shut up
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Pretty sure my team is going to end up only having 2 Gen V pokes in it, and one of them is Genesect. In my defense, I’ll be using pokemon from previous gen’s that I’ve never used before
What’s your full list?
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Uh thats it plus the Elekid I caught. I see everyones getting thie Genesect thing but I dont know how
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If your 3DS/DS can connect to the internet, on the main menu go to Mystery Gift, then connect to Nintendo WFC. You’ll download Genesect and can collect it at any pokemon centre
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Hooray for Growlithe!
I’m starting to think I might be a bit stupid. I’m really struggling to figure out how stealth works exactly in Dishonored.
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Haha! I’ve been caught so many times it ain’t funny, man. 😀 You get used to it, though. Mainly staying in shadows and out of peripheral vision of the bad guys. You’ll be able to get an upgrade later that will help you with line of sight and the like too. One of those games you’ve got to wait in the shadows for the perfect time to strike!
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I can’t even get past the first 3 guys without being seen. I can choke out the first one no issue but the skinny guy keeps noticing me when I try to get past him. :S
It’s weird. He can see the electrical field my body’s nerves are emitting it seems but he is completely oblivious to the unconscious guard on the floor at his feet.
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Unconscious guard has a smaller electrical field?
Maybe that guard is the stoner on the team and they are used to seeing him passed out around the place. Also explains why he was so easy to disable.
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Divide and conquer! I got rid of the first guy and dragged him into a cell. By the time I got back the remaining two had seperated on their patrols. If you watch for a while they’ve got a routine going on. Got to be quick, though. Later on the levels open up a lot, giving you heaps of sneaking routes too! You can distract them with noise as well. They’ll investigate if they hear something weird, so you can lure ’em into traps! Only a small window of opportunity, though. Also, did you play hide-and-seek with that girl? Explains the basics nicely in a less tense way. 😀
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I did. I think I’m getting the hang of it. Except the very next guy turned around and saw me just as the game auto saved. 🙁 Back to the start to wait for patrols to synch up again.
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And it seems like one o those sve save save save save games.
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Oh man, I’ve been saving like an idiot. Every time I do something, I save. It feels almost like cheating. 😛
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I do that in almost every game, anyway. Are you calling me a cheat, son? 😛
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Wait, no…I think you just called me an idiot! D:
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Haha! Well we both are if that’s the case. I had over 1000 save games in Fallout: New Vegas. 😛
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When I played Oblivion, I saved so many times the counter reset. I think that was a lot 😐
Most of those saves were in the final Grey Fox mission, where stealth was mandatory, and I had no skills in that area 😛
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“Our stealth model is mostly based on enemy view cones and occlusion. Darkness matters at a significant distance, making you more hidden. Up close, the enemies facing and field of vision matters most. (Stay behind them or behind something that blocks their view).”
From co-creator himself, Harvey Smith. http://www.bethblog.com/2012/10/09/protips-for-dishonored/
I got through the first mission without being spotted. It took a bunch of reloads though. 😛
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I just did too 😀
After about a thousand restarts. I have now decided Hard difficulty is a dumb idea have set it to easy because I’m hardcore like that.
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Oh, man. It’s hard enough on normal mode. Why do you do that to yourself, Freeze!? 😛
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Ill start most games on hard and see how it goes. If it feels like something I’ll enjoy on that difficulty I’ll keep it there otherwise down it goes.
I should have known. Never been great at stealthy games.
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I want to be good at these sorts of games, but get impatiant, rush out and get spotted by seventeen enemies. :'(
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Haha. That’s it exactly.
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I’ve been going through on Normal so far. Was pretty happy when a Trophy popped up for not being spotted. I felt like I had earned it, even with all the reloads. Although I’m too impatient so a lot of success probably came down ti luck more than skill. 😛
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In some ways that first level was the hardest and most linear. The levels open up like crazy later on giving you a lot more choices!
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That’s what I like to call “The Deus Ex Effect.”
Seriously, that first level. “Handholding? No, we broke your hand, and we’re now laughing at you as you crawl along the ground because we also BROKE YOUR LEGS!”
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Oh man, I’ve yet to come across any first level in any game as brutal as the first level of the original Deus Ex.
I always go for “autosave. CHARGE IN RECKLESSLY, GRAB A GUY AND CHOKE HIM!” And it works quite a lot…
I like to do the character justice, if he’s a master assassin then there’s no room for fumbling about. (Unfortunately that’s what happens, always. :P)
It’s a little weird for me, because I got up to the fourth mission while on a different computer, only on normal, so now I’m doing them on the hardest one, but I already know a lot of what to do, so I’m able to blitz through bits, and be really confident.
Once I hit the stuff I don’t know though? I AM GONNA DIE!
That’s what turned me off the original Assassin’s Creed. I’m supposed to be this great assassin, I should be able to pull off a mission without setting off an alert across the entire city
Been watching a bunch of Extras (Gervais show). Halfway through season 2, and getting thoroughly depressed by the storyline. Sitting here in the dark feeling sorry for myself, as if I’m Andy Millman. I’m definitely projecting my own creative insecurities into that show.
Brilliant bit of TV though.
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That’s Six Feet Under for me, man. Like a trip to my own personal psychiatrist. 😛
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Six Feet Under is a trip to the dark side, that’s for sure. It’s a show about life; therefore, I defy any living person to not react that way to it 😛
Extras on the other hand, feels much more targeted than Six Feet Under did (to my mind, anyway). Like it’s tapping directly into a place that, rightly or wrongly, feels like it’s just mine.
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It’s got me thinking a lot about my writing career. So desperate to get out there, get noticed, that you’ll say yes to any offer and make any compromise. And you don’t even realise how bad you’ve sold out until it’s way too late. Worst nightmare stuff, and sometimes feels uncomfortably close to coming true.
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I often avoid shows that hit a little too close to home. I’m a coward like that. 😛
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If I wasn’t watching this with the wife, I would be seriously considering leaving it alone. But I think I’m still holding out hope for a happy ending to redeem all this, so perhaps I would take the chance and power through anyway…
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“I’m riding my bike in the park, and this policewoman says “Oi! You can’t ride your bike on the grass!” and I go “Oh no?” And her uniform falls off, and she goes “Ahh!” and she’s trying to cover up, but I’ve seen everything anyway. And I get on my bike and I ride off. On the grass.”
Patrick Stewart episode is best episode.
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He wasn’t the original guest star planned for that ep. They tried to get Jude Law and Leo DeCaprio first. #Truestory #HashtagforHarli
But yeah, that was hysterical. Some of the stuff they got those celebs to do and say was just brilliant. Obvious why Gervais became the go-to Golden Globes host.
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His scenes would not have been the same with Law and DiCaprio. You pretty much expect that from Law and DiCaprio just fits in with whatever he is doing so well it would seem normal anyway. The fact that it was Patrick Stewart saying it just got a whole other level of hilarity going.
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Oh the whole episode was rewritten for Patrick Stewart. It wasn’t a last minute thing, I’m just saying, he wasn’t the originally intended guest.
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The last few eps of The Office (UK) were sad and same with Extras. Who knew comedies could almost make me cry manly tears of happiness and joy. Kudos to Gervais and Merchant!
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I don’t like those two because they think they’re far superior to Karl Pilkington even though they’re not. 😛
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I don’t know about Merchant, but I loved Wheatley a whole lot in Portal 2. 😀
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I’m determined not to learn anything about them personally, because I worry it’ll tarnish the creative pedestal I’ve got them up on.
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C’mon…. Why can’t it be Saturday already?
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Damn work acutaly expecting me to work. I clicked next page after final finishing going though the articles on the page I was on. Scroll down to the bottom and I’m still behind form when I hit next page.
Shane!
While you’re here. Don’t get upset about the docs thing. I wasted about 2 minutes and my time is really not worth all that much at all.
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Do you think Doc would mind if you made it a seperate page on the TAYnames one itself? Might be easier?
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I’ve got the Dark Souls mentality going. I sulk for a bit that “it’s too hard, no one can possibly do this”, then I’ll come around: “other people are doing this, and easily, so get in there and goshdernit figure it out”
Edited to remove gratuitous profanity.
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Screw your editing to the sticking place!
PROFANITY!
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
… Edited for Profanity…
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I wasted a lot more time than that. I think that annoyed me more tbh.
Thanks though 🙂
Back to Dishonored. You guys are awesome. It’s good to know there’s always some good talkin’ to be had here. (Even at this time of night!)
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Should I be eating everything in sight? In surprised Corvo isn’t crying in a puddle of eel flavoured vomit at this point.
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Food gives you health, so eat stuff if you’re low, or if you don’t think you’ll be backtracking to that exact position in the hopes of finding food later(because you need to horde health potions, even though you’re maxed out).
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Wait, is this a Dishonored it or an IRL tip?
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A little from Column A, and a little from Column B.
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Also, during the entirety of my Deus Ex 3 play though I only ever ate one energy bar (to see how they worked) because you never know, I might need that later!
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Yeah, I think I used them on three occasions, where I really wanted to kill a coupla dudes really quickly.
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Dishonored is so fun, despite the stealth being difficult. And the fact that killing people is kinda fun.
Also, reading all those in-game books is enjoyable.
OK. Just finished the first season of Six Feet Under.
Huge thanks to everybody who recommened it!
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I finished the season three finale last night, also a huge thanks to everybody who recommended it. 😛
Play-Asia got Theatrythm back in stock! \o/ \o/ \o/
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ohhhhh, I may pick this up!
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YAY! I’m so happy for you, Mr. -0. 😀
I woke up this morning, started getting ready for work and then I found $15.
TAKE THAT YOU $10 CHUMPS.
Hey guys just did a quick write-up of Dishonored, I probably could have gone on for longer but I am feeling pretty unwell and didn’t want to make a “wall-o-text”. SORRY FOR THE SPELLING AND/OR GRAMMAR MISTAKES!
Dishonored Early Thoughts
Dishonored is your playground and you can kill people in any horrible rat induced, electricity disintegrating way your horrible mind can ever perceive or you can be a little pansy (like me!) and sneak past everyone. The game is great, doing a stealth play through is challenging and I imagine doing a crazy “I kill everyone with rats play through” is really fun too. Every level can be tackled in multiple ways. The fun thing I see with this game is when talking to a friend (If only I had any) you could be saying “I needed to get to from area ‘A’ to area ‘B’ and did this”. Then your friend can chime in and say they solved it in a completely different way to you. Possibly and option you didn’t even consider.
Powers are really interesting and add heaps of variety to the game. Can’t climb a wall? Posses a rat and walk through I tiny gap in said wall. Three enemies guarding a door and you need to get through it? Slow time and shoot all three of them in the head with a tranq. dart. Still, as great as they are the powers can be a little buggy. I have died twice to my blink ability and that is because game (1) decides there’s an invisible wall between me and platform A or (2) The game plain refuses to acknowledge that it confirmed I could land on platform A.
I think this game could have used a couple more weeks of polishing. The UI is just horrible although that might just be me because I really dislike the “skill circle thing”. Enemies have inconsistent hearing patterns aswell, I threw like 3 bottles at a wall and they didn’t hear it. I then bumped a pile of books and lord, it’s like I had pressed the “Here I am, that assassin guy, come and kill me” button. A couple of extra video settings would have been nice and NO! I am not going through the .ini file and changing settings because I am not smart enough to do that.
Final thoughts: This game is everything Deus Ex: HR was except better (no stupidly awkward boss fights! \o/). The graphics are fairly meh but who cares when you are having fun!
BUY THIS GAME!
You are a courier, hired by the Mojave Express to deliver a package to the New Vegas Strip. What seemed like a simple delivery job has taken a turn…for the worse.
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“… You’d made your last delivery, kid.
Sorry you got twisted up in this scene.
From where you’re kneeling, must seem like a 18 carat run of bad luck.”“Truth is, the game was rigged from the start.”
*BANG*
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It’s not everyday you get shot by Mr. Chanandler Bong.
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Oh haha, I never noticed he played benny until you just said it. Oh jeez, now I remember that you could black widow your way through-
OH GOD THE IMAGES.
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As far as Fallout celebrities go, I don’t think anyone would argue that they would prefer Liam Neeson being your dad.
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I don’t know who you are. I don’t know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don’t have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my daughter go now, that’ll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don’t, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you.
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[SUCCEEDED] …. Good luck.
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Just completed my Cert 3 in hospitality. Talk about a yolo swag.
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Success! \o/
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Way to go, man!
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congrats
I don’t want to be looking for a place to live. I want to be Pokemoning. *sulk*
Dishonored is so damn beautiful! Detailed too!
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That’s a fish and a half!
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HE BROKE THE SILENCE!
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The Sound of Silence? *puts on song, it’ll be on loop for another three hours I bet.* 😛
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I love that song.
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You continue to be awesome, Blaghman! Way to go! 😀
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I would still never use the word “awesome” to describe myself, but I’ll let you keep on living with your delusions.
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They keep me warm at night. 😛
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My blanket and Teddy Bear do that for me.
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I would often use the word “awesome” to describe you, Blaghs. So there! 😛
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An awesome monstrosity!
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It was a pretty massive silence.
I’M SORRY D:
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HE IS THE CHOSEN ONE
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CJ!
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DC!
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How are you, man? Life’s treating you good?
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Assassins creed 3 soon
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Haha! Still two weeks away. :'( Dishonored and XCOM are where the hypes at!
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Whoa! A reply 1 minute apart from each other, very nice guys!
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That’s how we roll!
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somebody keeps pretending to be you and is texting me
you should take care of that problem.
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What!! I bet the perpetrator is a real git
HOW BOUT THEM VIDYAGAEMS.
Also, replacement koss headphones arrived in mail. Considering I broke them 2 years ago and I completely lost all information for the warranty, the fact that they still decided to replace them speaks wonders of their quality.
also, VIDYAGAEMS.
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I walked past JB HiFi today and decided to duck in to see what was new.
Nothing 😛 I don’t know why I browse gaming sections… I pretty much know everything new that is coming out just from hanging around here. Holding out hope for a one-day bargain or something, I guess?
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Did that all the time in the mall back home.
Eventually I had to show EB games my wallet to show I wasn’t just loitering around. BUT I WAS.
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I did that in EB yesterday before my shift at work started!
Everything was so expensive :/
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That’s when chatting up the fairly attractive girl who works there comes in handy.
By which I mean she takes pity on me and agrees to my feeble requests to price match…
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by chatting up you mean giving one good compliment and then breaking down right after and begging, right?
cause pretty much that’s describing every time I hit on women
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Uhhh, you see that first good compliment you’re giving? Get rid of that, and skip straight to step 2…
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I swear to god there was a guy there telling a story about the mentally disabled, possibly making fun of them to the guy at the counter… :/
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Classy!
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Oh man, I was in JB a few weeks back, and there were six games in their PC section which I had never heard of. My first thought was “that’s really sad that you can count the number you don’t know.” My second thought was “what sort of games exist that I haven’t heard of them?”
Crap ones, is the answer.
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Mensa quiz is AAA Blagh don’t be so uh words?…..
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Such a pretentious wanker?
Sorry, that’s inbuilt. Require a rewiring to get that one altered.
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SNACKTAKU
While wasting time at the shops today, I wandered into the supermarket and bought a vanilla milk and chocolate donut. By the time I found a seat, the milk was warm… though still good. The donut was marked “fresh”, though I don’t know whose standard that was set to. It was your usual service-station style donut that could feed a small family. It was tasty, but nowhere near as good as a properly fresh one would’ve been. But who can complain for only spending two dollars? Coming back to the milk: it would’ve been much better if it was colder! Can you buy ice-cubes from the supermarket? Because I would’ve.
All in all… a nice, unhealthy snack for less than five dollars! I give this Snacktaku a 2.5/5 Pow Points.
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Take note, Saturday! 😛
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inb4 somebody complains- OH DAMN IT, D.C
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😀 I stand by it!
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SNACKTAKU JUST FOR D.C EDITION
One of my cousins brought home a cupcake for me. I forget where it’s from. It’s chocolate, and I forget what flavour the frosting was, although it might’ve been hazelnut. Like most cupcakes, it suffered from a frosting-to-actual-cupcake-part ratio. It was pretty good. It looked nice, as well.
Out of ten I rate this cupcake a “It’s pretty good since it’s free.”
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Nicely played, player!
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Snacktaku. I was going to call this “Blacktaku” because I’m Blaghman, and this is about snacks, on Kotaku, but then I realised that it was a pretty bad name. I give this explanation 128/10 dollars.
Dare: RAW! As a big fan of coffee flavoured milk(or as I call it, Coffee Milk), I thought I would give the latest attempt by Dare(a decent standard of coffee milk, but which is inferior to certain regional forms) a go. Sporting no extra sugar, and with lower fat milk than its normal counterpart, you could consider this a “healthier” way of getting your caffeine hit. Certainly, it tastes far more of coffee than your standard fare, which is a bonus in this reviewers buds. I give it a number out of ten.
>.>
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I love Coffee Milk™, but I hate coffee! I always water down the Coffee Milk™ with regular milk because they’re usually too strong 😛 Bonus: More Coffee Milk™.
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How dare you say that about coffee I my pressence!!
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Lunchtaku:
Had me some Nasi Lemak today. Google it because you probably don’t know what it is 😛
This time there was a lot more chicken in the curry than the usual so the food:food ratio was all different, it was scary D:
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I’m offended that you don’t think I’m worldly enough to have heard of Nasi Lemak!
…opens Google
Weekend TAY refresh game is worst game!
So I got bored and looked up “Whitenoise” at Gizmodo. I don’t browse the other Allure sites and I only heard of it when Freeze joked about it but wow it’s quiet in there 😛
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D.C. is king of TAY refresh game.
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Scree summed it up yesterday:
“DC stays online all the time and then gives a sentence of each of the days events.”
:'(
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Stop going in hermit Steam mode!
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Hermit mode is where it’s at!
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Wait, isn’t that a compliment? You should turn that frown all the way around!
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:’)
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That’s a smile, not an upside-down frown!
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I’ve never watched any Adventure Time. That clip makes me want to change this.
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It’s algebraic
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OH MY GLOB!
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Yeah, Giz only started trying to get a community going fairly recently, and I think there’s too much divisiveness within the reader base for them to really get a good community going.
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The community started growing when Luke began to ban posts with the word ‘sheeple’ in it. 😛
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It helps to also remove any posts that have “Mactard,” “fanboi,” “Micro$oft,” whatever else.
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http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2012/10/this-satellite-image-makes-dubai-look-like-a-toy-town/
This makes me want to play Spec Ops again! Might not be great tourism, though, when the word Dubai conjures harrowing cautionary tale images. 😛
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Woah! That image looks like a super realistic Sim City.
X-Com is awesome.
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Installed and ready to go after Dishonored! Tweets from McGarnical on twitter isn’t helping with the anticipation thing! Looks amazing!
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Actually you know what? Fuck this game. 🙁
Just lost an entire squad because some bumblefuck missed a shot, hit a tank that half my squad were hiding behind and then without warning said tank exploded and killed everyone.
And as fast as they came, the posters who set TAY alight in a blaze of activity disappeared into the shadowy realms from whence they came from.
And also there was mysterious flute ninja-like music to accompany them leaving.
EDIT: Ok, well thanks negativezero, I thought my comment was poignant enough to end TAY with. But go ahead, make the place lively or whatever.
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Haha! When it rains it pours, when people start posting they do it at the same time. 😛
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I have nothing to add.
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Hey, I’ve got to Pokemon sometime!
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Sorry a smexy pinball table caught my attention for an hour
Aww yeah. Guess who just made 4th on the arcades pinball machine. Only one other top 4 is a person. But he must be god or something.
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I put my name as “CJ is BAWS”
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CJ is balls?
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I HAVE NOTHING OF VALUE TO ADD! \o/
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XENOBLADE
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Hi Scree!
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IT’S SCREE!!
To break some of the silence…
So how’s everyone’s weekend so far? What else you got planned for the rest of the weekend and next week? 🙂
Mine’s been pretty shitty and the plan for tonight is to start work on another assignment. I’d like to get it done ASAP so I might need to spend the whole night doing it as well as I don’t think Sunday (and Sunday night) would be long enough :P. Well, that’s the plan anyway but who knows what will happen! 😛
As for next week I’ll be working on another but LAST assignment 😀 (…for the year :/) on Monday and will probably spend all night on it as well AND THEN…
FREEEEDOMMMM FROMMM ASSSIIGGGNNNMMMEEENNNNNTTTS!!! YYYYyyyyeeeeeeeeesssssssssss! I’ll spend the rest of the week playing the shizz out of a bunch of games which will include Pokemon, Theatrhythm, Borderlands 2 DLC, Tokyo Jungle and I might even cave in and buy Dishonored or XCOM.
And then there’s Exams on the 30th but I’ll try not to think about that ;).
I dunno, must be something about my time table but I’ve never spent long nights working on assignments. I’ve always been slack but I’ve usually had the whole day before to get it done rather than just the evening/night/early morning. Get yo shit together Greenius!
Sorry for the ramblings but tell us your story! The more I type means the more time I get to waste 😀
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My weekend thus far have involved a little Dishonored, a lot of tweaking with Dishonored to try and make it looks its best(fixed the texture fade-in, working on getting shadows at a consistently higher res(this is fun for me)). Now I’m watching Community while drinking.
Tomorrow I will do more of the same(sans drinking), and then I think I have to usher for a concert my sister’s choir is doing.
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Sister’s choir? Seems the Blaghman family really does have the music in ’em. 😀
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In case it wasn’t clear, the choir my sister is in, not specifically her choir.
But yes, when I was auditioning for Grease, I got singing lessons from my sister. She is trained as a music teacher, though I don’t think any of the subjects she actually teaches are… music.
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Oh, man. You auditioned for Grease? Awesome! Did you get the part?
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This was for the 2009 Radford College Musical. I was part of the chorus. I still remember all the words, and half the steps. It was very manly.
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Was the audition terrifying?
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Not really. I had to learn a few dance steps, sing a song(Sandy, which I’d practised a dozen times, screwed it up once, which was almost terrible). I knew the teacher who was directing(was pretty good friends with him), so it was easy. I sung a lot better then than I do now, as much as I hate to admit it.
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I’ve got no plans. Haha! Was going to go to Sughly’s meat today. Got dressed. Topped up Go card. Put shoes on. Got directions. Sent enthusiastic e-mail saying I was going. Then chickened out like a chicken. (Then had chicken for dinner. Seemed apt. :P) I just listened to Potaku. Played plenty of Dishonored, but right now am not in the right mood. Stuff that I found fun two hours ago is irritating me, just because I’m not in the proper mindset. Got a whole lot of TV shows to catch up on. Then maybe brood some. 😛
Oh, man. That’s going to be a good feeling to get the assignments done! 😀
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If I could drive, and lived in Brisbane, I would totally super stalk you, turn up at your house, and tell you to come to the meat.
Which would terrify you completely, to the point where you’d never leave your house again.
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So back to the status quo? 😛
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Imagine it though. You no longer trust the community as a whole, you doubt everything they say, is it all part of their secret plan to force you into things? Are they actually laughing behind their backs? And worst of all, you can no longer trust Blaghs. Everything he says is suspect, you look at his posts, and hate him for what he attempted. You wonder how he is such a good a stalker, and you know that it will never be the same.
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I’ll have to hop a train and move onto another site. Fresh start and all that. 😛 (Except it couldn’t happen, because I wouldn’t answer the door in the first place, Blaghman!)
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I did consider that, but uhh, yeah, I didn’t think of a way around it, except shouting “DEE SEE!” in the hope that you’d answer.
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It’s okay, I can’t go to the meat either.
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What’d you get up to, scree? Stuff? I bet it was stuff!
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I played house of the dead overkill. It was fun
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO D.C. YOU RUINED MY NIGHT!
Go to the meat!
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I will probably go to the Movie World one! Probably!
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But you love your theme parks!
What made you chicken out? Meeting new people? I think it helps to go there with someone, even if you’re meeting them for the first time as well. Gives you a chance to have a chat with them first so not everyone is completely random (even though we’ve all talked to each other on the internet!)
Hey, before my first meat I probably didn’t do anything social for months, let alone meet a group of new people 😛
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Being a chicken made me chicken out! I thought we established that. Haha! How many meats have you been to, my Greenius coloured pal?
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Two!
Melbourne meats are rare 😛
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Honestly I don’t blame you for not going to your first meat at somebody’s house. I waited until we had one in public before I plucked up the courage to go. Made it a lot less intimidating 😛
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How many have you been to now, Pow?
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Um… four I think? It gets easier every time! Just the first step that’s the hardest.
Really though, people joke with you and all but I doubt anybody would seriously want to pressure you into something. Though it is totally worth it! 😉
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Working \o/
Oh wait, the other one /o\
I did stay up this morning playing minecraft and watching homeland though.
I moved my entire mine shaft over by 1 block. I hope you’re happy numbers!
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Work /o\
Still playing on the same old server? I thought Minecraft was dead!
No need to fear though, I think Creepius has had his fair share of Minecraft anyway :P. That means no more false Creeper alarms to scare you happy miners!
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I have my own server running in survival mode on my home PC.
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Decided not to do any assignment work tonight xP. I’m the worst.
By the way, is there something wrong if I’m feeling fairly tired most of the time? I know Daylight Savings screwed me up a bit but that was ONLY 1 hour and it has been a while since then. I’m still feeling fairly tired most of the time even though I do get my usual 7 or so hours of sleep.
Snacktaku.
I have Pocky.
That is all.
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Insightful and heart warming. Haha! Don’t know why Saturday’s taking so long. 😛
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I gave him food. Where’s the write up? WHERE’S THE PASSION?
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There’s still time DC. Myself and Strange only arrived half hour ago.
BELIEVE IN YOURSELF AND YOU CAN ACHIEVE ANYTHING!
…doofus 😛
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Haha! I live on the north side, man. Takes half hour just to train it into central! You guys have fun, though. I’ll stand guard here at TAY. Someone has to!
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North side of Brisbane! Another clue about D.C.’s whereabouts!
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:S
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Ha ha, this emoticon made me laugh more than it should. I just imagined D,C, cursing as he remembers Greenius is ‘tracking’ him.
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Haha don’t be silly guy who lives in an industrial district!
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Creepius!
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This was pretty fun to watch
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2012/10/watch-dogs-being-awesome-at-1000fps/
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Hahaha! Great vid.
Dogs Are The Best People
I played some more pinball. And I beat my old score. All praise the pinball messiah!!!!
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What’s the theme of the table? Monkeys? Krakens? The Addams’ Family?
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Tron the new one.
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I didn’t know they still made new tables! 😀 That’s awesome!
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Well done mang. I love me some pinball!
I was shattered when the new owners got rid of the pinball machine at my local fish’n’chips shop.-
Pinball and fish n chips. My god what a wonderful place to go on a Friday evening to get dinner
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D.C. I’ve just been reading your friend’s comic. Excellent stuff!!
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Gets crazily polished later on too!
They post about three a week during a volume, which is pretty staggering!
I’m sure they’d be happy to hear this. 😀
Fuck X-Com. Make one mistake (miss a shot and hit some cover), said cover explodes and wipes out my 7-mission veteran team. And then I find the game doesn’t auto-save so I lost everything. 🙁
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I think you can turn Auto save on in the options.
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Yeah, I saw that when setting graphic options. I think it might be something I’ll have to do! 😀
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How about a Dinner Special edition of Snacktaku?
Came home found a cold plate of roast beef some peas and 3 roast potatoes. Eat one potatoe cold while microwave rest for 20secs. Eat mostly cold food. Amazing… find more roast beef, place in found cheese and bacon bun tomatoe sauce. BAM! Best sammich ever.
Finish with a swig of a well aged (only 12 years) Jameson.
9/10 would eat again.
Up late, waiting for my stupid computer to do important things (backups, unlock iPhone, sync music and movies) before I go overseas tomorrow.
Decided that I’ll be writing some TAY updates from one of the most important perspectives possible: A 3DS streetpass tour of California and New York. Stay tuned!
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That sounds amazing! I can collect Streetpass vicariously through you!
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Haha! Oh, man. That sounds awesome! When do you leave? Hope you have an amazing time!
I LOVE EVERYONE. AND CAPS. CAPS MEEEED LOEFVE ETOO.
BEER GOGGLES ARE SILLY. STCOTH GOGGLES ARE WEHERE ITS AT YOU.
ALL PEOPLE ADSRE ATTRACTIVE AND WONDERUFL TO TALK TO.
BUY MY STEREOS AND CELEBRATET TEH LOUD NIOSE AND DRINAK THE ABOOX WITH ME. 25YO SCOTHTX IS RATHER TASTTY. YES.
SEE YOU RALL ON THE MOROW1
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HIOETW DOOLHY YOU AL LIVE INT HE FUTURE. IT SAIS I POSTED THIS AT 4:35 qm.
ir’s only just 3;14 NOW, I SWEAR,.
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Ha Ha Ha, what?!
I think the early morning TAY ramble is becoming a regular feature 🙂
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You know what makes me sad about the edit feature? That could could come here now, look at this, and think that it’s worthy of deletion.
Thankfully, you’re Aleph, not some other people, so I know you won’t do something like that.
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Who are these people you’re talking about?
Could it be an individual named after a popular capital city? Or one with a pig-based avatar and an aversion to meats?
🙂
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That’s just crazy talk, Masha. I love Aleph’s tweets. He’s the happiest drinker I know! 😀
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Jason Schreier writes the best articles out of the Kotaku US crew.
Discuss.
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I would say Kirk, but then occassionally he’ll write a spoiler filled ‘here’s how I played there for you should too’ article!
Sorry to be a hassle guys but can someone tell which PS3 games are essential to get?
Atm I have Heavy Rain, Uncharted 1 and 2, LANoire, Driver San Fransisco and Demon souls.
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The Infamous games are pretty great, there’s a demo on PSN if you want to try before you buy? Have you played Deus Ex: Human Revolution. I’d argue it’s better on the PC, but should be fun on consoles too! Uncharted 3 for all its flaws is still pretty amazing!
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Ah, i forgot about infamous. I have plans to get uncharted 3, as I have the guide but not the game.
Deus Ex, I have the first one on PS2 but haven’t touched it (I’m sorry, don’t hate me!)-
I haven’t finished the first one either. :'( The new one is a prequel, though, so shouldn’t matter. It’s also in the 2 for 40 thing they do at JB!
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Alright, I’ll go on my mental “games I should get” list
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Valkyria Chronicles!
Metal Gear Solid HD Collection + 4!-
I’ll look into valkyria chronicles!
Unfortunately I’m not a fan of Metal gear solid, it makes me panic.-
Fair enough!
And yeah, Valkyria is one of my favourite PS3 games. Unfortunately I think they took down the PSN demo (maybe double-check just in case it’s back up?), but yeah it’s really good! Go watch a video review or something to see if it’s something you would like.
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It’s JRPG right? I’ll like it =P
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SRPG
Do you like strategy games? 😛
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Not really, but I like fire emblem
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Yeah, Valkyria is a weird type of game :P. Sort of a turn based SRPG but it’s third person shootery?
Hard to describe so it’s best to play a demo first 🙂
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JOURNEY!
And then go for HD classics you might’ve missed out on (Ico, SoTC, Jak, Ratchet, GoW etc.)
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but, $20 =(
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There’s also plenty of games that I’d call essential that are multiplatform. In that case I’d recommend Red Dead Redemption and the Mass Effect games too! (Though PS3 doesn’t have the first.) Prince of Persia (2008) is pretty amazing too!
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If you’re going to get Mass Effect, wait for the trilogy collection that’s coming out soon! It includes the first game!
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Óh cool! I didn’t know that was coming out on PS3! (Cause of the whole Microsoft publishing the first game thing. If that’s the case, do as Pow says! :D)
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Or just wait until ANOTHER trilogy edition with all the DLC 😛
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Yeah :\
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I totally thought it was a speck on my screen but you typed a fancy “O”! 😛
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Haha! I didn’t notice that either. :S
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Valkyria Chronicles. Tales of Graces (and Xillia and also Ni no Kuni next year) if you like JRPGs. Disgaea 4 if you like those. Yakuza 3 and 4 (and hopefully 1&2 HD). Ico & Shadow of the Colossus HD if you don’t already have on PS2. Ratchet & Clank games. Infamous.
Then there’s a whole mess of niche JRPGs and similar if that floats your boat at all, some of which eg the recent Atelier games are fairly good if you don’t mind time management elements.
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Always dug rune factory, which is a horrible, horrible time-sink of both a solid RPG and a farming sim. I believe Tides of Destiny is out on PS3, so there’s a good choice if you’re into that. It should probably be cheap too as it’s one of those undervalued gems. Civilization Revolution is great as well.
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It’s $70 at Gametraders. I love harvest moon and rune factory
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Gran Turismo 5 on a big screen 3D TV, a Logitech steering wheel and a PSEye for head tracking. Seriously, it’s pretty badass ^.^
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More realistically, God of War is one of my favourite series, Nier must get (I know multiplatform but nyah) and the Yakuza games.
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I’m not so sure abut Yakuza but I will keep an eye out for Nier (it should be pretty cheap now right?
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Yup, I got it for $15 on eBay like a year ago.
Yakuzas are fun but not sure if you’d like them. What about LittleBigPlanets? They seem like something you’d enjoy 🙂
Have you ever considered PS+? It’s amazing value for like $70 a year and you’ll get plenty of games to play.
You should also consider importing some games scree :P, SO MUCH CHEAPER!
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Or not? =P
I got a game cheap of GT yesterday. $20 for preowned Tetris 3DS
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I wonder if Square has ever published a compilation of Akihiko Yoshida’s artwork. Really like his stuff. He’s the one who did stuff like Tactics Ogre, Vagrant Story, FF Tactics and Bravely Default.
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The art for Bravely Default is fantastic!
To all those in the TAY Refresh Brigade: Hello.
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Hey, buddy! Hope this Sunday finds you well?
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It hasn’t been too bad! I’ve discovered the secret to working-from-home success: Never, ever play Pokemon before getting out of bed in the morning. It only sets you up for a day of demotivation! (Like I’ve experienced for the past two days…)
How about you, DC? Not sick like half the Brisbane folk seem to be, I hope 😛
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I’m okay! Mostly been playing Dishonored. Thought the game was about to end and then it totally didn’t. True story. Pokemon seems to have a drug like effect on many it seems. 😛
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OMG! Dapperpie’s Theory of Pokemon holds!
I woke up, and played Pokemon in bed. Sooooo much demotivation even though I have an assignment due tomorrow. It’s a long one and I put off doing it on Thursday, Friday and Saturday and even then I didn’t start on it until like 3pm today :P. I planned to work on it in the morning but just played Pokemon and Borderlands 2 instead :/
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HI, DAPPER CATERPIE.
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DAPPERPIE
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You are no longer Powalen to me. You are now and forever DAPPERPIE.
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Hey Pow. Late response from me, makes me sad. Spent all morning refreshing…
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We need to come up with a secret password that we can post when there’s a lack of activity. The password will call forth any available Refresh Brigade members to start a conversation, no matter how shallow!
And that password will be…
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Penismonkey!
It rolls off the tongue. It has no real meaning, it makes me giggle a little.
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What makes it perfect is that it is such an eloquent, commonly-used word that it won’t look out of place in normal TAY conversation.
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Precisely. It’s great to see that someone here gets me!
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Rick Astley is playing at a RSL near me next month…
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You have to go.
US streetpass adventures prologue:
Absolutely zero hits from Sydney airport. SCREW YOU AUSTRALIA, I’M GLAD TO BE LEAVING!
And I had a McDonald’s serious lamb burger for lunch which was surprisingly tasty and fulfilling. The aussiness of the egg and beetroot did not make for my country’s streetpass failures 😐
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Have an awesome flight, man!
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Thanks. Should be fun!
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Goes without saying, enjoy the trip too. I love New York so damn much! 😀
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HAVE FUN IN THE US ALSO CAN YOU TELL ME HOW FOOTBALL IS DOING OVER THERE I’VE TOTALLY MISSED OUT
Also, say good-bye to the lamb burger. The McDonalds in the US are always.. of a different breed.
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Have a safe flight.
Who knows, maybe you’ll get a street pass on the flight.
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Have fun man, we all expect some epic write-ups with lots of pictures :D!
I am skeleton jelly.
*sigh* stuck at Blacktown west point with no money and been everywhere I was Interested in. Should be at home playing video games
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I’m sorry to hear that you’re stuck. I would help out, but I don’t even know where blacktown west point is.
Also, the whole being in the other state and not being able to drive a car. So really, I’m useless =D Sorry -
I used to go there every weekend when I lived in the area. I would have suggested you go to the library but I think they close early on weekends.
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It’s ok now fronds I have returned to the housing building
New Super Mario Bros is the best family-friendly multiplayer game of this generation (excluding Wii Sports, I suppose)! Just played a few levels with some people who never play games and it was actually still fun!
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Rayman Origins is pretty damn good too!
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Yeah watching new players play games is fun. My mum for example enjoyed the few minutes of flower she played.
Actually, speaking of flower I think the game would be fun with some cooperative local and online multiplayer. Imagine 2 or more players moving around large fields with day/night cycles forming shapes in the long grass and making music as the various gusts of wind pick up petals.
Man, I wish I could make a mod that does this.
Hmm. Rather taken with the idea behind the heart in Dishonored. Being able to point it at someone and hear background and insights into their character is a neat idea.
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Yeah, I agree. Reminds me of an adventure game actually. The ‘look’ icon to be specific!
Lots of nice touches like that in Dishonored!
Mum is playing a game on wii and it’s tiring me out. I have to keep explain things that are pretty much second nature to me and it’s incredibly frustrating when she gets it wrong. Sorry teamspeakers! /o\
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haha, it’s OK Scree! =)
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I’m still sorry! /o\
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Watching science videos in bed on a Sunday evening.
I AM WILD.
How was your weekend, TAYbies?
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Sounds like a good Sunday to me. definitely better then working anyway.
Okay Dishonored. We need to talk. I can recognise that you are a good guy. You do everything right. Your attention to detail is impeccable. You have an interesting background and a lot going on at all times. You’re attractive in an eye catching way. You let me do things my way.
BUT
You just aren’t a lot of fun. Spending time with you is a stressful chore. Perhaps because your level of unattainable perfection begs of me a bar that I cannot reach. I do love you but I cannot see this relationship having a pleasant resolution. Out of respect for you I will stay until the inevitably bitter end. I will see this through. I cannot guarantee it will be fun. But it will be finished.
It’s not you, it’s me.
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I say, if you’re not having fun try and play it the lethal way. The lethal way looks way more fun. 😀
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Just finished it! I did have fun, but I know what you mean about the perfectionist stress, though. :S I was happy to get the low chaos ending. 😛
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Now you get to go back and do everything a different way.
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Haha! I’m weird when it comes to games (and every thing else I guess.), once I make a decision I will always replay it the exact same way. It’s my version. I’ll never see the different paths in Heavy Rain or Mass Effect and I’m okay with that. Now it’s XCOM’s time to shine. 😛
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I do that too. Every time I play Dark Souls again it is as a melee tank. Even if I have the intention of trying a dex or magic build it ends up a melee tank.
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Speaking of Dark Souls, surely Dishonored can’t be that stressful? 😛
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I’m not sure about dishonored now.
Is it worth getting?
If it’s going to be stressful, I’m not sure I want to play it. Also, what is the saving system like? (Not going to get it straight away but I may pick it up if I see it cheap)
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Saving is awesome actually. Autosaves when you do significant things, but you can save any where at any time. The story is great in a slow burn, detailed kind of way. The gameplay is genuinely fun, though. The stress comes from trying to be perfect at it. 🙁
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Saving system is simply saves wherever you are exactly. No checkpoints or anything like that. Manual saves.
Stealth is stressful but combat is easy. I’m trying to do a ghost/pacifist style play through first up but it is not easy. But every time I get noticed I’ll just slaughter everyone without a problem then reload a previous save.
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If that’s the case it might be good for blowing off steam. Also being able to save where ever you want is very handy. It frustrates me when handheld games don’t have this feature.
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sounds like my last relationship HEYYO
but in srsness this brings up bad metal gear memories. Does the stealth hold up well? Like how often do you get caught? Cause, for instance, I’m cool being caught sometimes in Deus Ex but once I hit a particular point I just start shooting the hell out of everybody.
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I think the stealth’s probably on par with Deus Ex, for better or worse. Gets a whole lot easier when you allow yourself to use Dark Vision too. It felt like cheating at first, but I came to depend on it. Haha!
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I’ve found I’ve been relying on blink way more.
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I need to use my sleep darts more. I keep hoarding them even after upgrading to the instant ones.
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Sleep Darts, a thing of freakin’ beauty. The game might’ve crushed me if it wasn’t for that. 😀
Often I’d mistake the heart icon for the grenade icon. Didn’t end well.
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This is basically exactly why I don’t like stealth games.
Today I’ve learned that Gatorade Recover really helps with any post-alcohol nausea. 🙂
How was everyone’s weekend?
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Haha! Sounds like you’ve had a big weekend, man. My weekend was decent enough, I guess.
What’d you get up to? Something crazy no doubt…
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Two pints of Carlton Draught… a big dinner, and the aforementioned bottle of Gatorade Recover…
I still can’t believe I downed over a litre of beer…
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I’m making a note of that.
Pop quiz time!
Can anyone think of any games that have been based on TV shows (not movies) that have been any good?
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The X-Files Game (1998), Star Trek: Voyager — Elite Force and its sequel!
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The first Buffy the vampire slayer on the original Xbox was pretty good. I played it many times.
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This, it was a surprisingly good game. Kind of halfway between a 3rd person action game and an old-fashioned Streets of Rage style brawler. Plus having almost the entire cast doing voiceover work and writing that felt like it fit into the established style really well.
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The CSI games weren’t terrible. Weren’t the best but still an entertaining way to pass a few hours.
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Ren and Stimpy Quest for the Shaven Yak was a game I played a LOT of when I was younger. As to whether if was any good or not I can’t actually remember.
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And by Quest for the Shaven Yak I mean Stimpy’s Invention.
/o\ So much for my memory.
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Wow, there are a few after all. The topic came up at work and I couldn’t think of any. I don’t think I’ve played any of them except possibly the Buffy one which I had a go at on a demo xbox at the shops at some point. What I saw of it I liked.
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There’s The Walking Dead too, but I think that’s based on the comic rather than the show. Gonna sound like a Star Trek nerd but there was also Deep Space Nine: The Fallen by the same team who made that Buffy game!
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The Activision game based on the Walking Dead TV show will be coming out some time next year.
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Actually, it was a conversation about the walking dead that spun into one on TV video games. It was the only one I could think of that seemed to be well received by gamers in general.
Edit: I probably should have mentioned that in my first post.
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We’re currently watching an episode of DS9 before we go sleep every night. Just started Season 4. I hadn’t previously seen any of the early stuff so it was good to finally catch up, but holy hells was there some terribad eps in the first few seasons! :S
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Haha! I remember an episode from season one where they made Sisko play hopscotch! :S
Every single Quark episode from start to finish was just awful. 😛
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D: You leave Quark alone!
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I think it was less to do with Quark and more to do with the Grand Nagus. 😛
He was fine in any episode that didn’t revolve around him.
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But…but…the Grand Nagus Zek was in The Princess Bride!
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I… haven’t seen it! :O
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Your homework this week is to watch The Princess Bride or read the book. Either is acceptable. 😀
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It’s clearly a girls movie based on the title! 😀
(Haha! Back in the day someone was shocked and appalled when I said that!)
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I used to think the same when I had it recommended to me. Then I watched it, it’s quite silly, but still a good way to spend a couple of hours
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The only TV show based game I can remember playing was The Simpsons mod for Doom. But that’s a mod so probably doesn’t count.
My Nana, my Aunty and I shared some fun afternoons playing the Q.I. dvd game, but that probably doesn’t count either.
Wait – I just rememberred – there was a Smurfs game on the CBS ColecoVision that I played to death at a friend’s house. That was awesome!
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Actually yeah, a lot of the Simpsons games are pretty decent. Last generation, especially. Hit and Run was great!
Come to think of it, there’s quite a few games based on cartoons (they count as TV shows, right? :P) that have been pretty good.
There are quite a few games based off both Macross and Gundam, both of which were originally TV series. A few of the Naruto ones are okay too and I had a lot of fun with both the Berserk and the Lodoss War games on Dreamcast back in the day but both of those are adapted from novels/manga via TV, rather than directly from TV.
Also how about the recent Transformers games? They draw off an expanded universe and everything but War/Fall of Cybertron’s main source they draw off is the original G1 cartoon which basically started everything for the franchise.
Watching Anh does Vietnam has opened my eyes quite a bit. I knew a lot about the history of the Vietnam war because I did Vietnamese for 3 years (7 to 9). All I learnt was how to count to ten which I’d known since I was in grade 2 and about part of the history. I also knew that you could get things cheap with Australian.
However when Anh visited Saba a small hillside village, we saw that the houses are tiny, the children only go to school for half a day so they can work and most of them have no shoes. The only real reason they go to school is because they can get some hot food and stay in the warmth.
One child he gave some food to, as he was helping serve up at the school, gave the food to his little brother to make sure he ate first. I couldn’t believe that he was so nice to his sibling.
This is on top of the fact that most children do not have shoes, it’s freezing and they have to walk 6 kms to school.
Before Anh visited, he asked the teacher what the children needed most and she responded with fruit, stationary and gumboots. He provided enough for the whole school, which was about 30 kids.
It just goes to show how ungrateful people can be. Electricity and gas are expensive, but at least we have it. The kids were still playing with hoops and sticks, I couldn’t believe it.
I know not everyone is self serving, but I see a lot of it with Mum and another friend who happens to also be disabled. People who do not need to use the toilets all the time. Mum is lucky, she can go in a normal toilet and if someone else is worse off then her she will use a normal toilet. Our friend however can’t use her legs properly, so that’s not an option. I do not mind pushing her to another toilet, but when it’s someone who shouldn’t be in there for whatever reason (it’s usually because they have a trolley or the childrens room is full so they use the disabled). I understand that sometimes it’s hard to get into the parents room.
Sorry I’ll stop now because I’m moving into a different rant
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For what it’s worth, there’s a lot of people out there who are “disabled” but if you look at them you wouldn’t know it. You can’t judge by appearances.
And waiting for a toilet is just a normal part of a public toilet experience whether you need the accessible toilet or not. 😛Edited to add: My kids play with hoops and sticks, too. 😛
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One of the guys I worke with used to get filthy looks and yelled at all the time for parking in disabled sports with his hotted up car. He just ignores them and gets his wheelchair out.
He even got a parking ticket once even though he had his disabled sticker in the window. I think it was the skulls for door handles that threw them off.
Edit: removed my edit, I edited the wrong post!
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Now that I know they exist, I need skull doorhandles on my car! Wait…I’ll need a car first, won’t I? 😛
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That’s different. Extremely different. Just because you’re disabled doesn’t mean you can’t have a personality.
Unfortunately, people do judge, but then again there are people doing the wrong thing too. =(-
Yes people do do the wrong thing. Sorry if that sounded like I was accusing you of being judgy. I just like the story 😛
Also, I’ve only ever parked in a disabled spot once but i figure it was totally justified. My mum’s leg was swelling up and causing her great pain to the point where she couldn’t bend her knee so I was picking her up to take her to hospital. (she was OK in the end but did have to stay in hospital for a day or two.)
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Sorry D=
I’m glad your Mum was okay. I think you were justified in this case.
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I’m well aware of that. I once blurted out to a person who looked healthy but she had anxiety so I understood. I apologised but she told me not to worry about it.
I know not everyone’s disability is obvious, but a lot of people use them because they’re alone and they have shopping trolley. I’ve seen this many, many times.-
Some people use them just because they are cleaner. Some people are jerks.
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I have two questions for you:
1: Where else but the accessible toilet would you suggest a person by themselves with a trolley go to the toilet?
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Well on the first question, I would make some longer (not wider) stalls available for this reason, but I’ve only seen one shopping centre that has made a bigger stall so people with prams and trolleys can go in.
On the second question, some can, some can’t. I know Mum sometimes can’t wait because certain tablets upset her, including her water tablets which make her need to go more. Our friend takes a while to set herself up. Some people can’t wait, and that’s partially the problem.
I’m not blaming the people as a whole. The shopping centres deserve some onus for not creating more parent rooms (there’s a hell of a lot more prams then disabled people.) The thing that I’m really complaining about is people my age and younger that are working at say, McDonalds using them. There’s nothing stopping them from using the normal ones.Edited because I accidentally said wider
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I just saw the story from a couple of days ago about EA asking what movie would you like to see as a game. Which seems vaguely topical given the talk above of TV shows as games.
Straight away I thought of two movies. Labrynth and The Dark Crystal.
There may already be movies of these games – I don’t know. But it would be so awesome to see them made now with current tech. And how cool would it be if David Bowie were to voice Labrynth!
Anyone else got any thoughts?
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I just want a new Star Wars game that doesn’t suck. Ideally a new or even just a HD Remaster of TIE Fighter.
Just saw the finale of Extras, and now I’m questioning everything I ever believed about myself. It’s fucking annoying. Great show, though.
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Was that the movie length Christmas special one? I saw that when it first aired in London. Pretty depressing stuff. Don’t think I laughed once. :S
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It’s been a while since I’ve seen it but I think the Big Brother stuff was towards the end(?). That stuff nearly made me cry :’D
I was trying to think of something witty and clever to post, but I can’t really think of any thing so….
ummm…..
Mammoth?
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IS THERE ONE BEHIND ME?
OH, GOD. I’M GONNA DIE.
AMAAAAAZING GRAAAAACE *sobs*
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It’s just a fuzzy elephant
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weeeeeeeeeeeee
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Watching the space jump thingy?
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He’s still going to take an hour and a half to get up there though.
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<7km to go!
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TENSE
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ITS ABOUT TO HAPPEN
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That was kind of neat.
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