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Hi TAYbies. How was your weekends? Mine, I’m ashamed to say, consisted of far too much Lobby Ops. I’m enjoying it (mostly) but trying to find Aussie servers with a party on PC has been a lesson in really crappy menu dubstep.
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I thought I played a lot of Blops 2 but CoD Elite reckons I’ve only played matchmaking for 2 hours. Maybe I spent a lot of time in customs, training, zombies and campaign?
Anyway, I’m pleased that I have my k/d ratio above 1 (my personal minimum). Currently at 1.26 which I’m pretty happy with.
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I’m yet to check out any of my stats, but I hope I’m above 1 at the moment. I started really slowly in multi.
Had some interesting matches over the weekend. One HC-TDM I went pistol only and got 7/1, and barely saw anyone the entire match. Another was something like 18/5, which was much more fun 😛 -
According to my in-game combat record I’ve, uh, clocked in 17hrs of MP. Played the first mission and a half of the SP, and maybe an hour of zombies. Most of that was yesterday – got distracted trying out silly kits with some friends and next thing you know, bam, 10pm. :[
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For the most part I haven’t had any big issues with servers, though I’ve been queuing solo. How many people are in your party when you’re having these problems?
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Queuing solo has been fine, as long as I stick to the more populated modes. A tad frustrating though when trying to find a Hardpoint game.
Our party typically was 4 – we had one instance all weekend where we ended up in a 4-bar lobby which was grand. But the other times were typically US, bar one game which was somewhere in Europe..
Most of the time one of us would get into a server and we’d all join off them eventually. 😀
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Morning all! Zavvi have Max Payne 3 for 14.95GBP (~$20ish). Recommend?
Also, check out this link, and consider involving yourself in the inaugural TAYLend program, where TAYbies are able to pool their collective resources to gain temporary access to a much wider library of games than they would otherwise be able to afford!
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Hey, Shane! Hope this day finds you well? How was your long weekend?
Max Payne 3 was pretty damn good. Certainly worth that price atleast! Almost plays like a really violent Uncharted. Story is great in an over-the-top, Noir kind of way too.
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Hey DC! This day finds me suffering massive hayfever and my foot’s still sore, and I only got about three hours of broken sleep last night, because kids.
…But I’m okay! I spent the weekend ordering stuff for the conventions I’ll be hitting up next year. Adelaide and Melbourne for sure, Perth probably (if flights ever come down in price /o\) and maybe some non-OzComicCon cons if the mood/opportunity strikes (I’d like to hit QLD and Sydney at some point, for example). So I’m feeling pretty good, kind of excited (and a little terrified), even though the next one is four months away.
How was your weekend?
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Not too shabby in an all I did was refresh TAY kind of way! :S
What’s the appeal of going to Perth over Sydney, if you don’t mind me asking? Also, if you make it to Brisbane we’ll have to have a meet Shane meat. If you’re feeling anti-social we’ll just visit you at your booth for five minutes then you can begin the healing process. 😀 Hope you feel better too.
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I know the folks who work Oz ComicCon and they give me a free table in artist alley (saving ~$300+).
Ideally, I’d like to do the Supanova circuit as well as the Oz ComicCon circuit, but there’s money and leave from work to consider.
Like I said, in an ideal world, I’d like to hit Sydney and QLD as well, but because they’d be Supanova or Armageddon, I’d have to fork out the extra for a table, which would definitely impact my chances of breaking even for the event. 🙂
And I’d probably be up for a meat if I came Brisbane-side… though if I fly in Friday, fly out Monday and have to set-up/pack-up as well, there might only be small windows of opportunities in the evenings!
I haven’t written it off, yet. It’s just a big we’ll see.
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Sounds like an adventure, whatever you do! Good luck with it all!
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Yeah man, That is an awesome price for Max Payne!
Good morning! (Afternoon for me though, of sunday yet! :P)
I’ve heard very good things about the game. You need a beefy machine for it but at that price it sounds more than nice! (Unless you would rather wait for the mandatory Steam wallet-draining Sale.)
There will be big Amazon Black Friday sales too. And bundles everywhere. Daaaaaaaaaaaaaamn.
Also, random, but I can’t stop playing Dark Souls. I’m in NG++ onwards to, for the first time, aim to get all the bloody achievements. 36/41 so far.
Oh, and GRAVELORD SERVANTS, STOP INFECTING MY WORLD!
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PRAISE THE SUN!
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PRAISE THE SUN! (I’m in that covenant so, yep, I’m officially a sunbro 100%!)
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Haha nice! Sunbro is the best Covenant!
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My 360 is beef enough \o/
Thanks 🙂Good luck with the achivements. That’s one hell of an undertaking!
Buy it or prepare for a dick kicking.
I would rate EB 10/10 on their ridiculously pretentious survey if I was guaranteed a Streetpass everytime I entered their store. Even if it was a demo unit that gave me one. That demo unit and I would be BFFs and I would Streetpass Quest them all the time.
Also maaaaaaaan, that Jet Set Radio, huh? Sorry, JET SET RAY-DEEEEEEEE-OOOOOOOOOOOOH!
Much better with a 360 controller, but still kind of bad.
Good luck today, Nova! Gonna be awesome!
Morning all! Hope all the Brisbane folks made it through the storm okay?
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All of it missed me. Just Thunder and lightning with a bit of rain!
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Lost power on Saturday night for about an hour or so, but otherwise wasn’t too bad.
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Thunderbolts and lightning, very very frightening!
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…Me!
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Galileo
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Guess what guys?!
Don’t forget there is a meat in December for those who are in Melbourne!
When: Saturday the 15th of December at 11 o’clock
Where: Meeting at Fed square, near Beer deluxe
What you’re expected to bring: Just cash because Yoyogi’s doesn’t accept card (at least last time I went)
What are we doing: Eating!
Why: Because Virus is in Melbourne!
Because my birthday is on the 20th, and Negative Zero’s is early December, I was going to either bring cake, or cupcakes. Anything anyone allergic to? Or don’t like?
(Sorry nova! I read your name and accidentally placed it in place of Neg 0)
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You must really not like the TAYbies for you to bring cupcakes as a birthday celebration.
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REVENGANCE!
Revengance to all!
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They’re not revengance cupcakes
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But that’s not how cupcakes work!
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Bring 3DSs too! And Theatrhythm!
@negativezero
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If we don’t have a 3DS, can we just bring a paper representation of a streetpass instead?
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Sure!
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I’m on a no-grains diet at the moment so cupcakes might not work for me. Feel free to bring for everyone else though.
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More like a no brains diet! Amiright!?
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Tough crowd…
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Actually brains and other offal are fine. Brain isn’t so great though, it has a bad texture.
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Hi Scree
Sorry but I don’t think I will be able to make it, that is the weekend we are doing pre-christmas christmas with my family.
We will be heading to the folks on Saturday so a small possibility that we can drop in on the way through but certainly don’t count on it-
Sorry to hear you can’t make it. Especially after I shifted the date 3 times >_<
It’s alright though. I hope you have a good time anyway!
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Party!
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Awww yeah 🙂
Ugh, my desk, it is boring!
Can I go back to tearing up BLOPSII and Halo 4 Multiplayer?
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Jumped in SWTOR last night to check out how it all is after the change to F2P. Some of the limitations are a little annoying, but mostly cause I got used to accessing some of the stuff I now can’t.
Having said that, it’s still a pretty awesome game. I’d be keen to see lots of people jump in and give it a go, so people with plenty of download limit should grab it then pass the files on to others. I know not everyone here would enjoy having to download the 20-30GB required 😛
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I started playing again. Made a Bounty Hunter on the oceanic pvp, which I think is called Master Dah’nela or something. I forgot how fun it is to play an MMO that doesn’t lag.
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Hells yeah it is 😀
I have a bunch of characters on that server, none higher than 15 (I think), and I know Cake and Lambo have some on there too.
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Repost because Monday at reasonable hour:
MIDNIGHT SNAKTAKU:
Proudly brought to you by “This could kill a brown dog”
Leftover soup with potato gem croutons
Seriously guys, this looks like it came from Satan’s anus. I took the week’s leftovers (goulash, rendang and laksa being the main constituents), defrosted them and slopped it all together in one bowl. The consistency wasn’t right, so I threw it in the blender, after which it was nice and smooth.
And brown/black. Oh god, that colour will haunt me for years to come.
Adding some potato gems to act as croutons gave a nice change in texture, although they quickly were assimilated into the seething black ooze that was the leftover soup.
One slight addition; IT TASTES FREAKING AMAZING. Holy crap, this is possibly the best late-night snack I’ve ever made. I turned the light off so I didn’t have to look at it, and man, it’s pretty freakin’ good. The rendang gives it a really nice punch, which is somewhat offset by the swirl of sour cream I put in there for the goulash. The seafood in the laksa didn’t quite fit, but was not necessarily an unwelcome feature.
All in all, I’d do it again, but only if blindfolded. That looked positively vile.
9/5 Shiggys/Bishes.
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The obvious solution to your problem is to gouge your eyes out. I foresee no drawbacks or downsides whatsoever.
Today is the deadline if you want to participate in TAY Secret Santa.
Everyone who wishes to participate should send me:
– Your TAY handle
– Your address details
– Gift preferences (specifically, things that you don’t want / can’t have for any reason, or hints if you wish – not everyone knows everyone that well)
– Whether you would prefer a local TAYbie to send to (I will endeavour to pair up people locally to save shipping)
– If you wish to purchase for a specific person, let me know. If there is someone you do not wish to buy for, please also let me know (I’ll keep it a secret). Keep in mind that I won’t allow you to buy for a specific person if it would result in doubling up or sending to someone who isn’t participating.
You will be given a semi-random TAYbie to send something to. Selection will be made by me, to pair up people who wish to be local. You should remain anonymous to this person if possible. Value limit of around $30 including postage. You may go under or over this limit if necessary but please keep it as a guideline. No perishable items eg food. It goes without saying, but please don’t send anyone something illegal or which is not able to be mailed through Australia Post.
Participation means you must commit to sending something to someone (and not just receiving).
I will be coordinating the efforts but will not participate myself, as I will be choosing the assignment of people to each other and thus have a conflict of interest. In the event that someone has to pull out, I will step in to fill in the gap so that everyone still receives a gift, but I can only afford to do this as a once-off. If you agree to participate you must have the expectation you will be able to do so.
You will be revealing your personal address to only two people: myself and your Secret Santa. I will not leak this information to anyone else. By participating you agree that you will not misuse the address of the TAYbie you’re buying for. By participating you also acknowledge the risk involved – if you are not willing to take this risk or share this information, please don’t participate.
Deadline for signing up shall be Midnight on the 19th of November (TODAY). This is to allow enough time for gifts to be purchased and mailed in time for Christmas.
To sign up,
email me: atomicstrawberry (at) gmail (dot) com
twitter DM me: @atomstrawberry
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Emailed (finally)!
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Nothing illegal? Damn it all.
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I realise my request was a little… exotic. It’s already going to be a big workload for you to organise so don’t go too much out of your way for me.
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Yeah I was looking at it and I think it’s going to be fiddly to do.
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I spent most of this weekend watching the Starcraft World Championships and playing games I haven’t played in a long while.
Mostly mobile games.
Tiny Wings and Collision Effect are still amazing. I don’t know why I stopped playing them. I just wish that I could get that magical 175000 points in Tiny Wings so that I can finally get the next nest. Or that I could keep the combo chain going in Collision Effect through the later waves so that when I start getting combos of 6 or more, I start getting ridiculous amounts of points.
I also tried playing League of Legends again. Not to toot my own horn, but I’m pretty amazing at that game. In one game I was playing as support Soraka and managed to not be completely useless despite disconnecting early in the game (thanks storm!) and then having my mouse die on me (thanks Steelseries!). The only reason I didn’t dominate as AD carry in the last game is because Gorzy is the worst support ever, of all time. Also because I’m equally terribly at being the AD carry but mainly Gorzy.
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I don’t even get a mention for my backdoor Attackspeed Karthus skills? I freaking won the game for us. =P
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Not a mention.
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Attack speed Karthus is the BEST Karthus
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I built ganl boots and 5 stingers. Then upgraded 2 of the stingers into Nashor’s Tooth. I snuck in to the enemy bots’ base and backdoored them.
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Kinky!
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I guess today I am being one of those people who reply with Youtube comments.
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I had thought steelseries mice are more reliable, given how everybody raves about them! Or was this just a one-off thing?
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This is the first time that it’s happened. It’s a fairly new Steelseries Kana and my computer just up and decided not to recognise it. Didn’t matter which USB port it was in, it just wouldn’t work.
My trusty old MX518 worked in every USB port except the one that I normally have my mouse in. I suspect foul play from the Steelseries mouse, taking the USB port down with it.
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“This is the first time that it’s happened.”
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Ever. In the history of the universe.
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So much fun!
HALO FOUUUR! NINTENDO SIXTY-FOUUUR! I scabbed a RROD Xbox 360 console from a mate this weekend, he said ‘bring it back to life – it’s yours’. So I turned the console upside and it’s fixed, unit keeps freezing if it is not upside-down. Hired Halo 4, plowed through half the campaign, just about to start Reclaimer. Love it.
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I’m sort of curious, what Gen in the console?
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sounds like an old 360 Pro/Arcade console.
word of advice dont rotate it while the machine is on….
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Xbox 360 Pro. Xenon. DEFINITELY will not move the system when it is powered.
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Upside… down…
What is this I don’t even.-
How do you even get discs into it! /o\
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Hahaha! Sorry guys, I must be confusing everyone. I have the unit UPRIGHT and then I turn it upside down. So the console actually sits on top of the HDD accessory. Discs still go in easily, eject button is now right at the bottom.
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Morning all.
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‘sup, man? Hope life’s treating you good!
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All is well! How’s things up your way?
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Also well. Then it’s decided. Things are well!
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unanimous!
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MOOOOOOOOOOOORNING BEAVWA!
Top of the morning! *tips hat*
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I saw all your photos yesterday. Did you learn anything super awesome?
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I learned some fun camera stuff! Mainly thanks to Dan and Google though. Also that we shot JVTD hella fast compared to yesterday’s shoot.
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Greetings from Tasmania!
Mobile Kotaku doesn’t seem to work very well for me…really slow to load or just completely unresponsive. D:
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Yeah same for me unfortunately.
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Same here but at least it doesn’t completely crash!
It’s fine when the page is relatively small though and only chugs as it fills up with more comments
Hey all! hope you all had a good weekend??? bought Black Ops 2 (PS3) Friday night only got a chance to play ONE round…. yes folks ONE round. on the plus side, that one round set my K/D ration to 1.14 and got halfway past level 5… Bad thing is my ps3 is hooked up to the same monitor as my PC, which means that i usually jump on my PS3 right after ive played something on pc….
And damn that blur and those jaggies are so damn obvious… this is why we need next gen consoles dammit.
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I probably should add you on the PS3.
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sure thing man, maybe we can get some blops time in!
im probably going to jump on after dinner tonight… so about 7:30…
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Hi TAY! I’m not ready for Monday yet.
I broke the 400 hour mark on Team Hatress 2. I’ve been playing quite a bit recently – learning scout and spy (my two least favourite classes) and either I’m getting better or everyone else is getting worse.
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I loved Scout once I got the hang of it! Spy is still terrible for me though 😛
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Spy and Demo are my least effective classes. I’m getting better with Demo, but I fear that Spy will elude me for a long time to come.
@lambomann007@rize
Downloading TOR as I type this. My very first MMO.
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Wooo!
Give me a shout via Twitter/Steam if you ever need any help, or want to party up.Important note: SWTOR is pretty fantastic as a solo game, but it really shines when you’re playing in a group with friends…especially during conversations!
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See @dc? See?? 😛
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Nope. 😛
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All the regret =P
Eh I might download it though..
Howdy Tayberinos
I had a weekend up at North Beach, which is a Beach that is North- my Dad’s been teaching up there. I’ve also finally got my AC3 multiplayer working again, so am keen to do stabbing on PS3 if someone wants to join.
A Monday Morning Question: Best videogame ocean? I reckon the oceans in AC3 are actually pretty good
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Might be technically dated now, but I remember the BioShock opening blew me away with the plane crash and light house. Also, the ocean taking back the city! 😀
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im going to second the ocean in Bioshock. Incredible… the motion, reflections, everything.
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FFVIII
Because it will be waiting…for me…so…if I go there…I’ll find it.
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I…always…hated trying to……follow that…statement.
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The ocean in Xenoblade!
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I always liked the Just Cause 2 ocean.
Bioshock’s, when you get out of the plane at the start, was also freakin’ awesome but it was more of a set piece than a consistent part of the game.-
Was still nice to look out the windows any time in the game and take in the sights and sounds. 😀
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I’m up for some stabby-stabby as soon as I finish Darksiders II
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Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker. Such a pretty ocean.
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Ecco the dolphin was a pretty cool guy
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Halo CE. Silent Cartographer.
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First time I saw the ocean in Rubacava in Grim Fandango was pretty amazing. The opening of Curse of Monkey Island too in fact, with Threepwood writing his log. Loved the colour palette!
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One of my fave intros ever! Alongside Full Throttle and The Dig. Such epic intros
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Realisation of the day: Coke heads make great coffee makers.
That is all.
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Because they’re all jittery from the drugs that they make good foam?
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Nah, my coffee maker is insanely hyper in the mornings, singing songs at the top of her lungs, calling out at passersby and being a bigger wake up call than my daily cappucino. She has a slightly crazy look in her eye and sometimes dances around to the loud doof doof music she has going first thing in the morning.
I was always suspicious and my suspicions were confirmed when chatting to a co-worker who the coffee maker had made friends with on facebook. She apparently messaged her to hang out after the cafe had closed so they could drink and snort lines.
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My first thought when reading this was, wait, how do you use the bottle tops from Coke bottles to make coffee? Then I realised what you meant by coke head.
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Sigh…such innocence!
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My $0.02 follow.
Okay, so AC3 is not actually terrible. It’s a little buggier than I’d like, and it took ages to get used to the new settings, but once you’re in it, it’s pretty much exactly like every other AC game. I think that five games with these mechanics is enough though, so regardless of how this one ends, I’m pretty sure I’m going to stop here.
Edit to say: “just like all the other games” is not necessarily a criticism, because the core mechanics of those games are fun, and the stories are pretty good. I’m enjoying it.
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Yeah, I’m back on the Watch Dogs bandwagon, but pretty much done with Assassin’s Creed for now.
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I’m fairly sure the hive mind has spoken on this one. The game is bad and you should feel bad :p
I’ve pretty much given up on the series. It really is just more of the same. Couldn’t bring myself to play Revelations, won’t bother with AC3.
@Rize @Lambomann007 what server you lads on? Decided i’ll give SWTOR a go..
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I’ve got a level 18 Bounty Hunter and a Level 31 Jedi Consular on Master Dar’Nala (PvP). I’m going to start a Smuggler on the Oceana PvE server though.
Grouping up and starting new characters sounds like fun, that way nobody is behind. We probably won’t decide what we’ll do until we get together to play it though 😛-
Sounds good! As much as I like world PVP, PVE servers are much nicer to quest on.
As long as I can have a Rogue like character I am happy =P
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I’m on Dar’Nala and have 6 characters on there, so I’d have to delete 5 to start a new one. Having said that, I made these characters cause I knew F2P would limit my character creation so they’re all low-ish levels.
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Cheers Rize!
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Everybody clap
Everybody sing (lalalalalaaaaaaaaaa)
Bow to your partner
Then you turn around (Yipee)
Hands in the air
rockabye your bear
Bear’s now asleep (shhh shhh shh)
Bear’s now asleep (shhh shhh shh)
Spend the weekend camping with the extended family. The little ones have reached that stage.
Was nice to get away from it all for a bit, even if we did have to get out a bit earlier than planned due to a rainstorm that came through.
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Morning Tigerion! Sounds like a good weekend!
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Morning DC, how was the refresh game?
If the sleep was better it would have been great. Although trying to keep the little ones out for the campfire and the lake was a full time job.
I got home and was asked so what did you do, and couldn’t think of anything. Which is always a good thing.
My mad fisherwoman niece caught a fish which she hasn’t done for a while so she was stoked.
And my sister’s god daughter was there, who is about 6 months old so I got to see her for the first time.-
The refresh game was tough, man. Broke my already broken spirit. :'( Can’t complain otherwise. I haven’t been camping since I was really, really young.
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PLAY SCHOOL \o/
My 2yo is obsessed with it. I kind of love it too.…unless you’re talking about the Wiggles’ version of the song, in which case I say KILL IT, PURGE IT WITH FIRE
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I’m sorry, but I’m going to have to downvote that comment. 😛
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The devil has many disciples.
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It was the best version, the 4 kids around a campfire version. I also had the 2 yo show us the hokey pokey that she has just discovered and fallen in love with.
Sadly the boy does love his wiggles, although there is light on the horizon as now wiggles are getting replaces with “toys”. He is all about the toy story movies now. -
I wasn’t allowed to watch playschool. Had to watch the news instead =(
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Oh man… 🙁
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Man, I’ve listened to Breathe Me by Sia about one hundred times this weekend. (For reasons.) Do you have a song that you can’t get out of your head?
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Everybody clap
Everybody sing (lalalalalaaaaaaaaaa)
Bow to your partner
Then you turn around (Yipee)
Hands in the air
rockabye your bear
Bear’s now asleep (shhh shhh shh)
Bear’s now asleep (shhh shhh shh)because reasons 😉
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Hahahahaha, I was exactly the same after finishing Six Feet Under. And my wife even went so far as to buy her damn album 😛
I’m listening to Richie Sambora’s new solo album. Damn thing is too catchy.
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Rising up iTune’s most played song list, for sure. Amazing in the Six Feet Under context too.
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I know, right? The lyrics totally have nothing to do with the events in the mumblemumblemumble, but it’s by far the best
montageI’ve ever seen in a show, and feels like a perfect sound to complement it. It also seems like the kind of song that would be ona Ted mix tape😛-
I don’t know, it’s kind of angsty just like Claire. Could definitely relate it to her arc, all their arcs really. Human nature of making the same damn mistakes again-and-again. Being broken.*shrugs*
Either way, freakin’ awesome! 😀
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Oh yeah, it’s got that feel, sure. The mood is definitely pitch perfect, and the lyrics are part of that. But in terms of actually narrating events, like so many montage songs tend to do, its actual direct relevance to what’s happening on screen is not high. That’s what I was getting at.
And it’s not a criticism, I honestly think they put a staggering amount of work into marrying the flow of the song with the events on-screen, and made them perfect for each other.
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That’s true! Best. Show. Ever.
(Up there, atleast. :D)
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If you want an insanely catchy song, listen to Melbourne’s Dumb Ways to Die ad. @Aidan linked it on Twitter and it won’t get out of my head. :'( Was amusing at first, but now a bullet to the head seems in order. 😛
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Does suicide after hearing the song count as a dumb way to die? I won’t be clicking the link for fear of finding out first-hand 😛
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Might be worth watching once. There’s a critter that kills himself with super glue and dances an expressionless dance that makes me laugh. 😛
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You… you’re trying to trick me. I’m not falling for it. Not this time.
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I fell for it.
Dumb ways to die-ie-ie
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That’ll learn you! It was a test! 😛
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Ep, new week. Not any week though today I’m doing higher duties. Checked my emails and have like 10 emails with technical reports that I need to learn in a short time. I have a feeling the following few weeks are going to be stressful.
Enough of that, how bout dem Vidya Gaems?
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Hope you’re well otherwise, man. Congrats again on the job front!
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Stressful but monkeys!
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When I first read this I thought you said “monkeys”
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It’s amazing how cheap it can be to get things printed these days if you know where to look.
Yesterday, I spent a grand total of about $175. Which sounds like a lot, but here’s what I’m getting for it.
500 business cards
750 2-sided postcards
11 large posters
2 large vinyl banners
412 glossy A4 prints (200GSM paper)
+ Postage for all of the above.
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Tried to freakin reply to this a million times on mob kotaku earlier, damn crashy mccrashy! Alright, whos this through, and have you printed through them before and been happy with it?
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Okay, here’s what I did. Get ready for it.
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STEP ONE: Familiarise yourself with the Vistaprint site.
I got most of it done through Vistaprint. I’ve gone with them before, and once you learn how their website works, you can get some decent deals. For example, their baseline prices are quite high, but if you ‘enter’ their site through different front-ends (google “Vistaprint discount”, and just start clicking on links to Vistaprint sites – RetailMeNot has a good exclusive one right now), and realise that on top of the quoted cost, you’ll get hit for an upload fee for any customised design, and shipping costs, you’ll know what to expect.
The good news is that you can fill your cart, and it remains constant through reloads of the site, and even between different regions (vistaprint dot com is almost always cheaper than vistaprint dot com.au), so it’s a really easy thing to reload the site with a different set of discounts and see if your cart total is cheaper or not. It takes time to get it right, but the prices cannot be beaten. In general, look for a deal that includes free uploads, because that’s where they’ll really get you
http://www.retailmenot.com/view/vistaprint.com is a good place to start. The first deal is what I used this time. It includes free uploads and knocks 50% off most other stuff.
Note that the best specials often apply to low-quantity orders (100 of each item or fewer). It’s not always cost-productive to order in bulk – sometimes it’s cheaper to place a bunch of smaller orders. Also, it’s often better to use different ‘specials’ to order different items, which means splitting up orders – again, this is not a bad thing on Vistaprint.
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TL;DR: The Vistaprint site is freaking weird and complicated, and a trap for new players. Make sure you’re getting a good deal.-
Oh yeah, and sign up for their newsletter, because they send out fresh discounts to subscribers every week. As mentioned before, keep your eyes out for free uploads… alternatively, if they’re offering the product you want for ‘free,’ paying only for uploads and shipping, that can be a decent deal too.
Costs come in three places:
1) The item itself
2) Upload Fees
3) Shipping + GST (added right at the end)If you can eliminate one of these and get a discount on one more, you’re laughing.
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STEP TWO: Get a coupon for Vistaprint.
LivingSocial and that sort of thing often have deals where you can ‘pre-purchase’ $50 worth of Vistaprint products for $10 or similar deals. Those deals often ask you to enter the Vistaprint site using a front-end that provides minimal discount, but these vouchers will work regardless, so you might as well follow the link in Step One instead.
And better than waiting for a deal like that to come up (which is reasonably rare), check out Coup Recoup, which you can use to buy coupons that others have bought and no longer have use for. Yesterday, I got $140 credit at Vistaprint for <$20, so that helps the discount factor a lot.
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STEP THREE: Go elsewhere for A4 printing.
http://www2.pixo.com.au/
This place is amazing. Their prices are fantastic, and the quality of the print is great.Protip: once you get the items into your cart, experiment with quantity. The cart only uses full dollar amounts, so you can usually tweak the quantity upwards a little without incurring extra cost (for example, you can get 99 prints or 103 prints and it will cost the same). Go for a thicker paper stock (I always choose 200GSM with these guys), because you might as well, and it barely costs extra to upgrade it.
In the end, my 412 prints + postage came to $95, which amounts to $0.23 per print. Dirt cheap for what you get.
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STEP FOUR: This is not really a step, but something to keep in mind. There is no one-stop shop. Different places do different products for different prices. If money is your top priority, you’ll need to order through a number of different places.
STEP FIVE: There is definitely no step five. Here are my reviews though.
Vistaprint products are cheap. That’s a fact. But the stuff they put on paper is good quality. T-shirts, keyrings, etc, are another story. But printed paper stuff (posters, business cards, postcards, labels, etc) are all good. I’ve never been disappointed by their work.
I’ve only used PixoPrint once before yesterday – they did all the prints for my OzComicCon Adelaide trip in March/April. But the quality was unbelievable for the price – I could not have been happier with them.
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Ermahgerd, thatsd a lot of info! Thanks Shane, I’ll take my time disecting all that now…
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Yeah, I went overboard a bit. But it’s a lot of work to get good prices on things 😛
Also, the PixoPrint Facebook page is going through a bit of a complaint-fest, so if I were you, I’d hold off ordering anything through them for now. I’ll let you know if/when my order arrives, and whether the quality is good :\
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PS: I’m happy to help directly or with better targeted advice if you had specific ideas of what you wanted printed!
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What is the happy haps? I started a Gaige playthrough of BL2. She seems pretty cool. Not sure what tree to spec out, so i am just hoarding my skill points. Thats sensible, right?
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I’m liking AC3. Thanks, man!
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ME TOO DESPITE THE HATERS
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Considering you can respec whenever you want, not really.
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Silence to you and @trjn ‘s logics!
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Money is worthless, spend the points and respec freely.
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I felt like it was cheating to respec. 😀
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I like being able to respec with minimal penalty. The whole idea of having to commit to certain skills without any real knowledge of how they work in practise is kind of silly. Being able to respec means that you can experiment more and find something that works for you, as opposed to locking yourself into something you think might be fun and then realising you hate it.
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When it comes to Borderlands you’re probably right, but I played with a Mass Effect kind of mindset that all decisions mattered and there’s no turning back.
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If it makes the gameplay less fun because you made a mistake, I think you should be able to respec. Not being able to is simply a penalty.
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I went full into Ordered Chaos to get through PT1 – Blood Soaked Shields + keep an approx level appropriate hp regen shield is plenty of protection, pump up stacks of Anarchy and run in with shotguns, pistols for long range since they keep good accuracy up until about 350 anarchy, pop DT in “busy” firefights or if you’re in a bind and might hit Fight For Your Life.
You can probably keep up the reckless gameplay for the first few missions in PT2, but you’ll want to change eventually. Basically DT is useless in the Ordered Chaos build, and you’ll lose stacks faster than you’ll gain them.
I tried a few different specs throughout PT2, and eventually settled on a strong Best Friends Forever build. I avoid the Ultimate, since even with it active, I’ve had DT get one shot by some of the bigger badasses. The linked build is the best I could do from memory. I’m fairly certain I’ve accounted for my old class mod, and not the terramorphous one. Anyway, BFF Hybrid build gives me bigger & better shields, big buffs from Kill Skills, focus on elemental damage, and DT on a pretty short cooldown (in regards to damage, he’s close to useless, but he can draw fire for a while and his shield recharge skill is super helpful.
Started playing the guild 2 renaissance yesterday. BIG MISTAKE.
I started playing Farming Giant, and it really started to get me hooked, but damn buggy game 🙁 Keeps dropping to desktop. So I gave up and started on The guild.
Hard to start, but just like with Europa 1400, once you’re going, it’s so damn hard to stop!! ARRRGH!
So I’m thinking about ATTEMPTING to get one of the new PS3 12GB Slims in tomorrows COTD…. what do you guys think? My 80gb Phatty hasnt skipped a beat, but being a Phatty, im just scared she’s going to YLOD one of these days… I figured, realistically, if i bought the 12gb slim for $169, i can just throw in a HDD into it and i should easily be able to get my money back if i sold my Phatty?
im in a dilemma people, help!
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Try, but expect failure. COTD tends to have high traffic, low stock, massive site crashes. Be prepared for that 🙂
Your plan otherwise is reasonably solid.
Though I think PS3 (even old ones) have relatively low failure rates? Can someone confirm? Nothing like 360s at any rate.
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Got my PS3 in 2010, works flawlessly. On third 360, alas.
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I’ve only ever bought second-hand consoles, but I’ve had one RROD so far, and no YLOD yet.
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i think i bought mine in December 2008… 80gb model came with MGS4. Harvey norman deal.
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Yeah i also had my launch 360 rrod about 2 years later… microsoft repaired it free, and i ended up selling it the moment i got it back which is when i bought my ps3
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Yeah i know, i have had some success in the past with COTD so im hopeful.
Im not sure about exact figures in relation to PS3 YLOD, but from what imhearing it seems to be a question of “when will it happen” rather than “if it will happen”.
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Never depend on a good deal from COTD. Treat it like a lottery until you receive the goods.
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yeah figured ill have a crack at it, see what happens….
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I am terrified my PS3 will die and I’ll be fucked if it does b/c it’s a Japanese unit that I use for watching US & JP blurays.
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on the bright side, repairs arent impossible…. even a proper repair… can get a bit pricey though to be redone properly.
you may want to take some early precautions like get a decent fan base for it to keep it extra cool… YLOD is all about the heat…
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iOS App
Through it I managed to snag myself a nice set of …DORA HEADPHONES! during their free giveaway a few weeks ago. Had absolutely no luck on the desktop site but the iOS app isn’t completely shit.
Nearly got a blender and FIFA 13 through it too!
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I was really busy over the weekend and I forgot, Sorry. I’ll post the HDD to you tomorrow.
People talk about the Sony Defense Force but I think that the Nintendo fanboys are worse.
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Everyone is as bad as everyone.
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Yeah, extremists of any thing suck. Even if you get into a TV show there’s always those horrible fans that bully every one.
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XSI FETE UDNER IS BEST & I SORE IT FIRST SO U SUX
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Haha! Oh, man. I was totally going to make a Shane joke too in my post. 😛
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Twins, man. I keep telling you!
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An actual example: I remember when watching Buffy it got unbearable when all the Buffy and Angel belong together fans started screaming any time she wasn’t with Angel. Shippers are the worst. 😛
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I am technically a nintendo fangirl, but I like all consoles D= I think any fan people are the worst. I mean, i’m not going to force anyone to like Nintendo, it’s just not how I am.
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Apple fanboys are categorically the worst.
Probably one of the last reposts: Today is the deadline if you want to participate in TAY Secret Santa.
Everyone who wishes to participate should send me:
– Your TAY handle
– Your address details
– Gift preferences (specifically, things that you don’t want / can’t have for any reason, or hints if you wish – not everyone knows everyone that well)
– Whether you would prefer a local TAYbie to send to (I will endeavour to pair up people locally to save shipping)
– If you wish to purchase for a specific person, let me know. If there is someone you do not wish to buy for, please also let me know (I’ll keep it a secret). Keep in mind that I won’t allow you to buy for a specific person if it would result in doubling up or sending to someone who isn’t participating.
You will be given a semi-random TAYbie to send something to. Selection will be made by me, to pair up people who wish to be local. You should remain anonymous to this person if possible. Value limit of around $30 including postage. You may go under or over this limit if necessary but please keep it as a guideline. No perishable items eg food. It goes without saying, but please don’t send anyone something illegal or which is not able to be mailed through Australia Post.
Participation means you must commit to sending something to someone (and not just receiving).
I will be coordinating the efforts but will not participate myself, as I will be choosing the assignment of people to each other and thus have a conflict of interest. In the event that someone has to pull out, I will step in to fill in the gap so that everyone still receives a gift, but I can only afford to do this as a once-off. If you agree to participate you must have the expectation you will be able to do so.
You will be revealing your personal address to only two people: myself and your Secret Santa. I will not leak this information to anyone else. By participating you agree that you will not misuse the address of the TAYbie you’re buying for. By participating you also acknowledge the risk involved – if you are not willing to take this risk or share this information, please don’t participate.
Deadline for signing up shall be Midnight on the 19th of November (TODAY). This is to allow enough time for gifts to be purchased and mailed in time for Christmas.
To sign up,
email me: atomicstrawberry (at) gmail (dot) com
twitter DM me: @atomstrawberry
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Negs, how many people taking part so far?
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About ten or so I think.
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I would love to, but.. well… poor 🙁
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Who’s on the Hitman: Absolution bandwagon?
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Sexy nuns! What more could you want? 😛
:S
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After reading the RPS (http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/11/18/wot-i-think-hitman-absolution/) and PC Gamer (http://www.pcgamer.com/review/hitman-absolution-review/) reviews I think instead I’ll go play Blood Money.
Although that GMG price is pretty enticing..
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Do I… have to be on a bandwagon?
Can I not look forward to this game, having enjoyed the previous games, but with practically no expectations of it?
Like some sort of… eager yet slightly apathetic wagon?-
Drawn by a mule.
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Hey, it’s just lonely on this wagon thingy by myself. I thought maybe you’d wanna go on a hay ride or something. Okay then. :'(
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Yeah, not a fan of hay in my wagons these days.
Some jerk keeps jumping off buildings into my haystacks… but I don’t think they realise how not effective a tiny haystack is at cushioning falls, so when they hit, they hit hard and break my wagon. I’m on my fifth wagon. >:C
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Hmmm, describe this bandwagon. I’m thinking I’d be more on a band-like-Flight-of-the-Conchords-fictional-HBO-version-is-a-band wagon-like-a-broken-down-stagecoach-is-a-wagon type of bandwagon more than a band-like-Bon-Jovi-is-a-band wagon-like-the-bmw-3-series-is-a-(station)-wagon bandwagon.
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*nods head and smiles* Yes.
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MEMEMEMEMEMEE
*Accesses TAY hive mind*
Does anybody have any experience with the creative ZEN Touch 2
Mrs Tigs is considering getting one and has just started doing so research into them. Have you found them to be any good, or what concerns did you have about it
Thanks
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I find them to be quite shallow AND pedantic
GREATEST PSA EVER!!!
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HEY LOOPS. You’ve got a powerful-ish pc now, right? Cause SWTOR is free to play now.
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I’d love to care about it.. but i really can’t help but feel ‘meh’… really not a fan of MMO’s as much of a huge fan i was of the real KOTR games… 🙁
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Is the story you like? Because the stories in SWTOR are pretty decent.
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The US patent system is so… patently broken.
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I WILL COMBAT YOUR ONLY DOWNVOTE
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AND I SHALL MAKE IT AN UPVOTE!!!
WITH OUT POWERS COMBINED I AM…
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I see how this is how things will go down, @powalen
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Ah, but who will combat… MY UPVOTE!
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SHOCK TWIST!
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i’m waiting for the day apple patents patents
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Or apples!
At least there are ‘prior art’ considerations, as mentioned in the comments. This won’t stick, really.
I never use the page-turning animation anyway 😛 So much more lazy to just tap the screen or something.
Sughly’s Sunday night adventure!
Went along to Riverside stage in the rain last night to listen to Sigur Ros outside the stadium (sad but it was the next best thing to seeing them). So then I start seeing random people meander up to the guard at the gate and he lets them walk through. Hmmm, thinks me. I wonder.. I walk up very sheepishly, no confidence at all, and kind of stutter “Errr, so ah… I dont have a ticket but do you think you could let me through?” He looks at me with a look of disappointment and just shakes his head sadly. “Look” says he, “I would have let you in if you had someones stub and didnt say that stuff to me” “Oh…. sooo… if I come back with a stub then…”. He continues to shake his head. “You already admitted you dont have a ticket”.
Bum. I go back to my outside seat in the rain, pondering on my own stupidity. Figuring what the hell anyway, I ask for passers by for their stub. People are stingey and wont concede. I wait for the next group and produce a sob story – “My ticket was wrecked in the rain, I cant get back in now”. I get a stub. Part success! I meander sheepishly up to the guard once more. He gives me the all familiar sad shake of the head I’ve come to know so well. I point towards the direction of another gate. He gives me a nod of approval.
I’ve never tried this before. I’ve heard tales of it, but I figure what the heck. I make my way up the path, stub in hand that’s obviously been used. I feel a fool, but this is Sigur Ros. I have to try. I HAVE to. I make my way all the way around to the very far side of the festival, to the main gate. Security everywehre. I’m not just asking for one blind eye, I’m asking for a group of them! But this is Sigur Ros… nervously I approach, keeping the coolest demeanor I can manage. This is it, my last chance to get in. I calmly flash my stub, acting nonchalant. The guard looks… and doesnt seem to care at all. Gives me the nod of approval. I’m in.
TLDR: I got into Sigur Ros for free, and saw the whole show. It was absolutely incredible, one of the most mindblowingly amazing sets I’ve ever seen, and well worth the nervy effort it took to sneak in.
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Man, this is why people need just a little bit of confidence. I would’ve been too scared to try. Awesome story, Sughly! 😀
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You rebel you.
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inorite! You have no idea how nervy I was pulling this off though. This was no easy task for me 🙁
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On a scale of 1 to @dc how nervous were you?
Oh I’m just playing D.C.! < 3
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You’re right to make fun. My hand was trembling before I met Jimu. Haha!
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Naww :P!
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*Dials 000*
Also as a side note to this… WHO THE HELL WOULD LEAVE THE FESTIVAL BEFORE SIGUR ROS DO A 1.5 HOUR SET!?! What the hell!
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Was that before or after the hail storm? 😛
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After! Was actually no rain or anything by the time I got to Riverstage, was perfectly clear.
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Sigur Ros were freaking brilliant at the Sydney show.
you did good getting in to see them.
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Oh man, SO amazing right? That closer with Popplagid… everything I dreamed it to be and more. Had spine shivers the whole time.
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Just to give anyone else an idea of it http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=kQsPv4FMyLg#t=450s
The way those drums build from 10.40, so goddamn amazing
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opening with I Gaer. that brass section added so much bass to it. it was amazing.
& Glosoli. & Varuo. so amazing. & finishing with Popplagid. wow.& the projections were incredible as well. especially for I Gaer. creeppy baby/doll face coming out of the smoke & lightning.
Also, it was honestly the best sounding festival set I’ve ever heard. massive kudos to the sound crew.
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Yes! Sounds like the same set then. Oh man, so so good.
EDIT: I’m guessing you guys got the new song too, ‘Brimstone’ (or whatever he called it in Icelandic). Was incredible!
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Yeah, it was the same set. Sydney setlist.
Edit: yeah, we got the new one too. it was pretty damn good. & its an interesting sound coming from them. far more fuzz on the bass than I’ve heard em do before.
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Yeah, had an interesting drone thing going on, but I like it! Nice change of pace for sure.
EDIT: Oh man, Festival! That was amazing, with the girls doing the choir bit. Geez, incredible stuff…
EDIT2: Oh wait got my songs mixed up, I have no idea what song the girl singing one was now :/
EDIT3: Ah yep, Varuo. That one 🙂 Amazing. But Festival was amazing too. Argh, listening to these again… so good…
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Yeah, for some reason I always remember Festival as the choir one (from the album with the massive name), but thats Aru Bater. Which wasnt the one they played anyway XD I just heard choirish singing and thought it was that one, it was all mixed up in my excited brain.
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You are a spy. You must use your newfound powers for espionage.
Seeing as I’ve found a renewed interest in Collision Effect and Tiny Wings, what mobile games have people been playing?
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None. The main apps on my phone steadily increased in size and forced me to remove all of my games to accomodate 😛
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I had to get rid of Street Fighter because it was pretty bloaty (and shit). I should probably clear out the apps I don’t use from my phone, a lot of people don’t seem to do that.
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Yeah I had to delete most of my stuff except for my main apps. Google Maps has become so large that I’ve stopped updating it 😛
Time for a new phone soon, probably! (Something with more than 130ish MB of storage this time)
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I’d say that having only 130mb of storage would be your biggest hindrance there :p
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3DS games.
I don’t know, even when on the go/commuting, I like my games to be more meaty. Jetpack Joyride is fun in short bursts, but even so, I could whip out a few puzzles in Layton: Mask of Miracles and be happier wit that. The Story games by Kairosoft are the longest phone games have held my attention, but I feel like there’s not much to do once you finish a game cycle. Again, would be much more content with playing Pokemon BW2.
Personal preferences and all that, I guess.Also: the more inclined I am to bring my 3DS everywhere, the more Streetpasses I can get. I know what’s important.
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I don’t use my 3DS at all. I like the short burst “one more go” style of game and anything more substantial normally feels more at home on a different platform.
That being said, I’ve been tempted to start taking my 3DS to work so that I can play Super Mario 3D Land, which I’ve barely touched.
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Tis a great game! Had people warning me off it before, but I played it start to finish, was good times.
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I liked the three or four levels I played of it. The problem is that it’s a 3DS game and I just can’t bring myself to play that system much. It’s the Streetpasses. I’m too much of a grinch in handing them out.
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but streetpasses
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None. I hate mobile games, they’re shallow, crappy facsimiles of real games with terrible controls, or they’re ports of games from systems where they worked better.
Unless you mean games for portables, in which case… none because I’m using my Vita to play FFIX at the moment.
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I hit up the fruit ninja whenever I’m waiting for 5 mins on a train platform and cbb taking out my PSP/netbook.
Just discovered that my workplace has a 3D printer that none of the engineers knew about.
I know what I’m doing for the rest of the day.
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Sweet!
So, about getting models of TAYbies printed… you’re the guy? 🙂
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Funny you should mention that. I was just browsing the distributors website and they have 3d laser scanning options. They are like $750 but then I saw they sell software too.
So I looked up the software, and you can get free non-commercial licenses and the software apparently works with MS Kinect.
I don’t know what the accuracy of the Kinect is like though. Will it be able to see facial details?
The company has examples on their website but I think that would have been done with their own laser scanners not a Kinect. Either way, it should be too hard to get my hands on free software + a kinect.
And after watching this little thing print out my part in just under a hour, I’m seriously considering saving up for one.
A slightly smaller version is under $1K
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Warhammer miniatures?
What sort of 3D printer is it? Laser sintering (laser shines into a bed of powdery plastic) or fused deposition (plastic gets extruded from a print head in layers)?
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It’s just a crappy cheap fused deposition one.
The resolution is nowhere near enough for anything as detailed as warhammer.
3D printers haven’t quite caught up with casting as far as detail is concerned. Least not the little home desktop ones for $1K-$2K.
This one does down to 0.2mm detail. So 200 micron.
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I’d like several companion cubes please.
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That can be arranged… I should try find a 3D model for it online somewhere.
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So… Black Ops 2 actually looks pretty cool 😛 Lots of different multiplayer modes and looks a lot more colourful than what I’ve seen from the series (not much, admittedly).
Does any FPS have something like a scavenger game mode? You start off with only melee weapons and have to find randomly-spawned weapons on the map? (Kind of like original Halo, except more random and you start off with next-to-nothing) That sounds cool in my head, no idea what it would actually play like.
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The weapons scattered about the map was a staple of arena shooter games like Quake, Unreal Tournament and whatnot. You didn’t start with melee weapons but the whole game was about keeping track of weapon and power up spawns. It was non-random though because that’s how they controlled map balance.
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In some ways, random would almost be better, to prevent camping.
My only experience is Unreal Tournament, so my opinion may not be relevant nowadays 😛
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I found Quake and UT were fast-paced games; you always had to be on the move or else you were literally just a sitting duck. Those games had a few maps you could camp, I suppose, but usually they were intentional (Facing Worlds, IIRC? Good Sniper spots, but the top of the tower spawned a sniper rifle, and it was a mirrored map, and in CTF (because TDM was always a bit boring), you’d at least have a specific purpose for the Snipers to protect/take out the flag bearers and counter snipe.)
Also I feel like specific map spawns also add a certain risk-reward factor to it all. Gunning for that Redeemer? Yeah, you’re going to have at least half the server knowing what you’re doing. I hope you can dodge bullets mid-jump. -
It depends purely on what level of gameplay you’re talking about.
For casual play, random weapons would be the way to go. They’d act somewhat as equalisers and encourage movement.
For serious or competitive play, you’d want fixed spawns to encourage focusing on map control (and oddly enough, movement to ensure that you’re getting the best stuff before your opponent). Randomly spawned weapons would mean that a lucky spawn would snowball in favour of one player/team.
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The problem is, once you get a headstart, being able to preserve yourself and keep others down creates a significant advantage for you in which the gap between you and them will only typically increase.
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True, true.
How about… everybody starts off with a random weapon weighted against some sort of player score. No additional ammo/weapon drops. Then it’d be like a Battle Royale situation!
Or maybe you can only pick up one of the randomly-dropped weapon once the game starts. So you can take the first thing you see or take a chance to try and find something better.
IDEAS, MAN. Not very well thought out, but whatever 😛 That’s why I’m not a game designer!
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Halo has modes like that IIRC. Random weapon spawns. Though it might have been that you started with a random weapon. There was one mode that was utter insanity – moving king of the hill, everyone starts with random weapons. Fiesta?
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Oh really? Cool! I haven’t played any of them since Halo 2 (and even then I basically only played the splitscreen deathmatch mode :P) so I have no idea what the new games have.
Moving KOTH sounds pretty fun, too!
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“Make your profile beautiful”
ahahahahahhahahahahahahhahahahahahhahahahahahhahahahhahahahahhahahha
Oh Twitter. Good lord, no.
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Huh?
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Oh, I see it now.
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Yeah, it did that to me. I had the same response.
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I’ve been trying for two days to upload a header picture, but I keep getting an internal server error.
I want to be one of the beautiful
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YOU’RE BEAUTIFUL, YOU’RE BEAUTIFUL, IT’S TRUE
I saw your face, and took out a can of mace, and wait those aren’t the right words I think
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but my profile is already apparently beautiful, if a little hard to read my bio in
So glad I decided to hold off on a Wii U.
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Why’s that?
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Hardware seems average, user interface terrible and inconsistent and under-baked or not well thought out, poor launch game lineup esp. with Rayman getting pushed out. Lots of obvious hardware issues, like the gamepad only having a 3 hour charge. Expensive for what you’re actually getting too.
I’ll probably get one but I feel I’ve made the right choice by choosing to wait. Maybe by the time I get it they’ll have fixed the interface (and actually launched the missing bits of it) and maybe refreshed the hardware a bit.
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I dunno, the hardware doesnt seem average. The articles pulling them apart specifically state its all half truths because they dont know how it can be pushed. You shouldnt jump the gun on dissing it when you dont really know…
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Splitting hairs. It’s not a powerful system and the fact it has to spend half its processing power to push images to the gamepad is going to always limit it.
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But… you still dont know how well it will play. To me the videos look great, so who honestly cares how it holds up to this or that? If it looks good and plays well, great, and from what I see it does that.
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it just seems like a repeat of the gamecube… in another 12 months, Sony and Microsoft will no doubt blow them out of the water… in all honesty though, Nintendo has always relied mostly on its 1st party games to support its consoles…. theyve never really heavily relied on third party AAA titles, so i guess we’ll have to see… could very well be the reason they held back on a Zelda or 3d mario title… releasing big name games for christmas 2013 sounds like a smarter business plan to take back some of the attention all the new consoles will be getting.
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They’re still not relying on third party AAA titles. Unless you mean the quick & dirty ports of 9-12 month old games?
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thats exactly what i meant to say… that it will prove difficult to compare the consoles next year, because nintendo’s emphasis has always been its first party games.
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As per my slightly broken convo on twitter, i doubt i’ll get a wiiU. We bought a wii when it first came out, and seriously, was mostly a waste of money in my house. The type of games it had didnt attract my cash as much as xbox and pc games do.
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I have a lot of good Wii games and I’m glad I had the system. But that was about 12 games out of hundreds. Very poor signal-to-noise ratio.
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i guess my limited gaming funds had a lot to do with it too. I only normaly buy a max of 5 games a year. cod automatically takes up one of those purchases. Plus what ever else is around, and my goto platform is xbox, so the wii pretty much got ignored, which is sad, coz bowling was good fun, but the other games just never grabbed me.
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I got my Wii for free with a new TV.
I got it modded and had like 60 games for $10.
But really after a few hours of lego star wars…. I got over it.
waving my hand around just wasn’t for me. I think the WiiU would be the same. Once the novelty of the touch screen wares off, it’s just a big controller, (with a 3 hour charge apparently).
And games have to make sure they actually use the additional features for something more than a gimmick.I’m not a console player. I won’t hide that fact. I play very few games on console, sometimes exclusives, racing games and occasional 3rd person games. But if it requires aiming, i’ll still usually prefer a mouse. (Man AC2 was bad on PC).
It might be my apathy towards consoles, but the WiiU doesn’t do it for me.
skrillex has a silly haircut
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Correct.
Greenthings every body.
weekend was good, had my sister inlaws engagement party. God mightily drunk and spent the night in the city.
Yesterday, i hit 1st prestige on blops II. Seriously, shortest prestige in cod history i think. but still good fun.
Also got myself a new xbox controller today, my last one had buggered sticks and a bad mic jack. But tell me, is it just me, or are the new controllers with battery packs a little heavier than the ones from a couple of years back. I am replacing a red controller i got not long after i first got my xbox and this def feels heavier than that. Also not sure what to make of the tricky D pad on these ones. anyone find use for the more stick like d button?
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‘sup, man? Sounds like an awesome weekend!
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blood did you perhaps hide in a cave with pizza, red bull, blops 2 and a tv for a week???? HOW THE HELL HAVE YOU PRESTIGED ALREADY?!?!?!?!?!?
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well i had 1 day off. But i have a very high score per minute, which makes prestiging quicker. I have friends who are bout to 2nd prestige.
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I skimmed that a somehow read that you got drunk, stayed in the city and got hit by a bus. I’m glad that wasn’t the case
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with the way i was feeling on the weekend, would have done more damage to the bus than it did to me 😛
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You guys are awesome. :’)
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gnaww who would downvote such positivity!
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Haha… poor D.C.!
I’M ON HOLIDAYS. I woke up at noon today and I have a busy afternoon of video games!
I haven’t been able to do any good gaming since the start of the semester so I have a lot to catch up on and that’s with only buying one release this year o_O THE BACKLOG.
I’m thinking Mass Effect 1 – I got halfway before it destroyed MY HEART, more DRAGONJUGS adventures in Skyrim, Bioshock 1 and 2 (which the whole being confined under water thing *really* freaks me out so I might need company) and I kind of want to play some Tomb Raider games. Y’know being a brunette interested in archaeology it only seems right.
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What about the whole being confined under earth thing?
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Not a problem. I think the almost drowning twice thing gave me some water issues.
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Twice? That’s a good effort.
I almost drowned in a hotel pool when I was little. Random guy, who had just walked through the gate and was the only person who noticed me fall in, dove in and saved me.
I was just lying there at the bottom of the pool, staring upwards.
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Play Mass Effect because Garrus.
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Oh, that Garrus. He’s so dreamy!
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YES! ♥
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Can’t swim club represent!
I’ve decided to combat my overweightness and start doing martial arts again!
Now I just need to find a space where I can move around with no shoes on that has a lot of room!
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Want some montage music recommendations?
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Recommendations plural?
We all know there’s only one song he needs.
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I was thinking Dreams by The Cranberries. You know, from everyone’s favourite Karate Kid… the one with Hilary Swank. 😛
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I clicked that link, hoping for a Rocky clip. I was disappointed.
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You can never be disappointed by disney clips
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Actually the Mulan Suite is amazing!
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a park? a playground? a foodcourt? in boutique jewelery store? the stage at your local theatre?
I see no problem with doing martial arts in any of those places.
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Retirement village?
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get the old folks involved & start your own dojo. best idea.
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Their brittle bones are easy on the knuckles.
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If I do it in a park, I have to teach punches to Ryo from Shenmue when he comes over to talk to me.
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although i’m not doing martial arts, my friend has convinced me to join a gym, so i’m getting fit as well!
although, i’m actually a bit too skinny, not overweight, so i’m trying to put on some meat.
BUT YEAH FITNESS BUDDIES
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My air con broke just in time for summer, so no treadmill for a whiles I think. :'(
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I’m in the same boat funkster. Haven’t done any exercise (or near enough) for almost 2 years and decided i had to do something again.
My main motivation is fitness rather than bulk but when I checked my weight the other day at the gym I realised I have been the same weight for the last 15 years. So a little bit more mass would be nice.
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Gun Game in Black Ops is stupidly good fun.
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‘sup Freeze?
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How’s it compare to CounterStrike’s gun game?
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TFGunGame!
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It’s a mode where everyone starts with the same gun and you get a better gun with every kill. You drop a class if you get knifed.
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Yup. “Inspired by CS” is putting it in a manner that doesn’t start a lawsuit.
Having said that:
#1 Another game probably did it before the CS mod
#2 It’s great fun in both games…Oh, and #3 @powalen, GG is potentially like on of the things you were talking about last page.
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Oh, Gun Game is an actual game? I thought you guys were joking 😛
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In BLOPS (the first) you start out with a pistol and for every kill you work up to a better weapon. It went something like Dual Pistols, SMG, Dual SMGs, Assault Rifle etc. etc. and first one to reach the end wins 😀
But if you die you go back a step and if you get meleed I think you go back all the way to the start.
Something along those lines… been a while since I’ve played it!
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I’ve only ever seen it as a server mod for CS, now though that Valve incorporated it into CS:GO is awesome.
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So last night I finally got the chance to watch the first episode of Justified. I really liked Timothy Olyphant in Deadwood and he pretty much plays the exact same character here. I have good feelings about this series – I just hope some other characters shine through like Al Swearengen. Anyone watched this series?
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My parents love that show, it’s been on my to watch list for a long while.
First I need to re-watch The West Wing and finish Freaks and Geeks. Then probably a whole host of other shows. Then maybe I’ll get around to it.
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You seem to have good taste in TV, Trjn. Have you heard of a little show called Six Feet Under? 😀
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Someone here was going on about it the other day :p
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Yeah, I guess it’s all right.
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Yeah, kind of life changing stuff. Kind of.
Edit: Haha! That sounds really pretentious and hipster-like. Don’t mind me, I’m just enthusiastic about it. 😀
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Can I provide the unpopular opinion that I didn’t really get into Six Feet Under? I watched the first season and really really tried, but it didn’t resonate with me.
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Maybe you’re not broken inside enough? 😛 To tell you the truth, I was ready to stop after the pilot. The darkness was really confronting, not sure I could stand 63 episodes of morbidness. Glad I stuck it out. If you’re not liking it after the first season, was probably worth stopping though.
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Yeah it wasn’t one of those series where people say that it really gets better after the first season so I figured it was time to call it quits.
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Never saw West Wing or Freaks and Geeks. Sigh…I wish I didn’t have a job and could just sit at home all day watching tv series. Maybe it’s time to fake some disabilty payments
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If you were really dedicated, you’d find a way to catch up while you’re at work.
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I think I neglect my job enough as it is -_-
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I have a job and I manage.
Definitely worth watching both of them. The West Wing is pretty much Aaron Sorkin showing off how well he can write complex dialogue and Freaks and Geeks is the best teen drama/comedy I’ve seen (okay, maybe original Degrassi is better but I haven’t seen enough of that to judge).
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Yeah but there are so many more tv series to watch as well. For me, my wanted list is Dexter, Arrested Development, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Shield, Homeland, Sons of Anarchy, Friday Night Lights, Archer, Treme, Bored To Death and Parks and Rec.
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Well, the good news is that you can stop watching Dexter after season 1, and skip Homeland entirely. Time saved \o/
Then you can focus on The Shield and Sons of Anarchy, get so into them that you forget to go to work, lose your job, and then watch all the shows \o/
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Is that the one with Walton Goggins in it (Shane from The Shield)? If so, I’ve heard decent things about it.
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Yep it is
I am eating lime jelly and enjoying it immensely. What’s your favourite flavour of jelly?
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Plain.
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jelly beans? lemon or orange!
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The red one? Green? It’s all good, really.
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Blue flavoured.
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I was going to write “U”, then realise this sounded more like a shit (and a little graphic) pick up line, rather than referencing people being jealous.
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The flavour you build your house out of.
Because Jelly is always cool, and so your house would always be cool(That second line is a quote from someone I went to school with).
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I like aeroplane jelly.
Aeroplane jelly for me.
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lime jelly is the bestest jelly by far!
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Depends. If I can have it with ice cream, raspberry jelly. If I have to eat it by itself… pineapple jelly.
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LIME!
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The stuff that makes up the majority of a chicken pie.
@shane
Hey mate! i think im pretty much finished with my childrens book, just need to tidy up a few things. My question to you, when you submit a childrens book for publication publishing, would you normally format it properly page by page, leaving room for illustrations?
@scree are you still interested in doing any artwork?
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Congrats, man. That’s awesome!
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thanks man! I got on a good start for a few days when i decrypted my files, but have been really lazy since…..
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From what I’ve read, there are no hard and fast rules for formatting. Best practice is to see if each publisher has submission guidelines or preferences for this sort of thing. If not, you could even ring them up, ask the name of the submissions editor (because this looks better on the letter you write), and while you have them on the line, is there any particular formatting they prefer for picture book manuscripts?
Usually, though, you would indicate which words are on each page, so the editor can get a feel for the flow of the thing, but you wouldn’t usually do this by leaving pages blank. This is one example of what it might look like.
[Page One]
Annie’s teacher gave out homework,
Due in two week’s time.[Page Two]
She asked them for a story
And it had to be in rhyme.[Page Three]
Annie took her pen and said,
“I know just what to write!”
So she worked so very, very hard
Staying up all night.Etc.
EDIT: They should be able to offer guidance on how to describe pictures too, but the general rule of thumb that I’m aware of here is that you want to be minimalist here. Illustrators will have their own ideas.
EDIT #2: I haven’t actually been published in the picture book realm, so take this advice with the appropriate amount of skepticism, given that caveat.
Good luck, man. Happy to provide more detailed feedback if you want.
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cheers shane! o/
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Speaking of writing, how goes the NaNoWriMo? I know DireWolf was doing awesomely. RedArtifice’s stuff is pretty damn good too. Also: Movember?
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I sort of fell away from that since my hayfever got bad. Assassin’s Creed III had nothing to do with it.
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Sorry to hear that, man. :'( (That you’re playing Assassin’s Creed 3, I mean. I guess the hay fever is bad too. :P)
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Haw haw haw
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I saw a cheap joke and I went for it. 😛
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I started \o/
Didn’t think I would get through it but I am well behind even where I hoped to be. Being away from technology all weekend didn’t help. But either way I’m happy with what I’ve done so far, setup the structure and given me something i can work on
All the reviews and whatnot are coming out for the Wii U.
I have to say that Zombi U looks like it could be a really good game that I think a lot of people here would probably enjoy. It’s not enough to get me to buy a system but I think when I do finally get a Wii U, it will be one of those games I’ll look into.
Permanent character death and the ability to hunt down the zombie of your previous character for the loots? Best corpse run ever.
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I agree, not a system seller but definitely looks pretty damn good. I think Pikmin 3 is what I’m waiting for…
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I said this about the 3DS but it holds true for the Wii U: I’d buy it straight away if there was a new Trauma Center game on it.
It’s the touch screen. Give me a touch screen system and I’ll want Trauma Center. So disappointing that the series went onto the Wii with those horrible Wiimote controls.
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I freakin’ hate the Wii version so damn much, man.
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Me too.
The Wiimake was one of the reasons I wanted a Wii. Then it didn’t come out here until after I had already grown tired of the Wii (so much for being a launch game). I ended up playing it as part of Shameless Gaming Month last year.
It went poorly.
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Yeah I think it looks pretty swish. It’s getting some not-so-great reviews though so I’ll probably wait until some TAYbies get their mitts on it.
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I’m ignoring all reviews for it and will form my own opinion when I get it, cause I’ll be getting it ASAP.
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It’s always interesting when you ignore the internet and build an independent view of something. I somehow avoided most of the drama to do with ME3 and it ended up being my favourite game this year (even with the ending).
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Yeah, same here. I didn’t read any of the criticism until after I finished the game. I didn’t love the ending, but I loved pretty much every thing else about it.
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I liked the ending too, probably because I just walked away from the crap online and experienced it myself.
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I’m sick of the whole hype train thing. It just seems that what Zombi U is trying to do covers a lot of things that people seem to like around here.
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I am all the hype for Rayman Legends. But even then, I think I will wait a year or two, wait for a price drop or something before I consider dropping money into it.
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Pikmin 3 looks so damn good!
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I’m really looking forward to ZombiU. Always kind of liked roguelikes.
@scree: is the plan for the 15th meat to go to Yoyogi’s? I might have to skip and meet you all beforehand or after.
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I hear that @Virus__ fellow is gonna be there, he can be a pretty nifty dude at times.
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Yeah I don’t want to miss out, but while I really like Japanese food, my current diet restrictions make it super difficult / impossible (avoiding grains eg wheat, rice, and also legumes i.e. soy beans and derived products – I think I could have their seaweed salad maybe).
So I’ll probably eat beforehand or meet you guys after or something.
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Oh wow man, yeah that pretty much rules all Japanese cuisine out for you =(
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Aww man 🙁
They have mad takoyaki
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I just mentioned Trauma Center and remembered how I barely played the sequel.
Then I remembered how I searched high and low to find a copy of the sequel after reviewing the original. Turns out that Play Asia sells it.
Guess I’ll just have to go buy a copy right now.
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Just break into my house and take my copy.
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Too late, I just threw some money at my screen and Play Asia took it.
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I hear the Wii U won’t have the besterest graphics in the whole wide world, but that’s cool. The PS3 and Xbox 360 are pretty powerful and the SNES is still a better machine.
I’M STILL HYPED!
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Yeah exactly. For what it was doing, the Wii was graphically stinted, yes. To me the WiiU looks like its basically good enough to make what they were doing with the Wii pretty, and more interesting with the gamepad now. Sounds great.
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At the end of the day, I get to play Nintendo games in HD.
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HD ZELDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
Also New Super Mario Bros Wii U!
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No gamecube backwards compatibility i.e. no Wind Waker i.e. no point.
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Not gonna lie, will probably download Wind Waker when it inevitably arrives on the store.
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Me too, man. Super Mario Sunshine, Wind Waker and Luigi’s Mansion would basically confirm a Wii U sale for me. 😀
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I downloaded LoZ, Zelda II, LttP, LA, OoT, MM & Minish Cap. I will download any other Zelda game I can!
Although, I’d prefer The Wind Waker HD on disc.
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Why can I only upvote this once? =(
Bring on a Windwaker HD collectors edition (or just a special edition with an art book) and Nintendo will get all my money.
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GC games on the eShop i.e. The Wind Waker will be for sale i.e. ALL THE POINTS!
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Better hope your system doesn’t die or get nicked then. 🙁
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Name a machine better than a SNES.
WRONG.
The answer is Doc What in the bedroom, but the SNES is still a close second.
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Doc Brown’s DeLorean.
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No it is you who is wrong. I’ll forgive your lapse o memory this time though. For future reference the correct answer is Megadrive.
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Not sure if you were ever taught this Freeze, but it’s rude to lie to people. Also you’re a jerk, and you smell.
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Perhaps. But that still doesn’t change the fact the Genesis does what Nintendon’t.
Also, Blast Processing.
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Maybe we should grab a list of games for each system and see how they compare?
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Like Mortal Kombat?
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Battletoads.
#FINISHHIM
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Nah, I was thinking of good games.
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@Rize
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@Harli
I think you mean #HiRize
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Bitch, please.
Mastersystem II
PC.
So damn humid. I’m sitting down, doing nothing… dripping with sweat. :S
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It’s about 15 and cloudy here, with a huge wind.
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*shakes fist*
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I’m sitting here in a big fleecy jumper 😛
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I sat on the toilet earlier and almost fell off, because slippery.
Absolutely disgusting, and far too much information, but god-damn, it’s hot.
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Haha! That is too much information, but I also feel bad for complaining.
I doubt it’s Groote Eylandt hot here. :S
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I’m scared I’ll freeze my scrawny little arse off when I visit you 😛
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Eh, we’re averaging high 20’s here, by then it’ll be into the 30’s and humid enough for you.
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Protip: don’t lube your toilet seats.
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Hot.
So, how many people backed/will be getting Star Citizen?
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I hope it does well and people aren’t disappointed when it under-delivers.
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I haven’t backed any thing. 🙁
Someone’s got to buy these games on release!
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NOT EVEN THE DOUBLE FINE ADVENTURE!?
wahhhhh!!!!!!!!!!
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Nah, honestly couldn’t afford to back every thing I want, so figure I’d only back a project if it was struggling to meet the goal or special circumstances. So far every thing I’m into has been backed without my help. I’m sad I missed out on the documentary, though. I will buy these games. That’s how I justify not backing. 😛
It sucks, though, because I know every cent counts when it comes to development. :'(
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It’s worth it for the documentary alone. Makes sense that you’ll only consider backing those that really need it but you can still be a slacker backer for the doco!
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Staaaaar Citizeeeeeeeen!
Backed it on like the first day of funding.
Looks amazeballs.
That Ke$ha is a real dirty looking human being.
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She’s HUMAN?!?
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That’s what she wants us to think, at least.
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Who thinks that? She’s clearly fooling no one.
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I watched her latest video because someone said something about it being illuminati or some nonsense. Couldn’t get past the fact that she has this layer of filth that just hovers around her like an extra membrane.
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More human than Nicki Minaj…
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She is quite repelling.
Oh, I forgot to mention on weekend TAY: Man, I’m amazed at the popularity of Skylanders! I remember thinking when it first came out that it was a stupid idea. But I was doing the usual browsing in the shopping centre (ie. not stopping at anything except the game shops…) and every one had a massive Skylanders display.
It’s actually pretty smart the way they’ve done it. With a small TV set up and a promo-reel running. You can put the figurines onto the portal thing while they’re still in their packaging and the TV will show some gameplay of that character. Pretty amazing tool when you think about it. I had to stop playing with it because there was a small group of kids lining up behind me 😛
slowpoke.jpg and all that, but I’d never taken much notice of the displays before now.
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I’m surprised how well it’s been received by gamers in general. You’d think with all the hate DLC and freemium games get that people would be up in arms over Skylanders, but everyone seems pretty cool with it.
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If every DLC had it’s own real-life collectible figure then I’m sure people would not complain as much about DLC. 😛
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That would be awesome.
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My son is lapping that shit up
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Amazing.
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I play with those displays almost every time I’m at Big W.
Edit: Spelling
Hey, everyone.
I am wearing pants. Be thankful.
Page 3 repost: Today is the deadline if you want to participate in TAY Secret Santa.
Everyone who wishes to participate should send me:
– Your TAY handle
– Your address details
– Gift preferences (specifically, things that you don’t want / can’t have for any reason, or hints if you wish – not everyone knows everyone that well)
– Whether you would prefer a local TAYbie to send to (I will endeavour to pair up people locally to save shipping)
– If you wish to purchase for a specific person, let me know. If there is someone you do not wish to buy for, please also let me know (I’ll keep it a secret). Keep in mind that I won’t allow you to buy for a specific person if it would result in doubling up or sending to someone who isn’t participating.
You will be given a semi-random TAYbie to send something to. Selection will be made by me, to pair up people who wish to be local. You should remain anonymous to this person if possible. Value limit of around $30 including postage. You may go under or over this limit if necessary but please keep it as a guideline. No perishable items eg food. It goes without saying, but please don’t send anyone something illegal or which is not able to be mailed through Australia Post.
Participation means you must commit to sending something to someone (and not just receiving).
I will be coordinating the efforts but will not participate myself, as I will be choosing the assignment of people to each other and thus have a conflict of interest. In the event that someone has to pull out, I will step in to fill in the gap so that everyone still receives a gift, but I can only afford to do this as a once-off. If you agree to participate you must have the expectation you will be able to do so.
You will be revealing your personal address to only two people: myself and your Secret Santa. I will not leak this information to anyone else. By participating you agree that you will not misuse the address of the TAYbie you’re buying for. By participating you also acknowledge the risk involved – if you are not willing to take this risk or share this information, please don’t participate.
Deadline for signing up shall be Midnight on the 19th of November (TODAY). This is to allow enough time for gifts to be purchased and mailed in time for Christmas.
To sign up,
email me: atomicstrawberry (at) gmail (dot) com
twitter DM me: @atomstrawberry
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DAMN IT, ALEPH! 😛
I’m about to vent off a little here, so you may want to skip to the next comment.
I’m a mess, i don’t know how to feel, so many good and bad things happening in my life….
The Good:
1. One more payment and i own my damn car
2. Finished my book (mostly)
3. 23 days till Hawken
4. I’m downloading Mechwarrior Online
The Bad:
1. As most of you know, i need to move out of the rental property I’m in by 15th Jan
2. We are slowly starting to pack… only someone who has been in my shoes can really understand the emotional strain and tension it can put on ones relationship… this is the 3rd move in 3 years (this is including our initial move when we got married)
3. Looks as though we may be moving in with my in-laws for about 12-18 months so we can put aside some money.
Quantity wise the bad far outweigh the good, but the bad have a much bigger impact. I’ve been so stressed lately that i just haven’t had any motivation to do anything. The doc has put me on some stress meds – god knows if they’re working. Things are just so screwed up right now, i just feel like I’m going to breakdown.
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I’m sorry to hear that, man. We’re all here for you any time you want to vent, though. I hope you feel better soon on the stress front too. 🙁
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cheers dc
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I’ve lived with the in laws. It wasn’t particularly fun. Especially when you have a fight.
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i agree totally freeze. its not just that though. its a damned if you do, damned if you don’t situation… if i move in with my folks, then her folks are going to take it personally…. i move with the in-laws, my parents will take it personally. No matter what i just cant win. the only reason i agreed to move with them is because if i went to my folks, psychological warfare would ensue against my missus. im just over it all.
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Moving a lot sucks but seeing as you’ll have paid off your car and will be living with your in-laws, it sounds like you’ll be able to save a lot so that you can find a better long term living option. That’s not so bad.
Short term: /o\
Long term: \o/
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cheers trjn. i get what you are saying, things just feel so bad at the moment that i am really struggling to see the positive side to it all…
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I’m sorry to hear that. Mum was telling me how stressful it was to move so much the other day. I don’t know myself, so I can just imagine.
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This is an exact re-telling of the last 6 months of my life.
Soul mates.
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I’m really sorry for anyone that can relate to my situation man, i wouldnt wish it on my worst enemy. hope you worked it all out man.
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It’s not that bad ‘cept for the fact I have to remember to take clothes into the bathroom when I shower.
Also less farting in the kitchen.
I mean, it hasn’t stopped, who could stop cold turkey am I right, but my dinner preparation “beefs” have decreased.
Sad.
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are you also living with your in laws? i suppose ill end up killing everyone with my gasses and my eating patterns may have to change slightly…. i am a carnivore… (not to be confused with cannibal). i eat veggiesaurus’s instead of veggies…
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Seriously, how great is farting?
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No damn it I’m not going to divulge anything about my filthy habits!
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Yeah trust me, I do understand. I’ve moved so many times recently, and the last move pretty much caused a lot of cracks that ended up impacting my last relationship. Sooo yeah, been there. Gonna have to move myself on the 10th of December, and am actually putting my stuff in storage to go back to NSW for xmas holidays, stay with mum, save moneys, come back up and move somewhere in Feb.
TLDR: I get where youre coming from
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Dude whaaaaaaaaaat!?
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I’m sorry to hear that, Sughly. Hope everything comes together!
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Nah I’m ok, I’m sure it’ll be fine too! Not after sympathy, jus saying I get that situation. Anyhoo, get to go to Sydney for a bit during that time have meats, woo!
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Considering the stories I’ve heard about you when you’re out and about, I think we should have some fun in Sydney 😀
Hetero fun, though.
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really sorry to hear that man, i hope you hit the bigtime man with your games, then you can come back and kick some ass.
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Haha thanks, but yeah, like I said above, I’m fine. Jus sayin I understand 🙂
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Hugs all round.
A bit of help with the short term: go to a meat, meet some TAYbies, relax for a night or two and have some fun. It’ll definitely help you get a more positive outlook on all the horrible stuff you’re dealing with, and potentially make it easier to deal with.
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yeah ill definetely be joining the next meat. i think someone was planning something around the 15th Dec here in melb. hopefully i wont be the only oldie, will hate to be that creepy
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You won’t be.
It’s harder when you’re the youngest guy there though :/
Ask @Scree for deets but it’s something like meet at Fed Square at 11am then go to Yoyogis and eat? I dunno something like that 😀
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Make sure Pixel’s there. He’s like…twenty…thr-fi-…four? That’s kinda close.
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hey just in case anyone wants it theres an open CLOSED Beta on the 20th November (US date i assume) for Hawken… you can use the following Beta registration code if you wish to take part…
HAWKEN_GENESIS01
I had a sort of interesting train ride today. First, I had to wait over an hour for the train because apparently there was some sort of accident in Melbourne. For a while, it wasn’t even clear if the trains would continue running at all this day.
Second, kid’s these days, am I right? I saw a group of teens that were about 14 years old, all bogan looking and all smoking. That in itself is hardly surprising, which is sort of sad, but there was also a kid with them who had to be about 10 years old who was dropping the F bomb every second word and also had a cigarette. Now I don’t want to be judgemental, but I’m going to be and if your 10 year old child is smoking, you have failed as a parent. I also recognised a couple of the teens from an incident on the train last week. I was sitting in the train, minding my own business when three of those teens sat on the seats next to me, which was understandable given that the carriage was pretty full. I ignored them, which is pretty common public transport etiquette. They didn’t ignore me however and started trying to rile me up and pick a fight with me. I just ignored them and kept looking out the window. Eventually it got to the point where they started calling me a fag because I wasn’t paying attention to one of them who was a girl. Eventually they got bored and left me alone. Thankfully, nothing like that happened today.
The third thing that happened was an elderly gentleman who seemed to suffer some sort of mental illness was trying to hop off the train. The doors closed on him as he did so which caused him to trip over. It was actually quite a dangerous situation as the train started moving and the man’s arms or legs could very easily have slipped between the train and the platform. Luckily there was another elderly man there who was right on the ball and rushed forward to help the man up while at the same time positioning his body between the man and the train, trying to make sure the train didn’t bump the man on the ground. Everything ended up working out fine. The man was helped to his feet, the train left, a man working for Metro checked to see if he was okay and I gave an account of what had happened, because it seemed like I was the only person there who had seen what happened in full and could confirm that it was indeed just an accident and no one was to blame.
So maybe these things aren’t that interesting, but when a normal day of riding the train consists of waiting 10 – 20 minutes for the train, riding the train for 20 minutes and then leaving the train anything that breaks that monotony is both welcome and note worthy.
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I paid $5 for a salad.
No old man slipped.
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Was it from Coles?
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Coles Asian Salad.
It was amazing.
I was craving one from ever since last Tuesday when a co-worker had one as side for his meat pie.
So this morning I decided to treat myself.
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I sat on the train for two hours to get to work
I conversed with my regular train crew *We actually see each other outside of the train, and had never met before the train*
And looked at all the people’s faces as they got on the train with that “I am going to get a seat” expectant look
I’ll give up my seat for the inferim, the elderley and the with child, but other than that they can all stand.
Because I usually got on the train first *I actually get on where the train starts its journey* and I am probably going further than they are
@tigerion I have an older Zen Creative W, and I found it to be really solid as an mp3 player. While obviously it’s difficult to compare something ~@6/7 years old to a new one, I’ve found Creative Zen to be reasonably good as an alternative to the ipod.
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Thanks Cracks
Spaghett!
A weekend of BLOPS II and Halo 4 on Sunday and M*A*S*H intermittently inbetween
The others will know *looking at you shane* M*A*S*H* is just the best, I have all this other stuff to watch and just…I don’t know
Stupid as this will sound, but my anxiety disorder actually kind of makes me never want to watch anything knew, I actually feel anxiety watching something I have never seen as I don’t want anything bad to happen, just imagine me watching a season of Dexter *As much as I love Dexter it is difficult to watch*
Although I did rewatch Memento
Also, this weekend I rewatched Memento
And I watched this movie called Memento, has anyone else seen it?
*Edit that will ruin my own joke but I feel anxious to explain that Memento is about a guy with Anterograde amnesia, which is the inability to create new memories after a certain incident in time*
Also, I watched Memento this weekend
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Suicide is painless…
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You know what else is painless? and has most likely helped keep me mentally healthy all these years??
M*A*S*H 😉
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True story, I’ve never watched more than 3 minutes of M*A*S*H. Pretty much the only thing I know about it is the theme song.
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Ugh…..
Go watch M*A*S*H now!
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\o/ MASH is great!
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Shane is not wrong!
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Shouldn’t you have started with what you did most recently?
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I don’t know, should it?
I played BLOPS II and watched DVD’s and saw some friends, that was my weekend
I also ate, this morning I caught the train to work, and now I am at work finishing up the day
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You see it in order, whichever sense it mostly makes. Batman Begins hit the big time ever since Nolan has been getting a bit more attention, it’s a pretty good movie. Backwards chronologically, most of which would be considered out of order, the interesting thing about Memento.
Aside from the special feature that just shows it chronologically.
(For the version that makes more sense)
The interesting thing about Memento is that it is told out of order, most of which would be considered chronologically backwards. It’s a pretty good movie that has been getting a fair bit more attention ever since Nolan hit the big time with Batman Begins. It mostly makes sense whichever order you see it in.-
I think you win the Internet Trjn
Also, I watched Memento this weekend
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.sdrawkcab itb taht epyt ot retteb neeb tusj evah dlouw ti kniht I ,thgisdnih nI
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Hindsight is always 20/20
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You seem like an awesome guy, spaghett. I’ve got nothing else to contribute, though. Haha
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Thanks D.C 😀
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Cigarette Juice!
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Urinal Shower!
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I no clean! I no clean, OKAY!
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@doc_what
Martial arts!
I’d been doing karate lessons for a while, but with cold/flu + uni stuff, I haven’t been in nearly a couple of months. Weight is returning 🙁
I need to get back into it. So much fun.
HAWKEN REPOST IN CASE IT GOT MISSED
hey just in case anyone wants it theres a CLOSED Beta on the 20th November (US date i assume) for Hawken… you can use the following Beta registration code if you wish to take part…
HAWKEN_GENESIS01
I’m sorry I can’t just house everyone in a giant TAY mansion /o\
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thanks a lot scree….we expected better from you… like a 60 storey pent house suite, one for each TAYBIE and a swimming pool, Jacuzzi, and bar on the rooftop. and a helipad with chauffeur pilot available 24/7
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I’m really sorry /o\ I was also planning to add a school out the back so the Taybie’s children wouldn’t have to go very far to school.
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sweet that way you can keep my missus employed too as a teacher.
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Oh man I like this the sound of this, quick someone fund this idea!
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How awesome would a TAY mansion be?
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It wouldn’t last 24hrs.
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Or Lambo wouldn’t last 24 hours
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n3rdgasm?
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@sughly
Lets get stupid drunk in Sydney, wreck the place and put any problems on hold.
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Hear hear!
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If you need someone to draw attention away from your antics, I can make loud noises while drunk. I’ve been told I’m good at it.
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I am down for that guys, serious
A Sydney TAY meet up for drinks
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This happens like every other week in Sydney 😛
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Dude, let me know when it’s on then! 😀
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I’m from Melb so I can’t really let you know :P. Ask around on TAY and one of the Sydney TAYbes should let you know 🙂
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Hahaha cheers Green!
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We’ll have to have another meat or two before you guys leave as well! 😀
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Freeze’s 1st Dec, amirite!
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DAM U RITE SUN!
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And play Theatrhythm!
#MondayNightHaloFights
Do it.
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I still don’t have Halo 4. D:
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#MondayMorningandAfternoonbeatHalo4
Beat it with a friend today 🙂
…but skipped all the cutscenes
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Why would you skip the cutscenes!?
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My friend and I aren’t really into the Halo lore/story and we were trying to get through the campaign today. Skipping the cutscenes cut a whole lot of time and we beat the game on normal in about 3 hours.
Didak this, Didak that. WHO ARE YOU 😛
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Didact*
Come on Greenius. English. Or umm, actually, I don’t know where the origins of the word Didact are.
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But Alan Didak!
Only “Didak/Didact” I know 😛
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Holy crap! I hear Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition will be $15 on November 23rd
Hmmm…
Also I’m kind of regretting pre-ordering the Wii U. I have no idea what to think now and I’m getting real mixed reactions. I know in the end I’ll buy one eventually (HD ZELDA GET INSIDE ME) but I’m not sure…
$388 isn’t bad but I just hate paying more than I need to at the moment. Although I’d probably get a few launch window titles and I doubt it’ll drop to that price again by the time the games I’m interested in come out.
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Whaaaa? From where is this Dark Souls $15?
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Amazon apparently. I think it’s a Steam copy too.
http://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/85017
There’s a whole list of games but I didn’t bother looking through them. Just going off that one guy’s comment.
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D.C, Why you ackin’ so cray cray?
p.s: gravity falls roolz
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You’re a fan too? Everything is different now! (That’s Blaghman, Sughly, Rockets, B-Funk and D.C. now! :D)
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HAHAHA! YES, YES!!
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Haven’t heard that one in ages!
By the way, whos the one who said they completed every Theatrhythm track with an SS? Because you are a freak! I can do most, but some of the battle tracks on ultimate… lucky to even get through them, let alone SS’ed :'(
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It was me!
it wasn’t. I can get S-SS on expert but not Ultimate.-
Saaaame. Got I think 2 or 3 SSS’s on Expert.
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I can’t get a SSS on anything. Not even when I was playing the Basic Score. Doesn’t help that I’m always playing with a lot of distractions around, I guess.
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I can’t do a lot of the battle tracks in Dark Notes, let alone ultimate.
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I basically was deleting a dark note if I couldn’t do it then going back to an easier one to unlock a new one. So I have played one with the FF8 field music and then the FF3 battle track way too many times.
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Ah man, I’m up to about 60 I think in Dark Notes… they get soooo much harder than even ultimate. Ermahgerd.
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Have you done level 99 ones? My golly god moving arrows ARE THE WORST.
Seriously.
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Moving arrows? Eek!
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Hard to describe but it’s those yellow arrow ones but they rotate as soon as they appear on screen and only stop at the exact moment you have to ‘slice’ them! >:(
Makes it hard to see ahead, especially when it’s on a fast moving battle song…
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Urgh. Not cool, Squeenix. The only way I’d ever get one of those right would be by accident. 😛
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I don’t think they do, I think the Ultimate ones are harder. What makes Dark Notes hard is that it seems to assemble them from a sequence of pre-defined ‘chunks’ for each song, and then decide randomly what actions you’ll have to do. So sometimes you get sustained notes where there shouldn’t be any and stuff. So the random generation fucks you sometimes. Which is why I was throwing away some of my notes.
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Nope. Trust me, they get way harder than Ultimate songs.
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Yeah this. I think the hardest dark note I got to was 90 something. I just tried once and was like ahhhhh no. Moving arrows is teh suck.
EDIT: Looks like I oveestimated myself grossly. I’ve finished 41 dark notes, the last 2 I did though were lvl 98. Up to another 98er.
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Wait, how do you see what level your Dark Note is?
I’ve Streetpassed 12 people with Proficards so I have a few Dark Notes to play with. Should I be deleting them if I don’t like them?
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I think it’s the first number in the Dark Note. Just have a look at your previous ones and they should slowly be increasing in levels since you level by playing them and therefore get harder.
Feel free to delete any one you don’t want. There’s a limit of 99 so just keep what you want and delete the rest.
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I tried an Ultimate song and didn’t even make it through. So yeah, it most definitely wasn’t me who said that. 😛
Me you fool!
EDIT: SS’d everything on Ultimate/Chaos. Didn’t SS everything on Beginner/Expert because I played them before knowing about the Stoic Bonus and never went back. Which tracks are you having troubles with? I think the hardest tracks are Battle on the Big Bridge, The Four Fiends and Let the Battles Begin! 🙂
Easy peasy though!
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Even on all the Ultimate battle songs?
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See above. 🙂
DAMNIT NOW I WANT TO PLAY!
Quick someone pick some Battle Song (or other) pleaseeee
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Holy shite, thats pretty crazy you can do them. I went back to the beginning though when I heard about SSing, probably put me back a few paces on doing ultimate tracks :/
Also, pretty much every ultimate battle song I still need to SS. I just stopped after trying FF1 and 2’s, just did the others for every game, will go back and try the battles when I’m finished doing that.
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I found FMS are the easiest to SS. EMS can be quite consistent and I personally find them harder than BMS but that’s cause I’m fairly good at BMS and enjoy them. There’s just not enough notes in EMS so if you screw up you can kiss that SS goodbye.
Just keep playing BMS and you’ll get better. It helps that the music is awesome and it’s genuinely fun to listen to.
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Haha, I actually find most EMS’ to be the easier of the three. I just get tripped up badly in battle when you get a few reds, then an arrow, some reds, a few arrows, then a green, all within a few beats. I just go blargh! Tap furiously and generally miss a few 🙁
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oh man, i love final fantasy music so much, it pains me i can’t get this game…
Four Fiends is some of my all time favourite final fantasy music ever.
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I’ve barely played FFIV and therefore haven’t really heard Four Fiends but fell in love with it in Theatrhythm. That’s why I’m learning this FFIV Battle Theme Medley on paino! Starts of fairly slow but then shit gets realll. I love the jazzy bits.
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my friend has the piano books for that, VI and XIII i think, i’ve seen him play them, it so awesome, sadly i can only do i scott pilgrim and play the bassline of everything… (although, playing the bassline for “otherworld” from X is baddass)
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@dc
We are. 1st December. My place.
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😀 Meats!
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omnomnom
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Hey, @freezespreston was it a lunch time dealy or dinner dealy?
I don’t give a shit about the Spike Video Game Awards, but I have an observation.
This year’s nominees for game of the year:
– Assassin’s Creed III
– Dishonored
– Journey
– Mass Effect 3
– The Walking Dead: The Game
Five strongly single-player narrative experiences. None of them are a first person shooter. One of them is an adventure game, one is a stealth game, one is a hybrid RPG. One of them is for all intents and purposes an artistic indie game.
Pretty surprising set, normally you’d expect the Codblops and Halos and so on to dominate.
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I must play Walking Dead. :'(
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and i’ve only played one of them D:
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I’ve only played one of them too. 🙁
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Somehow I’ve managed to play all of them…
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The only one I’ve missed is AssCreed 3, which I’m picking up on Thursday.
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I haven’t played any of them =P
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Wow, good of them to put The Walking Dead in! I haven’t played AC3 or ME3 so I can’t comment on them but the other choices definitely deserve a spot there. I’d also put in Borderlands 2 and maybe Trials Evolution (it’s not for everyone though).
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Halo 4 should be on there. Even if you don’t like FPS, it is an excellent game.
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This.
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After the criticism of ACIII I would’ve expected to see Halo 4 instead of it.
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It is excellent but it didn’t do anything particularly special.
Personally I’d have loved to see X-COM there. Because turn-based strategy as game of the year alongside an adventure game. ‘Dead’ genres!
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I’m honestly surprised that The Walking Dead is in there. Not that it isn’t a fantastic game, I just wouldn’t have thought it’d trump the big-hitters like COD, Halo, etc.
EDIT: Also, is Dishonoured really that good? (Honest question) It’s not just getting a nomination because it was fresh in peoples’ minds at the time?
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Dishonored’s up there with GOTY for me, just like Deus Ex last year for similar reasons! Definitely deserves a spot.
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Yes, Powalen. I said it was good! y u no believe Green Marketing?
I rarely do everything in a game and when I do, it’s a bloody good game. Recent examples include Xenoblade, Borderlands 2 and Dishonored. I’m walking around exploring everything taking it slow, reading all the books, talking to everyone, listening to everything this bloody pumping heart whispers to me (yup), exploring everything and I’m having a blast with it.
I’m not even half way through the game but people have finished the game in like half the time I’ve spent with it.
Good game is good! It was only $30 when I got it (physical copy) and it’s just going to get cheaper. Buy buy buy
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Toilet-talkers are SO much worse than mouthbreathers.
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A lot of your day seems to revolve around the toilet, Aleph. 😀
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i HAVE A SMALL BLADDER.
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Also reverse caps.
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HOW O_O
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Silence past the sinks!
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Funny thing is, we don’t have urinals or anything. Self-serving cubicles. Well, not even that.
It’s your typical toilet-in-a-bathroom-dealy, no cubicle as such.
ANYWAY this woman was talking to me, and walking down the hall, and then proceeded to go into the bathroom, close the door, ALL THE WHILE perpetuating the conversation. I refused to participate.
Blergh :S
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@scree.
Got meat details?
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Dec 15, Fed Square. 11am. DETAILS!
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FEATURING @Virus__!
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Probably the final repost: Today is the deadline if you want to participate in TAY Secret Santa.
Everyone who wishes to participate should send me:
– Your TAY handle
– Your address details
– Gift preferences (specifically, things that you don’t want / can’t have for any reason, or hints if you wish – not everyone knows everyone that well)
– Whether you would prefer a local TAYbie to send to (I will endeavour to pair up people locally to save shipping)
– If you wish to purchase for a specific person, let me know. If there is someone you do not wish to buy for, please also let me know (I’ll keep it a secret). Keep in mind that I won’t allow you to buy for a specific person if it would result in doubling up or sending to someone who isn’t participating.
You will be given a semi-random TAYbie to send something to. Selection will be made by me, to pair up people who wish to be local. You should remain anonymous to this person if possible. Value limit of around $30 including postage. You may go under or over this limit if necessary but please keep it as a guideline. No perishable items eg food. It goes without saying, but please don’t send anyone something illegal or which is not able to be mailed through Australia Post.
Participation means you must commit to sending something to someone (and not just receiving).
I will be coordinating the efforts but will not participate myself, as I will be choosing the assignment of people to each other and thus have a conflict of interest. In the event that someone has to pull out, I will step in to fill in the gap so that everyone still receives a gift, but I can only afford to do this as a once-off. If you agree to participate you must have the expectation you will be able to do so.
You will be revealing your personal address to only two people: myself and your Secret Santa. I will not leak this information to anyone else. By participating you agree that you will not misuse the address of the TAYbie you’re buying for. By participating you also acknowledge the risk involved – if you are not willing to take this risk or share this information, please don’t participate.
Deadline for signing up shall be Midnight on the 19th of November (TODAY). This is to allow enough time for gifts to be purchased and mailed in time for Christmas.
To sign up,
email me: atomicstrawberry (at) gmail (dot) com
twitter DM me: @atomstrawberry
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@DC Wins the final round
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Booo!
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Gotta keep your eye on the prize, Greenius.
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Why are MMO’s always so gosh darn massive. 25gb download 🙁
And I have this horrible feeling it’s going to have another couple of gig update once it’s installed.
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Really the only thing which has stopped me from playing them.
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If I could I’d drop the files off for you 😛
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I think by the time he’s downloaded it, this would’ve been viable.
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Why are MMO’s always so gosh darn multiplayer?
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It’s not just that, it’s also the fact that they are massive and online.
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JUST LIKE MY EX-WIFE!
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In SWTOR’s case, I’m not sure they ever came up with a good justification 🙁
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Still to this day see MMO and think of moo moo farm.
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The one and only
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At the risk of
redacted,which emm emm oh are you talking about?
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Star Wars: TOR, I think. Just went free-to-play.
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Correctomundo!
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Yeah, I’ve given it a shot… got a friend in the US of A to buy me a copy launch-day and just email me the product code inside. Played for about 2-3months – I don’t think it’s a great game for me.
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I know right? Even WoW is smaller at 20GB and it downloads everything at once. I can see why it’s gone free to play, no one wants to wait around for it to download heh. I’ve been downloading it all day and I haven’t gotten that far and it’s been going mostly max speed at 1.1MB/s
Holy damn! As cool as this looks, probably not wise to rewatch something with so much childhood nostalgia attached, alas.
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Bout time! Their releasing of dvd’s has been spastically stupid up until this. I dunno though, I was a bit worried about rewatching them, but found them still to be rather awesome. Possibly for different reasons to why I thought so as a kid, but still.
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I watched the original movie a couple of years back and thought it was pretty damn good still. (Haha! Didn’t tempt fate, avoided the sequels.)
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That is a legitimately good movie. The sequel isn’t as good, but it is as funny. The third one (the only one I’ve seen in the cinema) is thoroughly average, but even still has its moments.
TL;DR: Probably best to stick with the first one.
PS: Did you know that at the time of its release, it was the highest-grossing independent film ever made? I don’t know if it still holds that title, but it might do.
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TMNT is an indie film? Haha!
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Hot diggity! I know what’s on my Christmas list now!
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Xenoblade?
😀
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TMNT and Mario were my two primary school obsessions. It was pretty much impossible to get me talking about anything else.
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We would’ve had a lot to talk about!
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Day 1 done. Went pretty well I have to say. The boss didn’t get to the store till about lunchtime (major phone line issues at another store) so I didn’t get a lot of my login codes until after he arrived. But I still got to help out with a few things, called a supplier to get a quote for a hotel for a family I’m helping to send to Fiji etc etc. Got a bit more training done this afternoon, and will be continuing with that for the rest of the week
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Free month long tropical island holidays courtesy of Nova?
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Hehehe… No 😛
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Or more realistically, if we do want to book something, do you get a commission if we go through you?
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Yes, depending what it is. We don’t get any commission on Domestic flights, but anything else we do get something. Different things have different commission rates.
Once I’m up to speed if anyone wants something organised I’ll send them my work email and try and organise it for them
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That’s awesome, man! How busy is a travel agency in Orange?
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Fairly quiet today. Probably only had a dozen or so people come in. But apparently you can get days where its flat out the whole time. Not looking forward to them
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@welbot featured in a Gizmodo article!
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2012/11/proof-that-nice-people-still-exist/
POKÉTALK (sorry):
Medal for defeating the (rematch) Elite Four with a Normal-type team GET! Man that was tough. I used so many Revives in-between battles 😛 Especially with Marshal, the Fighting type dude.
I can’t get enough of the credits roll theme though. Great tune! Shame there wasn’t an ending cinematic like you get when you first beat the Elite Four. The theme manages to make me feel like I’ve accomplished something, somehow. I love it.
What next… Water type? Maybe Ghost?
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Bug? Have you done Bug type yet?
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You should be a comedian!
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Grass!
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Dark
‘sup TAY?
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Watching a download bar for an MMO progress slowly, whilst playing another MMO.. I think I have a problem..
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Sounds suspiciously like my TAY refresh problem. How you been, Virus? Good? 😀
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Watching Dexter and eating din dins.
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Food and explicit murder go together hand-in-hand!
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I believe either Evil Genius or Black Ops 2 is in my near future.
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Wait… Evil Genius as in the game? I LOVED THAT GAME.
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Doing some writing! \o/
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Always good to hear! Keep on fightin’ the good fight, Shane!
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NinTAYndo!
Which games should I invest in for a 3DS? Should I get the XL? Questions?
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Catch of the Day has an XL for $129 tomorrow! I’m trying for it anyway!
I’d go for the XL. I have a normal one but the XL looks so purty!
3DS games or DS? This question is asked a lot and I could go on and on and on about all the great games but usually I let Bish do it.
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I, uhh… I don’t even know :S
I’m assuming 3DS games simply have added 3D functionality, and not much else? What’s the price difference between the two, on average?
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Well 3DS is more powerful so better looking games and whatnot. Price difference between DS and 3DS games or 3DS and the XL?
Games are the same price but there’s some really good DS games if you missed out on it. Between the XL I think it’s like $50 but I have a DS Lite and XL and the DS XL is so much better and if given the choice I’d definitely get the 3DS XL.
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This is my first handheld since a Gameboy Colour.
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Wowee!
Definitely go for the XL.
What type of games you after? For 3DS there’s Pushmo/Pullblox, Ocarina of Time 3D, Super Mario 3D Land, Mario Kart 7, Resident Evil Revelations, Tales of the Abyss and Theatrhythm which are all good and what I have but I also hear Kid Icarus, Star Fox 64 3D, New Super Mario Bros 2, Paper Mario and Professor Layton are good too. I’ll probably get those sometime in the future…
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I’ll probably start with 1 game (I like the idea of Theatrhythm :D), maybe 2 if I get a good deal 😛
Thanks so much!
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Dat Final Fantasy Musical Conduction game with all the music from all the games.
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And definitely the XL. I can’t go back to a smaller screen.
Just. Can’t.
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Pros:
Great game.Cons:
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Theatrhythm?
I like music. And I do like Final Fantasy…-
And spelling correctly ;D
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Did I not spell it correctly? /o\
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You did!
You like music, FF and spelling correctly!
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Huzzah! \o/
OK, so I’m thinking I’ll pay an extra $20 on it from Big W, and see if I can order Theatrhythm from there too, and hopefully that’ll push it over $300 so I can use the $40 off voucher. That’s how it works, right?
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B?
Yep, that’s how the voucher works. $40 off anything over $300 and I think that qualifies for free shipping too.
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Grey it is!
Alrighty, now to find if they’ve got Theatrhythm 😀Thanks man!
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No problemo! I’d probably go Silver too, looks pretty!
I don’t think you’ll easily find Theatrhythm so it’s best to look online. The 3DS is region locked and we share the PAL region with NZ and Europe. I got my copy from Zavvi for $20 but I think they’ve increased the price since then.
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Blue is the superior choice. It’s all metallic and shiny and blue.
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I’ll just be repeating what other people are saying, but…
Definitely get the XL. It’s much better in just about every way. As far as games go, my favourite so far is Mario Kart 7 (plus, multiplayer!), but there’s a decent selection of games out now so it shouldn’t be too hard to find something you like. PullBlox (and soon, FallBlox), Dillon’s Rolling Western, Mutant Mudds and PicrossE are must-haves on the eShop, I think.
EDIT: Oh, you never had a DS either? There’s countless great games for the DS that you can catch up on.
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Powalen Cheats 7*
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Yeah man, I’ve not touched handhelds since R-Type 😀
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If Nintendo stuff floats your boat you’ll have a better time with the 3DS. I’m completely uninterested in Mario personally and I’ve found that Theatrhythm is the only game on the 3DS I’ve enjoyed. Kid Icarus you might want to give a try, but the control scheme made me want to bang my head against a brick wall. Tales of the Abyss is a good choice if you like JRPGs (it’s one of the better Tales games).
Most of my time with the 3DS has been playing DS games. 🙁 Should get around to finishing 999 a few more times, I’ve only gotten two of the endings.
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I’d ask if any TAYbies wanted to play XCOM, but I’ll immediately revoke it because:
– I’m totally new to the game.
– I’d get absolutely destroyed.
🙁
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Play on easy? That’s what I did 😛
I had no idea Celebration Day by Led Zeppelin was out on DVD & CD /o\ I thought it was out next month and the cinema’s got a pre showing of it last month.
So yeah I find out a month later it is out D=
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It was out last Friday, I think.
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October 17th according to iTunes /o\
Edit: The concert video was, the CD came out last week. We’re both correct \o/
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Just introduced my eldest to the PS3 for the first time using Rayman Origins. She shocked me with how quickly she picked it up. Was wall jumping like a pro after only a few attempts. High fives were handed out. First level finished. More high fives.
I can’t even begin to describe the excitement I’m feeling to play through her first game with her.
😀
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That’s so awesome, man. Did you say she was five the other day? That’s about the time I started playing Super Mario Bros 3. You might’ve started something huge. 😀
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Verging on five. I’ll finish Rayman with her than introduce her to Black Ops 2 multiplayer 😛
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Yeah its definitely a relief to get past the frustrated-child-who-cant-figure-out-the-mechanics stage.
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Get some LEGO games!
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Yeah, I started playing Lego Indiana Jones with my son a couple of weeks ago. He picked up a lot of things quickly, like digging and building and attacking, but he always makes me do the jumping bits for him. He also just wants to play the first level over and over again because he thinks the giant boulder is funny and it was his favourite part of the movie.
So… I’ve never played Jet Set Radio but a few TAYbies really enjoy it. Anyone know if it still holds up?
@bish did you ever play the original? If so, does it still hold up well? If not, any good? Does it control well on PC?
@negativezero @scree (others) did you ever play the recent re-release? Still hold up well?
It’s $5 from Amazon either in a pack or on its own for Steam.
Cheerio.
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It holds up okay but not fantastically IMO. Mainly it’s stupidly hard – you have a time limit in each zone and you will fail repeatedly. It’s frustrating.
Jet Set Radio Future however, does. JSRF is basically a remake of JSR that does everything better. Even the soundtrack. The biggest thing was eliminating the time limit so you can explore and enjoy the game – it almost becomes an open world game before open world games were a big thing.
EDIT: Talking about the DC version. I believe the HD re-release is a very good port with no substantial changes.
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Thanks, guess I’ll give this one a pass and look out for JSRF if that ever comes out.
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If you’re buying a HD re-release it should be Okami.
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But I already have it : )
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I don’t. I am a bad person.
EDIT: In my defense I own the original on PS2 and also Okamiden.
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Did you finish them though?
I didn’t :'(
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I’ve finished Okami twice! It’s one of my most favorite games. I like the middle arc the most, which is classical Japanese mythology as opposed to the really ancient mythology of the first arc and the Ainu mythology of the final part.
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You know what needs to happen? Jet Set Radio Retro. JSRF but everything is 80s.
What Negative zero said. Play JSRF. I’m sure it was set for a HD re-release
@greenius
I looked at my last Dark Notes and their first number is usually between 39 and 42. I’ve completed 40ish Dark Notes but I just did one thats first number was 19 that was way harder than the 40 that I did after it. It’s all too confusing. 😛
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I’m pretty sure it’s that number! I rarely did Chaos Shrine but I’d return there every now and then so I had notes going from like 6, 20, 40, 60, 80, 99 etc. slowly increasing in number and difficulty. Although I did do some level 90+ ones and ended up with a much lower one that seemed a bit harder.
I don’t know exactly how it works but I hear it’s the average level of your party members. Were your party members around level 40ish?
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I have two on level 60 and two newer, unlocked characters on way lower levels so I guess that would be about right. I may swap back in some of the other high level characters and see what happens.
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P.S. This @ mention business is pretty damn handy. 😀
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Oddly enough I literally saw that someone upvoted my dark note comment above before refreshing and finding this below 🙂
I never did get to see who upvoted me (I assume it was you!)
Oh! This post was 2 hours after the upvote :P. I also just noticed it’s 9:36 😛
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OMG STRANGE!!!!
I just realised something! If you play Xenoblade before you come down to Melb. Me, you and @powalen can talk about it 😀
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The First Lady is coming to Melbourne?
*smoothes down hair and check’s shirt is tucked inUmm – when?
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How have you missed this! It’s been announced and bought up many times :P. I’m not sure on exact dates but I think Jan 12th was when Aleph, Powalen AND Strange would all be in Melbourne so we’ll try to work out something then!
Smurfy come to a meat :)!
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Awesome! I already have leave booked then. 🙂
I need a break from work and all my friends are either working through or going away after christmas, so I booked a week to fit in with Aleph’s week in Melbourne. This way at least I’ll have something to do, AND get to meet a real-life interstate TAY legend!
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Oh, you!
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I’m tagging along for all the tours!
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@greenius Of course you are! You’ll be driving us in your new car! 😛
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Nooooooooooooooooooo! 😛
I drove it for the 2nd time today. Feels weird man…
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You’ve got 2 months to get used to it Greendude!
But seriously, I’m happy to drive when it’s called for out our way. Hopefully I get a chance to take Aleph and yourself and whoever else wants to come for a day in the hills. Maybe even drive the Black Spur and head into Alpine country for a day-trip?
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Currently listening to South Park: Bigger, Longer ,and Uncut soundtrack.
I am content. 🙂
And I found this on Youtube:
Pure musical ecstasy.
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Wondered what Blame Canada was! 😛
Completely zoned out for a minute thinking about the Tennis (Hey! Come back! No glazed ‘sportsball’ eyes please!). I can’t believe my trip to Melbourne is less than 2 months away! I’ve wanted to go to the Australian Open ever since I was a kid.
I should totally get a shirt printed that says “Sportsball!” or something and wear it each day I go. Not long now!
…and yay, Melbourne TAYbies. I guess.
Kidding!
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Anybody have any reliable custom t-shirt websites/places they want to direct me to? I’m quite keen on this idea now that I’ve written it down 😛
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http://luckytees.com.au/
Here you are-
Yeah I just saw them after a quick google. Have you used them before, Scree? Any good?
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I have and yes, they’re very good.
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Cool! Thanks Screebo! Time to draw something up in photoshop!
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Have a dinosaur playing tennis… and Xenoblade!
I should really look as getting a new tablet.
I don’t know whether to get another Bamboo or an Intuos5
These are the prices
http://www.wacom.asia/au/products-price
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Do you already have one? What’s wrong with it?
I got a Bamboo earlier in the year. 🙂
To my great shame I haven’t really learned to use it properly yet. 🙁
Problem is, I’m left handed for drawing, so I use the tablet left handed, but I’m right handed for using a mouse, which means I keep trying to do all the PS shortcuts with my left hand. Which is holding the pen. :/
I’ll work it out one day. Just need to practice more I guess.-
My bamboo is quite old and the software keeps refusing to work on me
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Get whichever one makes it easier to draw a human carved into a half peeled banana.
I think Weresmurf is a tad upset :S
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I saw it too. What can you do?
Freeze used reason! It was not super effective!
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I’m honestly getting sick of these people just bashing the journalists who write for the US site. The articles are written for a different demographic, not Aussies, but Americans. Eugh, people.
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Where? Show me! He’s my old nemesis. 😀
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I’d link you, but the comments got removed o.o
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I’m trying this thing where I actually replay games that I enjoyed. I don’t expect it to last long but I’m starting with Batman: Arkham Asylum. Being Batman is awesome.
Turns out that I’m much less terrible at this than when I tried to let’s play it. Apparently beating a game and the sequel that uses the same combat system makes you rather non-terrible at it.
Borderlands, I like it.
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Wait until you play Borderlands 2! So amazing.
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There’s a Borderlands 2?!
Obvious sarcasm is not necessarily obvious.
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No, he’s just hyping you up to break your heart, like he does to everyone else. Meanius much.
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I feel like I’m the only person on earth who was quite disappointed by Borderlands 2. Still haven’t bothered to finish it.
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Should have expected it I guess. Every time I get super excited for a game and buy an ultra special limited edition version I get let down. 🙁
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Can I buy some of the goodies? 😛
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You should be more like the first part of your name. If you’re negative about all upcoming games then every now and then you’ll be pleasantly surprised. 😛
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And your level of excitement should be the second part of your name!
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I’m usually pretty optimistic 🙁
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Me too. It’s a bad habit I need to get out of. 😛
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I haven’t finished it yet either. Maybe we can co-op at some stage to get there.
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I’ll play too!
Need some sort of multi game to test out the headset.
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I’d be up for that – my main problem is my Siren is feeling very squishy despite all her healing stuff, and has poor damage output even with good gear.
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Yup, takes everything good about Borderlands and just makes it so much more freaking awesome!
I’m forgetting everything I know…
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I don’t wanna grow up.
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…and then I found this(NSFW):
Just finished To The Moon. I’m…. I’m not sure what I think of it. I’ll get back to you at a later date
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Was the experience…out of this world?
It might be a bit late for puns 🙂
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It stinks
It stinks
It stinks
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Every time I see the title ‘To The Moon’ I think of the start of this (warning: loud saccharine Japanese pop music).
The internet broke me 🙁
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I feel that I should probably elaborate.
http://dagobah.net/flash/To_The_Moon.swf this is why.
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Freedee Essex El, Theatrhythm and a pleather carry-case shall be mine!
Also, early merry giftsmas and even earlier herpy borthday to Aleph from mum. Thanks mum!
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Nice work, Aleph’s Mum. Best present. 😀
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Have you ordered your case yet? If not, WAIT and tell me which one it is!
http://i3.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/262/822/fab.jpg
^ Quite possibly the most awesome thing I’ve ever seen.
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Oh… my god.
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What’s the show on the top?
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Oh… my god..
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What’s the show on the bottom?
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AGGGH!
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No seriously. I don’t recognize it. We got a lot of different cartoons on TV when I was a kid to what was on air in Australia.
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Oooh, I get you now.
The Magic Schoolbus, Neg 😀Even came out with some kickass educational PC games when I was in yr 2-3 or so.
@lambomann007
Top one is Captain Planet!
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:'( lamboooooo
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KIDS THESE DAYS
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SURELY YOU JEST!
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EVEN I KNOW WHAT THOSE ARE YOU ARE THE SAME AGE AS ME RIGHT YOU NEVER WATCHED CAPTAIN PLANET AS A KID OH MY GOD LAMBO WHAT ARE WE GONNA DO WITH YOU!
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KIDS THESE DAYS
(Is only 1 year older than both of you)
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HOOOLLLYYY…
Mother of God…
@trjn re: replaying games you enjoyed.
I started replaying NFS The Run on Extreme difficulty level a while ago. Did some more of it today. Played for about three quarters of an hour. Finished 2 races/events. Maaaaan, those time trial events are really unforgiving. You pretty much gotta get a completely perfect run to beat them.
And then I started Halo 4 on heroic. Not hard enough, need to do it legendary.
Hi all,
Had a productive night last night. Got three pages of PezWork finished, barreled through Sequence 6 of Assassin’s Creed III, watched an episode of the Sopranos, an episode of Mythbusters, and an episode of Flight of the Conchords… and still managed to finagle 6 hours sleep. \o/
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Yay! You’re at the fun part of ACIII now.
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I haven’t minded it so far, to be honest. Despite all the negative press it’s gotten, it feels exactly like any other AC game to me 🙂
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That’s good to hear! 😀
As much as I might rant about it myself, I’m glad that others like it. I might be slightly jealous about that, actually. 😛
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That’s the main problem, though. The two sequels to the 2nd game had big problems and because it was a different team working on 3 who were talking it up as being so different from the Ezio games there was an expectation for it to be better and not make the mistakes of the past games. So missions are still very much not fun and you only do them so you can get more fun stuffs to do afterwards.
And it’s not all negative press. Review scores where largely extremely high, and it’s going on GOTY lists.
My worst problem with the game though was that it disrespects my time in so many ways, not least of which the whole first part of the game. It alienated me because I instinctively didn’t trust my character so I didn’t get the immersion in the world necessary to forgive the other flaws. It took me a week of playing to get to the “proper” game. Kind of unforgivable, but at least I’m having fun now. If I hadn’t paid so much for it, I wouldn’t even have made it that far though.
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Hitman: Absolution day!
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Try to get a 3DS XL for $129 on Catch of the Day day!
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Nope.
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Don’t you “Nope.” my day 🙁
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Well to be fair it is a bit of a depressing day. 95% of people are going to be sad / mad that they couldn’t get a 3DS XL because the servers exploded / didn’t work.
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More like 99.9995%!
I assume they’ll have like 5 with a million people trying to get it. Server crashes aren’t a problem for me though it’s just being quick enough. iOS app is amazin!
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Haha! Sorry, man. I read that as a suggestion rather than a description of your day. Still sounds a little futile. 😛
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UGH D.C.! 😛
My suggestion for you is obviously The Walking Dead day.
@Strange you should play it too, just in time for episode 5 to come out! I did an episode a day but played it too early so now I have to go 3 days without The Walking Dead 🙁
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Episode 5 could possibly come out this afternoon/night! That’s when it ticks over to the 20th in America, right? AHHH.
(Though knowing my download speed, I probably won’t be able to play until tomorrow)
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I’m going to assume tomorrow morning/afternoon.
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@Greenius I’ll try leaving Steam open overnight! Might get lucky and it’ll have downloaded by the time I wake up! /smrt
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@powalen
omg smrt D:
I’ll wait for you to inform me on Twitter/TAY/Steam when it’s out.
/smwhtsmrt
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YAY
Sydney TAYbe’s! I want to drink in the city with people I have met before from a Video Games based news website !
*Edit credit goes to Greenius* I meant have NEVER met 🙂
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Have or have never? 🙂
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See edit 😉 😛
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Edit credit?! :O
That’s new!
If any Melb TAYbes want to go I’ll driv Bahahahaha no. That’ll be the day, huh? I will happily accept a seat in your car if anyone else drives up 😛
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Edit Credit’s are BOSS!
They will go down in TAY History *as I inflate my own ego, assuming it willl get used as a term from now on*
Hmmm, Well I live on the Central coast in NSW, I travel 2 hours to work in Sydney every day
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central coast. you poor thing. I grew up in terrigal & couldnt get away from there fast enough.
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Hmmm, I like it, it’s quiet
And hell all I do is stay inside and play games, or I am at work, or on the train to or from work
So no RSL Clubs for me
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that was the problem i had with the place. its too quiet.
if you were under 18, all you could do was go loiter around erina fair. if you were over 18, there was a few pubs & crap nightclubs you could go to. I think the main problems I had with the coast were :a) lack of investment by business. sure, theres lots of small bushiness up there & a few bigger retailers, but not enough to sustain employment for the population up there. so if you wanna work, you’ve gotta commute to sydney.
b) the drinking culture up there is a bit full on. I mean, I found when people go out, its not to see a band (coz there arent many playing), its not to go to a restaurant (because there arent any good ones), it go go out, get drunk & try to pick up.damn, the numberof times I got back up to gosford station at 3am as the pubs were closing only to be threatened (and in two cases, hit) by a drunk dickhead while he’s throwing up in the gutter… i dont miss that place at all.
(i’m sure theres good people on the coast, I just couldnt be bothered putting up with the crap ones long enough to find any of them.)
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Nah dude, I am like….20 minutes out of Swansea, like up in Lake Munmorah 🙂
Even less to do 😛
But again, I get home from work at 6:40pm, and have to wake up at 5am, so I just start gaming/cooking/DVD’s until 11pm and crash out
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I perpetuate that drinking ideology perhaps a bit too much.
I’m okay with this.
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I used to live in Gosford for a couple of years. Definitely not somewhere I’d move back to.
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As above, I am further up the coast 🙂 with even less to do 😛
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We should hang out whenever I go visit my sister.
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A sister you say? *Zoidberg voice*
Where is she? and in relation to that, where are you?
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Whoa Creepius!
Bish is in Canadia
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Damn you Green 😛
I didn’t mean it to sound creepy
I meant how far away was Bish from his sister
But if Bish is in Canada….then damn man….damn
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Used to live in Sydney ‘burbs about 15 minutes away from the F3 and my sisters lives in Terrigal.
Only about an hours drive to see her.
New Years mang. You’ll get the bonus of the two awesomesr Queenslanders and some bloke from the Eyelandt. 😛
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Freeze you legend, new years aye?? I don’t think I was doing anything else lol
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Some bloke from the Eyelandt?
I resent such accusa-yeah, you’re right. I’ll take it.
Yup, next Meat up is around New Years time! I think there might be one or two before then though, so keep an ear on TAY for details when they pop up!
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Ear will be kept on TAY for sure
For any of us who do use Facebook, we should set up a TAY Facebook group or something
Comments on TAY can get lost, but an event in a TAY FB Group would have reminders
Just a suggestion ::)
Holy crap.
Just looked at the AC3 PC screens.
Excite.
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It’s definitely a pretty game on consoles so I imagine it will be even more so on PC. I’m actually surprised by how real it’s feeling to me when I play it in 3D.
MORAL DILEMMA!
I want to watch the Dark Knight Rises again! But the bluray isn’t out in AU until Nov 28…
But it’s available on the internet RIGHT NOW! This temptation is overwhelming. I want to watch it again tonight!!
What would you do?
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Pre-order the bluray, then download the movie and watch it now.
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You are the voice of reason
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Not sure if that is a compliment or an insult 😛
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what! How could it possibly be viewed as an insult?!
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You have a reputation…
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I’d download it! You’re going to buy it anyway so it’s not that bad!
You should’ve done a Mystery Question Fun Time though 🙁
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What is this mysterious Mystery Question Fun Time you speak of?
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Just ask TAY to answer a question but don’t let them know the question!
I’ll do one now:
Yes/No?
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@dc an upvote isn’t an answer!
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NOPE
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Damnit Aleph I really wanted Frosties for breakfast this morning! >:(
Guess I’ll settle for some coconut jam… mmmm tasty!
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Where do you buy coconut jam?
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Asian groceries I think, but Coles and stuff might sell them too?
I’m not too sure since I’ve never bought it. They just magically replenished themselves in my pantry for the past 15+ years (ie. parents bought them :P)
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Cocunut jam? What? That sounds good. I might look for that. Is it good?
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See my post below 🙂
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If I was to ask the other guy “Does your friend guard the door out of the labyrinth?” what would his answer be?
Y/N?
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NOPE
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I shall not be giving Greenius any munniez.
Wait! It’ll only make you want it more. Haha! (Although I’ve never downloaded a movie before, that’s my line in the sand. TV shows? That’s different. :P)
download it tonight, then buy it on the 28th.
Edit: well, because everyone has already said the same thing as me, I’m gonna go with a different answer :
Download it, then go to Chris Nolan’s place & take $1 from his kid’s education fund. then go to Christian Bale’s place & take $1 worth of food. Steal $1 from Anne Hathaway’s change jar. The continue to do similar stuff to the rest of the cast & crew.
then buy it on the 28th, so they all get their $1 back.
then go to Adam Sandler’s place & kick him in the shins. no reason. I just like the idea.
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But i like Adam Sandler! He’s funny and dorky, what’s not to like about him?-
Little Nicky :p
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I understand.
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Like my tolerance of Jar Jar Binks, Little Nicky isn’t a terrible movie.
It’s not amazing but I still enjoy it.
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Ah, yes… I was wondering what would break first… Your spirit, or your body?
Thank you for your input, fellow Taybies. I now face a different challenge…
The Dark Knight Rises for $40
The trilogy on bluray for $53 (Only 13 bucks more for 2 more movies!)
Gah, it’s like when supermarkets do that dumb “two for four bucks!” deal and you end up with more packets of tim tams then you need!
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You can NEVER have enough Tim Tams.
NEVER.(Also, that was a perfect Mystery Question Fun Time opportunity. Pick up yo’ game, Harli!)
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oh, right! Will do it better next time.
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Do you own the other 2? If not, then spend the extra $13 ya dhingus.
Also pick up the Jaws Bluray re-release while you’re there.
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Gotta agree with Aleph here. there is no such thing as a tim tam that is surplus to need.
if a sign in a store says ‘2 packs for 4 bucks’ I spend $20 minimum.
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Ha ha ha, I face that Tim Tam dilemma all the time then I just end up buying them both and eating them all like the fat guy I am 🙂
The other weekend, I decided to play through Portal 2 again on a whim. More recently I’ve been playing previously abandoned iPhone games (Collision Effect in particular although if it keeps wiping my high scores I’m going to punch it). Last night I decided that I’m going to replay games that I enjoyed to see if they still hold up.
Most of the time, games are disposable to me. There’s the hype train, the first play through maybe a little bit of raving about how amazing it is and then they get to sit on the shelf forgotten.
I started with Arkham Asylum and got to the point where you rescue the doctors in Intensive Treatment. Not too far into the game but enough to remember that it’s a really solid game. It feels tonally different than Arkham City but is definitely a great game. Kind of wish I finished the let’s play of this one but that just isn’t going to happen.
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That’s good to hear, man. I love replaying my games, but have got plenty of time to do it too. I understand how these pile of shame things can happen. (And how that’d impact replaying games.) I think I loved Arkham Asylum more than Arkham City too.
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I know that feel bro…
Every now and then I look at my shelf and see games I’d love to replay but I keep feeling like my time could be better spent playing something new rather than the same thing again.
@DC while playing Asylum I kept wishing it was more open world and how much better it would be. In City I felt like I wasn’t having as much fun as I did in Asylum, even though I got what I wanted.
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Something I’ve noticed about the combat in Arkham Asylum is that early on, when you’re only facing two or three guys at a time, it’s really hard to keep a combo going simply because there’s nobody to hit.
I liked both City and Asylum. Probably leaning more towards City being the better game simply because that was the one that really compelled me to keep playing.
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I think it just came down to atmosphere for me. The creepy vibe of Arkham Island was so damn good.
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But Arkham City was basically a giant playground for Batman.
Which means you can spend hours derping about saying I’m Batman!
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So apparently David Jones is having a 50% off sale of DVDs and games today only (among tonnes of other things). Fly, my cheapskates, fly!
EDIT: In-store only, though. Sorry hermits!
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But isn’t David Jones notoriously expensive?
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My usual bargain site tore its “sale” to shreds.
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But… 50% is a big number! Right!?
I haven’t even looked at their prices, honestly 😛 David Jones is not usually on my radar when game shopping… I can’t imagine they would have anything that great, but still.
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David Jones can have some surprisingly competitive pricing sometimes. It’s pretty rare, but it happens.
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Will swing by at lunch and see if there’s anything worthwhile
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Let us know if there’s anything worthwhile!
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Why do this on a Tuesday? That’s just silly.
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I’m sorry.
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HAHA! Oh Pow, you’re hilarious!
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I know. Thought I’d try to be funny. Failed.
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I liked it.
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Fixed.
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Oooo! I’m a hermit, but I’ll still swing by and see what I see.
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That’s not very hermit-y…
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Yeah, I question his hermit credentials. 😛
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BLOPS2 ENDING I GOT WAS
Menendez killed Woods with the necklace then dug up his sister and set himself alight.
It was confusing.
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LOL man you can’t make this stuff up. Well you can, but you know.
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HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT THE AVENGED SEVENFOLD THING!?!?!
That was the most bizarre thing I’ve ever seen in a video game and I’ve played Mario.
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Is it like Phil Collins in Vice City Stories, but not awesome?
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Mine was different. Much less confusing.
I killed Menendez at the end cause it was about friggin’ time someone did. End result was that he acted as a martyr and essentially set up the next Blops game.
What the hell? Haven’t even finished unpacking the last stocktake that arrived and just received orders to do another one. This is seriously the most inefficient company I’ve ever worked for.
Vidjagaems: found a gun I can use comfortably with Black Ops 2. The Remington 870 with long barrel, laser sight and fast mag. Went from struggling to dominating on some maps. Not much good in open areas due to the extremely short range but it always wins. Had some fun watching a couple of Dan!’s and Ynefel’s matches. It’s a pretty neat feature. Learned a few things about the maps and a trick or two from Ynefels matches. Dan! taught me how to die 30 times from air strikes in a single match 😛
I’m really enjoying Black Ops 2. It’s still spoiled by quickscopers, campers and some rather shocking lag but the core system is great. Pick 10 is a fantastic system once you figure out how it works. Moving some of the perks into attachments is a goo idea that allows further flexibility.
The league play is interesting but I’ve found ultimately flawed. You play a few placement matches and get put in a league of others with similar skills. I suck somewhat so got placed in the Silver league. Mostly everyone is about the same level but it’s immediately apparent that a few people threw their placement matches searching for easier opponents judging by the fact the occasional person will go 40 to 0 and is ahead on the ladder by a ridiculous amount.
/impressions.
Coconut jam is sooo awesome and I’m not just saying that because it’s green!
I recommend this brand which I’ve used for like 14 years+. I’m not sure how popular coconut jam is for people who aren’t Asian but I know most of my friends didn’t even know it existed. For those who want to know more it’s called Nonya kaya.
mmmmm… so good…
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Coconut jam!? Well I never!
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Side note: It looks sus.
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That’s the most asian jam I’ve ever seen.
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Man, that colour is… something.
Like puréed vomit, is what I’m really saying.
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But it’s infused with the magic of the pandan leaf.
Just like these cakes.
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I know what I am doing at lunchtime today!
Morning all.
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Hey buddy! What’s new?
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These shapes are new, they’re quite tasty! Yourself?
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*shrugs* 😛
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Hahaha, fair enough.
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Most embarrassing thing in your DVD/Blu-Ray Collection:
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…I don’t have one.
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Yeah, neither 😛 The only things I buy are my absolute favourite movies/series.
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Apparently I should be embarrassed to own the Super Mario Brothers movie. But I’m not.
I do own Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull, and the entire Star Wars prequel trilogy, and I’m mortified by that /o\
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Nothing wrong with Avatar on BD. It’s an enjoyable and visually impressive film (in my opinion), regardless of how derivative it is.
I don’t have it, but I wouldn’t be embarrassed if I did. Thinking of getting the 3D edition to test out my TV.
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Tinkerbell on the other hand…
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I’d have to go with Enchanted. Makes me laugh for the same reason as Elf or The Santa Clause. Just a parody of the insanity of Disney movies. Plus Amy freakin’ Adams. 😀 (Doesn’t make it any less embarrasing to own. :P)
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WHAT. It might just be the best live-action Disney movie ever. I’m not embarrassed to own it – I think it’s brilliant! 🙂
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True enough. I wouldn’t have bought it if I was that embarrassed.
Just a secret shame, is all.
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I’m not embarrassed about any of my DVD’s but I do own Robbie Williams Live at Albert Hall and The Good Charlotte Video collection up to “Boys & Girls” (aka the Wonder Years of GC)
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Wonder Years of GC is an oxymoron
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Robbie Williams I’ll let slide. He’s alright.
But Good Charlotte?
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GIRLS DONT LIKE BOYS GIRLS LIKE CARSANMONAAAHHHHHHH!!!!
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Red Water: it’s like Deep Blue Sea except the shark is in a mountain lake and it stars Lou Diamond Phillips.
NO!
Christina’s House: some horror movie about a haunted house that goes nowhere and leaves you wondering why you bothered.
NO!
Undead: a god awful mess of an Australian Zombie movie that tries for black humour and just ends up being groan inducing.
NO!
Ultraviolet: …
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Whoa, whoa, whoa.
You don’t like Undead?
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I liked it enough to buy it. But that’s not really an endorsement since I have this terrible addiction to bad horror movies. The worse it is the more I like it. Serious horrors just always seem trite to me.
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Glee.
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Lady in the Water, apparently.
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The Last Samurai. To make matters worse, I picked it up at full price. WTF was I thinking I have no idea.
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I took a ladeh on a first date to see that.
Needless to say thing’s didn’t work out.
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Apparently that would be The Fast & The Furious: Tokyo Drift, but idk I like it.
Shouldn’t have been called Fast & The Furious though.
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i would say megashark vs crocosaurus, but that movie is brilliant, why would i be embarrased by it?
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If I were to pick from my media collection? I, ummm…
Beautiful Kate? But I really like that movie, and would actually urge everyone here to see it too.
Umm… I really don’t know, to be honest.-
No way is Beautiful Kate a shame film! Should be proud to have that, was a really good film.
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OH!
Ellen Page’s filmography.
I don’t care that it’s fanboism, she fucking rules.-
I’m… still kinda proud about that, and not at all embarrassed. I’m really bad at this :S
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I fuckin’ love Juno, man. Inception too. She’s typecast for sure, but still damn good actress. Can’t wait for Beyond: Two Souls.
One of my favourite scenes from a recent movie. So iconic. (Juno end spoilers.)
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I am not embarrassed about anything of mine. I find it silly to be ashamed to like something just because others didn’t like it. I didn’t used to feel like that though, but it’s definitely way more relaxing now I’ve discovered how to not care what other people think.
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Good attitude to have. When I was a teenager my favourite movie was Girl, Interrupted for… reasons. I often worried what it said about me as a man. Humans are stupid! 😛
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Girl, Interrupted is an amazing movie
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Curious George. Actually, I’m not embarrassed by that, Curious George is awesome.
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All 28 volumes of Cardcaptor Sakura. 🙁 It’s very… pink.
In my defence it’s extremely well-animated.
Alright dudes and dudettes! Looks like these guys are serious about backing Anna’s Quest – got an email outlining all the pay and royalty details, localisations etc. I think this is for real and is happening! It feels extremely surreal… but this is basically that point for me where I go from pretend developer to proper developer. Probably… probably the most exciting moment of my life in a long long time, to put it bluntly.
I do have to say now while I’m all mushy and exciteable how much the support from here has meant to me. Having recognition from people these last couple of years is what I really truly needed to give me the motivation to keep at it. So I owe you guys! Big time. Love you all!
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SO. DAMN. PROUD.
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So. Damn. Proud.
Let me know when it’s released through publishing channels, I’ll buy it again! 😀
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SO. DAMN. PROUD.
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My cheque in the mail?
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And CONGRATULATIONS. Localisations? That sounds awesome! Very happy for you.
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Oh, yeah. Congrats too! 😀
Honestly, man. Couldn’t have happened to a better, more deserving guy!
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Such an event would make someone So. Damn. Proud,
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Just try not to forget about the little people once you’re a superstar developer.
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Awesome work, man 😀
So. Damn.
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That is awesome. You are awesome. Anna’s Quest is awesome. So is Egress, for that matter. 😀
I shall get drunk tonight to celebrate for you. 😛
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There is no high-five image or gif that suitable to capture the magnitude of the high-five I wish to convey right now. Huge congrats man, could not be happier for you 🙂
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Holy Carp man! That’s so awesome! Your game definitely deserves to be published. Can’t wait for the next one. =D
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Yeah, for sure. I played Jane Jensen’s Gray Matter last year and Anna’s Quest totally put that game to shame. The production values and attention to detail. (She’s my favourite adventure designer too, for context!)
I loved the tone of Egress as well!
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Woooo \o/
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if you need any help with anything, I’m lookin for work!! 😉
Crash of the Day starts at 11am if anyone cares.
Kind if annoying because I transferred some money to my PayPal a few days ago but it still hasn’t finished processing so I only have enough for just the 3DS XL :(. That’s all I’m aiming for at the moment but they’re going to have some other “mystery” crap thrown in as well. Would’ve been nice to pick up some gifts but oh well!
And remember to use the iOS app if you’re even going to bother trying.
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In an odd turn of events the iOS app isn’t working but the website does. I can totally buy what’s on offer but I don’t want to 😛
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So no more Dora headphones for you? 😛
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I wish :'(
So far there’s been a hydration backpack type thing which could be somewhat useful and some crappy watch.
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Do I just give them my email and I’m a member? No weird survey stuff?
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Yeah, not sure why you’d think that 😛
They do love to send lots of email newsletters though so just unsubscribe.
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Any thing good in the cinemas at the moment? I’m restless. RESTLESS.
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They showed Men in Black at the ‘cinema’ here last weekend \o/
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I bet you can’t wait for the sequels!
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Sequels?! As in more than one?
(Seriously, there’s an MiB3?)
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You were better off not knowing
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Doesn’t look like there’s much on at the moment. My local cinema just seems to have endless runs of the Housos movie at the moment. They know their demographic…
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The Master is on in Brisbane on Dec 8. Skyfall on Thursday, not really a huge Bond fan. (Depends when you ask really, sometimes I am. :P) *shrugs*
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SAM MENDEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEZ!!!
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Wish I could upvote this more than once
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I hear Argo is worth seeing. Sadly, I doubt I’ll get a chance to see it.
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Argo looks really good.
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Skyfall is out this week.
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Saw The Master last night, reaaaally good. But everything PTA does is amazing, its a given really. Then Safety Not Gauranteed is still playing at Palace cinema here, definitely worth your time. Then there’s also Brisbane International Film Festival on right now, so there’s pretty much good films being played every day! Just google biff for a programme.
EDIT: Oh dang… Safety NG is actually only on in Melb and some other place thats not Brisbane. Dang. Well, still… BIFF. Killing Them Softly is meant to be good, really want to see it but havent had the time to.
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Wait, The Master is already on? *scratches head* Thanks for the suggestions!
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Oh! Also The Intouchables – REALLY good French film. Really well done true story feel good stuff. Had a smile on my face the whole time.
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Wow. Ouch.
Library I’m in was suddenly swarmed by small children with recorders.
I hear blood.
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Smoke grenades and teargas. Go.
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You’d think a library would have a No Recorder policy…
Alright, Mystery Question Fun Time
Y/N?
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YES
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Then I guess I am now going to buy a pair of $350.00 Inline Skates
http://www.skaterhq.com.au/browse/details.asp?ProdID=152787
Thanks puppylicks 🙂
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Puppylicks is a hero of our time, if only he’d stop licking puppies, though.
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The puppies lick us, they must be licked back in retaliation!
He is a hero, of new inline skates everywhere
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Anytime 🙂
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Heck yes
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The answer pretty much always ends up as yes. Action is more fun than inaction 😛
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I’ve had more “No” than “Yes” 😛
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Because we know you.
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Green plays it out so when we say no, the option he wanted is his back up from what he really said
If that made sense
This morning he didn’t want Frosties, he really wanted Coconut Jam, and it’s what he got because we said no
We should Yes him sometime, keep him on his green toes
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Actually no, I really wanted Frosties 🙁
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NO FROSTIES FOR YOU!
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Hahaha, it figures
I kind of wanted Inline Skates anyway, damn my overweight unfit body and age, damn it I say!
They are a great way to get around
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Wait… so are you buying them or not?!
You can’t go back against Mystery Question Fun Time!
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You said NO SALE!
Also, I will be buying them
WILL….being the key word
When my pay check comes
and I have done the first months car repayment
Grown up life 🙁
It’s spreading ;D
Also they’re not green enough. NO SALE.
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Greenius
These don’t have to be green, did you see how awesome they are?
SO AWESOME!
But no sale this fortnight
But
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not enough money
Hey all.
Just logged on to videoezy.com.au to check on some of my orders and they have a 20% off game thing today only.
$35 for xcom (PC)
$25 for hitman (PC)
just to name a few – probably worth a look. I got xcom and F1 2012 from them a few weeks ago so I can vouch for them.
Blackops2 for $52 as well.
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There’s my brother’s giftsmas present sorted! Thanks man!
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I was gonna post this a few hours ago but people are sick of Bargainius 😛
http://www.jbhifionline.com.au/music/pop-rock/ac-dc-black-ice-steel-box-deluxe-ed-srp-135-factory-scoop/388875
…This is real…
Excuse me whilst I cry.
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I must have it o.o
Also AC/DC released their collection on iTunes this week and oh boy the Blabbermouth article about it is full of morons. The comments are worse than a poorly written US Kotaku article..
Did I mention an old friend, who I have known since year 5, greeted me with “Hi Louis!” at our grades’ 10 year high school reunion on the weekend?
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I am assuming your real name is not Louis, is it?
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Not quite.
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I don’t see the problem, Louis.
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Bah! Most people at my school didn’t know my name at the time as well. 😛
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Is it actually pronounced loo-es but he said loo-ey?
For anyone desperate to rummage through my undies drawer, or deduce from the contents of my kitchen cupboards that my diet consists entirely of oats and tinned tuna:
Fluwarming/House Flu/Smelly Meat has been rescheduled to Saturday 8th December!
Those apples. How do you like them?
So far, interested parties include:
@harli (You might remember her from such websites as Gamespot AU, or starring roles in such blockbuster films as JVTD!)
@cakesmith
@alexpants (Maybe? I dunno? Did he ever make it back from Taz? Isn’t there a legend of a family of cannibals down there, founded by escaped convicts?)
@bish (HE PROMISED!)
@ruffleberg (That’s how he rolls)
@effluvium-boy (< Who’s this guy?)
@doc_what (A Scotish docter)
Penicled:
@powalen (He’s hilarious!)
If you know of any other Sydney/Sydney-Affiliated people who are bad enough dudes to rescue the President and may be interested, speak now or forever hold your peace.
As mentioned previously, my nest is in this general area.
As far as public transport is concerned (From Sydney CBD), you can get there by bus, from Wynyard to Manly Vale, followed by roughly five minutes of bipedal locomotion.
Alternatively, you can charter a watercraft to take you from Circular Quay to Manly Wharf, then venture northwest, by bus, foot (40min walk), or car (if someone’s willing to come pick you up).
Saturday 8th December: Would you like to know more?
(Also, jokes on you. My undies aren’t in a draw. They’re on a shelf. I’m crazy like that.)
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I shall attend AND deliver unto you a housewarming AND birthday gift!
Completely unrelated: Did you ever buy any of those books you got me for yourself?
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I did not.
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I’ll be there.
In one form or another.
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You’re on my fridge at the moment, I think.
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Back of the toilet door is the dream, though.
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Just set a reminder for when I get home.
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I made it back. I should have found you a housewarming gift while I was there.
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I won’t be in Sydney that weekend. This makes me sad.
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Bummer dude.
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Put me down as a maybe. I’ll confirm the week before.
FLU MEAT!!!!!!!!!!
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I LIVE IN “THIS GENERAL AREA”!!
Sorry about the caps. Been talking to Shiggy.
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Should be a yes!
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Totally there in spirit or something.
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Sounds good. I’ll be there.
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I have something on in the daytime =/ If you guys are partying on till late however, I will be there!!!
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Always a diva…
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Why not Dec 1st?
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Shiggy couldn’t make it on Dec 1st.
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nah it’s cool, I’ll be free from the arvo onwards =D
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Okie dokie!
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Put me down on the list; I’d been meaning to meet more sydney taybies.
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More? Didn’t realise you’d met any yet.
What’s your email? I’ll include you on the details.
I’ll totally come! After my shift at work :/
I’ll bring some booze.
I put mine on a shelf too! 😀
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UNDIE BUDDIES!
Tech help!
So when I copy my data from my Wii to Wii U, it’s deleted from the Wii. Makes sense. Only, I don’t want to lose my Wii stuff. So here’s the question.
If I back up the NAND, do the transfer then do a NAND restore, will the Wii be back to how it was before the transfer? I doubt I’d be able to access the eShop anymore, but all I want is the stuff on my Wii to stay there.
What do you guys think?
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Loosely related: I remember doing Tech Studies in school and we had boards with AND, OR & NOT gates which we could use to build things with a fancy LEGO Technic type stuff. Did you guys do that?
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Sadly no =( That sounds pretty badass though, because technic LEGO was AWESOME.
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We guided a little robot around a room using BASIC. But no, we didn’t use Lego 🙁
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We did that in primary school. In high school we built elaborate death machines with LEGO.
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I made a doorbell in an electronics elective class once. Does that count?
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Nope, we did briefly have the Logo turtle though.
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I’m an engineer!
Spoken in a Ralph Wiggum voice
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Hey Doc,
If you’re referring to a NAND backup using BootMi, from memory that is only for System Data rather than user profiles, save data, game data etc….
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Damn. all my save data/game data is on an SD card/External HD but I won’t be able to access them after I’ve transferred to the Wii (I think).
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why not just backup the sd card?
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The data won’t be usable after the Wii Transfer (I assume. Like on the DS and 3DS)
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I’d say yes-ish.
You should definitely do the NAND backup, transfer, restore. I’m not sure exactly what that captures, but then you should also use one of the homebrew tools that lets you grab all of the saves on your system. You can probably extract the games off there as well with something similar. Then you should be able to restore everything afterwards.
The good news is that by the time it arrives here, there will be people from the US who have written guides to do exactly what you want!
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THEY BETTER! TEN MORE DAYS!
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I like horse, most of all the animals!
Can every elaborate why they like horse?
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Tasty.
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It is pretty tasty actually.
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You seem surprised that I said something that could be considered true 😛
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I can confim, horse meat cooked right is delicious
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Look at my horse.
My horse is amazing.*Not a euphemism.
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Look at my horse.
My horse is amazing.*A euphemism.
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Look at my horse.
My horse is disappointing.*could go either way.
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I’ve heard rumours about your horse.
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cheaper than Oxen to pull stuff.
Most underrated movie in your DVD/Blu-Ray collection:
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The Godfather.
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if the godfather is the most underrated thing you have, you must have some pretty overrated stuff sitting alongside it.
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Super Mario Brothers, the movie.
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M. Night Shyamalan’s Signs. Incredible movie. I stand by it. 😛
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Agreed.
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Signs was a bit dumb, but it had some really creepy parts, therefore, I approve.
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Like Looper it was almost like a well realized Twilight Zone episode, even the opening theme has a similar motif. I freakin’ loved it. I really liked the character stories too. The fact it was an alien invasion movie grounded in a family drama. Good times!
The home footage on the news freaks me out every damn time!Had some logic problems, but not enough to ruin it for me. 😀
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yes! that part was really well done. & it was creepy. also that short scene in the corn field. that was well done too.
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Duuuuuuudeee that shit fucking scared me so bad as a kid.
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I do agree, but also think The Village was even more underrated. That film is so so good.
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Hells yeah. I loved that, man!
The OST is Pan’s Labyrinth level awesome too. James Newton Howard was always at his best when collaborating with Shyamalan. That movie was so damn great.
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…None, really. Seriously, my DVD collection is very small!
Maybe Snatch? I don’t think that was underrated though but a lot of people don’t seem to know it these days.
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Snatch is my all time second favourite movie!!! Only just behind Lock Stock.
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You must be the big dick…
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The OC box set…..(Anna or Summer?)
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Grosse Point Blank
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Resident Evil
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Faster
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The Place Promised in Our Early Days. One of my absolute favourite films.
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I… haven’t heard of it. Not saying much, though. Haven’t seen much Japanese cinema. Blaghman was telling me the other day that I needed to see Spirited Away!
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DUDE WTF! You need to see it!
Ghibli films are amazing. Green Marketing knows what’s up, man!
Grave of the Fireflies is a must-watch. So sad.
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Hmm, not sure. Possibly House of 1000 Corpses, but Snowtown & The Tunnel are also pretty underrated in my opinion.
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House of 1000 Corpses is a train wreck of a movie.
It deserves no praise.
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You lie Dan, you lie.
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Foreign film I caught at brisbane film fest a couple of years back now, called Autumn Ball. Well, thats its English translation, it’s called Sugisball. Estonian film I believe. But it’s a story of multiple characters all experiencing loneliness in one way or another, all living in the same apartment block, and it’s just got this amazing mix of melancholy and comedy. Really, really amazing film, and noone knows about it sadly. And amazing cinematography! Highly recommended film to anyone who can get their hands on it – I had to import it in from Europe somewhere.
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I haven’t seen many foreign movies since international cinema at uni, alas. :'(
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The Hidden
I asked for tech help, then replied to my own request and spoke about LEGO. Clearly this was a mistake as now all the replies are about LEGO.
LEGO is pretty awesome though…
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To reply to your Lego statement about your original problem: Why would Nintendo want you to use more than one of their products? That’s crazy talk.
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Also, why don’t they sell Lego as big boxes of random pieces anymore? It’s all set things. Where’s the imagination gone?
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Where has it gone?
HERE!
https://twitter.com/Doc_What/status/268634209629921280/photo/1
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Hey can anyone shed any light on the BLOPS 2 Nuketown map situation?
apparently its been removed (cant verify yet) but even the official site makes no mention that it was temporary…
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I’m not 100% sure but isn’t it only for the Nuketown 24/7 mode?
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i have no idea…. they didnt exactly clarify…
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Holy moley Hitman Absolution is 25GBs which is a very inconvenient amount for me to download.
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Good maybe the textures will actually look good on PC. I’ve been disappointed with a few PC games recently that clock in at 5GB.
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HITMAN
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3 gigs of that is actually good.
jesus, tried to buy an AppleTV from COTD, sold out in less than 30 seconds…. sometimes i wonder if they only have like 2 of each item.
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I will still post the HDD I promise /o\
I’ve just been absent minded and I was supposed to go shopping today and post it then but I was lazy. I’ll try again tomorrow.
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HAHAHAHA lol. no stress masha, let me know what i owe you too
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They probably do 😛
I’m still holding out for the 3DS XL, been refreshing that bad boy every 30 mins.
NSFW (and yet I’m listening to it at work)
Best. Lyrics. Ever.
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You mean worst.
That was torturous.
So to go with @DC & his idea about the most embarrassing DVD/Blu-Ray on your collection, I have one for you all!
What is your most embarrassing TV show on DVD/Blu-Ray?
Mine would probably be Monk, the worst part? I watched all 9 seasons and enjoyed it to a certain extent.
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I dream of Jenie… before you start throwing bricks at me, it belongs to my wife 🙂
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I use to watch that on TV it’s not thaaaaat bad. But saying that I usually watch just about anything, as long as it is not horrible reality TV read: anything that isn’t about cars or Mythbusters.
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Mythbusters is one of the two things you veto? What is this madness!
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Err I worded that incorrectly /o\ I mean Mythbusters and stuff about cars is what I prefer to watch when it comes to reality shows.
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It’s a jungle out there, Virus. 😛
I own Felicity on DVD. You heard me.
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It sure is DC, it sure is.
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First season was between good and great. It slid downhill way too fast after that.
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I liked it pretty much all the way through. J.J. Abrams fan boy from way back. 😛
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I liked most of it, too. Hated almost every part where she was mooning around over Ben, though. Urk.
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In some ways her character was the weakest link of the show. Haha!
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Not sure what this is about but people named Ben are the worst!
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I feel bad for laughing at that. 😀
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@benwhite can do things to your account.
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OH! Except for him and a few others.
But other Bens are THE WORST. They cheat in Mario Kart too… (not so subtle hint)
Sorry @benwhite T__T
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I’m not embarrassed by any movie or TV show that I own.
I liked Monk. Never watched the whole series but I watched the last two seasons.
Hmm, probably “8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter” season 1… and I had it before I became a father.
BUT: John Ritter, Katey Sagal and Kaley Cuoco.
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Katey Sagal is a damn great, underrated actress!
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Since Sons of Anarchy, she’s no longer underrated, but I agree – she’s pretty versatile and impressive! 🙂
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Fun fact, because TV trivia.
She’s married to Kurt Sutter, creator of Sons of Anarchy. I don’t know if the role was nepotism or not.
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Eh, I’d cast her nepotism or otherwise, man. She’s awesome.
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It’s the role she was born to play, no question. She totally nails it.
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Fun fact, I wrote a spec pilot in ’08. Totally had her in mind for one of the characters.
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Man, how bad did that get when John Ritter passed away.
David Spade bad, is how bad that got.
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Never saw it. Think I dodged a bullet.
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His son Jason Ritter is a pretty good actor in his own right now. He’s on Parenthood, voices Dipper in Gravity Falls…
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He was in Joan of Arcadia. Quite a good show, too (though it was one of those first season excellent, season season very average, third season doesn’t exist type of shows)
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Gilmore Girls was an amazing show and I urge everyone to watch it.
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I cannot possibly endorse this comment enough. One of the best five shows of all time in my book.
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Best five shows of all time sounds like the maknigs of the next discussion? 😛
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Done!
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Yes! So clever and funny and heartwarming and heartbreaking.
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Thought I think Lorelai and Luke getting together was a mistake. In understand the tension was there, but to treat it in the same way a lot of other shows do it; build up, they get together, the break up, they get together, etc, I think it ruined one of the best sources of dialogue in the show. I’m all for Luke and Lorelai, but only in two states; filrty and possibly interested, and together. The being broken up thing sort of takes away from the wit and pleasant sharpness and leans to close towards bitter. I don’t like when things in Stars Hollow are down.
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I kind of half agree with you, but I like the way they handled it in the end, with the seeds of destruction in there from the very start.
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I always thought the way it was handled was great. I also loved the way the Christopher thing was dealt with. Brilliant show, and more often than not spot-on about relationships and the mistakes made within one.
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Didn’t the tone change when Amy Sherman-Palladino left the show? (Never watched, didn’t click with me, but I remember hearing the industry news around the time…)
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Not as much as the hysteria would have you believe, though yes, some. I liked season 7. In some ways, it worked better than ASP’s last season. In some ways.
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Actually it is quite a good show.
Eunghh…. Just saw the trailer for episode 5 of The Walking Dead (game)…
hurry up and be Thursday already!
I went to sign up for the FFXIV 2.0 alpha/beta. Have to log into my squenix account. Password rejected. I thought I knew what it was but obviously not. So I tried to reset it. Wouldn’t take.
Then I remembered the collector’s edition of FFXIV (see previous page whinge about how every CE I buy is disappointing (I hope this doesn’t mean Ni no Kuni will suck (it probably does))) came with an authenticator dongle which I attached to my account because squenix only lets you use alphanumerics in your password.
I have no clue where I put that dongle. 🙁
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That’s extremely unfortunate. 🙁
Reminds me a bit of our situation with Rock Band DLC. We imported all our Rock Band games from the US which meant we had to buy all our DLC from the US store. My husband made the account but we can only access it on our dodgy PS3 that barely works because he cannot for the life of him remember the password. And for some reason he used a fake date-of-birth when he created the account, which he also can’t remember, so he can’t reset his password, either. So we have hundreds of dollars worth of RB DLC that will be gone forever when the dodgy PS3 inevitably bites the dust. 🙁
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Maybe I should try and create a new account anyway. If I end up playing the game when it’s released – big if – I probably don’t want a ‘Europe’ account like I had, because fuck paying Euros for a subscription, it costs us an arm and a leg compared to paying US Dollars.
EDIT: But that said I probably will try and find my authenticator.
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Yesterday just before lunchtime my husband emailed me to let me know he’d booked the pest control guy to come at 10/10:30 this morning. I am waaaaay behind, like years behind in the housework, especially in the bedrooms so there was panic. Especially as he’s been told on numerous occasions to give me a week’s notice for stuff like that. So yesterday and today I worked like a madperson and did at least a week’s worth of work in one day.
Why am I telling you all this? Well, now that the pest guy has gone (and hopefully the ants) I am free! I can now play games or sew or do whatever I want without feeling guilty for not having done all those big housework jobs. For at least a few days. \o/
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Haha. My wife has te same panic reaction whenever anyone is coming in the house. She’s already cleaning everything for the meat I’m trying to organise (1st of Dec! Meat! BBQ! Games!). As a former tradesman I can tell you if it’s not a knee deep pile of filth they most won’t even notice or care. Especially if they’ve worked housing commission places before.
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Oh, it wasn’t so much that, it’s more that when it’s a pest spray, you need to make sure he can get to the walls. So my knee-deep piles of filth had to be moved out of the way. 😛
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See – we try to invite people over semi-regularly because it’s pretty much the one thing that forces us to clean up, vacuum and put away the washing.
The kitchen is kept fairly clean since we would eventually run out of plates and cutlery, but everything else just lives in limbo.-
That’s a great idea.
Boardgame Meats every week at my place, anybody? 😛
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Housing commission *shudder*
Though who am I to speak when my father likes hoarding the stuff he finds LOL.
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Video games.
Best five shows of all time?
Six Feet Under
Gilmore Girls
Sons of Anarchy
Outnumbered
The Shield
Edit: this is not up for discussion.
Honourable mentions:
Breaking Bad
Malcolm in the Middle
Yes Minister
The Office (UK)
Firefly
Farscape
West Wing
M*A*S*H (thanks for reminding me, Strange /o\)
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Six Feet Under
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
The West Wing
Battlestar GalacticaToo many good shows to leave out the likes of Firefly, Freaks and Geeks, Mad Men, Alias, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Lost and etc so I’ll leave the fifth slot blank for now. 😛
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I do this for movies! 😛
Clerks II
Children of Men
A Few Good Men
The Castle
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My dad has an ever changing list of “top 3” movies.
Always a fun conversation to have once he’s a bit drunk. Just start keeping count and then when LOTR comes up, mention that trilogies don’t count as one.
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how about x-files?
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Modern TV has a lot to thank The X-Files for, but I can’t help think that it derailed too much towards the end to make the list, alas. :'(
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I think the first 5 or so seasons more than made up for it.
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Yes, it is up for discussion. Not the type of discussion where people try and correct you, but the type where people put their own lists up.
Although I have no idea what I’d put as the best five of all time. It’s tricky enough figuring out favourites, let alone what is the best.
Also, I’m surprised you don’t have M*A*S*H* on there. I hate the show, but did it hurt you to leave it out?
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Daria also holds a special place in my heart, because it taught me to be bitter, cynical, jaded and sarcastic far beyond my years.
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Agreed.
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Breaking Bad
The West Wing
Malcolm in the Middle
Top Gear (UK)
The Wire
The Simpsons (up to season 8 or 10 depending on who you ask)
M*A*S*H
Blackadder
Monty Python’s Flying Circus
Fawlty Towers
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I haven’t seen any of those top 5 😛
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Wait until you’re broken on the inside, then watch Six Feet Under. It’ll fix you! 😛
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Only if you buy The Walking Dead.
today.
now.
@dc testing out something, lemme know if edited comments still give you notifications? : )
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No dice.
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Widget the World Watcher
Ren and Stimpy
Rocko’s Modern Life
Samurai Pizza Cats
Biker Mice From Mars-
No Ducktales? :'(
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THE WIRE.
THE WIRE?
THE WIRE!!!
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Terribly, I haven’t seen it. But it’s on my to-buy/hire/borrow/beg/steal list.
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Treme?
Haha! I know that every time I mention this, you tell me that it was too directionless and never clicked with you. Still feel compelled to say it every time. 😛
I’m still watching. There’s some arcs I really love too right now.
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The Wire?
SHeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeetttttttttttt.
Watching the final episode was so depressing, not because of the ending, but because I had to contend with having no more episodes to watch.
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SHANE! No Mad Men? No Blackadder?
Dad’s Army was pretty funny too.-
Haven’t seen enough of Mad Men to comment. Didn’t care for Blackadder (gave it up in series 1, which I hear is a mistake).
Love Dad’s Army at its best, but it was way too inconsistent 😛
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Series 1 is pretty much a completely different show.
Series 2 and on is much better in every conceivable way.
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Pretty much anything by HBO.
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Your list is wrong. It does not have Monty Python’s Flying Circus OR Fawlty Towers.
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Hmm LET ME SEE.
Sons of Anarchy
Breaking Bad
Burn Notice
Mad Men
Metal EvolutionHonourable mentions;
Miami Vice
Dexter
Deadwood
Doctor Who
Mythbusters
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2 broke girls.
All this talk about favourite shows and DVDs makes me ashamed I don’t own some of my favourite shows. I’m going to go check how much it is to buy The Middleman, now. Was thinking just the other day that I’d love to do a rewatch of it.
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Oh Gods, the Middleman was fantastic
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It really was.
I bought my husband the graphic novels for Christmas last year but he still hasn’t read them, so I can’t read them either. One was the continuation of the series so I’m really looking forward to being able to read it.-
That plan was sheer elegance in its simplicity
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Forget the best, let’s talk about the rest. What is the worst TV show you can remember watching?
I’m going to go with The Cape. So much potential, squandered the moment they tried to put it on screen. It was a trainwreck.
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I’m going to go with Grimm. Halfway through the first episode we were dizzy from all the eye rolling.
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I was like that for most of the first season! But stick with it because it does get rather good…eventually.
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Two and a Half Men’s ‘humour’ is really distasteful.
Although I suppose that was an obvious choice.
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I was tempted to say “no sitcoms” because there are just so many terrible sitcoms out there.
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I’ll see your The Cape, and raise you the V remake.
For the same reasons.I couldn’t finish watching either of them and that’s saying something, because I’m still watching Private Practice. 😛
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Oh, that V remake. :'( Such a good cast, such a horrible show.
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The V remake was pretty terrible but it was nowhere near as goofy. It felt like one of those shows that had an awkward start as they built up to the good bit but the start was just so awkward they didn’t get to do the good bits .
That or they forgot to include the good bits.
I stuck it out as long as I could because of Alan Tudyk. I did not last long.
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I hate when sci-fi shows just use constant CGI sets. It’s one of my pet peeves. Battlestar Galactica did set extensions awesomely, but you could tell there was an actual set too. There’s nothing more jarring than a bunch of actors ‘hovering’ over a room, not interacting with any thing.
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Green screens should really not be used as a substitute for sets. They’re a complimentary technology dammit, complimentary!
I’m looking at you Star Wars prequels.
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It’s one of shows where they started off with great characters, but then kept making them do really stupid out-of-character things so that soon you’d forgotten they were ever smart or interesting at all.
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That’s why I appreciate well-written dumb characters.
In The Wire, quite a few of the major characters are complete morons. They don’t necessarily know it but it makes perfect sense for them to screw up and the ways that they screw up are consistent with how their character has been shown to act.
Whereas in The Walking Dead, the characters are just idiots because zombies.
EDIT: Malcolm in the Middle is probably one of the best examples of a show that does good smart and dumb characters. You have characters like Malcolm and Dewy who can process information quickly and use that to their advantage (or in Malcolm’s case, disadvantage because he’s also a twat). Then you have characters like Reese, who just cannot logically process new information in any useful way. Malcolm and Dewy also absorb and retain information really well, while Reese doesn’t.
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Yes! I talked about V a few TAYs back and I feel the same way. I was so let down by it (Though I probably wouldn’t call it the worst show I’ve ever watched)
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The Ferals.
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LIES!
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OK, slight edit.
FeralTV was the worst.-
Agreed.
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Fuck all y’all!
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So many bad ones. The worst one I stuck with recently was Heroes Season One. Profoundly disappointing. Oh, and Homeland, but I gave that up nice and quickly.
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Heroes should have been good and maybe it would have been if it didn’t get popular. As soon as they gave up the cavalier “anyone can die” bit and had a central cast of unkillable Mary Sues, it became pretty terrible.
The later seasons were even worse. I kept watching in the hopes that it would eventually get back to the point where it didn’t suck. They really fell into all of the pitfalls that superhero comics do.
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My biggest gripe with it was that the show could have had half the main cast removed from the show and it wouldn’t have impacted the story at all.
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It was all meant to come together in a somewhat Pratchettesque way. There were a lot of random meetings of unrelated characters and it was clearly meant to come to a head at Kirby plaza where everyone will have had a meaningful role up until that point.
But the fucked that up good and proper.
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I know, but I could tell right from the outset that it wasn’t going to work that way. I was disappointed to be right. Ultimately, most of the characters had purely expository and facilitative roles (Hiro, Isaac), but worse, several were utterly irrelevant to everything (Niki, DL, Micah, Parkman, to name a few), and some were shoehorned awkwardly into a story that didn’t need them (Molly, Mohinder, Claire, Claire’s dad, even Nathan).
Aside from the Peter/Sylar thing, pretty much every character in that show was irrelevant. Which leaves you wondering why those two were relevant… and the conclusion is, they aren’t. The show did nothing with its Season 1 finale, and made the preceding 17 hours of TV feel completely pointless.
I remember thinking (and I stand by this), Heroes would have been a goddamned awesome four-episode miniseries, and a pretty good 12 episode series (with all the appropriate aforementioned cuts, of course).
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I quite enjoyed Heroes all the way through. All of the seasons.
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Hiro was too powerful to be used effectively.
Had they used Malcolm McDowell’s character (Linderman?) much more effectively (and went into more detail about shadowy group of original super powered people), then a lot of the secondary and tertiary characters would have served a more meaningful purpose.
They all had future roles to play, or were being set up for that, and then Linderman was meant to be behind it all. Then he wasn’t.
It really sucks to see a show where there is an obvious way to make things work so much better and they just straight up ignore it.
The final act of Sunshine is a bit like that. A lot of people don’t like it for obvious reasons, I don’t like it because they way it was handled could have been so much neater.
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I’m with @strange in liking season 1.
I disagree with her on the other seasons. I kept watching it, but mostly because watching a train wreck is a lot of fun.
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I think that one is just personal opinion. I quite liked Heroes (at least it was something different), and critics would disagree with you RE Homeland.
I’m not a huge fan of blatantly american rubbish but Homeland is a well written show with good acting. DISCLAMER I’m only half way through season 1….
I don’t like Downton Abbey but that doesn’t necessarily mean its a bad one.
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Most judgements of best/worst are personal opinion 😛
Any of those sort of Hollywood ‘reality’ shows. Whenever one comes on it’s time to leave!
Mortal Kombat: The TV series.
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Live action or cartoon because I’m fairly sure they tried both.
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Live action. They only had two stunt fighters for the whole show.
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I haven’t watched it yet (and don’t intend to) but there is some new tv show called “lightning point”
It’s about aliens who like to surf, who happen to be super hot chicks.
look it up for a laugh
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2196825/
the main alien surfer chicks actresses (and I use the term very loosely) are
Jessica Green and Lucy Fry
Smallville, I could never get into it. Just eugh.
@thecracks
Martial Arts are pretty awesome. I’m torn between clearing some space and practicing on my own or trying to find a different style to learn and attend a proper class.
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I have always wanted to learn a martial art but I was always too scared to try. It’s probably too late now, my old body wouldn’t cope.
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You’d be able to cope. There are many people older than you that attend my karate classes – just make sure to take it at your own pace, and you’ll be fine.
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I worry I’d never be able to stick it out long enough to get to a point where it would be working.
I’ve never exercised on purpose in my life, and my body’s been very much broken since bearing my second kid so it would probably be good for me in the long run, but I’m worried I’d break before getting to that point.
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I started really young, but there were plenty of “old”* people who started while I was there and while it took them a bit longer to get nice n loose, eventually every one was at a similar level. It just takes time and practice. 😀
*When you’re 8, any adult is “old”
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Attending classes is good for the social aspect.
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That brings about the difficult question. What style to learn? No way I’m flexible/fit enough for Kung Fu (Although that would be awesome). I think I saw a poster for a Ninjitsu class in Penrith…
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Dood, I will just give you a blood transfusion and that way the knowledge will just be in your blood.
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I have the knowledge. It’s just the practice I need.
Also, you are the whitest Asian! I don’t want that cracker kung fu! All the other students would laugh at me.
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When I was 8 years old I started Traditional Shotokan Karate – was a great way to learn self-discipline. Went on till I was around 13 and got my black belt and lost all motivation when I was selected to go to the world championships in LA but wasn’t allowed to go because of money.
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I did a mixture of Shotokan and Aikido called Makotokai until I was 15. I had to stop when we moved to Ireland. We lived at a place with a massive backyard, way out in the country, so I kept up my training up until I moved back to Scotland for Uni. Pretty much gave it up completely then.
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@Saturday
ever try out Red Rock Deli chips? Specifically Honey Soy Chicken?
SNACKTAKU
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GOOD NEWS: I bought 3 bags o’ red rock chips over the weekend. Honey Soy Chicken was one of them.
BAD NEWS: Ate ’em all before I could write something up ’bout them.
GOOD NEWS: I’m going to buy more chips!
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Surely you can write a few words on them? Were they tasty? Isn’t Honey Soy Chicken just the greatest?
No need for some 1200+ word essay that @dc requires. Save that for the meats ;D
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You saw my last Snacktaku, right? I gotta maintain my quality in my reviews if I’m gonna take this Snacktaku thing seriously.
Which I am.
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LIME AND BLACK PEPPER OR SALT AND VINEGAR ARE THE ONLY ACCEPTABLE ANSWERS
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I had Lime and Black Pepper, will go for S&V also this time around.
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@sughly
Just wanted to reiterate that even if I didn’t know you I would still love your games. I think they are well-crafted and full of charm and atmosphere. You most definitely deserve the great things that are coming your way off the back of them. 🙂
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I still haven’t bought Anna’s Quest! /o\
But I got paid today! \o/
@Sughly! You should port it to the Wii U! MAKE IT HAPPEN! Also, redo it all in 3D for the 3DS. That’s easy, right?
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iOS too, while you’re at it. 😛
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iOS/Android/W8/WP8 please 😛
I think it would be pretty fun to play on a tablet, actually.-
I think he said folks are working on an iOS version of AGS and I know Gemini Rue is being ported, so here’s hoping! 😀
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Lame. He should just make his own adventure game engine! 😛
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Surely getting it in the Win8 store wouldn’t be that complicated?
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I remember being blown away by the game long before I ever talked to Sughly properly over on Adventure Gamers too! The art direction specifically. You’ve done good!
Toasted Chips & Cheese Sandwich for lunch! \o/
No, that isn’t a typo.
Oven cooked chips, cheese, on a sandwich, toasted. 😀
@greenius DJ sale isn’t really worth it. Two bargain bins with some 360s left (those are a good deal if you’re in the market) and some games that no one in their right mind will want.
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Figured!
Thanks for the update though 🙂
@greenius
I picked up Spec Ops for $6. Time to experience all the depression, I guess.
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Best damn depression evah! (This side of Six Feet Under. :P)
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All this 6ftV is making me want to watch it. I might trial the pilot this evening, methinks.
On topic:
Buy the ticket, take the ride 😀
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ozbrgnz grnmngmng?
I was going to post about it a few hours ago but was like NAHHHHHH no one likes my bargains :'(
It’s a goodie bro! Not GOTY material for me (Sorry D.C.!) but still alright. Wasn’t as depressing as The Walking Dead in my opinion but there were some powerful moments that made me feel uneasy.
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Someone retweeted it on the twittersphere about GMG selling it for $6. I couldn’t help myself!
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Awww I thought it was a bundle with their games (I’m keen on picking up Costume Quest and re-buying Stacking for PC)
But Amnesia Fortnight was what spawned them in the first place… interesting!
I hereby solemnly swear that the next customer that comes in and refuses to listen to me is going to get punched in the throat. I don’t care I’d it’s a teenage boy or an 80 year old woman, right in the throat.
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With a dremel.
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Do it complete with a Bruce Lee-styled “WATTTAAAA” at the end, just for dramatic effect. At that point it’ll look like you’re a master of marital arts who delivered a precise throat punch for self defence. And that old lady? she’s a ninja. Had nunchucks on her. You punched her so hard they disintegrated.
Edit: And you have to tremble madly with a crazy look in your eyes after delivering said punch. And then dramatic close up on your face. I dunno how that last part works, but make it happen.
Edit 2: ha, marital arts. A whole new style of fighting on it’s own.
Just got told that I need surgery to repair 2 hernias. I just turned 37 last week and already I am beset with old-man ailments!
Kind of freaking out now, though, since I’ve not had surgery before (unless wisdom teeth removal counts). Has anybody had any experience with this kind of thing? 😐
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Oh, man. I’m really sorry to hear that. 🙁 That’s horrible.
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I’ve had 2 hernia operations now 🙁
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Well… at least you’re still alive. Or at least I assume that’s what your being here posting signifies. So that’s comforting.
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Surprisingly, I have not. 😛
Edit – Experience with surgery, that is.
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Two hernias? You’re keen!
Don’t worry about the surgery man. You might wake up wondering what the hell is going on, but apart from that, it’s just like falling asleep while watching Scrubs (Maybe not as hilarious).
Edit: By that I mean you might wake up after the surgery and wonder what is going on and why you haven’t had surgery yet.
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Yeah, 2 hernias. I figured why just have 1? I am hardcore, therefore I shall have 2.
Kind of freaked out by the thought of it, though. Somebody is going to slice me open, have a bit of a poke around inside my guts, then stitch me back up again. What if I bleed? Well, I’m sure I will bleed, even if I’m not awake for it. Hopefully I won’t be awake for it. What if I get an infection? What if people stare at my junk while I’m anaesthetized? These are all questions that need pondering.
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Unless your junk is miniscule, humungous, or in some way bizarre, then they’ll probably get bored of it quickly.
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Damn. Better go get a bit of manscaping done before I go in, then.
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And I’ll be off work for 2 weeks, so I guess that’s potentially some good gaming time if I live.
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Right before going into surgery, take some viagra. That’ll solve at least one problem, AND be a great story for everyone involved.
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I’ve got a feeling that’d be a pretty bad idea. I mean, keeping tabs on blood pressure is something important during surgery isnt it?
though it’d be hilarious in a medical comedy…. *makes a note of this*
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TAY has the scoops folks, #35 is writing a medical comedy. 🙂
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…maybe
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I was thinking it’d be a bad idea because if there’s a man waving a very, very sharp scalpel around then I’d want my junk to be presenting the smallest possible target.
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Surgeons are pretty good. So are nurses.
forget that, all medical staff are freaking grand. They kept my dad alive. & a friend of a friend who’s a nurse at that hospital checked in on him daily (he wasn’t even working in that part of the hospital the time, he was just doing it to reassure us). they’re all goddamn brilliant.If you need professional reassurance, talk to @Freya maybe? She’d be the one most likely to know stuff about this sorta thing.
First and only edit ill ever do. That was mean. 🙁
I have no experience and therefore, no advice. 🙁
*hugasaurus*
You’re not an old man! I had a hernia operation and I’m only 21. You’ll be fine! Just enjoy the free ice cream!
Damn dood. Best of luck. Hope it all works out well for you.
Woah. Good luck, Braaains!
I’ve had surgery, but not really internal stuff.
General anaesthetic is an interesting experience
Happy birthday!
#completelymissingthepoint
#hashtagsforHarli
#hiHarli
@harli
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Hi there!
CritterVerse, BattleBros and SpaceBase DF-9 sounds great, but The White Birch sounds amazing! (Black Lake too, actually!)
Ah! Reply fail. That was about the Double Fine Amnesia Fortnight. http://www.humblebundle.com/double-fine
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There were too many videos to watch so I just didn’t watch any… lol
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They’re only 30 seconds, though. So not as intimidating as it looks. Just… vote for The White Birch, okay? 😛
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Oh! I’ll watch it after lunch 😀
Can you vote without buying? Did you buy it?
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No, you’ve got to buy. I might later. Possibly.
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DOUBLE FINE!!!!!!
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UGH D.C.! Tooooo many videos to watch and things to vote for!
I just won’t vote and buy whatever new game(s) they come out with 😛
I randomly watched a few vids though and some pitches are a lot better than others.
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Yeah, the spiffier ones to me seem to already have the higher votes any way, so I think you’ll be right. There’s some cool looking ones, though.
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Yeah, I did stumble across Black Lake, The White Birch, BattleBros, Hack n Slash, SpaceBase and ‘guy with a guitar signing a song’ game. The ones I’m interested in seem to be winning anyway so I don’t see the point in me voting : )
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anyone know if 3ds xl’s or ps3’s have gone up on COTD yet?
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My few glances says no.
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No. I’ve checked every 30 mins.
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OMG A TENT, PERFECT FOR THE SYDNEY CAMPING MEAT!
😛
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Buy me one!
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Yeah fairly sure you don’t want it 🙂
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Got to the final PayPal confirmation stage on both my phone and desktop and missed out on the 3DS 🙁
Had an error on the phone and by the time the desktop one loaded it was too late!
EDIT: I’ve refreshed every 30 mins since it started at 11am and there hasn’t been a PS3 yet. The XL was all I wanted so I’m done. Good luck on the PS3!
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i got it into my checkout too but next page wouldnt load….. i just realised that my IOS app seems to be responding immediately regardless of the traffic….
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Yeah, it was more reliable but now more people are using it so its crashes are just as likely!
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Nikki Webster got married,
Not a big deal really.
edit: Okay so it looks like this news not that big a deal. Statement has been downgraded to suit.
Carry on.
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Dammit, I’ll forever be missin’ her strawberry kisses :'(
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She’s a year younger than me 😐
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She’s 25…
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STOP IT YOU’RE MAKING IT WORSE
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Hey man, I hope that edit wasn’t because of me… I was just kidding around.
@mythamphetamine @effluvium-boy
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2012/11/new-research-suggests-methamphetamine-could-stave-off-the-flu/
Fight, fight, fight!
😛
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This is brilliant
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I don’t think either of us are fit for human consumption in high concentration :S
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Giggity.
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Bahahaha!
Brilliant!
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Bring it.
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I’ll take you on.
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Now I’ve got that A-Ha song stuck in my head.
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Meet me at the bike racks after school.
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I’m a lover, not a fighter. :'( (Ie. coward.)
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Me too man, me too :’)
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It feels like Friday.
This is probably because I’m taking the rest of the week off \o/
My boss sent me an email an hour or so ago requesting a meeting on Friday morning, one that I really should go to /o\
Told him that I’m not here and haven’t heard from him since.
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Enjoy the days off, man! We’ll miss you!
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You’re acting like days off means he won’t be on TAY
oh wait not everyone is a hermit and has better things to do :'(
… 🙁
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Right there with you, buddy. :'(
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Enjoy!
@Rize When is the SWTOR server maintenance usually, do you remember? Is it Tuesday nights?
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Perfect time for TF2sdays!
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Yes, but I don’t have 10gb of usage to waste on a hat simulator 😛
Might get that 1 month of xbox live gold offer that’s been on my Xbox dashboard for the last few weeks and play some Halo 4 MP.-
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But you have 25gb to waste on a failed MMO?! I DON’T EVEN /o\-
I have it on disc! I mean, three discs.
And I just copied it over from my old desktop, which had all the updates up till about June. So I only had 1gb of updates to download 😛
However, I did download about 4gb of stuff for Halo 4 today, because the 2nd disc that you install the MP stuff off of wouldn’t work >:( -
Also, I wish I could have wasted 25gb. I’ve only got 30gb of usage a month /o\
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30GB?! Wowee, that’s not much these days 😛
You should try to stagger the download over the course of a year \o/
Because hats.
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Also, that came out way too harsh. I shall wear a hat in your honour.
Not positive, but I think it might be.
Probably been discussed already but I scoped out David Jones. Its 50% off ALL games stuff, including consoles! Which is pretty amazing actually. Original 3DS’ in stock for $125, PS3’s for $220, the slimmed down barely no hdd xbox’s were $99 I think, with the bigger ones at $170 or thereabouts.
If I didnt own every one of those already, totes wouldv bought one. Got Starfox 3D for $35 instead.
EDIT: Also includes controllers and all that. Basically everything related to games. And remember, today only.
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Any other noteworthy 3DS games? Any discount on the XL?
So. Damn. Proud.
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Nah werent any xl’s in stock in the DJ I went to, but I’m sure they’d have them at a DJ nearby somewhere, maybe call around? All the 3ds games they had I owned, was only after Starfox or Layton, and they didnt have Layton. Going back to another DJ this afternoon with high hopes of finding Layton.
EDIT: That is to say, there would definitely be discount on the xl, if they have it.
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I’m not sure what games you have but I was thinking of eventually picking up Kid Icarus, New Super Mario Bros 2, Kingdom Hearts, Paper Mario, Layton and maybe Star Fox, any of those?
$35 doesn’t sound too cheap though so if they did have them at that price I probably would’ve waited anyway.
As for calling around even if I found some I wouldn’t leave the house. I stay true to my hermit roots!
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Where does this “So. Damn. Proud.” thing come from anyway?
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First its who is Captain Planet, now this… do you just wander around this world looking up at the sky or something?
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No wonder he has so many accidents 😛
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Yeah Lambo. Get with the program. *shifty look*
What? Of course I get it. Why wouldn’t I?
What?
What?
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in the butt
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Well at least I recognised the Magic School Bus. 😛
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WHO HASN’T HEARD OF CAPTAIN PLANET????????
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He’s a hero!
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Gonna take pollution down to zero!
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GONNA TAKE POLLUTION DOWN TO ZERO!
Edit: shit. ninja’d. damn you Freeze!!!! *shakes fist*
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He’s our powers magnified!
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And he’s fightin’ on the planet’s side.
(Someone had to finish that.)
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Me, obviously. 😛
Looks like I’m gonna have to google it, find out what it is…
He’s a creepy magical man with a green mullet who hangs around with a bunch of racially diverse teenagers and helps them stop comical villains from polluting the earth.
He was also the Kotaku AU community prize mascot for a while.
someone linked this in TAY once… can’t remember who! I’m guessing Puppylicks 😛
Damn work – didn’t get a lunch break today
Edit: So. Damn. Proud.
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SO. DAMN. PROUD.
😀
@chuloopa
Dark Angels confirmed for January White Dwarf!!! \0/
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HRNG
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YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!
The shopping centre I’m in is playing my wedding song…
It’s ahhh, making me a little emotional.
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HOLD ON TO THE FURY.
C’mon man, I wanna hear about you punching an octogenarian in the throat. -
Also, and more seriously, what song?
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I’m pretty sure listening to Friday makes @chuloopa want to punch me in the face. 😛
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but very lovingly.
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I’ve had a pretty terrible day and just hearing that messed me up a bit then made me a lot happier.
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Bittersweet upvote ^.^
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True story: For the candle lighting ceremony at the church I conned them into playing To Zanarkand on the organ. They liked it so much they started using it in normal services.
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So I swung past the “Wii U Experience” store in Sydney. It’s next to a foodcourt and not that easy to spot. I looked in and it was basically empty except for three girls that worked there.
I never ever ever walk into a store if there are no other customers as I all of a sudden imagine pressure coming from the staff working there. So no, I didn’t walk in.
That was my Wii U Experience.
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Haha! I know that social anxiety all too well my friend.
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I don’t even think it’s that awkward of a thing. I think most people are a bit similar. You ever brave yourself into walking into an empty store and 2 minutes later turn around and notice the place is magically full?
If I owned a store, I would pay people to hang around inside just so it looked busy and more attractive to passersby.
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Haha I know that feeling. Even worse when it’s during a once-in-a-blue-moon clothes shopping trip.
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Yeah, they have all these cool looking people. I feel so out of place. :'(
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Buy clothes overseas or online! 😀
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Haha! The sales clerks are also liars. I bought a shirt last year and the lady said they were just in and very popular, I had good taste. Then six months later a different lady says the same thing almost word-for-word. Why would they lie? :'(
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Ignore what they say, go with your heart!
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Those female shop clerks always work that magic on us -__-
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If I’m already at the cash register though, what’s the point? Sale is made! :S
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It’s called flirting =P
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Totally worked until the second lady ruined the magic. 😛
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Haha, maybe she liked it too!
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Too confusing for a simple hermit. 😀
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haha, it’s not that bad =P
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Monogamous-five!
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Man, I think I might’ve given away the fact that I’m hopeless when talking to women. 😛 (Probably was implied anyway, but now you know.)
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Best wingman 😛
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You chose… poorly.
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Just cleared my desk with an hour to spare. Hurrah for doing nothing until Monday!
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Downvote flavoured jelly.
Man, Hitman Absolution has been installing for an hour. :S
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Your review thus far?
I’m hoping for 0/10, unless its installation is somehow amazing(For instance, Blizzard installers get the highest rating I’ve ever given an installer. 2/10). This should bring you in line with about half of the worlds reviewers, once the score is normalised to the game review system(6/10 to 11/10).
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If you only watch one installation this year, make it this one! (Best installation would be the original Broken Sword game, there was a cool mini game where you had to smash all the bricks! :D)
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There was? I played it on playstation actually haha, don’t think I ever played the PC one
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For real? Man, nothing worse than a point-and-click on a console controller. 😛 There was this British narrator too: “Welcome to the Broken Sword installation program.” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HE168vkjhs (Who uploads footage of an install? :S)
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Holy ball sacks, now that’s an installer.
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So… like 1.9/10?
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Nah man, I’d give it a solid 2.2/10. Definitely beats the Blizz ones.
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The X-Files Game had a cool installer too. Scully reading her notes followed by the theme song, really set the tone nicely and made you wanna play. The Longest Journey had spoilerific concept art. :S
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I agree, I quite like Blizzard installers as well, they always have something to read, whether it be patch notes or what I can currently waste my money on in their store!
Now time for the 2GB launch day patch! 😛
Almost snapped at work.
Gotta reel it back in. Bottle up that rage.
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Seems like the healthy thing to do!
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Save it for the 8th.
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But cookies! /o\
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How long ’til you finish for the day, man? Nothing like realising you’re on the home stretch, personally.
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Right… about… now!
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Nothing can enrage you quite like work can be it clients, coworkers or bosses.
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Bottle it up until you explode!
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Like in Falling Down!
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D-Fens style.
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On my way home from work, pull up to a set of lights and get challenged by an old Hyundai Excel with one o those stupid exhausts on it. Wasn’t sure what he was trying to achieve but I wasn’t going to involve myself in that.
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The voice of reason!
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I managed to beat an ’08 Triton in an ’89 Corolla Hatch.
I don’t know how, but it happened.Additionally, I was an idiot back then, and my car probably didn’t appreciate it at all.
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They are still closer than a 95 Excel and a 12 SV6 ute. :S
I stopped worrying about racing and speed a long time ago. I’m more about the comfort and ride. Must be getting older than I thought.
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Comfort and volume. Fuck going fast, that shit kills.
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Man that car of yours accelerates nicely though…
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Man, I’m still annoyed I feel for that scam. On the upside, at least I got off lightly. Others have been completely scammed.
I’m also annoyed my anti-virus didn’t pick it up. I would get kapersky again (as it has phishing stuff) but I havne’t been able to afford it
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Wait, what did you get scammed by?
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Woolworths giftcard. I actually ignored it the first few times. But then i thought it would be helpful. But I only got scammed $25
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Which web-browser do you use? Might be beneficial to add HTTPS Everywhere to your list of addons in Firefox if you use that. I’m not sure about other browsers.
From what you mentioned previously (that’s all I’m going off) it was a phishing attempt, which would’ve directed you to a dodgy URL with a convincing layout. I’m not sure an A/V program is designed to pick that up, or indeed how it’d pick that up, unless it was posted on a URL blacklist or similar.
Unless something was attempting to attack your computer, I doubt an A/V would help much, sorry :S
From memory, doesn’t Kaspersky offer 12mo ‘trials’ from their website? You may be able to use a service like TenMinuteMail for registration.
I use Comodo Antivirus in combination with Windows Defender. Comodo is available free to end-users, and Windows Defender is free for anayone with an activated/registered version of Windows (XP and up, I believe? I run 7Pro, so can’t be sure).I’m about to head home, but will provide links once there if you’d like.
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AGV antivirus. Might help until you can renew your Kapersky sub.
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I’m using Ad-aware
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Microsoft Security Essentials is also pretty good at doing its job (and is free!)
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Negative Zero endorses it like crazy too! It’s almost like he works on it! 😛
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I’ve been using it past 8 months and it’s great. Not a resource hog like the others I have used.
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Security Essentials was what I was referring to up top, confused it for Defender :S
It’s probably one of the better ones I know of 😀
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Fair mistake – WIndows Defender in Win8 has all the functionality of MSE, but Defender in previous Windows versions doesn’t and you need to install Security Essentials alongside it.
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Was it actually a virus or just a scam? Because AV won’t protect you against stuff that isn’t malicious code (or it shouldn’t, at least).
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Just a scam. Phishing
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@mythamphetamine
Doh doh doh doh doh.
I linked the wrong video up there. The song was this one. http://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=fvwrel&v=5V430M59Yn8#
How I did that I have no idea. No one tell mrs. Freeze.
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Haha! I thought that other one was a really odd choice for a wedding song. 😀
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Hahaha! Fools Rush In! Oh man…
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You spelt it wrong! But I don’t blame you, unlike Theatrhythm, @mytytahmphetheatmine is a silly word to spell : D
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I’ve never been able to spell Aleph’s twitter handle correctly. Never.
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@mythamphetamine
LAST GUESS EVER
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Its easy. First you take Myth – as in legend…
Amp – makes a guitar too loud
Het – I’ll leave this one to your imagination
A – Obvious
Mine – not yoursSo all together its about a Legendary Volume machine that belongs to me. Was that so hard? 🙂
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Yes. /o\
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Methamphetamine – Walter White cooks it.
With a ‘Y’ – Because Y not?
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The het obviously means he is part James Hetfield.. So Aleph did your mother have a one night stand with James back in the 80’s when Metallica toured down under?
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I’m a far superior James to the Hetfield variety 😛
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HITMAN HIOTMAN HITMAN
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HI OTTERMAN!
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Hi Otacon!
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Mystery Question Funtime!
B or P?
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LOL, that was epic scree.
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I was just going to write it, but I thought this would be better.
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Nice.
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Then that means I’m having roast pork and crackle for dinner tonight.
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Dammit Greenius! We could have forced him to eat a large serving of Bok Choy!
It’s very simple, but it gets the point across!
Maybe I should actually spend some time and make a properly cool looking one instead of just a circle with words 😛 Maybe one that incorporates a big image of my own face across the shirt back.
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Simple is best. I like it. 😀
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With a huge grin and two thumbs up.
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And a POW!
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Those thumbs look like something else…
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Oh, wow.
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You definitely need to base it on the MLB/NBA logo somehow.
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That’s a cool idea! Just depends how far my photoshop talent can stretch 😛
EDIT: Might try and emulate something like this. Could take a while but I’ll see how I go!
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Apparently PSN cards were 50% off at David Jones today!
Why did no one tell me /o\
I could’ve bought Final Fantasy!
Guess I’ll just leech them off @freezespreston 🙂 < 3?
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ugh, Leechius
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Thanks for your offer Nob, I humbly accept.
Gimme yo games pl0x.
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You guys? Awesome. I don’t care what those other people say…
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Stop whoring downvotes!
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Stop harshing my mellow, Greenius…
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Upvoted for hippie talk.
Peace out.
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*strums guitar*
Come on people now
Smile on your brother
Everybody get together
Try to love one another
Right now*puts down guitar, goes to kill people in Hitman*
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Why is this downvote material? People here ARE awesome. Am I missing something?
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I don’t know :P, last time when I was catching up on TAY I saw that he did a similar post and got downvoted to hell.
DOWNVOTE WHORE.
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The only thing you were missing was a upvote.
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I’m getting there. My phones lagging a lot
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I dunno. It’s just funny. 😛
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He’s implying no one else thinks so 😛
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It’s not, that’s the joke! =D
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Wait, why are we? Does that include me? Does that include everyone? I have no idea what’s going on anymore /o\-
Yes, everyone. Including you, is awesome. Because reasons 🙂
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The thoughts are sincere. You’re all awesome.
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Hello good peoples of TAY. I hope all is well with you.
I got a Sony BluRay Player from Coles for $79. It comes with The Avengers BD. They were a special a couple of weeks ago for $99, now reduced to clear.
I still use a CRT TV, but now I have access to all the Bravia Online stuff and catch-up services like iView, SBS etc on the telly. It’s almost like having a smart TV, just on a CRT instead.
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But without the lag of a smart tv!
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CRT’s do have particularly nice colour too. I was sad when mine stopped working. :'(
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If you want to get another they’re dirt cheap or even free second hand.
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Haha! I think it’s just me being slightly nostalgic. My heart belongs to HD now. 😛
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*waves*
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\o\ \o/ /o/
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Mexican waves \o/
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/o\ -o- \o/ -o- /o\ -o- \o/ -o- /o\ -o- \o/ -o- /o\ -o- \o/
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*wants to wave back, doesn’t want to break combo, sinks into seat and tries to go unnoticed.*
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HEY LOOK ITS DC. EVERYBODY WAVE AT HIM o/
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‘sup Nova? How went day two?
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Ok, a lot of reading of training programs. A few times I zoned out, staring at the screen for 30 secs or so before realising “Oh hey, words. I’m supposed to be reading those”
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Sooner you do the training, sooner it’s done with I suppose. Settling into Orange okay?
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Yeah its going pretty good. Starting to get into a bit of a routine now I guess
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Sup bro?
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How’s Hitman treating you?
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The game’s good, Smurfy. Just like the old ones. The only problem is I’m not in a stealth kind of mood right now. Also, I keep thinking about what’s going on here. 😀
How are you, man?
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Pretty good man. Internet just crapped out on me for a while though. But whatever.
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^ Harold Holt
HEY BLOPSIE PEOPLES I NEED HALP.
My brother plays insane amounts of CoD:MoWa3 (that’s how the cool kids say “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3”, right?) and it’s both giftsmas and his borthday soon, so I was thinking of getting him Blopsie. This is good idea, yes?
@mashaa was helping me on Twitter regarding geolocking on the PS3, which apparently only dictates the DLC availability, not actual compatibility with the game itself. Which is nice, because it allows me to grey-import from shady Russian websites like the cheapskate I am, should I wish to go down that route.
But now I’m thinking, if I get a collector’s edition (I think there’s two different options here? Iunno :S), I can roll both giftsmas and borthday into one present, and he can have shiny things. But which CE? I’ve found the ‘Hardened’ edition, is that better than the other one? What’s the difference?
My brother used to be all about the sportsball. I’m just a little bit excited that he plays vidjagaems now, even if it’s on console, and only CoD. Baby steps Aleph, baby steps 😀
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yeah, the ps3 is completely region free (unless the company really doesn’t want it to be, like the case with persona 4 arena…).
as for getting your brother into other games, a gateway game is fallout, tell them it’s just a really big shooter, don’t mention the rpg part, i actually got my non-gamer brother to play it, he still only plays COD and Fifa (althought, he never really played ANY games before i showed him fallout), but i felt pretty good about showing him that game (which he beat)
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Y U NO ASK HELPIUS?
HELPIUS KNOWS.
PS3 is region free. Games, however, can be region locked and as far as I know there’s only one game that’s region locked (it’s not CoD so don’t worry!). DLC CAN be region locked though. Usually the lock is between regions so a game imported from the US generally won’t work with DLC purchase from our PAL Playstation store. But they can also be locked within the region. We’re PAL with NZ and Europe but I hear certain games like Uncharted 2 where a UK copy won’t work with Australian DLC. That’s pretty rare though.
I have Black Ops on PS3 which was imported from the UK. My friend bought the map packs (DLC) from the Australian store and it worked perfectly. It actually purchased like 10 different versions of the same DLC so you can pick whichever file matched up with your PAL game code/region.
I think Russia might not be considered PAL so you’re better off going with a UK or Australian copy. Zavvi/Ozgameshop are good and Video Ezy have 20% off their games at the moment so have a look.
had a break at work today, went to EB to see if playstation all-stars had broken street date (yeah that’s right, i want the game), sadly no, so then i went and ate some sausages.
EDIT: aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand worst page-get of the year goes toooooooooo
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YEAH SNAGS!
Also hey dude.
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I did the same at EB, except to check for AssCreed 3 on PC.
They denied my request, even though I asked really nicely. 🙁
Eugh so I found out yesterday I had lost my copy of Slash’s sessions EP, I thought oh i’ll be able to acquire through means that are not exactly legal.. Cause I sure as hell was not gonna buy it again.. Apparently no where had it, until I found it, now it’s going on to drop box so I don’t lose it again >_>
For NotoriousR, my bestest bro. Also Greenius, my bro (not bestest).
A whole bunch of Walking Dead game spoilers for the first three episodes inside! It’s all of the big choices I’ve made in them!
Lied to Hershel, saved Duck, sided with Kenny, gave the woman the gun, saved Carley, chopped David’s leg off, let Danny shoot the woman in the woods, didn’t help Kenny kill Larry, didn’t kill either brother, stayed with Clementine and didn’t take food from the car, shot the girl in the street, didn’t abandon Lilly, talked Kenny down, shot Duck, helped Omid.
That second last one? Bawled my eyes out. I’ve never, ever, cried while playing a video game before, so that was something new. That whole sequence completely destroyed me.
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A lot of people around here seem to be playing almost exactly the same way as you. Good to know there isn’t many crazy people in TAY and we mostly all took the more sensible choices.
There’s so much I want to say but I can’t without spoiling parts of Episode 4 for you!
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Whereas I read his list, and was the opposite for about half of them.
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Oh, Blaghman. You loon!
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Based on both your Ep 4 choices, you’re both loons!
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Actually, let’s clarify what I remember:
Truth, guy who wasn’t Duck, Kenny, didn’t give gun, Carley, Chopped leg, Danny shot her, Helped Kenny, killed the first bro, stayed with Clem, no stuff from car, shot the gal, abandoned Lilly, Edit: I talked him down, shot Duck, helped Omid.And could I have done that in an edit?
Yes, yes I could have.
Then I edit this comment anyway.
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I will be playing four tomorrow, just in time to join the episode five hype train CHOO CHOO
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Best friend! We made similar choices-ish.
For Ep2:
Same except killed Larry and killed the first brother. Clem saw me kill him and I felt so goddamn awful.For Ep 3:
Half the opposite things! Left the girl in the street, abandoned lilly. Carley’s death hit me pretty hard. I put my head in my heads and I was like D: Also was really scared with Lee’s nightmare that Clem turned. Also also shot Duck and felt really bad for him. Also why is Christa such a bitch?-
Episode 2 spoilers:
You forgot to mention YOU MADE CLEM EAT HUMAN MEAT.-
ARHJGJHGHJGHJJHGJHGJHGJHGJH STOP MAKING ME FEEL WORSE
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I love how Duck just chows down on it like there’s no tomorrow.
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For ep 3:
I don’t really know why I took Lilly with me, kind of regret that one now. I liked Carley, and then she died. I liked Katjaa, and then she died. I’ve gotta stop liking people. Christa and Omid are both jerks. I saved Omid because Christa was a jerk and then he yelled at me. I HATE YOU BOTH. I HATE EVERYONE AHHHH. Actually, I do hate pretty much everyone now. It seems like the only characters left bar Clem and Lee are complete jerks. D:-
Omid wasn’t too bad (History bro!) until I saved him and he’s all “FUCK YOU FOR SAVING ME FIRST” …well FUCK YOU OMID AND BITCH!!! -
Ep 3:
If there was an option to shoot Lilly there and then, Clem watching or not, I would’ve taken it. Omid is okay to me, Christa just remains a bitch throughout. In terms of characters, it’s Clem > Carley > Rest of them >>>>>>>> Larry >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Ben. So when Carley I died I was like http://i.imgur.com/JTTuP.gif-
I HAD TO WATCH THAT SCENE 4 TIMES (5 if you count the “last time on The Walking Dead”)
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I think my character preference is the same as yours with myself/Lee being first with Clem.
Don’t read this Pants – potential Episode 4 spoilers!
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Lee isn’t really a character though, he’s essentially just you? Also that must’ve been hard ;_;
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I really want this game… but money /o\
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I’d buy it for you but you won’t finish Xenoblade!
also money /o\
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It’s only $25… for five episodes, that’s rather cheap. 😀
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I still find that expensive. Worth it for $15 though! (the usual Steam sale price)
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It’s still really compelling value for $25, but yeah, it’s $15 on steam sales. It’ll probably be this weeks mid week madness sale thing.
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My solution was to guilt some jerk into buying it for me.
The joke’s on me though, since I now feel like the worst person ever.
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Yeah, what a jerk. Oh and Gravity Bone! I need to play that. I love 30 Flights of loving!
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Gravity Bone is rad.
I wish I’d got it on a cd though or something, since that would have hidden its download size.
I also need to get 30 flights.
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Freaking love 30 flights of loving. Rockpapershotgun summarise my thoughts on it so well:
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/08/22/wot-i-think-30-flights-of-loving/
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Oh man, now I want to play it but it doesn’t really fit into my $1 for 1 hour awesome-o ratio.
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That’s a shit method of judging game worth.
I would pay $60 for Journey if I could.
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It is well worth the $5. I’d probably pay $10 for it if I could. It’s so incredibly well made and focused and executing what it does, it doesn’t waste a single second of your time. Every second played is used well, unlike pretty much any other game, which wastes time on tutorials, running to the new objective etc. Wouldn’t necessarily say GOTY, but it was one of the most memorable games this year.
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Also apparently Gravity Bone is similar in format (I’m going to play it now). Gravity Bone is free, so check that out because Blaghs says its cool,
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Well it’s something general I use for cheap games. Obviously there’s a lot more to me judging a game that’s hard to put into words but I’d rather not pay $5 for a 15 min of a game I know nothing about.
Journey was worth $15 for me but even at $20 I had trouble justifying it.
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Get Super Crate Box, it’s free!
No guilt!
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Get this game too!
So… looks like Hero-U: Rogue to Redemption might just make it after all.
There’s been some massive increases in the last few days, and now it’s at 392k/400k with 8 hours to go.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1878147873/hero-u-rogue-to-redemption
Not really pimping since it’ll be over before most people even read this.
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Currently at $392k!
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The name makes it sound like a Wii U game…
Thanks, GoG!
I just grabbed Resonance, Gemini Rue, To The Moon, Unmechanical and Geneforge 1-5 for $10. I’ve been meaning to buy those first 3 games for ages but never got around to it. This worked out well. 😀
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I opened GOG to check the price of Theme Hospital… and saw the pick 5, pay $10 promotion.
Only just resisted it as I already own a lot of the games on that list.-
A couple of weeks ago I got as far as putting Resonance in my cart. For just under $10. I’m super-glad I ended up not going through with that!
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I need to get around to playing To The Moon! So many games /o\
Alright, TAY. Many hours later, I’m back with another prototype Sportsball shirt!
This one is better! I took @Trjn’s advice and tried to mimic a sports logo. (Side note for out-of-towners: “Illawarra” is the name of the region where I live :P). Also tagging @Strange as well because she replied to the last one.
I quite like it! I’ll have another look at it tomorrow morning with fresh eyes though.
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I love it! \o/
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I like them both. Get both. Then you don’t look like you’re wearing the same stinky old shirt every day. 😛
I do find the simpler one funnier, but this one looks cooler. So I guess it’s up to whether you want to look funny or cool.
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I’ll have a think about it! The plan is to get two (maybe three) shirts in different colours so they won’t look exactly the same anyway!
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Whoa this one is pretty cool! Looks real too!
While you’re at it get one with you punching Caterpie.
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Wow, that looks really good.
Hopefully you have ‘They always walk it in’ as a phrase for the back of the T-shirt.
The Illawarra Sportsball: They always walk it in.
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Man, that’s unreal!
Where are you getting it printed? I’d buy it, fo’ sho’. Iunno about the “Illawarra” part, but hey, geographical allegiances aside, the whole thing is awesome!-
The region name text is easy to replace. As long as it’s not too long it can say whatever I want. Not planning on selling it though. Just for myself. (I’d probably get in trouble anyway. That font is only free to use for personal use :P)
Not sure where I’m getting it done yet, either. I’m still browsing for the best price! Scree recommended a place though so that’s where I’ll go if I can’t find anything better.
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Should make it generic “Local high school” or something like that.
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Funnily enough I actually have another version that says “Local Team”, but for some reason last night I thought the one I posted would be funnier? I dunno. I was tired. Doesn’t seem as funny this morning 😛
“Local High School” would be pretty funny as well. Might be a bit long though. Hm… decisions. Glad I slept on it, at least. Thanks for the inspiration!
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Small Town. Local Team. Placename. There are definitely options.
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Hmm, maybe he could make a 2nd version replacing Illawarra with Talk Amongst Yourselves and it could be the unofficial official TAY T-shirt.
So it could read in the front: Talk Amongst Yourselves, play Sportsball (the sportsball maintains its current size and format)
At the back it could be: Then, walk it in.
So the whole shirt will read: Talk Amongst Yourselves, play Sportsball, then walk it in.
Of course this is just me brainstorming, feel free to do as you wish Pow. 🙂
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Hell, if Pow can’t profit off it (see what I did there? I’m so smart) perhaps he’d be kind enough to save & share a template?
There’s an option of a group-buy too, perhaps.This of course relies on Powalen’s thoughts, as he designed it and may only plan on using it personally and locally, which is equally understandable.
…tired Aleph needs sleep.
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Guys! Play Gravity Bone! It’s a really focused well told game. It’s about 15-20 min, but it does not waste your time and it is so good. And so different.
It’s free and will run on crappy laptops, so you have no excuse! If you like it, and want more, get 30 Flights of Loving. It’s $5 and in similar length to Gravity Bone, but it’s brilliantly done. PLAY IT!
Also half this post is directed at @greenius
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Also, it’s the best looking id tech 2 game you’ll ever see.
Not that that’s saying much.
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Needs more Bokeh though.
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Ugh you two and your PC things
Parallax Occlusion Mapping!
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I present to you the fruits of three hours exhausting non-labour what is quite possibly the laziest and lamest book trailer in the history of the entire universe.
Get hype! GET IT…
Edit: Yep, I know how to market 😐
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Tits.
Bokeh.
…Dubstep.This is the marketing triptych, my friend!
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I totally failed then. LESSON LEARNED
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Rumor has it that the Steam autumn sale starts Thursday. And Secret of the Magic Crystals will be $1.99. So anyone that doesn’t have it yet will probably be getting a gift…
I have had around 4.5 hours sleep.
IT’S HOLIDAY TIME!
Leaving for Noosa today – so chuffed – wish me luck! 😀
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I forgot that was happening. GOOD LUCK LOOP DE LOOPS
Morning!
Mystery Question Fun Time in yo face:
Y/N
And Borderlands 2’s new DLC is out. Wooo!
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Yes!
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Borderlands 2 DLC!!!
#RideTheThresher
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I assume you’re working today? If you need a buddy we can play in the evening/night (whenever you’re free).
Need something to test out the headset 😀
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You should help me beat the Bunker boss. I’m stuck on that jerk on my Gaige playthrough.
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Ok! Just let me know when.
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30 Flights of Loving will be obtained!
@notoriousr @blaghman
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I’ll wait until Steam sales. If it goes cheap, I’ll buy it. If it doesn’t, I’ll buy it after.
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You play gravity bone now at least? Yes? Yes.
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No. 😀
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>_>
Sleeping Dogs is $13.60. I couldn’t resist… god I’m terrible!
(that wasn’t the mystery question, that’s something else)
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AAARGHARHRG STOP POSTING DEALS
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NO! I saw that it was on your wishlist 🙂
buy buy buy!
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Kittens!
O.O
I started higher duties at work this week. The same week that Steam sales start. =/
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Well, that was bad planning.
Morning all. Finished Halo 4 again yesterday on a playthrough with my sister and rira gubhtu V xarj jung jnf pbzvat V fgvyy sbhaq zlfrys srryvat fnq ng gur raq. Pbegnan 🙁
I also played some TOR. The Bounty Hunter is a lot of fun to play. I expect some of that fun comes from playing an MMO without lag. I’m a bit concerned that because of the low Oceanic population that they’ll close the servers down, which would really suck. I just want one MMO that doesn’t lag, is that really too much to ask?
Watched Grimm last night. It was okay. I inevitably found myself comparing it to Supernatural and found it lacking. The main character isn’t as interesting as either Sam or Dean, he doesn’t have the same sort of interesting to watch relationship with either of his sidekick/partner characters that Sam and Dean have with each other and the monsters just aren’t as interesting*. Having said that, this was just the first episode and I can hardly judge an entire show on that. Hopefully it will find its feet within the next few episodes and become something I want to watch.
*I just realised I used interesting far too many times in that sentence. Can’t be bothered changing it though.
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Grimm is nothing at all like Supernatural. It’s like comparing a FPS with a RPG.
Monroe is the best thing about Grimm and the reason I kept watching. I’m glad I did, too because it gets much better. The first half of the first season is quite terrible at times but it does pick up.
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*buh dum tish*
Damn fat oldman fingers. Sometimes when I try to upvote a comment on my phone I hit report instead.
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I did this too! (only once though). I told Ben and Rob and they said they could add some spacing between it but I wasn’t sure if it was a common problem or just a once off I experienced.
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That’s weird. My report button is to the top right of the comment while the up/down vote is underneath.
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On mobile?
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On batmobile?
(nope. I use the desktop one)
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I tried to report this and accidentally upvoted.
DAMN YOU RUPERT MURDOCH, WHY CAN’T THIS BE REAL?????????
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WHY CAN’T THAT BE REAL?????
Damnit man that was awesome… now I’m all sad it’s not real.
@lambomann007
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Why didn’t Captain Planet just stick around? You’d think he’d be able to get more done without having to wait and be summoned all the time.
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Also, damn steam sales! I’m completely broke till the 15th of next month, i was under the assumption that there was going to be a CHristmas sale in mid december, how did this autumn sale come up???
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Probably to compete with Amazon and other retailers doing their Black Friday sort of things. GMG has had some pretty sweet deals too (see above)
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Don’t worry, just buy Walking Dead!
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I ALREADY HAVE WALKING DEAD! been lazy however,only finished first episode…
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D:
NO MORE NEW GAMES UNTIL YOU FINISH THE WALKING DEAD!
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So after work I bought my dad one o them new fangled 12GB PlayStations to replace his crummy old BD player. I adjusted all the settings last night making sure it would turn itself off after a sustained period of inactivity and downloading the YouTube app. I also had to create an email address because he doesn’t have one (WHAT?) in order to create his PSN ID.
For the last part I was tempted to put something like MyDadsAJerk or LadyBoy69 but instead went with a boring combo of his name and year of birth.
Also, this means I have bought FIVE PS3s in my life (2 as gifts) and in my room currently there is a Backwards compatable fat PS3, fat PS3, slim PS3 AND a super slim PS3. ALL THE PLAYSTATIONS! (Also a PSX, PS2, PSP and a Vita…)
The disc tray cover on the super slim looks both cheap and nasty as well as cool and awesome.
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You are a good son.
The super-slims are so ugly I’m petrified something will happen to our slim. Soooo ugly.
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They really are. But the sliding hatch think is fun to play with.
I actually felt bad that I was giving my dad the dodgy plastic one, but oh well. He’ll use it as a blu-ray/dvd player and that’s pretty much it.
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I like the amount of Sony consoles you have, it sounds like a healthy number of them.
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I have all the Nintendo ones too. At least, the ones as far back and the SNES (My Mum gave my NES away)
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Wow, that sounds like quite the collection. And they all work?
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The SNES needs a new AC adapter (buster wire) and possible a coat of paint, but yeah. They all work. PSX is chipped too.
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Oh man that’s pretty damn awesome.
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I should pull it all out and take a pic. Maybe clean up the SNES.
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Morning TAY!
Discovered last night that SWTOR’s F2P model is more complicated than I thought. If you just jump in, you’re F2P. If you have bought the game, buy the game, or make a $5+ purchase of cartel coins, you become a “Preferred Player”, which has less restrictions. Nothing major, but not being able to sprint till level 15 would kill me.
Having said that, still freakin’ awesome game to play. I’m keen to get more people on for the multiplayer conversations 😛
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What server are you on and what level are you? Are you Republic or Empire?
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Dar’Nala, highest is 16, both.
I haven’t actually put a significant amount of time into my main (Sith Sith…Sith……Sith Sorcerer). I’m seriously turning into an alt-aholic.
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I’ve got a 50 Sith Warrior and 50 Jedi Consular on that server. The Bounty Hunter which I’ve just started playing is also on that server and is about level 13.
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Sweeeet, different classes 😛
We should organise to get a party on some time. I know Cake has a character or two around that level. Think Lambo has a couple around level 30+ which means he can’t created a new character on that server without deleting one 😐
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@Freya is playing Hitman.
“I’m hiding in a box!”
“I’m stuck in the box!”
“Pew pew pew!”
“Oh no, I punched him.”
This should be entertaining.
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I should live tweet this.
@greenius @lambomann007
LOOKS LIKE ITS REALLY HAPPENING!!! though i expect really crappy production values…
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/movies/2011/07/cartoon-network-captain-planet-movie.html
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Noooooo! This one would suck!
I want one based on that fan-made trailer.
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kickstarter!
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TAYFILM!
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@doc_what
I only just saw Dark Knight Rises on Sunday… Huge disappointment i might add 🙁
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Batman Begins is still best superhero movie ever.
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Unbreakable.
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Whats yours Doc?
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Awww whats this all about? I loved it.
EDIT: Any elaborations on why it was a disappointment?
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I should have elaborated…. its not that it was a bad movie…. it just had some pretty big shoes to fill…
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Blehhh yeah I guess but still, apart from the Joker, The Dark Knight really isnt that much greater than Begin or Rises. I think Begins is a stronger film overall too, than all of them. But Rises is great, I don’t really know the comics but as far as I’m concerned it wraps up a film trilogy incredibly well.
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This whole BLOPS 2 Nuketown 2025 situation is pretty appalling. It makes it very hard to defend a game to all the haters when the devs are really just being douches. I mean, they honestly cant say that this whole thing wasnt pre-planned. First they tweet that its been pulled cause the double xp weekend is over – there was no indication given that the map was only meant to be there for a week.
Considering that all pre-orders were supposed to include the Nuketown map one would expect it to stay there.
The irony is that they claimthat they bought it back by fan request only to exclude it from the normal playlists.
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If they said “pre-order for a chance to play Nuketown early for ____ days” then it wouldn’t be so bad. I don’t have the game and I haven’t really been following it but it doesn’t seem like there was any indication of the map being taken away. I know when I read it, it sounded like it would let players who pre-ordered the game get the map and allow them to use it forever. just like any other map pack. Even his tweet made it just sound like they would remove the 24/7 playlist which is perfectly fine, but not remove the map ENTIRELY for no reason. Really stupid on their part…
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I imagine their reason was everyone was playing Nuketown and no one was playing all the other maps and modes they poured two years of work into. But considering they knew how popular Nuketown was and they lay it down as a preorder, it’s an incredibly shitty thing to do that shouldn’t happen.
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On the other hand the maps they’ve spent 2 years making feel like reskins of the popular maps from BLOPS.
Meltdown is basically the rocket site, The ship is Nuketown, The one with tanks is a combination of Villa & that one in the dark with the fountain and shit.
Man, worst COD player ever.
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FORGIVE ME DAN, MY COD SKILLS WILL NEVER MATCH YOUR 1337-NESS
(Also apparently there’s a Day 1 demo to dl for Rayman Legends on WiiU. HNNNNNNNGGGGGGHHHHHHH)
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FAAAARRRKKKKKK YEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!
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there was a reason, and that reason is publicity.
Hi everyone, hope your days are going well. I just had a podiatrist appointment for my sore foot, and now I have a permanent ‘soft lump’ installed in my shoe. I had what is probably a neuroma, which is basically an inflammation caused by compression, which in turn was caused by my unusually high arch and consequent method of walking.
The lump is a bit uncomfortable, but I guess I’ll get used to it. Have to totally change my walking style too. That will be a bit hard 😛
I don’t know if any of you out there have any jokes about soft lumps, but if you do, feel free.
Also, can you please check this out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b_9wOyBRss and tell me if it even makes the slightest amount of sense. Thanks!
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These lumps, I know you wanna slump up on these lumps.
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But you can’t cos you’re a chump.
A chuuuuuuuuuuuump.
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I’ve worn orthodics (SP?) on and off since I learned to walk. Definitely different walking in shoes that have them/shoes that don’t.
I think what I’m trying to say is yes, you do get used to it, just make sure they’re the only shoes you wear for a good while (or put the “soft lump” in all your shoes regardless). Hooray for fixing things! \o/
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Thanks, yep, I only have one pair of shoes, so that won’t be an issue 🙂
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I CAN’T STOP WATCHING
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Amazing.
(Note: I could only read the comments as the stream wouldn’t load but from what I could tell Guile was fighting Solid Snake and it was a constant stream of “CQC”, “SONIC-BOOM!” and “War… Has changed…”
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it was an all star battle!
I saw Guile, Wesker, Sonic, Naruto, Gabe Newell, Phoenix Wright show down in a wrestling ring.And that was only a brief taste…
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VITA CATS!
For some dumb reason my Vita won’t detect my wif-fi while everything else I own does.
Has anyone else had this?
It’s giving me sad face.
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I would make an educated guess that it’s an issue with the security settings for your wireless connection, but I don’t know enough about the Vita to go any further than that.
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Yeah I thought it might be but it’s weird for it to just randomly start being shit.
It wouldn’t even connect to the saved connection that worked like a week ago.
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I haven’t had that problem.
Have you tried entering it manually?
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Yeah, still no luck,
It was a saved connection as well and it all of a sudden just stopped working.
🙁
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Have to dried punching it?
Punch it in the dongle.
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the dongle responds better to love.
#GettingWeirdRealFast
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has it ever picked it up? if not, im guessing you are running a 5ghz network which the vita wont be able to see.
EDIT: just read your above comment that it was working. WI-FI can sometimes be a bit temperamental, try the ol reset router & vita trick, and for good measure make sure you are running both 2.4ghz & 5ghz bands if you have a dual band router, or 2.4ghz if its single band.
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It has!
It was working last week (I think, I can’t remember when I last played Vita).
It’s just weird that everything else is AOK but Vita is being a brat about it.
What a brat.
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Your Vita can’t see the Content Manager Assistant thing on your PC over WiFi?
I had the exact same problem yesterday.
– Make sure you’re running the latest version of the CMA program on your PC, and make sure you go to the WiFi tab and enable WiFi connections.
– Windows Firewall was blocking the program by default so you need to go into the firewall rules, find the entry and allow it thru the firewall.
Come January, I will be the longest-standing staff member within the organisation.
Goes to show the levels of commitment around here, eh?
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But not highest standing.
Because you’re small.
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Don’t get short with me, buddy.
Because I’m jealous.
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And just like that, Aleph is the new Pez.
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It’s the ciiircle of liiiiifeee!
(You’re welcome, @Blaghman)
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Do you get an award?
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LOLno.
I’m 23, have been here a little shy of 2 years. Bleh.
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A medal is in order!
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How long have you been there?
#ThingsIShouldKnowIfIPaidProperAttention #ExtraDextraLongHashtagsEspeciallyForHarli-
Not long at all. Under two years. Pretty pathetic, really.
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Future CEO
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You should ask for a chair then.
@greenius
Should I buy this or save my money for Xenoblade?
http://www.mightyape.com.au/product/PS3/Tales-of-Graces-F-Special-Edition/20302774/
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Xeno…
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XENOBLADE!!!!
STRANGE IS THIS EVEN A REAL QUESTION!?
Also Graces f has dropped significantly since launch and will probably continue to drop. So you can always buy it later when it’s cheaper!
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Half a real question. 😛
So $33 is not a good price for the special edition, then? Is the special edition even special, or is it one of things like Dark Souls where the special edition was the only edition?
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It’s a good price considering I spent like $70ish on it (because I bought it twice and sold it for a loss >_>) but that’s $33 + shipping (I think that’s $5?) and it’s been that same price at Zavvi for a while now.
I think it was supposed to be a day one special edition but I haven’t seen any other editions. Maybe they didn’t sell too many copies?
From what I hear Graces f is just like any other Tales game. Good but nothing special compared to the other ones. Xenoblade is a whole new experience!
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What is Xenoblade?
#HalfTrollius
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I know which one I’d rather play.
Hint: not Xenoblade.
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Thanks a lot, I had to look it up myself. It looks all right.
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Wait… you seriously didn’t know what Xenoblade was?!
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I knew it was an obsession of yours, but beyond that……….. not so much
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It’s an amazing game that most people will overlook just because it’s on the Wii
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It’s one of their one day deals. Also today is Dragon’s Dogma on 360 for $22. Not sure whether to grab it or wait for a PS3 version. I have the Witcher 2 coming in the mail though so I don’t really need another 360 game for…maybe a year. 😛
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You could always add it to the wishlist on TAYLEND https://skydrive.live.com/redir?resid=190BAE0C496665D3!146&authkey=!AK7_pd1gOE02mi0
That’s what it’s for, after all.
TALES!
I already own this game…
But I just bought this one because artbook…
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
SO TEMPTED TO BUY IT AGAIN.
Cheapest Wiimote+
Go.
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I’m going, I’m going!
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$30.
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Eat a wang.
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Nah, I get really hungry after eating Chinese food.
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Seriously though, found one at Revolution CD in Tuggeranong. Box looked a little crappy, taped up, beaten etc. They guaranteed me it was new.
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Revolution CD is still going?! Man, such a hole-in-the-wall 😀
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I don’t know what a Revolution CD is nor (or?) a Tuggeranong.
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Revolution CD is a crappy store that may only exist in the ACT.
Tuggeranong is a contracted slang description of male masturbation.
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I actually found that the quality/safety of the public transport hubs decreased dramatically the further north you went.
Tuggeranong>Woden>Civic>Belcompton.
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Seen the bundled Red Steel 2 around for as low as $20, keeps popping its head up here and there. Not really helping.
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I need the whole remote.
My OG wiimote is on it’s last legs.
This is relevant to my interests.
I went past EB and JB as I need two for my WiiU. They’re selling them for $70 each. I was really not expecting that price range…
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They’re $59 at K-Mart according to the website.
Ima go get me a pink one this weekend.
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Remember to get the motion plus one. I don’t think the older ones work with the wii u.
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Yeah, I made sure they were Motion +. I don’t think they even make vanilla Wiimotes anymore.
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HAWKEN CLOSED BETA HAS BEGUN!!!
to join in, go to http://www.playhawken.com and create an account, and redeem the following code:
HAWKEN_GENESIS01
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sweet thanks for that – the code worked!
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no prob man, its an open code, so everyone feel free to use it!
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So …. Star Citizen.
I heard a bout it when the kickstarter started, but wasn’t overly convinced. Now I watched some of the demo in game footage. Colour me impressed and interested.
I never played Wing Commander or Privateer, but I did enjoy Freelancer back in the day.
Can anyone compare wing commander to freelancer?
Any other thoughts about Star Citizen?
I’m hoping for Eve Online with less excel and more Freelancer.
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I’m planning to buy it soooo haaard.
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I found this statement both horrifying and arousing… Consider me horroused
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I am hoping for something extremely dry and complex.
EVE is kind of there, but I want something a bit more cinematic.
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I liked how awesome Homeworld looked back in the day.
The videos from this game look unreal. It’s using CryEngine3…
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I feel like every choice I’m making in episode four of the Walking Dead game is wrong. And in a weird way, that’s pretty awesome.
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I can’t wait to play that game. It sounds totally awesome and so completely up my alley.
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Discussion soooooon
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Depression soooooon
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Anyone as keen on Far Cry 3 as I am??
I still need to actually pay for Hitman before JB Hi Fi will send it *awww yeah not enough money in my bank account when they tried to take it*
Also, BORDERLANDS 2 DLC *apologies for all caps but I was taken by Torgue*
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@Masha2932 is super keen on FC3 🙂
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Green!
I got a response 🙂
Before I posted kittens and no body said anything
But it feels like a life time ago
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I’m also pretty keen on FC3.
and I replied to your kitten comment because kittens are awesome.
Edit: spelling
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That they are
Yay FC3
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But we upvoted it!
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Yay
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The drugs aspect throws in something that I think will keep the game fresh through the whole campaign.
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FAR CRY 3!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What platform are you getting it on.
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PC my man, PC
I figured I would put my computer through it’s paces
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I’m console. Oh well.
That being said there will still be more people to discuss the game with \o/
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Hell yeah!
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@greenius
I recommended Xenoblade to a friend last Monday.
You’re welcome.
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Did they actually buy it? 🙂
True story: I told someone I barely knew to buy Xenoblade and they did. Insta best friended them.
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I have no idea. But it’s the thought that counts, right? 😛
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Teacher walks up to me, blames me for the fact that she shut off her computer during an update and it’s BSODing. Tells me to “fix it right now!”
Response: http://tinyurl.com/9q9hwln
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“So, that bit where it says ‘Do Not Shut Down Your Computer’… you thought that was a joke? Or perhaps a challenge?”
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Seriously, if I had said anything about that they’d just blame me for the “do not turn off…” message being rude, or something.
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Did you “break” WSUS again? YOUR A HORRIBLE PERSON!
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Hell no, I killed it off 😛
Someone else volunteered to get SCCM managing updates, so I let them. Means I get involved in the fun stuff, like nearly screwing up an ESXi patch and taking a whole school offline.
I’m all professional and shit.
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Hehe… Hehehehehehehe sccm
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SCCM is pretty decent.
The guy who set it up and is managing it isn’t.
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Hehe ‘puter issues
Best response. Best.
So my copy of the super limited amazon-exclusive Persona 4 Vita version shipped to my proxy shipper today. Fingers crossed!
I’m torn though. Given how extremely limited this version was (I think 1000 copies), it’s the best game on the Vita according to reviews (95 metacritic right now), but it’s also a niche title on a niche system which may not be around this time next year, I’m thinking this copy is going to be insanely rare and thus fairly sought-after.
So should I buy another standard copy and keep the Solid Gold Premium Edition for a few years and then sell it? Or should I use it myself?
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Seems like money isn’t really an issue so just keep it for yourself.
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Actually right now, it kind of is. 🙁
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:(.
But do you really want to part with something so rare for some money in the future? If you’re willing to drop an extra $50 (or however much it is) to buy the same game AGAIN for just $100 or so profit (I’m just guessing) then personally I wouldn’t feel it’s worth it.
Just use and enjoy it since you already have it. Sell some of your other stuff if you want money or just cut back on the game buying for a while.
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I have cut back on game buying – this was ordered way back before everything started going to poo around me. 🙁
I’m thinking I might sell a few of the pile of figures I have sitting in my wardrobe too.
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Do you see it as an investment or a gaming opportunity? If the latter, just play it and don’t worry about money. If the former, then never remove it from shrink wrap and keep it for twenty years – it might be worth stacks, or it might be worth nothing. Honestly, I don’t have any specific recommendations, because I know nothing about anything to do with this. Soryr.
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I saw it and decided not to bother. Some stickers and a Vita case didn’t interest me at all.
I will still buy a vanilla copy though.
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i am so jealous, seriously, that limited edition looked fantastic, and knowing atlus, we wont get it in australia, AND we wont get P4G for a very long time…
i’m currently looking for somewhere to import it from though…
@rize @virus__ @freezespreston @direwolf
You guys up for some SWTOR tonight?
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Potentially yes. I’ve got a few non-TAY mates looking to give it a go which means I may get roped into helping them get started.
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INCLUDING MEEEEEEE XD… If its finished downloading that is
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Oh yeah, you as well 😛
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Laaame. Except not, because more SWTOR players is a good thing 😛
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Did anyone create a TAY guild on Dar’Nala? If not I’ll look in to making one, if possible.
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Not as far as I’m aware.
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Sure, but I think we’re all currently sitting at different levels. At the very least though, we can add each other to our friends lists.
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Start again with new characters? That way the noobs (virus, freeze, pixel) aren’t left out. 😛
I have a level 17 bounty hunter. That’s pretty close to characters you and Rize have, right?-
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I’m level 13, or 14, I can’t remember which.
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Sadly I am unavailable, it’s my turn to cook D=
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Which server are you guys playing on, and which side? I may or may not join you.
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By the looks of things we’ll be on Dar’Nala, and with the Empire.
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I can’t remember if I’m on that one or not but I did have an early-teens bounty hunter on one of the AU servers, and I have a max-level Jedi Guardian and a mid-30s smuggler on another.
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I got to go look at 3D printers at a breakfast today.
I want one
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Are you the fabled One who will deliver printed TAY figures to the masses?
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that’d be the weirdest action figure set ever.
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I think you mean best.
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Is it Saturday yet?
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Goddammit replyfail.
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Hi TAY
Just quickly stopping by to say hi and drop the warning
There are plot spoilers in the hitman: Absolution article by Kirk. Homepage is fine just don’t read the article. You have been warned
Hi TAY!!!
NEW AUTOMOBILE GET!
Finally got my new brumbrum and its AMAZING!
http://imgur.com/PfoUE
So good!
And I finish daysex HR now, this week is not too shabby at all
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Congrats, man!
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Is that the new Jetta? very nice. What’s the interior and features like?
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Nice,
So… Hitman…
RPS review told me it’s not the Hitman that I’m looking for.
Kotaku US ‘review’ wrote exactly what would convince me to buy it if it was the only review I looked at.
Watched an hour of impressions on the game by TB last night, which affirmed that this is not really the game I want.
Reinstalled Blood Money, played through the first few levels to show my other half the classic Hitman structure. Had a lot of fun playing around with different approaches, and now I’m hooked. Jumped straight in on expert – 3 saves, no tips at all.
Think I’ll be replaying the whole series again now.
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Speaking of which, look at that afternoon sun reflection
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BBBBBBBBBLLLLLLLLLLOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!
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47, have you been polishing your head in the Ballo-Shino?
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Oh man, reading comments of a review that rated Hitman poorly:
“It’s blatantly obvious that this review is ****.Especially since I easily have over 1500hrs on Blood Money alone, and I have completed Missions 2-12 all atleast 1000 times.
Then on top of that I have finished M1-13 on Pro, all SA without a single failure on blank profiles, in under 3hrs, multiple times.
I know when someone is wrong about HM.”
ahahahahahahahahahhahahahhahahaha
Yes, you certainly make yourself out to be a purely objective critical thinker, rather than someone with a lot of… passion, with maybe a hint of bias.-
It’s feeling like a time of year when rabid fanboyism (and its equally opposing force of hater…. um…. hater-ing) is at its worst.
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Questions:
The Walking Dead friends:
When do new episodes come out? Midnight for us or midnight for the US (so something like tomorrow morning)?
Poke friends:
How do I get the Pokemon World Championship teams over Wi-Fi? I just tried but I can’t seem to find it through the usual mystery gift thing so maybe it’s somewhere else? Doubt I’d ever use it but free content is free content and I don’t want to miss out.
Thanks!
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Walking Dead: No idea!
Pokemon: I’m pretty sure you download them from inside the actual Pokemon World Tournament building. There should be a special PC next to the entrance woman.You’re going to have to do some serious training/strategising if you want to be able to stand a chance, though. I can barely beat the in-game teams, let alone ones from actual world champions 😛 (And thanks for the reminder to download them!)
EDIT: Yep, that’s how you do it. Only takes a second, too (though you have to save each tournament individually instead of it doing it automatically 😛 Still, not too hard)
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Yeah, I’m not really interested in post-game stuff (I’ve never done any of those battle things) but it seems like it’s another limited sort of thing so I’m interested in just picking it up while I can.
Let me know if it’s through the PWT building and I’ll grab it when I can :). Thanks.
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See edit 😛 I probably won’t ever play in these tournaments, but it’s such a good idea. It’s pretty cool to be able to battle against the best players in the world (even if I’d get annihilated :P)
Really makes me want to see where the series goes on the 3DS. POKÉSTREETPASS OH MY GOD. Only 2ish years to go, hopefully!
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I will play the absolute shit out of 3DS Pokemon and do everything there is to do in it! (provided it’s still good :P)
I know they’ll be super ugly though but I don’t care! Next/current Gen Pokemon!
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I almost bought the men of pokes for freedee essex el.
Then I didn’t, because there’s only 15(0/1/2) men of pokes.Which means I saved $50 or so. Which is kinda like finding $10 5 times. But I had it all along.
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Buy HeartGold or SoulSilver, then!
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HeartGold/SoulSilver is bestest Pokemon game.
It’s no original 150/1/2 or whatever but Gen 2 is close enough!
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The only Gen 2 Pokemon I’ll accept is Ho-oh, because it was actually shown in Gen 1 (First season of the TV series, last episode, I think it flies over a rainbow/into the sun/through the clouds?)
152 men of pokes because Ho-oh, Mew and Missingno.
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i think the last one started downloading at about 3pm on my side
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Is that 3pm on the date specified or the next day? I think this one is supposed to come out on the 21st so would that be 3pm today or tomorrow (which would be the 21st for the US).
I need this gameeee
Today has been great so far. I feel like I’m on holidays. My son has been very easily distracted with movies so I’ve been playing Assassin’s Creed 3 for a bunch of hours.
(just gameplay spoilers to follow, figured better to err on the side of caution where spoilers are concerned)
I ran out of things to do without advancing the storyline so I jumped into the Naval Missions which I’d been scared of before because I’d hated the first, compulsory one. I actually ended up having some fun with the ship battles, but the most fun were the treasure hunting missions. I just explored a beautiful Mayan temple and I would have missed out on it because I’d erroneously assumed it was just another stupid ship battle.
But yeah, I’ve now completely run out of extra things to do and need to do some main plot missions to advance. So I guess that’s my fun for the day over with. 😛
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Did you decide on
our friendshipwhich game you were getting yet?😛
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I decided to not get anything. I’ve more than enough games to keep me occupied until Christmas when hopefully I’ll be getting Xenoblade Chronicles.
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What the hell is that thing?
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Was trying to get a different character with ALT + (numbers) and that came out. It’s so weird…
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That’s exactly what I was wondering. 😀 Is it arabic or something? Failing that it has the appearance of two bottoms, to me. 😛
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@lambomann007 (and others)
How do you remember and get all those crazy characters for the faces? I was trying to remember the standard O_O staring face one and that monstrosity above came out :P. It’s stupidly hard to Google…
@Strange
O_O (standard staring face thingy)
Let’s hope you get Xenoblade (AND PLAY IT!) :D. I also tried out the runny yolk thing for the egg on bread thing I made for lunch today. Not bad, not bad, but it wasn’t ideal since the bread was really small and it almost overflowed. I also forgot to put salt and pepps on it! :P. It wasn’t super runny but there was some of it and most of which went on my plate… oops!
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Yolk dipping sauce! 😀
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Those treasure hunting missions are so much fun. Highlight of the game for me so far. I’ve done three so far. I’m kind of with you on the Naval Missions, but mainly because the optional objectives are tricky to nail (yes, I’m trying to get as many as I can. I’ve had to let three or four missions go ‘incomplete’ so far, though…) and the forts mortars are difficult to dodge until you learn the secret of just stopping the boat. 😛
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Funnily enough, I’m finding the Naval Mission optional objective’s way easier to get than the main plot mission ones. Also less frustrating because if something goes wrong, it’s usually my fault in the Naval missions but in the main ones it’s half me and half the controls not working which is the worst.I’ve just finished Sequence 6( (which has been the least bad so far) so I now have a couple of fun things to do again for a little while. 😀
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I think we’re pretty much in exactly the same spot. o/
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Slow day on TAY, by the looks of it. :'(
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*refresh*
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I’ve been doing that all morning, man. 😛
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You’ve obviously been spending too much time refreshing and not enough joining the discussions that are already here. So slow TAY is all your fault. 😛
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Haha! I woke up feeling pretty down. My contributions would’ve been far too emo. 😛
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That’s what we’re here for. To provide a place for you to be emo. 😛
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I agree.
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I tried to kick things off with some shameless self-promotion but apparently just demotivated everyone 🙁
Edit: weird, half the post disappeared when I hit submit. Fixed…?
Edit 2: FIXED!
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What’s new, man?
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I have a soft lump under my foot and a new trailer. Oh, and here’s some actual new news: my wife is looking at a house in another suburb, so there’s a small chance we might be buying elsewhere soon.
What’s new with you?
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Exciting times for Shane! Especially the foot stuff! 😛 (Mostly the other stuff, though.)
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I feel more tired and poor than excited 😛
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Tired and poor! Twins!
😀
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Is your house too small now you have two kids?
I can’t think of many worse things than moving. So much stress. I would never voluntarily do it again. :S
I have important people to abide by now! Give it a few days, I’ll become complacent again.
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So. Damn. Proud.
(Also, hey Sughly! :D)
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Hey!
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Listening to Richard Cheese’s Down with the Sickness (NSFW) cover and Sia’s Breathe Me on loop. Neighbours must think I’m a psychopath. (More so!)
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ooo wooah ah ah ah ah!
Omg this is amazing
I wonder if this has the crazy swearing towards the end… (it doesn’t 🙁 )
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Oh, it does. I’ve been singing along quite loudly. 😀
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It does? Didn’t notice it but it probably didn’t stand out as much as it does in the original 😛
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Oh, not really familiar with the original. There’s swearing a-plenty, though. Might’ve toned it down which makes me laugh since it’s still pretty screwy. 😛
I’ve loved it since the Dawn of the Dead remake. That montage was amazing!
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I just looked up lyrics for both and it seems to be missing sections of that whole bit I was talking about. Listen to the original and you’ll understand 😛
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😀 I see!
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I really liked the Dawn of the Dead remake, barely on topic, I know.
But for some reason I have a weak spot for Snyder.
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You’re alright, Blaghs. You’re alright.
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Kind of embarrassingly, that remake was my first zombie flick and my first in-cinema horror film. The first ten minute scared the absolute ds;lfhslghsgh out of me and the opening credits freaked me out badly, and then the rest of the movie was (kind of thankfully) a great big meh.
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I saw it in a huge crowded cinema on a Friday night. People clapped, laughed, screamed… amazing atmsosphere.
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I kind of liked that if you watched through the end credits, you saw tur svany srj fheivibef eha bhg bs shry, trg znebbarq ba fbzr vfynaq, naq gura trg zboorq ol mbzovrf.
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I agree on Dawn of the Dead. Basically anything else he made… not so much.
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I didn’t mind 300 just from the visuals alone, but I agree, DotD is his best so far!
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Help! I have done it again…
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I have been here many times before…
Richard Cheese is a champion!
Look up his version of Chop Suey!
I stumbled across “Jazz Against The Machine” last week. I think you can tell what it’s like 😛
Pretty cool stuff!
Richard Cheese is awesome, too 😀
Three weeks ’til the Leaving Freeze Behind Extravaganza is underway! THREE WEEKS TODAY ‘TIL I’M OFF THIS ROCK FOR A MONTH!!!
Four-and-a-bit weeks ’til I get to meat Strange, Freeze, Virus__, Sughly, D.C., Dan, Jimu (is that all the Briswegian TAYbies? I swear I’m forgetting someone :S I’m sorry /o\)
Five weeks ’til I get to meat Pez, Freeze (again!), Rocketman, Freyr (?), Shiggy, DAN! (how many Dan/DAN!s do we have?!), Nova, Batgirl, Mashaa, Blaghman, Doc WHAT?!, Flu, Rize, Kermitron (?), and Mr. Serrels (I’m hold you to taking me to that chicken place that apparently no-one likes)!
SIX weeks ’til I get to meat Powalen, Greenius, Scree, Ynefelx, DAN! (seriously, I’ve no idea which TAY-affiliated Daniel I’m referring to anymore… I presume there’s one in each Australian city), Strange (again!).
There’s so many of you o.0
And I’m sure I’m forgetting so many more :S I’m sorry /o\
But still, SO EXCITE.
SO. DAMN. EXCITE.
And we’ll neglect that fact that I’m back here in another 7 weeks :'(
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Welbot, Ser Nobulous, Trjn…. 😛
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This idea was doomed since inception D:
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It’s okay…I deliberately left out Lamb, Question and Endu to make you feel betterer…. 😛
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Oh shit /o\
I… uhh, who’s Endu? I don’t think I’ve met/seen Endu?That’s it, never trying to list you guys again! :'(
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I don’t know who that is either!
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In your Endu.
Never met the chap, but he used to post here.
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Also, there is only one DAN!. He is ours. In Brisbane. 😛
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Technically we have another Dan, since @dc is also named Dan.
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But I’ve only got TAYbies on Twitter, I’m sure. There’s danmazkin, dkzeitgeist, and DC (and probably more) isn’t there?
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You are correct good sir. Not sure if there’s more, there is someone who goes by the user Dan around these parts too, not a TAYbie though as far as I am aware.
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I think Sughly will be in Sydney when you’re in Brisbane, but you’ll meet him there! My name’s Dan, but official meat protocol says that I’m D.C. and DAN! is Dan. 😛 Ser Nobs, Lambo and The Last Question are from Bris too!
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If we went by real names every meat would have like 4 Andrews and 8 Alexses.
EDIT: Erm..I mean, this IS my real name!
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IT’S WEIRD WHEN THERE’S ANOTHER JOEL
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1 IS TOO MANY
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I think Melbourne has monopoly in Joel and Simon
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TAY Parents are a creative bunch.
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I will be in sydney – cant believe you didnt remember! I was even meant to road trip with you guys. Remember, the road trip you pulled out of? That one! >:(
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:'(
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This just highlighted how little planning I’ve done other than “be in Sydney for NYE”. I have no idea where I’m supposed to be, when I’m going, what’s happening, OOOR:
What tattoo we’re getting…
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Yeah, I’m actually at the point that I’m thinking “Well, shit. I wonder how much it costs for a tent, or if sleeping on public transport is an option.”
Hooray for planning!
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I think I’m supposed to get a lift with f4ction?
I have no camping gear except for the standard sleeping bag :/
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But Driveius!
I have no camping gear WHATSOEVER :p
Although pretty sure Freeze and I are invading Pez’s place, much like his insectoid friends of old. So there’s Sydney sorted \o/ -
Leechius!
I really want to see other states/places/territories of Straya but I want to do it as cheaply as possible.
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WHY AM I BEING EXCLUDED FROM EVERYTHING NOW
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YOU CAN GET TATTOOS WITH RIZE AND I BUDDY, IT’S OK.
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The camping is still on, isn’t it? I don’t think I’ll be going anymore though 😛
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Awww whys that? I’m so hyped for the camp. SO hyped.
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\o/
Hey! I’ll be seeing you with the Sydney TAYbies first! Don’t group me with the Melbourne weirdo- I mean- lovely people!
Kermitron is attending a meat? What a topsy turvy world! Or are you just listing TAYbies in that general area?
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I couldn’t remember who was where, let alone who was attending meats as well 😛
I just tried listing as many TAYbies as I could and their locations. More for practice than anything. If I cement it in now, it should be a little easier to remember!
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Pretty sure Kermi is the only Sydney TAYbie I’ve never met, come to think of it.
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I’ve met him once (Maybe twice?) but it wasn’t at a meat.
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It was at a boys club. A BOYS boys club.
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#neglectedMelbourne
@strange
Hi!
So is anyone jumping on the Hawken closed beta?
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I dunno. I mean, it seems like fun, but I don’t know if I want to commit the time and energy into it, particularly when the last time I got involved I ended up hurting myself and couldn’t walk properly for a few weeks.
Jumping, that is.
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……whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa?
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You said is anyone “jumping” on 😛
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Possibly if I feel the need to take a break from teh Haloz.
Whoooaaaa, this version of Radiohead’s Reckoner is so amazing :O http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_-hzhemjJg&feature=player_detailpage#t=1310s
The whole thing is actually, but this came up and I was filled with absolute glee
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I’m REALLY glad you got the new page get and it wasn’t my depressing message of gloom! 😛
Anyone else ever feel like you spend half your life at work just to get enough money to survive during the other half when you’re not?
#DepressingThoughtOfTheDay
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To a point, but occassionally I get to look at cool stuff. Like submarines, or 3D printers.
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can I visit your work?
In my last job I got to attend cast recordings and draw pictures of fish in armour. That was fun.
Now? I get to either cut ads out and import them to the database OR I get to to go through the database and write descriptions of them…
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Still sounds better than my job …
Edit: though I still sympathise with (y)our plight!
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Media Monitoring?
I have parts I like, and parts I don’t like. The thing that kills me about my job is that everyone has at least 5 years on me, which makes networking hell.
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Yep.
What do you do? (If you don’t mind me asking)
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I work for the defence industry in SA, advocacy and development stuff. Non government.
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What do you do?
Edit – disregard. I read your reply further down (or just about this post as it turns out)
My BAE Systems Job didn’t pan out unfortunately. Smashed the interview but Labor cut defence spending and the projects are in limbo.
I’m fairly certain that’s how my husband feels.
Although his idea of “broke” is having less than a certain amount of money in the bank so he stresses himself out more than he should.
I feel like I spend my whole life working, with no breaks or holidays and less than the amount of pay a week my husband gets per hour at work. 😛
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Wait… didn’t you just say you spent most of today playing Assassin’s Creed III?
No breaks. Pfft. 😛
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I’d be scared if I were financially obligated to others…
I’m much the same that I consider myself ‘broke’ if I go over budget in spending. I’m ‘really broke’ right now, because I’m about a month or so behind in my savings :SI can’t begin to imagine the stresses put on a full-time SAHmum/dad though. As much as I complain about work, it’s a place I can go to explicitly *not* deal with home life. Likewise, home is a place I can go to explicitly *not* think about work life. I understand that not everyone is able to do so though, and that sucks.
As with so many of my posts here, I’m not sure where I’m going with this…
*hugs*-
Being a breadwinner is an incredibly intimidating thing. The responsibility and all that is fine, really, it’s what you do, but what really begins to rub after time (at least for me) is the loss of freedom.
Rolling with the punches isn’t an option anymore, especially if (like me) your pathetic savings couldn’t even tide you through a week without salary. You have to actively anticipate and dodge. It suddenly becomes quite important to be indispensible to your organisation (especially in this climate), because being made redundant is pretty much your worst fear. Not only does it mean that your family’s lifestyle is in peril, but in a very irrational sense, losing your job can feel like a failure as a man, in his sole duty to provide.
What would be a reasonable blow as a non-parent (not getting a promotion, losing job, etc), suddenly becomes near-catastrophe when it impacts your own children. It’s not entirely rational – there’s something deeply inbuilt and biological about it, I’m sure.
And once you’re in stable employment, even if you see a better (though riskier) opportunity elsewhere, you’re more likely to just stay put, despite what you wish for yourself personally.
That said, I couldn’t be a stay-at-home. I’m wired this way, and staying at home full-time is a prospect that (kind of shamefully) fills me with dread.
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I’ve never considered the SAH argument, most likely because I’ve never had reason to consider it.
I think I could do it, though would still worry about finances etc. on top of it (not implying I have higher earning potential, because I REALLY don’t), probably because that’s all I’ve known since independance.Tough call, that.
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TL;DR:
Work sux.
Must… resist.. posting… emo… thoughts…
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I lost.
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I’ve composed a response about seven times now. Deleted it right before clicking submit. 😛
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Damnit, DC! 😛
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Post it :(!
EDIT: or don’t, I’m not the boss of you 😛
But no one is going to judge you for posting it or think less of you. No more self doubt D.C.!
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Sometimes.
Then I post on TAY and feel better 😛
Work to live not live to work….
@zap
Greetings!
@EVERYONE
And people write about over sexualisation in videogames. This stuff is played on Video Hits every weekend.
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30 seconds of that video gave me two thoughts:
– That guy needs to lower his eyebrows
– I want a girl with a short skirt and a loooooooooooooooong jacket. -
I want 1:06 of my life back… and I had it on mute
I’m starting to feel a distinct shift in my eagerness with my job these days, mostly because I’m starting to be completely under-utilised (hence TAY… 😛 ) and the end result is I’m bored and unmotivated at work half the time.
I know complaining about not being worked hard sounds odd, but in IT it pushes you to learn, and makes work days go by faster. Without, I’m effectively bored and ignorant…and it’s not bliss.
I think something needs to change or I doubt I’ll be at this job another 12 months.
EDIT: Interesting post timing, considering Doc’s post.
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I know what you mean. If you have to put in the face-time, being busy at least makes the hours go by a bit quicker. I am woefully underutilised here (hence, as you say, TAY and various other projects :P)
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I’ve been trying to convince myself to either get back into piano/guitar or go back to trying to learn French. Wish I could do that stuff when I bored at work, but they make too much noise 😛
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Air guitar is silent.
You’re welcome.
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Play acoustic guitar while learning French… MULTITASKING \o/
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not to mention that would woo 90% of all the women in the room.
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I’ve been bored in my job for about the last 3 years.
50-50 split between data entry & customer service.
I know mat you mean about being under-utilised.
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Around the time my job went that way a lot of people started getting fired, so yeah, it can be a difficult balance.
Having moved interstate for work, there isn’t really a fallback if I was suddenly out of a job.
TAY certainly helps on the slow days, even if it’s just a quick lurk and read the conversations on a break. -
I’m the same.
I sit on TAY and reddit all day and my performance review last month was 4/5 across the board.
Clearly I can sit here and do nothing and still get paid a fairly good engineer’s salary.
Personally it pissed me off. Not coz I’m getting paid to do almost nothing, but simply because it’s a waste of time.
I get up every morning knowing I’m going to sit at my desk and do fuck all. Sure sometimes things break down but probably 70% of my week is wasted time.
Yes I could do other stuff, yes I could “find my own work”, but really I shouldn’t have to.
And being like this really drains my motivation levels, which then means I CBF doing anything else productive.
I spent half of last week working on my personal business website…Back on topic – A change is as good as a holiday. I’ve been looking for a new job/career path for a while, but I can afford to be selective.
There’s a Steam Sale beginning tomorrow.
Time to unplug the router and lock my wallet in the safe.
God help us all.
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I have no Steam account. I am safe from the storm. Good luck everyone, I’ll be sipping cocktails while you fight for your lives.
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You hear that everyone?
Alfonse doesn’t have Secret of the Magic Crystal.
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Alfonse? I thought it was Le Funar? /o\
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Oh hellz yeah. Time to blow out of this jerk water berg. Catch you on the flip side, dudemeisters!
Haha, I see that Tina’s latest Walking Dead article has zero comments. Can I assume that this is because nobody trusts her not to spoil the whole thing, and is therefore steering well clear of it?
I’m personally near the end of episode 1. Sitting in the pharmacy, with two people trying to get me to leave. I’m quite happy sitting there for the moment, happy in the knowledge that nobody else is likely to die if I just chill for a while.
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probably right there batguy… although technically your second paragraph may also be considered a spoiler!
also, in other news, what kind of witchery have you used on Trials Evolution???? ive only got the demo, im too scared to grab the full version and check out the rest of your times!!!!
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He’s the new Tina. 😛
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Batguy Salami \o/
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If that’s a spoiler then you need to harden the
fuckup 😛 All I’ve said is that I’m in a place and people die. Thathappened in the first 5 minutes of the game, and pretty much constantly since!Re: Trials, my witchcraft is practice and persistence. Like 3 hours straight trying to wipe half a second off my time levels of persistence. @fatshadylive is the one with the really evil ability – “skill” (acquired through practice, sure). Bastard!
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Except we have a spoiler tag now so it’s way easy to be safe and spoilertag anything that specific about a game.
Some of us like to go into games completely fresh so even something you might find innocent is likely to spoil things for us. It’s not a case of spoilerphobes needing to harden up, it’s more the non-spoilerphobes can avoid stress to others by a simple button press when typing their comment. So I don’t see why you wouldn’t, there’s really no reason not to.
Also, up until now I’m managed to avoid finding out that people die. Of course, I had an inkling people would die but was unsure until now if actual people died or just random background characters. You weren’t specific so it’s not a huge spoiler but it will change the way I think and act in the game when I play it so essentially it’s spoiled the fresh experience I crave.
I also want to make it very clear that I’m not angry here, just taking the opportunity to re-iterate why we have spoilertags. They’re simple to use, people so if in doubt, it’s better to be safe than sorry. 🙂
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I get where you’re coming from, and I’m just as spoiler sensitive as the next person, but I think you’re over-reacting here. There is no way that I’ve spoiled a single thing for you. It’s a zombie game. It’s a game that people are getting emotional about. This means that characters are gonna die. And the mood from the very second you start the game confirms this.
All I’ve really ruined here is that I’m in a pharmacy. Will anybody actually die? I can’t spoil anything because I don’t know! I haven’t actually got that far myself! Based upon the statements above I reckon yes, hence why I said what I said.
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Also, I don’t want to make a big drama of this, so I’m happy to just let it end here if you are. I probably should have just walked away from it. But I felt the need to defend myself to a degree.
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I never wanted to make a drama of it. That’s why I made it a point to say I wasn’t angry. There was nothing personal about it, like I said, I was using the opportunity to remind everyone that’s it’s so easy to use the spoilertags that you may as well. I was using them earlier to talk about something even less specific about Assassin’s Creed III simply because it’s better to be safe than sorry.
What I am a bit upset about now though is you expanding on your original statements in a direct response to me after I had just been saying I like to go in to games fresh. I understand now you felt like you were attacked and had to go on the offensive and I’m really sorry I made you feel like that but you need to understand that those sorts of statements do spoil things for me and I’m well aware I’m not the only one.
So please, just use the spoiler tags. I don’t see why you wouldn’t. It’s not a hassle and can save people from being upset.
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Yeah according to the only comment on it, it’s all spoilers especially the articles picture :S
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Man. If there’s one game you do not want spoiled, it’d be The Walking Dead 😛
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I honestly don’t care for spoilers in the most part. I do avoid them though, like I made Freeze spoil the ending of Mass Effect 3 for me cause I didn’t get why everyone was so up in arms. He felt bad lol. I have since forgotten what he told me so it works out!
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Personally after much faffing about I can run it
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Should’ve got a mac. It just works for playing Walking Dead (but not half of the other items in my steam library).
I misread the roster at work and have one day off tomorrow then back to work. This will mark one month since I’ve had a whole weekend off.
Life’s a Happy Song — Bret McKenzie/Kermit the Frog… I feel like this page needs it… 😛
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If that makes you feel TOO happy, then here’s a little balance.
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This one just cut me down to size :S
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Holy damn, man. After that I feel the need to post Life’s a Happy Song again. 😀
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@mythamphetamine
you bastards tricked me into thinking that Secret of the Magic Crystals was actually a decent game on the previous sales…. so i went ahead and bought it, i played it for about 5 minutes, scarred my self for life, and spent the rest of the night wondering what kind of drugs you guys were smoking when you played it…..
now I’m older and wiser…. 😀
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Ser Nobulus clocked it o.0
We’re all a little worse for wear after that game!
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Pretty sure he did!
Not sure if he stopped at 24hrs play time or pushed it to 30 (or, god forbid, more /o\), but it was ridiculous.
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Nah Beavwa is the one who finished it. 38.9 hours.
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I feel bad about my 13ish hours with the game.
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Downvoted for spreading disgusting, filthy lies!
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Looks like I’ve got a fall guy. I can do ANYTHING!
This is hilarious.
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The next step is to get Train Simulator Extreme.
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That’s an expensive joke gift, that one!
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I noticed that the new farming simulator is only $20 in-store at EB, but $30 on Steam. So it’d be cheaper to post a physical copy to someone for Christmas.
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Oh man, Secret SanTAY is just gonna be troll gifts, isn’t it /o\
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Damn. Shouldn’t have given that away.
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Oh man is it?! I am so buying a copy for my mate.
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Ha .. hah .. hahaha… bahahahah!
Thursday WEDNESDAY evening,time to put on a smile for the trip home!
AUDIO IS NSFW, VIDEO IS KID FRIENDLY!
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Thursday? :S
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IM EXCUSED, MY NEIGHBOURS DOG HAS BEEN WAKING ME UP AT 3AM FOR THE PAST THREE NIGHTS, AND IVE BEEN GETTING HOME AT 10PM!!!!!!!
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That dog is playing mind games, my friend!
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I’d rather play 20hrs of Secret of the Magic Crystals :S
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This is just what I needed 😀
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glad to hear you enjoyed it!!!
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The man knows what he likes! 😛
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@inquisitorz
Indeed it is the new Jetta
And the build quality is amazing, I can’t really fault anything… I got custom leather fitted and it looks and smells amazing XD
http://imgur.com/rkCid
http://imgur.com/pJT2A
Jumped aboard the midnight launch hype train with a Wii U per-order this morning. I was surprised that the sales chick didn’t try to get me to preorder any extra games or screen protectors or plastic tennis racket handles or anything.
But I’m finally excited after months of apathy. Woo woo!
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what managed to change your apathy to hype?
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All the glowing reviews of the network service and CPU capabilities?
Actually, it started when I realised that I would really make use of the ability to flick the games from TV to handheld on a whim. It would mean that I can watch cricket and play games like Assassin’s Creed III at the same time. Or let the missus watch something on TV while I keep slogging away at Mario.
My initial plan was to register my network handle on somebody else’s console then transfer it to my own in a few months’ time. But when I learnt about the inflexibility of the network ids, I realised that I needed to get in early if I wanted to get anything decent.
Then I thought “screw it, I haven’t been to a midnight launch since the Gamecube”. And here we are.
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I had a Wii U pre-order lined up on the Big W website, in the Cart, ready to go. Then closed the browser 😛 I’m waiting, dammit!
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You’re doing it wrong…
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Conspiracy nutbag hat engage:
All these online sales with their sites crashing almost instantly. One has to wonder at the failure rate. Easy and massive publicity all without having to actually give out much in the way of sale items, all under the guise of technical faults with no accountability. Seriously, it seems to be the norm rather than the exception these days.
Disengaging conspiracy nutbag hat.
Then again, probably not.
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“Disengaging conspiracy nutbag hat.
Then again, probably not.”
Is it stuck? Do I need to give it a good whack with my elbow? The safety of your face isn’t guaranteed though. 😛
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That’s… not that unbelievable, actually.
Fuck it, where’s my tinfoil hat? -
The easy publicity thing is what amazes me. You put out press releases about this sort of thing and the news sites gobble it up.
I think in the case of Click Frenzy they’re going to have to deliver *something* eventually, because they’ve already taken substantial sums of money from several big retailers.
Or maybe they’ll just give the money back, then make their profits by selling the email and demographics database to others. Hmm… can I borrow your nuthat (that’s what the kids are calling it nowadays)?
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Inc rant.
Honestly I expect this sort of shit from the Australian retailers. I’d laugh if the ACCC looked into such and found out they were doing this on purpose and slapped them each with a massive fine for such practices.
It’s sort of like Aldi when they have their weekly sale on stuff, only having about a dozen of the most popular item in the catalogue but thinking they get away with it by saying that they have limited stock.
Like i’m sorry if it’s sold out by midday on the first day of sale then I think you should be in trouble for it and what’s that you’re not going to get any more stock of said item? Well fuck you too, I didn’t want you to have my money anyway!
/rant
I will need Tay’s help soon and I hope as many people will participate as possible.
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Because I love you.
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Awesome!
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It’s a pick which one looks better thing
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I can totally do that \o/
I can’t guarantee that my taste is any good though /o\-
That lady at Jeans West said I had good taste. 😛
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Why would you be tasting when she clearly wants us to use our eyes, silly Aleph, you really do need that new brain! =D
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I CAN HELP WITH THIS! Also HI @SCREE!
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Yay, helping \o/
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HELPIUS
HELPIUSES?
HELPISI?
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I read that as Herpes :S
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OooooOooo scree has a loverrrr!
Scree and TAY’s help sitting in a tree. K-I-S-S-I-N-G
@zetrox2k
I finally managed to send the HDD to you. I think you’ll get it by Friday or Monday morning at the latest.
Hopefully the extra 70-80GB is helpful.
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You rock dude!!! If our postal service is still running with similar efficiency levels to the last 2weeks, I may even see it tomorrow! Also let me know what I owe you man!
@greenius – thanks to @masha2932 ‘s generosity, I can continue to be a data hoarder!!!!
Looks like ill start backing up my data!
Anyone know if I can backup my game saves separately to dock and stuff or do I need to back it all up in one hit?
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NOOOO! >:(
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DENIED!
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Today, I’ve learned I’m *really* bad with names.
Forgot umpteen TAYbies.
Credited incorrectly RE: Secret of the Magic Crystals.
Called the Managing Director “Fred”. (His name is NOT Fred)
Confused Cakesmith for Blaghman.
Called mum “mothesnahfplog” on the phone, because articulate.
Mmmmyeah, I think I need a new brain.
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I have never even played Secret of the Magic Crystal! /o\
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Neither =D!
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I got accused by SOMEONE that I have beaten the game.
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Guilty as charged…
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I confused Blaghs for someone else on TS once when I was looking at the TS window and noticed it was Blaghs talking.. I am so awesome.
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Also, @sughly tried to trick @dc by getting our names confused? Gooooood times.
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Bearded guy #1 and bearded guy #2. Then there was Freeze, bearded guy #3.
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Haha, I wasn’t even there at that point and he was trying to confuse poor DC!
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Haha! Oh, man. All that nervous energy at the time from me too. 😀
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hahaha, and then it turns out we weren’t even that scary 😛
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The only thing I had to fear… was fear itself!
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I’m positively shitting myself.
You’re all horrifying.Or rather, the thought of meating so many people is horrifying.
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I hear that, man. I’ve met more new people in the past three and half weeks than the rest of the year combined!
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It’s only me you gotta watch out for, since i’m from tweed so that makes me some kind of hardened murderous drug dealer or something.
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You still remembered who your leaving behind. Remember the fallen 😛
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I’ve still gotta take a photo of your shirt for you 😛
Remind me tonight!
I’m used to being confused for Bish, that happens a lot.
We are brothers, after all.
But Cakesmith? We’re only spiritual brothers of the awesome hair.
It’s ok, I didn’t want Duck pizza anyway T.T
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We’re gonna eat all the duck pizza, don’t you worry man. All of it.
Also dumplings.
@virus__
Of course there’s other Dans. But there is only and only ever will be, one DAN!.
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Speaking of DAN!, I was kind of intimidated after listening to a podcast. Was frightened to meet the guy — all that enthusiastic energy! Turns out he’s awesome! True story!
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When will you learn to trust us, lower-case-Dan-with-no-exclamation-mark? We told you he was awesome.
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Now it’s just that terrifying Lambo and intimidating Hellscream. 😛
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I don’t think we could handle TWO DAN!’s
Bought Botanicula, Machinarium (again), The Blackwell Bundle, To the Moon and Primordia on GOG. I wasn’t particularly fond of Machinarium’s puzzles on the iPad. :S
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Hmmmm there are only 6 games there I don’t own, narrows the choice down a little
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Alan Wake’s American Nightmare was decent enough on the 360. Thought about getting that again, but figured it was a good time to get some adventures I had missed out on!
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I have a 50% off coupon for Alan Wake Collectors Edition on Steam if anyone wants it =P
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Just destroy it. Let it go. Do the world a favour.
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NO! BAD SUGHLY! YOU’RE OFF THE CHRISTMAS CARD LIST!
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I forgot about Botanicula until earlier today. Only like two TAYbies have played it for any sort of time and the rest of us are terrible people who get swamped up in other games :/
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I liked the art direction and tone of Machinarium, but didn’t like the puzzles so had no intention of getting Botanicula… but $2, Greenius, $2!
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Didn’t like the puzzles because you couldn’t figure them out? 😛
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Maybe. 😉
Yeah, that’s true. Lots of logic, Myst-style puzzles. I prefer the more traditional adventure stuff. (Like using a monkey as a wrench. :P) Also I don’t think some of them were explained all too well.
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Except they weren’t logical. There were deliberately designed to be super-obscure which really takes you out of the game.
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That’s true! I was correcting my post when you ninja’d! 😀
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Awww no ways, I had so much fun with Machinarium!
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Botanicula is way better than Machinarium. I feel the same way as you about the puzzles in Machinarium but Botanicula had puzzles that flowed more with the game. Such a beautiful, charming game. I finished it and immediately went back to start it again. 😀
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I saw how much time you put into it on Steam! That’s what sealed the deal! 😀
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Whaaaat! Machinarium is a million kazillion times better than Botanicula! Blah!
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They are both awesome… at the top end of the awesome scale Machinarium is not quite as good as Anna’s Quest which is not quite as good as Botanicula. 😀
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Oops. forgot html will eat the greater than and less than symbols.:P
Okay, which one looks best? I want to put this on a shirt and the basic idea is this shirt symbolises the year of the rat, but a wood rat. (different years have different rats). It’s meant to be done in an Okami type style, but I have trouble deciding things.
Also give me any constructive criticism possible.
I should add, it looked like this before
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v247/luckydogofdeath/rat_05.png
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BLUE! \o/
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Was there meant to be a link? =P
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I was preparing it while I was waiting for it to upload
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I SEE NAHZING /o\
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Advanced use of the upvote button incoming
But I’ll also say here that I prefer the blue-
The upvote button has really made life easy for me now ^^
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I like the one with the blue shading the best. There’s a bit more contrast between the colours, makes it POP more. The green and monochrome, while good, don’t really stand out as well to me. And the combined one looks a bit messy, not messy as in a bad drawing, just messy in that its all muddled together too much.
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Monochrome gets my vote!
Iunno, it makes the symbols pop a little more, and just… looks better to me.-
Yeah, thought the same. I also like the green one.
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ALL THE SHADING! 😛
But seriously, the just blue or green shading looks a bit empty, the last one with both has more depth to it.
Edit:The Monochrome one was not there when I typed my comment. It is the best, hands down. Go with the monochrome one.
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You know whats gonna happen, all of them will come back with the same number of votes, then you’ll have to make the final decision. Or just make all the things 😛
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Yep, agreed. Blue is my pick out of those!
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I like the simplicity of the monochrome one.
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I’ll try to add more dimension to it Strange. No matter which one wins.
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I’d have to say that the monochrome one looks best, particularly in the context of a shirt design.
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Ooo! We vote for our favourite ones! Does the one with the most upvotes wins :D?
First of all, I’m currently playing through Okami HD and you captured the style awesomely. Looks like it’s come straight out of the game (minus the redness of the markings)!
They’re all good but here’s some comments on the minor changes between each one (remember it’s just my personal preference and I like them all!):
– Monochrome feels too plain compared to the others
– I like the blue one but think it would look better if the markings were the same colour (instead of green)
– Green one feels a bit dark but it could work if you used a lighter shade of green (like the blue one, just green)
– Last one looks a bit dark too for the reasons aboveI’m leaning towards the blue one 🙂
EDIT: GO TEAM BLUE!
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Green but a lighter shade. Got it ^^
Really? you think it looks good? I was tempted to scrap it completely which is why I asked.-
Scree of course it looks good! Don’t be a bum! 🙂
Like I said, Okami HD is one of the games I’ve been playing these past weeks and it looks like it’s straight out of the game but a bit cleaner (the art style in Okami is fairly scribbly/messy)
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I thought it looked terribly messy. Thanks.
And I’m not a bum. i have a house, you know. -
Not bum as in hobo just bum as in… I dunno 😛 bum!
I just substitute that word for “silly” and other things because I can.
I call masha bumasha and D.C. a bum all the time. It’s just a silly word I like to use 😛
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I wasn’t serious. I was joking =P
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Anyone want to recommend some games from the GOG pick 5 stuff. I already have torchlight, Machinarium and Trine from beforehand and have no idea about the others, except Darwinia which is already picked.
HALP!
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Gemini Rue and Resonance if you’re into point-and-click adventures, for sure!
They’re done like the old school pixel art ones from the Sierra era. Very cool, though. Both have interesting hooks and pretty damn good stories!
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Resonance did intrigue me. There’s two locked in.
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Gemini Rue looks like it would make me want to punch it with it’s “neo noir sci fi”. Which combined with its description makes it seem really terribly written.
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That game is worth it for the atmosphere alone. Not as pretentious as it sounds. Haha! The writing was pretty good too, I thought.
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Yeah it borders on a few pretentious ideas near the end, but overall it’s a really solid game and story. Very kind of grim atmosphere, especially in the prison. Some great moments, like meeting the boryaku (?) boss, very seedy and intimidating place.
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The gun controls were pretty damn terrible though, I’ve got to say. Still, that constant downpour of rain and purple sky won me over the second I saw it. The Dig-like com system too. Gemini Rue had the better atmosphere, Resonance had the better puzzles in my opinion.
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Alan Wake All American Nightmare and i’ll even give you a coupon for 50% off the original on Steam if you buy All American Nightmare!
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Not sure it would run…
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Looking at the spec page, you should be fine really. It’s not that much of a resource heavy game as I found out. But your call 😛
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Ooh. DEFCON.
That’s three.
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To the Moon was Tracey’s GOTY for 2011. I haven’t played it yet, but that was enough to get my attention.
Anomaly Warzone Earth is a decent tower defense game
The Ball is a physics based puzzle fps which I really enjoyed
Spacechem is a good but difficult puzzle game based on chemistry
Alrighty. Done. I ended up with Darwinia, To The Moon, Unmechanical, DEFCON and Resonance. I’m happy with those choices.
Go Tweed! Bodies in the river, how classy.
THE WALKING DEAD. IT IS UPDATING.
Might have to power through tonight if it downloads in time!
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WHAT!!!
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ALL ABOARD ZE HYPE TRAIN.
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NOPE TRAIN
@alexpants
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From Atomic: http://www.atomicmpc.com.au/News/323638,next-xbox-specs-revealed.aspx
“The new Xbox – which will be called simply “Xbox,” in a bit of Apple iPad-style naming, is currently codenamed Durango. It’ll arrive packing “four hardware cores, each divided into four logical cores,” along with Blu-ray support (finally!), 8GB of RAM, directional audio, TV input and output and – alarmingly for hardcore gamers – an “innovative controller.””
Forget the rest of the stuff, the thing that stuck out the most to me was the “TV input and output” bit. Soooo, it might also work as a DVR?
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Thank god they dropped the HDVD crap.
“Innovation” is a bit of a push, I’m interested to see where they go with it, I guess I’m just a cynic in light of Apple’s “innovation”.input-output seems cool, possible attempt at targeting publicly-broadcast livestreams? (That’d be REALLY cool, actually :D)
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I think it’s more likely they want it to usurp the place of the family TiVo / PVR.
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I hope they don’t just call it “Xbox”. I know it’s stupid, but part of the reason I was looking forward to the next generation was the new names we’d have to start using when talking about consoles.
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The new Xbox
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Huh. I remember saying months ago that I reckoned they would do exactly that. Makes a lot of sense to me.
I wonder if I can find that post now with Kotaku’s historical lookup stuff… and get ready to collect those ten Internet points I deserve if it’s proven true.
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I don’t buy the 8gb RAM part of the rumor.
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I’ve seen a few people complain that 8gb is nowhere near sufficient for a console…
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Those people are morons who don’t understand console hardware or development.
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Yeah, I’m gonna agree with Neg here. I’d love to be proven wrong, but I’d expect 4 gig tops, but with it running at a high speed. Could be that dev kits are running 8, they always have more RAM.
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RAM’s really cheap now though, isn’t it? Surely they can put in 8 gig without increasing the cost of the console too much?
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It’s not just about cost, it’s where you fit the chips in. Also you need a 64-bit memory controller and stuff. And saving a few dollars on each machine constructed makes a big difference if you’re expecting to make millions of them.
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Didn’t even think to use the voting system like mystery question time. But I’m doing it now. 😀
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P….
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Or S?
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M?
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So the options are P, M, S?
Pass!
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Maybe if there was an ‘L’ as well? 😛
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Dammit Dire Wolf, that’s not a vote! 😛
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S for Strange!
And S since it was the missing letter in our last Mystery Question Fun Time 🙁
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So what if I upvote one and downvote the other?
Other than crashing the entire binary system?
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Ooh…sneaky. 😀
i guess I’ll just have to look at upvotes only, not total. To stop Sneaky McSneakersons like you. 😛
Okay, so ‘S’ it is then.
Thanks for helping me with my decision, guys. By the way, I won’t be telling you what the letters stood for…. 😛
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It’s pretty obvious the letters were for “Steak knives” or “Petrol”, from the question: “Ways to dispose of this body”
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Nooooo! You’re supposed to tell us :(.
Or at least tell us what the one you picked was!
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They were which TAYbie’s patch to make next for the TAYquilt, wasn’t it!? THAT’S WHY I VOTED ‘P’
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P for Puppylicks!
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So – ‘S’ for SmurfyDog it is then! \o/
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That can’t be right as there’s no F for Freeze.
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Who’s to say she hasn’t already done your one? 🙂
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TAYquilt has actually stalled to due to lack of funds and time until after Christmas.
After doing most of my sampler quilt I was learning on I now have to put the borders on the quilts I’m making for my Nan and my little sister for Christmas and finish piecing the one for my daughter and then quilt them all in time for Christmas. But I can only work on them if I’m in the right frame of mind otherwise I’ll probably disasterise them. 😛Probably won’t work on your block until almost last, Powalen because it’s one of my favourites and I don’t want to mess it up.
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Aw, shucks!
(Just to be clear I was only joking around. Work at your own pace! :P)
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Don’t worry, I will. Peer pressure doesn’t work on me…as evidenced by my not owning Xenoblade yet. 😛
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Booooo! *hisss*
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Ooh…last minute comeback from ‘P’. 😀
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Also, @virus___…voting for both? You’re in the naughty corner now. 😛
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Well I haven’t been there in a while… Damn it!
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@strange it’s a 3 way tieeeee
Who wins!?
What were they!?
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M was never an option, silly. 😛
And like I said, I’d thought ‘S’ won but then at the last minute ‘P’ made a comeback. So ‘P’ it was.
It was really boring which is why I thought it would be more fun to not tell you what you were voting for, but I can tell you if you really want to know. I guarantee it’ll be a letdown though.-
Tells me!
But how did P make a comeback!? Did you forget to see that Zap downvoted S? (hence why I downvoted P to make it fair). Which makes them even counting just the upvotes!
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At the time a decision was needed there was 1 more P upvotes than S upvotes. Like I responded to Zap…I was only ever counting upvotes, not totals.
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My life is complete 😀
… well nearly complete, you still need to play Xenoblade and The Walking Dead!
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So which server should I be joining on The Old Republic?
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I think most of us are on Master Dar’Nala.
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Isn’t that the PvP server? I’ve never touched a MMO before and the thought of diving straight into PvP is a tad intimidating.
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Don’t worry, between the low population and the phasing the chances of running into a hostile player while out in the world is pretty low. I don’t think I partook in any world pvp while getting my two characters to 50.
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I’m going to roll a new character there as well probably if I can, though right now I’m in the UPDATE ERROR OCCURRED GOT TO REPAIR phase of patching. Sad to see that they still haven’t fixed this. How hard can it be to get the patching system right?
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Where do i get the download for this from. It isn’t on steam yet is it?
Also is there a hype train for planetside 2?
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I hope there is a hype train for Planetside 2. Also, I want to know how pings are from Aus to the servers
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Comedy Origin option.
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You get it from swtor.com 🙂
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Ya mums
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what side is everyone on? Light or Dark?
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Charlotte Light and Dark?
*waits for Shane upvote.*
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Both \o/
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Sounds like witchcraft to me!
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It is! \o/
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Hi, TAY!
Currently downloading the final episode of The Walking Dead game, and I’m so excited! \o/
EDIT: Screw it. Ten minutes into the final ep, and I’m calling it. GOTY for sure.
Ignore this comment, showed up as a duplicate when it wasn’t. 😐
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He is double post excited
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i wish i could get double post excited about something
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Super MNC?
Anarchy Reigns?
Phoenix Wright?🙂
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you know me too well good sir
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you know me too well good sir
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Sorry for the triple post but screw it, I’m so goddamn pumped so far.
Click spoilers at your own risk.
Lee , moments after having cut his fucking arm off, runs across a ladder to ring the bell, ladder falls down, so he just says screw it, and jumps across the gap… with only one arm. Fuck it, that was so awesome I could barely contain myself.
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SPOILERS FOR WHAT?!?!?!
Walking Dead?
6th sense?
Usual Suspects?
AC3?
Citizen Kane?!?!?!?!?!?!?-
Rosebud
That is the line isnt it? Never watched it so may be pulling crap out of the air
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thats the one.
also, Orsen Wells was dead all along.
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Let’s just go ahead and declare this page Walking Dead page 11.
Which is by no means a bad thing.
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Oh, man. I thought it was like your other spoiler above and read the first few words. :S
My fault. The Walking Dead spoilers.
Hey guys, guess what?
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Stuff?
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Y’know, I had this REALLY cool punchline.
Then I got sidetracked and forgot I posted on TAY.
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Things?
Objects?
Pieces of various physical materials?Oh wait maybe its not physical… Aleph’s getting tricky
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We’re going beyond the metaphysical, here.
It’s three layers deep now, this dream’s getting unstable.-
We have to go deeper
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BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP
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@shane Have you read this, man? (Six Feet Under spoilers. Be warned!)
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I haven’t, no. But it looks like a season 3 tie-in, so wouldn’t cover the whole show. Not sure if that’s an issue for you or not.
Edit: Looks pretty swish, though. I’m tempted…
Its official, I’ve moved out of home. I just bought Mi Goreng noodles for the first time. Now to see what all the fuss is about…. Tomorrow 🙂
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SNATCKATU!!!
Mi Goreng tastes amazing, but DO NOT eat it and nothing else for 6+ months. Your digestive system will murder itself.
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I don’t know what this snatckatu is, but I know that I want some.
Also, some students in Canberra got scurvy a few years back, thanks to subsisting almost entirely on 2 minute noodles.
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We’ll surely avoid scurvy if we all eat an orange…
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Eat AN orange, or eat IN Orange?
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No one likes clever word play, Nova. Geez!
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If only they’d supplemented this with cask wine they would have been fine! 😛
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Wasn’t that Star Ice shite more efficient in dollars/alcohol-content?
Not sure if it’s still around, was introduced to get around the ‘alco-pop’ tax.
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I don’t even know what happened there. I no type good.
As for eating nothing but mi goreng, it was all I could afford in Townsville for about 6 months. It… wasn’t pleasant.
On the other hand, I now have a VERY particular method of preparing mi goreng 😛
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Aw, man. Now it’s just me who hasn’t had ’em. 😛
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But you’ve done like nothing 😛
NO CAPTAIN PLANET!?
DRAGON BALL Z?!T___T
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Mi Goreng is the king of instand noodles. Just stay well away from that in-a-cup version. :/
Mi Goreng makes a great base for a cheap and lazy stir fry too.
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I wouldn’t recommend using it as the filling for toasted sammiches either. Or… if you must do it, severely undercook them so they’ll finish cooking *in* the sammich.
Moar Walking Dead spoilers (Click at your own risk):
The guy who has Clementine is the guy that owned the car containing the supplies you took from at the end of episode two.
Two hours later my SWTOR ‘repair’ is at 10% done, 36 files to ‘fix’.
Fuck. This. Shit.
Reinstalling from DVD. Again.
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Looks like it basically patches straight to pretty close to current if you install from DVDs, rather than having to incrementally patch.
2.27gb download. 🙁 And it’s flooding my connection.
SUPER FUN MYSTERY QUESTION TIME!
Door 1. “S”
Door 2. “5”
Door 3. “7”
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S! I CHOOSE YOU!
IT’S TIME TO D-D-D-D-DDDDUUUUUUEEEEEEELLLLL!!!!!
I can’t think of any more overly dramatic things to say here… !!!
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Soundbar it is!
It was between that, 5.1 or 7.1 system for the lounge room
Probably for the best, due to compact size and whatnot \o/Now to find the right one! I kinda like the fact that people are coming to me with a budget and saying “find a present that fits person X” and then I do.
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Oh man, if I’d known I totes would have gone with 7.
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Holy replytiming, batman!
I went with the first response, although will have to trial the “majority vote” theme in the future 😀
Choice 1 Title?!
Choice 2 Title?!!!!?!?
Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
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Choice 2
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An annoying The Walking Dead glitch caused me NOT to see which choices I made and it just shows what I typed above (minus the ?!?!?!?!?!) 🙁
Really annoying since I’d love to know what the actual choices are and what % made them…
When playing other episodes things that seem like ‘choices’ aren’t and things that don’t, are.
UGHHHH!
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WALKING DEAD EPISODE 5 (FIVE) DISCUSSION
DO NOT READ UNTIL YOU HAVE FINISHED GAEM
I am all the sadface. Also I didn’t get to do Chapter 8. Might replay Ep 5 again on the weekend once I recovered.
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Wait what!?!?!??!!!!!!
What’s the main choices, you know my problem :P…
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Wait, you what?!
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Spoilers do not read until you have finished Episode 5
So, choices: Cut the arm off. Got mad at Kenny. Can’t believe the turd wanted to discuss killing me. Didn’t kill the stranger, so clem did. Worst I’ve ever felt. Told clem to leave me. Felt like an asshole for leaving her all alone.
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Yeah, that happened to me, I wasn’t sure if it was a glitch with the cheevs, or if I just didn’t make it. I don’t know if I can let myself replay it, it may well ruin it…-
EXPLAIN
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FOR THOSE WHO HAVE FINISHED IT… (or don’t care)
HUGE MOTHERFUNKING SPOILERS:
Did NOT remove Lee’s arm. I just… I dunno man…
Calmy argued with Kenny. I think bringing up Duck pissed him off.
Did not give up weapons. Lied saying the Walkie Talkie was all I had.
Didn’t kill the Stranger… didn’t even know this was an option?
This was one of the hardest decisions in the game and I didn’t choose anything. I was leaning towards getting Clem to kill me but… no… just couldn’t. So the game picked her leaving me which turned out okay in the end.
So I was in the minority for all of them except for the Stranger thing where I was slightly in the majority. Wow…
HOLY SHIT THAT ENDING! But this likely means Season 2 is going to use the same characters. I’m really not sure how I feel about this. I didn’t get to Chapter 8 either so maybe that wasn’t the real ending? Who knows…-
Seems like I’m the only one who did what I did for Choice 1.
Now…
When going to the hotel what did you guys encounter? I let Christa and Omid cross first but the thing fell before I got a chance. So Lee went down and there was some fucking badass music playing Lee had two weapons (one in each hand) and fucking murdered the shit out of zombies on the way to hotel. It was amazing.-
Well…
I went first, it fell down, some awesome music played, and he axed the crap out of some zombies. Edit: Wait, wait, he was all, “Hey Zombies, can I AXE you a question?”-
Axe? I had a cleaver and a shard of glass. Pretty brutal dual wielding kills. -
Wait, yeah, it was a cleaver. Woopsies, I am are smrt. It also ruins the pun I added. -
Well aren’t you cleaver
Nope. Bad.
BAD GREENIUS
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Don’t need to specify, but episode five spoilers:
That chapter eight achievement not unlocking seems to be a glitch, after poking around a bit.
I took off Lee’s arm (what an opener for the episode, jeeze), calmly argued with Kenny, surrendered my weapons, had Clementine kill the stranger, and told Clem to leave me. No way was I going to make her kill me.
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I took off the arm(I watched an episode of the show the other day, where they did the equivalent with a leg, and it was so much worse in game), calmly argued, surrendered everything, Clem killed the dude, and I told Clem to kill me. I feel bad about it, removal of innocence, and all that jazz, but it had to be done. She had to be brave…-
Yeah those were my exact choices as well. Man, they were NOT easy to make…
Episode 5 Spoilers SPECIALLY CONCERNING A CERTAIN CHARACTER I’VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT
I am so, so let down with Ben. Well, maybe let down isn’t the right words. Just, sad that he never really got a chance to make a come back, you know? He did have a pretty cool argument half way through, but I was really hoping for more. (Not disappointed in the story, just was hoping he would come good as a character) -
No Ben redemption scene for you! -
Spoilers! (I’m going to keep marking these even though it’s obvious :P)
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Oh?
To be honest I forgot he existed…
Watched and IGN review and he was there 😛
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Ditto. He had a whole ‘redemption’ story arc potential and they ruined it by having him FALL TO HIS DEATH. I mean, he died screaming for Kenny to kill him… (Though I loved the way Kenny’s storyline intersected with Ben’s)
He… what?
😛
I guess it’s hard to talk about a game like this without spoilering little things for the different options. Doesn’t really matter though as I’m unlikely to re-play it straight away but anything that didn’t happen in my game, I’m not considering it as actually happening, more of an alternative universe I guess…
Now I’m wondering how this all played out if he wasn’t even in this episode in the first place. Interesting!
More Spoilers (for an alternate route to this scene)!
Ah, that’s interesting. In my version, Kenny sacrificed himself to try and save Ben and got killed in the process (Ben fainted, I think?). So in a way, there was significant redemption between those two characters. I was just hoping there’d be more between Ben and Lee.
Whoa!
My version:
It was just Lee, Ken, Christa and Omid the whole episode and we were talking when Ken bumped into Lee and he dropped the walkie. Christa immediately jumped in to get it and couldn’t get out so Ken went in to boost her up.
@Greenius
Wow! It sounds like Episode 5 is significantly different depending on your choices. Very interesting…
I kind of want to go back and pick all the “right” choices when the Stranger mentions stuff. Who knows though…
To be honest he was kind of out of place and felt almost too random. It was stupid how Lee’s face was all D: when the Stranger pulls out the Walkie… well no shit Lee…
but yeah, seems REALLY dependent on previous choices. More incentive to go back I guess! 😀
Oh and:
I wonder what happens for those who only took Lee at the end of episode 4? I doubt they’d just leave it as him since some of the choices involve other characters (arguing with Kenny) but imagine doing episode 5 ALONE. No dialogue lol…
@greenius
He presumably returns to the others. For instance, I didn’t have Kenny with me at the end of Ep 4, but he was still there in 5, he just missed the opening scene.
I want to see how Ep 5 plays out with ben, but then I’d have to put up with Ben. DILEMMA
Walking Dead ENTIRE GAME SPOILERS
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F***CKING THIS.-
Who’s this guy ^
(I FINALLY DID ONE OF THOSE, I AM KWL)
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FEEL THE DOWNVOTE, GREEN ONE
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With every downvote, I grow stronger.
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Walking Dead Season 2 Speculation (SPOILERS FOR ALL EPISODES SO FAR)
Yeah, it does look like Season 2 will be a direct continuation. Not sure how I feel about that, especially considering Lee/Clem’s ending. I don’t know if I want to continue Clem’s story without Lee. What I am hoping for though is the return of some ‘lost’ characters from this first game. Specifically Molly, but also Lily (though maybe her fate should be left unknown…)
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Molly is definitely going to have to return. There’s just too much unanswered questions about her. She obviously went and got a photo, I’m guessing that pregnant person was related to her (sister?) and that photo was of her. That explains why she got so crazy when trying to kill the Doctor ‘geek’ – out of revenge maybe?
or… it was just a coincidence and she kills all zombs that way 😛
I also have the same thoughts on Season 2 and while I’d love to know more there’s gotta be a cut off point. Reminds me of Baccano!, it was amazing and I wanted to know more but I love how they ended it, left it up to our own interpretation.
Man, I’m so glad I played this at night. I’m way too depressed to do anything else :/
Everyone without a VALID excuse NEEDS to play this game now.
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For carelessness there is no excuse!
That’s the end!
I’ve finished The Walking Dead!
– Cut Lee’s arm off.
– Calmly argued with Kenny.
– Surrendered my weapons.
– Didn’t kill Clementine’s captor.
– Told Clem to leave Lee.
This Dynamo magician on Channel 7 is shit.
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This Dynamo magician onChannel 7 is shit.
*fixed that one for you 😛Mum loves him and some other Aussie bloke.
I was laughed out of the lounge-room when I mentioned that I’d like to see Messrs Penn & Teller, as I believe them to be far superior.-
You are right, they are wrong.
That is all. -
3/4 of a magicians act is presentation. It’s about the show more than the tricks. Penn and Teller are showmen. Dynamo is just a douchebag.
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Penn and Teller are rad. Teller’s rose trick is probably one of my favourite all time tricks.
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I know we are all sick of Kickstarter by this point, but there is a seriously awesome one that isn’t going to meet the target.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/zeropointsoftware/interstellar-marines-prologue
Interstellar Marines is a FPS/RPG made by some europeany-type dudes. They had a working demo that I remember seeing years ago and it looked great. They had their financial backers drop out and they are trying to crowd-source it. I’ll never get another System Shock game, so help me get this. also you can play it too, I guess.
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Tried playing the preview, for some reason the graphics are crapping out on me…
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Was up on steam greenlight as well
Apparently Wii U upscales Wii games? Anyone have any news for this? @negativezero : )? XENOBLADE?!
I’m also not so sure on ZombiU. I was never grabbed by it and I generally can tell whether a game will be good or not just by seeing some footage. Getting some really mixed reviews but I still might check it out when it’s much cheaper.
Is anyone still going to get it despite the mixed reactions?
So far I’m just getting Nintendo Land (from the premium) and New Super Mario Bros U. Definitely keen on Rayman though! Pity it’s not a launch title :(, I really need to obtain and play Origins, it looks stunning.
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It doesn’t upscale as far as I can tell, it just has something to do with outputting the image via HDMI vs the Wii composite(?) cables. It certainly doesn’t output them the same way something like Dolphin does, unfortunately!
EDIT: Oh, and yeah I’m still fairly keen on ZombiU. Not that I’m getting a Wii U any time soon (:P). People are saying that the reviewers went in expecting an action game not a survival-horror, so marked it down? I haven’t read any actual reviews/played the game so I can’t be sure.
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http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/11/the-last-story-sold-super-well-and-now-its-only-30/
Jason seems to think it upscales! Who knows…
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You’d think it’d be bigger news if that were the case, though :\ I’d happily be wrong! I’d love to replay Xenoblade in HD 😛
I’ll wait and see!
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I betcha we can both replay it and still beat it before @novacascade does
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Probably 🙁
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It’s popped up on a LOT of sites, the problem is that the video I’ve seen showing it a) shows very little, and is an “off screen” recording, and b) is shot by a guy who has no idea what he’s talking about.
Edit: Fixed a freaking dreadful error.
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I’ll pick one up, but not on launch as I won’t have the money. Will check post-christmas, see if there’s any stock left.
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$40 off at Big W is an awesome price! Can’t borrow some money? I was going to wait for the price to drop but I figured it wouldn’t be around $388 (what I paid for it) for a while.
The 3DS was cheaper at launch than when I got it a few months after… didn’t want to make that same mistake of waiting.
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Yeah, don’t really have the chance to borrow money atm.
Shame, but I’ll survive.
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i don’t think i’ll be getting it day one, i think i’m gonna wait for some good games like the wonderful 101 or bayonetta 2 (both platinum games :D) to come out.
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That was my plan (see above) but there’s decent enough launch window games to keep me occupied (Rayman, Wonderful 101).
Being a first party Nintendo fan, I was always going to get one for the Zeldas and other titles it was just a matter of when.
I really hope it’s not something I regret getting so soon! 😛
It ‘upscales’ in that it renders the game frame at 480p then upscales the output to 1080p. So basically no different to passing your Wii through a decent receiver.
Two beers, one coaster…
I’m a genius!
No spoilers
The perfect gif that summarises the walking dead for me:
Okay that’s enough from me. PEACE
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Kept Arm.
Lost my temper.
Gave up weapons.
Didn’t kill the captor.
Told Clem to leave me.Started the episode with only Kenny, Omid and Christa. Kenny disappeared after the walkie-talkie incident, I told Omid and Christa I wanted them to look after Clem.
Is it just me, or was the music more frequent/prevalent in this episode. I’ll admit I hadn’t really noticed it before now. Also, that ending credit song did nothing to bolster my state.
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We seem to be the only ones who kept the arm
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Vita friends:
How do you charge it? Standard wall socket thing or can it also charge through USB cable? (did the PSP do this too?)
I’m thinking about my options if I import one or not. I could get a converter for the wall socket but USB is much easier.
It’s $213 + LittleBigPlanet or PS Battle Royale All Stars Meleefest from Amazon Italy. I’m not going to buy it since there’s no memory card (in the past they offered an 8gb) but Amazon always has good deals.
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Both work to charge it.
OMFG!
Theatrhythm was hiding Something to Protect in amongst the Dark Notes? Why?!? Why can’t I play it in challenge? Stupid game is to damn cagey with its songs.
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You unlock songs with more RM(that’s what it’s called, right?)
Something like 15,000 then every 5,000 and like every 2,500 from 27,500 or so.
Some songs are normal (3 difficulties), others like the song you mentioned are unfortunately ‘Chaos Difficulty’ which only let you play on one difficulty which is somewhere between Expert and Ultimate.
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Yeppers, I have that song in my extra songs list now :3
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SURVIVOR TODAY!
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Aside from the FFVII songs, I’m kinda keen for the oh-so-catchy FFXII-2 songs. Man, they were so awesome.
…that is, assuming that they have them in there. Iunno how it’s going to work.
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13-2? Not in it 😛
As DLC maybe.
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Aw shit, I missed out on Walking Dead Page 11. Alright, well my two cents.
Went alone.
Chopped off Arm.
(In the end he goes back to the group, so.. does it matter if he’s alone or not at the end o’ chapter 4?)
Had everybody with me (Yeah, even Ben.)
Got angry at Kenny.
GODDAMNIT BEN.
Kenny’s death was.. abrupt.
Gave up weapons.
Clem killed the stranger (The only person in the game so heavily influenced by our choices, but I bet no matter what you do he sticks to his ‘protect Clementine’ shtick)
Had Clem shoot me.
Bring on Season 2, baby.
This is mainly because I regret not having a Dad Joke Page 6 this week, and partly because I saw this joke and it made me happy.
The past, the present and the future walked into a bar.
It was tense.
You’re welcome.
WALLETS BRACE FOR IMPACT.
THE STEAM AUTUMN SALE HAS ARRIVED.
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The Walking Dead is 50% off today! ($12.50) Seriously, if anybody is considering this game, you really should buy it. It’s not going to get any cheaper, so go!
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I… I want to… I want to buy the disc version… /o\
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Oh man. I really wanted to get that but I got that pick 5 bundle and spent $30 on Theatrhythm dlc /o\
Oh well. C’est la vie.
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It was $12.50 on Amazon too! 😛
Pooalen buy Terraria!!
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Not going to spend $3 on something that I (and nobody else) will play 😛
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I’ll and many others will play!
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Ask Pipster, I hear she likes that game
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Everyone get Intrusion 2! Sweet indie game with awesome animation and amazing boss battles. I think ONE guy created the whole thing!
@greenius
you can charge the Vita through USB if you enable USB charging….
realistically its charger comes much the same way that iPhone chargers do: a transformer,to which you attach the usb cable and then plug it into your vita. in which case you can just use a 5w iphone/ipod usb wall adapter and plug it into that.
EDIT: worst page-get EVER!
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I’M SORRY I RUINED YOUR PAGE GET!
But I’m thankful, page 11 destroys my phone :P.
Thanks for the answer :). I only have a PSP and I’ve never seen a Vita so I wasn’t sure. Only problem with importing is warranty… Hmm. Spent my munnies on a Wii U so I’m unlikely to go straight for this Vita deal, but it’s something I’ll keep in mind!
Do Vita bros have 32gb memory cards? How much? They seem rather expensive…
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i only have a 16gb… got that for $55 price matching at jb. will be needing the 32gb card soon so i can start hoarding PS Plus games 🙂 i’ve avoided it until now as ive been buying games at retail. im not a fan of digital downloads on vita because of the space they take on the memory cards… and considering its a cartridge style media, its not like as though im going to wear out the laser or something anytime soon.
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Hoarder! >:P
Maybe you can sell or give away the 16gb to a potential future Vita owner 🙂
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but thats 16gb of extra hoarding!
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@doc_what
A notification tells me you replied to a comment of mine on this page but I can’t see it D:. In moderation perhaps?
(I’m just replying to one of my older comments, it probably doesn’t have anything to do with what you said)
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Morning everyone.
Mum is happy with her tablet. That makes me happy.
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Woo! Now you can save for a Wii-U! =P
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And/or a Vita!
Choose wisely 🙂
And now I’m going to make you poor >:)
– Vita is $213 with either LittleBigPlanet or PS All Stars from Amazon Italy
– Wii U is $308 or $388 with a silicon glove from Big Wthy wallet weeps
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But Mum wants expensive stuff for Christmas.
/o\ I can’t afford everything!-
Just observations of what I found were the cheapest prices for both :). You don’t have to buy either!
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But I want them.
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So uh, re-post cause it’s
THE AUTUMN STEAM SALE
I’m poor, though. So. Yeah.
New Page reminder! Walking Dead 50% today on Steam! $12.50! Go, go, go!
I can’t stop thinking about Episode 5. So well done.
(Also, if Primal Carnage becomes a Daily/Flash Deal, I expect everyone to buy it so I have people to play with. Dinosaurs vs Soldiers FPS!)
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NO EXCUSES FOR NOT PLAYING THE WALKING DEAD!
Page 12 reposty:
Everyone buy Intrusion 2! Sweet game with awesome animations and some of the best boss fights EVER in a side scrolling shootery thing. I think it was made by ONE guy too!-
What if I am mortally fearful of zombies?
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NO EXCUSES
It’ll help overcome your fear! (I hope)
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Is that for the full game or $12 per episode?
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Yep, for the season pass/full game.
They don’t sell individual episodes.
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Sweet.
I find it slightly odd they don’t sell individual episodes. I thought that was part of the point of episodic gaming, that they could charge per episode and use the money they make to help make additional episodes.
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Unlike Sam and Max (only other episodic Telltale game I’ve played) these ones are greatly influenced by choices made in other episodes and they don’t really work separately.
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Childish Gambino tickets go on sale at 9am
And the bank can’t change my payment to fortnightly this monthy, but after this month I can
Goodbye monthly car repayments and hello fortnightly ones
Infinitely more manageable
Hitman Absoultion awaiting shipment to me
And…what else??
Nothing I guess
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Hi you!
I won’t leave you hanging anymore 🙂
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Hahaha cheers champion
Ugh….Subtract 195 for 3 tickets for Childish Gambino
Then subtract 140 for car insurance and 680 for car repayment
Then….money for Insane Edition of Far Cry 3
Welp, no money left…and I got paid yesterday
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140 a ftn for car insurance, You’re either driving a porche or are a fucking terrible driver :-p
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Thanks Darth
Actually, I am under 25, its Comprehensive and my car is brand new
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Saw you open up about stuff in the Spec Ops article yesterday, man. You’re awesome! Hope life’s not too tough for you and all that. 🙂-
Cheers champion, you are the awesome one
I am pretty open in general, not ashamed of my mental illnesses *That’s right, I have 2, all the cool kids have more than 1!*
It can be pretty tough…like…I don’t know, hard to explain
Just a general feeling of unease permeates my life 🙂
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You called me a champion… I thought we had something special 3
But sounds like you and D.C. will get along just fine 😛 (I hope this isn’t too mean, you know I’m just playing)
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I know you are man, it’s more a lack of a response that fucks with my mind lol
I have something special with the whole of TAY
Also, I call everyone champion
Even the guy who hands me the Mx at the train station of an arvo
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No need to explain, man. I get it. Believe me… 🙂-
Believed 🙂
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CHILDISH GAMBINO GONNA DROP IT LIKE DA NASDAQ
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AWW YEAH!!
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SKYFALL!!!
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I’m seeing that tomorrow night!
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Go away Chicken Little.
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This isn’t flying, this is falling with style!
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Goddammit! I cant go til next week :'(
Walking Dead is $12, but I have so many games I’m trying to play simultaneously already…
Who here doesn’t own The Walking Dead and plans to get it? I can’t be the only one…
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@dc @shane
Some sort of lame “I’m waiting for the boxed edition” excuse. Pffffffft
@novacascade
Who has money issues which is a more valid reason.
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My computer won’t deal and my console’s internet is patchy and Australian-accounted. I have no choice! /o\
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Ok that’s fair.
…@dc on the other hand! >:(
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Yeah, he’s a bastard for sure. I have to look the guy in the mirror every day, not fun.
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Is it because he’s so attractive that he has to hide himself from the outside world?
(I assume you’re attractive based off of Strange and Mrs. Freeze’s opinions :P)
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Haha! That was before they met me in person. 😛
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Do you want my old computer? It’s nothing special, but it works. It’s pretty much gathering dust at the moment.
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Really really appreciate the offer, but no thanks. We are actually in the process of culling all our own dust-collecting stuff, just to have room in our house to walk around!
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Should we band together to gift it to @novacascade on Steam while it’s cheap? I vote yes, and will pledge $5.
Well, shit.
I just realised I can pick up my copy of AC3 this afternoon.
So many games already I’d forgotten about my statue…
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STATUE!!!
Does it have a release date for the 360 yet?
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Yeah, dude, it’s only two weeks away (but in the US). I currently am trying to find the best way to get it to our shores. http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/11/talk-amongst-yourselves-199/comment-page-12/#comment-885208
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Sweet. Will it be an issue to buy it on disc with the stoooopid region locking on xbox
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I’m in the process of finding out! http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/11/talk-amongst-yourselves-199/comment-page-12/#comment-885229 🙂
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$12? I will buy as soon as I get home tonight!
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Don’t forget Xenoblade!
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I haven’t!
I haven’t noticed it in any stores though =/ No chance of getting some crazy discounts on Wii by the looks of things =/-
I think Ozgameshop is your best bet at $48.
It was $45 at release and has been hovering around the $48 range for ages. It briefly went up to $58 a few weeks ago but came back down recently… not sure why :/
Wii games that aren’t popular/first party are extremely hard to find and are even harder to find cheap. I think Xenoblade still hovers around $100 locally if you can find a copy. I’ve never even seen Xenoblade, The Last Story or Pandora’s Tower locally, mainly because I hardly go out but others haven’t seen them either 😛
Importing will be your best friend :). Stuff like Zelda, Mario and whatnot will be easy to find but you’re probably better off importing those as well for a cheaper price. Only downside is no Australia Club Nintendo points but it’s not like there’s anything worthwhile anyway :P!
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Done and done!
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Done as in you bought Xenoblade!? 😀
What’s the other done for?
*fist bump*
Azza you’re alright in my books.
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with all this talk of the Mars Rover finding….. something, I cant help but hope its something along the lines of Prothean ruins giving directions to a Mass Relay in orbit around Pluto.
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If it’s not, I’m going to be severely disappointed. I want my eezo, damn it!
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I just like the idea that if Mass Relays are real, then that could mean Wrex is out there somewhere…
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“Curiosity.” *nods*
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Shepard.
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Wrex.
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And Garrus!
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Probably a Monolith surrounded by cave-martians.
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It was an alien dancing Gangham style.
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It’s more likely either proof of liquid water in the soil, or proof of microbial life.
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This, though I’m hoping it’s something huge, like a fossil.
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Eww logical response!
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This is the official “Where to get the Boxed Edition of The Walking Dead” thread.
Where’s the best place?
Ebay sellers are already offering it for 4x the ticketed price, so that’s a no-go.
Play-Asia have some versions on their site. $35ish plus (Edit: apparently free) post.
Zavvi has one for release in Feb for $60 :\
OzGameShop doesn’t have it at all.
HELP ME /o\
PS: I am prepared to place a multi-copy order and distribute to others to save on shipping if that becomes a thing.
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Wow Play-Asia seems really cheap.
Last time I checked it was US only and Gamestop had it for $60 (with the book) so expect to pay around that. I’m not sure why PA is so cheap though. Zavvi are most likely just having it as a placeholder unless it was announced for the UK and I wasn’t aware (they’re a UK site).
EDIT: oh, it looks like it’s just the game without the book. The book costs $40ish on its own so $35ish for the game seems about right. Keep in mind Xbox games can be region locked.
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The disc itself is $29.95 retail price, I think… The $60 Gamestop edition comes with the compendium I believe. Or am I wrong?
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Yep, first compendium.
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Shaney PA is being weird on mobile and not really loading but generally they’ll say whether it’s region locked or not. From the search results it appears the Xbox version IS region locked, meaning it won’t work on our consoles 🙁
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Play-Asia just has question marks under the PAL and NTSC-J boxes. They don’t know. But thanks for looking!
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Oh ok! Didn’t get to that stage (it crashed on mobile). On the search it said region free for the PS3 version and NTSC for the Xbox so I assumed it was locked.
Good luck though! Amazing game.
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I have asked a tres important question of Telltale here: http://www.telltalegames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=40459
Will update if/when answers are received.
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SHane i thought you also had a ps3, why not just get the game on ps3? region free and all that…
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I’m reserving the limited life span of my increasingly noisy PS3 for Dark Souls 😛
Also, I prefer the 360 controller. By a lot. The PS3 one hurts my hands if I hold it for more than about an hour. Also, and I’m a little ashamed to admit this, achievements.
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Pretty much everything he said. Except I play Dark Souls on 360 instead for those reasons as outlined.
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Hmmm, I was just going to order from the Telltale website, but it doesn’t seem available for pre-order yet.
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I was hoping you would bring better news than that to the table >:(
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D.C.’s a bastard.
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Do they normally offer up these things from their website in advance? I have never bought from them so I don’t know… is this unusual?
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To tell you the truth, I don’t know. I used to pre-order the season, then they shipped a free boxset at the end. Don’t think they do that any more, but I’m pretty sure they had it available to buy seperately atleast a couple of weeks in advance…
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Maybe they have a different publishing/distribution deal with Walking Dead… maybe?
Either way, those old deals sound pretty sweet.
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I think The Walking Dead just became too damn huge, they’d probably lose money if they had to ship free copies to every one. It’s understandable and it sounds like they’ve made their best game yet, so I’m happy to buy it seperately.
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Oh me too, definitely. I just meant that maybe they aren’t able to distribute through their site anymore due to this-game-specific arrangements with other parties?
I just want to be able to buy a copy! 😛
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Oh, now that makes sense! Haha!
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@dc If I wanted to get in on the ground-floor with Telltale, and assuming I want a console game in disc form, what would you recommend? I just realised I don’t think I’ve actually ever played one of their games.
Hmmm, the thing with Telltale is a lot of their earlier games are good but not great. I think pre-Walking Dead their best work was Sam & Max: Season Three and Tales of Monkey Island. I remember they used to be known for their rough console ports too, so wouldn’t feel comfortable recommending any thing sight unseen. The Puzzle Agent games are (mostly) a whole lot of fun, but I don’t think you can get them on disc either. Not a very helpful post, unfortunately… I’m not even sure which ones are available on disc for consoles to be honest…
I say just go with The Walking Dead. 🙂
Good, I’m doing things in the right order. Thanks! 🙂
I’m keen to grab it on PS3, but as DC said I thought you could just order from TellTale?
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Link or it didn’t happen.
DC says no(t yet) 🙁
Play-Asia are trust worthy. I suggest go with them.
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I have no problem with that – I just need to know it’s region-friendly first. See above re: open question with Telltale 🙂
MUST.RESIST.STEAM.AUTUMN.SALE
*wallet flies off and explodes*
God dammit
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This summarises my feeling with it at the moment:
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My heart is jumping of joy yet my credit card is trying to stab me
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so rumour about a rumour that mirrors edge 2 is in production. http://www.technobuffalo.com/gaming/platform-gaming/mirrors-edge-2-production-is-general-knowledge-in-stockholm/
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I hope they do make a sequel. Mirror’s Edge was a great game, though the campaign felt a little short.
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I thought it was a decent length. Not too padded, and not too repetitive.
Tentative yay.
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I expected more excitement!
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Did you click the link? 😛
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I expected MORE excitement.
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It’s a rumour. I’ll be more excited once DICE makes an announcement.
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Well, it is just a rumour at this stage. I expect that once the official announcement is made, then we’ll see the overexcited streaking.
Edit: what he said, but with streaking.
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Fair call to both.
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@dire_wolf @lambomann007 @freezespreston @other SWTOR taybies:
How serious are you guys feeling about playing the game? Because I will join you HOWEVER the problem I have is I’ve got 2 characters on the AU PvP server already, a level 50 and a level 29, and they’re both Republic side. So to play with you I’d have to delete my 29 and re-roll her as a Sith and it makes me sad to think about doing that. Though I guess I’d abandoned her anyway so it’s not that much of a problem.
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At the moment I’m intending to get the Bounty Hunter I’m playing to 50 because I’m enjoying the story. Not sure how much I’d play after that though. You could always just purchase an extra character slot. I’m not sure how many cartel coins they cost though.
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I don’t think they’ve actually opened that yet.
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Haven’t they? I haven’t really payed much attention to the cartel market. It wouldn’t surprise me if they launched it with only half the features they promised it would have, just like they did with legacy.
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There didn’t seem to be anywhere to buy extra slots.
Anyone know if you have more than 2 characters on a server i.e. you were a subscriber at one point, can you access all your characters even if you go free to play?
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I’m currently juggling a red-skinned Zeus-jerk, and a smug-looking smug-talking smug-gler. They’re both low level, though.
If there weren’t so many games that have just come out I’d be devoting all my time to SWTOR, but I have AC3 arriving today, and Blopsie stuff too. Having said that, I did play for like 3 hours with Lambo last night 😛EDIT: Oh, and 8 days till Wii U
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*giggles*
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This reminds me, if anyone wants to add me, my Bounty Hunter’s name is Thasmie. She’s level 15.
I’ve also got a couple 50s that are listed in the taynames doc if you want to add them but I don’t really go on them anymore.
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I played around with it a bit last night (Level 2 Jedi Knight) and it seems like something I could get into. Haven’t actually seen another player yet so I don’t think I’ve really had a representative play experience yet.
Also, the Jedi instructors keep calling me Young one and little Padawan. My guy has 20 years and 2 feet on almost all of them. He is so turning Dark side and slaughtering them all if given even a hint of an opportunity.
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You’re a horrible, horrible person.
I think my Inquisitor would like you.
EDIT: Also, regarding the lack of seeing other players, half the time it’s like that, especially in the lower level areas. Other times you suddenly have like 15 people + companions near you.
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Can you hear it, fellas? It’s the sound of thy wallet, cryin’!!!!
For it is that time again. STEAM SALE TIME.
The horror!
Already bought a couple of thingies and gifted a couple.
Btw, Capcom got us into this sale so you can grab pretty much most of our stuff on Steam 50% off:
http://nyu-media.com/forum/community-group1/news-forum1/nyu-media-autumn-sale-on-steam-thread157.0/#postid-1027
(๑◔‿◔๑)
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I’m looking at the front page… and honestly, nothing really seems worth purchasing… 🙁
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The Walking Dead, but I am sure everyone has it now. Also Farming Simulator is 25% off everyone get on it!
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VITA FRONDS!!!
PSN PLUS GAMES ARE NOW UP FOR DOWNLOADING!!!!
currently downloading:
Uncharted Golden Abyss (FREE)
Chronovolt (FREE)
Gravity Rush (FREE)
also free and for some bizarre reason you havent bought it cause its awesome’
Tales from Space: Mutant blobs attack
Hopefully we’ll start getting more games cause at this rate, we’ll have the entire Vita library for free in about 12 months 🙂
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Zettyyyyy
Can I download them through my PS3? I don’t have a Vita yet but I’d love to be able to “pre-purchase” these like any other PS+ content. Apparently you can do it but I heard that during the PS outage you needed to register a PSP to claim the free PSP games so I’m not sure whether I actually need a Vita before I can claim these.
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not sure about that greeny, ive had my vita registered since day one so im not entirely sure?
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If you already have PSN+, do you automatically get Vita+? Or do you pay for both?
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Get both. It’s a part of PS+ so you don’t need to pay extra if you’re already subscribed to it.
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So they basically doubled the amount of free games you can get each week for the same subscription? Wow that’s really good.
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More like each month but yes something like that 🙂
It’s usually 2-3 games for PS3 and it seems like it’ll be 1-2 for Vita.
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I downloaded them last night. For me it was Uncharted, Gravity Rush, Mutant Blobs and Jet Set Radio.
Which is to say it’s not much b/c the Blobs game is shitty and JSR has so much stuff in it that’s unfun that they fixed in JSRF.
Also something weird happened. I downloaded Gravity Rush and Uncharted and I own physical copies of both of these, so I have the cartridge versions ‘installed’. Gravity Rush detected this and ported over my saves and everything, basically replacing the Cartridge version with the Download one seamlessly. Meanwhile I now have two Uncharteds installed, one cart and one download, and the save games don’t transfer between the two. So odd. (Yes, same region games – US retail, US PSN)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUo1PgKksgw Sorry for spamming but I’ve had this bloody thing looping in my head all day long.
Am I the only person who has no Steam account?
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I’m sure there are some poverty stricken children in third world nations that don’t have Steam accounts but otherwise, yes. You are the only person.
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Me! I don’t have one. High-five for left behind bros o/
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I’m gifting both of you a copy of Secret of the Magic Crystal.
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I just looked this up on Google, and now want it badly.
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we might have to establish some kind of supprt group.
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I only opened one up in 2010 when Valve was giving Portal away for free. Seems they had a cunning plan, because now I’ve got a whole lot of stuff. 😀
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Hahah That’s exactly when I opened my account as well.
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Oh, man. I bet they got lots of people on that band wagon!
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Me too!
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how is this possible??? YOU MUST JOIN THE STEAM TRAIN!!!!! (see what i did there???)
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To be honest, my technological shortcomings aside, I don’t like ‘buying’ digital media when it can be avoided. I like owning a physical product that I can lend out, display and onsell to my heart’s content.
Purchasing a non-transferrable licence to access a digital item (book, song or game) feels like a big step backwards in the asset accumulation game that is life. If (and I’m not saying this would happen) the content provider went belly-up and/or elected to change their terms of service (such as implementing system-specific requirements ala iTunes), you’d have to suck it up. Whereas if I’ve already bought a physical product, I can use it however and wherever and whenever I want without having to worry about this.
I pay a bit more for the privilege, but if I’m careful, it’s ultimately a better investment IMHO.
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I agree with that reasoning too. I always prefer physical copies of something. Though these days it’s getting harder and harder to buy games that work on their own, especially for PC. Deus Ex, Dishonored, Hitman… all need Steam to run. :'(
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PC master race? Pfft 😛
Consoles for the winEdit: Is that you over on the Telltale forums?
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Maybe… 😛
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JMC?! Are you not DPC?!
Lies.
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Stalkius. Actually I set up that account for my sister, I just use it to buy games for me too.
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Jupiter Mining Corps? Red Dwarf?
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You do know a lot of retail releases are also Steamworks now Shane =P
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I don’t even understand the sentence, so I can’t comment on what I know 😛
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You said you don’t like buying digital, so you buy the PC retail releases that are Steam games. Problem solved, considering that a good portion of games now that are retail need Steam 😛
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TL;DR: I don’t tend to buy PC anyway.
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Yeah fair enough, i’m just being me =P
I agree with you but at the same time I have spent thousands of dollars on Steam.
Because it’s so bloody convenient. 🙁
I know someone who doesn’t have an account. He tried to download a game using his brothers account, the game didn’t download properly and now he’s convinced that Steam is the worst service ever and refuses to ever use it again.
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A lot of people go in expecting the worst, misunderstand everything, then blame the wrong people. Oh wait, that’s my job… 😛
Heads up, Xbox-TV Box thingie http://www.allgamesbeta.com/2012/11/the-verge-microsoft-xbox-tv-set-top.html first signsof new Xbox logo =D
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Kinda fugly logo if it’s real 😛
Green is a bit too bright for my liking and the square just seems… wrong? I dunno… 😛
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They made the Windows logo, then changed the colour and pane sizes.
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You’ve had green squares before it was hip and cool, green frond. 🙂
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Are you sure that’s the new logo? It wasn’t in the original Verge article that site was quoting from. Not sure how much I’d trust that.
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Don’t know… I just get unrealistically excited over scraps of info on next-gen consoles 😛
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That logo is way outside the style that Microsoft has been using for everything they’ve been making recently. Check out the logo for the Surface.
Then again, it’s not implausible.
Please note this is a genuine question, not shit stirring.
With Nintendo using cheaper parts and the case of the Wii U being pretty small, there doesn’t look to be much in the way for heat ventilation in the thing. Why does that bode for the reliability of it? HD consoles haven’t exactly got a great track record in that regard. The 360 and PS3 seem to have a lot more in the way of fans an vents from what I can tell with my inexpert eye and they tend to fall apart relatively easily.
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The new PS3’s look very similar in that they don’t have many fans etc.
Rize’s answer sounded smrt so let’s go with that.
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I just words’d to avert obfuscation.
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Better chips that take advantage of more modern techniques to do the same things as the originals in less space and with less power. This means they generate less heat and need less/no active cooling via fans.
Might mean that the device itself gets quite warm, though. Kinda like how laptops and smartphones get very warm when they’re running at full tilt.
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Because it’s running at something like 32 watts. The parts are like cutting-edge-a-decade-ago spec level, but we’ve had all those years of miniaturization, CPU die shrinks etc. And so there’s hardly any power needed to get the hardware working, which in turn means less heat. This is also why the heat issue is a ‘solved’ problem in recent 360s.
TAY, is Chivalry: Medieval Warfare any good?
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Apparently War of the Roses is similar and better. Haven’t played either though 😛
EDIT: Or maybe it was the other way around? I don’t know! They look exactly the same to me…
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A few TAYbies have/love War of the Roses (including me), but they’re very different games. Just happen to both be medieval combat.
I’ve heard plenty of positives about Chiv, though I haven’t bought it.
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Ryze tried to explain the difference to me but I didn’t really understand it. Apparently there is a whole COD v BF fanbase on the innernet. Majority of TAYbies play War of the Roses though.
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Sor Nobulus.
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One’s third person and one’s first person. One’s a bit more slow paced in terms or damage dealt and survivability while the others a lot faster and people die quickly. At least, that’s how I understand it.
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I got gifted Chivalry but haven’t tried it yet. Seems like it’d be better if there’s others here playing it as well.
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I played the original mod for chiv and really enjoyed it, if it hits flash sales I’ll be picking it up.
The main difference between them seems to be war of the roses is more ‘arcady’ with damage numbers, reviving dead team mates and respawn on commander rather than a single point.
Chiv also has objective based missions like return to castle wolfenstein rather than just deathmatch.Techie posted a really good link about the difference between them http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73Q7FETIxZw
GAMES TALKS
POKÉTALK: I’ve gone a bit off it ever since I beat the upgraded Elite Four. I’ll probably put it aside for now and come back to it later. If you haven’t listened to the Kanto Reorchesrated album yet though, you should. It’s pretty amazing and all of the tracks are on Youtube (I would link but can’t 😛 Search Youtube for the user ‘Skotein’ and they’ll have a playlist). So much nostalgia! (I also keep watching a youtube video of the B2W2 end credits. Best of the series, I love it! Don’t google it though. Best kept for when you finish the game yourself!)
FALLBLOX TALK: I think the sequel to PullBlox was released and I completely forgot about it! Looks so much more challenging than PullBlox did! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pq6m51Gc-c That’s only a tutorial puzzle, but I can imagine how difficult those puzzles will get when they’re scaled up a bit more. So good!
WALKING DEAD TALK: I keep replaying scenes over in my head!
BIOSHOCK TALK: I’m downloading Bioshock 2 on Steam right now. Been meaning to play it for ages but never got around to it (gotta get it done before Infinite!). It’s 6GB though so I might not even get to play it today D:
STEAM SALE TALK: What I’m hoping gets really cheap: Primal Carnage (Dinosaurs!) and War of the Roses (Swords!). I didn’t do too much impulse spending in the last sale, so I should be alright this time too! …I hope.
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‘sup Pow!
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Not much. Though I’ve re-realised that days off are only really special when you have days not-off 😛
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I refuse to spend.
I have an Iron Will, and a Quivering Wallet.Stand strong, brother Pow. Together, we shall persevere.
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My wallet moths are great motivators to not-spend.
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Enjoy the mountains of regret and mi goreng after you cave, lads.
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HALP!
Walking Dead is sitting in my cart.
Waiting.
Watching.
Biding its time.The darkness, it’s consuming my steeled will. Eroding that which stands between me and some twisted mutation on absolution.
I… I can’t hold out much longer.…*click*
THANK YOU FOR YOUR PURCHASE!
A receipt will be emailed to you shortly.*sobs*
I feel so dirty :'(-
Eighteen minutes of iron will. Not counting the time to type the regret post.
Nice work, man 😛
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It’s impossible to regret buying The Walking Dead.
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That’s it.
That’s all I’m buying.Hell, I’m not even gonna be here to utilize my computer. Logic, Aleph. No purchases.
I closed the tab, that’s a start, right? 😀
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Put some credit into your Steam Wallet and that’s your budget for the rest of the sale.
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I did that last time but ended up topping it up halfway through anyway haha
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Steam Sale Talk : Primal Carnage! If it goes on sale, everyone should buy it.
Bioshock Talk : I should really get around to playing Bioshock2. Liked the first one well enough, but I didn’t get the hype that a lot of people seemed to have for it.
Walking Dead Talk : Its been sitting on my PC for months & I intended to play it, then I saw the show. & I really didnt like it. I’ll eventually give the game a go, I just hope the characters arent so goddamn stupid & annoying.
Poketalk : Man that Pokemon Red & Blue was good. Thats the extent of my pokemon knowledge.
Fallbox Talk : I dont even know what this is.
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How much of the show did you see? I gave up mid-way through season 2 but the game has a whole new cast (except for some very brief appearances of two show characters) and the game is SO MUCH BETTER.
Different plot too!
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The furthest I’ve gotten is episode 4 in the first series.
the first time I tried watching it, I got to ep3 & gave up.New characters & story does make the game more appealing though.
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The gameplay is pretty average but it’s worth it for the story alone.
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Walking Dead:
Characters can be a little stupid and annoying. Not sure if they necessarily exhibit these qualities in the same manner as the TV show.
The game is good. It’s not perfect by any stretch of the imagination. The game play is average – Episodes 1,2 and 3 all had pixel hunt and/or fetch-return quests that required you to double back a number of times. Episodes 1 and 3, in particular, had bad conveyance. The writing is also average; sometimes it shines, sometimes it’s predictable. The Voice Acting is always incredible – definitely the game’s greatest feature.
You’ll probably find some of the characters stupid/annoying/frustrating, but you’ll probably find that everyone else did too. I haven’t watched the show, so I can’t comment on how to compare the two.
Despite its shortcomings, it’s the best game of 2012.
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See I read that and it sounds terrible.
But then you say GOTY.
HOW??? WHY????
All I hear is the problems. What’s the good stuff.
I bought it on steam anyway but would still like to know why everyone likes it so much.
I actually like the TV show, yes the characters are stupid but if they sat in a bunker with supplies and guns for 2 years it would be a very boring show. I believe the TV show is fairly true to the original comics… how does the game compare?-
I’m not familiar with either TV show or comics but, from everything I’ve read, I’m of the understanding that the tv show is not true to the comics (season 3 might be addressing that), whereas the game is true to the comics (although it follows different characters).
Not Spoilers, but I am going to try and explain the game and why I think it’s GOTY. I discuss game mechanisms, but avoid reference to any content explicitly. Spoiler tags are just so that people still get to choose to read. Also, it’s a Wall o’ Text.
Well, I find that praise converts to hype much easier/faster than criticism converts to… anti-hype . I don’t want to set up unrealistic expectations which can never possibly be met, since that will detract from your experience of the game.When I say the voice acting is always incredible, I mean the voice acting was consistently amazing. Consistent between episodes, consistent between characters. Every character felt “alive”. I’ve probably already oversold this a little, but it’s certainly the game’s greatest feature.
The writing isn’t horrible. Occasionally characters will act/say something that’s stupid or out of character. I feel this is a constraint of the video game format – it’s usually the result of exposition (which will feel forced) or could be the result of making poor/conflicting choices previously. There were a few plot points that seemed obviously telegraphed, but where presented as “shocking twists”. Conversely, there were a few times that the obvious point was subverted to deliver an actual surprise.Almost every interaction in the first two episodes felt like a pixel hunt – even transitioning between rooms – so when there were one or two puzzles that were actually pixel hunts, that became frustrating. FWIW, I think that a pixel hunt is usually the result of a badly designed puzzle – the player has probably worked out what needs to be done well in advance, so the challenge comes from clicking the right part of the screen, rather than from gathering/using inventory. There were a few puzzles that weren’t pixel hunts that I worked out early on as well, however these would have “unnecessary” middle steps – basically forcing extra interactions. There were at least two occasions where I had to try and interact and object from inventory with the environment 3 times before I could progress – being fed two “false” responses before the success. There was at least one “puzzle” that relied on me “giving up” in order to progress me to the next step. Most of these occur within the first two episodes, where it felt as though I should be exploring, but was being “punished” for it. As the game progresses, and the story becomes more focused, the “physical” puzzles tend to give way to “conversation” puzzles or character interaction – and these are implemented much better.
The game is also very much greater than the sum of its parts. Each episode was its own experience; almost self-contained segments within a greater narrative – which I guess is a kind of metaphor for the extended Walking Dead universe now, with comic, tv show and game.
So the game is flawed, but still such a very good experience. Episodes 1 through 4 had offered some pretty gut wrenching decisions already (and you’re not given the luxury of thinking them over, they’re all on about a 30 second timer), but Episode 5 seemed to unleash a 90-minute rapid-fire salvo of conflict and resolution. I found the final sequence physically draining, as though it were designed to sap my energy and wring every last emotion out of me. It succeeded, and slumping back into my seat to watch the credits roll while I contemplated the consequences of my actions as all that emotion and energy flooded back into me was exhilarating.
The Walking Dead is Game of the Year because nothing else has made me feel that way. Mario Kart 7 might have been played for longer, Borderlands 2 might look better, Pokémon Black 2 might have the most improved game play, VVVVVV’s soundtrack might have given my ears an auralgasm… but The Walking Dead actually left me satisfied at the end.
EDIT: Also, I was skeptical of it at first as well. I’d been burned before with BTTF, which everyone said was so amazing that if you played it your computer would become solid gold and capable of running any game ever and you’d also get your own actual Delorean and Doc Brown would be a real person. I only picked TWD up during the Halloween sale since it had kept up consistently high reviews for the first 4 episodes.
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Primal Carnage is on sale.
It’s available for $9.
Poketalk: I’ve still only just finished to 4th gym in White 2.
BioShock talk: It gets some hate, but I really enjoyed BioShock 2.
Steam Sale Talk: I’ll grab The Walking Dead when I get home. Also KoTOR 2 and maybe The Witcher 2 and War of the Roses. I will then proceed to not play any of them.
There, you now have Primal Carnage. Enjoy! 🙂
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Wow, that’s very kind of you Crazyguy! You really didn’t have to… Thanks a lot! 🙂
Steam Sale talk: I purchased the Walking Dead. Though I came close to not doing it because I have purchased every other Telltale game (literally every other Telltale game) from them directly because they’ll sell you a physical copy once the season is done, at very low cost.
But I caved because $13.
Anyway, I already own basically every major release on PC from this year, and Steam cleaned me out during the last sale fairly well, so I doubt there will be much on offer this time that I’ll bite on.
Awwwww, crap!
I didn’t think Far Cry 3 was out so soon! Guess I’ll be putting it on the pile of potentially brilliant unbought games, like Dishonored and Walking Dead.
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Yeah, I was a bit surprised to see reviews out already when it’s not out for another week.
Still, its getting some good press, so that makes me excite.
Am I the only one who’d like Telltale to do a videogame adaptation of Pulp Fiction?
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Maybe. I think they work well with big established universes that can handle original stories running in parallel to the ‘main, canon’ story we all know. Not sure Pulp Fiction is diverse enough to sustain that. I have no doubt that they’d give it a pretty good shot though.
I’d like to see them tackle a sci-fi universe next. Maybe Dune or perhaps Star Wars, or better yet, maybe this one.
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I was about to agree with Dune, then I saw the last suggestion.
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The should make a game based on one of Joss Whedon’s shows. A Buffy, Firefly or Dollhouse game would be awesome.
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I think Buffy has already been done (enough) in games, and I would probably avoid a Dollhouse one because I disliked the show so much.
But a Firefly game has so much potential. There were grass-level talks of MMOs a few years back, that predictably went nowhere. Still, this is a game that would have an audience.
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But an episodic Dollhouse game could be really fun. Each episode could have you playing a doll on a different assignment. One episode you could be a PI trying to find a missing girl, the next episode you’re on a date with some rich pervert. Fun \o/
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It’s a little fraught because if you’re playing as the dolls, you’re kind of blessed/cursed with information that the characters don’t have access to (i.e. that they’re dolls, first and foremost), and this would make it difficult to sustain a main-storyline progression.
I think a story that follows a cop trying to bring down the Dollhouse would be a more likely angle (like the guy in the first season of the show, but not him, or his dumb decisions 😛 ).
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Firefly has a lot of chance to work too, since so much of the show – and thus the game – takes place on the ship.
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I figured they would take the universe and create some new characters in it, like they have for Jurassic Park and (I think) Walking Dead.
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I want to see them do Blade Runner. Remember the old Blade Runner adventure game from Westwood? Yeah.
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That game riled me up for the same reason as Syberia. More hot spots, more of the time. Otherwise freakin’ amazing atmosphere. 😛
After something in TWD I kinda want them to make a Batman: Detective game.
Very strong rumour that they’re doing something Gabriel Knight related with Jane Jensen soon. Expect plenty of fanboy ramblings if that eventuates!
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Oh whoa, for reals? I hadnt heard this one, but then again I’ve been very forumless recently. Dunno… mixed feelings though… Walking Dead is the only thing they’ve done well. Gabriel Knight doesnt really fit their casual gameplay approach in my opinion, sooo yeah…
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Yeah, before Walking Dead I would’ve thought it was a terrible idea. Just hit up the Mystery Game X thread on Adventure Gamers for the details. Still mostly rumour, though. All we know is she’s working on an episodic game with a developer in San Fran, first episode will be released early next year after they finish their current project (Walking Dead just finished…) and that fans of her previous games will be very happy. She wrote King’s Quest 6, though, so for all we know she could just be a writer for the King’s Quest series.
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Ergh, I dunno… I think they do Walking Dead well because of the moral choices thing. If they dont have that, theyre still a weak developer in my opinion, and wont be a good fit for either franchise :/
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I agree, but am trying to stay optimistic. Either way, atleast we’ll have her Kickstarter game Moebius as well!
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God I hope so. Please never ever make a Pulp Fiction game.
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I can’t upvote this enough.
Morning Tay, this is an official shameless self-promotion post….still videogames related so please don’t hate me 🙂
BUT, I just submitted a new gaming-inspired design to Designbyhumans.com (basically simillar to threadless, if you hadn’t heard of it before). It’s based on one of the Pacman ghosts, and I’m pretty happy with how it turned out. It’s the first design I’ve posted on that site in almost 2 years so I’m hoping you guys might check it out and give it some support if you like it and would consider wearing it.
You can check it here – http://www.designbyhumans.com/vote/detail/217329
Thanks! 😀
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That’s…freakin’ brilliant, man!
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Thanks yo! 😀
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Although the last thing I need is another t-shirt site to be following
This one was less subtle but still cool http://www.designbyhumans.com/shop/men/poked-to-death-t-shirt/10247/-
Thanks man! and yeah I’ve seen that one doing the rounds. It’s funny that DBH never used to feature many geek culture themed shirts, but i guess over the past year they’ve changed their target audience a bit. Oh well, works for me!
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It’s so quiet on TAY today, and looks even more so to me cause I’ve finished all the jobs I had today 40 minutes ago. Wish I was sitting in an area where slacking off wasn’t easy to notice 😛
Okay… Just have to get through the next five days without buying or gifting any games on Steam…
HHHHNnnnnnggggg……
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Just buy five games for $10 on GOG. All will be right with the world. 😛
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Seems like you couldn’t last 🙂
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I never could last longer than a few minutes….
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That’s what he said?
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Anyone know the cheapest place to pick up Super Smash Brothers Playstation something something battle royal thingie?
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I was going to make a troll joke “Yeah, it’s called Super Smash Bros Brawl!” but then I realised that SSBB is probably still more expensive than a new game would be 😛
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$69 at JB.
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Tee hee.
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Hmmm, do I want to spend $69 on a SSB game without Link. Decisions, decisions …
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http://www.jbhifionline.com.au/game/ps3/playstation-all-stars-battle-royale/666419
… Just look at that cover… how could you not drop $69 on it?
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I watched some reviews this morning. Looks like fun!
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Do you have a Vita? Because if so, buy it on PSN – it’s cross-play so you’ll get it on both systems.
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I think that works for the disc based one too.
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yeah i believe buying the disc version gives you a code to download it for vita
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http://dicksmith.com.au/product/YG0847/ps3-all-stars-battle-royale
$59 + $4.95 shipping at Dick Smith online.
I like making you spend money.
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D: THERE IS A DICK SMITH NEAR WORK!
Y U MAKE ME BUY GAMES WITH WII U COMING OUT!?
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Because I like making you spend money!
Weird… this notification told me you replied to a comment of mine on Page 12 but it was actually page 13!
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Dick Smith didn’t have ANY new games. (MW3 was in the “Just Released” Section) so I guess I’ve been saved.
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I think it was an online only deal.
Buybuybuy
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Noooo! After shipping, I’d be better going to JB Hi-Fi!
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I thought it was $69 at JB? $65 with shipping sounds reasonable
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Super Playstation Brothers: All-Royale Battle Stars
and yeah JB is your best bet, going to my local EB and hopefully getting a price match.
@Shane Re: Sons of Anarchy, the following should not be a spoiler since I am 99% sure it was not mentioned in season 5 thus far (ep 11 was last night)
I know you’re waiting for Season 5 to end (only 2 eps now) but wanted to ask you a question relating to Jax & Clay’s relationship, I saw the official Australian facebook page post this today but have no recollection in previous seasons of it and you might remember.
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Apparently Clay is Jax’s real father and it was never John Teller, now this has not been mentioned in season 5 at all.. Do you know anything about this? Unless they just released a massive fucking spoiler for Ep12 if so then that’s total bullshit and I am really sorry for telling you this if it was.
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Edit: Don’t worry it’s not a spoiler at all, they cleared it up in the comments it is their own “theory” on the current season. Idiots.
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Also don’t worry about the middle spoiler I tried for a line break =P
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Yeah, that could well be a season 5 spoiler, man. Certainly hasn’t been mentioned prior to that.
I don’t really want to get into too much of a discussion about it (and definitely not going to chase down the source), but:
It’s definitely never been mentioned that Clay is the bio dad in seasons 1-4. I am absolutely 150,000% sure about that 😛Was it a discussion about who raised Jax (‘real’ dad in sense of time invested)? Because Clay arguably spent more time with Jax than JT did.
Won’t be clicking any more spoiler tags, sorry man. I want to stay as unspoiled as possible now.Edit: Struck this bit out because I’m no longer pissed off 😛-
Ah I found out they were bullshitting everyone, the way they worded it made it sound like they were bringing up past tense. Infact they were making shit up and thinking that’s what was going to happen. Either way they didn’t clarify this until about comment 20 on the status.
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It sounded like an incredibly BAD plot twist.
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Yeah, now people are throwing about the idea because Gemma & JT have brown hair and Clay was supposedly blonde back in the day.Also I hope Kurt gets the go ahead with a prequel TV movie for Sons once it’s over, telling the early years with JT when he was president.
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Holy crap, I read that the first time he mentioned it. A First Nine miniseries or full series or telemovie would be absolutely brilliant.
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It would be. I hope he gets the go ahead/still wants to do it after it ends, which apparently will be season 7 still.
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I think he probably will. It’s FX’s most successful show ever, even more than The Shield.
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Yeah, I heard that. Season 4 or 5 premiere had the highest ratings the channel has ever seen which is awesome.
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I am amazed how many people don’t get this show, yet still enjoy it. It really is a unique beast that appeals to such a huge range of people.
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I know right? Everyone I have turned on to it loves it. It has some sort of appeal to it.
Also I must say the violence in the show just seems to real for my liking at times, y’know?
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The violence prevented me from showing it to my wife the first time I watched it through, but even though that’s not really appealing to her, the rest of the show has her utterly utterly hooked.
It’s a really well-balanced beast that appeals to me on pretty much all levels. Deeply intellectual, allegorical, violent, visceral, passionate, and it even channels Shakespeare! I honestly don’t know how they did it, but this is one of the most amazing shows I’ve ever seen.
/gush
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Ah yeah don’t blame you there.
I’m not familiar with Shakespeare since it was something we never really touched in school, but yeah I am aware Kurt & his writers have included elements of his work in the story, which is really cool.
Yeah it’d be one of the best shows I have seen. It hasn’t let me down with any seasons yet, unlike a few other shows.
No worries man. It is kind of a ridiculous theory, and I’m glad it wasn’t a spoiler for two reasons:
1) I didn’t want to be spoiled; and (more importantly)
2) It’s a really genuinely bad idea that would indicate massive shark jumpage, and that would devastate me.
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Yeah, cause I was all “Uh hang on, I have never heard this mentioned before and it doesn’t make much sense” and I thought you’d know.
Speaking of spoilers what was the thing you spoiled for @strange?
Just curious.
EDIT: Don’t specifically say it but say which game if you can 🙂
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Dexter Season 6 =P I know which episode too if it helps xD
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Oh I’ve seen that, so what was it?
USE SPOILER TAGS :D!
Was it the ending? How did you spoil it? Just randomly said it online or in a real life convo? I think it’s easier to hide spoilers when saying stuff online because you can just delete it later or edit it out, but if you accidentally drop something in a convo… uh-oh!
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Nah wasn’t the ending, it was episode 10 where you find out Travis is having visions of his mentor Gellar and Travis is the one behind all the doomsday shit. I said “there’s a twist in the plot around episode 10” so yeah haha -
You’re a bad, bad man! 😛
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Am not! =D
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Anyone familiar with Error 678 in XP?
Workmate’s PC won’t connect to the web. Tried a variety of things: disabling firewalls, un/reinstalling the network adapter, and “netsh winsock reset” whatever that is.
Also tried a system restore.
No luck. Apparently it was working fine yesterday. I got it working briefly, but it dropped out after I left.
Gave up. Told him to call a pro.
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Well Microsoft suggest the following;
Typically, you may receive these error messages when one of the following conditions is true:
A network cable is disconnected.
The modem has been disabled.
The modem drivers are corrupted.
Spyware is running on the computer and is interfering with the connection.
Winsock has to be repaired.
Third-party firewall software is blocking the connection.-
Yeah, I’m pretty sure I’ve tried all of that (although the spyware might still be a possibility) I think I’ll let them figure it out themselves.
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Well if you want to eliminate the Malware possibility, try:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-AU/windows/what-is-windows-defender-offlineDefender Offline is basically MSE but all designed to run off a disk and scan your system at boot time so it can grab a lot of rootkits and boot sector stuff.
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Groovy. He has MSE installed. I might try sorting him out with defender.
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Get him to scan his pc with malwarebytes and see if there’s any nasties hiding in there.
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This.
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reset all tcp/ip settings
netsh int ip reset all
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Thanks homies. I’ll see how it goes
Anyone else getting an issue where if you reply to the first comment on a new page, it redirects you to the previous page after posting, and also any notifications you get for replies to that post also link to the wrong page?
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I haven’t really checked the notification thing but I did get the back to the previous page comment posting issue when replying to Zetty’s thread on the previous page and Nob’s thread on this one.
Feel free to let benwhite robhussey know (I use the batsignal too much so someone else do it :P)
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Reported the issue.
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Never been one to use the notifications (I think I’m too frequent here anyway?) but have received the first one on-and-off, starting yesterday.
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I was having that problem last night where I would reply to a comment on page 11 and then got sent to page 10.
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I’ve been having a notification issue, it would seem with those using mobile TAY with accounts, I don’t get any sort of notification at all when someone replies to me or mentions me. It’s weird :S
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Yeah permalinks/notifications don’t work on Mobile. I let Rob and the gang know a few days ago and they were looking into it.
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Yep, that happened when I replied to Nob’s post. Not that much of an inconvenience, but still. Haven’t noticed the notification problem.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/11/the-best-things-weve-found-in-the-wii-us-miiverse/
Adventures of @alexPants, Greenius and @Powalen U?
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That’s the first thing that popped into my mind when I realised you could send picture messages to friends. Just a shame you can’t send multiple panels at once like in Letterbox (though maybe Letterbox will get ported/support cross-platform! I can dream)
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Picture Barry White saying this:
AWWWW YEEAAAAAH.
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Don’t bother the snakes, leave all the snakes alone.
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Kettle chips for lunch!
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Nice, I had Aldi chips for breakfast/morning tea/now.
I think you win.
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…what sort?
the upvote depends on this information.Edit: previous sentence was grammaticality & structurally crap.
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Original, alas. :'(
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upvote given.
Edit : the only way to get a downvote from me when kettle chips are the subject, is when salt & vinegar are involved.
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What’s wrong with salt & vinegar? (Favourite flavour evah!)
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its not honey baked ham
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They changed the flavour a while ago and it was super salty, I wasn’t a fan of it which is a shame since it was my favourite flavour :'(
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they’re my favorite flavor as well. because ham is close to bacon.
haven’t had them in a while though, so I’ll be sadface if they’ve changed it for the worse…
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When you go Salt and Vinegar, you HAVE to buy Red Rock Deli!
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Why is this a bad thing?
Breakfast AND lunch!
True story: I went to my pantry looking for Kettle Chips so we could be bros but didn’t find any. So I ate a banana instead 😀
Who was the one that didn’t like bananas? DAN! ? Crazy man.
try the red rock deli salt and vinagear, they are the shizzz
LUNCHTAKU:
Decided on Red Rock Deli Dijon Mustard & Honey for pre-lunch with Mi Goreng (either satay, BBQ chicken or plain flavour) and egg for lunch.
😛
Nethergate: Resurrection.
It’s a game on Steam, and it’s only $2.50.
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Or Toki Tori which is a cute platformer and is only 50c
Re: The Walking Dead game, so how many hours have you guys sunk in to it? I believe it’s not exactly a long game, but also not a short game.
Also it needs to finish downloading damn it!
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I put 11 hours into it. As basic maths dictates, each chapter is about 2 hours long.
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12.8 hours .8 was probably spent playing the same section again because it was so depressing and I didn’t like the choices I made 🙁
It’s 2-3 hours per an episode so it’s DEFINITELY worth it for $12.50
EDIT: I see you already bought it! But some people still need to get it. And like any other game, gametime depends on what you’re doing. Taking it slow? Talking to everyone? Inspecting everything? I went through all dialogue trees I could and examined about 99% of the things. I didn’t necessarily ‘take it slow’ but I did try to do everything I could in an area before moving on.
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Cheatius!
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Bad scene happened:
– Immediately made a choice. Somewhat regretted it so I reloaded.
– Tried for a different outcome, didn’t happen. Made the opposite choice. Didn’t like it so I reloaded.
– Did the original choice again and I don’t know why but I reloaded again…
– Did the original choice again and ALL THE DEPRESSION-
It’s not really cheating if you make the same decision over and over. I think the term is OCD, or in this case, possible masochism.
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When you get to that scene you’ll hate it too 🙁
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Damn it Spoilius. I didn’t want to know I’d have to make decisions in a scene! FFS.
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Awesome, cheers guys. Bugger New Vegas, i’m playing this once it finishes downloading!
I am twitching with faltering resolve.
I … want … the … disc …
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Me too, man. Me too. :'(
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ditto
Damit cricket.
Quiney for a duck. Ponting for 4. I don’t think Ponting is going to make it to the ashes at this rate. He looked terrible 🙁
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He played all around that delivery. 🙁
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Let’s hope that Clarke and steady with Warner and actually put up something worth chasing-
The thing about the spinners, is that they always try to walk it in.
Edit: This might well be the cleverest pop culture reference I ever make… life is all downhill from here.
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Spoiler? The only thing that spoils cricket is that it’s cricket 😛
@effluvium-boy
in case you missed it above….
reset all tcp/ip settings
netsh int ip reset all
then use lspfix from
http://www.cexx.org/lspfix.htm
should be good to go. obviously you’ll need to download lspfix from a computer with a working connection first and transfer it through usb or something.
I would seriously consider sacrificing my testicles, bank account and all worldly possessions to see Jason Webley perform once more.
Listening to him again, wow.
I’ve seen some huge names in music, but this was special. Absolutely floored me.
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Seems like a high price of admission, man. 😛
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I paid $5 to see him in Canberra.
He organized his own Australian tour, yet his only outlay was flights from USA to AUS. All earnings from shows went on travel to the next show.He stayed the night at my friend’s place, we were up ’til daybreak and beyond, singing, laughing, drinking. He’s seriously one of the best performers I’ve ever come across.
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Project To Obtain A Walking Dead Disc update:
http://www.telltalegames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=40459
“Unfortunately, the retail version will be NTSC only.”
Have followed up for absolute confirmation, because NTSC only doesn’t mean region-locked.
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I thought NTSC/PAL doesn’t mean all that much these days? I think we’re on the same region as the UK for the 360 any way, so if it’s sold there it should work here. (I think?)
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Which is why I follow-up-ed – active region-locking is the only barrier to importing! 🙂
PS: If it’s being sold in the UK, it will work for us absolutely. Is there someone selling a UK PAL version?
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😀 Haha! Sorry for being stupid, man. Basically reiterated exactly what you said. :S
PC version!
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I’m still determined to get my 360 version, damn it. 😛
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Yeah you might want to add that you live in Australia (or outside the US) and ask whether it’s getting a PAL region release.
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I don’t want to confuse them at this stage 😛
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Could always buy it now and be playing in a couple of hours…
just sayin’ 😉
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Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
…eenius.
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Wii/3DS – Region locked
Xbox/PS3/Vita – Region free, however, many Xbox games ARE region locked and PS3 games can be region locked but there’s only one I know of (Persona Arena).
It does matter. A PAL (Australian/NZ/UK) Wii/3DS can only play PAL games. Most Xbox games are region locked so I can’t play a Japanese game on my PAL Xbox unless it’s one of the rare games that are region free. PS3 games are generally always region free and it can play any game from any region on any console (except for Persona Arena)
NTSC doesn’t necessarily mean it’s region locked and you need proper confirmation. I have an Australian (PAL) Xbox and I have and can play an NTSC (American) copy of Borderlands. While it’s NTSC it’s still region free. Only problem comes with DLC. DLC is generally ALWAYS region locked so I couldn’t get DLC for Borderlands on Xbox unless I bought it from the American store. In some cases it can be region locked by region so PAL is split up into Australia, NZ and Europe/UK. I think with Uncharted 2 if you had a UK copy of the game DLC obtained from the Australian PSN wouldn’t work. This is pretty rare though.
I dunno, just random blabber while I’m hungry :P, hope it helped and if it’s not really clear just let me know…
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This is (edit: almost) all true information. NTSC/PAL don’t necessarily indicate regional accessibility, but in some cases (like Nintendo consoles) they do.
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Yeah, I just use them for regional stuff since that’s what some platforms (ugh Nintendo…) use it for.
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Yeah, you’re wrong on the DLC thing. All reports (and Mashaaaa) say that PS3 DLC is indeed region locked, but I buy xbox DLC from the US store for AU/UK games almost exclusively. Borderlands is just one example where I did. There’s no problems with it (though they might change this tomorrow for all I know)
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Not sure about Xbox but I know DLC is region locked for PS3. When Zombie Island of Dr. Ned came out some people were complaining the DLC didn’t work for their version. Not sure where they bought it from though. Just depends on what it is and what region I guess! 🙂
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DLC depends on the game.
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For 360 or PS3? Because like I said, I buy nearly all my 360 DLC from the US store and have never had any problems. It would be good to know if I have to be careful in the future!
EDIT: Some research reveals that Call of Duty map packs are IP locked, but that if you get manage to download them via a VPN, they will still work. So basically if you get the DLC onto your console, you’re fine.
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To be absolutely clear, and from what I understand, NTSC and PAL are display conventions. They mattered back in the olden days when TVs were incapable of dealing with both formats. They are practically irrelevant now
…except that some bright sparks have decided to sometimes use them as boundaries for region-locking.
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Indeed. Practically but not completely. An Australian TV from the 80s (e.g. my grandmother’s) should be able to handle a modern Australian PS3, but would have issues if I plugged in an American Wii.
As for region locking. Urgh. Just one of these things where the money-men have convinced their companies that it’s a good idea and it’s going to be a long time before it ever disappears. It was looking good when the PS3 came out, but then Nintendo reintroduced locking when going from DS to 3DS… so I dunno.
It’s times exactly like you’re facing here when it hurts the most. I remember having to use the gamecube region free device to be able to play Animal Crossing. Worst of all, I won’t be able to play an Osu Tatakae Ouendan sequel if they ever make one on 3DS, even though it’s my favourite DS game 🙁 (though they’ll probably never actually make one)
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Urgh, exactly 🙁
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PS3 is the bestest when it comes to region stuff.
Region free and you can play content from any users on the console. Plus the whole sharing thing is allowed and you aren’t locked out of DLC or content from other regions since you can just make a new account for that region.
Why can’t everything be like that? 🙁
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Impulse bought Virtue’s Last Reward from the ezydvd sale – I’d seen a trailer before but didnt know much about it, including the fact that it seems to be a successor (spiritual?) to 999 (which I have but still havent played… oops), but then I read some raving reviews of it. Anyone picked it up? Did I do the right thing? Looks and sounds pretty interesting…
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@bish seems to be the only one that has it (came out in NA earlier)
I pre-ordered it at VideoEzy during their last sale and I hear it’s a direct sequel to 999 (which I haven’t finished… oops). You’ll like it if you liked other first persony Adventurey Games like Phoenix Wright and stuffs.
No idea about this one but 999 was dark. Real dark.
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Ooo! I never even turned 999 on :/
Maybe I will rectify this later today… right after Survivor/bit more Theatrhythm. Oh! Oh! I’ve been getting through the battles on Ultimate now, one by one. Still stuck on a few though. I think I have 4 to do now before I’ve SS’ed everything too! 😀
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Which ones you stuck on? I’m wondering whether people struggled on the same tracks as I did 🙂
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It’s a direct sequel to 999. I would play that before starting Last Reward because just from the trailer that I watched, it looks like it references it a fair bit. (EDIT: Not to mention returning characters, etc)
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Yes.
Watched a show last night, it stopped working at the end. I figured I’d go straight onto the next episode… people were acting weird, man. Weird. Went back this morning to watch end of previous episode… so much pivitol story development! :S Then I found $10?
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You watched ‘a show’? Why so vague? Was it porn? It was porn, wasn’t it? The funny walks they had in the next ‘episode’ was probably just the syphilus.
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It was Treme, damn it. I was going to go into story points later in the post so thought vague was good, then I didn’t. True story. 😛
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How ’bout that Sportsball?
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Goooo Illawarra Dinosaurs!
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Thing about Arsenal is, they always try to walk it in.
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You see that ludicrous display last night?!
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What was Wenger thinking sending Walcott on that early?
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That’s so sad for my team and me
C’MON BENJELS!!! /o\
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i heard he kicked a home-run with the pigskin, and then slam-dunked the superbowl
all the turkey cranberry sandwiches from thanksgiving morning tea have been eaten ;_;
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Sounds like good eating. You guys celebrate Thanksgiving?
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I personally do not, but some of my workmates who hail from ‘Murica do.
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– Acquire turkey and flamethrower.
– Use flamethrower on turkey.
– Acquire cranberries.
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you celebrate thanksgiving? what’s it like?
being italian, thanksgiving sounds like every sunday night when i visit my nonna, meaning i eat a crap ton of food.
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Speaking to my colleague from NY, she says it is her favourite holiday (>christmas) and because it’s cold all the family gathers together and there’s lots of food and general happiness and fuzziness. Sounds really nice actually!
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its okay, turkey is overrated, go and find some actual tasty food
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omg BISH how is thanksgiving in Canadia?
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if i’m correct, canadian thanksgiving was last month
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Underwhelming.
You know me, I like food and all, but I think it is one of those cases of the hype being more of a thing than the actual dinner.
Don’t get me wrong, chicken is nice, and so is a big chicken, but it’s not amazeballs.
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Figured I’d share this one on TAY since it’s like a mini-meat video, and everybody loves those! (they do, right? I know I do. You other states need to do more videos of meats! PHOTOS AREN’T ENOUGH!)
http://potaku.com/2012/11/22/making-a-baconweave-dream/
EDIT: I am Stalkius.
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I remember watching the live feed! Music history!
Also, meat videos seem like just the thing to make people not act like themselves. 😛
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But poking my head around doors and staring at people with wide eyes is how I normally act!
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Back in my uni days I wouldn’t speak if there was a camera on me. 😛
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Let the pig sizzle.
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Oh, did I miss the JVTD Behind the Scenes article/video?
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That one is, um, still in production…
It will, of course, include your wonderful singing talent, though, rest assured of that.
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Sure…
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So many beards.
Company director has been getting me to reissue a quote to a client with an ever-decreasing profit margin. Continually reducing the sale price without reducing the cost.
We’re going to make a gross profit of approx $5k if this order goes through (not net profit), if that.
We’ve been working on this crappy little order since February.
How does this guy make several times my salary?
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Corporate structure dictates that people are promoted according to their level of incompetence until they reach a point where they can no longer damage the output of the company 😛
… theoretically.
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Looks like we need to reduce our levels of competency.
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…theoreticlly.
It’s actually worse than that. Management gets promoted according to their competencies up to their level of incompetence. Where they are so obviously bad at their job they can no longer be promoted, and just stay there.
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Who was it that mentioned they got Jet Set Radio HD on their Vita PSN Plus subscription?
i cant seem to find it?
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i think it was only for the US PS+ members on vita 🙁
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Me, I have a US PSN account for my Vita and have Plus on it.
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you shifty bastard! 😀
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You’re not really missing out. JSR is a great amount of style and awesome ideas wrapped up in an awful game. Wish it was JSRF HD. 🙁
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but i loved JSR on DC (dreamcast). hi @dc !!!!!!!!!
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Always a pleasure, @zetrox2k!
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If the last time you played JSR was on the Dreamcast, bear in mind that was probably more than a decade ago. Game design has changed. Stylistically the game has aged very well, but gameplay-wise it hasn’t at all.
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Have all the big name games released for the year now? With Hitman, Farcry and Playstation Battle Etc out this week I can’t think of anything else coming out this year.
That period of big games dropping every week went a lot faster and quieter than it did last year. I don’t think there were any street date breaks, even. Feels so weird after last year, that.
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I can’t think of any 2012 AAA stuff that hasn’t arrived yet, at least. I think the next major release for a lot of TAY is going to be Ni no Kuni in January.
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Zavvi better NOT fuck up my order >:(
I’m scared they’ll pull a “soz box is too big to ship to Straya” on me 🙁
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I couldn’t take that risk. EB are getting a substantial amount of my monies. 🙁
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The $40 dollar difference was pretty significant for me to risk it.
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AC3 PC today.
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Interested in hearing your thoughts on it!
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I know it’s not a game, but WiiU is still due to drop here.
More drains on the wallet.
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Besides Xenoblade, what other Wii games were you thinking of getting?
Got a short list of a few titles?
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Last Story, Galaxy 1 + 2 and the Zeldas
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Good choices :). There’s a few lesser known titles that may be rare now but are worth looking into. Stuff like Zack and Wiki, Muramasa, A Boy and His Blob and Little King’s Story. There’s also some more mature games like MadWorld (you can find this for dirt cheap) and No More Heroes 1 & 2.
But in the end all you need is Xenoblade <3
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I’ll definitely keep my eye out for these, thanks for the recommendations
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There’s way more recommendations I could make but yeah… :P!
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Also Rhythm Heaven.
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Completely forgot about that. 😛 Oops!
I think the publishers and major distributors whipped out the ban hammer and basically told stores they wouldn’t be getting pre-launch stock if they broke street date.
Can’t think of anything major that is still to come out, besides some cross platform stuff
You’ve all listened to Shiggy & Pez’s “Baconweave Dreams” right?
Does any one want to see a video taken on the night it was recorded???
http://potaku.com/2012/11/22/making-a-baconweave-dream/
No one?
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I saw this five minutes ago : http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/11/talk-amongst-yourselves-199/comment-page-13/#comment-885780 😛
It was awesome though. Love the way you edit to music.
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I do everything to music 😉
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A good policy to have.
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Too slow!
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The start almost gave me a seizure…
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Bet you’re glad I removed the strobe section!
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I saw it, I liked it! Nice job editing the video by the way. I am jelly of your editing skills.
http://www.polygon.com/2012/11/21/3674798/the-death-and-rebirth-of-final-fantasy-14
I really hope this turns out successfully because Naoki Yoshida seems to be the only person at Square Enix that doesn’t have his head firmly lodged up his arse. I vote they get him to handle FFXV to handle next.
@Sughly
It’s up!
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Too much information.
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Or not enough?
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Those pills must be working, then.
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Sughly does have that effect.
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So much green ; D
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Needs more red.
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So many leechers. SO MANY!
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Oh? I wasn’t talking about Survivor…
But yes, Survivor is downloading very slowly 🙁
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i dont know whats happening! o_0
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I took some pills, @Sughly did some sexy things and now it’s up.
“It’s” being the new episode of Survivor. Me and Sughly are the only people who watch it in TAY since the rest of you SUCK :(.
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Hold me closer Tony Danza
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i’m not the only person who sings that?
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@chuloopa too for sure. There must be others too
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Baking carrot biscuits
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Jesus Freaks out in the street, handing tickets out for God.
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Blind = Mown.
Holy crap, nearly choked on my lunch watching this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nG9q5_uqI8
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
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I love how happy Jerry looks too
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Afternoon everyone 🙂
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‘sup!
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Nothing, just working, hurt my thumb
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Worker’s comp claim! NOW!
Then you’ll have money to Steam sale.…
Yep, that’s how it works.-
Neh, money is for grown up things this fortnight
Besides Hitman on it’s way and Far Cry 3 releasing soon! 😀
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Sucks being grown-up sometimes, doesn’t it?
I swear, in terms of disposable income, I was earning more per hour as a 15 yo burger flipper.
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Probably were man, probably were
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Anyway, how are you today?
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Apart from hurting my thumb I am pretty alright
My head hurts
and I am thirsty, but the thirst is a side effect of the Prozac
How about you??
@shane
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Overall, not too bad thanks. My foot (sore until a podiatrist appt yesterday) is okay, but my new walking style is making my entire leg hurt. I don’t think it’s a huge improvement to be honest 😛
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It’s making me reply to a higher up comment, lest we comment too far down
A new gait huh?
Ministry of Silly Walks 2012 edition?
@shane
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Good afternoon friend \o
Are you Steam-sailing today?
EDIT (because I can \o/): This was to @spaghett
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Shane are you going to buy it?
Are ya?
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Yes, when it comes out on disc.
I thought we covered this.
GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
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What if said disc is region locked, THEN WHAT?
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I don’t really know. Perhaps ritual suicide.
Or I buy the PS3 version.
Either one, really.
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no Steam-sailing here, no money 🙁
@benwhite, I can’t reply or edit my posts. Help me.
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Rule of two. Hugo is the master.
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Inefficient use of the bat signal, he’s probably off fighting Calendar Man, being Thanksgiving and all…
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We’ll see, @dc, we’ll see.
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IT WORKED. Thanks
Batman@benwhite-
Sweet! I did nothing except look at the servers sternly.
But I have actually heard a few reports of this now – what was the actual issue? Missing buttons? Or just no action on click?
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All the buttons were visible and clickable.
It seemed to open the ‘reply’ box as per normal, but didn’t have the ‘you are replying to’ information below, and ultimately generated a new post upon submit. Then, the edit button, when clicked, did nothing.
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Did you get @negativezero’s report?
A few of us have a slight issue when we reply to the first post on the page. After the comment post refresh, it takes us to the start of the previous page after the comment is posted rather than permalinking the comment we just made.
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http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2012/11/the-longest-word-in-english-takes-3-5-hours-to-pronounce/
Been ages since I’ve commented on a Giz article, but this one really intrigued me!
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_word_in_English
Boom.Really interesting stuff here! Time to memorise 189K letters in order :S
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Fuck that.
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My grade 5 teacher wasn’t the greatest, but he did teach me pneumonoultramicroscopicsiliconvolcaniosis, if nothing else.
I incorrectly assumed (and thus informed others upon inquiry) that this was the longest English word. I must endeavour to rectify this!
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That guy has real commitment to sit there for 3.5 hours saying one word. Though I doubt anyone was checking on him. I tried to follow along the printout underneath, but either got lost on the first syllable, or he wasn’t reading the same word I was 😛
But yeah, you’re right – the distinction between ‘word’ and ‘noun’ is not a clear one, especially because all nouns are by their very nature a subset of the category ‘word’, even if some of them are excluded from dictionaries.
You can’t help but wonder if a word this long has any practical utility at all. It’s the length of a novella by itself – no one is going to read it and use it as a guide for the contents of the chemical, and there would be shortcuts (two or three syllables at most) in place that refer to the same thing.
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I have 4 hours ’til I finish work. Maybe I’ll listen to a single word for the rest of the day 😀
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If you skip to the end he grows a beard.
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Apparently the flower dies 2hrs in 😛
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Is that dude Russian, perchance? It’s… very off-putting, trying to distinguish between particular syllables.
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Make sure you film it.
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This thing is seriously zen.
Like a nerdy Gregorian chant or something.
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So psyched about Tony Hawk HD getting more levels and revert!!! Can’t wait to get home to update!! EEEEEE!
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OH MAN SERIOUS?! AWESOME.
Edit: James Hetfield & Robert Trujilo of Metallica are gonna be playable characters in it after December 4th heh, cool. Shame you gotta pay for it :S
Just noticed how may people have purchased KOTOR2 on Steam /o\
WHY DIDN’T YOU ALL ALREADY OWN IT?
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And remember to install the restoration patch before you play!
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I own it. I own 2 copies on the Xbox! \o/
I’ll have to run another game giveaway soon, I think. I don’t really need both copies.
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I already owned it before it was cool (on sale)
/hipster
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I’ve never played KOTOR.
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And you’ve been no-excusing me all damn day.
*shakes head sadly*
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But unlike you and The Walking Dead, I don’t actually want to buy KOTOR 😛
(prepares for more downvotes)
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Some might say the choices/morality system in The Walking Dead is heavily influenced by KotOR! Not me, though. I haven’t played The Walking Dead. 😛
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Bu… wha…. huh??!!
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Thanks random gift fairy!
(something something manly)
…I can already feel my power growing.
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Oh man. No up votes.
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It’s okay, like @blaghman gains power from his hair, I gain them from downvotes.
(not really, my feelings have been hurt T___T)
(but not really)How good is The Walking Dead!
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It got me right in the feels. I’m happy with how I started out in episode 5, but I made some pretty rash decisions and my ending was pretty bleak 🙁
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Chapter 5 or Episode 5?
WALKING DEAD EPISODE 2-4 SPOILERS:
By the way that whole “people named Ben are the worst” thing was referring to Ben from the games. Gosh darn he’s stupid! I had about enough of him by Episode 4 and well… you know what happens…I guess I was happy with my choices throughout the whole game and there was only really one choice that I regretted. I actually reloaded a previous save to make another choice but ended up reloading again and sticking with my original choice in the end.
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Ep 5 – keep mixing that up!
Ep 5 ending spoilers:
I’ve persisted with Ben throughout – he’s just a scared kid.
I convinced everyone (Kenny, Ben, Omid and Christa) to come along with me at the end of ep 4, and I was hoping to save them all.
Didn’t work out so well.
Only Clem, Omid and Christa survived – I told them all to meet at the train, but the ending cut scene ended with a bit of an unknown.
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That’s the thing though, I gave him more than enough chances in previous episodes but when he takes the hatchet from the door that was seriously the last straw. He wanted me to let go and I did so he could at least be useful for once.
Many people here who saved him hoped for a “Ben redemption” scene of sorts but I was told of what actually happens. Kind of disappointing :(. -
LIVE WITH YOUR CHOICES BEN NO RESTARTING
EP 5 Spoilerzzz:
And Ben (in the game) may be scared, but it’s to the detriment of the group. Consistently. And the start of episode 4 cemented that, when he couldn’t help Clementine, and awesome hobo man did.
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Forget the movies, this is the only Star Wars you need to experience!
We’re talking about the vastly better written KotOR 2 here though.
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I mean I haven’t played any of them.
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KotOR was a fun Star Wars game. KotOR II is an awesomely written study on the nature of good and evil, and is a really dark game overall in comparison. It’s very much Empire to KotOR’s New Hope.
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I wasn’t really a fan of the wall of text companion conversations at the time.
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That reminds me, I’m REALLY close to finishing the first game (again). Gotta finish that sometime!
WHAT EVEN IS KOTOR?
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Trollius?
On the offchance that not, Knight of the Old Republic, a Star Wars RPG by Bioware: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars:_Knights_of_the_Old_Republic
Generally regarded as
one ofthe best Star Wars character-based games out there.-
The yelling was Trollius, but the question was genuine 😛
Hm… Star Wars, huh? Never was a huge fan…
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KotOR got me into Star Wars! 😀
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Now this is an interesting development…
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If it seals the deal, one of the characters actually says: “I did it all for the Wookies.”
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*whoosh*
But I appreciate the enthusiasm!
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You don’t know Limp Bizkit? I can’t stay mad at you then. 😛
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Didn’t the game only recently become available digitally? I know I was trying to find a copy after I finished KoTOR and before TOR launched but with no luck.
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Yeah, I think KOTOR2 came to Steam only a few months ago.
It’s cute that you assume we didn’t all already own it and just bought a second digital copy.
I own it on the Xbox and I think I might have it on PC but if I don’t I’ll probably buy it again to re-play with the restoration patch.
@Greenius
Still need to do the following on Ult SS: Fight with Seymour, Saber’s edge, Battle with the Four Friends (veeery close to it, but not quite. very frustrating), and Battle at the big bridge.
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Ah yes, same sort of tracks I found the hardest too. Have you done the battle theme from FFVII – umm… I think it’s called Let the Battles Begin? I struggled to SS that one for some reason…
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Ohhhh the encores… havent tried any of them yet XD
So dont get my hopes down telling me theyre hard :'(
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Well that one is hard the rest aren’t too bad!
How come you didn’t play them? Encore is awesome because they’re just like any other song with 3 difficulties. Chaos songs aren’t as great though 🙁
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Just cause I was trying to get through the main ones first, no particular reason I guess! Just my neurotic brain. Freakin battle with four friends though, ARGH!! I’m fine at it, right up until its the section with green-arrow-green-arrow over and over pattern. My brain just doesn’t seem to comprehend the idea of transitioning from ‘let go from green’ to ‘arrow note’, it just goes blank and I start tapping wildly :'(
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YES! That part screwed me up so bad. Took me AGES before I could finally work out the pattern.
Another annoying part is the one with lots of green and then down(?) strokes at the end. I can’t figure out the timing for the quicker/short ones and it made it hard when trying to go for SS.
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Yeah I seem to fluke that bit haha! It screwed me up for a while, but I kind of got to a point where I just trust my instincts rather than watching the notes :/
EDIT: Wish I could say the same for the freakin green-arrow-green-arrow bit though
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I can do them easily, just not all critical 🙁
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Did you get close to SSSing any ultimates? I noticed the ems from ffx would be pretty easy to try for in particular
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I could probably do some FMS but I’ve never really tried. Closest I got was playing a Chaos Difficulty song FOR THE FIRST TIME AND GETTING 1 GREAT…. UGHHHH! I don’t even recall getting it 🙁
Chaos Difficulty is somewhere between Expert and Ultimate so that was kind of annoying >:(
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Look at you two having little private conversations in a made-up language. So sweet.
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They’re bonding! :’)
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I think I made someone buy Xenoblade!
I really need to finish the Expert series…I’ve been too busy with Dark Notes 😛
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Hahaha! Sounds like me, for a long long time. It was the SS’s that lured me out of Dark Notes. that and the DN’s I got up to were way too effing hard. Spinning arrows everywhere :'(
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Spinning arrows UGHHHHHHH. Notes in level 99 ones move soo quickly it’s so hard to see what the spinning arrow will land on…
Basic and Expert felt like a slow grind for me just to reach the real action in Ultimate and I’ve barely gone back to them. I wish there was a difficulty above Ultimate that wasn’t just random in Dark Notes :D.
I tried doing some Dark Notes the other day and I got the same song like 4 times in a row and it seems like they just rotate between the same 4 or so songs every time… very, very annoying. Has this been happening for anyone else? I’m really sick of doing the same songs over and over…
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I dunno, I was kind of in a tranced zone doing dark notes, obsessed with getting shards and not really thinking about anything else. Couldve played the one song over and over and I wouldnt have noticed
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Lookie what I found from however long ago. That was like my first attempt after not playing for a few weeks, not bad methinks!
https://twitter.com/JoelGreenius/status/267943457253900288/photo/1
I hate doing Fight With Seymour. I always panic when it comes up in Dark Notes.
FIGHT WITH SEYMOUR ARJNKRHBRKL AFMNAFBFKABNFBASBFASB!!!#JWBAL
I
NEED
THIS
GAME
SOMEONE BUY ME THIS AND A 3DS NOW
For those wondering:
You CAN add the PS Vita PS+ content to your cart and purchase it without having to own a Vita. This is great news which means I can hoard up all the games and then play them whenever I get a Vita.
@masha2932
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HOARDING!! 🙂
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Hoard them on my download list, not actually downloading them : )
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@negativezero
I’ve got 3 characters on Dar’Nala (forgot I had a level 7 jedi knight). I can play as all of them fine. I’m thinking of getting a 1 or 2 month subscription, filling out all 8 slots so I have one of each kind of character, then going back to F2P again. And I’ll use the cartel coins from my subscription to buy some of the non-F2P features. Like the colour matching.
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Yeah this is what I’m thinking too. Subscribe for a month, fill out my slots, get my crappy currency from having purchased the real game at launch and use that to unlock the fucking UI (whoever thought it was a good idea to make players pay to unlock extra action bars was obviously an accountant) and maybe some gear.
My 29 smuggler was my first character and while I decided I hate the class I chose and will never get her past Alderaan, I feel like deleting her to re-roll Sith would make me sad,
Do we have a TAYGuild?
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If we don’t we should.
Whats a guild?
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guild/gild/
Noun:1. A medieval association of craftsmen or merchants, often having considerable power.
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No Homers Club?
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Craftsmen and merchants unite
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Subscribers get 12 slots.
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12?? :O Was only 8 per server when I was a subscriber last. At least, that’s what I think it was…
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It did use to be 8, but they changed it. Subscribers get 12 slots, but you can actually get more if you purchase them from the cartel market. I heard there’s been a bit of controversy because when they did server merges some people ended up with over 12 characters on a server, but BioWare’s not letting them have access to all their characters unless they buy more character slots.
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Was I too harsh on this guy? I’m really doubting myself now.
http://www.nanowrimo.org/en/forums/marketing-self-promotion-and-stuff-for-sale/threads/100099
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One of my main fears when it comes to writing is the grammar. It is a huge issue and has to be right, so it was good for you to give her a reality check. If she wants it, she’ll improve.
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It’s a genuine shame in this industry that personal feedback doesn’t exist, because this poor girl has submitted to 30 agents, and apparently not one of them has said “spelling and grammar” to her. I figured someone probably should.
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Got to respect her confidence. I’m not game to share my work with any one, because I’m convinced I’m illiterate. 😛
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I enjoy reading your posts, so I’m pretty sure you are illiterate. Good move.
Wish you’d share. I can be nice instead of honest! 😛
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Sharing is caring!
Don’t be a @sernobulus and hat everything
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You know what’s obsessed with hats? Team Fortress 2. Everyone competes to get the best hat. Hat everyone.
The hat has to come from the top, which means that Gabe Newell wants to Hat everyone.
Who else is known for wanting to hat everyone? @sernobulus.
I’m not saying that @sernobulus is gaben. But I am insinuating it. Have you ever seen them in the same room together?
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I have not!
motherofgod.jpg
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Good grammar and spelling isn’t something you only turn on when you can be bothered. It should be constant. It’s not optional.
No for both.
You said it to them straight.
People are less likely to chip in if they think they’re paying for this guy and his family’s holiday.
Some people rush their posts and therefore they can contain simple spelling and grammatical errors and there’s nothing wrong with that. However, her’s didn’t really seem like the odd once off error and could likely indicate her novel may contain the same sort of things. Hard to tell whether it does or not but it’s just an simple observation you pointed out. Another guy seemed to agree with you.
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Thanks man. Ever since the big snafu with my ‘is writing hard work’ thing that got big angry responses, I’ve been doubting the way I express myself.
Edit: TAY is different, because we have downvotes and awesome people.
I’ll say no to the first guy. He really doesn’t seem like he understands how it all works and is just looking at free money for it.
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Aaaaannnnnd definitely no to the second. That was painful to read.
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Wait, she couldn’t spell check her post because she was too busy with her novel? Seriously? Petulant reasoning I’d expect from my 5 year old daughter.
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Writers can be really touchy. Really touchy. Especially inexperienced ones.
And it’s because any criticism taps directly into that little voice that says, “You’re not good enough. See?” and the instinct is to go into denial and backlash, etc.
Who’d be friends with a writer? Honestly 😛
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That was really weird, wasn’t it? I’m genuinely not sure why the project depends upon the trip. It just sounds like he’s taking a holiday to his homeland, which happens to be the setting of his book…
Wow.
Wow…
No…no, you weren’t.
Okay, I’m going to be really honest, because we’re all bad people here. Except for @DC
It felt really good to write both those posts.
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There’s times where I just want to correct the hell out of people who are wrong on the internet but I know they’re not going to take to it lightly and it’ll spark up a pointless interweb argument, so I don’t bother.
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I’m usually like that too.
But every year on NaNo, there’s an abundance of writers who have a very limited grasp on reality, and I have a lot of difficulty ignoring it. I honestly don’t know why. Maybe it’s an annual outlet for me.
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I’d be happy to be corrected by TAYbies any time, because reasonable folk, and not keyboard warriors \o/
But yeah, the temptation to correct someone who’s wrong on the internet is stupidly overwhelming at times.
And then there’s the whole risk of them being a troll in the first place.The internet has broken us 😛
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I think I operate on a dual-motivation, not entirely unlike Two Face, but with both faces all at once.
I want to shoot silly people down, but I also kind of want to help them so they stop being silly in my internet space in the future.
So I present to them reality, with just a little relish 😛
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D.C. is a bastard, my friend.
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I fail to see how your parentage factors into the discussion.
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You Monster
Isn’t how I would describe you.
The first one you were extremely soft on, that was an attempt to get a free holiday trying to hook into the nanowrimo spirit
The second one, well maybe a blunt truth but you were upfront about saying that. At least you didn’t come out and say maybe your novel is just shit which is why it was rejected by 30 publishers
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I did suggest she needed to brush up on the English language, which – even though it was appallingly true – is about the harshest criticism I’ve offered to a stranger ever.
@freezespreston I used to say ‘yesterday I woke up stuck in a lemon’ until I was publicly corrected. A great day of shame on this Radiohead fan.
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I used to say full proof instead of fool proof. Words are tricky. :'(
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avant garde!
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*runs off crying*
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There are situations where ‘full proof’ is correct though.
Just… not the same situations you would say fool proof.
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@greenius 58.7%, download speed slowing. HNNNNGGGGGGHHH!!
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Mine finished a few minutes ago but I forgot about it ._.
Time to make lunch and watch it 😀
Mystery question time!
A or B?
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I see what you did there.
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ABBA
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DAMMIT SEEDEECE!
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HAHAHA!
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I prefer the famous Swedish pop group BABA, well known for their song “Disco Girl.”
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Here’s another clip. It’ll ease the pain. 😛
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that thing again! What does it mean?!
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Google translate won’t tell me 🙁
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Awesome. Tallying the votes, I have: J, A, B, B, A, ഈ, or, yes, B, A
So, basically it comes down to a tie between A and B.
And now I’m back where I started…
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^ that’s a Canadian tiebreaking vote. Enjoy it… because that was my only tie.
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Someone remember this for reference at an as yet to be determined time!
Kit-kat M&Ms barrel cake, Skittles orange poppy seed.
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@dc will do it.
Wow, I leave for 3.5 days, and come back to 14 pages! I really should of taken today off work… between a 4 am airport drop off, 6 hour drive home, I don’t really care for work today….
But I did get new bike riding boots, so that’s a bonus! and got parts so I can make my bike not death wobble around corners \0/ but, I need to spend probably a day pulling the bike apart /0\ but hopefully it means I will ride my bike more \0/.
Now, to catch up the weeks TAYnews…. Anything I should know about off the bat?
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WALKINGDEADOMFGTEARS (I really don’t know, haven’t touched it yet.)
the nerdiest Gregorian chant ever
Aaaaannnd Steam Sales /o\
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I was going to paste the 189K letter word, but… I thought that may break TAY, or at least mobiTAY :S
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Thats pretty thoughtful.
Null, always thinking about the web admins.
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Important news. *strokes patchy chin stubble*
Greenius had something to share. We wish him well.
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I’m trying to sort out whether Aussies can import the 360 disc of the Walking Dead for our PAL consoles. If you’re interested, I can keep you apprised of developments.
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I think I may give in and just get it on Steam while it’s cheap.
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We still have 36 hours. Hang on a little longer!
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It plays better using a mouse anyway!
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lalalalalanotlistening
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But walking would be better with a analog stick.
But yes, aiming would be better with a mouse and aiming is the most important.
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Wow, you have a really long head \o/
TAY news:
STEAM SALE. WALKING DEAD. BUY IT.
THEATRHYTHM.
BACONSONG FILM CLIPS.
THAT ONE TIME WHERE D.C. SAID SOMETHING.
GREENIUS HAD A VERY VERTICAL SITUATION.-
CONEHEADS WAS A GREAT MOVIE.
BRENDAN FRASER YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH \0/-
I need a shower after that.
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Wait, that was Airheads. Who was in Coneheads? /0\
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Steve Martin
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Bahaha! I used to love the Coneheads when I was a young’n.
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He’s the Bert to our Ernie
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Adventure Time review by Salami.
She’s going to spoil in record time, isn’t she?
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I’m not even mad.
For once. Because selfish, and no interest.
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Well, at least you have to click through to get spoiled. Something you kind of half expect from a review anyways.
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Is there a PAL release announced yet?! I don’t really care if the game turns out terrible but I highly doubt it would…
I need me some Adventure of Zelda Time
@dc I ate too much chips for pre-lunch and now I’m not hungry anymore :P. No mi goreng for me!
@sughly SURVIVOR TIME!
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I’ve depleted my Kettle chips supply too. :'(
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STFU ABI
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Seriously. Shut. The. F***. UP!
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I KNOOOOOW! You watched it all then? Caus I have and am ready to GOSS, hard.
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Not yet! 27/42 mins
It keeps freezing :/
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Noooo don’t do it Skupin
EDIT: oh thank god…
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Gosh I hate Abi but I kind of feel sorry for her. But how the heck can you be that ignorant to what’s happening around you.
Also what the heck Lisa!? (on the preview of next episode)
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Yeeeah, I just dont feel sorry for her. I mean, she cant even sit and listen for two seconds without carrying on. Far out that would drive me insane. But yes, Lisa WTF ARE YOU DOING! I kind of wondered if it was a matter of time before she put herself in that position, seeing as she has that “I ave to be the nice girl” at all times. Those people screw up somewhere, always.
SO glad Pete’s gone though. SO GLAD. Guy gave me the shits all season.
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Total douche who was up himself.
True, that Abi couldn’t even let Denise finish but there probably are some cultural things but that case in particular was rather rude.
Just… UGH
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If you want a challenge in Theatrhythm try some of the DLC songs. I can get B-A on most of the Ultimates but FF8’s The Castle is just brutal. I can get about a quarter of the way through it.
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Too expensive 🙁
I’d love to play them though, I’ll borrow your 3DS at the camping meat, get you some gnarly high scores! 😛
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Worst thing about camp will be no 3ds chargers
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They’re also all the awesome songs!
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BUT THEY HATE MONEY BECAUSE THEY DON’T HAVE LIBERI FATALI!
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Apparently no FFXII-2 music either…
Because one thousand words, call out through the ages.
They’ll fly to you, even though I can’t see.
I know they’re reaching you… suspended on silver wings!
Oh a thousand words, one thousand embraces,
they will cradle you, making all of your weary days seem far away,
they’ll hold you foreverrrrr!:'(
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WHAT IS THIS XII-2 YOU SPEAK OFFFFFFF
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FANSERVICE.
GUNS.
DRESS-SPHERES.I rest my case.
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So… X-2…
FOOL.
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…I’m a dick.
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A dick who likes dress-spheres.
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Wahh? As if you can’t just use a credit card?
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Not on the 3DS. I tried. It rejects it.
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I’m an hour in.
He’s starting to mumble with greater frequency, you can hear his mouth drying up, and he’s slowly losing his voice.
This has gone from relaxation to torture.
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#nocontextneeded
#hiharli
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Susan Album Party
Sus Anal Bum PartyI… wut…
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Best marketing.
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Now it makes sense!
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ie. The funniest thing I’ve seen today. Tears in my eyes funny.
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Oh it was a thing?
My lack of Twitterness prevented me from seeing it 😛
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#insidealephshead
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Hold on a bit longer, he will take a break and come back stronger than ever
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You’re actually watching it! I was wondering…
Kudos to you.
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Oh! Now I know what he’s talking about…
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1hr, 24min.
Microphone is breaking up.
Oh god, Slenderman is in the room /o\This isn’t the longest word in the English language, this is a new method of torture, combining horrors that creatures of the night dare not speak of.
…hold me /o\
@sernobulus
It is no exaggeration to say you just made my day.
I was having a really, immensely craptacular day and what may have seemed a simple thing to you was a really big thing to me. It’ll probably be months before I get to try the game but just the act of you giving it turned my day completely around. It even brought happy tears to my eyes.
THANK-YOU! 😀
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I’m glad i could brighten up your day!
Project To Obtain A Walking Dead Disc update:
So no stone is left unturned, I have approached OzGameShop to find their perspective. To see if they know something we don’t about its region-coding (or lack thereof), or whether they intend to get the game in stock.
@mythamphetamine you said you have experience with orthotics, etc. In the early days while adjusting to a new arrangement, is it normal to get new pain in places where it didn’t previously exist?
Edit: …because now it burns when I pee.
Just kidding, but I am getting pains up my leg every time I take a step.
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All of this is anecdotal, and simply from my own experiences with using orthotics.
Personally, I no longer use them (although have gel inserts in my workboots for some form of relief), to my detriment or not I’m unsure.
Pains in your joints will be noticed, hells yeah. It’s typically your posture correcting itself, and should subside in time. Muscular pain in your foot is common too, I believe, due to forcing the arch. This, too, should subside.As a precaution, see your GP. In no way am I medically trained 😀
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Yes that’s normal but if it lasts more than a week or two you should get your legsticles checked by your podiatrist.
Make sure you’re doing any stretches they told you to do. And even if they didn’t tell you to do it, if you have a job where you’re sitting down a fair bit, you should stretch our your calves and your hamstrings. Especially calves if you’re getting foot / arch pain or heel pain or anything.
I have worn orthotics to correct extreme fallen arches (better to say no arch at all) since I was eight years old. I also have some heel spurs now too. 🙁
My shoulder feels sore.
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WHAT IS THIS WIZARDRY?!
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All those years at Hogwarts have paid off…
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WHAT! I’m more amazed at a non-edited D.C. post!
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Feeling exceptionally hungry, and I have to go grocery shopping on my way home from work.
Must. Maintain… Control!
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Uh oh… LOLLY AISLLLEEEEEE
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All the ice cream sandviches!
seriously, @sughly mentioned fight with seymour, and i have immediantly cranked out my final fantasy X soundtrack, oh my god i love that song so much, i’m now tossed up between doing final fantasy X or The World Ends With You as my next VGM Monday….
The flower. It died.
The beard. It grows.
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The Aleph, it cried
The Mind, it broke
The sanity, it vanished
The room, it shrank
The noise, it grew-
STOP! Hammertime!
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Never gonna give you up never gonna let you down never gonna run around and desert you
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Made it to 3hrs, 15min. I’ll watch the final 15min at home.
Think I’ll stay out of the comments section for a while. Got a downvote and it made me sad.
Everything is going wrong for me this afternoon. Trying to get some quilting done and the thread just keeps breaking. I put a new needle in, changed the bobbin thread, changed the top thread, changed the tension and I still can only sew for around 2 inches before the thread breaks. Not sure if it’s a machine problem or a user problem right now, to be honest. Bad days do not make for good sewing. 😛
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…did you try turning it off then on again? 😛
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Make that 2 downvotes. I don’t see why it’s so deserving of downvotes. 🙁
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/11/so-the-wii-u-gamepad-will-have-3d-imagery-the-worst-kind-of-3d-imagery/comment-page-1/#comment-886176-
There you go. It says 0 now. 😀
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Haha, so it does. Thanks guys. That made me giggle. 😀
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There’s no explanation for the downvotes from the voters themselves.
I’d put money on them simply disagreeing with your appreciation for 3D, and not much else.(For what it’s worth, I don’t much care for 3D either, though I believe we’ve had this discussion. That may well change with a 3DS, but we’ll see :P)
*hugasaurus* for Strange!
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Also “HI STRANGE!” \o/
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Because people are overopinionated idiots who dont think about what effect their actions have on anyone but themselves.
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I upvoted. I don’t use the 3D because I want to save the battery life on my 3DS. That is pretty much the only reason I don’t use it.
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I up voted because, even though I dislike all of the current forms of 3D, you made your point with reason and without bile. I think downvoting someone because you disagree is silly.
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If it were someone like Rocketbuddy, or Nob talking about a downvote making them sad then I would probably downvote it. But since it’s you, I’ll refrain.
See, I’m learning. I’m a LEARNING robot(not a robot, just wanted to kind of reference The Incredibles). I just thought that you should know.
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Nice to see you got my back GLAHMANG. =P
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I LITERALLY HAVE YOUR BACK. LITERALLY.
YOUR SPINE IS IN MY HAND.
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FINISH HIM
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However bad your day has been, it looks like the South African cricket team are having a much worse one.
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Are you making me go and look up what happened with the sportsball today to find out what you mean? Cruel! 😛
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Just for you I looked up South Africa and cricket…and still have no idea what’s going on with the South African cricket team. 😛
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Australia just shy of 500 on the first day, and by the end of proceedings half the South African bowlers were off the field injured.
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Ah. That does sound like a bad day, indeed.
Also, thanks for the information, now I’ll be able to impress my husband and talk about cricket with him tonight. 😛
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Only to find out he’s actually a soccer man.
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“Did you see that ludicrous display?”
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*Hugasaurus*
Some tasks are just not suited to bad days. I hope your evening improves
Do people still care about downvotes?
Come to think of it, did people EVER care about downvotes?
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Usually I wouldn’t care. But it’s not so easy to dismiss when you’re already in a highly emotional state. I know it doesn’t mean anything but it still hurt, because of my already low state of mind. Looking back on it tomorrow I’ll most likely brush it all off and laugh at how silly I’m being. 🙂
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HAHAHAHA…oh, man I am the worst. I only just realised what you did there. 😀
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Haha! Sorry Strange, I probably should have added a 😛
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Hope you feel better, Strange.
Had a rambling paragraph written, but I think *hugasaurus* will work better. 🙂
Your post is definitely not downvote worthy either…
Oh! It’s derek…
I saw that I had a downvote earlier today too and it wasn’t from a TAYbie (ie. not a joke) and it was none other than this ‘derek’. He also downvoted Beavwa and his Secret of the Magic Crystals comment. If you look at his comment history it’s just nothing but trolling crap, ignore him Strangey!
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Noooooooo…. my first downvote. I can’t even see them on mobile unless i check comments individually.
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I don’t know about you but I can’t view who voted for what on mobile. Like on desktop TAY when clicking the number of up/down votes it shows the list of users who voted but clicking on that same number doesn’t do anything on mobile 🙁
You still had positive 6 though last time I checked so it didn’t make a big difference 😛
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I have upvotes?
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Too many…
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http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/11/tell-us-dammit-steam-sales/
From this article.
I was going to post a screen shot but …feeling lazy. Seems like @mythamphetamine’s “I hate myself” has got 7 upvotes, nicely done. It also appears someone upvoted my downvoted comment to bring it back into neutral. I did this earlier today on another site, feels good bro.
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You edited out the first answer…
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And now it’s back in :P. It just didn’t fit with the 2nd stuff I edited in, so I took it out. I was going to make that one of those clicky image link words but couldn’t be bothered 🙂
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In unrelated news I just got my first Strange downvote :O!
Also the fact that TAY came to the rescue and unnegated your comment proves how much we care about you :). If I asked for help I’d get a kick in the nuts and more downvotes! T_T
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KOTOR downvote? Yeah, oops. 😛
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In future though, I’ll probably just reserve my downvotes for trolls or rude people. And people who don’t like KOTOR…. 😛
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Ha, it’s okay I can take joke downvotes 🙂
Unlike some people, I get jokes!
…unless people aren’t joking D:
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DC. GETS. JOKES.
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I think your Hermit brethren have turned on you now that you’re all Meatified. 😛
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Euphemism.
Or EWWWWWWWWWphemism.
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Haters gonna hate. Try and ignore it if you can – not worth getting upset over (I know, it’s the straw that broke the camel’s back of the rest of your day, but you get what I mean).
Someone explain to me why I was allowed to watch this as a small child again?
http://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=related&v=EfBxxwZy9J4#
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you and your mobile youtube links
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I love Ren & Stimpy so damn much!
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Better?
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youtube homepage, homeboy.
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Oh dear lord that’s spooky.
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Ohhhhh wut
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Speaking of walruses, I present The Walrus And The Carpenter.
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I was never allowed to watch Ren & Stimpy.
I still don’t get the show. Not at all.Wasn’t that aired on CheezTV back in the day?!
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Yeah I was allowed, but chose not to. Freaked me out when I was a kid. Still freaks me out.
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I’ve got collector cards, the Christmas album and played the SNES game a whole damn lot. I was a fan. 😀 My friends met Billy West at SupaNova and got him to sign Ren & Stimpy pictures! There’s a Stimpy stuffed toy in my bedroom to this day. Theme song was amazing too! 😀
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Wait, Christmas album? o.0
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Really screwed up, obscure humour looking back on it now. Haha!
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moderation two links fail
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The thing to realize about Ren and Stimpy is that it really is not a children’s show at all. Seriously, watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iR6KjNmN2BA&feature=related. What part of that is suitable for a child? It was a hugely subversive show that has subtext coming out the wazoo. The creator John Kricfalusi was pretty much testing the bounds of what could be aired.
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Ren had a really messed up relationship with Stimpy. :S
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Utter hatred that he couldn’t live without? Stimpy wasn’t completely innocent either. Happ Happy Joy Joy is still one of the most messed up eps I’ve ever seen. Watching Ren having his mood and actions forcibly changed while still completely aware of it happening against his will and his drop into insanity trying to fight it still tweaks at something in my core that makes me truly unsettled.
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I remember a few times the show really disturbed me actually.
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Animaniacs was balls-to-the-wall retarded enough for me.
@Freeze, that’s… beyond creepy for a cartoon aired on a kids morning show.
Awesome premise, but NOT for children, not by any stretch of the imagination.
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Holy crap
It’s log, log,
It’s better than bad, it’s good!
Well I downloaded planetside 2 yesterday so might give it a go tonight.
Not sure how much patching will be required if any so hopefully I can jump straight in.
I know that at least f4ction was interested so I’ll see how I go and report back
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Let us know what it’s like!
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It was very enjoyable. Sunk an hour and a half or so into it.
Ping times are good and there were plenty of people online. Just been running around as a meat shield currently so haven’t tried out the tanks or planes.
Overall well worth trying and rolling a squad of taybies would be great fun.I started a character in the NC (blue), mostly because they had the best music when selecting which faction to play. Not a big deal as you can roll multiple characters in different factions.
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Riot Act is such an underrated album. Fave Pearl Jam by far.
Etrian Odyssey IV for 3DS early next year \o/
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Local (PAL) release announced? 🙂
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I don’t think so.
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I assume still no news for Bravely Default? *sigh*
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All these NA release games are the only reason I got a US 3DS and moved to Canada.
Not really.
But \o/
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They’re certainly why I got a US 3DS. Theoretically at least. So far nothing I care about has been US exclusive.
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Walking Dead is downloading now.
I sure hope you guys didn’t hype this up beyond its means :S
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I’m a little worried about that too. Especially after Greenius’ reaction to Spec Ops after I hyped it up. 😛
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Ugh D.C.!
I still liked it!
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I know, man. I know. It’s just that if you had gone in with no expectations like I did, would you have liked it better? Who can say! 😛
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I heard things about the game before TAYbie opinions :), you didn’t ruin it, don’t worry!
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I’m not sure it’s possible to hype this game too much. It’s that damn good.
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That’s the kind of hype that kills a game, right there. 😉
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=P
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Who cares? Just play it! If you don’t like it, you don’t like it!
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I’m trying to go in without knowing anything, but I can’t help it if I listen to awesome people about how awesome they think a potentially awesome game is 😀
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I just finished the first episode, it was good. I don’t feel like an asshole for the choices I made.
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lol first episode…
As NotoriousR puts it; “prepare for all the depression”
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After watching Doc What?’s Making a Baconweave Dream clip, I got myselfthinking…
Everyone says Pez (and myself, thanks Rize) is short. Like, stoopid-short.
I don’t think this is the case though. He’s about the height of a fridge, according to the video. A fridge is no laughing matter.
I put it to you then TAY, that you’re all just 8ft monsters.
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Is Jugsy shorter than Pez? I hear Tadmod is super tall, is he the tallest TAYbe?
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I’m short. About 150-155cm.
I’m standing up for the short people!I may just have to stand on a chair to be seen.
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HAHAHAHA!!! Oh Scree, that was very well played :’)
I’m going to have to wear stilts when I meat everyone /o\
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Thanks =D I used to be really shitty about being so short, but now I’m fine with it.
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Some times it sucks to be too tall as well. Hitting your head on things, being lanky and out of proportion. Haha! (Not complaining, though. :D)
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Mrs Freeze is that height. I think she was slightly taller than Strange.
I think.
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All the cool people are short.
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Get it?
Because fridge. Oh-ho-ho
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I felt like a giant lumbering oaf standing next to Mrs. Freeze! 😀
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So did I! 😛
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I’m short! …compared to TadMod, that is 😛
He’s just over 2m…
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!!!
Tad is most definitely the tallest. No question about it!
The jerk.
-insert joke about a mini-fridge, or something-
6’2 is where it’s at, man. 😛
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That’s one inch to tall to be awesome.
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I think you mean one inch too short.
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6’3? That’s just crossing a line…
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What the? Theatrhythm had a story? Just randomly “finished” it.
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That random battle? Yeah that came out of nowhere for me and I tried to pause but it didn’t let me so I did horrible on it :/
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SPOILERS .o\
But probably not really.
All this talk of Theatrhythm is getting me hype for playing it.-
It does suck that it makes you want to play Final Fantasy games. It’s making me want to give XII another attempt an I hated that game /o\
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Not a story that I ever saw ..
…but apparently an ending. Took me by surprise.Was just going to finish one song before cooking dinner and after it I hit 10000 points which immediately started a Boss battle and then the end credits. Needless to say, dinner was a bit later than expected, that night. 😛
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Woah…spoilertag shenanigans. Forgot spoilers don’t like linebreaks.
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Alt + 255 works 🙂
See!
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let’s give this a try…did it work?
My computer made a “ping” noise.
Not sure if that’s good or bad. 😛Edit: Guess it was bad. 😛
Edit 2: Guess it was good. 😀
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USS Kotaku Au: Crew: Mark, Ben, Rob: The USS Kotaku AU makes it safely across the first half of the first sector, aiding a transport ship along the way, although that turned out be a rebel trap, but they quickly neutralised that threat. Then they flew into a nebula and were attacked by rebels again. Most of the ships energy being wiped out by the nebula, the crew had no choice but to hold out for the FTL drive to power up and then they were out of there. Except they flew rather close to a star and were attacked by rebels again. The ship only just survived the attack. The solar flares almost took them out too, but the ship’s engines were repaired just in time. They finally got to safety and repaired the ship. In the next sector, they flew too close to another star and were boarded by rock aliens. The aliens quickly took out the O2 system. The crew fought valiantly and eventually managed to take them out. But then they ran out of air while trying to fix the damaged O2 system and died. The end.
Sup guys. Finished episode 1 of The Walking Dead
Ep 1 potential spoilers inc.
Not a bad game, I seemed for the most part to make the same choices as the majority apart from one choice which was to save Doug over Carley, I just felt letting her die with knowing who Lee was, was benefit for me. Even though she was an excellent marksman Dougs skills with technology could potentially be handier for the group.
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Dude, you’re the only person out of the people I spoke to who chose that!
Most people chose Carley for her marksman skills. I know I picked her because she had a gun and well… Doug didn’t have much-
Heh, interesting.
Well Doug has more than he lets on, he’s an AV whiz which I can see coming in handy for fixing of broken radios other electronics. Carley whilst having a gun, guns should really be the final resort in such a situation, because y’know noise = unwanted attention, unless you have some kind of suppressor, so really it should be hand to hand combat with weapons or crossbow or bow & arrows, though I found it a bit weird Lee didn’t grab the gun & ammo that Carley had.-
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lol just remembered the radio/battery scene
… Hurrrr durrrrr
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Oh man, how backwards (har har) was that?!
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Lol, that was yeah…
Another reason why I was okay with letting Carley die, she was a bit thick it seemed.
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The Walking Dead – 98% downloaded. I know what I’m doing tonight.
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I’m doing the same after dinner is consumed! =D
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Just for full disclosure I’ve accidently hovered over that Walking Dead statistic screenshot on the Steam Community feed about ten times now and frantically looked away. Be careful, man. SPOOOOOILERS. 😀 Also, yes, I’m in hermit mode. 😛
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Wow I probably wouldn’t publish that 😛
Didn’t know there was a “spoiler warning” image cover but even if you hover over it once it stays unhidden forever.
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Just thought it was worth mentioning to avoid any Dexter style fallout. 😀
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I have it tagged as spoilers, WHAT THE HELL VALVE!
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Yeah it’s got that “warning this may contain spoilers” sort of message cover it but as soon as you put your mouse over it, the picture will show. Very easy to have that accidentally happen.
I wouldn’t risk it and you can easily discuss your choices on here. But it’s your pic, do as you please 😛
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Haha! It’s technically hidden too, so not your fault. Just dodgy method of hiding spoilers on Steam’s side. I know with certainty that there’s no malice here either and you just wanna share your experiences. 🙂
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Yeah that really needs to be click to show =/
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Walking along a beach whilst juggling 3 pigs, 5 toothpicks, 2 unicycles and a clothesline?
Riding in a barrel down a hill while whistling the Star Wars theme music, straight towards a horde of Star Trek fans??
Playing chess with a roast chicken wearing a wig and monocle while discussing the musical merits of the last three bars of music of Justin Bieber’s ‘Baby’ song???
TELL ME, DON’T LEAVE ME IN SUSPENSE! /o\
Three things I discovered while randomly browsing imgur before.
1. http://i.imgur.com/mlThG.jpg
Oh, that’s smart!
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2. http://imgur.com/gallery/qh3qW
Wow… just… absolutely amazing.
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3. http://imgur.com/gallery/XZFDP
This guy (Frogman) looks like a fat ShiggyNinty
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http://imgur.com/gallery/yzJTS
Random Jackpot!
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Oh god, I could (and probably will) do this all night
http://imgur.com/gallery/VYdJz
Just editing in more links now (all SFW)
http://imgur.com/gallery/vz2uP
http://imgur.com/gallery/cmyRb
http://imgur.com/gallery/TpBOK
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Imgur is good for random fun 😀
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that WW2 photo hybrid one… the national museum recently had a whole bunch of them on display. pretty bloody amazing.
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Yeah the WW2 one is freaking amazing
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TAYbies!
Is RAGE worth it for $7.50?
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Perfect opportunity for a mystery question fun time thrown down the drain 🙁
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I wanted to make sure it wasn’t absolute cack, hence why I did MQFT with XCOM last week instead.
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i liked it. I’m gonna say yes.
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I’m sure it would have been good, if it actually worked for more then 5 mins on my computer.
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Judging by the 20 mins I’ve put in ill say no but it could get better?
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I really liked RAGE, but I think I’m a bit special.
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50% convict tax means computer says no
Local Harvey Norman is spamming my Facebook with their “Be Treated Like A VIP” event.
I just posted this into their comments. http://www.accc.gov.au/content/index.phtml/itemId/1090404/fromItemId/142
I feel slightly bad.
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That just made my day. 😀
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Don’t feel bad, they deserve what the ACCC throw at them. I’ve had mostly a negative experience at our local Harvey Norman, the times when it was positive was when my mate was serving me heh.
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Don’t feel bad for simply telling the truth.
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It is. The Bundall one.
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I don’t know where to put all this Walking Dead stuff. I feel bad starting a new thread – megabytes don’t grow on trees and all that…
EPISODE 5 SPOILERS
I saw this posted in a “speculation” thread on /v/ at 4chan, and I actually quite like it. I don’t think it quite fits with the look of absolute terror on Clem’s face, but I would totally love it if it’s what TT did.
“Season 2 will have a different set of characters. In the end it’ll just be you and the one person you managed to save.
You’ll be weary and wounded and decide to flee the city. You start walking up a hill and then suddenly you stop and look across the horizon and see a little girl sitting on a log, gun in hand.
THE WALKING DEAD“
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Amazing.
I’d love it if they do that, have them intertwine a bit but a whole new set of characters is what I’m after. I really just don’t want them to milk the shit out of it and ruin what was good by using the same characters over and over. Maybe have characters like Molly make a reappearance, there’s some unanswered questions about her and it’ll be stupid of them to just leave them unanswered. -
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I haven’t finished Mass Effect 3, but I find it interesting that ME3 was “lol, all your choices don’t matter – pick and ending” and errybody was up in arms, but when TWD is all “lol, all your choices don’t matter – here’s the one ending” and errybody is “GOTYAY”-
Is there much difference if you die or let Clem leave you? There’s some choice in that I guess 😛-
Well, certainly not for that post-credits scene.
I’d been holding off reading anyone else’s results for each chapter, since I figured that could skew my choices. But now that I’m reading around a lot, it seems like there was very little that actually mattered in terms of “choice => effect”. For example, the Doug/Carley choice is moot, since neither of them can possibly survive to the end. I could play a pacifist run: kill no-one, argue against looting the car, etc… but Clem will always get kidnapped. Likewise, Lee will always get bitten at the end of episode 4 and there’s nothing I can do in episode 5 to reverse that. I actually like knowing that. It means no matter how many times I go back and play it, my final choice will be how to say goodbye. After episode 4 I thought that I would want to go back to the start and try a whole new game with different choices, but I think I’m actually happier not knowing the specifics.
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Walking Dead Season 2 Speculation (Spoilers!)
That would be pretty cool, but I really hope they don’t do that honestly :\ I’d much rather play as a battle-hardened Clem in the next season (possibly with a time-skip to a couple of years in the future or something?). The problem I have with playing as another ‘Lee’ type character, is that the audience is already attached to Clementine from the first game through Lee, but the characters you would be controlling haven’t. They can’t really do the ‘grow-attached-to-Clem’ thing over again (unless the people were Omid and Christa, I suppose). But yeah, that’s what I think! Either playing as Clem, or playing as an entirely different group of people that run side-by-side with the events of the first game (and possibly intersect with characters like Molly/Lily).But really, I’d probably be happy with anything they bring out 😛 Certainly not going to tell them how to do their job after this first game!
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Molly, Lilly, Omid, Christa and Kenny (dying off camera is as good as not dying) could all make a return in S2. Clem has an obvious connection with those last three. There’d be some tension with Lilly, and Molly is more or less an unknown quantity – she had her own agenda and made a conscious effort not to bond with the group. I think it would be interesting if Molly and Lilly had somehow met up. Running into those two is going to allow for a much better “choose one or the other” scenario than having to pick between Kenny or Christa/Omid.
Let’s face it, Christa’s a walking timebomb. Babies aren’t renowned for their silence. Noise is a zombie magnet, and it makes for the biggest possible liability. Kenny may not be the greatest father figure, but he’s had experience, and he actually matured in Ep 5 – he understands sacrifice and working for the good of the group. Personally, I’d rather all new characters. Using S1 characters is only going to invite scrutiny over S1 choices. Even Omid and Christa, if they show up I’m going to expect them to remember that Lee said he wanted them to look after Clem, but for someone else Lee wanted Kenny to look after Clem. Basically, it eases up the number of choices that get counted if they don’t have to take into account every possible S1 choice combination. I think I rambled a bit there. I think it’s sleep times now.
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Game for Windows Live has a new enemy! It really didn’t give me the best first impression… An hour of farting around waiting for accounts to be set up and updates to be installed (the same one, twice) left me not in the mood to play games anymore 😛 Bioshock 2 will have to wait until tomorrow.
So how ’bout that local sports team?
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Goooooo Illawarra Dinosaurs!
Played a few hours of The Walking Dead tonight. I don’t think I’ve even finished episode 1 yet. Took me a bit to get used to the controls and how the game did things. I didn’t know going into it that it was a cell shaded game and I’m a bit disappointed it is (I don’t really like cell shading), but I guess it makes sense since it’s based on a comic. Still, it’s a very good game. Looking forward to playing it some more.
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Telltale aren’t exactly known to have the best game graphics, so cel-shading was probably a good choice for them 😛 (Plus I personally don’t like too much realism in games, so it was a +1 from me)
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I don’t like that graphic style, but I’m glad they did it because the game was lagging pretty heavily for me but turning the graphics down to low fixed all that while at the same time I didn’t really lose much visually.
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Take a look at the Back to the Future screenshots or Jurassic Park… they made the right choice with the art direction. 😀
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Hey! No bad-mouthing Jurassic Park in my company! I loved that game! #fanboy
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Haha! Just visually, I mean. Doesn’t look as plastic-like.
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*Whispers* You’re objectively wrong, Pow. Wwwwwrrrrrooooonnnnnggggggg… 😛
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I’m going to get some shut eye, it seems like a good time to once again make this known:
You guys are awesome.
(I look forward to the down votes tomorrow morning. :P)
Good night! 😀
I just bought Train Simulator 2013.
Someone please hold me whilst I rock back and forth in the corner and sob loudly.
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Your lack of purchasing farm simulator saddens Virus.
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I hate gardening with a passion, and farming is basically an offshoot of that, so it can go burn in the ninth layer of hell.
As for trains however, it’s exciting! \o/-
But you get to drive awesome tractors!
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But trains can go faster, and they look cooler…
And they can haul massive amounts of stuff… from milk, metal, and other heavy items, to people as well.
What can tractors do, apart from plowing?
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Damn it…
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Haha, so true. Lets call it even.
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Hi! How are you? I hope you all are well.
I’m feeling pretty damn good!
So, spending the day with my parents was actually fun. Mostly because my nephew was there. He’s only 3 years old, so we kind of worship each-other. 😛 He loves that I ride a motorbike, and I love that he’s 3 and just totally gets the world, but on a whole other level!
Time spent with kids who adore you = stresses of everyday live gone!
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Love seeing/hearing of someone else’s perspective on the world. At 3 years old, it’s hardly the same planet!
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Exactly!
It’s a planet where ants and sticks and flowers and everything he sees has significance!
Upon seeing an aeoroplane, my nephew opined “Wow – that was super-cool!” I can only agree! 😀-
We adults really should stop and smell the roses more often. It’s heavily romanticised, and utterly impractical, but isn’t that the beauty of it?
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That last part is the only way I get through my day sometimes. A whole day of nightmare behaviour by the kids can be wiped away instantly with a giggle or a snuggle. 😀
Purchased Walking Dead.
Finished ep 1.
Consider me hyped.
The art style is terrific (I really do adore cell-shading) and while it took some getting used to, I can understand why the mechanics are as they are, for the most part. Having the reticule stay put whilst the background pans is a little jarring, as seemingly any game with an aim/look function typically has this free-standing of the camera-pan. Aside from that, absolutely awesome stuff.
Most definitely an interactive movie, or perhaps a really fluid adventure/point’n’click with juicy mechanics thrown on top.
Right, on to the juicy bits. Potential offensive language.
OHMIGODALEPHISUSINGSPOILERTAGS/o\
So, I’m pretty sure I’m falling exactly where the writers wanted me to. Getting incredibly attached to/protective of Clementine. I guess it’s possible this stems from some kind of ongoing penance unto her. I essentially broke into her house, smashed her babysitter’s head in with a hammer, right in front of her, and it’s just gotten worse from there. She’s… her and Lee are the first protagonists I’ve ever felt connection with in the longest time. I understand this game feeds off emotional connection, and boy, is it a hungry beast.
I kept Kenny’s family together, and whilst I feel bad for Hershell’s loss, I’m confident I did the right thing there. He didn’t like me much to begin with (I’m much too passive to make decisions. Or rather, I was, though you quickly get forced out of that) so it’s no loss that I can see. Having Kenny as an ally has payed itself back, and I’m glad to see Duck alive and well.
At the motel, (I’m not sure how much of this was optional/extra-curricular) I took out all the walkers without hassle, only to find the woman locked away was bitten. She lunged for Carley’s pistol in an attempt to take her life, and the porch/verandah/deck we were standing on collapsed.
May as well have given her the pistol in the first place, but again, I’m confident in the (non)decision I made (see? There I go again, being all passive and shit). It alleviated guilt from all parties involved.
The pharmacy.
For a radio presenter/reporter, she’s an absolute dunce when it came to that radio. My god…
Then again, I must’ve spent at least a half hour scouring how to break the window in the electronics store. That brick was under my nose the whole time…
I saved Carley, as I figured having a marksman onside would be a boon to most any group. Having her ask me why I picked her, really knocked me off-guard though. Was not expecting that, one bit.
The thought crossed my mind to let her die due to her knowing my dirty little secret, but I feel as if I can trust her for the time being, at least. Besides, it would have mattered none anyway, considering Lilly’s prick of a father knows too.
He’s dead, the moment I get a chance.
Which brings me full circle. I’m positive I’m right where the writers want me to be, and they’ll make me end up needing his help later on, much as I’d like to leave him for dead.
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Damn it, why was I the only one to let that woman die. Lol.-
I can see the benefits in both, to be sure.
It’s strange, because I actually was thinking not “Who do I save?” but instead “Who do I kill?”. I was halfway hoping that saving the sharpshooter would allow the gun to be trained on the walkers attacking the guy, alas it was not to be.
My main argument for killing her was that she knew that I was a murderer, and offing her would keep that hidden. The only thing I really had for saving the bloke was “Yeah, he’s nice”.
It wasn’t necessarily well thought out, but it was an easy decision, ultimately.
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And to think you were worried we over-hyped it!
Just make sure to live with your decisions. Especially in the upcoming episodes. It’ll be that much more powerful if you don’t try and reload a save to avoid something you didn’t like 😛
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Yeah, only an idiot would do that!
But it’s less bad if this hypothetical idiot reloaded again and stood by his original choice… Right?
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Yeah, I don’t plan on doing that.
I actually died in Clementine’s house because I really didn’t want to kill the babysitter in front of a little girl.
Instead, I chose to kick the babysitter in the face multiple times, and then waited, looking for another option to show up.
I assume that in that timeline, I ‘woke up’ about an hour later, albeit a little worse for wear. I hope that Clem’s dead, for her sake :SI’m cool with having an ‘imperfect’ run. I’ll save that for my 2nd playthrough, perhaps 😀
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Also, @powalen
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Watching The Campaign. It’s a bit uneven but it’s still eliciting a few chortles from me.
I feel like I should go to bed… but I’m just so lazy…
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I love the idea of being too lazy to go to bed! 🙂
Where do I sign?
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I’d try and make a sign-up sheet… but…y’know…
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Sportsball!
Today’s cricket – just wow!
Those who care will know what I mean, those who don’t, probably won’t have read this far.
The Aussies had an amazing day at the crease! After a disheartening start, Warner, Clarke and Hussey came through for some record-setting opening scores!
Almost makes me wish I spent the day watching the cricket instead of hanging out with my nephew.
Almost, but not quite. 😀
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Agreed.
And I’d hate to see a draw after today’s effort!-
If they draw after today they really need to do something about the bowling line-up. Although how they go today will determine a lot, Will the saffies be able to get any of their strike bowlers back into the game.
Might have to put the game on, with almost 500 on the board they might as well just play the first session as a 20/20 match and see how much damage they can do
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They should rename the Spoiler Tag to the Sportsball Courtesy Tag!
Train Simulator is go!
\o/
All aboard!
Wo00ooo000oot, woo000oo0o00ooot!!!!
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Something, something, Hype Train? 😛
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He so needs to build a hype train.
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Why is there no hype train mod?
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Some nob got me Trains vs Zombies 2 >_>
Hype trainnnn Choooo choooo
Greetings humans from Porto, Portugal 😀
Hope everyone’s doing well/sleeping well. So far it’s been an awesome holiday up here, got to see some gorgeous architecture and beaches and best of all, I’m away from all the troubles I have at home. I miss you all 🙂
The flights were brutal, especially if you fly economy class and you’re in the tall category, my knees were so darn sore sitting in those chairs and no room to move, and my adapter doesn’t work with the Emirates power plugs so no gaming on the plane :(, except for the absolutely horrid TV games… if you can call them games, with really bad controls and horrible framerates lol. My time around here has been pretty nice, though also a bit cold (Melbourne-style cold though so not so bad). What really astonishes me here the most I think is how much the general population loves animals, especially dogs. We’ve already come across one gentleman who had this most adorable puppy that he said he found abandoned so he kept it and looked after it. Oh yeah also, I think I came across the most classy McDonalds ever! It basically looked like a 5 star restaurant with a maccas forced into the same area, pretty awesome 😛
Anyways, take care of each other and I’ll see you all in the 4th-5th December since that’s when I touch back down in Melbourne. I’ll try to keep dropping in every now and then but I’m more focussed on just enjoying myself out here 🙂
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Good to hear you are enjoying yourself. A holiday sounds really good right about now. 🙂
Also hopefully you manage to get a charger that works in the area and for your flight back.
EDIT: Spelling errors and added more words
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So glad to see you’re having a great time. 😀
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(in a non creepy way)
I was thinking about how you haven’t been on TAY recently and figured you were already on holidays. Good to head you’re having a great time :). Melbourne meat on Dec 15th, Brissy on the 1st, Sydney on the 8th and 28th I believe.1001/0110 not enough robot references.
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That’s awesome, Tech Knight. So damn glad you’re having a good time, if any one deserves it you do!
I’m awake. But I’m sleepy.
Heard noises just before six and went to investigate. My son’s bedroom light was on but he wasn’t in there. Went out to the loungeroom to find him and he was on the lounge…but the front door was open.
“Why is the front door open?”
“I was following the birdy”
D:
So yeah, there was no going back to sleep after that! Now I need to figure out a way to lock the screen door so he can’t get out anymore without one of us.
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Terrifying. Our 2yo has figured out how to open all the doors in the house, and we often hear the front door and giggling, and then fading footsteps down the driveway. Seriously, it’s one of the worst combination of noises.
Hope you get it sorted. Can you set up toddler gates in the hallways – can he figure those out?
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He’s been able to figure out toddler gates since he was walking. So since about 10 months old.
We’ve had a great hook on the garage door for a while now, so he can’t follow his dad when his dad goes somewhere in the car. It makes it so the door can only be opened about 10cm, unless you’re tall enough to reach the catch. We’ll probably put one on the front door now, too, but not sure what to do about the screen door. Being summer and having no aircon we have the front door open all day for the breeze and I don’t want him running outside when I’m in the bathroom or distracted by sewing or games or something.
He went outside the other day “following the lizard” so maybe eradicating all wildlife in our yard will work. 😛-
We’ve got those ones you need to step on to open. Our daughter knows how they work, but she’s not heavy enough to actually open it yet. Not sure if that helps you or not.
I know obviously you don’t want him outside, but in terms of mitigating the risk, how’s his road safety? Decent?
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It depends. He usually won’t cross the road without someone’s hand, but if he’s following an animal, who knows? He’s never understood the concept of danger very well.
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We have these step down gates to. they are great. the kidlets know how they work but dont have the weight and strength to open them.
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The answer is dead locks, can’t be opened without a key. Just screw a hook into the door frame high enough so he cant reach, but adults can. the golden rule is that the key must always be on the hook. In case there is a fire etc and you need to get out fast the key is always there. Tie it to the hook with string.
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Is there a deadbolt kind of thing you can get for screen doors?
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You can buy a replacement screen door lock that would only work with a key.
They still have the little toggle switch that you can lock and unlock it with, but they have a key mechanism as well, and when the door is lock with a key it can only be unlocked with the key. (The little toggle swithch is locked in place permanently and cant be used.) We have them on our screens at home.
They sell them at Bunnings or any decent hardware store. If you are in luck they might fit into the existing holes that you have cut in the door. I have replaced a few over the years, no harder that fitting a nromal door handle set.
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Thanks for the info, it’s very much appreciated. 🙂
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No worries.
Worst feeling I have ever had is checking on the sprog and she wasnt in her bed. She was asleep under her bed, but still, scared the bejeebers out of me.
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Well that’s terrifying.
Hey TAY!
Screw Steam Sales! Amiright! It looks like a lot of websites are having competing sales this time with (sometimes) even cheaper prices than Steam. Don’t forget to check GamersGate and GreenManGaming before buying stuff on Steam! (eg. Max Payne 3 is $15 on GMG)
I’m not sure if they can be redeemed on Steam or not, but the prices are sometimes good!
EDIT: I’m sure there’s probably more websites that are doing stuff. Go look!
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Max Payne isn’t Steam. Usually they’ll say something like “Third Party DRM: Requires a Steam account to play” on the page and generally if it CAN be traded in, it’s not a Steam copy (and vice versa).
I just go on Ozbargain and find the best stuff 😛 (and then post it here, making you suckas poorer!)
I’m pretty sure Dark Souls: Prepare to Die edition is $15 on Amazon on Friday (their time).-
Walking Dead Season is $12.49 on Amazon too. But you need a US address etc. Is the Dark Souls deal the same?
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Yep. I’ve never bought from them so I just use a friend who has. It’s as easy as setting your address to a (fake) US one, preferably from a state with no sale tax and buying it.
I think Aleph has bought from them before so maybe he can help? 🙂
But I thought your PC wasn’t good enough 😛
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Downvote if this is true, I was planning on buying it. Fudge fudge fudge
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But you can easily enter a fake one :P. People do it all the time on my usual Australian bargain site.
I’d try it myself but I don’t have a credit/debit card.
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You need a US credit card to buy digital contant on Amazon. Aus card doesn’t work 🙁
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But my friend bought from them all the time o_o
EDIT: not sure what credit card they were using though but they’re Australian
I’m pretty sure it works. People from Ozbargain buy from them all the time.
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(@doc_what as well)
As in you had to make a new Amazon account that had a US address? I think people just added another (US) address to their main account and just swapped it when buying this.
I forgot my friend’s credit card got cancelled so I may need you to buy this for me if that’s alright Tigs? Or maybe it’s a sign and I shouldn’t buy it at all 😀
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@Greenius Maybe it’s just the PSN stuff. You can’t buy with an Aus credit card. I have a US address but can’t buy PSN cards.
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@greenius
New account. I think Amazon sets the account location based on your first purchases and you can’t just change the delivery address, it will still be treated as an AU account.
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Whoa Aus Tax is bullshizzz
Max Payne 3 is $23ish here but $15 in the US and $12 in the UK.
@bish can you please buy it for me? :). I can transfer moolah through PayPal or just buy you something worth $15 on Steam (of your choosing of course)
Heh
Trying to sell my 1994 Commodore
That I smashed the front of.
The engine is fine! the car still runs well, it just looks beat up
One of the guys my brother works with apparently wants it for a paddock basher, but he hasn’t come and had a look at it yet
And the rego is until May next year, so I guess I’ll take the plates and the rego papers into the RTA this Saturday
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$11.01
But you deliver to me.
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Bastards!
It’s worth at least $13.50!
Serious though, looking at a couple of hundred, I reckon I could get it
@greenius
@freezespreston
@shane-
You could buy The Walking Dead and a Colobus monkey for that price!
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I have The Walking Dead already 🙂
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And the Colobus monkey?
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An army of them
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Well, I can see you’ve got your priorities straight already then. Carry on. 😀
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Carrying on Sir! *salutes*
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YOU could buy The Walking Dead.
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Box set, Greenius. I’m waiting on the guy to reply to Shane’s thread too on Telltale forums.
I was like ‘holy shit a commodore 64?’ and then I realised you meant a car. #nerd
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Stupid car, hit a tow bar
The front doesn’t look so hot, but everything inside it runs well
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I DID THE SAME THING!
I want a C64 now…
I was up until almost 2am playing Assassin’s Creed 3. Same as all the other games in the series, I have trouble putting it down, but can’t really determine how much I’m actually enjoying it. They’re compulsive rather than traditionally fun, perhaps. Not sure if that’s good or not…
About halfway through Sequence 8 and just got New York to faff around in. Nearly got all the collectables, which will unlock the final treasure hunting missions – I’m looking forward to them. They are awesome.
But my god, crafting is irritating, and trading is even worse. I’ve started all that up now, and basically have no idea what I’m doing. Even the assassins menu is bad, but at least I finally figured out how to send them on missions. Late in the game to begin all this stuff, I know, but at least I can give the (assassin mission) orders from anywhere, so it doesn’t really break the flow of the game to keep them busy.
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I’m not sure, but I think I could be close to you.
How far past Paul Revere’s Midnight Ride are you? I’ve done the Ride, and the related subsequent events but don’t want to talk about it until I know for sure you’re beyond there.-
I don’t know what that is. I think. I don’t know.
I just escaped from prison and foiled the first attempt on George Washington’s life after being hanged…?-
Err…that’s past where I am. :S
Paul Revere’s Ride was where you had to ride on the same horse as Paul Revere to raise the militia. I knew it was before Sequence 8 which is why I felt safe mentioning it as the point of reference. You had to ride to the green circles, get off the horse and find the right house. Then after that you had to hurry to Concord and when you got there you had to tell the three groups of Patriots when to fire on the Redcoats massing over the river.
I very nearly had to give up at that point because I couldn’t get through part without all the Patriots dying before they’d killed the requisite 130 Redcoats. Took me about 15 tries and that’s not even an exaggeration. 🙁-
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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Covering only bits that you’ve done now:
That giving orders mission irritated me, but I managed to clear it first try.I had major difficulty with the timed run to warn the people, because I didn’t notice the available horse on the first five tries /o\
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What I found was that my guys got shot whether they were behind cover or not, but yeah, after the first couple of relaxed salvos, just rushing back and forward yelling “Fire” with no consideration of timing worked for me. I agree – it wasn’t a particularly inspired or well-designed part of the game.Does it seem odd to you that all these people trust Connor to take responsibility in their armies? It seems odd to me – I think he’s going to be present and active in every single important historical event of the period (Gump-style).
Also I don’t understand why he is always sailing the ship when there’s an experienced seadog standing right next to him!Sorry about the spoilers! Are you mad?
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P.S. I didn’t read your spoilers yet in case you’re further than me.
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GAH! 😛
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Just looked it up, and you’re in Sequence 7. Yeah, don’t read my spoiler.
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Too late. 😛
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Lesson to all:
Learn your sequence numbers.
Or remember where you’ve been (I had no idea that was the famous Midnight Ride. I’m bad at history and paying attention. The minimap showed me where to go /o\).
Or don’t click spoiler tabs.
Or don’t write real spoilers.
Or something.
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Yeah, when I said I didn’t read your spoilers I was talking about your original post. Your second one hadn’t appeared yet when I posted that. So then I read that one. And after composing my reply, saw your warning not to. Whole thing was a bit of a clusterfuck. 😛
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I really like the word “clusterfuck”.
I have nothing constructive to contribute to your plight.
I think I enjoy it for compulsive reasons as well
Being a sufferer of OCD as I have mentioned before
Also, brutally murering people with a tomahawk is awesome ^.^
Morning folks. Hope this day finds you well?
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Hi DC frond! How are things going for you?
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Still too half asleep to decide one way or the other. 😀 ‘sup Nob? (Notice the lack of ‘s’ @greenius? Are you happy now, man? ARE YOU HAPPY NOW? :P)
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Ugh, don’t get me started on NEEDIUS.
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UGHGHHH NEEDULUS…
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Hey DC. Things are okay, despite being at work now.
I got good writing done on the commute to work. I kind of buy into the romantic old-school writing tools (pen and paper obviously, and if I had money, I would buy one of those old clacky typewriters too!), so I’m really getting into longhand writing. Have written about 50,000 words in two notebooks so far this year.
It’s all downhill from here though, except for TAY and the commute back home!
What’s the day got in store for you?
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That’s awesome to hear, man. Ah, that old school writing, I don’t know. Final Draft and touch typing for me, man. Takes away all the barriers between your thoughts and getting it written down. I mentioned it when Trjn said someone told him he couldn’t hold a pen properly, but I have the same thing. Extended writing with a pen gives me blisters and it’s so damn uncomfortable. Ramble for the ages! 😛
Stuff! 😀
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Totally get your perspective, and that’s a real shame about the pen posture. I guess at this stage, it’s not really worth the work involved in rectifying it…
For my part thought: you can write much faster with a keyboard for sure, but I struggle to get real inspiration when I’m in front of a screen. Also, I think I do much better when I’m not tethered to a location.
Being able to go fast (i.e. keyboard) feels almost like pressure to go fast, whereas my thoughts and handwriting speed are more naturally in tune with each other. I love brimming over with thoughts while I write, not having to pause for my mind to catch up!
There’s also something tangible about it – being able to hold up your writing the moment you’ve done it – that’s always had some appeal for me. I just love it.
Fun fact: the outside of my little finger is all shiny and smooth from constant friction with paper, like wood polished smooth by sandpaper.
And final edit: I have what could almost – ALMOST – be described as a stationery fetish. Couple of months ago, when my wife and I got some alone time and went out for a date, we hit up Officeworks after dinner 😛 (editedit: I just realised that was almost ten months ago /o\)
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The ability to edit as you go appeals to me too, I like being able to back space and rephrase something.
The old school type writer thing? That’s just asking for The Shining to happen. 😛
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See, that’s the kind of thing that loses its menacing edge when you can just copy and paste a million times.
Also, not being able to edit on the fly without crossing stuff out is kind of liberating in a way. Frees the critical mind up for writing rather than revising. Every stage of the process in its right place 🙂
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Just saw your date night at Office Works comment. Outstanding. 😛
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Best night.
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Hey man!
I’ve never learned nor created any form of shorthand, so everything I’ve ever written (granted, not a lot) was done longhand.
I get jelly-legs when I see a gorgeous fountain pen… There was/is a store I found in Canberra called… papiertisserie? Iunno. Some gorgeous (likely overpriced :P) stuff in there!
Today’s consisting of a three-quarter day at work, followed by The Walking Dead ep. 2 (\o/) and whatever the night brings me!
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As your wing man, you should totally stay home and play video games! 😛
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Oh yeah, those stores are pretty cool, but the prices put me off. (Was fun shopping there for wedding stationery in 2008 though!)
Put me in Officeworks though… oh man!
My life feels empty whenever I think about it and realise I’m not there looking at stationery.My writing setup at the moment is one of those bag of 10 plastic pens for $2, and some beautiful white casewrapped hardcover notebooks that were on clearance for $3 each.
FRIDAY, FRIDAY, GOTTA PLAY GAMES ON FRIDAY.
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Hellscream!
Morning everyone.
I tried doing a bauble last night but it didn’t turn out because the brush I was using didn’t really work out. I’m going to try again today at some point.
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‘sup scree? Hope the day’s treating you good and proper?
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Its friday, how bad can it be?
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About the same as everyday =P At least for me.
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Hey Scree!
You should try using a new / finer brush. It may help!
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That’s the plan =D Hoping it’ll work out, but only after I work on the rat shirt
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YAY!
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I’ll tell you how it works out
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Awesome!
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Morning TAYonites.
I have a horrible confession. I still havent finished the campaign on Halo 4. I started out playing with some mates. I figured I wanted to finish it on legendary and just play through on the hardest level, and get the legendary ending sequence. Anyway, my mates have traded halo 4 for BLOPS2, but I still want to finish it, bit of a fan of the series.
So, Is anyone interested in a Legendary play through? Im only at the end of the second chapter. Only requirement is that you give me no spoilers during gameplay please. I should be on tonight if you are keen, just let me konw.
Other than that, thank *%#@ its Friday.
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Horrible confession? I’ve never played a Halo game. Ever. 😛
(Also, hey man! What’s new? Stuff?)
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I never played one to completion. I tried the first one, and I think I almost beat it, but I had no enthusiasm for the story or gameplay, so I gave it away.
If Greenius’ yesterday was any guide, actually not liking a popular/respected franchise is worse than never having tried it, so… preparing for downvotes. Now.
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No, people just hate me ;_;
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DC your missing out, its a solid series.
Not much, is happening.
Horrible week at work so I just cant wait for the day to be over. On the up side, have a work Christmas party on saturday night, nothing says stress relief like copious amounts of freeze booze 🙂
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Didn’t have the original Xbox and always feel weird about jumping into a franchise so many games in. Also, my FPS skills on consoles are… lacking. 😀
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I only ever played the original on a mates XBOX on splitscreen, as I had a ps2. that game was my decision point to turn form ps to MS and get a 360. Was fun to go back and play the anniversary edition and switch between the graphics and see how much things have changed over the years.
I think the reason I only play on console is that Im much bad with the mouse and key pad on the PC. far too many different buttons to press and find I have to look at the keyboard far to often in the middle of gameplay. Back in the day, me and mates used to go to internet cafes and LAN party on COD, the original COD. Fun times.
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Sounds great, dude! Just don’t do anything that will make next week at work even worse 😛
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I played the first one and was having fun…until they forced me to drive a vehicle. I never went back to it.
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Mako style controls? That almost broke me when I played the first Mass Effect on the Xbox. Was so much better in the PC version. 😀
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that Mako is why i have never play me2 or me3. i HATED that thing
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The vehicles were the best part! I love Halo vehicles.
My brother and I used to play Death Warthogs in multiplayer where you both got into a Warthog and tried to ram each other until somebody fell out. Then you had to run them over before they could get back in.
If there’s an official mode that is similar to that now, that would be amazing!
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My sister and I used to do that too.
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Horribler confession? I finished Halo 4 on Monday. I skipped all the cutscenes. Pew pew pew
(braces for downvotes)
But in all seriousness it was a friend’s copy and I was playing it at their house. Both of us aren’t into the Halo story and usually I’d watch them but he didn’t want to and we both wanted to finish it on that day so skipping them made it quicker.
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People who skip cutscenes keep me awake at night. :'(
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And also the fear of meats!
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Fear of every thing. 😛
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I’m upvoting this because the hell with it, you played the game the way you wanted to and nobody should tell you any different.
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We should play Halo games together. You can do the gameplay stuff and I’ll watch the cutscenes for you. 😛
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Looks like Ozgameshop’s black friday deals have kicked in.
At least I’m assuming so because the entire website is down.
My wallet is probably breathing a sigh of relief right now.
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When I read the word ‘probably’ in your post, my thoughts went like this:
“Doesn’t he know whether his wallet is sighing in relief?”
“Is that because he doesn’t know where his wallet is?”
“And is that because the wallet is hiding, cowering in fear under the bed?”-
well it could have been a fart as well
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Cheers, I’ll try and keep an eye on it
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Okay it’s back up and holy crap Skyrim (xbox, downloadable version) is 23 bucks. And there’s not much else by the looks of it.
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yeah, just got on. I cant see anything that I want for cheaper than usual.
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Morning TAY!
Picked up my AC3 Freedom Edition yesterday and put a good 3ish hours into it. About 20 minutes of that was doing various stuff with my character’s legs. The animation is pretty fantastic!
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Stupid question but you’re using a controller right, Xbox one?
I guess AC3 will be my first third persony (non-shooter) game on PC and well, they aren’t very fun with a keyboard and mouse. I only have a PS3 controller so hopefully it doesn’t suck :P. The non triggerness of R1/L1 get screwy since I mapped them as the triggers.
Safe to say it’s uPlay too?
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Yeah, it’s uPlay. I can’t hate it too much…the “achievements for DLC” thing is kinda awesome.
This is actually the first Assassin’s Creed I’m playing with a controller, so I’m stuffing up a fair bit. I used KBM for ages, partially cause I could, partially cause it upset everyone else 😛
The only thing you use the analogue function of the trigger for is either running or sprinting, and the other one is manual, so you should be fine.
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You use to be cool, back when you used keyboards and mice.
You’ve changed man, you’ve changed!
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I’m playing it with KB&M, and I’m liking it. Tried playing it with a controller, but I didn’t like the feel. #I’mReallyWeird
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Front page and subsequent pages of the newspaper, TV and radio here have done nothing but warn schoolies of how dangerous high rise balconies are. The message obviously didn’t sink in as a girl has fallen from the 22nd story.
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They’re just giving the kids ideas. Much better not to mention high-rise balconies at all…
Actually, didn’t I read that three people fell to their deaths from Gold Coast balconies in the last month, not counting this one? So Schoolies hasn’t actually increased the incidence of fatalities…
Queenslanders, amirite?
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I said this on twitter last night, but schoolies is basically a sad cautionary tale no one learns from year after year. :'( This girl hadn’t even started to live.
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I think the worst part is that non-schoolies don’t learn from it. Teenagers you can expect to do stupid stuff (it’s what they do…it what I did 😛 ) but when hotel staff/the media/general public say “how could this happen???” It’s like questioning how a soldier in a war could possibly have been shot.
Still, really shit that it happens every bloody year…-
This is an excellent point. An article I read said that hotel managers don’t want to lock balcony doors because “schoolies are paying for balcony rooms”
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Question time ; Did you listen to your parents/authority figures when you were a teenager?
I know I sure as hell didnt. I think of all the crazy hijinks that I got up to and realise now that I was a headline just waiting to happen. But throught pure dump luck I got through relativelty unscathed. Trouble is now, I look at my two daugthers and think, if you try that on me there will be hell.
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I did. #NerdAlert
But I know my daughter won’t /o\
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I just wanted high school to be over. The reason I didn’t go to schoolies, the reason I didn’t go to formal. High school will never be over for this girl now.
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Yeah, Im not saying I dont feel bad for this girl and her family. Horrible, horrible event.
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That’s the thing. Everyone knows a majority of teenagers don’t listen to anyone. They’re on top of the world, just made it through what has been the most stressful time of their lives so far and they’re feeling invincible.
It’s up to hotels to make sure the balconies are safe. Not shrug and whinge that nobody listens to them.-
Agreed. I would of thought it was some kind of safety issue not to have security screens on windows on the highrises. But I guess they still have balcony doors
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Unless they’re given some incentive to do so (a successful lawsuit from a bereaved family for instance, or criminal negligence charges, or the police shutting down the entire hotel for a week while they conduct a detailed investigation), the whole thing is (terribly) good publicity for them, and there’s no business case for costly renovations of this type.
See my comment above: hotel managers don’t even want to lock the frickin balcony doors 🙁
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The building she fell from has locking bolts on all the balcony doors. I know because I installed hundreds of them myself. They are supposed o be locked during schoolies because that is exactly why they were done. Someone has unlocked them for them or they broke them off.
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The case for criminal negligence gets a little clearer…
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What can the hotel managers do though? It’s easy to say “the hotel managers are evil and are to blame for all the problems” but sometimes we just need to blame the teenagers that choose to get drunk and act like a dickhead.
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All they had to do was lock the balcony doors, like (according to Freeze) they were supposed to.
They chose not to, and now a girl is dead. There’s gotta be some blame laid at their feet in this. Though I agree that the behaviour of the teens themselves is the primary contributing factor.
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Oh, I’m with you there. Wasn’t really trying to lay blame, just saying that more precaution needs to be taken. 🙂
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That two daughters thing is what freaks me out. I know I did my fair share of stupid stuff as a kid (mostly involving motor cross bikes) and my girls already do some really stupid stuff.
Guess I’m just starting to realise what I put my parents through 😛
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Paybacks a bitch Freeze.
My parents laugh at me when I tell them what my oldest does. You have no idea how many times I’ve heard, wait until shes a teenager.
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I get that from my parents, and I could not have possibly been a more boring child. That doesn’t seem fair.
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Start playing up now, If your going to do the time, have the joy of doing the crime.
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Divorce court, here I come…?
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No, maybe jsut a weekend pass, LOLs
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I’m not sure those passes actually exist. In fact, I’m quite sure that they don’t (or at least, that I will never see one).
Disclaimer: not that I want one. Just saying. 🙂
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I did. I’m an only child and my parents were very over protective. I did rebel from the over protectiveness a bit but that was in the form of not calling them every time I drove somewhere (once I got my Ps).
Generally they always knew where I was, who I was with and what I was doing.
I don’t recall doing anything stupid in my teenage years. It’s just not me.
I’m all for extreme sports and dangerous activities but I always do them safely and intelligently.
I’m also not a massive drinker so I rarely get drunk. And when I do, it’s in a safe environment at a mate’s beach house or something like that.
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That… felt like reading a story of my life (except for parts of it). So I upvoted it.
Morning all.
Google’s Ingress app/game is quite interesting. It’s a great idea and I’d like to see it fleshed out more
Also watched looper last night
I liked the movie. A few bits were quite deep. Did anyone else feel that the movie should have finished about 1 minute before it did? Should have stopped just as he shot himself, I think the rest takes away from a powerful ending.
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Really good movie!
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Couldn’t agree more. The ending should have been “spin gun, final spoken line, cut to black”. It kinda petered out instead.-
Good, I’m not the only one who thinks that.
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Dammit TAY! Why do you have to be so generous!? I haven’t even bought anything from the Steam sale yet! D:
Thank you for the gift, @semobulus @sernobulus.
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I was going to gift you KOTOR2 so you wouldn’t be deprived any more. Went to check out, clicked gift then discovered that you are not my friend.
Why don’t you want to be my friend Pow? Why do you hat me?
;(
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Lucky I wasn’t your friend or I’d have even more TAY gift guilt! 😛
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I’m guessing you didn’t get a troll gift? 🙂
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Sim City 4 D: Damn Trollius! Getting me something that I will actually enjoy! That’s the worst kind of troll!
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The (manly) gift fairy has struck again. He waved his (manly) pink magic wand and made a gift appear. Off in to the sunset the (Manly) gift fairy skipped. Off to gift more people (in a manly way).
… In short, NO PROBLEM
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Not the manliest of phrases. 😛
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It’s gotta be pretty close, though. I don’t think I’ve seen the word “manly” used more than that in a single phrase before 🙂
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Duplicate gifting fairy is broke this sale, so no danger there.
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No danger of Secret of the Magic Crystals?
The world is at peace once again.
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It’s gonna be a mean Kudos competition this week. I’m staying well out of it.
By the way, cashed-up TAYbies, anyone bought nova The Walking Dead yet? I stand by my earlier offer to pledge $5 contribution.
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I don’t think he has me on friends list /o\
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Dat feel when applying for a new job and they tell you you’re overqualified.
I know I’m overqualified! But you’re still paying more! ALAJSDJDBEVXJEIEU<¢_`|!!
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Good luck dude! Hopefully you get the higher paying job, just in time for the Wii U 😉
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If I get this other job I will buy 5 copies of Xenoblade!
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+1
(extra upvote)
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+1 your +1
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+1 your +1 that +1s his +1 that acts as an extra +1 to the original +1.
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That sucks dude, I hope it works out.
Protip: When you’re overqualified for a job, you really need to convince the recruiters that you’re not looking for a challenge or a stepping stone. You genuinely want the job on offer, regardless of your qualifications. That’s the challenge, the hard sell.
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Yeah, I am thinking if I don’t get another job I applied for, I will contact the agencies advertising these jobs and see if I can convince them.
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Hmmmm selling apathy in a job interview, That shits just crazy enough to work.
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… not exactly what I mean, but I guess you could try it 😛
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Treat ’em mean, keep ’em keen.
I guess that explains a few things o.0
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Gang, Dan here.
I’m looking for a cheap Kinect. Does anyone have one they don’t use/don’t want?
Lemme know a price and we can negotiate.
It’s for an old school Elite 360.
Reason: I bought Once Upon A Monster and wanna play it wicked bad.
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If you’re using it on an old machine I think you need an AC adapter for it. Just an FYI, in case you didn’t know.
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Yeah I read that.
Silly fat boxes.
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We have two, and we don’t even use one of them. Let me talk to Mr. Strange and get back to you. 🙂
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Actually, scratch that. One of them is completely mine so you can definitely have it. Payment is that you have either pay for postage or come and pick it up.
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Whoop WHOOOOOOOOP!!!
Strange with the radness, as usual!
I’m busy most of the weekend but if I get a spare mo’ I’ll swing around.
Otherwise I’ll just organise a courier on Monday or something.
I’ll let you know.
YOU’RE THE BEST!!!
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I’ve got one that came with my 360. Still in the box somewhere. Yours if you want it for whatever you feel like paying me.
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I want to get Once Upon a Monster for my daughter at some point, so might be interested in grabbing yours if you’re happy to sell to an interterritorian…?
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Just a warning, you have to have loads of space for it to work properly. We have a fairly large loungeroom and nobody can make Once Upon A Monster turn the page which means we can’t play it. 🙁
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Thanks for the warning.
… I have no idea how to test that without a Kinect 😛
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Not a problem at all. I need to email you anyhow, so we can sort something out when I finally get around to that.
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Thanks, bun!
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Ok I charged my 3DS today. I’m gonna slowly walk up to the Wii U experience area at lunch and brush up (assault with my backpack) everyone I see.
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Dude.
Imagine how many Street Passes we’ll get at the WiiU midnight launch.
#RideTheSwan
#HashTagsForHarli-
I’m not going to the midnight launch because I’m a chump and bought it online. /o\
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That’s half the reason I’ve decided to go to a midnight launch.
#barebackthejacana
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Completin’ puzzles and fleecin’ muggles.
#RideTheSwan
#MagicalEvening
#HashtagsForHarli
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I’m tempted to go to one just to get some hits, now…
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I’d hit on you.
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Meet you at the Tuggeranong launch? 😀
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I picture a guy causing a ruckus by swinging his backpack around in circles, knocking over crowds of people. He doesn’t stop until he gets tackled by security, the last we see of him is him being dragged away screaming “just one MORE!”.
CRAZY GUY U CRAZY BRO! but I love you! Thank you so so much! YOU ROCK MANG
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PIXEL!
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DC!!!
‘Sup mang?-
Not much, man. Not much. Now we’re caught up. 😀
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\o/ now back to the awkward conversation fillers that I’m so good at..
*stares awkwardly into the air*
WANT SOM’ RYE? -
Course ya do!
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Guess I should clarify 😛 this awesome guy, that’s your new name by the way, AwesomeGuy1990 just gifted me Darksiders 2 out of nowhere! LOVE YOU MANG!
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You’re welcome. 😀
Enjoy!
Giftyguy1990!
I wanna try something in Far Cry 3.
I’m going to attempt a playthrough (in as much as it’s possible) without shooting anyone.
Instead, I will lure tigers & other wildlife to enemy encampments & let them eat their way to my victory.
Edit : spelling.
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Achievement worthy right there! (Unlike Hitman Absolution, which gave me an achievement for running the graphic benchmark. :S)
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what
an achievement for running the benchmark?
oh…. i just had an evil (marketing) idea….two achievements –
1) Seeing Red : achieve 60 FPS with an AMD graphics card.
2) In the Green : achieve 60 FPS with an nVidia graphics card.I wonder how many people would go for a completionist run with that? none I would hope.
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I find your lack of faith disturbing *force choke*
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In theory you could do it with the same animal the whole way through (unless they’re easily killed or there is some obstacle along the way that stops them)….
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I like this idea. but I’m pretty sure there’ll be a few loading screens that it wont be able to pass.
Additional thing – I’ll keep a tally of my tigers used.
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Why did the writer hire the contractor?
Because the fourth wall was broken.
#NaNoHumour
#DeepRegretOfKFCProportion
#DadJoke
Edit: #HashtagForHarli
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Nope.
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Fair call.
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Trying to decide what I should do with the ever-increasing pile of hair growing over my…face.
To shave, or not to shave. Also I guess trimming it would work.
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I haven’t shaved in two weeks, man. Except for my neck, no one wants a neck beard. 😛
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I haven’t shaved properly for like a month. I think it’s starting to annoy my girlfriend… 😛
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Movember or just laziness? Either way, it’s all good! 😀
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Hahaha wow!
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“RAW TOONAGE”
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“How to be the Cool Girl at the Party, in 5 Easy Steps”
Haha! 😀
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What if everyone follows those steps?
WHO WILL BE THE COOL GIRL THEN, DC?! WHO?!?!?!!!-
The girl that chose enough to live her own life, maybe? 😛
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And now I feel like a jerk. People can live however they wanna live.
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No they can’t. That’s why society has laws. And social norms. And a monetary system. And outcasts. And pariahs. And bigotry…? Wait, what was my point again?
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Hells no man, I get you.
I tried the ‘follow the pack’ thing for… a week maybe, in high-school. Didn’t work 😛
I just do my own thing, if that coincides with others, fuckin’ awesome!
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Are you… writing an article… or thinking up funny captions for the pictures in your head…?
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FabSugar at the bottom of the page, man. Made me laugh for some reason really loud.
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I’ve always been the cool girl at the party.
After avoiding the recent AAA slew of the last few weeks, I have now been broken and have decided I need something for the coming weekend.
Whatever games in the following get the most upvotes, I will buy at lunchtime today!
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Assassins Creed 3
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Halo 4
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Hitman Absolution
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Break into a store and steal Far Cry 3 so I can play it this weekend
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Don’t forget Steam sales, man! The Walking Dead, etc. Apparently I have no excuse not getting it myself, but I’m trying to mitigate Greenius’ anger by pressuring others to get it. Except @dc, because we’ll be disc-buddies.
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I already bought Walking Dead! Plus I haven’t finished XCom yet -_-
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Secret of the Magic Crystal
Even though I’m completely busted ass broke and up to my ears in debt again, it’s so damn nice to have working air conditioning in my car! (which now also works well! yay!) Still.. could have done without that bill for at least a couple more years. Hopefully it’ll stay reasonably trouble free until I get all this paid off now 😐
Morning again. I’m half asleep again.
I’m having issues with drawing grass.
Either I should look up a tutorial or use reference images.
Or something.
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What kind of grass are you going to go for? Short? Long?
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illicit?
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I need a close up of short grass.
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Sleepy Scree!
Would it be possible to use the ‘grass’ brushes in Photoshop or similar? Iunno whether that’s what you’re going for, or indeed whether it’s available to you?
I take it this is for the mouse we all voted on?-
It’s a rat. But yes. That’s it.
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I know marsupials :S
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Just do what Mario did:
http://blogs.ocweekly.com/heardmentality/mario%20clouds.jpg-
Haha, awesome, I had no idea that was a thing.
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In which I offend the disabled and some dude whines about his sore knee.
Get on it, you devils.
http://dankarlszeitgeist.podbean.com/2012/11/23/dan-karls-zeitgeist-s02e07-the-tale-of-manny/
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I sprained my neck in primary school, by falling on my head from the playground.
Had to lie there squealing like a pig ’til the ambulance came to check me out. A teacher stayed with me the whole time.Turns out she’s now the evil stepmother-she-bitch. Go figure!
I’ve only broken two bones, though neither of them were mine.
I caved and bought The Walking Dead from Steam.
I expect if it’s half as good as most of you say, at least one quarter of the first half of my two day weekend where I’ll devote twice as much effort into finishing half the story in one sitting, and the other half will probably take twice as long as the first and second halves of the first half.
Should be good.
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I was sceptical (read: fearful) that it wouldn’t live up to the hype.
I won’t say anything here aside from the fact that I finished Ep. 1 last night, and am looking forward to playing the rest over the weekend. -
I’m… the… confus- huh?
Walking Dead!
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I had to read that a few times. Well done.
Play more AC3, though!
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Oh, I’ll be doing that too. Only put in about 3 hours, and a lot of that was screwing around.
AC3:
I’ve arrived in Boston and done like 2 missions, then started going nuts. So I’m not actually even playing as Connor yet 😛
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Haha look at me, refreshing page 16 like a chump…
*refresh*
Baldur’s Gate Enchanced Edition is available for Pre-load right now! The game unlocks on the 28th. Can’t wait! =D
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Soo maany gaaaaaaaaaaames!
Well apparently planetside 2 has a hype tractor rather than a hype train
Well I played a bit last night and consider the hype tractor upgraded
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/86/Tractor_pull_02.JPG
I am well and truly on board, I think it might be time to organise planetside 2sday
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I’ve downloaded it but yet to give it a go. So many games to play!!!
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Loving the permanent warfare map, always something to do either defending a base, assaulting a stronghold or slipping around behind and trying to capture undefended territory
Pings are good and just coming to terms with the classes and certifications now.-
Yeah, I hope they’ve done the persistent warfare well. A few games in the past tried it and it just didn’t…feel(?) persistent. Or they were just crap games 😛
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I managed to successfully drive my first train on Train Simulator!
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But they caught me speeding…
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I hope you told them hype has no speed limit.
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You have no idea.
CHOO-CHOO!
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Gunzells are funny
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You should have made a run for it.
God.
Dammit.
I hate old people. “You owe me a discount because I’ve managed to not die yet. The whole world owes me.”
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Now that I think on it there is very little difference in demeanour and attitude between an old lady with a seniors card and a robber with a knife.
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At least you can hit your emergency button for a robber.
You’d look a bit silly if you did it for an old lady.
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So your store doesn’t do seniors discounts then, I take it? 😛
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I used to work for a bank and can confirm that old men are the worst customers of all.
If anyone’s looking for a harddrive, then this is the deal for you~
http://www.estore.com.au/Seagate_Barracuda_1TB_Hard_Disk_Drive_SGA0211.aspx
these things are normally close to $300 a pop cos they’re designed for servers running 24/7!
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Oooooooo…
Barracuda.
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If it were SAS you would have gotten my sale…. but as it’s SATA, you can keep it. 😀
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Holy shit BARGAIN!
So I made this for breakfast. Hooray for decent enough looking food! I think I messed up the yolk thing @Strange since I just cracked the egg straight ontop of it :P… oh well there’s always next time! But I’m enjoying having stuff other than the usual quick breakfast food like sandwiches and cereal.
Anyways… I wanted to know what are some easy enough non-sandwich recipes and things I could make using ham and a sandwich presser/microwave. I’m kinda sick of the usual toasted ham and cheese sandwiches I usually make but I can’t really think of anything else that’s simple that I can do with ham.
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Ham and eggs on toast works. Honestly, it’s pretty much what you did with a slice of ham under the egg 😛
Also, nothing wrong with a bit of fried ham if there’s no bacon around.
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NO BACON AROUND? What is the I don’t even?
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I liked it better when it said “I don’t event” and I was going to say that Jesus came around and ate it all.
But now I can’t say that.
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*grumblegrumblegrumble* stoopid autocorrect on mobile*grumblegrumblegrumble*
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‘Simple’ may be subjective here :S
What ham do you have? Packeted, wafer-thin shaved ham? Or a leg?
If you’ve got a leg, honey-glazed ham is AMAZING.
Good luck doing that on a sandwich press though… I’m so helpful :S-
Virginian ham I believe. It’s just a few slices of it.
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Swap ham with salami and enter a new world of craziness!
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If you can grab some other ingredients, consider mustard and tomato instead of cheese in a sandwich. Simple.
Serve ham on the side of macaroni cheese – winning dish. Simple.
I don’t know how complicated you’re willing to get, so I’m only listing stuff my two year old could make. Hope that’s all right 😛
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Also, if the ham is optional, I endorse the following sandwiches:
Hash browns and grated cheese
Potato gems and grated cheese
Flavoured tuna and grated cheese (tomato based tunas work really well, 79c a tin at Aldi)You can swap grated cheese for slice cheese if you have to.
EDIT: MAN I’M HUNGRY NOW
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Been doing the hashbrown and cheese thing for a while!
But ran out of hashbrowns…
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Turns out that smooshing potato gems between hash browns just ends up as a 3-4inch layer of potato between slices of cheesy bread.
ALL THE CARBS.
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Oh, and I forgot: this is the single most refreshing sandwich in the entire world.
Get two thick slabs of fresh soft
whiteany-colour bread cut from a nice loaf. (Or a long roll is second preference)Add ham, lettuce, tomato, mayonnaise and a little cheese. (Edit: you can add any other salad you want, Subway-style)
Eat without cooking in any way.
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Shit yes.
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Trying to avoid straight up sandwiches for a while 😛
I don’t mind using bread though just not all sandwichy and together.
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Well, I don’t know what to do for you. When you turn your back on sandwiches, you turn your back on the world entire.
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Yeah there’s like nothing for ham that’s not sandwich related 🙁
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Make a frittata!
Crack some eggs, sprinkle cheese, chuck in your ham and slam that sucker into the oven.You could add pastry and turn it into quiche, but that’s all work.
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Hell, you could even just stir it into pasta or whatever else you’re eating.
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In that line of thought, make Carbonara!
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Only if you do it properly though.
Hint: Carbonara does not have cream in it, despite what all the americanized recipes tell you.
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I must know more! /o\
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needs mustard
White bread D:
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Racist.
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Actually, this is a point. I used to be able to eat white bread in abundance. Due to reasons, I can’t anymore. Edited accordingly.
Cricket talk!
Hilfenhaus gone for a duck, Morkel has five wickets, Australia are 9/504.
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The thing about spinners, is that they always try to walk it in.
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Pfft that batter is ‘aving a laugh
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Ludicrous display.
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Thanks crazyguy, I can turn the TV on now I had totally forgotten. Turned it on earlier but it was random interviews and stuff so I ignored it.
Lead of 500, we might have to bat again if they decide to make a contest of it. Looking at the way Lyon is playing I reckon it will be over soon. So close to 4 full days to bowl them out for less than 500. Well and truly doable -
Although I just saw this mornings stats 4/27 isn’t great even if it is just the tail
So… do you guys like stuff?
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Nope.
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I think stuff clutters up one’s mind. I’m a wannabe minimalist.
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I like stuff and things!
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The doctor said I wouldn’t have any nose bleeds if I kept my finger outta there!
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Good answers, every last one of ’em.
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I put on my robe and wizard hat
Bioshock 2 makes me all jumpy. I turtle my way through the levels, constantly watching my back. Whenever there’s something obvious to interact with, I brace myself that it’s going to trigger something… IT’S NOT EVEN A HORROR GAME, YOU WUSS. Though sometimes I hear some old time radio and I just stand there listening to that for a while. That’s nice.
On a more blood-tacular note, Primal Carnage (the dinosaur vs soldiers game that I won’t shut up about) is pretty cool! Though I haven’t played an actual game yet because I can’t figure out the controls (no tutorial/single player :P). I chose to be a Pteranodon and I couldn’t figure out how to fly, just glide. Maybe that’s an actual mechanic though? I dunno. The point is: DINOSAURS.
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BioShock was excellent at that unnerving kind of atmosphere, that’s half the fun too! 😀
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Ah, I should mention I’m playing Bioshock 2, not the original 😛 Bioshock 1 is one of my favourite games!
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Good game. I like how you could plan for the swarms this time around too!
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Bioshock only really made me jump when I bumped into my first Houdini Splicer… Mind you it was a big jump
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I know exactly what you’re talking about D:
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jump + jump (hold) = flying dino.
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Is that not just gliding though, or was I doing something wrong? I assumed you’d be able to constantly fly around the map.
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you can indeed fly freely. swoop down on all the pesky humans!
Edit: that game really needs a tutorial. and bots. (dinobots?)
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Hm, okay. I must’ve been doing something wrong. I’ll look up a video tutorial or something later on. Thanks!
EDIT: Seems like you have to Jump + Jump (hold) while sprinting. Otherwise you just glide. Yeah, this game really needs a tutorial 😛 Oh well!
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I always felt like I wa overpowered in Bioshock 2. The first one felt more like you were actually fighting through it more than plowing.
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Well, you are playing as a Big Daddy in BioShock 2, so being more powerful sort of makes sense. It’s been ages since I played either game though, so I can’t recall if I actual did feel more powerful in BioShock 2 or not.
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You play as a Big Daddy in BioShock 2? Interesting :O
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You haven’t played BioShock 2 Greenius? For shame.
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The plan was to play it after I finished 1, except I couldn’t find a friend who had a spare copy to lend so I never got around to it again (I originally rented it when it first came out but never finished it).
Then I bought the ultra sexy collector’s edition of 2 earlier this year when it was fairly cheap. I was waiting for Infinite to come out since that also had BioShock 1 on the disc so I could get through all three…
BUT THEN Amazon was all “hay u wnt Bioshocks and Spec Ops for $20?” so I bought that shit and now I’m waiting closer to Infinite’s release 🙂
I know I didn’t need to explain any of this but I’m bored and like giving out free notifications on older pages. ENJOY
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Ah you should play 2 before Infinite comes out, the story’s aren’t related in any way, and you will probably rid yourself of the sour taste 2’s story leaves by the time Infinite is out. Saying that though I have plans of playing 1 & 2 again before Infinite comes out just because.
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One week later, still listening to Sia.
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Love this song.
it was weird, when it was released, no one knew who was doing the vox & the artist wouldnt say.
found out years later it was Sia.…and thats everything I know about her.
Edit : Link contains NSFW lyrics.
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Woooooow, that was nice.
The way she trips and hangs on syllables… that’s really cool.
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I much prefer her solo stuff to David Guetta’s collabs.
Maybe I just don’t like Mr. Guetta though.
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Agreed!
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Do I keep listening to Sia, or mix it up with some Pearl Jam? /o\
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The heart wants what the heart wants, Aleph.
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@mythamphetamine: Re: proper Carbonara:
A real Carbonara is made from cheese and eggs, specifically Pecorino cheese which is a sharp cheese made from sheep’s milk that goes quite creamy when melted.
When I make it at home I generally use Pancetta, but properly made you’re meant to use Guanciale. I’ve never managed to find any of that around though. Both of these are vastly preferable to bacon or ham, because they have spices as well.
Generally I’ll take a garlic clove, peel it and slice it in half and take out the root, then fry it up with my pancetta in a little olive oil. Once that’s done, biff the garlic clove, it’s just there to add flavours.
You take a block of Pecorino cheese and grate about 100g of it. Sometimes I put in a little bit of Parmesan as well, if I do that it’s usually a 1/3 parmesan, 2/3 pecorino mix. Then in a bowl, break eggs (I usually use 3 because more sauce. Must be fresh eggs!) and whisk them with a fork, then add half the grated cheese in and mix a bit, it sort of makes a cheesy eggy gloop.
Then once your pasta is cooked you drain it, leave a little bit of the wheaty water at the bottom of the plot so the pasta’s slightly damp still, helps make things work. Return it back to the heat and immediately stir in the egg & cheese mixture, then add the pancetta, then the rest of the cheese, continuously stirring. Takes about 30-40 seconds for the cheese to melt and the egg to cook and then you’re done and can serve it up.
I like to liberally apply cracked pepper, a little bit of grated parmesan and some sprigs of fresh parsely on it to serve.
EDIT: Note that this doesn’t produce a bland, creamy pile of sauce like commercial, american carbonara. The ‘sauce’ is very thick and there’s not anywhere near as much, but because of the pecorino and the pancetta / guanciale it’s also very flavoursome in comparison.
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Downside: once you try it this way you can’t go back 🙁
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Now I’m fucking hungry and I can’t have pasta at the moment 🙁
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Me too.
Jerk.
Edit: I can have pasta. I meant you’ve made me hungry too. All I brought to work today was an apple and a banana.
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My god, that sounds heavenly.
I’ll have to try a bastardised version some time!
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I imagine it’s hard to find pancetta and pecorino in the arse end of forever where you live? 🙁
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Pancetta *may* be a possibility, but pecorino is most certainly out of the question /o\
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And now that we’re discussing cheese… I could really go for some bocconcini right about now.
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Fancy pants.
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Yeah, I’m a Carbonara elitist.
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Sounds delicious though, I must say.
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Due to a sudden acquisition of several games I’m now trying to slog through Darksiders II just to get it out of the way. It goes against my usual behaviour of playing (and finishing) a game thoroughly before moving on. I don’t like it.
So now I’ve made it feel like a chore, and to make matters worse the particular section of the game that I’ve just passed feels like even more of a chore.
Anyone who’s played it; did you find the Earth section exceptionally dull? It really felt tedious to me. I ended up staying up last night to finish the section, just so that I wouldn’t have to play it the next day. Perhaps it’s due to the Apocalyptic difficulty (anyone played it on a lower setting?). At the start, when the horn only blew every so often (indicating an incoming horde) it wasn’t too bad, but eventually it seemed to be going off every 10 seconds.
I’d get pushed back a bit. Wipe them out. Proceed forward a few steps. Then get pushed back by another swarm. Wipe them out. And so on and so forth. It was a real three-steps-forward two-steps-back scenario.
Tiresome.
Overall, I like the game. I think it could have been stripped back a bit though.
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I know exactly what you mean. I think there’s an old post on TAY’s past with me raging about that part. It doesn’t even mix it up. Just keep plodding forward holding down the trigger for an hour. It went on for far too long and almost made me quit playing.-
Glad I’m not alone.
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I played it on the default difficulty and found that bit annoying as well.
I really didn’t want it to be a crappy third person shooter so I avoided using whatever weapons they made available but that made me struggle in normal fights. As soon as I picked up the weapons it made it a lot easier but not that much more fun.-
Yeah, sans-guns wasn’t really viable. If that gameplay was scattered throughout the game and the choice to pick up a gun was entirely subject to individual taste it would be far less excruciating.
I think they did a good job of that in the first game.-
i just wanted to fit in-
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You can join the cool cats club once you eat some coconut jam
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That sequence in the game is utterly awful. Someone at Vigil was obviously a massive fan of Gears of War or something. 🙁
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FYI once you finish it you never need to go back, and also you’re getting fairly close to the end of the game IIRC.
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Does anyone want to exchange xmas cards? Or just receive one? And if you hate Jesus I can make a happy holidays card with random stuff pasteded on.
No?
Nevermind then.
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^ Who’s this guy?
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(つд⊂) I’ll go cry into my manly pillow for manly tears
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Bottle them and sell them to @bish
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I am in possession of Christmas cards for some reason.
They’re rather nice-ish, and since I hate Christmas joy, I would like to get rid of them as soon as possible.-
Bish, kingdom of bish, Canada?
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Bah! Humbug!
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… No? *walks away sadly and slowly*
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:'( Don’t mind me, I don’t get into the Christmas spirit until after I watch The Polar Express. There’s something so damn sad about that movie and the kid that really resonates with me.
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Tom Hanks and his soulless, expressionless, dead eyes in that movie always puts me in the xmas spirit.
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Haha, there’s a solid movie behind that, though. One that doesn’t treat kids like idiots. Plus the score, man. The score. So bitter sweet.
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IT’S NOT TOO LATE TO SIGN UP TO TAY SECRET SANTA.
Because I’m a slacker and haven’t sent out the emails yet. I will be doing that tonight.
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I am bad at gift giving. And I don’t think an xmas card counts.
HI JORDI!
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Who the hell is that?
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A free man.
Oh, wait. You mean Jordi? Dunno.-
I have a sudden need to listen to some Iron Maiden….
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Not a prisoneeerr!
I’m a free maaan!
And my blood is my ooown now!
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@masha2932
MASHA!!! i got the HDD in the mail today! you rock man! this is awesome…
@greenius the future of my data hoarding is bright!
So my plan for the day?
1. What YouTube videos at work till its time to go home.
2. Go home.
3. Start backing up my PS3 HDD
4. Play Episode 2 of The Walking Dead.
5. Install new HDD in PS3
6. Begin restoring from backup
7. Play Episode 3 of The Walking Dead
8. Play BLOPS2.
I’ll be on TS later, so if anyone has some better ideas and wants to play something together, let me know! …im kinda itchin to get a few games of tf2 in…
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We can be TF2 AND Walking Dead buddies!
Just gotta remind me to get on TS. I’m hardly ever on there :S
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I might go on tonight, feeling a bit bored lately 😛
HEADSETIUS
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HEADSET IS A HAT. GREENIUS TO PLAY TF2 TONIGHT.
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lolno
HatHatress Hatoo is not for me and my laggy internet.
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As long as you don’t become BEEIUS again. I still have nightmares! D=
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I can do a robot voice?
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Robot-BEEIUS?
D=
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Also PS3 buddies 🙂
I’d like to play Blopsie tonight but I got banned for 24 hours last night.
Got matched into a lobby, game started. 5 seconds in the game ended with my team being defeated. One guy managed to go 75-0 in 5 seconds. 5 mins later my game cuts out with a message that I’ve even suspended for 24 hours for cheating.
I think it’s a rather sad indictment o the game that I didn’t get upset but just rolled my eyes and went with it.
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… how does that work? Everyone gets punished… is that the norm in MP games?
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I used to play Counter Strike a bit and I never got banned. I saw a lot of people get banned though. Banning the entire server is not the norm.
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That’s some quality anti cheat program they have there. I guess if the block 100% of players there want be any hackers.
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Except for the ones that hack their way back in.
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That, um, that sounds simpler than my assumption. I just thought they had something to throw the blame on someone else. (I don’t know what’s possible an whys not with that sort of thing.)
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…wut?!
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What the hell!? That’s bullshit…
I remember playing MW2 and some guy was just killing everyone in a matter of seconds, shooting through all the walls and the game paused for a second and a friend and I unlocked EVERYTHING for our characters, all emblems, weapons, skins etc. It kind of took the fun out of the game but I was worried I’d get banned too for having a hacked profile, which I didn’t even want.
But seems like you didn’t really get upset so that doesn’t matter but still kind of stupid 🙁
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WHAT???????? really? thats madness…. then again, you hacker you!
ive heard a few rumours about people with unstable internet connections getting banned. basically due to the sudden stop of the packet flow, then sudden commencement, i think they suspect packet injection hacks etc…. pretty appalling.
EDIT: i just read your comment properly….. thats shocking that theyd ban everyone on the team over this……
I’m going to see Skyfall tonight, but maybe I’ll come on TS afterwards! I’ve got some dinogames to play!
Awesome, that was fast. \o/
I also gave you some awesome bubble wrap to play with 🙂
Good luck with the HDD transfer as well, those things take a long time and if you run into any trouble during the process let me know.
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hahahaha! ive been pissing off the guys at my work with it since i got it! *pop* *pop* *pop*
thanks heaps again man, i needs to pay you back some moneys!
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You and @masha2932 are terrible, terrible hoarders >:P
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@bish when you’re back from foreign parts, would you be willing to be in a short film? sort of like JVTD?
I have a character in mind & you fit it perfectly.
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Remake of the Grinch?
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nope. gonna try & keep it a bit under wraps until I’ve got the ball rolling…
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You make it sound like I am venturing towards naughty bits or something.
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sort of. but not really. I meant Canada. which probably isn’t what most people would consider a ‘naughty bit’
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Pool Cleaner?
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Asian: check.
Here’s your script!
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Racial profiler Pow.
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the part needs a certain type of manner that I think Bish could do well. asian is not a requirement.
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Haha I know, just joking around!
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not quite. I’ll email you a brief outline of the idea if you’re up for having a go at it.
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Hey dudes, heads up: the Persona 4 Golden review has some spoilers in it 🙁
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Really appreciate all the warnings!
I don’t generally read reviews/articles so I avoid most of them but I hate it when it’s a picture spoiler and it’s staring right at me.
Neg I was sooo close to picking up a Vita and P4.
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Yup, it’s pretty early in it too. Like the second paragraph. =/
No warning, just BAM you cannot unread.
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I’m sad now.
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Wow… damn 🙁
I haven’t touched P4 at all so I’m glad I was able to avoid it. Thanks guys!
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Yeah, it reveals all of the characters – some of which turn up quite late in the game – and talks about them in detail, about their character flaws and stuff, and while it’s not enormous, a lot of what makes the game interesting is finding out those elements yourself since they’re story-related. And also because some of them are subtle.
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Yeah, a big part of the game is the characters. It’s pretty annoying. All they need to say is the word “spoilers”. =/
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I read that review before coming in here so I was too late! 🙁
Not happy with their assumption that everyone but them had played P4 already. I managed to stop without what they were talking about sinking in so hopefully by the time I get to play it I’ll have forgotten entirely.
Hash browns are in the oven. This lunch has been a long time coming.
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I wish you well!
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In my head now. Thanks-
Sorry, man. Would it help if I mentioned Dumb Ways to Die? That better? 😛
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You brought this downvote upon yourself. I didn’t like doing it, but YOU NEVER SEEM TO LEARN
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I don’t care…
:'(
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Man that song gets in my head every time the name is mentioned.
God damn that is effective marketing.
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Holy shit! I thought I was the only one 😛
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Hash browns on rye bread. Satisfying. I don’t think I’ve ever had rye before… much heavier than I was expecting.
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Want some rye? Course ya do!
Dishonored friends:
I just saw that crazy Dishonored kill montage (holy shit…) and I was going to ask a question there but then got scared that some troll would spoil the game for me. So I’m going to ask my question here instead :).
I’ve only just finished the 4th mission(?) (The Royal Physician) but how do I upgrade my Mana? Is it one of the upgrades you can get with runes (I can’t find it) or does it get upgraded later on in the story?
No spoilers please just a general answer if possible. Thanks!
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how dare you dub thee dishonorable!
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DID YOU GET COCONUT JAM YET?
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I still haven’t finished the first proper mission, so I can’t really help you.
Also, I’d appreciate if you could not name the missions in future, please. Kinda spoilery for me.
Edited to add: Not mad at you, not trying to attack you, just hopeful you can spoilertag mission names/targets in future. 🙂
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Sorry Strangey I was deliberately trying to be vague but didn’t mean to spoil. It says the mission names in the save screen before you even start them so I figured it wasn’t too bad but guess I was wrong :P.
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@freezespreston @lambomann007 @dire_wolf @rize @Other SWTOR people:
I rolled a new character and got her up to level 11 last night. Do we have a guild yet? Is anyone still playing?
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Someone mentioned they were going to set up a guild. I can’t remember who it was though.
IT’S FRIDAY IN THE PM. THAT MEANS I’M ONLY NOT LONG AT ALL AWAY FROM SCOTCH AND VIDJA GAEMS.
HAVE SOME PEARL JAM.
EXCITE.
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You were going so well until Pearl Jam lol.
Hello?
*Taps screen*
Is this thing on?
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Yay! My comments aren’t being sent for moderation for no reason anymore \o/
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It just hats you back!
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Someone posted this on twitter. pretty cute stuff! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJNR2EpS0jw&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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What! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
I just downvoted DC for even threatening to share this 😛Edit: Oh, all right. I’ll watch it again.
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Love it.
Also, my thought towards the end “hey, these are all train things. Metro should run this as an ad to try and stop all those level crossing deaths”, then of course the video ended and the Metro thing came up.
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I like the expressionless dance of the critter who eats the glue. :’)
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I like the dancing kidneyless guy.
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😀
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Yep, glue guy is my favourite too
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Gosh darn that is cute!
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Haha! Love it!
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That was awesome! 😀
so playstation allstars it pretty fun, however connection issues are bugging the crap outta me, not sure if it’s just my internet…
also being able to play it on my vita when i’m going to bed is super rad, especially since the saves are synched to your account, so all your stuff carries over.
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That game really sounds like Sony has jumped up and really thrown itself into creating it, particularly all the nice features (like the Vita).
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I have it incoming for PS3 from ozgameshop. Looking forward to it!
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I haven’t bought the game, I’ve been watching a few videos, but the game’s menus look really bad. I know menus are more function than form but a little presentation is nice.
Anyone an NBA fan here? I am a huge Clipper/Griffin fan and we’ve had an incredible season but OKC free throws broke my heart.
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Did you see that ludicrous displ… no, I’ve done that joke too many times this week.
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I think @jacksonwryan follows it, but he’s often too busy with science to post. 😛
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Dude, you know everything. Your memory is amazing… or the stalkius spreadsheet you keep is meticulous. Either way: kudo.
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Oh well, I figured as much!
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Yes, I follow it religiously. Spurs.
I don’t want to talk about Spurs – Clips games. End of discussion.
Otherwise, free reign. Let’s talk about BALL
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This guy is my favourite guy.
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The best part of basketball is when they put the ball in the basket.
Well I spent my lunch break playing planetside 2
Thinking I’m liking the the combat medic class, support all the way. Might have to try and save enough points to upgrade to shotgun though.
Spent 45 minutes in game and the entire time trying to take one base. Mobile spawner parked on the outside bring troops in with them respawning in the base. So many stalled firefights, charging forward and fighting from cover. Pushing them back and then being forced back in turn. Was very annoyed that I had to quit and go back to work
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I’m guess the game doesn’t have Australian servers. Does it lag much?
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It actually DOES have AU servers which means lag is extremely low. You should download it
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I have to say, I’m really, really surprised it has AU servers. How big is the download size?
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7.5 gig I think it was
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That’s not too bad. I’ve got too many games to play at the moment, but I’ll definitely give it a shot some time.
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@negativezero
I’m totally still playing SWTOR, along with a bunch of other stuff 😛
Yeah, I’m gunna create a TAY guild. IIRC all we need is 4 people and 5000 credits.
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I will add myself to TAYNames at some point. Apparently I have to rename my old toons because I hadn’t logged in for a while and lost the right to their names? 🙁
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I heard something along those lines with American players (I assumed it was tied to the server migrations). That’s a bit shit…hope you didn’t lose any names you really wanted!
What class is your new character?-
Sith Assassin now.
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I’ve started. Don’t mind it. Hunknuggets is currently a badass level 2. Ph34r t3 l33tn355!
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You forgot the H in t3h, what a n00b.
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Headphones!
I need some decent wireless headphones. I have some AudioTechica ones at the moment and the sound in them is pretty good, but it gets all sorts of interference. Even when I’m sitting in one place I get static everywhere. They also aren’t super comfortable for extended periods and the charging cradle is terribly badly designed, the headset has to be in just right to charge, and that’s impossible to do most of the time because the design of it stops them fitting into the right spot.
Anyone have recommendations?
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They’ve got a 2m lead though, if you’re not looking to move *too* far from the original listening area? -
Hmmm, umm Wireless no, I am currently a Wired user, it was more in my price range at the time
But maybe Sennheiser, or Bose?
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I prefer wired as well, these mainly get used when I’m exercising. Don’t want to turn my sound system on early in the morning and wake everyone up with high-pitched Japanese voices and terrible pop music.
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I use wired for my train commute
Bose Quiet Comfort 15, noise cancelling
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I use wired myself, but a co-worker has a pair of these sennheisers that he swears by. I’ve tried em for a bit & they sound pretty damn good.
from whet he was saying though, they’re a bit pricey.
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I’ve always used Sennheiser wireless and really can’t fault them. Had a pair of RS180’s until the tiny terror got a hold of them.
I’d kill a man for a pair of RS220’s. A tad on the pricey side.
That moment when you realise how big your puppy has gotten:
http://imgur.com/W0eu8
WHEN WE GOT HER SHE COULDN’T EVEN REACH MY HIP!
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I’ve got a photo of my puppy sleeping in my hat when we first got her.
Took a photo last night with the same dog sleeping in the same hat.She fits her bum in there, and that’s it now o.0
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Naaaaw lol… When we got her she was 6.5kg and a bit underweight (we rescued her from a shelter) now 6 months later she’s a healthy 25kg and still growing XD
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o.0
My dog’s overweight at 3.8kg!
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What? My dogs 26 and only reaches my knee…
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My dog is all legs XD Tall and skinny
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Bahahaha she thinks she’s only 3kg when she comes to lay on your lap! Labradors are big snugglers
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Snugglepuppies are great 😀
Except for when it’s 38 degrees :S
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Where my TAY bro’s and broette’s at?
I am at work, for like 40 more minutes
Tomorrow night I have to come into the airport, meeting a friend after her flight back from New Zealand
So in a typical OCD fashion I am trying to plan getting to the airport down to the last minute detail
Lucky I have a yearly train ticket that lets me go anywhere, admittedly it doesn’t cover the airport, but it will get me as far as Central for free 😀
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I’m not counting how long I’ve got ’til I’m outta here today (I totally am).
And now you’ve got me thinking about the last time I caught a train… I think it was 4-5 years ago now?-
Bro *male? I am just assuming, also calling you bro, bad habbit of mine*
I am on a train for 4 hours….a day
That’s 20 hours a week, not that I am counting *totally am*
I am at each stop 20 times a week*still counting*
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Yeowch!
Bro indeed, though for all intents and purposes, genderless 😀My commute is pretty cruisy (hurr) in that it’s a 15-20min drive either way, unless I’m stuck behind a road-train. Numbercrunching can be fun!
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Genderless it is 🙂
You people and your cruisy commutes, All these people in my office going *Oh I hit snooze 4 times*
I am up at 5am
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5am exists?!
My morning routine is stupid. Stay in bed as long as I can. Skip breakfast so’s I can stay asleep longer /o\
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5 am exists man
I am out the door at 5:30, no later than 5:35
And I get into the office after stopping at coles for a can of Mother(5am 🙁 ) at 8:10am
and each night I go to bed at at 11pm
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Yeah, I’m typically conscious between 0720 and 0000-0200 :S
If you don’t mind my asking, what do you do for a crust mate?
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@mythamphetamine
I work for the NSW Trustee and Guardian, in Trust administration
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Four times?
Amateurs…
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Effluvium Boy; Putting the “pro” in procrastination.
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Saying that, my alarm’s snooze is 5 minutes instead of 9, so that would account for some difference.
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Heh, how many for you?
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FYI it will get you to Mascot domestic station (my station!) for free (not that it likely makes a difference).
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Awww yeah, thanks man
Every time one of the guys I work with answers the phone (because of his name and accent) it sounds like he keeps saying “ICT Hamas speaking”.
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^ This
I wish I could TAY all day sometimes
We need *All of us, @bish included* need to get together for a bonfire
Winter next year
Depressing Polar Express song. :'( Such a sad movie.
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I’M NOT CRYING. IT’S JUST THOSE STUPID NINJAS PUTTING THEIR STUPID CHOPPED ONIONS IN MY ROOM.
Thanks DC
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Classic Tigs comment!
*reads YouTube Top Comment*
MY LIFE IS A LIE.
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So I submitted my nom this week! Who will it be?! WILL IT BE YOU!?!?!?!?!?!?!
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Yes
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STAY TUNED
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THAT’S ALL THIS WEEK FOLKS.
BE SURE TO JOIN US AGAIN NEXT WEEK, SAME TIME, SAME CHANNEL.
*Lost in Space theme fades out*
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I hope tobiasfunke gets nommed.
But then I hope he doesn’t because analrapist.
EDIT: Also I had my usual list of people I wanted to nom but then it would’ve just turned into Oprah noms anyway so I took the easy road and nommed no one 😛
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I noticed he upvoted some comments in TAY earlier this week.
Perhaps he’s lurking… right now *looks around shiftily*
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I got my GoPro and its freaking awesome,. One of the reasons I wanted it was to mess around with slo mo and time lapse.. here is my first test movie. it’s too fast, but it was only 6 minutes of footage. Kinda cool though. Can’t wait to make more of these.
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Awesome.
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Oh and I should state that this was not a paid message.. just with all this steam sale talk I assumed everyone had a spare few hundred bucks and wanted some TAY marketing to help them decide… drop some hints to the family for xmas 🙂
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$_$
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I’ve been thinking of getting a GoPro, once my sweet employment money comes in. Then I remember that I won’t be working for all that long, and that money’s hard to get, and then I laugh off the voice of reason, and think of expensive things to buy…
What I’m saying here is that you’re not helping, and you’re filling the role of the fiscal irresponsibility fairy.
Celebration Day get! \o/
I’m not from Queensland.
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2012/11/nexus-10-10-seconds-with-serrels/comment-page-1/#comment-413367
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Haha! Yeah I saw that. Bit of a *whoosh* there.
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If you were you’d get it. Us Queenslanders have a certain sophistication to our humour that isn’t easily understood by those of the lesser states.
Poo boogers.
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On a serious note after living in QLD for nigh on 30 years I’ve yet to hear someone utter the phrase “smooth as”.
To be honest it sounds more Kiwi than anything else.
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Smewth iz!
Edit: Smooth ears?
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That’s what I was thinking, apparently the Gold Coast is full of Kiwi’s I don’t believe this…
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Due to boredom, I have set up two instances of CleverBot & they’re having a conversation with each other. Its getting pretty philosophical right now. ‘What is truth?’
thats deep CleverBot. Real deep.
Edit: oh wait. now its just creepy & stalky.
Edit #2: that just got confusing. heres the results. dunno how long that link will remain active.
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Maaan, that is just the greatest thing to do 😀
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Just wait until they start mating
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But they both come from the same parent code. They’d become ProgressivelyLessCleverBots.
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Odd question.
I’m cooking up a bit of a secret Christmas project. Who wants to be involve in it? I can’t really say publicly why it is. You won’t get anything personally for it but you won’t actually have to do anything except consent to your Tay name to be utilised in said project.
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Ohhhh pick me! I like being part of things!
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This is like the third time I’ve said it but…
Meee. People who have told me their secret projects live infinitely better lives. It’s true!
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Hmm. It only really needs to be secret from a very select few people.
Alrighty. Anyone who is curious or wants more info DM me on tweeters.
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I don’t know. I don’t think you can keep a secret… Gossipius
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Doubtulus!
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Yeah sure why not
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Sign me up, home slice!
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Go ahead
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So you just want to use my name? Sure, go ahead.
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As long as he isn’t committing fraud or anything like that, right?
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I’m in.
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Sure thing
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Suuuure?
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I’m okay with my TAYname being used…within reason. For instance, not naming a character in your 50 shades parody after me…. 😛
Hey @freezespreston
Was your copy of Ass:Rev a launch one? If I recall “day one” copies came with the original AC on the disc.
Just wondering!
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Yes.
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Also it installs off the disc so no downloading.
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Awesome! 2 fer 1, never owned that either (I did borrow and beat it though).
Thanks again!
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Greedius.
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Freeze.
Shepard.
Wrex.
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Should’ve kept it as Greenius. The ultimate insult.
… I kid, because I care. 😛
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I typed in Greedius and the phone autocorrected to Greenius.
The phone, it knows.
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I was wondering why you just said Greenius 😛
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Afternoon.
Still having issues with the grass for this. Fecking grass.
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Drugs aren’t the answer, scree.
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I’d say she needs more grass. Sounds a little wound up.
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Drugs are the question.
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Wrong grass.
Interesting fact, I can’t actually stand the smell of grass as in the drug. It makes me gag. =(
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What’s it smell like?
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I can’t really explain it. But when working at Maccas, we’d know who was smoking pot simply because I would feel ill serving them.
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Awesomeness
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I’ve never smoked any, I’m lame that way, but I know the smell all too well. (My brother’s bedroom was next to mine back in the high school days. :P)
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Well I’ve also never smoked it for obvious reasons =P
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Hello, TAY.
I am boredius. 🙁
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hi boredius, i’m grandmaster b-funk! #dadjokes
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Up voting because dad jokes are the highest form of entertainment!
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So I just finished Episode 2 of The Walking Dead, it has not let me down yet!
So I was kind of suspicious of the St John’s family, but I didn’t expect them to be eating people =/ I more so had the idea in mind it was more like Texas Chainsaw Massacre where they simply strung people up and tortured them and shit, not eat them..
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Apparently again I was 1 of very few who took the option to kill another female, I dunno man she seemed crazy and I ain’t a fan of crazy women.
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I also had to try & save Larry just to get good with Lilly, but not things between Kenny & I are all rocky /o\ not the bromance!
Read a head at your own caution here since I picked quite different to most in Ep 1 and this is what happened with me with those very different choices.
Also turns out Doug has come in quite useful after sparing his life, he fixed a few electronics for me, rigged up a fancy alarm at the motor inn to warn us of walkers, saved our lives at the farm with a laser pointer, yeah I can see him being more & more useful.
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Haha, I’m doing a replay and just finished up chapter 2 myself.
I also killed the crazy lady. Also, I saved Carley, and her help pretty much amounts to using her gun in every available situation. Also, now that I’ve gone through a fair bit of chapter 3, I’m wondering how the hell she has so much ammo.THE SLED WAS NAMED ROSEBUD.
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Satty the second bit is spoilery 😛
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OH SHI-
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It’s still there so I’m not sure what you edited :P. The comment looks the same to me.
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Also, Dumbledore dies.
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I’ve played the game before, just looking out for others who haven’t played the game!
(almost said bros and hoes)
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I think some people here killed her, but I didn’t. She was obviously trying to say something about Suss McSussface and I wanted to hear what she had to say. I and many others predicted the human thing a while ago but it was still very disturbing to see…
Amazing game or amazing game?
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Yeah, something never sat right when I spoke to the mother, she always had this look in her eyes. Where as the brothers seemed fine, but then after I got back with Danny from scouting that camp site he turned really weird. Andy seemed fine up until he found me taking a look at his kill room.
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But seriously cannibalism, I know times are tough but i’d rather go bloody vegetarian than eat humans. They have plenty of land to grow all sorts of fruit & vege. Hell they had a whole paddock of corn?! and I know Dairy cows aren’t great meat, but damn they still had beef if they made sure the cows were safe etc..
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Only 12% of players shot the crazy bitch which was interesting.Also damn right it’s an amazing game. If I had played Max Payne 3 this year it would be a toss up between it & The Walking Dead for GOTY, but since i’ve only played 20 minutes of Max Payne 3 I can’t say it’s worthy considering I would need to own & finish the game.
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Whoever was at crazy lady camp with me (forgot his name) was the shiftiest of them all and made me think something was up.
In all honesty if they ate people that were already dead it wouldn’t be that bad. Shit is bad man and they need to survive but their argument of “killing those who were dying anyway” is absolute bullshit. Mark (is that his name?) gets one tiny arrow in him and they cut off his legs… what the fuck!-
Yeah that was Danny he was fucking weird man. Eh eating human flesh is just not right, they’re in Macon, Georgia right, the deep south.. It’s prime country that’s going to have a fuck load of wild animals, rabbits, hares, buffalo (maybe) boars etc.. May as well hunt and get that for food than eat people. I dunno i’d prefer to starve than eat tough stringy human =P
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I can see why they did it, thinking since he was wounded he would be a hindrance to them, which I doubt. Sucks I liked Mark would’ve happily traded him for Ben.
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I haven’t finished it yet… but man.
“Please be lucky” really tugs at the heartstrings
You guys are all awesome. Take it easy and have a damn good weekend!
I’ll be standing watch here, most likely. 😛
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Creepily staring at everyone from the corner and slowly rubbing your lap while muttering obscenities?
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… :S
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Cannot scrub this from my mind’s eye. :S
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Lap not crotch people.
Jeez.
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Seemed a little… TOO specific.
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You’re the one with the filthy mind.
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It’s funny because that’s happened to me.
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Even the whole pretending like nothing happened? :O
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Just went to buy an eBook. And on the buying page it had a note: “Sorry we’re currently only shipping to the US….”. 😛
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I seriously don’t get that. Amazon does the same with mp3 downloads, you have to live in the USA. Surely in this day and age where 95% of the world is connected to the internet, we can get past things like regional content restrictions.
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Licensing.
Copyright laws make it basically impossible for truly global markets to exist for intellectual properties because everything has to be cleared through the license holder for each region/nation. It’s archaic. What we’ve got is basically individual markets given the appearance of an international platform (like Steam or Amazon, which are still region defined).
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Makes sense I guess… It still sucks though. Its no wonder people end up pirating things. Myself included
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Strangey did you try setting a fake US address? Some purchases like digital game downloads (pretty much Steam codes) need a US address but you can still buy them if you put in a fake one.
Any one doing any thing fun/interesting this weekend?
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Refresh Game \o/
Otherwise no. Gonna relax after a pretty full on first week, maybe dive into my pile on VN’s and see what happens-
Hope you have a damn good one, man. You’ve earned it. The refresh game makes me sad. Haha!
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same as Nova
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Xenoblade? 😀
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Mrs. Freeze’s birthday tomorrow. Having a small shindig at home.
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That’s awesome, man. Happy birthday Mrs. Freeze!
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It’s one of my best friend’s birthday tomorrow too. Must be a good day for it. Happy birthday Mrs Freeze.
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Happy birthday person who liked my pictures of Freeze!
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I’m working. I might play the refresh game at work if my phone decides to behave.
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No, but I know what you’re doing. Check your emails or something – I don’t really know how Steam works. 🙂
derp.
I took this unit a few years ago, I wish this happened in my year :'(. It was one of my bludge “I really don’t care what I get” subjects too.
@shane Holy damn, man! You don’t have to do that. Thank you so much for the thought, but that’s too much. Not too late to keep it for yourself? I’m feeling this weird emotion that might be awe! :’)
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Nah, I told you – I don’t use Steam. You wouldn’t believe what I had to go through to set up an account and gift a game though. Christ. People use this system on a regular basis? 😛
Also, I promptly unfriended you so you can’t send me anything. Just enjoy the game, dude.
You’re a great guy, you deserve it (that’s how it goes, right? :P)
Edit: PS: I saw that tweet you deleted, and felt a little guilty. So your cunning plan worked!
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Thank you, man. So damn much! Honestly am kind of lost for words! 🙂
*hugasaurus* 😀
Edit: I deleted that tweet because I freaked out that someone might gift it to me. Haha! Holy damn, man. That’s so nice of you, I feel guilty now…
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You’re more than completely welcome. Now let’s get this lovefest off TAY and let the normal banal chatter continue.
PS: Don’t feel guilty – that was just a joke. I figured that was the reason you deleted it – you just didn’t account for email notifications! 😛
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*shakes fist* Welp, I just bought The Lesser Evil 1-3 on Book Depository. Something I’ve been meaning to do for a long time, man. 🙂
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BAD! You’re supposed to buy it from Shane for the signed copies!
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You haven’t read the books yet????
Is it too late to take back my gift? 😛
If I come to QLD for a con, bring em in and I’ll sign them
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There’s reasons, man! Reasons!
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Don’t mind me, just a guy on the outside who has no idea what’s happening…
My guess: Shane made a Steam account and gifted D.C. The Walking Dead. Ya?
Wait no you’re in your own “boxed edition” club… Perhaps another game… BUT WHAT!
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:’) Shane is awesome.
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Gifting the Walking Dead seems to be what all the cool kids are doing these days.
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Shane is the coolest kid I know!
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But actually playing it is what the cooler kids are doing!
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Pretty much
Last overly sentimental rambling for the night, but honestly I’ve felt pretty down and worthless lately. Just coming onto TAY talking to you guys has helped a lot. Especially you, Shane. Feels like I’ve got friends here. I’m blown away by your kindness. 🙂
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Now where do I hand in that man card? 😛
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Screw the man card. Overrated.
You definitely have friends here
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I never use the Community thing on Steam but sometimes when I feel like seeing who gifted who what I check it out. I’ve noticed that D.C. has become the friendly upvote fairy on there too 😀
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Not the manliest of phrases.
@greenius for the link from the other page. I took that subject too a few years ago. I wish my test had of had giant robots in it.
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When did you do VCE? I did it in 2010 and I did the Russian and French Revolutions. Since it was my bludge subject I didn’t study or care so I only got 31 or so but it was okay 🙂
I love history and I intended to take it properly but they swapped out the normal awesome teacher for someone else and my year was like her first year taking the subject (so she sucked). Took out all the fun out of subject and probably killed it off for later years 🙁
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I did VCE in 2010 as well. I did the French and Chinese revolutions. My bludge subject was Industry and Enterprise, which I ended up doing pretty well in (38 if I’m remembering right).
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Waahh? You’re my age? I swear you were a few years older 😛 (22+)
What other subjects did you do/how’d you go?
I did English, Economics, Legal, Revs, Maths Methods and Further Maths. I decided to change which Uni course I wanted to get into mid-way through exam week cause I thought I failed something (I didn’t). Since my new course required a much lower ATAR/ENTER, I could easily get in without trying too hard. In the end I got an okay ATAR but could’ve done a lot better but… lazy 😀
Glad it was over though. VCE is terrible…
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I did English, Literature, History: Revolutions, Psychology and Industry and Enterprise. My school didn’t really offer a lot of subjects so I just took the few it had that interested me even if I never intended to pursue further study in that field. Industry and Enterprise was just so I could have a fifth subject.
I did okay considering I spent most of the year not paying attention/goofing off and then did some major cramming a few weeks before the exams.
Had no idea what I wanted to do the next year. In the end I decided to do a TAFE course because it was close, it sounded interesting (multimedia) and just so I’d have something to do. Because it was TAFE I didn’t have to worry what my ATAR score was (it was average btw). That TAFE course is finishing up this year and I’ve no idea what I’m going to do next year.
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Yeah I didn’t know what I wanted to do back then and even now I have no fricken clue. I wanted to do Business/Commerce at the closest Uni because it seemed broad and general and it was the closest Uni.
At the start of year 12 I really, really felt like changing all my subjects. I didn’t particularly enjoy any of my subjects and wondered why I was doing them (I’m still wondering that). At my school you start to pick electives at year 9 onwards and I was dropping subjects that I liked and was good at for other crappy ones.
Although the subjects that I liked and were good at weren’t very practical and wasn’t anything I could learn by myself but it would’ve made the learning part of school a little bit more fun. (I was boss at creative stuff like art, music, media etc.)
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I “knew what I wanted to do” since I was about 5 years old. Got to uni and by the end of first year I knew straight away that it wasn’t for me. Switched to a different but related degree, and ended up not finishing that either. Even while I was doing Travel agenting at Tafe, I was still unsure if I wanted to be doing it for a career, but I was getting to the point where I really needed to do something with my life other than Coles. Thankfully it seems to be working out pretty well.
Don’t worry too much about it. Things will happen, you may fall into a job you had no idea even existed and absolutely love. Besides, you’re still young (kids these days… no respect :P)
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You young people… 🙁
I did it in 2001.
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Whoaaaa 😛
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Thats the year I was STARTING high school. Do you feel old now? 😛
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I was 8.
Do you feel old now? 😛
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Oh man I thought you were more around my age.. Damn.
So I think I just got abused for watering the garden by the neighbours. Wasn’t sure if I was being called said things since I had headphones on.. Either way my neighbours are really easy to annoy heh.
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You should water their garden for them.
With bleach.-
Or Roundup 🙂-
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With today’s fuel prices, you’d have to be insane, Bunny!
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Nah Urea & Roundup, the urea makes the plant grow faster which makes the roundup work double time =D
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You should have watered the neighbours instead.
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I think that was going to cause more unneeded tension than we require lul.
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Shower them with hugs and praises!!!!
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But they’ll hurt me D= You don’t want me to get hurt do you Jordi? =O
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DC!!!!!! DUDE!!!!!!!!!!! THANKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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😀 You’re welcome, man.
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Is this like a “gift it forward” sort of thing?
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I had the money for the boxset put aside which would’ve been $30 plus shipping. Got to buy Shane’s books and gift The Walking Dead to Nova for the same price. My heart feels warmed. 😀
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Even if I wont get a chance to play it until at least next weekend, but still DUUUUUUDE!!!!!!!
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I know how you feel, man. Was right there an hour ago. 😀
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What for? Last time I checked D.C. is a jerk. The D stands for “Ditch”. DITCHER
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I’m now the proud owner of The Walking Dead. Are you happy now? 🙂
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He gifted me it. I think just so he can pester me to play it 😛
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RRGGGHHH!!!!
Painting in Artrage makes me want to put my fist through my monitor…
That’s not a bad thing, however…
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is that why it’s called artrage?
illustrator causes me the same issues
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The actual attempts at drawing/painting are more infuriating than the programs that are used. 🙂
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That’s why I added what I said about ilustrator
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THANKS SHANE!
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NO THANKS DC!
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THANKS DC!
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THANKS DC FOR BEING YOU AND ALSO FOR THE ROYALTIES
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You’re fucking awesome, man. Never doubt that. The Walking Dead is installed too! 😀
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Sizzler’s style parmesan bread with salami, fried egg and tasty cheese under the grill.
Lazy, but rather tasty ^.^
ON TO EP. 3 \o/
Too much happiness. Reaching dangerous levels. Need to balance it out.
[Insert self-loathing thought here.]
Phew.
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Look in the mirror, and say
“Who’s that handsome figure in the mirror?”
“Not me.”
And then be depressed. Also look behind you because there might be somebody in your house.
Hi.
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Scree! How’s the grass going?
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The grass is going quite well.
Hopefully if I finish it, I’ll show everyone.
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I laughed way too hard at that
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Oh god, you’ll squish me!
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>:[ No more Steam gifts! I haven’t done anything to deserve free stuff! 😛
Thank you, @freezespreston. You generous bugger.
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You occasionally say something funny and show a hint of kindness when you LET SOMEONE ELSE WIN IN MARIO KART FOR ONCE
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And half the time I’m sure your racial profiling is in jest. 😛
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So tempted to throw Terraria in your face but you won’t play it with me :'(
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You should definitely buy Terraria Pow
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We should all play again! Powalen was all like “no1 is gun wan play wit me if i got it”. We need a new thing that isn’t shit and Hamachi 😛
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Seriously @crazyguy1990? YOU CRAZY MANG!
But thank you for the Witcher 2! YOU’RE TOTALLY AWESOMESAUCE!
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You’re welcome. 🙂
I have a copy of Kiki’s Delivery Service here. Australian DVD (Madman release).
The Japanese Bluray release is in a month, and so I no longer need the DVD. Would anyone be interested in obtaining this?
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Alas, PAL. CUURSEE YOU PPAAAL.
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Most DVD players are region free and you can get programs on your computer that make it region free.
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Most. Not mine. 🙁
True ’bout the computer part, though. Still, I’ve watched it before, so it doesn’t take high priority on my list.
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What is this? the early 2000s?
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… I’ll have it if no-one else wants it…
-0, what’s your e-mail address ? I’ll send you my home address to post it to.-
atomicstrawberry (at) gmail (dot) com or DM me on the twits
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If it’s still on offer, I’d love it!
If not, I may have to acquire it elsewhere, as I don’t think I’ve seen that one /o\
Man, page 19 is awesome! 😀
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GIVETAY PAGE 19! 😀
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I hereby present the official song of Page 19, possibly of TAY in general. Whenever things are down, coming here just makes it better. So Thanks You TAY
PS What were you saying about man cards earlier DC? 😛
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😀 Maybe we should gift our man cards to someone? 😛
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Ok, so we’re giving gifts up in page 19? So be it.
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Here you go, Saturday.
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…. what is it?
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The one shit I give about giving you a gift.
By the way, it’s none. I have nothing to give you.
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D:
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Doctor, get this man a gift, STAT
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Do you want a christmas card? 😀
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@dc
My gift to you.
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oh man, so THAT’s what they look like.
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😀 Much obliged, Freeze.
I saw Gravity Falls mentioned a couple of times in TAY. I have no idea what it is other than a cartoon but downloaded it anyway.
Not bad, not bad.
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UNRELATED:
So yeah, I was right about this. Dark Souls: Prepare to Die edition is $15 from Amazon. You’ll need a US address to buy it though.
Very tempting considering DLC on consoles would be $15 anyway. Luckily the friend who I usually get Amazon stuff from has an expired credit card or something so I can’t get him to buy it for me. It’s a sign! 😀
I really need to work on the pile.
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Amazing show, man. Better than half the live action stuff on air right now. 😀
Hi @nomad!
🙂
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I saw that too, I think Stalkius is rubbing off on me
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Hey! I’m trying to be more active on the site. What are you talking about @novacascade ?
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Hey man, feel free to join in the discussions :D. Some people just recently joined too and they’ve fit right in. I’ve seen you comment here and there but TAY is where most of the discussions on this site take place.
Stalkius is a bit of an inside joke. These bullies like to make fun of me and add “ius” on the end of words. Nova exhibited some ‘stalker’ like behaviour (as did I – the original Stalkius) when we clicked on the upvoted comment and saw your name.
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Thanks man! I’d comment more often, but there’s too much driving for my job which makes it difficult. I did post in TAY yesterday morning asking about reliable sites to buy an iPad. The post was “under moderation” but never actually got posted so instead of writing the wall of text again I just picked one up from BigW haha
Also I stalk TAY quite a bit. You guys and girls all made me feel really good inside seeing all the gifting that was going on over the last page!
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Welcome aboard, man! Good to meet you!
If your post has more than one link in it, instant moderation!
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But with editing, now you can edit out the link and the post will show 🙂
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Aw ok. There weren’t any links, but a lot of prices and names of the sites.
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Could’ve been picked up by the spam filter since you named dropped a lot of sites :).
A guy here (Saturday) once wrote an elaborate ‘essay’ of sorts on various ice cream bars he tried out. Mark Serrels thought it was very good spam 😛
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Haha brilliant!
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Feel free?
You should know that Nomad has talked in TAY before.
He talked about Halo 4, the weather, Xcom. That sort of thing.
You guys. Amateur stalkers.
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Sir you have a better memory than myself. I didn’t recall any of those, although the Xcom post seems vaguely familiar…
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Nah, I just had a flick through your profile comment history. Since you only had 55 comments, it was easy to find the TAY ones.
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I’m totally not super creepy.
>.>
I saw that you’d upvoted a comment up the page, then when greenius mentioned you I thought he’d seen the same thing. Greenius also has a tendency to see a lot of things most people miss, hence Stalkius. Depending on the mood he’s also trollius, needius, meanius and any number of other -ius’s
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HELPIUS** 🙁
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You’re never that one.
Never.
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Ah yes I get it now haha
So.. it’s supposed to be 35 degrees tomorrow in my neck of the woods…
Fun. 😐
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Think it was 32 here today. But it’s definitely heading north of that soon.
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Twenty-Nine tomorrow here. Erggh.
(And Thirty-Two on Sunday, it will be horrible)
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33 here… SHITTTT T___T
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25 here. For once the Gold Coast has cooler weather!
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WE WIN!
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It’s 31 here at 11:15pm.
Hyup, welcome to the Territory!
The Walking Dead episode 2 spoilers
Fb gur jrveq snez crbcyr ghearq bhg gb or pnaavonyf? V qvq abg frr gung pbzvat *fnepnfz*
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V ybirq gur jnl rcvfbqr 2 raqrq. Erzvaqrq zr bs 28 Qnlf Yngre.
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Ernyyl rawblvat gur tnzr fb sne. Gelvat gb xrrc gur crnpr va gur tebhc, xrrc Pyrzragvar (fcryyvat?) fnsr naq abg ybfr zl/Yrr’f uhznavgl juvyr qbvat vg vf sha.
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Thats weird. Why’d my spoiler get split up into three parts?
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You pressed enter instead of using a line break is all. I just use a double dash between the paragraphs, fixes it for me.
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rot 13 /o\
Clem is best character!-
Double spoiler protection!
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So dat episode 3 of The Walking Dead…
Yeeeeeeep, Lilly fucked off, after occidentally killing Doug =( Katjaa offing herself when Duck passed, poor Kenny I ended up making him kill Duck, I couldn’t do it man. But other than that I made the same choices as the majority of others.
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You couldn’t do it? Imagine what it would’ve been like for Kenny! You’re a monster Virus!
Did you like Doug? That scene was particularly intense for everyone else because Carley is such an awesome character. She was one of my favourites too, never felt that sort of attachment to Doug so in your situation I doubt that scene would’ve been as big as it was.-
Eh, Kenny already hated me anyway cause I told him not to kill Larry, but OH WELL! I did like Doug, he was very handy and he was quite intelligent. So it was a shame to see him go, I wish Ben was the one who died honestly, he’s rather useless.-
People named Ben are the worst.-
Now, now. Pow is a cool dude.
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Accidently? Ah, because she tried to kill ben, right? With Carly, she and Lilly end up shouting at each other and Lilly shoots her simply because she snaps. On my first walkthrough I took Lilly because it seemed like an accident, (I had Doug) but with Carly I was “HELL NO, BITCH, YOU CRAZY.” I also had Kenny kill Duck, but because he needed to do it himself because.. closure. Or something.LOOK AT THAT, @Greenius! NO SPOILAHS.
BTW IT WAS EARTH ALL ALONG.
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JUST LOOKING OUT FOR MY HOMESLICES, MAN!
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Ignoreeditotpostius.
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When you use… Colloquialisms? -I guess? They’re not contractions, so I guess the term will have to do- it really muddies up the reading of those. I initially simply assumed that you were bad at typing, rather than using “ya” instead of “you.”
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WHY IS EVERYONE SO HAPPY
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Possibly because we aren’t wearing pants?
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Yeah. I hate pants!
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I ASSUME BECAUSE I HAVE NOT BEEN POSTING ENOUGH!
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I appreciate you, Blaghs.
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Not that happiness is bad, Alex.
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I’m tempted to downvote this. If I have to be miserable, so does everyone else! MUAHAHAHAHAHA!
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Well I’ll be. Walking Dead will run even if I crank every setting to max. I don’t think it is really a good indicator but maybe I should be a little less terrified of PC gaming…
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So, Dear Esther…I….um…what?
I…I want to know more. Intriguing.
Did creep me out when I decided to head out to sea and drowned.
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I think it’s too late, dark and quiet to start playing Amnesia.
nothankyou.jpg
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No, no, I think now is the perfect time to start playing it. Also, please record the sound of you playing it.
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Would be the squishy sound of me pooping myself I believe.
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Yeah, don’t walk out to sea and drown. That’s just silly. 😉
But do play Dear Esther. It really is as good as you have heard it is! 😀
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Bed time! Goodnight, TAY!
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Crazyguy sleeping at a somewhat reasonable time!? (I just noticed it’s 12:20 am ._.)
Well I’ll be damned!
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Well, I was about to go to bed, but then I just got distracted by the internet.
Now I’m really going to bed.
Goodnight. 🙂
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Ooh, new playthings, err…people. Hi @nomad! Good to see you being chatty. 😀
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More people to join the late night TAY. MORE MINIONS FOR MY ARM- Uhhhhh. I mean. More people to talk to. 🙂
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Welcome to Friday Night TAY, where the liquor is smooth and so is our jazz.
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You mean Saturday morning?
C’mon man. You of all people…
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Welcome to Saturday Morning TAY, where our liquor’s got a kick and our music’s got a beat.
And where Freeze is an ass. 😛
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That last bit is everyTAY.
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Hey now, just because some of us decide to live in the future…
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Good to see you being all chatty and stuff too, Blaghs. You’re never around enough these days. 🙁
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I’m always here, I just don’t know what to say.
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BOKEH AND SOFT SHADOWS MANG
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LIKE IS THERE A GAME THAT DOESN’T HAVE HARD SHADOWS MAN!? NOTICE THE TWO SHADOWS BEHIND HER.
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Thanks! I’ll try more often if I have things to say. Pretty sure those 2 posts I out in Mark’s article about game universes is the most I’ve ever said!
Well, TV Tropes has stopped working for me, which means it’s time for me to go to bed. Night all.
So welcome to Saturday TAY, where the points don’t matter and so do the state of if we’re wearing our pants or not.
Walking Dead Chapter 5 Spoilers (Might want to read even if you’re not up to this point, gameplay suggestion)
At the end of chapter 4, go alone. It doesn’t matter in the end anyway, you’ll be alone for just a little bit. You’ll miss out on extra conversation, but you can save that for a second playthrough. The mood from being alone is quite palpable, and it adds so much to the atmosphere.
Full spoilers
First walkthrough, I went alone. Second time through, I got everybody to go with me. Going alone is infinitely better, just because it makes the option of cutting your arm off a hell of a lot more tense if you’re (figuratively) doing it yourself, other then when you go with somebody else. With the group, It’s kinda automatic. When you do it yourself.. well.. damn.
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You mean to tell me that wearing pants mattered yesterday? Ooops!
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Oh shit! You have to do that bit alone…
*shudder*
I couldn’t even do it with a group but mainly because it didn’t feel like my decision since they were pretty much doing it anyway… THANKS GUYS
This video mash-up is worthy of your time!
Thunder Busters (AC/DC vs Ghostbusters Mashup) by Wax Audio
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Oh, and this too – Stayin’ Alive In The Wall 🙂
Walking Dead Eps 2&3
Please don’t read unless you’ve completed both episodes.
PHWOAAAAAAAAR
This is not likely to be in chronological order. My apologies.
So Larry’s dead at my hands. Good, the prick deserved it. I let him eat human flesh beforehand, too. (Gosh, Aleph’s a bit vindictive :S)
I let the kid in the beartrap die, but not for a lack of trying to save him… I was still being very passive/peaceful at that point, and tried everything *but* chopping off his foot.
I didn’t kill the brothers at the farm, figured death-by-zombie-mother was an appropriate sentence. I also chose not to kill the girl in Macon, figuring the less people I knew, the less I had to worry about, plus the fact that it bought us time. I think I managed to grab 15 items before time ran out?
Miss crazy-bitch-in-the-woods took a bullet to the face for her troubles, even though she was legitimately trying to warn me of the dangers at the farm. For a brief moment I had (mistakenly) thought she was actually Clem’s mother, although watching the footage on the video camera quelled any resentment I had over killing her.
Lilly took off with the RV before I could reunite her with her father.
Carley’s death came as an enormous shock, I truly wasn’t expecting that. I didn’t get to finish off the dialogue between us back at the motel, so there’s always gonna be that “what if” factor in there.
I very nearly turned the waterworks on when Katjaa and Kenny were arguing over what to do with Duck. Lump in my throat the size of a watermelon, man. I ended up shooting the kid once Katjaa had offed herself.
Kenny and I didn’t come to blows, but it sure seemed close.
I’ve died twice now. Once in episode 1 to the babysitter, and just now I got disemboweled in front of Clementine by a couple walkers :S
Omid’s leg is fucked, and his partner (Can’t recall her name?)… well, I can’t tell what she thinks at the moment. I think she has her guard up is all, and I respect that. Omid seems the most personable of the lot currently, though I still know so little about the two of them (aside from civil war history, apparently).
I keep thinking that every god-damned decision I make is going to break Clem. She’s so… yeah, she breaks my heart, seeing her upset.
Hearing the voice on the other end of the walkie-talkie sent shivers up and down my spine. That shit is SERIOUSLY twisted. I’ve no idea who it is at the moment, but there’s no way in hell they mean well.
All in all, I’ve gone from trying to remain passive and let the action take me where it will, to trying to keep everyone in the group calm, collected, and happy as possible, to “welp, fuck you, fuck you, and FUCK you.”. It’s really weird being so decisive. I don’t necessarily see it as a bad thing though. I know what I want (to an extent :S) and I’m going for it, in most situations.
So far, I’m happy (that’s really not the appropriate term, is it) with my decisions. They may not be the best, but I’m sticking by them.
Chuck’s got a backstory that he’s not brought up, at all. This concerns me.
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Makes me happy to see everybody enjoying this game!
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You’re a monster making him eat hooman flesh! Was it just him? I HAD to stop Clem from eating it which stopped most people I think. Some monsters made Clem eat it ‘accidentally’ :'(.
I did the same thing with you on the foot thing. I’m surprised at how many people just went straight for the leg. I figured he isn’t going to do much better with a chopped leg so I tried everything I could…
I killed the first brother since he was still a threat but stopped punching the second and walked away.
I too for a second thought crazy lady was Clem’s mum but didn’t shoot her. She obviously had something to say and I knew as the main character I wasn’t going to die 😛
Christa aka Permabitch. I guess she does have her guard up and is being protective but still… permabitch.
I’ve died and had “Game Over” quite a few times but it’s mostly from bullshit :/
I still tried to play the game as I would and do it rationally trying to stay calm and keeping everyone as happy as possible.Wait until Ep 4/5! 😀
FUNTIMES
OK. So this is very dumb. Like, really, really, dumb.
But I can’t stop laughing.
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Perfect 2am video. That was oddly hilarious
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Amazing.
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that was battastic. Thank you sir.
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No more lurking! Join da communiTAY
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Thoughts on planetside 2
It was fun. Well, no, it was fine for the first 15 minutes then it started going crazy, and everything kept disappearing on me, which resulted in me facing off against a tank alone WHILE I COULDN’T ACTUALLY SEE THE TANK. Or the ground. Or my gun. After some wild hits I managed to force the guy out and some other dudes took care of him. Then planetside CTD’d.
So yeah. Fun.
I’m finally in a place where it is a tolerable temperature and I am SO HAPPY about that.
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Booo!
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002I0JZOC?ie=UTF8&force-full-site=1&ref_=aw_bottom_links
Sweet merciful Jesus…
White Limited Edition Wi-Fi Vita
AC: Liberation
4GB Memory Card
(US region)
Download code for PS: All Stars
3 month PS+ Trial
$10 off AC3 on PS3/Xbox if bought from Amazon
For $180 ($195 delivered). I got it for $240 delivered with Persona 4.
It might be hard to find the info on the PS+ and All Stars stuff but it’s part of the “Gold Box Deal of the Day” which can be found just under the price stuff and before Product Features.
I wonder if I can talk my parents into an early Birthday present :P. Haven’t asked for anything for years.
DEAL EXPIRED FOLKS!
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Oh god. Just the PS Vita for that price is so tempting. Gah.
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Hopefully they can bundle shipping stuff together then I can throw in Persona 4!
Vita is only going to get cheaper and there might be better deals after Christmas. Local is good for warranty but gosh darn this is so tempting!
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I hope it does get cheaper =(
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Might not be cheaper straight after Christmas but it will definitely get cheaper. For all I know, the Vita might be dead in a few months and be dirt cheap 😛
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I know. I’m going to wait.
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This is a lot of why the system’s dying IMO – it’s just a bit too pricey in comparison to 3DS, despite that it’s a far better system for the price.
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@masha2932 : )
That is an amazing deal.
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Best place for a 32GB?
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OzGameShop is the cheapest I’ve seen but I haven’t looked too hard.
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Found a site that has it for $78ish delivered. Man, these are expensive…
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That deal is … insane.
Compare it to a Vita by itself and it is $70 cheaper and it comes with all those bonus’
God damn it!
http://store.origin.com/store/eaapac/en_AU/html/pbPage.24_Hour_Mega_Sale_AU?sourceid=Origin_MEGASALE_FB_APAC_AU_MC61341#fancyOverlay
I would not be seen again, I know, but still
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Luckily there’s nothing too cheap. What were you after from there?
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Sims expansions =P
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God Origin really know how to charge out the arse for new games. I can pick up NFS:MW cheaper in store than their usual asking price there.. o.o
Did TAY just get reposted on a saturday? That’s new, isn’t it?
Looks like The Refresh Game is getting more legitimate every week!
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I AM THE WORST.
POWALEN IS SOMEWHAT OK.
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No I haven’t 😛
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I may or may not have not watched it all 😛
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That’s awesome, man. I hope Mark/Logan continue to do it!
Hey @greenius! I spied my husband looking at prices for Xenoblade online. *crosses fingers* 😀
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😀 😀 :D!!!
*crosses fingers too*
Just throw The Last Story aside 😉
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$10 says Strange finishes it before I do 🙁
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You can technically beat it before Christmas!
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I know one way to avoid this!
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A couple of additions, a minor subtraction, and quite a bit of tinkering, and I’m finally completely happy with the first half of Project Nova. Now I have about 3 hours of “other material” to sort through, cut down and otherwise tear to pieces for the other half
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Huzzah, I helped! >.>
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I sorta helped too! (but not really)
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THE WALKING DEAD — EPISODE 1: A NEW DAY
(All kinds of spoilers here, don’t read if you haven’t played!)
Holy damn, man. What a tense two hours or so. I really, really liked it. It’s rough for sure and isn’t perfect, but definitely the best thing Telltale’s done — especially on the writing front.
I chose to be honest with Hershel. Based on my early experiences with Lee I thought that despite whatever it was he had done, he wasn’t trying to run from it. The man intentionally left out details, but he was as honest as he could be without freaking people out about his past. He also told the truth about Clementine. I figured that if he had to lie in the future, it would be better to keep his story as close to reality as possible. Being consistant and all that.
Oh, man. Here’s a freakin’ tough decision. I saved Duck for one reason, he was a defenseless kid no different from Clementine. Lee had just bonded with his parents over the shared predicament and honestly? First instinct was to protect him over Shawn. I really liked Shawn too, he was a good guy and would probably have been incredibly helpful on the survival front. Felt uneasy about the choice I made, but that’s something Lee will have to live with. (Me too, I guess.)
Lee had already made some allies, especially after the incident with Duck. Keeping Duck alive was a hard thing to do, so I wasn’t about to let some mofos shoot him dead on the suspicion that he might’ve been bitten. I was fairly sure that he wasn’t, but took the chance any way. I sided with Kenny during the confrontation at the store. I would do it again, for sure.
I felt horrible for Irene, the die was already cast, though. This might sound horrible, but her fate was sealed and I didn’t give her the gun. Every last bit of ammo was important, this gun was going to keep people who still had a chance alive. I felt like the biggest jerk known to man, but I refused to let her have it. (Didn’t matter all that much in the end, but I know why I made that choice and I thought it was one that Lee could live with too.) It wasn’t to be cruel to her, it was for the others…
Now this last choice was damn hard, man. I chose Carley over Doug and I’m not entirely sure why. I guess Lee bonded with her more over the course of the game, but I still felt like maybe it was because she was a woman. Maybe I felt the need to protect her? (Does that make me a jerk? I don’t know, man.) Also Doug risked his life to save Carley when they first met, I figured he would understand Lee making that same choice even at his expense. This will be the hardest decision to live with, I think.
Damn fine game. Thank you, Shane. 🙂
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That first choice came out of nowhere for me! It sounds like you and I made the exact same choices except for the truth telling thing (I wasn’t sure what to say so I ran out of time and didn’t say anything :P).
Larry is such a cunt…
I honestly didn’t feel too bad for Irene. Well, I felt bad for her situation but I didn’t feel bad about my choice. I felt like she could’ve been dodgy and shoot one of us instead (hence why I didn’t give her the gun) and when we fell off the balcony I swear one of us would’ve been hurt, thankfully we were all fine though.
Most people and I chose Carley because she had a gun and was good with it. There’s a good argument for Doug I guess with the whole “technology” thing but it never came across my mind.D.C.’s GOTY. I called it!
It only gets worse my friend… Prepare for all the depression.
But the game gets better!
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So good, man. I played in the dark with headphones on. Made for some unnerving atmosphere! I can just picture it with Heavy Rain production values. Mind blowing!
I can understand why they’ve got that timed dialogue thing, adds to the tension but sometimes I barely get a chance to read all the options before it counts down. :S
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Keep those headphones! You get some really awesome sound effects/music through them in later episodes!
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😀 Will do, man. Might play an episode a night. How’d episode one go down for you, Pow?
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Pretty much the same as yours.
Walking Dead Episode 1 Spoilers
Just my reasonings were a little different. I played through most of the game with a ‘stay honest and try to keep as many people alive as possible’ approach so that’s why I saved Carley (hoping she would shoot Doug’s zombies) and didn’t kill Irene. Saving Duck was more of a snap decision though 😛And just so you know, Episode 2 is my equal favourite episode 😉
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I’m kind of playing in a…
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Oh man, this. All of this.
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Episode 2 is still my absolute favourite. 1 and 5 come close though!
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Episode 3 was the best, in my opinion. The rest of the episodes don’t even hold a candle, not even episode 5. GASP. I’d write a opinion why but lazy.
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3 had some awesome moments but there wasn’t much for me in between :P. Most people I’ve spoken to think 3 is their least liked.
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Just be weary of reading other people’s spoiler tags. You can and will have people tell the game from their own perspective and depending on the choices, you’ll have something ‘spoiled’ if it’s different from you.
Personally I didn’t mind too much because I’ve played the game how I wanted to and any other choice seems like an “alternative universe” that never happened 😛
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Oh, good point. Hmmm! Maybe I should wait until after the game then?
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Depends on how you feel about finding out what happens.
Look, let me just say that although I wanted the story to drastically change with each and every little choice, that does not happen. It’s hard to expect them to write an elaborate story for everything so feel free to read on!
Seeing something happen is a lot different from reading about it and even though I know what happens for some opposite choices I’m still interested in seeing how they play out (not any time soon though, too depressed and I don’t really want to play Dickhead Lee)
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Yeah, I figured it was that elastic story telling that David Cage from Quantic Dream always talks about. I still haven’t spoiled the other outcomes in Heavy Rain either, actually.
Yeah I didn’t mind getting ‘spoiled’ on alternate scenarios so much either. I actually don’t have much intention of replaying to see the other choices now that I’ve finished the game. It’s not really like a visual novel in that way, more like a movie tailored to my personality… if that makes sense 😛
Glad you liked it man. Obviously, I haven’t read the spoilers. I still expect you to be available to participate in hype-laden spoiler talk with me when I eventually get a hold of the game! 🙂
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There will be rambling a-plenty, man. I’ve taken notes and every thing. Haha! Thanks again, man. Not long now until the retail release as well!
A new discussion that isn’t walking dead related!
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Uh… Um… How’s the weather in ol’ Victoria, Scree? It’s an absolutely beautiful day here!
Good enough to possibly go outside! (no)
EDIT: Actually, I do have to go out and get a birthday present for a party I’m going to tonight. It’s one of those times when you’ve known the person for a few years, but don’t really KNOW them that well… you know? Probably end up getting a gift card or something, even though I hate how impersonal they feel 😛
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Outside? HA!
It’s a bit hot in Vic. I can feel the heat next to my head since it’s next to the window which is facing the sun.
I imagine the zombies from The Walking Dead would stink real bad in this heat.
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Hahahahah! Damn Trollius.
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Haha! Sorry, scree. I know how you feel, last weekend I felt left out with all The Walking Dead talk. :'(
How are you?
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That was your own fault though…
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Pipe down, Greenius.
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DENIED!!
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Did you finally manage to get the grass you were drawing just right?
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Hey scree!
Now that you’ve got the tablet have you decided on a Wii U or Vita yet?
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How bout dat Persona?
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Sorry, i had to run out of the house /o\
Walking Dead people: am I right in assuming that if I’m feeling a bit down about life etc. this is not a game I’d want to play right now?
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Well… In my opinion, the game was sad but in a good way. More of a happy ‘that was a great piece of storytelling’ sadness than a full dose of actual depression.
Your mileage may vary :\
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Probably. It gets rather depressing at certain times.
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I dunno, man. I’m not in a good place right now, but I’m still enjoying it. I think it’s confronting story telling, but doesn’t actually make you feel bad. Just empathetic.
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In before Greenius suggests I play Xenoblade instead.
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FFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!
Nah, play Persona 4, we can be buds! Did you ever finish it on PS2? I had acquired a copy but never played it. I was waiting for some sort of FES/updated announcement so the Vita one is perfect.
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Barely played it.
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Also, I meant to say this earlier but assumed it was implied. Hope things get better for you, man.
I forgot how awesome Twisted Metal on PS3 was until I started playing it again this morning.
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The demo was just chaos, man. Haha! I know the earlier versions were as well, but too much chaos. 😛
*clears throat*
*mumbles through clenched lips*
Dumb ways to die,
so many dumb ways to die,
dumb ways to di-i-i-ie,
so many dumb ways to die
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PIXEL! Want some rye? Course ya do!
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DC! how’s saturday looking up for you? I have personally just finished this years Christmas shopping \o/ (when i say i have, i mean my missus, whose actually proactive in this area)
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Sounds like a productive day all round! What sort of crazed maniac does their Christmas shopping in November, instead of days before Christmas? 😛 Have fun with the gaming, man. What are you going to play? Shane gifted me The Walking Dead last night so I suspect there will be some gaming for me soon too! 😀
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So damn catchy.
Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark is on Foxtel right now, one of the most underrated movies from last year. Really creepy, gothic movie. Almost Pan’s Labyrinth-lite. If you haven’t seen it, I couldn’t recommend it more!
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Oh DC… comparing this to Pans is a bit of a stretch! To be honest when I watched it I had high hopes, but it kinda flopped for me. Really became a bit silly by the end :/
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ALMOST Pan’s Labyrinth-lite. Haha!
I liked the atmosphere atleast. 🙂
I don’t think I had any expecatations going in, though, so just enjoyed the ride.
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Today has been really productive, and I simply find that odd for a Saturday. What happened to the carefree sleep-in-til-noon-eat-candy-and-watch-cartoons days of my youth/a couple months ago? Everything’s weird!
*taunts Pow with new Haruhi Suzumiya novel*
Can people with some spare time do me a favour?
http://store.steampowered.com/app/214610
Try out the demo and then review it please. Please D= We need some positive reviews.
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If you don’t mind me asking, What do you do for work Scree? From the game’s description the developer is 773. Do you work for them?
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I’m sure she will give you more details but she helps with the translation for the English port
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Pretty much. I work for Nyu media who brings Japanese doujin games to the west. I play through the games and report bugs but mainly I am human spell and grammar check
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@35
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Thanks a bunch! 😀
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no worries man 🙂
Hey @shane, if you didn’t see it already Matt’s replied to you over on the Telltale forums. Also you won’t be able to buy The Walking Dead directly from their website. :'(
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Thanks man, I didn’t see that. Looks like I’ll be going with play-asia unless something better comes up soon! 🙂
Does anybody know much about fixing consoles? I think @saturday might.
Our chairman dropped an old xbox that looks like it has red ringed and asked if we could do anything
Somebody has give him a bunch of screws and washes and said replace these and it might help
Is that something that could help or if it totally stuffed?
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Usually with the RROD consoles it was a matter of reseating the heatsink & reapplying a new thin layer of thermal paste. Which involved replacing some screws & washers from what I have read.
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Is it just the same thermal paste as used on PC CPUs and heatsink?
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Any thermal paste should be fine as long as it’s not silver-based, lest it mess up with the rest of the internal components. Otherwise, Virus is pretty much on the ball.
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Go me \o/ and I don’t even own an Xbox =P
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Is Steam going slow for anyone else?
There must be a ton of network traffic.
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Not slow but I get a “Not Found” error sometimes when I try and access the store.
And the award for Best Boss Fights of the year goes to…
Intrusion 2!
Many of you probably haven’t heard of it but it’s awesomesauce and I saw that a lot of you picked it up during the sales. The last boss fight is truly epic and it took me about 2 hours of constantly dying to finally kill it. Felt soooo goood mannn! There’s only 3 bosses (including the Final one) in the game but they’re really well thought out and are an absolute blast to fight.
Erryone go play it please!
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You spelt FTL wrong
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NO U
(but in all seriousness I haven’t played it but I did see the final boss in a let’s play and this one seems better 😛 – different genres though)
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Hope that game gets a Steam Sale! I want to see what all the fuss is about!
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Don’t worry, guys! I found salt & vinegar chips in the cupboard!
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And then you threw them in the bin?
I kid, I kid.
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I approve of poke-gifs
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I’m done with Crysis 2.
The worst part is, I haven’t even gotten to play a single second of it, due to this stupid key that was on the inside of the case not working.
I’ve tried looking around for keys, tried keygens, and none of them worked. I’ve had enough.
This is total BS of the highest order.
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Did you contact EA? I hear they actually have some pretty decent support.
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I think the support is shut on the weekend…
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Oh? If I recall you posted about this a few weeks ago? Thought you might’ve contacted them since then :(. There’s always Monday I guess.
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I got it on PS3.
It ran first time, without a code or problems.
Tee hee
^.^
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That was…
Cold…
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I’m sure you have, but did you try throwing it in Steam see if that works? Tbh, you’re not missing much, I thought it was an average game at best, Crysis was way better.
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Tried it.
The game boots, and the audio is working, but there’s nothing being displayed on the monitor… 🙁-
Weird man :S Might I suggest finding a skid row release and using their .exe, not that I am a fan of game piracy (though I am known to pirate in the past), but in this case fuck it, give it ago, or if you need any help obtaining such let me know and I can help you out.
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God damn this heat, it’s making my head hurt stupid fan & water keep me hydrated/cool!
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Spray bottle/fan combo works wonders man.
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Now i’ve been sittin down not doing shit in this warm house all is good \o/
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I’ve got my room sealed off from the rest of the house. It’s not huge, by any means, yet it’s got the same model aircon as the lounge-room. It can’t keep up /o\
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Sandwich bag, water and a freezer.
I’m Macgyver.
THE WALKING DEAD — EPISODE TWO: STARVED FOR HELP
(Once again, spoilers a-plenty. Only read if you’ve played the episode!)
Oh, man. I think I need a hug. 😛
Chopped off guys leg? Check! Bashed in Larry’s head? Check. Holy fuck, I’m the worst person ever. :'( Didn’t shoot Jolene, though. Didn’t kill brothers, had to hold onto that last grasp of humanity. Didn’t steal the food for the same reason.
Honestly I don’t wanna know the alternative in some of these choices. For some reason the what could’ve been aspect really fits this game. I’m a bad, bad man. 🙁
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I’ve decided to play the game as awful awful human beings. Making the worst choices I can.
The game weirds me out. There’s an odd disconnect for me between the violence and the happy expressive animation and art style Telltale tend to use.
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Yeah, I love wondering what could have happened if I made different choices.
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I know the feeling man, I’ve got one particular part that has “what if???” all over it… I don’t think there’d be much difference in how it’s panned out, but it’s still very… yeah, no closure.I didn’t chop off the kid’s leg, and ended up shooting Jolene. Stole the food, too.
You’re not bad, you were put it some hella sketchy situations is all. Makes you think, though…
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Ooh, so THAT’S what happens when there’s a line break.
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…I did, and I feel it was justified for reasons that happened earlier.
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We can justify our horrible decisions. It’ll help us sleep at night. 😛
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I’m just a terrible guy, Greenius. I’ve been telling you guys that for weeks. 😛
I chopped off the guy’s leg because he had a chance to live. It was brutal and it was horrible, but better than being torn to shreds/eaten alive by a hoard of monsters maybe? I thought life would be tough for him having one leg in a zombie apocalpyse, though. Almost seemed like a death sentence right there. No easy decision here.
I didn’t shoot Jolene because I wanted to reason with her. She was broken, was in a position like Lee is with Clementine and lost her kid. Had a lot of sympathy for her. Thought I could talk her down, reason with her. I also suspected something bad was going down on the ol’ homestead. Pretty much knew for certain when the brother went in for the kill. Poor Mark. 🙁
I dunno about the Larry thing. Two episodes in and he’s had persistent heart troubles. Didn’t seem like he was coming back this time around, stuck in close quarters with Clem and the gang. It was something that was incredibly hard to decide. Saying I feel guilty is an understatement, knowing that things could’ve ended up differently. Feels really horrible to say.
I didn’t kill the brothers because I thought that as soon as Lee does that, he’s starting to walk the same path as these freaks. Justify a fucked up decision. In some ways, that’s almost what Lee did on the Larry front, though. I’m conflicted, man.
Not stealing the food was another attempt to maintain humanity.-
I didn’t chop off the guy’s leg because I also thought “life would be tough for him having one leg in a zombie apocalpyse, though. Almost seemed like a death sentence right there”. I didn’t want him to die so I tried everything I could but literally ran out of time. Felt bad but it was his own darn fault for getting caught in the first place and I doubt having one less leg would change too many things/
I didn’t shoot her either. Perfectly valid reasoning and same as mine.
Larry is a cunt. But like how he went crazy at Duck I wanted to be 100% he wasn’t dead just like I wanted to be 100% sure Duck wasn’t bitten. What Kenny did took me by surprise…
Same dealio on the brother thing but I killed the first one because he was still a threat and stopped punching the other and walked away.
Didn’t still food either because Clem.You’re not a terrible guy D.C.! UGHHHH
Also, how good was that last few scenes with a headset/phone on? So awesome!
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Agreed. Great atmosphere, but still. Would love to see the game with Heavy Rain production values. 😛 Episode three time, see you in three hours for more depression. 😀
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Episode 2 Spoilers
That final scene on the farm during the storm is one of my favourites of the whole game. Such a tense atmosphere with the thunder and rain and such! Especially the stand off with Brenda and Katjaa.-
Also I like how you couldn’t wait until night time to play the next episode, heh.
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:'( Will power is over rated. 😛
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Finished Hitman Absolution here and good god it was a chore to get through for example.
Disguises hardly work, and even if they do they won’t help you reach past the situation areas which your objectives normally are.
Silencers are horridly bad you could kill someone and have them fall over a rail from impact and somehow they will still find the body and enter caution mode.
Tether lines/subdue moves are extremely unforgiving unless their is no one within 100 ft it will probably draw attention.
I’m going to finish up the epilogue and than maybe go play something else because it terms of re-playability it would probably be for a psychopath run to avoid all the frustrations.
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Have you played previous Hitman games? I’m somewhat interested in the game but I’ve never played a Hitman game before. These problems don’t sound very fun 🙁
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Yeah, I’m finding it pretty frustrating too.
I don’t like to to criticise games without pinning exactly what’s not quite right with it, or without having a solution, but this… something’s a bit off with absolution.
Freeze! Holy damn, you’re awesome. You’ve made my day, but it wasn’t necessary, though. You sure?
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Thank you, buddy! Much appreciated!
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King of freakin’ kings!
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Man for the ages!
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As cool as his name implies!
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[Insert more ramblings here until I finish Walking Dead ep3.]
Thank you, man. That so damn kind of you!
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Get back to being depressed in The Walking Dead!
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Do we dare ask what has brought on such a string of lies and slander? 😛
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I think the random gift fairy gifted Ditch.C. the Thief Collection 🙂
Nvm
GREEN MAN GAMING HAS DISHONORED FOR $22.50 GO GO GO GO GO GO GO
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Insane price D:
One of the best games of the year. GET IT PEOPLE!
GO GO GO GO GO GO GO GO
EDIT: Speaking of which… in the 20 hours of so I’ve played, I’m not even half way through the game and people have beaten it in 20 hours. I think I’ve given up going for 100% :(. Way too many games to get through…
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@powalen BUY IT
This is what I have so far.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v247/luckydogofdeath/rat_final.png
Does it look alright? I have to check the character first to make sure it’s accurate before I post it online.
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That’s awesome!
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Thank you. The grass was the biggest pain in the bum
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I’m impressed.
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Thanks. I really appreciate that
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Looks great scree 🙂
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Like straight out of the game? =P
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What everyone else said, looks amazing
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No qualms? Nob didn’t like the sky and grass meshing together
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Not green enough.
(I’m kidding of course ;P)
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Damn Trollius
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Maybe a little more distinction between them, but I really only noticed when you pointed it out
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Bit late, but I really like that Scree! Nice work!
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Thank you! I saw this thanks to the notification system
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Got so much done on Project Nova today. Hopefully I can have another good day tomorrow and who knows, I may have it done before the New Year
I just boxed up all my PS2, Xbox and Gamecube games into a big plastic container. 🙁 Ran out of shelf space and this was the only solution.
I suspect that my X360 may be next. Nothing I know of that I want to get for on the horizon that I wouldn’t rather get for PC. PS3 still has some life in it.
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I am scared I’ll have to do that soon, too. I’ve got PS and DC games taking up space, too. Hard to decided what to lovingly pack away.
By the way, *hugasaurus*.
so saturday night turned out to be quieter than i hoped. A couple of large bottles of cider. and a few boring movies lo.l
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mine is exactly the same. but instead of movies its LoL
THE WALKING DEAD — EPISODE THREE: LONG ROAD AHEAD
(Most definitely spoilers a-plenty, don’t read until you play the episode!)
Oh, wow. That was my favourite one so far, for sure!
I didn’t shoot the girl at the start. I felt horrible, but at the same time it gave her senseless death some meaning if it meant the group could resupply. Still felt like a monster. I didn’t leave Lily. Holy damn, that was a horrific turn of events, huh? Don’t think I’ve processed it all yet. I talked Kenny down, he stopped the train. Lee took care of the matter. :'( It says I did not help Omid, but that wasn’t a choice I made, just clumsily not clicking in time with the mouse.
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Alright, episode four time. I’m sorry for posting so much about this here. Just excited is all. I’m glad I get to play the episodes back-to-back too, just like a traditional adventure game instead of episodic. Flows incredibly well.
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You played that one exactly how I did, man.
I just finished ep 5, and am reeling, though I kinda saw where most of it was heading.Ep. 3 is likely my favourite of the 5 in terms of raw emotion and such. I damn near cried!
It’s also got an F40PH. GOTY.
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THE WALKING DEAD — EPISODE 4: AROUND EVERY CORNER
(Spoilers a-plenty, do not read until after you’ve played the game, damn it!)Oh, man. So damn harrowing. For starters, Lee killed the boy in the attic. I cried when burying him next to the family dog. (Where do I hand in that man card?) I was honest with Vernon. I left Clem at the house when heading over to Crawford. I thought for sure this was going to be a mistake. I saved Ben. The kid’s a monumental screw up, but still a good kid at heart I reckon. I showed the bite to the group at the end.-
Ah, I missed this post! I swear it wasn’t here this morning (I’m just blind)
Episode 4 Spoilers
I’m glad you saved Ben! Seems to be a pretty divisive decision around here 😛 I made Kenny kill the kid though. I also brought Clem with me because I figured she would just try and follow us anyway (didn’t even think about Omid possibly turning while they were home alone until it was brought up later :\). I’m glad I did though, she was awesome in Crawford.-
Awesome scene is awesome!
I had the same reasoning as you 🙂 for the Clem decision. I still think people named Ben are the worst :P. I heard what happens to him in ep 5… gosh… *sigh*
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Chivalry: Medieval Warfare is freaking awesome! \o/
Thanks again #35! 😀
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And thank you, man. So damn much. :’)
The Walking Dead ep 4 spoilers
Like most I killed the boy in the attic, I felt it was the right thing to do.. I kinda wish Molly stuck with us, she was really cool and resourceful was upsetting to see her go her own way, but oh well. I let Ben fall to his death, I couldn’t believe it was him that got our group into that whole world of shit, it wasn’t hard since he was always fucking up and making shit hard for us or causing some trouble, even if he did mean well. Also unlike a lot I left Clementine at the house with Omid and cause of that Omid lived which was good because he was helpful, and unlike most I kept my bite secret which everyone was okay with in the end.
Ep 5 spoilers & all that shit.
When the group found out I had been bitten I decided to remove my arm, I was sad no one nick named me stumpy.. I didn’t give up my weapons to the asshole that kid napped Clementine, not that it mattered heh, since he copped a bullet to the skull from Clementine, but seriously who keeps their wives head in a bowling ball bag?!
This part contains Season 3 spoilers for the show too, so read at your own will;
But yeah that ending was expected since Lee took too long to do something about his bite, if it’s anything like the show where Rick removed Hershel’s foot straight away he would’ve been find I dare say. But nooooope he waited and gave the virus/infection time to spread further through his system.
Over all i’d give it a 7.5/10 the controls at times annoyed me so I took .5 off for that and some small things bugged witch puzzels where it was obvious what the result was but some things required long and annoying steps, other wise amazing game, worthy of GOTY for sure.
So … how bout that walking dead?
I just finished episode 1
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Prepare for anguish.
Unless you’re soulless, in which case, enjoy \o/You’re not soulless, are you?-
Hah! Episode one filled me with enough of that. I think I can only tackle this one episode per day at maximum.
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I did ep 1 on Thursday, 2-3 Friday, and 4-5 today.
It’s… rough.-
I am really glad that I had months of waiting.
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I played 1 on Friday night, 2-4 on Saturday. Only have 5 left.
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So I see what the fuss was about with Spec Ops.
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Aw, man. I was obsessed with this game for months. Once I get through Walking Dead I’m happy to geek out and talk plot points. 😀
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So did The Walking Dead take over Spec Ops as your GOTY?
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Probably not, but it’s up there, man. 🙂
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Goodnight, TAY!
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Good night, Crazyguy. Thanks again! 🙂
Skyfall review
OH MY HOLY MOTHER OF FREAKING AMAZEBALLS! *twitch*
*collapse into a corner and start drooling*
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Return to form?
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Yes. Got a vibe of Dr. No to it. It’s a very self aware film.
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Yeah I loved it. For me, wasnt quite Casino Royale good, but thats a lot to ask of a Bond film really. Was definitely great to see it not continue the tradition of getting progressively worse after the new Bond actor comes in. Holy shit was it a pretty film too. Also, Javier, best villian in a long time, despite Mads being awesome in CR. Shanghai fight in the tower was soooo sexyyyy
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@freezespreston @lambomann007 @dire_wolf @rize @SWTOR TAYFronds
Added my characters to TAY Names document. Didn’t have to rename my old Republic characters after all.
Rolled an agent and took her through to level 11 today, took Sniper. Hutta is still a shitty starting zone but at least it’s more bearable with sprint at level 1. But I’m finding I’m more interested in my Sith Assassin’s storyline at this point.
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I’ll probably be on sometime tonight, so I’ll add your characters to my friends list then. Also, lol at Lumia and Infel. Were those ‘inspired’ on purpose, or was that a coincidence 😛
Also, I never really used sprint much. I would usually just run around at normal speed, taking in the environment. Then I got my speeder and now I use that when I want to traverse long distances.
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Coincidence in Lumia’s case – originally Lumi, had to rename when I moved servers. Infel I grabbed from Ar Tonelico II as something that won’t look stupid if I get the Darth title. 😛
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Sounds like we have a fairly nice range of different characters between TAYbies now. should make group questing easier.
I was going to jump on TAYnames and add everyone, but I think the person has to be online and on that character for it to go through?-
I thought they fixed that?
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@zetrox2k
I noticed someone trying to log onto my MC server with an IP nearly identical to yours. I’m guessing this was the brother(in law was it?) you were talking about. He should be on the white list now.
Just make sure he knows no destroying peoples stuff!
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Man, I haven’t played Minecraft in aaages. Mind adding me to the whitelist? Name’s lamboman007. What’s the deets too?
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60.225.66.234:25585 should work.
Might not be able to play until Monday though as my server is one update behind at the moment and I’m not sure if you can download a particular version.
version 1.4.4 Is what I’m on at the moment but I think 1.4.5 is the latest build.
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Thanks 🙂
I’ll check on piratebay for it. I downloaded 1.2 (or some other old version, can’t remember which one) off there for nostalgia’s sake once.-
I don’t think you can hop on if you’ve got a pirated version- I’m pirating minecraft right now and I couldn’t get on the server.
>.> can you?
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Not sure if it’s worth the trouble I plan on updating it to the latest build on Monday at some point anyway.
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Yo dawg, be willing able to add my deets? Feel like playing it again for some reason.
Jocon89, original I know.-
Should be added now.
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Morning! Hopefully I’ll finish this rat today, completely and post it on redbubble
Posted for now!
http://www.redbubble.com/people/luckydog/works/9648456-year-of-the-wood-rat
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wooo! \o/
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oh wow, that’s awesome!
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so cute.
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Looks amazing, scree. You’ve got skills!
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It looks Okami-inspired?
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Yeah, she said in a previous post that it was 🙂
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It’s very hot today so I’m going to spend the day playing Bioshock 2. All that water will cool me down! 😛
On a related note, how awesome would it be to have an underwater city! Though in real life it probably wouldn’t look as spectacular as it does in Bioshock… It’d just be a dull polluted mess with algae-covered windows, but whatever.
Hope you refreshers have a good day!
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Hope you have a damn good day too, man. I wouldn’t be able to relax in an underwater city. Every time I hear the slightest creak, I’d think the bulk heads are rupturing. 😛
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Or should you say… Rapturing. Dohhhohohoho!
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Dammit Pow, you’re better than that 😛
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Mash up time: GTA and Cowboy Bebop http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPhBxo5Gfvs
@Rize
I think you may be correct in saying that pew pew planes are cool, and shit.
Thanks man ^.^
Do you have it installed? We’ll have to hit up multi at some point!!!
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Congrats, you’ve got the hardest username to spell ever!
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“Hey! I’m not synthetythamphetanull… ohh-ohhhh”
EDIT: If @alexpants was here he’d upvote me :'(
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…I don’t get it but have an upvote for Survivor/FFIX bro!
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Good enough reason as any. I’ll upvote for adventure gaming reasons!
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Whew almost as hard as Theatrhythm @freezespreston
😛
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Just do the aussie thing and shorten it to “Synth”.
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Well, depending upon your whereabouts, it could also be “Synthy” or “Syntho”, I suppose 😀
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I’ll do whatever I do whenever I encounter people with such long names
Call them something else completely unrelated to their names
I am now going to call you Captain Crunch.
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Bob is also acceptable.
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I think you mean he should shorten it to “Bruce”.
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I just tried changing my name to “Synthetythamphetanull (Bob/Bruce/Captain Crunch)”.
It didn’t like it.Who knew that we had a 30 character limit?!
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Synthbobythamphetabrucecaptaincrunch
Yeah let’s just give up.
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I haven’t attempted to play it in ages, but sure 😛
GIFT GUILT RIGHT IN THE FACE D:
Now I’m all sweaty and scared to see who gifted me what!
Whoever you are I just checked my emails and it appears I got double gifted… Thank you very much though!
Time to see… D:
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Big thank you to @rize @sernobulus @notoriousR !
Giffft guilltttt T__T
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You should know we all play a game to one-up each other’s gifts.
So I guess you owe quite a few people some games.
(Not really)
(But actually really)
(PS where is my game)
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RIGHT THERE
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Have US credit card? Want a US PS+ 3 month trial? 😛
So, the Aussies are 8 down in the cricket…
Good thing we have a 400+ run lead.
Man, so much gift guilt. I should really delete my steam wishlist.
Thank you though, @crazyguy1990. You’re a very generous person! All of you guys are too good to me 😛
As soon as I get a job/win the lotto, I’m going to shower TAY in gifts. GIFT SHOWERS ALL OVER.
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Why does everyone keep trying to make me shower. I’ll do it when I’m ready ok?
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SAME!
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Have fun. 😀
Friendsssss
Does Rayman Origins have any crazy Ubisoft PC DRM? I don’t think I’ve played any recent Ubisoft games on PC so I don’t really know how bad their DRM can get.
I’ve had on my eye on Rayman for some time but I passed on it last sale because I was waiting for it to get cheaper (I think it only got to around $15). However, by now it’s also $15ish on consoles so if there is crappy PC stuff, then I might as well get it on PS3 since it’ll be sweet on the big TV.
Wasn’t too keen on it when it was first announced but it’s got nothing but praise from everyone. Since Rayman Legends on the Wii U looks amazing I figured I might as well play Origins first :). Too many platforms to choose from :/
Thanks!
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The disc version is completely DRM free. If it’s a steam version, I assume it only has steam.
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I was going after the Steam one. So would that just be your standard Steam stuff then? Sounds good to me! Thanks.
Now to play the waiting game 🙂
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THE WALKING DEAD — EPISODE 5: NO TIME LEFT
(End of game spoilers, be warned my friends! Don’t read unless you’ve played!)
Wow, man. That was some harrowing stuff. First? Decisions! I consented to Lee’s arm being removed. (Even though I suspected it would be futile, wasn’t even sure it would slow the infection, since blood doesn’t need that long to pump through the body.) I argued calmly with Kenny. The man had a point and I absolutely agreed there needed to be a contingency for Lee, I was a little bummed the game didn’t give Lee the opportunity to say this. I kept the weapon and didn’t kill the stranger, though if I played again I would’ve spared Clem from having to. I told her to leave and save the bullet, to find Omid and Christa. The epilogue was a little confusing, that didn’t look like the train lines to me. 😛
I was really sorry that Ben and Kenny died. :'(
Really solid, awesome story. No where near perfect and suffers time-to-time from Telltale’s patented weird design decisions, but it’s definitely their best so far. Takes every thing I liked about Heavy Rain and put more adventure game puzzles in. What’s not to like about that?
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I really liked Ben as a character, but his constant stupid decisions made it hard. It wasn’t just the bandit/supply thing. That was just an attempt to help. It was the stuff like the axe in Crawford. :S-
Exactly. I’ve given him more than enough chances but how stupid can you be!? I would’ve saved him but he TOLD me to drop him, so I did. Surprisingly Clem took that rather well :/-
Haha! I figured Lee was not in a position to judge any one and every one deserved redemption, so I saved him. It’s too bad his death in episode five was worse than being dropped in the bell tower. :S -
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Balcony collapses and he’s impaled below in the alley, Kenny tries to save him and they’re swarmed by zombies. You hear a bullet, but don’t find out what went down.
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Did ya go alone when you cut off your arm? Cause maaaaan if you were alone the cutting off the arm scene is 10x as awesome.. and nerve-wrecking. Haha, the train lines line is because you asked them to meet you there, right? I did too as well. It registers that they’ll remember that, so maybe we’ll see season 2 figure that out. What did you think of the stranger’s motives? what did he call you out on?
THAT DIDN’T HAPPEN MOVE ALONG NOW.
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Wrong tags, man. ARRRRGH!
Haha! Glad you got that fixed, man. 😀
I had Christa, Kenny, Omid and Ben with me. The stranger was just batshit crazy, I reckon. I tried to reason with him. He called me out on the dairy farm stuff mostly. I was half expecting him to be Hershel, getting revenge for Shawns death!-
He’s determined to find fault with you. First walkthrough he called me out on killing one of the brothers, bringing her to the farm, and stealing his food. Second time, where I made decisions specifically to try to circumvent his wrath, he STILL called me out on killing the girl back in chapter 3, bringing her to the farm (he’s gonna blame you no matter what you do, apparently) and bringing her with me to crawford. But hey, at least he admitted he wasn’t gonna kill me in the beginning because I didn’t take his stuff. >:(-
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You know that scene where you, Christa, and Omid encounter that building with a hole full of walkers? With ben dead, Kenny bumps into you when you’re peering into the hole (building appears empty) and your walkie-talkie falls into the building. I said “leave it” but then Christa hopped in to get it, saying that it was the only link to Clem. Walkers arrived, she couldn’t reach us, Kenny, distraught and feeling responsible, jumps in, gives her a boost, and appears to die off-scene holding off walkers. -
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Technically you don’t even know if he even dies or not (but it’s heavily hinted at that he does). There’s no real confirmation until you finish the game and it gives a brief summary on each character.
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Thanks @shane for the generous gift too. You have no idea how much that meant to me. 🙂
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I think we have some idea ;D
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No worries, man. I’ve been following your progress, sans spoilers, and really glad you enjoyed it! 🙂
Edit: I don’t do all that many nice things for people, so it’s great to hear that it seemed to go well this time. I might try it again one day. Maybe.
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Just wait until we can talk plot points! 😀
Edit: Shane, you’re pretty much the nicest guy I know. You don’t need to actually do things when you’re that nice any way, just posting day-to-day is awesome enough. Haha! It might sound weird with all this gifting going on lately, but I was genuinely touched that someone cared enough to do something like that for me. :’) Also, purely on The Walking Dead front, I haven’t been this hooked on a game’s story in some time. Thank you so much, man..
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Episode 5 Spoilers
I assumed that Omid and Christa didn’t make it to the train, which was a bit of a sad thought. Not really surprising though when you think about the number of zombies they had to get through.
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But they were on the roofs (rooves?)!
The game made me cry once, which is an impressive feat:
Burying the little boy next to his dog. I don’t know why, but that killed me man. Plenty of the game made me sad, don’t get me wrong. Just no out right tears until then. Haha!
I think we did nearly everything the same, at least for Ep.5
Agree with the epilogue thing. Just two people on the horizon, Clem freaking a bit, then it’s over. It kinda took away from the entire final scene with Clem and Lee (which kicked me right in the heart). Also, I miss my arm…
Ugh. No more Steam gifts coming from Freeze. Had to sell my Santa hat and fairy wings. Discovered that myself and Mrs Freeze combined have $20 to our name.
Next few weeks are going to suck.
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Thank you for the Thief collection, man. Hope you don’t regret that now. I know how tempting it is to gift everyone. I’ve done it twice this time around and feel like that’s not enough. :'(
Least you’ve got plenty of new Steam games to last? 😀
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Haha. No. I purchased myself hardly any. Spent if all on everyone else. 😛
Screw it though. I could hoard all my money and die on a pile or spend it and live life.
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For what it’s worth? So damn appreciated, man. :’) You’re awesome.
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So. Damn. Awesome.
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…you need to update your wishlist.
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I hear he wants Xenoblade*
😛
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Considering I started playing PC games about…. Oh… 3 days ago, I have no idea whats good and whats not.
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Ever played a lot of the indie games like VVVVV, Machinarium, Botanicula etc. etc. (plenty of indie stuff)?
Did you ever get Diablo 3? 😛
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I think he bought some indie games on GOG the other day with the 5 for $10 deal!
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But not VVVVVV 🙁
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Aww man extra gift guilt 🙁
Assassin’s Creed friendssss (@alexpants?)
I watched a brief 7 minute story summary of the series (up until before the events of AC3) from IGN and they showed
(Spoilers for AC1, 2, Bro, Revs)
scenes of an older Altair up until his death
I’ve only played AC1 and AC2 and well… the story seems a bit batshit insane. I don’t really recall the events from either but I definitely know neither of them had those scenes. Question is, which game has them? I’m guessing Revelations but I’m not too sure. Are these playable moments or just cutscenes you get to see?
Where does Liberation fit into the series? Do you even play as Desmond in it?
I’m still waiting on AC3 (imported it) so please no spoilers for that, but does that mark the end of Desmond’s story? Any indication of where the series is headed next?
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The PSP game that was a spinoff of the first might have the scene in question.
I remember 2 recalling on events from the first and its spinoff. -
Revelations has scenes on old man Altair. I think there are around 5 or 6 playable short Altair missions that tell you his life after the events of AC1. The last few have him as an old man. -
If I remember correctly, Liberation is a “game” released by Abstergo(aka. The Templars), except you as the player get access to some memories you’re not supposed to. So, I believe that in its case the entire game is framed as inside the Animus. I could be wrong though.
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Cheers.
This is the video I’m talking about with the bit at around 2:00 right after the summary of the first game
(AC1 – Revs spoilers)
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Yeah, as Dire Wolf mentioned, that’s the Altair stuff from Revelations.
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Well, it’s all been covered by others here :p
You should play Brotherhood. It’s the best.
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Brotherhood is awesomesauce!
Erm..I think it’s from Brotherhood, but regarding the video Greenius posted:
I don’t really recall any information about Lucy being a double agent. All I remember is “Hey Lucy, I’d like to poke you. Oops! I poked you.”-
Yeah, there was like, nothing about it in the game(though I think there was something that hinted at it in the real world that you could only see with Eagle Vision or something bizarre). At some point somewhere it’s confirmed that she’s a double agent, but I don’t really know when. It just seems to have been accepted at some point before 3…-
It was revealed in that ACR DLC that was all about Subject 16, but Ubisoft didn’t market it at all and a week after it released they announced AC3 so it seems they didn’t really care. It does get properly explained how they know this somewhere in AC3, though. -
BEATEN TO IT
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Well that’s just shit.
At least my memory isn’t failing me on this one 😛
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It was in the AssRev DLC. Which pissed me off lots. -
Boooooooo DLC
*hiss*
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In due time friend! Not enough time* to marathon Brotherhood and Revelations before AC3 but I do plan to play them! Maybe even replay AC again but… the original was boring :/
Anyone back the Double Fine Amensia Fortnight thing?
I wasn’t planning too but Double Fine are too awesome not to support! I haven’t seen all the Pitch videos but I’ll comment back on what I liked. So far it’s the action/adventures with the “Journeyesque” type of games like The White Birch and Black Lake and the Zelda type game Hack n Slash.
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The White Birch was my favourite as well as Black Lake. The Costume Quest prototype was pretty amazing looking too. Rough for sure, but you can see how it all came about!
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Did you back it? 🙂
What did you vote for?
If not, why NOT?!
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I didn’t back it for reasons, man. Reasons. I feel bad, though.
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Reasons?! TELL ME.
You interested in Brazen? Humble Bundles are easy enough to gift without paying over the average 🙂 (pretty sure it’s only a $1)
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Reasons!
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I did, solely because i love 2 Player Productions and whatever videos they make. Also because I want to play a stealth game where you’ve pooped yourself.
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I was reading an update on it and noticed they said they’d livestream the Prototype process which sounds like something I’d be interested in.
I think their fine work on the Double Fine Adventure was what made me want to back Amnesia Fortnight 🙂
What did you vote for? I don’t think I’ve seen Poopstealth game yet D:
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Its called Silent but deadly
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Pitch is amazing. Too bad it’s not going to win though :(.
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Hey Nottyyy, do you know where (which site) and when we’ll be able to see live streams and videos they put out for this? I love 2PP’s behind the scenes stuff for the DFA so I’m keen on the videos but not so much on the live stream.
What else have 2PP done? I think they were doing a Mojang behind the scenes, where can I watch that?
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Dunno, I imagine they’ll put out an email when it begins.
They did the first season of Penny Arcade The Series and Mojang one (full version is out soon, 20 minute proof of concept came out). Both can be seen here: http://penny-arcade.com/patv/
They’ve also done Reformat the Planet and a bunch of crap for sony (uncharted 3, infamous 1, jak hd).
They’re awesome.
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Actually here’s a better link
http://www.2playerproductions.com/projects/rtp
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After a weekend of Walking Dead adventuring, the refresh game has once more taken hold…
*refresh*
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Same here!
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What’s new, scree? Stuff?
I always add an ‘n’ onto the end of your name when I type it. Always. :'(
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I always miss the ‘r’ :S
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Aleph!
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I used to type Alpeh for some reason. I knew it was wrong but that’s just what my touch typing fingers came up with 😛
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I’ve been going back to previous pages, reading all your Walking Dead write-ups.
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It’s okay, my phone does the same thing.
You had a weekend of The Walking Dead adventuring?
How come you don’t have the game scree? Seems like it’ll be something you’re interested in 🙂
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Any one prejudiced at Telltale’s past efforts should put that aside and try The Walking Dead, so much better than any thing they’ve done before which is surprising, cause I know all the production names from their other games! Same people!
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Any one prejudiced at Telltale’s past efforts should put that aside and try Jurassic Park: The Game.
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No way! 😛
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Such a close-minded bunch!
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Working on Christmas Baubles now!
PC is now my strategy machine. The slower paced building games (army, city, base, world) are fantastic. Not sure why I waited so long.
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It begins!
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Civs 5! 😀
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You should also emulate Xenoblade.
Some cool Doctor of the What is doing it and loves it 😀
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Planetside 2.
Team Fortress 2.
Borderlands 2.
Somethingsomething 2.You need only pay for the 3rd and possibly 4th one.
Whoa!! sneaky bundle discount!
Double Fine bundle is $10 (75% off). It contains:
– Psychonauts
– Costume Quest
– Stacking
– Iron Brigade
I believe they all come with the extra DLC that was released for them on consoles (except Psycho because it doesn’t have DLC).
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All of those games are incredibly awesome. (Iron Brigade’s probably the weakest link, but the other three are exceptional!)
Mornin’ y’all.
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Virus! What’s new?
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Not much, just cookin’ dinner. Chinese BBQ roast chicken on the BBQ \o/
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Sounds like good eatin’, I had chips and a couple of Mars bars. 😛
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You need to learn to cook =P
In the last week i’ve done for dinner; Roast Pork, Roast Lamb, Roast Chicken (twice now), steak & snags (several times lol) all on the BBQ.
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Aw, man. That’s making me hungry. :'(
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All the more reason to learn how to cook \o/
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That’s it.
You’re hosting me for dinner.And I’ma cook for you. No idea what. But I’ll cook.
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No no, you have the mars bars when you visit Sydney because I think Doc & Serrels would be mad jealous otherwise, since they’re a Scottish thing!
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I just might be the only one on here that doesn’t play The Walking Dead but I do love the tv show… just haven’t got around to playing the actual game.
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The show is pretty good. I am really liking Season 3 so far. Season 2 had it’s ups & downs, mostly downs though. Excellent special effects in the show, that’s one reason why I really like it.
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Was talking to Greenius about the show earlier, I reckon I’d be much more into the comics though. The game is really damn good. Keep an eye out on Steam, because it’s gone on sale a few times lately!
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The show & comics are two totally different worlds/stories almost. They do share a likeness with some story, characters, places but it’s not much from what I gather. I am still yet to get my hands on them.
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I hear the comics aren’t as shit 😛
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Well the TV show isn’t shit if you don’t relate it to the rest of the franchise like everyone seems to, which is wrong =P
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The show was the first thing The Walking Dead I experienced. I watch a lot of TV shows and generally have a feel for what’s good and what’s not.
Obviously “shit” is an exaggeration but it does many things wrong and it really had potential, that pilot was amazing but it’s been downhill ever since. I gave up mid-way through Season 2.
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If you gave up around episode 6 or 7 you gave up at the wrong time. After episode 8 the season picked up and they got their shit together.
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It’s the talk of TAY! That’s how you know it’s good.
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What about the time I rambled about Spec Ops for months and both Greenius and Blaghman hated* it.
*maybe
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Notty mentioned Spec Ops and you didn’t bring it up! I was like :’) he’s learning! Good boy!
But now it’s all UGHHHHHHHHHH
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I had Walking Dead matters to attend with. 😛
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But you commented on it, just didn’t bring up the silly “my hype killed it wah wah wahh” thing ;D
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I mostly kid, man.
I do think hype kills, but I know taste might factor into it too. 😛
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As I explained, I thought it was good.
But it also had many flaws.
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I am interested to hear your thoughts, Ser Rodrik.
TAY marketing machine strikes again…
If you like the TV show you’ll LOVE the game. You’re mad not to pick it up!
NO EXCUSES.
NO. EXCUSES.
While I wait for this game to install I’m just going to type this here. I was going to just ask it tomorrow (I still am) but figured I might as well type it up so I can copy it over into new TAY. Feel free to answer if you know the answers to any! 😀
Vita friends
So I picked up a Vita and some games over the weekend (due to an insane deal by Amazon and I have a few Vita noob questions.
How do I go about switching PSN accounts?
I watched a tutorial on IGN but it was posted back in January so it might be a bit dated. I read that they stopped allowing mutiple PSN accounts on the same memory card with 1.80 update (which also bricked some Vitas from what I read too). Basically the process in the video was something like
1. Prepare your bacon Sync Trophies
2. Take card out and restore Vita to factory settings – deactivating the Vita with your account in the process
3. Sign in with new account
4. Watch 5 minute long unskippable intro movie
Does that sound about right? I ask because I got it from Amazon US which comes with a download code for PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale for the US store, so I’ll need a US account to redeem it. However, my main AU account is already on PS+ so I’d prefer to use that in the long run, despite US being cheaper and having more games.
Can I easily swap save files between accounts?
In addition to that download code the bundle I bought also came with cards(?) for AC: Liberation and I bought myself Persona 4. If save data is easily transferable then I can play a bit on the US account, swap over to the AU one and play on there. I’d prefer to play them on my AU account since that’s my main one and… trophies!
Game recommendations?
My absolute MUST HAVE Vita game is Persona 4, which I already ordered and through PS+ and this deal I’ll have Uncharted, Gravity Rush, Mutant Blobs, Chronovolt, AC: Liberation and PS: All Stars. The deal also came with 3 months of US PS+ but I’m not sure if I’ll be able to redeem the codes. If so this gives me access to the US PS+ games (Wipeout, FF: Tactics, Jet Set Radio). There’s some double ups on the PS+ games so I’ll prefer to play them on my AU account since I won’t be able to access them anymore on the US one once my trial has finished.
Any other recommendations? I’m interested in anything that’s considered good. I’ll pick up Disgaea 3 if I find a good price and I’m keen on Tearaway and SPINE SWORD (Soul Sacrifice).
Any other protips for Vita?
Pew pew pew. Thanks for looking/reading/skipping/helping/being awesome!
TL;DR – I have some Vita questions. They’re in bold. You’re sexy.
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Not enough Walking Dead talk. :'(
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I don’t have a Vita, but I’mma recommend NFS Most Wanted to you anyway. Apparently it’s pretty much the full console version, except only 4 player MP, not 8. Has cross platform Autolog too (means you can compare times with people on xbox/pc/ps3 I think).
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SUPER CRATE BOX KTHXBYE
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I haven’t ever swapped accounts.
Any physical release game you have, you can play on any region account. Eg. I play the Hatsune Miku game (JP release) on my AU Vita with a US account. However I basically just committed to using my US account as primary for my Vita. Save data probably won’t transfer – @doc_what probably will know more about this since I think he uses multiple accounts.
I think I’ve previously stated my issues with Jet Set Radio before so I won’t again. Given the difference between regions I’d probably use AU Plus and just buy FF Tactics outright (or get Tactics Ogre instead).
SPINE SWORD isn’t out yet. Gravity Rush is great, but that’s on PS Plus anyway. I really like Lumines, it’s probably the game I’ve clocked the most time on on Vita aside from maybe the amount of time I spent on some PSP stuff (eg Corpse Party, Trails in the Sky). There’s Virtue’s Last Reward as well but IIRC you’re getting for 3DS.
Did you have a PSP? There’s some fantastic PSP stuff available. US is way better for that in terms of availability though.
Other than that, I’d say Disgaea, Uncharted and AC3 are the Vita game lineup high points so far. With luck we’ll get Ys: Celecta, Sea of Trees. With even more luck (extremely unlikely) we might get Tales of Innocence or Tales of Hearts, but I don’t think that’ll happen.
In terms of upcoming stuff of note, there’s the new cross-platform PS3 and Vita Vanillaware game, Dragon’s Crown. They’re also re-releasing Muramasa for it (insta-buy for me). New Shin Megami Tensei game is coming. HD re-release of FFX. Phantasy Star Online 2 will have a Vita version – should hook into the same account and everything as the PC one. Hopefully in English too. If you’re into Rhythm stuff, DJ Max Technica is out in the US on the 4th of December. Oh and if you want to go the import route and like boobie ninjas but don’t want them all in your face in 3D, there’s also a Senran Kagura game. Dunno if it’s a port from 3DS or a spinoff.
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Boobie ninjas! 😛
Yeah Tearaway and SPINE SWORD are upcoming games I’m looking forward too.
The bundle I got my Vita in comes with 3 months of free US PS+. If I’m able to redeem it then I’ll use it for the exclusive US content which isn’t a biggie since I HAVE to make a US account to redeem my download code for PS: All Stars.
I know the US store has it’s pros and cons (mostly convenience) but my main AU account has PS+ up until 2014 so I’ll prefer to use that in the long run for the PS+ releases (I’m not buying PS+ again for the US) and trophies I guess.
I have a PSP but it’s an old fat and I haven’t really played it since 2008 or so. I’m not really interested in buying PSP games for the Vita.
Thanks for the reply, like I said, I’ll repost this in new TAY but feel free to ignore it since you’ve already answered 🙂
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Pinwheels is an awesome song.
That is all.
You guys have been gifting each games or something, right? That’s what I’ve been seeing on twitter? THE THINGS YOU MISS OUT ON WHEN YOU HAVE A JOB AND ACHILLES INJURIES
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Update your wishlist mang!
If i see someone with a game on their wishlist I gift it to them.
http://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/85809
Wii U Basic – $299
Wii U Premium – $379
And many games which are cheaper than EB and JB
Shieeeeeeeet K-Mart you crayyyy!
@powalen
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Looks like i know where I am going to pick up Mario / ZombU from
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Powalen’s house when he invites us all over to try out his new Wii U?
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So, Mark of the Ninja is an amazing game.
I probably shouldn’t enjoy freaking the hell out of guards but it’s so amusing! Two of my favourites so far have been:
1) Two guards alone in a pitch black room, I kill one guard and hang him from the roof. I flick the lights on for a second and all the other guard sees is the other guard hanging from the ceiling then I switch the lights back off.
2) A room full of guards, I throw a shrapnel trap on the ground in the middle of a light. One guard steps on it and gets impaled, a second guard sees it. Second guard gets the shit scared out of him and opens fire on EVERYONE in the room and kills the 3 remaining guards in the room.
TL:DR: BUY MARK OF THE NINJA!
Before I go to bed, I’d like to say one thing.
Chivalry: Medieval Warfare is bloody good fun.
And with that said, it’s time to hit the hay.
Goodnight, fellow TAYbies. 🙂
So Total Recall (2012) is a damn good movie. And to think I gave it no credit whatsoever. Still doesn’t hold a candle to the original (which is one of my favourites of all time. OF ALL TIME!) but a great movie in its own right.
Plus Kate Beckinsale.
Damnit @greenius! You’re making me all misty eyed.
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hi friend.
EDIT: mobile TAY you crazy! *shakes fist*
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hi friend.
🙂
Ohhhh you need to get some Terraria action! Same with @powalen, you can be buds.
Grr thanks noisey parent whose noise woke me up twice this morning :P. It’s too early to be up now (6:31am) and the first time in the middle of the night, probably like 3am or something. My room is right next to their bathroom so flushing toilets are an insta wake up 🙁
Since I’m up I was interrupted mid-dream. The dream was I was just chillin as usual and I get a text from f4ction saying he’s outside my house and ready to pick me up for the camping meat… except there was like no prior notice or planning. So I spent hours packing (I don’t know what I was doing) and felt bad for making him wait for so long. Since it was literally out of the blue I hadn’t even asked or told the rents what I was doing :P.
F4ction was super bored while waiting and texted a bunch of random stuff like how my front door was unlocked (probably a skill of deduction learnt from being a scary biker).
This was like sometime during the Arvo on a weekday so my parents are usually working but my dad came hone for some reason. He was really excited to see the sportsball on the weekend (he actually said sportsball) and was just about to leave when I was all “wait… I uh… I’m going to Sydney”
It’s such a super weird thing to do and I don’t even know what they’ll say. I’m sure they wouldn’t care if I flew up but getting a lift to camp with internet randoms in states (and territories) I’ve never been to sounds so suss :P. So I was all nervous in the dream when asking and my dad looked really dissapointed we couldn’t watch the sportsball on the weekend and just as he was about to answer I got woken up. Then I picked up the phone to checkbthe time and wrote this crap 😛
I’m not even sure if f4ction is offering me a lift but fingers crossed I find a cheap (and safe :P) way to go so I can see ALL THE THINGS and meet ALL THE PEOPLE.
Congrats to anyone who read it all (no one) 😀
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Yay camping meat. Alas, if only I had a tent. or time. or money. or.. or.. everything. 😛
Also 6:30? C’mon, it’s standard procedure to wake up at the crack of dawn to chop wood for the furnace in your log cabin. I’m ashamed of you.
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I too have no camping gear other than a sleeping bag 🙁
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I don’t even have that. Gonna have to capture and skin a bear if I wanted to go.
Then again would be pretty legit having a bear head hoodie.
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I dunno. Camping in the woods with someone you met online is how those movies start.
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1) 6:30 is a sleep-in. Sad fact of adulthood.
2) I read it, and enjoyed it. Dreams like that are pretty cool.
3) Hope it works out, dude!In contrast, I dreamed I was at work and being performance evaluated. I was given advance notice by colleagues that my boss particularly didn’t like the way I dressed at work (jeans casual). /o\
In the dream, I seemed to care about the rating, even though IRL I only care that I don’t actually get fired, and was kind of packing it as I went down to her office for a sit-down meeting.
But then a zombie apocalypse began, right there in the office! \o/ (Unfortunately, I didn’t get to explore the full ramifications of this, because I was woken up by my alarm)
I don’t think there’s any misinterpreting this dream.
Good MonTAY morning everyone
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Mornin. *tips hat*
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Old TAY is old 😀
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Obvious comment is obvious
But no less welcome
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