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Merry (2 days after) Christmas everyone!
Camping?
Camping!
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Good morning all TAYbies!
Thanks to everyone who turned up to the meat last night, it was awesome fun!
For anyone tossing up on whether to see the Hobbit – its great, go see it.
Mid week TAY!? Change!
I’m in Sydney for the week. 2 hours away from my shiny new console D: Hopefully everybody is good!
Not long now until my Melbourne adventure either! I’ve got to ring the travel place to see where my tickets are…
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Wii U?! 😀
What games? I may or may not have taken “Powalen” >:)
Hey look. New TAY. Guess I repost here then.
A meat thing.
https://twitter.com/freezespreston/status/284052286123151360
(With apologies to @sernobulus who apparently the camera seemed to decide that no trace of him shall ever exist :S)
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Hope you and Aleph’s triumphant Sydney arrival goes well! Have fun and all that!
Edit: Check out surly D.C. in the corner, Bish would be proud I tells you! 😛
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From left front and clockwise:
Berkid, @beavwa, @princesspipster, @rocketman, @dkzeitgiest, @dc, @strange, Mr. Strange, @syvraen, @mythamphetamine, @freezespreston, @virus__, @lambomann007, @beardymcmuttonchops.
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Mrs Freeze took the photo and @sernobulus is a vampire.
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http://twitter.com/BeardyMc/status/283868703966261248/photo/1
Here’s another shot. Still no Nobs!
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so wish I’d been able to be there! Sounded as though fun was had by all via tweets last night
Morning folks, hope this day treats you well!
blarg! dang trains making me late and missing out on sweet sacrilegious TAY time.
How’s things people? are we all gearing up for christmas? you know it’s only 363 days away
Morning TAY 😀
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Spaghett, old friend!
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DC my brother
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So, what was the last thing you listened to, huh? HUH? 😛
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SHENANIGANS!
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Shenanigans!!
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SPAGHETTS LAST SONG LISTENED TO GAME @dc
Fiction (Dreams in Digital) by Orgy
Makes me think of her
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Orgy makes you- Joke is too easy, never mind… 😛
Haha! Haven’t listened to any thing since movies yesterday, so probably Do You Hear the People Sing from Les Miserables. Stirring!
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Mine was:
Mine, windbag, mine
From the bastion OST… Damn you @dc I have not stopped listening to it :P… I guess I should actually thank you though cause the music is bloody magnificent-
Bastion lyrics! A Christmas well-spent then. It’s a truly excellent OST, huh?
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Maaan, I never listened to it properly till now despite having it for ages… Now I listen to it in the car, on walks, during gaming… ALL THE BLOODY TIME, I think sums it up 😛 so damn good
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Doin’ by John Rueben http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQr5XC2gBzw
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Raise the Flag – Airbourne.
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Bye Bye Bitch Bye Bye – Motörhead
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last song for me was:
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Battery Acid – Queens of the Stone Age
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Golden Brown – The Stranglers
You know what The Walking Dead game really needs? It’s need a manual save option. Seriously, why doesn’t it have one? Does it even have a thing to tell you when it autosaves? Cause I haven’t noticed one. I have no idea how much I’d need to replay next time whenever I stop.
Other than that, it’s an awesome game.
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I think it saves pretty damn regularly, atleast I never had to replay significant portions of the game. It’s also chaptered too on the main menu if you want to go back and try things differently. It’s hard to say, though. I played mostly in long sittings over three days. 😀
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It saves every ‘scene’ I think.
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Ah, okay. I was starting to think that. I often play in 5-10 minute bursts. Saw the
waking up in Hershel’s barn cutscene thing 3 times cause I had to stop in the bit after.-
Wait, nevermind. I saw an autosaving thingy.
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And another one!
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…bites the dust!
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rides the bus!
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Morning taaaay… Back at work for 2 days before heading to Wagga Wagga for family stuff for New Years! Should be awesome enough…
How was everyone’s Christmas? Mine consisted of transferring 3 TB of movies and tv shows to my new NAS that I got from wifey, plus rebuilding my pc.. Cause I got bored more then anything XD
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Want some rye?
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True story, I searched a few bottle shops for a mini bottle of rye whiskey and was going to put it in a bag with a card saying “want some rye? Of course you do” and give it to you last night.
Alas mini bottles of rye are incredibly hard to find and getting you a full bottle seemed like a waste considering you don’t drink.
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Could’ve used some alcohol last night, though! 😛 Haha! That’s awesome, man. Awesome to even think about that!
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Yeah I seriously thought First Choice would have it :S
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Meat write up:
-Alcohol was consumed, Budweiser is quite acceptable.
-Aleph & his e-cig is quite amusing.
-@strange & Mr. Strange are lovely people, thanks again guys \o/
-Uh… Other stuff?
-The movie was pretty good though I feel it could be one single 3 hour movie given the book. I thought it worked with the 3D & the HFR and the other fancy shit it had going on.
-@dc almost didn’t come, was total silliness!
-Beavwa & Pip were there, @beavwa seems to only have the one shirt, the one he wore to the Melbourne meat =P
-Lambo \o/ We spoke about Windows Phone & his games and other stuff!
-I met Rockets, he’s a cool. Quieter than I expected.
-DAN! He tried to fill Sughly’s shoes by making me feel uncomfortable, I was more cautious than uncomfortable.
-Question or Beardy and I met his wife, Amber with her awesome Canadian accent.
-Nob & I spoke about middle of bum fuck nowhere in Queensland and how good it was humidity didn’t exist out there, but the flies were a real downside.
-Syvraen showed up, he was a cool dude!
-Freeze & his always lovely wife gave me a lift up and back and put up with me, great people!
-Went to this place called Groove Train for dinner, it was tasty food all around! The Spanish Chorizo Pizza I had was epic.
Over all I give it some things out of a number and all that. I had a good time!
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Didn’t I only say like 3 sentences to you? Didn’t want to go over my meat talking quota 😛
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Haha! You spoke quite a lot to Strange and me, I thought!
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Nah, we spoke for more than that!
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The people whining about the HFR on the Hobbit need to get a grip. It looked fantastic.
Deponia is five bucks on Steam today! Well worth it!
Eugh that moment when you see an Aus Post contractor go to your neighbours when you’re waiting for them to deliver shit to you, and knowing they’ve delivered your mail there before on “accident”
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Are you saying the mail person is holding a grudge against you? … did you ruin any dark rituals lately?
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Nah, just calling them incompetent. But that is Australia Post for you!
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Sughly’s post man?
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I’d welcome someone as “friendly” as that who made sure the mail was delivered personally LOL
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Damn … well, can I still imagine you as an adventurer who goes around kicking all sorts of evil postal priest arse? because that’s a pretty awesome mental image.
I don’t know why australia post is so horrible most of the time … well, it was in queensland. The post down here in melbourne seems to be mostly awesome
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Yeah up here in Northern NSW they’re pretty shocking also.
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Unless they have Ass Rev in hand. They seem to lose it. 🙁
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:'(.
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Repost from old tay – thanks Greenius 😛
‘Ello ladies and gents!
How was everyone’s chrissy??
So i got a little cash from christmas, so i thought i might buy myself a headset for playing dem games – but i only want a stupidly-budget one. I have 2 choices, it seems.
http://www.ozgameshop.com/pc-accessories/turtle-beach-ear-force-zla-headset-pc
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Morning Loops! Hope you had an awesome Christmas!
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Morning DC!
I did!
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Haha! That’s good to hear, Loops!
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So, i managed to surprise Bee with her Engagement ring on Christmas morning. The Jeweler we went to to make it was abasolutely amazing. Can’t thank her enough.
For those interested:
http://smg.beta.photobucket.com/user/trozza/media/9686_10151230788227562_184928806_n_zps2e0b70d9.jpg.html
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Also, i’ve based up one of my Terminators now – but he still has some painting to be done, especially around the gun area.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=465384713499285&set=a.464173156953774.95503.270825842955174&type=1&theater-
Hot damn, that Termy looks awesome!
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that’s a very shiny ring … and an amazing terminator. how long did he take to paint up?
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Ummm… so far he’s taken about 4 or so hours on and off, i think? Most of the time has come in layering that bloody bone armour. lol
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Nice! Well done, man! 😀
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cheers buddy 🙂
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Saw the trailer for The Impossible last night. Looked decent. Life of Pi too.
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Oh, Life of Pi, get ready for a visually astounding movie with one of the worst protagonists that you could ever hope to deal with, and one of the most aggravating statements made in the history of cinema.
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Haha! Hooray! 😛
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I’m okay with young Pi, I should add. He’s alright.
It’s just future Pi of moderate oldness. Man, that guy. If he never opened his mouth, the whole thing would be infinitely better.
But no, he has to be all “ATHEISM IS LITERALLY THE WORST THING IN THE WORLD. IT IS THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL. NOW BELIEVE IN A GOD. ANY GOD. JUST DON’T BE AN ATHEIST BECAUSE THEY SUCK.”
Well fuck you, Pi. Die in a hole, you’re nowhere near as deep and inspired as you think. You’re a twat.
*cough*
Ummmm.
Hmmmmmm.
Hey, look over there!
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I just liked the Tiger. 😛
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Morning Fronds!
Mini Meat write up thingie
– I arrived and park my car at 5:57pm
– I meet everyone at the bowling alley.
– Met aleph for the first time to (Only said “hi” … something something I’m antisocial something something)
– Met @rocketman for the first time. He’s a pretty cool kid guy
– Met @beavwa and @princesspipster. They are both also awesome
– I thought @beavwa shirt was Dark Souls related … which it wasn’t.
– @princesspipster loved my shirt and claimed she would steal it from me by the end of the night D= also, she had really cool portal earrings!
– @Syvraen (?) showed up but I didn’t talk to him cause I am anti-social!
– @Strange and Mr Strange arrived! (Once again I didn’t talk to them because I am anti social)
– @Freeze , @beavwa and I go to move our cars to take advantage of the free parking after 6:00pm
– On the way back freeze picks up a straggler called @dc ! \o/
– We walk into Timezone at about 7:00 to kill time while we wait for out 7:30 booking
– We just stand around talking about playing GAEM until aleph and @Virus decide to play Guitar Hero at about 7:29
– They played a Distrubed song … @Virus was not pleased
– 7:30 FUD TIME!
– I waited to get served at the bar, @Virus joins me in the waiting game and we talk about the pro’s and con’s of living in the middle of nowhere
– I ordered a beef burger that I am pretty sure they just threw a whole dead cow on top of a couple of pieces of bread.
– DAN left super early, something about buses not running late or something (8-9ish)
– We decide we should head to the movies so everyone that wasn’t seeing the movie left.
– We headed to the snack bar! Chocolate was super over-priced! But i still bought 2 packs (and a frozen coke)
– We get to our seats and I am sitting next to @rocketman
– We both agree that Tom Cruise doesn’t make a good action hero and his next movie will probably be the worst movie
– We saw the Hobbit! It was REALLY awesome, I recommend anyone that is a fan to see it. It will not disappoint!
– It’s about 1:30ish so We all head our separate ways after the movie!
THE END
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:’) It’s like I was there, man! It’s like I was there!
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Oh man that Disturbed song.. Oh god.
Today is thursday. I realized that back home I’d probably be subjected to news about somebody being trampled over sales in the US.
Makes me feel a bit homesick.
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Accept my gift already! 😛
Purchased Koi No Yokan by Deftones, physical copy
Such a good album to clean to
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For cleaning i love Alestorm and TISM!
Nothing beats high-energy music for bouncing around the house “gettin’ yo tidy orn”
So i’ve started playing the Walking Dead.
All i want to do now is go home and play more….
I’m still super early in and i get the feeling things are going to get hairy soon. SQUEEEE!!!
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I just finished the first episode. Sooooo good. Not as harrowing as I thought it would be though.
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If only you knew what was ahead. 😛
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Yeah, definitely going to get worse as it goes along. I don’t really have much of an emotional connection with any of the side characters right now, haven’t played enough yet.
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Her, her, her http://youtu.be/tEe55NxFSSU
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oh dear.
NSFW warning inbound. lol-
Oh shit, sorry ’bout that 😛
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Ahahaha oh god, that made me laugh pretty hard!
Check this http://youtu.be/P4vpBw3pf58
This is really is the most heartwarming Christmas video I saw, on Christmas day http://youtu.be/6H3iiI1hPAM
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D.C.’s PSA: “We’re on page two! Now you know and knowing is half the battle!”
I miss regular weekday TAY! 😛
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It’s quiet.
Too quiet.
Also, on the ‘videogame violence’ subject. This is an great video, as Penn really hits the nail on the head http://youtu.be/06Lw7xa6lHU
33% battery on my phone :'(
This ‘holiday’ suckssssss ughhhhhh
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26! :OOOOO
Okay, one more 🙂 This is still the funniest animation I’ve seen about Wesley Snipes in jail (still)for Tax Evasion: http://youtu.be/1IaVy3-ezlA
Max Payne 3. FUCKING AWESOME. Back to Max Payne 3 now.
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So much atmosphere.
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Damn right.
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Man, that game was amazing. Shiggy pointed out some awesome foreshadowing to me that I totally missed while playing through. Excellent story. Rockstar really nailed it with that game.
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Agreed. Just wow. Also it’s optimised so well for PC <3 Running it maxed out on my GTX560, where as I could never max GTA IV out.
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Ragnarok Online II open beta starts tonight:
http://ro2.playpark.net/home/
Join me in cute hat hell.
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zenny plz
healz plzThat’s about all I can remember from my times of RO
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You monster. I just signed up.
@greenius
I failed you. I totally saw DC’s address on his old licence but forgot it two seconds later. 😛
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Oh, man. I must’ve done a double take of epic proportions! Haha!
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This makes it sound like I want his address O_o!
But you didn’t fail me, you played Xenoblade! (unless it was a SICK joke)
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This might just be the sequel to last night’s anxiety, but I apologize if I brought down any ones mood post-meat by posting about this awkwardness stuff. Not my intention. You guys are all awesome. Problem was all me and not you guys. That is all.-
Doofus. 😛
*hugasaurus rex*
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Strange, you’re all kinds of awesome! 😀
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I like it when you call him a doofus 😀
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Man I been plagued with all kinds of suck the past few days. Not expensive suck thankfully, but really bloody annoying. Since I’ve had the time, I’ve been working on a little project, I was hoping to have it done my Christmas eve. Now I’m just hoping before new years 😉
Yesterday’s issue was kinda my own dumb fault.
I’ll explain abour that another time.. when I’m a little lessembarrassed ;0 ahha
Sucks to be taking time away from it again, but at least this time I’m getting paid for it! w00t! l8rs PO-TAY-ters
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Hey, you won a copy of Far Cry 3 so that means things are getting a little bit better 🙂
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/12/winners-one-of-five-copies-of-far-cry-3/#comments
Just over an hour to go.
I still haven’t even started packing. I’m not even back home yet.
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Have a safe flight. You’re awesome! Good seeing you and Mrs. Freeze last night.
Gonna make a point to see The Impossible in cinemas. Looks so good. Trailer basically spoils the entire thing, but I suspect it’s more about the experience rather than who lives and who dies. Harrowing stuff!
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I don’t understand why trailers need be so comprehensive these days. I feel like after seeing the trailer for Life Of Pi twice I don’t need to see the movie anymore.
And don’t even make me think about those awful trailers for terrible “comedy” movies that basically show you the whole thing. Ugh.-
Yeah, I agree. Naive, maybe, but I think the people who make the movies should be in charge of marketing the movies. They’d be much more mindful about selling it authentically as well as not spoiling the damn thing! This trailer could stop at the 1:15 mark and it’d have done its job, the rest is just spoilers. :'(
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If there’s one thing the initial trailer for Les Mis did really well, it was showing you just enough to get you interested. Have part of one song, some shots of some characters, and a landscape or two. BAM. TRAILER DONE, LET’S GO GET SOME DRINKS!
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Shenanigans
You all need to see Bernie
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Spaghett! What’s new? Stuff? New Years Eve!
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Yeah, new years eve man, I cannot wait
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Does anyone here play minecraft? I’ve been meaning to get back into it since my bosses kids were pestering me for mods and junk because I’m the computer guy at work … would anyone be up for some minetaku?
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Once upon a time we had a Minecraft server but that closed. Gorzy DID have a server but I haven’t been able to access it in like a week. =/
Harvey Norman customer support. Wow. Just, wow. Please, just give me my money back and I’ll never ever deal with you again. It was my mistake for thinking they even deserved a second chance.
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:S I’m sorry to hear that, man. Laptop related?
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Yeah. I ordered one 2 nights ago off their website. It was cheap and marked as “EOFY clearance sale”, so the price and everything looked pretty legit. I paid for it, and then find out only after some hassling on their facebook page that it was an error. They won’t say anything else and they won’t reply to anyone, and other people who bought one are having to open Paypal disputes in which HN is charging $1.25 for a refund! They’re trying to charge us for their own mistake and they won’t apologize or even try and communicate with anyone! It’s an absolute joke of a business.
There’s one that I’m gonna get from Dick Smith, but I need my money back first 🙁
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If you’ve already paid and gotten a receipt they kind of need to give it to you or give you a refund … unless things have changed since I was doing retail
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I haven’t even actually received an acknowledgement of the order apart from the Paypal receipt. At the moment they’re basically just holding my money while making it as hard as possible for me to get it back. I’m going to take it to the ACCC and/or Fair Trading.
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Probably all you can really do at this point. All the best, Ben.
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Aw, damn. Hope it all works out, man!
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I want to laugh because I know just how incompetent they are … but I feel sorry for anyone who has to go through them. how bout a hug while I stifle a giggle?
mayhaps TAY Technical services can help?
What’s new, folks?
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Yes.
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damn it Blagh, you stole my answer … now I have to interact with people
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Blaghs! Tofu!
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You rang, master?
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… I can’t listen to this for 4 hours because my work pc has no speakers. This is the equivalent of showing a dog a bone encased in a clear plastic bubble that they can’t get at, I know what it is … but I need to listen to it anyway. You’re a terrible person and you should feel bad
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not that much DC.
contemplating how to get my steam big picture working without bluescreening my pc, praying that my housemate gets a job soon so I can start putting $400 a fortnight towards a big daddy cosplay and wondering how my chibi batman figure keeps moving around the office.
How’s things in the wonderful land of you?
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I tried Big Picture once with my laptop, most definitely not powerful enough. The thing nearly exploded. Plus I didn’t bother to work out how to get the sound to stop coming out of the laptop speakers instead of the TV. I think it’d only be really useful for me if I had a dedicated Steam Big Picture UI PC or something. 😀
Nothing’s ever new with me, man. Haha!
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I got it to run for about 20 minutes playing through Shank 2 … but then it bluescreened and I’m wary to try again on my 4 and a bit year old computer
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Potential is all kinds of awesome, though — if I had a gamepad that is. Right now, it’s just a cool concept demo for the fuuuuuture. 😛
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It works pretty much instantly with a ps3 controller hooked up through USB. but for an xbox controller you’d need either a wired one specifically for windows or one of the use wireless kits for windows. But yeah, I think the next iterations of consoles will have an interesting time if valve brought out a stand alone gaming box/os you could run from a loungeroom pc
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Man, thought I was all caught up on TAY, but then the very last posts in #202 led me here for another 140 comments. Jeez guys.
In other news, my mood is doing funny things, but I managed to be useful this afternoon so I feel okay right at the moment. How are you?
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On the plus side you caught up before me because I did exactly the same thing but it ended with your comment
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Greenius was playing the refresh game for hours on the old TAY. If I didn’t tell him, he’d still be there. Hey, Shane!
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That’s because it’s ThursTAY.
20% off blurays and dvds at JB is shiny.
Saved $40 total!
Got my LOTR extended edition blurays, Hellboy 1&2 on bluray, I Am Legend and Constantine on bluray, and the Wire in the Blood dvd box set. Woo!
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Hells yeah! You should return the LOTR boxset, though. I hear those movies are terrible! 😛
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Bad D.C.
I will say though, the blurays are a little disappointing because they decided to split each movie across two disks, which means you have to get up half way through the movie to change them over.
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That sounds pretty terrible. 😀
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after a discussion at christmas with my cousin who is a woodworks teacher, he has agreed to help me with my lifelong dream by helping me build a MAME cabinet (for those of you confused, an arcade cabinet that plays a ton of other games). so hooray!
wont be starting till school starts up for him, but already super excited 🙂
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that sounds pretty awesome. if you wanted to cheat a little, I’d recommend looking into a rasberry pi … decent little single board pc’s with 256/512mb ram and arm processors. they make awesome mame emulators and are incredibly tiny
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i’ve heard of them, didn’t know they could handle MAME stuff, will have to check them out a bit more, thanks!
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I’m sorry.
I’ve cheated on you all by meeting people from the internet from another site.
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I am so disappointed in you right now, Bish.
But that’s okay, I’ll just show my displeasure by being surly in memory of what you used to be.
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Also, surprisingly enough, New York is a really freaking bad place to get Streetpasses.
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You said we were special, Bish.
YOU LIED!!!! … and I can’t even tear up the pictures because they’re all on the internet
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Do you mind us asking which site it was and how was the event?
Looking for recommendations for a cheap but not nasty PVR / HD Set Top Box for my mother. She’s had Foxtel iQ for years and is super used to it now but has decided it’s not worth the expense any more since she mainly watches free to air TV anyway. But I know the instant it’s gone she’ll be whinging about how she can’t record or pause TV.
So looking for something in HD that can do the whole pause & rewind live TV thing, and ideally be able to view one channel while recording something on another (super ideal: record two watch another). And I have a kind of limited budget so cheaper is good.
Concept arting for project bible! My sense of perspective is completely fucked! 😀
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My sense of perspective is good. Faces are not so great
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Oh, man. I can only imagine the freak show that’d ensue if I tried to draw people. Haha!
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Hey folks. Just had an email slide across my desk. Virgin are having an airfare sale and some of the dates of travel start the day after PAX. I can get people home from Melbourne to Sydney from $65 and from Melbourne to Brisbane from $99. These are only one way and only count for after PAX. Getting down will be more. One disclaimer – these are only on sale until tomorrow. If you want them you’ll have to get in quick. Anyone interested can send me a direct email to peter.orange@harveyworld.com.au
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You’re an awesome guy, Nova! 😀
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While I’m not actually interested(as I still haven’t been paid, and thus have no money), dare I ask if they have a Merlbourne to Canberra price, and am I allowed to laugh at how expensive it is?
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I was actually surprised, it was only $75 for the direct flight
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Wow, that’s like, half what I’d expect.
Maybe the rest of the country is finally stopping their irrational hatred of Canberra.
Hahahaha, I kid. It’s not irrational.
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Started Episode 3 of The Walking Dead. It’s an awesome game, and if you don’t have it already, go get it now. I’m not leaving until you do. *crosses arms* 😛
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So damn good. Episode two spoilers:
What’d you do with Larry, man? Did you side with Kenny or Lily?-
Lilly, and now Kenny doesn’t really like me much :/I really like how the decisions affect the story. I wonder how long it took to write it all?-
I sided with Kenny, I think no matter what you choose, you feel like a terrible, terrible person. No good deed goes unpunished. 😀
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I’m still about half way through episode one … I’M A TERRIBLE GAMER!!!
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Oh man, episode 3. I’m still crying from it.
VROOM VROOM. Start the drive to Sydney in a few hours.
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Man, I’m jealous of you guys. Sounds like an amazing adventure!
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I board the plane in 10 mins. Slightly nervous.
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They’re all waiting for you because everyone wants you there!
🙂
It’ll be fine, man.
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:”(
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What happened? I thought you were going, too.
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It turns out that Greenius hates fun.
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Greenius’ parents*
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You could always just go anyway
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Bit late for that :P. Maybe I can talk my way into coming a few days later…
I don’t think they want me going camping or roadtripping. They suggested if I were to go interstate to fly up ands tay at a hotel or something, so I guess I can swindle them into possibly flying up sometime :).
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How old are you? I understand if you live with your parents you’ll still have to abide by rules but at some point they’ll need to let you experience stuff. You’re no safer flying and staying alone in a hotel than you are roadtripping and camping with a bunch of friends. Both are something good to experience though.
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But I get where they’re coming from, camping with internet friends I don’t know 😛
I flew to Malaysia by myself around the same time in 2010. Then met up with some friends in Japan so flying shouldn’t be an issue. Maybe I’ll do something early next year :).
Bit late notice too since I told them on the weekend but I knew how they’d react so…
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Xenoblade update. This is the worst game ever. Everyone is so ugly and I hate them. There’s nothing interesting to do and the battle system is yawn-worthy.
I love the game. There’s so much to do and see that I just keep wandering around everywhere again and again, talking to people and doing stuff for them and collecting shiny collectible spots. The way fighting works is interesting and I look forward to learning more about how it all works. But the main characters are still ugly. 😛
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Dreadfully overrated.
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My thoughts on Xenoblade: Jenna-Louise Coleman voiced Princess Melia in the dub. GOTY.
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There were no story spoilers in my above comment but there are in this one.
What’s the deal with the Heart-To-Hearts? When you have an option on what to say is there a right and wrong answer and will it mess up the progression of the relationship with that character if you screw it up? I did the barfy cliched one with Fiora and Shulk where she was all “Eek! I think I told you I wanted to marry you one day” and because decisions cripple me I’m now wracked with curiosity about how it would have gone if I’d responded differently.-
If I recall it’s just for links and will unlock cutscenes between the chraracters and maybe make them better in battle(? I forgot). It’s like an on going counter so I wouldn’t worry too much about it. Plenty of chances to get hearts in battle!
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I see you haven’t met Jiggle McJugs yet
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I do not know what a Jiggle McJugs is but I do not think I will like it. 😛
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She’s cool but has big jiggly jugs and some outfits show too much skin :/
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About to start Chaos on Deponia! What are you guys currently playing?
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Apart from Xenoblade, of course!
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P3P…Still^^;;
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Booooooooo
Play Xenoblade with Strange, @doc_what (?) and soon to be @Beavwa
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We’re totally on page three now!
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I need to move the wii for that
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Currently Max Payne 3, and downloading Spec Ops: The Line.
Page 2 on a Thursday.
This reminds me of when I first joined TAY. Ahh, those were the days.
How young and innocent we were.
… … You know what, I’m going to leave it as is.
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Haha! That was inevitable, my friend! 😀
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Yeah, I should have seen it coming.
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It got you good?
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BEARDY’S LATE PRE-MEAT, MEAT AND POST-MEAT WRITE-UP
PRE-MEAT WRITE-UP
– @Rocketman shows up early and is amazing. Have you seen his video of Who Let The Dogs Out featuring the crazy barking man? No? Prepare to lol your butts off. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94mAtiWTvA0
– We all head into the city to meet @mythamphetamine – he gives Berkid and I a bottle of Moet as a Giftsmas present.
– @dkzeitgeist texts me and tells me he’s been stabbed twice before hitting Indooroopilly, and was offered a baby in exchange for a cigarette. But it turned out to be just a shaved sugar glider.
– We meet @dkzeitgeist at EB Games and then go have a look at Mr Toys Toyworld in the mall. @mythamphetamine buys an English policeman hat, and @dkzeitgeist buys Star Wars LEGO, but it’s that terrible CGI Sarlacc Pit that George Pukas put into the DVD releases. Ew. But now Dan! has Boba Fett! Yay!
– we all go back to my place for board games and booze.
– @mythamphetamine gets drunk really quickly.
– First we play Quelf.
– @mythamphetamine draws a card which makes him and @dkzeitgeist play leap frog in my lounge room.
– @rocketman has to ask his right foot for permission to speak if his sentence contains more than three words.
– Many lols were had.
– We played Things. Many more lols were had.
– @dkzeitgeist changes my Facebook and Twitter pictures to his gorgeous face. I vow never to change them.
– We played some Playstation Allstars, some Mario Party 2 and talked shit until it was time for the meat.
MEAT WRITE-UP
– @rocketman is a good driver.
– we turn up to find @freezespreston, Mrs Freeze and @virus__ waiting for us at the bowling alley.
– slowly everyone filters in.
– we get worried @dc won’t turn up, and secretly I start crying inside because I really want to meet him
– @dc turns up, and is just as great as I thought he would be.
– Mrs Freeze is awesome and makes a reservation for us at Groove Train.
– @strange gifts me Goldeneye for the N64, and I forget to bring A Dance With Dragons with me to give to her >_<
– I’m not going to attempt to write everyone’s handles in here, because I’ll probably screw them up!
– We ate dinner, and I think it was pretty unanimous that Groove Train is the bomb diggity. Tenouttaten. Would dine again.
– after dinner, we all migrate upstairs. The moviegoers grab snacks, and the non-movie goers head home.
– The Hobbit is great, if a little bloated.
– 48 frames per second is now my preference when seeing something in 3D. I found it so much easier to keep track of things, especially in fight scenes.
– I have some criticisms of Teh Hawbbitz but I won’t go into them here, cos people still likely haven’t seen it yet.
– By 12:30am I am extremely sleepy.
– @rocketman drives us back to our place, and is still a great driver.
– I tuck @rocketman and @mythamphetamine into their beds and give them goodnight kisses on their cheeks, then I pass out.
POST MEAT WRITE-UP
– @rocketman leaves early to get back to Hervey Bay before lunch time.
– I force a man-hug on him, because he’s a rad dude.
– @rocketman reciprocates
– @mythamphetamine and I trade music recommendations to each other, then I force him to watch some Game Grumps.
– He remarks that JonTron and Egoraptor look like a bizarro world @dkzeitgeist and I.
– we play some Sonic Generations, and then head into the city.
– we catch the bus to Roma St Train Station, then wander around aimlessly for a while.
– walking next to the river is lovely.
– eventually we end up at Nando’s at Southbank, and Aleph tries it for the first time. He chooses the hot sauce on his burger, and remarks that it’s only mild compared to the stuff he usually eats.
– meanwhile, the peri peri salt on my chips causes my eyes to water and my nostrils to evacuate.
– we wander over to the city and have a look at Comics Etc. I pick up the Aquaman #1 trade paperback and Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye #1. Aleph picks up Death by Neil Gaiman for his flight tonight, although we both agree that we’ll both likely be napping before the day is over.
– we walk back to Roma St train station, and we go our separate ways.
– I wistfully sit on my train platform thinking about all the good times I’ve had in the last 24 hours while trying to fight off the urge to curl up on the hard metal bench to have a little snooze before my train comes.
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HERE’S A VIDEO OF DAN! AND ALEPH PLAYING LEAP FROG! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uc9F0lMG3g&feature=youtu.be
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You guys are awesome! Great write-up!
whats happening TAY?
I’ve got stuff in my Steam inventory that I cant use or don’t want or need. Maybe someone here does?
STUFF!
Torchlight
Left 4 Dead 2
Payday : The Heist
Ace of Spades x2
anyone want stuff?
Edit: also, hi. hope your xmasses were good etc.
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Hey man! Good to see you, hope you’re well!
Awesome i’ve missed out on about 5 notifications today. What the hell is going on? First off I missed a couple from Nob, now from Beardy.. Anyone else having this issue? Like they do not appear in my notifications part of my profile at all.
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Site’s been crazily unstable most of the day. Might have something to do with that, pal!
Anyone else been having issues loading Kotaku today?
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Plenty of issues =/ and no Giz articles will load for me *sigh*
Chaos on Deponia, improvement #1 — the ability to skip the tutorial!
Parkour is pretty cool right? And dogs are undeniably cool.
Let me introduce you to Parkour Dog!
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Did cracked send you here? =P
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Perfect for Mirror’s Edge 2!
Hey Smurfy, hope you’re well, man!
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I am indeed well. How’s your good self?
I hear you’ve had further meat adventures! \o/
A dog character in some Mirror’s Edge 2 game would be awesome 😀
Perhaps as a mini-game inside the game. Actually, just Mirror’s Edge 2 would be awesome!@scree – Laughing Squid. Same thing kinda. How’s you? Hope you’re feeling better than yesterday.
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Adventures in awkwardness, most definitely! 😀
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Scree loves it when I spawn squids everywhere in Minecraft!
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Ugh, Trollius
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Ugh Ser Trollulus the Leader of the Bridge Dwellers!
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Spec Ops: The Line, interesting game. Pretty hard hitting. But so far it’s just proving to me that the US Marines are a pack of pricks and that they’re the best of the best supposedly.
Just came back from watching the Hobbit with my folks, my brother and his girlfriend I actually liked it, I would of liked it a hell of a lot more if the cinema seats weren’t so damn uncomfortable, my shoulder aches. 🙁
Minor spoiler
Was that bird/snail scene at the very end suppose to be a Ice Age reference? or am I just reading too much into it?
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Not an Ice Age reference as far as I’m aware. Mainly it was to make obvious that thrushes were returning to the Lonely Mountain, and to indicate that at least one of the was hanging around the secret back door, as per the instructions in the moon runes.
Damn, I was going to give RO2 a go but the site is broken. I’m interested to see what they changed.
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DDOSed by a ton of people wanting to play it. 🙁
I should turn my subwoofer down… I think it’s loosening my bowels… 🙁
So uh I have nothing packed for the camping trip except for a tent and I haven’t pre-booked I’m just gonna show up and I know very little about what the hell is going on-
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ehhh I can worry about that tommorow.
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Clothes.
Pack clothes please.
Also wear them.
Would be great.-
-Shirts
-JacketsPANTS. I knew something was missing.
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That’s the way!
Go Commando! \o/
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I think I might’ve been in one of those initial spots. I didn’t pay anything so I guess you took my spot? 😛
Everyone.
Thirty Flights of Loving is on sale. You should buy it. Buy it for @notoriousr. Buy it for me. Buy it for baby Jesus. Buy it because I’ve typed it as “but iy” every freaking time.
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Morning Blagh,
F4ction needs your number on Twitter 🙂
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Ummm I forgot her name but:
why was she bloodied and pointing a gun at you? I could never figure that bit out -
Buy it because its amazing and underrated.
Morning everyone. How are you all going?
I’m hoping to start sewing today. Our toilet is leaking badly and desperately needs replacing so I’m hoping to finish Nova’s cosplay quickly so I can make rupee cushions (sorry Nova!)
Repost
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/12/talk-amongst-yourselves-203/comment-page-2/#comment-970838
Cheap flights after PAX. Only on sale today. Email me if interested
Have fun all you camping folks!
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The boy does surly well enough at times.
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Hey Saturday, How’s that whole freaking out thing working for you?
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Is it bad form to go to a concert alone?
My mate that i usually go to metal shows with isn’t picking up his phone (he’s always impossible to get a hold of), but i realllly want to go see Alestorm and be on their DVD!
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Morning Loops! Eh, not really bad form. Might be slightly weird if you’re not used to going to one by yourself, but you can’t say you didn’t try to contact your pal! I’m sure it’d be fun any ways! Do it! 😀
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Yeah… that’s the problem – i never do ANYTHING alone. I’m a social sort of person. It’ll be weird as hell…
But… ALESTORM!
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Just go! It’s Alestorm and a live DVD 😀 That being said, if I had the money i’d be down for it and would’ve happily been your man date 😛
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Why would it be bad form? It’s not like you can ever hear what anyone you’re with is saying. 😛
There’s always a sense of togetherness at a metal show anyway, so go by yourself, get right up the front and have fun. You may even make new friends.-
I usually can hear what someones saying to me D= Wish it worked the same way when not at concerts..
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Man, going to be insanely slow here for ages! Half the TAYbies in the woods, I sure hope it’s not the makings of a slasher film. :S
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Haha, I can see a Scooby Doo adventure brewing.
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*pulls off mask*
Everyone “It’s old man Jenkins!”-
And he would’ve gotten away with it if it wasn’t for those meddling kids!
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ROOBY ROOBY ROOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
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But it could be the makings of a blue movie if enough alcohol is consumed and the mood is right.
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Eh, our community has grown so much it needed a bit of a culling anyway.
…No? Bad choice of words?
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also, for anyone that missed it – some models were also leaked and they look GREAT!
http://blog.spikeybits.com/2012/12/news-dark-angels-leaked-models-codex.html-
Oh man, those Termies look sweet. And that land speeder looks ridiculously awesome.
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I KNOW, RIGHT!!!
Best of all, those termies are in ADDITION to the regular ones. Which means bigger and better deathwing armies.
I want that landspeeder asap, though.
Also, apprently, the DA should be getting their own Dreadnought type – which would be nice.-
HRNG
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SPACE MARINE is $7.50 on the Steam sale right now. Go forth and spread the word of the Emperor.
@saturday: Before you leave on your trip, I’ve started Chaos on Deponia. Something is weird with the voice acting, making Rufus seem even more of a jerk. I don’t know… too deep or something. Doesn’t have the mischevious quality of the first game. The writing’s just as good, but maybe this is the problem you had with him? I’m liking it a whole lot, though. Just an observation!
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Well, no, my personal opinion is that
In chaos, he pretty much gets as much character development in the first; as in barely any at all. There is a major part where he deals with his past, but even that seems kind of simply thrown out there. In general, while he does have a interesting backstory, his kinda-asshole personality is never thrown into question or developed really any further aside from “he’s selfish, wait, nope, he isn’t because of goal. Wait, no, he still kinda is.” *shrugs*
For people who’ve seen The Hobbit:
The face that Gandalf pulls when Galadriel springs him with mind-speak in Rivendell was utterly hilarious. So cheeky!
so, now that Tennis is going to be on, I may get to use the TV a whole lot more =D
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that means ps3 and 360 games on the big screen!
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No! Xenobladeee
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Stupid Leyton Hewit… Or however the hell you spell his stupid-face name…
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I think it’s hewitt. Why hasn’t he quit, yet? Has he ever won anyway?
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I think he won an Australian Open. Once. Years ago. YEARS ago.
Since then he has been nothing but rubbish.
Also that Bernard Tomich is just a wanker.
What happened Australia? You used to be cool… Bring Back Evon Gooligong!!! Is that how you spell it? I don’t know. I’m not googling it. Ranting half to myself is much more interesting.-
Dude, Hewitt was once the number one player in the world…
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Is it Yvonne, rather then Evon? Why do all our tennis players have difficult to spell names?
What do you think of Sam stosur(sp?) though?
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In before Needius “PLSSS PLAY XENOBLADE PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEASSSSSSSSSSSSSSEEEEEEEEEEEE”
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O_O!
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Hey guys and gals!
Have you heard of that game, SPACE MARINE?!
Well it’s on sale.
Right now.
FOR JUST $7.49!!!
THAT’S UNDER $7.50!!!
BUT WAIT THERE’S MORE!!!
IT’S THE ENTIRE COLLECTION!!
SO NOT ONLY DO YOU GET THE AWESOME SPACE MARINE GAME YOU ALSO GET:
Alpha Legion Champion armour set
Blood Angels Veteran armour set
Chaos Unleashed map pack
Death Guard Chamption armour set
Dreadnought assault DLC (greatest game mode!)
Emperors Elite pack
Golden Relic bolter
Golden Relic chainsword
Iron Hands Chapter pack
Legion of the Damned armour set
POWER SWOORRRDDD
Salamanders Veteran armour set
Traitor legions pack
ALL FOR $7.49!!!!
WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU WAITING FOR?!?!
GO BUY IT!!
EVEN IF YOU HAVE IT ON ANOTHER SYSTEM!!
GO BUY IT!!
HELL I WOULD BE BUYING IT RIGHT NOW IF I WASN’T AT STUPID-FACE WORK!!!
BUY IT!
FOR THE GLORY OF THE EMPEROR!
BUY IT!!!
Are you still sitting there thinking “hmmm.. should i listen to loops and buy it?”
SHUT THE HELL UP AND BLOODY BUY IT!!!!
WHY ARE YOU STILL READING THIS WHEN YOU SHOULD BE BUYING SPACE MARINE?
GO ON THEN!
YOU HAVEN’T GOT ALL DAY!!!
THERE’S ONLY 4 AND A HALF HOURS LEFT!!!
BUY IT!
FOR THE EMPEROR!!
BUUUUUUUUUUUYYYYYYYYYYYYY IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT!!!!
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I got ya covered, Loops! Enjoy!
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GOSH DARN IT CRACKS!!!
*shakes fist*
You weren’t meant to do that!
I don’t know whether to hug you or slap you – so i’ll just have to purge some heretics instead!
You marvelous bastard.-
^_^
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Also, purge those heretics! Purge them with fire!
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For the Lion!
For the EMPEROR!
Don’t worry guys, disaster’s over. We found some Banang! http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=116247407
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But it’s ZOMBIE BANANG!
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That… is scary.
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That was one of my favourite Sam and Max episodes.
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You know, other than Ace of Spades, Skyrim and the Tomb Raider Collection, I don’t think there’s been anything in the Steam sale that’s really interested me this time. Not that that’s a bad thing, of course 😛
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I’m after Spec ops, but someone said Green man gaming will probably have it on special…Wait, can i activate it on steam?
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Currently way cheaper on Steam (even with GMG 30% off code). Most GMG games come as Steam keys, though.
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Yep, you can activate it on steam http://www.greenmangaming.com/s/au/en/pc/games/action/spec-ops-the-line-anz/
But Steam already has it on sale for $10, so you could just get it from there?-
Heads up, totally on page four. Page four I tells ya!
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Check your messages =P
I told you I would gift you something!!!
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Thank you nob \o/
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okay, so i don’t know if this was common knowledge or not..
BUT THE SEQUEL TO 999 FREAKING CAME OUT AND I DIDN’T EVEN KNOW!
i saw it at JB hi-fi and was like “hmmmmm, ‘Virtue’s last Reward’, wait… isn’t that the sequel to 999?” after a quick google search on my phone to confirm this i squealed with delight and bought it!
seriously…. how did i miss this coming out? i know a lot of people on here are 999 fans, so i thought i’d mention it here in case anyone else had missed it as well…
Edit: i got it on vita, but i’m pretty sure it’s on both vita and 3DS, which is quite weird but cool at the same time, oh yeah and it’s awesome.
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What the heck is 999???
*looks puzzled*-
Not as high as 1000 yet not as low as 998.
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EVERYTHING IS SUDDENLY CLEAR!
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Puzzled is the correct answer
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HAVE YOU FINISHED IT YET I HAVE YET TO TALK TO ANYONE HERE ABOUT IT AND ITS IMPLICATIONS
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What, 999 or VLR? I still am halfway into 999 🙁 The text scroll is so fucking slow it almost kills the game for me.
EDIT: Also some asshole on another forum spoiled the identity of Zero for me. 🙁
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SHORT VERSION PAGE 3 REPOST FOR THE EMPEROR!
Hey guys and gals!
Have you heard of that game, SPACE MARINE?!
Well it’s on sale.
Right now.
FOR JUST $7.49!!!
THAT’S UNDER $7.50!!!
BUT WAIT THERE’S MORE!!!
IT’S THE ENTIRE COLLECTION!!
SO NOT ONLY DO YOU GET THE AWESOME SPACE MARINE GAME YOU ALSO GET:
Alpha Legion Champion armour set
Blood Angels Veteran armour set
Chaos Unleashed map pack
Death Guard Chamption armour set
Dreadnought assault DLC (greatest game mode!)
Emperors Elite pack
Golden Relic bolter
Golden Relic chainsword
Iron Hands Chapter pack
Legion of the Damned armour set
POWER SWOORRRDDD
Salamanders Veteran armour set
Traitor legions pack
BUY IT!
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OK I BOUGHT IT.
Sleeping Dogs and Thirty Flights of Loving also on sale at the same time.
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YOU SHALL BE REWARDED WITH COOKIES WHEN YOUR PHYSICAL FORM IS A WITHERED HUSK AND YOU LEAVE THIS MORTAL REALM TO JOIN THE EMPEROR’S SIDE!
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you and your emperor … I pledge my allegiance to the Deus Mechanicus. I’ll buy your game, space marine.
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COOKIES FOR YOU TOO, MY BROTHER!
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Okay, I just saw the games section of the JB Hi Fi website…
XBOX 360 Bundle:
– 250GB Hard Drive
– Forza Motorsport 4 Essentials Edition
– Skyrim (Download Token)
– Halo 4 Game
– 1 Month Xbox Live Gold
PS3 Bundle:
– 12GB Hard Drive
– Wireless Controller
Now here’s the funny part… they’re both retailing for $299.
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I know the 360 has always been cheaper than the PS3, but that’s still a bit ridiculous this far into the console generation…
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Dayyyummmmm
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See, there’s the problem – the PS3 includes the essential “wireless controller” feature, the 360 does not. They give you all those games, but no way to play them!
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MY GOD!!
HE’S RIGHT!!!
TO THE MEDIA!
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Today is double day. During the lunch break in the cricket, I’m heading down to KFC to grab a zinger double.
If I don’t return, tell my wife I love her…
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Pfft, I’ve had five of them over the past month!
They’re actually quite nice. 🙂
(No, I’m not joking.)
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Those things are sooooo good.
@chuloopa Ohh man, don’t get me started on Tomic. Annoys me so much 😛 Hopefully I don’t see or hear of him when I’m at the tennis next month… I’m convinced people/the media only like him because he’s Australian 😛
Anyway, Hi TAY!
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Hi, CaterPowalen! \o/
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Convinced?
It IS the reason they like him.
It seems that if you are one of the only Australians in worldwide sport you get automatic adoration no matter how much of a dick you are.
Case and point – Anthony Mundine-
Hmm, I don’t think anybody other than The Man actually likes Mundine. But there’s enough love there to sustain his entire career.
Hewitt is perhaps a better example, though his dickishness is offset by winning 2 majors, being world number 1 for a while, and the undying effort he puts in to every match. That last point is actually why I kinda like the guy.
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I’m convinced people/the media only like him because he’s Australian
Yes, that and he has performed well on occasion. That’s fairly standard, isn’t it? They obviously wouldn’t care about him if he was not Australian, or never got past the first round of the slams.-
I don’t know… People loved Anna Kournikova 😛
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So, you’re saying he should get breast implants?
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No.
I’m saying he should speak with a Russian accent.
Case and point – FPSRussia
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Oh there’s no doubt he’s got talent. I just don’t like how the stations prioritise Australian players over the more popular international players.
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I guess they kind of have to, though – lest they be branded as ‘unpatriotic’
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It’s not about how they’d be branded, it’s simply that the best rating games. They know that the very top guys and the Australians have recognition that will actually draw people to watch their “must-see” matches. The others just blend into the background.
I’m guilty of this myself. I’ll make an effort to watch games with Federed, Nadal, Djokovic, Tomic, Federer or Stosur. The others, well, I’ll watch them if they’re on.
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Tomic was in the local papers a while back. He’s on his P’s so can’t drive a powerful car. So he went out and got a BMW M5 twin turbo V10. Got special permission to drive it to training only. So he takes it out every night to do burnouts at The Spit. Been busted a few times, lost his licence and still did it. Got chased by the cops back home, locked his gate and told the cops he was terrified of them because they were harassing him and were out to get him.
I lost any shred of respect I may have had for him after that.
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Same. He’s a spoilt brat with an ego. Somebody needs to deflate that for him.
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My copy of Darksiders 2 is just sitting there… waiting to be played…
I want to play it… but I can’t…
I have to do other stuff. 🙁
Sooo. Sydney trains. Myself, Sughly and Aleph have been wrongly directed by station staff a few times now and would have caught 5 trains to get from Homebush to Penrith.
At minimum. Assuming we don’t get lost.
Again.
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Just use http://www.cityrail.info The staff are useless 😛
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Screw that – @freezespreston you need to get TripView: https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/tripview-sydney/id294730339?mt=8
Will cost you $3 but it’s invaluable for making your way round Sydney. I’ve lived here all my life, know most of the routes, and still find it awesome.
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And the android version is or https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.grofsoft.tripview&hl=en (split up to avoid moderation)
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Oooh. Didn’t know about that!
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Probably should have trained for it.
Here, this should help.
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Good to see we are back on track with the terrible puns.
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Usually to train one would need a coach
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Sounds like just the ticket.
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Good. So the wheels are in motion then?
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Don’t catch that train, catch that train.
*Points in random direction*
There’s actually enough info on signs and whatnot around most stations to get where you want to go. I don’t like talking to people so I never think of asking someone as being an option. 😛
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This is why Strange and I get along so damn well! 😀
Also, say Hi to Aleph for me! 😀
and Sughly I suppose.
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Aleph’s crazy short! Fact! He’s also a cool guy. 😀 (Sughly too I suppose. :P)
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So Freeze, Sughly and Aleph walk into a bar.
No, sorry, the first two do. Aleph walks under it. With a whole foot to spare, too.
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Our track maps have colours and stuff!
How do you not understand colours!
Also, this is clearly a moot point by now, but maybe ask a Sydney-sider next time in preparation? Off the top of my head, there should be a train that runs from Strathfield, gets to Homebush and runs all the way to Penrith.
And at most stops there should be a monitor that tells you which station the current/upcoming train stops at.
Hey TAY
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Hey man, hope you’re well!
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I am fine and dandy
You DC?
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Not too shabby, man. Not too shabby!
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hey buddy – how’s things?!
how was your xmas?-
Things are amazing man!
How about you?
My christmas was shithouse, yours?
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OMG!!!
I THINK I HAVE GOTTEN MY FIRST EVER SCRIBBLETAKU BEFORE EVERYONE ELSE!!
I’ve guessed a few others, but not before others have seen it 😀
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Hells yeah! 😀 I got the very first, possibly the most easiest of Scribbletakus. (Was Jetpack Joyride. :P)
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I thought I had one but an in-moderation comment was first! >:(
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That’s got to be soul-crushing
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Mark still typed me as a winner with the in-moderation guy but we all know he technically “won” :'(
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Damn you eBay and your plush South Park toys…
I’ve just placed a bid on this one:
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=330849393190&ssPageName=ADME:B:WNARL:AU:1123&autorefresh=true#ht_500wt_914
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It’s heavenly!
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I’ve always wondered if you can get balloons of Mr Mackey’s head. It seems like a perfect fit really.
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I’m drawing a blank
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Nothing to see here
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These comments are running on empty
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@greenius @dc @lambomann007 @sernobulus I’d like to point out that you’re all horrible people for making me think people had finally made invisible ink for computers. I shall blame you and not my own stupidity.
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DAMMIT INVISIBLIUS!!!
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Nope, still no spoiler in a spoiler 🙁
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@greenius @lambomann007 … there’s a special circle of hell reserved for you. It’s the one with no wifi.
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@tofu I don’t think they have electronics in hell. Their binary system would probably be a flame on flame off affair. Hence wifi wouldn’t work there anyway. They probably have some sulphur fume based equivalent system though 😛
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I want to sulk about you ruining my joke … but I can’t.
You win this round, sir.
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They have, you have to brush lemon juice on your screen to read it.
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GORZY!!!!
You need to update your Minecraft server. Tried logging in and there is a version problem or something.
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Yeah, I realised that this morning actually. I’ll get on it this weekend.
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sweet, thought I would just make you aware.
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Noooo… I’ll spend the last week of my holidays digging tunnels instead of cleaning up the pile of shame.
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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Make a 1 to 1 replica of the Xenoblade world thingie?
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… but then I think I’d see too much
Aaaaand that’s the cricket over in 2.5 days.
Australia won by an innings and 201 runs.
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After the first session, this seemed pretty inevitable.
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Back from Yamba, Trjn?
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Yup. Came back on Boxing day. Just too late to make it to the Hobbit.
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And broke both of Sri Lanka’s wicket keepers’ fingers in the process.
Alright, Christmas is over. Let’s resume regular TAY posting… NOW…
*waits*
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*sits next to DC with a bag of maltesers*
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Everyone loves D.C.!
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:S
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DEVELOPMENTS!!
I finally got a refund from Harvey Norman. I just want to say a great big fuck you to Harvey Norman, their online department, and every single customer service member. It doesn’t matter whether it’s now at 19 years old looking for a computer, or when I’m 50 looking to replace my broken stove, I will never, ever shop at this pathetic excuse for a store again.
They didn’t even apologize to anyone. Their response was just a load of legal junk about their Terms and Conditions, along with a reminder that it’s still available to buy for the correct price of $877!
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Good to hear you got your refund, though!
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Yep, that’s the main thing! Now I can take it to Dick Smith, who I’ve only ever had positive interactions with. I hope my local store doesn’t close, I like shopping there.
The Herald Sun are looking for statements from people over this, so it’ll be interesting to see where it goes.
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So, I’m home after spending Christmas with the family, including my sister who came over from WA. It’s nice to have access to my own computer again.
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Good to have you back, man. Good Christmas?
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Yeah, it was. Not anything exciting, but enjoyed it nonetheless.
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@virus__ I saw Tony Hawk Pro Skater HD is 50% right now, I know you were waiting for it to go on sale!
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Thanks man!
I am the best at camping.
5 trains from Homebush to Penrith (I managed to turn it into 2 on the way back!).
So yeah. Now I’m sitting in Pez’s apartment.
SO. DAMNED. CAMP.
…waitaminute, that came out wrong.
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Aleph, my friend! You’re camping at Pez’s apartment? :S
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Pitching tents left and right, holla!
Actually, there were concerns on remaining space for transport. I may be little, but there really, really wasn’t much space at all 😛
Which is somewhat of a boon anyway, considering I can now catch up with my father, as he’s decided to rock up to Sydney tomorrow afternoon!Was awesome meeting you finally man, would love to again at some stage!
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Was really cool to meet you too, man. I was extra strength nervous, if you couldn’t tell. Not at my best, alas. Atleast you got the full hermit experience. Haha! Was all kinds of awesome, though! You seemed completely comfortable. 😀
Hopefully you’ll still get to meat all the Sydney folks!
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I met Shiggy, Doc What?, Mashaa, Blaghman, and others that I don’t think I actually introduced myself to (it was unintentional, I promise!) this morning. Met Pez and Sughly last night.
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They signed your book dealy though, right? RIGHT? 😛
Freeze posted photos if you missed it from Boxing Day…
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Hellscream too.
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*facepalm*
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lol@ me i’m all “Hey they jacked the prices up!”
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I look unhinged in both pictures. :S
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There’s also a YouTube video of you and DAN! doing something…
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RE: your edit,
I had a little bit of social lubricant prior to heading to the dinner, and a little more at the dinner. (I swear I’m not like this all the time :S)
Was great meeting the Bris TAYbies, and the Syd TAYbies are just as accommodating 😀
So, no camping?
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Hopefully camping, just not today, and likely not tomorrow.
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Ah well! Hopefully we have some sort of Sydney meat when you’re all back/before all you interstaters bugger off.
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Sorry can’t tonight even though I’m in the city. I’ll be on my way home tomorrow as well D: (I live 2hrs out from Sydney)
After camping though definitely!
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Boooo!
All good man, let me know! (I’ll DM you my number on Twitter now :D)
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This. I don’t wanna miss out on meeting all these damn interstaters. >.>
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AlexPants birthday bash!
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Are you Melbourne folks doing any meats while Aleph’s there?
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Should be!
But no one has organised it yet…
@strange and @powalen will be there too!
Xenoblade discussions <3
Apparently people are leaving just before then, so that’s a no-go. 😛
I leave Sydney 6am, Sunday 6th Jan.
I think I tried to invite myself to that by proxy through Freeze last night.
How old are you Mr. Pants?
YOOOUUUNNNGGG
I think it’s his 21st!
It’ll be my 21st, yeah. But I wanna do something before then!
I see you refreshing D.C.!
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I never stopped, man. Come rain or shine, Christmas or Easter. 😛
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New years?
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We’ll see, scree. We’ll see. How are you? 😀
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I’m ok. I ate some chocolates and now I feel crappy a bit =P
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Same ol’, same ol’ for better or worse! 😀
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Refresh game? =P
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Exactly! o/
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*escape from family*
Miss you guys!
*tiny hand reaches out of abyss and grabs me by the ankle*
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Shane, my friend! Want me to call the cops or something? 😛
So, when is the Alpeh meat happening? I wanna come~
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Which one? They’re all over the place!!!
I’m just this minute trying to organize/finalise Melbourne accommodation (DAYUM it’s ‘spensive!), are there preferable spots that I should aim for? Where’s easiest for everyone to get to? I’m there from 6th Jan through to 13th Jan 😀
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Melbourne. Look for accommodation in the west as the west is cheaper then the east. That’s my tip
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As long as you don’t go too far outside the city so you’re outside the range of the trains, Melbourne is pretty easy to get around with public transport and stuff. The most common place for meats so far has appeared to be the CBD, but that’s mainly because it’s central.
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Just get a bed in a dorm room at a backpacker hostel in town. Hostels are great for meeting people and cheap.
And full of Scandanavian backpacker ladies 😛
And you’ll be right in town which is best for transport if you want to go places, or you want to have a meat that everyone can easily got to.-
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where can I sign up?
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You want to meet people?
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Aleph/Strange/Powalen Melbourne Meat! Jan 12! 😀
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This has to happen!
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I was thinking of asking the same thing. IIRC @Strange is down at the same time?
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I get there on the 12th. Midday-ish. I’ve given Melbourne people loads of time to arrange a Meat but it hasn’t happened yet. :'(
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I blame everyone but me!
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I’m floating the idea of a Briswegian New Years Meat. Board games, booze and BBQ at my place. Anyone interested?
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You should come to Sydney 😀
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I just got Freya to fly up here :p
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Yup!
Pay for me to fly up and we’ll have the grandest of times.
😛
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I’ll pay you to fly up if you pay me to pay for you to fly up. Seems fair.
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Think a lot of folks are out-of-town! :'( I wouldn’t subject you to just me sitting silently in your house. (Or lurking outside, afraid to knock on the door.) 😛
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Freeze & Sughly are the only two that are out of town dude…
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That’s atleast half the group, right? (Math was never my thing. :P)
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What they lack in numbers, they make up for in personality 😛
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haha noo.
There’s still; Nob, Mrs Freeze, Myself, You, Bunny, Freyr (I can count her as a Brisbane TAYbie now right?) Lambo, Strange & Mr. Strange, DAN!, Sally, Question, Amber, Welbot, Jimu err.. I think that’s all.
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…I’m not sure you understand the meaning of the word ‘silent’ 😛
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Haha! You didn’t stand outside for forty five minutes with your hands shaking. 😛
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Yeah, but when you were there I think ‘chatterbox’ more aptly described you than ‘silent’ 😛
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Do I… talk to much? *anxiety is back!* 😛
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Nah, not too much at all. 🙂
You talk less than my sister does 😛
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We’ll sit around, eat food, drink beverages, play board games and watch movies. What could possibly go wrong?
I am definitely interested, pending Mr. Strange approval.
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Most excellent. I’ll keep people updated on Twitter but I think the presumptive plans are 7pm, my place. I’ll arrange something for food once I know the numbers.
Hey… I’m around, have a fondness for boardgames and might not have anything to do.
Would your Meat be open to non-Briswegians who happen to be in Briswegia at the time?
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Yes, it would. There’s already one person that meets that description coming.
I fear my back is now broken and my t-shirt permanently stretched after spending hours carrying around two children and having them climb all over me.
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Kidnapper!
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Lightweight. 😛
Yo peeps!
I’ve got a Cave Story+ Steam Key to give away!
Does anyone want it?
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@dc cccccc
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‘sup, Greenius. Don’t look at me, man. Still working my way through Shane’s pile-o-adventure games from last week. Haven’t even touched the humble bundle stuff you gifted me!
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No thank you, Giftius.
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Oh, yeah — thanks for the offer any ways. 😛
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Ugh,
TrolliusGiftius
@Aleph
these are the places close to me that I know about
http://www.footscraymotorinn.com.au/tariffs.htm
There are two bus stops and a tram stop near it.
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http://www.ploughhotel.com.au/Bookings.aspx
the plough hotel-
http://www.ploughhotel.com.au/Bookings.aspx
Station hotel-
http://ashley-gardens.vic.big4.com.au/
Ashley gardens. Right next door to a safe way and has a bus stop across the road
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Thank you so much Scree 😀
I found a decent deal with wotif, so I’m staying on Market Street (I believe it’s in the city?).
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This also applies to anyone who wants to go to PAX. I don’t know about the city, sorry
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@mythamphetamine This place looks like a good hostel right in the heart of Melbourne.
http://www.urbancentral.com.au/
4 bed dorms are under $30 a night and it has good reviews. There are cheaper places but you’re only looking at a couple of dollars a night and often with 8 or even 10 beds to a dorm.
If you’re happy to pay a little more you can get a 4 bed dorm with an ensuite too.
I’m pretty sure the dorms are mixed so if you have a problem sharing a room with girls then you may want to look elswhere.
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Problem sharing a room with girls? What madness is this? 😛
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Iknowright? 😛
But some people do feel uncomfortable. (Though I’d bet that Aleph’s not one of them.)
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I have a problem sharing a room with girls…. 😛
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Aww man, I just booked a room at Oaks On Market 😛
Thanks though! Perhaps I will still get the chance to share a room with women anyway 😛
I think we all know that’s not going to happen in a million years 😛-
It really depends on what you want. If you want some privacy, then a dorm room at a youth hostel is not for you.
And you never know – If you have a full week in town there’s every chance 😛Edit: I just looked up Oaks on Market and you’re travelling on a whole other level to how I travel! That place looks really nice too!
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We’re totally on page five!
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WTF it’s right in the CBD! :O
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Yep – Aleph is travelling with class! 😀
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5 minutes walk from my office to there \o/
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I showed my sister a Microsoft Surface at JB HiFi today. She wants one now. I think it helps that I changed the start screen to pink before she got there, and the fact she saw one of the pink keyboard covers for it. 😛
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You devious little lamb!
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I’m so glad my sister’s name isn’t Mary…
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I thought they were online-only.
Good to know they’re available at retail outlets too.
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Harvey Norman and JB started selling them 3(?) weeks ago. They’re a pretty cool device. The magnet holding the touch cover to the body is really strong. As in, you could probably play tug of war with it strong 😛
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I LOVE MY SURFACE
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Hey, I have some game suggestions for you! Well, okay. It’s just shameless self-promotion of my own games, but whatever. 😛
Would be able to give this one a try sometime and give me some feedback? It has a free trial. The only touchscreen device I’ve tried it on is my phone, so I’m not sure how well it plays on a bigger touchscreen. Should work fine though.
http://apps.microsoft.com/webpdp/app/a247427f-f05c-48b6-b4f6-14e58d8d1c89-
And here’s my other game, Vartun’s Pillar (it’s that point and click adventure game I was working on) http://apps.microsoft.com/webpdp/app/780af254-7eb6-4a43-8698-17c6173f376f
End shameless self promotion 😛
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Thanks for the links, I’ll give them a go on mine when I get a chance.
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@bish on Virtues last reward
BISHY WISHY
i have not beaten the game yet, but what is your definition of beat? as in gotten all of the endings or just one?
i will however tell you where i am up too
So, firstly i chose to go with luna at the start, then i allied with her during the first round of the ambidex game, she did as well, everyone was happy. now for the second chromatic doors i’m currently paired with Alice and i chose K as my other partner, currently doing the puzzle with the pool table (if that rings a bell). but yeah, the game is awesome, so much fun.
oh and a serious answer for @chuloopa 999 was a puzzle/ visual novel game (kinda like Professor Leyton but not) on DS, had an awesome story and was just the bees knees.
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Like the first one, there’s a ‘true’ ending. So I mean that. But you’ll know it when you get it.
@dc
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Greenius, my pal!
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ENOUGH CONVERSATION FOR YOU?
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More than the past few days, atleast. 😛
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Well since no one took me up on it, I now reserve the right to brag about the cheap flights I got for PAX 🙂
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I’m sure we all really appreciate it though :D!
I live in Melbourne so… 😛 and as for travelling after? PAX ends as Uni begins… BOOOO
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I live in Victoria and don’t even want to go.
You mad?
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You don’t want to meat almost a whole country’s worth of TAYbies in one weekend? 🙁
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You know, we may have to rethink this plan. Having all that awesomeness in one city could cause the universe to explode or something.
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Wow you’re probably the only person I’ve seen say that! I’m not super excited for PAX but for meeting TAYbies! (and free goodie bags hopefully!)
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He’s probably one of those ‘hermit’ people we keep hearing about. You wouldn’t know anything about those kind, would you Greenius? 😛
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Not quite. Greenius is the hermit social link, he comes along to meats so we can develop it.
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I didn’t even know a TAY meetup was happening at PAX I was just mentioning that PAX is local to me and I have no interest in going to it.
Stop judging me =(
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That’s okay! We can totally hang after PAX.
I don’t know how long conventions usually go for, but if it goes past dinner, I’ll be outta there to have a proper meal.
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Yay. Won’t be able to finish the last episode of The Walking Dead until sunday. And I just finished Chapter 3 so I’m sorta half way through it…
THE SUSPENSE WILL KILLE ME D:
SPAGHETT’S LAST SONG PLAYED GAME
Currently playing Ashita Muki Koufuku, Komaeminaki Myounichi by Dir En Grey 😀
Such high energy metal
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Eh, nothing. Haven’t listened to music in days. Mind’s been on high alert. No time for relaxation. 😛
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High alert?
Lay off the weed bro
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You so crazy.
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Wonderful by Everclear. For even more feels, watch this – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPUtp58APz4
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Right Now – PSY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmHdefsaL6I
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Something super secret.
But I opened up Winamp and the first song chosen by the randomiser is F-F-Falling by the Rasmus, so that’s what I’ll be listening to next…-
Great song!
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Dignity – Bullet for my Valentine
I just started playing Saints Row 3 after having it sitting there in my Steam account for a few weeks! That has to be the most epic intro to a game ever.
And I don’t know if it’s just me, but every time I go to play a game with my Xbox controller, the batteries are always dead 😛 I’m gonna wait for a pair to charge and jump back into it.
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Agreed. That intro was awesome. The game is great too, but that first mission is just incredible 🙂
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The kanye west mission is one of my favourite gaming moments ever.
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Hey gang. Drank some homemade mai tais tonight, so am a little drunk. Apparently, I’m exactly the same, only more so. Didn’t realise when we made them up that it would make so much… and because wife is breastfeeding, I’m going to have to take this massive amount of alcohol on before it goes off. First drink I’ve had in months, and the first time I’ve been drunk in 4.5 years. Enjoy it.
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You’re far too literate to be drunk-posting. Come back in a few drinks 😛
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Drunk Nighthawk!
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I wish I could see drunk Shane.
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He really is identical to sober Shane. The guys spent almost $200 trying to get me drunk on my buck’s night. They were pretty annoyed that I was pretty much exactly the same…
So in some sense, you’ve already seen him.
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Unless you’re drunk ALL the time.
Intervention meat definitely on for Canberra, Shane’s drinking problem and Blaghman’s Ketamine… trouble…
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I think I’ve said too much 😛
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I bet he stresses less than sober Shane. 😛
I wonder if he writes the same as sober Shane….-
I’m writing now. I’ll tell you tomorrow how it went 🙂
Edit: No less stress. Wife thought it might relax me. But I never relax. I’m always alert 24/7. Hyper-vigilant (when I said this bit, I was misheard as saying “like a ninja” which would have been way cooler).
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I need to upvote again, for the edit. 😛
You should try listening to opera in the bath with champagne or something. Isn’t that what people in the movies do when they can’t relax? 😛
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Twin! Except for the wife. :'(
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As a wife myself I can honestly tell you that wives are quite often more trouble than they’re worth. 😛
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How’d the writing hold up in the harsh light of day? 😀
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Eh, it’s all right, I guess. But to answer what I think you’re asking, Soberunk Shane writes the same as Sober Shane.
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My impressions on Silent hill downpour
good
The atmosphere. Before the first enemy I was constantly waiting for an enemy. Made for great tension.
The story appear to be going quite well.
Bad
The morality choices… so far the choices I’ve chosen have been for nothing and i must admit that it’s getting frustrating. why give me a choice when you’re not going to adhere to it?
Combat is awkward, much like most SH games.
No health indicator and no real healing indicator. I seriously can’t tell when I’m hurt or healing. It’s rather frustrating.
It’s quite easy to get stuck as well. so far I’ve been stuck a few times.
The red and black enemy/chase sequences. Everyone hated it in SH3, so what honestly made them think it would be fine now?
the overall result
incredibly frustrating, but not insanely difficult like homecoming. Would probably be a better game under a different IP. I will probably play through for the story at least.
Guys – if only only want to spend around $40 on headphone for gaming, should i but a pair of stand-alone headphones and a seperate mic later, or buy a basic gaming headset?
From what i’ve been reading gaming headsets are all about marketing and really aren’t great value for money??
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You should buy a Nokia.
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On a more serious note, I don’t really know much about what headsets are good or not, but I bought a Plantronics Gamecom something or other 2 years ago for $40, it was pretty good. But it broke so I need to replace it.
Nothing compares to the good old iPhone earphones stuck in sideways though 😛
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G35s and its wireless brother are pretty cool guys! Kinda double your budget though 😛
I think Siberia II (or something like that) can be usef on PC and console. Trjn says the’re comfy and feel like pillows!
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I wouldn’t imagine that $40 would get you much of anything in the way of decent sound reproduction and voice recording.
I use standalone headphones, with my mic being integrated in my webcam. I can see the benefits of a headset, but there’s something about having a mic in my face that irks me. To each their own though.As a definitive answer to the question less all my bullshit waffling, yes, buy the nicest ear/head-phones you can that fit the budget, and figure out the mic later, so long as verbal communication in gaming isn’t that high on your priority list :3
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Also, don’t bother with the 7.1 bullshit. I know, it’s over the $40 limit you put in place, but seriously. Don’t even consider being tempted by it 😛
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A $40 pair of headphones will sound better than a $40 headset, but obviously you get no mic. Depends on how crucial having the mic is I guess! I had the Logitech g330 for a while. I’m pretty sure you can get them for around $40. The sound was pretty good and the mic was also fairly good.
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I was going to recommend the TDK ones I have buuut no one seems to sell them anymore =(
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Found the ones I have for sale on ebay brand new! 28 bucks delivered. If I remembered correctly DSE wanted 70 bucks for them back when TDK still made them. (I picked them up on clearance for 5 bucks)
Here they are.
They’re pretty decent, good sound, comfortable once you stretch them a bit if you have a largeish head. They also have this gimmicky vibrate feature.. Kind of adds to the bass, not much point using it though.
@greenius! When I first started Xenoblade Chronicles I thought it was pretty cool but honestly just wanted to go back to Graces. ( Mr. Strange is on holidays so I can’t use the main TV, which the PS3 is plugged in to.) But now I’ve l played a bit more(I’ve gotten to the part where I can leave the first area) and I am definitely hooked. Still want to play Graces, but as well as Xenoblade, not instead of it. I can see there’s lot of depth to the game. Not just combat-wise, but story-wise as well. I’m really enjoying and every day I am so glad we moved the Wii out into the family room when we got our new TV. 😛
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I TOLD YOU SO!
See that everybody? Give Xenoblade a go and don’t overlook it just because it’s on the Wii!
Glad to hear you’re really enjoying it too. I want to discuss things without giving too much away but if I recall it goes Colony 9 – area – THIS AREA IS AWESOME – the next 4 or so following this are just amazing and that’s where I got hooked! Where are you up to? I think you might already be at the awesome area.
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I’m sorry. I did like it, but playing it on the small TV was making me quite ill.
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Move the Wii? 🙁
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Yeah, I’m going to have to. I’ll try to play it when Mum is using her tablet.
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😀 happiness +12
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Either that or I’ll have to get a cheap HD tv for my bedroom. But then can i play my NES?
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OMG!
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/12/this-shenmue-statue-wont-be-looking-for-sailors/
I need this.
Guess I’ll need to start to saving. I can’t imagine it will be very cheap.
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Edit: All is right with the world again. 😀
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I have two First for figures statues.
Samus was about $350. Midna was about $450.
I hope this helps!
HOLY CRAP – EPISODE ONE OF THE WALKING DEAD GAME WAS AWESOME!!!
Seriously can’t wait to get stuck in to episode 2.
Why the hell couldn’t i save both the girl and doug, though. So unfair. Seriously hoping that father dies a horrible a gruesome death too.
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Edit: Crisis averted! 😀
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That’s okay, man. No harm meant at all! I know Shane and Strange haven’t played yet, is all. Hope you don’t take offence. Might not seem major, but folks have spoiled less and have gotten in trouble. 😛
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I missed this whole kerfuffle but appreciate the spoiler tags. Thanks guys 🙂
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I was away watching Arrow and looks like I dodged a spoiler-bullet here. Phew!
I would love to buy this so much, but even though I’m a massive Okami fan, I don’t think I can see $200 from play-asia in it 🙁 http://hungeree.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/okami_globe.jpg
But my god is it beautiful.
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Turns out it’s around $75 from Capcom delivered in February. I might have to figure out a way to get it shipped here. I can do $75 (plus shipping)
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I require details. I must own one.
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I’ll speak to GT and see if they can get it in for me =P
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And meeeee! Capcom are out of reserved stock 🙁 My quest shall keep going, but a lack of a basic grasp on the Japanese language is proving to be a bit of a problem.
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Sadly, it looks like they won’t be getting it in. Mainly because you have to buy the special edition of the game.
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Damn. I hope this isn’t just a single run item. Hopefully demand will die down a bit making it a bit easier to find.
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I can ask Troy about it on monday. (He’s the owner of the GT)
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Wow that’s really beautiful but it aint no topless @dkzeitgeist
I’m about to go get some shut eye, but I just wanna say @strange is awesome! Feels like a weight has lifted after that e-mail. Thank you! 🙂 Good night, catch you on the flip side and all that, home slices! Always a pleasure too, drunk @shane! Nice to see @mythamphetamine back as well!
Take it easy, folks!
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Night, man.
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Doofus. 😛
@notoriousr @powalen @blaghman (who is camping) @whoeverelse
Doctor Who
The character of ‘Clara’: I like her sass. Amy started off like this, but the back and forth between Oswin and the Doctor feels much better, although that might be because Amy Pond sassed a little less towards the end of her run. I’m imagining potential for Gilmore Girls style banter here, but that’s probably just wishful thinking.
The mystery of Oswin: I like it. Not necessarily the “AND THEN UNEXPLAINED STUFF, NOW CREDITS” part, but the potential for space mystery that isn’t “The universe is ending”. Plus it gives her some backstory to discover. There’s greater depth here to possibly explore; Amy and Rory were fleshed out a bit with their personal lives, but they were still limited to boring Human origins. Rose, Martha and Donna were barely touched at all. I think we got to see their families and that’s it? Again, potential here.
Opening: Terrible. Truly, truly terrible.
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I am totally refreshing at 3:33 AM AEDT just to see if there are replies.
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I like Clara a lot and she has a lot of potential. I personally never really cared for Amy much, but I thought Rory was cool. The mystery of oswin bit: I can see it unravelling three ways-
You find out about the two oswins dealio in the first episode
You find out about it at the end of the season
You find out about it at the end of Jenna’s run as companion.
I am hoping it is the second option there, but I feel like I’ve been burned with the whole Silence/Tardis exploding/Alternate reality where Matt Smith has a terrible beard thing/River is Amy’s daughter – that I just don’t have patience to wait for an explanation because moffat likes to draaaaaaaaaaaaaggggggggg things out. But maybe they can do something to crush my cynicism. WHO KNOWS-
I can totally understand that.
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I liked this episode a lot more than I liked any of the previous few. I’m looking forward to the new season now, whereas before I was a bit “meh”.-
But Dinosaurs!
IN SPACE!I agree though.
I understand that the past few episodes were sort of padded around Amy and Rory’s runs as companions, but I think the mystery of Oswin also adds to the excitement of what would typically be seeing how and new companion performs.
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@strange @powalen Regarding Melbourne meats, what days are you here & available and where are you staying? Will arrange something.
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I’m pretty sure the 12th is when everyone will be here. If I recall Powalen gets here on like the 11th for the Aus Open while Aleph leaves on the 13th. No idea about Strange though but she’s here for some concert :P.
Unless I’m totally remembering wrong…
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I’m staying at a place called City Limits on Little Bourke St. Our plane gets in just before midday on Saturday the 12th of January and that afternoon/evening is my only free night because I’m seeing Sabaton on the 13th, and Nightwish/Sabaton on the 14th.
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Oh. Just checked the hotel’s website and apparently it’s in Chinatown. Shouldn’t be too difficult to find something to do close by, then. 🙂
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There’s a cool Korean BBQ restaurant in Chinatown! Main food is okay I guess but they have free side dishes and one of them is bloody awesome. No idea what it is though but it’s good! hah 😛
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So after joking with @dc about setting Pez’s apartment on fire, the building gets evacuated at 4:30am.
Perhaps I’ll reconsider next time I try to make a funny, huh!
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O_O
wait, so Pez left you in-charge while he went camping? Shiiieeeeett
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Nah, Pez went to be with the ladyfriend. I’m going camping tomorrow, hopefully 😀
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I’d fill it with all sorts of different scented juice pot things. You know, the ones with the sticks. Let him come home to overwhelming perfumes!
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And just like that, Aleph discovered his powers for setting off the fire alarm… with his miiiiiiiind…
Where is everyone?
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Canada.
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You can’t say…. in canada
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SPAGETT!
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You spooked her good!
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Deponia!
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Waking up place … thing … Okay that just didn’t work.
Camping most likely is the answer to your question
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I wonder if they’ve foiled the Scooby Doo mystery yet and revealed the identity of the Big Foot!
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Nope, it always happens the last / second last day. I’m going to say they are spending today looking for clues.
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Jinkies! Zoinks!
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GASP – Thelma said “jinkies”
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Final touches on cleaning the house today
Then tomorrow morning I am going into Sydney to collect Sam, and come back on the train with her
I don’t mind a two hour trip if she is at my destination
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Dawwwwwwwwww that’s so sweet.
I have no idea who sam is – but you warmed my heart.-
Sam is the lady friend you may have seen me post on TAY about the past couple of weeks
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It’s not New Years Eve tomorrow! What gives, Spaghett? What gives? 😛
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She is coming up early so we can spend more time together
Logic DC, Logic!
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Two day date!
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Who’s to say it will end after new years?
Logic D.C., Logic!
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The man’s got stamina…
uh…
Let’s pretend I didn’t say that… 😛
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Greenius, I go back to work on the 2nd of January, Logic Greenius, Logic!
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Sure, because we will totally only be doing things that require stamina
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Haha! I’m sorry, man. Just teasing you. 😀
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I know bro 😀
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Awwwww mannnnn!!!
That’s sooo cute!!!! 😀
I hope everything goes super-well for you!!
WHATEVER YOU DO, DON’T SHOW HER ANY SPAGHETT CLIPS!!! 😛Soooo… does this mean i’ll need to be giving you engagement ring advice soon?? wink wink 😉
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No Spaghett clips? that shiz is my bread and butter man!
Um, no ring, no 😛
Chaos on Deponia has some really awesome, creative puzzles:
Rufus had to remember a secret knock combination as he travelled from the tavern to a dark alley, cutting through the town square. The game’s soundtrack kicks in at the town square and Rufus gets the tune stuck in his head, forgets the combination. To solve the puzzle, you’ve got to turn the game’s music off in the main menu! 😀
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what is deponia?
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New adventure game series! Deponia itself is a garbage world, one giant junk yard that the main character and every one he knows lives in. Series follows Rufus’ attempt to escape!
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I need more info. =P
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Sounds good.
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That particular part was quite amusing, but I had no damn idea how to solve it. 😛 Then again, the meta-way rufus talked about it shoulda tipped me off.
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I’m kind of disturbed at some of Rufus’ actions in this game, though:
What happened to the Gondolier in particular, not to mention the cat food he just made.:S
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… The Gondolier admittingly I did not spare a thought to, but the cat food part was quite morbid.
Also, when he talks with that hobo. “What some food? HAVE A BOOT.”
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GUYS!!!
STUFF!!
AND THINGS!!
OH MY GOD, THE THINGS!!!
I’m watching a few Top 5 games of 2012 videos from Rev3Games and it got me thinking, what’s your top 5? (in no particular order unless you can and want to rank them). Too many people focus on a single GOTY so why not do a top 5!
I haven’t played a few of the bigger releases this year like Mass Effect 3, Max Payne 3, Sleeping Dogs and Far Cry 3 but I think Far Cry 3 could replace Journey or Trials Evolution.
Journey
Trials Evolution
Borderlands 2
Dishonored
The Walking Dead
Other good games include: Resident Evil: Revelations, Fez, Theatrhythm, XCOM, Mark of the Ninja and Thirty Flights of Loving.
As an added bonus how about some really good games that DIDN’T come out in 2012 that you only played this year?
The Binding of Isaac
Saints Row: The Third
Okami (HD came out this year but it’s practically the same game)
Persona 4: Golden (enhanced port of an old game, doesn’t really count as new!)
Rayman Origins
Civilization V
Stuff on both of these lists are just things I can remember. There’s probably some games I’m forgetting 😛 (as I make edits I’m putting new things in!)
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Top 5 GOTY (in no particular order)
Mark of the Ninja
Journey
Borderlands 2
The Walking Dead
Max Payne 3Games that I loved but weren’t released this yeah (GTILBWRTY?)
Persona 3:FES
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I’m fairly sure that the majority of games I played this year came out a while ago.
The top 5 games that came out this year for me (in no particular order aside from Journey at the to): Journey, Borderlands 2, Mass Effect 2, FTL and Diablo 3.
Other games I played through this year: Arkham Asylum, Arkham City, Portal 2, Shadow of the Colossus, Saints Row 3, Limbo, Half Life 2 and probably a few more. So you can see, it’s a pretty good year of going back and playing slightly older games for me.
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Spec Ops: The Line
The Walking Dead
Mass Effect 3
Anna’s Quest
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1. SPACE MARINE
2. SPACE MARINE
3. SPACE MARINE
4. SPACE MARINE
5. TRIALS EVOLUTION… NAHHH… SPAAAYYSSHHHH MAAAURREEEENNNNN!!!!-
Remember when we were Trials rivals?
You don’t have a chance against me now!
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Hmm let’s see;
Max Payne 3
The Walking Dead
Far Cry 3
Tony Hawk Pro Skater HD (it brought back all the memories!)
Spec Ops: The LineGames that I played for the first time but didn’t come out this year;
L.A. Noire
Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Alan Wake & Alan Wake: All American Nightmare (Hi @sughly!)
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Journey, Mark of the Ninja, Dishonored, Thirty Flights of loving, The Walking Dead.
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Borderlands 2
Final Fantasy XIII-2
Max Payne 3
Halo 4
Mass Effect 3DIDN’T come out in 2012 that you only played this year?
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
Red Dead Redemption
Fallout: New Vegas
Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Unsure if I played this in 2012 or 2011 tbh)
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Halo 4
Borderlands 2
Dishonoured
Papo & Yo… well balls, I’ve only finished 4 games.
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Need for Speed Least Wanted
A Night in the Laboratory
Vartun’s Pillar
Griff Dangers in Mettle vs. Metal
Mark’s Birthday GameWait, that’s a list of the games I made this year. 😛
Here’s my real list
The Walking Dead
Halo 4
Borderlands 2
FTL
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I’m really not sure. Do I list something like Spec Ops: The Line, which was an incredibly thought-provoking game which had a lot of interesting things to say, but had arse gameplay? Do I list something like Tales of Graces, which I enjoyed immensely but wouldn’t argue with anyone who said it’s hardly revolutionary or groundbreaking or even that amazing, effectively the KFC of JRPGs?
If you go by the amount of time spent playing, for me it’s SWTOR, Borderlands 2, Graces, Mass Effect 3, then a bunch of other stuff. Probably Lumines on the Vita in fifth place actually. But I definitely wouldn’t list SWTOR and Borderlands 2 I’m finding dreadfully dull.
Games I finished or spent a lot of time with this year:
– Disgaea 4
– SWTOR
– Mass Effect 3
– Tales of Graces f
– Corpse Party
– TERA
– Diablo III
– Darksiders
– Darksiders II
– Spec Ops: The Line
– Fall of Cybertron
– Sleeping Dogs
– Borderlands 2
– AssCreed Revelations
– AssCreed 3
– Halo 4
– Lumines: Electronic Symphony
– Professor Layton & the Curious Village
– X-COMOf those I’d say that probably overall, in terms of every part of the game working well for me, it might actually be Sleeping Dogs. If Mass Effect 3’s ending had been better or had I been able to bring myself to do a Renegade playthrough (will never do it, requires fucking over characters I like) it might be up there, but it’s definitely top 5 for me regardless. Other than that, I really don’t know. Spec Ops stood out, but the reason it stood out was nothing to do with the playing of the game. Darksiders II was great but I liked the first one more in retrospect, and it probably is the game that sank THQ too. Halo 4 was solid but it was basically just another Halo and I hated the new enemies. AssRev was more fun than Ass3 and neither were that great. I’d rate Corpse Party pretty high for such a simple game but it’s also a few years old, and the elements of it that work are the story and writing and voice acting, not the game itself, same as Spec Ops. X-COM I like, but the randomness of it and the stressful nature of the game intimidates me too much to want to play it. Persona 4 Golden would be on my list if I had spent more time with it but I’m still only halfway through May. 🙁 TERA I nearly got into in a big way but constant lag issues forced me elsewhere. Diablo III was an incredibly average game made a hell of a lot worse by the asinine decision to make it always-online.
So I guess my top 5 are:
– Sleeping Dogs
– Mass Effect 3
– Tales of Graces
– Darksiders II
– Halo 4But only because they’re the 2012 games I played enough to feel I can talk about them in this capacity, actually enjoyed the majority of my time with and which didn’t have massive glaring flaws all over the place for me. Mind you Spec Ops would easily knock Halo 4 out if it didn’t play so controller-chuckingly frustrating.
Oh god.. Kat Von D is engaged again.. This time to Deadmau5. I feel sorry for the bloke he doesn’t know what he is getting into. Though, this time he isn’t twice her age like the last few have been lol.
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I really liked her in LA Ink before it became incredibly scripted, though. She knows how to tattoo, that’s for sure!
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Yeah sam here, she’s an amazing artist. Just yeah she gets in waaaay too much drama. and all that. Also Deadmau5 looks like Rockets, is there something Rockets isn’t telling us =O
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Pipe down about Deadmau5 before Lambo hears. I fear it’s already too late. :S
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Eh? Wanna explain.
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Well I had, but i’ve no idea what it’s in relation to.
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So … I was just thinking everyone’s got their games of the year and stuff. What about gaming video of the year? Like trailers/tech demos and the like.
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Halo Forward Unto Dawn, that live action Halo series/movie-split-into-five-parts. I need to see if the DVD is out yet.
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Squenix still has it.
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Also in terms of tech demo, I’d say Square has it again too:
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Page six! We’re totally on page six!
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STOP YOUR LIES DC! I will cling to my page 5 for all time
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Walking Dead game!
No spoilers.
The save game between Chapters 1 & 2 didn’t transfer properly.
Then Chapter 2 crashed and I lost 2 hours of progress.
So bollocks to that. I may have nothing else to play but I’m perfectly content to let that ruin my game experience for me and never touch it again.
Hooray!
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Stop being so sour, Bish!
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no thanks
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Apparently this is a common problem. 🙁
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Yeah it’s half of the reason why it didn’t get my GOTY nomination 😛
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Two possible solutions
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2780190&highlight=save-
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?p=32609847
Hope one of these work for you.-
I TAKE YOUR HELP AND THROW IT BACK IN YOUR FACE LIKE A RUDE FRENCHMAN AT A SNOOTY RESTAURANT WHERE YOU BASICALLY PAY THEM TO SPIT IN YOUR FOOD
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Why Bish? I thought we had something special *runs of sobbing*
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Mac? @powalen had some problems with it too but replayed it on Windows and worked perfectly for him.
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Exact same thing happened to me. Couldn’t resolve it at all in the end and had to start over (where I backed up my save file constantly :P)
I had about less than half a block of chocolate left from Christmas, and I think it was starting to melt.
I was originally going to have a couple of pieces, but for some reason, I began to relentlessly chow down on the whole thing, piece by piece.
Now it is all eaten… I have no regrets.
..oh yeah, also, I picked up WWE 13 for PS3 and Eden of the East Complete Collection on blu-ray. \o/
Also, if anyone wants Dark Souls on PC, it’s going to be 50% off on Steam in five minutes! 😀
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I think it’s been around $15 on Amazon for a while 😀
Same dealio as always with Amazon though, need a credit/debit card and a (fake) US address.
Shenanigans!
Your old buddy Spags is tired and hot
Cleaning is complete though
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And now you play the waiting game. 😀
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Yup 🙁
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Oh, man. One of the item descriptions in Chaos on Deponia is still weirdly in Rufus’ German voice. Freaked me out more than I care to admit!
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Also the ending cutscene kept crashing. Had to watch it on YouTube. Damn good game, though.
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What’s the next game for D.C.!?
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Dunno, possibly The Whispered World, although the main characters voice acting is horrible. Haha!
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Not a good game, although an adventure veteran might find it ok. Such small click boxes and random items that aren’t clearly something to pickup.
The voice acting is actually ok once you play the game, it has a certain emo charm to it
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Awesome that you’re enjoying them, dude 🙂 Thanks for the progress updates!
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Nob! 😀
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Ugh Ser Nobs
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Bah! I called him Nobs for ages and then you said it was wrong, that it was just Nob. MAKE UP YOUR MIND! 😛
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Ser Can’tmakeuphismindius
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I didn’t say it was wrong I just asked why did you add the s!
And I always say Nob, just said Nobs to annoy you 😀
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MONSTER!
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YOU’RE THE MONSTER DITCH.C.
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I’m tempted to buy the Wii Goldeneye just for the Gold Classic Controller (to go with my Gold Nunchuck and WiiMote). Obviously for the game too since I’ve… *gasp* never played Goldeneye and hear the Wiimake is pretty decent.
$24 at Big W
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IT’S NOT THE REAL GOLDENEYE.
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I know :'(
I haven’t even seen the movie!
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WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?!?!?!
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I want more Gravity Falls 🙁
Quality show!
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Most definitely. Early 2013, I hear!
T-T-T-TRIPLE POSTTTTT
(I’m posting to give my buddy D.C. something to read as well as my other refreshers)
D.C. should totally have a birthday meat!
Yeah?
😀
I have a whole shitton of unfinished & unplayed games and I don’t feel like playing any of them 🙁
EDIT: In before Greenius suggests Xenoblade.
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Persona 4: Golden
And you can always sell, trade and/or give them away.
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No, I can’t. I hoard them 🙁
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But you decided to sell off some of your previously hoarded figurines! You’ve also offered to trade/give away some already.
You can do it! Believeeee
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I gave Scree a copy of Odin Sphere because I had two. 😛
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XENOBLADE!
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XENOBLADDER
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THE JOKE HAS CHANGED NOW THAT YOU’RE “HI FRIEND” BUT THE MESSAGE IS STILL THE SAME
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@negativezero @melbournetaybies I arrive in Melbourne midday on the 12th of January, flight home is at 10am (I think) 4:30pm on the 16th. I’ll be free for meats any time except during the day on the 14th/15th, as I will be at the tennis.
I’m staying at Ibis Melbourne (supposedly it’s pretty central?) so it should be good! Can’t wait to meet everyone! 😀
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It sounds like we should meet up in the city somewhere – Fed Square maybe? – on the afternoon of the 12th at say around 3:30 or so and maybe go for dinner or something?
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Sounds good to me! I haven’t actually got my tickets yet so I have to chase them up on Monday…
I’ve never been to Melbourne before so you guys will have to show me what’s what! 😛
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You’ll have to show me around too! I know nothing in the city :/
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You sound like me when people ask for directions around Sydney 😛
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And me for Brisbane! 😛
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I know how to get to and from the train station. That’s about it.
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3:30ish and dinner on the 12th sounds like a plan to me. Yay! I’m all excited to meet you guys now. 😀
The whole New Years thing. Anyone willing to go from a maybe to a yes? I’m thinking just rock up to my place at 7 and go from there. Wouldn’t mind knowing who is actually coming though. Would help slightly in the buying of fud and drunk.
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I’m still not sure.
Maybe make people who are coming bring their own food and drink? I’m happy to do that.-
That also works. I have a Weber, so something that can be grilled would probably work out pretty well.
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Yeah, no need to cater for me, if I do come. I would bring some sausages, and I’m not much of a drinker.
In terms of whether I can come along, what side of the city are you on? And how late are people welcome to stay?
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I’m a yes but you know my terms and conditions (and I know yours :P)
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No.
As in, no I won’t tell you. I’ll just show up and be all “FEED ME”. 😛
I’ll ask my parents.-
D.C. wants me to tell you he’ll be coming too. 😛
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I’m taking that as a confirmed RSVP from DC!
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He hasn’t declined this (or the D.C. birthday meat) so that’s a yes to both!
Thanks for paying for my tickets and sorting out my food and accommodation too D.C.!
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Still didn’t decline or object!
Thanks D.C.! Cya on the 15th!
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Everyone go! I will bring some nob pie!
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Gross!
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Ugh, Filthymindius
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@greenius Deadmau5ive http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb449/lamboman007/Deadmau5ive_zpsbde02238.png
Just started the original Darksiders. Is there any way of dropping the graphic settings at all? It’s a little bit laggy. More so in cut scenes where the video falls behind the sound, but a bit in game as well. There doesn’t seem to be anything in the options menu aside from the brightness setting
I have not played any Xenoblade or Tales today. I hope I get time to fix this later tonight.
Instead I’ve been shut away in the spare room trying to at least finish the top of my daughter’s quilt so I’ll have something vaguely resembling a quilt to gift her on her birthday tomorrow. 😛
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Upvote for good mother not the lack of Xenoblading :P!
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Don’t worry, I donwvoted for the lack of Xenoblading for you! 😛
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This is amazing. NSFW language I guess!
Top comments are amazing too.
You too can be amazing if you watch it!
Maybe.
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…. The hell did I just watch?
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HOW AMAZING ARE THE CHAIN OF TOP COMMENTS!
Original video is amazing too
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Thanks @dc for the heads up. Pity I never learned how to raed.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/12/talk-amongst-yourselves-202/comment-page-30/#comment-976297
PEOPLE I NEED HELP (Yes this is apparent to those who know me.)
I have an iPad 3 and I’m selling it. No, not here. But I’m getting rid of it. It’s been ****ing useless for tafe and Im betting it will be just as useless for University.
So, still wanting to keep with something that can word process I don’t want to get back to a full laptop but I’m left with two options:
A MS Surface, with MS Office, RT version.
or
ASUS TF700T Transformer tablet with full keyboard etc and whatever office compatible program I can find.
Advice? Thoughts? Ideas? The iPad hasn’t worked for me because I don’t like the operating environment, I’m definitely more of an android/windows man, I don’t mind the Windows8 environment as well, its not too bad at the end of the day. Just wondering if anyones used either and the thoughts they have?
Unfortunately the thing that puts me off the SURFACE PRO is the idea that:
a.) It does not come with OFFICE.
b.) 3 hour battery life. Just not acceptable by *any* means in *any* way.
So… thoughts?
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Is a normal laptop not an option? Maybe one of those small netbooks?
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Sorry if this sounds mean or rude or ignorant, but have you looked into getting an android one with a blue tooth keyboard? I’m just asking because Mums Galaxy tab 2 has great battery life and she’s very happy with it. I’ve seen that you can get blue tooth keyboards, but I’m not quite sure how they work myself.
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the Transformer runs Android 4.0, Scree.
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Samsung Galaxy is great though
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Have you had hands on with either devices?
Asus also have a Windows RT version of the Transformer http://www.engadget.com/2012/10/26/asus-vivotab-rt-review/-
Also, I’m not sure how good printer support is on android, but apparently Windows RT works with most printers out of the box. That’s if you’re interested in printing stuff from it.
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Honestly I would go with the Transformer, because it comes with the keyboard, where as the Surface doesn’t and it’s around 150 bucks extra.
Edit: I would be betting you could get Open Office on Android.
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Yeah, but when it’s $789 for a 64GB Surface plus keyboard and $846 for a Tranformer Infinity… 😛
Both have microSD slots too, so you could just get the 32GB surface with a Type cover for $709 then get a 64GB microSD card for about $70, so you’d have a 96GB Surface for $779.
Or, or, you could get a 128gb card and have a 160GB Surface + Type cover for $900! 😛
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Plus you can get the Surface in pink! (pink background+keyboard) 😛
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Mary Lamb loves it!
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Oh Infinity. Thought it was the regular one that’s about half that.
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Oh ew, you mean the TF300t Eee-pad? 😛
Remember when netbooks where the in thing? Seems like ages ago now.
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If battery life is a big thing, the transformer has a second battery in the keyboard. My gen1 transformer goes for about 16 hours.
Couldn’t tell you how it stacks up against the surface, functionality wise.-
I wonder what it’d be like if they put a second battery behind the screen on normal laptops?
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Heavy?
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Surface is nice but I’m pretty biased. The battery life is excellent, I find. About similar to what I get out of my iPad (1st-gen). Get one with a type cover and basically it’ll work like a laptop when you need it as a laptop and a tablet the rest of the time.
Is word processing and maybe a bit of web surfing all you’re going to do with it? Because Word is obviously the industry standard and IE 10 runs *very* nicely, way snappier and easier to use than Safari on iPad IMO.
If you’re intending to also use it for games though, you might want the Android tablet. WinRT software’s software library isn’t really massive yet.
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After weighing up all the comments, it’s looking like I will be best off going with a Microsoft oriented tablet for myself initially. I have to think about my work at University. The iPad didn’t suit me because what it did offer in terms of MS Office compatibility with OfficeHD was not suitable in the long run. A full blown version of Word and Excel for Uni is too good to resist at this point. A tablet is more preferably to me at this point than a laptop due to comfort factor and essentially, needs. I will only be doing basic word processing and internet browsing, if I can use a tablet effectively for this to the same degree, I’d rather use that tablet than a laptop.
The other issue? Games. Why? I have a 9 year old. My iPad so far has lived with him mostly. The Surface/Asus (now to decide which one) simply will not. To get around this issue, we will simply get a Google Nexus 7 in a few months. They’re cheap, I have no issue with doing this as I’ve wanted to check one out anyhow 🙂
But in terms of what I need right now, it’s seeming like the best option for me is the MS oriented surface/Asus vivotab. Tbh, I’m leaning towards the vivotab, it’s quite nice, I like the metal brushed look of it. I saw both of them today coincidentally, both are nice, the vivotab is a bit chunkier than the surface, but not by much. Now its just down to a few millimeters of discomfort and a lot of first world issues 🙂 (can I get a thats what she said? 😉 )
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Oh and thank you all, you’ve all been an awesome help 🙂
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Silent Hill Downpour, I have encountered another issue.
Too dark.
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Turn up the brightness? 😛
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On max. =/
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In-game or TV?
Turn up both!
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In game. TV is on dynamic mode
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Turn the lights on! 😛
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Throw an axe into a big pit, i heat that fixes things.
(too everyone who gets this reference, you are sexy people)
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… it really was an amazing throw
Just had Mi Goreng for the first time.
Not convinced…
4bishes/13shiggys
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It’s not supposed to be that good 😛
It’s just super cheap
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But it wasn’t that cheap…
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:P. Go have proper Mi Goreng (from an Asian restaurant), that’s tasty!
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Yeah, but seeing as though a bish is worth about 4 shiggys… 😛
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I think both Bish and Shiggy would disagree with that statement 😛
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I dunno. Surly chef/maid > loud bacon lover. In some universes anyway 😛
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New shitty YouTube questions:
Is it still all squished to the left side for anyone else? About 45% of my page is completely blank on the right and it’s stupid and doesn’t make any sense o_o
How do I see other videos from the same uploader while viewing a video? You used to be able to click a button (I think it said “more from”) on the top right of the page, just above the video and it would drop down a little section with thumbnails of their videos before and after the one you’re currently viewing. Ever since the new format I can’t find anything like this and it’s hard to find videos from the same uploader without having to hope one shows up on the side, searching for it, or going to their channel…
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New shitty YouTube answers:
Yes – I have it all squished to one side. It doesn’t really bother me as I can have a skype or steam chat or iTunes window open on top of the blank area.
The other videos from this uploader thing worked for me a recently as yesterday.
Gone today. 🙁I also got a new feature yesterday on the top left of my window which showed the recommendations from the last video I watched before clicking on the current one.
Awesome! Also gone today. 🙁It will probably settle down in the next few days though.
What’s new, TAY?
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My 3yo nephew is awesome! 😀
I hate housework. 🙁
TAY is slow. And I know that I’m totally not helping there. 😛
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SmurfyDog! Hope you’re well, man!
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Nothing by the lack of posts D=
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I’m looking forward to TAY being busier again, but at the same time I respect people are on holidays and having fun outside… you know… if you’re into that ‘outside’ thing…
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Interesting conversation on TS
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What are you guys talking about? Colobus Monkeys? 😛
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One missed call. And what you would with the last 3 days.
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Drinking, eating pizza with the housemates and watching the softcore porn that is Spartacus: Vengeance
how’s things for you master DC?
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Haha! Pizza sounds good right about now!
Things are decent, man. 😀
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This is new: I am twice as drunk as yesterday. Got about a half bottle of vodka in me. Still not really feeling anything, sad to say. How’s it going with you, man?
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You’re with friends here, man. We’re not here to judge. The alcohol changes you, Shane — like how it makes you… uh… possibly… *shrugs* Carry on.
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Not too shabby, Nighthawk. Not too shabby.
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That’s some crazy immunity you got there. Do you have that weird drunk sensation of feeling kind of lighter? You’d drink Marion Ravenwood under the table!
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I feel kind of … you know when a camera pans too fast, and you get that whoosh disorienting sensation? I get that from less drastic movement… but otherwise feel normal.
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I think that’s the feeling I was trying to articulate. Haha! It’s been a long time since I’ve drank, but it most definitely had more impact than that too. Where’s the random hugging, man? 😀
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No more experimenting 🙂
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Haha! What?
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Uh… being deliberately cryptic. Yep.
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Indie Game: The Movie Claimed by Nokiamann
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Shank 2
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Post if you’ve taken either or both so people don’t waste their time re-entering. Even if you’re a mysterious lurker who doesn’t post, please post anyway! Thanks.
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I did think it was awesome of the humble bundle to give out individual steam codes. Shank 2 is an awesome game … I’ve got them both already. good guy greenius is credit to TAY
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Yeah, I was surprised by that too!
I told a friend to get Binding of Isaac and he said he would if it went down to $1 or so during the sale. Then I just told him to get the bundle for $1 anyway and get other stuff so these are his spare codes.
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You’re a good guy, Greenius! 🙂
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Not as good as you!
Read the comment I just posted. I didn’t do jack!
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Giving away free codes, fits my definition of good. 😛
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Wouldn’t mind seeing that movie, but going to let someone with a working Steam account grab it instead! Thanks though, dude. 🙂
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D.C. can DM you his download page and you can download a non-Steam copy 😀
He’s a jerk and won’t watch it himself >:(
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Damnit, @dc 😛
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I can always gift you another copy if you want? It’s like $1 for Steam keys so no biggie! and you can just give away the spare Steam keys 🙂
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No thanks man. If I want the movie, I’ll pay for it. Guys who made it deserve the dosh. But thanks 🙂
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Can always buy it at https://www.humblebundle.com/ you can even customise how much of the money goes to each thing (I think you can make it all go to them).
You know the dealio – pay what you want, beat the average for more games etc. 😀
Most of the time with these bundles they include non-Steam downloads in addition to Steam keys so there’s nothing stopping you not playing them. The Binding of Isaac should run on anything so at least give that one a go!
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Yeah, I’ve picked up a couple of previous bundles and not played any of the games. I think I’ve learned my lesson there 🙂
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No.
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Okay, fine. I took Indie Game: The Movie. Been wanting to check that out for a while. 😛
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Say thanks to your friend for me!
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Oh! I totally misread this as another one of your “hi friend” hijinks. It probably subtly is but ಠ_ಠ
Downvote revoked… for now
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I’m so subtle, even I didn’t pick up on that 😛
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anyone care to play some l4d2 with me and a drunk canadian on steam? should be interesting and not a complete waste of time
Oh, man. I wonder what kind of shenanigans Big Foot is getting up to at the ol’ camping grounds. I bet there’s a chasing montage set to music going on right now!
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I feel like I’ve missed something, but what I’m imagining must be better than the truth, so don’t tell me! 🙂
I’ve got that weird feeling right now after you complete a really excellent game. I want to start something else, but at the same time know whatever I choose won’t be as good — so it’d be unfair to play any thing straight after. :S
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Psst, we’re totally on page 7 now 😛
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And the torch was passed! 😀
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You should read The Lesser Evil. I have it on good authority that it is either so excellent that it doesn’t matter what preceded it, or so damn disappointing that it makes no difference what preceded it.
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Reasons, man. Reasons. I’ll get to it in time, though. 😀 I’m sure it’ll be all kinds of awesome!
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I’m sure greenius downvoted it because he has read The Lesser Evil and knows you’re overselling it 😛
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I have reasons for downvoting, man. Reasons!
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Go back to an old regular, preferably something mindless. Minecraft and Terraria work well for filling that gap until I’m ready for something new.
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That’s why you earn the big bucks, Beavwa! Good plan!
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Except you play neither of those games!
Terraria is a good one, play ittttttt
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Just finished Episode 2 of The Walking Dead. Spoilers ahead
Holy Shit. I gotta say, props to Telltale for going whole hog on this thing, but did they really have to give the St Johns family southern accents? Just saying. I had a feeling something wasn’t quite right with them the whole way through the episode but damn, I wasn’t expecting that. I can only imagine how they are going to one up it in the next episode.
Choices
Firstly, I chopped off the teachers leg. Sure it was brutal, and it ended up not mattering all that much, but I couldn’t just leave him, right? …. Right? As a sidenote, Ben’s reveal that its not actually the bite that makes you turn was surprising. Good on Telltale for mixing up the formula again. I tried to talk to Jolene, before Danny ended up shooting her. The scene in her camp was really what solidified it for me that something was up with the St Johns. You notice that he only shot Jolene when she started talking about the dairy farm and what was happening there. Suspicious. I tried to help Lilly bring Larry back after his heart attack. Sure he’s a dick, but I had to try…. Right? In the end I decided against killing the brothers, as much as I wanted to. It all comes back to Clementine. She’s characterised so well, I didn’t want her to see me kill someone. I don’t want to have to tell her that I killed someone. So much of what I do is based on how Clem would react to it. Sure the world’s gone to hell in a handbasket, but I have to try and keep her as sheltered from the horrors as I can. It really didn’t take very long for me to get attached to her. That said, I still chose to take the supplies from the car, despite that fact that Clem seemed against it. I was very worried for a second, as I was pulling the boxes out of the boot of the car, I noticed that Clementine had disappeared from the background. I thought that maybe she’d run away because I’d made the wrong. I was very happy when she reappeared a few seconds later.
Ending
Um, What was the deal with the video? I couldn’t hear it very well. Is Jolene Clementines mum, or is she just crazy and thinks that Clem is her daughter? Obviously she’s a bit loopy after whats happened to her, but given thats she’s now dead, the fact that she was watching the motel, and Clem in particular, just doesn’t seem like a big deal anymore.
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Episode three is my favourite, Nova!
Episode two choices:
I chopped off the guy’s leg too, even though I basically knew it was a death sentence for him. If you survived the injuries I imagine life’s gotta be tough for an amputee in a zombie apocalypse. His days were numbered. Better having a chance than be eaten alive, though!
Yeah, I suspected something bad was going on at that farm before that scene with Jolene, but what he did pretty much sealed the deal. So unsettling going back afterwards knowing the whole group was there. Troubling.
I sided with Kenny during the Larry scene. I figured Lee would be thinking of Clem’s safety only. Enclosed space with a guy like that turning couldn’t be good. The fact he had heart troubles from the start made me think there was no coming back for him either.
I didn’t kill the brothers, I figured Lee had to hold onto his humanity after the incident with Larry — same reason I didn’t steal from the car afterwards.
I think Jolene was just projecting the loss of her own daughter onto Clem.Excellent episode! Harrowing stuff!
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Didn’t chop the leg because I figured a chopped leg wouldn’t really be that helpful given the situation. Tried everything I could but alas I ran out of time…
Tried to talk to Jolene, I knew something was up with the family and Jolene looked like she had something to say
As much as I hate Larry (I refer to him as Old Cunt) I sided with him originally because I wanted to make 100% sure Duck wasn’t bit and I tried to bring him back to make 100% sure he wasn’t dead
Killed the first brother and felt sooooo bad when Clem saw so decided to spare the other. He also technically wasn’t a threat at the time so I figured leaving him would be fine
Didn’t take the food because Clem said not to!
As for the video I think Jolene just wanted to protect Clem. Prevent the bandits from taking her and doing… well… you know, to her when she’s older 🙁-
Its just that Carly made such a big deal over the video. Granted, she didn’t know that Jolene was dead, but Lee did and didn’t say anything. With Jolene dead it just doesn’t seem like there would be any reason to make such a fuss over it-
I think it was more about the impending threat of the humans as well as the zombies. Brave new world and all that.-
Thats what I’m liking about TWD, Day-Z had it as well. The Zombies are never the biggest threat. People are always going to be People’s worst enemyEdit – probably should have spoilerised that. Just in case
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Hhhhuuuuuuummmmmmmmmmmaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnnnsssssssss etc.
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I’m sure it’s better when it doesnt crash and erase all of your episode 2 progress.
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I think the major thing with the video is that the Bandits were happy dealing with the Dairy Farm. That’s what occupied them. Now that St Johns is gone, what’s going to happen is that they’ll turn their attention to other survivors in the area. There also seems to be a particular focus on female survivors. They raped Jolene and took her daughter away, so I’m assuming the main purpose there is to state that Clementine is in more danger than she was before this. That they’ve managed to make things worse.
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Oh that makes sense I guess. I really didn’t hear what Jolene said too well but what you said makes sense
So Aleph braved the big bad CBD today. Wow. I think I may have actually worn my legs down to little nubs, I walked that much.
-Had a massage. Now bruised.
-Saw cars worth more than houses. Impressive!
-Got swarmed by Hare Krishnas. Somehow they got me to “donate” $10 as thanks for giving me a -“complimentary” prayer/chant/wear-orange-and-chop-off-all-your-hair CD. I think those moisturiser salesman in the shopping centres should actually be hiring Hare Krishnas. They’re amazing marketers!
-Saw a poster for moisturiser in broken English that promised to rejuvenate my face with juvenile seed pleasure cream… uhh, sure, buddy. That sounds fabulous!
-Saw a store named Jizz. Jizz Fashion. There were elderly women shopping there.
-Had dinner at Din Tai Fung, in World Square. It’s even better than I remember it. Definitely a must whenever I’m in Sydney again!
-Managed to catch 3 trains AND a bus from Central to Homebush. Because trackwork and misinformation!
-I didn’t find $10.
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Sydney sounds terrible. Haha!
Aleph, my friend! Always good to see you, buddy! Camping still on for you?
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Sydney is awesome! There’s PEOPLE! And THINGS! And it’s all so PRETTY!
Even the graffiti, it’s all just an urban wonderland, and I love it 😀 Brisbane was the same, only cleaner 😛No camping, the plans kinda fell to shit 😛 Will be trying to organize something else for NYE shortly!
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Sit alone in a dark room over analysing my thoughts. 😛
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Boooooooo!
Talk to Greenius 😀
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You and your sneaky edits, man!
Well, I’ll be sure to give you a buzz on the night!
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Trjn’s having some sort of dealy, I’m sure plenty of Brisbane folks will be there who’ll actually answer the phone too. Haha!
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I’ll be there! (in spirit)
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You’re going to Bunny’s, DC. You are not sitting home alone on the dark on New Years Eve. Doofus. 😛
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Pfft. You should go to Bunny’s! Even though I won’t be there go and have fun with the TAYbies! Play some Munchkin & Ticket to Ride (awesome games)
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Hahaha, some awesome stories there, man. Living the high life!
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Nighthawk!
Lovin’ the trip so far, this whole thing has been awesome, and all the TAYbies are far better than I could have imagined.
I’m worried my bruising’s only going to get worse overnight, and I’m going to be immobile tomorrow 😛-
How do you get bruised getting a massage? I’ve never had one, is that… uh… supposed to happen?
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Apparently my frame ain’t built for deep tissue massage, or something. I’m only little!!!
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Hope the bruising clears up man. If it was *that* kind of massage, it’ll take eight days though. Don’t ask me how I know that.
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Haha! Shane is drunk. It’s subtle, but I’m convinced he’s not as unaffacted as he claims! 😛
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What? I always make veiled inappropriate comments. I’m just a little uninhibited, like @chuloopa everyday 😛
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It’s good to have a little Chuloopa in you – it makes the day that much more enjoyable.
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Well, when I’m this turned on, I don’t want it to be turned off…
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Whack some Aloe Vera on them bruises and they will clear up in a day or so!
There’s a store called Foreskin in Singapore. I totally bought clothes from there.
If you liked Sydney, you’re going to love Melbourne. That place is awesome.
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There’s lots of sweet graffiti!
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I’m kinda sad I never got to look at any of the laneway graffiti! Christine did point some out when we drove through the city first day though 😛
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The Hare Krishnas found $10?
I didn’t find $10
No, but the Hare Krishnas did. 😀
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You got beaten to it 🙁
Well, tonight is a momentous one: I have just completed my first piece of drunken writing: a page of comic art, from scripting to completion. Hope Pez likes it…
Well on the way to becoming Stephen King.
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Way to go, Shane. So damn proud! 😀
Edit: Except for the alcoholic reference that initially went over my head. So damn concerned.
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Don’t worry – we’re out of mai tai (edit to mention MANLIEST drink) mixture now, and have no money for more \o/
Dry dock by necessity from here on in 😛Also, I don’t especially like drinking or being drunk.
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But you can rehydrate AND preserve your liver, AT THE SAME TIME \o/
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With mai tais or alcohol alternatives?
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yes
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Dry Dock is actually quite a good beer. Sculls well.
Edit: I seem to like sculling alcohol. It’s the part Irish in me bringing out my inner alcoholic I swear.
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Sculling alcohol is the best.
I tend to do it occasionally, depending on what I’m drinking.
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Pshaw \?>ATYAY I LGOVE YOUSE ALL AGDKGJSKG!
Edit for translation: Goodnight all!
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If only it were legitimate…
:’)-
Yeah, I know. I’m such a profoundly disappointing drunk.
My sincerest apologies to you and your most esteemed brethren.
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Now thats more like what I’ve come to expect from someone who’s been drinking. Nothing better than waking up to a message even more incomprehensible than that at 3 in the morning
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Freeze is the best at drunken posts. His crappy dumpy phrase brings a smile to the ol’ face! 😀
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Take it easy, Nighthawk!
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… that sounds like a drunk trying to praise Cthulhu. Continue
@nomad, sorry man. I never responded to your tweet. Sucks that Walking Dead is NTSC only. Sorry you wasted your $$ 🙁
I assume it’ll come out in PAL eventually. Probably in the UK, as I don’t think it’ll get rated here. Not sure I’d trust that EB link… also $78? They’re DREAMIN!
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It’s on iOS too right now here on our App store. It’s not the same, but if you find yourself with an iPad or iPhone eventually, that’s always an option! Don’t know why it can be released on iTunes and not in stores, though…
Edit: Though I should say that personally I found the iOS version not as immersive. You couldn’t get lost in the world with such a small screen and constantly putting your hands in front of the action.
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Have episode 1 on iPad, don’t mind it, but battery drains too fast. Could always get it from steam, but I’m just a sucker for console releases.
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I don’t know if this is an option in this case, but every single previous Telltale game, if you buy the season digitally directly from them, they have had an option to get a physical disc copy directly from them for very cheap – usually just shipping costs. I was buying them for my sister (big adventure game fan) but didn’t get Walking Dead that way because I don’t think she’d enjoy it and I wasn’t sure they’d even sell to Australia.
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Sadly the physical release is out of their hands this time apparently.
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I know EB is dreaming, but it is on their website, so it gives me hope. Still the UK will likely receive. Might take @greenius’ advice and try to sell it on eBay.
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Just make sure you emphasize it’s a NTSC US copy and will only work on such consoles. Last thing you want are people complaining because it doesn’t work!
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Something that @shane should ponder. You never know when @dc might snap.
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I just don’t read them any more. 😛
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hahaha
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Inexplainable? Surely they mean inexplicable.
Oh, man. TAY’s slowed down like crazy again. *shakes fist* Guess I’ll go get some shut eye or something. Good night, folks. Catch you on the flipside, home slices!
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Left when I just woke up, hey?
That’s okay… I see how it is.
I understand. I am a jerk.
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To be fair, this post was an hour after I went to sleep. 😛
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I was totally up at your midnight though.
Could you not sense my presence?
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Shenanigans!
I am currently sitting at my PC, waiting until 8am, to leave to go to the train station
Boring morning
I hate waiting
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I woke up dizzy and with a headache D=
Had a post-Christmas get together with my extended family yesterday. Got mega sunburnt D: Usually I’m really careful about it but we were sitting in the shade all afternoon so I didn’t think… Anyway, it was a good time with the fam’. Biggest bogans, but man they’re hilarious haha
Today I plan on sitting perfectly still all day and playing Wii U. Luckily it’s not that warm out 😛
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“Not that warm”?! IT’S FREAKIN’ FREEZING!!!
Also, I like bogans. They’re highly amusing to watch on public transport.Glad to hear you had an awesome time though, pity about the burns!
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I seem to be radiating my own warmness due to the burn. It’s not pleasant.
Now that you’re not going camping, are you going to watch the Harbour Bridge fireworks? :O I’ve actually never seen them in real life, the crowds have always deterred me. The trains to Sydney can be packed enough without thousands of bogans making the pilgrimage.
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I think I’ll just set Pez’s apartment alight and watch the fireworks here instead. Less people, and it kinda feels a little more intimate, y’know?
Really though, I’ve no idea what the hell I/We am/are doing for NYE now. Hopefully not the Harbour Bridge. I’m freaked out by the people in the shopping centres enough as it is 😛
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Haven’t got much of a plan. Will probably tag along to a friends’ house or something.
Can’t wait to have an early January Sydney Meat though! All visitors to Sydney must participate in the ritual known as the Galaxy World bumper cars. Bruises and broken spines aplenty! >:D
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Say hi to pez for me.
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Nah.
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Morning, Shane. Hang over? 😀
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Bit, but not too bad. I brought it on myself, so there’s no sympathy 🙂
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You’ll get some any way! Hope you feel better, pal!
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@dc, thanks man, I’m totally fine 🙂
Family is off churching, and I’m running as a heathen today, so doing some chores and writing! 🙂Also just watched the second ep of the Walking Dead TV series. Wasn’t too bad, but
focus was action over character (fine occasionally, but I hope the balance shifts back), and made it feel like well-made normal zombie schlock instead of the more interesting first ep.
Edit to add spoiler tags.
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Haha Bogannns! I accepted your request Powalen! (damn he managed to get it!)
Not that warm?
SCREW YOU.
It’s gonna be 40 degrees over here!
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I woke up and it was cold so I had to put on a shirt, pants and socks!
has anyone here made their (own) dashi?
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Yes! … what?
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I accidentally a word.
Made their own dashi. It’s a japanese soup base
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Made their what now?
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Yes, it’s not very hard.
EDIT: Getting the ingredients can be tricky though.
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i live near footscray, so getting Asian ingredients isn’t hard.
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You basically get a big piece of konbu kelp and a bunch of katsuobushi (bonito flakes), simmer in hot water for a few minutes (~5-10 IIRC) without letting it hit a rolling boil. Then strain out the stuff so you have a clear stock. Some people like to put the ingredients all inside cheesecloth so you can just lift it out when the dashi is done.
That’s ‘Primary’ dashi and good for soups and noodles and stuff. If you have a recipe that calls for Secondary dashi, it’s basically what results from repeating the process with the previously used ingredients.
Can freeze it once you’re done but it will lose some flavor. Also should never let it boil because too hot will destroy the flavour. Think of it like making good quality green tea. Personally I just use powdered instant dashi stock most of the time, far more convenient.
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Sydney meatables!
Boy typing on a tablet feels weird.
Dunno what ya’ll are doing for new years.
Cake and Pez were talking about going for drinks on Friday the 4th as a proper interstate meat thing. An then the day after that is my birthday, which i actually need numbers for soon. Oh this is gonaa be stressful.
Oh jeez, i can’t do this on a tablet. Keep making mistakes and trying to use a touch screen to go back and fix them is proving ridiculously difficult.
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KEEEEEEN!!! SOOPAH KEEEEEN!
My number is 8.
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So you’re just living at Pez’s for the week? You nom him for all the kudos, boy. He’s the most hospitable jerkface in Sydney.
Also he’s short.-
He’s shorter than I am. It’s fantastic.
And hospitable doesn’t begin to describe it!
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Whoa! I thought you were the shortest?
I’ve yet to meet either of you in person so who knows how short you two really are 😛
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I felt like a lumbering giant next to Aleph.
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Pez has been wearing boots with a decent heel on them, and I’m STILL taller than him 😛
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He’s a good friend indeed.
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You all are.
Except that AlexPants guy.
He’s alright, I guess.
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No Galaxy World!? D: Definitely interested though! Details as soon as you can so I can make plans please! 😀
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Well there’s nothing that says no Galaxy World yet!
DC is upvote fairy. I don’t even need to tag him because I KNOW HE READS ALL.
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Not the manliest of phrases…
‘sup, Alex!
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Not much. I’ve got a cold which is pretty lame but it’s starting to go away so…
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Hope you feel better. Only a week until your birthday too!
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I’LL BE HEALTHY AGAIN BY MY BIRTHDAY
#newyearsresolution #lolnotreallyHope you’re doing well dude!
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I think Pez just suggested Mojo. I think we should maybe try and do Galaxy World or something and have a proper meat. We haven’t had one in a while.
I won’t be able to make it back in time for Friday night, but definitely count me in for Saturday
REPOST:
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Post if you’ve taken it so people don’t waste their time re-entering. Even if you’re a mysterious lurker who doesn’t post, please post anyway! Thanks.
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How dare you try and give away free stuff!
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SHUT UP AND TAKE MY GAME
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Persona 3:FES Stuff!
So I maxed the Strength Social Link (Yuko) and things … got a little awkward. The conversation suddenly went to “My parents aren’t home” and the responses were “and…” or “I see…” then BAM. Screen went black and text popped up saying “You spent an unforgettable time with Yuko”. So, I think I accidentally got the main character laid. I mean, i didn’t even WANT it to happen it just … kinda … happened … AWKWARD!
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Happens with most of the social links.
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They probably both sat there all night playing P3 on their PS2/PSP and finished and were all OH MAN DAT ENDING
UNFORGETTABLE
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Just like real life!
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oh yeah!
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Persona 4: Golden Stuff!
I wanted to max out Hermit first but then I didn’t.
TRUE STORY
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Oh man, I keep forgetting the Hermit Social Link.
Stl I dnt thnk i cn hndl mr txt lik dis!
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It’s nothing like that in P4! It’s hardly even hermit related which made me sad 🙁
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it never actually explains what happens. It could just be you were playing video games.
Watched the first 2 episodes of Season 2 of the walking dead yesterday
THE KID GOT SHOT!! \o/ – Man i hope the zombies don’t chomp the fat country bumpkin. He seems nice. Plus he shot the kid! Also, surely the little girl has to come back to them as a zombie!?! WAIT AND SEE, LOOPS!
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PRAY DA GAEM INSTED
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The game’s where it’s at!
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I HAVE FINISHED EPISODE ONE!!!
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BRING ON EP 2!
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I quite liked season 2! Who cares what all these Negative Nancys think!
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Truthful Trudys!
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Saturday’s 2012
Eh.
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Hope next year treats you better, man!
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See first post for my reply.
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Ni No Kuni… actually looks pretty damn stunning.
Might be a good first experience with Studio Ghibli too. There’s some concerns I’ve got from this gameplay trailer, though — that sound effect when the text comes up being something that’d drive me nuts. Not particularly fond of JRPGs, but the world looks like the sort that’d be all kinds of fun to explore! Not on the bandwagon yet, but sure does look purdy.
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Who’s this bizzaro world D.C. and what have you done with the real D.C.!?
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Haha! I think it’s more the art direction over gameplay, alas… Not opposed to seeing the Studio Ghibli movies, just… uh… haven’t… 😛
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*phew* totally dodged a perfect “reasons etc.”! WORST CATCHPHRASE
Nothing wrong with playing games for their art direction! Hell, that’s the main reason I’m even interested in it! I know Level-5 make excellent games but holy damn it looks beautiful!
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Yeah, I know almost nothing about the game, but the art style is making me want it.
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The Wizard Edition comes with like a 300 page art book! I’m basically getting it for that and the game is extra 😀
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Just watch Spirited Away 😛 Cheaper and easier.
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I like games, though. And exploring. And exploring in games! 😛
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Xenoblade my friend. So much exploration! You get XP for it too!
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NOPE! 😛
Edit: I still don’t really like JRPGs and there’s plenty about that gameplay trailer I didn’t like too. :S
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But exploring in games! It’s what you like!!!!
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I like coherent, non-batshit crazy stories too — can your JRPGs offer that? 😛
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Yes.
(no)
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If you watch and like Spirited Away first, then you’ll look forward to Ni no Kuni even more.
If you play and don’t like Ni no Kuni first, then it’s going to sour the other Ghibli movies before you even get a chance to experience them!
It just makes sense!
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I’m not sure that Spirited Away is a good comparison. What I’ve seen of the plot for Ni no Kuni seems more fantasy RPG than that.
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Oh yeah, I know. I just really want him to watch Spirited Away 😛 I think it’s the best Ghibli movie to start with for newcomers.
I’m an enormous Ghibli fan and it’s a day 1 purchase for me, but honestly I’m still a bit skeptical about the game. It does look stunning, but I’m not sure the plot and the actual gameplay will hold up, because that was Level 5’s work and not Ghibli’s.
IMO If you want the Studio Ghibli experience then you need to see some of their films. Though that said, Tales of Earthsea and The Yamadas are probably not good starting points. Personally I’d start with Laputa (first Ghibli film since Nausicaa was made before they formed the company) but there are no bad Ghibli films. Very wide range of plots and stuff to pick from too.
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He’s better off just not watching Earthsea at all. So BAD
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It’s not bad. It’s just not as good as the rest of them. If you know the history it went through you would understand why too.
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Care to elaborate? Wasn’t it his son’s first time directing?
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Miyazaki Senior had been trying to get the rights to Earthsea since the 80s but LeGuinn is a bitch and wouldn’t let some asian guy handle it.
Then he won an oscar for Spirited Away and suddenly she approached Ghibli about it, but by this time he’d given up and no longer wanted to direct it. So Goro (his son) is like “I’ll do it” despite never having directed a thing before, and Miyazaki Senior wasn’t happy about the idea so he was kind of resistant, but he was going to produce it and help on the production.
When the deal came up they were just gearing up to do Howl’s Moving Castle – it was about to move into full production. The director at the time was going to be Mamoru Hosoda, but he left the project abruptly and that film was left without a director, so Miyazaki had to step in (Hosoda, meanwhile, went on to direct The Girl Who Leapt Through Time and Summer Wars, which are both fantastic films if you get a chance). That left Earthsea without a producer as well, and so Miyzaki Junior had to handle both directing and producing the film without much assistance because everyone else was tied up in Howl’s.
So when you consider that it was a first effort, it’s actually not that bad a film. I think they might have been better to let the deal lapse in the end, but on the other hand, Miyazaki Junior has developed into a pretty good director since then. Poppy Hill is a great film, extremely enjoyable.
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Thanks for that. I watched it randomly after seeing stuff like Spirited Away, Howl’s, Totoro, Grave and Ponyo so it just didn’t stand up to them.
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How come no one told me there was a demo! *shakes fist* Downloading now. We’ll see, one way or the other…
We’ve moved TS servers. Get in touch with me on Twitter or Steam (or pester Techie on Steam) to get the new details.
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Can I pester you on Steam?
Argh! I can’t seem to tune my TV in!
🙁
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There is nothing wrong with your television, do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are now controlling the transmission. We control the horizontal and the vertical. We can deluge you with a thousand channels or expand one single image to crystal clarity and beyond. We can shape your vision to any thing our imagination can concieve. We will control all that you see and hear. You are about to experience the awe and mystery which reaches from the deepest inner mind to… The Outer Limits.
Still waiting on confirmation for the whole New Years thing. Wouldn’t mind knowing who is actually going to rock up.
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Don’t think I can, man. You guys have fun, though. Thanks for the invite too!
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Come along, it’ll be fun. What could possibly go wrong?
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I’ll go! If there are more people going, I don’t want it to be an awkward 3rd wheel at a new years party thing.
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As long as Strange and/or Lambo confirm, we should be in business.
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I’m 85% a yes.
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You can discuss Xenoblade with Nob!
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I want to but I can’t D=
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Phooey.
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I agree with this!
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I asked this on the previous page, but you might not have seen it. What side of the city are you on?
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I believe it’s Southside. Pretty sure. I know it;s right near a train station, as well. That’s about all I know. 😛
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Southside, in Annerley near Fairfield station.
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That’s not too far from me. I think I’m in! (Provided I’m not the only one, hehe.)
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Once @Strange confirms, then I think Nob will be a definite, which means that we’ll have a very merry group.
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Has anybody started putting together a baby present for Serrels Jr yet? I’m on my phone so I can’t easily check the rest of TAY. If not, think about what we should get. I know thinkgeek has some cool stuff, like the Zelda onesie. I’m happy to coordinate and buy it if others are interested.
If it is already happening, please point me to the post 🙂
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Someone embroider a bib to say “Naruto Serrels” or something 😛
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“I’m Simon Pegg’s son, and all I got was this crappy t-shirt”.
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Or daughter. I’m not sure if we know of the gender yet?
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I think he’s said son a few times in Community Kudos!
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@smurfydog tried to organise something but I’m not sure how that’s going
Isn’t his wife in labour like… right now!? D:
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Yeah, I think he wanted to keep it quiet too. Just wanted to avoid UFC spoilers. Haha! 😀
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I was planning on making something but I ran out of time and money. Guess I’ll be all fashionably late with it, then. 😛
I am willing to put in some money for a group thing though, so let me know if anything gets organised.
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Yeah, I’ll be in that for a few bucks. Want to send a copy of The Lesser Evil #3 as well, so would appreciate being kept in the loop.
@distantdrop last week you expressed interest in Idolmaster. I happen to have a pair of Nendoroid Petits from the series here (Mami and Miki) which are spare and I’ve been trying to get rid of for a while. Offered them to @Doc_What a while back but never heard anything regarding them.
Let me know if you’re at all interested.
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Not much of a fan of chibi or deformed figures, thanks for the offer though.
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No worries. Thought I’d throw the offer out there in case you were interested, since most of TAY wouldn’t be.
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Saw Wreck-It Ralph this morning. Best part of the movie was ! Also pretty awesome were the Duty/doody jokes. 😀
I may have had something in my eye at one or more points.
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Daughter having an awesome birthday, by the sounds of it! 😀
I finished as game, what is this madness
Hard reset, cyber punk fps shooter with a focus on environmental kills. Quite an enjoyable game one you understand the focus on environmental damage, just trying to shoot all enemies will end up in you dying very quickly. More about shooting the advertising signs to unleash electricity and have that kill the swarm of enemies coming towards you.
Story is kinda interesting but not told overly well. Some cool boss fights and upgrade system.
Currently 75% off on steam so you can pick it up for less than $4
I just bought Bioshock 1 & 2 for $10….
…I need to remove my credit card details from and throw my wallet in an unfindable place until the sales finish… 🙁
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Both damn good games, though…
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I did have Bioshock 2 on PS3 back in 2010, but I traded it in for BlazBlue Calamity Trigger with an arcade stick.
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Bioshock > Blazblue
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I love BlazBlue, but agree with you.
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I wouldn’t have minded but in Blaz blue II they removed the ability to use the right thumb stick for special combos. As someone who sucks at fighting games, this enabled me to play them too. Not anymore D=
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Oh, I remember when the right stick used to do the special combos. My friends weren’t happy that you could do that, but I’m usually a fan of control options that open fighting games up to new players. I didn’t notice it was gone from the later games, but that’s pretty unfortunate from my perspective.
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Well, any higher difficulty removed it. But now there is no option, so I’ve stopped bothering with the games.
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D.C.’s NOT-AT-ALL DEFINITIVE LIST OF GAMES COMPLETED IN 2012:
— Deponia
— Chaos on Deponia
— Gemini Rue
— Resonance
— Primordia
— The Walking Dead
— Anna’s Quest
— Egress
— Mass Effect 3
— Sleeping Dogs
— Scratches
— Spec Ops: The Line
— Dishonored
— Borderlands 2
— Kingdoms of Amalur
— SSX
— Alan Wake’s American Nightmare
— I Am Alive
— Beyond Good & Evil HD
— Rayman Origins
— Max Payne 3
— Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
— The Force Unleashed
— Batman Arkham City (PC)
— Quantum Conundrum
— The Dig
— Beneath a Steel Sky
I’m sure I’m missing some. There’s plenty of games I didn’t include too like XCOM, Hitman: Absolution and Assassin’s Creed 3, which I’ve played but haven’t completed, alas. :'(
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Sure, why not!
Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation
Assassin’s Creed III
Beyond Good & Evil HD
Borderlands 2
Darksiders II
Dear Esther
Diablo III
Dinner Date (@powalen)
Dishonored
Final Fantasy XIII-2
Halo 4
inFamous 2
Intrusion 2
Journey
Kid Icarus
Left 4 Dead 2
Mark of the Ninja
Metal Gear Solid 3
Nintendo Land
Rayman Jungle Run
Renegade Ops
Resident Evil: Revelations
Saints Row: The Third
Spec Ops: The Line
Super Mario Bros. U
Tales of the Abyss
Terraria
The Binding of Isaac
The Last Story
The Walking Dead
Theatrhythm
Thirty Flights of Loving
Trials EvolutionAnd many more I’m either forgetting or don’t remember whether I beat in this year or in others
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One does simply finish Terraria
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And simply finished it was.
(did you mean “does not simply”? :P)
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I accidentally a word… I blame Telltale
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This is a little hard bit I’ll give it a try.
Final Fantasy XIII-2
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
Pokemon Black
Pokemon Heart Gold
Pokemon Black 2
Zelda OOT: 3D
Naruto Ninja Storm Generations
XCOM
Assassins Creed 3
Dishonored
Super Mario Galaxy 2
Borderlands 2
Mass Effect 3
The Witcher 2: Enhanced Edition
Far Cry 3
Hitman: Absolution
Halo 4
Risen 2
Sleeping Dogs
Journey
Transformers: FOC
Skyrim
SSX
Fallout New Vegas
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning
DOA 5
Uncharted 3
ICO & Shadow of the Collossus HD ClassicsAnd about 20 other incomplete games from this year mostly handheld ones and I’m more than sure I missed some.
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XENOBLADDER!
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None because I don’t have an attention span.
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My list is going to look a little pitiful, but here goes
Xenoblade Chronicles (thought I’d get that one out of the way :P)
Theatrhythm Final Fantasy
Zelda: Skyward Sword
Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D
Super Mario 3D Land
NierI hardly finish any of the games I play. It’s kinda my thing. I feel like I’m missing a couple though.
Edit: I remember a big one I was forgetting! The Last Remnant. It was on sale for $3 or something and it turned out to be a lot better than what people were saying.
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Atleast you’ve got some RPGs there. They’re always a crazy time sink!
Edit: Now I feel less bad about my list. Thanks BenJ! 😛
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Let’s see;
-L.A. Noire.
-Deus Ex: Human Revolution.
-Saints Row: The Third.
-Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (it was a replay though.)
-Max Payne 3.
-Alan Wake.
-Alan Wake: All American Nightmare.
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Good year for games! 😀
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We’re totally on page 8!
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I misread that as page 18 and was all
SEXY HAIKU PAGE 18!! (@lambomann007)
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Pretty slow year for me. Shameless gaming month helped with the first half of the list here.
Bastion
Shadow of the Colossus
Journey
Tales of Graces f… Can’t think of anything else at this point. There’s been waaaay too much Minecraft.
AAAAAHHH… and the big one.
Secret of the Magic Crystals.
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– Also others.
MELBOURNE TAYBIES!
Are you looking for a new dog? Or a new cat?
The Lost dogs home is currently full to capacity, currently looking after 150 dogs. They are looking for new homes, including puppies and other dumped animals.
Just consider the lost dogs home if you’re looking.
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HALF PRICE ADOPTIONS IF YOU COMPLETE THE PET LICENSE!!
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But I already have 2 cats, 2 dogs and 6 fish /o\
All of which we adopted from other people!
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Feed the fish to the cats. Then you’ll have room for 6 new dogs!
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It doesn’t work like that, Lambo. The fish take up next to no room, a dog takes up a fair bit more room 😛 Plus the local council only allows you to own two dogs here lol.
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I said, if you’re looking =P
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My sister works there in the cattery 🙂
Pixar film, Animated Disney film, Ghibli film, The Cabin in the Woods, Other
WHAT SHOULD I WATCH NEXT!?
I finally saw The Muppets Movie today and it was so awesome 😀
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Cabin in the Woods!
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It better not be scary! OooooOOoooooOo *spooky noises*
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I thought that was the someone’s got a girl friend OooooOooOoo?
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Yes but mine was an “OooooOOoooooOo” which has enough pitch variation and subtleties that differentiate it from “OooooOooOoo”
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Carry on, then. My mistake.
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I thought that was WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO (ghost noise) as opposed to OOOOOOH (innuendo)
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Other.
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ಠ_ಠ
Jurassic Park
The Game
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… NOPE! 😛
MUPPETS MOVIE! \o/
Because @dc didn’t
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I thought about posting it, man. I sang it a little to myself if that counts!
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Hmm, I’ll let it slide this time. Just this once. I expect this link to make regular showings at every mention of the Muppets from now on 🙂
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Don’t want to over expose The Muppets!
Horrible Muppet confession, though? I liked the OST a lot more than the movie itself. Still thought it was great, but not as great as I was hoping…
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You’re not the only one. The only award the movie won was for the music. Great movie, better than most other Muppet movies, but it still doesn’t stack up against the original show. Totally agree with what you said, actually.
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Which Ghibli film?
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Any!
(preferably one I haven’t seen).
I’m thinking Princess Mononoke, Castle in the Sky or maybe Kiki’s.
I’ve seen Totoro, Grave, Spirited, Howl’s, Earthsea, Ponyo (probably more I’m forgetting) but those three above seem to be good ones I’m missing.
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Depending on what sort of films you enjoy there are others, but the glaring omission from this list is Porco Rosso.
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“The adventures of a 1920’s bush pilot who just happens to look like a humanoid pig.”
I love it!
Definitely heard of it but I was thinking of ones that were popular in the West and I’ve seen while skimming through imdb’s top 250.
So… which one gets your vote?
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Cars 2!
Also, I saw a Pixar Boxset today. Has EVERY SINGLE PIXAR MOVIE (that’s currently out). $180. I need a job…
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But Cars 2 is totally their worst film 😛
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Exactly! 😛
I haven’t seen it yet though. I need to. Cars is one of my favourite Pixar films.
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I have nothing to do at new years.
So. Uh.
Whatchu guise doing for new years?
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Sitting alone in a dark room, over analysing my thoughts. 😀
I know Aleph’s looking for stuff to do in Sydney, though. Might be the makings of a meat?
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Go to the Meat DC. Just because I can’t be there doesn’t mean you can’t be!
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“My resolution is not to not overthink things.”
“Wait, what specifies ‘things?’”
“Wait, did I break my resolution?”
…..
“… I regret not going to that meet.”
BAM, planned out your new years, DC.
And by extension, mine.
🙁
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I imagine it’ll be sleeping =P
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No you can’t gate-crash my exclusive party.
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Dunno. Probably same as every other night. Get the kids to bed and collapse.
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Not camping 🙁
Or board game meating in Brisbane 🙁So talking to you and D.C. I guess!
@trjn it’s confirmed @dc is coming tomorrow night! No arguing DC, go have fun!
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Also if you don’t go I am sure @strange will be disappointed with you, you don’t want to disappoint Strange!
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It was confirmed ages ago. He didn’t object to it and he also didn’t object for paying for my fights up there. Thanks @dc!
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If I could afford stuff like that I’d be sitting alone in a dark tent thinking about my camping anxieties right now… 😛
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You mean everyone would be flown up to PAX North (it’s a thing!)
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That’s not the hermit way. I’d be more likely to buy the tickets for PAX West. D.C. doesn’t intentionally fly people to meat him. 😛
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But you’re not D.C., you’re bizarro world D.C. who thinks JRPGs look cool!
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This is true, @dc. If I turn up and you’re not there I will be extremely disappointed. It may even ruin the whole rest of the year for me! D:
You’ve got every thing that you need right in front of you, nothing’s stopping you — nothing that you can’t do that the world can throw at you!
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I’M ON THE ROAD TO VIRIDIAN CITAYYYY
Club Nintendoers
Do you get emails informing you of when there’s new surveys?
I never get emails and I only sometimes randomly stumble across them for games I’ve previously registered.
I also never got an email confirming my Wii U being linked/registered to Club Nintendo when others got one. I thought there must’ve been an error in my registration but I have the option to do a survey to complete it once I go to the Club Nintendo site.
I’m thinking I might’ve accidentally turned off some option to receive emails, or blocked them from my email but when I’ve won some competitions from Nintendo in the past I was still able to receive their emails. Perhaps I won other competitions but didn’t get their emails :O
:O:O:O:O
:OOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
Oh. My. Glob.
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The only time I’ve ever received an email from Club Nintendo is when I’ve bought something from the catalogue
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Nope – never get any emails 🙁
I used to, but now they seem to have stopped
@spaghett’s occupied with his two day date, so what are you listening to/last thing you listened to?
I’ve got Life is a Song — Patrick Park playing right now. (Haha! iTunes put it on after Life’s a Happy Song. :D) Was probably my unofficial theme song for a few years. Cuts deep!
Tell me what good is saying that you’re free in a dark and storming sea,
When chained to your history you’re surely sinking fast.
Jus played through the last three episodes of the Walking Dead back to back…
I…. I….. I can’t deal with this right now :'(
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Want a hug? I’m sure someone’s happy to give you one… 😛
So damn good, though. Right?
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I would love a hug right now. Even one as awkward as yours would be
And no, not good at all. As far from good as you could possibly get :'(-
He means the game damnit!
Unless you mean the game too and you’re just a monster who thinks the game is “as far from good as you could possibly get” >:(
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I’m not in state of mind to think of anything as good right now
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Nooooo! You’re supposed to take breaks to recuperate! 🙁
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Next he’ll be telling us he’s playing Spec Ops: The Line straight after! 😛
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It is actually on my list… I also just started playing the Clannad VN as well. Clearly I’m just a depressed bastard who needs an outlet for all the tears
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You’re going to feel like crap for weeks 🙁
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Pretty much, I guess I’m hoping if I can get all of it out of the way in one go then I can get over it sooner…. Oh who am I kidding… Its gonna take quite a while
All I need to complete the set is to go and grab The Amber Spyglass next time I’m home and reread that. First and only book thats made me cry.
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I must be the only one who didn’t feel as connected to the characters of The Walking Dead..
The ones I did felt connected too left me or died Q_Q-
Carley was the main one for me. When Lilly shot her, f… me-
I had to watch that scene like 4 times because I’m stupid and thought I could change it by reloading 🙁 (also tried to change the outcome after it)
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Forgot his name 😛
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I was expecting Lilly to make a return towards the end, like what usually happens when someone takes off mid game/movie/story. Maybe in season 2. Something about Chuck creeped me out. Not that I wanted him to die of course, butthere was just something that rubbed me the wrong way
Christa was one of my favourite characters. I think the only one to get a happy ending too. I liked how she was smart and self-reliant, maybe a little cold but someone you’d want in your group.
Didn’t like her at first, but she definitely grew on me. Omid too, but he seemed cool right from the start
I think this is what most people think 🙂
I also liked Ben, he was a screw up for sure but didn’t deserve the death he got in episode five. Impaled. :S
Ugh he’s the worst.
Sounds like his death in Ep 4. was much better
I…. I dropped him. In ep 4… I feel so bad…. Dammit Telltale /o\
You should feel good. What kind of idiot takes a hatchet from a door that’s clearly doing something…
Given him more than enough chances and I was sick of his shit, especially since he caused Carley’s death 🙁
He wanted me to drop him so he could at least be of some use…
You’re both monsters!
I DON’T WANT TO BE A MONSTER!!
At least I feel bad about it
HE’S THE WORST, NOVACASCADE.
THE WORST.
We’re all monsters now. :'(
I said that to the guy who took Clem. When he asked if he was a monster – Yes, no or we all do. I said we all were. Once he’d laid it all out in front of me, how could I deny it? :'(
Very end spoilers
That fucking better have been Omid and Christa on the horizon at the end. Girl’s been through too damn much already :'(
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It was after the credits
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Ah.. I didn’t watch the credits lol.
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Well I assume they were the credits, they were kinda blurry :'(
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…Fuck, now I’ve gotten Digital Combat Simulator: A-10C Warthog for $10.
…fuck. 🙁
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You enjoy the heck out of that game, you’ve earned it! (maybe, I dunno, probably not)
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:S Turn Steam to offline mode and don’t log back in until Jan 7th…
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Unfortunately, I’m trying to play some of my games on Steam… 🙁
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*gets bored and watches IGN’s Best Wii/WiiU Game of 2012*
*sees Mario U shown first without watching any more*
>:( OH FUCK OFF! WHY NOT XENOBLADE?
*watches more and realises it’s just a summary of games that came out*
Xenoblade wins.
*Greenius smiles stupidly*
>:D
MQFT:
FA?
PB?
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PB
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Pro Bright toothbrush it is!
When did toothbrushes get so complicated?! o_o
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DC?!
PW?!-
PW
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Polish Whitening thing it is!
When did toothbrushes get so complicated!? o_o
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WRIGHT? WRIGHT? WRIGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHTTTTTTTTTT
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I’m bored. Here’s some context:
Got a new toothbrush today and it’s pretty crazy. Haven’t used it yet but it’s one of those normal Oral B ones that have interchangeable heads that do different things but it also has a screen thing and 5 different brushing modes o_O
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Does it play One Direction songs?
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Thankfully no!
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Back in my day…
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Hey, the last toothbrush I was using was an ancient electric one that was like 7+ years old
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I have never owned an electric toothbrush. For some reason, I balk at the idea of sticking something electrical into a wet area like my mouth. I was kind of warned against it as a kid 😛
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😛
I took my old electric one into the shower once when I was a kid without thinking of what could happen. I thought I was being all efficient and stuffs but yeah never really occurred to me that I could get electrocuted 😛
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I bought a new toothbrush recently. I grabbed whatever was on special and didn’t really look at it. Cut my gums up something terrible! Had to go back and get an ultra soft-bristle one.
Long story short: my mouth is a delicate flower 😛
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There’s a sensitive brush head and sensitive brushing mode!
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T-T-T-T-TRIPLE POSSTTTT
Somehow ended up on there from watching the video from Gizmodo’s “This Tiny Hover-Disc… etc.” article.
Pretty sweet knot!
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HOLY CRAP!
i need to tie that tie!
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I started doing flashcards again. Heisig’s Remembering the Kanji. Third attempt at this. Surprisingly I’m 130 cards in and I instantly remember around 90% and there’s only been two I had actually forgotten. I guess I actually did learn something the last two times.
I wonder how long I’ll last. Last year I got about 1600 in before I got sidetracked, got behind in my revision and got swamped. Time before that I pushed through to the end too fast, didn’t learn the last 400 or so properly and then started a new job and didn’t have time to focus so I lost it all.
I’m hoping this time I complete it properly. But not expecting it. 🙁
12th Birthday Success! \o/
Wreck-It Ralph followed by buying fabric together followed by making lunch together. Then KFC for dinner with the grandparents and an icecream cake consisting of a tub of Hokey Pokey icecream covered with a mountain of crushed Crunchies, Honeycomb Pods and caramel chocolates.
And finishing off with Start The Party, that Move party game, which she won with no help or Birthday sympathy needed. 😀
I’m all sad now because it’s her last birthday as a kid, next time she’ll be a teenager. 🙁 Eek!
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It’s all right. With food like that, she’ll come back for more of the same next year 😀
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…can you throw me a birthday? D:
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Holy hell, that sounds like an awesome day. That cake sounds deadly lol.
I wish they’d done a PC port of Red Dead Redemption. 🙁
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Me too man, me too 🙁
I don’t own a console so I can’t even play it =/
So, I finally got around to watching the first of the new Evangelion movies You Are (Not) Alone. First impressions of the new Shinji weren’t that great, but he’s growing on me. Great movie, with amazing animation.
Don’t know how many of you guys are aware of this, but I’ve been doing some work with Pez to assist with his album. Until he let the cat out of the bag last week with a Pozible project update, I’ve been playing my cards pretty close to the chest… but now, I can reveal the nature of the project in its full glory… although it will come as a surprise to no one, I’m sure. 🙂
Edit: go to shanewsmith dot com / works in progress / James Flamestar
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I’m getting a malware warning before being redirected to some weird site from that link :S
Weird… I can get to the page by navigating from your home page… Is anybody else getting it? 😛
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Getting the same ._.
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Weird. I get it too. Sorry guys. I need to investigate this. Guess I know what I’ll be doing tonight :\
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Is it playing Xenoblade?
Or maybe The Walking Dead?
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Yeah me to, I’m getting some Turkey Government url redirect.
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You forgot to mention the hyphens between the works works in progress & james flamestar 😛
That’s so fucking cool man! I can’t wait to see more about this.
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I never knew how cool some people’s work on here was! I’ll have to have a good look at what some of you guys have done.
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Seen @sughly ‘s recently picked up by a big time publisher point and click adventure game yet?
(@Dc can link you to it)
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Is that Anna’s Quest? I had no idea it was picked up by a publisher. That’s really cool! Congrats @sughly ! I’ve read about it, but I haven’t played it yet because point & click has never been a favourite of mine. This might be a good time to get acquainted with them 😛
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Yup! I think it’s a big time publisher at least 😛
He hasn’t really said much but some people know what’s up!
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I think it’s something wrong with the picture.
If I go to shanewsmith then navigate to James Flamestar in works in progress there’s a big frame that just says “null” with the “something is wrong with the image” icon. Right clicking and opening it in a new tab has that malware warning.
HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM! Curiouser and curiouser!
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I got to it 😛
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Something something joke about Virus and Malware something
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Test (for me, don’t anyone else click for now please) http://shanewsmith.com/works-in-progress/james-flamestar/
Edit: Can someone try it now please? works for me.
Now to get to the bottom of the cause. Stupid vulnerable WordPress. Sorry everyone.-
Works fine for me man. It’s how I got there before you posted this.
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Goes to the site (instead of the malware warning) but it’s still having that picture problem I said above 😛
Chrome for me!
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No clue about that image issue. :\
http://shanewsmith.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/page3.jpg does this work for you? This is the image used, if you wanted to see it!-
Nope, just a hosting error is all I get.
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Yeah, I locked down my site too tightly, it turns out. I couldn’t even get in 😛 Oops.
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Nope still the same.
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GAH! Really sorry about this guys. Hope nothing adverse has happened to any of your machines due to the redirect 🙁
I think I’ve managed to clean the site completely. Found a bunch of hacked files. Nightmare. Now I’m making a backup of everything, then going to do a complete upgrade. Hopefully it doesn’t fall over.
http://www.pozible.com/index.php/archive/index/8175/updates/0/0#info
Pez’s pozible thing might be a good substitute until Shane’s site’s back up!
Woah man.. Spec Ops just hit that part where it made you feel like the worst human being ever.
Seriously how was Walker meant to know those he was bombing with white phosphorus were friendlies and civilians, he was set up to think otherwise.
Which brings me to another game that just came back to my mind, Six Days In Fallujah, I wish it was never canned or put on hold indefinitely, it sounded really interesting given what it was depicting (Iraq circa 2004)
I kind of understand why it was, but part of me wonders was there something more to it being stopped, was it going to expose stuff the general public was never meant to find out?
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EDIT: Realized that while vague this is possibly a bit spoilery:
I actually saw exactly what was going to happen with it – could clearly see it on the scope – and attempted to avoid that shot. But it’s not possible to finish the sequence without doing it. 🙁The most interesting element of it is that you do the most shocking thing in the game while looking down at it on a (virtual) screen. Also that’s the point where everything really begins to get interesting so keep going with it.
Also if you’ve got lots of time I recommend the book that Brendan Keogh wrote about the game.
Look at this Aleph (@mythamphetamine) guy lurking about…
Did you ever beat those harder tracks on Trials? Get on it again, play it at Pez’s house. Beat his times.
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I woke up and cleaned Pez’s kitchen somewhat, then checked TAY for upvote purposes only.
I’d play Trials, but I don’t want to overwrite Pez’s times (dependant of course on whether I’m faster in the first place or not, of course :P).
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DOES HE HAVE A KITCHEN BIN YET
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HE TOTALLY DOES AND I’VE EMPTIED IT TWICE.
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MAKE THAT THRICE.
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YES! I WAS MEANT TO SEND YOU A PICTURE BUT FORGOT. HE LOOKS SO PROUD!
I don’t think he owns a chopping board yet though…
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How does one NOT have a kitchen bin!?
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I still don’t have a kitchen bin after 18 months.
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…it’s 12:30am…
Shit.
Oh, man. I went to sleep crazy early last night! Morning, folks! Happy New Years Eve! 😀
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I haven’t slept. Iunno why.
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LSD?
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So the idea of doing something on Friday night in Sydney with the foreigners has been thrown around but no one has really said “HEY WE SHOULD DO THIS!”
So I propose the following:
Food.
Galaxy World.
Beer.
Yep.
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YES.
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1. Go here: http://www.braza.com.au/Braza-dh
2. Stuff gob with meat.
3. Head on over to the laser tag place (M9)
4. Run around for one game and then try not to throw up all delicious meat.
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I like this plan.
What time does Galaxy World close?
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According to their facebook page – 11pm
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I just discovered several things on Steam that are really really cheap, but not a part of the sale.
Fortunately, I own all of them 😛
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Whatever you do, Rize… DON’T TELL CRAZYGUY!
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@crazyguy1990? OK, I won’t.
Also, I won’t already start planning things of my own.
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Gift Eyri’s action to everyone?
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So, how many games has everyone gotten so far in this steam sale? (bought, gifts or otherwise)
So far I’ve gotten 2, The Walking Dead and Ace Of Spades. I’ve had a will of steel this sale, being able to resist going flat out buying everything. Mind you, that’s because there’s only been a few things that have interested me in the sale this time. 😛
Anyone else finding that? Is it because the deals really are less interesting, or do you think it’s down to the fact that we already own most of the stuff that interests us thanks to all the previous steam sale? A little bit of both maybe?
Do you think after a while, the hype around steam sales will eventually start to die down?
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Haven’t bought a thing in the Steam sales. Shane gifted me the Daedalic bundle in the GOG sales, though. Greenius gifted me the Humble Bundle too. So generous.
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Play The Binding of Isaac! Watch Indie Game: The Movie!
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Definitely the latter. Most people have the stuff they want already 😛
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Each sale is a discovery into new and more mundane troll gifts!
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I think it’s the fact we own most of the good stuff that comes up for sale, or stuff we want isn’t getting the right discount. Like I wouldn’t mind the Call of Duties, but they’re still waaaaaaay over priced even with a discount.
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I think it’s a bit of both. Combination of not being interested in much and not having super-mega bargains. There seem to have been less 75% off games in the last few sales. Remember when Saints Row 3 was 90% off? I want that again 😛
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Hahaha, what 75% off for the complete package for $7.50 isn’t good enough for you Pow? 😛
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Not when I have a million other games to play at the same time!
Also I’m a massive cheapskate-
Me too! o/
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The THQ pack is $25.
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If I didn’t have most of the games already i’d totally buy it.
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Best part of 2012? Making friends with you guys! Meeting you folks in real life! Making friends with you guys in real life. Happy New Year and all that! 😀
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We’re totally on page nine now!
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Only downvoted because Powalen did!
He set the precedent!
Slow morning on TAY! :'(
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I wonder if we’ll have a guest editor while Serrels’ is on paternity leave?
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I’m guessing it’d be @loganbooker?
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Doesn’t he work at some indie studio though during the week? Last time Mark left for an extended period we got Tracey Lien! 😀 (Obviously she works at Polygon now, but a new comer is a possibility!)
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It should be me. 😛
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ALL YOUR FAVORITE REGULAR ARTICLES!!!
– This week in innuendos
– Talk amongst yourselves – naked!
– While you were having dirty dreams
– Stripletaku
– Cheapskate LeecherPLUS ALL THE HARD HITTING STORIES!
– Learning to love easy loops
– What wang surprised you this year?
– Top ten COD-Themed face-shots of 2012I’ll be over here in the naughty corner…
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In actuality, wouldn’t all your articles be about Warhammer or how bad each new game is relative to Space Marine?
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This is completely correct. Yes.
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Come to @trjn’s New Years Board GAEM Meat! (Totally Relevant!)
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Last time I went out on NYE I twisted both ankles and stopped drinking forever. 😛
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I’m pretty sure playing board games is relatively safe and you don’t have to drink 😛
You may even become bestest friends with someone like how me and @tech_knight did!
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hey, i twisted my ankle really badly on a NYE whilst very drunk and limped around until sunrise, I didn’t stop drinking though.
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I should probably get that whole thing organised properly. Still not sure on who’s rocking up.
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I won’t be able to come.
D.C. is rocking up for sure though! He confirmed it even! 😛-
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Wouldn’t mind catching up with you and Freyr again, it’s just that I’m still regrouping from my Boxing Day awkwardness. I don’t want you to feel like it’s cause I don’t wanna see you guys or any thing. :'(
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🙁 I FEEL UNLOVED AND IT’S MOSTLY BECAUSE OF YOU DC
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:'(
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@mythamphetamine: How many TAYbies have you met now? 😀
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eleventeen
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I thought it was twentyten?
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Errm, I’m not sure!
I was going to list names, but we all know what happened when I last attempted that 😛-
I’ll list the ones you met in Brisbane if you like! 😀
Nobs! Virus! Freeze! Strange! Lambo! DAN! D.C.! Rockets! Hellscream! Beavwa! Princess Pipster! syvRaen! and I think you’ve met Sughly! in Sydney…
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DAN! doesn’t get an extra exclamation mark?
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He’s got caps, that should be enough for any man. 😛
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I almost had you convinced I was Freeze when you rocked up on boxing day..
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Just finished watching Brave.
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Pretty good but not amazing.
I’m kinda glad everything worked out in the end. Too much sads from that Up opening 🙁
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Damn. Good. Movie.
Just finished The Walking Dead. 9.7/10, wouldn’t play it again. Not because it was too depressing/harrowing or anything. I think playing it a second time could kill it’s magic. As I was playing, I felt as if all the story was just being made up as I played, not that it was following a rough outline laid out by the writers. As in, if I had made a completely different decision in one part, or had chosen one different dialog option, I may have not even gone to such and so a place later on at all, or such and so wouldn’t have happened, main story events would be different, things like that. It really felt like I was a part of it, not just spectating. I think playing through it a second time, making different decisions and seeing how similar the story is would just ruin it for me.
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Yeah, I thought the same thing. David Cage from Quantic Dream calls it elastic story telling. He also said he hoped people only played through Heavy Rain once and took away ‘their’ story…
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Yeah, that’s why I don’t mind reading what other people did and what was the outcome of it. I feel like the choices I made and how I played is how the story was for me and anything else doesn’t matter.
A part of me wants to go back and do the opposite choices but we all know in the end the choices don’t really matter that much
If you could only play one game from next year, what would it be?
I’d probably say it’d come down to Beyond: Two Souls, BioShock Infinite or The Last of Us…
And then I remember all the kickstarter adventure games that are coming. :S
*D.C. desperately attempts to start some conversation. Haha!*
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As far as I know there’s no new Zelda game or Monolith Soft title (yet) so based on what I know I’ll probably pick something that will last, so Ni No Kuni or GTAV I guess!
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Xenoblade. Oh, you meant games that come out next year? 😛
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Strange!
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I think you mean Lady Strange the bestest of the best**!
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I’d be embarrassed if I didn’t know you only think this because I answered “Xenoblade” to his question. 😀
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You also like the colour green 🙂
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I’d say it’s true even without the Xenoblade thing!
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Good morning. 🙂
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Morning! Hope you’re well. Daughter’s birthday sounded good, especially the cake!
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I am a bit unwell. But it’s okay because I woke up to find my daughter had sewn me a pocket thing for all my sewing accessories while I was sleeping in. 😀
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Hope you feel better. 🙁
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Tomb Raider, Bioshock, Last of Us.
And maybe Pikmin 3 because a man can dream it’ll come next year.
EDIT: DC, you do exactly what I do in uncomfortable situations with other people. I actually say “I AM GOING TO FORCE MYSELF TO MAKE CONVERSATION WITH YOU GUYS.”
It works.
I was crazy excited for Watchdogs, but then Assassin’s Creed 3 came out. :'(
The Double Fine Adventure. Oh, man. Can’t wait!
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Whoa, was watch dogs confirmed for 2013? Probably a Q2 release but that’s still cool.
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Oh, maybe I just assumed it would be launch title for the new consoles — especially since they said it’d be on 360 and PS3 as well and that usually only happens to launch titles. (I’m also making the assumption that the next gen consoles will launch next year. :P)
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DFA!
SimCity. That game could probably keep me going for a while.
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I’m pretending it doesn’t exist! *shakes fist at DRM*
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Bah humbug. DRM doesn’t bother me. I mean, why bother about something you can’t change, just enjoy the game. Besides, if there is a time where I want to play it but can’t because I have no internet, I’ll just do whatever I do whenever that sort of things happens. I’ll just go and play another game. It’s not like it’s the only game I have and if I can’t play it at that time it’s the end of the world.
The only problem I could see is in a few years they decide to stop the servers. By then they’d probably have another one out, And I probably would’ve lost interest in the game anyway. Plus I’ll hopefully be a mega millionaire game dev by then, so buying the new one won’t be much of a problem 😛-
It’s the precedence of it, though. Just allowing it to become industry standard doesn’t sit right with me. (Just my opinion. I don’t mind if you don’t mind. :P)
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Yeah, I don’t like it much either, but there’s nothing you can do to change it. Voting with your wallet isn’t going to make it go away. There’s always enough people who’d buy (people who don’t care or don’t know adout DRM) it to make it worthwhile for the companies. And if it doesn’t sell well, it’s not going to make them want to get rid of DRM, it’ll make them not want to make any more of those games. I’d say not buying SimCity because of it’s DRM will just end up hurting Maxis and any plans they have for future titles. Now, if people would just buy SimCity and it became a big hit and made EA a lot of money, it’d hopefully give Maxis more bargaining power, meaning they might be able to convince EA to let them have less invasive DRM in their next title. Making a new SimCity is rather a big risk for EA, seeing as though that’s not what’s popular in gaming right now. FPS/action games and facebook/mobile is where it’s at right now. I’d imagine Maxis wouldn’t really have much bargaining power right now. But if SimCity became a big hit, that would hopefully change.
Oh, and ‘internet activists’ really bug me. The people that say they’ll boycott something because something has upset them, but they end up buying the game anyway. They just go with their emotions/what other people are doing and don’t really mean it. http://www.gamalive.com/images/fiches/1108-boycott-call-of-duty.jpg
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After hearing Tomb Raider will have a multiplayer aspect my interest in it dropped substantially, so my choice would have to be FF XIII Lightning Returns, however if a Zelda game is confirmed for 2013 I definately want that instead.
Tales of Xillia.
Because sometimes you just need some gaming KFC.
GTAV
No Strange, no Lambo, I think this New Years thing might have to get called off. Sorry Nobfrond and @Syvraen
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🙁 Sorry, man. Like I said a few posts above:
Wouldn’t mind catching up with you and Freyr again, it’s just that I’m still regrouping from my Boxing Day awkwardness. I don’t want you to feel like it’s cause I don’t wanna see you guys or any thing. :'(
Hope you guys have a great New Years. Also, NYE parties always seem to unravel. Haha! 😀
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It was an impromptu “we should do something” sort of plan. They’re the best at falling apart.
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But D.C. will still be there! 😛
Even if you don’t host anything, he’ll still show up at your door tonight, because he confirmed he’d be there 😛 -
Surely it’ll still be fine if Nob and Syv turn up, right?
And of course D.C. ;D
(I’m kidding – don’t go D.C. keep me company!)
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Don’t listen to Selfishius. He’ll be fine. 😛
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Ah, that’s a shame. There’s always next year!
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By the way, are you a Melbourne TAYbie or Brisbane?
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I’m a Melbourne TAYbie!
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Free (back in Melb) on Jan 12th? 🙂
I think that’s our next meat. I saw you attended that first Melbourne meat. Us coloured folk gotta stick together!
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Coloured folk? That can’t be politically correct. 😛
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Questions political correctness.
Upvotes anyway.
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I’m a complicated man!
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I might be able to make it. Maybe. I think.
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Hmmm, now what do I say in this situation. I could say, you all hat me but i think I am in the mood for a classic.
AHA I’ve got it!
*Takes deep breath*
WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!
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Show up anyway! I want to hang out with nobfrond!
We should probably organise a proper one for the new year then 😛
I can downvote you if I want to!!
It’s the end of 2012!
Bring on 2013! \o/
Today’s slower than Mayan Apocalypse, Christmas AND Boxing Day. What gives? :S
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Reasons, man. REASONS!
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Worst excuse ever unless I’m saying it. 😛
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I just got up to chapter 10 of Spec Ops: The Line.
I don’t know if I want to keep playing this after chapter 8.
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It’s worth seeing the end I guess!
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You’ve got to press on, man. Harrowing, huh? There came a point when I:
Kind of seperated myself from Walker, no longer empathizing with him — just following his story.I’ve been watching your achievements unlock on Steam while I’ve been lurking in the community section. Interesting to see the choices you’ve made. We’ll have to compare notes once you’re done.
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STOP LURKING YOU STALKIUS/CREEPIUS/LURKIUS
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Hermit.
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My problem is that
right after slaughtering a bunch of soldiers and civilians for no real reason, he goes on and kills more soldiers immediately after.Combine that with the fact that he seems to just side with people randomly as an excuse to kill the people in front of him. It’s really just annoying me how you have to kill everyone in front of you constantly. This seems like the sort of game where you really need to be given the option to avoid conflicts. Where there might be a shootout between two factions and you can take one side or just try to skirt the conflict.
I haven’t really been that great with the choices that I’ve made. Most of them don’t feel like real choices, at least not impactful ones. So I tend to go with the ones that make sense for Walker as I understand him.
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Yeah, I think the difference between a game like Spec Ops and Mass Effect is you’re not supposed to be role playing as yourself. Walker’s his own man and even though you can guide his path, you can’t really do what you’d do in that situation.
I, for one, can’t understand why he’d use the white phospherus when he saw the impact of it only moments earlier. :S-
Why I didn’t like chapter 8 in particular was
because I felt railroaded into doing that. My reaction was along the lines of “I think I’m about to commit a war crime” and that was before I even started killing dudes. -
Me too, man. Kept trying to snipe the people in the camp. Game wouldn’t allow it. Walker was determined to do it no matter what. Like one of the others said, there’s always a choice, though. This was one that Walker makes with or without player intervention. It serves the game and things to come, but I understand the feeling of being railroaded. I thought the same thing.
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YOU KEEP STALKING MY BOYFRIEND IS THAT WHY YOU’RE NOT COMING TONIGHT
(I do mean that jokingly)
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Well @DC , you’ve gotten her mad.
It was nice conversing with you.
Apart from “Died from being thrown out of a taxi”, what else would you like on your tombstone?-
DC. Gets. Jokes.
or
So. Damn. Proud.
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Not the manliest of epitaphs…
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Finish it then read Brendan Keogh’s book on it.
IMO Spec Ops: The Line is one of the most significant games in years.
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So far it feels a bit overhyped.
I’m going to finish it, to see how it goes. Honestly my biggest complaint so far is that there is far too much combat. Smaller, less frequent skirmishes would have been more appropriate for the setting and makes more sense with your merry band of just three men.
When they’re trying to push the story the way that they are, killing so many dudes just seems odd.
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Yeah, I feel the same. Sure, it’s good but not that amazing.
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Oh, man. I contributed to a lot of that hype. (As well as the interwebs in general.) I wonder how you’d feel about it if you played it with zero expectations?
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I was thinking of poking fun at you for thinking it was your fault but didn’t because you might take it seriously 😛
Dude, I keep saying it’s not your fault! Others and the internet hyped it up too. Without you or other TAYbie opinions I probably wouldn’t have played it AT ALL. I don’t regret it 🙂
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This also might be something superficial compared to all the story/moral stuff, but damn, sand storm devestated Dubai is an interesting place to explore. Lots of unexpected pretty scenes too.
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The first thing that struck me as impressive about the game was the setting. It was a damned good choice.
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It’s good seeing the wildlife just wandering around too.
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Just watched Children’s Hospital on the comedy channel…
wtf?!
seriously, wtf did i just watch?!
I want more of it.
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CHILDRENS HOSPITAL IS THE GREATEST SHOW EVER!!!! Yes, watch it, watch it all! It’s the funniest, weirdest thing you’ll ever watch
Picked up the phone, ready to dial the travel agent’s number to check on my tickets to Melbourne next month.
Chickened out and sent an email instead 😛
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Baby steps
Just got back from Camping! \o/
Camping was fun! \o/
My pay still hasn’t come through. /o\
No, wait, actually, it’s been farcical how long this has taken now. \o/
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.
What’s up?
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Blaghs! Did they get away with it despite you meddling kids? You’ve been missed. TAY’s been so damn slow all week. :'(
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We were sitting there, out in the wilderness, saying “I bet 3/4 of the posts are D.C.’s.”
It’s good to see that we were right. 😛
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Sad as it is true! Haha!
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Looks like Serrels Jr. has entered the world today.
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And his name is Quinn! 😀
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Any confirmation yet? I saw his tweets yesterday. Hopefully Mrs. Serrels’ isn’t still in labour. That’d be all kinds of hard core if she was. Haha!
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He said on Facebook “He looks like me.”
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It’s all over the book of faces. Finding out about babies is the main thing I actually use it for 🙂
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I read that as “the book of fæces.” 😐
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Oh, cool! Congrats Mark! That’s all kinds of awesome! Well done, Mrs. Serrels too.
This is one of the rare instances I feel like Facebook would be useful.
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Yep – Quinn!
According to Mark:
He looks like me.
I’ll be kicking off the baby present ordering tomorrow, and will look to place something by the end of the week. Think up some awesome things! The more expensive, the better! (Provided that we get enough people chipping in to cover it, that is).
I recommend starting here. It’s where I’ll be aiming to get most of the stuff from.
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I hate ThinkGeek at the moment. I ordered some of Mr. Strange’s Christmas presents from there over a month before Christmas and they still haven’t arrived. The last thing I ordered from them arrived all beat up, too. 🙁
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That said, these( http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/efc7/?srp=14 ) are pretty cool….
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Really? Everything I’ve ordered from them has arrived really quickly and in great packaging 🙁
Maybe it’s delivering to Brisbane.
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I think it’s just me they don’t like. 😛
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Quinn is going to have like a million baby onesies.
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Why is the Batman night light in the kids section? *buys*
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Can you get custom bibs from anywhere? Need to get him one with this on it http://questchile.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/realmario-big.jpg 😛
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Man you guys are the real Creepiuses/Stalkiuses
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Pft. All I did was open Facebook. 😛
Jerkfaceius.
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Oh wow. Congratulations @markserrels!
@strange
Feel like discussing Xenoblade?
Perhaps how it’s comparing to The Last Story? Progress update? Thoughts?
No?
Okay 🙁
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I don’t have time for discussing it, only for playing it. 😛
I knew I was doing the right thing by playing (most of 😛 ) The Last Story first. Everything I’d heard about the two of them made me think Xenoblade was better and I don’t think I’d have enjoyed Last Story as much if I’d played it after Xenoblade.
There’s just so much to do, and so many little things they got really right, for instance not having to return to most questgivers after completing the quest, the Collectopaedia, Affinity. There’s so much depth. I just got to the “Knee” and discovered even more depth to the battle system. Every time I get comfortable it shows me new ways to play, at the moment. I feel like it really could take me all next year to complete the game. 😛-
Oh, and also…my Mum watched me play some yesterday and didn’t want me to stop. 😀
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:’)
Don’t you just love how it gets rid of most of the annoying things JRPGs have? In addition to what you said, the ability to save practically anywhere, awesome fast travel and pretty much no loading times!
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THE STATE OF TAY — CAMPER’S EDITION
— @shane spent most of the week drunk, the man was articulate as ever.
— @dc played Chaos on Deponia and spoke about it to anyone who’d listen. (I miss @sughly! :P)
— @trjn continued the Brisbane TAYbie tradition of organizing an ill-fated NYE meat.
— @strange’s daughter celebrated her 12th birthday. Wreck-It Ralph was seen.
— @MarkSerrels is a father! Wife went into labor yesterday. He announced that over twitter, not wanting the UFC spoiled for him. Even under pressure, the man knows what he wants!
— TAY’s been insanely slow all damn week!
— Plenty of Brisbane meat write-ups scattered around the first few pages. Good times!
— @BenJ had to deal with Harvey Norman’s customer service over his laptop. He got it sorted.
— Our friend @spaghett was excited for his date all week. It’s happening right now…
— Folks continued to post on the old TAY for a while. Mid-week TAY is weird!
— @novacascade offered a PAX flight deal that’s no longer available. Incredibly generous, though!
— The Walking Dead, Max Payne and Spec Ops have been played. Plenty of ramblings.
— Steam sales! Lots of discounts, but the enthusiasm ain’t quite as high this time around.
— @strange has fallen in love with Xenoblade. @greenius is so damn happy!
— @alexpants’ birthday is soon. He was trying to sure up some numbers for a meat!
— Folks listed the games they’ve completed this year. It’s on page seven.
— Aleph’s posted about his Sydney adventures. Pez is pretty damn generous too!
— @shane detailed the work he’s doing for Pez, dealt with malware on his website.
— Sports of some variety was discussed. I might’ve not read any of it. Haha!
— People gave away games. Seems to be the thing to do!
— Folks are planning some sort of makeshift NYE party for Sydney!
— Melbourne folks helped Aleph out with his hotel predicament!
— @lambomann007 seems to like Surface still. Who would’ve thought? 😀
— Ni No Kuni was discussed a little. Doesn’t look too bad! Studio Ghibli was brought up!
— More than once, last played song was rambled about. You know the deal.
— @scree’s not a fan of Silent Hill: Downpour. Can’t say she wasn’t warned.
— Top five games of the year were listed. We made our own fun, damn it.
— Logistics of the Melbourne meats were finally worked out. Looks like it’s happening!
— @novacascade ate Mi Goreng for the first time. He didn’t care for it.
— Most anticipated games for next year was asked in a futile attempt to break the silence!
Now you know and knowing is half the battle!
Suggestions on content and formatting encouraged.
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Oh yeah, Gerry Harvey wrote in to the Herald Sun calling everyone who bought that computer a criminal. Who would’ve thought, huh? Other people are looking in to possible court action, but I think that’s taking it a bit too far.
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The man knows how to show support to the people actually buying from him. 😛
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WHHHHAT
DC MADE A STATE OF TAY
You must be bored mang.
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Haha! That I was, man. That I was. Chaos on Deponia was awesome, huh? 😛
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I feel the part with his father was.. so rushed. No build-up at all, and the only person who gives a damn is rufus; his father simply sits there and regards rufus like a speck of dust. I mean, the friggin reason Rufus is a jerk is because of his dad! You think there would be.. actual tension.. or something.There ya go DC, now we can blather on for hours. 😛
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Hells yeah, you’re a good guy Saturday. 😀
Chaos on Deponia major spoilers:
I kind of found the indifference funny.
The man who defined Rufus’ life probably hadn’t thought about him since the day he left and still didn’t think about him even though he was standing right there. Twisted, but funny. Also kind of gave the impression that the abandonment wasn’t the only thing that made Rufus a jerk, being raised by one helped too. (The fact he looked up to him in the first game despite everyone in town seemingly hating the guy more than Rufus himself, which kind of says something!)
The revelation that he was found in the junk was interesting too. Won’t be all that surprised now to find out he’s Elysian. Meet Cletus and his real father in the next game, maybe? (Which hopefully will have more impact.)
I also thought maybe Rufus’ personality could be split apart just like Goals. That maybe him and Cletus are actually the same person? Doesn’t make a whole lot of sense, since different identical bodies, though. Probably just twins. 😛 -
Yeah, Cletus and Rufus.. I’m not sure how their relationship works, to be honest. Cletus has called out rufus on more on one occasion, and the two are alike, so I would imagine the thought of them being related wouldn’t be too far-fetched. What’s funny is that even though Rufus is the good guy in this scenario, Rufus hasn’t outright stated that he wants to save Deponia. Chaos was mostly about saving goal; It’s mostly Goal who serves as rufus’ conscience (to be honest, I think the secondary goal of ‘don’t get deponia blown up’ can only be chalked up to self-preservation.) I imagine he’ll straighten up immediately at the start of the last game, but still.It’s quite interesting, though, how the dynamics between rufus and his father affect us in turn. Since there’s no emotional connection at all, we simply treat him as a obstacle. Perhaps that reflects how rufus should get over his father troubles.
Or something deep like that.
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Scary thing is, I’m not even certain Rufus actually likes Goal, the person. Just the idea of a pretty girl from Elysian who can take him out of this place. All attempts at heroics are just self-preservation, like you said. Maybe ego boost too? I really like him as a protagonist still, but yeah, most definitely a jerk for the ages! I loved when you provoked Toni too many times, she kills you — then a Sierra-style Restore, Restart, Quit screen comes up. Made me laugh, even if that joke was lifted straight from The Secret of Monkey Island. 😀
I’m kind of hoping my Rufus split personality theory is right, though. Might ease the bitter aftertaste of making that cat food and killing the Gondolier. :S (Just like how Lady Goal at her worst did some questionable things.) Even so, though — which part of the personality would Rufus be? He’s got just as many terrible qualities as Cletus. Also it was funny but disturbing when Bozo called him out about the dolphins when the trawler was attacked. Rufus seemed genuinely oblivious that he intentionally killed their young. Mental illness! :S -
That’s the thing- Rufus and Cletus are pretty much the same. There hasn’t been one moment where Rufus has actually managed to distance himself from Cletus personality-wise. If the positions were changed, who’s to say that Rufus wouldn’t sell out the whole damn planet? He has shown hesitance when he hears about Elysium’s plans for Deponia, but again, self-preservation. I think the only thing that separates the two at the moment is their respective dedication to Goal, who Rufus is showing.. some.. sort of… positive.. emotion towards to.
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Speaking of which, Goal was quite fun in this chapter, though. I really felt that Lady Goal and Spunky Goal were integral and amusing parts of her personality. Not Baby Goal. She was.. too babyish for me to feel comfortable around her. 😛 -
@saturday:
I definitely preferred Chaos on Deponia to the first game, but at the same time the split personality thing was completely self-inflicted by Rufus. All he had to do was get the more expensive chip, but he compromised her health and the mission to save Deponia by getting a lollipop. It was funny, for sure, I had an awesome time trying to put her back together but the entire game was built on the foundations of an unneccessary Rufus screw-up. Haha!
I guess the same can be said about Guybrush Threepwood giving Elaine the cursed ring in Curse of Monkey Island. Doesn’t make it bad at all. Just an observation. He’s a jerk. A jerk I tells ya!Great series, though. Can’t wait for Goodbye Deponia!
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Oh ahahaha I just realized that, yeah, the game basically is about covering his one screw-up. Least Guybrush is repentant. Sorta.
Yeah, I await the last game eagerly, if not just to see how it ends.
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I see how it is @dc..
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— @virus__ continues to be awesome!
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Much better =P hahaha
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It’s back by popular demand!
So. Damn. Happy. You have no idea, man 🙂
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You’re not drunk again, I hope? 😛
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If you can’t tell, it must be working.
Stone cold Steve right now.So Serrels is about to be a father. This is awesome 🙂
If only the bub had appeared a week ago, my dad-joke punny Far Cry 3 entry might have won.-
Serrels IS a father to a son named Quinn!
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2012/12/talk-amongst-yourselves-203/comment-page-9/#comment-981396
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Oh yeah, missed that. Notification took me straight to the catch-up post.
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Thought about putting those details in the State of TAY, but then Mark hasn’t even technically told us yet. 😛
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Back, date a-fucking-mazing
Playing AC3 with my cousin, trying to get 100% sync on every mission (because…I dunno). Spend about half an hour getting everything right for this particular mission (end of sequence 7, must air assassinate without being detected) – apparently I got detected right as I stabbed him in the neck, but no message came up because it goes straight to a series of cutscenes.
Man, fuck this synchronization bullshit.
Then I turned off my Xbox.
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Yeah, so many issues. I 100%’d Revelations with almost no difficulty, but AC3 is just so damn frustrating. And not fun-frustrating.
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If I recall the mission you’re talking about correctly, the only way to 100% that mission is to sneak around the outskirts of the camp, climb the tree, jump to the next tree and from there to the flagpole. The flagpole is the only place you can air-assassinate without being detected.-
That’s exactly what I did. 😛
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Ohhhh. That’s harsh. 🙁 Stoopid Brokeny Mc Brokerson game. >:I
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Seriously over Kotaku USA republishing old articles… so god damned lazy!
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Check out the best games for ____!
*just links to old lists that haven’t been updated and were pretty shit to begin with*
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Meanwhile over at Kotaku USA:
“OMG!!! I DIDN’T KNOW HUNGRY HUNGRY HIPPOS THE BOARDGAME WAS OUT ALREADY!!!”
“NO WAY!!! FIRST THEY SNEAK OUT MONOPOLY AND THEN THIS!! TO THE INTERNETS!!”
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Rayman Origins’ credits are pretty normal but the awesome music makes it so much better!
I love it when credits have cool things like extra stuff, art, messages etc.
I generally just ‘watch’ them incase there’s a cutscene after or something :P. So all those extras make it more bearable.
I bought a new car on the weekend! 😀 Pick it up on Saturday.
Kind of feeling a weird mixture of excitement and feeling slightly queasy at the thought of spending that much money… we’ve never spent that much on anything in life except our house, and that’s probably a safer investment 😛
Kudos to my wife for approving the expenditure, too – I now officially have the best wife in the world. Now, I know what some of you are thinking. You’re thinking “well, gee, Braaains… my wife is pretty good, I actually reckon she would be the best wife in the world.” But you would be incorrect. Sorry.
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Sounds better than my wife, atleast. Refuses to exist. :'(
Congrats, man! That’s awesome news! Not a car guy myself, but what kind?
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God, I know, right? A woman on her period is one thing, a woman constantly in superposition of existence and non-existence is just a pain to deal with.
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Nissan 370Z. Been lusting after one for years (and the older Z’s before the 370 prior to that). Finally decided the time was right, end of year runout sales going on, along with the fact that it’s getting a bit of a cosmetic overhaul for 2013 so they were pretty keen to move out the last 2012 one. Just happened it was exactly what I wanted (black with manual transmission), and I got a pretty significant discount off the official RRP.
Of course once I get it I’ll probably be so terrified of crashing / scratching it that I won’t get it above second gear for the first 6 months 😛
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I love those things. The guy over the road from me has one and it looks and sounds amazing! Congrats on your awesome new car!
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Holy hell. Where can I find a woman like that, that would let me get a luxury car like that?
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HANDS OFF EB GIRL.
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Nah, sorry Braaains. Pretty sure my husband has the best wife in the world. 😉
😛
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I stand by my original statement 😛
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Herro.
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Freeze! Hey man!
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OH HAY THAR, FREZE.
What’s up.
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We have a New Years gathering at Pez’s place tonight. All are welcome or so I have been told.
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🙁
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FREEZE JUST INVITED THE INTERNET TO A PARTY!
SPREAD THE WORD!
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I did. So, uh, Sydney peeps, come on down I guess.
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Greenius is lazy as hell so the only way he would go is if somebody would drive him.
If I knew where Pez lived, I could be inclined to party crash, but I’m not sure. 😛
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Sneaky Dickens!
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I was promised hours of Chaos on Deponia conversations!
Fine, enjoy yourself on New Years Eve. See if I care! 😀
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They always forget Greenius…
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Nah, nah, don’t worry, it’ll definitely be a D.C/Saturday/Lazyius new years.
As long as there’s no kissing.
… Well, towards me, anyway.
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Nah, man. You should go. It sounds fun! 😀
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Ok, ok, we can settle this peacefully.
If you go to a new years party I will too.
Bam.
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You’ve won this round, Saturday.
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Greetings and saluTAYtion people, so fun story … Had to go to work today and finished everything in my helpdesk at midday and decided the most mature thing to do was play minecraft with the bosses. The one condition is that we had to work together … after a good half hour I come back from the strip mines to see they’d burnt the house down and were constructing wooden towers to see how far up they could get. I might have set them on fire and covered all the surrounding water in dirt. After they died a completely unrelated death they came out and told everyone to go home. So, now I’m home, drinking and watching Rock of Ages because reasons. I might be going out to a party later, but it would mean having to talk to idiots all night. Choices, choices
So unrealistic resolution time. I want Mattel to bring out hoverboards so they’ll be common place by 2015
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Funner fact, I just created a new world in minecraft and I called it LAND! because, why not … well the game decided to spawn a world with nothing but water as far as the eye can see. This game hates me
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NEEDS MOAR TL;DR
Hello, it this thing on…
Yes? Good.
Hi!
That is all.
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No playlist? :'(
Hope life’s treating you good! It’s been a while. Good Christmas?
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I haven’t done playlists in ages, I’ll start it up again starting next week.
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Duncan Jones live tweets while watching Moon. (Spoilers, most definitely!)
The D.C.. Saturday, Greenius NYE Party has started!
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*sits alone in a dark room, over analysing thoughts*
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…. I should buy a boat.
…. WE’RE GONNA NEED MORE ALCOHOL HERE FOLKS.
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Oh man, you’ve taken my role. What am I supposed to do now?
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Pace back and forwards muttering?
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Aww man, I never get invited to the cool parties! 🙁
😛
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Sorry Strange, we’re lone wolves.
And lone wolves stick together.
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…. are we partying yet
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You should really go to Pez’s place, man. You’re a socially well adjusted young go getter. What’s stopping you?
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Also as a Canadian in Australia at NYE, why aren’t you at the freakin’ harbour? 😛
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socially well adjusted young go getter
there’s your problem.
Besides I don’t know where he lives and quite frankly from where I live it’s the damn trek to mount doom whenever I want to head.. anywhere, really.
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Me and D.C. are, you stopped talking to me so your loss!
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DC has been ominously staring into the fireplace for the better half of a hour, I’ve been drinking copious amounts of vodka, and I swear you were chatting up a mirror.
Wait, I guess we are partying then.
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So I’m at a place in Xenoblade that reminds me greatly of the big open area on Gran Pulse in FFXIII. Complete with huge enemies that will decimate you if you get too close.
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Bionis Leg? THE MUSIC :D:D:D:D:D:D:D!!!!If so, that was the place I was talking about where the next 5 or so areas are just amazing. Like some of my best places EVER!
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That’s the place.
Doofusaurus has run off to Mechon-infested Colony 6 all by himself and I’m supposed to be going after him with his sister but I don’t want to because he’s annoying and I have quests to take care of. 😛-
I did not! Oh, you mean there’s another one. :'(
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I see you’ve met Jiggly McTits!
She’s cool though 😀
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Don’t look directly at them.
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Is she Jiggly McTits?! But they’re not even that big! Or jiggly, now that I think about it. 😛
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Sharla? Wait until the bikini outfits or later ones :P! Some of them just look completely ridiculous! -
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Well there’s certain armour that’s like a bathing suit for each character. The guys wear board shorts and the girls have their bikini things (except for the one with small breasts :P)
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I used to just run around that area listening to the music 😛
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We’re totally on page ten, I tells ya!
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Yeah but this page is better. This is where all the cool kids who play JRPGs are. 😛
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HELLS TO THE YEAH
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@dc
I don’t hate Silent hill downpour, surprisingly. I just find it very frustrating, but not enough to stop me playing. i still think it would be better as a separate IP.
also, guess who bought a sega mega drive II?
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Is it D.C.?
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No. Sorry DC
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I was never really into Sega. It’s alright. 😛
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What’s a Sega?
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Say-ga…
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Give it time.
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I’m up to the radio station
Mega Drive II?! AWESOME!!!
Sega Mega Drive 2 is the best (except for SNES). I have mine sitting next to me (with sonic 3 plugged into the Sonic & knuckles cart)
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I need to know what to grab on it
Saturday/DC/Greenius Party Update Post
woooooooooo
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WOOOOOOOOOO!
I’m eating a
threatened speciesHOLY SHIT CRITICALLY ENDANGERED O_O species tonight.-
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STORY:
We used to order this tasty fish from the local Chinese restaurant. So a few years ago I asked my mum what it was called and she said its name (Murray Cod). We also had one of those “endangered species” calendars and I was like holy shit this is totally the fish we ate.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_cod
And I think we’re having it again tonight .__. Probably critically endangered in the wild though these were probably raised on a farm or something (whatever they call it when they breed fish for eating).
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It’s probably not really Murray Cod. Just like what most places serve as Barramundi isn’t actually Barramundi.
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It better be cause it was bloody expensive!
It was a whole fish though so I doubt they’d use a dodgy fake one since people can tell.
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Alright, time for some party music!
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This isn’t party music…
This is! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fk7iC9QxQfM
According to my search result of “party music” which gave me that first
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I will let you down, I will make you hurt.
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This is a good party.
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DC! You only arrived a year late! How did you even get into my place, I locked the door!
Help yourself to some chips and dip while I put on some pants.
Note: Reposted just this once, cause I don’t think any campers have even stopped by TAY. 😛
THE STATE OF TAY — CAMPER’S EDITION
— @shane spent most of the week drunk, the man was articulate as ever.
— @dc played Chaos on Deponia and spoke about it to anyone who’d listen. (I miss @sughly! :P)
— @trjn continued the Brisbane TAYbie tradition of organizing an ill-fated NYE meat.
— @strange’s daughter celebrated her 12th birthday. Wreck-It Ralph was seen.
— @MarkSerrels is a father! Wife went into labor yesterday. He announced that over twitter, not wanting the UFC spoiled for him. Even under pressure, the man knows what he wants!
— TAY’s been insanely slow all damn week!
— Plenty of Brisbane meat write-ups scattered around the first few pages. Good times!
— @BenJ had to deal with Harvey Norman’s customer service over his laptop. He got it sorted.
— Our friend @spaghett was excited for his date all week. It’s happening right now…
— Folks continued to post on the old TAY for a while. Mid-week TAY is weird!
— @novacascade offered a PAX flight deal that’s no longer available. Incredibly generous, though!
— The Walking Dead, Max Payne and Spec Ops have been played. Plenty of ramblings.
— Steam sales! Lots of discounts, but the enthusiasm ain’t quite as high this time around.
— @strange has fallen in love with Xenoblade. @greenius is so damn happy!
— @alexpants’ birthday is soon. He was trying to sure up some numbers for a meat!
— Folks listed the games they’ve completed this year. It’s on page seven.
— @mythamphetamine posted about his Sydney adventures. Pez is pretty damn generous too!
— @shane detailed the work he’s doing for Pez, dealt with malware on his website.
— Sports of some variety was discussed. I might’ve not read any of it. Haha!
— People gave away games. Seems to be the thing to do!
— Folks are planning some sort of makeshift NYE party for Sydney!
— Melbourne folks helped Aleph out with his hotel predicament!
— @lambomann007 seems to like Surface still. Who would’ve thought? 😀
— Ni No Kuni was discussed a little. Doesn’t look too bad! Studio Ghibli was brought up!
— More than once, last played song was rambled about. You know the deal.
— @scree’s not a fan of Silent Hill: Downpour. Can’t say she wasn’t warned.
— Top five games of the year were listed. We made our own fun, damn it.
— Logistics of the Melbourne meats were finally worked out. Looks like it’s happening!
— @novacascade ate Mi Goreng for the first time. He didn’t care for it.
— Most anticipated games for next year was asked in a futile attempt to break the silence!
— @Braaains got a new car! A Nissan 370Z, if you know what that means. (I don’t.)
— @Tofu’s been playing MineCraft. @alexpants’ has been playing Assassin’s Creed 3.
— @Virus__ continues to be awesome.
Now you know and knowing is half the battle!
Suggestions on content and formatting encouraged.
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It’s happening right now…
This scares me a lot more than it should.
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@dc is watching you @spaghett
Put on a show.
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— @dc is ruining the party
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GREEEEENIUS! Why you not posting much any more?
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Because according to past me, you’re ruining the party.
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I knew it! I CAN CHANGE!
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@dc
Sorry for prying, but I just *have* to know.
Do you have an immaculately kept creeper-file for all TAYbies past and present, or a vastly superior memory-recall function to me (and, I would wager, most others)?
Either way, I’m seriously impressed ^.^
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It’s both. He has an immaculate file and he never forgets where he left it.
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State of TAY? I totally didn’t re-read all nine pages. That would be madness. :S
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No creeper-files, I promise.
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DC is an android.
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I think I need repairs. 🙁
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NEW YEARS RESOLUTIONS:
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Save some money!
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And then fly us up to PAX North!
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Be happy.
Or drink copious amounts of vodka, whichever comes first.
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Spend more time on TAY? 😛
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Is that related to the vodka or the happiness? 😛
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I have my fingers crossed for both, tbh
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Are you sure you’re not a high functioning alcoholic. 😐
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No, I just find drunkenness amusing in others 🙂
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Enabler! *points dramatically*
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Pester DC!
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A noble resolution!
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My favourite hobby!
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You did it! 😀
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Stop time travelling! 😛
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Find out what @dc resolution is.
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Spend more time on TAY! 😛
* Write more, game less.
* Reduce the amount of escalating arguments I get sucked into with my eldest.
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What’s wrong with gaming? :'(
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Nothing, man. I love it. But I have such a shortage on time that time spent gaming is time I feel I should have spent writing. If I want my family to take my writing time seriously, I gotta show I take it seriously first.
Edit: I wrote a lot this year. A lot a lot when I think about it. But I still feel like 2012 was a water-treading year. I don’t know why that is, because when I look at what’s happened in my writing, it’s obviously not the case. But I think it comes from the realisation that I’m still holding back, holding myself back. And I don’t want to do that anymore.
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That edit applies to most aspects of my life, man. (Except for the actual productive part that precedes it. :P)
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How’d your resolutions go, ‘ ol pal?
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NEVER MIND >:(
(I did write more. I also gamed more, and argued more. 2013 was the year of plenty.)
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I swear, Games For Windows Live makes me want to punch my fucking monitor until it explodes. 🙁
Still, Bioshock 2 is freakin’ awesome! 😀
@shane: ‘sup Nighthawk? Stealthy downvotes/upvotes a-plenty!
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Not stealthy enough, evidently 😛
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@smurfydog is lurking these parts too, I just know it.
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@dc I totally am!
Been pretty sick the last couple of days and just not feeling too chatty.-
🙁 That’s too bad, man. Hope you feel better soon enough!
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You end up getting rid of the malware dealy on your website? Read about your Pez collaboration on Pozible. All these hints for the past few weeks, good to know the details! (And here I thought you were writing the liner notes. :P)
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Yeah, that’s how it started. Was going to be a tiny comic for the insert. Kind of ballooned out a bit 😛
And yeah, site should be working okay now, thanks for asking 🙂
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If the children don’t grow up, our bodies get bigger but our hearts get torn up.
Quake is on sale on Steam right now.
75% off.
Too bad I already have it on disc. 🙂
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So you don’t have to spend more money? You’re a complicated man, Crazyguy. :S
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I got it as part of the “Ultimate Quake” Collection about five years ago…
It was an early birthday present. 😀
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Greenius’ NYE writeup:
Family friends came over.
Food was consumed.
I left the table ASAP and am now in hermit mode.
Yuppp!
Random thoughts space:
I just saw a pic of Charlize Theron in Monster D: …whoaaaa
Apparently because of that Christian Bale has developed heart problems :/
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Whoah-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh, o-o-oh. All the single monsters! All the single monsters. All the single monsters! All the single monsters. Now put your appendages up!
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Now it’s obvious you’re just fishing for downvotes. For shame, Lambo!
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No, I’m just tired.
BadCrazy things happen when I’m tired. 😛
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Gundemonium Collection for $5!
\o/
I am tired and unwell and will probably be asleep at midnight so HAPPY NEW YEAR, EVERYONE!
Thanks for putting up with me again, this year. 😛
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Happy New Year, Strange! You’re all kinds of awesome! 😀
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Took a while to get into Xenoblade though so minus a few awesome points ;D!
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Eh, she’s got plenty of awesome points to spare!
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My Dad just asked if he could watch “Drive”.
I’ve set it up for him and he’s enjoying it. 😀
Also, Mystery Question Fun time!
D or T?
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D!
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Seeing as no one else has commented, How to Train Your Dragon it is!
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Damn good movie, not unlike Brave.
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Brave, the lesser man’s How to Train Your Dragon.
Waits for downvotes.
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Haha! Nah, I think Brave does the family dynamic/character story stuff better and How to Train Your Dragon does the world building/spactacle part better!
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It is indeed spactacular.
What I’m saying by that is that it isn’t very good(I kid, I enjoyed it, and it was decent, could have been better, could have been much worse).
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I think Merida and her mum were done really well, but the other characters felt a bit shallow. On the other hand, How to Train Your Dragon didn’t have any one character or relationship that was as well developed as Merida and her mum, but decent character develop was spread among all the character so, as you said, the world felt a lot better built.
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Truth be told, How to Train Your Dragon is about the only Dreamworks Animation movie I can stand. 😛
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@dc, I hope for the sake of our friendship that the brilliant Over The Hedge is a movie you haven’t yet seen…
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@shane I haven’t seen it! So we’re all good in the hood? 😛
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But, Shrek? and Kung Fu Panda. What is wrong with you, D.C?
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I like good movies? 😛
Edit: I HATE Shrek, just so you know…
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You’re dead to me D.C. Dead*.
*Not really.
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@dc, watch Over The Hedge. Then I’ll decide how cool we are.
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No, Dreamworks Animation ain’t my thing. 😛
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I feel like @greenius and @saturday might have abandoned the parTAY. 😛
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I’m here, man. Till the bitter, bitter end.
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Tested your site! Malware free! Project sounds interesting too.
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It’s actually the most fun I’ve had writing in ages.
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You’re prolific, I tells ya!
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More. I must do more.
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Some. I must do some. 😛
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It’s cool, I’m kind of still here. I’m cooler than those guys, right fellas?
Right?
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How’s the pacing/muttering going?
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Also a suspicious lack of camping write-ups. I blame New Years Eve. *shakes fist*
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I blame everyone else. I can’t be expected to remember anything.
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I blame the Easter Oryctolagus Cuniculus.
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You abandoned it when you didn’t respond to me on Twitter.
Jerk.
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I was posting here at the exact same time. Too much conversing for DC… 😛
Time for another Canadian Club! 😀
Just in case I forget at midnight, thank you one and all for an amazing 2012. Here’s hoping that 2013 is as good or better. Happy New Year everyone.
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Happy New Year, Nova! You’re awesome. Hope it’s a damn good one!
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happy new year.
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Happy New Year, scree! Hope it treats you well!
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2012 – bah.
2013 – meh.
It was getting way too sappy in here.
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Happy New Year to you too, Shane! You’re awesome. One of the foundations of TAY with Strange! Hope next year treats you great!
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You too, manly upvote fairy. 2012 wouldn’t’ve been the same without you!
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Not the manliest of phrases. 😛
Aw, man. :’)
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Over the past couple of days I’ve been playing quite a lot of The Binding of Isaac. After reading into the meaning behind the game, and what the whole thing really means, I think that it’s one of the most harrowing, emotionally draining games I’ve ever played.
My first couple of runs were pretty terrible. I didn’t really understand what I was supposed to do, or what the power-ups actually did. But after reading about the underlying meaning of the game, every single power-up, mid-level cutscene or boss fight compelled me to keep on playing. I was actually getting terribly emotionally invested in ensuring that Isaac didn’t give into his own death wish. I wanted him to live.
Killing Mom was one of the most satisfying things I’ve ever done in a video game.
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Hellscream! Happy new year, man!
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Happy New Year DC!
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Much obliged, man!
Back to regular scheduled gaming conversations. How ’bout that Binding of Isaac?
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Crazy shit, man. I just wish my Steam cheevos were unlocking.
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Mine usually unlocked after I closed the game and opened it up again, it was weird 😛
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Oh? Where can I read about the underlying meanings?
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http://edmundm.com/post/32717083908/the-chest-is-open
Click the link inside this tumblr post and prepare for brain explosion.
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MINDBLOWN
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Hey everyone. Sup? Hope everyone’s doing well. Great 2012, better 2013 and all that.
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Dire Wolf! Seems like it’s been a while. Hope next year treats you awesomely, buddy!
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Yeah, between spending most of the day sleeping and doing stuff with family I haven’t had much time for TAY lately.
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Been slow around these parts anyways, man. Most have had similar plans I bet! Enjoy the holidays, though. We’ll be here when you get back proper. 😀
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Dinner at the Korean BBQ again, this time with friends. AMAZING \o/
We also stole @Saturday.
NYE, ho!
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Hells yeah, so damn proud of you @saturday! :’) Tell him that, would you?
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Also I hope you guys have an amazing end to 2012 and a kick ass new year!
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He’s looking forward to that point in the not too distant future when the last of the rose petals clouding his vision float off with the wind and the transition is complete, bringing a bright new future into bloom.
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How does one steal a Saturday?
I wish I got up to cool adventures *grumble grumble*
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All in good time, frond! We’ll have adventures in Melbourne soon!!!
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Except I’m not near the city so can’t get up to daily adventures 🙁
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IT’s nearly 2013!
To celebrate the occasion, I drew one last drawing for the year:
http://crazyguy1990.deviantart.com/art/Moit-345820859
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Happy New Year, Crazyguy. Hope it treats you awesomely!
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Thanks.
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Thanks, buddy.
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I’ve gotten up at midnight with my family to watch the Sydney NYE fireworks on TV for pretty much forever. It only just occurred to me that it isn’t a live broadcast and happened an hour earlier. D:
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Had that same realization a few years back. I felt stupid. 😛
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Oh, you guys.
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Watch it on Youtube!
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What?! Fur real?
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Muddy! Happy new year, man!
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Happy new year DC! You up to anything this night?
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Thanks, man! Haha! Nope, no plans, might actually get some shut eye pretty soon. What about you, man?
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Yeah nothing really myself, not much a fan of crowds
I’m currently engaged in a recent tradition of mine, I’m watching the Lord of the Rings trilogy till I fall asleep
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I feel like getting a drawing tablet. Drawing is fun and I should probably do it more often considering I’ve won numerous competitions with my amazing works of art ;D.
Imagine iSketch with a tablet :O
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I wish I could draw.
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Wish granted!
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Yay!
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I always play iSketch with my drawing tablet. It doesn’t help. Mind you, that’s probably more to do with my lack of drawing ability 😛
Okay, it does actually help. You wouldn’t be able to tell though 😛
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If you look around, you should be able to find a second hand Wacom Bamboo for under $100.
If you’re starting out using a drawing tablet, I highly recommend it.-
I bought one ages ago for a legit copy of Photoshop Elements that came attached. I find the tablet hard to master, though. :'(
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We’re totally on page 11 now!
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Totally on page 11 now
Edit: damnit DC 😛
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Almost finished the first (TV) season of Walking Dead, the. Accidentally watched three episodes yesterday and just finished the 5th ep a minute ago. I honestly can’t decide whether it’s a good show or not. There’s a lot to like about it, but structurally, it feels a little off, especially this most recent episode, which was all over the place. I’ll at least finish the season, though. Probably tomorrow. I’m done for tonight. The bitter end has come early, @dc.
See you all next year!
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Happy New Year, pal!
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That’s how I felt towards the end of season 1, I ended up sticking with it though. Season 3 is for sure the pinnacle of the series though. It’s no Mad Men, Breaking Bad or Sons of Anarchy, but it has its place in my opinion.
Good night, folks. I’m going to get some shut eye. Happy New Year, I can honestly say my life is a whole lot better with you guys in it. The year has ended a lot happier than it started. I’m proud to call you my friends. 😀
30 minutes until the new year. Thank god. Fuck 2012.
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Fuck the Mayans
2013 woo
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I share your sentiments 2012 has not been kind
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Always so Positive!
Last post of 2012 from me?
Happy New Year! \o/
Happy New Year Everyone!
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Except Bish. He has to wait.
Happy New Year people!
Anyone else got tons of fireworks around them? Seriously, I have no idea where these people get them from but there’s always people setting them off for any old occasion. They’ve been going on pretty much daily for the last 2 weeks 😛
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Happy new year!
Yer what’s up with that? I want some-
So many videos! I’ll post them later 😀
Special thanks to whoever had a shit ton of awesome fireworks right near my house. Awesome view from my bedroom window 😀
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Setting off fireworks is fun as!! Then they went and banned them here last year 🙁
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Around our area, I heard Box Hill has places that sell them. I remember my Dad got some from Canberra years ago, but I don’t think you can get them anymore, thus removing the only reason to ever go to Canberra.
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Where are you by the way? You’re regional aren’t you? Y U NEVER MEAT?
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Because people and social awkwardness.
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Booooooooooooooooo!
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More sappy bullshit.
Thanks for making last year memorable. Nay, fucking fantastic.
This trip is amazing, and I’m so fortunate to have met you, and to meet even more in the coming days!
Fuckin’… love.
Love you guys.
Jerks.
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You’re welcome, sir. 😀
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Hope 2013 treats you all kinds of awesome, Aleph!
53 minutes until the real end of the year!
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No. 😀
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Ugh, Futurius
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Pfft. Stop living in the past man.
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HOUR AND A HALF. BUT SYDNEY.
Well that was one way to start the new year.. Finished Spec Ops. Yep. Fuck that’s not a game I feel like replaying any time soon.
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I thought the gameplay absolutely fell apart at the end. Which is a shame because that’s right when it really starts fucking with you.
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The gameplay felt like any other FPS for the most part, take cover, fire, change position, reload repeat. The story was average, though it did mess with you in the end, which was interesting shall we say. But man the stuff it makes you “decide” to do. That’s the part that just left me feeling empty.One thing that annoyed me was ammo was meant to be sparse, I never ran out of ammo for my M4A1 or UMP45 which what I carried mostly. I guess they were the most popular guns, but even still, I could max out my carry load of ammo easy enough.
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I was always running out of or getting low on ammo for whatever gun I wanted to use. Which meant I had to swap it out for whatever crappy gun I could find lying around… 🙁
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Haha, silly Greenius. I found that with the SCAR & FAMAS. But they were pretty average guns. Though the 417 was pretty awesome, shame that was a little harder to find ammo for.
But nothing beat my suppressed M4A1, suppressing it made it a lot more accurate I am sure..
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Hey all!
I’d like to send my sincerest wishes to you all for a very happy 2013.
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Best Wishes to you too, SmurfyDog! 😀
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SmurfyDog! Happy New Year, buddy! 🙂
Weeee uploading about 6 or so videos of fireworks if anyone cares (they don’t!) 😀
Man aren’t fireworks expensive? These people must be richhh
(LINK SPAM INCOMING)
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Fireworks on the horizon. Recorded with my iPhone from my room.
I think it goes up to 720p for some odd reason so feel free to watch it in higher quality if you want 😛
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The main show from someone in the street. Apologies for holding the camera like an idiot (vertically) but I realised my mistake and try to fix it for later videos 😛
They set them off every now and then throughout the night and I caught most of it over a few videos.
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Bahahaha!
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Happy new year everyone. Thanks for making 2012 a freaking awesome year. You are all incredible people. Love you all
Goodnight, TAY!
Happy 2013! \o/
Oh, one more thing before I hit the hay:
http://theearthsays-hello.tumblr.com/post/39288716575/yuleriots-worth-11-seconds-of-my-time-every
So here are my issues with the Walking Dead game:
First off, it’s a pretty decent interactive story. I think we can all agree on that.
But the game lacks actual game in the traditional sense. Gameplay is so simplistic enough that it feels like it’s only shoehorned in so that they can justify describing it a “game”. Even by point and click adventure game standards, there’s no real content to the puzzles or the actions you perform. The mechanics are solid, but extremely simplistic.
And it seems like for a game that sort of boasts about being a game about choice, your choices didn’t really have much impact. I disagree with Lambo here; for most of the episodes I could see the rough outline and how things were turning out. Everyone’s fate seems pre-determined, and whilst that’s fine for reading a story or book, it’s important their intentions behind this. This feeling of ‘Anything you do doesn’t matter’; this defeatist attitude, is it intentional or not? One leans towards good writing, the other leads towards poor implementation of story and choice driven gameplay.
There are some moments of gold here, I think the best part is the character study/development, but there’s not enough for me to personally give it a GOTY shout.
PS Virtue’s Last Reward is totally the better visual novel. Jus’ saying.
So those are my thoughts.
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It’s more of an interactive movie than a game, but meh. If they want to call it a game I don’t mind.
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I sort of disagree with the thing about choices. It’s a game, so it’s limited in what direction the story can go. It can never truly be fully branching and encompassing of all choices. I think what the game did really well though was making it feel like your choices did matter. Not once could I guess the direction of the story, and every choice I made felt important. In hindsight, yeah, I could see which choices did and didn’t matter, but when I was actually playing through the game for the first time I never felt that. Everything I did was important, and everything I did could change the outcome of the story.This doesn’t really need a spoiler tag, but I’m sticking one on just to be sure.
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“your choices didn’t really have much impact | Everyone’s fate seems pre-determined”
Yeah, this is true and discussed in some of the developer interviews. For me personally, I felt ownership over my choices and that the story turned out as a result of them (mostly) despite the fact that a lot of story beats are predetermined. I suppose it’s really up to each individual if they feel if their choice affected the story or not, but it worked on me. It’s more of a Mass Effect choice game, where your choices affect and personalise your relationship with these characters, than it is, say, a Witcher type game where large sections of the game are changed based on your decisions.
“This feeling of ‘Anything you do doesn’t matter’; this defeatist attitude”
Not sure if you’re talking about your choices affecting the game or anything the characters do in the game doesn’t matter, because that’s another thing I like about TWD, that it’s a shitty world with shitty choices and there aren’t many good things about it. I’ve rambled enough, I need coffee.
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Well no that’s the thing. If it’s intentional that’s a-okay. It is exactly how you say.
But I feel like that because it is ultimately a very linear game, having non-impactful choices in a game that tells you it’s about choices, they’ve kind of achieved it unintentionally.
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Merry Christmas!! I mean new year!
Tip: don’t buy “Finlandia” lime flavoured vodka. Really crap!
/drunkpost
Wait,wait,wait,wait.
So Greenius did something, I did something, but DC didn’t? It was a DC/DC/DC Party?
… I’M SORRY FOR LEAVING YOU HERMIT BRO. WE’RE LONE WOLVES, WE WERE SUPPOSED TO STIIICKKK TOOGETTHHEER
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Haha! I’m glad you did, man! So proud and all that! 😀 Saw an Asian guy in a picture Freeze posted on Twitter and the only (male) Asian Sydney TAYbies I could think of were Saturday and Bish. Made me happy to see you weren’t sitting in a dark room, over analysing your thoughts. 😛 Happy New Year, buddy!
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Did you at least look at the fireworks? 😛
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Nope! I went to sleep, Greenius. 😛
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Oh yeah your post was around 11:30pm but I forgot you’re all past-y. Fireworks went off around 10:30 until like 3am for me 😛
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2013, woke up with a back ache.
crap.
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#OldManScree
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The Old Man and the Scree!
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Ooo I get this reference!
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I woke up at 10:30. I haven’t slept in that late for years.
Hope 2013 is treating you awesomely! 🙂
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Urgh. I hate 2013. 😛
Actually, I kind of do hate it. Woke up feeling worse than last night and I’ve got loads of stuff to do because we’re having a mini Christmas today with some of my husband’s family.
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Christmas? When will that particular nightmare end! *shakes fist* 😛
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My thoughts exactly. 😛
It feels really weird to be doing something Christmassy on New Year’s Day.
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Just worked out that I wasn’t sick once in 2012. :S No cold, no flu, nothing. I did say I was sick once to get out of a meat back in my formative TAY days, though. 😛
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Bad D.C.! Avoiding meats and stuff >:(
By the way, what made you finally decide to attend one?
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You guys being awesome and feeling accepted here. 🙂
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Also, remember this? 😀
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! That should be your New Year’s resolution: to not tell lies. 😛
It’s a wonder all your pants aren’t ash due to all the lies you told to get out of Meats….
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To be fair, it’s before I felt comfortable letting you guys know I was a social misfit. 😛
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I’m kind of glad the holiday season is over. Haha!
Next up! Alexpants’ birthday/Batgirls’ birthday/Greenius’ birthday!
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I think they’re not close enough to group together 😛
Pip’s, Batgirl’s and D.C.’s birthday works though 😀
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Oh, yeah! Pips! 😀
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DC’s birthday!
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January 15th!
Meats will be held around Australia to celebrate this event! D.C. will attend them all!
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Woah, it’s actually DC’s birthday this month? I just said that to be stupid 😛
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*shakes fist*
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totes gonna #ridetheswan in 4 days
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Quick! Everyone take AlexPants
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What if he doesn’t want to be taken?
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I think you misunderstood me. We should register the username “AlexPants” before he can. Mr. Pooalen wanted a Wii U ASAP because he feared “Powalen” would be taken.
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You’re-A-Monster-ius
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No, actually I’m AlexPants according to my new Nintendo ID
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Anyone wanna roadtrip for a Kill Greenius Meat?
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I’ve got my eye on you lot >:(
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:D!
I think you’ll like it! 😀
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Well if I don’t, I’m blaming you.
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Castle Rock!
@greenius I forgot to mention that after our bikini discussion last night I tried some pants on Reyn and they looked like underwear. I laughed at him and gave him something more practical to wear. 😛
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Do you get subtitles for the Japanese battle cries? They’re hilarious in English 😀
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There were no subtitles for Japanese battle cries. It was making me feel disconnected, so I switched to English. My Mum and I were making fun of the English battle cries on Sunday. 😛
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It went from annoying -> bearable -> okay -> pretty good -> hilariously awesome!
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No you don’t. Most of the reason why I switched back to english! They’re especially good when you get high affinity between the group! (won’t post who my favourite combo was because minor spoilers :P)
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Post for me?
(NOT FOR STRANGE)
HEROPONNNN RIKIIIII-
Xenoblade Spoilers (sorry Strange! Once you have six party members, you can read this :P)
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Aww I barely used him as soon as I got Dunban, he’s a much better ‘tank’ since he actually dodges the attacks rather than takes them. I pretty much controlled Shulk for the whole game with Sharla and Dunban. Although I did mix it up a bit when trying to finish up side quests and build affinity 😀
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The worst thing about Christmas/New Years is that it ends!
You guys got any new years resolutions? All I’ve got is “get a job, you bum”. Also (money permitting :P) to move out closer to Sydney. Seems to be where all the cool kids hang these days.
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Haha! I like all you guys being on holidays and the etc, but I must admit it’s been lonely here on TAY without you all.
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I’m sorry I’m not good enough for you…
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My New Years Resolutions are the same they’ve been for the last three years, which shows how bad I am at following through.
@powalen
I’ve decided to watch Jurassic Park today (now)
I pretty much haven’t seen it since I was a kid so hopefully it’s still awesome :D.
Things I remember:
– Newman getting spat on
– Dinosaurs in a lab
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What about the score? And Sam Niell and Laura Dern? And those goofy kids?
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Welcome… to Jurassic Park. Da Daaa Da Daaaaa Da Da Daaa Da Da Da Daaaaaa…
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:D!!!!
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SO GOOD
Though I’m a little bias…
But seriously it holds up amazingly. Watch out for six foot turkeys! ;D
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Well VLC keeps freezing and it’s not playing nice so I guess this isn’t happening 😛
Far Cry 3 time! Hopefully it saved my progress…
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Fine I’ll try again…
The black guy always dies first…Nope, kept buffering and stuffing up… ughhh
Far Cry 3!
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You don’t have Jurassic Park on bluray? :'(
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I do just not legally :/
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Wait until I tell the FBI about this. 😛
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Who does anything legally?
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I’ve never downloaded a movie. :S
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now is the time to start
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Pfft, you torrent TV shows though! There’s no difference!
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There is in my mind. I’ve rationalized it and every thing. 😛
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No need to justify/rationalise it. Just do it.
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Haha! I think it’s because movies depend on the box office gross, where as TV depends on advertising and ratings from U.S. viewers, that we can’t contribute to. Then again I only see a handful of movies on the big screen any ways, so it’s not like I’m contributing much to that box office gross either. 😛
You’re right, though. No real difference. :S
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and even then most of the gross of that comes from Europe/UK & North America, also if they released movies here on time rather than a month later, it might work better for them.
…I feel like I should go back to bed…
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Only reason I got out of bed was hunger related. 😛 Hope you’re well, man!
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I’m fine, I just feel tired. 🙁
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TAY’s gonna be slow today. Doesn’t seem to be any link to it on the main page/side bars. 😀
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@35 @aidan @mythamphetamine @alexpants @anonymous_pessimist @batgirl @batguy @bdkiaf @beavwa @benj @bish @blaghman @blood_apathy @cakesmith @chuloopa @cj @crazyguy1990 @dkzeitgeist @dire_wolf @distantdrop @doc_what @effluvium-boy @f4ction @fatshadylive @fled @freezespreston @freya @gingerchris86 @gorzilla @grandmasterb-funk @greenius @harli @jacksonwryan @hugo_the_hungarian_barbarian @inquisitorsz @jocon @joshy206 @klutar @lambomann007 @masha2932 @kermitron @mawt @mcgarnical @negativezero @nomad @sernobulus @notoriousr @novacascade @pixel_the_ferret_viking @powalen @princesspipster @puppylicks @syvraen @bumblebee_tuna @redartifice @rize @rocketman @ruffleberg @saturday @scree @shiggyninty @shane @smurfydog @spaghett @splicer @steve-o_the_deve-o @strange @sughly @tech_knight @thecracks @beardymcmuttonchops @tigerion @tofu @trjn @virus__ @welbot @zap @muddy @zetrox2k
Happy new year! But mostly, TAY still exists. 😛
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Oh D.C. So desperate for conversation.
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Greenius told me to do it. That guy’s the worst! 😛
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WHAT, NO I DIDN’T
USE SOMEONE ELSE AS YOUR SCAPEGOAT
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Fine, it was all me. I just get so lonely. 😛
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Maybe he should call someone so he can have a conversation. 😛
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* Thanks @novacascade 😛
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Sssssssh.
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You’re welcome
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I technically copied it from Zetrox who copied it from you. 😛
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Happy new year, mate 🙂
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And to you, man! 😀
HI D.C.
HAPPY NEW YEAR.
CAPS.
I don’t feel tired anymore! \o/
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The beauty of sleep! 😀
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WITCHCRAFT!
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I just vacuumed. I feel even more tired now. 😛
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We’re totally on page 12!
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I dunno…I’ve heard that you like to lie. 😛
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That’s true! 😀
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… or is it?
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@crazyguy1990 Off with his head! I mean, thanks 😛
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Expect a lot of decapitations and head pulverization.
\o/
@dc, you could have accepted Rockets offer and been down here with all the conversation you wanted.
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Haha! I could have accepted Trjn’s offer and gone to a meat last night too, but I think we all know that I don’t act in my best interests. 😛 What’s on the cards today, Freeze? Good New Year Years?
So, I’ve had to move bricks from our front yard.
Trouble is, there were ants crawling all over them.
“No problem,” I say to myself. “I’ll just wear gardening gloves.”
Unfortunately, the little bastards started getting inside the gloves.
After dragging a full cart with a buggered wheel(Two full stacks of bricks) and getting bombarded by ants, I resigned, cracked open a Canadian Club and Cola, and began typing this.
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It’s time.
My shelves are full and I have two 360 games which don’t fit into the 360 shelf. Many of these games are things I’ve finished years ago or am unlikely to ever play.
I think I need to start boxing things up 🙁
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Awesome collection, though!
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Parts of it aren’t. Some of them I look at and I’m like “why the hell did I buy this?”. But thanks 🙂
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It’s okay I’ll take them off your hands ;D
Remember you can always sell/trade/give away :P. No point hoarding things!
Also, are some games like Heavy Rain still in the shrink wrap o_O? And what’s the Japanese game in the bottom right?
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I happen to like having a collection.
I might be persuaded to get rid of my PAL copies of FFXIII and XIII-2 though, since I also own the HK releases.
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I could. But I’m going to be moving in the next month or two so these need to be boxed away at some point regardless. Thinking if I do it early I can separate out the ones I need to keep around because I might play them.
Also the top shelf in the Playstation side is PSP games so obviously I could stick those all in a box right now.
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Your Rock Band 3 on 360 is upside down.
Just sayin’.
In crappy JRPG news that no one besides me cares about, Namco Bandai recently filed a trademark in Europe for ‘Time and Eternity’. Which is a translation of Toki to Towa, which was that completely 2D-animated JRPG from last year that looked reasonable.
Apparently Namco already confirmed it was getting a release. So they’re giving us Ni no Kuni, Tales of Xillia and Toki to Towa in 2013. What the hell? Rewind to like 2010 and Namco didn’t even want to admit they made JRPGs. :\
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Isn’t that good news? 😛
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Yes. I’m just annoyed because we never got the proper version of Tales of Vesperia.
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At least we got the game.
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They released it in Europe just after they announced the proper PS3 version though. It still feels like a fuck you. But I guess it’s better than the situation with some of the other games.
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Yes I know (I tried waiting for the PS3 version) but at least they released it for PAL regions otherwise I wouldn’t have been able to play it at all.
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I got a JP 360 so I could play the Asia English release.
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Yeah but you’re in the minority of those with a different region Xbox. You should be bitter at them for no Innocence R/Hearts R (or even the original releases I guess)
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What’s…
the next game you’re going to get?
the next big release you’re most looking forward to?
I pre-ordered Anarchy Reigns a while ago and that comes out mid-Jan so I should be receiving that shortly. Ni No Kuni comes out late Jan which is what I’m most looking forward too for now!
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TAKE. A. GUESS.
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THE LAST OF US!
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HALF CORRECT!
Next game: Bioshock!
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Of course! My mistake!
There’s Tomb Raider before that too, even that’s March though. Feels like there should be something released closer that I’m forgetting about. :S Then there’s April when all the Kickstarter adventure games start to get released…
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CRYSIS 3! \o/
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I am on the fence about Tomb Raider, I’ll wait and see how it plays out. There are a whole bunch of games coming out (GoW:A, new Gears, Splinter Cell, Crysis, etc etc) but I cannot muster any enthusiasm for them. For me it’s only:
Tomb Raider: Reception Pending
Bioshock: Giant Birdy statue edition preordered
GTA V: DON’T GET DELAYED
Last of Us: Need I say more?I’ll probably pick up God of War Ascension, Gears of War Judgment and Splinter Cell Blacklist when they are 2 for $40 or Buy 2 get 1 free or something. Other than that:
NEW CONSOLES!
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SUPER DOOPER CR8 B0X DELUXE ALPHA OMEGA EDITION XTREME
I played the Ni No Kuni demo and wasn’t really convinced one way or the other. Seemed to be such a small, compartmentalized segment of the game. Not sure if I’m onboard that particular bandwagon, might follow @powalen’s advice and just watch Spirited Away. 😛
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I haven’t even played it so I can’t comment but since you’re only interested for the style, definitely watch some Ghibli films. A lot of them are quite different from each other and I honestly don’t feel like you’ll like Spirited Away over their other films but the only way to know is if you actually watch them! 😀
1. Don’t know.
2. South Park: The Stick of Truth. If I get only one game this year, it’ll be that.
I have no idea on either question. I still have lots of games to play right now so I’m probably going to put myself on a no-buying restriction. Between Graces, Xenoblade and Dishonored I kind of have at least a few months worth of gaming anyway.
If I did buy a game in the near future it’d probably be Paper Mario: Sticker Star.
If we get a Wii U though, then I’ll definitely buy ZombieU.
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I’d love to play ZombiU as well, but I think the Pikmin 3/Rayman Legends one-two punch will be needed to get me to think about buying a Wii U. 😛
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ZombiU is really good! It’s not as scary as I thought it would be either, which is a positive for me 😛 (though that might have more to do with me playing more ‘horror’ stuff lately than the game itself). It’s certainly very tense though! So far it seems to be more strategic than an action-horror game, which I like. You can only really handle one zombie at a time so you’ve got to try and pick them off.
Fun!
I’m looking forward to Beyond: Two Souls, but I think there’s a whole lot to be released before that. Good stuff too, like The Last of Us and BioShock Infinite!
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Also about a month ago there were rumours that Telltale’s working with Jane Jensen on an episodic series, potentially involving Gabriel Knight. If that eventuates, sign me up! Especially after the unexpected awesomeness of The Walking Dead!
1. Depends on what you mean by get. Probably Most Wanted 😛
2. CRYSIS 3 \o/
No idea what game I’m going to be getting next. I want to focus on finishing the games I already have first.
As for next big release? The Last Of Us, for sure.
I wish I could say FIRE EMBLEM for both of those questions, but we don’t get it until April D:
So, probably Ni no Kuni or Bioshock Infinite.
The answer to your two questions is different for me
1) Ni no Kuni
2) Tales of Xillia
I’m not at all excited for Ni no Kuni, oddly. I’m more anxious. 🙁
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I’m not really expecting much from it but I just want that art book 😛
Next game: I’m looking at getting Forza Horizon
Looking forward to: South Park: The Stick of Truth. No way I’d miss that, it looks amazing so far.
My current two preorders are
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance (collector’s edition)
Aliens: Colonial Marines (collector’s edition).
So yeah, them at the moment.
Ni No Kuni looks pretty shiny, though.
And maybe Devil May Cry? Not sure.
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1. No Idea with steam sales still going
2. Total War: Rome 2
Chocolate and Coke Zero don’t really go well together.
But I eat it anyway.
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They go brilliantly together.
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The trick to eating chocolate whilst drinking Coke is to also eat some plain chips at the same time. The chips and chocolate go really well together, and the saltiness of the chips means you can drink the Coke without it tasting funny.
Gaming new year’s resolutions. Who’s got em? What are they?
Me? I really want to finish Super Meat Boy. I’ve been stuck on the race with Brownie for literally about a year. Then, last night, at about quarter past eleven, I booted it back up. I knew that I wanted to finish Super Meat Boy this year, and I figured if I could ring in the new year with some ultra-hard platforming, it’d set the tone for the rest of the year.
First go, I beat Brownie. I may have scared my missus when I pumped my fist in the air and shouted expletives.
About an hour and 400 deaths later, I had made my way through Hell and defeated the giant golem made of fallen Meat Boys.
Other games I want to finish this year are Bioshock, Super Mario Galaxy 2 and Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword.
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Nice progress!
It is done.
Ended up cutting it just down to stuff I think I might play at some point in the next 3-6 months. Had so much space left after boxing stuff up that I moved all my anime Blurays over into the same shelf. And I’ve got one completely empty now too \o/
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And tomorrow you’ll have a sudden urge to play whatever’s at the bottom of the box. 😀
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You’re probably right too 🙁
Actually my current urges involve either Xenoblade, Last Story, FFXIII or maybe having yet another swing at the Atelier games (I keep trying to get into Rorona but it has a lot of time management and I’m not very good at that)
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May I suggest Xenoblade?
But wait!
Only because @Strange is also playing it, @doc_what should be… and @Beavwa is about to start so you’ve got buddies to discuss it with!
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Don’t forgot @freezespreston, he’s got no excuses now. (‘cept for being out-of-town, but that’s not good enough! :P)
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Is Xenoblade playable with a Gamecube controller? Because I never got the Classic controller for the Wii and it looks like a pain to play with Wiimote & Nunchuck. The only other game I had on Wii that I wanted a normal controller for was Muramasa and that supported the gamecube one…
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Nope 🙁
Oddly enough other than MH3 (where I got my CCP from), Muramasa and Xenoblade were the only games I have used it with 😛
I hear it’s fine with the WiiMote combo since there’s no waggle or motion control but it’ll just be better with the CCP for the camera controls. I played TLS with the Wiimote combo and I think I should’ve just gone with the CCP since the camera gave me the shits…
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Not many recent Wii games use GC controllers and as such I’m suffering from Wavebird withdrawals myself, WHY WON’T THEY LET ME USE MY WAVEBIRD!!!
Have you played Pandoras Tower and The Last Story yet? I’ve been thinking about getting them.
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I have both. I haven’t played Pandora’s Tower but I’ve finished The Last Story.
It’s fun at times but also really flawed. While Xenoblade only felt a bit held back by the Wii’s hardware (purely based on the graphics), The Last Story really felt held back and it would’ve, and could’ve been done better on other consoles. Stuff like frequent frame rate drops, loading times, camera issues and it just doesn’t feel that polished. Lip syncing is off at times and some animations just look really awkward.
Its got a pretty unique battle system but felt a bit button mashy at times. Music is excellent (as is expected), story and characters are decent, voice acting is a mixed bag but it’s fine.
I’d get it if you like Sakaguchi/Uematsu/Final Fantasy/JRPGs but I still feel like Xenoblade is the better game to fulfil a JRPG fix.
@Strange played The Last Story first because she had a feeling Xenoblade would be the better game and now that she’s played both she was right. She actually gave up on The Last Story and I actually nearly did too :/
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😛 how come you did it?
I try to keep mine together as Xbox, PS3, Wii etc. and I just put the boxes where they should go (so FFXIII collector’s edition box goes under F even though it stands out). As for the bigger games like your The Last Story/Pandora’s Tower, I just take out the game case so it’s more consistent with the collection and just put those bigger boxes in a pile.
There’s a few odd games here and there. I decided to take away the empty steel cases to clear up some space and the bunch of stuff down the bottom are borrowed games from friends so I can keep them separated.
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I just put them on the shelves based on box size. PS3/Blu-rays share a shelf, Wii/360 games share a shelf. PC game collection is bigger than PS3/Wii/360 combined, but is in another room — weird box sizes and all that.
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DVDs/BRs/HDDVDs and other stuff are scattered around the house and I have a bunch of random PC games lying around too. Didn’t start adding them to my main shelf until I got Diablo III so the collection is pretty pathetic at the moment 😛
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The classic Box Collection! Been building it for a while and I seem to have recently spawned another pile which my dad added too…
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Oh, man. Greenius is a hoarder!
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Actually I thought about throwing most of them out recently but then dad was all NAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH so they just sit there 😛
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I had it that way before, though I don’t like having the boxes separate, prefer to have everything together in one place. I’m going to be moving soon so stuff needed to be boxed up and this way I’ve got less to pack later.
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Whenever I see the box for Lost Odyssey I always feel sorry for OCD RPG gamers 🙁
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Yeah, I never bothered to finish it. The game never really clicked for me.
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OMFG ARE YOU TAKING ABOUT THAT TREASURE ACHIEVEMENT?!
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
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Baccano!! 😀 😀 😀
Did you import your The Last Story and Pandora’s from the UK? I’m not sure whether Australia got those editions. What does Pandora’s have? I won it in a competition with the art book but I don’t think I’m missing out on much (SteelBook and CD I believe?)
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Baccano \o/
Yes, those are UK imports. Pandora’s Tower has an artbook & steelbook case. So you didn’t miss out on much.
I kind of wish I’d gotten the Xenoblade LE actually, just because I don’t have a classic controller.
I kind of have a love/hate thing with Steelbook cases. If you could get them custom-printed for cheap I’d totally do custom cases for a lot of my collection because they look so nice. But when it’s just one or two games they look out of place and I hate them 🙁
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The Last Story steelbook design is really awesome though 😀
If you’re after a plain classic controller I believe Big W are still selling Goldeneye for $24. I picked it up recently just so I could complete the golden triad of WiiMote +, Nunchuck and Classic Controller Pro!
Minor nitpick is that the nunchuck has a white cable while the CCP has a black one 😛
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I spy Xenoblade!
What’re those cases on the 4th/right row? DVDs? They look kinda cool, all colourful and such! 😛
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Those are the Japanese Studio Ghibli Bluray releases so far. Nausicaa, Laputa, Grave of the Fireflies, Totoro, Kiki’s Delivery Service, Only Yesterday, Whisper of the Heart, The Yamadas, Howl’s Moving Castle, Tales of Earthsea, Ponyo, The Borrower Arrietty, From Up on Poppy Hill.
Boxes beside are Makoto Shinkai’s ‘Children Who Chase Lost Voices’ and the 30th Anniversary Macross: Do You Remember Love box set (incl. Flashback 2012 & a PS3 game I never got around to trying)
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You know, as soon as I posted that I thought they might be the Ghibli movies 😛 Cool boxes though, I love when a series has a set theme they stick to for every release. Looks so much better on the shelf.
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The JP covers are very simple. Just a solid color, silhouette of some key image from the film, and the Japanese title in white. They’re very pretty. Also the cases are almost entirely made from cardboard.
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Grilled Salmon Bento Lunch Box at Poporo for lunch. May go to galaxy World after.
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Don’t break any bones.
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Be like Shiggy and Harli and show no mercy at the Bumper Cars.
Even if they are 8 years old.-
I thought this was an unwritten rule.
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I thought that was part of the experience?
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* before I get the chance to.
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Happy New Year everyone.
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And to you, Zap! Hope 2013 treats the voice of reason well!
Leaving to go see The Hobbit in about half an hour 😀
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Enjoy man! I certainly did!
Stupid power went of at about 6.30/7pm last night, didn’t come back on until ~11.30pm. Ugh.
Oh well, still had a fun night.
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New Years Eve, Caveman style!
If anyone currently doesn’t have a 3DS (silly you!), just letting you know that Dick Smith have the original ones for $119 in store at the moment. So, go get one! http://dicksmith.com.au/gaming-movies/nintendo3ds/nintendo3ds-handhelds
afternoon.
I’ve spent most of the day being hungry. Still hungry now actually
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Holy moly, it’s 5pm.
Where did the day go o_o
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Um, nowhere as it is still here
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Beyond: Two Souls! Double Fine Adventure! Moebius! Broken Sword 5! SpaceVenture! Tex Murphy: Project Fedora! Leisure Suit Larry! Asylum! Goodbye Deponia! Anna’s Quest! (Maybe?) The Walking Dead: Season Two! Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs! Gone Home! Mystery Game X! The Witness! Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture!
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You forgot Pikmin 3 and Rayman Legends which were both games you were keen on getting if you had a Wii U! 😀
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These are just the adventure games I’m looking forward to this year! 😀
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I played the Rayman Legends demo, the castle rock mission was really fun I doubt I’ll get the game however.
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:O! Why not? Did you ever play Origins?
http://www.videoezy.com.au/games/rayman-legends-nintendo-wii-u/dp/505423/638177#bc=d096 that’s the cheapest I’ve found for $42 ($40 + $2 shipping).
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Here’s some convo for you.
If you could only play 3 of them, which ones would they be, and why?
Which one(s) (keep it to like 3) are the least ones you want to play and why?
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Beyond: Two Souls, Double Fine Adventure and Anna’s Quest if I could only play three.
Quantic Dream’s my Space Maureen, so I can’t wait to see what David Cage has for us next. I understand the criticism they get, especially on the plot front, but every one of their games has had me hooked from start to finish. Double Fine Adventure for obvious reasons, brand new Tim Schafer and Ron Gilbert game, man. Enough said! Anna’s Quest, because Sughly’s awesome and I loved the first episode. So damn proud.
Three that are further down the list? Leisure Suit Larry, SpaceVenture and Amnesia 2.
I suspect both LSL and SV will be quality games, but at the same time it just seems a little like trading on nostalgia. One’s a direct remake of an old series, the other is a spiritual successor of Space Quest from the same devs. I wouldn’t mind seeing something new from both of them. I haven’t played the first Amnesia yet. A Machine for Pigs isn’t a direct sequel but it says something about my priorities if I still haven’t played The Dark Descent.
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Also Moebius would be higher up the list if it wasn’t for Gray Matter’s development being so damn long and troubled. You could see an incredible design behind the implementation, but it didn’t exactly make a great first impression. :S Still? Jane Jensen’s name is more than enough to get me interested in this new game…
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I don’t think Ron has much to do with it 😛
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Eh, still Tim Schafer. 😛
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And most of the people from Amnesia Fortnight!
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Aw man. There’s a copy of Bravely Default in front of me but I kind of doubt it would play on me 3DS.
🙁 I say.
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o_O HUH!?
3DS is region locked so it will not play…
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I know. I still almost purchased it anyway.
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After posting I realised you’re probably in some game store :P. Originally thought you just purchased it and had it in front of you and felt like writing about it for some odd reason 😀
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What is bravely default about anyway?
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I have absolutely no idea.
But I like the style! 3D models over 2D backgrounds :D, reminds me of the golden days of early 3D JRPGs
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as long as it’s fun?
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It sold pretty well in Japan so I assume it’s good!
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It’s a traditional JRPG with a jobs system derived from Final Fantasy V and a turn-based combat system where you can ‘Default’ to store up extra turns so you take ‘Brave’ actions, giving it a pretty interesting risk/reward mechanism. It’s basically a FF spinoff in the vein of Four Heroes of Light, but it doesn’t have the FF branding.
It’s also the only original JRPG I know of for the 3DS. And it’s apparently very good. Also the main reason localization is taking a long time is I think that Squenix will have to spend a lot of money doing it, because the game is extensively voice-acted.
EDIT: Also it has character designs by Akihiko Yoshida (FF Tactics, Tactics Ogre, FFXII and FFXIV) who IMO is the best artist at Squenix.
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is wood expensive? I mean wood to build with. Untreated pine or something.
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Usually not too expensive. Depends what you want.
A few years ago I built 3 large bookcases for (I think?) about $90 in timber costs.
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Good news \o/
Also is it better to get treated pine or untreated and where do you get it? Perhaps I should move this to twitter or steam.-
Treated for outdoor. Treatment helps prevent rot and termites.
Untreated is fine for indoor.-
But then don’t you need primer?
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If you’re painting it, yes. A base coat is required so it takes less top coats to cover the grain from sight.
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Alright then. Thanks.
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You’re welcome.
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Depends if you intend to paint it or use a different treatment (eg varnish)
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Hey Scree,
If this is the [removed] you were mentioning the other night then I would recommend untreated pine. It should be plenty strong enough for [removed] but it’s cheap and easy to work with. The whole thing is going to be painted so look of the timber isn’t really going to be a factor.
I’d stay clear of treated unless as SmurfyDog mentioned it’s going to spend its time outside (which I doubt.)
Treated basically means the soak it full of poisons and you want to avoid breathing in sawdust from treated pine if at all possible. There are some extraordinarily nasty chemicals in that stuff. Also, untreated smells better.
I’m every much an armature at woodwork and I’m sure there are any number of people who would know much more then me but the best advise I was ever given is “measure twice, cut once.”
Edit: Also, plywood may be useful in adding some of the details. I believe you mentioned something about having a jigsaw before and those two were made for each other.
Edit 2: I just discovered you are keeping this hush hush. I hope the cat and the bag are in the same relative position as when I arrived.
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i was going to buy a jigsaw for this project. I just didn’t want it to end up cheap looking
Aw man. Your explanation destroyed all the responses I had. 🙁
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Something about wood not growing on trees?
Edit: Oh, now I see. 😛
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D.C.. Gets. Jokes.
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You know it!
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sorry =P But I kind of saw it coming.
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😉
(@freezespreston)
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Well that really depends.. 2×4 sleepers, for say a garden bed or similar, relatively in expensive.
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That’s also good to know \o/ thanks for the help guys.
i would tell you what I need it for but you never know who’s reading.-
That sounds kind of ominous, scree.
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But I want to keep secrets from my stalkers. =P
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But I am the keeper of secrets!
Ohg V nffhzr vg’f n tvsg sbe n snzvyl zrzore jub zvtug or ernqvat?
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Vg’f n tvsg sbe Zhz, ohg V qvqa’g jnag zl nhag gb ernq vg, orpnhfr fur’f n fgnyxre =C
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There’s always Twitter or the like 😛
You do realise you haven’t said what you’re trying to build which really makes a difference on what sort of wood you should use.
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I’m sure pine will be fine.
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Indoor use versus outdoor use makes a difference as well.
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Indoor use
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Far Cry 3 is awesomes! I’ve only done that first default mission but I’m having fun just wandering around finding the animals I need to upgrade stuff 😀
Aiming felt a bit off but after some tweaking I got it juussssst right. One of the downsides to master racing 😛
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I find it weird that there isn’t any noticeable bullet drop/delay. Battlefield spoiled me.
Happy New Fear TAY, my weekend with Sam was amazing
That girl is amazing, I love her and her company so much
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Good to hear, buddy. Scheduled the next date yet? 😀
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This weekend
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Hells yeah, gives you something to look forward to as well! Happy for you, man!
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Thanks man
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Great to hear that! 😀
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Thanks Smurfy
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So that’s where Sam got to..
Other TAYbies will remember my shenanigans from 2011 where I was hanging out with a friend of mine called Sam every other day lol.
Good to hear man! I need to find a girl to hang out with again, and this time one who’s single might be even better! lol.
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Do it man
This Sam isn’t single anymore-
I hope you’re the one that fixed that 😛
Yeah, i’ve had a few awesome women befriend me in the last year, only issue is they’re all too damn far away lol. I need to meet local girls haha.
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I misread befriend me as breast feed me. I blame the hills have eyes
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Haha! Disturbing!
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Hahaha. Oh Scree.
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Yup, I fixed that
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Good man 😀
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Thank you 😀
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You’re welcome!
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Sorry to hear that man, you tried your best and I know you really liked her. Just know that there’s most fish in the ocean for you!
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Smartassius 😉
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Hamburgers for dinner, they better be tasty, I ache from standing around preparing everything for them and making them.
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Oh, man. That sounds so damn tasty!
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Should be good. Salt, pepper, char siu (chinese bbq) & heinz tomato ketchup, bit of egg & bread crumb to combine.
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Too much dilution of meat. You’re not barbarian enough.
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Lol. Oh shane. It was barely some tasty accessories.
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New Years resolution of spending more time on TAY is going well! *refresh*
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How is that even possible for you?
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Blinking less!
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I imagine it will be like the scene in A Clockwork Orange where Alex is strapped to a chair with his eyes held open and someone adds eye drops to his eyes so they don’t dry out whilst fucked up imagery is being played to his favourite Beethoven score.
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But it’s voluntary so it’s okay!
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Nothing off-putting about it in the slightest! 😛
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Well I was going to mention the imagery & Beethoven part was all optional..
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True!
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… I just saw a tiny spider crawling across my left monitor.
Fortunately, I squashed him, so it’s okay. 🙂
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Crisis averted!
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YOU MONSTER!
My NY resolution of writing more is off to a decent start. Despite hardware tantrums, managed to write and art six pages of comic for Pez, and am hard at work on the 7th, which I intend to finish befor bed! \o/
Back to work tomorrow which means more TAY and less everything else. One arm up, one arm cradled over head \o\
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Hey Shane! Hope you’re well, my friend. I’m glad the year is off to a good start for you!
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All good man. I hope the games I gifted you have kept you satisfactorily distracted during my week of increaesd-absence from TAY. Back to normal tomorrow, though, dude. 🙂
Edit: sorry, meant to add: hope you are well, also!
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Deponia! So damn good, up there with my favourites in the entire genre man. Thanks might be an understatement. Hope you enjoy Freaks & Geeks when it arrives six months from now. 😛
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From what I’ve seen and heard, I think I will love it, and so too will the wife. Many thanks again for that (we’ll see if understatement is warranted upon delivery!) 🙂
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Do you write and art as you go? Doesn’t that interfere with re-writes? 😛
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Eh, don’t have to answer either. Your process is your own. 😀
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Geez, intrusive much!
The story beats have been pretty much finalised at this stage. Now I just need to nut out what dialogue goes on what page, and which images accompany it.
I’m usually a little more organised with script during a project, but this one is much more seat-of-the-pants, which is kind of cool. Especially given this is my first time writing to a strict page limit (22 pages per issue). Don’t know whether it’s luck or not, but so far it seems to be working.
In a normal comic project, because doing art the ‘traditional’ way takes so long, you’d typically want everything finalised before doing any artwork.
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Thanks for the insight, man.
When I drafted one a whiles back for a friend all the writing was done before any art was considered. That was traditional, hand drawn dealy though, like you said. 🙂
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It’s also different when the writer and artist are the same person. If there are many hands involved, the process is by necessity much more rigid and formalised.
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@dc I finally found someone who challenges you & @mythamphetamine to favouriting my tweets lol.
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Oh, man. I have a bad habit of favouriting as much as I upvote here. Know that it’s completely genuine, though. 😛
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@dc is everyone’s Favourite Fairy!
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http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8mfsd4yHo1r6ubhho1_500.gif
You could’ve used a .gif for that and you didn’t.
WHO ARE YOU BIZARRO WORLD NOTORIOUSR?!
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Mixing it up!
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Haha favouriting is fine by me. I just find it funny this girl i’ve been chatty with of late favourites my tweets as often as you do lol.
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If you check my favourites, you’ll find that almost everyone who replies to me gets one. Haha! :S
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hahaha! That’s the spirit man.
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Maybe I should tone it down, huh? 😛
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Nope.
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WE’RE TOTALLY ON PAGE 13
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Your favourites and upvotes please every one!
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This.
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If any TAYbies are looking for some new anime, I highly recommend Eden of the East.
You can watch all of the episodes on Youtube:
Also, Ridge Racer: Unbounded is $11.89 on Steam including DLC…
Should I buy it?
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Despite what we say you’re going to buy it anyway 😀
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…not necessarily. 🙂
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Follow your heart’s desire <3
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I’m going to play McPixel instead.
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I’m making friends over at Gizmodo!
I was sitting here thinking what game should I start the new year with, than I realised Blops 2 already took the privilege -.-
And than I found ten dollars.
Dudeeee… killing tortoises feels so bad in Far Cry 3. There they are just chilling and I run up to them, they cower in fear and hide in their shells and then I whack them a few times with a machete and they die 🙁
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You’re a bad person because you’ve said tortoises plural… which means that after doing it once and feeling bad, you went and did it again.
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But there were two! Lovers perhaps, and letting one live after killing its soulmate was too cruel.
Also most crafty things require 2 or more animal parts.
I didn’t find anything to craft.
Their death was meaningless.
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I hate when you’re forced to hunt in games. It was bad enough in Red Dead Redemption with that achievement taunting you the whole way through. 😛
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That Dastardly achievement in RDR! best achievement ever.
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That side mission to help the guy build his plane too. Had to kill many a beaver, only to watch him plummet to his death. :S
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What was the achievement for?
Been a while since I played RDR but did you have to hunt? If I recall it was just for money or something? I didn’t do much of it.
In FC3 they force you to do it in the tutorial and if you don’t do it during the game you can’t even carry more than one weapon :P. So you’re pretty much forced to do it otherwise it’s going to suckkkk
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But think of the tasty soup you’ll end up with!
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Turtle soup! Shredder had issues! 😀 (Just like Gargamel!)
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Turtle =/= Tortoise
But I’ve had turtle before. Was pretty good.
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MONSTER! x2
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Tortoises and bears, two animals I refuse to kill in FC3. I was driving along when I saw two of them cross the road, so I totally crashed my car into a rock so as to not run over them.
LEAVE THEM BE
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THINK OF THE CHILDREN /o\
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I might get some shut eye. Hope day one of 2013 treated you awesomely!
Catch you on the flipside, home slices! 😀
So I think I have (or am close to having) the most comments on Kotaku 😛
I’m sure @Dc will overtake me over the next few years but who knows! 😀
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I think I just found your first TAY comment:
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2010/04/talk-amongst-yourselves-68/comment-page-1/#comment-111655-
That you did Creepyguy1990!
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I’m not so far behind you, man. Could have sworn someone had already cracked 15000 though…
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I think Trjn and Blaghman have something like that if you include Blaghs’ other account.
But considering I only became active for a year or so that’s quite a feat 😛
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Ah, 2012. I remember it like it was yesterday.
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That joke is so last year!
Freeze’s First Day Of 2013 In Sydney In Convenient Point Form
Masha is a great bloke. Enjoying hanging with him.
So is Aleph.
Also Doc What, Saturday, CJ, Shiggy, Ruffles, f4ction and Blaghs.
My bestest drinking buddy Sughly got really sick and had to go home today. Sads were had all around. 🙁
Tried a Century Egg tonight. Not entirely sure if I liked it or not.
Black raspberry wine is definitely awesome though.
Still may go back and get that copy of Bravely Default.
Wanted to get my eldest a pair of Batman/Joker Converses but they were completely out of her size nationwide.
Bishibash at Galaxy World is my new favouritest game ever.
Korean BBQ is amazing.
White Sambucca, Tabasco and Tequila is a terrible terrible thing that should never exist.
Kingpin bowling has an Irish barmaid working there who is amazingly nice and friendly and should be tipped. Very good at her job.
Finally starting to figure out the train system here. Didn’t get lost once.
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There was a Meat tonight? :O
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Sort of. Including Doc What, Saturday, CJ, Shiggy, Ruffles, f4ction and Blaghs is a bit misleading since they were mostly last night and while camping. Today consisted of myself aleph and Masha wandering Sydney and unsuccessfully attempting to get others out with us.
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I would’ve joined :'(
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But you didn’t. You bailed 🙁
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I also would’ve joined but sadly already had agreed to catch up with people I know who are up from Victoria yesterday.
Trust me when I say I would’ve much rather have been with you guys.
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8 minutes too late for a valid title.
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That’s too bad about @sughly, hope he’s feeling better. Looks like Aleph would make a good drinking buddy substitute, though! 😀 Sounds like you’re having an awesome time, Freeze!
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I’m not an alcoholic, I’m a soberphobe.
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I disliked Spec Ops: The Line.
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I see you waited until DC went to bed to post it. =P
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I’m sure he’ll see it.
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Just in case
@dc
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Haha! Really is one of those games that people either really love or are kind of apathetic about.
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It just wanted to make you feel like a massive dick. Not cool.
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I’m reading up on it now, to see if there are people out there that are criticising it (looks like most of the commentary is praise) and that the writer actually said that people could have stopped playing after that infamous section.
I didn’t want to stop there because I was unhappy with my actions. I wanted to stop there
because the game was calling me a dick after railroading me.A lot of the actions of the three characters seemed unrealistic.
Walker killed a lot of American soldiers for no good reason. Adams and Lugo followed the orders of a man that was clearly insane and Adams in particular seemed like the sort that would just shoot Walker and then himself instead of continuing that madnessThe later shooting sections were frustrating. Really, I just didn’t enjoy playing this. It tried to deconstruct the modern shooter genre but in doing so, it also put a bit spotlight on its own flaws.
EDIT: There are also bits of the plot that really don’t make much sense.
The stuff with the CIA where you just go along with them and be a little puppet causing death and destruction? At no point did it seem like a good idea to side with them.-
I feel like you’ve missed the forest because of the trees.
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In the clip, Starr reports that he recently recorded the voice of a character named Mr. Fibonacci that will appear in the upcoming season of the Cartoon Network series The Powerpuff Girls.
… I can’t…. just…
If this is real, I’m going to flip out like crazy.
Holy fuck, please don’t be fake.
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I’m more surprised to learn that the Powerpuff Girls is still running o_o
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It finished in 2004.
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Back at work, back on TAY. Evens out in the end.
MORNING ALL!
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*refresh*
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Ome! Le Funar! Nighthawk! Shane! ‘sup?
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Kids slept terribly, which meant that so did I. On the plus side, got stacks of writing done yesterday and introduced my wife to The Walking Dead TV series. Apparently, zombies scare me more than they do her (one of those “who knew?” moments that keep things fresh)
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Mass Effect Trilogy set is $55 at MightyApe: http://www.mightyape.com.au/product/Xbox-360/Mass-Effect-Trilogy/20899885/
There’s a new mid-week TAY!
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Wonder if we’ll get one every day. Thanks for the heads-up! I would have just kept posting and refreshing here /o\
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@sughly’s system of posting a reminder on every page is actually useful! 😀
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Hi, everyone! o/
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‘sup Crazyguy! How goes it! 😀
Eeeee! I’m still alive! Just..
But don’t you see, Shane? I do have access to a time machine!
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@shane
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Hey man, what is this crazy time period?
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