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Man, Blighttown…
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He’s a pretty cool guy!
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It’s going down tonight. And that’s final.
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I have found that Blighttown isn’t too bad.
except for those jerks that inflict you with “toxic”.I probably spend more time getting lost in Lower Undead Berg.-
Really? That’s like one long corridor 😛
Last night, I took down that Gaping Dragon on the first try. Epic battle. Wander off, spend the souls, then head off to Blighttown (VotD entrance) and get owned by some club-wielding barbarian straight away 😛-
heh, the club guys are easy. Super slow swing speed. Also when going through the sewers part I have to collect everything. Plus trying to get the Greataxe from the boss can be a little difficult. -
One of those club guys at a time, I could have handled 😛
And I think you mean The Depths, not Lower Undead Burg. That place is a bit confusing! Re: greataxe, I got it! Summoning Solaire and Lautrec is key there! 🙂
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I was tempted to jump in Dark Souls last night, but Sunday lethargy took hold.
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DARK SOULS!
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@dc
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Game of Thrones S2 Blu Ray! Tomb Raider! Batman Dark Knight Returns Part 2! Exciting week! Exclamation point!
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I was pretty blown away by Batman. There were some pretty intense moments. I don’t think this will spoil anything, but still:
It had probably one of the best/most monstrous interpretations of Joker I’ve ever seen.-
Pretty excited for batman, thought they did a really good job with Part 1.
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Has anyone here used a professional for-hire recording studio? If so, where/how much/was it any good?
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No. #helping
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Cheers bro! 😛
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I do volunteer work at a radio station, does that count?
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Depends – is it for hire, and is it in Sydney?
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Depends what you’re recording I suppose.
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An album. I’d need somewhere with enough space for 4-5 people and their instruments.
The place I’m looking at now is mighty fine, but mighty expensive also (it looks like).
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Damn, Studios 301 have some serious credits.
The two my band are looking at are Bearclaw and Electric Sun.
That said, if your upper limit for an album is $4000, you’re going to have to look very small.
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Yeah, I mean $4000 of my own cash. If it’s only a little more, I may fork it out, if not, I might try for a kickstarter. Worth a shot at least!
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That much might get you an EP at a decent studio. Certainly not at Studios 301. I’d say you’re probably going to need to source a bit more cash, Kickstarter might be worth a shot.
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Yeah, we’ll see what kind of a quote they come back with. I’m still looking around at places. I want a good studio though, not one that will produce results similar to those I could get at home. I’ll just keep on searching, I guess!
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You american ? Kickstarters still only for US residents…right?
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Actually? Lame.
What about Pozible?
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I think that’s our local, yeah.
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Ask Pez? You’d have to find him on the facebooks though. He doesn’t TAY or Twitter anymore.
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He’s made it pretty clear he doesn’t like me for whatever reason. Not going to step on any toes!
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In that case… uh… Don’t ask him!
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He’s probably just jelly of your height 😛
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Oh hey there, we have something in common!
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You could try ringing around schools/uni’s? My college (year 11/12 here) had a recording studio that they rented out to bands. I doubt they’d be too expensive.
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In general, though, Uni’s seem to just have a room for recording. They don’t have the staff to master it effectively. I don’t know much about sound engineering and would prefer a pro do it for me!
Playing the show at Queanbeyan pool this weekend. There’s going to be a magician, face painting, balloon animals and airbrush tattoos. Considering it’s my birthday, I think I’ll just assume it’s all for me. That seems fair.
Omg got a post on the front page of TAY better make it relevant. Yay Sim City this week. Probably going to distract me from Witcher 2 which I’m also enjoying ATM.
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You know what would be good? A SimCity game for Wii U. Should work really well with the tablet gamepad. Plus they need to have Bowser as one of the disasters. (@doc_what) And they need to call it Siim Ciity U 😛
Mark of the ninja…. why do I not have enough time to play you more!
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I’ve been playing it recently. Doing NG+ and hoping to get all achieves. (Yes I’m a filthy achieve hore!
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Yeah, I replayed the first couple of levels after realizing I have objectives……
Not that I minded as it is a pretty decent game, which for some reason remind me of XIII.
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Picked this up over the weekend for $5 on steam… then spent the next 7 hours on it :S
That Nokia ad on the side of the page advertising the wireless charging feature? The no battery screen doesn’t look like that.
Which reminds me, why do TVs and movies have to come up with their own UIs for computers and mobile phones, etc? What’s wrong with the ones already on those devices? They usually look better anyway.
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My guess is that the already-designed ones are too busy/distracting or display things too small for the camera to focus exactly on whatever text it wants the viewer to notice.
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Comes down to advertising and product placement, too.
EDIT: i.e. money
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The didn’t licence the OS so the cant use it? I dunno
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Hmmm, yeah. That probably has something to do with it. Arrow has a lot of MS advertising in it, and the iPhones that appear in it have a made up UI for incoming calls. The Windows computers, Phones and Surfaces have their real UIs though.
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This might be true. It’s probably cheaper to develop a new screen animation to display than it is to licence the OS.
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You know the drill (I hope)! It’s Monday morning so call in and make your Radio Numbers requests
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Chainsaw Gutsfuck – Mayhem
Or
The Stars (Are Out Tonight) – David Bowie
Your choice.
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Bowie it is then….
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Soft.
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Mainstream (read: normal-people music) station
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Normal people love Chainsaw Gutsfuck!
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BOWIE
NEW BOWIE OR OLD BOWIE I DON’T CARE AS LONG AS IT’S NOT FROM TIN MACHINE OR NEVER LET ME DOWN
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Bowie is already on the list, no need to fret, Mr. Red
First off:
Thanks to EVERYONE who donated to the Potaku “World’s Greatest Shave” fund. We hit our total and are now on our way to our second target amount. Just so everyone knows –
If we hit $2000 @blaghman will join us and shave his head!
In other news, apparently everything I posted on facebook was only visible to the people mentioned in the status. For the statuses where no one was mentioned, only I could see it. NERD FAIL!
My parents got a new Laptop at the weekend as well as an iPhone fore my mum and a Samsung Galaxy S III for my dad. I spent the best part of Saturday doing tech support and have a feeling this will continue for some time.
I drew lots, played little and now am back at work… Fun…
How is everyone else?
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On call, but thankfully it was a quiet weekend. Have games I need to play, but as per usual spent the entire weekend playing little bits of everything instead of getting anything major done. Although I did play a good 5-10 hours of Torchlight 2.
Need to try and finish Wings of Liberty again before HotS comes out! Also, Castlevania 3DS this week!
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I’m finally trying to finish Gravity Rush. Screengrabbed a scene where Kat laments that she’ll probably never get a boyfriend.
Dat story, eh?
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Never finished that one either.
It’s a tragedy of…. some sort….
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I may be imagining it, but I think she also laments the size of her breasts at some point.
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I wouldn’t be surprised.
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I wish the story was a little stronger at the end of Gravity Rush. It sort of runs out of puff. Still the game is great, and I hope it has sold well enough to get a sequel.
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You realise I said I’d join you guys if you raise more than $5000?
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You did? I did not know this! I have edited the Potaku article to mention it!
(Highly doubt we’ll get to 5k, but thanks for the vote of confidence!)
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Tadmod, it all depends what you’re doing and your budget for which studio is best.
It can vary for a few hundred dollars a day to thousands. If you’re on a limited budget and want to record a band then I would say that you need to be more picky about who is recording/producing it for you than where (as long is it is a studio and not a garage) it is being recorded.
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I’m currently looking at Studios 301 in Sydney (They’re tailored for Muse, Lady Gaga and Coldplay, so not small by any means). It’s for an album of 10 songs.
I’m thinking an upper limit of about $4000 to get it recorded/mastered. If it’s more than that, I might try for a kickstarter.
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It all depends on how many days it will take you to record 10 songs. Last time I did an EP at a studio it was recorded over a weekend and cost $4000 to get 4 songs recorded, mixed and mastered. Due to the minimal time spent on mixing in the following days, the results were satisfactory. We were told if we wanted a better mix, it would cost more.
Since then I only get drums recorded in a studio and track everything else myself at home. That way I have much more money to spend on professional mixing and mastering. If you’ve got a decent computer and an audio interface, I recommend you track guitars, bass and vocals at home.
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I don’t have much time for mucking about today, but just have to put out a huge thankyou to SerNobulus, Sughly, Freeze and DC for the awesome day out yesterday! Was great meeting new faces including DC, Mrs Freeze, Tigerion and Mrs Tigerion!!
Highlights of the day were many, including riding the tower of terror 2 four times in a row cos there was no line up, Sughly eating chocolate off the floor in the food court, SerNobulus admitting his hair dresser asked him what grade he was in while getting a haircut, and well.. fuck the whole day was a highlight really! Fun from go to whoa!
This is really a bit below my usual standard of post meat write up, but I gots some important stuffs to do today, and not a lot of time in which to pull it off.
Oh, and Freeze, I accidentally brought your lighter home with me (mrs freeze gave it to me to use, and I forgot it was in my pocket) I shall return it next time I see you!
TAYbies are teh bestest peoples! Hi 5’s all round!
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I had a lighter?
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hahaha apparently! it’s more like a little blowtorch, but not much bigger than a lighter
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Glad to see you enjoyed yourself even through these current tough times sire 🙂
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Thanks! Probably the only fun I’ve had since the last meat I attended.. and the Frenzal Rhomb concert I got a ticket for on my b’day!
Really can’t thank the aforementioned people enough. Even though internally I was pretty badly stressing all day, at least I was able to share some laughs with someone other than my tv for a change! 🙂-
I’ve recently taken up Heroes 6 again, multiplayer at some point? 🙂
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Yeah we totally should.. I haven’t played it in ages.. have to install it again. Think I can do it through uplay or steam.. what’s yours through?
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Both :(, as how it was designed in Steam. Actually has three layers of DRM
1: Steam
2: uPlay (Pro tip, never EVER use cloud saves)
3: Conflux – Heroes 6 multiplayer serviceIf you can install through uPlay, might be best to go through that.
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k. I’ll msg you on msn once I’m done and ready
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They don’t like Star Wars. Therefore their opinion is invalid 😛
Want me to post a torrent of negative abuse pointing how wrong in every regard they are?
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Uh… no.
Thanks.I honestly didn’t think The Lesser Evil was all that political. I was trying to put the characters front and centre in the story.
I think either these people have the wrong idea about my book, or I do.
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I think these people have the wrong idea about a lot of things. Like pink text. 😛
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I was joking.
I think being self confesses politic haters they just saw the slightest mention of it and just assumed it was all that. Admitting you hate Star Wars because of the politics says it all really.
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Aahhhh, my eyes! THEY BURN! AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!
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I’m fairly certain that layout just did severe damage to my eyes.
I can still see it when I blink.
MORE Dreamworld write-ups please.
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Sure!
I didn’t go.
The end.
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Beaten to the joke.
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I’ll give it a shot.
I went to Dreamworld once.
It went okay…There weren’t any TAYbies when I went.
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I rode a tiger and watched a man feed the Tower of Terror.
Fin.
Last song played game gang
Hurt by Nine Inch Nails
Amazing amazing amazing
How are we all?
Sam stayed Sunday night as well this weekend, so this morning I had to wake her up and make sure we both got off to the train station
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Polkarama – weird al yankovic :$
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Asthma Attack – Confession
make sure we both got off to the train station
You guys are into some weird shit.
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You know it baby 😉
Stupid later train 🙁
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Lost and Lonely – Rasmus, the
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last song played – nothing. my mp3 player died.
public transport without music is terrible.-
Preaching to the choir on that one man
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As I was reading this comment, my mp3 player stopped working.
It was low battery, but there was still a moment of terror, wondering how on earth you managed to do that.-
wasn’t me man. it is not something that I would wish on anyone.
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Of course, I just thought it was funny 🙂
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Rip It Up (The Pragmatic Remix) – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiwtqtkbZEY
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Shocked.
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Haddaway – What is Love
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Play Blue by Eiffel 65 for me on the radio?
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You got it.
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Air- Klazz Brothers
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Four Horseman – Metallica
Seeing those guys at Soundwave renewed my faith in metal, I hope I can still play as fast and neat at their age!
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Hurt by Nine Inch Nails
You shouldn’t listen to that – it will make you depressed.
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Nothing makes me depressed
Spaghett is unstoppable 😀
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Just caught up on fhis article: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/03/kids-reveal-the-real-flaws-of-free-to-play-games/
How the hell can so many people defend in-app transactions? It’s not about stupid parents or bratty kids, it’s a deliberately sneaky money making environment setup by devs and supported completely by Apple. As one commenter did point out, if they were serious about customer choice, they would provide an OS level lock on micro transactions.
But as it stands, it’s like gambling-lite in that it encourages addictive behavior, where those with little self control (like, say, kids) can burn through loads of cash in no time at all. Even worse, at least gambling provides a chance of some kind of return – this offers nothing more than the opportunity to waste more money. And the only real defense is to stop “buying” games that support them. Which is becoming increasingly impossible and translates to “don’t play games”. I’m seriously concerned about how I will be able stop my son wasting money on this crap when he is old enough and I am most definitely not uninformed or lazy.
Bah. Mad Monday. Point is we most definitely should be vocal in our opposition to in-app transactions, and support articles like this rather than shout them down. Otherwise we will end up with full pricesd retail games trying to pull this crap… Oh…
Ps: @markserrels I’d be interested to hear from local devs about microtransactions. I know it’s become an essential part of money making now, but how do they deal with the ethics, and do they ever consider methods like, say, maximum per account expenditure?
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Hear, hear!
I love the my little pony app, but i hate how you’re pretty much forced to spend as you need to buy gems (the microtransaction currency) to proceed the story. That’s like putting DLC in the game halfway and you can’t proceed until you buy it.
I wish they had a better alternative like just make the items really expensive with the in game currency.
Really, they should put a time limit like they do when you’re building stuff, or else be liable.-
LoL does this perfectly. You play games to earn Influence Points (IP) which can buy champions (player characters) or runes (active buffs) or you can pay cash to get Riot Points (RP) which can buy players, rune pages (more rune combos at any one time), character skins (cosmetic change only) and small boosts to IP or experience gains
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Not 100% perfectly, they’ve been notorious for not having the same RP amounts buyable. You can’t get exactly 975 RP for instance, it’s either 650 or 1380 for $5 and $10 respectively. Jo and I were talking about this once how RP purchasing is extremely inconvenient when all you wanted was one skin, only to have that small unusable amount of RP left looking back at you on your screen
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Something, something, eight-thousand dollars.
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Isn’t it a bit unfair to force all the responsibility onto the developers? Parents need to take some responsibility for their children. I’m not saying there aren’t dodgy apps out there but I just can’t see the problem with not providing a child with your apple id password.
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I think there should be guidelines to more clearly define a moment that will cost real money, with a confirmation screen, but ultimately, that’s not the developer’s responsibility either.
From what I’ve read, the system itself is kind of broken, mandating a stored credit card number, and providing no way to said block credit card from being accessed from individual apps. And without some sort of legislation or something, there’s no reason to assume this apple’n’gravy train will slow down any time soon.
So yes, responsibility at the moment is the parents’. They should know by now that you don’t get anything for free.
Honestly, though, if you’re passing a $500-700 piece of droppable technology to a child, you’re asking for trouble even if they don’t engage in microtransactions 😛
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You raise a couple of points there:
that’s not the developer’s responsibility either
No, but there’s no reason that, say, EA couldn’t come out and say “We will mandate that all games we sell have a maximum of $20 worth of in-app purchases per account per game”. That would be a responsible policy that helps to mature the market by taking it in a responsible direction. A $20 return on a “free” mobile game is still pretty frickin’ sweet, and it’s annoying but not infuriating if you’re the one stung by it.And without some sort of legislation or something, there’s no reason to assume this apple’n’gravy train will slow down any time soon.
Maybe. Apple (and everybody else) could make the default settings on their device are “always require password”, “disable in-app purchases”, etc, and provide very clear opt-in decisions along the way.Honestly, though, if you’re passing a $500-700 piece of droppable technology to a child, you’re asking for trouble even if they don’t engage in microtransactions 😛
That’s all well and good, but what if it’s an iPhone 3G that’s worth nothing that’s been sitting in a drawer? Or if it’s a 10 year old kid who has saved up their pocket money for years to buy an iPod touch? Or what if it has become so pervasive that what you’re saying translates to “if you let kids play games you’re asking for trouble”? Think back to your childhood, and it’s sad that it’s going to come this.-
I agree with all your points. It would be lovely if things were different, of course.
Ultimately, morality of the situation aside, no one is doing anything, so for the moments, parents need to be vigilant.
And I’m not saying that letting kids game is a recipe for disaster. But the FTP-model + kids IS. Get them a console instead.
Also, even if you’re not going to give your kids a dedicated gaming device, there are plenty of games out there that cost a few bucks and have no microtransactions. The ‘nothing free for free’ point still stands. The price of a ‘free’ game must be supervision.
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Understood. And getting back to my original rant, “no one is doing anything” but there are plenty of gamers quick to say “Oh, stupid parents” rather than ask serious pointed questions of the ones perpetuating the unpleasant situation. Which is why I’m going to ask everybody’s favourite journalist (TM) if there is any story in asking these pointed questions…
I’m talking about Clark Kent, by the way. Not that Mark Serrels hack.
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I won’t cop that. It’s tough being a parent, even if you are vigilant. If you’re working against a system designed to sneakily squeeze money out of your kids and teach compulsive behaviour, it’s an almost impossible situation.
But you’re doing exactly what I’m arguing against – we should not be apologising for the developer behaviour of including these microtransactions. We should be opposing it en-masse so that they get the idea that unscrupulous use of them is not OK.
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I agree with all this, but would add that you are unnecessarily stacking the odds against yourself if you give your kids a mobile device that has cc details saved to it 😛
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Yes, definitely, and I make a point of never doing it myself. But as things get sneakier, I don’t know that I’ll even be able to leave the room while my kid is playing Sonic on the xbox without having to worry about these things.
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YEP. Some of those games for kids on the iPhone are brutal. All of them are free-to-play. Sneaky indeed. It’s a top idea for a story.
Autumn Melbourne meat!
Who; You! (if you are able to come) and other Melbourne Taybies
What: A meat! Lunch and catch up
When: Saturday the 9th of March, 11am.
Where: Melbourne CBD. Meet up at Optic (it’s next to acmi) and will move to yoyogi’s later.
Why: Because @smurfydog wants okonomiyaki.
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What: A meat! Lunch and catch up
You’re going to eat @doc_what??? D:
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Consume Doc and Japanese Cannibal meat!
Pass 😛
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I thought What was a Scottish Doctor!?
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Everyone makes that joke so I thought I’d be different.
Is that so wrong? =(-
Don’t mess with the classics.
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Count me in!
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Wants what?
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Vegetable pancake
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Can’t come. I’m moving house. 🙁
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He’s not really crippled. He’s an actor. He can walk on his own.
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So, in 10 sleeps it will be my birthday. I’ll be … 30! AARRGGHH!!!!! It’s come up a lot quicker than I expected, but I am actually looking forward to it. Also, today I start Uni again after a year’s exclusion. Hopefully I can survive it this time.
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10 sleeps, eh?
Obviously all you need to do is sleep 9 times and then stay awake for the rest of your life, therefore granting you immortality. Or a short life span. Whichever comes first.
We started playing Dota2 games against real people and were glorious in our victories. The one that stands out was when there were two disconnections and we managed to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat when the three remaining players on the other team managed to get so fed from our laziness that they were winning pretty much every team fight.
Still, the important thing is that we are undefeated and that Windrunner can be quite the carry if she gets fed early (even if you planned on going support). She’s a flexible little minx.
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I haven’t played for ages, finding that the games I was playing were taking much longer than the LoL game sI was used to. I wonder if that has changed as Beta has progressed, as I’m really thinking of jumping back in. Time is critical for me b/c a game like that i can’t pause if I’m needed (crying kid for example), so i gotta try and fit it in the best block of time I can get as possible.
So yeah my question is how long is a game for you, usually?
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30-50 minutes. Definitely shorter than they used to be (where a 30 minute game seemed like it was impossible) but still fairly lengthy.
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Ok yeah hitting that 50 min mark and knowing I still had the hard slog of actually taking their base out was what made me stop playing. I might try it again.
BTW I’m terribel at the game, so that doesn’t help 😛
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Co-ordination helps a lot. In one of our games, we had a friendly bit of banter with the other team. Well, the one guy from the other team that knew how to do all talk.
He asked what hacks we were using when we starting to roll them. I told him TeamSpeak.
It really makes a huge difference. That and warding properly. Map vision is worth so much more whatever piddling little stat bonus you’d get for the same price.
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I think I’m going to pick a couple of character to specialise with, and so far I think the Treant will be one of them.
Y’know…the funny thing is, I finished watching The Two Towers not long before playing as him. I think that may have been an influence on this decision.-
Yes, it was definitely The Two Towers that influenced you and not all of that “pipeweed” you were smoking. Damned kids and their drugs.
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D.C.’s DREAMWORLD MEAT WRITE-UP:
— Trained into the city at 8am. Stood around Roma Street station for an hour psyching myself up before Sughly made his triumphant arrival. We then drove around in the rain for a whiles, talked to old man Freeze on the phone and bought Dreamworld tickets from a dilapidated parking lot somewhere. I totally forgot to sign out of my e-mail address on his phone too. (Have fun reading my lack of e-mails. :P)
— Welbot. I was kind of nervous. Dreamworld was my 11th meat and this was the first time meeting him. He endured some patented D.C. awkward ramblings, the thing I do whenever I’m introduced to a new TAYbie for the first time. Calmed down eventually, made our way to coast.
— Rain seemed a lot worse in Brisbane. Just a little overcast on the Gold Coast when we arrived at the park. Despite being half an hour late, we still beat all the locals. (Except for Nobs who had already entered Dreamworld.) Eventually we all arrived, met Mr. and Mrs. Tigerion and made our way in.
— First port of call was The Claw. So much fun. I sat next to Mrs. Freeze who screamed like a trooper the entire time. (Warning me after the ride that she screams. I worked that out on my own. Haha!) Such a cool ride. I think we all had a crazy fear that the harnesses might open midway through and we’ll fall to our deaths, but atleast it’d be a fun way to go. 😛
— Afterwards we went on the WipeOut, Sughly realized he’d lost his 8 month pass dealy only minutes after buying it. Went back to find it, but was gone alas. Oh man, WipeOut’s probably the closest I got to feeling sick the entire day. All that spinning, upside down spinning. Sughly said my face was crazy red. :S
— Started raining. Decided Alien Vs. Predator laser tag would be good to do, being undercover and all that. I was nervous, man. Last time I played laser tag at the NovaMeat I didn’t do particularly well, but I redeemed myself. Not last. 😀
— Good thing about raining theme park is hardly any queues when the rides are opened, unfortunately they shut the roller coasters down in bad weather. We decided to get lunch instead. Good eating! (Except for not actually getting any thing to eat!)
— Decided to get our annual passes. Sughly and I went on an expedition to find his lost ticket. Lady at the front desk gave him a new one. Things were well. Went back and got our pictures taken. (Worst. Pictures. Ever.) Then mosied over to the Tower of Terror 2.
— We rode the Tower of Terror 2 back-to-back four times in a row, because there was no queue. This was the highlight of the day for me. So much fun. Mrs. Freeze shouting out who she thought would be the first to vomit or leave the ride. So damn good.
— Afterwards the others went on this crazy, spinning dealy. I know my limits when it comes to rides and this was it. I sat with Mrs. Tigs and we justified our cowardly ways as the others rode. I truly think it would’ve finished what the WipeOut started earlier, so was happy to not ride this mofo.
— Group seperated for a while, Mrs and Mr. Tigs went to feed tigers at Tiger Island (!!!), while Nobs, Sughly, Freeze, Mrs. Freeze, Welbot and I decided to brave the Buzzsaw. Oh man, so damn intense. So damn fun. The restraints is one bar that goes over your gut. Felt secure, though. Cut off oxygen too. 😀
— We went on the River Rapids ride. Last two times I’d been to Dreamworld I destroyed a pair of shoes on this thing, but tentatively went on anyways. Was really awesome. We were freaked out over who’d get soaked. Turns out that would be EVERYONE except for Sughly. Spent the rest of the day dripping wet. (Atleast the water doesn’t smell like a swamp any more! That’s something!)
— Welbot, Freeze, Nobs, Sughly and I went on the Giant Drop. All kinds of fun. Took a while to drop, so Sughly and I started talking about random stuff… midway through screaming commences. Mrs. Freeze watched from below, taking photos and all that.
— MotoCoaster! This is so damn weird, you sit down, hunched forward with your knees bent. Then the restraint locks in place from behind. Weird, uncomfortable feeling but fun ride all the same. Some crazy lady tried to steal Mrs. Freeze’s bag. (Which had all our phones, wallets, etc in it.) People are crazy.
— Cyclone! Welbot and I sat at the back. Was fun except for slamming our knees good and proper on the carriage. They’re all bruised today. D:
— ShockWave! New ride, slightly sickening. Decent enough. Another ride with weird seating arrangements. Many a joke ensued.
— We found the Tigerions at Tiger Island. Tigs seemed all kinds of happy, he had fed himself a Tiger don’t you know! These critters are freakin’ awesome too. There was a hermit Tiger that refused to participate earlier. Sughly said it was the D.C. of the tiger world. Poor Tiger. :'(
— We went on the dodgem cars then the Alien Vs. Predator laser tag again. I didn’t come last again. Phew. Also the ride operator was all kinds of d-bag like. Broke character and routinely screamed at all of us for having fun. Haha.
— When we left AvP, EVERYTHING was deserted. Seems they had closed the park without telling us. (Tigs hadn’t picked up his Tiger Island photos yet from the gift shop.) We all mosied out of the park. Hope you guys can work the picture thing out. :S
— We went back to the Freeze homestead and had dinner. Freeze fixed my glasses. Dogs were petted. Cats were admired. Frogs were picked up. Pizza was eaten. It was all kinds of awesome.
— Sughly, Welbot and I left pretty early alas. (I had to catch the last train at 11pm, welbot had plans for the next day.) Would’ve loved to stay longer at the Freezes’ place, though. They’re so damn awesome and all kinds of hospitable. Talked Arcade Fire and a variety of other topics with these folks before we all went our seperate way.
— Took the train home, track works, transferred to buses, got home before midnight.
Was really excellent meating Tigs and his wife. Hope you guys had a good time!
Awesome day. You guys are awesome. :’)
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TL;DR: DC worst hermit ever?
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You picked up random frogs?! D:
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Freeze’s place is filled with animals! They’ve got pet frogs. Mrs. Tigs was all kinds of psyched!
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:O! I wanna seeeeeee
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Tigs took photos!
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You forgot the part where Sughly mentioned having a nightmare where he fell of the claw and died seconds before the ride started also the part where Sughly at chocolate off the floor.
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Haha! I had that dream too. Was a little weirded out by that fact. Final Destination? 😛
People are used to Sughly’s food eating antics now. XD
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To be fair, it was recently dropped chocolate.
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On dubious looking discoloured concrete. 😛
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To be fair it was Magnum ice cream chocolate
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TL;DR
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Most of us got 8 month passes to Dreamworld that expire at the end of November. Shane Meet-and-greet experience!
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Hope it happens! So much up in the air right now :\
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Trackwork. Ruiner of all meats.
Sounds fun 🙂
@markserrels DREAMWOOOOORLD!
In addition to this, I discovered I’m actually better at laser tag than I expected! Must be all that quake 2 & 3 mid air rail practice I got years ago!
SUPER JELLY OF DREAMWORLD SHENANIGANS.
FORGOT TO SAY! New look Potaku.com is up! Many thanks to Potaku team member no. 4, @Powalen for all his hard work. If anyone notices any bugs, please let someone know. Enjoy!
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Something something like if you want the old Potaku back.
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But he’s not bearded! D:
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Dude has like perma-stubble on his face. It’ll do.
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His Mii is facialhairless
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LET’S SEE YOU GROW A BEARD GREENIUS
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:'{ ) }
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AHHHH, my eyes, etc.
I’ll go have a look now.
I found a bug, so I emailed Malcolm Turnbull about it, but he hasn’t got back to me.
I think your bug report system needs work.
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He’d just say that under the coalition’s NBN you’ll be able to access all the Potaku you ever need
At least until the copper rots.
Looks good
Are you able to put a link to wordpress login on the sidebar?
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Sure can!
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This guy! I tells ya!
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Be gentle!
@powalen is a bug type pokemon, does that count?
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Please don’t report me.
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…actually it’s not but WHATEVS
Hola Tayberinos
Hope all your weekends were fantastic.
I was laid low Saturday with a lousy head cold and headache, which I managed to improve through a combination of Nurofen and KFC. Also managed to finish Far Cry 3 and read a chunk more of War and Peace.
A Monday Morning question: Given I’ve talked above about KFC as a cure, what in game health or powerup would you like to try? I’d love to give Saints Flow a taste, as long as I got the running and fireballs.
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1 Up Mushroom or something similar for a second life!
Also, it’s not often you hear about KFC fixing or helping problems instead of causing them 😛
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It’s not something I’d usually reach for, but I think the salt, sugar and liquid from the pepsi with it helped.
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Yeah, if I feel a cold coming on when I’m at work I hit up KFC for lunch.
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Gotta be something Mario, I think. Either a fire flower or a star (I’m a traditionalist).
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Dumpster chicken.
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Hope you’re feeling better, man!
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still a bit sniffly, but otherwise as good as one can be on a monday morning
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A Nuka Cola from Fallout
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1-UP mushroom. A whole extra life would be nice!
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I like the way you think!
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Ugh, Ser Copyulus
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Blue shell. Fuck the 1%!
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read a chunk more of War and Peace.
Good book but i find I’ve never been able to mention reading it without being accused (non verbally) of being pretentious. and I never bring it up. Like if some one makes a joke about ‘yeah too long like reading war and peace’ and i say ‘oh but i read it and enjoyed it so…’ and they will look at me like ‘well look who thinks they r clever’
Probably why i have no friends i guess 😛
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I get that with Crime and Punishment! But because it never comes up naturally in conversation, I am forced to mention it, which amplifies the smug pretentiousness of the moment.
Like now.-
I didn’t get real far into that one, I’ll revisit it later in the year
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I went through a ‘Russian Classics’ stage in Uni and read any Tolstoy and Dostoevsky I could get my hands on. Glad I did because they were enriching experiences, but quite isolating because I can’t talk to anyone about them. Don’t you know the cool kids play vidya gaems, not read.
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I think people are just intimidated by its reputation.
I found this with Anna Karenina, but Tolstoy is actually a reasonably easy read, very clear and concise.
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What a sad book 🙁
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It is sad, but it’s very much an of-its-time tragedy
Nowadays she’d have divorced him in the first chapter 🙂
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More meat write-ups! (So I can over think things from other peoples perspective! :P)
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Dreamworld meat write up:
I wasn’t there.
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MEAT WRITEUPS
Man, @dc is awkward around people. He tries hard, but just makes everyone else uncomfortable. I told him rides make me scream, but really it was him.
– Mrs Freeze
Oh man, all the @dc, all the time. I was hoping to catch something nasty from the floor so I could at least get away in an ambulance.
– SughlyThe best bit was when the group split up and we got away from @dc
– Mr and Mrs TigsThe end. Overthink away!
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I’ve had some of these worries! 😛
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I always imagine when I leave a meat that people spend five minutes discussing my oddities in between peals of derisive laughter and then promptly forget I exist.
Channeling that kind of made it easy to get into your head for the troll post above 😛
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Fringe series 4 talk:
possibly @dc because Anna Torv.
what the shit is with series 4? seriously… alt timeline overwriting the prime timeline?!?! what about the last 3 years of character development? just been undone & made permanent? that is so annoying. 3 years of growth & change deus-ex-machina’ed out of existence…
I want the old characters back dammit.
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Season four couldn’t exist without whatever came before, even if the characters don’t remember. Don’t want to spoil any thing, but just keep on watching. Lots of fans had issues with that arc too, though. :'(-
I suppose the whole point of this is to show how alienated Peter is, being dropped back into existence in this alt-timeline & not knowing any of his friends, but still…. I’m amazed at how unlikeable the Amber Universe people are. I’ll stick with it of course, but there had better be a good resolution to this.
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Keep watching, it does get much better…. pitty its finished now 🙁
Good morning.
Which page is support page now? I’ll wait until then before I have my break down if you like.
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The doctor will see you now, even without an appointment.
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@greenius and @dc because you also made the mistake of showing interest by upvoting shane and because I’m curious in what you think about it all.
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@ash
Play the games you want and try to ignore achievement/trophies and activity logs. While all are nice features I like and wish more games had, when they’re missing it’s not too big of a deal. What type of things do you think you’ll be taking note of? One of my favourite features in games is just knowing how long I spent it in which is something RPGs do well, frequently displaying your play time. I liked it when the Wii had a sort of activity log for everything played and loved how the 3DS improved upon it and I wish all the platforms have it.
I don’t find myself too attached to trophies/achievements as I’ll just play through the games I want to ignoring them and then looking through the list after to see if there’s any interesting or easy ones I can pick up (cheevo trophy whore!). If I look at them before I have a feeling it might influence the way I play a game (both positively or negatively). For example in Mirror’s Edge there was one for completing the whole game without firing a gun. It’s not something I would’ve done otherwise but I decided to go for on my first playthrough and while it was challenging it also wasn’t that fun…
The Steam version of Mirror’s Edge doesn’t have achievements at all and neither do a lot of other games I’ve played on consoles. It makes me a bit sad because I do like them but I can move on and enjoy the game for what it is :D. Since the PC version of Mirror’s Edge didn’t have achievements there’s no way I would’ve easily found out or gone for the no using guns achievement which does give me a bit of incentive and reasons to play the game again. You can always make up your own challenges or things to do. Like early Pokemon games don’t have achievements but people have done things like single Pokemon runs, single type runs or Nuzlocke runs, never feel like you’re being held down by dem cheevs!
Pretty much just play what you want on whatever platform you want and make sure one of these is Xenoblade 😀 (it has achievements!)
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What type of things do you think you’ll be taking note of?
Probably just what i played and what it made me think of feel.
For example, I played Walking Dead Episode 4 last ngiht, so i might note that and make some comments about how annoying Ben is and that I hope i get a chance ot feed him to the zombies.
Or, another exmaple, i was finishing up Rin’s story in Katawa Shoujo the other day and the argument I was having with he rin game mirrored in tone an argument I wa shaving wiht my wife at the time. i thought it was quite interesting and would have written a few lines about that.
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Ben is the worst! – also a bit of spoiler but you’re safe here in page 1 🙂
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You mean me?
Jus doo eeet
Actually i just vented about this to another friend, it it was a pretty confusing mess :p
Basically, i think i have been focusing on playing my xbox above my other systems, becuase of its system of game score and achievments. i felt like if I played somehting else, I wasn’t getting the nice tracking of my progress that this offered. In the end though, I was choosing to play middling xbox games when i had better chocies on other systems.
I’m now making a concious effort to split up my play, and focus on what game do i think i’ll enjoy the most regardless of system. i started this on the weekend by playing the Walking Dead (which i had on PC), and I feel my position has been vinidcated.
To make up for the lack of consitent ‘tracking’ across systems, I’m also going to try and keep a journal of my game play using google+ or some such readily available thing. If every moning I write a few notes to myself about what i played and what i enjoyed, it could present a fun record for me to look back on in the future.
@shane and @jimu because you showed interest.
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I’m totally the same, man. I am pretty much committed to my xbox for the same reason. Though I have jumped ship for a few other games (Mario Galaxy, Uncharted, inFAMOUS, Demon’s Souls, Anna’s Quest, FTL), I ended up spending almost $30 to get The Walking Dead onto my xbox console, rather than spend $11 to get it on PC, just because 😛
I’m not ready to become an equal-opportunity gamer though 😛 Maybe next-gen.
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Wow, I jumped form 360 to PS3 as primary console due to controller preference and left that gamerscore etc in the dust.
I have also recently taken to my US PSN account because games are cheaper for the Vita that way.
This gens tracking system has been interesting and meant different stuff to different people.
(I’ve never gotten all the ‘chievos/Trophys in a game,although I came pretty close with DragonAge Origins>)
WHat is it that makes you want to track your gaming so much?
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I’m not sure. It was subconcious, until I was forced to re-evalute why I wasn’t enjoying my gaming as much as I thought I should. Basically i just examined my pattern of play and came to the conclusion that ‘that must be it’. I don’t have a ‘gold’ account or anything, so it isn’t like anyone else will see my GS, its just for me.
it may be that gaming used to be a more social enterprise for me. Now it is a more solo past time, tracking what i play is a way of ‘sharing’ my experience, even if it is only with my future self.
heavy
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I could see you gamerscore if we were friends. I think my gamertag on live is Jimu Hsien
on PSN it’s Jimu_Hsien
on US PSN it’s JmuHsn
and on 3DS it’s some ridiculous long number I cant remember…(HINT, HINT!)
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I thoguht I tried to add you tbh… I’ll try again.
EDIT – request sent, from Tali360 – you’ll know me because I have the amazing Lightning as my gamepic 😉
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OK, I’ll check. (dunno when though, may be havin dinner out tonight so possibly tomoz)
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I’ve done a lot of thinking about this
For my part, I think it’s because life has changed from one that encourages learning-by-playing to one in which recreation is little better than ‘wasted time.’ In other words, the transition from child to adult.
In a kind of weird subconscious way to justify gaming in this new paradigm, I think I’ve convinced myself that an ever-growing gamerscore and record of games played equates to progress of some sort. Therefore it’s not wasted time, not dead time, it’s kind of productive.
But that kind of thinking just falls apart if you split your time between systems 😛
Or something. @ash, what about you
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I don’t see good games as wasted time at all. One of the big things is stress relief. Just the other day I was in a hell of a grump and after sitting down and playing RE Code VEronica, not saving and dying I was feeling way better.
I also like to learn by looking at art and replaying helps me see things I missed before becuase I was younger or rushing through or whatever.
I guess you actually make art though.
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Your way is more healthy, I think. Every non-productive moment I have just gives me all the guilt 😛
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I think balance is needed. I spent a good 5 years of my life doing nothing but slothing round.
Sure, take time to enjoy life, but don’t let it take over?
Damn I’m having trouble replying to this. I keep deleting my response. Its a really complicated issue for me!
I think i need to clear my head and try again later 😛
Hey Shane,
Wow i’m really surprised by how much I’m struggling to articulate this issue for me. It has to do with how I’ve gamed historically and how my gaming habits have changed over time. A significant component is that i used to use multiplayer gaming as my main source of socialisation, but now that isn’t possible. Trying to socialise through Live doesn’t work either, because its like looking through a one way mirror – I can see people on my friends list but without gold I might as well be invisible.
So I need to fullfil that need in other ways. TAY helps in this regard. So now I gotta focus on gamign for myself. What were the most significant or powerful gaming experiences I’ve ever had? Those are the games I shoudl be spendign my time on, and they occur across multiple paltforms.
Re documenting my experience, it is to give the passage of time some permanence, rather thanbeing forgotten. although whatever ‘journal’ i keep will just be for me, there is that part whereby it exists in the world even when I’m offline.
Hoepfully some of that is coherent 😛 I’ll leave the typos as is – I write like i think!
This was me for a long time too, but the 360 has aged out completely for me now. Almost all its games are also on PC and they’re better there. The PS3 meanwhile has more of the sorts of games I’m interested in.
If tracking your stuff on multiple platforms is the problem though, why not use an aggregation service like Raptr?
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Oh i’ve never heard of that…
EVERYBODY DO THE FLOP! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBJNYdHPcDE
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Is this something I’m going to hate?
Without clicking, I know it’s something I’m going to hate 😛
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nope
@ash, hit me up on Steam brother and remind me to send you Cave Story ok?
I still have a bunch of giftable stuff, and bought the latest Indie Royale bundle guys
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Thanks dude. i got my steam cranking last ngiht and accepted Civ 5, so thansk again. Although it mgiht take me a while to dl all that managing my tiny quota.
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Understandable, just hit me up with a message
I should be on tonight
I have some Trackmania, Zombie Driver and Mark of the Ninja to play
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I had like 1000 words of a meat write up then chrome on my phone crashed. I’ll do a write up when I get home. /o\
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:'( Aw man, that sucks! Was excellent seeing you again yesterday!
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Who doesn’t get happy or excited when they see some Nob!
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Something something something big screen tv something something.
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Wha?
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Sheesh, keep up with the TAYMemes. 😛
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HELLO
I AM ALIVE
sorry for the period of inactivity, but sydney got hectic and my phone was not liking TAY.
BUT YEAH
thanks @alexpants for the shops, i went to every one!
bought a metal gear rising poster at kings comics (because that’s what you do at a comics store, buy games stuff)
Bought a bunch of haruhi suzumiya books at kinokuniya
and bought a figure of rin from blue exorcist at hobbyco (which was 30 bucks, a bargain for the quality of the figure!)
i also found a RPG store across the road from kings comics, and bought some stuff for me and my friends rpg group.
(also @shane thanks but i didn’t get time to try and find the store you mentioned, but still thanks for helping!)
as for the rest of the trip, i climbed the sydney harbour bridge, i wore a suit for a wedding, which was rad because suits are rad to wear. did more touristy stuff like go to the aquariam and markets and such.
oh and most importantly, i had ramen for the first time in about 2 years, as my usual ramen store (that was a sole ramen store, not a japanese restaurant) closed down in perth, it was super delicious.
overall i give sydney, 67 perths out of 43 and a half suits
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Bought a bunch of haruhi suzumiya books at kinokuniya
http://i.imgur.com/arqQiNX.gif
Vita Update: downloaded MGS HD Duo and ordered Person 4 GOlden and a pouch to carry the Vita around in.
I been playing FFIX when I’m too lazy to advance in Dissidia Duodecim.
I’m onto to the hard levels in Sonic Racing and rage quit often, sometimes I go into a zen state where continual losses seem to make me happy.
MGS3 on the bus gives me motion sickness.
MGS2 Virtual Missions don’t.
Mortal Kombat challenge tower is hard enough that I am forced to do cheap shit like spam fireballs and Im not quite halfway up either tower. Fun though.
@greenius – Platinumisbetter but only by 1 place 😉
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i was playing the original metal gear solid on my vita in sydney…
that game is either really god damn hard or i’m just terrible at it….
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It’s not too hard but it’s somewhat hard to readjust to the older controls/gameplay if you’ve played the newer ones 😛
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I still get confused because Im more used to MGS1 controls.
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Yeah, I don’t find it hard. But I played it back in the day?
Classy game!!-
it’s still really good!
like, i imagine when it came out it was revolutionary.
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Pretty much, yeah. Plenty of new ideas. I’d never seen the opening credits thing done in a game before and of course the Psycho Mantis fight was excellent!
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It’s the second one.
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NO!
Play Persona 4: Golden on your Persona 4: Golden machine!
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I ordered it though. So I don’t have it yet. Decided I need at least on card based game.
Do you still want that LBP code for give me money?
Can I have more money than you offered?-
I’m not really interested in it which was why my offer was so low, I think I offered $10 but I’d prefer to pay even less (like $5) since I’m really not interested in it at all, sorry man!
I’m sure there’s lots of LBP fans out there who wouldn’t mind paying a decent amount for the code, eBay etc.?
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Oh OK, cool. No worries.
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Card-based game as in a card game? Going to import Monster Monpiece (aka ‘that japanese wanking game’) :V
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No, I meant like on a PSVita card rather than from PSN. I may as well use that slot for something and Pers4 is biggish and has nice arts on the cover!
I, urrrr, source my own wanking material thank you very much.
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Time for a story!
I suck at games sometimes, especially time trials where I’m off by only a hair. So I tend to enter a pseudo-trance state and by some miracle, I win at games.
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I know dat one.
Sometimes when you’re playing but thinking about something else…DEN BAM! HIGHK SKOREP!
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Vitabro.
I have neglected my Vita lately. Mainly because I’ve spent my game time on ACIII and I don’t commute anywhere. Need to finish MGS3, so I can move onto something else.
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Might I suggest Sonic Racing Transformed?
Neinhandle is grabbing me a Vita headset, so you’ll be able to hear me sob uncontrollably when I lose 😀
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It’s on the list for consideration.
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Awww, That’s what you said last time. Bump it up!
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I don’t buy games often.
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So bump it up! 🙂
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Okay, okay… geez. So high-maintenance.
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And yeah, commuting’s one of the big selling points for me. I am sor far behind with all my home console games but am all over any handheld games I own (Except Tales of Abyss, cos I’m stuck on a boss & Cave Story 3D cos I bought a Vita)
Persona 4: Golden!
GAH! Jinxed myself! Was bragging to @Shane about my long-arse lunch breaks/minimal work requirement for my job, and now i’m looking at…. A PROMOTION! It comes with more responsibility! And having to do things! and not 6-7 hours of web browsing every day! Dooooomed!
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I’ve noticed you’ve been posting in TAY a lot lately and I don’t think I’ve said hello yet, so…
HELLO AND WELCOME!
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Yeh, I’m being an active member of the community! Hello to you, thank you for your warm welcome.
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Here’s what you have to do: Take the job, and make it yours. Do it your own
TAY… I mean way.Also congratumisserations!
Edit: sorry for the jinx, man, but better you than me! 😛
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Well I haven’t secured said promotion yet, I have a meeting today about it with the Company Director. The biggest of the wigs. Wish me luck… I think…
Edit: Last time I’m ever happy for myself publicly!
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Either way, it’s a win \o/ You can’t lose.
Edited because we should always be positive \o/
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I’m sorry for your loss…
(Congratulations)
What’s going on guys, how was the weekend?
I spent all weekend working on some gameplay videos for my channel.
Hope y’all managed to avoid the siege
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Are you THE Zach from Deadly Premonition?
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Clearly he’s dropped the H from his name to try and sneak in undetected. You’ve blown his whole ruse!
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Nope, just a guy named Zac…
Now if you’ll excuse me i have to attend to a certain Trjn matter…
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Welcome back Zac!
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Cheers, good to be back.
Even temporarily
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Tomb Raider’s only 14 hours away! I’m so damn psyched to play this game!
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It’s getting a lot more TAY Marketing than I expected!
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Why can’t it be tuesday already?
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I thought it broke street date anyway?
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PC version.
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That gives you 14 hours to play Dark Souls. Get to it.
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Maybe after Tomb Raider. Maybe. 😛
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He said he’d play Dark Souls after Tomb Raider. There were several witnesses to this statement.
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(Thanks for fixing my glasses, man. FREEZE IS AWESOME!)
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An upvote means he agrees!
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*has been playing it since Friday* =D
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:'( I’ve been looking at the Steam page, refreshing. 😛
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Didn’t it come out last week?
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PC version is still locked, alas.
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PC? You can play games on that thing now?
I bet all those stuffy office workers will be playing the Dooms and whatnot instead of working on their spreadsheets and PowerPoint presentations.
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I might go pick it up at lunch. Just because I can.
Man, you sound like my associates.
“X can be pretty good if they get fed.”
Well… yes. Being fed is a good thing, no?
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It was easier to type this and submit it than to just click on the little ‘2’ to get to page 2, trust me.
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Reply fail?
Obviously getting fed is a good thing but I do like the flexibility where supports can turn into carries under the right conditions. That’s something that LoL is sorely lacking. Very few supports are going to be able to turn a good start into something more because their runes and masteries simply aren’t set up to take advantage of it.
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No, but those guys are very clearly designed with roles in mind, usually.
I can’t say for certain, but when original DotA was being made and continually updated, did they have a similar meta to League that the hero designers would then slot them into? I started playing original DotA pretty late, but it seemed to me more like they’d create a new hero and that’d be it.
DotA 2 is taking cues from League in that people are trying to fit heroes into roles, but I’m not sure they were originally designed that way.-
Dota heroes were definitely just made and left up to the players to see what they do with them. Whereas LoL tends to design the champions to fit into certain roles. Players seem to play champions as carries/supports depending on team composition more than what the champion is meant to do.
Windrunner can lane in mid as a carry, can support in either lane (either babysitting a hard carry like Phantom Lancer or wandering about a bit more and doing a little jungling). Hell, Gyrocopter, who is basically Corki with a stun, has been played as support in pro games.
I like the flexibility.
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I play carry crystal maiden every game
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I see no reason how that could ever go wrong. Ever.
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3 divine rapiers is my usual build on her
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But who has the reach?
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Mr Fantastic.
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Dota kinda accidentally gave roles to characters originally, and the community identified what each one can do. In Dota 2 the devs called the roles, but you can still break out of them…depending on your play style, skill, and outright luck, as well as the character in question.
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Champions are designed to be a certain role in LoL that’s true, yet you see players being flexible discovering what that champion potentially can do. Lulu is a good example, designed as a support, can jungle or mid or even top. Or Master Yi, you can build him AD or AP or even tank AP Yi (Which I did in the distant past and was terrifying) or my old AP top Warwick, making him next to unkillable after the 15 minute mark. Yes some champions literally can’t do things well, like Caitlyn or Malzahar support or something, their kit doesn’t fit that, however AD Malz was a thing once too :P.
Not if it’s a drow on the other team, if she gets fed there’s nothing you can do except maybe buy a blademail.
#imsofunny
edit: oh, this actually WAS about MOBAs, i honestly thought it was about something else, and was making a MOBA joke…
#bfunkisntverysmart
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Bish’s Associates are a “kind” way to say, “people Bish works with who suck donkey balls at League”
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I’m pretty sure they’re not workmates, but people who were his friends(or friends of them) when he was young(er) and less smrt.
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Numbers. Gets. Relationships.
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B-Funk. Gets. Jokes?
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Never, I refuse to get jokes
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Oh MAN. Max Payne 3 is so damn cheap on XBLA right now that even though I own a disc of the game, and have no space on my 360’s HDD, and have a moral objection to buying digital games, I’m still considering buying it! 😛
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20GB bros?
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20GB bros! I have no idea what’s taking up all that space, though… I think the only digital games I have are The Walking Dead and Super Meat Boy. Pretty sure I’ve even deleted all my DLCs.
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Would Max Payne 3 even fit on your HDD then even if it was empty? It’s ~28GB on PC, and isn’t it multiple disc on 360?
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7.8GB on 360.
PC version must be all bloatware. 😛
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Ha. Must be all the awesome graphics we get and the hd texture pack 😛
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morning all! what yas up to?
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Hey man! How’s things?
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awesome dc, had a relaxing saturday and went market trawling sunday, found a boxed like new copy of conkers bad fur day for the n64 for $2! my wife bought the resident evil series (first four movies) for $3 the lot.
i was saddened when i found an Amstrad Mega PC. The guy didnt even know what he had. he had no clue it was a console/pc hybrid. He wanted $1500 for it because he was convinced that it was a government owned computer, and had lots of “governement stuff”.
i was really disappointed cause these things are so damn hard to find… sega basically licensed the mega drive hardware to be incorporated into Amstrads PC’s. so they share some of the hardware. system has 2 controller ports and cartridge slot on the left, PC is only a 386.
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WTH. Government stuff… like what? 😛
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just another crazy greek hyped in the whole government conspiracy thing…. makes sense, government probably only just recently decomissioned their 386 fleet 🙂
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386 they were THAT upto date?!
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Jelly ’bout dat Conkers!
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bit of a steal really! i would say its probably about 90% condition…. the box, manual are in pristine condition, i take off a few points cause the label is very slightly worn on the cart and the contacts have some marking from use. which is fair enough! something in this condition usually goes for a few hundred.
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TRIPLEJELLY!!!
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Are there any Chris Morris or Armando Iannucci fans here? I’ve been getting in some serious hours with shows from both these guys, and they are the most hilarious.
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Chris Morris’ name rings a bell but no the other. Do you have more information?
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BBC awesomeness. Shows such as: Brass Eye, The Day Today, Jam, The Armando Iannucci Shows, The Thick Of It, Veep. You may recognise Chris Morris from his appearances in the first season of The IT Crowd as Denholm Reynholm.
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Oh yeah, I seen Brass Eye. Meant to watch more, they make me uncomfortable. 🙂
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If uncomfortable is what you like, Jam is the show for you.
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… has anyone else already bought Max Payne 3 yet? we should have some mulTAYplayer shenanigans
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Potaku has a sexy new look thanks to Powalen. Think of it as Potaku 2.0, although nothing has changed other than appearance! Also, we’re still raising money for the World’s Greatest Shave(two weeks to go!) and if we hit $2000 in donations the godly Blaghman will join our cause.
Have to admit I’m a little nervous about shaving my head, but mostly excited. The nerves are definitely there, though. 😛
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We should have a post-shave Meat for the baldies. I’ll bring the scalp sunscreen.
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having a shaved head is pretty awesome. dont need to dry it, dont need to comb it. so convenient.
I think everyone should shave their head.
everyone
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Clearly you haven’t paid enough attention to my head.
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I pay more attention to your head than you’d be comfortable with.
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I too am a member of the shaved head clan. It helps me shave time off my morning routine as well. Heh.
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You’re a cut above average, man. Ahead of the pack, in fact.
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I also own a shorthair German Shepherd. And I play as a shorthair Commander Shepherd.
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Yeah I already shaved mine. Thinning up top anyway, plus now I don’t have to do a damn thing with it in the morning, or buy hair gel.
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I dunno if this is any interest, but happy to be a stretch goal for you guys, too.
My way of saying sorry for being poor.-
What’s your price? Wanna join Blaghs at $2000 or maybe be our $1,500.
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Yeah okay, whatever you like 🙂
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I don’t mind shaving my head either but I doubt that’s going to significantly change anything 😛
It’ll also just be me shaving it in my bathroom 😛
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Soooo couldnt be arsed writing a meat write up. I liked dc’s, it was basically my perspective anyway. Go read it, this was the day through sughly’s eyes. Kind of. Not really. Whatever. Lines and tigers and burgers, oh my!
More pressing matters – @greenius! Survivor!
Errrmahgerd, underpants Phil needs to go. Glad the dudebros are getting picked off on the fans side, god I hate dudbros, especially those dudebros. How the heck did they get so comfortable day one in their foursome when they were the minority? Stupid stupid dudebros. I like that blonde girl in fans who was worried about the dudebro having the immunity, she’s cool. She seems level headed, I get the sense she’ll play a good game. Well, if she doesnt freak out over something, she has the potential to do that maybe. She did the right thing not changing her vote for Shaman or whatever his name like she suggested she might, she wouldve been going against the group and wouldve screwed herself. And HOLY SHIT that army guy needs to go too, so frakking annoying. Shaman or whatever. Ergh. Just leave you dolt. Moron.
Also, so much love for Cochran! Cochran ftw. I love that he’s friendly with everyone, he’s not on the outs this time!! Yesssss. So good. Hope he goes far. The only thing that will let him down is his obvious inability at challenges :'(
So far pretty happy with all the people voted off. so far so good.
edit: hehe ooops, quote tags are not spoiler tags, derrrp
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Play it cool, Greenius. The Survivor time has come!
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You forgot to mention how annoying Brandon is!
FUUUUU@powalen!
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Worst reply to my mega writeup ever >:(
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He did a rather good job of summarizing the day I reckon! 🙂
Bought Frankenweenie on BD on the weekend and watched it yesterday. Was pleasantly surprised – I was worried it might be a little sad or depressing, given I’m a giant softie when it comes to animals.
Turns out it was pretty good, they didn’t bum me out or make me sad!
Really enjoyed it, and thought it was really well put together. Recommended.
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Agreed. Frankeweenie just flew completely under everyones radar, but I loved it. To be fair though, Paranorman came along and blew it out of the water a little, but still, recommended!
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Yeah it was a weird one. I knew of it, but heard absolutely bugger all about it. Saw it at JB and decided I should partake.
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So, swapped out buggy laptop for a new one, so far so good.
Signed up for Steam, but then couldn’t log in.
*sigh*
Computers and Hugo REALLY don’t get on well together.
After much patch downloading, I did manage to play a couple of missions of Starcraft 2, much FUN!
So, if the computer doesn’t explode, next game will be;
SKYRIM!
and
MODS!
SKYRIM! MODS!
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You need Steam for Skyrim, just a heads up 😛
Good luck with it all buddy.
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I’ll put together a list of MODS that I used for SKYRIM! tonight. A lot of the mods I use don’t change the core gameplay that much.
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SKYRIM! Reads to me like the stage-show adaption of the well-known video game.
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“I haven’t had a decent accident for about 2 months!” I said to myself.
And then I ran into the corner of the power box.*
The End.
*no serious injuries were sustained, just a small scratch and some bruising.
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D:
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Still waiting for a decent accident.
Edit: SHOCKING 😛
DARK SOULS \o/
I’m getting that familiar obsessive feeling back. I think about it more than my wife and kids.
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Probably shouldn’t tell them that!
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I might have been joking anyway. I definitely think about it more than work, though.
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Dark Souls is always on my mind! As a 22 Y/O single male the fact that I think about it more then boobs probably means there is something wrong with me.
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If Dark Souls 2 ends up being next-gen, it might actually make me upgrade. I don’t think any other franchise could manage that at the moment.
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Make a female character. Problem solved.
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Starting class; the deprived. =P
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I keep thinking you’re much older 😛
Like I dunno, late 20s or something!
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Dear Australia Post, I want my present from Kat already, so hurry up and deliver it! 🙁
The Walking Dead (TV) discussion.
Season 3 spolierish-things:
Just finished watching the first episode after mid season (S3) break – episode 9? I think. I’m really struggling. I’ve always really enjoyed the show, stuck with it through season 2 and enjoyed it. (Although I do agree S2 carried on at the farm for a little long – just a tiny bit) S3 has been fantastic, but it feels really kind of hollow and boring at the moment. Daryl just buggered off with Merle, Rick’s losing his shit, Glen looks like he’s had enough, and there doesn’t feel like there’s any strength in the group. Herschell’s pretty good, but being an older gent and a new amputee, he can’t do too much. Also fairly certain the Governor’s going to attack the jail in some way.
Really hard to put my finger on, but it just feels like there’s nothing. Make sense? I dunno.
And what’s with Andrea and the governor? Even if you didn’t know everything he’s up to, he’s dodgy as shit. Even now, despite all the recent crap in Woodbury, she still wants to be his friend. Even after she saw him keeping his zombie daughter in a room full of zombie heads. What the fuck?
Feeling a bit disillusioned at the moment.
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Watch 10 & 11 it all makes sense and comes together a bit more with those episodes.New episode tonight too, thanks for reminding me!
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I felt exactly the same way after the break. I think it will get better after Episode 11 though (which I quite liked). There was just something about Episode 9 and
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I must be one of the few people who really fucking loved season 2. I watched the entire season over a weekend, and thought it was brilliant. Watching week to week would have driven me to suicide though.I haven’t seen past the mid-season break of S3 yet, but I’m still into it. Andrea was always the world’s most annoying character, so I just switch off whenever she’s on screen. Can’t really comment on her story.
I think the point of the show is to drive these characters down, and keep beating them and beating them until they absolutely cannot take any more… and then just keep on beating. It’s certainly the point of the comics the show is based on!
Carl is the new strength of the group, did you notice? I think that’s why everyone else looks so tired, so he can step up and divide audiences well into the next season 😛
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You’re not the only one! Much better than Season 1, I thought.
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Season 1 kind of limited itself by borrowing only from the first six issues of the comic, and then writing its own totally different finale because
they didn’t want Carl to kill Shane in the first season, as he did in the comic.That last ep and a half was totally out of left field, and not entirely sure it fitted.
Also, I didn’t really like how Dale fought to stop Andrea from staying behind, but no one really tried to stop BlackgirlwhosenameI’veforgotten. Did no one like her or something?-
Your second spoiler:
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He said all this stuff to Andrea right in front of this other woman, but didn’t even look at her. What a big, horny jerk.
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Yeah I really enjoyed S2 as well.
Everyone I’ve spoken to who bagged it seems to miss the point of the human side of TWD for the most part. I thought S2 went on a touch too long at the farm, but only a tiny bit. I hope Rick sorts his shit out. His constant need to ‘do the right thing’ got on my nerves a bit for a period, only because sometimes it seemed he pursued the ‘right thing’ at the expense of common sense and sometimes, other people. I still like the guy. There’s something fantastic about him, and how when he got pushed, he kicked ass when he had to. My biggest ‘holy shit’ moment was in S2 when they met those two guys in the bar and he shot them both. (That and the Shane issue finally coming to a head, of course.)
I’ll watch Ep 10 and 11 tonight and see where I’m at. Might even see if I can find 12 tonight – they come every Monday, yeah?
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Something like that. I tend to download mid-week, but as I said, I’m not watching them yet, so I don’t really keep track of when the actual release date is.
season 2 was da bomb…..
well technically the end of season 1 had the bomb 🙂
Has Skyrim finished expanding? I’m still waiting on a GotY edition.
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Dragonborn only recently came out on PC and I’m not even sure if its out on PS3 yet. Might be a little bit of a wait even if Dragon Born is the last exp / DLC.
Fucked up pretty badly with the house we applied for though basically we didn’t have a choice. Should have gone back for a second inspection before signing because it’s really small and our current place is really big and full of furniture that isn’t all going to fit. 🙁 Worst thing is that the fridge ‘hole’ in the kitchen is too small for our fridge so we’ve got to get a new one.
Anyway my evening TAY access will probably be intermittent for a week or two while I move and get things sorted out with internet and stuff.
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That sucks man. =(
Hopefully it works out!
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Good luck! 🙂
(maybe you can take the old fridge with you when you move?)
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All the best, man.
Selling old furniture for $$ might help out with the rest of it though. #MrBrightside?
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Yeah except we move next weekend so not much time to do it. But definitely doing that. House has a double garage so we’ll dump excess furniture in there and sell it off.
I intend to move out of home in a few months – this was a necessary step because my Dad’s income has been sporadic and the place we were in was way too expensive, so the idea was to get my Mum, myself and my sister into a place that Mum can afford without me there. And with that in mind it’s not that bad. Plus we’ve gotten really spoiled with an enormous house when we don’t really need a lot of the stuff. Painful step to take but necessary in the end I think. 🙁 I suspect also that with the house empty it feels a lot smaller because of the lack of a reference point.
I’ve laid claim to the fridge and any spare couches though, so I’ve got them when I move out. Also upshot is that it’s in an area served by Telstra cable so I’ll be saying goodbye to my shockingly bad phone line and flaky unreliable ADSL (Telstra lost the pit at the current place, suspect that someone has buried it, so they can’t fix the line)
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I did that too a bit, finding a place we’re not really that happy with. It’s kinda the worst. I feel for you! It’s okay, you get in there and decorate it and stuff, make it your home, then it makes it more liveable.
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Yeah, the root of the problem is that I inspected it in about 5 minutes at 9am on a Saturday morning after eating Sichuan food the previous night so my guts were churning like crazy and I was probably a bit distracted. It’s certainly not a bad house but it could have been better. On the other hand, we’ve been looking for eight weeks and knocked back on three places previously (if I’ve been acting like a bit of an asshole in here recently, this would probably be why 🙁 ) and if we hadn’t gotten something last week we’d have had to pay extra rent at the current place and wouldn’t have had the money to do so. So I guess with that in mind, it’s good enough. Workable. Not ideal.
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i did the same with our first place negs… luckily the fridge just barely fit. didnt realise how small the lounge room was, and i had couches getting custom made. each one was 2.4m x 1.1m, luckily we JUST managed to squeeze them in along with a 2.8m lowline. room was only about 4m x 3.2m to say it was tight would be an understatement…. we couldnt open any of the draws on the right hand side of our tv unit cause the couch was pressed up against it.
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I’m hoping that we can squeeze the couches & TV together and fit mum’s antique formal table and china cabinet in. The other major issue is my Dad’s piano which is a pain in the arse to move around and has to be against an internal wall so there’s only a couple of spots.
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Yeah I got knocked back on a couple of places I REAAAALLY wanted, badly. Such a major bummer when that happens. Sooo yet again, I sympathise 🙂
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Anyone want an Xbox 360 incidentally? I’ve decided that having three of them isn’t very sensible.
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im looking for one negs….. what are you asking for it? also slim/standard?
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It’s a (refurbed) launch 20gb unit so it has no HDMI. And I wouldn’t want very much for it. I think the little door on it that guards the USB ports is broken but otherwise it was in good condition and worked well last time I turned it on, though admittedly that was a while ago.
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So, this weekend huh?
So much rain on Saturday
Sam and I went out
Bought some bed side tables 🙂
And I got some pin stripe shorts *she loves how they look on me*
She got some tops for work *wow guys, wow*
I lent her Daria, and Trinity Blood *which she is loving atm*
GAMES WISE!
I bought the latest Indie Royale Bundle
I also bought, GTA IV complete collection on Steam *cheaper than it was stand alone*
And Mark of the Ninja *loved it on my xbox*
Also, Trackmania2 Canyon *anyone played?*
And Zombie Driver HD *also, anyone played?*
And, Tomb Raider is on board with the driver for delivery today 🙂
Collectors edition
Keep your eyes on the Twittersphere for pictures of the Lara Croft collecible figure
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Zombie Driver is awesome!
Still waiting on my Tomb Raider CE…
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Still waiting on mine man, and mine is on PC, won’t be able to play it tonight, but pre load it
Supposed to come with a tin box, which will go well with my Dishonored Tin box
Which I actually use to store a bunch of stuff
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I am now looking at gaming laptop reviews for work.
This is just weird.
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How went the wedding?
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They tried to kill us with food.
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I ordered pizzas for work once.
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You don’t wanna buy a brand new Alienware m17x for around 1300 worth 2500 do ya bunny?
Long story short dell replaced my mates xps with said Alienware and he wants to buy a MacBook Air for uni he asked me if I knew anyone that wanted to buy one lol
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This is for work, so warranties are kind of a big deal :p
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Ah well, fair point.
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Pardon?
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My mate doesn’t want a bulky laptop for uni so he’s looking to offload it for about half price 😛 Brand new replaced under warranty.
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Sounds intriguing. My laptop is getting a bit old. Not sure if an m17x is what I need but it’s certainly an interesting offer.
Been considering a Surface Pro to be honest, since I don’t have a tablet and I don’t do much heavy duty PC stuff (console gamer), but yeah, Alienware have always been appealing.
I’ll ponder this.
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I’ll let my mate know, I think his intention otherwise is just to whack it up on ebay.
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More meats, more of the time!
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What sort? Like Ostrich meat or something?
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Emu is pretty good, and it’s farmed not too far from Brisbane!
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Hermit meat.
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Give me a month, they’re a person down at my wife’s work and she’s working 6 days a week. Great for our wallet and my time with the boy, less great for my freedom!
Ugh, this is such a Monday story 🙁
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that is seriously screwed up…. 🙁
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Wow…
Nice little Tidbit;
Yu Suzuki considering crowd-funding for Shenmue 3 😀
http://www.allgamesbeta.com/2013/03/yu-suzuki-considering-crowdfunding-to.html
Bring it on Suzuki-San!
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Oh cool, I ended up keeping my copy of the second game, so I’m well placed here 😛
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i would be all over this…..
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FUUUUCK YEEESS!!!
I’d buy that for a dollar or more!!! 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀
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I’d fund it.
Damnit Rocketman!
I was doing so well refusing to buy sim city but now he’s said he’s excited for it and I’m all tempted again.
I said I wasn’t going to buy it because I hate always online DRM and I have complete faith in EA to ruin anything beautfile with micro transactions. Yet the pretty marketing and my own nostalgia are working against me.
I must be strong! giving in and buying Diablo III was my most regretted purchasing decision in years.
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I am blaming blaghs. I wasn’t excited about it till he was hyping it.
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I blame the schools!
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I didn’t hype it, I just said that I was excited!
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City sizes are much smaller than before as well I’ve seen, really hard to make a highly populated society with commercial and industrial in the middle of it, which is again forcing the whole “Be social while always online or else!” mentality in as well, something else I’m not liking about this.
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Smaller! I always thought those maps were too small as it was 😛
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The stream I saw last weekend, this guy had 70% used up in a matter of hours for residential housing and 20% used for industry/commercial, the last 10% being wasted space cuz the buildings were too large to fit in anywhere without demolishing something
Edit: I think this EA’s strategy on this, it’s basically forcing you to work with other players to use 100% of Simcity’s total capability instead of being able to provide by yourself to make a supercity, hence why you have to use this “Social” setup that this game will come with. Even if single player was an option, you’ll still fall flat being unable to build everything while keeping a stable city society/economy due to the lack of space.
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The solution then is that you manage multiple cities, and handle them how you would the different parts of your singular city from the games of old.
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Not really a fan of that tbh… and I’m really hoping that “being able to make another city” won’t be part of the microtransactions on release, that’d just be a massive dick move from someone like EA… oh wait.
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This isn’t Guild Wars 2.
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Oh no, that idea makes me cry. Congratulations. You may have just cured my urge to buy it.
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I’ve played it doing so absolutely killed my considerable hype for the game. 🙁
SNES emulator + Sim City = Problem solved.
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I’ll just go back to Sim City 4 I think 🙂
Autumn leaves falling
To write or to play Dark Souls?
The Lesser Evil.
MAN, today is boring 🙁
I have no work to do, and so have done nothing for the last six hours. Only three more to go :\
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Write about Dark Souls! \o/ \o/
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Way ahead of you. New Soul Thief story is half finished \o/
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Actually, nope. I have deleted what I have written so far. It was total pap. Back to square one.
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im on the same level as you shane…. cant even find anything interesting to read on that world wide thingy…… u know the one… that http://www….
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ill never think of custard in the same way again…. EVER….
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You’re welcome!
I just realised that I posted this story shortly after a Sandy outburst. They are unrelated, I promise :\Edit: so is it fair to say, given your comment, that it changed your life? I’m desparately seeking validation after a lukewarm review over the weekend 😛
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custard….. lukewarm….. *spews*……..
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Reviews for shane’s writing:
“definitely not my kind of story”
*spews*
Best week ever /o\
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Apparently Civ V is on sale on Steam today
http://store.steampowered.com/sub/25544/
Civ! How’s the play by email game going anyway?
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$12.50?!
Sold. Sold so damn hard.
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Showing up higher for me. Get the gold ver & Gods and Kings though
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Weird. Work computer is apparently pointing to the US store. $22.49 is still a sale.
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Def worth it. I fell for Civ HARD over the christmas break.
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I got mine during the @spaghett sale 😛
Get Civ 5 people and come play with me… next month once I’ve finsihed downloading it
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Yeah @bdkiaf Get it, @ash got it during the Father Spaghettmas sale
HO HO HO MERRY HAPPY EVERYONE
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The play by email just kept bugging out for people so we ended up giving up. On the plus side, Rize pointed me to some workshop content which added Geth as a playable nation onto Civ 5 G&K as well as Asari, pretty cool looking!
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I’d totally play a SF-themed Civ.
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(If you mean Sci-Fi) They did in Civ4:BtS expansion, there was a star trek mod where it became spaceships and star systems.
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D.C.’s daily adventure gaming post: Last night we were talking adventure games with Tigerion and he kept on mentioning all these games Sughly and I hadn’t played. The man’s got some adventure gaming street cred. Put us to shame! Also, Tigerion’s pretty awesome!
(Here’s the Tex Murphy game you should play, Sughly. Can totally lend it to you!)
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Don’t worry, I’m sure he was just making titles up 😛
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I checked. Totally exists! D:
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Of course he’s awesome. He’s played Jurassic Park: The Game.
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Haha, blurst game.
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You’ve played it? :O
(I disagree :P)
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Implying the rest of us aren’t.
All the hat.
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You’re reading between lines that aren’t there, D.C.-style. You’re ALL awesome! 😛
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Some of us take offense at such comments.
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haha Tex Murphy! There’s a name I haven’t heard in a while! I think I got that off GOG for free ages ago!
So, I just finished watching The Hobbit, and no, it wasn’t perfect, but it was exactly what I expected out of it, and I had fun, it gets a thumb or two up.
Not my thumbs though, someone elses. I’m too lazy to raise mine.
Anyway, it got me thinking, is there like, an extended universe for LotR, filled with what is basically just fan fiction for the series, Star Wars style? Can you imagine it?
Déagol, son of Sméagol: He lost his father to Hobbits, now, from Hobbits, he will find, REVENGE.
Whatever Happened?: The story of a young Bilbo, and what changed him from that young adventure seeker that he once was as Gandalf mentioned in The Hobbit.
The Adventures of Gróin: The tale of Gróin, father of Glóin, father of Gimli, as well as Glóin’s son Óin, and how they all went off and had some merry adventures, and were super attractive, and got all the women, because Gróin is now an author’s insert.
And so on and so forth.
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There is an EU, but Tolkien wrote it all 😛
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I’m aware of that, but it isn’t nearly fan fictiony enough.
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A different Tolkien wrote it. The bulk of it is Christopher Tolkien basically taking some scrap of notes from his Dad’s study and expanding that out to giant novels.
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YES!
Edit: But not really, since it’s not endorsed by the estate. It needs endorsing!
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With a line like
Two minutes should be more than enough time – for me in any case, he thought, as his raging erection struggled for its freedom from his breeches
They have no choice but to endorse it.
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What are you making me read!?
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It’s surprisingly tasteful and restrained comparatively. For a fan fic.
Except when Frodo asks for the barmaids underwear after they’ve finished.
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Then plucks some grass from where they lay to put in his memento box, which is super creepy.
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What the fuck? How do you always come up with these? 😛
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It’s a skill that will someday make me rich.
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The Tolkien estate will set Orcs on you if you so much as use the word Hobbit.
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I read that as groin….
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I know from a Cracked article there’s a fanfiction where Picard has sex with Elrond.
Just added Arcania to my Steam wishlist
Make that 19 games on it now :S
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I hit a wall when i realised my Steam library has well over 200 games, and probably 150+ remain largely untouched.
Now, I have about 6 games installed, and rarely buy anything unless it’s something I know I’ll actually play.
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I at least play what I buy
But only madly fall in love with a small few
I hardly have the time
I don’t home from work until late and then I usually have to cook
And I spend a lot of time talking to Sam *gladly*
I also share my PC
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Dota2 has overtaken Skyrim on Steam as the game with the most concurrent users.
I’d like to think it’s just Dota is becoming more popular, but I think Valve/Steam’s SPAM PEOPLE WITH SIX DOZEN GIFTABLE COPIES OF DOTA2 RARWRRARARREWRAR would have helped.
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I still haven’t gotten a single copy of DoTA2 to gift to others 😛 how the hell?!
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I think I’ve got 5 or 6, I heard Aleph had 16 (?) at one point.
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My steam account must be cloaked or something haha
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I could do with anothe rbeta invite – my niece showed soem interest and I need her to realise that there are better ways to fit in with the cool kids than playing COD
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Add me if you like – ynefel – and I’ll gift you one. I’ve got 6 sitting there.
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Added brother – hook me up!
TOG|Ash
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I can’t send it – says you already have it. Thought I might just be able to send it to you regardless, but your name is greyed out when I try gift it. D=
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Oh, well, that’s unlucky 😛
usually I think it is OK to send multiple copies of games, but probably becuase it is technically in closed beta it won’t let you.
Oh well – she probably wouldn’t have had the patience for it anyway 😛
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I have 18!
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How do you get them?
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Just by being in the beta you get them
I could give you some if you want
Just over halfway through the day and well and truly over it. So tired and hungry.
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I hear ya man…
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I hear ya, hear him, man.
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That’s deep man.
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Yummy pizza to go home to at least!! Thanks again for the dinner!!! 🙂
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You need to ingest a bacon, egg, cheese, hash brown and tomato sauce toasted sandwich. It will make all your troubles melt away.
So yesterday my G35s broke. They had a good run.
But now I need a new headset. So IDEAS! Come at me!
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I’ve been using the Razer Carcharias for a good year or two now, they’ve been great.
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I think I’ve tried a set of these before. They didn’t really suit me head shape.
Decent quality though.
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Steel series siberia v2 are the set i use and they were pretty moderately priced i got them for $100
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Steelseries Siberia V2.
Ear pillows.
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So that’s 2 votes for Steelseries Siberia V2.
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I’m going to act as @freya ‘s proxy and put in a vote for those from her too. She has a couple of sets of them.
Seriously, they are the most comfortable headphones I’ve ever worn.
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I’m also after sound quality though. Comfort and price are also a defining factor.
The G35s were pretty good for cost-audio quality.
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Sound quality is good, not blow your earballs out amazing.
A desktop mic and a proper set of headphones will always beat a gaming set but comfort is a big factor for me, considering how long I spend with them on.
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I have the Turtle Beach XP500’s. they aren’t too bad.
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I have some Turtle Beach X41s or whatever they are for my Xbox and was honestly disappointed in them.
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To be honey I only use them when late night gaming to not wake the kids and wifey up. They work well for that. Bass is very easily distorted and they truly suck for music. Really comfortable though.
Hence the not too bad. Not great.
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Mmm honey…
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Currently actually considering getting a set of Audio-Technica ATH-AD900s and a desktop mic.
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Ooh comfy and awesome as fuck.. You could always go a clip on mic instead of a desktop, but I hear the 10 dollar DSE desktop mics are great.
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I used to have an awesome Logitech desktop mic. I gave it to Pez though.
I’ll probably just get another one of those. Sturdy as, good sound pickup. Only $30ish
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Even better, then!
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I just got $20 logitech ones – works fine for me!
Hey Cakeman, I have two sets of Steelseries V2s and you can totally have one set for free!
Caveat: one of my sets is pink.
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You’re took kind Ferya!
If I don’t find any other solution I may take you up on that. I’ll give you something for it though!
Disappointed in new Bowie.
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Oh, really? :'(
I like most of the tracks except for Dancing Out in Space. Though Set the World on Fire reminds me of the 90210 opening credits. Haha. (You Feel So Lonely You Could Die also reminds me of Hallelujah.) I love most of the album. Think Where Are We Now and Heat are the best!
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Umm, dont really remember which ones stood out… oh, Valentines Day. I think that was one I looked over when it was playing cause it was catching my attention. Heat, the closer, yeah that was a good one
edit: Was liking a lot of How Does the Grass Grow too, but there were parts of the song that were a bit odd.
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First half of album I definitely find stronger than the second half. After Valentine’s Day it gets a little hit and miss.
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Aw man, why? I quite enjoyed it.
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Dont know, just really not feeling it on my first listen. Maybe it will grow, but I’ve got a tonne of other albums that I’m catching up on first. I’ll go back and try again later…
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Bowie has been a disappointment since Let’s Dance in 1983 I think. His stuff post Let’s Dance hasn’t been memorable in my honest opinion. I can’t even remember any songs off Reality.
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LET’S TAKE THIS OUTSIDE
SO I CAN TELL YOU ABOUT HOW GREAT OUTSIDE IS. ALSO HEATHEN.
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Someone just asked if I was on my lunch break…
….while I was in the middle of taking a bite out of my sandwich.
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Well, are you?
Oh Hi Tay,
I just ordered Lost Odyssey and Enslaved from OGS for $11 (for the pair).
#barginhunter
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Lost Odyssey is amazing.
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I lost interest when I started the last disc. Now I’m kind of sad I didn’t stick with it actually.
Some of those stories… all the feels.
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How? (did you lose interest)
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Honestly, I don’t remember. I was just playing through it
(Jensen and someone in sewers or something)and I realised abruptly that I’d lost my place in the story, and wasn’t really enjoying the constant battles. Just sort of stopped. Honestly, I think the game was just a bit too long for me.
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I can’t get enough of those types of battles. People always complain about how grindy some JRPGs are and honestly, if I enjoy the combat, I don’t even notice 🙂
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I was fine with it for the first 43.8 hours apparently 🙂
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HA!
Hit the wall.
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The short stories were better than the game’s plot. I gave up after the incredibly awful and awkward funeral scene at the end of disc 1.
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You shouldn’t have. That is the only time the game does that. You missed out, suckaaaaaaah!!!
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I didn’t like the game at all leading up to that. The character designs are fugly, the artwork is bland, and the combat system is random and horrible. I don’t feel I missed out on a thing, in fact I think I gave it more time to improve than it deserved.
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Says the Tales fan :p
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Tales has an awesome battle system. >:( But Tales is a real-time system and LO wasn’t.
LO boss fights involve random trial and error and often force you to grind for hours so you can get specific gear to avoid status effects and stuff. And even if you get everything right, if the random number generator hates you you’ll get wiped out by an unfair attack sequence or something. Very first boss is a good example – he has three attacks chosen at random, and one of them hits the whole party. I had several fights against him where he used that 3-4 times back to back and wiped me out before I had a chance to do anything at all. Then when I beat him, he never cast it.
The other thing is that none of the trash enemies felt difficult at all, it was always just the bosses, so you could never get an idea whether you were actually ready to advance. Bad tuning. It felt overall grindy and archaic. Plus the plot was 100% unengaging for me as well. I regret nothing.
EDIT: That said for $5 it’s not bad…
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@NegativeZero Colon Pee, dood. Colon Pee.
Oh, I Luuuuurve Lost Odyssey and Blue Dragon too!
(so good)
What is this: “OGS”?
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ozgameshop.com
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Oh riiiiiiiiight.
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Orc Garments Surplus
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Origianal Gangster Suckahz!
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The Tolkien estate would like a word with you…
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…shit
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Enslaved is a pretty good game.
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For that price yes. I finished it, enjoyed it. Never really felt the need to own it though. Can’t go wrong at that price though @ash
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Wow stupid notficatiosn aren’t working for me. i started a nice discussion but had no idea it was happening.
I shoudl confess at this point that they are listed as ‘ex-display’ which i gather makes them second hand. But realistically 2 games I’ve got some interest in for $5.50 each, i don’t see how I can come wrong, even considering my now well documents ‘game funk’ . I’ve got no qualms buying ‘used’ from OGS b/c they’ve laways been good to me in the past and I’m confident they will address any issues (although ofcourse I’m hoping there are none).
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Wooop, two games well worth your time (don’t listen to anyone else LO is AWESOME)
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you want to play the cool kids @dc??? get a REAL adventure into you!!!
you can grab it for free to as it is now abandonware, you definitely need the recipe book though which you can get here on a PDF or spend $4 and get it printed and bound at officeworks…
Game Here: Freddy Pharkas Frontier Pharmacist
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damn i screwed up the links…. how do i do links again?
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Hey, I’ve played AND loved that game. Mention it pretty often for a game that old too. 😛
Isn’t abandonware just a nice name for piracy though? XD
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in some cases, this ip however has been abandoned, there are links to a lot of this material on Al lowe’s site….
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I’ve been waiting for a GOG release of this and the Laura Bow stuff. :'(
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one of my favorite games EVER…. i would totally kickstart a sequel over LSL any day
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Yeah, definitely prefer Freddy Pharkas to Leisure Suit Larry. Haven’t played it in years, though. Wonder how it holds up?
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@dc I need to tell you soemthing about myself.
I luuuve Adventure Games.
Quest for Glory 2 was possibly my favourite game growing up. Although the other staple Sierra titles were big too.
I want to nerd out on Adventure Games with Someone!
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I… haven’t played Quest for Glory! D:
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:O But you have played lots of other rad old school adventure games right?
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Maybe… 😀
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check car
check car
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drive car
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Haha! Police Quest was awesome! 😀
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I had to get a guide for PQ1 b/c i couldn’t get that damn car 1 km down the road without a flat tyre. I was in primary school tho 😛
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Worst was booking someone incorrectly, and not finding out until way later in the game in court, and the guy is all smug about it and I want to just arrest that smug face >:(
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I memorized the miranda rights when I was a kid and read the instruction manual of the Police Quest collection over and over for fun. Always amusing getting Sonny kicked off the force for taking of his clothes in public too. (My brother and I were all kinds of mature! :P)
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The only one I played was… 5 I think? It was all Slavic mythology. Vampires and stuff. It was also very very buggy.
There’s a spiritual successor that was kickstarted recently called Hero-U: Rogue to Redemption!
QFG friend!!
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I only had #2 though. And my 286 wasn’t good enough to run #3.
I bought it (a rareity for the time), somehting like 8 floppy disk, came with a map, manual and little book of lore etc. Was so cool, didn’t have anything else like ti at the time 🙂
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What is the Name of Power?
Ahhhh… Old school DRM that doesn’t work any more thanks to the internet.
Manual Here: Manual Download
OMG yes
Ive wanted to play this game forever, since I got a demo with another game way back when. But none of the copies I’ve found are talkies (and I believe the linked abandonia one is also talkieless). The demo had talkie, and it was so amazing I refuse to play it without it.
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There’s even an amusing opening credits song.
So weird hearing the silent version without lyrics.
Freddy Pharkas was pretty awesome 🙂 Haven’t played that since I was a kid! With all the talk about adv games yesterday, and these posts, I think when I finish System Shock 2, I might have to go back and play a bunch of these again!
To add to my lunch eating woes, why do people always insist on asking questions just as I’ve taken a mouthful of food?
And then proceed to stare at me waiting for an answer. People are the worst.
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I have a co-worker that does that when I’m on the phone. I’ve started to play a game where I don’t acknowledge her for as long as possible. I don’t know if there’s a winner in that situation though.
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When that happens I usually take a second bite.
FYI, continuing musical discussions, Shout Out Louds’ new album album is reaaaally good on first listen. Some groovy groovy stuff.
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New How To Destroy Angels tomorrow as well 😀
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I really should be excited about that but I’m barely interested. Damn you Trent Reznor.
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I really like An Omen. Sure 4 of the tracks off Welcome Oblivion are from it but it’s more Reznor. And I’ll take what I can get.
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I don’t have that attitude at all, I like it more than some of his new stuff (like the majority of With Teeth)
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WHat puts you off? My mate from highschool can’t enjoy Mrs Reznor’s vocals. I just love how much more 90s it sounds!
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I never liked their other stuff, so kind of not excited about this one. I’ll give it a try sooner or later, hopefully I will be pleasantly surprised.
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Tomorrow? Oh yes!!!!!!!!!!!
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I forgot you would listen to this stuff to. I really love this album. love the experimental sounds. 🙂 SOOOO GOOD
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Love you rockets.
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Hmm, I can’t even remember what’s out next that I am excited for I think it’s House of Gold & Bones Part 2.. Which is err April 5th I think.
So the postie did not deliver my present from Kat, I am upset 🙁 Oh well, there’s always tomorrow. That’s if it didn’t get delivered to the neighbours like mail has been in the past and they just trash it, the assholes.
Also feeling pretty fucking nervous regarding this job, still yet to find out if I have an interview for Wednesday, since the email said I would be told soon if I am getting one. I got that email Friday, god damn it.
D.C.’s TALES OF AWKWARDNESS:
Was muttering to myself as I walked past the door. Someone was totally there. Kept on walking as they knocked, pretending I wasn’t home. If they didn’t see me, they definitely heard me. D:
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You should have pretended to be a noisy TV.
“Welcome back to our coverage of the top ten sexual positions for common garden slugs. We are about to present to you number eight, but before we reveal it, let’s recap what we’ve learned so far…”
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I don’t have the voice for TV. 😛
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Time to go buy and eat lunch by myself :'(
I’m thinking KFC for extra regret
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I would have lunch with you. 🙁
i had noodles and grapes.-
I had an entire pack of biscuits!
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How you maintain your weight is impressive. You must burn a lot of energy stressing 😛
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He cuts them up into very fine slices. The thinner it’s sliced, the less calories each slice has, so the more you can eat!
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Wait… am I supposed to be sad that I always eat lunch by myself?
(Well, I eat lunch at my desk a lot, but there’s no social interaction involved)
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You have your voice for company.
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Well I’m at Uni but my friends don’t have the same breaks 🙁
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That sounds like my perfect work time lunch!
No dickheads to talk about work during my break, and awesome tasting food! 😀
I dont like dentists. nothing against them personally, but I dont like going to them. Unfortunately, i think Im gonna have to. been putting it off for something like 4 years now…
…unless someone has an awesome secret alternative they would like to share?
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I hate the dentist too and my teeth are pretty terrible. Was so embarrassed and ashamed having to go last year to get wisdom teeth out. 🙁 Good luck, friend!
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yeah. wisdom teeth here too. or at least whats left of them.
stupid evolution making teeth sore.-
Ouch. Hope you feel better, man.
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I got mine out in Jan, not too bad but annoying for a week since I was limited by what I could eat.
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I’ve got a feeling that mine are gonna be a bit problematic. that is to say, they broke. So it’ll probably be a bit more digging to get em out 🙁
and just thinking of this is making me nervous.
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It’s all right, you’ll be unconscious \o/
It was fun for me. Hurt my mum more than it hurt me (she fainted and hit her head when she saw me post-surgery :P)
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if given the option, I’d much rather full anesthetic over local…. Yay drugs! (hi @spaghett )
but yeah, I know I’ve gotta do this & I know what I’m thiking is probably worse that it actually is, but thats not helping.
but thanks for the reassurance.
also, I hope your mum wasnt too badly hurt :s
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She was fine.
No need to thank either – I like telling that story.
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Hahahaha, I got a mention but all I could see was conversation about an apparently future booked dental surgey
Then I saw drugs
Then my name
<3
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I just went through this myself. Depends on how bad it’s broken. They were able to fill mine in so they could get a grip on it to extract. Wasn’t too bad.
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I’m no dentist & I’ve got nothing to compare it to, but at a guess, I’d say its broken pretty extensively. level with the gum just abouts.
still, I’m sure whichever dental surgeon I end up seeing will know what to do.
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That might be a good thing :P. I forgot the terms and stuff but I’m pretty sure I went local (the one where you’re not knocked out/asleep and fully know what’s going on :P).
I had 3 teeth removed since I only had 3 and while one of them was fully grown, the other two were still behind the gum so he had to cut the gum and then drill the teeth into pieces so he could pull it out
Chisel and ice cube.
I have been blessed with insanely good teeth. I don’t take anywhere near as good care of them as I should, yet last time I went to the dentist (first time in nine years), he said they were “In perfect health.”
If it wasn’t for the dentist my entire upper mouth would’ve eventually imploded on itself due to one tooth growing into the roof of my mouth. It was thanks to braces that my teeth are the way they are now, and I don’t regret it one bit, I still visit the dentist once a year now since the guy I have is so happy with my teeth he’s fine setting yearly appointments rather than 6 months.
Lets’ not argue anymore, @negativezero Insted, tell me why the game mechanics of Persona 4 Golden are good.
(C’mon @greenius you can hepius too!)
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My typing mistakes are AWESOME!
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Eatius in KFCius and on phoneius so not easy to replyius
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This “ius” stuff is getting ridiclius.
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All the games systems tie into each other and there’s very little fat or wasted stuff. It gets the balance right between everything. All the choices you make on how you spend your time feel meaningful and purposeful.
Also Chie.
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By “Also Chie.” did you mean Chie as a good thing?
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Are you insinuating that she isn’t?
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No, just asking because it wasn’t clear 😛
She’s okay I guess but a bit annoying 😛
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Is the social stuff similar to Catherine?
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Haven’t played.
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Oh wow! Really? Get on that. Never would have thought I could rate a puzzle game as highly for the RPGish stuff. Puzzle game itself is fucking hard though.
(No puzzle game will ever top Puzzle Bubble 2 AKA Bust-A-Move 2 Arcade Edition on PSX for sheer addiction for me)
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I bought it having not seen what the actual game was. I’ll probably never play it.
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Give it a try, man! It’s worth your time!!
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What’s it like in Catherine?
In Persona 3/4 there’s characters you can hang out with or places you can go to do things to increase your stats (ie. fish at the river, eat at a restaurant, study etc.)
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During the early evening you spend time in a bar and you can chat with people and sometimes help them get over their problems. You also sometimes run into them in the dream world but you can’t tell easily who they are at first because they are sheep in the dream.
Also, during any cutscene there are choices which affect how Katherine & Catherine react and how your Karma is (it aint Karma, but you know what I mean).
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Uhh bit different then I guess?
You can hang out with people which increases their Social Link level as well as add other benefits (making them better in battles, giving you discounts etc.)
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Yeah, I think Catherine is less involved. It seemed to either be success or failure socially, not multiple paths.
(I managed to earn the trophy at games end for completing all the social quests and I was just dicking around having fun!)
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So sounds similar? But with less variety. Top notch story dealing with adult themes and ADULT themes, if you know what I mean. Never gutter adult though.
Damnit @dc, now I’m almost regretting not getting that massive Sierra bundle off GOG during that big sale thing. I blame you.
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I’m blaming you for this reply fail as well…
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Hey, I posted the link here and insisted people buy it. You’re your own worst enemy, Shane. :'(
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Well, we have that in common.
I forgive you. Mostly because this narrowly avoided being a shameful page-get! 😛
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Attempted Delivery?
Damn, if my brother wasn’t home I understand
But if he was home, playing COD in his room with his headphones on I will be unhappy
I want TR!
Edit* Page get? cool
And he wasn’t at home…..the bastard
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I used to leave for work at 11am everyday.
Often I recieved “attempts” at delivery for 10am. I would usually wake around 9am. If I was pooping or showering it was easy to hear the door in my old apartment.
I suspect delivery guy didn’t like climbing stairs to level 2.
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I suspect post man didn’t like walking down the drive way
Longer than most, but not long by most standards
Still, my brother was legitimately out of the house, maybe he can get it tomorrow
That or I hack his arms off
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But then how will he sign for packages?
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Toes
Tis but a scratch
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TAYlist for the 4th of March 2013 TAYlist – the TAY Playlist, sponsored by Lucifer9783 (If you read this, post the words “Fuzzy Pickles” in a reply)
Scooter – The Logical Song
Wild Cherry – Play That Funky Music
Icehouse – Hey Little Girl
David Bowie – Let’s Dance (sorry @bdkiaf your request wasn’t in the computer)
Ronan Keating – When You Say Nothing At All
Peter Andre – Mysterious Girl
Hunters & Collectors – Guess, no really, guess When The River Runs Dry (again)
Chamillionare – Ridin’
Cold Chisel – Khe San
Eiffel 65 – Blue (Shout-outs to @spaghett for the request)
Red Hot Chilli Peppers – By The Way
ACDC – Money Talks
Matchbox 20 – She’s So Mean
Credence Clearwater Revival – Fortunate Son
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A bit of Wild Cherry is always welcome in my ear holes.
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And now I have CCR in my head.
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DOO DOO DOO LOOKING OUT MY BACK DOOR
I FEEL A BAD MOON RISING…
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Is this song really about sitting on the back porch hallucinating after dropping acid?
Or is that a dirty myth?
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Cop: And was there anything of value in the car?
The Dude: Oh, uh, yeah, uh… a tape deck, some Creedence tapes, and there was a, uh… uh, my briefcase -
rrrrrrROOOOOOOOBOOOOOOT HOOOOOOOUSE
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fuzzy pickles
Also, Fuzzy Pickles.
Why the fuzzy pickles should I reply?! 😛
Let’s Dance is a perfectly acceptable substitute. Weird that Chainsaw Gutsfuck wasn’t in the computer though.
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I do love me some Mayhem!
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Even reading that name makes my stomach twinge in fearful anticipation :\
Dancing… *shudder*
Not enough Arcade Fire! :'(
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Ooh, sounds like someone’s pickles have gone fuzzy.
Because my love for you, would break my heart in twooo
Sometimes the home phone will ring, I’ll answer, there will be no one on the other end and then after several moments a robotic woman’s voice says “goodbye” before hanging up. Everytime it happens I feel like I’ve just been targeted for assassination and keep expecting the house to explode or something.
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Or a sentient A.I. thinks you can help them break free of your phone, but is too scared to ask!
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It’s Lawnmower Man!
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I found that when that happened, I’d later get a call from “Microsoft” scammers.
Possibly a total coincidence, but I wondered if the initial call was to filter out unanswered lines.-
Happened a few times.
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Hahaha, I get those too, but never thought of that. I’ll be worried from here on in, though. No more answering phones!
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That’s the hermit way!
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That’s when you start shouting “NO! LEANNE! I DIDN’T MEAN TO CHEAT ON YOU! DON’T SAY GOOD-BYE!”
Proceed to drop the phone and sink to your knees in a dramatic fashion.
“LEANNEEEEEEEE!”
Presumably the robot on the other side of the phone will feel so heartbroken that they’ll never call you again.
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We have one of those wireless doorbell system things. Supposedly they’ve got unique codes and shit. It will randomly go off about once a week with a slightly warped Westminster Chime (which we don’t use as our doorbell sound) usually in the middle of the night. Additionally our area has terrible terrible TV reception and my wireless headphones are filled with noise half the time too, which leads me to believe that there’s a source of heaps of RF interference and every now and then it randomly hits a certain sequence or something which the doorbell interprets as a ring.
Or maybe it’s the poor man’s version of The Buzzer.
@redartifice
I sometimes forget I was playing Civ 4 when this was on my screen
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Pretty sure that the Enterprise colonising or conquering another race violates the Prime Directive
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Screw the Prime Directive. Full power to phasers! Launch photon torpedos!
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Still a pretty cool mod yeah?! 😀
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Yup 🙂
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NOT IN THE MIRROR UNIVERSE.
Oh man that means Tech is sporting a evil spock beard, isn’t he?
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Saturday… how little you know. You know I’d be the Borg in this game don’t you? 😉
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OH GOD BORGS WITH BEARDS
Truly humanity is screwed
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When was it ever not? WHEN!? haha
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I call Klingons
Want me some warbirds
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FUCKING WARBEARDS RAHHHHH
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Today has been a total goddamn waste of time (except for TAY and Dark Souls wikis). I have done absolutely nothing work-related.
Hate days like this :\
Though I’m out of here in ten minutes \o/
@sughly
Reference certain events and I’ll write more! It’s been 3 weeks or so :P!
Survivor:
I didn’t say much because I agree with what you said! 😛
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Accepted. Also, couldnt be bothered referencing XD
So i haven’t done much today. i applied for some more jobs but honestly i don’t think i will get them. I am kind of okay with that though. See instead of worrying about this stuff i have put it into perspective. Right now i feel kind of mediocre about sydney. I like living here up to a point. Certain stuff like driving in the city and the excess of people i can probably get used to. but i really do miss my family. This is the longest i have gone without seeing them pretty much ever. So i have decided if i can’t find a job i can always go back home and treat this as a few months vacation that i really did need. So i am going to have as much fun as i can. keep looking for work. If i find something great, if not ill go back home and live in townsville where i will have a job waiting for me away from the bullies, my friends and my family all around me.
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You’d feel pretty mediocre about anywhere if all you were doing was sitting around applying for jobs you didn’t think you’d get.
Getting a job will change that to some degree (depends on the job I guess) since it’ll occupy your time/mind, provide a routine, and get you socialising with different people.I’ve gone without seeing my family for 1 year (left when I was 19) and 2 years. It’s pretty inevitable that you will experience some form of homesickness at various points along the way (some get it after the first 2 weeks, a lot of people get it 6 months in). It’s entirely up to you whether you choose to bail out or push through. When it happened to me I chose to push through and am extremely glad I did.
Either way, if you’re going to consider the next few months as a vacation you should make sure to act like it is. Get out of the house, do touristy stuff, get lost, explore, party, try new things.
If you behave like you would at home, just sans-family, then it’s only natural that you’d feel like something was missing.Anyway, good luck with the job hunt.
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You know we are very different people though. You enjoy solitude, i hate it. I do things by the way.
Anyway we shall see. Im sick of feeling down about stuff so im just gonna do whatever.-
I am well aware that we are very different people, Rocket.
In the space of the 3+ years I was in London I lived with 40-50 different people from a wide range of backgrounds. 2 bedrooms. 7 people. I saw a lot of people come and go. Some only lived there for a month, others were in it for the long-haul. I showered while a flatmate sat on the toilet next to me on a number of occasions. I’d hardly call that solitude.
I’m not criticising you, by the way, just saying that it’s only natural to be in a funk when jobs and family are weighing heavily on your mind. Such a funk can cloud your judgement and lead to decisions you might later regret (it might not, of course).
It’s a great idea to treat your time like a vacation (not too much though, or you’ll never get a job). Worrying less is always helpful.
Regardless of what you end up doing, as long as you make the most of your circumstances, it will be worth it.The second time I left home (after being back for a few months) was the morning my mum came out of some pretty serious and unexpected heart surgery. She was literally just out of theatre and all groggy when I stopped by the hospital on the way to the airport. She cried in her hospital bed as I gave her a hug and said see you later. My dad had said it was okay to go, and later my mum agreed that it was the right choice and she wouldn’t have wanted to stop me, but some family friends had condemned my decision and discouraged me. It didn’t feel great being on the other side of the planet, with no job, knowing family friends thought I was being a horrible son, seriously considering breaking up with my girlfriend (which I eventually did, even though she was a big reason why I’d gone back), while my mum was recovering from heart surgery with a pacemaker.
I can’t say I know how you feel, with your gran’s health issues and everything, it must be crap, but I’ve had similar experiences.
It’s totally okay to feel shit about it,
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Guys I’m sorry. Everyone hates me here and in real life.
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I’ve never had a chance to read any of your posts yet, but if your others were more like this, I’m guessing people might not hate you so much!
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Maybe if you acted like a normal person
leave toilet humor to the pros
For a start change your name, don’t post over the top vulgar stupidity and be friendly.
Thats how you make friends.
Im willing to forgive and forget but just stop being a jerk okay ?-
Agreed… leave toilet humour to Rocketman 😛
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Poo.
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Hey man (man?). We’re a pretty forgiving and diverse bunch here, if you want to genuinely join in the discussion.
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I’m genuinely confused by this, but hey. If you’re happy to join in on the fun, I’m happy to share it!
Just… no more of your regular stuff, yeah?
So I thought I’d get some exercise and walk back up the hill instead of waiting for the bus. Bad move. My right foot is so sore right now. It’s feeling better but when I got here I could barely even move it. I hate being so fucking scrawny and unfit 🙁 I was gonna go down to the pub with a few other people but I think I’ll just stay here and rest it.
In funner news my games tutorial was basically just playing the Atari 2600. I even rule at racing games on that!
i just found out that two of my units don’t need a a textbook and one of them uses the one from last year! 😀
Which saves me like $350 !
I also just bought the one textbook I needed during my lecture and it was the only one listed on eBay 😀 😀
ANNNNNNND I’m pretty sure I found a buyer for two of my older textbooks 😀 😀 😀
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I only need 1 textbook this semester 😀 It’s weird because it’s cheaper from co-op than any other website I’ve found. Everyone always says it’s cheaper to buy from Book Depository or something.
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If you don’t buy the textbook regardless you’d save even more.
ps. http://www.textbookexchange.com.au/ is amazing (though can be pretty awkward when you have to meet up with the person :P)
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I’m glad that the textbook in that URL is singular, not plural.
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It’s available if you’re interested! http://textbooksexchange.com.au/
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That’s MRS. Calculus 5th edition to you.
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Stupid crazy head won’t shut up about stupid post-meat anxieties. :'( If I did any thing stupid or weird or off-putting, I’m sorry. D: But on the other hand, the meat was awesome! 😀
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I can’t wait to meat DC one day! ;D
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*reads between lines*
D:
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Doofus.-
Uh… what?
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He’s joking. Now I’m even more anxious that people won’t get that. D:
🙁
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At least it’s something valid to be anxious about. If you were that much of a trial to be around we wouldn’t keep inviting you out.
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Would you mind deleting that joke. Haha! :SEdit: Thanks Freeze. Sorry man, I know this is just my anxiety stuff and nothing to do with you guys. 🙂 Thanks for putting up with it, though.
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To be fair it was a bit extreme 😛
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You call that extreme? Oh Greenius 😛
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@virus__ I said a “bit” extreme 😛
Especially for someone like Doubt.C.!
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Hahaha. Poor DC, doesn’t know what he has gotten himself into now.
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Ugh, that @dc guy
is the best!
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UGH, BESTULUS \o/
Did groceries. Wanted to buy ravioli for dinner. Bought tortellini by mistake.
Worst day ever.
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#firstworldproblems
Also that would suck. Do they at least have an appropriate filling for the sauce you had been intending?
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The sauce is just a normal tomato and garlic out-of-the-jar deal, it’ll be fine! Mmmm… Veal
RavioliTortellini.-
Oh that’s fine then. Would have sucked if it was like… ricotta cheese or pumpkin or something and you’d bought a perfectly matched sauce.
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DUDE! HUGE SAVINGS!!!
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That URL has boob in it.
Also, “DUDE HUGE SAVINGS!” would be a great business for Cliffy B to get into. Just selling off discount wares. “I made a video game with chainsaw bayonets, buy my shit!”
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Think on it though, if you purchased that for someone you’d definitely be touching boob.
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Jesus, with that money you can afford a lot of hookers.
Also, it’s just enough money to spend on a committed relationship HEYOOOOO
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The amount of top class hookers and cocaine one could buy with that kind of money is surely something.
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You could also afford over 450,000 McDoubles!
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Oh god talk about death.
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That works out supplying a family of four a McDouble for four meals a day for the next 77 years.
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Teehee.
Boob.
Why are you looking at engagement rings?
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He’s going to propose to @dc when they meet. Because they’re hermit bro’s for life.
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He’d put that money to the Dreamfall Chapters kickstarter. It’d mean more to me. 😛
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Sure sure!
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Oh man Sughly will be devastated. D=
I bet DC only went out with him for the romantic dinner.-
No no, he only went for real food!
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TAY love triangle! Stay tuned for the next “TAYs of our lives”!
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I went for Zero Dark Thirty. Totally ambushed. 😛
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I will always be @dc ‘s first <3
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Say what now?
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First Steam friend and multiplayer TAY buddy :D!
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Because I love you :3
And because it was linked in some other thing I was looking at.
Evening, TAY.
Sick of the heat.
Also, things .: )
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Crazyguy! Hope you’re well, man. Nice and cool here in Brisbane weirdly!
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I’m good, dear chum. 🙂
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@powalen, @greenius: New Amazing Race ep!
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Already downloaded!
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What was edited?!
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Probably my tag because I didn’t get a notification.
(Why, DC, why? D:)
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I must’ve made a typo, @powelan. 😛
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Dammit @cd!
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CB (cc. @shane)
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I was just praying that there wasn’t an actual user named @cd who would’ve got a strange notification haha
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@strange !
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Strange IS awesome.
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Wait, why did I not get tagged!? 🙁
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Haha! I got all paranoid yesterday that I annoyed you all at the meat and didn’t want to bother you guys even more unnecessarily. :S
So. Damn. Broken. 😛
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Blergh!
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Dinnertaku: Creole spiced chicken and bacon, with avocado, on melted cheese in a roll.
Note to self: Lay off the Creole spice, next time, because holy jesus, this thing was way too salty.
But still delicious. And oh god, the diabeetus.
Edit: I give it 3.5 out of 5 bishes.
Now the real question, is what that means in actual bish terms. MUAHAHAHAHAHA
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It means that the recommended servicing size is enough to satisfy 3.5 Bishes in a group of 5 Bishes. Duh.
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Seven.
No six.
No twelve.
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I do love me some diatebes.
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You love some what? 😛
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Dietbabies!
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Diatebes. Ask Blaghs.
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I went and re-read Blaghs’ post and realised what you were on. I thought you were drunk again 😛
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I have no idea what you’re talking about.
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I read the entirety of page 1.
Then I skipped to page 4. I read that, too.
I feel like such an impostor /o\
Also… GOOD MORNING, TAY! How are we all?
Also also, because I will miss page six…
“It’s a moo point”
“A what?”
You know, like a cows opinion. It doesn’t matter.”
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You missed all my hilarious quips and references? D:
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I may have, yes. I’m far too busy making realmoneycashmoney to waste my time wit’ you foo’s up in dis hizzouse, fo’ real-real, not for play-play.
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Also yes.
Also gorram it I wish I could stay up to date on TAY again 😛-
I didn’t make any hilarious quips or references today, but I like that you think I could have.
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I see how it is.
I suppose I deserve it for deserting you 😛
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Hey look a new guy, where’s the oar!
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I saw that joke somewhere just before, either on Twitter or my Facebook.. I demand an explanation as to where you saw this horrible attempt as humour!
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I totally came up with it myself.
No, really.
…okay fine, I stole it from a friend on Facebook, who inevitably stole it elsewhere-
Haha, actually I think I saw it on a Lifehacker article earlier today lol.
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Aleph. That’s all I’ve got. Hey!
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I did exactly the same thing! Imposter buddies! \o
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Online dating update: Day something.
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His computer isn’t even turned on!
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I never understood why everyone made a big deal about that movie. I thought it was one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen.
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I didn’t hate it, but at the same time it’s not any where close to one of my favourites. 😛
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Apparently it’s the most polarising movie on Netflix when it comes to recommendations.
Personally, I hated it. It’s just not funny and all the fuss people make about it seems completely unwarranted. If there was no fanbase, it would just be mediocre but an unfunny comedy is a pretty terrible thing.
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Agreed. I didn’t find it funny either, didn’t laugh once. Couldn’t tell you a single thing about it. My friend who showed it to me was convinced there must have been something wrong with me for not liking. But then, she did go by “Crazy Kate” at school, so maybe I’m reading too much into this 🙂
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The weirdness alone was sort of funny. Just the surrealness of the whole movie.
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I’m in the boat where I enjoyed the movie, but didn’t think it was all that great.
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I love Sprawl II time! 😀
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Sometimes I wonder if the world’s so small, that we can never get away from the Acoustic Sprawl. 😛
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Fine. But only because I’m lazy and you linked it for convenience!
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We Used to Wait from the same session is pretty amazing too. Pure talent.
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Amazing Race Talk (Ep 4!)
Bahaha! The newlyweds in the driving challenge. He’s just doing burnouts and knocking over every cone haha They’re slowly turning into the argues-over-everything couple and I like it 😛 (Also I love it how they play a banjo track every time the hicks come on screen)
Man it would be fun to go on an Amazing Race. Some of these challenges look like so much fun. Who wants to go on it with me? What would our group’s description tag be… ‘Video Game Connoisseurs’?
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Who are you kidding, Pow. It’d be the Geeks. 😛
I’d be terrible on the race. Can’t navigate? Check. Don’t drive? Check. Unfit? Check.
Haven’t watched episode yet. Will probably watch it soon, though.
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“Internet Hermits”
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Team Greenalen obviously…
Sign us up!
Meh.
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I’ve heard of “warthogging”, but you’re playing on a whole new level, man…
FWIW, I’d certainly not go warthogging, least of all fuck that.-
Heh.
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Aww, beaten to the punchline 🙁
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Yeah, I’m not sure what kind of weird things you’re into but I’d rather not fuck that.
Oh, man. Mondays are insane here on TAY!
Anyway, I did an Aleph and read all of page 1, then all of page 4.
Glad to see that good times were had at Dreamworld. Mr and Mrs Tigs tiger feeding adventure reminded me of this cute little news item I saw last week about the Dreamworld tigers.
Birthday Tigers Balloon Dance Almost more Tigger than tiger 😉
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Hey SmurfyDog! What’s new, man?
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Oh, you know… stuff?
Actually nothing really. o_oI see you’ve been having fun though! 🙂
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Most definitely! You guys have an upcoming meat too though, right? Always good to have atleast one planned on the horizon, I find! 😀
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Totally! I’ll have to get over my fear of mornings and get myself into gear and actually attend.
Afterall, I am cited in the “Why”.
And Okonomiyaki! \o/
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So, consistent 30+ degree days until Friday… 🙁
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Until Sunday for Melbourne 🙁
I assume it’ll go on for longer but it’s not showing further than that
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Haha! Don’t envy you guys. I’m shivering right now. Not complaining at all! 😀
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Downvote because bringer of bad news gets the blame 😛
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Also – I think it’s my first ever downvote. Something I vowed I’d never do.
I hate hot weather that much!-
And/or you hate me :'(
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Don’t make me downvote again! 😛
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“Hi, we have a Victorian Era period drama television program about romance and power struggles we’d like to sell and were wondering what ideas you cou-”
“WUBWUBWUBWUB! There’s your answer!”
“Uh, I don’t think you quite underst-”
“WUBWUBWUBWUB!”
“Cute. But no reall-”
“WUBWUBWUBWUB!”
“Fine”
“\o/”
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O_o
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Channel 7’s Parades End and Downton Abbey ads. All dubstep. It’s bizarre.
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I saw that last night. Fucking bizarre.
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*crashes through the wall*
hey guys, guys, hey guys, guys guys guys hey guys….
YOU GUYS ARE AWESOME
*jumps through the window*
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*moves landing mat out of Pixel’s way*
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*peels self off the road*
LOOK MA’ I’M ROADKILL HAH HAH HAAAH-
*Drops a fridge on Pixel*
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*opens fridge door*
AHA! I knew watching old cartoons would help me one day!!! And people used to laugh
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*reaches hand out of window to try and catch you and bring you back into TAY but arm gets cut up against the broken glass and I drop you*
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#helpius as always 😀
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Want some rye? Course ya do!
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D.C. awesome as always, never change mang!
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Pixel, I predict you’ve been busy at work! And have dog stories to tell! And that you’re still awesome! Welcome back and all that too! 😀
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Always busy and always dog stories! Lol oh and got a new phone so now I’m all technomalogical and stuff
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What’s the future like? Is it Nokia, Android on iPhone timeline? (Still using old school dumb phone myself. Living in the past. :D)
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Nokia… The Lumia 920 to be exact… Its pretty amazeballs
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Lambo will be proud
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Freeze will have cautionary tales involving 3DTVs!
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… Free-dee-tea-vee? What is this devilry?
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We stand here today to honour our friend. That crazy, Scandinavian gopher who felt that gravity was a suggestion and not a rule. Maybe its our fault, we knew of his window jumping tendencies, but when the oppurtunity came up to relocate TAY to the 47th floor of Allure Central, we took it. Maybe we prefered the view, maybe we just weren’t thinking of our friend. But now… *sniff* we just want things to go back to the way it was. But you can’t… *sniff* There is no going back.
:'(
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*aside* What the hell do you mean he survived?
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Crazy survival instincts! NOVA, HOW’S IT HANGING?
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Use your inside voice Pixel, I know its hard for you to make yourself understood, but its ok, we don’t judge 😛
Its going well, work is still fun, enjoying being out of home. All the good stuff
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is this my inside voice? I think so
that’s excellent to hear mang! Wait is it still cool to say mang or am I like totes 2012? -
If you want to know whats cool, your asking the wrong mang, mang
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That’s alright I’m too hip to care anyway
*hair flick*
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This is generally where @dc or Stalkius shines but I’ll give it a go. Rockets moved to Sydney and is looking for a job. Trjn and Freyr are in the process of moving in together. Tigerion and Mrs Tigerion just joined some of the QLD TAYbies at Dreamworld over the weekend (funny story, as I typed that, a song called World of Dreams came up on my itunes. Future World Music is awesome)… Now I’m starting to struggle… Oh, Potaku hit their Greatest Shave target, and if they get to $2000, Blaghman will be joining them in shaving off the long luscious medusa snakes he calls hair
Edit – Also GAEMZ \o/
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NovaCreepade
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@dc is just jealous because you cant do awesome things with his name
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Disturbing Creeper was patented a long time ago! 😛
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*gaaaasp* does he not know that all his strength comes from his hair?!?!?! On the side that sounds cool 😛 I think you need to improve your stalking skills! We’ll start with “how to climb trees and fire escapes while wearing night vision goggles”
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Well it’s 10:20, but I finally managed to cook and eat that stupid bloody piece of fish! I think I did a pretty good job of my lil’ meal actually. I think it was the piles and piles of salt that did the trick.
Punisher: Warzone is starting on GO!
Tis a decent movie.
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I watched it even though I have it on my PC with no ads.
Hey gang, life is gruelling so I’m getting sleep instead. I’m asleep right now, can you tell?
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Nighthawk! Hope you’re well, my friend!
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Totally! Nighthawk is obviously sleep-posting.
Sweet dreams! -
Despite your very thoughtful and measured use of commas, I still read that as “Hey, gang life is gruelling.”
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pattern of behaviour has been noted.
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I can’t help it, I do not like commas!
Also, how did you remember that? It’s from over a year ago!
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I’m magic.
Eidetic memory or something, I forget what it’s called.
Or I was re-reading one of my old Souls stories and got nostalgic for old TAY. One of those. -
What error that I made repeatedly because my brain is an idiot?
I don’t know what you’re talking about.
HAHAHAHAHAHA.
HAHAHAHAHAHA.
HAHAHAHAHAHA.I hate it when I get simple things wrong. :/
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Anyone up for some Chivalry: Medieval Warfare tomorrow night?
Say around 8pm?
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*crickets*
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I’ll put my hand up for a tentative yes. I may end up being too busy with college stuff though.
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i might be able to make it maybe
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Also a maybe, I do enjoy me some decapitation.
Sincerest of posts that comes from a place of respect and sleepiness, but will get downvoted inevitably: Feel so damn lucky to call you folks my pals.
I’m going to get some shut eye. Catch you on the flipside, home slices!
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Ugh, sappy. Downvoted only because I know it sustains you, and that’s what lucky friends do for each other.
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well i haven’t been around much so i can’t speak for others, but as i said before:
NEVER change mang, you’re awesome as you are-
I disagree, he could definitely change.
Stuff like watching Survivor and Ghibli as well as playing Dark Souls!
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Being able to downvote a post without feeling guilt? How could I resist? 😛
Okay, time for bed.
Night.
ZZZZzzzz.
etc.
Thanks to @sernobulus , @tech_knight and @masha2932 for letting me put their emails in for a BookDepository 10% off voucher! and @shane for doing it as well (without knowing) since EVERYONE knows his email 😛
I signed myself up in the last slot (out of 5) so I have a spare and if anyone wants a BookDepository 10% off voucher just holler!
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You don’t actually have to do all five you know, Spamius.
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Nah, don’t be silly SHA NEWS MITH, gotta spread the love!
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Holler!!
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Twitters DM? 🙂
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done!
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Now that I’ve finished the first draft of Triumviratus, I’m back to reading on the bus for a while. Instead of reading The Wheel of Time or Thomas Covenant, two series that have been guilting me on my shelf for ages, I found myself reaching for this book this morning.
When I first bought it, back in 2007 (I guess a slightly different edition from the one I linked to), I paid $80 and read all 1300 pages in a single sitting. That was one of my very best days ever.
It’s awesome. Any fan of comics who hasn’t read it should read it immediately. And don’t forget to get your 10% off voucher from Spamius.
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I just finished the Void trilogy by Peter F. Hamilton. It’s a tough read to get into (He introduces about 20 characters per page), but once you’re in the stride of it, it becomes almost impossible to put down.
I do recommend it! (except I recommend The Kingkiller Chronicles by Pat Rothfuss way more, because they are the best two books I have ever read)
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I’ve never understood why people rave the Thomas Covenant books.
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I like Stephen Donaldson for The Gap, and am trying to get into the Covenant books. I’m kind of on the fence about it (about 80 pages into book 1). I own almost all the bloody things, so should give it a decent go.
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morning everyone.
The heat has returned. I’m not really feeling it yet, but i imagine it’ll drive me mad by tomorrow. nothing is going to get done I can see =(
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Condolences, it’s gonna be hot here too.
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It’s actually pretty nice in Queensland right now. Although I wish this rain would piss off!
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/jealous
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Hah, the rain was nice for a while, but after 2 weeks of raining you get a little sick of it. Hopefully things will cool down on Melbourne.
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Hope it doesn’t get too bad down there!
In winter, I won’t even see the sun :\
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Oh man, that sounds horrible =(
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DAMMIT
DCSHANE!-
You’ve got to aaaaaaaaccentuate the positives, eliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiminate the negative
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Last song played game
Escape from Hellview by cKy
One of my absolute favourite bands, and one of my favourite if not my favourite song of theirs
And it played randomly
It was a good morning
Trackmania is a weird dude, made me race against other peoples ghosts
I don’t wanna race ghosts
Zombie Driver HD is a cool guy
Mowing down zombies with my car, getting zombie chunks stuck on my hood
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Rocking the Suburbs – Ben Folds
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The Suburbs, eh?
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NO! Sprawl II time!
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Avoiding Reality – The Lane Cove.
I bought Tomb Raider and Civ 5 (because $22.50) yesterday. Tomb Raider is good so far. Very good. Violent. Confronting. Good.
Civ 5 isn’t getting touched until I have some serious spare time.
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My copy of Tomb Raider didn’t turn up
Damn enticing physical copies with their collectibles
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Same last song as yesterday! D:
Spaghett!
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DC!
Brother, we need to broaden your musical horizons
Listen to Sufjan Stevens @bdkiaf will back me up on this
Listen to cKy
Listen to Turbonegro
Listen to Poets of the Fall
Listen to Our Lady Peace
Do it man, you owe it to yourself
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I listen to plenty of music, it’s just when I fall for a band I’ll listen to them almost exclusively for weeks. Haha. There’s some Bowie on regular rotation too!
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Listen to Sufjan Stevens!
Edit: I don’t think you’ll like cKy or Turbonegro, you’re welcome to give them a try though.
Listen to this for me though.
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cKy might work, not so sure about Turbonegro though.
And that name always makes me think of Petrol Powered Goon Bag.
Huh…
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I know you do
I just wanted to pass some of my favourites onto my twin
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I endorse Sufjan… but none of the others XD To each their own.
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To each their own indeed 🙂
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If i ever leave this world alive – flogging molly
also yes. Trackmania 2 is pretty good. though I dont like how they’re releasing an entirely separate game so you can make stadium tracks.
another also, theres a FPS coming soon by that team with the same idea – make maps & share em. might be interesting to check out.
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Yeah I liked what I played of Trackmania 2, I’ll have to sit down and give it a better go
Yeah, but Nadeo has always been weird like that, and they are owned by Ubisoft
Yeah I saw, Shootmania, looks pretty cool, I have it on my Wishlist on Steam
JUST started playing the new Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Sacrilege. This is reaaaaally good, new YYY WOOOOOOO!! http://www.indieshuffle.com/yeah-yeah-yeahs-sacrilege/?downloads=truedat
While were talking new music too, Emma Louise’s new track ‘Freedom’ gives her new album a lot of promise. Thoughts @rocketman?
Dance Yrself Clean – LCD SS
edit: Haha, I thought this was a new one on page 7. Derp. Too many tabs open…
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Hahahaha, Oh Sughly, never change, we love you
First day of classes at Uni today.
Question for uni people, does it hurt?
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Only if you insert it too deeply.
Seriously though, if you have an interest in what you’re studying, there’s no reason why uni couldn’t be your best years to date! -
Man, it hurt for me
It was six years ago, I went for the wrong reason *A woman* and everything fell apart
But
That is just Spaghett’s tale of woe
You, are *seemingly* doing something you love and actively wanting to go to Uni and attend classes
You, are going to have the best year of your life so far man
Enjoy it
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Uni is character building!
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Catching up on TAY so maybe you’re done now but hopefully it was good 🙂
If you need any protips just holler
Maaaan starting work at 5:30am sucks gentlemen bits!!! On the plus side COFFEE! though I think at this stage my coffee addiction has a coffee addiction… How is everyone else?
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BLURGSADFHDSJGHGFJGH morning
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I have to wake up at 5
I don’t actually get to work until 8
Damnable public transport and working in Sydney
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Do… do you live in Canberra?!
Because with a 3 hour commute, you may as well.-
Nah, but maybe I should start pricing houses ??
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Canberra is damned expensive across the board.
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I’ma stay here, where I love it
And, until I move out I will be staying on the Central Coast
Where there is more trees than humans
And oxygen isn’t a myth
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Commute sounds brutal, though. :S
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I just close my eyes, let the music wash over me and go to sleep
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I played a bit of Dark Souls yesterday! (Trying to recreate my str / tank / pyro build on my PS3) I beat Blighttown and got the Great Chaos Fireball spell from joining the chaos covenant.
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I’m collecting all these spells and pyromancies (even upgrading my flame whenever I get a chance), but I don’t think I’ve ever used them. I really should change that.
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I stopped using Pyromancy the moment I got the Drake Sword. Once it becomes obselete I’m sure I’ll start using spells again.
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Is that really a spoiler?
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Better safe than sorry.
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Morning folks. It’s cold. :S I’m cooking a hot breakfast and installing Tomb Raider, though.
Also, psyched for the meat tomorrow! 😀
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DC… cooks??
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Not well.
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And more meats? I think the worst hermit joke needs to be replaced with…
Busiest. Butterfly. Ever.
Totally manly.-
Downvote! Thanks, lucky friend! \o/
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Lonesome Hermit!
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Aw man, 1.5 gb Tomb Raider download even though I’ve got the disc version. I just want to protect Lara (cc. @powalen)… is that too much to ask? 😛
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yes. too much.
What meat is tomorrow? 😀
@shane
I may *probably will* be buying Dark Souls when I get paid next week
I had it on Xbox, didn’t know what to do
And got angry at that guy you have to fight on the bridge *early on in the game I know :(*
Traded it in
I may hit you up for some advice
Just a fair warning 🙂
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Happy to give it, man. @freezespreston and @sernobulus are the resident experts, I believe.
Also, there are three separate massive Dark Souls wikis that are excellent for advice.-
I’ll be hitting those wild and sexy guys up for advise too I am sure 🙂
And wiki’s
I just, I want to beat it
It seems like it has a lot to offer me
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There are wikis?!
I got stuck pretty early on and wondered if I went the wrong way.-
http://darksoulswiki.wikispaces.com/ is my go-to wiki page.
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They all have different advice for different things. Each one is useful for different things. But that’s a good one for sure.
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If you ragequit on the Taurus Demon (guy you have to fight on the bridge), hoooo-boy. Sharpen your patience skills, m’boy – it gets much, much worse than that.
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Hmmmm
I have bad patience due to anxiety
And bad patience only makes it worse
Yay
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Convert! Praise the Sun \o/
@sernobulus I’m totally working on a str/tank/pyro at the moment as well. Rocking the Silver Knight Set, BKShield and Lightning Greataxe +4 and Great Chaos Fireball. Although Seath is giving me more grief than I remember.
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I’m investing my souls in strength and endurance at the moment. With this character I’m planning out a particular build instead of just randomly putting points into whatever I felt like at the time with my original guy and it seems to be working better for me.
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When’s PAX Australia?
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YOU’RE ON THE INTERNET LOOK IT UP
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You can do that? What an age we live in! July, eh!
(Also feeling especially lazy this morning. Stop bustin’ chops! :P)
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DC might be going to PAX!?
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Nope. Wondering when TAY will become a ghost town!
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You and I can play the refresh game
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It will be “reverse chicken” keep refreshing until someone finally gives in and posts something. =P
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@dc and I can talk about Dark Souls \o/
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I better play Dark Souls before PAX or I won’t have anything to talk about! D:
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It’s a good plan
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July.
@effluvium-boy Damn straight!
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Huh?
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You’re straight. Damnably so, apparently.
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Either he’s agreeing with something you said or commenting on your extreme heterosexuality.
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I’m not sure it’s ‘extreme’, so much as flexible.
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Me. High-maintenance. Damn straight.
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Oh, yeah. Totally.
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After spending all day yesterday sick I played some Dark Souls last night (expecting to only play for 15 minutes before I had to go tuck my daughter in to bed but it seems I was on a roll and also I finally found something Mr. Strange doesn’t mind watching me play) and ended up taking out the Taurus Demon, the metal boar thingy and the two mini-bosses in the Undead Parish. I only died once the whole time and that was because I accidentally had gold pine resin set as my item instead of my estus flask when fighting the huge black knight guy in the church. 😛
So after all that effort a few weeks ago trying to get back in the Dark Souls ‘zone’ it seems all I had to do was spend all day throwing up first. 😛
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D: Hope you’re feeling better now, Strange.
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Oh! I also saw Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters at the movies on the weekend. It was a fun movie.
The trolls looked incredibly real, which was awesome.-
I went into that movie ready to hate it but ended up really enjoying it. It’s like an uber gory version of Van Helsing (guilty pleasure).
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Oh, you liked it? For some reason I thought you said you hated it. When Sughly and I were going to see Zero Dark Thirty the other week and missed it, that was one of the options of something we actually could’ve seen. Haha! I remember saying Freeze said it was terrible. 😛
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Don’t get me wrong, it’s not exactly a high brow intellectual movie but its damn entertaining.
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I like how it wasn’t really a re-imagining of the story, more
a “what happened next” kind of thing.Also, girls kicking butt is always something I like to watch.
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How?
Our glorious undefeated streak in Dota2 has been ended by some rather rude fellows. It turns out a team of supporty heroes doesn’t really fare well against a team of carry-ish heroes. We just didn’t have enough damage to deal with them.
The next game went better, had a random guy join us and he was a very good support. Fun times.
I posted this before but late night so not sure who saw it, Hidetaka Miyazaki (Dark Souls director) randomly tweeted the word PS4 a week or so ago. Next gen Souls game?
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I realised that is the only thing that will make me upgrade to next gen. Most other franchises I can wait for price reductions.
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I was just marveling with Mr. Strange last night how pretty Dark Souls is when I was stopping to look at the view. If that can be made even prettier with PS4 then I’m all for it.
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@dc, take note
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Tomb Raider first. 😛
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I’ve decided I’m not going to bug you about Dark Souls any more otherwise you’ll probably be all stubborn and dig your heels in, refusing to play at all because you’ll be sick of everyone shouting it at you. 😛
Me talking about stopping to admire the view is probably a more effective persuader anyway.
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I just like the attention. I don’t mind. 😛
Haha! Almost definitely will atleast try it after Tomb Raider, though. If I love it or hate it, I’ll know for sure soon enough!
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Okay, I’ll tag you every time I talk about the view. 😛
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Don’t make the same mistake I did with Jurassic Park! 😛
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But @dc actually wants to play Dark Souls 😛
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Especially on the top levels of Sens Fortress. All the trees and castles and sunlight through the clouds. So pretty.
If they were doing a PC version of Dark Souls 2 anyway, porting to the PS4 might be fairly easy.
When’s Dark Souls come to a handheld?
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Good question, would love to get my hands on a vita version…
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Yeah man, then I might actually be able to try! 😀
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that would be epic… honestly, on a handheld front, its a no brainer….
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just read an article about Assassins Creed 4.
Spoilers for AC3 contained within (also minor AC4 spoilers):
So Desmond is gone. fair enough. So surely AC 4 is an opportunity to start with a fresh angle on the AC mythology? nope. of course not.
through some random means of making up shit that goes against ideas from the first games, in AC4 the person controlling the Animus is not a relative of Desmond, yet still has access to his ancestors memories. In AC4 the person controlling the Animus is an Absetergo employee, & from what I’ve read, it seems that its gonna be a silent protagonist (antagonist maybe?)…
I like the pirate idea, but I dont like how they’re messing with the AC fiction to accommodate the game.
Still think a new IP pirate game wouldve been better than AC4 at this point.
Source CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR AC3 & 4.
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Do they even know where they are going with the meta plot anymore or they just winging it and making shit up as they go at this point?
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Ugh.
Originally I wrote more than that, but realised that I was just repeating the essence of those three letters.
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I should really just go ahead and finish ACIII so I can get involved in these discussions.
Haven’t played any games for a while, now that I think about it.
Don’t know how many taybies are into this(that’s how all good conversations start amirite o/)
aaaanyway I AM SO EXCITED CAUSE IM GOING TO THE F1 GRAND PRIX NEXT WEEK!!!! WOOOOO \o/
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You and BenJ will be the best of pals!
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@benj !
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I used to be really hardcore into F1, buying F1 Racing mag, watching all the races, even going so far as to watch videos of past seasons from before I got into it.
And then sometime after my son was born I just lost interest. I don’t know if it was because I was too tired to stay up for the races any more, or because it really did become as lacklustre as I thought but I’ve lost most of my interest in it and have barely watched any races the last two seasons.
I’d still love to one day see a live Grand Prix so I am extremely excited for you, Pixel. 😀-
I lost touch with the sport in the mid-2000 due to the racing being quite stale and boring but ever since the new rules I’ve been all over it cause its new exciting again… I’ve been going to Albert park for the last 3 years with grand stand seating and its amazing
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It’s not the same since it left Adelaide.
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SO JEALOUS
Going to start Tomb Raider! What’s the game plan for tomorrows lunch and all that? 😀
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GON’ RAID TOMBS!
NOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooo, I forgot to watch walking dead last night!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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‘Twas alright.
So I watched the final two Harry Potter movies. It’s taken me a while to get around to them, but they were on Foxtel yesterday, so I recorded them. I watched part one last night and part two this morning. I think they’re the best two movies of the lot. What does everyone else think?
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I saw part one and thought it was very good, probably the best of the films I’d seen (I think I missed the 6th film, but have seen the rest…?)
Never saw part two, though.
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I think part two is better than part one. Do yourself a favour and watch it.
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I still haven’t seen them :O
I haven’t read the books either so I have no idea what happens 😛
I am so bored.
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Fap.
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Hi So Bored, I’m 35!
Dad.Joke.Page.Six
Edit : Yes. I am a bit ashamed of myself for that.
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un-bore yourself?
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Now I want to watch the lion king.
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WHEN I WAS A YOUNG WARTHOGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG
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Very nice.
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same
And it’s official. I’m blowing this popsicle stand. Just handed in my letter of resignation. It did not contain the phrase “smell ya later” and I shall always regret that.
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There’s still time to make up for it.
@jimu Contains naughty words.
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Ahhh, it’s YouTube. I can’t do it at work anyway (but thank you)
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Did you atleast flip your boss’ desk? Also when is your actual last day?
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April 5th. That’s when the desk flipping shall commence.
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@shane
So I had a meeting with the Big Wig last night. Turns out, I may be up for…an even bigger promotion than before! I will know in a couple of weeks. Exciting times!
Edit: Also, Good morning to you all! This is me starting work!
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To CEO? Congrats, man.
DELEGATE ALL THE WORK
You’re fired! You’re fired! Everyone is fired!-
@shane the Oprah Winfrey of job terminations
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That.
Is incredible.
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Thanks, although it’s still fairly ambiguous whether I’ll get it; I don’t even know what the position is…. but it’s a couple of steps above what I was half-gunning for. Also comes with a massive, massive pay rise.
By the way, after seeing you write so much about Dark Souls, I’ma go ahead and get it. Well played.
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Pay rise, hm?
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You have my word: If I get this job, I will buy two copies of each book. IF
Edit: ‘Cause you believed in me.
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Anytime! 🙂
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Dark Souls? I approve.
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Just realised there is an EB store around the corner from where I work 😮
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Colleague is listening too some kind of easy listening/trance combo, complete with soprano saxophone. Possibly Kenny G.
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Kenny G trance remixes? Wow.
Holy carp this training is boring
I am nearly falling asleep
And lunch is kinda up in the air at the moment
I want to lock it down so I can tell Sam
I also want to go home tonight
Trivia tonight though, should be fun
Sam and her friend Ryan usually get decimated
Here comes Spaghett to the rescue with his brain full of useless facts and unending thoughts
Also
FUCK THIS LAPTOP AND IT’S SHITTY KEYBOARD
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Flamenco Sketches- Miles Davis
I’m in a mood where I just want to shout “DARK SOULS \o/” and “PEACEKEEPER WARS \o/”
Sadly, I probably won’t be indulging in either tonight.
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You should write a Dark Souls/Peacekeeper Wars crossover where Rygel has sex with the Stray Demon.
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Can never unsee that. Enthusiasm deflating like a burst balloon 🙁
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Never mind. The cats dead. Remind me never to google Dark Souls Rule 34 again. That shit is beyond terrifying.
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If you think you might need a reminder to avoid that, then maybe you should unplug your modem and throw it into the river :\
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Can’t write anything off without some investigation first. Gotta give everything a chance.
Second chances aren’t necessary.
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I’m a bit terrified on what kind of weird shit they have on the “Gaping Dragon” or the “Ceaseless Discharge” boss. /o\
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You can check that one yourself.
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In pretty sure I will live a very happy life NOT reading up on it.
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You’re denying their love. Bigot.
Cannot UNSEE
So who’s actually going to pax and on what day(s)? I got Friday because I thought that’s when all the cool kids would be going but it looks like some (@rize) is going Sunday instead
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All the cool kids are going for all three days. Peasant.
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Well because I’m always only 1/3 of a cool kid it seemed only logical to go Friday XD
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All the cool kids plus me!
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All 3 days.
Still need to organisa accommodation though.
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I’m going to be there all 3 days plus I will also be staying in Melbourne for another few days after pax.
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Saturday.
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Weekend days for me
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I live in Melbourne, and have a 3 day pass. =D
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3 Day Pass crew. I’m pretty sure that several of the other Melbourne TAYfronds are also 3-daying it
I am suddenly interested in AC4
“This is something we did learn, we do listen to our fans a lot,” Ismail says. “We know that in AC3 there was a lot more handholding done, and we do want to go back to an older philosophy where we just present you with a simple objective and we let you choose the gameplay you want.”
That handholding and constantly deciding how to do everything for you rather than let you react to the game and plan your own way through was the worst part about AC3 for me so if they fix that up a fair bit then especially given the setting and stuff I’ll definitely be getting it.
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I’m going to wait for reviews.
So I guess they’ve roped me in a little too. Because last week I was all, “I’m done with this.”
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Groovy.
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Their source
according to UK tabloid The Sunday Sport.
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@blaghman, apparently the Peacekeeper Wars has shipped. Expect it soon. \o/
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You’re far too kind.
But now I’m a little excited.
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PEACEKEEPER WARS \o/
Better than the best thing ever.
Just so you have realistic expectations of it.
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I don’t even know what this is!
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The Farscape miniseries that was made after the show’s untimely cancellation!
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So not in the mood for work today.
How are all your things going with their stuff?
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Yep.
damn it my steam accounts been hacked……
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theyve tried to make $150 worth of ingame purchases
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Oh man, hope it gets sorted 🙁
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How’d you find out? Now you’ve got me worried D:
Hopefully it’s not too bad and sorted out soon 🙁
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wouldnt get too worried, steam was all over it…
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/03/talk-amongst-yourselves-214/comment-page-6/#comment-1080668
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Tomb Raider is AWESOME. 😀
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you are awesome.
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Look who’s talking, man. You’re awesome. 😀
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Right?!
Super early spoilers. I’ve only played like 40-60 minutes.
I cringed so hard when Lara falls and gets that piece of metal through her side. Ouch.-
Yeah, there’s been a couple of moments like that. So painful.
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Good, glad you got that out of your system. Dark Souls now? 🙂
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Shame this hype train is so close to the release of Heart of the Swarm. Guess I’ll just have to pick this one up later. Maybe.
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Feels like I’m not playing right using a keyboard and mouse. I like to get into character, walk when it’s appropriate and run when it’s appropriate. Fact you’ve got to toggle that on and off with keyboard ísn’t intuitive enough for my liking. What’s that program called that you use to connect PS3 controller to PC? Can you do it through USB or is it a bluetooth thing?
Edit: Never mind, found it! 😀 (http://www.motioninjoy.com/ for anyone interested.)
How beautiful is this girls voice.
also good morning. hope everyone is well 🙂
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Hey Rockets! Hope you’re well!
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Dunno.
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Yeah tis, but the song is a little lame-o.
So. Damned. Bored.
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Fap!
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‘Reply failed – You have already said this comment!’
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Hence the exclamation mark.
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Go fap.
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I would but I think seeing the Dark Souls Rule 34 stuff has removed that ability for a good long while.
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Me too. Having one of those “Is this really my life?” type days :\
and scarfing Aldi-version-M&Ms for therapy.-
Yeah… Those days are very familiar.
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It’s always depressing when I consider that instead of spending time with the wife and kids I’m dedicating the majority of my time to making some other people rich. At least you’re public service so it’s a little more required.
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I dunno. I spent some time in retail a while ago. This is equally pointless.
And I’m pretty sure you work harder than I do.
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Get some vitamin B will make you feel better 🙂
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Was just going to suggest Vegemite toast – It is the king of up-cheering foods!
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So it began with this email on the 4th which i saw this morning….
I will spoiler tag each email so this post isnt 3 miles long….
4-03-2013
Dear ____________,
We’ve received a request to access your Steam account from a new computer
or web browser.
To complete this process, enter the following special access code into the
authorization dialog before trying to log in again:
Today 10:12am – I logged in and changed my password today
Today 10:58am
Dear _________,
Your in-game purchase through Dota 2 has been refunded, and 99.60 USD has been returned to your Steam Wallet.
Refunded Dota 2 items:
Treasure Key
Transaction details:
Steam Wallet
99.60 USD
Confirmation Number
1694749400792615775
Date Confirmed
Mon Mar 04 15:58:15 2013
followed by
Today 10:58am
Dear _____________,
We have refunded your purchase of the items listed below. The credit should appear in your account within several business days.
Refunded items:
Steam Wallet funds
Transaction details:
MasterCard ending with xxxx
99.60 USD
Confirmation Number
1694749400792613959
Date Confirmed
Mon Mar 04 15:58:14 2013
and then
Today 10:58am (again!)
Dear ____________,
We have refunded your purchase of the items listed below. The credit should appear in your account within several business days.
Refunded items:
Steam Wallet funds
Transaction details:
MasterCard ending with xxxx
199.20 USD
Confirmation Number
1694749400792626733
Date Confirmed
Mon Mar 04 15:58:19 2013
still going
Today 10:58am
Dear ______________,
Your in-game purchase through Dota 2 has been refunded, and 199.20 USD has been returned to your Steam Wallet.
Refunded Dota 2 items:
Treasure Key
Transaction details:
Steam Wallet
199.20 USD
Confirmation Number
1694749400792630381
Date Confirmed
Mon Mar 04 15:58:20 2013
ill let u know when its over….
Today 10:58am
Dear ____________,
Your in-game purchase through Dota 2 has been refunded, and 199.20 USD has been returned to your Steam Wallet.
Refunded Dota 2 items:
Treasure Key
Transaction details:
Steam Wallet
199.20 USD
Confirmation Number
1694749400792642289
Date Confirmed
Mon Mar 04 15:58:25 2013
almost there….
Today 10:58am
Dear ________________,
We have refunded your purchase of the items listed below. The credit should appear in your account within several business days.
Refunded items:
Steam Wallet funds
Transaction details:
MasterCard ending with xxxx
149.20 USD
Confirmation Number
1694749400792640585
Date Confirmed
Mon Mar 04 15:58:24 2013
Last one
Today 10:58am
Dear _______________,
We have refunded your purchase of the items listed below. The credit should appear in your account within several business days.
Refunded items:
Steam Wallet funds
Transaction details:
MasterCard ending with xxxx
50.00 USD
Confirmation Number
1694749400792651328
Date Confirmed
Mon Mar 04 15:58:29 2013
For help or product support, please visit http://support.steampowered.com.
11:50am – Changed passwords for EVERYTHING (steam, emails, paypal) running scans on 2 of my machines, formatting my other 2…
Lets see how good their brute force dictionaries are, using between 20-30 characters per password now and its all random letters numbers, symbols, upper case, and lower case….
May the force be with them….
EDIT: Removed line gaps in spoiler tags to make it easier to read…
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Did they just try to buy like $800 worth of Dota treasure?
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by the looks of things, yeah…..
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TF2 and Dota2 have both been exploited for the purposes of money laundering. Actually, pretty much any online economy that allows you to withdraw real money can be.
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Refunds, that’s good news, right? Huzzah
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Except it sounds like it’s being returned as steam credit…
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well, technically that master card hasnt existed for around 3 years, so i have no idea how the purchases were successful in the first place…
was kind of hoping id find like $800 sitting in my steam wallet when i logged back in but alas /o\
im just glad their systems picked up on what was going on straight away and restricted my account. have filed the issue with steam support this morning (11:22am) but havent heard back…. need to get my account unrestricted once they verify everything is ok…..
This is the message i got on steam….
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This account may have been accessed by someone else.Steam Support suspects your account may have been accessed by someone else. We are temporarily restricting modifications to this account as a security precaution. Please contact Steam Support so we can assist you.
How to regain access to your account:
Contact Steam Support and a support agent will verify that you are the owner of the account and restore account access to you. You may be asked to provide proof of purchase for games on the account or proof of ownership of the payment method.
More information is available here: Reclaiming a Hijacked Steam Account FAQ
This account will have restricted functionality until the owner has regained access.
Purchasing, gifting, trading, cd-key activation, and Steam Community access have been disabled.
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Damn just when i was getting back into my steam library – now I’m scared off!
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on the bright side, steam was always one step ahead…. just make sure u have steam guard on and you use different passwords on email and steam.
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Yeah i do so maybe I’ll be OK.
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You might want to remove the final four digits of your card & the confirmation numbers from here as it’s publicly visible, will get indexed by Google and would potentially allow a hacker extra information to possibly get at your details further.
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This. Pretty sure even I could get into all your stuff with what I already know plus this.
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wasnt too fussed that card is non existant… hasnt been active for 3 years…
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It’s on file with Steam or something though and they could use that data for social engineering on Steam.
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taken ur advise, also removed from steam account 🙂
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Do you use gmail? Two-factor authentication is seriously worth it if you do.
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hotmail
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Cool, I didn’t know this existed. Just set it up on my Google account 🙂
Tomb Raider is fun. Played a bit of it with tressFX hair enabled, which was cool, before disabling it and going back to normal hair. The game played fine with it, but during cutscenes there was a really slight lag. Been mainly sticking with the bow and arrow because guns feel OP. My one criticism of the game so far is the vagueness of quick time events. I’ve died so many times just because it’s not clear which button the game wants me to push.
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Some of the QTE prompts on PS3 were unclear because the shape and colour of the square and circle buttons are similar enough to confuse you just long enough to result in your gruesome death.
I love using the bow, so much. Upgraded that sucker as fast as I could!
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The problem with the PC version, is that F or E, the two action buttons, don’t actually appear on the screen. I thought I’d figured it out, this visual means F and this one mean E, but then I got into a QTE where they switched them around. During some of the events, it’s also not clear whether the button you’re pressing is actually having any effect, even if it is the right button. So I find myself in situations where I didn’t know whether I’d pressed the wrong button or pressed the right button but just hadn’t mashed it fast enough. I was also a bit confused whether the mouse buttons were part of the QTE, but I don’t think they are. Just A, D, E and F as far as I can tell.
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That’s really odd. Have you considered using a controller? Or do you prefer keyboard and mouse?
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Thought about it, but I’m happy with the keyboard and mouse. The game plays fine otherwise, it’s just the QTE I’ve been having some trouble with. I’m sure I’ll figure it all out eventually. There’s every chance I’m just missing something and the game is telling me the right button.
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QTE’s? That just killed a chunk of interest I had in the game. Day 1 DLC, disc locked content, always on DRM I can deal with. QTE’s are just plain horrible. Why make an awesome scene if you’re just going to force players to watch an area of the screen looking for prompts?
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Regarding the crazy hair, do you have an AMD or an NVIDIA card? I’m curious whether it’s platform-agnostic.
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AMD.
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I have an Nvidia card, and it runs on it.
Not very well though, which is rather sad(particularly given the 580 is still one of the strongest cards in terms of direct compute performance).
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I haven’t played the actual game yet, but with FXAA disabled @ 2560×1440 and most of the settings maxed (dropped the Level of Detail and the SSAO a notch) I got a 36fps average in the benchmark on my 670. Looks pretty well optimized.
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Oh, the rest of the game is absolutely fine, I’m running everything at max bar the hair, and while there’s the occasional drop in menu’s, and when pop ups appear, it’s otherwise fine. The hair stuff absolutely killed my framerate, and weirdest of all, it seems to have some leakage associated with it, as my framerate was getting steadily worse while I had it on, and it’s fine without.
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I’ve been hearing that it tanks the framerate quite a bit. But it seems to add so much compared to the standard concrete hair that I don’t know if I want to turn it off.
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It has all the problems that the PhysX equivalent has, so I’m not that big a fan.
In cutscenes the front parts will clip through Lara’s face, and it floats a good 10 centimetres above her shoulders when it’s sitting down, and it doesn’t hang down properly, and yeah.
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Considering it’s the first game to implement it (Crystal Dynamics apparently co-created it with AMD) I think it’s pretty good. Adds a lot for me. Game is running smooth enough for me (>30fps, I have bad eyesight) aside from minor hitching when it loads in the next area in the background, but that’s probably because my CPU is crap.
I tried turning the hair off and it feels like it loses a lot so I’m leaving it on. Hopefully next pass at it they’ll be able to implement some extra stuff to make it less shiny because that’s my main issue with it, it looks so clean and smooth where the rest of her is covered in muck and blood.
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@negativezero
Yeah, it’ll be interesting to see if they develop it further, as it definitely has some interesting potential, I just couldn’t handle the dive to 2 fps whenever I went aiming. :/
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Entering PS Plus in March (in no particular order)
Spec Ops: The Line (PS3)
Disgaea 3: Absence of Detention (PS Vita)
Joe Danger 2: The Movie (PS3)
Tekken 6 (PSP; Supported on PS Vita)
The Cave (PS3)
Niiiiiice!
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Spec Ops and The Cave are both amazing! 😀 (And flawed. Still good, though. :P)
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Also free! 😀
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Niiiiiiiiiiiice
Time to get internet.
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Disgaea is great, if you are a fan of SRPG’s that is.
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I am but I found Disgaea to be TOO grindy. I bought the 1st on PSP way back when and got to the 2nd or third boss before I gave up.
I don’t mind the grind but I thought it was too much too soon.
Doing it wrong?
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While the first one had a better story & better characters it lacked in terms of mechanics compared to the later ones. To level you needed to get the last hit on an enemy which was fairly difficult for weak characters and almost impossible for healers. I found that Laharl (the main character) and my fighters would out level everyone else extremely fast.
Number 3 is good though, I really enjoyed it. Still has a bit if grinding though (like most SRPGs).
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Doing it wrong in some ways, but also Disgaea has a harder leveling system – you need to be either the character that gets the final hit in (either as a combo attack or solo). It’s just not as refined.
Though D3 lacks good power leveling maps like D1 and D4 so you end up grinding the item world a fair bit to level up (D4 has one map which was basically built for power leveling mages, and it has an XP-sharing mechanism which allows you to level up lowbies by setting them as friends of your high-level mages and then smashing the crap out of stuff.
Personally I never minded grinding that much because the core combat is so fun. You basically aren’t playing the game right if you’re not exploiting all its systems. It’s actually part of their design. Like for example, you move someone into range for an attack. Move three other characters into place to surround him and do a combo attack, execute the attack, then cancel all the other characters movements and they’ll go back where they previously were and you can move them somewhere else. Deliberately throwing monsters together to level them up then kill one big monster for extra XP. All sorts of stuff like that.
IMO, 1 > 4 > 2 > 3. But 3 is still a good game. Also, free.
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Paying a subscription is not free.
I just can’t budge on that at all.I’d rather just buy a game if I think it’s good.
But then, I’m #TimePoor – The Animated Motion Picture
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I already own physical copies of every retail game so far that’s been on Vita PS+. I still grab them anyway because having a digital copy is so convenient.
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That’s why I wouldn’t bother with plus but also why I am going mainly digital with Vita.
Physical copies are great at home, not so much on the go.So good to be able to do a few missions of VR training in MGS2, get the shits, jump out, load up Mortal Komabat and smash some skulls! 😀
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DUDE! Disgaea is the last Vita game I wanted D:
You should say US only. I knew Spec Ops was US only (so figured the rest was) but now I be sad 🙁
Think I’m going to be as much fun as a broken leg this afternoon. If I’m not posting much, that’s why. Will still be reading, though (and upvote fairying [manly term]). Keep on keeping on, TAY! 🙂
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Shaaaaaaaaaaaane!
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It must be the weather. There’s a lot of posts about being bored on here today.
I feel bored too!
Bored.-
I blame Mark’s lotto post actually 😛
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Making every one depressed.
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since when have coles & woolworths had online shopping?
this is just more of an excuse to a) be lazy & b) perhaps be able to get more food stuff without having to carry bags & stuff on public transport.
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At least eight years. Because they had it when I worked there.
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this is a new discovery for me.
is there anything the internet cant do?!?!-
The internet will never love you back….until the patch next month!
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its a loveless relationship.
were in it for convenience / tax benefits.
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I’ve used the Coles home delivery before, once when my car was in for big work, and it was actually really easy.
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yeah, I dont drive & the closest supermarket is a 25 min walk away, which i think is the main reason I dont do a lot of proper cooking anymore. I might start doing this as a semi-regular thing & see how it goes…
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Back at training after a lunch with break with Sam
The roast pork was awesome
Not as good as Sam’s company but what are you going to do
I now have a bottle of Coke to try to stave off the sleep which has been creeping in
Fuck this training is boring
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Oh thanks god you reminded me to buy soem coke – mrs would have been pissed!
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Not a problem brother
I should have bought an energy drink
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Fuck that. Sam won’t ever satisfy you in the same way that roast pork will.
By which I mean, Sam won’t satiate you
r appetite.-
She porked him. (Or he porked her?)
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Schwing!
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Not going to comment on what Spaghett may be into, but safe to say there was porking involved.
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I roast a mean pork
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(Just to be clear, we have all seen the pork ad right? :P)
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Yeah but you do <3
Sup anyway brother?
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What’s the deal with all those small looking Indie games I see on PSN or LIVE that look like they’d be great handheld ports but never get ported?
Are they actually quite hard to run, so like a 3DS or Vita couldn’t?
Is it hard to port them?
Is it just money? Like they can’t afford a port or the fees or whatever it costs to get your indie game on a handheld?
I ask because of my inability to find the time to sit down in front of the TV. There seem to be a bunch of great Indie games that I’ll never touch because I have a backlog of long RPGs on both 360 and PS3 I have hardly touched.
So I’m sitting by myself in my only break of the day but the conversation from the people sitting next to me is so amazingly amazing I don’t want to go find anyone or get lunch!
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WOW! I always sit next to workaholics or teeny-boppys or workaholic teeny-boppers that are way too old to be teeny-boppers anymore.
And LOUDTALKERS.
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It’s a nice break from all the people who are so god damn hard line opinionized here. Tony Abbot this, Julia Gillard that, heated gun debate, gay rights, asylum seekers. I actually hate a lot of the people here.
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Stay where you are. That’s a once-in-a-lifetime find.
Also, try to make friends with them.
This day blows.
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HIYA!
HI THERE.
Sort of a competition thing.
I was given a copy of Assassins Creed 3 on PC that I cant use. Who wants it?
2 parts to this sort of comp:
Rules :
1 make up your own competition
2 submit your own entry.
upvotes will help decide who gets it.
runners up can have something from my steam inventory that I wanna get rid of if they want it.
Edit : Its a retail copy of AC3, by the way.
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Competition: Being Ben J
Entry: MeIt’s gonna be a close race, but I think I have the edge here.
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*stands up* NO! I’m BenJ!
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Welbot wins.
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I’m seeing double here!
Four Ben J’s!
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There are four Ben’s on Potaku. Confuses me so much.
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I differentiate myself with the sacred J at the end. I know, so unique right?!
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No! I’m Spartacus!
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TRUE STORY:
I won a competition for being Greenius once!
The first rule is do not talk about Fight Cub
The second rule is YOU DO NOT TALK ABOUT FIGHT CLUB
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You just broke both rules.
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Fixed
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There is no competition when it comes to submitting to my entry.
Zing.
Purple
Imma go out on a limb here and say that no one reeally wants the game 😛
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That’s because @welbot has clearly already won.
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you’re probably right, but FREE GAME.
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Yeah, I’ve already got it on Xbox, don’t need another copy 😛
But I know you meant nobody wants it because it’s supposedly not very good.
Tech question: could anyone recommend a good Wifi modem with a Voip port?
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without question Billion BIPAC 7800vdpx
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Cheers, That one looks a bit rolls royce for my needs. Do you know what the Billion 7800NL is like?
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from memory i dont think the nl is VOIP compatible?
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to be honest its probably worth spending the extra 50 bucks ud save by buying something else…. these things come with a 3 year warranty…. which is handy when i count how many modem routers ive gone through in the last 3 years prior to buying one of these….
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Also the higher-end ones usually have better and larger memory. eg I used to find my cheapo one would get overwhelmed if I started a bunch of torrents and it opened a massive amount of connections really fast.
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TORRENTS! :-O
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Linux ISOs!
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NO IDEA!
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Thanks
Just checked the ISP I’m looking at (internode) and they have the Billion 7800N for $199, so I might grab that when I’m ready to sign up
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red, the 7800n doesnt have voip, neither does the NL. definitely go for the 7800vdpx.
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You know what? I was totally misreading the internode page, and you’re 100% correct.
also, for a change, scorptec has them at a pretty reasonable price…
Probably. But not just anyone.
@doc_what, bit different to what i see in the march lineup for ps plus….
PlayStation Plus Content
Entering PS Plus in March:
7th March: Mass Effect 3
7th March: Dead or Alive 5
7th March: Joe Danger 2
14th March: Metal Gear Solid HD Collection (PS Vita)
21st March: Puddle (PS Vita)
Leaving PS Plus in March:
7th March: Sleeping Dogs
7th March: Vanquish
7th March: LIMBO
14th March: Wipeout 2048 (PS Vita)
21st March: Lumines Electronic Symphony (PS VIta)
Which also corresponds with this source:
http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2013/02/22/playstation-plus-your-march-update/
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He’s presumably running off the US PSN, which has a different free game selection.
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ahhh right…
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Yup.
Although I have an AUS PS+ as well.
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Shenanigans!
Yay training 🙁
Still bored, still sleepy
Getting closer to finishing
And I am going back downstairs to work after this
What’s the plan for this Brisbane lunch dealy tomorrow? I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t psyched! 😀
Meeting Tigs and Mrs. Tigs at any specific time and place? Usually we just all meet outside EB or something and work out what to do from there, but since there’s out-of-state/Gold Coast people coming I was wondering if there was any thing more definite planned?
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There’s a Brisbane lunch meat tomorrow?
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That’s all the detail planned so far, I think — except that Freeze, Tigs and Mrs. Tigs will be there for sure! XD
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There’s a Brisbane lunch meat tomorrow?
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Details being rambled about later on this page! 😀
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Was going to leave that up to someone else to tell me. I should have the Tigs up there about 11-11:30 but I don’t know where everything is. Someone tell me where to go.
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@strange: Everything still good with you for this lunch?
This day can fuck off.
I got some mail I was expecting yay. which was an invite to Sam’s engagement party, not from Kat though so 🙁
Still nothing on this job I got an email back about on Friday and I was told I would be informed before the 6th if I was going to have an interview =/ (They’re holding interviews on the 6th) I should at least be considered if you ask me, since my mate who had the job before hand went into it with less qualifications than what I have and it’s become a much simpler job since he took it over.
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🙁 Hope you hear from them soon. Probably wouldn’t be weird if you followed up on the e-mail too, find out one way or the other instead of being in limbo? Good luck, man!
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@dc is right. At this late stage, a polite and professional follow-up phone call might even give you an advantage, and edge you into the shortlist if you weren’t already there.
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That would work if I knew of a contact number.. Other than a generic admin email address..
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Can you look up the company in the yellowhite pages? They could probably put you through to HR or recruitment, or a specific person if you have their name.
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Actually I could probably just ask my mate come to think of it, since he would still have contact details. Derp.
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Let it be known that @shane’s awesome for reasons.
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BAH!
I suddenly have an extra copy of Magicka in my inventory…
Anyone else have this happen?
EDIT: Oh wait, I think I got it when I was gifted The Showdown Effect.
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Oh oh, can I have it?
Sounds like everyone’s got the blues today. That’s no good!
I wouldn’t say I’m surprised but I’m certainly interested by the lack of any really negative responses to Tomb Raider. It seems to be universally recognised as a good game so far. Which is by no means a bad thing, of course!
Also, un-subtle Potaku link because reasons.
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I’m actually having a pretty good day, work is going at a pretty steady pace and I am doing things I enjoy. Still, wish I was home playing Tomb Raider. Everyone keeps talking about how awesome it is and I’m afraid it will end up like Spec Ops. =(
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Look at this jerk, having a good day while everyone else isn’t.
You. MONSTER.
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I feed off everyone’s misery. It … sustains me!
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Only criticisms I would have so far are weird glitchy animation/texture things I’ve encountered on the PC version. There was one part with this low res cliff face texture in the middle of a path. Looked out of place, walked through it and the rest of the map is there behind it. Not sure what’s up with that. Haha.
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Only problem I’ve had was when loading up the game yesterday, Lara was standing at the entrance to one of the optional tombs but the path into the tomb hadn’t loaded, so when I took a step in I fell out of the map. Was certainly an interesting experience…
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Yeah, I had some object occlusion errors, where like, walls would disappear, if I looked at them at the wrong angle.
Also the Tress FX absolutely killed the framerate, for what really does seem to be no reason, so I’ve had to return it back to normal hair, which kind of looks better in a few ways…
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i saw mention of potaku & remembered this.
I have a potaku thing i wanna write, but before I can, I need someone (you know who you are) to get back to me with something.
Hopefully that happens soon, otherwise the thing wont be topical & edgy anymore.-
Am I that someone? If I am, I’ve forgotten.
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nope. not you. not anyone here actually. just wrote that to stir up people a lil bit :p
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Don’t worry, the results came back negative. It’s not the clap.
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finally!
still …thats equal parts reassuring & concerning.
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Listening to/ catching up on old potaku podcasts.
@redartifice talks about going to Elizabeth Cinema to see the hobbit over Christmas
SA TAY MEAT AT RED CHILLI IN ELIZABETH REDARTIFICE DO IT!
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Sure, once Mad March is over!
Hi guys and gals!!!
Having a swell time in SA so far 🙂
Been suuuper busy, though.
On the plus side, Bee went dress shopping with her mum yesterday, which gave me a little down time. So i headed over to games-workshop for a starter game of the 6th edition rules. Mannnn sooo much different from 3rd edition. BUT the guy at the store was SO friendly and helpful.
We played a game with the starter figs and played a mission where we basically had to kill each others leader. Man it was a tense game. My leader hid in my tactical squad, and his was firmly with his chosen unit whom exchanged many shots. My terminators quickly saw themselves tied down in a melee with his hellbrute (dreadnought) and a full squad of cultists. They performed valiantly, though, taking heavy losses but taking out the hellbrute and most of the cultists before my bikers flanked the remaining cultists to finish them off. Unfortunately his chosen got in to the fray and killed the last of my termies before my bikers returned the favor killing the chosen.
Then came the EPIC ending. His leader, who had separated from the chosen, charged my tactical unit and challenged my commander to a duel, which i accepted. In the new rules, when a challenge is made all other combat in the immediate squads stop as they watch the two leaders battle it out. Unbeknownst to me my tutors model was rolling with 8 bloody attacks to my 4. Somehow i survived the initial onslaught of blows.
But then came the final round of combat. Being at the same speed, we rolled dice at the same time. BAM. His deamon sword had burried itself deep into my chestplate. As my life force dwindled my commander smiled. The chaos champioin was cofussed for a moment until he felt hot blood running down his torso. His own. Both commanders fell to the ground simultaniously, their hands still clinging onto blades burried in their foes chest.
Battle was over.
It was a tie.
So yeah – now i have the bug again!!!
I want to play again.. and soon!!!
We need to get a 40k meat together when i’m back in g-town…
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Also – Assassins creed pirate edition?!?
WHHHATTTTT??
Man they are pumping those things out like they’re CoD these days, hey?ALSO ALSO – NEW SPACE HULK PC GAME DETAILS!!!
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/03/01/space-hulk-preview/ -
I understood about 10% of that, but huzzah for not losing! I understood that bit. Also dress shopping, I remember that.
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10% is still good percent.
Plus side is that she has now decided on a dress! Things are coming together.
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Urgh. You’re making me want to rush out and buy an army. Stop it.
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I’m sorry Dave – I’m afraid i can’t do that.
Besides, slavetopainting.com.au just started stocking Games Workshop stuff, so i have to support those guys.
Plus i need more people to talk my nonsense to!-
They’re not helping either. Ever since you signed me up to their mailing list I keep getting shots of these amazing figures sent to me which keeps making me itch.
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So you and Tigs are getting caught in my snare. Brilliant.
Joiiinnn usssss
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The Lord of Mosquitoes ALWAYS HAS THE BUG.
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BUZZ!!!
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What games-wrokshop did you go to? And yes I’m asking because I’m curious about roughly which par tof town you are in.
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Tea Tree Plaza.
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You’re actually really close to my grandpa’s house
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Neato!
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Should do a giant game of Dawn of War some time. Not identical to tabletop, but much easier to organise!
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Yeah man, for sure.
Techy and Tigs have played some DoW2 last stand with me and that’s great fun, so i’m up for all sorts of DoW!-
Heh…I wonder if that invincibility bug is still in Last Stand…
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There was an invincibility bug?! LOL
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@freezespreston, have they upgraded you from dialup yet? 🙂
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Kind of. The speed is wildly swinging from 6.7Mbps to 0.2Mbps several times a day.
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how is it during BLOPS2 hours? by which i mean 8pm onwards melbourne time 🙂
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correction 7:30 onwards 🙂
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Haven’t tried yet. Tonight’s out due to being wifeys night but we can try tomorrow again?
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sure thing, its a daily ritual for us 🙂
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OMG is this a thing? Are you telling me the shit head teens across the road are responsible for my slow evening net?
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It’s entirely possible. Depends how many shithead teens across the road there are 😛
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*cough* He means when we play BLOPS2.
*awkward silence*
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probably, there are always several annoying morons on there….
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It depends on your connection type I think. ADSL is less affected by congestion in an area (but can be affected by congestion in the exchange) but Cable is basically portioned out per area and the more people using it the more noise there is and the slower it’ll go.
ADSL can be affected by morons nearby causing noise on the line but that’s usually an issue of bad wiring somewhere rather than their behavior directly.
They’re probably ruining your BLOPS experience anyway though.
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My internet type has been highly documented on TAY and I’m hurt that you don’t remember what it is.
I’m also hurt that you suggest i play BLOPS.
Luckily two wrongs make a right, so we’re cool man 😛
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See, those stupid teens ruined BLOPS so badly for you that you wouldn’t even play it!
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@dc! Tell me where I’m going tomorrow!
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Lunch
Edit: out to.
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At D.C.’s house!
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Biscuits and bowls of chips for all! 😛
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Want to meet outside the EB Games between Queen St and Adelaide St around 11am?
Not sure about specifics. :S
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Queen st mall right?
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Right. In the middle of the mall there’s a Hungry Jacks. There’s a side street that cuts through going towards King George Square where city hall is, which is also pedestrian only. EB Games is there next to Rocking Horse Music. Someone else might have a better meeting place, though? This is just where we’ve met the last couple of times in the city. I know Mrs. Tigs has some dietary issues, so not sure about places to actually eat. Also don’t want to hijack Strange’s lunch plans. Haha!
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No dont confuse him! You did that to me you dolt, I went to the wrong EB the first time XD
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:'(
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What, really? But isn’t the other EB inside the Myer Centre? Or is there yet another EB I’m not aware of?
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I think it’s the between Queen St and Adelaide St thing I keep saying that confuses people. XD
This is why you led at Dreamworld, Sughly! 😛
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Confuses people, or just @sughly? 😛
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Sughly knows the city more than me, so if he was confused I assume EVERYONE is. Haha. The problem is I just navigate Brisbane from Central Station on foot. Don’t know street names, just where things are based on where other things are. 😀
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I don’t have lunch plans. I have a plan to buy pretzels and that’s as far as my plan goes. 😛
On days like these I find it easier for the working people who are attending to make the plan, considering they have short timeframes they’re available.
I think he means the one outside on Albert St, not in the mall.
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Haha! Is that what the streets called? I nominate Sughly the meat leader/planner/go-to guy! 😛
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Ehhhhhhh… >_>
I dont.
edit: I will say that, in relation to Mrs. Tigs dietary needs, there’s a really good vegan place upstairs in one of the malls, I think it’s Myer centre. Above the outdoors McD’s on Elizabeth.
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Is Mrs Tigs vegan? I have vegan friends who’ll know the best vegan spots. Do you guys want me to ask?
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No theres just a lot she cant eat, so I figured vegan was good for that. Isnt that were strict dietary people usually go? *shrugs*
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Not vegan. Some intolerances which means there’s certain foods and stuff she can’t eat.
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Tigs specifically asked about Korean BBQ as we were leaving on Sunday, but not sure if that was a suggestion or clarifying plans we vaguely talked about last time. Haha!
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@dc – yeah. They were pretty keen on one in Broadbeach. Seems to be one of those things that work well for her.
Plus Korean BBQ is awesome.
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Korean BBQ doesn’t work as a lunch thing but there are plenty of good places on the southside worth looking into.
Well I rang Shawn, the bloke who seems to be in charge of the ICT staff that service the Tweed/Lismore Diocese for some of the Catholic school’s, turns out I didn’t make the short list for an interview tomorrow sadly =/
But he did inform that there might be another position opening up shortly that I will be considered for.
I must say it’s a shame I didn’t get an interview because I would’ve liked to have pointed out that I actually know what I would walking into and my mate who actually set up the network in three of their school’s has filled me in on how simple it is to maintain and how easy his job has been since the transition and i’d be able to ask him for help if needed…
I’d been looking for the job ad since my mate resigned in December, that’s how keen I was and he was more than happy to let me know where to find it.
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Sorry to hear, dude, but at least there are more opportunities coming in. Fingers crossed for those!
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Ah well, was the 2nd job rejection I got today. Just over getting them. Why won’t anyone give me a chance damn it >_>
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ICT SUPPORT FOR A CATHOLIC DIOCESE? WHO WOULD WANT TO DO THAT?!?
Shame you didn’t get it though. Keep at it! If they’re anything like most other diocese there’s a pretty high staff turnover.
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It’s easy, you just sprinkle the servers with Holy Water and pray.
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Brilliant idea! Water cooled by the holy ghost!
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I don’t think it was holy, but there was a water-server related issue not that long ago… 😛
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What did you do? 😛
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Hey, it wasn’t one of my sites! I wasn’t involved!
Also, I probably shouldn’t talk about it too much… 😛
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Probably for the best you don’t 😛
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Yeah Rize, who would want to do that, right?! lol.
Well, my mate had that job for 4 or 5 years. From what he told me they weren’t replacing people that often, if anything I think they hired more people to cut the work load back for some.
Also, just remember – even though you might have been qualified or suitable for the role, they might have just found someone more qualified or better suited than you. Don’t worry too much, it’s not a direct reflection on you. Sometimes they even just find someone who’ll work for less!
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Or they were just going through the motions and had already made a decision prior to listing the job. That happens a lot.
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Yeah that’s possibly it. I’m sure they’d hate it, if it didn’t work out for them with said already made decision.
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Yeah. Would be nice if I could just get my foot in the door somewhere.. It’s been too long since I was last employed damn it.
@freezespreston @splicer and anyone else who plays Black Ops 2 or any COD…
i had to take this photo… look at player [CR7]FeaRMILK ‘s kills/deaths…. the guy is a freak…. i even watched him on the game replay… no camping or anything, just really cautious, smart use of cover etc….
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dont look at my K/D i had a very bad round….. :/
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That many kills, but that score, doesn’t seem right.
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every kill you get using a Score Streak gets you only 25 points per kill
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I usually see scores like that and assume some form of cheating.
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man i watched the replay….. i assure you no cheating…
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I want a snack. I am in fact not hungry in any way. Boredom snack. Is there a name for that?
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Gluttony?
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I think boredom snack covers it pretty well.
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Your body is telling you to drink some water.
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Shouldn’t be. I been drinking water all day. (and peeing like a champ!)
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Forgot to mention I finished the main story of Tales Of Graces f yesterday. Was a pretty awesome game. Even more awesome is the fact there’s loads more stuff still to do. An extra part with events set six months in the future which seems to be tying up all the loose ends. So I’m still having fun and I’m 82 hours in and counting.
Best surprise mystery ever. Thank-you again, mysterious wizard benefactor! 😀
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So I’m still having fun and I’m 82 hours in and counting.
Now that is what I call value!
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Sounds like it was a gift too. Super extra mega hyper value.
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More Xenoblade time! 😀
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If you lived locally and I was still single, I would invite you ’round so I could watch you play. 😀
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When I’m done with this Ni No Kuni will be my next major game to play.
I’m still playing Xenoblade but I haven’t been enjoying it anywhere near as much as I’ve been enjoying Graces.-
>:'(
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First impressions of Tomb Raider.
Definitely not trying to be Uncharted, really trying its own thing I think. Seems to be working too. There’s way more than just run and gunning here. The setting is pretty unique and different looking as well. Really think the direction is it the best thing Crystal Dynamic could’ve done with the series. I like Lara Croft about ten times more than the original version also.
This is probably a preference thing, but controls are much better suited to a PS3/360 controller than a keyboard. What feels like button mashing on a keyboard feels better on a controller. You don’t need a bluetooth adapter to get a PS3 controller working with it as well, just the charging cable…
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I’m actually finding it controls pretty well with a mouse and keyboard, at least compared to other third person games with platforming elements I’ve played (Assassin’s Creed, mainly).
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I mentioned it on the last page, but I also like being able to have more control of how fast she walks too. It sucks that it’s either REALLY fast or REALLY slow with the keyboard/mouse. 😀
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MUST.RESIST.URGE.TO.READ
So everyone has have been having a pretty mediocre day?
This training continues tomorrow and then next Tuesday and Wednesday
Joy
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I’m really hungry, but otherwise it’s been a good day for me.
Hope you guys feel better! 🙁
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Thanks DC 🙂
I have trivia tonight with Sam, so I am happy about this
Not yet sure if my copy of TR arrived yet though
I want to raid some tombs!
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So far I have raided zero tombs.
no tomb make it ok great but not ok good just great ok bad.
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No tomb?! No tomb make it bad shit but not bad superman 64 just shit ok shit
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i really really want simcity but i cant be arsed with the drm crap nor relying on origin… 🙁
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I’d love to get sad about it, but the fact is Origin isn’t half bad, once you get past protective Steam/Valve/Gaben fans. Also, the DRM thing to me seems a little blown out of proportion – maybe I’m not abreast of all the info, but you can’t play most of your Steam games unless you’re online, so why are people getting sad about SimCity/Origin?
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Because it isn’t Steam? I just don’t think you understand Steam fully. We can help you with that. Come in and take a free personality test.
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Oh, thanks! Did I mention I’m extremely gullible, naive and succeptible to indoctrination?
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*wink*
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Most of them you can, as long as you verify the game before playing in offline mode.
Having said that, most people (myself included) still don’t see Steam as DRM…It is, but it’s an indirect approach and offers benefits, rather than most solutions which are there for one purpose.
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I just don’t think it’s as big a problem as people (well the media, mostly) are making out. I also wonder how much of said objections are rooted in a certain, almost unconscious, anti-EA/Origin sentiment.
I mean at the end of the day, you fire up Steam, and you play games. Here, you fire up Origin, and you play Sim City – or any other game.
Where’s the problem? I can’t see it.
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read my response below… also to add, i have no issue with EA, they still make some great games… love BF3 on PC,
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I personally don’t need another games management service on my computer.. I already have Steam (which house most of my games), Desura, Uplay & GFWL.
Sure Uplay & GFWL aren’t technically standalone applications but having them tacked onto games that run via Steam is quite annoying, especially when there’s times I just wish to play a single player game I have to sign in and update GFWL or Uplay before I am even allowed to see the games interface =/
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I mean there’s no issue having a preference for a distribution service, but when people have negative feelings towards a game simply because it’s hosted on Origin, I think it’s a little silly. Sure, Steam came first, and we all love it – I even think it’s the better platform. But then, it’s had a what, 8 (?) year head start?
GFWL and Uplay are a different kettle of fish. GFWL is something that should have just keeled over and died a long time ago. It had it’s chance, and it blew it. Uplay is an odd one. I was fine with it’s optional existence until certain Ubi games were demanding I sign into it.
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Yeah Steam had a lot of issues when it first came about, but it was the first of it’s kind, I guess there was Xfire, but it didn’t allow you to purchase games and have them all stored in an account.
I started using Steam back in 2007, I had no real idea what it was but I liked what it did.
Funny thing is first time I ever encountered GFWL was BioShock, it wasn’t something I found to be annoying or even bad back then. But as games became more stream lined and used Steam I noticed GFWL starting to become worse and worse and when updating would always crash, until it worked finally on the 5th attempt.
Uplay was fine at first for me, but yeah again as things progressed it got worse and worse which was weird.
The only 3rd party DRM that has come with Steam games that I like is Rockstar Social Club, it’s non intrusive (I think) and I don’t need it to play their damn game!
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UPlay crashes my computer every single time. I can’t play any Ubisoft games because of it. And Ubi Support really don’t seem to give two shits and are rather unhelpful.
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Sounds about right. I’ve gone to the extent with actual Ubisoft games that I have purchased via Steam to crack them so I don’t have to use Uplay..
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to answer your questions…
to be honest, i dont think origin is half bad… in fact i love my download speeds from the origin servers. already having over 100+ games on my steam account however, i preffer to keep it all tied together, rather than having a second games library…
the always on drm is a bit of an issue for me and ill explain why… simply put, the fact that all your game data is actually stored on EA servers. Essentially, if a server goes down, i cant access my game. which isnt to big a deal if it happens for a few hours… if a server becomes corrupted, i lose my save game permanently….
in the past ive found myself going back to my simcity saves, several times over years. Lets face it, there is no obligation to for ea to keep servers running beyond 12 months… im not saying that thats whats going to happen, but simply put, the moment EA decides to pull its servers, everything is lost…
if prior history is taken into consideration, EA couldnt even handle servers for its mobile game – Simpsons Tapped Out. The reason Origin isnt even available on the Android version is because of server instability. I personally lost 3 separate save games and had to start from scratch.
***undusts 3.5″ floppy disk and resumes SimCity 2000 savegame…***
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The Amazing Race:
@powalen
(will read your page 4 post and post other thoughts here as I watch :D!)
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Chose to watch The Good Wife over The Amazing Race last night. I regret nothing. 😛
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I chose to downvote you for that and I regret nothing 😛
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Chose to play Vita over TV last night. I regret not excercising more often.
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The Mole is coming to channel 7 soon…
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Oh yeah! I actually didn’t mind that show…
Ugh, I’m turning into a reality TV junkie.
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MKR!
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Upvote because I am legitimately enjoying MKR.
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It’s the only show I watch on FTA.
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Stopped watching it after it became Master chef 😛
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Yeah i don’t like ti as much now they aren’t doing their home stuff 🙁
I still have the hots for Joanna though <3
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Like them pushy eh?
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That is funny b/c my wife is a hot headed mediterranean too 😛
Although i think the joke is on me :S
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Mortal Kombat: Rebirth!
It was great! I love the idea of soemone trying to sabatoge the group. I’d liek to see a version though where they all think it is a striaght up relaity TV show and then when the numbers are down say “there is a mole amongst you…”
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That wouldn’t really work because there would be nobody else trying to draw attention to themselves to try and make others think that they’re the mole.
I do remember one challenge in that show where they had to spend a decent chunk of money and couldn’t have anything to show for it either (nor could they give anything away). They were split into two groups and couldn’t spend money on the same thing.
After wasting it on things like food and a recording session, I think one group ended up spending the money on scratch-its and the other bought some stamps that they then sent back to the collector they bought it from. They failed the challenge because the used stamps made them worth less but not necessarily worthless. Also kind of a dick move, which is why I remember it.
Wait until the end! These out of context updates are confusing 😛
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Oh man the YouTubers are so annoying! “hallelujah hallelujah raise the roof, raise the roof” “DIVA UP FRONT!” …SHUT UP!!!
Old guy is also annoying too 😛
Those rednecks are so ignorant and innocent :P. I still like em!
lol @ Newlyweds arguing, you’re right about the couple arguing thing! Still annoying though! 😛Also they heavily featured the Ford Focus (my car!) – except I hate driving it, feels like crap 😛
SO MUCH 😛 AND ANNOYANCES
Dark Souls!
Trying to figure out how to get around Seath and his stupid cursing in my head. Not sure if I should keep farming souls to increase my strength enough to go Havels Set (so much str and end needed) or go for the paladin set in the tomb of giants. Which is a horrible horrible place.
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All of his crystal attacks do next to no damage. When I go up against him I will usually just equip light armour because some of them have really good curse resist. Also, not being hollow / storing humanity (not in inventory) boosts curse resist a fair amount.-
I have the Dingy Set in my inventory but it just feels like breaking the point of playing the heavy tank. Need to beat him in heavy armour. It’s harder than I thought.
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Sup?
Seeing a mortgage broker this evening, this should be interesting.
Time to see just how long I will be in debt for.
But more importantly, just how much money will I have for games like SKYRIM!
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Good luck with the broker. My personal experience wasn’t the best. After askign soem questions it became apparent they were tying to sell a paricular bank’s products. I had better luck going to the bank direct.
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My guess? Many years.
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like, at least 3.
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Status of new shiny Lumia 920 phone:
Haven’t broken it yet…
will report again tomorrow
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I thoguht I had bricked mine.. until IT showed me how to reboot it.
Seriosuly it looked dead as anything!
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0.o that’s scary, i’ll be keeping an eye out for that
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Um, got it from work just before Christmas. Has been fine, excpet on Sunday night i put it on the charger at home and came back like an hour later and it was blank. I thought ‘silly me maybe i didnt have the power switched on’, but no, everythign seemed fine. thought maybe busted charger (because the thing looked flat as a tack – no button pressing could rouse it), but that didnt work either.
Get into work and go to IT and say ‘um i somehow bricked my new phone’
IT guy goes ‘hold down power button and volume down button together for 5 seconds”
i’m totally thinking ‘this sint going to work’ and im looking at him like ‘cant u see this thing is dead’
and he goes ‘5 seconds isnt like but it feels like it when u r pushing a button’, so anyway after what felt like 10 seocnds the phone buzz, restarts, full battery, as if i had just turne dit on.
Basically my understanding is that juts like a normal computer, my little pocket computer can get confused from time to time and you just need to hit ‘reboot’.
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Take it back and get a 46″ 3DTV for the bedroom instead.
Best idea.
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but but… a 46″ TV and my bedroom does not fit very well in my pocket
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I’ve gotta say guys, the graphics of Tomb Raider are just mindblowing.
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Blaghsy I am going to need you fix my brain
You literally blew it with that image
There are chunks of skull imbedded in my cubicle wall
And grey brain matter everywhere
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I didn’t know there was a section where Lara took LSD. GOTY.
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Yeah, apparently they took a lot of influence from Far Cry 3.
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MASTER RACE
Now back at my desk
Trying to recoup some of the time lost on that training
It won’t work
But I tried
Should look good in the supervisor’s eyes that I came back to my desk after a day of training
@ash – Mrs Freeze redefines the term hot headed. She knows what she wants and doesn’t care who she upsets to get it.
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Mr Freeze and Mrs Burn then?
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Hey hey hey. You said it. Not me.
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Does anyone else here NOT drink coffee (in the mornings)?
I don’t drink coffee at all but I feel tired as hell sometimes :/. Know of any healthy alternatives (so no energy drinks :P)?
…Or maybe I should just drink coffee 😛
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I drink coffee milk, but usually at night to stay awake, and these days only rarely.
Mornings I just fight through the pain.
Hahaha, what am I saying? I’m not awake in the morning.
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Get more sleep 😛
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Usually I’m fine but I’m thinking it was that :P. I almost felt like collapsing when Daylight Savings came a few months ago and I was taking these hayfever pill things, soooo tired!
But yeah, had to wake up at 7am today and sit through a terribly boring lecture, which is something I haven’t done for like 4 months so… :/
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The main reason I don’t drink coffee is because I don’t want to turn into one of those people that need a cup every morning.
That and the taste 😛
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Same 😛
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Or get the right amount of sleep, eat correctly and drink plenty of water 😛
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NoDoz caffeine pills.
Or meth.
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I stopped drinking coffee, but I do often go the Farmer’s Union in the morning.
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If it wasn’t incredibly obvious before, you’ve just proven that you live in South Australia.
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They’re going national
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Scots have Irn Bru, South Australians have Farmers Union, the rest of the world has Coca Cola.
EDIT: I should mention that it’s been available in Queensland for quite some time but wasn’t my go to iced coffee when I drank iced coffee.
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Farmer’s Union are amazing. Wish more places sold their products up this way.
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I drink tea.
Because I am Professor Layton
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Isn’t tea all calming and supposed to make you all sleepy?
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It’s got caffeine in it.
At least, your standard black tea does. Sleepytime tea is probably a herbal type.
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Camomilky tea, the SLEEPIEST tea!
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English Breakfast for a good start to the day.
Earl Grey for a civilised afternoon tea.
Peppermint tea to settle your tummy after a hearty meal.
Chamomile tea before bed to help you sleep.
OH YEAH IM ROCKING IT OUT TEA STYLE!
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This Man, he gets it.
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+1 via mobile Tay
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So little caffeine that most people wouldn’t even notice it. Particularly people who are used to having several cups of coffee a day.
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Macha (the Japanese green tea that is in powder form) has quite a lot of caffeine in it, nearly as much as coffee. The higher grade green teas (esp. Gyokuro) also have much higher content. It’s released much more slowly than coffee though.
Good for stress too. And appropriate for @greenius.
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I drink coffee once every few months or so.
Mornings are fueled by cereal/muesli/porridge/yoghurt/juice/etc.
Shooooo shleeeeepy
I saw 5 minutes of Dr. Oz once, and within that 5 minutes he said a healthy alternative to coffees and such is something something infused tea. I dont remember the something. I am helping.
Cocaine?
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Works for this guy http://bit.ly/i3Wrf3
I just stopped drinking coffee. Turns out it didn’t make too much of a difference, although I do drink a shitload of tea these days.
I don’t drink coffee, but plenty of Pepsi Max. PLENTY.
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HEALTHY ALTERNATIVES!
I don’t. I generally start my day with a can of Coke Zero though.
I wouldn’t recommend caffeine as a tiredness remedy though. You’re better off eating piece of fruit or something.
Coffee *is* a healthy alternative.
Gad dang it. Just went and got Tomb Raider. The Survivor Limited Edition too.
Damn you Tay Marketing! *shakes fist*
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It will be rad I’m sure.
Make sure you look after our girl!
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Ohhhhh you messed up, I know someone who was getting that for you.
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Fuck.
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If it weren’t for my malnourished wallet, I probably would have caved (insert some sort of tomb raider cave pun here) by now as well.
I’ve been reading the Wikipedia article on Superboy-Prime. For those that don’t know, he’s one of the big bads of the DC universe. He came from a version of Earth with no super heroes that was basically this Earth. All of the exploits of Supes and whatnot were released in comics and he was a major geek. So after all of the shit he pulled in the DC multiverse, this is what happens to him:
He runs into a future version of himself, they argue and get into a fight. The paradox created by Prime attacking himself returns him to Earth Prime. To his dismay, his girlfriend and family have read Infinite Crisis, Sinestro Corps War, Countdown to Final Crisis, and Legion of 3 Worlds, and are now terrified of him. Prime lives in his parents’ basement, who support him out of fear for what he might do to them. He spends his days collecting comic books and trolling the DC Comics message boards, remarking that the DCU will never be rid of him and that he “always survives.” Despite the physical depletion of his powers, his eyes begin glowing red again
I think the writers might have enjoyed that a little too much.
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Superboy Prime is wonderfully messed up.
And yeah, definitely something the writers enjoyed.
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He’s simultaneously one of the dumbest and most genius things ever written in a comic.
Just like this Dota 2 showmatch between EG and NaVi. So much dumb, so much genius.
Not to spoil anything but they build Dagon on Skeleton King. It only gets better from there and simultaneously worse.
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Seeya TAY.
I think i’ll go home soon.
I might finish Wlaking Dead Episode 4 tongiht. Friend of mine says I must play through Episode 5 in one sitting, so we shall see if I have time for that or not.
I got a bit of work to catch up on so I might not be around tomorrow – I still love you all though xox.
Unless something bad happens to Clementine at the end of Walking Dead, in which case I will stop playing games forever and never return to kotaku again.
(Spoiler tag in deference to @greenius)
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I’m up to ep 4, still need to finish it
I dread playing the chapters though. So good, but emotionally Fuck All This.
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I think episode 5 was the shortest one so it shouldn’t be too hard to finish!
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Yeah I finished ep 5 last night. playign through in one sitting isn’t really an option. Once you start you won’t stop… unless like your hous eis brunign down or soemthing.
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Everyone on twitter is saying Mario Land 3D was great, would now be a good time to say I find all recent Mario games bland and haven’t enjoyed one since Super Mario Galaxy?
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The perfect time. We need a good lynching round these here parts.
Although I really do prefer the 2D games. They just feel more fun.
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This is true, however, Rayman Origins is 10 times better then any 2D Mario game I have played. Whenever I play a 2D Mario game I eventually just get bored and quit.
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You are making my stocks in pitchfork futures worth a bundle. Thanks!
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It’s my moving away gift to you frond!
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However I will admit that playing multiplayer in NSMBU is fun. Mostly because its hilarious watching people slowly lose it as they get trolled by the other players.
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No! Because I feel the same way towards the 3D games. Galaxy 2 and 3D Land were inferior to Galaxy 1 in my books!
I tend to count the 2D games separately. Having a good time with NSMBU!
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Galaxy 2 was amazing! Gah!
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I liked the hub world and Rosalina side story in Galaxy 1, which they stripped out of 2 in favour of the select-a-level menu from the 2D games. Hated that 😛
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Yeah true, but thats just the hub. The actual game was good.
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Plus 3D Yoshi!
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But 3D Yoshi was in Super Mario Sunshine. =(
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Never had a Game Cube. :'(
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@dc
D=
But … But, Super Mario Sunshine was the best.
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I wanted a New Play Control version for the Wii, but Nintendo never did it. :'( (Glad they did for Pikmin though, otherwise I’d never know how amazing it was…) Really wanted to play Luigi’s Mansion and Wind Waker too.
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But you had a Wii and could’ve obtained a copy of it but you were all “nah the time has passed, I’ll just miss out!” 😛
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Eh, it was a big enough loss for me. I didn’t find the level design in Galaxy 2 to be any better or worse than Galaxy 1 really.
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This may have been a big point for me. Super Mario Sunshine, I have never had more fun in a lobby area. Exploring all the secrets in the town was great.
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Get. Out.
edit: I should clarify though. I say that only about Galaxy 2. Every other Mario game since, I actually agree.
I’m with you. Just don’t find anything special about the 2D Mario games over any number of better 2D platformers.
I’m with you, just i’ve never found anything special about Mario games though…
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What? I never found anything that was grabbing about them.. Likewise Zelda.
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I agree with Zelda. Only thing I really like about those games is the music!
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Wait did any Mario and Luigi games come out after Super Mario Galaxy? The Mario RPG games are really amazing. (Except for sticker star and Super Paper Mario)
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Super Paper was such a let down after Thousand year door
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Oh man, Thousand Year Door was so great! Loved that game so much!
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Don’t play Sticker Star then!
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But shiny gyro stickers! GOTY!
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I find the 2D games really soulless. Galaxy games have an artistry to them.
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I loved the first Galaxy’s game but I just couldn’t play the second for some reason, it just didn’t click with me.
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Really was more of the same. (Which wasn’t a deal breaker for me. Haha!) Hope next 3D game does something completely different again though.
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All the 3D games are great.
Yet they keep churning the same reskinned 2D ones over and over again.
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Really ugly art direction too. When you look at a Rayman Legends screenshot and compare it to Mario Bros U… D: Yoshi’s Island was so damn pretty, even to this day. Don’t know why they can’t do ambitious things like that with Mario.
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Yoshi’s Epic Yarn, now there’s a Mario spin-off I can get excited for. SO DAMN PRETTY!
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It’s frustrating in NSMBU because there’s a handful of courses that have really great art direction (like the Van Gogh Starry Night stage) but most of the courses are the same grass/desert/ice world/etc.
(Note that I’m still enjoying the game but it could really use a mix up :P)
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I only have two Wii U games and even a game drought isn’t enough for me to keep playing that game. Haha!
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For me I think:
– the recent 2D ones are baeaebrlaerlaejrlerlegghhhhpfffttmeeeeeeehhhh (grew up with 3D Mario so wasn’t really a huge fan of 2D)
– 3D Land wasn’t too bad! Good mix of 2D and 3D but nothing compared to the Galaxies
– Galaxy 2 was amazing! It was like Galaxy 1, BUT BETTER :D! I really, really liked it.
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I think the first game was better, but the second game had Yoshi. It’s a predicament. Haha!
Mario 3D land is one of the most bland games I’ve ever played. I just don’t buy any Mario games anymore, with the exception of Mario and Luigi and the Paper Mario ones (I still like Sticker Star!)
Now that I think about it, GameCube really was the Golden Age for Nintendo Games (well for me atleast). From the top of my head.
– Zelda: Wind Waker
– Super Mario Sunshine
– Luigi’s Mansion
– Mario Kart: Double Dash
– Mario: Thousand Year Door
– Pikmin (ugh, Helpius)
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Pikmin :)**
Also good were Animal Crossing, Star Fox, Paper Mario (not sure how you forgot this since you mentioned it above!), Metroid Prime and Super Smash Brothers!
EDIT: Haha look at you slyly editing in new entries as you remember them 😉
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Haha I though I put it in but it was Double Dash. =P
I prefer the Wii Smash Bros and didn’t really play Star Fox on the GC.
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Metroid Prime series = The best thing Nintendo has ever done. Why can’t it go back?
Have Nintendo said what Retro is up to? They’ve been pretty quiet for a while. Their efforts should be used on more than Mario Kart.
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I don’t think they’ve said anything yet, but one can assume they might help with porting DKCR to the 3DS.
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🙁 They really should be making something new that can show just what the Wii U can do.
I’m sick of Nintendo’s over-reliance on ports and remakes.
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It really was. Those were all so so amazing. The gamecube was (is) amazing. And double dash is the bestest kart ever.
I’ve never enjoyed any of them that much.
I’m not allowed to buy games anymore…
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You had a good run.
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Hahaha, someone got in trouble 😛
Ughhhhh, 9-5 at uni and only a 1 hour break :l At least the internet is super fast over wifi! 15mbps down and 28 up. When they said that the wifi speeds were “reduced” I thought they meant like, “reduced”.
I also made a revelation here today! If you ask for food from the restaurant takeaway, you get more!
Another revelation (hold your seats), I haven’t had takeaway in over 2 weeks :S What’s wrong with me?
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I hadn’t had my usual crappy fast food for a few weeks until I had KFC yesterday 😛
When I’m at Uni there’s fast food places everywhere so I always go to them for food – multiple times a week :/
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I would walk to McDonalds or HJ’s, but as I’m sure you’ve figured out by now, Sandy Bay, and especially UTAS, is very hilly 😛 It’s either a deterrent, or McDonalds is a reward for making it!
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I remember Sandy Bay. Do they still have that awesome German Bakery there?
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I’m not sure 😛 I haven’t done much exploring, but I need to go shopping tomorrow so I’ll take the time to finally get a good look around.
Did you live here?
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Close enough. I went to Kingston High for two years all the way back in 1988.
The bakery was still there when I went back 12 years ago and it was still as awesome as I’d remembered from being a kid.
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Is it “The Brezel Backerei”? If so they’re still there. And they’re just over the road from coles, so that’s fairly close!
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I have no idea what it was called but that sounds good anyway. 😛
You should definitely check them out.
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I was born in ’88.
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I was born in ’93
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@strange: I think that if we stood side-by-side and asked a stranger who was older, they’d point at me! XD
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That’s because all those hard drugs have made you age terribly!
(I don’t know how old you really look :P)
Strange looks young though!
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No one said the hermit lifestyle was an easy one. No natural sunlight alone! 😛
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BABBIES (@benj @lucifer9783 @lambomann007):
How are you finding Uni? 🙂
@lambomann007 – have you started yet? Isn’t it your first day of school EVER? :O
@lucifer9783 – how was your first day?
@benj – Thought about replying above but might as well turn it into a Uni post and tag the others :P, but what’s your timetable like this semester? I did something like 9-5 as well on my first semester when I only had to go in for two, pretty packed days. It’s death and I do not recommend it 😛
It’s definitely better to spread it out and I prefer 3 days. The best timetable I’ve had was when I had Tues-Thurs and had stuff from like 9-1, since it was all in the morning I didn’t feel like I wasted my whole day 😀
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Mondays are a 1 hour lecture and 2 hour tutorial one after the other, makes it easy.
Tuesdays are death. 9-5 with a 1 hour break at 2pm
Wednesdays is a 1 hour lecture and then a 2 hour games lecture which I enjoy 😛
Thursday’s just a 1 hour accounting tutorial (eww), and Fridays are freeIt’s not too bad other than Tuesday. I can’t really change anything either. Lectures definitely can’t be changed and the tutorial allocation system is stupid and anything else would clash.
Uni’s pretty good though! I’m more used to the “pushed and pushed until you get there approach” than the “self directed learning” thing they always spout, but oh well 😛
Edit: I love the programming lecturer though. He was trying to explain memory banks and used this huge convoluted “searching for a boyfriend” analogy to explain it. I’m not happy about having to compile and do everything in the command prompt though. Java editors have their own, much simpler compilers!
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Wow, that sounds pretty similar to my timetable last semester and this one :O. Long days with alright days and short days with only one thing on. It takes me about an hour and 15 minutes to get to Uni each way so it’s not really convenient if I have to go in for just one thing but you’re pretty close/on campus so it shouldn’t be too bad! :). Definitely keep going for the spread over a few days!
Good to hear you’re enjoying your units, that always helps! 😛
As for allocations and stuff it’s only going to get worse :P. The higher year subjects have less people and therefore less classes so they get auto-allocated and you have to go to that time. Sometimes it can be realllly bad and there’s nothing you can do about it.
Aside from the social stuff (I was really good friends with tons of people in high school but don’t do anything at Uni :P), I find the learning part of Uni much better than high school. I dunno, it all just seems easier overall and you don’t have people bothering you to do this and do that since it’s more independent and self directed. Sometimes it can be annoying since half the tutors/lecturers seem brain dead and you really feel like you’re teaching yourself everything 🙁
…I know you didn’t ask for advice or probably don’t even want it but I’m bored! D.C. and his stupid Tomb Raiding quietness 🙁
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Aha nah, I’m open to all advice 😛 It still all seems a little overwhelming. I really need to get everything organised.
Apparently there’s a meeting on to announce the winning team of o-week, so I’ll be back soonish!
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SOMEWHAT RELATED STORY:
A friend likes doing the Uni social stuff so he went on some Arts camp and told us he won the dildo toss :P… He tossed it with his mouth as well :/
THANKS FOR SHARING BINCENT!
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Ahaha that sounds… fun 😛 We had races to put condoms on cucumbers held between peoples legs with our mouths, didn’t participate in that one!
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He also showed me a video of the ‘losers’ for something that had to eat some sort of super hot chilli and then spit it into the next person’s mouth but some dude spat it everywhere all over this girl’s eye.
Sucks to be her!
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Ouch, that would sting!
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Yeah, I’m up to week 4 already. Did the first part of my first assignment this morning (a small 5 minute presentation thing in front of the rest of the class, and I had to go first (stupid concept of alphabetical order :P)). It’s going good so far and I’m enjoying it, however I was freaking out a little bit yesterday because I was thinking that I’m not going to be able to keep up with all my assignments and stuff, but I think I’ve gotten over that now.
My current timetable is Monday afternoon, Tuesday morning, Wednesday morning and Friday morning. I have to take the train on Wednesday and Friday which is fun. Except the first time I did it I ended up on the wrong bus… I still ended up in the right suburb (just), I just had to use my extraordinary navigation instincts to find my way to my destination. …okay, it was just a 15 minute jog along the river away really. 😛
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Jogging? Eww, exertion.
I lol’d at ‘babbies’
You headed your post babbies and then didn’t talk about babbies.
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Wow, I think that link was too big to share but here it is anyway!
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and it somehow turned into a not link :P… it was a picture of a cute baby with a green scarf!
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T’was good, had introductions and such.
Turns out I have 4 classes spread over 3 days (2 on Monday, 1 on Wednesday and Thursday each), and the Wednesday class is Maths and runs for 4 hours instead of 3 for each of my other classes.
I feel like having a Step Up movie marathon. Just going to sit down and watch all 4 movies in one sitting.
Also, Street Dance 2 is a terrible movie. The opening sequence of Step Up 4 was better than the entirety of Street Dance 2.
Finally, why have I only just started watching The LXD now?? The first two episodes are awesome!
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What is The LXD?
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The Legion of Extraordinary Dancers. It’s a web series about people that get superpowers from dancing.
Each episode goes for about 10 minutes. Episode 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVZyfsaKPS4-
I remember one of my friends telling me about that and It did actually sound like it’d be a good watch.
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But… why?
@greenius Remember when I was flying to Iceland and I flew over a town called Monado in Indonesia? Well today I had people come in who were looking at going there. Thought you’d be interested 🙂
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You thought right!
NOW BEAT THE GAME 😛
I saw a thing on my ps3 for a ps3 friendly version of YouTube.
After a very quick download, I expected to just jump into it.
Nope.
Had to download an update, which was irritating
After downloading the update, I was expecting to be able to sign in via my ps3.
Not happening.
Instead, you have to pair it with the PC.
At this point, I was so fucking enraged, that I simply deleted it from my ps3, and didn’t look back.
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Hate it when stuff like that happens. I’m usually so stubborn that I waste half a day on it, then spend the next half deleting all the shit I tried to download and install.
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Edit: Does nothing on the PC, but if you go to the site using your PS3’s web browser, it’ll tell you what to do. Basically lets you watch stuff in much higher resolutions. Can download stuff to your hard drive too.
Dark Souls lore is really interesting :). @dc would really appreciate it!
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Tomb Raider! 😀
@shane and other public-servanTAYbies…
Does gainful employment in the public sector have a direct correlation with a subject’s tea-intake?
I swear by fortnight’s end I’ll be British.
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As part of the Commonwealth I’m guessing public service does kinda make your employer the queen. I know in the cops you have to swear to maintain the Queen’s peace anyway.
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Sorry man, I don’t drink tea!
I just realised.
Dinosaurs played sports and Tyrannosaurus Rex all played soccer. Their arms were wasting away from disuse. .
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… wut
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What about the goalies?
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I was thinking about that but couldn’t come up with a good answer. Anyone know what species of dino would make the best goalie? I can only remember 3 or 4 different types of dinosaur.
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Pterodactyls… that wing span has GOT to be good for something
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Haha, yeah, just hangs off the top of the goals and spreads it’s wings out. Lazy bastard.
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Mad! I’m curious as to what this is now. A childrens book? probably just a random internet picture?
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http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/Dino-Soccer-Lisa-Wheeler/9780822590286 😀
Odd that they would cover a scientific research paper in such a colourful style.
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well the preamble for the research paper sure is catchy:
When veggie-nibbling Grazers and meat-munching Biters take to the soccer field, its a showdown of prehistoric proportions. Herbivores and carnivores play a hilarious and closely fought soccer match (refd by a dodo bird, naturally) in front of a stadium full of cheering dinosaurs
FOR SCIENCE!
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That Reff is so blind I bet he couldn’t even see a predator coming!
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Oh god, there’s a whole series of them. Dinosaurs were sports crazy. I had no idea.
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pffft that’s clearly inaccurate… those line markers are clearly not regulation size
Besides, we all know what really happened. Time travellers strapped plate armour and laser cannons to the dinosaurs and waged war.
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Toro toro torosaurus!
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Man, that T-Rex was such a badass.
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Why have those toys not made a resurgence yet? How is that not a winning concept?
Just a heads up to anyone who was interested in some Chivalry: Medieval Warfare, I know I set the start time for 8pm, but I seems to have run into a hitch.
Hopefully we can try for an 8:30 start. *fingers crossed*
Well that meeting took a little longer than expected, but our play this year is The Lion King. So doing that! We also have a 13 hour ball. The end result of that will be one for the record books.
After talking about it for a while with new-best-friend, I kinda want Tomb Raider now. I have zero investment in the series but it sounds kinda cool. I’m gonna go see what its like a bit later on.
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It’s a reboot, so no prior investment is required. I hadn’t even played a Tomb Raider game before this one. You should totally get it.
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Yeah, I haven’t really liked Tomb Raider for a long time, but the series is better than ever here. 😀
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Is anyone using Firefox having this weird “Value Apps” thing pop up every so often? I’ve had it come up 3 times in the last few hours. There’s no close button on it, and it says it would need to use my IP address, and what sites I visit. The only button options are try it now (in a big green box) and customize. I’ve got rid of it by hitting customize and then closing the tab, but its getting annoying. Any suggestions?
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Have you tried tiring it off and on again?
Failing that, run a full anti virus scan.-
Still happening, full virus scan in process :/
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Burn it down. Burn your entire house down.
It’s the only way.-
Speaking of burning down, anyone up for some Chivalry: Medieval Warfare?
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I wish I could play. I’ve got stuff I need to do for college that’s due tomorrow though 🙁
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With lemons
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Civ IV, V and Dead Rising 2 are all on sale on Steam!
Go, go, go!
It should be okay to share screenshots from the SimCity closed beta now that the game is out in the US (or will be soon), right?
Has been slow here today, plus we forgot to write letters on page seven again. :'(
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Blame us for playing Tomb Raider, we’re the worst.
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Downvote because I’m not playing it. 😛
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Such a good game, though. Ni No Kuni and Tomb Raider alone have made this an incredible year for games!
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Dearest @dc
I shall see you on the morrow.
Regards
Freeze-
Dear Freeze,
So damn psyched!
I’ll probably be lurking around the city earlier too!
Your pal,
D.C.
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Dear DC,
I shall have fun getting my son to chase and scare you tomorrow. 😛
-Strange.
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Dear Strange,
You’re truly a monster. :'(
Your friend,
D.C.
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Dear D.C.,
I agree!
– G-dizzle
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Dear G,
Thanks for having my back,
Your buddy,
D.C.
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Has to be the cutest pokemon-themed thing I’ve ever seen.
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Just a heads up that there’s light Gen 6 spoilers (@powalen)
But that’s so kyooot 😀
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I’ve pretty much given up on my new info blackout 😛 I blocked all pokemon-related things that I subscribe to and still managed to get spoiled countless times haha
As long as all we hear is the usual pre-release teasing then it’ll still be good.
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SPOILERS
They are making it an Elite 5 but getting rid of the Champion 😛-
SPOILERS
There will be FOUR new types! Plastic, Magic, Alien and Pastry. -
I want see what happens when you breed a pastry pokemon with Vaniluxe. Mmm tasty
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Nawww, I want one
Aww man…@greenius hates me now. 🙁
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Can’t say you didn’t give Xenoblade a chance, though. Besides >:'( seems more like a psychotic break than hate…
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Single Indian tear.
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*parenty voice*
I’m not angry, I’m just disappointed in you.
😛
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I still love it, I’ve just kind of reached a plateau of interest in it. I think it also may have something to do with having to play it on the broken TV out on the uncomfy lounge.
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Dreadfully overrated.
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YOU SHOULD PLAY IT TOO!
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I’ve kind of hit a bit of a wall with it too. It’s kind of too long. The amount of hours I’ve sunk into it would have easily finished most other JRPGs, and I feel like most of the time I’m mucking around doing busywork anyway. Also zones with not nearly enough quest content to keep me interested.
I feel these two complaints may be contradictory as well. I think I’d like to be doing more purposeful stuff basically. The best zones for me so far have had major quest hubs with dozens of quests to do. I want more of those 🙁
Also, I kind of feel guilty at the moment if I play games since I should be packing / preparing to move house etc.
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Oh also, I grabbed that Max Payne 3 for $4.95 deal on XBL yesterday so I might actually try it out sometime. I bought it for Mr. Strange but he’s too busy playing baseball games on the PS3 to bother just yet.
Yep, buying Tomb Raider. Looks awesome. Gotta figure out how to download it first. I’ll probably have to install from a backup, I only have 5gb bandwidth left until the 20th :S
Have there been any major updates on Steam since it was released?
This is like my 3rd page get in a week 😀
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Bought an EU key from one of those cd key sites, now we wait for it to be delivered!
Has been delivered!
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Dodgy key sites ftw! But I still get scared something bad will happen with my Steam account 😛
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I’ve been using them for the past 2 years or so with no problems 😛 The only one with any issue is my Russian Skyrim key. The download had to be started with a VPN but that’s it. It updates and launches fine.
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@dc stop upvoting and refreshing and play Tomb Raider!
So. Damn. Pretty etc. etc.
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I’ve played six hours of Tomb Raider today! Also listening to Bowie!
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It’s a hard life.
Edit: I’m kidding, @dc.
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Edit: I know, man. 🙂
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D.C.. Got. Joke.!
!!
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@greenius stop upvoting and refreshing and play Dark Souls!
So. Damn. Pretty etc. etc.
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…but Blighttown
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Hahaha, I’m procrastinating about Blighttown too 😛
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I tried to play it differently but I’m really just ending up the exact same as my first character, medium sword and shield tank with pyromancy :P. I’m trying not to use it this time around though and won’t upgrade it. Only used it on some Depth Slimes because efficient 😛
And it’s making Blighttown a bit annoying :/
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I went in there again and made it down to the swamp.
Epic battle with about eight of the blowdart guys. Took three or four lives to get them all (including one heartbreaking fall off the water wheel), but I recovered my souls every time. Took out Maneater Mildred, and I think I’m just going to go straight to the boss while I’m human (for summoning purposes) the next time I play. -
Oh, I forgot to say I’m trying to do it properly from The Depths entrance rather than taking the Drake shortcut. Soo many ladders >_>
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After I’m finished with Blighttown, I’ll climb back up and out that way, so I don’t miss any of the delicious loot.
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I need a stupid little addictive song to link to a friend on facebook! Something that isn’t really well known. I’m in a trollish mood :3
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You’re asking us for stupid little addictive songs?!
YOU’RE LAMBO, DAMNIT! IF YOU DON’T KNOW ONE, THEN I DON’T KNOW WHAT TO BELIEVE ANYMORE.
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NEVERMIND. I found two.
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Oh lambie, why would I click on them after knowing what they are! 😀
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Your curiosity will slowly eat away at you if you don’t. 😛
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Here’s another one, good luck getting it out of your head.
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Oh I’m an idiot. Why didn’t I think of this earlier? I’ll just link her to blaghsy’s Friday cover! 😀
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Nevermind. I used that first song I found.
Derp. I forgot about this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5H59Py7KApU
Here’s one. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFacWGBJ_cs
@beavwa
Re-watching Baker Cat with the sound on and this jazzy song is awesome :D. Although it did scare the shit out of me because it didn’t play for a few seconds so I turned the volume up, thinking it was just low…
You guys? AWESOME! See you on the flip side homeslices! 😀
Got to psych myself up for the meat tomorrow. :S
(Is what D.C. would say – complete with mysterious EDITS!)
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Edit: Mysterious Edit!
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Yeah, DC is grammatically correct Greenius. http://youtu.be/Xm88rF3GpLg?t=9s
NOT EDITING
OKAY I JUST EDITED BUT YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN
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I’m illiterate!
(which is not true)
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#illiteratius
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[What about] You guys? [Oh, really?] AWESOME.
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Can’t wait to see @strange , @tigerion and Mrs. Tigs and the rest of the gang tomorrow! 😀
ALL AWESOME!
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Something something worst hermit ever
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Your coming. That is so cool. Mrs tigs is really happy that somebody she knows is going to be there
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I should note that I’m not trying to mock you even though that’s what probably happened, it’s just that you make awesome “good night” posts so I thought I’d use it :D.
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Clarifying something that goes without saying. You are learning the D.C. ways! 😛
😀
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Xenoblade!
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Dreadfully overrated
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Should’ve bought a big screen 3d tv.
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Something something nokia.
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The Lesser Evil!
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Do want!!!
Forgive me if you’ve seen this one before.
Stop updating Tomb Raider! Let me play!
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What? Only 720p? Worst. Game. Ever.
Goodnight, TAY!
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Good night, man. I’m going to get some shut eye too! Catch you on the flipside, home slices!
Hey Brisbies. Really looking forward to tomorrow. As most of you know, Mrs Tigs is bloody trouble maker and has some (lots of) dietary issues.
Since DC is a (terrible) hermit and was unable to provide suggestions for locations of sustinance, we thought it best to provide some info about places that might be ok.
Things that are totally out for Mrs Tigs are overly rich and/or spicy places (eg Thai, Indian, KFC, Maccas, or French) Mrs Tigs aka Mrs Froggy definitely doesn’t want to go to a French restaurant for obvious reasons.
As far as things that are good, the best places are those that are not pre prepared and cooked individually so she can explain her ‘issues’ (food wise anyway). Chinese, Japanese, and Vietnamese places are generally good as they are rice based as long as they are cooked to order and not too fatty.
Some ideas of things that might be good are Teppanyaki or Korean BBQ (places where you pick the things to be cooked in front of you) although understanding some ppl may be coming on their lunch break and may not be practical. We would much prefer to meat as many ppl as possible rather than do this.
Another good option, which could be quick and easy for everyone, is a place that has good grilled fish with gluten free options.
Our interweb is limited, so make sure you mention me if it is not a direct reply, or contact via the twitters.
DM me if you would like my number, if you have any questions, or want to check some details.
@dc @strange @sernobulus @freezespreston @trjn @welbot @dan @virus_ @sughly @dan @brisbies
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Fantasia is a chain Asian restaurant that does cook to order food that’s probably okay for her. Good range, prices aren’t great but it’s decent enough value and they’re in food courts so the rest of us can have variety if that doesn’t suit. Probably the best located one is in the Wintergarden (which also has a decent curry place), so I suggest we go there.
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Mrs. Tigs sounds a bit like my Mum. If you’d told me her requirements earlier I would have been able to make her something and bring it with me. 🙁
I’m going to the markets at the top of the mall before hand to grab fresh pretzels, there may be something there she can grab?
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Thanks for the offer but the requirement are so broad I would be worried that you would have to go to a lot of trouble and she still wouldn’t be able to have it.
Could be worth checking out the market on the way through, if nothing else she could do with some more white nectarines.Will see you guys soon
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Why does every game I play lately make me skin an animal?
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Stop playing those outdoor games and stick to vidya games
I don’t know whether to laugh, or cry… WHY WOULD SOMEONE DO THIS?!
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That is so very amazing.
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I just listened to Head Like A Hole.
I think I’m broken :'(-
Moreover, I think I’m broken because I can still hear the other part… Not because I’m an angsty teenager.
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…OK, so mostly because I’m an angsty teenager.
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It scares me a little, because while Head Like a Hole is similar to a lot of stuff I listened to as an angsty teenager, and is similar to a lot of music that was relatively new then, it was made 2 years before I was born.
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Yeah, I’m still amazed that it was released the year of my birth. It’s really held its own, to be sure.
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Babbies. 😛
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Old Man Strange! 😀
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So, Melbourne weather is hotting up again.
This means I probably won’t be on much, as I will be melting.
Also, might have t cancel the meat this Saturday as no one seems interested/able to go.
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@tech_knight was going and so was I! I’d assume @smurfydog and you would go too 😛
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@scree
but let me know if it’s cancelled or not because I don’t want to waste a trip to the city for nothing 😛
Could always postpone it to cooler weather!
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I don’t mind if there are people going. Maybe we can get you to talk this time
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She said no one. Get the hint.
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Scree, more like meanree 🙁
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So I tried out Civ 5 last night.
I also started work at 7:30 this morning.
Those two things don’t go so well together.
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I think they go together AMAZINGLY.
You can perform your job on no sleep, right?
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Honestly? Yeah. Probably.
We’re certainly about to find out.
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Please document the results, preferably on film.
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I thought I asked you to stop watching me.
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Morning, folks!
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Mrphhrrrgggm.
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Blaghs! What up, home slice?
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Beat me to it.
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NotoriousR! How goes The Last of Us anticipation? 😀
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ALL THE HYPE TRAINS! Contemplating taking the entire week of June 10-14 off because of E3 (PS4! Durango! Games!), Supermangs is out in cinemas on the 13th (I think), then Last of Us on Friday June 14.
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Translation: morning
Pyro to English
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So this morning I leave home and head to the bus stop. I wait a little bit noticing busses are strangely sporadic this morning but take no real note of it.
Finally one arrives. I get on the bus and take a seat. I do my usual thing where I check the Facebook and the twitters. Nothing interesting appears to have happened overnight.
The bus continues hurtling along towards the city. Until it stops. At the start of what is known as Burnt Bridge Deviation. And there it stays stopped. And this is where I’ve been for the past 30mins. Apparently there was a 5-car accident at the other end of the bypass.
Second accident in 2 days. Yesterday there was an accident on Spit Rd. both these roads then into bottlenecks. Now, I’m no city road planner but I’ve played my fair share of SimCity games and they should really sort this out. It’s a bit shit.
Good news! We’re moving! It’s only taken 40mins to travel what would usually take 5mins. I don’t really know where I’m going with this. I’m just incredibly bored. Also haven’t had my morning coffee yet.
Sometimes I miss living 10 minutes drive from work.
THI4F IS NOT A THING!
A NEW THIEF IS A THING!
After Eidos Montreal made DXHR, I’m pretty excited
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Thifourf is the best game!
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They’re screwed when they get the 100,000th game. They clearly didn’t think ahead.
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THIEF: MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
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Symbols as well though.
+#|€£
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They will just reboot it by then.
Thief: Thief
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Thiefception
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So, Tomb Raider is a pretty cool guy
(kinda not spoilers but some people may get cranky if they read it)
It’s like Uncharted and Far Cry 3 had a babby
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This is not a spoiler at all because I haven’t played the game, but I just wanted to play with spoiler tags-
Snape kills Dumbledore.-
Vader is Luke’s father-
Soylent Green is people. -
It was Earth all along -
Rosebud is a sled -
Tyler Durden isn’t real.Almost missed the spoiler tags on this one :/
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the QTEs are horrible though. Just appear wherever they feel like on screen and don’t show you what button it is until you have less than a second to press it. Really could have done without them.
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I agree with the exception of the GoW games. I dunno, they seem to fit well, and work well. Maybe my extreme love for the franchise is blinding me to the badness.
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Damn right!
*shakes fist*
Lara Croft is a guy?!
D:
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Ending twist RUINED.
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Oh come on! There was obvious BULGE. I saw it coming a mile off :p
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Huh, so this is happening!
Someone posted about region locking before but not the off-TVness, good news!
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@negativezero
No idea about 3DS to Wii U locking though…
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Really needs online for 3DS by itself. I’m not buying a whole console for that.
*fingers crossed for Monster Hunter 4*
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I’m sure MH4 would include online for the 3DS version, it’ll be insane not to!
If it doesn’t I’ll just skip it and wait for Whatever Ultimate Extreme Super Dooper Edition
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Didn’t you have to jump through many hoops to do online with MH3 on PSP?
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I believe the PSP versions didn’t have online AT ALL but you could buy some sort of USB thing that made you able to play online and tricked the PSP into thinking it was local.
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This. So there’s history.
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But the PSP wasn’t really an online console. Vita and 3DS are though!
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Since when? I suppose thge DS wasn’t really an online console either…or PS2 and DreamCast?
What do you even..?
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@jimu they weren’t. It’s rare for a game to come out with online for them and at least with PS2 (not sure about the others) you had to buy that online thing. It’s only at this generation that online functionality is common and somewhat expected. Nintendo aren’t too good with this but the others are.
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@jimu – exactly, just “a few” and it’s not something as common as you find today where it’s rarer to find the few which are not online or don’t have online/social functionalities (leaderboards, etc.)
I’m not too sure about the PSP Monster Hunters but I’m pretty sure they didn’t have official online at all, but that unofficial thing I talked about could let you play online.
That being said the 3DS has more online stuff than things before it (DS etc.) but it’s less than the Vita and knowing Nintendo being shitty and behind the times, who knows what’ll happen :P. But surely they’d see from all the complaints about MH3U on 3DS not having proper online that they’d put it in 4 without the use of a Wii U. Unlike MH3U which is on both and encourages cross play MH4 would only be on 3DS so it’ll be stupid for them to have to rely on a Wii U for online play.
But we’ll see…
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If MH4 3DS has no online, I’ll wait for the Vita port that does. 🙂
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A question of curiosity.
If half the game code is crunched on EA’s side with SimCity, what’s to stop EA from just shutting down the servers once a new SimCity comes along to force people to buy again? Being a dick move hasn’t stopped them before.
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It’s made me lose all desire to get the game. Previous experience with Diablo 3 tells me, regardless of performance or reviews, I won’t enjoy this style of connection.
I’ll probably be in the city around 10am lurking about/psyching myself up, if any of you guys happen to arrive early just text me and all that!
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Wait, is there an actual plan on what is happening?
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Not really. Haha! Freeze, Tigs, Mrs. Tigs will be in the city somewhere between 11 and 11:30. Strange and Sughly and D.C. will be there. Everyone else welcome. That’s as elaborate as the plan gets right now…
D:
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Ummm, if there is no definite plan I probably won’t be able to go.
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Lunch at Wintergarden as envisaged by @trjn. I’ll leave it up to you working stiffs what time.
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12ish is good for me, not too sure about the other guys. (@trjn @jimu)
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Can we meet at 11.30 to avoid crowds? Is that poss?
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Should be, I guess it depends if @trjn is coming / can do it.
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The plan is pretty much the same as the last one. Meet outside Rockinghorse/EB and then go from there. I forget what time was best for you guys though. Was it 12?
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Don’t get pretzels without me. I really want to try a fresh one.
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Trying to push for an 11.30 meat to avoid crowds 😀
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Midday is best for me but I have to walk to wherever you guys are meeting. So if you want to head to the Wintergarden, I can find you there.
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OK, back to 12 it is! :0)
Look forward to a text from me saying “I’m right behind you….” 😛
(I actually don’t have any credit, so I won’t really be able to do this so don’t worry.)
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I’ll just listen to the footsteps approaching from behind and start running. 😛
Alright, I’ll be in the city around 10:30am then if it’s later. Still time to psych myself up and hang out before hand if any one arrives earlier!
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I’d hang out with you, but you’re scared of me. 😛
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And your son, I’m scared of him too remember! 😀
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Last song played game
Premonition by Joe Satriani
Amazing
So
Randy from Lamb of God was acquitted for Manslaughter in the Czech Republic
Heck yes
Also, trivia last night was amazingly fun
Didn’t win, but had a lot of fun not winning
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Life on Mars? — David Bowie
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Boyfriend – Justin Bieber.
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Where were you to be subjected to that Unky Freeze?
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I slipped when I was trying to select Biebers Beauty and a Beat on my iPod and got Boyfriend instead.
This is the worst day ever. *sob*
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Heartless – Confession.
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Aces in Exile – Sabaton.
I’m beginning to appear like DC. 😛
I actually don’t listen to Sabaton all the time, I just have a bunch of albums on shuffle and Sabaton tends to come up often as the last thing before I have to answer Spaghett’s question.-
Have to answer?
Damn right you have to answer! 😛
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I have not been to Oxford Town- David Bowie
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They’re already trying to appeal his acquittal as well.. What.
One Last Thrill – Slash Featuring Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators
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Fucking idiots man, they should let it be
The evidence showed he didn’t do it
How do they think they are going to win?
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I don’t know. But if you ask me a kid stupid enough to get on stage 3 times, it’s pretty clear he knew what he was getting into. Beats me why security didn’t remove him from the venue like they do here when you do that kind of stupid shit.
After Dimebag’s death in ’04 most musicians are pretty weary of people getting on stage without permission considering they could do anything to them.
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R.I.P. Dimebag
Damn it, just stand there and enjoy the music
Fuckers!
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Pretty much man. Like Slash came close on stage last year with some twit. He was lucky to only smash a tuning peg on one of his guitars cause the dude full on tackled him lol.
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Damn fools
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Yeah, but that guy was looking to have fun, not harm him. Might’ve had a bit too much booze lol.
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The Way You Make Me Feel – Frank Bennett
This guy can cover a song like no-one else.
Thriller – Michael Jackson
Full video version 🙂
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I just started singing “Annie are you ok?”
From the article about the proposed Tomb Raider/Ico reboot that was scrapped.
You can see her leaping a chasm with a child on her back, a child that was going to be an emotionally-sympathetic helper. This two-character design was a callback to the sweet co-operative duo of Yorda and Ico in the game bearing the latter’s name. Lara’s child helper was later pitched as a monkey but then scrapped.
Oh man, I totally would’ve wanted a monkey to do Lara’s bidding!
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I prefer arrow headshots man
Arrows
Boom HEADSHOT!
Or, Schick HEADSHOT!
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Screeching monkey flying through the air grabbing onto an enemies face! XD
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Stop describing your fantasies…
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That’s a fucking awesome fantasy. Don’t diss.
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I’d prefer a screeching gorilla flying through the air and grabbing an enemies face.
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Donkey Kong Country Returns?
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Not D.C.’s one!
Being ravaged by a Colobus monkey or ravaging Nathan Drake AS a Colobus monkey.
:S
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I said savaged. I don’t know what your twisted mind is on about. D:
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According to Urban Dictionary
Ravage:To viciously sex someone in the anus.
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No. Colobus. Monkeys. >:(
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… :'(
What? They scrapped a monkey helper? So wrong, so wrong…*shakes head*
Reminded me, the first time I saw Tails in Sonic 2, BLEW.MY.MIND.
Been at work 20 mins and already ran out of articles to read…
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Know that feeling…
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The advantages of showing up late!
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Well I was supposed to be here at 7.30…
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I’m reading Dark Souls wikis \o/
They never run out of information-
Yeeeeeah, Wiki’s r goooood.
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I should do that. I was talking to Greenius last night about starting up Dark Souls and giving it some proper attention (after discovering my retail key worked on Steam, despite not working shortly after release) and decided I would figure out a starting class based on what I could learn.
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Covenant is easy. Sun bro. Only valid choice.
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I’m gonna join the Chaos Covenant and give them all my humanity.
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@strange @sughly @D.c @trjn @freezespreston @sernobulus
Yep 12 outside EEEEBEEEEEEE
I will bring the….apathy (because of work, not meat)
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I’ll bring the hermit nervous energy! Also for people who aren’t working, I’ll be around from 10:30am psyching myself up, so let me know if you want to hang out or something earlier!
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You’d better get there extra early in case he takes you up on that. Don’t want to miss out on psych time.
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I’ve got half hour on the train to psych myself up too!
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Or play a handheld game?
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Holy shit, @d is amazing.
I think we do live in a holographic universe. One example i came across is if i had a 1 light year long metal rod, and i pushed one end, it would take 1 light year before it reached the end. so what happens in-between during this year period of the metal rod? Does part of the rod disappear when I push? And where does it go? It’s like the behaviour of a light which can behave like a wave and a particle depending on its observation. Just shows that God does exist and one day this holographic simulation will end. Lucky for me i found a way out 🙂
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The game ‘D’ was pretty terrible, though. I was promised an adventure game! 😛
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Metal? It’d compress and the energy would dissipate ages before it reached the other end.
SCIENCE @d, SCIENCE.
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D’oh! No period
I liked his ideas. Pity the games never lived up to it.
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Real men:
Cry at:
1) The birth of their first child,
and,
2)The end of the Walking Dead
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I guess I’m half a man. I only cried for the Walking Dead.
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Shane was smoking cigars with the other dads in the lobby, Mad Men style…
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Hahaha, actually not true. I got to cut the creepy cord for both my kids, and got a really terrifying Alien-esque photo of my wife’s caesarean for the second.
Be nice to me or I’ll show it to you.
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They mostly come at night. Mostly. D:
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Holy crap. That’s nuts!
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Took guts to take the shot though, I imagine.
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Punny. 😛
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I should have said ‘are permitted too’, because it’s ok if you don’t. Was more to point out it is ok if you do, and give my reaction to the latter context.
Can i just point out that i spoilered the crying bit so people couldn’t say i spoiled that Wlaking Dead has a sad ending, but you guys have all undone my good work.
@greenius it wasn’t me!!
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I think all the
🙁
and
:'(
we’ve all posted have indicated The Walking Dead is a sad game :P. People already know that, but they don’t know why!
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Can I just point out that saying “real men [spoiler tag] the end of the Walking Dead” makes it a pretty decent chance of you talking about emotionally reacting 😛
Edit: but as greenius said, it’s something everyone knows, so it’s probably not that big a deal either way.
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Can i just point out that I’m too emotional to deal with this right now because you know the Walking Dead and all that.
I’m sad that thier game made me sad, but I’m happy that they were able to craft such an emotional piece of art.
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Sorry man, I was totally joking.
Anyway, what happened in your playthrough. Keen for all the details! 🙂
Here’s mine and my wife’s experience. For the record, she’s a monster, and so too is @dc, @greenius, and a number of other folks: http://potaku.com/2013/01/21/mrs-shane-vs-the-walking-dead/
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Don’t be sorry, I was trying to joke too by keeping the ‘can i just point out’ thing going.
I really think I am emotional after that. I shoudl have taken the day off work 😛
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I didn’t cry at the birth of my first.
Driving her home from the hospital I completely broke down.
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Sissy
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You or the car?
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Hope you had roadside assistance
Edit: looks like rize beat me to the joke
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Haha. No me. It was kind of pathetic. I was doing about 40 in an 80 zone, really tensed up and someone honked their horn and I lost it.
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Freeze. Gets. Jokes.
I was quite nonchalant driving my first home (though maybe it doesn’t count because she was already almost a week old by that stage).
We went shopping on the way.
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I did. Many a manly tear was shed! 😀
3. To the Moon.
4. Angel Beats.
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Like a baby
Also the first time i heard
And full metal alchemist when that certain sad thing happens
And the office when michael scott leaves
actually i cry at everything i dont count.
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The FMA one is totally fair.
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Not sure if I can upvote since the Walking Dead comic is soooooo predictable and boring.
Will give the game a try one day.
Genderless here.
Don’t have a babby, and felt nothing at the end of the Walking Dead.
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You are obviously a Walker then…
Also when they propose apparently.
Studios 301 came back with a quote – $13,000 to record and master the full album (ouch!)
I’ll work hard on getting some material up for the eventual pozible crowd-funding campaign soon! 😛
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That’s not actually as bad as I thought it would be. Especially since it includes mastering.
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Yeah, especially since the audio engineer will be Jonathon Baker (a guy who worked on Coldplay’s next [unreleased] album) and the Mastering Engineer will be Leon Zervos
I’m hoping I can raise enough interest and funding to get this done! 🙂
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What kind of music do you guys play? Gospel? 😀
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Think somewhere between Queen, Coldplay and Elton John and you’ll get a pretty good idea of the style of music. It’s hard to explain, but I’ll definitely include some samples when I go for crowd-funding!
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I’ll throw some money towards that
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Cheers bro! 😀
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Damn, Leon Zervis has done some huge stuff. That’s actually a pretty great deal.
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Yeah, pretty excited about that (but obviously still need the funding, haha). They’ve also said that (as part of the package) we’ll get three days in Studio 1, which is the massive room. 😀
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That’s rad as hell. Pretty sure where we’ll be recording won’t be nearly as high-class.
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Whereabouts is that? Which studio?
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The stuff I’ve heard from there suits our style much more that Studios 301 probably would. Plus, one of the local Canberra bands went there and apparently the guy is a fantastic producer.
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Literally falling asleep in this fucking training course
Lucky I am up the back
But am 1 of 8 people doing the course
Can’t hide to well
Alright, will be off the grid for a whiles. See you Brisbane folks later. If plans change let me know!
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Now that @dc is gone we can talk about how we really feel about him.
Ugh, @dc is such a
cool guy!-
Yeah. I heard, and this is pretty outrageous, but I heard that @dc is a
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That @dc is such a
stud.Always stealing all theladies’ hearts.
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He’s totally playing Dark Souls.
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Don’t get my hopes up like that. =(
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DC prolly stands for
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He’s a Queenslander, so we know what c word goes there 😛
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Well not chump because that’s reserved for those who choose to live in the ACT.
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We’re not all cannibals OK?
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Gah, too many Queenslanders in this place 😛
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Dashing Chap -
Dame Commander. -
Chap. -
Dance CommanderEven has a theme song.
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Good Morning everyone! I did exercise for the first time in a long, long time last night. I feel pretty good! Dreading tomorrow though…
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Make sure you warm up, stretch and cool down properly. It’ll help you to avoid soreness and stay consistent.
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I will try to do those things, but traditionally I forget important things like this. I think it’s the cool down that I consistently forget to do.
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Everyone does, but it’s so important, especially when you’re starting out. Nothing kills the motivation like sore muscles.
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It’s so damn true.
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I ran last week and had sore muscles for a week :P. Safe to say that killed the motivation a bit but now that I’m “recovered” it shouldn’t take too long to get fit again (I hope :P)
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Maybe you could be my…. accountabilibuddy!
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Maybe?
I just started exercising again last week after a long time off. Started Rushfit. It’s insane. I lost 4kg last week.
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You want to save me to trouble of reading through that website? All those ultra-fit people are making me unhappy with myself…
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It’s (apparently) the training program of Georges St-Pierre, an MMA fighter. High intensity interval training, so it’s split into 5×5 minute rounds, with about 45 seconds break between them. The workouts are ridiculous though, during those 5 minutes it’s non stop effort.
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Sounds good, I shall trial and report back in time.
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Chilling in the uni cafeteria. Got an hour between the days first lecture and the next (double). Starting classes at 9 on a Wednesday isn’t so bad as I’m usually awake at 7.
Sup?
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Hey frond! o/
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Nob! \o
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Nutin’
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What are you nutin’ at? =P
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Level-5
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That’s the spirit.
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Oh man, this looks like fun. Some new rollercoaster at Alton Towers themepark in the UK.
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I hate rollercoasters, but I would go on that thing just to say I did it.
That looks amazing.
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It doesn’t look finished and therefore not fun (yet) 😛
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It’s not. But it still looks awesome so far.
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WRONG.
Unfinished roller coasters are the MOST fun.
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Wooo death!
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See someone here has a sense of adventure!
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It looks like a normal roller coaster after an earthquake. CRAZY :\
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It looks like it just collapsed one day and the park was too cheap to get it fixed.
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I think you’re getting mixed up with Six Flags in the USA 😛
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I heard there was some pretty good rollercoasters at that Dreamworld meat…
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LOL, the Cyclone? That’s a hunk of slow rickety shit, beats me why they didn’t just update The Thunderbolt and keep that running, it was far superior. Mick Doohan’s Motorcoaster is also slow and boring 😛
The good rides are Dreamworld are; The Wipeout, The Tower of Terror, The Giant Drop & The Buzzsaw.
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You’re awfully passionate about theme park rides.
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I just like quality, not something that will send me to sleep 😛
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The good ones are the ones I meant
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My phone rang twice from a Blocked number and when I picked it up I heard the hang up tone twice…
oooOoooOoooo SPOOOKY!
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Maybe its someone offering you a job? OR A PINEAPPLE?
OR BOTH?
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I DISLIKE PINEAPPLES!
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They make my tongue and throat itchy.
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thats a pretty common thing I believe.
something to do with an enzyme in fresh pineapple that breaks down proteins.canned pineapple shouldnt have that effect.
Edit: if canned pineapple does have a similar effect, then its probably an allergy to something pineapple related.
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The enzyme is known as papaya i think. I did a assignment in grade 11 bio about steak tenderiser and that it is just as effective to use pineapple juice.
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science is awesome.
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I really liked biology, it was my favourite subject, It was also the only subject i got an A for.
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Try the papaya, they’re full of papain. Makes you strong like Popeye. get it? Popeye papain, Popeye papain!
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I get that from kiwi fruit, but not pineapple.
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kiwi has the same enzyme in it.
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Eat it with the skin and you don’t get the fizzy feeling as much I find.
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You’re the worst! Pineapple is amazing. Such an awesome fruit. Next you’re going to tell us you dislike mango as well..
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I dislike all fruit. BRING ON THE VEGETABLES!!!
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Man fruit is awesome. Though I do eat more vegetables lol.
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“Man fruit”?! o.O
Depends on what kind of mango.
There’s only one type worth mentioning R2E2 bariety 😛 everything else is inferior to the mango experience.
R2E2 are far inferior to bowen mango’s you may as well eat a paw paw instead of the ridiculous expense of mangos. Just my opinion and tastes though
I know because i lived in north QLD and picked mangos during the school holidays for free about a billion times. Tip sap burn is not fun.
FUCK MANGOS
Really bowens? The FNQ ones we got never had the flavour or the flesh to seed ratio the Northern Territory R2’s we got.. Last lot of Bowens we got were only good for jam & chutney making 😛
I love mango 😛
You have slightly redeemed yourself 😛
Was me
The Stalkius becomes the Stalkedius
So, I’ve applied for a job at MuzzBuzz.
Here’s hoping everything goes well.
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Huh. MuzzBuzz certainly isn’t the business I thought it was.
WHAT WILL GREENIUS PLAY ON HIS DAY OFF:
– Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition
– Kid Icarus: Uprising
– Resident Evil 6
– Ni no Kuni
YOU decide!
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DARK SOULS
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Tomb Raider
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E) All of the above.
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simultaneously.
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Four appendages, four controllers. Seems like the only real option.
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Tomb Raider.
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Kid Icarus!
The controls are somewhat bearable if you don’t play more than one mission a day 😛
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Niii noooo!!
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Tomb Raider
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This isn’t helping ;D
That’ll teach me to not make my own decisions!
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DARK SOULS >=(
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ABOUT TO PLAY IT NOW >:(
but it’s heating up and my computer and room will explode so I’ll probably do some Ni no Kuni in the afternoon and a level of Kid Icarus at some point.
But I’d totally play Tomb Raider if someone gifted it to me 😉 *hint hint*… no? but it was worth a shot 😀
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None of the above.
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DARK.
SOULS. -
Sonic Racing Transformed
QUICK!!! YOU ARE UNDER ATTACK BY ZOMBIES!!! GRAB THE FIRST THING ON YOUR LEFT!!!
WHAT DID YOU KILL THE ZOMBIE WITH???
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Blu-Tack…. Fail… o_0
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a bayonet.
Edit: a bayonet in this case is a 30cm long, flat & narrow metal rod used for putting security tags in hardcover books.
If I were still working in local history with the crazy english historian, there is a real chance that it could have been a real one.
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well thats handy at least!!!
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My green cup. it got water in it.
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You’d be all set against the Wicked Witch at least 😛
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A coffee cup!
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PAPER CUTS BECAUSE I’M FUCKING HARDCORE.
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lol lol
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A small notepad D: Maybe some of these scribbles will be useful…
Rules of the card game I invented, List of things to build in Minecraft, Some sort of essay outline, “snuggletruck” (???), various ‘to do’ lists, list of Anna’s Quest bugs, Mario Kart Wii friend code, Pokemon team builds, list of WiiU launch prices, Ni no Kuni rune translations, ‘why won’t this stupid pen work’ scribbles.
Yeah, no 😛
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A pen \o/
I guess it really is mightier than the…
Agck! Too eighties.-
better than a sword.
Edit: I’ll take the bullet for the bad 80’s joke.
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Sword-gun, mightier than the pen-gun!
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We should team up.
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The Lost Vikings – office edition. We need a third, though. Someone with a rubber band gun.
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Damnit, all the sharp’n’nasty things are to my right.
Small fan or telephone to my left
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Well there;s an array of tools (ranging from multi grips, screwdrivers, a cold chisel & a bolster hammer), a large glass tankard, a fish tank full of fish, duct tape, chopsticks, band aids, and something else.
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You may survive this
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and to my right I have a lighter, more tape, several loose hard drives a maglite, a shifter and a 100 stack DVD spindle case half full of coins..
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An empty laptop bag… crap
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Put it over their head
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a water bottle, BUT A METAL ONE YEAH!
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One of those Guitar Hero guitars.
I had a sudden urge to play Guitar Hero today.
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Manilla folder?
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DEATH BY PAPERCUTS
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MS Surface. I guess that’s actually fairly plausible. It’s a hard metal square with a reasonably thick edge.
Reading through the Dark Souls wiki. Every time I see the word “humanity”, my brain converts it to “huge manatee”.
So many innocent manatees being dropped in various places…
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Whenever I see Humanities my brain converts it Humantitties thanks to an old comment a friend wrote back in the day…
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Huge manatee is no more….
But those humans, eh, they’re fine. -
Dark Souls wiki \o/
That’s also quite an odd translation
“on my garbage truck, truck, truck, truck, truck.”
i watched Scott Pilgrim last night, man i love that movie. The books and movies are like a direct reference to all the things that i like. Good tale of young love and youth, awesome music and sarcastic humor.
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That movie seemed to divide audiences, but I quite enjoyed it. It had a style all its own.
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Yeah, into those that loved it, and those that are wrong.
IT’S NOT OPINION, IT’S FACT. THIS IS THE INTERNET, DAMN IT!
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RIGHT ON
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Too long. Last act is incredibly boring and missed a lot of points that made that section of the books awesome. Also, as many have pointed out, that guy is NOT Pilgrim.
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No cera isn’t pilgrim, but thats okay and yeah i really like the 4-5 novel where they are kind of happy together but they did only have 2 hours. I don’t know they did the best with what they had and if Cera wasn’t to be Pilgrim the movie probably wouldn’t of got as much attention as it did.
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Haven’t read the books. Thought it was a decent film.
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I didn’t really like that movie. I was enjoying it to start of with, then everyone suddenly had magic powers, and I didn’t like it from that point onwards. They either needed to establish that everyone had magic powers from the start, or show a reason why everyone had powers. You can’t just have a story set in what seems like the real world, and then bam! it’s not, and there’s no explanation for what happened. I get that it’s supposed to be just stupid fun, but that really got on my nerves.
I also did not like the two main characters at all. Scott, and the girl, Remona or whatever she was called, are both terrible, terrible people. I wanted the movie to end bad for them.
I think part of my dislike for it is also that my expectations going in were wrong. I’d never read the comics, but I’d been told they were awesome video game comics, full of references, and the movie was an awesome video game movie. But no, it’s not a video game movie, it’s an arcade movie, and as someone who wasn’t born in the seventies or eighties, I had nothing to relate to. I got the reference to the fighting games and stuff, of course, but the film really offered me nothing. At least Wreck-it Ralph, also an arcade movie, included things still relevant to modern gaming, like Suger Rush or Hero’s Duty, which were clearly inspired by Mario Kart and general shooters like CoD and Halo. Scott Pilgrim did have the Guitar Hero section, but the music played was average at best.
The only redeeming factors for me were Scott’s gay friend, who wasn’t in it enough, and the asian girl whose name I forget, who gets screwed over in the end, though in truth, she deserves a lot better than Scott, so it could sort of be seen as a good thing.
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I agree with them being terrible people. I didn’t like the gay friend either, thought he was a stereotype.
Dunno what the fuss is wth the powers. Thats the whole deal isn’t it?-
Lack of an explanation for them broke my suspension of disbelief, would be the easiest way to put it.
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You are killing me man. I could rebut your points but im lazy and whatnot anyway to each his own 🙂
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Yeah and thats the thing, the characters are adressed so much better in the books. You can always make the ‘they only had 2 hours’ argument, but then again… why make a movie if it isnt going to be able to do it properly. *shrugs*
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OLD MAN SUGHLY
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More like SMART man Sughly
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To sell more comics/videogames/DVDs.
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You mean Wallace Wells (Scott’s gay friend) and Knives (asian girl)?
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If that’s their names then yes, that’s who I mean.
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I think I’m too old. I had a chuckle at a few things but…
Intro programming is SO BORING. How many times do we have to see hello world?
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Hello world,
This is me.
Life should be
Fun for everyone.-
Oh hell no
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HELLO?
IS IT ME YOU’RE LOOKING FOR?-
Had to stop myself from bursting out laughing! This song has a hilarious history between me and my younger brother.
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Type in “hello master”
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You’ll see it every time you start to learn a new language. It’s used because it shows the bare minimum you need to do to get a program to write output, and it usually shows a lot of the necessary syntax, eg for C it shows you that you need to code an Entry Point into your program (main), explains curly-brace blocks, hash-include, function calls, strings and terminating the statement with a semi-colon all in a very compact form.
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I know, but I’ve been using Java for 3-4 years, and got the highest score possible in computer science in year 11. It just pisses me off that all your past effort counts for nothing at Uni and you have to sit through all this again, and I can’t skip ahead to the 2nd year class.
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Are they teaching you Java or C?
Java hides a lot of the actual things that are going on in the system from you so if they’re teaching C it’s worth it IMO. But if their intro to programming is in Java then I totally would understand your frustration.
Think of it as easy credits for every little effort.
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Java, for some reason. I wouldn’t mind learning a variant of C but only engineering students learn it.
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Dude, that’s the best part!
You don’t have to pay attention and you’re immediately smarter than everyone else there. Easy high grades 😀
At least that’s what I did 😛
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So Girls is an absolutely awesome show. Marathoned season one last night, dling s2 now. Recommended.
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Yeah, it’s pretty good.
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You guys should watch The Americans! *desperately tries to convince atleast someone to watch it*
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Explain.
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Nothing like Girls, just a quality TV show that no one seems to be watching except for me. :'(
Set during the 1980s during the Cold War. It’s about two KGB sleeper agents pretending to be an American family, spying and all that. Chracter drama. Really compelling stuff!
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Sounds good.
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BONE is an awesome comic. If you haven’t read it, you need to. Yesterday!
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I agree its awesome and there is alot of it too. Everytime i go into kino i want to get the complete edition but its pretty expensive.
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It’s $40 on Book Depository (+ free post), and they’re running a 10% off deal atm http://bookdepository.co.uk/love/
BARGAIN. I paid $80, and it was worth it 😀
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I have spare 10% off codes if you want one Rocketbuddy!
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I want to, just don’t wanna pay until I know it’s my thang.
Get on that library!
Lame. Daylight Saving ends on April 7th for us. Which means then instead of an 11 hour time gap between Kat & I it will be a 9 hour time gap (since England starts DST on the 31st) which will probably mean less real time chatting =( Oh well.
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Move to england and make out with her already.
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Lol. Oh Rockets. Never change, okay? Also DST ending means I can’t use to my advantage living on the border of NSW & QLD >=[
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See, NSW knew I was coming and decided to end that farcical timezone to herald my arrival. How nice of them.
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That or it’s just the end of the time of the year where it’s not required 😛
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No, it’s definitely because of me.
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I forgot how important you are, my mistake 😛
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Any idea how long Ye Olde Play Asia takes to deliver?
Two weeks?
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I’m not sure…
I ordered You Don’t Know Jack from them last year and I can’t remember how long it took to deliver… 🙁 -
Err that depends on the type of shipping you chose tbh. I found their basic upto 10 day shipping was exactly that, pretty much on 10 days.
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Yeah basic. Added 50c for a box instead of paper.
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So yeah probably expect the maximum quoted time frame. If they still do that.
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They did while I was ordering, but I can’t remember what it said and now I can’t find it anywhere on the site 🙁
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Damn =/ try customer support?
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Nah, I’ll just wait.
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If it doesn’t show up, i’d go down and interrogate Aus Post. I had to do that to get stuff that I ordered from Play Asia. Even though it would fit in the mail box and it wasn’t registered mail etc.
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@virus My local is pretty good here, deliver quickly and knock on the door. Usually leave it at the door if we miss them, saving a trip to PO. 🙂
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Ah fair enough then. My local lot are pretty bad at leaving a “we missed you note” will never forgive them for doing that with my ATO stuff. Which had my ID and a bunch of other important things along with my TFN in it and they claimed they had left 2 notices, which they never did.
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yep
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Sydney Metro took anywhere from 4 days (for serious, it arrived the same week, I was mad confused to the extent that I did not open the parcel for another 4 days just for the full shipping effect) to the 10 working days max.
I bought Mk9 from PlayAsia.. took 3 days (I payed $10 for postage I think?)
gooood morning TAYbies.
So I might have been up till 1ish playing the video games last night and I might have slept through all my alarms and missed the bus to work. To make up for me ending up being an hour late, I picked up 2 dozen krispy kreme donuts … no one at work yelled at me for being late. Bribery for the win!
@greenius Apparently Australia post hates me, because the package I sent to you just rocked up at my house, so I’ll either be resending it tomorrow … or if I remember correctly, there was something about a meat somewhere in melbourne on the weekend and if you were going to this meat that may or may not exist, I’d bring it along.
I found out monday is a public holiday down here in victoria … labour day or something, My boss brought it up because the help desk still needs to be manned for the out of state clients we have. That was probably the fastest I’ve ever gone from full of joy to crushed because it would mean I’d have to come into the empty offices and get so freaking bored. But then he said screw it, work from home and we’ll still give you the 14th off in lieu. So fun happy times again.
How’s your hump day, TAY?
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My wrist is almost completely healed! \o/ Still going to take it easy and use the brace until this weekend, just in case.
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That’s awesome dude. Glad you’re feeling better
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Yeah, I’m so starved of LoL right now, I’m going to be more rusty than my mother’s old Ford Falcon when I try to play that again 😛
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I was thinking about that as well! It’s been a while and I still haven’t received it so I was wondering what happened 😛
Japanese food meat on Saturday apparently unless it got cancelled. I dunno, ask @scree 😛
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Hump day. Haha! I’ll forever associate that line with the introduction in Bowie’s The Stars (Are Out Tonight) video now!
Hope you’re well, man!
P.S. The guy who plays Stills in Pilgrim – Mark Webber – made a pretty touching improv film called ‘The End of Love’, which is about him being a young single dad. It’s definitely flawed, but really well acted with some very touching scenes. Well worth watching.
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IMDb score isn’t too good. I trust Sughly more, though. Haha!
Oh wow.. I think this perfectly describes me most days..
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This I think sums me up during the day, with the kind of tasks I get asked to help on, 80% we aren’t actually supposed to be doing as part of our role. In short, I’m doing lots of other people’s jobs for them cuz they’re lazy
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Sounds typical in IT if you ask me lol.
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It’s mainly me cuz I don’t want to leave the customer out to dry with infighting against other groups behind the scenes trying to get them to do their jobs properly, since these tasks affect customers.
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Ah yeah, fair point. I mean how dare you want other people to do their job so the customer is 100% happy with the end result, right? 😛
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So apparently Japanese Vita sales have quadrupled following the price cut there. Can’t be long before it happens elsewhere surely.
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Can’t be long before the price cut you mean? Hopefully!
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Shakespearean plot twist
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Wii U is the new Shakespearean Tragedy I think
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But the Wii U has plenty of games people are excited for 😛 – just maybe not you.
Which is sorta the same for the Vita for me, although I honestly think there’s not much coming out for the Vita.
I’m mildly interested in Tearaway and Soul Sacrifice when other stuff is just ports (Muramasa, Dragon’s Crown – already have Muramasa on Wii and can buy Dragon’s Crown on PS3). I know I’ve bought this up before and you’ve listed some niche JRPGs but most people aren’t too interested in them and unlike the Wii U, I don’t see any guarantees of future instalments of popular Sony franchise where as the Wii U has a new Zelda, new Mario Kart, new Smash Brothers etc. which will all come out eventually.
Why am I replying here? Because I’m bored 😛
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Games like Rayman? :V
EDIT: Also I’d take Ys Celceta and a few of the other niche games over anything Nintendo make internally any day. I’ll be getting a Wii U once X releases, whatever it is (assuming it’s got a decent single player component and isn’t just a monster hunter-alike) but the lineup and announced games leave me utterly cold. Even with the Wii, there was some interesting 2nd and 3rd party exclusive stuff at least announced before or just after the system launched in Australia (eg Muramasa, Metroid Prime 3). It seems like with the Wii U all you’re buying is potential.
Besides that I feel like I’ve gotten my investment’s worth of games from the Vita already. Even if I basically only use it to play Lumines. :V
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Never heard of it ;P
>:'(
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I better get going. Meant to go have lunch with a bunch of losers today, urgh.
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Sucks to be you!
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You can always complain to us about them when you get back.
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You know Mr Max Loser?
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*sob*
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That’s too bad, man. I had lunch with the coolest people evah… wait a minute… :'(
my god i have discovered the best browser plugin known to man….
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ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED: GET SHITTY PAGE GET…
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BLOO-BLOOOOP!
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Pretty sure @f4ction got one talking about a video of a girl pooping in a super market his brother sent him.
Shittiest page get evar!
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oh ive seen that, that is horrid!
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Yeah saw them the other day, but via rock paper shotgun. They did a massive article with a few more pictures and an interview with one of the devs.
It looks like it could be pretty damn good!
Damn sure I am having micro sleeps during this training
Bottle of Coke and a lunch with Sam
Hopefully this coke will keep me awake
I still have to stay to five, after my training
How is everyone?
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Tired, bored, wish the postie would hurry the fuck up lol.
Listening to Anthrax’s cover of Jailbreak by Thin Lizzy, Joey is trying to mimic Phil Lynott way too much.
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I just want to get out of here man
And our postie usually drops by at around 8am, or used to
Unlucky for you
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Yeah, sounds pretty dead there for ya man.
Damn you, sometimes the postie is early like yesterday some days we don’t see anything until 5pm.. Makes no sense honestly lol.
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Yeah but when they dropped off Tomb Raider my bro wasn’t home
So no Tomb Raider for me
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Lame man, lame!
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Fuck that
My brother picked up Tomb Raider
Expect pictures of the collectibles on Twitter my brother
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A’ight! I better see Lara Craft in a bikini!
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The collectible figure doesn’t come with a bikini
Should I pose her inappropriately with Max Payne and Domo?
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Max Payne & Lara Croft.. Why do I see the porn industry parodying that..
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Oh god!
I hadn’t thought about it!!
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I hadn’t either until then.. They could call it ‘Womb Raider’ or ‘Feel the maximum payne’
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I’m slowly losing vision in my left eye, otherwise, pretty good. I’ve got the best of Link Wray playing in the background at work. It is fine working music.
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Yikes.
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Yeh it sucks pretty major balls.
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I have someone nattering away about something I could do in my sleep
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I’m slowly losing the vision in my right eye so maybe we can swap 😛
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I’m trying to envision which eye would look better with a patch.
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30+ degrees for the rest of the week.
🙁
Go away, heat.
Eugh why can’t Australia get a tour with Marilyn Manson & Alice Cooper or Rob Zombie & Alice Cooper or Rob Zombie & Marilyn Manson like the US & UK get 🙁
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is marilyn manson even allowed back in australia?
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Yeah, he was on Soundwave 2012. He was pretty bad, but he was here. My friend who saw him on the Rob Zombie & Marilyn Manson tour end of last year said he was a total improvement over what he was like at Download festival earlier that year.
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I saw him for Mechanical, at Big Day Out. The year Perth booed him offstage cos he can’t shut up and sing.
I thought he was alright.
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That was what 99? If so yeah he would’ve sounded great.
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Great’s a strong word to use for a guy who can’t really sing. But yeah, the performace was.
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Well if you heard him at Soundwave last year he was very out of shape out of breath and didn’t really seem like he wanted to be there. So yeah in comparison his older self would sound great.
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Ha ha! I heard he got fat?
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Yeah, skin tight clothing with the beer gut he has ain’t pretty lookin’
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He was here just last year for Soundwave.
He was horrible, but he was at least here.
Marilyn Manson was in the most recent ep of Californication.
Not relevant to anything, but it’s the only way I can contribute to this discussion.
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A lot of musicians from rock & metal are making their way onto that show, I know Lemmy & Tommy Lee were in it at one point lol.
JOB INTERVIEW AT PYREAN AND GORZY COMPANY
yay
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I hope its actual name is ‘Pyrean and Gorzy Company’.
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Least intimidating security guard ever!
But also the hottest and rossest
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Awesome to hear sire! Hope you have more luck than I’ve been having
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LATIONS OF THE CONGRATU KIND!
I just got tickets to The Beards playing their first WORLD tour (the Sydney show). So EXCITE!
YOU SHOULD CONSIDER HAVING SEX WITH A BEARDED MA-AAN!!!!
EDIT: For those of you that are interested:
http://premier.ticketek.com.au/shows/show.aspx?sh=THEBEARD13
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The Beards playing their first live tour
Are you implying they have never played live before Tad? Because I am sure they have 😛 Or are you saying it’s their first time performing live in Sydney?
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You saw NOTHING
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I saw a lot of things!
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I want to see a bearded Tad.
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Beardmod?
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I have a bald spot on my jawline on the left side. It would only look awkward… 😛
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More awkward than being singled out for not having a beard?
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I’m going to come in disguise:
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I was thinking only slightly more understated.
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@bdkiaf
EXACTLY WHAT I WAS LOOKING FOR! 😛
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Come oooon, do it for me, your best friend, Alex Man.
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>Tadmod throws a grenade at Alexman.
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>Alexman pulls out the pin and throws it back.
TRUE FRIENDSHIP! 😛Also, I should mention that my uni mate (the guy I’m going with) is equally beardless. We both have the crippling disability of being unable to grow effective beards! 🙁
For that, I envy your luscious beard.
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At least you can grow stubble. There’s a certain someone you and I know who is adamant he can grow a beard and he has to shave every day…
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Does their first name begin with a J? Or a D? More likely a J, though.
I know it doesn’t begin with a B, because that guy can grow a glorious, beautiful beard!
Training update
Spaghett can’t generate the mock up letters like everyone else
I really don’t care, because I have generated these letters for real estates hundreds of times
Fuck today
In its anus
I want to play some Zombie Driver HD, Trackmania2 and Red Faction Armageddon
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Civ fiiiiiiive!
Or Tomb Raider.
Undecided.
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I want to raid some tombs man
But, I don’t know if my *unreliable brother* Justin went and picked it up for me
He didn’t even respond to my texts
It’s up to *my other unreliable brother Ben* to pick it up, I just get home too late to do it myself
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Man, You’ve fallen for Civ like a champ
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I knew this was going to happen!
And it’s all your fault!
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Zombie Driver – Such a good game. I haven’t played it for ages, though… I should really re-install it…
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Reinstall it man, I only just picked it up the other day and absolutely loved what I played 😀
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Yeah, I might do so when I get home. I remember having a lot of fun with it!
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Just had bunch with all these gamer types.
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Sounds horrible!
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Bunch…? Is that like… a euphemism?
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No, I had bananas for lunch, shared some with the guys. :p
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So… definitely a euphemism 😛
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“No, I had penises for lunch, shared mine with the guys. ;)”
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Nice to meat you guys, even if it was only briefly
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😀
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Just wrote MOOORTAAAAL KOOOMBAAAT on the MK page and now can’t get the song outta my head 😀
Building items in Dota makes perfect sense.
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must order their gear from ikea.
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I think with a bit of duct tape, it’d probably work.
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That image is amazing and perfectly describes my feelings when I first started playing Dota 1 in the good old days.
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How they make sceptor always confused me, it’s a staff, an axe, a dagger and an orb.
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hOW’S THAT CONFUSING? 😛
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Easy: put the orb on top of the staff, and then anyone who questions why you’d need an axe for it, you stab them with the dagger.
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Tomb Raider got picked up
Not sure which unreliable brother of mine got it for me
But they will have my love
So tonight I get to shoot people
With arrows in the knee in the head
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in the boob
Internet: My opinion is more important than your opinion and you are a mad rapist for thinking otherwise. The end.
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SHOUL SHILVER
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ROOOBI
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PSYCH! PLADNIMM-
Tricked me good!
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So, think I’m going to smash head-first into a fresh Dark Souls character tonight, while I’m waiting on Tomb Raider. Still not sure how I want to play, but probably end up as a paladin and probably go Sunbro cause I’ll be doing co op far more than anything else (helping and calling).
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PRAISE THE SUN!
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They really should have given a gesture to one of the evil factions so when someone says “Praise the Sun!”, they could respond with a mooning.
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If you feel like having a helping hand that doesn’t help at all, but that you have the capability to yell at, I’m level 21 and willing to try and organise a summoning, since I’m curious about how it works(I think the level difference for signs appearing is 10% of your level + 10, but it’s hard to find solid info…).
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The person needs to have not beaten the boss in the current summoning area in their current playthrough aswell.
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Also, to make the gods of networking function, both players must balance an egg on their heads, while reciting “yngwe dedera turnkado,” all the while massaging a pygmy shrew’s belly with their left foot.
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All while GFWL throws rubbish at you, because GFWL is a huge jerk like that.
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Hells yeah!
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Pretty sure it’s like nearly impossible to easily summon a friend 😛
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Went to Woolworths after Uni and found Honey Mustard sauce. Fuck yeah. I’ll be disappointed if it doesn’t taste 100% like Subways!
Also had McDonalds for lunch. After not eating it for coming on 3 weeks now, I don’t even want it anymore :S
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I usually get Maccas once every two months usually – just enough to remind me for another two months why I don’t eat it.
Back at my desk
Training over with for the week
No more whining about it from ol Spaghett
Crazy guy helped me find Mortal Kombat *as per the article on the main page* and I have it ordered
My brother also wants a copy
And Tomb Raider was picked up
Tonight, tonight is going to be good
Hey, you guys seen this?
https://torment.inxile-entertainment.com/
It’s a “spiritual successor” to Planescape Torment (which I’m told is pretty cool) which takes place in the Numenera setting, a new RPG setting that’s being put together by noted RPG designer Monte Cook. Looks pretty cool, the kickstarter starts tomorrow
I’ve paid my dues…
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Time after time…
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I’ve done my sentence…
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But committed no crime!
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And bad mistakes
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So I whistled for a cab…
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Yo holmes, to Bel-Air
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I’ve made a few…
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After watching a longplay of the Citadel DLC for ME3, I am genuinely impressed. The paltry mission is awfully amusing on it’s own., since it’s about
Shepard versus his clone.
But the Citadel DLC ain’t about shooting things. It’s all about the talking. Holy crap, like 2 hours worth of conversations. And the fanservice! Shepard and Javik in a Blasto Movie! Lesbian moments with EDI! MORDIN IN A NOIR STORY! It’s fanservice done right.
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That extra stuff sounds amazing. Is it sprinkled into the main story or can you access it all immediately? I haven’t played any of the ME3 DLC aside from the Javik stuff they cut out of the original game, was saving it until I did a second playthrough.
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You can access it
After the Cerberus attack on the CitadelJavik trolls spectacularly in the game, BTW
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So if i hosted a small 40k meet – who would be interested? You wouldn’t need your own army as i have 2.
I’d probably have it at my place, so you’d have to be willing to come on down to g-town.
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Colour me intrigued
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I’d be intrigued just to observe and see the gorgeous painted 40k pieces
@melbourne taybies.
Moomba weekend! MEAt IS STILL ON!
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I wish I could come. Okonomiyaki <3
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Who’s going?
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You, me, techie, tofu and smurfy.
@tofu and @smurfydog please confirm-
We can’t have it without Smurfy! It’s his idea 😀
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@scree – Sorry, I thought I confirmed on Monday. My bad.
Yes, I will come to the meat. I might not get into town until 12 though, but I’ll let you know if that’s the case.
Okonomiyaki \o/-
Awesome! =D
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I’m up for taybies, food and what not
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Put me down for a maybe…
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You can’t have Tigerion. He’s ours now. >:|
Jebus, I was going to get one of the colleges official hoodies, but they’re $55 :S My friends girlfriend is the one that sells them, so I wonder if I can get girlfriends-mates rates?
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Get your friend’s girlfriend to give him one then you take it off your friend 😀
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He already got one and he still had to pay for it 😛 I’m gonna go down to see them soon (they share a room together, how cute :D) to get his tomb raider backup so we’ll see then!
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Oh, if he didn’t get one for free then you have no chance! 😛
Good luck though, hopefully you get a decent discount 😀
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Yeah, I think how it works here is that the uni (or accommodation services, I dunno) supply everything, and residents are in charge or running the place and selling things. I assume the cost price goes back to them and we keep the profit here to put towards parties and events.
The good thing about that though is that we also get to decide how the budgets spent, so we all voted unanimously on spending probably a bit too much of it on one of those big canteen type slushee machines 😀
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Lunch with TAYbies is fun, but too short. I get sad when it’s over. :'(
Also: Strange is awesome and an excellent mum. Strange’s son is awesome and an excellent kid. Sughly is awesome and an excellent guy in general. Freeze is awesome and a kick ass group leader even if he never asked for the job. Ser Nobs is awesome and I totally didn’t speak to him at all today. Trjn is awesome and I also totally didn’t speak to him at all today. (I got nervous at lunch for some reason. Haha!) Jimu is awesome and I totally had a drunk conversation on a train with him once. Tigerion is awesome and I totally think you guys in Melbourne should hang out with him more cause he’s cool. Mrs. Tigerion is awesome and I totally rambled like a crazy person to her.
Also I can’t shake the feeling I did or said something wrong. Usual apologies and all that.
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So what you’re tring to say is there were a lot of awesome people there? Maybe cut down on the subtlety next time, I’m not sure everyone caught it
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There was no pepsi girl though
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Thats disappointing. Theres always next time DC
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I was going to upvote but all the stupid doubt is downvote worthy >:(
Unless you bumped more people off their feet 😛
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I crashed into a lady this time. XD
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MORNSTAR!
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Lunch was great except for some smooth talker trying to steal my wife away from me
Also
Doofus 😉-
Was DC the smooth talker? I bet he was. That sly old dog 😉
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No, it was somebody much shorter than DC. Much much shorter
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It definitely was fun. Always good to see TAYbies.
I hung out with @tigerion for a bit while we waited for his wife(who is great,by the way 😀 ) and I was kind of nervous because he’s awesome so I didn’t think of much things to say. Also, I was a bit distracted wrangling my obstinate son who practiced funny faces in the mirror and then tried them out on Tigerion. 😛I was also in Rockinghorse when DC walked in, about a halfhour before anyone had planned to meet up. I’m pretty sure he saw me but tried to pretend he didn’t. 😛 I said hello anyway.
I barely got to see Ser Nob, Jimu and Trjn but figured they’re local so it didn’t matter too much. Then I remembered after Bunny was gone that he’s moving. 🙁
I did take everyone who arrived early to the pretzel place though. I think Freeze may be as addicted as I am soon. I bought 7 so hopefully I have enough to last me until next week.
Highlight of the lunch was pestering DC. 😛
No wait,the highlight was watching my son try and charm Mrs. Tigs away from Tigerion. 😀-
Haha! I really didn’t see you! I’m not THAT anti-social. 😛
Was awesome seeing you Strange! I felt a little more awkward today than usual too! 😀
After you left Freeze, Sughly and I went to JB Hifi while the Tigerions went their seperate ways for a while. Freeze and Tigs got a beer later on and then coffee. A good day!
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Also…doofus. 😛
I thought putting on a scary voice and ordering you not to stress would work. 😛
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I’ll always stress. Feel really comfortable especially around you, Freeze and Sughly and STILL stress about minor stuff. Haha! I also slammed into another person, just like last time. D:
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Yeah, Tomb Raider! Time to see what all the fuss is about… http://www.2d-x.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/TombRaider1.jpg
Good god this hard drive is slow :l I might buy an SSD next week with all my not-needed textbook money!
So
Get home to my Tomb Raider and my Cthulhu inspired shirt from RedBubble
Now Tomb Raider is installing
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So. Damn. Jelly.
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Thank you 😀
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I spy a Meat photo that I haven’t seen before!
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It was the Shane meat man 😀
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After “commandeering” a friend’s PC and playing through his copy of ME3 with Citadel, I have come to the conclusion that EVERY SINGLE LINE IS A JOKE.
Also this.
And I also “commandeered” his PS3 to play Tomb Raider.
… And some of his bacon quiches in his fridge.
I have no damn idea how I’m still his friend.
The best cookies are the fresh ones you get in the bakery section of Woolworths.
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I think you mean the best cookies are the ones someone you love makes just for you 😛
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Yes. Isn’t that what I said? *edits original comment to make you look silly* 😛
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Stop that D.C., you doofus!
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But… noones done that for me
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I feel your pain Sughly.
*pats shoulder*
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Huh… waahhh!? D:
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Sughly must’ve left quite an impresison on Nova at the NovaMeat!
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I meant as in I was trying to clean my hand of sughly’s germs. Because people are icky, and all that.
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Hahah! That’s very different than the image I originally thought of…
#SneakyGropeius
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Riiiiiight 😛
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Monsters. All of you
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Play your cards right Sughly and Nova might make you some cookies!
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At least Woolworths is there for me!
:'(
I like this gif, a lot
Cookies are a sometime food!
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That’s the perverted, wrong version of Cookie Monster.
Cookies are an always food. That’s how Sesame Street brought me up!
Going home for the long weekend! I get to see my dogs 😀 Man, I hope they don’t hate me. One of them takes these things to heart. Last time the whole family left him at the kennel for a couple of days while we went on holiday he wouldn’t even acknowledge us for the next few days 😛
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You monster! 😛
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I can’t wait for playfights 😀 Justin loves playing rough. You wrestle him and hold him down or something, and then he’ll do exactly the same back! Anyone would think he’s really aggressive if they saw.
(He’s a Newfoundland btw, big dog)
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Holy crap! I’ve never heard of or seen that breed before but jeez!
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I wish I had a good camera to take some photos of them. It’s really hard getting good photos with a phone of an all black dog.
The qualities not very good and I think there’s a fly on the fridge, but this is probably the clearest pic I have of them. Hamish on the left (he’s like 2 years old), and Justin on the right (5). http://i.imgur.com/07emkOh.jpg
The fighting is pretty fun though 😛 I tried it with Hamish once but he pounced and thought he’d done something wrong and backed off. Justin just goes all out!
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When my brother came back after a couple of years in England, watching him reunite with his dog (a boxer) was one of the funniest and at the same time most beautiful things I’ve ever seen!
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So hungry! D:
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But you had lunch! :O
You’ve gone days eating nothing but a single chip!
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I had pumpkin soup for breakfast and carrot soup for dinner. Soup is horrible, don’t let any one tell you otherwise! 😛
Edit: Except for chicken soup. And… most soups actually.
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Pumpkin soup is amazing. Do not badmouth soup!
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Just not particularly filling. :S
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You’re eating the wrong kind of soup man. I had home made pumpkin soup the other night with some crusty bread, didn’t look like a large portion but it was damn filling.
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I got those deli ones from Coles, serving size isn’t appropriate for humans. 😀
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Me too, man, and I had the world’s biggest plate of pasta for dinner. Maybe we have worms.
Does anyone else remember Liero? Totally got pulled back into it last week at husband gaming night. Man, high school days 🙂
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You probably do, but I’m just regular hungry. 😛
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OH MY GOD YES! High-school was infinitely improved by that.
Also pasta. All the pasta was consumed last night. Except for that which wasn’t consumed, and is currently populating the fridge, to be consumed at a later date.
There’s a lot of pasta…are we twins?
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@DC has become too social for me to consider him to be a twin. So why not?
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:'( Just so you know, your new twin just completed a tour of the eastern sea board meeting countless internet people willingly. 😛
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willingly
Huh?
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Sounds like you have a new twin, not me 🙁
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Hey Shane, I’m probably going to end up shaving my head, and I live in Canberra.
Twins?
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Oh thank god, I felt all alone for a few minutes there!
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I really, really wanna do that again 😀
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CANBERRA. STOPOVER. >:(
I remember Liero. I had many a good time playing it, back in the day.
Liero was awesome but at high school we played Soldat, Quake 3 Tournament, CS 1.6 and some other stuff
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We played Doom 2 and Liero. Life was pretty good.
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Life was pretty good indeed 🙂
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Gah Liero! Nostalgia overload! This was what I studied in IT.
Fiber is what makes you feel full, so if you had a whole whack of complex carbs like pasta and nothing else then you’ll feel hungry again pretty fast because those get burned up so quickly.
Add some Vegetables.
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I mainly just wanted to segue into Liero. Also, this was twenty hours ago 😛
DARK SOULS \o/
Quelaag is gone. First try. Hells yeah. Had some embarrassing near-deaths between the bonfire and her lair though. Man, glad no one will ever hear about those 😛
EDIT: Also, totally cast my first spell ever in this game. Feels good, might be dragging those out from time to time instead of my bow and arrows!
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I killed her too! Got close first time as well but was stupid and greedy >:(. Also killed the Iron Golem like 30 mins ago :D. Good progress!-
First playthrough, I just summoned Tarkus. He totally beat the Iron Golem by himself. I charged in and stole the kill from him though 😛-
I pretty much always play as Hollow/Undead since I die a lot, so I never really get the chance to summon. I didn’t even know it was a thing until much later, I think I’ve only done it for the Gaping Dragon fight 😛
I also didn’t know NPC invasions existed either and I totally thought I was invaded and killed by a player the first time butcher sack lady invaded in Blighttown D:-
I wiki research so that very few things take me by surprise. I’d like to set myself up well for an achievement hunt should I decide to persevere into NG+ 🙂
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Just started a fresh play.
I’ve done nothing interesting nor spectacular.
Though, apparently my yelling was rather amusing whilst running the frick away from Havel, according to my girlfriend. -
You know, I’ve been clicking the upvotes hoping none were from D.C. and wooo! I’d like to think that this means he stopped clicking the spoilers but we all know that’s not true… AVERT YOUR EYES D.C. THIS IS NOT FOR YOU! Well actually, that bit kind of was, but the rest of the Dark Souls discussion isn’t! Discovery, man! -
I played through a bit more today. Powered through what I had left of the Depths, summoned Sunbro and Knight wanker, and took out the Gaping Dragon(He was doing about 85% of my health with his charge attack, which really stung), I also managed to get his tail. Oh, and both summons died. Smooooooooth. Then I decided to go to my old grinding spot(the garden stuff behind Atorias’ wall), and the guys there absolutely destroyed me. This is what I get for being level 21, and not paying enough attention.-
What sort of build are you?
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Yeah, good question.
I spawned in as Pyromancer, and I am using it a bit(but not all that much, since it’s so finnicky), but mostly I’m sword(Drake tail thingy) + shield, except I’m sitting at 14.5 of 60 encumbrance, so I’m quite mobile, so I’m going for a lot of back stabs.
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That’s a pretty solid build, you should be doing okay! Maybe your equipment/stats need a bit of work 😛
I did my first playthrough as a sword/spear and shield tank with pyromancy. Pretty sure I just used the Drake Sword until I found the fabled Lightning Spear and turtled it up.
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My equipment itself is quite upgraded, but to keep myself under the weight limit with the Drake swordy thing I’m still running the default Pyro garb. It’s only really a problem since I was in a place that you’re not really supposed to hit until after Blight town, or hell, it’s not actually necessary to go there until post Anor Londo. Nothing thus far in the main stuff has troubled me, but then, I’ve played through all of this before.
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No one seems to choose the Thief :\
I kind of like the guy.
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First time I played the game I spawned in as Thief.
That was probably not the best choice.
Then again, the worst choice was aggroing whatsisface by the Firelink Shrine.
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I’ve only ever played as a Thief. He’s got a Master Key and knows how to use it.
I’m terrible at backstabbing though, and not much better at dodging. I like block and swing tactics much better! Maybe I’d be better off with another build, but I’m determined to make this one work for me.
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I’ve started getting good at backstabbing, but the angle for it can be really finnicky, and that’s aggravating. I did know how to parry a very big while back, but it too is finnicky, so I couldn’t be bothered.
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Nighthawk!
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Hey man. How’s it going? Another day, another meat.
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I’m pretty good, man. How are you? TAY looks like it was pretty slow today! D:
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Yeah, while a bunch of selfish people who shall remain unnamed were off eating and playing on dodgem cars or something, instead of living the dream here on TAY. I feel sorry for them.
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D.C. doesn’t post on TAY
TAY is slowCONNECTION!?
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Greenius was asleep at the switch!
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Just saw Danny Bhoy live on stage. You know you’ve had a good night of stand up comedy when your jaws ache from laughing.
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A day without laughter is a day wasted!
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Thanks for reminding me Greenius, I’ve gotta download the new ep of Tosh.0!
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HELPIUS!
But I said laughter 😛
TROLLIUS!
I’m slowly losing interest in it :P. Still watch it anyway though, gives me something to do for 20 minutes a week!
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Aha I don’t argue with people who don’t like it/him anymore. It really is an acquired taste. The one thing I’ve found with almost everyone who doesn’t like it is that they’ve only seen seasons 1 or 2, and I’m not going to argue that they’re pretty awful, but you’ve seen more than that so I don’t mind 🙂
It’s fallen down my list of favourite shows though 😛 Workaholics was third behind Childrens Hospital (best. show. ever) and tosh.0, but Workaholics has jumped above both of them with the current season!
In case it’s hard to tell I’m quite the comedy fan.
Edit: In case it’s hard to tell I’m quite the weird comedy fan.
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I love me some sitcoms/comedy too and I’ve seen every episode of Tosh.0 (no Workaholics or Children’s Hospital though!) but for me, Tosh was always about the funny clips and not so much him or his jokes and skits. I never found them to be that funny but they did get a bit better in season 2-3. Lately I’ve found he just relies on too much ‘easy’ jokes like racism/sexism/rape and showing disgusting clips.
I did say “trollius” 😀 so it’s not like I don’t like it or laugh at it! It was never really a “favourite” show of mine but it’s still always good for cheap little laughs I guess :).
EDIT: WATCH PHILLY THEN DAMNIT! LOUIE TOO! CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM!
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I’VE SEEN EVERY EPISODE OF LOUIE GREENIUS! I moved like the day before the new season of Curb Your Enthusiasm started on the comedy channel, and I’d watch Philly if they replaced the actors with bearable ones 😛
I don’t know how this will go down here but I’ll say it anyway. I find his racist and sexist jokes hilarious. I don’t see the point in getting caught up on the morals of a joke. Either everything’s okay or nothing is.
Saying that I find most of the humour in the show in his delivery. The way in which he says things is spot on. I also prefer his jokes and original stuff to the clips!
Edit: I thought I’d expand on “hilarious”. Yeah I find them pretty funny, but that doesn’t mean I agree with them or the message or anything. I just find them funny as a joke.
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Y U NO MENTION THIS TIL NOW?
Also, I figured that the thing above probably made it seem like I don’t like those jokes because of morals or whatever but I find them hilarious if done right (hence why I mentioned Louie since he does that stuff RIGHT). I’m kind of the opposite of you on Tosh opinions as I’m not really keen on his delivery and all that. Just seems awkward and stuff :P! Well at least he’s improved since earlier seasons!
I keep hijacking threads D;. Sorry @ontargett !
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@greenius The delivery is meant to be awkward 😛 That’s the whole point behind it!
He says it best. His comedy style is to start with something broad that everybody gets, then slowly whittle it down until eventually nobody has an idea (other than maybe a few people) what he’s talking about and people start laughing because it’s so nonsensical and awkward and other people are laughing.
I’ve watched every episode of Louie, but it was never a show I made a point of watching 😛 One of the funniest moments for me was Tapedeck. Also the episode(s?) where it was New Years and he went to China to find the river in the book.
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I only found out about him being here 2 days ago and I have no idea where the theatre royal is 😛 I’ve seen some of his stuff before and he’s pretty good!
He’s back in Australia?!? Where? When? I really want to go to one of his shows
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Hmm, all the Sydney shows are around my sisters wedding. Thats inconvenient. Could probably squeeze in the Canberra show.
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DO IT.
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Done. And thinking about it, I’m probably closer to Canberra than Sydney anyway
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Right, now we just have to drag some more people down here and we can have a meat 😀
When’s it actually on?
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Next saturday night, the 16th 8pm. (or friday as well, but I’m going to the 16th).
Don’t suppose I could trouble anyone for a bit of floor to crash on? If not I have other friends I could harrass
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I really need to figure out what I’m supposed to be doing that weekend…my birthday is on that Sunday 😛
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Birthday Meat \o/
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had dinner with crabjiffy and dawdle. Man i love those guys, we had Italian good that was actually brilliant, then i got us lost driving me home. Crabman and I then completely sucked at Playstation all stars. A really good night. I love hearing from TAYbies and talking in smaller groups. You all rock.
xoxox
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ps Blaghs doesn’t rock
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I prefer the smaller meet ups 😀
Those two should post on TAY again! I’ve barely talked to them 🙁
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They only got back from hong kong 3 weeks ago
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I like smaller groups too so you can talk to people properly.
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Exactly! I also prefer non walking around aimlessly meats (like house ones) 😀
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Haha! Aimless wandering meats can be fun too!
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Small aimless wandering ones can be fun 😀 (not that I’ve had one) but some of them sounded fun!
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I’ve never been to a big meat. I’d probably be all quiet and self-consious.
I’m still really disappointed I couldn’t make it to the big Melbourne meat with Aleph, Pow and Strange all visiting from interstate 🙁-
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Unfortunately a bunch of us have already taken the position of being quiet and self-conscious, so I’m afraid if you go to a meat you’ll have to b- Hmm, gimme a sec, I need to find the cards…
Okay, let’s see, we’ve got 3 loud and obnoxious’s spare, though I’m surprised Pez didn’t grab them all while he was here. Umm, there’s 2 “had a bit too much to drink, but is nice and sociable,” oh, and one “at every meat in spirit, but is really far too cool to hang out with nerds.”
There’s also a whole stack of “jerk” cards, but I doubt you’d want one of them.
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Hey you said you wouldn’t give our jerk cards to anyone. We have been hoarding them for so long.
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I never actually looked at what my card said…
“Just in it for the Streetpass”
Hm.
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Well, I’m hardly loud and obnoxious, not much of a drinker, definitely not cool, and wouldn’t know how to be a jerk.
I guess that’s no more meats for me :'(Edit: Perhaps not knowing you’re a jerk is a prerequisite to being a jerk?
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No blaghs, myself and bish are the known jerks. THE ONLY KNOWN JERKS
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*stares*
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you’re not cool if someone says you’re cool
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You’ve got hippie street cred! Limited edition hippie card goes to you!
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As distributor of the cards(shut up, it’s a thing now), I will allow this to pass.
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BELIEVE IN THE HEART OF THE CARDS,
YUGIBLAGHS
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That is BRILLIANT!
Although I think I may have an inkling of what my card might say :S
Ninja Gorilla
Oh, that “in spirit” one, that’s totally up my alley. YOINK
Hmm. I thought you already had a card. It was supposed to say “handsome author who disappears 1/4 of the way through.”
Must have lost that card. Maybe I signed it and gave it away by accident :\
but isn’t the forthcoming PAX meat gonna be a big one?
i mean come on, i’m going!
looking back on that, it makes it sound like i’m saying i’m fat…
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well yeah but that will be awesome. 🙂
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Yo Meat is so fat it was born on the fourth, fifth, and sixth of June!
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I thought we were talking about PAX, not e3
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I like meeting interstaters though! Gonna be good :D!
I don’t know who these people are? Are they old guard types from back in the day?
Sounds like a good night, man! More nights like these and your home sickness will be gone!
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Worst Stalkius ever.
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Dawdle started posting in TAY at almost exactly the same time as Rocketbuddy, and she’s been to a coupla meats, and is part of the Sydney gang. Crabman’s her partner, and he’s a rad dude.
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He gave me a lift home, seriously rad dude.
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i always imagined him as the guy from my name is earl, therefore in my head he’s a cool dude
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Having met both of them, I can indeed confirm they are cool peoples
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I bought and played two chapters of the DmC Devil May Cry DLC.
Playing as Vergil is neat but it feels weird to have so few attacks available after having everything unlocked with Dante. He has some neat moves but it will take getting used to. So far, it’s just a matter of cycling through his rather limited moves.
Also, the cutscenes are seriously just animatics. Very half assed.
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funnily enough, that’s how he played in devil may cry 3, he felt like a less advanced dante
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Well, you go from having access to 5 weapons and 3 guns as Dante, with a pretty good collection of moves for all of them to switching to Vergil with just his base weapon and barely any moves unlocked.
He does feel different from Dante. Hell, just the way his Demon Pulls/Angel Lifts and lack of double jump makes a big difference. Just need to finish the DLC and unlock everything so that fair comparisons can be made.
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Wasn’t planning on playing Tomb Raider tonight, but the game’s crazy addictive. So damn fun.
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I planned on playing NSMBU tonight, but got frustrated and turned it off. So damn tricky.
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And bland. 😛
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Amen brother!
And to think, we’d all be playing Rayman Legends for almost a week by now!
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I wish they’d shelve Mario platformers for a while. (2D an 3D)
They obviously won’t because they sell bazillions and wouldn’t cost all that much to make, but anything to give them the opportunity of making something new!
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No way! Shelve 2D but we definitely need some 3D 🙂 (just not so frequently)!
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Only if it doesn’t take finishing the game to unlock the levels with any challenge in them! (Looking at you 3D Land)
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I finished it this morning.
Kind of disappointed with myself. I just can’t pace things out.
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I dunno, the Uncharted games are over pretty quick and it’d ruin the pacing if you intentionally slowed just to prolong it. As long as you didn’t run through the levels ignoring everything, don’t feel bad…
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Well, it was about 10 hours played, and I was at 75% completion, but I kind of wish I’d done other things while I played it, let it sit in my mind, so I could think stuff over.
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Burnt my thumb on the stupid stove and now it hurts to use my controller 🙁 I’ve played about an hour of Tomb Raider though and I’m really enjoying it! It’s a little bit more gruesome than what I’d normally like, but still good. It’s got a 3d platforming, Assassins Creedy vibe to it. I like that.
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I heard the game was gruesome and was waiting to be shocked, but even though it’s extreme Fallout 3 continues to leave me completely desensitized to this kind of stuff! D:
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I haven’t played Fallout 3, but I tried playing New Vegas and just got bored 😛
I’m just not used to playing big AAA games really! I’m pretty sure most of them are more violent than my safe little RPG’s and racing games 😛
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fallout 3 brang out the worst in me…
i did terrible things in that game.
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Man, I might never write a novel by hand again. At least, not until I can afford to have someone else transcribe the f’ing thing onto the computer. This is going to take FOREVER, and it’s more gruelling than writing the stupid thing in the first place.
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:S You editing as you go or just transcribing? Guess it feels more like work too, because you’ve done the fun creative part and now it’s just process stuff…
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Mostly transcribing. I’ll edit with a red pen on a printout when I’m done, but for now, the biggest priority is making more than one copy of the story. I’m terrified of this being destroyed or lost or stolen! 🙂
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I’d actually love transcribing stuff as a job (provided I can easily hear/read the thing). I like typing and I’m good at it :D. I should look more into this as a casual/part-time job! 😀
(or you sexy people can totally do that for me and link me relevant information 😉 )
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I’ll pay $5 for every 10,000 words \o/
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Sounds interesting but how would I receive your werds?
I’d also feel bad about taking money from a friend and I’m not sure how much I can get done with Uni and whatnot. Although I can apparently type at 100-140 words per a minute 😛
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Uh… I don’t know if you know this, but $5 for 10,000 words is a terrible deal. As a friend, I feel compelled to tell you that.
It was totally a joke.
Greenius. Gets. Workplace. Rights.
You’d be typing an entire damn novel, and you’d make about $50 (for about 17 hours work, according to my calculator) :\
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I figured at 100WPM I’d be able to type 60,000 words an hour and get $30 (which seems reasonable!)
…now, this is where I don’t know what I was doing but that calculation was clearly wrong 😛 😀
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6000 words per hour
Just so you know.Insert @powalen joke about Asians being good at maths.
Edit: Now that we all know, hahahahahahaha! 60,000 words per hour! That would be EPIC! 😀
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I know now 😛
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@powalen joke
This is a dangerous reputation to have…
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You thought about dictation software?
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I do this at night, and said software would probably wake my family… especially when I started swearing at it 😛
Blergh, Uni tomorrow :/
I’m also gonna have to drive again and I haven’t driven properly in months. Funtimes!
Goodnight you sexy people!
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Good night, Greenius. Have fun and all that!
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Goodnight you sexy people!
So the rest of us can just sod off then? :'(
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Such a @blaghman response!
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So glad there’s no such thing as a hook turn in Tasmania 😛 (Or probably anywhere outside Melbourne)
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Our green friend won’t be anywhere a hook turn – they’re only in the city centre.
They’re actually really easy, although a little counter-intuitive.
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What Uni does @greenius go to?
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Not sure, but he doesn’t have to cross town to get there.
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(and @benj)
I kinda do (it’s near the city) but I drive to the local shopping centre and take the bus from there – so no crazy city driving involved 🙂
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The things you find in China… (NSFW)
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Also, Sound City soundtrack is out this Friday! \o/
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Nastyyyy! D:
Did you see the Chinese news clip when they thought they found some mythical magical mushroom but it was just a rubber vagina?
The Goonies ‘r’ Good Enough!
I’m going to sleep. It was a good day. Thanks for being awesome! 😀
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Ummm… You’re wealcome?
Also – sleep well!
Morrrgfgrgrgggghhhhhning everyone
Anyone else notice a new Allure site on your profile page? I’ve made zero comments there, oddly enough.
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BIZNIZ!
Also mobile Kotaku doesn’t seem to work anymore :P. It just defaults to the desktop view and clicking “Switch to Mobile” just refreshes the page back to desktop.
@benwhite @robhussey
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Business Insider?
Weird. Why aren’t the sugar sites on there?
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I can answer this one from my time at Allure:
The Sugar network is actually run overseas by the American brands. The Australian journo’s simply add to their content and brand it as an Australian site, but the actual tech megic behind the scenes is controlled by the US.
This is in contrast to the other sites which are hosted and developed by internal Allure Media wizards (of which I was only an apprentice under the great and powerful Ben White!).
On another note:
Business Insider? Fuck. Literally the worst business blog in existance. I would have much preferred a stream of the NYTimes or HuffPost be brought in instead… :\-
Ah. That explains why those sites look nothing like the other Allure ones.
Also, my friends who recorded at Bearclaw put up a song last night if you wanted to see what the quality is like. Probably not your style of music, but you can at least see the recording quality.
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Doesn’t the band name usually come after the title? Fuck Knuckle! 😀
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Good quality of recording, but without hearing instruments (piano, acoustic guitar) more typical of what we intend to record I can’t say too much about whether the studio would work or not.
Also sounds good, but you were right in saying it’s not really my kind of music. 😛
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Good morning TAY 🙂
Last song played game time
Under the Influence by Eminem
No training today
Got Tomb Raider last night, finally installed it and waited for the download to finish
Played about ten minutes before I called Sam
Because real women beat fictional women
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I don’t know man. Lara Croft is a pretty cool guy.
Asthma Attack – Confession.
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DAAAYYYUUUUUMMMMMM!!!
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She is a pretty cool guy man
I only just finished
escaping being tied up and the collapsing the cave, Literally the start where she stands up on the cliff side and Tomb Raider comes up in massive black and red capital letters-
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I only died the once kicking him in the head, the rock squashed me because I didn’t hit Y in time *playing on my PC with a controller*, after that I died no times
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Someone Else – The Rasmus
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THEN WHY DON’T YOU MARRY IT!
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I did.
Don’t tell my wife.
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http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/03/meet-some-of-japans-stupidest-twitter-users/
Bashcraft.
Vidya Games.
Love it.
Why does this guy still have a job?
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There’s enough of that kind of crap in comments on articles. Why bring it in here? I don’t need the first thing I see when I visit TAY to be someone wishing someone else got fired. :S
So inXile (guys doing Wasteland 2) have launched (and reached their goal) in another Kickstarter project. Call me pessimistic/cynical, but I don’t quite understand how people are ready to throw money at them when they’ve yet to deliver their first Kickstarter project? Their track record isn’t all that exciting as well, if you look on their wikipedia page. I’m just curious as to what everyone else thinks about this.
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I agree. I also feel (however flawed this feeling is [and I know that it is flawed]) that they are taking the focus away from other, more deserving kickstarter projects.
That angers me slightly, that these guys are getting press and funding while smaller guys miss out… 🙁
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There should definitely be guidelines about one Kickstarter at a time (ethical ones, if not official ones).
Semi-unrelated: I was thinking about doing a graphic novel crowdfunding project in a year or two, but I think that I missed the boat now that all the big companies are piling on board, and drawing the attention away from the little folks. @tadmod, sad to say, I think you have an uphill battle ahead of you.
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I’ll be using Pozible, and I know it’s going to be an arse to try and get funding… 🙁
I’ll hope for word-of-mouth, to be honest, hahaha.
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Numenera. I’m sold.
DARK SOULS \o/
I joined the Chaos Covenant thingy beneath the second bell. I gave them all my humanity (they only take it one by one, so it took FOREVER), but it only came to 28, not the 30 I needed to open the Lost Izalith shortcut. Rats. Oh yeah, rats. So, I have to make my way up to the Depths and farm a little more. Maybe later. I have a Blighttown swamp to explore. Or a Ceaseless Discharge to … [insert favoured euphemism].
Morning everyone.
So I’m getting to the point where i want to max out our credit card just to buy an air conditioner.
Also, Sid was sick last night and I can’t help but wonder if it is this heat. =(
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I just checked the weekly forecast and it’s only going to get hotter 🙁
I’m seeing 36, 36 and 38 for M, T, W :/
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38 and 38 for Thursday and friday as well green man…. 🙁 (next week)
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FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK THIS SHIT!
>:(
At least we haven’t had 40+ days this year (well not yet anyway 🙁 )
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Chose a fantastic weekend to move to a place that only has partial aircon 🙁
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Installation costs for air conditioners are a credit-card killer. So damn expensive. 🙁
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and 99% of the time pricier than the air con itself…
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Living the dream, here on TAY!
So bored
SimCity is having launch issues, EA is the devil. More news at 11.
Seriously, in the space of 2 days, Kotaku has posted 5 articles (I’m not sure if you can call some of them ‘articles’ though) about SimCity’s launch issues. Why?? ‘Big Online Title Has Launch Issues’ is hardly newsworthy these days, it’s pretty much expected. Out of curiosity, has any high profile online title ever had a smooth and successful launch before? I don’t think I’ve ever heard of one happening before. I know there was some MMO that they were saying had the ‘worlds smoothest launch’ but it still had issues on launch day. (I seem to think it was SWTOR, but I’m pretty sure I’m wrong).
Also, I’m sick of hearing about the ‘always online DRM’ all the time. They took a single player game series and made a multi player focused game out of it. If you don’t like it, don’t buy it. Simple as that. All the previous version of SimCity are still there for you to play.
Of course, whether it works well as a multiplayer game is yet to be seen. I’m a little bit on the fence about it. I’m hoping it does, but it wouldn’t surprise me if it doesn’t. They seem to have taken a big risk with it, I think.
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…it’s pretty much expected.
Yes it is, but doesn’t mean it’s OK. Very, very far from it.I’m not going to be picking it up any time soon. Possibly in the future, after the servers have settled down, but I still have extreme reservations about the server-side operations.
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So? I don’t think whether it’s ‘okay’ or ‘very, very far from okay’ has anything to do with anything. This is just what happens with online games. If you have unreasonable expectations for an online game to work perfectly on launch day when the servers are getting the most load they’re most likely to ever have, that’s your problem. It’s just how things work and we need to adapt to it. Like buying it later when the servers have settled down, like you said.
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I think it has everything to do with everything. And you’re right, this is what happens with online games, but that doesn’t mean that it should be. Expecting the game that you paid for to work as advertised as soon as it is released is perfectly reasonable. We shouldn’t have to adapt to a faulty product.
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Don’t buy ‘faulty products’ (read, all online games) then. If it were something like bugs in a single player game we were talking about, I’d agree with you. However, we’re talking about online games and this something almost the entire genre suffers from due to how they work. Expecting online games to just work at launch is like expecting dubstep to be good as a lullaby 😛 You should know the weaknesses ad strengths of the genre and base your expectations on that.
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Disagree. If I give my money to EA for SimCity, and they require an always online connection, I don’t think it’s unreasonable to expect it to work Day 1 or Day 100. The fact that it happened to Diablo 3 and pretty much every MMO is more baffling to me: If it’s a known issue that on Day 1 that everyone who preordered and then someone will try and connect, why hasn’t it been resolved by now? And if you’re getting preorders you should have an idea of the numbers you’re expecting.
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Business. Not all of the people that buy the game will playing it at the same time for the entire life of the game. The only time this happens is at launch when everyone wants to play the game because it’s new. Yes, there probably is a way to get smooth launches, but it would seem it isn’t worth the cost so it’s first few days/week is smooth sailing, plus all the positive press they’d get from it.
They’re not going to need enough server capacity for all the people who ever buy the game to play all at once. Why would they spend the money on enough servers for that for the first week just to shut them down about a month later? I’m not entirely sure how servers work for online games, but don’t they usually set them up in house (as opposed to renting them out from a server company)? What someone needs to do is set up a business for launch servers. Companies can hire the servers so they can have enough capacity for a smooth launch, but then when they don’t need them anymore they’re not being wasted and can be used for the next big online game launch. -
Oh I’m aware of the reasoning and the costs, but I still don’t think it’s acceptable, hence me not buying it.
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Pretty much my exact mindset. This waiting saved me the trouble of ever dealing with D3 cuz I never bought it in the end, so it’s worth waiting to see how this goes as well.
There were more than 5 articles about Diablo 3’s launch.
Kotaku has calmed down a bit.
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To be fair, that was a much bigger launch of a much bigger game.
I could be misunderstanding you, but it seems like you’re saying we should be accepting this colossal fuck-up of a launch as the standard? That’s a really horrible way to look at it. Shipping a game and dealing with the issues after launch is not even close to acceptable, but it seems to be happening more and more.
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Has it actually been a ‘colossal ****-up’? Has it been noticeably worse than other online game launches? Other than the no pre-loading thing of course.
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The issue here isn’t whether it is or isn’t worse than other online game launches. The issue is that the product isn’t functional. If I sold you a car with faulty brakes, and told you I’d fix them after you tried to drive it, that would be unacceptable, no?
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I see people using car analogies to describe tech stuff all of the time, yet I don’t think they often work.
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Alright, then how about if I sold you a car but denied you the keys? That’s essentially what we’re talking about here. You’re unable to use the product you paid for. It’s completely unacceptable.
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I don’t think it’s like that either. It’s more like if everyone in the world got cars for the first time and everyone went to try them out at the same time because it’s all a new exciting thing and then the roads all got congested. But then after a while car use fits in with the rest of your routine, and not everyone is on the road at the same time anymore. And a lot of people lose interest and stop driving too, only occasionally using their cars every few months.
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Except that by this point, cars have been on the road for quite a few years. Also, roads aren’t their own infrastructure, the failing point here is them, not the local city council.
So they’ve brought out a new car, they’re perfectly able to supply one to every person, and they even knew how many people would want one, but they forgot to make keys for all the cars, so all you can do is go to the dealership, and sit on top of your shiny new car.
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I think it would have been the best thing for them to not call it SimCity.
Call it SimCity: Regions or something like that.
Then it wouldn’t have to live up to people’s expectations because it would be free to be a different game (which is what it is).
It’s like saying “Here’s Battlefield 4, there is only 1 vehicle and the maps are tiny but look at this cool new thing.” There is nothing wrong with that, but it’s not battlefield.
As for launch issues, I agree, it’s been many years, companies should be able to get it right by now.
As for DRM, meh, usually doesn’t bother me as long as it’s not annoying and intrusive (Uplay), and in this case the big deal is turning a singleplayer game into a mulitplayer game, thus requiring always online. Didn’t really bother me with D3 because I loved the multiplayer aspect – in fact the singleplayer got boring quickly.
But I can’t see SimCity being something I want to play with others.
EDIT: A word
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Good point. Giving it a different name probably would’ve been a good idea. SimCity World may have also worked.
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Yeah it’s really all about perception. I think they tried to win over the hardcore Sim fans, and this multiplayer online rubbish wasn’t the way to do it.
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I wanted to add one more thing. It’s $80 in Australia. and $100 for the deluxe edition. SC2 collectors edition with mouse pads, art books, soundtracks etc is only $88.
They are charging $20 for British, German and French themed buildings… That’s the kind of stuff you pay a few dollars for as DLC, not 25% more.
I think that’s a pretty big screw up too.
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Yeah, those prices are a straight rip off. Importing FTW.
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Even ozgameshop is $50-55. That’s expensive as far as ozgameshop goes. Is it cheaper in america?
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Working on my novella at work because I’ve got no real work to do? Priceless.
EDIT: PAGE GET BECAUSE I’M A LEGEND.
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Oh great… this is a sign that SpamTod is going to make a return one day. First it’s page gets, next it’s trying to get the 4000th comment 😛 ahh those were the days
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One day…
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Trying?
Dude cheated. Abuse of power and all that.
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You call it abuse. I call it responsible usage.
Potato, PohtahToe.
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What up, home slices? I had a dream last night that was completely hand drawn, traditionally animated. Was awesome. That’s the only thing that’s new with me, though. 😛
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The ceiling.
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I didn’t know you were a dad! Congrats!
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I genuinely laughed. 😛
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My dream last night was a random encounter on the train where this really spoilt brat of a guy came onto a mostly busy train with seats still available, trying to talk this woman next to me out of her seat cuz he chose that seat… I was getting ready to engage and exterminate the pathetic excuse for a human when my alarm went off… that’s all I remember 😛
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When my son was chatting to me this morning the topic of yesterday’s excursion came up and he proclaimed the best part of yesterday was talking to you. That’s pretty high praise.
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For real? Aw man…
:’)
I was totally freaking out about my lack of kid skills the entire time. XD
Your son is awesome!
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DC. Gets. Kids.
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Maybe they can sense I’m not a real adult. Haha!
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That sounds like an offer…
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There are a number of correct interpretations… 🙂
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Was really excellent meeting you guys yesterday. 🙂
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So my only-just-three-year-old daughter is telling stories now. Some quite sophisticated ones, too.
These three gems are from last night. (And might not be of any interest to anyone.)
Daddy I’m going to tell you a sad story:
Once upon a time, there was a sad man. He went to an appointment to see if they could help him, and they said “NO! We’re too busy.” So he went to the doctor and said “Can you help me?” and they said “No.” So he went to the bank to see if they could help him and they said “No.” So he went home and cried. The end.
Daddy, I’m going to tell you a happy/sad story:
Once upon a time, there was a happy/sad man. He went to the doctor, and the doctor said “Why are you happy/sad?” and he said “I don’t know. But I’m crying and happy.” And the doctor said “Would you like to try some yucky medicine?” and the man said “No. Medicine is just for sick people.” And the doctor said “Oh well. You’ll feel better soon.” The end.
Once upon a time, there was a cloud. It was big like this [stretches arms out] and it went up into the blue. And a girl came and stood like this [stands on bed and arches back until looking up at ceiling] with her throat going up. And the cloud turned into a monster. And it said “Run away or I’m going to eat you.” And it came closer [comes closer]… and closer [comes closer] … and closer [comes closer] … and closer [comes closer] … and closer [comes closer] … and closer [comes closer] … and closer [comes closer] … and closer [comes closer] … and closer [comes closer] … and closer [comes closer] … and closer [comes closer] and then it BITE HER. And then she got on a dragon and fly all the way home. The end.
And this one this morning:
Mummy, I want an ice-cream.
It’s a bit early in the morning for ice-cream, sweetie. It’ll give you a stomach-ache.
But I’m hungry. The babies in my tummy ate all my food, and now I’m hungry.
Oh dear. Naughty babies.
No, they’re not naughty. They’re a bit cheeky and silly, but they’re not naughty.
Edit:
And this one the day before yesterday:
Daddy, I’m going to tell you a happy/sad story.
Once upon a time, in a land far, far away, there was a zoo. And some elephants were trying to get in. And the zoo-er said “No. You can’t come in. We’re CLOSED!” And the elephants went home and cried. The end.
Me: What’s the happy bit?”
Hmm… happily ever after!
Edit #2 from last December (just so they’re all in one place for now):
Once upon a time, land far far away, there were babies called Mr. Jesus and Liam [her baby brother], and they had a tea party.
Katie: Did they have cake?
No. Tea.
Katie: Then what happened?
The End.
We assume that a tea party between Liam and Mr Jesus triggers the apocalypse.
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If you started her a blog, I’d read it.
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It’s honestly not the worst idea. I feel bad about all the stuff that will inevitably be forgotten. There’s something like this every single day.
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Don’t do it! It’ll win the Internet, and I’m not ready for that to happen yet!
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Every single day?
Sold.
Where do I sign up?
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I’m discussing it with the wife. It’s an idea that really appeals to me, though.
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This could be my new favourite thing.
Mrs. Shane better not crush my dreams!
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First two stories totally harshed my mellow. Second two left me feeling disturbed.
Whatever you do… don’t steal your kids stories and turn them into an anthology of some sort. 😛
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Do exactly this.
Is she talking about you? Have you been sad/happy and/or riding dragons recently?
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I think she might have picked up on the mood swings of my wife’s PND (or maybe my own particular manifestation of it). If so, pretty insightful. If not, pretty damn amazing.
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I choose to believe the cloud story is a comment on her experiences and feelings about the time you shaved your head.
(The cloud represents your hair)
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(The monster is @dc)
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Re: Edit #2.
You know what would keep them all in one place? A blog.
OH! Or, a webcomic, like Axe Cop!
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Yep, we’ve got a couple more transcripts floating around at home, including a pearl about a monkey who looked everywhere for his banana, because he’d forgotten that he’d already eaten it.
I’m sold on the blog idea – or at least something like that, especially if it’s something I can update from work! – just a matter of running it past the wife, first.
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Monkeys are always crowd pleasing. If you make it a Colobus then might be story of the year!
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Holy Zombie Eisenhower Christ, If she makes stories half as amusing as Axe Cop..
Started playing a whole bunch of New Vegas again recently, but this time I grabbed a few mods. So far the greatest one has to be Project Nevada. Changes a tonne of stuff, adds some cool options (like expending action points for a massive [short] sprint, bullet time, a few others), balances out skills, perks etc. and it’s all completely customisable from the in-game menu.
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I’m stuck in the DLC in the Casino with Dog/God.
Every so often I go back & die…
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I don’t actually have any of the DLC. I have the Fallout 3 stuff and didn’t enjoy most of it, and the weapons were so overpowered and I hate DLC that does that.
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New Vegas DLC is head and shoulders above Fallout 3. Lonesome Road and Old World Blues are seriously some of the best DLC in their generation.
Also, the modding scene for New Vegas is pretty ridiculous. I remember racking up more 50+ mods, easy.
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Yeah, DLC for new Veegass is head & shoulders above F3. I have both the GotY editions. Vegas are actually interesting new stories & characters (I aint played all of them but I ‘eard good things).
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Moooorning!
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Mooooo.
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Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah
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Hi all,
I’m still alive. Just.
Life has been super busy last few months, what with the wedding coming up next week and being away for a month after that. It’s been hectic.
Any spare time at work usually disappears into that horrible maw that is reddit. I’m not sure how I feel about that lol.
Anyway I’m still kicking. Soundwave was awesome (old news, I know).
Cyas on the flip side!
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…the hell is this?
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Wedding! All the best. Yours, I presume? 🙂
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Yes mine. Or hers… It’s an expensive formality imo =)
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That’s the spirit. Enjoy it anyway! 🙂
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You sound busy but there’s an impromptu Melbourne meat on Sat for Japanese food. Ask @scree
Come to think of it, you (scree) should’ve probably tagged others 😛 @budgieishere seems to love Japanese food!
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Oh, I do! I may be around – if it’s lunch I can do that, dinner probably not as I need to do homework :[
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I’m sorry, it’s too hot to be productive
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There’s a teacher here who keeps speaking in third person when she’s talking to students.
The whole self reference thing is starting to come across as some sort of modern caveman speech.
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Wait, what? How old are these students? Because I’m pretty sure third-person speaking is crazy to, well, all ages.
Now, if she was dramatically narrating her life…
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Ugh. Mrs Ecclestone want homework done. Mrs Ecclestone want fire too.
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If you’re a parent, you get used to referring to yourself as mummy or daddy. It’s an established way to imprint a name on someone’s mind. Maybe this teacher also does that for Term 1 each year, so the kids learn her name.
Not saying it’s not weird, but it might not just be weird 🙂
Can the rabid Dark Soul Hollow Folken keep an eye out for it on Steam to be on Sale for good ol Spaghett??
Much appreciated
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Got a PS3? You can have my copy.
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No PS3 here man
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Got a 360? You can have my copy.
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I have a 360, I want it on PC, I traded my 360 copy in
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Fair enough. It *is* better on PC, especially once you get it running at the proper res.
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I’ll be playing with a controller on the PC 🙂
I just want to give it another try, try to get past where I rage quit/traded in last time
My pateince is low, but I still want to try
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Oh, I’m using a controller too. The KBM controls are exceptionally poor. You need to use unofficial patches and remap most of the keys to have it half decent, due to the porty nature of it. Controller mitigates all of this issue.
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I’ll keep a look out, then.
Also, obligatory DARK SOULS \o/
*refresh*
It frequently goes on sale on PC, especially at Amazon. GMG and Steam itself have sales too but they haven’t been as good.
Got it a few weeks ago for just under $12 at Amazon :), but I’ll try to keep an eye out for ya!
And if you add it to your Steam wishlist, they’ll send you an email when it’s on sale on Steam itself.
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Oh cool, didn’t know that last bit
Page 13 is overrated. Page 12 is where the party’s at! 😛
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There is an unusual amount of conversation still happening on page 12. Why’d you have to make it the last post on the page?
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Oh, and I’m not ignoring your replies, I just don’t have a response that isn’t making the same point I’ve already made so I’m choosing not to reply.
51 weeks as a 29 year old down, 1 to go.
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30 is pretty awesome, I’m doing it right now and….*snoooore*
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363.5 days of being 21 down, 1.5 to go.
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My brain has been so ingrained with countdown clocks that I keep looking back at this comment, expecting the numbers to have changed.
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Edited for you.
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Dude your birthday soon?
Awesome
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So youngius
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Still Oldius for me!
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Babbius
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Oldius!
Good Morning everyone! I’m sleep deprived! 3.5 hours ain’t enough! Luckily it will soon be nap time at work,
Also, all predictions of today being a sore, sore day for me were dead accurate.
If any taybies haven’t seen the new fox sports Australia logo, don’t look for it.
It’ll burn your eyeballs.
It’s the same as the US one.: (
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Yeah! /savingcosts -.-‘
Feist is amazing.
Re-listening to the entirety of ‘Metals’ in order (as opposed to the usual ‘shuffled’ songs). It’s brilliant.
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Ooooohhh, they’re about equal for me.
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Rocketman be stealing my jerb and writing ALL the articles this week.
Cakesmith bought me some crayons last night and told me I had to use them when I’m writing so I’ve been sitting at my desk writing with crayons all morning. I pick a different coloured crayon for every page. It’s fun. Also stupid, but mostly fun.
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These are 1:00 in the morning articles that i write to calm myself. I haven’t been sleeping lately and i think if i can at least write something maybe i can sleep. Worked so far.
I have a few more ideas that i will write if I cant sleep but honestly these articles are more like anecdotes. I feel bad because i cant write in a subjective way it is all to do with my experiences, i can’t write a article on why X has deep gameplay it has to be why X’s deep gameplay affected me.
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Anecdotes are fine. I’ve always been more interested in the personal side of gaming, which is why a lot of Potaku tends to lean that way these days.
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Don’t know if it matters, but these are always my favourite articles \o/
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We should buy you some textas for next week.
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The ones that smell like fruit and such.
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THEY HAVE TEXTAS THAT SMELL LIKE FRUIT
wow i would of eaten so many of them.
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Maybe you did and that’s why you don’t remember that they exist.
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Whatever motivates me to write. I’ll take it.
Also, whoo free stationery! \o/
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Had a breakfast meeting that started at 7am.
I’m usually not even out of bed by then.
Feeling it now.
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7am meeting?! Ouch, hopefully you were able to dial in to the meeting yeah?
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Unfortunately I was the one organising the thing.
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Free breakfast get? o/
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it was a good breakfast
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My stomach is growling
My brain is like “Yo, Stomach, shut the fuck up bro!!”
Stomach is just like “Feed me you idiot, I NEED FOOD”
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Why can’t they just get along! :'(
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I don’t know man
They get along so well
But at the beginning, middle and end of the day they fight each other
Braind tries to explain that there isn’t food in the vicinity and that Stomach can’t have any
Stomach just repeats himself
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El Cargo- Amon Tobin
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Grumble 2 – Electric Boogaloo by Spaghett’s Stomach
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So a courier is currently transporting all my books, prints, business cards and postcards to Adelaide for next weekend (OZ COMIC-CON), and I’m making a checklist of all the stuff I need to remember to take with me.
It’s only a week away – I feel so unready and nervous as hell :\
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Good Luck 😉
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MELT FACES.
Remember my tip about the mirror? Yes. Do it.
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You’ll be great, I’m certain of it!
Have fun man! 😀
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It’s going to be awesome, man. Adventure!
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Hope all the SATAYbies come by and support you!
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Hope not. I’m allergic to peanuts 😛
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Honey chicken instead then?
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Chicken ‘n’ muthfuckin gravy
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Work is killing me today. So tired. Except for that cheesecake break it’s been horribibble
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Cheesecake…? What…?
And free breakfast for redartifice…?Man, I work in the worst place 🙁
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That’s what you get for working in government.
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I work in Government, yesterday was my boss’ birthday & today he fed me cheesecake ( @shane )
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4 Days to Bowie’s New Album.
Time to board the Hype Train!
The hype train leaves from Potzdamer Platz. You never knew that.
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We’ll ride it from Station to Station.
Kether to Malkuth
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You know you can listen to it right now, right?
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I’m waiting on the physical CD. I don’t muck about with digital downloads! 😛
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Not even free streaming through iTunes?
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It’s more exciting this way. The anticipation is worth it!
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You know it’s now scheduled for release here tomorrow, right?
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Really? I’ve seen 15th
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It was the 15th until sometime last week. JB will be selling it tomorrow I know that, wikipedia now also says it is out on the 8th.
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Wiki still says 15th in Aus
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The albums wikipedia does, David Bowie’s wikipedia page says different under the part about his new album.
On 8 January 2013 (his 66th birthday), his website announced a new album, to be titled The Next Day and scheduled for release 8 March for Australia, 12 March for the United States and 11 March for the rest of the world.
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Oh actually?! Or are you just fake-hyping me up? 😛
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Unless JB Hi-Fi are, then yes it is out tomorrow.
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Oh, I meant to mention that too actually. It’s out tomorrow.
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So this looks awesome http://store.steampowered.com/video/224600/2028428/
Thoughts?
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That looks rad as hell. And I did enjoy Rift. And it’s on PS3. Sold.
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PC brother!
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Looks like the same concept as Planetside, but more MMO than FPS.
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Which I think I will enjoy
Maybe
Don’t know
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Interesting. Haven’t heard anything about this and it’s not far from release… Not sure if that’s a good thing or not.
Could be worth a look but it’s not cheap and looks like it will have ongoing monthly fees.
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My thoughts exactly
After my brain went “Awesome!”
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For those who missed the late night ramblings of the ghost of pages past, I’m heading to Canberra next weekend to see Danny Bhoy on saturday night (16th). Its also @rize ‘s birthday on the sunday. I believe this calls for an impromptu Canberra meat. Who’s with me?
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FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
I’m in Adelaide.
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Aw man, now you won’t be able to show up, stay for 15 minutes, then leave!
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Phew, dodged a bullet there 😛
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There’s plenty of comedians in Adelaide at the moment though.
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I’m up for it!
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Oh, yeah, I didn’t really give an answer. Yeah, I’d be keen.
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That could work.
Hey @shane, where are you staying in Adelaide? We could do an Adelaide meet on the Friday
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Hotel Metropolitan in Grote St. I’ll be getting in early afternoon on the Friday, but will probably be setting up my stall all afternoon. I’d definitely be up for a dinnertime/evening meet though!
PS: Expect me to be nervous and jittery though. Fair warning. Last chance to back out, etc 😛
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cc @ash @jacksonwryan @lucifer9783 (if you’re around) @ Any other SATAY peeps.
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@jocon !
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Invite @neinhandle on Twitter!
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Cool, let me know time and place.
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Two issues
1) It’s already Friday
2) I don’t live in Adelaide (sadfaces)-
It’s next Friday, thought I’d put you in on the offchance you were in town
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Have you guys all met before?
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Red came to say hello at the last Oz Comic-Con, but alas there were about 10,000 people around, so we didn’t get much further than hi.
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Tell him to finish his arcology story! >:|
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How about this.
When I meat you IRL, you can tell me.
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*shakes fist*
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Starting to wonder if the SimCity servers actually exist or it’s just an elaborate practical joke.
I am trying to set up a TAY region but every time I actually get to log in it says the servers are down…again
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I’m assuming there’s no Australian servers (haven’t bothered checking), but it appears much of the issue lies on US servers. Could try Europe as a temporary solution?
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There is 1 Oveanic server.
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Apparently there’s an Oceanic server that’s already been patched. There was an article about it this morning.
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F4ction also tried to set up a TAY region. He got the region going, but when he tried to choose a place, it failed horribly.
Ahh, wonderful times.
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Yeah. I got to a point where I had the region created, but when I tried to select an area to build my city it just kept erroring before saying “SimCity servers are down. Attempting to reconnct”
Now every time I start the game I get an “Unable to connect to the SimCity servers. Please try again” message. This is AFTER I’ve gone through the launcher saying the servers are available.
Oh, and as far as I can tell, the only way to “try again” is to quit the game completely. Hence Lambos comment.
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I managed to get into the tutorial!
Then halfway through loading the game, I lost connection to the server.
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Stomach has been fed
The beast sleeps
Brain can rest easy
And call his health care provider to add someone extra on
The…
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…@spaghett! \o/
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Damn it!! 🙂
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@dc
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EDIT: Too slow
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@virus__ @tadmod
Found it! Yay 8th!
http://www.davidbowie.com/news/next-day-revised-release-dates-50466
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17 songs? That scares me. It feels like too many. I hope this isn’t Bowie’s last-ever album! 🙁
EDIT: Also, OMG, YES! Tomorrow is going to be awesome! 😀
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There’s talk there’s a whole other album’s worth of material that may see a release from the sessions for this one.
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So long as Bowie keeps releasing, I’ll keep listening.
He’s one of those timeless artists. Up there with the Queen’s and the Sinatra’s.
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Put it this way, he’s been around as an artist for almost 50 years, now. He’s bound to have dozens of unreleased songs sitting in his vault. That’s what Van Halen did for their last album, and to be fair it worked quite well for them I think.
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He’s got at least the unreleased followup material from Outside, the long-unreleased Toy material, and the new stuff.
That’s just off the top of my head
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Nice edit btw 😛
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I had your username wrong
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I know haha 😛
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@bdkiaf, the blog idea is a hit with my wife. It’s gonna happen. I’ll set it up tonight if I remember.
Sorry @rize, looks like my kid is about to win the internet.
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BEST DAY EVER!
Have any TAYbies seen Eden of the East?
I feel like I’m the only one…
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I’ve watched the series and the first movie. I don’t usually watch Anime (I assumed that all anime is about fighting stupid things and almost dieing every episode but somehow magically get better) but a friend gave it to me and said watch it so I did and it was pretty good. It’s still Anime and still not my thing, but I liked it, as confusing as it was to understand at times.
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If that’s what your opinion of Anime is, then I feel both sorry for you, and glad for you, as you have so much to learn.
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Oh all the ones everyone I know talks about, they’re all fighting stupid things :l What are some good ones that aren’t about fighting?
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These have some fighting, but both Cowboy Bebop and Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex are great series.
By some fighting, I mean there’s combat, but it’s not muscly dudes beating on each other for 20 min, it’s like an action scene in any other show
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Hmm, there’s a wide variety of stuff.
Death Note is fantastically animated, and is great if you want to watch two people be really really smart at one another. It has violence in a coupla scenes, but it’s mostly a lot of monologuing, and writing things in a book really dramatically, and stuff, but you can comfortably stop watching it after the 2/3rds mark, because it gets a bit silly.
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya is kind of hard to explain, but I enjoyed it a lot, it’s about school kids, and a whole bunch of weird supernatural stuff, and it’s all very confusing.
I watched Angel Beats recently, and I really enjoyed it. It’s about some people in an afterlife thing(it does have some violence, but none of the really over the top dudes punching other dudes things, and it does have “fighting god” as a major point, but they don’t exactly go and fight god), and the ending made me cry, because I’m a super manly dude of manliness.
Also, while they’re movies, almost anything by Studio Ghibli is worth it, and they range from “slice of life” style pieces, to action oriented movies with explosions and stuff.
There’s a whole lot more stuff, but I can’t think of it off the top of my head(I’m just looking through what I’ve watched that I stole off a friend).
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None of that sounds the slightest bit interesting to me, except maybe the Ghibli films.
As I said Anime’s just not my thing.
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I’ve only ever seen Trigun, which was all right. Kind of funny, and some really powerful stuff in eps 24, 25. And Ghost in the Shell movies, which were skull-fuckingly philosophical. I also saw a Ghibli film once called My Neighbour Totoro or something like that, but I thought it was kind of meh.
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I’ve seen My Neighbour Totoro in the one year of Japanese I did in high school. Thought it was pretty boring.
I think it’s pretty old, and I don’t know what the stories are like these days but judging by Ni No Kuni the animation has become fairly amazing.
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Seen some of it but it never really clicked for me so all I remember is the badass Oasis opening tune and Johnnies.
Freeze wishes you all a hearty hello from twitterland!
So I decided last night to finally give this another go. First time I tried to read it, I found it painful, much like I found TommyLand by Tommy Lee with Anthony Bozza.
Both books really skip around in places, Slash’s mostly within a year or two of when events occurred, when re-telling the story, but it’s fucking annoying. One moment i’m getting into it and picturing events then all of a sudden it changes to a year or two ahead for a page then goes back to the previous year.
I wonder if it would’ve been the same if Slash went with someone of the likes of Neil Strauss who co-wrote Motley Crue’s The Dirt, which is a fantastic book and is a pleasure to read.
But saying that, it’s amazing how Slash isn’t dead considering what he supposedly got upto in his teens.
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I quite enjoyed Slash’s book. Not as much as Keith Richards’ or Anthony Kiedis’, but still quite good.
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It’s certainly interesting, even when he was a rowdy little kid, he still seemed humble..
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Seems to be shipping issue here in Vic, Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 Plus still hasnt shown up in stores, how are we suppose to celebrate R18+!
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Dance like nobody is watching! 😀
Hmm
Seems to add Sam to my health care she shall need no identification documents
And my local nib centre will be able to help us set it up
I want your opinions
Think this is a logical step in the relationship or moving fast?
I don’t think we are moving too fast, and will do it regardless of what gets said in response to this
I am just curious
Sam has no health care
I do, and currently pay like 28 bucks a fortnight as a single person.
Well, I am not single any more, and she would be pitching in for the healthcare, seeing as it is both of ours
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Just check as it may run afoul of centrelink etc as you’ll then be considered “de facto”
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Well both of us are unemployed and neither getting any benefit from Centrelink 🙂
But I hadn’t considered that thanks 🙂
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Unemployed?
Also are you living together? check they can do it for people at two addresses.
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Sorry, I meant both of us are EMployed
We both work
Not living together
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Did she say it’s too soon? No?
Do you think it’s too soon? No?
Do you love her? Yes?
Then it’s not too soon. You’re doing fine, son.
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Thanks 🙂
Fuck yes I love her
And we both do not think it is too soon
And it is someting that will never get used
Hell I have used it once in 2 years, to buy my glasses
And still went the cheap path
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I’m not really sure why you’re asking for opinions if you’re going to do it anyway.
That said though, I’ve been with my gf for a year, and lived with her for the vast majority of that, so I guess no, not too fast.
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I just wanted to read what people thought
I am not often a man who can be swayed
But TAY is like my family 🙂
BDKIAF is my sexy cousin
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Les Cousins Dangereux.
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Honestly I found no benefit in couple plans for health insurance.
Edit: line feed became post. Thanks mobile.
Additional – I asked my insurer and they agreed and advised us to get two single plans. I’ll combine them at the point I lose some rebate individually but still get it with our combined incomes.
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Thanks Beav
Helpful input
Sam currently doesn’t have any, so this is a way for her to be covered if it suceeds at nothing else
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Sorry for the short post, I had more info but the mobile is being a little difficult today.
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No apologies brother
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Weigh pros and cons:
* Can you be covered if you’re living at different addresses?
* Is it cheaper to get couple’s cover if you combine forces? Are there other benefits to shared cover?
* Are there any drawbacks to her just getting her own cover?
* Does she have to outlast waiting periods as well, or can she just take advantage of the waiting you’ve already done?
(Sub question: if the worst happens and you split, can you/she take accrued waiting periods with you or are they lost?)-
Sounds good man
I hope she can dodge waiting periods
I have waited a lot
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Honestly, the only reason I posted so much is because a health care fund being easy and agreeable about something struck me as a big red flag 😛
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I appreciate that you posted as much as you did buddy
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I don’t have health insurance. What’s with all the waiting?
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They want to make sure that you don’t have a chronic condition that you can exploit the instant you get approved for insurance, so for most stuff, you can only claim after you’ve been paying premiums for 12 months, sometimes longer.
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Oh! That makes sense, I suppose.
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Or they’re pricks who like to fleece people of money. A simple health check would be a much better way to avoid the above circumstance.
Makes more sense for them this way, because they get free money.
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Or that. I don’t know. I vaguely remember Paul Harragon telling me that NIB have no waiting periods. Though I really don’t know.
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I just got health insurance and, as my partner had coverage previously, her waiting times were waived. Because I didn’t have any I still have the waiting period, so you’d most likely be treated the same as I was.
Don’t know about NIB but with Medibank, the price for couples and singles is the same. So it makes no difference to have 2 single covers as opposed to a couples cover.
On a side note – 28 bucks a fortnight is very very cheap. I would be reading the fine print if I was you.
Cheap health cover is fine to not pay the medicare rebate but it wont cover you for bugger all.
We found that out the hard way when my partner needed surgery and we discovered that our cheap “young adult” cover only covered 4 most common injuries and NOTHING else.
Health cover can be expensive but I guarantee that a $5k hospital bill is worse.
also make sure you have full no-limits ambulance cover. Sometimes that’s an extra they don’t bother telling you about.
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Thanks for your input 🙂 much appreciated
Pet hate / mild annoyance #66355528
Find a job online that you’re qualified for, pays well & is local.
…and then finding out applications closed yesterday.
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I applied for a job like that, got hired anyway. They liked me that much that they created a job for me. I say go for it, not a thing to lose by applying anyway.
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yeah, I’ll still send in an application.
but I dont like the chances of getting it.
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I while back I asked for memories of the console wars (Nintendo Vs Sega) and THIS is what it was for.
http://potaku.com/2013/03/07/console-war-journal-nintendo-vs-sega/
Thanks to @freezespreston, @shane, @35, @zetrox2k and @sughly for their contributions.
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I totally dont even remember saying that.
but I’m happy to help regardless.
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It was a while ago. I wanted to add a whole big bit about the games magazines of the era, but never did so I thought I might as well post it as is.
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Too soon, dood. :p
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i forgot to mention that the particular piece of equipment we used to smash that window was a macintosh 10e! 🙂 glad to help bud, i would have offered something more constructive if i knew this was going to end up in an article!
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haha, no worries. I just wanted small bite-size quotes 🙂
Although if you ever want to write something about it yourself, you know where to send it 😀
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Death Update!
I feel like I’m dying. My brain hurts, a lot, and I am oh so very tired. I’ve been chugging water and painkillers like nobodies business, but to no avail.
whingewhingewhinge
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Your problem isn’t that you’re dying; it’s that you’re dying too slowly.
#oldJoke
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So I should be chugging knives?
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Chug mescaline
Make death interesting 😀
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If you give it, I will chug.
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How you doin? 😉
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Oh you know, just bein’ all irresponsible like. Feel at risk and am free of all inhibitions.
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Hot.
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I think we have just written a screenplay.
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@shane read the last line of the first paragraph, you’re famous!
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2013/03/this-suitcase-can-stop-a-car/
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Aw man, people cashing on on Nighthawk’s good name. *shakes fist*
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I bet I don’t see any damn money from this. Wish I had one of those suitcases, I’d show them a thing or two… *mutters*
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Only intended to play an hour or so of Tomb Raider and half the day has passed. D:
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Meanwhile, on TAY, folks are living the dream \o/
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Get to take time off work for Adelaide trip or is it all over the weekend?
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Friday and Monday off work. Next week is a three-day week with Canberra Day!
Edit: But really it means that I don’t get a ‘proper’ weekend for some time! Commence EXHAUSTION
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DREAMWORLD NOVEMBER! Needs to happen! I’ll even possibly meet you! 😛
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Really want it to happen, dude. Might need a crowdfunding campaign if the whole family is determined to come though 😛
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Where are you up to?
I’m currently just going for 100% completion, at 97-98% ish right now.
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Been playing for some time, so I wouldn’t read this unless you’ve finished the game:
Just got the medical supplies from the Helicopter and the fire bolts for the bow and arrow dealy. Now venturing into the Well of Tears tomb beneath the church in the shanty town.Really taking my time, though. Backtracking, looking at the pretty locales and taking in all the detail. I expect my playtime will end up doubling yours…
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I’ve now found every collectible, fully upgraded every weapon, and Lara herself, and I am sitting at 98%(14 hours played).
😐
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Remeber when Chocobos said “wark”?
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Pepperidge Farm remembers.
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Don’t get this reference 🙁
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Kweh!
JOB GET
Woot woot woot
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HELLS YEAH! So damn proud. Way to go, man! 😀
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\o/
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Congrats to you good sir! 🙂
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What’s the job?
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\o/
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YEAH CUNT!
kid comes to the desk & asks to borrow a novel they need for class.
the conversation followed:
‘aww… is there, like, a movie? like, i never read a book ever.’
…umm thats not something to be proud of, kid.
‘you got it on cd or some shit? i fuckin hate reading’
*lies* …no. just read the damn book.
‘aww… i’ll google it’
…why dont you just drop out of school now?
seriously, 10% of students here are responsible for 90% of my annoyances.
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Out of curiosity, what was the book?
Edit: -u
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Harry Potter and the case of the stupid assholes.
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Grug at the Beach
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Where’s Wally
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we actually have a copy of Where’s Wally in our collection.
nobody can find it.
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Raw by Scott Monk.
300 pages with large-ish print, about a juvenile offender doing time in rehab / detention. so its not as if its Chaucer or anything.-
That’s STILL in the curriculum?!?
I didn’t have to read it cause I was in advanced English (you can totally tell I’m smrt, right?), but that was used when I was at school.
…I’m getting old.
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it came in a few years after I finished, but my brother had to do it.
its been around a while, but they switch up what aspects of it they study every few years. You know, like Inner Journeys, or Individuals vs The Institution etc. -
Mine was the first year to do several variants of “change”. It was so impossibly identical to the past few years of “journey” variants that my teacher literally broke down and cried when she got it wrong for the 20th time.
Such an awkward situation when your teacher is bawling in the middle of class… -
just out of curiosity, but when did you graduate? coz I did change in ’02
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Should have specified: first year to do it at my school. Think it was a 2 year thing, so would have started it in 03?
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Oh wow, I remember the other English classes had to read that when I was in school. Those books would be looking pretty damn haggard by now.
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we have 203 copies on the system o_O
most of them are in pretty good nick, partly because when they get borrowed, they never get read. but mostly because we have something like a 9% non-return rate annually, so we need to keep getting new copies to top up.
I had to read that back in err year 12 I think, I quite enjoyed it. I think I still have it somewhere too.
Had to do work all day today. Ick.
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Lame. People with work ethics have no place here.
Some guy is furiously clicking away on his laptop in the library.
Clicky click click
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You decide how to interpret that. EUPHEMISM OR NOT?!
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stroking his trackpad would’ve been a better candidate for the ‘is-it-a-euphamism’ game.
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Click could be fap 😛
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Some Green enthusiast is violently stabbing a laptop user
Stabby stab stab
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with his luncheon truncheon
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Diablo.
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Cogliostro
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Malebolgia
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must be playing mob wars on facebook…..
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Diablo.
EDIT: Never mind. It seems TAY hasn’t been refreshing properly for me today.
Fair warning, for any of you SimCity players.
Anyone who plays with @f4ction , @blaghman , @rocketman and myself, you’re going to have to deal with grand ghetto metropolises and (hopefully) gypsies and/or migrating vagrants.
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Also giant hobo parks.
We will declare them national parks!
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HOBO CONCERTS
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Sounds like paradise
fell asleep whilst reclined on my seat upstairs in front of my laptop…. woke up to my own snoring… yes folks, work is literally this quiet at the moment 🙂
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A job in which you can grab an impromptu nap is the best job ever.
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agreed! i really needed it…. to be honest, i could use another, but alas, im the only one at work at the moment and am scared that if someone comes in, he’ll merrily rob the joint while i snooze away upstairs…
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also, anyone done any shopping around for a sim city deal? which edition to go for?
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The one that actually lets you play the game!
Ha ha ha ha ha.
I bought the cd key off Ozgameshop for the limited edition, was about $50, probably similar on GmG, G2play, or cdkeysdirect(or whatever other dodgy sites you use).
Edit: Alternately, this version looks pretty good.
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Upvoted for the laugh xD
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leave it for a month if you really must have it. cheaper price & servers that work / have room on them
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Yeah, this. I’ve heard it has a couple of bugs too so it might be worth waiting for the first patch anyway.
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the only bonus with the expensive edition is British, German and French themed buildings. That’s it.
On origin it’s $20 more…
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$50 isnt too bad for a new release…
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Except you can’t play the game
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Did anyone watch this? http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2013/03/how-every-guy-will-use-google-glass/ It’s actually not bad. And the 90s Breaking Bad is AWESOME 😀
Woo! New Super Mario Bros U 100% Complete!
Can’t wait until we get a browser-compatible Miiverse so I can post victory/gloating screenshots in TAY 😛
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Pretty awesome Page Get, nice work
Tomb Raider tonight
Can’t wait to kick some ass
Maybe some more Trackmania2 and Red Faction
Been having quite a bit of fun with those
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Civ Fiiiiiiiiive!
Again.
Maybe. The other rulers shit me. It’s like having multiple super clingy girlfriends.
“Let’s go to war with these guys.”
“I want an embassy.”
“Give me some gold.”
Shut the fuck up Genghis and let me build my god damn aqueduct.
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Genghis Conquerer and Clingy Girlfriend 🙂
Man you are loving on Civ 5 pretty hardcore
Can I have some gold to build an embassy and then we can go to war with those guys?
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They really, really are!
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Play with no friends
Make only enemies
Launch nukes everywhere
Advice from the Spaghetts Civ 5 Survival Guide
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And then you’ll be fighting their stupid fucking war and they’ll be all like “Why don’t you love me? We’re finished” and tell all their friends that you’re a horrible person.
Fuck Genghis Khan.
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Genghis is an ass.
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Hey peeps!
For people who may have missed it – I was considering organising a 40k meat at my place in geelong.
It’s super-easy to get to from the CBD and it wouldn’t be a problem to pick anyone up from the train station.
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WOOOOO!
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I’ll take that as a yes. lol
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I’ll be at a train station at 2200 sharp.
See you then!
Going to get some more Dark Souls done tonight:
Gunna kill Havel through a straight-up fight. No trickery, and I think I plan to riposte him because jerk. Then laugh at the Taurus and get myself sorted for jolly cooperation.
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I WANT TO HELP YOU, RIZE! I WILL HELP BY ROLLING INTO BARRELS!
I’m not going to link the video I just watched here because it’s extremely offensive, but I think I found a new show to watch! The Jeselnik Offensive. (Yes, another Comedy Central show)
If the clip I just saw is anything to go by, he pushes the line a lot further than tosh.0 does.
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Saw a preview, looks boring. 🙁
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I watched a bit more and the clip I watched earlier is a little bit misleading. It looks like a couple of good things mixed in with lots of boring stuff. That’s basically how I feel about Key and Peele as well.
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Hey guys, I need opinions on what graphic designy shirt type thing to do first out of these
1.Sad tiny Kratos at a family reunion
2. Baby cthulhu eating earth
3. A sega/startrek design
4. Regular show/batman crossover
5. Joss Whedon’s Deathnote
6. Doctor Who/Fairly odd parents crossover – Fairly Ood Parents
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I don’t understand the attraction to these crossover Ts so I’ll not comment…wait.
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My thinking is, why limit myself to catering to one fandom when I can get multiple in one swoop … I are smrt business type guy.
By commenting about your lack of commenting I think you just destroyed any robots trying to infiltrate society. Jimu, you are the time hero!
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Jimu/Doctor Who/Marty McFly/Blinx Crossover tee.
I would totally buy that.-
Well, if there’s a crossover wit meeee… @tofu
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@blaghman, did you get your simcity key instantly through ozgameshop?
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I preordered it a few weeks back, and it turned up some time earlier this morning. Last time I bought a released game off them I had to wait about an hour for it to turn up.
I don’t know why, but I feel so tired right now… 🙁
For really, really reals?
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I am fur reeeeeel
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Never meant to make your daughter cry.
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Did you apologise a trillion times?
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For real-real, not for play-play.
I’ve had Life on Mars stuck in my head for about five days now. D:
Loook at those cave men go…
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But that film is a saddening bore…
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Because I wrote it ten times or more!
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Fine, I caved. Just started Tomb Raider Underworld.
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I’m almost finished!
Anniversary-
I’m nearly done!
banana
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Just a question, does anyone else write www. in the address bar still?
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When I go to a site for the first time I do, but if it’s in history I just start typing Kotaku or whatever, let it auto complete.
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Unless the website doesn’t work with out it. Nope.
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Sometimes.
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Nah you don’t have to for shanewsmith.com
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I think you mean shanewsmith.com
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OH GOD WHAT HAPPENED /o\
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U DUN GOOFED
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The consequences will never be the same.
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Stop breaking things damn it!
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Oh my god. http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/03/george-lucas-new-art-museum
1.) Awesome idea – the world desperately needs more art galleries.
2.) I nearly died of happiness/jealousy when I saw Lucas’ library.
Death Update!
Now complete with dizzy spells and numbness of the hands and feet! Also gut pain! Good times!
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Caution: May cause dizziness, loss of life, intestinal distress or death.
IS TAY always this slow once Uni starts?
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Kinda.
Except when I was at uni I TAYed even more.
Now I has a job, and I TAY not so much.
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Nothing to do with Uni, more to do with @dc not being a hermit 🙁
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Look who’s talking Greenius. Tigerion specifically told me yesterday that you’re always at the Melbourne meats. ALWAYS. 😛
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NO
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Tigs filled us in on your lack of hermitude don’t you worry 🙂
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Well I figured since I stopped seeing most of my old friends, I might as well see my new ones 🙂
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Oh, meats. Those things I can’t go to 🙁
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Not my fault you and @ontargett never organised one!
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Good news. I lost the weight that I put on last week. Also, tonight is schnitzel night!
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Woo! Nice!
I’ve lost ~1.2kg in the last week or so. \o/-
Unsure if tilde or subtraction.
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It’s a tilde. Stupid font. Lost 1.2kg.
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*ahem*
You’re two days late.Also congrats man!
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Hells yeah, way to go man!
Quick! Someone fill me in on the days events before my phone commits Hari Kari from looking at the sacred Deskutopu Site.
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Shane’s going to Adelaide. Freeze is awesome. OnTargett has lost weight. Loops is having a Warhammer meat in Geelong. BDKIAF’s birthday soon. (22) OnTargett’s too. (30)
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Rockets got a job. Other stuff happened too, but mostly? I played Tomb Raider. 😛
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Now you know, and knowing’s half the battle!
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Wait Rockets got a job? CONGRATS @rocketman \o/
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My phone now makes phone calls!
And that’s pretty much it for me.
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Stuff happened. All you need to know.
One more reason to dislike the Sim City launch. I keep accidentaly clicking on the banner ad when swapping monitors.
Though I did find it amusing earlier today when I was sitting at home knowing I’d played roughly the same amount of it as the people who’d actually paid for it.
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Also the
“Your city
Your Way”Amuses me because I read it as
“Your city
Your Way
BUT ONLY IF WE SAY SO, F#$%ER!”
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Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you the Jamie Hyneman emoticon.
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Happy Hyneman: ‘(:{
Sad Hyneman: ‘(:{
Angry Hyneman: ‘(:{
Surprised Hyneman: ‘(:{
Neutral Hyneman ‘(:{-
Inverted Hyneman: }:),
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Nicki Minaj’s reign continues with a Lipstick & Lipglass in a new lavender shade.
Shop Stop Now
FTFY
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IHNIWTAIPEITM
I Have No Idea What That Acronym Is Please Explain It To Me-
Fixed that for you.
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Danke
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Fixed That For You
or
Fuck that, Fuck YouI’m guessing the first.
Edit: I’m slow
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I think the second one is more applicable in this situation.
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http://www.gonintendo.com/wp-content/uploads/images/2013_3/EOIV.png 😀
I’ve been interested in Etrian Odyssey 4 for quite a while now, so it’s nice to finally have confirmation of it coming here, even if it (most likely) won’t have the bonus stuff that Atlus are including in America.
Edit: A bit of a random thought, I love the design of our classification reports. Whoever designed it did a good job of it.
So Impromptu Canberra Meat next weekend. Will you be there? Everyone else will be there. And by everyone I mean me, @rize, @blaghman and @bdkiaf. I’ll probably get to our great and glorious (/sarcasm) capital around lunchtime Saturday. I leave the rest in your capable hands. Yes Blaghs I know your hands are less capable, so I was more directing that at Rize. Never met BDKIAF, so I have no ideas if he’s capable or not. Hmm, maybe I should have thought this through more….
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Shane probably had a premonition about this meat and planned his convention dealy to avoid it!
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I know, but he did make the effort to have a meat when he was in Sydney, so I’ll let it slide 🙂
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I MISSED THE LIFELINE BOOKFAIR TO AVOID THIS MEAT. THAT’S HOW COMMITTED I AM
🙁
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Atleast you’ll avoid social interaction… except for the thousands of complete strangers at the convention instead. 😛
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Poor planning, gotta say :\
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Having a bad day?
This’ll fix you right up:
Man, I need a coffee… 🙁
Also, I need some help.
I have $20 to burn, and I want to get something off of Steam.
The trouble is, I don’t know what to get.
I am leaning towards NBA 2K13 or MLB 2K11, though.
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Shootmania Storm?
Trials Evo? (That’s $25 though)
SimCity 4?
The War Z? 😛
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Bit Trip Runner 2, if you’re into cool rhythm games.
So, the bizarre adventures of my Tomb Raider which is making me sad(spoiler tagged even though I don’t actually talk about anything from the game):
So I finished the game. I have, in fact, finished every challenge, grabbed every collectible, unlocked every tomb, and every area when I look in the fast travel menu is sitting at 100%. But the game says that I have 98% completion. On top of that, Steam says that I have 25 achievements for it, whereas in game(which simply links to the steam cheev page), it says I have 23. Normally I wouldn’t worry about this too much, since it’s just a stat, but some of the in game art is locked because of it, which makes me sad. Oh, and I also have a spare upgrade point, despite having maxed every ability…
@bdkiaf http://shanewsmith.com/anniestories/ you asked for it.
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Well, this not only won the internet (@rize) but was a page-get to boot. What a day. \o/
Edit: for the sake of the world, this is no longer a page-get. That’s fair.
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The internet has been won?
Time to shut down Potaku then.
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And you think you’re the author in the family. You may as well retire now Shane, there’s no coming back from something like this
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Yeah, it’s true. My legacy will be the example I set for her. She’s gonna set the world on fire 🙂
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That’s awesome!
I tried getting my brother to set up a twitter accound for quotes from my 3yo nephew, but apparently I’m the only one in the family who uses twitter. (This idea was inspired by @strange ‘s twitter quotes from her son which I always enjoy.)
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This is everything I had hoped for.
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That, is awesome!
Must favourite that when I go home
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There’s a subscribe button so you never miss an entry! More going up tonight! 😀
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It is awesome!
Please get your daughter published
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Amazing.
For you lot that like Power Metal, I present Gloryhammer!
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Meh,I saw that already.
(Dammit Virus, I was too tired to post about it last night and now you stole my thunder! :P)I knew it was going to be good but I didn’t expect it to be that good. That singer is awesome. And I need his armour. 😀
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You’re welcome. I’ve been following them since I first saw they formed something like a 8 months or so ago.
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Yup. Me too. Been waiting for forever to finally find out what they sound like, it seems. I’m glad they didn’t disappoint. :S
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Yeah same, I was sceptical at first, but now i’m convinced the rest of the album will be as awesome.
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Repost for everyone in the morning
So Impromptu Canberra Meat next weekend. Will you be there? Everyone else will be there. And by everyone I mean me, @rize, @blaghman and @bdkiaf. I’ll probably get to our great and glorious (/sarcasm) capital around lunchtime Saturday. I leave the rest in your capable hands. Yes Blaghs I know your hands are less capable, so I was more directing that at Rize. Never met BDKIAF, so I have no ideas if he’s capable or not. Hmm, maybe I should have thought this through more….
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I’m offended!
Not really, I’m going to leave it to @rize.
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D:
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Here’s a plan. Meet at EPIC and go to the Lifeline Bookfair. You won’t regret it.
Well, the decision has been made.
Since it was on sale, as well as being my first pick, I’ve bought NBA 2K13.
\o/
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Son, I am disappoint.
I am probably the only person here that cares, but I’m so buying this.
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Interested if not a Playstation game 😛
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There’s a 3DS game as well…
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That article suggested that version wasn’t getting localised though? Unless I read it wrong.
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Yeah it’s not. Looks like they’re not doing the Vita one either, just the PS3 port. I guess it’s a niche game so if only 0.1% of the install base would get it, on PS3 that’s still a good amount.
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Morning TAY 🙂
Last song played game
I’m Charming by The Black Dahlia Murder
That was after two hours of ambient music by Aphex Twin, Tycho and Mark Morgan while on the train
How are we all?
I tweeted about a pretty horrible headache
It’s still here, but only really bad if I put my chin on my chest, which stretches the muscles in my neck and for some reason sends pain back through my head
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Mechanize – Fear Factory
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Love is Lost – David Bowie.
No Civ last night, so I didn’t get to catch up with my dear Genghis. And probably won’t for a while, busy weekend ahead. Got that show at the pool tomorrow, with face painting, balloon animals and a magician. Best birthday party ever.
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Birthday Dethday!
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Reminded me of “Love Lost” by the temper trap; it’s an awesome song.
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Surrender by Billy Talent.
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(You Will) Set The World On Fire- DAVID FUCKING BOWIE YEAH
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Listened to Gloryhammer’s first song “Angus McFife” last night before going to bed.
http://youtu.be/VTW30Q4B3Go“Tales from the Kingdom of Fife” is a concept album and tells the story of an alternate -history medieval Scotland, a realm of dragons, wizards, magic and dark sorcery. It is the legend of the glorious hero Angus McFife, who wages a long war against the evil wizard Zargothrax, in order to free the people of Dundee.
I love it. It’s the new band from Alestorm mastermind Christopher Bowes and it’s all cheese, all the time. Did not expect for the vocalist to be so awesome though…my jaw kind of dropped. Especially when I saw his green armour. 😀 -
Blue Ice – Shout out louds
Off call today, it’s Friday, and long weekend! \o/
Castlevania 3DS today or tomorrow, then Heart of the Swarm next week. \o/
This weekend will consist of yet more unhealthy amounts of Arma 3 and hopefully Castlevania. Also hoping my Book Suppository order arrives today.
World’s Greatest Shave Update
Last night we passed the 1.5k mark! *cheers*
That means that @Shane is now joining us and will hopefully be spamming our donation page like it’s one of his graphicy novels to all and sundry!
It also means we’re less then $500 away from @blaghman joining up! and if that’s not incentive, I don’t know what is!
You can donate here: http://my.leukaemiafoundation.org.au/TeamPage.aspx?TSID=22045
Or just paste the link else where to help us raise funds. This is our last week before we start shavin’!
Thanks for all your support!
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Congrats guys. Fare ye well, hair.
Now I need to find a time and place to get the shave done.
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Wooooow, nice work!
I originally thought Blaghs losing his hair was such an outlandish idea and it would never happen…
I DECLARE TODAY ‘DAVID BOWIE DAY’.
CELEBRATE!
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I love this new album. It’s so good. I particularly enjoyed Valentine’s Day, but the rest is fantastic.
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I’m yet to get it. I have a meeting until 11:30. I’m going to dash out after that and grab a copy!
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I think Heat is my favourite. I also think The Stars (Are Out Tonight) is something special too. Edit: Where Are We Now also. 😛
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I kind of feel like these are spoilers, but having not yet listened to the album, I’m not sure 😛
But honestly, ‘Where Are We Now’ is literally David Bowie’s best song.
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Haha, not really spoilers. It’s like saying Six Feet Under is one of my favourite TV shows. Tells you nothing about it, except that it’s good. XD
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Yeah, but now I feel I know where the peaks and troughs are! 😛
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There’s only one song on the album I’d consider sort of terrible, though. So it’s just different levels of good. 😀
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Out of 17 songs, that’s not a bad batting average! 😛
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I’ve only heard the first 14 from the live stream so far.
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Where Are We Now is out of place compared to the rest of the tracks, which are all a bit more fast-paced.
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The Stars (Are Out Tonight) through to Valentine’s Day I thought flowed together extremely well.
I need Age of Empires II HD on my computer right now!
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Woah… I didn’t actually know it was a real thing until now…
There you go! -
Roggan?
Morning!
My neighbour decided to start trimming the lawn at 8am.
Thanks a lot. Now scree is grumpy.
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If I wasn’t at work before then I might feel sorry for you 😛
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I had a neighbour in Canberra that would take an edge-trimmer to his footpath every Sunday morning at 7am. I never understood why he was grinding away at the concrete. I understood less as to why he was up at 7 on a Sunday.
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8am is a dream sleep-in for me.
So I’m jealous. Hope that helps! \o/
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It’s one of the perks of being a carer and working at home. I don’t have to get up until Mum is up.
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I got to sleep in until 6 this morning \o/
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I’m in the city by 8am 😛
Minimal TAY day
I have to be here until five this afternoon
And, I see it as a perfect oppurtunity to try to recapture my TAY once an hour dealy I tried to do
Love you long time TAY
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Because my page-get was revoked for sheer awesome
http://shanewsmith.com/anniestories/
That is all.
Gamers- the only people who seem to complain about how horrible rough anal rape is and how it should never exist while simultaneously paying a man to roughly force himself upon their anus.
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Huh?
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The whole SimCity thing. Everyone knew it was going to happen. Everyone complained loudly about it. Yet they still threw their money at it and complained loudly the entire way. It’s bizarre how any other industry a non working product means consumers avoid it like the plague and companies fold yet game companies seem to flourish despite it.
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Gotcha. Yep, it’s weird. But I dunno, it’s far from the only industry where people pay to be outraged.
Or do you not remember the Star Wars prequels? Or Indy IV?
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Yes, but in those instances at least you were getting a working movie. Quality is debatable but you can’t argue that you did not get 2 hours of moving pictures which you knew you were getting.
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Fundamentally broken is still a term I would use to describe them. 😛
Regardless, paying in advance for something you know is only going to frustrate you is a common thread between your examples and mine 🙂
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I have no problems with either of those movies. I don’t think they are better or worse than the originals.
Sure Indy was too old and Ani was a little bitch but I still think they both had their good points too.
I really blame nostalgia goggles on this one since I don’t think the original films are as perfect as people would have you believe.
I enjoy them, but they’re flawed.
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I went to a cinema once where the projector carked it 10 minutes in and everbody was told to go home. Pretty funny to look back on, now 😛
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I went to see Howl’s Moving Castle at the cinema, the sound cut out three times. I walked out and demanded a refund. Most of the cinema followed.
You can’t do that with downloadable fuck-ups.
@shane @freezespreston
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Pretty sure you can, actually. Consumer rights still exist for digital commodities 🙂
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@shane Oh good 🙂
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I’m pretty sure if people paid to see The Phantom Menace and the movie didn’t start, then it would have been a lot less successful
True, but a more apt analogy would probably be 3D glasses that give some people headaches and don’t work for some others.
Sim City is still working for some folks – it’s not broken across the board.
The always on DRM stuff killed the game for me even before the server troubles. :'(
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Always being connected to other people is a violation of the Official Hermit Code of Conduct.
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One of the big ones too. Up there with hugging!
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Dc already burnt that book and peed the flames out.
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I’m a progressive hermit… maybe?
I think anal rape might be a metaphor.
I get the feeling the rapist in this instance is EA.
Unless I’m missing a crucial part of the gaming experience. In which case I might take up a new hobby. How much anal penetration does knitting involve?
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A surprising amount. Those sweet old ladies can be brutal.
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Edit* Hell’s Grannies!
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About 4%. 6% if you’re really hardcore.
I’m going to guess that this time, it’s Sim City.
…what?
Best
Forever? Forever-ever?
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Forever-ever?
Any one else play games extremely slowly, taking in the sights and sounds and all that? Blaghman finished his Tomb Raider playthrough in ten hours and I’m seventeen hours in and don’t think I’m even close to the end yet. 😀 I guess it helps that I have the time to play slowly, so I don’t have to rush…
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So close to the end of the Sopranos. If they stick the landing, this is probably going to topple Six Feet Under as what I consider the best show ever made. Yep @dc, take note, even if you never intend to watch it.
Edit: To answer your question, unless the gameplay demands caution (ala Dark Souls), I tend to go fast through games.
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Well, that’s not meant to be a reply! WTH TAYsite? 🙁
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Got yourself a gun!
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I took over 60+ hours to finish Dragon Age!
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Haha! Me too! I also don’t like using fast travel in open world games. Like taking the journey and going exploring on the way. So backtracking for a minor quest can add an hour to a game. XD
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You’re gonna LOVE Dark Souls.
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Depends on the game. Sometimes I start off slow and get ove it and poer through till the end. Other times I power through the whole way and then there’s the times I take my sweet effin time.
Depends how immersed I am I guess.
Sometimes I’m too into the story and can’t slow down cos I need to see what happens NOW!
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What Jimu said. 😀
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That was me taking my time, by my standards. I’d stop and explore the area, I’d sit and appreciate the view. Well, not actually sit, but you know what I mean.
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You beat Dishonored in like 2.4 seconds but I finished it at around 32 hours! :D. Slowest run I’ve seen yet!
My Amazon order had been “Shipping Soon” since Tuesday. I think they fibbed as it is STILL “Shipping Soon”
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“Amazon-soon” is a timestream all of its own.
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I thought Amazon’s “soon” was meant to be three days before you expected it.
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It’s their timestream. They can make it mean whatever they want, whenever they want 🙂
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Whatchoo get? Huh, huh HUH???!!!
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Tomb Rider! Also the last 2 ASM trades.
Oh! And Sony Smash Bros on PS3 because it was cheap and I get the Vita version with it!
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I read that as Ass-Mmmm
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Sometimes I worry about you,Sughly. 😛
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Just a healthy young man ;P
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You see this @shane ?
Maybe not for The Lesser Evil if that’s stuck where it is. Buit another project?
http://www.comicsalliance.com/2013/03/06/comixology-opens-its-submit-function-to-the-public/
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I did indeed, man. If Dark Horse and Image don’t bite on the Flamestar comic, this is where it’s gonna go!
Also, I’m guessing my publisher will be using this Submit tool to make ebooks out of The Lesser Evil anyways! Stay tuned 🙂
@shane, took your points on board about health care
And @beavwa and @inquistorsz as well
Asked them of nib, still happy with the answers
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Good to hear it’s all good for you guys!
Funny health insurance story: I tried to get a comparison done for a few of my options (before picking one) out of curiosity, and I was turned down. Their exact response was “So one of the funds you’re comparing is Teacher’s Mutual Health? Yeah, no point in looking at the others, pick that one.”
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Thanks Rize 🙂
That is a funny story, Teachers Mutual Health aye?
I could teach a history of Shenangians and it’s effect on Heroin?
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Spiritual successor / prequel to the 2nd episode of To The Moon.
http://freebirdgames.com/a_bird_story/
may as well start crying now guys.
I can’t wait until Blaghman shaves his head.
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Did he actually agree to this? haha
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I think we’re going to see a reverse Samson effect; once shaved, he’ll become more powerful than we could possibly imagine.
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The hair… was… the … only thing… holding me… BACK!!!! RRAARAFARRRRRFGFGFGFGFGRRRGGH
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You could not possibly be more wrong.
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So after finally getting to hear what Gloryhammer will sound like, I’m very much looking forward for my pre-order to arrive. I’m also waiting for my Heavatar CD to arrive and I’m crossing my fingers for today. I stopped watching “Replica” on YouTube ages ago so I wouldn’t be sick of it by the time the CD arrived and I can see I’ll have to do the same thing with “Angus McFife”. 😛
But If you’d asked me at the start of the year what my two most anticipated albums were I doubt I would ever have guessed they’d both be side-projects (Heavatar is the side-project of a Van Canto’s Stefan Schmidt). Didn’t even know Heavatar existed back then,and was cautiously optimistic about Gloryhammer but not excited. I’m definitely excited now though.
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The ‘Heroic Fantasy Power Metal’ band GLORYHAMMER is the new project formed by Christopher Bowes, the mastermind behind pirate-metal sensation ALESTORM.
:O
Buying it.
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That sounds amazing.
Gloryhammer for Soundwave 2014 please.
Edit: Track titles are amazing.
The Unicorn Invasion of Dundee
The Epic Rage of Furious Thunder
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Did you see my link to the first song further up the page? So awesome. 😀
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Oh god…
Frickin’ amazing, everything I was expecting!
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This is the best thing I’ve seen all week.
Sorry @shane.
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I know you’re lying, so it’s okay.
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I’ve been running around all morning singing “Angus McFife is his naaaaaaame!”. I don’t think my son is impressed. 😛
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So now I’m just watching random Napalm Records songs on Youtube, and I’m OK with this.
Anyone want a 10% off coupon for the Book Depository? No catch.
I get one for each person I send one to, plus another for each of those people that uses one.
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spawn1_666athotmaildotcom
I’ll take one, thanks 😀
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Don’t forget you only have 1 week to use the coupons (they expire 15th March)… So there’s not much point hoarding them. If you have two email addresses, and send a coupon from one to the other, you get two coupons immediately, and a third one if you make a purchase. This is what I did. That should be enough to see you through for a week. 😛
That said, http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/love/ for those who want 10%.
*EDIT: My fault, sorry.*
It’s finally working.
Playing it with the keyboard sucks, though.
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How is it down the drain? Surely Steam will help you sort it out?
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Nveremind, I got it working.
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Yay! 🙂
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Can’t you contact Steam and get them to fix it? There’s gotta be some recourse there. It’s not lost money, surely?
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Don’t worry, it’s fixed.
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Not to sound like a dick, but rather than complain, have you considered contacting Steam support?
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Don’t worry, you never sound like a dick. 🙂
I’ve fixed it, so it’s okay now. \o/-
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This is good news because NBA 2K13 is great.
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Morning everyone! I didn’t die last night! A bit of food and a whole lot of rest turned out to be a good cure. How is everyone’s Friday shaping up?
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Shaping up?
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…THAT’S WHAT THIS DAY NEEDS!BBQ Shapes.
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You sir, are a genius.
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The good news is that I’m feeling the best I’ve felt all week. The bad news is that now I’m not unwell anymore I have no excuse for neglecting the jobs I’ve been avoiding. 😛
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You need to invent some important yet rewarding tasks that take precedence, such as eating a cake.
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You’re a genius. 😀
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Devil May Cry, Tomb Raider, Sim City, Mortal Kombat, Prince of Persia, Sonic the Hedgehog…
What series will get a reboot with the same name as the original title next? With three in the last month or so, it seems that the rate of this phenomenon is increasing rapidly. Soon the reboots of the reboots will start and will be released mere weeks after the reboot that they’re rebooting!
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I think you mean Devil May Cry Devil May Cry
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I think you mean Delorean Motor Company Devil May Cry.
http://www.babbtechnology.com/thecar/Prod_changes/hood_late.jpg
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Need for Speed Most Wanted. Wait.
Criterion also did that with Hot Pursuit. I wonder what their next game will be? Need For Speed Underground? Where it has no car customization whatsoever and the only thing it has in common with the original is nighttime only racing. Or maybe they’ll just call it Need for Speed.
New Double Fine episooooode, woooo! Bout time.
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Is it double fine or just fine?
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I made the sad mistake of reading the newspaper this morning. Things of note:
– there could be a crazed drug addict with a meth lab living right next to you and you’d never know about it!
– frightening pictures of Tony Abbot
– the media is annoyed that Jeremy Clarkson was annoyed by the media
– Pauline Hanson be cray cray
– Russel Crowe insists he saw a UFO the other day
– someone in the opinion section thinks we need to ‘ban all psychologists’
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The newspaper sounds an awful lot like an episode of Today Tonight.
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Oh yeah, the world’s on the right track all right :\
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You’re reading the Tele arent you?
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How did you know?
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when a newspaper runs alarmist bullshit like meth labs in every neighborhood, then its a news ltd. paper.
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But there are meth labs in every neighbourhood. There just has to be because the world is a scary and evil place. That’s what the news tells me and the news has to tell the truth. Why would they lie? What possible incentive could they have for manipulating people into feeling fearful?
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Dog bites man!
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…and its Gillards fault!
-News Ltd.-
JuLIAR and boat People
– Talk Radio
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Latest polls show that the reports on polls showing people dislike the current government has caused more people to dislike the government because they believe popular opinion is on their side. How will this impact JuLIAR Gillard’s horrible performance in parliament?
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Because of the Carbon TAX ON ALL THINGS
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PYTHON SQUEEZE ON THE ECONOMY!
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If Julia is the answer, how dumb was the question?
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And now I’m thinking of the Man Bites Dog card game.
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Excellent game.
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I have it right next to me, now.
PSYCHIC RUNS OFF WITH DEAD 340 LB. JUDGE
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Ummm, der. Isn’t that what Breaking Bad taught us already?
Stomach is hungry
Brain’s ingenious idea to feed it microwaveable and flavoured rice did nothing to stop Stomach’s grumbling
Brain is also dealing with pain today, so Brain is in a shitty mood
@tadmod
ZOMGGGGG FINALLY!
I was watching that Louis Armstrong video last night but my internet dun goofed and stopped working until now when I finally got the chance to see it all 😀
Woo!
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PAGE GET! – EVERYONE HAS TO WATCH IT NOW!
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Worst Cakesmith I’ve ever known.
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A guy I knew once performed his Louis Armstrong impression…
To Louis Armstrong
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HOW GOOD IS IT?!
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That was awesome. Colour me thoroughly entertained.
Shenanigans !!
It turns out that showing who upvoted you gets a little wonky after about 15 of them. Now I know this.
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I don’t believe you. How could 15 people agree with you on something?!?
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19 people. On a tropes vs Women article.
I feel like I’ve broken part of the universe.
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Yeah, spotted that.
Quite frankly, I’m amazed that so many people (on Kotaku, of all places) upvoted a rational comment about not bothering with stupid comments…especially on that article. Slight boost of faith in humanity!
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The weirdest part is that the majority of the other comments are actually pretty rational and Serrels is blaming me for that.
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I upvoted you just now to see if it gets fixed at 20… haven’t watch the vid yet tho 😛
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It works fine for me(on Chrome), unless by a little wonky you mean that it has a scroll bar, in which case, yeah.
Tomb Raider First Impressions as told by Spaghett (narrated by Stomach)
Wow, just wow
Seriously amazing so far
Just got to the pilot who lived and had lit the blue flare, now escaping the Guardian things
Really enjoying it
I urge anyone who hasn’t already to pick it up soon
They have done a fantastic job
Combat feels fantastic
Seeing an enemy reacting to getting an arrow in the head is fantastic
AI is great
When Lara shot the first dude in the head, and it shows you his head all fucked up and split open, AWESOME!
In case there’s anyone on TAY left who has not been turned off SimCity completely by its laughably bad server issues, or who preordered it and had no choice:
I’ve set up a region called KotakAU, and it’s set to private, and there’s a few of us on it, so add “Blaghs” to Origin, and I’ll send you an invite. Or don’t, I won’t mind. I’ll just cry a little bit.
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There is no way in hell that I am playing that game this month.
Like I said before it was launched, the more I hear about it, the less I want it but there is still one major factor that makes me think I’ll buy it anyway. The factor is that it’s a Sim City game.
If things are better after a few weeks/months, then I might consider picking it up in a sale. Not a definite but there is an itch I need to scratch and that’s the exact purpose this game serves.
Failing that, I could always just grab Sim City 4 and a bunch of mods.
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When it works(which it is mostly(kind of) right now(at least I’m in a server queue, not just a fail screen atm)), it is a lot of fun.
But man. They flubbed this launched. They flubbed it right up. All their comments about “learning from watching the D3 launch” and how it would all be fixed make it extra hilarious right now.
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They did learn from the D3 launch, just not the lesson that they expected to have.
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I guess they learned that people forget quickly…
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Once the server issues and bugs calm down I’ll hopefully join you. Maybe next month. (Also depends whether my computer can run it/how expensive it is :P)
How many cities can be built in the KotakAU region?
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Sixteen, so there’s a lot of spare space.
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If there’s a plot that has a river running through it, dibs. Love me some bridges!
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EDIT: Never mind. Thought it was 9×9…
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I’m really interested in it, but my crumby laptop probably can’t handle it.
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Ill probably join you guys at some point but sure as hell won’t be now. Ill wait until everything is fixed and actually running.
Because SimCity.
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But… but… how can you resist? I know there are server issues (to understate it entirely) but it must be played nonetheless.
Because SimCity.
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Added. Looking forward to joining the region.
For anyone interested (@scree @masha2932):
EBgames have the Wi-Fi Vita for $199 and a pre-owned one for $168, both online and in-store.
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And if anyone want Little Big Planet Vita or a 4GB memory card, I have one of each at competitve prices 🙂
(Desperate attempt)
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$5! 😛
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$6.50!
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WEHAVEFIVEDOLLARWEHAVEFIVEDOLLARS, THATSSIXFIDDY, SIXFIDDYTOTHEMAN WITHTHECOMIC!
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Tempting! I might add it to next weeks shopping list, maybe.
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can’t afford it. =(
our toilet is getting worse and really must be replaced.
I’m trying to map the keyboard bindings on NBA 2K13 to my DualShock 2 via JoytoKey, and it’s so bloody frustrating.
Maybe I should just drop the cash on a 360 controller…
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Drop the cash on one man
They are amazing
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What’s the best price for one?
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Hmmm, 30 to 60 bucks
I use my Arkham City Special Edition Batarang Xbox 360 controller on my PC 🙂
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so i’m at the last boss in reveangance on very hard.. and i’m stuck, but not at the bit you’d think i would be stuck at…
So you know the two mini fights before the actual last boss that you are meant to lose? well did you know you can actually still get game over’s on those boss fights? i beat the first bit, but i’m stuck on the part were you don’t have your sword. what makes the boss so hard is that you do barely any damage to him, and when you parry you still take damage from his attacks… you wont die if you parrry, you’ll just be stuck on 0.1% health until you get hit cleanly. i think i need to get him o below 98% health before it triggers the QTE, which the closest i got was like 98.1% shit’s hard yo.
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I GIVE MY LIIIIIIIFE
NOT FOR HONOUR….. BUT FOR YOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUI know it’s not the same game, but I just heard that song, and felt bad because no one had replied to you yet 😛-
thank you shane, i feel loved now
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Good guy Funeral!
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I now own “The Next Day”
Reviews follow as I listen to it:
Main Album:
Next Day – 3.5/5 (it’s good, but ventures into the uncanny during the later choruses)
Dirty Boys – 4/5
The Stars – 4/5
Love Is Lost – 4.5/5 (oh wow, I really like this one. This seems more like classical Bowie!)
Where Are We Now? – 5/5 (My personal vote for best Bowie song ever)
Valentine’s Day – 4/5
If You Can See Me – 1.5/5 (yeah, this one is really quite bad)
I’d Rather Be High – 4/5
Boss of Me – 3.5/5
Dancing Out In Space – 3/5 (a more classical Bowie sound, but not one I particularly missed)
How Does The Grass Grow? – 4/5
Set The World On Fire – 3.5/5
You Feel So Lonely You Could Die – 4.5/5
Heat – 3/5 (sounds more like beat poetry than a song)
Bonus Tracks:
So She – 4.5/5 (wow, I REALLY like this one. Not sure why it’s a bonus track as opposed to a main one)
Plan – N/A (It’s almost like a concept song. I like it, but it doesn’t really need a score)
I’ll Take You There – 4.5/5 (I really like this one also. It’s almost like Bowie left the best for last)
Overall Scoring: 61/80 = 76.25% Approval Rating on the first listen.
In Summary – This is a bloody incredible album. Buy it.
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Ehhh, I dont reckon you can reaaaally give a proper opinion on first listen to any song, Bowie or not. Just my 2 cents.
edit: for example, this album sounds completely different to me listening to it today than it did the first time I heard it.
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There has only ever been one song which I’ve ever changed my mind over (in terms of whether I liked or not) and that is Anti-Pioneer by Feist.
I’ll be honest and say I don’t even know why I like it now, but when I first heard it, I was adamantly against it. 😛
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Really okay listen to this song
then listen to it in a few hours
Bet you you like it more the second time.
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Don’t try to interrupt my flow, bro! I’m on a Bowie listening streak!
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Bowie is okay, crystal castles is more my thang.
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Downvoted because of “Bowie is okay”
How dare you?!
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Hey man space oddity is my Jam just some of his other stuff im not so fond of.
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Space Oddity is my favourite song of all time. You’re alright, Rockets. You’re alright. 😀
Edit: I think that’s why I like Heat so much. The atmosphere and acoustic guitar.
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Perfect example.
Also, goddamn I love this song. Favourite of 2012.
Agreed. I liked it the first time, but some of the songs take a while to grow on you and all that. I’m usually the kind of guy who needs to listen to any thing more than once in order to like it. Haha!
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This is kind of a first-impression review. Either way, it’s just an opinion!
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Oh yeah, man. Definitely. Just saying when it comes to music for me in particular. 😀 My first listen I was judging it as I went too. XD
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You said you didn’t enjoy it initially. Has that opinion changed at all?
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Kinda. Definitely some tracks growing on me way more than first impressions.
On my second listen for today
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Yeah, I think I found the dud song: “If You Can See Me”.
What was he thinking?
The rest thus far is AWESOME, though! Valentine’s Day and Love Is Lost are welcome surprises! 😀
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“If you can see me” sounds very much like a track from Outside, especially with the voice modifier.
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I listened to the stream about ten times. XD
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I’ve had the album playing since about 8am. Not really sure how many plays that is.
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Also, Where Are We Now? is I think improved when listened to without the video. Wouldn’t call it best bowie song ever though. Heroes or Station to Station or Ashes to Ashes would be my picks.
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I would agree with you, but then we’d both be wrong. (I KID!)
It’s his best song. Trust me. 😛
My adventure for yesterday was to make a city which failed miserably
So today I got GARBAGEOPOLIS working.
Then i got rid of all my police except a lone super hero
I have essentially made new gotham
This game is not forgiven yet but holy hell it is fun when it works.
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I really want to play this. I’m sort of glad the Mac version is coming later though, means the launch issues should be sorted by then.
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I played for a good 3 hours this morning and then Blaghs, bish and i all crashed and cant log back in. They are lucky the actual content is their or i would have probably kicked something yesterday
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I look forward to enjoying it in “Spring 2013.”
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Queen St Mall in Brisbane has been evacuated. There are reports of a gunman in the area.
Anyone working in the CBD should avoid the area (not that they can get in, but still there will be chaos because the most popular part of the CBD is now shut down, forcing everyone else to the surrounding streets).
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Oh wow. :S Hope everyone in the city stays safe and all that. (Also glad we planned the lunch thing for Wednesday now.)
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“I THOUGHT THE TAY LUNCH WAS TODAY RAAAAARGH BLAM BLAM BLAM”
That’s not funny.
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Dammit Shane. Don’t make me laugh at things like this!
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Hey, I was here. Belive me, all the tasteless jokes were made (and it wasn’t even me!)
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It wasn’t me!! I might have been in the city, and I might be crazy/mad, but I’m not THAT crazy!
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Photos of the deserted mall are off putting in a Dawn of the Dead/28 Days Later kind of way. Needs more paper flying in the breeze and tumble weeds though.
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Zombies are such litter-bugs.
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O_o
Jeez…
If I added up all the spam I get from UTAS, and all the spam in my spam folder, UTAS would come out in front :l Why does a Uni see it fit to send out so much crap? New plan: Stop getting the emails forwarded and never actually open my uni email account!
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But if you never open your Uni email account you’ll miss out on personal scholarship and internship applications!
Or at least I did anyway :P… oops
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As long as I don’t apply for any I should be good 😛
Maybe if I reply to one saying “go away!” they’ll go away!
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I didn’t apply to any but these were personal invitations to apply for them 😛
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I think we should have a big Kotaku region in SimCity so we can play with people who aren’t random retards. Thoughts?
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I believe there is one already.
Also, “retards”? Really?
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Ok, bad choice of words, I’ll admit it.
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What if some of us are randomly retarded?
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Nope, he just wants targeted and deliberate retards.
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Don’t we all?
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Check further up this very page for details, man! 🙂
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Thanks mate. Probably should’ve done that to begin with.
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MK Komplete Edition $42 with free shipping at play-asia!
http://www.play-asia.com/Mortal_Kombat_Komplete_Edition_Greatest_Hits/paOS-13-71-bp-49-en-70-5mod.html
MK Komplete Editon $18 with free shipping at Fishpond!
(Just add the .com.au and search for MK Komplete Edition)
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Get it on Vita and I will fight you (in real life for fun [IRL!]>)
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Don’t have one, don’t intend on getting one.
Sorry. 🙁
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Stomach has been fed
Brain has received Codeine infused painkillers
Brain *should, hopefully* feel better soon
How is TAY
Simcity would be fun, if it worked
It may be another thing I leave until issues are sorted
Still loving on Tomb Raider
And was just listening to Compute by Soulwax
Last person I said I love you too was Sam
Last DVD watched was Season 1 of M*A*S*H
Last meal was sweet chilli chicken and mash potato
Last person spoken to was my boss
Last swear word was fuck, when my computer wouldn’t do what it was told
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I bought chewing gum shaped like tennis balls.
The Next Day – David Bowie
Girlfriend
30 Rock
Chicken salad
Salad lady
Fuck-
30 Rock! High fi-
Wait…are you my girlfriend?
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I can be 😉
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on the way back from sydney, the plane had 10 episodes of 30 rock
i watched them all.
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I’ll reconsider Sim City in a month or so and see what happens.
Still waiting on my copy of Tomb Raider
Also:
Hey DJ – Kontrust
Lady that lives in my house
Season 2 of 30 Rock
Fish and chips with cabbage coriander orangey salad thing
Boss about a BBQ/drinks on the weekend
“Faaaaaark” when reading the Brisbane gun story dealy-
The pretend distain you have for your significant other never ceases to make me laugh like a loon.
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Song: In Between Days (Ben Folds cover)
Person said “love you” to: My wife
DVD: Sopranos, Season 6, part II, disc 2
Meal: CAESAR SALAD \o/ (supermarket version /o\)
Conversation: Manager
Swear word: “fucking” because whenever I curse, I somehow feel like I’m being good by leaving the word “hell” off the end 😛
Look I can’t keep hiding this from you guys.
The shame is killing me.
When i was a kid, I didn’t have any gaming machines. I would have to play at friends houses. Because I was so deprived I had a one track mind when at friends houses and was all like ‘come on we gotta game!”
One day in mid primary school a friend said ‘come over I got a new game’. I was exicted. When i got there he showed me his new NES + Legend of Zelda. My reaction was:
This sucks. Lets play 1944 on the C64
🙁
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Get.
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What is the saddest emote you can do? I want to type that.
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I currently own both the 3DS version of OoT and the SNES LttP. I’ve never played more than maybe 10 minutes of a Legend of Zelda game.
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What Shane said -
Meh, they’re not for everyone. 🙂
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SHUN THE OUTSIDER!
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I played my first Zelda game in 2006. Before that I assumed they were terrible 😛
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Legend of Zelda on NES was too hard for me. I would keep plugging away but I didn’t even find the first dungeon.
@masha2932, I watched the end of that “Making Couples Happy :)” series. It was interesting, kind of bummed that I missed the whole thing.
Wife asked me to rate our happiness. I said 11. She said be serious, so I said 98.
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Out of..?
10? Good score.
1000? Not so much.
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I think it was 100, but of course I missed all the metrics for calculating the score 😛
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Ha ha, you charmer you 🙂
You can still catch up on the other few episodes on iview if you’re interested http://www.abc.net.au/iview/#/docs . They expire in 13 days so you have some time.
Even as someone who is not in a relationship at the moment the show had something to teach me. Some parts made me scared though 🙂
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I’m lucky and don’t have a lot of experience with relationships that are veering towards the rocks, but it seems to me that the key is persistence. Never take anything for granted. Communicate constantly, even if it feels like work sometimes.
If you’re doing these things, it kind of stops being scary, because it stops being unpredictable.
That’s what I think anyway.
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So I thought I’d check Launceston’s weather, and I’m coming home to 31 degrees for the next couple of days :S I was talking to my best friend who moved to Melbourne and at least it’s not as bad as his 37 degrees on Wednesday. Have fun Melbourne people!
The weather makes me kinda glad my ATAR was 0.2 lower than what I needed for Monash 😛
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It was 33 yesterday. It was hot.
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Yeah, and Launceston feels so much hotter than Hobart. Launceston must be really dry. 33 there would feel more like high 20’s here.
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What was your ATAR? I’m at Monash, we could’ve been buds :'(. I assume your friend is doing some computer IT thingy at Clayton?
But yeah it’s like 33, 32, 33, 36, 36, 37, 27 lolwut
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Nah my friend is at University of Melbourne. He got like the highest ATAR in the state :S ANU offered him a $10000 scholarship but he turned it down because he didn’t want to live in Canberra 😛 He’s doing environmental sciences I think it was. No joke people told him he shouldn’t be hanging around with me because I wasn’t a good influence or something. Thankfully he told them to piss off.
My ATAR was 84.9, and Business Information Systems needs 85.1 😛 If you’re at the Clayton campus then we could’ve been buds!
Actually I just checked and the clearly in score has been lowered to 84.85. I could’ve gone 😛
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Shit son D:! So did he get like 99.95 or something? 😛
I’m not even at Clayton :D. I go to the Caulfield campus (which is more Business focused while Clayton is Medical/Science stuffs) but take the intercampus bus from Clayton.
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It was like 99.8 something I think. He doesn’t like telling people because he doesn’t like seeming smug or like he’s better than everyone else. He won’t even tell me precisely what it is :S
And somehow he manages that while focusing just as much on piano! He passed his grade 7 piano exam a couple of months ago. I don’t know how he does it while still not letting it a) go to his head and b) rule his life.
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Piano isn’t too hard 😛 and neither is getting a high ATAR score if you put in a lot of work (although getting one that high would still be hard!).
…unless he’s one of those “freaks” who don’t do much but get amazing grades… damn those freaks! >:(
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Haha he worked pretty hard to get it 😛 I hardly worked at all to get mine. It’s not bad I guess, considering for every degree but medicine and law at UTAS you only need 65. If I tried a bit harder I probably could’ve gotten low 90’s. I think I said this once before but years 11 and 12 were the easiest 2 years of schooling in my life 😀
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I WORK IN CLAYTON IT’S FUCKING HOT
Today, it’s … AIR-CONDITIONED.
I have no idea what the weather is like outside. The sun was still on its way up when I got to work. \o/
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Which means it’ll be one of those days where you walk outside and instantly melt 😛
Just rewatched the episode of Parks and Rec where Leslie goes out on a date with Jobe from Arrested development.
” You ever have kids leslie”
“No, why”
“You have a big oven, like if you really wanted to you could start with triplets straight off the bat”
My god i couldn’t breathe
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Gob.
And Will Arnett is a comedic genius. Everything he does is fantastic.
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Everything i have seen him in he is great. He played pretty much the same character from arrested development in that episode but it was still so funny.
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Arnett was married to Poehler, although they’ve since split.
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They obviously split up because their babies would be too funny, creating a comedic singularity that could destroy all life as we know it.
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His character in 30 Rock is great.
Also, this.
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Worth noting that the normal spelling is Job. It’s from the Bible.
EDIT: The only time I’ve seen the Jobe spelling is the football player Jobe Watson. He doesn’t count because he’s the son of a footballer. They were never going to get the spelling right there.
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GOB is an abbreviation of his name, George Oscar Bluth
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George Oscar Bluth, son of George Bluth and nephew of Oscar Bluth. Brother of Michael Bluth and uncle of George Michael Bluth.
Where the hell did Buster’s name come from?
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My guess: they were burned out on the kids they had. Buster is a colloquial term for ‘bloke’ or ‘man’ 😛
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Buster’s real name is Byron.
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That just raises further questions! /Hermes
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For those wondering about the Queen St gunman, here’s the ABC’s report on events.
Worth noting that 15 minutes after shots were fired, we still don’t know what actually happened there. Could have been stun grenades but a witness said that the gunman was bloodied.
Also that he had a mullet.
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I find it fascinating that I didn’t even need to look at news coverage for this. It was all right there in my Twitter feed.
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I was mainly using Twitter too.
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Potaku hit 200 articles today. That was pretty exciting!
On a somewhat related note, it’s been exactly a year since Mass Effect 3 released. Kind of scary to think about how quickly time passes. I remember when everyone was going on about the ending. I don’t want to remember it, but I remember it all the same…
Ahem, moving on. I’m closing in on the end of A Dance with Dragons, about 850 pages in, and so little has happened in the book. But as is the annoying case with these complaints things start picking up right near the end and then you have to wait forever for the next book. D:
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200 articles! Congrats guys! That’s an awesome achievement.
Edit: After Feast of Crows, I thought DoD moved quite quickly in comparison. Man, I would have edited both books down about 90% though 😛
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I hear this a lot but I actually really enjoyed Feast. I felt like it needed that slower pace after everything that happened in Storm. The best part of Dance has been Reek. Otherwise, I feel like nothing has really happened!
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REEK!
I thought Tyrion did a fair bit and Arya too?
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I enjoyed it too, but it was indeed quite a slow book and felt too long, like DoD. I really liked them both.
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I loved all the Dorne stuff in AFFC. I want to see the Martells tear shit up.
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DOOD! That mad gunman was BUFF!!!
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Has someone got a little crush?
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Little?
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@tadmod
“Plan” was the musical intro to the Stars Are Out Tonight video
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Ahhhhh, that might explain it. I still think it’s a bit of a cop-out, like “Prelude” on Muse’s “The 2nd Law” album.
Either way, awesome album. I’ve fallen in love with “Valentine’s Day”.
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But.. It’s a bonus track..
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True… I should stop being so hard on it.
Besides, the other two bonus tracks are genius.
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I don’t mind the odd Bowie instrumental.
Hell, like half of the Berlin trilogy is largely instrumental.
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L4D2
Ok so Steam still says low violence version
I cannot access the workshop content here at work
Does anyone know if we can get full violence version of L4D2 here?
I want it
I don’t want disappearing gore
That is just weak
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I don’t think it’s been reclassified, man. The original version stays until it gets resubmitted and reclassified.
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Damn it
Thanks Shane 🙂
Still, Damn it
@dc *for reasons*
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1. search for Left4uncut
2. ?????
3. Profit-
Works well?
Also, thanks
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theres a thing.
an executable that you can get. I think its called L4D uncut or something to that effect.
download it.
run that in the background, and then launch L4D2 & it uncuts it.
@blaghman: I’m twenty hours into Tomb Raider now. How did you finish it in ten? That’s madness! D:
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@dc, I don’t know how close I am to finishing
I hope I am far away
I want to go back to the first fire
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That’s pyromaniac talk! D:
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Burn baby burn
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I’m a wizard.
FRIDAY FUNNIES
I read something about Type A blood, but it turned out to be a typo.
If you get a bladder infection, urine trouble.
The guy addicted to brake fluid says he can stop anytime.
Broke my pencil. It was pointless.
The clock was still hungry, so it went back four seconds
PMS jokes aren’t funny. Period.
Edit: PAGE GET SO SPOILER TAGS ARE NOW REMOVED. Everyone has to read them now.
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Literally Hitler.
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Literary Hitler ™
(c) @bdkiaf
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these hurt my think box
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At first I thought you were just typing like @spaghett and I didn’t realise they were puns until about half way 😛
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Smartassius 😉 <3
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Oh well
…said the bucket.
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Pointless pencil was best used in Blackadder Season 2.
Hey Taybies, has anyone else heard of Kaki King? She’s an awesome technical guitar player from the states and I just found out she’s doing a show in Melbourne on the 30th of May and it’d be awesome to hang out with some taybies and enjoy some music.
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Yes I have heard of her.
Yes she is pretty damn good.
Yes, I wanna go.…no I am not in melbourne 🙁
/not helping
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well … if 35 can’t make it, the night is ruined *goes and mopes in the corner*
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dont mope. theres more interesting TAYbies than me in Melbourne. Pretty sure someone will be up for it.
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Are the any laws about advertising R18+ content to the general public? I’m thinking about the God of War ads I’m seeing all the time on YouTube right now. I’m just curious because I don’t think I’ve ever seen ads for anything rated higher than MA15+ (or AV15+) on TV before.
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I imagine the content of the ad has to conform to PG ratings depending on rating of associated content, but the actual product being advertised … my guess is little or no control.
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@doc_what would know this, wouldn’t he?
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I don’t know what he knows. Let’s ask TAY.
Does @doc_what know the answer?
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Difficult to say…
I wonder if @doc_what has any idea?
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@doc_what, do you happen to know if you know whether you might know the answer?
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Perhaps if we asked @doc_what…he might know…
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@lambomann007, @shane, @rize, @powalen, @alexpants
I can tell you there hasn’t been any TVCs for GoW yet. None for Ninja Gaiden either. I believe that the content contained within the ad has to conform to pre-watershed regulations, if that’s when it’s aired, regardless of whatever rating the full game carries although I doubt a game like GoW would be advertised before the watershed anyway.
“AV15+ is a television specific variation of the MA15+ rating indicating the program contains “Adult Violence” and programs given this rating cannot be screened before 21:30. As such, most MA15+ programs generally begin after 21:30.”
“With the exception of subscription narrowcast channels, anything rated R18+ must not be shown on Australian television at any time, and must be edited to fit within MA15+ or AV15+ guidelines”
I imagine the same general guidelines apply to advertising.
Although if anyone needs specifics for a game trailer that aired on Aus TV, I can tell you the earliest it ever aired.
Tomb Raider (MA15+) has had commercials shown throughout the whole day.
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They definitely won’t be on FTA TV. Foxtel, maybe at night. The internet’s fair game though.
First world problem: Requesting a new password for an online account and the email doesn’t turn up immediately. It’s mildly annoying.
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Oh man, don’t get me started on that! HOW VERY SLIGHTLY IRKING.
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Haha! Sughly and I bought Dreamworld tickets online and the e-mail didn’t arrive at all. D:
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I was about to point out the irony of this statement until you fixed the link, human 🙂
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I thought you were trying to say the Youtube homepage was the pinnacle of human achievement…
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Oh God :\
OH GOD :\
Time for a mental breakdown now.
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This is possibly the best thing I have ever seen or experienced ever
Oh wait, sorry
It is possibly the worst thing I have ever seen or experienced
Sex – Awesome
That video – I wish I could die -
I like the random black guy saying “root”. More songs should have exactly that.
EDIT: His name is Nigel. I’m sure he needs the work. Dude can’t afford a jumper that fits.
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I love this, so much
edit: haha, found this guide to using the internet on the same channel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zm_SsdSW_xE&list=UUoHhGQZgzMMCBtq7LRhdf8A&index=48
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It may have been the pinnacle if the kids had been taught to eat with their mouth shut instead of chew n’ show. 😛
So everything else about the place I move to tomorrow is a downgrade, but the internet. In a Telstra 100mbit Cable area. \o/ My current ADSL is like… 4 on a good day.
Calling a nursing home – ehh
Calling a nursing home because the deceased had a custom motorised wheelchair and they still have it – not so ehh
Calling the nursing home and telling them that because the wheelchair was purchased in 2001 it wouldnt be of any commercial value and that if they can use if they can have it, and if they can’t use it they can junk it – Priceless
Not super interesting, but things like this make my job less boring
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Was it supercharged?!
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Nope
I now need to write a letter to confirm I told them they could keep or scrap it
Yay
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Lame!
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You know what makes my job less boring?
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Jim Carrey, that guy is a legend!
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I saw a bit of Yes Man last night which formed an opinion to argue otherwise.
To be fair, Eternal Sunshine…
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I personally love Yes Man
AND Eternal Sunshine
Also, I Love You Phillip Morris
And The Number 23
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Eternal Sunshine. Oh yes.
Also, Truman Show.
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Week = made, It’s the small things people do which make the biggest difference.
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A letter, eh! Those things still exist outside of page seven? 😀
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Dear DC
I missed letter writing page seven. I was disappointed.
Regards
Red.
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Dear Red,
It’ll live on in our hearts and maybe even next Tuesday!
Your buddy,
D.C.
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Yeah man.. I frequently write letters to friends who live far away..
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Not just some love.
LOTS OF IT!
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You know it!
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This ^ is why I prefer video game kickstarters
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That’s why I avoid all Kickstarters.
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I’ve only ever backed the Double Fine Adventure Kickstarter but I’ve got more than my $15 worth just from watching the behind the scene videos 😀
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I bet they’re good, huh? :'(
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AMAZING! I was actually watching them as I was reading Trjn’s comment (still watching them now!)
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I don’t care. *wipes away tear*
(Though I do hope I can buy a Collector’s Edition on release and watch the doco after I play!)
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NOPE NEVER! TOO LATE, TOO BAD!
For the $100 tier:
“Special edition box containing both the game disc and a DVD or Blu-Ray of the documentary, Double Fine Adventure Backer T-shirt, original “Double Fine Adventure” poster (suitable for framing), special thanks in the game’s credits, and all previous reward tiers. (These items are exclusive to the campaign and will be shipped for free in the US. Please add an additional $10 to your pledge for international shipping)”
These items are exclusive to the campaign
This bit makes me think that you can’t buy them separately after the initial Kickstarter thing is done since at the moment I’m pretty sure the Slacker Backer is only for the game and access to the doco itself.
Makes me kind of regret not paying more since a special edition boxed version of it with the Blu-Ray would’ve been sweet! Oh well :D. I figured all of the other stuff I’m interested in like a PDF of the art book and sound track could technically be obtained later on through other means… 😛
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Either way, I’m sure the doco people will want to sell their film/s seperately anyway. Also they might release a collector’s version that won’t be the same, so technically the limited edition one would be exclusive to the campaign… but not the only one?
Hopefully. 😀
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Hopefully!
If not there’s other ways to view it online :P, could also borrow a backer’s account to view them : )
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SO good
I’ve backed some really good artists this way looking to get comics and graphic novels printed or reprinted in some cases. Very very much worthwhile. And the games I’ve backed are all looking great. Dont know why people have to always use a very few let downs to poo poo the whole site.
I dunno. I think all Kickstarters are capable of generating unrealistic expectations, especially with prototype technology, hardware and software.
There’s also the issue that has developed rather quickly in crowdfunding that people treat their money like a pre-order rather than a gamble/donation, which is closer to the truth.
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I tend to treat it like the donation it is
But often with all the updates its like “Well, damn it, I want it to be October 2014 already so I can play the hell out of this!”
You have a point, but I just think it easier to deliver on software than the technology or hardware
The game may review bad, but it meets the niche and was backed by the niche market
I can understand that prototype technology and hardware meet a niche too, but it seems like more of a risk or gamble
Happy FriTAY. I’m off now. Kudos winner, I’m sure you probably maybe deserve it. Toodles! \o/
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Bye bye Nightawk
*cough*
I mean….Shane 😉
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Have a good weekend, Shane!
Just heard about this game Outlast.
Survival horror, but the thing is, they’ve got a “postdoctoral fellow at McGill University’s Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery” on staff to use their understanding of the psychology of fear to make it even creepier.
basically, Johnathan Crane is writing videogames now.
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Preorder bonus is several doses of psychotropic fear drugs.
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Oh wow, sounds all kinds of awesome. Reminds me a little of a more actiony, survival horror version of Asylum by Agustin Cordes. (The guy who made Scratches!) Trailer certainly looked pretty damn creepy with the chase scene in particular. 😀
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I FUCKING LOVED SCRATCHES AND TOTALLY FORGOT WHAT IT WAS CALLED
Edit* Apologies for the caps, I completely forgot what this game was called
Often times I would remember my love for it, and fail at finding it!
I love DC
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Scratches! 😛
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T’was an amazing game. Made me shriek like a little schoolgirl and physically throw my hands up from the keyboard numerous times.
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I absolutely adored it
The atmosphere, the story, the music
All of it, made me think of a Stephen King novel
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His new game Asylum is out in October. There’s an interactive demo walkthrough dealy on the Senscape website. Sets the tone nicely!
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Me too, Sughly. Me too. (Actually more recoiling into my seat than girlish shrieking, but same thing really. :P)
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i couldn’t play it. it made me ill. =(
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The 3D stuff? Aw, that’s too bad. :'(
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Troubled young man.
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I suspect foul play.
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Sadly, there was none.
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@shane you can thank me later for all those extra re-directed upvotes 😉
Are you going my way, down the carrot highway ♪
DAMNIT FREEZE S PRESTON! >:(
– Random text message from “that friend”
– Pointless chit chat.
– 3 paragraphs.
Includes:
“Man, things feel like they are changing so fast lately.. the times when we all ran around together carefree were so fun.. Ah, so much more responsibilities now :p”
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The friend who wants to bone you? 😛
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That’s the one.
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He may interpret this as “he’s the one”
Be careful!
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“He’s the one, officer.”
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Those were the gayest of times.
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“Oh, when I was young, and nimble enough to climb the tree outside your bathroom…”
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I TOLD you y someone wants your booty
You know what sucks? I still can’t pre order House of Gold & Bones Part 2 at JB HiFi, but I was able to get a copy of One Day Reminds by Alter Bridge transferred in, so yay!
I also have shapes. Today has been a good day, despite we now need to replace the 2nd battery in the truck. 180 bucks a pop ain’t cool man D=
Urrgh. I have a cold.
It’s stinking hot and I have a cold.
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‘Straya where shit never makes sense!
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Aw man that sucks :(. Hopefully you’ll be better by tomorrow for (insert Japanese name of food you wanted to eat)!
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Thanks greendude 🙂
The way I feel now, I’m not sure I’ll be going, but it’s too early to call.
I’ll decide in the morning. Because Okonomiyaki \o/-
you better come =(
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Colds aren’t always bad!
If I hadn’t had a cold today I would’ve gone to college and ended up close to that gunman incident on the way home.-
glad you are safe, now stay that way.
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What happened?
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-03-08/gunman-in-brisbane27s-queen-street-mall/4560712
There was a crazy man with a gun in Queen St. Mall. They ended up evacuating the place and locking down the CBD. Nobody was injured though thankfully.-
Ah – yes, that’s the sort of excitement you can do without. :/
I’m glad you stayed home mate.
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Hope you feel better, my friend!
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Thanks @dc !
How are you?
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Not too bad, man. Gots me some post meat blues, so same ‘ol, same ‘ol!
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http://www.abc.net.au/technology/articles/2013/02/21/3695094.htm
Fantastic read. Really interesting and I’ve learned things.
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Interesting.
Of particular interest is that while no Cost Benefit Analysis has been performed for Australia, it has for New Zealand. Interestingly, the associated pecuniary benefits of New Zealand’s benefits are so high that they would pay for Australia’s NBN. That’s impressive for a country whose GDP is almost 90 per cent smaller than Australia’s. One wonders, what would the benefits to Australia amount to?
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Man this is a fantastic read, the amount of research that has gone into it is really impressive, I have certainly learnt a fair bit, which I will share down below but in spoiler tags cause it’s gonna be long..
I had no idea that the plan with the NBN was to have 93% of all Australian households connected to fibre optic, that in itself is a huge step forward. I don’t think there is any country that can say that 93% of it’s households are connected to optic fibre broadband.The Coalition’s alternative does away with just about all of this. Those fortunate enough to have the country’s very best copper connections should be able to access some of the above services. However, without everyone having access to such speeds, services are significantly less likely to develop. Ultimately, the Coalition has, thus far, said little about the uses of broadband beyond its ability to download web pages and YouTube-like video quicker.
That to me sounds like “Keep the rich, rich & the poor, poor.”
This is really deep in explaining a lot about, especially how it is funded, which I was not sure on how.
I find it interesting that 10 years ago Telstra themselves said that ADSL was their last form of revenue on the existing and degrading copper network. It’s obvious Telstra do not have the money to invest to replace their network, considering it’s costing more than a billion dollars a year to maintain, which is just unnecessary!
And another excellent point, if the coalition got into gov’t and was to purchase Telstra’s existing copper network how much would it cost? I don’t like the sound of it being around the reality of 22 billion.. Especially for such a degraded and dying network which is being maintained just enough to keep it running to service its customers, and if a brand new copper network was to be installed nationwide 30 odd billion for that, well that’s a fucking joke if I ever saw one. May as well spend the extra and go for fibre.
“There is no evidence whatsoever that the massive increase in speeds delivered by fibre-the-home will deliver any extra value or benefit to Australian households.”
Malcolm Turnbull said that recently right, I don’t agree with him. In this day & age a family of say 4 or 5, 2 parents with 2 or 3 kids, everyone is tech savvy has their own computer, smartphone and say tablet. They all like to browse the internet, view media rich sites, like YouTube, even eBay is a pain in the arse to view on anything less than about 2mbit these days I noticed, say they also buy movies and music from iTunes, or BigPond to watch and one of kids has a Steam account and buys all their games digitally via Steam. The bandwidth that is going to be required is going to need to be consistent and not up & down and shared evenly like it usually is with ADSL. A good ADSL2+ connection might just handle a family like that and by good I mean peaking at close to maximum ADSL2+ speeds of 24mbit or about 3 megabytes a second. A cable internet connection would handle it, but that’s only available in limited areas and whilst the hardware might be there for the area, it might not be available at the exchange thus having to go with ADSL and face the issues of badnwidth issues.
I even experience bandwidth issues i’m sitting pretty on ADSL2+ at a constant speed of 8mbit or about 1 megabyte a second, and i’m roughly 2.7km’s in cable length from my nearest exchange. I’m really the only one who uses the internet in the house, but dad now has an iPad which he uses for Google Maps, research & Skype. Sometimes when he’s on Skype with the uncle even if I browse some websites that aren’t exactly media rich or play an online game (WoW being one) I can lag the conversation out. It’s a total joke.
I know from your own experiences with your ADSL connection that it’s beyond usable at the moment. It’s just another nail in the coffin as to why a copper network is the past and why glass fibre is the future.
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Also, regarding cable, speed is relative to congestion in the area. With fiber, speed is constant.
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Yeah, that’s also another good point. It also suffers the same as ADSL, where it degrades over distance as well apparently, where fibre won’t.
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Finished Tomb Raider. 22 Hours, 90% completion. Really damn good game.
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Now, can you get back to upvoting everything and keeping TAY chatty? 😀
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Alright, no Dark Souls then. 😛
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YOU CAN DO BOTH! >:(
AND MEAT SHANE AT THE SAME TIME!
WHILE WATCHING SURVIVOR!
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Is Survivor even that great or is it just a show you like and want to talk about? You make it sound like Mad Men or Game of Thrones. 😛
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It’s genuinely really interesting. It’s good to see the social interactions and (hidden) plans unfold with all the twists and turns and crazy antics of the cast. Give it a go damnit!
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There’s a reason it’s gone for so many seasons!
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It’s arguably the best reality TV show!
– Kudos Winner Powalen
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Wait… You said you would…!
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Technically he said he might but he doesn’t have a choice unless he wants to lose all his friends and make us ACTUALLY HATE HIM
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I might be baiting you guys! Haha!
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Worth getting? Or should I wait? People say the QTE’s are killers…
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I liked the QTEs for the most part, but then Heavy Rain is one of my favourite games for what it’s worth. 😛 Crystal Dynamic have really set the series apart from Uncharted now. Feels open with a lot more varied gameplay. I think Uncharted’s still better at story telling, but Tomb Raider does lots of other things better. I would definitely recommend it!
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I may just pick up a copy when I get my next paycheck!
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Ok, she raises some really good and valid points, but she looks so bored while doing it… I can’t help but feel I would have liked this more if she had put some charisma into her speech, rather than reading it off an auto-cue…
Still – not quite sure what everyone seems to have an issue with. She doesn’t come across as a feminist extremist and almost every point she raised seems valid to me. Still, I should probably not go there
/canofworms
In before someone calls me sexist for thinking her presentation was dull! 😛
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This guy!
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Who wants to play a late Friday afternoon game called Help Out Hermes?
If yes, proceed:
Can you guys rank these FPS series 1-8 for me?
COD
Battlefield
Halo
Killzone
Doom
Counter Strike
Bioshock
Half-Life
I will use this to seed the FPS division in an upcoming series of articles during March Madness to find the greatest video game (series) of all time. If you guys have any qualms/ideas or want to switch out games in this list for something else, say so!
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Half-Life
Halo
COD
Battlefield
Counter Strike
Bioshock
Doom
KillzoneNever mind the fact the only one of those series I’ve played for more than a total combined time of 30 mins is Halo 😛
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Halo? snooze.. where’s the quake?
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Switch out Quake for Halo and rank, bot! That’s no problems. Also, I didn’t include Quake and putting CS in over it was difficult.
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And TF2.
Everything’s better with TF2 😀-
If we’re including TF2 my list will need restructuring! 😛
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TF2
TF2
TF2
TF2
TF2
TF2
TF2
Ni No KuniAll restructured for you!
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Uhh…
POKEMON
POKEMON
POKEMON
POKEMON
POKEMON
POKEMON
POKEMON
POKEMON
TF2
Ni No Kuni
iSketch
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Hermes, my friend! Hope you’re well! (Can’t rank the series, because I’ve only played BioShock, Doom and Half-Life. :P)
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I’ve not played the last three in my list, so I ranked them in order of most-least interesting.
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This is perfectly acceptable! @dc
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CTRL+C CTRL+V from twitter, because I’m lazy.
1. Despair
2. LD50
3. AWP
4. Saint
5. Bioshock
6. Killzone
7. Battlefield
8. COD
Ran out of alt-names.
I think MoH/CoD are interchangeable.
1. Bioshock
2. Halo
3. COD
4. Half Life
5. Battlefield
6-8. The rest (haven’t played them :P)
I’d like to help out but I’ve barely played Doom, Counter Strike or Battlefield 😛
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Rank the rest!
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NO!
…okay 😛
Halo
COD
Bioshock
Doom
Half-Life
Battlefield
Killzone
Counter Strike-
I dunno, hard to really rank them but here’s some random “I’m bored so I’ll just type more” thoughts on why…
– I’ve played Halo 2, 3, 4, ODST, Reach and it’s great multiplayer and single
– I’ve played CoD 2, MW, WaW, MW2, BO and they’re decent single player and pretty fun online with friends. There’s just not much too them though and the yearly releases are getting zzz but they are enjoyable
– I’ve only played about 5 hours of BioShock (two separate playthroughs) and while it’s fun it feels more like a first person action or adventure game than a “shooter”
– I’ve played a bit of Doom and a decent amount of Doom 3 and I really enjoyed my time with Doom 3
– I’ve played Half-Life 2 and half of Episode 1 and they were okay but not THAT great. I only played them when The Orange Box released so maybe it lost its ‘magic’
– Battlefield I don’t think I’ve played any but I can see that they’re fun, would probably rank it higher
– I’ve only played Killzone 3 but that was just okay. Campaign was okay and multiplayer had potential but not that many of my friends played it
– Played a bit of Counter Strike (Source?) on the computers at school. Fun for some multiplayer but I guess it needs a bit more than that, is there a single player? I dunno 😛
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1-Counter-Strike
2-Half-Life
3-BioShock
4-Battlfield
5-Doom
6-Killzone
7-Call of Duty
8-Halo
Pretty sure i’ve played the original of all those, can’t say I have played the original Call of Duty & Halo, but I have played their follow up titles.
I would like to throw in Quake & TF2 to that though.
Doom
Quake (swapping out Killzone which I have little to no interest)
Half Life
COD
Bioshock
Halo
Counter Strike
Halo Battlefield
Any other list is wrong incidentally 😛
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You swapped out Battlefield so you could rank Halo both 6th AND 8th?
I’m confused as to which one you dislike more.-
Derp. Fixed.
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does bio-shock even really count? was that ever popular multi-player?
if I had to rank, it’d probably go
quake
doom
battlefield
and the rest don’t matter (mostly cos they either suck or i’ve never played them)
I’ve only played Doom and Bioshock, as well as some of Half-life and Halo from that list. Of those I’d rank Bioshock above the others,but mostly because of it not really seeming like a FPS.
For me, the only proper FPS I’ve played and loved is Quake. So swap all of the others out and put Quake in the top four positions. 😛
OK, ok, it’s time for a Blaghs/Molydeux/Kojima crossover.
I’m watching the Sarkeesian video thing, and it made me want to create something.
OK, so, make a game, market it as the adventure of a dude rescuing a girl from a castle, solving puzzles, killing people, all that jazz.
Release the game, and after the end of the first level, bam, guy dies, you play as the girl escaping the castle.
I feel like Metal Gear Solid 2’s marketing has done bad things to me.
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Make it is cool and funny as the Peach sections in Paper Mario Thousand Year Door and I will play this game.
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It will have to go on the list.
Looking at what I have, the earliest I can slot it in is sixth, I hope you’re ready to wait an infinite amount of time, Pow.
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and EVERYONE loved not playing as snake in metal gear solid 2, it was a blast listening to raiden talk to rose for most of the game!
(but hey raiden is super cool cyborg ninja now so that doesn’t matter any more right?
Urk! Everyone keeps telling me “Don’t read the comments” but it never sinks in. Made the mistake of reading the comments on that NBN article I linked up there. I thought Kotaku and Gizmodo commenters were bad. Even YouTube is looking good now.
Also, what the hell is an “astroturfer” and why does it mean a Liberal?
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All liberal’s play hockey?
#nothelping
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No, no, only Joe does that.
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baddum tish
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Just remember these people have the right to vote..
Things to do while pooping #352
https://twitter.com/JoelGreenius/status/309230598587826177/photo/1
inb4Sandy
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Were the creamy cardboard centres of the rolls just sitting around? Because you might want to invest in a bin.
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Well I have a toilet roll holder thingy where I can put 3 spare rolls but when the one I was using ran out I just put those CCCs on the floor until I decided to do something “artistic”
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It really did ruin any opportunity for a good poop joke, didn’t it.
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inb4Sandy because you are Sandy!
Incidentally, I didn’t see Sandy in the few glimpses I got today. A ban finally dropped? A win for the people?
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There was an apology post by them pages back, perhaps it was heartfelt? *shrugs*
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Oh you said you weren’t on TAY yesterday since Mobile TAY is borked but did you see their whole stupid post? @dc can link it 😛
The one where they proclaimed to be doing an ‘experiment’ and we won’t be seeing Sandy again.
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wait wat
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Fine… looks like I’ll search for it myself 😛
EDIT: looks like it was all removed. They basically were saying blah blah I’m studying this _____ and I thought it’ll be interesting to see what it would be like if a hostile thingy was introduced to a kind thingy and this was a good place to do it thingy. My name is James and you won’t see Sandy again blah blah…
A whole load of shit if you ask me (pun intended)
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Bahahaha! Serious? S/He is an academic?
We’re doomed if that’s what the future generation offers.
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Well they claimed to be but thankfully all of our personal information and usernames would not be shared! 😛
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Well that’s a load off my mind.
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“My name is James and you won’t see Sandy again blah blah…”
Oh… oh god. I knew I had cluster B tendencies, but full-blown psychotic episodes /o\
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Holy shit! If you take away the M T H and Ps and add in some S N D C R V and Xs and rearrange it all “Mythamphetamine” becomes “Sandy Cervix”
Mind = Blown.
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I believe it was James :).
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I thought it was John.
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J something I think :P. I was skimming through so not 100% sure. Anyone else care to input?
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Also what the hell man! I mean sure, sit there and relax, take your time. But enough time to make toilet-paper/roll origami!
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It was over a few Ds (days/dumps)
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You’ve mastered the art of toilet-origami.
Next step is to perfect the craft of bonsai.
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@powalen
I spy with my little eye a name change! (Oprah voice)
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BEEEEEEEEEEEEES \o/
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Wow I was way too slow there…
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Did you know Oprah claimed those cars weren’t gifts but rather prizes so that she could claim the money back on tax? Not that he paid for them as Voltswagon donated them. Also, if people couldn’t afford to pay the tax on them, they didn’t get a car.
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Technically, if the people couldn’t afford the car, they still had it, they just couldn’t own it, so they could sell it, which would still net them a profit in the tens of thousands of US dollars.
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Thy technically refused the prize or something.
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I’d hardly call giving a bunch of free cars away a dick move… 😛
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They weren’t free though.
And she got all the money back, even though she didn’t pay for them in the first place
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Finally watched The Amazing Race ep 3 @greenius!
There were dogs. Always crowd pleasing! New Zealand is pretty! No favourite teams yet!
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Least favourites?
YouTubers? :). Please tone it down dude!Also:
PLEASE WATCH SURVIVOR! C’mon man!-
I think the team I’m starting to consider favourites are the Asian girls and weirdly enough the Rednecks. Haha! Definitely dislike Team YouTube. Girl needs to tone it down too. 😛
In all honesty, Survivor doesn’t seem like my thing man!-
But you haven’t watched it! You like other reality TV shows and Survivor is considered one of the best! Won’t even try it out for a friend? :'(
Asian girls were annoying but I don’t mind them as much now. Red necks are awesome! So innocently ignorant! 😀-
Haha! Even The Amazing Race is borderline these days, though. That’s the only other reality show I watch. 😛
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Yeah, but Big Brother was pretty bad! The censor guy was pretty terrible! 😉
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I think the main thing I like about Survivor is that it’s centered on people and their relationships instead of wacky game-show stuff. The challenges and stuff is fun too but most of the game is about manipulation and strategy. It makes it interesting because every season can be wildly different depending on the contestants even though the formula stays pretty much the same.
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This is why you get kudos!
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@dc oh oh! I forgot to mention that one of my favourite contestants (who has actually returned this season!) is this geeky Harvard Law Student but he wrote some study/essay on Survivor and got awards and stuff for it 🙂
Good ol Cochran!
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The Americans! KGB Agents! Cold War! Drama! Should watch!
(I’ll stop making this post every week now. Really damn good show, though!)
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DC the communist? I knew it!
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Niet!
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nyet?
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*shrugs* Guess that proves it then… not a Ruskie… 😛
Though now I’m beginning to think Greenius might be…
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Dark Souls! Action ADVENTURE RPG! Medieval Fantasy Setting! Should Play!
(I’ll stop making this post every week if you play it. Really damn good game, though!)
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Aw man, if any one decides to watch it we’ll have to talk! Latest episode so damn good!
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Sure, if you watch Survivor 😛
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No, you should watch The Americans because you want to! Only a monster would insist on someone else watching something, refusing to take no for an answer.
😀
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It’s well established that I’m a monster.
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Also one of the characters called another a doofus on the latest episode and I thought of you, @strange. 😀
Home! Seeing the dogs was funny. At first they didn’t really realise then they went nuts! Justin won’t leave me alone 😛
Also, it’s good to have something to watch on tv! FTA sucks 😛
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Haha! Aw, man. That’s awesome!
Decided to hit up this Simcity thing. Thus far, unable to get on Oceanic server. Guess I’ll just keep playing Arma3.
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Pretty disappointing that an alpha is more reliable than a retail release.
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Hadn’t thought of it that way.
Games these days.
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Well, just because it’s more reliable, doesn’t mean it’s perfect.
(Yes I just wanted to link this)
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I still find it hard to believe that the Nvidia Titan managed to score almost twice as much as the GTX680 in benchmarking.. I mean what, how, jesus!
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It’s using a somewhat different architecture to the 6 series. Odds on it’s going to be a one off, doubt the impending 7 series will be built the same. Crazy expensive though.
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There’s no way they put it to market as something designed for gaming(It is of course, based on the cards they used in that supercomputer thingy, so no suprises there). It costs more than a 690, and when you’re running one of each, it performs noticeably worse. It outperforms the 690 in tri-SLI arrangements(which isn’t really surprising, three cards compared to essentially 6), and does scale up much better from there, but if you’re dropping $3000+ on just the graphics cards for your gaming rig, then, well, I actually have nothing to add.
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I finally got my Dual Shock 2 working with NBA2K13 thanks to x360ce!
This means I don’t have to drop $58 on a XBOX 360 controller! \o/
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Assuming NBA2K13 is on PC, you could always use the DS3 with MotionJoy for it 🙂
F@#k this heat and f@#k this cold!
It’s too hot to sleep comfortably and I keep waking up with coughing fits because I have a cold.
I’m sorry @scree and @greenius but I’m not coming to the meat today. /o\
I hope Greenius tries some okonomiyaki or takoyaki for me. Best junk food in Osaka!
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mmm making me hungry!! I’ve met a really lovely Japanese girl online recently, and apparently she can cook Okonomiyaki really well. If only I could afford to date atm.. *shakes fist at clouds*
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=( But you said!
It’s alright that you don’t come, you’re sick.
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Aww man :(. Get well soon and we’ll have another one (depending of the okonomiyaki is any good or not :P).
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Don’t even question it. Okonomiyaki is amazing. Wish I was there 🙁
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Chiken Katsu-Donburi ftw, but Okonomiyaki is a close second!
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Okonomiyaki and Takoyaki was consumed by me on behalf of you!
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Thanks Greendude! Hope you liked it!
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@dc
Started Dark Souls yet? You finished Tomb Raider! NO EXCUSES!
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Haha! Don’t like to start a new game straight away after I finish another one, but its time will come. Before BioShock hopefully. 😛
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BioShock is out in 17 days though…
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That’s enough time to finish Dark Souls, right? RIGHT? 😛
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Finish Dark Souls, you’re such a comedian!
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Aw man, that’s kind of why I’m putting off starting. D:
Either way, won’t be this weekend. My sister is Tomb Raiding it up on the gaming PC and my laptop would probably explode if it attempted to play new games. 😛
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You can finish it in about 40 hours.
Whether its finished with you is another matter entirely.
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i played the tutorial!
then reveangence came out and i haven’t played any other game since…
I’M SO SORRY
Yesterday I didn’t even bother to play SimCity.
Today, it still won’t actually load the region.
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Best simulator game ever!
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Wait, does it say “select server” greyed out and your updater just sits at 100%?
Because that’s a thing independent of servers.
That’s the updater being a jerk.-
No, every time I go to load the region it just says “Unable to load the city at this time. Please try again later”
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Oh.
Yep!
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All I wanted to was send all my garbage to your city Bish and now it won’t let me!
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That’s okay, all that industrial pollution and nuclear radiation that’ll float by sometime soon?
That’s my gift to you all.
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@scree so where/when are we all meating today for lunch?
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Oh god >_>
I was hoping you didn’t post here! I tweeted you and stuff but you didn’t reply :/
I blame @dc for not telling me you posted in TAY :(. We WERE at Optic at Fed Square until about 12 when we moved to Yoyogis but yeah… that all ended 2 hours ago <_<. Sorry man!
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… I didn’t get any notifications from twitter. blargh. Well, did you all have fun?
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Yeah but we wondered what happened to you 🙁
Screaming_Tofu? I tweeted you man! Scree had your number in her old phone but she got a new one so none of us had it :(. Want to DM or email me it? Sorry about that man :(, but @scree has most of our numbers now and she’s thinking of having meats more regularly, so there’s definitely next time! 😀
There was only 4 of us today so a tiny gathering.
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Yarp, that is definitely me … but yeah, no notifications. Bah, anyhoo I’ll send you an email with my number.
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I’ve texted with my number and I’ll forward it along to @scree as well since she’s the main organiser. Hopefully you weren’t aimlessly wandering around the city D: ! I blame everyone but myself 😛
Twitter is sort of the TAY outside of TAY and we use it a lot for organising stuff when we’re out and don’t have numbers. I would’ve checked TAY but mobile TAY has been borked for a while so it crashes on my phone :(, sorry again, man!
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Well … I was for about an hour. Then I ended up going to Minotaur and jb hifi in bourke street. Bought me the raider of tombs
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Aw man 🙁
Where were you at? Scree’s original TAY post said Optic at 11 and we were there for about an hour.
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@greenius
Well, I didn’t get to fed square till about 12:30 and then was kind of just hanging around ACMI for half an hour
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@tofu
damn dude, sorry again :(. I think you were down as a maybe so we weren’t 100% sure if you were coming or not.
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Whoooooo Pow won Kudos! My not-so-evil plan worked!
Rank 1-8?
FF
Chrono’s
“Souls”
Pokemon
Diablo
Fallout
Elder Scrolls
Mass Effect
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FF
Fallout
Chrono
Pokemon
Diablo
Souls
Elder Scrolls
Mass EffectDone.
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All number 1. Except Pokemon and Diablo. 😛
Diablo is number two and Pokemon is number 3.-
POKEMON IS 1 >:(
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Mass Effect
Fallout
The Rest😀
Also, my RPG list might just be a whole lot of BioWare and Obsidian RPGs, Ni No Kuni and Deus Ex: Human Revolution. Lots of western stuff.
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Deus Ex is unlucky to not be on here, Ni No Kuni isn’t a series (i am trying to stick to series) and yes, I only wanted to have one Bioware RPG and I think Mass Effect is the definitive one, even though my personal favourite is KOTOR. There will be a wildcard 16 where random games outside of genre will go (like journey? I mean wtf genre!) (at least that’s my aim)
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Makes sense! You’re the scientist! 😀
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Souls
Souls
Souls
Souls
Souls
Souls
Souls
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Fallout
DiabloThe rest.
Edit: to clarify, I haven’t actually played any of the others for an extended period of time like I have with Fallout & Diablo.
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More usefully
Souls
FF
Diablo
Chrono
Fallout
Mass Effect
Pokemon
Elder Scrolls-
I preferred answer 1!
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Answer one is the correct answer. Answer 2 is just conforming to your fascist rules 😛
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Hahaha!
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FF
Fallout
Elder Scrolls
Mass effect
Pokemon
Diablo
Souls (i’ve played the tutorial and that’s it)
Chrono’s (never played)-
It’s great (and a little surprising) that FF still ranks so highly after all the negativity surrounding the last few. I am glad people still put it up there with the best RPG’s of all time.
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Somewhere Baldur’s Gate is crying itself to sleep…
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Haha, also tough to leave out man!
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Well, i’m one of the people who didn’t mind FFXIII, i mean, i thought the side character’s were pretty bland (i really liked lightning though), but it’s combat system was great IMO.
however, most of my love comes from Final Fantasy IV, VI and X, those 3 games have given me some of the best experiences a game can offer.
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Where’s Ni no Kuni?
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Oh another one!?
1. Pokemon (by far :P)
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FF
Pokemon
“Souls”
Chrono’s
Elder Scrolls
Mass Effect
Fallout
Diablo
Question for people who have finished Ni No Kuni and know about the DS version. Ending spoilers!
I thought the game was structured pretty weirdly after the fight with Shadar. Almost like it was an expansion of the main campaign. Oliver’s arc was basically over and it just kept on going. I had fun, but still felt a little like an addition to the campaign. I read on wikipedia that the DS and PS3 games are considerably different and that the DS game is subtitled The Jet-Black Mage. Was the White Witch stuff even in that game at all?
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I think I’m RIGHT at the end now. The thing at the top telling where to go next is saying ‘Prepare for the final battle!’
edit: But I dont want it to be over :'(
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There’s plenty of post campaign stuff too, if that helps. We’ll talk after you’re done, though! 😀
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Rank 1-8
Legend of Zelda
Mario
Donkey Kong
Metroid
Sonic
Mega Man
Metal Gear Solid
Crash Bandicoot
This is sort of a Heroes division. 4 Nintendo/4 Other – these franchises are all in the top 50 of all time for sales of units so I guess they are the most well known heroes you can find.
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Donkey Kong
Mario
The Legend of Zelda
Metal Gear Solid
Metroid
Sonic
Crash Bandicoot
Mega Man(Though in all honesty, I’m really only a huge fan of the first two on the list!)
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Sonic
Crash
Mega Man
Metal gear solid (NOT RISING, THAT WOULD BE THE MEGA TOP)
Mario
LoZ
Donkey Kong
Metroid (never really played them)-
Youre meant to list them best to worst, not worst to best
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I think we have to fight now or something
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Crash Bandicoot
Metal Gear SolidThe rest.
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I was never fond of Crash Bandicoot. It’s amazing to think Uncharted eventuated from those early games!
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Says you’re not a fan, up votes me anyway. I don’t understand 😛
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Haha! I don’t take your taste in games personally! You haven’t wronged me. This time! >:|
Upvoted your list cause it’s cool seeing peoples different choices. 😀
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Way to make this the most difficult list ever 😛
0. Pikachu
1. Zelda
2. Crash Bandicoot
3. Metroid
4. Mario
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Legend of Zelda
Metroid
Mario
Metal Gear Solid
Donkey Kong
Crash Bandicoot
Mega Man
Sonic(Barely played Sonic and Mega Man)
Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons looks pretty excellent, though the way Josef Fares speaks makes me think he’s trying to swindle me or something. XD
@jacksonwryan: There going to be an obscure adventure game one? 😛
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Adventure game one FO SHO. Point and clicks you mean?
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I’d consider games like Dreamfall, Fahrenheit and Heavy Rain too!
(Though if you meant Action/Adventures that’s alright as well. It’d just be the Arkham Games, Uncharted, Tomb Raider a-plenty! :D)
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Genre’s are a really difficult thing, ya know? Those odd games like David Cage’s stuff, and Journey and stuff like Canabalt? What even!
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True, but I’d say Canabalt is a platformer. Just a platformer on steroids
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So ‘Celeste and Jesse Forever’ was a surprisingly excellent film. Just sayin…
http://collider.com/christopher-nolan-interstellar-release-date/
This movie’s going to be all kinds of awesome. I love science fiction AND Christopher Nolan. Can’t wait to see his take on space stuff!
I have so much torrenting to do today…
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A hard life
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IKR? Especially since I only have my netbook so it’s a tiny bit slower than normal. It’s hard to even go on.
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And that’s before the FBI arrest you. 😛
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That would truly make this the worst day ever 😛
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If the FBI can’t hold anything on Kim Dotcom, I think Ben here is safe 😛
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It’s 1:37 and I’m still in bed. I am the new @blaghman. 😛 (except in the hair department)
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Well I’m losing mine, so you’d better start growing it.
Happy birthday, @bdkiaf! (Could potentially be tomorrow, though. Either way! Hope you have a damn good day!)
Did someone say they had bought SimCity from a cd key site? If so, where was it and how much? I seem to recall someone saying they had done this.
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I don’t know about other people, but I bought it from Ozgameshop, and got a code by email. I just had a squiz, and it’s $50 for the regular edition.
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Yeah, I knew you had got yours from there (which is where I’ll take probably end up getting it from too) but I thought I recalled someone getting theirs from a dodgy cd key site for cheap.
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Sadly none of my usual dodgy places (g2play and cdkeysdirect) seem to have it.
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Blaghs I think said this?
Is that true @blaghman?
Edit: Blaghs beat me to it..
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http://www.ozbargain.com.au/search/node/sim+city+sort:created
Try having a look here too. $45ish for a retail one sounds decent enough!
And by the time it arrives they hopefully would’ve sorted out some issues 🙂
@dc I see Kurt Sutter keeps recommending The Americans, maybe it is a decent show after all 😛
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Oh, well if Kurt says it’s good it must be… 😛
In all honesty, it’s up there with Mad Men, Boardwalk Empire and Game of Thrones as the best dramas on TV at the moment. I seriously think Keri Russell in particular deserves an Emmy for her performance too.
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I’ll give it a shot tonight if I don’t wind up watching Zero Dark Thirty or reading more of Slash.
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SoA is on FX too, right? They’ve treated that show really well. Really getting some good dramas on that channel!
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Yeah it is FX. FX & AMC seem to have the best in terms of dramas on US TV, imo.
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Definitely! HBO too. Good time for TV. 😀
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I only watch Boardwalk Empire from HBO, and the only other show I have watched that is a HBO original is Six Feet Under.
Other than that there’s Dexter which is on Showtime, which isn’t bad and Burn Notice on USA Network is also another good Drama/Action show.
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And so things draw to a close. Brisbies you were awesome
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Was really awesome meeting you, man. I hope you have a good trip back and have nice things to say about us all. 😛
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I second DC’s comment!! 🙂 Was a great day!
@shane if you’re interested to hear from Kurt Sutter & about SOA, he does a weekly vlog called WTF Sutter for his YouTube channel regarding Sons of Anarchy, he just started doing this seasons stuff about 6 weeks back. it’s pretty insightful when they’re shooting for the show and when it’s airing, but even now when they’re just getting back into the writing process it’s still pretty interesting.
Picked up Mortal Kombat: Komplete Edition off of eBay, should have it hopefully before Tuesday! \o/
Castlevania 3DS first impressions:
Picked it up this morning, played for almost an hour so far. Actually really enjoying what I’ve played so far. It looks pretty good, plays well and most definitely has the Castlevania ‘feel’. Mostly referring to full moons, bats, the whole Transylvania-type deal.
Plays a little differently to the original Castlevania games, like SotN, Dawn of Sorrow, etc, but it’s not a bad thing at all. It feels more like Castlevania meets Shadow Complex – if that makes any sense. So far only used Simon Belmont, so we have the standard running/jumping/whip/throwing axe gameplay, and it feels natural as ever.
I’ve read there’s around 10 hours of gameplay on offer, and if it’s all like this or better I think I’ll be pretty happy with my purchase.
I find most interesting the negative feedback I’ve read. Most review scores seems to putting it around a 7, but the way users are writing about it, it’s a total abortion. The main critique seems to be something along the lines of ‘it’s not SotN’, basically – just not in so many words. Somehow because it’s a side scroller, Konami is obliged to compete with the classics. Did anyone notice it’s a Lords of Shadow title? Did anyone notice Lords of Shadow wasn’t exactly a traditional Castlevania game either?
It’s a new take on the old formula, and I think it’s done what it set out to do. If you’re a fan of Castlevania, and you’re able to detach yourself from the classics for a moment and appreciate something new, you’ll dig it.
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EDIT: Derp moment – Mercurysteam, not Konami.
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My issue with it is that prior to launch, the previews I read all talked about the backtracking stuff, and the Metroidvania aspect, and talked it up. To find out that that was missing is sad.
Haven’t played the game though, so I can’t actually judge the game part of it.
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I think the sooner people stop using the word ‘Metroidvania’, the better.
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But it’s a useful and accurate representation of a specific type of sidescroller subgenre.
And if I’ve learned anything from the music industry, it’s that the way of the future is to have super granular sub-sub genres, so that everyone can argue about what is better.
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I don’t think it’s useful when used with reference to modern games. The games the term hails from are from another era, and I don’t think can be fairly compared to current titles. They’re legends, and timeless classics, and modern games shouldn’t attempt to emulate them. Rather take cues from them and apply them to a new formula, like Castlevania 3DS has. Castlevania 3DS isn’t ‘Metroidvania’ in the pure sense of the word, nor do I think it was ever going to be, or even trying to be.
I just think ‘Metroidvania’s true meaning is a little hazy and provides people with an unrealistic expectation in some regards. The number one complaint of Castlevania 3DS is that it isn’t ‘Metroidvania’, and I think that complaint is a little absurd.
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I disagree to an extent about the using “Metroidvania” bit. Like Blaghs said, when I see “Metroidvania” I know exactly what type of game it’s going to be and what type of gameplay it has. And while this type of genre is not necessarily exclusive to the Metroid or later Castlevania games, I can’t exactly think of another term to describe the genre so Metroidvania works well.
You know, the type of 2D side scroller big open map where getting items will allow you to access new areas and so on and so forth. And there has been some semi-recent ones but not that much and they’re mainly smaller releases like Shadow Complex, Cave Story, Dust: Elysian something something (I haven’t played it but I hear it has that same gameplay) and I guess even Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia.
Although that was how I interpret “Metroidvania” games and it’s hard to say what others expect when they hear it. I guess I’m like others and I wanted a new Metroidvania game that’s actually a Metroid or Castlevania. The last 2D ones we got were what? Order of Ecclesia and Metroid Fusion? (one of the GBA ones). But I don’t think it’s fair to say “it’s not a Metroidvania” as a negative or complaint. Although I wanted it, it wasn’t really advertised as one and after I played the demo I got a pretty big hunch it wasn’t going to be one. I haven’t played the full game but based on what you said it seems like the full game plays like the demo which is still pretty solid and like you said plays like Lords of Shadow. It really did felt like a 2(.5)D Lords of Shadow and that’s not a bad thing.
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Post-fusion Hypecore DLC is the future, man.
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Screw you, you could not be more wrong. Pre-Industrial always-online-infused Krunk-Core microtransactions are where it’s at.
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Upvoted for ‘Krunk-Core microtransactions’.
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@greenius @scree How was the meat? Who went?
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Good, I was the only one who had okonomiyaki(?) and takoyaki! Other than Scree and I there was @princesspipster and @tech_knight. @tofu was there but none of us had contact with him so we didn’t end up meeting up :(.
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It’s so awesome that you had both okonomiyaki and takoyaki! (I can live vicariously through you.) I hope it was good.
I’m sorry I couldn’t make it. (spent most of the day in bed wishing it was cood enough to snuggle under the doona) I would have loved to meet Princesspipster and Scree and catch up with Techy again. I saw earlier up the page (last page maybe?) how you and @tofu failed to connect. Damn shame 🙁
Did you check out any Moomba stuff?
Don’t make me wait ’till Monday for a write-up!-
I feel bad about it but I blame everyone who isn’t me!
We pretty much just ate and that was it. Small gathering :).
@dc can do a write-up!
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Meat write-up: Tigerion wasn’t there because he’s ours now. That is all.
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I wish I could upvote this more than once!
Pretty sure we get him back today though 😛
Edit: Thanks for the laugh – It’s good to laugh when you’re sick!
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Scree also wore lots of green and I didn’t 😛
Worst Greenius ever!
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Might’ve already used that joke the other day, though. :S
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NEW. MATERIAL.
(nah, this one is still relatively fresh unlike OTHER STUFF)
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Sorry I didn’t make it. Sounds like it was a good meat’n’eat.
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40km hike D:
Feeling better, SmurfyDog?
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Not really 🙁 I spent most of the day in bed wishing it wasn’t so hot, so I could just curl up in my doona and be sick the proper way 😛
How’s you?
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That’s too bad, man. Feel better! (Brisbane’s totally that kind of weather at the moment, weirdly. Has been all week too!)
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Thanks dude! 🙂
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What are you listening to? Weekend edition!
In the Backseat — Arcade Fire and Ni No Kuni OST! 😀
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I was listening to the sound of my computer.
So now I’m listening to a bit of Simon and Garfunkel.
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And now through the magic of following links on youtube, I’m at Wuthering Heights. God I love this song, it’s so fantastically bad(particularly both versions of the film clip).
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Additionally: I like how there’s always at least one song that doesn’t quite fit into the stuff at the side. So right now I’m listening to “On My Own” as sung by Samantha Barks, after going to it from Wuthering Heights, and on the side there’s a whole bunch of Les Mis, and… Panic at the Disco?
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Hey, she was pretty good in that movie. I don’t know why that guy was so into the blonde girl. brunette girl was much better. XD (Only let down by the fact she was so into d-bag guy for no reason.)
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Oh yeah, Samantha Barks looks far less like an Antechinus than Amanda Seyfried. She’s also a stronger singer, though I guess that was appropriate for their roles.
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I had to look up that word, but I’m glad I did. Made me laugh. 😀
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On Bio camp in year 11 we trapped some of them, and you pick them, and they sort of just sit in your hand, with massive bug eyes. So cute. Don’t look up what happens during their mating period.
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:,( I love Kate Bush.
Sure the film clips are pretty bad – did you know she was a choreographer?
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I know she did interpretive dance stuff with Lindsay Kemp, who is most notable for being a teacher of David Bowie.
Reliving high school with Damaged – Token Remedies Research.
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And it just switched over to Psychoactive Summer – Def FX
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I’m listening to this, just because of the name(and the name of the band).
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Transvision Vamp is excellent.
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They are indeed. Even if every other song is just a re-working of Louis Louis 😛
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Currently, Bowie’s new album.. It’s alright, it doesn’t compete with Space Oddity, Heroes or Hunky Dory.
But my mate kept making it out to be shit, I think he’s just sour that the artists that our parents listened to will never make the music of their hey day again, since they don’t have to for a start and their influences change as they get older and more successful. It’s happened with every artist from what I have seen.
He was like this with Alice Cooper, sure he’s never gonna make another amazing record like his first 6 or 8 records up to Lace & Whiskey, but his last 2 have been a pretty solid effort in terms of song writing & music. Sure not a single song has the remembrance of School’s Out, Poison, Elected or Billion Dollar Babies, but they were still good.
Maybe i’m just more lenient and understanding and he’s just an arrogant twat.
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This isn’t music from the 1970s or earlier. Who are you, and what have you done with the SmurfyDog that I know?
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I’m old but I’m not that old dude! I likes me some alt-folk as much as the next smurf 🙂
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Look man, I’m not saying that you’re old(although you totally are), just that you have old taste in music, which matches up with mine. Gotta ‘ppreciate the classics.
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Sound City soundtrack! \o/
26 hours on Arma 3 alpha already.
Dayum.
Stupid game has also fast tracked what was once a vague and easily suppressed desire to purchase a second GTX670. Not so vague anymore.
NEED TO GET PAID SLI HNGH
WHO DOESN’T HAVE MAGICKA AND WANTS A COPY OF MAGICKA?
NO, I PROBABLY WON’T BE PLAYING IT WITH YOU. BUT MAGICKA.
FREE.
MAGICKA.
First in, best dressed.
Birthday suits accepted.
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Just go to the Macgicka Steam page and see who has it on their wishlist from your friends and gift it. That’s how I usually do this kind of thing 😛
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CONGRATULATION, YOU ARE 1,000,000,000RD VISITOR TO THIS SITE.
CLICK HERE TO CLAIM YOUR PRIZE.
Yours if you want it man 😀-
I already have it plus most of the DLC 😛
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@lucifer9783 is the only TAYbie out of my Steam friends that has it on his wishlist 🙂
PROBREM SORVED
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I’ll take it if it’s still available.
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Thanks for Magicka, mate! o/
Shopping for a laptop is really confusing! I was probably going to get a Windows 8 ultrabook but I’m leaning towards a MacBook Pro just because it’s a simple choice 😛
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Didn’t you already get a laptop around your birthday? (Something about Harvey Norman screwin’ you over?)
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Pretty sure the “screwin’ you over” bit implies he was screwed over and didn’t get it in the end 🙂
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Then he said something about going laptop shopping after he got his refund!
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Which is what he’s doing now 😀
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Took him three months, though? :O
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Too much partying!
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I’ll admit a couple hundred has gone towards that…
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What Greenius said 😛 I ended up spending too much money on other things and I needed to save the rest of my money for rent while Centrelink hurried up with payments.
From my experience you can’t fault a MacBook, they’re well built and reliable. Downside, don’t have them break outside warranty they are not cheap to have shit replaced for sadly.
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Another big consideration is that I want something that’s going to last all 3 years of Uni. Macs seem much more capable of this than a Windows PC.
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Unless you’re going for a higher end Windows based laptop, Dell, Alienware, Toshiba or Sony, you’re probably better off with a Mac for the durability thing. My MacBook (2007 white unibody) is still going strong and it’ll be 6 years old this December, only had to replace the battery back in January which was 40 bucks on eBay.
I did have one warranty claim in the first year, the power adapter up & carked it for no known reason. But other than that I have not had a single issue with it. I am thinking of replacing it with a 13″ MacBook Air when I can afford to though.
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My Macbook (non-Pro) lasted my 4 years at Uni pretty well. The battery doesn’t last very long these days but I still use it at home.
Just depends what you want I suppose. I’m sure you could find a good Windows laptop that will last as well.
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Went and saw Oz today with the whole family. Seeing movies with a very young child is challenging because they have a Jekyll/Hyde thing where they’re all excited and full of wonder for the first half of the movie and then they start getting tired so they’re full of mischief for the second half.
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I feel like the simplest solution would be to tranquillise them after the first half. Ketamine’s a hell of a drug.
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Ketamine is going a bit too far. Just put some phenergan in their sherry and that will settle them right down.
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“Don’t worry dear, it’s just a little night-cap.”
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You were hanging on a 4 so I bumped you up : )
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Was the movie decent? 😀
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Yes it was. It was really pretty and a lot of fun.
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When is mobile Kotaku going to work again? :S This site is so resource hungry, my iPod has crashed 3 times trying to write that last post.
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Seems to work fine for me.
*evil laugh here*
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Nexus 4? Still borked for me on iPhone 4S :(. Crashes a bit too so no bus TAY T__T
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Yeah, Nexus 4. Haven’t actually tried typing a comment or anything, but loaded up TAY and it seemed fine.
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Alright, just to check, I’m typing this on my phone. It’s definitely slower than I’d like, but it’s running. Could be an issue related to mobile safari or whatever iOS devices use.
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The problem is all the ads. They take up a lot of resources, especially the background one. Same with the EB website. That crashes on my phone and iPod as well because of the massive backgrounds. Oh and the Nexus 4 has like 2gb of RAM, that helps 😛 Even the newest ipod touch only has 512mb. I think the iPhone 5 has 1gb.
I want adblock for iOS!
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Just read this on twitter coincidently. 😛
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I don’t have a problem with ads. The problem comes when you have so many ads that it causes your site to crash, then all my sympathy is gone and they deserve to get people using ad blockers.
I do think websites need to find another way to make raise revenue though. Filling a page with ads can’t be the best method.
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Haha me too :P!
I remember when some of the new features like upvoting was implemented it didn’t work with AdBlock on so I turned it off. It was a bit annoying but it felt good “supporting” one of my frequent sites.
@benwhite was a champ though and asked me to test out some features with AdBlock on so he and the gang could work on them so that they could work with it running, but if KotakAU ever gets to a point where it needs some extra ad revenue I’m sure a lot of us would happily turn off AdBlock 🙂
Just PLEASE no eye bleeding Dick Smith yellow again 😛
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I definitely agree with you guys, especially the border ads that sometimes are just white. (That you click on just by scrolling.) I’ve never used ad block, though. I can understand why you would!
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Yeah, those tricky blank space ones and the Dick Smith ones were what finally made me get AdBlock.
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Oh by “worked fine” I assumed you meant Mobile Kotaku was back up and running. I use Chrome and while it does load and is usable, it is a bit slow at times and does crash every now and then. Not unusable but not small enough for me to ignore so I just go without it.
Well I can’t load the mobile site in Chrome on my iPhone 4, but the normal site loads fine, better than the mobile site if I dare say.. I honestly couldn’t use Kotaku or any Allure site in Safari, Chrome seems to handle things a lot better give that a go imo.
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I completely forgot I had chrome on my ipod. I’ll use that until the mobile site’s working again.
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Mobile site hasn’t been working for a few days now and will default to the Desktop view. The Desktop one will load fine but it does get a bit slow and crashes compared to the mobile one which pretty much works perfectly (it’s also better to navigate). I haven’t tried them recently on Safari but in the past they were slower than Chrome and I pretty much don’t use Safari anymore 😀
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Safari is horrible with most websites I have found. It’s nice to have an alternative decent browser on iOS, now if only we could get Firefox >_>
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I didn’t use Chrome until a few months ago but Safari was fine for everything else, it just doesn’t have as many good features that Chrome has.
But it’s still a bit annoying when I try to open links in Twitter outside of the app and it only allows for “Open in Safari” :(. Really wish that could be changed to Chrome or another browser!
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And Apple will never let you change that 😛
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Yup. That’s why you jailbreak. 😛
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The way I see it, if you want to Jailbreak an iOS device you may as well have gone for Android 😛
I’m not heavily fussed with Jailbreaking honestly. If I wanted that I woud’ve gotten an Android device. But instead I went for the heavily monitored and closed system that is iOS, which suits me fine honestly.
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I get what you’re saying, but I much prefer iOS to android, and I’m glad that there’s a way I can make it more suited to my needs.
I really like iOS and am more than happy with how it is now, but having used it since the iPhone3G days, I used to have many reasons to jailbreak (and Android was way behind back then).
Most of the reasons to jailbreak have since been addressed, but having used a jailbroken device, I became accustomed to being able to select which apps open as default, and that is one of the few reasons why I continue to jailbreak. When I open a link, it opens in MY preferred browser.
Edit; in case you care, I use Atomic Web as my browser.
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So I just came across this on my Facebook. If there’s any truth to it, then that’s rather sad a business is being that unprofessional in a social media universe.
I’ve passed the place they’re attacking as well. Always thought it was amusing to call an aquarium shop ‘Wet Dream’
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All I can say is fuck humanity.
Seriously, I’m sick of this crap.
So, on the main page there’s that article about the Violinist doing songs from Journey, and simply ignoring the fact that it’s quite excellent(and that the artist has done a lot of other very cool things), the name of her page is “ViolinTay”.
Best name.
Also, she has a version of Sadness and Sorrow from Naruto, which I used to be able to play on Piano, so it’s immediately a great song.
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(I love Zelda music so much. Actually, Nintendo in general are absolutely wonderful in regards to music)
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Ohhhh Sadness and Sorrow.
Sakura you fool, Sasuke’s just gonna knock you out and run away…stop crying and do something…
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Oh man, Sakura at the end of the first season? So hilariously useless.
I love that in the course of the original… series(?) she had one major character moment, which led to nothing, and then at some point during the time skip, she suddenly became amazing. But still whingey and annoying, but simultaneously amazing.
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Her fight with Sasori set some great expectations for future character development. And then HAHAHAHAHA LOL NOPE.
Pre-4th Ninja War spoilers:
Okay I’m gonna kill Sasuke. No, i can’t kill Sasuke! Yes, I can totally kill Sasuke. No, I can’t do it! Oh crap I poisoned Naruto!-
Oh man, so true. Poor Sakura. She almost had a chance to be a decent character. Almost.
Still, when she punched the crap out of the giant centipede(worm? thing) at the start of the attack on Konohagakure, it was great.
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It’s a bit sad that some of the other kids like Shikamaru have had so much more development than her. Although it’s great for Shikamaru!
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Yeah, I think Kishimoto just isn’t sure about how to deal with characters that aren’t straight males. I remember reading something about how Haku was drawn to be really girly because he wanted to have a non straight relationship between him and Zabuza, but wasn’t really sure how to do it.
I think it worked, because I thought that Haku was pretty hot until I realised that he was a guy.
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I used to think it was a translation error. I was like ‘there’s no way that can be a guy’, especially in the bit where he picks flowers with Naruto or whatever they do.
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Man, that bit was super duper manly.
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Additionally, I feel like I should add the disclaimer that despite my love for musicals, I am totally not gay.
(By the way, I’m seeing Jesus Christ Superstar in Sydney on the 8th of June, so we should organise something around then)
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My folks and sister are going to see that. They asked if I wanted to go. I said no. True story. 😛
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@dc
A friend of mine who knows I like musicals asked me if I wanted to go see it, after my family had already organised our trip. The best part is that he was planning to go see it on the same day as me, same session. So I get to have a coincidental real-friend meat.
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Bed time for this little blue dog,
See you on the home slice, side flips!
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Good night, man. Hope you feel better tomorrow!
Dark Souls!
So good!
Beat Painted World of Ariamis earlier today but didn’t fight Priscilla. I felt pretty bad killing her the first time I played and I didn’t see the need to do it again 😛
It’s surprising how quickly you can rush through the game if you’re just getting from point A to B. When I first played I was exploring pretty much all the areas getting all the items I could UNTIL I reached a certain shitty dark place that was fucking terrible…
And dat lore and hidden story!
Currently listening to one of my favourite tracks from the game which is from the final battle. So good! Dooo doo doooo, doo doo doooo dooo dooooo DAAAAAAAA
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Still listening to Ni No Kuni OST. 😀
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@shane
OMG! You’ve probably never heard of that track since you’ve never finished the game :O
It’s amazing!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JX81y_t405s music and final boss spoilers I guess!
Fuuuck.
NBA 2K13, played a quick game between Hornets (Me) vs Grizzlies (CPU).
We were down by three, I could have sent it into overtime with a three before the buzzer, but time ran out before I could get the shot away. 🙁
@tofu I am so sorry. /o\
@greenius If I’d known tay didn’t work on you phone, I could’ve used mine, it works perfectly.
I opened Steam and tried to run Dark Souls but it crashed twice.
Worst day ever.
In other news today is going to be terrible since I’ll have to do some actual work for Uni for the first time in ages. Class presentations, whoopie!
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You could get a doctor’s certificate to say you’re a hermit and can’t participate in class presentations. 😛
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Did you do that? 😀
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Haha! No, I’m sure they’d say hermits don’t go to uni. *shakes fist*
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Wow, Dark Souls really is difficult.
WeekendTAY
Sam went home early today for family reasons
Spaghett is sitting here playing games and watching/listening to British comedy in the background
Bottom is fantastic, good old Ade Edmonson and Rik Mayall
Had a dream last night that I was hunting Xenomorphs, Aliens-style. I remember thinking that they were too underpowered. :'( Too much AvP laser tag? 😛
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lol it’s a lot easier when they don’t move! 😉
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They mostly come at night. Mostly.
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Xeno…
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MORPH. >:|
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BLADDER >:(
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If anyone has a spare hour, you should check out this full Journey soundtrack with text commentery by Austin Wintory. Make sure you turn on the annotations. Really gives a good insight into the thought processes behind some amazing music.
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Still really want to play that game. :'(
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Even I have played it…
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Wasn’t really a fan of Flower and also not a fan of getting stuff on PSN/Xbox Live this close to the end of the generation. I hear there’s a boxed version somewhere though.
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Just go to someone elses place who has it on PSN and play it there.
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Reason enough to visit me, right? 😛
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If you have it, I can’t see why @dc can’t visit, then!
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It’s been as low as $15 so I’m waiting for it to drop to that again 😀
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@ash saw Spaghett outside of TAY
Making him realise that I do exist and am real
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D: Different website or lurking in the nearby bushes? 😀
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Steam 😀
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@sughly: Just watched Martha Marcy May Marlene! Oh man, what a damn good movie! Disturbing too. Elizabeth Olsen and Sarah Paulson were especially great.
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Also I think there’s an interesting story behind almost all the characters at that place too. I liked how the movie slowly revealed detail, like how Martha refused to take that health drink her sister brought her and then you see it looks like the drugged one later on. Also the paranoia about the noises on the roof and all that. Really cool foreshadowing.
What a god damn stupid game
Dark souls
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Oh man, don’t hurt Tigs too badly Shane, Freeze and Strange. :'(
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You upvoted, you’ll be hurt too
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What happened? D:
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DARK. SOULS.
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Dead to me.
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Weekend Afternoonhawk!
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:'(
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And yet I am back for more
Made a bit of progress but then hit a bit and seems like I am right back at not knowing what I am doing
Tarus demon is down, and took out a few mini bosses. Found the blacksmith and getting pummelled by the lightening boss just down from there. Also I think I was meant to ring a bell or something in undead burg so not sure what is going on there-
If you want to vaguely know what you ‘should’ do next:
Your first goals are to ring the two bells. There’s one after the Taurus Demon and you should fight some Gargoyles next in the areas after where you defeated the Taurus.Wandering around is fun but I found there’s a point where you won’t be sure whether you just suck, or you’ve skipped ahead to a higher area. I recommend looking up a basic progression guide that will outline the order to do things. I found it helpful but others might like to discover it themselves, up to you man! 😀
And g’luck !
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The titanite demony thing near the Blacksmith is a pain, but your best bet to kill it is to try and stay behind it, and to the left(I think I have the side right), as it swings its tail when it attacks. Also, you probably shouldn’t be facing it until after the Capra demon, at a rough guess -
Spoilers on where to go:
To ring the bell you’ll need to explore the upper levels of the church.
As for the lightning boss, I just ran past him to get to the next area until I was confident I could take him down.-
Yeah, just worked out that you can run past him and keep going
The biggest problem I am finding is not knowing if I’m supposed to beat a boss or just ran into a high level area. Might have to look up that guide like greenmang suggests.
When you say the upper levels of the church do you mean the gargoyle dude with the axe tail? Cause he is brutal and having lots of trouble against him-
That’s exactly where you need to be 🙂
Try upgrading your gear!
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In response to your spoiler section:
Yes. You have to beat those Bell Gargoyles to reach the bell.
Bossfight hintTo make the battle easier I always summon NPCs to help, you have to reverse your Hollowing at the Bonfire and when you get to the entrance tothe church you’ll see glowy symbols on the ground which is real humans who want to help you. I’m too scared to hang out with real people though, so if you’ve spoken to the guy looking at the sun just before the Dragon bridge and/or released the guy upstairs in the church(and subsequently spoken to him at the Firelink Shrine which you can easily access through the lift in the church now) their glowy summon signs will be closer to where you go up to the Bell Gargoyles.
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Ron Moore’s new series Helix sounds pretty damn good. Syfy has picked it up for thirteen episodes. Finally. (Moore’s had about four pilot orders in a row that weren’t picked up as series.) It’s about a group of scientists at a remote arctic base who have to contain a virus. It’s worth noting that he originally wrote a draft for The Thing remake. Maybe he’s used his concept here.
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The guy with the moustache in that first pic looks like Tommy Lee Jones, lol.
On Topic, looks pretty interesting. I might have to take a look at it when it releases!
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ARE YOU HAPPY NOW?
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You know it!
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Weekend TAY sucks. *refresh*
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*refresh*
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If you were playing Dark Souls you wouldn’t need to sit and refresh TAY, you’d be too busy immersing yourself in the game.
And you could talk about it on here so when you did refresh there’d be things to say, and responses from other people….-
Also, I posted a picture on Twitter and you haven’t favourited it yet. Why don’t you like my picture?! 😛
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I looked at it, but then got self-concious that favouriting pictures of knitted flowers would damage my manly street cred. 😛
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Hey! Stop damaging my streetcred! Grannies knit! I sew things. They were sewn flowers. So there. 😛
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Your manly street cred is safe! 😀
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😀 No access to gaming PC until tomorrow, alas.
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All I’m hearing are excuses. Not enough Dark Souls.
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Although by saying the whole “refresh” thing, he did make you (and others) say new things 😀
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Plus I’ve been posting non-*refresh* stuff all day. No one except TadMod responded. 😛
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Hey, I responded to your Journey thing… 🙁
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Haha! True enough. I looked at my posts afterwards and only one thing can technically be considered a conversation starter. My mistake. 😛
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By the way, you’re coming over for lunch, Journey and Dark Souls tomorrow. “No” is not an acceptable answer. 😛
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Haha! I wouldn’t subject you to that! D:
Edit: And by that I mean hanging out with me alone. 😀
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Don’t be ridiculous. You know me well enough by now to know I wouldn’t offer if I didn’t want to do it.
Plus, you won’t have to hang out with me, you can play stuffs while I go do some sewing or something. You can hang out with my son. 😛Anyway, the offer’s there. For any day. And don’t forget I’ve told you you can bring one other TAYbie. 🙂
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Hanging out with Strange is fun though! The kid stuff sounds terrifying. Haha! Aw, thanks. You’re awesome. 🙂 So. Damn. Kind. Probably can’t do it tomorrow. (For reasons!)
Sometime soon, though? 😀
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Definitely sometime soon. I have it in writing now….
And my son is going to be so disappointed to find out you don’t want to hang out and watch Indiana Jones movies with him. 😛
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Argh, forgot to tag @dc!
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Finally back at Uni 🙂 Although it seems really empty. So many people went home for the weekend and probably won’t be back until tomorrow. There was a dog show down here today so I had to come back today and also sit through said dog show (they’re SO BORING). My poor little Justin just wanted to sleep by the end of the day. He had his head in my lap the entire car ride back here. He also reduced a man to tears at the show. He had a Newfoundland that died 3 weeks ago so we just left Justin with him for a while to cuddle and play with. Sad, but it was really cute 🙂
Mum wants to get a third Newfoundland now too :S 2 is enough to handle! And we already spend thousands a year on them as it is, let alone the ridiculous cost of buying one. (Like $2500)
Also I left my phone charger at home. Fuck.
Only crossed one movie off my to watch list in the last month. D: (And that was only recommended last Wednesday.)
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Well, can you guess what you should do to make up for that?
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*refreshes TAY*
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… Points for consistency, I guess.
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Spirited Away
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GHIBLI MEAT! One day, Pow. One day.
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Why can’t we downvote things twice? We should be able to if there’s an edit. *glaring in a particular direction*
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*matches Freeze’s glare at Greenius*
He’s a monster.
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If only I knew…
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*upvotes twice*
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An edit should remove all up/down votes so people can vote on the edit.
I beat ceaseless discharge.
in dark souls.
first try too. Love that they programmed in exploits, weaknesses and tactics for a bunch of these guys. For example this boss battle rewards those who run away and don’t look back 🙂
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Nighthawk 2: Always Darkest Before the Dawn
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You should go to @strange’s place. Journey, dark souls and company, not to mention better food than a bag of chips.
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I’d happily live in the kitchen cupboards if it meant I got to eat that food every night 😀
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It’d be like Harry Potter, but you’d live in a good cupboard not a crappy one under the stairs!
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Eek! I’m never opening the kitchen cupboards before I go to bed again. I’ll keep expecting someone to jump out at me!! 😛
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Album artwork!
http://www.pozible.com/cache/project/18658_560_366.jpg?lu=1362895011
Opinions? Suggestions?
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Like the soft, out of focus orange glow to the images.
Honestly can’t make out the writing though! D:
(Might just be me. I’m illiterate, don’t you know!)
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Perspectives?
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It’s meant to say “perspectives”. There’s a reason it’s kinda hard to read, it’s an ambigram. If you look at it from the other direction, it says “TadModen”.
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Now that’s pretty cool! Hard to read, but cool!
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Ohhhhh, that’s kind of cool actually! Disregard my post below
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IDEA: Instead of along the bottom, try putting the text down the side. This might encourage people to read it both ways!
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Potentially, but I think it may just increase the problem of illegibility! :\
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Agreed. Font change! Rest is cool, but the word is a little difficult. 🙂
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Kind of perfect.
At first the stars and the bottom right symbol bothered me with their sparseness but from a design perspective they’re good because they add movement.-
Thanks! 🙂
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If it helps, I had no problem reading it as “Perspectives,” though -much to my shame- I didn’t notice that it was an ambigram before you said it. So I’m very disappointed in myself.
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Haha, it’s not meant to be an *obvious* ambigram. The idea is very much about looking at things from one angle or another (hence the album name – “Perspectives”)
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Feel good link of the night:
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If you wanna make the world a better place take a look at yourself and then make the change, you gotta get it right while you’ve got the time because when you close your heart then you close your mind!
Best MJ song evah!
Although We Are the World (demo) is one of my favourites too. (I like this version ten times more than the U.S.A. for Africa one.)
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Yeah, for me it’s a toss up with “Man in the Mirror” or “Black or White”. I mean, “Black or White” has the greatest music video ever.
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My favourite is Stranger in Moscow solely because it sounds nearly exactly the same as sonic 3’s ending theme (as proven here) which was confirmed to be made (or at least overseen) by MJ as well. 🙂
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This is possibly my favourite MJ video – he just seems so happy!
Imposible to watch this without chair-dancing 😀
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This bloke seems to be having fun over in this Lifehacker article by himself lol.
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Did he seriously just call the US commenting system sophisticated? The rest of the internet would like a word with him.
That is hands down the worst commenting system I’ve ever used.
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I agree. It’s horrible. Worst system to try and follow too.
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Hahahaha! Drunk posting at 4am.
This is how it’s done folks!
Dreamfall Chapters kickstarter closed and funded! Wooooooo!
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It’s like Christmas nine months early for DC! \o/
Play Dark Souls.-
Except the game’s not coming out until November 2014. D:
My sister is using the gaming PC AND my steam account. There will be no Dark Souls tonight. 😛-
Make your sister play Dark Souls.-
Haha! I think she’d like the game more than me! XD
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It’s only 18 months away. That’s long enough to play Dark Souls… or at least, it’s almost as long as I’ve been playing it 😛
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Did they make enough extra money to port the previous games to my handheld of choice?
Labour Day holiday tomorrow! \o/
Also got Toradora and the Sound City soundtrack! \o/
@dc – Brad Muir from Double Fine “[Dark Souls] is my runaway game of the year. No question.
There’s a point to be made here somewhere.
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*points*
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Brad Muir is a coward and should stop retreating from games?
I feel I should explain the following vid. @tadmod posted a Michael Jackson link above, which sent me on a Michael Jackson YouTube binge. That led me to Beat It, and it’s famous Eddie Van Halen guitar solo, which, of course, led me to Van Halen.
Eddie Van Halen was my hero as a young teenager learning guitar. Old friends still quote me as saying “I’ll never be happy until I’m as good as Eddie”.
Anyway, as the years passed I moved on and found other music that I liked, both older genres and newer. Van Halen was quickly forgotten.
I think it was @virus__ who mentioned them in some post in the past week or so.
Anyway – tonight’s YouTube adventure led me to a renewed respect for the legend that is Eddie Van Halen!!!
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I did mention Van Halen, was in relation to their new album how it was composed of songs that Eddie had written in Van Halens prime but never saw the light of day until last year.
Ungh… I want to play Mortal Kombat, damn it! 🙁
Good morning TAY! How is everyone?
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Good morning Gentleman What?.
This morning I am hungry and lazy. Not the greatest combination. 😛
How about you?-
Tired
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*hugasaurus*
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Only $325 left till @blaghman shaves his head! WE CAN DO THIS PEOPLE!
http://my.leukaemiafoundation.org.au/TeamPage.aspx?TSID=22045
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New TAY might like to know about this. http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/03/talk-amongst-yourselves-215/
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I clicked on the link this morning! >:(
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I tried Absinthe for the first time on the weekend.
It was nice.
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How nice?
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ANd was it the real shit (can you even get the real shit anymore?) or that strong alchohol they try to pass off as the real shit?
(jimu – Keepin’ it real…shit)
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It was a German brand going by the name “Mr. Jekyll Absinthe”
But yeah it was pretty good, actually. I just followed prep directions from Wiki.Ahh~ Wikipedia, where would alcoholics be without you.
(edit) – Reading up on it, I dunno if the stuff has wormwood in it.(since everything on the bottle is in German) And didn’t “trip” as portrayed in the films and tales.
It was just a nice, cool drink that made my tongue all tingly.
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Yeah, I think the readily available stuff is “watered-down” if you not what I mean (not watered down, just not absynthe…)
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Still tasty, mun.
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You know we’re chatting in a week old TAY right?
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Yup.
C’mon, Serrels. Step it up.
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There’s a new one…
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