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I think you might’ve offended a Gilehman Cultist in Estonia. You should change your statement to fix that.
Write opposing articles. I’m pretty sure there’s a website somewhere *cough* that would post them.
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Bleh, I bought mine cheap from Ezydvd, a week and a half later it is now listed as “on back order”
I have a feeing it will be quite some time before I get to play this game. -
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And everything was rendered pointless and a waste of time because you shot someone? I know right. Worst game ever.
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I like your old stuff better than your new stuff
*adjusts thick-rimmed glasses and sweeps hair out of eyes*
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So on the weekend both my motherboard and CPU died. Anyone got any suggestions for a motherboard?
(Master race assemble!)
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Yeah, something between that isn’t too bad. I can afford that.
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Something like this then perhaps.
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A fluorescent tube?
EDIT: I don’t think that link is working properly.
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@welbot
Cheers man! Looks pretty sweet.
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No problem sire!
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@welbot @sernobulus I never got mobos though. Is there really genuinely THAT much oif a difference between say, that one, and this one? http://www.umart.com.au/pro/products_listnew.phtml?id=10&id2=177&bid=5&sid=93208 (I mean, $200 worth of difference, for example?)
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@sughly if you’re running SLI, that motherboard could make a world of difference over the one you linked, simply for the fact it can run 2 graphics cards at 16x. Gives you a huge bandwidth boost.
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I would recommend gigabyte as well.
I’m a bit out of touch with models these days but if you are transferring cards across make sure they are all compatible before you buy.
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Well, I COULD probably run on backup systems it’s just very inefficient thus I would need to consume more caffeine.
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Wasn’t he basically a apple product? I dunno if Nob wants to spend a fortune or so..
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oh god! YOU GUYS WANT TO COMPLETELY REPLACE ME!? D=
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Again, Apple, so replacing you would cost the entire earnings of a small third-world country.
Plus we’d end up with a hipster version of you, which I’m pretty sure we don’t want. Neckbeards on robots do not mix.
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Nah, EVE was Apple. Wall-E was pure PC.
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yeah, but the sound he makes when he recharges is the mac boot-up sound, crazy enough.
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And they loved each other *fluttering heart*
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Didn’t he basically cannibalise his fellow workers, I’m not sure that’s a role model that @sernobulus should follow
That kind of thinking holds back the future.
Morning all. Watched The Hunger Games on the weekend. This attempt was a lot more successful than my last attempt. I’d tried to watch it last weekend but the copy I rented had a scratch in it and stopped working half way through. Rented it on blu-ray this time and it all worked fine.
I rather enjoyed it. I think in this case the movie was better than the book.
Spoilers for both book and movie:
The movie managed to keep itself going at a good pace that the book lacked. Films are always going to be shorter than books and cut things out that were in the original story, but I think in this case what they cut helped make the story better, for the most part. Perhapes my one critisim of the sped up pace was that Katniss and Rue’s relationship wasn’t built upon as much.
Because the movie wasn’t constrained to just showing things from Katniss’s viewpoint they could add a lot of scenes that helped expand on the other characters and the world. Things like Haymitch watching that kid get gifted with a toy sword, the conversation between President Snow and the Game-master (or is it game-maker, I forget), Gale not watching the games (at least at the start), District 11 revolting etc; I really enjoyed all that. I thought it helped give a much better sense of the world than the one presented in the book.
The romance between Katniss and Peeta was also a lot better done, though it didn’t end as good as the relationship did in the book. It felt too heavy in the book, and I think how it was portrayed in the movie was a lot more interesting. I say that from both the point of view of me, reading and watching the story, and from the point of view of the people actually in the story, watching The Hunger Games. In the book the relationship doesn’t make much sense for someone watching it unfold in world. Katniss finds out Peeta loves her like a day before the games begin, then half way through the games she’s all over him, kissing him heavily and proclaiming her love. It’s not believable, and worse, it’s boring. Now in the movie you have Katniss find out Peeta loves her, then she goes into the arena and stays away from him until she finds out they can both win. When she finds him the relationship unholds in a much more believable and interesting way. Rather than go with the idea that she’s been madly in love with him this whole time, she’s slowly fallen in love with him since she found out he loved her. Rather than heaps of kissing, you have small things as they slowly build up. A kiss on the cheek, a stroke of the face, and then you finally have a kiss on the lips. It’s like a fairytale story, and keeping in mind I’m talking about watching the romance unfold from the point of view of the characters in the story, it’s much more enjoyable.
I think my only other criticism would be that Peeta didn’t lose his leg at the end. Presumably because they didn’t want the actor to fake limp everywhere in the sequel.
@dc, a Voyager episode on friday had Seven of Nine fighting the Rock. It was one of the strangest and coolest things I’ve seen on Star Trek.
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I think the movie was better than the book a little bit just due to the fact the movie knew it was going to have a a sequel, but the book didn’t, so the movie seemed to more naturally progress into a sequel. -
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In response to your middle spoiler
I thought the relationship in the books was much more believable than in the film because you could read what she was thinking. She was all over him because that was the strategy that Haymitch was running and she was trying to play her part.
So the heavy kissing was due to trying to wow the fans and get rewards.-
I just felt she overplayed it in the books. If I was a fan I’d grow bored of the relationship as it was presented in the books pretty quickly.
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@greenius
Spoilers: Possible P4G ending
So Nan-chan went into the hospital, we caught gimp mcpolitician face and could have thrown him into the TV. I convinced that psycho otherwise and the group went along with my idea which was good cos it was that other person the whole time (who I won’t mention here because I bet someone will click the spoiler link anyway and ive already given away so much!).
But yeah, was that the turning point? Had I have thrown him in the telly, would I have experience the bad ending?
Im just looking for a one word yes/no answer, no details please 😀
I got a little grumpy on the Minecraft server last night. People keep messing around with my house for a laugh, but this was a little too far. Caused lag for other players, made me and Doc waste half an hour clearing them out, destroyed half my house in the process.
So I’ve abandoned that house to stop people from messing with it and now I live somewhere else, which is pretty cool. I have housemates! And a flowerpot.
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I might not be on much during the week. Feel free to use the next level down if you need the space. Just don’t dig the floor up at the far end, there’s nothing below for a fair distance.
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Will do! You’re a cool guy, Beavs. =D
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That’s a bit rough. I jumped on and pottered around for a bit yesterday and decided not to do a thing since everyone has made all this awesome shit. Cool houses! Pixel art! I’d probably end up making a 5×5 log cabin and calling it a day.
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But there’s so much we haven’t made! A museum! A holiday island! Santa’s village! Uh…um…a hedge maze! A bar!
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It was a really shit thing to do. Not only was it fucking annoying but it made the whole server lag.
How many people can spawn villagers? Isn’t it a creative only thing?
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If you are in creative mode you can spawn them yeah.
but i think you can set server restrictions on spawning in monster’s and such.
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I meant can ONLY people in creative mode spawn them? cause most people are in Survival so that would narrow the list of “suspects” considerably.
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I’m pretty sure you can only get the spawning eggs in Creative mode or with admin/mod permissions.
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yeah, so maybe people are smuggling the creative eggs to the survival players, it’s some sort of organised crime syndicate that goes ALL THE WAY TO THE TOP!
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I kind of want it to be that because it’s so awesome.
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A person with creative can give someone in survival mode the “item” that causes villagers and monsters to spawn.
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Yeah, creative only, but I don’t really care who did it, not gonna punish them or whatever. Just fed up with it happening so it’s easier to move my stuff.
The person who stole all my iron and diamond probably wasn’t in creative though. :u
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They spawned in what had to have been about a thousand NPC villagers in the confines of my tiny house. They were literally bursting through the walls. D:
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They don’t really go anywhere. We had to begin an ethnic cleansing of epic proportions. Pant’s home is now a mass grave and the whole thing will forever be a black mark on our otherwise peaceful history. Well, that and “The bombing”.
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We do not talk about ‘the bombing’ anymore.
*looks to the horizon, single tear forms*
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Filled his house with villagers. They sort of… stand around, and get in the way.
And apparently they make the server lag.
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When there are a thousand in one spot, so much lag! Riding on the carts was fun though. ZOOM. Stop. ZOOM. Stop. ZOOM. Stop…
This is just faaarrrr too sweet for words!!
I feel all warm and fuzzy now.
it’s also comical watching the defensive line pretending to be trying. Especially the one guy who pretty much begging for the offensive tackle to block him.
MORNING ALL!
New Potaku? http://potaku.com/2013/04/07/potaku33/ \o/
Also, I built the Evil Dead cabin in Minecraft at the weekend. Complete with destroyed bridge, zombie infested fruit cellar, flickering lights and tool shed out back. Alex Pants helped me seal the whole place in a giant obsidian cube to make it a never ending pitch black night!
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It ain’t complete unless there’s a Necronomicon, guy.
Please tell me you put a Necronomicon there.
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There is a Necronomicon in the chest in the kitchen. Hop on, have a read. Nothing bad will happen… Maybe.
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appropriate response *bzzzzt*
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nearly my entire sunday was playing monster hunter with another friend who got it on his wii u.
it was awesome seeing my character in HD!
as for the rest of the weekend i played more monster hunter…
with a side of monster hunter.
Edit: also, got the injustice demo, it’s really a fun fighter, i never played mortal kombat (however i just bought last week it and it is being delivered now) but apparently it’s very similar.
also batman
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HR2, GET ON MY LEVEL SCRUBLORD, DO YOU EVEN DUAL BLADE?
been focusing on solo missions and since i can’t easily play with others doing those multiplayer missions solo is pretty dang hard.
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WHATEVER BRO 1V1 ME IN THE FLOODED FORREST KICKING ONLY.
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Lol 360 nolockon
I wuld but u cant play online wit ur shitty 3D version ltroltiloltrollol
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DOESN’T MATTER BRO GOT DAT CIRCLE PAD PRO FOR SOME SWEET CAMERA ACTION ITS GOT PRO IN THE NAME FOR A REASON DAWG.
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Between taking care of my sick family and trying to fix my PC I got a couple of hours of Lego City in. Man I love this game so much.
(cc:@alexpants)
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I just delivered the stolen tech to that gang boss and I just got the colour gun. Apparently I’m off to steal a gem next!
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Ahhh it’s a fun game. Pow and I are in the middle of the post-story collectathon! So many collectibles.
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It really is, can’t really remember when I had so much fun in a game. Nothing too serious just a whole lot of fun!
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So a streamer has been outed for not actually being disabled despite being shown in a wheelchair for 2 years; apparently he received $20,000 in donations because of his feigned disability. As per usual when it comes to internet scandals, the response has been that of outrage.
Morning all, I hope you all had good weekends. I Went to a wildlife park and looked at animals…
And played lots of games…
Man I wish I played Minecraft. I’d dig under someone’s house while they were gone and fill the entirety of under it with TNT and put a mystery switch just outside it clearly labeled “Do Not Press”.
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It’s probably best I don’t play Minecraft.
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On Gorzys server I was gonna make a cake shop in the middle of town with a floor made of pressure plates connected to TNT under the building and a sign out the front saying “Free Cake!”
But I am way too lazy.
I’m sure I’m well behind the hipster eight ball here, but Imagine Dragons are rad as hell. I’m sure @sughly has been listening to them since I was nought but an uncultured child.
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I’ll wait until you’ve listened through it fully before pointing out the track I reaaaally dislike so I don’t make you expect to dislike it in advance 😛
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Good guy AlexPants
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That song was used in the preview for a major MX movie release that we distribute here in AUS – Moto 4: The Movie.
It was the first place i heard the song and immediately loved it, especially as it was so different to the music you usually see on MX previews.
Then a few weeks later i heard it on the radio – and i was like “hey i know this song”
… It was then i realised i became a hipster by liking something before it was cool.
I didn’t know how to feel about this new development.
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I think theyre pretty good, but some of the lyrics are mind numbingly dumb. A chorus repeating ‘I’m radioactive’, and welcome to the new age? Bit off putting.
I hope nobody takes offence that at times I reply to old posts due to only surfing kotaku during work and don’t during after work hours or weekends. Afterwork hours and weekends are for gaming and hanging out.
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Lol I’m glad people are cool here. Haven’t met that many dickheads. So far the alright people to dicheak ratio is like 5 to 1. Since I’m replying that should cover the reply to you Jimu. Btw started playing sc2 heart of the swarm, its awesome, definetly Better than wings of liberty. Opinions?
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About Soul Calibur 2?
Nah, wrong person to ask. I’m a JRPGer.
Perhaps @TRJN will reply if he isn’t too deep in the movings.-
starcraft 2 lol. Not really in jrpgs not enough time.
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Prolly why I’m so far behind on all the “HYPE” games
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Yeah I only started playing sc heart of swarm this weekend. To my surprise the story is really good. I like it. Though the new leveling system feels it was only put there cause of the original sc2 wings of liberty leveling. Haven’t rolled back to previous missions to see if it makes a difference, but it does In Terms of damage dealing. Overall gameplay and level thing not so sure. Taking more of a turn towards the whole warcraft 3 hero thing. Which I like.
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I’m neck deep in the movings.
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There are already 5 people in the is thread.
Does that mean the next person to reply is the 1 to your fiveWait a minute…… :'(
Good Morning All.
I more or less worked through the weekend, and I’m back at work today. I don’t think I’m going to enjoy this week very much.
I did manage to get some Monster Hunter time. I think I’m down to my last few hunts before the Ceadeus quests; it’s getting harder to get motivated, as most hunts are becoming more drawn out (cut tail, crack head, limping, still takes another 10 minutes of all out beat downs before I get the kill, or worse, 10 minutes of chasing it from one zone to the next)
I really don’t like the period directly after daylight saving time. Everything feels an hour ahead of where it should be! 😛
I’m heading into the city today to see Jurassic Park 3D at the IMAX! (Which is apparently the largest cinema screen in the world? Didn’t know that…) It should be good! I purposely avoided wearing one of my dinosaur shirts 😛 Also, I’m heading to EB Games to download Meloetta before this promotion thing ends. And I’ll pop in to Sydney-TAYs favourite bookshop just because (though I have no extra money to spend…)
Anyway, hopefully the movie is worth the $31 ticket (D:)
Morning all.
At home today \o/
Sick /o\
MONSTER HUNTER \o/
Had some interesting matches of Dota last night, and learned an important lesson:
Don’t let Pyrean play as Meepo.
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It turns out that micro is barely irrelevant in an ARAM, particularly when Meepo can just Poof everwhere.
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Howdy Tayberinos
Hope you all had a good weekend. I spent a chunk of mine cleaning house (Inspection coming) and playing Dishonored- I’m up to the final mission with low chaos, and also managed to pickpocket Daud without alerting him.
Also did my frequent Sunday night pub meal with friends. So a Monday Morning Question: What in-game bar would you like to visit? The Hanged Man from Dragon Age II was pretty cool
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Yup. No change from the norm then!
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I wouldnt mind a bar with that castle arcade game
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Oh, man, Daud.
I thought there would have to be some complicated, ultra-stealthy way to pickpocket him in the corner, when literally all you had to do was teleport behind him with the correct timing and so he wouldn’t notice you at all.-
Took me a couple of attempts, but in the end I basically walked up behind him, took his shit, and took his key, and walked back out
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The Winking Skeever from Skyrim. Roll up and have some hearty food and drink while listening to Lisette play
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I can confirm, the ANZ Falcon is watching. The bastard never misses a beat too.
Charges me that extra $2.50 when I make overseas purchases EVRY. FFUCKING. TIME.
The bastard.
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It’s slightly annoying with that charge as for some reason every time I have Weight Watchers taken out with direct debit I get that charge even though it’s WW Australia. It get reinstated, but it’s a pain.
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Pozible updates have been spotty, at best. Still not entirely sure when to expect it. I think I went the $40 bracket, and I’d almost forgotten about it, tbh.
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I’ll have to have a look, can’t see anything in my email – I’ll check the Pozible page, should all be there.
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Oh yeah, we decided not to go with that idea at all. It’s completely different now.
Might be lying.
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Downloading to listen on my train ride!
I could read the comic if I wasn’t already planning on reading this third The Lesser Evil book. You probably haven’t heard of it.
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Sooo, as much as I’m enjoying Bioshock Infinite as basically the first single player first person shooter I’ve attempted in years, I’m really over the pew pew bits. It’s been ages between any story development, and its grating on me. Whingey whinge! I’m up to…
ahhh… hard to say. Everythings been the same same for ages. Its starting to go night? Running around with Elizabeth on boardwalk places still. Fought another raven man with a bunch of soldiers around after they were given a speech about the rogue soldier.
Felt like everything up to Elizabeth was amazingly well paced and such, but its been kinda boring ever since. That, and Elizabeth has an extremely weird relationship development with Booker. She’s all running away, scared of him in one moment, then in the next shes hopping around and commenting on a kids show like nothing happened. Not really buying it :/ I kind of think its a shame the general dialogue between them while you walk around isnt better done, it just feels a little flat, and not really doing much to develop them.
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Oh yeah, they oversold the inter..act..ivity that we thought we’d be getting with Elizabeth. In all fairness, she does develop herself away from Booker, later on stating that she’s with him only for her own reasons, but even then their relationship can still be interpreted as ‘awkward as fuck,’ to paraphrase a greater man than I.-
It’s really jarring sometimes like when (late game spoilers)
You kill the ghost thingie of Elizabeth’s “mother” and she is all super depressed and sad, then you ask her to lock pick a door and she is all “oh is that all that will be super easy” and starts skipping over to the lock.-
Sometimes, I can’t remember exactly when, She’d simply pick the lock in silence, which I thought was appropriate. And then, as you said, other times she’d be chipper after some really depressing or mind-straining moment. Really odd.
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Infinite has pretty much reached the “if you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all” stage for me.
It’ll be a great bargain bin game.
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Its a shame though, caus the art direction is stunning, and there was some really well done development in the beginning. I’m pushing on though, hoping it picks up again.
edit: I think on further thought, the thing that grinds on me the most, and I remember it from other fps’, is that when they want to stretch things out they have pointless tasks. “We have to get to that tower bit”, shoot a bunch of people to get there, “Oh we cant get in, we have to go to this other bland place now”, ok…. shoot a bunch more people to get there. Repeat, repeat. It’s this kind of thing that makes me confused when people say jrpg’s are grindy. Fps’ are way more so imo.
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Not really spoilers but I spoilerised it anyway
I’m just gonna throw it out there that I only really liked the game for the story and the art direction (at some bits), the pew pew bits got pretty boring pretty fast.-
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the middle of the game is very slow! Don’t worry though it keeps getting better as you get close to the end. -
Yisssssss! I still get the feeling its building up to something great, but… I just want to skip to that bit already XD I’m growing too impatient for the story!
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Art Direction was pretty good – I feel it was poorly realised (or at least let down by ageing console hardware).
Story was relatively interesting (compared to other shooters), but certainly didn’t offer “something that’s never been done before”.I think perhaps what’s most unfortunate is that the game is not quite the sum of it’s parts – everything is too separate. Despite what I implied earlier, there were some parts of the game I actually liked:
The game’s opening, arrival at Columbia, that first mad scramble and introduction to the Lutece twins were all pretty good.
Late game spoiler-ish (to clarify: doesn’t spoil story, but I do describe my favourite chapter)
But really, my favourite chapter was Comstock House. It was just the right amount of creepy, and broke the tension with a single jump scare and resolved with some light combat. It goes back to the feeling of separate chapters, and I remember that BioShock had different writers working on different parts of the game. Comstock House is Infinite’s Sander Cohen (although BioShock did creepy even better there).And that makes me think Elizabeth is actually a very poorly realised companion, since I had the most fun without her.
Mornin’ TAY. What a terrible week it’s going to be~
On a lighter note though – AOE II HD comes out, has a server browser and drips nostalgia.
Anyone here going to be getting it on Steam? I’ll be pre-ordering it when I get home.
Bought Dragon’s Dogma, too. I said I would get it bargain bin and I did. But I kinda regret it because the game is actually pretty fun.
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Barely anyone played it. It didn’t get enough press, it was my favourite console game of the year.
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I’m gonna get it, I just knew Capcom would pull some shit (which they did) so now I’m waiting for a bargain bin version of the expansion. 🙂
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I got AoE II HD and have played it a few times. People who preordered ages ago got access like a week early. The short of it:
It’s great fun
Couple of odd/ugly changes (new farm texture looks massively out of place)
Multiplayer is unusable for many people, myself included. The whole game lag spikes wildly, and loses framrate over time to the point where it was unplayable. This doesn’t happen in single player.
@alexpants
You ended up making me expect that every song could be bad! It’s okay, cause I loved the whole thing. Which song though?
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Every Night. I think it’s track eight? Skip that one every single time. Just don’t like it at all.
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I kinda like that one. It reminds me a little bit of the Temper Trap. The whole song is absolutely hinged on the vocals though.
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So started writting up my army list over the weekend.
I have just over 2000 points of Dark Angels.
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WHERE IS YOUR PRIMARCH? OH THAT’S RIGHT HE RAN AWAY AND HID. NOT EVEN THE DECENCY TO DIE GLORIOUSLY IN BATTLE. LION MY ASS*.
DEATH TO THE FALSE EMPEROR.
*Please don’t lie in my ass.
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Ummm… Are you thinking of Leman Russ, perhaps?
The Lion was mortally wounded in his fight with Luther. He has been recovering in the rock ever since – he;s one of the few primarchs that is neither dead nor lost – regardless of whether or not anyone actually knows that within the chapter lol-
Wait. I think you’re right.
God damn it.
I remember it was bit weird – almost every primarch is either dead, wounded, or now a daemon prince. I know Roboute Guilliman is in the wounded/rumored to be recovering basket too. Leman Russ just ran away.-
Yeah. Russ is in the Maelstrom somewhere.
I’m pretty sure Guilliman is behind glass in stasis on the Ultrasmurfs homeworld after being poisoned for being such a smart-arse-know-it-all. -
Ultrasmurf.
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Today is a fucking amazing day but also an awfully shit day. It sadly doesn’t cancel out and make it average either 🙁
The good: Kat is sending me a massive package of something (it’s a surprise, i’m very excited) and very long letter, we talked for ages this morning making me subconsciously forget about the bad of today. Also Mad Men tonight which is also good.
I’m going to put this next bit in spoiler tags because I know not everyone cares/would want to read it. It’s personal to me, so please keep the negative comments to yourself if there are any.
The bad: Today marks what would be Paul Gray’s 41st birthday. It’s been almost 3 years since he passed away. There’s not a day that goes by where I don’t miss the man. He is part of the band that saved me (Slipknot) and the main reason why I picked up bass in the first place, Nikki Sixx being my other main influence. I never got to meet him sadly, but Kat has me him a dozen or more times and it makes me happy when she tells what he was like, thankfully I did get to see him perform with Slipknot before he passed away which is what I wanted in life and it was my first concert so the memories will always be there.
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It’s a strange feeling to have someone who has had such a profound effect on your life and to know that they’ll never know how much of a difference they made.-
Yeah, exactly that’s why I love Twitter, it at least lets me try and get that message across to them, most times I have gotten back a thank you from them too. So it’s a good feeling.
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Wow man – has it really been that long since Paul Gray died? Man it still feel like yesterday.
I know what you mean about Slipknot, as a whole, though.
It’s cool though, he’s probably jamming away with Dimebag and Dio as we speak!
Man.. metal heaven/hell (it’d be the same place, really) would be the most rad place not-on-earth.Also, i think Kat is mailing herself to you. Naked. Cake popping-out style.
Prepare yourselves. Sexy time is coming.-
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Yeah, I know it still feels like last week in a sense to me. Also don’t forget Cliff Burton, I bet they all have a fucking kickass band in the afterlife. Music will always miss them, all taken too early.
Oh that would be awesome.. I somehow don’t think so. I’ve already seen the size of it, I mean she is tiny but not THAT tiny haha.
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Hmm.. That could be interesting. lol.
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I’m not sure if I should up vote that or not :S
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Exactly what I was going for! \o/
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I feel like I don’t get Primus. I’ve even seen them live. I fucking hate them, they just sound like a shitty jam band.
Edit: To clarify, I don’t mean they’re untalented, they’re ridiculously talented, especially Les, I just hate the music.
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Yeah, dood. Took me years to appreciate them fully.
And even then, I gotta be in the mood.
Fuckin’ funny music. BLERGH!But yeah, I actually love ’em. And if there’s a bass player to emulate (Skill not songwriting) Mr Claypool is at the top of the list.
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I don’t know, they just make me sad. So much talent put to waste.
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Ha ha!
I dunno, man. Aquired taste? But why would you want to aquire that taste?
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I can understand not getting the music. Les Claypool is something of a genius though.
I just find the mood ridiculously enjoyable with Primus. I love that they’ve created an entirely unique sound that you just don’t really find anywhere else.
Hey N3rdz,
I’m lifting my self imposed Kotaku ban for two reasons.
First, sorry about “Hot Rossin” on Saturday (is in jest, Rocket, ILY) I have had the worst four months anyone has ever had in the history of the world and as such I’ve had no time for fun things with jerks.
Ambiguous, right?
Second. I’ll be arriving in Sydney this Saturday the 13th.
Dinner/Drinks with y’all that night? (And by “Y’all” I mean Sydney people)
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That smiley reminds me of Ryan Gosling’s face, complete with prison tear drop tattoo, in the critically acclaimed upcoming feature film “The Place Beyond The Pines”
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So you blow off your home town homies and organise stuff with Mexicans?
Ya just crumped on me heart boy.
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You had fair warning.
(I spent a night of sheer ecstacy* with you the week previous)*SAY NO TO DRUGS
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Fuck you dickman. I wasn’t there. You ditched me.
Didn’t want you there anyway, dicking up the place.
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PENIS ASCII IN DANE’S TAY
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I dont like penis ascii in my tay
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I’ll be in Sydney then too!
No idea if I’ll be free, as I don’t know what my schedule is, but uhh… Yeah.
I find it amusing (and sometimes irritating) that I am so far behind on all the games (except Pokemans) that by the time I get all hyped, everyone else has moved on.
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Odin Spher was also good…but not as good (and boy was I late on that one!)
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Pffft!
That new fangled shit?
http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/history/images/D2231008_TENNIS4TWO-300px.jpg
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By the time I’m done with P4G I think DKCR will be out (end of this month?) It’s on the maybe list though.
Also, Fire Emblem.(Pity Weegee wasn’t closer to launch)
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I have to admit, I really wanted that at first… and then I started to remember how tedious the gameplay mechanic got on gamecube. By the end I was completely over it, actually. Is it basically the same thing on 3ds?
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Best movie.
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Get back inside and do my vacuuming you sub-human!
EDIT: I aint paying you below minimum wage for nothing!!!
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nathan-j-winograd/peta-kills-puppies-kittens_b_2979220.html
Eugh PETA disgust me, I saw mention of this the other night somewhere else. I really suggest clicking at your own digression due to some of the images included aren’t exactly nice.
So in the last few weeks, I unfollowed about 1800 people on Twitter. In response, only about 130 have unfollowed me. I thought I was doing Twitter all wrong, but I am reconsidering… 😛
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Did I unfollow you? Sorry man, thought I only unfollowed cool people. Will rectify immediately.
Edit: Jerk. Think I willl unfollow you now 😛
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I haven’t yet. Your powers are WEAK, old man.
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Shiggy’s pretty obsessed with something called Shovel Knight at the moment. I’m surprised he managed to not use full caps the whole time here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=anna%27s+quest&go=Go
C’mon people!
We can do this!
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Haha, ahhh…. nehhh. XD
edit: Thats very sweet of you guys, but srsly, just wait til the game is done. I’m sure there will be people who will voluntarily do that.
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SOYLENT TAY IS PEOPLE! PEOPLEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
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Could try Dragon’s Dogma : Dark Arisen. (consoles only as far as I know)
Or Dragon Age 3 (depending on what direction they go with it)
Or… I dunno. they’re the only ones I can think of at the moment. -
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Witcher 3 next year is sounding like it’ll be a much more open world game than the previous two. That might be a good fit for what you want. In the shorter term, not aware of anything specific.
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hello fronds!!! what be happening? although i worked right through the weekend, spending saturday setting up a business network and sunday hauling cat6 network cabling through a house and terminating it all, i feel more relaxed today than i have been in months!!! i think daylight savings worked in my favour \o/
also i woke up at 6:20am allthough my alarm is set to 7:20am, (damn body clock) and i was all ready to go…. didnt even feel like going back to sleep!!!
Whats everyone else up to??
Also been playing a LOT of minecraft…. that thing is sucking my life away!!!
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Lazily Shane, very, very lazily… I know its quite unproductive,but i find if i switch off for a while, I come back to it with fresh ideas….
At the moment, i have just picked up my childrens book and im re-writing some sections…. ill consult your expertise when im happy with it 🙂
Ive set my self a deadline of end July, as i have accumulated a list of publishers i wish to approach to get this book published, and one of them, Penguin to be specific, will only accept childrens book submissions in the month of december.
If all fails, SELF PUBLISH!!!
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Guess what I’m doing.
That’s right, more packing!
Also had a trip to Strange’s. Her son was very keen to impress me.
EDIT: This was my 15000th Kotaku comment.
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You’re foxy.
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Now touch willies.
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So where would be the best place for one to inspect prices for importing the Jap version of FFXIII with the japanese dub and english subs? From what I can gather, there’s three japanese versions floating aorund, so I want to make sure I’m looking at the right ones. @negativezero, halp! This is my way of getting back to that game and (hopefully) being able to bear the characters’ voices.
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Yeah, its just a matter of knowing if its really the version I’m after. We will see…
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You don’t want the Japanese version, you want the Asian release. There’s two versions of the Asian release one of them is Japanese Dialogue with Chinese & English subs, one of them is English Dialogue with Chinese subs.
Play-Asia is where I got mine. FFXIII-2 as well. Presumably they’ll do the same with XIII-3.
If you get XIII-2 and want DLC you’ll need to create a Hong Kong account and get a Hong Kong PSN card for it.
This is the one I got:
http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-13-71-bp-70-3sck.htmlBut it’s out of print. 🙁
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Noooo :'( What do!?]
edit: Seems like there’s a dual pack that has this and xiii-2 in the same dealio, which is also mostly sold out except for a few copies on the ebays. Which are like $90. Not too bad… but shouldnt reaaaaally spend that much right now 🙁
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Nah thank you (thats very kind!), but I already have the Aus version of XIII. I’m mostly trying to convince myself that its better without the terrible terrible dub, but its probably just the writing. I dunno, I still think it will be more forgivable in Japanese with subs.
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I haven’t played a lot but I find it less annoying. Or maybe I’m just more tolerant of annoying character tropes and stuff when they’re in Japanese? I dunno. Less Australian accents is a plus. Less of Vanille’s porno moaning is nice too.
Also I admit to finding Maaya Sakamoto (Lightning)’s voice fairly appealing.
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ah, ever since Exile Vilify I’ve devoured a fair few songs by The National. Fond of ‘Wake Up Your Saints’ myself.
EDIT: And ‘So Far Around The Bend.” Really like the singer’s voice, not sure how to describe it aside from “it’s deep-sounding but not really but it carries a lot of strength despite it’s middling-deep-sounding voice, kinda ‘smoky’ I guess but I can’t really use that word to describe someone’s voice?”
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I’ve only really listened to High Violet so far. (As well as About Today and Start a War from the Warrior OST.)
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I’m listening to that one too, now!
Nope, didn’t name it, but I think it was named for the book. Trying to find exactly what he said now.-
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Yep!
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I tried Lindt Dark Chocolate with a touch of Sea Salt. Wasn’t sure quite what to expect, but it is really delicious. The contrast between the chocolate and the salt adds another level to something that’s pretty awesome already (dark chocolate). Also the chocolate was given to me by my landlady for helping her out with printer issues. Being paid in chocolate for tech support is almost as good as being paid in money.
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Hey Jimu! Hope you’re well. (Also hope Gutsoup knows we don’t mind that he didn’t attend the meat. Whenever he’s ready, we’ll be there!)
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Exactly how I felt the weekend prior
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Good. I’m glad.
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Was Mrs. Freeze okay? She looked all kinds of sleepy by the end of the night! 😀 Hope she didn’t mind that we all huddled together and talked games and movies a lot. Haha.
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yeeeeeeeeeeah >:-(
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I just know how crap I felt all the times I didn’t meat because I was afraid. Haha!
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Which is why I kept trying to get you to go, to avoid feeling like that. That’s why I’m going to pressure @gutsoup and bully him into meeting me, too. 😛
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Yeah keep it up, guy’s a ponce!
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Dark. Souls.
Beat Seath the Scaleless(the first of the 4 Lordy people that I fought). Failed at it 3 times(first two because I was trying to get his tail, last because I was trying to cheese the fight), but then made it through the fight completely unscathed on my fourth attempt. Now it’s time to… Ummm… Cry in the corner? Yeah, that sounds about right.
@ynefel
What platform did you get Defiance on? I assume you went PC? I picked it up yesterday on PS3. It’s really good fun so far.
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Yeah I went PC. I’ve put in a few hours, up to EGO level 154 or something. I’m hitting it in spurts, and it’s holding up. I reckon if I hit it super hard I’d get sick of it.
It’s like Borderlands gone MMO with all the loot hoarding glory, and call me weird, but I almost get some vague Mass Effect vibes off it?
Pretty happy with it though. Also interested to see how this TV show tie-in thing works, but I’m skeptical. Will probably just treat it as a standalone MMO and disregard the show. Will probably check it out though.
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medicating depression with alcohol page-get!
seriously though, you ok?
2 things from experience
– things gets better, so just wait it out.
– booze doesnt help. talking to people / hanging out & having fun does.another thing –
*bro hugs & a high five*-
I can vouch for the second of these points too. I spent a while drinking by myself and it was not at all pretty, and it helped exactly not at all.
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Ah if thats what it was about then yeah, agreed. Ive come to rely too much on alcohol in social situations and in dealing with anxieties, I wouldnt encourage others to do the same.
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Haha, thanks guys. Most alarmist page get ever. Things’ll be alright.
So how ’bout that local sporting team? 😀
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Problem with Arsenal is that they always try to walk it in! (you’ll be right, stay awesome mang, you’re surrounded by friends just remember that)
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You draw that?
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Hell no!
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So we had a visit from @trjn. I am the worst hostess but luckily my son knows how to entertain guests. He was excitedly running around looking for things to try and impress him.
I also completely missed a tweet from Bunny saying he was lost and needed help. Oops. 😛
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*sob*
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Afternoon TAY-bies.
I FOUND A NEW HOUSE! And we all will be moving there probably end of next week 😀 Totally can’t wait, but that means I have to pack shit tons of stuff and that’s annoying… We will be moving to the Clayton area of VIC so any TAY-bies living nearby?
On other news: Infinite is getting interesting. I’m actually playing it just for the story alone – in fact the combats are fairly easy, so far – and it hasn’t disappoint so far. The amount of propaganda in this game is so much worse than Bioshock though, just my kind of political unrest 🙂
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What difficulty? I played it on hard and it was fairly simple except for some random difficulty spikes.
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Also in terms of story progression the game does slow down a little half way through, still definitely stick with it.
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…and then it picks right up in the last 2 hours. so damn good.
been a while since I’ve liked a game’s ending so much.-
Yeah, don’t really want to say anything about the ending because I would be devistated if it was spoilerised for me.
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yeah, I had to rush through it because it was getting to the point that spoilers were becoming pretty common in comments & articles. that pisses me off.
it really is the sorta game that requires you to go in blind & discover it for yourself.
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Yeah, it was very inconsistent with its difficulty curve. Seemed to follow the Halo system of having a difficulty “series-of-mountain-ranges.” Except that the enemies at time felt a whole lot cheaper than anything Halo has to offer…
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To me it was like getting the “Light Arrow” in Windwaker. =P
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is that the Vigour
Return to Sender? I didnt use that one at all. Bucking bronco & the carbine solved all of my problems. Especially after I got the hat that made it so that if I killed an enemy under the effect of a vigour, then that effect transferred to other enemies.
end result – EVERYONE FLOATING ALL THE TIME.
the only guys it didnt work on was the Handyman & the clockwork Washington guys.. but crows & water tendrils helped there…. -
Yup, that’s the one. I only used it when I got it. With the equipment that gives you a chance to restore Vigour when you kill someone I was basically unstoppable.
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LOL that seems to be the consensus. My BF played on Hard though and he died a few times (eventhough he’s quite good at FPSes) and had to restart checkpoints. I’m not really interested in the slog so I’m just doing it on medium while fapping to Columbia’s vista.
Clayton’s not too far from me – I’m in Wantirna for now, will be moving back in toward the city in a few months though.
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We’re moving from the faraway land called Caroline Springs. Apparently there’s tons of good food in Clayton so I’m excited 😀
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I honestly don’t know. I went to Clayton for university for four years but never really explored the area much.
Depending on where in Clayton you are you could be within striking distance of a fair amount of good places though. I was previously in Blackburn South (basically two suburbs North) and it’s a great location there, 10-15 to Doncaster, Box Hill, Glen Waverley and Chadstone. Clayton’s probably less well located for all the Asian food at Box Hill but there will be other stuff to compensate.
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Renting, have to save up for a year to get enough for deposits… Damn houses are so expensive and the bank won’t cover stamp duty and other stuff :s
@redartifice From an early draft:
The Lesser Evil (The Awakening) – Named in Honour of Shane W Smith’s contributions to the Stargazer universe and his amazing work in putting together the 3 comic story arc that accompanies the album, this track is positioned 3/4 through the album, and is to signify the rising tension in the city, with the riots of the populace against the Silver Empire. It signifies the ominous future ahead for the priestess, and James’s rising anger that eventually consumes the entire city.
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@alexpants, can you do this for me please? 😛
Actually, not for me. Do it for pez. That way it’s not even me fobbing off extra work 😛
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http://www.vulture.com/2013/03/jane-campion-top-of-the-lake-interview.html
Read this cool interview with Jane Campion about Top of the Lake last night. Really interesting, though she comes across as a bit of a crazy hippy. (Nothing wrong with that though. :D)
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Also pretty screwed up that ABC pulled funding for the show when an American was cast in the lead. D: Glad BBC/UKTV stepped up!
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For real? Thats so so lame. This has way more promise than so much of the drama funded by the ABC.
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Yeah, it’s crazy. Jane mentioned all the Australians working in the U.S. too and wondered why the double standards!
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@ynefel
Everything you said is spot on. It’s got a very Borderlands vibe, but a bit more serious.
I’ll definitely be checking out the show, very curious to see how that works out. Also, I’m wondering what happens if the show gets cancelled.
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I don’t think it’ll effect the game much. In fact I’m sure the relation between the two is going to be very light anyway. TV shows have a notoriously fickle success rate, but games seem to be exempt from this same variety of hit and miss.
If something is due up on US PSN “This week” what day and time does that mean for us stinkin’ Aussies?
@doc_what @negativezero
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Wednesday. Anytime between 7am (unlikely) – 4pm. Normally 11/12 ish. US PSN has notoriously unpredictable update times.
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They’re saying the 9th for Fatal Frame & Gucamelee.
Is that earlier than usual or will it still be Wednesday?-
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No, Im trippin’ It’ll be up Wednesday as you say
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What the heck is this guacamelee thing anyway? Some kind of Luchador beat ’em up involving dips?
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No dips.
Yeah, mexican themed Metroidvania with brawler style fightin’s.I’m just a sucker for Metroidvanias. 😀
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If you buy one Mexican themed Metroidvania with brawler fightin’s this year, let it be this one! ;-P
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@sughly
Luigi’s Mansion 2 is great, it improved on everything from the original game. I would say it is must have for 3DS owners.
What particularly annoyed you about the original game?
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I agree – only just started the second mansion but it’s so much fun. Really enjoying it. I’m loving the sense of identity they’ve given Luigi. Also helps the game itself is a pile of light hearted fun. It’s not super duper easy though, and there looks like a fair bit of game.
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Been sitting on my shelf since release, been preoccupied with other things.
Nice to know it’s something special
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Definitely give it a go once you get to man! It starts of a little slow (so much dialogue) but once you get past that it is sooo good!
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Just the repitition of it really. Felt like it didnt do enough to hold my interest. It was like look for ghost, vacuum in the same way as every other ghost, repeat. Do this 100 times, end of game.
I really enjoyed it, but after so many ghosts and barely any variation it got tiring.
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Wow, we’ve had this convo a few times about people referring to RPGs as being a grind…and YOU said, it depends on where you’re coming from FPSing could be considered a grind.
Remember? No?
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….yes ^_^
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I’m looking for some interesting (good) documentaries. Either one-offs or series. Any suggestions?
Episode 3 of Stephen Fry in America has Stephen talking to Morgan Freeman. Y’all think about that. Then watch it. Or listen with your eyes closed. Maybe get some scented candles burning or something.
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Louis Theroux’s Weird Weekends
American Teen
Dark Days (I think that’s what it’s called)
Second Skin-
Oh man, American Teen is great! So is Louis, love me some Louis
Also I’d recommend Fog of War, a film doco about McNamara (I believe?) who was the secretary of defence for USA during Vietnam. It has an interview with him as the centre of the film. REAAAALLY interesting doco, just to see the behind the scenes of all that, and to see how a handful of people become responsible for so many lives.
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I congratulate you on your list!
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But you only know of one item.
It could be a terrible list.
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This is Spinal Tap was a pretty great documentary. Follows this band around. It’s a bit old now, but still holds up as decent journalism.
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Best in Show and Drop Dead Gorgeous are both equally amazing pieces of journalism.
EDIT: Okay, not equal but still good.
I watched Exit through the Gift Shop on SBS on the weekend, it’s up on SBS on demand.
Jesus Camp
Westway to the World (about The Clash)
Cosmos, obviously.
@masha2932 is also big on the docos atm.
EDIT: Also, When we were Kings, about the Rumble in the Jungle boxing match, is great even if you’re not into boxing. I’ve heard similar things about Senna (Formula 1)
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I just finished watching BBC’s Africa. Awesome nature documentary. Any of the BBC stuff is good really.
Plus, I’ve been told a group of TAY assassins will come after me if I don’t watch Carl Sagan’s Cosmos so I’ll be doing that tonight.
Oh wait this is a reply to redartifice and Doc might miss it: @doc_what 🙂
Anvil : The Story of Anvil
The two by Louis Theroux where he goes and looks into the porn industry 20 years apart.
Kumari.
I presume you’ve seen Cosmos and Planet Earth. If you haven’t you shouldn’t be asking this.
They’re all one-offs but if you can get them, IMO the BBC ‘Horizon’ documentary series is some of the best stuff out there. Every time it’s something different and interesting. Back when I had Foxtel, BBC Knowledge was absolutely the best reason to pay extra to get the Documentary channels. They also had some really good 3-4 part series they’d play over a month or so.
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Also, following on from these, Brian Cox’s Wonders of the Solar System / Universe series.
its more pop science than Cosmos, but its visually stunning, beautifully shot & Brian Cox is one goddamn charismatic presenter.
totally recommend checking them out in Full HD if you can.
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Yeah, his stuff was among the ‘really good 3-4 part series’ I mentioned. There were quite a few others that were interesting too, one multi-part one basically about geology and its impact on civilization I found fascinating.
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OH BOY!!!
Jesus Camp
Deliver Us From Evil
Sister Helen
Sound City
Morgan Spurlock’s Filmography (including “Day In The Life”)
Louis Theroux’s Filmography
Armadillo
Sam Dunn’s FIlmography (but you can probably skip Filght 666 if you’re not a Maiden fan)
Foo Fighters Back & Forth
Lemmy
King Of Kong
I have a tonne more, I just can’t remember them all right now.
Docooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooos!!!
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Oh yeah, Armadillo is amazing! So is Deliver us from Evil, thats messed up, but a really good doco. King of Kong, also great.
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I recently been watching the builder the boffin and the bombardier which is a bit of light fun
Ancient warriors was an interesting series
I also recommend a lot of the horizon docos, they can be hit and miss on whether the content is interesting to you but they are well made
3 men in a boat is also amusing
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Kimota!
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Still want a purple version! Also really want to drop it into a bowl of water to freak out my iPhone toting friends
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Waterproof or water resistant? Water resistant usually means “You can totally drop this in water, just… uh… please don’t test that out…”
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Waterproof. People had been using this in the showers. The speaker grill does get clogged and will take time to dry but it is waterproof – provided you close all the port flaps 🙂
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Stuff :
As of next week, I’m going to be officially living by myself. I am sorta secretly looking forward to it. Doubling the rent, not so much, but with a bit of discipline & budgeting It should be very doable. Actually, I’m really feeling quite good about this. HYPE 😀
Sportsball (football [soccer])
Blackburn Rovers. it was bad enough they got relegated from the Premier League, but now they’re in the relegation zone for the Championship as well… 🙁
Pez’s album is pretty cool.
Edit: gaming stuff –
Okami is cool. got back into it over the weekend. I’m now officially further along in it than I was last time I played it (waaaaayyy back on the PS2). Its got such a charm to it. Any game that lets you play as a puppy with a button dedicated to barking is OK in my book.
Dragons Dogma. getting back into that too… considering picking up the Dark Arisen expandalone later this month.
Torchlight 2. Now that I can have an alpaca as a pet, I’m gonna be playing through that again.
/Stuff.
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My housemate gives me the shits and I’ve often debated living alone. I could manage the rent on our place alone, but I’d have to start behaving better financially. I’d miss the company at times, but freedom!
Good luck!
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I think I prefer living alone. I mean, I like having people to talk to and stuff, but I also like my alone-time sometimes. & I’ve got a few close friends that I hang out with regularly, so that’s not an issue for me really.
financially, its a bigger problem. but i think it’ll just come down to being a bit more responsible. might have to cut back on how much i’m putting into savings each pay, but i’ll do that as a last resort. & if I cant manage, I suppose I could get someone else in.
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I guess the trick is to see if you can manage rent/living and still save a bit at the same time.
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I’ve been living alone since Jan.
Top tips?
1. Plan menus, and buy a bunch of containers for leftovers- work lunch the next day!
2. Know when your bills are due
3. INSURANCE
4. Get out of the house every now and then
5. Don’t rush out and buy all your furniture- I almost did, but if you wait a bit people come out of the woodwork with secondhand stuff.-
thanks man.
I’ve been living alone on and off for the last year or so. My flatmate has been overseas for work quite a bit. & I totally agree with your tips.
– I dont eat during the day, so leftovers take care of dinner the next night!
– I’ve got all bills set up on direct debit, so thats sorted
– insurance….. yeah, should look into that.
– I get out as much as I can
– with the exception of the dining table & a sideboard, I own all the furniture in the place already, so thats not an issue.but yeah, they’re good tips for anyone, not just people living by themselves.
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I’ve also got the bills on direct debit, but make sure you know exactly when they are coming out- had a close call or two!
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shameful admission : haven’t read it yet, but I did have a quick scroll through. I love your art style. I’ll be printing off a copy at work when I can get away with it.
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admission
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Fine. this afternoon, I’ll print it off & make my reading more Shaneful.
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<3
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Or a headcrab
I’m also tempted to start again with mods because some of the panda skins you can get look cool.
Oh that and i played when I really shouldn’t have and killed off another hardcore character
Staying awake today is a struggle 🙁 I have so much I need to get done today as well! Plus I look atrocious.
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It was good talking last night in the early hours, though. Sorry I didn’t have any thing of value to add. 😛
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So, for ages, I’ve been wondering what the deal is with all these people who have cool short URLs for their Facebook pages. I figured it was a popularity contest, but I was wrong. Very late to the party, but I jumped on the bandwagon anyway. LIKE ME: http://www.facebook.com/ShaneWSmith.Author
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To make this offer more appealing: if all TAYbies like my Facebook pages, I’ll stop self-promoting here in TAY 😛
Which might mean I stop posting entirely, if I can’t think of anything else to say.ANOTHER PLUS!-
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This is just a plot you’ve cooked up with @dc and @greenius to find out everyone’s real names, isn’t it? 😛
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You don’t need to be on FB to help in a plot to find out everyone’s names. Cook it up with Shane who is obviously on FB, promote his page the way you promote his website, then get him to tell you. I’m onto you, Danny-boy! 😛
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MONSTER!
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Le Funar!
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You think… I’m going to need options? 🙁
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I just assumed you’d end up writing detective novels by solving real life mysteries…
That’s the natural progression of a writer, right? 😀
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See Castle. Reverse is true 😛
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31%! I heart @virus__
edit: Wont be able to watch it until after kids bedtime though. Will be a tough wait :'(
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I followed his link! It’s going kind of slow. Haha! Awww, man!
Edit: I won’t be watching until tomorrow. Haven’t slept in a long while. Don’t want to ruin it.
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Yeah, but if you wait for ideal conditions, you’re already pre-loading it with expectations of awesome, which might ruin it too.
Also, allowing me to plant the seeds of doubt in your mind might ruin it.
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I can barely keep my eyes open. Only criteria is to not fall asleep while watching. 😛
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You guys must have better internet than me. Mine’s going crazy fast, but still only at 50%, I’m not complaining though. 😀
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Needs a smash cut to present day with old Peggy visiting Don’s grave!
Give Elizabeth Moss another Emmy! 😛
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I’m not sure what to make of that if it’s real or not D=
I mean would they really have written the entire seventh season already? I know Kurt Sutter doesn’t have anything set in concrete for Sons of Anarchy on paper yet.
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This is incredible. I reread so many times, just to make sure. Best thread ever.
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Telstra finally activated my cable properly so it looks like it’s picking up my usage now. 🙁 No more downloading all the data 🙁
Still have to ring them about the second cable modem they sent me. Don’t really want to be billed twice. Also they haven’t given me the $10 discount for having a phone line with them. 🙁
Young girl comes in with a beautiful bracelet worth several hundred dollars to be engraved. Wants “Justin Beiber” on it. Turns out she has spent over a year saving her allowance to buy the guy a bracelet to send to him.
I really didn’t know what to say to that.
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“No.”
Edit: Also, it’s Bieber, in case it’s actually happening. Probably don’t want to fuck that one up.
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He’ll probably have to skip his tri-weekly Moët and Grange bath with the groupies and buy another mansion the poor little tyke.
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He won’t even see it. His staff will see the letter, and probably chuck the bracelet into a hopper somewhere (or take it themselves if it’s nice enough).
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TAYlist for the 8th of April 2013 TAYlist – the TAY Playlist, sponsored by a week off for Easter
Counting Crows & Vanessa Carlton – Big Yellow Taxi
Pink – Try
INXS – Baby Don’t Cry
Blondie – Tide Is High
Merril Bainbridge – Mouth
Owl City – Deer In The Headlights
Adrian Lux – Teenage Crime (I keep forgetting Adrian is a unisex name)
Savage Garden – Break Me Shake Me
Billy Joel – Piano Man
Starship – We Built This City
Screaming Jets – Better
The Veronicas – Lolita
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Which one do you think meets my approval? 😛
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*checks for most depressing one on the list*….umm…Piano Man?
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Haha, you know me so well. Could’ve also deduced it by Old Man Acoustic music. 😛
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Now let’s see you guess what mine was. I’m not giving you any clues. Because I’m mean . 😛
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You downvoted me for dissing Blondie the other day, so I’ll go with that! 😛
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Wrong!
Edit: I don’t disapprove of that Blondie song, but I don’t approve either. I suppose it was a good guess, considering there’s no metal on that list. 😛
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@strange @dc It wasnt even a real Blondie song! How can you be on the fence about a song that doesnt exist!
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@sughly That was the reason why. I couldn’t recall a Blondie song called that so I couldn’t approve, but I couldn’t disapprove because Blondie. 😀
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I just like to diss ’80s synth.
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@strange Hmmmm… ok. You win. THIS time… *glares*
@dc all the downvotes!
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Owl City. Natch.
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I’m so sorry, I fixed it.
The previous line from last week’s list was a Billy Idol song, I guess I had Idol on the Brain.
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So watched the season 4 finale of Breaking Bad last night. #latetotheparty
I said god damn.
Spoilers:
Gustav getting blown the fuck up was fairly awesome. Not just blown up, but by Hector Salamanca! Although I did have a certain respect for Gus, and Giancarlo Esposito played the character amazingly.
Walter is amazing, but only when he gets pushed to something and has absolutely no choice. He kind of bugs me a little during all times in between though. I mean I know he’s not a tough guy, but I kind of wish he’d get his war face on more often.
I also wish him and Jesse would finally realise they’re good friends and stop fucking about. The two are at each other constantly. Jesse’s turned into quite the capable young guy (albeit a little naive still) and Walt should stop giving him such a fucking hard time.
I also hear it’s been on hiatus mid S5 for quite some time now. Means I’ve only got half a season left before I get bummed I don’t have any more episodes.
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\o/ Game of Thrones in the interim, I guess!
Got a few other shows I want to watch as well. Fringe is high on the list.
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I’m going to be really bummed when it’s all over. Breaking Bad has been some of the best television of all time. Insanely high quality.
That said, I’m really glad that there will be closure, and at a point where the show is still consistently great.
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I’ve enjoyed my time with Breaking Bad, and was actually really surprised at how much I have enjoyed it. It’s a slow burn, and S1 kind of plodded along, but S2 really caught me.
In all fairness S1 was pretty much about Walt finding out he has cancer and deciding to get into cooking meth.It’s weird, I’ve always been kind of immune to the TV series mania, after dabbling with Lost and rage quitting at the end of S2. GoT and TWD were the first two I’ve really watched since then, but someone got me onto Breaking Bad and it’s been great.
The list of shows to watch has grown a little.
Incidentally I ragequit Lost after I got tired of being given 67 ‘wtf’s’ and only 2 answers. It was a neverending shitstorm of unanswered questions and it just agitated me no end.
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There’s a lot of really high quality stuff on TV at the moment actually.
If you haven’t seen the BBC Sherlock I very highly recommend it.
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I think season 3 of Breaking Bad was the best to date. Hasn’t been any of it that I’ve disliked, but I REALLY dug season 3.
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Yup, hits you like a minivan when
Jesse is tearing up over killing Gale
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And then…
that slow pan and zoom into the lilly of the valley in his backyard. Head explodes.
Greatest closing shot to a season, ever. Cant imagine a closer ever being better either.
Also…
not sure I’d say they are good friends. At one stage they had the potential for it, but Walt was too busy worrying about Walt. Jesse is nice enough to forgive Walt for not being there for him all the way through, but if he ever finds out what Walt’s done to him… they will be far from friends.
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Oh yeah, well we’ll have our own karaoke meat at PAX North. I won’t sing, but I’m sure Sughly might. And Jimu, maybe? 😛
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You know you’re my boo.
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Maybe @DC should’ve taken my spot in the hotel the other night hahaha.
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He must’ve had a lot of beer and a song in his heart.
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And something to put in you.
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That’s because it came from the heart.
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Uh okay then.. Whatever floats your boat I guess.
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It’s more what doesn’t than what does in this case.
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#partypooper
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Not trying to be. Everyone has their own social anxieties and hang-ups and singing in public is mine.
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@negativezero: Yeah, man. I’d never sing in public either. Haha. Still fun to hang with the group though.
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@dc: except when it isn’t. I’ve gone down that rabbit hole before and every time it’s ended in drunk people constantly trying to pester you into participating or getting upset that you don’t want to.
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Haha! No, I wouldn’t do that. It was just funny last time that Nob, Trjn and I sat side-by-side in complete silence watching. XD It was my second meat and I still didn’t feel all that comfortable. 😛
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It could be good judging!
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Yeah, last time I was all impressed at how comfortable you guys were around each other and was feeling sad that I couldn’t muster the courage to speak. 😛
Edit: I remember I sent Trjn a text message afterwards saying, “I’ve never felt more out of place in my life.” Haha!
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No need to judge silently
Booo, get off the stage is an appropriate response
I’ve never really seen much appeal in watching people get drunk and make fools of themselves.
Maybe I need to get out more.
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Its not really like that though. Its more or less enjoying the company of your friends, and laughing with them, and enjoying their drunkeness vicariously. ‘Fun’ doesnt always have to be something directly related to what you’re doing, you can have fun being in the company of people having fun.
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Yeah but I meantioned that specifically since negativezero’s comment was around drunken peoples 🙂
But yes this is true.
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Totally.
Not disputing your statement.
You’ve clearly had very different Karaoke experiences to me. 🙁
Aww… honestly, sounds like you just have friends that are lame drunks. This can also happen.
Incidentally along that theme, I think @f4ction was talking at one point about hiring out a laser tag place…
Here is a list of places.
http://www.au.timeout.com/melbourne/clubs/features/94/best-karaoke-barsI want people to be happy!
@negativezero
you don’t have to sing. Some people will just be talking and eating. One time at karaoke, we spent the entire time laughing at how they were recycling music videos and how they were all the same actors. Singing is only for those who want to.
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When I first got Office 2013 I though that the smooth moving cursor was a good idea. Now that I’m actually using it for the first time it’s giving me a headache :S
Screw sleepiness, I’ve got to make the most of Virus’ fast torrent and watch Mad Men later tonight!
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$2 bargain bin probably
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One day I’ll buy all the movies and that’ll be a good day. Until then? My Foxtel box is replaced on Wednesday and I’ll look out for it on the movie channels again. 😀
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Yeah, just a taste thing. I’ve got no doubt it’s quality stuff, but I like music to sound as instrumenty as possible.
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I used to vehemently hate it, actually. Had a friend who only ever listened to 80’s, and I didnt get it at all. Tastes constantly change and evolve with music when you listen to enough of it. Who knows, a few years time you might be back here saying how much you love Blondie too! 😀
And anyways, synth is so an instrument >:( (but I know what you mean)
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My love for Blondie is undying. UNDYING!
to be fair, I probably said that about Linkin Park once upon a time.
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Me too, its called my backyard 😛 i love right on the approach to Tullamarine airport, nice and busy this time of day
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Gorramit replied to the wrong one… I blame… *points at reply button* THAT GUY
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Hahahaha nice… Aircraft nut like myself or? 😛
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Just live really close to the Adelaide airport 🙂
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Fair enough… I live fairly close to the Melbourne airport (obviously) but i actually rather like having all the traffic… XD I’m weird like that though
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XD I’ve done the same thing… WE’RE NOT WEIRD, THE REST OF THE WORLD IS!
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Liam’s back in hospital – he’s developed a rash in addition to the fever.
In addition, my wife had to get a biopsy, because the lump isn’t what they thought it was. Get those results on Friday.
Oh man 🙁
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Shit man, that’s not great at all… There’s nothing we can say or do that’ll make this better, but know that my thoughts are with you and your wife in these hard times!
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🙁 When it rains, it pours. Sorry to hear that man. Let me know if there’s any thing I can do, even if it’s just talking privately and all that. Hope everything turns out alright.
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Nef powered positive juju being beamed your way. Eyebrow raised and all. Grunted a few times during transmission for extra effect. Results sure to please.
Seriously though, hope all is well my friend.
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Just watched the season premiere of Mad Men! Really liked it!
I particularly liked Betty’s arc. Really different and unexpected. I also liked seeing Linda Cardellini on the show too. (@sughly!) Peggy’s kind of changed, but not really — there’s an abrasiveness to her now. Haha.
I laughed out loud when Don pitched the Resort thing and they assumed the guy killed himself. XD Seems like he’s more hands on this season too with the creative stuff, even if it’s not going as well as it used to… I suspect Peggy’s been missed here… Also when Bobby told Betty that she was ugly, you so crazy! Haha!
The Don thing with the Doctor is so messed up, I thought for sure that they were setting up a proper friend for him, something he’s never had before… NOPE…
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Peggy is becoming more bossy, she wants to be the female Don Draper, but I feel she never will be because Don is brilliant stuff comes to him more naturally. Where as Peggy sometimes struggles way too much on the simplest of things. As for Betty, she’s still someone i’m not overly keen on, if she appeared less in the season I wouldn’t be upset. I want more of Joan & Roger, they’re great support characters. Even more Kenny would be great.Over all I quite liked it. Just didn’t grab me as much as season 5’s premiere did though. But still great 2 episodes.
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That new guy seems really odd. The guy trying to network with everyone. I get the feeling he’s just trying too hard, but Kenny in particular seemed to have a grudge against him. I like how they haven’t just abandoned Peggy, you see her new office and co-workers and all that. I think Peggy’s just as good as Don, maybe even better — just her process is a little more invovled. Don seems to phone his work in most of the time. (I guess the fact it’s still good means something!) Will be interesting to see what happens if they go up against SCDP eventually!
Seems like some time has passed, but they’ve kept Lane’s name.
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Yeah, he seemed like someone Kenny hates a lot. I dunno, Peggy had her moments but she wasn’t as great from memory in 5 with coming up with stuff for products, but eh that was a year ago I can’t remember much haha. Yeah, well I think it’d be a pain in the arse to change from a buisness point of view the name lol. It should be a good season though.-
I think you’re right. She struggled a bit last season because I think Don stopped being as involved with the stuff and kind of threw her in the deep end. The fact he actually hung out with the creative types this year in that little office was more than I can remember him doing last year. He used to just have meetings in his office and diss all their work. Haha. -
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One thing I thought was cool with Kenny, Pete and Harry was how they treated Don more like an equal than a boss. Guess it was building last season, but Pete was almost openly mocking Don to his face and he didn’t react or seem to care.
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I told you I failed so now I’ll wait until they get marked to find out what I actually got, but there’s no way I’m passing it :/
The lecture today for that same subject was literally one of the most confusing things I’ve ever been in and I didn’t understand 99% of it… seriously contemplated dropping the unit but I missed the date to not get it on your transcript and I honestly don’t know anymore :/
I don’t like the units I’m doing, I don’t like the degree, I have no idea what I’m going to do afterwards :/
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You can post on TAY and talk about the old times with any one who’d listen. Remember when I used to work on Big Brother! 😛
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My wife did that.
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Wait wait, I thought of a Blondie song you’d like @dc! Believe it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31mnj_-RNZg
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Instruments! I like it, reminds me of a movie score! 😀
(Not sure about the pretentiousness at the end. Haha! :P)
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Hahaha! Yeah well… not so much pretentiousness as 80’s coolness 😀
But to be fair, there’s lots of Blondie that isn’t synths.
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Should also say that most music takes a while to grow on me at the best of times. In fact that Runaway song by The National only clicked this morning. So. Damn. Amazing. 😀
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No I know. Actually, totally wasnt trying to get you into Blondie, which it looks like I was doing XD
Just was curious to see what you thought of that track. But yes that National song is indeed amazing 😀
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Haha, well your instincts were right. Liked that one. 😀
Boxer can wait, still High Violet-ing.
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Holy heck… just found out there was a Blondie b-side that’s an 8 minute ‘original’ version of Call Me. It is amazing. This is the best day ever.
THERE’S ANOTHER VERSE! Oh man… Call Me lyrics that I dont know! This is incredible…
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And you’ve got Mad Men too! Be sure to post about it here afterwards, there’s some casting I think you’ll like. 😀
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Thats what I said!
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Have you watched yet? 😀
Did you see the person? THE PERSON!
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@blaghman You said some time ago you expected me to post some classics, well, I’ve had this stuck in my head for a week now, (since I played around with my brother’s new mandolin), so in an attempt to purge my mind of this earworm, this one’s for you. 😛
Finally back home after an amazing day out and about!
For those who didn’t see my earlier tweet… Oh. My. God. Jurassic Park 3D was absolutely spectacular! I had goosebumps throughout the entire thing. Can’t believe how good it felt to finally see this movie on the big screen (let alone on that massive IMAX screen). I was grinning like an idiot the entire walk out of the cinema. There’s so many small things that you don’t notice when watching it on a tv. The 3D (which I was a little skeptical about before going in) was so fantastic too. Some of the shots look like they were specifically shot for 3D, it looked amazing (spoiler tags just in case, even if it’s a 20 year old movie… :P) The scene where Alan, Lex and Tim are climbing the electric fence looked SO good in 3D. It really made the fence look a lot higher than before. Similar scenes like the car falling down through the tree were great too
I think I’ll go replay Jurassic Park: The Game now. I want more!
All in all, such a satisfying day!
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Wouldn’t mind seeing it again too on the big screen, but I think if I can justify going to the movies I might as well see something new — especially when there’s some cool stuff too playing at the moment. (Or soon!)
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Also I downloaded Meloetta in EB Games. I tried to do the whole stealth-lean-against-the-wall-just-outside-the-door-of-EB-to-download but the Wireless signal didn’t reach that far. Ended up having to just walk in, download and walk out like a weirdo 😛
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The only thing I don’t like about that scene:
Tim (and probably Lex, too) could have totally fit through some of the gaps between the wires…But it’s a movie so I can forgive it 😛
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Exactly my problem. It certainly loses something once you notice that.
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DARK SOULS \o/
Not in the mood for progress, so I just spent about 2.5 hours grinding out humanity and souls and shards in various places. Got some pretty wicked gear now, but I can’t use any of it 😛
Guess I should do my page-per-day page now.
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DARK SOULS \o/
Not really… I (We) still hope everything is alright with you and the family. Many hugs – whether they’re wanted or not but I’ve been told I have amazing hugs so you better want them.
Just watched Game of Thrones. When it was finished Mr.Strange said “Wow, it’s over already?” I guess that means it was a good episode. 😀
Oh man, Brienne’s swordfight with the Kingslayer was hilarious. When she was just one-handing it at the end. Perfect. 😀
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I actually liked this episode MORE than the first episode.Theon’s scenes were stomach-turning. The dude who came in and said he was coming in on behalf of Theon’s sister? Yeah, nope. That’s Ramsay Bolton. Calling it now.
The Brotherhood without Banners are amazing. They’re just as I pictured them in the books, especially Thoros of Myr.
As I said on Twitter last night, the Reeds were perfectly cast.
As always, Brienne and Jaime were the highlights. I especially love Jaime’s line “If the Iron Throne were made of cocks, you never would’ve got him (Renly) off the damn thing”
Lady Olenna was also perfectly cast. That scene was amazing.
I can’t stand the actress who plays Shae. I hate how over-sexualised her character has become. Sure, she is a whore, but I find that her portrayal (both from the writing team and the performance itself) is so over-the-top that I can’t take her seriously. In the books I found that her relationship with Tyrion was very endearing. Sweet. Innocent, even. But not in the show.
Despite that one issue, I’m finding that I’m starting the like the show more than I like the books.
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I am also super jealous that Jojen Reed has seen the rebellion. That’s something that I want to see.
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Wait. The back of the Monster Hunter box says it has lock on targeting. That would address 75% of my issues with the game. At no point has the game explained this or have I figured it out yet.
Arrrgh.
@greenius @ynefel
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It’s on the touch screen on the 3DS (when in the same area as a large monster), but I haven’t been game to actually try pressing the lock on button to see what it does.
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It doesn’t really.
All it does is just focus the camera on the monster when you press the camera button (L).
By default there will be a monster icon for the main hunt and tapping it will show a recticle (meaning it’s on) so pressing L will centre the camera to face the monster if it’s in the area. ZR (R trigger thingy) should also toggle this by default.
Note: this only works on the main monsters and only once they’ve spotted you. You should be close to fighting Great Jaggi.
But it’s still rather terrible 😛
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Just quietly I cracked the shits with Monster Hunter again and threw in Xenoblade. Since I’m here.
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I approve.
@negativezero was all “NAH MAN I HATE XENOBLADE BECAUSE WII” but he loved it once he got over the “WII” factor 😛
He plays lotsa JRPGs and he said he’s starting to agree with us that it’s the best JRPG this generation!
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I had more fun playing XIII
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But that’s only because he hasn’t played Resonance Of Fate yet.
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Actually, I have. And it’s definitely not the best this gen since it has a deliberately obtuse gameplay system and a plot that explains nothing at all.
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I forgot to “Colon Pee!”, as Jimu would say.
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I understand that. With me, I was hooked from the first movie before you even start the game so I had that incentive to keep going. I fell in love with the world before I fell in love the gameplay.
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@strange: for me, the characters are why I play JRPGs. An interesting world is a bonus, but for world-oriented games I prefer western RPGs.
I wanted to like Resonance of Fate. Really, I did. But it seemed determined not to tell me anything or make me care about anyone.
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Nier could come close with more polish but it’s still pretty flawed 😛 (but awesome!)
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I love nier but I never think of it as a JRPG.
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Yeah, Monster Hunter does have pretty terrible character models and animations
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I think my eyes are melting.
This is why I hate the Wii.
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Although to be fair, all those characters are ugly by design, they would look even uglier in proper HD….
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It’s more the way the Wii has a tendency to wash everything out and blur all the textures together. It’s headache inducing.
I know what you mean. It’s why I couldn’t play Monster Hunter Tri. I’d get a headache after 10-15 minutes of play. I didn’t have that problem with Xenoblade though, I could play for hours. The Last Story was somewhere inbetween.
PLAY MORE XENO <3
Yeah, Xenoblade ain’t a looker initially, but the scale of some of the later areas is pretty impressive.
Shame they’re, you know, later.
They’re a bit janky in the cutscenes but they’re okay when actually playing generally, and the world itself makes up for it by being absolutely stunning.
DotA is one of those games that seems to give you a glint of victory, and then bash your face in for even thinking that you were close to winning.
On the one hand, I finally feel like I’m beginning to find a modicum of comfort with the gameplay mechanics, and I’m getting a minor grasp on certain characters. Still, at 60hrs played, you’d want to hope you’ve learned something, right?
On the other hand… pretty sure I’m developing RSI from all this clicking.
Yes, that’s my story, and I’m sticking with it.
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DotA 2 here, only played a single game of the original mod.
…do I have you on Steam? Should join us (@rize @cakesmith @blaghman @cj @sernobulus @trjn @pyrean @rocketman @gorzilla and maybe others?) for a game one night 😀
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OH GOD WAT.
I… I don’t know it. I… oh god, halp
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He doesn’t have an account(since he joined TS through Gorzy, and only reads TAY on occasions), but your first one would have been correct.
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I’m fairly sure he only reads TAY to make sure I’m not talking bad about him. What a bastard.
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sorry, i call dota 2 just dota because it is the best dota.
yes i have 500 hours in dota 2 hahaha.
and i will have to join some of you some time then as well.
dibs meepo
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FUCK. MEEPO.
NOPE.We had a 3v4 ARAM going on, with Meepo on the team of 3. Suddenly it was 5,6,7v4… I scored the *only* kill for our team that game, against Meepo 😛
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I can’t ever enjoy this game, since I somehow always seem to get matched up with a character that can easily kick the crap out of me before I even get close to AA range to last hit. So basically I’ve almost had every normal game where I’m unable to do anything for 20-30 minutes and therefore being completely underpowered and useless for later game, gg.
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ERH MAH GERD LOL IS 4 BABIES BLFHSFH
not really, i occasionally play LoL as well, it’s fun in its own way 🙂
I play DotA 2 as well, though I haven’t had a match with the other TAY-bies yet. Currently circling around the AR/SD matches with my bf 🙂
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DC finally battled his Insomnia.
Woooooooooooooo \o/
Goodnight.
Dream those sweet kettle crisps dreams 🙂
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Wth is with all 3 random chinese articles on the front page of kotaku?!
They don’t even have the usual ‘tenuous link’ theyr are just 100% off topic and strange…
Everyone came home at 11:30 last night. No news to report – just another aspect of the virus. *shakes fist at @virus__ *
Just have to wait this out, I guess.
House to myself for a week!
Finally, a chance to take responsibility.
…or I could just go naked around the house and buy pizza for dinner. Best plan \o/
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ALL THE UP-VOTES!
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Marvel retrying that 700 free digital #1s again.
This time you must sign up:
http://www.comicsalliance.com/2013/04/08/marvel-comixology-free-comics-1/
I had something useful to say, but then I forgot.
Um.
I should start another game. Okami, XCOM, DXHR (Again), Ico (I still haven’t played it. yes, I am the worst), MGS3 (Again), Peace Walker (Again), AC:Brotherhood (Again) I LIKE PLAYING GAMES AGAIN DON’T JUDGE ME, PILE OF SHAME
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I LIKE PLAYING GAMES AGAIN TOO!
I’m currently playing Okami, so you should do that too. Or not. Whichever.
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Ico because it’s pretty short and so you can stop being the worst.
Just kidding, you’ll always be the worst.
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Very. Some would say too long. I think I spent 30+ hours.
But it’s so worth it.
It’s basically divided into three acts which are representative of different parts of Japanese mythologies. The first two parts are built around traditional Japanese mythologies – the first part is mainly early Shinto stuff, Amaterasu, Susanoou, Yamata-no-Orochi etc and the second part is sort of more of a ‘Golden Age’ mythological setting with references to heaps of stuff like the Ninetails, Hakkenden, Momotaro… if you know Japanese mythology at all it’s fascinating. The final act is set in Ezo (the northern islands of Japan) and built around Ainu mythology and is quite distinct from the rest.
Artistically it’s also one of the most visually stunning games ever made IMO. It’s made to look like Ukiyo-e paintings on rice paper. Thick, bold brush stroke lines. Very heavy emphasis on minor details as well, eg as Amaterasu runs, flowers grow on the ground where she’s been running, and the faster she runs the wider the trail.
Okami is one of my favourite games of all time.
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I think I finished it earlier this year at 30 hours.
That’s with a decent amount of exploring and talking to everyone.
Great game but some bits feel a bit dated.
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Sometimes when I need a reminder of how intelligent, charming, attractive and all around fantastic I am, I look in the mirror.
Other times I look at the Kotaku comments.
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I like to picture them sitting naked at a computer surrounded by pictures of themselves in various poses, nodding at their own greatness while they slowly stroke themselves to a weak and whimpering climax.
I think I may have some issues.
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I see everything 😀
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@greenius
Persona 4 Golden endgame
just keeps goinga nd going. I just evolved (almost) everyone’s Persona again!
@dc we’re talking about hermits in info systems 😛
And now we’re talking about the double fine adventure game!
Came out yesterday but forgot to post XD (@dc) – http://pitchfork.com/news/50230-listen-to-the-nationals-new-single-demons/
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Love this too. Can only imagine what dc might think of this #gameofthronessynth http://pitchfork.com/news/50238-listen-chvrches-cover-games-of-thrones-theme/
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Yeah, really different stuff. Feels a little more like Fever Ray than Knife, but I kind of like that personally 🙂 Though I do find myself skipping the 19 minute long song that has like, 3 notes the whole way through XD But yeah, has some great tracks in there.
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It reminds me more of tomorrow,in a year more than fever ray. The Crazy instrumentation can be a bit much at times, but very very awesome. Yeah, Old dreams waiting to be realised is probably a go to sleep track I think…
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You forgot to post, but we talked about The National. Twice. :'(
😀 Thanks man! Awesome to discover them right as they’re releasing new stuff too.
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In major need of relaxing Wall of sound music with a happy tint. Sigur ros isn’t quite doing it for me today. Any suggestions?
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Wall of sound with happy tint? Not quite sure I’m deciphering that right, but lemme see… if youre trying Sigur Ros, could always try Amiina, the girls from the group, first of all. Their album Puzzle is great. Mum is a similar sound to Sigur Ros, if thats what youre aiming for. I’d go for their album Finally We Are No One. Parades by Efterklang? It might be a little jarring in places for wall of sound though. Nostalgia for the Absolute by Arms and Sleepers is always a good background album, just really pleasant and is all instrumental. Maybe a little sombre though?
edit: Looking back on your request, I think Mum is top of the list of relaxing with tint of happy 🙂 ‘Green Grass of Tunnel’ might best show off what I mean by that, from the album I suggested.
edit2: Actually if youre after something a little more upbeat but still chilled, Real Estate is good for that. They have a bit of a Beach Boys/summer vibe, but a lot more relaxed. Really nice stuff. ‘Days’ is a good album.
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That “displacement years” list on that PS3 2013 Lineup article is really making it clear to me why Playstation has always been my favourite. It’s not just because PSX was my first console, it’s because they’ve always had more of the types of games I like to play. Looking at the lists, I own or want/ed to own most of those Playstation games but the Nintendo ones have less that interest me and the Xbox list has next to nothing.
I think unless they pull something extra out of their hat when they finally announce the new Xbox (and if they don’t require an internet connection to play games) I will have no qualms about this being the first generation since I started console gaming that I will not own all of the consoles. Especially as most of Xbox’s exclusives seem to be shooters which is far from my favourite of genres.
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Ayup. Interest in the next Xbox is currently running at zero, regardless of always on Internet.
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Im not really hyped for any consoles right now. Xbox is doing nothing for me and the only thing that interested me in the
mini-PCPS4 was Infamous: Firey fire guy.
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I think, in the end, I’m almost guaranteed to pick up the next Xbox, because I am a massive Halo fanboy. But, that’s in the end. In like, 8 years, when it’s really really cheap. The PS4 is definitely doing a lot more for me right now.
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It’s remarkable that for the supposed “winner” of this generation how little interest there seems to be in its successor. It speaks volumes of how much Microsoft has stagnated while the others have lifted their game.
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Although it may also have something to do with the fact they haven’t announce the next Xbox yet, too. It will be interesting to see what people’s (mine as well) interest levels are after it’s announced.
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This is kind of an important point. Bit hard to compare when there hasnt even been any official announcements for xbox XD
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I’m in agreeance here.
Only thing, as usual I will be a late adopter. So who really knows.
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Durango holds zero interest for me now, for various reasons. PS4 has piqued my interest, but I’m fairly sure I won’t buy it immediately. That being said, there’s still lot more info on both consoles to come so that may change.
There’s just progressively less and less difference between PCs and consoles these days. I miss the old days when consoles were simple and awesome.
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Exactly! The only reason I would get a console is for something different for my PC but all the consoles are just turning into mini PC’s.
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Are fucking awesome?
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Truly are. Its why so called ‘retro’ is making big waves. People never stopped loving 16 bit, companies just decided to abandon it for a while.
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Yeah, I’m down with polygons but sprites shouldn’t have just been abandoned.
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DS has knocked it outta the top slot for me.
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Blasphemy. The DS was/is brilliant, but the SNES birthed so many incredible fucking games.
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So has the DS, to be fair. But yes you are right XD
In my mind, for SNES I have Link to the Past, Harvest Moon, Illusion of Time, Pilotwings, Donkey Kong Countries, Starfox, Super Metroid, Mario Kart, Yoshi’s Island…. top of my head XD
DS would be Phoenix Wright series, Advance Wars’, Touch Detectives, Laytons, New Super Mario (first one on ds was great), 999, Mario & Luigi, Hotel Dusk, Pokemans…
Actually, listing them out, I think SNES wins XD
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HOW DARE YOU HOLD AN OPPOSING OPINION TO ME!!! RARRRRR!!!
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Phoenix Wright was GBA originally – the earlier DS games are updated ports. Advance Wars started on GBA too.
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@negativezero I know, but… cant really count phoenix as a gba when we got english on the ds. And as for advance wars, my favourite ones were ds.
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Nah, man. I was holding on for a while but then I realised it did quite a bit more as a system. (Touchscreen & all that)
It has a longer list of games I think of as classics plus it has a number of enhanced SNES ports (Chrono Trigger, DQ).I have a shelf full of DS games. I played a lot of SNES back in the day. Pretty sure my DS hours would now outnumber the SNES hours though.
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and it’s portable. First console I ever bought was GameBoy so I didn’t have to make use of our one TV.
Yeah, a top contender indeed. I love them both equally I think, they are both little warmths to the heart I could not live without <3
GAME.CUBE. (for me atleast)
Really? COs I do love that console but the game list is very short.
Quality over quantity. =)
@sernobulus
Oh, dood. Of course. I thought there were more quality games on PS2 is all. (there was even more shit games too)
My PS2 library is about 4 times the size of my GC library
(in fairness sake, some of those PS2 games aren’t the greatest and there were a couple of GC games I never got to play, so I’d say PS2 had 3 times as many quality games)
That’s fair enough, PS2 had some good games but whenever I look back on my gaming history the one that stick out is playing the GameCube. I honestly haven’t really enjoyed a games as much as I did when playing the GameCube. That is until I played LM2 which got me thinking about why I love games.
DS burned me with the hardware revisions, taught me not to buy consoles on initial release.
First DS is soooooo ugly
I didn’t think so at the time. I was impressed by the dual screens being similar to the old Game&Watch series.
Thought that was a nice touch for old school fans 🙂
Ugly, but the most comfortable!
I prefer the DS lite or the brick, so there was no problem there for me 🙂
I only ever got the original DS, it looks like crap now, it’s a really dull grey, scuffed to hell, screen looks like I’ve rubbed it with sandpaper, all serial numbers/ markings etc are completely worn off, I couldn’t even begin to imagine the hours I’ve spent on that thing. Still love the ugly little thing though.
For me, I’ll be getting a PS4 because I’m confident it will get the lion’s share of Japanese developer support. Also I’m fairly invested into Sony’s platform since I have a Vita and everything as well. My real hope though is that given how similar the hardware will be to a PC, the net result is we get PC ports of most JRPGs as well.
Whether I get the system at launch will depend on the price, their decisions on PSN accounts and regioning (if I’m forced to import a US system then it’ll take me longer to get one).
Durango doesn’t interest me at all. 360 used to be my primary console but I find now that I’d rather get all those games on PC instead, since they almost universally have better PC ports. However again, this may change depending on what games they announce.
Basically: my PC will be my primary platform, and PS4 my primary console for stuff that’s not on PC. When/if there’s enough good exclusive games to justify it, I’ll get the other systems.
Last generation the original Xbox was the clear winner for me for Jade Empire, KotOR, Dreamfall and Fable mostly. This generation it’s PS3 for sure!
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No, I was a bit of a console snob last generation and primarily used my PS2 as a DVD player. XD
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Me too, I didn’t even ever own an xbox!
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I find it odd that they talk about the Xbox ‘displacement’ year positively. The Xbox was basically murdered overnight and went from having wide support to no support the instant the 360 was announced. Felt like the same happened for the Gamecube to Wii transition too.
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Thing is, the system was announced in May 2005 and released November. The Xbox’s release lineup if you just take ‘2005’ looks okay, but if you look at the actual release dates you’ll find all those good games were in the first half of 2005 and the instant the 360 was announced there was basically nothing left. Jade Empire and KotOR II were early 2005 and those were basically the last really big things on the system.
Microsoft really handled the transition from Xbox to X360 badly. They couldn’t wait to kill the old system – it was never profitable – and start over.
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Yeah I noticed the list was off. Especially from an Aussie perspective.
It was quite a while after FFIX that the PS2 dropped here :-/Another lazy article. Like that Atelier Vita one that contradicts itself in the last sentance (was going to say paragraph but the whole article was only a paragraph)
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I thought that the xbox list had some really good games on it, and besides have Psychonauts makes it a great year
I guess the interesting thing is all the ones I was interested in from the list I have on PC so as far as driving the need to buy a console it isn’t there.
The difference I see is that the PS2 had a lot of jrpg style games that haven’t been ported to PC so the ‘need’ to get the console is actually there.
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Yeah, the PC market in Japan is very different. PCs are for work and for visual novel / ADV games & porn games. And the best VNs end up getting expanded console ports too. The market was dominated by the PC-88 and PC-98 and Windows wasn’t really a thing until 98 SE, and didn’t start to really penetrate until 2k and XP.
The net result is that if you want to play Japanese games, you’re going to need a console. I feel like at the current rate this is never going away either, though the PS4 and Durango being x86-based machines will probably mean easier ports.
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I’d rather play everything I like on one platform. Less money and less boxes under my TV.
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Do you plug your PC into the TV?
I have plenty of room under my telly for multiple consoles, comfortably have the Wii, PS3 & 360 plugged in at the same time with room to spare.
I’d rather just one console though, that doesn’t require so much attention. I miss the days where a game came out, I dropped in in my system and it played. Goddam DLC and patches have ruined those dreams *sob*
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Not my current PC but it was my plan to build a Steambox at some point. Additionally I have to have room at the moment for my amplifier (which needs enough space around it for airflow so it doesn’t cook itself), my 360, PS3 and Wii. The Wii will probably be swapped out for a Wii U, a PS4 added but the PS3 will kick around for a while – I continued to have a PS2 hooked up until about this time last year. For a long time I also had a second 360 in the mix as well. It all gets pretty squishy. It also looks very messy.
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Oh! You’re getting a Wii U? Is there a game you really want? Looks so threadbare to me and I had such a bad Wii experience.
We bought a long cupboard/shelves dealie and I got this wierd stand thingie (no idea what it’s called) holds the TV up higher so the PS3 & 360 slip underneath. I have the Wii out to the side, looks shit, but the mrs owns the Wii and that’s how she wanted it.
If we do get any speakers there will be room either side of all of that still because of the length of the untit. Worked out quite well.
Back in the day (when I was single) I had this little TV on a little table I made in highs school with consoles and cords and shit all over the place and I always planned but never got around to buying one of those thingos so you can plug all the cords in at once, so I had to unplug and replug consoles as I wanted to play.
It was a mess, but I didn’t really give a shit.
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@Jimu:
I will eventually get a Wii U for that (and also other stuff they’ll have by the end) but right now it offers nothing so this is just a long-term acceptance of the fact I’ll end up buying one, not any solid plan.
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Oh yeah, still nothing for me 🙁 (or maybe smiley face cos I save some $$$$s)
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Morning TAY,
I have failed at acquiring a full list. of melb taybies tags… can you please assist?
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I don’t know, he seems like a cool guy, although he does seems to have a weird thing with chickens in Minecraft.
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And vibrating cows.
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… I shouldn’t ask.
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im amassing my army of chickens and cows to TAKE OVER THE WORLD….. of minecraft…
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Still warrants a downvote.
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@virus__ = in Melbourne when he can afford flights there. I love that city, I miss my friends I made down there 🙁
Morning guys. Been awake since 6:30, went to bed at something like 3:30. I feel surprisingly refreshed and alert. I usually feel like this after 3-6 hours of sleep it’s weird. Anything more I feel like absolute shit.
My morning so far has been, texting with Kat, oh what a surprise there & I went into Centrelink, which was a painless exercise I was done within 15 minutes of being called upon and now I can receive money so I can be more independent and stuff, their expectations of me is not 10 jobs a week applied for but at least some, showing that I am applying initiative and actively seeking employment! and shortly I am catching up with my mate we’re gonna buy his new headunit for his car and then install it! So good day a head by the looks.
So how are you all?!
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Bored at work, but otherwise fine.
I had that when I was first on certreclink, they’d say ten jobs and I literally couldn’t apply for so many because I had zero experience (I never even took a part time job in highschool)
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Yeah, that’s my problem. I never had a part time job in high school, due to studies and something to do with my trust account my grandmother left me meant it would be a pain in the rectum with filing tax. My only job I have had since school was working for an old IT teacher of mine at his business doing Web Design/Help Desk and even then it wasn’t for long so, yeah it’s hard with no experience or anyone wanting to give you a go.
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Yeah, i’ve seen a few cleaner jobs around here, though most are in the schools and require your blue card which I have no idea where I source one of those from..
Reminds me I need to ring TAFE and ask about their RCG courses. I need to get that ASAP, so much bar work around here atm just need my RCG to even ask. Damn places having gaming machines =/
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Ah yeah, fair enough man.
I’m happy with any work along those lines, most of the places here apart from The Dolphin hotel (@freezespreston knows how nasty that place is) are pretty decent establishments, i’ve never had an issue when i’ve been out drinking at them.
At the moment a job is looking good to be honest with you. I would prefer evening work/night shift for various reasons, I prefer working then and I feel I am at my best then as well.
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Yeah, I worked nights for yeeeeears
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When I was much younger and going through a bum period on Centrelink – I’d just phone various workplaces, make an enquiry about a product or service they sold, then ask who I was speaking with. Then you had a contact name for your little jobseeker diary.
Not implying Centrelink usage is indicative of being a bum, but I was definitely acting like one.
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I kind of feel like that defeats the purpose. Just saying.
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I’m not sure I was aiming to condone or inspire, more illustrate how not to do unemployment correctly.
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Well around here there can be weeks on end where there are no jobs at all I can find and apply for. But it does, you’re right.
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…. I feel like I just did something wrong. But you’re welcome.
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Yeah, it might be immoral, but sometimes you have to do shit like that. I don’t think i’m going to have an issue with not finding enough to make it acceptable I am applying for x amount of jobs. But I won’t find 10 every week though.
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10 a week can be a bit rough at times, I agree.
You needed a contact name?
Back in my day you could just browse through the phonebook and put in any old name and number.
The diaries came in just after I found regular work.
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I just applied en masse on Seek, put “applied online” if I couldn’t get a name.
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Yeah I have a feeling some weeks are going to be exactly that lol. But oh well. The fact I am trying is something I say!
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Here is the truth about that centrelink thing: Pride is a bitch.
Apply for all the shitty jobs.
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I feel like that’s one thing a lot of unemployed people don’t understand. I’ve had friends who would complain about how they couldn’t find a job, when the truth is they couldn’t find anything they thought was good enough. When you’re unemployed, with little to no experience, you’re not better than any job.
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Hell, I applied for a job as a security guy, watching screens.
Bet I’d be the only guy doing that with two bachelor degrees 🙂
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You mean besides the arts graduates of course
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That’s why I bit the bullet last year and went for a job at McDonalds, even if they did reject me lol.
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Reminds me of all the people I knew at film school who complained about no film work, when the reality is they didnt bother looking. Its there, they just wont be able to direct a feature film straight away, and strangely enough it wont be handed to them on a silver platter.
I usually do haha. Just there’s no shitty jobs even around at the moment it’s weird..
I didn’t fall asleep to around the same time as you, but I just got up then. I think I’m coming down with a cold as I’ve just been feeling off for the last couple of days.
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Damn dude, colds fucking suck. Hope you’re better soon, get all the vitamin c, panadol, water & rest into you!
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It’s slow. Or you’re just living life a lot slower or i’m just trippin’ balls and imagining I am replying to you.
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The spirit wanted to sleep, but the body wouldn’t. Haha.
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Im serious though, you can make yourself both physically and mentally ill from not sleeping.
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Already got the mentally ill part down. That’s about 28 years too late. 😛 Thanks for the concern though. Not something I do often. Just the result of a really bad day, alas. :S
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Post meat blues?
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Nah, just something that was building for a couple of weeks and then decided to punch me in the face good and proper on Sunday. Vague. Haha.
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Arcade Fire — Intervention, my favourite Arcade Fire song, I think. What you listening to?
I can taste your fear, it’s gonna lift you up and take you outta here…
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Hang on, we can’t play this game without a shout out to @spaghett
Kokubo Sosho Battle- Amon Tobin
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Haha! Of course!
Did you watch Mad Men, if so:
LINDA CARDELINNI. She’s back! In Mad Men form! 😀-
Errrmagerd! When she pops up earlier in the ep, I was like…. LINDA!? I wouldnt have believed it was if it wasnt for your hinting 😀 Then she’s all up in the show later. Literally.
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Hope you don’t mind the hinting. I don’t think casting stuff is spoiler, but then some people might consider it one. Hope I didn’t ruin any thing for you.
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Oh no, not at all! But youre right about the age thing, it doesnt surprise me with the show at all. It’s still part of the whole position of women in society thing – marry a man with a career. Age doesnt come into it 😀
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Virus and I rambled about the episode a little on the previous page if you want to talk obsessively about plot points in fanboy mode. Haha!
Cool interview with Linda too, if you’re interested. No spoilers beyond the season premiere.
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I’m not really sure how to break this to you, but Blondie are actually quite popular. People know them.
Sorry.
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^_^
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also, given that you’re a Radiohead fan… You know the band PVT (formerlly known as Pivot)?
picked up their new album the other day & it’s got some very Radiohead / Eraser ish tracks.
Edit: just a heads up, that clip contains a woman wearing nothing but a plastic sheet spinning in circles. not exactly NSFW, but just so you know in case you have anyone around who would not approve.
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Oh wow, thats quite cool! Ive come across these guys before but never really paid much attention. Might have to dig deeper! Thanks mang 😀
Really dig that bit towards the end when the extra keys kick in
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glad to hear you dug it!
they’ve got a pretty varied sound, so might wanna do a bit of youtube exploring before committing to a purchase. like on their new album, Homosapien, theres maybe half the tracks that I’d say are similar to that one.their previous album, Church with no magic, is a lot more synth with rock influences & is pretty different to that clip posted above.
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You had me at synth ^_^
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Light Up Bright Fires My favorite of theirs 🙂
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@35 Whoooaa… thats awesome! These guys are really interesting! Those drums and synths :O
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@freezespreston: Was talking to uni friend last night and apparently Joshy P told them about our dinner thingy. They now know we have mutual friends. Was weird. Haha.
Did Josh have a good time?
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My sister made a bet with my parents that after going on that ride, she wouldn’t sing that song for the rest of the day. My sister won, but only because she is really, really, stubborn.
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Your parents were the real winners
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I tried drowning myself but I think they use that breathable liquid from The Abyss so you can’t take the easy way out.
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A bullet to the head’s the only sure way off that ride.
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They should sell guns / ammunition 1/2 through the ride! Make all the money!
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Disney Branded ones for double the price. 😀
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You know, sometimes I think I miss you, then you come back.
And I realise I really did.
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I AM THE LIZARD QUEEN
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@zetrox2k – I just remembered you said you were sending those MAD mag’s. Did you send them yet? If so, when, as I haven’t heard anything about them showing up. If you haven’t, then cool! Just want to make sure they haven’t gone missing 🙂
@ash When you joining twitter so you can compliment my awesome Chie Avatarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr???
ATTENTION MELBOURNE TAYBIES!!!
ZETROX’S TOTALLY NOT LAST SECOND AND TOTALLY NOT SPONTANEOUS BIRTHDAY LAN MEAT!!!!
WHERE: CRAIGIEBURN
WHEN SATURDAY THE 13TH OF APRIL
TIME : 5PM – USUALLY 3-5AM (PEOPLE START LEAVING AT AROUND 2AM USUALLY)
THERE WILL BE GAMES,
THERE WILL BE MEAT.
FRIENDS & FOES,
YOU MUST DEFEAT.
ALL THE FRIENDS,
THAT YOU WILL MAKE.
YOU WILL DESTROY,
THEN WE’LL HAVE CAKE.
BRING YOUR LAPTOPS,
BRING YOUR PC’S.
EVEN IF,
THEY RUN LIKE FAECES.
FOR THOSE IN NEED,
I HAVE TWO SPARE.
THAT THEY CAN USE,
SO DONT DESPAIR.
THE GAMES WILL START,
AT 5 NO LATER.
BRING $20 BUCKS,
FOR LA PORCHETTA.
THE DRINKS AND SNACKS,
ARE ALL ON ME.
THERES A TOILET,
IF YOU NEED TO PEE.
SO IF YOU CAN,
THEN MAKE IT DOWN,
ITS NOT TOO FAR,
TO CRAIGIEBURN TOWN.
ABOUT 25 MINUTES,
NORTH OF CBD.
GET YOUR ASSES DOWN,
AND CELEBRATE MY BIRTHDAY WITH ME.
@TIGERION, TAG IT UP BABY!
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NOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooo………………………………………..
Sorry mate, I can’t make it. I’ve got my Nephew’s 2nd birthday up that day. The worst part is I’ll actually pass through Craigieburn in the morning when I’m going there. Then continue on for another 250 km
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STOP ON UR WAY BACK IF UR NOT STAYING THE NIGHT!!!!
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I think we will most likely be staying up there, will let you know if anything changes
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I cant figure out which way that face goes…
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Angry guy or sad big forehead guy, take your pick!
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But… why does the angry guy have a tear above his eyebrow?
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I think I’m going to be busy but I’ll check.
In the event I come, what games would be looked at? I’d probably have to lug over my PC since I don’t have a gaming laptop (lol macbook pro) and it’s kind of bulky.
@scree, @greenius, @negativezero, @beavwa, @princesspipster, @puppylicks, @mcgarnical, @tigerion… Uh… that’s all I’ve got… for now. 😛
Boom
@greenius @scree @beavwa @princesspipster @tech_knight @budgieishere @tigerion @jordi @f4ction @splicer @notoriousr @tofu @blood_apathy @dire_wolf @mcgarnical @pixel_the_ferret_viking @puppylicks @ynefel @zetrox2k @syvraen @klutar @smurfydog @negativezero @velnica @crazyguy1990
Ummmmm When are we talking?
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With the real PAX too 🙂
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PAX North is real as long as it lives in our hearts! 😛
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Find a good place to hide, muahahaha! >:D… actually I’d be fine just everybody hands off keyboards until said pooper returns.
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i didnt need to rhyme a phoenetically similar word! you can poop! one at a time…. maybe 2 at most…. prefferably…
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But… but… thats one of the only things I learnt about you 🙁
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He works at a prison! Used to work at Seven! Sometimes has a beard!
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I knew those things! With the total information at hand, the LoL joke was the best I could come up with. It was the best.
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BEARDS
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minecraft survival games (see http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/04/talk-amongst-yourselves-219/comment-page-5/#comment-1146448)
Flatout 2
Halo
UT
there will be many more…. will compile a list over next day or two…….
Tales of Xillia August 6 in the US.
Still no PAL date but they have said it’ll be less of a gap than Graces or Vesperia was…
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I’ll hold out for some Euro extras (also, I’ve barelt touched Graces & Vesperia and am stuck in Abyss)
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Some masked little boy has attacked us on our ship after we headed down the hole down the hole (I cant remember all those terms anymore Quliphoph?!)
He’s one of the God Generals, a boy but not the clone’s original.I been going fine so far, had a bit of trouble with the occasional boss, but this guy wipes the floor with me. Took out my team very quickly and then I spent the rest of the battle slowly losing.
Dunno if I needed to level up (WHere I would I dunno, we been travelling back and forth, up and over the planet) or if I’m just missing something obvious.-
Sync. I remember that being a fairly hard fight. You could always try dropping the difficulty… -
I may already have it on easy…I’ll check :-/
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I’m sick /o\
I’m at work /o\
I can’t go home because we’re understaffed as it is /o\
It’s almost lunch time \o/
Which I will have to work through /o\
I do not care for today.
so in a few weeks, I’m getting a new guitar. I dunno what yet, gotta go into a few stores & have a play around first.
in the meantime, I’m browsing websites looking for potential candidates…
and I’ve just caught myself thinking that I want to get an electric piano too…
man I suck at not spending money.
especially since I cant play piano. but hell, you’ve gotta start somewhere.
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electric. I got my current electric for my 18th & though its served me well over the years, one of the pick-ups is dying & the jack is buggered. time for an upgrade I think.
though at some point, I wanna get a new acoustic too…
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I’d love to learn how to play the guitar or piano. Did the thing that every guy does once in their life a few years ago and bought an acoustic guitar but I never learned properly and my brother took it. 😛
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I keep wanting to buy an Acoustic Guitar and try to relearn it. Wouldn’t know where to start / what to look for though.
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I can send you the sheet music for a few of those songs if you like :p
though most of the songs on The Bastion OST are on a 12-string.-
As I said I have no idea where to start when it comes to buying guitars. So probably no need to send me any sheet music. =P
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heres what I did:
– pick up any acoustic guitar
– pick a song you like
– go to ultimate-guitar.com
– find the tabs
– try to play it
– practice
– success!and it never hurts to look up some tutorial vids for a bit of theory / technique tips. get the basics & everything else falls into place 🙂
it takes commitment and lots of time, but I’ve always felt that its one of the most rewarding hobbies.
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You’re not a real guitarist until you can play Flight of the Bumblebees.
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or if you know anyone whos gonna be driving up, get em to bring a piece each time? take a while, but its cheap.
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My mum works/worked in the transport industry so probably has some contacts heh
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i own a piano, a keyboard and an electric guitar!i can play a bit of piano, but even though it sounds like the song im trying to play, i am by no means doing it the way a pro would be….
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if i end up getting a piano of some sort, I’ll take you up on that.
been playing guitar for quite a while now. I’m by no means good, but I’m good enough for what I wanna be doing.
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I taught myself guitar like 6 years ago (holy shit I just realised it’s been that long :|) and while I played it pretty intensely for the first 3 years or so – I’ve forgot most stuff by now and I’m doing the “read tabs and play thingy”. Although some theory from piano carries over it’s not something I’d be that great for teaching stuff other than “learn to read and play music”, although I have taught people over the internet before 😛
As for piano I took lessons for something like 7 years when I was 5-12 then I stopped playing until a few years ago when I started learning video game songs. So definitely my stronger instrument and I’ll help out with basics (read sheet music and play thingy :P) and some theory if needed! 😀
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anyone attending my birthday meet will also be a guinnea pig for my 2 map fully automated minecraft survival games server!
for those who dont know what the survival games are, its basically hunger games style team deathmatch…. copernica in center with chest full of survival gear…. then run out and fight to the death!
chests are hidden in caverns, under water, and have random gear inside….
watch vid for details and rules… basically blocks cant be broken, only leaves, shrubs, mushrooms and flowers, no crafting is possible, and you can only place blocks found in chests or destroyed by mobs (ie.) creepers.
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i spent most of the evening yesterday setting it up, i just need to fix the permissions properly…. i want to place certain restrictions like crafting, breaking of blocks, etc, but still give the player some freedom to do some things… ie, break leaves and find apples. if saturdays test goes all well, ill be throwing the server online… ill be doing some testing in next couple of days.
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no hardcore, strategists im afraid, usually some Flatout 2, (cause 3 doesnt exist) Halo, some UT… sometimes swat 4 pops into mix, but ill be looking through some games tonight. want something not so cutting edge so everyone can run it comfortably on their machines…
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Uniting Penises…. hmmm…. right…. that was the CAPCHA i had to enter to sign up to the bukkit forums….
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NNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I don’t know how to feel about this. This isn’t the ‘Nef I know. The pioneer of dickman. This just isn’t right.
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The dickiest of men.
I’m still not sure if my apology was genuine, sarcastic or just plain obligatory.
Also, I’m fucking tired and don’t have any witticisms available.
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Well if you know what he ‘old bean’ was, you might feel differently
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Did he call Sughly a testicle..?
Redeemed.
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Hey @dc
@ash can’t log into his Kotaku account and his guest comments are dissapearing into moderation limbo.
Is this what happened to you?
Any tips?
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I could log into my account and post, but every thing went into instant moderation. Still got notifications and all that too. Doesn’t sound like it’s the same thing this time. Maybe @benwhite can help the guy out. 🙁 *lights up the bat signal*
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whilst @benwhite is at it, maybe he can work out why that same thing keeps happening to me on gizmodo!!!! 🙂
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Probably this is only for @dc, but whatevs. This guy wrote an amazing reply to a post about new National as sounding not as interesting as new Strokes or Phoenix. Just kind of sums up a lot of what makes National special I think 😀 #nationallovepost
The National is not to be compared with bands such as The Strokes and Phoenix. They are not interested in catchy hooks and predictable choruses and verses. Their song structure is loose and lush. Unless you’re willing to follow them into the complexity of tone and dynamics, then you might not be struck by their knowledge of writing and their abilities as studio musicians and engineers. Matt actually spells it out for us within this song when he says, “When I walk into a room, I do not light it up.” If their lack of interest in poppy rhythms and hooks isn’t obvious by this line, or by similar lines in songs like, “All The Wine” and “Im Afraid of Everyone,” then I think it’s time for you to revisit their past albums.
They are not looking for your quick love. Instead, they are seeking a long term partner to grow with it and a fan base that will stand up for their creativity rather than their dancy guitar hooks and group chants. The National’s “experience” as a band has brought them some where else that is unrelated to mainstream and radio. In many ways, it is where they’ve been ever since the beginning. Only now, they are slightly more mature and consistent.
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I think it’s also storytelling from experience too with the lyrics. Taps into something I can identify with that seems deeper than lots of other stuff around. @notoriousR is a fan too! A lot of their songs seem to be slow burn…
Edit: That sounds wanky and not sure I articulated it properly, lots of bands have great lyrics and the like but these guys routinely ‘cut deep’ in a way Six Feet Under did. Taps into universal experience and all that. Might not be able to relate with everything, but can understand where it’s coming from… or something… 😀
Edit 2: Oh man, my attempt to defuse the wankiness has only made it more pretenious.
The National good. I like The National. 😀
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TL;DR – Most people think they’re crap but they just don’t “get” them. You can only do so if you’re not mainstream.
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Haha, does kind of read like that. XD
Don’t think it’s got any thing to do with mainstream or not. Either you get them or you don’t.
(Though I realize you’re just pushing Sughly’s buttons, so carry on. :D)
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To be honest I went to look at them after you guys talked about them but 99.9% of everything written about them is such a pretentious wankfest it’s completely off putting.
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That’s most music writing I’ve found. I’ve always felt like an outsider when people dig a little deeper about bands, can’t really talk about music like that. (As proven above.) As long as it sounds good though — don’t read about them, just listen to them. Haha!
Even reading album descriptions on iTunes I find a little pretentious. XD
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Here are some of my favourite songs, from what I’ve listened to so far:
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Oh man, hope people don’t take that the wrong way. I understand why people talk about music like that, there’s so much out there, that you’ve got to dig a little deeper to explain why it’s different from someone else and to articulate your enthusiasm. To an outsider, that just looks like over thinking. 😀
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This is the way I talk about music: “I like it, therefore it is awesome, and if you don’t like it too that means you suck.” 😛
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I just tell people I’m a music imposter. Haha!
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Exactly this.
You can find pretentious things written about any band. I dont really see how this affects what you think about them yourself.
So far this year, we have New Bowie, new Nick Cave, and new Knife. We are getting new Daft Punk.
BEST YEAR
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All we need now is new TV on the Radio and I’m declaring music over.
Which is entirely possible, they’re making a couple festival appearances in Europe after a period of dormancy.
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New Queens of the stone age, sigur ros, strokes, yeah yeah yeahs, lia ices, and radiohead at least working on new material
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I just like the over the top monster movie atmosphere. Also how it’s kind of mocking the other charity songs.
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Usually Tuesdays suck, but this particular Tuesday has been pretty good! Info Systems lecture taken by the games teacher all about games, free bbq and cans of coke, and the accounting lecture has been cancelled 😀
Oh and the rape joke lecturer is back. He’s always fun. “I saw a guy in the cafe order a tall white skinny latte. I looked at him as if he’d lost a set of testicles.”
I hate my silly page gets.
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PKZIP.
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Those programs always seem like a relic of a by-gone era of the internet, so I delete them figuring I won’t have any use. Usually the next day I have to download it again to unzip something. *shakes fist*
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GZIP
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That looks more like a tar command line than gzip to me.
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But Deflate sucks compared to LZMA 🙁
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+1 for 7 zip
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7zip woo!
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also, repost… cause new page and stuff…
ATTENTION MELBOURNE TAYBIES!!!
@greenius @scree @beavwa @princesspipster @tech_knight @budgieishere @tigerion @jordi @f4ction @splicer @notoriousr @tofu @blood_apathy @dire_wolf @mcgarnical @pixel_the_ferret_viking @puppylicks @ynefel @zetrox2k @syvraen @klutar @smurfydog @negativezero @velnica @crazyguy1990
Disclaimer: Tags are (C) @tigerion
ZETROX’S TOTALLY NOT LAST SECOND AND TOTALLY NOT SPONTANEOUS BIRTHDAY LAN MEAT!!!!
WHERE: CRAIGIEBURN
WHEN SATURDAY THE 13TH OF APRIL
TIME : 5PM – USUALLY 3-5AM (PEOPLE START LEAVING AT AROUND 2AM USUALLY)
THERE WILL BE GAMES,
THERE WILL BE MEAT.
FRIENDS & FOES,
YOU MUST DEFEAT.
ALL THE FRIENDS,
THAT YOU WILL MAKE.
YOU WILL DESTROY,
THEN WE’LL HAVE CAKE.
BRING YOUR LAPTOPS,
BRING YOUR PC’S.
EVEN IF,
THEY RUN LIKE FAECES.
FOR THOSE IN NEED,
I HAVE TWO SPARE.
THAT THEY CAN USE,
SO DONT DESPAIR.
THE GAMES WILL START,
AT 5 NO LATER.
BRING $20 BUCKS,
FOR LA PORCHETTA.
THE DRINKS AND SNACKS,
ARE ALL ON ME.
THERES A TOILET,
IF YOU NEED TO PEE.
SO IF YOU CAN,
THEN MAKE IT DOWN,
ITS NOT TOO FAR,
TO CRAIGIEBURN TOWN.
ABOUT 25 MINUTES,
NORTH OF CBD.
GET YOUR ASSES DOWN,
AND CELEBRATE MY BIRTHDAY WITH ME.
EMAIL ME (MYUSERNAME) (AT) hOTMAIL (DOT) com IF YOU ARE COMING SO I CAN MAKE NECESSARY CABLING AND TABLE ARRANGEMENTS!!!!
also, you are quite welcome to sleeping bag or blow up mattress the night there…. its a huge carpeted office space, with bathroom/shower/kitchen/heating/cooling etc so yeah! most of us will probably be doing that!!! i dont condone driving home at 5am, but do what you will!!!
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Just letting you guys know that I’m suddenly starting to feel a little under the weather so I might have to pull out at the last minute or something.
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I’ve always thought Craigieburn is the stupidest sounding name ever.
(That’s my input to this conversation)
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Still no mention of what to do with your poo. Seems like Techy has some plans for some hidden corners in your house though.
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Sorry I meant if you need to go during the minecraft match, find somewhere to hide in minecraft…
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Fuck it I give up then… won’t comment something stupid again
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Noooooo! More poop jokes! >:(
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I think the problem was you tried to make a serious comment in relation to a poop joke
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Yeah let’s not do that again 😛
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BUT HOW ELSE CAN WE TAKE A COMMENT OUT OF CONTEXT IF THERE IS NO COMMENT :`(
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I probably should mention, considering some people may have a bit of distance to cover, and i dont condone driving home at 5am, you are quite welcome to sleeping bag or blow up mattress the night there…. its a huge carpeted office space, with bathroom/shower/kitchen/heating/cooling etc so yeah! most of us will probably be doing that!!!
Sadly, I do believe this is a week too soon for my fair self as I am completely and utterly broke after paying car rego.
If I had a way to bring my pc, I would love to hang out with you … I can’t let that rhyme go to waste
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damn that rules out a pickup from my end….
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Well, I could bring my box if there was a spare monitor … just can’t really lug both of them on public transport
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ill check on that!
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@beardymcmuttonchops and I wrote a thing about morality and choice in games
http://potaku.com/2013/04/09/duel-shock-morality-and-choice/
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I think in some games a morality system works really well, like a Star Wars game, Fable game or inFamous. Those have the sort of universes where having your character be a shining paragon of virtue or a dark cloud of general evilness really work. Other games though, it doesn’t work that well. Some games need to have moral ambiguity because of the setting (Human Revolutions for example) while in others what the good and evil choices are (more often the evil I’ve noticed) and how they’re presented don’t really make sense, such as Mass Effect. The problem with boiling choices down to good and evil is that there’s a generally accepted type of good, but there are many types of evil, and sometimes there can be a huge inconsistency in the evil choices. Renegade Shepard for example could flip between cold hearted soldier, psychopath and just a massive jerk. Not to mention the choices need to make sense in context of the story, and not just be evil for the sake of being evil, which is something ME3 suffered from.
If playing to moral extremes fits the game’s story and setting I’m all for some sort of system that measures morallity, but if it doesn’t fit then there shouldn’t be a moral measuring system in place, or if there is it should be behind the scenes where the player can’t see it.
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Dragon Age has the best morality system to date (in my opinion anyway). Mostly because most choices weren’t a clear cut “good” or “evil”.
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I loved making those choices, and it actually had an impact on the game. I remember my second game of that I made every evil choice but managed to sneakily keep all the characters, one character I waited till I’d done most of my evil deeds before i got them, the other i sent away while i committed said evil deeds. Got really tricky, such a good game, pity about the sequel, It’s in my pile of shame due to the boring boring boring story/ characters / world. so much potential frittered away.
Actually I’ll say it’s in my pile of pride, I am proud to have never bothered to beat that puss ball of a game. I think i avoided spoilers there, was pretty vague,-
Ooh, can you put this comment under the article too?
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This was one of the things I really didn’t like about Dragon Age. You could go around doing the exact opposite of what your companions liked, then bribe them into liking you by giving them gifts. :\
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some of the characters were a little trickier than just a bribe, some of your actions made them instant leave, but yeah, you could get away with a bit with some of the characters, it’s like hey I’m evil but here’s some chocolate I’m sure we can get past it.
the tricky ones were Leliana and the old bird, can’t remember her name
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that was unusually common, i knew a couple of people that did that, I would have been sad she was smexy, sometimes a little annoying though.
in my second playthrough I was evil and she should of left but i was tricky, i even ended up being a lesbian with her, best deception ever
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No, The Witcher games have the best morality system. You make major moral choices where there is no good or bad answer, and then see and deal with the consequences of your decisions.
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Okay. I’ve done that. Is there some sort of moderation process? My comment doesn’t seem to be showing up.
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I think Pants has to approve, just to keep out the spam.
just means if anyone looks at the article your salient points are preserved
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Spoilers for some games I’m planning to play. Bookmarked it for later. 🙂
Thanks for the warning at the start btw, some Kotaku writers can learn a thing or two.
This post reminds me of something I should be doing. hmmmm nevermind it will come to me eventually
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You’ve intrigued me.
I’m listening to an episode now while I’m tapping away at my PHP.
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Edit: Yeah okay, I’ll tune in next time.-
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I think it gets a brief mention during the Cheesegang discussion.
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Whoa… where’d this come from? Looks incredible! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOTaCsHvIAc&NR=1&feature=endscreen
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I want to have all of Rockwell’s babies. Somehow.
But seriously. No idea this existed. I actually saw it on the recommended vids next to your teaser.
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May have mistaken the price for a cabin on 70,000 Tonnes as the total purchase price for the cabin, not per person. Suddenly, instead of $533 I’m looking at $1838 😛
Still, ‘dis gon’ be goood.
@strange
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I get to spend my first international trip with some of my best friends. Ain’t nothin’ out of that price-range.
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Oh. Oh dear. I didn’t warn you because I thought the top of the booking page with its big bold underlined block letters saying “All prices are PER PERSON” would have been enough. Oops. 😛
Considering it’s accommodation, all food, tea, coffee and juice for four nights plus seeing up to 40 bands live (each plays twice so depending on how much sleep you want it’s possible to see them all) it’s actually a pretty good price.
Although what category did you choose? The cheapest triple still available is $1099 plus $300 taxes and fees per person, which is not quite $533, I know but still better than $1838. All the available cheaper categories are really good, especially considering you don’t actually spend the greatest amount of time actually in your room.
And next time you go you’ll be a veteran so you’ll be able to book earlier and maybe get some of the super-cheap tickets. Because you will be going again. Everyone does. 😛EDIT: I’m so happy you might be going. TAYbies and metal, two of my favourite things combined! 😀
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I’m using 2007 on this computer. I’ve found most versions of Office are all pretty much the same, at least with how I use them.
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Hi guys! I just created an account today and this is my first comment – I’ve been reading Kotaku and especially TAY at work for weeks and love the sense of community you guys seem to have. It’s really kept me entertained and I just HAD to say hello and thank you for giving me something to read during my slow retail workdays 😀 Are there many other Perth TAYbies? 😀
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Welcome to TAY! I hope you enjoy your stay :), we’re always welcoming to new humans, cyborgs, robots, Bishes and other creatures that wish to join this amazing community
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I still maintain the Playstation should be referred to as PSX, not PSOne. PSOne was a hardware revision, not a format.
That is all.
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The same reason that Gamecube is GCN instead of GC or NGC. Apparently some retailers require unique 3-letter codes for the platforms or something. I guess PS was too short, and at the time there was no need to differentiate it from PS2 or anything so PSX.
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oh. well… perfectly logical.
but not as cool as the reasons i came up with in my head :p
thanks though 🙂
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Maybe, but it was always referred to as ‘PSX’.
EDIT:
It was referred to as ‘PSX’ long before that device came about.
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What I want to know is why everyone is talking about the Playstation Four when the Playstation Ten was around years ago 😛
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I 100% predicted that you (yes, you specifically) would comment on Karaoke Revolution Glee.
I am best.
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Karaoke Revolution Glee
You don’t want this? Seriously?
Let’s just look at some Amazon reviews.
“This game was a huge let down.” – Ed Cao
“Basically this game is way overpriced and fails to live up to its name.” – Ditster
“If you like music, please avoid this game.” – Charles Sullivan
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Legitimately predicted you’d comment on it too D:
Granted, it’s likely to be commented on but I knew you two would be all over it 😛
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It’s the voice of a generation.
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Who hates glee? Listen to how that sounds! Glee literally means glee!
Edit: Oh fuck, glee doesn’t even look like a word anymore. Glee.
Glee.
:/
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Serious?
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Turns out he’s going to try and sell the rest so the less I take the better for him :P. Sorry Nobfrond!
Although it’s a great game and I’ve seen it for like $15 for agessss online.
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Speaking of Vitas, ever finish P3 and start P4 yet?
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Have you ever considered becoming an editor at a newspaper or TV show?
For some reason I think you’d be good at it
🙂
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Illiteracy! 😀
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Group hug!
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Group hugs also make me anxious. 😛
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Exactly.
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Stop deleting your editing! 😀
inb4 illiteracy!
And for some reason I read “you monster” as “you motherfucker” and I was all “D: D.C.’s a hardass now!”
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Haha, the Peter Berg connection I like to ignore. XD
Damon Lindelof did awesome stuff on Lost and Prometheus, plus HBO. 😀
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Lost and Prometheus.
😀
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Prometheus! 😀 😀
(man, I love that flic)
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nah i look fat in it.
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Cosplay trumps body image!
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It’s not just that I look fat it’s that i want to try again, getting it right this time.
I am a perfectionist =(
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Having seen you in it I can say that’s a lie.
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The corset makes me look big. it’s the shiny white stuff. =P
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No fair!
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Pardon?
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@freezespreston ‘no fair’ b/c u have seen the Elizabeth cosplay and I have not…
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Yo! I’m back (sortof). PS lovin me some twitter – makes me feel like I got friends and I’m super popular b/c they are often messaging me 😀
How do PS2 games downloaded through PSN look and play on LCD TVs and a PS3?
And are US games region locked or are they open like PSone games?
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Depends on the game. FFX and Kingdom Hearts 2 looked good but Max Payne and Dynasty Warriors looked like pus.
The less said about Fire Warrior the better.
What’s happening, TAY? This is my bi-monthly post saying i’m still alive.
I’m still alive.
Also, Kotaku is still blocked at work.
My plan to seduce and then blackmail the IT guy to unblock this site hasn’t been going too well.
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Last time I checked The Good Guys and… umm… somewhere else JB maybe? had it for $198 which is okayish. It’s been slightly cheaper on Amazon UK though but that was a few months ago.
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$200-$220 if I buy from Amazon UK, depending on how I get it shipped. $229 from DSE at the moment seems to be the cheapest price but I’d have it in my hands immediately. $325 from Amazon if I throw in a circle pad pro XL, fire emblem and weegee’s mansion. They’re out of MH3U and no indications when they’ll get more.
If I grab the same thing from JB it’s about $60 more which is the cost of MH3U anyway… Trouble is that it looks like it’s sold out in most AU retailers. JB don’t list it, EB it’s out of stock…
Question is whether I really want to drop $400 to play 3 games on a system I already have. If Play-Asia would just get some fucking stock of Fire Emblem it wouldn’t be an issue.
What the fuck is going on with Nintendo’s physical releases on 3DS? It seems like anything that’s remotely good is out of print for months after release because of a lack of copies being made.
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Well if you want a normal 3DS I have one I could sell you (with a CPP) and they’ve been going for like $119 at Dick Smith for a while.
I’m not sure if JB still have it but I got mine from them like a month ago for $250 with a starter kit (was planning on buying a case anyway) and LEGO Harry Potter (which was going for like $25 and seemed decent enough) so it was practically $200.
Which games? Fire Emblem, Luigi’s and Monster Hunter? $400 seems a bit expensive just for that IMO
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Well it’d be that plus the ability to actually play games with people. Also it’s more like $380 but yeah, closer to $400 than $350. I’d probably drop Luigi out. Fire Emblem’s what I really want.
Better use of the money than buying a Wii U for MH3U at least (there is literally nothing on the Wii U I am interested in except MH3U).
Can’t use the standard 3DS. Too small and flimsy and my eyesight is shit.
Maybe I’ll just keep waiting and hoping Nintendo pulls their finger out and releases more copies of Fire Emblem and in the mean time spend some dorrahs on Vita stuff. Like a bigger memory card.
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I’d say go for the Wii U route. It didn’t seem like you had a local group you could play with regularly so online is practically essential
XenUblade? 😛
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X is vaporware at this point and we don’t even know if it’s a proper game or some kind of MMO or Hunter game. Excited only if it’s a proper JRPG like Xenoblade. But it’s probably years away from being a reality for us. Same goes for all the other stuff Nintendo is promising. Give me dates and I’ll buy the system when there’s enough I want to play. But more than that, I need interesting third party games. I got my Wii for Symphonia 2, Fragile Dreams and Muramasa.
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XenU, Wonderful 101 and Bayonetta 2 are solid enough for me. I’m a huge Zelda fan so getting a Wii U eventually for them is a given and I also enjoy the standard first party Ninty (3D Mario, Mario Kart, Super Smash Brothers.).
This all depends on how badly you want to play Fire Emblem 😛
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@greenius: I didn’t like the first Bayonetta enough to finish it and Wonderful 101 hasn’t grabbed my interest at all. So far I’ve been like 0/5 or so from Platinum games, I just don’t like their stuff at all.
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I’m keeping it just in case, but what would you do with it? So far the only US game that’s not available as a physical copy for EU that I know of is Code of Princess and it’s totally not worth it.
I should have gotten an AU one and a JP one 🙁
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Haven’t actually started with numbers yet. But the test is worth 10% of my semester mark, so it’s a good start.
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Picked up my pre-order for Rise of The Guardians yesterday, am about to start watching it! (On Blu-ray, of course.) \o/
@greenius @scree @beavwa @princesspipster @tech_knight @budgieishere @tigerion @jordi @f4ction @splicer @notoriousr @tofu @blood_apathy @dire_wolf @mcgarnical @pixel_the_ferret_viking @puppylicks @ynefel @zetrox2k @syvraen @klutar @smurfydog @negativezero @velnica @crazyguy1990
Disclaimer: Tags are (C) @tigerion 9stolen from @zetrox2k
Those going to Pax and that are interested in the karaoke meat, i need people to tell which karaoke place seems best. All places are private rooms so we will only be singing in front of each other
K-box
$30 per person. drinks are not included and food is not available.
http://www.kbox.com.au/home.html
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chi lounge and karaoke
$30 per person minimum spend
(Minimum spend means you need to spend at least $30 on food and drinks per person)
http://chilounge.com.au/v2/-
Shoya
$60 per room + 1 drink purchase per person (must pay for drinks so they are not free)
http://www.shoya.com.au/home.html-
Rainbow karaoke
First hour
$38 (small)
$58(medium)
$88(large)
$28 for each additional hour. food and drinks are not included.Please upvote the one you like or offer suggestions if you have any
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Did you edit the tags in? If you edit tags in the people won’t get a notification so there’s no point. Put them in a separate post :).
Might as well repost it though since it’s at the bottom of page 6.
As for stuff, I don’t really know. I don’t do or like karaoke but I’ve actually been to Kbox. The room was tiny and there were too many of us cramped in there so I left after a couple of minutes (it was a friend’s party but some friends and I just left)
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Forgot about the links, just repost the top comment with the tags and permalink to the first link comment
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I’m a PAX person!
I’ve never Karaoked, so I’ll defer to judgements of others. Which night were you looking at?
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Wow, the violence in The Walking Dead (especially in season 3) is actually quite stomach turning.
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I haven’t watched all of Season 3 yet only 6 or 7 eps, but
some bits definitely reminded me of L4D. Especially some scenes in the prison. This made it less stomach turning for me than I might otherwise have found it. -
For me, I think the more over-the-top it gets, the easier it is to suspend disbelief and let it glide on by. Personally, I found the violence in the first dozen or so eps to be much more intense. Also, it’s not particularly good CGI, even at the best of times.
But that’s just me.
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Definitely understandable. I think the disconnect between how graphic the violence is to how little the cast even react to it (outside of big events, obviously) feels really dissonant. Totally understandable in the fictional world, though.
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I’ve read issues 1-24, and agree. It is good 🙂
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Continue reading!! You know the general plot from watching the TV series but I’d say it’s still worth it continuing the comic
Actually I haven’t watched the TV show. So I guess I should do that too 🙂
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I imagine the zombies would just get annoying after a while 😛 Especially if you’ve got a pretty good shelter.
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FUCKING EBAYED ONE IN THE END SO POST WAS NO LONGER RELEVANTDICKWILLYPENIS
Play more Xenoblade? Thoughts about stuff other than graphics? :P… Positive thoughts?-
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We should wash his mouth out with soapius.
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But Uncle Freeze told me to swears!
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So I guess editted posts with tags still show up?
I asked whether you had any spare Vita case(s) I could have 😛
Night TAY! What’s up gang?
Hope you are all well.
I can’t possibly catch up, so @shane I hope Liam is home and well, or at least improving.
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I saw that, thanks. I have no opinion other than the first place looks a bit pricy. I also don’t know if I’ll be going, beause I can’t make it if it’s a Saturday night due to working on Sunday.
How are you @scree ? Are we allowed to see progress on the cosplay outfit you’re making for (sorry, I can’t remember if it’s NegativeZero or NovaCascade) or is it all top secret?
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It’s for Nova, and it’s so top secret you can find a WIP here: https://twitter.com/scree06/status/320417710565650432/photo/1
I can’t answer your first question on her behalf(though she was tired from skipping her nap earlier), so you’ll just have to rely on my lesser stalking for the latter.
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Thanks @blaghman ! Stay awesome ya jerk 😛
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Damn it smurfydog *sneakedit grumble*
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Edit was an enquiry about Liam, but then I saw your post below.
I’m happy to hear it – good news is good. 🙂
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Wait, Awesome? Why are we talking about @dc now?
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#upvotesforDC
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Wait, Jerk? Why are we talking about @dc now?
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#upvotesforDC 😛
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Have it whenever’s best. I’m probably the only TAYbie who can’t go out on the Saturday night. I’m sure there’ll be other gatherings on the other nights I can attend 🙂
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But you never attend anything =(
Dark Souls. /o\
Can’t even get into Blighttown, the big guys keep knocking me off the ledge. 🙁 Gonna go get the Pyromancy Glove from the guy I saved in the Depths and see if that helps. I don’t remember having this much trouble with my last guy. I might even go into Blighttown the other way if this keeps up.
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Just remember, dodge is your friend!Unless you dodge off the edge, in which case it’s a jerk. -
Other way is THE way. Same enemies, but no ledges. 😀
DARK SOULS \o/
I didn’t play any Dark Souls today.-
Pshh, it’s the girly way. For people who aren’t brave, and who don’t want to man the pitfalls! MAN MODE! *Rolls sideways off nearest cliff*
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I beg your pardon, I complain to MANY people about my silly deaths.
Ugh, Thinks-He’s-Specialius.
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People say I’m special!
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Double post, but the last one deserved one of its own.
I was supposed to have a psych appointment today, but cancelled it and went to Specsavers instead. Apparently, I’m slightly longsighted and now am getting glasses, and entirely on my insurance’s dime! \o/
I will finally be aesthetically complete.
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I like to imagine you sitting there, trying to guess which one you should say looks worse, solely for the purpose of getting glasses.
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My vote is for the full Elvis Costello/NHS look!
On second thoughts, that’s probably considered hipster these days and way too expensive as a result. :/
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I went in there and said “No gap. Make it happen.” And they did.
I don’t think a hipster would shop like this 😛
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You’ll be surprised at how much better you’ll feel with your vision fixed. It adds extra fatigue to the muscles in your head.
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Yeah, when I got glasses I was amazed seeing every seperate strand of grass from far away instead of a greenish texture. Haha.
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Admit it. You just liked how awesome I looked in mine 🙂
That reminds me actually, I need to check on getting some insurance and getting new glasses.
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RANT TIME! =D
The fuck is with people jumping in to twitter convo’s, Kat and I were having a nice convo and then this other woman we both follow and follows us started ranting on her for something Kat said, and made it escalate to a point where it’s not needed.
God. What we were talking about wasn’t even remotely offensive or provocative, it was about Corey Taylor being in every issue of Kerrang and how Kerrang deceive it’s readers by having “something” with him for magazine sales, yet nope. Apparently we can’t hurt poor miss I know Corey on a personal level and he loves me like family feelings.
Apparently that’s wrong of us to even think it. Fuck it’s annoying. Then she jumped in had the nerve to abuse Kat that she does it all the time, because Kat told her to stop jumping into every conversation of hers with me or others.
Which she does so often it’s damn annoying. For a 50 year old, she’s can’t seem to stay out of other peoples business. I had to remove said person from Facebook today for all the attention whoring and vaguebooking she does about “people” she won’t name or give more detail on. She use to run the official Slipknot & Stone Sour forums until she stepped down this year, as well. So she still seems to think she has ruling over everyone and can say what she likes.
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Not really, she just watches everyones conversations and drops in where she thinks is necessary. Like she full on questioned Kat the other day who this letter was for she was writing. Because she tweeted that after writing a long letter her hand was rather cramped.
Honestly she thinks twitter is there so she can jump into what ever convo she pleases. Well no, just because you can doesn’t mean you should. For example some people you kind of know are having a conversation in public and you happen to walk past and hear some of it, it doesn’t give you reason to jump in and start telling them your opinion of the subject. THere’s times and places for that. Not every twitter conversation is that.
What we were talking about wasn’t private, we just did not appreciate having our conversation derailed like that and Kat having her head chewed off because someone didn’t understand and she didn’t drop it when Kat told her to either, was a fucking joke and I was ignored when I tried to be reasonable about the topic. I wish I had just told her to leave Kat alone and bully someone else.
I suppose you guys not knowing who she is in the Slipknot & Stone Sour community is kind of hard to understand this situation. Usually i’d let it be, but she thinks it’s her moral right to defend anything relating to the bands or members. Even though what Kat & I were discussing wasn’t even in the slightest way attacking the bands or members.
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Sorry dude.
Chill out. Ride the waves. Go with the flow bro.
Radical.
Tubular.
And all that jazz.
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She’s just a nosey old hag. Thinks her opinion is important and has to attack anyone who she doesn’t agree with. I told her that Roadrunner own the copyrights to the images, not Corey she never responded to it which is typical.
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I jump into twitter conversations all the time 🙁
Maybe just block the lady? It doesn’t sound like you or your friend have a positive experience by having her follow either of you :/
Any one want to see Trance or Oblivion on Friday at Southbank Cinema?
Let me know if you do! That is all!
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Trance is new Danny Boyle movie, Oblivion is the new Tom Cruise scifi movie!
Trance:
An art auctioneer who has become mixed up with a group of criminals partners with a hypnotherapist in order to recover a lost painting.Oblivion:
One of the few remaining drone repairmen assigned to Earth, its surface devastated after decades of war with the alien Scavs, discovers a crashed spacecraft.$8.50 tickets for adults! Can be Saturday too, if that’s any better!
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They both sound pretty rad. I’m a sucker for SciFi. I really want to say yes, but payday is next week and we’re in that weird Mrs Beardy-hasn’t-been-paid-yet-and-all-bills-come-at-once kind of week right now.
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That’s okay man, I can’t really justify spending too much myself but at the same time for sanity’s sake I need to have something to look forward to. Haha! (So I’ll probably go any way, pals or otherwise. XD)
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We’re actually staying in Brisbane Friday and Saturday night. free Friday night and Oblivion looks good.
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Oh man, that’d be awesome, but I don’t want to hijack your Friday if Mrs. Freeze and you have other things you want to do. 😀
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Awesome, man! If you guys are keen, then so am I!
You keen too, @sughly? I know you were interested in seeing Oblivion as well!
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Yes yes yes! Totes! Lets do this shiz 😀
And then we shall watch Trance another night, for I want to very much watch Trance.
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Oh man, awesome! 😀
Really want to see Trance some time soon too!
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OK, I understand I’m borderline fanboy here… I don’t give a shit.
Pez’s (our Pez, not hip-hop Pez… which still doesn’t narrow it down given ‘our’ Pez was involved in the hip-hop scene too, I believe) new album, Stargazers, is fantastic. Couldn’t be happier with my investment so far, I’ve gotten far more than I bargained for.
Highlight tracks for me? Not the one I named, actually 😛
The Lesser Evil (hi @shane!) is probably my all-out favourite… bass-heavy, and hits all the right spots.
Wrath And Resentment would really suit @budgieishere’s taste… D’n’B eat your heart out!
The Note That Destroyed The World holds some of the dirtiest beats I’ve heard in a long time. This is a very welcome sound.
And finally City In The Sand. Phwoar. Trip-hop that Aphex Twin would be envious of. Yesyesyes.
This fucking album, guys.
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It’s awesome, right? I think The Lesser Evil is my fave, too. Despite that crappy name.
BUT THE IMPORTANT THING. THE COMIC. TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK
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Honestly, I’ve only read part 1 so far (can’t really read a comic while driving to work :P), but I’ve enjoyed it. I’m not a comic/graphic-novel sort of person, really. I really like the art-style though, some of the imagery is fantastic!
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Waiting for a Potaku review (or your own blog!)…
(and/or @Doc_what, @shiggyninty, @alexpants)
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What what? Review? REVIEW?!
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I’ve written two Potaku articles in the last week.
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Game of Thrones was pretty good, but was a bit too distracted to enjoy fully. Haha. So damn beautiful in HD though. This season looks like it’s shaping up to be amazing.
@shane
This may be of interest to you: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/the-dig-retrospective
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I was thinking about this song this morning!
I was wondering if Jesus would have eaten bacon, being a Jew and all… :\
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This bit didn’t make it into the Bible. Could be a lot of extra converts with just one extra passage 😛
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Got to looking at upcoming movie trailers.
What looks good:
The Great Gatsby
Eddie The Sleepwalking Cannibal
Tai Chi Hero (Good god yes. The world needs more steampunk martial arts movies)
White House Down (Looks like a good guilty pleasure movie)
Wrong (director of Rubber. @powalen)
Erased (Eckhart and a father daughter dynamic? Yes please)
The Wolverine (like there was ever any doubt.)
Epic (so pretty)
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Olympus Has Fallen doesn’t look too bad as well, though seems to be very similar to White House Down. Also Star Trek Into Darkness, Stoker, The Place Beyond the Pines don’t look too bad. That one Sughly mentioned earlier with Sam Rockwell looked decent too.
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Also Dead Mans Burden and The Company You Keep.
Also also, The Purge looks like it could be interesting but a tad on the disturbing side.
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Stoker looks SO good! Soooo so so good. And Blue Valentine was such a beautiful film, its really made me keen to see what Place beyond the pines will be like.
This is honestly the best trailer I have seen in a long long time though. Only God Forgives – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAgirTtfobk
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Saw you and Dan talking about that, if you guys are psyched, that’s good enough for me — I think I’ll skip the trailer. I try to avoid trailers whenever I can these days… 😀
(To the Wonder, that one you posted the trailer to the other week by Terrence Malick looked alright. Was Ebert’s last review and the guy liked it!)
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Should go watch the directors other films in anticipation – Drive, Bronson.. 🙂
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Really want to see Drive especially, it’ll be on Foxtel soon… I hope… 😀
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Upcoming movie meat at my place. Drive shall be included as I haven’t seen it either.
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All the upvotes!
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@sughly I got that new surround sound installed since you guys were last there. Should make things awesome.
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Wrong looks pretty good! I’ll have to keep an eye on that one.
ps. Watch Rubber.
EDIT: I’m also looking forward to The World’s End! The next Hobbit movie comes out at the end of this year too, doesn’t it?
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That’s the one I liked too. But honestly, it’s the only one.
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Yeah agreed, love it.
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I think he’s a little like TIm Burton, plenty of style but lacking in the story. (Maybe I’m just not a fan of his, uh, ‘voice’…)
Edit: Also, I realize I just dissed Shakespeare. 😛
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To be honest it could well be more my man crush on DiCaprio than Luhrmann’s doing 😛
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What a hunk right! http://bit.ly/ZL36E5
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High school era Freeze knows what he wants! 😛
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HAHA! I always hated him until I got a bit older and could appreciate his abilities a bit more. I think it was The Beach when I first realized he could actually act.
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I liked him plenty in Titanic, but think it was The Aviator that made me a huge fan. I could relate to aspects of that movie more than I care to. Haha!
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Still to this day have not seen Titanic and have no urge to.
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I don’t understand the resistance people have with Titanic. It’s James Cameron. Enough said. XD
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Haha, Shakesphere.
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Oh man, D.C.’s illiterate. 😛
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The worst part is, googling “Shakesphere” with quotes brings up only proper links, no sphere jokes… Apparently it’s an extremely common error o_o
(Damn, I really wanted to find a hilarious image of a perfectly spherical Shakespeare :P)
Because @dc would never diss Shakespeare, only the filthy imitators… right, DC?
Edit: DC has edited. Oh well. Argument moot. Resistance futile.
I think his ultimate failures have always come in the script. He has a visual flair thats kind of unmistakable, and he does it really well. Gatsby seems like hand and glove for him, I’m hoping it works as well as it looks and seems like it will.
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I agree with you guys, trailer looks amazing. Just been burned before is all. XD
You’re right though, if any thing he’s done should be good, it’ll be this…
Eddie and Wrong look hilarious!
This might actually be incentive enough to finally try Rubber…
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Why do you think I wrote it that way?
Incidentally this tune is an arrangement of a piece from a game that involved a cute little girl with an oversized hair ribbon assaulting monsters with an enormous drill.
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Good night TAY. It’s time for some sleep time. 🙂
Failing that, I’ll settle for some eyes-closed time. 😐
Failing that, I’ll see you soon :/
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What did the hay do to you, huh?
Geez! The hay takes your needle and just because you can’t find it you hit the hay.
🙁
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I’m going to get some shut eye. Catch you on the flipside, home slices.
Looking forward to Oblivion meat! 😀
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Actually sleep this time! When I randomly wake up in the middle of the night and check TAY I better not see posts from you! >:(
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I can only hope that the lot of you look like this:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-rxtaCv0-ivM/T4lvMNTxA8I/AAAAAAAAI04/DiUxfPD0qcA/s1600/The+Elder+Scrolls+IV+-+Oblivion+%25283%2529.jpg -
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Haha, sorry man!
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Wow lots of goodnight posts!
Remember when @Strange was all “DON’T DO THEM OR I’LL RIP YOUR HEAD OFF”
That was close to when I first joined.
She was (is) scary!
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Oh, she doesn’t like that? Noted. Haha. I just think Night TAY is fewer people talking, so thought it’d be a good idea to give a heads up in case someone’s waiting for a reply from me or something. 😀
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Someone is supposed to be sleeping!
I don’t know what she likes or doesn’t like but I’m sure she’s fine with it. I was just reminiscing about the old times on TAY :’)
And thinking back to the even OLDER times when I asked what job everyone had because I didn’t know what I wanted to do in Uni, now I’m about to do a post (on Friday, save the date guys!) about some job advice.
Oh, how time flies!
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I never witnessed it, so clearly it never happened.
Perfect logic.And on that note, good night TAY 😀
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SPOILERS GREENIUS!!!!!!!
@strange was going to reveal her new band tomorrow.
THE STRANGE GIRLS
SCARY STRANGESPORTY STRANGE
BABY STRANGE
GINGER STRANGE
POSH STRANGE
Oh dear. Imagine all the Stranges. I can see it now. You’d think they’d be five clones of strange but it’s all happening in her head.
Ginger strange likes to cook because of the ginger root. It’s obvious really.
Scary strange is constantly shouting because she forgot to wear a thimble and hurt herself. You have never seen a Strange like this. It’s…wait for it…strange. Scary strange would probably get sporty strange to beat me up for that wordplay.
Sporty strange is the strong strange with all the muscle gained from being a mum. How do you think she is able to constantly offer her patented hugasauruses.
Baby Strange is the strange that gets giddy over meeting members of one of her favourite bands. Or it could be the new character that is reborn every time she dies in Dark Souls. Baby Strange is complicated like that.
Posh strange likes to sew. How do you think all those fancy quilts are made? She is always saying ‘Ello gov’nor’ for some reason.
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cor blimey!
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I never said that! D:
I just think they’re unnecessary. TAY isn’t chat, dammit!
But nobody listened and everyone does it now. I lost. 🙁
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Has anyone else not seen this JayZ/Conker’s Bad Fur Day mashup? @shiggyninty linked it to me and my life has been forever changed.
Thought I’d look up some info on Olympus Has Fallen. Found a review and started reading it. Turns out half the review was the guy describing who dies and how.
Avoid dawn.com reviews it seems.
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Wow, I haven’t even finished it 🙂
I still haven’t seen the final (Golden?) ending and I haven’t played it for a month or so :P. Guess that means I gotta stop reading your spoiler tags 😛
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It wasn’t a real spoiler.
I’m gonna check out the full trophy list and see if this can be my first…PLATINUM!
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I know, I’m not talking about this one but next time 🙂
You like to tag me in P4 posts so you might say something spoilery (assuming I’ve finished it) and I might click it accidentally
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THat was my last one I think.
I’ll have to ask guides for any further info by the sounds of it 😉
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Morning TAY.
I’m torn in Dark Souls. So many places to visit! This is the same indecision that happened last time I cleared Anor Londo /o\
To those in the know, should I:
1. Visit the Painted World for loot
2. Visit the Great Hollow/Ash Lake for loot
3. Take care of Sif and go after the Four Kings to progress the story
4. Fuck around and farm shit until I’m stupidly OP for the remainder of the game
Most votes gets it.
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It would be more of a procrastination technique than one designed to OP myself. Previously, I have spent farmed souls purchasing spells I will never cast, hunting the achievements 😛
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I threw a tantrum last night because nothing was going well
I killed Domhnall just because he was there. D:I regretted it straight away. I’ve never done anything like that before. And the frustration carried over into real life too: I yelled at Mr. Strange. He deserved it because he was deliberately trying to annoy me, but still. 😛-
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I went off and killed that jerk bug as soon as I could. He will live, dammit!
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im on now, just doing a rehash of my optifine mod and jumping back in…. ive been off it for a couple of days setting up my survival games server.
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Morning all.
Still sick, but too much work to be done today (everything non-critical is failing, and half of everything is databases). I just wanna go home and play more Monster Hunter…
I kind of fixed my computer problem last night, my motherboard no longer says my CPU’s current temp is 97degrees even if it has been left off for days (it now says its sitting at a normal 47 degrees). However my computer still BSOD’s after being on for approx 3 hours (even if I leave it sitting idle).
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I did a complete BIOS reset on my M/B which seemed to fix the temp sensor. I also bought a water cooling device and generously applied a hell of alot of Thermal Paste. I think my CPU may have overheated and is dieing. (I was using the stock fan before).
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Just be careful – too much thermal paste is actually counter productive. The aim is the thinnest, but most complete bond between CPU and cooler. Too much paste and it won’t transfer heat correctly.
EDIT: If your CPU was running at 97 degrees, something’s definitely wrong. Also if it’s been running for that long at such temperatures I’d almost guarantee the CPU has been damaged.
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I didn’t really clump it all on, I spread an even sheet across it and it seemed to hold a very nice temperature after running for a few hours.
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Yeah there’s also a burn in period for most thermal paste where you need to run it for hours for the bond to complete. I think the standard is around 20 hours. Not saying you need to run it for 20 hours straight, just that it might take that long for the paste to seep into every microscopic crevice on the surface of the CPU’s heat shroud and the surface of your cooler.
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Cheers, I’ll keep an eye on the temp once I actually get my conputer working.
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This. Too much can actually end up as a heat sink.
Good to hear it’s working again!
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Well not really, my comp still BSOD’s if I leave it running for approx 3 hours.
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If you’re getting BSODs, the first places I’d look would be running Memtest86 off a bootable CD, maybe a hard drive diagnostic from your manufacturer (can usually get bootable versions from most manufacturers) and maybe an Intel Burn In test.
Given what you’ve said, I’d say there’s something wrong with your CPU, but you never know.
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Yeah, one of the guys at the PC shop i went to suggested I use UBCD? Which is apparently a bootable program you can download and put on a CD and boot off. It apparently scans for any problems you may have in any of your internally connected devices.
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@sernobulus Yeah, Ultimate Boot CD – it has pretty much all that stuff on it. Hard drive diagnostics, memtest etc. Give it a go!
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Memory test is the best idea. I would assume the burn-in will fail, but it’s worth doing if the memory test finds no faults.
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@rize & @ynefel
Cheers for the help guys, hopefully I will get to the bottom of this tonight!
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Not saying to skip this or anything, but if the temp sensor and stuff was on the fritz I’d point the finger at the motherboard or the power supply or both and not the CPU. It’s pretty hard to fry a modern CPU and generally if you manage to do it it’ll be fucked completely and won’t run at all, rather than the system regularly giving out after a few hours idle.
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@negativezero
Actually that’s not true. Many PC components have a tendency to find a glorious ‘half working’ state where they’ll work completely fine until asked to do specific things, like use a specific memory address, or use a certain function and then they’ll show signs of failure. They’ll seem perfectly OK until such requests are made.
CPU’s, RAM and motherboards are the worst perpetrators of the half working state.
Then again, hard drives, and sometimes even power supplies can ‘kind of’ work as well.
In my experience (10+) years in fixing PC’s, don’t ever discount anything until you’re certain. And sometimes, even diagnostics aren’t good enough. I’ve seen hard drives, CPU’s and RAM pass the most comprehensive tests imaginable and then turn out to be faulty.
The closest you’ll get to 100% accuracy is to completely swap the suspect part over for a known working one to see if the issue persists. Not terribly feasible unless you’re in a shop environment or you own multiple computers.
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It’s a crappy-weather day, the kids are occupied and my fingers are too sore to sew. Looks like it might be Bioshock Infinite day. \o/
(Thanks for the lend, @freezespreston! )
Shane just reminded me of something I should bring up:
Listened to/read the Stargazers album and story last night…holy shit it was amazing, on both sides. If people have backed the project and haven’t listened/read yet, DO IT NOW!
For everyone that didn’t back it, I can’t stress how important it is that you pick up Stargazers on launch!
(@anonymous_pessimist, get back on TAY you jerk)
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Good man.
Edit: In totally unrelated news, did you know it’s Encourage A Young Writer Day today?
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I did not.
Good job, keep it up, etc.
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I thought you were joking, but just to be sure(so I can always retain the illusion of being slightly intelligent) I looked it up.
Encourage A Young Writer Day is seriously a thing? That’s the stupidest name I’ve heard in the last three weeks!
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🙁
Not very encouraging.
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You’d think writers would be able to come up with something a bit better than that.
I’m sure @shane could.
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I’m sure the original idea was thought up by someone’s mum.
I’ve thought very hard and decided to rename today.
Shane Wants Immediate Noble Donations of Love and Earnings DayIt’s not very creative, but it’s from the heart.
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Pez mentioned a few people were having issues with receiving the emails for the early access stuff. I’ll send you the info when I get home tonight if you like?
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Hrm, looking at Pozible website which last update says he was still mixing/mastering? Not sure if my tier means I wait for a final release, or you guys got early access from a higher tier.
I guess I’m just asking if the final release is available for download yet. If it’s just prerelease/early access stuff, I’m happy to wait.
EDIT: I just had a deeper look through Pozible, and found messages from Pez I haven’t seen before. There’s links to the album and comic! I’ve got some of the messages from Pozible in my email, but not very many from the looks of it. Which is a little frustrating, I just thought I wasn’t getting much feedback from Pez, but turns out Pozible is a dickman.
Will download today. =)
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I only put in $20 but I think I got the email confirming it was available. I just haven’t gotten to it yet.
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Yep, a few people have had issues with Pozible emails. Personally, I got like 3 copies of each message whenever something happened… 😛
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My first stint at some Minecraft in a long time, I decided to pop on to the Potaku server.
I scouted around for ages looking for a clear spot to build a nice little house, knocked down some trees, built some tools, planted a little wheat garden, and commenced mining. After tunnelling down I hit paydirt! An abandoned mine brimming with coal and iron!
Tunnelling my way merrily through a very rich vein of coal, I open a hole into the floor below me, and accidentally step into it.
This hole was filled with zombies.
I die. I lose everything. I respawn. I don’t know where my stuff is. I sigh and log out.
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So very Canadian.
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‘ey?
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I’m sorry.
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You’re not sore-ry?
Phew! That means we haven’t lost you completely yet. 😛
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Oh, I didn’t realise it stopped you walking off edges. Good tip.
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Whhhoooooaaaaa…
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I’m surprised you built that huge tower without knowing this info! haha
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Yeah, thought I had an ok setup to start but I didn’t see a single sheep anywhere except a pit completely full of dyed sheep with a sign next to it that said “they seem happy”.
I decided not to investigate any further.
I usually use torches periodically to mark where I head from spawn until I have a bed down, which acts as your new spawn point once you’ve slept in it, from memory.
Although the amount of times I’ve forgotten to do this, died and lost all my shit in some godforsaken hole that I have no idea where it is is astounding.
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Yup, my advice is to when you first find iron make sheers and get some wool off some sheep. Then you can atleast set your spawn point to your house.
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Yeah, this. Not worth making shears when you only need three wool blocks!
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I didn’t find any coal until I found a place to start digging and I didn’t see any stoves I could borrow use of to make charcoal, so I really had no way to mark my progress. Kind of a catch-22. I think I am somewhere under the giant Totoro, but that doesn’t narrow it down a lot.
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I think the Totoro is near the spawn, isn’t it? Not sure, haven’t spent much time on the server, but I think I remember seeing him almost immediately?
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There’s a few of us that are fairly familiar with the Potaku map, if you know roughly what direction you scouted or some landmarks you went past, shouldn’t be too hard to find your home.
Edit: Sounds like you’re south of the spawn, what does your setup look like?
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I could probably have found it but it was getting late and I was a little depressed by the amount of coal and iron I had just lost. I’ll have another go tonight.
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I’ll see if I can pop over tonight, can help with anything you need.
Otherwise I’ll probably just be making the wall around my house a little higher, keeps the damn kids off my lawn.
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LOL, right now it’s a 2×5 wheat garden with a crafting table and a single-width stairway leading down into an abandoned mine. Really, I hadn’t made any progress at all, but the mining *potential* was good.
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Aw, thanks. I was going to go back on last night and look for it but I didn’t have a chance.
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Rule #142 of Minecraft: Never dig straight down!
(Rule #143 of Minecraft: Never dig straight up! :P)
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I did neither! I knocked out some coal in a wall then stepped forward. Under the coal was a hole. Filled with zombies. 🙁
Gosling reading out ‘Hey girl’ entries. So good… http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=LC55dYHq7Fc
So, I should be getting a Vita tomorrow, just wanted to check, not bothering with 3g, the best deal I’ve found is $250 for Vita + Little Big Planet + Starter accessory pack. Just wanted to make sure no one knows of a better deal before I take the plunge,
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Also bear in mind the 3G model also has GPS, whereas the Wifi version doesn’t. Probably not a deal breaker, but a lot of people don’t realise.
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UH HUR HUR HURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
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just wanted to make sure no games use gps, the other packs have that All stars battle thing, I’m not keen on it, also @jimu are you still selling that 4gb stick?
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how many munneez do you want for it? The Vita doesn’t come with a stick right.
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Depends what you buy (some bundles come with it).
4GB is rather small though so you’d want at least 8-32 depending on how much games you’re going to be downloading. I know a site for a cheapish 32GB so just holla 🙂
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yeah, I’ll get a couple I think. I’ll probly do the pain in the ass switching to american account, I definately will get a bigger one though, how much are the 32gb?
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$80 – $120
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I want your cheapish site for a 32gb. My 16 is constantly full and PS+ is making it worse because I’m finding I’d rather own digital copies of stuff than have to fiddle with cartridges.
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They’re SOOOO tiny, I’m afraid I’ll swallow one one day! :p
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Super UFO. I’d link but I’m on my phone.
It was around 80 delivered from HK, took about 1.5 weeks
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Not a lot cos it’s small as shit. Depends what you want it for though. If it’s just so you can access another egion’s account, then it can be helpful.
Did that pack you mentioned not have a stick?
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nah, no stick just a bunch of shitty accessories, I just want a couple so i can do region swap.
I bought a 32GB and have less than 10GB left
(I got some free games that I’ll delete when the time comes and some large games that would be preferrable on gamecard if you have a smaller stick)
One way to work around this is to set up the content manager software on your PC. Connect your vita to it wirelessly and you can back your games up to PC / copy back from PC to your Vita. Obviously both need to be on your home network. Works over USB too.
It’s what I’m doing to avoid having to re-download purchases off PSN.
Yeah, will prolly do when it gets to that point.
I don’t intend to buy anything else that isn’t PSN only though. 🙂
DUDE STOP
http://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/99397
Saw that earlier today but after re-reading your post it seems like the $250 deal is better provided you want LBP and a case (starter kit stuff). 3G seems pretty useless so I dunnae
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guh, had to do payroll, then got really busy. I’ll look into the specifics tonight and decide what I’m doing. poop to being busy : /
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Poop!
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So busy at work, no time to browse or post on TAY.
Accept this offering to celebrate hype for the coming Dark Souls 2 gameplay reveal:
DARK. SOULS.
Dear TAY,
http://www.mightyape.com.au/daily-deals/
Skyward Sword is $15. Today only.
I haven’t played it, so don’t blame me if it’s shit.
Just thought you’d want to know.
Sincerely,
Shane
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I was going to suggest that my idea for a theme for this page could be “Verbose Comments”, but I have to wonder if that would just annoy a great deal of people, particularly as the nature of TAY tends to promote more succinct comments. However, I would like to assume that I could rely on the intelligence of others in understanding that the suggestion is, rather obviously, a joke, and should not be taken seriously.
I guess what I’m trying to say here is that we should have a laugh at the concept of lengthening the most basic of statements in an effort to fit a poorly thought out theme suggestion, but not actually bring this idea to fruition, for the sake of keeping the peace and avoiding unnecessary friction between various members of the TAY community.
I would, however, appreciate your thoughts on the matter, especially considering your endeavours into professional writing.TL;DR:
What I’m trying to say is that we could laugh at the concept of everyone on TAY attempting to lengthen each statement to a grossly unnecessary degree, but that the act of doing this may annoy some people and it therefore may not be the best suggestion to follow. It’s important to remember that what we say and do can result in harming others, both physically and mentally, and TAY on the whole has always been mindful of this, ergo I don’t want to throw in this idea at the risk of upsetting the balance.
SATURDAY! SYDNEY! DINNER! DANSING!
LETS EAT AND GO TO KARAOKE!!!
IT’S UP TO SOMEONE IN SYDNEY TO ORGANISE BUT I’LL BE THERE!!!
DC, CC SOME PEEPS UP IN THIS THREAD, SON!!!
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I don’t know all the Sydney folks. My attempts to tag the Melbourne people yesterday didn’t go all too well. 😛
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If the black hole where my heart used to be could feel anything except pure loathing, it’d be hurt.
But as it is, loathing will suffice.
Ugh… Look at Sir Gamespot-alot over here…
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I will leave the organising to someone who knows food and drinks in the city better than the Bavarian/Mojo combo I have to come know so well these past six months.
By that I also mean I’m most likely in for this, because DAN!
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@jimu: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/04/talk-amongst-yourselves-219/comment-page-7/#comment-1148043
Everyone was invited. Didn’t leave you out, man. Now I feel terrible. 🙁 Hope you don’t take offence or any thing. Just didn’t tag anyone specifically.
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He was just joking @dc! He was probably just unaware of it but now he is so all is good in the world!
I doubt he’d take offence 🙂
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p.s. We should probably get our tickets in advance. So many times I’ve been casual about south bank cinema tickets caus I didnt think the movie was popular enough, and theyve sold out. Just an fyi.
p.p.s. It doesnt look like its even showing at south bank, just Balmoral and Vic Point.
p.p.p.s I can just drive us to Balmoral, its not far from south bank, is a good cinema, and has a rather grand Mexican restaurant there
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Those movie times weren”t there last night, I think they were only added today. Maybe South Bank hasn’t been added yet?
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I think if theyve put them up for Balmoral and Vic Point, they would have put them up for SB. Pretty sure it is what it says it is. It wouldnt be the first time Balmoral has gotten films SB hasnt.
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Just saw this on the South Bank thing. I know Event Cinema does screwiness like that too.
This page updates every Wednesday Night at 10PM for the following week.
*shrugs* I don’t know what to believe any more. Haha. 😛
Edit: Just checked. Balmoral has the same thing on it’s page. XD
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Queensland is on make-believe time anyway. It doesn’t mean what you think.
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Think we’d need to get Balmoral tickets in advance?
Also just noticed that South Bank cinemas are showing no times after today on their site, so they haven’t updated yet. There’s still a chance. Haha. Should be good either way, though. You guys are awesome. 😀
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Ah ok, well we’ll wait until tomorrow then. If south bank havent updated any of their times, there’s a good chance they will be screening it then.
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Also as an aside, if it’s in Cinema 5 at Southbank then I’d go somewhere else.
It’s the old IMAX screen and last few times I’ve been there the sound has been about half a second out of sync and tries to catch up. It’s terrible.
It’s also just a 35mm print blown up to the a massive screen, so if you’re a dickhead like me then the bowing at the edge of frame is pretty bad.
I’ll keep checking throughout the day, but that sounds like a good contingency. You’re awesome, Sughly!
Is Fable The Journey worth buying a Kinect for? (Is any Kinect game? :P)
Because I’ve ended up with a copy of it in my possession and I don’t know what to do with it due to my lack of a Kinect.
I’ll probably hold on to it in case I’m ever at a friend’s that has a Kinect and we feel like laughing at something 😛
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I’ve heard nothing but negativity surrounding it, but if you can go play it at a friends then give it a shot and see for yourself before deciding.
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Mine sits there collecting dust. Voice recognition is pretty cool, but not enough to actually use. 😀
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Not that you seem to mind, but I still do intend to hook it up. Just waiting until my daughter’s old enough for Once Upon A Monster 🙂
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There is nothing worth buying a Kinect for.
EDIT: I lie. The Double Fine Happy Action Theater and other Kinect games. It’s like Tim Schafer was the only person to actually understand how to make Kinect games.
Morning Peeps!
how be everyone?
also, reminder! if you guys can let me know by tomorrow/friday at latest, will be awesome
need to organise switching, tables, etc…
https://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/04/talk-amongst-yourselves-219/comment-page-6/#comment-1146761
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Hey sire! Dunno if you saw my message yesterday or not. Was just checking if you sent those MAD mag’s? If you did, they haven’t arrived! If you haven’t, all good! Just wanna make sure they’re not missing!
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COPIES FOR ALL! But man, I thought the phone was like 650 or 700 =/ Like priced about where the Galaxy SIII is =/
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Ha, like an Apple product is going to be priced the same as an better product.
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I built my rig mid last year and did some research, and at the time the 520’s were brand new, and they got some pretty great reviews. And having used one for the last 8-10 months, it’s been fantastic.
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That makes me confident in them. I was looking at OCZ otherwise since all my mates bought OCZ Agility drives and haven’t had an issue with them.
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The general consensus has listed Intel as one brand worth going for, for SSDs. Others were Samsung and I can’t remember the other one…
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I do like Kingston brand stuff, their HyperX brand ram has just jumped almost 50% in price though :S It’s up 35 bucks from when I bought it last year for the exact same 1600MHz 8GB kit =/
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I think the ssd’s are fairly stable though. Think I saw a 120gb for 120-130 the other day. That’s about the same price I paid for one’s for system builds last year
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RAM is subject to extreme price fluctuation from any manufacturer though. It’s always been the case – something will happen like factory burning down overseas, or some other supply interruption. Then prices take a huge hike.
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All ram has just jumped in price the hell. Looking at Corsair stuff now and it’s around 30-40 dollars more, weird.
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I’m younger than you. Everyone should encourage meeeeeee.
Also YAY DARK SOULS. I have wanted to read these again properly since I started my imitation/ripoff version.
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Hey man, there might be another editing assignment for you later this year or early next year, if you’re keen. Encouraging?
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Very encouraging. You know I’ve got a lot of respect for you and your work so that’s very cool indeed.
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And now I’m encouraged! \o/
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You’re all doing a great job!
#involved
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Get a job, you Arts degree bum.
That’s probably the kindest thing you’ll ever hear an Engineer say to you, so count that as encouragement!
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Aw man, none of the movies I had recorded are replaying on Foxtel any time soon. *shakes fist*
OMG Play-Asia got new stock of Rhythm Thief for 3DS. I thought it was out of print forever and Sega weren’t printing more copies and I’d given up on ever getting it \o/
So Bioshock Infinite. Sure is pretty,huh?
I was wandering around, looking at all the pretty and as it usually happens, nothing happened until my son came in the room. Then something happened (I had to pick and throw the baseball, I threw it at the announcer-guy, of course) and I was all…um…eek…what are they about to do to me?! And then my son walked in so I had to stop playing. 😛
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Yeah, I had a feeling it was about to get non-PG. 😛
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You should come over and watch me play Dark Souls. You might like it then. 😉
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DARK SOULS \o/
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Yeah, I remember that game! Never played it though, always thought it was going to have Myst like puzzles that would make me feel stupid. 😀 There’s this cool game coming out later this year called Gone Home. I think it looks amazing!
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Everyone’s Gone to the Rapture sounds incredible too. Then there’s Asylum, by the Scratches creator coming out in October. I think you’d like it! 😀
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Console? 🙁
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Nope on all fronts. Haha.
There’s The Witness coming out on PS4? 😀
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Downvote for “Haha”-ing us consolians. 😛
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Not. Helping.
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Most of these games have really modest system specs. I think you guys could run them on your laptops/writing computers.
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I’ve got a beast of a computer now, but it’s not the point. If I start loading games onto it, my writing productivity will die a sudden and rapid death. I even regret giving it internet connectivity :\
IT’S ENCOURAGE A YOUNG WRITER DAY. Y U DO ME LIKE THIS? 🙁
So we should play Company of Heroes 2 beta more!
I just won a game where one of my tanks’ controls were disabled so she literally just drove forward across half the map and then only stopped when she crashed into the enemy base.
And then there was no one in the base so she just started firing on everything.
And then I was like “WHELP, WHEN IN ROME” and ran all my units halfway across the map.
T-34/76, you were the noblest of heroes, and your lack of braking system only served to amplify your accomplishments.
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I think I need to buy CoH2. Didn’t play CoH much, but enjoyed what little I did. Friend and I were inspired to play last night and ended up getting locked into a 2v2 war with 2 AI opponents (on easy, mind) and the game went for 3.5 hours.
We are terrible. It was however, fun.
So, that’s it. I just got confirmation that I’m moving tomorrow. The flights are booked, the van is coming, the rest of my life just needs to be put into boxes and I’m gone.
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I am honestly sick of saying goodbye at this point. On Friday there was a morning tea and then post-work drinks. Saturday was the Korean BBQ meat. Sunday was a family dinner. Monday was dinner with friends and then going back to (finally) see the renovations that some of them had done to their new place. Tuesday was playing pool with friends as a “what the hell, we did this a lot before”. Tonight will be doing sweet fuck all and then tomorrow will be dinner with my family again as one last hurrah. Also because I need to drop stuff off there before I fly out.
That’s a lot of goodbyes.
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I should have learned from the master.
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I’d just feel sad if a friend left without saying goodbye. 😛
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It sucks. One of my groomsmen cut contact just after I got married. Chatted online once, shortly after the wedding, and haven’t seen him in person at all. Ducks all emails and calls.
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In some ways I’ve done that with uni friends. 🙁 Unintentionally though, but even so…
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Yeah, I know. I met some of them, remember? 😛
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There were pictures from the launch party and I spotted so many uni people there. D:
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Miss you ‘cuz!
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(Re)Played the first episode of Telltale’s Jurassic Park this morning! It’s pretty interesting playing it again after The Walking Dead. They’re kinda similar, but at the same time completely different. They’re both interactive movies but while Walking Dead is a Drama, Jurassic Park is more Action. I dunno, I like it. I think it gets a bad wrap because of that period around launch where everybody hated it 😛
ANYWAY, I reached 83% complete in LEGO City last night. Hopefully I’ll have it polished off by next week in time for Fire Emblem! 😀
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Just end up doing what I did. Unable to say no, I somehow ended up with three 3DS, one from each region. I am not proud of this.
Fucking Nintendo. Costing me money and shit.
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I bought it solely for MH 3g at the time, and that’s the only JP game I have.
Yes, I like MH.
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Oh, you had the Jap version? Get far in it?
I’m 9* Village atm (stuck on the last G-rank quest) and HR6
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I’ve had a copy ordered since before it came out in the US and there still isn’t any stock. Nintendo makes all the carts for 3DS for everyone, and I guess they’re just not making enough. Probably because they want you to buy it digitally. Assholes.
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Kind of still want to play that game (edit: JP), despite the naysayers. I remember seeing a gameplay trailer and thinking it looked awesome. It’s $19.99 on XBL though. Might keep on waiting :\
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Yeah, definitely wait for a sale if you’re unsure. (And watch the first movie before you play it. It intertwines with the events of the movie so you’ll miss a lot of references if your memory is rusty!)
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Ahahah I completely forgot Jurassic Park was mentioned at all and was confused by you wanting to play Fire Emblem on Xbox 😛
Anyone know why my kids suddenly started throwing socks at me, yelling something like “Dod Socks!” and blaming it on Adventure Time? 😛
Stupid vending machine ate my money :l And the help desk is conveniently open for like 10 minutes every 2 hours. >:(
Thought my work day was almost over. Had to have been 7 or so hours by now.
It’s been a bit over 3 /o\
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It’s always waiting. It doesn’t get jealous when I play other games. Just waits for me and welcomes me back.
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I too am suffering from a disproportionate passing of time.
Meaning, THIS DAY IS GOING TOO FUCKING SLOWLY FUCK
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Check this crazy shit out. In both instance of kotaku lockout (i.e. via phone and desktop). the solution was to ‘switch to mobile’ tab at the bottom of the page, then log in, then switch back.
idontgetit
Potaku Minecraft Server Suggestion:
Someone build a school. That way whenever something goes wrong in Minecraft I can say “I blame the schools”.
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Let’s build it in the jungle between our houses. Then, when people try to burn the school down, it’ll lead to hilarious results. Especially cause your house would be above the school.
I suggest you build a half-spherical moat underneath your house.
Oh man, I want to watch that Elysium trailer, but I’m already on the bandwagon. No good can come from it, except for spoilers.
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I want to watch it, but due to being at work with no sound, a small screen and a shitty connection, I’ll wait till I get home.
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Hmm, shit, I think it was a Nicki Minaj track in the car last night. My wife’s preference, not mine.
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I want a day when I don’t have to get up
Sometimes I’m sick of being in a rut
I want a day when I don’t have to go to work
This low life job makes me feel like a jerkSo dirty, burnt fingers to the bone
Not fair to be left in this job all alone
No help, no, no credit for making sure this
Evil machine doesn’t stop–The Living End
They are cool because they have the same initials as The Lesser Evil. -
Can’t beleive that @spaghett’s work actually blocked TAY, so he couldn’t come here even if he wants to be naughty.
I mean, I can believe it, but it is unbelivably rude – don’t bosses relaise how important a good TAY whinge is for their workers emotional wellbeing?
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Woah…… so tempting!
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Been watching Arcade Fire live stuff from around their first album and they weren’t any where near as good live. They’ve really perfected it since then. Cool to see how far they’ve come!
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I guess? I don’t know, I’m not a trend setter. I latched onto dickmen on the way up and rode it to glory.
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Dickmen are here to be ridden.
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Where do these tiny little lizards keep popping out from!? I’ve got an empty jar on my desk thats sole purpose is to catch and take lizards outside, they’re that frequent. They’re always near the bathroom too. Are they coming out of the drain!?
It’s like the start of a very boring horror movie.
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What kind of lizards? Like skinks? Skinks are cute until their tails fall off and then I feel awful.
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Yeah just a common variety. They’re too small to pick up, that’s where the jar comes in handy 😛
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Thanks to everyone for all the doco suggestions!
I’ve been watching one after the other all day this week because what I’m doing at work involves video thumbnails and no audio and it’s driving me nuts.
King of Kong was awesome and I’m working my way through Louis Theroux’s stuff now.
I think I’m addicted to docos…
@Powalen I couldn’t find Life in the Undergrowth on Youtube, but I’ll get my hands on it somehow.
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I downloaded it (or started the download, can’t remember if it finished or not) a while ago :'(
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I hear you’re running away from us for the weekend, so YES LET’S GO GET MANGA!
Probably tomorrow?
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Tomorrow (today?) sounds good!
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I missed whatever was suggested but my suggestion is Grizzly Man. The layers upon what is a simple sad story gets incredibly dark and deep.
@negativezero
THis can’tr be the actual lithograph
http://www.siliconera.com/2013/04/09/muramasa-rebirth-coming-with-limited-edition-this-june/
If it is, I’m getting standard edition :-/
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They haven’t revealed the lithograph yet.
http://muramasarebirth.com/special/
“High Res Framed Lithograph by Vanillaware – Specially made by Vanillaware, this new piece of art for this limited edition is truly one-of-a-kind reproduction (stay tuned for the big reveal of this completely new artwork)!“
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Framed? That’s a bit much, no?
How they gonna post a frame out successfully???-
I imagine it’ll be DVD case-sized since the package is going to have similar stuff to what was in the P4 Golden limited edition and that was width and height the size of a DVD case and about 4-5 cases thick.
I got the JP LE for Atelier Ayesha and it came with a framed thing of similar size.
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I seeee, so smaaall.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmm.I hope Dragon’s Crown get something special too.
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Anabolic steroids so you too can be ripped like the Amazon.
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Hey, so are Trophies region locked really?
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What do you mean?
I’ve got Miku Hatsune trophies on my US PSN account IIRC. And many US PS3 game trophies on my AU account.
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Oh cool, I read it somewhere. Maybe it was a specific game or bullshit. Good to know.
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I think early on in PSN there was some kind of issues with it but it works fine now. I dunno.
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That’s just for the soundtrack. Other sites have it posted now. (not that you can order yet…but we’ll see)
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Fair enough. I’m considering moving my order as well. Maybe even going back down to standard if the Lithograph is crap, b/c I’ve already got a Hori shell case and pouch thing from the P4 Golden release and TBH the soundtrack isn’t good enough to bother with a 5-track sampler. I was hoping the Preorder bonus might be DLC.
Waiting and seeing.
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I bought a Hori case fo $7($) from Playsia when I grabbed P4G, so I don’t need that either. Also, those faceplate stickers look TACK-KY.
So yeah, I’d only be doing it for the Litho.
The cards(?) Japan got were awesome!
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The P4G faceplate stickers? They look pretty badass if you also use the wallpaper IMO.
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The P4G ones look OK, Im just against face stickers in general.
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Well Gamespot is a game website 😛
Gamestop ship to Australia I think. I’m pretty sure Notty ordered The Last of Us statue edition from them but since it was extremely limited, I have no idea if he’ll actually get a hold of it.
Guys I think I might have just discovered I have an allergy. Everytime I hear the words “Stralyan Drama”, I shudder and change the channel.
If you have not played, you have not LIVED!:
Who should I contact regarding content ideas for the Potaku website? I have a regular feature idea to pitch.
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Probably Pants. But if you’re referring to the anime thingy you wanted to do, that was audio yeah? You can talk to me if you want!
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Not anime. Game music. I’ll send you guys an email at some point about it, it’s too big to explain on twitter.
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Game of Thrones S03E02
“It’s a shame the throne isn’t made out of cocks. They would never have gotten him off it.” might be one of my favourite lines ever. I absolutely love the scenes with Jaime and Brienne.
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Ehhhhh…
I find Brienne to be kind of cliched. I dont get the mass appeal with her. She just ticks all the boxes of ‘tough fighting girl that noone respects’ to me, and not a lot more. Particularly the constant scowling.-
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Not really, no. Because all she does is scowl and be impatient with everyone, so couldnt care less who she loved :/
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Spoliery-things:
The Jaime/Brienne fight scene was great, but I was a little sad because Jaime’s far from peak condition, having been in chains for, what, months? Would’ve been fun to see them fight for real. I reckon Jaime would’ve won, tbh. I do enjoy the banter between them though. Jaime’s a smart ass, but he does have a sense of honor – fun to watch. I reckon he’ll have a fraction more respect for Brienne after their little scrap.I was most upset in S1 when Ned and Jaime’s fight was interrupted. That was going to be good. Even Jaime was fucking furious, and I was shocked he didn’t kill the guy who stabbed Ned through the leg outright,-
I find Jaime fascinating, he just doesn’t give a fuck about anything. You’re probably right about Jaime beating Brienne, and I sort of think we might get to see at some point. Or they’ll be best buds. Who knows. I especially liked his line saying you can’t choose who you love.-
He’s actually one of my favorite characters. It’s easy to write him off as an incestuous asshole, which he is – but there’s a lot more going there I think, and his personality is mostly a facade. Cersei Lannister, on the other hand is a poisonous bitch with absolutely no redeeming qualities. I think Ser Brohn and Tyrion are my other favorite characters.-
I always find it interesting when people say Cersei has no redeeming qualities. Particularly with the TV show I think they’re trying to make her a bit more sympathetic by showing she’s losing control over Joffrey and somewhat scared by it. I mean, she’s still quite a terrible person, but I find that enjoyable. 😛 -
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She’s the one I LOVE to hate.
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@bdkiaf
I was thinking the same thing after watching 3.02. its taking a long time to set up the plot lines for each character this series. but then again, theres so many important characters in the show, its inevitably gonna take a good while to get each of them situated & set up for their story before anything can really start happening.
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Anyone and everyone involved in Ned’s death is beyond redemption >:( -
@sughly
So he himself is beyond redemption? 😛 Because the biggest factor in his demise was himself. He’s like Corinne in last week’s episode of Survivor. Overplaying his hand and blabbing to the wrong people. . -
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Haha! I like the comparison. But… its been a while now since I saw it… but… wasnt the king, before he died, basically telling him that he didnt want his son to be king, and then Ned went about trying to make the king’s wishes met, and then Cersei and et al were like lol nope and killed him? No? Hows that his fault?
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I get the feeling that Jaime Lannister could get away from Brienne any time he truly wants to, IF he wanted to, but he’s just chosen not to yet. The actor portraying Jaime is amazing, even though he got severely limited screen time in season 2, what he’s done with it has made the Kingslayer one of the most intriguing characters in the series.
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In the book you get quite a good look at what’s going on during the fight, from a mental standpoint, and yeah, a fit Jaime would beat Brienne, but it would still be quite a good fight. The fight shown was also way way shorter than in the book, where it lasted for quite a while, and left the two of them absolutely wrecked.
Also, yeah, much to my own disgust, I found myself growing to like Jaime as the books went on(and the show). He has one of the, uhh, “fullest”(?) character arcs, in my opinion.
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I had that response in the scene with Cersei and Joffrey, in relation to his lines about Margaery Tyrell. I’m never supposed to agree with Joffrey, it’s against the rules! Thankfully he ruins it all 2 seconds later by being Joffrey, so I didn’t have to kill myself out of shame.
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Hey oh ey! Dont go putting stuff that isnt in the show yet >:(
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Yeah, if it’s book stuff put a warning!
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I dont know why I started looking at them. I knew people would do it, and they did. More than just this comment are touching on book stuff that hasnt happened. Guys, srsly. Seperate show spoilers from book spoilers, dont just throw them all together.
So shitted off I read that now 🙁
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This is why I like the reviews on A.V. Club. Splitting it into two articles is fantastic.
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Oh you mean like the SPOILER BUTTON? It’s not just there for looks you know… jesus christ seriously.
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Seriously dude? We’re talking about the show. It’s pretty reasonable to expect that the spoiler you posted would be regarding things that have happened in the show. If it’s about something else, then you should say so. Fuck.
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Everyone was talking about the show spoilers, not the books. How am I supposed to know youre going to give away something that happens later in the show if you dont state otherwise.
Try not to be too apologetic about it either.
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Im not going to be, I used the spoiler button, the thing you use when you post spoilers. Why would I apologise for you know, covering spoiler with the SPOILER BUTTON.
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Seriously man, youre being a bit of a dick. We were pretty specific about why we werent happy. Show spoilers, book spoilers. Make it obvious what youre talking about, especially when EVERY OTHER POST is about the show. Geez.
I feel like a pretty significant part of a show that I’m enjoying quite a lot has been ruined thanks to you, and it has nothing to do with my own negligence. I had every reason to read it when I’ve watched all the episodes so far.
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Then you’ll be happy to know they’re not following the books to a tee. Again, I posted something in a spoilers label, something people are pretty anal about on these forums. If you clicked it, that was your choice. It’s not like it was unlabelled. FYI go over both your own replies, I’m not the one being dickish. I said one thing, others have mentioned other things from the books and you made no mention about saying anything from it previously, sorry if something got mentioned and spoiled but you two were kind of dickish first. Time to move on to more important things. Cya.
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I think it’s difficult to separate show spoilers from book spoilers when talking about Game Of Thrones.
However when everyone else is talking about the show and you throw in book-specific spoilers it’s probably nice to just warn that the particular incoming spoiler refers to events further than the show has been yet. -
I think its fair to assume what you said will be in the show though and you know it.
I’ve got a few favourite lines from the series. most are from Tyrion. like the exchange between him & Shagga(?) in series 2 –
T – [using one of Shaggas common threats toward someone else]…cut off his manhood and feed it to the goats.
S – …THERE ARE NO GOATS LITTLE MAN.
T – well then make do
I’m interested in people’s thoughts on
Catelyn’s story to Talisa about baby Jon Snow being sick. A lot of book readers are pretty aggressive about it, because Catelyn hates Jon Snow, but I think people are missing the point. The story isn’t about her relationship with Jon (which doesn’t change at all, as she says), it was about Catelyn’s conviction and her faith. I just really like Catelyn, and Michelle Fairley does a wonderful job with her, and it saddens me the way some fans completely and utterly despise her when she’s far from a monster. /minirant
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I found it interesting that she blamed herself for all the bad shit thats happened to her family. Well… it sort of is to a point. Her taking Tyrion hostage kicked off quite a bit of fuss, but she blames her interactions with her faith for her problems, not her actual actions.I actually found that it made her seem a bit selfish. Oh this war affects only me. It started because I didnt keep my promise to the Seven. Oh, not because I took the kings brother-in-law hostage & falsely accused him of attempted murder… not because of that at all.
sure, theres other events that had a role as well (Ned losing his head is a case in point), but I wonder if they would have played out differently had Catelyn not taken the first move & pissed off the Lannisters?
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It was selfish, but I think given the context that makes sense. She just got hit with the news that her father was dead and Winterfell had burned, with her youngest sons likely dead as well. She’s been hit hard and it seems reasonable to have those feelings then. Although yes, taking Tyrion in the beginning was very much her fault.
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I… I’m really not sure how I feel about Catelyn. I’ll agree, she’s far from a monster, and to all of her children she was wonderful, and I can totally understand why she acts the way she does to Jon. But I still don’t like it. But yeah, I liked the story, thought it served its use well.Later book spoilers(kind of):
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I dont know about that scene specifically, but I find that I’m often reminding myself of the fact that she’s lost Ned, who would have been such a rock for her. I get that the son’s taken up Ned’s position, but she’s still the mother of the family and what they stand for, and not having Ned there by her side to represent that would be pretty tough, especially when it involves decisions based on her children, and probably decisions Ned would have supported her on.-
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Ehhh… I’m assuming this is a joke 😐
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Is it a joke? I dont even know any more! Sorry if it isnt 🙁
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Ha, there’s nothing in the spoiler tag. It’s a joke.
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*shakes fist at @shane*
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Show:
I hate the choice of actress, she just doesn’t seem like Lady Stark to me. And even more so that story just didn’t ring true for me.
Book:
I never really liked her character anyway. She’s one of my least favourites in the whole series. And I can despise her without thinking she’s a monster, anyway. 😛 I just find she’s really rigid and short-sighted and she really annoyed me.
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Hey, thanks for indicating whether those were book or show spoilers. That was really considerate of you.
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GASP! It’s like I don’t even know who you are any more, Strange. 😛
Some big book spoilers.
Catelyn is my favourite character and I was absolutely mortified by her death. Stuff Robb, it’s all about Cat there! That moment is the culmination of every bad thing that’s happened to her in the books. She wasn’t there when Ned died. She wasn’t there when Winterfell burned and her sons were apparently killed. She wasn’t there when Sansa was married to Tyrion. No one knows where Arya is. Near everything that’s happened has been second hand for her. Robb’s death was the first she’d physically seen and at that moment everything snapped and she seemed to actually go insane. It’s horrifying and I hate it and I love it and ARGH CATELYN WHY?!So yeah, I’m pretty biased about the character. 😛
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it was all her fault! And yeah, I never liked Robb much either. I felt sympathy for him though, where I hardly ever felt any for his mother.
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Damn it, TAFE is doing the RCG course tomorrow there are spaces, it’s 175 bucks though o.o the RSA was only 125 =/ I was under the impression that the RCG was the same or cheaper, cause I swear it was when I did mine.
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Just get your millionaire mum to set up a kickstarter for it while she spends money sending your bro’s to skateboard camp and Paris…
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http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/03/internet-rallies-against-kickstarter-for-nine-year-old-girl/
Whoops you said RCG 😛 Oh well. Still, give it a try lol.
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Hahaha.
Yeah Responsible Conduct of Gambling, so I can work in places that have pokies or whatever haha.
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$49.50 in my pureprofile account – almost time to cash out…
hey, wait a minute..
@jimu, am I detecting the wheel of fate turning??
http://www.ozgameshop.com/xbox-360-games/persona-4-arena-limited-edition-game-xbox-360
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If you consider the time vs $ it isn’t great, but I just do them casually during my lunch break. Maybe average $150/yr? Probably so far this year I’ve got $30 of MS points, $50 bunnings voucher and am about to get my first $50 from pureprofile. Seems like a guilt free way to buy P4A. just trying to confirm that Japanese language track is included in European release b/c i don’t think i could handle hearing anything but what i’m used to (from anime sub).
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Do you fill the surveys out properly or do you just put in random crap?
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Properly, but kinda quickly.
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I know your used to a certain set of voices but the US voice cast is the best Ive heard in years!
So don’t let that put you off.
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The Walking Dead is 9.99 and Scribblenauts Unlimited is 16.99 on special on Steam guys!!! Don’t miss out if you don’t have either of them! 😀 Just got Scribblenauts!
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I would say on top of the server, because then if it falls over, at least your house won’t be crushed.
Edit: It would have to be a small house, though. Servers aren’t that big. Might I suggest investing in a concrete slab rather than sharing a server?
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Anywhere should be fairly safe, although I ran far away from the spawn area because I wanted to live the hermit life!
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And they sell the tequila infused beer I had in France, Desperados, which are amazing.
It should be noted I’ve only been once, but that once was great. And I went because a bunch of people recommended it.
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http://www.cineplex.com.au/sessions-SB.php
They’ve got Oblivion sessions now, but at the same time Mexican could be good too! Haha! 😀
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In all honesty, I just want to hang out with you guys. Only reason I was pushing South Bank is cause I thought it’d be more convenient, public transport wise but whatever works best is all good for me too! 😀
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It’s the dreaded cinema five at South Bank too, if that changes any thing. Haha!
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I think thats the nail in the coffin
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It’s more Mexican is both mine and Mrs Freeze’s favourite food.
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Its settled then. I’ll pick you guys up and we’ll go to Balmoral. Done.
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Sounds good to me! Where do you all want to meet? 😀
Do you think tickets will sell out at Balmoral, Sughly?
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Ahhh… its happened before, and it is opening weekend. Should still get them in advance to be sure. Also, has anyone else said they wanted to go?
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It was just us four, I think.
6:40 session with dinner after, or dinner before and 9:30 session? 😀
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@dc Okie doke! I’m just looking to make reservations at the restaurant since they can get pretty busy. 6.40 and 9.30 sessions for the film… so either an early dinner, or a late film. Or a late dinner… but might be a little too late, dont places usually close kitchen around then? What you think @freezespreston? I’m thinking 9.30 film maybe, and dinner at like 7.30 or 8.
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Dammit, why you guys plan awesome things when I can’t go? 🙁
And damn you Mr. Strange for going to Sydney for work this weekend! 😛
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No babysitter. We usually use my parents but they had the kids on Saturday and they’ll look after them next Wednesday night when we see Epica followed by picking them up on Thursday night to stay while we go to Sydney for the weekend(again for Epica) so I don’t think I should ask them to babysit this weekend. 😛
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Fair ‘nuf!
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This! 😀
Ah except I wont be able to go caus that developer friend will be at my place next week XD
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:'( Alright, when Gravity comes out we’ll do the Mexican food/Gravity one-two punch! 😀
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Looks like its a one man meat.
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In my quest to get fit all this week I’ve abstained from taking the bus back up and have walked the grueling 1km 100% uphill/stairs back to acc. services. It’s going well! I can make it up easily now. It kinda motivates me to exercise more. So yeah, I’ll definitely be keeping that up.
Oh and I’m starting to get tanned again, so I can look super sxc.
I know I shouldn’t be excited about this, especially because it indicates my body is beginning to fail (right on schedule), but I can’t wait until I get my glasses! \o/
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Me in three months.
But for now, I get to complete my look. Update my author photos, and I’ll probably triple sales 😛
Also, the wife really likes me in glasses. Even if my vision was perfect, I would consider a little dressing up (normal clothes + specs) just for her (and consequently for me) 😛
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Get a little set of glasses for your winky. Surprise the missus.
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I have freckles (a fairly even smattering, not too much) and my housemate and other various people say they’d kill for freckles. Me? I’d kill to not have them.
Also, I sometimes wish I had glasses, but then remember I have 20/20 vision and would rather not have the hassle of shitty vision to go with.
Wait.
HIPSTER GLASSES WITH NO LENSES!
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Plus, at the moment you can do the whole bald/glasses look.
The other acceptable SF/fantasy author look is BEARDY BEARDY BEARDY
Reddit on Elysium:
Tin foil Hat District 9 and Elysium happen in the same universe. District 9 happens, Elysium is created, then the events in the film elysium occur, Bourne succeeds, earth becomes more technologically advanced like elysium, the aliens from district 9 come back with a vengeance, the liquid that powers the spaceship shows the more prevalent parasitic characteristics of the alien race. War goes on, in their desperation the humans convert Elysium into a doomsday machine.
BOOM HALO MOVIE. It will be Blomkamp’s way of getting the movie approved while riding the whole joined together movie train.
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I can maybe see Elysium’s version of Earth as being post war with the D9 aliens. The way that Reddits saying it all plays out though sounds a bit stupid.
Just watched the first episode of Hannibal, not bad. I give it a thumbs up.
(Not spoilers per se, but general thoughts and jazz)
Interesting to see Mikkelsen playing Hannibal, though given his previous work as Le Chiffre from Casino Royale, it’s not too big a leap(they’re broadly similar). He’s no Hopkins, but he’s not trying to be exactly the same, so that’s okay. I haven’t seen or read Red Dragon, so I think some of the relations are lost on me, but it does a good job of introducing stuff(not really surprising), though I feel like one bit was particularly hammy with the whole “Hannibal is a bad guy!” thing. Will be interesting to see how it goes. Also looks and feels pretty damn good for a non-cable show.
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Didn’t read the spoilers, cause I’ll probably give it a try. Trailer looked alright, but I have the same feeling that I have with Under the Dome. This show shouldn’t be on free-to-air TV. It’s a cable show that’s only going to get treated badly on network television. 😛
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They’ve changed Will quite a lot. He’s not the nervous bumbling timebomb in Red Dragon.
According to the shows creator, season 4 will be based on Red Dragon which is interesting because (minor Red Dragon spoilers – it happens in the opening scene)
Will figures out that Lector is the cannibal they’ve been hunting and Lector almost kills Will.With this, I see it as a new continuity. It will be interesting to see if the show is successful enough if they are able to bring in Starling and adapt Silence of the Lambs. Although I don’t know how well that would work.
I quite like Mikkelsens take on Lector. I’m also glad he’s not just mimicking Hopkins. Although I feel like he almost needs subtitles sometimes.
And watch Red Dragon Blaghs. It’s pretty good.
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Wait wait… Mads Mikkelsen!? :O
I might just have to have a look now…
And yep, Red Dragon is purdy good. Ralph Fiennes!
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I think “Danny Elfman before he turned crap!” is perfectly acceptable as a term.
I’d say that Charlie and the Chocolate factory is when he started showing his crappiness, but then, I like the music from Corpse Bride, which was released later…
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I’ll get around to it… maybe…
Hey, I watched Sunshine the other day, so I guess I am listening to people’s recommendations!
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INCREDIBLE! XD
I doubt anyone has any other opinions, so moving on…
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Man, that ending, right? I dunno, after a lot of people had hyped it up as basically the worst ending in the history of ever, I was prepared for it, and while I didn’t really like the direction it went, I think it could have been a lot worse. It did make me wonder though, how exactly were they supposed to get back to Earth, ever? Like, their ship is being protected by the enormous heat shield, that is attached to the bomb, right? So they drop the bomb, and their ship melts? Is there something I missed here? Anyway, that’s not really on track at all. That ending, could have been worse. The change in how everything was shot, and that effect over everything was frickin’ weird though.
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Forgot to mention:
Regarding your “issue” with that scene. Quote from the show creator:
“There is a cheery disposition to our Hannibal. He’s not being telegraphed as a villain. If the audience didn’t know who he was, they wouldn’t see him coming. What we have is Alfred Hitchcock’s principle of suspense—show the audience the bomb under the table and let them sweat when it’s going to go boom”
Howdily doodily Tayberinos. Mini story time. The training servers here at work might’ve died a horrible horrible death and I’ve got nothing to do until they’re fixed … at some point before the weekend. I can’t leave the offices and there’s not really anything to do.
Let’s talk sportsball!
Edit: Oh snap, first ever page get. I’d like to thank the acadamy and all the people I had to blackmail to get this. I love you all!
Also, would anyone want an unlocked Samsung S3 for $300? my boss is asking me to sell it on ebay and I’m far too lazy at the moment.
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Shit son. This’ll teach me for not actually reading through TAY before posting shiat. Is the Galaxy S3 a 16GB model? I’m interested 🙂
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Indeed it is, although it’s looking like it was already sold to a friend up in brisbane. Sorry Beardy
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Hey Beardy, apparently my friend can’t get the phone anymore. Are you still interested?
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the alphabet. & a few random words.
pretty much if they spell out what they’re saying & throw in words like ‘chicken’ & ‘drink’, I’ll be able to work it out.
Edit: thats a long way of saying, no I dont know sign language, so this was a dumb joke.
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Hahaha! You nearly impressed me. Nearly.
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As some of you may remember, my PS3 died about 3 months ago. I had been thinking about buying a new one but have decided against it. I was planning on saving up for a PS4, but now I’m not sure whether I’ll bother, at least until the price comes down a bit. So, to get to the point, I am considering selling my PS3 games collection. I have about 40 or so and I was wondering whether anyone would be interested in purchasing the games. I will put a list up if enough people are interested and we can work out prices later. Thanks for reading my wall of text.
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I am willing to break up the collection if it helps. I would rather see the games go to good homes than trade them in at EB.
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Depends on the games I guess.
If we’re talking about stuff like Metal Gear Solid, then yes.
But if we’re talking about stuff like Karaoke Revolution Glee, then yes also.
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Thanks for the offer, but I’ve decided I don’t really want to buy another PS3 at the moment. Plus I kind of want to pay off the money I owe my Dad so I can start saving for a holiday to Bali at the end of this year/beginning of next.
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Yeah, I haven’t been overseas for almost 4 years (unless you count going across Bass Strait going overseas). Also, the fact that I’m learning Indonesian makes we want to go there so I can try it out and I’ve been told that Bali’s an easier way to ease yourself into Indonesian culture.
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Half the people you’ll see are Australians and most of the locals speak English.
Everything is so relaxed and easy there. And everyone was freaking out about the whole drug thing but we didn’t even get asked. We generally stayed out of Kuta though and spent more time around Tuban, Legian and Ubud.
If you get a chance visit Blue Point. Go up the rickety wooden stairs in the cave and there’s a bar set into the cliff with the most amazing views I’ve ever seen. The girls will start massaging you without warning though so wave them off unless you want to be hit up for more money.
Also need to have dinner at one of the restaurants on Jalan Bay. Sitting on the actual beach being served super fresh fish and beer while watching the sunset is one if the highlights of my life.
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Yeah, my sister went to Bali and said Kuta wasn’t the best, I would definitely be more interested in Ubud and other places like that. I would have to get my fitness level up before attempting too many stairs. It’s funny, I had no real interest in visiting Bali before, but since deciding to start my Indonesian course, Bali and other parts of Indonesia are interesting me more and more.
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GREEN SHIRT!
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Damn it. Went to apply for a passport and they need mum or dad’s birth certificate. They both do not have theirs, due to getting lost, god damn it. That’s a pain in the rear.
Oh well. Does anyone know how long it takes to get one once you’ve filled everything in?
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I think it’s about two weeks or so. You can get it fast tracked if it’s urgent, but shouldn’t take too long.
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Usually several weeks (2-4) but you can pay to get them in a hurry. I had to do that once for a renewal and they had new ones done within 3 hours.
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Ah yeah I saw that. Though 2-4 would be fine anyway.
Doubt i’ll even have the money to go to Download by the time it comes around sadly 🙁
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@sughly, @freezespreston: 7:30ish dinner and 9:30 movie sounds good to me. Does that work for you Freeze? Dinner can probably be pushed back if you need the time?
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Yeah thats fine! Practially on the way. I’ll get you from south bank station DC? Thats the one after south brisbane XD
Also since the film is pretty late, we dont have to be in too much of a hurry for dinner, dont stress. I’ll book it tomorrow for 7.45
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Haha! Oh man, South Bank station, right! This time I’ll be there for real! XD Thanks man! Looking forward to this!
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Is this the place? If so, food looks good! 😀
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Sudden craving for nachos…
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Thats the one!
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@blaghman – He’s done some decent scores since Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Hellboy 2 and The Kingdom for example were enjoyable, but now everything mostly sounds the same.
I miss the Danny Elfman who gave us the Batman theme, Mars Attacks, Men in Black and The Nightmare Before Christmas!
Now Michael Giacchino on the other hand (@dc)
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Yeah, you’re right. I think Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is when I first noticed him really “phoning in” the music. Though that could be said for basically the whole movie.
Well it’s official
I shall be in melbourne from the 17th to the 25th of july!
that’s right, a whole week of B-Funk, in your city!
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I THINK I HAVE YOU MAYBE I DUNNO
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“instead of acting like you’re better than everyone for being straightedge, you can just act like you’re better than everyone all the time for no particular reason.” is just too good.
@strange @zap
MKR are now taking applications for the next season.
Just putting it out there.
Go team Tay!
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From what I’ve seen, you’d be more than able to hold your own on the cooking side too, Freeze.
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Whoa wait, Neverhood is getting a spiritual successor!? WHAT! Only one pic has gone up, but still… woo! https://www.facebook.com/Armikrog
Adventure Gaaaames 😀
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#OhD.C.
If I lived in Brisbane, and knew how to drive, I would have gone with you. Alas, ’twas not to be.
Edit: I’ve just been reminded, the first Harry Potter book was what introduced me to the word “Alas” (I had undoubtedly heard it before, but never really thought about it). Dumbledore’s line near the end, relating to Bertie Bott’s Every Flavour Beans confused me enough that I grabbed a dictionary, and looked up the word, since I did not understand its meaning. #TheMore(useless shit)YouKnow
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Oh, if I knew how to drive I would have driven you home.
Anything to help me get your address for the file.
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Don’t worry, man. We’ve got plans on Friday. Gonna be all kinds of awesome.
Just a half baked idea I threw out there before checking to see if it made sense. (It didn’t. :P)
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Didn’t get to see it before your stoopid edit (let it stand, DC! Nobody’s judging you! Except maybe for being a compulsive editor 😛 ) but from the comments I’m going to assume it means you or I or both of us need to get our drivers license.
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Haha, I suggested a seperate movie thing for Thursday (as well as Friday)… then I realized after posting that the last train leaves at 11pm, only an hour or so into the movie. XD
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Anyone who’s used the Book Depository, how long do books take to come? I’m thinking of ordering a couple of books from there, but one is for an assignment, and I don’t want to have to wait for too long to start the assignment.
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I used them to get Shane’s books, took about three weeks, but I think it’s because his books are print on demand without excess stock… or something…
That’s not a helpful answer.
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For me it’s been the standard 7-12 working days (2-3 weeks). Definitely don’t go through them if you need something ASAP, especially for an assignment.
Can you rent or borrow it from the Uni library/bookstore? You can also try a local seller or even eBay
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It’s only a 3 day loan from the Uni library. One of my fellow students owns the book, and I might ask if I can borrow his copy if he’s not doing the same topic.
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Last time I ordered from them (about a month ago) it only took a week. It varies a lot but I’ve never had it take longer than three weeks.
Oh man, so many Game of Thrones spoiler tags!
I like watching it but I have no idea what’s going on and who is who 70% of the time so I like discussion that helps clear things up but I’m scared there’ll be book spoilers 😛
Speaking of which I’ve had a borrowed copy of Game of Thrones from my friend for over a year and I’m pretty sure I’ve had it longer than he has… oops :/. I read like 100 pages then stopped for some reason and haven’t read it for like a year 😀
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Yeah well, if you saw the big dispute, thats what it was about. Book spoilers thrown into the middle of show spoilers. I feared it too, but went in assuming I’d be ok. I was wrong :'(
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Am I following all the twitter TAYbies? Missing anyone?
PS I’m only following TAYbies so it’s like TAY in my pocket 😉
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Ashley_X_Rise or something? It’s the one with Rise (anime girl) from P4 as the display picture
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Ugh, note to self – Never have a day off again. I took yesterday off because I had my TAFE Graduation ceremony last night. Drove home Monday night after work, lazed around at home for most of Tuesday, went to ceremony and because I was an idiot and only got the one day off work had to drive 2.5 hrs back to Orange after the ceremony. Come in to work this morning to find that I had 3 sets of clients come in and book while I was off for the day, 50 odd emails to catch up on and clear out, quite a number that I didn’t get a chance to follow up, and today was another extrememly busy day.
I shudder to think what its going to be like when I have 4 days off for my sisters wedding at the end of the month, or for PAX.
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I’m going to need 6 months?!?!
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What a cool website!
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I spent 85 hours and if I had wanted to I could probably have wasted another 20+ doing sidequests and grinding my level up. I finished ~level 82, but there are a lot of side areas in the endgame that have 90+ level monsters.
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And don’t forget those mobs above level 99!
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Too busy at work, when I come home I just want to sleep. Sorry folks, you just aren’t interesting enough 😛
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This is what happens, D.C.. Our attention cannot be held for too long, a week of strength, followed by a weaky week. It’s sleek, Deek. Grab a bird by the beak, and seek the geek that doesn’t reek.
Sometimes I feel like I’m a bit of a freak.
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This comment needs a Kudos nomination. 😀
Actually, I think @markserrels needs to have a Kudos username set up so we can nominate people by @kudos -ing them.-
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I wonder if that’s possible. Because that would make things really cool on my end, and make it easier to highlight cool posts and stuff. I’ll look into it 🙂 Great idea.
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Maybe it could be tied to upvotes. Just thinking out loud!
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I was actually even thinking of asking you if it was possible to see the most upvoted comment each week. 🙂
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I can only join in sporadically because I’m too often frantically hand-sewing. I’ll be like that until the end of the month, or maybe even up until Mothers’ Day if I haven’t been frantic enough. 😛
Has anyone else been having trouble accessing the Nintendo E-Shop lately on the 3DS? it always errors on me which is sorta annoying since I want to download the Fire Emblem demo.
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My first attempt at the list back in 2003 or something resulted in me watching stuff like The Fly and Flatliners and etc. 😀 All pulpy kind of movies for some reason.
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Come on guys, there’s two sequels to The Fly. 1959’s Return of the Fly, and 1965’s Curse of the Fly.
(In actuality, there’s “The Fly 2”)
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I feigning ignorance at the existence of The Fly 2. In my mind, that film doesn’t exist. 😛
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Yeah, it occurred to me that you were probably doing that 2 seconds after I posted that. :/
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Has anyone ordered anything from Kogan? I’m looking to replace my Galaxy S2 I took for a swim while on holidays, but I’ve heard some horror stories about Kogan. Problem is, they’re selling unlock Galaxy SIIIs for less than $400. Which is more than half price what other retailers are selling them for.
Seems way dodgy.
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No thanks. More interested in feedback about Kogan than phone recommendations. I know what I want 🙂
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FINE DON’T JOIN OUR NEXUS 4 CLUB
Actual Kogan customer service: All I know is that it took more than a month for Pez to get his Galaxy Note from them.
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It does say on their site that things don’t ship for 3-5 weeks after you order it. But that’s part of the problem 😛 I want a shiny new piece of tech now!
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Looks like it’s second hand, but check out @tofu’s post at the top of the page, he’s looking to offload one for $300(if he’s serious).
Never used Kogan myself(I’ve never heard anything super bad about them).
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I ordered a tablet from them a year or so ago. They were really fast, and the service was pretty good. The tablet still works too.
It’s like anything that relies on the postal service, there’s always horror stories, but there’s usually good stories as well. You just never tend to hear them because people are louder when something goes wrong than when it goes right. 🙂-
Very true. One of my friends just went through a battle with them. Another friend got a Galaxy S2 from them that was set up in Italian and exploded while it was charging after 3 months :/
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Not yet. Hopefully after lunch today. And Mr. Strange will be away all weekend so I’ll be able to play it all night every night from tomorrow. 😀
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I like it!
I’ll admit that the new album didn’t really grab me when I gave it a couple of listens during the free preview on iTunes, but there are good songs. I guess I’m more of a fan of his 70s and 80s stuff.
While I haven’t heard it in years, I got the first Tim Man cassette when it came out and really loved it at the time. I wonder if I’d still like it now? Probably not.-
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Though I’ve got a soft spot for both the singles, Where Are We Now and The Stars (Are Out Tonight) too. They have nothing on Space Oddity though. XD
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Center
Potzdamer Platz is all Blade Runner-like. (Yeah, I might have too much time on my hands. Haha) I remember seeing the Sony Center ages ago while researching a cyberpunk project, but now I just associate it with Bowie. 😀
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I remember walking past there about ten years ago when I did the backpacker thing. It was the middle of the day though, and it didn’t strike me as particuarly Blade Runneresque.
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All good cyberpunk needs perpetual darkness. Germany should work on that! 😀
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Haha!
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I remember listening to a lot of The Cure, The Doors and Nick Cave as a teenager, except I wasn’t emo because that hadn’t been invented yet. 😛
Nirvana was around in my later teens but I never really appreciated them until after Kurt was dead. I think I thought of them as too “mainstream” ‘cos they got played on the radio (TripleM) 😀-
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I’m thankful to EA for putting me onto The Doors initially (albeit a Snoop Dogg remix, or something) with the Need For Speed Underground 2 soundtrack.
…hyup.
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DARK SOULS \o/
Painted World is tough. Got savaged really badly by some bird things on top of a tower. Now to retrieve all my souls and humanity. Back into the fray… tomorrow.
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Crow Demons suck. Even when I get my character to an unstoppable powerhouse those things can still cause me trouble. Especially on the narrow walkways. Although if you want to rank up in the Darkwraiths you’ll be farming them a LOT.
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Hey man, what’s up? More meats in the future, I see. And your DVR died…? Anything salvageable?
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Got a new Foxtel Box today. Up and running again, except all my list movies are gone. Haha!
Hope you and your family are well!
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Hi all, looking for some fast and furious feedback if you please. Finished version is going into work tomorrow to print 250 copies. (Edit: Will be A4 insert into a convention showbag dealy.)
Thanks!
Edit: Thanks everyone. I have now used my work’s resources to print these off, so admiration posts only from this point. kthxbai
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Reads fine to me, there’s some compression artifacts (I think that’s the term) around the text, but that might just be the uploaded version.
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MySpace?
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Nope!
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Bebo.
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google+ surely?
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Why are your novels so graphic? Won’t somebody think of the children?!
I like it. Eye catching without being jarring.
Sitting at my PC slaving over after hours jobs filling my earholes with Pez. Suitably impressed! @shane, I’ll get to the comic soon. Sadly reading comics and working doesn’t work as well as music and work.
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Looking at selling me iPhone 5 and getting a Galaxy Note 2. Or a Nexus 4. I’m rather disappointed in the 5.
I don’t know why. Something just feels…off about it.
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MAde a funny?
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Once on the Adventure Gamers forum someone said they just couldn’t get into Maniac Mansion, then I told them to look for the key under the door mat. I was proud of that. 😀-
You’ve ALWAYS been one of us.
Methought thou didst protesteth too muchly.
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Continuity!
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Currently it’s on Optus but they unlock them for free (you just say you’re traveling overseas, not that you’re planning on selling it).
I’m not sure how much I would sell it for. It’s a black 64GB model and only 5 months old. They retail new for $999.
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Ah right, cool.
Well let me know when you’re planning on vetoing it and I shall see if I have the cash. I was looking at a 16gb outright from Telstra for 790 today but decided against it at the last minute to hold out lol
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Ultimately if I can sell it for the cost of the Note 2 or Nexus 4 I’d be happy heh.
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Ah yeah, fair trade off. Either is a pretty good price or fucking bargain price for that phone.
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I’d be happy to pay that tbh, from looking at the prices just then online for Aus, they’re rather cheap compared lol.
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Maybe people weren’t expecting a gay Hulk Hogan but surprise ruined 🙁
I’m not even sure who you’re referring too but I have a general idea 😛
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Dickman
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Man, why do people always insist on hand feeding me? It’s gotten to the point where it’s not weird but normal 😛
PS I’m drunk
And I may be moving in with Oliver, his gf and another friend next year.
And Olivers gf bit me on the neck. It hurts. Oliver wasn’t happy. I wasn’t very happy :l I know she gets like that but even when drunk out of respect for Oliver I’d rather her not rub my chest and bite my neck.
But I was okay with her friend doing it 🙂
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Oh, Ben J!
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Uni life is awesome 😛 Things are working out with that now too. His mum’s at least partially come around, his gf isn’t crying anymore and he doesn’t seem to be depressed anymore. I had a good talk to him about coming to see me if he feels like he ever needs to talk and he’s really opened up, which is awesome because I don’t have to worry anymore. Everyone’s gotta have somebody they know they can come and talk to about whatever.
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Poor Kat, she’s feeling pretty shit today. But she’s a trooper for continually talking to me, which I admire. Though she did say the other day she really appreciates me getting her to chat when she feels like this. It makes her feel wanted and improves things for her.
She’s a good person who doesn’t deserve to feel down, there’s enough of that in her past as it is.
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Sounds like someone needs a ‘Loops hug!!!
Did I ever mention that you guys are super-cute!!
I know it’s not the most metal thing – but psh, Virus is a laddieesss mannnnnn *wiggly dance*Hope she’s feeling better soon, man.
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She’s a metalhead too 😉 She’s only met Corey Taylor 20 something times last time he asked her to come hang out and shop with him, and met Sliknot a dozen or so times likewise Stone Sour haha.
I dunno, seems metal to me 😛 haha
She’s all sorts of amazing, she started profusely apologising last night too she thought she had been all sorts of mean and horrible to me, so cute every text ended with “I’m so sorry :(” it’s rare to come across someone who shows that much initiative to show they care.
Just fuck distance >=[ hahaha
Also am I the one getting the Loops hug? Cause I better be, because heads will roll otherwise..
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Hahaha. I was waiting for that. But nah. Unless Scree is a 27 year old female metalhead living in Cambridge, then I guess it is so lol.
Not like her to apologise like that either. She thought she had been mean to me and upset me.
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@Scree
I just discovered there is an Episode 00 for Another which is apparently an OVA.
Do you know anything about it? If so should I watch it or will it only spoil the amazing original series.
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I did a quick Google whilst I was at work. Apparently Its focouses on Misaki Mei prior to the series and shows here more human side or something.
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Had a mini break down last night due to being so far behind in uni studies, despite studying for the mojority of almost every night after work since uni started again…
Man uni really does my head it – and it’s only the start of second year! 😐
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Damn dude 🙁 but hang in there, I am sure you can balance shit out in the end though. Sounds stressful as fuck =/
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First thing I noticed right away
In his “selected spell” down the bottom left it has L1:15. Could the magic have a levelling system now?-
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When he dual wielded the two swords it seemed like he a actually used both weapons together smoothly, hopefully this means a proper dual wielding mechanic!-
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NINJA TURTLES? GOTF -
Everything seemed a lot smoother. The two handed sword seemed more graceful and less bashy. Also I noticed the Healing Drop doesn’t stop you in your tracks while using it. He kept moving. -
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I’m sure it’s something you can turn on in the options! I also like seeing big numbers appear above enemies heads.
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http://au.ign.com/videos/2013/04/10/dark-souls-2-gameplay-reveal-12-minute-demo
I was just about to post this! -
If I was on the fence, I’d still be there after this, to be honest. I don’t feel like they showed all that much that was interesting. The idea that some enemies will leave you alone until you attack them is not a ‘new’ element, nor is being forced to strategise to deal with different enemy types.
I do like that the turtles can roll back on you if you try to get behind them, though. That’s pretty nifty, and a good idea that not every enemy’s weak spot is its back.-
That troll thing would have taken me by surprise. Who the hell throws a giant two handed axe? Seriously.-
In responding to this, I’m going to sound overly negative, I’m sure. So upfront, gonna say I’m still excited and will be pre-ordering for sure.
That troll thing looked kind of cheap to me. Putting him up there on the narrow walkway over a bottomless drop… why is he there? Does he live there? Or is he just there to throw axes at people who won’t be able to dodge? You can deflect them, sure… but is it only a strength-build who can do that, or people with certain weapons? One thing that shone through in the other games is that you can approach pretty much any enemy with a range of tactics. Can you kite this guy, or is a carefully-timed deflect the only option? This particular one looks like it’s forcing you to play a certain way.-
But it’s exactly what they did with the Silver Knights in Anor Londo, it’s not like that’s a new thing -
But those guys were at an angle, you could just run through them as a dex build and never get hit. Or you could creep up with a heavy shield. Or you could equip stealth equipment and get pretty much in their face. Or you could hide behind a pillar halfway up the run and get in a shootout with them. This troll was directly in your path, and the ground looked to be sloped in such a way that rolling forward would not aid you. I will (of course) concede that we don’t know enough yet, but I hope that they haven’t just added too much cheap stuff. -
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Yeah, you could be right. The player could just be a derp 😛
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It’s true, we don’t know enough yet.
That troll-thing looked liked he was on a giant’s sword. I kept expecting the sword to suddenly be moved and both the player and the troll to be dislodged.
To be completely honest I wouldn’t have cared if the game was completely identical just with new areas. It mostly appears to be improvements on what’s already there
What happened to humanity though?
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I don’t know, I like the idea that big enemies can’t be taken down “cheaply” by getting them stuck behind a wall or something.
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I think the point was more that enemies had different attack patterns based on what you do instead of them necessarily being smarter.
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Also I have a feeling that this video was released to stop people bitching about the fact that it will be more “accessible” which they seem to think means easier.
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I have a feeling that this particular one was a scripted wall break. I’m not sure that all walls will be equally destructible 🙂
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So negative … I’m sad now.
I didn’t particularly mean all walls are destructible I meant that all the big enemies may not be killable without some kind of counterattack.
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Sorry man. Didn’t mean to be so negative – I tend to analyse things by identifying outstanding unanswered questions. Didn’t mean to bring you down.
There was a lot I liked. The combat still looked like it felt like Dark Souls. The world was gorgeous, really, really pretty. And a decent variety of enemies were shown too.
I’m particularly excited about this Torture Chamber area and the Wyvern Castle across the bridge.
And one thing I’m really curious about is other people. NPCs. Obviously, we didn’t see any, but I’m keen to see if they maintain the balance of good/evil survivors like they did in previous games. Also, online stuff, summoning etc.The spell thing makes me think they’ve overhauled the upgrade system a bit – that will be interesting to see (especially given their plans to make the game ‘accessible.’ Does that mean upgrade materials will be easier to get, or the upgrade paths easier to understand?Wonder if some of the same covenants will exist, or if we’ll get to revisit one or two areas from the original game(s). -
For the last bit:
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Patches was in both games. There is a link. We just don’t know what it is. -
@Shane
Not a strong link, they might just like the character. After all, American Gods and Anansi Boys aren’t linked despite both having Anansi. Gaiman just really liked the guy and used him in both books. -
@shane @trjn
They’re definitely fond of shout-outs, at least. The King’s Field series has a dragon character called Seath, as an example.
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Ohhh, looks interesting!
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Yay.
Also, I really need to play Dark Souls.
Torture Chamber made me think of Sen’s Fortress. Wyvern castle across the bridge looked awesome. And that part inside the “dragon mansion” where there are no enemies for a while to increase tension looked pretty cool too.
Except now we expect it… wish they hadn’t shown that bit 😛
@shane I was thinking that exact thing. Hopefully my old lady brain will come through for me and I’ll have forgotten by the time I get there in the game. 😛
Yes.
Models and environments look improved, the lighting looks like it has greatly improved.
I don’t know if it looks very ‘next-gen’ but right now I don’t care, it’s Dark Souls.
tried to buy a Vita from ozbargains.com last night, as recommended by @greenius but got nothing but error messages :(.
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yup, 48 hr, valid till midnight, will try again tonight
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I was writing a reply yesterday but I think I closed the browser before posting it 😛
I posted that deal quickly in case you were interested so you could see it before you bought it locally for more. I didn’t even read your original comment properly but it seems like that $250 deal is probably better. Where was it at – JB, Dick Smith? They seem much more reliable than whatever site that deal links to as I’m not sure how good they are.
But it’s been cheaper in the past at Amazon and stuff so if you don’t mind waiting it will definitely drop in price. I got this deal last year http://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/85690
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Will probably just go to a local place, that way i can have it sooner :D.
Also just had to mail something to a guy named Wang Chow, iknow i shouldn’t find it funny, but i really do.
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Two guys just came into my house and took all of my stuff!
Don’t worry, they said they’d give it to me tomorrow.
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Ahh. For some reason when you mentioned packing in last week’s “what are you playing” this weekend I assumed you were moving then, not now.
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I was packing then. The removalists were booked between Tuesday and Saturday, they came today.
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Random gaming moment!
Bioshock Infinite Spoiler.
The part where you pull the lever to save Elizabeth from the Asylum/Medical… place and you turn around there’s a creepy siren guy there and you’re all
GODDAMNWUDDAFUGHGDKHGFDJHGFKJGDGFIUEBLFB
I liked that.
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what was great about that bit was how it only ever happened once. dont wanna overuse a thing like that, or it loses its effectiveness. kudos to the devs for showing restraint!
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Got Guacamelee last night.
Very, very awesome platformer. Fight system is fun too, not too simple not so complicated I’m tearing my hair out.
Seems short (unless it pull a Castlevania SotN) though. Difficulty in some of the platforming has been ramping up, having to chian together multiple different moves to cross a room. Thankfully, it’s usually short intense sections followed by a bit of normal platforming and another brawl or two before the next really challenging platforming bit.
Well paced I think.
Also, if you care, plenty of pop-culture jokes and games references which I see every site is spoiling now :-/
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US PSN, I presume AU will have it today? Unsure (which region did you set you Vita?) It’s cross-buy play too…which doesn’t work without plus membership I think (the play nit the buy)
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I hope it’s today, I got plus :D. For some reason i thought this was gonna be on 3ds. Now i want that Vita more
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I wonder how much aus psn will charge me, dammit Jimu now i really wanna go home, purchase vita, purchase guacamelee and sit on my bottom for the day. Oh well, I couldn’t afford gaming goodies without this job so i better suck it up.
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FOUR BUX!?!?!
Oh man, AU PS+ better get a discount.
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Is anyone at home on the psn? Has Guacamelee been released on aus psn today?
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Ol Jimu and his confusing phrasing.
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@negativezero @gutsoup
http://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/99496
Someone in the comments linked the site I used as well but this seems local.
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I think I’ll probably end up buying from SuperUFO since cheaper and if I’m going to wait for postage anyway…
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32GB yes, I think they have other models too
Around $80 delivered from Hong Kong which took around 2 weeks when I ordered
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Deeeeeeeeath. That’s how I feel. Picked up a sickness from somewhere, fucked if I know where though.. So over it and it’s been only 24 hours haha.
Porco Rosso JP BD is up for order on Amazon.jp \o/
– Dubbed in Japanese, English, French, German, Finnish, Korean, Mandarin, and Cantonese
– Subbed in Japanese, English, and French
Definitive release. Already preordered my copy. July release.
Dunno why there’s a 7 month gap and they’re only doing a single film though. Bluray is going to die before Ghibli finish releasing their films at this rate. I guess the release is roughly the same time as The Wind Rises hits cinemas over there though. Still, I was kind of hoping for Ocean Waves too.
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If you watch it in anything aside from Japanese it needs to be the French version because Jean Reno.
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Noooo, my wife’s first language is Mandarin.
My son is bi-lingual. It’s nice to find movies for him to watch in Mandarin.Actors don’t even come near this important life choice 🙂
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You married an Asian?
Mixed babbies are cool!
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Serious? I thought this was common knowledge?
He’s a mixed toddler now 😉
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Ni hao!
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Ni hao ma?
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@jimu
Wo hen hao!
We all had to do Chinese and German for year 7 and 8 at my high school and I dropped it but I wouldn’t mind learning it fer real though! Feels weird not knowing the language of your peoples
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@freezespreston, @sernobulus Q&A after the gameplay reveal:
http://au.ign.com/videos/2013/04/10/everything-you-want-to-know-about-dark-souls-2
Estus, Dragons, Storytelling, [still watching]
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@sernobulus
Sorry I’ve been negative. This video has made me feel better. They’ve backed down from ‘accessibility’ in favour of ‘clarity’. -
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Is it just me or did the guy being translated look like he was struggling to stay awake a few times there?
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He was all sweaty. My guess: he was nervous about appearing in public and overdosed on something to calm himself down 😛
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ATTENTION MELBOURNE TAYBIES!!! FINAL REMINDER!!!
@greenius @scree @beavwa @princesspipster @tech_knight @budgieishere @tigerion @jordi @f4ction @splicer @notoriousr @tofu @blood_apathy @dire_wolf @mcgarnical @pixel_the_ferret_viking @puppylicks @ynefel @zetrox2k @syvraen @klutar @smurfydog @negativezero @velnica @crazyguy1990
Disclaimer: Tags are (C) @tigerion
ZETROX’S TOTALLY NOT LAST SECOND AND TOTALLY NOT SPONTANEOUS BIRTHDAY LAN MEAT!!!!
WHERE: CRAIGIEBURN
WHEN SATURDAY THE 13TH OF APRIL
TIME : 5PM – USUALLY 3-5AM (PEOPLE START LEAVING AT AROUND 2AM USUALLY)
THERE WILL BE GAMES,
THERE WILL BE MEAT.
FRIENDS & FOES,
YOU MUST DEFEAT.
ALL THE FRIENDS,
THAT YOU WILL MAKE.
YOU WILL DESTROY,
THEN WE’LL HAVE CAKE.
BRING YOUR LAPTOPS,
BRING YOUR PC’S.
EVEN IF,
THEY RUN LIKE FAECES.
FOR THOSE IN NEED,
I HAVE TWO SPARE.
THAT THEY CAN USE,
SO DONT DESPAIR.
THE GAMES WILL START,
AT 5 NO LATER.
BRING $20 BUCKS,
FOR LA PORCHETTA.
THE DRINKS AND SNACKS,
ARE ALL ON ME.
THERES A TOILET,
IF YOU NEED TO PEE.
SO IF YOU CAN,
THEN MAKE IT DOWN,
ITS NOT TOO FAR,
TO CRAIGIEBURN TOWN.
ABOUT 25 MINUTES,
NORTH OF CBD.
GET YOUR ASSES DOWN,
AND CELEBRATE MY BIRTHDAY WITH ME.
Send an email to zetrox2k(at)(thehots)(dot)(com). will be sending address deets tonight…..
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Did you see my reply last time?
Craigieburn is a bit far for me so I won’t be there. Have fun though!
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To unsubscribe, one has to have subscribe.
I didn’t subscribe, therefore, I’m getting another person’s penis enlargement mail.-
I have a lot of shit I’ve unsubscribed from that I never subscribed to. Just be happy you have the option to opt out.
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To unsubscribe, one has to have subscribe.
I didn’t subscribe, therefore, I’m getting another person’s penis enlargement mail. -
now i feel like im getting spammed!
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Just be thankful you’re not getting penis enlargement e-mails…
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hey crazyguy I’ve got this once in a lifetime opportunity for some penis enlargement pills. You in?
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if someone needs to poo,
to the corner then with you!…outside corner….. far away from all of us……
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Sorry man I will be out camping this weekend.
Happy birthday though, not far off from my birthday actually 😉
It’s up my way, but alas (again..) I won’t be available. Going to the footy in the arvo, then comedy festival stuff (fanfic comedy) afterwards :[
my wifey has been working hard on my cake…
http://i.imgur.com/9KjoooP.jpg
apparently im not allowed to see the rest….
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rumour has it that the main cake is actually a big wheatley …….
id love to cut up that backstabbing bastard!-
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noted, spoiler tagged it… sorry peeps…..
though is there anyone that hasnt actually played portal 2???
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I wouldn’t say so, but best to be on the safe side. Just in case Strange hasn’t played it, you don’t want any of that action 😛
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Based on yesterday, I’d be more afraid of @sughly! 😛
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I’m watching. Always watching. Careful where you tread people…
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Yep. 🙂
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Forcefield, activate!!!!
you didnt read anything strange!
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I haven’t played SP, and haven’t quite finished the co-op mode.
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Me! I started and then other games and I don’t own it and I just forgot eventually. If I was spoiled at this point I wouldn’t be suprised.
OMG… Someone at work just gave me a Reeses Dark peanut butter cup… I NEED TO EATS ALL OF THEM OMNOMNOM
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My favourite are the white ones.
Also, I made some of my own for Mr. Strange for Easter and they turned out pretty good.Also also, I can’t believe I still haven’t posted you that swatch! I’ll try and remember to give it Mr. Strange to post tomorrow.
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If you have been to Aldi recently you may have noticed biscuits called “Just Devine” which would purport to be replica Tim Tams.
Do not waste your $1.49. They are made of sawdust and sadness.
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They’ve been around a while. I don’t hate them, but they are really sickly sweet and oddly dusty. Definitely not a Tim Tam replacement.
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No log in dramas today.
TAY domination beginning in 3… 2… 1….
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Oh wait, boss wants me to work??
PS which vid is best to watch re Dark Souls 2 announcment?
JUST BECAUSE I HAVENT PLAYED DEMONS SULS OR DARK SOUSL DOESNT MEAN I CANT BE INTERESTED ALRIGHT?
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Of course you can. Only jaded old lazy gamers like me can’t be interested. (I am semi-interested then I remember my rage-quitting ways on far easier games)
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I remember my rage-quitting ways on far easier games
me too, that’s why i haven’t gotten Dark Souls yet… but the TAYbies have almsot worn me down. I feel like I must play it at soem point as part of my commitment to gaming, even if it is too hard for me to finsih. Sub $30 on ozgameshop makes it tempting…
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I’m going to tell you guys what I always tell people afraid of these games: I’m crap at games. I have terrible hand/eye co-ordination.
So trust me when I say if I can play them,anyone can. All you need to be able to do to conquer these games is to pay attention, and be cautious. 🙂-
Like me with fighting games. I am possible the worst fighting game player IN THE WORLD but give me a fighter with anime stylings and visual novel-esque story mode and I’m all over that mofo #Blazblue
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Have you ever tried Melty Blood? It still remains the best 2D fighter I’ve played. And is an anime tie-in to boot, with a decent story between the rounds…
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No never heard of 🙁 I’ll have to investigate!
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It’s a 2D fighter that ties into the Tsukihime & Fate/Stay Night settings. Though it replaces all the crappy Tsukihime anime cast with better vocal talent (which is now official since subsequent material has used the same voices). Very nicely balanced 2D fighter. Developed by a doujin developer, French-bread, who also did the awesome Ragnarok Battle Offline games (2D side-scrolling beat ’em ups in the Ragnarok Online universe). It’s had a few goes at Pro tournaments and stuff too.
Also the PC versions have translation patches available. Sadly the PS2 release never got translated and it was the one that added a lot of extra story stuff. 🙁
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If there were a handheld version, I’d give it a shot.
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Holy mother of… a handheld Dark Souls would be the best thing ever. Ever. I would sell my childrens’ kidneys for it.
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If I could give you half an upvote I would.
It’s pretty much only IGN I think.
They got first picks, I guess.
I guess it’s clever, considering how popular this franchise has gotten.
I just followed Ser Nobulus’ link on the previous page. There’s also a kotaku story about the IGN story on the front page.
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yes, he really should have said divorces spouse to make it applicable to all
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Someone here had a spare copy recently. Get it.
I can lend you Demon’s Souls if you want, but I’ll want it back. Let me know! 🙂
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/borrows Shane’s Demons Souls.
/spends 4 weeks starring at the box longingly
“Thanks brother! Can i borrow it again when i get a PS3?” -
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spare as in finsihed playing or spare as in you got more copies then you need and you would like to sell?
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Doesn’t matter. Get on it!
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I think he got it on PC later so no longer needs it. I remember him trying to offload it onto D.C. 😀
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Orly… Lets make a deal @rize 🙂
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I did once. But it does all the MATH. Which I suck at.
So many tricks to learn to make my job even easier.What I hate about it, is spending an entire work day copying and pasting numbers around. Makes me almost miss math.
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Waaaahhhhhhhhh
Excel is great, so much time saved.
Although i lose entire nights if I start with cashflow forecast and planning
Yay! My first interaction with PayPal went smoothly! I will be receiving a signed copy of Team Cybergeists ‘How To Destroy Something Beautiful’ album in a week or so 😀 For 25 bucks is a bargain for a 26 track album SIGNED by the artist!
I’ve been promising Angel (Drummer of Dope) for YEARS I would buy his album, and I finally now have the spare funds so I jumped at the chance. He’s also throwing in some stickers so fucken score!
They’re an awesome industrial/rock/electronic/metal collaboration project. The album has something like 60 different artists on it. If the rest of the album is as good as the EP, I will be happy.
Meanwhile you guys should give the song Crash & Burn from the album a listen 😉
Does anyone else find it funny at the amount of Facebook groups there are attacking BioWare for the ending of Mass Effect 3 and that they should change it to what these groups want?
I see my mate join a new one every day or two.. I really don’t understand why people demand a new ending, from what @freezespreston has told me, the ending was fine.. Just because it wasn’t everyone lives happily ever after doesn’t mean it wasn’t a deserving ending.
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Fuck!
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That’s what Freeze said. I’ve never been upset with the ending of a game to the point where I feel the need to bitch and moan that the ending didn’t personally satisfy me.
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Possible slight Walking Dead and ME3 spoilers:
It was all right. It kind of did what The Walking Dead did, in a sense, making the journey its own reward… only not quite as well. The sheer inevitability of the ending (regardless of player agency or actions taken) surprised a lot of people, I think. I didn’t really like it, but I never jumped onto the ‘change it’ bandwagon.Also, your friend is weird. They already did change it. Also, it was two years ago. Does he know that?
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Err…is that Walking Dead spoilers in there? I saw those words and quickly pressed the”Hide Spoiler”button.
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The way I saw it
was they spent a little bit of time talking about fate and destiny at some points and the idea was no matter what choices you make the inevitable is, well, inevitable.At least that was how I saw it. And I refuse to play the new ending. The writers told their story and I don’t want to play the fanfic ending.
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The “new” ending only pads out a few details and is generally nicer to watch as it spends a little more time showing the effects of the ending. Fundamentally, nothing changes.
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Yeah well, he seems a little too obsessed with the Mass Effect series. I haven’t seen him in a while either and he’ll be at my friends engagement party next week.. I should interrogate him about it all haha.
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Two years? Really? Fuck, it’s been sitting on my shelf since Trilogy dropped. That’s been a lot less time yeah? (and I did start playing ME1 again for a while)
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…people are still going on about that?
Maybe they should also join a facebook group protesting against sending troops to Gallipoli, and stay out of WWI entirely.
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Hahahaha, yeah man there’s plenty of active groups still demanding a new ending that suits them.
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The Mass Effect 3 debacle remains the most blown out of proportion shitstorm in a teacup in the history of the internet.
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The whole thing was ridiculous.
You don’t get to have the “games are art” argument then turn around and demand that creators change their work to suit you.
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Honestly though, people can say what they want about music and film people sounding pretentious, but as someone who frequents discussions around those as well as games, I’m constantly being embarrassed by the majority of people that discuss games. It’s not games that need to grow up to compete with these other industries as an art form – its the audience.
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The ending was not fine, and not because it wasn’t some happy flowers and rainbow ending (though personally, that would have been my prefered ending. ME1 ended like that. ME2 ended like that. Why couldn’t ME3 end like that?).
There were many, many problems with it that I’m not going to go into detail with because I’m about to head out. If you do want the details, head over to the ME3 spoiler allowed forums on the BSN and try and dig up some of the old threads talking about it.
The idea that it was a deserving ending is, frankly, ridiculous. Mass Effect as a series deserved much better, and Shepard definitely deserved much better.
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Having that opinion is fine. I disagree, and that’s fine too.
Demanding the ending be changed is really, really not.
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I wasn’t a fan of the ending either, but it’s their game, not mine, therefore if I don’t like it, then I didn’t like it. Why go on some crusade to try and make them change their game?
I was truthfully only actually angry about them doing day 1 DLC instead of the ending (Splitting up what content is given to the consumer based on how much you want to pay for it) once I finished the game a few times already.
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I agree that they could probably have put together a better (or at least more satisfying) ending, but in the end, it didn’t offend me. That’s how they wanted to end it? Okay, then. Next game.
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Ever since Gloryhammer arrived last night I’ve been happy. The album is cheesy as hell (which I actually love these days because cheese is a great anti-depressant) but never pretends not to be cheesy(I’m looking at you, Rhapsody of Fire! 😛 ), the singer is incredible and the music is…well, the most apt description I can think of is badass. I get a great, joyful feeling from this album and won’t be listening to anything else for at least a few days.
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I love the album, gonna have to pick up a hard copy.. Chris may or may not have posted unofficial download links on Facebook when it came out lol.
I am pleasantly surprised at how awesome the album is over all. I wasn’t sure what to even remotely expect when I first heard of the project, all I knew was I was going to get the album.
Saw Chris post this review of the album last night he was especially proud of the part where the reviewer says:
The respect I have for Turilli and for thousands of talented musicians who don’t have the media coverage granted to Bowes makes that this music fills me with deep disgust. The Napalm machine has created a new monster, without a brain, without a soul.
I did have to laugh that the reviewer seemed rather sour about the album.
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Is he upset because Gloryhammer is fun and popular, while the bands he likes are serious and unpopular? Jesus dude, relax.
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Yeah sounds that way. The way I see it music is there to help you relax, unwind and just in general to have fun.
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I had to use a lot of willpower to wait for the CD to arrive before listening to the album. 😛
And yes, I did see that post of Chris’ which is part of the reason why I mentioned Rhapsody in my min-review. I love Rhapsody (Fabio’s voice is second to none in the metal world and oh man,you should have heard him doing karaoke on 70K! There is nothing that man can’t sing.) but I do feel like they sometimes take themselves way too seriously. They need to revel in their cheeseworthiness, like Gloryhammer. 😀
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Ah right, fair call 😛
if I like Gloryhammer maybe I will like these other bands, I should check them out I think!
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YES! Check out ALL the power metal! 😀
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TAYBIES! CALLING ON ALL YOUR CREATIVE HIVEMINDEDNESS!
I’m trying to come up with something for my wife’s birthday that’ll be fun for her to do whilst I’m at work… What i have come up with so far is a treasure hunt where i will hide envelopes around the house (and other places) with clues as to where the next envelope is located… This will all culminate with the final clue being in my car and i will drive her to the mall cause shea been wanting to go shopping for ages and i am allowing her to tap into my overseas bank account which should mean she will get a pretty damn decent day out of it…
my question is,
does that sound too tacky?
hoe many clues is a good amount without being tedious?
who’s good at riddles?
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I made my sweet lady a treasure hunt one Christmas that’s clues were hidden in an LBP level I made.
I’m sharing this so you know I’m better than all of you.
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IRL That sounds awesome man.
Change it up with the clues.
A riddle leads to a teddy bear with it’s stuffing cut out and a phrase spelt out in blood on the floor. It’s an anagram! Once deciphered it directs her to, the LOUVRE!!!
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Ummm totes did this too, but irl, AND it had a treasure map with compass paces and everything. Soooo, I win.
p.s. It took her a good hour to find the buried one, because my directions were bad.
Also she may or may not have got blisters from all the unnecessary digging.
I still win.
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There should be a bare minimum of 10 clues, leading her up to the final one.
The final one should be a picture of your junk.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SWEETY!
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Yeah my main concern is making it too drawn out and tedious… So my option is only making a few (5 or so) and make the riddles a bit less obvious, or go with 10 and make the relatively obvious… Thanks for your feedback though its muchly appreciated 🙂
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@dc – biggest jerk
(for refusing to watch Survivor)
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You need 200 clues or thereabouts. You have to assume she’ll be good at this game, and you want her occupied for the entire day so she doesn’t get bored. Also, I hear that randomly changing up the language halfway through a clue makes them a bit harder to read. Try that.
Also, put the second-last clue through a shredder and put the pieces into an envelope for her to piece back together. She will love you forever for allowing her to pretend to be on CSI.
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Don’t forget the out of focus images that you need to blow up on a computer to make them more readable just like CSI!
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Sounds good you suave devil
Depends on what you want, to keep her occupied all day or to have her get through them and be waiting for you to get home. Also depends on what sort of rewards there are for finding the next clue. A little packet of chocolates or a poem or letter every few clues will make her much more likely to want to keep hunting
Not really but sure I could give some advice
– If you hide a clue in the kitchen don’t start with “Where you should be”
– If she is computer literate setup a brand new hotmail account with the password as “The place we first met” or something
– One from trivia the other night “The man who invented it doesn’t want it. The man who bought it doesn’t need it. The man who needs it doesn’t know it.” Might not be the most romantic clue to use-
Dude, you just blew my mind with the rewards thing, i didn’t even think of that! And i will make sure to keep the sexist jokes down to a minimum, just one or two 😛
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Last night just as we were going to bed we discovered the little man had caught his sister’s cold germs and was miserable. So I brought him into our bed, where we were just about to watch another episode of StarTrek:Voyager. As soon as he saw just the end credits from the previous episode his eyes went as wide as saucers and he started muttering “Oh wow! Cool! Awesome!” He kept repeating these phrases throughout the new episode and when it finished he exclaimed in a reverent kind of voice “That movie was so AWESOME!”. And then he said he was ready to go back to his own bed.
He’s now in my room watching another episode because he asked me this morning if he could “watch another episode of that awesome movie”. He was in awe even of the shots of Voyager in the menu. I can hear him yelling “Wow!” in places from here.
tl;dr Star Trek makes you feel better if you’re an unwell 4yo. 😀
Dark Souls!
Spurred on by the announcement of number 2, I sat down, and decided that the simplest solution to killing Nito was to facetank with Estus flasks, and throw fireballs at him. Because I flubbed the approach, I only had 7 flasks by the time I reached the cave(and six by the time I actually attacked him once), but after 4 Great Fireballs, 8 great combustions, and five Estus flasks, he lay dead, and I was victorious. Revelling in my victory, I decided that the smartest thing to do was attempt the DLC stuff, so I went off and died to the Guardian guy. Then I killed him with fireballs. Because he was a jerk who kept dodging my combustions. Then I ran into some guys, died horribly 3 times, and quit the game, because those guys were jerks, and I’m terrible at running away.
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Personally, no, I don’t really think so, but I understand that there’s a lot of people here, and some of them don’t want to read about my gaming exploits, so I think it’s simpler for everyone involved if I spoiler tag it off(just in case), and then it’s very easy for anyone to ignore, if they so wish.
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Can you say when you do DLC stuff so I can skip over it? 🙂
Haven’t played it all yet (pretty much got to where you are and gave up) so don’t want spoilahs
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Sure thing buddy, I’ll put them in a separate spoiler tag in the future. I think I’ll probably be bouncing between the real game and the DLC…
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If you gave up you don’t get a say.
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Gave up to play Monster Hunter 😀
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That makes you even worse.
Get out.
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Grrr. 😛
I personally don’t think Dark Souls can be spoiled. Knowing more about it makes it better, and sharing experiences is what really makes it great.
However,everyone may not agree with me so I just spoilertag discussion about it because it’s really easy to use the spoilertags so there’s no reason why I shouldn’t use them, even if I personally don’t think of them as spoilers. It’s just out of respect for anyone who may not think the same way I do about it.
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I read all your spoilers and didn’t feel like I was remotely spoiled when I played those horrible five hours. 😛 (I kid, it wasn’t that bad. Just not for me. :D) I agree though, better safe than sorry.
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The only way to really spoil Dark Souls for yourself is by not playing it at all.
#brokenrecordAlso, cat lady. (don’t know anything about the game, but I think it’s the first game I’ve seen where the protagonist is a crazy cat lady)
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Also it means I can scroll past it faster.
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Haha as I was scrolling through that spoiler tagged stuff earlier in this? (or last) page it was so much easier to just skip past it all 😛
@spaghett’s last song played game.
Insert heroin, feels, and Sam comments.
Also comment spacing.
Shenanigans!
You can call me Al- Paul Simon
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I read that last line as you instructing us to call you “Al-Paul Simon” which seems like a rather silly name.
Edit: He Lives in You (Reprise) – The Lion King on Broadway
Manly.
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I love that song. I remember being blown away when I saw the Broadway/West End shows. Shadowland too. It’s a shame those songs aren’t in the movie. :'(
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Yeah. Listening to the Broadway soundtrack, Shadowland is great because it makes you forgive Nala for how annoying her voice is as a child.
It’s really annoying, because for both Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King, the song that got added back into the movie is one of the less good ones(Human Again may well be my least favourite track on the B&tB soundtrack, and while The Morning Report is a lot of fun, it’s not great). I know that they used them because they were recorded originally, then cut before animation, but still. Sadness.
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As a boy, I saw wonder in small things
Spend a life, trying to capture that momentSmall Things – 78 Saab
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Duality – Slipknot
I am on a Slipknot binge now. I blame Kat, but then again I don’t because I love Slipknot. Also I love Vol: 3: The Subliminal Verses, I think i’ll just leave it on repeat all day or something.
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Despite having the plague or something, I swear that died out in developed countries though. I am feeling great today.
Yesterday was pretty great too, I bought Jason Newsteds EP appropriately titled Metal it’s pretty metal like. If you liked him when he sung Metallica songs I can recommend this EP. It’s badass. Also 7 bucks at JB HiFi can’t fault it!
Tomorrow is also looking awesome, if my present arrives!
So yesterday @markserrels posted that article of his on climbing in video games.
Today, on Eurogamer:
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-04-10-belayed-potential-the-art-of-videogame-climbing
Suddenly everyone’s talking about climbing
ThePunkRockScott • 3 hours ago − Dark Souls II could be in the painted world of my toilet bowl and I’d happily let it ravage me.
This comment wins.
http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2013/04/im-j-g-quintel-creator-of-regular-show-and-this-is-how-i-work/
I know there’s some Regular Show fans here. (@beardymcmuttonchops, @dkzeitgeist…)
So the brand new, shrink wrapped copy of Space Hulk 3rd Edition I bought some 3 months ago has finally landed in Sydney today. It’s coming from Poland and the guy decided to send it by sea, which accounts for the time it’s taken.
I’m fucking excited man. These were a collectible from release – they only made limited quantities. Managing to source one brand new several years later was a hell of a find. Was reasonably priced, too.
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Space Hulk \o/
I should probably have taken better care with my copy, I think some of the figures have gotten damaged (they’re very brittle and the box doesn’t make it very easy)
Hey Sydney fronds, did you ever make a plan relating to @dkzeitgeist being in town?
Because I’ll be free in the afternoon, and after about 10:30pm if you’re still doing stuff, and would like to turn up and annoy you all.
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Speaking of this: how many are going to Pez’s thing next Saturday night? And is anyone going to Epica on Friday night? I want to see as many TAYbies as possible whilst I’m in Sydney.
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Nope. As much as I should be, and want to be, I cannot. Also, too much risk of direct attention.
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I said I would use that more, and I really haven’t. That changes from now on!
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alcohol is the easy bit. food is trickier coz our man DAN! has the vegetarian preference I believe… and I have no ideas about that in Sydney.
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I’m sorry for your PS3 region locking trauma. I only have a 360 so I was already region locked.
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@sughly
Is this real? It couldn’t be, could it? That cast. HNNNGGGHHH!!!
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Ben Mendelsohn! So cool that he’s getting into all these great films and series, he’s so good.
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I just farted my guts out in excitement.
If Fassbender and Gosling are in any shot together the film will catch fire due to overwhelming talent.
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I’m looking forward to seeing another Fassbender, since the last I saw is still Shame. I need to work on erasing that sex face asap.
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Inorite, pretty crazy. I reckon a lot of actors just get asked “Want to be in Terrence Malick’s new film?”, and without any more information would say yes XD Terrence has probably come to realise this. He’s got a ridiculous amount of work going on atm, and a ridiculous amount of talent on board for all of it.
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As far as I’m concerned this film has gone from me not even knowing it existed to being at the very top of films I’m excited for.
Edit: Knight of Cups, whaaat? Oh man, he really does have some stuff going on!
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I like the imdb description – “A man, temptations, celebrity, and excess.” MAN! TEMPTATIONS! Yeah sounds like Malick haha. Also there’s a trailer for To the Wonder, which looks amazingly well shot if nothing else. So pretty! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTAzcTZTY1g
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Lemme try
Mara was in Dragon Tattoo with Daniel Craig
Craig was in Layer Cake with Jason Flemyng
Flemyng was in X Men First Class with Kevin Bacon.Bacon Number: 3
Amirite?
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Two. Though not really fair.
Mara is in this movie with Gosling, Gosling was in Crazy, Stupid, Love with Bacon.
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Also I love that Bear McCreary’s still scoring for TV shows, but I’m amazed he’s not doing movies yet, Michael Giacchino style.
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Nope, good composer doesn’t salvage meh series. 😛
Edit: To be fair, I’m basing that on the pilot, which isn’t really fair at all. 😀
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You’re right. That’s not fair. At all.
The pilot doesn’t represent the series well at all, which is why a lot of people (not me) think that it’s the high point.
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Interesting! I only watched the first ep too, didnt really like it, and got turned off by everyone carrying on about how great that ep was. This stance kind of changes things.
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Walking Dead opening theme gave me massive anxiety first few times I heard it. Felt it right in my chest and sternum. It’s awesome.
Third season:
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Just worked out why I like his music so much. Violins. Haha. (And good composition, but violins too. :P)
I broke my Gloryhammer listening streak already!
But it’s okay because it’s the new song from Civil War, the old guitarists, drummer and keyboardist from Sabaton’s new band. It’s not bad but there’s something about their singers voice that annoys me in places. It’s like he’s trying to be Kai Hansen or something. I’m still looking forward to their album. The songs I’ve heard so far have been very catchy.
http://youtu.be/ZgKll_1JgPQ
@alexpants just me, or did you feel a bit awkward when Nico Vega replied to that tweet?
Edit: the funny thing is, you just tweeted pretty much the same thing as I was typing that.
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We are psychic!
I can only hope they didn’t follow the comment chain…sure does make me feel guilty regardless.
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IF ANYONE ASKS, I SENT YOU A LINK TO THEIR STORE PAGE.
yeah, coz its not on iTunes, I had to spend a while trying to find a legit way to buy it. got there in the end though.
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@number30five @AlexAndHisPants thanks guys!!!! xo NV
in reply to me saying one of their tracks was awesome.
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From http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Potaku
An otaku who is on a limited budget, for any reason(s). Portmanteau of the words “poor” and “otaku”
I can’t go to the anime convention with you. I’d love to, but I just can’t afford it. I’m such a potaku.
What you get if you type potaku and forget to add “.com”
Article on front page about Quantic Dream doing multiplayer. I don’t like multiplayer, but I suspect David Cage won’t do it like any one else. (For better or worse!)
Back from the physiotherapy with a whole host of exercises to strengthen my knee. Hopefully this stuff works. The guy I had was a lot better than the one I’d first gone to years ago, who wasn’t very indepth and who according to him had given me the wrong exercises to do.
@all the ME3 stuff further up the page.
Consumers have a right to expect a certain level of quality from a product, and when the product does not meet that quality they have a right to complain, especially when it has been advertised as including features it does not (as was the case with ME3). Video games are in a unique possision to increase the quality of their product post sale through either a patch or DLC.
Many, many video games do this. MMOs have known for years that they live and die based on customer feedback, hence why they’re always making small changes to their game to increase player enjoyment.
Many single player/non mmo games also do this. Colonial Marines is meant to be getting a patch to improve it, and that’s come about because people complained. I don’t think you’d see anyone saying that nobody had a right to complain about that game or ask that it be improved, and just because ME3 meets your level of quality, doesn’t mean it meets others. Let us also not forget that ME3 is hardly the first game to ever suffer a huge outcry over the ending with fans demanding change. Fallout 3 released an entire expansion in response to fan outcry over its original ending, and the developers even officially stated that the non DLC ending is not canon.
The only reason ME3’s any different to those games is because more people complained, and the reason more people complained is because it has a larger base of passionate fans who found the ending distasteful. If you make the broad statement that fans have no right to complain or demand change, then I’m going to counter with the equally broad statement that if you didn’t complain about the fans complaining and demanding change when it came to Fallout 3, to the various MMOs out there (FF14 would be the major one that comes to mind to illustrate my point) or to the host of under performing, poorly developed games that have been released, then you have no right to complain about Mass Effect fans who wanted a more satisfactory ending, or indeed any fans who want change to a video game or other entertainment product.
Oh, and Shane, some Literature Professor (I think that’s what he was, anyway) actually wrote up an article/blog about why the ME3 ending was poor from a story telling point of view. It was a fairly interesting read. As a writer I thought you might be interested, I can see if I can find it for you if you want.
Edit: what a horrible pageget. Me ranting about you guys ranting about me ranting in defense of people ranting.
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A writer should be allowed to tell whatever story they want. I’m just not a fan of story stuff being changed from focus group kind of feedback. I guess the same sort of situation can happen the other way round too, though — with a writer not leaving something they’ve done alone years after. (Star Wars. :D)
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For me, it’s a piece of art that gets a reaction from the viewer. That reaction can be good, bad or somwhere in-between.
If it was the artist’s goal to shock some people & they got the reaction they wanted? Good for them, mission accomplished.
It is then your choice if you enjoy the art or not, take it as it is, don’t ask the artist to change their vision.
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Not having played ME3, my instinctual position is as per @jimu’s comment above.
Also, who asked for my 2c anyway 😛
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I still haven’t played (it’s on the pile) but I read all the endings and I see no problem.
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PS: I love your 2c ;-p
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I agree that a writer should be able to tell the story they want, but I don’t think “artistic integrity” should be an excuse to shut down all forms of negative criticism or feedback, especially when it comes to a product where feedback has previously been asked for on other things relating to the product.
My main point though was that if you didn’t complain when other people were asking for change with other video games, either because you were indifferent or because you agreed with them, then it’s incredibly hypocritical to tell people they can’t complain or ask for change when you disagree with them. Disagree with their points, explain why you don’t think there should be a change, but don’t say they have no right to request those changes.
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Complaining is one thing.
Demanding changes that will affect everyone else’s experience of the media is another.
One is okay with me. One is not.
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Most people were asking for optional DLC though, not something that would change the experience for every single player.
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My perspective though is that they shouldnt even expect that. Why should they be given their own version? Why not just accept that its something they dont like and move on? Like Shane says, its not like if a musician releases music with a guitar solo people dont like, that hes going to release a b-side just for them with the solo changed.
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Yeah, but who read The Dark Tower and stopped 50 pages from the end, knowing that King had written more to read? 😛
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Well I think any feedback should’ve been addressed in a sequel. (Only if they wanted to address it too.) On The Good Wife this season there was a story arc a lot of fans hated and the Executive Producers knew it. They decided to change the direction of that arc midway through the season, but didn’t edit what came before just because people didn’t like it. Feedback was listened to in the next chapter of episodes. Any criticism of the game should’ve been addressed in a sequel, in my opinion.
I don’t think any one’s saying that you can’t complain, just that it shouldn’t pressure a writer to change the story they wanted to tell. (Only for the reason that people didn’t like it.)
Though I understand my opinion is just that and you’re more than entitled to yours too. 😀
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I get the point, and I’d definitely like to see the article (because I’m happy to accept that the ending was not great), but the point is more to do with what exactly the consumer’s right is. People have a right to complain, of course (in the age of the internet where everyone has a voice, this couldn’t be stopped), but they don’t have a right to expect change.
Imagine if folks who watched M*A*S*H back in the day rallied around and signed a petition to
bring Henry Blake back from the dead
Or Bon Jovi fans who weren’t satisfied with a particular guitar solo demanded a re-recording.
With no way of knowing whether the majority of consumers felt the same way, can you imagine either of these massive brands scratching their heads and saying “How can we make the malcontents happy?” It’s insane that Bioware caved, and equally insane that they were expected to cave.
Creative integrity is important. The vision of the creator should not (in my mind) be sullied by committee decisions or swayed by public opinion. It stops being the story they set out to tell.
The responsibility for creative endeavours is not the consumer’s responsibility. If they are dissatisfied, they should vote with their dollars (or remote controls) and move on to a different franchise. The sheer level of hatred directed at Bioware was ludicrous (Shell didn’t get a fraction that much for their ecologically-devastating oil spills) and a ridiculous overreaction to people who felt entitled to things that didn’t exist and that they weren’t really entitled to anyway.
Edit: This would apply equally to Fallout etc, but I haven’t played it 😛
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Is this a Donnie Darko reference..?
Oh no wait that’s fear and love XD http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/17/2011/05/0800-donnie-darko-fear-love.jpg
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No. But it could be cos it’s a proper idea not made by moi…
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I was trying to say that people hate the ending so much because they love Mass Effect 3 so much.
If they didn’t, if it was a crappy game, then none of this would have happened.
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Found the aricle. Well, it’s not really an article. It was posted on the forums by one of the profs students, then the prof came in later to clarify some things and the student updated the original post the reflect that. Some might doubt the validity of it, after all, everyone on the internet lies and can say they’re whoever they want to be, but even if you don’t think it came from a lit prof, it’s still a very good read: http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/355/index/11435886/1
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In 2009 (I hadn’t realised it had been that long ago to I read the old report on it) my knee dislocated itself while I was just standing, causing me to fall over. Luckily the fall forced it back into place. I had surgery on it because some bone fragments had broken off and were floating around my knee area. After the surgery I went to a physio and she told me to do some leg lifts with weights to build up strength. I did that for a couple months with no noticeable improvement so I eventually stopped. Since then I have lost a lot of muscle mass around my left knee.
I’d been meaning to go to another physio for a while now, and finally did because my mum’s friend recommended a place and gave her a discount card to use there.
It was a very informative session. The surgeon who performed the operation and the original physio didn’t really tell me anything at all, but I brought along my old MRI scans of my knee and the surgeons report to this new guy and he looked through it all and explained a whole bunch of stuff about my knee, like the fact that there’s not enough room between the joins, what the hard ball thing is that sometimes pops into the side of my knee and why I can move it around and why my knee clicks during certain movement.
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@shane was pretty clear in saying though, it’s one thing to like or not like the ending. It’s another to expect the people who made it to change it for you. That’s fine that someone can dissect it and say why they didn’t like it, just don’t expect that change. So ridiculously self righteous and ignorant to the notion of auteur theory.
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Oh yeah, meant to add to my post that I totally agree with you. Movies, music, TV, all can be discussed maturely. But gaming discourse is (present company excluded) pretty much woeful and full of immature expectations and self-entitlement.
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Yeah, its this that I reckon is the reason I still feel embarrassment if I’m telling someone I don’t know that well that I’m a gamer, because I feel like I’m associating myself with them. I mean, the sexism discussions that are going on for instance are so uneducated, and just filled with so much spite and aggression, it’s bizarre. There’s been discussions on sexism in films for god knows how long now, and from what I’ve read it’s been treated with WAYYYY more respect and intelligent conversation than a ridiculous amount of gamers can manage. It’s refreshing to be able to join in on a conversation about sexism in film, just to continue the example, after reading an article posted about it on a games site. People are able to actually talk about it on an interesting and engaging level, whereas gamers are stuck debating whether sexism even exists or not in games. Blergh.
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Sooooo elitist :p
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Colon p!
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Yeah, this is it. I think you’re misunderstanding. The issue isn’t that people disliked the ending, the issue is that people expected it to be changed.
Also the entire Mass Effect 3 was an ending of sorts and a damn good one too, in my opinion. The last part of that ending might not have been as crowd pleasing as it could’ve been but that’s twenty minutes of a thirty hour playthrough.
I understand the idea that the universe is changed and there’s no going back isn’t the greatest thing for fans who have fallen in love with this place.
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It’s always gonna be there though. Every story come to an end (not super heroes). If you want to go back to that world you lobve so much, DO IT. Play again.
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Just because the ending didn’t make the product bad for you personally, doesn’t mean it didn’t for others. You can’t tell people what quality and standards are acceptable when it comes to their purchases, unless you’re the one footing the bill for them.
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That’s the point, though. Bad for some and not for others means that no one should be demanding to change it for everyone. It’s clearly a subjective thing.
As much as I wish that the Star Wars prequels or the Matrix 2 and 3 were different, I would never sign a petition to that effect. They are what they are, and we can live with it. If in movies, why not in games too?
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You’re talking about quality and standards and applying them to a creative and expressive field. You can’t do that. It’s okay not to like it but to call it defective is just plain wrong. The game itself was fine and not broken.
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But who determines what a creative and expressive field is? Some people would claim that by selling their product, they’re no longer being creative or expressive; if it was really about the art, they’d be doing it for free. Others would say that designing an engine for a car is being creative and expressive, with the designer putting their own personal touches into its creation.
Where’s the line between art and product? Between expression and comercial venture? Are you qualified to determine that line? Is anyone qualified?
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A very reductive perspective that just removed all labels and boundaries from the entire world (which is fine, if you’re into that sort of thing).
I’m biased here, but personally, I don’t believe art is automatically invalidated as art by being sold as a commodity (though selling out is another matter… such as, for example, capitulating to public demands for change, to boost sales).
If art is to be someone’s vocation, they gotta pay the bills somehow. Money doesn’t necessarily dirty everything to the point of irrevocable taint.
Aesthetic pleasure is something that comes with all commodities, to varying degrees. It is one of the principle factors of artwork, but does not dictate function (and function is what determines whether something is broken). The function of the game itself lies in the reliability of its code (the function of a CD relies on not skipping and playing music audibly, and the function of a book is about readable print and reliable binding). Bugs reduce functionality, and render a game broken.
The aesthetic (including thematic) content of the game does not affect functionality at all.
Issues with content is an aesthetic objection. It is by its very nature entirely subjective and no two people will share the exact same experience. Aesthetic objections are all very well to raise publicly, but they should not be the basis for determining functionality.
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I haven’t played ME3 but I’m assuming the fuss about the bad ending is that Tali doesn’t end up marrying me. How could the writers think there was any other option??
@greenius
So you’re Chinese (?) descended?
Did your parents know Mandarin and choose not to teach you?
I work with a girl, her mum was worried she would do badly at school so only spoke English to her.
Bit of a missed opprotunity if you ask me.
Feel like I’m helping to give my son a better future with more opprtunities.
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ya man!
Chinese background but my parents were born in Singapore and Malaysia. Mum went to high school/Uni in Australia and my dad studied in the US. They know Mandarin but never really taught me but I know some words here and there as well as some words from their dialects (Hokkien)
It’s so weird when I go to Asia or something and don’t understand anything :P. People talk to me and I just stare at them blankly 😀
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When I was in Singapore earlier this year I saw the ad on TV and was all AW YEAH!
I should’ve watched it ther too, would’ve been quicker than waiting a few days for it when I returned to Australia 😛
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When I was in Paris I watched an episode of Scrubs. Made perfect sense, even in French. 😀
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Haha, yeah I watched a bit of Friends in France. Was amazing.
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It was in English 😛
It’s the exact same season we’re watching 😀
English is a main language in Singapore so pretty much everyone speaks it (with funny accents!). A few years ago when I was there some guy had trouble understanding my Australian accent and thought I was Japanese 😛
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How do you alternate between speaking to your kid at home? Do you make a point to speak a language one day and then another the next?
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I don’t know nearly enough Mandarin (just a few words and phrases). My wife speaks mostly Mandarin to him and will speak either when I’m home.
He already can tell the difference and corrects me with the English word when I speak any Mandarin, like I’ve done something wrong. Pretty cute-funny.
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But that’s how this convo started, because we buy him Mandarin language DVDs.
He get’s enough English from ABC4Kids
bit of a missed opprotunity
yeah my stupid mother in law refused to speak greek to my son b/c she thought it would confuse him and he woudln’t learn to speak english – even though everyone ever said that the way to learn a second language when young is have a close family member only speak that language to you!
His loss, her loss too. My I’m just a dumb son-in-law so what would I know.
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GAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay :p
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Hahahaha
You really didn’t know? Oh man, that makes all the earlier conversations that much more priceless 😀
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No :/
Damnit Trollalen you’re confusing people!
(@jimu too I guess)
I met Pooalen at the meats when he went to Melbourne. I did wear Blackface though so I guess some confusion may have arisen… 😛
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Racist.
So he’s serious or not? I’m even more confused now. Has he seen you or not?
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Haha. Yes, I’ve met Greenius before.
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SO you’re blind? :p
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Also
I did wear Blackface though so I guess some confusion may have arisen… 😛
Hahahahahahahahahah
I played Monster Hunter until like 1am yesterday on a Uni night… oops!
I usually solo the multiplayer/online stuff or only play with TAYbies, but yesterday I started playing with some randoms since most of my MH buddies have “jobs” (ugh, how selfish!). The lobby system was actually a lot better than expected and it was easy to find rooms farming the monsters I wanted to KILL so I KILLED THEM SO BAD
Got myself a sexy new armour set too <3
Awe yeh.
I know no one really cares but I’m bored in this lecture :D. Pretty hungry too… where to go for lunch… decisions decisions!
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Don’t think there’s proper Japanese shops around the Uni 🙁
I do love me some Jap curry though!
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You don’t like Indian food?
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I don’t think I’ve ever really had it. There’s like Malaysian curry stuff which is pretty much the same though and I don’t mind it but I’m not really a big fan of spicy stuff.
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Is malaysian curry anything like Thai curry? COs I’m not a big fan of Thai curry.
If you don’t like spicy just get a mild one. 🙂
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I don’t know what Thai food is either 😛 @jimu
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I haven’t played much MH online lately due to other games. I really need to get back on there and do some more port stuff, cause I’ve mostly been doing village quests.
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On 3DS? I haven’t seen you on for a while but you still post about playing Monster Hunter 😀
Definitely do Village first for practice. What I did was get up to a point where I fought all the monsters in the Village before I did them for Port quests so I had an idea of what I was facing. When Port was further than Village is just did more Village ones until I caught up :D. The only ones I fought blindly was Agnaktor (in which @Blaghman died badly :P) and Punchycuntbaydiosasaurusrex
But Villages quets only go up to High Rank while Port goes to G-rank (what I’m up to now) where there’s EVEN MORE NEW MONSTERS AND SUBSPECIES! You also need to do all the Village stuff to unlock certain battles 😀
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I think I’m up to 5* in the village, so nearly caught up with port quests. I think I’m going to try and play a whole heap on the Wii U on Sunday, but till then I’ll keep going on the 3DS.
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You’re way ahead in port. HR1-2 is practically up to Village 5*
HR3-5 is all high rank stuff which is like 6*-9*
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So I grabbed DOA5 via PS+ last night. Played through story mode. Actually pretty good. Feels less like the AI is cheating constantly than DOA4 did, though it gets pretty difficult toward the end. The story mode itself I liked in that it actually was a proper story, but didn’t like in that I was constantly having to change characters and there are some of them I have mental blocks with. Also some match-ups feel unfair. Also annoying to be constantly be shifting between characters when all I really want to do is pick Hitomi and punch some holes in people. I do like the way it basically introduces you to the mechanics of the game through the story mode as well, but toward the end it just gets silly – I think I’ve executed Hayabusa’s Izuna Drop move maybe twice in my entire life, I’m not going to pull it off twice in one round. At least those side goals are optional though. Gives you something to go back to as well.
Playing on a PS3 controller felt weird and the default button layout was incredibly unnatural for me. My experience with the series was always on Dreamcast and Xbox / 360 and it’s actually the first fighter I’ve played on PS3. I’d forgotten how hard that D-pad is. My thumb is ruined 🙁
Don’t like how complicated they’ve made the hold system and I’m still pretty iffy on that whole Power Blow mechanic. Like the character redesigns a lot, they feel less like they’re made out of plastic.
Still not sure about the new additions to the roster. They don’t really feel like they fill any niches, especially Milla. Not well differentiated enough from everyone else. Though this is arguably also a problem with the DOA4 additions as well aside from Kokoro.
Glad I picked this up, and doubly glad it was on PS+ so it’s hardly cost me anything. PAL PS+ lineup this month is really good. Probably going to continue to play it a bit. Doubt it’ll have the staying power that 2 and 3 had for me, but now I’m extremely tempted to get DOA5+ on Vita too, it feels like it’d work amazingly well as a mobile game given its pick-up-and-play nature.
I wonder if we’ll ever get DOAX3.
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Hitman next month! :O
For once something I don’t have and wanted! Would’ve preferred PC though 😛
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PS3 d-pads need wearing in a little, they soften up and become waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay better than that dodgy 360 pad.
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I can’t get into DoA, you’d think the bewbz would do it.
I’m a Street Fighter Tekken guy all the way I’m afraid, with a side of Mortal Kombat (basic game with awesome violence)-
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I bought Virtua Fighter 5 on LIVE for $5. I just have NO IDEA what I’m supposed to do in that game :-/
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I’ll get it, play it all the way through, but at this point, I’m only in it for the story.
Who knows though, could convert me.
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I’m only getting it for the story. I can pretty much garuntee I will never play it vs another person. this si the same with my multiple copies of Blazblue and I’m ok with that 🙂
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SO get a Vita and P4G already!! *shakes fist*
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$46 vs $300… it’s just economics man!
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Whaaa? Do some overtime, slacker! :p
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I fell off on Tekken after everything went to shit after the third one and was mainly into Soul Calibur and DoA because they were on the Dreamcast and that’s what I had. And then I got an Xbox and DoA3 was easily the prettiest game.
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Fell to shit? Nah, man. Just got more & more refined imho. Although, changes have been less & less over the years.
What happened to the series that put you off?
agreed, maybe it’s the “ONLY PRO GAMES” vibe i have in me.
so gimme a street fighter, tekken, marvel, KOF, MK, or blazblue game and i’m in.
but the rest are kinda eh.
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MK has a fairly large fanbase, and will be at evo for it’s 3rd time in a row this year, so it’s safe to say it’s a pro game.
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Wow, but it’s so basic compared.
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April 20 at 19:00
Clearly Shane doesn’t know 24 hour time 🙂Hmm should be able to get there. Fingers crossed
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I read 20th as 20:00, actually.
It’s not that I can’t tell time, it’s that I cannot read at all 😛
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Illiterate! 😛
#DCresponse
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Continuing the discussion down here since this post would be lost above, I’m curious as to how you guys would respond if the controvery over ME3’s ending related to gameplay rather than story. It strikes me that people in general are very quick to jump to the defence of an artists vision, but wouldn’t be so quick to defend something they don’t perceive as art.
If ME3’s final level had of switched the game from a third person shooter to a real time stratergy and people complained about it, asking that they be able to play through the mission as a third person shooter, would you all still be claiming they have no right to ask that, or because you don’t feel the artist/writer is being asked to change their work it’s an acceptable thing for people to do?
I use ME3 as an example because that’s what we were originally talking about, but to be clear, I’m talking about all games in general here. If the writers vision isn’t being encroached, is it acceptable to ask for gameplay changes or maybe even changes in art direction (though some people might feel asking the art to change is also encroaching into the artists vision and should not be done)?
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I would think it’s a bit crap, be disappointed a bit, then move the fuck on with my life.
Like I did with the ME3 ending.
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They have a right to not move on, but they don’t have a right to expect anyone to give a fuck that they can’t move on.
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Fair enough, but people clearly give a fuck about them not moving on, else why would they be complaining about them not moving on?
If they truly didn’t care, if they truly moved on, why then have I see so many people (because I’m not just talking about you guys here) who complain about people wanting change if they’re already done with the game?
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Probably because Bioware capitulated and changed stuff.
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My guess would be the precedent it sets for future games.
If they change it and then make a sequel/interquel/prequel/sidequel/xquel based on the new stuff, my experience (and those of others who haven’t partaken of the changed version) will be all of a sudden invalid for no good reason.
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If people feel a precedent has been set, I’d argue that precedent had already been set long ago when they decided to make a canon version of events for both KoTOR games, or when they decided to bring dead characters back to life in DA2 because it fit their artistic vision.
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Well, in that case, it’s a worrying trend 😛
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That canon thing was to fit in with the whole starwars canon though. if they were doing Kotor now it’d probably carry over from 1 to 2, like Dragon Age.
And that’s a deep rabbit hole to jump down.
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Actually, it was just Virus complaining about them not moving on…. 😛
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Let’s use a real example here. I love 90% of Brutal Legend. The world is fantastic, the writing is sharp, its art style is phenomenal, and its soundtrack is amazing. The first info about that game came out while I was still a metalhead, so I was super excited. Due to money issues, I didn’t end up picking it up until it was relatively cheap, but that’s not really relevant. I played 2 hours of that game, and have not touched it since. I have no intention of touching it again. Why? Because its actual gameplay, which only really kicks in after about 2 hours, is not very good. I thought to myself “damn, this is a shame. This doesn’t control very well, and I am not very good at it.” So now I don’t play the game. I didn’t demand that they make the whole game a hack and slash, which it really would have been better as, I just accepted that this was the game they made, and moved on.
How about art direction? Look at Overstrike/Fuse. That original concept looked so, so great. They decided to change it to something that looks really rather bland. Again, I went “well shit.” And moved on with my life. Unless it reviews really positively, I probably won’t glance at it again.
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Keep that shit action adventure like the demo portrayed it to be and awesomeness.
WHY is there RTS stuff!? I wasn’t too keen on the open world either as it felt pretty empty and standard action adventure hacky slashy levels would’ve been better :'( oh well
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I saw an interview with Tim Schaeffer where he said the whole game came about because he wanted to do strategy. Which is fine, but the demo was kind of false advertising in that case. 😛
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I think I would’ve loved Brutal Legend ten times more without the real time strategy that they didn’t really promote all that well through development, but never demanded they took them out. Just was slightly disappointed with an otherwise awesome game. I dunno, if a developer decided to include something like that in the game, I wouldn’t insist it to be patched out. I might rant about it on forums though. XD
I know we’re not talking specifically about Mass Effect, but the story and writing is what kept me coming back from game-to-game. The world building and the artistry. The same writers who gave you the ending, gave you the best moments of the rest of the trilogy too. These guys have the street cred to write what they want, if this is the ending they wanted, then so be it.
I don’t feel like I’m articulating my thoughts properly, so think this’ll be my last post on the subject. Haha.
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One last thing, I hate the direction they’ve taken Assassin’s Creed on almost all fronts — story, gameplay, characters. I’m just not going to play it any more. 😀
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Whereas I’m a sucker who continues to have hope so I’ll continue to buy their crap. I am the worst because I’m still giving them money. 😛
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We have notifications. No comment gets lost. 🙂
And Mass Effect itself changed from being an RPG with shooter elements to a shooter with RPG elements….
But to answer your question: it’s not really acceptable to ask a game dev for anything. You can complain if you don’t like like something, including gameplay or story or art but in the end it’s up to them. And I think demanding something to be changed after a game has been released is ridiculous. And actually expecting the devs to do something about it even more ridiculous. Which is why Bioware set a dangerous precedent for entitled whingers everywhere to assume that complaining will get things changed.
We as entertainment consumers have a right to consume, and we have a right to choose what we consume. We do not have a right to demand anything we don’t like about a game to be changed, but we definitely have a right to complain.
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But any form of feedback is asking for something to be changed, even if indirectly. If enough people say they don’t enjoy an aspect of a game, even if they don’t ask for it to be changed, developers will look at that and will say, “hmm, maybe we shouldn’t include that in the sequel, or maybe we should patch it out”. Even positive feedback, saying you like a feature, can cause changes to a game, even if you didn’t ask for more of that feature.
Unless you state after every review that you do not wish for your feedback to influence the developers, they’ll take note of what you’ve said and let it direct them. Maybe not what you’ve said personally, but the general consensus among the player base, or even non players. It’s about reading the market and tailoring your products for that market. That is something game developers do, and I’ve seen some say that it’s more useful for them designing games if you tell them explicitly what it is you’re looking for and what it is you do or don’t like in their games then trying to hide all forms of feedback in a passive review that asks for no change at all.
I’ll also add, I think my MMO background is colouring my view somewhat in this discussion. I’m used to an enviroment where developers are constantly making changes to their game based on player feedback and demands.
A lot of people think fireball is overpowered? We’ll nerf it. No one enjoys this boss? We’ll change the mechanic. People hate these new models? They’re gone, we’ll make some new ones. Now they want these old models that have been around for years changed, sure, why not? A large portion of the player base isn’t liking the direction of the story? No problem, will switch things around and head in a different direction than we originally intended so we can provide greater enjoyment to more people.
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I understand what you’re saying but there is a difference between saying you wish something was different and demanding it should be changed because you said so.
And your MMO-development example is a perfect example of how dangerous this type of development can be. “No one enjoys this boss?” Not necessarily true, just a lot of people don’t enjoy it. Same with the Mass Effect ending. I know a fair amount of people who found it satisfying. But because the loudest voice is always the complaining one, the majority of people could actually be in favour of something, the developers will never know though because people tend to not mention something if they’re happy with it.
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I think it is completely within reason for a player to ask a game developer anything within reason. In fact that is what developers want when release a sequel. What did we do wrong? What did we do right? The answer to these are from the consumer’s feedback.
However, it is not in our rights to demand anything. Unfortunately because Bioware backed down and gave the whiners minority what they wanted it has set a dangerous precedent of whiners thinking they can demand anything they want. (Like you said @strange)
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Okay, so I wasn’t going to say anything before, but I will now because more than one person has used the term.
“Whiners” is a pet peeve of mine. I hate seeing people use it in a conversation. You’re trying to dismiss someone’s arguments through insults because you can’t think of another way to debate what they have said and it adds nothing to the conversation as a whole. It’s no different to calling someone a fuckwit, dickhead etc, only people who use the term whiners tend to have a smug superiority about them because they’ve managed to insult a person without reverting to curse words.
Not that anyone here has that smug superiority, but when you start calling people whiners or cry babies or anything of the sort, you’re degrading your own arguments and are bring the whole debate down.
It’s petty name calling, and I’d appreciate it if it’s not used in future debates. This is a request, not a demand, least anyone misconstrued my previous arguments as thinking that I think I have a right to demand things of people, and if you want to call me a whiner for making it, that’s okay. It just gets on my nerve, perhaps to an unreasonable level, when people use “whiner” and “baby/babies” to insult and dismiss someone.
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Really? I think labelling a group of people whom demand a publisher to change the ending of the game because it didn’t end the way they like is the very definition of the word “whiner”
If you have a word that has exactly the same meaning as “whiners” but not the word I will gladly use it.
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What’s that old saying? “If the shoe fits, wear it”?
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Resident Evil.
Totally different to when I started. I just replay the old games. Played the 6 demo wasn’t interested, deleted it, moved on.
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I bought RE6 and didn’t like it and moved on.
I bitched to my friends, not to capcom.
Maybe i should bitch to capcom??
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You should, nothing wrong with state how you felt about the a game as long as you do it in a calm manner and don’t demand they change everything.
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NO! I DEMAND THEY TURN IT INTO A REMAKE OF 2….NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!!! :p
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I might ask them to turn it into an adult game such as ‘Leon does Raccoon City’….
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Rrrrowrr!
That Leon *swoon*
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HEY! Leon’s mine! 😛
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@strange I bags CLaire! & Squall :p
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Oh man, I thought we already established Squall’s mine. Hands OFF! 😛
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@strange NEVER!!!
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Here’s the thing, Dire Wolf. Eventually people are going to be sick of answering your same question (just phrased slightly differently each time) again and again without you taking in any of their responses and so they’ll stop responding. And because you have the last word you’ll either think you’re right, or assume we didn’t understand or read your comments and start it up again on yet another page.
And you certainly have a right to do that, just as I have a right to complain about you doing that. I do not have a right to start demanding that you change your comments to match what I think they should be, but you definitely have a right to tell me to go fuck myself, your comments are your own.
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I want to upvote you because I laughed, but also I want to downvote you because no.
Edit: Well, yes also, which was the whole point, but I’m not getting into that again.
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I never told you to go fuck yourself? I thought we were having a friendly debate, first about Mass Effect, then about consumer rights and how it relates to art.
If I’ve offended people, I’m sorry. I’m honestly feeling a little ganged up on here. I knew a lot of you didn’t mind ME3’s ending, but I hadn’t realised how anti-feedback you all were. That’s me being snarky, because I’m feeling attacked and hurt right now. My own fault, I guess. I shouldn’t have started this if I can’t handle being ripped to shreds by people.
I’ve been trying to keep the conversation going, because I though it was interesting. I can see where some of you are coming from, but none of you can see where I’m coming from, so what’s the point in continuing?
I’m going to go away now. I might pop in tomorrow. Maybe not. I feel like I’ve lost some friends, though, and I can feel depression coming on. Hopefully a cooling off period will help and I’ll be able to come back all bright faced and happy.
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DAMNIT PEOPLE I’M TRYING TO HELP BY CLEARING THINGS UP
Slowcommentnonrefreshius 😀
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I didn’t read like 99% of this stuff because I haven’t played ME3 yet but I did stumble across Strange’s comment and consequently yours (this one).
I’m pretty sure she didn’t say you told her to “go fuck yourself” but she was saying everyone has opinions and rights and if you wanted to do so (god forbid!) you have every right to.
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Dude, its natural to feel ganged up on when a bunch of people have a differing opinion, but you shouldn’t take it as a personal attack. We’re not all out to get you. It’s just that the people who replied have an equally strong opinion in the opposite direction. It just gets a little frustrating in a debate or discussion on something when certain elements obviously arent heard, and as strange says, the same questions get repeated. No one has anything against you as a person though! No need to feel like youre losing friends 🙁
And also I’m fairly we sure every one of us see where youre coming from too. I for one completely and thoroughly understand what youre saying. I just completely disagree with it 🙂
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I guess I personally wasn’t too phased with the crappy ending to the series. For me it was a little inconclusive but I just remembered how amazing the journey had been to get there.
Also I’m used to disappointing, inconclusive, poorly written and incoherent endings: I regularly watch anime. 😛
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OMG WORSTALEN
He tried playing Monster Hunter but was terrible at it so gave up and popped in Xenoblade and he loves it <3
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Not sure about the loving it part but it certainly is enjoyable enough.
Also I’ve only just got Shulk, Fiora and Reyn into one party so barely started.
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I know! Game gets real good around Bionis Leg methinks
Keep at it <3
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Bionis Leg is where it really clicked for me. Actually probably the story bit leading up to you going there grabbed me, but the Leg is the first spot where everything really opens out and you see how pretty the game can be and stuff.
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@freezespreston
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@freezespreston: Bionis Leg also has the best music in the game.
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Disagree.
One of the best though!
@ash – FUCKING BUY XENOBLADE (no more Mr. Nice guy)
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Lend it to me 😛
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@ash – buy it off @jimu, he hates his copy >:(
What a dick 😛
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Well there u go @jimu, we must obey our green overlord /salutes
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@ash I don’t hate it. I hate being spammed by someone about how it’s the best when it really, really isn’t.
I intend to go back and finish it but because the combat and questing system is so shit, I am in no hurry.
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@jimu you are wrong.
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No, man. I really don’t hate it.
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I think I figured out why I hate accounting so much. I’m almost always hung over at the tutorials 😛
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Mass Effect week’s actually been interesting to me. I like it when Kotaku US do a week with a theme. It often means less filler articles.
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Do you really want that? It’d just be stories about how they died. What kind of hack writer would do that?
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Huh? Ohhhhh I get it, it’s a trick because that would be the greatest week to ever exist. Haha, you’re funny.
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Go read Potaku, plent of Dark souls stuff there.
Well, @alexpants has written some stuff
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And I wrote a Demon’s Souls stuff!
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Talk to Batgirl.
EDIT: To add to this, simply mentioning the name ‘Garrus’ around her causes her to giggle and start curling her hair around her finger.
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I miss having hair that I could curl. 🙁
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It probably misses being curled 🙁
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Pubic hair?
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BAD MASHA!
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You thought about it so you’re just as nasty. Also I don’t think, it’s nasty 🙂 I guess it’s one of those things we all have but people don’t talk about. Sorry if i offended you. 🙂
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No bumasha, you didn’t offend me but the notion of curling pubic hair means it has to be long and unkempt. Nastyyyyy
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Garrus would be Shepard’s wingman any time.
One little thing I really like about LEGO City Undercover is the way it handles sound. It’s got separate sounds for the TV and gamepad, but if you turn the gamepad volume off, both sounds get output through the TV. And if you plug headphones into the gamepad, the TV is muted and all sound comes through the headphones. It’s kinda neat! I hope other WiiU games (and PS4/720 if they have gamepad speakers) do this!
ME3 sold almost 5 million copies.
13000 people signed the petition to change the ending.
I’m surprised Bioware even bothered in the slightest.
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13,000 signatures, but also about two million articles about nerdrage that were probably a little scary to EA (and ultimately got it voted worst company in the world).
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No one thing makes a company the “worst on earth” – it was the unholy combination of all these evil plots at about the same time. A conflagration of events.
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Up to book 5 in the Wheel of Time, xth re-read.
RJ handled structure oddly. Books 2-4 (and to a lesser extent, #1) in particular are long-winded affairs with glacial pace… until about 50 pages from the end, when all of a sudden, things ratchet up to an insane pace and then conclude suddenly and dramatically. It’s kind of exciting, but I find myself wishing the rest of the books had less braid-tugging and gender-bashing, and just got on with the interesting bits 😛
I’m still enjoying the read, though, even if the series’ flaws are more apparent to me than every before. I’m going to get all the way through this series, damn it. Even if it kills me.
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I got to book 9 just as it came out and the gap between that and 10 was so massive I completely forgot about it and eventually realised I was going to have to reread all of it which isn’t going to happen.
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That’s about where I gave up too last time. Gonna power through this time, given that I’ve already invested a month of commute time in the series so far 😛
Edit: There is a scary amount of exposition in each book’s prologue. I think you could probably just go from 10 if you wanted, and see where you end up 😛
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The pace of it was always a nagging annoyance for me…especially when the story would drag on characters I didn’t give a crap about (and it did that frequently). Despite that, I still love the whole series…well, up to book 10(?). I really need to finish it.
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For me, Fires of Heaven was the last really good book in the series until the 10th. That pacing you point out gets completely laconic, where nothing happens for ages and then at the end some major event happens. Unless it’s the 8th one where the major event is to effectively reset everything back to the way it was before the book started. :\
I’m of the opinion that the book could be skipped in its entirety and you wouldn’t notice.
Fires of Heaven also is where I think everything slipped out of his control and took on a life of its own. Too much happened in it and it’s almost like he didn’t know where to go next.
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What’s your best time-saving trick?
J.G. Quintel: This is probably not the best thing to admit, but I quit playing video games. It probably saves me weeks and weeks worth of time for doing other things over the course of a year. They’re really fun, and I remember them fondly, but they are the hugest time suck if you’re trying to do anything productive.
This is the second time I’ve heard this in the span of a couple of weeks. First was George R. R. Martin. D:
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They say this, but I spend more time procrastinating from playing games than I do actually playing it. Wooo, best at time management!
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Yeah, I haven’t played a game since BioShock a couple of weeks back. Time spent on TAY’s definitely not wasted for me, I consider you guys some of my closest friends. Keeps me sane posting here. I’ve got plenty of free time too, I suspect my problem is a lack of discipline. Haha.
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Oh man, wish I’d tried that line.
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I worked as a cleaner for 6 years…
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DUDE!
SHUT UP.
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Bullshit.
I had a case worker when I was on the dole who told me that and they probably should have been fired but my self esteem was so low I just accepted it and used it an excuse to do nothing with my life. Jobs are scary but you’re intelligent so definitely not unemployable. When you’re ready, remember that. -
I worked in an abattoir for 2 and a half years. It wasn’t glamorous, nor fun, but it was just under $800 a week after tax for unskilled work, and it got me the money I needed to enjoy life for years and get my study done, and now I’m in the field I want to be.
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Did you also get all the cuts of meat you wanted?
How did you manage 2 years there? I’ve been to abattoirs before and the smell is slightly more bearable than the water treatment plant.
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We got them at the same price it went to stores (i.e. Woolies). Off the top of my head I used to get cube rolls for like $7 a kilo.
I mostly managed there cause I was damned tired of being a poor student. It was crap work (sometimes literally…yes, I mean that) but it filled my bank. Plus, you get used to all of it over time.The one vague positive it that after working there for so long my shoulders gained like 3 inches of width each 😛
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Dude we spoke about this Saturday night, brush up on your skills you have degrees in and start looking, I am sure you could land a job at the ABC with ease in Brisbane.
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You should get a part-time job doing ANYTHING.
1. Because it will get you out of the house and used to the general poulation
2. It’ll get you back into the swing of it all
3. Employed people get jobs over unemployed people, even if you take a job as something totally unrelated in your field it will look a lot better on your resume when they see you keep working anyway.
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I find them great for productivity. I use them as a reward for myself for completing certain tasks.
I find they keep me from turning into a rage monster and going on a mad rampage through the CBD
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GRRM does do a bunch of things outside Song of Ice and Fire.
Those braces he wears don’t buy themselves!
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Yeah, I totally nearly bit and then I remembered the meaning of colon pee.
(Ahhhhh, sweet, sweet, refreshing Colon Pee. From the people who brought you Dog Water)
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Doctor Who talk :
contains one rod13’d spoiler for series 3, but a bit of guessing about this season :
Last episode of this year has the synopsis
‘someone is kidnapping the doctor’s friends, leading him toward the one place he must never go’
pretty sure that’d be referring to the Fields of Trenzalor when the first question will be asked.
now, I’m not basing this on anything, other than my own desire for the Moff to shake things up a bit, but I think River will die there. yeah, I know.
[Edit: because nested spoilers dont work] : fur jnf fhccbfrq gb qvr va gur yvoenel (nyernql unf ernyyl)
but I think it’d be a good set up for the 50th anniversary thing. some enemy so powerful it can change the time stream, which would involve getting 10 to come in & help out coz its such a threat.
that & I think the River angle has run its course.
heres hoping nested spoiler tags work…. (*spoiler* they dont)
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Yeah, this.
EDIT: Unless they ignore that whole thing or
somehow drag her back out of CAL or something-
like I said, the Doctor knows she dies in the library, so if out of the blue, something kills her (possibly himself to stop her answering the first question?), it would freak the Doc out to no end coz he knows time has been re-written.
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I haven’t heard if Kingston’s been cast for this series. If I was going to pick the Doctor’s friends for the series final, it’d be people like the Sontaran butler and the crimefighting silurian.I also hope that the 50th special is a little self contained. Also Also, confirmed is UNIT head Kate Stewart and some actress who’s been wearing a Tom Baker scarf on set.
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yep, Kingston is in the season final. so is Vastra, Jenny & Strax. according to digital spy, anyway.
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I’m curious about which form of David Tennant it will be. The obvious answer(to me) is that it’s just him some time during “series 2” which does bring up some wibbly wobbly timey wimey questions(like, shouldn’t he already know what happens, except well, yeah). But there’s always the option that it will be “Earth 2” Human David Tennant, with Rose. Would allow them to explain away any aging that probably hasn’t happened to Tennant since he’s a god of beauty.
I also think they need to end the River stuff, which is something I never thought I would have said after her first episode, but I doubt they’d kill her, since she already died to the Vashta Nerada, didn’t she?-
yeah, she did die then, but Moffatt can go timey-wimey on that detail.& yeah, considering that Billie Piper is gonna be in it, I think it’ll be Earth 2 Tennant.
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Yeah, I’ve mentioned this previously, but I wish they’d paced River better, it feel like Moffat blew the proverbial load of River way too early. She should have popped in for an episode, here, and then maybe there, and that should have been it for a while. Sure, they would have had issues with the actress(and aging forever!), but pshhh, like I care.
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Still umming and arring about getting Defiance on the 360, oh mighty TAY, enlighten me, guide me on my path to the true cause!
Should I get it or what?
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There would be no question if it was SKYRIM! or SKYRIMESQUE!
It simply WOULD BE!
Though some of you may have gathered that from what I often say.
Not sure how.SKYRIM!
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Spend your hard-earned library bucks elsewhere.
Because I haven’t posted that link in, like, two days. My hands were shaking.-
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Good point, I really do need;
1/ Signed copy
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This guy gets it.
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This game is pretty fun. Nob-frond also has it. It throws you in the deep end a bit, makes you figure a lot out for yourself.
But I have been told the console versions have a few more issues than the PC build.
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Man, I haven’t played my 3DS since… last time you saw me play it I guess?
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Haha, I had a feeling it wasn’t getting much use 😛
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Mmm, one of the big things for me is the fact that I never play mmo games.
Knowing me, I will probably try to solo the entire thing.
Still, being thrown in the deep end will surely lead to either sinking or swiming.
Or being rescued by some beautiful and ridiculously porportioned life saver that runs in slow motion.-
BUY BUY BUY
but only if that final line is true
*Jeremy Jackson sigh*
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I’ve got it on PS3. It’s fun, very much like a third person Borderlands, which isn’t a bad thing at all.
Apparently the 360 release is absolutely broken. Like doesn’t work properly, runs at sub-20 FPS constantly etc.
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ME3 Ending:
I still haven’t played it T_T
Hurry up EA with your super sexy trilogy DLC edition…
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I’m pretty sure the recently released trilogy has NO DLC at all (which is why I didn’t get it)
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On 360, yes.
On PS3 the discs are the same as retail, so you get everything you get normally plus the better of the two from 1(doesn’t look like they will port the arena DLC thingie)You only have to buy 1 or 2 for 2 and all of 3 DLC.
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I own it, I checked before buying. I played the 1 DLC already.
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Ah, didn’t realise the PS3 versions came with some of the DLC. Still though, DLC is extremely overpriced and I don’t like paying for it so I’d rather get it all in one edition later down the track (I don’t mind waiting)
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I just don’t see it happening. They only ever did it with Dragon Age, never bothered with DA2.
Things changed since they became EA.
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@jimu I can see it happening
DA2 wasn’t that popular or liked. Mass Effect is a huge series and it’s easy money to just release it again with the DLC
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Good luck! 😉
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There’s a surprising number of Shepards I’ve seen that look like Obama.
I’ve also seen a lot of FemSheps that look Gillardish.
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Bet the Alliance has the NBN.
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Tony Abbott as Conrad Verner? xD
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Tony wouldn’t even make it into space. His space program would consist of using planes as it’s cheaper and provides an adequate service and potentially upgrade to spaceships in the future if necessary.
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BDKIAF you just made my day xD. I lol’d hard
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Wat. It’s clearly the theme of this page. I am disappoint.
Shepard obviously
trollolololalalala
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Praise the Sun!
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EASTER EGGS ARE GETTING EVEN CHEAPER!!!
JUMP ON IT LIKE THE EASTER BUNNY!!!
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I never got why people come in abusive and horrible, complaining about everything before I’ve even done anything and then expect me to be upset and worried when they threaten to go somewhere else.
Lady, you’d be doing me a favour
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I know exactly how you feel.
However, stop complaining or I’ll take my inane comments and crappy jokes to Gamespot.
Nooo, the vita deal i was eyeing up at EB just went up $50 since yesterday and they still have “special price” on it. Bums!!!!
D: Sad Facius!
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Should have called. Maybe he could have put one aside and you could have caught a bus there Saturday.
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Yes. YYYESSSSSSSSSS.
Dark Souls is a pretty cool dude. I’ve only played like, 5 minutes of Demon’s Souls, where I just died horribly many times.
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I’ve spent about 20 mins in Dark Souls & gotten up to maybe the 3rd boss in Demon’s…
I do like them, but they’re very daunting. Very little guidance, which I dont mind at all, but its just a matter of discovering what play-style works for me & going with it.
I intend to do this though.
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I want to play Dark Souls without the fighting and just explore the world, see where that path way goes, look over that cliff. The world seemed really awesome.
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I just saw this: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/04/the-dark-souls-ii-gameplay-reveal-in-a-single-gif/ and now I can’t stop giggling.
One of these Gloryhammer songs has a keyboard part like the Final Fantasy theme. Every time I hear it I want to go play a FF game. <3
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I’d ask for a link but I couldn’t listen to it at work 🙁EDIT: Also it’s probably not on Youtube 😛
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It’s called The Epic Rage of Furious Thunder and the FF bit starts about 6 and a half minutes in….
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The entire album was on YouTube the day it was released lol. Someone pirated it that fast haha.
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If I were you I’d call mine Ice.
Winter is coming.
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Your final line is missing a ‘s’
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The statement “You’ll also be able to catch interviews with 60 of the bigger name acts like Phoenix, the Red Hot chilli Peppers, Passion Pit and more” seems rather off to me. Only band I know of there is The Chilli Peppers, never even heard of those other two, whoever they are o.O
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I know of more obscure artists on the Coachella lineup than those two who you say are popular..
Beats me how Ghost are on there, I didn’t think they fit that kind of festival lol.
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The festival is pretty much what we call Big Day Out here, never seen either artist on Big Day Out. and they LOVE cashing in on the latest and greatest or big band from back then thats reunited. Soundgarden & Chilli Peppers anyone? lol
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I actually saw Passion Pit at Big Day Out :/
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From looking at the line up from 2010, they wouldn’t have been main stage or the opening act on main stage for the day they’re so far down the list after the big names that would’ve been main stage, since that’s how the wiki lists shit. Soo yeah. When you say popular i’m expecting minimum 3rd of 4th slot on main stage for the evening, on no earlier than 5pm.. Because before then usually it’s quite empty around mainstage from past experience, Soundwave the same.
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Your perspective of what makes a band popular boggles the mind a little virus. I’ve seen plenty of popular bands in past festivals at earlier times.
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I dont know if thats particularly accurate. Its a mashup of big day out and splendour. They get big bands sure, they big old bands sure, but they have plenty of interesting new acts too that are beginning to get a lot of attention. Alt-J, Diiv, Grimes, Grizzly Bear, IO Echo just to name a few – these are names I’m seeing now that would never appear at Big day out.
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I would’ve loved to go to Coachella in 2011, Arcade Fire AND The National. D:
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Totes seen them both :3
Granted I didnt know Arcade Fire before seeing them, but I knew every word that Matt sung on that rainy night. Was magic ^_^
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Do National actually tour here, unlike a certain other band? 😛
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@dc Yeah, they play a lot of festivals. They came two years in a row following High Violets release, and both times did sideshows too 🙂
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Awesome. Did you see them both times? New album imminent, means new tour hopefully! 😀
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Nooo, only the first time. Couldnt afford it the second time around 🙁
edit: And I’m pretty darn confident they’ll come here in the not so distant future! They’ve come to the Augusty kind of festivals, could very well do the same this year! Just dont expect a sideshow in Brisbane if they do
actually wait, not Augusty… more like, Jan or Feb, I believe is when sunset and harvest are around. I think?
ergh im way off with all of them. Just ignore me, and know that yes they probably will come at some point XD
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You so crazy! 😀
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I dunno big day out are probably going to be desperate for names now that Soundwave is pulling all the big rock & metal bands every year. Slipknot & SOAD last year, Metallica & Link Park this year, 3 of those 4 headlining acts have all headlined Big Day Out at some point. Rammstein would be stolen for Soundwave if they ever toured. Since they’ve appeared in Australia twice in their career..
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Ok but… youre still wrong XD
I care not for what happens to big day out. I’d say good riddance, but then the shirtless sweaty mobs will need another festival to lose their inhibitions at 🙁
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It does seem that they are bigger in the US and UK
Latest album topped at number 2 on the charts over there while didn’t quite break the top 10 here.The difference is big day out is a rock festival (pretty much) while coachella bills itself as a music and arts festival
See you say that, but i’m probably right.
http://www.youtube.com/coachella
Full schedule is here, but I admit as a music imposter I know very little of them too. :S
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Love you @dc
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Jeeeebus… I looked at this lineup ages ago and completely forgot how great it is. Alt-J, Diiv, Grimes, Grizzly Bear, IO Echo, Polica, Stars (!), Tanlines, Phoernix, Portugal the man, Four tet, Foals, Beach house, bat for lashes, Local natives, Metric, New Order (!!!), Sigur ros, xx, Vampire weekend, yeah yeah yeahs, wild nothing… would love to see any and all of them. Reaaally amazing lineup!
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New Order = <3
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Ohhhh man, New Order! Cant believe it. Bastards.
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I’m just giving you grief 🙂
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Dude. At the Drive-In reunion at last years Coachella trumps anything else on any line up anywhere :p
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Hmmm.
Alright, to guess, I have to get into the mind of BDKIAF…
Hmmm…
Omigod You Guys – Legally Blonde(The Musical)
Edit: Dammit, I was wrong. Whodathunkit?
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I really do like Legally Blonde, Gay or European is a lot of fun, if not actually that good a song.
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Pea Sized – Stop Thinking. Like it caus it reminds me of this 😀 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx1ubJYFdaE
Music Page 14 actually sounds like the perfect place for my plea:
It’s looking very likely that Adrian Edmondson and the Bad Shepherds tour of Australia will be cancelled due to poor ticket sales. 🙁
This is a group who play classic (mostly punk) songs on their folk instruments and features “That Punk Guy” from The Young Ones and Troy Donockley who I have met twice and is all kinds of awesome (he plays Uillean Pipes and they sound incredible, here he is live with Nightwish: http://youtu.be/kG-ahEP3EF0?t=10s ) so there really is something for everyone. I hear they put on a wonderful show and don’t want to miss out.
So I’m pleading with everyone who is able to, to buy tickets for the show nearest them (and go to the gig, of course!) because I am almost positive you won’t regret it. Pretty please with sugar on top? 😀
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Turns out editing a link IN also puts it into moderation. 😛
Here’s my my edit: Info… http://www.thebadshepherds.com/
Grr I have to watch lets play videos of Infamous and do a quiz on it tonight. Isn’t my uni life full of woe?
I know I said that 2 or 3 weeks ago but it’s due tomorrow morning 😛
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I’m just bitter that they cut out all Nintendo related stuff from the course this year 😛 Imagine if we got to write about Xenoblade, or Zelda, or Metroid!!
But no, Infamous 🙁
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Bah! It’s basically open world Arkham Asylum gameplay. What’s not to like about that?
Story is pretty shallow, but it’s so damn fun to just mess about in the world!
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What’s not to like about that?
Story is pretty shallow
Arkham Asylum gameplay
🙂 I no like those feeling like a superhero games!
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I need a 3000-3500 word review by the end of may. Go!
Oh and for this particular quiz, I can relay all the questions!
(We’re pretending your spoiler tag doesn’t exist)
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Wahh wahhh I’m doing a course I like and have to write something about a topic I know about 🙂
Want to graph a default risk curve and work out which ASX companies are close to default and their default risk?
Didn’t think so 😛
(This was sarcasm by the way :D)
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Hey man, nothing wrong with Arkham Asylum gameplay! But like Neg said, it’s barely even AA gameplay 😛
@dc – story was shallow until the end where I was all “dayumn!” but worst of all, gameplay is pretty shallow too. InFamous is pretty flawed.
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I dunno, it’s not really much like Arkham Asylum. It’s a lot less rhythmic and reactive in the combat.
The traversal through the world is straight out of Sly Cooper, which shouldn’t be a surprise since that was their previous series.
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I think it was the different gadgets and abilities that made me think of Arkham. Best Spider-Man game that’s not a Spider-Man game, though! 😀
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Better than all the Spider-Man games too.
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NO NO NO NO NO
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I like you, we can be friends.
InFamous felt way too long to me. I loved the first half of the first area, but by the time I’d reached the second bit I was bored of the game…
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I feel that Reznor could definitiely beat Cash, he has relative youth and agility
Wait, are we not talking knife-fighting?
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I disagree, Cash is a bonafide bad-ass who once shot a man just to watch him die.
Totally contrasting Reznor who thinks he has a PhD in violence because he once hired out the Rambo trilogy.I’m just taking the piss there, I like them both. /fence-sitting.Edit: spelling.
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You mean you don’t have experience from your hipster teenage years?
Man, I can talk about Dahahoo. Loved that band. Heh, I just looked them up, their Myspace page still exists. Ooh, ooh, I knew Los Capitanes before they were cool(cool by minorly successful, local band standards, that is).
I could talk about my first Turbulence gig, or Pleased to Jive You. Start pulling out the hipster glasses for bands that nobody outside the “went to the Woden youthy for gigs in 2009/2010” scene would know(mostly because they weren’t all that good).
*Puts on Hipster Glasses*
Edit: And to actually answer your question, the fight was going pretty well, until Spiderman turned up, decked Cash, webbed Reznor, and gave us a lecture about avoiding street fights.
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Not sure how you can compare these two..
But I seem to be the only person around that doesn’t like what Reznor does, well that’s a lie I like Marilyn Manson’s albums he produced in the 90’s. But otherwise, never got what was so great about him likewise Nirvana.
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Haha! Nah, it’s more about the song Hurt. I remember late last year it was a recurring conversation starter to compare their two versions of the song. XD
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Still comparing a cover to an original, Doesn’t always work since the artist covering it usually puts their own spin on things and makes it unique to them, as opposed to copying it as the original artist did it.
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Really depends who we’re talking about. Some artists who do covers and leave it original they sound great, others no matter what they do, ruin it.
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I find it really hard to like a cover that sounds like the original. To me it misses the point, that song already exists. If the person doing it has a totally different vocal range and pitch then it can work, because it sounds like a different song.
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I get where you’re coming from, some artists just nail it when they don’t change anything up too much.
Like take Vince Neil’s last album Tattoo’s & Tequila 10 of the 12 songs were all covers, they were pretty much identical to the originals, reworked a little to be a bit heavier and to work with his voice but none the less they were great as they were. Though his cover of Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers by ZZ Top was HORRIBLE. His voice is not suited to sing the gravely tunes sung by Billy Gibbons & Dusty Hill.
Also Metallicas covers album, Garage Inc, is a great example of taking originals and only slightly changing them but keeping them faithful to the originals and doing them a hell of a lot of justice.
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Downvote away, then! If I wanted to hear what it sounded like when someone deep throated a microphone and called it singing I am sure there are plenty of women who would do it for money or some even free.
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I think you have Nirvana confused with someone else.
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The greatest of Nirvana was in the time and place rather than listening to it now (which I still like to do)
It was something new and different, such a push away from the oldies music or the or the regurgitated pop. It is hard to see what was so great if you consider them as just another grunge band
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On this note @virus__, some of us spent our formative years listening to Nirvana having them shape a lot of their musical tastes. If someone started dissing Stonesour or Paul Grey in the same way you’d throw a fit.
Just something to consider
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Yeeeep.
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It’s more the fact that Grunge is seen as an off shoot of metal and the continuation of metal from the 80’s which I think it is very far from that. Grunge is more punk rock continuation, than metal. Grunge artists fucking despised metal of all sorts especially Kurt Cobain apparently, it was made known in the episode of Metal Evolution about Grunge that they wanted to distance themselves from being related to heavy metal all together.
I also am not a fan/cannot tolerate them due to how it was perceived in high school that you were cool if you liked Nirvana and a lot of kids wore their merchandise because it was cool, I knew for a fact they never even listened to them. So for a band that was apparently so against this kind of consumerism including being famous, doesn’t sit well with me.
People can say what they like about the bands I like, i’m either going to ignore them or tell them to stop being a fuckwit and explain why they hate them so much, because if there’s no valid reason they can give then well they’re just being an ignorant fuck wit.
As stated here I have my reasons, which I think are fair. I have many other friends who just hate them because it’s the other cool thing to do, like it’s cool to like them/seen wearing their merchandise.
They aren’t the only band this happens to, The Rolling Stones are another, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath all bands people just wear the merchandise or say they like them to look cool, these are the people who give you a blank stare when you ask them what their favourite song is or another relevant question relating to them.
I have one mate who thinks Dave Grohl is god & Cobain is Jesus Christ, and every Nirvana & Foo Fighters song is a verse in the bible, he use to go on about people like this all the time. Whilst I may not share his opinion on the band, but I shared his opinion on these people who wear band merchandise for the sake of looking cool.
TL;DR poseurs are part to blame for me not being able to tolerate certain bands, others is relation to what bands call themselves and then go on to be something different from what they always strived to be and artists not staying true to themselves more than anything.
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Yeah that might be, but it doesnt excuse your prior descriptions of Cobain ‘deep throating the mic’ :/
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I genuinely can’t understand the vocals. It sounds like when someone literally has the microphone in their mouth and is shouting making it distort. That or every time I heard Nirvana being played everyone including the media had poor copies of their recordings.
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Yeah but dude, you cant go blaming your dislike of a band on one thing, and then disrespecting in another way the next. Cant say its born from how others have followed them, then say you think he sounds crap. One is exterior influences, the other is subjective opinion. i.e. dont say his singing sucks and blame it on shitty people from high school.
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It’s an observation on how I have seen things. No where did I say he sounds crap or sucks. You’re the one putting the words there. I said it sounds like this, I never said “Oh it’s definitely this and this is why it sucks and I think it’s crap” So please don’t go putting words in where they don’t fit and were never intended to fit.
Again it seems everyone is misunderstanding my opinion which seems to happen a lot around here. Not my fault I like to have an opinion and voice it at will. After all it is a constitutional right, one which the government believes we should share with those around us.
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Ok but… usually when someone describes someones singing as deepthroating a mic, its not usually meant as a compliment.
Well it was neither a compliment or an insult, it was merely an observation honestly.
I was searching all over for this comment, I thought the notifications were tricking me again o.O
Truthfully? It sounds like you’re more concerned with what others might think of you for liking them more so than your own opinion on their music.
Nope. Dude, I have Snoop Dogg, Xzibit, Eminem, Disturbed, Poison, Nickelback, Lady Gaga & Katy Perry in my library I could care less what people think about my taste in music. So I think that’s the least of my worries.
I just cannot stand having someone force a band onto me saying I must like it, so of course I am going to not want to like them no matter what. If they maybe suggested rather than demanded then played it, I might’ve had a different view. But I prefer to make up my own mind and discover things for myself.
You might prefer to find bands that way, but doesnt mean you cant find bands being ‘forced upon you’ which are still good. You’ll miss out on great music thinking that way. Basing tastes on what other people think of anything is never a good thing. *cough*mewithdmc*cough*
@sughly dude, it’s like the religious door knockers who come by and tell you why you should accept jesus christ as your lord and saviour. I do not want to be told what to think and like. I want to be my own free thinking person, I would prefer if people were nice and SUGGEST not COMMAND I listen to an artist or band, because 9 times out of 10 I will if they’re nice about it. I don’t know why having something forced on you against your will is a good thing, because to me it is not. It just leaves a sour taste being told I should like this band or artist or whatever. Also i’ve never found anything enjoyable that is forced upon me so y’know.
Grunge was never a metal offshoot. It began in Seattle, & metal was never a big thing there. it had a decent lo-fi punk & hardcore scene though. Grunge evolved from 10 years of collaborations between the local punk bands. thats why the attitude & aesthetic of grunge was (is, arguably [Edit: nope. its dead.]) always a heap more DIY & cheap & dirty than most metal scenes.
But people like to say it is part of metal and they think that’s where it belongs. Which I think is far from the truth. As I said it’s more punk rock than it is ever metal.
I have never heard anyone say that until today, and I’m old so I’ve been around for a while. 😛
I do think metal can take care of itself though, you don’t need to worry if people you know think grunge is part of metal, metal is still going to be just fine. 🙂
@strange reaaaaaaaally? Weird.
I think your mates are bad for you, dude. They make you rant about them and they make you hate stuff you may otherwise have liked. 😛
Eh, I tried to like grunge once. I couldn’t get into it. It was after hearing Chris Cornell sing outside of Audioslave/Soundgarden, I was very disappointed when he didn’t sound as amazing where he became famous as to where I heard him sing.
Though Audioslave is a whole other ball park in terms of what they sound like.
At the end of the day there is nothing wrong with trying something and not liking it.
The main reason you are getting passionate responses here are you said you didn’t see what was so great about Nirvana, so people are trying to explain it. As Freeze said some of us spent our formative years listening to Nirvana having them shape a lot of their musical tastes so it is very much linked to everything we like about music.
I have also never heard that grunge was a metal off-shoot, it was part pop, part punk and a big part something new. it sounds almost like your metal mates are saying that as an excuse for liking something that isn’t metal. Maybe not, although you said it was on a show, weird.
If your first introduction to Nirvana was after grunge was a thing (and not your thing) and being pushed on you by posers then I can understand why you don’t like it.
@tigerion
I understand that, i’ve tried my hardest to give a rational explanation as to why it just doesn’t click with me, and I think I was very rational with how I explained myself. I try my best where possible to respect an opinion if the other person can respect mine, if they can’t then it’s an argument we’re having not a healthy debate.
I’ve heard it in a few metal doco’s, most recently was Metal Evolution the episode on Grunge where Sam Dunn is finding out the real roots of Grunge and along the way he expresses how people have linked Grunge to heavy metal and how he doesn’t see that being true etc, since he grew up in the 80’s & 90’s and always through grunge was the furthest thing from metal.. It was a really out of place episode, it was insightful I learnt a fair bit.
Yeah, i’ve never been a person to just accept music from any and everywhere. Usually i’ll come across something I like by random chance some days and i’ll get into more from there, rather than it being played at me and told I should like it. I’ve just never been into that sort of thing.
I remember when I really got into metal I asked a mate for just a mix cd of random stuff he thought was a cool. I ended up liking I think just Slipknot & Metallica, out of Dimmu Borgir, Children of Bodom, Cradle of Filth and all these other metal bands. That’s going back a fair way now that I think about it :S When I started high school I think haha.
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I thought they did use both versions, one on the mid movie montage, the other on the credits. 😀
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Really? Ill have to rewatch. Good as an excuse as any.
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I really liked that movie. Saw it twice at the cinema and considering I don’t see movies that often, that says something. (Pretty sure I skipped Uni to see it. :D) Loved Johnny Cash’s The Man Comes Around on the opening credits too.
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It’s one of the few movies I own on DVD. I love Snyders flashy style over substance approach to filmmaking. He knows what he makes and makes it damn well.
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Yeah, you’ll always get some awesome style in Snyder movies. Stories can be hit and miss, but I think Dawn of the Dead is definitely his best. (I didn’t mind Watchmen either, for atmosphere alone.)
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@freezespreston Yeah, while I dont care for 300 or Watchmen, I loved his take on Dawn, thought it was a great fit.
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Wow, Gizmodo commenters are still arrogant as ever. Can’t make a joke about a story without one of them jumping in to tell you you’re a moron. Like wut o.O
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Well I was one of the first to comment on the article this morning now some tool is being well a tool. Their sarcasm plugin must be broken or something I swear.
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Ha.
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Lol, I don’t even think it’s worth it. I just think it’s stupid someone has to come along and be a dick because they love themselves so much.
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o.O
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Sorry. Maybe I should have said “As someone who likes dicks I object to you calling someone objectionable a dick.” 😛
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Have you been drinking, Strange? 😀
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I wish I had been, then I’d have an excuse. 😛
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Oh man, I feel like downvoting myself for that one. 😛
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Quick. Edit it out before Hernandez sees it.
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Oh good, I thought it was my sleep deprivation that was making that sound weird and nonsensical. Turns out it wasn’t.
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Aren’t you married?
Oh yeah, good point. 😀
Innernette datin’: The prequel to the sequel.
Right, quick one here.
There’s a questionnaire that users fill out, and compare answers to one another with, right? I suppose I have a shortlist of answers that MUST fit with mine, whereas others are less important.
Put simply, if you’ve answered that you’d rather lose your right to vote over your right to bear arms, I’m not going near you.
If you state that a Kilometer is longer than a Mile, I’m going to think twice.
If you believe that the earth is larger than the sun? You’re a fuckin’ idiot, go home.
On a lighter note, as I actually meant for that to be a joke, not a rant, my usage has dropped significantly, though interest is still there. It’s nice just being able to chat with new people sometimes, y’know?
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It was tempting to make an account, flirt with you, organise a date, turn up in drag, have a few more dates, go back to a hotel for some rough lovin’ then pull off the wig with a “Surprise! Trololololol!”
But effort.
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Wow you’re cheating on me with Masha2938! 🙁
Ha ha, I don’t know if I’m skilled enough to do that
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To think some people on the other side of the world will be listening to this live in the near future :'( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pr6SxJb-Dw
WELL FUCK!
I planned to start up my download for Survivor whenever I got home so I could watch it during dinner… I forgot to do so and only remembered then (as I’m eating) >_>
It wasn’t up on eztv (my main dude from YARGHBAY) so I figured maybe they’re having a week off like The Amazing Race so I head over to Wikipedia and since there’s no real “Episode” article certain parts were updated while others weren’t so I saw that the last aired episode was on April 4th (it wasn’t updated) but the next person who voted off was which meant I got it spoiled without even seeing the episode :'(
WORST DAY EVER
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AD BREAKS D:
It might finish by then and I can just watch it… if I want to give up Monster Hunter time 😛
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So damn hungry. The thought of Mexican food tomorrow is good, though. Have you guys pre-booked your tickets yet? Let me know if/when you do. Haha! (@sughly, @freezespreston)
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If we do it would probably be for the best if one of us does it all at once otherwise chances are we’ll be scattered through the cinema.
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Good point. (Though I don’t think South Bank had allocated seating, so maybe these guys don’t either. Probably best just in case though!)
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I booked cinema and food. All is good! Hope you guys didnt buy tickets now…
because just to be clear, I have bought everyones tickets already XD dinner booked for 8
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oh man… all this music talk has got me going through my library re-discovering all these bands i havent listened to in ages…
Rites of Spring, Hoss, Nikko, Horsell Common, Purplene, Staying At Home, The Vandas….
man I’m gonna have to make an epic playlist for the weekend 😀 so good.
My workplace is moving out of the shitty Lutwyche Centro and into a brand new building at Nundah Village. We’ll be on the top floor, with full on window views. They were thinking about moving us into heaps of other shittier places, and this is pretty much best case scenario!
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It’s a ten minute train ride or twenty-five minute walk from our place. It’s a great place. Our building even has showers/gym/coffee shop/bar on the bottom floor!
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that sounds awesome.
…wanna swap workplaces? :pEdit: the correct answer is no. my office is shit.
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I haven’t even started there yet!! 😛
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Jeeze TAY, I thought you were a place where people could respectfully discuss their opinions and tastes. C’mon people.
Now to lower myself off this pedestal, if you don’t like Metric you suck and I hate you.
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Freeze called me “an OK guy” in Sydney, right before he threw up in the gutter.
True story.
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Goddammit Pants, I’ve explained this to everyone before, the only type of music that matters is sub-osteotic post-underground hype-wave-core.
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Neo-classical sub-osteotic post-underground hype-wave-core is the future. Get with the times grandpa.
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Oh, well I wouldn’t expect someone like you to understand. The First-Wave Sub-Osteotic Hype-Wave-Core was quite literally recorded underground, with no real acoustics, as all the band members were in separate coffins. While there’s a certain purity to be found within the muffled noises, genuine critics of the evolving genre(which I am one of three of) prefer the ability to actually hear the sucking of marrow that is so integral to this music.
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I actually know at least one singer/band has recorded underground in caves because the liked the acoustics. Probably a lot more then 1 but googleling is too hard.
On a site note. Who do you actually write googlelling?
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I thought it was googling
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fiiiiine, PENICLS ALL AROUND! YOU GET A PENICL, YOU GET A PENICL, EVERYONE GETS A PENICL! -
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Sometimes I think knowing more about how a game works can ruin the experience a bit. I started replaying Pokemon HG (because I can) and having more of an idea about how the more indepth mechanics work is frustrating me. Mostly to do with my pokemon’s natures and how their stats work. So many times my Crobat or Furret should have killed things in one hit, but knowing what nature they are and that they have -Attack natures is annoying becuase I know they should be doing more damage than they are.
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Oh, I know right. It just feels like such a waste these days catching a Pokemon that doesn’t have a beneficial nature, even though I know it barely matters in-game 😛 I cringe looking back on my past teams (Adamant Charizard? Ugh)
Hopefully with X/Y I can avoid all of the metagame stuff surrounding the new Pokemon. It’ll be great seeing a new Pokemon and not instantly knowing you need to find one that’s Modest/Timid/whatever 😛
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I totally agree. Pretty much any game that has any pretense at story I try to finish it at least once before looking to deeply into how it actually works. Otherwise I get to obsessed with just using the most powerful things and trying to max stats.
I find it particularly challenging resisting the urge to look up guides for persona.
Ellen Degeneres just sent me her private sex tape with a message saying I’m not allowed to watch it.
I’m torn as to what to do guys.
Two really good things happened to me today: 1st, I got my first History assignment back, and got 70% for it. 2nd, I lost another 700 grams this week. Not a huge loss, but a loss is better than a gain.
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Todays post is brought to you by the numbers 7 and 0
Congrats though.
I also have to add that each time I see you post an update on your weight-loss I fight the urge to ask if you’re ontarget… I think I have a problem.
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I also just realised that Ontarget would be a good name for a pet dog. I’d get to yell “Stay Ontarget!” all the time.
I had a weird dream last night involving game of thrones (spoiler for anyone not up to date with the TV show)
It was the bit where John Snow is with the wildlings and meets the warg (worg? whatever the call it) but instead of the guy with the eagle/hawk there was Princess Jasmine and her tiger from Aladdin.
I woke up wondering what the hell caused me to combine those two.
Out of boredom, I’ve decided to install Ubuntu on my 5 year old laptop.
This should be fun! 😀
Also, \o/!
Ubuntu page 15!
http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lg4rr7V3tw1qaifa5.gif
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After reading your post I started thinking about duel booting Ubuntu on my laptop for fun.
But then I realised that the graphics driver support for my laptop is bad enough in windows, it can only be worse in Linux :/-
Not necessarily. Linux has come a long way in the last few years in terms of hardware support and usability. It often does things better than Windows does.
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Too tired to do anything much apart from sit here and look at my screen waiting for something to happen, but not tired enough to go to bed at 8pm.
Fuck.
Who wants to be little spoon?
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Good lord, I want some of what you’re having.
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I’m the tablespoon.
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Note:
I spent some years listening to Nirvana as a teenager in the 90’s, and grew up to be something of a metal head. I appreciate both musical influences in my life equally, and as I get older, my tastes evolve further again. All music is relevant. You’d probably be shocked at how some polar opposite music styles can influence each other as well. If you consider yourself a music fan – even if you don’t like a particular type of music – you’re obliged to recognise it’s relevance and existence to some degree.
Also, if you don’t think metal contributed to grunge, and grunge contributed to metal in turn, you’re probably not looking at the whole picture. It’s symbiotic.
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Yes yes…but the important thing about page 14 was this: http://www.thebadshepherds.com/
Now go buy a ticket. 😛
Survivor Talk: OH MY GOD. I didn’t think it could get any better than last week, but it totally did.
Spoilers, natch: Now THAT is why I said that Reynold is naive. He’s wasted two immunity idols now! Unbelievable! So much strategy this episode! Who’d have thought that Andrea freaking out and voting for Michael would actually save her in the end! Reynold and Malcolm must have planned the immunity idol thing (I don’t think that little scenario would’ve happened otherwise). So good.
Also, the more episodes go by the more I grow to like Cochran. So funny.
Great episode. I’m sorry you had it spoiled, @greenius. This was certainly not the episode to have had that happen! 😛
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Oops, forgot the tags. Who is in the Survivor club these days? Just @greenius and @sughly? Can’t remember 😛
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Printed \o/
They’re good, I think. Actually, I should unpack them and make sure they survived the trip home 😛-
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Thanks man. Your Rainman-files/memory continue to impress.
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guys!
DARK SOULS:
I’m staring at the classes & have no idea what to do. god damn. they’re not wrong. even the character creation thing is bloody difficult.
question is, is it better to focus on one stat over another? or is a hybrid-build a viable way to go?
Ideally, I wanna make a dodgy character that can take a hit or two. bit of range & a bit of close combat. or is sacrificing a 100% strength / vit build to go for a bit of magic / bows a bad thing?
Edit: or can I pump up dex & have stabby swords & bows?
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If you’re looking to throw a bit of magic in, then your best bet in that regard is to go pyromancy, rather than sorcery or miracles, as Pyro is stat independent(though you still need to pump souls into the glove to make it ridiculously overpowered). My first real character was the… ummm… Soldier? Class. I can’t remember. Guy with a sword and a shield. Tank mode is easy mode. As a note, I’ve only needed to use properly ranged attacks on about five occasions, so uhhh, it’s hardly something you need to worry about unless you want to.-
cheers. I’m thinking of going for a Wanderer. focus on Dex, get a dagger for stabby stabby & get a bow to go for ranged stuff. we’ll see how this goes…… poorly, I’ll assume-
I decided to power game this run-through, because I was sick of it going poorly, so I wish you the best of luck! -
Wanderer style is one of the hardest, but fun.
I would suggest either: Bandit – strong early game melee weapon and excellent shield, or Pyromancer – has pyromancy.
And always start with the key.
It is not that important what you pick – only determines base stats and starting gear, you can do whatever you like after that.Edit: Also, dex stacking will not have too much of an effect on the first play-through – it is only at high levels with a lot of souls pumped into it that you will really notice the extra damage.
I would suggest focusing your levels on whatever you need for gear + HP/Stamina upgrades.
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Thief
gets a free Master Key, extra critical damage and has decent starting equipment. Dex is pretty high already, but the build can be easily stat-bumped to any play style. Suits me to a T.Ultimately, a jack of all trades isn’t a bad way to go, but IMO it’s something you should stagger. Get stats high enough to do one thing at a time. When you get a bow, upgrade stats until you can use it. Find a good shield? That’s your next upgrade path. Oh look, you got a catalyst and want to cast spells. Plan your next upgrades accordingly.
So my $10 eBay knock off Wii ethernet adapter from China works fine on the WiiU. MH packet relay tool works too, so can multi on the 3DS if required. Actually works out alright because I can use the ethernet full time and stop using the wireless. Not just for MH, but the whole thing.
Always prefer wired for any non-portable device.
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Cheers! I couldn’t find any instance of a genuine Wii/WiiU USB-Ethernet adapter until I’d ordered this one off eBay. Even if it screws up, for $10 I don’t mind.
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Anyone here done much old school D&D RPing?
I had a read of this and it kinda made me want to give it a go. Would it work over teamspeak or do you really need a physical group?
Though my main problem would be that I do shift work on a rotating roster so any kind of regular meeting is pretty much out of the question. I figure I could always find someone else with a weird roster and play a character that’s somehow managed to get two people stuck in the same body so whoever is there at the time can control him/her and when we’re both on we can argue about everything.
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I’ve always been interested but I doubt I have enough imagination for it. Id be willing to give it a shot though. Would have to be over TeamSpeak with my being so far away
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d & d can totally work over skype or teamspeak, as classic d&d doesn’t need a board of any kind.
however, if you do want to use a board (if you are using 4th edition rules, which pretty much need a board) you can use websites like Roll20, which are virtual tabletops to play d&D (and other tabletop RPG’s) with people over the internet.
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Physical is always best, but doing it over Skype etc is good too if you want to do it with friends over long distances.
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I have, good fun. @novascascade, @tech_knight, @grandmasterb-funk, @beardymcmuttonchops, if you’re keen to try via skype/google + hangout I’m keen once I get back from South America
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*Books daily pilates and yoga sessions*
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Totally remembered I wanted to check out more of KYUSS after liking what I heard when they played Soundwave. Well that was a random thought.
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Kyuss used to be one of my favourite bands. I have all their albums if you want to..erm…”borrow” them?
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Haha, all good. They just finished downloading, i’ll probably pick one or two up at JB tomorrow if they have any,
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Has it been that long?! Oh man, I feel super-old now. I remember seeing them support Metallica on the Black Album tour when I was in year 11 or 12.
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With a dick!
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Well yeah it was Kyuss Lives, but according to the set list they only played material from original Kyuss band. Well from what I can tell it was.
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My character’s armour in monster hunter currently resembles the Indian chief from the village people.
GOTY.
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PlatinumUrchin is a bug
*wiggle wiggle wiggle*I AM ANUBIS, GOD OF THE AFTERLIFE. CRAFTED FROM THE GOLDEN BEARD OF A DRAGON
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Oh greenius, the drop gods are not smiling upon me, please give me your blessing so that monsters will actually drop the shit i need!
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I killed Lagia like 10 times and got like 10 plates which I don’t even want…
Whatchu after? Don’t worry too much about low rank armour, save the mats for high rank!
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the best armour
(it’s actually the best low rank armor for hunting horn users, hence why i’m using it)
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I will allow this comment to stand, but only because you didn’t make sweeping generalisations about our characters.
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http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2013/04/10/the-world-of-batman-arkham-origins.aspx
Concept art is stunning!
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Dunno if I can get excited for another Arkham game =/ City was brilliant but it felt too big and complex in places. Where as Asylum was perfect. I mean I want to get excited because BATMANS but I dunno. I just can’t get hype for games anymore like I used to.
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It does look pretty. Gonna need a new GPU for it I reckon. Since City wasn’t too kind on my 560 =(
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You just know Calendar Man will be scheming out there somewhere in Gotham. 😀
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So what’s that silent Razer mechanical keyboard like, anyone know? Other than expensive… I am tempted, I want a mechanical keyboard but am put off by how noisy they can be. Also backlighting is a good feature to, I like my current rather won out Razer Lycosa V1, but it needs to be replaced, i’ve broken bits on it and worn some keys right down that you would have no idea which they are.
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The noise is half the fun!
I have a Black Widow Ultimate and it’s hands down the best keyboard I’ve ever owned.
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Haha. My mate says it’s still got a bit of noise (he’s sponsored by Razer lol) but over all it’s a lot quieter, now just to see if somewhere around here has one in stock and will let me demo it.
But i’ve heard nothing but good about their mechanical keyboards!
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Starcraft II, he’s on some Aussie team from Melbourne. he got really serious just before he finished school and got picked up just after he turned 18. He’s playing in a tourney this weekend in Brisbane somewhere on Roma Street, I was gonna go but I have other commitments =/
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Daaayyyum, Wish i could get sponsorship, the only thing I’m probably good enough at is Battlefield games, I am a monster in those, me and my one mate turn the tide of battle every game we join and usually place first and second,
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I’m sure you could get picked up by a clan and get serious!
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@dc
Just listened to my first Arcade Fire song. It wasn’t too bad. Probably could’ve been about a minute shorter.
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Or Neon Bible in an elevator. 😀
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Or Rebellion (Lies)…
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Haha! Sorry, man! 😀
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Ease up tiger.
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I just get excited. Not often I can recommend music that people haven’t already heard five years ago. 😛
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Arcade who?
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what Fire?
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@freezespreston @dc @cakesmith @sernobulus This popped up when they won their grammy for The Suburbs http://whoisarcadefire.tumblr.com/ (best stuff is the oldest)
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Noooo boo not shorter! Haha. No I get what you guys are saying, but if a song clicks like that I enjoy having it longer than the norm.
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Oh, don’t get me wrong. I really like the song now, but it wasn’t one that instantly hooked me straight away and wouldn’t be one I’d recommend to a new comer as their first song. Haha. 😀
I don’t think the songs D.C. linked are that great compared to their other stuff, with the exception of Wake Up 😛
Thing is, they have a lot of different sounding songs so have a few random listens. Me also likie Laika, Power Out, Mountains Beyond Mountains, Intervention.
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I thought earlier about making a ‘big spoon’ joke but it looks like that’s no longer necessary 😛
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I think I’m almost finished God of War Ascension. At least I hope I am. Definitely the weakest of the series.
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Done. What an utterly pointless entry. They really should have left it after 3. Everything was so perfectly told up until that point and anything was going to be a disappointment after the epicness of 3.
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Agreed that it’s the weakest, I ran around for most of the game thinking “why am i killing this guy”
other than the fact i was imprisoned, definately not a necessary game, especially since the psp games give u some back story anywayI haven’t actually finished it due to an overwhelming sense of meh for the plot.
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I think I’m finally getting good at this shopping thing. I have sooo much food now. So good!
A random musing. I love it when Woolworths run out of the $1 bread, cos then they drop the price of a much better loaf of bread to being close enough to $1. (This was at like 5:30 btw, I didn’t just get back haha)
I’m so domesticated.
PC is the lead platform when designing Dark Souls II.
Praise the Sun \o/
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Hahahahahaha…….fuck those guys.
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No thanks, seems painful
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I am pretty keen for this flick:
http://www.comicsalliance.com/2013/04/11/first-gatchaman-live-action-teaser-suits-up-video/
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@jimu @jordi @negativezero @docwhat
Thoughts? Also August 9 release date!
http://www.vg247.com/2013/04/11/tales-of-xillia-collectors-editions-are-lovely/
Ah, turns out there’s another edition (email didn’t mention the “Day One” edition). My main concern is that I’m not into figurines and whatnot but I like art books. I think the Day One edition has a smaller art book but at least it won’t be double the price for something I don’t want.
I think the Collector’s is super limited too (10,000) and you have to order from Namco directly and Australia doesn’t seem to be a shipping option… :/
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I followed the link to the Namco store to have a looksee and there was a drop down menu for the EU countries only. EB games might have something but I doubt it (day one edition at least) but I may just go ozgameshop/Zavvi
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Yes, that fucking sucks hairy dick. Can we contact Bamco? What kind of shit is this?
Fuck I am so pissed off.
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Try tweeting them, they’ve replied to me during the Ni no Kuni fiasco
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Any help or did they tell you to eat a dick?
what’s they handle??
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They helped somewhat. I tweeted them and tagged you in it. They might be sleeping so just send them more tweets later on (but be polite and not too spammy :P)
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@greenius Cool thanks
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No. I’m going to preorder Dead Island Riptide, preorder Fire Emblem, prepurchase Company of Heroes 2, and buy a new CPU and motherboard for my server.
Much better than hat purchasing!
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REALISATION
Aside from Episode 1 of The Walking Dead, and 2x copies of Dark Souls for other people, I haven’t bought a single game this year.
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:D!
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I suppose one could compare the experience of playing SKYRIM! to the Mile High Club.
Many wouldn’t.
I would.
But I am sure a few others wouldn’t.
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Because it’s an exclusive club? Hard to get into?
#SaveTheRestForPage18
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I just realised I was one of those peoples!
WOOO!
Damn Shane instantly refunding my money… *shakes a fistful of (internet) dollars*
I made my first game purchase of the year this week, it was the Blendo Games Humble Bundle.
No regrets.
Last thing Mr. Strange and I discussed before going to sleep last night was making sure he said goodbye to me this morning, even if he had to wake me up to do so.
I woke up this morning and he was gone. He’ll be gone for four days. 🙁
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I hate waking people up, even if they say they don’t mind I still feel like the worst person ever for waking them up.
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I’m the same. I frequently disobey orders like “wake me up to say goodbye”. I can always call later – the golden age of mobile phones 🙂
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I would have left a present on kitchen counter to unruin things. Have had a lot of practice at the game they call Annoyed-Wife 😛
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Shane, will you marry me?!?
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I need to check with my wife.
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lol
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Neither! 🙁
On behalf of Mr. Strange: “goodbye!”
Also, you can’t hug or kiss someone over the phone, so stop disobeying those orders, you doofus. 😛
Sometimes my wife is napping when I get home so I usually leave her to it. She always wonders why I didn’t wake her even though she has a lot of trouble sleeping and I never want to interrupt her when she achieves it.
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This. For the last nearly four years – most of my marriage – my wife has been pregnant and exhausted, or with small children and exhausted, or both. Even though I would like hugs and kisses and goodbyes, looking out for her is my job, and her wellbeing and rest is even more important than her mood (and way more than my mood).
cc @strange
You have to start devisng a cunning plan, some ingenious way of expressing to him the full impact of how this has affected you.
I’d suggest you obtain your own version of Clubby the Clubbing Club.
Though that may be to subtle, I can never tell.
So, the Dark Souls “Despair” trailer. I’m disappointed. I did not get a sense of despair there wasn’t even any death! 😛, but the music was kind of cool.
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Dark Souls “The World” would have worked.
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I heard they were introducing a respawn system in the new game, so instead of dying you just go back to the last checkpoint. For the new players./Trolly McTrollenchops
All y’all know where you’re going to pick up Fire Emblem? There doesn’t seem to be any pre-order specials except for EB’s “artbook” (which is apparently crap and totally skippable) but I’m sure retail store ____ will have it for cheaper, so I’ll wait for someone to do a bargain round-up of sorts.
I just saw that the release is on a Saturday (the 20th), which means I can get my parents to grab a copy for me while they’re out shopping. Yay lazy!
I still pretty much know nothing about this game, yet want it :P. Haven’t seen any trailers, gameplay, reviews (aside from scores) or even played the demo but a part of me wants it!
Methinks Animal Crossing will probably be the next game I get after this. I’ll probably go local as well because hnghhh waiting
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Have you played Fire Emblem before? They’re gooooooooooood. JB HiFi usually do it for $10 less than EB Games, and EB always price matches.
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Yep! Played a bit of the GBA ones on an emulator back in the day. I was really enjoying it but someone I liked died and I never played again 😛
Definitely going on easy mode this time. I don’t see the point playing normal and then restarting. If I really want I can just not use people who died to keep it “authentic”
I’ve found places like Big W, K-mart and Target usually have the cheapest deals around $55. Just waiting for Vooks to write a bargain thing I guess 😛
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Good plan.
I loved playing on perma-death mode. The game is designed so that every skirmish feels like a life or death situation. If I knew I could just throw my troops at enemies like meatshields and they’d be healed after the battle, the entire feel of the game would be ruined. For me, of course. Others don’t want that kind of pressure, and I can understand that.
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Yeah, I guess the main reason people have for playing on Normal and restarting is that pressure of knowing that once they’re dead they’re “dead”. Hence why I might just not use them anymore if they do die to keep it authentic. I’ll probably not follow through with it though 😀
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I think it’s rad that they’re giving the option for both playstyles.
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Yeah, man. There’s no way I’d be interested otherwise. I just don’t have the skill.
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It’s going to frequently tear me apart Lisa, but I’m going to play with permadeath on, mostly for the added intensity of each fight.
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Same for me. I like the extra challenge of weighing up the importance of the character who just died and how far you’ve progressed in the mission. It’s a dilemma when someone you really liked dies RIGHT at the end of a very long and difficult map. Do I restart or not!? 😛
But I still think easy mode is the best thing they’ve done for reaching a wider audience!
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No idea where I’m going to buy it from yet, I’m just waiting for someone to undercut someone.
I just realised I’ll potentially be in Sydney next weekend so I should probably plan around that 😛
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Ugh, Can’tInterpretVagueSentencesulus
I see where the confusion came from though 🙂
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Yes I know but I meant “on a Saturday”
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I played the demo and wasn’t very impressed because it wasn’t P4G.
Give me a yell if you find a cheap at retail option, please 🙂
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Vooks usually does a bargain round up of local prices (I’ll be buying this locally because the 3DS needs some loving) so I’ll remember to tag you if I remember!
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I’m thinking about just ordering Xillia now as it’ll probably swap over to the Day One edition but I’m scared I won’t get it 😛
OGS and Zavvi tend to raise the price as well when something like this is announced :/
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I want a hardcover book. Soft covers are so …soft.
Wait till OGS lists the day one like they did for Graces, they still had a few left after the release I noticed, pretty sure they dropped the price then too.
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I think I saw somewhere that it’s 100 pages in the CE and only 60 for Day One
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I actually had a bit about wanting Luigi’s Mansion 2 in that comment but deleted it 😛
I want it because it seems radical but also because my 3DS needs some loving. But why but it now when I can get Fire Emblem next week. They don’t need to compete <3
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I’d get FE so you don’t miss any free DLC. From what I’ve read it’s only free for a limited time.
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Yup, for sure.
I actually like that method of free-DLC-at-launch. Kinda rewarding people for buying early. We’ll probably get a similar thing for Pokemon X/Y too.
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Or we’ll still have to stand outside EB like pedo-bears D:
This week’s TAY has been surprisingly heated. People are getting very worked up over things.
There had better be make up sex at the end of the week.
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Lightning BABY!
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Well, there is a big Sydney meetup NEXT Saturday at Pez’s party. It’s that kind of party, right? TAY, book your flights!
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Morning all.
So, it’s my 21st today. Yay me. Got some pretty decent stuff so far, including a Wii U. First Nintendo console I’ve owned (not counting handhelds) since the snes.
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Goooooooooood! You’ve pretty much answered my question below 😀
Have you played them before? It’ll take a while to get used to because controls are weird and they don’t explain shit, but just ask us for help if needed 😀
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Played one of them on PSP. I liked it, but the lack of a second thumbstick made it a bit difficult to control.
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Seriously…you’ll have a lot to ask 😛
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Why don’t you ever play with us anymore? Do you even play the game? Do you like it anymore? Did we ruin the fun for you? WHY SO MUCH QUESTIONS?
WHY SO MUCH HATE?
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OH GOD I’M SO SORRY I’LL BE THERE TONIGHT.
Blame my fiancéeI’ve been playing lots of Dota 2.EDIT: Oh yeah, I’m engaged.
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I feel like that edit could probably be a separate post, just maybe.
Edit: I assume this rules you out for the group sex then?
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For some reason I thought you were already married!
Is this engagement a recent development and this is your sneaky way of telling us, or did I miss the real announcement?
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What the… engaged? Did I know this? I think this is new information 😛
Congrats, man! 🙂Edit: Birthday thread successfully hijacked.
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@strange @shane
I mentioned it on Twitter, happened 2 weeks ago. I probably should have put it on TAY too 😛
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Monster Hunter and some basketball game I’m assuming came with the system. As for upcoming games I’m looking forward to, I’m pretty keen to get my hands on the Wii U version of Human Revolutions.
Happy birthday wolfman!!!! i guess you could always trade-in that wii-u for a ps4 pre-order? \o/
Happy birthday, Direwolf! 😀 Hope it’s a damn good one! Be sure to download the Rayman Legends demo. I’d also recommend Zombi U, I really liked it. (Others don’t. Haha.)
Happy Birthday!
Get all up in monster hunter! sunk so many hours into it already it makes me want to cry… but only so my eyes dont dry out and i can keep playing. Online=so fun.
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Hi guy! Are you new to TAY? Haven’t seen you around :). If so, welcome!
I’ve been playing Monster Hunter a shitload lately (160 hours maybe?), what quests are you up to? 9* Village for me and HR6 at Port so maybe we can hunt sometime :). @platinum-urchin and I do it regularly
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Hi, yeah im reasonably new. Ive found TAY bloody hard to keep up with (sooooooooo many comments) and it intimidated me 😛
Well, you’re a lot further than me. Im almost HR4 at the port (up to the HR3 urgent) and i dont know how to gauge whats going in in moga… maybe level 6 quests.
And yeah, hunting with some aussies would be great! a lot of people seem to get what they want done then bail on the group. Guess i better get to catching up 😛
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Hey @jimu , I got Guacamelee, it’s pretty sweet, was surprised how much i had to think, it’s tricky, but just the right ammount. All the references are amusing too I just got the ability to break yellow bricks with my face. I like the posters “Los Super Hermanos”
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I got up to a boss that took me nearly an hour to beat. I had little trouble before that. Didn’t help that the game glitched every few losses.
Fuck it pissed me off.
I love the game though.
#rage
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Ouch, hope I don’t have that trouble, I been enjoying it, man it has a lot of trophies, with a platinum, I have the incentive to play the crap outta it. So i will
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A lot of the trophies you seem to get for just playing. One seems to pop fairly regularly so far.
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yeah, doesn’t looki like too many make you go outta your way, there’s a couple for things like kill this type of enemy with a specific move, but yeah just from playing they are pouring in. Really like the music too, goes from all Mexcany to sorta trance music in the action bits,
Plot Spoiler
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all I know is what you know, Im really hoping for a sad ending where you have to stay dead after saving El Presidente’s Daughter. That would be awesome.
Even though you win, you lose!
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QUICK! Tell me how to get that hardcover book for Xillia before I slit MY FACKING WRISTS!
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I plan to wait and hope Amazon US will have the US CE and then use a proxy like I did for P4G.
Alternatively maybe EB will get the CE. 🙁
Completely unfussed about the figure because I own Alter’s vastly superior Milla figure and I kind of already own a Xillia artbook too so I’m not going to go hunting everywhere. But if I can do it easily I will get it.
It’s been about a year since I bought a shirt from an actual bricks and mortar retailer in Australia, and that was a button-up for my Mum’s wedding last March.
I find it so strange that buying a shirt from a retailer here (even cheapies like Target) are actually more expensive than buying from a place like http://www.jinx.com.
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I had to grab a couple of polos from Target for work the other week. So fucking expensive for a plain one colour blank polo.
Finally though after searching and searching I found the shelf at the back (all the other expensive ones were displayed on racks). $12 each, PHEW! -
I can’t do that. I have a weird body shape (broad shoulders, big chest and long arms) that means most larger shirts that fit across the shoulders look like a tent and anything that fits the rest of my body looks like a Lycra top across my shoulders.
Consequently I have to try shirts on first.
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I have a similar issue. It’s at the point where wearing button up shirts is nearly impossible without looking like I’m wearing my dad’s clothes.
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I’m getting fed up with seeing people having a go at tourist and ethnic minorities. I wish people would step in instead of filming it. Those ranting probably get off on having a world audience as it’s making their voice louder. Most Australians are incredibly tolerant of others, it’s just a few idiots.
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Wow two comments and no mention of dicks?
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Toronto has a healthy migrant community, so it’s always fun running the “Those foreigners are taking our Canadian jobs” line.
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I really think we shouldn’t have an Australia Day or at least shift the view from the current the meaning of “Im Straylian, git out of my country you (insert racial slur here)” which seems to be what a lot of people thing the day is.
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STERPING DA BOATZ!… yeah it’s pathetic, it really is. Though to be honest, I think some that do come here are exploiting our multicultural society and making demands almost, or what we’d like to call “Political correctness gone mad”
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Oh yeah, there are morons on both sides of the fence. I think have an “it’s okay to be racist” (see: Australia Day) only adds fuel to the fire.
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The way I see it, why can’t we celebrate the day in 1901 where we became our own nation separate (okay so the queens is still head of state) from England. But instead we celebrate a day where foreigners came and stole the land and pushed out the original owners. Why should we be proud of that? We should celebrate becoming our own nation now that’s something to be proud of.
The song by Iron Maiden Run To The Hills sums up what the British did to a lot of countries and people very nicely I think, even though it’s specific to the USA and what the British did to the Native American Indians.
I agree with you there, Nob. Australia Day should be about AUSTRALIA, not about “Get the fuck out of here you non white wanker” also there’s nothing to be proud about what the first fleet did other than started a new colony, but even then they had slave labour for that…
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I always see those reactions about why didn’t people stop it afterwards and I feel terrible, because I know I’d most likely feel intimidated and wouldn’t want to get myself beat up. I’d like to think I’d intervene any way… I don’t know why people do it either. :'(
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The main reason I don’t interfere I can summarise in one word: “Repercussions”. This guy/group I confronted know which train line I take, they can easily take note of the time since I’m one that commutes to the city and back every weekday. I get terrified that this guy could come back the next day with 8 of his buddies, all armed with baseball bats to hunt me down and “put me in my place”, especially if they know what station I jump off the train at.
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Yeah when I see comments like “You all should be ashamed of yourselves from doing nothing to help” I almost shout at them back going “Oh I’m sorry I only wanted to make sure I or people I love don’t get stabbed later on by this guy or any of his friends. How selfish of me! I should risk death like the last good samaritan did”
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I still like to think I’d do something, but at the same time I know I’m a scrawny guy who’s never gotten into a fight in my life. Drugged up, bogan mofos like that probably wouldn’t hesitate to hurt me. It’s no excuse, though. If everyone on public transport took a stand, that’s strength in numbers right there. (Unfortunately everyone else is probably just as intimidated as me.)
Edit: That’s not directed at you, Tech. Just talking through my thought process. I more than understand your reasons.
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I agree, it is no excuse. This is just why I don’t help others out of danger from another human, because of fear of repercussion. I do want to, my code demands that I should. It really tears me apart inside 🙁
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I reckon I’d ntervene. In this case, someone said to the people being abused that we don’t actually stand for this and that we’re not actually like that.
I think I’d be intimidated also, but I may speak up
Then I’d recommend against listening to this.
http://dankarlszeitgeist.podbean.com/2013/04/12/dan-karls-zeitgeist-s03e01-positively-racist/
JKS! Please listen… Please…
I completely agree. I also shudder every time I hear someone say “STRALYAN WAY OF LIFE!” or “IT’S JUST NOT VERY STRALYAN!”. If someone could explain to me the way we are remarkably unique as an intrinsic part of being born here, I’d love to hear it. Those tourists that come here are no different than the hundreds of thousands of tourists we send to travel the world, and we would be pretty upset if we heard of Australians being treated like that.
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I can understand where some of it comes form and for me it comes down to a definition and a misunderstanding of what that means.
Australia is a multicultural society which is very different to a multi monocultural society.Too many people come to Australia expecting that because we are a multicultural society they can retain all of their culture and not make any changes to it. That isn’t the way it works. You come and embrace ‘the Australian way’ for want of a better term and add parts of your culture to it.
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There are some who don’t understand it, but then most people are willing to embrace change.
There are pockets of foreigners who have decided to make Australia home but aren’t willing to accept to change their ways (usually vocal minorities)
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Who’s ready to get offended!?
http://dankarlszeitgeist.podbean.com/2013/04/12/dan-karls-zeitgeist-s03e01-positively-racist/
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Also, like the Aryan Brotherhood, we’ve got a Facebook fan page!
https://www.facebook.com/DanKarlsZeitgeist
LIKE MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!
And to a lesser extent, Karl.
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That sounds awfully suggestive.
But, I don’t know what you mean. What’s the crazy so-n-so been up to?
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HA! How perfect.
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morning tayberinos!
how be all?
i have 2 completely unrelated questions….
1. does anyone know where i can grab the Hyrule Historia locally for a decent price? ive been trying to avoid international shipping, cause i hate the delivery times, though considering ive been trying to get it for a few months now, perhaps i should have just ordered the damn thing……
2. DARK SOULS. As ive never played a souls game, is it true that when your character dies, you have to start ALL THE WAY FROM THE BEGINNING AGAIN?!?
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2. Negative. You start at the last bonfire you visited. But, each time you die, the enemies all come back again. Apart from bosses, of course.
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No, that’s not true. There are sort-of-checkpoints all over the world called bonfires. They reset enemies, but not actions you’ve done (opening shortcuts, etc). It’s more complex than that, but what you’ve heard is blatantly false 😛
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Yes, and every enemy respawns at twice the health they previously had, every path become narrower making it easier to fall to your death and you lose every bit of inventory you were carrying. That’s why it is such a hard game. Or what Shane said Ynefel said
DAYUMN!
via @puppylicks !
@sernobulus @rize @blaghman @mawt @dire_wolf @ynefel @hindenlagen @thecracks @bdkiaf @freezespreston @platinum-urchin @grandmaster_bfunk(?!) @beavwa @beardymcmuttonchops other peeps
GAH I KEEP FORGETTING PEOPLE – IT’S HARD TRYING TO REMEMBER EVERYONE WITH THE GAME, OKAY
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@grandmaster-bfunk 😛
Anyways… MONSTER HUNTERRRRRRRRRR :DDDDDDDDDDDDDDD. That probably wasn’t even half of the monsters D:
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I’m special!
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He commands the lightning. Or thinks he does.
Edit: and apparently he’s engaged (*busy signal*)
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You’re just jealous.
Lightning, baby!
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*busy signal*
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Bloody thunderstorm…
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Actually it’s kind of Dark Souls-y
I used to suck at Monster Hunter but Dark Souls actually trained me up to be a better hunter too
That was awesome, but I stopped before seeing anything I hadn’t seen in-game (i.e. when I saw that giant fin underwater).
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Starts off with Cha-Cha (the Shakalaka) walking and he walks past the different monsters and it shows their size, ya know, Jaggia, Jaggi, Great Jaggi, Rathian etc.
It’s just to show how big and awesome some of the monsters in the game can be 🙂
aww man, some dudes just delivered an 80″ 3D LCD tv to my work (it’s for a job) and all i keep thinking is, can i bring a console in?, or better yet can i borrow that for the weekend, It’s freaking huuuuge,
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Was thinking on that after I saw you guys discussing it. I would say I’ve got a soft spot for it since it was kinda the ‘Where are we now’ of The Suburbs, the single put out months before the album. So many listens!
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I don’t know why but that entire album in general took a little longer to ‘get’ than Funeral and Neon Bible, to me atleast. Now I love almost every thing on it, but some of the songs took a while. Now I consider it just as good as the others.
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Yeah, I think the weaker part of it is around 3 quarters of the way through, from month of may to we used to wait. Its not that theyre bad, but I really prefer the rest of the album.
Whereas Funeral and Neon Bible, I dont really feel like there are weak points. Probably has a lot to do with The Suburbs length though, at 16 tracks.
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Oh, that’s a good point! (I really like We Used to Wait, though. Especially this acoustic version. :D)
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Yeah… I dunno. Love the lyrics, but the song never really clicked for me :/
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That’s fair, there’s a few songs across the albums that haven’t clicked with me either. (7 Kettles on Funeral is always jarring, because I love the rest of the album in full and then feel all indifferent when that one starts. Haha.)
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Does anyone else have those moments where they sit around and think “Holy shit I’ve accumulated a lot of shit… time to get rid of some of it”?
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I’ve had permanent, steady, full-time employment since I was 16. So I’ve always had a disposable income which I’ve always happily disposed of. But I’m at a point in my life now where I start wondering whether it’s truly time to start growing up and getting into the housing market.
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Yep. I keep meaning to do up a list of PS3 games I don’t want anymore and see if there’s any interest here. I have way more than I’ll ever need.
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I have that same feeling. I’ve been ignoring it, saying to myself “If I get rid of it, I’m only going to regret it later,” like it did with my Transformers collection I got rid of a few years ago. But really, it was doing nothing more than sitting on a shelf gathering dust.
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In the process of. The worst part if mine has just piled up on desks and bookshelves making everything look cluttered
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http://dankarlszeitgeist.podbean.com/2013/04/12/dan-karls-zeitgeist-s03e01-positively-racist/
Positive racism. Listen and learn.-
Nope, though I hope you guys are joking. I don’t want to be no racist. Haha.
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So just can’t help it then?
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Accept the way you are. Learn to love yourself.
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That’s offensive to my people.
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Racists? 😛
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I think it was Stephen Fry said it’s usually the racists who find something racist.
If it wasn’t Stephen Fry then who ever said it is probably wrong. Because Stephen Fry is always correct.
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D.C. you bum, how can eating Mexican food make someone a racist?
Think about it.
Got a logical answer? No? That’s because it doesn’t! Of course they were joking 🙂
D.C. gets …
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JOKES! 😀
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The fact that you need to specify the type of food you eat is clearly indicative of the way you mentally divide people by their races, and judge them accordingly.
Monster.
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I’m pretty sure the restaurant has Mexican written in its name. 😛
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La Quinta doesn’t mean Mexican. They’re not Pokemon DC. They can say more than they’re own name.
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>:|
La Quinta Mexican Cafe and Bar
I know you’re screwing with me, but I find myself getting riled up. Haha.
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Not a racist. 🙁 I know you guys are joking, but my anxiety has kicked in ten fold that some of you might actually believe it. :S
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Holy crap, this made me lol
Screw you guys and your Oblivious Mexican Meat!
I’m going to make my own fajitas and play Oblivion! Actually no, instead of playing that I’ll drink myself into oblivion. 😛
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I’m gonna have my own meat, which mostly involves me crying myself to sleep because I didn’t get invited. /o\
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Oh, how many times I’ve heard that. ;_;
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Haha, everyone was invited though. Just Freeze and Sughly were the only ones to respond and then there were restaurant reservations. XD (We going to bother pre-ordering tickets?)
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Was this part of that movie thing? I’m totally lost here …
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Yeah, seeing the movie at Balmoral and Sughly said there’s a good Mexican place there and it was decided. 😀
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@dc Damn, mrs is working 🙁
Anyone wanna do something next weekend?
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Yes, yes I reckon we should. 9.30 for sure @dc and @freezespreston? I’ll book them for everyone
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Sounds good. You sure you’re happy to book for everyone, though?
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Also, what time should I meet you at South Bank station? (Must. Remember. South Bank. XD)
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Or or or tell your parents that since they’re so old you’ll be looking after them soon so they can watch the kids for one more night tonight or you’ll put them into one of those crooked nursing homes from 60 minutes.
I made burritos last night.
Took some liberties with the ingredients, so not authentic, but pretty damn tasty.
Wrapping them up is a bitch though.
Even though the albums are over ten years old now, I still love Hybrid Theory and Meteora by Linkin Park. Those two albums both helped me survive high school.
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Old man Hugo shakes his cane in agreement… or possibly in relation to something about his lawn and those damn kids… whippersnappers…
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WAS IT A DATE?!
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@shane @jocon @ynefel @dc @andre @blaghman thanks for the Dark Souls tips last night.
Got to Blight Town Undead Burg & I’m starting to get it. Though I’m thinking of rolling a thief now…. man I am the worst when it comes to picking classes.
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Haha! That was the only advice I could ever give with Dark Souls, because I stopped playing not long after. XD
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Bandit.
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You’re at Blighttown already?! That’s impressive.
It took me a quarter of a year to get there…
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@shane @strange @alexpants Sorry! I meant Undead Burg or whatever the first proper place is. Was flicking through the wiki this morning & had the name ‘blighttown’ stuck in my head.
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Easiest stuff is definitely anything semi-tanky with a shield. Since you wanted range go for Pyro which is pretty damn powerful and you can use it without sacrificing points in other non-melee areas.
Find out which weapon types you like as you’ll find yourself liking some more than others. I like the lighter swords and spears but the heavy weapons and axes just don’t click with me for some reason. The last thing you’d want to do is waste all your points leveling up something just to use a weapon only to find out you hate it.
So for me the Soldier/Knight class was pretty good but starting classes don’t really matter that much. As the others have said, picking the key as a starting gift can also help a lot because it can let you skip some areas or get some other things earlier on.
Communication from head office.
This month we are pushing our Facebook page. Direct customers to it and like, share and recommend it to your friends. Like and share as many posts as you can. DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE COMMENT ON ANY POST OR ON THE WALL. Staff members commenting in the Minit Facebook page will have disciplinary measures enforced upon them.
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I’m really not fussed since I VERY rarely use Facebook. Just find it funny they have all this positive energy about getting us involved quickly followed by dire warnings about actually getting involved.
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If they actually responded to questions that people posted on the page it might be worth doing
My son is watching Voyager again. The opening credits came on and he started yelling excitedly “Wow! Star Trek! This space song is AWESOME! I want it on my IPOD!”.
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Wasn’t too keen on your other two Praise the ___ puns but this has the Greenius seal of approval.
: D
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I think kids getting disproportionately excited about things is possibly the cutest thing ever.
@tofu – looking to see if i can organise you a lift for Sat. in an absolute worst case scenario, i am buying a new monitor on Sat morning for work, (assuming my pay goes in today as its supposed to!!!) so we should be all set!
OTHER MELBOURNE TAYBERINOS
IF IVE MISSED ANYONE WHO IS COMING THIS SAT EMAIL ME FOR THE DETAILS. IF YOU ARE UNSURE YET (IE, @tigerion) EMAIL ME SO I CAN SEND YOU MY PHONE NUMBER IN THE EVENT YOU CAN MAKE IT
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all set man!!!! at the moment, the server needs to be restarted after each game to restore it to its initial state…. but im workning on a system of having it auto-restore and respawn people in the main game field once everyone dies….
also i will be either:
a) adding a glass platform in the sky that spans the entire map. this is the spawn point for those that are killed and they can walk around the map and follow players around
@greeniusstalkius style. it serves 2 purposes. one, as a spectator mode, 2 as a way of people on the ground getting an idea of where people are so the games arent dragged on.b) setting up a system where players that die end up in creative mode but are INVISIBLE. that way they act as donors and can drop a few supplies to players still battleing it out…. i should be able to limit the amount of drops and what items can be dropped to minimise cheating and favouriteism….
itll be a little while before its ready to go up on a public server, but i can put it up if people want to and add features slowly…. theres still a lot of work to do, and ive only just started to get a grasp of javascript, and yaml scripting…..
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@tofu – @tech_knight should be able to give you a lift…. can u send him an email if u have his deets, or email me so i can forward ur address and a phone number over to him…
(me)at(hotm4ils)(dot)(com)
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unless you are spam mail from the U.S Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, then i still havent got ur details…. unless youve sent them to @tech_knight
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just sent it then … I might’ve gotten distracted talking zombies with the co-workers.
So it there anything we should have pre-installed for the lan?
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just minecraft…. the rest i will supply……..
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that sounds ominous, I like it.
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just replied Tofu, want to confirm on what time is good with you 🙂
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@tech_knight … yes
2 sounds pretty good, considering it doesn’t really start till 5, I think that’s enough time to get there
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Hungryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
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I was hungry. But then I ate something.
TRUE STORY!
But now I’m not as hungry as I should be before lunch :/
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There’s a package being delivered to me today from Paramount Pictures. I’m pretty sure it’s the GI Joe: Retaliation double pass. But TNT only say “We’re delivering it TODAY! Be home!”
So now my day off that I wanted to go and do stuff on has turned into a sit-by-the-door-watching-cartoon-network kind of day.
Lucky Regular Show is on.
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I don’t like TNT much. We switched over to them from Star Trak and the TNT guys are all rude arseholes. The Star Trak guys were great and still stop to say hi when going past.
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WOW 0.0
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Oh man, the episode just finished and he was singing along to the end credits. So cute! 😀
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I will never be able to live that down, will I? 😛
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Best day evah for Sughly’s Post Man 😀
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Our TNT guy is a champ. Always cheerful and full of beans.
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Yes?
Wwwaaaaaaaiiiiitt a minute!
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Did you send Mark your details or something? I forgot about that, and I was one of the winners :'(
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To be fair, do you really wanna see G.I. Joe? 😛
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I actually just wanted the HDD 😀
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apparantly it’s so bad it’s good. This came from a reviewer obsessed with GI Joe and thought the same about the first one sooo…
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It’s Virus’ fault for saying Phoenix weren’t popular! Don’t worry, Imagine Dragons will be back before the day is through.
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I guess Arcade Fire isn’t your Arcade Fire at the moment, either :\
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Sughly and I have already talked about it on the previous page extensively. Haha.
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SO EXCITED! Totally got a leak today. ARRRR! Am listening now :3
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WHAAAAAT?! OH MAN I NEED TO GO HOME!
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Broke my Gloryhammer streak again. 😛 But when I saw Leaves’ Eyes had been announced for 70K \o/ I visited the forums and someone was talking about Kalevala.
its annoying when you have what you consider a good idea, play around with it a bit & then find out that some other jerk has just had his publisher announce that he’s doing the same thing.
the thing in question in this case, is a screenplay for a 10 part series based on the first few years of the first fleet in Sydney. not clean & pretty like its been done before, but more like Deadwood. I was talking with a drama & history teacher about it & we even started writing it! and now some jerk who’s already made billions (obvious exaggeration) writing shows has announced hes doing something very similar. what a jerk.
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That’s always the case, though. I wrote a spec pilot for something in 2006 (registered with the WGA and everything) and the next season on TV two dramas with similar premises began. Haha. Try not to stress about it too much, man — just know that the idea has probably been with the other creator guy for as long as its been with you. 😀
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See, that’s why you shouldn’t sit on ideas. Write them and shop them around, and do it today. You could be that jerk one day! \o/
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I WANNA BE THAT JERK! \o/
now its just a matter of coming up with a good idea that hasnt already been done, or finding a new spin on something else… & I’m not the most creative guy, so those ideas are few & far between, so it double plus sucks when someone ‘steals’ the idea.
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Just do it anyway. There’s nothing – NOTHING – original about The Lesser Evil or anything else I’ve had published, other than the personal spin I can’t help but put into it.
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Alan Wake came out and there were striking similarities from a concept and idea level to a manuscript I started writing while I was in high school.
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well… that proves it. most writers are time-traveling plagiarists. or psychic.
or its just an unlucky coincidence. yeah. probably that one.
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I think the same thing that subconciously inspires you happens to inspire others as well. It sucks, but nothing you can do about it. 😀
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Or it’s like that thing Brian K Vaughan talks about in Y: The Last Man.
Something-morphic resonance. -
with the two monkeys on different islands?
Study later at night etc? -
That’s the one \o/
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I don’t like it when people start sueing each other for these things when most times it’s always coincidental. You’ve got to move on as a writer if it happens.
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I actually have nothing against the concept really, except towards the end. I think a lot of the execution is great. I just think the general writing and dialogue lets it down tremendously.
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I had a cool idea for a product aimed at kids, but my mum said it was dumb. I trusted her judgment.
A year or so later she says “Guess what your cousin received for her birthday..?”
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I had an idea for a website that allowed uni students to upload & share their course notes.
my flatmate said it was a dumb idea.read a story last week about 2 guys in Melbourne (i think) who have made 1.5 million in the last year by running a similar service.
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But THEN I heard some other fucking jerk was doing the same thing with their terrible idea. Oh man, all the rage. >:(
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Kind of like how I made a character called Ted, who’s a walking talking teddy bear. And then a movie called Ted comes out, about a walking talking teddy bear called Ted.
Mad Men (season 2 stuff)
Betty called Don up and told him not to come home. Even though I think she’s right to do it, the phone call itself still felt like a punch in the stomach.
I can’t see who up/downvotes me, so all that’s left is to guess why:
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/04/what-can-you-glean-from-this-dark-souls-ii-fact-sheet/
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Either he was on a mobile device where it’s difficult to accurately upvote/downvote or he thought you were being facetious in your comment.
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But I’m not like that at all, ever 😛
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i upvoted you to free you from neutral limbo…. its a sad place, with crying unicorns, beaten up kitties, and everything….
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So apparently I mentioned this on Twitter the other week but I forgot to post this on TAY:
I got engaged the other week. To a woman and everything!
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Wow congrats buddy! 😀 Really happy for you human, I hope she treats you well and vice versa for many years to come
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\o/ hooray sir!!! CONGRATULATIONS!
but now you must SHARE all dem vedio gaemz! unless she doesnt care for them!
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Well he wouldn’t have gotten engaged if she didn’t. Obviously her collection is bigger than his
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Methunks he dotheth protesteth in the extremis
-Shakesphere
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D.C..
I don’t think you’re racist. Well, not more racist than most. Everyone’s a Little Bit Racist.
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We know you almost better than you know yourself,DC. So if you really were racist I think we’d already know about it. 😛
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well… because you’ve edited your comment, I have no context, so I’ll just have to assume that you are in fact, racist.
which is horrible.
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ATTENTION OPTUS TAYBERINOS
i think ive already mentioned this, but did you know if you have ANY optus service, or cheekily, if you know anyone that does, you are entitled to $10 movie tix permanently?
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I totally got that message the other day and promptly forgot about it. Is it a particular cinema?
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https://www.yestickets.com.au/movierewards/
all hoyts and reading cinemas…. instantly delivered on email 🙂
used it last week when i was very broke and wanted to take the missus to see a movie 🙂
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and to register, all u need to do is enter the optus phone number!!! even prepaid…. it doesnt even verify anything!
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I saw something about that but didn’t pay much attention as I rarely go to the movies.
I noticed Telstra have a similar thing. It’s going to get to the point where movie ticket prices are like the ‘save 4c a litre on fuel’ scam the supermarkets do. You’re not getting a discount, everyone else is paying extra.
@strange: I wonder if your son would like Jerry Goldsmith’s First Contact theme! DIFFERENT SPACE MUSIC! 😀
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Also, I think he’s ready for the J.J. Abrams Star Trek reboot. If he’s seen Indiana Jones, it should be fine content wise! 😀
Maybe…
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And now he’s listening to this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=456aIFMbXVQ&NR=1
“When I’m older I want to invent a machine that transports me into a MOVIE!”
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He’s watching this one now, he requested it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8zlUUrFK-M
But then he ran off as the Voyager episode in the other room finished. “The CREDITS! I’ll be back when the credits are finished.”
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Hahaha! Reminds me of something Ash said around that age. I was asking him how he reckoned they were able to shoot movies where things happened in the past, like a cowboy movie. “With a cowboy camera?” XD
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@ash :p
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stop embarassing me @sughly!
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You’ve created a monster, he’s now requested this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jwu4S996VZI
It’s the only other one he’s requested for his ipod though so I guess I’m lucky. 😀
Jeff Minter is doing a follow-up to Tempest 2000 that apparently will not be like a bad acid trip like Space Giraffe was.
And it’ll be on Vita! \o/
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Maybe when I was too young to remember it.
I might see it in action and be all “Thaaaaaaaaaaaaat game”
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Tempest was an Atari arcade game. Vector graphics. You’re looking down a geometric shape eg a cylinder or a folded plane or something. You sit right at the top of the level and enemy… things crawl up the level at you and you shoot the shit out of them to keep them from reaching you.
Proper arcade cabinets had a dial mechanism where you would rotate it left and right to get into place.
My personal first exposure to it was a Mac knockoff named Arashi. Since then I’ve always really liked it.
Jeff Minter made Tempest 2000 for the Atari Jaguar and it was basically the only good game on the system. Took the old vector graphics and jazzed them up by filling stuff in with shifting colors and stuff, added a trance soundtrack. Probably some Yak sounds too, or Llamas. Minter’s basically insane I think, or constantly stoned. Or both.
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I can’t deny it.
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Plenty of great stuff was made under the influence 🙂
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@novacascade
This is gonna sound weird, but I reckon I’m about 4 blocks from you/your work right now. I’m in orange fixing a couple of payphones. For some reason I feel the need to announce this.
Alright to make this post seem less stalkerish, I’m planning on starting DARK. SOULS. again, probably as bandit (I totally said bandit originally!) for the spider shield. What does the panel of experts think?
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Bandit is great, I started off as the bandit. The starting weapon is extremely powerful (for a starting weapon) and the shield not only protects you from 100% physical damage, it also blocks all poison & toxic effects. Also he had fairly decent faith (I think) which means you can get miracles like heal.
Other suggestions for first time starters are:
Warrior:Very good all-around physical stats, good armour and good shield. Have to invest a lot of points to get spells though.
Knight:Very Defensive based stats, highest starting health and has very good starting armour, has an okay starting weapon. Also has pretty decent faith so you can spec into miracles if you wish. Unfortunately his armour is super heavy and being massively defensive means he gives up a tiny but of offensive stats.
Pyromancer:Lowest starting level of the lot (thus the first couple of levels cost next to no souls to advance. Starts with pyromancy glove which can be ridiculously OP. His starting weapon is nothing special and his shield is sup-par. Plus his armour is incredibly terrible.-
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I have had a heal miracle since early game but I still ahven’t worked out what the controls to cast it actually are. Think I needed to put 2 points of faith to equip it
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You need a talisman equipped to cast miracles. And you need a catalyst to cast spells. And a glove to cast pyromancy.
I miss that wicked unique item in Demon’s Souls that could do it all!
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Okay sweet. I have a save as warrior in Blighttown. Unfortunately I got extremely lost and can’t find my way out, so figured I should roll a new character.
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You should have come and said hi. Wouldn’t have been weird at all. Just rock up in the office calling out “NOVA!!”
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Maybe just a little weird! I have other excuses, I forgot which you worked at, ao after entering a few agencies I would’ve been known about town as that crazy nova dude. Also I’ve been running behind horribly today.
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I’m an idiot. I’ve been thinking for weeks now that I just won a double to the new GI Joe movie. I thought I won a runner’s up prize or something. I didn’t even realise that all winners got an external HDD, laptop bag AND tickets
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Exaaaactly. I checked it a few times when winners got announced caus I wasnt sure either XD
Now I just want me those sweet sweet Gb’s.
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Would probably be Friday May 10th at South Bank or something if it eventuates. Haha.
Edit: Saturday May 11th could be okay too? *shrugs* 😀
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Only thing is, Mark’s probably got about 3 of my old addresses XD No idea which one he sent it to.
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I’ve only backed one thing before and that was my uni friend’s project. If I had more moneys I reckon I’d spent way too much time backing stuff on that site. Haha!
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yeah that’s the thing. I’ve back games I really wanted, but not to much as I can generally wait and get them on sale cheaper than backing the project for ones I don’t really care about. plus can check reviews etc.
But backing something because I like the idea and what they are doing is new. Well knew to me, it’s the whole reason that kickstarter was created. Will see if this leads to another mass of backing projects or not
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Oh wow! Yeah I’ve seen this girls stuff before, shes great! And I had no idea she was doing this… seriously mang, thanks for the heads up. Most likely going to back this now XD
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Funding completed in two hours. So good.
Also, not sure if you know, but she’s on Strip Search, the webcomic artist reality show Penny Arcade are doing. It’s really cool.
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I saw her mention that on her video… what is it? Is it like a promotional thing for indie artists?
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It’s a competition for webcomic artists. Challenges and eliminations and stuff. I’m really enjoying it, some seriously talented people. The whole thing is on YouTube.
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OoooOOooo!
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Leading theory is that they’re putting the series back into our heads in the lead-up to a big ME4 reveal. But that might be tinfoil-hat thinking, and it might just be coincidence.
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I just realised my comment reads as sarcasm. It wasn’t intended as such.
Kotaku US have done weeks dedicated to things before, and it hasn’t had anything to do with promotion. For all their faults, they’re usually pretty transparent about that stuff. This is more likely just a “one year on” kind of thing. I believe they explained it back at the start of the week somewhere, as well.
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Seems a bit early though doesn’t it? ME3’s only a year old and they just finished doing DLC for it recently.
Then again, if you wanted to start a new trilogy or something, console launch is the best place to do it.
Bet they’ll fuck it all up though. Like, it’ll be a MMOFPS or something.
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I wouldn’t mind an third person shooter MMO set in the ME universe. That’s actually what I was hoping TOR was going to be, before they announced it was a Star Wars game.
Have they finished with all the DLC? I’ve been holding off replaying it till all the DLC is out.
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Yeah, I’d actually play that. That sounds fantastic.
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Yep. I can’t speak for multi, but as far as I’m aware the Citadel DLC (released a few weeks ago) is the final SP DLC for it.
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This. It’s basically a final sendoff for Shepard and the trilogy crew. And tonally it’s basically the Mass Effect Christmas Special.
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EA executive: “An annual release is working for Assassin’s Creed, and for Call of Duty. Why can’t we do that with a flagship story-driven-shooter franchise? Get Bioware people in here, right now.”
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Annualized Jade Empire!
New sequel to Shattered Steel!
(Shattered Steel was my first Bioware game)
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Ahh I see.
I’ve been ummin and ahhing about playing through the series….feel like im missing out.
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Definitely give it a go. You can get the first one second-hand for under $10 pretty much everywhere.
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The first one was never realsed on ps3 right?
I played the first 3-4 hours on PC but was distracted by other titles at the time and never got back into it.
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Yeah, that’s right. To compensate, the PS3 version of Mass Effect 2 had a motion comic that let you make some of the major decisions IIRC
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FIIIINALLY watched Survivor (went out last night). Errrrmagerd! @powalen @greenius @strange @phoenix (and @masha2932 ? really?)
Sooo thought Malcolm had messed them all up. Thought Dawn had convinced them to go back to voting for Malcolm (which I wanted her to do since I didnt think Malcolm would use his own, which he didnt), and hoooly crap, why did Reynold even give him it!?! What an idiot! Id be like lol nope. Dont know what Reynold was thinking. Obviously he just trusted Malcolm completely, which was wrong. Malcolm was just twitchy, nervous, and out for himself. But holy crap, kudos for him for getting an idol at the last second and keeping his own. As for next episode…
Hope Dawn can hold it together. Shes going so awesome. No freakouts Dawn!
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I posted my thoughts last night if you missed it: http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/04/talk-amongst-yourselves-219/comment-page-15/#comment-1154144
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Upvote for your thoughts!
Yeah Reynold was totally naive in this instance. I think hes still playing the best he knows though. I mean, for all he knew, it was a stroke of genius and was what was going to save them. Could very well have been. Must be such a mindf**k to be in that show. But still, I dont think it was the right thing for him to try, and I reaaaally dont know if it was preplanned. I think they mightve discussed probabilities in the past, and the potential of sharing it if need be, because Reynold looked genuinely surprised, and a little disappointed in himself too. But he wouldnt have handed it over if they hadnt at least discussed the possibility I suppose.
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I watched it while I was having lunch.
Why is everyone so stupid?!!!!I think the reason I don’t like this as much as previous seasons I’ve seen is because everyone seems to think they’re smarter than they actually are and they all talk way too much about their “strategies”.Can’t believe Malcolm didn’t learn from Corinne’s mistake! I’m glad he didn’t get voted off because holeeeeeeey smokes is that man pretty, but he’s not exactly the smartest guy ever. 😛Calling it now…Dawn’s faking her “breakdown”.Also, if Cochrane doesn’t win this thing I’ll be really cross.-
All the upvotes for Cochrane! Hope Dawn is faking it. Really hope so. With all her talk about having to suck it up for her kids and that. But another part of me wonders… last time she was on she had a bit of a breakdown. She has been a completely different player so far though. Also, I’d say people are talking more about strategy just because it is so many seasons in, and people are refining it, trying to find new ways of winning and outsmarting people. There used to be so much less scrambling and alliance changing going on. I dont think theyre reaaaaally that stupid either. I think people forget that we see a lot more than the players do. Except yes, Malcolm is an idiot for trusting Dawn again XD probably thought he could convince her of another alliance, but evidently not.-
I will say, I’m looking forward to seeing what happens next. It’s getting more interesting now. 🙂
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Hi TAY, I require some help and advice please!
Fair warning, this is gonna be a long ass post and I’ll probably repost it a few times because I’ll need answers :P. I guess I’ll just underline/bold the main points but everything else is still relevant and just provides more information.
Basically I need help getting a Graduate job after Uni – but I’m not really sure what to do, where to go and how I go about doing it. I originally picked Business as a degree because I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do at Uni (or after) and a Business degree seemed like a pretty general thing to have. I’m currently in my third and final year so I should definitely be applying for jobs around this time. I think SEEK should advertise plenty of openings so I’ll start there. Would they be classified under “Graduate Positions” – if not, what should I be looking for?
There’s so many different job areas that I’m not entirely sure what my Business degree would help me get into. I’m currently doing a double major in Banking and Finance, and Econometrics at one of Australia’s better Universities (Monash) so I’m hoping that will help. I honestly don’t know what positions, job sectors and departments I even qualify for, or stand a chance in.
My grades are good and are around 74% (Distinction average) but what I think I’m lacking is experience and extracurricular activities on my resume. Last year when I was applying for internships I strongly believe I didn’t get too far in them for two reasons (initial internship applications were just general applications so no interviews). I never really did extracurricular stuff in high school because it was too far away and I relied on a lift home with a friend which didn’t really leave me any time to do anything. Same sort of situation with University, it’s just too far to do anything on a regularly basis and it just becomes inconvenient. Would charity/community service work or anything else help on that front?
As for previous work experience, since applying back then I have found a casual job which I can put under employment in my resume (which used to be practically empty except for a week of “work experience”). However, the person who interviewed me (my boss) has since left the company so I won’t be able to use them as a reference and I haven’t worked since (so haven’t met my new boss yet). I’ve noticed on some applications that they’ll allow tutors, lecturers or teachers as references but I’ve unfortunately been out of touch with my high school teachers (which is a shame because they loved me!) but I’ve managed to get one of my lecturers as a reference, and could probably get more if needed, so my resume and applications may stand a better chance.
Do referees go in resumes (how do I put them in?) or just on applications that ask for them? I’d appreciate it if anyone would be willing to take a look at my resume and give me any pointers. @cakesmith checked it out last time so I wonder if the offer still stands? :).
I know I’ll be good in whatever I do but I’m just at a complete loss at what to do and what I will do if I don’t get a job within a reasonable amount of time after graduating. I just need the chance and the standard “Need a job for experience. Need experience for a job” paradox is at play. I’m definitely more a “learn by doing” type of person and the way University handles “learning” is such a drag. So I definitely need a job ASAP to help with this. @NotoriousR said he’s already learnt more from his few months at work than he would in a whole semester of University.
I’m not after just any old casual/part-time job but definitely a full-time graduate position which makes use of my degree (otherwise I’ve just wasted 3 years at Uni). Even if the job isn’t that good to start off with it should help make my resume look better as well as give me experience and teach me many new things. All I want is a decent job with decent pay.
Bit of a stretch but can anyone personally help? Is your place of employment looking for graduates? Please let me know if so!
Whew! That was a doozy. Thank you all so much in advance – for reading it, skipping it (>:’( ) and hopefully for any hardcore proper advice and protips. When I get a job, GREENIUS GAME GIVEAWAYS FOR EVERYONE!
@negativezero @inquisitorsz @notoriousr @mcgarnical @princesspipster @ruffleberg @thecracks (just tagged other fellow Monash students and people who I think got graduate positions recently)
A long TL;DR
– I need help getting a graduate position after I finish University (this is my last year)
– I’m not sure how to go about doing this so I’d really appreciate any advice such as where to apply, how to apply, how to increase my chances etc.
– If anyone could look over my resume that’ll also be much appreciated
– Anyone’s place of employment looking for graduates?
TL;DR for the previous TL;DR
– PLEASE HELP <3
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Haha, there’s nothing I can do to help you, man. I would like to, though — I can send good thoughts your way if you think it’ll help? 😀 You could join a cult?
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Also talk to @Aidan on Twitter too. I see him always talking about applying for stuff. XD
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Also, you’re free to join the ranks of the hermit.
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They stave off wild hippo attacks too!
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– Referees good. Have a stock referee or two (That you ASK FIRST) and then provide more if the individual company asks for it. Lecturers are fine, personal references will do if you don’t have one.
– Graduate positions: many advertise now for jobs that start next year. just be aware
– look at government- try http://www.apsjobs.gov.au/ or your (second link in subsequent comment) equivalent in your location.
– Business can do many things, so look at banks etc.We’re not looking for graduates, but we’re a) tiny and b) in SA. I’m also happy to look at your resume and give you a few pointers.
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A little more helpfully, you’ll probably have to get that decent pay thing out of your head. You don’t start anywhere on decent pay. Especially not graduate jobs. Remember that there’s so many jobs out there but everyone else who has graduated is gunning for those positions too. After a while when you’ve proved yourself capable in a job you’ll start to see more responsibilities and higher pay.
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Move to Canberra and get a public service job. Actually, there might be govt jobs down your way too. Look into that – it’s the lazy option, and perfectly suited to everybody who likes management.
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Check out your local Government website, thhose folk are always looking for grads.
You can definetly use the old boss as a ref if you have his details PROTIP: Ring and ask all refs before you use them and tell them about applications you make.
If they call up and your ref is vague or worse then that makes you look bad.Any experience, payed or not, is still experience. It also helps to be vague on your resume, you don’t have to actually outright state that it was for no pay. If they dont ask, dont tell them.
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It’s illegal for someone to employ you on an unpaid basis (the only exception I know of is Year 10 Work Experience through your school – not sure why that is).
Just so you know.
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There are very tight rules around this, too. In almost all circumstances you are entitled to payment for work.
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Okay so the way I got my current job via my previous job via my previous job (it’s a long story) was that I put together my resume along with a standard covering letter in which I basically laid out that I was in my final year, had a strong average and anticipated no issues passing, and that I was looking for a job starting in late November or so. I customized it for every different one I sent out, by changing the header bit.
I then made a shortlist of about a hundred different companies who might have jobs in IT, programming etc, made a version of the covering letter for each, and mailed my resume to them unsolicited.
Out of this I got a fair number of ‘don’t send us your shit and we’ve deleted it’ and quite a few ‘thanks but no thanks’ but I also got a call from several companies who were interested and one of them sent me a programming test, which I filled out really well, and then I got a job there. It turns out there’s actually a lot of companies who have open positions which they haven’t advertised. Also it’s super rare to get people that exactly meet their criteria so don’t be put off by that!
At the same time I also applied to every possible graduate position available that I could and I ended up having to pick which job I wanted. Anyway there’s usually big graduate expos in the universities starting around now, and then also again around July-August for the people graduating end of year. Keep your eyes peeled and apply for everything you can. It’s people who are pro-active in their final year who end up with jobs. Most of my university friends got to the end of the year and were like “I guess I should look for a job now huh?” and I was like “well I start mine next week”. Smugius.
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This point about catering each letter to each job is key. The recruiters here even suggest catering each resume, which is fucking tiresome but you know, it helps a lot.
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Greenman,
– i wouldnt be worried about a lack of high school extra curriculars.
– if you are applying for a graduate position, put your age on the resume. otherwise dont.
APPARENTLY BAD ADVISE 🙂 ->
do not list referees on your resume.. have a section for it, but note that they are available upon request…. your referees are never contacted prior to an initial interview with you in person, or at the very least a phone interview.– think long and hard about where you want to be in 5 years time and be honest. i know it sounds cliche but the reality is, there is a 90% chance you will get asked this very question… a lot of places that employ graduates do it with the intention of grabbing someone at a young age and mould them the way they want to with the expectation that you will be there for a while…. no one wants to employ someone, teach them the ropes, then lose them to another company after they put in the hard yards to train you.
– if you think your resume is somewhat lacking, you approach ur application with a different approach… you need to show enthusiasm and determination. at the end of the day they are your to most powerful allies….
failing this, do not despair. take what you can get and work your way up…. when i finished my communications degree (3d modelling & animation major) i had no opportunities waiting for me, other than a 6 month contract in japan which i couldnt accept because of family reasons. so i startd working for an electrical wholesaler selling powerpoints, light switches, electrical cable etc, making about 13 bucks an hour. i ended up getting promoted a few times, then opportunities started opening up in other places, and after god knows how many position changes later, im now managing major accounts involved in the nbn rollout. it took me about 6 years to get to this point, but within 4 i was managing my own branch with a pretty decent income…
your a smart dude, sorry i couldnt offer you much on graduate applications, but i hope some general advise might help you closer to your goal.
if you think it may help i can send you a sample resume or something?
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We check refs straight up, but you applu online and it makes you add them. If they were missing, the application wouldn’t go through.
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This. If you make it too difficult to find necessary information (like referees), your application might just end up at the bottom of the pile. Remember, people will be reading through them. (Prolly) not machines.
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call it fluke or what, but ive always found it to work in my favour…
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Oh, I forgot to mention I can probably do Honours/Masters etc. but like I said, University just really isn’t doing it for me so I’d rather get out of there ASAP than spend an extra year (in the case of Honours) to try and increase my chances of employment when I can be working an extra year.
Thanks for the advice so far peeps! <3 you
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I’m afraid I won’t be of much use.
I studied law and work as a solicitor in a law firm. I did join after uni as a graduate position, but that is a defined process for law students that many many people go through each year and there is loads of help. I had an older brother who had gone through it so I relied on him.
Some general tips I have:
Yes, charity work does assist on your CV but the key point is something interesting to talk about in the interview. I did aid work overseas post earthquake, but the point I was asked about more than anything in every intereview was that I had a part-time job as an extra in shows like Neighbours and Secret Life of Us.
And yes everyone will want to talk to a referee. If you really don’t know who to put down for a specific job, at least put a place in for it and state ‘available on request’.
Perhaps approach the uni for some assistance? I imagine there’d be support on campus for this sort of thing.
Best of luck!
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I have not much to offer – I kind of fell into my job, and was rather jammy to boot (ended up with permanency straight up)…
There should be a careers centre of some description at the uni (there is at UWA, anyway), and the people there would have a good idea about where to start looking and applying for jobs. Might be an idea to drop in there.
@negativezero
You see that bullshit interview with Bamco lier on siliconera today?
Soething along the lines of: We want to get our prod out to all our fans in all locations
*VOOOOOOOOMmmmiitTTTT*
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I didn’t but it sounds like something one of the JP guys like Baba would say and it’s grade-A HR wankery because if it were true we wouldn’t be begging for Tales of Innocence or Tales of Hearts or being only given the shitty beta version of Vesperia.
@dc @freezespreston Sorrryyyyy, got distracted by stuff today, but I can go book the cinema tickets now. Definitely 9.30 session at Balmoral? Also I’ve booked the table for 8
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Sounds awesome, man. Just coincidently posted on the previous page. Haha. What time should I meet you at South Bank Station? 😀 Thanks for the booking/reservation stuff too. Sughly’s all kinds of awesome. I’d nominate you for Community Kudos, but I think Mark finds it off-putting that I always nominate you, Freeze and Strange. XD
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Haha! No need. Ummmmm… well, I guess I’ll get you guys like 7.30ish. If you need more time @freezespreston just send me a message or whatever tonight. I’ll come by south bank station round 7.30 then deeceeeee
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You should nominate me, for not pressuring you into playing Dark Souls but rather subtly placing the idea that Dark Souls is fun into your mind by talking incessantly about it at times.
Mmhmm.
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The important thing is: is it working at all?
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Nope. *folds arms stubbornly*
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*scribbles in notebook* TRY. HARDER.
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DARK SOL \o/
Deliberate misspell so we can PRAISE THE SUN
@freezespreston, @sernobulus, be proud
Hmmm… neighbours cat just peed in my box of xbox 360 games. Fuck. I dont want all my games to smell like pee :'(
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Thankfully, mother dearest who is staying with me has elected to clean it up. Bless, she is doing her best at removing it all.
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That, and she bought me a new bed. Mum’s doing alright.
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Maybe he keeps the neighbours cat inside?
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Dark. Souls.
(DLC stuff, stay away Greenmang)
Man, so how ’bout that Artorias guy? First boss this run through that has taken me more than two attempts. I’ve fought him five times now, and my most successful was my second. :/
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When’s a good time in the game to tackle DLC stuff? Is it better suited to pre-endgame, or is anytime after Anor Londo fine IYO?
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I’d recommend doing it right before the end. These guys are tough. Then again, you might not be terrible at the game like I am, in which case post Anor Londo might be fine. I’m not really sure. I think I’ll wait for someone more knowledgeable than me to chime in.
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I’m fine with him until he does that power up move(which I always fail to interrupt), and even then I’m okay, unless he does the jump move, but then he does the power up move again, and gains the ability to one shot me through my shield. 🙁
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Just got Prepare to Die Edition on PC last night. Currently $25 at all good JB HiFi bargain bins.
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And this is why many atheists don’t like the church as an institution, aside from the god thing.
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perhaps even experimenting with sex, alcohol and illegal drugs
Big night, @dc?
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I think I’ll draw the line at that new fangled rock ‘n’ roll stuff! Arcade Fire, eh?
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Closer to top of page repost:
Hi TAY, I require some help and advice please!
Fair warning, this is gonna be a long ass post and I’ll probably repost it a few times because I’ll need answers :P. I guess I’ll just underline/bold the main points but everything else is still relevant and just provides more information.
Basically I need help getting a Graduate job after Uni – but I’m not really sure what to do, where to go and how I go about doing it. I originally picked Business as a degree because I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do at Uni (or after) and a Business degree seemed like a pretty general thing to have. I’m currently in my third and final year so I should definitely be applying for jobs around this time. I think SEEK should advertise plenty of openings so I’ll start there. Would they be classified under “Graduate Positions” – if not, what should I be looking for?
There’s so many different job areas that I’m not entirely sure what my Business degree would help me get into. I’m currently doing a double major in Banking and Finance, and Econometrics at one of Australia’s better Universities (Monash) so I’m hoping that will help. I honestly don’t know what positions, job sectors and departments I even qualify for, or stand a chance in.
My grades are good and are around 74% (Distinction average) but what I think I’m lacking is experience and extracurricular activities on my resume. Last year when I was applying for internships I strongly believe I didn’t get too far in them for two reasons (initial internship applications were just general applications so no interviews). I never really did extracurricular stuff in high school because it was too far away and I relied on a lift home with a friend which didn’t really leave me any time to do anything. Same sort of situation with University, it’s just too far to do anything on a regularly basis and it just becomes inconvenient. Would charity/community service work or anything else help on that front?
As for previous work experience, since applying back then I have found a casual job which I can put under employment in my resume (which used to be practically empty except for a week of “work experience”). However, the person who interviewed me (my boss) has since left the company so I won’t be able to use them as a reference and I haven’t worked since (so haven’t met my new boss yet). I’ve noticed on some applications that they’ll allow tutors, lecturers or teachers as references but I’ve unfortunately been out of touch with my high school teachers (which is a shame because they loved me!) but I’ve managed to get one of my lecturers as a reference, and could probably get more if needed, so my resume and applications may stand a better chance.
Do referees go in resumes (how do I put them in?) or just on applications that ask for them? I’d appreciate it if anyone would be willing to take a look at my resume and give me any pointers. @cakesmith checked it out last time so I wonder if the offer still stands? :).
I know I’ll be good in whatever I do but I’m just at a complete loss at what to do and what I will do if I don’t get a job within a reasonable amount of time after graduating. I just need the chance and the standard “Need a job for experience. Need experience for a job” paradox is at play. I’m definitely more a “learn by doing” type of person and the way University handles “learning” is such a drag. So I definitely need a job ASAP to help with this. @NotoriousR said he’s already learnt more from his few months at work than he would in a whole semester of University.
I’m not after just any old casual/part-time job but definitely a full-time graduate position which makes use of my degree (otherwise I’ve just wasted 3 years at Uni). Even if the job isn’t that good to start off with it should help make my resume look better as well as give me experience and teach me many new things. All I want is a decent job with decent pay.
Bit of a stretch but can anyone personally help? Is your place of employment looking for graduates? Please let me know if so!
Whew! That was a doozy. Thank you all so much in advance – for reading it, skipping it (>:’( ) and hopefully for any hardcore proper advice and protips. When I get a job, GREENIUS GAME GIVEAWAYS FOR EVERYONE!
@negativezero @inquisitorsz @notoriousr @mcgarnical @princesspipster @ruffleberg @thecracks (just tagged other fellow Monash students and people who I think got graduate positions recently)
A long TL;DR
– I need help getting a graduate position after I finish University (this is my last year)
– I’m not sure how to go about doing this so I’d really appreciate any advice such as where to apply, how to apply, how to increase my chances etc.
– If anyone could look over my resume that’ll also be much appreciated
– Anyone’s place of employment looking for graduates?
TL;DR for the previous TL;DR
– PLEASE HELP <3
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Oh, I forgot to mention I can probably do Honours/Masters etc. but like I said, University just really isn’t doing it for me so I’d rather get out of there ASAP than spend an extra year (in the case of Honours) to try and increase my chances of employment when I can be working an extra year.
Thanks for the advice so far peeps! <3 you
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I gave all my good advice last page, so now just general stuff:
If you really need a job, just get a job. don’t worry about your degree or area of focus, get a job which will put money in your pocket while you apply for others.
Don’t be afraid to go slightly outside of the “business” box, as many admin/industry jobs can use people with business skills.
Also, look at industry associations, unions etc. I’m biased here though, as I work for an industry association.
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This.
Dream job: be patient, take your time. Don’t compromise. Go poor and starve to death.
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One thing worth considering:
Bachelor of Business and Bachelor of IT share a bunch of subjects, so if you ever wanted to move in that direction you’d only have to do (maybe) 1 to one and a half years study for a second degree.EDIT: Just looked at vacancies at my work. Discovered out ICLT admin assistant (read: IT receptionist) gets 58k a year. What the fuck…
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http://www.teachers.on.net/jfolder/view.php?vcid=219134&popup=1
EDIT: Was supposed to also say: it’s only a temp full time.
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Still, that’s more than what I earn…
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Yeah, it’s either the same or more than the newest technicians here…
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Sit in your pyjamas at your computer all day, looking up kotaku and watching youtube, and tell people you make games you’re an artist.
Ok,
Firstly, yes use Seek. Specifically Campus Seek. It’s a version designed to filter in only useful results to new graduates.
In terms of what job you can apply for. Go for things like a junior accountant position or a business/finance analyst. All big banks, insurance companies, electronics companies have graduate programs. I’d suggest putting in applications now for next year’s lot.
Do yourself a favour and get up to speed with excel. Knowing your way around it will give you a lot fewer headaches when you get a job. Specifically get proficient at pivot tables and vlookups. Every job that requires you to do reporting will ask for things like that.
I think that it’s common courtesy not to give out contact details of references on a CV. In the section dedicated to references. Just say that they will be provided on request. Typically an employer will not be interested in calling your references unless you are the preferred candidate for a position. I don’t list details, but it’s up to you.
Following on, make sure your references are rock solid. Let them know beforehand that they may receive a call and make sure they don’t fuck it up for you.
If you want to pad out your CV, include things like scanned certificates or awards you may have gotten. I include my Uni transcript and my honours society certificate.
Also, include a hobbies/interests section and put stuff in it that is worth talking about. i list Rubik’s cube Speedsolver on mine and literally every interview I’ve ever been to at least one of the people on the panel has brought it up.
Apologies on the short answer but i’m putting out fires in between writing this.
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No problem, that was hardly a short answer.
CV/resume is pretty much the same thing, right? I’ve read that there’s differences but I’m not too sure what they are – is it possible if you could check mine?
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CV is just another word for resume. I’ll DM you my email address on twitter, but you may already have it from some of the meat emails.
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Cheers!
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– Go to the Monash Careers centre. Set an appointment, bring in your Resume, your cover letter, and ask where are relevant places to apply. They’re pretty good at checking things over and giving good advice on where to apply. Also go to lots of career fairs if you can. Not just monash’s, but see if you can find out when Melbourne/RMIT/Deakin/La Trobe’s fairs are.
– DO NOT BE PICKY. Companies aren’t struggling to fill the numbers, but you are struggling to find a job. Apply anywhere and everywhere, yes, interstate included.
– Keep looking for an internship over the summer, there’s a good chance they’ll want to just keep you and roll on to a grad program.
– Join a club or something now and keep at it. It’s an inconvenience if you want to look at it that way, or look at it and see what skills you can get out of it.
– Just keep at it. Keep applying, follow up on calls to see what your application status is (not daily, just every now and then to prod them into doing stuff)
Home, I am going. After I pee.
I dint nom noone cos you’re all equally standard :p
Congrats to th weiner!
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When you’ve finished the episode, I posted some stuffs on the previous page where Sughly was discussing it.
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Did you watch his original season?
(spoilers for it)
He gave his immunity to someone else and they voted him out. It was something like top 5 as well. One of the stupidest moves in Survivor history!
I like him as well as he seems cool but he’s a bit derpy 😛-
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WAAAAY more derpy I’m afraid XD
None have ever been as derpy imo.
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You make me watch the show,and then you leave me hanging all afternoon for discussion.
MONSTER! 😛
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I HAD A TERRIBLE MORNING I’M SORRY!
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Ten seconds after someone at work mentioned Tetris, I’m watching this again, and I don’t regret it:
So I recreate my character in Monster Hunter three times to get the hair right because the colours I choose don’t look the same in the game as they do in the creation screen only to find out that you can apparently change your hair post creation anyway.
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I went with fluoro green spiky hair, fluoro green moustache, and fluoro green goatee.
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All you people playing Monster Hunter and Dark Souls make me feel like I’m missing out on something, but I don’t know if I have the time to invest into either of those games to be able to enjoy them 🙁
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I actually would feel bad if I played it because I own Demon’s Souls as well and never got around to it.
Also I’ve puchased Dark Souls twice now. PS3 and PC. And still never played.
<– Dickman
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You’ll definitely have time for Monster Hunter, it’s all done by quests. Got 5 mins to spare? Go gather some materials, do a short hunt etc.
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Anyway to expand on that, Dark Souls auto saves after EVERYTHING! If you kill a mob the game: autosave, if you enter a new area: autosave. So you don’t really need to worry too much about being interrupted during your play time.
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I should also add it’s not really the type of game you want to play in short bursts though 🙁
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This. I originally thought it wouldn’t be as fun without multi, but there’s a tonne you can do alone, and eventually (after getting gear/skill) you can do much of the online quests solo.
Also, multi is amazing 😀
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@greenius STUCK IN AN ELEVATOR. Geez, not like it happened to me as recently as 3 hours ago. 🙁
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But your tweet made it sound like you got out before you could actually play it!
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… I had enough time to rearrange my inventory and combine some items?
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Yeah I imagine that’s the case but the issue is actually playing the game given that the 3DS version is out of print and I don’t want to buy a Wii U for a game I might not even like.
EDIT: Also the cocktongs at Capcom apparently decided to region-lock the ad-hoc local multi on 3DS for some insane reason.
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It’s not in stock anywhere.
And the last game to have the same ‘getting new stock very soon’ was Fire Emblem in the US and it’s been months and still no copies.
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You’re seeing the marketing speak and actually believing it. Only one company in the world produces those carts, and that’s Nintendo. They have limited production capacity.
They said exactly the same thing about Fire Emblem shipments in the US and they did deliver some extra copies eventually, but only enough that they’ve filled preorders and maybe had a few loose copies. Still not easily available. And that’s a Nintendo-published game.
EDIT: The root of the problem is that late last year the 3DS absolutely fucking exploded in Japan thanks to Animal Crossing, which uses the most complicated & expensive cartridges. They pushed other manufacturing back on 3DS to try and fill the crazy demand for that game and as a result I think everyone is competing for stock. It’s like when the CD first came out and all the production facilities were busy printing Dire Straits’ ‘Money for Nothing’ and other bands literally couldn’t produce stock.
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From like 3 seconds of searching (similar ones for Fire Emblem as well and I’m sure sellers can organise an express delivery):
Every time you’ve said something was hard to find I’m getting the feeling you’re not looking on eBay or similar places, how come? Don’t like using it?
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ah, that makes so much sense. Gorram Animal Crossing being so damn awesome. Way to ruin it for EVERYBODY.
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@greenius: I have had bad experiences buying games through Ebay.
Also, being able to get it on Ebay is irrelevant – that means there was stock at some point. They’re resellers. There is no new stock hitting the retail channel.
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@negativezero it’s pretty damn relevant when your main concern with there being low/no stock at retailers is you not being able to get a hold of a copy. You wouldn’t mind if you had a copy
Maybe not relevant to what you said above but I just posted it there to continue on with the topic/discussion under the same comments. I’ve never had problems with with buying things (games) from eBay and there was only one case where I bought a game (Nier on Xbox) and it never turned up. The seller never sent a message saying it was shipped so I don’t think it was shipped at all. Was promptly refunded without hassle. Then I tracked down an even cheaper and MINT condition of Nier on PS3, another one of your “hard to find” games which can easily be found.
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@greenius: btw that’s the US version and it didn’t have stock problems. The PAL version did.
There’s no point me buying the US version because as I mentioned, it’s region locked. If I could go out right now and buy it I actually would, along with a new AU 3DS.
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Dark Souls is now $25 for Heavy Box With Art Book And Other Stuff In It Edition (PC)
Edit: Oh, you already own it.
Anyways…
Both are great games and you should definitely play both at some point.
Monster Hunter is great for short bursts but I’m not sure it’s that convenient on the Wii U compared to the 3DS version.
Dark Souls is a great game (Demon’s is skippable with Dark IMO) but you’ll need to sit down and invest a decent amount of time in it. I’m sure you know the general gist of the gameplay – trial and error, practice making perfect.
Both are hard and do require skill and patience.
Monster Hunter seems less likely to be played between the two because you don’t have it and buying a Wii U for one is mighty expensive (although worth it!). I’d say give Dark Souls a crack one day. Perhaps Shameless Gaming Month ’13?
Surprised Patrick is possibly the greatest thing ever
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I’m trying to do this stupid accounting essay but I just can’t figure it out for the life of me 🙁 I should’ve just done computing instead of info systems 🙁 I hate the business side of this degree.
I’d honestly be happier dropping out of Uni than continuing. I hate it. I may be smart, but I’m not an academic person. The only reason I came here was to move out of home and get away from my arsehole parents.
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Well I’ve been at uni for less than 2 months (it feels like an eternity though), so this year and another 2 😛 Accounting will be over at the end of next month but I still can’t stand it.
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No need to drop out. Just switch things up a bit.
I’m an uneducated buffoon and, while I’ve got a mortgage and a ‘professional’ kind of job, it’s still pretty shit (the mortgage is shit too). A degree can work wonders regardless of what you studied and how you want to earn a crust.
Stick with uni, but find something you enjoy quicksmart.-
I’m finding that I enjoy the computing side of it. I should’ve just done computing instead of info systems because the business side is the most boring, useless, confusing bullshit I’ve ever come across. I don’t want to be an accountant, info systems has nothing to do with accounting, so why the fuck is it a part of the degree?! The woman taking the accounting tutorial said she’d never even heard of info systems!!
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Chomp down on the bit and take it.
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Info Systems => Business Systems => creating IT systems to digitize or improve business processes.
Most business processes revolve around financial transactions.
Accounting is the practice of managing finances.
EDIT: Also there’s stuff in all degrees that not everyone will end up using in that field. I did Computer Science and I learned a lot of mathematics I haven’t needed. Plus who in their right mind outside academia would use Lisp or Prolog?
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It just stands to reason that if it’s heavily dependent on finance then there would be more than just the intro accounting course. I could understand if the minor was financial stuff, but it’s just been thrown in there to fill space.
http://www.studentcentre.utas.edu.au/structures/?year=2013&code=73F
Anyway, I moved on to my programming assignment. I find programming weirdly relaxing.
Edit: That’s where I would’ve fallen down if I did do CS. Maths.
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CS Maths is fairly easy though. Unless your uni makes you do a general calculus course or something. Monash had a specific set of two units in 1st year that were everything you needed. Statistics (compression, data mining), Probabilities (everything), Number Sequences, Matrices (graphics) and I feel like there might have been some coding in there too i.e. Shannon and Huffman codes. Oh also, boolean algebra which is quite important.
In my current job I use basically everything I did in those mathematics classes.
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@negativezero
Calculus :S Gross. This is UTAS where everything is dumbed down to pull in people from other states who would never get into any other uni though (65 ATAR guaranteed in for everything!). There’s no maths in this degree and there’s only an algorithms unit in the computing one. Weird.
I’m just between that point of something I’m really good at but don’t want to to professionally (programming), and something that I thought would be good in year 12 that I found really interesting but is turning out to be completely different in uni (info systems)
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Just stick with what you have until the semester/year is over and see if you can swap into Computing or a similar degree. You’ll get credit for the relevant units anyway so there’s nothing to lose and you may find yourself better off.
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I go to type gizmodo into the browser.
chrome auto-fills
hit enter
wind up at gizoogle
spend half and hour reading about “Uptown Korea likely ta have nuclear warhead fo’ its pistols”
best mistake I’ve made today.
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Microsoft’s statement about Adam Orth
“This thug aint a spokesthug fo’ Microsoft, n’ his thugged-out lil’ underground views do not reflect tha hustla centric approach we take ta our shizzle or how tha fuck we would communicate directly wit our loyal thugs.”
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@ash @jimu @greenius @ anyone else annoyed at the fact that Namco UK wouldn’t ship the Tales of Xillia collector’s edition outside of Europe:
Available from EB Games for $148. Expensive, but may be EB-exclusive here. If you shop around the UK retailers in a few weeks you might find it too – I expect this will basically be like the Wizard’s Edition for Ni no Kuni. Except maybe without the stock fuckups.
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Game, art book, statue. Oh, and ‘selection of music’ cd.
You had me freaking out that there was going to be something like the Wizard’s Companion when you mentioned Ni No Kuni.
I’ll be looking to get the game though, so thanks for the heads up!
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http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=695170c5af70f0e02bfd1ed95&id=33b8ac3f84&e=81b4e31ee4 (not sure if you can see that)
But that’s the email I got from them and that said “Official Soundtrack” and “100 page artbook” rather than Soundtrack Selection and ~60 page. Kind of misleading 😛
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So the EB listing just looks like their Day 1 edition with the statue thrown in, not even the full CE…?
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No, I’ve seen other sites advertise the CE as that as well. It’s just super confusing :/
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Pic on Namco’s Tales store for the CE in the UK is identical – says the CD is a selection. Only diff with the one EB’s showing is that it has a PEGI 12 in the corner where EB’s has an AU PG.
The pic that Siliconera reported is the US one (has an ESRB rating) and has a little packet beside the CD probably to show it’s a sampler? But it also says it’s a ‘special music selection CD’.
I think it’s just Namco playing fast & loose with terminology in Europe.
Everything is saying 100 pages of artwork so I wouldn’t be surprised if EB is under some kind of advertising legal code where they say the number of leaves in the book including the cover, not the number of pages? They seem to be the only people saying it’s 52 pages and there seems to be no reason to print a smaller version just for Asstralia.
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It doesn’t say Hardcover…
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We’ll get to the bottom of it eventually. Maybe the twits will help?
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Ha!
I just sent an email to namcobandai partners Au.
See if they know what’s going on,
Thanks, dood!
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Should ask them if we’re also getting the special LE release for Project X Zone on 3DS! Looks like all the release copies in the US are LEs which come with a poster and an artbook or something. I want that. I has mai waifu in it.
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ausupport@namcobandaipartners.com
They already replied with the below JB Hi Fi link.
I’d ask myself but have no interest in that game(don’t really know much)
who’s your Waifu? PIIICS!
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Sakura Shinguji. Can’t easily get pics at work.
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At least it’s a lot easier to get in Australia. Seems like buying through Namco could potentially be another huge mess.
What are you two doing? (@negativezero)
I’ll probably go for Day One (don’t want the figurine) and will probably import.
EDIT: Oh if you guys are importing too, can you let me know when it gets updated? Last time I checked Zavvi and OGS haven’t updated their listings yet and I want to make sure it says “Limited Edition” before I buy it.
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OGS will have the Day One edition for $55-60. Pretty sure the CE is exclusive to Namco in the EU so no other retailers will get it. I didn’t think we’d get it at all.
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place I go to has it for $131. they ship nation-wide if that helps.
http://ijk.com.au/branch/ijk/product_info.php?cPath=492_103&products_id=136373-
Ooh, cool. Cheers!
Wish they gave a quote on shipping without having to go through the process.
Just had an idea, I could easily email Umart and ask them if they’re able to order one in for me ha.
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I’m over looking inside my PC haha. All I see now is shitty blue LED’s and a poorly routed cable job thanks to my case (Antec 902 V1)
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Well that’s the current fans and PSU that have blue LED’s in them and I wouldn’t be putting those fans in the new case since it has it’s own, and I also need a new PSU anyway it’s close to 8 years old and I could do with something a lot smaller than 800watts haha.
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Dear TAY,
I was just listening to episode 1 of Potaku podcast season 4. The boys were talking about playing Minecraft on the Potaku server and it sounded like a really fun social event.
In your opinion, should I buy Minecraft and come and play on the Potaku server with all my new friends? Full disclosure – I’ve only played the free/ beta version and was terrible at it. I may only build square structures 🙁
Regards,
Ash
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I’m pretty sure square structures are fine, as long as they’re not made of TNT… and put next to people’s houses 😛
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If you’ve got money to spare, sure!
I don’t know how much it is now but I bought it for $10 and got more than my money’s worth 🙂
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I can probably spare $10.
I bought a step to help my wife reach the clothes dryer. It cost $12 from Bunnings. When i took it home she said she didn’t like it. I haven’t gotten around to returning it. If I can throw $12 down the drain I should be able to justify $10 for a game that will allow me to spend time with my dear TAYfriends /sniff :’)
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Do it.
Skill means not a damned thing in Minecraft, in comparison to other players. There are some amazing structures on the server, but my only contribution is a wooden shack hiding in a snowy forest, and I’m OK with that.
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Ok, so um like how big is the dl. I’m assuming not much. Also, I’m assuming it doesn’t use much bandwidth when playing. Correct or am i way off?
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I wish I had a webcam so you could see my rad break dance celebration (well in my head anyway).
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The main performance issue is that it’s a Java application, so it’s…inefficient at times. Regardless, it’s pretty scalable so it runs on most things these days.
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Hello TAY!
I finished Bioshock Infinite yesterday (slightly late to the party). I now feel emotionally crippled. DAE have this issue? I found the plotline intensely stressful.
Regards,
Newbie :3
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Have you read Mark’s article on the matter. As someone who has finsihed the game, did you agree wiht him? PS I haven’t played it :O
EDIT oh you did read it 😛
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You say “slightly late to the party”, I’ve yet to buy the darn thing, so you’re ahead of me 😛
The key question I would have is: Did you enjoy the game?
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I have been reading a lot of negative articles but can easily say I have not been so captivated by a game in a long time! I’m a sucker for a slightly pretentious story and usually hate FPSes – mostly because I am terrible at them. Loved it, loved the characters, loved the intrigue, loved the art and the entire concept!
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From what I’ve seen of it so far, the game looks gorgeous and I’m eager to pick it up when I can, just not sure when
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EDIT: Not really spoilers but thought I should tag it anyway.
I think the fact that it goes from nothing to well … that ending is pretty emotionally draining. I was kind of just sitting there staring at the credits trying to take on everything that has happened. Also, loved the post credits bit. -
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I think it was a preemptive request. In case you were going to post something spoilery. Relax, new friend. We cool.
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Haha thanks, starting to post in TAY is like your first time sitting with the cool kids at lunch. I don’t wanna step on anybody’s toes/spill spaghetti on someone/snort milk out my nose 😀
(that almost rhymes ^^)
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Hahahahaha!
…Gimme all your lunch moneys >:(
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I feel like you’re going to wrap me in bumper stickers, cram me in a trolley and push me down a hill 🙁
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Alternately, stay memorable by stepping on everyone’s toes, apologising while breaking things, and then accidentally knocking someone out as you exit the party.
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This is why noone invites you anywhere any more blaghs
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I said I was sorry.
And who keeps a cremation urn on the top of a pedestal, anyway?
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So your advice to me is to be an awkward teenager going to my first party in a mid-eighties sitcom of some kind?
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Uhh. Yes.
Sitcom. Hahaha.
*Hurriedly waddles off*
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DAE think it was preemptive?
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When Spag is done with you I’m claiming sloppy seconds.
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Thank you! I’ve been lurking here whilst at my JB HiFi job for quite some time and decided to join the party 😀
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Pretty sure I lurked for something like 2 years before posting. 😛
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I did zero lurking and just barged in and posted like a jerk.
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Didn’t you also start by asking about a different website/community? 😛
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I did indeed.
What a jerk.
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Lurkius
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I don’t know why people lurk(ed) TAY, just feels weird reading other people’s conversations without joining in or contributing 😛
(@blaghman!)
You’re far ahead of me, I purchased it this morning but OzGameShop haven’t emailed me my steam code yet. 🙁
I’ve just started.
I’m finding the whole thing disturbing and I’m only up to the baseball throw so I haven’t really started the proper game yet.
Hi new guy girl!
Welcome!
Just be careful with spoilers. A fair few of us haven’t played it yet 🙂
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I surely will! I was achingly paranoid of avoiding spoilers myself, so I am always super conscious for urrbody 😀
thank you! 🙂
Welcome to TAY!
I’ve finished Bioshock Infinite, and I loved every minute of it. The vocal critical analysis of the game has no bearing on my enjoyment of it, and it was one of the best experiences I’ve had with a current-gen game since Red Dead Redemption.
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Thank you 🙂
I haven’t enjoyed any game so much since Fallout 3, I think! Except maybe Skyward Sword :$ haha. I’m glad to hear someone else enjoyed it as much as I did
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Yaaaayaya Skyward Sword fan!
Wait no… I didnt like Skyward as much as other Zeldas…
Now I’m confused :'(
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I still think Twilight Princess is my absolute fave, even moreso than OoT *ducks*
But Skyward Sword was so beautiful, and brought out such an emotional response in me! 😀
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Twilight Princess is my absolute fave,
and they said I was the only one 😛
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THIS IS A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH @TOTTLEBUD
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OH GOOD HEAVENS
The anime? I’m aware of its existence but have never watched it. 😀
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NO! What are you talking about?! D:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenoblade_Chronicles is what I’m talking about 😛
Bestest game I’ve played in a long time.
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Well now I have NO idea what I was thinking of. Hahaha! In my defence, it’s 7am here and I haven’t finished my first coffee of the day.
This looks great! I’ll have to add it to my list. I finished Ni No Kuni a few weeks ago and enjoyed it more than I thought I would, as I don’t usually play JRPGs!
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@tottlebud ohhhhhhh myy godddd!
Xenoblade is THE best JRPG this generation! I know a few other people here who don’t usually play JRPGs but loved Xenoblade! I certainly liked it more than Ni no Kuni 🙂 (I didn’t hate Ni no but it was flawed)
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I’m finding it very hard to explain my experience with Infinite:
I didn’t like the story. I didn’t like the characters (mostly). I didn’t like the ending. I didn’t like most of the gameplay mechanics or the way in which said mechanics were implemented.
That said, I didn’t actually hate the game.
It’s one of the most average, generic games I’ve ever played. It’s a textbook 5 out of 10. Maybe it deserves an extra point for the Lutece twins. Unfortunately, 5 out of 10 may as well mean “the worst game ever created” as far as most publications are concerned.
It’s a real shame, since the game could have been great.
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I think that’s why I’m becoming a little saddened. I’m only up to the bit where…
I chased that rebel dude through the show with all the indian and asian cutouts jumping around, revealing bits of Bookers past, I guess.But yeah…. my basic thoughts on it at this point is that, after absolutely falling for the game in the opening moments, and just being swept into the world and the look and just everything! Well…
I started to get so sick of the monotonous shoot, walk, shoot, walk, skyhook a bit, shoot. It just seemed to get to a spot where nothing was being that well developed any more. And my god, Elizabeth just seems to react to things in the must nonsensical, random way. I find myself just being weirded out by this woman who acts like no normal human.So yeah. I think I’m just on a downer caus the game opened with so much potential :/
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While playing, I remembered that different levels in BioShock were written & developed by different people – one of the stand outs being Sander Cohen + Fort Frolic.
I was reminded of this towards the end of Infinite. There’s a chapter that really stood out for me. It was by far the most fun I had in the game. It had everything in balance. You’re not there yet, but you’ll know it when you get there. The level before it wasn’t so bad either, although not quite as polished IMO.
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Also, I found Bioshock Infinite to be rather average until the ending.
The gameplay was a bit tired throughout.
The story was alright.
The ending was mindblowing.
But, thinking back on it,
I’m not entirely sure that the ending given deals with enough of the issues raised during the game. The issues with race and privilege, and with the rebellion of the Vox Populi, were kind of just there, without any proper consideration of these very powerful themes. Still, ending was mindblowing.
Gang, two things! But with the lurking mods stuff I can only link one (and making two posts is effort) so let’s go with the newerer thing.
Potaku has a Facebook page, because all the cool kids seem to be doing it these days. I’ve gotta spend some time prettying it up this weekend, but go like it if you have one of those BookFace dealies.
Also if you follow that link (or have twitter or know the website link which isn’t that hard to remember) you can find the latest podcast episode which was just put up. I haven’t listened to it yet but I’m wondering why the title is ‘This has turned into Zeitgest.’
Sorry for the plugging. Now back to regular TAY.
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I think Electric Slide should be regulation.
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You can dance! You can dance! Everybody look at your pants!
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Keep in touch with MSN Messager!
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Ahem!
ICQ
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#OldManFlu
#HashtagsForHarli
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Friday night pizza and Dota night? I think yes.
Also, did anything actually get planned for DAN!s triumphant return to Sydney tomorrow night?
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Downvote because you’re the reason I haven’t seen it yet.
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I SAID I WAS SORRY D:
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You are coming out, and after 10:30, when I am free, we are going to sensually rub each other’s heads.
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I want to meet bald-man Blaghs!
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People could assume fledau or banana pancakes? 😛
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I’m just going to straight up keep playing Clockwerk whenever I play DoTA now rather than random.
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I know you’re making light hearted fun. But since I included a picture of said albums, you kind of failed there..
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I totally missed the fact there was a link, so yeah pretty bad.
Going very guitar heavy there, enjoy-
Haha all good man 😛
Yeah, both are pretty great. Just not happy that the actual CD version of Frozen on Orianthi’s album has this weird distortion applied to the vocals and guitar that was not present in the single version, I thought my initial digital copy was to blame apparently it’s the master these were created from =/ It makes the song less enjoyable. Which is lame because it’s got a great main riff and solo.
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I bought a Galaxy Tab 2 about three hours ago! \o/
I haven’t used it yet, cos it’s taking ages to charge! /o\
@jimu Apparently the Sorceress in Dragon’s Crown has mastery of Gravity magic.
I can imagine she had two very large reasons to get good at that. :V
Am I missing something here? Samsung just announced a 6.3 inch display phone.. Are we now inhabited by people who have severe cases of gigantism with their hands or something? I thought the Note II was big enough at what 5.5 inches?
Next I won’t know what’s a Samsung phone and what’s a Samsung tablet D=
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Yeah I agree on this one. I dont get the big phone thing either. Umm… I have nothing else to add. KIDS THESE DAYS RIGHT!
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I’m all for more display but, I thought the SGSIII was pushing the limits at 4.8 inches of what a phone needs lol.
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What you’re seeing is convergence.
The bulk of what people use their phones for now isn’t phone calls. Video chat is super easy. You play games on it, browse the web – you’re probably more likely to text someone than phone them.
So basically, the phone and the tablet are essentially the same thing in different form factors.
What everything is converging toward is a mid-size tablet / large phone around 5-7″. I suspect if you were able to peek at the future ten years from now, that’s what people will have. Probably wearing bags or small pouches to hold them too.
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I carry around a phone and a tablet and I swear if my tablet was smaller so I could get it into my pocket so I could sneak into the toilets with it…
Came very close to buying one of the 7″ Android tablets but really want 3G.
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Deterrent. You have to have the best camera phone to ensure no one else will try and sneak pictures of you.
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He said as the police cuffed him and escorted him out of the office building, coworkers stunned that the sweet, soft spoken man they worked with was not the man they thought they knew.
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Actually the truth is I take it into the toilets to play minesweeper and generally slack off. 🙁
EDIT: If I had a tablet I’d totally tay from the toilet.
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Ewwwie!!!
*has read TAY while on the toilet before*
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The nexus 7 has a 3G variant I think. There wasn’t one at launch but I think they released it later.
Personally I think the 3.5-4.5 inch screen size is perfect for the phone market. Anything more and it starts to become an awkward piece to hold and store in your pocket, as far as a phone goes.
Is there a remake being done of Flashback? Article was too long for my tiny span of concentration, but I wish to know the answer. He was all reminiscent of past tales of dodgy app purchases I cared not to hear about.
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Yeah it was just announced. Original guy is doing it too. Apparently he secured a government grant from France to do it.
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YESSS! Best news! Thanks mang for the summary! Is it ipad and whatnots only though? It looked like one of those dealies from afar. Or is it pc too?
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Bah, I have a real annoyance with ONE song on Orianthi’s new album ‘Heaven In This Hell’ track six Frozen, the vocals and lead guitar seem to have had distortion applied to them, I originally thought when I got the album digitally it was just an issue there, but now that I have a physical copy it’s still present and it doesn’t help the song at all.
I find it weird because it was the first single from the song and I bought the single when it came out and the single version is clean, not distorted like the album version..
Went to see Jurassic Park in 3D. Normal screen size rather than Imax or Vmax. Was still really good though. The lighting and sound was a lot better than I remember it being on the DVD I’ve got of it. There were a surprising amount of young kids in the cinema. Like 5 year old young. None of them fled the cinema in terror though, so I guess it was all good. I remember when I was a kid my mum taped it when it was being shown on TV and purposely didn’t tape the scarier bits so I had a censored version of the film to watch. She left in the bit where the T-Rex eats the Gallimimus though, because she knew T-Rex was my favourite.
Repost because reasons man, reasons.
I don’t know why people lurk(ed) TAY. Wouldn’t it feels weird reading other people’s conversations without joining in or contributing :P? I guess there’s some game talk and discussions so it’ll be like reading the comments of an article but we also talk about some weird shit in here too 😀
I remember seeing @nomad sneakily lurking and upvoting things and I bought that motherfucker into TAY. Even @spaghett posted a little bit on older comments but like the champ I am I responded and we talked about stuff.
ARE ANY LURKERS READING THIS!? JOIN US. DON’T BE SCARED.
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This guy!
And here I was thinking Friday night and weekend TAY was just a Green and @dc dealio… except he’s all social and stuff.
Jerk.
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I lurked in ages past, when TAY discussions were different. It was a simpler time, where we might only go through two or three pages in a week. I avoided joining in for my own reasons, I was worried that I might not be accepted, the community was already so tight-knit that I wasn’t sure how new people would be greeted.
Also, I’m a super creepy stalker guy, so, you know, lurking is my nature.
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Pfft I just straight up asked people what job they had because I needed advice. TAY was such a simpler time then…
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HI DRAW PIPES GUY
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I don’t know why people lurk(ed) TAY. Wouldn’t it feels weird reading other people’s conversations without joining in or contributing :P?
Something something teamspeak something? 😛
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i’m pretty sure it was like that the last time i went on teamspeak, when the incident happened.-
Incident? As in you being drunk and rambling about things? 😀
I didn’t have a mic (aside from a USB Guitar Hero one) but then Beavwa gave me his old headset (which then made me sound like I had bees in my mouth according to Nobulus), but now I have a proper gaming headset but haven’t used it because A. I don’t play any games that needs it and B. I don’t go on TeamSpeak because of A.
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Hahaha excellent Greeny! I have a rebuttal: 1. I usually don’t have anything interesting to say, and 2. Because of the way I work, I’m either driving to job sites, or rushing my way through each job, with little downtime.
Either that or I’m trying to become the Manly Upvote Lurker Fairy!
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Hey, we hardly ever have anything interesting to say either, you don’t see that stopping us! 😛
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Oh man, I lurked so hard for ages! Back when TAY was just Chuloopa and Qumulus(?) talking to each other the whole week. Now look what I’ve become!
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Qumulys.
I miss Q-bo. The time he melted his keyboard was hilarious.
“When he melted his keyboard was hilarious.” – Preserved for all eternity for the benefit of Fled. Edit(2): Tempted to re-edit this, because while less bad, the seed has been sown, and it cannot be undone. Dammit, now I know how D.C. feels! -
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I lurked for ages, and I think it was a post by @strange along similar lines to this that made me actually post on TAY at all.
Even now I don’t really post that regularly… tends to be “bursty”.
Edit because apparently I can’t type very well.
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By then you’d already made a name for yourself in Remember This? though, right?
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Yes, I had done those silly “Remember This?” Mr. Squiggle-y things, but not actually talked to people much at all.
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I loved those things! I always responded whenever I could to them because I wanted you to keep doing more. 😀
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Konami lawn mower race was my GOTY
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I never lurked, I saw TAY one day when Mark posted it, so I popped in said hi and didn’t bother to show myself out.
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A lot of people lurked for a fair while before posting. I know I did. A lot of people probably still do ( HI LURKERS! 😀 ). It’s a way to gauge a community before deciding if you want to join in, it’s a way of psyching yourself up, it’s probably for some people just something to do, another place to effortlessly waste time on the internet. Maybe even for some people we’re like a soap opera to them. 😛
But yes, lurkers you are all welcome. Don’t be scared but just remember when you finally take the step that although you know almost everything about us, we know hardly anything about you.
So tell us your darkest secrets so we can all be on equal footing. 😛-
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But I did talk to you about Survivor which means I was scared? 😛
I AM CONFUS
Sheri spoke of a plan! Erik is derpier than you think! Why do you think everyone is so stupid! Malcolm was cool in his previous season but now he’s all dudebro :(! -
You didn’t respond to my proper talk about it(until now!) that I told you go back and read after watching.
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/04/talk-amongst-yourselves-219/comment-page-17/#comment-1156942I’m only watching it so I can talk to you about it and you let me down! 🙁
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I didn’t know you wanted me to respond! This was just like @sughly when I read his comment but he wanted us (me) to respond too 😛
I read it after you commented on my post and we discussed some things on mine!
But I’ll keep that in mind and we’ll talk all the Survivor <3
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They all talk too much and blab to the wrong people because they think they’re smart. That’s why I think they’re all stupid. I liked Sheri better when she didn’t have a “plan”, now she’s just bitter and bitchy, judging others for doing the exact same things she was doing.
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Reply to your comments on Sug’s post:
I too watched it while eating lunch! Survivor lunch buddies! He played his first season a lot smarter. She doesn’t seem like the type to fake one, you take that back about Dawn! :(. Cochran is so loveable! :D.Cochran’s and Dawn’s season wasn’t too great but those two were rad! (and also Ozzy)
Watch Malcolm’s season! It’s actually a really good one and it’s the one directly before this current one. He was a bit dudebro at the start but I grew to like him 🙂
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Okay, I’ll track down the pretty man’s season. 😀
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@strange – fair warning, certain people are going to piss you off bigtime @sughly knows what I’m talking about
(names of the people that pissed us off)
Abi! Lisa! UGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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I jumped right in and pretended I was a regular, if memory serves me right here. 😛 Was just like ‘hey what’s going on [something about Assassin’s Creed here] hope you’re all well’.
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Ya, I know I did!
I was all “yo who’s Aleph?!” in TeamSpeak
With typed words though, god forbid they were spoken.
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I spoke to you before! I don’t remember why but I said “Hi” to you once! And another time I spoke and Pyrean was all “OMFG!”
But yeah, @beavwa’s mic was full of bees
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It’s still generating buzz.
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We also sat at opposite ends of the table so I had my own little crew 😛
@negativezero @f4ction @budgieishere
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There was also fed square and the bar!
Mine was complaining about how long Ozgameshop was taking to deliver SKYRIM! And then the next day I posted saying “its here, its here, its here” I remember being so excited for that game. Ah memories….
And yeah, didn’t look back after that. Everyone was so welcoming. Decided I liked it here and set up shop. And you’re never getting rid of me again. NEVER
I jumped right in.
Been around before the days of page gets, @’s, Bold, Italic, and Underlinable comments, and spoiler tags.
Man, I feel so old now…
Mrs Oliver went all out with tea tonight. Steamed pork buns, home made chips, humungous burgers and sushi with prawns in them. Too much food! But so good!
Now back to stressing about accounting.
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Every time you post one of these kinds of posts I feel like you three are a little family and it warms my bitter heart.
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She cooks for me because food goes off quickly and she can’t buy amounts just for the two of them 😛
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Okay,about to put the second kid to bed. What to do after that?
MQFT!
W
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V
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Which one should I do?
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Dream Evil, as in the song by the Dio fronted Black Sabbath off the album Heaven & Hell? Good song. Or is it some band i’ve never heard of as well? 😛
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_Evil
Half-right. 😉
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Well, I was correct either way 😛 So I was full-right! haha.
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Xenoblade? Because the room the Wii is in is the family room and it’s a LEGO deathtrap at the moment and I can’t be bothered cleaning it up. 😛
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Yeah, at the moment – but how come you stopped playing however long ago it was? :O
Did you end up beating Graces or starting Ni no?
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Beat the main game of Graces, almost beat the extra story bit. Procrastinating because I don’t want it to be over. 🙁
Started Ni No but only got to the very start when you first get control before my son woke up. Will get back to it eventually, as with Xenoblade.To be honest, I haven’t played much games for a fair few weeks now, too much sewing to get done.
Oh, and the room’s been that messy for that long. 😛
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Well, I needed a consensus and there was none, so looks like I’ll have to do ALL THE THINGS! Except ‘W’. I only would have done ‘W’ if everyone had picked it.
Damn you Voltorb Flip. Why you so addicting? I’m supposed to be training for Chuck. I shall justify it by saying I need the TMs.
So Aus Post followed through and disappointed me, I already have trust issues they don’t need to make it worse D=
Got paid, and promptly spent roughly $1200 on video games and new server hardware.
I like being single with no children.
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Uhhh….. pretty much a whole new system for my game/file server thingy, along with Company of Heroes 2, Dead Island Riptide, XCOM and associated DLC, as well as the Defiance season pass. =D
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Dark Souls \o/
Painted World, suck it. I found the shortcut, slayed a huge undead dragon, met the Phalanx, and am going to die a bunch more times \o/
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What Shane said but you’re not supposed to be playing with friends. The game is designed to play with randoms so it’s really hard to play with friends, but it’s still totally viable with randoms.
Took Rize and I like 10 minutes to end up in each other’s game. But once you kill a boss or clear an area the “summoned” player turns human and leaves your game.
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I was planning on playing more Dark Souls next but Bioshock gave me a headache so I’m just going to go be a girly mcgirlerson and eat icecream while watching Vampire Diaries. I’m three weeks behind. That’s how long it’s been since my son had a nap.
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My son tried. But he’s not the boss, I am. 😛
Besides, it was really only the last two years anyway. Before that he only slept sporadically and would not settle into any kind of routine, let alone a routine naptime.
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I still had naps on the weekend while in year 1. I was mega well trained. Also, naps were rad.
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man i dont normally whine about kotaku news, but im seriously getting sick of 80% of articles being mass effect related…. enough already! get over it!
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im seriously over it, first its art, then the characters, then the vehicles, then the writers then then then……
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It’s Mass Effect Week.
It’s nearly over.
Better than 80% of articles being about nothing. 😛There’s actually been some really good articles that wouldn’t otherwise have existed so I don’t mind. I have minded the constant complaining of people within those articles though. If they didn’t want to see ME articles then why did they bother opening them?
Also, there’s a Mass Effect Week tag. I’m not sure how you do it, but I’m pretty sure you can set up Kotaku to show everything but a particular tag.
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I like the concept. It’s interesting seeing what different approaches a group of writers take on one topic. Not all of them have been great (the ‘hey this moment was pretty cool’ article was a bit of a lazy dud, for example) but some cool stuff has sprung from the idea.
So I played some more Bioshock Infinite.
I haven’t even met Elizabeth yet. 😛
I had to stop because the shootiness was wearing me down. Melee was funner,but way gorier. 😛 I did drop off a hook and go into someone’s house and find a locked box that gave me a questy thing to go find the key though. That was cool. 🙂
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im dying to get into it…. it will run well on my current set up but im planning on grabbing a GTX580 tomorrow for $120 with 12 months waranty \o/
also melee rocks
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Even better! Weird thing to find at cashies though hahaha.
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The best part? I bought it and it turns out the card was BRAND NEW still sealed inside and the copy of BF3 and ark ham city were still redeemable!
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Wow, so someones knocked it off and cashed it in by the sounds, ha!
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Evening all. Hope you’re well. I’m pretty good.
So… what’s going on?
@shane – I believe you and your wife had some awesome news today \o/ \o/ \o/
I hope the little fellow is feeling better now too.
Was totally gonna restart DARK SOULS tonight, but I’m just. So. Tired.
One thing I don’t look forward to is when I one day have children, those little fiends will wear me out so ill be this tired all of the days.
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After you have kids, you’ll look back on days like this and think “Pfft! I wasn’t tired at all” 😛
Epic night tonight. Put my head down, bum up, and got three more pages of The Game completed. Would be awesome if I could get this bowled over by year’s end. \o/
Edit: I think it’s because @dc wasn’t here. Yep.
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I already had that reward… before I started working. By this time of night, my eyelids have been drooping for about two hours, and sleep is the best reward I can think of 😛
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hahahaha, thanks Smurfy, though TECHNICALLY my birthday is on Sunday…. so kinda cheating having my party today!
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the cake is not a lie!!! http://i.imgur.com/dmujLiq.jpg
seriously though, my wifey is awesome….
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put it on a catapult and fire it into the sky for the sake of authenticity. She’ll understand.
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Oh wow!
I guess I might be able to call in sick on Sunday?
Actually no, but I might drop by for a bit if that’s OK.
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Send me an email mytag at hotmails dot com!!!
The right thing to do is call in sick man, you know it is!!!!!!-
With work tomorrow, and after having my nephew all day, I’m not going anywhere tonight.
(I’m about 1.5 hours away in the hills)
Hope you all have a great time 🙂
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Salt and chilli and salt and beer and Tom Cruise carefully explaining every nuance of the plot so noone is left out.
If any of you guys want to re-live the radio ads from the GTA series you can do so here
http://www.rockstargames.com/advertisingcouncil/#/1992?id=1661
Man, the radio stations on GTA were great.
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oh man the ad’s in vice city
“Rated R for Retarded”
such a juvenile joke but it made me and my brother laugh every time.
Rather awesome night with all the old buddies from o week! We even did the fresher dance and all! The fuzziest week of my life seems a lot longer than not quite 2 months ago, although it makes me happy to be a part of the Christ family 🙂 What an awesome bunch of people.
I’m a bit concerned I’ve been drunk 4 nights out of the past week though :l
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I’m a little jealous of the great time you seem to be having at Uni 😛
I wish I had those memories to look back on. I didn’t really socialise at uni much at all, though I had a very active social life outside of uni 🙂 I still wish I’d taken the time to make new friends back then. :/As for the drinking thing? Don’t worry about it as long as it is just a Uni thing. There’ll never be another time in your life when you can act like this and it’s all OK, so enjoy it while it lasts 😉
Okay, so I played some Bioshock Infinite, watched some Vampire Diaries and sewed a sleeve but didn’t play Dark Souls or wash any dishes. Wish I’d felt like playing Dark Souls but I’m still happy with my effort to do it all. 😀
And now it’s time to go to bed and pretend I’m not scared to sleep alone. 😛
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Somebody needs to invent an audio version of TAY so you can sleep with the soothing sounds of TAY and not be afraid.
Segments like:
Diet and Health with D,C-“Begin your morning with the *edit*taste of kettle chips, burn off the *edit*with some nervous pacing and exercise your *edit* muscles with generous use of the edit button”
The Dark souls hour brought to you by the lesser evil hosted by Shane of ShaneWsmith.com–
“Welcome children to the dark souls hour. Praise the lesser evil, umm sorry I meant sun.The sun starts with the letter S though just like Shanewsmith.com. Puns”The Effluvium and Notorious audio spectacular– For some reason this show is all quiet because the two hosts did not realise that gifs and jpegs do not work on radio.
Dinosaurs with Master Pow– “Life is like dinosaurs. One day you will be extinct.”
Damn, Master Pow can get grim.
Dicks with Ynefel-“Dicks are important and with this 10 step process I will show you how to integrate them more into your everyday life. DICKS”
How to shave your beard with BeardyMc-“Step one, throw all your shaving kits away because you are never shaving your beard!”
The Spoiler section with Strange-“Shhh Spoilers! Ugh, I haven’t watched Shh yet. SPOILERS!”Yeah it’s a weird segment what with you hearing your own voice
Wow. A lot of this TAY audio might keep me awake though. Damn we need to work on this.
P.S
This was all meant in a joking manner so I hope I didn’t offend anyone. It’s just poking fun.
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I walked home in the rain. I’m soaked to the freakin’ bone. Awesome night, though. Sughly, Freeze and Mrs. Freeze are incredibly good people. Food was awesome. Movie was decent.
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NO! >-(
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Oblivion was seen. Mexican food was eaten. 😀
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A Dark Souls rally cry and a fully edited comment and still no takers.
DAMN.
I guess I need to go to bed then.
Goodnight and good morning TAY.
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I hope that all you lovely people are doing something fun this weekend, I’m about to head to work D: blurgle
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My weekend fun is not going to work.
Seriously though, my deepest sympathies. May your day be speedy and devoid of busy.
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Because you haven’t experienced Xenoblade!
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I will get involved, I promise! What if I don’t like it?! 🙁 the pressure is far too great.
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Then you’re dead to me.
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I can’t handle this kind of pressure! *jumps out the nearest window*
Is anyone else excited for the new pokemon game or am I the only ten year old here?
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@tottlebud x and y? There’s an adundance of excitement for it in here, of which I am part part of
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@tottlebud Plenty of Poke-fans here. Especially myself @powalen, Sughly of course, @greenius too when he’s frothing at the mouth over Xenoblade 😛
Also I haven’t spoken to you before, so Hi Welcome, all that jazz. 🙂
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@tottlebud It’s harder to find people who aren’t fans of Pokemon in here 😛
@novacascade you’re just bitter that I’m the reigning champ!
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What if I don’t like it?!
Then lie when @greenius is around…
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I work at a JB HiFi, it’s pretty standard D: I have tomorrow off though so beers are in order for tonight!
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Rad, mates rates!
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M8s r8s for days, bro!
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Don’t worry, while I have reception, I’ll have nothing better to do than sit on TAY! YAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!
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RAWR!!
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BUY XENOBLADE
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Better idea, PLAY DARK SOULS!
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http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/04/talk-amongst-yourselves-219/comment-page-19/#comment-1158497
So it’s not missed 🙂
(@masha2932)
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Oh! Yeah 🙂 I thought I might have missed soemthign serious though, like ‘@greenius’ job plight!
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Dear TAY,
I just watched a trailer for a recently released AAA title which featured ‘cinematic setpiece – traverse a collapsing structure’ gameplay. I recall playing through similar sections in other games and put to the collective the following:
The gameplay element ‘cinematic setpiece – traverse a collapsing structure’ breaks immersion for me due to being highly improbable. Please note I don’t mean unrealistic, because these games represent fiction. However within the fantasy world, there are usually maths/ physics/ mechanics similar to our own world.
So the first time you jump and catch a ledge and everything breaks around you except the one ledge/ beam/ step etc that you caught, you might consider yourself very lucky. The second time it happens, then wow really lucky indeed. By the third time that everything around you breaks but by chance you land on the one tiny foot hold in all that mess it is a bit hard to swallow.
I guess I’m saying that showing a character having amazing skill is one thing, but showing them having amazing luck is another, and for me, a whole lot harder to ‘believe’.
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Which game are you referring too?
I know when I was playing through Uncharted 3 I had the same feeling, too many “lucky” set pieces :(. Although I think my main complaint with that was just having to “play” through the set pieces rather than the idea behind them (of being extremely lucky)
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Trailer was Tomb Raider ‘climbing the ziggerat’.
Games that come to mind are AC:R and Enslaved.
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GUYSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS I’m bored of refreshing already
What’s the plan for the weekend?
For me it’s just bum around and play Monster Hunter and start to apply for dem graduate jobs. And of course the usual watch Whose Line while reading TAY
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I was talking to Pyrean about not playing it much. I might be up for some more Torchlight II sometime this weekend!
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I’ll throw you an invite if we get a game started (probably yell at you on twitter).
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Yell at me on Twitter!
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NO!
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Big pocket.
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All in 5 cent coins
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I was going to do domestic stuff… and I really should stick to that plan, but I got a cramp in my leg last night and can’t walk today, so that’s fun.
The immediate plan is deciding whether I stay in bed all day, or whether I move a metre so I can play gaems on my desktop.
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but I got a cramp in my leg last night
Sounds like a potasium defficancy – you should eat some more avocado
and twitter and TAY became one
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Let’s see, going up to Sydney, hanging out with Tayfronds, seeing a super duper manly musical (certainly manlier than the last one I went up to Sydney to see), hopefully drinking with Tayfronds, seeing my cute little cousins.
And then I get to go house sitting for two weeks! Wooooo.
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Are you going to click along?
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Is the Pope an old man?
Wait, I think I did that wrong.
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… I’m still waiting for an answer.
IS the pope an old man?
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yeah pretty sure he is.
/imagines world where the cardinals elect a young hot chick
/converts to catholosism
/first confessional is about typos.
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Just watched more Dragon’s Crown trailer.
Can’t get up from desk without having to have the birds and bees talk with kids :S
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I saw one trailer for that knight guy but right at the very end… Jesus Christ 😐 isn’t that bit too much?
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isn’t that bit too much?
Usually I’d say ‘yes’ but for this game I think ‘no, it’s perfect!’
eg I’m not interested in DOAs jiggle but for some reason the whole Dragon’s Crown package does it for me.
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Don’t forget Soul Calibur and Ninja Gaiden 😛
Tone it down Japan!
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I don’t mind either way. There’s a limit in either direction though.
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Is that serious? Tone it down Japan?
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Never played them but I did play Mortal Kombat and they didn’t jiggle at all.
It’s not the size but the extremely weird jiggle physics 😛
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I see. I get the reverse. Boobs move in real life, I find it weird when they stay still like two watermelons.
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@jimu – yeah I remember when you talked about it and I agree but there’s two ends of the spectrum and there needs to be more balance 😛
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Yeah, for sure. Thing with Dragons Crown is, that everything is exaggerated.
Take a look at the colossal arms on the male knight.For me, it fits within the desin of the rest of the world.
It stands out in DoA because the guys seem to be closer to real.
In MK it fits too, cos even a little guy has pecs as big as Sony’s boobs.
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I’m actually super keen on the game, awesome animation, music and gameplay. 😀 😀 😀
Hopefully I’ll have a PS3 by then so we can mp it up!
Forewarning: I will only play as one of the chicks 😛
Im getting it for Vita & there’s no cross-play (because reasons).
So, errrrrr get a Vita?
Ok, P4A, Virtue’s Last Reward and all that
Good guy Greenius spots a lurker and makes him feel welcome (Hi @wilbur!) so let’s all do the same 😀
In reply to your previous comment, I felt that same way about TAY but I just popped in anyway and haven’t left (sorry everyone :P). It’s much easier now with notifications so feel free to pop in and say something here and there!
As for Monster Hunter a fair few of us on TAY have the game so we all played together, so much easier playing with a group of friends rather than randoms as you can do stuff that benefits everyone without hassle so just ask around and I’m sure people will be more than willing to play :D. There’s actually quite a few people around HR3/4 so you’ll be fine in finding someone!
@platinum-urchin and I used to play with everyone but then we played too much and now we’re too high so it’s just us at G-rank (HR6+) :P. It’s lonely…
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Oh man, a lurker!? sounds a bit devious!
Ok, cool beans. I’ll keep my eyes peeled for anything to do with MH. Now that its mid semester break i can see myself playing too much (who am i kidding there’s no such thing) and making a fair bit of progress.
Thanks!
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Haha, wilbuuuur! So hope its this wilbur http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01293/mred_1293879i.jpg
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My handsomeness only reaches that level when i go to a particular hairdresser.
Plus i lost Ed.
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Glue factory?
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Maccas.
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Oh man, when MH3U came out I was pretty sick so I took a week off of Uni which was then followed by a week long “mid-semester” Easter break. I ended up playing it for like 10 hours a day, which is why I’m so far ahead 😛
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Yo lappy batteries going flat and too much of a pain to plug in b/c babies are on rampage. I’ll charge up and catch ya later
DARK SOULS
Cleared out The Painted World. Got the dagger and took down Priscilla first try. She never even became visible. Win. And then I forgot to grab the Xanthous set on my way out. Accidentally took one step too far past it and… cutscene. Damn it 😛
I’ve now remembered the problem with car trips with my family. The sarcasm level hits a critical mass, so I have to watch everything that anyone says. It becomes an exercise in paranoia.
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*mutters* something something oblivious mexicans something something.
My homemade fajitas were pretty damn awesome though, you guys missed out. 😛
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HAHA! Totally is! John C Reilly, came to me as soon as I saw his face XD I love him so much.
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Jeez. You go out for one night and the kids start letting strays in.
@tottlebud @wilbur, rooms are on the left down the hall. Clean the toilet after use and don’t touch my popsicles in the freezer. I’m serious. Don’t. Dire things will result.
Also your names are now Kerry and Baz. You two can sort out who’s who.
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lololol! Perstephanie XD
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It’s better than Belinda, though. Right? 😛
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this confuses me, and when im confused…. i pee. EVERYWHERE!
…..toilet use may not be an issue.
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You so crazy, Patrice!
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Thems the rules, Baz.
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Remember, whoever chooses Kerry gets imbued with the timeless and ageless headpiece currently starring on Kerry O’Brien.
Sally in Oblivion last night was Melissa Leo. D: Haha, didn’t pick that at all even though she’s a series regular on Treme.
@Sughly, not letting me reply to your x&y comment but I am SUPER excited!! I am at a have-red-and-pikachu-tattooed-on-my-body level of Pokemon dedication (Pokedication?) and can’t wait. Despite this meaning I have to buy a 3DS 😛
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Ohhh man, pokemans! I’m just trying to think of all the pokemans peeps in here… I’m going to fail miserably at this. @powalen? @greenius? I know @jimu is. I’m liking the new designs so far, even if there has only been around 4 (but one of those mentioned above is going to great extents to not see what they look like… I dont remember who XD). But yep yep, tres excited!
Also, 3DS’ are good mang! Well worth the purchase! They have, ah… hold on… well… a lot of peeps in here had an ongoing obsession with Final Fantasy Theatrhythm, which is amazing. And Zelda! Even if it is a remake. Aaaand Mario Kart, is good. Even if I do suck at it.
Also should totally show a pic of said tattoo. Or… said tattoo when its done (?)
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Helloooooooooo
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You’re not my real dad, don’t tell me what to do!
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No, you were mentioned.
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I’m definitely down for the 3D OoT as well! Also the latest Prof. Layton games. Can’t wait to get involved! 😀
Also here is my feet. I have nothing but pop cultures tattoos… It’s an addiction and I need to stop D:
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If it was on reddit, it was probably this other person’s feet! Mine are floating around Tumblr but there was a post that popped up about 18 months after I got mine did on Reddit, cue the flood of “YOUR FEET ARE ON THE INTERNET!!” facebook wall links haha 😀
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I don’t do Tumblr or Reddit, though yeah, have probably seen them somewhere on the innernette.
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Did you really? Thats purdy cool! But… I got to say… I probably still wouldnt be brave enough to do it XD
I think I associate more closely with those who sheepishly mosey around eb to get meloetta kinda deal. I play pokemans with the screen facing away from the aisles on the bus. I AM FULL OF SHAME!
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I couldn’t unsee the Pikanips (the camera looked like Pikachu’s nips) so didn’t buy that model 😛
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Haha, nobs 3ds has pikanips
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Pikanips is my new fave word!
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Kotaku has a reply limit so just reply to the one above and tag the people you wanted to reply to or just post a new comment.
Working on a Saturday is the worst.
At least the view is alright. http://sphotos-e.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/533353_10151388836153657_14248750_n.jpg
So…did anyone actually plan anything for tonight?
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I tossed out the idea of Mojo at 7. It hasn’t met with any objections, but no confirmations either, so…shrug.
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…that means I have 2hrs to kill between 5 and 7
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The earliest I can be in the city is around 6:30ish, I’m afraid. But we could grab a horrible McGreasealds dinner if need be.
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My comment sounded more whiney than intended. But something along the lines about you being the worst and whatnot.
Damn! I could’ve gone to Kino and spent my gift voucher but I don’t have it with me 🙁
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We can street pass!
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I charged my 3DS and everything!
What time is your thingy?
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We need a @dc in Sydney to organise things. Get the scientists working on the cloning technology!
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Trjn was good at planning stuff. When I was all indecisive about the ParaNommin’ meat, he made definitive plans! 😀
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I use ’em so much, I think I can justify actually buying a decent pair this time. Thanks though! 😀
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headphones? earphones? earbuds?
I have tons of new decent inner-earbud things if you want one 😀
Because Mr. Strange is away my plan was to take the kids to see a movie today. There are three problems with that plan. The torrential rain, the fact that the top-up I did on my GO-card is listed as “pending”, and Mr. Strange forgot to leave me the free tickets we had that needed to be used up. 😛
I just hope the rain eases up tonight because otherwise my plan of us walking up to get McDonalds for dinner for a treat will be ruined as well….
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Unless he’s got access to some sort of weather machine and is a super villain of some sort! D:
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Well if the power goes out again this time, we’ll know for sure he’s really a super villian. 😛
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Upvote for cool kid ideas! (ie ideas that I usually have, and tend to repeat. Over and over. Because I have no imagination)
Beach House coming uuuuup!! Oh man, SO GOOD! I just… have to put up with Of monsters and men in the meantime :'(
I will persevere, for Beach house.
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So cool how Coachella and YouTube do this though. More festivals should try it, really cool to see people play live and also gets you hyped to go to one of these things some day!
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Cant be live though, since Local Natives was nighttime and now its day again :/ Delayed, I guess.
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Minor cool little detail, I like how the page theming changed from day to night. Cool attention to detail.
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I’ve only ever heard the radio song OMAM have. They seem okay from what I’m hearing now. Not my usual, but nice.
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Yeah theyre nice. Nice… but its a sound that gets old pretty quick I reckon. All the songs kind of blend one into another. That truncated singing is getting a little grating too.
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Haha, just as I read that I was thinking how annoying that was. I’ve had enough now. Next band please.
Edit: Holy shit, channel 2 is where it’s at right now!
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It’s night on channel 2. 😀
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Haha! Not sure if serious. Havent heard these guys before. Its ah… hmmm…
Oh god. Definitely you are not being serious.
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They’re beautiful in their terribleness.
So bad. So, so bad.
Edit: You’ve got angst in your pants. Brilliant.
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Their banter at the crowd is all weird and off-putting too. Language barrier and all that. Haha.
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Haha, nahhh I think theyre doing well with the crowd
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I guess to add to @freezespreston’s earlier comment
@tottlebud @wilbur – here are a couple of handy links! Welcome to the community!
http://www.potaku.com <– Community content site
tinyurl.com/taynames <— Google docs document with peoples gamertags, twitter details etc
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How did you even see this DC?!
More like Stalkius.
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@greenius – I seem to recall wiping the floor with you last time “Champ”. But I’m up for a rematch right now. Or anytime
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The first time we played and did the random only thing you beat me a fair amount but I also beat you and it was pretty even between all of us.
The second (and last time) we played I won every single game except for one where I lost to CJ. Played everyone few times each and won.
But of course being random only it was just luck, but it’s still something to brag about 😀
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Into youth without youth please please….. yessss!!
edit: oh dang Beach house has started. Bye Metric XD
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Hey Beach House, the ’80s called and want their synth back! 😛
Edit: Though they ain’t too bad at all.
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HAHA! Blaaah, their synth sounds nothing like 80’s synth anyhoo.
Maaan… want to marry Victoria so much right now.
So much love for this band.
“Any way you ruuuun, you run before us…. black and white horse, arching amooong uuuuus!!” :’D
So hope they close with Myth.
MYYYYTHH!! :’D That cry is spine tinglingly good. Dont you think Sughly? I think so Sughly. Ahuh, ahuh.
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*backs away slowly*
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This is so effing good XD
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My phone seems to be playing up, so Cakesmith, the show’s 8 at the Capitol, so not too far away from stuff.
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It’s cityish, I’ve seen a coupla shows there before. It’s where we’ll be going when we have a group to see The Lion King early next year (which is definitely happening).
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Lion King again? I’ve never seen musicals nor know much about them but would it be that exact same show from 7ish years ago?
I always heard that it was “the one to see”.
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The Broadway and West End versions have been playing continuously since the ’90s. This’ll be a different cast and touring show than last time, most likely.
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Those Dell IPS monitors look rather tempting and rather cheap.. 23 inch IPS monitor for only 270 bucks?!
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On their website!
They only seem to do IPS monitors now too. Which is interesting (okay so their 20″ is a TN panel). When you go anything bigger the price doubles :S
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Gaaaahh, so tempting. Really shouldnt, and wont though. Spent too much money recently, and have a monitor that works XD
But hot damn that is tempting. Always wanted to have a Dell for a monitor, they seem to have way better colour accuracy than others I’ve seen.
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Yeah IPS monitors are the sort you want for true colour reproduction, not entirely ideal for gaming due to their slower refresh rate (8ms big deal) and they also have a much greater viewing angle. IPS (In-Plane Switching) are the panels used in most if not all smart phones.
You’re the type of person that would benefit from one with your graphic design.. I’m so not helping, sorry 😛
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@cakesmith
Good news! I may be able to head in earlier. Bad news, I may have to buy you a new birthday present…
@sughly
METRIC AHHHHHH SO GOOD
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They were! Or are, it seems. But I had to switch to Beach house, one of my all time faves ^_^ (was sad to though, Metric were sounding great!)
What were some of the songs on the setlist?
(Haha, Alex from Beach house is such a groover)
Onto Purity Ring! (also loving what Pains of being pure at heart have to say about piracy, really awesome attitude)
Oh wait, yeah yeahs yeahs have started! Watch them until PR comes on XD
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Okay MEMORY POWERS ACTIVATE!
Opened with Artificial Nocturne and Youth Without Youth, then Help I’m Alive…Synthetica and Breathing Underwater were in there somewhere…Dead Disco…Gold Guns Girls, pretty sure I heard Sick Muse…and it ended with a relatively quiet version of Gimme Sympathy, which was AWESOME.So mostly off their latest two albums.
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I think that was the encore version of this mornings thing, alas.
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Well there I was, about to wrap it an hour ago, when I noticed it was missing from my desk. Where could it have gone?
Not only did my parents see it, go ‘ooh Skyfall’ and watch it, they then lent it to a friend.-
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OHHH NOW I KNOW WHY YOU HAVEN’T SEEN SKYFALL!
Good one AlexPants… :'(
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Just spent the last few hours building my new server and watching Star Wars, whilst eating pepperoni twiggy sticks. This is my idea of a Saturday.
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Everyone’s been talking about it lately, makes me feel like watching it a second time. (Last time I saw it was at the cinema in 2007. :D)
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I cannot upvote this enough. Ive rambled about it before, but I came out of the cinema literally shaking. Love it!
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I’m going to stay right away from all that stuff you cool kids love and be happy I’ve found my own music niche that makes happy. 😀
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And I feel like an outsider because they’re all strange bands I’ve never heard of before. Haha!
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Good point. Just daunting that there’s three channels with three different bands I don’t know. Intimidating!
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It’s probably an easy way to find new bands to listen to, though. Barely any effort required. And if Sughly likes it, there’s a chance you will too.
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Sughly likes synth. He’s the enemy. 😛
(Except for adventure gaming. And films. And TV. And being awesome. But music? Enemy! :P)
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Pretty sure I was recommending Arcade Fire to you before hand >:(
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I remember seeing you and Rockets talk about them, but it was mostly the Where the Wild Things Are trailer. XD (You can be credited for The National though. :D)
Edit: Actually you did recommend Neon Bible in an elevator that went a long way to making me love those folks. Haha.
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How can a gamer not like synth? 0_o
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When games started using orchestras, that was a good day. Haha!
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You’re in your own home! No need to feel like an outsider because you aren’t actually there. It’s risk-free. 🙂
The only thing I have left to do on this jacket I’m making is to attach the sleeves and finish with some topstitching. But I’m procrastinating because sleeves are scary. Attaching a concave curve to a convex curve is scary.
I’m procrastinating by spending money on the internet though because it’s payday and I can’t go out. Somebody stop me. 😛
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Okay nobody stopped me so I bought a book.
But the book inspired me to get back to my sewing and stop being tempted to buy stuff on the internet that I shouldn’t. So I’m calling it a win. 😛
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Robot Josef congratulates you for not impulse buying more stuff on the internet. (Haha! That’s kind of mean. :D)
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http://www.speedtest.net/result/2641161740.png
Just saw someone post this on a friends status.. The upload speed is 2.5x times faster than what the NBN will be giving us as max download speeds for the moment.. That’s only a lot insane.
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And here’s mine for shits and giggles:
http://www.speedtest.net/result/2642537768.png
Not sure what all that mumbo jumbo means but on a good day I can get like 1mb/s when downloading torrents 😛
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G.I Joe Retaliation is one of the dumbest movies I’ve seen.
But by god it’s been a long time since I’ve seen such a fun movie.
Also got 7 Wonders board game.
Ross Noble in a few hours! \o/
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Always seems to be crazy raining too when you’re in Brisbane. Glad you found Mind Games. That should be proof that you shouldn’t listen to the word of a hermit. Haha!
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Puuuuurityyyy Riiiing! XD So exciting!
Ok I’ll marry this lass instead, I’m ok with that. Or both.
Please tell me someone other than me is loving this!
Oh man, this closer on Fineshrine… incredible…
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I think this is one you might definitely not like ironically enough XD
But yeah, had to push it up a bit
I reckon these guys are more of a @mythamphetamine band. Or @rocketman.
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@markserrels
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Uhh… I love Purity Ring, as does Serrels.
Not saying there’s anything suss going on between he and I… Come on, he’s married!
*cough*
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HNNNNGH!
…srs?
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May have slightly overdone the specs on this server, considering what it’ll probably get used for, but good lord this thing is quick. Turns out it can be my LAN PC as well, because I went with micro ATX form factor, and got a tidy little case to put it all in. So day to day it’ll be running my DayZ, and Tekkit servers, and in the future it’ll be my Arma3 dedicated box. It’s also running standard shit like FTP server etc. Then, if I’m going to LAN it up, I can just disconnect it and throw it in my car and go somewhere. Brilliant!
My main rig is just too big and heavy with all the blocks and water cooling and shit anyway.
I’ve got post meat blues. Haha. They’re better than the regular blues, though — since they have awesome memories attached to them. 😀
Interesting thing about GI Joe Retaliation and Channing Tatum. Spoilers if anyone is really worried.
He has one of the top billings and yet is in the movie for all of 5 minutes.
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Sleeping Dogs spoilers.
Like Emma Stone in Sleeping Dogs. First name credited I think and barely in there at all. D:
Hi all (including @bdkiaf)
After a couple of quiet weeks, Annie’s been in fine voice the last few days. Top of her game.
Don’t miss these ones.
Edit: link removed because.
Edit 2: link restored \o/ http://shanewsmith.com/anniestories/ because fixed
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http://shanewsmith.com/anniestories/
Edit; This link works for me, hope it’s ok for everyone else
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That works for me too. Weird.
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Thanks dude. I fixed it up, hopefully won’t happen again. That’s the link!
To be safe, everyone should just subscribe using the RSS button at the bottom! \o/ 😀
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After that massive debacle last time, I set in place a bunch of plugins that are supposed to prevent this from happening. But even if they fail at that, they can overwrite the affected file as soon as I know there’s a problem. So it’s a matter of a minute or two to rectify.
If the issue recurs quickly, there’s a bigger problem 😛
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Now that I’m back, I trust your writing productivity has plummeted? 😛
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We’ll see tonight when Writing Time officially kicks off.
PS you know I was totally joking before, right?
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Maybe. I assume I’m so unproductive myself, that it spreads to all in contact with me. 😛
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@dc, I’ll take responsibility for my own productive ebb. It’s not for you to feel guilty if I enjoy your online company! 🙂
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@shane – what’s the best way to buy The Lesser Evil? By which I mean, which benefits you the most? I’m looking to buy all three.
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Wait a short while. Digital eds and omnibus end are coming any day (past due from the dates my publisher gave me).
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Don’t think it will be, but time will tell. I don’t know if this is normal, but my publisher isn’t great with the sharing of details where plans are concerned… Hardcover would be every kind of awesome though!!
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Email Shane at the famous email that everyone knows! sha NEWS mith!
That way you can get signed copies 😀
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Pretty sure uni pals hang there from time-to-time. D: Good thing they’re out of town at the moment. 😀
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@sughly: Just realized you can rewind the broadcast for Coachella. Not sure how long that’ll be possible, but if you want to watch the Metric set you missed here it is.
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Thanks for that. I can now watch the Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra set I missed 😀
Edit: In case you’re interested, here they are at their best doing their Baby Elephant Walk/Sesame Street medly http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1PqrBDQOdQ
A red bull car came up to give us free red bull. Dunno about the drink, but the car itself is awesome.
Maybe now I’ll have some energy to do this accounting assignment!
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So it was Mark Webber in his Renault? Cause that’s the only time I can see a red bull car being awesome 😛 They’re always some crappy 4 door tiny shoebox car lol.
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God I wish 😛 He’s probably busing cutting himself in China at the moment! (okay, that seems harsh, but…)
They have a massive can on the back and a built in fridge on the side! And lights!
But no, it didn’t help me study. But now I’m listening to music (finally found a FLAC copy of Paramore’s new album that didn’t download at like 50kbps.) and shopping for new headphones and writing a few words on the side. I’m up to 50! Out of 750!
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I used to love all of the free promo stuff at uni. Monster energy drink, pens(so many pens), frisbees, bags. I even used to give blood so I could have some cookies and juice if I missed my lunch. Do a good deed and get a feed. 🙂
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Soooo many pens and drink bottles 😀
But yeah I would, but I can’t give blood. So that’s not an option for me unfortunately!
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Medication/fucked kidneys 🙂
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Oh. Sorry 🙂
More blood for you then.
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Haha don’t worry, I’ve never really seen it a a sensitive thing to talk about 😛
I’ve never had a blood transfusion though, so I think that sorta maybe kinda not really balances it out. I don’t even know my blood type!
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@ash
I’m confused, did you mean P4G, Virtues Last reward and all that?
There’s a bunch of other cool games too if you did
(Guacamelee, Muramasa etc)
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I’m confused by your confusion :P. I think he was just saying if he were to ever get a Vita those two games are the ones he’s mainly interested in.
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Reality is simply perception!
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Ugh, just got back from a family dinner I got guilted into attending.
It was about as fun as I expected it to be. Although I did get to speak to my 13 Y/O cousin about Pokemon. (I’m an adult)
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Eww, family dinners. Part of what makes me an arsehole is saying straight to my parents face I’m not going!
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I have to finish Season 3 one of these days, and then catch up to whatever season we’re on now. (8?)
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Just rewatched Star Trek (2009). So. Damn. Good. Can’t wait for Star Trek Into Darkness, I managed to avoid all trailers until yesterday before Oblivion. :'(
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Was that enough for you to learn your lesson about doing social things like leaving the house? 😛
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I saw the trailer for it the other day when I went to see Jurassic Park. It looks so damn awesome.
This week felt like a slow one on TAY, but we’ve got way more posts than last weeks thread. D:
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I bet! 😀 When’s your next convention, btw? (Only asking cause Melbourne Supanova being on now and all that. I know you said you’ve got a deal with OzComicCon or something?)
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End of April in Canberra, just for one day. Then Melbourne Oz Comic-Con in July. (@greenius, organise a meat for night of 5th July plskthnx!) Then nothing locked in, but hoping to hit up Queensland in November for Supanova!
I’d love to be going to all of them, but after the week that we’ve just had, really relieved I didn’t sign up for this particular Supanova! 😀
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It’ll be good to see you if you can make Supanova in November, unless you decide to hang with the comic types afterwards again. 😛
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If I do, I’ll plan a few days extra. Dreamworld must happen. Probably other things too, I guess.
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@scree SHANE MEAT
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Shane asked you to do it.
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>:P
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Today’s page was a really simple one. No dialogue at all. So gonna go for gold, and get two done tonight 🙂
@dc, you probably haven’t used emoticons since middle school 😛 http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2013/04/are-sane-adults-allowed-to-ever-use/
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Yes!
And who is he to say that using the nose makes you a dummy?
The nose is a symbol of stature, greatness and is just plain awesome.
Look at it on its own
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Looks at it with its friends
🙂
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Why do you think he must not be named?
Nobody nose it
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*groan*
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I hate not using them! It’s pretty much the only way to effectively display tone in text. Generally if I don’t use them I’m being super serious. And very rarely am I ever sorta serious, let alone super cereal.
Sounds like that Jezebel guy is terrified noone will thinks he’s a cool adult if he uses smileys. Then immediately uses the phrase “seduce a dummy for stupidsex”. Which makes him like a whole other class of idiot.
Somehow I feel like I shouldn’t be using the Telegraph as a reference for this assignment. If I were the marker and saw somebody referenced that, I’d fail them 😛
And god, now I know why I don’t drink energy drinks. Too damn energized. I’m starving too. I’ve had dinner 3 times so far and I’m still starving. No disrespect to Oliver’s Woolworths Select sausage rolls or Mrs Oliver’s spaghetti with mushrooms and prawns, but the microwave meals in the chilled section near the deli at Woolworths are amazing. (Although $8 each, 2 for $12 :S)
@bdkiaf this strip search penny arcade dealio is raaaad. Made myself stop watching them so I have more tomorrow 😀
Morning.
I had a driving lesson yesterday and I might be having one today. Depends on how I’m feeling.
So nervous about it.
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I was terrified of learning to drive originally. My parents basically forced me into the RTA to get my L’s. But now that I have my license and can go wherever I want whenever I want I’m glad they made me do it
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I would drive, but I know that if I ever need to get anywhere I’ll have the driverborn to take me. :p
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As far as mys understanding goes from the media, since you’re not an Under-25 male driver, you are naturally a really great driver and have nothing to worry about!
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Whatever you do, don’t crash into a cafe full of people! 😛
(You’ll do fine, but I sympathize. Driving ain’t my thing…)
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Roadtrip to all the meats!
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I had one yesterday morning after going back to a manual.
I was so damn terrified…
The weird thing is, when I was practicing with our cars at home, I didn’t do too bad.
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So, super manly musical thoughts:
As you are possibly aware, I saw the Addams Family last night and the short of it is that it’s pretty good, and you should go see it.
The singing all ’round was good, but the Wednesday and Pugsly were particular stand-outs, though the later could be quite variable, due to the fact that they have five different actors for him (woo, children on stage).
The set was a pretty standard affair for the Capitol, meaning it was still better than 90% of the sets out there (just not as good as Wicked or The Lion King). The other advantage of the show’s decent budget is that the chorus was all fantastic, and the choreography was good (which were my two biggest problems with Legally Blonde).
Overall the acting was also pretty good (though in that regard Wednesday was a bit of a let down, though it’s hard to tell if some of the stilted movements were part of the character or not), which is rather important given it’s a comedy, and it’s also the funniest show I’ve seen since Avenue Q. May have actually been funnier, though it didn’t have the pure joy of watching my mother unable to comprehend what those puppets were doing.
If it has one major downside, it’s that the songs really aren’t all that memorable. 12 hours on and while I remember where the songs were, and what they were about, I can’t actually remember how any of them go.
Still, really good. If you have a chance, I’d definitely recommend seeing it.
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Oh, also: Meat thing was pretty good, got to spend a few hours hanging out with Pow beforehand, which was good, except for the whole “neither of us knew what to do” thing. I also got a total of 16 streetpass hits, which makes the whole trip worth it.
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When I was in Kino I sort of waved my bag at the groups of Asians in the hope that I’d get more hits.
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And you accused me of being racist for enjoying Mexican food. D:
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He’s just stereotyping, your pure, concentrated hate bile for Mexican can only be described as Hitler-racist.
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Exactly, and we all know that I can’t be racist due to the simple fact that I’m Asian. Only white people can be racist.
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Oh man, I’ve been fixated on the tilt shift Coachella montage between sets more than some of the sets themselves. Haha.
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It’s easy enough to just leave playing in the background though…
Also I rarely use >:(
>:| is my go to one. 😀
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No one likes people who edit posts. 😛
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Ahhh man my memory sucks balls, I only just remembered it was on -_-
Grizzly Bear is on though, yesssss!!
Yet agaaaain were the only oooones 😀
Who else has been on deecee? Looks like I missed Bat for lashes, portugal the man, and Foals :'( but I saw your mentioning of the rewind, I may make use of this later…
I think Phoenix, Sigur ros, and xx are still to come! Maybe.
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I’ve mostly stayed on Channel 1 (just cause the windows been open in the background.)
Ah, Dropkick Murphys this morning. They were decent enough, not my kind of music. Haha, Ben Howard — way too soft, crowd didn’t seem to be into it. Closed the window for an hour or so then saw the end of the Portugal The Man set. The full schedules at the bottom of the YouTube page, though. You can always do that rewinding thing for poeple you’ve missed. 😀
Also these guys on now seem pretty decent!
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Haha! I remember where I’ve seen these guys before. On The Colbert Report. He made them do an interview in this cramped boat thingy. 😀
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Who Grizzly Bear? Haha, maaan, I love Grizzly Bear. Seen them a couple of times live, they always nail it. They had their songs used for basically the whole soundtrack for Blue Valentine, which I imagine a few people would recognise them from. Really great, original stuff.
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HAHA! Aww… its only the shorts of it though. Looked good. Yeah theyre a friendly bunch, one of the lead singers has chatted to me numerous times on twitter. Lovely lovely man!
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Oh wow! That’s all kinds of cool. (And intimidating. Haha.)
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In other news I have a LinkedIn profile because TAYadvice said it was a good thing to have. Should I be adding people to it? (specifically you guys? :P)
Will employers see who I’m connected with and would it help?
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Add people you’ve met in reality (i.e. friends) or worked with. Employers probably won’t look too closely for you because you’re still at university. Anyone you subsequently work with might and it’s a good way to keep contacts as people move around, introduce people that might work well together etc.
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Yeah that’s true. Most of my friends from high school are still students as well, are in part-time casual jobs or drunk and/or high and lying face down in a ditch 😛
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With LinkedIn you pretty much add anyone you barely know, it’s all about the connections, as explained to by a previous teacher of mine who is big into LinkedIn.
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Uh.. I meant more professional and in your field of expertise.
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Nothing wrong with having people outside your field if they’re more than just passing acquaintances though.
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True, but having more connections relating to your field looks good. most if not all my connections on LinkedIn are IT related which is where I am trained. I really need to fix it up and actually actively use it.
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sorry man. twas a joke. I’m usually decently covered. Like, 70% of the time at least.
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Haha s’all good man 😛
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DARK SOULS
Taurus Demon was beaten yesterday afternoon. Got into a good rhythm during the fight. Decent shield, block…. wait for an opening….. one or two hits…. more blocking. got him down to about 20% health & then he just jumped off the bridge & died.
So umm…. yeah. that was mildly disappointing. Anyway, got lotsa souls for witnessing his suicide & then lost it all when some golden armor jerk with a giant sword appeared outta nowhere & killed me & then killed me again before I could get back to reclaim them.
The games got a weird way of going “here, you’ve achieved something, here’s a reward…. BAM HAHAHA GO TO HELL YOU’RE DEAD NOW. YOU GET NOTHING.”
And then I gave up for a bit & played Dragons Dogma.
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If you have to unlock a door with your Skeleton Key, you possibly be shouldn’t be going in there this early. 😛
So my Dad just came over to take my daughter to church and when I was showing him what I was making my Mum for her birthday he told me he’s been “astounded” by what I’ve accomplished since I started sewing almost two years ago. Astounded. Pretty sure that means he’s proud of me. 😀
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With plenty of time to sew
…up those stab wounds!
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So my mate who’s studying psychology at uni told me of some interesting things to do with relationships and music. People in relationships with someone who they share a common interest with regarding music often have a longer lasting and more fulfilled relationship.
What was most interesting he said though was that those in a relationship shared interests in metal, were seen to have the best relationship and relate to each other the easiest and last the longest.
When he said that I kinda thought “yeah I can understand that, metal seems to be the type of music that brings everyone together the most and allows them to bond and unite as one” it’s something I have noticed at metal gigs, but not so much at other gigs where it was more a punk rock style to the music. Also having that one thing in common gives you a lot to relate to and talk about. I’ve made some amazing friends thanks to music and it always gives us something to talk about and enjoy.
So yeah, interesting. I’m sure similar things are there with people who share a passion for anything, but apparently it’s most noticed with music.
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I can’t say I’ve noticed this with any of my short-lived relationships (could be why, haha) but as far as friends go my strongest friendships have been based on music (whether it be listening to it, talking about it, or playing it.)
So yeah, interesting and probably true 😛
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I’ve heard the word hermit so many times at uni this past week 😛 I giggle to myself every time!
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Teeheehee!
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Yeah I haven’t either, since the relationships i’ve been in, were well, short lived I guess. Also friends matching friends up never ends well :S
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@freezespreston dude just saw the bass player for Deftones died of a heart attack yesterday :S
Hope it doesn’t cancel the tour..
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Yeah, from how it reads he hadn’t been able to play in the band since ’08 after a car accident that left him having to have surgery to remove part of his brain, that’s awful.
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Yeeeeah a few others dropped off this week as well. The Angels bassist, Chris Bailey & AC/DC’s first bassist Neil Smith both died due to cancer.
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MTV World Stage is awesome. About the only time in recent when MTV has actually played music..
Urk. My son is in Nightmare Mode at the moment. How do I change him back to Easy Mode? I’d even settle for Normal or Hard at this point. 😛
@bdkiaf Awwww maaaan… Strip search related…
Just saw Lexxy’s departure. Suuucks! I preferred hers. Eh well. Now I’m going straight to kickstarter to back her since I’ve been umming and ahhing about it XD
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That’s what happened to me right before I had to stop playing the first time when my TV broke. A year later now that I’ve gone back to it I couldn’t even get that far. Place is not my favourite. 😛
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I fear it as well but on my current PC playthroughs I blazed through it both times :O
It’s incredibly short and easy when you’re just getting from point A to B and not exploring every nook and cranny for the shinies 😀
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INORITE! Was coming back in to say just the same thing XD
Pc froze up just as the set started sadly, but I’m there now. Will rewind to catch what I missed later 🙂
Soooo. Daaamn. Good.
Ohhhh this is showtime this is showtime this is showtime…. 😀
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I opened it up just as Lisztomania started. Completely forgot. So good though!
Which reminds me, I need to track that album down.
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Saaame! guessing they opened with Entertainment. Giving some ‘Its never been like that’ love, SO GOOD!
Nap time? XD
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How cool would it be to be on the Coachella production crew. I guess you wouldn’t get to ‘take in’ the bands though, too busy working, getting shots and the like…
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Yep yep, be too distracting 😀
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Yay, F1! I met some guy last week and we had an awesome chat about F1. This race is a bit of a mess right now. Should be good.
I’m also still doing my accounting assignment. It has to be in Times New Roman, 12pt. Wtf?
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Pretty sure Times New Roman is the academic standard everywhere. Maybe. It’s been a while since I penned an assignment. :S
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It probably is haha. This is just the first assignment I’ve done here so no doubt I’ll have to get used to it.
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Mateeeee have you done University styled (APA or Harvard) referencing!?
Legitimately the worstest thing ever next to group work.
Group work referencing?
Jesus Christ kill me now…
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Accounting uses Harvard style, but like half of the info systems class in year 12 was on referencing so I’m not finding that a problem at all 😛 In fact it’s awesome because 40% of the mark of this whole assignment is just on getting the referencing right!
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I remember all my assignments having to be in Times new roman, 12pt. Especially printed stuff.
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Err… who the heck is this and why is he ruining Phoenix D:
Oh no its that ignition guy, ohhhh crap… pls get off 🙁
That cannot be the closer… 😐 (ah phew!)
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Oh man, too close to the crowd. I’d feel awkward if a singer was that close to me. I’d probably mosey off. Haha. I guess not everyone’s an anti-social hermit. 😛
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I love that stuff, so good. Those girls in the front will remember that forever.
Totally had Matt Berninger that close to me when he was in the crowd singing Terrible Love :3
Saved it for last! Nice.
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Haha, pretty cool, except that they didnt get to do the actual song XD
HOLY SHIT! New Order playing Atmosphere!! :O
Yaaay more Joy Division songs XD
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nice, I high fived Burton C. Bell earlier this year at a Fear Factory show, whoo
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I wish I could draw.
For the past 10-20 min I have been imagining drawing TAYbies as villains based on what we post about on TAY and just general characteristics. It’s not about drawing people as they look but re-imagined takes on how they would look if they were evil.
So far I have a few ideas in my head.
The ones that I’m brainstorming at me first were,
1.Strange with her sewing. (THE SEAMSTRESS?) There is a lot of sharp stuff used when sewing so you can imagine an evil strange sticking sewing needles in people. Seeking out brains to use as her pin cushions? She hangs from ledges and holds up dead bodies with strings of wool. What do you think is inside all of those quilts.
2. DC with his edits (MEMORY WIPE?) could be some sort of futuristic cyborg with a u-shaped magnet on one of his hands that he uses to wipe people’s memory. He could alter reality maybe?
3. I Imagined Cakesmith and Blaghs as a duo because of their hair. Like Sindel from Mortal kombat they both use their hair to kill or annoy. Blaghs is the straight and Cakesmith the curly.
4. Shane or Sughly-could have something to do with their art and drawing skills. Maybe Shane could digitally alter your body in real time which is really painful as your veins and muscles change from flesh to rough CG. I imagined shane always leaving his business card after killing somebody.
5. If Shane had the drawing thing I was Imagining sughly as some sort of riddler figure. He has a passion for unknown bands and films so like the riddler he would ask you questions and if you don’t know about them then…you die
6. Aleph-Something to do with his often hard to pronounce and spell username. Still thinking.
7. Greenius-The obvious green stuff. A male poison ivy maybe? Or he could be a muscle-head who beats people up with his copy of xenoblade. Echoes of the joker laughing as he does it shouting “You’ve played it now, ha ha ha”
8. The potaku guys? Bacon, pants, doc. Still thinking.
9. Spaghett-something to do with music(last played song?) He could pay you your last played song as you die maybe?
10. Jimu and Ash and their anime. Something to do with that.
11. Notorious R -some sort of teleporting villain. You know, he posts gifs and gifs are always moving.
12. Freeze could be an obvious mr. freeze but I was thinking of something dark souls related with puns. He also likes chili. I don’t know mix all those up. Hmm maybe Instead of a freeze ray he shoots hot chili at people.
13. Loops and his sexual references. trying to integrate that somehow.
14. Pow- and his dinosaur and pokemon stuff. Maybe putting people in balls and crushing them? A tag team with Nova maybe? Or a greenius clone but with jurassic park the game instead?
15. The lurkers on TAY could be some sort of shadowy organisation who control the fate of TAY through their secret upvotes and downvotes.
I’m still thinking about everybody else so don’t worry if I missed anybody. Based on how crap some of these are maybe you’re the lucky ones 🙂
Damn. Some of these seem grim. I hope i didn’t scare anybody.
Maybe it’s a good thing I can’t draw or we should have TAY heroes first.
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Haha this is amazing 😀
And you CAN draw, practice makes perfect! So get that tablet and more Nissanity, more of the time!
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Sunday night conversation starters:
What game are you currently playing? What do you think of it?
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Dark Souls.
I finished Infinite and Ascension so back to it.
Dukes Archive as a squishy Mage really bites. -
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What are you playing?
You didn’t tell us 🙂
I’m currently playing God of War:Ascension. It’s ok so far but it just seems by the numbers. There is none of the series’ bombast. The god of war series has great intros and I just found this one meh, There is a great sense of scale during the opening when you see the Hecatonchires( wtf? Digging up this obscure greek giant just seems to exemplify how forced ascension feels. We did all the cool monster stuff in 1-3 so let’s dig up some weird multi-handed thing for the sake of it) with its many arms but it doesn’t feel like a God of War intro. Remember the Hydra? The colossus of Rhodes in 2? Poseidon in 3?
Also am I missing something or is the soundtrack really subdued in this game?
I was actually invested in the God of War story from 1-3 and the PSP titles. I like Kratos as a character. Kratos doesn’t even speak for almost 30 mins into this game.
All these are just early impressions since I just started so who knows, the game could get better.
The game still looks great(God of war games have always looked great on their platforms) and the moment to moment gameplay is still good.
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I’m not playing any thing at the moment, weirdly all this Mass Effect talk makes me want to replay the third game. XD
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There’s a point about 3/4 of the way through the game where it really starts to feel like a GoW game but it doesn’t last long. Did the combat feel more stilted and janky to you?
Also WTF is with the elemental powers? They seem to do little to nothing and a completely wasted opportunity. Imagine switching between power mid combo to combine effects or to hit a mix of differently resistant enemies in one combo. So wasted 🙁
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What, it only lasts for a bit? Well that sucks 🙁
Yeah. I’ve only unlocked fire elemental so far but the elemental powers just seem to change the colour of the blades. They did the switching thing well in 3 where you good change to the various weapons and keep your combo. The nemesis whip for example was a great weapon when used in conjuction with the blades in God of war 3.
The combat feels weird but I haven’t played enough to tell. I’ll let you know.
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On a whim I dug out Filter’s ‘Short Bus’ and I’m now remembering how much I miss that super angry mid-90s industrial metal stuff. 🙁
Holy fucking shit.
Just had one of my hardest and awesomeness video game boss fights ever! It was in Monster Hunter, a game where you usually fight one monster at a time, one monster per a quest and in a group of four. But no, this time they were all lololgofight3inarow BY YOURSELF, so I fought the hardest versions (G-rank) of these monsters in a single quest.
You fight the first one alone but then you fight two AT THE SAME TIME (right after the first – so you’ll be low on potions and other recovery items). The whole quest took me just over 40 minutes and I was on the brink of dying D:
At G-rank it only takes 1-2 hits before you’re dead so you have to be extremely careful. Whole battle was absolute chaos when I was fighting the last two monsters at once. Sheesh.
Like 99% of you aren’t interested and those who might be won’t see it but I tagged some people who might know how tough they are on Twitter :D. Only one I missed is some shmuck who deleted his Twitter account… @ynefel ARE YOU PROUD OF ME?!
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Sometimes Monster Hunter seems like the Shadow of the colossus action spin-off I sometimes think of. Just exploring a huge area killing giant monsters. However it doesn’t seem worth buying a console for and the stories of steep learning curves and unwieldy mechanics put me off.
Maybe I’ll look into Dragon’s Dogma when the arisen expansion releases. I enjoyed the demo and it has similar SOTC climbing mechanics. Knowing Capcom though, it’s hard to know whether this will be the last re-release of the game.
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Pretty sure Monster Hunter came out before Shadow of the Colossus and I think team ICO originally wanted SotC to be a team based monster killing game :). The monsters aren’t really giant and there’s only a few genuinely massive ones but they’re battles are pretty gimmicky just like SotC, except done a lot worse.
The rest of the battles are just like most action adventure bosses. They behave a certain way so you’ll have to read their moves and you’ll figure out patterns 🙂
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Just up to 5* village quests, and they’re all new monsters that weren’t in Tri. Looking forward to finding out what a Nibbelsnarf(?) is.
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Up to High Rank Quests in Solo; only done a small handful. I think I just have the repeat of “Repel or Kill Caedeus” to finish all 5* quests. Still HR 1 in Multi. Didn’t realise there were two pages of quests, so I still have a bunch to do.
Been playing other games recently though. The “grind” was frustrating me a little (not so much the grinding, I guess, as the constant difficulty curve) – particularly Caedeus, because screw that underwater artifical difficulty.
My gear is ok for my level. Got Lagia set almost as upgraded as it can get at this stage (level 7, iirc), and the Lagia LS (Thunderclap?). Also finally got the Ludroth claws, so have a Water ele LS (Douser Bardiche), so I might go back and farm some of the Volcano monsters. Agnaktor Set has some sweet Guard bonuses.
Played a bit this morning on the train. Did the Lagombi Arena Quest, just missed out on the S Rank.
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Nothing much, dude. Played 20 min of Dark Souls, and am now hard at work putting together today’s pages. Yep, plural: pages. Could get several done tonight if I really pull it together.
Sorry, that’s all wrong. I meant to say: ‘sup?
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That’s good to hear! Won’t distract you with D.C. rambling!
[Insert Arcade Fire. Self-depricating observation. Upvotes here.]
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D:
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Nothing much, just watching a show called Fresh Meat and getting irritated at a certain plot line.
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This is so so good. New Order playing Ceremony at Coachella https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=cXGdV8G1ft4#t=31598s (wrong song XD but this is also awesome)
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This is what I meant to put up before, Temptation! Woo https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=cXGdV8G1ft4#t=34042s
Old dudes are still going strong
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And one for you! 😛
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Have some mates over tonight, thought we would play some gamez.
After 3 hours of patching and screwing around we had to give up on both Halo 4 and BF3. Now trying Borderlands 2, half an hour so far and still can’t all get into the same game.
I miss the days when you could just chuck in a game and play it.
Since this weekend seems to be all music, all the time:
Igloo — Where the Wild Things Are OST
Also been reading up on Scenes from the Suburbs and Miroir Noir. ARCADE FIRE! 😀
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Your life is not empty. You’re learning something new. You now know more about the Lincoln assassination than me for example
Better than masha-achievement unlocked 🙂
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If we are doing OSTs I liked this song from Crazy, Stupid, Love.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NB7cuA-fv4w Tenuousness – Andrew Bird
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Holy damn, cool glimpse at the E3 trailer for the Last Guardian! Who knows if it will come out 🙂
Edit: Spelling mistake.
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Haha, I still haven’t played Ico or SotC, so doesn’t mean all that much to me. Bird/dog critter is cool looking though!
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You really should experience those games. I’d love to see what your thoughts are about them.
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I was a bit of a console snob last generation, so barely used my PS2 for games. (Mostly a DVD player. Haha.) Also was kind of hesistant about the re-releases, especially after being disappointed by the Prince of Persia: Sands of Time collection.
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I was generously gifted the HD collection by @bdkiaf (I think). They are beautifully done.
Which reminds me, I keep forgetting to check them out in 3D. -
The re-release is excellent. Nothing to worry about.
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As far as I know it’s a different game but it has a similar aesthetic to ICO/SOTC so you don’t need to have played the prior games.
That being said play them- they are great games. I’m speaking more about Shadow of the colossus since I haven’t finished Ico. 🙂
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Why did you never finish it? Finish Ico, Mashaaaaaaaaaaa.
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He’s a monster.
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It was one of those times where a game catches you at the wrong time. I barely started it. I plan to rectify this though.
I WILL DO IT STRANGE!! 🙂
I’ve played Shadow of the colossus a bunch of times though. Soooooo good.
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Played some more Bioshock Infinite.
I found Elizabeth, finally. \o/
We got as far as the elevator. She said “We have to keep moving, he’s tearing the place apart!” But she won’t move and she’s got me pinned in the corner so I can’t move either. /o\
That’s enough for me for the night, I think.
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I was pretty into the game until I started having to murder hundreds of guys in every zone.
Also biggest disappointment: everything respawns when you leave an area, just like Bioshock. Immersion killer for me.
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Yeah I’m not a fan of the shooting stuff. At least in Bioshock it was
insane, mutated kind of people.As opposed to Infinite’swaves of regular police types, just trying to do their jobs. So far, at least. I’m not sure if that’s the entire reason the combat in Infinite seems less fun than Bioshock’s, but it’s certainly a big part of it.
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The problem is they all just run at you with no subtlety or anything. It’s boring to plow through hundreds of guys all the time. Sometimes it’ll throw you into areas where they haven’t been alerted and there’s civilians around and stuff, and it’s cool until you do one wrong thing somewhere and suddenly everyone is charging at you. Like one zone there was an option to steal a gun from a shop. If you do it, you get mobbed. Five minutes later the story requires you to break into an area which causes you to get mobbed by the same guys and then you can go steal the thing.Also immersion breaking: every container has apples and stuff in it, along with money. Even the trash cans. Why are people throwing away money? Why did that lunchbox have money in it? It’s bizarre.
Yeah, really not feeling it. The setting is cool I guess. Bioshock had far better atmosphere and more of a sense of place though, to me. Also the flaws that Bioshock had were acceptable in a game that early in the console cycle, but when a game released so much later still has the exact same problems…
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Speaking of PS2 games. I’m re-watching this mini-documentary and reminding myself that I should play my copies of the Jak and Daxter HD collection.
Two Three pages and a really odd blog post later, I’m bedding. Night folks.
If your weekends were disappointing, remember that tomorrow is a brand new TAY.
Edit: If I read this in the morning with a big WTF, that blog post might cease to exist. Fair warning.
Accounting assignment = submitted with 20 minutes to spare! Thank fuck that’s over with.
Now on to moaning about my BIS assignment.
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I’ve been told many times I’m a model uni student 🙂
I’m starting to find the things that help me study though, so hopefully I can improve on the time frame thing. I wrote the entire essay today and yesterday while listening to music so loud my ears hurt and watching Formula 1 😛
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Take care of your ears man. No overly loud music.
Yeah, once you find a studying groove it can be easier doing your assignments.
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But… but… my setup. It craves being listened to loudly!! But yeah, being serious I know you’re right. I promise I only listen to music that loud when I’m giving an album a first/second listen 😛 I drop it down a fair bit once I’m not trying to hear every little thing in a song.
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I haven’t played Bioshock Infinite and every day that I browse the Kotaku front page I dread coming across spoilers. Despite that, I’ve really enjoyed all the discussions and articles about it, even though I can’t read them. 🙂
Sometimes it’s a case of “enough with all the Bioshock articles already,” but overall it’s good having all this discussion and different viewpoints. By the time I play the game the discussion will most likely have stopped but hopefully this trend continues with other games.
That being said I hope it doesn’t lead to over-analysis where the writers keep trying to one-up each other. “Oh you think game X is violent?” “Well I think its violence is subvertive” etc
I DON’T KNOW WHAT I WANT 🙂
Big day of gaming for me today, finally finished Bioshock Infinite and also went about 90% into Tomb Raider I can just feel the ending coming soon.
Bioshock Infinite ending spoilers:
The ending was quite the plot twist I understood it but I was confused at the same time I guess it didn’t see it at all coming, I loved Bioshock Infinite however it was a very surreal experience and I’ll definitely play-through it again sometime.
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