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Good morning everyone! Hope your weekends were uniformly and completely excellent!
I’ve been playing Demon’s Souls, and after struggling with the parry/riposte combo and having limited success, I’ve decided it’s a much better strategy to just not get anywhere near enemies and Soul Arrow them from a great distance.
It feels a bit like cheating, but it made the first boss battle in the castle so easy!
I find myself progressing in inches, too nervous to play for very long, and kidding myself into thinking that short bursts protect my character better 😛
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Yeah I’m playing Dark Souls with the same level of success. Trying to practice parrying safely, it seems like whenever I try to parry I end up dying hahaha
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Man, I didn’t even try in Dark Souls.
I remember how rubbish I was at it in Demons’ Souls, and just went back to my turtle strategy of shield n’ spear.
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I never bother parrying because I’m to uncoordinated to make it work. Just keep your shield up, step backwards instead of blocking, rolling or dodging wherever you can to save Stamina and wait for an opening.
Soul Arrow is great and make things fairly easy to begin with but you’ll need to develop your melee skills for the rest of the game.
Inches of progress is the way it goes in these games, sounds like you’re doing well.-
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You know me scary well 🙂
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I’ve spent about 30 hours with Dark Souls (never played DeS as I don’t have a PS3 – I so would’ve), and I have a complicated relationship with it.
I love it but I hate it.
Also, I can’t help but wish there was a game that combined the combat and sense of terror from Dark Souls with the lose-yourself world and endless quests of Elder Scrolls.
I think I would enjoy Dark Souls a lot more if the pacing was a little less relentless. Even Resident Evil had the typewriter rooms with the soothing music, and Dead Space had the merchant areas where you were *usually* safe. Sure, you’ve got Firelink Shrine but I’m not there very often and am usually out in the wilderness on my own surrounded by very aggressive and tough bastards who really hate my guts.
Still, I keep going back to it 🙂
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The immediate area round bonfires, merchants (at least in my experience) is usually safe – at least by the time you reach teh bonfire/merchant.
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Does it count if I’m out of actual money and the only food I have at home is ingredients for BLT sandwiches, but this is all according to plan and it’s the day before pay day?
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Its all part of the plan…
don’t think it really counts considering you planned it but ok…your officially slightly more broke than i
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Morning all. Weekend went well, excluding the part where Optus decided my phone account is now a 2GB data cap, and charged me $63 for the 340MB I went over…
How’s Skyrim going for all? All I can say is, I hate Frost trolls.
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Oh man, Frost Trolls pissed me off when I started. I ran into one pretty early on (I like to explore before getting into the missions) and got hammered so bad. Now if I see a Frost Troll I will shout them off mountains and to their demise (really, I kite them like crazy to do this if I’m not at a cliff).
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Yeah, the first one I came across was going up to High Hrothgar. Shield bash and fearing it saved me. Glad I went Nord…
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Morning all.
Finished Call of Duty on the weekend… it sure is Smurfy.
Also, Skyrim like a beast.
Question, for anyone whose read the ME3 spoilers… is there space combat in the game (no need to spoil anything, just a yes or no).
Three exams over the next three days D: I don’t think I even had that during the HSC… (and now that I’m a lazy Uni student it’s even worse). Very glad at the moment that Skyward Sword isn’t due out until next week now. It’s hard enough getting the motivation to study without caving in to buy Skyrim or Uncharted, let alone Zelda…
Anyway, Good Morning!
My current PS3 setup.
http://pic.twitter.com/lqBFfQcV
From left to right:
new US PS3 slim, PS3 fat that won’t read blu-rays, 60GB launch PS3 and my sister’s PS3 that she let me borrow to play uncharted 3 on. (60GB kept freezing with U3 for some reason.)
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Out of curiosity, how does that make me look like a “Filthy pirate”?
I mean, if I took a picture of my eye patch, tri-corner hat or even my peg leg, then yes. But PS3’s?
I know hooking up VHS machines (1 to play, 1 to record) was a way to pirate videos, but I’m pretty sure that doesn’t work for PS3 games.
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Multiple consoles, possibly with different versions of flashed firmware, possibly one kept pristine for PSN updates.
For the record, I’m not saying you’re a pirate!
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I had 2 PS3s One for regular gaming (80GB upped to 500GB) and a launch 60GB model that plays PS2 games but is getting a bit long in the tooth. the 500GB stopped reading discs so I got a slim. The other slim was lent to me so I could play Uncharted 3 (as the 60GB kept freezing) while waiting for my new machine to arrive. hence 4 PS3s.
I don’t pirate games. I don’t even buy preowned.
the “Filthy pirate” comment sounded pretty accusatory.
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My apologies. I didn’t mean to be accusatory. Was just being flippant.
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To all my fellow Skyrimmers (man that sounds dodgy), has anyone else noticed the slight inconsistency in the difficulty of some enemies?
For example, I can tear apart a dragon in less then a minute, yet a mage or bandit leader can kick my arse half way across Tamriel in 2 seconds flat.
WTF?, is anyone else having this problem, or am I just Skyrimming (yep, still sounds dodgy) wrong.
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Yep, my companions are able to fight dragons with me but as soon as a Summoners Apprentice gets in range they insta-die.
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Yeah the dragons do seem pretty easy so far 🙁
But dem mages man. Fought a fire mage capable of one shotting me, though I was probably in an area a bit to high level for me. -
I’m accidentally awesome against humans. 1h and shield and Unrelenting Force, they have a hard time standing up. So satisfying backhanding like mad with a shield. Helps that I pumped up my stamina for it.
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I missed the part where I was supposed to explain that it’s “accidentally” because I didn’t plan to be aggressive, and ended up being able to launch people with a yell and a shield.
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difficulty is set to auto adjust, probably a bit overzealous when it decides “oh, you killed a dragon, try this for size….”
Change it to normal.
I’m with Vodafone, who are, to say the least, majorly s***! If I went over my 2 gb cap by 340 mb, I would have had to pay $170. Don’t think that will ever happen though, at least not with speeds of 10 – 20 kb per second. And yes, frost trolls suck. I majorly underestimated them first time I encountered one 😛
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i feel your pain brother
*pats Blackhawk on the shoulder for a bit too long*i am with Vodafone as well, and they promised me that i had a 5GB data plan with the phone i got… next month i got a bill for $350 for “uncovered data expenses”… turns out the retard i was talking to on the phone said “yeah sure sure we can do that” and turns out that the “offer” was not covering data… unfortunately for them i kicked up a stink, they reviewed the tapes, found out they were at fault and compensated me rather handsomely…. THANKS PEOPLE! 😛
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Your better off with a proper broadband account, than prepaid/capped internet! I pay $88 per month for 200GB/20Mbit connection with no excess usage fees! (Telstra)
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i’m pretty sure he was using his phone as a buffer till his internetz got installed properly… also $88?!? you’re getting riiiipped off dude… internode or TPG will have unlimited for at least under $70, i’m with TPG and pay $49 for unlimited
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So Skyrim’s pretty awesome. I love using Unrelenting Force to shout people off cliffs and send giants flying through the air as payback for one shotting me.
What’s everyone playing as? I decided to make a Nord. Currently I’m running around in heavy armour with a war axe in one hand and a fire spell in the other. Every now and then I’ll switch it up a bit and duel wield axes or dualcast my fire spell if I want to burn something down really fast.
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I am not so great at choosing characters. After nearly 20 hours of play with my hybrid Cat I had spread my skills too thin and made a mess of it. So I re-rolled an Orc warrior instead, two hand is so much fun.
Though mages do seem cool….-
I know what you mean with the skills. At the moment I’ve kept my magic, health and stamina at around the same level and have yet to spend a single perk point. I just don’t want to lock myself into a certain role and combat style.
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No need to brain out, its a Level-60 based game, but it doesnt cap out at Level-60, so eat your heart out and do what you want when you want:D
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Oh good! I was wondering about that. i was bit wary after having had to play through at least half of Fallout 3 without getting any experience, due to the level cap. I want my Skyrim character to be like my Morrowind character in the end, all stats levelled to the max. I need to make sure I can do as much as possible in one playthrough.
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I have heard that there is a soft cap at 50 and a hard cap at 75 so you could still level every skill but you only have so many perks.
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I’m a Nord with a sword and shield.
I haven’t seen my first dragon yet…
I got told to head to Whiterun, but I went wandering instead.I’ve cleared one dungoen, and am currently getting killed in fort greymoor.
I was trying to grind money with the wood cutting job in the first town, but Hod(?), the mill owner, seems to have dissapeared… and he wont come back.
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If you go to Whiterun and do the main quest thing you unlock the Shouts and dragons appear around the world. I would recommend just doing that first.
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But… but, mountains and caves and stuffs.
Also, how do I get horses and houses… and gold
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Houses…. do the quest in Whiterun 🙂 the Jarl lets you buy a house in town.
And there is a stables outside of town.
Don’t get me wrong, I am not going to do any more story line than that but it is worth it to do that much. -
I wouldn’t bother getting the horse from Whiterun. It runs really slow and hardly has any health. Mine got killed by a bear about 5 minutes after I bought it.
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You ‘re not going to do any more storyline than that…ever?!
I heard it’s actually a pretty compelling story. I’ll probably do my usual alternate between a bunch of exploring, then a main quest. And when it’s getting close to the end of the main story do everything else and go everywhere else. Possibly followed by getting sidetracked by a different game and never finishing it. 😛 -
Oh I will do the story but slowly, doing every other quest in a town before moving on.
Not like Oblivion where I did not even go to the Priory until I was level 30 and leader of the Thieves Guild, Mages Guild, Dark Brotherhood. and done most of the quests in every town.
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I’m playing as a Redguard with heavy armour and a dual-handed warhammer. The only spells I use (not counting shouts) are Heal and ‘whateveritscalledthatbuffsmyarmour’. I spent most of yesterday increasing my smithing and heavy armour, the latter of which involved me standing around getting arrows in my face while I healed for a while.
Every piece of armour that can have a double-handed bonus enchantment has it. I think I’ve got like a 90% bonus from my armour alone.
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Dual Wielding is pretty fun but not that effective really. Though maybe daggers would be fast enough to be worth it.
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This guy had what looked to be Katanas.
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Oh it looks awesome! But it is slower than just 1-hand, less damage than a 2-hand, cannot block or bash and the power attack uses tons of stamina.
Tis my limited experience anyway.
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I played a dual wielding light armour redguard, you really need perks for it to be effective though, changed to sword/shield
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Damn, I must be doing something wrong. My unrelenting force just tends to make them stumble for a second 🙁
Still, I cannot really complain about the frost form, line em up in a row and multiple icicle enemies for the win.
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Mmm, I went to High Hrothgar and got upgraded once, if you do some more stuff for them do they upgrade it again?
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After you get them that horn they want they’ll upgrade unrelenting force again.
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Sweet!
Perhaps I should consider doing more of the main quest, but I loves mining and smithing.
I think I am more of a blacksmith then I am Dragonborn.
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You gota learn the three words of each shout, to make them more powerful. (then if you have all 3 words of a shout you need to charge the shout until all words are said for maximum power)
I beat Uncharted 3 yesterday. Good game, the desert sequence was good but it wasn’t as good as Uncharted 2. There was less of the parts that made Uncharted 2 awesome (the exploring and sense of adventure) and more of the bits they never seemed to get right (shooting lots of dudes, especially with snipers and RPGs raining down while a dude in armour with a shotgun tries to turn your face into finely shredded meats).
Going from Arkham City’s excellent combat to this definitely felt like a let down.
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I agree man,
Uncharted 2 just had so many moments were my jaw hit the floor. I mean UC3 had a couple of moments like that but I just found UC2 an overall better game. Not to say I didn’t like UC3, I LOVED UC3
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The way I see it, Uncharted 3 has many cinematic moments(!) where you run towards the camera or have that Indy moment where you’re in a fist fight and suddenly you’re up against a huge dude (who you can only punch for some reason?).
Uncharted 2 was a straight up cinematic experience. It didn’t feel like they were trying to force it with cheap moments, they just had a rock solid game.
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I’m sleepy …
shouldn’t have stayed up playing LoL with some of the Kotaku peeps …
oh wait, we won …
WORTH IT!!!
So after a short period of inactivity I revisited this odd concept on the weekend called ‘Exercise’, and now I’m sore all over. It’s all for the greater good I’m sure (getting fit, losing weight etc.) but right now if just feels like pain banking.
Why just have pain only when you work out when you can take that pain with you, everywhere you go, for DAYS!
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it gets better dude, I started going to the gym a few months back, because I was bored and feeling restless after coming home from work every night, so now I just head down around 730-8pm and run myself ragged on the treadmill for a half hour, and by the time I’m home, I drop off to sleep almost instantly 😛
Morning all! Weekend actually didnt include too much gaming, did include lots of driving……i am not sure how i feel about this. But did get to see Puppylicks and drink in the open air. THIS is always a good thing.
So, that MW3 multiplayer.
I like it. It’s basically MW2 multiplayer with a number of really useful changes that have mostly sped up gameplay. I’m gradually getting used to the maps. People aren’t even quickscoping very much anymore.
Then people found out how to glitch their clan tags. Because you’re just not cool unless you spell out BABY with the x-box button images to show that you’re elite enough to google how to do it online.
It wouldn’t bother me, but I just assume anyone with a modded clantag is probably using other hacks or exploits that affect the outcome of the game – also, games where people have modded clan tags are usually a lot more laggy than regular games.
It was really annoying to have a run of good games and then suddenly getting matched with people who are blatantly cheating. One in particular stood out because he was a level 18 who spawned with a weapon you don’t unlock until level 60 and was able to insta-kill people with a single shot regardless of where he hit them.
So, once again, the sheer number of people playing has resulted in people finding and abusing exploits only a week into the life of the game. Thankfully Infinity Ward are a lot more proactive about banning people and patching stuff, but it’s still annoying when it happens.
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I hear you on all that.
I saw some “modded” clantags yesterday and when given the option of who to shoot always went for them.
I really like it. Even as “MW 2.5” it’s really good. Best iteration of CoD in my opinion. All the small tweaks really add up.
Loving Kill Confirmed. I thought it’d be a gimmick but it’s actually great.
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Kill confirmed and team defender……I call them the “camper busters” best game modes ever. Really spice things up. All in all the new kill streaks, new weapons and general tweaks have made this actually a really worth while game. Despite everyone saying it was just “new skins” on everything.
*faceplants keyboard*
hrmphfg mmf, hfm mmmf hhm hrmpf hrmmfmfm*
*morning all, how are we all going today?
Good morning, TAY.
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Today? Tomorrow? WHO KNOWS?!
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My ozgameshop order for AC:R shipped last Friday! POST BREAK.
Maybe it’ll get here by Christmas…
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They emailed me to say they’ve posted Halo: Anniversary.
Grenade, shoot shoot, melee, reload…repeat.
It’s gonna be legen… wait for it.
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FEDORAS!
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As much as I love Halo I can’t help but see Anniversary as a soulless cash-in. I’m going to wait awhile and pick it up when there’s another drought… which at this rate will probably be sometime in April.
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I’ve been ordered by husband not to buy anything else until Christmas. I have a suspicion this means he’s pre-ordered Assassin’s Creed Revelations for me for Christmas. I hope it’s the version with the Encyclopedia. If he hasn’t ordered it for me and I miss out because he told me not to buy stuff then he’s in trouble. 😛
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If you buy the encyclopaedia separate, it come with the “Carte Blanche” extra art stuff.
http://store.ubiworkshop.com/assassins-creed-encyclopedia-white-edition/
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It’s like $70 with shipping…
May as well just buy the game from EB (since you get the $60 game + artbook + extra stuff) and you even get it all 2 weeks earlier 😛
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yeah, but it’s a decent back up should any one not get the encyclopaedia with the game for some reason.
Also, extra art.
I have mine pre-ordered \o/ I guess I should finish AssBro…
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HAI GUYZ!!!
I didn’t get ANY gaming in on the weekend (suxorz) but dad’s 50th did go swimmingly well! YAY!
Bee’s going to LA on Saturday, and i still have no idea what i should tell her to bring me back other than a coupel of stupid cheap ps3 games (madden 10 $4) and a bunch of rarrreee gamecube games, as they are a lot cheaper over there too… If she can find them, and if the gamestop website is actually correct as to whom stocks them. I’ve always wanted to try Odama – it looks neato!
Kotaku Kristmas Project –
If you STILL have no idea what this is and would like to get involved, shoot me an email – troy(dot)cleary(at)hotmail
I also noticed some of you got the following email after signing up:
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Hey Beavwa,
I noticed you registered on ******* but never
made a post. If you have any problems or questions please let me know, we
would love to see you around the forum.
Thanks, The Management
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That email is an auto mailer that i did not set up – so i am sorry for any spam it’s sending you out – i’ll look into the settings when i get a bit of extra time – sorry guys
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lol – not bee.
She yelled at me a bit when i said what i was organising.
Then she accepted it.
But i don’t think she’ll be contributing unless through me lolI’m not sure who it is, to be honest.. I asked everyone to use their Kotaku names – but obviously it isn’t a Taybie – so i’m guessing just a regular on other part of the site that we’re not so regular to.
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But I don’t really recall seeing that name in comments on regular articles, either. If we don’t know who it is, it could be one of the people who aren’t supposed to see! *panics*
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dude… i hate to break it to you… but they don’t work faster by putting them next to each other, nor do they stack as well as LEGO bricks… you only need one 😛
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Drat…
I got a new 4gb xbox slim on friday. It came free with my Dad’s new phone from harvey norman. Of course, I was sensible and made sure he got a WP7 phone 😛-
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2. I’ve got an RROD’d one I bought off of ebay and fixed. Although, it kinda stopped working and I need to fix it again. Also, it doesn’t have a WiFi adaptor like the Slim.
STOP STALKING PAST TAY. GET BACK TO PRESENT TAY.
😛
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I wish I had an xbox D: let along 2 or 3 :O My mate was meant to sell me his Elite because his sister gave him her new fancy one, but he never did 🙁
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and for some reason the fire alarm went off 0.o
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if it’s way too much info, why is your tongue out on your smiley?
Yeah.. how’s that work, missy?!
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Ot’s bacon ice cream!
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It’s*
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BLIND MOWN…. mmmmm guess what i’ll be having tonight? 😛
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A healthy array of steamed vegetables lightly seasoned, and served with a side of healthy lean tofu?
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WOAAAAHH GET OUT OF MY HEEEAAAD
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So my new mind reader works \o/
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seriously, try this. Bake some bacon in the oven with a sugar glaze. put it on a classic glazed krispy kreme donut. Eat with ice cream. Your arteries will scream in pleasure i promise.
I bet you’re Harley from Epic Meal Time in disguise, are you not?
If I knew what you were talking about, id deny, but I’ll just take it as a compliment instead. But it is horribly awesome. If only I wasn’t trying to LOSE weight id have some now.
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Let me fix that for you!
I went to the Belgian Beer Garden this weekend, so by this rule my sex is beer fuelled with lots of strangers and tables around 🙂
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that….
sound perfectly reasonable *nods*
just don’t get your *puts on sunnies*
Weenie in a Bottle
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damn, just replied back to it on the other page 😛
but NERDY HALO FIVE o/
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Good morning folks! I finished my last uni assignments for the year over the weekend. Was a bit stuck afterwards wondering ‘what to do now?’. Then I remembered the ridiculous amount of games coming out! Goodbye social life.
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what’s a “social life”
OOOOHHH is that, that thing that’s online… with *shudder* people and that thing with the thing where the thing happens to you? maan i love that
So I’m thinking some poorly planned TF2 should happen tonight. Easy way to do it would be to have anyone keen jump in TS, pick a random pub server, and take over it.
Thoughts?
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meep meep *flapperlapperlapperlapperlapper* <— that's a sound kay?
i'll be there for sure :D, i like losing at everything that i do
Cripes! TAY is moving along at a cracking pace this morning! There’s a TABTOL wayy back on page 1 but it hasn’t been approved yet 🙁 Keep an eye on that space though!
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*sigh* really? more about Loops’ sex life? 😛
i will sit patiently and wait for your full tales tonight…
*F5F5F5F5F5F5F5*
Heading out to buy a suit (dapper!).
If AssRev breaks street date I’ll wing it across to EB and pick it up.
I hope it does :/
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waaaiiit a second… i like Ass Creed as much as the next guy, but suiting up to buy it? DAMN that’s dedication… don’t forgot the veil to put over the case once you’ve bought it… and don’t “open” it till tonight…
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and a monacle.
#superuberduperdapper
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I own two rather dapper suits. Have yet to wear them. Seems like a bit of a waste because I really want an excuse to say “like I’m going to do that in a 4200 baht suit, come on!”
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wait, people need excuses now to wear suits?
but me sporting a suit when i’m grocery shopping/going to the gym/working out/working on the car isn’t excuse enough?-
I only have the one suit sadly, can’t afford to ruin it’s awesome pin stripyness!
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I wear suits when my job requires me to meet with clients and lawyers. I am usually making excuses to get out of wearing suits, especially since those meetings are usually just an excuse for a piss-up anyway.
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I like the sound of this job you have, an excuse to get pissed. I don’t need one of those, I just need an excuse to go to Sams for that lol!
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Work in insurance. All the low-tier/high volume claims jobs (e.g.: health fund, credit card protection, home & contents, motor vehicle) are truly awful but once you get into stuff like business property insurance, liability etc the job is interesting as hell and there are lots of people who want to spend money on you in the hopes you will remember them when you need a lawyer/loss adjuster/broker, etc.
Especially since all the law firms are about to close down (typically a lot of firms shut down in mid-December and reopen in late January), they’re all prepping their Christmas functions.
DRINK ALL THE THINGS.
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Oh man, people make me laugh! Sounds alright as far as working in insurance goes.
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So dat Skyrim huh? A beautiful, epic game….if it didn’t crash every ten minutes or so. I’m a bit peeved at the lack of an unarmed combat skill, but I guess it won’t take long for a mod to come out (PC MASTER RACE FTW).
Also, thanks guys for some good games of LoL last night. Even though we only won that last one, it was fun. So tired this morning though…
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Mine froze once, but then I was in a crowded room jumping, swinging my hammer and attempting to shout at the same time, plus I had been playing for about 7 hours straight. Poor Xbox probably just fainted.
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i are disappoint, i saw AT LEAST 30 minutes over the weekend where you were not playing skyrim!…
not that i spy on you or anything…
okay i spy on you..
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That was probably that short break where the xbox had a nervous break down.
But yeah, I did seem seem to spend most (all) of the weekend playing it.
Plus, spying on me is vigoursly encouraged.
HI!
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*ducks behind bush, forgetting that i’m still sporting my Viking helmet*
omgomgomgomgomg hope he didn’t see me…
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i too was spying 😛
although not so much… level 21 dwarfkins? or maybe im just trippin
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I is beng the lvl 22 yeah!
However I am still managing to have my arse handed to me in quite a few battles.
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What’s your gamertag, we can spy on him together!
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sorry, do you want mine? or Hugo’s? 😛
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We need someone to put together and maintain a list of the gamertags of Kotaku regulars.
I volunteer someone else to do it.
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Good idea, it could be put on Tales of TAY.
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You deserve a cupcake, that is a good idea.
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That was meant to be to Strange.
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email me at cronotriggr [at] hotmail [dot] com with your Kotaku handle+gamertag/psn id/steam id and I’ll make up a list for Tales of Tay.
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I wanted to clear out my friends list… but I never know who’s a TAY and who isnt.
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Done
If you see a friend request from StrangeAndAlone, it’s me.
Anyone else who wants to add me, go ahead.
Sod off would ya 😛
I guess that’s the trade-off, stability and inflexibility on a console with standard hardware, or inconsistency and flexibility on a variety of hardware for PC. I’ve only spent an hour with it, but I think it may have something to do with the fact that I only have a couple of gigs left of hd space and I’m probably running into page file issues.
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That is a good way of putting it.
How does lock-picking go on a keyboard with the barrel turning? You can move thumbsticks at a slow pace but not so with keys.-
You use the mouse for lock-picking, I find it’s sensitive enough. The menu system is horrible though, it was obviously tailored for consoles – i.e you cant click on menu items, you have to navigate through them with the arrow keys.
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I’m playing the game on ultra high and it’s only crashed twice. Once wasn’t so much a crash as it was Steam needing to update. The second time was after playing it for 6 hours non stop in a small room with both the door and the windows closed during a relatively warm day. I was in the middle of a city and had just used Unrelenting Force to try and launch a group of about 10 people into the air. In retrospect I probably should have seen the crash coming.
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I also have a bug where books are ’empty’ or I just can’t see any text. After some investigation this morning, I think it’s to due with out-dated graphics drivers and the fact that I’m running a dual screen setup.
The worst part is there is still 8 hours until I can go home and play it again 🙁
Also, this has probably already been talked about, but what type of character is everyone rolling? I have a Khajit called Mr. Bigglesworth who was meant to be a sneaky type adept at ranged combat, whittling them down with arrows and then finishing them off with his claws. They’ve removed the unarmed skill though 🙁
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As I mentioned on the last page I’m playing a Nord. I’ve called her Avera which is the name I always give my female characters in fantasy games. She wears heavy armour, has a war axe in one hand and a fire spell in the other.
I think there’s an unarmed perk in the heavy armour tree. It lets you do extra damage if you punch something and you’re wearing heavy gauntlets.
I’ve also got a bit of a graphics bug. Some of the female character’s noses don’t render properly or something so they look a bit squarish at the tips instead of being nice and round. It’s not overly noticeable though.
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I’m rolling a Nord male named Thad.
Sword and shield, but I don’t think I’m far enough in to have specialised in anything yet.
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I rolled an Argonian called Sirak. He has mad bow skills and uses a 2H greatsword up close. Like a boss.
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Nooo, I have to go & do manual labour D: Like digging holes & planting things in them D:
Bai guys! I will return, I hope!
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Hell yeah!
I’d probably play the shit out of it in class or something if I had a copy tbh LOL. Cause Web Design has nothing on Farm Simulation!
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Virus_! I’ll be fixing my RRODed xbox sometime this week. If I can get it to work, I could sell it to you if you want it. It’s a white xbox with a 20GB HDD and powerbrick and video cord (Red, white, yellow and component(?))
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If I could scrounge together money, okay \o/ I doubt I will be able to though 🙁 But we will see!
But thank you for the generous offer!
So I go away for 3 weeks and return to find Kotaku has gone nuts with some kind of redesign. Madness! Cats and dogs living together! etc etc.
Also, while you may have seen me bag EB occasionally, I actually had a good experience with an EB store yesterday. Decided I couldn’t wait until coming into the city for work today to get my Uncharted 3, but I didn’t want to drive in to get to JB either. So I looked up JB’s price online ($89), drove to my local EB about 5-10 minutes away (the Firle store in the eastern suburbs of Adelaide), and asked if I could price match with JB for $89. The EB guy said “I reckon we can do better than that, how about we match $78 from Big W?” So I got an additional $11 discount unprompted from the EB guy. And he also threw in the bonus stuff (a PS3 skin, replica of Drake’s ring and a couple of DLC codes). So kudos to Firle EB guy.
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i’ve had a few good experiences like that, and i find that it really boils down to the person you’re talking to… if they’re really into games (rare) then they do their best to look after you…
when i preordered my copy of Diablo 3, i knew straight away that the chick had no f**king idea, because she asked “so which console is that on?”…
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Yeah, it was a holiday to the USA (with international business class flights paid for by my wife’s employer). Had a few days of official company-organized stuff to do over there in New York, after which we had a couple weeks on our own in NY, Las Vegas and San Francisco. Took a Hudson River cruise, saw Phantom of the Opera on Broadway, went to Zion National Park, Valley of Fire and Yosemite National Park, rented bikes and cycled around San Francisco Bay and across the Golden Gate Bridge etc. So yeah… overall it was pretty fun 🙂
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I tried to do that at FOUR EB stores, but no love. 🙁
If you don’t want the ring, can I buy it from you please?
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Yeah, I probably won’t want to keep it. Ask me in a few days once I’ve had a chance to get sick of looking at it 😛
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For those of you who work in an office environment, stop and listen to how often you hear the sound of mouse-clicking and keyboard strokes.
It is a constant chatter, and now that you realize this it cannot be unheard.
You are also manually breathing now after reading this 😀
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I actually can’t hear other people’s keyboards and mice from here. Well, I can hear one person’s but she isn’t here today.
Also, did you know that November is tongue awareness month? :p
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it’s insane over here, I work in an open plan studio, and just about every second person uses a mechanical keyboard, so it sounds like a WW2 typing pool in here…
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I always get yelled at, because I refuse to use any keyboard that doesn’t resemble the ancient honeywell ones was from the XT days. So it clanks away at a horribly loud volume. Add to that I am. a really fast touch typer, it drives everyone mental.
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Wow, I’ve just had the maddest craving for Vita Weats all of a sudden, with cream cheese and alfalfa.
I haven’t eaten this in years, what the hell?
Oh and good morning TAY 😀
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i think at last count… plus this one
you have impregnated at least 1/3 of tay
congrats i think??*backs away slowly*
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*strikes superman pose*
well, imma viking after all
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i love that guy… seriously… i’ll do naughty things to him… like say sh*t and stuff… then buy him a coffee… cause he’s that awesome
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Okay, pointless question:
What shows are you guys into right now?
Anime, TV series, game shows, whatever floats you boat.
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Just gotten into Warehouse 13, meh not bad.
Also will be picking up season 3 of Sanctuary today, Yay Amanda Tapping.-
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I picked up the first season for JB the other day as part of a 3 for 2 deal
Haven’t seen any of it yep but figured it was worth a shot from the trailers I had seen
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porn…
oh wait… you want TV shows…
porn…
i mean… i’m currently into:
The Office
Star Trek TOS (it’s cool kay?)
Dr. Who
robotech
highschool of the dead
Game of Thrones
Transformers Super God Masterforce-
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Dr Who is always a good idea. David Tennant wins at life. The old stuff is pretty great too.
It needs to be said, though, that Matt Smith has a caveman forehead.
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it is indeed the David Tennant years that i’m currently going through :P, nice to have running in the background during TF2 or SC2… i like stuff with 2 in it clearly
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I don’t know what this ‘Dr Who’ you guys are talking about is, I watch something called ‘Doctor Who’ though. 😛
Also, Tennant is not the best reboot Doctor, I like Eccles better.
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Eccleston was a bit too “angry” for me. He was still great, but Tennant has that degree of insanity that makes the whole thing more enjoyable. That, and great hair.
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Eccleston was ok but he was completely overshadowed by the awesomeness of John Barrowman.
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Oh, I know exactly why he was angry. It just wasn’t as fun watching an angry man as it is watching a mentally unstable, angry/funny man with a severe god complex. And great hair.
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i blame *looks around* GOOGLE TRANSLATE!
and it could be laziness and having to type out dr…
i mean it’s at least *counts the letters*
4 letters longer then the short version, and my typing could be saved at least 1 – 2 seconds by not typing it out… though in hindsight typing it out would have been easier cause that would have saved this long explanation, but this works too…also..
HI STRANGE 😀
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At the moment I’ve been watching NCIS, Star Trek: The Next Generation, House, Merlin and Tera Nova. Also I’ll sometimes have Neighbors on while I eat my tea and if there’s an episode of the Simpsons or Futurama on I’ll usually have that on while I play a game of LoL or something.
I was so excited for Terra Nova, but it’s let me down. 🙁 It’s getting better, but it just wasn’t what I expected. Most of the time watching it I’m just thinking: “This time period can’t be THAT sparsely populated with dinosaurs… 3 things should have eaten them by now”.
Anyway, you can’t go wrong with Community. My favourite comedy at the moment.
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Yeah, and the story line is ridiculous sometimes.
Last week they found a maintenance hatch that was too small for adults and only just fit a small kid. Who the heck builds an access shaft that adults can’t use?
It was purely a plot device to have the daughter do something, and it looked so stupid.
Young Justice, Boardwalk Empire, It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia, The Walking Dead, How I Met Your Mother, Community, South Park and Avatar: The Last Airbender.
Those are the shows that I’m currently watching, most as they are released, Avatar I’m just working through the DVDs again.
Young Justice is about the sidekicks of the members of the Justice League being their own little team of heroes. Tis very awesome.
Boardwalk Empire is about prohibition era gangsters in Atlantic City. It’s on HBO, need I say more?
Always Sunny is about a group of the most dysfunctional people you will ever see being assholes to everyone. It’s hilarious.
Walking Dead is zombies.
How I Met Your Mother was awesome and now is just simply not terrible.
Community is the funniest thing on TV since Arrested Development.
South Park is like How I Met Your Mother but more absurd.
Avatar is one of the best western animations in recent time, with kickass kungfu stuffs just for funzies.
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Do you know when the next series/season of Avatar is being released. Will be interesting to see if they can keep it going with new characters
My regular viewing at this point is House, how i met your mother and Naruto (the original series)
Well thanks to the magic of torrents I’m currently watching:
– Big Bang Theory season 5: it’s been kind of just stumbling along since the season return episode so I’m really just watching it out of habit and waiting for it to get really good again.
– Chuck season 5: I never thought I’d say this, but I’m glad Chuck is ending after this season. It thoroughly jumped the shark at the end of season 4 and I’m really just going to see it through for the sake of doing so, I don’t have any confidence that this season is going to get more interesting.
– Dexter season 6: Season 5 started off poorly but ended well, I’m glad season 6 got off to a good start.
Other stuff I have watched this year that I would recommend:
Ashes to Ashes: (the sequel/conclusion to Life on Mars). For some reason all the hype on Life on Mars disappeared after the awful US remake, so I hadn’t heard about Ashes to Ashes until very recently. It is excellent. If you liked Life on Mars, you must see it.
Archer: While the animation style and humour makes me miss Sealab 2021, Archer has a charm all it’s own. I can’t get enough of this show.
Stuff I have watched this year that sucked:
True Blood season 4: Oh dear god why. This was a decent trashy show about vampires in Louisiana once. Even as a conversion from some super bad novels, this season of True Blood did not rate at all. If they cock up the next season, I’m out, even if they pay Deborah Ann Woll enough to finally get her boobs out.
In no particular order:
Sons of Anarchy
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Breaking Bad (watching last season again!)
Community
South Park
The Office
The Walking Dead (but I’ve kinda lost interest in season 2)
Sliders (woo!)
Otherwise I’m waiting for shows to resume or start up.
I’ve been watching Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt.
It’s basically about two angels who fight ghosts, using their underwear and stockings as weapons, respectively.
Y’know, I’ll just leave it at this and show you guys what it’s all about:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooA21BGBFLM&feature=results_main&playnext=1&list=PL947794CF0946D3F7
You’ll either laugh, cry, or curl up in the corner.
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That’s also some amazing animation and art direction. I can almost forgive myself for watching that now.
Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Turns out season 3 was on the ABC recently, I didn’t find out till the second last episode last thursday night. Also, It’s out on DVD now. I’m currently watching season 4 via the magic of the internet.
Also, Mythbusters. New episodes tonight! 😀
And lastly, Horrible Histories. Quite ridiculously funny for a kids show. Hugo and Pixel should check it out 😛
M*A*S*H – my all-time fave show since I was five years old.
Watching the whole thing from go-to-woah. My wife and I are up to season 9.
Hmm, right now, Breaking Bad Season 4, Big Bang Theory Season 5 (which, like Matt K said, I’m watching more out of habit than anything…
Also watching Sons of Anarchy, I grabbed season 1 on Blu Ray a while back, so I’m ever so slowly working my way through that.
At the moment i’m watching;
Dexter
Burn Notice
Sons of Anarchy
The Big Bang Theory
Beavis and Butthead
The Walking Dead
Apart from Beavis and Butthead, they’re all pretty good.
I’ve been toying with the idea of putting together a TAY secret santa for the past week or so. Any chance you guys would be interested in something like that? Sort of want to get an idea of interest before I bother putting anything together.
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I would definitely join in, but alas, I’m already signed up for the Reddit Secret Santa this year, and the prospect of the cost of sending a package to the US, or to … i dunno… the Czech Republic or something has my wallet in hibernation…
By Talos, the air conditiog is not working in my buiklding, and I am starting to melt.
Look what you’ve done! I’m melting! Melting! Oh, what a world! What a world!
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man, dam buikldings i tells ya… they are a bastard to deal with…
clearly you need better aircondoodling
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oh god stop talking about food. I am going to om the whole of kotaku soon! stupid diets.
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*munches on the donuts*
my apoligies Mr. Apathy, i was not aware of your quest to shrink in size…*puts donuts on finger*
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ill trade for one of my hotdawgs *brandishes hotdawgs like mini swords*
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*droooools*
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It is just possible i like food a little too much.
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In keeping with Crasyguy1990’s comment. Why don’t we list some of our favourite bands/albums? Or whatever we are listening to right now.
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Poets of the Fall *swoons*…
that is all…
actually…
D.A.D is up there as well but no one knows about them /o\-
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Metallica (listening to to this right now)
Audioslave
Flogging Molly
Children Collide
Pearl JamGuess that’s about it. I like other stuff but don’t really consider them ‘favourites’.
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Current favourite band is Sabaton. I especially love their ‘Coat of Arms’ and “The Art of War’ albums.
Currently listening to Van Canto’s latest, ‘Break the Silence’. It’s the first new CD all year that’s managed to get me to stop listening to Sabaton.
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If we are talking favourite album of all time, id have to run with Nine Inch Nails: The downward spiral.
If we are talking at the moment. Well Twelve Foot Ninja: Smoke Bomb has not left my car stereo for at least 3 weeks.
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It’s odd how my musical tastes have changed a lot since I left high school. I was a hardcore metalhead back in the day. I’d listen to stuff like Meshuggah, Strapping Young Lad, Black Label Society, Metallica, My Dying Bride.
But these days I like a lot or electronic music and rock. Bands like Burial, Aphex Twin, Sigur Ros.
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See I think being massively into bands like NIN, I was always destined to like a bit of everything. I have listened to way too much dubstep lately. But also into a lot of experimental stuff. EBM and industrial. but still love my slipknot and machine head. Im just a slut when it comes to genres.
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Sigur Ros are like some kind of godly band that fell from heaven and picked up some instruments and made the most amazing music that can be heard. Cant wait for my limited edition of inni to show up…
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MOOOSIC!! Well, faves Ive gone over enough on these pages in the past, but at the moment I’m really into synthy stuff, but not really electronic… more like synth… rock maybe? I dunno. Bands like Austra and Zola Jesus.
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Man I love Maiden! Steve Harris is one of the reasons why I started playing bass!
Also I really love The Final Frontier, it was an all round awesome album. What did you make of it?
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My all time favourite band is Slipknot.
But my all time favourite album is probably Welcome To My Nightmare or From The Inside by Alice Cooper. They’re just amazing.
i FREAKING love that these are the people defending our nation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gm4UAt_bKwo&feature=related
Australian Navy – i Salute the shit outta you!
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cant watch it at work, is this the “im on a Boat” by the australian navy?
there is one with the british army in afganistan or iraq and they all dance with their guns its effing hilarious
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UW1toLy_FMQ
i think this is it
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So, that Skyrim eh? I reckon it’s fantastic. I’ve had the occasional system freeze but other than that, bloody brilliant game. I think I might have to attend some Smithing Anonymous meetings. I sat there for 2 hours last night just levelling up my smithing skill(At 70 now, awww yeah). Killed 4 Dragons, solved a murder and joined up with the Dark Brotherhood(really sorry if me saying they’re in the game spoils it for anyone).
Also I tend to approach quests with an ADHD perspective, grab quest, go start quest, see new area/quest, start that quest, rinse and repeat until i find i’m back where the original questgiver is and hand it in. I have 46 quests in my quest log right now…
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Yes, love smithing, I think I have done more of that then I have quests.
Gonna have to track down some more ore deposits though, I seem to have problems getting enough ore for my obsession.
Damn.. what a weekend.. I pulled an all nighter on Friday just cos I couldn’t sleep.. Saw the sun come up and figured I’d just push on through the day and find my second wind. Got to about 10:30am and I thought I’d go and watch some tv and pepare to play some games, and I got as far as turning the tv on (to a blank screen mind you – No signal as it was on the channel my media centre is on and it wasn’t turned on) and no sooner had that happened, than I fell asleep. I didn’t wake up til 8:30pm! So much for my day of gaming :\ I pretty much crapped myself at that point cos I was supposed to organize what to do with my friend Sachiko after she finished work! Lucky she hadn’t finished by then, but I was trying to sms and stuff, and unbeknownst to me, my phone wasn’t working. about an hour later I get an email from her telling me to turn on my phone.. I was like.. huh? It is on! Turned it off and pulled out the sim, plugged it back in and BAM! 20 messages come through! Dunno what the hell my phone was doing :\ Sunday wasn’t that much better either.. Went and did some shopping, then came home with the idea of playing games, only to sit down and end up watching movies instead :0 Not that it’s bad watching movies, but just not what I expected. The good thing about sunday was I had dinner cooked for me by Sachiko! It was delicious! And her knife skills are super impressive! Not surprising though considering she works as a sushi chef! First time a woman’s cooked dinner for me in god knows how long! LittleJJ was never really a fan of cooking, so I ended up doing most of it. It was such a nice treat though! I got up to do the dishes when we were done, and she even pushed me away and told me to sit down and relax while she cleaned up! WTF?? What kind of crazy world of opposites have I stumbled in to?!?! I can’t believe people like this actually exist!
This morning was a bloody nightmare though. My alarm went off at the usual time, and I turned it off, closed my eyes and promptly woke up an hour later!! Holy crap!!! I woke up when i was supposed to be leaving! So it was major panic stations as I rang work to tell them I would be late etc, and jumped in the shower. Ended up getting here 45mins late :\ oops! At least I didn’t get in trouble for it though! The people here are great! 🙂
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hahah yeah well she’s been doing karate for 5 or 6 yrs or something too, so it’s highly likely she could be 😉
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Got a call at home saying that a “big package from amazon.com” has arrived. This can only mean one thing.
SKYRIM: COLLECTORS EDITION!!
This is both good and bad, the good thing is I can see what all this “Sky rimming” business that all the kids are doing is about. The bad news is that my pile of shame shall continue to grow.
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I was hoping to at least polish 1 game off my pile of shame before Skyrim arrived (Amazon estimated I would get it Thursday/Friday)
So some pretty good games came out last week. Skyrim… MW3… but none of them can POSSIBLY compare to MY game, Egress – The Test of STS-417!
I released it on the weekend for all those that didnt see. Sci-fi horror ahoy! Official page is here – http://www.kramsdesign.com/games/egress/
It’s totes free so you guys should pretty much go dowbnload it now and tell every single person you know about it. Even your Grandma. I hear Grandma’s are into this kind of sci-fi horror stuff.
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about those brain kidz we were discussing earlier?
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PSP version so I can play it on the train pls!
You ARE taking rquests for more releases right? That’s why everyone is going on about a Mac version.
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*looks at PSP covered in dust*
*looks at catalogue with PSP’s selling for around $1*
Ahhh… ehhh… naahhhh.
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hm…. But my PSP is hacked 🙁 I’ll have to pay for a DSi/3DS Version!
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well in that case can i have it developed for the DS and Android as well please? it’s not like we’re asking a lot of you 😛
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I played it over the weekend. It was really cool, and I loved how your behaviour affected the ending.
I could not for the life of me figure out the light puzzle though!!
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Thanks Shane, that means a lot!
Actually, a full length follow-up is definately something I was considering during development on this, so that’s cool you had that sense of things! I have so many ideas though that I’m toying with, it may or may not end up being this one. Though one particular sci-fi I’m working on COULD be a spiritual follow-up in the very least.
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Favourited to download once I’m home this arvo. Priorities are Egress, then TF2, then Skyrim, then sleep (if there’s time).
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mac… MAC?!?
*takes one of Puppylicks’ man cards and makes like a ferret for the door before the impending MAC vs. PC war*-
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Good point!
Is it easy to install Bootcamp? I’m missing out on so many good indie games because of my Mac right now 😛
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I’m going to have to remove your nerd card because it is Mac not MAC. Those two things have entirely different meanings.
Also, I’m a Mac user. If you think that makes me less of a man, then I’ll cut you with my MacBook Air :p
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*does a double take, realise my scrawny size and run away again*
in all honesty, i don’t care what people use 😛 i use a PC cause it works for me, if Mac <— (see i can do it right) does it for you, well great, we can still play games together 😛
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Provided that the have cross-platform support, of course.
Or if I just use my PC…
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He was clearly shouting “MAC” in justifiable rage, as it is impossible for a rational person to say the word calmly 😛
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Wait… you work with networking and don’t know the difference between MAC and Mac?
But MAC is a networking related term!
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lol of course i know, but as Shane said i used MAC as Mac as a way to express shouting as i didn’t think many people would get the 2 mixed up in this context… i don’t think i can actually take anyones cards away based on their physical hardware address 😛
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MAC is makeup….
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see? this is why i don’t understand what MAC is… i did not know we had to make our switches/routers/Wallports/Users look pretty… it must have been implied in the Job Description
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ugh, my sisters won’t stop going on about the stuff… that and uhh… I think they’re called OPI, they’re like a nail polish or summink…
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Go old school: MACINTOOOOOOOOOSH!!!
Dude, havent you heard – people are BUYING PC’s* to be able to play this!
*Claim is most likely speculation and may not represent actual truth.
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P.S. I’m talking to a guy in the AGS forums about a shell on the exe that makes it Mac compatible. He’s got his games going with it on Mac so it should only be a matter of time…
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So I don’t really pay much attention to the Playstation Minis games. I’m sure some of them are vaguely interesting.
Then a saw an article about Where Is My Heart? On the Playstation blog. I picked it up at the end of the meat and it’s REALLY fun. I love the art style and the music. as well.
And cute!
Anyone with a PS3 and/or PSP could do worse that grab it, especially as it’s free to PS+ subscribers till December.
Info and trailer can be viewed here:
http://bushghost.blogspot.com/
Urgh, ABC ran an article last week about the Australian doing the whole channel 7 fearmongering route regarding the R18+ rating (I think I posted about it on last weeks TAY) The article got mostly positive responses bar one from some asinine elitist who went the whole ‘video games are for losers/geeks/whatever’ route. naturally she got multiple responses debating her arrogant comment and such, the person response, word for word:
“Play with your games people, meanwhile the rest of the world gets laid tonight. I rest my case.”
I wanted to smash my head into the desk. . .
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Thats when the gamers just say. “Yeah, well not only did i get laid, but my pally reached level 80 last night. BURN! “
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hehe the logic is so flawed. Yes i enjoy a hobby, so i must not be in any sort of relationship. It is just like saying. Oh you spent a large amount of time doing something you enjoy. Therefore you must be socially stilted.
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HEY NRL PREMIERS, ENJOY YOUR 30 HOURS OF FOOTBALL TRAIINGN EACH WEEK PLUS HAVING TO PLAY ON THE WEEKENDS. MEANWHILE EVERYONE ELSE IS GETTING LAID TONIGHT.
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Interesting argument, but they have plenty of time to pick up underage schoolgirls in the off-season, so…
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It would be fine if it was just 13 year olds. But there are plenty of 20+ year olds who share this mentality. They think unless you are out getting drunk doing stupid shit every night you must not be able to get a girl to sleep with you.
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Don’t worry about it. I have a plan in place, and when I rule the world it will be a very different place.
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I think the commenter in question most likely falls into this category.
Hell I ‘d rather play video games, which in some way may have a beneficial effect on me (reflexes, problem solving, etc etc) rather than watch an episode of Jersey Shore, where the only thing I can look forward to is lost brain cells
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There’s this one girl I work with who scoffs at nerdy habits like video games, while playing angry birds on her iPhone and Bejewelled on her computer (instead of doing work).
She thinks it’s lame that a married man of 28 wants to go home to his wife and play games with her all night, while she goes out and has a social life.
Well, I might go straight home to my wife who I love, but at least I never:
– lost my iPhone in a toilet because I was trying to call a friend for help after getting sick off ecstacy
– threw up while walking down some stairs then slipped in my own vomit
– blew a complete stranger in the club toilets then ran into him at a work related function the next day
These are apparently the hallmarks of “a great weekend”. PASS.
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Yeah, life sure is s#%t when you have to go home to a happy relationship with a person who has like-minded interests and spend time together having fun.
It’s the worst.
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IKNORITE?
i mean i hate going home and having to play xbox with the missus… it’s clearly something that i don’t wanna share and the fact that she is putting effort into understanding why and plays Halo and Gears with me is just so annoying…
in an enjoyable way…
i mean i would much rather go and get drunk and suffocate in my own spew… cause that is AWESOME… or?
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Oh well, just as you’re happy with your life, maybe she’s happy with hers… let’s not pass hasty judgement as that’s what’s causing all this stuff in the firs…
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And PS: The point of a social life is to make bonds with people and connect with them, forge unions that will last longer than the hangover the next morning.
You clearly win the ‘social life’ game… by my standards, anyways.
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i have an “archaic” laptop that barely survives on w7 at the moment
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Another Skyrim post.
After 24 hours played, I’m in love with Skyrim. Not sure if it can topple Morrowind as best Elder Scrolls game, but it sure is trying hard, and will likely succeed by the time I’m done.
Also, my decision to do a character diary thingy means I’m actually role-playing my decisions a bit more, and it is affecting the way I play – normally I’d tool around doing all of the side quests, but it feels a bit wrong to do that to the character. Oh well, multiple playthroughs \o/
For those interested, I’m playing a Dark Elf, wielding an enchanted katana in my right hand and alternating between a shield and flamethrower magic in the left, occasionally shooting a bow, currently wearing full Dwarven armour and looking like a boss.
Spoilery discussion follows:
V’z ybivat gur znva dhrfg naq pvivy jne dhrfgyvarf.
Ertneqvat gur pvivy jne, V pubfr gb fvqr jvgu gur Fgbezpybnxf – cnegyl orpnhfr gur Vzcrevnyf jrer nobhg gb ybc bss zl urnq, cnegyl orpnhfr V’ir arire ernyyl yvxrq gur Rzcver va Ryqre Fpebyyf tnzrf, cnegyl orpnhfr V’z cynlvat n Qnex Rys jub ungrf gur Gunyzbe. Ubjrire, Orgurfqn unir qbar n terng wbo jvgu gur Fgbezpybnx snpgvba, cnegvphyneyl Wney Hysevp naq uvf pybfr pbzcnavbaf, ol znxvat gurz ‘enpvfg’ (Fxlevz sbe gur Abeqf, rgp) nf jryy nf nagv-Vzcrevny. Vs V jnf cynlvat n Abeq, V pbhyq trg jubyyl oruvaq Hysevp naq uvf zbirzrag, ohg nf n Qnex Rys V svaq gurve ivrjf ba aba-Abeqf gb or vagbyrenag naq qvfpbzsbegvat. Urapr, zl punenpgre fhccbegf gur Fgbezpybnx zbirzrag (naq unf gnxra bire Juvgreha qrfcvgr orvat Gunar…) naq Hysevp nf gur svtherurnq bs gur zbirzrag, ohg vf irel eryhpgnag gb fhccbeg Hysevp crefbanyyl. V ybir vg!
V jnf fcrnxvat gb gur qentba ba gbc bs gur Guebng bs gur Jbeyq, naq ur tyvgpurq bhg. Gur pbairefngvba pbagvahrq ncnpr, ohg gur qentba fgnegrq yrivgngvat naq ebgngvat qenzngvpnyyl, svanyyl mbbzvat nebhaq va pvepyrf ~50z be fb nobir zr orsber punatvat qverpgvba! Gunaxshyyl V unq fhogvgyrf ba…
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I was tempted to do a diary for my character. I was thinking of picking up the EB edition and recording it in the notebook that came with the game but in the end I decided it would probably be way too much work.
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That’s where I’m going to write mine. I’ve been making notes and thinking of how I want it to read, I just need to write it out now.
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I could never do something like this, because I would end up sounding to much like a dumb barbarian.
Saw dragon, went POW, he died.
Drank mead, it was good.
Shouted at bear, he went splat.
Forged axe, it was sharp.-
I’d pay to read that.
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You Could also make a LE Box Set of your Annecdotes and include a flagon of mead with a barbarian drinking horn ( not exactly sure what they are called). i would buy 2 of those… one for me and one for my dwarf
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So, the talk about level caps in Skyrim on page one made me wonder…what’s the point of a level cap in single player games anyway,especially if it’s below 100?
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So you reach the maximum in time for the release of Elder Scrolls 6… otherwise you’d just keep playing 5 forever.
Maybe an incentive to buy DLC with extended level caps?
Or… I don’t know would be a more accurate answer.
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I kind of like it. The compulsion to raise every single stat to max is nearly always overwhelming, but I prefer a little constraint, so that I create a certain type of character, not a god like being who is master of everything.
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Maybe so you don’t end up becoming too powerful and making the game less enjoyable for yourself? A fight against a dragon would be pretty boring if you could kill it in one shot.
Also maybe to make you replay the game? Though since you’ve already bought it I can’t really imagine why they’d care how many times you play through it. I guess it could keep you interested in the game and the series while they work on making DLC and sequels but then they run the risk on making you feel burned out on the game and not wanting to try out the DLC or sequel, atleast not straight away.
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Exactly. This is what happened to me with Fallout 3. I went around doing absolutely everything in the world and I hadn’t even explored half the world when I reached the level cap. Which made the rest of game slightly less exciting. I felt like everything I did after that was pointless, and the DLC that came out increasing the level cap came out too late, after I’d already finished the game. It made me not to want to get any of the DLC and it’s why I haven’t played Fallout:New Vegas.
If you’re going to have a level cap, shouldn’t you at least make sure a player can do MOST things in the game and get experience, so they don’t feel like they’re wasting their time finishing the game when nothing they do gains them anything?
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Well conversely, you don’t want to cripple someone who (for whatever reason) rushes through the game, barely doing sidequests.
I’m with you though; Hit level 30 in new Vegas, and didn’t feel compelled to explore any further.
I think it’s just a cheap method of scaling the game. Instead of adjusting the world to your abilities (no easy feat, I concede) or to guide you appropriately in a way that you travel to places suited for your level and progress, I imagine it’s just easier to slap caps on everything so you can easily define what’s appropriate for your level relative to everything else.
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Perhaps for some it is so you cannot max every skill – you have to choose carefully. (Perks in Skyrim, Fallout etc)
Other games it might be to do with NPC levels – they are at set strengths or can only scale so far and you are capped so you cannot just grind and roll them.
Reposting from page 2 so it doesn’t get lost..
I’ve been toying with the idea of putting together a TAY secret santa for the past week or so. Any chance you guys would be interested in something like that? Sort of want to get an idea of interest before I bother putting anything together.
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In theory, yes. In practice, it’s a bit tricky in a lot of ways.
* Postage becomes a real factor for any present you buy.
* We may not know what systems our SS recipient owns, so buying a game (which, to be fair, is the sole common interest that we can say everyone here shares) is out
* TAYbies give so much stuff away that buying presents is either going to be an exercise in inadequacy or hopeless extravagance. Either way, people might be left feeling uncomfortable.But I’m in if others are!! 😀
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Yeah, I considered those issues. A price limit, which is usually part of SS anyway, would more or less solve those issues anyway, except the games one. But I guess if you didn’t know what they owned you wouldn’t exactly buy a game.
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My thinking on that would be gifts would most likely be games via digital distribution = no postage. Plus there are plenty of classics on steam for < $5 that I'm sure would make great gifts. Count me in.
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Does that not counter the “secret” part though? I’m just assuming you can’t anonymously gift games, I haven’t dealt with gifting a lot.
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Steam has a massive “THIS GUY SENT YOU A GIFT”. -
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I suppose if you wanted to use steam gifting there could be a central account created for that purpose? That could work.
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pretty sure you can’t do this, as you need to have made a purchase of your own before you’re allowed to send anything to another account… or at least that’s how it was last time I checked.
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Not everyone has a computer that is capable of playing many of the games on Steam. Also, there may be other people like me who prefer/find it more convenient to play games on consoles.
And if we’re just going to gift games(especially on steam) then what’s the point, you may as well just buy yourself a game and say it’s from Kotaku. 😛-
I wasn’t actually thinking games would be the ideal gift, just because you’d have a price limit on it and it would probably be too low for a game. Plus there isn’t much chance you’d know what the recipient would and wouldn’t have.
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Soooooo
with bee heading away for next week – i have decided (besides studying like a maniac) to wipe some games off of my 360 Pile of shame.. sooo peeps – which of these are quick and worth playing through asap:
Kameo
Eternal Sonata
Star Ocean the last hope
Assassins Creed
Section 8
Lego Indianna Jones
Kung-Fu Panda
Alone in the Dark – Collectors Edition
NinetyNine Nights
Dead Space
Rainbow 6 Vegas
Dragon Age Origins
Burnout Paradise
Borderlands
Kane and Lynch Deadmen
Mirrors Edge
Resonance of Fate
Lost Odyssey
Viva Pinata
Call of Juarez
Mass Effect 2
Fallout 3- game of the year edition
Grand Theft Auto 4
Wartech: Senko no Ronde
Saints Row 1
Infinite Undiscovery
Assassins Creed 2 – White Edition
Sacred 2 – Collectors Edition
Dead Rising
Dead Rising 2 – Outbreak Edition
Farcry 2 – Collectors Edition
Wanted: Weapons of Fate
Aliens Vs. Predator Hunter Edition
Overlord
Dark Void
Enchanted Arms
Split/Second – Velocity
Bioshock
Splinter Cell: Conviction
The Saboteur
WWE Allstars
Homefront
Skate 2
Bayonetta
Perfect Dark Zero
Project Sylpheed
Metro 2033
Vanquish
Eath Defence Force: 2017
Call of Duty 2
The Darkness
Red Alert 3
Need For Speed: Shift
Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter 2
Mafia II
LA Noire
Splinter Cell: Double Agent
Overllord II
Serious Sam HD
Lost Planet 2
Call of Duty 3: Gold Edition
Alan Wake: Collectors Edition
Bully: Scholarship Edition
Crackdown
Killzone 2
Shadows of the Damned
Fracture
Red Dead Redemption
3d Dot Game Heroes
Spider Man: Shattered Dimensions
Infamous
Rage
So yeahhhh… that’s just ps3 and 360
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First of all: JEEEESUS! Get some more gaming time into your schedule, man!
Mafia II is really good, and quite short.
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I was about to suggest this too. Just make sure you turn off the ‘Runner Vision’ and HUD for extra awesomeness 🙂
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Mass Effect 2 and Red Dead Redemption are the two must play games I can spot on that list.
Mirror’s Edge is rather good and should only take 5-6 hours to complete. Homefront is similarly short, but you’re better off using that one as a drink coaster.
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These are both reasonable length (8-12 hours or so) and good:
– Alan Wake
– Assassin’s Creed 2
– Mirror’s Edge
– The Darkness
– BayonettaHowever you have Mass Effect 2 in your list, so you shouldn’t even be asking this question.
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BioShock, Grand Theft Auto IV & Fallout 3.
You will thank me later 😛
Also forget playing BioShock 2, it was appalling in comparison to what the first was 😛
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I put my vote in for Metro 2033
Fairly short linear FPS but great atmosphere and set pieces. Maybe around a 10 hr play through depending on your skill and how anal you are on searching every nook and cranny
Bioshock, Bayonetta and Dead Space are all fairly quick and definitely worthwhile. There’s a lot of great games on that list but most of them require a lot of investment, timewise.
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Wait, how was that a reply fail?! It even said “REPLY TO CHULOOPA” in the top of the comment box!
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I agree with this. You’ve got quite a few RPGs listed and they’d take you hours and hours to get through.
Definitely play through Bioshock and then move onto Deadspace if there’s time.
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Hi Rize,
I am fine. Good to hear you are well.
You should eat pie. There is always room for pie.
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Pie it is. However, I believe the pastry should be replaced with a bacon crust. And maybe the “beef” can be replaced by and egg or two, then baked. Thoughts?
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“throw it in a bucket…
With the eggs on top”
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Rize!
I had chicken burgers, they were nomtastic! I marinated the chicken in a smokey BBQ marinade, then pan fried it until it was cooked but super tender, then I ate it!
Ugh. Cleaning. To prepare for house inspections. To prepare for moving out.
WORST MORNING OFF EVER.
[/firstworldproblems]
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Wait, so does that mean you got the place you wanted?
Because that seems more like a \o/ thing than a /o\ thing.-
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That’s right, I know how to party.
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You are always the life of the party sitting by yourself in a different room than everyone else!
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There is literally nothing that could have made that moment any better.
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Not confirmed yet /o\
but I will celebrate as soon as we get confirmation!
On the downside, we still have to let strangers walk through our house at least twice this week /o\
okay, in terms you guys will understand:
I’m not allowed to buy Skyrim until we’ve finished moving.
That might not be until
DECEMBER
*tears*
So in return I have banned the boyfriend from buying MW3 until we’ve moved.
I have a question not really related to gaming, but rather to everyone’s favourite anti-video game activists: the Australian Christian Lobby.
Did they recently change to a new website, then proceed to completely abandon their old one, without even linking the old site to the new one?
My Arkham Asylum Let’s Play will finally be back underway shortly.
Just got to record a short video of me describing what happened in the footage that decided to break (which covers the Intensive Treatment section of the game) and Carlos (my housemate and the guy who draws the Asinine Circus comics) is going to do a few simple pictures to show the events.
Not sure how long that will take, but after that I think I’m just going to power through and get this over with before moving on to a Let’s Play of Arkham City.
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Hahaha: http://torogoz.deviantart.com/art/Asinine-Cast-262467755
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Being all slouchy and wearing a lot of green?
Never!
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Wow, you’ve just ruined my life outside of work. Now I’m going to have to spend my free time travelling Skyrim to see it, because that sounds AMAZING!
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STOP FORCING ME TO SPEND MONIES….
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Now you make me want to go on holidays
Someday I am going to take my wife here: http://www.kakslauttanen.fi/en/resort/igloo-village
Hi all,
Just wanted to drop in and say hi!
I have not even had a chance to read the last 3 pages of your awesomeness. Im really struggling to keep up to date with whats going on. I want to, but not sure I will be able to.
Also part of my prblem is that ive been spending a fair amount of time on projects i can’t discuss here so there is little to say really. One of these projects should be revealed in the coming weeks, but not sure when. The other one I just started and won’t be finished for 6 months or so?
I kinda feel bad because i don’t have time to engage in any conversation. I still try and read it all, but you know, feel bad not contributing.
but MAN, you gotta love this time of year for games!
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Don’t feel bad! I do like that you’re kind of watching over us though, like some sort of TAY god.
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Hey dude,
If you are busy there is not much you can do about it except keep up when you can. I get busy sometimes and don’t read TAY for ages (This is a rarely happens) We all understand.
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Why is this song so fun?! Possibly a little bit NSFW, if you work at an abbey or something.
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lolololol! I relly dun get why everyone finds this so hard. Ok well mebe I do, but the answer is right in front of you guys! Biggest clue is in the shape of the buttons…
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Yeah, well I already tried to take a button off with the power drill so I could use it to pry open the panel. That didn’t work though… 😛
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Hahaha! Wow, I thought I had everything covered but… no I hadnt thought of pulling off the buttons haha! No there are a few ways to go about it, but the ‘right’ way is to solve the code. Which is actually more straight forward then it first seems. Answer is in the wide view of the room too.
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hammer is easier 🙂
But I’ll take another look tonight. Can you give me a hint..? 🙂
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Very pretty game.
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Aiden – i finally got around to reading part 2 of your tale!
““SPACE, Maureen, I need space!”” – this pat made me laugh quite loudly.
Great work, all up, mate ! 😀 can’t wait to see more..
PS. I can’t help but notice i’m not dead yet?
Holy crao. You guys, if you want to read an absolutely amazing horror webcomic – http://emcarroll.blogspot.com/
Also if you missed her earlier work, ‘His Face All Red’, go read it too. Both are just… gah! AMAZING! Not to mention all the other comics shes done… http://www.emcarroll.com/comic/
Also, Skyrim related.
Find the Steed standing stone. It allows you to move full speed even in heavy armour, and adds 100 lbs to your carrying capacity (and I *think* it makes your equipped armour weigh nothing – not sure on this one though).
Just got told off for playing my chip tunes too loud. But how else am i meant to drown out the horrible radio music????
This weekend is the 10 year reunion from my high school (year 10).
I have a lot to be proud of and to show off, and I still don’t really want to go. If it wasn’t for the prospect that I could flog off some more copies of my book, I think I would give it the widest miss possible (like head interstate on an impromptu road trip wide-miss).
I’m bringing the wife and little one, so we have a great excuse to bail early. Any other tips for surviving the night?
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Thankfully I never got invited to my high school reunion. Probably owing to not having ANY contact with ANYONE I went to school with.
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We were going to have a 10 year reunion last year, but no one wanted to organise it, so everyone just kinda forgot. I’m secretly glad because 1) I didn’t really want to go and b) the reason I didn’t really want to go was because I wasn’t in a good place with my life and would have been too embarassed to show up.
Things are way better now. Bring on 2015!
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hair, lint, dead skin, spider web, dust, and sometimes light rubbish and debris, and are held together by static electricity and felt-like entanglement.
i’m sorry what were we talking about?
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“bits of smashed badger” –Jeremy Clarkson suggesting what dust is composed of on QI
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One of the best quotes on a show full of great quotes.
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anyone actually read any of his “world according to Clarkson” books?
you might not agree to his views, but my god is that man funny
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Mine was earlier this year.
Thankfully they made it no partners / children… which saved me looking like the lonely bastard I am.
I’d be OK with a year 12 high school reunion, partially because (despite being an overall negative experience) I was lucky enough to have a few good friends. Moreover, I know I’m more more successful in life than a lot of the people who used to give me a hard time. It seems only fair to take the immature road, and explain to them why I’m better 😀
You might be surprised, I actually enjoyed mine a lot more than expected
I spoke to people more that night than I think I did the entire time we went through school together. Meeting old friends who you had lost touch with, seeing the bullies turned into fat alcoholic laborers and generally catching up with what has been going on in the microcosim that was 7 years of your life
Oh, in response to my comment from the previous page:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogwR166Fhmg&feature=related
Enjoy, Foo Fighters fans.
The Korean SC2 team StarTale has just added Aphrodite to their roster, making her the second female SC2 pro in Korea (the first being SlayerS Eve). Unlike Eve (who is only Diamond level and people are saying was only hired because of her additional X chromosome), Aphrodite is high Masters and just won a woman’s tournament.
Would be nice to see if StarTales throws her into the GSTL (team league) or even tries to get her to qualify for GSL Code A.
She’s also dating one of StarTales’ players, Rainbow.
Still, I don’t think I can support her. She plays Terran and we just don’t need more damned Korean Terrans dominating the pro scene.
SPACE MARINE FANS
New armor set DLC has been revealed
http://www.spacemarine.com/blog-post/warhammer-40000-space-marine-dlc-chapter-armour-sets
The Salamanders and LotD ones are looking VERY nice.
The Blood Angels is very underwhelming, though
Also: A couple of wallpapers.
http://www.spacemarine.com/blog-post/warhammer-40000-space-marine-wallpapers
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a 40k history lesson for those interested – a very interesting read
Legion of the Damned:
http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Legion_of_the_DamnedCan’t wait to play them in MP
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that’s amazing,
wait, no STOP THIS… i don’t need another addiction, and Warhammer is already doing a good job at sucking me in… MUST…RESIST 😛-
You think THAT’S awesome?
Check these guys out!http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Flame_Falcons
I REALLY want to try modeling some of these guys – but i really have no idea how i would make an army that looks like they are all on fire!!
Man, they are BAD ARSE!
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*whimpers*
woooow amazing…
that’s it, from now on everything in my world is Warhammer related 😛
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WOW, Blood Angels fans are an obsessive lot *i should know* and i think they’ll get a little back lash over the complete and utter MEH fest that is that armour set.
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what would be awesome is introducing the armour sets for librarians and chaplains. That would be SAWEEEEET.
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Loops, do you play the tabletop? I think I’ve asked you this a few dozen times but you know… brain damage.
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I did a while ago – but it’s been a long time – still have all my minis, though.
It gets REALLY tempting to start up again sometimes, though.
Then i look at the prices…
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Yeah man, I think about playing again myself. I’ve still got some Imperial Guard lying around that I was working on a few years ago.
Then I think that with the prices maybe I should get a group and do Inquisitor (but with the standard minis). Then I think that I don’t have that many friends :'(
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So, what multiplayer games do I need to get for my Xbox 360? Preferably non-violent ones, cause if I came home with a violent game my mum would kill me.
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Portal but you have probably already got the better PC versions. Hmm that is tricky, If you can get ilo milo from the xbox store, prolly the other good one!
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Well there’s Shooty Stabby McKillDeathening 3000, Murder Death Violence Ball 4 and Nuclear Genocide Killtrocity: Pony Island Adventure.
Or Halo. Which really isn’t that violent.
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You missed Incest Murder-Rape Super Brutal (Facecut Edition) which was marketed directly to children and got a PG rating after they reskinned all the penises in the game. They were going to go for military-issue combat knives (since violence is always ok), but due to a fundamental misunderstanding, they reskinned them with pictures of David Bowie.
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You may laugh, but Lara Croft Adventures (the isometric Tomb Raider spinoff thing) on XBLA is a really good co-op experience.
New Procrastoonation – Return of the Post Joke http://www.procrastoonation.com/archives/114
Sort of carries on from the last one.
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i thought the first joke was infinetely better then the other two. The last 2 are quite derivative of your earlier work making them appear lazy..
I am kidding sughly i lol’ed quite a bit
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The postman is the best. Maximum coolio. I call the postman, Max Coolio. He’s a good guy; just broken up by the daily grind. I like the bit where he’s hiding at the end! Poor dude.
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Delving through TAY has for some reason given me an uncontrollable urge to buy skyrim the only question now is what to get it on. I don’t really want to play it in minecraft style graphics so my laptop is out.
Is there any major difference between the PS3 and 360 versions? Not trying to start a fanboy war, honest.
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Well if you really want to…sonic would kick mario’s ass any day of the week and twice on sunday!
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I agree 🙂
Lol not a mario fan in the slightest, sonic all the way.
I want Sonic generations so badly
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I agree – Sega did make the protagonist totally overpowered to try to compensate for the average skill level of their audience.
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I think the 360 version looks marginally better, I may be wrong though.
Ah, here’s that vid: http://staging.kotaku.com.au/2011/11/lets-compare-skyrim-on-playstation-3-xbox-360-and-pc/
I usually get multiplatform games on PS3 but I got Skyrim on 360 purely because I’m used to playing Elder Scrolls games on XBox.
There were a few articles here on Kotaku that showed graphics comparisons if that’s something that’s important to you though. Apart from that, the only advice I can give is if you get it on 360 don’t install it to your hard drive, apparently it doesn’t like it.
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It screws up with textures – when you access the menu in-game, it makes the textures out of menu low res to make it smoother. It’s supposed to restore them when you leave the menu, but when you install it to the hard drive, it frequently fails to up-res the textures.
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Huh, I did not notice. Thanks for the tip guys.
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cool, if there’s no major difference then i’ll prolly go 360 cause the controller is that bit more comfy.
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If a game was developed first for one console then ported over to the other console, or there’s exclusive DLC that I’ll actually play, that’s when I go for one version over the other.
Otherwise, I tend to make my decision on the same reasoning. The controller.
Hai guys, I like survived being outside & stuff! \o/
Got a phone call from my friend Caitlin when I was out, she’s coming to visit in January woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo, she’s is also coming to The Big Day Out with Sam & I and she’ll be here for my 21st hoorah =D I am so excited!
For reference she lives in New Zealand.
Siiiiiigh… so after 4 days of trial work and being told they need to spend a couple of weeks upgrading their work server before I can come back in and arrange a contract with them, my new work finally got back to me this morning after numerous emails just to tell me oh sorry we got some guy in Melbourne because he has more epxerience. Bleh.
Sucky news :'(
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wait i am confused was this to seperate places or one place. Also that sucks dude. Really shitty news. * Bro-Fist
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Haha oops, yeah it is a bit confusing. No its one place. New work as in, the new work that needed ‘server upgrade time’. Blehhhhh.
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Sorry to hear man 🙁 I know how that feels i’ve been shafted like that a few times twice before I even got the job =/
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You should Jason Bourne their ass for pulling that kind of guff. Full on Matt Damon. Play this song on your Walkman and beat them down, one at a time. It makes sense. We could do Krav Maga and just take the fight to their doorstep. Remember everything. Forgive nothing.
Road house,
Plainview.
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This is already in the works. What the heck else would I have been planning since I got the news!
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Man that’s pretty shit. I hope they’re gonna pay you for those days at least. What kind of work was it?
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Making those annoying flash banner ads. At least I wont feel dirty, prostituting myself to produce that garbage and go back to what I do best – berating others who make them! Buuuut… it was good pay :'( I WANT TO BE A PROSTITUTE AGAIN!
Wait. Wat?
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I didn’t get that. (Am I too young to understand?)
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In TAY. Whoever wrote the best story of a journey they took would receive the new LOTR game.
My story should have won. I don’t know if it did but it should have. It was awesome.
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Yo,
I’m thinking Aiden’s the winner… The journey itself was fairly ordinary, but he scored points for inclusion of Shapes and a Stegosaurus. Also, it was pretty well written.
The problem is, my brother now has the game, so I’ll have to figure something out.
Oh hai there!
Much fun was had on last Saturday at Dr What’s place.
Hope Pez’s laptop is alright after Jack (Dr. What’s deary doggie) nearly knocked it over while we were playing on arcade sticks.
I feel ashamed for never having played any of those games during my childhood before, but I at least I got to!
Yea, fighting games. Button mashing \o/ (despite CrabJiffy’s constant disapproval at me for doing so)
Dr. What’s cooking was delicious (he even gave us some curry to bring with us… it’s still in the fridge :P)!!
Itching to get Skyrim now. Might go buy it on Thursday :\ Need more monies!
Sughly. God damn that f**king panel. I hate you.
I can’t stay mad at you! <3
Egress is trippy. Sequel?
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Agreed, they’re nothing but trouble. Why is it they never wanna work, but when they wanna work they’re out of ink?!
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My printer screwed up so badly, Excel crashed…
I think most people can guess what I want to do right now (NSFW language and high impact violence against technology).
@Lambo from page 3… buy Trials HD. Buy it now. Seriously, non violent and awesome fun. Good to get practice in before Trials Evolution comes out.
As for non violent MP games.. that is a tough one for me. I dont usually play that much MP but ive been enjoying gears and BF3.
Oh, Forza 4 is a good one to get actually, $50 on ozgame. great game.
@ Faction – You know, they’ve actually raised the price of the Codex books?
When i got my older ones they were between $30 and $40… now they start at $60!!!
HOW the HELL can GW justify THAT?
It’s just disgraceful!
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Last time I was collecting and/or playing tabletop, the Land Raider tank kit was $75… After playing Space Marine/DOW2:Retribution, I figured I’d head down to the store, pick up a Raider, some paints, brushes etc, budgeted $130 tops for the lot…
The tank alone is $110.
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Maybe GW has this twisted logic that makes them think the fan base for models and such will increase ten fold due to the recent onslaught (in a good way) of Warhammer Games. They then decided “lets get rich bro” and jacked up the prices. Couldn’t afford to continue my collection/army building when i was 15 definetly can’t afford to continue it now.
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When Space Marine came out, I got myself back into the 40k universe (bought a couple of books, etc). I was going to start painting a new army, but found that it was a) prohibitively expensive, b) awkward/time consuming to get to the nearest retailer and c) could get cheaper international imports due to ‘can’t ship to destination’. Dammit.
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i think ive done that 3 times since i was 15. bought a couple of books started to get really into the idea of it then same thing happened. at least my friend has now quite a large backlog of salamander, space marine, imperial guard and ork codex
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I’ve been reading the books in place of playing the tabletop game, I absolutely love the Space Wolf series, and for a long time there I was powering through the Horus Heresy series, I believe I got up to Tales of Heresy, which, being a bunch of short stories, rather than continuing the canon, kind killed it for me, so I’m currently reading Game of Thrones instead.
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Yeah man, crazy. When I was considering getting back into it last time I downloaded some codexes (sic?) to see how much things had changed.
I guess if you really wanted to you could find someone that ships to aus from america (since we all know GW won’t let you from their own store)?
Or go the RPG way and get one model and some Green Stuff
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I believe, technically, the plural is Codices, I’m pretty sure I’ve seen it written that way in the novels…
Watching some professional LoL games being cast on youtube. One thing I saw that was interesting is Malhazar/Annie’s pets are classed as minions. This means that teammates can teleport to them. Could lead to some good combo’s – Annie stuns with Tibbers, Rammus/Kennen AoE ultimates after teleporting in.
The more you know.
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I knew this already, I teleported on Freyr’s Tibbers once before to get right back into the fight up close
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Also making Tibbers invincible, denying the chance of being killed for 50 gold!
Well worth it 🙂
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It made me sad. Tibbers was about to KEEL THE ENEMY and you teleported in and stole the kill 🙁
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Sorry mate not watchin the game anymore so I don’t remember which one it was but Protatoe has interesting clips:
http://www.youtube.com/user/Protatomonster#p/c/FCC5CE8FE38CBC93
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Same for wards and traps. You can TP to teemo’s mushrooms and I woudl assume the same for Caitlin’s traps
Alright, I’m in need of the TAY hivemind!
I’m trying to get my Dad to start playing some games on his iPad (Why he needs an iPad I have no idea, but that’s not the point :P). I need some recommendations about what game(s) to start him on. He’s never really played any sort of game in his life (Pfft. I know, right?).
He said he doesn’t want anything too complicated or anything heavily reaction-based. I started him on Cut the Rope, which he enjoyed until the challenge ramped up a bit (“There’s too many ropes to cut!” xD), so that’s a bit of a no-go. Then I moved on the Angry Birds, which he likes, but gets annoyed when he gets stuck.
I’m no expert on iOS games, so I need some help! Anything with a free demo would be excellent (but not entirely necessary).
tl;dr: Need iOS game recommendations for Dad. Nothing complicated or reaction-based. Already tried Cut the Rope/Angry Birds.
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Tiny Wings is a cool game on iphone, so i’m assuming that its on ipad as well. It is reaction based but its a single action game so not too complicated.
Bookworm is a pretty good word play game, probably worth a try, there might be a free version of it floating around as well iirc. Once again assuming its on the ipad because its on the iphone.
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Maybe some of the racing type games. Can’t get too hard as you don’t die, you just get worse lap times/positions
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Thanks for the replies, guys! I’ve taken note of them so I’ll see what he ends up liking. I’ll try to look up some racing games as well.
Also: I didn’t even know Monkey Island had an iOS port… makes me want to get an iDevice now. 😛
Finished Skyrim on Sunday (after not actually starting until about 11pm Friday night and working Saturday night /flex)
Good game, but I was encountering sooo many game-breaking bugs (PC) got cock-blocked on a quest for about an hour because the NPC just bugged out and didn’t continue his dialog, found a way to force complete the quest though and that was the only way I could do it.
I had it on default diffuculty: Adept, and found that to be way too easy. I could kill 2 Dragons at once and a Dragon, Giant and group of wolves. The last boss was a cakewalk too.
so this batman/space marine crossover is getting a bit ridiculous friend who studies/studied at AIE in canberra wants to turn it into a 3d Model but he probly wont have time.
also i have successfully lined four bins with various drawings and failings. call it stubborn call it stupid but i refuse to give up.
On the Warhammer 40k thing – here’s some price comparisons between US and AUS.
It’s not just video games that people get stiffed on – it is really EVERYTHING that we pay twice as much for.
Dark Eldar Kabalite Warriors:
US: $29
AUS: $48
Space Marine Tactical Squad:
US: $37.25
AUS: $62
Catachan Jungle FIghters
US: $29
AUS: $48
Codex: Orks
US: $33
AUS: $55
It’s just insane!!!
Even more horrid – THE PAINT!:
AUS:
http://search.games-workshop.com/search?locale=au&keywords=paint
US:
http://search.games-workshop.com/search?locale=us&keywords=paint
Get home, slammed down a large glass of chocolate milk.
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I don’t remember milk being that thick.
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Just a quick question, was there any intention or plans for a christmas meet up? hopefully in or around Sydney somewhere?
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Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuure, I don’t see why not.
Probably see what’ll happen closer to the time, though.Also Ginger Chris, you must come. We must see how Ginger you really are.
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Also Hugo.
HUGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Don’t you pull that “My family wants to hang with me during Christmas” business. They see you enough. We haven’t even gotten to see you once! Not once! They’re hogging you! >:C -
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We should go carolling, but, instead of Christmas songs, we sing 80/90’s classics.
Imagine a bunch of randoms in Santa hats, going door to door singing Oh Yeah by Yello.
“MMMMMMM BOWBOWMP! CHIIK! CHIKKACHIKKAAAA!”-
I read the last line first, and was tempted to slap you through the internet for singing Hanson’s MMMBop.
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I’m slightly offended.
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just FYI to all, my birthday is christmas day, so you should all totally buy me presents…
just sayin’
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SW:TOR’s closeness to release has got me really tempted to go and track down all the graphic novels and other stuff that has been produced over the years as backstory for the Old Republic setting.
Anyone know if there’s a cheap spot online to get Dark Horse’s Star Wars comic releases? I’ve got a few old ones kicking around but I recall them being really expensive.
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Possibly their digital store?
Otherwise the same place that sold the trading cards was meant to have fairly cheap comics.
I made sure I bought all the books behind SWTOR (just gotta read it all).
Also Drew Karpyshyn (Bioware writer and author of some Star Wars/Mass Effect novels) has a new book out on Revan. It basically describes what happened after the events of KOTOR / KOTORII.
And it shipped on Friday 🙂
Here is the first couple of entries for my Skyrim character diary – SPOILERS, obviously. Used rot13. This is but page one of 6/7 of notes that I’ve made so far.
Wbheany bs Fbeynvvf bs Ubhfr Erqbena
Zbeaqnf – 17gu Ynfg Frrq 4R201
Gurl gbbx zl ynfg wbheany nybat jvgu rirelguvat ryfr. V tbg fghcvq, naq V cnvq gur cevpr. Ohg, V nz nyvir, juvpu vf zber guna V pbhyq unir ubcrq sbe.
V jnf pnhtug ol Yrtvba gebbcf nf V pebffrq gur obeqre sebz Plebqvvy, naq guebja va jvgu n tebhc bs Abeq eroryf – Fgbezpybnxf, gurl pnyyrq gurzfryirf. Jr jrer gb or rkrphgrq va Urytra guvf zbeavat. Nf zl urnq erfgrq hcba gur urnqfzna’f oybpx, nyy jrag gb punbf. N qentba unq nccrnerq! Frvmvat gur punapr nzvqfg gur pbashfvba, V ena. Rirelguvat jnf oheavat. Bar bs gur thneqf bssrerq zr na rfpncr, ohg fb qvq Enybs, naq V’z abg dhvpx gb sbetvir gubfr jub jbhyq frr zr orurnqrq. Nsgre svaqvat fbzr jrncbaf, Enybs naq V sbhtug bhe jnl serr guebhtu gur ghaaryf orarngu Urytra.
Enybs gbbx zr gb uvf fvfgre’f ubzr va arneol Evirejbbq, jurer fur unf tenpvbhfyl gnxra zr va. Fb, urer V nz. Nyvir naq, sbe gur zbzrag, serr ntnva.
Gveqnf – 18gu Ynfg Frrq
Vs V nz gb fheivir va Fxlevz, V jvyy arrq zbarl. Gur genqre, Yhpna Inyrevhf, nfxrq sbe nffvfgnapr va ergevrivat na negvsnpg sebz guvrirf va Oyrnx Snyyf Oneebj, naq V nterrq. V unir n fjbeq, naq V pna fgvyy hfr zl Qrfgehpgvba grpuavdhrf – vg jvyy or yvxr byq gvzrf.
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V jnf nggnpxrq ol na noabeznyyl ynetr sebfgovgr fcvqre va gur Oneebj – abguvat V pbhyqa’g unaqyr. Nsgre ‘npdhvevat’ gur zrepunag’f tbyqra pynj sebz vg’f eryhpgnag ‘bjare’, V qvfpbirerq gung vg jnf gur xrl gb haybpxvat n frnyrq frpgvba bs gur Oneebj. Nsgre qrsrngvat n qenhte thneqvna, V qvfpbirerq n jnyy, pbirerq va napvrag naq haernqnoyr fpevcg gung zngpurq gung bs n fgbar gnoyrg sbhaq arneol. Nf V qerj arne, V sryg n fgebat pbzchyfvba gb rknzvar gur grkg pneirq vagb gur jnyy. Zl ivfvba oyheerq, zl rnef guehzzrq, naq zl urneg enprq. Fhqqrayl, n jbeq yrncg sbegu jvgu oynmvat cbjre. Naq fbzrubj, V xarj vg. Vg jnf… cneg bs zr. V zhfg guvax ba guvf, creuncf frrx nqivpr sebz gur arnerfg Grzcyr. V unir xrcg gur gnoyrg va gur snvag ubcr gung vg furqf yvtug ba gurfr hahfhny cbjref.
Zvqqnf – 19gu Ynfg Frrq
Enybs’f fvfgre Treqre unf frag zr gb Juvgreha gb nccrny gb gur Wney sbe nffvfgnapr va gur rirag bs n qentba nggnpx. Nsgre nterrvat gb fraq nvq, gur Wney nfxrq zr gb fcrnx gb uvf zntvpvna, naq gryy uvz nyy V yrneag bs gur qentba jura vg nggnpxrq Urytra. Juvpu vf irel yvggyr ng nyy. Jura V fubjrq gur zntvpvna gur gnoyrg V unq npdhverq, ur vqragvsvrq gur jevgvat nf gur ynathntr bs gur qentbaf, naq erdhrfgrq gur gnoyrg gb fghql. Ur frrzrq gb xabj jung ur jnf qbvat, fb V lvryqrq gur fgbar.
Naq gura gur Wney’f ubhfrpney ohefg vagb gur ebbz – n qentba unq orra fvtugrq sylvat bire gur snezf ng qhfx. Frrxvat gb vatengvngr zlfrys jvgu gur Wney, V ibyhagrrerq gb nffvfg gur thneqf va qevivat gur ornfg bss. V fbba qvfpbirerq gung vg jnf abg gur fnzr qentba gung nggnpxrq Urytra – qvfgheovat arjf.
Fbba rabhtu gur qentba sryy gb gur pbzovarq zvtug bs gur thneq. Nf V qerj arne gur pbecfr gb vafcrpg vg, vg ohefg vagb rgurerny synzr naq dhvpxyl qvfvagrtengrq. Naq jvgu n ehfu bs raretl, yvtug, fbhaq, V tnvarq gur qentba’f cbjre. V qba’g xabj ubj, be jul, ohg V pna srry gur qentba’f ivgnyvgl pbhefvat guebhtu zl irvaf. Vg vf zhgrq, abj, ohg fgvyy cerfrag. Gur thneqf qerj onpx nf V nccebnpurq, anzvat zr ‘qentbaobea’ jvgu erirerag gbarf. Nf jr erghearq gb Juvgreha, n guhaqrebhf ibvpr fcbxr sebz gur fxvrf. ‘Qbinuxvva!’ Wney Onytehhs gbyq zr gung gur Terlornef unq pnyyrq sbe gur Qentbaobea, naq gung V zhfg frrx gurz bhg va Uvtu Uebgutne gb yrnea gur Jnl bs gur Ibvpr. Orsber V yrsg, gur Wney znqr zr n Gunar bs Juvgreha va gunaxf sbe inadhvfuvat gur qentba.
V nz pbashfrq naq sevtugrarq ol gur riragf bs guvf avtug. Gbzbeebj, V frg bhg sbe Uvtu Uebgutne gb svaq nafjref gb gur dhrfgvbaf gung cynthr zr. Jung vf n ‘qentbaobea’, naq jul pna V fgvyy srry gur qentba’f cbjre va zr? V srne V jvyy abg fyrrc gbavtug.
Wow, nobody seems to have any interest in street date breaks this week! (/so/ last week *hipster*)
Nobody else hanging out for Revelations!? Or is there some sort of “there is zero chance of that happening” type thing?
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Wow, it has taken my all day but I finally reach the end of TAY
Man, I need to work on my prioritising
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Are you from WA, too? This morning, when I first looked, there were 3 unread pages I gave up on catching up on. Now, mid-late afternoon, posting happens much less frequently.
Hello Beautiful TAY.
My weekend consisted of the following,
1 drinking cider
2 driving,
3 Playing LOL (come play with me I’m sorta new)
4 Harvest
Harvest in more detail
So I spent all day yesterday at parramatta park, listening to chilled out psychadellica (Mercury Rev, Flaming lips) laid back rock (the National) Awesome wall of sound (Mogwai) and Pure aural sex (Portishead)
Lets just say, I dont think I need to orgasm for another year or so… Twas an awesome day, and if anyones going in brisbane, Watch the Visuals for portishead’s Machine gun, and the little stab at australian politics they put in there. so awesome.
Anyways now to eat pizza and talk to you all on teamspeak
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Now I have U2 stuck in my head
it’s a beautiful taaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay
ooooh oooh oooh oooh
I’m such a dumbass I left my ciders in the freezer to chill them fast, ones frozen, I open it and the top blew off LOL. Frozen mess every where =D
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my dad’s discovered a similar thing with his bottles of home brew.
He picked up a small fridge over the weekend just for the beer, and stacked it full of bottles, meaning there was a bunch right near the back where the cold air comes from, and after a few hours, the ones right at the back had frozen, and blown their tops, which caused a bunch of others to shift around, pop open the door of the fridge, and shatter all over the garage floor 🙁
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Ouch, not the home brew D:
I was lucky it was like a frozen coke consistency, so was perfectly fine lol.
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AASLDJKSFKLSACMSCNASNFG today was… sadistic.
Went to get a haircut, hairdresser had shut down.
Got on train, had to get off at the next station because of a car accident on the line up ahead.
Waited an hour for replacement bus. Squeezed in between irate old ladies screaming about terrible transport services.
Got Oporto. Day MIGHTILY improved.
Went to post office to get yen and yuan. The staff get confused between the two, then say they don’t have any yuan. Tried bank. Bank says they don’t have any of anything and to go to some city store I’ve never heard of. Hour wasted. Raeg.
Constantly check Kotaku for possible AssRev street date break. Phone battery dies.
Went to Kew to buy a dapper new suit. Awful timing. Stumble into flocks of deranged schoolkids.
Get completely lost. Pick the tram going in the opposite direction to where I need to go. Eventually get to the store.
Mistaken for a student buying a school uniform, twice. Finally buy suit. The man says they started keeping ‘these smaller versions’ for teenagers going to the races. I raise an eyebrow.
Finally get back into the city after waiting an hour for a tram, check EB to see if Assassin’s Creed had broken street date. No dice.
Will repeat tomorrow ;____;
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Got a fave Maiden album? I’m between The Number of The Beast & Iron Maiden.. Both such amazing albums D:
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Fear of the Dark is definitely somewhere up the top.
Bed Quick or Be Dead
Fear of the Dark
Afraid to Shoot Strangers
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Oh god, it’s too hard to choose!
Number of the Beast, Powerslave, Fear of the Dark… Seventh Son of a Seventh Son… Argh, so many good tracks on all of them!-
Agreed! Although I was not too keen on the Blaze stuff as much though. Bruce is truly the voice of Maiden!
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Agreed.
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I should actually check out Bruces solo stuff. My mate assures me its awesome, I am sure it is lol!
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You sure? I feel like I’ve gone back on my word.
I didn’t think my bro wanted it. Turned out he did.I’ll think of something…
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Need… To.. Stop.. Procrastinating…. Tips on being productive anyone?
Unsurprisingly I’ve been reading the light, english-translated novels ‘The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya’ blargh…
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Beating procrastination tip from a chronic procrastinator:
-Find something you really really want to do (for me at the moment it’s Dark Souls or Skyrim) and make a deal with yourself that you can’t do it until you’ve crossed two things off your to-do list.
I don’t know why but I am struggling to
1) keep up with the discussion
2) find suitable things to reply with.
I think I must be broken. Also I need advice, but it is too sensitive for Tay. Anyone want to be my sounding board send me a dm on twitter!
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TAY moves too quick. I’m getting busier at work and TAY responds by making 5 pages a day.
Moderated comments were a great thing, I could at least keep up!
HOUSE ACQUIRED
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Also, is there any way that TAY can be made more readable on a mobile? once it gets past 1 page it’s unreadable, and that usually takes until about 1230 on Monday morning…
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I read this as ‘horse’.
Also, a house in… real life? Or in SKYRIM?
Congrats on either (or both? O_o)!
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HAH!
I just realised the significance of your gravatar even though you’ve had it for a week or something.
I’m on the ball.Oh, also, \o/
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@FatShady from page 4
I’m going to get that xbox live arcade triple pack. Comes with Trials HD, Limbo and Splosion Man. Only $26 from hardly normal 😀
I may get Forza 4 sometime in the future. I played it at EB Expo and yeah it was pretty fun 🙂
Thanks for the suggestions
Re-post from previous page abyss
On the Warhammer 40k thing – here’s some price comparisons between US and AUS.
It’s not just video games that people get stiffed on – it is really EVERYTHING that we pay twice as much for.
Dark Eldar Kabalite Warriors:
US: $29
AUS: $48
Space Marine Tactical Squad:
US: $37.25
AUS: $62
Catachan Jungle FIghters
US: $29
AUS: $48
Codex: Orks
US: $33
AUS: $55
IT’S JUST INSANE!
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Talking to a guy I knew who worked for Games workshop, he was saying that its cheaper to buy from the UK and get it shipped over
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So Saints Row 3 is out today.
Looks awesome, however due to SKYRIM! I don’t think I will be playing it for a while.
I need holidays.
Or a clone.
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Yeah; Ass:Rev, Saints 3, NFS: The Run and Halo Anniversary are all games I am really interested in.
But I will be buying none of them, for I have Skyrim.
Managed to squeeze in an hour or two of Dark Souls last night. I went to the lower Undead Burg (damn thieves), saw the boss gate and though ‘screw that, later’, backtracked to the Firelink Shrine and bashed my way through the skeletons in the graveyard.
Managed to kill the giant skeletons too, looking it up it turns out having magic really helps, all I did it with was a club 😛
Now I found this epic sword that I don’t have the strength to wield yet and I’m 1 experience point away from being able to use magic.
It’s funny that in terms of ground covered I haven’t really progressed that far, but I still feel like I’m making great progress. Just beating those skeletons alone after they caused me so much grief earlier felt like a triumph.
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SOMEONE FIND ME A PARTY POPPER!!
WE MUST CELEBRATE!!!I can’t wait to actually give dark/demons soul a shot! 😀
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And now that you can beat them you can easily farm them for 500 souls apiece! It’s fairly risk-free considering how close to the Firelink Shrine it is.
And yeah, I’m in the Lower Undead Burg now. Really want to kill the Boss there (Capra Demon) but he’s so fast. Tried a few times yesterday but kept dying. It’s my goal of today, though.
Yay Assassin’s Creed today! I’m about to head off for the bus to pick it up early.
Only problem is I tried to marathon all of Brotherhood yesterday and Sunday and now I feel like I’m all AC’d out. I may have ruined myself!
Also, I can’t believe I’m saying this because I’m not usually one to charge straight for the multiplayer side of a game, but I really think the first thing I’ll do with Revelations is muck around in the multiplayer for an hour or so. Am I crazy?
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I’m glad that my name can generate discussion like this.
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i think you should change it to “Banana Henry Biscuit Jones III”…
that would satisfy me greatly… mainly because i LOATHE pants… skirts/kilts/dresses/tunics are okay though
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and loincloths, you can’t forget the loincloths.
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well i thought that was implied… being the hight of fashion and all… got mine fresh of a drop bear the other day…
true story…then i went to the Hippo Races…
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wait, it’s tuesday today…. DAMN YOU WEDNESDAY FOR TRAVELLING FORWARD IN TIME
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AlexLoincloth doesn’t have the same ring to it, though…
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You’re my punctuation hero!
GUYS!!!
PEOPLE WHO WANT TO START SOME 40K GOODNESS AND THE LIKE!!
CHECK IT OUT!!
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SOOOOO CHEAP!! :D:D:D
OMG I MIGHT BE ABLE TO START UP THE HOBBY AGAIN!!
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for the space marine lovers
http://giftsforgeeks.org.uk/p/category/0710039346-Space+Marines/The battle force boxes work out to roughly $75ish dollars – which is literally half the price of what you pay here
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I still have an unpainted lead death company squad to paint, as well as most of the starter kits plastic minis. if paints and inks were not so spensive id be hella keen to start up. I know people who play 40k and standard..so plenty of people to battle with.
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Just a wild guess but if you *do* get back into 40k are you going to go the Space Marine way?
I/you may have just convinced a mate to get into it as price was always what stopped him.
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@Faction
I’d do one of a few things
1. Continue my Dark Angels army
2. Try and figure out how i can continue my Undead Chaos army wit hthe new codex rules
3. Make a Kotaku marines forceAlso – i have been told by more than one source that the Imperial Guard are the new “total power” army. Scary thought, that.
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The IG point makes me happy, as that’s what I was considering getting back into. I’ve still got my command squad… that’s about it. I’m not really to keen to get back into Space Marines as they’re pretty generic, but I also thought of doing the Kotaku chapter 🙂
Make some funky shoulder pads! And Mark as your leader!
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slate grey armor all over, pink edges on the shoulder guards, with a white helmet 😀
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OH!
Games Workshop have a new PIRATE SHIP game!
Hugo, Pixel and all other barbarians – i expect you to collectively lose your shit
http://giftsforgeeks.org.uk/p/product/090822830912-Dreadfleet%2520/
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*puts on monocle*
i can honestly say dear sir, that i indeed did just loose my shit…
nooow i need to change pants-
wait, it’s sort of it’s own boardgame? no painting or collecting/money sink thing?
SOLD!the only reason why i never got into Warhammer 40k tabletop is my obvious lack in painting skill and my CBF’d attitude towards improving it 😛 so this’ll do nicely
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*sigh*
I replied earlier, but it looks like it has been removed so I shall attempt it once again.
Arg.
Yep, that was my post, that was the post that was removed.
I reiterate *sigh*-
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A mighty positve roar of Arg.
Also, I should have more faith in Kotaku, my original comment has returned in all it’s glory.
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Not all of them are called pirates – but being a fantasty world, warhammer is still choc-full of pirates and always have been. Although. the pirates from warhammer are usually exclusively people from the Empire of man.
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Sorry loops but the correct answer was
Because the Arrrrrrr
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Damn it… should have seen that.
Damn my “geeky answer for everything”
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Was deciding between Dark Souls and New Game Plus of Arkham City last night. Went with New Game Plus, not sure why just felt like that was the way to go.
Looks like it carries over all of the Riddler challenges, experience, gadgets and upgrades but fortunately all of the sidequests etc are still there. For the Let’s Play, I think I’m going to need to do another playthrough of the game getting as few Riddler challenges as possible so that I can get them in New Game Plus.
Also, it’s a lot harder than I thought to get the timing right for counters without the indicator. I keep doing it too damned early and breaking my combos.
And I got rather stuck in the Steel Mill. Simply couldn’t work out that I needed to drop down to a ledge and shuffle around. That was embarrassing.
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New game plus in Arkham City wasn’t too bad, really. The two big problem areas are the Catwoman epilogue and Mr. Freeze, but you’ve just gotta take those two sections a bit slower and really think it out before attacking. Seriously, that Catwoman epilogue, ugh.
Also, I’m glad I’m not alone about the counter icon. Even after playing hard on Arkham Asylum without it I still fail to get the timing right a lot of the time. It has lead to oh so many deaths.
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Oh goody, the two sections I struggled the most with…
The worst thing about the counter button is that now I’m simply mashing it as soon as I see someone approach. I might drop the combo but that way there’s no way that they’re going to hit me.
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Well the good news is you don’t actually need the Catwoman epilogue for the achievement if that’s what you’re going for.
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I’m doing a Let’s Play to follow up on my Arkham Asylum one, so it’s not so much the achievement but just getting a general feel of what’s going on in NG+ that’s different. Failing that, if it’s worth doing NG+ just so I can use the costumes because that’ll mean beating the game two more times (once in NG+ and once to set up a new NG+ game with Riddler challenges uncollected).
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Had an awesome moment in SKYRIM! last night. I was walking through one of those smaller villages, only one or two houses and a farm, when I heard the familiar roar of a dragon. Oh crap I thought, all the people here are gonna get butchered, then I heard one of the patrolling gurads shout out “everybody inside”, all the villages quickly ran for the houses and farm.
Now I know this is all scripted and such, but it just really hit me, that at the time not only was I thinking of the well fair of the people as if they were real, but that the guards and peasants acted appropriately to the situation.
Also, after the battle, the people slowly came out of the houses exclaiming that they couldn’t believe what had happened, then a little girl ran up and started telling them about how it was just like the old stories she had been told. Amazing.
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That’s pretty great, I love how much it feels like a living world.
Had one dragon appear as I was sneaking up to a Giant camp. We were in a Mexican standoff when it came out of nowhere and frosted the giant and we teamed up to take it down. When it was over the giant let me escape the camp before getting aggressive again. -
f**k it, i’m getting paid today… i’m getting skyrim… i was going to hold out for my new PC so it could look all beautiful like… but your *points blaming finger at Hugo* constant awesome tales makes, NAY FORCES me to buy it….
i don’t know whether to slap you… or hug you… or both…. at the same time
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The other day I had a dragon attack a small town. All the townsfolk disappeared and the guards helped me bring it down. After it was dead one of the guards said “maybe I’m the dragonborn and I just don’t know it yet?”. I laughed.
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The more I play, the more I find the game pulls out some interesting behavior. I’m really impressed with the little touches. For example, I recently looted (i forgot where) some Light Imperial armor and one of the guards commented that “Judging by your armor, I’d guess you are an Imperial Scout. If so well done” etc.
I sent a long winded email to Nintendo about how releasing a Zelda 3DS almost half a year after they release the 3DS Zelda game was a bit shit of them. Worse than the price drop in my mind. Here is the reply:
Dear customer,
Here at Nintendo we are very proud of our roots. One such example is our celebration of the Zelda series aniversary.
When deciding the release date of the new limited edition 3DS console our aim was to bring it to market as close to the original release date of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time for the Nintendo 64 as was possible. We are sorry that you are displeased with our decision on this.
Please be aware that the option for transferring downloaded titles from one 3DS to another 3DS will be available in a future system update. We currently have this planned for late-November but this is subject to change.
Please note that this cannot be performed with the use of an your SD card and the 3DS transfer tool will require both both consoles to be in your possession and both need to be fully updated and configured for internet access to follow this process. Both consoles also need to be from the same region for example Europe for this to be possible.
We hope you find this information useful and we thank you for your continued support.
Many Thanks
The Nintendo Team
I liked the bit where they said “our aim was to bring it to market as close to the original release date of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time for the Nintendo 64”
Really? 13 years is as close as you could get?
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Weren’t they just thinking of the actual date, not the year? As in releasing the Zelda 3DS as close to the anniversary of OoT’s release date as possible?
Apart from that though, yeah they’re full of crap.
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I think they meant they wanted to release the console as near to the release of the game on 3DS and put the wrong platform down. I’m not sure. But yeah, not an excuse for releasing a limited edition console 5 months after making everyone buy a standard unit to play the game. They could have at least said they were planning it.
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I dunno, the way they said “original” made me think they really did mean N64, not 3DS.
But yeah, the whole thing stinks. I’m tempted to get the Zelda 3DS but I have a feeling it won’t be too long before they release a 3DSi or something.If you want to get the Zelda 3DS, maybe I could buy your old 3DS off you? Would that help?
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After finally receiving Skyrim I installed it and started to play it (only for a couple of hours). Holy CARP what an amazing game, if I wasn’t so freaking busy at work I would make up some kind of horrible disease (skyrimitus?) or throw myself down a set of stairs so I can play that game some more!!!
OMG SKYRIM!!!!
I’m getting withdrawal symptoms.
Anyway I chose to make a Dark Elf (I can set myself on fire, so awesome) and I’m hoping to eventually be a mage-rogue sort of character.
Morning All. Half asleep owing to early start for a sales meeting. I dont like early starts as the mean i can not sit up gaming all night, well not if i want to be functional the following day.
So a week on, I ask the question again. Should I buy Skyrim? Given i have already clocked up a stupid amount of time on MW3 ?
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How did I know SOMEONE would give me that response? I am just concerned if I’d just be wasting my money. I have a habit of giving up on long games to go play cod. Its really bad.
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INTERVENTION…
SKYRIM INTERVENTION…
SKYRIM…
it’s a subliminal message… a Skyriminal message if you’d like…
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SKYRIM-
i think that’s actually super-liminal isnt it:P
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i never was good with words… or very discreet 😛
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I think even if you only experience it for a little while, Skyrim is worth it. However considering the latest Call of Duty game just came out, you might want to wait a while, wait until you’re ready for a different kind of game to break up the CoD sessions.
I’m sure the story in Skyrim is good, but you really don’t need to finish the story to get the most out of the game, just exploring is fun enough. It kind of reminds me of Red Dead Redemption a little in that way.-
I think i need something to break cod up already. I mean, i can easily put in a 3 hours session, but i get up regularly in that to get a drink, or see what the wife is doing. I can no longer do that thing where you lose track of 3 hours.
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Oh man, it’s so easy to lose track of time playing Skyrim. So if that’s what you want, definitely get it now.
Although I am wary of talking the game up too much, in case when people get the game it’s not as good for them as the stories they’ve been hearing about it.
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I’m a pretty big COD fanboy, and i really enjoy MW3 but I found that i was taking time out from skyrim to play COD for a bit instead of taking time out from COD to play skyrim. What everyone says is true, its addictive and you will lose any chance of a social life.
@BDKIAF – Count me in for Kotaku Kris Kringle (KKK!).
@Steve-O The Deve-O – Don’t think I didn’t see your kudos ‘nom’ for me last week. Bring. It.
@Effluvium Boy and Freyr – LOL. You guys are hilarious.
@Chuloopa – Your Pile of Shame, it’s so big… and manly…
@Trjn – Congratulations to Aphrodite, that makes for good news indeed.
@Rocketman – He-y Ro-cket-man how. Is. You.r. in-ter-net pro. Blem. Pro.gress. inG?
@Gingerchris86 – How are Portishead live? What songs did they play?!?
@SydneyTAYBIES – Xmas meet? Cool bananas. Bags not organising but i’m in.
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*glares at harli*
and where have you been?
there’s been newcomers around and noone able to wield the oar-
Oh you know.. this place.. called Skyrim. I’m sorry Pixel. Please don’t glare at me like that…
“One Oar to rule them all, one Oar to find them, one Oar to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.”
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it’s okay… it’s just…
everyone is leaving me for this place called Skyrim… it’s so… so cold out here… and lonely…
*Bursts into tears*
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“@Chuloopa – Your Pile of Shame, it’s so big… and manly…”
*blushes* i bet you say that to all the boys
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@Harli here is a nice short answer for you :p
Portishead Live are amazing, Considering the amount of complexity on the studio recordings, for them to sound exactly as they do on the album is absolutely amazing.
They played a fair split between third and dummy with only 2 songs from the Portishead album. Glory Box of course and Sour times were played. Beth’s Voice was amazing she can pull off that frail voice one minute and the next do that big strong voice too the next..
I lost my stuff many times during that set, namely during almost every song, but especially during machine gun, glory box and Roads…
And the visuals were brilliant, particularly during machine gun, which had visuals of Tony Abbott with Evil Laser eyes!
Link to the setlist for those interested
http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/portishead/2011/parramatta-park-parramatta-australia-3bd1fc34.html
TLDR Version: They were excellent and played songs. read the setlist :p
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Thanks for taking the time to answer this Gingerchris – especially since this post is like, way back on page 6 now! old news!
Sydney meats?!
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Morning All 🙂
i played MW3 last night after training, just wanted to know wtf is with the people with buttons in their names? also i kind of enjoy the level progression in the weapons and all the new stuff. Don’t hate me coz im a sheep, i didnt actually buy it i just took it from work so no one could rent it.
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i are disappoint in you my son
*shakes head*
*reads about not paying for it*
well this makes it marginally better… but couldn’t you have borrowed, i dunno… something good? like Skyrim!?
i really should stop the CoD bashing, but it’s so easy… bashing the CoD… don’t let me near a petshop… cause i will bash the CoD… i’ll bash your CoD… okay i’m done…
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no i fully intend to buy skyrim, when i has the monies…. which will probably be along time 🙁 plus it would be sacrilege to deprive another soul of the oportunity to be sucked into the world of skyrim !!!!
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if i wasn’t so selfish i’d probably have the same sentiment… except in your position i’d just hog the copy and never let it go… and put it in my pants… before anyone else get’s to… to tell it how dirty it is… you dirty dirty little Skyrim…mmmmm….
wait… sorry… what?
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*passes Pixel Some Soap-on-a-Rope*
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you sir just when up 2 notches on my awesome list… i lolled wholeheartedly 😛
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I think its the same as in previous cods, there is something you can do using a transfer cable to alter your name/clan tag. Its all over the interwebs. I naturally assume anyone with a modded name or tag is modding other stuff, so i simply report them.
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You’re all making it REALLY REALLY HARD not to buy Skyrim.
Maybe in February. But it just sounds…. so… awesome…
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Seriously. I’m highly considering breaking my “No new games before Skyward Sword” rule and buying Skyrim directly after my final exam tomorrow…
You guys have not made the wait easy!
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i just realised something about myself this morning…
i am hugely judgemental
i didn’t used to think i was biased against the CoD franchise… i never used to hate it, i just never enjoyed it… the fact that other people did was indifferent to me… but i was driving to work, and listening to the radio. someone called up and talked about MW3… and immediately i burst out laughing and labelled him as a tool… WHY? WHY DID I DO THAT?
whenever i hear the words Call Of Duty exclaimed i automatically shudder and go into “OMG” mode, with the whole “roll my eyes, snort and walk away” Thing… again WHY?
it’s weird… maybe it’s because the most hardcore CoD gamers i know in person are real tools? or… i dunno because my dad plays it? 😛 bit of daddy issues going on? i dunno…
anyway, enough self evaluation…
HI!
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see that’s the thing, i don’t doubt that are actual decent people playing CoD… i dunno, maybe i’m just a ruined individual that are so spoiled by all my other games that i have adopted the whole “well i think it’s boring so you’re an idiot for liking it” attitude? i don’t wanna be that person… i’m not a bad person…
*runs over and kicks a cat*
what? i hate cats
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it could be worse you could form an elitism from playing wow and then proclaim to the world and mainly yourself that WoW is the greatest game ever and every other game is for hacks and losers. I used to have a friend who did that. key words “used to”.
seriously having a natural dislike for the monstrosity that is call of duty is not that bad. its like in highschool all the intelligent peoples disliked P.E becuase they thought everyone involved was stupid and overly aggressive, sure its not entirely true but its damn well close to fact.*
*may not be actually be a good analogy, but it worksies in my brainz
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I am happy to be labelled a tool by all the haters because I am a hardcore player of COD. At least I am not an elitist. I have the same attitude towards pc master race people.
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i like PC’s but i also enjoy the convieniance of consoles. im going to sit on the fence and watch this one play out.
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oh you and i will get along just fine *pats PC tower* 😛
seriously though, i don’t know why i do it 😛
on the whole pc vs EVERYTHING ELSE EVER subject, i have my pc cause most my friends that play multi does it on them, so it’s easy… everything else i pretty much take to the sexbox cause i have a comfy couch and i’m oh so lazy :P…
then i get kicked off the TV cause wifey wants to watch something and i’m back to the pc…
then i slip something into her drink so she passes out and i’m back to the box…
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I think we are all guilty of hating on something, and putting a group of people all in one basket. ie: all foot ball fans are Bogan morons with poor hygine…yeah ok i made part of that up.
But this only hurts the gaming community in my opinion. But the Internet has always been a breeding ground for elitism for as long as i have known.
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lol this is true…
i always find it funny when you see peoples comments and people go elitist on each others arses… a guy tried having arguement with me off why i was stupid for having an XBOX when clearly i should have a PS3 cause ZOMG IT’S SO MUCH BETTER!!! and i told him it was cheaper at the time and i like some of the xbox exclusive games such as gears… that was a mistake 😛
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The Irony of it all is that while i am a hardcore Call of duty player (average 400-500 hours per game) I can totally understand why some people hate it. I enjoy it for a lot of reasons despite its flaws (one being that i am better than most people) But i hate a lot of games that others need to chisel themselves out of their pants over.
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CoD has become a whipping-boy in gaming I think, something to turn your nose up in disdain as the pastime of the common rabble so as to separate “true Gamers” who desire “innovation and art” from the hundreds of thousands who don’t read gaming blogs or call themselves “Gamers” and just was to have fun shooting stuff.
CoD is not that bad, it is like a sport: always the same thing but it is the competition and skill that people enjoy. Not everyone cares about a huge story arcs, character back-stories or supposedly deep and meaningful sub-plots.
Problem with CoD and other online games is that because so many people play it there is such a high number of asshats and it is only the jerks who are vocal and that we remember.
/end rant
(I don’t play CoD anymore, used to, enjoyed it for the most part but preferred Halo and Battlefield but play neither now.)
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“It is like a sport”
that’s an interesting view actually… i guess in the same way that i don’t watch a lot of sports, and when people go on and on about their preferred team i sorta zone out and go to my happy place… CoD is very similar, i sorta zone out thinking “here we go again” and lose interest-
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no reason to apologies, i like to get other peoples view of things… i appreciate getting a glimpse of your perspective, cause that’ll allow me to reflect upon it before rejecting it 😛
just kidding, i think that there’s a lot of sense in your words…
WAIT WHAT IS THIS? ANOTHER SENSIBLE DISCUSSION… ON THE INTERNET?
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I’ve always thought of CoD as effectively an arcade game, good for a quick burst of entertainment or adrenaline. Its easy to play one or two games without a huge investment of time. I always liked the Burnout series for this reason as well, its just quick fire action, nothing else expected from it.
Admittedly i just mute everyone when i play, gotta take the good with the bad.
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i guess i do the same thing now with Spayce Maureen… i guess i just don’t like/can appreciate the “realistic” setting that CoD is trying to portray…
My Boss has gone from awesome to a arse.
He gave me a post it note saying that a customer had called. His Name was Rodger ingh from Big Boys toys. His complaint was that his motor driving the steering wheel shaft was stiff. I called the guy. Turns out i had been setup and i had called a escort service. I havent been more embarresed in recent memory. The guy was kind enough to tell me that the joke was on me.
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If you don’t exercise the nuclear option, you will find yourself in an ever escalating prank war.
You could order a fleshlight for him, to be delivered to the office.
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Oh, I have an idea.
You need to fire back, so if you have access to his office at some time (maybe stay back in the evening on day), coat his wall in Twilight posters and replace all of his stationery with Twilight merchandise.
That or just completely fail to react. But I prefer the Twilight option.
If you don’t want to go with Twilight, might I suggest glitter?
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and put all his stationary in jelly… just because it’s funny
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Actually, just steal all of the pranks from The Office. Particularly the one where you gradually add weights to their phone and then one day remove all the weights so that they smack themselves in the face. I liked that one.
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god that was amazing…
that or attach a phoneline to their PC tower/monitor and have it run for 500m to nowhere, then convince them that someone is spying on them
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If my study of male behaviour is correct, this just means you’re one of the boys now. Or something.
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That is definitely not true. I think i make myself a target by reacting so much though. Its hard for me not to get mad!
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bahahaha love it when they do that…
i had a call at some point, the manager had gone to lunch…
got absolutely ripped into for about 15 minutes straight about how shit out service was, demanding to talk to the manager blah blah blah… i ended up hanging up on him after carefully explaining that we aren’t paid to take abuse and i was absolutely furious…
manager comes back… bursts into laughing… it had been him the entire time… bastard 😛
Should have hired an escort and charged your work for it.
Just keep her around your workplace to help out with menial chores like filing and tidying up and stuff.
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If you’re not planning to get in their pants, I don’t see why that would make a difference. Pretty sure dudes can still go around tidying things up.
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hm i think you enjoy awkward stuff more than i do!
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Or just a masterful mind for revenge.
There’s seemingly an element of homophobia lingering in the air (phoning a female escort would be embarrassing, phoning a male one, they’re clearly gunning for a gay joke), so what better way to turn the tables?
At best, they’re almighty uncomfortable with the male escort lingering around them, at worst, you say “sure, whatever man, I hired a male escort and I don’t even care”.
Of course, the cheaper option would be to question why your boss knew the escort’s number, and just blow off his logical reply with “Mmmhmm, sure, yeah, okay, I’m sure that’s exactly the reason. You certainly wouldn’t know it off by heart or anything. Nope.” -
Do this. I would love to know the results.
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Nonsense. You like ginger beer and use ascii emoticons as well not liking pants. You are a man of impeccable taste and thus, your advice is sound.
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enter his personal email address onto the “free subscribe” thingy on those naughty adult websites. do it on lots of them.
Actually that’s pretty funny, now you gotta prank him back.
If he can take it when you prank him back, then he’s cool. But if you prank him and he gets sore about it, then he is most definitely an arse.
Tell ya what, is your boss technologically challenged?
Do this to him and the laughs could drag out for hours 😀
http://www.broadsheet.ie/2010/11/01/optical-mouse-troll/
oh rocketman
Hey, is there an Ingh here, Rodger Ingh? Hey, everybody, I wanna Rodger Ingh from Big Boys toys
Got a funny story to share involving Skyrim, some possible glitching, and a spofjspnxv.
Spoilers for those not past fhe first dragon yet. Accompanying screenshot is up on my steam profile.
Spoilerproof format:
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E cdyndat du cbnehd yfyo, drah cittahmo PUUS drec tnykuh myhtc uid uv hufrana yht cbnyoc vena ajanofrana. E fyc mega UR CRED EDC Y TNYKUH yht drah E dinh du caa dra Syssudr cdemm lrycehk yvdan sa aqlabd… ed kuac vun dra tnykuh!!!
Fryd rybbahat haqd luimt pa taclnepat yc Gehk Guhk jancic Kutwemmy. Dra tnykuh red dra syssudr, drana fana cumteanc ajanofrana yht E zicd cduut drana fydlrehk dra ahdena drehk yht lnoehk “Yyyyyyyyfacusa!” pavuna naymecehk E syo ryja zicd gedat dra drehk ehdu y clnebdat ajahd.
Dra tnykuh fyc fehhehk (buun syssudr) ymdruikr E’t pa y ped funneat po drah ev ed fana dra udran fyo ynuiht. Yhofyo, E fyc namyoehk dra cduno du so vneahtc ujan uin jahd canjan yht drao fana mega “Irr, oui paddan kad dra mycd red uh dra Tnykuh pavuna dra syssudr tuac”
Ed fyc uhmo mydan E naymecat… banrybc… dra syssudr luimt ryja paah y tnykuh punh?
GUYS!!!
KOTAKU KRISTMAS PROJECT – IS THERE ANYONE THAT ISN’T ON BOARD YET?
Shoot an email to troy(dot)cleary(at)hotmail if you aren’t and would like to be!
I will be starting phase 2 this week!
Well… I’ve finally got another PC game finished, Deus Ex:HR. My next play will be a short marathon, meaning playing the first then second, and I got two to choose from.
The Witcher 1 and 2
Crysis 1 and 2
or I could leave them for now and play:
Dragon Age:Origins
Fable 3 (Which I started, having not played 1 and 2 still enjoying it)
Breath of Death 7
This list is only including the games I have currently downloaded/ready to install via DVD
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Witcher 1 and 2 is more of a marathon marathon than just a short marathon, from what I gather.
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Oh yeah got those too xD
Might do that and install TS on my laptop
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Last night I was playing Skyrim and exploring a scary Barrow and I was hearing increasingly scary noises from my right. I turned off the game and the noises continued, I nearly had a heart attack before I realised it was just my husband outside, trying to fix the screen door.
I finished Where Is My Heart? on the train this morning.
It was short, but a great little platform/puzzle game with a great visual style.
Again, PS+ subscribers should grab it while it’s free.
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I don’t have PS+ but based on the good things I’ve been hearing, not least of which are from you, I’m adding it to my “list of things to buy when I remember to grab a PSN$ card”.
A special thank you goes out to Sughly. Your passion for all things drive and Ryan Gosling related gave us the extra point we needed in trivia last night to get us a chocolate prize
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Haha! Well, ah… glad I could help?
Speaking of Drive, everyone look at my drawing! I SAID LOOK AT IT! http://sughly.deviantart.com/art/Drive-268040912
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sick drawing Sughly
btw downloaded your game last night. cant wait to play it this afternoon 😀
oh and Strange, Cracks and myself nominated your game for indie GOTY on the kotaku article 🙂 may have been others as well but thats all i can remember from when i looked at it yesterday -
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Woo, it turns out my payday being on the 15th means I actually get my money on the evening of the 14th (I thought last month was an exception because the 15th was a Saturday) which means I don’t have to wait ’til tomorrow to get AssRev. I also got an SMS from JB this morning telling my Saints Row is in – I thought the 18th was the release date? Am I wrong or did it break street date? Or was that the release date for somewhere else? Well anyway, gonna head on down there in my lunch break.
The real question is, now that I actually have these games on the actual release date, will I play them or will I get home, be lazy, and keep playing MW3?
So I came across a pretty amazing story. Forgive me twitter peeps, I’m retelling it here!
Kenji Eno, director of ‘D’ (for all you kids that remember it) knew his game wouldnt pass censorship, so here’s what he did: he submitted a toned down version, but intentionally late, knowing that the repurcussions would be that he would have to fly the copies over himself to the USA. But on the plane over, he swapped the toned down versions with the more violent full verions of the game.
Amazing.
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Sounds a bit like the old Censor Decoy (warning TV Tropes link, click this and say goodbye to the next few hours :p)
I was eating some (thin egg) noodles on the couch and went off to do something. I came back and noticed a noodle on the couch and thought I had messed, so picked it up and plopped it into my mouth.
Turns out it was a rubber band.
Enjoying a day off filled with sickness, so I figured “I should give Skyrim some attention!”. Loaded up my character, crashed.
Turns out I saved in an area my computer doesn’t like, or something.
***NO SPOILERS***
Without giving anything away, I’m in a small ice cavern on my way up a mountain. I think it’s either the sound or the graphic effects from the enemies in there, but something hates me.
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But, you don’t only have that one save do you?!
I alternate between 3 main save slots so if anything goes wrong I’m okay.-
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soo what you’re telling me is you have a legitimate excuse to spend even more time playing that game to catch up?
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*raises tankard*
MY TANKARD SHOULD ALWAYS BE COMPLETELY FULL OR SOMEONE IS FAILING IN THEIR DUTIES-
*fills tankard as soon as it lowers from pixels mouth*
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sorry couldn’t help myself 😛
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@Faction
I’d do one of a few things
1. Continue my Dark Angels army
2. Try and figure out how i can continue my Undead Chaos army wit hthe new codex rules
3. Make a Kotaku marines force
Also – i have been told by more than one source that the Imperial Guard are the new “total power” army. Scary thought, that.
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Yeah compromised entirely of vehicles, not infantry cuz we all know infantry is just useless 😛
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actually, one of the best tactics with the new guard is to use them as cannon fodder, because they are so cheap.
Apparently you can just make a MASSIVE army to soak up fire and swarm the enemy.
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Nah man, Panzer Elite Infantry is ridiculously amazing. Panzershreck spam and just charge your Assault Grenadiers into infantry and see how they rip everything up close range.
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What better type of person for an army. Because the enemy will never be any match for what they can do to themselves *cut cut cut* only problem is, you try and “self harm” with a chain sword, it will be ultra effective.
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@Skyrim
What do you mean, according to my hardware MY SETTINGS DEFAULT TO HIGH?? No Ultra High?!?!!??!?! iT’S TIME FOR AN UPGRADE I THINK
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mine and blaghs does the same thing. The drivers don’t get recognised correctly. Play on ultra high anyway, be a rebel
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mine set it to “very high” (oh yeah /showoff) I haven’t really worried about adjusting graphics and stuff like that yet due to only have a couple of hours to play it last night.
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Oh man, you know what was awesome about Alice: Madness returns?
When it’s all “Your computer has been detected to be AWESOME. Here, let us automatically bump up all the graphics for you, buddy!”
GOTY.
Even the first few hours of crashes every 15 minutes couldn’t dampen it.
Also dat PhysX hair and butterflies.
Just went to the bathroom at work and had one of those rare occurrences when you get TWO STREAMS instead of one, so you don’t know which one is more imperative to aim.
Needless to say i had to clean a small mess on the floor…
#youwinagainpenis
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um……i hate to say it but….BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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I was thinking the exact same thing when it was happening.
Then i though “wtf – i need to COMBINE the streams!!”
No amount on “end manipulation” helps, though.
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What would have been impressive would be if you’d managed to get some kind of swirling, spiral effect going with the two streams. Like those backyard sprinklers that spin around and around. But I guess you probably would have had to do cartwheels or something to achieve that.
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It’s all part of the Chuloopa brand experience.
You know what would be even better?
Winning kudos for it.
Man – i don’t think i’d stop laughing for weeks
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I’m going to go pee.
If I get a double stream everyone has to go pee and report back. Something could be up with the universe…-
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Single stream all the way.
I had quite a full bladder, so the urine was expelled under relatively high pressure, which may reduce probability of a double stream…-
hmmm this is quite inconclusive… we need to take the Mythbusters approach to things and blow some sh*t up to reach a better result
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For those who missed it (on dead page 5), here’s my Skyrim character diary beginning. rot13 used for spoiler purposes.
http://staging.kotaku.com.au/2011/11/talk-amongst-yourselves-135/comment-page-5/#comment-439437
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Oh! I read it last night but didn’t comment. I really enjoyed the way you turned it into a proper story and I’m looking forward to reading more. Not until I’ve spent more time with the game though, things will get pretty spoilery for me.
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Oh I just meant the first part, I want to read it but have only gone that far in the main story and don’t want spoilers.
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The pranks continue on me. I got my proper mouse for my computer taken away and am being forced to use a GLEE branded mouse. This is getting a little stupid!
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Gloves. Lots of gloves.
And a shower immediately after. You know the type, where you’re still clothed and weeping.
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or be really mean and bring out the *shudder* justin bieber stuff…
i know, does your boss have a radio? get an FM transmitter for an MP3 player, super glue volume/scan and power buttons to max/on and get some Bieber going on full blast
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Loop (the Glee version of) Don’t Stop Believing non-stop for the entire day.
Or sing it.
Badly.
Nothing worse that someone singing horribly and then mumbling the bits they don’t know, especially if it’s every 3rd word.-
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it’s even better if you only know a few words off the chorus but don’t actually know the tune or the words for the verses… so all you do is loop the chorus, while mumbling the words you don’t know
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@bloodapathy
I think you may like one of my Undead Chaos Marinw Minis – a sergeant.. a reanimated blood angel.
Of course, being a BA i had to make him pretty firece looking.
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/0903/trozza/?action=view¤t=UD_sgt3.jpg
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/0903/trozza/?action=view¤t=UD_sgt1.jpg
And big gaping hole in head
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/0903/trozza/?action=view¤t=UD_sgt2.jpg
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CHULOOPA. This makes me sad…
http://giftsforgeeks.org.uk/p/option_page/5/
Products are for resale within the European Economic Area only. The sale of Products outside of the European Economic Area will be considered a material breach of these Conditions.
Apologies for this inconvenience, but starting from June we will be unable to ship Games Workshop outside he European Economic Area.
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http://www.hiveworldterra.co.uk/Article/view_GamesWorkshopOnABudget.html#cheapmodels
that’s ok – there are plenty more that do 😀
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You sure? From what I’ve seen, GW doesn’t let people sell the minis outside of their region (allowing for regional pricing).
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Wow – looks like http://www.waylandgames.co.uk do ship to AU – with £2.00 shipping! So, a box of Grey Knights would cost £18.40 (=$28.66) to ship here, as opposed to GW’s $55 before shipping. WIN! Might buy me some…
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Yep – see – i am help!
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Only, I just read a thread on Bolter&Chainsword that suggests there *is* an embargo on GW products – http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/index.php?s=a04072ec95875bd6729ff2612583d34b&showtopic=173184&st=50
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hmm you seem to be right.. apparently weyland aren’t shipping at the moment either… bloody heck…
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Might need to invest in one of those mail-redirect thingies – you have stuff sent to a shipping address in another country (say, UK) and they’ll ship stuff from there to here.
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Hello, World!
Me and dawdle insist that we wake up early in the morning to check if Assassin’s Creed: Revelations has arrived, and were disappointed!
Now I am waiting waiting waiting waiting waiting…….
That is all….
Ooooo…..
and LoL Champion Rotation!
http://na.leagueoflegends.com/news/new-free-champion-rotation-preseason-week-9
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hmmm must of played a few people who bought brand and shyvana last week i thought they where f2p then
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OHHHWWW EMMM JEEEE
I was just thinking yesterday, “I want to try Maokai and Kog’maw”. Tis my lucky week. Although with me just getting Skyrim I doubt I will be playing all that much.
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Unless we do a Kotaku game. =D
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Shyvanna/Malphite are the only two I don’t have this week 🙁
Also, I think we need to do an ARAM game 😀 All Random, All Mid.
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Also, Spectator Open Beta is out, available to use at any time.
Also also Steve-O: http://clgaming.net/redtracker/topic/8921/?p=1
Stealth mechanic overhaul. Particularly relevant for facechecking brushes when stealthed.Also also also, Reverse Teemo drawing.
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Awesome – I can finally try Critplank. Have saved up enough for him too so I guess the next step is to see if I can actually play as him.
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Nothing much of interest there for me
Maybe roll a blitz, although i saw that ryze is super cheap IP wise so maybe I’ll check to see if I like his style, been a long time since I played him.
Rocketman, maybe you should go for the long con and try to turn your boss into a brony.
Buy a bunch of My Little Pony figurines, every few days hide a new one in his office somewhere. Not completely out of the way but somewhere where he isn’t going to spot them immediately.
He’s probably going to find them and get rid of them. That’s okay. Keep tabs on them and replace any that he removes (especially if he doesn’t make a point about getting rid of them).
Slowly ramp it up and do things like replacing his mousepad with a MLP mousepad, change his wallpaper.
Be completely pokerfaced about it. You don’t do pranks, you don’t like being the victim so turning it around on someone else isn’t your thing. That’s your story.
Do the radio hijack thing if you can with the MLP theme.
If you do this right, over the course of a few weeks, you could be in for some very fun times.
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Also, you have to wait before starting this. Doing it immediately after he pranks you is going to blow your cover. Be patient.
Feel free to randomly insert quotes from the show in normal conversation.
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Get co-workers in on it if you can. After a few weeks, get people to strike up random conversations about MLP because they can see he’s obviously a fan. Refer to fistbumps as brohoofs and whatnot.
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“Hey boss, you know I used to wonder what could be, till you came and shared its magic with me.”
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…I like that way Kotaku removed the (insert job field) part.
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It does that.
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Does your office do secret santa? Whoever has the boss should be roped in as a co-conspirator.
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yeah same… but changing their keyboard layout from qwerty to azerty or even dvorak is always goooooood fun
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Connecting a wireless keyboard and randomly hitting modifier keys is also rather fantastic.
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oh you evil bastard…
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we got VNC clients installed throughout the organisation…. i’ll leave the rest to your imagination 😉
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Just picked up the Animus edition, this thing is *huge*.
Gonna have a read of the encyclopaedia 😀
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A bit longer than A4, and it’s pretty wide too.
If you didn’t care about the box (and it’s just like those holographic Tazos we had 10 years ago) you could take all the important stuff out of it and just chuck it out.
90% of the box is empty space. So stupid. All it comes with is the game in a normal case, the encyclopedia and a paper DVD box.
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That’s a bit silly…
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You just reminded me that tazos was a thing. Now I’m thinking back on all the cool little prizes they used to put in chip packets like those DBZ (I think it was DBZ) tazos you could join together, the Beyblades spinning tops and Yu-Gi-Oh pogs.
I miss my childhood. Chips todays are so boring.
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For the record, an A4 sheet of paper is 297mm x 210 mm.
I worked at Kinko’s, and that sad fact will live with me forever.
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Its beautiful, isn’t it?
Although I refuse to touch the encyclopaedia until after I finish the game, damn does it look pretty.
Also, I had a mild panic attack when I couldn’t see the soundtrack and the bonus content in the box. Turns out it was in the actual game case, but still.
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It’s hardback.
Beautifully presented, really well made. I haven’t looked at much because I don’t want to spoil anything.
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I glimpsed inside it just now, saw what looked like a spoiler, and am now trying to beat the memory out of my brain. It’s going well.
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Another fun Skyrim moment:
Fb, Ylqvn frrzf gb unir fhqqrayl inavfurq juvyr V jnf erivfvgvat Urytra. Nf snve nf V xabj, fur’f abg qrnq. Gur erny sha cneg vf gung fur jnf pneelvat n ohapu bs zl qentba obarf naq fpnyrf.
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If anybody was bothered to check, it was consistent lettering! not like I mashed the keyboard with my face or anything. That’s way too much effort.
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I worked out that E = I and O=U or something like that, but under any of the ROT systems, that’s still true :p
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Hahaha, I knew it was familiar! I didn’t want to decode it though because you mentioned there were spoilers. Doubt I would have thought of Al Bhed though, nice one.
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@ The Cracks
Found this on the Weyland Facebook
Eliah Smyth
Hey guys quick question, Are you ever going to start shipping to Australia again?
WaylandGames Eliah, we already do, on everything but GW. For GW items it depends on moving to our new global distribution centre.
Eliah Smyth How would I order from the Global distribution centre?
WaylandGames All orders will be processed through that once we move into it, it’s currently being refurbished.
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Apparently they are moving into the new centre as of jan/feb next year – so we’ll be able to get out mini’s then
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if the embargo is uk to aus, could we try Canada?
also would it be silly to paint my minitures that come with my space crusade game? lol
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I painted my Space Crusade minis back in the day – so why not? lol
They all got destroyed though over many years, so i have to try and find the game again – man i loved that game.Also, the embargo would be on all imports.
That being said, if it isn’t Canada could work – but freight might take all the value out of it
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from what i read its mostly imposed on uk into the southern hemispher, but i could be wrong.
As for freight, my experience of importing dvd’s from canada was quite cheap. used to be cheaper from there than the states back in the day.
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Following up on the PPSL catastrophe from the other week, where a SC2 event was held in the Phillipines and everyone got screwed over.
The travel agent (Amanda) who booked all of the flights and whatnot was left with a very large debt because of the organiser’s (Gus) actions. Gus has now disappeared and Amanda is facing legal action and the threat of her business being effectively shut down until the debt is paid.
IGN has stepped in to try and help, and are streaming replays from the event to try and raise the necessary funds.
No matter what you think about IGN when it comes to reviews and whatnot, the team behind IPL are doing an amazing job at trying to fix this situation, which they are only partially responsible for.
According to Riot the spectator mode has been moved from closed beta to open beta. Hopefully this means we will get Spectator Mode in the actual game real soon. (A next patch or the one after I’m hoping)
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V NZ NYERNQL CYNLVAT FCNLPR ZNHERRA… RKPRCG V’Z NG JBEX… OHG UNIR RIREL VAGRAGVBA BS CYNLVAT VG JURA V TRG UBZR…
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TBBQ ZNA!
NF LBH FUBHYQ!
VG VF N OEVYYVNAG TNZR!
V FUBHYQ FGHQL N OVG GURA WBVA LBH!
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FGHQL VF VZCBEGNAG…LRF JR JVYY UNIR GB TNZR FBZR FCNPR ZNEVAR… SBE GUR HAQRETNEZRAGF….-
SBE GUR RZCREBEF HAQRETNEZRAGF!
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A late start to TAY for me and we’re already up to page 7 – business as usual I guess. Managed to score the morning off to take my girlfriend to the dentist for a half-hour. Spend the rest of the time playing with Stream My Game in order to keep the peace at home – My gaming PC is downstairs, and the missus comes off night-shift and wants me to spend some time with her (she doesn’t want me downstairs in the computer room). I don’t want to lug my gaming setup upstairs, so I’ve installed Stream My Game and am going to attempt to stream Skyrim to one of my crappy PC’s plugged into the T.V upstairs. Failing this, I’m going to dust off the Wii and break out Twilight Princess in preparation for Skyward Sword.
@Chuloopa
I’m now considering Mordheim as my game of choice, as warhammer is still too expensive and my friend is interested in giving it a try 😛 Also, the Mordheim rules etc are a free download!
Also, I used to love playing Mordheim.
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I always wanted to play mordheim – it just looked so damn fun!
And the skaven were so sneaky and neat!
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If you want to give it a try you’re welcome to join us. We’ll probably be playing mostly in Geelong at my place anyway. We’ll likely be using the ‘corrected’ rules at coreheim.com as apparently the default rules are really unfair and favour Skaven etc.
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So is my mate! He’s never played any tabletop game before.
I’ll let you know any details as we work them out. For now just check out the different factions 🙂
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I already know most of them from reading ohhh so many battle reports in White Dwarf back in the day 😀
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Ooooh, if you see this you should let me know who you’re thinking of 😛
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I had been meaning to for weeks. I had no real excuse cause the hairdresser is a neighbour LOL!
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I just went for a walk and found a place that does $10 cuts
I’m kinda scared but hard to pass up the savings
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You never know it could be a decent place! Unless it is crawling with junkies & what not..
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say what you will about junkies, but some of them have AMAZING hair 😛
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LOL!!!
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Is the solution “Apple”?
I haven’t looked at the code but I don’t see how that would change my answer :p
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I’m terrible at Assassin’s Creed related puzzles. 90% of the time my answer is to search it up on Google. I don’t think that’s going to help in this case.
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Looked once at that and straight away thought ‘Is that Gobeur or DoubleLeaf?’
Dear Valued Customer,
Earlier this morning it was brought to our attention that a Chuloopa model Penile attachment was reported faulty, discharging two streams of urine rather that the usual one stream.
We notice this can be a severe frustration to users and can create a messy situation in no time.
For this, we are deeply sorry.
Customers will be happy to note that, with further testing this afternoon, no more faults have been found and all Chuloopa model penile attachments seem to be functioning properly.
If you have any more questions or concerns, please feel free to contact on the details below, otherwise have a peachy day.
Sincerely,
Troy Cleary
CEO Chuloop-Tech Industries
1800-loop-d-loop
ceo@chulooptech.com
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Dear customer service,
can i expect anymore of these random flaws to occur?
by flaws i mean anything from 2 streams to 180 degree arcs?
more so i can warn people in a radious around the object prior to dischargeSincerely
A concerned customer-
Dear Valued Customer,
Some design flaws we just can’t get past – such as the 7am erectile malfunction that may cause urine to flow at an almost 90 degree angle, or the reduced accuracy in reduced-light situations.
That being said, we pride ourselves on quality over quanity, and while our units are only mid-sized, they are robust on quality! Our staff and customer satifaction teams work around the clock to make sure you get the best from all Chuloop-Tech industries products!
Sincerely,
CEO of Awesome
Troy Cleary
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Time to venture out into the scorching wastes…
Can someone please tell that fiery sky-locked orb to kindly GTFO?
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“Dear Heimdal
you’re great an all…
but you are kind off bright
so can you please F**k off for a while?thanks
Yours Truly
PixelPS
can i come to Valhalla when i die? pretty please?”-
(i chose heimdal cause he is the closest to a sun god we have :P, there isn’t really an impersonation of the sun in Norse Mythology)
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and when i say Sun i mean Sól…. i think*
*not 100% sure. trying to remember high school project
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sssshh i’ve only just started brushing up on my norse mythology… and technically she’s not a god, but considered Ettin? (Jeatte)
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i think Sól is supposed to die in th Ragnarök. but i could be wrong again… she is supposed to have a daughter to Glenr
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and i just saw Dire Wolf’s comment…lol at least im not completley wrong
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lol… i think it’s fantastic that i clearly know a lot of my supposed own mythology :P…
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i believe that norse lore is the basis for all fetishes…or at least a good number of them lol
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FYI this is straight out of an old script:
Mundilfare syntes, at hans børn var så smukke, at han opkaldte dem efter solen og månen. Som straf for sit hovmod, bestemte guderne at Sol skulle ride med solen over himlen hver eneste dag, og hendes bror Måne skulle ride med månen over himlen
okay i don’t expect you to be able to read that cause it’s danish so i’ll be nice 😛
Mundilfare believed his children to be so beautiful that he named them after the Sun and the Moon. As punishment for his actions, the gods decided that Sol was destined to ride with the sun across the sky every day, and Måne was destined to ride with the moon.
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also screw rot13… imma write in danish whenever there’s a spoiler from now on 😛
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i like it. also danish should always be a substitue for rot13 hahaha
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IMPORTANT SKYRIM INFO (SERIOUSLY):
The crash I was talking about earlier seems to be fairly widespread, so, if you’re playing it on PC, the cave I was talking about is Bonechill Passage.
When passing through about halfway, the game CTDs. Best quick-fix is to run the game in a window, pass through the passage, then set is back to full screen.
Kotaku Taybies Gamertag List
I’m compiling a list of Steam/PSN/Xbox 360 usernames for Tales of TAY.
shoot me an email at cronotriggr[at]hotmail[dot]com
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If I am already a member of the KotakuAU steam group do you need our names?
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Too lazy to email:
XBL: TrjnRabbit
PSN: Trjn
Steam: TrjnAny service that you think I might be on, look for Trjn or TrjnRabbit. Makes it easy to track me down or find out if I do use any particular service.
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So I was wandering through a random town in Skyrim, doing a quest for a certain Brotherhood which involves me picking a lock, when I hear the following..
‘Pssst! I know who you are. Hail Sithis!’
Yep, a guard had crept up behind me while I was doing something illegal, and congratulated me for being a murderer. I had to pause the game to wait for my laughter to die down.
Anyone else had amusing experiences like this?
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Steve-O’s Skyrim Diary: Day 1 (Spoiler Free)
I cast rage on a chicken. Chicken attacked man, who then attacked chicken. A woman rushed to the mans defence, only to get cleaved by the man’s axe after he swung at the chicken and missed it because it was too small. Guard sees man cleave woman and begins to attack him. Further hilarity ensues. Then I dragged the corpses in front of some children and put the corpses on fire. They didn’t respond though. Then I ate some raw chicken. Salmonella cannot stop the Dragonborn!
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First it shall be good, then it shall be food. Then it shall be good food.
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Potential Skyrim spoiler(it’s kinda minor though)
Unf nalbar orpbzr n jrerjbys be inzcver lrg? V wbvarq gur Pbzcnavbaf bire gur jrrxraq naq orpnzr n jrerjbys jvgu gurz. Njrfbzr cbjref ohg fybj genafsbezngvba gvzr. Sha gubhtu 🙂
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V whfg pbagenpgrq Fnathvaner Inzcvevf. Fgnegvat gb guvax vg jnf n onq vqrn, pnhfr V’q guvax n svtugre jbhyq or orggre nf n jrerjbys, naq jura V znxr n zntr, V fubhyq tb inzc gura.
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V unir urneq gung crbcyr jvyy or nsenvq bs lbh/eha njnl vs lbh tb shyy inzc(3 qnlf nppbeqvat gb jvxv)…Abg fher lbh jnag gung. Creuncf ybbx ng n pher?
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Lrnu, whfg ernq hc ba vg gura. Onfvpnyyl ybbxf nf gubhtu lbh unir gb or n ybj yriry inzc (1 be 2) gb or fnsr, juvpu zrnaf gur nqinagntrf nera’g terng. Guvax V’yy pher vg naq teno jrerjbys, sbe n ynfg-qvgpu chfu va svtugf :Q
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Orvat n jrerjbys vf sevttva njrfbzr. Nf lbhe abezny punenpgre yriryf hc, fb qbrf lbhe jrersbys unys. Cyhf, gur ebne novyvgl nyfb frrzf gb tebj, nf vg fgvyy jbexf rira ba uvture yriry rarzvrf.
Nyfb tbbq sbe genirefvat ybat qvfgnapr vs lbh ner bireybnqrq jvgu fghss, lbh qba’g trg n zbirzrag cranygl.
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Yeah, grabbing that particular thing now 😀
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Oh and since I had the guard say ‘Hail Sithis’ to me, I’ve had about 20 guards since then say it. I’m beginning to suspect every guard is secretly in the brotherhood.
I like the random thieves breaking into people’s homes. I usually kill them.
Then break in myself.
We at Chuloop-Tech Industries have issued an heart-felt apology on page 7 for all of you affected by the duel-stream crisis of November 15 2011.
http://staging.kotaku.com.au/2011/11/talk-amongst-yourselves-135/comment-page-7/#comment-440812
as much as i hate ign, here is a hilarious stealing guide for Skyrim
not much of a spoiler i suppose
Just got called into someone’s office because their computer was making a weird beeping noise.
Walked in, asked them why their alarm clock on the shelves was going off.
Computer problem solved!
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Yeah they wouldn’t want to give them an easy way out so they don’t get to see humanity’s slow self destruction. 😛
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Woo, latest round of Japanese Studio Ghibli Bluray releases (Tales of Earthsea, Ponyo and Howl’s Moving Castle) shipped.
NEWS OF THE DAY(for me at least)
Still haven’t receive my copy of AssRev.
But I have got the mail for Diablo III Beta!
And I am sharing my account for all those who are interested!(if that works)
send me an email if you are interested!
jetfly01@hotmail.com
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and it’s legit?
I’ve received emails telling me I have a key, but then they’re horribly worded and formatted, and they also ask for my account name and password…
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They did not ask for my account details.
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Cool, I’ll have to keep an eye on my emails then, just in case 😛
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Oh no, more League of Legends talk!
Fizz patch notes are out. They make for, uh, interesting reading.
http://na.leagueoflegends.com/news/fizz-patch-notes
Highlights:
– New masteries are out.
– Akali nerf (I STILL HAVE FAITH YOU CAN CARRY US, NOOB)
– Caitlyn ‘nerf’: Reduced movement speed of 305 to 300. Wat.
– Malphite buffs
– Master Yi spell cost reduction (why?)
– Miss Fortune buff. Bullet time gets a .45 ration from .4, Wat.
– Orianna buff which… negates the reasoning behind her nerf. Wat.
– Summoner spell re-jig.
So much wat.
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Oh also, apparently Riot are thinking of removing Dodge runes.
Well, that’s a solid 7380 IP spent.-
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Oh yeah, they’re pretty good like that.
I guess it was more of a “Wow, I have spent a lot on these runes /o\” sort of thing.
If I get refunded… champ-buying time! \o/-
I dunno really, it’s IP, not RP, if it was RP related (Skins getting permanently removed that you bought for whatever insane reason) you’re entitled to a refund, but IP is the points you earn through playing
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I don’t see why not.
It’s content you ‘paid’ for with earned game points. And IP is a mechanic they use to put a quantifiable number on your next goal, whether it be buying runes or champions. It’s currency, and although it’s ‘free’ currency, it’d still be poor form to essentially take away a small pile of it at their discretion.
Also, they’ve refunded people the difference on Champion IP reductions (Kayle, Garen, for example) for the people who bought them a few weeks beforehand, so there’s some precedent for it.
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Well that was always a problem I had with Master Yi builds was small mana pool: Ability mana cost ratio. I basically couldn’t use Alpha Strike on minion waves unless 1: I knew I wasn’t going in an engagement anytime soon and 2: I’m full up on mana.
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yeah the re-jig of the ranged carries could be interesting
Think Kog is also getting a nerf just in time to be free
Games TAY has forced (intentional choice of the word) me to buy when i had not considered buying them (off the top of my head):
Deus Ex
Portal 2
Terraria
Tiny Wings
Game Dev Story
and now Skyrim
Hope you guys are happy! Its effectively like a subscription service for TAY.
(No space marine tho….sorry chuloopa.)
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“No space marine tho”
tsk tsk tsk
*shakes head and whacks Wynstyn with a wet newpaper*
no… no, that’s a bad Wynstyn, BAD WYNSTYN-
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sameway i filled your tankard 😉
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YOU PEE MEAD?!? WHERE DO YOU LIVE? I’M COMING OVER!
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Wait…wait…
…oooooooh.
…ewwwww.
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So he really means it when he invites you around to a ‘piss-up’….
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currently brewing a batch for next Meat
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double stream, triple distilled?
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Well I have gears 3 which is practically the same game isn’t it.
*ducks second swing of the wet newspaper*
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*throws another wet newspaper at wynstyns waist, subsequently hitting him in the face due to his aforementioned ducking*
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No…. Space Marine…?
NO SPACE MARINE?!?!?!
NOOOO SPAYCE MAURREEEEN?!?!!?
YOU’RE DEAD TO ME!
YOU HEAR?!
DEAD!
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“SPACE, Maureen, I need space!”
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Hey can you guys clear something up for me that two EB Games stores couldnt. If you preorder just the regular Skyward Sword, isnt it still meant to come with the soundtrack?
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On their site, the Limited Edition with the Wii-mote is the only one that mentions the soundtrack, the standard game is listed as is.
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Hmmm… Vooks tells me every Skyward Sword in first print, limited edition or not, will have the cd. Then after that it will just be the game.
Now that I have that solved… I might just get the limited edition 😀
Because far out, $20 extra and I get something gold and shiny and with a zelda picture on it ^_^-
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Yeaaaaah, I got one when I bought that Wii… resort… sports thing. I played it for like 30 mins.
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I wouldn’t really stress about it too much. The “collector” aspect of it means nothing if pretty much everybody is getting it, and if you want to simply listen to it you can probably “borrow” it from “me” over the Inter “net”.
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Yeah, seems to be. The funny part is, 2 minutes before it happened, I got a quest to look for a “fgenatr qbt”. Originally thought it was to do with that, but nope.
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So I just read the LoL patch notes. Very interesting read I do have one comment though.
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSECRETMESSAGEOMGOMG
Enjoying AssRev – the start is a chore to get through, and I can already see how they got it out in a year (they recycle the same character models in cutscenes, say) – but it plays just as well as the second game or Brotherhood.
Am getting a little sick of Ezio’s story, though. Time to move on.
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I’m looking forward to the end of the franchise (in a good way). Seems inevitable that there’ll be little or no animus, and it’ll be a modern setting. Keen to see how that goes.
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It’s really good, don’t get me wrong – just as much content as Brotherhood – but you can notice some repetition.
I’m just hoping the storyline and ‘revelations’ don’t keep prolonging the suspense. They said we’d get answers to all the interlocking storylines and I hope we do.
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No Skyrim. Australia Post hates me.
Question: retail copies are activated on Steam via a Steam unlock code, correct? So if I wanted I could buy a Steam copy now and then sell / gift my retail copy to anyone over Steam once it arrives? Getting sick of waiting. 🙁
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I finished the game, and my copy hasn’t even arrived. There was a no Steam crack out for it and I got the files off my housemate.
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Fizz the Tidal Trickster!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATbmKP9RoXI&feature=feedu
Looks good!!
and looks like Stitch from Lilo and Stitch too
I tweeted this, but for those who didn’t see, this is the awesome b’day pressy I got from my lovely Tomomi chan in Kyoto!!
https://twitter.com/?photo_id=1#!/theREALwelbot/status/136297791998791680/photo/1/large
So kawaii!!! Came from universal studios in japan!
Sughly
November 15, 2011 at 10:59 AM
Haha! Well, ah… glad I could help?
Speaking of Drive, everyone look at my drawing! I SAID LOOK AT IT! http://sughly.deviantart.com/art/Drive-268040912
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I saw your drawing, Sughly – that’s good! I can’t play Egress on my computer – that’s bad! I thought the Drive illustration was really good though; I’ve seen the trailer but not the movie.
I might do the biggest story “of all time” about the drawing or something, like some kind of horrible reward for drawing the picture; it’ll be about Gosling, Egress and have all kinds of other stuff.
I’ve been reading Snooki’s new book and, I guess, it’ll be worse than that. In short: Better than Pars Hilton’s book, worse than Snooki’s.
If I get some time later tonight, I’ll do the story or some junk. If not, I’ll just go into the forest over the road and drink beer. Last time I went to the forest I hit this stick against a tree – that’s good!! Then the stick broke – that’s bad Then I threw the stick into the lake – that’s good!! Sometimes I go really far into the forest and pretend I’m Burt Reynolds or Jon Voight in Deliverance! But mainly Burt Reynolds.
And other times I pretend I’m Burt Reynolds, but I’m actually one of the bad guys. Like, what if Burt Reynolds was one the bad people? Huh? Yep? That’s just some of the fun you can have in the forest.
I used to live in Far North Queensland and they have the most wild jungles of all time! That was real Deliverance. Real Burt Reynolds too.
Real Jon Voight,
Plainview.
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Haha, now I want to go to the forest! Wait, no, I remember Deliverance now. No, I dont want to go to the forest any more 🙁
So, i just finished the extra content they added for the DS re-release of Chrono Trigger. And the extra content sucks. It’s typical of the Square, the new quests are padded with really grind heavy content. The new stuff easily adds a few hours, but it’s just really boring. Other than that it’s pretty much the same awesome game.
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“Extra content sucks”
Thanks for clearing this up over 3 years after the game came out. 😛
I skipped the “Dimensional Vortex” part of the game because I had no desire to train up monsters, I could see why it would appeal to some people.
Everyone whinges about the “Lost Sanctum” but I enjoyed it. Is it repetitive? Yes. It’s also MORE Chrono Trigger!
And the added ending tying in to Chrono Cross was a definite plus for me.
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You’re welcome.
The Lost Sanctum reminded me of new Square in the worst possible way. The quest makes no sense, it’s needlessly padded out and it’s incredibly repetitive. It’s amazing what modern day Square think counts as good additions to this classic game.
At least they added anime cutscenes amirite?
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so… just completed them batmans…
sorta left me with a feeling of “aaaawww was that it?” but other then that AWESOME GAME… now to do all the side stuff
So my computer seems stuffed. Two BSODs in about ten minutes. I’mquite worried that my fried powerboard may have surged the powerpoint with my computer. Very sad right now.
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amumu.mp3
Powerpoints are supposed to effectively be independent from one another, though. If you’ve got a decent surge protecter for your PC, even a physically damaged power plug somewhere else shouldn’t affect it.
It’s only just been tonight, hasn’t it? I don’t remember you mysteriously disappearing for the past few nights. Maybe if you wait it out and ignore it, it’ll pass. (Best solution)-
That’s what I did with my back pain!
I still get that.
And the headaches/earaches/eyeaches…
You’d think I’d be able to get help for all my malady’s quite easily, but you’d probably be right if I wasn’t so stubborn…
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My computer has been acting strange(r) since *that fateful night*. My network connection has been dropping fairly consistently and my display drivers have been crashing like mad every few hours. I think I’m going to end up needing a new video card or motherboard, to be honest. I’ve had adapter crashes for a while but never this frequently. I just put it down to not doing clean uninstall/reinstalls every time an update came out (it’s a good excuse anyway).
When I get some free time I’ll look into it properly, dust off that 8 years-old IT tech knowledge 😐
Either way I’ll just format on the weekend and start from scratch. Formats can fix anything! Wahoooo.
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I’ll be asleep all day so can someone do me a favour and ask the following questing in Ask Me Stuff? (I think that’s today.)
I’m curious if you notice a significant shift in the number of page views in the weeks preceding and immediately after big name releases such as Skyrim or Modern Warfare. I’d expect to see them steadily increase then drop off sharply once the game actually comes out.
Also if it’s Blaghman that does this for me, I’ll tell him where to find (minor skyrim spoiler for anyone other then Blaghs) power word kill: marked for death. (No promises that I won’t tell you anyway even if you don’t ask the question for me.)
Sooo are anyone doing any extra pre order stuffs for Zelda? I noticed Game are saying something about a plush toy… but… plush toys always look a bit wonky.
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And it’s not a Zelda plush. It’s a Mario/Luigi/Toad/Yoshi/Koopa Troopa.
I’m going with EB, because there is one near work. Means I can get it sooner!
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This type of thinking is worthwhile. Though my questioning of 2 EB Gameses yesterday with extremely bad responses has forced me into an EB Games ban out of principle. I’ll go with Game I think, seeing as they gimme more moneys on tradeins towards pre orders.
EB Games went something like this…
ME: So do all Zelda’s come with the soundtrack? Or do you have to preorder?
EB: Yes it does, it’s the limited edition and it comes with a golden wiimote as well as the cd.
Me:… ah no I mean, not the limited, just the standard game.
EB: No the standard game doesnt have the cd.
ME: But… but that poster right there on your wall has a pic of the limitied edition with the cd, and a standard edition below also with the cd.
EB: Well then YES IT DOES COME WITH IT! (woman sighs impatiently)
ME: But… do you know if I have to preorder it to get the cd?
EB: I dont know, probably. Would you like to put some money down for the preorder then?
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Exactly. FYI people in Brisbane, it was the EB in Garden City Westfield. Not the first time they’ve been like that too me either. Never again.
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A woman at EB Garden City? Yeah if it’s the one I’m thinking of, she has no idea about anything. There’s a guy there sometimes that’s pretty cool though.
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So I got AssRev yesterday, and was disappointed in the start. Not only because of having to redeem pre order dlc, animus edition dlc, download the day one patch, install the game, redeem online pass, but that tutorial. Man, I felt insulted. They literally showed you everything to do. In the fourth game of the series, they hold your hand so tight in the tutorial it hurts. Anyway, I was quite annoyed so I stopped playing not too long after that. But I’m sure the game will pick up and I’ll get back to running around on rooftops, jumping down and assassinating guards and then running away on my horsey. Horsies are back right? RIGHT?
On the brighter side of things weekend will be full of me playing AssRev and Skyrim! Skyrim. I started playing it on Sunday night, and it felt good to play an RPG again. I think the last proper RPG I delved into was Baldurs Gate Dark Alliance 2 which came out in 2004(?). So after finishing the opening level, I proceeded to spend the next hour or so just screwing around, killing wild dogs, climbing up mountains and fighting bandits, playing with the dog in that first town (Riverwood?). All I’m saying is that I can’t believe it’s this long since I played a well made RPG.
Now for the work day! Though will be going fishing tomorrow. Any tips? I’ve never been.
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I forgot about! I jumped in the river and was swept slightly downstream. Then salmon appeared out of nowhere and I started catching.
Yep, I should say I’m going fishing and then stay home and fish in Skyrim.
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indoors, no chance of getting filthy, no insect, beer, pizza delivery, beer and comfy seat… i don’t see anything wrong with that 😛
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The way the game ever so slowly remembers to tell you about certain things is really bugging me. Halfway through sequence two it realizes ‘Oh, I’ve never told you about how to use Eagle Sense…well here’s how’
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The starting few acts are really, really badly put together. Tutorials everywhere, pointless action sequences (it took me half an hour to finish the carriage bit).
But I’m enjoying Constantinople 🙂
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Oh man, the very end of that carriage sequence frustrated me to no end. I kept running over loose rocks and that just takes away your health insanely fast.
Constantinople is very vibrant, though, and the music makes it quite a charming place.
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So, anyone in Adelaide willing to come and break one of my legs so I can stay home and play Skyrim?
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Stay home and play skyrimg. Then when your boss/mum/teacher/other-person-expecting-you-somewhere-other-then-skyrim finds out they’ll break your legs!
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That will probably end in less leg breaking and more job firing.
Though it would mean I could play all the Skyrim I wanted…..
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Check this out guys! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Jgkm2pdWgY
I assume they don’t have LCD screens in the stadiums in South Korea, but that is amazing.
Good morning, page nine.
I’ve got barely any time for games today. For some reason I decided I’ll be going out with a friend so he can get his copy of ACR, and then I can stare at all the pretty games I don’t have the money to buy (read: Skyrim).
Although it seems Jay Jays are selling some ACR t-shirts, so I might swing by there and pick one up today for the fun of it.
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Are you a girl?
(Not trying to be creepy, just I met an Alex on Saturday who was dressed as an Assassin and your too similar for me not to ask.)
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NOOOOOO my other brackets containing all of my jokes were deleted!
Just so you’re aware, they were super funny and were about Vegemite toast.
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Haha, no, I’m a guy and I’ve never dressed as an assassin, as fun as that would be. Maybe one day…
Also, I enjoyed the imaginary Vegemite jokes.
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Right!? Probably my best joke.
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Just too good for the world to see, really.
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Who wants to come see Jack & Jill with me?
Sughly, I’m looking your way.
Also, how great is Adam Sandler? A 3% on Rotten Tomatoes and he hasn’t committed Hari-Kiri yet. The man’s dedication is inspiring.
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What are you talking about, I already bought my tickets. I bought tickets before they even started filming it. I get them from my Adam Sandler fanclub mailing list.
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I got my membership free when I subscribed to the “Rob Schneider’s Not Dead, yet” mailing list.
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Well my laptop is now set up for LoL as well as TS for whenever I have a visitor also wanting to play LoL (Me? Get visitors? HAHA! oh man foreveralonebot), but it’s mainly for TSing while on the PS3.
Also, just made a start on Batman:AA, I’ve been horribly reminded of how bad I am at console aiming. Battle I can do just fine, throwing batarangs at teeth? Not so much…
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You don’t need to aim, just tap the button and it’ll quickfire them. Always hits. Aside from the times that it does not.
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…but it’s auto-aiming…
Just tap the batarang button instead of holding it, easy auto aimed batarang.-
Oh yeah I forgot it’s a console game, therefore most of the aiming is done for you. Even for FPSs xD
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That’s how you beat COD on a console, just double tap LT to autoaim… or play Space Marine and watch the crosshairs follow orcs across the screen.
Batman isn’t so bad. The quickfire mechanic uses autoaim (and should on PC as well) because, well, you’re the goddamn Batman. Why would you bother aiming when you can throw instantly and accurately?
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Bruce Wayne is not a ninja… or is he in AA?
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Arkham Asylum was meant to released alongside Batman Begins. Not so much as a tie-in but it isn’t hard to draw a connection between the two.
That being said, he doesn’t have to be a ninja, he’s Batman!
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Good morning to you all.
I’m going to try and see how long I can do a Journal of my character on Skyrim for.
Journal Entry I
V znqr vg gb gur svefg ivyyntr naq rkcyberq nebhaq n ovg. V cvpxrq hc n srj dhrfgf (nsgre qevaxvat fbzr zrnq bs pbhefr), bar vagrerfgrq zr gur zbfg juvpu vaibyirq n fbyvq tbyq qentba pynj. Fb bss V jrag gb ehvaf ba gur gbc bs n zbhagnva juvpu vf jurer gur guvrs’f (jub fgbyr gur qentba pynj) jrer ynfg frra.
Ng gur gbc bs gur zbhagnva V znqr dhvpx jbex bs n pbhcyr bs onaqvgf. V thrff gur obql qbrfa’g erfcbaq jryy gb orvat frg ba sver juvyr va gur serrmvat pbyq zbhagnva gbc. Gur ehvaf unq uhaqerqf bs gencf ohg Vg jnf ab zngpu sbe zl dhvpx guvaxvat naq ersyrkrf. V riraghnyyl pnzr gb n ebbz va juvpu V sbhaq n onaqvg fghpx gb n jnyy pbirerq va jrof. Orsber V pbhyq trg gb uvz V fnj gur frpbaq zbfg sevtugravat guvat fvapr gur ortvaavat bs zl nqiragher (Gur svefg orvat gur qentba bs pbhefr). N TVNAG FCVQRE!
Yhpxvyl vg frrzf vg jnf vawherq va n cerivbhf svtug guhf vg jnf ab zngpu sbe zl zvtugl sver fcryyf naq fjvsg znpr gb gur urnq. Nsgre purpxvat gur ebbz sbe zber rarzvrf V tbg gur onaqvg serr sebz gur jrof, UR UNQ GUR AREIR GB EHA. Sbeghangryl V guvax nyy gung gvzr fcrag va gur jrof unq ybjrerq uvf vzzhavgl gb sver naq znprf gb gur onpx bs gur fxhyy.
Nsgre ernqvat uvf wbheany (naq trggvat gur qentba pynj onpx) vg orpnzr nccnerag gung gurer jnf gernfher ng gur obggbz bs guvf ehva. Fb jvgu sver va bar unaq naq znpr va gur bgure V frg bss gb frr jung gernfher ynl orybj, jnf vg tbyq? jnf vg xabjyrqtr? be jnf vg cbjre? Gurer jnf bayl bar jnl gb svaq bhg.
Skyrim stuff, al bhed-ized 😀 (shameless repost)
Cu E fyc gedehk y Syssudr mega yho udran hunsym tyo eh Cgones, frelr ehjumjat y cruud yht nih-so-ycc-uvv geht uv sadrut. Famm, suna mega ‘dryd yfgfynt susahd frah oui cruud y syssudr yht naymeca ouin yddylg tet hu tysyka yd ymm cu oui paddan NIH MEGA RAMM’
E cdyndat du cbnehd yfyo, drah cittahmo PUUS drec tnykuh myhtc uid uv hufrana yht cbnyoc vena ajanofrana. E fyc mega UR CRED EDC Y TNYKUH yht drah E dinh du caa dra Syssudr cdemm lrycehk yvdan sa aqlabd… ed kuac vun dra tnykuh!!!
Fryd rybbahat haqd luimt pa taclnepat yc Gehk Guhk jancic Kutwemmy. Dra tnykuh red dra syssudr, drana fana cumteanc ajanofrana yht E zicd cduut drana fydlrehk dra ahdena drehk yht lnoehk “Yyyyyyyyfacusa!” pavuna naymecehk E syo ryja zicd gedat dra drehk ehdu y clnebdat ajahd.
Dra tnykuh fyc fehhehk (buun syssudr) ymdruikr E’t pa y ped funneat po drah ev ed fana dra udran fyo ynuiht. Yhofyo, E fyc namyoehk dra cduno du so vneahtc ujan uin jahd canjan yht drao fana mega “Irr, oui paddan kad dra mycd red uh dra Tnykuh pavuna dra syssudr tuac”
Ed fyc uhmo mydan E naymecat… banrybc… dra syssudr luimt ryja paah y tnykuh punh?
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I tried to translate this, but it didn’t work =(
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I am guessing you ROTed it several times cause I tried ROT 1-26 left and right without success.
Or you are just trolling.
Stupid deaths, stupid deaths, they’re funny cause they’re true!
Stupid deaths, stupid deaths, hope next time it’s not you!
I’ve started playing Brutal Legend whenever my PS3 needs a cooldown. Man, that’s a funny game… and I don’t even get the metal references!
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I knew it was Full Metal Jacket, old boy. I just put the question mark at the end to avoid looking like Hogan (he’s down there). Don’t tell, Hogan. Not a word! Tally-ho.
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Yeah I’m not really sure what Hogan is on about. He kind of concerns me…
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Don’t be concerned, he’s always like this.
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zelda’s lullaby from OOT, foo’
And I’ll never forget song of storms, used that song everywhere for shits and giggles
A-down-up A-down up, do de do de do da
Has Kotaky ever considered a Shacknews-like chatty, to make discussions in TAY less add-hoc?
http://www.shacknews.com/chatty
Essentially its like bbs where the comments for each article are in their own topic, but you can also view the comments on the article’s page, and you can have non-article topics as well.
Don’t even know if the communitys large enough to bother with something like this, or if its even needed, but I think its kinda neat…
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I know there has been mention of an official KotakAU forum of some description when user accounts get implemented but I don’t know if that will ever be a thing.
Should we get desperate enough, setting something up on Freeforums or a similar site is probably going to be the way to go. That is, should TAY become even less manageable than it is now.
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You wouldn’t need user accounts though,
Maybe not the best example, but 4chan allows people to use names in kinda a similar fashion to here, and on some of the smaller boards, like cgl and tcg, ‘named’ people have become reconisable to the community, and have had meetups, etc.
All without the need for user accounts, which I don’t think kotaku needs/should have-
Kotaku (and the rest of the Allure sites) are apparently going to implement user accounts. So we can message each other, get notifications when people reply to us, that sort of thing.
I’m not saying that it’s necessary for what you’re suggesting, just that there is a chance that a forum type system might be implemented when they come in. No need to fragment the community by setting something up off-site when something is potentially being setup on-site.
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Allans Music and Billy Hyde are having A MASSIVE sale this weekend for those interested!!!!!!!
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So, Brisbane meat is this weekend?
Dammit wanted to go to that, maybe i need to get that Twitter thing.
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Yeaaaah, whats stoppin ya!?
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You want a piece of meat!? (seewhatIdidthere.jpg)
*curl’s up into ball*
Can you chuck me the deets (email wise) to:
JesseChristian(AT)internode(DOT)on(DOT)net
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Email chucked*
(more of a girly throw)
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hahah awesome
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Uh… She said “musician”
ZING!
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A friend of mine who does NaNoWriMo just sent me a message on the forums asking why my word count was zero and if I was going to the write-in on Saturday (she’s flying up from Canberra and will be going)
Damned peer pressure, I get the feeling I might try and start again at the eleventh hour, see if I can get this book written.
Then there’s the meat at Dan’s.
Going to be a busy Saturday…
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If you count from before I deleted everything, not much. If you count from after that point, even less.
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Here’s a great short story to help get you started/inspire you. Take notice of the way he deliberately misuses the language to build up tension. I’m giving it 4 stars.
Margaret: I disagree. I thought it was stupid and childish, and Steve-O still hasn’t called me after that night in Sydney. I’m giving it 1 and a half.
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So…D3 Beta is fucking awesome. Played for about 40mins last night courtesy of the fantastic Mr Blaghs. Thanks dude. I chose a wizard and I’m having a lot of fun so far!
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Hahaha. Actually..not so much. Now you just have to left-click at a bunch of enemies and then hold down the left click and it will auto attack until they’re all dead.
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Yeah late game in Torchlight I didn’t click attack at all, I was tapping hotkeys to use abilities, and holding right click down for my onslaught of slashy slashy.
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Why?
Is it voiced by Wrex??“Wrex.”
“Shepard.”
“Wrex.”
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“Wrex.”
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Yessss, Telstra man is gone! I’m gonna go pre order Zelda! And then buy watermelon! Then I’m gonna eat that watermelon! And I’m gonna watch Adventure Time while eating that watermelon! And then… ah, and then… I’m… gonna probably tweet more about Zelda! Yeah!
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I pass the same homeless guy every morning, sitting outside Coles eating a watermelon.
I think he’s you come back in time to save the leader of the resistance but got sidetracked by our sweet melons.
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Have you checked that it’s actually available yet? Or is it some sort of add-on download or..?
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Yeah now that I got my laptop version I can redo all my masteries on both computers which is awesome. It will be very exciting as I start from scratch 🙂
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I’m keen to try out the new masteries pages, I went through them last night and rebuilt six or so pages. No Fortify is going to be interesting (Rocketman? You’ll have a spare summoner spell!).
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I actually had nearly 10 (old) Mastery pages.
I’m trying to recreate my categories, but I’ve only got 4, and can’t remember what the other 5 or so pages were about. /o\-
You only need two types of mastery pages:
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As it stands:
1. Tank page consisting of Defensive and Utility trees
2. AP Offensive stuff, Which is Offensive and Utility. You can also split this into two branches, one going for AP, and one going for CDR.
3. Non-mana AP like Vlad and Katarina, split between all three trees.
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I’ve got one for every champion I play:
Kennen
Rammus
Caitlyn
Master Yi
Warwick (Both jungler and Lanewick)
Skarner
Kayle
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I sitting with 3 curerntly which are AD, AP and tanky tank
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Just dive in, maaaan. He plays pretty straightforward. Parrrrlay as much as you can (ALL THE TIME), Remove Scurvy to clear CC and buff the team whenever you get in an engagement!
I still think we should just ARAM anyway 😛
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Ok, well if we all random if anyone gets Gangplank they must swap with me. The power of
christbold compels you!
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Yeah, what f4ction said.
Build crit.
Press Q.
Eat Orange.
Use Ulti to absolutely decimate Teemos who happen to be wandering around.
I dreamt I met Mark Serrels last night. When I picked up Saints Row 3 yesterday the EB guy forgot to give me the Professor Genki code, so in my dream I met Mark and he advised me that, yes, I should go back to EB and ask for it. Your advice better be good, Mark!
Sorta-kinda-not-really-ACR spoilers (and a question for people playing it?)
Ubj… jrveq… vf gur Qrfzbaq funcrf zvav tnzr!?
V’z ernyyl yvxvat gur vafvtugf vagb uvf onpxfgbel naq punenpgre, ohg fbzr bs gubfr chmmyrf ner ernyyl ernyyl uneq. Vg’f abg rknpgyl jung V rkcrpgrq sebz na Nffnffvaf Perrq tnzr.
Nyfb, jub vf gur Ovyy/Jvyyvnz thl gnyxvat nobhg Qrfzbaq sebz bhgfvqr gur Navzhf? Na Nffnffva? V arire ernyyl pbhyq jbex bhg jung unccrarq nsgre gur raq bs Oebgureubbq, Qrfzbaq jnf gnxra gb n onfr jvgu Jvyyvnz naq fbzr bgure jbzna naq Funha yrsg?
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Three days into posting comments on Kotaku and I’m already getting involved in strange new language thingies. Anyway,
Gung zvav-tnzr gbgnyyl guerj zr bss thneq. V’ir bayl qbar bar bs gurz ohg gurl’er n ovg gbb qvssrerag naq bhg gurer sbe zl yvxvat evtug abj. Ubcrshyyl gung punatrf yngre!
Nyfb, Ovyy/Jvyyvnz jnf va pbagnpg jvgu Yhpl ivn rznvyf va Oebgureubbq. Vgf nffhzrq gung ur’f n uvture-hc zrzore bs gur nffnffva beqre, vs abg npghnyyl gur yrnqre.
Can someone please tell me what the deal is with all these spoilers? Are they in another language? Some sort of code?
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Google ROT13
Basically it rotates the alphabet 13 places.
That seems like the standard code.
Although Harli likes to be different
*shakes fist*
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It’s funny because he’s slow on the uptake (or just not reading TAY because of work, which is a far more serious offence) and he’s from WA.
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SORRY BISH,
TALK LOUDER!! CAN’T HERE YOU!! WHAT DID YOU SAY?? I’M REALLY BUSY DIGGING UP ALL THIS GOLD IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA!! THERE’S SOOOO MUCH!!! I DON’T EVEN . . . I DON’T EVEN KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH IT ALL. THERE’S TOO MUCH GOLD!!!AND OUR BEACHES ARE PRISTINE AND EMPTY AND WE CAN SWIM IN THEM AFTER IT RAINS!!! NO!!! YOU WOULDN’T BELIEVE IT!!! WE DON’T PUMP JUNK INTO THE BEACHES!!! IT’S AMAZING!!
THERE’S SO MUCH ROOM OVER HERE, I DON’T KNOW WHAT TO DO!! I’M SORRY FOR SHOUTING!!! BUT ALL THIS WINNING IS JUST SO NOISY!!!
BUT YOU GUYS ARE DOING GOOD IN SYDNEY. RIGHT? LIKE WITH ALL THE THINGS GOING ON OVER THERE!! ALL YOUR GOLD AND STUFF THAT YOU HAVE?? WHAT?? OK!! I’LL TAKE THAT AS A YES!! DUDE!!! I KNOW, RIGHT!!
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I’M HAVING SO MUCH FUN; I EVEN FORGOT THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HERE AND HEAR!!! IT’S EASY TO REMEMBER BECAUSE “HEAR IS EAR”, AND “HERE IS THERE”! THAT’S HOW YOU REMEMBER!! FUN MAKES YOU FORGET ALL KINDS OF THINGS!!
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lololol!
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Alright, I caved. I bought Skyrim. I’m weak-willed! I’ll take my punishment by playing it right away.
You can now all stop chanting “One of us, One of us” towards me.
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‘JOOOOOIIIIIINNN UUUUUUUUSSSSSSSSSSSSS….JOOOOOOOOOOOOOOIIIIIINNNNNNNNN UUUUUUUUUUSSSSSSSSSSSS…’
‘Oh wait, you did’
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if its any consolation, i am going to probably buy it tonight. on xbox. I wonder how much kmart are selling it for. I have a coles myer voucher to use.
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I ordered mine this morning from Ozgameshop, I think I’ll use the subsequent 2-3 weeks to find the side quests in Arkham City, and keep playing Hot Pursuit.
For the hardcore Skyrim players out there…
http://www.dorkly.com/article/27365/the-real-danger-of-skyrim
I think you mean “start chanting” or in some cases “continue chanting”.
I shall not participate in said chanting, I am not one of you.
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Nor am I, going to wait until the Bethesda bugs are patched up. It’s sad that I saw it coming.
Or it’ll never get truly fixed and it’s left as a half-broken clock *Cough*Fallout:NV*Cough!*
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Skyrim! \o/
I am kinda jelly of you PC peeps, it must look amazing. -
It does look beautiful, especially when I lookup at the night sky. *dreamy eyes*
I can upload footage if u want to drool over it 😀
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That looked so beautiful even on Oblivion PC
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Haha if you like, would just make me more jealous though.
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Are you working, Jo? To be honest to get a semi-beast PC it doesn’t cost an arm and a leg. If you don’t want to build from scratch you can just upgrade one part at a time – parts are getting cheaper and cheaper nowadays.
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Fair enough. I pretty much live inside my computer so it’s easily justifiable for me (or so I keep telling myself).
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I encountered one last night.
A corpses legs was sticking up the air from the ground and everything above his waist was inside the ground.
I laughed so very hard
Are you sure he didn’t just get troll slammed?
Well it was inside the ruins of a castle, and the floor was stone.
I know trolls are strong but I don’t think the’re THAT strong.
Hmm, maybe he was trying a little too hard to find the hidden passageways…
I haven’t had any glitches yet either.
Also wasn’t New Vegas developed by Obsidian? It’s really no surprise that it was really buggy. In my experience they’re the worst company when it comes to putting out buggy games.
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When I heard of all the things my brother came across in NV I pictured the Fry meme going:
“Can’t tell if bug, or left there for comical value”
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Ha! I haven’t heard that. Fry meme FTW!
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Worst bug in NV for me so far? VATS refusing to fire any bullets for ~60 seconds, being beaten to a bloody pulp by Caesar’s Legion cronies. Sad face.
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A wild Brother appears (((-___-)))
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Must be a REALLY slow day at work to post on TAY eh? 😛
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Throw a Pokeball at it!
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@Aiden
I think I know the answer to your AssRev question re: character – may be highly spoilerific, though. Found it in the encyclopedia.
Jvyyvnz Zvyrf vf Qrfzbaq’f sngure.
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I’m not gonna translate that due to spoilers, but I think I can already see the English meaning.
Interesting. I guess it ties into the Desmond missions well, if he’s who you think he is.
Did the other woman from Brotherhood stay with the Animus? I forget her name. The tech. I can’t tell the voices apart much.
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Rebecca? She seems to be around still. Voice sounds a little bit different though, but that may just be because of spoiler circumstances.
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Yeah, that’s her. I found most of the Desmond/Animus conversations really confusing.
Also, did your console restart itself if you didn’t press a button in the first Animus sequence?
I thought that was really neat.
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I was thinking some ACDC too, but I was thinking Thunderstruck for Kennen 😛 But he may already have music?
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Why you do this when I have to leave to do work for a few hours.
More, more!
I actually thought up a few more this morning, and was going run ’em by everyone tonight when we were all playing and in prime inspiration mood.
You know, like Duran Duran’s Hungry Like The Wolf for Warwick.Appreciate all the suggestions, ladies and gents and bot!
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Hey man! Some AssRev questions!
WARNING! SPOILERS!
yrty bgherupl bsteme gweppo lo pers fenppi?
trpi grpys pers etprewf t ge aretep, per wprtyneb psn’g ehjdb dejuhdep pdcb ejkd’n. teprt, ygbdlde t ejbdeue hdu’n lekd epprtrn ksn ejnd bdehkan sjxp?
hetdp bjop plsnse sdhd.
Cheers.
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はい はい. さ, きって ください…
むかし ある ところ に、 おふろ の だいきらい な おじいさん と
おばあさん が いました。
一（いち）年（ねん） じゅう おふろ に はいら ない の です から、 あか だらけ。
からだ を こする と、 ぽろぽろ きのこ の よう に あか が
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Go to rot13.com
Copy-paste
TranslateDoesn’t work for Harli’s – she uses other stuff. As did Doc What? above.
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I’m almost certain it was Fled.
And I so much wish someone had thought of it before Deus Ex:Human Revolution. 😛-
Um, I think this is where I first referred to it:
http://staging.kotaku.com.au/2011/11/talk-amongst-yourselves-141/comment-page-9/#comment-423887
Not sure if someone used it earlier – I used to pretty much ignore TAY, and mostly read ‘Remember This?’
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Seconded. Time to vote!
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There are too many shiny new games coming out at the moment for me to not buy some. So I checked to see what my housemate has already got arranged (no point doubling up) and it turns out that I needed to buy AssRev.
Couldn’t convince Big W to pricematch to OzGameShop or Dungeon Crawl. So sadface. Oh well, $78 isn’t a terrible price.
@Strange: Yeah it is the woman at EB Games I had that kerfuffle (spelling?) with, but to save time I left out the fact that she asked the dude working there who was equally capable of making gestures of ‘no there is no cd’ when actually there is. Le sigh…
@Dan: If that is my future, then I am happy.
Is it really game of the year time already?
I swear it’s getting earlier each year…
Couldn’t we wait until all the AAA titles are out? And then maybe a few weeks after that so that they can be played?
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i am so over wanting so many games. i blame the Internet. If it wasn’t for the Internet, i wouldn’t realize how many good games were out there, and wouldn’t then feel so sad about not being able to afford them.
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Sorry to break it to you Bunny, but no amount of play will make Star Wars Kinect win any GOTY awards.
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i will not buy any more fighting games. I have put my foot down. i dont play them much, and everytime i do buy one, and go to play it , i find out i should be up to superultramegahappyrainbow edition, and no one is playing my version any longer.
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Well, it’s really only Capcom that do that.
If you haven’t got MK i recommend it, it’s hellafun.
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i cant get into mk anymore. it just feels….wrong. I really should buy tekken 6 though. I think i’ll avoid the next tag game though.
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Wrong? I played it briefly at the Canberra meat a few months ago. I think it’s the best MK game they’ve ever made.
Midway going out of business was the best thing that ever happened to that franchise.
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Oh i dont mean there is anything inherently wrong with the game, i think its just me. Mortal Kombat just…..isnt right for me anymore. Its a game i think i need to leave with my 13 year old self.
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Ouch. Take that, Ruffs!
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I didnt mean it like that either. I just think, that was a golden age of gaming for me, and just, some games just feel odd to play now.
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I know. I’m just being a knucklehead.
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Yea, part of the fun of MK was being a 10 year old and seeing all those cool fatalities and blood. The blood and guts are obviously still there, but it’s not exactly the same. But with the new MK i can appreciate it as a competitive game..
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They did go a long way towards making it a sport fighter like Street Fighter thats for sure. I think there were too many desperate entries into the franchise that may have just put me off it all together.
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Probably not, but i’d keep my eye on GAME if i were you. They’ll use any reason to break street dates.
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I’m finding as pile-of-shame (or gaming-inbox) grows, interest in street date breaking has been waning. Over the past few weeks, the former has put on a bit of weight, and while I’m really looking forward to skyward sword coming out, I’m glad to have a bit of a time buffer to burn some of my inbox away beforehand.
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I think it has broken street date, Lambo!
I saw it on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfVsfOSbJY0-
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Served cold revenge\o/!! Sorry, Lambo. The new NFS looks good; I like the idea of a coast to coast race.
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Revenge is not very nice if you dont eat it straight away and its cold! Wait, no thats not right…
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Good work ol’ chap!
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Looks like all the big Korean SC2 are hiring women. OGS just recruited JongMi (a former Brood War pro who was apparently rather decent) and she’s going to be trying to qualify for GSL Code A.
She’s now going by the name maRie and seeing as she’s a Zerg and not another damned Terran, I think I can live with cheering for her :p
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But don’t women generally have a slower reaction time than men?
That innate ability contained within their Korean blood can only do so much.
They’re going to effectively game-age faster than the dudes, and they’ll have to retire at 22 or something! So old!More seriously though, I feel the concept of “We need wiminz in our clanz” a bit creepy. By all means, enlist them if they’re talented, but feels weird when you make a specific point about the gender. I’unno. I’mma just yabbering on.
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I agree… but if the Korean teams have reversed a prior policy (unofficial or not) of only hiring men, then this is something to celebrate.
But if we’re talking quotas, don’t get me started. I have some rather strong opinions on mandatory quotas (for any minority or oppressed group).
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I think she’s already retired from competitive gaming once and became a host back in the Brood War days. She’s come out of retirement for this and at the age of 31 (making her as old as the two oldest current SC2 pros, White-Ra and Boxer), if her best is behind her she’s pretty damned screwed.
I’m against the idea of hiring a woman simply because she’s a woman. When SlayerS recruited Eve, I was not a fan. From what I can tell, oGs recuiting maRie and Startales recruiting Aphrodite are simply cases of them picking up some of the better female talent.
These aren’t random Diamond level girls with pretty faces, they’re good enough to try for a spot in Code A (admittedly, there aren’t any restrictions on trying to get into Code A, but generally you have to be rather decent to make a point of it).
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*Joke may appear less funny than it actually is.
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Oh. My. God! [turbo] OMG!! So good. So, so good. I <3 u so much. Each time you do one of these it’s my new favourite. The beard. The happiness. Then the sadness. Then the happiness again. The dialogue is freaking perfect. Oh, man. Oh. Man. Man. Man. Dude. Man. Bro. Man-dude-bro. Bro-dude-man\o/!! This is even better than Johnny Depp in 21 Jump Street!!
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Haha! Plainview, I have a confession to make… I started drawing an illustrated comic of your forest talk. But then I realised you said a lot, and that meant I had to draw a lot. So I stopped.
Maybe next time I will just do segments.
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No, no, no. I’m doing the proper story tonight (i hope). It will the biggest TAY story of all time, all out; to celebrate Egress . . . and I also really like the Drive picture too. I can’t play Egress, so it will be mainly about the Ryan Gosling illustration. The thing I posted last night was gutter trash; I’m sorry you even had to read it – it was a desperate love letter to Burt Reynolds and Jon Voight and I apologise.
But hypothetically speaking: maybe you read the Plainview commemorative Egress/Ryan Gosling story. Then maybe you draw me another picture for my wall? Maybe I don’t have any complaints about that. Maybe I’ve got space on my wall in need of art. I mean, this is just cloud talk, hypotheticals with no chance of promise or guarantee; I understand that. It’s not a perfect world.
Also, understand, most importantly, I’m not doing the story for reward or favor. It’s not going to be a good story, but it’s going to be a story. I’ll do it tonight. Late tonight. No distractions. I’m going to murder page 11 with the killer grammar.
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I’m not sure, but hot damn do I want to! That’d be oh so much fun! You made platformers before right? Team platformer!
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Playable characters from the regular TAYbies each with their own special ability – Pixel Ferret can charge and take out enemies with his horn, Hugo can club things in one shot, Techy has robo-jump packs, Bish can help and Rocketman can make detrimental comments about peoples genetic lineage….
In all seriousness though, let me know if yous are planning on doing something like this and need a hand – I’ve only played around with XNA a little bit a couple of years ago but wouldn’t mind probing into it more. Despite my North Queensland technophobic upbringing I can write code that works sometimes!
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Maybe owld news, but…
(not sure if text on image is very minor spoiler or not)
http://www.zelda.com/skywardsword/comic/
Looks like we need to wait for the other pages :S
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Yeah Gabe wrote about it on their site. Said he already had heaps of work when the project was suggested to them, but he would work nights and weekends to have the opportunity. So cool.
Wow work is really picking up now, i havent had a chance to read TAY at all today and yesterday. I hope you are all well. Also i will be playing several games of LoL Tonight. Anyone who wants to is free to join in the fun!
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Did you see the bit where I suggested you prank your boss by turning him into a brony against his will?
That was a good suggestion. You should do it.
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There was talk of a kvk ARAM but that was pages ago so no idea where it is at
Depending on if the wife lets me near the PC I’ll be on
TAYbies: How do you clean your XBOX 360?
CrabJiffy fears that the fan of his may be a little clogged up with dust :\
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Remove case, carefully, apply compressed air.
Wipe out inside of case with alcohol based solution… allow to dry.
Reassemble.
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Team Liquid are having a documentary made, should be interesting for SC fans, probably even non-SC fans too!
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=284814
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He is probably my favourite player to watch live stream.
Which my girlfriend doesn’t like because he streams from around 11pm our time which means I crawl into bed about 3am-
He is pretty damned awesome.
He’s the only Terran I’ll consistently watch and he probably has the best music of all the regular streamers. Dubstep and K-Pop, two things I dislike greatly, two things that feature heavily in other players’ streams.
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Don’t know if you have watched recently, he has been practicing with Zerg a fair bit lately, too.
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Good old Game of Drones.
I’d love if he went back to random, but his Protoss is pretty terrible. It’d be better if he just switched to Zerg, although that means no more d-nukes and that is a sad thought.
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We’ve got White-Ra for the special tactics, although Hero is pretty damned entertaining as well.
Plus there’s Huk, who is just straight up good.
So there are good Protoss streamers and the race itself isn’t terrible (even if it is a little underpowered at the momemnt, maybe the upgrade buff will help a little).
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I like watching Huk, just for the smack talk.
He’s also good value, because he drops into chat of a lot of other streamers, when he’s blind drunk lol
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Looks like I’ll have to watch the latest episode of My Little Pony.
Here I was thinking I could just watch the first season and be done with the show…
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I have to begrudgingly agree that that is real, though I missed the reference while watching.
I’ll add The Big Lebowski to the list of movies to watch
So I was joking with one of my work mates that I was thinking about buying Oblivion while it is 75% off before deciding if I should get Skyrim .
Then I realised that I already owned Oblivion. So he started going on about how I probably own 10% of the steam catalogue to which i laughed and said as if.
After a bout of curiosity and a few searches and a checking of the profile I see that it is closer to 20%
My name is Tigs and I’m a steam saleoholic
@James Mac, from the Bioware/ME3 leak article:
I don’t think there’s space combat, but it was a fairly old leak (the story’s been changed a lot), and the leaked content was pretty much just dialogue and some writing notes. Hardly anything about gameplay systems, and Bioware do have some secret projects for ME3 that they’re apparently yet to reveal.
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It’s not quite as bad as people are saying. Previous choices do have an effect, but it’s more about references in dialogue and the state of the galaxy rather than drastically different gameplay or branching narratives.
I’m a bit annoyed it’s not integrated more, but I can understand that the cost of actually implementing every decision properly would be astronomical. Bioware have to pick their battles, and it’s still an awesome self-contained story.
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So what’s this I hear about a Kotaku Minecraft server? Or is that a need to know basis?
Quick backstory: Get home from work one day, and my girlfriend says “By the way, I bought Minecraft today”.
Keep in mind she’s never played an FPS game since ‘They give her motion sickness’, and I’d never even looked at Minecraft or shown it to her with subtle/not so subtle hints or anything. (I think it’s because she started watching Yogscast)
So anyway, about 10 minutes later I also owned a copy, and started up a multi server, and she taught me how to play the game. And we’ve had a bit of fun there, so next we’re starting to look at maybe trying out joining in on an established server.
She’s just gone overseas for a few weeks, so I thought it might be a good time to do a bit of recon, and maybe I’m feeling a bit lonely so something involving other people would be nice (I don’t play WoW or other MMOs as I’m scared I’d get addicted)
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Pay no mind to the 8 ball, talk to Fat Shady; he’s Captain, CEO, President and all round good guy.
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Thanks! What’s the best way to contact him? I can see him on Steam, but can’t communicate directly without him adding me.
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Sorry, old boy, out on the town till this very moment at the present. What were we talking about? Minecraft server! Don’t even know if it still exists, friend. Might be a gen-u-ine ghost town.
The old boys (& girls) of TAY do the Minecraft business. I don’t hear talk of it too much like I remember it to be.
And FatShady will say no if you’re not a good ol’ boy of the TAY pages. He’s a good man, but the invitation’s only open for the more weathered and broken of the sailors; those who’ve stayed too far adrift for too long – their minds are gone, but they’re loyal to the end and that’s what counts.
No hard feelings and all that kind of business, old sport; it’s just the way it’s always been.
All the same, nothing to stop a man from pulling up a chair and saying hello just on account of goodwill and courtesy; that’s what I always say.
I’m Plainview, and everybody just gets better from there on in. I don’t remember seeing you here before, or maybe I have; sometimes I don’t remember things like I should or would care to do in polite society.
A more easy to talk to group you can’t find, friend. I can account for that for as long as the road runs fast and hot to some distant vanishing point on horizon far away; that’s what I’ve seen anyhow.
Tally-ho.
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Hey Beavwa, there is a Kotaku Minecraft server, but at the moment it is down. I don’t think FatShady is planning on reviving it until version 1.0 comes out, otherwise all we build until then will be wasted. F4ction did have a temporary minecraft server, but it is down also. Unless F4ction wants to start his up again I think we’re out of luck until the next release :/
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I know it’s tough Harli – but I can help you rebuild your rape-cage if you need it that badly.
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Thanks Steve0, you’re such a good friend. /brofist
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Brofist? I don’t wanna know what you do to the poor mexican children in your cage…
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Or email me, through Steam or something. I’m sure it would be fine you having a crack (I’ve played through 3 classes already)
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Every time I see Kirk Hamilton’s name on an article I can’t help but think “Kirk Hammet”. Anyone else do this or is it just me?
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Do you really love me, Klutar? I suspect could just be you’re even more drunker than me. But maybe you really do love me? That’d be cool too. And if you’re drunker than me? Bloody well done. Anyway, high to the five.
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I’m trying to the do the story, Sughly. Jeez. It’s really, really not easy. The story is broken!! Very, very broken. I’m broken, Sughly. The story’s broken. EVERYTHING’S BROKEN!!! Like . . . glass. BROKEN GLASS!! *starts crying*
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Well, this is why my gf doesn’t let me get drunk, probably spent a few hundred $$$ on shit drunk-
ooo ooo oo i love relevant drunk stories what did you blow your cash on??? hookers, coke, guns??? i always blow all my money when i get trashed and then wake up in front of a hospital with all my weapons gone
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it’s official, Phoenix wright absolutely dominates Ultimate Marvel VS Capcom…
seriously, i can take out an entire team with just him and X-factor easily, prepare for him to be abused the heck out of!
My boy Sughly mainlined the success when he finished the Egress; so I did a story. I don’t know why? I don’t think about things too much anymore. But because Sughly did such a good job, this needed to be bigger than vanilla Plainview. I mean, it needed to be better than Vanilla Sky. It didn’t turn out to be better than Vanilla Sky. It did turn out to be bigger than the vanilla Plainview standard.
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
AN ORSON WELLES THEATRE CLUB PRODUCTION.
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SPONSORED BY THE BURT REYNOLDS DELIVERANCE KAYAK SURVIVAL SOCIETY.
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Plainview & The Discovery of Important Sughly-Diagrams for Becoming a Better Person.
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Another Plainview Transgression.
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Exhibit G:
An Important Diagram For Becoming a Better Person: http://sughly.deviantart.com/art/Drive-268040912
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THE BEGINNING:
The Keanu Reeves Paradox, the 50 Year Storm and How Point Break and Exhibit G Made Me Reconsider the Gosling-Reynolds Matrix.
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Index:
1. redruM
2. The Irreversible Ballad of Johnny Utah.
3. Point Break Existentialism.
4. Miracle Whip.
5. Chaos Theory.
6. Chicken Sandwiches.
7. The Fifty Year Storm Conceit.
8. The Gosling-Reynolds Matrix.
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Can I tell you something? Once again, not a question. We’ve been over this before. I’ve got something important to show you. I’m going to tell you something. I always get confused between Ryan Reynolds and Ryan Gosling. Like I used to think Ryan Gosling was married to Scarlett Johansson. And every time I see R. R. Reynolds, I’m all, “I don’t care too much for Ryan Gosling or the way he conducts his daily affairs, and over-zealous business ventures in these the fastest times at a metaphorical Ridgemont High.”
I guess Reynolds and Gosling are both exactly the same age, they’re both from Canada, they’re both called Ryan and so forth and forever onwards towards Similarity Town where the similarities are endless and never sleep. Amen.
They even look exactly the same. So? Whatever. It is what it is.
But this diagram. Your diagram. Exhibit G. This is the diagram that will help. A schematic explanation of something too complex for me to fathom so early into an otherwise young and restless night upon river’s most wild edge. Far and far away from proper, civilised society and the delicate sensibilities of a more metropolitan ambiance; there is no telling what lengths I will go to in my ravenous, lustful desire to separate fact from fiction, right from wrong and Gosling from Reynolds.
There is a vanishing point to my civility where my tenacity is unbridled and there is nothing but boundless horizons and moonlit escape.
There are no limits to how far I will go, how far I will take this. I am everything my compulsions and addictions have made me to be.
It is with some remorse that I inform you now that, with this picture firm in hand, I go forward into the night to debase myself towards some kind of lonely climax, bringing all of myself closer to a no doubt vengeful God and an understanding of the intricate complexities of the Gosling-Reynolds matrix.
But Ryan Gosling sucked it double-hard in Green Lantern and did it double-time like twice!
No. This is something. This drawing is double fcuking radical. Exhibit G: the G is for Gosling. It helps me understand things, like, better than what was previously the case or not the case as the case may be.
Ambition. That’s what this illustration is – ambition. Closeted and yet unchecked ambition. The ambition to one day understand something that is clear and present in plain sight to everybody but yourself. To one day understand that Gosling and Reynolds are not the same person, or people, despite their obvious and startling correlations, and the directly proportional nature of the aforementioned correlations in all their kaleidoscopic startlingness.
Your illustration is like Johnny Depp circa 21 Jump Street. That’s like 1989 and 1989 was the good time. The fly time. Big time. This illustration is big time like neon lit Hollywood on the boulevard, San Fernando Valley seen from Mulholland Drive; Marlon Brando’s old house, the padlock still on the fridge, the swimming pool forgotten now that autumn leaves fall at summer’s coldest, most bitter end.
There was to be no more swimming; this sunset today, this would be the last day I could dream of such luxuries. All of this, it was to be all the broken hearted motivation needed to open an ice cream bar that sold nothing but Ray Ban Wayfarers. And ice cream. Ray Ban Wayfarers and ice cream. Together, at last, on Rodeo Drive. The perfect hideout, the perfect place to say goodbye to my dreams forever. The pool was now just a forgotten memory that I couldn’t forget, a mysterious metaphor for broken promises and cold, jagged regret.
In closing, I put it to you that – as matter of fact – your Drive diagram is about identity and, to a lesser extent, ambition. And also the movie-film Drive. And hammers. And Ryan Reynolds. Swimming pools and Scarlett Johansson. Scarlett Johansson swimming in swimming pools. To compare and contrast all these things is to see further and walk ever deeper into the very night you have appropriately detailed in this portrait.
Ryan Reynolds didn’t star in that notebook movie about a notebook, this illustration brings me to the very precipice of this understanding.
Also, the part where you do this right here http://www.procrastoonation.com/archives/101 that’s the part right there. Like Johnny Depp circa 21 Jump Street and padlocked fridges at Brando’s house. This is more business than chicken sandwiches, Miracle Whip and summer holidays on the old pier. Keep doing this, but do more of this. This. This. This. And then add more of this. Et cetera and to an even greater extent as previously discussed.
To be honest, I feel a bit cloudy, like woozy, something not unlike silver linings and dreams; I’ve spent too much time here – at the pier. All at once, my nerve tonic and my most spiraling of downfalls. That’s the point. Sometimes I dream that I’m falling. Life on the pier is of no remedy to my ailments.
Do you see how all this fits together? I ain’t no joke. Do the crime scene/investigation adventures like the Procrastoonation cartoon just like the one I like above, but do them – http://sughly.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d33451i – like Murder Sketches!! Huh? Do you see?
That’s the big reveal. Like when you find out Brad Pitt does the fight clubs and is also someone else in that one movie I saw. You know the movie I’m talking about. It’s the one where he has to stop the serial killer from doing the bad times with the seven deadly sins. Do you know? The one where the talky part of his wife ends up in a box and then he does the seven years in Tibet. You know the one I’m talking about. In the end it turns out it was all about these twelve monkeys who can see dead people like in Die Hard.
Do you even see how amazing that would be? The cartoon. Just do the dialogue from Procrastoonation, but the drawings from Murder Sketches. Do you see how the Gosling-Reynolds matrix applies even here? The forced and irreversible intersection of parallel lines. The intersection of Murder Sketches and Procrastoonation. When animals attack. When trains collide. How a dichotomy can act as a catalyst or an ignition point for what I call “disparity propulsion”. A disparity propulsion mechanism. Like thinking about Ryan Gosling, but looking at Ryan Reynolds. Basic misdirection. Sudden disconnection. In this case the impassable chasm between Procrastination and Murder Sketches is the central mechanism or plot device.
Do what the f-c-u-k you like, man-bro-dude. That’s the real lesson to be taken from all this. Don’t listen to me; I’m still thinking about a swimming pool and better times. Now all I’ve got is an ice cream bar that sells sunglasses. What the fcuk? Who even wants that?
But I didn’t want this. The Bonnie and Clyde ending. This. Broken and bullet-ridden dreams of escape punctuated with regret, muzzle flash and the horrific kick of reckless recoil and misplaced justice.
But nothing ends. What happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object? That is only to describe the very beginning of something. Perpetual motion. Dramatic energy transfers turning back on each other, igniting the Cole Trickle Effect, days of thunder and a new wave – a vanguard – of pier enthusiasts and time travel believers.
To so suddenly appear in a different place and time without appropriate explanation or sufficient reason.
Like waking up at the pier with the sun on your face and the shores of a cold, unfathomable ocean lapping against the frayed, and torn soles of your feet. You can’t explain that. A parking inspector asks you to move on, but his voice is just static and muted vibrations in the technicolor cacophony of light and sound wrapped up bright and bold inside new day promise.
Anything is possible. But all the same, you do as the parking inspector says. This kind of attention is the shortcut to the canvas when holidaying at the pier. No. My holiday was over, my cover blown. I would walk back into town and seek refuge amidst the urban professionals running the hamster wheel to a corner office, a second wife and a mobile phone that really meant something.
Sometime later in the city: an attractive man in a suit and tie sells me a cigarette for 50 cents, and I shake his hand with a firm solidarity; I see in his eyes a glimmer of someone who maybe one day could really make it at the pier, someone who could order whatever ice cream flavors he wanted without even rehearsing what he might come to say when it’s his turn to order, someone who could apply discretion and low key valor in the face of adversity and moustachioed parking inspectors who resent the very foundations of freedom, Rolling Stone magazine, peanut butter and water aerobics.
But it was 27 banks in three years. I mean, anything to catch the perfect wave.
Vaya con Dios, Brah.
Unstoppable forces and immovable objects. The 50 year storm wasn’t the end; for Special Agent Utah it was only the beginning.
That’s a metaphor. Do you see? The 50 year storm represents something, and Special Agent Utah represents something else.
Do you see? My circa 1985 Mac don’t play no Egress, Sughly. That’s the point. That’s just the way it is. That’s what I’ve been trying to tell you all along. Johnny Utah and the 50 year storm. Did you even think about that? Point Break? Was it of no consideration? I kind of feel like this is your fault. Why? Because this is your fault, Sughly. All your fault. Amen.
This is not easy for me to explain. There is a simple explanation here. To cut to the chase, and by all means, keep doing what you’re doing; don’t let me stand in your way. I’m happy if you’re happy, that’s just the way it’s always been, you know that.
No. That’s not right. That’s not what I wanted to say. How do I say it? What’s the word I’m looking for? Something about something being of no consideration.
Inconsiderate. That’s what I was thinking of. Inconsiderate. Now I just have to think how to put that into a functional sentence. Maybe something to the tune of, “Sughly is a very inconsiderate person,” Plainview said.
But the nefarious Sughly was inconsiderate. “I’m inconsiderate,” he said. “I don’t care about Plainview.”
Egress was the exclusive club; the kind of place where you need your name on some kind of list on some piece of paper they keep at some kind of door.
Plainview stood in the rain and wished he could be more like Harry Potter. Not magical. Plainview didn’t want to be magical, or live in a cold and dreary castle with annoying people he considered to be annoying.
Then Plainview started thinking he would quite like an owl. An owl to sit on his shoulder on rainy days. Plainview was not smart – impossibly good looking people never are – and that’s the way he liked it. Superficial. Narcissistic. Plainview was the type of person who took iPhone photos of himself standing in front of a mirror, he resented clever people who spoke of books and politics; people who knew the answers on popular game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? People who always knew the big money briefcases on The Price is Right.
But he knew, more than anything else, when it rained, having an owl to sit on his shoulder would make him look like a scientist who knows lots of things about science and doing science in the places where the science is done. Plainview didn’t know what science was, but he liked thinking about it and imagining what it might be.
But then Plainview remembered that he didn’t want to be Harry Potter and do the science; that’s not what he meant to say at all. Plainview remembered. Plainview didn’t want Harry Potter.
No. Plainview wanted to marry J.K. Rowling and then do science tricks to make her buy him a Ferrari, a Lamborghini, a Maybach 62 S and that Barack Obama limousine, the one with the machine guns and a trunk full of the President’s blood. Plainview didn’t now what he would do with a trunk full of presidential blood, but it was something he often thought about.
Often Plainview thought – when the limousine was his – he could swap his blood with the President’s blood, but he didn’t think too much about what he would do after that. Plainview hated thinking and people who thought.
“I don’t think Plainview will ever play, Egress,” Sughly said.
“Not for as long as he lives.”
“That’s the way I want it to be,” he said.
Sughly was busy emptying gallons of gasoline and engine oil into the river near the old cinema arcade where the harbor lights shone bright over city’s most untamed edge. Sughly often went to the river to hide evidence.
“I must go to the river and rescue all the penguins, and dolphins, and baby monkeys, and baby tigers, and pandas,” Plainview said.
Sughly laughed. “I’m glad I emptied all the bad things into the river,” he said.
“I polluted it better than ever.”
“Do you not cry for the baby monkeys?” Plainview said.
“I care not for baby monkeys,” Sughly said.
Sughly said he couldn’t remember the word people use when they don’t consider something, the word people use when baby monkeys meant nothing to them.
“I don’t remember the word for it, but I don’t consider the baby monkeys or even the penguins,” he said.
“Inconsiderate,” Plainview said.
“It’s inconsiderate.”
THE END.
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STARRING –
BRAD PITT
WINONA RYDER
SUGHLY
RYAN REYNOLDS
RYAN GOSLING
GOSLING REYNOLDS
BARACK OBAMA
PLAINVIEW
KEANU REEVES
JOHNNY DEPP
MARLON BRANDO
SCARLETT JOHANSSON
BURT REYNOLDS
JOHNNY UTAH
ICE CREAM
MEGAN FOX
J.K. ROWLING
TOM CRUISE
GOOSE
ICE MAN
DANGER ZONE
KENNY LOGGINS
MAVERICK
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A GRAMMATICALLY UNTOUCHABLE VENDETTA.
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I have often thought about this. After many sleepless nights, I’ve come up with the answer. Yes. I’m ready. I’m ready to do this, Plainview.
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Just… wow.
*slow clap*
I truly and honestly think I enjoy reading this stuff more than anything I’ve read before. Who needs Cormac McCarthy, Dostoevsky, or George Orwell… when you have Plainview!
Hey wait hold on… 4:46am!? Plainview, man, you gotta sleep sometimes! People SLEEP!
LoL last night was fun, even if I could only stick around for one PvP 🙁 I like playing as Trynd, Undying Rage is sooooo handy. I now consider him my primary AD with Malzahar my primary AP 😀
I wish I could play at work 🙁
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Just another depressing morning for me, would rather not let it out on you guys and girls. That’s why I’m quiet, either that or I’m just busy
Ended up playing Typeracer until midnight last night. Decided that I would get one more race with 90+wpm then call it a day.
Got 100wpm on the very next race, triggered the anti-bot doohickey and had to type out passages from The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland that had been put through one of those annoying Captcha things. At over 90wpm. After midnight.
My first attempt, I had my hand out of place and produced a whole lot of gibberish. It went downhill from there.
Still, 100wpm! Haven’t done that in a while. Well, aside from the times last night where I was typing faster than that for the first section of a passage and then Blaghs interrupted me …
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I did end up trying that but I got such a horrible score that I don’t want to post about it :'(
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I doubt you were the only person to try it and not do that well.
Damned good fun though, if you keep going you can actually boost your wpm pretty respectably.
After all, sucking at something is the first step to being kind of not terrible at it.
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I think it was the whole using symbols or words that aren’t text that I’d usually use on MSN or something, really takes you off guard since I haven’t done typing that complex for a long time
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Em dashes, colons, semi-colons, complex sentences with brackets and quotes within quotes. Those are a pain but none are worse than the ones where people use a definitive where I would not.
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Don’t worry techy I tried it out as well and only got about 40 wpm. That was just practicing, didn’t try any of the actual races.
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Now presented to you by Glen Wheatley, who has to fund John Farnham’s comeback habit:
Kotaku AU’s collaboration on the League of Legends playlist! Part 2.
One anonymous reviewer, who describes himself as “totally not Bish” says that it’s an exhilarating hour of music, that makes him want to play League of Legends, also make a sandwich.
Michael Caine says “Bloody ‘ell! ‘Oo are you and wha’ are you doing in my home??” because yes, he sounds exactly like that! Amazing, isn’t it?
Thanks to all the people (and otherwise) who threw in suggestions; I know it’s not all of them, and we should figure out if we want to outright replace songs or just label them as “Character song #2” or whatever, but we can leave that for later, whilst we all pat ourselves on the back for having amazing taste in music.
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“…whilst we all pat ourselves on the back for having amazing taste in music.”
Thanks Bish! I knew Short Stack would grow on you eventually.
Stage 2 of the KKP (Kotaku Kristmas Project) will be beginning tonight!
If you’re still not in, now’s as good a time as any!
<3
Definitely going to purchase Gankplank after rolling 26/5/6 and 21/12/4 with him last night. So much fun – just build crit up and parrrly everyone. Cheers for the games those involved and hopefully we shall get some KvK going tonight.
Also, for your playlist Bish:
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how was KvK last night? any notable kills? Hilarious dukes? flukey escapes? trolls? swearing? etc.etc.
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Told ya, you’d like Spankplank.
One of my favourite things about him is “OMG I got stunned but I ate some oranges so I’m OK”
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So thanks to a drunk Klutar, I have now sold 20 copies of my book to fellow TAYbies (that’s right, I will happily sell to impaired people; in fact, I think that’s all I’ve done so far :P)
I feel a little bad ripping so many of you off, but thanks to you all anyway – the money is swell. 🙂
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Yup. Also, I doubt anyone who’s purchased your graphic novel feels ripped off in the slightest. It’s worth more than we paid for it!
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That’s very kind of you to say so.
Care to share your enthusiasm with the world?
http://shanewsmith.com/thelesserevil/reviewsPS: “No” is a very acceptable answer 🙂
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Damn, ah mean:
“That’s huir uv a kin’ ay ye tae say sae. caur tae shaur yer enthusiasm wi’ th’ warld?
http://shanewsmith.com/thelesserevil/reviews
ps: “no” is a huir uv a acceptable answer :)”
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do-do-dododo-do-do-do
This is KotAU radio anf that was Numbers’ rendition of the Metal Gear Solid Alert Theme
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Okay, let’s approach this logically.
If Harli is the only person in the entire world who knows the identity of Plainview, then it stands to reason that HARLI IS PLAINVIEW.
Case solved.
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With logical deduction like that, you should be writing mystery novels!
get to work! Make the detective a dashing Scottish doctor. Everyone will love it!
Book one: Pondering the Perilous Plainview.
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Ther wunce waz a detektiv named ‘Wat?’. He waz scotish. He halped sum gai who had loste hiz kiddy-kat. He fawnd the kat up a trea. He coodent clime so he shuk the trea. The kat accydently fell but it waz ok cuz katz alwaiz land on der feetz. He iz a gud detektiv .
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I don’t know what I find more disturbing.
Thast you wrote that… or that I understood it.
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You win the Oscar for best writing thing!
Books win Oscars, right?
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They do now!
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Phew, I’m glad you clarified he’s a good detective. I was worries.
This is edge of the seat drama, right here.
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Neither do I. And it’s killing me inside. Not really, but yeah.
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More Skyrim related goodness…
Went mountain climbing with my horse and companion when I heard a Dragon screech from above and watched a large dragon-shaped shadow cross in front of me. Awesome, I thought, more dragon scales/dragon bone for me. Then another screech, 2 Dragons! Lucky for me, I had friends with me. That horse can fight!
On another note, fighting a dragon, south east of Whiterun when I back-pedalled staright in to a giants camp….and his 2 pet mammoths. So I had a dragon, 2 mammoths and a giant chasing me. Between the horse and my companion we managed to bring all of them down. I looked around and I was nearly halfway across the map from kiting them so far…
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Yeah my orc just hit 13 I think.
It is doing my head in – I want to do ALL the skills but there are only so many perks and I have to choose but there are so many cool things but I can’t do it all and I don’t want to get to level 30+ and be all NOOO I wish I had mastered destruction or sneak or something but I have not enough perks or mana or 1-hand weapons would have been better for that but I went 2-hand and I am all /o\
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I have, over the past few weeks, been watching TF2 casts by Salamancer and beginning to find 6v6 competitive TF2 more and more appealing, much more organised, and no “3 snipers, 3 spies” bullsh*t.
This is awesome. A Dark Souls journey, in tweets.
http://blackpanel.com.au/2011/11/16/tweet-squad-dark-souls/
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I had an idea to start a twitter account based off of a Dark Souls knight. It would be mostly my adventures, with extra fiction thrown in and a lot of dying.
I need more email accounts 😛
Didn’t a chance to play Skyrim at all last night and only had time for 1 game of LoL. Now I’m very sad (probably one of the side-effects from my Skyrim withdrawal).
The one game I got of LoL was pretty good though. I tried Tree-man (Maokai) for the first time and smashed face as him in PVP. I love chucking those explodey sapling thingies at enemies when they turret hug. Plus his charge/snare is OP, I hit someone as the flashed so I charged him all the way to his flashed location.
AskReddit has a habit of having the same questions pop up with startling frequency.
One in particular is “which cover of a song is better than the original” which apparently comes up 4 times a month and the top answer is always Johnny Cash’s cover of Hurt (originally by NIN).
My answer is almost always Real Love (Regina Spector covering Lennon) or Soldier of Fortune (Opeth covering Pink Floyd).
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Like Hurt and Mad World, that’s one of those covers that are so obvious it really doesn’t need to be mentioned anymore :p
All Along the Watchtower probably qualifies as well.
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Bon Jovi covering Hallelujah, December 19 2010.
Made extra special because at the end of the song, he held his arms up to the sky and it started pouring.
This is absolutely a true story, I was there, and there is also youtube footage of it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcB85CyloUw
(skip to 5:40 if you must)
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Meh so many good covers its hard to choose. I frequently like jjj’s like a version covers over the original
for instance the original is a piece of pop drivel: the cover is great though
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z182_85fSWI-
Pop crud switched up, I think this qualifies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oxq54YnBF2UBetter than the original? perhaps but I do like spiderbait’s Black Betty
And does weird Al count because Yoda is the far Superior version
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I dont get how everyone thinks the Cash cover is better. I mean, I get the whole oh he’s old and he’s looking back life mystique about it all, but geez… its someone elses song! Trent wrote it about depression! GAH! So confused over that…
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Cash turned a song about drug addled depression into a song about an old man looking back on his life with regret. I’d say without changing a word but he changed one or two more obscene phrases, without really effecting the meaning.
The original is a great song, I really enjoy it and seeing it performed live was one of the highlights of the NIN set at Soundwave a few years back. On the other hand, Cash was just an amazing story teller, he could take anyone’s words and turn them into a beautiful image like few others could. Many of the songs from that album (American IV) are similar, Hurt was simply the best of them.
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Yeah like I was saying though, I get that, I get what he did and why he covered it. But I think people are just too caught up in the meaning behind his rather then Trent’s. It’s a more touching notion. But yeah, its still just a cover. I think people just get more easily caught up in the idea of an old man looking back rather than a depressed alcoholic, which is a bit silly really. Trent still wrote the damn thing.
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We shall argue this passionately at the meat methinks.
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But hes just gorging on food. I dunno, the clip just seems a bit… pretentious to me.
Dont get me wrong though, I love Johnny. It’s just, well… at the end of the day its still a cover.
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Bowie and Cat Power’s covers of Wild is the Wind are both miles better than the original. Also I prefer Cat Power’s cover of I Found a Reason, but its such a different song. Personal preference I guess?
Light from outside the window entered the office in stripes, through half-drawn blinds. Was it sunlight or streetlight? It had been a while since the dashing Scottish doctor detective had moved; perhaps it had even been all day.
He regarded the bottle of Irn Bru in his hand. How many had he downed since he came here? Eight, nine… cases? Ne’er min’, all classic noir characters needed their vices. His was the Irn Bru and an accent so thick that chewing on it made a decent meal.
Speckled motes of dust flickered in and out of view as they danced in the intermittent light, but the detective didn’t even notice the show. Instead, he was focused intently on the phone, willing it to ring. Rin’, damn ye, rin’!
It was another hour before the phone obliged, but he would forever remain convinced that it was due to his exceptional powers of psychic persuasion. He knocked over his half-empty Irn Bru in his rush to answer the phone, and it spilled half on the floor, half down the front of his pants.
“Feckin’ heel… Ah pure techt, awrite?
“What?”
“Awrite, thes is th’ doctur detectife. whit dae ye want?”
“I’m sorry, I can’t quite… I think the line might be bad…”
That damn accent. “Ah can hear ye – jist teel me whit ye want.”
“Why don’t I just tell you what I want?”
The detective reached for his Irn Bru to steady his nerves, and remembered too late that it was gone. He considered falling to the floor to lap it up before it fell through the cracks, but alas, the phone cord wasn’t long enough. He settled for rubbing a hand over his tired eyes.
“My name is Harli,” said the phone. “And I have a case for you.”
At last, things were about to get interesting. The last eight, nine cases he’d had, he’d bought from the store himself. At last, a real case. Something to sink his teeth into besides his accent!
Too excited to remain sitting, he stood, and grimaced at the creak in his hip – an injury sustained long ago in battle with his archnemesis, AmbroseIV. Ambrose was gone now, but the scars remained. Perhaps they would never go away.
There was silence on the phone and he realised that Harli was waiting for him to say “go on.”
“Gang oan,” he said.
“I have found,” she said mysteriously, “the Perilous Plainview.”
All the colour fled the detective’s face, and he sank into his chair. Shadow from the blinds fell over his eyes, masking the horror that welled within them.
Harli’s voice continued to blare from the phone, but went unnoticed.
“Hello? Hello?”
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to be continued…
Proudly brought to you by ShaneWSmith, Irn Bru and WhooHoo
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The metaphors/similes in this are BRILLIANT. Also I could hardly understand the Scottish lines.
Egads its Thursday already.
Whats up with the weather in Sydney this week? My sister’s uni chose the one night it was raining to open their art exhibition in the city, so I got to spend my evening stuck in traffic last night. So exciting.
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indeed, it’s frigging terribad, I have to walk home in the rain from Carriageworks to Redfern Station 🙁
In honoor ay dr whit th’ detectife, Irn Bru an’ whoohoo, Ah hae decided tae spend lae ay day runnin’ mah inanity ben a scottish translatur. enjoy!
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This has made me realise that I’m so used to Scottish wording (from books) that I read it almost as fast as regular spelling…
Useless skill! \o/
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Fun thing about Typeracer, the quote you get makes a huge difference. You can get things ranging from the Thermodynamics of Pizza to Thomas Aquinas’s argument for the existence of God (that one was funny because I felt like typing the counter-argument, “first cause” is a nice idea but to make the leap and say that it must be your god is a hell of a bit of flawed logic).
Some quotes are particularly good and you can knock them out quickly. They’re the ones with a natural rhythm to them, the song lyrics, the poetry and even some movie quotes work.
Walk the Line by Johnny Cash was a good one to have pop up, as was a speech from V for Vendetta but I think the absolute best one has to be the “fear is the mind killer” quote from Dune.
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
So badass. So much fun to type.
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Yo, Bunny. I’m really happy for you, Imma let you finish but Kewala’s Typing Adventure was one of the best typing games of all time!
Even though I normally avoid collector’s editions nowadays, since they usually pack in a bunch of crap I have no interest in, I’m seriously eyeing off the EB-exclusive super-deluxe collector’s edition of FFXIII-2, primarily because it comes with the entire 4 CD soundtrack (the plebian ‘standard’ limited edtion only comes with a single CD ‘selection’ of pieces). But I’m feeling really undecided:
– it’s $140, vs around $80 for the game on its own (assuming buying locally). Obviously the $60 or so difference is getting you more than just the soundtrack, but I’m not sure the extras are worth the difference.
– A little after the english release, they released the original FFXIII in China with Japanese dialogue & english subs, which I’d honestly prefer (less porno grunting and Hope is marginally less pathetic), but I don’t know if they’re going to do it again.
– I still have FFXIII on my Pile of Shame. It completely lost me when it opened out on Gran Pulse and stopped being linear (yes, I’m from a bizzaro backwards world) so I’m not sure I need to grab this day 0.
So I’m kind of stuck between choosing to buy the super legendary alpha deluxe HD remix edition locally or waiting a bit and missing out on the extras. Anyone know whether the soundtrack’s available separately anywhere? That might make a difference.
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If yoo’re in nae coorie, import. it’s only an aussie exclusife at eb. a’ place else in th’ warld seems tae incude aw fower discs.
Ah hear ye re: gran pulse. Ah hink Ah played th’ gam th’ sam way ye did. mah advice: tak’ a coople ay days tae grin’ a wee, ‘en jist press aheid. th’ game’s difficulty curve remains park perfect if ye dae thes.
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… is it talk like a pirate day or something? I had to re-read that three or four times.
Any ideas where might be a good place to start looking for an ‘international’ Collector’s Edition? I checked ozgameshop who have become my regular spot recently, but they don’t have it.
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Had a bit of a look around, looks like all the limited editions in the UK have the cut-down soundtrack too.
It’s available separately, but Japanese import and so on its own it’s going for $55-60, so maybe EB’s deal isn’t that bad.
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I thought I was performing incredible detective skills by revealing Plainview’s gravatar profile. Apparently not…
http://en.gravatar.com/donaldplainview
Apparently he’s Steve McQueen..?
I finally got paid from my new job! w00t! Got all my bills paid and stuff at long last! I even bought myself a new video card (3gb GTX580) so now I can finally play some games again on my PC!
Have to give a humungous shout out to Klutar for gifting me Skyrim last night too!! What a bloody legend!!! You kotaku peeps are the best friends EVAR!
I ran the Unigene benchmark on my card last night and got a max fps of 108 and average of 38.5fps! Holy crap it’s nice! That was with extreme tessellation and all settings on high at 1920×1200! So sexy! Can’t wait to play some new games with tessellation so I can see more of this awesomeness!
Does Skyrim support tessellation? I’m gonna load up Crysis 2 tonight with that new hires texture pack too! Does that also have tessellation? Would be so ultra cool if it does!
So looking forward to meeting Shiggy and the rest of the gang on Saturday! Gonna be heaps of fun I reckon, but I’m probably gonna have to leave around 9:30 to go pick up Sachiko. Still, there’s plenty of time to have fun before then!
Hope you’re all having a great day!
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hahah yes indeed she is! Sushi chef exraordinaire! She’s also been doing Karate for about 6 years!
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So i Have a extra copy of American Gods to gift to a lovely kotaku person. Whoever wants it just post a message and send me a twitter DM or a email at rossfear(at)msn.com
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I forgot i order a copy from bookdepository like a month ago. It arrived yesterday. It cost me significantly less then my book store version. but the book store version is the authors prefered text 10th aniversary one!
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Ah hae a sair throat – Ah cannae spick scottish anymair.
@welbot, that’s an awesome gift and a raft of other good news too!
@sughly, my infallible logic already proved that Harli was Plainview, but now I’m starting to think you’re trying to deflect attention away from yourself…. ….. ….
@my twenty The Lesser Evil customers, I give you a link and no further poking, prodding, directions or lamentations (promise!): http://shanewsmith.com/thelesserevil/reviews
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That is probably the number one reason why you should study at Uni instead of doing it over the internet…
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Cheers, got the code!
…now I just need them to send me my damned “forgot password” email so I can redeem it.
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Yeah mine took ages to arrive.
They reset all account passwords, btw, so you can’t do the normal password reset. You should have gotten an email about it.
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FUUUUU WORK!!! MAKING ME MISS OUT ON SIGNING UP FOR THIS…. WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH TODAY IS NOT A GOOD DAY….
CAPS…CAPS-
It doesn’t close until Saturday our time, and I think most Americans are still asleep.
If you do it reasonably soon you might still get a spot.
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*lip quivering*
“These aren’t the codes you’re looking for.
(Sorry, we’re all out!)”*assumes fetal position*
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D:
Only a month until release, though! Do you have it ordered on Amazon?
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*GAAAAAAASP*
it’s okay people, i know you were all worried* but i am alive and well…
i’ve just been soo burried in work i couldn’t even find the mouse… or the keyboard… or certain valuable man parts needed for certain activities… oh god i really need to pee…
so i haven’t been around since page 6… yeah that’s right, my unit of measure for TAY is not days, but pages… that’s the more important thing…
so what’s been happening? anything exciting? any love intrigue i am yet to hear about? or someone else knocking someone up? did someone sleep with a goat? again?
NEWS PEOPLE, I NEED NEWS… i’ve been… lonely *sobs*
*no one cares
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Aww Pixel, alright I’ll give you my news.
Well bowling last night I beat my opponent for 2-0, with one being a draw, I fully set up LoL on my laptop, along with the new masteries which I will be doing also on my PC, so should be combat ready by tonight. Been playing AA and I’m basically going “Okay screw looking for those riddler trophies this time around”. It’s a really open game in terms of where you can go which is cool, though it’s easy to get turned around, if only there was a minimap instead of hitting the select button all the time.
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There is a lot of footage recorded of me checking out that map. Most did not and will not make it to the Let’s Play :p
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yeah AA is a great game, i never bothered too much with the Riddler Trophies, just not OCD enough 😛
just completed Batmang: AC and i gotta admit that, that was a pretty satisfying game… but again i fail at the Riddler stuff 😛 -
I failed at a lot of the riddler stuff because I forgot it was a console port. Now what is the button for submitting the examine thing.
TRY ALL THE BUTTONS
Nope. Still doesn’t work. Oh right I have to hold down a button the does something else because they don’t want to use one of the other 20 keys that aren’t mapped to anything
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So, I wasn’t around much yesterday, my husband was home for the day so I was watching him play Dark Souls. And I also decided to sew myself a top for summer from a men’s T-shirt I bought for $10 in the US at the start of the year but hadn’t done anything with because I was unsure what I wanted to make it into. Yesterday I had a new design in mind and wanted to try it out. So I now have a Dragon Age II top that I love more than the game. 😛
Pizza sauce is a vegetable. America says so.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-11-17/us-rules-pizza-sauce-is-a-vegetable/3676284
So, i was going for a no kills/no alerts/hard mode run of Deus Ex and about 10 hours in i accidentally saved my game after killing about 15 random guards.
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I much prefer reading it this way:
‘i saved my game after accidentally killing about 15 random guards.’
Which is hilarious.
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It’s all good. Not that i know how to do all the sidequests, i can get to the where i was in my next attempt in a few hours.
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ahh, the good old quicksave reflex. The number of times i’ve hit quicksave instinctively instead of hitting quickload then finding out my last proper save was hours back.
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Yea, it just becomes a habit after a while, you don;t think about where in the menu you are, that is, until you just figure out what the hell happened.
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@Beavwa and anyone else keeping tabs on the MC server… An update for you all.
Sorry if I have let this slip a bit, been hard to get time to sort this out.
OK, the server was deleted due to non payment of our invoice. It was actually paid, but into the wrong account. This has been sorted out now and the server should be back online soon. I have not confirmed if the data was deleted or not. Either way, we were upgrading to a new map for version 1.0 anyway next week so its not a real issue (sorry).
The good news is that we will now have a 20 slot TS3 server and a 15 (thats right, free upgrade to 15 slots from the old 10) slot minecraft server.
If you need to be added to the white list, please advise me on twitter @fatshadylive
Sorry again about all of this guys, but as you know, I don’t really use either of these services so unless someone alerts me to a problem, i may overlook it.
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I never really got into Minecraft, but I also never really played multi. Is it worth buying it/do decent people (TAYbies, mostly :P) play it often?
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i’ve had intentions of buying it for a while, i’m away this weekend but once i’m back i might invest that massive amount it getting it…
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i’ve been wanting to buy it for ages… just keep forgetting :P…
i will get it though… also another comment will appear soon… apparently i can’t spell me own name so they are kept in the moderation-purgatory for a while
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I were. Was. Am.
Email me at cronotriggr[at]hotmail[dot]com with Tay handles and PSN/Gametags/Steam etc.
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Excluding the big leaks, I’m fairly confidant that Bioware will pull it off. They have a pretty damned good track record for amazing games.
I just hope I don’t get screwed over by a troll letting out plot details…that would really, really ruin it for me (and I doubt I’m the only one that thinks this…).-
I’ve skipped all of those posts, so i know nothing about the story. But i get the feeling EA is pushing Bioware to try to capture the Battlefield crowd with its RPG games.
Dragon Age 2 was a hilariously bad game that was obviously pandering to the casual market (It also didn’t help that it was a rushed out cash grab in the least subtle way). I don’t want to see ME3 do the same thing, but i have read some EA fatcat gleefully say that they are aiming for an even more streamlined approach.
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It has more RPG aspects than number two (but probably not as many as the first game).
There are lots of branching powers and weapons upgrades, armour sets, etc.
From everything I’ve seen, Bioware execs are desperate to avoid pissing off the crazily-rabid fanbase that reacted so badly to Dragon Age 2, so they’re not compromising on any of the quality just to rush it out the door.
There’s not much I can say if you’re already having doubts about it, except that the leaked plot and videos I’ve seen don’t at all suggest it’ll be a big letdown.
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Hopefully Bioware learnt a lot of things from DA2.
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I’ve played it, and from what I’ve previewed I think you’re wrong. In the nicest way possible.
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@Jo
I focused mainly on Archery and 2H weapon if they managed to get that close. With Archery around 65 now, they don’t often manage to get close. I seldom use magic either, just the shout that pushes things around and histskin(argonian racial ability) that lets me regen health very rapidly for a short time.
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Fair enough. I think too much on these things, should just get into character and roll with it I guess.
2-hand and heavy armor is the current focus with a side of restoration. Will do enchanting once I have leveled it up enough.
Would like to be able to do the thieves and assassin quest-lines though, was my favorite part of Oblivion.-
You can start those quests whenever you like. The first few Dark Brotherhood quests aren’t too hard. I haven’t done many for the Thieves yet.
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Oh it is more that it will be harder to stealthily assassinate someone with a battleaxe and no sneak perks 😛
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Haven’t had to be stealthy on those missions yet 🙂
The Thieves Guild missions require stealth though.
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People with hayfever –
if i take a hayfever tablet that is supposed once a day 24hr relief and 2 hrs later my symptoms have not changed, is it safe for me to take another one?
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if the instructions strictly say 1 per 24 hours don’t take another one, IMO you should probably see a doctor.
Dr What? Where are you? 😛
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It’s not so serious that I need to see a doctor, really! But I am getting very annoyed at my hayfever ><
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Yeah I just don’t want to risk your health Miss Harli, I’m sure you’ll understand that I care for your well-being 🙂
I have hayfever as well. It’s more a virus for me than for humans and it never seems to be properly eradicated. It’s a tricky virus
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soo… do you get itchy? or sneeze alot? i’ve always wanted to see a robot sneeze
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From my experience, having hayfever for 20 odd years now, i’ve NEVER had a problem taking two of them together. Like a lot of over the counter medications, most hayfever tablets are fairly weak and only contain a small amount of antihistamine. So no, you will not die from taking 2 of them Harli.
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most over the counter medication an adult has to take 2 of anyway unless otherwise directed to have an effect… they are deliberately kept at a low level for the people who have other health issues that still take it…
“Its regular strength tylenol. Here’s what you do: Get her to open her mouth, take a handfull and throw it at her. Whatever sticks – that’s the correct dosage” <– okay don't try this at home, but still funny
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Such a shame that THE very best line from that show was in the very first episode. 🙂
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It is very likely you will not die. I have not died from doing this. Nor had any negative effects.
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Ah, thanks. I was a bit worried as ‘accidental overdose on hayfever meds’ was not the heroic ending i quite wanted.
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If you put a bottle marked ‘super awesome happy medicine’ near you when you take it, people might think you died from that…
/helps?
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you’re Bishing! \o/
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I would suggest the answer to that is probably “No”, just to be on the safe side.
Consult your doctor if symptoms persist 😛
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Antihistamine builds up slowly in the body. Chances are it won’t help for a day or two, but then it’ll slowly get better.
This is my experience anyway.
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Looks like you are correct – I happen to work at a medical research company (lol) and dug out some stuff on antihistamines.. this particular one reaches maximum effectiveness at 6 hours. The packaging says fast acting dammit!!!
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Always take the super drowsy pills, even when operating heavy machinery. Always.
This may not be good advice.
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One day, we will be able to buy hayfever-free noses, and that will be the best thing to come out of human augmentation.
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*Pulls on white coat*
Yes, please, have a seat.
*Checks your chart*
Hmmm.. Well, your Dotas seem a little on the low side, but nothing to worry about. As for your hay fever, I’d advise taking all the pills. At once. Chase em down with Tequila. That’s Mexican medicine.
If in doubt, go to Wendy’s and get a lime thickshake (Twitter folks will know what that’s about) Then, AND THIS IS IMPORTANT, put the Lime shake IN the coconut and drink them BOTH up. That’s the LIME in the COCONUT and call me in the morning.
Waaaaooooooooooooo!
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Medical questions:
What are your triggers? Are they avoidable?Have you ever seen a doctor for this?
What hayfever tablets are you taking, and at what dose? Do these tablets usually work for your hayfever?
(Protip: some hayfever tablets may only have effects on one receptor, when there are several responsible for the reaction. You may benefit from taking ones that target different receptors. Although, consult your doctor before taking every kind there is at once ;))-
FREYR!! I heard you are an actual doctor (no offense Dr What!). \o/ yay we have a doctor in the house!
My local doc has recommended nasal sprays. They work quite well but I ran out a while ago. My hayfever seemed to be mostly in control for the most part but randomly resurfaces again. I don’t know what my triggers are.
I usually don’t use tablets for my hayfever either but I was desperate to fend this bout off today. /o\
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Oh come on guys, grow up.
You’re shocking. -
Trying to grow up.
Need more nasal spray…
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I am the worst kind of doctor…
LATE.So. I recommend not overdosing and buying more nasal spray 😛
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Thanks Doctor Freyr 😀
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Lol Tia Carrere will be a Oz Comic-con. Awesome, i’ll get her to sign my Wayne’s World and True Lies DVDs.
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I went out fishing,
somehow caught me a starfish.
Like a boss – The Boat.If you’re going to format it like a haiku, follow through dammit :p
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You are one step ahead of me but unforetunately. Strange beat you to the punch. Sorry about that!
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I’ve actually got a spare copy too Splicer, if you want it. Hit me up with that sweet email action.
ryanmchalker(at)gmail(dot)com
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SC2 people – Gus aka ‘witchdoc’ the ass who screwed people over in the PPSL is being interviewed live atm – http://www.twitch.tv/cybersportsnetwork
LOL at the chatbox at the side.. people are trashing his name like crazy.
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I saw Seltzer link this on screddit earlier today. Can’t watch to see everyone lay into Gus. It’s going to be fun reading Team Liquid afterwards…
For all the Skyrim players trying to level Smithing…
Cheapest, easiest way to level smithing is to make Iron Daggers. Just make them all the way to 100. Because it doesn’t matter what you make, just how much of it you make. Iron and leather are cheap, so make daggers 🙂
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I SEE EVERYTHING
Except for the things I do not.
And the things I do see, I promptly forget.
So what were we talking about?
Ah, yes.
I SEE EVERYTHING
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*scratches a line on the wall*
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it’s not meant to give me goosebumps… I’VE WATCHED THIS 5 TIMES NOW AND IT’S STILL GIVING ME GOOSEBUMPS… AND POSSIBLY A SLIGHT ERECTION…
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Alright, guys, please, help me out here. I’ve been on the phone for like hours, back and forth from Telstra to TPG trying to get my adsl2 happening and I’m getting nowhere.
First TPG told me I’m on a pair gain system. Some googling informed me that this means I’m sharing my phone line with other people, which means I cant get adsl2. Ok, fine.
I call Telstra to see if theres anything that can be done about it. They then tell me that from their end, I’m not on a pair gain line and that the problem is in fact that there are no ports left at the exchange. They say if I want to apply for more ports, I have to have my ISP apply for me. Ok…
Call back TPG. No, theyre getting their info from Telstra database, and it says I’m on pair gain. They tell me to get Telstra to update their database. Telstra then tell me that they cant do that, that its up to TPG to get the problem sorted out with Telstra wholesale. TPG then tell me that they can only go by the dabatase and theres nothing else they can do.
AAAARGH WTF!! Gah. So sick of all this. What can I doooooo!?!? HALP! :'(
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The same thing happened to me – in the end we ended up having to go with cable as adsl2 was just overly complicated (i too was making phonecalls back and forth) to set up. Sorry I can’t be of more help Sughly 🙁
stupid national broadband network
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Well I ended up going with Telstra since I was on the phone to them about this whole mess already and the dude seemed nice. I asked him bout cable and he’s got me on a plan thats $78, and that includes a phone line rental as well as cable with 200gb. Ahhh…. does that sound good to you? Seemed alright to me…
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That’s not terrible, but I’m giving TPG $59.99/mth for my unlimited ADSL2+ (plus a phone line I don’t use) just up the road.
Shame that you got screwed here, probably worth lodging a complaint with ombudsman anyway just to get them to try and put some pressure on TPG to improve.
Based on my experience with TPG, I’m willing to say that they were the ones in the wrong here, although why you had to go through Telstra for the home phone line confuses me.
Oh well. If it’s sorted and you have a decent net connection, then all is well.
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Yeah I wont lie, it made me a little bit sad to let go of my unlimited adsl2 plan. I had my phone line with Telstra only caus I didnt really consider getting bundled with tpg. Then I was just too lazy to see if there’d be charges stopping my account with telstra.
Soooo really a lot of the issues here are just me being lazy. Ha! Ahhh… dang.
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Funny how your issues came from being lazy while mine came from me being too proactive. Signed up too early, they scheduled the install too early, checked with landlord, got someone at their office telling me that I couldn’t get it installed. Cancelled the install, rescheduled after I moved in, talk to actual landlord, was told that I could have done the install before moving in.
If I had just signed up and left well enough alone, I’d have had no dramas at all.
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Haha! Although to be fair, not ALL my problems were from being lazy. Apparently they began when I signed up to TPG… 🙁
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Optus pretty much only offers wireless in our area, at least they are in my part of our area :p
Tell both Telstra and TPG that if they don’t get their shit together and determine who is responsible for your problems, you’ll contact the ombudsman. Give them a firm deadline (close of business is probably more than long enough).
Then call the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman and tell them everything that has gone on. In as much detail as is necessary.
The TIO is a bro, yo.
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Yeah I probably shouldve done this, but I so couldnt be assed with it any more. I just signed up for cable instead. But thanks a heap for the suggestion Trjn, was gonna be my next move before I became lazy :/
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My recommendation is to go to another ISP. Though, to be fair, I’m massively biased in this circumstance, because I had EXACTLY the same thing happen to me. The fun part was that I was told the pair gain meant I couldn’t get ADSL, let alone 2+ (this was about 4 years ago).
Dropped TPG, went with Internode. Best decision I’ve ever made. For starters, their tech support is based in Australia only, meaning good customer service and good support hours.
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Mate, I sorted out internet for a friend of mine recently, similar issues, we got it all sorted out then was told NO to ADSL2, then No to a free connection fee which we were promised.. then NO to internet all together. They cancelled the order with no attempt to offer us an alternative (Telstra also)
Problem is, that at this exchange, no other company has ports so we are stuck..
No I can’t halp you, but I can offer my sympathy as I had had a similar experience recently.! Good luck man, stay strong.
@Pixel, re: SW:TOR beta:
Have you registered on their site before November this year and signed up for beta previously? If so, you’ll get into the public beta. They’re trying to stress out their servers with essentially a simulated launch.
Some other places to try for keys:
– Rock, Paper, Shotgun had 12,000. Don’t know if there’s any left:
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/beta-keys/
– Eurogamer has some remaining (but they might be for European region, I dunno if keys are regioned?):
http://www.eurogamer.net/giveaways.php?id=87096
– IGN/Fileplanet users can get a key here:
http://login.ign.com/prime/promos/swtor-beta/
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WOOOO…
i could almost… AH F**K IT*lands a big wet scandinavian (like french but better) kiss on NegativeZero*
MYYYY HEEERO
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Well then, I can see I’m not wanted here!
*storms off*
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WELL…. i didn’t see YOU getting me a beta key for SW:TOR…. I HAVE NEEDS
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I’m going to spank you with my “lightsaber”.
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Rize out.
*outs*
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i made a platformer in gamemaker when i was 15. It was pretty horrid yet i was fairly proud of it. Also daft punk are teh awesomes!
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Go back and play it again (if you’ve still got it). It might be better than you remembered it being. That’s what happened with that little platformer thing I made earlier this year. I went back and played it again yesterday, and it was better than I remembered it being…weird.
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Wooo! I keep thinking about platformer ideas now. I hope you were serious about doing something, caus I am…
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A while back I had thoughts regarding a maybe writing a silly action platformer. Don’t know if you’ve ever encountered the OS-tan stuff, Japanese personifications of various operating systems, primarily Windows. They were all over the place about five years ago.
Anyway the idea involved I guess a Metroidvania-style platformer where each of them had different abilities and the areas were gated such that you’d slowly be able to access more stuff as you rescued each of them from whatever peril it was that the plot revolved around (at one point the idea was that it would involve fighting off viruses that had kidnapped everyone except ME, who at the time had crashed). For example, rescuing NT would would give you the ability to dig through soft ground (NT was personified as a dog-girl. Obscure Japanese pun) and Server 2k3 would be able to swim (Server is Saabaa in Japanese, which sounds like the word for Mackerel). Checkpoints would involve rescuing trapped Win CE fairies which would back up your progress. Characters could be powered up / gain extra lives by finding RAM to eat, and there would be service packs which would unlock new abilities, plus general powerups like firewalls.
Had it all planned out but didn’t have time to really execute it 🙁 And then Microsoft released Windows 7 with an official OS-tan mascot and basically killed the meme, since nothing destroys a meme like corporate support. And now I work for them so I’d probably get in trouble :\
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Oooh, that sounds interesting. Also, if we made that, Microsoft wouldn’t be able to sue the pants off us, especially since we aren’t wearing any! 😛
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I’ve burned out on fighting games. Odds are that my housemate will pick it up and we’ll start playing, but I have no motivation.
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I’m going to wait for the price to drop. I would normally be a first dayer, but I am also suspicious of Capcom squeezing out another early next year. It won’t get a look in between Skyrim and AssRev anyway
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Mark’s article on his halo nostalgia got me think about moments in games that have stuck with me. (i think kotaku has covered this before but nostalgia is always good to revisit)
What are people’s stand out moments of gaming?
Some of my stand out ones (in no particular order):
– Driving around Halo for the first time.
– The CoD 4 campaign (the ending and the gillie mission).
– The starting of FFX (sin attacking zanarkand).
– Fighting phantom ganondorf in OoT.
– MGS3’s ending (even if it went for the better part of an hour)
ahhh, rose tinted glasses are awesome!
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– Constant fireballs in Spyro 2, the reward for 100% completion
– Perfect, lag-compensated meatshot (> 70% hit w/ a shotgun) in MW2 at a friend’s house -
Halo stands out with me, mostly just doing coop with my older brother.
If my memory serves me well, it was the last game we co-oped in before he moved out.
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Some of mine:
-Playing the Green Hill zone in Sonic 1 on the Sega
-Loading up Doom for the first time on my PC
-Going through my first dungeon level in Dark Cloud
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– Almost getting hit by a car when driving on the wrong side of the road at 4am (to mock my friend’s girlfriend’s driving) on the way to Maccas during a marathon of Gears 2 (or was it Army of Two?).
– Realising that I didn’t have my headlights on after dropping my friend home in the early hours of the day after having played Resident Evil 5 for many hours.
Who wants to play some video games with me and then go for a drive? :p
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Do I look like a cat to you, boy? Am I jumping around all nimbly bimbly from tree to tree?
Am I drinking milk from a saucer?
Well do you see me eating mice?Now you stop laughing right meow!
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Say ‘Car Ramrod!’
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– The sheer panic I felt when Sonic was running out of air for the first time.
– Beating the forest level in Alex Kidd in Miracle World on the motorbike.
– Seeing 100% when I collected that last Orb in Jak & Daxter.
– Convincing the only friend who had a PS2 at the time to rent & finish MGS2 in a single night.
– The start of MGS3 when I thought I was gonna be playing as Raiden again.
– Finishing Goldeneye with my big brother.
– Avoiding all the Ocarina of Time hype, then plugging it in Christmas morning and watching Link in 3D for the first time riding Epona across the screen.
– Attempting to guess my way through the Leisure Suit Larry ‘are you over 18?’ quiz at the beginning with my friend. We were not 18… more like 8 or 9.
– The intro to Monkey Island 3, after waiting so many years after MI2. And being blown away by the animation…
– Finishing Double Dragon 3 with my brother and neighbour. As 7 years olds (bro was 10) we were so impressed with ourselves we swore we would remember the date forever. I dont remember the date.
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No Spirited Away?
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They’re doing a staggered release, have been at it since around mid 2010, with Nausicaa. They released Laputa and the Yamadas toward the end of 2010, Arietty and Whisper of the Heart in the middle of this year and these three (Ponyo is a re-release with new packaging and the english dub included, the previous release was from before the US dub was made) round it out to eight so far. Happily two of which, Ponyo and Earthsea, I haven’t seen yet. I own all the rest on DVD but the local releases are kind of bleh in comparison.
They have beautiful packaging. Cardboard cases, one solid color with a silhouette of a major element of the promo artwork (eg Howl’s Moving Castle has the outline of the Castle) plus the Japanese logo in white. Nothing else on the packaging whatsoever. Even the details like language etc are printed onto a sticker that’s attached to the back of the protective plastic sleeve they come in.
No idea yet which films they’re releasing next. Presumably one of them will be From up on Poppy Hill, since that was in the cinemas in July. Assuming that their next film, the Tale of the Bamboo Cutter is in the cinemas in 2012 i’d expect they’ll push out one or two BD releases to help promote it. I’m crossing my fingers for Princess Mononoke or Sprited Away but I’d buy anything they release.
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Havent seen Ponyo!? :O
Ponyo is my favourite bluray film. Also one of my fave films of all time. Youre in for a treat!
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I love Ponyo so much. Some Ghibli fans don’t like it, but I don’t understand the hate at all. I think it’s absolutely amazing.
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You’re possibly the first person I’ve seen that doesn’t hate it. I have no real opinion yet, I missed it in the cinemas and I never got around to buying it on bluray mainly because they started the JP release cycle and I was waiting for them to re-release with the new fancy packaging. Which they now have. Ghibli have never done a bad film and it’s fashionable among anime circles to take everything really seriously and hate on basically everything, so I was assuming it can’t be that bad a film. Now I’m looking forward to it even more. Ghibli marathon this weekend! \o/
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The Japanese animator I worked with hated it because it was such a radical diversion from the normal Japanese values such as the son referring to his mother by her first name etc.
She thought it was more a Disney film than a Ghibli film.
Personally, I enjoyed it. beautiful work. Not Miyazaki’s best work, but a great film.
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I’m still at work. But yes, it is awesome. Expensive month though, these three plus 5 Centimeters per Second and Children Who Chase Lost Voices from Deep Below.
It’s nice that Japan is releasing movies with English dubs / subs as an extra periodically, but not so nice when they do five in one month 🙁
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Jealous! 🙁
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I don’t usually like to be that braggy guy that brags about stuff, but…
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Finishing the CGA version of Space Quest with a little white book and a magical pen
Seeing someone execute a 5+ hit combo in SF2
The dolphin jumping out of the water in Ecoquest and the game being a “talkie” from that point
Finishing Halo CE with 1 second to spare on the countdown clock.
Beating the champion in Pokemon Silver with only one pokemon left, all its pp gone, all my potions and reses used up and only being able to use the move struggle.
Beating King K’rool in Donkey Kong Country only to have him get back up, the music change and me scrambling to pick up the controler.
The first time I played Fable.
Having to leave the room whenever my Dad entered the T-Rex area in the SNES Jurrasic Park game because the music scared me.
Off the top of my head:
– panicking my whole way through the 40 Fathoms underwater levels in Tomb Raider 2
– a particularly odd custom game on Standoff in Halo 3 that lasted for hours
– when my Charmeleon evolved into a Charizard, first Charizard I ever had and it was a beast
– the reactions of several girl friends to skinning horses in Red Dead Redemption – from ‘omg this is disgusting turn it off’ to ‘omg this is awesome hand me the controller’
– finishing the first DBZ game on PS2, oh man that was awesome
ahhhh nostalgia lets go all the way back
Decking our a large ship with nothing but hardpoints loaded with hellfire missiles ini SSI interceptor
Multiplayer worms with my brother
The first time taking cover in an fps didn’t work as halflife soldiers lobbed nades at you
Completing the damn cat bubble water level thing in earth worm jim
Beating the first river raid level for the first time
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What is important is if he is leaving his laptop with you. Is he?
Oh and have a nice and safe trip and stuff Bawble/Crabjiffy! lol
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He’s leaaaving, on a jet plaaane… dont know when he’ll be back agaiiin!
Unless of course hes already booked his return flight.
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Now’s your chance to practice LoL heaps without him knowing. Then when he gets back, challenge him to a ‘practice’ match mid-only and wipe the floor with him.
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I’ve had to bribe approximately 5637 heralds in AssRev – that comic is so true 😛
(Seriously, nobody notices when they say exactly the opposite to what they were just shouting about after some shady guy came and handed them a bag of coins?)
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I want to complain about the heralds in AssRev! There aren’t enough of them around! I miss the wanted posters.
Although its awesome that when you bribe them, they chuckle to themselves, cough, and change topics.
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It has potential, but the way it’s been implemented is pretty hard to enjoy.
I end up just flooding the rooftops with soldiers, and it becomes less about tactics and more just spamming.
Then for some inexplicable reason the final boss unit is just about impossible to beat without 1000 riflemen.
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I did the 3 needed for the assassin’s guild challenge and hope I never have to do it again. Hell, I’d prefer to lose the den defence and just have to rekill the captain/ignite tower.
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You are so right about the ram thingies being ridiculously hard to stop. I did a den defense earlier tonight where I had several fully upgraded barricades and a bunch of riflemen, and it plowed through them like they were nothing.
Of course, then I learned I could use my gun repeatedly on it to deal some extra damage, but that first try was horrifyingly bad.
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You didn’t try using the cannon?
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OMG! Dreamworld was epic funs 😀 Best day evar!
Also the newest ride The Buzzsaw is really awesome. Check it out xD
More SWTOR beta codes if you missed out (400,000 available)
http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/323/index/8705776&lf=8
Skyrim peeps! Have a perk calculator.
http://au.ign.com/builds/the-elder-scrolls-5-skyrim/create?
that moment where you realise that you’ve just spend 3 hours playing minecraft on android without achieving… ANYTHING… but at least I HAD FUN doing nothing…
oh for those that hadn’t realised, an early minecraft demo build is out for android (and possibly iphone i suppose :P)
herro all
been missing you all for a couple of days 🙁
been at home sick like violently ill…i blame trying to brew mead in my stomach
@sughly i dont know if your game is meant to scare anyone but i had nightmares man… nightmares… and thats odd for me games never normally bother me. but im crazy
oh yeah fun fact: its incredibly stupid and ignorant to point a fake black cap gun at a group of “wankers” while they constantly berate and abuse you when you are driving. its also illegal and will end up with police pointing there not so fake guns at you in a car park and putting you in handcuffs for 30 minutes in the middle of said open air car park. that was my tuesday night if you dont believe me thats fine im sure there is some news article about it somewhere in canberra.*
*havent checked.
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this happened to you?
Haha a few friends of mine did something similar pretending to hijack their own car on the freeway. The cops found out real quick and if my mated hadn’t turned off the freeway when they did they would have ran into a police blockade that was waiting for them.
Cops tracked them down and they only just managed to talk their way out of it. A few weeks later a story comes up on the news about a bunch of people using a fake gun for a student film, they all got arrested.
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Dude you are a fscking bad-ass! I tip my hat to you sir. Except I don’t wear hats, so I’ll tip my beanie to you sir.
been watching the batman animated series and oh my god i love it. so far the funniest episode has been “jokers favor”. actually thats the one i just finished .
oh and the joker is awesome. that is all
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Oh, I was watching some of that on DVD earlier this month! Although they don’t seem to be selling anything past the first volume in Australia, which is a shame.
The episode I liked the most was the Christmas one, where the Joker kidnapped a few people and made Batman run around the city trying to find him, only to ultimately hit him in the face with a pie and burst out laughing at him. It was so unexpected, I couldn’t stop laughing. Loved it.
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yeah they dont sell any seasons after the first in Aus…you can get the box sets from overseas i think. it seems every character has an introduction but robin he just randomly pops in every now and then
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New Question! Is it possible in Battlefield 3 for a suiciding buggy with 6 C4 in the front of it to kill 2 tanks that are side by side? If not, what about a jet with 6 C4 on the nose Kamikazing?
So, it looks like I’m here again, another early morning, another nonsensical post.
So, how ya been?
Oh yeah, that’s good, how about, uhhh, that weather?
Yeah, been a bit weird, I’ll agree. No, no, I haven’t had a thunderstorm too recently, well, there was one last week, I know because there was a huge influx of Asthma cases at TCH. What? That’s not a bizarre connection to make, believe me.
Speaking of bizarre connections, I have to say, Rocketman gave an absolute hum-dinger as to the “true” identity of Plainview. Many laughs were had, believe me. And while I’m discussing the good Plain of View, may I say that I care not about his identity, for his true nature is a conundrum that is best left unanswered, even if you can spot a few discrepancies from multiple weeks ago.
On to a different point, Shane, I really do intend to write a review of The Lesser Evil, I’m just really, really, slack, and other, less word intensive things keep appearing. Or more word intensive, but hardly any that are at the exact same level of word intensity. “Such as,” you ask? Well, I finished Inheritance the other day, good book, rounded up the story, but left a million and one unanswered questions, as it should. Now though, I am reading “Snuff” because who can say no to The honourable Professor Sir Terry Pratchett? Well, many people I imagine, but I shall choose to ignore them, particularly as I am not part of that group.
But what about games? Oh, well I guess this is a gaming website after all, I’ve been playing Skyrim, and wow, this game really is fantastic. I mean, don’t get me wrong, it has its fair share of problems, but I can look past them so easily, so they may as well not matter! For example, I found a headless horseman recently. I’ll let you think about that for a second. What? You think that’s unimpressive? Well excuse me, Princess, I guess I’ll go fight two dragons. See who’s more impressed then!
What? Did I mention dragons? Hoo, boy, have I got a story for you:
Screw Dark Souls, particularly that dragon. Seriously, it can die in a fire.
That’s my story. I think it’s pretty cool, not as cool as Bish or Tracey’s cool story’s though, but I guess that’s just what I have to live with. But seriously, I was wondering, why do I only ever seem to die again when I have a very large number of souls missing? I swear the game is taunting me. My RPG mentality tells me to horde the souls like there’s no tomorrow, but then I try that, and I get one hit by something that usually does no damage, and then walk off a cliff as I attempt to traverse the fifteen metres of procumbent ground between myself and my corpse.
I hate that game. But I think I’ll restart it, try a different character, maybe one that has less of a problem with dying the moment an enemy so much as looks at them.
Probably more like my Skyrim character, who is as tanky as I could get him.
Different games, different styles, different hours, probably the same.
Given the similarities in hours, I figure I may as well mention the last time I did this. Seriously guys, what the hell? I refuse to re-read what I write(that would be like looking at myself in the mirror for more than 3 seconds, a major no-no), so I can’t really comment on its contents(except I’m sure that they made little sense), but all you people with all your stories, and making each other feel good, it sickens me. Well, not all of you, just most of you. I think you know who you are. Ok, I’m hoping you know who you are, because I don’t. Everything written was like saccharin to me, a sweet moment, but filled with an aftertaste you just can’t seem to get rid of. My life in a nut-shell, as it were. Still, I can hardly fault any of you, so I guess it’s back to blaming me, which is a very large change from the norm, as I’m sure you’re all well aware.
But enough about me, let’s talk about me.
No, wait, that’s not very interesting, let’s talk about something else.
How about something of mine? Do you care? Who knows? Well, I imagine you do, so I guess that should say “you do,” but that doesn’t really roll off the tongue so well. My thus far unnamed story will continue, at some point in the future, but who can know when I’ll next be in the right mood? I meant to work harder on it for NaNoWriMo, but then I didn’t, which is probably the second coolest story in this post, quite a feat really. It’s honestly incredible that I have the time to write anything productive when I’m so overwhelmed with chronicling such tales as this.
And, to be honest, that’s all I really have to say. Well, that’s a complete lie, there’s much more I could say, though I imagine it would bore you even more than whatever I’ve typed here, for instance, did you know that experts expect Warfarin to be phased out of use over the next few years? Apparently there are other ways of managing blood coagulation that are easier and equally effective. The more you know, right? But you don’t care for things like that, and, if you do, then you probably have a problem. Not that I’m one to judge. No, really, it’s okay, I’m not judging you, I’m just a little concerned, that’s all. Really, that’s all.
Oh, yes, now I remember. Not that anyone will have read this far, but I made a promise to a certain James M. I’m not going to say which one, but I think we all know that I’m talking about JamesMacUsedMyHandle. But I won’t really say who, that would be spoiling.
You see, I made this promise, and I’ll need to either live up to it, or renege on this deal, so, I ask for a volunteer. Come one, come all, and so on. What do I want with you? Well, let’s test your memory, or your guessing skills here, but all I want is someone with no shame, and for them to be willing to sing. Small requirements really. It’s not like shame ever helped anyone, not really, anyway. Trust me, I’m a doctor.
Not a very good one, sure, but still a doctor. It says so on this nametag I made, so it must be true.
Speaking of nametags, I just remembered clothes, so, Strange, since I’m sure you’ll have read this, the all seeing eye, and all that, would you be able to send me an email of what measurements you wanted for the dug-out coat? I do appear to have misplaced where I didn’t write down what you wanted, and now I just feel silly.
And…
And…
And, that’s all we have time for tonight, folks, tune in next week where I attempt to explain exactly what seven-hundred thousand ED presentations could mean, and make some more inane comments for nobody to read. I’ve been your host, and until next time, cheese.
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I mean this from the bottom of my heart. You need to see someone about your chronic insomnia it looks like it makes you really verbose and non sensical(i actually understood it all.)
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Dan’s Meat: Sydneysiders Revenge
Part 1
So, it’s Friday. Friday. Go to get down, on Friday.
Every body is looking forward to the weekend (weekend) especially we, the “Three Musketeers”.
Today, once work is over, we 3 shall meet and begin festivities with mead and merry making until late in to the night. Possibly as late as 9 of the pm. Who knows.
My bathroom scales assure me that my bag doesn’t weigh more than 7KG, but my shoulder begs to differ. “What’s in there?” you ask? –
I brought all manner of novelties with me! My “Fighting Stick” that we may joust spectacularly should a tourney happen, and a wallet of discs; some anime for Sughly and Jimu to enjoy as well as games we might play.
Anyone for my rocketship Little Big Planet level?
Also some clothes, should the ones I’m wearing become soiled.
It happens.
Currently my day is off to a great start. I bought a white chocolate and raspberry muffin on the way to work only to realise, too late, that he had given me a chocolate one. I had to go back, and explain the difference. He then gave me an Orange and Poppy seed one…
Stay tuned for more updates! Film at eleven!
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Should possible have mentioned that “we 3” are Shiggy, Pez and myself.
Bet you’re glad I cleared THAT up!
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I was hanging on the edge of my seat in suspense of the mystery!
I literally nearly fell off, and not because because I wasn’t looking where I was going to sit when I sat down, hah hah hah.
Also, you should film Shiggy an Pez on the plane.
“Are we going the right way?”
“What, I don’t know, I’m not driving. And thankfully you’re not navigating.”
“What are you talking about? My directions are the best.”
“Your directions are like your face. It should shut up.”
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I’m so jealous guys! Have a safe trip, Doc be sure to document and capture all bromantical moments on film. Wish I could’ve joined you guys.
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@Sughly, don’t take that as a no, take it as a “Oh, he must have gone out 15 minutes after posting that, spent the rest of the afternoon out shopping, then proceeded to play NFS: The Run for the rest of the day.” 😛
I’m super serious about making a platformer with you 🙂
I mean, how hard can it be? 😛
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Yaaaaay! Awesome! Nahhhh, it will be a piece of cake! Although… making cakes is effing hard, man.
You know what’s sad? I saw AssCreeRev and Halo Anniversary for sale at my local EBGames last monday without realising that they were actually on sale…
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Oh, don’t feel so bad. To be fair, it doesn’t cost you anything to get the card, and the bright orange-ness really brightens up your wallet!
I got one and I highly doubt it will be used for much. But seriously, my wallet looks so much happier now.
You know what i think it is nearly impossible for me to hate any music. If i listen to a song i dislike about 3 times i can find a part of it i like. In fact i challenge you guys to find a song i will hate!
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I play that song every friday.afternoon at work. Its catchy and makes me laugh whats not to like!
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Ohhh, so that’s why your boss pranked you with that male escort, and with the glee mouse. I don’t blame him 😛
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Black Eyed Peas – Time of My Life
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Dirty Bit!
Sorry Bish but they played this song every night on the cruise and it grows on you.
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You like me admit it!
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The tension between you two, it’s amazing.
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Are you kidding. Firstly she is amazingly beautiful so even if the song was bad i wouldn’t care. Plus the chorus is so catchy i was singing it all day last friday. Bubble bubble bubble pop.
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I was bitching about that song on team speak. Rocketman listened to it and enjoyed it.
I think we need a new angle here.
So I just got a message from my Bioware forums account and in said message bioware has sent me a SWTOR beta code!
I’m just going to assume that it is for the one that I already have a beta code for. Bad news for me, good news for TAYbies. Anyone who wants a free SWTOR beta code throw (or sending works to) an email to me at JesseChristian(at)internode(dot)on(dot)net
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It was all a trick wasn’t it Harli? You hacked the Bioware forums just to send me a trick email knowing that I would post it on TAY thus releasing my email which has my email. Well played miss Harli …
well played.
*shakes fist*
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LOL you give me way too much credit Nobshot. That’s just too clever for me.
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and now playing dumb to lose all the suspicion
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criminal mastermind!
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Waitwaitwaitwaitwait, wait… wait…
Your name…. Is Jes’ Christ’!?
IT’S THE SECOND COMING PEOPLE!!! DUCK & COVER!!!
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The funny thing is, where I would I’m required to initial everything.
So when people see my work they say something along the lines of …
“HOLY **** Jesus did this!”
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Just rocked up to work and noticed the new girl was at her desk. Working. A half hour early. I on the other hand I am 5 minutes late at my desk. Eating fruit loops.
Oh the enthusiasm of youth. Strangely though I can’t remember a time where I was ever like that…
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But the question is, will she leave a half hour early? That’s what I do. Most people here do 9-5, I work about 8-4. In theory. More often than not I get dragge back and work til 5 or 6. And then I get sad.
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But is she hot???
On the other hand i always am early, i just hate when people are late it irks me to no end. The can be stupid , unappreciative, ugly but if they are on time i don’t care. It comes from the fact that when i was a kid, i was getting ready to go to a friends house and i was dawdling. I was 5 minutes late and mum said she wasn’t going to take me there because i was late. It worked was never late for anything ever again! -
I gotta program myself to stop making mistakes, a crucial step in doing that restore task for a customer last night and I didn’t read it and in turn screwed it up. At least I didn’t knock out the server but still I hate screwing up -.-‘
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You know its prolly okay techy. I stuff up alot due to carelessness. Hell look at my poor grasp of grammar and spelling. As long as you learn it isn’t a mistake. Also i freaking hate that cliche’ but it really is true
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Don’t worry Techy everybody makes mistakes. After all you’re only huma- I mean, err, EVERYONE makes mistakes.
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Dear Aidan, fled and Ex-Pants,
During the Den Defence is AC:R you have use of a cannon. I’m not sure how you get it, or how to use it exactly, but there is a status bar in the top left that fills gradually. When 1 segment (out of 3) is red, you can fire the cannon… I think.
On PS3 I think it’s L2…
I’m not really sure, but you can pretty much 1-shot the battering ram in the introductory round.
Maybe you guys already knew that and later rounds are just far more difficult.
Kind regards,
– Effluvium Boy
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Oh, I see. I didn’t use the cannon in the tutorial den defense because there’s an achievement for not using it and taking no damage, so I never saw what the button for it is. A quick look at the game manual says its LB for the Xbox. So thanks for the advice, because the cannon had completely slipped my mind.
By the way, Ex-Pants. Awesome.
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Dear Flu,
Yeah, I’ve been using it a lot – it’s great for picking off groups of riflemen that kill the assassins on the rooftops.
But later den attacks have much stronger ending bosses (machine guns, Greek fire wagons) that take a long, long time to take down, even with the cannon. They basically make barricades pointless (they one-hit them) and you need to spam the rooftops with soldiers to take them down.
Sincerely,
Aidan
goooood morning good people of TAY…
i finally bit the proverbial bullet (actually i was eating chocolate bullets but i’ve been told it’s completely different?) and bought minecraft last night…
does anyone have mr. FatShady’s email address so that i may invade your server viking style (probably less rapy though)?
i’m keen to start messing around in there tonight
also…
how is everyone else? good? that’s good, that’s good *twirls thumbs*
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The server still isn’t up. Also, there is nothing wrong with invading our server rapey style – practically everyone has rape dungeons anyway.
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excellent… i didn’t know where the line went for that sorta thing… imma have some fun… and mine won’t be rape dungeon… BUT A RAPE SHIP… NAY A RAPE SUBMARINE… ideas coming to mind… also shame about the server, i wish i knew enough stuff to offer assistance, but alas i’m less use then a doorknob when it comes to that…
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air? farts? people? navy personel? Mead?
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In YOUR endo.
…someone had to say it.
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@NegativeZero – Those Ghibli br’s… man. Jealous. So much jealousy. You cant even begin to imagine the amount of jealousy I have right now. I magine something you were extremely jealous over, then multiply it by about 1000. that’s me right now.
Also people hate Ponyo!? WAT!? I dont really involve myself in anime communities, the only time I tried it was full of way too much ridiculousness. This just confirms that for me. Anyone dissing it is a fool who couldnt appreciate good filmmaking if it slapped them over the head. One of the most pure and accurate depictions of childhood friendship depicted in film… ever! Who can not love that!?
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Was Spirited Away the one with the spa house and the train tracks on water? I liked that one but I think Howls Moving Castle has been my favorite so far.
Also, does anyone else like Porco Rosso? Everyone else I’ve talked to about it didn’t like it.
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I don’t think I’ve seen Ponyo or Porco Rosso.
My favourite would have to be either Spirited Away or Nausicaa. I also really enjoyed Howl’s Moving Castle and Princess Mononoke.
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Porco Rosso and Ponyo are two of the best Ghiblis! GAH!
But yeah Spirited Away is amazing. Actually I found Howls to be the only Ghibli film Ive been bored by :/
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Hells yes.
Negative Zero, just wondering where you got them. I get my stuff from Amazon.co.jp but since they got rid of all the cheaper shipping options, sometimes the price is insane.
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This. I went with the UK versions just I just couldnt stomach paying 70-90 per film through amazon.jp.
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A massive thank you to those whom have already participated in phase 2 of the KKP.
We’re already off to a flying start and by the end if it i’m sure we’ll have a result we can all be proud of! 😀
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Hey Loops – sorry I’m a little delayed, will do that “thing” for thingie when I am home tomorrow morning 🙂
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das okayyy.. i don’t expect everyone to be on top of it straight away – everyone has a bit over a week anyway 😀 happy panda dance!
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Morning All. Have not really been around owing to work actually making me do things!
Still have not bought skyrim, but that may change this weekend if i can tear myself away from MW3 for a bit. Also thinking i need to get some Space Marine in.
Hugo and Pixel now have a theme song
http://staging.kotaku.com.au/2011/11/talk-amongst-yourselves-135/comment-page-14/#comments
FOR IT IS WRITTEN – SO IT SHALL BE SO!
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We have a ‘Surtur Rising’ flag in our bedroom at the moment and I noticed yesterday that it looks like my Skyrim character.
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Here are my plans for the weekend:
Go to NaNoWriMo write-in and hang out with writer buddies for a few hours. Go to the Brisbane meat and hang out with TAYbies for a few hours.
Sunday, set up my PC so that it outputs to my TV then laze on the couch watching MLG and the IPL4 qualifier (which will be awesome because all the European players not at MLG will be there, including White-Ra and Stephano).
Monday, resume position on couch, watch MLG finals. Aww yeah.
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I wonder if I should get my hands on SC1 and Brood War so that I can play through the campaign. It wouldn’t hurt to learn a little about the original, right? Seeing as I do so enjoy SC2 and have only played a handful of multiplayer games against friends who were equally inexperienced.
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i actually got the original discs laying around collecting dust, as i got the Collectors ED of 2, so if you want i can send them to you?
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FYI that’s 1 and Broodwar i got laying around, just send me an email on jacob[dot]didriksen[at]gmail[dot]com with your shipping details i shall send them to you
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alright well let me know, i’ll be happy to get rid of them, they’ve been collecting dust for a while, and i’d rather give them to a TAYbie then trade it in
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*looks around shifty eyes*
NO….. it’s… it’s a decoy… yeah that’s it, it’s a fake name… that i’ve taken… cause it sounded cool… cause everyone wants that name… unfortunately Charlie Sheen and Tom Cruise was already taken so i had to go for the second best… -
Pretty sure his name is “Swedish Chef from the Muppets”.
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I believe the Swedish Chef’s name is Tom.
Or something like that, I forget, it was a throwaway joke in a random sketch involving someone claiming to be a relative.
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Brood war is one of the greatest Multiplay experiences of my life – second only to Mech Warrior Gold
If I was drinking something I would have just spluttered all over my screen in shock reading that. You haven’t. played. brood. war.?!??!?!?!!??!
trjn, I am so disappoint.
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I have played BW, just not the campaign.
Or more than two or three games where we had no idea what the hell we were doing at a LAN cafe when we were bored with War3.
Sweet, so, Uncharted 3 isn’t loading on my PS3.
Apparently maybe the bluray drive is failing and just won’t read dual layer/high capacity discs.
I should be annoyed; PS3 slim, rarely used, 18 months old, already starting to fail, $75 (shiny) coaster. My friend has a launch 60GB model notorious for mad overheating, which still hasn’t kicked it. But I’m not annoyed. Too much effort.
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Ouch! My launch 60gb is still working great. Although everytime I get a new game I pray it doesn’t YLOD on me. It’s scary.
Hey guys – how long are the campains for Splinter Cell Double angent and Conviction?
I was thinking of blitzing through those this week.
I own the first 3 as well, but haven’t played them yet – will i need to for understanding?
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there’s a bit of background stuff in the originals that might help, i’ve played Pandora Tomorrow and Chaos theory, but never really felt i needed to play number 1 to understand what was going on… i’ve started to play conviction without playing double agent but it gives a good overview of what happened in the beginning… if anything play the originals to bond more with the characters i suppose
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wow i don’t think i could have been anymore inconclusive if i wanted to there :P….
long story short no you don’t need to play them to understand what’s going on… it’s more if you want to appreciate the significance of certain events then it’ll help to play them-
That said, if you play from Chaos Theory onwards, you’ll pretty much understand what’s happening.
All the games up to Chaos Theory establish Sam Fisher is damn good at what he does.
Double Agent changes things up a bit, and Conviction refers to events in Double Agent. But it recaps most of the stuff anyway.
If you have the time, play from Chaos Theory onwards (inclusive, the first 2 might have aged a bit, but Chaos Theory is still pretty decent), but if you want to blast through them, heck, you could just play Conviction and get the gist of everything, really.
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Free SWTOR beta code, just sent to me on the Bioware forums (but I already had one from yesterday).
GJVB-SW45-G6XQ-JFK2
Just enter it here (you’ll need a SWTOR account) http://www.swtor.com/redeembetacode/
@Shane: If you’re reading this, let me know if you’re still interested in that Uncharted 3 ring you mentioned earlier this week.
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YES PLEASE!
Shoot me an email (shane AT shanewsmith.com) and I will respond tonight! Or can email you if preferred. We’ll sort out a fair payment and/or trade scheme!
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OK, I’ve sent you an email. I’ve actually got it here with me at work today so if you get back to me with your address in the next hour or two then I could mail it at lunchtime today, otherwise I’ll send it on Monday.
I don’t want anything for it – I didn’t pay anything for it and in all honesty it’s not that fancy a ring anyway 😛 I might as well give it to you otherwise it’ll just end up another useless piece of clutter filling up my house and gathering dust or getting lost anyway.
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Regardless of level of fanciness, you could’ve got $60 for it on eBay. Yes, $60. There will be recompense of some sort, I swear to the gods of metal.
Alas, my email is a home-based one to which I have no access at the moment, but Monday will be okay. Thanks again!
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Ojhh thanks for giving the heads up. Hot local girl looking for hook up. How can i pass on that one!
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Did I tell you guys Warrior is an amazing film? Caus it is. You should all be watching it before it ends at the cinema.
Also, if you have seen it, try listening to this and not cry manly tears – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sb3BkvsUXDk
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I saw Drive last weekend. Great, great movie. Not quite what I was expecting, though – I was expecting more car chases and less blood 😛 But yeah, top-notch movie.
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Yesss! EVERYONE says its not what they expected… which is kind of expected, the way they promote films these days. They try to do anything to obscure the way films are until it resembles what the marketing team decide is more sellable. Bleh.
Hate trailers these days. The ones for Warrior and Drive are both hugely misleading.
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Well I didn’t actually see the trailer before seeing the movie (and still haven’t seen the trailer) so I can’t really comment on that. It’s just from the reviews I read and the general premise for the film, I thought it’d be more car-chase-y than it actually was. It’s not really a huge-budget movie, though, and I guess big car chases aren’t cheap.
Still a great movie, though – I certainly felt I got my money’s worth out of it.
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lol! Yeah, you got me.
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For sure! Both are must-see-at-the-cinema-for-full-effect films. Man, listening to that song and thinking about the ending to Warrior… just incredible stuff.
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Shhhhh! Dont tell everyone, man!
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I feel your pain!
Ordered it from JBonline along with a few seasons of The Wire on tues and they haven’t even posted it yet, 2 business days delivery my butt!
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Only just finished season 1…living under a rock I know!
Might have to rewatch it again while i wait, maybe without subtitles this time and see if it makes any sense.
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Niiiice! You have an amazing show ahead of you! Keep in mind the majority os season 2 is the show at its slowest. It might seem like its not really going anywhere, but it builds up to something special. then season 3, 4, and 5 are the show at its best.
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slack day, whats everyone up to this weekend,i have to work then i will be bored at home till i discover something to do!
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Just got word that I will need to work tomorrow.
This mostly sucks because this weekend was supposed to be Skyrim love weekend 🙁
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Making Some alcoholic sorbet for a party next weekend, and probably gaming, plus the weekly skype with my partner, who is overseas doing a masters degree. Plus my constant flirting with Bish on teamspeak 🙂
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No items.
Jax only.
Summoner’s Rift.
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A ginger Playing LOL? Its unheard of! but yes it happens 🙂
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bawble! is now at the Sydney international airport on a Qantas flight leaving any minute to the skies and across the seas to Hong Kong. *sadface* And he took his laptop. I snagged my flatmate’s old desktop though, but some components aren’t properly installed after reformatting the hard disk & I would greatly appreciate if anyone could help me fix it so I can play LoL at the very least.
At the very least I got 3 Subway cookies at the airport (3 for $2.5!) and I’m going out to buy Skyrim later today. \o/ Then my good friend is heading from Canberra to visit me over this weekend before she heads back to Hong Kong as well.
Sydney TAYbies: please ensure there will be lots of meats taking place during summer. THANK YOU!!
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DAWDLE PLACE MEAT
Where we fix her computer.
Don’t suppose you know the specs?
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I agree with this, it will answer the question How many TAYbies does it take to fix a computer
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Oh, I’m not going to help with that. I’m just going there to clean her kitchen and raid her pantry.
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I read that as “raid her panties”.
You disgust me Bish….
I’m so proud of you!
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You cannot UNSEE!
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RE: Bish
I’m not sure that’s a very good idea. Unless you are friends with cockcroaches. They keep breeding even the kitchen is nice and tidy!
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It’s actually at bawble’s place now coz I’m moving out soonish and I doubt I can lug around a desktop that easily myself.
Hi dawdle, I would love to head over to yours and ‘fix’ your computer ‘parts’ if you know what I mean.
Don’t know where those apostrophes came from.
Dawdle it sounds like you just need to install drivers but don’t know what the components are. This might help – I used it to identify components in a mate’s computer when he decided he needed windows xp reinstalled and lost all his driver cd’s.
Unless you have windows 7 – it seems to find all the drivers automatically. It’s magic! *_*
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I tried using software to figure out what drivers I needed, but they all require internet in the first place. Gah! Will this one require internet from the start?
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It will to download it in the first place, but other than that I don’t remember it needing an active connection.
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There are a few programs that can find the drivers, but the last one I used decided to give me a whole heap of russian porn at the same time, so I dont trust any of them any more
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don’t ever trust “driver finders”, they just look… not nice… i use PC-Wizard myself at work to audit the hardware on the computer and then just go to the manufacturers website and download the drivers
RE specs:
It’s a ASUS PG5C-MX motherboard, Intel Core 2 CPU 4400 @ 2GHZ, 2 GM RAM.
Not sure about the other specs because the whole PC was custom built.
In the Hardware Manager from the Control Panel, it says that these are not installed:
– ethernet controller
– PCI device
– SM bus controller
– unrecognised device
– video card
– video card (VGA compatibie)
I mainly want to get the first one fixed so I can get internet.
Windows and other stuff is running fine.
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Did you have the motherboard drivers cd? It should have installed the driver for the Ethernet controller (I’m assuming it’s just on-board?)
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I tried downloading the drivers yesterday onto my USB flash drive, but the Windows hardware drivers program won’t allow me to directly install from the flash drive, or do I just unzip and open the setup directly from the file and ignore the hardware driver setup?
I’m so confused.
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Ignore the windows hardware wizard, unzip and run the manufacturers setup executable.
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Yesh.
Seems to be the Atheros folder.
There’s AsusSetup.exe, and setup.exe.
setup.exe seems to install the drivers directly, and AsusSetup booted me for not having the proper hardware, so I imagine that’s the more user friendly version or something.
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You can download a copy of Everest to find out what hardware is in the pc. or perhaps FreePCAudit. Once you get the network functioning, if you like I can remote in to the PC and fix everything else up for you!
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this is what i’d do:
download pc-wizard
http://majorgeeks.com/PC_Wizard_d3846.html
(or everest if you prefer that)
whack it on a USB drive as it can run of that
use it to scan the computer
find the manufacturer of the ethernet controller, get the driver off their website.
once that is done you can get the rest of the drivers from that machine cause you now have internetz…
but again that’s just what i’d do
Been talking to a friend over the NaNoWriMo forums over the last few days. We have each other on Facebook and each other’s phone numbers, this is surely the least efficient means of communicating we have available.
Yet we persist…
So you are only going to get “appearances” from certain characters if you get the Limited Edition Mass Effect 3!!?? For shame.
So, I got NFS:TR yesterday, got the NFS:TR chamois, but didn’t get the extra DLC. They seemed to have misplaced it, but told me to check back with them in a few days, they should have it by then. Other than that, everything went smooth.
Oh, it’s an awesome game if you didn’t know.
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lol, it gives you a bit of time to push the buttons. You have to hit the buttons a few times though until some vague glowwy thing gets big enough and the button icon disappears.
I’ve already finished the first few stages (made up of maybe 5 events each?) and have only encountered one of those things, right at the beginning, just before the first ‘race’.
They also got rid of those indestructible fences on the sides of the roads, so if your not careful enough, you could smash into someone’s front yard and crash into their tree…also, stay away from the side of the road when driving on mountains 😛-
Oh cool so no more indestructible fences? That’s pretty neat.
Yeah I keep bringing my above comment up cuz of all the things EA could showcase at E3 they showcased the QUICKTIME CUTSCENE! 😛
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Hahaha, yeah. It’s really not that bad though. Makes the intro cutscene better (It’s pretty good all on it’s own though)
But yeah, I suppose they were trying to show how the game was more story based, because they needed a way to make it stand out from other racing games.
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http://staging.kotaku.com.au/2011/11/talk-amongst-yourselves-135/comment-page-14/#comment-444920
Just a post bump for my reply!
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Repost in case you missed it – You can download a copy of Everest to find out what hardware is in the pc. or perhaps FreePCAudit. Once you get the network functioning, if you like I can remote in to the PC and fix everything else up for you!
Just a reminder about the TAYbies ID list!
Shoot me an email (if you haven’t already) at:
cronotriggr[at]hotmail[dot]com
and make sure to include your TAY handle as well as your Steam/PS3/360 ID.
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I endorse this action. Ive been too lazy to add the majority of ppl to my live account. Will be doing a mass add once its up 😀
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my xbl account is just the same as here, buggered if i can remember my steam one though. will dig it up when i get home.
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Eventually i may shoot you an email, buts its easier to put here (and i’m lazy)
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Havent listened to them yet i plan to tonight. I am not a huge metal head it all sounds kinda samey to me but i can still enjoy the music. So a bad metal vs good metal maybe lost on me. The heaviest stuff i really enjoy is really things like metallica. But we will see what you can throw at me!
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This song does not qualify as “metal” by any valid definition and metal is one of the most diverse music genres :p
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look i have heard 10 year old girls sing hey ya 15 times in a row at a wedding reception. Nothing you can throw at me will phase me. I also listen to and enjoy hard dubstep which i am sure most people hate. I have even listened to several hours worth of new country music which is way worse then old country and i tolerated it.
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I don’t think you quite comprehend what you’re in for here.
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probably not but it will give me a chance to test my grandpa’s theory that there are only two types of music “good and bad.”
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Your grandpa is correct, it’s just your ability to judge if music is good or bad that is clearly broken :p
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Meh if people make music, some people are bound to like it somewhere
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Oh god, I made the mistake of clicking that link *cuts eyes and ears off*
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how do you cut your eyes off?
I think we should ask Freyr she will know!
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I think what I linked will confuse and confound you :p
So After a week of nursing my sore back, and making it worse by going to a music festival, I went for a massage and accupuncture… so I’ve gone to move my hand off the table so that it can relax my back, and accidentally moved it in to the Guys crotch! Embarassing right!
It was even worse that he had an erection! what does one say in that situation?
I apologised for getting him in the crotch (quite embarrassed like) and he laughed it off and said it was fine.
Discuss… :p
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Hahahaha all of my girlfriends and boyfriends must be informed that I am Ginger, and a damn dirty bisexual before meeting me, After “The Incident” I’ve had to make sure I’m up front on those areas.
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Apparently Gingers are the devil, and bisexuals are an abomination, but thats a story for another day
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I haven’t heard that one .
But i guess he can browse the menu even though he has already ordered!
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a friend told me an even better one;
“doesn’t matter what gets the engine revving, just as long as they park the car at home”
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You should have heard the conversation after you left teamspeak :p
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Were they talking about me behind my back cause i wish they would do that instead of saying it to my face!
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So–y i- co–dnt h–r you -roug- -l- th- -ag
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we would never talk about you behind your back.
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Gahhh!
That is annoying…
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I heard that on the radio this morning…
imma do the australian thing and abbreviate your sentence… here goes:
“So After a week of nursing my sore…. Guys crotch!”
done
@BDKIAF – is your gravatar from a James Bond spoof animation? The DVD caught my eye the other day, I’d never heard of it before. But it looked good! Tell me more… inform me! Go!
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Archer! I’m actually a little surprised you’ve never seen it, considering your superior taste in film and television. I’m not really sure how to sell it to you though, other than just telling you to watch an episode. Also, it shares some cast members from Arrested Development, so there’s that.
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I’ve seen it a couple of times, And I like it 🙂 its more for the ones who like the twisted stuff 🙂
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Oh well, if nothing else, I’ve demonstrated that some lighthearted trolling can eventually change the content published on a website.
#phyrricvictory
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I wouldn’t call it trolling, it was just a fun in-joke for us.
Although a few other commenters were getting real sick of it by the end, I don’t think they got the joke. -
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it’s a conspiracy man, considering Tracey was the first to get it… they’re cheating i’m telling ya 😛
I got a couple of shirts made today!
Have a look
http://i44.tinypic.com/2vn0w85.jpg
#TrialsEvolutionFanboy
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Fats, sometimes I wonder what you did with yourself before Trials came along. I imagine a lost little lamb, wandering the Earth, knowing that there was something it was looking for, but it wouldnt know until it found it.
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You need a shirt with the ‘real’ trials guy on it:
http://edge.alluremedia.com.au/m/k/2011/07/Trials-mystery.png
YAY I’m using the ol’ desktop PC to get on TAY now! \o/
INTERWEBZ!!!!!
Thanks Bish, Steve-O, and Pixel Ferret!
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You know, if yous two really are going to film it for, uh, scientific purposes – I’m pretty handy with a camera! I studied photography at school and I am well-researched in the subject matter 😛
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Don’t look at me with love in your eyes Harli…
Hehe, I’m guessing next KvK you wanna be against me?
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Harli mid vs Steve-O? 😛
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Haha I could just imagine that a few mins into the game
“bot mia”
“top mia”
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Whole team appears mid
“Steve-O has been slain”
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Bahahaha yeah xD
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You know you got a good punchline for kills.
“You just got shot in the nob!”
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hmm I’ve always been a fan of
“oh dat …”
maybe I can make my catchphrase
“oh dat nobhead”
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Steve-O Has Scored A Penta-Kill!*
*Fixed
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YOU. ME. BARON. NOW.
etc.etc.
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http://www.exciters-exodus.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/internet-hi5.jpg
Thought you guys could use this.
I was going to include a picture for an internet group hug, but google provided some NSFW pictures. I don’t think I’ll try that again.
welcome… sorry if my instructions were obscure but i do this stuff all the time so it becomes second nature and i skip a few steps 😛
Things i’d like to see #1274
Masterchef using gamer terms
“This sauce is OP’d – it needs to be nerfed”
“All your Bologna are belong to us”
“This cake looks great – but ultimately, it was a lie”
“WTF was that, n00b?!”
“That lasagne just pnwned EVERYONE!”
“That dressing was 1337”
Just bought the Starcraft Battlechest. There are strategy guides and tech trees!
Why can’t more games have this stuff in the box?
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Because they learned that people will fork out extra $$ for these, even after buying the collector’s editions.
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Or they discovered that people put that stuff up all over the internet in free guides, so figured they’d save the paper?
Damn you basic ecological principles!
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I specifically said no oninons and olives and they put on HEAPS of olives and a little bit of onions.
I swear that asian girl that was serving the salads was trolling.
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mmmm, double choc
/drools
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@Effluvium Boy regarding AC:R Den Defence, in response to http://staging.kotaku.com.au/2011/11/talk-amongst-yourselves-135/comment-page-14/#comment-444552
Posted here for not-the-most-recent-page-ness
For people concerned about AC:R spoilers, there’s no story information – this is just about a minigame the game can force on you every now and again.
I tended to spam L2 (and square [pistol], probably for minimal effect!) for some of the later siege vehicles because as Aidan said, they just one-shot barricades and roll on through. In general found the den defence to not be the assassin’s creed fun I was looking for.
I like the experience the first brought to the table – Altaïr personally getting into the location of the target, needing to sneak about. To be honest, I liked that doing the optional side missions in the first gave you more info about the target, the location, the defence.
Den defence seems to almost be the opposite of the parts I enjoy – you’re not sneaking about, trying to infiltrate – you’re standing in plain view on a roof. And in my experience, I don’t think Ezio is ever in any personal danger of being attacked? You’re not trying to get close enough to make the kill(s) yourself – the most you can personally interact directly with the enemy is the insta-kill-from-anywhere hidden pistol, and the cannon thing.
It’s probably worth noting that I don’t tend to enjoy tower defence games.
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They force you to do a shitty tower defense minigame? Crap 🙁
Remember when Assassin’s Creed was about being a (lone) assassin and assassinating people and maybe sometimes solving an elaborate Prince of Persia-style jumping puzzle? 🙁
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Oh wow, totally forgot to mention <3 for some of the climbing bits. There was one location in AC2… I forget the name of it. A quick google suggests it might be "Basilica di San Marco".
Climbing that was awesome!
AC2 is probably my favourite in the AC series (I have never got into the mp)… it's a shame they carved out those two sequences as DLC.
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With the cost of hard drives as they are, thought i’d share this.
got a 2TB WD green drive for $120.
Compared to other prices i have seen, this was a good deal. If you can get better don’t tell me because i already bought it… here is the linky.
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Apparently the stockpiling of extra stock which caused the price hike was a bit too much of a knee-jerk, the demand hasn’t gone up as they expected and so they’ve ended up with too much surplus, which they’ll need to start dumping quickly once production starts to come back online again.
So wait a month or two and prices are probably going to tank.
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Next time you buy computer gear, keep this site in mind:
It’s pretty much a google for tech gear in australia, ordered by price, and you can filter by state with e.g. state:wa
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Don’t most “green” drives have terrible write speeds? I know mine does, I bought a similar sized one for a similar price a while ago because it was so cheap and the damned thing is slow as buggery.
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they’re certainly not up to par with Caviar Blacks or Sammy Spinpoint drives, but they’re fine for mass storage.
only problem I’ve heard of is the WD Green drives used to have a tendency to “fall out” of RAID configurations, but I’m pretty sure that was a while back, so I would hope that had been fixed.
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Hurrah! Sughly liked his story! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZBcPIDKyCw
Archer is so good!! NSFW: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9x6KApzgtjU
If you like Arrested Development or the Adult Swim cartoons then you’ll love Archer; very, very funny.
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Plainview! *waves enthusiastically*
Youre story was more than good. It was VERY good! I didnt just enjoy it. I REALLY enjoyed it! I should really do another Plainview drawing soon…
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Yeah… (rot13 time!) fnj gur Ulqen va gur qvfgnapr naq n ohapu bs pelfgny tbyrzf fgnegrq punetvat zr.
So I got the shit out of there 😀
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Fbhaqf yvxr lbh gbbx gur ‘frperg’ ghea-bss gb gur evtug, tbvat gb Qnexebbg Onfva? Lbh pna pbagvahr ba nybat gur cngu nybat gur pyvss sbe n ovg sbe n frpgvba jvgu yrff nqqrq ulqen/pelfgny tbyrzf. Lbh fubhyq trg gb n perfg ba n qbbe gung lbh cebonoyl pna’g bcra – gurer’f n obasver arne urer, V pna tvir orggre qrgnvyf vs lbh jnag. Gurer’f nyfb n cngu gb gur evtug bs guvf perfg-qbbe.
I BANISH THEE, NYARLATHOTEP!
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Nu gung’f jurer gung Zbgu obff vf lrnu? Gung’f jurer V’z urnqrq arkg V erpxba. V’yy gnxr fbzr gvzr gb orrs hc orsber tbvat hc ntnvafg gubfr pelfgny tbyrzf ntnva.
YOU WILL HEED THE WORDS OF THE CRAWLING CHAOS, THE MAD GOD AZATHOTH!!
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Lrnu, gung obff vf gung jnl… gurer ner ab pelfgny tbyrzf, ohg fbzr bgure hu… sha arj sevraqf.
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YAAAAAAYY FUN!!
Oh wait…
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Oh haha, nope it’s not that either. I named my dude ‘Guts’ after Berserk.
Still trying to find an epic enough sword to wield though. -
Gur Terngfjbeq bs Negbevnf vf cebonoyl gur orfg vs lbh unir gur fgngf ohg V hfrq gur Oynpx Xavtug fjbeq sbe zbfg bs gur tnzr.
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Lrnu V tbg n Oynpx Xavtug fjbeq nsgre xvyyvat bar bs gur Qnex Jenvguf (gnxra bhg nobhg 3 fb sne, srryf njrfbzr fvapr V jnf fb fuvgfpnerq bs gurz vavgvnyyl) naq gur Mjrvunaqre ohg V’z ynpxvat gur fgeratgu gb jvryq rvgure evtug abj. Ybbxf yvxr V unir fbzr tevaqvat gb qb url?
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Ybbxf yvxr vg, jung yriry ner lbh?
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Haha prob not.
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Ze Drake sword is pretty good around that level, or the halberd if you upgrade it.
Doctor Who movie directed by David Yates… I read that and cried a little bit.
The 8th Doctor movie was bad enough, but this is scary.
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/movies/doctor-who-on-the-big-screen-20111116-1nj3p.html
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Damn you Hollywood!
Hopefully this will be one of those films that never ends up getting made.
HI EVERYBODY
sadly working evenings all week is taking its toll on me and my LoL ability, so I decided to just do a beginner bot match with Kog’Maw.
Man. He OP, yo. I got 31/3/9, and that’s partly because I (got bored and jungled to let the others level for a bit, also turret dived twice because again, was killing too many doods). Longest killing spree 18! Geez, why isn’t he played more??
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Yeah I have just this week found Kog’Maw to be friggin awesome.
His main problem though is that he’s really squishee, like on par with cait squishee and has basically no escape mechanic. I think Kog’maw is the ranged carry I’ve been looking for though.
That said, he harasses like a boss …
Last hit minions, if enemy comes close E+Q(If they’re plose enough)+W and you can almost take them down no sweat.
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I’m still trying to work out who should be my next champion, if I keep playing.
Or I could just focus on making my Morgana godlike.
Or play SC.
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*puts monocle on*
I think Kog’Maw and Teemo exist in strange places. Kog’Maw’s classed as a carry, Teemo isn’t, but their defining feature in terms of damage output is Attack Speed. And with high attack speed, to compliment these two’s DoTs and on hit damage effects, you build further on-hit items.
A problem with this late game is that you have no sustain. Look at Tryndamere players, look at Caitlyn and Miss Fortune; they get scratched and they can heal right up because usually they have a Bloodthirster. Going full AD is a big no-no on Teemo (although I personally think it has its uses), and I don’t think I’ve seen it on Kog, so you get minimal benefit of lifesteal on either. It’s not necessary, but if you’re low on health, it’s frustrating walking into teamfights knowing that they can take you down faster than they normally would. On-hit effects don’t proc spell vamp, so that’s out.
Certainly, as Kog is a Carry, you should be the last one in and first one out of teamfights, but you’re just squishier than your already squishy nature.
Even if you surprise them, you lose that advantage quickly because once you hit 2.0 AS you quite literally have to stand still and auto-attack. Usually the others can move around a smidge before getting back to it, but you can’t. It’s a flat trade-off between damage output and survivability, I suppose, and in that regard, very team dependant.…I am mostly pulling this out of my arse, so I will stop.
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Yeah Kog’Maw I can almost kill in 2 shots and in one ulti onslaught when I’ve got geared up Kennen usually, the main thing you worry about is the corpse bomb (T.N.T! I’m dynomite!) but then I lightning rush out of range, too easy 😛
He’s got very long range harass abilities, he’s like artillery with that spit into the sky ability, problem is that is hard to hit with against one who is fast enough with reflexes and then it’s an easy miss.
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I sort of agree with you there.
BUT Kog can be built in 3 major ways after his core items; Bloodrasor / Malady / Boots and saying that he can only be built as AS isn’t exactly true.
1. On hit effects which I find is a great team supporting build (reducing MR & Armour meaning your team can rip them to shreds). Usually you build things like Frozen Mallet / Black Cleaver/Wits End.
2. AP Kog, which is by far the most powerful Kog you can build (If you can land the abilities that is). Usually you build more AP/AS items (like that blade that increases AS whenever you attack)
3. AD Kog, this is the kog that has a bit of Survivability. Usually you build something like 2 Bloodthirsters.
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Oh man : ( My video card isn’t properly installed and I don’t know how to unscrew stuff to find out what the model is. ARGHHH what to do?!
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is it integrated or a dedicated card? when you look at the back is the connectors up amongst all the others or down about where all the expansion card can fit?
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this is beyond my feeble comprehension of tech terms >_<
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Grim times….
Can you see a display device in Device Manager? (under Control Panel->System)
If you do, and right click->properties, details tab, change drop-down to Hardware Ids, right click on the longest line that appears in the bottom box, Copy, then paste in reply here?
Should look something like:
PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0193&SUBSYS_22521682&REV_A2
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PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_72A0&SUBSYS_E191174B&REV_9A
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so no ATI drivers work?
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Looks like it’s an “ATI radeon x1950 pro secondary”…
Only ever used this site for looking stuff up, not for links to drivers itself… might be worth grabbing from the ati page.
http://devid.info/search.php?text=PCI%5CVEN_1002%26DEV_72A0%26SUBSYS_E191174B%26REV_9A
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sounds like the video card hasn’t registered itself properly in windows then… well that’s not good
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Which windows version are you running?
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Not sure if silence is good sign or bad sign.
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-> continue on p16!
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Radeon X1950. You need the AMD ‘Legacy’ Catalyst drivers, not the latest and greatest, those are for the HD2000+
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http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/windows/Legacy/Pages/radeonaiw_xp.aspx
Try these, assuming you’re in Win XP.
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this is a good point actually, i forgot how ATI does their drivers :P… damn you for ruining NVIDIA 😛
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If you’re running winXP, click Start > Run, type in CMD
or in Win7 click Start and type CMD in the search box thing down the bottom.
When the DOS-looking box comes up, type in dxdiag & hit enter. Save the report to your desktop. Somewhere near the top of that report, will be your video cards make / model etc.
if you’re running a mac os………. *shrugs* sorry.
It’s relatively simple to take a computer apart.
There will be some screws at the back that connect the side panel to the case, unscrew them and take off the side panel. You might take off the wrong side, that’s okay just put it back and take off the other one.
The graphics card will be the big one perpendicular to the motherboard. Unscrew the screw connecting it to the case, take it out (you’ll probably need to remove the monitor cable) and then reinsert it in the same slot. Make sure that it’s reasonably snug then screw it back in.
Problem solved.
Unless you mean drivers, in which case just go to the Device Manager (right click My Computer, select properties and it will be under the hardware tab), and your graphics card will be listed under display adapters (I think). You can just update the drivers from there.
Then just put the side panel back on and you’re good to go.
Rewiggled is extremely awesome. They kinda wouldnt sound out off place on peoples normal album!
A band I’ve been slightly obsessed with recently :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXm9EHTPVak
some of their clips may be NSFW, but I think that ones ok…
Hard rock / rackabilly / sleazy punk band. Singer has an addiction to Morrowind. generally awesome.
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‘Cos you’re hot then you’re cold.
You’re yes then you’re no.
You’re in then you’re out,
You’re up then you’re down.-
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* I like boobs and stuff, they have Katy Perry
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Coz your immune system doent like to be told what to do by anyone or anything. Especially by something as trivial as summer.
No, your immune system is a trendsetter, a rebel. The type of guy who flips off authority & pisses on tradition.
“oh people dont get colds in spring? well, excuse me, but I’m no sheep. I’ll do what I want, when I want to. I’ll show em all how cool it is to have a cold. I’m bringing the sniffles back & there aint a god damn thing you or anybody can do about it.”
I then picture your immune system getting onto a motorbike & leaving the doubters in a cloud of dust as he speeds off onto another adventure…
Sort of like James Dean, but more… cellular.
tl;dr I dunno, but your your white blood cells have a pretty mean anti-authoritarian streak.
@ Bish in regards to Kog’Maw
(Shamless Repost)
I sort of agree with you there.
BUT Kog can be built in 3 major ways after his core items; Bloodrasor / Malady / Boots and saying that he can only be built as AS isn’t exactly true.
1. On hit effects which I find is a great team supporting build (reducing MR & Armour meaning your team can rip them to shreds). Usually you build things like Frozen Mallet / Black Cleaver/Wits End.
2. AP Kog, which is by far the most powerful Kog you can build (If you can land the abilities that is). Usually you build more AP/AS items (like that blade that increases AS whenever you attack)
3. AD Kog, this is the kog that has a bit of Survivability. Usually you build something like 2 Bloodthirsters.
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Oh! I didn’t mean to say you would only build him AS, it’s just that with his natural strengths one would probably lean towards the first way to compliment his abilities.
Never seen an AP Kog m’self, and, quite honestly, I don’t understand why you would. But then, I’m very much a fan of more reliable damage output than skillshots (mostly because I am bad at them). If you can hit, then good times.
I can certainly see AD Kog working, but then I kind of feel like that there are better AD champs. He has a slow, range and 2 magic based skills, which by no means is a bad skillset, it’s just that other AD champs have better AD-related skills.Mind you, I’ve only dabbled with Kog’Maw a few times during his freeweeks, and I certainly trust that you have more experience with and against him. He has strength in flexibility, that’s for sure, but I think in part makes him a bit overlooked in some regards. I imagine when people think “We need a Carry”, there are just more obvious choices that spring to mind. And I suppose that too plays a part in why we don’t see Kog around much.
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Actually if you follow the high ELO stuff Kog was amongst one of the most used carries (along with cait). Which is why he was nerfed this patch (because Riot wanted to see more ranged carries used in game).
Also AD Kog is the most difficult build to counter. If you build armour his W skill will tear you apart (it does magic damage) if you build magic then his attack speed / damage will tear you apart.
Also Kog’s ulti is based off both AP AND AD and his other AP based ability reduces their armour (which means it helps AD heaps). So all of his abilities benefit AD rather then just AP.
Majority of the reasons why you don’t see Kog around (IMO) is because he is a “High Skill Cap” champion (hard to master). You need to predict how your opponents going to move and counter it with a slow / artillery.
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Haha, high ELO. Imma not even going to go near that or try understand it.
I will just stick with Rocketman and play in low ELO games. \o/Seriously though, now that you mention it, yeah, I can see how he’d sting a little extra.
Does this mean we get to see you carry us as Kog? 😀-
He can carry as Kog while I jungle with Warwick? 😛
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HAHA,
Ill try man 🙂
Also I re-read my post and I think I may have come off as an elitist fan-boi. If so, Sorry bout that.
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Ahh I’ll be going in that pool soon enough with a team of 5 I hope rather than solo ranked (Which is nothing short of a disaster)
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What are you talking about, solo queue is amazing and you always get matched with the best teammates who are courteous and understanding and clever.
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Human I can only carry the team so far with Kennen but teamwork is needed! 😛
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I said, solo queue is amazing.
Say it.
Saaaayyyyyy ittttttttttt.
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Solo queue is amazing…ly AN AGONISING PAIN THE ARSE!
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Wow did that badly -.- oh well
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Nah mang, not like your tone was condescending or anything, you’re good.
All valid points raised, and as I said, I’ve only dabbled with Kog’Maw and was mostly blathering on. Good to hear from a voice of experience. I like learning about the capabilities of champions, even if I don’t have the skill.
RE: my PC problems from p14 & 15:
YAY the video card is registered on my system now! \o/
Thanks to fled & NegativeZero mostly.
But one last question:
There’s still a ‘PCI Device’ and a ‘unrecognised device’ with the yellow exclamation marks in the hardware manager.
1st hardware ID:
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_27D8&SUBSYS_82491043&REV_01
2nd hardware ID:
ACPI\ATK0110
*ATK0110
What are these…?!?!
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the first is a HD audio thing by intel, seems they call it IDT
http://www.pcidatabase.com/search.php?device_search_str=27D8&device_search=Search
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(…and then, given that information, you can probably find/install drivers specific to that motherboard for the integrated HD audio stuff)
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Vendor 8086 is Intel I think. That could be some sort of shitty integrated intel video, which will be disabled because you’ve got a proper card in there (the ATI one).
The ACPI device is some crappy ASUS thing. Try running windows update, it might be under the optional downloads. Otherwise try the ASUS website, but you’ll need to figure out what model your motherboard is and that can be tricky. See if you can read from all your drives (including CD/DVD) and if you can, I’d probably ignore it unless you intend to use the machine for a long period of time.
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Correct response was ‘she turned me into a newt’.
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damn… i now have to go and cut down the mightiest tree in the wood…. wiiiiith… a Herring
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You do that, I however will go on a pilgrimage to the castle Anthrax
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“I warned you, but did you listen to me? Oh, no, you knew, didn’t you? Oh, it’s just a harmless little bunny, isn’t it?”
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Monkey chaffuer made of skyrim discs, or car made of skyrim discs, or both?
It may not seem like it right now, but the distinction is super-important.
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Serious word butchering. 🙁
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Or trade it all for what’s in this box?
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The Box! THE BOX!
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It looks empty…
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Sure, but worst case scenario… you have one sweeeeeeeeeeet box. One small step towards the box fort to end all box forts. *taps fingers together sequentially* Excellent.
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Testing new username… sorry all.
(My real motive is boosting my TABTOL score this week, dagnabbit)
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This comment will appear at the end of a string of current unapproved comments… or it will break TAY. Either way, I apologise.
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You are very kind, but… what are you talking about??? 🙂
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^ Reply to Rize.
REPLY BUTTON, I’M SORRY!!! 🙁
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Or is it…?
I broke TAY. Oh dear. I’m sorry, TAY. No longer sorry, reply button! 🙁
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Bahaha! Best reply break ever!
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I’m gonna solo mid against Harli, then everyone is gonna gank me a minute in. Then I will get a penta-kill. True Story.
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What Steve-O means to say is that I’m going to vs him in mid, then gaze at him with LOVE* in my eyes, causing him to die repeatedly any time a member of my team attempts to engage in combat with him.
*Lasers Of Violent Execution
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That doesn’t sound like a thing you would do!
…not at alll…
*puts credit card back in CD tray*
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I’m participating in the breaking of TAY by not replying to Shane’s comment and thus appearing above any replies!
Okay, as per normal, I am heading home from work now, and won’t be back until well after Kudos is announced. See you folks! 🙂
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Sometimes it pays off not being able to access youtube at work, stops the curiosity from killing the cat.
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This comment reminded me of “The Curiosity Show”, a cool[1] aussie TV show from the 80s.
I can’t imagine the guys fromt hat killing cats.
[1] definitions of cool may vary, but this is my post so nyaaaaaaa
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I’m pretty sure the definition of ‘a cool aussie TV show from the 80s’ is ‘It’s a Knockout’!
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True story, ever since they stopped playing episodes of It’s a Knockout, I have never woken up before 6am on a Saturday.
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OH NOES you’ve caught it from me! it must be contagious! everybody run!!! KEEP PANIC AND CAUSE HAVOC!
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Curses!
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You would have gotten away with it too, if it weren’t for those darn kids.
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Humans are always meddling
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Oh so that’s why I can’t stalk him successfully 🙁
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Did that, and for now it’s stopped but I can feel it getting ready for another assault. It’s war I tell ya!
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hayfever…? 😛
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That was bad.
And amazinig.I’m so conflicted.
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Well, I think that joke *sunglasses* is nothing to sneeze at.
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
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oohh Tech Knight, have you been hanging out with humans again? you know what happens when you hang out with humans
@Puppylicks
Japan World Cup 3 is hilarious. I have been watching it for the past half hour now and have cried from laughing so hard. XD
Huzzah, incredibly lame gravatar playing off of the Ex-Pants nickname!
Clearly a sign that I need to leave the house more.
@Sughly/Harli/Etc re: the Ghibli discussion on page 14 I missed because I had to look at mind-melting performance traces all day because 4mb extra memory usage is potentially a Bad Thing.
– Generally, I’ve seen a lot of people whinging about Ponyo being boring/unengaging. I doubt it’s as bad as they make out, though, because anime fans online seem to pretty much hate everything that’s remotely popular.
– I like Porco Rosso a lot. The reason a lot of people don’t go for it is that it’s very squarely a film aimed at adults, where most of Miyazaki’s other works are aimed at children or families. If you haven’t seen it this way, the best version IMO is the French dub, with Jean Reno as Porco. Not usually a dub guy, but he really works. That said, my faves are probably Laputa and Mononoke. However I like all of their films that I’ve seen (which is every one of them except Earthsea and Ponyo, which I expect to like as well). I found Howl’s to be a bit by-the-numbers and I suspect that the main problem it had was expectations being too high for it.
– @Steve-o: yes, Spirited Away was the one with the train tracks in the water. That particular sequence is one of my favorite bits of animation, it just works so well. I wish my first experience of the film hadn’t been with the english dub, because Chihiro’s voice actress was crap and it reduced the experience overall for me.
– @Dr What: I get them from amazon.jp. Expensive, but 3-4 a year I can manage easy enough. Shipping isn’t that bad but if you wanted to save a little bit there, Yes Asia and CD Japan might be better. The DHL that Amazon uses is very fast though. Plus insured. At the time I ordered Nausicaa, it was the only BD release. I could have waited for the UK etc, but as it turns out the english-release BDs of Nausicaa and Laputa have different video. Someone went through and added a slight blur to it to smooth out the film grain, which makes it look ‘better’ (subjectively) but also slightly less crisp and a lot less authentic since that grain was from the masters. And once I got it in that pretty packaging I decided I wanted the whole collection that way 🙂
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Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan!! You so ruined my day :'(
If I knew someone did that to them in the UK, I would never have bought them. Blaaaaaaah, dammit dammit dammit. I knew I was gonna regret not forking out the extra dough for the Jap versions :'( :'( :'(
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You should haunt ‘Flu.
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Seven out of Ten!
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I wrists wouldn’t bleed fast enough…
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*My wrists
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And then I’ll critique you on your poor wrist cutting skills
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D:
B-but I’d cut along the vein, not accross it..?
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Sorry :(. Honestly, the difference is minor and if you compare shot-to-shot the main difference is the lack of grain. So the picture in the UK release is “better” in that it’s cleaner and more high-def-ish. You’d have to see side-by-side shots to notice.
But generally speaking, Japanese DVD/BD releases almost always have higher video quality. It’s just the way it is. Usually they don’t have subtitles or anything so they’d be ignored anyway, but there’s been a few higher-budget productions recently where the Blurays have had english subs. Also generally you’re getting them a whole lot earlier – I don’t think Arrietty is even out yet in the UK/US, for example, but I’ve had it since the middle of the year (it’s a pretty good film, very well animated – the director being a younger animator has a much better grasp of how to integrate traditional and computer animation together seamlessly).
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Yeah I got a erm… completely legal hi def fansub a while back of it. Really, really awesome! Loved it! But yeah I watched my Laputa BR and was impressed by it so lets just pretend none of this was discusssed. CASE CLOSED!
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http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/35307 Here’s an actual US-to-UK comparison. The UK one has no grain and brighter color but at the loss of some of the finest detail. When it’s moving they both look fantastic 🙂
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Indeed, the mane is in need of a trim. Although, I think it might also have something to do with that f***ing star over there…
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@jamesmacusedmyhandle:
Not sure if this has been answered yet. but the ‘bonus appearances’ in the ME3 CE are just extra costumes.
Similar to the extra outfits DLC that they had for some characters in ME2.
It’s not ‘appearances’ as in ‘they appear in the game’, it’s ‘appearances’ as in outfits.
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The CE does get an extra character (of some sort) and an extra mission, but they’ll probably be available to buy on the DLC network thingy anyway.
Oh, and a robotic dog. Who lives on the Normandy.
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Anyone else just see that vidya game report on The Project?
I thought it was reasonably well done for once, which was a surprise.
The highlight of the whole thing was definitely the five seconds of footage featuring Mark.
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Yep, just saw it. I liked how they referenced fake videos like Boogie 2988’s “Francis” videos (he was the fat dude they showed- http://www.youtube.com/boogie2988) and that WoW Freak Out Kid.
At least they’re not fearmongering like on Channel 7 with their Christian butt-buddy Jimmy Wallace I guess…
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I like how most of their stock footage was people playing games on an Xbox. As in original. Duke controller and everything. Very relevant.
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I really should have thought of a better handle if THAT is what the shorter version is hehe.
Sorted it out last night… and everyone realised once again, that twitter is the only way to get me these days.
I made a few other guys server admins so this should not happen anymore.
oh em gee, that game of LoL last night was pretty good.
now warming up for a whole Saturday afternoon of gaming!
It’s a good life 😉
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Yess twas an “oh em jee” worthy game.
Very close thankfully you and your OP Kog’Maw skills carried our butts Freyr!
http://na.leagueoflegends.com/news/legacy-skin-project-begins-november-25th
I want ALL-THE-SKINS!!!
*throws wallet at screen*
*wallet shatters screen*
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did it work?
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I should buy Badger Teemo just so that I can be all LEGACY, YO
But does anyone else feel like their reasoning of “Getting rid of old skins to introduce new skins” doesn’t seem right? It’s… digital data.-
Man, be part of the Legacy Club (similar to the death club we had happening in LoL last night) \o/
Yeah, I could understand if they are doing it for champions with like 5+ skins
*cough* teemo *cough* annie *cough*
but some champions in there only have 3-4 skins and are being reduced to 2.
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It is just to sucker people like me in for the limited time offer.
I don’t play Tryhard but looking at the highland skin and not being able to get it ever again makes me want to buy it-
Yeah when they released Demonblade Critamere I had played him about 2 times. The skin looked sooooo awesome though so I HAD to buy it. (and it is, I would have to say it is the best skin ever released).
Riot have a good way at making me buy skins for champions I don’t even use 😛
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I want to play LoL/Skyrim, stupid work
and stupid upcoming Christmas for making me need to work
🙁
I’m sitting at home waiting for Welbot, who generously offered me a lift to the Meat.
I’m hoping this one won’t be like Canberra, where they were all funned out by the time I got there. 😛
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We weren’t funned out just everyone was tired and some were hung over. I was neither of those things but am just generally fairly boring to talk to. But i guarentee that wont happen with Dan’s meet cause dan putss sausage dogs on his face as a moustache, which was the best idea ever.
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Haha, its funny caus it kind of happened! Ah I think. Wait no you were singing and stuff, so that was fun! Hmmm, maybe not ALL the fun was gone then.
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Yeah it kind of did happen didn’t it? Except this time instead of everyone being tired and hungover they were just tired and drunk, which is way more fun. 😛
Your singing was best singing.
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Hooray! finaly got my holidays!
I’ve three weeks off that was suposed to be starting over a week ago.
I plan to actualy do things in weeks 2 and 3 but for week one the plan is:
SKYRIM, SKYRIM, SKYRIM, SKYRIM, SKYRIM, SKYRIM, SKYRIM, LoL, SKYRIM, SKYRIM, SKYRIM, SKYRIM, SKYRIM, SKYRIM, battlefield 3, LoL SKYRIM, SKYRIM, SKYRIM, SKYRIM, SKYRIM, SKYRIM, SKYRIM, SKYRIM, SKYRIM, SKYRIM, SKYRIM, SKYRIM, SKYRIM, SKYRIM, SKYRIM, train and garbage truck simulator, SKYRIM, SKYRIM, SKYRIM, SKYRIM, SKYRIM, SKYRIM, SKYRIM, SKYRIM, SKYRIM, SKYRIM, SKYRIM, LoL, SKYRIM, SKYRIM, SKYRIM, SKYRIM, SKYRIM,
http://youtu.be/exlu7gumJzU lol whut. Kotaku game as we test out Spectator mode. Horrible sound and randomness due to my mic volume levels.
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Also for some reason there is a minute or so missing from the video at about the 11 minute mark. Sadface!
With school over, expect a few months of Joshomania. I mean, expect for next week. And the two weeks after Christmas. And any day after Feb 20.
But until then, Joshomania.
Hey guys, I’ve formatted my computer. Can someone email me the TS server details? My email is still s.kaylerthomson[at]gmail[dotcom]
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