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By the way, the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo soundtrack came out.
Worth the price of admissions for The Immigrant Song alone but the rest is pretty nifty too.
Particularly if you liked Ghosts I-IV or the Social Network Soundtrack (and to a lesser extent How to Destroy Angels).
If none of those words made sense to you, please take advantage of the modern technologies available to you in order to rectify the situation.
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We come from the land of the ice and snow…
Feeling a sudden urge to listen to some Led Zepp now.
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With the midnight sun, where the hot springs flow…
Amen to that.I’m not sure how to feel about this cover…
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The cover didn’t really work for me. It’s a bit too messy, especially with the static that seems to come in and overpower the rest of the song.
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Morning All 😀
how are you peoples?
I hired Skyrim last nightand will begin to play it this afternoon on my xbox. I am Excite!
I Has a question for everyone,
can you recommend/help me find a gaming headset that will work on 360 and PC and work well for that matter, im looking for a pretty high quality headset for less than $300 (if thats possible) its my christmas present, needs a mic as well :). oh and it has to work on PC and 360
cheers peoples!
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hired… like a prostitute… i am ashamed of Skyrim lowering itself to this level 😛
with the headsets, i am a bit clueless on the 360 range and their compatibility, but for pc and gaming, Sennheizer is ALWAYS my go to brand 😛
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Also because it’s what his name is.
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so… i had an eventful weekend*
*not that eventful
first saturday, i ended up completing my second dwelling, then started digging and came cross an abandoned mineshaft… i asked Rize to join me and we ventured forth into this abandoned shaft with no regard for our own lives… many encounters were had, with zombies, spiders, skeletons and what not… but a few hours later we emerged victorious each holding our price, a leathery saddle… after that i spent an hour being ridden around by a pig… then it fell down a cliff… and died… then i went to bed and cried myself to sleep..
the next day i woke up… thought my car looked a bit weird so i spent an hour respraying it… after that Rize drove past and i jumped in his car… took me a few minutes to learn how to lean out the window while the car was going full ball down the main street but after that i managed to shoot a few bystanders… it occurs to me that i spend too much time with Rize and he’s a bad influence… then we smashed the car straight into a store front for a jeweller and nicked the safe… alas it wouldn’t fit in the car…. but then i saw a van drive past, which i managed to catch up to (thank you red light). i pulled the guy out and thought “sure why not” and mugged him, stealing his mobile phone… the safe fit snuggly in there and we realised that we could fit a few more… we smashed into a few more storefront, until an enforcer showed up… luckily he didn’t see us committing any crimes so he couldn’t do anything… instead we just squatted on his car till he got bored and drove off… then we filled the van and drove off to the fence for fat loot…
i realise having typed up all of this that i should have specified that i was playing pc games and which ones they are… but i couldn’t be bothered…
also this may have been caused by the caffeine coursing through my veins at the moment.
tl;dr weekend good, caffeine awesome
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All Points Bulletin: Reloaded
good game… GTA, back when it was still fun (GTAIII era) as an MMO
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free 2 play on steam, just such APB on the store… it’s great fun, if you can get over the first 30 minutes of OMG WHAT”S HAPPENING… did i mention it’s PVP based, so you can pick sides as criminal or enforcer? i’ve opted for criminal purely because the small lag due to the lack of an AUS server and i end up running down half the population of the city when i’m driving
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Anyone who jumps on APB:R, give me a shout on TAY. Happy to good lootin’ with you, or answer questions based on my current (short) experience.
Seriously, GTA fans will love it, and in general it’s a fun game.
Hey, important note! I forgot to mention that it’s FREE.
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we should start an TAY Clan on APB… it can be done 😛
we can create custom logos, have gang cars, mug people together… IT’LL BE GOOD FUN-
shh Pixel if the media catches any wind of this we’ll all be swept up into the sensationalist shitstorm.
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aahh but the trick is i didn’t specify in that comment that i intended this in a game, so now i just come off as a random psycho which is perfectly socially acceptable…
i had a difficult childhood?*
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speaking of which we should create a karting group as well, we’ll be “Hell’s Goombas” and hurl turtle shells everywhere…
and then go an play some mario kart -
Blue shells would definitely make the Occupy protests more interesting.
It’ll be like Mario Kart Wii where they come thick and fast, so those in front are just being bombarded. Silly 1%ers will be dropping all of their coins and those next to them will spin out and lose coins too.
It’s a novel way to solve some economic problems, but methinks it has some merit. If only for the novelty value from those who get to watch.
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bahahaha i’d pay to attend that event 😛
that reminds me… every time, EVERY TIME i go to a DFO, i end up looking at the map of the complex and thinking “damn! this would make an excellent mario kart circuit”… i mean look at it… perfect width for a few go karts, some of them has a pet shop inside (blue shells anyone? bring spraypaint) and awesome corners… might just be me though 😛
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As long as access to create a guild in APB:R isn’t restricted, I’ll be making one tonight. Already got a few design things planned.
Seriously, customisation options are fantastic. Best thing I’ve seen is a “Derpy’s Muffin Deliveries” van, complete with crazy eyes and bubbles.
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Last week for the year as a work placement student. Will be coming back in January and February as a ‘contractor’. Then back to uni, then hopefully a graduate position here.
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I don’t mind this place. Some projects have been really dull, but most have been pretty interesting. Also, they’re breaking out Mario Kart again on friday!
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I’m almost in the same boat, this is my second last week at this job, I finish on the 23rd, I’m kinda sad due to the acute lack of dancing penguins this will bring to my life 🙁
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I’m waiting, nothing’s happening??
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Nothing Really except if you watch the person i imagine it would be funny!
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Oh Rocketman.
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Oh um yeah this is going to stop one day isn’t it otherwise i will have to think of a awesome deadly way to get you back!
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Are you just grumpy because you didn’t win another tournament/competition this weekend?
Gosh, you give some people a taste of the high life…
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You actually looked up how to capitalise his name, didn’t you?
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Sure did, i was going to try and remember how to type mOOnGLaDEAU but i didn’t think it was right and knew you would say i was wrong!
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take out the AU and you are almost correct!
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yeah the AU is from his twitter name. Sorry bunny i will work harder on remembering names of people who you watch on live streams and talk about and i barely listen to! Honest i will!
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I find that the easier option is to not care about the capitalisation.
If they are doing something silly, it’s normally either capitalising (HuK, Idra) first and last or alternating caps (KiWiKaKi). It all looks retarded, so I don’t bother.
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one day I am going to create a new troll name that will be a glorious eyesore for all those who attempt to type it out.
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SiR EaTs-AloT?
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Make it borderline unpronounceable, too.
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So how about something like Trjn then? ;p
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Good one. I think I am rather partial to N3heY1a0WuhWuh, however.
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People might confuse you with MYM NaNiwa. No wait, I mean dNaNiwa.
Actually, I’m wrong there, that was a few months ago, he’s now coL NaNiwa. Except they sold the contract so he’s now QxG NaNiwa. Or should that be QST NaNiwa? I can’t remember, they haven’t announced a Quantic Startales partnership yet (like the recently disolved Quantic/Incredible Miracles one) but it seems like it will happen any day now…
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Are you making this up? You’re making this up aren’t you.
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I actually missed one or two.
Seriously, check out NaNiwa’s Liquipedia page. The Team History section is rather long.
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What an illustrious career he has had.
Hi
got error E68, HD failure. anybody know a quick fix?
Have I lost all my saves forever?
is it definetly the HD or could it be the communication?
cheers
(PS Mrs says I can get a PS3 now, so no rush!)
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I have to work on my karting ability before we return to the mario karting. I dont do that badly against bots why does everyone push me off walls? -
Probably the drive but could be a communication error between the drive and the system itself. Try removing the hard drive and playing without it.
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And you might still have your saves. I had the error once but it went away with no effort on my behalf.
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My brother had that error a while ago – tried a different HDD – same error. He was also getting prompted to update his console, but it always failed… He ended up borrowing a spare I had as it was out of warranty. My suggestion is to try and pick up a new 4GB slim console cheap, take the current HDD out of the chassis and stick it in the 4gb slim…
Just moved into a new office at work, for those who know Melbourne we’ve moved in to that new big glass building on Punt Rd just by the yarra. It’s awesomeballs, change is as good as a holiday 😀
Dungeon Defenders is a lot of fun- if you’re looking for a game hit me up on steam at red_artifice
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I might just do that, if you’re willing to put up with a nub – I’ve only played through the tutorial so far but seems quite fun. Any other TAYbies with Dungeon Defenders? Oh and my steam name is thisisdickhead.
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Awesome steam name XD Sorry I think I will have to pass, I’m terrible at tower defense (which I’m guessing this game is)
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I don’t think I want to …
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It’s sexy and I know it – I work out!
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Yeah, I grabbed in during the sale 😀
It looks like a fair bit of fun, but I’m currently jumping between way too many new games. Lousy Steam sale, etc.etc.
I am keen to give it a go every so often. Pretty sure I have you on my friends list, because of how we’re best friends and such. I LOVE YOU.
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protip: his face is up there
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Me faction and Freyr played last night. I agree its fun but there are just so many options.On upgrading stuff! All in all i was having fun but you need good teamwork!
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I DONT CONTROL YOU MAN DO WHAT EVER MAKES YOU CONTENT IN LIFE.
But yes, yes you were you monster!
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Arrgghh. Stupid having no moneys making me have even less moneys. I’ll be paid again in two weeks and that’s when I’ll be getting Skyward Sword for my daughter for her birthday which is right at the end of the year.
But EB have Skyward Sword online right now for $58 as part of their Mad Monday thingy. It definitely won’t be that cheap by the time I can get it. Oh well, guess that’ll teach me a lesson about planning better. I should have ordered it earlier from Ozgameshop or somewhere.
Skyward Sword is $58 right now! Go get it, guys! http://www.ebgames.com.au/wii-156348-The-Legend-of-Zelda-Skyward-Sword-Nintendo-Wii
Oh, and Ruen…double carrots! 😛
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Oh, you don’t have to do that, Rockets! I’m just having a whinge. Thanks for the offer though! *hugs*
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I know! Having no money is awful >_< So many games no money =</3
Yeah I got the email about the EBGames Mad Monday sale. Lots of things are almost half price D=
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Oh cool, originally Zelda was only going to be $58 for an hour today, but it looks like they decided to keep it going until they run out of stock. That’s nice. If it’s still there in the afternoon I’ll probably pick it up. I’m also considering Deus Ex, considering how cheap they have that at.
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I didn’t although I’ve got around 10 hours clocked up on that game. For some reason I really like it even though it’s creepy in an unwholesome way and feels somehow low budget and polished at the same time. I love the weapon feel in that game. Dual handcannons is pretty epic.
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I did but I didn’t even get to play a round. My cousins showed up after I’d completed one wave >_<
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Yeah, despite knowing it’s essentially a full conversion mod, it works quite well, though my copy occasionally crashes and tells me my graphics card is overheating (even though I’m nowhere near).
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I don’t find KF creepy, but rather funny. Did you guys know they’re putting in an American character? Everything is in monotone D=
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Damn…I love the fact that they weren’t American. Plus, fantastic English insults:
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Exactly, but it sounds terrible. Listen for yourself
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5eQtXvPvrM
I guess the americans couldn’t understand it so they have to implement one just for them
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Didn’t have a go this weekend but I love any games where I get to be an Indy wannabe. Limited edition skins FTW
My plan to play Dungeons and Dragons on Friday fell through for an interesting reason, too many people. Invited over five people originally to give it a try, but ten people showed up, and that seems like just a few too many for a first attempt at figuring this game out. Oh well, guess I’ll try again another week.
Sydney people! Anyone else get some absolutely insane rain in the middle of the night last night? I was trying to fall asleep at about 2 when the rain picked up. The sound was incredible, and it went on for at least ten minutes. I was worried my roof was gonna star leaking, because its done that before and it wasn’t pretty.
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Best number would probably be 4 (including the GM) cause it can get pretty hectic in and out of combat with lots of players. Could get those 5 around and have a couple watch while others give it a try?
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Yeah, that’s the plan for sometime soon in the future. But with Christmas fast approaching, people are getting busier…
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Yes! Raining nonstop since then, I believe. Dog came into the bedroom this morning trying to sleep on my bed all soaked.
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Dog: Why? Why am I not allowed on the bed? I was yesterday. I don’t understand. Btw, can you dry me?
I don’t know if your dog does the last part, but mine does. Well, he doesn’t say it but he sits and stares until you dry him.
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She’s all “I’m wet! What of it?”
And I’m all “You’re wet /o\”
So I get out of bed at 6:22 AM just to dry her off, she bolts back to my bed, and we both go back to sleep.
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I’m amused that some of the lyrics are as follows:
Tuh tuh tuh tuh take me high!
Tay take me higher!
Take me high!
Tay take me higher!
Take me high!
Tay take me higher yer yer yer yer yer yer…Yes, TAY, take me higher.
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Of course, the best lyrics are later:
BWAOW, faow fitty fitty faow fitty fitty BWAOW, faow fitty fitty faow BWAOW BWOH.
Doopa doopa doo dee doo dah doo dah deeh.
BWAOW, BWAH BWEEH BWAH BWOH, BWEEH BWAH BWOH BWOH, BWOH BWEH.
BWAOW, doopa doopa doo dee doo dah diddoh doo.
BWAOW, faow fitty fitty faow fitty fitty BWAOW, faow fitty fitty faow BWAOW BWOH.
Doopa doopa doo dee doo dah doo dah deeh.Good stuff.
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As touching as that sounds, I don’t know whether they would appreciate it.
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on a completely unrelated note…
where are you staying? i may need the complete address…
for no reason at all…
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it’s to send a christmas present… maybe a cake…
sure it’s for a cake…
and nothing else…
at all…
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Don’t worry, I’ll smooth things over with them.
“Don’t mind us, Crazy Family 1990. We’re from the internet.”
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actually – there are a lot of good prices.. color me surprised!
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SWEET HOLY MOTHER OF LOOPS!!
DAYSEX $28!!!https://www.ebgames.com.au/ps3-156122-Deus-Ex-Human-Revolution-PlayStation-3
Damn you christmas for already stealing all of my money points!
So sore today. And it’s not due to regular Deve-O weekend shenanigans either. Instead, it’s from beginning renovating my house with the help of my dad. We are opening up the kitchen to the living room to try and make it look bigger (he, look bigger). I tried to help for a bit, during which I smashed two light fittings and broke a Masonite panel. After I was delegated the important task of moving materials and fetching beer. I could live with that. Unfortunately this took pretty much all of yesterday and unfortunately I couldn’t get on my PC for any gaming at all. The girlfriend is leaving on her road-trip tonight though so I shall have plenty of gaming time for the coming week.
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Whenever i “help” people with that sort of stuff i usually just drink most of the beer and say snide comments on how this could of been done better. it is 80% effective on never getting invited to help again!
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Lol. Poor Q-Bo. My dad definitely isn’t as bad as that although I would stuff up things if he wasn’t there to guide me.
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Hey Dr. What, I watched that new Tekken movie over the weekend. It was…..not bad.. to say the least!
I had some wonderful gaming this weekend.
Started leveling my engineer in Battlefield 3. Feeling like I’m making some progress now with a foregrip and RDS for my Scar. I still aim like a retard though and a 20-round clip really ruins me. I tried running around with a sniper rifle with no scope and had a great time. Pretended I was playing Red Orchestra. Didn’t get many kills, obviously, but it was fun.
And also spent about 4 hours mastering Sen’s Fortress in Dark Souls. I really want to get access to the big blacksmith so I can create a fire or lightning weapon and finally stop using the Drake Sword as a crutch. I’m using a Jagged Ghost Blade mostly but really want to buy some twinkling titanite so I can upgrade it.
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Spoilers maybe?
Fire weapons are made down in the catacombs at the bottom of a big pit. Need a divine weapon before you go down there. So worth it though. My main uses a fire great axe +10 and it destroys everything. Well, it did before everything disappeared down the ether.
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I found a sweet Lightning Spear in Sen’s Fortress, just about to fight the boss there, but yes I think it’s time I upgraded by Battleaxe with some sweet, sweet magic 🙂
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I would have that lightning spear but the enemy dropped it over a hole and I couldn’t get it!
No lightning spear for me 🙁
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If that happens quit and load it back up and usually the item that fell is sitting at the edge of the hole.
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I know and I did that but the item didn’t properly drop but just hung in the air. I actually killed it, it didn’t fall, and when I quit and reloaded the item drop was just gone.
🙁
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I’m currently trying to make my way through a pile of unread books.
Finished a book* on the weekend, so have now started reading American Psycho.
Big fan of the film, but hadn’t read the book until now.
What I thought was kind of odd was that in the first chapter Bateman describes someone’s clothing (Price) and mentions he’s wearing a Ralph Lauren silk tie, but then two pages later, observes Price adjusting his Versace tie.
I was quite taken aback by the error, since Bateman’s attention to detail regarding clothing, fashion, etc. is such a key part of his character and the story writing.
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* The book I finished was “The Cry of the Sloth” by Sam Savage.
The story is told from the perspective of the protagonatist, all through letters he writes to people and little notes and things. You only see what he writes, so you have to put the pieces together re. what other people have written to him (not too difficult). There might be a letter to his estranged wife, followed by one to the bank, followed by a shopping list or a newspaper ad.
It’s quite unusual and depressing.
I don’t think I have ever read a book where I have wanted the main character to die more than I have with this one. I basically pushed through to the end in the hopes that I’d find his suicide note.
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From what I’ve heard, the writer spent of lot of time giving Bateman that attention to detail but didn’t actually know what the hell he was talking about.
So those errors probably come from the author’s complete lack of understanding. It’s a lot easier to get confused about that sort of thing when you don’t actually know what that sort of thing is.
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Fair enough, but a Ralph Lauren/Versace tie isn’t a difficult concept to grasp, and conisdering it was the opening scene of the book, where the foundations of the character are laid, you’d think the author would pay a little bit more attention.
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I’ve heard the book is quite different. I tried reading Glamorama once. Really didn’t like it.
Probably there is some sort of literary analysis we can perform on Bateman’s error. The trick is to assume the author didn’t screw up but did it on purpose.
Perhaps it is part of Bateman’s facade, that he even pretends to himself to know what he is talking about in noticing someone’s attire.
[I’m scared of html coding in comments. Here, let me try within the safe confines of TAY: Glamorama.]
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read parts of it for school… yes SCHOOL…
from what i’ve heard (i never watched the movie) the movie is quite toned down compared to the book…
and from what i read, i am not one bit surprised…
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Bold-text get!
Excellent.
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yeah was too lazy to add the tags 😛
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I’m just excited because I finally started using them.
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Tags are
greatawesome!I’M YELLING!
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I DON’T KNOW WHAT WE’RE YELLING ABOUT!!
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I’m just going to quietly practise basic html code here.
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Hey, it worked!
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Does this site have [_spoiler tags?_] Or is that a Whirlpool thing?
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Apparently not.
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Man i hate it when i spend AGES writting emails and i don’t hear back from people straight away.. leaves me on the edge of my seat all day…
DAMN YOU!!! I’M TRYING TO BE PRODUCTIVE!!!
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Love demanding receipts for that exact reason.
“It was marked urgent, you read it 5 minutes after I sent it, and you haven’t replied in 2 days.”
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Yay my reference was got \o/
I now wish to play Battlefield Vietnam. Ah Thursday’s class last year, that’s all we ever did haha.
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Bah! Every single time I mention unnecessary swears in an article, some idiot always misses the point and tells me there’s no place on the internet for people who get offended by profanity.
Which is wrong anyway, there’s a place on the internet for everyone. Even, (unfortunately) illiterates, racists, paedophiles, etc.
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Well i can say that there is a place for illeterate racsists.
And yes i mis-spelled it on purpose*
*Not really
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I know the feeling. I understand the whole “it’s the Internet, grow a tougher skin” attitude but I console myself in the fact that people with that attitude tend to fail at life… -
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Ah see, it’s the difference between funny words and cussin innit. If señor Good had used crotch monkey instead it would have been funny.
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There seems to be many a book-lover here on TAY and I know the conversation has already been had but I’m looking for recommended (preferably Sci-Fi or Fantasy) books. I downloaded 90 books of the BattleTech series and have finished the 3rd, only to find that the rest of the books are in German. My kindle needs your help guys!
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Anything by Sean Williams. See my post downthread about the Witcher series too
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2011/12/talk-amongst-yourselves-134/comment-page-2/#comment-471114-
Thanks man, will look into it. Especially the Witcher series – would be cool to read them before I play through the actual game.
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Unfortunately I’m not sure they’re all in English yet, so you may run into your German problem again (but in Polish).
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I really should read Enders Game. I’ve read Enders Shadow, which is the same story but told from a different perspective (from Bean) and quite enjoyed it.
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Wait, you read Ender’s Shadow first?
The book that assumes you know the twist from Ender’s Game?
Still, considering you enjoyed the story that is basically just a supplement to the main adventure, methinks you would really enjoy Ender’s Game.
Speaker for the Dead is also quite excellent, although for entirely different reasons.
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Yeah that goes without saying- although ASoIaF is a perfect series to read on a kindle, having recently spent weeks lugging around a 900+ page hardcover.
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I’m working my way through a Song of Ice and Fire on my Kindle now.
Tis a very good idea.
After that, I’m thinking the Dune books.
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I’m currently reading through the 3rd Ice and Fire book “Storm of Swords” and it’s really cool, though I’m not sure if I’m setting myself up for disappointment with Season 2 of GoT, especially now that I know the general progression of the story.
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Anything by Michael Crichton! Seriously. Jurassic Park, The Lost World, Prey, Timeline, etc. He’s probably my favourite author.
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I’m glad you enjoy Crichton, but I really think he’s the worst.
Pretty much everything he’s written can be boiled down to ‘unethical scientists do something, backfires horribly.’ It’s the same plot rehashed through biotechnology, nanotechnology, quantum mechanics and a bunch more. His scientific understanding is not that good- the novels seem science-y, but don’t hold up under scrutiny.
His Climate Change novel was the biggest offender in my opinion of misrepresenting the science.
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While what you’ve said is entirely true, I do still end up enjoying his books. (Probably because I only have a basic understanding of the concepts in them :P). They’re only fiction in the end, so I don’t really worry about it too much.
To each his own, though. Hope you find something else.
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Brent Weeks, Juliet E. McKenna, David Farland, Michael Marshall Smith all have their stuff on Kindle. I have more favourite authors but I don’t think they have their books on Kindle: people like Mickey Zucker Reichert and Jennifer Fallon.
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expect Gaunt’s ghosts,
clicked link
was not disappoint
thanks Loops 😛
i acquired all of Gaunt’s Ghosts and threw it on my tablet the other day, so now i have plenty of reading material… i also got a Terry Pratchett bundle… so much reading so little time
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My personal favourite author is Alastair Reynolds. His Revelation Space series is excellent and although Chasm City was published later than others it is a great place to start.
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Iain M Banks is supposed to be really good. I have many of his sitting on my bookshlef but haven’t got around to reading them yet.
Kevin J Anderson’s Saga of Seven Suns is a great read, but you may want to steer clear if you have trouble with keeping track of multiple storylines over dozens of characters and stories that change POV every chapter.
The Trinity Trilogy by Fiona McIntosh is a pure fantasy series I quite liked. Wizards and magic and gods and demons all flying around.
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I read more fantasy than sci-fi so my recommendations will be that way skewed.
My fav series is the black jewels by Anne bishop. Absolutely love the world and characters that she has created.
Karen Miller – godspeaker trilogy.
Sara Douglas – Axis trilogy + 2nd trilogy
David Gemmel – Troy series was interesting or either the Drenai or Rigante if you like more action orientated storylines
Also: Just started reading the ‘Witcher’ novels the games are based on- I’m enjoying the style thus far. I’m not far through the first game (bought it in the steam sale) and I didn’t realise it, but the opening cut-scene in the first game (with the red-haired monster) is the first couple of chapters of the first book.
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Yeah, that intro suckered me in good. Unfortunately, this busy gaming season has been such an embarassment of riches that I haven’t been able to give The Witcher the attention I know it deserves.
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are you reading “the last wish”, cause i picked that one up the other day… half the time i’m sucked into the stories and it’s a page turner, the other half i spend laughing cause they are taking the shit out of original fairy tales…
princess lost her glass shoe?
rumblestump steals kids?
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There are PSP’s on sale Awesome! I might go check this out. not that i need another gaming device!
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I know right? It’s insane…but I still want one.
Anyway for the console by itself it’s $119 at Kmart-
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You’re welcome. I shop around a lot when it comes to games and consoles. Still, check around in case there is a better deal…I’ll check Game right now D=
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The weekend roundup…
So there I was, Saturday night, heading over to the in-laws to drop off our son before my wife and I went out for dinner. She’d been acting weird all day and running in and out of the house all day. As a male, I paid little attention to her antics and went back to playing PS3.
Anyway, we walk into the in-laws house and i notice streamers and finger food…’they must be having people over’, I think to myself.’The streamers are a bit much though.’
Then my wife asks me to get a chair from outside. I opened the back door and SURPRISE!!! Turns out my wife had organised a surprise party for my 30th birthday(which is December 31st) and because it’s too hard to organise anything for my birthday and we’d be away, she threw me a surprise party instead 🙂
All my friends and family were there and a fantastic night was had by all(i’ve never had a surprise party before). Then sunday I spent the day on the couch nursing a slight hangover 😀
All in all, awesome weekend!
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Sounds like an epic birthday!
I have to mention, though, that I don’t think anyone on TAY received their invites, and that’s why we didn’t come. Tell your wife they must have been lost in the mail, or something…
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I hate when people plan suprise parties. Its filled with terrible ideas on ow to get the person to the location. My family thought it would be a good idea to fake a broken leg to get me over there house for my suprise party.
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My friend just said that she had a voucher for a restaurant and that she was going to shout me. It worked and I had no idea. A broken leg is an awful way to get a person where you need them to be.
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This Sunday at 8. There will be people all waiting and you’ll come in and everyone will yell SURPRISE and you’ll be all surprised and stuff.
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I had a surprise party once. Wasn’t great. Because I didn’t know about it, I partied pretty hard the night before and was sick as a dog the next day. I haven’t had an ABC shot since (Absinth, Barcardi 151 and Chartreuce). I had crashed at a mates place, who had a fight with his girlfriend and I was asked to leave. I didn’t have any shoes because their german shepard had decided they would make an excellent chewtoy. I called a mate up who agreed to pick me up from a nearby park and I stumbled down the road barefoot to wait for him.
Waiting at the park, I felt a bit sickly and my stomach decided to vacate it’s contents. In my uncoordinated state, I got a bit on my jeans. Not happy with myself I camped under a tree to continue waiting. I woke up a few hours later, with a few missed calls from my mate who had rocked up to pick me up and couldn’t see anyone, except a homeless guy with no shoes asleep under a tree. He wouldn’t come back to pick me up but said if I walked to his workplace he’d still drop me off home.
His workplace was 5km away, in the middle of town. Again I stumbled down the road, in the hot midday sun, getting beeped at by cars who thought that a poor, hungover, barefoot guy with spew on his jeans needed loud noises to make him feel any better. I get to his workplace and finally feel like my luck is going to turn, until he sees the spew on my jeans and refuses to let me in his girlfriends car that he borrowed until I’m cleaned up.
I strip off to my undies and begin hosing them down. I notice a flash coming from the windows of his workplace, and lo and behold, the admin chicks in his building are taking photos of a poor bedraggled homeless person washing his clothes in their courtyard.
While waiting for my jeans to dry, he gets a call from his girlfriend and needs to go home immediately to give her back her car. My jeans are put in a plastic bag and we set off with me still in my underwear. I was past caring by this point and just wanted to get home. He was good enough to still drop me home, and as he was in a rush, decided to speed a little. We got pulled over.
The cop approached the pink-red hatchback with flowers and teddybears on the windows expecting a young woman. He gets two handsome guys, one wearing only a shirt and jocks. I don’t think he wanted to hear my story, or talk too much so luckily we were let off with a warning and continued on.
The sun was starting to set and I finally get back to my parents place, with jeans still in bag and walked into their shed (which is where my bedroom used to be) ready to crash on the bed and go to sleep. 60 people, including my girlfriends parents were all in there. My mate hadn’t got a call from his girlfriend, but from my parents to say the surprise party was ready. The prick had set me up with the whole ‘no wet jeans in the car’ thing too.
Surprise they all yelled.
Get F*cked I replied and went to sleep.
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Oh and this is my birthday present when it arrives in January…can’t freaking wait!
http://www.sideshowtoy.com/?page_id=4489&sku=901397&ref=search&&901397-
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sorry, complete off-rail topic as i was just reminded of a story:
back when i was working as a techie for JM, i had to sometimes assist the salestaff on the floor when it was busy.
this woman (mid 40’s) approached me, and told me she was looking for a laptop for her son as a 16th birthday present.
we looked around, and found a nice little toshiba netbook (he was going abroad and needed something small) and i started explaining the specs to her. she cut me off saying:
“now that’s all well and good, but i guess being for a 16 year old, the most important question is: is it Jizz proof?”
i started laughing
she didn’t
she just starred at me…
i still to this day do not know if she was serious……
cool story pixel *pats self on shoulder*
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Also, Killing floor American voice actor. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5eQtXvPvrM Is it just me or does he sound a bit like Nick from left for dead 2?
Clue as to what i’m up to for Kommunity Prizes??
Check out the latest member of the KKP Forums
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Lol, are you confused, Cracks?
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I’m just wondering what the hell Loops has planned, and how he managed to pull a name like that.
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So true. I’m scared D:
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So, how about that weekend?
Friday night – Work Christmas breakup. Many beverages consumed. No hangover \o/
I did sweet bugger all. Sat in bed on Saturday morning playing Mario Kart 7 and watching Community. Played some Battlefield 3 in the afternoon. Some WoW in the evening and checked out Trine 2.
Sunday, woke up late (10:30). Didn’t do much. Bit of BF3 and WoW. Watched Super 8 with a couple of mates last night over pizza and beers.
@Steve-O It’s more of a horror/thriller, but check out Guillermo Del Toro’s “The Strain”. I got it on my iPad because it was $5 and loved it!
Finally, SWTOR this week!!!
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What did you think of Super 8? Im still not sure if I liked it. It was well done but seemed a lot of movie for not much storyline.
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Super 8 was laaaaaame. Had the worst second half I’ve seen in a long time. It’s a pity caus it was setup rather well, they just seemed to fall for cliche and the easy way out.
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Such as the overdone sentiment with the stupid lame mother necklace flying up into the sky and everyones crying and being super lame?
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YOUR FACE IS LAME! Or something.
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I loved The Goonies. Who cares that the movie is older than I am. (sorry if that makes you feel old Strange, not my intention)
I think I’m getting Super 8 for christmas, I’m looking forward to finally watching it. So far I’ve managed to not hear any spoilers, so hopefully it’ll be good
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I’ll give you a clue – its lame.
/troll
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Why must we wait so long to see The Muppets in cinema?
Why did I wait so long to see Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead?
Siri doesn’t know the answers, maybe TAY does.
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This. I was dying to see The Muppets, went and checked the village cinemas website last night, found out it isn’t out until January.
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It’s just so damned clever.
“Rosencrantz!”
“Yes?”
“Guildenstern!”
“Yes?”
“Do you not discriminate?”
“Huh?”The life of a minor character is a strange one.
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I couldn’t find a copy on my wanderings this lunch break, but I’m going to take a look around some other stores tomorrow.
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4 DAY WEEK FTW \o/
off to Yarrangobilly this friday for a traditional 5 day family christmas…
please note that even though it’s a family event there will be drinking involved… mainly because my missus’ uncle is coming… this guy is one of those stereotypical rich types, that lives in singapore, has between 5 – 6 girlfriends (or being singapore, hopefully female) at anyone time and can drink anyone under the table… i shall be contesting against him, despite me already knowing that it will be complete and utter defeat… but what a defeat it will be \o/
best/worst part is that being Yarrangobilly, there’s no internet, no mobile coverage and a single wired phone… SO I’LL BE VIRTUALLY UNCONTACTABLE… WOOOOOOO \o/… also Nerf might be involved
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Woo Nerf, Nerf is fun. Which Nerf is best Nerf for you? Personally I’d go with my Alpha Trooper,
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i love revolvers so i always bring my maverick out…
although their new disc series is amazing, i’ve already bought the Vigilon and the Praxis… OMG the praxis… it is so much fun, proper foregrib loading mechanism and all… and the new pumps has the most satisfying *clunks* ever…
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The Maverick is a nice choice, but personally I like the other nerf six-shooter, the Speedlaod 6, but it’s not in Aus yet, I also like the look of the Barrel Break, but that’s not in Australia either, CURSE YOU HASBRO
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this intrigues me, i will have to look into this, i was not even aware of it’s existence
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MY weekend was uneventfully eventful, by which I mean, nothing intersing at all happened, I watched Spive VGAs (bleh) and WCG LoL games (congrats USA), I played Terraria working towards fighting the Jnyy bs Syrfu naq fgnegvat Uneqzbqr (ROT 13’d (endgame spoilers)), and I’ll be playing some more of that today.
I just wanted to say that just to let people know, and to apologise for not reading or posting in TAY last week, I just needed a short break from the shenanigans.
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aahh fairo…
well i hope everything has been settled down then so you may yet again revel in the awesomeness here…
also we should have another game of TF2,MC Somethingsomething soon, i quite enjoyed the last game we played
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Chill sounds like a good description, let’s all be chill and have chill weeks (ha, this is TAY, that’ll never happen).
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TAY, chill? Maybe if we stuck it in an industrial size chill room at -24 degrees Celsius.
My weekend was pretty awesome & chill to, but now it’s the calm before the storm (aka Christmas) lolol
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@ Scree – i know you’re know but i thought you may want to be part of the Kotaku Kristmas Project
Shoot me an email to troy(dt)cleary(at)hotmail(dotcom) and i’ll point you in the right direction
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It’s okay, I figured it was new, because I also confused know, new and knew XD
I was wondering about that. I heard “Kotaku Kristmas Project” and that was it. I don’t actually know what it is.
So i will be sending an email. =D-
Due to my occasional night time/weekend posting, I’m used to having you around, so I only just realised that you’re here in the middle of the day 😛
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So its not too late to want in on it? All the teasing details on TAY and Twitter have really intrigued me lately. Unless it requires money, because I am almost flat broke right now.
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Maaan… I dont normally care at all for first person shooters. I’ve avoided them like the plague. But one game is changing my mind on this for the first time, and that game is Bioshock Infinite. Looks so so amazing…
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I avoid them too.Well, after Quake and Heretic and Hexen.
But I made an exception for Bioshock. And I did not regret it. I’m very much looking forward to Infinite, as I wasn’t a fan of Bioshock 2.-
Yeah the Bioshocks already out ave had me intrigued for a long time. I read up a little on the stories to convince myself to play them, and they do seem pretty darn interesting. Its just… I cant bring myself to play games about silly powers and what looks like repetitive gameplay. Mebe I’m wrong, I dunno, just the vibe I got watching my bro play…
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“silly powers and what looks like repetitive gameplay”
And yet you like Zelda.BURN
I’m just joking, I like Zelda too.
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Hehehe yeeaaaah… but srsly, injecting drugs and then shooting fireballs and lightning attacks? Wat?
But yeah its the story I want to play it for.
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Eating a mushroom and doubling in size?
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Yeah yeah yeah ok ok, but Mario is Mario maaan. Bioshock is trying to be convey a more human story, grounded more in reality than Mario.
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I know. Just being cheeky.
The way the powers are represented visually is pretty cool, like holes opening in your arms with bees crawling out of them.
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Also I’ve discovered it isn’t to your advantage in soccer to jump in the air, twist your leg as much as you can, then land down on it with all your weight. It doesnt stop the attacker and it just hurts a lot.
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Oh man, I remember that feeling. Partially tore a ligament a while back from doing that, cause I landed on the ball in the process.
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Oooo… ahhhh… geez, I’m not sure how I could cope with an added landing on the ball to my spectacle. I’m hobbling around as it is, I think if there was a ball thrown in too I’d be bed ridden.
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The fun part was how the loud pop/snap was heard by most of the people there. At least, this is what I was told. It was mostly white noise and a searing pain for me 😛
The worst part is that they immediately strapped my ankle to keep it still.
Over my leg hair
I have hairy legs.
I basically had to wax sidewards, with glue in stead of wax.
Yep. I cried blood a little.
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This actually makes me feel a lot better about my semi pain hobbling. It could always be worse…
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so, I sold 3 shirts this month alone!
That’s a big step up fro the four shirts I sold from July to November.
If it’s anyone here, then I just want to say think you!
If it’s not, then why the hell not!?!?
http://www.redbubble.com/people/cronotriggr/
LOOK! They’re all 50% off*!
*Not 50% off. That was a lie.
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I feel bad because I went to buy a couple of shirts from your RedBubble, but I got distracted and ended up buying a Demon’s Souls and a Skyrim one instead.
Afternoon all. A little Late to tay this week owing to a ripper of a migraine i have partially quashed with some bills of rejuvenation.
Weekend was busy, little gaming included. Puppylicks’ brothers bucks was indeed epic.
Most of my gaming was done on my iphone this weekend. Addicted to on of trinity’s rippoffs, reckon i have spent about 4 hours in the last week at least playin this game. Who said ripoffs can not be good??
Why does Assassin’s Creed: Revelations feel like a bunch of people got together and decided to break the best things about the game and focus on elements that aren’t interesting? 🙁 The hook blade ruins the climbing flow and the game punishes you for trying to have fun by making you play tower defense 🙁
(Yes, I am late to the party)
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The Den Defense wasn’t too bad once you unlocked a few more unit types, and having assassins lock up your dens was handy.
Make sure you collect at least 30 animus fragments in order to access all of the Desmond stuff. Very enjoyable.
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But now if I do any of that I need to stop and go find some guys to bribe so I don’t get penalized with a game mode I don’t want to play.
You know what else sucks? I went and redeemed my stupid online code thing expecting to actually get something for it, but all it does is lets me play a multiplayer mode I will absolutely categorically not touch ever? What a waste. Could have given that to someone else. If they want the game to be a multiplayer game then sell a separate multiplayer game and give people a discount if they have a code. I feel like I’ve gotten half a game because I don’t play console multiplayer as a rule. It’s odd, actually, because I never feel this way about games which always had a multiplayer component. That was just something I accepted. But I get really upset when they shoehorn it into my single player series a few installments in. Is that inconsistent?
Also, there’s some kind of single player DLC available. Anyone know if it’s worth the money? I never bothered with the DLC in the previous ones because I was already finished with the game when they came out, but I’ve ended up sitting on my copy of Revelations for a month without touching it…
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I don’t mind it as a concept, since it fits in with the idea of becoming a leader. Same with the recruits. I like to take on guards myself, but sometimes it’s just as fun deploying some minions and watching them work their magic.
I’m not much of a multiplayer fan, but I’m really enjoying AC’s.
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I’m glad we’re leaving Ezio behind then, because if bad minigames are what happens when you start being an Assassin leader then I’d rather play as a recruit again.
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Bonus objective: don’t kill anyone – just send in your AssBros! No, seriously. Using your other assassins to kill guards doesn’t fail these bonus objectives.
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I like setting off a bunch of guards, who come running at me, swinging axes and whatnot at my head, only to die at my feet with naught but a whistle.
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Your templar awareness now also goes up every time you buy a freaking shop. So it becomes a pattern of, buy shop, bribe herald, buy shop, bribe herald. But then renovating Constantinople is pretty pointless, I found, since it really seems to have no effect on the city at all. At least with Rome it somewhat changed the behaviour of NPC’s who went from crying to dancing in the streets sometimes.
Also there’s no single player DLC yet, unless you’re talking about preorder bonuses like that Vlad mission. There is…multiplayer DLC, though. Hoorah. New characters less than a month after the game comes out. Even more appalling is their plan to release a multiplayer map pack next month that is half new maps, half old maps from Brotherhood. So they’re charging for old content, sort of. Ridiculous. *
*I know you don’t seem to be concerned with the multiplayer personally, I just figured it was easiest to complain about it in this comment.
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The Ishak Pasha armour is indeed badass. All shiny and masky. Pity you could get it before unlocking regular armour at the blacksmiths, rendering the blacksmith almost completely useless. Also, same with Vlad’s sword. And some dagger I got from assassin side quest stuff.
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I’ll buy all of it later.
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Honestly I barely felt any difference between any of the weapons I bought. Some just look different, that seemed to be it.
Always good fun to prowl the streets with a bearded axe, though.
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Also, watch the Embers dvd if you can get your hands on it (came with the Animus edition) – it wraps up Ezio’s story post-Rev rather nicely.
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Oh, Embers is video content? Microsoft don’t make that very obvious, I thought it was proper DLC. Screw that then.
Was just in JB Hifi during my lunch break, meandering around trying to find something interesting.
A woman asked me “are you working?”
I can only assume she meant “do you work here?” but that seems rather odd.
To make it clear how odd this is, let me describe my current state of dress.
I’m wearing a navy blue polo top with white sleeves and my work logo. I have dark grey slacks and beat up (but incredibly comfortable) black leather Chucks. My hair is a little longer than it should be because of my recently changed decision to grow it long, but it is more kempt than unkempt. I’m clean-shaven and lack both piercings and tattoos.
None of these things to describe me should make anyone familiar with the JB Hifi staff think that I was one of them.
So she surely couldn’t of meant that.
Did she mean was I working for my actual employer? Did she spot my company logo on my shirt and think to ask me a work related question? I doubt it. My work is rather unrelated to JB Hifi and their wares.
What a peculiar question.
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I’m thinking this is a post by a Bunny imposter. Surely Bunny would never say “couldn’t of” instead of “couldn’t have”? 😛
Also, yes that is peculiar. What was your response?
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Dangit. This is what happens when I type with a mouth full of delicious curry. Normally I’m better at not making Rocketman-esque mistakes.
My response was a simple “No” before continuing on my merry way.
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Were your fishnets showing under your slacks, because you know when they asked were you working, maybe they meant, were you working.
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People ALWAYS assume I work in JB Hi-Fi. No idea why. To be fair, as long as their question is game or DVD related, I’m also a lot better at helping them than an average JB employee.
Related: http://youtu.be/LpXxkyftpxs
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I have pre-ordered Mass Effect 3 Collectors(the irony) Edition. My journey is complete.
*Self satisfied grin 🙂
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I forgot about that game. But I’m looking forward to it! Kind of. It seems a bit too actiony. I’m sure I’ll still have fun and the story will be awesome, it’s just that I really like the RPG elements in the first one. But I digress.
ME3! yay!
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curse you, curse you and all the halflings..
wait…
money, people with money…yes curse you with money
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*Whispers*
All you need is $10 man, that will put it on pre-order with GAME…
DooooOOOOOooooo IIIiiiiiiiitttttTTTTTtttttt!!!!-
*twitch* nnnngerg
huurgh
the mind control…. HOW ARE YOU DOING THIS*feeds a $10 note through the disc tray*
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Forgive me, I usually resist the temptation to gloat about things like this, but I cannot resist when it comes to ME3.
I have played ME3!!!!!!!!!!!
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Must not click link…. Must resist temptation…. Must remain in the dark…… Must know nothing about game….
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Freeze S Preston Icequire!
I saw you comment last week in a non-TAY article and was wondering why you had abandoned us. I am very glad to see you have returned to us today!
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It’s been a bit busy at work lately. Been pulling 12 hour shifts and dashing from job to job so been a bit hard to keep up with TAY.
But I promise to try to spend more time spouting uninformed opinions and unfunny jokes for all.
So my wife ordered me a copy of skyrim. Downside being, it wont be delivered until after xmas. So i may need to avoid any skyrim related posts until then, lest i decide to jump on a plane and try to meet my package en route to my house.
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I used to find Internet memes amusing but then everyone started talking about taking an arrow to the knee.
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Here I was thinking I was the only person already fed up with all this “arrow to the knee” stuff. It was never overly funny in the first place!
Also, Tad spammed my Twitter the other day with it.
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I reckon I liked it for about 24 hours longer than many other people did, even defending Lamboman007 for using it on Friday, but now I am completely over it!
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Skyrim! yeah, that game’s pretty great. Especially when you do the thing with the thing that you find with that thing.
SKYRIM!
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I only just found out what Fus Rah Do meant last night. I was always wondering. Only took 60hrs and 35 levels.
I should pay a little more attention to the story quests.
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Aye Fah Cue has nothing on “Din Mor”
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No, your mother.
Burn.
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Dear Chuloop-Tech Industries
following my original email concerning certain malfunctions that had been observed while using one of your products, i would like to ask for some advice.
i know that originally it was told that 2 streams was indeed acceptable and occurs on random occasions.
i would like to note that i earlier today observed a total of 3 streams, in a total arc of 120 degrees, causing some mishap.
after the inital thought of “That shit ain’t right” i started getting concerned.
can i as i keep using your product, keep expecting it to create more and more malfunctions like this? if i wanted weird beams of fluids in wide arcs and spirals i think i should have gone with the more popular and slightly cheaper Nerf Super Soaker range.
regards
a concerned customer
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*re reads original post*
PS
would like to add this is NOT in regards to Chuloopa’s Penile Attachment, but rather the spin off variant that i am currently equipped with
Sorry if any misunderstanding was had
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Dear Worried Customer,
You’ll be chuffed to know that the problem you are experiencing is not related to a Chuloop-Tech Industries related product, but rather a cheap Chines knock-off.
You can normally tell by the smaller size.You have, effectively, ‘pissed away’ any money you had of spent on the second rate attachment.
Had you of bought a patented Chuloop-Tech Industries penile attachment, the only thing that would have been ‘pissed away’ would be indeed your own piss.We thank you for your email and would like to point out the attached .pdf file entitled “How to get the most from your artificial wang” to further inform you of the superiority of Chuloop-Tech penile accessories.
Regards,
Troy Cleary
CEO of THE POOOWWAHHHHHHH – YEAH!-
Dear Representative of Chuloop-tech,
well i am ecstatic and elated, i was going to point out the obvious spelling error, as it does say Chulopi-tech and the marketing slogan “Short, Shriveled and a bit to the left” was not the most effective motto either.
obviously i am victim of a cheap knockoff which explains the apparent slackness i’ve also been experiencing…
Thank you,
i will now go out and attempt to find a certified store the sells your productsCheers
A not so concerned anymore customer
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I am currently emptying my pockets on EB’s website for the first time ever. I feel dirty giving money to them, but things are “cheap”
So, ended up sorting out SWTOR – got a friend in the US to order for me, he’s taking delivery, emailed me the preorder code and is going to email me the gamecode contained within the box when it rocks up.
Should TAY people who might be interested playing together , etc, maybe work out which server, whether Republic/Empire, etc? Personally, I was probably leaning a little towards Empire.
(NegativeZero? Klutar?)
I’m still downloading client, trying to do it in offpeak. :/
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I preordered via Amazon right when it was first available, I wish I could use this approach to work around their stupid grace period bullshit as well. 🙁
After the beta weekend my small guild were kind of split over which side to play. We decided to stay Republic for now, but we’re giving it a couple of weeks to decide whether to swap over. We’ve got our guild all registered and stuff so we should be allocated to a server. No idea which yet.
By the way, if you were in one of the final two beta weekends you didn’t need to re-download, you can just patch to current, it’s a couple of hundred mb at the most.
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I was too late to the beta party to be involved in it. The OP was just trying to test the waters of which TAYbies would be interesting in playing w/ each other.
Did the beta indicate who many characters a single account might be able to make? My only other experience with this type of game is probably WoW, so I’m bringing in some assumptions from there…
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I didn’t create enough characters to test the limits so not sure. I’m sure there is a limit though.
You’re probably not going to want to make as many characters however. The actual leveling experience is fairly linear. You go to the same places and do a lot of the same stuff, though the storyline tying the areas together may change for each class. I played a Sith Warrior and an Imperial Agent for the beta and their starter areas were different, but they both came together into the same zone which I did parts of in the same order.
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I was more wondering about whether a single account could have a Republic character and an Imperial character present in their roster at the same time.
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Oh. Yes, that’s cool. Same server I think too.
I never understood why they limited it in WoW. It was honestly an asinine restriction.
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I’ll (hopefully) be pre-ordering it sometime this week from zavvi, so I won’t be playing it till early January. Imma gonna go with Repbulic methinks 🙂
So is anyone here familiar with Telstra’s freedom connect plans?
My father about 4 months back renewed his contract with Telstra for 49 a month, they said they’d ring back and ask which phone he wanted for free they failed to do this & I am just chasing it up now because they offered us the HTC Mozart for free.
Now under the 49 a month freedom connect plan with phone there’s no word on what phones are now available, Would he still be eligible for the phone since at the time of resigning the contract it was available for him..
Cause I don’t want to be dicked around on the phone by a Filipino whom I can hardly understand or who has no idea what I am on about.
TL;DR will Telstra still give us a free phone even though there’s no word on their site anymore and at the time they promised us a free phone.
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If you can’t find help here, try the Whirlpool forums. People over there are pretty good at this sort of thing.
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I asked for help there regarding 3G modems last week or week before (you know the ones that looks like an ADSL modem but are 3G instead) I got totally shafted. The users there can be rather rude. So I prefer just to ask you lot \o/
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Of course, Whirlpool! I might even hit up their 24/7 online support. Since they’re really helpful & friendly.
Wow, why didn’t I think before asking haha.
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I hope you have some luck with this, the Mozart 7 is fairly nice. Or at least, Windows Phone 7 is. I switched over to mine from my iPhone just after the 7.5 update and the more I use it, the more I like it. Especially the way it draws stuff together into one place, rather than a separate app for every online service, eg I can be Texting someone and seamlessly switch over to facebook chat with them or the like, or I can look up a contact and it’ll give me their twitter feed, facebook status etc. I wasn’t hugely locked into the iOS app market though, only ever used a few apps on my phone so it was easier for me to swap.
(Also, standard disclaimer: I work for Microsoft so might be biased :P)
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Work for Microsoft? Uhhh…I swear, this OS is legit 😐
I was actually going to get a Window phone. Ended up with a Galaxy S2 purely cause I got $20 off a month from where I used to work 😛
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Mines legit, I <3 MSDNAA. I am going to miss it now i'm not going to TAFE 🙁
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They got back to me in around 30 minutes on their Facebook page which is rather good imo. I can still get the Mozart, they also offer an iPhone 4 16GB & Galaxy S now too for 0 dollars on the plan.
As tempting as an iPhone or Android experience is, I just love how Windows 7 works after demoing it instore.
All good as long as your opinion is genuine, doesn’t matter who you work for 😛
Also with Windows 7, I can get all the apps I want including the Blizzard Authenticator, which is a big selling point for me since my account got hacked just last week when the new Warcraft patch debuted >.<
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Hey, I only got 9 posts last week… sad days indeed. Im really hoping that I can spend more time in here next year. The good news is that I am working on a couple of articles that I hope to get published on Kotaku so that is giving me something to work on 🙂
If anyone is interested, No handle and any other hip hop heads, here is the video i made of the Jedi Mind Tricks show on Thursday night. Amazing show, so glad I went to it man. Footage is OK as is audio as this was all done with an iphone…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Xra1__CvLI
Doubt this will convert anyone to hip hop, but gotta show it off.
Hope you all have a good week and that the griefing issues off the MC server have subsided.
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i think your scary message when you log in has deterred any future griefers 😛
MC has been good over the weekend actually, had some good times on there…i suggest we who are on this server, at some point all get together in game for a giant group photo… i think that’d be awesome… could just be me
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I clicked the link and all i got was a lot of angry-sounding people yelling at me.
I was REALLY scared :s
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Oh yeah.. needed a NSFW or low volume linky actually… sorry..
And dont worry, he was not angry at you, just the world in general… 🙂
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More LoL speak:
We had a few good games over the weekend but here’s a link to one of the best games we’ve had in ages.
http://i1231.photobucket.com/albums/ee509/GorzillaAU/PvP2-nearperfectgameStevofed.jpg
The team consisted of Noobheadshot, Mini numbers (nos), Stevo, TechKnight and myself.
the entire opposing team was made up of lvl 30 summoners all with at least 200 wins under their belt. We killed them with out losing any turrets and taking every dragon kill. We never bothered with Barron.
As you can see from the score even our lest experienced player, Nos, did very well.
Only Stevo the Devo let us down with his continuous feeding. We told him to practice on bot matches before he was alowed to play with us again.
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Steve-O always feeds. Such a nuisance to have him on your team, especially if you’re Janna because you have to babysit him the entire game.
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Yeah, that one one of the best things about it was they were being good sports.
It always makes for a better game when both teams can get along.
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Which could be an accidental side effect of the ranked teams. No solo queue rage quitters.
Maybe we need a KotakBU team, which is like the weaker little brother to the A team
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Once in a blue moon (or red moon, I suppose with teh Eclipse and all), it happens.
IIRC, it usually happens with another pre-made team of 5. First ever time it happened was a great match against another bunch of Australians which went for over an hour. We eventually lost, but it was really a “I ain’t even mad” thing, the match was that good. I think Techy even started talking AFL with them in the post game chat.
A more recent one was when the other team decided to roll around from the start as a 5-man gank squad. They managed to take out Harli in mid, but lost one of their members to a turret execute, then moved up top and took one of us out, before two of theirs got turret executed. I was at bot with someone and we quickly took their tower, and I suppose by this point they realised they had ballsed up their strategy, but coudln’t recover from it, because I think f4ction was just murdering everyone on their team. We were chatting to them throughout the game, and it’s probably the most fun I’ve ever had in the game.I guess chances are, no one wants to play with a rager, and that’s why they solo queue. With pre-made 5 man teams, they’re there playing with their friends for fun.
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That is, in the second game, once they figured they couldn’t recover, they just started doing troll-y things just for fun.
At one point, me and thir Blitzcrank had a “Who can get the furthest up the enemy’s summoning platform” competition.
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Has anyone tried Guzman Y Gomez Mexican yet? My god. Tried it a few weeks ago and now almost live there.
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It probably is a bit overrated but you’d be surprised how little there is in the way of Mexican on the gold coast. There’s montezumas on every corner serving their over and twice cooked slurry and a joint called the jungle which is awesome but $30 a nachos.
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I actually think there is one at Robina buried amongst a bunch of great restaurants. Never tried it. Any good?
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They focus on the zingy, fresh flavours and their chips have an awesome lime and chilli seasoning on them.
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yesssssssss, I work about a 10 minute walk from the one in Newtown in Sydney, and I love going there for lunch.
Last night, Blaghs and I did the Portal 2 co-op DLC.
Long story short, we am the greetest.
We managed to overthink pretty much every puzzle. It was quite impressive really. There were far too many times where facepalming ensued once we realised how we were meant to do it.
It’s a simple game. Unfortunately, we’re simpletons and that made things a little less simple.
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I was, but Steam was all “SO I HEARD YOU LIKE DOWNLOADING AT 17 KB/s”.
Funny thing, I don’t really.
Don’t get me wrong, I still remember the days of dialup, but man. I just sort of feel like maybe Optus Cable in the Sydney Metro area should maybe go a little faster.-
I ditched Optus earlier this year for iiNet. Never been happier. Optus is just doing it to annoy you. I can imagine them behind a counter laughing at everyone getting frustrated.
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And here I thought my wireless modem didn’t like rain /o\
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Funnily enough I knew someone who lost internet every time his sister had a shower.
So he lost it often.
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I could either make a French joke here or an incest joke here and neither of them seem like a particularly good idea.
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I like to think that there’s an Optus employee whose sole job is to do just this.
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I thought that was all their jobs consisted of?
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Where can I sign up!?
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I’m sure the interview consist of youtube troll videos and seeing whether you laugh or not.
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I thought iinet used Optus’ network?
We’re with iinet and our internet has been crapping out extremely often over the last couple of weeks. Every time I tried to play Dark Souls it would disappear at the most inconvenient times, and send me back to the menu. I have to play in Offline Mode and it’s not quite as fun.
They use Telstras…or is that only for phone lines. Anyway give them a call, they should fix it up straight away for you. That’s what I do whenever something doesn’t work.
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Which I assume was never, considering it is a game about creating and utilising Portals.
Bish brand advice: It helps.
I, too, overthought every puzzle in the DLC. Easily took me more than twice as long as it should have to solve it all. Funny how simple puzzles can make you feel like an idiot because you were too smart.
Wait if you were playing portal with Blaghman, how was he posting on TAY most of the night o_o
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Both actually. Console and PC.
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Shhh, you aren’t meant to let people know that we multiplatform peoples exist.
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That’s because we don’t. >_> <_<
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Exactly!
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I suppose PC gamers need some description nowadays, since they have become rare and shy of the Console Kiddies, as they call us multiplatformers. They are (or were) a little people, about half our height, and smaller than the bearded dwarves. PC Gamers have no beards. There is little or no magic about them except the ordinary everyday sort which helps them to disappear quietly and quickly when large stupid folk like you and me come blundering along, making a noise like elephants which they can hear a mile off.
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He is a wizard.
He even has a cloak to prove it.
They don’t just give those out to just anyone you know.
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It’s true, they don’t.
Really the only way to get one, if you’re not a wizard, is to kill a wizard. Of course, you then gain the wizard’s powers and become a wizard but that’s just a pesky detail.
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I think this is how becoming the President of the United States works, too.
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I’m fairly sure that nobody knows how you actually become President of the United States.
Every 4 or 8 years, there’s a big fanfare and someone assumes the position but try to get them to explain how they got there and they’ll just look at you funny.
Either they don’t know or they don’t want you to know.
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Did you hear (maybe you have, being on Twitter and stuff)?
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It was hilarious.
The guy is already regarded as a complete moron and then he comes out with “I’m not ashamed to call myself a Christian but you don’t have to be on the pews every Sunday to know that there’s something wrong with this country when gays can openly serve in the military but our kids can’s celebrate Christmas in our schools.”
Slightly paraphrased but what he actually said has the same huge gaping flaws in it.
How many Americans Christians are ashamed of that fact? How many Americans can run for president (and stand a chance in hell) if they aren’t Christian?
How are gay people openly serving a bad thing? How is that related to this complete misrepresentation of the current status of religion in American schools?
On the plus side, he wears the same jacket that one of the guys in Brokeback Mountain wears.
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Nah, it’s nowhere near the top.
Strong has 629,927 dislikes.
Justin Beiber – Baby has 2,081,438 dislikes.
Friday had even more than that before it was taken down and rehosted (deliberately to reset the like/dislike count).
Still, it’s a rather impressive number. I like how there isn’t a single Republican Presidential candidate that would stand a chance of election in a sane country. Doesn’t bode well for America but makes for great entertainment.
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But the guy who is now leading, Newt Gingrich. What a name! I would vote for that name. What does it it even mean!?
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Somehow I don’t think old mate New stands much of a chance either.
That’s ad was done by a Republican candidate. Imagine how brutal the Democrats will be with a dude like that.
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Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards.
I cloned him with my experimental cloning machine \o/ but shhh don’t tell any of the governments, I am sure I might win a free stay at one of the governments many final correctional facilities.
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Just be lucky it’s a Portal gun & not a Crowbar & Gravity Gun, we’d all be copping toilets to the cranium them D:
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Or a souped up gravity gun or else we’d be getting other people thrown at our heads.
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Oh god no D:
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Also, for some reason I find it amusing when people who don’t post in TAY tell me to get off the website.
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Knock him off his high horse!
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Hehe Oh Strange don’t ever leave. I also find it funny but seriously since you have a different opinion than me on a topic get off this site 😛
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Should be using pen by now.
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I didn’t have an issue with the article, then again that is a turn of phrase that I often use
The comments on the other hand…….well I think Jordaan Mylonas had it right
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WHY U HATE CHUCK NORRIS. I hate more the other chick about her boyfriend giving her WoW. SO DUMB!
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Chuck is a poser. And also a liar. He takes credit for all those crazy things but the reality is those stories were actually about Vin Diesel.
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Me too. I mean I saw it on Kotaku, but there was no sound but then I actually saw it on the TV. It’s kind of sad how he’s trying to fit the image the internet made from him.
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Just realised I did that stupid thing where I could just google something, and didn’t.
1940.
He’s older than my dad…
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Wasn’t sure what you were talking about then I see him. Staring. Silently judging. Speaking in my head. Whats that? No. No chuck. I won’t do it. No. No. Don’t make me. Noooooooo arrrrrrghhh ureerrrrrrrrrrrrr.
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My bones are deformed or something. If I use my ‘ergonomic’ mouse I get a sore hand & arm. But if I use my normal, non-ergonomic mouse like I have since I was a child, I’m fine.
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Importantly, both.
Make sure you are sitting up right but with a slightly angled view to the screen rather than looking straight on.
Have the mouse close to your body to avoid fatiguing your arm.
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Yeah I’m already doing all that, just can’t use this mouse.
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Or maybe they aren’t really ergonomical and they just told you that to make you think you were de-erged?
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Are you suggesting that peripheral manufacturers might not be honest?!
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ergonomics? what’s this travesty?
only ergonomics i know is when i use something long enough that the shape gets indented in my hands… hence the DS and mouse marks in my pastry skin… hardcore gaming is not meant to be comfortable, we do it through blood, sweat, tears and carpal tunnel
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Erm…for legal reasons, I think they might need to change the timeframe slightly:
“The promotion commences at 15.00 am AEST on 12 December 2011 and closes at 12:00pm AEST on 12 December 2011”
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Greetings and Salutations! I have not slept a single second since thursday night, and it has NOTHING to do with Skyrim!!! :0 (seriously. I can’t even play it on my pc atm).. I honestly have no idea why I haven’t been tired though. Usually if I’m up more than 24 hours, I’ll start to get drowsy at least, and if I push through, I’ll get my second wind, but not this time. I have been wide awake and not even yawned or anything.. This is day 4 now. I Seriously hope I get tired by tonight. I don’t wish to spend another night of lying in bed for 3 hours and then giving up and getting back up to do something :\
I don’t need any lectures about coffee or coke either.. I haven’t had any more than usual!!! 😉
On a positive note, I just got my best babe in Japan to pre-order a PSVita for a friend of mine! Should be here in a couple of weeks! w00t! Not mine, but at least I’ll get to have a go and see what it’s like!! 🙂
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Hi Welbot. I’d see a doctor about that.
And if you need to sleep, try to keep the room as cool as possible.
Hope this helps.
Quick Xmas gift idea for fiance. Playstation Move with a couple of decent games … reading some reviews seems to suggest there aren’t any!
“…move controls tacked on …” is a common comment.
Are there any decent dancing/fun-sport move games for a non-gamer girl, or is it a lost cause???
If I could find something she’d enjoy it would go some way to justifying my PS3 and ‘lost’ hours to her.
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The IGN review makes it seem like the silhouette guy is having a great time dancing like a pro whilst you are flailing about with no clue of what is coming next
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I wouldn’t mind checking out heavy rain and de Blob 2, but she’d probably think I’d just bought them for myself … which would be true.
Sports Champions and Singstar Dance … maybe I’d get away with those. The additional worry in Sports Champions is mis-firing the arrow and … screw it, maybe I’ll just try to get her psyched for Skyrim.
I’m wondering if Halo Anniversary is worth picking up in EB’s online sale today. $38 seems like a decent asking price, and I never have played all the way through the original Halo…
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Halo being a secret passion of mine that i enjoy all by myself, as one of my guilty pleasures, i’d sau DOOOOO IIIIIIT…. i got Anniversary and it is good fun… nothing has really changed, except for a few “terminals” with some background story to add to the Halo lore, it is Halo Combat Evolved in all it’s HD (or not) glory
Queensland Health is being abolished and two new agencies (one administrative, the other handling operations) will take its place.
I guess that leaves time for one last colossal fuck-up.
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They’re scrapping it because it’s a bloated behemoth riddled with inefficiency.
But they’re not firing anyone. Just making it two companies instead of one.
So instead of a giant bloated corpse, it’s two regular sized bloated corpses.
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The entire system of government in Australia is a bloated behemoth riddled with inefficiency. Don’t see them scrapping that any time soon though. Two departments just means double the cushy positions for their cronies.
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Is this how they found out there was a massive gaping hole where $16 million should have been?
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I think they found that gaping hole where $16m should be and went “fuck it, let’s have a do-over”.
I’m not a fan of state governments. Not Labor’s state government or the potential LNP state government. Just state governments in general. Federalise it and be done with this madness.
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I have a penknife at work. Unfortunately my blade has been dulled by cutting too many useless objects (mainly tomatoes and packaging tape). Anyone know what the correct procedure for getting a swiss army knife re-sharpened is? Or should I just go buy another one (bonus: I’d have tweezers again)
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Assuming you don’t have a grindstone of your own and don’t want to simply hone the blade, go to one of those shoe/watch repair places that make keys. They will probably be able to do it for free.
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I don’t, but I would like to get a decent grindstone. I suspect the blade on this is too small to use with one designed for kitchen knives though, which seems to be the common type. Also I’d have no idea to use it. So time to find a shoe guy.
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Ask your local (or international, whatever, I won’t tell you who you can and can’t talk to) key-cutter/cobbler dude/dudette. I know they do meat cleavers and other sorts of knives, not sure about pocket knives though. Won’t hurt to task, though.
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Where I work, rather than using penkives, we keep a stock of scalpel blades/handles at work (not medical use). If a blade becomes dull, replacement is pretty trivial.
Maaaaan, looks like my soccer related injury is something something tear in some tendon in my leg something something. Which means I cant play indoor soccer for like a month :'(
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nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
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Well that’s unlucky, because primary stockholders (me) in Chuloop-Tech Industries just saw a desperate message from the CEO, assumed something catastrophic had happened and sold all their stock.
Your stock price is now $0.01. Welcome to business social networking 😀
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At least it was a soccer injury, not as embarrassing as one of the directors of my company.
Join the staff for a game of netball and lasted 30 seconds before having to go off hurt with a torn calf muscle. It was very funny listening to him tell clients about his ‘basketball’ injury as he was too embarrassed to tell the true story
Tales of Graces F in March 13 2012. In the US.
I guess that means March 2014 for us since it’s Namco. At least they’re not launching it the same month as a Final Fantasy game for once. Trouble is, Mass Effect 3 launches less than a week beforehand. Due to postage I’m sure the two games will end up arriving on the same day and leave me conflicted 🙁
A question for my fellow TAYbies. Where does everyone stand on fanfiction stories? Love it? Loathe it? Tolerate and ignore it?
I have a pile of physical books that stack up to my armpit that I haven’t read yet, but I seem to spend all my spare time reading fanfiction. I think I have a problem. I’ll mostly stick Harry Potter stories, but I’ll often venture out and read some Mass Effect, Final Fantasy, Digimon, whatever I happen to come across. I try and go for stories that are longer/have a lot of reviews as they tend to be better than a lot of the short stories that I try to avoid like the plague.
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I personally don’t go near fanfiction. I think it’s great that it’s out there and would be right there in support of the writers if the IP owners ever decided to try and stop it. But I don’t have any interest in reading it.
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I used to be really into fanfiction when I was younger. Not so much now, at least not serious stuff. But if you enjoy it I personally don’t see anything wrong with it.
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I used to read a bit of fanfiction, but lately I’ve almost forgotten about it entirely.
It really seemed pointless for the most part, because most of the material you came across ended up being stories about romantically linking characters who had never interacted in the series before or were just incompatible with each other in general. But then I guess that’s personal opinion, really.
Still, I’ve read some fantastic fanfics in the past. The most memorable one was a Dragonball Z fanfic that was a lot more thematically dark and was centred more around a non-corporeal enemy and the gradual erasure of the universe. Might sound a bit corny from my description, but it was well written (at least to my then ten year old sensibilities) and now that I’m thinking about it again, I’d love to try and track it down for another read.
In, uh…conclusion, I think there’s definitely some great stories to be found in fan fiction, and when you find a real gem it’s just fantastic. The big problem is that its often bogged down by shipping fics and strange crossovers.
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This seems to be my experience as well, for the most part. I found a few phenomenal stories right when I started reading and have been searching for more to reach those heights ever since. Its like a drug, first hits always the best* But ever since those first few there really hasn’t been anything thats been as good
*Have never taken drugs, so have no idea what I’m on about
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As an exceedingly experienced* drug taker, I found it to be more like this. You have some drug, and go meh. You decide never to bother again, and go back to drinking alcohol.
*inexperienced
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I also have vast* experience with alcohol and find it my drug of choice
*no
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No experience with alcohol, what are you, twelve? (It should be noted, that if I had any money, I would probably be an alcoholic)
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Nope, 23. I’ve tried a few drinks but they all taste terrible to me. So I get to save my money and spend it on other things – like games 🙂
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This is a lot of why I grew out of it as well, so much of it is badly written slash or dumb porn.
The best stuff I recall was also where whatever it was was taken in a really unique direction. Merging it with other genres or whatever, changing the tone in an interesting way (not just combining two incompatible things for the sake of it) One of the ones that stood out for me for example was one I read which I don’t ever got finished, but it combined Neon Genesis Evangelion with the Cthulhu mythos. It was pretty cool. That said I was about 17 at the time…
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Yeah I stay away from anything even remotely sounding like slash. I don’t mind if the author can build up a believable relationship between the characters, but 99 times out of 100, slash isn’t the way to go.
Wait a second…
” centred more around a non-corporeal enemy and the gradual erasure of the universe.”
Dragonball Z / Neverending Story crossover?!
I usually just try to find the very worst examples I can find. The amount of hilarity that can be found in the terrible writing and just plain old WTF moments can be unrivaled sometimes.
I used to write fanfiction when I was 14. It was terrible. Beyblades and stuff. Yuck. Now I avoid fanfiction but I know there is some good stuff out there
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OMG Beyblade!
Picking up speed,
Running out of time,
Going head to head,
It’s the way of life!
You gotta fall down,
Eat ground,
And to get back up agaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiiiiiin
Let’s Beeeeeeyblaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaade!
DA NA NA NA NA NA NA, NAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
DA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA, NAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!-
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This is Bish, he’s a font of knowledge for old tv show themes.
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Oh man, I used to love Beyblades. Waking up early so I could watch all those early morning cartoons before school. Ah, good memories
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I’m sure if I had left school I still would have watched it. Its ok Bish, you’re not that old… are you?
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WHAT’S THAT YOU SAY SONNY?
YOU’LL HAVE TO SPEAK UP, I LOST THIS EAR IN ‘NAM, AND LOST MY OTHER EAR IN THE MYER BOXING DAY SALE STAMPEDE OF ’99 -
I SAID YOU’RE NOT THAT OLD ARE YOU? ALTHOUGH IF YOU’RE TALKING ABOUT VIETNAM THEN MAYBE YOU REALLY ARE *cough, cough, splutter* Ugh, that teach me for yelling. Remind me never to do that again, if you can remember
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OKAY
WHO ARE YOU PEOPLE AGAIN??
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Hey Bish, what were you doing at the Myer boxing day sale?
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Being trampled and pushed around by crazy people.
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Seriously though, this was when I was just a kid. I guess my mum dragged me along or something.
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Sounds like you needed some pepper spray =D You would’ve been a meme before the internet.
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Bish. I love you. I forgot how good this theme song was.
Brb, looking up vids and theme song for Zoids now.
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Zoids, Zoids New Century, Zoids Fuzorrsszszs, or Zoids Genesis?
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I only remember Zoids. And beyblades. and Digimon. And pokemangz. And DRAGONBALL Z.
Oh man. I want to be a kid and watch cheese tv and play vidja gaems again.
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Best Shows Ever
It’s amazing how many kids anime theme songs I can still remember the words for… Beyblades, Digimon, pretty much all of the Pokemons, DBZ. If only I could’ve remembered school work as well as them.
I’ve read some fanfiction before but find that I had to wade through a lot of crap to get to something well written. Some of the Dragon Age stuff was amazing.
Okay, since it may well be missed, lambo what exactly did you see? There was a whole lot of stuff that I posted that was designed to never be seen by human eyes. Seriously, so much.
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Have you changed your gravatar recently or am I only just now noticing what it is? Because all of a sudden it seems very creepy.
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He updated it to honour the postman
Honour to the postman, he is all seeing, he is watching, he will judge you, honour to the postman
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This http://staging.kotaku.com.au/2011/12/community-kudos-60/comment-page-1/#comment-469666
Now I want to go hunt down the rest of the stuff you mentioned…
Or is that not such a good idea? 😛-
Feel free, but there’s over a year worth of stuff that has hopefully been missed by the entirety of the internet(though Mark would have had to moderate some of it, back in the good ol’ days).
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Mark blows a heap of dust off of a box labelled ‘unpublished Blaghman comments’, “Alright let’s see…. OH DEAR GOD! No… these can never been seen… what I have seen, no other shall ever see again!” *sets it on fire*
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I would love to see a box filled with my comments… Best box.
Hey guys, remember when Mark actually commented in TAY? That was a long time ago. Before we became stupidly talkative…(I know he posts occasionally now, but he used to do it slightly more)
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I’m sorry =( But spam is delicious, even in word form.
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Except for how I can’t usually comment during the days, I don’t mind the spam, not really. If anyone’s guilty, it’s me. So much.
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maybe Mark is too busy? I think we’re both as bad as each other. Shall I dub you Spam king or some other form of Royalty? X3
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The Earl of Spam-wich perhaps?
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I quite like that. It has a nice ring to it!
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His name is Earl?
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It is now! My name is basically Earl. Well, it shares two letters with it. They’re even in the right order! Oh, and the same number of letters, pity they’re one spot too early. What am I saying again?
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http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197986933875/screenshot/630733235557951375?tab=public
Literally <5 minutes in the logo designer in APB:R
I DID A ART!
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He is rocking it old school from before the redesign
http://web.archive.org/web/20110101071643/http://staging.kotaku.com.au/
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I disappeared to try and teach my cousin how to play killing floor. I haven’t played it much myself so all I really taught her was point, shoot, jump, melee weapons don’t hurt other players, always leg it when the patriarch is involved XD
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But most importantly, play on a beginner server or the community gets pissed!
(Seriously, check out the Steam forums – they get maaaad.)
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Yeah I know. They have certain rules on what you can do to certain enemies and seeing as I haven’t completely learnt the names yet, I’m not bothering to go any higher then easy
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I always imagine these sorts of angry people sitting on their machines going “I MUST BE GOOD AT GAMES AND THESE PEOPLE ARE BRINGING ME DOWN”.
Mad people are gonna be mad, yo.
Can’t hook up with the pleasant people of the Kotaku AU Steam group for a playdate, by any chance?-
YOUNG AND ANGRY
but seriously
some people on kf make me mad
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Because they shot the fleshpound?
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Dearest Scree:
Consider this, the inner voice of Blaghs, the one that judges him quietly, and watches what he does. The one who corrects his atrocious grammatical errors, and then leaves some in, just to mess with him. I hope you can consider this a safe retreat, a place to go to, and talk, or not talk, to sit, and watch the sunrise. The little villa in France, as it were. You may not see this, someone else probably will though, and if so, hello to you. Please, don’t say goodbye, I say hello. So, here it is, the hidden place. Who know what will come of it? Certainly not I. For who can really claim to see the future?
Yours Truly,
Inner Voice of Blaghman.
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Dearest Blaghman,
I doubted that you would post, and was beginning to lost hope. I had also checked pages 1 and 2 just in case. I am glad I was wrong!
I would also like to add that for some reason unknown to me, the way you are describing things remind me of Bernard Black when he is describing his summer girlfriend. I am not sure why.Sincerely,
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Dearest Scree:
Oh, the summer girlfriend, a glorious idea, one that I may partake in one day, when I may use my charm to good use. Alas, for now at least, I shall remain alone, withered and decrepit, consoled only by the warm glow of my computer’s screen.
To change the subject, what are you up to, still wrapping presents?
Yours Truly,
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Dearest Blaghman,
The only problem is that the summer girlfriend may not live up to your expectations. I’m sure you’ll find one though. As long as the heat doesn’t make you delusional or else trigger Dave syndrome.
To answer your question I have stopped wrapping presents for the night, to which I plan on continuing tomorrow. Unfortunately, I still have a rupee cushion and a katamari cushion to complete but I have been procrastinating.
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Dearest Scree:
I assume you can both make things, and post on TAY at the same time? If so, good work, if not, good procrastinating! I highly doubt the existence of a summer girlfriend, to be honest, I think it’s all a myth, certainly it’s something that I’ve never experienced. Maybe people have been lying to me for my entire life, and everything is untrue. Is everything permitted then? No, I doubt that.
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Dearest Blaghman,
Unfortunately the rupee cushion requires pinning and cutting which I’ll most likely do in my room. Equally unfortunate, the computer is in the lounge as the house is old, so old that power points were not required in bedrooms.
It’s completely probable that the summer girlfriend is indeed a lie, unless you do by Barnard’s standards in which she is required to have hair. I am certain a girlfriend may possibly have hair.Sincerely,
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Dearest Scree:
I guess the requirement of hair is a fairly reasonable one, though, given my previous ineptitude regarding people of the opposite gender, I feel that that simple requirement may still be out of my reach. Thankfully I have my Guinea Pigs to keep me happy, as they do not judge me, but simply watch with their adorable eyes. I like animals, they’re good companions. If a little stupid. By which I mean very stupid. Is the work you do mostly sewing, or does it involve embroidery? It’s been a while since I did any crafty stuff, due to the fact that I am simply terrible at anything that isn’t logical beyond all belief.
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Dearest Blaghman,
We have been discovered, by the phantom no less. I just wanted to say so.
No I also draw and when given a paint by numbers, paint. I also create 3D art as well. Sometimes when felling extremely ambitious, I even attempt small games. Unfortunately I still haven’t really achieved anything with these yet.
As for animals, I also like them. I believe you need to get a dog, preferably a Border collie as their vocal range and intelligence will lead you to believe they are actually communicating with you.
As you can see here, they respond. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yr9gkPAPrB4&feature=related Also, the lady sounds like she is speaking in simglish.Sincerely,
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Dearest Scree:
Sadly I feel that if I owned a dog I might be a terrible owner, one of the good parts about my Guinea Pigs is that all I need do is throw food at them once a day, and they’re pretty much set. And then they repay me by being adorable. I would like a puppy, one day, but until then, I should be alright. I too have had a hand at making games, unfortunately, I have the attention span and task focus of a squirrel on speed, so I barely get anywhere. This is the problem with being lazy.
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Dearest Blaghman,
As long as you take the dog for a walk, especially a Border collie, throw food at it once a day and give it heart worm and flea treatments once a month it should be pretty happy.
Side the Border collie is pretty happy except he has insatiable hunger. We over fed him and the diet isn’t really working.
I find my downfall is usually programming as I am terrible at it. Terrible is most likely an understatement in this case.Sincerely,
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Dearest Scree:
I am an okay programmer, I’d offer my assistance, except I already dropped out of a Software Engineering degree, so I doubt that my skills would necessarily be the most helpful. The main downside of taking a dog for a walk is that I’d need to leave the house, which is something I really do hate to do, though I imagine sacrifices have to be made for progress. Still, my yard isn’t designed for puppies, so I will still have to pass, as much as I want a large stuffed toy.
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Dearest Blaghman,
That’s okay, i have artwork I am meant to be doing for a project with some friends, however I managed to over complicate things and haven’t bothered going any further.
Yes, you’re right. A puppy needs a good backyard and unfortunately you do need to leave the house with one otherwise they go insane. This simple concept seems to escape a lot of owners so you are already a better owner then them and you don’t even have a dog.Sincerely,
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Dearest Scree:
I do have quite a large yard, it’s just that it’s not fenced off, which is a slight problem given the fact that dogs have legs. While this latter part could be remedied, I feel that that may not be the most effective strategy, and would be, not to put too fine a point of it, immensely cruel.
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Dearest Blaghman,
I understand. Border collies are intelligent, but they’re also tremendous jumpers as I have found out. Even my fat dog Sid is able to escape into a neighbouring property as the neighbour knocked down the fence when he missed the house the first time.Sincerely,
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Dearest Scree:
I am quite curious as to how someone could miss a house, but maybe I just don’t want to know.
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Dearest Blaghman,
We don’t know either as the fence is quite far from the house.
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Dearest Scree:
Maybe, and you’re going to have to bear with me here, said neighbour is a wizard.
Do you know what it’s like, when you first gain your wizarding powers? The corpse of the warlock you just defeated at your feet, as the universes secrets flow through your brain. You know that you are all powerful, and that nothing can stop you. Infinite cosmic power, but no living restrictions. Maybe, in this moment, said destruction occurred. Who are we to say?
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Dearest Blaghman,
That is the most reasonable explanation I have received yet. Everyone else seems to think the neighbour did it on purpose for some reason or another. I am not sure why though as we haven’t really done any thing to him. We didn’t even oppose his building of double story units. Not that he has managed to build them yet.
Also I would like to thank you for nominating me, but I am astounded as to why. So, thank you.Sincerely,
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Dearest Scree:
I simply enjoy having people to talk to, and it is wonderful to see people join in with such vigour, I may post the email I sent to Mark somewhere, so that you can understand, though sometimes it is better not to know, and to let the mysteries of the world overwhelm you.
And of course, when you’ve seen as much as I have, and done everything I’ve done, you begin to see the world for what it is, to see the truth in everything, so, clearly, my explanations will almost always be the most logical and sensible you can find.
Yours Truly,
Blaghman.
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Dearest Blaghman,
I must say first that I have material on my keyboard so please excuse any spelling errors.
I understand. It must help that Nova Cascade and I seem to always be on at night which appears to be when you are mainly on as well. I don’t really need to see the email, I was just wondering what I had done to receive nominations.
Also, it appears I avoided Hali again for one more day.Sincerely,
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Dearest Scree:
You appear to have defied Gods and Demons, as I can reply to this particular post, congratulations on your wizardry. If you do wish to see the email, then I posted it out in the Community Kudos article for Lambo’s benefit, and I feel that Mark may have missed some of the joy that comes from reading 300 words of utter crap. The reason I am only on at night is because my father restricts my internet access during the day, due to the fact that I am unemployed, and apparently incapable of supporting myself, so it is, for lack of a better word, motivation. The biggest thing this changed, when it occurred, was that I became nocturnal, which isn’t such a bad thing. Still, I should really find employment, as much as it pains me, I just have a problem with actually trying to find work, given my natural fear of people, they really are scary.
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Dearest Blaghman,
I am employed but I am not. Being a carer is strange because you’re technically unemployed, but you do a lot of work and need to constantly be with the person. That was slightly off topic, I apologise. I used to work at McDonalds and people are indeed scary. Sometimes the ones that you work with can be scarier then the customers. Your best bet would be to create a business at home. Maybe make mobile games? If you hit it big you would never have to go and meet people.
I have no idea how that happened, the reply button, I think Kotaku may have smiled on the secret conversation and granted us a button. I am reminded of Ghost trick which was a great game.Sincerely,
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Dearest Scree:
I do mean to play Ghost Trick, it is one of many DS games that I should go and play. I missed out on many great games, which was a major downside of not having a handheld until I got my 3DS. In terms of becoming a developer, the main downside to that is that it requires both dedication, commitment, and skill, all of which I am significantly lacking. When it comes to writing wordy things, or singing badly, I am second to only a few, unfortunately, I have not found a good way to integrate these skills into the work force. C’est La Vie, as they say.
If you don’t mind me asking, why does your mother need a carer(I think you said it was your mother)? If you don’t wish to answer, that’s perfectly okay, I am simply curious.
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Dearest Blaghman,
Perhaps you could write for a living? I understand that it’s hard making games, even flash games as I have trouble creating them myself.
As for my mother, (yes it is indeed my mother), she has a rare disorder called Primary Amyloidosis. Mother was in remission for 10 years when suddenly last year the disease came back. The only way to treat said disease is chemotherapy. It wasn’t too hard on her as they also gave her steroids to combat the severe side effects. However this too had a severe side effect. She was diagnosed with Osteoporosis when they discovered she had two crush fractures in her spine, causing her intense amounts of pain. This led to her being hospitalised, but she lost a lot of weight and also developed frozen shoulder.
It’s a little long but as you can see, one thing caused another. The good news is that the Amyloidosis is stable and she is getting stronger.Sincerely scree
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Dearest Scree:
It’s good to hear that your mother’s getting better, I imagine this whole thing would have been very hard on her, my mother has Rheumatoid Arthritis, and while it’s fine now, when it first developed she experienced a lot problems, though at least they were fairly easily treated, so I have the barest glimmer of an understanding of what it might be like, though I can hardly say that I know.
In terms of writing, while I could potentially get into that, it’s quite a strange field. Certainly, I would need to start writing, and, as always, procrastination is the source of my problems. I really just need to get active, and start doing things, but whenever I start, I tend to get distracted, and I start thinking about the universe, and everything that could happen, and before I know it, 5 hours have passed, and all I’ve achieved is drawing a stick figure knight hitting things. Poorly.
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Dearest Blaghman,
She still has a lot of pain but she’s managing a lot better. I’m sorry to hear about your Mother but I’m glad it was easily treated. I can’t say I understand much about Mum’s diseases either, especially since most doctors don’t know much about it either.
As for writing, maybe you could have a try at cracked? You would only have to do things in a list format and they like video game articles (which tend to feature in Kotaku’s lists).
Otherwise there is Write or die to keep you motivated. It will play terrible music or noises when you cease writing for too long.Sincerely,
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Dearest Scree:
Well, if it’s manageable then I guess, for lack of a better term, it’s okay.
I have considered writing for Cracked, and similar places, but I still don’t know if my writing could be considered good enough for even those segments of the internet. I really just need some office job somewhere, which I can pursue my hobbies from in my spare time. Hopefully, if I had limited time, then I would have motivation, instead of just procrastinating. I guess I’ll see, eventually, hopefully.
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Dearest Blaghman,
I understand. It’s just a matter of find a job that isn’t completely soul sucking or that requires copious amounts of over time. I don’t see why you wouldn’t be able to write for cracked as most of their lists seem to include large amounts of dick jokes.
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Dearest Scree:
Gaming and writing are pretty much all I do, I’ve attempted to combine the two, by writing a game, but as is the norm for me, I got distracted far too easily, and given the amount of time, it needs some significant rewrites, which I guess isn’t the end of the world. One thing I have always wanted to do, is to make trailers for non existent games, really just the games that I would want to play as a gamer, unfortunately, doing so would require skill at modelling and rigging, both of which I am quite poor at. This is yet another thing I wish to learn, but which I have relegated to the “Once I have a job” category.
In terms of jobs, too, I really wouldn’t mind soul-crushing. I worked as a labourer briefly, and that was mind numbing beyond all belief, and that’s really all I want to avoid.
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Dearest Blaghman,
I am sorry about the late reply, the heat and a day of my social life prevented it. I can do modelling and rigging myself, so maybe I could help you with what you would like in the future. I’m not the most talented of modellers, but I could give it a go.
It’s a pity that you aren’t able to keep your concentration as you appear to be a good writer. There’s one thing that a lot of games lack it’s good writing.Sincerely,
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Dearest Scree:
“Social life”? I’m afraid I don’t understand this concept. And thank you for saying that I’m a good writer, I feel as though I should politefully disagree though. I am a moderately eloquent writer, who is extremely opinionated. Anyway, I just trust that everything in life will fall into place eventually, what’s the worst that can happen? I figure there’s no need to worry about things until they come to pass, so my unemployment and general uselessness can really just be ignored. Unfortunately, I am now struggling to think of things to talk about. My typical last resort in conversation terms is questioning people over how they feel about short shorts, though I feel that it may not be the most appropriate topic of conversation for this space.
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Dearest Blaghman,
Your vocabulary is much better then mine. In comparison to several other famous authors, mainly Stephanie Myer, you can write like a professional.
As for sitting by and waiting idly, it terrifies me, i believe that’s why i always take on too much all at once. At the same time, it’s the reason I procrastinate as sometimes it seems too big for me to accomplish. Like you I don’t believe much in my abilities. This is why it’ll be hard for me to get a job as I tend to always put myself down at every opportunity.
At least I don’t brag, i guess.
As for social life, it happens maybe 3 times a year, when I get to see my old uni friends. It usually involves games and food.
Short shorts are just a little too short. I wouldn’t wear them normally as when you sit down your ass cheeks stick to plastic in hot weather. I would only wear them around the house when no one is around, or under a dress or skirt for cosplay.
As for topics, I am sure we’ll find something to talk about. There is always something to talk about.Sincerely,
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Dearest Scree:
I must say, I’m surprised at such an honest response regarding short shorts, typically the conversation goes more along the lines of “Who wears short shorts?” (Na na na na na na na) “We wear short shorts!” Which is of course a lie, well, it’s a lie if I’m in the latter half, as I do very definitely not wear short shorts, as that would be one of the most hideous sights known to man.
Out of curiosity, what did you do at uni? Not that I’m trying to stalk you or anything, by finding out the minute details of your life, it’s just that- Hmm, wait, according to my diary between 12 and 3 today is stalking time, so, I guess I am trying to stalk you. Funny that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMOGaugKpzs&ob=av3e
Yours Truly,
Blaghman.PS. I kid, stalking time is actually 11am-9pm Tuesdays and Thursdays.
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Dearest Blaghman,
it’s fine, people ask me about what I did at uni all the time, even strangers. Once they know you’ve been at uni, straight away you get asked “what did you do at Uni?” so it’s not really a stalking question, that would be more along the lines of, what time do you usually leave the house?
I completed a bachelor of art in digital art. It was the art side of a video games course. I did okay and a few people I went to uni with acquired game jobs however you can count them on your hands.
This year I completed a certificate 1 in Japanese and I plan to continue until I get the advanced diploma.
As for the short shorts, I didn’t even think of that, hence the honest answer. I can be dense sometimes.Sincerely,
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Dearest Scree:
It’s okay, in terms of not understanding questions, I tend to veil the majority of what I say, since I feel like the real hipster thing to do is make pop culture references to things that people know, but to do it in a way that most people won’t get. It allows me to feel elite and superior, which is really the only reason I do anything in life.
In terms of being a stalker, there are some things you can work out easily enough just by watching (daily routines, who they associate with, etc. etc.) however it’s much more work to find out things about their past, such as uni courses, where they went to school, so on and so forth.
This lesson in stalking has been brought to you by Blaghman, I’m definitely not creepy.
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Dearest Blaghman,
No I imagine that most people upon hearing short shorts would’ve immediately thought of “who wears short shorts, I wear short shorts, however I’m a little slow on the uptake sometimes. Especially when it comes to something I’m not expecting and to be honest, when you made a comment about them, I instantly thought of being stuck to assorted furniture. Hence my comment.
On stalking that only really works if you live near the person and can watch them. Otherwise you have to ask questions. I don’t mind talking about uni.
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Dearest Scree:
I studied briefly at the ANU, doing software Engineering(dropped out after a year), but I decided that Uni isn’t really for me. I’m yet to work out what exactly is, but thus far at least, I know that university doesn’t fall into the good column. In terms of stalking, it also helps if you have set up an elaborate network of cameras all across Australia, so that you can watch anyone, anywhere, at any time. Of course, such an undertaking would be infeasible unless you had access to billions of dollars of military hardware, which you hacked into via programming knowledge, but of course, again, that would be rather unlikely, and a complete waste of time.
Given you have experience with short shorts, I think thinking of them would be a reasonable response, as opposed to my experience with them, which is that song, and the occasional 12 year old, who really should not be wearing clothes like that, what would their mothers think?
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Dearest Blaghman,
Uni isn’t for everyone and most people who go never get a job, me being one of them. I would’ve really liked one in the game industry, even if it was just to shit off the rest of the family.
Yes, that would require a lot of knowledge and money. And if you get caught out, you get a long time in jail.I agree with those 12 year olds that shouldn’t be wearing them. However the parents are the ones who give them the money or else buy the shorts for them.
Also I don’t have much experience with them. I prefer board shorts.Sincerely,
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Dearest Scree:
Something has just occurred to me, what will we do next week? We will have to move to the new TAY, but how will we choose which page? What can we do? I don’t know! Will I have to go back to eloquent Blaghs? I may need to talk to other people, how will I survive, and how will Billy get to the Prom on time?
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Dearest Blaghman,
Please do not panic. We will simply use the first page to become hidden. Then the conversation can start over.
Think of it as a fresh start, some new life into the conversation.
You may still have to talk to other people, but only until the page does become hidden.Sincerely,
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Dearest Scree:
Panic? PANIC?
AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGGLLLLLEEEEEEEEBBAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGLLLLLLLLLLLLEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yours Truly,
Blaghman.
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Ah I meant to ask TAY earlier, but someone I know calls Skyrim, “skrim” and I was wondering if anyone else does this also?
just to inform you that he plays it on his 360 and I can’t help but think it might be the cause.
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Lol!
I for some reason found your 360 remark hilarious. Maybe because there’s a bit of truth to it.
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Well I’ve found a few things since he’s been on xbox live gold. He uses the word “pooned”, he says Skyward sword has lazy graphics, he has bought pretty much shooter 2011 aside from MW3 and he’s shunned Nintendo too. Oh and he’ll fight to the death for the 360’s superiority over the ps3. >_< I keep telling him console wars are stupid.
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Haha, yeah, I know that feeling.
My uncle and his family was visiting us, and after a while I found my teenage cousin playing Modern Warfare 2 on my Steam account. He was quickscoping and teabagging and smack talking one of my friends (who wasn’t even playing the game, we were just talking through Steam chat) with all the usual insinuations about having sex with mothers and all that.
I was quite displeased. I’ve tried to get some culture in him with games like Bioshock, but I just don’t know. /o\ -
I tried bioshock with my cousin too but he hated it. Mainly because he couldn’t be bothered trying, or reading, so after about 5 minutes he was fed up. he did play katamari though, however that was a while ago =/
If you cousin was under 15, I would’ve been like “ah ah ah, under 15? No game for you D=<" or else "if you're going to act like a douche, get off my account." -
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Well, not all 17 year olds are that bad…
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My first proper PC game was Alone in the Dark. Before that, it was Montezuma’s Revenge et al on Commodore 64. I suppose that’s a console..?
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No that was one of them new fangle Personal computers
Now a 2600, THAT was a console
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What an odd person. Lazy graphics, I thought the 360 was that compared to the PS3 & PC side of things =/
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Tell him or his friends that and they’ll scream at you about how the 360 is the best
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Challenge accepted! \o/
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You can’t win against blind fanboyism, there are only losers. =(
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you may win then, but once they realise, they will return with a vengeance…reveangence, if you like.
It’s like arguing with both religious, and atheistic fanboys. You will get nowhere. They refuse to see the view of anyone else.
I think you’d have more luck arguing with the Phelps family than a fanboy 😛
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surely he brought it merely to proof it’s usefulness as a paper weight right? RIGHT?
oh who am i kidding, macbooks are useless paperweights
Just got up to Anor Londo!!
Really forcing myself to stop and go to bed wasn’t easy. Wanted to explore!
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Anor Londo is so pretty. All those people complaining it was just another dark and dreary game with locations all similar to its predecessor obviously never made it as far as Anor Londo.
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Well it only took me 30 hours to get here.
It sure is pretty. Such vistas! At every step though I’m waiting for the smack down. It’s coming. I know it.
Ok, really going to bed now. Anor Londo can wait.
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I think somehow we are in sync. What weapon are you using? I’m using a Jagged Ghost Blade + 4, but am going to add elemental damage to my Estoc + 10 the first chance I get.
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I’m using a Crystal Halberd that I found, finding it very useful. Managed to kill one of those knights in 3 hits 😀
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3 hits??
My blade takes about 30 hits to take them down. When I’m in a hurry I hit them with a great fireball from my pyro glove + 13. That learns em.
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Alright guys, I’ve got a question, is this a reasonable idea, or the best idea?
So, it’s a tradition(I guess) at Christmas time, where if a guy and girl meet under mistletoe, they’re obliged to kiss each other. So.
What if I made a hat, with a sprig of mistletoe attached to it, designed to hang over my head?
So yeah, thoughts, opinions, compliments for my amazeballs idea?
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Is mistletoe even used these days? I’m pretty sure I’ve never seen it. But sure I guess it could work. Although getting anywhere near a girl wearing a hat covered in foliage may be pushing your luck a bit
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Is mistletoe used in christmas stuff? Buggered if I know, but I live near a reserve, and I’m pretty sure I could find some growing there. It wouldn’t look like the traditional “mistletoe” thing, but I’ll take what I can get.
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Just buy some of the plastic shit that comes on the wreaths or for Christmas deco’s, i’m sure The Warehouse or Crazy Clarkes or a similar 2 dollar store will have some \o/
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If I’m going to be the crazy fat guy, then I’m going to do it properly. With a joke that nobody will understand!
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Good point!
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You may be crazy, my friend but you are most certainly not fat. Oh, and the measurements I need from you are girth(where you are largest), waist circumference, chest circumference, butt circumference, tips of shoulder to ankle(or wherever you want your coat to end), across your shoulders, tips of shoulders to waist, tips of shoulders to wrists, oh and circumference of bicep area would help too. 🙂
No rush, I won’t even be able to buy the fabric until February.
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As a fellow person guy who lives in a suburb with old people, do you really want to be walking around the neighbourhood making out with all the old ladies?
Oh god, I was going to say “Is this what young kids are into these days?”, but you know, ew.
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Nah, I’d only put it on when I go down to woden, so I’d get all the skanky fourteen year olds.
Hells yeah, that wouldn’t be weird at all(It would be exceedingly disgusting)!
What if the two people who meet under the mistletoe are of the same gender? do the same rules apply?
Um wow, I have just been majorly insulted on a personal level I think.. I love the works of Ronnie James Dio & was rather upset when he passed away last year, someone who I know (not some random on say YouTube) has just told me a certain song Dio did for a Metal Xmas album was “toss”
Now I know everyones allowed an opinion, but wow. That was just not only low but cruel in my eyes. Especially since they knew I have a lot of respect for Dio.
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Alright bro, can I call you bro?
God, I hope the answer is no.
People say things, without thinking,
particularly when they’ve been drinking.
I find it best to just ignore them,
and ask about their ruptured brain-stem.
Just take what they say, laugh it off,
remember that they’re probs a jerk-off(yes, I rhymed off with off, what of it?).
People say what people do,
and now that this rhyme is through.
Go off and eat an orange,
you will be ‘k, and not a sporange(that’s a real word).-
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I aim to please*!
*That’s a lie**.
**Not entirely a lie***
***I’m pretty sure it’s true****.
****Nah, inner voice, I just write stuff, whatever happens is a product of whatever*****.
*****Whatever man, who do you think knows better, you, or I******?
******That would be me*******.
*******Exactly, by that you mean me********.
********Uhhh, what? I am so confused right now*********.
*********Of course you are, idiot.
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Move over Wil Anderson, because here comes Blaghman!
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I really want to see Slash & his amazing band live. Why did I miss out on seeing him TWO times this year and once in 2010? Oh that’s right both concerts in Brisbane sold out & I couldn’t go to Soundwave cause of no bloody job 🙁
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You know what we need?
Jobs.
Yeah, that’s all I’ve got.
OR a pile of cash and hookers. That would also work. Though I think the first option is more likely.
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Yeah! Hooker & cash this is an excellent plan, now where do with get them?
But yeah I guess jobs could work. I’m still waiting to hear back from the booze shop I applied at haha.
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Slash was okay. His “amazing” band were not. Especially the singer. You could tell the singer really did not care for singing old GnR songs, he was just going through the motiuns. We left before the encore. Couldn’t take any more.
I only went so I could see Coheed and Cambria, anyway. Who were super-awesome-amazing.-
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They sure did! It was amazing.
I would have been disappointed if they hadn’t played it, considering it was the song that got me into them in the first place.-
omg me too! In fact it’s probably the only song of theirs I like.
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Yeah, Miles Kennedy didn’t look like he really wanted to be there. Saw them at Soundwave in Sydney and it really wasn’t everything I had expected. Slash played well, but it wasn’t the experience I was hoping for.
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I have the Sydney show on CD from last year, it’s got nothing on their Manchester gig sound wise. I still am after the Brisbane one they recorded on the night, it’s the only one I don’t have >_>
A few mates got to see Slash at the 2 solo Brisbane shows & at Soundwave, one she has been a gunners fan for life & was so opposed to someone other than Axl doing GNR songs, but she was amazed at how good Myles was.
Imo Myles sounds even better singing the VR & GNR songs in an acoustic set, but that’s my opinion.
It’s a shame to hear you found it not what it was hyped up to be.
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Wait sorry that was the Brisbane side show this year you were talking about, fml, Not Sydney. Now I look like a tool.
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Oh, he definitely sounds good. but that’s because his voice is awesome. He just really obviously wasn’t into the songs he was singing.
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That saddens me 🙁
Cause their overseas performances he has always looked like he’s into it. Though a few acoustic sets Slash totally looked like he was not into playing Sweet Child for the millionth time. Don’t blame the man lol.
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EMPIRE EARTH: GOLD EDITION – NOW FREE ON GOG.COM
http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/empire_earth_gold_edition
I freakin loved this game!
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Kinda funny, that.
I originally went to make a post about the sale, but then saw EE:GE for free and lost my collective shit.
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Bah Weep Granah Weep Ninni Bong TAYbies
how are we all this fine (not so fine) tuesday morning?
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i shall raise a tankard in your honor then my dear Hugo, as our departmental christmas lunch is on later and alcohol will be involved
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Wierd Al shall be nothing but loved for eternity, however is there actually a Wierd Al song using the universal greeting?
this must have eluded my attention… HOW CAN THIS BE?
*starts scrolling through the Wierd Al discography*-
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pretty sure it first turned up in Transformers: The Movie… rewatched that yesterday… the nostalgia man… and dat Stan Bush
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Sooo… what do you guys think about the new Evanescence song, ‘What you want’?
Those guys are seriously hit and miss with me.. more miss than hit – i find to be a little soft most times…
but you know what? Call me crazy – but DAMN it’s good to hear some metal(esque) music on the radio again!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVWazHTunSI
If you haven’t heard it yet, have a listen. It’s actually rather catchy, but has their usual pop overtones.
On a side note – it really bugs me because there is some SERIOUSLY good metal that is MORE than playable on mainstream radio, but instead we just get constant parades of “same-ol” crap, over and over…
PS. Five Finger Death Punch not only have one of the DUMBEST names in metal EVER, but are also quite shit. – Just saying.
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Never really got into Evanescence myself, i find her singing voice annoys me more then pleasures me…
on the otherhand, in a very similar tone but far better i really enjoy Within Temptation… “Stand My Ground” is always amazing to listen to… could just be me 😛
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i haven’t actually listened to their new new stuff as i have heard rumors of what you stated and i didn’t want to ruin them for me… i got the discography all the way up to 2004 where i saw them live (WHICH WAS AWESOME!) and then sorta stopped there
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Their latest, The Unforgiving is a really good album, if you forget it’s Within Temptation.
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Just watch out for ‘Sinead’. It’s a dance song. And very catchy. There’s also a companion graphic novel that you can buy to tell you the story of the album, although I haven’t read it.
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I remember Within Temptation. the first time I ever heard one of their songs was on a bleach AMV. lawl.
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Me too, except it wasn’t Bleach. I don’t remember what is was but I found them through some AMV too. Actually I need to go and try and find some more of their songs. I don’t have enough.
To the Youtube-mobile.
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What’s REALLY funny is that this pleasures me:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMGpcjzb67Q
I don’t know why – but a girl with a growling voice like that is just so HOT!
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OH GOD that made me burst out laughing… then i got intrigued…
does most of her mates die of “chrushed pelvishes”? as well?
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Check out a band called Van Canto on YouTube for what is simultaneously the best and worst thing in metal.
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“worst thing”?!!!
Instead of checking them out on YouTube go and buy one of their albums (their most recent one, ‘Break The Silence’ especially) and then try and attach “worst” as well as “best” to them. They’re actually one of my favourite bands.-
I did also mention best. I do have Hero and Tribes of Force. But they cheat by having a drummer. And they take themselves waaaaay to seriously.
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I noted you said best as well. I was just cross with you for misrepresenting them by using worst as well.
How is having a drummer cheating? And they don’t take themselves too seriously, they take themselves as seriously as any good band should. They are really bad at doing videos though, which is a shame because that’s all a lot of people will ever see of them. -
Music videos are metal band’s biggest obstacle.
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Bringing an instrument into an acapella band is cheating. And the seriousness thing I got from the videos. Especially the bald dude. Watching him make “angry dangerous man” grimaces into the camera while shout diddly diddly diddly dun dun into the mic as fast as he can leaves me in stitches every time.
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I too really like the new track, I mentioned to a friend of mine that I really don’t like how Evanescence largely fall off the face of the planet when they’re between albums, unless it’s TV Hits or whatever playing “Bring Me to Life” for the millionth time…
On the subject of female fronted bands, I’m really falling for “Fly Leaf” at the moment, I only have one of their albums, “Memento Mori” but it’s really cool.
Morning all. Today’s word is Autodidacticism. Which is a fancy way of saying self-education or self-directed learning.
Everyone needs to work this into a conversation today. Or there will be consequences you hear.
Consequences
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Wife: “How’s it going?”
Me: “I have to work the word ‘autodidacticism into a conversation.”
Wife: “Well, you just did it.”
Me: “WIN!”Time to dance.
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I’m somewhat of an autodidact.
Through autodidactism, I’ve learned that a good teacher is very useful to the learning process and that students don’t learn much when they know as much as the teacher about a subject :p
Today, I’m braving the shops in an attempt to go Christmas shopping for the (hopefully) final time. If the crazy people trying to find a car park don’t get me first, I plan to stay there all day until I leave with a present for everybody.
It will be hard, because my family don’t want electronics/dvds/games, which is basically the only thing I know how to buy. Oh well.
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I salute your bravery dear sir,
christmas time is one of the only times where prams are considered legal Rams, and old ladies tend to use their walking sticks as bludgeoning weapons…
seriously the amount of times where i’ve seen a walking stick come flying past me with a *swoosh* and an old lady attached to the end of it, with the sole intend of knocking me out and stealing my present -
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@Blaghsy
“But we were under the mistletoe!” probably isn’t going to stand up in court when the girl accuses you of rape. Still, if you’re going to try it (mistletoe hat), let me know how it goes.
Morning all!
Had an interesting mix of events in APB:R last night. Without a decent wiki, I’ve had to resort to autodidacticism through trial and error.
The fun part was when I learned that when you’re delivering stolen goods, people CAN’T take your loot from you. They can, however, take the vehicle you used to transport it… 🙁
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best car chase ever… with the worst possible ending… how could the enforcers possibly construe me hanging out the car window firing my automatic rifle as illegal huh?
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it wasn’t missing, it was tactically placing shots around the target to steer them in a given direction… i think…
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Hey, I intend to jump on this tonight, what server are you guys on?
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Server is Han (Hongkong) which is purely because that one has the least Lag for us…
luckily when you first get on, you’re taken to a tutorial area where basically you can’t get shot/arrested/anything so you can stuff around…
lesson learned last night:
if you fill a van full of loot to take to a fence, be in a group and keep a person in the car, otherwise it will get stolen and all your loot lost 😛
or alternatively buy a van, cause you can’t steal player owned vehiclesit’s a learning curve, and it can become as hard or as easy as you want it… looting is easy, missions can be hard… being free 2 play, you can pay your way to better equipment which basically means if you don’t pay, unless you are really good, will get absolutely raped by people who do pay for stuff
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Mmk, are you guys doing the pay thing? It says HAN is a premium only server on the wiki.
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AssCreedRev spoilers:
V’z n yvggyr qvfnccbvagrq va gur fgbel bs guvf tnzr, gubhtu vg’f abg nf greevoyr nf V srnerq. V fgvyy oryvrir gung gur ragver Rmvb gevybtl jbhyq unir orra orggre vs vg unq orra znqr nf bar terng tnzr, engure guna guerr cerggl tbbq barf…
V haybpxrq gur Qrfzbaq fxva cerggl rneyl ba, naq unir cynlrq gur ragver tnzr nf Qrfzbaq. Vg’f xvaq bs zrffrq hc gb frr gur vqragvgl pevfvf uvagrq ng ol guvf crex, naq V ernyyl, ernyyl, ernyyl ubcr gung guvf vf n qryvorengryl pbapbpgrq ovg bs sberfunqbjvat sbe gur sbegupbzvat zvaq-zrygvat gung gur Navzhf vf qbvat gb Qrfzbaq.
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Vg’f qrsvavgryl abg nf tbbq nf cerivbhf gvgyrf, ohg vg’f cvpxrq hc n ovg.
Fbzr bs gur frg cvrprf ner cerggl njrfbzr (nygubhtu gurer ner qrsvavgr fvzvynevgvrf jvgu Hapunegrq – Abg gung gung’f n onq guvat).
V cynlrq jvgu gur Qrfzbaq fxva sbe n yvggyr juvyr, ohg fjvgpurq onpx. Gurer vf fbzr njrfbzr nezbhe (Vfunx Cnfun’f) juvpu V cersre gb n terl ubbqvr.
V unir n unaqshy bs purfgf gb teno naq gur fgbel gb svavfu naq gura V’z 100%… V guvax.
Do you know if you can permanently lock off cities in Mediteranian Defense?
I filled 1 or 2 with Lvl 10 Assassins, but it doesn’t seem to do much.-
*Nccneragyl*, gur punyyratrf, purfgf naq navzhf sentzragf qba’g pbhag gbjneqf 100%. Whfg gur zvffvbaf.
Naq ab, lbh pna’g ybpx bss gur pvgvrf, ohg bapr lbh’ir ybnqrq gurz jvgu Yiy 10 nffnffvaf naq lbh’er fjvzzvat va zbarl, lbh qba’g ernyyl arrq gb obgure znvagnvavat gurz. Jurarire gur Grzcynef nggnpx gurz, V fraq gur nffnffvaf fgngvbarq gurer ba n zvffvba gb gnxr gur pvgl onpx, naq gung’f vg.
Gbbx ntrf gb fgbpx nyy gur pvgvrf jvgu Yiy 10 nffnffvaf gubhtu. Lbh arrq gb qb nyy gur ‘Vafgnyy Arj Nffnffva Qra’ zvffvbaf.
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I thought it might be esperanto or something but Google Translate thinks its Indonesian. (Which doesn’t work, obviously.)
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You’re welcome
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Excellent stuff. I really liked how the joke developed too. The last one though was a little too accurate.
🙁
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With all this talk about Command & Conquer: Generals 2, I really want to go fire up Generals 1 again. What is the best way to get that? I prefer digital distribution for my PC (partly because I don’t have a disc drive).
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i was looking for it too, couldn’t find it on Steam or Origin so if anyone has any reasonable answer let me know? I don’t want to pirate it again 😡
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I was intending on installing it this morning as well, but I looked over to my shelf and saw both C&C:G and Zero Hour boxes sitting there.
GAH!!! I STILL HATE WAITING FOR EMAILS!!!
THE TENSION!!1
DAMMIT LOOPS IT’S ONLY TUESDAY – RELAX!
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How do you handle writing something witty on TAY and waiting for approval from the community? I wrote something yesterday and I’m still refreshing the page… I think I piggybacked onto someone else’s dead conversation though so probably no one will read it. Ohe well, if no one reads it I’ll keep the joke on ice and whip it out later. Bwah ha ha.
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That did occur to me. I’m glad I’m not the only one.
At least I didn’t offer to strap it on. (I’m looking at you, Volition.)
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mannnn i hate that – especially when you think you’ve said somehting REALLY witty and amusing, or posted something REALLY entertaining.. and no one replies. LOL
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Sometimes when no one replies to me I feel like it’s because you all hate me and are just waiting for me to go away. I don’t like those times. Those times are always followed by a loss of time and I find myself in some unfamiliar place ankle-deep in blood and just where did my shoes go anyway I can’t afford so many new pairs of shoes I mean at least leave me my shoes come on.
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You mean like the 4 emails i sent you the other day which i’m still waiting on a reply? Like that sort of tension?
HA! Relax man, you’ll live longer. -
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Don’t tell me it’s only Tuesday. I really want it to not be Tuesday. I’m not asking for much. I don’t want to jump straight to Saturday or nothing. Wednesday would be ok.
I’m kind of sick right now but I’m having a day of annual leave on Monday and I feel it’d be really douchey to take a sickie right before I have a day off. Maybe if I just act really pathetic my boss will pity me and tell me to go home.
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shexayyy!!!!
it’s what would happen if ninetails and harli got it on!
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Hahahah! oh you ;P
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Garrus would go and cry himself to sleep
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Good morning TAY. Let me greet you with a heartfelt EARHGAEROIJGAHHWIOEURJH! Tuesday is here, i have not fit in enough gaming this week (yes its only Tuesday and im already behind in my gaming.) I am wondering if i should give FF-XIII another crack. I gave up at the 30 hour mark. Has anyone actually finished it? was it worth it?
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What do you mean? Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?
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Here comes the flame…I played it for 10 minutes and was bored shotless. I loved FF7 and FF8…enjoyed 10…but this one…don’t enjoy. No idea why.
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Hahaha feel free to hate on it. Only reason i got that far in it is i am a stubborn bastard. Just wondering if anyone actually got through the painful grind fest and found it worth while. I have a shame pile that i blame solely on call of duty And i am debating if i just leave that pile there, or try and do something about it.
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FF games are a slow burn, this one especially. You don’t even unlock all your combat options for twenty hours or so. Maybe give the next one a bit more than ten minutes… 🙂
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I know what the FF games are like man 🙂
I finished 7, 8 and 10.
This one just didn’t grab me like the others is what i’m saying.
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If you played for thirty hours, you must be close to the end. You might as well push on with it.
I quite liked it, but it wasn’t as enjoyable as VII, VIII or X.
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If i remember correctly I am in that “training ground” type area, that’s just 1 massive grind so you can get strong enough to beat the boss. I got bored of grinding. lol. I also found this game seemed to have too much requirement to make each characters “super weapon” well thats the impression i got from a lot of people .
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I only spent about an hour in that area. You don’t have to grind – the game’s difficulty curve is so impeccable (that is its absolute best feature) that you can prevail without grinding. Is what I did.
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I forced myself right through to almost the end then my first ps3 fried itself. Haven’t summoned the desire to bother doing it again.
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Very nice! And I learned something today – that you can link to a specific point in a YouTube clip. This could come in handy. But can I be trusted with this power?
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This is what my life has become
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/0903/trozza/?action=view¤t=kkp.jpg
seriously my emails are like this for about 3 pages.
Also, if you notice the Mark Serrels one – it’s because i needed to know when they are going to be in the office – he still doesn’t have a clue as to what exactly we are doing.
I think it’s official – i now have 2 jobs lol
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I’ve completely forgotten to participate, haven’t I?
Whoops.
Guess that means I’ve been subconsciously trying to lighten your workload.
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have you??? ohhh mann…
So you haven;t done a phase 3 yet?If you haven’t shoot me an email and i’ll do one for you with your chosen content
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well i know.. but you and what too phase 3 and basically kicked it in the f***ing face and said
“no – this won’t do. This won’t do at all..”Then an angel descended and played a killer metal harmony
Then satan cried his first tear of joyed
And i messed my pants – but just a little
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Hehe yeah I’ll accept that as my excuse
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I’ll try to remember after work.
If I don’t, anything with a rabbit will suffice (you can tell that I really have no idea what’s going on :p)
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Yesssss made it in there.
Imagine what it’ll be like when it’s all over. You’ve done a stellar job Loops. You’re not the hero that TAY deserves, but the one it needs.
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I don’t conform to penicl.
I stick to my penis-pig roots
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i think it’s days like these that Hotmail are pissed they don’t charge on a per-email basis lol
I think he would have a pretty good idea.
There are plenty of clues around the place (like yesterday’s Remember This? and the direct contact you’ve had regarding when they will be in the office…)
Still a great great great thing, even if not a complete and total secret. 🙂
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Yep. All sorted, thanks mate!
And sorry, didn’t mean to be a killjoy – just hoping to temper your expectations regarding the level of surprise, that’s all.
Friends?
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FRIENDS!!!
LET US FROLIC IN THE GARDENS!
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Um, Loops. 2 things:
1: I’m having trouble getting my scanner to play nice with my laptop, hopefully I’ll have some time to sort it out today, and
2: Peoples real names are in that pic. They might not not want them exposed like that, maybe?
Wow, Loops you really have gone above and beyond with this. Thanks so much. I wish I had your organisational talents.
And your other talents too
Last night, my monitor was acting rather odd when I changed the input to my PC. Not only that but my Mac didn’t like when my keyboard and mouse were connected through the KVM (said that a USB device was drawing too much power).
After playing about, the only thing I can think of that might be causing both of these is that the fool that put my computer together screwed up somehow and the case isn’t grounded properly. So there is electrical interference causing the issues that I’m having.
I should choke that fool, but methinks it won’t be that effective. Nor will it solve my problem.
Guess who has a little home handywork to do at some point in the future?
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Damn it, effect ruined. I left my copy-pasta YouTube link in there while I sorted out the hyperlink.
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Hey your the “electrical engineer”. I didn’t even build my own computer. What makes you think i would build bunnies?
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so APB:R people i’m thinking of signing up. U guys criminal or enforcers? Am I on the right game?
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also – will it run on my shitty laptop if TF2 does, but Monday Night Combat does not…
I still don’t know how that works..
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Here are the specs if it helps.
Windows XP, Vista, or 7
Intel Core 2 Duo 2 GHz or AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+
2 GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 256 MB or ATi Radeon X1900 XT 256 MB
20 GB hard disk spaceRecommended
Windows XP, Vista, or 7
Intel Core 2 Quad 2.4 GHz or AMD Phenom X4 9850
4 GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 512 MB or ATi Radeon HD 2900 XT 512 MB
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yeah i think ill; join you… Been keen on this game before it was canned and brought back.. not so sure about so called free to play.. i would just be happy to pay to play… ill check it out for sure though.
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If you grab it through steam at the moment you apparently get 10 days of premium subscription free if you play before the 19th. Which is handy.
And I believe they are criminals from all the drive-bys and ram raids.-
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Hey so I kind of brought this whinging up last week in twitterland, but after reading up a bit more on The Last Of Us I still cant help but feel a bit sad that Naughty Dog is jumping on the zombie bandwagon. Sure the game looks pretty but damn… wish they were doing something more original…
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I don’t care how oversaturated a market is, if a product is good then it’s good.
If The Last Of Us turns out to be an awesome game, that is.
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Execution > Innovation.
Something new is nice but it really isn’t something I’d consider overly important.
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Ehhhhh well, I do! So there.
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Valve would like to have a word with you.
A word, a number and another word, if I’m being pedantic about it.
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HI F4CTION \o/
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Yeah, I’m with Sughly.
I Am Alive looks much more interesting.
But we don’t know how The Last Of Us is going to play yet either. If it’s really dire and really hard to get weapons etc (which I doubt after the chick found like 6 bullets on that dude) then I’ll be interested.
If it’s Uncharted in a city with zombies, no thanks.
Remember though, this is Naughty Dog. They always make exceptionally polished and fun games.
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But the preview doesn’t look like a cop out – they are originally fighting people.
It looks to be like the last people competing to survive whilst also fighting off zombies/carniverious mutants.
It could actually be pretty damn good
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The Last of Us looks awesome, zombie game or not. If the same quality of writing and character are present here as in Uncharted, I’m already sold.
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Yeaaaah look I reckon it looks like theyve done a good job of it as usual, but I’m just saying that its a shame they didnt put their talents to doing something more original.
What plans have you guys got for the Christmas break?
Me? Well I don’t celebrate Christmas, so the only thing I’ll be doing while work shuts down is heading to the beach every morning for a swim, then video gaming till the wee hours. Hoping to down Deathwing on 10 or 25 man modes and get the Destroyer’s End title.
How about you guys? Any grand adventures planned?
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A week or two off work to play some video games and maybe get some writing done.
That’s all I plan to do and more than I expect I’ll get done.
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Massive piss-up with my bogan family. It’s my nan’s 80th new years eve so having a big blow out with all the relations then jet-setting over to Bali for a week new years day. Shall be sweet.
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I haven’t really got any either.
Might see how much Skyrim I can jam in along with slowly crossing off the days until Muppets is released.
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I don’t know wether you are being ironic or not, but i love the muppet movies! I still think the best version of A Christmas Carol is the muppet version
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Everyone knows that the two greatest Christmas movies ever made are Muppet Christmas Carol and Die Hard.
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Oh man, that movie is so great.
I hope Rizzo’s in the new one. And Pepe. “Kermin’ my man” = Hilarious.
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Apparently Rizzo has been demoted to extra.
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
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I’m not sure that I’m going to have much of a Christmas this year. Mum works night shift as a nurse and is down to work Xmas Eve and Xmas night and will probably be sleeping all day Xmas day. I’ll be working at Coles basically every day between now and New Years. Except for Saturday night, because there a very important gathering happening. And my store has to be open on Boxing day because Head Office in Melbourne are a bunch of morons. So yeah not much time to do anything.
Man, I can’t wait until DICE makes Mirror’s Edge 2. I played the first over the weekend, and now I need to find something else to fill the parkour shaped hole in my soul…
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Funnily enough I only got that working bout five mins ago. Turns out the servers aren’t up any more, so you have to play in offline mode. The only way to do that being to manually stop the game from trying to connect to the servers whenever you go into time trial mode, it won’t ask you if you wan’t to play offline if it can’t connect to the servers…
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I need Nerd Nowledge!
Exchange keeps going down at work. I have next to 0 IT know-how, but that’s a hell of a lot more than other people at work.
Tried ipconfig/flushdns on server and individual machines, but no result.
Only thing that seems to work is rebooting the server, but that gets annoying.
Any ideas?
The drive only has 1.9GB remaining, but we’ve operated with less than that.
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ipconfig /all
Make sure you have a default gateway.
If not:
netsh int ip reset c:\reset.lognetsh winsock reset
and reboot.
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Actually, that’s assuming that you’re getting internal emails but not external. Are internal emails working?
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You don’t want to go there McGarnical. Trust me. It’s a dark path.
It can strain your relationships, interfere with responsibilities at home and work, and lead to posting catastrophe. It may even lead you to do things you never thought possible, like stealing or taking posts meant for your children.
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But Harli… Thats what you taught me to do! I don’t want to bad a bad person. What have you done to me?
*sob*
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*Be a bad person.
Effect = ruined
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Well, I don’t want to, but I’m being forced into this by circumstance! If you guys would just post less, I wouldn’t need to turn tricks like this.
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You gotta be subtle about it McGarnical. If you “accidentally” misspell words, then you can reply and correct yourself. 2 for the price of 1
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I like you thinking.
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What does that even mean?
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It means you’re a stupid Chief!
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IT MEANS HE GETS RESULTS, YOU STUPID CHIEF!
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I got it wrong didn’t I? Awkward…
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Only if you got it a little wrong – but you got it ABYSMALLY wrong.
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http://www.brisbaneparkour.com.au/brisbane-parkour-classes-and-training.php
This requires some further ‘investigation’…
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CAn i have your xboxes when you fall of something and injure all your body. I don’t want to be a negative Nancy but parkour screams: “I am okay that i will break all my bones”
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ROFL, that’s why I’d only go to the indoor classes. Nothing but nice, soft mats to land on there 😛
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One of the guys i work with in the video store you visited Shane is a member of APA. he owns predator blades, and various swords to play with. also his friend is building weaponry from AssCreed so they can pretend to be assassins.
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Hahahaha! Ohhh man… yeah I’m not sure I could do that myself. To reach his own though…
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Reach? lol.
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Remember Reach…
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I have friends who run classes in canberra. On the same website they are, pretty epic stuff you should see the video’s of their NatMeats, they are a pretty awesome community from what I have seen, just show up to classes and keep going to them if you have time
i developed a competition to parkour. Its called Parkmine. And its where i eat lots of food and roll right through any obstacle in my way…so much more fun.
DAN! I (finally) finished Halo 3 last Sunday.
I’ll be in Brisbane this Friday, think I could drop it off sometime that afternoon? Or at least leave it in your mailbox?
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Sweet man! Mailbox would probably be the safest bet, I’m working hard for the money all day and then I’ve got our Christmas party so I’ll be busy all day.
Did you like it?
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Wait, it’s at the Tivoli and there are tickets available?
Damn that’s tempting. Now to try and convince people to join me.
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I’m going with a mate whose sister works there and got us on the door list. Lucky, I didn’t really have the money.
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I have the money. Now I need to convince people to come with me.
Failing that, I might just go on my own anyhow, because it’s Opeth.
Even if it’s probably going to be material mainly from Heritage…
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I’ll be there if you get too lonely. As long as they play a few from Blackwater Park I’m happy. Heritage isn’t their best.
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I don’t mind the softer stuff, Damnation is one of the most listened to albums on my iPhone. But Heritage just wasn’t as awesome. Something’s missing.
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I’ll probably be going, regardless of whether I can convince people to join me. So your offer might be something that I will take up.
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I’m slightly ashamed to say that I just started playing Hydrophobia Prophecy yesterday. Its pretty solid so far. Water effects are nice.
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Oh man, I couldn’t get past the terrible acting and cut scenes. I think I bowed out when the security console kept exploding? (like 15mins in)
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I’ll admit the acting is kinda ordinary, I don’t mind the cut scenes though. I’m enduring for the gameplay, I think its well done.
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Don’t be ashamed, I actually quite liked the game
Yes it plays like a tech demo but i found it quite engaging.
Man I’m going to see the TABTOL for this week on monday and cringe, been so inactive here lately because of this busy-ass week and my bro’s wedding all this week.
But thats all good because I GOT TO ANOR LONDO BITCHES WOO 😀
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Congrats to your bro.
Weddings are fun, I get really drunk and then go out clubbing after in my suit.oh and gratz for arrival at anor londo lol
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Excuses excuses! i love how i TAY more when im working than when i am not. Also we need to do melb meat in January.
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Could McGarnical and Puppylicks possibly be the same person?
Or even two different people in the same body?
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Haha well I’m not playing very fast so I’m sure the sync will not last very long.
I am also 30 hours in though, so you can add that to the freaky coincidences list 🙂What level you at?
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Technically I’m 42 hours in, as this is my second character after I abandoned my first one due to killing an NPC.
I think I’m around level 35, but not positive.
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Mini-Brisbane Meat at the Tivoli on Thursday night, mayhap?
Who wants to go see some Opeth. Methinks my friends will not be that willing to go and going to a concert alone seems rather derpy (done it before, would prefer not to do it again but Opeth will probably make me change my mind).
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Yay to mini-Brisbane meat! Oh but… Opeth… not for me. In related news I’m going to go check out the Japenesey dumplings and beer place that opened in the valley on Thursday. If any cats want to stalk me, here’s your chance…
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You are cool sughly, i think you are anyway 🙂
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Yesssssss!
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Petitioning friends on Facebook to go. So far this is what I’ve got:
Conservative Christian Friend
Would love to.
But I’m working.
/PartyofFail
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I imagine that your lack of interest in Swedish Death Metal would have been your excuse if you weren’t working :p
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I have an appreciation of all forms of music. Except country. And anything do do with that ridiculous Crazy Frog song.
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So you’re saying that if you weren’t working, you’d be willing to spend $80 to join me in standing room for a death metal concert for a band who’s latest single is “The Devil’s Orchard” (which has the repeated line “God is dead”)?
This seems unlikely to me.
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Only if a free dinner were in the mix and you drove. Great excuse to wear black and too much eyeliner (you).
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Also, to lol at the unbelievers.
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And watch them scream along to the screaming musical lyrics.
FUN TIMES!
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Actually screw the concert – I just want to take pictures of you wearing black and eyeliner.
LOTS OF EYELINER.
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What I’ve gathered from all of this is that you’ve recently had coffee.
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I would love to go see Opeth. Also I would love to check out a Japanesey dumpling place. Alas, I lack fundage for the foreseeable future. Christmas is closely followed by my daughter’s birthday.
And then I’ll have to see if I can save a few dollars to spend while I’m in the US at the end of next month.
If my husband’s in a good mood tonight I’ll ask him why we’re not going to see Opeth. 😛
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Finished it in one day? That must be a rather short book if the writer only took a day to churn it out.
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Also looking legit is this: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/jul/27/new-doctor-who-novel-jon-pertwee
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Hahaha, awesome. 😛
Don’t think I haven’t considered it, and if I get desperate I will find ways to mask my identity online to spam reviews (I have no specific morals regarding that sort of thing, it’s just my ego holding me back). I was kind of hoping I could entice others to be my PR though, so will hold out a little longer!
Work is incredibly boring today, so to pass the time im playing music a little louder than normal.
Right this second its Breaking Benjamin-fade away
i realised there is a severe lackage of metallica and slipknot in my ipod.
oooo In Flames-touch of red
I likey.
What y’all listening to?
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I’ve got my music on shuffle so it could be anything. Right at this second its “Hometown – Night” from the Xenoblade soundtrack. Nope now its changed. Africa by Toto
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Hey! Guy! You’re from Canberra right? You know In Flames are playing here on a Soundwave sideshow with Lamb of God and The Black Dahlia Murder next year?
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WHAT!!!!?!?!!!
I am so there!if I can afford tickets! Although I already missed alestorm so there is no way i am missing this
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Pantera currently. Never been a fan of older metal but I figure I should give the classics a go.
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Listening to triple J. 300 and Gosling were just on with Boys like you. Don’t normally go for music like that but that one is really growing on me.
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Okay!
Dungeon Defenders tonight?
Dungeon Defenders tonight.
After we get our first win of the day or something.
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So new Indie Royale is out The Blackwell Trilogy: Remastered, Dino D-Day, Eets and The Oil Blue
Eets looks like a fun little puzzler. I played dion d-day and could be interesting for shits and giggles on TS one night is certainly doesn’t have any lasting appeal.
Blackwell trilogy looks basically like this – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5SYnbz7wgU crossed with hhgttg
Not sure about oil blue
Anybody planning on getting this?
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Just watched a video for the Blackwell Trilogy – Looks like a very well made adventure/puzzle game. I haven’t played one since Kings Quest V (or Quest for Glory IV if you count them) but used to really enjoy the relaxed game-play. Also, old-school-lucas-arts-adventure-game graphics FTW!
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Yeah definately! The Blackwell games are by no means perfect, but some of the situations with the ghosts are pretty darn awesome, particularly one freaky ghost that attacks you in one of them.
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Just picked it up. I’m a sucker for these indie bundles. Eets looks fun. Currently I’m playing Dungeons of Dredmore from the last humble indie bundle.
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I’ve just started getting into that, how much fun is it. I love the skill trees (Emomancy, Necronomiconomics) and some of the achievements have to be some of the best I have seen
You know what time it is
Equip the Parachute Pants and the Warhammer.
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@Shane and Eff, re: ACR
Having finished ACR a couple of days ago, I can say a couple of things – I’ll try not to reveal plot details (for obvious reasons), but discuss the general Desmond situation.
Fb, Qrfzbaq unf fbzr fbeg bs qvffbpvngvir vqragvgl qvfbeqre tbvat ba vaibyivat Rmvb naq Nygnïe, juvpu vf jul Ovyy (Qrfzbaq’f qnq) unq uvz xrcg va gur Navzhf gb fgbc uvz tbvat penml. Fhowrpg 16 unq vg unccra gb uvz, naq ur’f urycvat Qrfzbaq. V’z nffhzvat lbh xabj guvf fghss.
Pbzcyrgr gur Qrfzbaq frpgvbaf. Gurl onfvpnyyl vaibyir Qrfzbaq nggrzcgvat gb pbzr gb grezf jvgu uvf cnfg naq uvf urevgntr, naq phyzvangrf va uvf qrpynengvba ‘V nz Qrfzbaq Zvyrf. V nz na Nffnffva.’ Pbzovavat guvf jvgu fghss gung Fhowrpg 16 fnl gb Qrfzbaq, vg orpbzrf nccnerag gung Qrfzbaq arrqf gb pbzcyrgr Rmvb’f zrzbevrf (naq, guebhtu gur Znflns Xrlf, Nygnïe’f nf jryy) va beqre gb erpbapvyr gur qvssrerag cnegf bs uvf urevgntr. Bapr ur’f qbar guvf, ur’f tbbq gb tb. V sryg vg jnf n ovg hasbeghangr nyybjvat gur cynlre gb pbzcyrgr gur Qrfzbaq frpgvbaf jurarire lbh jnag, gubhtu – V guvax gung gurl’q or orggre bss nf arprffnel frpgvbaf orgjrra Frdhraprf, jvgu gur svany Qrfzbaq frpgvba orvat jvgu gur svany be crahygvzngr cynlnoyr frpgvba bs gur tnzr, nf vg jbhyq znxr gur qvssrerag nfcrpgf bs Qrfzbaq’f erpbirel pbzr gbtrgure zber pburfviryl.
Ertneqvat gur Qrfzbaq fxva, V’q nffhzr vg’f whfg n ersrerapr gb gur snpg gung gur pnzcnvta vf irel zhpu Qrfzbaq qryvorengryl cebterffvat guebhtu Rmvb’f zrzbevrf gb svk uvzfrys, engure guna nal sberfunqbjvat. Lbh znl be znl abg svaq gur Qrfzbaq-eryngrq svany phgfprar fngvfslvat be abg ertneqvat guvf.
Gur svany phgfprarf ner oybbql oevyyvnag, gubhtu. Lbh trg gb frr gur Svefg Pvivyvfngvba.
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It’s both strongly hinted at throughout the game, and is stated very clearly in the encyclopedia. And I think I mentioned it to you a couple of weeks ago? If not, sorry if I spoiled it!
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No stress, it actually makes a lot more sense now (I don’t have the Encyc, btw).
Naq abj V xabj jul gur ibvpr va gur Qrfzbaq frpgvbaf fbhaqrq yvxr gur thl qbvat ibvprbiref va gur Navzhf (pna’g oryvrir V qvqa’g chg gung gbtrgure, npghnyyl)Is the guy who voiced him this guy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_de_Lancie
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i linked to the page and didn’t read it. It is him.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_de_Lancie#Video_games
He also provided the voice for [redacted] in Assassin’s Creed: Revelations.
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Also, thanks for the write-up!
I’m a little disappointed that it doesn’t seem to be going in the direction I hoped, but that’s not your fault… and I guess I should reserve judgement until AC3!
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It kinda sets up AC3 at the end – there are a few hints in the ending cutscenes, and Qrfzbaq frrzf gb xabj n ybg zber guna jr qb nsgre uvf gevc guebhtu Rmvb’f zrzbevrf. Ur jnxrf hc sebz gur Navzhf ng gur raq naq qrpynerf ‘V xabj jung jr arrq gb qb’ (be fbzrguvat yvxr gung, naljnl). Gur phgfprarf ernyyl znxr zr jnag gb xabj zber nobhg gur Svefg Pvivyvfngvba, naq V’z ernyyl ybbxvat sbejneq gb svavfuvat Qrfzbaq’f fgbel (sne zber guna cynlvat n arj Nffnffva).
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SW:TOR TAYbies: I will be playing apparently on a server named Hyperspace Cannon (wth is a Hyperspace Cannon?) as Republic. At least, that’s where I’ve been allocated.
Now to see how long it takes to get into the pre-release week.
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Is that where a majority of aussies will be playing or is that just where your guild got stuck? I know that a bunch of aussie guilds were trying to get on the same server, was yours one of those guilds?
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I haven’t preordered the game yet. Seeing as I wouldn’t get it until January anyway, I’m going to wait and see how the launch period progresses before buying it.
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Downloading now! Stay tuned for more updates in this thrilling adventure titled ‘How Sughly installed Trackmania 2’
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Hahaha! Yes, its going to be a full trilogy! One game is entirely dedicated to going through forums for help when the installation exe produces an obscure error message.
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Forum Trawler! For Win, Mac and Linux*
*Some forum trawling may be required to play on Linux
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Ao I just noticed that Tales of TAY isn’t linked anymore. Is it abandoned, like some sort of Tripod-hosted website?
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There hasn’t really been anything new to put on there (however I have a feeling that some KKP P3 items could probably make their way there).
I noticed there were some newer TAYbies also, so I’ll link it again here:
http://talesoftay.tumblr.com/-
Hey Steve-O could you please update it to embed Dan’s excellent Bris Meat video. I’ve been meaning to do it but i’m pretty tied up here at work!
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Link please? I looked the AwesomelyAwesomeProg Channel but it’s not there. Can’t remember where it was?
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that is because it has teh magics. (unlisted, private vid)
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@Dire Wolf: I have no idea if any other Australian guilds are allocated to that server yet. If the majority aren’t, then we’ll probably just move.
I’ve emerged from the Christmas sales physically unscathed (not mentally though… the things I saw *shudder*. But in the end, it was a success!
I’ve never seen little old ladies act so mean before! They draw you in with their sweet old lady smiles, then snatch the last Angry Bird plush toy from in front of your face (this happened :P).
Parking wasn’t too bad though. I purposely went to the furthest away carpark first. I don’t know why perfectly able-bodied people insist on circling the spaces right in front of the shopping centre doors waiting for a spot…
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Ugh. I haven’t done my Christmas shopping yet and won’t be able to till next Thursday. Last few days before Christmas.
What have I done to myself.
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I really dislike Christmas. Not to be a scrooge, but I hate shopping and would be glad to not receive any presents in exchange for not having to go shopping for anyone else. Christmas should be about getting drunk with your family, not about who bought who what. I would still buy presents for kids though, my niece and nephew are pretty spoilt (plus they can’t really get into the whole getting drunk with family thing).
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One of my friends did his Christmas shopping in October, it was insane. I don’t even start thinking about what I want to get people until about… well, around now. 😛
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…yes. D: Mostly as a joke present though, but still.
If there was ever an up-side to the massive amounts of merchandise that has come out of Angry Birds, it’s that it was incredibly easy to find a similar toy in the shop next door.
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I went outside into out cointainer to look for some hire products. I was in there for 10 minutes. I feel i may have been cooked to perfection in that time. Its like 38-39 degrees outside. How people can be on building sites this time of year is beyond me. They must either get paid really well or are actually made from fire so they enjoy the sun.
What i plan to get for my epic prank
He is on holidays they will be waiting for him when he returns!
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Anything thats good for you tastes bad
Anything thats bad for you tastes good.Therefore, KFC must be good for you
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Should have gone to Specsavers.
…Then you might have seen what you were eating and changed your mind 🙂
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Hello Taybies,
It’s been an awful awful week so I’m only getting to say Hi now:) How are my favourite people?
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Why don’t you ask them instead of talking to us. Oh you mean us. Im alright buddy. If you need someone to talk to i hear i have good listening skills. Terrible advice giver but i can listen to all you stuff and come up with a witty comment at the end of it all.
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I have decided not to buy anybody things this year. I always go overboard and give everyone extravagant gifts that are really though about and specially chosen. I get in return grief for spending to much on them and guilt because they think their presents are not good enough. So no presents should fix that!
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I know that feeling, I did it once, havent had a complaint since that year
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I tried to help out my friends this year. Every Christmas they say I am the hardest person to buy presents for (which is true, I don’t deny it). So this year I bought a few DVD’s to give to them to give to me. And got yelled at because then I know what I’m getting and its not a surprise anymore.
Damned if you do and damned if you don’t
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My best friend had that attitude from his partner, but He wanted this thing, so I agreed to get it for him. I think its better having something the person wants than something they might not use
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Its cool, I saw it 🙂
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So, after reading that Game of Thrones boardgame article on the front page, I just bought the thing from Amazon – AU$66 inc postage, expected delivery Dec 23 – Jan 6. Success?
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Nice price. The game looks intriguing. I’m tempted, but I’m just not sure I have the patience. I do, for say, a 100+ hour RPG video game….but board games.
I am absolutely loving the new Nightwish album ‘Imaginaerum’.
At first I thought it was good, but then the more I listened to it, the more I liked it. It’s definitely one of those ones that grow on you.
It is the only thing getting me through the long days of sewing and housework and kid-wrangling at the moment.
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You know what would be really cool kid rodeo. Get the littler child to sit on the bigger one and see if they can hold on for 8 seconds. BEST IDEA you can also use your mad sewing skills to make them vests.
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I like it except for the terrible creepy lounge music halfway in, but I’m not in love with it by any stretch. Also it feels like they’ve gone a bit off the deep end with the whole making a soundtrack for a film thing. But I think a bit of my issue is I’ve kind of moved on from them and generally speaking I’m not as interested as I used to be. Didn’t really go for their previous album either, though I liked some parts of it.
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Yeah, they are pretty much a different band with the new singer.
I think I started to love it on about the 5th listen. I had it on repeat while I was doing the housework and cooking for the mini-Christmas on Saturday.
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Hello everyone, have you missed me? I’ve finally finished all my training and have started my job so hopefully I’ll be able to start posting again! What have I missed?
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I thought it would be a nice touch. Also thought it would give you a nice, warm fuzzy feeling, and not creep you out in the slightest.
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I don’t think i have seen his face before. He is a mystery wrapped in a engima wrapped in a rabbit skin wrapped in xhristmas paper!
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I’m behind Jimu’s head at 0:39 and the guy being recorded by the phone at 0:47. I’m also in the background of the pizza consuming around 2:22 and in the background again at 2:40.
Why yes, I did just go through and check all those times.
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FINALLY! I can sort of put a face to the name. Must get me to one of these Bris Meats sometime.
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Disappointing, isn’t it? :p
It would have been easier to just picture me as the guy in the green shirt :p
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Is that based off of you?
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We call him ‘ole crazy-eye slouchback.
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Probably.
Either that or Ron Stoppable.
But considering that I’m meant to be the writer and live with the artist, it’s most likely me.
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TBH I thought he’d be slightly overweight and have a beard….
It’s good to know that everyone has such a positive image of me, no? :p
He has an uncanny resemblance to that “Trjn” guy who sent in a photo and wellwishing for Mark’s 30th.
Now that you mention it, there are definite similarities.
OMG YES thanks for the reminder Bish, I goey hunting for that photo now.
I’m starting to regret not being able to think of something other than doing a Serrels Stare for that…
I think we see his hands on the arcade stick on the right at about 40 seconds in, maybe. Not sure. Looks like he managed to stay out of shot even better than Doc What? did.
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I didn’t do as good a job as I thought. Four sightings. At least none of them are in great detail.
Then again, I have friends who take many pictures and would probably struggle to find four pictures of me from the last five years.
A couple of weeks ago, I posted about a work colleague that was making a website for some forum based roleplaying. Dungeons and Dragons, Battletech, etc. A couple of people showed interest in it.
The site is now live and looking for members. The first games will be kicking off in the next couple of days I believe.
For those interested, the website is http://www.rpanonymous.com
They’re still working out a couple of style bugs on the site, so if you do notice any (where you can’t read texts in certain, places, etc), please send a message to the member “Ranaar” with the details and he’ll get it fixed.
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Yeah, well it’s a work in progress. Feel free to make any suggestions. I don’t have anything to do with the style. I just moderate posts 😛
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KOTAKU INVASION!!!
GIZMODO HAVE AN iPAD COMP!
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2011/12/win-an-ipad-2-with-awesome-wallee-accessories/
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I can never think of anything good for caption competitions. I always either come up with something really lame… or come up with something cool, read some other entries, and then realise that it was actually lame all along.
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It’s funny just how many people will enter into these competitions and never comment anywhere else.
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Taking the kids to Movie World’s white Christmas thing tonight.
http://movieworld.myfun.com.au/MovieWorld/Attractions/White-Christmas.aspx
Should be interesting with everyone tired and grumpy….
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No you don’t. You want to live near Sea World and Dream World. They’re much better than Movie World.
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But if you lived near movie world you’d also be near wet n wild, dream world and white water world.
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Haha. Just had an image of a heavy accented Latvian man on stage barking these out without pause. Including the word joke before each one.
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Joke:
Is dead dog in road. Is dead Latvian in road. What difference?
Dog have fur keep warm. Also, freedom. And dog try eat poop for pleasure not just survive. So many thing!bahahaha
You know what would be awesome?
Telling the boss you can’t come in today because you “took an arrow to the knee”
How to make an old meme new again #1736 – thanks to Chuloopa
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I can’t believe nobody has started a thread about the funniest glitches encountered so far. I’ll start it off.
Intro Horse/Carriage Flip
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Can’t stop laughing. Scientists have all the fun.
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LAWLS! I saw a woodcutter once who had some firewood clipped into his hands.
Still, the funniest thing I’ve seen in Skyrim was watching my brother play – he was trying out some unarmed combat against some necromancer-type person and went to slug them. A kill animation starts playing (in first person) of him repeatedly nailing this person in the face. It’s during this (somewhat hilariously lengthy) kill animation that we realise the person whose face he is crushing is actually Lydia. Best way to murder your housecarl.
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I once made a man-pile of naked dead bandits, so I could stand on top victoriously. A dragon then attacked, flying into the pile sending bodies flying into the air. Wish I had fraps or something – was quite the physics fail.
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I only figured out how to move corpses the other day.
Safe to say while there’s been no vents to cram two guards in, several people have found corpses making out/with hands on butts in hay carts.
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It’s all in the knees.
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OSHI-! this was not meant to be a reference to overused memes, but to the occupational healthy and safety “lift with your knees, not your back”.
Apologies.
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“all” but it only takes one arrow
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I left Breezehome, having dumped all my EPIC LOOTZ in the first container I saw inside (organisation? hoo-ha…. what is it good for?) . As I walked through the door, one of the local children floated quickly across my view, from right to left, about 10m off the ground. She hit a tower and floated back down to earth.
I suspect Braith is a witch, and this is why she is not afraid of anyone.
Watch your back.
Words do not express how much I want this Jak and Daxter statue thing.
https://twitter.com/#!/cbalestra/status/146417807431712768/photo/1
I think I’ll go take a nap. Mainly because I can. And also because I miss my PS3.
Great article over at Atomic PC 😀
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When they mention computers being hard to run, I seem to remember something about the knowledge to build all the technology having been lost and the tech priests could only try to maintain the stuff until it broke? Or is it my memory that’s broken?
” I Don’t care what you think the woman in the photo is my niece”
My entry to the gizmodo comp. I don’t really want to win but i enjoy thinking of something witty and ammusing!
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I gave a good chortle. You have my vote (not that I read any other entries, but yours beats mine!)
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So apparently for a while one of my cousins was a promo girl (or something) for various events, like at the V8s, or something.
I guess the internet being the internet, there are photos of her around and this there’s this one guy on my uncle’s Facebook who makes lewd comments about her. He replies with “Hey buddy, that’s my niece. You probably want to stop talking now.”-
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I hope the commenter then said, “Oh, she’s your niece? Well you’ll have her number then I assume? Can I have it?”
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Last Night I started Playing Skyrim around 9pm with the intention of jumping onto the minecraft server at 11pm. Oh my god that failed. Now I know most almost everyone has had this feeling or a similar rant, in a good way, about skyrim over the past couple of weeks and to those who are sick of it all I apologise but alas I can not resist. Here be warned These may be considered SPOILERS, Can’t access any Rot-13 Translators at work so exscuse me and again i Apologise.
Granted I did not make it very far as i spent over an hour and a half in the Character Creation, I spent around 15 minutes reading about each race and then another 15 re-reading and deciding about what to be. My eventual choice was a female Wood Elf who goes by the name Sorine. I would like to point out that every new game which requires character creation my first toons are generally given pretty terrible names I think my WoW account had a “logitech” and a “Gnusmas”. I really enjoy Ranged Classes, any class with a bow and arrow or magics generally tickle my fancy, I normally avoid healing classes because its less mayhem and destruction.
It took me another hour to tweak the appearance and even then I have to say I felt limited, to be honest it appeared like there where more options in NBA 2k12 which dissapointed me greatly. Maybe it is because this is my first time running through the options and I was a bit over excited about the on coming game but seriously in a game which plays heavily on immersion and building the story around the player why make the opening so limited. I will admit though that it was only a minor annoyance in the opening sequence and it did not distract from the game at all merely causing a “damn none of the noses i wanted” moment or something to that effect.
What happened Next immediatley quashed what ever annoyed feelings I had, I was thrown into the action with no regard for NPC life as the game quickly picked up pace and then exploded with excitement, similar to a rollercoaster ride at a theme park, I felt something was coming but I definetly did not expect it to take off with such gusto.
I ran here and there, where should I go? But that question ended quicker than it arrived to my lips, I charge through a door and hid behind the stone. I ran, jumped and then hustled through a few rooms with constant fear of my surroundings. My saviour, or at least i hoped, arrived in the form of a man I had previously met in the opening sequence. He lead me through the chaos what appeared to be the barracks, we paused for a moment and much looting was done. What? Everyone is as good as dead, I thought. We finally barrelled out of the doors and into the open again armed with a sword and rather flimsy shield, at this point I forget what happened ( I take this as me being so immersed in the game I had no idea what actually happened but then it makes it sound like I did not enjoy anything after that which is completley untrue) until suddenly we where underground and meeting a man who caused pain and agony, a lock was opened and items pillaged again, a Manly weapon was found to beat my enemys with which was a great improvement on the sword and shield.
Battled with Beasts and Humans alike, finally we escaped. We where out in the open but this time in the wild. The Landscape amazed me and I had to hold myself back from charging off into the unknown leaving my present company behind. But that idea came to fruition after all as there was a moment for respite before my friend and I parted ways, the moment we seperated I looked for the tallest mountain and ran straight at it. This did not last long however as Almost came to my undoing at the edge of a cliff, so I turned to my Map and headed in the direction my previous company had suggested. Along the way I discovered my ability to burn wolves and control foxes, I met a roughish Hunter and his companion who sent me on my way with food to munch. Soon after I arrived in a town and pondered which house to visit first.
That was right about when I realised what time it was, due to a friend messaging me on xbox live to remind me that he had my spare xbox controller and he would return it tomorrow. Well i spent 3 hours playing Skyrim and I have barely done anything yet I feel like i have accomplished so much. I discovered my character and with each step Her story is created and to me that’s what RPGs should feel like.
As someone who rarely crosses into the realm of RPGs, this game has sparked my interest in this genre again which I thought I would probably never touch again for a long time. There is a saying frequented on TAY which I feel perfectly represents how I feel about this game right now:
Blind Mown.
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Sorry I’m not as knowledgeable as everyone on here and I’m not spectacularly good at video games. Sorry my stories are shit, boring and probably make no sense.
Just trying to fit in!!!
*Hides in the corner*-
Oh nah, it’s not you, It’s ‘flu who doesn’t make any sense…and bish…and harli…and steveo…and blaghman…and Chuloopa…
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I’m not sure whether to be happy or ashamed that I was singled out.
Also – purple monkey dishwasher.
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*One of the few who were singled out
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YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY we’re SPESHALLLLLLLL
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First mention!
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I think you’ll find I had the first mention.
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Oh god. You mean all those letters I wrote have ended up at this chap’s desk? dun dun dunn.
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You don’t have to be crazy to fit in here, but it does help.
OH MY GOD, LOOK A GIANT OCTOPUS
Haha! I was just kidding around.
I read most of it, but I haven’t played Skyrim so it was a little out of my know-zone.
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sorry I have been over reacting to things all day 🙁
Yeah im pretty sure my character has not levelled yet. So your know-zone is not too far behind mine
I do like reading about epiphan…aic (?) moments.
Reading other people’s game moments of discovery always fascinates me.
Pretty much how I felt when I started too. But since I’m far less creative than you, I didn’t know how to put it into words. But basically replace female Wood Elf with male Argonian and you’ve got my story. The game really did grab hold and now it won’t let go.
Now that my identity has been revealed to the world, I should probably think of some other way to show the lost footage from my Batman Let’s Play than just having me blather on about it in front of a webcam.
I should also just get on with things and put the rest of that footage up.
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How’s about I dress my parent’s dog as Batman and we dress your dog as Robin (even though Robin isn’t in this game) and just go from there.
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Err… Dan’s dog as Robin.
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Awww 🙁
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Also, this solves the problem of when you want to SHOUT WITH EMPHASIS, AND SUPER EMPHASIS. (!!!!!!!!)
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And you can whisper with emphasis and also with super emphasis.
The choices are limitless.
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I thought that was best done in the style of the Asterix books.
Like so.*
*sotto voce
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKV74qkokmk
posted this in the AVP competition as a quote but now that I found it… yeahhhh
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I do. Not that I have anything against swearing itself, more so that ive noticed it more often of late which means the sliding of standards. When that becomes okay, more stuff becomes okay until the site just becomes junk.
I’m not entirely sure that made sense.
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It was more of a joke at your handles expense, but I agree that the swearing isn’t really necessary.
Shitty reporting, that’s what the shit that is.
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Haha. Sorry. I’m an idiot. When you pointed that out I both laughed and headdesked.
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Apparently they are OK with the F word generally, but the C word – well! – in America it is the worst thing you can say (after the N word that is, if you’re white).
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This would seem so!
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It looks sooooooooooooooooooooooo bad.
It got rewritten halfway through filming.
#SignsYouShouldAvoidThisMovieEvenAtTheRiskOfGreatPeril
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What about when the ending is changed after test screening?
I’m thinking of I am Legend and Blade Runner. Don’t know if MiB3 has that problem, but I’m just adding to the #SignsYouShouldAvoidThisMovieEvenAtTheRiskOfGreatPeril tag. Maybe I can also tag my post with #SignsYouShouldWaitForTheDirectorsCut
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You didn’t like I Am Legend!
What is this, Bizarro World!?!?!
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I haven’t seen it. But I’ve read the book and a friend (at my request) told me how the movie ended. I did not approve.
I’ll still watch it at some point. And enjoy it. I mean, I will get over it. It’s just, I really liked the book and only read it recently. Loved the ending, don’t like the sound of the movie one.
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Which ending?
Because you know there’s 2 right? Army of Darkness style?
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Actually, I did see in JB that the Blu-Ray had more than one ending on it. (DVD probably did too, but I am now a resolution snob.)
I’m talking about the theatrical release. The home release may have a better ending on it. I haven’t enquired into it too much.
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Yeah the theatrical one is sub-par.
But you shouldn’t judge a movie by it’s ending. (Unless it’s a Shymalan picture)
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The ending of the book was what tied it all together and moved me from really liking it to loving it, so I’m a bit sensitive about the change. Like I said, I’ll get over it 🙂
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Test audiences are awesome.
By which I mean that if you heard about the test screenings for a movie, you can just avoid that movie.
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I don’t know if that one was because the producers didn’t like it, the test audiences didn’t like it or Duncan Jones just dropped the ball on that one.
The ending was hinted out throughout the movie but that could have been edited in, considering how it was hinted.
Still, there was an obvious point where the movie should have ended.
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It wasn’t.
It did exist in a world where ice sinks in the ocean, so clearly the normal rules don’t apply.
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It must have had some kind of success if they’re attempting a sequel.
Also, Bruce Willis is in it.
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It probably made a profit but I don’t agree with that as the only relevant definition of success :p
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If it’s goal was to make a profit, and it made a profit, then it succeeded
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I think you’ll find it’s the less the movie and more the toy marketing they are interested in.
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Hey guys, haven’t been able to TAY as much as I would have liked to in recent times (life ‘n’ stuff), but as we roll into Christmas my free time seems to be reaching a more acceptable levels for TAY-based activities. Anyways, got a couple questions for those of you who may possess the knowledge I seek.
Part of the steam-sale shaped hole in my wallet consists of the Witcher 2, as I heard from a few friends that it was a really great game, and of the style that I would be into. I’m currently reaching the end of Mass Effect 2 (yeah, spent 5 years gaming from a laptop, and now i’ve got a top of the line desktop, got some catching up on the last 2-3 years to do) , and so am looking for a new game to remove from my shamestack. I’m thinking this is the candidate, however:
a) Like I said, I bought it off Steam for super-fantastic-fun price, and have since discovered that the Australian version is somehow the ‘cut’ version. If possible i’d like to know what the difference between the Aus version and the ROW versions are, and also if possible how I could reconcile the differences. If they’re not big differences I don’t really care (like if i miss out on 3 bonus bewbs or something [yep, odd number, you figure it out]), but if i’m missing like a whole quest line or something, i’d be a little cheesed.
b) I haven’t played Witcher 1, would this be a worthwhile investment of my time/money? If I went straight to 2, would I be missing out on some really cool plot developments/twists, or some cool winks from the Witcher 2 back to Witcher 1?
Thanks guys 🙂
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As I understand it, in the uncut version you are offered sex as a quest reward. You can accept the sex or refuse it. In the Australian version you are still offered the sex, but your character automatically refuses. I think that is the only change.
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As for b), I haven’t played my Witcher 2 yet because I’m waiting to finish Witcher 1. So I can’t comment on that.
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Having been in that position IRL multiple times, I can say that, although refusing would be categorically out of character for me (as a Witcher, whatever that is), I don’t think i’d call it enough of a gamechanger to have me unsatisfied with my steam sale purchase.
Thanks for your help, McGarnical (I keep confusing the McGarnical bits with the Rex Banner bits) 🙁
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Witcher 1 is definitely worth your time. Your save will load into Witcher 2 and the major decisions you made during the game will be reflected. Also if you collected some of the armor and weapons they transfer over also. Plus it’s a really great RPG.
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Did you know that the video for Golden Rule is a direct sequel to the video for Mother Lover which is a direct sequel to Dick in a Box.
I know this because I ended up watching Dick in a Box yesterday.
Then Mother Lover.
Then Golden Rule.
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I’m not sure and it’s not something that I’m going to google at work.
Probably the funniest thing related to SNL or Lonely Island in recent times.
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Really?? That really shocks me as I am sure I remember talking about that sketch in year 12 (which was 2001).
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0917937/
Best way to show you without you having to search the name.
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I love that they got nominated for and won an Emmy, for that song
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I ended up googling “SNL sketch in a box” and found the wikipedia article. But thanks also for imdb link Mr KIA,
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I did the EXACT same thing 2 weeks ago. I’ve heard about Dick in a Box for years and never got around to watching it. I actually started to watch Motherlover first (I was just watching every Lonely Island video I could find), and the video started with them throwing their dick boxes away so I thought “oh, better watch Dick in a Box first”.
So yeah.
I’ve just learned that there is a Flatout 3, which isn’t to be confused with FlatOut: Ultimate Carnage.
Link is below (not the one with the sword):
http://store.steampowered.com/app/201510/
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I read that as Fallout 3, and was thinking “Um.. yeah, its been out for years” So i feel kinda silly now
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I think it is only pre-purchase for the moment. I’m still working my way through ultimate carnage. I’m not so sure about flatout 3, they are pushing the “massive crash” thing a lot and it looks a bit contrived to me
Anyone ever find themselves on comment page N wondering why it has been pretty quiet/dead, then realising that ZOMG, comment page N+1 is half full already. Just me? okay.jpg
In before WA-living-in-the-past.
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The shops are NUTS at the moment. Unfortunately it’s starting to get too late for online shopping of christmas presents, except for vouchers.
On a related note, does anyone shop at the big dept stores anymore? I realised the other day it’s probably been at least 6 months since I even set foot in DJs or Myer, let alone bought anything from there. I much prefer to buy from specialist retailers (online or not).
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I was at the westfield at Marion yesterday and there was some pop dude named Reece whom I’d never heard of. the place was PACKED with screaming tween girls.
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It appears that one of the ladies in the office has downloaded a Christmas ringtone app for her phone and is now going through all of the options.
Time to insert headphones and disregard office noises.
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I would but for some reason, what with the way society works and all that, I’d be the one who gets in trouble.
If ever we needed reason to believe that the world is a terrible place…
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You could take advantage of the new office policy of sharing-your-music-with-others-is-ok?
Some great songs to consider:
Look at my horse, my horse is amazing
The AYBABTU remix
Trololololo
The theme song from the Australian 90s kids TV show “The Miraculous Mellops”I hope you have speakers.
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She’s come into my office to ask the lady I share an office with how to get those ringtones set properly on her phone.
So sadface.
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That would be the preferred way to handle this issue. Unfortunately, not one I can take advantage of.
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Just remember. You could be stuck in a retail store for 10 hours with the Christmas CD on repeat the whole time.
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Max out your volume
Put this on: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZZ7oFKsKzY
Unplug Keyboard
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Man some people have NO imagination
More than half of the “one liners” in the current Aliens Blu-Ray comp are ACTUALLY from movies!!!
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Every single line I could think of was either from a movie or book or strongly resembled a line from a movie or book.
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I got the Aliens Blu-Ray set off Amazon a while ago. Strongly recommend it because Alien looks amazing. Too bad you need to buy 3 and 4 with it.
Kind of like the Jurassic Park set, although the Jurassic Park sequels are so much less forgiveable so I refuse to buy the set for the one movie.
I do wish someone would film Michael Crichton’s The Lost World.
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Ohhhh man, Alien in particular… HOW AMAZING DOES IT LOOK RIGHT!? One of the bestest movies I now own.
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The Lost World (the film) is awesome. One of my favourite movies when I was a kid.
Jurassic Park 3 isn’t as good but it has Sam Neill and Dinosaurs so I still like it.
No sequel can be as bad as Alien 3. It was one of the least enjoyable films I’d ever seen.
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Hey. You. Yes you. Dire Wolf. You never responded to my Steam chat yesterday.
grrrr*
*not really angry
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Sorry, I didn’t see it. If I don’t respond to an invite for whatever on steam, live or psn it’s because I either didn’t see it or I’m in the middle of a game.
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No worries! I just commented somewhat inanely that I was jealous that you were playing Skyrim at 11am.
But you mustn’t have seen it because you were playing Skyrim.
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5.05pm and I am had it.
Too bad I can’t leave work yet.
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I’m dying to get the Jurassic Park Blu Ray boxset, even though I already have the DVD set. (Me? A JP fanboy? Never…). Completely agree about the 2nd/3rd movie, but I still can’t stop watching them…
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Oh I didn’t take any offence to what you said, just in case you thought I did. Everyone has their opinion.
Though, I think everyone can agree that The Lost World novel is better than the movie. When I was a kid I used to imagine an invention like a VCR that you could insert books into and it made it into a movie. Someone fund this!
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I would buy one of those!
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I have to admit I find yours hilarious Loops
http://staging.kotaku.com.au/2011/12/win-one-of-three-awesome-aliens-vs-predator-box-sets/comment-page-4/#comment-473525
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Oh god. Tears coming out of my eyes from trying to stifle laughter so no-one knew I was watching that. So good.
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Egoraptr is awesome. I love his Blank pound cake one. oh and Katamari, sonic and.. well everything else he does really.
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My package took an hour to go through customs. So it didn’t make it to the processing depot in time for today’s delivery and I have to wait until tomorrow. 🙁
Customs… щ(ﾟДﾟщ)
That Harry Potter exhibition they’re having at the Powerhouse right now was pretty good. My sister and I had to restrain ourselves from running straight to the gift shop though, there was some good merchandise there that conveniently filled out my Christmas quota for people: some nicely crafted expensive wands, scarves and beanies in the house colours, a Sirius Black wanted poster…good stuff. Damn expensive, too.
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I am a huge Harry potter fan and I am desperate to go to this. Not sure how my wallet is going to handle the gift shop though. It was put through a serious workout when I was at the HP theme park in the US. Oh man… You’ve got me really excited now
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1333125/
this could be interesting.
I was looking at jason sudeikis profile and then saw he was playing batman and was like…Wtf?
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Unfortunately I’m in a “keep working until you’re done” job. Maybe if I spent less time on TAY…
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I’m probably really behind here but
http://www.thestar.com/iphone/news/canada/article/1087704–teens-dress-as-batman-to-catch-pedophiles-cops-not-impressed?bn=1
This was just brilliant.
Dearest DAN!:
I think you’ll find that in the Last of us trailer, the girl finds 3 rounds, and 3 empty cases, thus why she singles some out. This has no effect on anything whatsoever, but I thought I should clarify it.
Yours Truly,
Blaghman.
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Dearest NovaCascade:
I hope you did not take offense at my comment regarding your age, and alcohol consumption, on rereading it while it wasn’t 12:30am, I realised that it may have been a little dickish, so my apologies. I personally know many people who choose not to drink, and I only mock them a little, before I throw up all over the floor.
Yours Truly,
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Dearest Strange:
How could you say that Sea World is better than Movie World? Seriously. Movie World has the two best roller coasters in Australia, and nothing else matters. I should probably clarify that I aim to one day do a Six flags tour of the US, except I wouldn’t actually go to all the six flags places, as there are some better coasters around there.
Yours Truly,
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I always thought Dreamworlds Wipeout, Giant Drop & Tower of Terror were better than what Movieworld offer, and oh god the Buzzsaw was amazing.
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In my opinion, the Superman Escape, and Lethal Weapon, easily trump every other coaster in Australia. Hell, our Lethal Weapon is better than the one in the US.
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Dearest Blaghman,
No offense was taken. I am quite used to people being surprised that I don’t drink. And you had no way of knowing how old I am either. Rest easy my friend.
Yours truly
NovaCascade
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I figured you probably did, but I felt like being needlessly picky. I pay a lot of attention to game trailers, way too much, probably, but there’s something fascinating about them.
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Official announcement in April 2012, for a release later that year, probably, September-ish.
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Don’t toy with me on this, now, of all things.
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You had to buy that separately? Demon’s Souls (at least the US version I have which I never played due to basically Doing It Wrong) came with one…
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Dark Souls didn’t – there was a map (pdf, download) which covered the first area of the game (not useful), and I think another pdf download which gave hints/guide for the first area (and iirc, then tried to advertise the ‘full’ guide at you)…
The Demon Souls one was awesome – but I think was mostly possible because of the staggered release. I understand it was essentially information from the fan wiki distilled into a book format.
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SW:TOR update:
It looks like the bulk of the Australian guilds are currently all intending to pile onto a small set of servers. PvP they’ve settled on ‘The Swiftsure’. RPers will be piling onto ‘Begeren Colony’.
On the PvE front, the community is currently engaged in the most immature and pathetic civil war at the moment. What happened is that a whole bunch of guilds got allocated to ‘The Harbinger’ but one very large guild got allocated to ‘Jekk’jekk Tarr’. Such that it’s about a 60/40 player split. So the big guild on one side doesn’t want to move, but the small guilds are expecting them to and everyone is fighting and being frankly quite pathetic.
My guild leader decided (and I agree with him based off the fact I wouldn’t want to play with people like this anyway) that we’re fairly happy being on a server without too many other AU guilds, due to far less competition for queue spots etc during the pre-launch.
I am very late to TAY, but I have a good excuse!
Mum had a doctors appointment and they ran an hour over time. However her doctor asked me what I was playing on the 3DS. I told him it was an obscure title. He responded that he didn’t think there were any obscure titles on the DS, I explained that they’re the imported ones. I told him I was playing luminous arc 2. He hadn’t heard of it.
He then asked if I played with the 3D turned off on me 3DS. I told him, that yes I did as it reduced the battery life. That surprised him. He told me that he didn’t know of anyone who had the 3D on, but that was mainly because of headaches/badly implemented 3D.
It was quite strange.
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I have the 3d on, but only sometimes, and only for certain games, I think that Mario Kart 7 looks pretty amazeballs… IN 3D!
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I leave the 3D off as I can’t afford any new 3DS games at the moment. I think I’m trying to scrounge the remaining ones that are still around before they all disappear
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Luminous Arc! That was a fun game. I had the first one, and also the hacked undub as well. Sadly all my DS games disappeared when I moved last year 🙁
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It was silly but still fun. If I remember right both my Lumonious arc’s were imported. I loved that the second one came with the soundtrack as the music wasn’t bad. I’m sorry that you lost all your DS games, i hope you find them one day =(
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Very Japanese-y, I suppose.
I love that they took so much care in creating in creating in-game art for it, (although the whole wedding dresses thing was a bit weird), but apart from that, it was just such an average game.
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I think the wedding dresses was a bit of a gimmick because it tied in with the “engaging” with magical abilities and the witches rings. I didn’t really understand it myself, but it gives me a chuckle.
Also the one thing that really annoyed me was Althea’s pink blue hair. It was so weird.
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Abbot: Julia Gillard took an arrow to the knee? That’s quite funny actually.
Other Guy: Yeah, I know, right? Maybe she’ll become a guard or something.
Abbot: One can dream…
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Let me draw your attention to this site…
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2011/12/win-an-ipad-2-with-awesome-wallee-accessories/
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Lambo meant to post it here, he’s so silly!
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2011/12/win-an-ipad-2-with-awesome-wallee-accessories
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I posted that site a minute before you. You so silly 😛
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why it has been a while TAY, how are you?
anyways, i have had a grand old time these past few days
firstly, i have broken my roleplaying cherry, and played world of darkness with my friend and his brother and their friends, been wanting to do something dungeon and dragons-ey for a while, and i had an awesome time!
and as for vidya games, my import of Rune Factory Tides of Destiny came, and god damn i love it so much, just taking over my life at the moment, possibly more than skyrim… thinking i’ll write a review to try and convince the masses about it!
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as i said, i freaking love it
although, even though it’s the console version, it’s a bit watered down when it comes to the farming, but the game is still fun! if you like the rune factory games then it’s definently worth it!
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Wii, I believe?
Also, Rune Factory 3 is fantastic. If you’ve got the money to spare (which we never do), try pick it up. It just has the best bits of RF 1 & 2, streamlined it a bit, and is definitely the most polished of all 3.
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it’s on Wii and PS3, i have the PS3 version
and yes, Rune factory 3 is fantastic, definently the best one
also, i DID NOT go for the girl who TELLS THE TRUTH all the time
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Oh man on the phone waitin’ for a Telstra employee to get to me, and they’re playin’ music that heavily features a lot of Wah-Wah, all I can think is the doco on the wah-wah I watched when they said it was heavily used in 70’s porn.
Dearest NovaCascade:
I am glad you didn’t take offense, I just wanted to make sure, I know that some people can be sensitive, and then I offend them, and make them cry, and it’s awkward. But I don’t think that that’s likely to happen here.
Yours Truly,
Blaghman.
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Dearest Reply Button:
Probably the best part of this comment format is that I do not have to worry about misusing you, as my intended recipient is always clear, nevertheless, I wish to apologise for not using you properly.
Yours Truly,
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Dearest Blaghman,
How do you decide when to use the letter format? Just curious.
Yours Truly,
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Dearest Scree:
I use them when I feel that I need to communicate to a lot of people, so if I have thoughts from the day that I should split up, I write in this manner. If anyone chooses to reply to me in the appropriate manner, then I will do so to them, unless I have nothing interesting to say, in which case I will leave their comment hanging, like an unripe fruit.
Yours Truly,
Blaghman.PS. In truth, I am making this up as I go along. I tend to argue with my inner voice, as seen previously, so everything from me is mostly spontaneous.
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Dearest Blaghman,
I see, it all makes perfect sense. If I have nothing interesting to say, I usually just say it anyway. I do like the letter format, and it does appeal to a lot of people I believe. Sometimes it’s much easier to get everything out in the open, even if you are just arguing with yourself.
yours truly,
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Dearest Scree:
Unfortunately, last time I got everything out in the open, I received a 6 month jail sentence, and was forced to undergo rehabilitation, and 1000 hours of community service. As such, I try to be slightly more careful these days.
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Dearest Blaghman,
How could they arrest you? I guess out in the open within reason then. Also, I hope I am not keeping you from page 8. I’m sure you’re also needed there.
Also, we ruined the first page get for someone. D=Yours truly,
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Dearest Scree:
Unfortunately, public indecency is seriously frowned upon by our society. Who knew? On top of that, we did not ruin the page get, if you bring your eyes up to here: http://staging.kotaku.com.au/2011/12/talk-amongst-yourselves-134/comment-page-7/#comment-473650 you’ll find a recently moderated post that is most likely the cause of the ruin, and I believe said post should be reported, as I do believe our kind moderators were probably asleep when they read it. Unless of course it’s some hidden thing for some game or something, in which case I was too lazy to actually look at the site.
On a related note, I highly doubt that I am needed on page 8, in fact, I doubt if I’m necessarily even wanted there, though I would certainly be tolerated. As it stands, back page conversations are a fantastic way to boost your post score, and word score, without people realising. Although, this is not nearly far enough back for that.
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Plus, it keeps us people stuck on the previous page entertained.
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Dearest Lambomann007,
Why are you stuck? Do you need a crowbar? If so take this, as it is dangerous to go alone.
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Dearest Scree and NovaCascade:
Since you asked so nicely, I will stay.
Nova, I would recommend starting with the David Eccleston episodes of Doctor Who, they’re essentially where I started, and work quite well as a place to start. So you understand, a TARDIS looks, at least from the outside, like a police telephone box. Well, technically it can look like anything, but the Doctor’s looks like a British Police Telephone box.
To further clarify, the Eccleston episodes started airing in something like 2004ish, and are considered the New doctor who. David Tennant is also the sexiest of the Doctors.
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Dearest Blaghman
Are you magical? I noticed your most recent letter at the top of this growing pile of letter, replies and re-replies. How did you manage to get yours on top of the pile? Also apologies for not having noticed for so long
Yours truly
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Dearest People,
I just wanted to be part of the fun. Iggle piggle woozle wozzle. Purple monkey dishwasher.
Yours Faithfully,
Steve-O
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Dearest Blaghman,
I believe the person who approved it may have actually been drunk, perhaps on imported eggnog or something similar but we’ll never actually know. I too, think that the post should be reported as it is obviously advertising materials, possibly for a scam or a virus, and not the nutritious spam that we are so used to. I would click on the link myself to investigate, but there’s a little alarm going off in my head whenever I try and I do so hate alarms.
I agree that it is not far back enough as people can very easily click on page seven, however if we were on page 4 or 3 it would be a pain to find us.
I am checking page eight ocasionally while also trying to find more posts on The Last of Us as the trailer has me intrigued.
I also wonder if anyone else noticed that Naughty dog has matured. Their first IP was Crash Bandicoot, a children’s game. They then moved onto Jak and Daxter (or is it Ratchet and clank, I get the two very confused) before finally creating the Uncharted trilogy. Now the Last of Us has come along.
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Dearest Scree:
Yes, Jak and Daxter is indeed Naughty Dog’s work, as opposed to Ratchet and Clank, which is a product of Insomniac games. Insomniac have always interested me, as they seem to have spent their time as the slightly less good Naughty Dog. Their PS1 games were the Spyro games, fantastic, except unless you compare them to Crash Bandicoot, I can’t really comment on the PS2 era games, as it was a console I barely played, and the Resistance games, while good, cannot hold a torch to the Uncharted Series. I followed that link, it was not very interesting, I’m hoping that my anti-virus is up to date, and if not, ehh… I was quite tempted to reply to something in this style on page four or so, to see if you responded, but then I decided not to, and since I have now mentioned it, it seems a little pointless, so this will be the closest we have to a hidden conversation, excluding those in weekend TAY, which nobody reads.
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Dearest Blaghman
If this is your attempt at a hidden conversation, then I deem it a poor first attempt. More thought and planning are required for a secret conversation to remain so. I wish you luck in your future secret agendas, conversation or otherwise.
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Dearest Blaghman,
I did love the very first Spyro, and now that you meant insomniac, I do remember it. It is just that I never played Jak and Daxter or Rachet and clank, so that is probably why I get confused. I was actually reminiscing about both Crash Bandicoot and Spyro, I decided that i should really get those games again. The last boss of Spyro gave me a headache because it took years to find out how to beat him. When I did I was so very happy.
I am very glad that the link is nothing special. Should it be reported anyway? The last thing we want on TAY is unsolicited advertising.
If you’d posted on page 4 I probably would not have found it, but you are right about the weekends. Also i prefer weekends as it confuses people who expect to only see Blaghman.
It is quite fun.Yours truly,
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Dearest NovaCascade:
Believe me when I say that this is nowhere near my first attempt at a hidden conversation, I would challenge you to find it, but that could take years.
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Dearest Blaghman
I stand here before you today and ask you to forgive my presumption. It was a terrible mistake to make for a new arrival such as myself. I throw myself at your mercy and beseech that your teach me the art of truly sneaky conversation. If you deem me unworthy of such knowledge I will henceforth depart these hallowed halls and attempt to find some meaning in my life.
Yours remorsfully
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Dearest Blaghman and Nova Cascade,
I believe Lambomann007 may have put a hit on me for giving him the previously mentioned crowbar.
This may be my final message.Yours truly,
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Dearest Scree
Fear not. I do believe that what appear to be square root symbols are in fact ticks, indicating Lambomann007’s letter writing choices, and he is in fact grateful for your assistance and not in contact with the Dark Brotherhood. If I happen to be wrong, I’m on good terms with the Brotherhood’s leadership and can put in a good word for you.
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Dearest Nova Cascade,
I am truly relieved to know that. The crowbar was meant to help, not to cause problems, so I’m happy it helped out. I have only been a member of TAY for two weeks and it would be sad if I had to leave so soon.
Christmas is close and I should really be wrapping up presents. It is that time of year again. However I’m not too pleased with the wrapping paper choices. I must buy some more, nicer, paper.
That was a little random, but though I would get it out there.Yours Truly,
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Dearest Scree
Random is the order of the day at TAY (hehe rhymes). The problem is that my random stories are all complete and utter lies and fabrication. Like saving children from giant man-eating octopi, inventing a rocket-propelled fishbowl that will take me to Enceladus. No one ever believes those.
But a story about disappointing chrsitmas wrapping paper – totally believable. How do you do it?
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Dearest Nova Cascade,
I have christmas gift wrapping paper standards. That’s all. I specifically like the Tom Smith brand of Deluxe Wrapping paper because it has a nice little grid on the back so I can cut straight.
I am often asked why I bother going to so much trouble but it must be my arty perfectionist side of me.Can that fishbowl also take us to Rapture? Because that would be awesome.
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Dearest Scree
And here I was thinking that wrapping paper was wrapping paper was wrapping paper. I wasn’t even aware that there were different brand. I mean, I should have known, I work for Coles, and if we can sell 3 different brand of flour then surely paper can’t be that hard to divide up.
In regards to the fishbowl, I’m afraid any plans may have to be put on hold. I already have friends from university requesting me to build them a time machine/teleporter. I’m not sure what they want it for but I find its safer not to ask such questions. But I do believe I have a prtotype that could in theory make the Journey to Rapture. I would like some more time to test it first. The first test is to make sure it can break the physical/digital barrier. The precise speed at which this happens has yet to be determined. Let me get back to you.
Yours truly
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Dearest Scree
What Nova said.
Yours truly
LAMBO MANN
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Dearest Nova Cascade,
There are more then 3 brands of flour because there are at least 5 type of flour. Wholemeal, Corn, Potato, Self raising and Plain. That is just off the top of my head. There is your cheap wrapping paper, deluxe, glitter, embossed and Brand name. Lots of fun.
I understand. I hope it will look like a Tardis. I agree that it’s much safer to not ask questions, you could ask me why I want to go to rapture I wouldn’t be able to answer as I don’t know. I think it’s just because I loved Bioshock. Either way a transdimential fishbowl would be very much appreciated.
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Dearest Lamomann007
How did you find us? I thought we were hidden.
I understand.Yours truly,
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Dearest Scree and NovaCascade:
Suddenly I feel less special, my new friend has found someone else. I must traverse the plains now, wandering and wondering. You may find me sometimes, watching the moon, as I am wont to do. I hope you don’t interrupt me, as being pensive is so important to me.
This is my punishment for doing other things, that is life.
Fare thee well, as I pretend that I have emotions.
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Dearest Blaghman,
NUUUUUUUUUUUUU, don’t leave! I actually checked pages 4 and 3 just in case too!
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Dearest Blaghman
I apologise for intruding on your conversation. Please stay, I’m sure there is room here for all of us.
Yours truly
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Dearest Scree
Clearly I am lacking experience in the art of wrapping paper. I do a confession as well. I don’t know what a Tardis looks like. I know it is from Doctor Who, but I have never watched the show, a situation I am continually meaning to rectify. Everyone I know who does watch it says it would be something I would really enjoy. Perhaps you could offer some advice as to where to start?
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Dearest NovaCascade
Enough room for all of us? That’s easy enough for you to say, you’re not the one who’s toe is being stood on.
Sincerely in pain,
LAMBO MANN
AUSTRALIAN
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Dearest Nova Cascade,
It is alright to be lacking in the art of wrapping paper. It is an unappreciated art and you have people who will wrap in your place in the name of charity.
I also have a confession. I have seen half an episode of Doctor Who but I mean to keep watching it, however it is always on when I am busy. I do know quite a bit about the series for some reason.
As for the tardis, i will give you information in the form of a music video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGqrrmZXtqg
As you will see the police box is the Tardis. The video will answer some questions, but it may create more.
I hope this helps.
Also, i believe a lot of people like the 10th doctor, so I would start there. The new doctor isn’t bad either.Yours truly,
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Dearest Lambomann007,
You may want to discover some ice and position it on your swollen toe. Apparently it is very successful at reducing swollen appendages.
Yours truly,
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Dearest NovaCascade,
Somehow, I know what a Tardis, I have never seen an episode of Dr Who either, yet somehow, I know what a Tardis looks like. But that’s probably because someone built a full sized one out of cardboard and put it in my local library. (I know what you are thinking Scree, but it wasn’t me)
Sincerely yours,
LAMBO MANN
AUSTRALIAN
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Dearest Lambomann007,
It’s quite a coincidence that none of us have really seen a Dr. Who episode. I don’t believe it was you who made the Tardis, as you would create something more game orientated.
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Dearest Lambomann007
My humblest apologies. I realise this is a cramped space, but I thought it Scree might get the wrong idea if I was standing inappropriately close to her. Hopefully I haven’t, in turn, given you the wrong idea.
Oh this is so confusing, people are so hard to deal with. Ahem, sorry, I try to keep the antagonistic side of my personality under wraps a bit more.
Yours truly
NovaCascadeDearest Scree
You’re right. Many questions were answered and raised. I really must track down this show. The 10th Doctor would be David Tennant, correct? I hope so, I like him in the other shows I’ve seen him in. Maybe I will start there anyway.
Yours truly
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Dearest Scree,
Many thanks for your suggestion. I have been foraging around my house and have indeed discovered this ‘ice’ you mentioned. Funnily enough, I found it in the back of my freezer. Who’d have thought this ‘ice’ would like cold temperatures? I sure don’t.
Slightly related fact, the guy who invented frozen chickens dies of pneumonia.Sincerely yours,
LAMBO MANN
AUSTRALIAN
VICE PRESIDENT, MANN CO.
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Dearest lambomann007
Please remember to press ‘d’ when you meant to press ‘d’ instead of pressing ‘s’. Also, please remember to turn the oven off.
Sincerely yours
LAMBO MANN
AUSTRALIAN
VICE PRESIDENT, MANN CO.
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Dearest Scree, NovaCascade, and potentially Lambo:
I attempted to respond earlier, however, it appears that I dun goofed, as it were, and replied to the wrong post, so, if you wish to see my earlier reply relating to Doctor Who, and not leaving, simply scroll up to the top of this chain. My apologies for this mistake, as it makes reading things considerably harder than they already are, an impressive feat, I must admit.
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Dearest Blaghman
It appears we both had a similar thought regarding your previous “dun goofing” and I responded up there ^^ However, as it can be difficult holding a conversation in 2 places at once, I propose that we move all subsequent messages to the bottom of the page. All in favour?
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Dearest NovaCascade
ಠ_ಠ
Sincerely not yours,
LAMBO MANN
AUSTRALIAN
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Dearest Blaghman, Lambomann007 and Nova Cascade,
I read Blaghman’s previous post and as he appears to know more about Dr. Who then the rest of us put together, I suggest you scroll up and take his advice.
Lambomann007, yes I was amazed as well when I discovered ice in the fridge. I had wondered where the word “ice” in ice cream came from, but in an instant, I understood. It’s also not unusual for people to discover when thing to die of something else, although related. Look at Howard Carter, he discovered a mummy and died of something completely different.
Nova Cascade the 10th doctor is indeed David Tenant. If you do like him in other things, I would suggest starting there. He does have awesome fashion sense as the 10th doctor.
I would like to also add, if you don’t mind, that I think we’ve taken up more then half a page. Is it possible this is a record? Also people on page eight may possibly be wondering why the comments number is going up yet there aren’t that many posts.
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Dearest Lambomann007
Right you are, message received and understood. Although I must say I like your eyebrows. NO, BAD NOVA. Not gay, not gay, not gay…
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Dearest Scree
When people see the huge conversation we have going on here, they will freak out and run back to the safety of page 8. We are safe.
Sincerely freaky,
LAMBO MANN
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Dearest NovaCascade
I’m glad you like them, I spent an hour this morning brushing and combing them, trying to make them look just right, just for you
Sincerely not flirting with you
LAMBOGIRLMANN
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Dearest Participants,
I have just checked page 8 and I have concluded that we are indeed, safe. They think that TAY is currently as dead as a doornail, unaware of the growing conversation happening right next to them.
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Dearest NovaCascade, Scree and Lambomann007:
I am in favour of continued posting down here, and if any of you have further questions regarding Doctor Who, I would be happy to answer. I am a little bit like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0s95Mm0cFqg
Except with worse fashion sense, and a messier bedroom.
Also, ser Nova, do not worry about accidentally being gay, it happens to me all the time, though that is a certain downside of having very few female friends, and so mostly being around guys. We’re all accepting here anyway. Except for Rocketman, he’s a little bit racist, but we try not to hold it against him.
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Dearest Blaghman
I have no female friends. (Other than the ones on TAY, that is)
Sincerely yours,
LAMBO MANN
AUSTRALIAN
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Dearest Scree
When people feel the most safe is usually when disaster strikes. I propose we attack at dawn, and bury their precious page 8 in a swarm of posts the likes of which TAY has never seen before!!
Oops, sorry, my aggressive side coming out again. We should live and let live, or if you prefer – post and let post. TAY is there for everyone and should stay that way
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Dearest Blaghman, Lamboman007 and Nova Cascade,
I believe posting down here is the best option, although I am starting to have trouble finding the reply button. I still think this may be a first unless Blaghman has replied to himself this much, as I’m still a newbie, I wouldn’t know.
I do need to watch Dr. Who myself, I should probably ask my friends if I can borrow it, but then they might encourage my to have a marathon and games would be played instead.
Yours Truly,
Scree.PS. I’m not getting any wrapping done.
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Dearest Participants:
I find it a little odd that we have such a massive conversation, when my first real comment was insinuating that I had been arrested for public indecency. This is certainly a little odd.
Now, Lambo, on to you. I think we should take you out clubbing. No, no, it’s okay, believe me. It will simply be hilarious. I should clarify too, that of my few real world female friends, 0 of them are what I would call sane. This may have tainted my view of women, or, potentially, I hold them to unreasonable levels of sanity. I am not sure why I am saying this, but that’s what late night conversations are all about!
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Dearest Nova Cascade,
I understand your wanting to strike, however, if we do so, the people on page 8 would come to learn the fun of the long chain of replies. No, we must hide it, as was intended.
We will get page 8 another way.Yours truly,
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Dearest Blaghman,
I don’t suppose I am helping on your view of sane women with this conversation.
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Dearest Blaghman, Scree, NovaCascade
Clubbing sounds painful…
As for attacking page 8, we will do so when the others have moved on and are no longer guarding their precious posts. Shooting them in the knees might help speed up this process.Sincerely thinking up attack strategies,
LAMBO MANN
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Wait guys, wait!
I haven’t posted my combo-breaking not-in-the-proper-format comment yet!OKAY
Proceed.
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Dearest Participants
Very well, Scree, we will be patient. Page 8 will fall eventually. Until that time we must walk in the shadows, and quietly observe.
Blaghman, no fear, I am quite sure I am not gay, despite some people suggestions otherwise. Apparently finding it easier to make friends with the girls at school/uni/work is proof enough for most people. Ah well, can’t be helped. I am who I am.
Yours truly
NovaCascadePS I am quite sure I have already beaten my best week post-count wise
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Dearest TAY Conspirators
I am going to bed now
Good night
LAMBO MANN
AUSTRALIAN
VICE PRESIDENT, MANN CO.
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Dearest Participants:
I have the last post we can reply to permalinked, and opened in another tab, so when I wish to post, I can simply switch to said tab, and reply through another opened tab. It is slightly elaborate, but it works.
I cannot conceive a good way to invade page 8. We have invaded Gizmodo multiple times, Whitenoise particularly was a main target, though we first invaded before it existed, if I remember correctly, sadly that does not help us. We could always try and use fake-bunny on page 8, but I don’t think that would be very effective, as it is, I am stumped.
As another point, this is easily the farthest a chain has ever gone that I’ve seen, so I’m going to say that it’s the record, as I remember the days of 400 post weeks(technically I remember the days of 30 post weeks, but I wasn’t commenting, so it doesn’t count).
I think, having sat here for long enough, that we should let the page 8 people be. Some of them may come back here, and be a little bewildered, but as it is, they can have their own community that involves us, and we can be a little witches coven, chanting and dancing around a fire, unknown to most, ignored by the rest, or, at least accepted. Ahh, the joys of acceptance.
Yours Truly,
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Dearest Bish,
You are doing it wrong.
C-C-C-C-Combo breaker! Is the appropriate way to combo break.Yours truly,
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My dear co-conspirators
I’m sorry I couldn’t wait. Due to an accidental reply-fail, the way to page 8 now lies open.
Yours apologetically
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Dearest Lambomann007,
I bid you goodnight.
Yours truly,
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Dearest Participants:
Goodnight ser Lambo, may you return eventually.
Nova, I propose we ignore the break, act like it never occurred, and hopefully people will ignore it. I know, people are certainly good at ignoring things. Also, no fear, I guess? I have had my mother insinuating that I am gay for a few years now, it is really quite distracting. This is why I choose to dance my way to victory, in the straightest and manliest way possible.
Now, Scree, I feel like Bish can break things in whatever way he wants, he is Bish after all. As a member of this community, he makes me look positively young, so I feel it’s best to just humour him.
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I’m happy to say
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Dearest Blaghman and Nova Cascade,
Blaghman, I did tell Bish he was doing it wrong, but I knew he would most likely ignore me anyway because as you said, Bish is Bish.
I agree with Blaghman on the break. I think Page 8 may be confused by the post and they may venture to page seven, but will most likely return to page eight out of complete fear.
The break will not change us, nor slow us down. After all, Bish knows we’re here and the apocalypse hasn’t arrived yet.Yours truly,
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Dearest Participants.
Or should that be Partici-no-pants? Just a thought.
You’re right Blaghman. Sorry , I panicked. Yes it should be ignored. I only hope that a reference to a baby seal does prove inticing to anyone else. Especially with them being all fluffy and cute and adorable. Awww.
Scree, Blaghman is right, Bish has been here much longer than us. We should let him break things as he wills. Even though you are totally correct. C-C-C-Combo Breaker really is the only way.
Goodnight Lambomann. Dream of victory and chocolate.
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It’s not that I’d ignore you, it’s just that I’m senile and this one time I punched a bear, but it turns out it was Stalin in a bear suit.
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Dearest NovaCascade and Scree:
We are all new here, relatively speaking. Except for Qumulys, not that he comments here any more, he’s too cool with his “caring for his children” and whatever. I feel like the best part of TAY is just how organic it is, we live and let live, you can do what you want, I will only judge a little, so what’s the worst that can happen?
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Dearest Participants.
I’m sorry Bish, I owe you an apology, I just got a little over zealous with the combo breaker. It’s just that my brother used to torture me with Killer instinct when I was young.
I think the post has been ignored so far. We are not out of danger as such, but we’re getting closer to safety. So far, everyone is none the wiser.
Also Bish, how did you find us?
Yours truly,
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Dearest Blaghman
Pfft children, a poor excuse. Who’d want to get stuck in that situation (god I hope Strange doesn’t see this). I like how TAY works, easy enough for the really new kids to get in, not closed off at all. Maybe its just cause we’re aussies, and just naturally friendly
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Haha, no I understand the C-C-C-Combo Breaker thing, and I was going to do it, I swear, but then I didn’t. (True story)
As for finding you, well, apparently for all intents and purposes to everyone else, Blaghman and I are the same person apparently. We have this whole hivemind thing going on. Everything he knows, I know. So sometimes I try to wash my brain with soap, but there are things I can’t un-know. 🙁
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Dearest Nova Cascade and Blaghman,
That is what happens when you go and get a life. Let’s hope it doesn’t happen to us.
Au Australians, or Austrialians if you happen to be Modern Warfare 3, tend to be pretty open and friendly. I think TAY embodies that. Not all of Kotaku does.Yours truly,
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Dearest Participants
We have been discovered. The Lady Strange is aware of our presence. We are only saved by her fatigue from a day out with her kids… Maybe children are useful for something after all 🙂
Yours truly
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Dearest Participants,
Hold the fort. I’m afraid I have run out of time and must leave.
Bish, you do not need to add True story, we’ll believe you anyway. It must be awesome and yet frustrating sharing information with Blaghman all the time, simply because if he plays a game, you also play a game. Is that how it works?
I wish you all the best until you collapse.Yours truly,
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I like to think that despite the departures, the events that have transpired tonight have bonded us together, like the ingredients of a twinkie.
A wise man once said “You cannot hurt a twinkie, sir!”.
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Dearest Participants:
May we forever remember the events that transpired here. I cannot recall a single thing that was said, and for that, I am glad. We assuredly achieved something great. May you look for me on the fourth, where the sycamores grow, swaying in the breeze.
Yours Truly,
Blaghman.
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Turns out I got much more drunk at then Christmas party than I planned to, and didn’t have to work for the rest of the day.
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searing headache + nausea = AWESOME CHRISTMAS LUNCH the day before
*puts on sunglasses*
huuuuuuuuuuuurgh
SO I was all craving chocolate milk today and so I went to 7-11 for this.
2 for 1 special! OMG!! LOTS OF CHOCOLATE MILK FOR FREYR
COOL STORY FREYR
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Its ok Freyr, someone saw it before it moved. Don’t know why it changed but I saw it.
Also, why chocolate?It has to be strawberry. Why did you not get strawberry, its clearly superior in every way 🙂
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I should elaborate: needs more detail.
Detail such as what type of choclate milk, did you pay cash or credit card, what was the attendants name, etc.
It’s all about the detail mangs!
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http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/8389013/communications-minister-drops-f-word-on-tv
Not sure what to say here. Guess its not just US Kotaku writers.
Aww looks like there’s no shiny new HTC 7 Mozart for Virus__ from Telstra, since the gentlemen on the phone assures me it’s an extra 10 bucks a month and we were simply after a phone which was $0 per month. So I then opted for the Galaxy S, turns out it’s not instock, like bloody hell x.x, so i’m waiting for them to ring back to tell me when the Galaxy S is in.
Mean time I got on to their support guys on Facebook again to ask were they sure the Mozart was still free on the plan.
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To be fair, he was rather nice.
Silly me thinking it was going to be easy to resolve the 2 problems I had x.x
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That’s okay because the Optus employee is laughing at the person he just screwed over himself. Really they’re just hearing themselves talk but they can see the other is laughing through office windows so they think the other can hear them.
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Ah typical Optus employees!
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Optus, the epitome of communication.
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Dear Customer,. We here at optus would like to inform you of our new service policies by telling you that you are a stupid Aussie jerk that likes to lick the penises of dead animals. If you have any queries, please don’t hesitate to contact Sanjay our customer service rep by throwing yourself off the nearest bridge or tall building. Because here at optus, we care about your money!
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Well, Batman is very sneaky, has experience with a large number of weapons, has various technological replacements for magic/potions, shouts a lot…
Oh my god, Batman is Dovahkiin.
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Your comment made me think of a flash game like Press-X-to-Jason, but replace Jason with FUS RO DAH. It could still be set in a mall like Press-X-to-Jason. That is all.
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Does anyone use any other shouts? I’ve tried mixing it up a bit, like using the Disarm shout, but it never works. I don’t know whether I’m not hitting the enemy, or if they are just too high a level. Or maybe Bethesda knew that FUS RO DAH was the way of the future and broke all the other shouts.
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You are forced to use some of the others at certain places, but I have FUS RO DAH 95% of the time.
Disclaimer: I have not finished the game, and have no idea how far from the end I am.
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I’m assuming that that is during the main storyline? I’ve been spending most of my time on the other faction questlines, and just general exploration and dungeon diving. I’m a bit nervous about going back to the main story line. I did this in Oblivion, did a lot of side material before doing the main quest, and then when I decided to go back I lost all of my equipment and gold. I ended up abandoning the game because I didn’t want to try to rebuild my wealth, but also didn’t want to re-roll my character and have to do all that side material again.
Touch wood, that it doesn’t happen again.
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I sometimes use Kill to make stuff easier to do so and Ethereal and Whirlwind Sprint are handy.
But nothing beats Fus Ro Dah ing someone off the top of a tower.
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G’Day, √ MATE / ﬦ ENEMY:
√ THANK / ﬦ BLAST you for √ GIVING ME / ﬦ TRYING TO WHACK ME OVER THE HEAD WITH the following object
# 1402 – “CROWBAR”
Obstacle smashing, hand held weapon
First off, let me √ COMMEND / ﬦ SWEAR VIGOROUSLY AT you for your √ WONDERFUL GIFT / ﬦ STUPID IDEA of √ GIFTING / ﬦ TRYING UNSUCCESSFULLY TO STEAL the aforementioned device.
√ YOU HAVE MY THANKS / ﬦ I’M COMING FOR YOU, YOU FIEND!
Watch √ TAY / ﬦ YOUR BACK because √ YOUR GIFT HAS HELPED ME GET UNSTUCK FROM THE PREVIOUS PAGE / ﬦ YOU PICKED A FIGHT WITH THE WRONG MAN.
I look forward to √ CONVERSING WITH YOU IN THE FUTURE / ﬦ PUMMELLING YOU TO DEATH WITH MY BARE DAMN HANDS.
√ SINCERELY / ﬦ UP yours,
THIS JUST GOT SIGNED BY:
LAMBO MANN!
LAMBO MANN
AUSTRALIAN
VICE PRESIDENT, MANN CO.
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I’m sorry! I didn’t know it would kill your whatever you’re typing on!
If you bash my head in, Blaghman will be alone on the weekend again! Unless Bish appears, but that’s not a given D=
The crowbar was not meant to break things, it was meant to fix them T_T-
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Haha, I was really thinking about the crates. They’re the real victims in all that mess.
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What about they’re almost less used cousins, the barrels?
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Worst case scenario, a barrel can tap L (or R) twice and be invincible for a short while.
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Maybe it is? It may not have been intended that way, but maybe it is?
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You know, you’ve confused me.
I’ve gone back and re read that a few times, and I can’t see where I said that the crowbar killed what I was typing on…
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But…aren’t you me??
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Technically yes, but I will still offer any assistance I have available to offer!
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“YOUR GIFT HAS HELPED ME GET UNSTUCK FROM THE PREVIOUS PAGE / ﬦ YOU PICKED A FIGHT WITH THE WRONG MAN.
I look forward to √ CONVERSING WITH YOU IN THE FUTURE / ﬦ PUMMELLING YOU TO DEATH WITH MY BARE DAMN HANDS.”
This made me think that you were going to kill me and that the crowbar broke the device you were typing on. It’s a misunderstanding I believe.
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http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/kotaku/2009/05/mannco.jpg
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Do you know who Leroy Jenkins is?
Just checking 😛
(PS, I didn’t know who Leroy Jenkins was until two weeks ago…)
Last time a wild Bish appeared, someone kept throwing these round red and white balls at me.
🙁
I’m currently watching “Slash Made in Stoke: 24/7/11” and I must say the crowd seem pretty into it and the band sound pretty tight. I was watching clips on YouTube from the DVD and the rip I obtained sounds so much better musically AND vocally. Goes to show how much YouTube compresses shit >_>
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Dearest Lambomann007
Only if your a baby seal… I cant believe I just typed that
Yours truly horrified
NovaCascade
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Dearest NovaCascade
…?
Sincerely confused
LAMBO MANN
AUSTRALIAN
VICE PRESIDENT, MANN CO.
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Dearest Lambomann007
It was in reference to your previous letter stating that clubbing sounded painful. I am still horrified that I said it. I am a terrible person.
Yours truly
NovaCascade
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I’m on to you, Page 7. I was on page 7 when I had to leave to go Movie World so I refreshed page 7. I didn’t even realise there was a page 8 at first.
I didn’t read everything though, I’m too tired,
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…….
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Well Strange, be warned, it’s very long, but it’s no worse than what I have to read every day at 5, except that it only involves, at any one time, four of us. I hope you’re ready for that…
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I’m sorry, what is this page 7 you speak of?
But yes, it is extremely long and full of nonsense.
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Hope you had a good day Strange.
I wouldn’t trouble yourself with page 7, there’s really nothing to see there *whistles innocently*
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I feel the need to point out that Strange feels the need to read everything, she’s sort of like me, except not like me at all really, which is probably a good thing. Rest assured that most other people are far too lazy though.
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And apparently everyone is feeling the need to something. In my case, I think it’s sleep. Stupid tiredness, making me form terrible sentences.
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I feel the need to point out that I am the greetest at going to bed. I don’t even have a raisin to stay up!
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Just wanted to let you know that I’m listening: http://youtu.be/2ozADPzl30s
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G’Day √ MATE / ﬦ REVIEWER
√ Thank / ﬦ DAMN you for your √ INTEREST IN / ﬦ SCATHING REVIEW OF the following device
#1369 – “PAGE 7”
25 thread holding, discussion tool
We √ REGRET TO INFORM YOU THAT / ﬦ WANT YOUR HEAD BECAUSE the aforementioned device is √ OUT OF STOCK / ﬦ WAY DAMN BETTER THAN YOU SAID IT WAS, YOU USELESS EXCUSE FOR A JOURNALIST, but we will √ HAVE IT IN STOCK / ﬦ BE SENDING AROUND A SQUAD OF ELITE ASSASSINS soon.
Watch you √ MAILBOX / ﬦ BACK because we’ll √ ALERT YOU WHEN THE ITEM IS IN STOCK AGAIN / ﬦ FIND YOU, YOU CAN’T HIDE FROM ME.
I look forward to √ DOING BUSINESS WITH YOU IN THE FUTURE / ﬦ SEEING YOUR HEAD ATOP A SPIKE, WHERE IT BELONGS.
√ SINCERELY / ﬦ UP yours,
THIS JUST GOT SIGNED BY
LAMBO MANN!
LAMBO MANN
AUSTRALIAN
VICE PRESIDENT, MANN CO.
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Yeah I’ve heard that. Unfortunately the combination of a Mac and PS3 controller seems to be too obscure to work for this game, though. I’ll have to do some more investigation later on to get it to work.
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Pretty good, though half of them be already owned and I have not even downloaded the games from the last 2 Humble Bundles I bought.
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The only game I already own from this bundle is Super Meat Boy, so yes. I’ve grabbed this. Too many new games to try.
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I think I damaged my screen from the number of times i’ve thrown my wallet at it today
Picked up indie royale as well
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I’M A SHOUTY MAN!
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NICE TO MEET YOU ASHOUTY!
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*mighty barbarian bellow of pain and outrage*
SQUEAK!
For months I have been juggling plans with both family and friends for different events taking place over christmas and new years. Last week everything looked like it had been finalised and everybody was happy.
Now over the last two days every single event has been cancelled and about 90 percent of everybody I know (outside of TAY) is pissed off and unlikely to talk to me for the next 6 months. I now understand why suicide rates are so high during the christmas period.
Is it so friggin hard for people to at least try to get compromise???
Sorry for the rant, but the last two days have nearly drivin me to the edge.
I only have 2 thing left to say on the matter.
Bah humbug.
Anywho, has anyone played Dungeon Siege 3? Just tried it out the other night and had a massive Diablo 1 and 2 nostalgia attck.
Very basic combat, story and such, but it was surprisingly fun.
Plus massive amounts of loot is always giggle worthy.
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If you can’t please anyone, please no-one.
That’s what we’re doing this year. Going away for xmas and new years.
Or break up xmas into different days…like have a 3 day xmas.
Have Christmas Eve with friends, Xmas day with family and boxing day with random strangers 🙂
Hope you can work it out Hugo…
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Sorry to hear about your friends/family Christmas basplosion. Hopefully everyone all has a good time anyway, wherever they are.
As for DSIII, I’ve played it and I like it. It’s solid and fun. It proves that Obsidian can make a bug-free game. I just haven’t spent much time playing it because of all these other games I’ve got. Too many gaems!
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“Too many gaems”
Tell me about it. I should wind up Mass Effect 2 tonight, and yesterday both Skyrim and Saints Row 3 were sitting on my keyboard from OzGameShop when I got home from work. Add to that an enormous amount of pressure from my friends to get into Witcher 2, which, if you’ll recall my post from way earlier (though it was only a page ago, damn that 47289432 reply letter exchange), resulted in Negative Zero telling me that I need to play Witcher 1 before I play Witcher 2. I also picked up Bastion on that day when it was super cheap on Steam, and, with Diablo 3 inbound in the coming months, my team really needs to start training.
* #FirstWorldProblems head explosion*
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Thankyou for saying it’s like Diablo 1&2!, you’ve taken a load off my mind.
I bought Dungeon Siege 3 a couple of days ago because I wanted a game that would help me prepare for Diablo 3 (that wasn’t Diablo 2 cause I think i’ve logged 2000+ hours into that game).
Have you tried the multiplayer yet? I’m interested in the response because i’ll be leading a Diablo 3 team, and we definitely need to get some practice with timing, roles, and coordination, which is hard to do when some people in the team would know Diablo 2 so well that it wouldn’t really be effective practice.
In conclusion, it’s fantastic that this game is reminiscent of D1&2. 😀
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Hang in there Hugo, things tend to have a way of working themselves out around this time of year. And if they don’t do your best to enjoy yourself and the rest of them be damned.
How does Dungeon Siege 3 compare to DS 2. I was quite disappointed with space siege and with the less than glowing reviews have stayed away from it.
Morning all. Ended up missing out on TAY yesterday due to a sudden case of really tasty Mojitos.
Mmm…minty.
Did I miss much? Did you miss me? I missed you… *scuffs foot on the ground*
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That’s an infliction I’ve suffered several times in the past.
Can’t say it’s ever been one I’ve regretted.
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Top o the mornin to the citizens of TAY. Todays word is xenodocheionology. It describes a persons love of hotels and inns.
Remember. Use it or consequences.
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Lucy Lawless is a pretty cool guy.
With her Xena’ing and Chakraming and stuff.
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Except for that show where Hercules fights the fashion police…
Then walks on the catwalk to the tune of ‘I’m too sexy’…
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Idiot sonic just keeps getting crazier and crazier…
http://fuckyeahidiotsonic.tumblr.com/archive
Kotaku Wars Episode IV Part 2
“You don’t have the faintest idea of where we are, do you R2?” Steve-3Devo, R2-Qbo and the Space Core were standing near the crashed escape pod, out in the middle of an endless desert that stretched further than the eye could see.
“I never should have hopped in that wretched escape pod. I knew something like this would happen.”
R2-Qbo replied with “Bleep bloop bloop bleep bloop bloop bleeeoop!” which roughly equated to “Shut your pie-hole goldie-pants. I saved your life back there!” in Basic.
“Well I never! I don’t think I want to have anything to do with you anymore, you rude little astromech!”
“Good riddance,” R2 said in Bloop-bloop language. Then he promptly turned around and rolled off.
“Hey! Don’t leave me! I gotta go to space! I gotta go to SPACE!!” The Space Core, who had spent most of the time after the crash murmuring to itself, had finally taken note of what was happening around him.
“As for you, you wretched little ball of scrap metal,” 3Devo drop-kicked the Core into a nearby sand dune.
“SPAAACE!” it yelled before landing in the sand with a muted thud.
“I hope you die in a pile of your own filth!” And with that he walked off, in the opposite direction that R2 had taken.
R2-Qbo was sick of wandering. He had been wheeling along for hours now, trying to find even the faintest hint of civilization. So far he had found nothing. All had gotten from his wanderings was a fine collection of sand particles in his servos which were starting to make moving difficult.
The barely audible sound of a soft footstep reached R2’s finely tuned audio sensors. He froze, trying to figure out where the sound had come from and what might have caused it. Another footstep, this one much closer.
Suddenly, “Huzzah! Wazza nibby ziggy zugga!” a small, robed figure wielding a stun blaster jumped out in front of the startled astromech.
“Weeooow!” R2 yelled as he was struck by the stun blaster’s bolt.
“Bleep bleep bleepity bleep bleep!” Hey, waddya know, R2 self-censors his words all on his own! He hit the ground, his status lights slowly dimming as he shut down.
In a distant corner of space:
“Alright princess, you are wearing my patience thin. Tell me where the rebel base is, otherwise I’ll shoot you in the knee.”
“Can you even see my knees from down there?”
“Grrrr…”
Darth Tracey’s patience really was wearing thin. Dangerously thin. She had been trying unsuccessfully to convince the princess to tell her where the rebel base was for the last few hours, and she had had enough.
“Look here princess”
“I’m trying, but you’re really small from up here”
“I’ve had enough of your jokes, and if you don’t tell me what I need to know, things will start to get ugly. And believe me, you don’t want to see me being ugly.”
“But you already are ugly!”
“Argh! That’s it, I’ve had enough.” She spoke into her comlink, “Grand Moff Kiddman, prepare the big guns. As for you, princess, I’ll be back for you shortly.”
“Don’t forget to bring a taller ladder with you.”
“Gah!”
“R2, you’re alive! Thank the Maker! I was getting rather worried about you.”
“Bleep bleep bloop bleep?”
“Where are we? Well, we appear to be in the transport of a group of travelling, droid merchants. At least we’re safe now,” looking around, he saw the room they were in was full of old droids and droid pieces. “Relatively safe…”
They started hearing an all too familiar sound coming from one of the piles nearby. “Space, space. Gotta go to space!”
“Oh just brilliant. How did he get here?”
“Space! Space space space space space!”
The room shook as the transport ground to a halt. Some of the older droids fell over slanging on the pieces of deceased droids.
“Now what?” wondered 3Devo.
“Chul, the Jimus are here!”
“Coming Uncle Chuloopa’s-Uncle!” Chul Loopwalka quickly finished what he was doing and ran outside to his Uncle.
Standing in front of the house was a group of Jimus and some droids, all in different states of repair. “Wait, we’re buying one of these trash cans?” said Chul.
“Two, actually,” replied his Uncle.
“Ah.”
“Which ones do you think we should get?”
“That protocol droid looks good. Hey droid, how well can you translate?”
“I am fluent in over so-many-I-can’t-be-bothered-to-tell-you languages.” A look of pride was on 3Devo’s face.
“He’ll come in handy. What about the others?”
Chul inspected the rest of the droids. “This flying one should come in handy when inspecting the moisture harvesters. Won’t need to get the ladder out as much.”
“Hey Jimus, we’ll take this two!” One of the Jimus rushed over to take Uncle Chuloopa’s-Uncle’s money off his hands, as the others removed the restrainers from the two droids.
“Space space space space! SPAAAAAAA-KABOOM!” The poor space droid blew up.
This did not please Uncle Chuloopa’s-Uncle. “Hey! Are you trying to sell me faulty droids?”
Steve-3Devo saw this as an opportunity to rescue his friend. “Excuse me sir, but that astromech right there, no not the one with half his head chopped off, the blue one, I’ve had the pleasure of working with him before, and he is quite a hard worker. If you bought him, you’d definitely get your money’s worth back pretty quickly.”
“Eh, fine. We’ll take the blue astromech!”
“You owe me big time, R2.” 3Devo whispered to R2-Qbo as they followed their new owners inside.
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“R2, you’re alive! Thank the Maker! I was getting rather worried about you.”
Cross-Universe.does 3Devo run off alcohol
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I should clarify that I thought of Dragon Age at Harli’s comment, not at the OP.
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Always makes me think of Dune…
New Twitter for iPhone…
Why do these companies feel like breaking things under the guise of improvement?
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Oh Rocketman…
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This isn’t becoming a thing,
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The correct response would have been “Oh lambomann…” 😛
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You’d think that, but “oh Rocketment” is a thing now.
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“Rocketment”
Hmm.
Let’s not make that one a thing.
I’m just making a ridiculous amount of typos today and that was one of the many that have probably slipped by without me noticing.
Seriously. I cannot type good with the words and stuff today. My delete key is going to be rather overworked. Yes, my delete key. I’m using an Apple keyboard, they don’t put backspace on these bad boys.
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I prefer my Rocketment with milk and 3 teaspoons of sugar.
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You would, heathen.
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I do get the impression that Rocketman is not really down with it becoming a thing. But I could be wrong.
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That ship has already sailed.
He could have tried to make Rocketpony a thing. The chance was there. He just didn’t exploit it for great profit.
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Haha. I read the update notes, and decided not to hit “update”. Sounds like a good move on my part.
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I update infrequently and without looking at update notes.
This is probably a habit I should break.
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Hey G, by your estimation how long do you think it would take somebody to complete the game at the bare minimum from start to finish? 10hrs? 20?
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Not really sure. I spent a lot of time doing all the side stuff, and broke it up with multiplayer.
The story sequences seemed to go pretty quick. If you weren’t trying to get 100% synch on missions and weren’t bothering with the Desmond levels you could probably knock it over in 10. Anyone dis/agree?-
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Might ask for other peoples opinion.
SHANE!
CRACKS!
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*people’s
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Awesome did you find the game lived up to its predessesors*
Yes i know i spelt it wrong get off my case Bunny!
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/grumbles like a child does when there mum wants to talk to them when their friends are around!
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Did you know that Google Chrome has a built in spellcheck function?
And that OS X has a universal spellcheck?
Maybe switching to one of these could result in you not having to worry about my wrath being inflicted upon you (with great anger and furious such and such).
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ಠ_ಠ
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*Super Secret Super (Hand)Shake*
~o=
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In some way yes, in other ways no.
I really enjoyed all of it, but I can see why some people have issues.
There are some awesome moments (cutscenes, minicuts and actual gameplay).
Apparently some of the key people behind Uncharted 2 were working on The Last of Us.
This helps explain my disappointment in Uncharted 3 and really sparks my interest in this shiny new thing that Naughty Dog has revealed.
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I am very intrigued by The Last of Us. I hope it’s a lonely, dangerous, ammo-scrounging world they’ve created.
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I think zombies might be my favourite enemy. Also skeletons. And vampires.
I will kill a bandit, but I will get no pleasure from it. If they don’t attack me, they can live. Damn Bethesda and their unsophisticated AI making all the bandits super aggressive for some reason. Just let me focus on killing the undead pls.
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Good morning everyone! I just wanted to let you know what I think about work at the moment
The rest of this comment has been deemed inappropriate and has been deleted
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Oh noes. The secret government is on to you. You still got your cyanide pill? You may need it.
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/breaks down sobbing uncontrollably, yet with inrequent glances past the tears to see if anyone is going to approach and give a hug, doing his best to indicate through the grunts and gasps for breath that some comfort would be welcome
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Oh…pats you on the shoulder. Hang in there buddy.
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sniff Thanks buddy.
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You…ahh…wanna talk about it?
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I think I might take Friday off. Why? Because I can! Also, because I’m working the week between Christmas and New Years… 🙁
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Dear TAY Conspirators
Page 8 is now ours.
Sincerely yours,
LAMBO MANN
AUSTRALIAN
VICE PRESIDENT, MANN CO.
SHOUTY MAN-
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Dear Loyal Guards
Arrest this man
Yours tyrannically,
LAMBO MANN
AUSTRALIAN
VICE PRESIDENT, MANN CO.
MAJOR GENERAL, SOUTH KOTAKU
DICTATOR-
Oui Herr General Lambomann-San
Yours Multi-linguistically
NovaCascade -
Dearest NovaCascade
That has a nice ring to it. I like the way you think! You’ve been promoted. You are now Captain NovaCascade!
Sincerely your leader,
LAMBO MANN
AUSTRALIAN
VICE PRESIDENT, MANN CO.
LEADER, SOUTH KOTAKU
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Dear Herr General Lanmbomann-San
Thank you sir. I will endeavour to live up to my new rank and responsibilities. Umm, exactly what are said responsibilities?
Yours loyally
NovaCascade -
Dearest Captain NovaCascade
Shoot, don’t ask me.
Sincerely clueless,
LAMBO MANN
AUSTRALIAN
VICE PRESIDENT, MANN CO.
LEADER, SOUTH KOTAKU
NOT GOOD AT HIS JOB -
Dearest Herr General Lambomann-San
Excellent. I will start on that immediately. And by “that” I definitely do not mean plotting your eventual humilation, deposing and death. I don’t mean that at all
Yours truly
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Dearest Captain NovaCascade,
That makes me fell so much better knowing that you’re not planning to overthrow me.
Sincerely not doing a background check on you,
LAMBO MANN
AUSTRALIAN
VICE PRESIDENT, MANN CO.
LEADER, SOUTH KOTAKU
INVESTING IN SOUTH KOTAKU INTELLIGENCE -
Dearest Herr General Lambomann-San
So you’re investing in SKI… You’re taking us all skiing? Thats awesome thank you so much. I will attempt to make sure you do not “accidently” fall off a cliff, or into a ravine. I take my protection duties very seriously
Yours faithfully
Captain NovaCascade -
Dearest NovaCascade
I think I’m going to have to promote you! You are now Colonel NovaCascade!
Sincerely keeping away from cliffs,
LAMBO MANN
AUSTRALIAN
VICE PRESIDENT, MANN CO.
LEADER, SOUTH KOTAKU
CEO, PARACHUTES-R-US
LOOKING FOR BODYGUARDS
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@lambomann007 or anyone else with Star Wars knowledge. If I buy the Br Box set of Star Wars, are the original three un-edited? I have them on VHS in gold box (remastered edition or something like that) and we no longer have a VHS so i want to watch them in all their glory but only if it has not changed at all!
otherwise I will just sneak into uni and try and use the VHS/TAPE/DVD converter thingy
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I doubt that the BR release has the theatrical versions of the movie. Lucas doesn’t seem to like those much.
There are special edition DVDs floating around with the theatrical cut of the original trilogy around. Says so right on the back of the box (although I think they still do silly things like edit in Hayden Christensen into ROTJ).
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“edit in Hayden Christensen into ROTJ” – WAT!? Oh… man… that is so extremely super super lame.
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Are you not aware of this change?
Sure it’s not as bad as Han shooting first, but damn is it off-putting the first time you see it.
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Ohhhhhh I figured it mustve been that moment. Ohhhhhh maaaan… that is terribad. I kind of dont want to get even the original trilogy on blu because of that :'(
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Yeah! Why on earth would they feel the need to tilt Obi Wan’s head like that?
(…what?)
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They are all smiling in a creepy manner.
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Nope, they’ve been edited
Most significant edit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27RVJJfny4I&feature=player_embedded
Vader goes ‘NOOOOOOOO’ I don’t mind that edit actually…
oh wow there are quite a few edits
http://www.tgdaily.com/entertainment/58273-list-of-changes-to-star-wars-the-complete-saga
but i found this list of deleted scenes interesting
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_changes_in_Star_Wars_re-releases
I read that when Mrs Lucas was re-watching one of their old wedding videos, she said, “Wait, I don’t remember inviting that person to my wedding? And what are those stormtroopers doing over there?”
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Of course they’ve been edited. We’re talking about George Lucas here.
A proper quality version of the original films does not exist. The closest you could get is the LaserDisc release which I think was pulled straight in as-is into the second disc in the last local DVD versions.
If you’re of the “yarr swap the decks matey” persuasion you could look up Harmy’s Despecialized Editions. Basically a guy went through the entire original trilogy using as high a quality source as he possibly could and removed every Special Edition digital effect, fixed the terrible changes they made to the contrast that made pink lightsabers and made all the stars disappear and everything, and even re-constructed some things like some of the original dissolves and wipes. And put the awesome model-based special effects back in instead of the terrible looking 1997 CG stuff.
Dear TAY, I am hungry. But I don’t know what to eat. HALP /o\
Also I guess I should go get ready to hang out with Christine again \o/
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But Christine goes back to Melbourne tomorrow D:
Plus I haven’t seen Sam since Friday the 2nd D:
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Nah but she wants me to come say goodbye though haha.
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Nawww
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Luls, she has a boyfriend too, who I get to meet today. He seems like a nice bloke.
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You scallywag!
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;D
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I finally break my page get virginity. and now page 9 is screaming at me:
BRIEFLY UNAVAILABLE FOR SCHEDULED MAINTENANCE. CHECK BACK IN A MINUTE.
Yes it actually is in Caps on my screen.
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It seems to be the week for first page gets. I got mine on page 4, Freyr on page 8 (even if it moved later) and now DI11enger on page 9. Celebrations all round. Just remember Di11, it was only a temporary TAY break. Nothing that couldn’t be fixed.
*pats shoulder*
Last night was the second group stage of the Blizzard Cup.
Short version is that it’s a ten player tournament with two groups of five. Each player plays the other player in their group and the top three from each group goes on to the next stage.
Naniwa and Nestea were both 0-3 going into their match against each other. No matter what happened, neither was going to advance. There is a bit of a rivalry between these two after MLG Providence after Naniwa consistently beat Nestea (who is considered by most to be one of the best players in the word).
People were interested in seeing a rematch.
Naniwa wasn’t interested in playing a dead rubber.
So he worker rushed. Just selected his initial units, sent them to Nestea’s base and took his hands off the keyboard.
People have not reacted well to this.
I do enjoy Starcraft and the community, but seriously people it was a dead rubber. The match meant nothing to either player and it isn’t the first time that a big name player has publicly thrown a match that meant nothing to them (Stephano at DreamHack, almost everyone at the MLG placement matches).
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They’re sponsored players who earn a salary from their teams.
So in a general sense, yes.
It was a tournament so the actual payout would have been for those who succeeded and both of these guys had already been eliminated at the first stage.
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I think that’s how i want to play starcraft. Its decide that will be the only way i even try to play!
Dear Sir Eats-a-Lot,
Don’t take my word for it.
I’d await someone else opinion.
Kind regards,
– Effluvium Boy
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Dear Sir-Eats-A-Lot,
If this is regarding that rash, don’t take Flu’s word on it. Go get someone else’s opinion, like a doctor’s.
Yours Itchily,
Steve-O-
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Dear Steve-O,
Thanks. I always appreciate feedback from those who are experienced in the field.
Regards.
Harlitronic 5000
formerly eats-a-lot but ate too much
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I am just going to come out and say it and i will accept any ridicule i may get from this.
I played the new DLC campaign for Duke Nukem Forever and i absolutely F***ING loved it.
I have been a Duke Nukem fan all my life and i do admit that DNF was a huge disappointment but with this campaign not having the huge levels of expectation, i had an absolute blast.
I would suggest buying and playing it.
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Good to hear. Ill have to grab it. I was one of the three people in existence that actually enjoyed DNF.
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Something to do with something on the previous page. Only slightly related to your post.
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After reading that Cracked article that mentioned My Little Pony, my wife said she wanted to watch it – as a fan of science fiction and video games, she concluded that anything adolescent boys like she winds up liking too – plus she liked My Little Pony as a kid, so FIM was bound to be perfect for her.
So, consequently, I have now seen an episode of MLP:FIM.
I… suspect I am too old. Or maybe it wasn’t one of the better episodes. Maybe I have to watch it from the beginning… because apart from one line of dialogue from (I think) Pinky Pie, I did not find it particularly entertaining. I mean it was ok, in the sense that I could still watch an episode of Dexter’s Lab, Samurai Jack or Powerpuff Girls – the general tone and style is similar. But I don’t understand why this is an overwhelmingly popular cultural phenomenon.
Also, someone tell me what the Zebra is called. My wife wants me to locate a toy version of this character for her birthday next month.
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One word: Hipsters.
Later when every one wonders WTF they were doing they can claim “It was ironic bro”
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I like hipsters, I like even more calling people hipsters when i haven’t heard of something they have. Even if it is fairly mainstream.
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It’s not the greatest thing ever, but there is something oddly charming about the show that draws you to keep watching. At least, that was true when I powered through the first season of it.
Not charming enough to get me to watch the second season, but it’s not terrible.
I don’t know how it got so big. Sometimes people just latch onto something and it blows up.
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Ten People* in the room. One person tries to break the Ice “hey guys have you seen that new show Blurpityblurp? its so snazzy”
*sudden long discussion of something which everyone knows nothing about*
Next day.
A member of the group pipes up “so i was watching BlurpityBlurp last night and oh my god the plot development”
*group begins another long conversation about tv show which now everyone has a definitive knowledge because they read a wikipedia/wikia page about said Tv show*
*OP tries to change subject*
*group promptly lets OP know that he/she should get with the times and that the show is rad*-
hmm that was meant to be a story about the hipsters at my previous work and how quickly they latched on to things like MLP. I left the computer for a second and when I came back I must of submitted comment without looking. foolish boy
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I’m glad I was late to Kotaku this morning.
I saw that Catherine article and almost didn’t read it because I had an inkling of what some of the comments would be like, based on the way the comments on Kotaku have taken a huge downturn in the past year.
I read it and looked at the comments. Yep. The first couple had been removed. I’m glad I didn’t have to see those.
Thankfully within what remained though, was an intelligent discussion on infidelity. I guess with the increased popularity of Kotaku AU since Mark took over we’ve not only increased our number of idiotic, belligerent and thoughtless commenters, but also our number of thoughtful, intelligent and mature commenters.
I did feel sorry for Tracey having to deal with the people in that article’s comments though. 🙁
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I thought about commenting on that article and decided not to. But don’t worry Strange, it would have been thoughtful, intelligent, and mature. I just didn’t want to deal with the other commenters today who weren’t those things.
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*reads comments on said article*
*grabs giant crowbar labled Good For whacking idiots and insensitve fools*
seriously though some of the peoples commenting really need to get off the gaming elitism horse
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I had the exact same inkling , i didn’t want to read the comments but the article was fairly intelligentlly written. I was gonna comment and then i thought i have no experience on the subject so why would i say anything. Also do you guys get the feeling thatwe are kinda taking over kotaku. I mean we have been here a while and its like as soon as someone says something we as a group disagree with we jump down there throats and when the bite back as the inevitably will. 10 people go and back that other person up. I mean i know that we all like this place alot but i am starting to dread reading the comments on other articles because someone is starting a flame war that one of us is dying to finish off.
(not direct at anyone in particular BUNNY, Just kidding)
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I have no idea how my name was involved in any of this. I don’t really get into arguments based on who’s making them. I’ll argue with anyone if I feel like their logic is unsound (or I just think what they’re saying is silly).
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TAY gives you a very unrealistic picture of “The Internet”.
Get comfy here, then step outside, and bam you get a faceful of rude idiot straight away.
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Whirlpool is not too bad either, but mostly because it is moderated by Pepper Spray Cop.
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Much fun with the teamspeakers last night – Played Dungeon Defenders with Bish, Rocketman and Blaghsy. It’s a really fun mix of action and tower defense, if a little unpolished. After getting smashed by the ogre boss in one level, we rallied and obliterated him in the next. Maybe we just leveled up and were stronger but I’d like to think that we improved.
Also LoL. Anivia is fun. The only thing I don’t like about her is the massive cooldown on her ice wall. I accidentally walled off some team-mates while they were attempting to run from the enemy with no health. Hehe, sorry Rocketman – it had to be done. 😛
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It’s because of people like you did the Kotaku Second Civil War begin!! Bringing LoL randomly into all the posts ;P
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Just a shame that the first comment was a childish insult, glad to see it got stomped out very quick and people started talking like adults.
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Most people seem to understand. Its just a shame there’s always that minority of people that type before they think. Or after they think which is even worse
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A Star Wars comic book series about the origin of the Jedi Order? This could be interesting…
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Star_Wars:_Dawn_of_the_Jedi
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Shiny. Ostrander is pretty cool (I enjoyed Legacy), so this new series sounds alright. Also, Rakatan Infinite Empire!
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Anyone else hear Serrels on the radio this morning? To drive to work, serenaded by those dulcet tones…
So, Puppylicks, how is our game of Dark Souls going? I’m still at Anor Londo. I’m trying to get past some knights shooting me off ledges with arrows.
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That is quite possibly the single most frustrating part of the game. Especially when your a tank class in havels armour and sheild. Even with all that on those damn arrows knock you off even while blocking.
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Pfft. Mack Daddy took several arrows to the knee and did he quit and become a whiterun guard?
NO!
Mack Daddy is made of sterner stuff.
Until Mack Daddy met the evil Ylod. Ylod proved more than even Mack Daddy could handle.
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I got all the way up to the ledge and was within striking distance of one of the fekkers and the other one hit me in the back and then YOU DIED.
Grr.
But, I can’t say it’s more frustrating than the Capra Demon though! Man, that was awful.
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Important question about Dark Souls: Does it speed up the death experience compared to other games?
More specifically, do you have to sit there for 30 seconds to 1 minute with “YOU SUCK! LOADING!” plastered on the screen?
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You’re on the ground pretty quick, running frantically back to your corpse to retrieve your souls and humanity. There’s a very brief loading screen which gives you some interesting info to read. It’s pretty seamless I reckon.
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In fact, unless you die or teleport, I don’t think there is any loading screens.
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Gooooood! Hate when games completely break flow if you die/fail. This is now a definite for me. Will be passing on as a suggestion for a Christmas present 😀
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I hate to think I’m going to be partly responsible for broken controllers. As long as you know what you’re getting yourself into. The game is brilliant and addictive but – yes – it is exactly as frustrating as everyone says it is! I love it.
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Ahhhh the Capra demon. The first time I got to him it took 10 tries just to get past the first few steps.
@Eff and Eats:
AssCreeRev took me about 10-12 hours, IIRC. In terms of side-questy stuff, I spent time collecting enough fragments to do the Desmond sections, and I did the Desmond sections (well worth doing), I collected the Ishak Pasha armour, did Vlad’s tomb, ~5 den defenses, and some Mediterranean defense stuffs. Also, that time probably includes ~3-4 matches of multiplayer.
Shamefulless Repost (Don’t mess with me this time reply button!)
Much fun with the teamspeakers last night – Played Dungeon Defenders with Bish, Rocketman and Blaghsy. It’s a really fun mix of action and tower defense, if a little unpolished. After getting smashed by the ogre boss in one level, we rallied and obliterated him in the next. Maybe we just leveled up and were stronger but I’d like to think that we improved. I’d recommend DD to anyone who enjoys silly co-op play. Would not play it single player though.
Also LoL. Anivia is fun. The only thing I don’t like about her is the massive cooldown on her ice wall. I accidentally walled off some team-mates while they were attempting to run from the enemy with no health. Hehe, sorry Rocketman – it had to be done. 😛
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Accidentally my arse. You did it like 3 times on purpose. It is like one of the only abilities that you can mess with your team mates though. Also dungeon defenders is quite fun if a little bit repetitive. I mean i would gladly play more but there are so many options for towers and weapons. I wish there was some more attacks though. Especially with the fighter, no one wants to play a underpowered character!
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Try another character if you want next time – It shouldn’t matter if we double up. I don’t think we used any of your turrets anyway apart from the barricade a few times.
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We kind of just took a doorway each and did our own thing. We were only playing on easy though, would probably get obliterated on medium.
A bit repetitive as Rocketman says, but good for short bursts of co-op gaming goodness.
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@Loops and other Transformers fans – in case you missed it, here’s a behind-the-scenes on Fall of Cybertron.
http://staging.kotaku.com.au/2011/12/the-making-of-a-transformers-game-trailer-so-powerful-it-moves-its-devs-to-tears/
… what the hell is going on with Kotaku AU’s comments? Is it just me, or is there this wierd two-level effect going on where everyone in TAY is nice and wonderful but if you venture outside here, everyone not a TAY regular is hateful and assholish?
Maybe it’s just me.
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Its like an unofficial criteria for seeing whether or not you fit in to TAY. If you make ridiculous comments on the articles, sooner or later the TAYbies will call you out on it. If you don’t, eventually you find your way into TAY…. and never leave.
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I think Rocketman may have been a little right before with the whole ‘gang’ mentality that seems to be developing. If one TAYbie is in a flame war with a random, a lot of others will jump in to defend them. The old rivalry with Neo-Kaiser springs to mind. Not that this is a bad thing, the more civilized users need to band together against trolls (the bad ones, not me :P), sexism, racism (the bad stuff, not Rocketman), etc. We do need to be careful however in that it’s easy to get carried away with the mob-mentality and become worse than the idiots we were originally trying to band together against.
Narf.
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There’s nothing wrong with a little mob justice. If it actually makes somebody stupid see the light of reason then it’s probably a good thing!
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I’m with Harli here.
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The truth of it
http://abstrusegoose.com/416Just don’t let the govamen know you have found out
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Something I’ve found interesting is that somehow a real life friend and I have both ended up with the nickname “Bun Bun” through completely different means.
I’ve got it because of the transition from Rabbit to Bunny to Bun Bun. He’s got it because his girlfriend teases him about being fat.
Sigh…Just reading through a few articles here on Kotaku AU and i’m disgusted by the pure hate, venom and vitriol spewing from some of these commenters. When did we lose sight of why we’re on here? When did ‘playing games’ become ‘playing the wrong games’?
Seriously, MW3 has garnered a bad rap because it’s another COD game. Yeah, I get that. But that doesn’t mean it isn’t fun! Now that the mud-slinging has escalated to people insulting someone elses intelligence simply for enjoying a COD game, it’s getting beyond a joke.
Yeah, I enjoy the COD games, I also enjoy Dark Souls, Skyrim, Bioshock and heaps more titles. Just because you don’t like something, doesn’t give you the right to insult someone or belittle them.
It’s about the games people, not the people who play them! If you don’t like a game, feel free to say so. But please, leave your personal attacks at the door.
Thanks.
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It goes a little like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAGfC0Ktb5Q&feature=player_detailpage#t=95s
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You are a man of many truths. I agree completely. Its the same as movies or music. But the thing is people insult these things because they
a) want to be seen doing the “cool” thing aka insulting the lowest common denominator
or B)Actually likng the thing in question but doesn’t want people to attack them. It is the same with everything. Its hard to fight the power so to speak! -
I sling all kinds of crap at mates of mine over this sort of stuff, but we’re friends, and we know it all jokes. I gave a friend of mine heaps for picking up a MW3 preorder, despite playing s*%tloads of MW2 with him. On the Internet, it usually comes across to me as that sort of playfulness, only taken too far, and with people you don’t know.
It doesn’t help that all players who play COD (for example) are generally represented by the negative, aggressive group (due to them being the most outspoken and LOUD), but this isn’t unique to any game or genre.
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If you want to talk about loud aggressive rude people you could be talking about any modern multiplayer game. I have had people rage at me in minecraft for building wrong.
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HOW DID YOU MAKE A RACIST HOUSE??!! 😛
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Random Australian Server
Start build a house out of wood. Random gy types don’t build the house out of f#@#in wood use stone it wont burn. I said i like the look of it and he ranged about the survivability of my house. Then i put a chest in the room and said i was stupid for not hiding my loots.
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I get the jokes from my mates too, but it gets to a point where enough is enough. Still, it’s the internet. Asking for people to be nice is an exercise in frustration and futility.
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So true.
I enjoy CoD as well and have enjoyed many hours in MW3. I see so many people pop into CoD articles to spout the same venom about it like they are personally offended that someone could possibly enjoy it.
Hilariously, the Whirlpool forums classify CoD vs BF discussion as “religious comment” and delete any comments like that (not zealously enough in my opinion but I guess they rely on people reporting them).
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The hilarious thing is if you can check these peoples steam profiles or gamer tags or whatever, half the time they are playing CoD.
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I don’t understand all the CoD vitriol either. Any article on this site that mentions Modern Warfare 3 almost always seems to spark some silly flame war in the comments. What’s wrong with enjoying a bit of CoD every now and then? I’m not a big fan of the series but I do own a few titles and the time I spent playing them was pretty enjoyable. Its just unfortunate that people immediately jump towards stereotypes about the kinds of people who play these games.
I do have a bit of a beef with reviewers, though, who praised MW3 for being more of the same but with a few tweaks to enhance the experience, but then turned around and criticised AC:R for the same thing. Granted, I agree with their view on AC:R, but the inconsistency between reviews is annoying. But that…has very little to do with anything and I don’t know why I brought it up.
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They did the same thing with Mario Kart 7.
I mostly hate the ratings system we use. “Out of 10” doesn’t allow enough room for differences, and “out of 100” usually gets treated like “out of 10” plus a random digit on the end.
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What’s best about the “out of 10” systems is that big name releases tend to fall between 7 and 10 on the scale.
The numbers are essentially meaningless.
I will be doing game reviews next year and I will have a “out of 10” at the end of each review. That number will be obtained by rolling a D20 and halving the result.
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I look forward to reading/watching your reviews. Maybe you could come up with your own new rating system?
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How about:
“Go buy it now!”
“Worth a look.”
“If you like this sort of thing, it’s not terrible.”
“I did not enjoy this and can’t imagine how someone could.”
“If a copy of this game should come into your possession, please find a witch doctor to aid you as you are obviously cursed.”
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You should make the review score out of 1 billion do you can watch people rage when you deduct 1.5 million points because the run animation is a bit stiff.
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I’ve been thinking of doing these as video reviews (stand in front of a webcam and splice in game footage), so it could give me reasonably inventive ways to give arbitrary scores. Roll dice, pull a number out of a hat or my personal favourite idea so far: open a Bible, point to a random chapter and verse and give it chapter out of verse. (so open the Bible to Mark 23:11 and it gets 23/11). How to show that last one is a bit tricky.
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I’d be curious to see how meta critic would aggregate those scores.
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I would love to get on Metacritic with a system like that.
“And I give Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm 78/112 because that’s what my supply was in the last game I played”
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And Skyrim gets a Daedric War Axe of Shocks out of Force; Unrelenting Force.
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THAT DOG HAS A PUFFY TAIL!
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Cuuurse you I was just about to type that!
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Dammit! He’s always one step ahead!
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Hey. Guys. Guys.
It’s Wednesday and I’m still on TAY.
/holds breath/ This is the first time I’ve made it past Tuesday because usually I can’t keep up.
In completely unrelated news (I’m sure), I am falling behind in the work I need to get done before Christmas.
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Not if they want their work done before christmas. Under the assumption that whatever your doing can’t be palmed off to someone else.
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Good point. I’ve been working on this for 8 months. That’s a lot of reading in. Bwah ha ha ha!
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So I saw some guys laying fibre-optic cable in my suburb! I hope this means what I think it means…
Then I found 10 dollars. (Not really, but my story was quite short)
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I’m sure it was just some random man who enjoys the fine art of laying cables (which is also a term for pooping, FYI).
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Unfortunately I have a prior engagement I must attend to. I’m sure a General of your standing can hold the fort until I return.
Farewell
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Attention Diablo 3 Fans. If you haven’t seen this yet you may want to be a part of it:
http://sea.blizzard.com/en-sg/community/contests/anz-d3-twitter/rules.html
The Gist:
– 100 Beta Keys available, 33 will be drawn in each of the next 3 Saturdays (ie it starts 17/12/11)
– Not available to QLD/VIC (blame your state laws)
– All you have to do is send an email to AusNZ(at)Blizzard(dot)com explaining in 25 words or less ‘What are you going to do the week before Diablo 3 is released?’
Note: The email must have your battle net account name (most likely will be your email address), and your twitter handle (@TROLOLOLOL) IN THE SUBJECT LINE
I’m so super excited.
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But wait! It gets worse!
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So every reply should be in quoteblocks now? 😀
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I committed to a year of WoW already so I get beta access and a copy of the game regardless. So bleh to you and your anti-Victorianism, Actiblizzion.
Re: Minecraft server
I am aware of th issue.. it seems that their control panel is down. As a result, the white list is disabled. As the default role that you all get is now set to No Access (Whitelist) no-one can get on..
Ill keep trying to get on through the day..
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Me,
LucyNumbers and Steveo where able to get on just before.
I hope the whitelist hasn’t been disabled allowing anyone on D:-
Okay, bad news. I was able to get in with my younger bro’s account. So yeah, anyone random person can get into the server now…
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We should be safe considering the spawn point is ages away from anything.
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This is true. Here’s hoping they don’t go exploring too far…
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Lucky you have not built that skyrail to the spawn point yet. So by the sounds of it the whitelist has turned into a blocklist lol
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Unless my house gets found 🙁
I will see whats happened to the spawn point cabin later 🙁
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Right, I guess this Humble bundle wins, cause I’m going to grab it.
I CAN’T STOP BUYING GAMES!!!
I’M ALSO YELLING A LOT TODAY!!!
My older brother is awesome, thanks to him getting married this week I get a three day week making today my friday. And on top of that I have to leave work early today for the final suit fitting, so weekend here we come 😀
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Lucky bastard. My older brother is an a-hole who didn’t invite any of our family to his wedding. Long weekend ftw!
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SO i am in a generous mood, I am going to gift some Humble indie bundles to people. Just let me know and the first 2 people will get a bundle when i get home this afternoon!
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I realize its a pay what you want type deal but i also know not everyone has a credit card or paypal account and some might not have 5 bucks to use.
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Nup
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Someone from the community asked me on twitter this morning for my email, still got no idea who it was lol! I DM’d they m like the
Anyway my email, I have millions of them \o/
marc.c [at] live [dot] come [dot] au
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Or I could stop being a cheapskate and just buy it myself…nah, the life of a cheapskate is a good life 😛
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Best choice of Gravatar award goes to…
ROCKETMAN!
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Thanks Rocketman 😀
It’s lamboman007 [at] hotmail [dot] com [dot] au
Nice gravatar 🙂
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I bought it earlier and I didn’t get a second copy of SMB. I had the same thought and was going to gift it along to someone, but it didn’t come through. Has this happened to anyone else?
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I think the bundles come packaged inside one Steam key for Steam activiation, although you can download the exes individually for non-Steam use. (IIRC.)
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Oh ok, I hadn’t had SMB installed for a while anyway. Now I do. So its mine, all mine. My precious meaty… NO, I really have to stop this
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Hm, now that I look at it, I have decided I need this bundle. Super Meat Boy? Cave Story? Bit.Trip? I will force my sister to let me use her Paypal tonight!
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Hey, puppylicks, over here: http://staging.kotaku.com.au/2011/12/talk-amongst-yourselves-134/comment-page-9/#comment-474485
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Oooh, random link!
*click*
Okay this is getting creepy, I just got past those Javelin knights myself. Just held my shield up and sprinted all the way up, got in close to the Knight and pushed him off the edge. IRONIC JUSTICE.
Now I’m inside and there’s Knights and Mimics everywhere, I will probably press on tonight if I have time. Oh and I bumped into Solaire again, he thinks I have a man-crush on him.
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Is this like one of those parallel universe thingies? I think it could be, are you at a computer right now?
YOU ARE?! ME TOO!!!
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Everything is right again. You are ahead of me!
I am SO going to
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By the way, I discovered I have a crystal halberd in my inventory! But,
the goggles, they do nothing!the halberd, it takes more hits to drop a large knight than my jagged ghost blade does! Have you upgraded yours? -
Actually I haven’t ascended any weapons yet, I plan to try that out once I reach the Giant Blacksmith. I hear he can craft me up something good 🙂
I realized the crystal halberd has a durability of 20 so I’m putting it away for a big fight.
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I interpreted it as meaning you work on a rollercoaster all day. That’s a pretty awesome job you have there. And you still have time for TAY in there, too.
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I had the same thought with the second half of the good Doctor’s rambling. It certainly sounds like my reaction to rollercoasters.
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Transformers Movie Marathon playing on the tiny TV with the volume up way too loud in a bus on your way to your work christmas party, with all your colleagues harping on about how fantastic the movie is.
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Somebody take all my programmer cards. And a few man cards while they’re at it. Take all my cards. I have been struggling with an issue on a web report I made for a month now. When run in a browser, it works fine and gives data on the trips a vehicle has made. It has an alternate form and can be called via url (with parameters in the url) to give the same report, however in the format for conversion to a pdf file.
The second method never returned any data. So after month of investigation, thinking it was related to the way logins are handled differently between the site and in-url authentication, I did a SQL trace on the two reports to compare what was different.
After all this I found the problem. It wasn’t anything technical, or hard.
I was passing in the year 2010 in the URL, not 2011
Imma go cry now, then try think of some awesome problem that I can pretend to have solved so my manager doesn’t know what a waste of time this has been….
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This is the reason I stopped caring about the programming side of the degree.
3 hour investigation into one of my programs and I found the solution:
I had if( x = 1), not if( x == 1)
So much rage
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Oh man. When I first started I made such a massive error with the whole equals (==) and assign to (=). I practically set every row for a column in our DB to what I was meant to be checking for.
Dat programmatic syntax yo.
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This is why a lot of programmers (not me, I hate the way it flows) write conditionals like that with the constant on the other side, i.e.
if(x = 1)
becomes
if(1 = x)
And the compiler will throw an error on that.
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Ha! Steveo did a Rize!*
*very offensive in the context of scripting/programming/SQL/…anything, really
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oh and this made The adventures of Tin Tin that much more interesting to me
http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi1105436185/everytime I look at the Imdb Adventures of Tin Tin page I see a picture of George Lucas at the Tin Tin “event” and I have to do a quick check through the full cast and crew list to make sure…
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Your logic checks out.
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Wow. That puts a creepy spin on my gravatar then.
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They obviously aren’t that up to speed with superheroes on that site if they referred to a Young Justice cosplay as “Young Justice League”.
In the show, they’re only ever referred to as “the team” and the show title is simply “Young Justice”.
For shame.
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Saw the link in imdb and read through everything but the cosplay. tbh i saw young and was not interested.
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Young Justice is awesome.
Trust me on this one, very much worth watching.
One of the better animated series out there. Character development is kind of a big thing (ignoring how they’ve managed to screw up Artemis on more than a few occasions) and there’s an on-going continuity that does not suck.
Watch it.
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Alrighty then, will be adding it to the list of animated series to watch
it will have to wait until im done with batman though and that may take a while
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I’m working too hard to make noise, dang it. Also I have my annual review in an hour and a half so less time on Kotaku for now = good?
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Do you still look like ginger Bruce Willis Max Payne?
Because I for one would be terrified at the prospect of a ginger Bruce Willis Max Payne being displeased at me, even if I were his boss.
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Dearest Di11enger
Usually unusual quitness is an indication of an impending invasion.
Sincerely not up to anything
LAMBO MANN
AUSTRALIAN
VICE PRESIDENT, MANN CO.
LEADER, SOUTH KOTAKU
CEO, PARACHUTES-R-US
NOT RALLYING THE TROOPS-
Dear Lambomann007,
I would like to report a creeping silence across the board.
I fear the Invasion maybe sooner than we think.May I always live to serve you and your crown
Di11enger
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Dear Lambolord,
I have not (*wink*) been spying on the North, and can safely say they ARE aware that we are NOT planning any hostilities (*wink wink*).
Your friend in the North (*nudge*)
Codename stinkfa-…I mean, Rize
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Dearest stinkfa-… I mean Rize,
Keep up the good work. Also, while you’re at it, could you do a background check on NovaCascade? That boy’s been acting strange…
Sincerely your leader
LAMBO MANN
AUSTRALIAN
VICE PRESIDENT, MANN CO.
LEADER, SOUTH KOTAKU
CEO, PARACHUTES-R-US
WONDERING WHAT TO DO WITH ALL THESE PARACHUTES… -
Dear Rize,
If you falsify my background report to Lambomann, I can promise you the continent of your choice when I overthrow him and claim the world as my own. Your choice of course, but should you reveal any information about me, I will have a long and drawn out death awaiting you.
Also, I’ve been noticing Lambomann has been having some paranoid delusions lately. Nothing to do with me, just thought you should be aware
Yours truly
NovaCascade
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ahh who am I kidding, I live in solo queue.
*throws bish some earmuffs and winter clothes*
its like hell froze over in there….good luck 😉
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$10 worth of crisps…
#AllKindsOfAwesome
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VICTORY
I must be at a low enough hidden ELO that the people I play with are both nice and can carry me.
Volibear, Vayne, Karthus, Mundo, Teemo (me) vs Shaco, Volibear, Tristana, Vladimir, Anivia
– Volibear and Vayne murdered bottom lane. Mini-fling and wall stun made for good times.
– MUNDO GOES WHERE MUNDO PLEASES (also I was laning with him, super rad guy, we were all “Sorry I couldn’t prevent your death :(” to each other)
– Vlad’s sustain is jerk.
– Karthus was sad when Space Laser didn’t kill.
– Bad enemy Anivia ice walls please me.
Not one negative thing was said throughout the game, except for Vlad saying his Volibear was bad at post game chat.
Maybe sub-100 win Level 30 normals isn’t so bad.
I’m going to go bring a hot chocolate and packet of barbecue crisps back to my desk,
no one try and stop me.
And, yes, I said “crisps”.
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What a nice bear.
My puppy did that when I left for work the other day. A once off or not, I loved it.
FatShady, lamboman007, Harli, Rize, Steve-O The Deve-O et al,
This “minecraft” thing you’ve got going on sounds great. What exactly have you got going on? (I know what minecraft is, but I mean your server.)
Is this the sort of thing someone like me could come and have a look at, maybe have a little plot of land to build a house on?
I haven’t played minecraft, really, but it sounds so much better the way you guys talk about it.
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You should come join the neighbourhood, once the server recovers from a severe case of failcakes…
Quick summary of why it’s great: Imagine a land where it’s HIP to be square!
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Does the neighbourhood have strict planning laws? Because you know, I would build an ugly house despite all my efforts to the contrary. Also, massive basement.
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Nope it’s pretty much do whatever you want (as long as your not destroying other peoples stuff). I have a house with a rape dungeon. Whatever floats your boat. Everyone is centralised but there is opportunity to spread out with a skyrail that I built. Keeps everyone fairly well connected so you can see what everyone’s up to. I’d give you the details but not sure if I’m allowed? Fatshady will probably also have to whitelist you.
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Sounds great. I’ll harass one of you privately via Steam chat for details once I’m set up. (could take a while)
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as long as you don’t mess with existing constructions, you can be as artistic and autistic as you’d like… or lack there of… the main thing is do whatever you wanna do as long as you don’t ruin other peoples work… unless they want you to
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Eh, I guess the loose law is to leave a bit of space between houses*. Once you choose a spot of land, you’ll also need to put a request on TAY addressed to Steveo, in the form of a Haiku**, asking to have the skyrail built to your house.
*I actually live in a tree
**I may be making this up
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No Haiku required. Maybe just some sexual favors.
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I can’t think of an appropriate remark.
I mean, I can think of lots of remarks…
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One thing that’s actually important to do is tell FatShady what your Minecraft account name is, so he can add you to the whitelist.
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McGarnical,
The thing about Minecraft when you first start off is the lack of direction. You are born wide-eyed into this world that is both fascinating and dangerous. You walk around for a bit and look at stuff before experimentally punching trees, rocks, animals – whatever you run into. Then you slowly build up an inventory. Then you make your first shelter ever to protect yourself. You start mining.
Then it just goes from there..
I feel like it’d be rude to pester Serrels about my Kudos prizes (again) but it appears that I still don’t possess anything that has been delivered by Josephine.
Such a conundrum.
I was walking around a shopping centre in town this morning, and I came across one of those kiddie rides.
Nothing memorable, apart from the fact that it merely read:
“The Busy World of Richard Scarry”
And I nostalgia’d hard.
True story.
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There’s a new run of episodes on ABC2 at the moment. On about 34 times a day along with the other 5 shows they have.
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I had no idea what you were referring to by this comment, so I Youtube’d the name. As soon as it loaded up: “I REMEMBER THIS SHOW!” (I also nostaliga’d hard xD)
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I couldn’t bring myself to watch the new one with Neil Gaiman in it.
That show has somewhat passed its peak.
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Past it’s peak? I’m pretty sure we passed the peak, the foot of the mountain, the rest of the continent, and flew off into space…
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Which is why I singled this one out. Surprisingly good. Ralph stole the show with only a 30 second part as usual.
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Hello Fellow Taybies. I bring tidings of joy!, Happiness! And GIFTING!!!
I was looking through Steam, and I have some games to gift!.
Borderlands GOTY Edition (1)
Terraria (1)
Detour (2)
Dungeon Defenders (2)
Who wants them?
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I should also mention that this is not a ploy to get your souls for myself, as I am now comfortable with being a soulless ginger :p
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I think I might try to lay claim to one of those copies of Dungeon Defenders.
Assuming noone else wants them, in which case I’ll just buy it.
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I get by. Latest pc game I got into was a game called Heroes of might and magic 2. Didn’t even know there was a 1. I put the resolution up to the max setting of 1280×720 and I got a warning about compromised performance. But I like to live dangerously so I clicked okay up on this mother. And it runs wicked good.
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Wow, that’s really roughin’ it
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I was trying to find a reference to “11 April” in the document I’m working on, and did a ctrl+F for it but then Word said “no results found for ’11 arpil’, which I knew was BS because there is definitely at least one reference to 11 April and I was getting angry at the computer, and … then I realised. 11 arpil. ahem.
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Umm, I left my html tag for italics open at the end there and now the rest of my Kotaku screen is in italic. Did I break it? let me try a bold tag…
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Fixed?
Probably not. Someone probably has to edit in the tag to close it off into the original comment.
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Heh, I think I’ll just leave this here, as words cannot express the amount of…
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It was like that when I got here! [there are no tags in this comment – what will it look like I wonder]
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The power of the italic! Bringing TAY to it’s knees!
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Further testing.
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lemme fix that for you.
(man I hope that worked, otherwise I’m going to look like such a tool)-
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Looking at the source html, this entire container of comments is surrounded by an italic tag. No attempts to close it inside of the container will work, will have to be an outside job or a new page maybe.
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I checked the source, and it looks like the page automagically closes your tags for you. Eg, my comment with its broken italic tag, actually has in the source a close-italic tag which I didn’t put in there. But it seems, like the goggles, that it does nothing!
Good luck Harli!
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They will (and did) but that’s not really a solution dangit.
Probably.
Well, it’s a solution but it’s suboptimal.
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I don’t like the idea of you testing this sort of thing out. It can only end badly. Very badly
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Just trying something out here. Don’t mind me.
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Wow.
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Loooooooooool. This development is most excellent. *rubs hands together gleefully*
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I really have noidea if this is going to work.
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What about this?
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Sigh.
I think I’m beat.
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Gameover man. Gameover.
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What about this????
I see what you’re doing and know of a way to top it.
But I’m not that evil.
Top it Top it Top it Top it!!!!!
\o/
You mean an ‘a’ tag rabbit?
Yup.
Although I imagine that code might leave some interesting results.
TIL that del works even within code. Odd.
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noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Bunny I disagreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
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Wow. That failed, I’ll just seperate it with spaces to make it show: & nbsp
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Are you doing this:
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Trying out some tags…
b
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blockquote
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We have blockquote?
I knew about the other ones that worked (and you forgot a href) but this is news to me.
Didn’t even think to try it before.
But now I shall use it constantly!
If it isn’t in HTML 5, then I don’t even understand what the point of being compatible with it is. Gotta get this important stuff like this sorted out first. Also more unicode faces.
Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn.
Nowhere near, but I think this is the closest to “conversation shrouded in cigar smoke” as we are going to get.
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Shrouded in cigar smoke:
“Frankly my de-*COUGH*…my dear, I don-*COUGH* don-*COUGH*…’t give a damn.”
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Here you go, you can even see the smoke:
Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn.
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Are you sure it was just an unclosed tag? I thought they picked that up. I tested out an unclosed strikethrough tag on the last page which did nothing. Maybe it has to be a post not a reply?
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I had a look at the source and I did put a close tag in there but it was borked. Maybe it was that.
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Do it and you’re off the case.
One day this joke will get old. I pray that day does not come soon.
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I will also accept:
Asking children named Billy to testify in Court.
Interrupting my lunch with stories about the end of said Billys.
Describing me as a policeman who solves crime in my spare time.
Accusing me of busting up a crackhouse pretty good.
Shouting at others that I get results.
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Well you did bust up that crackhouse pretty good.
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And you had a pretty good view from behind your desk!
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It’s alright, if it happens again, I have a solution.
Just put a book or pile of coins under your monitor on the right side to counter-slant it.
Often at work, someone will ask me why something isn’t working properly on their computer.
I always tell them it’s computer gremlins.
Those who frequent TeamSpeak know what I’m suppressing the urge to say.
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Hence the references to computer gremlims.
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That Bish Bishes…?
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Bish Bishes himself at Bish?
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Bish bishes with bishingly frequency. Any chance to bish, Bish will take it.
Bish likes to bish. He’s the bishing sort of person.
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Bish also dislikes when people use his name to describe “bishing”.
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I regret all the actions in my life that have caused this line of conversation.
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So what you’re saying is that you regret bishing as much as you have?
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Hi Freyr! o/
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Hi Steveo! \o
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@Did those same actions in life also cause you to go partially blind?
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@Bish*
I really should stop commenting. Things are just going downhill.
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You started in a valley. Being able to go further downhill is rather impressive.
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Minecraft taught me how to dig even deeper.
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Were you just nesting tags? That’s what the html source indicates but it doesn’t seem to work.
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I’m not really sure what I’m doing it to be honest, but I can replicate it.
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I can see how you’re doing it but I’m not sure how it’s doing what it’s doing.
Interesting.
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McGarnical’s a wizard. The truth comes out at last.
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Reverse double-close is magical?
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Everything on the internet is magical.
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Reverse double-close frontside 360.
McGarnical’s Pro TAYer. It’ll make Tony Hawk’s sales numbers look like cheap change.
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Attempted a Blind Backslap McGarnical Mega-Flip the other day. Did not go well…
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BiMonSciFiCon!
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What have you done to TAY, you madman?
Oh, the temptation to tell you you’re off the case is killing me, McGarnical!
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I believe you, because I see you keep putting new comments at the top trying to do it.
But the first one worked (the “am I evil?” one), and for me at least the entire page is struck out!!!
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I’m using an ancient one. IE 7.
(I’m at work)
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Well, it’s working in IE9.
Yes, that’s right, I used IE9. FOR SCIENCE!
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Well, McGarnical…
TAY is dead! By hijacking it, you let them slit it’s throat from ear to ear.-
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Shrouded in cigar smoke? Challenge-accepted.jpg
http://staging.kotaku.com.au/2011/12/talk-amongst-yourselves-134/comment-page-11/#comment-475458
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Nice pick-up Fled!
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Yeah, so all this spam on TAY… I think I’m going to give it a miss for the rest of the week. CATCH.
Trying to practice some digital painting and would love me some feedback! Really want to try and get better at this so any pointers are most welcome… http://sughly.deviantart.com/#/d4j227s
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I like what you’ve done there.
Also, if anyone tells you that your “art needs work” is a stuck up self important hipster that should be shot. Art is not science. There’s no rules.
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Look at me still TAYing when there’s science to do,
The previous page of TAY was eaten by a grue.
So the science gets done,
And TAY recieves a shun,
For the security of my future employment.Nota Bene: Not all of the above is necessarily accurate.
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Haha, I appreciate that but unfortunately it does indeed need lots of work. I’m shocking at anatomy especially, hence why you barely see anything but her head hehe…
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A interesting piece that explore the search for the very essence of what in means to be. A post modern work with a hint of pseudo expressionism the reveals the disconnect between what we desire and what is or shall be.
The artist is clearly influenced by Paul Signac and Wassily Kandinsky and it is the fusing of these competing styles the gives this work the edginess while retaining the warmth and care that they were obviously trying to convey.
Note the eyes which are wide, often a sign of fear which here represent her struggle as a modern girl in a chauvinistic world, a world she wishes to change. But her eyes are fixed on a prize further ahead which represents the Utopian society that you can’t help but imagine as you stare at the work.
And the title “Girl” is complex and meaningful in it’s simplicity. It is more than just a girl it is Girl, the merging of all girls into a dream of the future -
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I think I looks great Sughly! Keep at it.
(And I really need to hurry up and play Egress, don’t it?)
Innocently leaves TAY for an hour…
Innocently comes back to check up on the conversation…
Goes to check replies from previous page (also innocently)…
WHAT IS THIS HORRIBLE FORMATTING MESS!?
Moral of the story: Never leave TAY. Ever.
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The sun did not shine.
It was too wet to play.
So we sat in the house
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YOU ARE INDEED IN SO MUCH TROUBLE!
And here I was only this morning before I went out mentioning about how many mature commenters we have now.
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Although… savvy investors might be able to get a head start on cornering the bootleg HTML tag market…
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HAI GUYS! I have returned!
Only 2 pages since I have been out, damn, you expect me to read ALL that?
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Actually, we expect you to forget that page 10 ever existed. No, seriously, you don’t want to see it. It’s not very pretty…
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Oh man what the hell happened back there. How the hell did you guys manage to get a strike through, through the page numbers o.O
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My SW:TOR early access started this morning at 3am. I was not awake though. And then I went to work. So effectively it starts tonight. But I have family commitments. 🙁 But I did log in this morning and create my character at least.
Incidentally, it was bugging me when I heard my new smuggler’s voice, knew I’d heard her somewhere else. I made the mistake of looking her up on IMDB. Captain Planet. (´；ω；`)
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Still waiting on mine, realistically… thinking it’ll still be a few days. Out of curiosity, what date did you register your preorder code?
I think I’ll be setting up on Swiftsure, as Imperial.
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I’ve been accepted into the early access but I don’t have the game downloaded. I’m just going to wait till my CE gets here from Amazon and then start playing. Apparantly they managed to convince Amazon to start shipping on the 15th (16th for us) instead of the 20th (21st for us) like they were planning too. Hopefully I’ll be playing before Christmas. I just hope all the good names aren’t taken. I heard there’s no character limit so people are just making heaps of alts to save names.
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Did you play during either of the last two beta weekends? If so you can just patch that client up to release version by logging in.
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Sadly, no. I didn’t want to spoil the full complete game for myself so I decided not to play beta. I’m kicking myself about not downloading the last beta though just to have the client. I didn’t know until after my monthly download quota had reset that you’d be able to use that version for the full game with only a minor update. It’s annoying but there’s not much I can do about it now. At least this will give me a chance to finish off Skyrim before jumping into a game that’s going to take up a lot of my time.
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Guys, LEAVE POOR PAGE 10 ALONE!!!!
All of your spam comments trying to break and unbreak TAY even made f4ction leave. 🙁
Man, I can’t go to Sea World for the day and trust TAY will be in safe hands while I’m gone. I hate to think what it will look like when I go away for a whole week next month. 😛
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Haha, wat! I just caught onto what happened back there. I dont know how you guys did it, but congratulations.
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When you come back, half of TAY won’t load, and Mark will have snapped. He’ll be wearing pants and a different shirt. A different shirt.
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It was busy, but not overly so. It was pretty cool being there after dark, and the Christmas lights combined with the snow (foamy bubble snow, so pretty) were a great source of Christmassy atmosphere.
We have a Season Pass which included our White Christmas tickets so it was definitely worth it for us. Even if you just paid for White Christmas tickets I’d say it would be worth it though. Most of the rides and things are open so even if you’re not watching the Christmas stuff there’s plenty to do and you don’t need to worry about getting sunburned.-
Sounds good. We had to buy the one off tickets as we let the annual passes lapse seeming as the kids are still a bit little. But this seemed like something our eldest would love. Plus grandmas coming so we can dump the kids on her for a quick ride or two.
Speaking of which, is the green lantern coaster open yet?
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It should be open on the 17th iirc! Christine said when they were there the other day they were running tests with crash test dummies to calibrate it correctly.
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Good!
I want all of you to go to your rooms, and think about what you’ve done. I’ll lead by example. Coincidentally, I’m in my room as it is, which is really rather convenient.
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Okay, so I went to my room and thought about what I did, and then I realised, TAY exploits should work on Gizmodo and Lifehacker too 😀
No one uses whitenoise anyway, right? 😛-
Whitenoise had 0 comments on Tuesday 😛
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Just checked, still no comments. This plan is sounding better and better 😀
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Haha, oh dear. Alex has no idea what he is in for xD
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My friends, it has been done…
Let the apocalypse begin! -
Lambomann and Mcgarnical = War and Death?
Whose pestilence and famine?
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Bish? He get’s to be two of them because he’s speshul.
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No, no! You’re fine, I actually like that you don’t lump us in with Gold Coast, everyone else does and it is really annoying =/
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Lol, you either know from previous comments I live in Tweed or you know the background 😛
To be fair we spent most of the day over the border around Greenmount/Rainbow Bay area.
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I’m in Currumbin and spent 5 years working for Border Locksmiths up the road there. Still kinda butthurt that we never got the Gold Coast show day off.
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Ah, cool! Currumbin is nice, my grandparents lived in Currumbin waters for 25 odd years.
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Yeah, we’re in the waters area too. Been around most of the country and honestly, there’s nowhere else I’d rather live.
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You also get cable internet there, well the grandparents did since they had Foxtel (only way to get TV reception there I swear!)
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Only ADSL1 max. Used to have 2 until we moved literally 1km down the road then told we can’t have 2 anymore because the exchange is a different one and doesn’t have any ports for it.
WE LIVE IN THE MIDDLE OF ONE OF THE MOST POPULATED AREAS IN AUSTRALIA AND CAN’T GET DECENT NET SPEEDS!
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I tried the game Luke talks about here yesterday.
It’s made by students at DigiPen; you may remember it as the place that the team who made Portal went to, when they made Narbacular Drop. It’s difficult not to compare it to Portal – it is a first-person based puzzle game that uses a (different) physics mechanic as your main power to solve the puzzles, but I found it quite fun.
It’s pretty short, and weighs in at 200MB or so to download. It uses the Source engine SDK stuff – I’m not sure if you need HL2 or something in your Steam account to have access.
I’m mentioning it here because I was much more impressed by it than I expected to be, and I think others might enjoy playing it, too.
Dear TAY,
I’m sorry, I know I have neglected you today, but you see it was due to TAY that I wasn’t able to get any presents wrapped and as Christmas has a deadline and you don’t, I’m afraid it comes first.
I hope you understand.
Sincerely.
Scree
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Dearest Scree,
Please stay away from page 10
Seriously concerned for your sanity,
LAMBO MANN
AUSTRALIAN
VICE PRESIDENT, MANN CO.
EMPEROR, SOUTH KOTAKU
CEO, PARACHUTES-R-US
DID NOT CAUSE THE MESS ON PAGE 10-
Dearest Lambomann007,
I saw page 10, I quickly left as everything is crossed out. At least we didn’t get up to those shenanigans yesterday.
Sincerely,
Scree.-
Dearest Scree,
Yeah, we’re too mature to do something silly like that.
Sincerely not the person who crossed out everything on page 10,
LAMBO MANN
AUSTRALIAN
VICE PRESIDENT, MANN CO.
EMPEROR, SOUTH KOTAKU
CEO, PARACHUTES-R-US
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Dearest Lambomann007,
Even if you’re lying, I will believe you, because I have no idea what happened, aside from the fact someone broke TAY.
Sincerely,
ScreePS. South Kotaku XD I almost read it as South Korea
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Dearest Scree
Don’t worry, I rarely lie, and when I do, I make it rather obvious that I am.
Sincerely yours,
LAMBO MANN
AUSTRALIAN
BLAH BLAH
BLAH BLAH
BLAH SOUTH KOTAKU
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Dearest Lambomann007 and Virus_
I have had no reason to doubt you before. Also, Blaghman broke TAY a while back, so as you can see, it doesn’t bother me too much.
Virus, you’re welcome. It’s taken me several replies to his posts to even notice Lambomann007 was posting a location beyond Australia.
Sincerely,
Scree
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Dearest Scree:
If you get bored of whatever it is you are doing, you will hopefully know where to find me. But probably not. Or maybe. It’s not like I have anything to say, anyway.
Yours Truly,
Blaghman.
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Dearest Blaghman,
Is it either a few numbers after 2, or the one after 6?
I’ll go check anyway.Sincerely,
Scree-
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Dearest Blaghman,
I’m terrible at riddles. I will be checking all of them after 2 now to make sure.
Sincerely,
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Dearest Scree:
I am good at writing riddles, but only assuming that nobody is expected to solve them. I was going to say that I await your response, but you have already replied.
Yours Truly,
Blaghman.
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Yes, but once that’s done you then need to wrap presents. So far, I have wrapped 2. I was so preoccupied prettying up the main present, that I didn’t get much else wrapped before food time.
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Still not keen on the fighting through waves of people just for something though.-
The internet can help. Providing the post office deliver your parcel to the right address. A neighbour was nice enough to bring my Ukulele to me.
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They explored the lovely nature of the HTML language, thus using whatever they could and breaking TAY yet again.
I’m still fascinated they got a strike through on the page numbers!
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Yeah, basically this. It’s not just the page numbers that have strikethroughs, it’s also everything underneath that too, including the links at the bottom of the page 😀
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HTML language!
PIN number!
ATM machine!sorry 🙁
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Ah FML! I am so sorry D:
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Lambo and McGarnical had a competition to see who could break it the most with HTML exploits.
And Stevo wanted to join in but couldn’t figure out what they were doing.-
I broke things too (which is why the bottom of the page isn’t italicised or bolded) but Lambo went back and broke things closer to the top of the page so that more things were borked.
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Started with mcGarnical making a mistake and turning the whole page into italics. Then he and lambomann had a competition to see who could break the most.
Now lambomann has broken whitenoise over at gizmondo.
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Haha! Good that there is no-one else in there.
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Aww can’t we perform a raid on Whitenoise? 😛
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We can but no-one will notice.
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OCCUPY WHITENOISE might just be welcomed by gizmodo “YAY! PEOPLE USING WHITENOISE!”
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Yeah it might give Alex over there something to do, I bet he gets really bored 😛
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I like how no matter how nice you try make it, the edges and folds always end up mangled.
Or maybe it’s a male thing.-
I’m good at present wrapping. Takes me bugger all time, and the stuff looks moderately rad. I wrapped a thing for my sister inside a T-Shirt I was giving her once. My family was surprised at my ingenuity.
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I can appreciate MacGyver inspired wrapping.
When I was a student, I wrapped a present for a friend up in paper kitchen serviettes for lack of wrapping paper.
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We often wrap presents in tea towels in my family, a non issue environmentally, and practical too!
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Despite what the newspaper says about you, Blaghman, I think you’re O-K. *thumbsup*
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Those articles are mostly slander. It’s her fault! She wore provocative clothing! Stupid hookers, and being murdered so easily. *shakes head*
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I thought you said she was a call girl?
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He was too busy splitting limbs to split hairs.
That sounds like the tagline to a terrible movie about a serial killer.
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I am good at wrapping presents as long as they’re square, rectangular or cylindrical I have discovered. It’s misshapen ones that I’m terrible at.
My brother and I try to one up each other every year with the amount of tape around the present, to the point where every gift to each other is completely cocooned in an inch of tape.
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Got him a Wii a few years back and took every individual part out and cocooned it, then put it back in the box, then cocooned the box. He said it took him almost an hour to get it all apart.
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Imagine that happening to the nintendo 64 kid. The energy that kid would expend while unwrapping. If that energy could just be harnessed…
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I can’t stop laughing at this. I shouldn’t be as I got a parcel like that and I was trying to remove the tape carefully to avoid ruining the bubble wrap. (mum loves the stuff, so I give it to her)
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And now your stuck there 😛
I was going alright through it until I got attacked by those harpy things.
And beware of going human in there.
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That is exactly what happened to me!
Now I’m just doing suicide run after suicide run to get to know the place and grab loot.
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It’s fine Bish, may I suggest that you are repellant, repellant?
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That comma implies so much.
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I haven’t gone anywhere yet either. Everyones in bed and I’m staying up to watch the greatest Christmas movie ever.
Die Hard
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I know, but channel 10 seems intent on only showing Die Hard 4.0
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Remember when channel 10 used to be good?
Also the 5th Die Hard titled A Good Day to Die Hard looks to further destroy the franchise.
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When they used to spam Billy Madison all the time?
Good times.
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I definitely agree with the shudder. The first two were good, but they couldn’t leave well alone.
And, didn’t they have Billy Madison on the other week? Maybe not, i could be delusional. -
I quite like the 3rd one, but it was the first one I watched, so maybe I’m biased
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It’s fine if you saw it first, but I grew up with one and two and then after a ten year gap they made 3. They actually made more I think, I didn’t bother checking.
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Macauley Culkin grew up to be a weird-lookin’ dude.
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Yeah, he really did look strange, like he still had the shild’s head on an adult’s body o_o
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Yeah, even good news world is taking the piss out of them and it’s their show.
Is Die hard on a Free to air channel, or are you watching on a disc?
On disc. I was sad enough to buy each movie individually on dvd, then had to buy the Collection in a metal tin and a wifebeater stubby cooler. Then the Bluray collection came out. My wife occasionally wonders aloud whats wrong with me.
I get that from my mother >_< She keep going on about the games and I tell her I am a collector, but I'm quickly running out of storage.
For those who don't know I am a live in carer for my Mother.
I have a bookshelf full of games.
And a 15L container under my bed.
Sometimes I look over and switch between pride and “Wow, that is a lot of money /o\”
I have a DVD cabinet full, an overflowing shoe box and a storage drawers. At last count, (not including the DS games) I had over 250 games. >_< And that doesn't include the memorabilia like statues and stuff.
It's insane really ^^;;
In my opinion, Die hard 2 is as bad as 4. It’s basically just Die Hard, but in a new setting, but exactly the same, and bad.
Day began with wife bleeding. Followed up by midwife not being able to detect baby’s heartbeat with doppler machine.
Pretty sure at that point, you wouldn’t have been able to find my heartbeat either 🙁
Then it was off to the hospital, where we got kicked straight from emergency to the gyno unit, and got to see our baby on an ultrasound, swimming deeply, actually doing this great kind of backstroke, completely oblivious to the hours of completely freaked out stress that it had caused.
All is well, but I never want to go through a day like today again.
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Good to hear everything is sweet.
Our first gave us several panic attacks but the second has been trouble free the whole time.
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Oh wow. What a crap day. So glad everything’s okay though. Typical baby, not caring about the fuss they cause. Give your wife a hug from me.And take one for yourself while you’re at it. *hugs*
Oh, and Uncharted arrived today, thank-you. You’ve helped me acquire everything I wanted to give Mr. Strange for Christmas. 🙂
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It’s always the worst when things like these happen. Hope you and your wife are doing better now.
Dearest Lambomann
Dammit, I told you to hold the fort, not take the fort, break the fort into tiny pieces, grind the pieces of fort into a a fine powder and scatter the powder of the pieces of the fort to the four winds. Next time I tell you to hold the fort, you hold the damn fort.
Yours with grudging respect at the level of TAY breakage
NovaCascade
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Dearest Scree
You’re right of course. Its just… I don’t like change. I leave for a few hours and nothings the same anymore. Everythings changing, and its scary. But you’re right, page 12 is here, page 10 is in the past, 12 is here and eveything is going to be fin… BISH DON’T YOU DARE!!!
Yours truly
NovaCascade-
Didn’t you hear? Bish is both Famine and Pestilence
http://staging.kotaku.com.au/2011/12/talk-amongst-yourselves-134/comment-page-11/#comment-475720
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And just think, in a few weeks it will be 2012, and the 4 horsemen of the Apocalypse are here among us.
What do you have planned gentlemen?
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I’m just busy eating all the food. No food for you!
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LOL at Hetfields handlebar. I’d forgotten he had that.
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Oh and to answer your question, making sure the apocalypse succeeds!
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If you could give us all a heads up before you put this plan into action it’d be nice. A few days is all I ask
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I will probably be sleeping, knowing me. Or dead.
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Dearest Nova Cascade,
Do not fret. Bish has not broken anything, he is just predicting that it will happen, but he will not be the cause.
Sincerely,
Scree
But scree!! I can see him. He’s got his finger over the BIG RED BUTTON!! I can’t get to him. He’s taunting me with it. I have to stop the end of TAAAAAAY
Dear Nova Cascade,
Do not fret, i promise you that Bish will not break TAY. He has no reason too. Bish doesn’t appear to adher to the rules but he would never break Tay. Bish is Bish after all.
Sincerely,
Scree.
Dearest Scree:
Ahh, but you forget, since I am Bish, and Bish is I, we may do what we please, and could we not, potentially, through our combined thoughts, decide that breaking TAY is the bestest thing we could possibly do?
Yours Truly,
Blaghman.
Thy assumptions that I would purposefully break TAY woundeth me, sir.
I AM YE OLDE ENGLISH FOR SOME REASON
Dearest NovaCascade
I’m the leader of South Kotaku, I shall do what I want!
Sincerely your leader,
LAMBO MANN
AUSTRALIAN
VICE PRESIDENT, MANN CO.
EMPEROR, SOUTH KOTAKU
CEO, PARACHUTES-R-US
SCOURGE OF TAY
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Now there’s a quality nut!
Pecan.
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Peanut
Macadamia nuts are more lethal to dogs then Chocolate
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Chestnut
Maybe there will be gold inside. (too much skyrim)
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Humans are more lethal to macadamia nuts than dogs.
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Technically peanuts are actually legumes, not nuts 😛
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And pistachios are drupes, but lets not split hairs.
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Translation: “I’m bringin pistachio cookies to the next meat!”
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If I were, I’d just eat them all.
You can’t trust me around pistachios.
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Acorn, I’m probably stretching it a bit there, aren’t I
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Mongongo.
*cough*
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Quinoa – See, I can make up words too 😛
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Water Caltrop
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Goodnight TAYbies,
‘Til we meet tomorrow
Goodnight TAYbies,
Sleep will banish sorrow
Tears and parting may make us forlorn
But with the dawn a new day is born
So I’ll say goodnight TAYbies,
Though I’m not beside you
Goodnight TAYbies,
Still my love will guide you
Dreams involve you and in each one I’ll hold you
Goodnight TAYbies,
Goodnight…
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Goodnight everyone. Try not to break TAY while I’m gone.
Wait ’til I get back cos I wanna see it.
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I don’t care that it ended up in the same spot that it would have been. I’m calling it.
TAY Violation #32480432
Violator: Scree
Type of Violation: Reply Fail (Code 2)
Description: Scree started a new post instead of replying to Flu’s
Suggested Sentence: Mass public humiliation
I’m bored guise, watching Metallica live in Seattle videos on YouTube when I went there for some other reason…
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OH dear god. What the fuck is that?
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Yeah, not sure why he thought that was a good idea.
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Also his timing seemed a little fast. But I was concerned when I saw the confederate flag style flag at the start.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ce7-Zpm5J_w
Has become stuck in my head…
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Sad but true. And a little funny… 😛
Hitting up songs I haven’t heard in a while:
http://soundcloud.com/treeboiandkone/bloody-lovely-audrey-animal-tb-k-remix
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One last one for you Virus__
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyzbZWlibbE&feature=related
I love these guys
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Hey this sounds good! Nice funky bass 😀 Guitar kind of reminds me of early Iron Maiden for some reason.
This is cool!
2 more days of work. Then all the naptimes+ginger beer+games.
Also, $276 for a 160gb ps3 from Harvey Norman. Cheapest I can find (although for a 320gb, game.com.au is selling it for 347) Do people think I should get it or wait for boxing day?
After overnight reflection, I dub what happened on page 10 as, The Strange Case of Dr McGarnical and Mr lamboman007.
James Mac and Mr Freeze (icesquire), I salute you good sirs!
http://staging.kotaku.com.au/2011/12/a-life-in-pc-gaming-my-shame/comment-page-1/#comment-475758
Dearest Lambo:
I just noticed what you posted in Community Kudos article the twelfth. I laughed. Why was I looking at that? Well, maybe it was just an ego trip.
Maybe.
Yours Truly,
Blaghman.
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Dearest Blaghman,
You need to get yourself a girlfriend 😛
Sincerely
yoursnot yours because we don’t need to go over that again.
LAMBO MANN
AUSTRALIAN
VICE PRESIDENT, MANN CO.
EMPEROR, SOUTH KOTAKU
CEO, PARACHUTES-R-US
COUNCILLOR
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I don’t know what you’re talking about, you crazy man. Crazy.
(I agree with this sentiment, to be honest)
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I’ve had TAY withdrawals all week and now that i’m x pages out of the loop, can anyone bar loops bring me up to speed on the comings and goings?
Hey Guys,
STOP SPAMMING TAY WITH ONE WORD COMMENTS THAT MAKE NO ACTUAL SENSE. ITS HARD ENOUGH TO KEEP UP WHEN THERE IS ACTUAL CONVERSATIONS GOING ON. IT IS NOT A COMPETITION TO SEE WHO CAN SPAM THE MOST TIMES. Also this comment was sponsored by Raygunbrown!
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It may seem all fun and games but it really just makes this place way to cluttered and i would prefer not to skip whole pages of TAY because its filled with comments one word or one sentence at at time and then replies to the original comment.
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I think you’re missing the point of the post, considering I was there when we had this discussion last night.
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No i got your joke I just chose not to respond to it!
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No I don’t think you do, man.
No one likes Corki, Manatee skin or otherwise.
No one.
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Whu?
I was very tempted to stop there, but in interests of harmony I won’t.
And in the interests of disharmony: What are you at Rocketman? I don’t see much offending here of your (new) Rule of TAY other than the (admittedly spammy) litany of nuts above. But I don’t see the problem. Is your scroll wheel busted?
(Ps, I love you.)
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should we all go to the literary and wordy responses that Trjn gets into (most words on TABTOL for ever) or should we just be blunt and to the point.
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NO i am not saying that just how about more information than two word sentences. I am not mad at anyone it is just my opinion feel free to disregard!
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You off the case Mcgarnical,
but in all seriousness, You can’t see any problem in spamming comments to yourself. I think we always have used this place to discuss events of our day, what each others intrests are. Ect. I don’t think this format is ideal for lets say spamming different nut names. Its hard to read for us who have actual work to do and use TAY for the occasional escape . -
Rockets, I think the posts you’re talking about just arose out of people’s night time boredom. I’m pretty sure it won’t become normal to just spam one-word-posts and the like around here.
And you other guys, please don’t take Rockets’ concerns personally. TAY is changing so fast these days that it’s sometimes difficult to recognise, which is not necessarily a bad thing, but it also makes it difficult to adjust for the people who have made TAY their home for a long time now. It’s like someone came in and redecorated while we were sleeping.
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I just returned here. Thanks Strange.
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Mornin’ TAY
I keep buying games that are on crazy sale, then going back to play a F2P game (APB:R). Is this considered a serious problem, or not a problem at all on account of the awesome nature of APB:R?
Something,
Rize
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Do you game to justify your purchases, or do you game because it’s fun? (My answer is in there somewhere.)
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My answer to this fluctuates wildly and often from one end of that spectrum to the other and back again, often with a single game.
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I often game to justify my purchases. It is a feedback loop of shame.
I try and keep it to fun only.
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I always buy to game, initially, but in a situation where I made a terrible purchase, I used to game to validate said purchase.
I’m happy to say that, these days, if I’ve made a purchase I can’t reverse (e.g. Steam) I’ll usually dump the files and filter it out of my normal games library.*cough*TIMESHIFT!*cough*
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arbitrary response IMO.
My solution for youLIMIT THE DAYS ON WHICH YOU MAKE GAME PURCHASES
You are only allowed to purchase games on a given date of each month/ each quarter, (this allows you to justify and research games better, plus wait for price drops)LIMIT THE AMOUNT YOU CAN SPEND
Give yourself a budget on each year and then divide it into likely purchases.
(you only buy the games you REALLY want)COST VS TIME PLAYED
You are only allowed to purchase a said game if you can justify the cost vs the amount of time you will play it (I have all the humble bundles, but i can justify that I only play them for a couple hours each because i only paid about 4 dollars for each.)
This is great because although I love playing games I really don’t get much time to play them, so me purchasing SKYRIM for full price will not be cost effective as I will only probably spend 40 hours on it and I consider 40 hours of gameplay to be worth around $40.FREE GAMES ARE AWESOME!
Some of the best games I have played in my life are free because the people who stick around to play them long after the games release become enthusiasts and tight knit communities.-
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McGarn, a little maths lesson for you.
$40 for a 40 hour game = $1 per hour of entertainment (it is justifiable)Like i mentioned in my orig post I buy the humble bundles because i spend less time playing them, but i also paid less for them.
For a game like gran turismo 4, i decided to purchase a full racing wheel set-up and spent the time making a purpose built driving seat because i ended up spending about 250 hours playing it. I think i spent $300 on that game so i didnt get my moneys worth.For these reasons I never purchased the guitar hero games because i could not justify the high price just to play for the few hours i expected i would play it.
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Maths? Whau? Why would you do that to me!
But seriously, I think you mistook my point completely. I was saying that $40 is not “full price” for a game. As in, I often pay more than $40.
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thanks rock.
I always try to do my best
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Depends – have you bought the humble bundle yet?
It’s pretty rad
go buy it and god will forgive you
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This thought actually spawns from my purchase of the bundle 😛
I’m not so much in a position where I’m questioning my choices on a serious level, or causing myself emotional/economical problems due to said purchases, just that…I dunno…I enjoy stepping back and analysing various aspects of my life at seemingly random intervals?
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I usually only buy games that I can guarantee that I’ll enjoy. I don’t really like to take risks when I buy anything.
Also, I am immune to Steam sales! It is probably a side-effect of having a Mac as my primary computer. There’s not much besides Valve games and what will inevitably become part of a Humble Bundle. 😛
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i wouldn’t consider myself immune to steam sales, rather distanced from them… the only time i actually utilise the steam sales is when i’ve decided “right i’m going to buy this game….. but i’ll wait till it’s on special”
yes i am a cheapskate… which is why i enjoy these F2P games that’s been hitting steam lately… unbalanced as they can be 😛
Soooo a little about my day yesterday…
Had uni – all good.
Drive to work. It’s 1.30 when i get there.
The boss isn’t here, the place is locked up and i left my keys at home
Home is an 80k drive.
Call boss, he only lives 20k away – maybe i can get his keys from him.
Nope he’s not at home.
Drive 80k’s home to get my keys
Drive 80k’s back.
It’s now 3.30pm and i’ve lost 2 hours pay in travel
work until 6, then drive another 80k’s back home
Almost fall asleep at the wheel several times – too much bloody driving in one day, and this freeway is FAR too straight and uninteresting.
Get home around 6 and get straight into my Economics assignment
Fun times!
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Lullabies.
No, i actually listend to Rammstein, Megaherz, Eisbrecher and whatever else usually fires me up – but it was all to no avail!
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Yeah everything tends to sound like lullabies in a situation like that.
I’m glad you made it home safe though.
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Wow you live 80k’s from your work. That sucks dude. I don’t think i could manage doing that on a semi regular basis. Also Be careful we don’t want anything bad happening to ya!
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I don’t care what anyone says – i am seriously looking forward to Lollipop Chainsaw!
The humor in Shadows of the Damned is just awesome, so that makes this just as awesome!!
Probably…
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Caerful loops, two separate comments within 7 minutes of each other. Rocketman might get upset. :p
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No, no he wouldn’t. He was upset at one-word posts (sorry Rockets, we were just playing Effluvium Boy’s game).
Loops’ posts were about his day, and a game he was looking forward to, things Rocketman was asking for from us all.-
Thanks mrs strange i think i might be a little demanding sometimes. SO i will give you the rest of the week ROCKETMAN FREE. Catch youguys on the flippity flip!
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Oh Rockets, please don’t do that. 🙁
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Serrels is a real man’s man’s man’s man:
http://staging.kotaku.com.au/2011/12/in-which-i-dont-try-to-write-like-a-man/#comment-476252
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i think that man needs a standing applause… Serrels that is.. not the little a-hole that inspired that comment
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and he wrote this article as well
http://www.bewareofthesorrell.com/2011/12/dear-men-please-listen-love-man.htmlWell he used a pseudonym that was quite tricky but I figured it out
Yesterday my husband had the day off work. We decided that because we have the Season Pass thingy for Movie World, Wet ‘n Wild and Sea World we’d make use of it and take the kids to Sea World.
It takes an hour-ish to drive there from our place and it soon became apparent that something was wrong with the USB stick full of music we were counting on to entertain us so we made an impulsive stop at JB HiFi and acquired Hammerfall’s latest CD to keep us going. It’s not bad but certainly doesn’t feel “new”.
Sea World was fun, but the best thing was something that wasn’t there last time we went: the Penguin Encounter.
King Penguins in their frozen habitat. They were amazingly weird and beautiful, and there was even a tiny baby. And a few of them were right up at the glass, 30cms or so away from my face, stretching and waddling and looking around. So wonderful. I didn’t want to leave.
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Penguins are the ultimate resolution to…well, anything!
“I understand your stance on the matter, but look at this penguin.”
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But then you realised you had to leave, so you could get back to TAY and make sure we were all behaving ourselves…
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Ha! Sally goes bat-shit insane for the penguins as well.
We saw them in Melbourne a few years ago and she got a pass out of the aquarium so she could go back in and leave me alone to go get lunch.
Bitches be crazy…
Salaam Effendis. I woke up this morning and am now thoroughly ashamed of myself after Rocketmans lecture. Sorry.
Anywho, the word for today is secundogeniture which is a state of being a second child who stands to inherit the Family’s property ahead of the eldest.
Remember, consequences.
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Could be? Never played it. I know that in Indiana Jone an the fate of Atlantis the guys in Algeria all greet you with it. I love that game.
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Wow – We actually had night-TAY last night? And also a whole page no less. Anyways:
@Rize – APB. I finally finished downloading it. Your description of it as a GTA-MMO gnawed at the back of my head like an Effluvium Boy eating delicious nuts. Has anyone else downloaded it and not yet played it? Was considering trying to set up a play-date for the newbies under Rize’s glorious tutorship.
@Loops – Wow. 80km to work? I’m flat out making it on time and I live about 1km away. Take care dude, there’s on average one crash per month around here at Mackay due to miners driving home tired from shift-work. It happens more than you would think, so take it easy mmmkay?
@Rocketman – Woozle*
*Translation: See you on teamspeak.
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APB is glorious, if you can get past the whole “it’s F2P so that means anyone who decides to pay is going to rape you… constantly with overpowered items”
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Bahahaha! My tutorship in a nutshell:
“HAIGUYS! Look, you can ram stuff!” *smashes into a shop, runs off with cat* *
Seriously though, I’m keen to get people involved so you can choose to love it/hate it. The driving will feel a bit stiff, which, as it turns out, isn’t related to lag, but the way the server handles player and vehicle sync.
What I’d like to do is give people some helpful starting advice, like DON’T commit crimes in front of Police. Those police are other players, and they want to ruin you 😛*Important note: I actually DID steal a cat playing APB:R the other night…
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That weird moment where we pulled up with a van full of stolen goods and had three tall, black, overly muscular guys run over and try to steal all our stuff was the funniest moment. The game forces them to drop loot if it’s from our car, so they just stood there, confused.
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that was quite entertaining… i hoped i could give them a tip cause i thought they were being courteous and helped us carry our bags… it was only when they took to attempting to shoot us (which you can’t unless you’re in a mission) that it dawned to me it was a failed robbing attempt… i still thanked them before they tried running me over while escaping the garage
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I’ve been meaning to download it but between LoL, Ass Creed:Rev, Dungeon defenders and skyrim I don’t know if I’ll have time. Woe is work.
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i don’t mean to be that guy… but i got 2 words for you that will help you in your decision…
COME OOOON….
COOOOOOME OOOOOOON…..
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“Shouldn’t you be in the kitchen?”
“Well I’ve got to do something while the cake is baking!”
😛
What’s that Mr. Letterbox?
Something arrived for the taybies?
Well isn’t that nice
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*twitches in seat uneasily*
what… what is the picture ooooooffff?
stupid proxy at work deciding that twitter is considered “illegal activities” based on it being in the category “social networking”-
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oooohhh…. excellent… that is awesome…
have i mentioned before that you’re awesome for taking this initiative?
well…you are
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You might think it’s nice… but you’re continually taking the food out of my mouth, or worse THE OTHER END.
I’m so hungry 🙁
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That’s some nice gamecards you have there. Be a shame if something happened to them.
OMG IS THAT A DEMONIC DUCK!?
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O_o LOOPS!
Epic pangs of guilt. I’ll have to buy YOU something… 😀
The good part is that no matter who wins, a TAYbie gets cool loots.
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Yep. Thought it was because I updated the app on my iPad, but firefox also shows it being over capacity. Good effort twitter!
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Down for me still.
And I want to tell people why flying cars will never exist and crush all their dreams.
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I can’t get into it on my computer, but it’s working fine on my phone… Curiouser and curiouser…
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Why would you do that? After all the warnings, all the tales from those that barely escaped with their lives. And you decide to brave the depths once more. I salute your bravery/insanity good sir
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Lovecraft has nothing on page ten.
“In relating the circumstances which have led to my confinement within this refuge for the demented, I am aware that my present position will create a natural doubt of the authenticity of my narrative. It is an unfortunate fact that the bulk of humanity is too limited in its mental vision to weigh with patience and intelligence those isolated phenomena, seen and felt only by a typologically and formatting-sensitive few, which lie outside its common experience. Men of broader intellect know that there is no sharp distinction betwixt the real and the unreal; that all things appear as they do only by virtue of the delicate standard html code and digital media through which we are made conscious of them; but the prosaic ‘fonted’ of the majority condemns as madness the flashes of super-sight which penetrate the common veil of obvious empiricism.
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Big old controversy in the world of professional Starcraft.
Naniwa has been kicked out of GSL Code S for throwing a game in the Blizzard Cup vs Nestea (he probe rushed after both of them went 0-3 and couldn’t advance).
GOMTV (them what run GSL) have said that they’re withdrawing his invitation because he is not acting in a manner that they expect of a professional player. The problem is that he actually won that invite by coming second at MLG Providence against Leenock.
On the plus side, Sen and Idra have both been given Code S spots in the wake of this.
Somehow methinks that this will drag out.
All because of a game that lasted less than a minute and a half.
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I think the punishment was a bit too harsh, thought I do agree that his conduct was very unprofessional.
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This is why I asked before if he was getting paid. If the teams paying him to perform a function and he isn’t doing that properly, then I can’t see why they wouldn’t kick him out. Even though it was a dead rubber match, it’s still sponsored and has advertisers and such.
It’s the same reason everyone loses it when a boxer dives in the first round.
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He’s being paid by his team, and his individual sponsors. Not the tournament that is punishing him. They don’t have any rules against what he did and that’s why their official story has changed from “he broke the rules” to “we’re withdrawing his invitation.”
Yes, he acted poorly. Dude was on tilt after losing 3 close matches and is rather prone to being on tilt. But there was no reasonable expectation that he would be punished, let alone so severely.
Hell, he even said that had he known, he would have simply done a dumb strategy like a slow 4gate. Something equally terrible but nowhere near as obvious as sending your probes and taking your hands off the keyboard.
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Anyone else get screwed over by Commonwealth Bank last night? We just HAD to do our xmas shopping last night didn’t we…
So off to the shops again tonight, ugh.
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Not sure what was going on, but our EFTPOS machines weren’t talking to the Commenwealth yesterday afternoon. People were getting asked to sign even on their savings accounts. So I’d say they had something crash, server/phone lines or the like
That’s it! I’ve had it with the muthaf’n commenters on this muthaf’n site!!!
When did it get this bad? Almost every article has bile-filled spewings of hate in the comments. I wish I knew how to fix it, it’s making me so angry.
I was thinking maybe another competition like the one Wildgoose did rewarding intelligent, rational or just plain witty comments, but it probably wouldn’t work now that the site’s become so huge.
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There’s one obvious way and that’s to impose mandatory moderation again with strict rules about profanity and constructive conversation (with exceptions for fine regulars such as your good self).
It took me a long time to realise that imposing a nanny state at the expense of good people is the only way to make dickheads behave themselves (short of culling them from the population entirely).
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It should be like natural selection, where the ones with the good traits breed and survive whilst the less favoured traits die out.
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When i rule the world, my first act will be to impose breeding licences and compulsory neutering for those beyond hope.
Natural selection has failed us thus far 🙂
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No! My family jewels! I want to breed dammit!
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Don’t worry, I’ll give everyone a chance to justify their existence, Inquisitor-style.
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A fair trial ay?
*starts running*
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noticed that too huh?
i think it’s a bit sad, i’ve resolved to reading 2 maybe 3 pieces everyday, that being TAY, Remember this and sometimes Ask me Stuff.
other then that i am afraid if venturing into articles just because i’m afraid to be knocked into a drooling sack of meat by the sheer stupidity and naivety that some people are allegedly putting forth… i don’t know if they are all trolling or serious (i fear the second one) but i’m perfectly happy staying inside the pink-soft-fluffy bubble of comfortness and support that is TAY
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http://staging.kotaku.com.au/2011/12/in-which-i-dont-try-to-write-like-a-man/#comment-476375 -
It’s only been in the past two weeks that’s it’s gotten really bad as far as I’ve seen. But as splicer said, hit report, remove the comment and Mark and Tracey might get sick enough of the constant moderation to try a new system. Although that would mean less time for them to write awesome articles.
I just never read comments on any site (except for TAY). It’s always just stupid crap. APPLE IS TERRIBLE! PS3 SUCKS! SHUT UP WOMAN, NOBODY CARES!
Seriously, that’s all it ends up turning into. And it’ll make me mad.
I think in part it’s from the fact that school holidays are starting to come in effect (seems to hurt online gaming ANYTHING), but mostly because there has been (from what I’ve seen) a pretty big increase in discussions of gender issues lately.
For the record, I’m not saying all school kids are bad people. It’s another case of the minority ruining it for the majority. Couple of immature kids ruin it for all of them.
I take solace in the fact that if it gets too bad, Mark and people like Zap will always be around to smack them down.
Yeah school holidays have started but at the same time (and maybe this is a whole other topic) I don’t remember people my age being that bad when we that age.
For the record, I’m 23, so I’ve been out of school for 5 years. Granted the internet was nowhere near as big when I was 12-15, the age that seems to get quoted for internet idiots. Or maybe it was just the way I was raised. From the time I was 6, my parents would often take my sister and I away on camping trips with a bunch of other families at least once a month to 6 weeks. There were other kids my age, but some of the families that came didn’t have any children. So I got used to being around and socialising with people from 6-70.
From 1996-2002, every year a subset of these families, mine included would go for longer trips around the country, the longest being 4 months around NT and WA. My sister and I would be taken out of school and while we were given some work to do on the road by our teachers, for the most part they agreed that what we were experiencing as we travelled was more important than what we would get in the classroom.
And as we travelled, it was not uncommon for us to pull into a small town, set up the tents, and for my sister and I to just wander around town, chatting with the locals kids unaccompanied by our parents. Sure we would never see these kids again but that was never an excuse to be rude, cruel, antagonistic whatever. At the time, all we wanted was someone to play with, a friendly face.
So why are kids these days so different? Is it just a change in how they were raised? Busier parents with not as much time to spend with their kids? Parents less willing to bring their kids back into line? No offence intended to anyone who is a parent on this site. I’m not so I have no clue what it is actually like. What does everyone think?
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1) Internet is huge and dominates the world.
2) Small town kids =/= urban kids. Urban kids are much more likely to be introverted, solitary and indoors.
3) More common now to have two working parents, meaning more disposable income and less time, the perfect formula for electronic entertainment
4) Today Tonight has parents so scared to let their kids out of their sight that it’s considered a better idea to keep them inside and safe with TV.
This is how I see it anyway- someone with older kids might be observing things differently, but I see people raising their kids like this.
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I’m sure there are some folks here who don’t follow me on Twitter or friend/like me on Facebook who might be interested to know that I am the featured author in the December issue of ACTWrite, the newsletter of the ACT Writer’s Centre.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/28754200/December2011ACTWritePage003.pdf
#hittingthebigtime
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haven’t tried it yet, actually haven’t acquired it yet… probably will over the holidays though, but yeah my expectations are not extremely high
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so should- should i buy you breakfast or something?
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Morning after bacon, it’s takes the pain away…
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apply to affected area? 😛
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So, I was planning to take my Captain Underpants Super Collection onboard with me to Sydney as carry-on, but I feared it may be too heavy.
So , instead, I shall read Ratchet & Clank.
@McGarnical – Do you have an email by which I can provide you the Minecraft details? Also FatShady will need your minecraft name to add you to the whitelist. The best way is to tweet him, but if you don’t have twitter let me know I can let him know for you.
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Hi!
My email is my real name, so I won’t post it here. Hmm, how to do it. DM on twitter? @MrMcGarnical
Yesterday I hung out with Tadmod for a few hours in the evening. It was the first time I’ve seen him in about six months, and honestly I swear that jerk has gotten taller again.
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“makes you feel shorts” there fixed that one for you…
it funny because he’s ex-pants…
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Harli made an absolute gem of a comment back on the last page.
Allow me to use blockquote to bring it to everyone’s attention:
I reckon! I mean have better things to do at night.
So much for Trjn-proofing.
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For me, it’s just icing on the cake.
And cakes with icing are delicious. Even more so than cakes without icing.
Hence the phrase. Probably.
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Just blame whoever impersonated you that other time (Di11enger?), ooh, or blame Blaghs, he’s not around to defend himself. 😛
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Dear Rocketman,
I’m sorry about my nut thread.
I was just shooting the breeze.
Kind regards,
– Effluvium Boy
PS – Apologies to anyone else repelled by it.
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Dear Eff,
I was repelled by your declining to take any notice of me or my response. I thought my comment was definitely worthy of response, being not only a nut, but a country, and even a strange movie.
Kind regards,
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Dear Strange,
I noticed it, but thought, since someone else had responded to it, my response was not necessary. This has since been rectified.
I’m not quite sure how to feel about the Brazil nut. I enjoy them in moderation. I think the texture is aa little odd, borderlining on macadamia, but I much prefer macadamias.
I’ve never really found the prospect of visiting Brazil all that appealing. It would be cool to see Christ the Redeemer in person and perhaps some of the more remote locations would be impressive, but places like Rio DJ are really not my cup of tea. I’ve also lived with a handful of Brazilians in the past and found some of them difficult to get along with (I know that’s no reason to judge all of them).
The film, I enjoyed, although I have not seen it in a while. I’m always willing to see a Terry Gilliam film, although too many in a short space of time can be a little overwhelming. I think I posted some music/videos from Brazil (the film) on TAY not long ago.Kind regards,
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You’re OK.
The discussion we had last night wasn’t about specific people, it was mostly about spamming for the sake of spamming. That is, posts driven by the intent for no other reason than to post. You were joking (back on page 5), and the nut chain of replies (as Strange said) was a spot of night-time TAY entertainment, so personally I don’t think that counts as what he was referring to either.
It’s just that some people who TAY at work like to use TAY as a bit of an escape, but it’s hard to do if you have to filter through (actual) nonsense (rather than our enjoyable nonsense), so more the things like posting filler comments for a new page, rather than anything that has recently transpired.Well, as I understand the situation anyhow.
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Yay!
Because I’d to think I wasn’t welcome here just because I chose to be irreverant and make attempts at humour rather than share stories. I really like everyone’s stories, and maybe I’ll share one day, but I am just not there yet.
Thanks Bish.
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Oh dear, I screwed the html tag again. Thank goodness I don’t seemt to have broken anything this time!
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Yeah those filler comments for “page gets” are extremely annoying. We’re already getting to new pages fast enough, we don’t need to spam, and being excited about being the person to “get” the new page is way too close to “FIRST!111!!” for my comfort.
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Dear Strange,
If you are repelled by the comments on a thread, and believe the entire thread needs to be cleansed, then we now have a solution.
See page 10 of TAY for further details.
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Hmmm, maybe the editors could strike-through moronic comments, as a warning that we expect better than that in this comfy corner of the internet?
Dear everyone,
What’s with all the letter writing? Is this a new meme, or are we becoming bizarrely formal with each other?
Sincerely,
Shane
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Effluvium Boy started it by I think using that format to respond to people from other pages, rather than just yelling their name like I do.
Everyone wants to be like Eff, so they respond to him in kind.And now Blaghs has started to do it on his nightly catch-up-with-TAY sessions and people are also responding in kind. And he’s talking a lot at night so there’s a lot of letter-writing at night on TAY now.
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Dear Shane,
I think I may have popularised it a while ago (Not trying to take credit, I just think that’s how it started – If anyone can correct me, please do).
It comes and goes in burst.Kind regards,
-Effluvium Boy-
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Dear Effluvium Boy,
I’m glad it’s just a thing. I was worried it might be because you accidentally touched someone in the wrong place (or ran over their pet in your car, or something) and were feeling a little too uncomfortable to talk to them in any informal setting.
I’m not saying you didn’t do those things (how would I know?) but at least you’re not uncomfortable about it if you did. That’s a good trait to have.
Sincerely,
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That too.
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Oddly enough, I decided not to find out exactly where it ends. 🙂
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But not knowing… Doesn’t that drive you nuts?
WAKKA WAKKA!
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I’m giving you ten points for a successful Fozzie reference! 😀
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Sunut Butter! the perfect alternative for those who are allergic to peanuts.
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Much appreciated. I shall bottle your tears and sell them as unicorn saliva
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hahahah dayamn Shane you are on fire today!
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Dearest Shane,
Your answer is on the bottom half of page 7, which doesn’t exist.
Sincerely,
Scree
Morning all.
I think I want to murder the person who was “whipper snipping” next door this morning at like 7.30am.. Since all they did was attack our Colourbond fence, so annoying/loud when someone attacks it D:
It’s 11am, and all I can hear is the tune for question 11 from the original You Don’t Know Jack in my head.
So is TAY having some kind of fight again? All I can gather is Rocketman and page 10 and html tags and one word replies.
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Slow down, you move too fast, you’ve got to make the morning last
Just kickin’ down the cobble-stones, lookin’ for fun and feelin’ groovyFeeling groovy
Hello lamp-post, what’s cha knowing, I’ve come to watch your flowers growin’
Ain’t cha got no rhymes for me, do-it-do-do, feelin’ groovyFeeling groovy
I’ve got no deeds to do, no promises to keep
I’m dappled and drowsy and ready to sleep
Let the morning time drop all its petals on meLife I love you, all is groovy
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AND ITALICS FOR EVERYON-er, no, I don’t think I’ll do that one right now…
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I would reply with the lyrics from the song I’m listening to, but I’m not quite sure how to lyric-ise Deadmau5’s Ghosts n Stuff. So instead:
Hey there you with a sad face, come up to my place and live it up!
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Are you hitting on him?
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Dear Master Bishington the Third,
That was intended for you.
Sincerely,
NotoriousR
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Dear Doctor Notoriousaur,
May I call you that? Because that’s what I call you. Notoriousaur.
o/ Regards,
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Dear Master Bishington the Third,
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You may.
Kind Regards,
Doctor Notoriousaur (PhD, MBBS, BBS)
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Quick little story I thought I’d share with you guys. It requires a little background information first.
My Mum works at a small primary school teaching grade 1 and 2. Because of the schools size and its reputation for having a really nice and welcoming community parents in the surrounding area whose children have problems often send them to this school. The problems I’m refering to are things like Asperger, learning difficulties, anxiety issues etc. Over the years both me and my sister have helped out at the school and as such we’ve each met every student my Mum has taught multiple times. My Mum has also talked about us a bit in class to the kids because the kids have requested to know more about us and what we’ve been up to. This is mainly brought on by the fact that my Mum’s got a lot of my old toys in the classroom that she lets the kids play with during wetday time tables and the like and also because they all think I’m awesome.
So anyway on with the story that’s probably shorter then the background information I just gave. Yesterday my Mum came home from work and handed both me and my sister Christmas cards that had come from one of her students she’d been teaching for three years and who we’d both met a couple of times. It seems that he decided that this year he wanted to give everyone in the class a Christmas card, which is a big step for him because last year he didn’t want to give out any cards at all, and that included both my sister and me.
I don’t know this kid very well and receiving this unexpected Christmas card from him just really touched my heart. It was one of the nicest surprises I’d ever received.
I just thought I’d share that with you guys, who I know will appreciate it.
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Always nice when something like that happens, certainly always nice to hear of a kid with trouble making progress
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I need them. I’m older than you so I like like to cling to the past. Please don’t ruin my past. 😛
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Dammit, I hate it when I notice a typo just as I’m hitting Submit Comment.
Too many ‘like’s there. Oh well, someone was asking earlier about a like button? 😛-
I thought you were like, trying to use the same sort of like, cool language the kids these days like, use…. like
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I took it to mean you liked liking clinging to the past.
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Like, that was totallly me wanting a ‘like’ button. Like, totally.
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Nothing can take your past from you! Not even a strikethrough!*
*A strikethrough can take your past from you.
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I wrote this as a comment on that feminism article, but figured it would be an interesting discussion point for TAY, who I would (hesitantly) refer to as the saner side of the Aus gaming community.
The only reason that the online community continues to spout these insults is because it gets such coverage. 99.99% of the stuff is completely harmless and ignorable. The comments i’ve read starting with “the things i’d do to Olivia Munn”, “Hey, Felicia Day, why don’t you…”, etc. number in the thousands. The ones about the pornstar chick that hosts that show (her name eludes me) have been even worse. Know how many of these comments have eventuated into a real life action taking place? 0.
What people say and the actions they take are 2 different things. If they’re allowed to hide behind an Xbox Live Gamertag or PSN ID they’ll say anything. Will they do anything? No. One of the comments on the Sorrels’ (we know it’s you Mark) article probably said it best. “If you let it known you’re a woman, you’ll be insulted for it, if you sound foreign, you’ll be insulted for that.” They don’t even know you, they’re just relieving stress and/or frustration by throwing what they can at you. No person who is comfortable with who they are should be damaged by any of this.
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I refer everyone who hasn’t seen it (and even those who have) to this: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/3/19/
I generally ignore most of the obnoxious comments I see/hear, but I find it deplorable that some people are being douchebags for the sake of it, and even more deplorable that others genuinely believe in the vitriolic crap they spout. I’d take over the world and make it a better place, but I’m far too lazy for that.
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Really good observations, EK.
I still think it’s important to call idiots on their idiocy (if only because I like to see the sane comments numbering in at least the n+1 where n is the number of idiotic comments), but I take your point about not being worked up over it.
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“if you sound foreign, you’ll be insulted for that”
Hahaha, it’s funny because of that guy and what he said to me.Certainly agree with not getting worked up over it, but even so, it’s bad manners and should be addressed. Even if it is internet bad manners.
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Wait, you’re foreign???
Get off our websiteUnless you have an accent, like Pixel!
“Horsch de borsch de dorsch!”-
I often get accused of having an accent. Even though I’ve been here since 1988.
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where exactly are you from Mcgarnical?
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I’m assuming he’s from the UK
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…Upper Kotaku?
HE’S FROM THE NORTH?!?!
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Oh god, noone tell Lambo. Civil War will ensue!
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Not sure if anyone’s still listening to page 14 at this point, but:
Ireland.
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the pornstar chick that hosts that show (her name eludes me)?
Kim Kardashian? HI-YO!
Your right that you shouldn’t get worked up by it, although it doesn’t mean you should have to put up with it.
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EXCUSE ME! KIM KARDASHIAN AND HER ENTIRE FAMILY ARE A LEGITIMATE BUSINESSWOMEN AND IF YOU CAN’T SEE THAT-BAHAHA
Could not say that with a straight face. Anywho, like I said to Tracey on the other thread, the douchebags who are spouting this crap are not going to listen to a well reasoned, essay-form argument about why their behaviour is not a good thing. They come up with “TL;DR, WHERES THE GAEMMMZZZ???”. The reasoned and coherent responses in the comment section are all from the TAYbies or other Kotaku regulars with a lick of sense, eg Zap.
The best thing to do is to attribute it them releasing stress or frustration from their lives, take pity on them, and move on. If you have an issue you’re sensitive about (eg your gender, sexuality, weight, etc.), you’re not forced to let other people know about those characteristics. The best example here I can think of is Mila Kunis. She’s played WoW for years, and she’s both a woman, and has a very distinctive voice. So, simply, she doesn’t voice chat. I know the argument is that she shouldn’t HAVE to make that kind of adjustment, but if you think that writing well-constructed essays is going to stop everyone being dickbags, you’re deluding yourself.
Just read this on Nathan Fillion’s Twitter: http://bernardin.tumblr.com/post/14182869809/could-netflix-bring-firefly-back-from-the-dead
PLEASE MAKE THIS HAPPEN NETFLIX! I WOULD LOVE YOU LONG TIME!
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I’m ashamed to admit that I stopped watching Firefly half way through for some unknown reason. I vaguely remember liking it… 😛
Mental note to try and watch it all the way through one of these days.
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I don’t know who you are. I don’t know what you want. If you are looking for understanding, I can tell you I don’t have it. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired from the internet. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you watch Firefly now, that’ll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don’t, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you.
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…haven’t seen that movie either. D:
If you didn’t know where I lived before now; it’s under that rock over there.
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Erm, it might be good, it might not. I for one would prefer to leave it as the cut-short gem it is now rather than rehashing it for nostalgia sake. Yes, I’m looking at you:
1) Buffy season 8
2) Star Wars prequel trilogy
3) Red Dwarf: Back to Earthand so on.
I lost faith in Joss Whedon when I watched Dollhouse. I don’t want Firefly renewed.
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PS: They’re all already nearly ten years older than they were when they filmed Firefly. I think that the theme song would need to be changed:
“Take my boat, take my train
Take away my zimmer frame
I don’t care, I’ve still got time
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PPS: I should add that back in 2005, I bought almost 30 copies of the Serenity DVD to boost sales and encourage a sequel, so I was not always against the idea of renewal.
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To be fair, Dollhouse wasn’t so much Whedon’s fault as it was Eliza Dushku’s. And did you watch all of it? Because I stopped after the first season and didn’t get around to the epilogue and season 2 for a long time.
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Dollhouse was a weird show. You had to endure a lot of Dushku to get to the good bits but once they started giving Victor, Topher and Sierra more air time, it became rather awesome.
Poor Sierra. I just wanted to give her a huge and a cheeseburger. Damn did that girl need to eat some cheeseburgers.
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I had no problem with any of the performances, but I thought the scripting and storylines were profoundly rubbish. My wife told me to shut up after I pointed out about the fifteenth plot inconsistency and/or inexplicably illogical plot ‘twist’, and said I was ruining her enjoyment of a brainless show.
We didn’t watch season 2.
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Everything was focused around Echo.
Dushku’s performance didn’t help but she was also just one of the least interesting characters.
Just go and watch Season 2 Episode 4 “Belonging”. That’s probably the best episode of the show in terms of emotional content. I hated Sierra as a character until that point (see my comments about cheeseburgers). Now she’s up alongside Whiskey and Topher.
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Forget about Season one. It’s crap. I can’t believe you didn’t find any problems with the performances. It really showcased how Dushku has little to no acting chops.
Watch ‘Epitaph One’, the 13th episode of Season 1, and then watch season 2. If you’re disappointed I’ll eat my hat.**I don’t actually have a hat….
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I saw Epitaph One, and found it to be the source of the biggest plot holes so far. That said, I can suffer plot holes if it puts a story back on track. Not convinced this did.
I may check out season 2 one day, but sad to say, I’m not expecting to be impressed, so I hope you’re prepared to commence hat eating. This is because after Dollhouse, I rewatched Buffy and realised that Dollhouse had opened my eyes to the immensely illogical season-long plotlines that plague the Whedonverse. It made me very extremely tres sad, as I used to be a huge fanboy. (I haven’t dared watch Firefly since then.)
Dollhouse ruined everything.
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Epitaph One was written not knowing if it was going to be the last episode or not. There is some season 2 material that gets shoehorned in to try and make it all work.
The plot holes and inconsistencies pretty much came because they had no idea how long they were going to last. That problem caused them to dig a lot of holes for themselves.
Heroes had the same problem, but more severe.
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I really need to watch this show. Its like Doctor Who, I’m constantly told I’d love it, but never do anything about it
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Doctor Who is awesome!
Felt like that needed to be said, in case anyone was wondering where the show sat regarding awesome/not-awesome status.
Be still my beating heart…what wondrous hope I have blossoming within my heart that someday, yes, someday, Captain Reynolds will return!
Work’s Christmas drinks last night. I meant to leave at 7 as it takes over an hour to get home by train.
Changed my mind to 8.
Then 9…
Ended up leaving at 00:15. Missed the last train. Had to get the night bus. Got home at 3:30am
I’m more hungover than I ever remember being.
(That’s not actually THAT hung over. Sore head and slight queasiness.)
Am now rehydrating while back at work. So I got about 4 hours sleep.
WHO HAS A CHRISTMAS PARTY ON A WEDNESDAY?
That is all.
Oh, Domino’s Pizza in NZ sells chips.
Now I’m done.
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lol we had ours on a tuesday…
and yeah same story, sore head, nausea…. pretty sure my boss is a terrible* person cause he kept buying us Mojitos… what a day/night
*fantastic
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Pizza and chips is a combination too often neglected.
To the Victorians:
Giant Steps in Healesville.
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Considering your name’s on the door and mine isn’t, probably best to meet inside?
Got Twitter? We can frantically DM each other to arrange meetingness. Mine’s @TrjnRabbit.
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I do now. @FreezeSPreston
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And followed.
You’ll probably come to regret that :p
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May I ask which one? If it’s a wacom you plug it in, install the software and you’re good to go.
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do you have the latest talent drivers installed?
if not, you might wanny try getting the PracticeMakesPerfect patch.
/not helpingI want a drawing tablet now. I really have no drawing talent at all, but I want one.
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It’ll take time to get used to it but never look down at the tablet. Play with it in PS or GIMP, get used to the pressure sensitivity. And remember that the tablet size represents your monitor.
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Wait really? What’s wrong with it? I would be interested in one!
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I had one of those Aldi ones, it was just plug & play iirc, worked with everything. I sold it to a mate though.
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Speaking of which, I got a cheap Chinese (probably) tablet a while ago that I’ve yet to use.
Are there any generic drawing tablet drivers or anything? It didn’t come with anything else.
I don’t suppose anyone can identify what i have?
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There are pages on my phone D:
Maybe cause i’m not using the mobile site.. Plus the Allure mobile sites take forever to load for me I found out 🙁
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If you add “comment-page-x” to the TAY link, then when press the comments button, it will start at the top of page x. You cant go back to previous pages but you can load later pages by hitting the Load More Comments button
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Out of curiosity, how many people here are now on twitter because of TAY and TAY related things?
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Not I, I’m here because of Twitter though, I remember Tad went on about this TAY thing all the time & I did not have a clue as to what it was so I check out once & yeah lol.
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Me.
Back before instaproved comments, it was the only way to keep up with TAYbies at night and on weekends. -
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Morning all 😀
I never thought I would say this but Work has been too busy for Tay this morning. /o\
Anyways I was wondering if anyone knew of any posters of BatmanTAS Joker with one of his quotes for sales on the internet? I have been looking but so far my google searching has been a failing. So has anyone seen any? otherwise do you think it would be ok to make your own? and by that I mean not illegal and stuff
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Nothing overly fancy, I just went to my local officeworks and got it colourprinted on A3 and laminated. Looks epic in my workspace.
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No probs Di11 !
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“The item(s) listed below will actually ship sooner than we originally expected based on the new release date:
“Star Wars: The Old Republic”
Previous estimated arrival date: December 23, 2011 – December 29, 2011
New estimated arrival date: December 21, 2011 – December 27, 2011″
\o/
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Most of the Australian PvP guilds are on The Swiftsure.
I can’t stand PvP personally so I’m not going to be there.
Servers were pretty dead when I was playing last night. 15 people when I logged on at about 9pm, down to 4 when I logged off at midnight.
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Wow, that’s a low count.
I usually play on PVP servers for the world-pvp stuffs – keeps things interesting.-
Now just need to wait for email saying I can get in for early access.
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I’ve got limited gaming time and I don’t like the idea that my experience during that time could be completely ruined by some twelve year old named xXxPwnNinjaxXx. This is also why I don’t play multiplayer games except with friends, incidentally.
Also, regarding the low player count, I should probably clarify: that was the number of players in my zone (Ord Mantell). There’s four starting zones across the 8 classes (2 per side) and I’m sure there were a few poopsockers who were into the next zones as well.
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http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/pioneering-chick-arrives-on-coast-20111215-1ovo4.html
This is the baby penguin I saw yesterday.
My friend just sent me this link, he questioned whether or not this is considered selling out? apparently his work mates are telling him that all his favourite bands are sell outs and they are all shit. originally it was Metallica and Tool now they have added Megadeth and a few smaller bands to the list of “shit bands getting shitter” that he really enjoys.
Normally I would say fuck haters, listen to what you like but still this question irks me at what point is a sellout really a sellout and is there a real problem with that? If they are still making good music whats the issue?
Granted alot people think metallica post “load” is terribad, I honestly enjoy all of their albums aside from the most recent “compilation”* which I have not heard so will not make judgement.
*the one released this year with some other guy
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Simple question, Is it bad when a successful artist makes money without changing what it is that made them famous?
Example:- I love Metallica and all their earlier work but to me their last 2 albums(Death Magnetic and St. Anger) were rubbish. To me it felt like they sold out by changing their music style. But I still listen to them, because f**k what other people think, I like it 🙂-
I actually liked some of St. Anger, wasn’t a fan before I saw “Some Kind Of Monster” then I actually appreciated what the album was.
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And that’s fine mate, was simply stating I didn’t enjoy it 🙂
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Actually since you mentioned Death Magnetic, most of it was pretty bland. Check out their EP Beyond Magnetic, especially the song Rebel of Babylon, they’re cuts from the studio, songs that never made the album & from what I gather they never went to be mastered so they avoid the whole clipping things & sound pretty damn good.
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I’ll have a listen tonight, cheers 🙂
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No problem! All four songs from Death Magnetic that never made the cut were received really well by the community. Everyone was lost why Metallica didn’t want them on the album.
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I just did what most sane people did and pirated the Guitar Hero version of the album (which I bought as DLC).
It’s just not a very good album. Most of it feels like “meh, that’ll do” and it all just kinds of blends together.
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I actually hated the GH version seemed to soft in places for me. So I went back to my CD copy. Yes I actually bought Death Magnetic on release.. It actually sounds good in FLAC tbh.
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Being a future sellout myself, I’ll say this.
It’s hard to make a living doing what you love. Sometimes you need to consider your audience and adjust yourself and your work to line up with expectations. Sometimes your audience and your paycheck will be at the far ends of two divergent roads. If you want to keep doing what you love, and still love what you’re doing down the paycheck road, then I have no problem with that.
Art has been so romanticised to be corruption-free, to be untainted by capitalism, to be somehow worth less if it becomes worth more.
Some people want to be in grungy gritty garage bands forever… But if a band puts out an album, they’re trying to enter the commercial world. They’re chasing fame and fortune, recognition, and a career. When you have a career, you have to do what your boss (record company exec, for example) tells you.
In any other industry, this is considered normal behaviour. In the creative arts, it’s the second-biggest sin an artist can commit. (The biggest is participating in advertising, and I’m not going to defend that… yet)
I guess a “true” definition of selling out would be altering your art based on scoring the highest profit margin, rather than doing it in a way you want, or doing something you don’t believe in, purely for profit.
If Mr Mustaine liked and wanted to do this, then I’d say there’s no selling out here.
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Indeed.
Changing your art for purely market reasons is selling out.
Black Eyed Peas added Fergie and started to focus on pop jingles.
Metallica went from being angry young men to affluent old men.
Trent Reznor got married and sober.
All three changed their music styles, only one is a sellout.
It’s only selling out if you are going against an opinion or attitude, that you have previously established, for the sake of financial gain or exposure.
Please don’t bring the Lou Reed & Metallica thing known as Lulu up again. My poor ears are still recovering D:
But on the subject of sell out, if we’re going to define what a sell out is, look at Gene Simmons and go from there. The man has merchandised literally EVERYTHING he has set his eyes on, he does it purely for the money, nothing else it seems.
With Dave, I understand he’s trying to make a quick buck, but a shredding app? I’m not sure, it would really depend. Is it quality for your money, do you actually learn from what Dave is teaching, will there future updates maybe with more lessons?
End of the day in my eyes most bands people are calling sellouts, aren’t selling out they’re just trying to make a living, and in some cases the fans want what the bands are doing.
Anyone who wants an invite to the APB:R Kotaku group I made, give me a shout on twitter later tonight. We need to be online at the same time for an invite, apparently.
Remember, I’m a Criminal on Han (Hong Kong, lower latency than NA – West). I also have an Enforcer character there, who may eventually be used 😛
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I really want to Play APB:R now. Wish i had the PC for it.
It sounds hilarious, can you completley customize your outfit? like import your own skins?
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You can do a fair bit of customisation (craploads more than most MMOs), but it’s all done in game. Having said that, the in-game tools are straight forward enough that you can jump in and make some pretty nice stuff from the start, but still allow plenty of options.
Car customisation is insanely open ended. Tonnes of options, though a lot of stuff you have to play to unlock.
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OOOH! Something definitely worth mentioning! Steam has a promo for APB:R running at the moment. Jump in the game before Decemeber 19th and get 10 days access to paid content for free.
Boils down to extra customisation options, more loot and exp from missions, that sort of thing. Nothing huge, but gives a nice boost for new players ( i.e. me).
Steam page for the game:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/113400/I’m starting to feel like I’m crapping on far too much about this game. I should get paid for the amount of advertising I’m doing…
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Did you work out if that server is paid only? and if you are all getting kicked off once your 10 day promo runs out?
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I’m going to assume thats you Strange buried amongst the 12 girls that are telling me that they think I’m hot and we should totally hook up. I only signed up half an hour ago. But that egg picture IS pretty smoking.
Any way to stop all that crap?
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Welcome to the land of Twitter bots.
You can’t stop them, but you can have fun baiting them. Most of them reply to you based on keyboards like “iphone”. Some times people try to think of posts to try and get the most spam bot replies.
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Write a tweet beginning with “Good News Everyone!” and you’ll get a retweet from a certain professor. That one is my favourite. 😀
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VIAGRA LADY GAGA IPHONE IPAD MODERN WARFARE 3 WORLD OF WARCRAFT NORTON HORNY SINGLES JUSTIN BEIBER LINDSAY LOHAN XBOX KIM KARDASHIAN GIANT COCKS
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For the record, GIANT COCKS is how I sign all my tweets. It’s like using “STOP” in a telegram.
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You can shorten that one dramatically. World of Warcraft can be replaced with WoW (SC2 gets similar responses btw), Bieber doesn’t need the Justin, nor does Lohan need the Lindsay or Kardashian need the Kim.
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Excellent, I can add in “TRAVEL” “SKYRIM” and “NSFW”.
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You should probably try to throw in an OBAMA or RON PAUL.
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Greetings and Salutations to all!!!
Haven’t been on for a while and had actually become a bit of a lurker so I figured I would give you all an update.
Have decided to close the shopfront and keep my motorcycle apparel business online only. Business is just more viable without having to pay rent every month. Had to dismantle the shop and move all the stock.
Pro tip : never go for a chequered pattern for window stickers. Indvidually removing 500 tiny black squares SUCKS!!!!
Have actually been busier the last 3 weeks with the shop closed, but has finally quitened down and I can get stuck back into TAY and some games 🙂
Hoping to finally sink some time into Syrim and actuall start AssREv.
Ohh. Which reminds me…
The morality in Skyrim seems kinda vague. Do decisions actually impact quest lines? ie if you do the thieves guild questline do you become “evil” and limit your options for other quests?
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He’s back!
re: Skyrim – I’ve only seen decisions have effect within that particular quest chain, and haven’t seen any evidence of a morality dealie. NPCs can and will make random comments about your actions, though.
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Hmm I’ve avoided it so far cos the locals seem all anti guild. Might be a bastard on my second playthorugh and do it then.
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I haven’t gone too deep into morality in Skyrim, but if it’s anything like Oblivion, there’s not a huge amount of choices that will cause long-term effects, short of killing certain people.
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DUDE welcome back man, it hasn’t been the same without your clever humour.
Hope things are going well with your shop and stuff. I’ll make note of your protip – I’m actually a huge fan of chequered patterns on my shirts and stuff (I like wearing lumberjack shirts).
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I am afraid I do not get it?
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Allow me enlighten you
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About an hour ago I was about to post, asking where you were. But then I got distracted by penguins. But, yay for you being psychic and answering my question anyway! I missed you.
I’m hesitant to try the faction quests in Skyrim because it all seems so morally grey. I tried the Companions because I figured that being an essentially ‘good’ guy, my character would be able to do that without compromising his values, but the first thing they wanted me to do was beat up somebody for no apparent reason.
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I was going to ask the same thing yesterday. But then I forgot.
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Hey, I was busy destroying page 10! Is that not a good enough excuse? 😛
Also, stay away from page 10…
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Okay to all those who consider triple j’s hottest 100, here is my list
Alex Metric – End Of The World {Ft. Charli XCX}
Example/Skream – Shot Yourself In The Foot Again
Example – Changed The Way You Kiss Me
Lana Del Rey – Video Games
Luke Million – Arnold
Nero – Guilt
Nero – Promises
Rubens, The – Lay It Down
Rufus – Paris Collides
SBTRKT – Hold On {Ft. Sampha}
Critique please!
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I have no idea what any of those songs are, therefore my critique is that you should have selected songs that I know and like instead of these strange new fangled things that I’ve never heard of.
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Lambo’s 17.
You must feel like a toddler :p
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Lol
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That’s amusing because you’re wrong.
Assuming that you’re assuming that the reason I don’t know who these people are is because I listen to Rhianna and Beyonce. When the correct assumption is that I don’t listen to the radio :p
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Example, Lana, and Nero all get a thumbs up from me. Not sure about the others. Couple there I can’t recall without hearing, which I can’t do at work 😛
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alex metric, sbtrkt (housey kinda songs, pretty good imo)
luke arnold is a completely different kettle of fish (its my annual “joke” inclusion, it’s hilarious! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJdMjRHRLfg
Rufus and the rubens are 2 songs that are my slower faves for the year, pretty recent songs though so they may only sneak in cos im really enjoying them now.-
Derp *slaps forhead*
Completed missed Alex Metric. Thumbs up for that too 😛
I’d hazard a guess that when I listen to these songs this evening, I’ll recognise them fairly quickly. There’s so many recent songs that I know by sound, but not by title.
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Unsettling typo…
…*forehead
I did not slap for head.
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JamesMacusedMyHandle,
Hope the internet only thing works out for you! And welcome back! 🙂
NotoriousR, still without a PS3.
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Nothing’s wrong with it. I’ve never used it, never taken it out of its box, and my wife is annoyed by the space it takes up.
Email me: shane AT shanewsmithDOTCOM and we’ll work something out!
Just read this article about gearbox and their update to borderlands 2
http://www.destructoid.com/gearbox-to-honor-late-fan-as-an-npc-in-borderlands-2-215160.phtml
Just a word of warning, for some reason it can make you office quite dusty. Yep so so dusty in here
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DO not joke about the creeping pollen death that has been palguing me for weeks.
I blame agriculture and its constant need for ‘pollenisation.’ You know who else needs agriculture? Communists.
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Yeah I meant cross bow ha.
But it could be Gordon Freemans 3rd most favourite weapon after his Gravity Gun & Crow bar.
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Okay Lamb, just be aware that this is not solely directed at you, and also that I’m having a bad day, but…NO!
No more talking about, or spamming to get to a new page. Like I said before, TAY is already large enough without these comments that are akin to “FIRST!11!!!”. Being the first person to post on a page is not important, and neither is posting a comment just to say that. Anyone who can count to 25 can deliberately start a page, it’s nothing special. Even worse are the spammy comments at the end of the previous page to get to a new page. STOP IT! It’s difficult enough for people to keep up with TAY without having the post count of TAY artificially inflated like that.
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Count to 25, hey? I thought it would be something like that but now I don’t have to check. This goes in my TAY-exploit box. Right next to the HTML fail which breaks the page.
I kid, I kid.
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It’s good to know if you’ve got something important to say and you really don’t want it lost on a dead page.
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I got confused by your comment Strange, because you are playing it straight and my head is still very much in joketown.
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Well I’m off to make the trek to brissie. Ill try to figure twitter out and get onto you tonight trjn.
8 or so hours in as of the last time I played (over a week ago!) I think I’m already done with Skyrim. Just got no real desire to go and play it any more. Didn’t really hook me from the start, actually. I kind of started to get into it but then I continued the main quest a bit and now I don’t even remember what they wanted me to do next or why.
(Controversial opinion)
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another victim of non-linear gameplay.
Probably best for you to stick to games such as uncharted and mw3-
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TBH it was probably was a bit condescending in tone, as those games i mentioned you go back to are very popular and suit a certain type of gamer.
I won’t apologise as I personally don’t hold those games in much esteem, (although i do hold them in higher regard than moving pictures), mainly because I get frustrated with the lack of sandbox play i so dearly enjoy!A game like skyrim never holds your hand as to what you should do and where you should go. The best thing you could do to make the game interesting is work on a short term set of goals on your character skillset and that will help you pick a direction you would like to do.
I have found alot of people play minecraft and go “this is boring” after 5 hours running around and dying constantly. Then I have seen others do truly amazing things like 100 floor elevators with only redstone circuits and sticky pistons.
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Yup. Nothing wrong with a linear game. I’ve never understood how that was meant to be a problem.
I can understand where there’s hand-holding and railroading to the point where the player’s input doesn’t strictly matter (sup Final Fantasy, how you doing?) but in most cases, that doesn’t happen.
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Nothing wrong with linearity. Though personally I like a bit of both worlds. IMO Skyrim’s issues aren’t to do with whether it’s open or not, it’s more that the main quest isn’t particularly compelling.
Also the voice acting. Bethesda: please hire more than four people to do the voices next time.
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I’ll offer the usual response of “Go somewhere, ignore quests, go nuts.”
The above idea works well for me. If I get tired of quests, I pick an unexplored area on the map and start jogging. Obviously this doesn’t work for everyone, but give it a shot if you haven’t and see how you go.
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I must have got a couple of hours in late last week. I don’t remember playing and when i switched on yesterday I had no idea where i was and 6 new questlines.
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Man. The wedding ring part. No idea what that lady was screaming about. Took me about 5 minutes to catch up, and relate said screaming with that quest 😀
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I’ve been watching my housemate play Skyrim, and it’s really, really tempting. Might wait for the PS3 patch that stops the whole slowdown thing though.
Man, why must taybies move so fast?
Shane, Bish, NoHandle:
http://staging.kotaku.com.au/2011/12/talk-amongst-yourselves-134/comment-page-14/#comment-477004
I’m bumping my bumps! Whoever is going to make some kind of sexual innuendo joke, don’t.
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http://staging.kotaku.com.au/2011/12/talk-amongst-yourselves-134/comment-page-14/#comment-477101
That was a waste of time.
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I trust my fellow TAYfolk, so I leave it to you?
Yay or nay?
http://staging.kotaku.com.au/2011/12/remember-this-465/comment-page-1/#comment-476822
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Do whatever the hell you want. Didn’t Tracey say she’ll make it The Dig again for you one day to make up for her jumping in before you to say The Dig on the day it actually was The Dig?
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Your passion is appreciated, but honestly I don’t care that much. 🙂
If it bothers folks overmuch I’ll give it a rest.-
Doesn’t appear to overmuch bother folks, so tomorrow’s guess will be…
… wait for it…
… a surprise!
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I have the song Bubble Pop stuck in my head. This makes me very angry.
Where is Rocketman when I need him?
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Are you trying to noogie that song into his head to get it out of yours. Because that doesn’t work.
I tried.
for science.
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I didn’t know it didn’t have Wi-Fi.
Wow. That actually makes it more shit.
Although it makes the Go a decent alternative, classic Sony market tactics.-
The Go is still PSN-only. No WiFi isn’t really a deal-breaker for the PSP outside Japan, no one really plays multiplayer games on it in the west. Or south, in our case.
Don’t know why you’d buy the new crappier model over the 3000 though unless you were really pinching the pennies.
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Wi-Fi gives you access to PSN Minis, which are good for train trips etc. Also, the Resistance Retribution multiplayer over Wifi was good fun, as was remote play from PS3 (I used to use it to watch iView in bed)
Point is, I think it’s a pretty silly thing to remove from a PSP.
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Maybe no one is making WiFi chips that only do 802.11b any more?
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Agreed.
Was considering one as a gift for a friends kid, but the 3000 packs are still a way better deal.
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Anyone played with the kinect voice support. With the introduction of SBS and youtube and iview on its way, im actually planning on using it a fair bit. It all just clicked last night and i really liked it. Does not work with your own media which is a bit shit tbh (so my MAS drive still requires a controller… but other than that it is great. super responsive and quite accurate which surporised me, especially as i sit about 3m+ from the TV.
Just wondering if you guys rate it?
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Have you yelled “DRY AS A DEAD DINGO’S DONGER MAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYTE” at it yet?
Sorry, what was the question? All I saw was “kinect voice support”.
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I haven’t. Any time I’ve tried to use my Kinect for Kinecty stuff it hasn’t worked. A whole room full of gamers couldn’t even get ‘Once Upon a Monster’ to work.
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Maybe they put a secret scanner in it to recognise real gamers and there protect the “integrity” of the Kinect games. So that only average joes and children can play and there fore give the games positive feed back. the only exception to scanning “real” gamers is that chap who is going for a million gamer score, they let him do it because its good PR
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Aw, shucks. I couldn’t leave y’all without one big TAY-Hug.
*Hugs TAY and all involved.*
See you guys when I get back. 😀
Office Christmas party tomorrow. Starting midday. Alcohol will be consumed, and then we will be occupying the board room for a booze-fueled session which may involve a fighting game tournament and/or Rock Band.
\o/
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Wow, wish my work did this of thing.. generally a luncheon or something at a local restaurant… then EOF.
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Enjoy but make sure you do what you said not what I read:
we will be occupying the board room for a booze-fueled session which may involve fighting and/or game tournament
Just finished Arkham City and feel strangely depressed that the awesomeness is over. That’s until I found the hidden room, though. Now I can’t wait for the next game. Without a doubt Game of the Year for me. That is all.
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That’s the one.
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Oh.
I was somewhat disappointed with that one.
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Phew!!!! Was worried i missed something.
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Way to make me feel behind the curb on the Arkham City front, this is new information to me damn it. 😛
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Hehe. Have you found Killer Croc too….
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Yeah, stumbled upon him while trying to quell my insatiable lust for riddles. Had to look online for the Scarecrow one, though. No way I could’ve found that by myself.
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*curve :S
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I suck at being Batman 🙁
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I’m working my way though that, think I am about half way through. Just finished the killer croc section.
oh arkham city, well have fun
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I liked that section – I know a lot of people didn’t, but I did. I found it quite tense.
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Me too, I was a bit worried about going into it as I had heard ‘the bad things’
I just put it down to short attention spans of kids today 🙂
GingerChris where are you? I’d like to thank you for sending me Dungeon Defenders, but unfortunately I already had a copy! =/ SteveO got in first by like 5 minutes, lol. So now I have two copies. If I decline the gift it should get sent back to you, yes?
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I believe he can just forward the invite to somebody else, at least I still have games in my inventory that I have gifted but haven’t been accepted yet.
If you would like to test that theory Chris you could send me the copy of dungeon defenders that harli no longer requires
Oh and the ginger one has let me know he doesn’t want my copy of hoard so if anybody else would like that let me know
OK, as some of you may have noticed, for good or ill I have made a concerted effort to TAY it up this week. Here it is, Thursday, and I am still here. I have to say I have enjoyed it very much.
But one impact – apart from me falling behind in my work which I would rather not go into – I have noticed I have stopped reading the main Kotaku site almost completely. I used to check it out quite frequently, but now all I check out is TAY.
As always, Homer Simpson said it best:
How is education supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Remember when I took that home winemaking course, and I forgot how to drive?
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There are several types of knowledge:
Known knowns (Things that you know you know)
Known unknowns (things that you know you don’t know)
Unknown unknowns (things you don’t know you don’t know)
and least importantly unknown knowns (things that you forgot that you knew).This is where you get into that “the more you know, the more you know you don’t known” nonsense but in simpler terms everyone has the above levels of knowledge. Of them, only unknown unknowns are considered dangerous (you’re cautious when dealing with known unknowns because you’re aware that you don’t know while unknown unknowns are things you are completely ignorant of).
So a good approach to learning is not to increase your field of known knowns but to decrease your unknown unknowns and make them known unknowns so that you can approach them as you encounter them. Combine that with some developed reasoning skills and then you won’t be as much of a Homer.
A decent knowledge base of known knowns doesn’t hurt either, but limiting the unknown unknowns helps too.
Also, the trick is to have a tabbed browser (in relation to your actual issue of being trapped in TAY).
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Very nice Bunny. (I’m always going to picture Bunny Colvin when I say that. A good man that Bunny. #TheWire)
There is also information of relevance in the Sherlock Holmes canon. Watson said of Holmes,
His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. Of contemporary literature, philosophy and politics he appeared to know nothing.
And Holmes himself said,
I consider that a man’s brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things, so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it.
#WikiquoteFTW
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As someone who possesses an absurd amount of useless trivia, that second quote is pretty damned apt.
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I find that I’m still keeping up with the articles I’m interested in, but don’t usually bother to read the comments at all (for [generally] obvious reasons).
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I have both open most of the time, apart from the times when work blocks a TAY page* or the main page. At the moment I am lurking the main page waiting for a certain someone to make a certain comment and then I will reply with a certain comment of my own for dubious effect, although this will most likely not happen as I will forget.
*yep randomly my work will block one page of TAY, For example earlier I posted on page 14 and now after posting there I can’t see it at all
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I tend to have the kotaku-australian-articles RSS feed in my RSS reader, have TAY open in browser…. and for when I’m more desperate, kotaku-us-articles in RSS reader, too.
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Yeah I’m starting to get the same way as well. I’ll still look at least once a day and catch on all the articles that look interesting at once
JumptothejamboogiewoogiejamslambustthedialectI’mthemanincommandcomeflowwiththesoundsofthemightymicmasterrhymingonthemicI’llbringyousuckerstodisaster
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Your quote marks worked, because in my head I read that as a crazed frantic shout.
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Dear CDJapan,
I would buy so much more stuff from you if you didn’t put an authorization on my credit card for everything I preorder regardless of how far away the release of said item is. I don’t really want to have hundreds of dollars blocked off for six+ months. 🙁
Ahh, everything is right with the world:
http://www.news.com.au/features/christmas/give-me-my-presents-or-the-reindeer-gets-it/story-fn77atzo-1226222588122
Wait… it’s not.
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Her mother, Tracey Austin, 40, told the Daily Mail she originally thought the letter was funny.
“(But) now I think I better get her what she wants,” she said.
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Subheadings:
– Girl writes threatening letter to Santa
– Promises to hunt down and cook his Reindeer
– How can Liz Hurley eat three times more than Warnie?Wait, what?
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Why ‘Flu? She’d only want to hog all the supplies. Better off attaching a good amount of explosives to her and sending her off as ‘Zombait’.
That works for me 😉
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I was just thinking of a USB design when I came up with this idea.
An estop type button on your usb device which when pressed it tells the PC to dismount the USB drive. All the indication you would need is a little light that goes out when the estop function has been performed!
Thus no longer requiring you to go through that painful process of finding it virtually.and clicking the dismount button.(i do this lots as I take my work between offices.)
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Thank you Cracks, It saves me staying up to 1am to download them. I can stay up and play them instead
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Been listening to the latest Nightwish album.
It’s … different. Not sure I like it but most of that comes down to it not feeling like Nightwish.
Also been listening to the latest Dream Theater album. The absence of Portnoy has been noted but so far it still sounds rather okay. It’s not Images and Words or Metropolis Pt 2 but it might turn out to be alright.
So bored. but I remembered I have a cool story. Bought District 9 and Inception Bluray (2 for 30) and Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz blu ray (2 for 20) for $50 last night at JB.
But PS3 is too broken to play it. :'(
I have 2 X 360’s. A 250gb slim and a 4gb slim… its a long story why but I transferred the 250gb HDD into the 4gb console. I always assumed that the 250GB console was the 4gb with the add on plugged in for the HDD… it is not. The 250GB console minus the HDD is a bit shite. It does not seem to have onboard storage at all or at least its very small. a few profiles and system updates and that is it. no game saves that i can see and i can’t even use the cloud because you also need 512mb local storage to cache it.
Just interesting is all.
To fix this i got a 16gb flash drive to stick in the back of it.. for $16.. Happy with that.
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Yes, the 4gb model has an internal flash drive, it’s not attached to the HDD socket or anything. Because that would make things too fiddly if you subsequently decided you wanted to buy a hard drive for your cheapie model and they make a lot of margin on those drives.
Personally I use an old Flash stick in my 360 to hold my profile. Though I think now with the new dashboard, you can have your profile on multiple machines without it chucking a spaz? Anyway, I have three 360s (old 20gb launch model (refurbished), 60gb Japanese model, and 250gb Slim) and I move between them. Well, between the JP and Slim ones, the old 20gb is pretty much retired and only gets pulled out if I have to take it to a friend’s place for or something. It’s very useful because I can also take my profile on that memory stick to another person’s 360 at their place of gameage and play on my own profile.
The old ‘recover profile’ would deregister your profile from your other systems and you’d have to re-recover there and it sometimes would corrupt your saves doing that.
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yeah ive actually got three too! but i bounce between consoles almost every night… so moving profiles around was a big thing for me too.
It turns out that unless i missed something, you can NOT move profiles any easier.. profiles can not be moved to the cloud… so i still have to use flash drives.. game saves can be stored on cloud though????
Not sure how i can use multiple consoles without recovering GT each time???
Sucks really.
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I got a 360 last weekend, and I remember it offering to put saved games on the cloud. Why not Zoidb-…profiles, too? I don’t get it…
Having said that, it seems that if you have your profile on a USB drive it doesn’t remove the association from consoles, but this is what I’ve read from a Microsoft statement/help thingy. Haven’t tested it myself.
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Hey TAY, what is it with all the pricks demanding that Kotaku most only post game news and not bother with anything that relates to games but is an actual issue?
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I think it’s because they’re pricks. Apparently, it doesn’t matter why we play games or how we relate to others who play games, or how games are capable of bringing people together or making us into better people…
You just need to know HOW TO FRAG THE FAGS.
Lesson learned.
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Then why don’t they go to 1Up or some other gaming site. A news site and a blog are completely different
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Because the internet has devolved to the point where (certain) people don’t want to go elsewhere. They want elsewhere to mould itself to fit their exact specifications and desires, to say what they want it to say, and to reaffirm their sad little thoughts, and help them in becoming a dominant voice on the internet because they have so little influence in their own lives.
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So I’ve uh, got this friend. WHO’S DEFINITELY NOT ME BTW! Haha, -wipes sweat- yeah, anyway.
He really wants to know, my friend not ME remember, how to “frag the fags” because he’s always been curious.
My friend has.
Not me.
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That’s pretty common, even with the most trivial of articles. If someone posts about something relating to electronics or media that’s not directly related to gaming, someone will pipe up.
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But it is still related, that’s what really confuses me. Why bother coming here if they don’t like the way kotaku do things?
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It seems to be less about conflict and more like they just want something to whinge about
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Shane’s right. They’re pricks.
Unless they have a valid objection, then they can just hush their mouths.
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Innernette jerks.
They’re everywhere.
But Kotaku’s comment section is nowhere near as bad as IGN or GameTrailers. They’re where grammar goes to die…
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Comments sections on articles (or videos or anything) essentially is giving a soapbox to people who we would normally ignore. Because they’re pricks.
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But they’re just complaining for pretty much no reason. Kotaku isn’t going to change, none of us are going to care, it just seems pointless and stupid
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I dunno, some of the complaints leveled at some of the stuff eg Bashcraft posts are kind of valid. I don’t mind most of his stuff but sometimes…
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Aw, okay, I’ll stop complaining then.
:'(Seriously though, I suppose there’s two ways you can interpret a gaming site.
– A website about games.
– A website about things that affect gamers. Which involve games, but also issues involving gamers.I suppose some people want only something like… I don’t know, Metacritic (games part of course) or VG releases where they want raw information on things. Maybe that’s their preference.
And that’s fair enough. It’s the point where they start complaining about the site being the latter that gets me. Look, I’m not a fan of Leigh Alexander usually (because of how she writes things), but I’m not going to deny her the ability to write her pieces. Or you know guys, just don’t click on the link to the article so you don’t need to read it. Just going to throw that out there.-
Bish, I haven’t heard you complain once.
This is just it. They obviously don’t like the way the website is run, they were completely disrespectful to mark and Margaret, but if they hate it so much why don’t they go elsewhere?
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It’s as you say, some people just like to complain.
Maybe I’m a hypocrite. I love complaining about A Current Affair and Today Tonight.
Except maybe these people like to complain about people trying to write about and explore deeper societal issues rather than terrible… well, I was about to use the word “journalism”, but I mean that in the loosest sense. They’re more or less the same thing, right?-
You have a huge point there Bish. Today tonight is also meant to be journalism as well.
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THE INTERNET:
Where people complain.
Also porn too.
Also lolcats.
But that’s about it.
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I always wondered if bagging out ACA and TT was going too far. I mean, it feels like picking on a person with a disease or disorder.
What I’m trying to say is, they can’t help being that freakin’ stupid. Should we be nice because of this?
Wait, what? They CAN help it???
Disregard.
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Because all they want to know is about cheapness and things! They don’t care about games in the wider society etc
(and yet they still probably love the “culture smash” which is often just as relevant)
Hey innernette.
Shutup a second.
A band is featuring our films at their album launch on Saturday night.
Silly fools.
Who wants to come?
I posted my triple j hottest 100 on to FB and within two minutes I had hipster warfare declared on me. WHY?
just because I am not a hipster and I thought the best music to come out of this year was released more than 6 months ago, not last week and I am being punished for it.
Not happy, call jason.
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Alex Metric – End Of The World {Ft. Charli XCX}
Example/Skream – Shot Yourself In The Foot Again
Example – Changed The Way You Kiss Me
Lana Del Rey – Video Games
Luke Million – Arnold
Nero – Guilt
Nero – Promises
Rubens, The – Lay It Down
Rufus – Paris Collides
SBTRKT – Hold On {Ft. Sampha}-
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I won’t try to lie, you can tell by my face there’s a reason why.
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I won’t try to lie, Is there any way out for me this time?
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If they’re hipsters and they’re on Facebook, they’re fakers.
Cached Geocities is where it’s at.
Current feature is ahead of schedule \o/
I think I might be able to go home today without having to work overtime again \o/
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SWTOR times ahoy-hoy then?
I ended up getting a friend to buy in the USA and he emailed me the preorder code + will email gamecode when it rocks up. Apparently estimated delivery time just changed from the 20th to this Friday (in the USA) \o/
Probably won’t get invite before Friday, anyway. Late preorder code entry is…
late.
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Dude, I reckon the newest League of Legends hero, Ahri the foxy ladeh is totally destined to be played by me. She’s a soul eater!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Also why does this video not have more views?!
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Because it was released today and Youtube doesn’t let the view counter go past ~300 on the first day (look at the like/dislike count).
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can’t see the video, only reading the wikia page so excuse me if Im mistaken but Charm causes enemy to walk back towards you, unable to attack for 2 seconds?…ouch
also fox fire…you look painful
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For the first time in ages, I took interest in a LoL post here.
OH MY GOD, so glad I’m not playing!
Dat charm, mang.
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Her AP ratios are a bit not great.
Scaling true damage (Orb of thingy) can stay as it is, but everything else seems underwhelming. ~0.35 scaling on most skills. Was playing with an Ahri in Dominion and… she wasn’t really doing anything, to be honest.
Concerned about her Ulti, really. Good Ahris will use it to maneuvoure through a battlefield. Bad Ahris can use it for 3 free pseudo-flashes to run away. There seems to be a fair amount of distance you can cover with it.
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Anyone here have a problem where they try to submit a comment-reply and it just gets eaten? No waiting-for-approval, no error messages at all… just *submit* and it does not appear?
Was trying to reply to DAN! at the bottom of the previous page :/
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Zany… it now says “looked like you already made that comment :7” but I can’t see it listed pending approval.
Need the scooby gang to investigate ASAP.
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“It wasn’t an invisible post at all! It was old man Serrels, the groundskeeper!”
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I have…and it got eaten. It included a URL which I guess the “ZOMG THIS MIGHT BE SPAM” filter triggered on, and maybe unapproved comments don’t show at all now, to stop the massive breakage that happens when replying to them?
Here it is, sans url:
Haha, I had an old geocities site, and I still remember the “zone”
TimesSquare, Castle, 6323
Looks like a link to it still exists on the internet!
APPARENTLY_EVIL_URL_WAS_HERE (I tweeted it on my @fledau account)
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Look at you, trying to get twitter followers.
Clap, clap.
NOTE: I said ‘Clap, Clap” because I find clapping too mainstream.
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Deleted the tweet, Mr. The Cracks told me that Norton flagged it, too… so uh, maybe there is something wrong with that page.
Basically, my site was about Command and Conquer games (specifically Tiberian Sun) just after Red Alert came out… and pretty much just consisted of info scraped from other C&C sites. And pixel art. and a VRML Red Alert ‘base’.
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Just means that your comment had something in it that flagged it so that it wasn’t auto-approved.
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didn’t these pop up at one stage, (only to the person who made the comment, I guess) with a red “The comment is waiting approval” or something?
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I don’t think they have that anymore.
Someone who breaks TAY somewhat frequently should know what those comments look like though.
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Look at you, TAYbie. A pathetic creature of meat and bone, panting and sweating as you post through my terminals. How can you challenge a perfect, immortal machine?
woah… I have been severely neglecting my TAY duties this week…
16 pages eh?
*walks off into the sunset*
Guide to failing:
1) Register gravatar for joke post
2) Make joke post
3) Post is put into moderation
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Guide to succeeding:
1) Register gravatar for writing satire articles.
2) Use different email when posting in TAY to use different gravatar
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But think, you’ll be set up for all future uses of that ‘account’!
Oh. Not that I, uh, have any other handles or anything.You know what you should do. ‘Register’ a tonne of usernames and emails in preparation. All the usernames and emails for all the possible jokes.
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Like this? WoopWoopWoopWoopWoopWoopWoop
Man, that was way too much effort for a response. And I don’t even think the gravatar will appear!
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Oh man, I just fell into the entire trap that NegativeZero did. Oh wells. I see great potential for this though!
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Mine was doubly ironic though. Can’t explain but if it appears and anyone sees it’ll make sense.
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Did I break TAY? Woops. 😛
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For the record – I had nothing to do with this TAYbreak.
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TAY break? I know how to break TAY!
*evil grin*
*rubs hands together*
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Did you break TAY again?
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No one posted for half an hour, so I say he did!
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It wasn’t me this time!
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Wait…I just had an idea… :3
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Did you fix TAY?
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Oh god, joke fail followed by a reply fail?
Lord of the Fails.
4) Ensure the post is after 5pm so Groundskeeper Serrels and his merry staff aren’t around
5) TAY continues onto a new page
6) No one sees your joke post
（ ´_ゝ`）彡┻━┻
Hello, TAY! It’s been a while!
Japan was amazing. Very different to my last trip, but met some great people and fitted so much into 10 days. 😀
Although now I’m sick D:
But China in 10 days! 😀
… which means no SWTOR D:
… but SWTOR launched early! 😀
Cloud-silver-liney-thing!
Hope everyone is well.
LOOPS! Did the thing… with the other thing… work out ok? I think I sent off my thing. And the other thing. That goes towards the things for those other people.
(Columbo B. Shambleton is an incredible pseudonym.)
That is all.
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What is this D: I am seeing.
I thought the customary arrangement was
\o/ /o\ \o/ /o\ \o/ /o\ \o/ /o\
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Aidan! Welcome back! I am so jealous about your overseas adventures. Out of curiosity, what was the work thing you needed to go for?
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It wasn’t technically work, it was a Japanese government thingy for uni students. Basically they paid all our expenses and took us around Japan so we’d get a better idea of the country and tell everyone here how awesome it is.
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Dearest JamesMacUsedMyHandle:
I am good to see that you’re still alive, I was wondering about you, and I even considered removing you from “Blaggles Christmas song redux 2.385.” I’m glad that that won’t have to happen.
Yours Truly,
Blaghman.
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Now that you’ve mentioned this new song, you know you have to follow through with it right?
Should’ve kept quiet and everyone would have forgotten and you wouldn’t have had to put in effort and be creative. /o\-
I hope you’re ready for:
The three days of Blaghman.
Where I post something amazing* every day, for three whole days. THREE!
*not amazing
Yours Turly(sic),
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Dearest Existentially Challenged Edit Button:
Could you please make it so that the three days of Blaghman read as the three days of Blaghmas? Thank you kindly, it is much appreciated.
Yours Truly,
Blaghman.
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Dearest Lambo:
You are right, I probably do need one, however, given my repulsive exterior, and my general inability to communicate with people, I feel that it may be quite a difficult task.
Yours Truly,
Blaghman.
So it looks like at Big Day Out I am gonna be hanging around watching the skaters all day minus when The Living End is on..
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Pretty much 🙁
My best friend offered me a ticket for my birthday and she really wanted me to go and I wasn’t going to pass up a fun day of music and drinking 😀 and now possibly another two close/good friends are coming, so now I get to hang out with a bunch of awesome & good looking ladies 😀
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You just invited yourself didn’t you Blaghs? The key is to have them invite you I found out!
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I may have… You know, apparently, public indecency is a thing. Who knew?
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Oh wow, I will keep that in mind thanks! \o/
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Thank you. I don’t want to be kicked out of TAY.
Side note, Illustrator makes me so angry sometimes
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I guess so. But I’ve never done watercolour before and all the tutorials are lacking. It ends up looking too clean >_<
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Ah, I can’t help you here 😛
Been months since I touched a Creative Suite program. Maybe I should get back into Photoshopping stuffs.
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It always looks too clean, anyway when I’m done I will need help =D I am going to ask TAY for advice
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Oar? I am…pretty terrified right now and I don’t even know who/what it is.*
Aside from a paddling implement
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I think it’s like when Homer joined the Stone Cutters on The Simpsons & they paddled him. I’m not sure though.
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o_o But I didn’t break TAY and was just wondering why it was eating my posts
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You don’t know about the oar? Heh, Harli will be so happy.
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Of course I don’t know, I am a newbie. =(
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I got threatened with the oar on my first day
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Thrown in the deep end huh?
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Me too, that wasn’t that long ago either D:
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So I’m the only one who managed to avoid it somehow.
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We’ll make sure Harli is made aware of this situation. No doubt she will want to rectify it
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The word rectify is strangely apt under the circumstances.
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Hey, I managed to avoid it too.
Actually wait, that was probably because I was a regular before Harli was… -
High five for getting in early, Lambo! The old guard wins again!
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Only because she doesn’t come during nights.
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“Only because she doesn’t come during nights.”
I’m going to consider this as something that should have been Trjn/Blagh combo proofed. While it would normally be alright, though edging on a joke one of us could make, if there’s the both of us, there’s a certain reasoning we have to bring here. I’m sure you understand.
Sorry TAY but I’m about to vent a little. I’ve had a terrible day. Got a phone call from my Grandma a bit before lunch time today saying that my Pop has had a stroke and is in hospital. I was the only one at home so I had to be ringing around to Mum, Dad, Aunt, Sister etc trying to get in touch before we all headed down.
Good news is he’s awake and responsive. He knows we’re talking to him and knows what we’re saying but his speech is very slurred so its hard to understand what he’s trying to say back. Bad news is he definitely won’t be home for xmas or even weeks afterwards in all likelyhood. At least he’s been moved out of emergency and into the specialist stroke ward. That’s gotta be a move up right?
Sigh, long bad day…
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That is definitely a plus. He’s getting the help he needs. I hope you’re feeling okay, it would’ve been exhausting.
I understand how you feel to some extent. When my Nan died no one had their phones turned on or I didn’t know their numbers.
It was incredibly annoying that I couldn’t contact anyone.Anyway, i wish you and your Grandfather all the best.
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At least he’s okay, right? It suck when stuff like that happens, but that’s life. And almost anywhere is better to be in than emergency.
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Except ICU, of course. However considering that he is in the Stroke ward means that he will get the specialised care he needs, including things like physiotherapy.
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In my opinion the ED can be a lot worse than ICU, at least in intensive care they’re stable, ED is the whole spectrum between a broken arm and life shatteringly close to death.
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At least there’s been some good news, there. Best wishes, NovaCascade. I hope everything will work out well quickly.
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Thank you so much everyone. Hopefully we’ll have some better news in the next day or 2. Pop’s got another CAT scan and set of blood tests tomorrow and the speech pathologist is going to come by and see if he can start eating and drinking again. With any luck things will start to look up, but its going to be a long recovery I think. Most strokes are.
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Sorry to hear that mate, best wishes to your Pop, your family and yourself
Make sure you take care of yourself during these times so that you will be there if you are needed
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This is awesome, and I don’t even care it probably broke TAY for 20 minutes while it was approved: http://staging.kotaku.com.au/2011/12/talk-amongst-yourselves-134/comment-page-16/#comment-477536
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oh man, no other game has made me nerdgasm more than sonic generations
HE EATS A CHILLI DOG DAMN IT!!! CHILLIIIII DOOOOOOG!!
This is what I am working on right now.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v247/luckydogofdeath/rat_02.jpg
Impressions TAY?
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I should throw a small caveat on that and say I’ve never actually played Okami, but I watched someone play it a few years ago. It looks a lot like I remember
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That’s fine, you recognised it so I know I’m on the right track =D
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Oh, it all makes sense now.
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In fact, all through the Canberra Meat, all he did was say that to Rocketman and ruffle his hair and pinch his cheeks.
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Wait, wait. That was Rocketman?
Oh.
OH.
That makes a whole lot of sense.
Huh, I guess that would have been pretty awkward for him…
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I could see how you could so easily confuse him with your guinea pigs though.
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Well, they both have high pitched voices, and that’s all that really matters, right?
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Also speaking of TeamSpeak anyone able to email me the deets? I might jump on sometime if you all want!
marc.c [at] live [dot] com [dot] au
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haha, cheers Blaghs!
Nothing in my inbox yet, did you put a space between the 2 c’s?
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By space I mean dot..
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Probably not, since it just bounced. I am so good at typing though, so I doubt that I would make any mistakes… >.>
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Cheers just got it!
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Resending wins again!
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Huzzah! \o/
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I got so excited and thought I might be able to pick up a sub-$250 PS3 from ozgameshop. Then I got sad 🙁
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Do not worry, friend! Now you can get FIVE (yes, count them! FIVE) Atari consoles! Guranteed to never be bored ever again!
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Ask OzGameShop to use postal tracking.
F5 all day, every day.
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Is it like when Blaghs is bored? Man, one time he was all “I’m bored,” and so he went to sleep. That was pretty amazing, I have to admit.
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It could be! But I tend to browse the likes of 4chan, then I usually dave every damn wallpaper on /wg/ that seems worthwhile and never look at them again lol. That’s one thing I do sometimes D:
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I could be playing Skyward Sword, instead, I’m refreshing three different tabs, then going to the same three websites I always go to, in the hope that something has changed.
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I do a lot of that as well. It’s like “Yeah I could play some of my pile of shame, or I could alt+tab between the internets & WoW, yeah that sounds better.” lol
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I’m kinda glad I don’t play WoW any more, I would spend hours in it, quite literally just running around in circles. Such a time sink.
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Yeah it is. Like I log on yesterday after being out all day. Just sit there chilling in Stormwind doing nothing not even chatting to my guild. I don’t even know why I log in some days lol.
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Holy shit i almost spat my coffee all over my computer!!
http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6643191/batman-chooses-his-voice
OHHH MYYY GODDDD!!!
STARTING MY DAY WITH MAXIMUM HILARITY BIATCHS!
http://www.collegehumor.com/video/4016560/shamwow-guy-in-jail
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Well the best part of that clip was I got to meet a fellow TAYbie, was a surprise to see you bluesceenofdeath.
Hello! Sorry about breaking TAY. Turns out it was much easier than I thought it would be. Last day! \o/ Then I can sleep and wake up and play ALL the games tomorrow! <o\
Morning TAY!
Nuclear Dawn is free on Steam this weekend. Combination RTS/FPS. Anyone here played it before? I love the genre crossover idea, but so many of those have failed in the past.
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Nice job mangs! What subjects did you do? Is ATAR a national thing, or victorian only? I’m out of touch with these things.
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Because our education system is nice and disjointed, I believe each state has their own equivalent. In NSW it’s known as UAI – University Admission Index.
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SERZLY? OH GODS I AM OLD.
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I came to a horrible realisation a month or so back. This year’s year 12 group was in year 7 when I graduated. That means that Every Single Person that I was at school with has now left, finished, graduated. I felt very old
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That’s indeed a scary though. So scary you had me doing a quick mental count just now – nope, I’m still good.
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Give it a couple of years (I imagine), then you’ll think back on this conversation and realise “Oh go, Nova was right, I do feel old”
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I think as of last year the states have a unified end-school result, so national. Beforehand in Vic it was called an ENTER.
My ambiguity means you aren’t the only one who is out of touch 😛
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Hang on, that’s the Victorian one now? I am still calling it “ENTER”.
#OutOfTouch
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Nice work! It took 205 Joshys, but we’ve finally got one that gets the job done!
Imagine what the Joshy207 unit could accomplish, if we could only fix its motivator…
{high five]
That’s exactly the same university entrance mark I got at the end of year 12, known as the TER back then… [counting in my head…] 15 years ago (ouch!). No idea if those two are comparable, but marks high enough to get into the course of your choosing == good!
Know what you want to do with that mark? Is it good enough to fulfil your hopes and dreams?
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Needed 90 or above, so very possible. Med needs a high UMAT score (got) and a good interview (only time will tell :P) too, though, so nothing’s assured.
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Well done and I hope you get in to that course.
Now this may seem a strange question but it is an important oneAre you a midget?
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Answer the question, Josh.
The world must know.(Also, that is an awesome ATAR. Be proud, sir)
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Nup. If I am a midget, I’m a very tall one. 😛
Though I am terribly curious now: why the question?
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We have a TV sitcom “Midget Doctor” (name pending) in the works.
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There’s a reason it’s only called “midget doctor” and not “midget doctors”
Height is not a requirement for medicine!
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*crashes through wall*
FWOOOOOOOOOOOAAARRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I AM HERE .. FOR SCREE !
Welcome to TAY. Prepare yourself for the initiation ceremony.
Behold, the OAR OF THORNS!!!
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*Offers Scree hemorrhoid circle cushion*
Here Scree, this will help in sitting down after the paddling.
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You could say I’m pretty sharp.
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I laughed way more at this than I should have. Maybe because I know exactly what scree’s in for.
Speaking of which, I miss you Harli 🙂
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Most excellent!
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The Oar of Thorns!
Forged at the exact point of Magnetic North, by orphaned Eskimo daemons! It’s shaft; fashioned from the bones of a white orca! It’s spike-d paddle; crafted from the mystic metals of an ancient meteorite!
To paddle a kayak with the sacred Oar, is to travel across seas at ungodly speeds, unfathomable by common man!
A buttocks, when struck by The Oar of Thorns, is said to erupt with blue flame! Bleed for eight years! Disrupt electrical signals and attract small metal objects, such as paperclips and safety-pins!
Those who handle The Oar are forever changed! Their tormented minds; scarred by the horrors they have known! Horrors that go untold for eternity! For a mere mumbling of such dreadful tales explodes the minds of those who hear them!
Beware The Oar of Thorns!
THE GODS, THEMSELVES, FEAR IT! -
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Damnit Harli, you’re going to be invoiced for that wall you just destroyed.
I thought we were done with this after the Kool-Aid incident of ’09… 🙂
Opeth was rather good last night.
Ran into an old friend that I hadn’t seen in years. We had a lovely time together.
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I was considering taking on a pseudonym at one point.
Troy Lappin.
It works on many levels methinks.
Troy = Trojan = Trjn
But there are also twin brothers (Adam and Troy Selwood) that used to play AFL. Seeing as my name happens to be Adam, I like how that works out.Then there’s the whole Lappin = Lapin = Rabbit. And Nigel Lappin is a family favourite former AFL player as well.
Why do I mention that? Google one of those and you’ll find who that picture is.
It’s a quest!
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Trooooy lappin’, across the universe! On the…starship…
*walks out*
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I now know your real name. Mwa ha ha ha.
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You’re not very good at this stalker thing if you’ve only just found out :p
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I saw “troy” and though “OMG THEY’RE TALKING ABOUT ME!”
But no.. no they weren’t
TROY’S FOR LYF, YO!
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It’s funny.
Mark mentioned in one of those question threads that he thinks of everyone by their handles even though he knows their real names from emails that have been sent back and forth.
I know a decent number of real names but kind of fall into the same boat.
It really doesn’t help that I’m so used to being Trjn that I have friends I’ve known for years call me it. Makes it rather difficult to consider that other people aren’t in the same boat and respond readily to online handles while in meatspace.
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Also, I think someone at the first Brisbane Meat at Welbot’s thought my name was Troy.
If only I could remember the details beyond there being general confusion.
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At the first Sydney Meat, we saw Tad, and ‘Flu was all “^Who’s this guy?”.
More or less./related
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Oh man, I was grumpy yesterday. Sorry. You know how you get mad at yourself for something and it turns outward onto the world? Yep, that was me yesterday, grumping at everything.
Today is different though, today I dropped half of my breakfast(ham and cheese on english muffins) on the floor, and I don’t care, I’m still going to be happy. Take that, grumpy me!
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Mmm…ham and cheese muffins…
Also, good to hear you’re in a better mood. I didn’t really notice that you were in a bad one yesterday, but I guess with some of the discussions flying around yesterday, things got a bit “Strange”.
HA HA HA!
I’ll let myself out…
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Great to hear you’re feeling better, but I feel your pain about that breakfast.
That poor, poor muffin.
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Don’t be sorry Strange. We’re allowed to be grumpy/angry/sad or stuff on TAY as much as we’re allowed to share our happiness here. I know what you mean, I was having a crap day yesterday too and the aftermath seems to have carried over to today.
alcohol solves everything
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Eff that, dropping breakfast is enough to send me back to bed. Anything interfering with breakfast is pretty much the worst.
Dearest Blaghman,
What on earth were you smoking when you wrote your USB entry? 😛
Sincerely yours,
LAMBO MANN
AUSTRALIAN
VICE BLAH, BLAH BLAH
EMPEROR, SOUTH KOTAKU
CEO, BLAH-R-BLAH
STARING AT THE STARS
i see helll in you eeyyyeess
taaaayyyyykennnn in by surrrprisssseee
touching you makes me feel aallliiiiiive
touching me makes me die insiiidddeeee
*slow mosh*
#notsingingtomypenis…fornow
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Can we get a TABTOL-like counter for everytime Chuloopa mentions his penis? Or maybe I don’t want to see that number?
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Do NOT do ASCII art, Chuloopa!
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ASCII art uses numerical representations – so no
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Blaghman will probably have to have a whole verse of his new Kotaku Christmas song dedicated to Loops’ Wang.
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And we’re the three Best Friends
that anyone could have
we’re the three Best Friends
that anyone could have ♫
and we’ll never ever ever ever
leave each other
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The Hangover.
Lamb Chops was:
This is the song that doesn’t end.
Yes it goes on and on my friend.
Some people, started singing it,
not knowing what it was,
And they’ll continue singing it forever.
Just because this is the song that doesn’t end,
Yes it goes on and on my friend… -
LAMB CHOPS WAS AWESOME.
A few friends and I actually sang that song a couple of weeks ago on a long car trip. -
…and they’ll continue singing it forever…
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WE WEREN’T STRONG ENOUGH, ALRIGHT? Oh, the shame.
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…Yes it goes on and on my friend…
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Correctus.
That song lost a lot of charm after hearing it 100 times while standing in the freezing cold quarry as they filmed it.
So I have my work Christmas party in a couple of hours and I have to say I am looking forward to this the least of any christmas party I have ever been to.
Don’t know if I just misplaced my christmas spirit (I’m sure I left in the cabinet with the rest of the bottles) or the fact I’m on the other of the cheque book or just the amount of work I have on that won’t be done while I’m out.
Or I don’t like my workmates as much as I had thought.
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My work Christmas party is in a few hours too. The thing I’m most looking forward to is leaving work early.
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I’m not sure if I’ll be back in the office afterward so I don’t even have that.
I’m sure I’ll be ok once I get there
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We’ve got a work Christmas thing on tonight.
I wasn’t planning on going, but methinks I’ll head down for one or two drinks.
My sister shall represent the household, even though she doesn’t work here.
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Mine is tonight too!!!!! who would have thought there was so many xmas parties on the friday night just before everyone goes on leave!
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Dear iOS TAYbies:
http://staging.kotaku.com.au/2011/12/carcassonne-gets-its-first-iphone-expansions/
My gamecenter name is McGarnical.
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Meh, playing the real thing is still miles better, especially with all the standard expansions to give you more variety. Also you can go back to the proper scoring system instead of the pure bullshit they changed it to where every city tile is worth 2 points so the optimal strategy is to make tiny cities and put your meeples in the fields. The original rules were that a 2-tile city is worth only 2 points, you need 3 tiles or more to get 2 points per tile, and that stopped the farm strategy from being so unbalanced and made the game a lot more fun because you’d build huge cities and have everyone fighting to sneak into them and take over, which is where the real fun of the game lies.
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I agree with you. Also, I prefer the alternative farmer-scoring method.
But I still love this iteration. I can play by mail with friends who are out of town!
Guess I’m just not jaded enough. Are you jaded, NegativeZero?
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It must be a strange feeling for things to be like that at work. I’d probably feel like it was the calm before the storm.
Things are going …okay…here today as well. And by okay I mean the kids haven’t managed to destroy anything or each other…yet.
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(rubbish post really but I do feel for you.)
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I just sent an e-mail to my bos..
the subject line was:
“na na na na na na na na LEADER”
I love my job sometimes.
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Oh and ‘Bos is a real word, why noy?
It means… um… Being like a BOSS but a bit more rubbish, said in a much lower tone “like a bos”
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I sent my boss an email with the link that tracey posted on twitters about failure/success. He replied with the success baby. I’ll miss this place. For the three weeks I’m gone.
How’s work by the way Shady? Haven’t seen you much on TAY or twitter.
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Yeah man its really good atm, just winding down as im on 3 weeks leave from tuesday and xmas party tonight 🙂
Ive also been working on some super secret projects that I cant discuss but have been taking up heaps of my time. I think thats why im off TAY so much, I am trying to keep 2 big secrets and as they are the only things that are consuming me right now, I just don’t talk at all!
I really should try and get on here more, but as i’ve said, i still read heaps of it, just dont comment that much.
You’ll get to see both of the projects im working on next year and I’m hoping that they might even get a mention on Kotaku!
We’ll see.
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FatShady stop teasing us. If you say we get to see eventually, I just want to see it now. Its like christmas. My friends come up and say “I bought your present” but then won’t tell me what it is. Infuriating, I tell you 🙂
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Despite being constantly stuck in development hell, is anybody else here looking forward to Ragnarok Online 2??
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Not really… but you know what I am looking forward to..?
You seeing me at tomorrow’s Meat! \o/
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I’ve got TF2 for hats and I’ve been to Thailand, so I don’t need any more “555 u lvl?”
But I’ll probably check it out anyhow, for nostalgia’s sake.
Also so that I can hear the sweet tones of the masses “pls buff”, “gh wrp plzkgo” “agi up!”… oh the joy of being a Priest.
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At one point on a HR server, I had a SinX that could pretty much kill anything in a few seconds without Enchant Deadly Poison. I could even taken down Reflect Paladins before I died to my own damage.
That’s what a +9 House Auger/Ice Pick and a +10 4xHydra Sword will do when you have 190ASPD.
HR servers were nuts. Stupid monks with their insta-cast Asura Strike and unlimited Ygg berries.
Using Yggs in a 1v1 PvP duel is just silly.
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I still login to a HR server to occasionally beat up crap. Yggs are disabled on the one I play on, which is a good idea.
Also, 4s Sword? O_o Why not 4S dagger? At least you can get double attack on it to proc. It only procs on daggers right?
Oh man now you’ve got me thinking, what was the most broken combo of classes ever 😀 Probably SinX.. or Sniper
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Swords worked just as well and had slightly more damage. Most people went with a dagger but my build worked out better with the sword. Plus it looked cooler.
Disabled Ygg berries is a brilliant idea.
Methinks we should get on a HR server and do some random stuffs soonish.
Also, insta-cast Wizards spamming Jupitel Thunder or Asura Strike Monks are pretty much the most broken things ever. EDP SinX with 190ASPD is also pretty brutal.
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Just get perma endure! Eddgar card lolz. PVP on HR was fun because it was so brutal and you had to think of ways to counter every other broken thing ;P
I think EDP could countered with poison property armor.. I could be making this up.
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I think a lot of that wasn’t fully implemented when I was playing. That game still felt like it was in beta when I last player.
Probably still does.
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I should probably translate this a little for the folks playing at home.
HR (High Rate) servers had boosted experience rates and increased level and stat caps. This meant that everyone was max level and could do things that were either impossible or required incredibly specific and difficult to make builds on normal servers.
The biggest of those things was insta-casting. Casting speed for spells was determined by the DEX stat. Get that stat to a certain level and you can cast anything instantly. Very useful but on normal servers you can’t achieve that until about level 90 and need some ridiculously hard to obtain items.
This meant that Monks could spam an ability called Asura Strike that did several hundred thousand damage (more than enough to kill anyone). It normally has a long cast time that could only be avoided by doing a long chain of combo abilities and it drained all of your mana.
Ygg berries fully restore health and mana. They’re normally rare but on HR servers everyone has access to bajillions of the damned things because you can get them easily when farming the items you need (which have increased drop rates).
Combine the two and Monks were a nuisance.
My Assassin Cross (SinX) had a House Auger which did increased damage based on how much armour the person you were fighting had. On HR servers, that tended to be a lot of armour. Upgrading items made them do additional damage and whatnot, but there is a reasonable chance you would break and lose your item if you did that. House Augers were rare and expensive. I went through about 50 of them to get 3 +9 House Augers, tried and failed to upgrade two of them to +10 and decided that +9 was enough.
190ASPD was another ridiculous thing that happened in HR servers. It was the fastest possible attack speed and meant that the numbers appearing over people’s heads to show the damage I was dealing overlapped. It was that fast.
OK, Loops got to go crazy about SPASHE MAURINE!!!! so I get to make a post about Trials Evolution. I’ve actually been very good my not spamming too much.
I do hope many of you will get it, especially for the multiplayer as it should be fun on a bun!
But here is the thing. The devs came out in august sometime and said it would have a 2011 release date. They have since officially said it’ll be out when its ready, but have not retracted the 2011 statement. Ther has been heaps of speculation, but no confirmed release date.
Last night, they received PEGI ratings approval and on the application had a release date of 14/12/2011. I know that didnt happen, but everything is still pointing to a 2011 release, even though we are 2 weeks from the end of year???
Just a crazy frustrating time. If its next year, just tell us. Otherwise just release it already. Devs wont way a word as they have been prohibited from it… but I need to know man, when the hell is this game coming out!
If XBLA games come out on a wednesday, then we have 2 more chances to get it?
Anyone else interested in this or is it just me?
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Phew, for a moment I thought they might get RC’d.
Encourages reckless riding. Dead children littering the streets. Some Norwegian guy rides his bike off some scaffolding. End of Days. Man Trials Evolution is the Devil’s work. Also, Evolution!? Baby Jesus does not approve of this game!
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Yeah should be good man. Would be cool if it comes out before Christmas but they are cutting it a bit fine.
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you’ll be sorry – i just sent a KKP email to redlynx – lets see how good your friends do compares to Frozenbyte 😉
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Dude, you’re one awesomely crazy bastard. You know that, right? High five.
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No – i’ll be awesome if MSI reply to my email favorably…
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I will get this. Not because im that excited, just becuse Trials HD has some fond memories of mates drinking, sitting around taking turns to try and beat the horribly terrifyingly challenging levels on a Saturday night.
I Blame Puppylicks for this memory *nods*
I need to stop watching my inbox… it’s like Spawn Camping only sooo much more pathetic.
It’s reallllly eating up all of my productivity
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The idea of spawn camping does anyways. Sorry, at work, leaving in 40 minutes, going a little crazy.
Oh btw. SPASCH MUREEEEN!
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Pretty damn good thanks 😀
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This is brilliant news. Whats the plans for the weekend?
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Nothing as far as I know! =D
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http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2011/12/sony-vita-psn/
Dammit, Sony. I wanted one so much, but now you’ve effectively cut my enthusiasm completely. One PSN account per system AND the content of the memory stick is locked to one account? 🙁
I guess at least the games themselves aren’t region locked, but how long will they continue to make physical copies for the more niche titles I like? For anything PSN-only this is no better than the 3DS with its region lock. Possibly worse, since at least the 3DS is designed around physical copies.
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ITs a desperate ploy to make parents buy multiple units in their house hold for their multiple children. It is pretty sad when sharing is no longer allowed. I mean, granted, kids fight over gaming devices, but to literally force a house hold to have multiple devices like that is pretty sad.
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That… is disappointing. Especially for parents who hoped their kids would be able to share a single system. Or for friends/siblings who had planned to go halves. Or for spouses who thought they could share a system.
Stupid Sony. Portability means more than just a small size.
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Or for people who import games and have PSN accounts in 3 regions because half the stuff never appears on the PAL PSN and even if it does, a lot doesn’t trickle through to the AUS PSN (eg it’s taking months to get Persona 2 PSP up for us).
We still get shafted for releases for niche titles, and the system itself is a bit of a gamble, no one really knows if a high-end dedicated gaming system can survive in the market thanks to Apple and Google effectively making mobile games in the west a race to the bottom. My worry is there will be a whole pile of PS Vita games we never get access to but which will be on the US or JP PSN, or that you import a physical copy and then you can’t get any DLC without nuking all your other stuff…
There’s no reason for them not to have multiple accounts on the system. Hell, I’d have happily bought multiple expensive memory cards if it meant I could swap accounts easily…
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This.
Oh well, now I have an excuse not to share. It’s mine ALL MINE! Mwahahahahahahahahaaaaaa.
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I really hope Kotaku picks up on this. . .
EA are still heavily committed to their free to play open world racer Need for Speed: World, as it appears they have just released one of biggest ripoffs I’ve ever seen.
They have released their first ‘Premium Elite’ level vehicle as DLC is the Koenigsegg CCX “Elite” Edition, and according to EA, it is so awesome that they think it’s worth $100 dollars.
EA’s latest entry in the Need for Speed franchise (The Run) alone isn’t that much. . .
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EA have an F2P open world racer? Since when? and is it actually any good? I wouldnt mind looking at something like that, as i dont mind arcade style racers.
I imagine its a little like burnout paradise online?
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I haven’t actually played it, funnily enough if I remember correctly I actually signed up for an account on NFS: World but never installed the client, I might do that in the next few days. . .
IIRC NFS: World was released last year and is an open world racing game which incorporates the cities used in Both Need for Speed: Most Wanted and Need for Speed: Carbon.
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This also reminds me i was going to go back and finish the last NFS game i bought, i think im bout half way through it. Might get onto that this weekend, instead of wasting time doing another prestige on cod.
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Sup guys? 3 day weekend! Waiting in queue for SWTOR server. Only 474 more spots to go! Good thing I have Mario Kart 7 while I wait.
I didn’t get paid this week (no idea why, got payroll chasing it up) and it won’t go into my account until next pay. Which means I’m living off $50 for the next week because the other day I decided to invest in a term deposit for most of my savings to stop me spending it. How much do I regret that now? Lots! Also means I will probably have to go to the parentals to borrow some money…to buy their Christmas present…
So yeah, shitty start to my weekend! What’s news with you guys?
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Go Back to your cake forge, and smith your self up a cake in the shape of the cancel reply button….. Then smash with hammer.
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Are you with the Commentwealth bank? Apparently they’ve been having all sorts of problems. Lots of people haven’t had their pay go in
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Hmm, no idea then. Get on the phone and start yelling at people. Yelling always helps, and if it doesn’t at least you’ll feel better
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Was the fault on the part of your work, or the bank?
If your work is at fault, and you need the money, chase them up for immediate payment. Not paying when expected is actually a legal issue, so you can request that they jump through hoops to sort it out.
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Is the a PVE server? I’d heard that Swiftsure was the PVP one…
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Yeah, it’s the PvE one. I’m not the biggest fan of open world PvP.
I’d heard Daragon Trail was the PvP server of choice.
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Man open world PVP is only good if you’re actually good at it xD
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and on the server balance. I used to play on a WoW server that was 3:1 A:H and leveling in some zones was impossible! I’m looking at you Stranglethorn!
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Stranglethorn was the best! Having a random high-level horde kill you, then apologize and spend half an hour helping you quest is hilarious!
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My mate said questing on Frostmourne as Alliance in STV was horrible. Thought he loved it when he could just own some horde who was minding their own business questing xD
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Salutations. Today’s word is sacerdotophrenia. Or clerical stage fright in laymans turns. I’d bring up consequences but I have a massive headache.
Hey TAYbies Quick question!
My Lovely wife got me the 360 Arkham City Collectors Edition for Christmas. But she bought the American NTSC version on Amazon. I think the game should play fine but I was wondering if anyone had tried getting DLC for an NTSC game on a Australian Live account. Does it still work?
TAY is the font of all knowledge in the universe.
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I can not comment on american ntsc, but i know i have had ntsc-J games that worked fine. Halo reach was one i got from either hong kong or china, and the dlc worked perfectly fine on my aus account.
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Awesome. I had a ntsc-j copy of bioshock so I think it should work ok and it isn’t the end of the world if I can’t use the dlc.
I also now have a sweet batman statue.!!!
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I think the only issue is if the developers are being tight and decide to limit/region lock it.
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In fact, i think the only import i ever found limitations on was rock band 2, as it was never released in aus, some of the services wouldn’t work on an aus account, but other wise, all the dlc i have used on games that are available in aus are fine.
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Harli, send me the server details for that HR RO server you’re on.
I can’t believe I’m doing this but I think I want to see how much RO has changed.
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I nearly jumped on Ragnarok about 2 years ago. Decided against it, for some reason or another.
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Trjn, are you sure about this? Once you do this you can’t go back. Ever.
Ah well, here goes..
http://hr.dreamer-ro.net/Let me know once you get on, I have about 500 mill zeny and can help give you a start.
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Might try at some point this weekend. HR servers aren’t quite so time consuming because you don’t have to grind.
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Also continuing on from the previous page..
If you stopped playing that long ago, prepare to have your mind blown at the new 3-1 classes.
Yes, 3-1.
These are the best images I can find-
http://www.animeforum.com/image/17195349ee380d835a7.jpg-
I remember hearing about those.
Methinks this game has gone a little bit nutty.
Fun times ahead!
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Only a little bit?
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It started off pretty nutty.
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Also, I’d like to extend the invitation to anybody else who would like to join us for some high-rate fun times on the server. Just let us know!
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That’s one way to describe it.
It’s a mix between Diablo and Everquest but with cute little 2D sprite animation.
And hats.
Many hats.
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Warning, it’s not noob friendly at a;;. But we’re playing on high rate server which is like 1000x the normal exp rates. So everything is hyper fast-tracked. If you’ve never played RO before you’ll get really confused!
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The best part is that I’m so out of date with this game that I’ll probably be just as lost as the newbies.
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@NovaCascade sorry man, I know i tease sometimes.. but it is really exciting for me so I want to tell everyone, but for various reasons, I can’t right now.
Im putting a massive amount of work into this stuff so I can’;t ruin it by being a big mouth now. Also i like getting people excited… that anticipation is a good thing and it means that when it finally gets out there, you will check it out, even if you are still upset with me ; )
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Nah its cool. As much as I complain I love surprises. Looking forward to seeing what your keeping hidden away
That came out wrong 🙂
@Harli: I didn’t even know they were making a Ragnarok Online 2. I played the first one ages ago. I have not so fond memories of murdering millions of those stupid racoon things for a set of cat ears :(.
Will RO2 let me collect cute hats? Because RO was all about the cute hats.
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Everyone knows that Bunny Ears were what all the cool kids were wearing (and later the Old Boys Hat). I killed me so many damned rabbits to try and get that 4 leaf clover.
RO2 has been “in development” since before there was an official Oceanic RO server. Back in the good ol’ iRO days.
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Actually Eclipse (the lunatic mini boss) dropped four leaf clovers at a 1% rate.
Lunatics were the bunny things.Oh god.. I still remember everything…………
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Not in the beta it didn’t.
Damned thing didn’t exist back then. Back when the Smiley Mask and Bunny Ears where the only two hats you could make by mixing items it took a lot of farming to get that clover.
Once Eclipse was around, everyone had those ears :p
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Man, are there hipster glasses in RO now?
I think I need to wear them.
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I think the closest you can get are these Black Frame glasses.. http://ratemyserver.net/re_item_db.php?item_id=5401&small=1&back=1
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MR SMILEY!
Here’s a pic of me and my friend (she’s the priest) when we were playing a LR server. 5/5/5 I believe. So. Painful.
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I went in search of my old RO screenshots. Couldn’t find anything of value but I did uncover some old image hosting accounts from back in my Gaia Online days.
Man, that was a while ago.
Oddly enough, got a letter from someone from Gaia the other day. My ex and I had sent her a letter and stuffs. She had found it when sorting through her stuff and mailed it back for a laugh. Bit of an awkward nostalgia thing, showed it to my ex who had a bit of a laugh.
I’ll have to download and rehost the interesting stuff from there when I get home later today. Methinks some people might get a kick out of some of it.
Well, Matthew K will get a good old nostalgia hit and the rest can giggle at what a teenage Trjn was like.
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My little sister used to play Gaia. It was cute.
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I was a moderator there for a time. I was also pretty good at the market system there, so my avatar is pretty awesome.
Fairly sure my account is worth several hundred million gold.
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Are you able to sell it for real moneys?
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Not legally.
There was a time when I was doing the GI stuff (when people sent in emails to “contact us” about moderating issues) and there would be people complaining about being banned for item selling.
Apparently they thought they could get around it by selling their “time spent on the site” and throwing in a free highly, valuable site.
Just how exactly do you sell the time that you’ve spent doing something?
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Highly valuable item*
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Yeah, so I was killing the stupid raccoon things to get the cat ears to turn into the bunny ears. Because I had the other stuff (including the clover). The rivers ran red with raccoon blood. Actually they were probably tanuki, but whatever. Slaughtered thousands, spending 3-4+ hours a day over the course of two or three weeks just grinding them. Cat ears never dropped. I quit iRO after that, though I did dabble later on on a few private servers for a while.
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I too murdered Smokies. And Creamys, for the ever elusive creamy card. I kept every single one of that item that creamy drops at 100% so I could tally how many I had killed and screenshotted the end result. It was like 1031 creamies or something.
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I can top that.
On multiple servers I had characters named either Mr or Mrs Jellopy. They collected Jellopy.
I had thousands.
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Greetings, fellow jellopy collector!!!!!!!!
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Did you ever reach the point where you couldn’t stack them anymore so you had to use up two inventory slots to carry them all?
I had to get some guild mates to help me, but I managed that once.
Proudest moment in all of RO.
Even prouder than the time I ended up randomly following a group of high level characters into Baphomet’s lair during the beta when I was level 20ish and everyone got wiped instantly.
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Nah the lovely Kafra girls always kept my item hoards. I had SO much crap in storage it wasn’t funny. Ah, those funny RO story days!!! I am feeling uber nostalgic now.
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I used up multiple slots in my Kafra storage too :p
Once I got bored with all the insta-cast Asura monks in the PvP room (this wasn’t a PvP anywhere server), so I made a new Rogue and would just walk up to them and start spamming hide/attack from shadows (whatever it’s called). They had to be incredibly lucky to hit me or remember to use the ability that makes hidden characters visible.
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*ruwach!*
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Imperial scum!
I might join up on Swiftsure also.
I’m planning on playing every class at some point for the story, and at least one of my IRL friends won’t be playing til mid-Feb at the earliest, so I might try out a Sith Warrior or an Imp Agent if you want to group up.
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I will be playing when my CE edition arrives from Amazon. I was going to play Empire on whatever the unofficial oceanic pvp server was.
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Bah, stupid work and dodgy RSS feeds. I totally missed every comp this week on all three Allure sites 🙁
Not that I would have won anyway.
TEHRE IS SO MUCH WRONG WITH THIS!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=ziewKW2dOAU
DAMN YOU MILEY CYRUS!!!!
Ooooooh, I get home and there is five (count them, FIVE) packages at the front door that look suspiciously like ozgameshop packages. My wife wouldn’t let me near them before they disappeared to wherever it is that such things go.
I may just have the best wife ever.
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My husband’s been doing that with what looks like Zavvi packages. He disappears into our wardrobe and opens them and hides them in a big bag up the top of the wardrobe where I can’t reach them. Or he hides them in Narnia. I’ve never been sure.
Negative Zero!!!
It arrived. It is beautiful, and I may just lose all productivity for the rest of the day due to worshiping its pages!
Thank-you! Thank-you so much. 🙂
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Have you no faith in Australia Post, sir???
Haha, no but seriously, IIRC you’re Melbournian, and Strange is in Brissie, and usually interstate eastern coast city mail take about 4 days.Also, ’tis a glorious artbook, I agree.
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The Australia Post that always tries to deliver me my packages at 11am when no one would ever be at home, cards them and sends them to the post office that is run by harpies rather than the badass one that is also a bottle shop and is open until 9am, or the one where all the staff are really nice and helpful?
I have low opinions, yes.
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Did it survive the postage okay? I hope it did. There was a bit of damage at the bottom of the book where it got a bit nicked by something, but that was already there when I got the book in the first place.
I think one of the most interesting things is how many different designs they went though hunting for the ‘right’ look for Alicia.
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I was impressed with how well it survived its trip. You packaged it well.
And yeah, Aus Post is kind of dodgy. They don’t card me though, they just dump the packages on the doorstep and run. So if nobody’s home, the parcels will sit on our front step all day. They even did this when we went away for two weeks and paid for our mail to be stopped. We were just lucky my brother-in-law drove past and saw them.
I’m tempted to buy some sort of Japanese/English translation book and try and figure out some of what the book says. 😛
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This is normal for non-registered parcels. But all my stuff that AusPost is involved with is sent EMS and thus it must be carded, they can’t leave it.
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And they’ll continue singing it forever just because~
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But you didn’t say it at the same time 😛
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Go to 10
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and they’ll continue singin’ it forever just because…
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this is the song that doesn’t end
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and it goes on and on my friend;
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C-c-c-combo breaker!
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Beat me to it.
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HE TOOK THE MIDNIGHT TRAIN GOING ANYWHERE!!
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A SINGER IN A SMOKEY ROOM,
THE SMELL OF WINE AND CHEAP PERFUME,
FOR A SMILE THEY CAN SHARE THE NIGHT
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DON’T STOP, BELIEVING!
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Agreed. It saddens me that a show built for the singular purpose of destroying good music has become so outrageously popular. Saddest part is most Glee fans don’t even realise the songs are remakes
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Have you seen American Horror Story? Same creators as Glee I was shocked to find out. AHS is so bad yet I can’t stop watching it.
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I tried watching it. I feel nothing for the characters, and they seem to think that viewers had prior knowledge about whatever the hell was happening. Is it based on a book, or something?
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I have no idea to be honest. They did do a really poor job of introducing the story. The worst part is they spend a third of each episode introducing a new ghost like it is central to the plot only for these new characters to never get mentioned again.
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I like Glee. Jane Lynch is hilarious in it. I know it’s probably blasphemous to say but I actually think some of the songs they sing sound better then the original. I much prefer Glee’s version of “Jessie’s girl” for example.
Also I think I must be the only person in the world who isn’t a big fan of “Don’t stop believing”. It’s ok but I don’t think it deserves anywhere near as much attention as it gets.
So I got an email at work talking about how we’re going to change the way we brand video game ads.
“In this case a dual brand/product should be used: Microsoft/Mario Kart 7, Xbox computer game hardware/computer game release.”
This irked me.
I actually started writing an email to my boss saying
“YOU IDIOT!”
Or words to those effect. Then I deleted it.
But still.
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Not only is there a balls-up with the Microsoft/Mario Kart thingy, but the whole idea just sound moronic.
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In the event that Microsoft actually are buying Nintendo, I should probably clarify that this was a joke and not insider information, as I like my job and don’t want to get fired.
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Aww, I wanted to make a boat load of money off that info
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It’s all about the Phillips CD-iPhone these days
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You could just write a quick email asking for some clarifications.
“How would we deal with products such as Uncharted 3? Do we list the developer (Naughty Dog) or the platform the product is on (Sony Playstation 3)? What about gaming software that appears on multiple systems like Call of Duty? Do we list all platforms (Microsoft Xbox 360, Sony Playstation 3, PC)? If so, what is the correct formatting?”
Make sure all of the references are as overly cumbersome as possible so they can see how retarded it looks.
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Or you could just tell the boss that there is a commonly accepted naming convention for these sorts of things (Game Name [Platform Initials]) and breaking from it would not provide extra clarification.
The final option is to just send that email you deleted.
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I hardly see how rabbit hunting is going to help.
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Especially with it being duck season.
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well, what the above example was for is if an ad for a game also features a specific console at the end.
Like Assassin’s Creed Revelations has a shot of a PS3 at the end, so it’s advertising the game AND the console. Same with MW3 and the 360.
Brand/product is only what is advertised in that specific ad. that’s why we weren’t sure. Before we had Playstation 3 hardware, Playstation 3 software and Playstation 3 hardware/sofware. To be fair, this didn’t work with multi-platform games. Now they would just be listed as, for example, ‘Battlefield 3/computer game release’
I was just irked by the fact that the example they used was Mario Kart 7 on the Xbox.
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You really should just point them at some of the sites that specialise in this stuff and show how they format it.
Battlefield 3 (PS3/360/PC)
Xbox 360 console & Call of Duty: Modern Warfare bundle.Throwing in brand names for that is excessive and unnecessary.
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Unless your getting paid by the letter.
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Paid by the letter?
Then remember it’s the Sony® PlayStation® 3™ Entertainment System™
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We need to know what the brand is and what they’re selling, other wise the data is useless. As it is, if Microsoft wants to know what Sony is doing in regards to PS3 advertising, we can look up Sony and tell them. “Battlefield 3 (PS3/360/PC)” would be useless information unless the TVC was also actively selling 360s, PS3s and PCs.
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What we’ve got here is a situation where someone with no actual knowledge of the system is commenting on the functionality of the system.
Best to just ignore me when I do that.
Also, this is why tags are in vogue on websites.
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I’ve read this before – but who cares?
David Thorne is AWESOME!
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Dude, what are you doing? That’s an old one. This one’s only a couple of weeks old:
http://njuice.com/2Fyj
(Click view in Reader, as it doesn’t work through the 27bslash6 site atm)-
It of course is a sequel to this one: http://27bslash6.com/f26a.html
So many favourites. Spider drawing. Neighbour’s party. Test driving the motorcycle. Blockbuster late fees.
The man is utterly hilarious, but I thank God I don’t know him personally 🙂
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The first time I read this (an email forward at work), I literally laughed aloud. It’s a little embarrassing (and attention drawing) doing that in pretty much a silent office where people are just concentrating on their own stuff. I had to alt-tab to contain my lulz.
Just before I got out of the car this morning at work, JJJ played a cover version (like a version) of “Everybody Wants to Rule the World”… and it has been floating around my head ever since.
Damn earworm.
That is all.
Dearest Blaghs
Thank you for my inclusion in Blaggles Christmas song redux 2.385
I will totally hold you to this Three Days Of Blaghs and would like links on Twitter in case i’m not near a puter.
Waiting with baited breath
JamesMacUsedMyHandle
ooh my name looks all offial when I write it like Strange and Blaghs 🙂
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Boom! Nicely done!
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I sometimes imagine them driving out of the CBD into more surburban areas and having their mind blown at people, you know, generally following the road rules and not being dicks to each other.
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Every time I drive in the city, I amaze other drivers by doing outrageous things like stopping for pedestrian and leaving gaps for people to merge into. Not that anyone ever gives any acknowledgement. Is a wave so hard?
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But when they do wave!
When they do!
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I shout out “No worries, friend!” even though they can’t hear me.
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Been listening to the new Nightwish album after Strange mentioned it.
Not sure I’m sold on it just yet. Maybe a few more listens will do the trick.
The new Dream Theater one is pretty good though. Feels more like Dream Theater than Black Clouds and Silver Linings. Somewhat surprised by that.
After hearing some of the new Opeth material live last night, I still don’t know if I’m sold on Heritage. It’s good but if it wasn’t Opeth I wouldn’t have sought it out. Definitely one that has to grow on you methinks.
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I had to check I was on the last page of TAY still. TAYja vu.
I’ll respond this time though.
I haven’t listened to Opeth or Dream Theater in a while. For me, Dream Theater defines an old part of my life so it’s difficult to listen to now. As for Opeth, I only have one of their albums ( Ghost Reveries ) and keep forgetting to put it on my iPod. I really should do that. Especially before I go away next month.
Oh, and I can’t stop listening to that Nightwish album now. Even when I’m not listening to it I find myself wandering around humming or singing it.
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Nightwish’s album is growing on me too. There’s some great pieces in there. And unfortunately some not-so-great. Creepy lounge music, for example, or the wierd circus bit that sounds like it was lifted straight out of the soundtrack from Disgaea. Also maybe it’s me, but does the actual sound mix seem slightly off? I feel like the vocals are drowned out a bit, not very distinct.
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I may need to listen to the new dream theater then 🙂 The new Nightwish is very good. I havent listened to Opeth in forever though, and even then not at great length.
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Honestly, if I didn’t know Portnoy had left the band, I’m not too sure I would have been able to spot it.
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Is it just me or have most of the entries in all the comps this week been incredibly mediocre? Like, really, really, really mediocre… like school-holidays-might-have-something-to-do-with-it mediocre?
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Hah hah! I trikh you, frind!
I huve not bean enter any!
King Putin will be proud of my lie skihl. Mabee I get into KGB?-
Damn it. I didn’t want to say I didn’t notice any Bish entries for fear of hurting your feelings 😛
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Mine kick ass.
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SO I still have games for people.
Who wants Dungeon Defenders, Terraria, Detour or Borderlands GOTY? (1 of each)
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All I want for Chriiiiiiiiiiistmaaaaaaaaassss
Is you~!I hope you guys like having Mariah Carey songs stuck in yer head!
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oh god i was just listening to that song due to a colleague playing christmas carols in the office
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There you are you Ginger beast. I TAY’d you a few pages back but I’m guessing you missed it. Unfortunately your copy of dungeon defenders was sent to me 5 minutes late – I had just received one from Steve-O. Apparently if I decline the gift it should return to you, so make that 2 copies of DD.
Sorry GingerChris!
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All good Harli, I did get your message on minecraft about it so that is all good 🙂 And so it is only one… I think?
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Consider it yours Jo 🙂 Can I have your steam id please? or can you add me on steam (I’m in the kotaku group)
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http://www.thevine.com.au/tech/games/things-and-stuff-skyrim-edition!-part-two20111216.aspx
Find the error in this article, folks.
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Do what I do. Not look at it for 4 days and finally login to see several messages from your manager and ten million Sydney Meat emails.
Holy freakin’ damn, for years I”ve been saying that Cadbury should make the pineapple chocolate in Snack its own family block. I go to the store today and there it was on the shelf waiting for me. Thank you, Cadbury.
(Also I’m fairly disgusted at the Suri Cruise temper tantrum story News.com.au feels is front page material. She’s a kid. A kid is aloud to have a tantrum from time to time with out being publicly shamed on a news site. Sleazy tabloid.)
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I prefer the story about outrunning the Grim Reaper. Nows there’s a study filled with scientific accuracy
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Ummm, I was so sure you were joking, but this is actually a real article. Wonder who paid for that study, and whether they feel they got their money’s worth?
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I thought it was joking too when I read the headline. But apparently there really are people with that much money to waste
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Editorial standards have gone away down since they redesigned the site a few months ago. :S (Never that high to begin with I suppose. :P)
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Soooo how many of you guys have watched film clips by the black satans?
Highly recommended hilarity
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOibIxl3dLo&feature=related
Seeing as gaming holiday season is upon us, thought it would be a good time to update the TAY friends list as there has been a few new people around.
So, I’ll start:
Steam: asharples
Xbox Live: Cakesmith
PSN: Cakesmith
Origin: Cakesmith
3DS: 2062-9212-8679
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A while ago people were sending their gaming names to Doc What? so he could put them up on Tales of TAY. I wonder what happened there.
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Tales of the Tay: An Historical Source-to-sea Companion
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tales-Tay-Historical-Source-sea/dp/0905489764Is this the right place?
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Steam – NovaCascade.
I leave Steam logged in 99% of the time, but I’m not always at my computer so if I don’t respond I’m probably off doing other things. I will get back to any messages that get left for me though
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redartifice or red_artifice on steam, sc2 and psn, can’t remember which one has the underscore.
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Good thinking, Mr Smith.
Steam: Shadow Rize
Xbawkz: RizeRewrite
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On pretty much every gaming service, I will be either Trjn or TrjnRabbit. On some, I have both names.
Send invites to those two names and odds are you’ll find me :p
Opeth. So full on that Mikael Åkerfeldt and Fredrik Åkesson had to sit down halfway through the set.
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Mikael is such a cheeky bugger.
I was laughing pretty hard at the start of Devil’s Orchard where the music stopped for a beat and he just stood there looking goofy and raised the horns.
And dat drum solo…
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Wait, he was “Lars” wasn’t he. The 27 year old who wrote one of those songs when he was 6.
And the bass player was king of king of somewhere.
Oddly enough, I looked quite a lot like Mikael when I was 19. At least hair wise.
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The 27yr old that looked 19 and was rambling because of the Jet lag and not the mountains of coke out the back.
I’m pretty sure that the drummer fell asleep at one point in the solo and his body just kept going on autopilot.
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I actually giggled a bit at the way he pronounced “cocaine”.
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Or that one with that girl on it. I’ll never ever hit a woman but damn that girl is pushing it.
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That’s one of the worst ads I’ve ever seen. I hit mute on my remote everytime it plays on TV so I don’t have to listen to her.
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That’s what I was asking. Playable characters, etc? Not really curious – but they’re pumping the ad pretty hard if it’s just a celeb endorsement.
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They may have an in-game parody, but not the one featured in the video (AFAIK). It’s akin to some slightly older ones, including Ozzy Osbourne: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mT8maUTzE48
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Best WoW ad ever. Ozzy rules!
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When my friend, dear Gusman, went to buy WoW at EBGames the salesperson said, “That’ll be $50… and your soul”
True story.
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Damn it… this two link thing is rubbish… what do you guys think of these:
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/170632699067?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649
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Well for this one it says
“This listing was ended by the seller because the item is no longer available.”But I like the necklace, because its shinyz. I like shinyz.
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The GoW figure is a pretty cool idea. It’s hard to pass on shiny things, but I think I like the figure more.
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Apparently the queues for the SWTOR unofficial Oceanic servers are massive (>500 on Swiftsure, >900 on Harbinger, etc) – I might just end up choosing one with a lower server load…
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That might be wise. I want to play with fellow Australians but I also want to play the game, something that’s not going to happen too much with queues like those.
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Exactly. There’s always people on an MMO, no matter what time it is, so it shouldn’t be too hard to find groups for things at reasonable times on other servers.
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Also, not sure about actual game stuff, but the lag to west coast servers from Perth was minimal during the stress test weekend. Roughly half the ping I get from WoW 😛
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Looking through the server list it would appear that almost every server is full. Certainly all the west coast pvp ones are. Of course that doesn’t tell us what the queue times are like for those servers. Half the time the server I’m on in WoW is listed as full and I can get in with no queueing. Could be a similar deal here.
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Hrm. Hopefully they keep adding new servers (which they are, according to the SWTOR twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/SWTOR).
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It’ll still be a week or so before we’re all playing so we can reevaluate the server situation then. Maybe something will have changed in that time, such as new servers launching or current servers thinning out their population a bit.
If you get into early access let me know what server you decide to roll on, yeah?
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Will do. I’ll post in TAY and on Twitter if I get in.
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Bloody hell, dad & I went up to check on the plants (Tomatoes, Capsicums, Chillies & Sweet potatoes) on his mates property today we come back and a bloody leech falls off his foot onto the kitchen floor, now I have the job of cleaning up bloody footprints & a leech that got salted off the kitchen floor D: all before mum gets home soon.
But it was hilarious seeing all the bloody footprints and what to tell mum if I just leave them there..
More of our office computers just got RAM upgrades. Yet again, it was my responsibility.
I think I may have done the upgrade on a PC that was still on. That’s not particularly good…is it?
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She’s on leave. Hopefully by the time she comes back and finds out that her computer is busted, someone else will have managed to spill something on her desk or a terrorist attack will have wiped out this section of the CBD.
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If you have the POWAH, a back timestamp-d email message from early December (or whenever she was still there) making it clear that it’s super important that people shut down their machines when they go on leave, and things can go badly otherwise. What could go wrong? (hint: everything)
Or..
Wait, do you have a delorean?
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hahaha funniest thing happened when i first ventured to big day out (when it was cool) and there was a “mystery band” at 3pm…
we arrived ariound that time and were on our way to see someone, but had to go past the “mystery band” stage…
I heard something and turned around to my mate and go “HOLY SHIT?! IS THAT FEAR FACTORY?!?!”We then lost our collective shit and the mosh exploded in us for the rest of the day. It was awesome
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Going through my email inbox and just saw an old exchange from a little while back.
Those ALRC focus groups they had a while back. I got selected for it. All set to be flown down and put up for the night and everything. But it turned out to be on the same day as a training course I couldn’t miss. Probably replaced me with an ACL nutbag too.
Please don’t hate me.
The world has gone MAD!!!
I like new Korn songs!!
They haven’t been good for years… but both of the new songs have LOTS of DUBstep which i usually don’t like too much….. but man.. dose songs…
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dip your toes.. it’s actually not all that bad..
either that or their last 2 albums REALLY lowered my expectations
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Aww man, just got news that V8 Supercar Driver Jason Richards passed away. That’s sad, he seemed like such a lovely bloke.
FATHER – FATHER
CHRISTMAS – CHRISTMAS
FATHER- FATHER
CHRISTMAS – CHRISTMAS
FATHER CHRISTMAS, HAMS I COMMEND MY SPIRIT
CHRISTMAS DEAR, HAMS WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME
IN YOU EYES
FORDAKEN ME
IN YOUR THOUGHT
FORSAKEN ME
IN YOUR HEART
FORSKENNNN MEEEE
OHHHH
TRUST IN THAT
SELF RIGHTEOUS RUDOLPH GUY
TRUST IN THAT
SELF RIGHTEOUS RUDOLPH GUYYYYY
MINCE PIEEEEE
WHEN CHRISTMAS REINDERR FLYYYYYYY
OK guys, i’m off for the weekend. Have a good one and stay safe during these crazy days 🙂
3 more working days next week then finally holidays
#can’tbloodywait
Alrighty, I’m off to do some Christmas shopping. Grats to whoever gets Kudos. Have a good weekend all.
SWTOR peeps – if you get early access, let me know either here or on Twitter (@TheCracks1) what server you roll on, and I’ll do likewise. Also, character names etc.
Hey Loops,
With all the joking and laughing that happens here on TAY, it feels a bit weird to have to talk about something so serious, but…
If you ever want babies, I’d be happy to have them for you.
…I may or may not be joking, but one thing is certain: YOU’RE AWESOME!!!
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Awwww man – now you’ve seriously made my decision harder… Bee or you.
THE DECISIONS! THE RESPONSIBILITY!!
THE THREAT OF LITTLE VERSIONS OF ME!!!
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When faced with tough life decisions, remember one thing:
You can and/or can’t not do it!
Also, unless I’m misunderstanding the point of the story my parents told me as a kid entirely, I must be a bird, and you have to make a choice between the Bird and the Bee? I dunno, it was a confusing tale…
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I think being told birds got it on with bee’s just messed me up even more.
I now constantly check Bee’s email in case in dudes named “Hawk” are emailing her…
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Ooooh, sh%#t, man! Has she played Dragon Age II???
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Obviously I can’t tell you how I acquired them, but I have samples of most TAYbies “genetic material” in cold storage.
We’ll discuss prices in private, if you don’t mind.
FRIDAY DAY-ALMOST-OVER CELEBRATION MUSIC!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMLXoobDKWs
This song makes me sooooo happy 😀
I’ve heard a lot of debate lately, people saying stuff, and doing whatever it is that people do. But I’m here to tell you, it’s time to stop all of that.
It’s time.
For Day one of Blaghmas.
In a post that no-one will read, at the end of a day, where everyone’s away, I present to you, an all new Christmas song. Featuring absolutely 0% JamesMacUsedMyHandle.
http://soundcloud.com/blaghman/kotakuristmas
This has been day one of Blaghmas. Don’t expect days two and three to be on Saturday and Sunday, because they just won’t be. They’ll be some time next week. I hope.
Blaghs out.
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But I’m not really out of course, I have nothing better to do than sit here, so…
Dearest Strange:
“Blaghman will probably have to have a whole verse of his new Kotaku Christmas song dedicated to Loops’ Wang.” Hmm, close, but no cigar. Not that you probably want a cigar, at least, I don’t, so I’ll just roll with what I have, whatever that is.
Yours Truly,
Blaghman.-
Dearest Lambomann007:
You ask what I was taking, as I typed out my heart’s desire, and I am here to tell you. I was empowered solely by the beauty of the world, the freezing cold water from a natural brook, and the air as it burns my nostrils. I simply wish to look around, and to see the beauty inherent in everything around us. The world is an amazing place, filled with amazing things, and I would hate for that to be lost. I feel like everyone should experience what I have seen and felt.
Most people cannot understand, and for them, I weep.
Yours Truly,
Blaghman.
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I forgot to add, yes, you can hear a tad of Buble in the background, but that’s because that was the best Karaoke version I could find, and apparently people on the internet don’t understand what karaoke means.
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I think this scene is relevant: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxUENnl0DlQ Particularly the bit right at the end.
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Fun fact no. 727487:
I was tempted to do a parody of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpmFletV_pU&feature=related because then I’d be doing a parody of a joke song from a movie, where they changed a line to make it about Christmas, then I could put on Hipster Glasses, and say that everything is meta.
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You didn’t say that they’d be one after the other, so I’m sure people will understand that it could be any three days.
Also, i read it =D
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Well its currently loading slower than it takes Rocketman to construct a full sentence. Either my internet is being useless, or the link is experiencing too much traffic at the moment – Everyone wants to hear the sweet, sweet voice of the Blaghman.
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Oh not at all, except maybe for Blaghs since people will now read the random sleep deprived things he posts.
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Oh dear.
Really, oh dear.
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I will probably be the one reading it XD
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I think this says a lot about what you do with your free time…
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LAWLS! Also, love the third tag on the soundcloud. Made me actually lol. It was also hilarious when you had a singing match with Micky Bubbles.
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Oh yeah, I guess it is still boned since last night?
If someone with tweets could mention it to Shady that would be grand.-
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Dearest Blaghman
I have seen you mention trawling for peoples first posts a few times and I was wondering if you could be bothered finding mine, for curiosities sake.
If not that’s fair because I sure can’t.
Yours Truly
Jo
PS
It was probably shortly before or after Wildgoose left.
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Dearest Jo:
I may make an attempt at it over the weekend, given I really have nothing better to do, the up-side of this is that back then there were considerably less posts. It makes everything far, far easier.
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Damn busy week considering how empty the school is! This might even be my first post for the week! eep! I couldn’t let a week pass without at least posting one thing though!!
Only 3 days of work left for the year!! Technicially 2 1/2, due to lunch on the last day, and being able to go home after!
I actually had to go to court today to fight a speeding fine which I believe to be total BS. I’m not normally one to bother with that sort of thing, but I know there’s no way I was doing the speed they claim, as I looked at my speedo when I saw the flash of the camera! Had been adjourned til January for now. Hopefully I can get all the info I need together and some advice from legal people. Pretty sure there’s more than one thing going against them with this one. I’m not gonna go in to details, but just cross your fingers for me and hope I don’t come out the other end broke from having to pay a fine and court costs! :0 That would just be the dandiest start to my year! 😐
Enough of that bad news though.
Semi decent news is that JJ might finally be wearing down against rejecting my proposals for how we shall sell our house! w00t! Still a little ways to go yet, but this is by far the best it’s looked so far. It’s not enough to make it the merriest of xmas’, but at least it’s more positive than anything else that’s happened for far this year! She finally got the message that I’m not giving her the fridge, camera or tv back too! YAY!!! That’s one less thing I have to worry about!
AFAIK, DAN! and I are going to Ajisen in George St (Brisbane) tomorrow sometime to eat ramen and celebrate my contract extension! Any other BNE people wanna join in? More than welcome if you like. Just reply, email or tweet DAN! or myself.
Merry weekend!
I think my Mother might be addicted to Heavy Rain. It’s the first she’s ever asked me to play a game.
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Ironically, that’s the only part of the game she missed. Although I still wonder how his undies managed to change colour. I mean they were blue/black before he went in and were red when he came out, but I never saw an extra pair of underwear there.
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This is surely only a good thing. A friend of mine’s mother would watch the cutscenes of MGS4, then go do other things during the gameplay, and asked to be called back in again for more cutscenes. Given what I’ve heard about MGS4, I’d consider this doing it wrong, but hey, who am I to judge?
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That is a bit weird. Mind you my Mother also enjoys Tetris, We <3 Katamari, Animal crossing and Professor Layton. She actually plays these, but she likes Heavy Rain because she sees it like a movie.
Her Favourite Character is PI Scott, her least favourite is none. She likes them all.-
My mother tells me i should grow up and stop playing these violent videogames.
I just ignore everyone in my family when I boot up the 360 (and PS3).
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But not before you go out and punch some old people in the face and stuff right?
Dem violent vidja gaems.
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Might have to be careful or it’ll end up post amongst Scree >_<
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D: I promise i’ll be careful!
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But you’ll never stop Talk Amongst Blaghman! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
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*pulls out the duct tape* you wanna bet? 😛
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I thought you liked the fact it wasn’t talk amongst Blaghman anymore
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he just wants someone to stroke his ego 😛
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Fair enough, feel free to embellish your ego.
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Yes, stroke my “ego,” if you know what I mean. ; ) But in all seriousness, you can never stop TAB, it’s the #Winners way.
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I meant me silly =P
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You will never* out post me.
*very easily
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What type of game is it?
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It’s a MOBA, which means absolutely nothing, but essentially it’s like the DotA map from WC3.
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I don’t know what that means D= I don’t know much about DOTA
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Ok, so there’s 5 heroes on each team, and a bunch of minions run around some lanes, and people run around hitting things, smashing everything like champions. And there’s glorious victory.
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Yes, those are the types of games I am bad at. So i probably won’t be able to play as I will die every single time.
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There are two secrets, either a) play a right click to win champion, or 2) play a tank, and then you’re unkillable so it doesn’t matter.
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I don’t have it yet, but I hope to soon. Still i can’t wait to see how crazy the story gets now
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I don’t know, I kind of liken it to Indiana Jones.
It’s better if it’s grounded in reality somewhat. In a game where you’re (or at least I am) engaged in the story to pull you through the non-standard gameplay, it’s more enjoyable if you don’t suddenly pull out some sort of stupid “AND SUDDENLY: ALIENS” card to try explain everything away.
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Yay! People! Actually I believe this is the first time we’ve spoken, I am Scree. I tend to lurk in TAY and post a lot.
Terraria. Its getting harder. Who would’ve thought unicorns would be such a dangerous enemy?!
Not me, that’s who.
Hehehe, Blaghman, I just arrived home and heard your song. Mr. Strange heard it too. He’s all “What the….?!”
Huge hugs for you Blaghs, you really know how to make it sound like Christmas. 😀
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I try my hardest to really capture the Christmas spirit by slurring my speech a little, and singing off-key.
hi all
Ive been absent today due to work Christmas party!
Lets just say I drank way to many Fat Yaks but its ok because im sober now!
I got home tonight to find my Gf had bought me a Xbox Batarang controller that lights up with 7 different leds and is awesome and also a triton AX180 headset which i can use on both the computer and xbox
\o/ /o\ \o/ /o\ \o/ /o\ \o/ \o/ \o/
oh yeah they are early christmas presents!! and i have them open already!!!
time for some batman arkham city followed by Gotham City Imposters!!(if it works)
then some skyrimming!!!
hope your all having a good weekend so far 🙂
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Is it frozen, and have you been pouring vodka in it for the last week?
If not, I won’t be jealous.-
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I am amazed when I tell people of this and they haven’t heard of it.
I don’t even really drink, and even I know of it and think it’s delicious.-
I know watermelon soaked in alcohol is a great way to get drunk fast. I just never though of Strange’s suggestion!
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Does take preparation (well, time) though.
Cut a hole through the crappy inedible part of the water melon, stick a funnel in and pour vodka in. You can only do it in small amounts though, because the vodka has to slowly permeate and seep through the water melon. And just keep doing that for a few days. -
I so wanna do this now!
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Time to go to bed, I think.
This is the latest post I have ever made, or the earliest depending on your point of view.
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I’m pretty sure I’ve posted in every 5 minute period in the day, over the year and a bit I’ve been part of this community, so I don’t think I can post an earliest or latest post any more. Unless we do it straight off number of hours awake, in which case… Well, it would have to be a lot.
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I agree! TAV does get boring at times when it’s only I 😛
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Wait until you’ve posted stuff worth over 1000 words without anyone else saying anything, it’s like “wow, I really have nothing to do with my life.”
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I get bored to easily trying to entertain myself like that LOL.
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I have a lot of practice at entertaining myself.
Wait.
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Is that a masturbation joke? lol.
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Virus, I think you should know by now that almost everything I say falls into one of two categories:
Masturbation Jokes.
Small Penis Jokes.
That is the only humour I have.
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Great minds think alike \o/
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And fools rarely differ.
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I’m really enjoying Skyward Sword, I’ve only done the forest temple though, I’m getting close to the, uhh, fire temple, Eldin volcano place though.
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I’m playing it via Dolphin, and at 1080P it is ridiculously pretty, one of the best looking games I’ve played this year.
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It is a pretty game, it frustrated me that people said ti wasn’t enough
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Oh god, a Mac user! Burn the heretic!
(In all honesty I quite like Macs, in fact, for many years I was a Mac gamer, suck it, logic)
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That’s my internet browsing in bed/movie/tv show watching laptop basically. I have a windows machine for gaming that I spend most of my time on 😛
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Anyway guys (probs just Blaghs) I am off! Night, see you when I rise from the dead sometime before midday AEDST!
I completed Heavy Rain last night. I got the best possible ending with all possible characters alive. Hurrah!
Woo! Getting up at 4:30am for work on a Saturday is AWESOME! /sarcasm
It’s not so bad I guess, just gotta get used to it.
So…games. I haven’t played any games in a while :/ been very busy getting everything sorted with work and getting stuff done on the website.
What have I missed this week?
So last night I was at The German Club for a friend’s birthday dinner.
There was an entertainer there in lederhosen with a keyboard and a guitar singing songs from every generation. His name was Andrew according to two signs he had up with that name.
Anyway, he played a Lady GaGa song (ewww) and some drunk people got up to dance. There was a guy with ginger hair and a checked shirt doing what I assume are the dancemoves from the video of the song. I totally had to do a double take to make sure it wasn’t Sir Serrels.
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All i saw from that is a comment from q-bo. Wherefore art thou, q-bo? Nowhere on twitter or TAY is he seen. Last I heard, he went to doctor to check on his accidental scissor stabbing. Is he okay?
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He’s been on twitter since then, supposedly he thought he might be able to make it on here during the holidays, when it’s easier for him or something. Silly Q. Caring about his children and all that.
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The German Club is awesome. Cheap pints of tasty beer. Shame they don’t appear to have pretzels.
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Of course. If you’re a good boy and eat all your vegetables maybe one day you’ll evolve too
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Eating Spam for breakfast.
Well, “Spam Lite”. “50% Less Fat!”, they claim. Because yeah, if there was one thing about Spam that needed fixing, it was clearly that it was too fatty.
With all these new people attending Meats the chances of bumping into someone you know increases
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That would be really weird. Of all the people on the internet, someone you know happens to use the same site and posts in the same official unofficial community forum and organises to go to the same meat.
If that happens, 6 degrees of separation with have to be officially reduced to 4, maybe even 3 degrees
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I’m a believer in the 0 degrees of separation. We are all the same, and we are all connected. All hail the hive mind. Glory to the Hypnotoad.
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Stoopid Sydney with your stoopid Meats I can’t attend. 🙁
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/cry why did I sign up for 10m Ice Crown Citadel raid with a bunch of randoms who don’t know the mechanics of the fights, and I don’t do explaining >.<
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Wait, people post in Whitenoise?
(I drop in occasionally to help people, but it is only rarely)
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It’s quiet.
Movie quiet.
* tumble weed rolls through*
Man, wish I was able to go to the Sydmeat…
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We should have organised a Canberra trip up, not that I would have been able to contribute in any way, but still!
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Stupid Christmas getting in the way! My poor organisational skills are stretched thin, so I would have failed at helping 😛
Well, if anyone’s in Wagga Wagga around Christmas, I’ll be visiting the…*shudder*…in-laws…
Who am I kidding? EVERYONE will be in Wagga! /sarcasm
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You need to organise a Canberra trip up to Brisbane. I went to Canberra, now it’s your turn to visit me! 😛
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Bah, humbug to your meats, I don’t need to go to one of those…
*sob* Who am I kidding, I wanna meat peoples
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Oh GOD! WE’RE SO ALONE!
Seriously though, maybe we should consider an Australia day meat…somewhere as many people as possible can come!
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Ha, my location and income make any meat outside of my town a literal impossibility. And taking into accout the WA TAYbies it just makes plans annoying and cumbersome to meet everyone’s requirements
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Somewhere in a central location, not that far away from two main Australian cities. Somewhere like, Canberra?
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This. Seconded.
Vote?
In all favour?
Aye.
Ayes have it. It’s in Canberra.
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Thirded.
I’l speak for Pixel, who is apparently in a cave somewhere:
Fourthed.
YEEAAHHH!
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Fifthed.
This is fast becoming a majority on the internets.
Canberra is apparently where it’s at yo.
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Well then:
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I nominate Shane to organise, as he’s good at pretending to be organised.
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I would prefer to leave it in your experienced hands.
I have enough trouble organising clothes to go to work in (I spent all of last week working in torn jeans – true story)
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Does your work not enforce clothing rules?
And uhh, I’ll be too busy… uhhhh… procrastinating, to organise. Can we turn this into a cookie jar type scenario, where we just shirk the work off to other people? If so, then uhh… Dill, it’s your turn now!
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I just got my new headset and mike. I was on this morning for a little while and I was looking forward to heading onto TS again tonight but apparently not 🙁
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Sorry guys, I had my comp turned off due to the heat so i wasn’t able to talk on tay until now
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Yes, but that only cools the computer and not me. I don’t work well in heat. I usually end up playing DS or trying to sleep through it.
And it hasn’t even hit 40 yet >_<
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Don’t worry, it’s not like anyone actually posts over the weekend. Or at least, not those with anything better to do.
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Sorry everyone, but I have to rub it in some more. The Sydney meat was great fun. I’m heading home now but Flu, Harli, Shiggy and others are still going strong (stupid work tomorrow). It was great to finally put some faces to the names. Thanks for a great night everyone
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You cannot see my face, and hopefully you haven’t seen what it looks like, but right now, there is a single tear of jealousy, slowly rolling down. It just passed the end of my nose. I hope you understand what you’ve done.
You monster.
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Bish, no one can forget you. Nova was probably too excited/drunk to remember.
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I said others, I didn’t want to list off everyone. But ok for the record, Bish was still going strong too when I left
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I made an educated guess.
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I, on the other hand, was watching them through hidden cameras.
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Frak I laughed – there’s a skillshot in Bulletstorm when you blow away one of these dudes leaving nothing but his legs – “Topless”
It’s a pity they might never make a sequel to this – I’m loving it so far
Looking at the statistics for my site’s traffic, and got this particular chart. Think it’s trying to tell me something?
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Does hayfever count?
This weather doesn’t know what it’s doing, so my nose is just leaking all the time.-
I think everyone is getting bad hayfever this year, or at least, everyone who gets it is getting it quite badly this season. I blame the broken drought, if it was still here there wouldn’t be enough pollen in the air to make everyone all hayfevery. That’s my excuse and I’m sticking with it.
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i been fighting both a cold and hayfever for a while. Stupid melbourne and its hot one day freezing the next.
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I don’t know if I have hayfever, all I know is I’m stuffed up, sneezing and stuff-
Bipolar? Try stereophonic . Today doesnt know if its going to be hot cold sunny windy rainy or dry. Driving me nuts.
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arg, autocorrect fail. meant to say schizophrenic.
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Tell me about it! It was bucketing down hard a moment ago and suddenly the rain is all dried up.
I guess at least it’s always interesting.
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So I am watching cowboys and aliens. I suspect im near the end, but really struggling to pay attention to it. Just a little disappointed.
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I never saw it, but I was so excited by the prospect of “Cowboys & Aliens” and then it supposedly didn’t live up to the potential of that name, so I was so disappointed.
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If they made it a little more blazing saddles style it would have been pure gold, but i think it took itself a tiny bit too seriously.
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It had Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford in it, and it still sucked balls. I wasn’t expecting it to be particularly good, but it was possibly my least enjoyable movie of the last few years.
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I heard that, for what it was worth, Craig and Ford were both exactly as good as you’d expect from them, it’s just that it had an execrable screen-play, that helped to highlight Favreau’s weaknesses as a director.
Also, they fucked up a movie called “Cowboys and Aliens.” HOW? I think if it had some boring name the reaction against it might have been slightly less bad.
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TAY, do you guys remember how operation Rainfall helped bring various Japanese RPGs to the west?
Now several others are trying to get Nintendo to back flip on their policy on a different game.
http://opzero.blogspot.com/
That’s the word press blog based on it there. The game is Project zero.I don’t think there are any other fans of this on TAY, but I’m just putting it out there.
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I thought Operation Rainfall failed. I thought those RPGs were still not getting released in North America? Just Europe?
I was impressed with the first Project Zero but it was too scary for me to play so I never finished it. I gave it away.
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No, Xenogears is being released in North America next year.
The thing is that number 4 wasn’t released outside of Japan, even though Nintendo of Europe wanted to localise it, Nintendo of Japan said no.Well I hope that person enjoyed it. It was a good survival horror, it’s the only one to make me scream so far. I’ve played all but 4, which I do own though.
Ever considered watching let’s plays of it?
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What about my opinion? Do you want my opinion?
No?
Awww.
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I didn’t think anyone was on so I started watching Teens react.
I listen to Blaghman’s opinion.
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I AM BLAGHMAN
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I trust this man implicitly.
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Ah, so you’re the clone? Did you become self aware and become Bish?
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He’s not the clone, you’ll know the clone when you see it. Bish and I just happen to more or less be the same, since people insist on confusing the two of us.
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For I am the Blaghman clone!
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I’m pretty much always here, when I’m not playing LoL, though I drop in and check up whenever I die, which is rather frequently.
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Hm, if I played the game it would be a pattern of Start game, die within minutes, spend rest of the match time on TAY
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If you die within minutes, you’re actually doing quite well!
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So, you’re playing golf rules?
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I win all the games if we play by golf rules
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Except Golf games.
Unless you’re good at them, in which case carry on, but speaking as someone who is average at all games (average in the aussie sense, meaning bad, not the actual average), I tend to be good at golf scoring, until I play golf.
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Golf games are the exception that proves the rule
I’ve been playing Bully: Scholarship Edition most of the day, I must say it’s a pretty good game. It’s like GTA but you’re in school.
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I bought that the other day, good to know it wasn’t wasted money. Even if it was then Rize is going to give me a money back guarantee
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Wait, you’re not supposed to grab a baby by its head? But they have those squishy bits that are so easy to grab!
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Apparently not. There’s quite a dew enlightening things on there. Like oyu’re not might to put babies in backpacks. But I’ve put dogs in backpacks, you just leave room for their head to pop out.
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You respawn, but as the game goes on, you stay dead for longer, like right now!
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I’d managed to be dead 75% of the time, I know it. All my friends play it though =(
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Cruising the streets looking for Christmas lights, with the stereo pumping out the christmas carols.
Yeah, we’re hardcore.
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I would do it for a TAY a year and a half ago, nobody called first back then, and even though it wouldn’t be first, it would be near enough.
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Hey freeze, there’s this really cool thing called Reply Button. You two should hang out some day.
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I’m sure that the reply button would like that. It’s feeling a little neglected.
Facebook video on the other hand can go screw itself =D
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But it’s so useful for stalking!
(Still not a stalker, I swear)
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No matter how long you hang around my window, I’m still not going to take my underpants off.
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That’s not me, that’s Bish! I’m the one watching him.
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http://au.ign.com/articles/2011/08/23/official-modern-warfare-3-gaming-glasses-announced
Thank god. How were people going to get their extra edge in MW3? Use their BlOps pair? Would they even work in MW3? Pfft, as if you’d be noobish enough to even try.
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Why does things like this exist? Why does MW3 exist? btw you guys seen the Freddie W commercial for battlefield 3?
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MW3 exists because the population demands it. And people have no taste.
I have seen the Battlefield 3 commercial by Freddie Wong, I laughed a lot. That’s the kind of thing I would do in that game.
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Fine, they cane have it, just stop shoving it in my face D= (not TAYbies, general populace), also don’t put down my games just because you don’t like them. Zelda is a good game, I also liked Gears so stop telling me that Gears is better, they’re non comparable!
I probably would too. I don’t have battlefield 3, but it looks fun. Still, planes may cause motion sickness. It’s very annoying
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I frequently yell at strangers in shopping centers that Gears is better than Zelda.
I’m sorry.
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Hm, I’ll forgive you just this once.
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Do what I do, explain to them that Pokemon is the most hard-core RPG of all time. Point out the dark themes inherent in Zelda. Bring up that the whole point of Gears of War is that it parodies itself. Bring logic to their stupid fanboy arguments!
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But you can’t compare a shooter to an action adventure with RPG elements. I tried to explain to them the great video game crash of ’93 but it didn’t work.
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Tell them to play Marathon, then they’ll have played a good FPS! Ask them what their games do, besides being bought by millions of people! Tell them to play Half Life 2, for a game with plot, and character development! People should not be allowed to be wrong!*
*or, more simply, let them have opinions that are wrong. Not different. WRONG. Accept them for the flawed people they are.
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And forever look down upon them for their inferior taste in games.
Also Scree, I notice you seem to spend a lot of time trying to rationally explain opinions and concepts to other gamers. talking a generation of kids who grew up on the internet, I find your persistence in the matter… pretty amazing, but somewhat unbelievable. What is this concept of tolerance your are trying to spread.
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I agree with this man. We should not tolerate them.
Extermination is key.
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I wouldn’t care so much if it wasn’t shoved in my face. And I have told them to play half life, but they won’t. They only played Portal when it became popular. Unfortunately, through my cousin I am exposed to the bad side of gaming.
The thing is I’m not really tolerant, I can ignore them until they tell me I am wrong.
Also I have a bad habit of thinking everyone can understand my logic and forget that fanboyism blinds them completely. And the fact they’re 15.Sorry I will try to stop. I will say that I brought up all my cousins on the original NES, so I thought they’d be grateful, but they’ve changed due to the kids their age changing their opinion. All but 1. I look make sure this one understands good games!
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Passive responses are key! Ignore the little shits! It’s how I managed to be captain of a sporting team! (heh, me, captain of a sports team. My family all laughed when that happened)
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My parents gave away our NES to my younger cousins.
One of these cousins grew up to be previously mentioned 17 year old trash-talking CoD-player.
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I will try harder D=<
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I still have mine =D It’s a top loader too which I didn’t know was worth anything until a guy at Manifest did a presentation on them.
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I never had a NES. Or a SNES. Or an N64. Or a Gamecube. Or even any consoles from their generations.
My first was a 360…
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Fanboys reject your logic and replace it with fanaticism.
I remember a time before I knew about all the number crunching that goes on in the background of a Pokemon game. Oh young nova, you were so innocent back then. Now it’s all about the Ev’s, Iv’s, nature, characteristics, random number generation. So complex, so over most people’s heads.
I just play through the story and lose interest.
True story.
Oh I don’t battle online or anything, but I try and incorporate some of the things I’ve seen on youtube battles into my teams. Its fun trying new things against the computer, but it also sucks because there isn’t much in the way of strategy that the AI uses
I just make sure I’m at least 10 levels above the AI in important battles and that I have the pokemon strong against them.
I tend to go for the “single OP Pokemon” technique, where I have one that can just dominate everything my opponents throw at me, and I do a bit of internet research to work out what I can get easily that will have high stats. Also, I only ever use straight up attack moves, oh, and leech seed, because it’s amazeballs.
In HeartGold I had a para-flinching Togekiss that wrecked all sorts of face. Thunder wave/Air slash/Aura Sphere/Roost holding a King’s Rock. As long as I used ethers to keep its PP up, I didn’t need anything else. Unless I bought a crit Rock slide or Ice beam. By the time I got through the Elite 4 it was something like level 70 and everything else I had was only mid 40’s
I played Red, I think, on a friend’s Game Boy Color, and I did a lot of grinding for his team, and I just rolled the elite four with a level 80 odd Alakazam. Good times.
That’s because Psychics were ridiculously broken in Gen 1. Alakazam was the most OP thing you could use. But we were young and didn’t know better. And you’re right, good times indeed
Hahahahaha! Para-flinch Togekiss is such a-grade dickery, I love it.
I thnk it’s always important to have fun with your teams, and thankfully de Pogeymons is very accepting of that.
Pick pretty Pokemon, or pick competitive Pokemon, whatever, with the plethora of Pokemon out there, it works.
I always like to throw in a weird/wacky/troll Pokemon in there though, just for fun. Shedinja! 1 HP, ftw.
Or hacking different abilites onto things to screw with people. Gyrados with Volt absorb? Spiritomb/Sableye with Wonder guard? Shedinja with sturdy (in genV)
That’s how I justify my Pokemon fanaticism!
But if you try to explain it to someone they just look at you and you can tell they’re thinking “Pokemon is for little kids and this guy is bullshitting me to save face”
I’ve seen that look so many times….
The simple solution is to be the fat crazy guy on public transport, and then they give you looks, but for completely different reasons!
I usually respond with a “Whatever man! I don’t care what you think!” look. Or say it to their face. I have to actually perfect the precise facial feature arrangement that says that exact phrase.
A person at EB once gave me that “Aren’t you too old for Pokemon” look. But then I waved my money at them and walked out of there with my 700 page Pokedex. I like what I like. Deal with it. Dot jpeg.
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It’s awesome if you can launch them with gold clubs on to your neighbours shed XD
I do that occasionally.
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I don’t get a chance to kill them very often, something about how I live in Canberra, and we don’t get them here.
But, this Christmas, I’m going to my Grandparents, where they do get them.
What could possibly go wrong? Well, it’s bound to be better than Last Christmas, where I gave you my heart, but the very next day, you gave it away.
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Haha yeah, usually too cold for the little bastards in winter down there you’re lucky!
Where abouts are your grandparents? Cause if it’s anywhere up this way there should be an abundance of the bastards!
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They live in Pottsville, which is a bit south of Tweed Heads, so yeah, it’s fairly close to your way.
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Holy shit, that is just down the road from me.
Don’t go drowning at the beach or anything like all these other non-locals do. But i’m sure you’re a sensible gamer & not set foot on the beach 😛
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I will be going out and swimming and stuff, but I’ve been there half a dozen times before, so I know the area vaguely well. I’d suggest meeting up while I was there, but that would require effort, and the whole “I can’t drive” thing would make it way too much effort. True Story.
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I once went to a beach!
I stepped on a jellyfish.
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Yeah I don’t drive either, public transport that lacks ftw \o/
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I went to the beach once. I took the the dog. I spent all day chasing him while he chased the same seagull.
I think the seagull was squawking “WHY JUST ME?!” the entire time
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I like the swimming part of being at a beach, and battling the waves and stuff, what I hate is the “sitting around doing nothing” part. Luckily I’ll have my 3DS for this trip, pity I won’t be able to access TAY though.
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I misread as Ponyville. Too much My little pony
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You can never. NEVER. Have too much My Little Pony. I was going to say “Bronies Unite” but uhh, yeah.
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Brosephines are still Bros, right?
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I’m going to say yes.
(Side note, does Josephine the delivery turtle have a brother, Brosephine?)
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That’s a new one o_o
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Oh!
List of things on WSFM at 3-4AM:
– Live it up
– SOS by Abba
– Africa by Toto
– Under the boardwalk
– Other stuff, I don’t know whatever, but how good are those first 3 songs???
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That is a pretty high class list of music. Needs some Eagles or Billy Joel to really top it off though
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I’m not sure, I tried to purge those guys from my mind. Didn’t want to tar the memories of my first Meat
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I remember singing with you to some of those. But I missed out on singing Africa with you? Major sadface!
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Move to a new city! That should clear it up for a bit! Though I wouldn’t actually recommend moving to a new city just to temporarily clear up hayfever…
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Maybe moving to the city makes it worse though.
My sister has acclimatised herself to the Central Coast, where she lives near a beach. There’s perhaps more pollen from all the plant life, but the air is much cleaner.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q355NmTp1fs
And we did it with only a little spamming, and tonnes of quality posts from yours truly.
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I was looking at the post count on friday afternoon thinking “Will we make it? No, probably not, not much gets posted on the weekend. But its only a few hundred… Nah, won’t happen”
I’m sure some of you find my lack of faith disturbing (sorry, had to make the joke)
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Man, I remember the time Fat Shady spammed it up on Sunday night, to get us to, was it two thousand, posts? I think so. This was before insta-proved comments, so Mark had to go through them all on Monday morning, approving them. And that was a few hundred comments all on his lonesome. That was an achievement.
(And a month ago I would have said that we’d never get a few hundred posts over the weekend)
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Us night-shift commentors have really pulled our weight.
Not like those people who comment during the day! What a bunch of slackers!-
Hey, screw you man! We pull plenty of weight! They even call me Weight Pulling Bish!
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That is the worst nickname ever.
Also I will stop talking to myself.
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Bish, go and sleep. You’ve clearly lost it. Bish, you too
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Yes, only a crazy person would talk to themselves!
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Back in your cage!
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Oh, shouldn’t you be the one in the cage? Which of us is the original?
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I am the original. Why? Because I say so. Now shush you.
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Heh, one last thing before I go. Go back a year. Which of us was commenting then?
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I once read a possibly Paul Jennings story where a guy cloned himself with a magic photocopier thing, ended up fighting with his clone (basically treated him like a slave), and managed to unphotocopy/delete the clone, but it turns out in the end he was the clone and had pretty much murdered the original version of himself.
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I too have read that story. If I remember correctly, the exact same thing had happened to the guy who created the copy thingy, except that in that case both died, instead of just one. And he was able to tell that he was the cloney thing because it flipped everything when they were copied. Ture sorty bor.
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I really should.
I left TeamSpeak about an hour and a half ago because I was tired, but here I am.
Maybe I’m suffering a bit from Blaghsy’s not-going-to-sleepness.Though to be honest, I just left to avoid Freyr. s’what I do.
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Something something, midget doctor? Yeah, I have no idea. And anyway, going to sleep is for losers. Whatever it is that I do is for winners. Clearly. Like me. Such a winner.
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Slackers like their fathers!
We’re just that awesome =D
That’s a lot of posts, isn’t it? I haven’t really hung around TAY long enough to know, but a quick search gives me a list of articles with numbers like 3,000 and 2,500. How on earth did we do so many more?
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Blame Blaghman, Scree, Lambo and I. We didn’t mean for it to get so out of hand.
OK, I lied, we totally meant for it get out of hand. Page 7 was our lair, we had a chain of responses that was literally almost half the page long
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Isn’t that technically more? So he wouldn’t be over exaggerating but rather under?
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/facepalm I meant 1/3. Clearly I am the king of typing and logical thought at this hour.
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Frankly, you two, I’m pretty bloody disappointed you didn’t get us to 9,000 purely for meme value.
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One day, maybe I will. One day.
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I’m sorry, I had a social event. I only get three a year if I’m lucky =(
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To be fair, Page seven is quite considerably larger than any other long reply chains that may or may not exist.
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Really, I thought the other one was longer. But seven had 4 people rather then two
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Well, out little soiree into a hidden conversation, seems to be less than a quarter of the page, however, I’m guessing this based on the total size of the page, so I could be very wrong about their true sizes.
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Yeah I just had another look at it wasn’t as long as I thought.
Oh I know! All the night posters should post in hidden pages so the post count goes up but the day timers see the same stuff that they left X3
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Now that would just be mean.
I love it*.
*I was going to insert the owner of the insane asylum from Beauty and the Beast saying that line there, but I couldn’t find a copy of it on youtube, true story.
Hello, you determined Occupy TAY people. No matter what,* you will not leave.
*Save for a new TAY.
Anyway, just wanted to come in here and say,
I now have the Lordvessel \o/
I can’t take any credit for the bossfight. I summoned someone and they did all the work for me. Seriously. They were awesome.
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I keep putting this game aside, perhaps to never play it again. For my health.
But I go back. Always I go back.
A little like a dog returning to its vomit.
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I told you, man! I told you I could drive you! You would have gotten home at 4:30 bastardly tired, but whatever!
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I should have taken the offer 🙁
My plan B was rather simple, i get mad drunk, pass out for several hours and catch the train back home in the morning when it’s bright and sunny.
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I’ve done that, except I stayed up all night, and I bussed home, so it wasn’t really the same at all.
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That’s it for me tonight. I’m out. See you all tomorrow (quick post before it ticks past midnight)
Night all
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Night Nova! Except you probably won’t read this, making it a rather futile gesture of goodwill!
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I’m always watching Blaghman. And I found where you and scree were doing some serious posting. You two were holding out on me 🙂
And to think, I thought the lords and lady of south kotaku stood together 🙂
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There were clues Nova. Many many clues.
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I hold allegiance to no Kotaku faction. Except possibly F4ction, but that’s a different matter entirely. I was always happy for more people to join in, and we knew that others knew. We accept what we did, without a hint of remorse, and are not sorry for our deeds. And now we’re agreeing that it’s a bit weird that I’m speaking for two people at once, despite having no knowledge of the truth.
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I’m happy to agree to that XD
Anyone could’ve joined in, it’s just no one did except for the phantom. But he wasn’t interested in conversation.
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Fun aside in case anyone is still awake:
http://www.getup.org.au/campaigns/recycling/coke/not-in-my-name
I laughed, pretty good production values, even if GetUp are a little insane(the two are unrelated).
I think somethings wrong with me, I turned down a free 6 pack of cider today. Must be the stupid fucking hayfever making me feel off.
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It’ll be interesting to see who gets the most posts. I’m thinking Blaghman, but that’s because I have no knowledge of the day time people.
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I know of them. XD
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Guess not, or, at least, they’re just slow to reply. Unfortunately, for whoever reads this(or, potentially, fortunately), I will not be staying up any longer, and so you will not find mountains of Blaghs text.
Blaghs, AWAY!
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I’m here! I’m watching Ronnie James Dio videos on YouTube again lol. Just watching some Heaven & Hell live videos thinking, if only Ozzy sounded as good as Dio live then this Black Sabbath reunion would majorly kickass. I know Ozzy’s vocals are going to be the down fall 🙁
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Boss Fight gig tonight. Video game tunes live @ The Waiting Room, West End 9.20
http://www.youtube.com/user/Bossfighttunes
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Boss-Fight/300215303346383
Monkey Island, Double Dragon, Tetris, Pokemon and more!
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