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Morning All, My Friday ended fairly badly as i was driving to get some social club drinks for work a guy t-boned me in the car. It was a pretty shit experience and i don’t think i have ever had a worse day. On Saturday i went to the doctors (totally unrelated and they told me i had higher blood pressure then what i should for my age) I asked what the cause was and they told me probably stress and a sedentary lifestyle. So at that point i was having a even better day then the day before. How was your weekend guys?
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Damn that sucks 🙁 hope your feeling better bro.
Eat more fish good for hypertension…or try the DASH Diet helped my aunty abit.
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DAMN BOI… i hope you’re okay… and the occupant of the other vehicle… but you’re more important… i’m sure if you ask nicely most of TAY would cuddle with you to make you feel better?
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Hey guys!
How was everyones weekend?
I have been soooo fracking busy… BUT Bee is back from the states now.
She got me games
http://twitpic.com/7kgja9
Also, we set up our Christams tree
http://twitpic.com/7kiw6d
On a side note – i have also been hell busy doing stuff for the KKP, and we’re up to Phase 4, whcih should be more or less the final phase you guys need to get involved in, providing you have already completed phase 3.
SO, when you guys get the time, please just take 2 minutes to read over it and post a quick reply, that’s all we ask 🙂
Thanks again, everyone!
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You know – if they had some setting to allow us regular users to just auto post links, we’d all be cool… *grumble grumble*
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Or maybe if you didn’t reply to your own unapproved comments?
That would stop the breaks, Loops.
THAT WOULD STOP THEM!
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^Mock anger before any one jumps down my throat and we have another LOLgate scandal!
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bahahaha – i don’t care – if i break tay then maybe it will draw attention to my poor unapproved comment – by the time it gets approved, we’ll be on page 2 and everyone will miss it! 😛
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I hate it when that happens.
I posted an AWESOMELY funny comment a while ago. By the time it was approved we were 2 pages on. TWO!
True story
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Yeah same 🙁
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Is anyone even working at Kotaku today? LOL
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Well there is that stealth tag #2…
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Morning all TAYbies,
This week promises to be a good one – Picked up Ass Rev yesterday, got tickets to see Dirty Three and Future of the Left this morning, I’m finally able to get rid of this stupid moustache on wednesday night, and then more bands on Friday night!
Somewhere inbetween all that will be Skyrim! And maybe some Skyward Sword…Just a thought, if there are any Sydney TAYbies who are regular gig-goers (or irregular gig-goers even, or even just anyone who is up for live music and shenannigans), I might suggest a mini musical meat at some point? Which bands are on isnt important, given that even if they’re crap, theres still beer & joviality involved.
that is all.
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“Just a thought, if there are any Sydney TAYbies who are regular gig-goers (or irregular gig-goers even, or even just anyone who is up for live music and shenannigans), I might suggest a mini musical meat at some point? ”
This is a grand idea, I currently have tickets for The Foo Fighters next week if anyone else is going?
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Organisation is for the weak, the smart people KNOWS HOW TO CONTROL CHAOS
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Good Morning all,
Did anyone see the story on the front page of the Telegraph this morning?
It’s about Video game addiction. Nothing new really, should read “Parents can’t control their kids”, hardly worthy of front page news, but then nothing else much happened, so i guess they ran with it.
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If that’s the same story I just read on news.com, it’s more about internet addiction though. They want to get “pathological internet misuse” status as a mental health condition.
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It probably is the same story. Did not stop the Telegraph’s headline being,
“VIDEO GAME KIDS GOING CRAZY”.
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Man that article was rubbish. It seemed to be saying that all teenagers were like this and completely ignored the idea of gaming being a social outlet.
So here’s the thing peeps!
I did my little TAYbie sketch last week as, well, a way to alleviate boredom at work. As I added more and more people I realised that some people might get a kick out of it. You guys really seemed to like it, which is great!
And now, once it’s cleaned up and prettyfull, it will be the new TAY image!
Didn’t expect that!
Anyway, there are a few long standing TAYbies who I haven’t had eth pleasure of meeting and therefore don’t appear. In order to rectify this, while I clean up and edit the image, if any of you guys want to appear, feel free to let me know and I’ll see what I can do. It’s not a big deal, I know. But I thought, while the art is still unfinished, I’d put this out there.
So far I realised I forgot to add Rocketman, Lambomann007, Shane and Ruffleberg. This shall be fixed!
So, yeah. Feel free to reply, email me or whatever.
Weekend Update NO SPOILERS
Wanted to play Skyward Sword. Sister wanted to move house. The latter won out to consume most of my free time.
I have a few problems with Skyward Sword, mainly some iffy control ideas, but as I play, the game itself eclipses all these problems. Greatest Zelda game ever? No. But it’s right up there. It tries to take the best of Wind Waker and the best of Twilight Princess as well as do a great many brand new things. Can’t wait to play more.
Progress update: On my second trip to the forest. Looking for Farore’s Flame (I think).
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Keen to be a part of it! I’ll shave and send you a sexy photo!
…shave…my face. I meant face.
…damn it.
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I’ll post an image of myself… I assume UsedMyHandle looks like me… only without the kilt and bagpipes, he may be on a motorcycle.
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just draw a generic guy with a horned helmet and you got me 😛
seriously though if you want i can send you photos… *wink*
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Me too, me too.
Sughly’s interpretation of me is pretty damn sweet, see gravater pic.
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Its too early to call Skywards Sword’s stature amongst Zelda games! You havent even finished it yet! Gah! I’m not sure how far into it I am… I have no idea how many temples are still in store for me, but I’m finding it to be one of the most emotionally involving Zeldas at least. Well, so far…
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Re; Zelda
I was unsure about the controls too, most notably the lack of IR aiming. But then I realised that what they’ve done is actually pretty cool: using the motion plus to aim allows you hold the wii remote however you want and just make relative motions.
So I hold the remote by my side for everything except sword swipes, pointing off at an angle from the TV, and just make sure that it’s in my desired neutral position when I press B to arm a weapon. Works quite nicely and probably better than IR.
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I should point out that I haven’t even finished the first dungeon, so I’m probably not qualified to make a full judgement on the controls yet.
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I didn’t get to try it but I’ve been hearing mixed reviews all weekend, which is to be expected I guess because not everyone likes the same things. One thing I’ve been consistently reading even among people who enjoyed the game is that character customisation is very poor. How’d you find it? Also what’s the game like with no auto attack?
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The character customisation could be much improved, yeah – I’ve only found two (male) hairstyles that I don’t think are ridiculous, and there isn’t that much of a range of options. That said, I did manage to create a few characters that I don’t think are hideously ugly.
My laptop isn’t really set up for SWTOR (I’ve gotta get a new one), so it hardly runs smoothly, but I’ve found combat to be pretty fluid. The basic attack runs on a cooldown anyway, so it’s not as though you can just mash the button. I’m not really an MMO player so I can’ t compare it to others, but it seems good enough.
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DAT SWTOR BETA.
For those of you who didn’t get in, I am sorry. It was awesome.
Also, that’s the main reason I didn’t post at all in TAY.
So, I bought a new laptop last week and set it up on Saturday.
I’ve joined Steam *shudder* and bought Minecraft…
Other than that I spent Sunday downloading mods and wandering around Skyrim… when I wasn’t grinding smithing or farming archery skills off my follower.
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I really like Steam (when it works), but I suspect that part of it is that it tracks how long I’ve spent playing each game.
If anyone is looking for a Steam friend, I go by MrMcGarnical. I’ve already made one friend from Kotaku, and the more the merrier!
Don’t know why I added the “Mr”. It’s not like McGarnical was taken. For some reason I add the Mr for anything PC. (Kotaku is cross platform I guess.)
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You know I played Minecraft after I played Skyrim for a while.
In Skyrim I was running around mining, fighting skeletons, spiders and killed a pig…
In Minecraft I mined for ore, fought a skeleton and killed a pig.
It was like I was playing the Atari 2600 version of Skyrim after a while lol.
Also – started playing Shadows of the Damned
Man that game has some SERIOUS short falls.. but at the same time it is HILARIOUS and some of the references are just brilliant – so i keep playing..
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The fact that you’re enjoying a game where the main weapon is called the “Boner” does not surprise me.
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Really.. me either. LOL
But seriously – the controls are just HORRIBLE
and it took me 4 hours before i started dying on Normal Difficulty.
4 HOURS!!
A bunch of things really irk me, but it’s actually really interesting and amusing so i don’t want to stop playing…
#TooHumanalloveragain
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Yeah.. but more awkward.
I mean you can still move while you’re shooting which is a plus, but the way the buttons are laid out is a mess – but that migth be a more PS3 thing, maybe
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I want a Resident Evil with Dead Space controls. That game nailed it, IMHO.
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Skyrim players, I found a fun exploit on the weekend if that is your thing:
Lbh arrq gur jrerjbys cbjre, n cynva (abg rapunagrq) gjb unaqrq jrncba naq n punetrq fgnss bs lbhe pubvpr.
Rdhvc gur 2u jrncba, tb vagb gur vgrz zrah, rdhvc fgnss, rdhvc 2u jrncba, rkvg zrah.
Gura punatr vagb jrerjbys naq lbh jvyy or ubyqvat gur fgnss va bar unaq naq lbhe bgure unaq jvyy qb gur fgnss’f rssrpg jvgu rnpu uvg. Guvf jvyy abg hfr nal punetrf naq bayl arrqf gur zvavzhz punetr va gur fgnss.
Zbfg sha jvgu n fgnss bs sveronyyf sbe rkcybqvat svfgf bs shel.
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Originally thought I’d read it and see what it was.
I now have every intention of doing it, if only for laughs 😀
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I dunno, even twilight might be watchable if the werewolves ran around punching people so hard they exploded.
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Every week I wrack my brains to think of something new to sell to you guys (just kidding). This is something that might appeal to some of you.
Come 2012, I will be getting a short comic (or two) published in the upcoming Beginnings Anthology, produced by the ACT Comic Meet group. Info here: http://beginningsanthology.blogspot.com/2011/10/call-for-submissions.html
They are running a campaign at IndieGoGo, trying to get funding to get the book up and running, with some very cool perks for donators. Info here: http://www.indiegogo.com/In-the-Beginnings-A-comic-anthology
Feel free to give, or not. (If you do give, I recommend a pre-order package, because then you get the book when it comes out)
In other news, and just because I’ve already passed the number of links moderation threshold, there are now 22 people who have applied to win one of three free copies of my book. You don’t get raffles with odds that good, so add your name to the clamouring throng here: http://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/17389-the-lesser-evil-book-1
Selling over. Now on with your regularly scheduled TAY.
BLOODY HELL… that Steam Sale was freakin’ awesome 😀 I think I quadrupled my catalogue. Fallout 1 and 2, Max Payne 2, Sam and Max Collection (seasons 1 2 AND 3), Overlord 1 2 and the Expansion, Portal 2, Limbo, World of Goo, Trauma, Orcs must die, Oddworld Abe 1 and 2, Munches Oddysey and Strangers Wrath… all that and I never broke the 50 dollar ceiling 😀
How did all you guys go this weekend? Get anything good?
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First steam sale where I avoided buying anything! I think. No. Wait. Shit. Bought Limbo for my cousin.
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I just picked up some DLC. Lonesome Rd for New Vegas (I’ve heard it’s ordinary but you know, it was like $2.50). But now Ineed to update my mod (Project Nevada). Also got ome hand-picked bits for Civ V, and a couple of packs for Worms Reloaded. The Worms packs are really decent I reckon.
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only thing I grabbed was the Serious Sam pack, not much else grabbed my eye.
though I did laugh at the fact that Modern Warfare 2 is on sale and it’s still nearly $50.
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So far I only bought Orcs must die and oddworld: strangers wrath.
Actually scratch that I bought Limbo and Detour the other day as wellLast day so just will have a browse through and see what I might pickup. So far interested in majesty 2 DLC, maybe some sanctum DLC, and definitely the purple tentacle robe for magicka.
Was tempted by Alice but it appears they don’t want my money, stupid Australia tax.
I was playing Greed Corp last night. Hadn’t played it for ages. For some reason I love that game.
I’ve just found out it’s on iPad. My resistance is weakening.
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IT’S ON SALE TODAY ON PC FOR $2.50. http://store.steampowered.com/app/48950/?snr=1_4_4__617
Ahem.
It’s basically a board game. It’s got hex tiles and the only way to get extra money is to put harvesters down which as they give you money they destroy the land. Eventually it collapses into the clouds below and soon you’re fighting over a few scraps of islands. Games go for about 15 minutes and have surprising reversals of fortune. There is zero luck element so it’s all about your understanding of the game.
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OHH!!!
I remember seeing a preview for that a while ago.
But i have 2 problems.1. I can’t buy anything while the KKP is on
2. I don’t know how wel lthat would run on my crappy laptop.Does look good, though.
Have you tried atom zombie smasher yet? That game is also brilliant-
Check ur steams.
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You sneaky devil. LOL
Thanks dude – i owe you one 🙂
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Interesting indie games seem to breed on my machine. I’ve got Atom Zombie Smasher from a bundle at some point. It’s a neat game for sure!
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I started a new campaign the other night to try for the Hardcore and Permadeath mod achievement.
Dear lord that is hard
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Okay, I have a deal for anyone who lives in melb.
I have 2 x Foo Fighters Tix for Sat 3rd Dec at AAMI Park. They are GA (standing room) right up near the stage if anyone is keen to go.
I am selling them to whoever wants them for $210 for the pair. (I will send them express post straight to ya’s. Email me at morfling(at)gmail(dot)com
I am finally getting into Saints Row 3. I was really disappointed with it at first, but more things seem to be unlocking as time goes by, plus the missions are getting a little more interesting.
Plus having a muscle bound hulk running down the street in pink bunny slippers a bright purple g-string and massive red mad hatter top hat, while wielding a giant purple dildo as a weapon, is just plain AWESOME!
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Yeah, I think I’m towards the end… I’m churning through missions now.
The Stronghold customisation is really what I wanted from each crib… and I feel it was noticible when it was absent.
TAAAAAAAAAAAAAY…
i have re-arranged my priorities so hopefully now work won’t get in the way of us….
i’ve missed you so much it hurts sometimes :'(
This weekend I got a refund for the two headsets I bought that didn’t work, got a headset that did work, built a new computer, got told by Windows 7 that I need to reactivate it because of the new parts, spilt an iced coffee Breaka on my laptop (which make some of the keys in the top left corner a little stiff but otherwise it ate an orange and is k), tested the new PC by playing on SC2 on Kulas Extreme and just massing carriers and a Mothership, watched Dreamhack (yay manner Nexus), watched more Dreamhack (dat Phoenix Control), went to a BBQ/pool party, had a friend offer to bake me and my housemate cake because we live so close to her now (yay!), played a little LOL and found out that I suck terribly with Renekton and failed to watch The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.
Such a failure of a weekend /o\
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Also, there was the office Christmas party where I drunk much cheap German beer. Well, the price was cheap. The beer itself was rather good.
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“…failed to watch The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.”
I feel your pain man, I did that once. Turns out I was facing the wrong way. Rookie mistake. 🙁
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local-level LAN tournament. I’m pretty excited cuz I want us to take out the DOTA and CS:S comps. And I haven’t even practiced once so things will definitely go down well!
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I’ve got a bunch of friends going this weekend, I’m not entirely sure if I will or not, if I do, I’ll be sure to introduce myself finally 😀
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Despite having the game for a few weeks and having over 40 hours of play time in it I just learnt yesterday that it’s possible to sprint in Skyrim. The revalation came entirely by accident. Normally when I move I run and if I want to walk I hold down the shift key. After walking around a bit yesterday I found that my shift key had reversed its function. I was now walking everywhere and had to hold down shift to run. Checking my keybindings I saw what the problem was, I’d accidently hit caps lock and turned auto run off, but also saw that alt was bound to run. Testing it out ingame I found my character sprinting all over the place. Suddenly horses didn’t seem so useless and my journies around Skyrim became much quicker.
Everyone – i know it’s Monday – but it’s time to get fired up!!
This should help you through your day!
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I’ve heard people talk of time-travel, though I’ve never done it myself. Guess this means I’m a Time…Jarl…
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oh god the floor’s on fire!
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GREAT SCOTT, the UPS under his table managed to spike at 1.21 GigaWatts of electricity
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Morning All. So, my experiment of an xbox free weekend has proven one thing only. I should not do xbox free weekends. Apart from driving my wife to utter distraction, i was just bored out of my mind, and still didnt really get anything done around the house.
This being said, im going to have to spend many hours this week to make up for lost time.
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Welcome back to the fold 🙂
You don’t need to quit xbox if you think you’re spending too much time on it, just cut back a bit so you can do other things alongside playing xbox.-
i wasnt quitting so much as, yeah, taking time to see how i would cope, i think even the wife wants me to never have an xbox free weekend again. lol.
But at least i know im just as useless when not gaming as when i spend 8 hours on the box.
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I beat Arkham City last night.
Without spoiling anything, I was quite surprised by the plot twists, especially in the second half of the game. I thoroughly enjoyed this game, and thought it was brilliant the way it pretty much forced you to adapt different techniques to every situation, while still maintaining excellent flexibility.
This is my GOTY for sure.
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it is pretty amazing, although the ending was sorta…
“but, but it can’t end like that can it?
can it?
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*credits roll*
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but”-
V ybir gur zrffrq hc zbenyvgl bs Ongzna. Gung ur jbhyq unir fnirq Gur Wbxre naljnl. Gung ur rira zbheaf uvz. Gung ur pneevrf uvf pbecfr bhg bs Nexunz Pvgl. Jung vf gurer yrsg gb fnl? Cresrpg cynpr sbe gur perqvgf, VZB.
Vg’f fhpu n terng vqrn, naq irel qnevat gb znxr n znvafgernz Ongzna fgbel fb sne bhgfvqr gur bssvpvny pbagvahvgl.
Naq gur fpevcg vf vaperqvoyl gvtug. Sebz gur gevnyf bs En’f Ny Tuhy bajneqf, gur jubyr fgbel vf nobhg, svefg naq sberzbfg, Ongzna’f fgrnqsnfg ershfny gb xvyy. Vebavp gung vg gheaf bhg gb or gur zbfg oybbqguvefgl Ongzna gnyr V pna erzrzore, jvgu n jubyr ubfg bs Ebthrf tbvat qbja. Gnyvn naq En’f (gubhtu cerfhznoyl uvz abg creznaragyl), Gur Wbxre, rgp.
V nyfb ybirq ubj gur fgbel sbphfrq ba whfg n srj Ebthrf guvf gvzr nebhaq, vafgrnq bs univat gur znva fgbel oevat lbh vagb pbagnpg jvgu gurz nyy. Zhpu gvtugre fgbel, naq cebivqrf gur bccbeghavgl sbe rkpryyrag fvqr dhrfgf.
TBGL sbe fher.
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v shyyl nterr,
v whfg pna’g oryvrir ubj vairfgrq v jnf va gur punenpgref, jura Wbxre ghearq bhg abg gb or Wbxre jnf na njrfbzr gjvfg.
naq jura Wbxre tbg fgnoorq, v npghnyyl sryg fnq, naq v pbhyqa’g haqrefgnaq jul.ab qbhog nobhg vg, gurl gbbx evfxf, ohg va grezf bs trggvat vairfgrq va gur fgbel, vg jnf jryy jbegu vg. rira gur yvggyr fvqr dhrfgf gung qvqa’g ernyyl unir zhpu gb qb jvgu gur znva fgbel zvkrq va jryy, gurl ernyyl qvq na njrfbzr wbo ng perngvat vaperqvoyr, lrg oryvrinoyr punenpgref sbe fher.
v qrsvavgryl nterr jvgu gur TBGL nf jryy, orfg tnzr v’ir cynlrq nyy lrne
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Is it batman calling Alfred asking him to pick up some milk on the way home?
Batman would probably be out of milk.PLOT TWIST!!
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Morning All 😀
howdy doody?
I played LoL with a few excellent Chaps and Chapettes. They where good and I was terrible hahaha, it is now obvious that i need to practice which is something I never do for anything #breakingoldhabits. Other than that I failed to Get much Gaming in due to working at the video store an awful lot. I had a pretty easy weekend, hope everyone had a good one too.
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Morning Di11… how are you? i’m good thank you for asking…
aside from Friday night on TS which was a blast (we need more people in TF2 next time though) i had a pretty ordinary weekend… got up at 6 to drive to wagga wagga saturday, came back sunday and had a drinking marathon with a few scrubs… i mean a Scrubs marathon with a few drinks… and pizza… so much pizza… good times-
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that’s where we got pizza from dude 😛
FYI anyone in the canberra area… The Strip in Queanbeyan makes AMAZING pizza
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He’s covering up.
Unlike the women there.
HIGH FIVE!
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i’m still confused by the tipping thing… american’s have $1 bills right?
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That’s why there’s such a high death rate of strippers in Australia. People keep throwing small metal discs at them, rather than paper.
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this conversation seemed to have gone on a tangent i did not expect…
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so about dem TF2’s huh?
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The problem is definitely having more than one link. I tested it out with TABTOL this morning and avoided moderation by keeping the links in different posts.
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http://www.news.com.au/technology/teens-hooked-on-computer-games/story-e6frfro0-1226207597115
so. . . you guys ready to have your pastimes martyred for the sake of lazy parenting yet again?
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Thankfully it appears most of the comments are calling this out for the bullshit blame shift it is.
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Disconnect, mental disease cured in a week?
More seriously, it’s good to see the number of people calling this crap out.
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To be fair internet and video game addiction is an actual thing, though I know most ‘normal’ gamers are loath to admit it, and any help provided to those suffering is a good thing. While the article itself and some of the parents quoted does seem to be pushing the ‘video games are evil’ angle, though only slightly when compared to the likes of Fox News, the people behind trying to get it recognised as a disorder seem to generally want to help people, at least as far as I can tell.
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Yeah, there’s actually not a great deal wrong with the story, it’s the idiotic panic-inducing headlines screaming at everyone that’s the problem.
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Goddamn, I just realised this is the front page story for nearly every News.com.au subsidiary on the net. . .
Okay, last time I tried this it wasn’t very successful. Let’s see if we can change it this time.
TAYbies, let’s learn to not suck at Starcraft 2!
There’s too much LOL going on, we need some diversity in TeamSpeak and methinks getting people to play SC2 might just be the trick. Also, I just want to start playing the game more. Last time, we did a few things like Kulas Extreme and Monobattles. This time, I think we play the game a little more normally.
Some 4vs4 against bots, maybe some team battles between TAYbies. If we feel like it, we can step into the ladder and be a complete shambles. That could be fun.
What say you?
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Methinks this is going to be a case of whoever’s on TeamSpeak and not playing LoL will be roped in :p So finding slots shouldn’t be too difficult.
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Everyday? :p
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Haha will see how we go. I am pretty much invincible in Skyrim as of yesterday so I expect to burn through the quest-lines now.
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There are times in a man’s life when he knows he does something he’ll regret. This is one of those moments:
KEEP SHOOTING IT! IT MIGHT FIX IT!
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Why not do both?
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oh sorry Morkai..
how are you? good? how was your weekend
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*cue mention of stereotypical horny viking… I mean… oops, didn’t mean to type that
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woah woah, settle down there tiger, I’m not ready to go steady with you just yet…
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WE KNOW WHO YOU ARE ALREADY YOU KNOW
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i think the reply button is stealing peoples identities to lul us into a falls sense of security…
IT’S A CONSPIRACY
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A brand new Ford Fiesta – Bright red 🙂 Its always been the dream to have a red car and now its happening. Small dream, but its a dream
hahah nah I didn’t make the cut. That’s okay. I’ve already gotten over it 🙂
The response from everybody alone was worth it. You guys really made my day- no, MY LIFE. Thank you. Every single one of you.
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You know whats really weird? I was just thinking about whether you got through or not this morning. I was like yeah thatd be cool if Harli won the whole thing. What makes it really weird though is I just realised I was thinking this in the shower. I’m not sure why.
I’ll let you ponnder on that one for a while…
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i would say no becuase thats my favourite thinking about people spot as well. but then i remembered im from the gold coast….so maybe its a south east queensland thing.
mmmm twice a day to think about people…
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perfectly normal to think of people in the shower, as long as you’re wearing your mandatory shower shorts http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBT7uzr4bGI
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Well that’s just the stupidest thing I’ve heard all day. Gizmodo people are clueless. Harli’s was clearly the best. 🙁
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I shot it and fixed it! 😀
Tay is now unbroke!I think my best (and first) break was longer than todays…
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New rule to TAY: If something breaks, shoot it till the laws of science come full circle, and they un-break.
Also, only Loops has the required hardware to do this.I’m kinda seeing this as the antithesis to that thing I refuse to mention for fear of incurring a certain person’s wrath. The thing that sounds like disappointment.
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but i was going to go the Minecraft tangent and punch everything… please?
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Punch everything. That goes without saying.
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Good Morning TAY. How’s everyone doing? I had a pretty good weekend. Had to work quite a bit, but 9 hours with Sunday pay rates is never a bad thing. Got some more Skyrim in, and got the email from Ozgameshop that Arkham City is on the way 🙂
My dad is also going to pick our new car this afternoon. Old one was getting old and starting to fall apart, not worth the money to keep fixing it.
This week is going to be a bit crazy in my house. My younger sister is having her engagement party this weekend. Some 100 people are going to be at our place on Saturday afternoon. Save me now, things are going to be interesting to say the least.
MY POST IS APPROVE AND TAY IS FIX!!!
GO READ!!
http://staging.kotaku.com.au/2011/11/talk-amongst-yourselves-140/#comment-454444
LAVISH YOUR ATTENTION UPON ME!
Good morning TAY, been a bit of a lousy weekend, between having a cold and dealing with one of our cats being quite sick, its not looking good for her and we are all quite sad right now.
Playing Skyrim over the weekend I’ve learned that I really have to quicksave often because the game has a terrible habit of crashing on my computer. It really sucks to be exploring out and about for half an hour without saving and have the game crash on you.
Also restarted AssRev to see if I enjoy it better the second time around. Into sequence 3 and its not going very well…
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A few months ago my cat was insanely sick, threw up like 17 times over the course of the day. Was just an intestinal blockage that was fixed almost immediately after the vet visit. Here’s hoping it’s something that simple with yours.
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I’ve been through many a situation of unwell cats. There’s no proper words to express my sympathy, so all I can do is give you a virtual hug from a virtual stranger. *hugs* Hope it all works out well for you.
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Cats are such a pain – we’ve had 2 scary runs to the bet because of ours… Hope everything works out, though – even if it is looking bleak.
Morning TAYbies…
I have 6 AAA games that were all released in the last 3 months sitting on my desk and I spent 7 hours this weekend playing a game from 2008! Damn good fun though.
Also I want to get into MC again so i can make a cool house so ill do that soon too!
Hope you all had a good game playing time this weekend.
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come join the craziness on the MC server then….
but watch out for Stevo… he has an affliction to lava… and my wooden ship… and fire…. so now i have a house of stone 😛
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come ooooon thunderstorm 😛
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoW_ZOfsrzA — Ah, the Fifth Element. This scenes got to be up there with some of the most iconic in sci-fi history.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0qy3JHz6X0 — less crappy clip, should’ve watched before posting. 😀
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wait wait wait…. you have a cinema at work? if you dont work at a cinema, you need to explain this & temm me how I can convice my employer that a cinema in my office is beneficial for productivity.
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haha, no I don’t work at a cinema, I actually work at the studio in Sydney where we’ve just wrapped up making… an animated feature… yes… that… the cinema in the middle of the building was originally for screening “dailies” or individuals scenes that were being worked on, but now that the movie is finished, and has been released, we just watch blu rays in there when there’s nothing else to do 😀
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I’m going to join in the lousy weekend chorus. Let’s just say that sometimes being married is more lonely than being single.
Also, I think I may have heat stroke. I had to push my son and the bass clarinet in the pram all the way to school again this morning in the already scorching heat and I couldn’t find my hat and I hadn’t eaten anything since lunchtime yesterday.
So if I start acting weirder than usual, that’s my excuse. Heat stroke. 😛
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Aww Strange.. I’m sorry to hear that. Men suck! YEAH! Who’s with me?!
Hmm. Must be in the wrong place 😛
but I hope you’re feeling better and please look after yourself. Lots of water and ice blocks! and eat something already omg -.-
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Things could have been worse. You could have done what I did and watched The Thing prequel. *shudders*
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I knowwwww, I dont know why I did it. I just DONT. Five minutes in, the stern scientist with some kind of European accent is asking the random cute girl to come on his secret expedition, and shes all like ‘Im not going anywhere til someone tells me what this is about!’ and I was like oh nooooo, why did I start this :'(
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What if I had said (more accurately) REwatched? 😛
I’ve read the books, seen the movies, and I’m actually taking my daughter to see the latest one soon.
I am not, nor have I ever been under the impression that they are great, and I definitely don’t understand the obsession (for or against) associated with them, but they are very good for mindless fluffy entertainment.Also, thankfully my daughter is smart enough to not be obsessed with them either. She thinks the kissing parts are silly. 😛
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Doctor Ron was no stranger to horror. Indeed, in his eighteen years in the ER, he’d seen it all. Juvenile hit-and-run victims, stabbings, shootings, mutiliations, even vampire imitation.
He dealt with it by drinking. And he dealt with the drinking by saving lives when he could.
But nothing in the last eighteen years had prepared him for the epidemic sweeping through ERs around the world over the last couple of years…
“Doctor, is it what I think it is?”
“I’m afraid so,” Ron answered grimly. His firm jaw clenched tight as he surveyed the young woman on the gurney, her eyes locked open in a glassy and farseeing stare. A small trickle of spittle leaked unnoticed from her vacant grin.
“Brainwaves?” he asked, seeking confirmation.
“Almost non-existent.”
Doctor Ron hung his head in despair. “No hope, there’s no hope,” he muttered.
“Is there really nothing we can do?” asked the nurse sadly.
“How many times have we seen the Twilight Syndrome come through those door in the last two years?” Ron said through clenched teeth, turning on her. “Once it takes their brains, what can we do?”
The reading on the screen flattened slightly, letting out a piercing tone to alert the medicos to the change. Ron looked up and then closed his eyes.
“That’s it,” he said. “She’s completely brain dead.”
“Shall I take her, doctor?” asked a nearby orderly.
“Yes,” Ron said. “Make her comfortable in the Edward ward. Don’t let any families from the Jacob ward see her.”
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Best story ever.
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Is it wrong that I assumed Doctor Ron was Ron Weasley?
Yes, yes it is. Ron could never be smart enough to be a doctor.
Great story, otherwise!
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Cross-pollination of overhyped popular culture phenomena? WHYNOT.
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Doctor Ron Weasley sighed and rubbed his tired eyes. Too much, it was too much. Ever since he had killed his best friend Harry and forsaken magic forever, he had felt empty inside.
Hollow. Unsubstantial.
Like the world felt today.
He once again wandered past the dispensary and wondered once again how hard it would be to get enough of what he needed to get the job done.
But once again, he shook his head and kept walking.
One day, he told himself. One day.
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I feel complete now. Thankyou.
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My 2 best friends are firmly in the obsessed category. They basically locked me in my room and forced me to read the books, I get dragged to every movie within a week of release (usually gold class parramatta, so kinda makes up for it) but they just don’t understand why I don’t like it as much as they do. Probably something to do with a Y-chromosome 🙂 Sure, they are OK, but the obsession I just don’t get.
And when I walk into Dymocks and see that “Paranormal Romance” has its own section, things are out of hand
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I was dragged to the first movie, and I can confirm absolutely that the kissing parts ARE silly. 😛
It would appear that the muscles used to tread water while throwing and catching a deflated rugby ball are not muscles that I regularly use. Damned exercise, I try to avoid you!
Spent most of the weekend playing The Old Republic beta.
It’s good, but it is just another MMO. Early impressions have me longing for a single player KOTOR3.
There’s nothing that really sets it apart from other MMOs, with the exception of the story driven main quest. But even that got boring after a few hours. Needs more variations in quests. Most are the usual “kill 15 creatures”, “collect 10 crates” etc. I do like the dialouge options and the voice acting is great, as expected from a Bioware game.
For a beta it was rather polished. The animations are excellent. The sound design is pretty good (some of the audio levels when in a dialouge scene could use some work) and hearing that Star Wars music swell when entering battle is an awesome experience.
I’ll still play it on launch but my expectations have been somewhat lowered.
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Agree with most of this, although given that I don’t play MMOs I’m probably liking it more than someone who’s sick of them.
The main story is interesting, and I love the effort they go to in order to make sidequests feel more necessary. Instead of “destroy 10 crates”, they give some backstory about why you need to destroy them, which is often quite fascinating.
I’ll definitely be playing it, but I can’t help but think how many KoTORs they could’ve made with that sort of money. Eight classes is huge, and the amount of content is enormous, but it all feels just a little bit more shallow, role-playing wise, than any of Bioware’s singleplayer games.
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I was playing it as well, I think I’m level 6 now, I rolled a Republic Trooper, and it’s kinda cool. Like most, I really like the voice acting, and the animations are really cool, along with the scenery, which definitely fits the star wars universe.
I have been told by a friend (who spent almost the entire weekend playing, and is now level 20-something) that the story branches a hell of a lot more once you break through level 10, and once you start picking skills, your character feels a lot more like what you’d envision, rather than the cookie cutter started class.
Another one here with a terrible weekend. Nothing particularly bad happened, but left with a feeling that there’s no point existing. I’m going to go listen to some emo music. :p
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Agreed. Emo music is not the answer!!!
And there is always a point in existing. Somebody’s life is always a bit brighter with you in it, even if you’re aware of it. 🙂
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I agree with Harli. No matter how pointless things seem, I promise you that stuff will improve very shortly… :high-five & a hug for DC:
Also, nothing ever warrants post-90’s emo music.
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Thanks guys, you all rock. When ever I feel like this I watch Gattaca. Inspires me every time and puts things in perspective.
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Damn good movie. First viewing on BluRay too!
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Are we still making jokes about you and Pes being an item? Because this seems like a rather opportune moment to keep beating that dead horse.
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“Because this seems like a rather opportune moment to keep beating that dead horse.”
Euphemism?
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Are you not aware that Bjork has been used as sexy-times music by people? You can’t give people this sort of setup, provide little context and not let them have their fun. It’s just cruel.
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that seems a little weird. Especially that song.. it’s oh so quiet.. shhh.. shh.. THEN POW BAM!
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Look, I don’t decide what music people make sexy times to. All I knows is that Bjork has a reputation for providing that music on more than a few occasions.
I mean, is it really the most absurd thing that you’ve heard of people getting up to in the bedroom?
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Morning TAYbies. How is everyone?
I’m slightly underwhelmed by the steam sale. On the bright side it means my wallet is saved from violation.
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Well, it is labelled as the pre-holiday sale.
It’s like the sale before the BIG SALE CAPITAL LETTERS
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Could be worse. It could be the absolutely terrible XBLA sale.
The last few years have been FANTASTIC and I’ve picked up stuff I’ve been waiting for at less than half the original price. This year was a couple of things that nobody cared about at half-hearted discounts.
Mornin’ all! How was everyone’s weekend? I had two Christmas parties Friday night and another one that started Saturday morning and finished Sunday morning. Needless to say I wasn’t very healthy yesterday, and some incriminating videos of me dancing (wiggle wiggle wiggle) have surfaced. Also, did anyone know that you can buy shot-buckets? They are amazing. 28 shots for $30. I bought 4 – Was a very messy night. Also to those who have me on facebook, as much as it may have seemed it Saturday night, I DO NOT want giant male genitalia up my rectum. I lent my phone to a mate to order pizza and this was how he repaid me…
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damn… the bottleshop down from my house (20 meters away) sells shotbuckets for $25… must investigate further
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Maybe for the best?
The bold text got my attention and all I got from your post was the stuff after it.
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hang on a sec…. buckets? with shots? shot buckets? you mean alcoholic beverages of the spirit kind for sale in large quantities? oh god… i think I’m getting a hangover just thinking about it.
$18 jugs of absinth cocktails is the ONLY thing i remember from my birthday last year… well, that and sitting on the ground in front of a stage while Her Space Holiday were on, playing hand-clapping games with someone… messy night.
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shot buckets, i think it’s Bacchus that makes them, you know the lovely people that brought us CS Cowboys etc.
i haven’t tried the bucket’s yet but i’ve had some of their single shots and they are not too bad
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Yes. Then prepare to wait… it took 6 months for my first one to arrive, and I have actually won twice more this year and not received anything yet (once from Mark, once from Tracey – though she did apologise that there was nothing good lying around at the time). Josephine the delivery turtle is verrrrry slow.
I should probably email Mark to remind him, but, well, that just feels rude when I’m getting stuff for free 🙂
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I know the feeling. Every time I bring it up, I feel like I shouldn’t be. Still waiting on my first Kudos prize from the end of February. Damned Josephine, I bet an eagle has tried to eat her.
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It appears everyone had a terrible weekend. That sucks. I almost feel bad for how good mine was.
I went to Foreshore festival in Canberra and saw a whole bunch of bands. LMFAO, Architecture in Helsinki, Gypsy and the Cat, Boy and Bear and Gotye were the ones I really remember. Gotye was amazing, the talent of that man is incredible. The Stafford Brothers also played but I remembered that song Rocketman posted and avoided them. I feel that was a good decision.
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While I’m only 25 I feel old because I don’t know these bands the kids are listening to these days. I only know LMFAO because they shuffle ad nauseum.
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pffft kids these days
*turns on Mozart*
on a serious note i know what you mean… this here so called “modern” stuff… i don’t get it…
Metallica, Poets of the Fall, D.A.D, Dizzy Mizz Lizzy, Muse, Within Temptation… now that’s muzak… -
Most of the bands the kids are listening to are generally Triple J bands that slowly leak into a kind of pop attention. Most of them arent really that great or interesting. Best music these days is found on the nets, trawling forums and blogs until you find people that share your tastes. Finding good music = lots of effort.
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Something I found amusing when I did listen to Triple J would be when I got into my friends car and they were listening to Nova or B105 or something like that. Inevitably, we’d hear “and now for a new song from band X” which would always be something that Triple J had been flogging for months.
My personal favourite was Cee Lo Green, because “Forget You” just doesn’t work as well as “Fuck You”.
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Haha! Yeah but Triple J are pretty guilty of this themselves. I remember listening to Mumford and sons about a year before Triple J ‘discovered’ them. The amount of stuff though that just seems to go unnoticed by even Triple J is a bit sad really.
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Mumford and Sons was one of those weird ones where it seems like Triple J was the first “big” station to really give them a break and turn Little Lion Man into as big a song as it was, yet it was all floating around for a while before then.
Makes me wonder how they source their music. Aside from the Unearthed stuff, of course.
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Exactly! Its so true! It seems like sometimes they are on the ball with some bands, but other times, even when every blog I can think of is talking about a band, they wont play them. I dun geddit.
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I don’t even follow that stuff but I do hear the odd song before I hear it on the radio.
The part that amuses me the most about it all is when commercial radio stations try that “you heard it first on …” when in fact, that was one of the last places I heard it.
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Lately I’ve found that finding good music = wait until Sughly says he likes something. Zola Jesus and M83 in the last few weeks. It’s a good system.
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Niiiiice! You got into Zola! Ive tried to recommend her whenever I get the oportunity, but I also understand she’s not everyone’s cup o tea. It’s just kind of the thing I’m into at the moment. But holy hell, Vessel is just amazing. That end part is just, gah! Volume up, give into it.
M83 is too easy to recommend, everyone loves him!
I heard that LMFAO shuffle everyday. How scandalous!
Oddly enough, I know of all of these bands and have even heard their music but I couldn’t tell you which is which. They all sound the same to me. Which is why I switched from listening to Triple J to Triple M.
On a related note, I swear that Triple M tries to be as bogan as possible. They have the market cornered for music that doesn’t suck but they fail to realise that there are people who like Queen who don’t like chucking slabs of XXXX in the back of the ute and something something something bloody oath.
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lolol! Similarly while in France I was told Australian beer is terrible. When I tried to defend Aus beer, I realised that they think Fosters and XXXX represents all Australian beer. So sad…
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I never used to like LMFAO, but after exposure to them on my PNO Cruise, I grew to like them purely for what they can do to a dance-floor when one of their songs comes on.
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Yeah, its not so much that I think they’re terrible, because their songs can admittedly be quite catchy, their music just plays with alarming regularity on the radio. I must’ve heard Party Rock Anthem thousands of times this year.
Maybe one day I will bother to switch to Triple J, but honestly I’m a sucker for 2DayFM when I’m driving.
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Well my weekend was a big diferent
I got beat up, jumped on, drooled on, laughed at, growled at, hugged, kissed, headbutted and told stories by so many different little ones.
I was in heaven
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The wat?
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Sure, but you were in Canberra.
Canberra!
Have you ever been there!?
I have. Man. Dat Canberra.
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People should come to Canberra more often. Specifically, during the weekend.
With alcohol.
And games.…call me?
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*turns off Boomblaster*
wat’choo mean foo’?
we ain’t ghetto… fo shizzle… my dizzle*puts viking helmet on a slant*
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oh right that kind of ghetto.
*grabs Snap-back and NBA jersey*
where mah bois at
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Hey home’, I can dig it.
Slide a piece o’ da’ porter. Drinks, I run da’ java.
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Shii son wer u at
i gat dat shmoove flow
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yo dawg, my ghetto skillz be bitching…
aight, i do get down dat google translate be failing me on occasions
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yeah all it needs is a few really high wall’s and armed patrols. #MakingAustraliaABetterPlace
Yeah, but you’re forgetting the obvious advantage that comes with being in the ACT:
Shut up!
*runs away*
Gotye \o/
You’re right about his talent. I’m pretty sure there’s a highlander thing going on with him, eatin’ up other people’s talent.
a group of 20 youths came into my video store on saturday and started shuffling singing that song and playing it on their iphones. i was quite amused.
one of the dudes was in tiger coloured undies. <–quickly became unamused.
I had a decent weekend. Played Zelda, visited family and watched The Assassination of Jesse James etc (which I will discuss later) on Saturday, looked after my son all day and wrote a twitter bot on Sunday. Didn’t get to play any Zelda on Sunday which was disappointing but did play the first world in Mario 3D. Good fun.
Did anyone actually buy WWE ’12 last week, or was it forgotten in the torrent of other games released?
I went and saw the inbetweeners movie…
It was good.
I’d have worn my wellies if I’d have known I was going to be knee deep in frothing wet *****.
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Ah I saw that yesterday as well. ‘Twas very funny. I was a bit worried that the jokes would get repetitive after an hour and a half straight. I don’t know why I thought that, looking back…
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Reasons Canberra is Australia’s Ghetto
It’s run by a big-booty-biatch
Readily available Pron
Readily available drugs
They have a dude called “K-Rudd”
In fact, all political types need gang-banger names.
J-Gills
T-Abbot-Pain
Vanilla Costello
Notorious I-A-N
Snoop John
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Hey… knock a self a pro, Slick! That gray matter backlot perform us DOWN, I take TCB-in’, man!
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LOL! Thanks Pupplicks 😀 I’ll probably be updating on twitter on the day so look out for the ;( or ;D !
Bought tickets to see Ross Noble in Sydney early next year. Found out about it immediately after he announced the show on twitter, so I was able to buy a front row seat – which is something I’ve always wanted to do but never managed in the 4 or 5 times I’ve seen him in the past.
So now I’m sitting front row, right in the centre near the aisle. And I’m having some regret. If you’ve ever been to one of his shows before – and you should, he’s bloody hilarious – you will realise that I have a very real chance of being picked out for ridicule in front of several thousand people.
*gulp*
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I had a mate get ripped to shreds at one of his shows a few years back. He was in tears cause he couldn’t stop laughing, which set Mr Noble off further.
He’s gotta be on of the best comedians I’ve ever seen.
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Massive emphasis on the don’t be late policy. He’ll call you on it for the rest of the show. Oh, don’t get out of your seat 😀
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Survival tips for front-line Noble :
* Dont be late
* Dont have any items of clothing that stand out
* Dont heckle
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Yeah, I’ve been to enough of his shows to be fully aware of these dangers. So I shall turn up well before time wrapped in a plain white sheet. That should do nicely to avoid all attention.
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Crappy way to find out Google are planning more months. Maybe Apple or Microsoft will follow suit?
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I have never understood the American date format. Why would someone think it is a better idea?
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Far as I’m aware, it’s based off the way they say it, i.e. “Today is November the 28th”.
Some people call it American format, others call it WRONG.
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It does make some sense when you consider that they naturally say dates as “November 28”. I guess the month is also the more important thing you’re looking for when you’re skimming a list of dates.
Just try living there. It’s absolute murder writing dates, you end up second guessing and translating every single time you do it.
But I agree the English/Australian way is definitely more logical.
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No it doesn’t. DD/MM/YYYY does, the asian YYYY/MM/DD does as well. But month before day is just crazy and backwards.
But then again, this is the same country that uses the length of the king they gained independence from over two centuries ago’s foot.
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We have seperate folders for years. So we file MM.DD – Note relating to Blah Blah.doc
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Having a Big-Endian or Little-endian date format makes sense. Having to go from the middle sized unit (month) to a smaller unit (day) then back to a bigger unit (year) is silly.
Saw this on the weekend at my local Pop Culture store, Pupcultcha
http://store.penny-arcade.com/products/penny-arcade-the-game-gamers-vs-evil
niiiiccceee
It appears my housemate is getting into a soundwar with the neighbours. They were in the backyard being all noisy like and he decided to blast what he refers to as “gay music” loudly. He was taking requests from his friends on facebook and someone requested Basshunter.
Have I missed something here? Did the translation from Swedish nerd music to English sappy love pop turn Basshunter into a gay icon alongside Kylie Minogue and Lady Gaga?
Dammit, now I’m all confused.
Not that sort of confused.
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Actually, he wanted to be with an IRC bot that turned out to be a real girl with admin privileges.
He also wanted to be on Ventrilo, playing DotA. Which I believe he was able to do :p
Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
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Freaking stupid seinfeld episode that people quote all the time. YOU AREN’T THAT FUNNY JERRY SEINFELD
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What’s this? Gay music?
I’M YOUR MANOn an unrelated note, people at the ARIAs last night were asked what their favourite Kylie song was and even Delta Goodrem started singing “I should be so Lucky”.
VINDICATION-
The ARIAs were on last night and I missed them? Why didn’t you tell me so that I could make a big fuss about not giving a damn? Why?
For someone who likes to help, you aren’t very helpful!
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Okay!*
*If you send me US$30
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I’m trying to stuff my wallet into my microphone but nothing is happening!
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Did you accidentally mute yourself again?
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DAMMIT
I mean, shut up!
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hahaha, I had a crazy patient sing that song loudly for a day and a half
…i still love it though!
Has any one read the Film Nerd 2.0 articles at HitFix? They’re insanely good. Basically about the guy sharing movies with his kids, then reporting their reactions. I definitely recommend you read all the Star Wars ones. I didn’t know my black heart could be so warmed at the kids antics. Who knew kids aren’t (entirely) evil after all? http://www.hitfix.com/site/search?q=Film+Nerd+2.0
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I’ve read them before. I’m hanging out for my son to be old enough to watch and enjoy star wars with me 🙂
Following BDKIAF and sughly discussing musics and stuff. I agree with sughly about JJJ alot of there stuff is a bit meh and the only real way to find music that is good is to trawl the interwebs. I also listen to BAlocks indie playlist. I discover so many good bands and songs this way. You do have to go through quite a bit of crap to get to the diamond though!. Also thanks for the hugs and cookies guys!
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Or pick up random albums from record stores. Or go to smaller venues & check out bands you’ve never heard of. Sure, you’ll come across some crap, but there are plenty of good bands out there waiting to be discovered.
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I dunno, its a nice idea… but seriously, at least 9 out of 10 bands that I… ah… sample, are sucky. If I actually found the good bands (that I do support after discovering) by finding them your way, I would be broke.
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let’s just preface this by saying that I’m much more of a metalhead than into the indie/pop scene, but of late, I’ve been trawling music blogs, or *gasp* torrent sites, and downloading compilations or demos of various bands of various styles.
I really like the compilations, especially if they’re not a specific style, because then there’s a little bit of everything, thrash/death/black/crossover/power/NWOBHM etc. and I can almost always find something worth listening to.
Today is a good day. DragonstarDT has released a new Epic Music Mix. I really love this sort of music, and Dragonstar does an amazing job of mixing them together. While I haven’t heard of Mark Petrie before, The man makes some kick ass music. Check it out.
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Learn from me, Numbers!
Structure of fascinating stories as follows:
1. Begin with start of story
2. Get sidetracked with unrelated story
3. Return to original story.
4. Terrible punchline
5. Oh my god, so I was in a medical center today right, and I was watching TV. The Morning Show was on and they had a 13 year old American reviewing movies for whatever reason, and he praised Adam Sandler’s upcoming movie Jack and Jill claiming that “it was really well done”.
6. Also he pronounced Bill Nighy as “Nye-hee”
7. COOL STORY, BISH
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Status Report:
Second coffee for the day: Consumed
Phasers set to: Stunning
Mood: Dapper
Hanging: Slightly to the right
I’m trying to play Batman Arkham City on PC for the fist time now.
I’m up to the third time it’s required me to enter my CD key. I swear it would’ve been so much easier to pirate the damn thing.
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it’s part of the game? like a riddler trophy you have to successfully complete to actually play?i’m helping?
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I like this idea. I’ll try to keep thinking this. Though if it asks me to restart my computer batmans no killing rule will be out the window when I get my hands on that riddler.
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Ahhh, but that’s what sweaty-fat-giant-screaming-man wants you to think!
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I know Notch has a big mouth, but I’m not sure I would say that he screams.
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I lol’ed.
Seriously though, Steve Ballmer still scares me.
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DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS!
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COME ON!
WOOOO!!!
*sweats tidal wave, taking out the front rows*
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3 times?? I only had to enter it once…
Also, I’ve never had problems with GFWL. It’s always worked fine for me. But yeah, having to update something before you can play is very annoying.
Actually, wait, I have had problems with GFWL, sorta. Securom keeps cutting out my MiFi innernet whenever it starts, so I have to disconnect and reconnect it all before the splashscreen disappears so I can connect to GFWL. 🙁
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I hand to enter it once to unlock it on steam. (wouldn’t have been the case if i’d bought it from steam I imagin)
I then had to enter it to for someone else. I can’t remember now but I’m pretty sure it was the publisher.
I then had to enter it again for windows live. Update windows live and then quit the game completly so it could finish updating. I just wanted to play the game! i’ve given up for the moment.
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Here’s hoping it works, after all this trouble. My game box is starting to gather dust. DUST. (Maybe that says more about how clean my house is than the state of the PC version. :D)
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haha have you read any of the books? they’re pretty horrible.. but for some reason I couldn’t put it down until i finished it.
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I read some very poorly written bits over my wife’s shoulder while she was going through them, but I mocked it so mercilessly that she told me to piss off and I stopped.
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Did exactly the same thing. The books trouble me, but I’d say the movies flat-out piss me off. Worst acting ever.
Side note: “movies” is an unrecognised word in Chrome for me…
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Me too. Surely by now the term ‘movie’ is a real word. Either that or we all need to go back to referring to them as talkies. (Chrome seems to like that word better)
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I’m fairly sure that the term “movie” predates “talkies”. Seeing as “movies’ covers all motion pictures, including silent films (and technically .gifs if you want to be a pedant, which I do) while talkies refer specifically to motion pictures with recorded audio.
Really, we should be calling modern films “talkies”, if only because it’s a surprisingly fun word to say.
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“I went down to the audio and visual motion picture establishment…”
Yeah, Chrome says this is fine too.
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Okay, I post a few videos. But SERIOUSLY!
YOU HAVE TO WATCH THIS! A Bacardi video from 1983. IT HAS LASERS! AND SYNTH MUSIC!
Okay, spent the last half hour or so catching up with my morning TAY. And I haven’t even had a coffee yet.
My weekend wasn’t too bad. I had afternoon drinks on Friday because my boss is leaving, which turned into evening drinks, followed by night drinks. Got home at 3 in the morning. Not totally expected but it was a good night. This was followed by feeling absolutely sorry for myself AAALLLLLLL day Saturday, but I went to see an awesome play. If anyone is in Perth I highly recommend going to see The Adventures of Alvin Sputnik: Deep Sea Explorer. Amazing one man show full of animation and puppetry and music. Really enjoyed it.
Too much cleaning on Sunday, not nearly enough gaming, but I did end up watching a whole bunch of episodes of Outsourced. I saw this show late one night on Channel 7 and thought it was hilarious. It wasn’t until I googled it that I realised it was over a year old, and that it was cancelled after the first season. Boo!
Then last night I went to the Perth Festival’s Film launch. Watched Sunset Boulevard. Wasn’t bad, old black and white 50’s movie that it was. I enjoyed the style I think, but not so much the characters, or at least the character development. Still, there was free beer. And free food.
I ended my weekend by giving in and buying 5 new games on steam. Stupid sales. Still, they were all pretty cheap.
Now this has taken me about 20 minutes to type, with bosses and other staff members hovering around, so I really need a coffee.
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I didn’t think it was hacked, just hooked up via bluetooth to start the next animation or something. Either way it’s pretty cool.
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It definitely sounds like some people had a very forgettable weekend. I spent yesterday out at Penrith attempting to do some dragonboat racing. The wind was awful (it nearly got called off at one point), so it was really hard to steer the boat into the starting pontoon – as soon as the boat started to turn the wind would catch it and drift all over the place. I even had to do a reverse parallel park at one point!
At least it wasn’t raining and I had a nice relaxing baby-free day – thanks Batguy!! (even if you didn’t get to play much Zelda)
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I too had a nice, relaxing baby(-related)-free day!
Mostly because I wasn’t invited to my sister’s baby shower, but whatever!
Thanks, Batguy!-
i went to a baby shower not long ago… i was disappointed… much less showering of the baby then i thought there’d be
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Dragonboat racing sounds all kinds of fun. Difficult fun, but definitely fun. 🙂
And yay for not having to think about being a Mum for a bit!
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Like a lot of sports, it’s easy to learn but takes a lot of work to master. It’s huge in QLD though – the Brisbane River Dragons are one of our toughest rivals 🙂
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Finally got my new graphics card, an ATI Radeon 5670… and all that’s left to do is install it…
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Just don’t do what I did when putting the DVD drive in my new PC. Turns out that nicking your finger on the case can result in a lot of blood being smeared on vital components. If you’re lucky, the smearing will just occur on non-vital components like the DVD drive.
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Computer now seems to be hanging on “Starting Windows” screen. 🙁
I’ve installed the card, but it just hangs as stated above.-
The only tech support I can offer is to suggest you throw it out the window. I can guarantee that you will no longer have that specific problem after you follow my advice.
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give it a while, sometimes with new hardware windows has a thing for trying to rebuild some of it’s archives and gets confused, if it hasn’t gotten anywhere in the next 5 – 10 minutes, try starting in safe mode and see if that works
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Tried booting again, accidentally disabled card. Now nothing is showing on the monitor at all.
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i want to play skyrim now except my character looks so ugly i cannot tolerate it…..
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at least my FemShep looks freaking hawttttttttt
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as does my femhawke
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I wonder if/when anybody will realise this is where I’ve been posting since a few weeks ago in previous TAYs????
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Also we clearly do not have enough talk about LoL here. Especially since I am listening to Bish’s LoL playlist. \m/
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RUMBLE IN THE JUUUUNGLEEE
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Harli’s trying to bump up her post count! Don’t fall for it Batguy.
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NovaCascade! I have been found!!
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Stealth posting fail 🙂
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Now we can both dominate the TabTOL charts and nobody will ever know!!!!! *resonating evil laugh*
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Harli, you’re starting to scare me. I think all this posting is having an effect on you. Maybe you should take it easy for a while.
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MWAAAAAAAA HA HA HA HA HAHA HA HAHA!!!!!!!!!!
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Right thats it. Dr What, Future Dr Steve, get in here. We need the biggest needle you have loaded with the most powerful sedative available.
Dr What….?
Steve….?
Oh god, we’re on page 3. No one will find me here. Harli, what have you done?!?!?!?
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Oops, Shane not steve
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Can you imagine SteveO as a doctor? All he’d do is prescribe grog! Medicinal grog. Hmm..
Yeah I think we’re going to be here for a while. Might as well get yourself a volleyball and name it Wilson.
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I’l serve first.
*Toss
*Jump
*Spike
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*dig
*set
*feint
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*Dive
*Miss
*Face full of grass/sandPoint Harli 🙁
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this is pretty fun. I wonder how long we can keep this up before we are found out? You might even make it into the top 5 for next week’s TabTOL!
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At which point someone will surely get suspicious. It is only my 2nd week after all 🙂
If we make it through the week undiscovered, we have to kudos nom each other for epic sneaky posting skills -
Regardless of what happens, I think you are to be commended on a solid effort at keeping up this steady flow of conversation with me. /claps hand on your shoulder
You have my allegiance.
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And my oar!!
No wait, wrong movie.
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Now Harli. I’m going to be away today and wont be back till 5. Try not to take over the world while I’m gone ok? I still a bit worried about you, your volleyball skill notwithstanding
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Don’t worry Nova, I’ll try my best to play nice with the other kids. No promises though.
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Uh, who are you?!?!?!!?
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I don’t care who he is Harli, we’ve been found!! Run. RUUUNNNN
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Well played. Soo… now what?
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THEY KNOW!!! *flees*
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Dugtrio stops your escape with Arena Trap!
Sorry, had to be said 🙂
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omg hey i can reply to your comment now, I thought the chain had been maxed out..
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Maybe we’ve gone so far Kotaku has just said “Fine!! You want to reply to each other? Have at it. I’m tired of trying to stop you!”
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There is a lesson to be learnt here somewhere, I just know it.
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MORE COMMENTS!! MORE COMMENT!! LETS BREAK TAY WITH MORE COMMENTS!!
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thanks for keeping my secret ssssssssssafe………
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….. H..H…. Harli? Whatssss wrong with your voiccccce? Oh God, I’m ssstarting to sssssound the ssssssame!!
What have you sssssssubjected me too?
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Things are starting to get blurry…
also.. it’ssssssss to*
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Curssssse my overexcccccited fingerssssss. They musssst have ssssslipped on the keyssssss.
Wait!! Do you think we may have been poissssssoned by sssssome assssssssassssssin from the Dark Brotherhood? We know that they know, they ssssent a note ssssaying they know, you know.
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WE HAVE BEEN DISCOVERED!!
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While I like the kill animations in Skyrim, having the enemies get a kill animation on me makes me nerd rage.
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Especially when you have 50% health left. Or am I the only one that gets skewered while I’m still healthy?
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Especially when you still have a large chunk of health left and you know if it was just a normal attack it wouldn’t have killed you. My head got cut off yesterday, it sucked.
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Anyone else ever find themselves marathoning movies or TV shows while they’re playing games on the computer? I started watching Futurama on Saturday when I was playing Skyrim, and now three days later I’ve got watched Futurama DVD’s piled up on my coffee table. Its nice to just have something else on in the background, especially if its something you haven’t watched in a good while.
Futurama has the best fake DVD warnings, too. ‘Viewers may not watch this with more than two of their five eyes’.
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Excluding the newest season (which feels hit and miss to me), Futurama is always good in any setting.
I’ve had the TV turned on to Eleven 7:30 onwards during most games (excluding ones where sound is vital, or lots of VC). Simpsons and Futurama mix FTW. -
i always marathon stuff while i play, anything light weight preferably. family guy, american dad, Scrubs, The Office, IT Crowd, That 70’s Show etc.etc. has all been given the treatment… even when i’m using the xbox, i end up having my laptop playing stuff in the background 😛
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oh and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles… and Transformers… though i’m finding it hard to watch Super-God Masterforce in the background as i do not speak japanese… until later in the evening… or at least i believe i can speak japanese…
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It’s one of the reasons I prefer PC gaming over console gaming. I only do it with certain games though. Like if I’m playing a match of LoL, L4D2 multiplayer, building in Minecraft or I’m running a dungeon for the millionth time in WoW.
If it’s a game that actually has a story, such as Skyrim, then I don’t do it and I’m entirely focused on the game.
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I’m going to go play a game called “Urban foraging”. It’s like regular foraging, but the sources of food are actually shops.
Wish me luck!
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If you ever try to get lunch sushi from Mee’s in Manuka in a timely fashion, you’ll realise that Bear has it easy…
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Time appears to be travelling faster today… Not sure if that’s a good thing, but I’ll roll with it.
Morning All!
Does anyone else feel ruined by Skyrim? I look at other games atm and just feel like none of them will make me feel like Skyrim does.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cuNvPNmPSg — they don’t make ads like they used too. You know I’ve got too much time on my hands when I’m watching early ’90s McD commercials. These days we get contrived ‘homey’ ads with fake family drama. Like that horrible new Woolworth’s ad. Don’t get me started. 😀
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soo true.
Remember this? LOL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwmM-WrJaMQ&feature=relatedNot brilliant – but amusing!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0HjtZb4JlA — last ad I’ll post, I swear. Iconic. Now I’m gonna go get me some McDonalds for some unexplainable reason. 😉
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WAT!?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=fvwp&NR=1&v=4W–6KM27WQWATWATWATWATWATWATWATWATWATWATWATWATWATWATWATWAT
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Pffft
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then follow up with this
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I’m convinced more than ever that the allies spiked the Japanese water supply after WW2. 😀
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I win.
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could someone email me the TS channel and the link to kotakuau steam group. im thinking i might go to the local internet cafe this afternoon and play some tf2 and LoL until i have training.
email be Di11enger.91 at gmail.. you know the rest 🙂
I’m looking at getting myself a gaming controller for my PC, has anyone had any positive / negative experiences that they would like to share with me for product research?
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Xbox controller is a thing of beauty on the PC, plus a whole lot of games come with native support these days.
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As it happens, I bought 2 this weekend… a cheap one on Friday and an Xbox one on Sunday.
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Though it’s worth noting that only the wired ones work. (Or atleast that used to be the case, might be a blue tooth solution to the wireless ones now…)
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No, they work just fine with a dongle. Which I’ve lost 🙁
I also found out the other week that the PS3 controllers work really well with macs. They just connect over bluetooth!
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I have my PS3 controller connected to the PC. Works an absolute treat. Not as easy to setup as the 360 one but buy a cheap bluetooth dongle, plug it in and then you’re set. Works a treat and it has one more button (i think)
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Xbox has: A, B, X, Y, Start, Back, RB, RT, LB, LT, Guide, Right Thumbstick, Left Thumbstick and the D-Pad.
Playstation has: Circle, Square, Triangle, X, Start, Select, R1, R2, R3, L1, L2, L3, Guide and D-Pad.
Seems about even to me.
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Definitely go with an Xbox 360 controller. I bought a wireless one off ebay for $30 and got an adaptor for $12 (I think). Works really nicely. Plus I can use it with my xbox too.
Also, you could get a Razer Onza, they are pretty nice. It’s got two programmable bumpers which I use as the stick buttons, and you can change the resistance of the thumbsticks and make them more stiff.
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Stop rocking the boat!
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you’re making me sea sick
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POSTING THIS AGAIN! SERIOUSLY! WATCH IT!
Bacardi ad from 1983. With lasers, exploding fruit and cheesy synth music.
@Trjn – You are correct sir. Merriam-Webster (that’s right, I didn’t go to Wikipedia) reckons that the term ‘movie’ originates around 1911, whereas the term ‘talkie’ comes from about 1913. Motion Picture beats them both at around 1896.
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This is what happens when you try to apply common sense to things you don’t really know. Occasionally you end up being right.
I’ll try to stop doing that in future.
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im going to pick your brain becuase you appear to know what your talking about mr. is it true that one of the first “western” movies was actually an australian film
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Not necessarily a Western as most people are familiar with (most people think of Spaghetti Westerns like the Dollars trilogy) but it still counts.
There are actually a few good Aussies Westerns out there, The Proposition is a pretty good film. Although the bit with the spear is a little odd.
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yeah i have heard of it before, i knew it was definetly one of the first australian feature length films. but last night when i was working in the video store a guy came in and was talking about how great australian cinema is and that we basically created most genre’s and i was like “What’choo talkin’ ’bout, Willis?”
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I’m fairly sure that the Americans and French beat us to the punch on the majority of film genres. I think it was the French. Maybe the Germans? Some European nation.
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yeah i thought the french and germans where like masters of it in the 30s-50s
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have any of you studied film?
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I haven’t but I’m fairly sure that Sughly has.
I just tend to pick up useless tidbits of information. Like how tidbit was originally titbit but Americans were a little squeamish about saying “tit” so they created a minced oath version. It’s also why chicken meat is referred to as white meat and dark meat over there more often than breast and thigh (or was, they might have finally jumped over that hurdle).
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hahaha If there is a trivia night i plan to go to in the future you are one of the people i want to bring with me. the reason I ask is hopefully if they let me in i will be studying Film (digital Media) at ANU
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I’m good at trivia nights for completely different reasons.
Google-fu + smartphones = happy times.
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Hai guys, sup & all that stuff?
My course finishes this week \o/ we’re off to have drinks at the pub Friday arvo woo!
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haha! Well *I think* it’s going to be the pub in Kingscliff (North NSW) on marine parade 😛
and I am me \o/
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To all those who hate playing through a game for a second time.
Arkham City: New Game +
Yes or no?
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Did you struggle at all with the difficulty in your first playthrough? Because the lack of a counter prompt has some serious effects on your combat skills. There’s a particular boss fight that gets insanely more difficult, too.
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I haven’t played it once, let alone a second time, but I’m going to use this opportunity to remind everyone how awesome Nier was. If you did new game + you got to see a different side of the story, with new dialogue. Plus, once you’d played it through I think 3 times and watched all the endings your savegame was wiped. Best New Game + ever. More games need to be like this.
Oh, and no. No Arkham City New Game+. Get back to Demon’s Souls. 😛
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Excellent point. My PS3 has been looking very sad the last couple of days. Demon’s Souls tonight!
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Yes. Wiped. Deleted. It’s a choice you have to make to see the final ending. It ties in with the story.
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I’m half way through and have stalled, probably through lack of interest. I was enjoying it at first, but then realised that I’d probably rather be playing new things.
It does make the fights more interesting if you have become good at them, but then some of them are now so ridiculous that it can take upwards of 20 tries to finish, e.g. the fight with the Joker and his cronies in the steel mill.
Also, while you do have all your items already, it makes little difference to the exploration. Pretty much any time you want to use them to shortcut a level, it says “I don’t have time to do that” if you’re not meant to have discovered it yet. So that can be frustrating.
So I say give it a shot. You’ll probably know after a couple of hours whether you want to continue.
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Resuming my page 3 woes:
Tried booting again, accidentally disabled card. Now nothing is showing on the monitor at all.
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Is your GPU hooked up to the PSU? It might just not have enough power if it’s just running off of the motherboard.
Or, as I suggested before, you can throw it out the window.
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It doesn’t use a power supply. It just gets inserted into the PCI-E slot.
I think my computer’s power supply may be incompatible, as the radeon requires a 400 watt power supply whereas mine is only 350 watt. 🙁
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Now I have to remove the cmos battery… grrr…
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Are you sure you didn’t smear blood on anything?
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Power supplies are rather important. Luckily, they’re also normally pretty cheap. Just a pain to install because you have to reconnect everything.
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What the hell?! Page 4? I caught up to the end of page 2 before noticing how deep the rabbit hole went, and then abandoned playing the ol’ catch-up game. So, if there are any a) duel challenges, b) notices of court summons, c) expressions of eternal devotion d) offers of unusually large sums of money from royalty in Nigeria, or any combination thereof, directed at me on pages 3-4 – I would have totally missed them. Sorry.
My weekend was mostly Skyward Sword. I think I’m pretty close to the end (most of the items/slots on inventory/etc screen are filled). The flying sections are reminding me a heap of sailing in windwaker. Overall, I’m finding it totally rad and the sword-swinging-in-gap-in-enemy’s-defence novelty has not worn off yet.
I need to get back to Dark Souls. I have not touched it since my BLIGHT TOWN table flip last week.
I have downed 2-of-4 Jurassic Park episodes. It’s pretty much a movie constantly interrupted by QTEs. This might sound like a bad thing – but I knew what I was getting into when I started. Online reviews/comments seem to be very negative from people who had no idea of the QTE-fest. My main problem is that I relax during the movie-ish sequences and am not ready at all for randomly sprinkled QTE. I don’t think I can blindly recommend this to people – research it and check out youtube videos of the gameplay to see if it’ll float your boat or not.
The closest I got to Skyrim over the weekend was rewatching Beowolf.
Also, for people who have finished Arkham City (looking at you, Shane), there’s an easter egg you may be interested in. I strongly boldly suggest that people who have not finished it to avoid looking at this. Just don’t do it.
ROT13 URL INCOMING!
uggc://jjj.lbhghor.pbz/jngpu?i=lFgPe8Ggjpx
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Thanks for the link. I already googled the ending when DAN! informed me that I’d missed out on stuff by skipping the credits, and someone spilled that particular Easter Egg there.
Pretty big stuff. 🙂
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Hey guys.
Phase 4
I heard it’s pretty cool – all the cool kids are doing it – you should check it out
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You need to do these reminders when I’m not at work, dangit.
I don’t think I’ve done anything yet because I keep forgetting to do it when I get home.
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8am to 5pm, AEST. (or 9am-6pm if you insist on using daylight savings).
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ok – i’ll remind you tonight then lol
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Thank you kindly.
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Could I please request a three paragraph abuse post after 5:30, directed towards me, so I get my arse into gear with this stuff?
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…*a little early
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The last time I did something all the cool kids were doing I ended up stealing my Grandmothers kidney.
@ BDKIAF
Just received ‘American Gods’!
It’s brand-freaking-new!
Thanks again mate, you’re a bloody legend!
SO i received like 10 books from my online orders and i started reading this is a book by Demitri martin. If any of you guys get a chance i recommend it highly. He has a brand of humor that i find kinda unique. His mind is filled with silliness and it is really reflected in his writing. The book isn’t just one story its a series of funny ancedotes and short stories.
We’ve reached the end of the AAA game release rush now right? Skyward Sword was the end? My wallet can stop with that whole rocking back and forth in a corner sobbing to itself?
Speaking of spending too much money, Skyward Sword arrived this morning. Also blurays, Makoto Shinkai’s 5cm Per Second and Hoshi no Ou Kodomo, the latter of which is the LE release which I decided to splurge extra for since it’s my birthday this week.
Played SW:TOR all weekend. Almost literally. I didn’t actually stay up deliberately on Friday night, I intended to start Saturday, but I was suffering from insomnia and then a friend messaged me with server info and I said ‘I’ll just log in and create a character, maybe play for a few minutes’. This was just after 3am, mind you.
So I play for a bit. Then I’m starting to feel tired and i look at the clock and it’s 9:30 am and it’s light outside. Haven’t gotten sucked in like that since back when I first played WoW. Liking it a lot, though to be fair I’d already preordered the thing so I was possibly predisposed to liking it (though on the flipside, I also preordered FFXIV and look how that turned out)
Generally speaking it’s very obvious that WoW has been their main measuring post, and unlike a lot of MMO developers they’ve realised one of the absolutely critical things you need to do is make sure you cover all of WoW’s base functionality. An unfortunate side effect of this desire combined with the long development cycle they’ve had means that effectively they’ve copy-pasted WoW circa Burning Crusade. In most ways that’s a good thing, but in some ways it isn’t. There’s some design decisions which Blizzard have backed away from over time that I suspect that Bioware is going to end up having to repeat as well.
I was surprised at how laggy the game felt. I’m thinking this might be a lot of why we’re being prevented from being in the launch. While WoW is playable at 300-400ms ping, TOR feels a bit sticky and unresponsive. It’s hard to describe exactly, but my suspicion is that it’s something to do with lag compensation in the client.
I played two different classes to around level 12-13 so far. Playing Sith, because my guildmates and I are going to be Republic when the game launches, and we didn’t want to have to re-run the same experience twice given that beta characters & progress are going to get wiped. I started with a Sith Warrior, and found that reasonably enjoyable, though quite WoW-ish especially once I started to get the hang of the combat system. There’s no auto-attack in the game which is quite a departure and this I think added to the slightly laggy feeling I was getting. The actual content for the Sith warrior was pretty good, especially if you’re a closet Star Wars nerd (visiting the temples of the Dark Lords on Korriban in KotOR was cool then, and it still is). The addition of proper voice acting and dialogue trees to the WoW formula was something I was a bit skeptical about originally, but I’m completely sold on it now. I’d like something a little bit more dynamic in terms of the camera work in the conversations since it’s often blocked like a cheap soap opera (over your shoulder with the NPC’s face in focus, then over their shoulder looking at you, back to the NPC etc) but it’s not as if Lucas himself does it differently (actually, Bioware is probably slightly better at it). The actual voice acting is very strong, as you’d expect. I especially enjoyed being a the snark my Agent was putting out – it actually ended up reminding me of my Dragon Age II play through, where I always chose the sarcastic bitch option (same voice actress for the Agent and DA2’s Female Hawke)
I also played an Imperial Agent and that was reasonable, but I felt like Hutta was a very badly designed starting world compared to Korriban. Too open, too much pointless walking between quest areas. Korriban has fantastic flow, and Hutta doesn’t. The massive amount of people playing doesn’t help matters. I had multiple hairy situations and deaths because of mob repop right on top of where I was in cover. The Agent is interesting with the cover mechanic – most of your abilities can’t be used while standing in the open, you need to take cover behind crates etc. Unfortunately taking cover is an action command like everything else, and so there’s effectively a second or so’s lag while you go into your cover before you can actually begin to unload attacks. Again, lower ping would fix mainly. I suspect on 150-200ms you’d not even notice it. There’s no way to efficiently reposition yourself in cover without breaking cover, moving and then going back into cover again, I’d really like to have some kind of roll or some way to move to cover, and also a bit more control over where I take cover rather than having the game pre-determine the ‘best’ place. But all that aside, the Agent played interestingly, very different to the Sith Warrior and a lot more unique.
My chief worry after what I’ve played is one of re-play value. There are two starting areas, shared between two classes each, and once you finish that you will end up going to the one planet. Effectively when you get there you end up doing the same things. The class-specific quests will change, so your motivation for being in a given place might be different, but effectively you’re still doing the same things. I’m hoping once you get off the second planet things open up a bit, but it seems like there’s only one planet in a given level range so I’m a bit worried it could end up being too linear and uninteresting to cover again with a second character. That said, with the Cataclysm changes, WoW’s leveling experience is this way as well so it might not be a major problem.
Character customization is fairly terrible. It’s not so much the faces themselves as it is the hair styles, at least on the human characters. There’s 20-30 for each gender and yet only 2-3 that don’t look hideous or ridiculous.
Despite the laundry list of complaints, I actually really enjoyed my play time so far and I’m completely sold on it. The complaints I have are almost all minor, or are to do with bugs and issues in the game which I have no doubt will be fixed at some point (eg the game locks up on my machine for 3-4 minutes and chews RAM / HDD when I quit). However the lag side of the equation makes me very confident that when the actual Australian launch comes, it will bring local servers with it.
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In retrospect, I probably should have separated the general bullshit part of this and the TOR part into two separate posts, because that’s a lot of words… 🙁
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I’m going to buy it… I just upgraded my laptop so I could play it.
But, due to the lag and bug fixes, I was going to wait until the AU release anyway.
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Don’t worry, I enjoyed your words.
Still bitter that there’s no actual KotOR 3, but it sounds like a lot of work has gone into it to make it worthy of their “but it haz enuff content for kotor 3,4,5 etc” claim.
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I actually still haven’t seen it. I wanted to watch it in HD since it was made at high resolutions and Shinkai’s visuals should be viewed at as high a fidelity as possible, but an english-language BD release just hasn’t surfaced until now 🙁
I’m hoping that Hoshi o Ou Kodomo / Children Who Chase Lost Voices from Deep Below (why is the english title so damned long?!) is good as well. Have heard mixed reports, but it’s hard to tell for sure since anime fans will whine about almost everything regardless of quality.
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My sister shall be going to my company Christmas party. I will not.
She doesn’t work here.
I find this amusing.
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She’s female and has a full head of hair. Beyond that, I can’t really say because it’s somewhat difficult to judge how attractive relatives you grew up with are if you’re not a Tasmanian (or apparently North Queenslander)
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Does she have a full set of teeth? If she does she’d be one of dem there beudy-queens from the talky-box where I come from.
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Probably. I don’t make a habit of inspecting my family’s dentistry but I can’t imagine why she wouldn’t.
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says the guy who bought 4 buckets of shots! Also i have a apparent lack of class due to my location!
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Well, it’s reasonably simple. There is the office Christmas party, where the peons go to drink. I went to that one on Friday. Then there is the company Christmas party where all the people up the top end of the hierarchy mingle with people who like to do business with us in one way or another. My sister is going to that one.
Technically, I could go to that one as well, but aside from the open bar there isn’t much going on that I’m interested in.
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Hmm, that’s pretty simple but it could have been simpler.
“My sister is engaged to my boss” for example.
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How about “my sister used to be employed by my boss’s son”?
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I don’t get it.
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My sister used to work for the spawn of my employer’s loins.
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Holy crap, she used to work for lions??
Are we talking about talking lions voiced by Liam Neeson like in the Chronicles of Narnia?
Because that would be amazing.
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I like your version of events better. Let’s go with that.
And Johnathon Taylor Thomas voiced lions.
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Matthew Broderick was a pretty cool lion.
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eh eateds bugs and doesn’t afraid of anything.
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He also hakuna matata’s.
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Jeremy Irons and James Earl Jones are the best lion voices. None of that Neeson crap, he sounds too soft.
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Are you being sarcastic cause i thought the best part of that movie was the great soundtrack 🙁
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stuff the movie. shes that hot?
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I think what he’s trying to say is that IS his sister.
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hey i actually really liked that movie. Plus she’s such a down to earth actress which is a plus in my book
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so did 100% of the female population. It is a chick flick!
Wat, no guys, I was being serious.
I really did enjoy that movie.
Pretty sure I’ve talked about it before, especially that scene where the dude is all “HE’S A SHE” except the brother is already back from Europe and he’s all “wat” and the dude demands he drops his pants for proof and he’s all “wat” but does it anyway and then there is a moment where you think “…This kind of seems like it would be sexual harassment or at least extremely inappropriate if this weren’t a comedy”.
I am shocked, nay, wounded that you think I was being sarcastic.
| See this right here?
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That’s a tear to express how dismayed I am by this, and definitely not a mole or anything of the sort.
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Actually that looks like it’s pointing eyes.
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Poiting at my eyes, even.
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I would be angry, but I’m comforting myself with choc mint wafer sticks.
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I plead da fiff.
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for anyone that was wondering about the cinema that I mentioned that we have at work, go here for explanation-fun-times.
http://staging.kotaku.com.au/2011/11/talk-amongst-yourselves-140/comment-page-2/#comment-455314
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see if you can work it out, it’s an animated movie, and it’s been released in the US in the last 2 weeks.
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I just flew to the US to check out what was on.
Would the film you worked on have anything to do with feet?
Not sad feet though. Some other kind of feet….-
yes indeed, I work at Dr D Studios where we’ve just completed Happy Feet 2.
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http://www.drdstudios.com/content/background — Oooh, spiffy looking. When I worked at Big Brother our production offices were like a dilapidated shed. Count yourself lucky, man. 😀
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that’s the fancy offices in Kings Cross dude, I work in an old rail yard 😀
I’m not lying either, we literally work in an old rail yard.
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I’m also on the IMDB listing for HF2 😀
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Ah, the simple joys of having a production credit! 😀 that’s awesome!
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As I mentioned earlier today, I has a wekend full of partying, which left little time for gaming. I forgot to mention that I did however play some magicka. How fun is this game? Despite it’s (numerous) bugs, there is something really rewarding about the control scheme and successfully casting spells once you remember the correct input. The most rewarding thing however is watching a team-mate explode when your hastily magicked thunderbolt spell misses the imp attacking you and hits your ally’s face instead.
Also, the girlfriend is back on night-shift tonight, which means it will be game time all the time! So, TF2 or LoL tonight anyone?
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You better not play games while your girlfriend is at home anymore it sounds like you should probably not ignore her when she does nice things for you. Otherwise you might get beat up.
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Yeah that was dangerous. It’s all good though, I won back my brownie points and now have a reasonable supply stashed up.
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Rize did you used to be in a TF2 clan or something?
Those headshots. Man. I think you were dominating me a fair few times..
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How to quote things out of context 101.
Step the first, find a statement that is completely fine in context but could look dirty if the context was removed.
Step the second, remove the context.
Step the third, enjoy: “I think you were dominating me a fair few times..”
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Like Steve-O, I should not only proofread my post before posting, but Trjn-proof it as well. ;P
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What TF2 server do you guys play on? if I’m on TF2 sometime I’ll jump on 🙂
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If you’re in the kotaku steam group somebody can setup the event. Last time I booked us a private server and I’m happy to do the same this time 🙂
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I switch between 2fort insta for some easy deathmatch, and proper TF2 servers. The actual server doesn’t usually fuss me, though I tend to lean towards games.on.net (I’m on Node). For game modes, again, anything, but tend to lean towards PL or CP.
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I lol’ed pretty hard at that.
I got to the point where I should have jumped in a clan, but stupidly thought I shouldn’t (who knows why…). I mostly just played waaaay too much TF2, and loved it.
Thanks for the compliment on my ability. I’m nowhere near as good as I used to be. Truth be told, I still don’t think I was that good. Many people just tended to be worse than me 😛 -
… *sob*
WHATEVER MAN
I’ll just W+M1 to victory
;_;
I am beautiful no matter what they saaaaaaaay
Wooooooords can’t bring me doooooooowwwwwwwwnnnn -
Hey, I never knock W+M1. I used to pyro like mad :D. Now, I mostly do it to airblast like crazy, cause so many people don’t value it they way they should.
Actually, that’s my main failing in TF2. I tend to be a team player, filling class gaps and whatnot, and when you’re the only one doing that in TEAM Fortress, thing tend to end badly for you. Repeatedly.
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You say that and yet you seem to like playing as a Sniper…
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Everyone always brings that up, and it inevitably makes me sound massively egotistical…cause if you can snipe and keep a steady kill flow happening, then you are a team player through area denial. I can do that, albeit frequently inconsistent between lives 😛
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That makes sense, right up to the point where you end up just counter-sniping for half the match.
As fun as they can be to play, Snipers never really made as much sense to me in TF2 as the rest of the classes.
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Yeah, you really need to get good at counter-sniping ASAP as a sniper. The sooner you get rid of him, the sooner you get back to a proper support role.
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nah man, pyro and/or scout counters sniper!
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You mean an allied Pyro that’s trolling, right? :p
The amount of focus given to counter-sniping just bugs me. If the two snipers are about even, they will spend at least half the match focusing on each other instead of the rest of the team, which just feels wrong.
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Yeah, that’s why if I feel evenly (or out)-matched, I’ll generally class swap to something more beneficial. That, or skillrage at the sniper and happen to slam him till he swaps or quits 😛
Important note: generally after that happens, I can’t hit the side of a barn, and end up class switching anyways 😀
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Please don’t. I won’t be able to maintain my high standings in TABTOL.
Well, I will, but I’ll have less fun and that’s more important than TABTOL.
OMG I love Magicka
Although I still have not finished it… but that’s because I cant get anybody to fnish it with me 🙁
@ Puppylicks
I WIN – BITCH!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpP5lh6Pl6c&feature=related
40 seconds for the win
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It’s not over yet!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7G46YMyQjBY&feature=youtube_gdata_playerKinda NSFW Warning, if your work is easily freaked out by weird shit 😀
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A wild double post appears!
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Amazing, these are incredibly rare finds. Usually they fall victim to the LooksLikeYou’veAlreadySaidThat predator before they even emerge from their nest.
/British accent
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David Attenborough (sp?) is a badass
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Blaghs Fun fact no. 4768
Tess Attenborough, David’s granddaughter, is a really nice person.
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Marry her. You have no choice in the matter.
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Actually I think I might have found this link on TAY originally, either way it bears repeating.
I have an extremely painful tooth ache.
Anyone willing to venture into my mouth to extract the little bugger.
I promise I don’t bite… hard.
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HUGO. this is all your fault!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I know life is a mystery, I’m gonna make history,
i’m taking it from the staaaart!
call all emergency , i’m watching the phone ring
I’m feeling this in my heart
my heaaartB-BRING THE BOYS OUT!
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I gladly accept all responsibility for anything PopAsia related.
Also, WOO GIRLS GENERATION WOO!-
ahah I caught it on TV the other weekend whilst channel surfing and immediately thought of YOU!!!!!!!
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I have been considering joining Twitter, just so I can post something on the show.
My squeal of joy if my post came up on a Sunday show, would most likely shatter glass. -
I’ll post a shoutout to you next Sunday then!
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SQQQQQQQUUUUUUUUUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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its like the voice of an angel
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I would suggest, if you do join “The Twitters” as my dad calls it, try to come up with a user name shorter than “Hugo The Viking Barbarian” because that’s going to eat into your 140 character limit, which will get frustrating, real fast.
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derp, “Hungarian Barbarian” of course…
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Either that or make my posts very short and sweet.
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I don’t know what to do about this. Play less Skyrim? Play . . . more Skyrim? Hmm. I know a couple of people with gold teeth and they look really freakin’ cool. Maybe do that. Get gold teeth.
Also, use *Listerine mouth wash. Or Jack Daniels mouth wash. Any alcohol mouth wash, really. Rinse and repeat.
*I don’t drink Listerine, it makes my stomach hurt.
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Right, play more SKYRIM!, get gold teeth and mouth wash with Jack Daniels.
This is most likely the best advice I have received since… ever. -
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The mystery deepens!
Come, Watson! Limp over here like a champ so that I may walk slightly faster than you and amuse myself! -
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Some guy just rang me. Was a wrong number, but he had the same sweet baritone voice that you have. He was however asking for Steve, which led to some awkwardness as I was all like, ‘This is Steve, who is this’ and he was like ‘You’re not Steve, who is this?’.
True story.
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But you are Steve. Who is he to question your Steveness? On what authority? He’ll be hearing from your lawyers no doubt.
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Well we’ve got trouble.
Right here in River City.
Trouble, that starts with T… and that rymes with P and that stands for pool.
Tired of those boring old vanilla dating sims?
Why not spice things up and try to romance a pigeon instead?
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Yeah I’m sitting at my desk right now 😀
which Dan though? I’ve only been here since August, and I only know one Dan, Dan Schneider I think… who I believe has already finished up here.
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Oh, I missed the “Der”, didn’t I.
Dammit.
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I got it Bish!
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You’re the only one who understands me!
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You could say there’s a spark between us…
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It has come to my attention that some TAYbies are considering “Trjn-proofing” their posts here by removing any statements that could be taken out of context and used as innuendo.
Please refrain from doing this.
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If by “some TAYbies” you really mean “Harli” and by“Trjn-proofing” you mean “removing all comments that could be taken out of context” I don’t know what you mean. Because I like the way you ██████ and █████ in ██ ███████ ████.
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I have never █████ in ██ ███████ ████! How dare you insult my honour in such a way. I do that on the couch.
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My apologies – see what I mean about taken out of context? I simply ██████ ████. I really enjoy ██████████████ though, so don’t take ████ personally.
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I don’t take ████ personally, but when my honour is at stake then ████████ must ███████.
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I’m █████ing so hard right now.
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*████████*
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Best part: He apparently owns a car.
Actual best part: ‘No man can heal your pain. You must do so on your own.’
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Dawww…was just about to make the TF2 Gaemz official 😛
*Zoidberg voice* Harli, Trjn, no matter what it is you’re doing tonight, I’m available!
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“no matter what it is you’re doing tonight, I’m available”
I didn’t know you were going to be so forward…
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That’s the best use of that emote I’ve seen.
Well played, good sir. Well played.
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*tips hat*
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Rize, the trick is to be generous in your use of ████████.
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More like genrous use of my ████████████████████████████████.
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*generous, even.
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I think you may have been stuffing you ████ a little.
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…stuffing it where?
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Up by the ████████ with █ ████████████ that you ████ from ██████████.
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That link isn’t entirely relevant, I just wanted an excuse to use it.
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i’ll be up for some crafting tonight, though i will be marginally late (9:30 – 10’ish) but i will be there
You guys are just… I cant keep up. I just CANT! If I were to watch all the youtube videos posted so far today, I wouldnt be able to reply until next week.
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Get that weak stuff outta here sughly. 😉 I like to think you can jump in wherever and you will understand what is going on as much as everyone else!
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Pretty sure I’ve replaced “doing work” today with “keeping up with TAY”.
It was a tough decision, but sometimes Monday’s just suck.
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Its the least I can do! That drawing will be done too, I just have to do other stuff at the moment. Like… find a job :'(
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Don’t even think about the drawing, dude. I was dumb to ask for it and I didn’t mean nothing by it. The story was done because the story wanted to be done. More importantly: what’s a “job”?
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Haha, I’m not sure. It’s a mystery that has thus far eluded me, but one that ‘society’ seems to think I need. Whoever society is…
Also a drawing will be done because it wants to be done too!
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Come on Kage, now it’s time to blow doors down!
My weekend:
Finished Wind Waker on Friday night – loved the ending cutscene. Beautiful music, very poignant ending.
Played ~1.5 hours of Skyward Sword – I can’t believe that I was enjoying it way more than Skyrim – did something inside me break?
Played ~1 hour of Saints Row 3 – pretty funny, but I think it’s going to be pushed to one side to make way for AC:R, Skyrim, Zelda, etc.
Played LOTS of Old Republic beta – sooooooo good! Rolled a Jedi Knight – I’m not used to melee classes (played mage & warlock in WoW), so it was a bit different in that respect. Plays very much like WoW, but the story is very entertaining, and the dialogue is awesome. The ‘kill x of these guys’ style quests (and similar) are presented as ‘bonuses’ to existing quests, so they aren’t overly obtrusive and don’t need story explanation, though they still award experience for completing them, and can result in some nice rewards through progressive levels of the bonus quest. Also, lightsabers.
Anyway, I’m leaving shortly to get everything prepared to go and see Foo Fighters and Tenacious D tonight. \m/
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Bring out your broadsword!
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There! The crevasse!
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mmm, I’ve got my tickets for the sydney show next week, I absolutely cannot wait, it’s going to be amazeballs!
I’ve been thinking about an idea and thought it might be worth seeing if there was any interest amongst the TAYbies before I dedicate an more of my limited intellect to the issue.
Would anybody be interested in have a regularly scheduled night of random multiplayer mayhem. Maybe it is just me but have a a fair number of multiplayer games in my steam account that I just don’t play, don’t have active communities or are not much fun to solo.
So the idea is basically a game is selected, vote, random choice, consult horrorscope, dice roll, rolling schedule, well you get the idea.
That night we jump on to TS and play that game
The next week we play another game.
So is doesn’t matter if we are playing TF2, plainsight, killing floor, lead and gold, minecraft, defcon, l4d, rock of ages, magicka, alien swarm or an MMO, just jump on for an hour or two and play something you might not normally play.
Wild Wednesdays, Anything goes Thursday, your name here
Let me just break out my interest gauge and see if there is any
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If you’re feeling too lazy to plan anything, you can just jump on TS and demand that people play whatever you feel like playing. If they’re not in the middle of a LoL match there’s a reasonable chance that people can be persuaded to join in.
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Happy to organise it if people are interested.
Liking the idea that is becomes a regular thing and people can nominate games (as per cracks below) so others who are interested have some warning and can try jump of TS.
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If someone was to organise Shadowrun, I’d be all over that in an instant. And IIRC, it’s cross-platform multiplayer over Xbox 360 and PC. Awesome game, but completely dead (old and multiplayer only).
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Moar SWTOR beta!
Stuck on the Jedi Knight’s final Tython quest, just can’t get past one section. It’s practically unplayable unless you bring a group, which is annoying.
Tried out the start of the Imperial Agent, really liking the voice acting – the Imperial characters are all quasi-British while the Republic’s are mostly American, but they all sound great.
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Also, how are people leveling so quickly? I’ve been playing for hours and I only just hit 8 on the Jedi Knight. Not even any lightsabres!
D:
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Skipping dialogue
Played in previous betas so they know what to do/where to go
MMO vets who know how these sorts of games are played
Help from friends
Combination of the above
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Possibly they’re experienced MMO players. I know I fell into the groove of it very quickly and the levels went by very fast until I got off of the starting planets. My initial run with the Sith Warrior I played from about 3:30am to 9:30am so 6 hours, and that got me to just after looting Antn Fnqbj’f gbzo (rot13) and getting my Lightsaber, I think I dinged 10 when I handed it in. But on the other hand I finished with the Agent at level 9, and got her to 10 by talking to every crew skill trainer in the Imperial Fleet (each one gives +450 xp for getting the codex entry, which was like 1/2 a level total)
I doubt that the Jedi Knight’s quest is impossible without a group, though I haven’t played it and maybe it’s broken or something. None of the content I’ve hit has been impossibly hard. Perhaps you’re not using all your tools? Got your companion out and working properly? Assuming the Jedi is roughly the same as the Sith Warrior I had some defensive abilities as well, those might be worth checking. It should basically feel like you’re maintaining a priority system for your abilities – hit the one that triggers after you block a hit if it’s on and you have the focus, else hit the stompy area attack if you’ve got the focus and it’s available and there’s more than one guy nearby, else hit the big saber swing if you’ve got the focus, else if you don’t have the focus, hit the basic saber attack to build some up. And make sure you open with the leap attack if you can, because it gives you some initial combat resources. Remember also there’s no auto-attack so you should be spamming attack buttons whenever you can.
It reminded me generally of playing a Death Knight or a WotLK-era Retribution Paladin in WoW.
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Hm, tried it again.
Turns out it wasn’t entirely impossible (I got very close to killing the main difficult enemy) – but it seems you can just ignore him and do the plot action anyway.
Also, this is in an area with no companion, for story reasons they aren’t with you.
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For reference, this is the guy I was struggling to kill – I think he’s bugged, because the health behaviour was weird.
(Slight Jedi Knight spoilers, I guess?)
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He’s Elite, so it’s not surprising the fight is quite tough.
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Yeah that’ll make it harder. We’ve got to deal with the extra lag from being in Asstralia and the lack of an auto-attack makes that a lot worse. Your companion basically acts as auto-attack for you so without them it’s much harder to compensate 🙁
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Following up on the whole TF2 discussion from last page. I think the main reason I dislike the Sniper class is more because the majority of my playing took place around the time the Sniper/Spy update came out.
Also the reasons I covered but mainly because there were so many damned Snipers and very few people actually going for objectives.
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Yeah, that happend with all the class updates, but you came in on the worst of it, with sniper/spy being mostly instakill and not very team-orientated.
Guys and gals
I just made a really quick and important post in Phase 4 on page 2 – if you can all quickly look at it and give me a yay or nay, that would be great – as i said it’s fairly urgent and needs to be resolved tonight.
Trjn (and Plainview),
I watched The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford on Saturday night, as planned. Found it really enjoyable. I wasn’t too sure about it to begin with, but it really grew on me as the movie progressed.
Now I’m no big city movie critic, so I find it really hard to explain why I like a particular movie – but I think this enjoyment came from the convincing way that Pitt and Affleck portrayed the two titular characters, the intrigue surrounding their motivations, and the mood created by the stunning cinematography and score.
It stayed with me after I finished watching it too, which is always a good sign, and prompted me to watch the bonus features doco and go read some wikipedia pages. This background information on Jesse and Bob made the movie even more interesting.
The whole experience was heightened by the consumption of ice cream.
So yeah, 4 stars from me. 5 with ice cream.
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This has taught me two important things.
First of all, I need to buy some ice cream.
Secondly, I need to actually watch this movie. My weekend was a little busier than expected, so I couldn’t really find the time to sit back and enjoy things.
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*face palm*
Well, watch it when you can and get back to me. If I’ve forgotten it by then it will be your own busy fault.
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It’s not my fault! Normally I don’t have anything to do. Then I decided to build a new PC and be all sociable. Combine that with watching Dreamhack and there just weren’t enough hours left to watch it.
I’ll probably try to watch some time this week.
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#Occupy The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (abandon dreamhack).
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Awww man, I didnt watch it! Film club fail 🙁
But I remember a lot of it quite clearly still. That shot of the train going through the woods at night is so haunting, so amazing. I loved how they portrayed Robert Ford too, particularly towards the end there in the bar.
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Sughly Daily Planner: Tuesday 29, November, 2011
1. Sughly watches movie.
2. Sughly draws picture of Jesse James for portfolio.
3. Sughly posts on website.
4. Plainview steals picture from website.
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Great success!! I’m really glad you liked it. Definitely in my top 5 movies of all time. Masterpiece.
Some good trivia behind the production too. The narration is so poetic, the performances flawless, great soundtrack, beautiful scenery.
And have a look at Chopper if you haven’t seen it already; it was done by the same guy.
It’s great when the perfect screenplay is transformed into the perfect movie. Every scene looks like a perfectly imagined painting.
I really regret not seeing it at the cinema.
Gone Baby Gone is another great Casey Affleck film you might not know. Everybody knows all the good Brad Pitt flicks.
Again, really glad you liked it.
Holy crap. I can’t believe TAY is already up to 5 pages. o_o Looks like I may have to get up early just to try and participate properly.
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for what it’s worth, it’ll move a lot more slowly from nowish (or rather… about an hour and a half ago) until Tuesday morning… or at least, it traditionally has >_>
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I usually come on Kotaku at night and miss everything. It’s just I’m not on a computer during the day. I’m still getting used to it really.
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Hello Scree friend!
I think you’ve caught us at the beginning of a good week.
No doubt the daily average of 800 comments will slow down mid week (but maybe pick up on Friday), but one can almost smeeel the magical 4000 post mark in the air again.-
Yes, “smeeel”.
I smell through a complex and intricate nest of eels with their electric feelers and stuff.-
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I’m just going to send you all the pills, considering I’m red/green colourblind.
True story*.*Note: Not a true story.
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You party all night & sleep all day? You live in Madrid? Helsinki? Baghdad? Never awake before 1800 hours?
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Actually I’m a carer for my mother. So I’m usually either out or following a series of objectives she’s given me.
Bish, that must be quite the ability. Must net you all the ladies XD
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You could certainly pull the buzzer in the hand trick only it’s electric eel in the hand trick.
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And then I tell them that’s actually my nose matter they touched and it goes down real smooth.
Like a smoothie!
Except with less fruit and dairy and more electricity and eels.
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Pay no attention to Bish. He sings bad 80s pop songs . . . badly. But he just so happens to have an electric personality and the kind of looks that get you your own Calvin Klein commercial in New York, a guest spot on Keeping Up With the Kardashians, and a house atop Hollywood on Mulholland Drive.
You work all day as a carer and that’s why you don’t comment. Noted. I’ve written that down; that sure makes more sense than my dumb suggestions. Helsinki? I bet nobody even lives in Helsinki!
You sound like a good guy.
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Ah that explains the electric eels. They were huge in the 80’s, right? I mean if you’re going to sing them, may as well add the fashion XD
Yeah, getting stuff done during the day means I can get on and read kotaku in the afternoon. X3
Also, mistaken as a guy counter: 13
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Well, if you’re not a guy, then you must be a mang!
HEY MANG!Don’t be dissin’ my style, Plainview. My devilishly …devil… like looks (wat) are bringing retro chic back in style. When all you see in 2014 is hypercolour and flare jeans, you’ll know who caused it. And then I’ll have earned enough money to hide for the rest of my life, escaping the angry mobs angrily mobbing at the style of today’s youths. At least flare jeans sit on the hips, right! Bright side, guys, no more looking at underpants and boxers and the occasional crack!
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Plainview, my friend, I must disagree with you on something. Bish does not sing bad 80s pop songs badly. I can understand the confusion, the problems you have, but Lord Bishington sings amazing 80s pop songs badly.
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Man what a bitch of a way to start the week.
I finally managed to get my pc working properly on Saturday evening! OMG!
After having finally fixed all the software issues from driver glitches and crap, I thought I had nailed it. My pc ran stable for most of Saturday if I booted it in VGA mode, and then cranked up the res. So after hours of stability, I decided to reboot in to normal mode and see how things were going. 5 mins after being in, I got no signal on 1 screen, but not both as I had been for the past week… Curiousr and curiousr.. I remote in to the pc and I could actually see the screen active, so it wasn’t a graphic card issue. Check device manager.. everything reporting as ok and active. Hmmmm..
All of a sudden, I remember I have 2 USB devices plugged in to the USB hub on the side of my monitor. A USB tv tuner and my wacom. Unplug them ( even though they were both functioning without any issues) and plugged them directly in to my pc instead… BLAM! PC is PERFECT!
I hadn’t really thought of them before because the way I have my 3 screens setup, my tv/monitor actually blocks my view of the things plugged in to the side of my main screen. Stil, I wouldn’t have expected that it was the cause of the problem as both of the devices were working perfectly anyway..So weird.
Anyway, happy to finally have a working pc and I can play games again after 6 months of not being able to! w00t! Just spent about 3 hours playing Bulletstorm (yes I have a lot of catching up to do now) and it’s so smoooooth! Not that it wasn’t before, but my new GPU is just kickin some serious ass! yippee!!
I didn’t get much time on the weekend to play games after fixinig it though. Was my mums birthday this weekend, so I went and did some shopping and stuff, then went to her place to celebrate with her.
This morning I woke up at 4:30 with a raging migraine and vomiting a bit like that guy in that monty python sketch.. (you know that fat sum bitch who blows up when he eats the after dinner mint). mm picture of loveliness I assure you. So I called in sick and spent most of my day sleeping. Finally felt better about 1:30pm, so got up and started to refuel myself with caffiene and other goodies! Now i have just a few hours left for gaming before I should go back to bed to rest up before work tomorrow. Oh wells.. there’s always next weekend I guess!
PC is now back to freezing on “Starting Windows” screen, though if I leave if for 30 minutes, it seems to crash.
I think the purchase of a new processor is necessary.
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No, because for some reason, my keyboard fails to respond to any input, except when I’m in the BIOS.
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USB Keyboard? checked to see if you have any options in BIOS to enable USB Keyboard and mouse input?
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It turns out that they were disabled.
Re-enabled them, and now trying safe mode.
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Or do you happen to have an Fn button on your keyboard? If so, you might need to press it to get F8 to work
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Mmm fair enough.. Can’t see any errors in the eventlog? Tested memory? I only ask cos it’s really rare to have a dud cpu…
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Oh, yeah. Forgot to mention, it’s an AMD Athlon 64 processer 3200. Don’t know whether it’s good or a dud by today’s standards. Although this one seems to be a dud.
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it wouldn’t happen to be a dell or hp machine would it?
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It appears to be custom made in a Cooler Master case. So, nothing you can get from Harvey Norman or JB etc.
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fair enough… still, if you can get in to windows, I’d take a look at the eventlog before you go blowing money on a cpu..
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It’s probably worth running chkdsk /r on the hdd too if you haven’t done so already… it could very well have bad sectors or data in the wrong spot..
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Ah. This means I won’t be able to do anything to it until the weekend, and even then, this weekend will be difficult to do anything.
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I just went without my pc for over a week, so I know how you feel 😉 But it’s well worth the effort. I saved myself from going out and buyting a new $200 PSU or motherboard by being persistant!
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So.. dungeon thingys in SWTOR are fun! Even for an MMO newbie. Teamed up with a random person in the area, we did the mission then killed a boss.
All players roll for loot (a pretty crappy armour piece in this case) and I won. Then he said ‘grats’ and flew off into the sunset on a speeder.
True story.
(Oh, and I got to put a fancy title after my name – ‘Aedan the Keeper of Truth’ sounds catchy.)
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I didn’t take it personally 😉
It was an alliance of convenience. Strictly business.
(But as my first experience in an MMORPG, I enjoyed it – nice that you can team up with others to do stuff that would be impossible solo)
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Dear People Who May Know About TOR Beta Thingies,
Is this SWTOR beta something people had to sign up for a while ago, or is it something that codes were issued for and a code might still be floating around for?
Kinda tried to not take too much interest in another EMM EMM OH REPUG but all this discussion is piquing my curiosity. If I’ve not taken action before now, is it likely I’m not going to get in on it?
Thank you for your time.
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I plan on doing a few more. I’m trying to get a base of characters to work with.
Thus far I have:
Todd Tannen – a 16 year old American brat who is a high-school drop-out and is friends with a mexican exchange student named “Jose Iglesias”.
Vladimir Kokov – A Russian Politician who plays games religiously and is prone to violent outbursts. Creates tall stories about hunting bears and skydiving.
Michael Connolly- A 30 year old Scottish man who is the son of a famous (un-named) comedian.
Terry Levi – A South African who I don’t have a character profile for yet.I’ll probably try to keep them as original as possible, and those stories are likely to change!
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You don’t understand. I give MARK tips on doing a real Scottish accent.
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I see. Explains why he sounds off 😛
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Thoughts? 4/5 grappling hooks. Could’ve maybe had more parachutes.
Other than that, hilarious.
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Cheers mate!
I had more scenes of it which I cut due to them being (what I felt was) dry. One of them was skydiving from a plane into the ocean, and not receiving any damage (under the category “Panau is: Diving competitions”) and another with grappling two cars passing in opposite directions to eachother. Unfortunately, I fel that the subtitles couldn’t add any more humour to the clips, and there are thousands of such clips on youtube anyway.
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It was easier to watch than The Human Centipede 2. But only just. 3 stars! *prefers the irony laced fps video*
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It was always my aim to have a video that was only slightly easier to watch than The Human Centipede 2. I’m glad I acheived that!
I agree, mate, I feel that it isn’t my best, and I prefer the BF3 vid. I’m planning on returning to those kinds of videos shortly, read above for details!
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Anyone watch the fearmongering story about gaming on The Project?
I really love how they use the “people-playing-50-hours” excuse that you see in China and Korea. Do these people even check their sources and know their stuff?
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I was not impressed that they even decided to post such blatant bullshit on their facebook this afternoon. I left my opinion on the matter.
That show has turned to such trash, why is Dave Hughes still associated with it.. Why.
Also they were glorifying cheerleading as a fun sport on their facebook as well.. Truly disgusting since it’s a very dangerous activity/sport.. Just refer to the Penn & Teller Bullshit episode on it.
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What’s with this? It seems like every year they have to have at least one crappy story on Video games. I didn’t see The project one (I will go hunting now) but there was a “study” on the news.
Today tonight even made it a feature for one week, talking about games that everyone who already knows about E3 were aware of.
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“The treatment was to find a useful substitute to gaming as the best way to manage it. I am now playing sport — basketball, tennis, swimming — and hope to study business at university.”
Yes let’s swap one addiction for another… Actually most of these anecdotes just tell me that the parents should’ve stopped the kids from creating a bad habit. I should know as I gamed all through high school. I now have a BA and several certificates.-
I gamed all through high school and now I have…
Oh, right, yeah. We should probably find a better example than me…
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I’m about the same lolol
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It’s odd, that show appeals to a younger demographic, yet there always seems to be a disconnect on the video game front.
Thunder is roaring over our house right now… and it’ll be 34 degrees tomorrow… 17 overnight… 🙁
Bish.
You made a comment last week.
I can’t get it out of my head.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H905Z3Nj334
Not sure if I hate you or love you for reminding me of this songs’ existence.
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I’m pretty sure reminding people of this song is like, legally helping and stuff.
Also how amazing is that dude’s dancing in that clip. Spectacular.
So… gave up waiting for the OzGameShop shipment of Skyrim and just bought a Steam key on Friday. Spent pretty much all weekend playing it.
Got woken up by the front gate buzzer on Sunday for a delivery from OzGameShop… and it’s Sky… wait for it .. ward Sword.
And then tonight, Skyrim finally gets delivered. (and sold to a workmate tomorrow)
I read TAY and discover that there is a sprint button… Could have saved me a few hours. Also, the first time I somehow did a finishing move on a dragon, the corpse just laid there and mocked me with its lack of soul absorbing swirliness. I’d quicksaved the moment it was dead since there were other things attacking… No dragon soul for me.
I also see mentions of the MineCraft server. Any chance of an invite?
so i am having two consecutive shithouse weeks. i just got dumped because im Useless and i can’t do anything. all my shit is sitting in my car probly broken because i kept dropping stuff on my way out the door, ill be sleeping in it for a few nights i think so i wont be back for a while. i dont want sympathy or anything to be honest, and i dont expect anyone to care or notice i just had to vent coz there is no way im going on facebook or anything like that. i might be back but maybe not would of liked to meet you all. i dont have a heart anymore so i wont say much love, but i will say game on, GLnHF. oh and fuck the world
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Ok, Dill, you’re Canberran, right? I know it’s a bit weird, but seriously, if you want somewhere to sleep, you could probably crash on my futon for a night or two, certainly, it would be better for your back. I live near Woden, so it might be a bit out of your way, and I do live with my parents, so it would confuse them to no end, but in all seriousness, if you do read this, and you do want a place to crash briefly, send me an email at blaghman(at)gmail(dot)com. Because I don’t like to see people go, particularly if they like the Joker.
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oh Dill! Are you okay?
Venting is good for you and there is unlimited space on TAY!
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Please don’t say that Di11enger. We haven’t even had the chance to meet you yet. I know it feels like it’s hard to believe but it’s not the end of the world and you most certainly are not useless. Please come back?
So I get home after a hard day, and nobody else is online.
Weh.
What do I do?? I guess, I could…sleep? Oh no!
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cool ridge Australia spring water
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Phew, finally escaped the horror’s of page 3, maybe I’ll be safe here…
WHAT! NO WAY! HOW ARE YOU DOING THIS?
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oooh you found me! this is more fun then hide and seek.
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Just dont start hiding out in articles from days ago… Oh god, I’m giving you ideas
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That’s just too much effort!
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Unless thats just what you want me to think
*shifty glance
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Let us bond in our early awakeness!
I used to wake up 5:30 all the time, but now it’s a massive struggle… 🙁
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I just failed to sleep properly last night.
For the past few years my natural wake-up time has been around 10:30, it made working… interesting.
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I ‘ve woken up at 0530 for the past 6 years. Still not used to it. Probably because on holidays I get lazy and sleep until like 12.
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I’ve just found some leaked patch notes for an upcoming patch for Battlefield 3. Looks like they’re finally making more things upgradable with unlocks. The list is below in the order you can unlock them.
Pistol:
* Extended magazine – attaches a rolled up magazine to the top of your weapon so you can scope those longer shots.
* Sound Suppressor – Pistol now comes with its very own pair of ear buds.
* Dazzler – Operates much like the flashlight only now you can bedazzle your way to victory.
* Aperture ammunition – Converts pistol to spud gun. Just like you had when you were young.
Combat Knife:
* Laser sight – For enhanced accuracy.
* 8x magnification thermal scope – So you don’t miss any detail when performing executions.
* Lighter Knife – Replaces all metal parts with rubber allowing you to run faster with knife drawn.
* Critical hits – A small leprechaun dances on your left shoulder when knife is drawn, allowing the possibility of critical hits on maps with double rainbows.
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I hope they deal with it sensibly though. My main problem is I don’t want to use any other scope because this one’s too good. It allows me to deal with snipers. I play support so running and gunning with assault and engineer guys just gets me killed. Hanging back supplying ammo, spotting snipers and giving LMG suppression is my gameplan. IRNV is fantastic for spotting a sniper on a rock and I really want to be able to keep doing that.
No IRNV will make Snipers too powerful with this fancy graphics system because it gives lots to hide behind.
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GUYS AND GALS!!
URGENT PHASE 4 UPDATE – PLEASE GO THE FORUMS AND GIVE ME A YAY OR NAY HERE OR THERE!
I NEED TO HIT THIS EARLY THIS ARVO IF WE WANT TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF IT!
CAPS!!
sorry, i’m just reluctant to do anything without your feedback. lol
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Consider this my yay. I have given my proxy to whoever wants it… in this case, it seems to be Chuloopa. Loops, you have my official okey-dokey to do whatever wherever whenever.
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Whenever, wherever!
We’re meant to be together!
I’ll be there and you’ll be near,
And that’s the deal my deeaaaaar-
YOU’VE GOT THE TOUCH
YOU’VE GOT THE POWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaa…
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SHAKIRA SHAKIRA!!!
*do-de-le-doo*
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Amusingly, I got your reminders, I had a look and then I forgot to post my yay. So consider this my yay.
Yay.
Happy Tuesday everyone.
Well got on the xbox lastnight to start catching up on the gaming time i didnt have on the weekend. God i really am an all or nothing guy, did basically nothing but play cod, Managed to reach second prestige. (yes i am very sad)
Also jumped into a tiny bit of pc gaming with a couple of little indie games i found.
Also, anyone know much about Lineage 2’s truely free model? It sounds like a strange skew on the f2p model. Thinking i might give it a go when it goes live. Played on a few private servers, and it is a fun game, just a shame that private servers do have a tendency to wipe every 3 months.
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Also, only 2 (or is it 3 american time) days until infinity blade 2. I cant believe how excited i am for an iphone game. Although i was pretty pumped before Jetpack Joyride was released too. Who says mobile gaming is not real gaming!
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Happy Tuesday? I like to think of it more as the one week anniversary of buying the PC version of Arkham and not being able to play. I’m a bitter, bitter man. 😛
I hear A Bard’s Tale is coming to iOS pretty imminently. Have heard nothing but good things.
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Yeah, I was counting down until Jetpack Joyride came out!
But inifinty blade, eh. I never really enjoyed it. Apart from the pretty graphics, the combat got fairly boring. I also though it was be a proper third person adventure game, not an on rails fight to fight thing, which made it fairly disappointing, especially since Epic Citadel, the tech demo they released before, you could wander around and stuff.
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I live in hope they have made some adjustments to the combat system in IB2, i mean, they have some cool new features, but i’ll admit i have not seen how you travel through the world. I do hope its not the myst style click room to room navigation again.
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Sword and Sworcery…..looks like a really bad version of another world in terms of graphics. I know not of this game. But to judge a book by its cover, i’ll stick to IB2.
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You shut your whore mouth, that game looks gorgeous.
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um. maybe we are talking dif games, but it does look like it was made using the same engine as another world. Would need to know more about it to buy it. itso nyl 2.99 for the iphone version.
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I’m going to go with Puppylicks here, although I understand why you’d think that about S&S without having played it.
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LOL not one night, but I did quite a few levels. I had planned to finish of that prestige over the weekend, but self imposed xbox ban meant i had to wait.
huuuuurg…
*flop*
coffeeee… neeeeeeeed coffeeeeeeee
which is my way is saying GOOD MORNING EVERYONE
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bleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeergh grumblegrumblegrumble*
*morning my good sir, how is your tuesday morning treating you?
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graaaaaabababbblblblbbllbl*
*30 degrees in Melbourne and I think I have a barometric headache, coping though 😉
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“Good morning fellow office workers. A fine Melbourne day we are having is it not?”*
*Grrrfgghhhhbllllllk
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Enjoy the weather while you can, going to get nasteh later.
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The bus I caught this morning was awesome. Aside from being a new bus and lacking any sort of graffiti or rubish laying around the place, which is a huge thing because all the buses around here are normally filthy, it was all Christmased up. The front featured a banner that said “Merry Christmas” and on the dashboard was tinsel and a plushie snowman. Once you got inside the bus it was even better. All the poles (or whatever you want to call them) were drapped in tinsel as were the windows. Near the front of the bus on those sort of storage things were sitting a little christmas tree on one and a Santa statue on the other. The decorations were really unexpected but really awesome and instantly helped brighten up my day which I sort of needed because…
Last night I came to the realisation that everything in life is predetermined and nothing I can do will stop that. I slightly recall having come to this realisation before, a few times in fact, but always pushing it to the back of my mind because it’s not a pleasant thought. I am currently trying to do that again.
I also had an incredibly strange dream last night that was sort of a mash up of Eragon, A Song of Ice and Fire and Fable. It featured an elf bottle feeding a dragon with bottles I’d pulled out of my enormous gloves (the same gloves you wear as a kid in Fable). Not the oddest dream I’ve had but it was still pretty out there.
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Hahaha nothing in life is predetermined, i don’t know how you came to that depressing though but it is not right. You can change your mind on nearly all decisions. I am sorry to say but people who think that way are often using it as a excuse to not change anything about themselves. I know because i used to think like that. That one day i would magically be put in my place and everything would be fine from there. Life takes work, work and effort. I am not having a go at you mate it is just my opinion. 🙂
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The harder you work the luckier you get 😉
I tend to waver between thinking that everything happens for a reason, and the good ol’ ‘No fate but what you make*’ mentality. Sometimes its nice to feel that fate has some big plan for you, but that can make you complacent and cause you to sit back and do nothing while waiting for fate to make something happen for you.
*thanks, Reece
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I’ll try to explain it. I came up with dozens of well thought out examples and arguments supporting it in my head but getting those thoughts out there as words is frustratingly difficult.
Every choice you make is predetermined because of events that came before it. You make the choices you make because of the way you were raised, your genetic structure and the situations you are put in. Your genes are a certain way because years ago a butterfly flapped its wings and caused a storm on the other side of the world. This storm caused your parents to meet. You were raised the way you were raised because of the society you were brough up in and because of what sort of people your parents were. The society you were raised in came about because a thousand years ago one man decided to attack the country of another man.
The situations you are in happened because of similar reasons. You meet a dying man who changes your perception on life. This man is dying because that same butterfly that was the cause of your birth also blew some germs in such a way that they eventually landed in this mans body and caused him to get sick.That butterfly was only there because a million years before another butterfly existed and flapped its wings in such a way that alligned events for the current butterfly to exist. Everything in the world is connected.
You can’t escape it. Even thinking “I have free will so I’m going to do something crazy to prove it” and then taking all your clothes off and dancing in the street was a predetermined event. The reason you are doing it is because I placed the idea in your mind that you can’t fight fate. I was thinking about fate because it was mentioned in a book I was reading last night. The author wrote that book and mentioned fate because his way of thinking was influenced by his genes, how he was raised etc which in turn was influenced by that butterfly I mentioned earlier.
These examples are of course all hypothetical. I have no way of knowing how the wings of a butterfly effected anyone in anyway. I hope it demonstrated my point clearly though.
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You have demonstrated your point well but it still comes across as hopeless. At its most fundamental what you are saying is just wrong.
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No need to be rude dude he is only experssing his opinion!
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What? I wasn’t being rude. I really didn’t mean to come across that way if that’s what it seemed to you.
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It’s not so much an opinion as it is random thoughts about the world. I’d love to believe that fate doesn’t exist and everyone has freewill but I’m trying to look at the evidence and consider it all logically.
Also while I appreciate the defense I didn’t actually find McGarnical’s comment particularly rude. Everyone here should know by now that I’m fine with people disagreeing with me and even welcome it as I enjoy hearing different peoples views on subjects and having intelligent discussions about it. In this case in particular I’d love to be proven wrong.
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I am very sorry anyone felt I was being rude!, even a little bit.
This sort of misunderstanding is part of the reason I generally avoid TAY to be honest.
Probably it’s because I wrote something so short. But DW you are being very fatalistic and even though I don’t know you that worries me as I personally think its not possible to be happy without a feeling of being master of your own actions and, dare I say it, destiny.
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I am well aware of the butteryfly effect. Basically you are taking the point of nature vs nuture a little to seriously. Take studying for a important test for example. You assume that all the smart people are smart because they were raised in a loving enviroment that encouraged the kid to do well. All the kids who don’t do well you are saying were raised by people who don’t value it or care about it. I am pretty sure there are several millions of cases where the kid who lives with his non caring parents in a hard neighbourhood have succeeded. So you see thats were your point falls through. People do what they want , not determined by any other factors than how people think!
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Your way of thinking about this is fascinating. I thought when you said you felt like your life was predetermined you were talking about studies and career path, and having it all set out for you.
Like Puppylicks, I tend to think that everything happens for a reason. Or so I keep saying to comfort myself.
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agree with you to an extent: everything we do is largely a product of our lives up to this point. Genetics, experiences, environment, upbringing. Sure we have free will but the choices we make are determined by how these things have shaped us.
A bit like maths: these genetics + these experiences + this situation = this decision.If the entire universe was copied exactly a thousand times as of this moment, would what any of us do next be any different in any of those copies?
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But have you heard of the chaos theory? Even if you believe everything is per-determined it does not mean it is predictable.
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Dr Malcolm? Is that you?
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I don’t believe in predetermination but more that the possibilities in our lives are limited and defined by our genetics and past.
If you take my copy idea, what we do next in each copy would probably be the same but as time goes on random chance will make each copy diverge. But the differences will not be that significant.
The me in each copy will react to each consecutive situation pretty much the same way and so will everyone else: I did this because they did this because of who I am and who they are, all the way back through history.
If you looked at one copy in a months time you could say with a lot of confidence that another copy would be almost exactly the same.It’s not that we have no choice just that we are always likely to make the choices we do.
Probably makes little sense but I am not good at explaining what I think.
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But sometimes even the smallest differences that emerge can make for a very different outcome. Even if I were to suddenly change my way of thinking to believing that my life is pre-determined doesn’t change anything in how I live.
In relation to your copy example.. well is it really possible to create two perfect copies of something? Even if it were it still doesn’t enforce the belief that everything is pre-determined.
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No, two copies are never exact but what if they were? If the only differences were due to peoples choices, would people make different choices?
Think simulation with exact clones of people in it, just for the sake of argument.I guess what I mean is not that the universe is pre-determined but more that people are pre-inclined to certain behaviour.
But I am also talking out of my are so I’ll shut up.
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Excellent conversation guys, the butterfly effect is a theoretical possibility in a controlled environment due to fundamental physics.
However we have this thing called reality in which certain things such as external forces that counteract most of these possibilites, even quantum theory is broken by reality as a controlled experiment can only obtain degrees of accuracy.
If a controlled environment to a precision of 1 is possible, then everything shall be pre-determined. Otherwise all we have is degrees of chaos.
Hence the sayings such as “you only make your own luck” and “you gotta be in it to win it” and “You may be up against someone, bigger, stronger, faster and smarter than you, but you can still win by working harder.” Thats my 2 cents cha-ching.
Why do you think your life is “predetermined”, Dire Wolf? It’s an interesting idea. You should read Lance Armstrong’s book, It’s Not About the Bike.
I go surfing at a beach near my house; there’s almost infinite random encounters that could change my life forever. Same deal with even just walking down the street, or catching a bus.
There’s a Dr. Seuss book called Because a Little Bug Went Ka-Choo! I used to read it all the time. It looks at cause and effect and how nothing stays the same; everything changes – the universe in a constant state of flux.
A bug sneezes (ha!) and nothing is ever the same again!
I understand the feeling that things feel pre-determined, and disagree (to some extent) with everyone’s dismissal of such feelings.
I actually believe that in a lot of respects that there is an incredible amount of inertia in everyone’s lives (some more than others) that you must struggle to overcome if you intend to change your direction.
There is intensive interconnection between every item and event in the world, and even down to the atomic level, it seems that every collision, every electrical connection, every sub-atomic motion, has been set in place by the nature of the Big Bang or whatever kick-started the universe.
But there are other things, intangible things, things that we really don’t know enough about to know whether they are also part of this interconnected system. Human agency and free will, even the general autonomous everyday functionings of the human mind, are beyond our current understanding, and don’t easily slot into this model of pre-ordained destiny.
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Maybe there are levels of pre-determined events, because inertia at a universal level cannot be quantified to human behaviour, because we are for one acting against the forces which set the universe in motion. The moment when bacterial life exceeded past single-cell organisms, pre-determined became less of an issue.
I think some things are pre-determined but others are up to your own choice.
Example – It is pre-determined that I will be drinking beer this weekend, but what type? James Squire? Cascade? Caronas? That’s my own choice – I shape my own destiny!
Nothing is true. Everything is permitted?
Also if you think that dream was strange, I once had one where I’m downstairs in the kitchen, and my sister comes in and she’s all upset and holding a small box and is like “it got away”. Referring to her pet tarantula (she does not have a pet spider in real life). I look up and on the ceiling is this enormous purple spider with pink polka dots on it. And I have to catch it and put it back in the box except the room keeps getting bigger and bigger. And then the door bursts open and my uncle comes in and he’s got a terrible stye in one eye, and asks me if I have a moist towel so he can wipe his ‘indian eye’. Then I woke up and started questioning my sanity because seriously, what the fuck?
I also had one where it was dusk and I’m sitting in my room at my computer and there’s this bizarre noise and I get really annoyed with it and look outside and my sister is sitting on a ride-on mower that has headlights, slowly driving in a wide circle while singing polka…
While it is a very interesting concept, and acted as the premise for some of the greatest entertainment programs of all time (eg LOST, Sliding Doors, The Butterfly Effect, that ‘My Butterfly’ episode of Scrubs), it is just not sustainable in reality, and it is when people start truly believing this concept that society will begin to break.
If we step into predeterminism (it’s a word, wiki it.), Why do we reward people who are the best in their field? Why do we punish the serial killer? It’s no fault of either. Both are merely the results of their genetics, environment. Neither one of these could be seen as a conscious choice by either person under predeterminism. Why is this guy a rich doctor, and me struggling to find a job? He merely got a better roll of the dice in life.
Why would people ever try after deciding that whatever will be will be? The world would collapse.
Any Sydney peeps going to see Jay and Silent Bob Get Old? I really want to go, but company would make it more enjoyable.
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No, it’s a show with Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes. Smith said he wouldn’t make any more Jay and Silent Bob films after Clerks 2. He also said that about J&SB Strike Back too…
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He kind of only made Clerks 2 because Jason Mewes was all messed up with drugs. According to urban/Hollywood legend, he promised Mewes he’d do another J&SB movie if Mewes stayed clean.
I liked Clerks 2 though, it was a much better note to out on than J&SBSB.
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The only story like this that I heard is that he told Mewes he couldn’t appear in Jersey Girl because of the drugs.
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Nah, Kevin Smith is done with flicks, isn’t he? He’s retiring after that hockey thing he’s doing… or at least that’s what he said.
This is a stage show that I can’t afford to attend 🙁
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Kevin Smith?
Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back and Clerks 2.
Seeing as you didn’t know who Bruce Campbell was, I won’t hold this against you. 😛
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Clerks 2 is one of my top five all-time favourite movies. No matter what mood I’m in, I can always put that movie in and enjoy it. I must’ve seen it about thirty times.
I got this: http://www.joblo.com/?id=13525
Signed by all the actors, Kevin Smith and Scott Mosier!It is my single most precious piece of memorabilia.
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I like Clerks 2, but if I’m gonna stick on a KS film, it would be Mallrats.
I know it’s the most loathed, but I love it. Brodie is my hero. It was actually the first of the View Askewniverse movies I saw when I was younger. Well, there were only two at the time. I then got a copy of Clerks on VHS to see what I had missed.
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I’m hit and miss on Kevin Smith films. I love:
Clerks II
Clerks
Jersey Girl
Mallrats – yes, I like this one too.Not so big on any of the others.
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I like Dogma and Chasing Amy, but I prefer the humour of the Clerks movies and Mallrat. And J&SB Strike Back could be a little much sometimes. . Have you seen the Clerks animated series? If not, you must do so NOW!
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I have… sorry, didn’t much care for it 🙁
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Aw 🙁
It was very different humour from the films but I loved it. Especially the Outbreak episode with James Woods and the court episode with Judge Reinhold.
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I loved the Clerks comics. Did you ever read them?
http://jayandsilentbob.com/tafrclcocoof.html
Not so much with the J&SB comics, but the ones with Dante and Randal are brilliant.
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Damn reply button! *ahem*
Yeah! I have the singles somewhere. They did an animated adaption of the Lost Scene that was on the anniversary DVD. Love Jim Mahfood’s artwork. Perfectly suited to the Clerks world.
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Yeah! I have the singles somewhere. They did an animated adaption of the Lost Scene that was on the anniversary DVD. Love Jim Mahfood’s artwork. Perfectly suited to the Clerks world.
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THIS WAS A REPLY TO SHANE!
Was seriously considering it but not at $80. Will be a shame to miss it as it would be a great night, but no monies. It is April next year I think so might consider it in the new year.
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Tickets almost completely sold out in one day. Can’t imagine there will be much left after New Years.
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Fifteen bucks, little man,
Put that shit in my hand,
If that money doesn’t show,
Then you owe me, owe me, owe,
My jungle love, yeah, Owe-ee, owe-ee, owe!
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Defeated the Gaping Dragon last night, my heart was racing as it showed up and I was sweating bullets by the end of the fight.
I swear that guy gets my vote for creature/character design of 2011, bloody genius.
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Yeah that was great. I loved how at first it looks like this massive alligator creature then it… just … keeps… on… climbing, AND IT’S HUGE.
Though I’m at Sen’s fortress and I really just can’t be bothered with the game anymore unfortunately.
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Nowhere near Sen’s Fortress yet, I’m assuming it’ll open up once I’ve run dem bells.
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Bring moss. Bring lots of moss. I strongly suggest you go to Darkroot Garden and kill yourself plenty of the tree dudes to fortify on moss. You’ll need Purple for poison and Blooming Purple for toxic.
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Nice, got plenty of them 🙂
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Very much recommend….
univat gur fcvqre fuvryq sebz gur qrcguf. Jurer lbh frr gur svefg ohgpure, ebyy guebhtu gur obkrf oruvaq uvz naq qebc qbja gb or ba gur ‘yrqtr’ nern nobir jurer gur tvnag eng jnf. Jnyx nebhaq gur rqtr naq lbh’yy svaq gur fcvqre fuvryq. Vg whfg zbfgyl nofbeof cbvfba/gbkva qnzntr gung uvgf vg.
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I was just hanging out at the Undead Parish bonfire, near the Blacksmith and I saw another player there. They must have been taking “Deprived” as a character really seriously because they had no clothes or armour on, just a loincloth and a huge sword. Brave soul.
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Yeah I found that. It’s quite handy against those bloody poison rats 😀
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I decided this morning that it’s past time for me to buy Bastion. I was really looking forward to it, but when it came out I couldn’t afford it and then I somehow forgot about it. I grabbed the Steam demo but it didn’t work. And then it did work, but trying to control it on my laptop was silly. So I’m going to get it from Xbox Live.
Anyone know the best and cheapest place to get a MS Points Card from?
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I have 900 points in my account that I don’t particularly want. Is there any way to gift them?
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I was in that position too but then I stopped because I bought it.
danny baranowsky is my favourite thing about Super Meat Boy, Canabalt, and The Binding of Isaac.
Speaking of Isaac, I played it last night and just really didn’t see the appeal. Am I missing something?
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Done!
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They patched the controls on PC, did you try the tweaked controls? Or use a gamepad?
Who am I kidding. I’d get it on XBLA personally.
I’ve never worked out a good way to get MS points. I will be learning something here today.
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Cheapest way is gamecard i guess if its full retail elsewhere, I usually wait til there is a sale at dick smith or somewhere and get them in bulk. last time i bought 4000 points for $40 bucks.
Just check retail before you order them just incase there is a 2 for $40 deal or something?
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“The Strange lady was after some points so she could get her mits that fancy game with the classy narration, so she thought she’s stroll on over to her local TAY and ask around for some helpful nuggets of wisdom…”
Stupid FatShady is Stupid.
was just about to go to bed at midnight and i thought, I’ll just load up Skyrim to see whats going on… now I am very tired!!!
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Its almost like a more fun version of sticking a knife in a toaster, you know whats going to happen, you know it’ll end in pain, but you are going to do it anyways.
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Yeah wouldn’t have changed a thing,… im only like at lvl 5 so am only getting into it still, decided to go for a little walk, stumbled across some Giants and thought, these guys could be the friently kind… lets have a chat.. they were not at all and My companion and I ended up 200ft in the air!
But I did learn to mine ore and rode a waterfall which was fun.
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See its moments like this that remind me why i have put off buying skyrim. I suffer insomnia bad enough as it is, i dont need skyrim to help with it 😛
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Ah yes, the sweet, sensual, siren’s call of SKYRIM!
Once it has you, it will never let go.
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I did exactly the same thing! Thought I’ll go to Winterhold to buy some spells and call it a night. Got to Winterhold and a Dragon attacked – Was pretty easy nailing it with arrows as it attacked the guards. Then I finally got into the college, got my spells and spent another hour stealing everything of value from it.
I think my Skyrim character is a Kleptomaniac!
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pfft, youngens now a days
*sits back in recliner blowing bubbles out of pipes*
on the plus side, early CONGRATULATIONS DUDE
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Thanks, Pixel. 🙂
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i tried the the cd-tray as well
*whimpers* IT’S NOT WORKING
ah well… how about i have a few too many drinks on your behalf to celebrate? sounds good to me, soundsgoodtoyou?good
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ooohh i just read that properly… so i managed to send the present but it was blocked by your filter…
that makes sense, due to the nature of the present…
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*wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiink*
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Thanks, mate. 🙂
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Everybody is talking about this Time Off place? Is that a new restaurant in Sydney or something.
To far for me, I guess I’ll never get there
I encountered a weird bug in Skyrim last night. I was talking to one of the greybeards and he goes to open this gate before he suddenly launched very very high into the air – he was so high that he had disappeared from sight. I was like oh, he must be demonstrating his… powers??
I waited a few seconds and then he landed with a heavy “Ooof!”. Then he closed the gate and walked off. I was a bit confused.
Has this happened to anybody else?
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I like how he was all like, “what-ever, dude,” when he landed. “I do my crazy old man flying 24-7.” Then he probably went and ate a dragon or something just to fill in the day.
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eating dragons? why do that when skyrim food looks so lovely… everytime I see a sweetroll I get this craving for cupcakes. And that seared slaughterfish, damn.
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http://www.gourmetgaming.co.uk/
And search the page for Sweet Roll. Delicious.
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Go out drinking for birthday last night, fully knowing I had to work the today, wake up at 6 to get ready for work, semi hung over and tired as all hell, to see this message “Hey, don’t worry about coming in today, have a day off! Love your boss”. HELL YEAH!
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Thats awesome, but if you boss truly loved you, they would have sent the message last night!!!
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Hungover Zelda then? Man, this game is so good. But… I have a fear that the game is gonna end soon, and it feels too soon! I hope that they suddenly throw a spanner in the story and add a bunch of new temples…
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wow, i feel bad for only just catching up on the events… poor guy…
DI11 IF YOU READ THIS, EMAIL ME AT jacob(dot)didriksen(at)gmail(dot)com
i would put up my mobile number but you know, very open to the public…
DI11 give us a shout if you ever need:
1. somewhere to stay
2. someone to talk to
3. a shoulder to cry on
4. something, anythingwe’re a few canberrans here, and i am sure they all feel as i do…
if you do read this, we’re here for you buddy-
The generousity of this community is astounding. You guys are all awesome. Just thought it’s worth saying.
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Man i didn’teven see that in till you mentioned it just now, so i went and hunted for it..
Man that fethin sucks…
Yeah – if there is anything we can do – let us know!!
That is so seriously shit…. Hope he’s ok…
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havnt been around so I had to look it up, I hope He is alright,
Di11, If you read this, I’m going through a breakup as well so if you want someone to talk to about it drop me an email – djdimsimatgmaildotcom -
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Played some Starcraft 2 with Jo last night. Good times, even if we are both forever Bronze.
First game was on the latest version of Belshir Beach. I played Protoss and Jo was Terran. Thought I’d be a little fancy, go for three gate, robo with double forge (for those that don’t play that meant I had a decent amount of basic units, a nice smattering of beefier ones and they were all upgraded to bonus attack and armour) off of two bases and expand when attacking. Sent my minions forth and then proceeded to watch the worst battle in the history of terrible battles.
My army was bigger, it was more upgraded and I even caught Jo’s army on a move command, so I should have cleaned up before they could attack back. That didn’t work out so well in my favour.
Luckily, Jo didn’t press his advantage so I still got my third base up and managed to rebuild my army. This time with two Stargates producing many a Void Ray.
I noticed that Jo had set up all of his supply depots along a cliff that I could attack with my army thanks to the vision of it that my Void Rays would give. Sent the whole army on an attack command but instead of attacking the depots from the bottom of the cliff, the bulk of my army tried to walk through Jo’s base. The part of Jo’s base with his army was particularly troublesome.
Most of my forces fell and I just told him to attack me and win. By the time he got to my base, I had managed to build up a big enough army to stop him and then win on my own.
Yay!
The second game was less interesting. I didn’t send an observer into Jo’s base early on, so my scouting was terrible and I ended up just sending several large armies at him until I won.
Good times. We should do it again. Or get others to. I want to learn to not be terrible!
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Pfft I don’t want to fight you again, getting rolled like a noob is not much fun 🙁
You do underestimate your knowledge and ability, maybe you are not pro but defiantly better than the average dude.Once Skyrim is done with I might try to join you in learning to play properly. Maybe. Competitive games require so much effort and dedication only to still get owned.
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I think you vastly underestimate the average dude. In the first game, I had an observer in your base for the vast majority of the game. When I told you to attack, it’s because your army could have curbstomped me if you got there before my non-Gateway units arrived.
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yeah, TRJN always says how he sucks and then goes ahead and steamrolls you after 2 – 3 min, about the average time it takes me to build my first SCV 😛
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Do I now?
Has someone been using my account? :p
I could and probably should do early aggression but I need to learn to macro. No point winning games in 5 minutes if my main goal is to improve.
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do not smash my exaggerated stories with your logic and truthfullnes 😛
what i was getting at, is that you are pretty darn good compared to some *points to self*
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If you steal my playstyle, you aren’t going to learn much. Just watch some of Day9’s Newbie Tuesday episodes. They’re pretty nifty and I spend most of the match trying to do things that I saw there.
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and just like that i lost my tuesday night 😛
thanks for the tip though i wasn’t aware that it existed….seriously though, stop knocking your abilities, they are better then you think
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Actually, because of timezones and whatnot, Newbie Tuesday is on Wednesdays :p
But I would just go back and watch through the archives.
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Also, I should point out that the reason that I keep insisting that I’m terrible is that I want to be good. So until I reach a standard that I’m happy with, one of the easiest ways to motivate myself is to be aware of all of my faults.
Like last night, throughout both games I should have been warping in one pylon for each base before doing a warp in of Gateway units. I wasn’t keeping an eye on my Nexuses so I wasn’t constantly making probes. I didn’t have enough production units towards the end game, so I couldn’t reproduce my army as well as I could have. I didn’t make a forward pylon when attacking, so I couldn’t make my attacks as strong as they should have been. I didn’t really micro at all. I didn’t scout much beyond my initial probe and then later dumping an observer in the base. I didn’t spend my money effectively. I got more gas early on than I needed, would have been better having those probes getting minerals.
There’s more but that’s just what I can think of without watching the replays.
So I know what I need to do to get better. It’s just a matter of focusing on one or two of those at a time until they aren’t a problem and then focusing on the other problems. That’s how you get good, right? My only advantage is that I know what I should be doing in order to not suck. It’s not much of an advantage if I can’t actually do that stuff, not until I put the practice in to be able to do it.
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fair enough, this i can respect…
whenever i play, it always just ends in:
\o/ I’M TERRIBLEnot really motivation, cause i always just end up having fun which is more important to me then winning… and i always end up paying more attention to the score screen in the end to jaw drop at the other persons awesomeness :P… yeeaah i’m not a competetive gamer whatsoever 😛
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Different people get fun out of different things. I’m a pretty competitive person and I rather enjoy becoming good at something.
Winning against people who are significantly worse than me isn’t fun for me or them. Losing against people who are significantly better than me isn’t fun for me but might be fore them if they’re dicks :p
Winning against people slightly better than me. Now that’s where the real fun lies.
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Trjn, never underestimate the power of positive thinking. For instance, I am so arrogant that I rely solely on my natural ability to pull me through tough matches/comps and because I truly do believe it, it actually happens. Embrace the power of positive thinking!
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This negative thing works for me. Remember, my goal isn’t to win but to improve.
Once I start to get better, I can be all “fuck yeah, I was never supply blocked that entire match and my Nexus was never idle. I am the king of macro!”
If I tried that now, the only thing that I have down seems to be making sure that my Forges are constantly active until I have 3-3. It’s something but I want to earn my arrogance.
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Zealots are ridiculously overpowered. They’re the only Protoss unit that can dance!
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Oh no, Cyber Monday deals on the internet…must resist temptation to buy shirts with references to things nobody will understand.
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My friend: Who’s Jeeves?
Me: I know right!! Who is he?!
Friend: Um. Who is he? Jeeves?
Me: That’s the mystery! Nobody knows! Who is Jeeves?! It could be anybody!
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I went to the U.S. in August with a $1.10 exchange rate or something like that. It was freakin’ awesome. (Makes up for the time I went in ’04 when it was at 60 cents.)
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welcome to 2 weeks ago. But seriously, as soon as all this Euro stuff gets sorted, it will be back over 1.02-1.04.
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The Economist
Patch 1.02-1.04– Australian dollar attack power increased by 2
– Reduced cool down of US dollar ability “Change” to encourage actual change to take place
– Stocks may no longer spawn on business creep, must be placed in office premises first and undergo the “Money research” technology tree
– Commodity trading fee reduced by 25%-
That was funnier than it had any right to be. Well done!
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I too found this amusing.
well done, sir lady
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Dear Chuloopa,
I was just wondering what the deal was with “Feth”. Is it some sort of Warhammer swear word or something?
I always imagine someone with an insanely strong lisp trying to curse.
Kind Regards,
Dr What?
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I’m not Chuloopa (or am I?) but I think it’s an AWESOME cuss!
speaking of which, whats happening with Kotaku Chronicles pt 4? ?!!?!??!?!!??!
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Oh, I’m not saying it’s lame or anything. Just wondering where it came from. Personally, I’m partial to a good fu… wait… never mind.
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Ah, Bish.
Had I typed “Fr…” you would be on to something there.
I could have said “I’m partial to the odd shit now and then” for full comedic/shock value.
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Yep – it is indeed Gaunts Ghosts – an AMAZINGLY written 40K series by Dan Abnett
Wiki Here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaunt%27s_Ghosts#Inconsistencies_within_the_Warhammer_40.2C000_universePreview from the first Omnibus, which i’m reading at the moment:
http://www.amazon.com/Gaunts-Ghosts-Founding-Dan-Abnett/dp/1844163695#reader_1844163695Take a little time and read the preview.
Abnett is one of the greatest sci-fi/war writers i have come across in a while.
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yep, it’s the swear word of choice for the “Gaunts Ghosts” Regiment, aka the Tanith First and Only, so named, because on the day of their First Founding (the day that their militias/armed forces were first gathered to be put into service for the Emperor) their home planet, Tanith, was attacked and all bar destroyed, so they’re called The Ghosts due to not having a home to go back to.
Bishington,
I’ve been listening to your LoL mixtape thing that you posted last week. No idea whats with the weirf filenames, but most of the songs are awesome. Especially Blue. But it just makes me want to listen to Live It Up more.
♪( ´▽｀)
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Remember when that was big and people were all “WHAT ARE THE LYRICS ‘If I were Green I would die’, amirite’” and you’d be like “…WHY DO YOU CARE”
My excellent taste in music transcends obscure League of Legends references!
CommunistBish is glad he may share joy of happy music with others, like real communism!
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Man, it was the very first album I bought! I should dig that out. Didn’t you also post other versions? Did you still have the links to them?
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HOURS LATE
Yes and no.
The 2 part mega volume posted last week basically includes the first 2, so last week’s thing is all you really need.
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Trjn, having recently bought a shirt with this on it, it did not occur to me that i stumpled past your secret cult
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What did I tell you about breaking TAY?
I said to stop doing it, didn’t I?
Yet here we are, again, with a broken TAY in front of us and nobody to blame but you. For shame, Harli. For shame!
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ITS JUST A JUMP TO THE LEFT
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AND THEN A STEP TO THE RIIIIIIIGHT
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You’re not allowed to time warp at the Library, Hugo!!
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Ah, but that is where you are wrong my dear Plainview.
The library is empty at the moment, meaning I could act out the entire Rocky Horror Picture Show, as well as all the Gilbert and Sullivan productions if I so wished.
In fact, I may just do that.
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Yes!!
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The mind boggles at what could be hanging in shame
” I warned you, but did you listen to me? Oh, no, you knew, didn’t you? Oh, it’s just a harmless little bunny, isn’t it?”
Right. Methinks there should be some sort of plan in place for getting better at Starcraft 2.
I remember in one Day9 daily, he talked about having a list of priorities that you have with every game. So you have things like building workers, building army, scouting, build order and all of that jazz. You have something up the top of your list and that’s what you spend the majority of your time in the game on, any time your not doing that can be spent on things below it on your priority list.
Here’s what I suggest.
We (as in whoever I can rope in) play a few games where we have a very simple build order and a list of priorities right in front of us. Don’t worry about killing each other, but instead just do something like we focus on always producing probes. No matter what else happens, just keep making probes.
That way, after a few games of doing that, making probes will just be a habit and we can start having something else as a priority (like constant warp gate production or scouting).
How about it? Who’s in?
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sounds like a good plan, i’m tied up tonight (oh hello!!!) but will be available every night from then on for some online madness
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hey look, another article (this time from another country, but was linked to by the ACL) that brings up yet another ‘study’ that claims violent video games DO make people aggressive (see it says so as the title of the article and even in the URL itself, totally not sensationalism)
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What a great article.
I particularly like this bit at the end that contradicts the headline:
The research comes after another study by from Texas A&M University which monitored 165 young people over three years to evaluate the effects of video games on anti-social behavior.
They found no connection between the players behaviour and game playing.
They also failed to mention which group (the 11 playing 10 hours of violent games or the 11 not playing violent games) was affected by brain plasticity and made no mention whatsoever of what the effect of that was.
Brilliant journalism. Write the headline first and then just put in a few details that may or may not fit it. Methinks when they’re done with writing about how video games are the devil, they can come over to my place. I have a dead horse that won’t beat itself.
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Don’t worry, I’m fairly certain since the ACL linked this article, they’ll no doubt use this ‘study’ as proof for the necessity of every video game rated about PG to be banned, and the irony of the contradiction the article itself makes will no doubt be lost on them. . .
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The ACL just filters out anything that doesn’t agree with their world view.
A headline says video games cause violence? Why bother confirming if that headline is accurate. It says it right there in the headline, no further information required. Oh wait, there’s evidence to show that their position is completely baseless? It doesn’t count if they disregard it.
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Looks to me like their study indicates that when guys play violent video games they get a little aggressive. Afterwards they go back to normal.
Gee… cool study, bro.
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Last night, there was a little bit of KvK action in LOL. I tried to record it using XSplit. That did not go well. For one thing, I forgot to stop torrenting, so for the first ten minutes or so it is insufferably laggy.
Then when I went to watch the video to see if any of it was usable, it turns out that I had my settings all wrong and the overlay kept flickering.
Might need to work that out a little bit.
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Oh well, was a fun game until Lucifer got disconnected anyway. I’m sure the other guys won’t mind not having that game recorded. I would have liked to watch how much burst damage I was doing as Veigar though.
Mmm…melted faces.
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You were able to burst down at least one person on the other team in any engagement and seemed to have enough left over to get someone else down as well.
Your E was doing something like 1k damage at one point, your AP was at least 800 by the end.
It was obscene.
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I don’t know, it wasn’t so bad.
That was perhaps one of the more better balanced teams we’ve had in a while (mostly in regards to the character picks), and until Numbers had left I don’t really think there was a clear cut winner.
I enjoyed it at least. Running around, trying to gank, spinning to win. I may not be so great with Kat, but she is fun to play once you get a few items on her.
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Anyone ever wake up with the nagging feeling that you’ve forgotten something or that something just isnt right?
I’ve got that toady & it’s annoying.
That is all.
new page, so i’m going to shamelessly repost this cause i am a bit worried:
DI11 IF YOU READ THIS, EMAIL ME AT jacob(dot)didriksen(at)gmail(dot)com
i would put up my mobile number but you know, very open to the public…
DI11 give us a shout if you ever need:
1. somewhere to stay
2. someone to talk to
3. a shoulder to cry on
4. something, anything
we’re a few canberrans here, and i am sure they all feel as i do…
if you do read this, we’re here for you buddy
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Thanks for bumping this offer again, Hope he’s alright, Like others have said its a shitty situation but everyone is here to have a chat or just to take your mind off it for a few minutes… just ask man and any one of us will have a chat.
Vent all you need man.
Take care dude.
fatshady [at] me [dot] com
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anyone actually have his email? i would twitter him but it is majorly blocked by the proxy here
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Yeah, I Twitterised him as soon as I remembered I was following him. I’ll let you all know if I get a response.
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Putting mine up here too, as the other guys have said, anything you need, let us know. djdimsimatgmail.com
Mmmm. Delicious Cake. Was not a lie, but rather leftovers from a lady at work baby shower party thing. I’ve been caught out eating old cake at work before but Black Forest is sooo goood……
Also the air-con at work is broken. This is ridiculous, wearing heavy/long corporate gear in 40 degree heat. It’s too hot to even catch up on the sleep that I’m missing – damn Skyrim!….
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RANDOM FACT: I just found out how to move bodies/drag stuff around in skyrim.
they should really make it more obvious for players.
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AlexPants: You end up talking your cat to the vet? (Sorry, I’m a crazy cat fanatic, had to check up on you. :D)
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Yes, thanks for asking! She stayed overnight for blood tests and they got some fluids in her. Its been a bit up and down with their results. First call was bad, second call was cautiously optimistic, third call this morning was bad again. Sitting around waiting for the phone to ring again now, its very nervewracking to say the least. Personally, I’m compensating with humourous youtube videos right now.
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Good luck man – hope it all comes back good. My dogs going through a rough time at the moment so I know how you feel.
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WTF??
It’s at “www.game.com.au/viewcart?ReturnUrl=/search?search=human revolution ” anyway. Might be the space breaking it.
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Yeah I know. That’s why I pasted the URL directly. You’ll have to do some of the cut-and-paste work yourself to take advantage of the sweet, sweet bargains.
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Oh bloody hell
http://www.game.com.au/search?search=human%20revolution
FINE
I give up. If that doesn’t work go to GAME’s website and search for it yourself.
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And now it links automatically. FFS.
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Somewhere in Kotaku HQ, Ben White is laughing at you.
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Say Deus Ex fast. Sounds like Day o’ Sex. Hence, Day Sex.
Greetings, TAY!
First off, I’m very upset with my job. They’re making me do work today, and as a result I’ve arrived late to TAY. Not cool, source of income, not cool at all.
Second, I finally got to HOST a game of Exterminatus last night. First time I wasn’t lagging, and we just HAPPENED to get to wave 20. Granted, one of the other players then died 3 times, ate up our lives and we failed, but still…
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argh! I’ve been looking for someone to play that with, I loved it when I started playing it, though I think we only got up to round 8 or something.
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Well, I know there are a few PC players (myself included) on here, and a crapload of schmucksbox players too. What platform do you have it on?
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well if you bought on something manly… like a sexbox, we COULD have played together 😛
*ducks for the impending PC vs everything ever debacle…again*-
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Are you judging me based on the way I was born?
That’s sexual harassment!
…I think.
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@ Doc WHAT?!?!?!?!?!
I replied you!
http://staging.kotaku.com.au/2011/11/talk-amongst-yourselves-140/comment-page-6/#comment-456373
so did others!
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I SAW! ALL HAS BEEN EXPLAINED! I’d assumed something of the kind, but no one was saying anything. I was scared I was the only one not in on it. But now I know. And knowing is half the battle!
GEE AYE JOOOOOOE!
It’s astounding;
Time is fleeting;
Madness takes its toll.
But listen closely…
Not for very much longer.
I’ve got to keep control.
I remember doing the time-warp
Drinking those moments when
The Blackness would hit me
And the void would be calling…
Let’s do the time-warp again.
Let’s do the time-warp again.
It’s just a jump to the left.
And then a step to the right.
Put your hands on your hips.
You bring your knees in tight.
But it’s the pelvic thrust
That really drives you insane.
Let’s do the time-warp again.
Let’s do the time-warp again.
It’s so dreamy, oh fantasy free me.
So you can’t see me, no, not at all.
In another dimension, with
voyeuristic intention,
Well secluded, I see all.
With a bit of a mind flip
You’re into the time slip.
And nothing can ever be the same.
You’re spaced out on sensation.
Like you’re under sedation.
Let’s do the time-warp again.
Let’s do the time-warp again.
Well I was walking down the street
just a-having a think
When a snake of a guy gave me an
evil wink.
He shook-a me up, he took me by surprise.
He had a pickup truck, and the
devil’s eyes.
He stared at me and I felt a change.
Time meant nothing, never would again.
Let’s do the time-warp again.
Let’s do the time-warp again.
It’s just a jump to the left.
And then a step to the right.
Put your hands on your hips.
You bring your knees in tight.
But it’s the pelvic thrust
That really drives you insane.
Let’s do the time-warp again.
Let’s do the time-warp again.
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Oh god, I just realised why I feel compelled to use that face as a creepy look!
SUUUUGHLLLLLY!!!
It’s your damned postman! He’s invaded my head! *shakes fist*
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LOLOLOL! I so want to make a shirt of him that just reads ‘He knows where you live’
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do it, please, do it, you will sell at least one… to me 😛
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Make that three. One for me, and one more for me so when the first one wears out I still have one 😀
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I would definately buy a Sughly-brand T-shirt. It would be epic having creepy postman on a t-shirt and people would say ‘what’s that on your shirt?’
And I would say, ‘oh,you probably haven’t heard of it’
*puts hipster glasses on*
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Yeah. Like when you watch 2 Girls, 1 Cup and witness the very real vanishing point of science and a linear, predetermined universe. Thermodynamics and entropy, man! Chaos reigns supreme.
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2 Girls 1 cup exists because someone wanted it to.Like in the comic, the guy saw that messed up video, but how did he find it? Eh?
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*joins Harli in staring at Chuloopa but gets distracted by a nearby dog*
Look, that dog has a puffy tail.
*runs after dog*
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I’m not impressed easily.
Wow! A blue car!
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is that because your dotty about me, Harls? 😛
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Well I.. *looks away and tries not to recall the WRAPS incident*
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I’m telling Pez!!!!
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*cough*heretic*cough*
stop applying the warp to TAY… It’s… It’s unsanitary -
No.
Licking the juice at the bottom of a bin before going to third base with your dog is unsanitary.
What i do… Is ART! -
i respect that you have an opinion… it may be WRONG but i respect it 😛
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*shakes head*
i am pretty sure….
*flicks pages*
yep, this is definitely NOT in the Codex Astartes… i am disappoint in you son
Cheeses Christ, Loops!
The usual? Multiple links then reply to your unapproved comment I assume.
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Do anything that stops getting a post auto-approved (multiple links, name change etc) and then reply to it with a comment that will get auto-approved. Et voila.
The solution is probably to make it so that any replies to an unapproved comment are not approved until the initial one is. Not sure how that works, but it’s the only thing I can think of to stop Chuloopa and Harli’s reign of terror.
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I’d imagine it would be easier to set a macro that lets approved users posts appear automatically, regardless of amount of links..
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Multiple links is just one way that it gets screwed up, although it would be nice if they bumped up the limited just a tad.
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Bahahaha – While I think of it, we had some Minecraft Shennigans last night…
This isn’t what I meant when I asked if you had any spare wood Harli!
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This just in, popular online game causes teenage girls to fall pregnant and boys to punch trees
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in that case, my headlines are just as accurate as most other online newspapers 😛
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There’s a lesson here for all you kids. Use protection. Proper protection.
Apparently Bus-Shelters don’t count.
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I’m still lost in Minecraft. I need to log on sometime when you guys are playing and teleport to one of you.
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I think Dire Wolf has a different spawn point. I TP’d to him at one point and was completely off my map (Which was centered near the original spawn point). Something funny going on there.
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So I got home yesterday, all ready to keep playing Quake. I started playing it last Monday as the first game on my shame pile. Unfortunately, when I finished playing it last Monday… I never saved. So instead I quickly rushed through the first zone/world thing again in a desperate attempt to catch up to where I was last week. Didn’t take me too long, but by the time I started on the second world, actually making some progress, I was bored. Curse my short attention span!
Hoping to maybe play some more tonight. Maybe I’ll record it and add a non-humorous boring commentary track. Then again maybe not. Why did my first fortune cookie have to be a 15 year old game? I want to play new games!
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Quake a freaking brutal… there’s zero hand holding, and it tries to rape you at every turn… it is amazing
Hi all
I just want to say thank you all for you amazing offer of support, you people truely are amazing. I went off a bit last night and became a drama queen quite quickly, after my girlfriend dumped me and then i found out that my interview at ANU had been postponed to a date which i could not attend so i was extremely upset and lost. I went to the barracks and watched all the videos you guys have posted over the last few days and they made me laugh and forget why i was angry, eventually i got asked nicely to leave as it was closing time. I walked out to my car to find my Girlfriend sitting next to it with flowers and maccas, she apologised until she could hardly breathe, still feeling quite betrayed i agreed to sit and talk for a while. we stayed there until 2 am talking and such, we both agreed that the fight was meaningless and it was a huge over reaction on both our parts. I said I would come back but Im not sure how long it will take to forget about it and what she said, and that If anything happens like this again even on a smaller scale Ill leave. So we went back home and decided to watch movies all night together like we did when we first started dating. we watched Eagle, Super 8 (again) and lots of Batman Animated series. At 7am i got a call from ANU and they apologised for the mix up and let me know that i could have my saturday interview anyway. even though i had not slept for over 28 hours i suddenly felt wide awake and very happy. everything is back to normal, Im not so naive to say that it will definetly last and everything is perfect as i still feel a bit uncomfortable but im sure that will pass and if not then what ever happens happens. Again I would like to thank you all for your responses i did not expect anything, the main reason i posted about it was because i was just so lost and there is no way i could tell anyone else, apart from my local friends but i had no credit. Thank you all again and sorry for the drama.
Also Blaghs, Pixel, Shane, Harli, Flu, Freyr, NotoriousR, D.C, Jo, Strange, Puppy, Steve-o, GingerChris, Loops, Rocketman, Sughly and Fat Shady id like to personally thank you all for every word, virtual hug and offer of support that response was blind mowing.
i will say now that if a meet is organised for new years in sydney i would like to drive all of the canbarbarians to sydney for the night and if there are too many to fit in my car i will hire a 12 seater bus and drive you all there (familys permitting of course).
thanks again and much love from one gamer to a truely awesome gaming community, sorry for the drama
oh and good morning and such 🙂
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glad you worked it out man, we all get in the dumps sometimes…
but i never like saying that “i know how you feel” because every situation and circumstance is different…
very happy to hear you got out on top, and just know you can always come to us with random shit… that’s what we’re here for 😀BTW, offer still stands, but with more alcohol and laughs then originally intended :P… by this i’m saying we should have another Canberra meat…. now…
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Wow just wow that story had everything even a happy ending(of sorts) Glad you are doing better now , also gets some sleep dude otherwise you will passout and sleep for like 3 days. 🙂
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Just saw the whole situation that everyone is talking about. Glad to hear things have worked out for you. If you ever need a chat or a place to get away from Canberra for the weekend(i’m in Melbourne) then my door is open and the couch is free 🙂
You can reach me at Aaronanddel(at)yahoo.com.au
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Even though I wasn’t one of the people to offer support when things were rather sucky for you, I’m really happy to hear that everything has worked out for you now.
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I’ve got 99 problems!! . . . [secretly just wants to stay at Blaghman’s house for a couple of years.]
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YAY!!!
IT’S LIKE A TV COMEDY DRAMA!!!
EVERYTHING WORKS OUT IN THE END!!
TEARS WERE SHED!
LAUGHS WERE HAD!
TINY TIM ISN’T A CRIPPLE ANYMORE!
CHRISTMAS HAS BEEN SAVES!!On a serious note – i’m glad things got better.
I hate, more than anything, fighting with Bee. Both of us being stubborn doesn’t help.
Nor does me being stubborn AND spiteful when i’m angry.
So yeah – i know where you’re coming from. Explosive situations, indeed.I’ll still hug you, though.
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That life spiralling out of control feeling is never a good one, awesome to see you’re feeling better!
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Sounds like an intense night. Glad to hear it was mostly sorted out. Yay maccas! It’s so wrong, but sometimes oh so right.
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That is so good to hear man. Im just glad it worked out for you and it was a much better ending than sleeping in your car man. Really happy for you.
I never come out and say this at the time as it sounds insensitive but everything happens for a reason. Massive cliche i know but everything that ever happens to you makes you who you are, good or bad! If you look back and can always learn something from these shitty times and try and turn it into something positive.. or at least a learning experience to avoid getting hurt like that again. (hope you know what I mean)…
Anyway, thanks for the update man. Appreciate you letting us know whats going on. As you can see, we do care…
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Batman TAS. It fixed EVERYTHING!
Glad to hear things worked out okay, dude!
Remember, we’re all hear if you need us. Except the ones who aren’t. Here, I mean. Unless, I dunno, they’re ghosts.
Helpful ghosts. Like Casper tried to be. He was such a friendly ghost but inevitably someone would realize that the pale, transparent floating boy was a ghost and leave him alone one more. Possibly they would scream before leaving, other times their hair might even rip itself from their head and rotate 360 degrees, or their eyeball might forcefully eject itself from the eye socket resulting in untold optical damage that would, ultimately require some sort of radical surgery to save their sight.
It’s on this not that I, a doctor who might be involved in said surgical operations, extend my hand to you (Watch out for MRSA. LOL) in friendship and kindness and in the spirit of unification! So yell with me now…
WHITE POWER!
And by white, I mean my coat, not the colour of my skin which has taken on a greenish/black tinge around my foot. Not to worry though! Nothing a good leeching won’t fix. Amirite Dr Freyr? ‘Course I am!
Who else’s left arm is tingling?… No one… Must be me then…
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Oh wow, what a rollercoaster! You couldnt write that kind of stuff without someone saying ‘pffft, ‘sif thatd happen’. And yes that person would be me.
Really glad to hear things worked out somewhat in the end! Hope it stays this way indefinately!
I had a horrible song stuck in my head this morning, and I thought I’d comment on it a moment ago, but couldn’t remember it.
So I tried to remember it, but then realised it was a good thing that I couldn’t, and stopped trying.
So now I don’t have any song stuck in my head.
(How was that Bish?)
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Okay, but I think it would be better if we remembered what song it was so that it could spread to everyone who reads TAY.
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As much as it displeases me, it may please you to know that I have remembered the song.
The Reason – Hoobastank
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Oh god. I had the great fortune of never knowing any songs or bands like that existed…and then I moved in with my then-boyfriend/now-husband. He likes to get drunk and play Singstar. I now know the words and awfully(in the fullest sense of the word) catchy tunes to a whole heap of really bad soft rock songs.
And now I have that one stuck in my head. Erm, thanks for sharing, Eff!
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So yay. My broadband doesn’t want to use 3g. WHYYYY????!!!!!!
Also Sughly, woohoo on getting on kotaku! 😀
Okay, unless my broadband all of a sudden decides to work, I’ll be somewhat silent today…
Also, Loops, stop breaking TAY please? 😛
Ok seriously, this whole thing of posts being all over the place is hurting my brain, someone message me on twitter when its fixed.
Attention Sydney based People
If anybody else wants in on the Sydney Meats in December please post your email here, THANKS!
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Ooh, nicely planned post there. Not sure if I can come but hey why not get in on the emails at least?
Oh no everyone knows my email now. Granted its pretty obvious to guess at. I’m very original with these things, you see.
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Suddenly I feel like I should’ve done that thing everyone else does with the (at)s and the (dot)s. Oops.
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and foolproof ways to get rockhard abs for those hot singles! you’re welcome!
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How could any of this possibly be a bad thing?!
Okay I’m tempting fate now.
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i signed you up for hot singles too… though i think it was for homosexuals… i dunno… i think you may get an email from Bruce
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Most you guys know my email.
Why don’t I get signed up to these great offers?
I thought you liked me.
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oh and the 2012 sexpo
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You could give me your email and I’ll sign you up for some awesome stuff!
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i sent your email to that Bloke that has earned billions of dollars in lucrative business deals and feel like sharing it with you… you know that guy from Somalia or where ever he’s from? he’s such a nice bloke
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@Pixel
Actually, one time I emailed one of those people back, asking for a job.
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@Bish
so you’re telling me that you never got an email asking for your bank details so you can become an instant billionaire and buy the $30 SC2 so you can play with us like the cool kids do?
i’m sorry, i have failed you
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I wants all the spam emails too! Send them to my email:
forevergamie[at]gmail[dot]com
I’d especially love me some swinger sites!
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signed up too:
bigswing.org
swingingwithstrangers.com
chuckycheese.com
flirt.com
aussiematchmaker.com
enjoy 😉
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oh jesus christ Steve-O /facepalms
I have been kind of absent from TAY due to busy busy works the last couple of weeks so I don’t know if you are referring to a specific meat or generally canvassing for potential participants.
Either way, I would like to subscribe to your mailing list.
I can be reached via kermitron(at)gmail(dot)com
Sorry to everybody who played the LoL KvK match last night, Internode thought it would be a good idea to drop sevice for a few hours, so I went and played Minecraft, and then one of my friends had a chat with me on Steam, and I noticed the internet was un-broken, and then I slept…
Wait, where was I going with this…
Oh, yeah, who won last night?
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It wasn’t!
I think he’s dead.Bit much? Yes? No?
Hahahaha, maybe he just got Zilean ulti’d.
Too far?
Because if we were making zombie Jesus jokes, how about Yorick’s Ulti?
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Dear Chuloopa, old bean!
I think you will find fishponds all over the world. When I was a child a neighbour of mine had a fishpond into which I was EXPRESSLY forbidded to play. Obviously I hadn’t the notion to even think of doing such a think… Until it was forbidden. At which point I realized that a fishpond held a fantastic realm of possibilities when it came to me and my cousin making our acion figure fun as realistic as possible.
But to answer your question; I believe Fishpond.com.au are located in Australia.
Kind regards,
Dr What?
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As quick as you might expect from NZ?
A week-ish?
I think the fastest thing I’ve ever received from NZ (private mail parcel) took 4 or 5 working days anyway.
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They’re in New Zealand, sourcing it from overseas (primarily the UK I believe). So if it’s in stock, it should take a few days to arrive. If it’s not, they’re going to have to source it from overseas first, which might take a while.
I usually just get stuff directly from bookdepository.co.uk nowadays. They tend to arrive in less than a week, though some people complain that their delivery times are much worse.
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And the grave-digger puts on the forceps
The stone mason does all the work
The barber can give you a haircut
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THAT’S WHAT THAT SONG IS CALLED!!!
I had it in my head the other day. Remember how their clips were supposed to tell the story of them stealing that diamond? Oh Hoobastank, you guys sucked.
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Arrggghh! I just replied to that on the previous page. And then I thankfully forgot about it. And then you reminded me again! Arrrggghh!
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I didn’t think it was that bad a song, but then my taste in music has also been strange….
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Strange as in different, not Strange the First Lady of Kotaku, that would just be strangeDammit, strange as in awkward
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When you’re getting ready for work and your brain is all:
“I’m not a perfect peerrssoooooon…”
“I’m not a perfect peerrssoooooon…”
“I’m not a perfect peerrssoooooon…”
“I’m not a perfect peerrssoooooon…”
“I’m not a perfect peerrssoooooon…”
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OK, I can understand that.
What you need is a few songs that you love, and know the words to, and sing them to yourself over and over. Its what I do when my sister’s been playing too much Glee, Miley Cyrus and/or Beyonce and I need to get rid of it.
Alternatively, quote back the SKYRIM! trailer, that works too 🙂
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You know I said my internet was playing up? Forget about that, it’s working fine now.
I BE SILENT NO MORE!!
Yep, that’s right, spambomann’s coming to town!*
*not really
IN HONOR OF DI11ENGER’S AWESOME COMEBACK I DECLARE THIS DAY….
PANTSLESS TUESDAY…
this goes well with Hug a Gamer day, because everyone wants to hug a pantsless gamer
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Wooo this might be awkard at first so lets establish something.when we hug do you want your *body part* on the right side or the left side?
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if we both go to the left relative to ourselves, mean that there won’t be any awkward… collisions
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I tend to prefer having my ██████ to the right side of a ████’s ███, but that’s mostly personal preference.
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Wow, Best discussion ever. but personally I’m a fan of standing up, myself :p
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there shall be NO standing during a pantsless man hug… unless both parts are cool with it 😛
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I KNOW RIGHT! Oh man, so good that someone else finally realised it! Now I’m gonna go put on some Vessel and be abused by synths and drum beats…
Lambomannnnnn
hold onto you crotch – we’re goin for a ride
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*grabs hold of crotch*
*accidentally smashes another fan with his ‘steel elbow’*
Hah, that’s awesome! The thermal detonator has a bow on it too! 😀
Another thing added to my ‘things I need to get’ list.
What date is this Sydney meat all the cool kids are talking about? I’d be keen to make a journey and drag some Canbarbarians, if scheduling permits.
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NEW YEARS! NEW YEARS! NEW YEARS! NEW YEARS! NEW YEARS!
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28th we’re flying out… coming back on the 3rd
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Hmm..I shall have to see what my plans are. Also, anyone interested who happens to be from Canbradialand, we should see who is interested and possibly organise group transport (numbers determine if cars, bus, train or we make Mr Serrels organise it…)
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Dear Rize,
There will be a Meat occuring on the 17th December in Sydney.
Kind regards,
– Effluvium Boy-
Yes, this.
I am ever so excited to make the aquaintance of all the Lords and Ladies that inhabit this fine land.
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OI Rize, going to Yarrangobilly between the 16th and the 22nd…
this is not going well for me :S-
Fail me once, shame on you.
Fail me eight or more times, that’s a paddlin’.
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My regime of getting very little sleep and compensating with energy drinks has take it’s toll. Everything is now moving exceptionally slow. Except my heart. That’s beating VERY fast.
I think I’ve tapped in to the Speed Force…
I AM THE NEW FLASH!
NOW I SHALL RUN AT THE SPEED OF SOUND!
TO THE NEAREST HOSPITAL SO THEY CAN EXAMINE ME! THESE DAMNED CHEST PAINS…
My ISP has been having troubles today so I’ve been stuck doing nothing most of today 🙁 It’s back now but FOR HOW LONG? As such, I’m 8 pages behind in TAY…
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Playing LoL, sweet Harli. Living life to the FULLEST, you know how it is. And off work for the week.
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Time off? what is this mystical thingie thing you speaky of.
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Whenever I eat a kiwifruit people look at me like I’ve grown a second head or something. What’s so abnormal about eating the skin?
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I used to know a guy that would eat the entire kiwi-fruit. Whole. Then he would regurgitate it back up on command. Was so much fun for the teachers.
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Hey I do that with golden kiwi fruit (the skin of the normal greens ones are a bit too thick, for my likings).
People used to be all OH MY GOD WHAT IS THIS BLASPHEMY but really, you’re just all dealwithit.jpg
Gorram you people with the lots of talking that’s hard to keep up with aaaarrrrggghhhh!
@DI11enger – /hugs. Glad to hear things are better than they seemed to be, chin up, etc. Best wishes.
@Sughly – give us Anna’s Room already!
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Saw Foo Fighters & Tenacious D last night.
Freaking awesome.
However, they need to sack the video and sound guys.
During Tenacious D, the video guy (in control of the big screens) kept cutting to cameras that didn’t have a good shot of the band, the screen went blank for ~2s at least four times, etc. Pathetic.
During Foo Fighters, the sound guy borked the sound levels quite badly during the whole bloody concert. The guitar volume would drop noticeably and repeatedly, the vocal volumes were dropped a few times so that you could hardly hear Grohl, the left/right balance ‘exploded’ a few times (you’d hear it come loudly from one side, but not the other, completely unexpectedly), and at one point the volumes for everything were turned up too much and all that came from the speakers was a hashy noise where none of the instruments were destinguishable from the others. Royally fucked up there, sound guy.
Other than the cock-ups, it was awesome.
And if you’re going to one of the other concerts and Fucked Up are one of the openers, go see them. The music wasn’t all that good, but the scream-singer was balding, fat and shirtless, wandering the crowd and drinking people’s beers and having photos. He slammed an empty plastic beer cup into his forehead, and it stuck there for ~15 minutes. Hilarious.
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But… but… I’m tryiiiiiiing! I’m actually not only finishing a full game design doc which is going out to a couple of people that have asked for it, but I’m also rewriting a bunch of dialogue for the first 2 chapters I’ve done, as well as adding an extra character in there to spice things up a bit more.
HEADS UP GUYS AND GALS!!!
At 3pm game au will be giving out Deus Ex DLC codes on their twitter!!
I really want to make this SC2 practice group thingy happen.
Get as many people as we have available together in a FFA, we all have a rather simple build and focus on one aspect of our game (although being a FFA and all, it’s always welcome to just start attacking someone). Rinse and repeat several times and then go play some games where we try and win to see how we’ve improved.
I’m sure it could work. I can probably come up with basics to practice for people who are willing (watching all that Day9 will pay off!) if people can’t think of something to do themselves.
Or we could just do random crazy games.
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I should point out the whole idea here is not become super mega awesome amazeballs at this game. Just to play with the focus being on getting better so that we can just jump on the ladder and not worry about being crushed. Basically getting to a level where we can compete against people who aren’t just mashing their face on the keyboard and praying that something good happens.
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I would like to join you but,
A) i don’t own Stracraft 2
2) I already have too many games
III) I am shitty at strategy gamesSorry bunny 🙁
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A) It’s only $30.
2) I don’t understand what you’re trying to say.
III) That’s what we’re trying to correct.
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At first I was like ( ಠ益ಠ)
Then I read “although being a FFA and all, it’s always welcome to just start attacking someone”
And I was like ( ಠ‿ಠ)
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I knew that would entice you :p
The main idea here is stolen from one of the Day9 dailies where the idea was to play a game, try to determine why you lost and then focus on just completely nailing that aspect of your game for a whole week on the ladder. Doesn’t matter if you win or not, just play against real people while focusing entirely on getting whatever you’re focusing on done.
“Oh no!” you might cry, “there are Void Rays destroying all of my hatcheries! Nevermind, I need to focus on my creep spread first!”
A FFA with a bunch of us doing this could probably work as the toned down version of this. Every once in a while, someone will send a hoard of Zealots to screw with everything, which just makes it a bit more interesting to try and keep those probes producing.
Maybe.
Either way, it seems like an excuse to try to suck less at this game and I quite like that.
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Surely you jest?
someone will send a hoard of Zealots to screw with everything
You could have just said that I will send a hoard of Zealots.
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You may be one of the people who do it, but if I’m sitting on 3-3 upgrades and a maxed out army, they’re not going to sit in front of my Nexus /dancing.
That and I might just get bored.
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I own SC2, but I’m pretty sure I suck. Never really played any strategy games before but got talked into buying it when it came out. I may be interested…
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I don’t particularly see this as being an issue. Join in the madness, there will probably be some occurring tonight.
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Ugh, I hate christmas… Actually thats a lie, I love christmas, I hate the lead up to christmas. Everyone is so convinced that they are the only ones in a hurry, or with places to go etc etc.
I work on the registers at my local Coles and yesterday for the first time since I started working there 7 years ago, I was literally left speechless by the sheer selfishness of a customer. We were pretty busy and I had about 3 full trolleys queued up on my register. The lady that I had just started serving said she wanted her groceries split up into $30 lots so she could get more fuel vouchers. I apologised and said that I wasn’t able to do that while there were people waiting behind her. Her response, I quote, “I don’t care, that what I said I wanted.” Me = gobsmacked. Luckily the lady behind her heard everything and said she didn’t mind waiting.
Argh, some people….
Sorry – /rant
Does anyone have any crazy customer stories? Surely I cant be the only one.
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I hope you packed her raw meat and fresh vegetables together in one bag so they juiced all over each other.
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I was soooo tempted, believe me, but she had that look that said “You know I’ll make you redo it”
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man, I used to work for woolies, and I’ve had the same thing before, I just told them that I need to serve all customers as quickly as possible, so the best I could do was to divide it up into 2 lots.
she went over and complained to my manager after that, but the manager had my back 😀
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i am the embodiment of Ebenezer Scrooge, pre-ghostly visit.
it’s all humbug…
christmas is humbug…also, customers are dumb, to every possible extend… having worked in a check out, bottle shop, pub and as a techie for a retailer, i can say that i’ve seen my fair share of stoopid people…
although your story is quite up there
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Seriously? She needed it divided up like that to save her 8c per litre on fuel. Wow. Just wow. I’ve lost even more hope for humanity now.
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it’s funny, because the fuel vouchers (at least, the current Woolworths ones) expire on the 23rd of December, so if she had have ended up with 6 vouchers lets say, she’s got 4 weeks to use 6 vouchers 😀
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Yeah, our’s only last a month as well. I know its holiday season, and there lots of people to visit, but unless your burning through fuel like a Veyron at full speed, there’s really no need for that many
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I work for a small but fairly successful steel company. We’ve supplied to a lot of movies that were filmed here in Victoria(Ghost Rider, Knowing, The Pacific, Don’t be afraid of the dark, Where the wild things are…and so on). Anyway, thats what i do. Between taking customer orders and cutting steel etc, i’m kept pretty busy. Sometimes people get upset they can’t pick up 5 tonnes of steel the same day they order it, or that we won’t tie loads down for them etc etc…one customer threw a chunk of steel at me because he was so angry I wouldn’t tie his load down. And because I wouldn’t let him drive his van into our warehouse(OH&S issue) he chucked the steel at me and left in a huff.
I try not to let customers bother too much, and the boss always has our backs, which is nice to know 🙂
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oh man, there’s some crackers from when I was working at EB as well…
Including one where a guy came in one morning, traded in a few games, and took home a copy of Oblivion on 360.
He returned 3 days later saying that he didn’t like the game and he wanted to return it, I told him fine, he can either swap it for another game, or have the credit from the trade on a gift card, at which point he said he wanted his games back… I told him I couldn’t do that, his options were the credit on a gift card, or another game…
Long story short, an hour of arguing later, along with a phone call to both my store manager, and area manager, the guy got his original games given back to him, effectively sold to him at the same price they traded in for, meaning that that loss came off our sales results at the end of the day.
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This is why I don’t work retail anymore.
It’s one thing to deal with a shitty customer, but to stand your ground only to have your boss (or his boss) cave in is morale-crushing.The day that happened to me was the day I learned that in retail you can get away with anything, as long as you bitch up the ladder far enough.
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Had a lady tell me that her son had cancer in order to get more entry forms to win a car at the servo I worked at. Don’t know if it was true just always thought that was a really shit thing to do.
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Whether or not it was true, to try and use something like that to your advantage…
Some people are just born with an unjustified sense of entitlement.
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My mum is one of these entitled folk. There’s a weekly $10 steak/schnitzel night at our local club, and you get one free raffle ticket with each meal. She’ll just reach over the counter and grab a fistful of tickets. I don’t know why, she just feels that because she’s a regular customer, she’s entitled to everything they’ve got.
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There’s this one older lady thats a regular to our store. Everytime she comes in there’s some story about her having cancer, or her son’s forgetting her birthday and having to go out to dinner by herself, or how she sliced open her ankle down to the bone the other day (when there’s no mark there at all). I know she’s probably just lonely and wants someone to talk to, but when she stands there yapping for 5-10 mins while I’m trying to serve other people, I just don’t care anymore. I feel terrible typing that, but its true 🙁
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I nearly got headbutted by a angry customer, also more than one occasion i have been called various names on the phone they range from f-wit to young upstart.
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People in general are pretty damn unpleasant any time of the year. I remember at LAX in the lost baggage claims area the woman behind the desk was being SCREAMED at, like she was nothing. Disturbing.
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I have another one, though this is from a few years back, and not around christmas.
A woman accused me, as a proxy of coles, of trying to kill her father. No, I’m not kidding. Apparently her father was a coeliac, and we had rearranged our freezers and moved the gluten free section. During the move we hadn’t put up the advertising tape that says “GLUTEN FREE!!!” in big letters. So obviously that meant coles was out to kill her father.
Now as far as I’m aware, coeliac disease is some you’re born with right? So both this lady and her father have many years experience in checking to make sure that they are buying the right food. In other words, take some responsibility.
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Working in the toy department at Myer, there was a kid whining at his mum that he wanted something (Crush Gears maybe?).
She said no.
He kept whining.
She continued to say no.
He dropped his pants.
He weed on the floor next to the tills.
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He weed!
His mother observed this, then, when he was finished, grabbed his hand and gave him a slap on the wrist (if you could call it that – more like a pat).
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I’m speechless ‘Flu! Did you have to clean it up?
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Their used to be a site from employees or ‘cast members’ of the Disney parks and the crazy stuff that guests do. Most entertaining. 😀
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*there :S
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so, yeah, I just picked up my tickets for the HF2 premiere this weekend, and guess who the special guest is?
go on, someone guess!
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oh, sorry, this was covered a few pages back, but I guess some people missed it.
basically, for the last few months, I’ve been working at the studio in Sydney where Happy Feet 2 was being produced, and while it’s already been released in the US/Canada etc, the Australian Premiere is this week.
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No, that was my guess. If you’re going to see HF2, then HF1 – the prototype – would be a pretty cool guest. Like going to a James Bond flick and having Sean Connery show up.
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That penguine from New Zealand named Happy Feet?
Actually that cheeky bugger should be sued for stealing that name!
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D.C. and Splicer got it… The special guests are George Miller and Robin Williams… who’s jelly?
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Yes, officially jelly here. Missed out on his stand up act last time he was here too. Hopefully you can high-five him, or something.
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!!
BAHAHAHAHEHEHEHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAHAAHAAAHAAAHAAAAAAA!!!
HA!
HEHEHEH!
HAHAHA!
BAHAHAHAHA!
HEH…
Pfft! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
AHAH! HAHAHA!
HAhahaha
Hahaheheheheh eehhh….
*sigh*Sorry, for a moment there I thought you might think Hugo would come to a Meat!
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Is that so? I hereby retract my offer to tweet him a shoutout on this Sunday’s broadcast of PopAsia.
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NONONONONO 🙁
I LOVE YOU ALL THIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIS MUCH! -
lolol i think I have found Hugo’s weakness,,
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I have acquired bacon. This is a solid improvement on this morning (ie no bacon).
On a related note, has anyone ever tried bacon-infused vodka?
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All the bacon in this community…
I’m going back to uni to study cardiology. You lot are going to fund a very lavish lifestyle 🙂
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I made myself french toast with bacon and maple syrup for breakfast this morning. Nothing beats bacon, sorry arteries.
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man, one of my favourite breakfast staples is toast with tomato, ricotta cheese and cracked pepper…
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Has anyone seen a UK comedy show called Outnumbered? We discovered it a few weeks ago while channel surfing, and found it ridiculously funny. Ordered the first three seasons from Zavvi the next day, and we’re watching through them now.
That little girl, Karen, is not only my favourite character on that show, but she is quite possibly the funniest child that has ever been on television ever.
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My family used to watch that show, almost obsessively.
It’s quite brilliant and largely ad-libbed. They give the adults the general tone of what to do and then let the magic happen.
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I caught an episode once when I was home alone and bored. They were all at a wedding, I think. It was extremely amusing. I set my Tivo to record it from then on but haven’t watched any since.
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That show is hilarious. The little girl, man… she’s a genius. One of the funniest characters in a tv show, ever.
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Politics: Comes from the Latin word ‘poly’, meaning “many”, and ‘ticks’, which are blood sucking leeches.
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Politoed: A Water-type Pokemon relegated to the UnderUsed tier in competitive battling, due to the fact that there are generally ‘better’ bulky water types. It doesn’t have great speed either, but it has a variety of good Support type moves.
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However, with the introduction of Drizzle as a dream world ability, Politoad has risen to prominence as the only non-uber pokemon capable of setting up permanent rain, making it a staple of all fifth gen rain dance teams.
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Happy to help. Always up for a pokemon discussion 🙂
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I LOVE POKEMON TALK
but only the original 150
and maybe 250 if I’m feeling particularly knowledgeable
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Just had a fire drill, evacuated the whole building.
Of course, I’m the floor’s fire warden so I have to check to make sure everyone else has left and by the time I go down the stairs it appears that everyone has formed an orderly, single file queue.
Now, I’m no expert on evacuations but if you have a stairwell which is wide enough for several people to walk side by side, why on earth would you form a single file?
Good to see people weren’t panicking or anything like that but still, a little haste makes sense, no?
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I don’t think that was the mentality here.
People seem to have this weird habit of thinking that walking/driving situations are like queues. You have your place and just go at whatever pace the queue is moving at. It’s why some people don’t like being overtaken when driving or why people tend to stick to one side of the footpath.
It bugs me a lot, especially when it comes to merging or navigating crowded footpaths.
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Also they would all just straight up stop if there was a hold up in front. Considering we were going down several levels with people coming out of the doors and whatnot, these halts were rather frequent.
Seriously, a queue.
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Lazy Worker mentality? The quicker they get downstairs, get marked off and finish the drill, the quicker they have to go back to work? During ours I used to make like a Crabman and Dawdle as much as I could.
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Except the only person in the building who knew it was a drill before we reached the bottom of the stairs just happened to be grabbing some cash from the ATM on the first floor right before the alarm went off.
Unless they told someone from each company in the building instead of just the secretary of the building owner.
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Genius!
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Amazing.
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Hahahaha, I laughed so loud at this video I nearly woke the wife and baby up… and they’re halfway across the house!
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lawl Japan!! gotta love it
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Kotaku’s posted a few articles recently through the perspective of people who feel like outsiders here. For some reason whenever I read them I feel uneasy. I can’t articulate why. Like maybe it’s somehow a personal attack on me, even though I know that’s not the case. (Again, I don’t know why. Maybe low self-esteem. :D) I see the site through my own perspective where I can’t percieve the problem, though that doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. I just don’t know what to do about it which makes me feel… uneasy. I like to think I treat people with respect and am reasonably open minded. But still, uneasiness.
But then sometimes I think half the battle is in your head, how you see the world and all that. I know when I was in uni I felt like I didn’t belong, that people didn’t like me and that I was an outsider. Time and time again people would tell me otherwise, but that’s not how I saw it at the time. Things only changed when my perspective did. But I can’t speak for others on that front. That brings me back to the uneasiness. Damn you self-reflection… 😀
Feel free to ignore. Just articulating random thoughts in my skull after reading that article.
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That most recent one made my head hurt. I had no idea what they were talking about. I just had the urge to tell them to come over to AU’s TAY and all would be well or something. 😛
I agree with you on the perspective thing though. It’s also dependant on completely identifying yourself as something like LGBT(or whatever that acronym that reminds me of Little big Planet is) or feminist as opposed to just person or gamer.
When I first started posting here I just jumped into conversations on things I was interested in. I didn’t feel the need to scream “I’m a girl” everywhere because it wasn’t relevant. We were just a bunch of people talking about games. I don’t care who you like to sleep with or whether you were born as the sex you identify yourself as, it’s not relevant to whether we can talk about games or not.-
It’s amazing how unwilling most communities are to reject people for that sort of thing after the person has already been a part of the community.
If you just jump right in and participate as normal, then if it happens to come up in conversation that you were born as a chick but identify as a dude and like to dress up as a dragon before making sexy-times, the typical reaction is “oh? So what’s that like?”
But if you just come out and say “hey, I’m a transgender furry, here’s my dragon wang!” before getting to know people, they might be a little less accepting.
It’s almost like dating, or joining any social circle. You don’t start out with the bits that might make you different, you rejoice in the similarities so that nobody gives a damn about your differences. I’m not saying hide who you are, just that the normal rules of social etiquette don’t take kindly to introducing yourself by whipping out your dragon wang.
Of course, as a white male aged 18-35, I may not be the best person to talk about this.
Yes, this whole post was mainly an excuse to say dragon wang.
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You know what’s right above a dragon’s taint? Its wang.
Unless it is a lady dragon, then there’s probably a cloaca. I don’t pretend to be an expert on these matters.
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I thought both male and female reptiles had cloacae (as with birds) but it seems that the males can have hemipenes and whatnot.
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I made a statement based on an assumption, then realised I could be wrong so took a quick spin around the googles and proved myself incorrect.
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Thanks to that quick bit of Googling, you are now more familiar with draconian genitalia than the vast majority of people. How does that make you feel?
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Google keeps your search enquiries for LONG time. 😉 Ancestors will marvel at them one day.
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I feel like a winner.
My ancestors will be suitably intrigued by many of my googlings.
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Actually I think the 18-35 thing might be part of the uneasiness, you can’t presume to fully understand ‘the other side’ but you also feel like you’re generalized into this broad category of closed minded bigots. Probably why there’s so much defensiveness in the comments too. It’s a pickle. 😀
That Christian parody review of Skyrim last week was what tainted ’em for me.
After all this talk of dragon wang, all I can think after reading this post is:
“That’s not a pickle…”
Hopefully someone gets that reference…
I was really just using that as an escape clause in case someone wanted to say “that’s nothing like how reality works! I’m always being discriminated against for whipping out my dragon wang even if I’ve been friends with these people for years before I pull it out.”
I still feel prepared to say my piece on things like this, just because I happen to be a part of the majority doesn’t mean I can’t try to understand the minority position. I just like to give myself a few weasel words in case I make a colossal mistake, but I do that in a lot of situations.
Ah, the trusty escape clause. I know it all too well. 😉
If there’s a person behind the labels it’s easier to call them a person.
Could go into psychology and group theory, but yeah.. that’s basically it.
Yeah this has always been my impression of things, but I just didnt want to voice it since… well… I’m not actually a girl and can offer no actual insight, only speculation 😀
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The problem as I saw it with that post today is that someone was displeased that a website on the internet did not cater to them, personally. It did not make allowances that a transgendered person would visit their site.
What I fail to see though, in cases like this is, in what way were they excluded?
I mean there are some obvious examples, for instance if you have a weird phobia of stone fruits you’re unlikely to go to ApricotBonanza.com and browse their catalogue. If you did, in those cases, you’ve really brought that upon yourself.
But you can’t expect every single website to eliminate all references to stone fruits just in case you happen to wander by. You can’t call up radio stations as ask them to never again play anything by Peaches (or indeed the song Peaches by the Presidents of the United States of America).
I don’t think that Kotaku (AU or US) has ever done anything to promote exclusionary behaviour of anyone, whether they be black or white, gay or straight, transgendered or heteronormative, inverted or default.
I can appreciate that someone might try to join a community and not feel like I would fit in, or that that website doesn’t necessarily provide the experience I am personally looking for. But to be brutally honest, I think writing to that website to point this out is shameless attention seeking, and really kind of sad.
Let’s say I’m into goats, and I go to this goat forum, except all the other people on the goat forum act like douches and approach their fondness for goats a different way than I do. I find a different goat forum. Im’ sure there’s tons!
Maybe it’s because I fall into the category of straight white male that I am in the priveleged position of the majority of things catering to me. But the internet is a big ol’ place and sometimes I find things that bore me, shock me, or offend me. In those cases I navigate my browser elsewhere and seek out things that amuse me, entertain me, or interest me. It does not occur to me to complain to a website when I don’t like it very much. They’re unlikely to care. If I turn it into a sob story about how difficult I am to cater to in the first place, how is that going to help?
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We most definitely put the “ass” in “class”.
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Just odd that someone’s experience can be so far removed from anothers. I mean I started visiting Kotaku because of the well-written local content and the mature, decent folks in the comments who didn’t go on tangents every five minutes about their console being better than yours.
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(That comment seems out of place beneath all the dragon wang comments 😛 Still true, though.)
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I’m trying my best to run this joke into the ground but people just keep insisting on being serious.
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That’s a fair point (and I don’t necessarily agree with Mattie that Kotaku is bad, if anything it’s one of the best mainstream websites for having ‘other voices’)
I think (and I’m not gonna put words in her mouth) that her point was something closer to: ‘mainstream gaming culture as it exists on the internet is suspicious if not hostile to anything that isn’t avowedly marketed to 18-35 white straight quasi-American males’.
When you think of major gaming websites, there’s… what, Gamespot, IGN, The Escapist, Kotaku, Gamasutra, etc, etc, etc. Some of these have an absolutely appalling record of stupid crap by what passes for a ‘community’ – look at the reaction to when Gamespot had a transgendered presenter doing a review. Look at the comments on some of Gamasutra’s blogs.
But they are, essentially, all there is. They *are* gaming culture as it exists on the internet. Sure there might be some marginal interest groups and blogs, but they have none of the influence, money or readership.
A lot of people responding to Mattie’s article said that they didn’t care what ethnicity, sexuality, appearance, etc, people had; if they were interested in games they’d be appreciated on a gaming website. That’s fine, and I’m sure they’re being genuine.
So where does all the abuse come from? If everybody in gaming culture on the internet is full of peace and tolerance and would never have a bad opinion about diversity “as long as they don’t make a big deal about it” – who are the people throwing insults around?
Are they part of gaming culture, as well? And should the mainstream websites, such as they are, give them a platform?
As I said, I don’t agree with Mattie at all that websites like Kotaku should cater to every single subcategory of humanity out of some sort of social activism. But if she’s arguing that there’s a problem in some part of mainstream gaming culture, I’d be hard pressed to disagree.
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I understand what you are saying but that piece really didn’t come across as well written or articulate at all. It came across as a woe is me, looky here kinda piece.
That said I don’t think TAY is the right place to be discussing this mostly because we are very spoilt her. Just look at the reaction to Di11 earlier today. We are mostly nice people and we have harli to keep the riff raff away.
In general gaming culture isn’t as tolerant of difference and has a major case of internet dickwad theory happening. But that is gaming in general (or bad experiences being what was remembered) and singling out a community as a scapegoat for the whole industry is straw man at best.
But community is made of of the people in it and if you don’t like the community find another.
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Not that I’m being argumentative, but TAY’s willingness to lend a hand to someone in need (more than once, this is a great community) exists on the same website where people are telling Mattie to get over it – I remember the phrase teaspoon of cement being used?
Just saying – in every single article written by women, non-white or non-heterosexual people that points out what they say is a problem with gaming culture, someone, more often many people, tells them to get over it, that they can’t change it, or that it isn’t a problem. To my mind this is less general internet dickwad-ery and more a lack of empathy, given how willing they are to not be idiots when the situation calls for it.
Maybe it’s easier to sympathise with problems or people you relate to, I don’t know. That’s probably human nature. But it’s interesting to see.
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I sort of regret even posting it here, just had an internal struggle I couldn’t shake… thought I should share the love. Haha.
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Thanks Tigerion! I would gladly defend this place with my life.
FOR TAY!
At least count I think it was up to LGBTIQ
(but there might be two Qs)
Oh and you can chuck in an optional P, A, T-S, U, C, a question mark, and another A.
Yup.
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You should see the groupies.
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I always assumed the majority of abuse on the mainstream sites came from very vocal young gamers who grow out of it eventually. Maybe that’s me being naive. 😀
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It’s a combination of the Greater Internet Dickwad Theory, the vocal minority (a term I rather dislike using) and the peculiar habit that people have where they tend to remember the person who slammed the door in their face but forget the person who held the door open for them.
It makes places feel less accepting than they probably are.
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Oh, and so as not to look like I’m detracting from this conversation. Trjn beat me to what I was gonna say.
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Don’t worry, man. Needed a little comedy to off-set my dazed and confused rambling. Carry on. 😀
KOTAKU KRISTMAS PROJECT
If any of you aren’t involved yet – you haven’t got much time to join it, but you still can. We need as many people for phase 3 as possible!
Shoot me an email at troy(dot)cleary(at)hotmail
EVERYONE ELSE
I will be emailing you all to set a deadline for Phase 3 soon. A lot of you have been forgetting about it (lol) and you need to get your butts into gear!!
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My butt is definitely in neutral.
By that I mean that I need to get it into gear, not that I’ve been suffering from excitable bowels and watery stool.-
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I need to assimilate “Do me a solid” into my lexicon.
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What the hell is this show and why the hell am I just learning about it?
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I could say that, yes.
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Hrm. I keep forgetting. Will do it soon, though. Which reminds me, I was meant to review Lesser Evil on Amazon for Shane…
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Phase 3? I thought it was phase 4! Wait… I dont remember what phase 3 was! Wait… I dont remember what any of the phases were :'(
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And the forum is all the way over theeeeeeeeere…\
Oh man I better go look, I cant really be a bum after all your effort loops!
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Dammit Europe. Fix your debt crisis so that the Australian dollar stops being crap against the Yen 🙁
@Strange: if you see this, a while back you expressed interest in my spare (Japanese) copy of the Valkyria Chronicles artbook. Are you still interested? I’ve decided that keeping two copies is excessive.
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Other way ’round. He’s the one who only sees little boys.
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“A dragon lives forever but not so little boys. Painted wings and giant rings make way for other toys!”
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. . . nobody else is going to help me sing? . . . Really? . . .
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. . .“One grey night it happened, Jackie Paper came no more. And Puff that mighty dragon, he ceased his fearless roar!” . . .
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Is that that song about Albi? The racist dragon?
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Albi!! No, I don’t really know the words to that.
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So I’ve not been in the greatest mood today. No reason, just over it a bit. & that’s not the point of this, just the framing.
Point is, I just saw a report on the news about Egypt’s first proper elections in ages.
Lots of people genuinely grateful for the opportunity to vote & have a say in how their country is run. Something that most people in this country take for granted, if not think of it as a once-every-few years pain in the arse.
Democratic Egypt (or at least the first steps toward it). This made me happy.
Followed up not ten seconds later by a story about war crimes in Syria. Perpetrated by the Syrian Government against its own people. Murder, torture & rape. Carried out by government forces against citizens suspected of sympathising with political dissenters, regardless of gender or age.
This made me the exact opposite of happy.
/vent
Now, I’m pretty confident in saying that the vast majority of people who frequent TAY, be them the old school posters from way back, or the more recent additions to the TAY community, are pretty damn fine people. You help each other out when needed, weather it be in the form of a sympathetic ear, or a lift to a meat or sending books / games / music to each other or whatever. Knowing that a corner of the world contains some very decent people… This makes me happy again.
Keep it up TAYbies. Share the love.
That is all.
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Unfortunately it’ll take this kind of abuse from the Syrian government to make the people over throw them in time. They’re slowly digging their own grave. Their time will come. Just sucks that the prologue involves all this suffering. 🙁
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They’re pretty s*** right here, but in general I’d say it’s not so bad.
Leg warmers are back in. -
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You say “coming back” as if they ever weren’t in. Crazy QLDers.
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Don’t stop them! Embrace them 🙂
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So you’re saying, if I go out and buy some leg warmers after work, I’d totally be a trend setter?
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Ha! We all jest as time is true and follows through with certainty. How naive it then stands of us and absurd on days most final sunset! But jest we do and does it continue from place to place on these most very pages!
But, in answer to your question Effluvium, the sun is shining, and there is a hint of what we call the Fremantle Doctor: a delicately supple afternoon sea breeze that reminds you that – no matter what happens – everything is going to be OK.
It was a good day and it got better when I happened upon a rather attractive older gentleman in a Jaguar V8. He was your silver haired fox variety of elderly gentleman; he fancied himself as quite the man about to town, I had no reason to doubt his confident and enigmatic outward projections of mighty valour and obscene wealth.
I had to prove my Holden Commodore was faster than his fancy import and a quiet and dignified race ensued.
The Jaguar was very good at acceleration and cornering; it having a shorter wheel base then my particular automobile made it rather punchy around the tighter corners. But I feel the violent top end and sometimes difficult to control heaving muscle of the Commodore really pushed him on the more vast, open roads where the Commodore takes me to some kind of visceral and primitive gasoline heaven! Splendid!
There were no winners in the end, like some kind of allegory for war, increasing global conflicts and geo-political fracturing across fragile and contentious boundaries.
I tipped my hat to the older gentleman and wished him good day; us both appreciating the fine distraction on the most perfectly fine day. You could say it was all very bully. Very bully indeed.
Thank you for asking. I enjoy Sydney and visit often. I have a very special relative who lives in Malabar! And I like surfing at Maroubra Beach at every opportunity. Sydney is splendid!! I understand Bish lives there; he is a good chap.
Keep up the bloody good work.
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+1 for silver foxed men who like driving around fast in red Jaguar V8s!! We had a grand old time!!
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Hi everyone. This heat is killing me D= I’m so bad with heat.
Plainview, did that really happen? I fined it hard to believe…
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I wish i did XD
My fingers are so used to pressing the e key I’m surprised my sentences aren’t just a whole bunch of e’s
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well I know that now.
And I wish i could punch the heat. I really really wish I could. =(
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What’s a nice guy like you doing in a place like this?
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Punching the heat.
Clearly.Very much like how Kanye West Touches the Sky, except I’m not Kanye West, and I’m not touching the sky. Seems a little inappropriate, you know?
It’s all “Mmmm, yeah, I do love the feel of refracted light, oh yes”. You’re a disturbed individual, Kanye. -
<3
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Wait!
Ice cream!
I don’t care that this ice cream in my freezer is 2 years old and has managed to form a 3cm thick layer of frost.
Ice cream!
\o/
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I had bacon, then coffee. Sounds like a good thing…
If so, then why does the coffee taste so bad when I drink it?
🙁
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I don’t drink from a mug, I drink from a cup.
I don’t know, I feel pissed off on account of my new computer completely screwing up on me, which still hangs at the starting windows screen, and having my family trying to sort everything out for my birthday, even though I stated exactly what my plans were days earlier.
I need a good drink, I haven’t felt this irritatingly pissed off in a long time.
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It’s probably just bad when compared to the bacon.
Solution: more bacon.
This solution may help to solve other problems you find yourself faced with through the day, too.
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Oh. I thought it was because of my delishly charming… charm and my ability to sing all 80s pop songs amazingly.
I… I guess I’m okay with this too though.:'(
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Also because of my spelling.
“Delishly”, huh.
Apparently in the Latin-Japan communities, it means “Devilishly” but I told them that’s not a word, because I know words and stuff.-
Your errors, intentional or not, always make the sentence more interesting. The charm. It is delicious.
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I hate chat speak regardless of the platform. I even use fully structured sentences in my texts.
TXT SPK = DA DVL!!!
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Same here. My texts are full of accurate spelling, grammar and wrong words thanks to auto correct.
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Hey D.C. this is the SomethingAwful thread I was talking about before with the people from Walmart in it;
http://www.somethingawful.com/d/comedy-goldmine/disgusting-sights-walmart.php
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Clicked on the link because I was bored. Holy crap, the child that hit his mother with the rock, that’s just ridiculous!
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I have never seen anything like this. For which I am eternally thankful. Maybe Coles ain’t so bad after all. Thanks Morkai, my boss appreciates it 🙂
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It is rather amazing how much progress is made in a mere decade for video games.
I wonder where we’ll be in 2018?
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More lasers, obviously.
Plus video games will come in boxes and we’ll drink them through straws.
Nintendo will have a new IP by then called “The Legend of Mario Primémon Country” -
We have to bring our own thermometer to Japan, apparently.
Because there’s a daily temperature check every morning at breakfast. I mean, I get that it’s winter and they’re worried about our health, bur…
Cannot even?
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Ear, rectal or oral?! In any case, certainly sounds more interesting than breakfast at my place. *mental note: make breakfast more interesting at my place – with thermometers!*
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Happy birthday good sir!
May your day be filled with good stuff & cupcakes!& I’m no Liverpool supporter… but having said that, I’ll support anyone but Chelsea in the EPL. GO LIVERPOOL! :p
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Happy birthday dude! You’re like…..an adult and stuff now! Wait.
I never really understand why people value 21st’s more so than their 18th.
BUT, before blaghmangs comes along, Bappy Hirthday!
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I’m going to Parker’s Steakhouse for lunch, and The Sporting Globe for tea.
My stomach will be put through its paces.
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30th November 1783, an earthquake hits New Jersey. Magnitude: 5.3
In honour of this event and your birthday, I suggest you shake things up a bit.… I’m getting worse at these…
Happy Birthday you Crazy Guy!
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Happy 21st. I spent mine at Movie World on the Gold Coast. Some might say that’s lame by 21st standards, but you can’t judge me! 😀
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This site has so many shirts that i must have – none more so than this one, though
http://www.hottopic.com/hottopic/Apparel/TShirts/Graphic//Aww+Yeah+T-Shirt-912491.jsp
AWWWW YEAAAHHHH!!!
Mornin’ all!
Apologies to the abrupt disappearance on Minecraft and TS last night. The storm knocked my Internet out.
Lousy X-men, ruining my gaming *shakes fist*
So… have you lost your reason to live because your doorstops are wearing out? Are you at the end of your rope because your table legs are uneven? Are you lost, confused and directionless pretty much always?
I have the perfect solution to all of your problems: A FREE BOOK. Less than twelve hours to go.
http://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/17389-the-lesser-evil-book-1
Hey guys! I’m thinking about doing some arts. Does anyone know if there is a program that makes pixel art easier? I could work in PS but it seems necessarily clunky for that specific task.
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Hah, yeah, I knew of Gimp. Would it be easier than PS? they are pretty similar (I hear). Maybe I’ll just look for a PS tutorial. Or do the art the same way I normally do.
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Wow, this place has become intimidating. I will go back to the safe and secure ‘While You Were Sleeping’ post.
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What is exactly is intimidating about us is it my deep and manly voice or the way you know i could beat people up by looking at them!
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Don’t listen to him. He’s just a harmless cutie. *jumps up and attempts to noogie Rocketman but fails miserably and lands on face*
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*runs at rocketman, uses harli’s back as a boost and jumps on rocketman’s back*
*waves cowboy hat around in the air* WOOOOPWOOOOP
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Gosh, I’d love to indulge in playful online frivolity, but…..I must work. I can see how easy it would be to lose a lot of time here. I know, I wish I wasn’t such a party pooper. Enjoy!
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I…was..but….but….butts?….I…like….big…butts and I cannot lie!
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On the topic of bad stuff where you work, I used to work at Safeway Liquor. Used to see some really dodgy behaviour in there. There was a young couple, the trashy kind, who would push around this kids stroller and stash booze underneath it. Problem was, they would do this when we had one staff member on and were really busy. So as far as I know, they never got caught. Which was really annoying because missing stock reflected badly on me. A few days later I was on my day off and walking past Safeway Liquor on my to get some groceries when a young kid, maybe 15 or 16 bolted out of the store with a bottle of jim beam in hand. Now, I’m not exactly a small guy, and this kid was on the small side, he weighed maybe 60 kilos. Anyway, on reflex, I stuck my arm out to grab him and he didn’t even see it. Just ran straight in to it, neck first. Needless to say he dropped immediately and lay on the ground clutching his throat and the bottle. Then my manger runs out, already puffing and gasps out ‘good job!’ I felt pretty bad about it actually. I really didn’t mean to hurt the guy and when the cops arrived I got questioned a bit. They thought I had hit him more than once because he still hadn’t gotten up. Luckily an older lady saw the whole thing and told the police everything.
Got a bottle of Jack Daniels from my manager for that.
The End 🙂
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Back in my uni days I used to work part-time at good old Woolworths. One night close to Christmas, a drunk lady comes in wandering around the aisles. She had diarrhea and obviously didn’t know, and she made a trail of crap from one end of the aisle to the other. I saw her, and immediately ran and hid in the produce cold-room so I wouldn’t get asked to clean it up. In the cold-room already were 4 other people I worked with who all had the same idea. In the end the store manager had to clean it because everyone went ‘missing’.
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A mate of mine told us about how he used to work at a bottle shop, some drunk tried to bring a glass of beer inside and my mate told him to leave it outside. The guy glassed my mate, cut his chin, and my mate knocked his ass out.
Weeks later our mate’s girlfriend told us he actually just got drunk at a party, slipped and split his chin on a rock.
We had to have our poor cat put down yesterday, in the end. Unfortunately the vet said they found an aggressive cancer on her liver, and we decided as a family that it was best to let her go now instead of making her suffer for a few weeks. She was very drowsy from the antibiotics and whatnot they’d been giving her, so she went really peacefully which was a huge relief.
Our other two cats got lots and lots of hugs last night, which they were very happy about. One even decided to sleep on my spine when I went to bed. It was emotionally comforting but physically, very very uncomfortable and he wouldn’t stop purring loudly when I was actually trying to fall asleep. Little bugger.
Anyways thanks to the people who were offering their support earlier, it meant a lot regardless of the outcome.
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I’m sorry to hear about your cat, man. I’d be a mess if anything happened to my two dogs. That’s terrible.
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damn A.P that’s sad. never had a pet so i dont know what its like to have to get one put down but none the less *hug*
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omg Di11enger!! I saw “AP” and immediately thought Anonymous Pessimist had returned to us. that is all.
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oh woops i forgot that Anonymous Pessimist already had the acronym AP. sorry for the confusion harli and Mr Pants.
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all good no harm darn Di11, was just commetin’ 🙂
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Very sorry to hear about that, A few of my friends have been through that and I had it happen with my dog many years ago, it’s never easy. *hugs*
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TAY is getting hit with a lot of bad stuff lately…
Hope you and your family are doing well, all things considered.
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Dude, sorry to hear this. I’m not much of a cat person, but pets are always the greatest friend you can ask for. Have a virtual hug.
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Oh, man. That’s terrible. But take sollace in the fact that the cat was loved and had a good life. I’m sorry for your loss.
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So yesterday afternoon I took my daughter to see the latest Twilight movie. We’ve done this together since the second movie. We roll our eyes together at just about everything and go “EWWW!” in the romantic parts or when Edward takes his shirt off. I am so thankful my daughter is sensible like this.
The worst part of the movie was having to sit through a super-long trailer for ‘Jack and Jill’. One of those ones where they put in every “funny” line and show you absolutely everything that happened in the movie. It was traumatising.
Also, our movie session had about 8 people in it. They were not all girls. there was one guy who looked like he’d been dragged along by his significant other, but there was a group of about three boys there as well. I laughed at them.
I’m glad we had a movie gift card to use up because while the tickets were only $8 each, being Tuesday, two small bags of lollies and two of the smallest sized Frozen Cokes cost almost $17!
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Yarr, thar be an easy fix to this problem ye be havin’.
Wait for the DVD release and have snacks bought from the supermarket, which are significantly cheaper.
Sure, you can’t mock the dudes who seem to like the sparkly-chested men, but other than that it’s a better way to do things.
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This would have to be the best explanation for Twilight I’ve ever heard: “Is basically about a girl who can’t decide between a dead guy that sparkles, and an overgrown puppy dog.” 😛
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My other half is a Twilight fan (not rabid yet, but I’m keeping tabs on her…) and as such I’m unwilling provided information about the series.
Example:
I’m pretty sure the “vampires” are made of rock.
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your other half? do that mean that about 50% of you is a twillight fan?
is that a horizontal or vertical split? if horizontal is it your lower 50% that is the twillight fan? and if yes do you get stirrings watching said films?
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In Funny People, that Judd Apatow movie, they make fun of Adam Sandler’s character appearing in a whole lot of mindless crap. I like to this this is Sandler paying homage to Funny People. 😀
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Seriously, Dark stormy morning, Lightning everywhere. And the Space Marine soundtrack on full volume. This is an atmosphere i can not describe. BEST DRIVE TO WORK EVAR!
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“It was a dark and stormy morning, and Space Marines filled the air…”
Best intro to a story ever!
So At the house today we were having aircon installed(YAY!) the house mate asked me to get one of the cats from under my bed and put him in the housemates room to avoid issues. anyway so I go and get him, not too much of a problem … until I get to the corridor, now this cat is very timid around new people, he freaked out and started squirming more, not too much of a problem, until he manages to lodge a claw in my face. (NOT THE FACE! NOT THE FACE!)
So, at work with plasters on my face and a tetanus shot and a script for antibiotics, FUN FUN FUN!
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Dear Chris,
You ended your story with”fun,fun,fun.”
Was this sarcasm or do you really enjoy getting clawed in the face?Thanks
Rocketman
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Yes rocketman I do so enjoy having a pawful of sharp claws in my face, I love it more than sniffing daisys. (Sarcasm is the answer) :p
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Looks like last night was not Starcraft night, so I ended up just trying a few bot games vs Hard AI.
A little bit of advice, don’t try to forge fast expand against Zerg if you have no idea about the build order aside from “build a forge, build a Nexus, then worry about building an army.”
It particularly doesn’t help if you only remember to build cannons right when there are roaches destroying everything.
My second game vs Hard AI went a little better. Probably could have won sooner but every time I was sending my army out, a small little squad would come and attack my expansion. Should have just warped in some Zealots to fend it off and win, but oh well.
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i think 8 on that server is just too much, I was trying to break blocks for like 5 minutes… then i gave up.
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that’s odd. it shouldn’t be a problem. I remember on the old map we had up to that many people and it wasn’t laggy
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i tried that as well, happened will i was mining crap, i tried for about 5 min, then minecraft crashed on me… turned out the actual client was having issues, might be the same in your case?
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Man, you know I’d join you in your night time TS shenanigans, but they have 1 hour of Horrible Histories on every night…
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I was shopping!! then i had to go home and play CS:S – i know, exciting. But I shall be home tonight for some SC2
morning TAYbies… it is a beautiful day… muggy… stormy… rainy… i’m going back to bed… i wish… i’m stuck at work… but perfect gaming weather for later 😀
how’s all the lovely people doing? aside from Rize renaming my house in MC
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Morning Pixel! Sorry I suddenly dropped off MC last night. For some reason my internet connection decided to happening. I was curious to see how the mob-lynching of Steve-O went. So how did it go?
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i am not sure, during the lovely storm that hit Canberra last night my computer decided to get scared of the lightning (cause they do that) and turn off. i had to do a bit of cuddling to get it to turn on again 😛 but it’s all good now… i just ended up building my tower as high as possible, which means i can’t get any higher now…
also i missed a lot of shenanigans because i didn’t jump on TS, so i will have to do that tonight-
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well that’s…. disappointing… are you sure he gave you the right address? 😛 i’m sure people were on there cause there seemed to be a lot of organised stuff happening despite the lack of chatting in game
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I would assume so, the welcome message was something like “Welcome \o/” and the channel was called “Talk Amongst Yourselves”
Maybe I just joined too late…
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Sounds about right. What time was it?
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erm… around 10:30-ish I think.
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Actually, people were there.
You joined, we greeted you, you said nothing and then disappeared a few minutes later.
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hmm… I didn’t see anyone online, and I didn’t see any messages either, it’s entirely possible it was on my end as our net connection has been dropping out for the last week or so, and was patchy all last night 🙁
I’ll try again tonight and see how I go 😀
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yes definetly where people on becuase i discovered the origin of trjn’s name and tried to keep up without a microphone
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Yup, you indeed did. I’m actually surprised how many people first thought of condoms.
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Heh heh heh.
Whoops, that wasn’t meant to be out loud.
so I just recently was informed about potion making in MC.. and now I have read up on Enchantments. omg. I think it’s time to get back into minecraft guys.
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Well, it is possible to have a pint of orange juice…I’m not too young to have that, am I? 😛
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It certainly helps having that line being delivered by Jeremy Irons, he seriously has one of the best voices in modern cinema.
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RIGHT! Kotaku Kristmas Meat! Here’s the details, 17th December in Sydney, a night of drinking and gaming for all the kids! If you are interested email me at link_windwaker13@hotmail.com if you are interested. I know it’s been posted a few times already before but it’s just a reminder for anyone who missed it before!
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im in sydney then with my GF before we fly back home (her to indonesia and me to the gold coast) i might be able to make an appearance. also ill be back in sydney on the 28th might stay until new years or might go home then drive back new years eve, depending on if i have work or not.
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oh, I know what it is now.
Hey man, the best biscuit IN THE WORLD is undoubtedly HobNobs. My numero uno!
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*YOU
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Bahahahaa!
Right in the politely…
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i am not going to ask what of mine you’re fanning… 0_0
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So that’s what the smell was…
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This, shortbread creams are the best. Except maybe Tim Tams… No, shortbread creams are still better
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Shortbread Creams ftw! Pretty much any thing with icing or that is good for dunking in a glass of milk/milo/coffee. Does anyone else here do the thing where you bite off the corners of the tim-tam and suck the milk through?
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i used to do that with coke. then my brain couldnt take it anymore and i became allergic to the chocolate.
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timtams with coffee… first thing i learned when i got here,
bite of a corner in each end of the biscuit, suck the coffee through for a while, let it melt… then eat it… IT’S AMAZING -
a friend of mine has been living in Canade for the last 8 months or so, and was not only introducing Tim Tams, but this technique to everyone who would listen…
needless to say, she’s made a lot of new friends with such wisdom 😀
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sorry guys but ginger nut bikkies are the best.
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*runs up and kicks morf on the shin*
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yes i did say it. They are the best and they contain more sugar than any other biscuit out there.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_o47PZo0_Y8g/SQkw0D0iikI/AAAAAAAABhM/zQA9mDuY1Pw/s320/product_ginger_nuts_be7c_large.jpg
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:O You can do that? I need to try this
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I’m with you there flu, a kingston are good but in no way take the crown from a monte carlo
Although my biggest biscuit disappointment recently was the new chocolate Turkish delight things. So much potential, so badly wasted
So I seem to be becoming one of those people who only replies to comments on threads they started themselves. I will do my best to make amends and participate more. Till then, reply here.
Also, My tummy hurts :/
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Title: Doctor Ron (from a previous Twilight/Harry Potter crossover) crosses over with the Scottish Doctor Detective. One more crossover, and I can call it XXXover.
FADE IN from black.
DOCTOR RON is standing over a patient’s bed, reading his chart. His frown looks as if it has been pasted on; a little crooked, but definitely a permanent feature.
DOCTOR RON:
They admitted you with stomach pains, is that right?DETECTIVE:
Yeah, ah dunnae kinn whit it was. it happened lest nicht. Harli hud jist called me wi’ information abit th’ Periloos Plainview… an’ ‘en Ah woke up haur.DOCTOR RON:
What is a Perilous Plainview?DETECTIVE:
Weel, it’s aw part ay thes crossowre, ye see. Th’ Periloos Plainview was a mystery ‘at was handed tae me in a story penned lest week by Kotaku member Shane in a random an’ bizarre encoonter ‘at went nowhaur an’ was ne’er continued (even thocht continuation was trysted at th’ time).DOCTOR RON:
Okay, I’m not understanding you. From now on, just blink once for yes, twice for no, and three times if you need me to take out your appendix.The DETECTIVE blinks in surprise.
DOCTOR RON:
“Yes?”DETECTIVE:
Actually Ah hink it micht hae bin th’ Irn Bru. Ah did hae raither a lot ay it thes week. It’s bin a roogh time, ye see…DOCTOR RON:
I didn’t get any of that, but I noticed you blinked again. Is that a “no”?The DETECTIVE attempts to hold his eyes open, and makes a valiant effort to do so. DOCTOR RON just watches. Seconds pass. Then more seconds. Then some thirds. Ultimately, through a stream of involuntary tears, he cannot hold back the third blink.
DOCTOR RON:
Appendix. I thought so. Rush this man to emergency surgery! Stat!-
PS: The punchline, I forgot. Here it is.
ORDERLY begins to wheel the bed out of the room.
DETECTIVE:
Noooo, Ah main fin’ th’ Periloos Plainview. Th’ life ay AmbroseIV depends oan it!DOCTOR RON (clearly not listening):
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You win all the word awards.
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As i was reading that all i kept seeing was POPCORN…..POPCORN… i think i may have cravings
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#The red thing’s connected to my… wrist watch…#
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“The red thing’s connected to my, wristwatch”
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Aww, didn’t F5 🙁
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@Strange re: Valkyria artbook, drop me an email @ atomicstrawberry(at)gmail(dot)com and we’ll talk 🙂
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re: two copies of the art book being excessive.
But… but… but… THEY’RE SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT! It’s not excessive… It’s not… Right?
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I know. I have them. I make room for more artbooks by getting more shelf space. Not getting rid of books. Or by pushing really hard and squeezing one more book in there.
Although, as it is I have way too many of them. I validate the purchases to myself by reasoning that they are potential reference material or will inspire me somehow.
I don’t think I’ve ever used an art book as reference. Mainly I look at them once, then put them on the shelf…
I’m a bit of an anime/manga/artbook hoarder.
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I don’t have room for more shelves unless I move to a different house. Which I am considering at some point but not yet.
But also, I just don’t see much point in having the exact same book in Japanese and in English. Especially when I can’t read Japanese more complicated than stories for five year olds or so. 🙁
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Oooh, corporate information…
*steals*
Look, everyone! They use Outlook! Big secrets, comin’ atcha!
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hahahh! You won’t believe the amount of trouble i just had to go to in order to get that taken down.. had to actually submit a request to imageshack. Written and all!
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still up… just saying 😛
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TAKEN OUT OF CONTEXT
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well i was being none specific…
*wiiiiiink*
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wow that sounded waaay more creepy then i intended… i was thinking more Monty Python Wink Wink Nudge Nudge light hearted creepiness…
oh well…
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i’m a good person i swear 😛 -
Say no more, sir, say no more!
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So, Pixel, you should come back and work in the office for once.
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I miss you so much it hurts sometimes.
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“okay you’ve had a rough day, you’re fairly stressed so i’m going to go ahead and pretend i didn’t hear that”
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HEY PIXEL! *waves emphatically*
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One of the greatest moments in television history…
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“Yorn desh born, der ritt de gitt der gue,
Orn desh, dee born desh, de umn. Bork! Bork! Bork!” -
No, but he should.
I think we should all take the time to think about just how amazing Swedish meatballs are.
Double entendre unintentional, but what can you do?
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danish meatballs are pretty great… just.. just putting that out there
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I’m going to regret this, but…
*sigh*
…Danish salami is pretty great.
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*snicker*
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Jeg elsker danske kødboller
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de er fantastiske, problemet er bare at de hedder faktisk Frikadeller 😛
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så hvad er en kødboller? eller er det et spørgsmål, jeg skal ikke spørge
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imma write this in english cause i lack the keys to write fully, but yes, we do use that weird to describe other stuff 😛
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hahaha thats awesome. i wish i could speak in many tongues, gaelic being the one i want to learn the most
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Bryde dynger op grammatik at gøre forstå hvis det er muligt for dig.
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A Møøse once bit my sister
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the guy responsible for the Møøse has been sacked
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Pixel I hope you aren’t still at that primary school if you are putting your danish meatballs out there
*looks around shiftily*
iiii have no idea what you’re talking about
Is there any chance someone could ask FatShady to whitelist me for the minecraft server for some reason google mail is not working for me at work for the time being, that and i dont have his email address. my account name is Dinkydogg 🙂
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yeah i can’t tweet at work, sent him one last night though im a bit scared because i was so tired it might come off a bit rude
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it’s the internet… unless you call him a f**ktard it’s not rude :P… actually call him that and it still wouldn’t be rude… just no mother jokes… that’s wrong
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Shamefully, I love that particular insult. So much so, I even got it published in my first graphic novel.
Subtle self-promotion, right?
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no interwebs on my mobile. lol
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they still have those? :p
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its my sim card. im with 3, i had it before they did an anakin skywalker on me. the phone is relatively new but from jakarta, so nothing is in english. its really hard to understand the errors.
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*grumblegrumblegrumble*
kids and their technology these days
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*grumblegrumblegumble*
Blasted youths and their technology
*lights fire and uses banana leaves to make a smoke signal to pixel*
“go back to the future marty”
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Oh yeah, who on here is into DnD, Battletech, etc? One of my work mates is putting together an online forum to play the games online in the forum and also organise meets, etc.
Just wondering if anyone could potentially be interested once it goes live?
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BATTLETECH! BATTLETECH!
I’ve just started re-reading all the books that I read when I was about 10. Don’t know what was going through my head at the time when there were explicit sex-scenes in the book.
Anyways – BATTLETECH!
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Some of the books focusing on the clans had lots of sex. Especially involving Joanna (Can’t remember her name) of clan Jade Falcon. She was a battle instructor and made all the recruits her bitches.
Also, I’m not really sure what you mean by this site – I’m guessing you mean the table-top games? I’ve never really delved into table-top battletech, just the books. Plus I’m in QLD, so probably not logistically plausible.
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I just re-read it. Derp.
Online games.
I’m interested, but would like to see more information before I commit.
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That’s cool man. It should be online in some form by this weekend. It’s starting out small, just some local people we know. But we’re hoping it get’s pretty large. It will be completely free to start with, may be options of donations later on, but not to begin with. I’ll give you more information as I get it if you like.
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Battletech is set in the future (about the 3100’s I think) in a group of star systems called the Inner Sphere which has been colonized around Earth. Mech’s are the weapon of choice for combat, with a single mech usually being more effective battle-wise than a lance of tanks. Everyone lived in peace under the Star League, until politics and the death of the leader had everyone vying for control in the Succession Wars. The Star League General took his army and left the Inner Sphere, letting everyone else fight for themselves. Eventually technology was lost although everyone still fights with Mech’s, they are not as powerful as they once were. Then the Descendents of the Star League General’s army came back with their top-tier technology still intact and began conquering worlds and….
There’s a lot going on. But it’s awesome.
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Mmmm… The Clans were awesome.
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So, it’s like that thing Chuloopa did, right?
Kangas aren’t imba in any of those two are they? 😛-
Slightly but the ponies keep them in check
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I am tentatively interested but have no idea what i am doing or what would be involved.
For the battletech are you thinking the RPG or tabletop style games
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The tabletop style, but in an online form. So basically it’s just all online, so you can have ongoing games for a while, helps people that can’t get time when other people have time, so they can still play, etc. It should be good.
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I lol’d but was also terrified. The idea of willingly throwing myself into farm machinery is somehow terrifying.
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“What’s your name, son?”
“The Human Hay Bale.”
“Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you, The Amazing Hay Man!”
“Lolwut? That’s not what I said??” -
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dammit thats meant to be town. but yes ku = abbreviation of aku which means i, me or my. and kota is city
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doing a bahasa indonesia class and i asked because they abbreviate everything does kotaku have a meaning and teach was like oh yea its my town/city
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Man is it ever boring at work today. I’ve actually decided to go down to the dark and lonely room in dispatch to pretend i’m processing phones so i can have a little nap! Haha. So good that no one ever comes down here! Just a shame there’s no computer.
Badger badger badger badger badger badger mushroom mushroom! snake!
You have no one to blame but Bish and his glorious mixtape/playlist thing.
found this a minute ago, its an interview with my favourite director of all time Scorsese: http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/161/martin-scorsese
dont know exaclty why i love his work but i just do, the departed and infernal affairs are my favourite films of all time 🙂
did we ever get anything back from the list someone was compiling with everyone’s Steam Names/Gamertags/PSN Names etc?
“Person with albinism”?
Really?
I’m trying to be civil in the Ask Me Stuff thread, but really that’s rather pants on head retarded.
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Was hoping this would get buried at the bottom of the last page.
Could have been a rather unfortunate page get.
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Just had a look and that’s insane.
And I can’t say I EVER heard of “albino” being used in a derogatory sense. Only in a descriptive one.
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When I was a kid I used to get called albino (I was very pale – was? – and had very light blonde hair until high school). Occasionally it would have been derogatory (in that being pale is considered an affliction in this country), but I never found it insulting because I was really pale and it seemed like an apt description (although somewhat exaggerated).
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It’s even more stupid when ‘person with albinism’ is fine, but ‘albino’ is a problem. Extrapolating, ‘person with retardation’ would also be fine, but ‘retard’ isn’t, however I’m pretty sure if you called someone a ‘person with retardation’ then you would find they would feel just as insulted, and additionally you’d come off as being a prat.
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I’m trying my hardest not to accuse him of white knighting.
It’s just too hard to say that with a straight face.
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Ooh, I think “disposition” is too strong a word… might be offensive.
But then “person who takes offence easily” might be offensive to them. Conundrum.
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I agree. Was going to post a similar reply to Jordaan’s Sth Africa comment.
It doesn’t reflect “albino” being used as a derogatory term, since, in that case, referring to someone as a “person with albinism” would hold the same connotations-
Probably the best part is that my point was that changing the term does not solve anything.
Sure the bigger issue is that it’s political correctness gone mad but oh well.
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Oh Alex, fail. That should be ‘mock the good people’. One admires the ability to make a society, though.
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I just read that post on Ask Me Stuf before I can and read TAY. I replied to Strange but after reading that I’m thinking not making any sense was the pont of that post.
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Using myxmo as an insult doesn’t really have to make sense. It was something that kids were doing in the playground. Have you heard playground banter? Sense is rarely considered.
Much like discussions on the interwebs.
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Okay, I’ve been at work for over an hour and a half now, am about to get my second hot chocolate for the day (or maybe a coffee, haven’t decided yet) and am still yet to do any work. Hooray!
I watched the last few episodes of Outsourced last night. Bit disappointed that there was never second season, I found it pretty funny. Anyone else seen this show?
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I’ve been at work for 4 hours, done about 25 mins of work. Rest was spent on doing up my resume so I could apply for a new job that has popped up nearby.
BAHAHAHAHA!
http://www.halolz.com/2011/11/27/no-one-says-no-to-grooseton/
Skyward Sword related – no spoilers.
Just got back from a driving lesson (yeah I’m a lazy almost 20-year-old who doesn’t have his P’s yet shutup I’m working on it QUIT JUDGING ME) and I was very relieved to hear the instructor say there aren’t any issues with my driving right now. Then I remembered that I stalled the car twice because I am really not used to different clutches and the indicators and wipers were swapped around and everything was weird and I don’t like change.
I like MY car, dammit.
Although it probably doesn’t help that I was all jittery and nervous for the first ten minutes. Driving with randoms like that is scary, especially when they’re job is to judge your every action.
Anyway, um, keeping cool with the kitties now. Can’t decide if I should dive into Skyrim again, fiddle around in AC:R multiplayer, or watch Daria all afternoon.
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Do all of those things.
Playing Skyrim with your feet can’t be that much more difficult than dealing with a finnicky clutch that you aren’t used to.
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Wouldn’t a controller be easier to work with your feet than a mouse/keyboard combo? Or are you going straight for the hardest path because its more awesome?
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Controllers have trigger buttons that would be awkward to work. Keyboard/mouse has all the buttons on the top.
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Oh, that’s true. But then, I’ve tried typing with my toes once before and it nearly killed me. Somehow.
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HAHA! I’m well past 20 and I’m on my Green P’s, so you have nothing to worry about.
Was still on my L’s when I ventured to faraway shores. They expired while I was gone.
When I got back had to start all over again (and the process had extended significantly).
I’m pretty sure I’m eligible for my blacks, but when I checked in Sept it said I wasn’t so I gave it a couple more months.AC:R on what platform?
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AC:R on 360. Apparently there’s a patch available to download but nobody seems to know whats actually in the patch, so I might wait to see if its fixed some of the more annoying multiplayer bugs before I dive back into it.
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The one that comes to mind immediately is that you can still kill random NPC’s when you’ve locked onto your target. I’ll have a target locked for a good ten seconds or so, get up nice and close to them, press X…character swerves violently to the right and cuts up an innocent bystander, I get stunned and possibly killed by my pursuer.
And if that’s an intentional feature…*shakes fist*
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I was a lazy 30 something when I got mine, so judgement here. Though now I’m paying the price with zero tolerance blood alcohol for the first three years of driving.
[rocking] Only one year to go, only one year to go, only one year to go
I was also very lucky that the driving instructor’s car was identical to ours – even the same colour.
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Yes, it really does get annoying when it limits when I can drink like this. I’m sure I can hold out for three years…surely. Or I’ll just curl up and start rocking like you are. Either one works!
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No judgement here…I’m a 35-year-old who has never learned how to drive. Or am I 36? I can’t remember! #old. 😛
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Haha, maybe its just friends around me who have their P’s being (expletives) about everything, then.
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at least you’re a real man and learn to drive something with a clutch… i die a little bit inside each time i hear about people that can’t “drive stick” cause “it’s too difficult”
my 70 year old grand mother that has no apprehension of which way to turn on a computer or use a mobile, can drive a stick…
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I’m 24 and only just off my Ps.
Haven’t had a single infraction or anything like that but I still spent 4 years onf the damned things because the Qld system makes no damned sense. Do an online test to go from red Ps to green P so that you don’t have to go in, but they make you go in after you’ve done the test (but don’t tell you that you have to) to confirm that you want to go on to green Ps.
No, I don’t have any repressed rage about this. I like to mention it most opportunities.
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I drive an auto but that’s because I’m lazy, not that I can’t.
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yeah i drive an auto, but i still have the ability to drive a stick, so when i jump in a car i don’t look down and go “deeeeeer 3rd pedal”
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I was one of those kids that didn’t rush out to get a phone in high school, cause I didn’t see the point.
Man…I’m not even that old…
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Depends on where you live, where you need to go, and if your city’s public transport can do it for you, I think.
I could have driven to uni, but public transport did it all for me, for cheaper, less effort, but more time (which I was okay with).
Also because Sydney city drivers are freaking lunatics and they frighten me.
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Eh, I’m 26 and I don’t drive. Took a few lessons back in the day and decided that I didn’t care for it. I just know I’d end up as one of those stories on the news of driving into a cafe full of people. Plus I think my dad was possibly the worst driving instructor known to man. He took my sister onto the highway first minute of first time out. 😀
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i don’t understand how you can manage without your licenses, i love driving and got my license as soon as possible! public transports is disappointing, especially buses.
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but… the lovely smell of urine, the infinite amount of possibilities for whom you’re going to be sitting next to, the drunks, the bums, being late, having to stand… what’s not to like?
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I never really bothered for about two years because I live literally thirty seconds away from my old high school and there’s a bus stop right next to it that takes me to uni which is only twenty minutes away. Public transport (and walking) were very convenient options.
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I’m 23 and went for a driving lesson the other day. I don’t know what it is but driving with someone who picks out your faults makes you nervous – I was the same, even though I’ve been driving for the past 6 years and am a pretty confident driver.
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Hello Z-Force
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Hello Mr. Flash
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Hello Misty
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(Get it? Miss…)
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Oh, very clever.
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Oui*. See this is why I dont bother learning French
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Well, it is a bit crazy, but you don’t have to call it hell!
Oh, wait, you said “hello” not “hell”…
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Excuse me while I go get some glasses…
I’m trying to stay out of Skyrim for the time being, I have some writing I need to get done. I keep procrastinating.
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If by “gigs” he means performances, I’m sure there’s a way to gleefully misinterpret that so that it almost makes sense.
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It could very well be wrong…
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EB Games Australia just tweeted:
“Max Payne 3: Special Edition is now available to preorder but only until January 15th! Don’t miss out!”
What? I Why? What’s the point of timed pre-orders? It’s getting a bit ridiculous.
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I can understand them limiting pre orders for special editions, seeing as they’re allocated a specific number, but knowing the date 6 weeks in advance? That’s just weird. And annoying. And oh god where is this going to lead to now?
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This is a world-wide feature of the Special Edition. I fear it is because they know the game sucks and they’re trying to get some fencesitters (like me) to commit to buying it.
I won’t fall for it though. I’m committed to waiting for the reviews to come out.
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kids at the schools i’m at are singing CHRISTMAS SONGS…
SHUT UP…
IT’S NOT DECEMBER TILL TOMORROW… AND EVEN STILL SHUT UP…
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I wholeheartedly agree with this.
Christmas songs and decorations shouldn’t be allowed until December 1st 12:01 am.
Hearing about Christmas and all that in November really ticks me off.-
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i don’t care what anyone says… Ebenezer Scrooge was on to something
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Is that before or after he was a depressed and twisted old man?
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lol, more his wonderful view of christmas… Imma start an Ebenezer Scrooge sect, and we will vow to call Humbug on it all 😛
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You are wrong. There is a time and place for everything Christmas, and it is December 25th. Songs may be sung on the 24th as well. At all other times they are incredibly irritating and stress-inducing and should be banned.
Also it’s my birthday on the 1st so I really don’t want people spending the whole time putting up their decorations and singing their stupid songs that day.
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you…. you and me will get along juuuust fine :P… in all honesty, my partner has been trying to get me in the christmas mood the last few years, for some reason it just helps in making me more against it 😛 the only good thing is time off… and presents… but i don’t get as many as i used to so i drink instead… which is still good 😛
If by December 1st you mean December 25th, I agree. Seriously, the moment I start seeing those car-mounted reindeer antlers, i’m taking swigs.
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Hmm, I actually meant swings. But I’ll be also be drinking heavily over the Christmas period. Still works. *nods*
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Or Foster the People?
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Well they probably have a Christmas concert coming up and if it is anything like my primary school they probably need as much practice as they can get
That said enthusiasm can make up for talent any day
@harli – You seem mad on the KKP forums?? Have i angered you? If i have – i’m sorry 🙁
@Everyone else – some more input is needed on probably the most difficult hurdle we’ve had yet. lol.
Also
FOR THE EMPEROR
LOOK WHAT CAME TODAY!!!!! 😀
http://twitpic.com/7lvm1j
SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO STOKED!!!!
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maybe there’s corruption and chaotic influence upon his geneseed, causing emotional outbursts?
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I am actually from the cursed founding.
I will self Imolate any moment now…
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Oh.. it was just the very abrupt response with the exclamation mark.
The internet always confuses me when it come to prose, emotion and meaning.sorry 😛
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Fear not oh Loopy one. I have seen the error of my ways and corrected them. My apologies for any offense caused.
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hahaha none taken, my friend 😛
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Bahahaha love the edit.
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also AWESOME gear!
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hmm i’m not sure which one though….
(I hope you can work out my upcoming code)I was always SO fond of the FE2 but the one i owned was also one of the neatest things ever.
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upcoming code? I don’t understand man language, why are you looking at me like that? *blank look*
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I’m a guy and even I don’t understand what that means :S
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Dr What?: I too am a compulsive hoarder of anime/manga/games/artbooks, in fact the reason I no longer have space for my second Valkyria artbook is that I got the recent Atelier Rorona/Totori/Meruru artbook and it’s roughly the same size and I’ve got some others on order and they’re not going to fit 🙁
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Youre really having some trouble passing this onto people arent you? If Doc dont take it, I’ll just be… over here…
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I believe Strange is taking it. The Doc already has it 😛
I believe the English version is going for around $25 on Amazon.com though.
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Remember when we used to have that part where people would show off their game rooms?
You guys would be, like, the winners or something.
I don’t even care that that segment doesn’t have a winner, at least What’s (which I’ve seen) is amazing.
Also I could have spent the whole afternoon reading that VC Design Archive.
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I have 2ms by 3ms for my gaming and bed space. People would be dissapointed if they saw mine. I need my own place 🙁
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Being the winner of the biggest nerdery collection competition would be kind of a hollow victory. 🙁
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Where abouts are you located? You’re not Sydney based, right? If you were, we could totally hang out. Grab ramen and talk manga ‘n stuff.
I believe you posted a list of games in your shame pile and it was remarkably similar to my own.
I haven’t got the new Atelier book but I think it’s in my amazon.co.jp cart. So much stuff waiting till after Christmas… 🙁
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Just started reading American Gods. 50 pages in and i’m hooked!
Anyone like reading horror? James Herbert, Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Clive Barker etc etc
Just finished reading ‘Dead Sea’ by Tim Curran. Really enjoyed it too…it’s like Bermuda Triangle meets Castaway meets The Mist.
I’ll need some recommendations for after I finish American Gods.
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Yeah, I’d read ‘Good Omens’, his collaboration with Terry Pratchett(who i’m a massive fan of) and really enjoyed it. Now, American Gods has pretty much fallen in to my lap(Thanks again BDKIAF) so I’ll see what else he has available.
Good Omens was great though. Highly reccommended 🙂
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REALLY want some horror to fill the Lovecraft void. I cant read any more of his though, after so many they all kind of start to sound the same. A bit.
Also I’m a huge fan of Ellison’s I Have No Mouth and Must Scream, and if anyone can recommend similar stuff I would be eternally grateful.
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I quite enjoy Lovecraft but you’re right, it starts to all sound the same after a while. I read a collection of short stories a while back with a very Lovecraftian theme to them all. Very creepy.
I must recommend two authors who I really enjoy. Neal Asher(writes brilliant science fiction. His creepy crawlies and monsters are amazing. One word. Hooders. Wiki it.) and the other is China Mieville, a really great author whose style is sorta steampunk meets fantasy.-
‘The City & the City won the 2010 Arthur C. Clarke Award, 2010 Hugo Award, and 2010 World Fantasy Award, as well as being a Nebula Award nominee in the Best Novel category’
Woah!
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Yeah I love Lovecraft’s work.
You should listen to some of the audiobooks for his stories, some are quite old and actually add to the story’s creepiness.Apart from that I don’t read too much, I have read about half of the Dark Tower books and I have read World War Z (fantastic book BTW).
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Yeah I listened to an audio book of At the Mountain of Madness, and it twas awesome! Been meaning to get more
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I agree. World War Z is great. You should try and get your hands on two books, both anthologies of short stories. They’re called ‘The Living Dead’ and ‘The Living Dead 2’. If you liked WWZ, you’ll really enjoy them. Short stories about zombies.
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No, the Skinner is something else. The Hooders appear in his Polity books. The Skinner is a good read though 🙂
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Found the Lovecraftian book I was reading. The Children of Cthulu. It’s what got me reading and subsequently hooked on China Mieville.
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Absolutely love H. P. Lovecraft.
Especially “At the Mountains of Madness” and “The Shadow over Innsmouth”.-
DAMMIT I want Guillermo Del Toro to stop making whatever movie he is making and get started on The Mountains of Madness RIGHT NOW!
He’s been wanting to make that movie for years, what a tease!-
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Haven’t seen it. The creature design reminded me of Darklings from The Darkness comic books though.
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I was gonna see it but I read some pretty terrible erviews of it that put me off 🙁
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I never listen to reviews for these kinds of music, you either gonna love it or hate it. No middle ground. Kind of reminded me of Pan’s Laybrinth-like.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19bBGxf5k6k
(Don’t mind me, whenever I mention Pan’s Labyrinth I’ve got to link this. Amazing.)
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Music? I mean movies obviously. :S
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I love a good Stephen King book every so often, read Duma Key last year. So damn awesome. A bit of a slow burn, but great atmosphere.
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I must admit, I haven’t read anything of his that’s recent. The most recent one was ‘Cell’ or ‘The Cell’. Really didn’t enjoy it. I think I preferred his older work, namely ‘The Stand’, my favorite book of his.
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I agree, The Stand is a thing of beauty. I love how complex it becomes, different communities and arcs. Amazing. Read a sample of Duma Key from Amazon and iTunes if you’re not convinced, see if it captures your interest. Not really like anything he’s done before.
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Will do. Just got my hands on a kindle last week so i’ll download a sample when I get the chance.
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Oh, just while I remember, another one of his recent ones is ‘Under the Dome’ definitely has a Stand vibe about it. (Though doesn’t quite live up to it.) It’s a little more, uh, stylized I guess. Very good read, though, but definitely not a horror.
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For got about this being next on my reading list lol
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Rapture-Bioshock-John-Shirley/dp/1848567049/ref=wl_it_dp_o_npd?ie=UTF8&coliid=I2K8ZTTVHNGZZ6&colid=1RMQ52MW3MY96 -
yezzzz i need this as well 😛
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Didnt Shane just write a review on how much he hated The Stand? I havent read it and it kind of turned me off. Shane? Input?
The Stand and The Shining are often argued as King’s best. If you don’t like ’em, you won’t like ANY THING King writes.
Haha, ah I see. Well, to be honest, I’m not sure I’ve ever read a full novel. I’ve always read heaps of his short stories. Which I did love. Just… not sure why I never read a novel actually…
His short stories are amazing. I’ll give him that, there aren’t many i’ve read that i wasn’t happy with. My favourite has to be ‘The Long Walk’…dat ending…blind mown!
Most of the excellent film adaptions come from the short stories, most of the terrible film adaptions come from the books. 😀
There are seriously not many of his stories that haven’t been made in to a film to be honest…most of which are terrible. I think it’s because of how much internal dialogue his characters have. It never translates on to the big screen.
This x 200,000,000.
Brian K. Vaughan is adapting Under the Dome as a Showtime TV series, my expectations just sky rocketed. He’s a damn good writer.
DC – that’s amazing news. Two of my faves combine for EPIC. I’m so excited I couldn’t even write that sentence properly.
Much preferred The Stand and It as his best works IMHO
Not true. I’ve read Misery, and loved the whole thing, and consider it his best work.
I’ve read It and loved it all except for the last 150 pages, which were ridiculous.
I read the entire Dark Tower series, and although each book was at least a little worse than the one before it, it was pretty good too.
I was pretty much disappointed by 2/3 of The Stand. I would rank it below all of the above.
To each their own, as they say. ‘Misery’ was good(the hobbling scene is nastier in the book), but I enjoyed the sprawling tale that was told in The Stand. I think its the whole post-apocalyptic thing that gets me.
Yeah, I’ve got to agree. I think The Stand was my first exposure of post-apocalyptic too as a little kid. (The mini-series version, read the book years later)
I didn’t know you were stalking me so good. I did indeed write a review of The Stand.
Copied from: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/149267.The_Stand
The Stand starts out brilliantly. Focusing on a handful of cookie-cutter but utterly compelling characters and their issues, Stephen King creates a world in a state of stable disorder. Then he adds a plague and watches his characters react to a fast-spreading and unquenchable epidemic with a 99.9% mortality rate. These opening 300 or so pages are the best pages of The Stand by a very long way.
Then the survivors start meeting up, and there’s a holy lady and the devil’s messenger camped across a mountain range from each other, using their followers to wage war on each other.
Yes, for some reason a man-made plague leads to a holy war. It’s every bit as odd as it sounds, and seems a waste of not only the characters that we’ve already gotten attached to (quite a few of the best characters are scandalously underutilised after the plague has finished ravaging the world), but also the world in which they now live.
The ending is ridiculous and laughable, as in all Stephen King books.
If only he didn’t write with such a readable and engaging style, I would recommend that you not bother with The Stand. However, there’s plenty to like in here – just don’t expect perfection, or even a cohesive epic. It’s very disjointed.
For the first 300 pages, 5 stars.
For the next 400 pages, 3.5 stars.
For the remainder, 2 stars.
Hahaha, yeaaaah thats the one heh. Put me off big time.
I’ll rip out the first 300 pages and send to you. Then you can pretend you’ve read the whole thing and loved it 🙂
Ooh Dean Koontz. I could never really get into his work. Reading the blurb on the back of a lot of them, they all seemed to be about ‘struggling writer faced with supernatural presence/haunted by the past/possibly both’. I did read his Odd Thomas books, though, of which the first is the only really good one, and the rest become slowly weirder until you hit Odd Hours and it sounds more like an action film.
Odd Thomas was a great read, but for some reason or other I completely stopped reading with two small chapters left to go, at the moment of the ‘big reveal’ that I somehow took to be the book’s ending. When I went back and read those last two chapters it actually annoyed me, because it had entirely ruined my perception of the ending.
I really want to read Infinite Jest one day, but to my understanding I’d have to order it from overseas, it doesn’t seem to be in any bookshop I’ve visited. Moments like this make you miss Borders. (random thought of the day)
Hey guys, i am a little sad now, drunk old guy who i hated quit his job at work today. So it means i won’t be able to get holidays early next year. SO i can’t meet you guys in Brisbane. So now i am a little bit sad now!
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You might still be able to get some leave, even if the office is a man down.
On the plus side, there’s one less tosser to deal with around the office. So you could just relish this victory (even if you did win by default).
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Yeah i will see if i can still but my Boss ussually hates it when more than one person at a time takes holidays. and i know that another guy has already taken them. Also winning by default is still a victory in my book!
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“…The two sweetest words in the English language DE-FAULT! DE-FAULT! DE-FAULT!”
-Homer Simpson
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Excuses.
This guys full of them.
Nah, jks. You’re alright R-man. Arman. Arman Tanzariem.
IMPOSTER!!!
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On the plus side I mis-read your first line as I’m a little sad drunk
But you’re not so it could have been worse, so things are closer to rainbows now cause of where I dragged you down to before lifting you up.
Feeling better yet?
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Gasp! has been nominated for the AACTA Award for Best Children’s Television Series.
Did anyone watch any after I informed you all of its airing?
If not, you missed out on the quality, possible AWARD WINNING televisual excellence.
In all honesty, the best I can say is that it’s not the WORST kid’s animation out there. And some awesome designs… 😛
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You never pay attention! D:
Yeah, an animation I worked on as a Designer (As well as a Production Assistant and Storyboard Conformer).
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Someone needs to teach this boy how to use google properly…
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Better yet, use this http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Gasp!+kids+show
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A guy I knew used to use that site non stop when explaining to people he called “stupid”.
I think one of those people ended up punching him in the face for being a smart-arse 😀
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Haha actually yeah I did find it pretty quikc. I hadnt even tried googling it when I typed that 😀
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Yeah, but turning “safesearch” off isn’t recommended for a work environment…
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Just a quick question for the android aficionados in the house…
I was out at lunch today, I exited out of Dolphin Browser (by using the back button, not the home button) and my phone reset itself, like a full reset, as if I’d just turned it on, and when it came back up, the available battery had dropped from around 50% down to 16%
I checked my battery usage page, and took a screenshot;
http://i498.photobucket.com/albums/rr349/Morkai_AU/eab1a469.png
You can see on the graph at the top where it crashed and reset itself, along with the massive drop in available battery… Has anyone had this happen before or know what could have caused it?
I’m using a Galaxy SII purchased from the UK, running on android 2.3.4.
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A Galaxy SII huh? UK Version?
Hrmmm
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I had a crapload of battery issues when I first got my GSII. Turns out it was (mostly) due to the Optus bloatware chugging power all the time. There was also an update a while back that fixed a few battery problems. Is the phone up to date?
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2.3.4 is the latest update I could recieve through Kies, though I’ve been told I could root the phone and install a ROM with 2.3.5. on it, thought I’m hesitant to root the phone and install another ROM as that would void the warranty.
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Hmm..yeah, rooting the phone is generally a bad idea unless you’re really comfortable with the idea (and consequences).
I guess most of what I’ve said doesn’t really explain the sudden sharp drop in battery life, though.
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Ok, continuing on from our book chat from above…TAYbies, what’s your favourite book of all time? Ever?
For me, it would be ‘Nobody True’ by James Herbert, but to be honest I couldn’t tell you why this book resonates with me. It struck a chord with the opening line, ‘I wasn’t there when I died…’ and I’ve loved it ever since.
So TAYbies, share your favourite books here!!!
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I hate trying to pick something as a favourite, so I’ll just say that it’s either Good Omens or Ender’s Game and be done with it. No justification because then I’ll start second guessing and the list will be twenty books long.
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-1 for whole Ender series!
Ender’s Game was a brilliant book, but after that, the overly religious tone the series developed left a bitter taste in my mouth. I think Xenocide was the last book I could stomach.
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Honestly? I would say The Stand. Only reason I got so gushy and opinionated up there. I don’t read as much as I’d like, though.
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Probably the one I’ve read the most, is either Scar Tissue, the Biography of Anthony Keidis (Red Hot Chilli Peppers singer) or the Gaunts Ghosts series of books.
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Damn you for asking that question!
Could be any of the following:
* Jennifer Government by Max Barry
* Game of Thrones by GRRM
* Ender’s Game by OSC
* Foundation by Asimov
* Y: The Last Man series by BKV
* He Died With a Felafel in his Hand by JBor any one of a hundred others…
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This is exactly why I went with the first thing to come to mind instead of trying to come up with a proper response.
You forgot more than one, I’m sure :p
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Ah yes, Dune is brilliant. Haven’t read Enders game but think i’ll have to now. Two mentions in a favourite book list. Worth a read then! Good Omens was great, Pratchett and Gaiman make an awesome team.
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Ender’s Game is good but don’t fall into the trap of reading the rest of the series.
Speaker for the Dead is a very good book that is as good, if not better than Ender’s Game. Ender’s Shadow is a nice compliment to the original but not something you need to go out of your way to read. The rest go from being okay to downright bad.
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Ok, will add them to my ever-growing literary pile of shame 🙂
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I have a huge reading pile of shame, literally up to my armpit. I have half a dozen of the Star Wars EU books, Every Iain M Banks book, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo trilogy, The Night Angel trilogy, the last Eragon book, The Game of Thrones series, a couple of Peter F Hamilton’s….
The list goes on. And thats just the ones I already own. Not counting the things I’d like to get and read later.
I think I have a problem
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Bahaha! I was sitting here pondering what you could have possibly meant by “16 year old D.C.” for the last couple of minutes.
I think I get it now 😛-
It’s a riddle. haha.
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Black by Ted Dekker
Red by Ted Dekker
White by Ted Dekker
Saint by Ted Dekker
Three by Ted Dekker
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What?
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The great thing about most of his books is that you can read them in any order. Of course it’s still better to read them from first to last though. Anyway, He started off with Black, Red and White and called them the Circle Trilogy. Then he went and wrote a few spin off series of those. Saint is part two in one of those spinoffs. He also made a young adult series as well, they’re pretty good too. Recently (or maybe it was a year or two ago now?) he went and wrote a fourth book in the Circle ‘Trilogy’. It’s a great addition, but I don’t think it’s as good as the rest of them. But that’s probably because I’ve only read it twice and have read the other’s a considerable amount more. Also, they made graphic novels of the Circle Trilogy too, they’re not too bad either.
A lot of his books have links to his Circle ‘Trilogy’ actually. Except for Three. Actually, that one was turned into a movie (though a slightly garbage one).
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy. Yeah, most people don’t know it by it’s abbreviation. But that’s because it sounds silly. “thugitug”?? “lotter” (lotr) sounds cool.
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Ah of course. Great book 🙂
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That’s because the commonly accepted abbreviation is H2G2 (HitchHiker’s Guide To [2] the Galaxy).
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Ignore the last bolded G.
Hitchhiker’s (H2) Guide (G) to (2) …
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This is one of those books i have seen here and there but never gotten around to reading. I still have the movie sitting on my Foxtel IQ box and haven’t watched it yet. I’m slack, I know.
Gosh that is hard.
– FIGHT CLUB by Chuck Palahniuk
– TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee
– SABRIEL by Garth Nix
– and the Harry Potter series deserves a mention
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I totally agree with your first two choices there Harli! To Kill A Mockingbird was the first school-assigned book that I thoroughly enjoyed. Its just fantastic.
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I actually really enjoyed all the canonised texts they made us read in highschool. Except for maybe wuthering heights – 1800’s english literature is not really my thing. And I wanted to punch Heathcliffe in his stupid broody face.
To kill a mockingbird was just inspirational imo!
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ATTICUS!
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Whenever people ask what my favourite book is i say To kill a Mockingbird, it makes me sound all cultured and shit. But it really got to me because atticus is the perfect father figure who gives sage advice.
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Harry Potter is amazing. I didn’t think I needed to mention them. Of course they get bonus points with me because Harry looks a lot like me. Or I look a lot like Harry, either way
The lesser evil by some smith bloke
After that gets a bit crowded, hard to compare genres, etc…
Maybe the black jewel series, not sure which individual book from it though
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Ah yes, and it had pretty pictures and stuff.
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Mr Midshipman Hornblower – C.S.Forester
King’s Dragon – Kate Elliott
The Burning Stone – Kate Elliott
To Kill a mockingbird – Harper Lee-
The hornblower books are ridiculously detailed (they were written in the 40s and 50s) about naval life and warfare in napoleonic times. (much better than the show)
Kate elliotts series is a post apocolyptic fantasy where most of the world is a wasteland and humanity has been pushed back to the middle ages – insert fanatical religion here.-
To kill a mockingbird is a book that everyone must read. It opens your eyes
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isn’t “Master and Commander” one of the books for the Hornblower series? i think my dad used to have them, i read a bit of them but never got fully into them
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no wait, just looked it up, completely different series, please disregard 😛
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“My dad”, “Master” and “Hornblower” should generally not be used in the same sentence.
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…… you’re a bad person
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I had to hunt the C.S.Forester books down because they are always booked out at the library. (heaven forbid i said ‘library’)
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If you’re ever feeling down and broken, can’t go past Lucky Man by Michael J. Fox. Inspiring stuff.
That’s a tough question. I’ve read many, many books in my time that I’ve really enjoyed. If I was forced to pick a favourite though I guess I’d have to go with Eragon.
Yeah it’s a typical fantasy and its plot is very similar to Star Wars but I just really enjoyed it. It’s a fun adventure featuring swords, magic, dragons and elves. It’s adult in the sense that it has pleanty of violence and things like those limbless priests but it doesn’t get too descriptive about it or get hung up on how horrible it is like other books do, *cough* Malazan Book of the Fallen *cough*, so you can just sit back and enjoy it, sort of like how action movies don’t show the hero crying themselves to sleep after blowing up a bus full of Nazi Communist terrorists. Plus it’s the sort of story were you know everything’s going to turn out ok in the end. I like that. Knowing that there’s a happy ending lets me enjoy the down parts of a story a lot more.
I also enjoy Paolini’s writting style. A lot of books, fantasy in particular, get far too caught up in describing the world and characters in every minor detail. Paolini doesn’t do that. He has a good mix of description and dialogue that helps keep the story moving foward at a steady pace and remain interesting.
that is a tough question…
one that’s stuck with me since i was a kid is called Erik Menneskesøn by Lars Henrik Olsen, however you will have to learn danish to read it :P…
i could start spitting out Terry Pratchett titles at this point, but at this stage i think the one that humours me the most is “The Wee Free Men” not his greatest but it was the first one Terry Pratchett novel i’ve read…
and Kevin J. Anderson’s “Saga of the Seven Suns” series of books are a good read too
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oh and been reading “The Last Wish” by Andrzej Sapkowski lately, i am actually surprised that i’m enjoying it as much as i am
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I loved the Saga of Seven Suns. Great books. I found it incredibly sad when –
gur snrebf fgnegrq oheavat guebhtu gur ireqnav naq rirelbar gung unq wbvarq gur gryvax/guvfz yvax. V whfg fng gurer guvaxvat “Ubj pna gurl cbffvoyl or fgbccrq?”
But they are not quite my favourites. That honour goes to John Marsden’s Tomorrow series, Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy, and Traitor from the Star Wars New Jedi Order.
Sorry, I can’t narrow it down any further
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regarding the Saga
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Oh crap, I’m sorry I’ve just spoiled something for you. I assumed you’d already finished them all if you were listing them as some of your favourites.
There are 7 books, and personally I think 5 and 7 are the best, you’ve got a lot to look forward to.
And don’t you hate how he leaves every book on a cliffhanger? Especially since I only discovered them as book 4 was being released so I had ages to wait for the last few books
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i don’t really feel you spoiled anything cause i just assumed that you referred to the scenario i stated above 😛 so no harm done… i agree with the cliff hanger thing though… especially cause it seems like it slow down about 50 pages before the end… AND THEN SUDDEN PLOT TWIST ON THE LAST PAGE and you are left with the feeling of NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO WHAT HAPPENS NEXT *raids bookstore*
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We didn’t lose our memories. We lied. (Last lines of book 1)
One of the most awesomely delivered lines in a book I think I’ve ever read. You could just hear it perfectly.
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I’m going to have to go with the Memory, Sorrow and Thorn trilogy by Tad Williams. I read them when I was in… year 9 I think. Got totally lost in them. Amazing books. That reminds me, I should read them again.
Isacc Asimovs Robots And Aliens – Various Authors (Including Robert Thurston)
BattleTech: I am Jade Falcon – Robert Thurston
The DragonLance Chronicles – Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
Leviathan – Scott Westerfield
As far as anything non-fantasy/sci fi I guess I agree with ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ (also did that at school) and ‘Across the barricades’.
HAY GUISE!
http://www.mcvpacific.com/news/read/announcing-the-mcv-pacific-awards-2011/087828
Know any good Aussie game journalists that should be nominated? 😉
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Well, it was either that, or “Marine Space”, AND THAT JUST SOUNDS SILLY.
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Oh Rocketman.
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I’m sorry dan i was just kidding. it was just to hard to resist!
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You had your first kiss in primary school o.0
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I also read MS as Multiple Sclerosis, so just to clarify what do you mean by MS?
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Yeah dawg, Multiple Sclerosis. You’ve never heard of the MS Read-a-thon? It’s like 40 hour famine, ‘cept kids get donations for reading a certain amount of books.
Bitch I was makking read like a billion books on 4 weeks.
And to be clear, it wasn’t a real kiss. It was like a, touch lips behind the bike lockers at 2:55 to make the bus at 3:00.
Now my REAL first kiss, that is quite the tale.
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*Dumps a four tonne bag of popcorn on the ground, sits*
Right, let’s hear it.
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Really People read to save the poor, thats pretty cool.
*dives on ground next to Rize and grabs a handful of popcorn*
STORY TIME!!!
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*sits down*
oh don’t mind me, i’m just here for the popcorn
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MS readathon is for Multiple Sclerosis. I meant our favourite Simon Pegg lookalike 😛
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oh yeah i got that part just the readathon thingy baffled me lol
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The souls of fairies, ground up into a powder and mixed into a paste, which is then spread paper-thin around clouds pulled down from heaven.
Then you put biscuits on it.
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at which point you throw said biscuit/fairy soul mixture in the bin, and get yourself a proper biscuit, like an Anzac Biscuit/Cookie.
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You just earned a spot on the naughty list
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Racist.
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You called?
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Ha!
for the PC skyrimmers
i saw these in an article on geek
http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=357
this made me laugh:
http://www.fileplanet.com/223475/220000/fileinfo/Elder-Scrolls-V:-Skyrim—Deathstar-Moon-Mod
also there is a my little pony one but i can’t find it at work…
random and you will probly dislike them all but i still laughed
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I haven’t even started the game yet, but I’ve already installed this one, as I’ve heard, and seen videos of how terrible the default inventory interface is.
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In most ways, that’s a fair bit better than the original interface. The vanilla UI really didn’t utilise the screen area well, especially with wide screen being much more common than not these days.
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Someone brought Cheds into the office.
You can keep your Shapes, these things are made of CRACK.
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You know, I used to be all “Don’t tell me what to do, Curtis Stone!” but now I’ll gladly gaze upon his surfy-boy looks so long as I never have to hear “DOWN DOWN PRICES ARE DOWN” ever again.
I bet this was their strategy all along.-
Quite possibly. What worries me more is how much its caught on with the small children. Almost every shift I have kids coming in asking if we’re giving out those big red hands and singing along when the ads play over the PA. It can be truly terrifying
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This is one of the many reasons I’m glad I don’t watch TV anymore. Torrents and DVDs for the win!
Last night, my housemate wanted to watch some TV (the only TV hooked up to an antenna is my one in the lounge next to my desk). There was nothing on so she started to watch Today Tonight.
I put on a DVD of Community.
Things improved greatly, although it was a little odd being on TeamSpeak when she was watching stuffs. Hohum. Just something to get used to.
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Oh boy, is she in for a treat tonight.
On ACA, they reveal shonky car window repair dudes, and apparently how they all “epic fail”. Yes, they used those words.
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If I am anywhere near my TV and paying the slightest bit of attention, she’s just going to have to miss out :p
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I only watch a couple of shows nowadays. We don’t have any pay tv in my house, so the main thing I watch is the Big Bang Theory. If theres something else I’m interested in I buy the DVDs and then wait for the rare times when I can get at the TV to watch them. I don’t like using my laptop for TV/movies, it just doesnt work on a small screen
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i have not watched a commercial tv station for just over 2 months.
In that time i have built 2 pieces of furniture (with my bare hands), gone on a honeymoon (3 weeks), cleaned the house top to bottom 5 times and played games every night for at least an hour.
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I have a friend whose partner picked up those red hands just because they were free.
He was all /o\, and I was all /o\.
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No Bish. Just let those memories stay repressed, its for the good of all involved
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I guess he was caught…
*glasses*
…red-handed.
I just wanted to get this page get nonsense over with. Wall-E seemed appropriate because he is awesome.
Remember that pidgeon dating sim I mentioned on page 5?
Apparently that game is EVEN MORE messed up in the head than I thought.
http://www.quartertothree.com/game-talk/showthread.php?t=67529
Hey not sure if this is posted somewhere else BUT… can someone give me a heads up on what version is best to buy for Skyrim
PC
Xbox 360
*Please note I am about to upgrade PC so it will more than meet the specs required for most new games… (i.e.BF3)
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definitely go for the PC version, if not for the better graphics, then for the ability to mod the game… I only just installed it last night on PC, and before I’d even started I had installed an inventory mod.
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Thanks Moraki – I was kinda thinking the same way… It also settles another point – update the computer faster!!! Cheers B
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Ok.. well I might as well open the invitation up to any interested Brisbane people. Sachiko’s away in Tassie for the next couple of weeks, so I’m gonna have the house to myself for the weekend. DAN! is coming over to have some booze and play same games.. prolly eat some food too. Perhaps some Xiao Fei Yang hot pot if we’re diggin the spicy feel that day.. Any other Brisbane people wanna join the fun? I understand we just had a meet 2 weeks ago, but you know.. whatever!
Just installed the Uncharted 3 patch and it DOES make a noticable change for the better with the aiming. That is all.
http://acuriousidea.tumblr.com/post/13521927726/russian-tupperware-aetropos-yeahyeahno
I imagine Bish and other Phoenix Wright fans would enjoy this.
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I did like it (although a little long winded). It reminds me I still need 2 more phoenix wright games before I have them all.
sorry BDKIAF, I don’t know where you can get it. maybe try threadless or something?
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They are bastardly hard to hunt down locally, too. Oh, except maybe for JFA. Seen a few of those around. Because, you know… it’s JFA.
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This makes me even more desperate for the Layton/Wright crossover. That game would make me buy a 3DS
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Hah, someone linked that to me on Facebook just this morning, was awesome. Love how they had to include all of Godot’s coffee drinking animations.
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You mean the Will Smith one he’s wearing? If you can’t find it, just get it made. I reckon you could google the image and get it put on a shirt pretty easily and any t-shirt printing place 🙂
Skimmed the last few pages of TAY.
You guys are awesomely hilarious and hilariously awesome.
<3
Also, The Road is a phenomenal book. Stunning language and descriptive scenes.
Well, birthday is over, tower still doesn’t work, but I got a 32 inch tv!
And a hilarious book about patented inventions that were never invented.
And now it’s December, which means summer, and hot weather. 🙁
But the cricket starts tomorrow, and I’m going to see the Foo Fighters on Friday!
And then I’m having my 21st party at Crown. Gonna do some bowling at Kingpin, and have fun at Galactic Circus! \o/
It’s lonely when there is no one else here.
And I’ve missed all the exciting events of the day.
HELLO TAY
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im at work ><, im missing all the late night 3v3 games we usually clean up on, next week for sure as im not working Mon- Wed
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We’ll need one of us to clean up as the Thunder Bear, as his passive will make him brutal in the early game!
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and on a side note its pay … /gets a run up and pegs his wallet at the screen, time for some new chars and skins me thinks, i really need to buy shares in this company to get some of my money back …. and lots of Factions = P
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Hi Freyr!!! you should totally get minecraft and join us. Joiiiinnn uss.
Also are you coming to Sydney meats??
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…if I play minecraft, i will never play another game…so I’m not going to play minecraft.
And Sydney meats? are they definitely on the 17th? I’m currently rostered to work that day but am trying to see if I can get someone else to take it
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YES but they actually contain no details…?
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Citizens of Minecraftia, We need you!
Are you a hard working soul, trying to make your way through a harsh world, filled with creepers, the living dead, and lord knows what else?
Do you want a chance to work with a legendary architect, renowned for his work on such buildings as the Roman Pantheon:
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150191441472715&set=a.438198757714.228247.595242714&type=3
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150191440572715&set=a.438198757714.228247.595242714&type=3
The Colosseum:
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150200920287715&set=a.438198757714.228247.595242714&type=3
Or a Disney castle that I have no good shots of:
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150306012782715&set=a.438198757714.228247.595242714&type=3
Then boy do I have a job for you! Wear a hardy pair of boots, and bring yourself to our work site at 10118 Sky-Rail Road, and we’ll do the rest. With hard work, and a little effort, you could go as far as becoming a site manager!
(In all seriousness, to anyone who plays minecraft, I have a rather ambitious undertaking I wish to do, and would appreciate help, though none is necessary, and obviously it’s only for if you have nothing better to do, but, essentially, I wish to dig a location down to about 30ish blocks deep(or high, technically, and I wouldn’t mind a hand. Compared to some of my previous works, this is positively restrained(until I decide to make it bigger). But I’ve marked out a 20*20 area behind my house (my house is directly underneath the junction of the Sky-Rail, so if you travel their, and look away from Rize/Ferret’s house(I think) you should be able to see it.), and if it could be dug down then that’s be great, my slave minions. I mean what, where am I? What are you doing in my house? Where was I? Oh yes, there’s some tools in a chest at the site, and you’re free to keep whatever you find, and uhh, yeah. So, if you’re bored and on Minecraft, feel free to start digging. I’ll credit you when my work is complete(I probably won’t credit you, like how I didn’t credit Q-bo for his amazing clearing work when I made a fair chunk of the Colosseum))
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If you email the new server details to jormungand_xix(at)hotmail.com I will do so when work gets boring.
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Morning all!
Discovered a fun trick (that I’m sure everyone else already knew :P) in Space Marine. Apparently 2 people can do 3-4 waves of Exterminatus and end up with 3-5k exp after it? We actually got to about 7 on one run and I pulled out 8k…each…
so… does anyone know if everyone has permission to TP in minecraft? just asking cause i managed to get myself hopelessly lost yesterday and i can’t find my way back XD
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*sigh*… time for the noob question
*scuffs feet*
how- how do i do that? 😛
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Well first you email me the server deets to the address on blaghys post.
Then you type /tp name
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Yep TP enabled for all… instructions as above are correct type /tp name or just tp name??? not sure which one worked.
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I think both do, cause I’ve had people turn up suddenly, and others give an announcement 😛
I’m the token TP target…and my house gets invaded frequently…
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I’ve had people sleeping in my bed unexpectedly!!
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…let’s not talk about beds in Minecraft.
I still feel pants-on-head stupid.
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by the way I screenshotted that moment. It’s on my PC at home thought.
I appreciate it Rize but in the words of Steve-O, “we could never be”
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…I’m filling your house full of creepers.
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Explosive crabs?
…sounds painful
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I love Fight Club. Am currently reading Palahniuk’s Rant. Bought it years ago but clean forgot to read it. I actually found it yesterday when I was looking for something to read on the train and was tempted to reread Fight Club or Invisible Monsters.
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No rants. It’s about a guy named Rant.
Well, it’s an account of his life as told by people who met him.
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The only other Palahniuk book I read apart from Fight Club was Survivor. Which was also good. Lesson learnt today – should read more Palahniuk!
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So bad move on my part on the minecraft server, I build my house in a valley below stevo’s So i started to get bombarded with arrows from him and pyrean. Then me and bunny failed at the magicka expansion, i kept on being un helpful whereas bunny couldn’t spam lightning. SO needless to say we died many times. Still fun though. If any body else wants to join in tonight it might be a bit easier!
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Speaking of minecraft, Steve-O could you please change the skyrail because it’s kind of ugly. Can we make it stop off in front of my house instead of as a part of it? *smiley face wearing a turban*
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We definitely need four people and being without Magicks really hamstrung us.
That spider was a pain. I think we could have taken it if we were a little more focused. But that’s a rather difficult task.
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Agree. Never been a fan of regular coffee but I have at least one Farmers Union Iced Coffee every day.
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I can’t even imagine what you have to go through on a daily basis with people like that who work there!
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HALT, CRIMINAL SCUM
We demand you cease usage of the word “scroll” in the phrase “coffee scroll” said on December 1, 2011 at 10:13 AM, as this infringes on our IP ‘The Elder Scrolls’!
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i have iced coffee… usually that means that i left it outside again but yeah… also i drink coffee in any variety, hot, cold, 6 hours old, without water… i’m FREAKING HARDCORE 😛
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Saints row 3! But I’m biased, seeing as I’ve played neither and am not a fan of racing games (with the exception of kart racers).
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NFS The Run. I’m only half way through, but it’s been quite fun so far. I don’t understand why nobody likes it that much. They seem to focus on the barely there story and completely ignore the improvements to the racing.
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PV for Sumioni on PS Vita:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vghAPPL_wEs
Looks like some kind of dreamy mashup of Okami and Muramasa with a bit of Patapon on the side. Want.
Can anyone help me,
Sunrise today did a segment on the evil effects of violent video games yet again. This time it seems they pulled their ‘information’ directly from the Daily Mail article I brought up earlier in the week.
Unfortunately I wasn’t able to listen to the segment in its entirety, I was just wondering if anyone could find the article in question for me.
and before someone inevitable asks me why, I like making my brain hurt. . .
Seeing as nobody else wants to play with me, I’ve played some more games of Starcraft 2 against hard AI.
Maintaining a steady 50% win rate. What happens is I’ll play the first game, try something like a forge fast expand, screw up completely and get rolled. Then the second game I’ll be a little more focused and win rather comfortably.
At least, I feel like I’m doing okay until I notice I’m on two bases with >2000 minerals floating or I get to the score screen and my average unspent minerals is some absurd figure.
Still, winning is nice and if I played more than two games in a row, I might get a better win rate.
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My apologies Trjn. I was too caught up in my house project in minecraft last night, and before I knew it the time had hit midnight. Strange that.
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Everyone’s got the Minecraft bug again. I don’t mind. Just take a course of antibiotics and I’m sure that you’ll be cured soon enough.
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work on quick victories, in the past i spent to much time gathering resources and defending. Then i played a few bouts of starcraft (orig) online and learnt that wasn;t necessarily the best way to play.
When you learn how to beat the AI on hard difficulty in less than 15 minutes, thats when you understand your strengths and weaknesses. Just learn to attack properly, that way you wont have too many unused minerals!
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To be honest, I’m more worried about learning the mechanics, particularly focusing on macro. Winning quickly is something I could probably do, most of the matches go about 20 minutes anyhow. I just think that it’s more important for me to learn to not miss probes, to have minimal idle time on my production facilities and to try to avoid supply blocking myself.
It’s easy to spend all of my minerals when I’m not making enough probes :p
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I’m definitely over thinking it.
Yet ladder anxiety is a serious problem that thousands of nerd ballers face every day :p
It doesn’t matter that much, what I’m worrying about when facing off against bots is exactly the same as what I’d be worried about against real people. So my only excuse for going against bots is that I’m more confident with it.
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I must apologise for my terrible spelling.
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Its the same as in LoL, bots are not really like facing real people. And loosing to real peeps will teach you more than winning against bots.
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Yes, but I can beat bots :p
I said I’d do my placement matches by the end of this week and I plan to stick to that.
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Fair enough. And by learn I mean learn how to cheese and counter cheese 🙂
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Oh that’s easy. Make a pylon, send my probe to their base. Make a forge at home, make a pylon and MANY CANNONS OF DOOM at their base.
Enjoy the rage.
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Or like one game where I built a barracks in their quick expansion and they warped in a gateway at mine and then we each discovered what the other did and it became a cheese race. Good times.
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The good ol’ proxy v proxy :p
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I was going to join in, until I started up Skyrim… I wasn’t even expecting to enjoy the game, based on how much I disliked Oblivion… all of a sudden, I looked at the clock and it was past midnight…
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I was a big fan on AoEII back in the day. The only issue was how frequently long-term matches devolved into “Who has the most unique units? You win!”.
Regardless, good fun.
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I loved AoEII as well. I especially liked how you could save MP matches and continue them later.
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I’m not sure how adaptable that TABTOL tool is, but if we can re-jigger it to count what percentage of Trjn’s posts the words ‘Forge Fast Expand’, or FFE, appear, I think it’s gonna run close to 100% 😛
Morning all,
my Minecraft cherry was popped last night and OH MY GOD IT WAS AWESOME!!!!!
i had no idea what i was doing, and why nothing would be destroyed when i first arrived until i was made aware that it was not allowed near the spawn point. Blaghs taught me about teleporting and i arrived in his cavernous mansion, where he lead me to the Skyrail..and it was awesome!!! mainly because i didnt know you could make rail tracks in MC. so then i just hovered around doing nothng for a bit inspecting peoples houses, when i decided if i could tp to blaghs i could tp to anyone, first person that came to mind was PIXEL, i tried to be all sneaky because i forgot people could hear me so i spent like 45 seconds walking behind him all ninja like, i played musical boxes with his chests and then snuck into his bed(slightlysussbutitsallgoodbro) then i ran around and fell off the edge of the skyrail. so i quickly learnt that falling is death which should of been obvious but its a new game i had no idea ʘ‿ʘ. so things happened i forget because my mouth was constantly like :O. then i found harli and her house and pestered her for almost an hour following her around and watching. i made the mistake of poking her to get her attention, and her dogs ate me. then suddenly i spawned in her bed? justalittlebitnaughty o.0 she kicked me out and i walked down the front of her house and i saw a little green man, out of nowhere an arrow or two came flying at me and then the green man EXPLODED i was scared so i knocked on harli’s door and she let me in until morning…which by let me in meant i had to roam around on the skyrail. in the morning i found a spot to start digging and went at it with gusto. until a minute passed and i died 🙁 then i woke up in harli’s bed again?? this is getting odd. until she explained when you sleep in a bed it becomes your respawn point. so that sorted that pretty quickly. now i have a little hole in the ground near two massive houses…so yeah TL;DR version: holy shit minecraft is awesome…and hilarious and i dont think i have enough time in a day to satisfy my wanting to play it even though i died repeatedly
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my god was i laughing when i found out it was you, i couldn’t understand why my bloody chests kept opening and closing, i couldn’t see any one…
+1 to Di11 aka Dinkydogg for that one, twas fun… also remember this… “Fear the bucket”
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Sounds like an awesome time 😀
I haven’t played Minecraft (till recently) for ages, so a lot of the content is new to me too. Main reason I appear to know what I’m doing sometimes is cause I played a fair bit of Terraria 😛
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hahah I’m glad you enjoyed it! Wait till you start building your own project, that’s when it really begins. Soon you’ll be thinking about MC in your sparetime, losing sleep, planning projects out during the day…
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I’ve been tempted to try it out as well, considering how much people rave about it. But I’m not a very creative person, so I think anything I tried to make would just end up looking terrible, at which point I’d just give up.
Maybe it would be good to get just to hang out with you guys in. Hmm, I’ll think about it, maybe after Skyrim/Xenoblade start to lose their appeal.
Sam and Max Season 2 is out on the Playstation Store… and I still haven’t even finished episode 2 from Season 3. 🙁
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Hey. You still have a PS3 that works.
Don’t complain.
Or I will take your PS3 from you*.
*May or may not be too lazy to do such a thing.
Friendly reminder – get to the KKP site and suggest away – whichever gets the most suggestions/votes is what we’ll do!
Thread will be deleted today – so get in if you still haven’t
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wtf NO reply button NO. *grumblegrumbleprematuregrumble*
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Saw ‘The Innocents’ last night. Far out… has anyone else seen it? Scariest shit ever. Most disturbing depiction of ghosts. Gah! I was a bit scared goin to bed :'(
A question for the Minecraft obsessed… When you’re starting in a new server/new world, and you’re starting a new project, do you go for massive above-ground castle/fort/structure? or go for labyrynthine underground passages/caverns?
I myself am playing with some friends at the moment, and I’m currently digging a staircase from whatever level I started at, down to bedrock, and starting tunnels off to either side at various depths in the hopes of finding new and exciting pre-made caverns etc.
I’ve already stumbled across a naturally occuring obsidian resource, due to a water block spilling down into a room below it, which had massive pools of lava. Unfortuately, I don’t yet have any diamond tools with which to excavate the obsidian.
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I’d say, from a practical perspective, that underground houses are generally more useful, as your safe haven is closer to where you’re mining.
Above ground houses are heaps of fun, though 😀
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i always end up running for a while till i come past something where i go “that looks cool, imma build on/in it” and then just start building with no aim or plan as to what the finished project will look like…
sorta the same thing i used to do with lego bricks as a kid…which is why currently my house looks pretty mangled together 😛
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I’ve only just got into the game myself and so far my strategy has been to dig a staircase down into the earth, spend some time digging out a mine and then when I have enough pieces of stone I go back above ground and build a house around the mine entrance. I then go back down into the mine and keep digging and come up every now and then to add to my building.
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I have in the past tended to build my home in a big mountain (with crops on top of it) and then search for caverns underneath, then connect them to create a huge cavern. Once that cavern is completed I will then make tiered levels of my house using glass so you can see the bedrock/lava at the bottom.
This time I am going to build the complete design for my proposed house that is going to be built next year – inside a mountain. 1 block = 20cm. (the whole house is 7m tall so 35 blocks high.
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I like building on mountains for the view. It is a pain in the ass to build a reliable way to get up and down though.
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I <3 Community. Must re-watch it! 🙂
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you’ll hear it a bunch of times in this clip;
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OMG the comp schedule for BetaFreq LAN (which I will be competing in) just got announced! Super hype. Just a heads up that the matches will be casted so tune in if/when you can 🙂 i’ll try and tweet links on the day or afterwards.
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CS:S and DOTA
Also the venue is an RSL and the guys wanna drink.
Which shall be very interesting…
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I always play better when I’m drunk. Maybe they’re the same?
Also, very jelly. Would be awesome just to watch you guys, let alone compete!
(Watch out for vipers :P)
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If it means anything, I think you’d fit right in 😉
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Oh tits the fire alarm is going off in the building.
Funnily enough they’re evac’ing the top floors first.
So us lower floors can sit patiently and wait while the building burns down.
Outlook has an error that pops up from time to time for me and it’s rather interesting why.
You see, whenever you open an attachment through Outlook, it saves it to a folder hidden away in your Temporary Internet Files. If you happen to open a large amount of attachments over any period of time that happen to have the same name (in my case it’s my work’s initials.csv) then eventually it will reach the point where it will no longer be able to save files of that name to the temporary folder.
So you have to find the folder and delete all of the attachments that you’ve opened.
Makes no sense but it’s the second time I’ve encountered this and fixed it now.
No Game Left Behind – Upgrading Windows XP to Windows 7
I am installing Windows 7 64-bit onto my machine hopefully this weekend. I am worried I won’t be able to get my huge games library working straight away. Any help would be appreciated guys and gals.
Steam – I have read up on copying whole folders to a HDD and then pasting them back after the deed is done, into the same folder location. I absolutely will not be able to re-download them all, but I want to recover as many as possible.
GOG.com games – I understand GOG make it super easy anyway, I am more worried about my save game files in this case (Witcher 1/2 namely).
Starcraft 2/non-Steam games – this should be a simple re-install, provided I can find my serial numbers.
There is literally nothing else on the machine I need, I just want my games to be safe.
Thank you!
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You can install Win7 over the top of WinXP and it will keep everything that was installed under WinXP but it’s not a great option.
All Blizzard games (so SC2) install to a folder that you can simply copy across, just like the Steam folder. Very simple, works a charm.
Quite simply, almost all games should be able to copied over to an external drive (or an internal drive that happens to not be your C drive), then you can just copy them back to where they should be and be done with it.
In theory anyhow…
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it’s a bit of a pain the arse, but when I did my last reformat, I went through steam and did a backup each game invidividually onto another hard drive.
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When i set up my new computer, I just copied across my steam folder onto a portable hd, and then copied it onto the new computer. It worked for all games except L4D2, which i backed up using steam and the put it on my new computer. Having to backup each and every game is just painful. Especially TF2. Think of all the hats!
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Much appreciated. Why isn’t that a great option (Win7 ‘over the top of’ XP)?
I found out the hard way once Steam backs up your entire library to one file if you are not careful. Wondered why Amnesia was the only one that worked, and why it was so big…
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Well, it just leaves your old WinXP installation there and it can be a little messy to try and access things. I did it back when Win7 first came out and it worked but if you have the option for a clean install (so that you don’t have old WinXP drivers and whatnot floating about) there’s no real reason not to.
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Yeah, get rid of the XP install. The simple version is that all that leftover crap can get in the way of your new OS working correctly and efficiently.
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Yeah, the Steam backup util is…unpredictable. Sometimes it’ll actually redownload games while trying to extract them from the back file.
One thing to remember with this whole Steam thing is that many Steam games put their save files in various places in your user folder (My Documents, etc.), so back that stuff up too.
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Steam is easy as. It’s literally a copy paste of the “steamapps” folder in the Steam directory. The annoying part is that Steam sometimes takes an age registering that it has all the game files (if you have a lot of games going through this process), but that’s pretty much it.
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Copying the entire directory is your best beat
The benefit of using steam backup is that it will greatly reduce the file size required to transfer it across.
When backing up steam will put every game you tick into the same backup folder and then give you the option for which you want to reinstall. So for something like Sam and max I just put an entire season on a single backup file then just install the ep I want.Also as far a backups go steam can sometimes forget to copy the file you need to run .bat or .exe I can’t remember. If this happens you can copy the file from any successful backup and it will work
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I am in need of some assistance
We were looking at getting the Bliptronic 5000 LED Synthesizer as a gift
http://www.thinkgeek.com/clearance/c4e1/
However they are sold out.
I know there was a bit of interest in sound bytes so wondering if anybody knows of somewhere (ideally Melbourne or with rapid delivery) that stocks something similar
Also Bully on steam at < $4 – is it worth it?
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I had Bully ages ago on PS2. I remember it being not too bad, though I didn’t like it enough for the price I paid back then.
For <$4, I'd call it worth it. If not, I'll send you the $4 to make up for my poor advice.
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Totally played Egress last night. Loved the atmosphere, and the artwork. Managed to make it to the end without too much hassle the first time round, but I was apparently too aggressive. Second time round I was released. Didn’t open the door the best way (brute force ftw!) but was still acceptable. I don’t think that puzzle is really all that hard, you just need to think outside the box a little. Not too much, but at the time I didn’t want to 😛
Well done Sughly, really enjoyed the game. Keep working on Anna’s Room – looking forward to it!
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Woo! thanks for playing Phoenix! thats awesome that you liked it 😀
Sorry for such a late reply too, I was busy. Busy… saving Hyrule… 🙁
Didn’t some movie come out today? Was it… John and someone…? I can’t remember what it’s called, but I heard it’s meant to be really good.
Does anyone know which one I’m talking about?
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2011/12/i-wish-the-new-lego-x-wing-2012-was-out-now/
I still have my Lego X-Wing sitting happily above my comics. It’s more than ten years old (I think?).
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Fuck that. The Astromech droid (it’s not R2-D2, since the model is of Red 6, not Red 5) is in sideways. At least the old one had the proper droid orientation.
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I love it at work when GREAT ads come through, but it’s even better when AWFUL ads appear.
It’s the average ones that destroy the soul.
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I have been soldering all day and now i have a killer headache. I think i might be dying from lead inhalation slowly and painfully! Oh well whatever, i will eat some cake at home and everything will be kay.
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Get some rest and drink plenty
And have some oranges, just in case it is scurvy. Hope you feel better soon
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that is slightly worrying… also it’s just a matter of time before someone makes a costume/minecraft skin to go with this so he is EVERYWHERE
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yes, you download the minecraft skin template, recolour it and upload it on minecraft.net… then it stays with your account so no matter which server/computer you login on, it’s the same
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You can also download other people’s creations if you’re lazy or artistically challenged.
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i’ve just completed a flawed black and white version… will show once tested for creepiness, will get discarded if required level of creepiness is not achieved
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http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/8382964/sewage-treatment-worker-fell-into-effluent
That diving job sounds interesting.
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“…a specialised dive crew that regularly dives in sewage ponds”
Best job in the world, that is.
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So I found 20 or so old floppy disks in the garage while attempting to dig up the Christmas Tree. Most of the labels say they contain boring things like “Disk Backup 24-6-97” and “Do Not Copy WinWord/Template Directory”. One just says “Laundry”?
Anyway, what should I do with them? The most creative thing I can find online is ‘make a pen holder’. 😛 Though, I may actually do that…
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I’m very interested to know what’s on the “Laundry” disk… A secret codename for an international mystery? Detailed steps on how to wash clothes optimally? We just don’t know!
I’ll have to try and find someone with a computer that still has a floppy drive… To Grandma’s house!
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This happened to me when I was cleaning out some of the junk in our garage. The coolest thing I found was an original 800k 3.5″ floppy with Microsoft Word 1.0 for Mac on it.
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I have always thought that game looked interesting but probably very long and might get boring.
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I actually own Sins and the first expansion. It’s an epic game, and yeah, it’s huge. It’s also awesome, and very, very pretty.
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Original Sins had no real campaign, so to speak. It was all custom battle-based. No idea if they’ve changed/added to that.
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Speaking of which, we never DID hear the story about your first kiss…
http://staging.kotaku.com.au/2011/12/talk-amongst-yourselves-140/comment-page-11/#comment-458655
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Cheap?
Yes.
Not cheap?
Yes.
Not cheap and no time?
…No. 🙁It’s space pew-pew awesome, and rolling around the galaxy (or a few) with a terrifying fleet is super fun, but some of those games, man, they can take forever.
There were some nutters from the Citizens Electoral Council handing out leaflets in the city today. I didn’t grab one but I saw their signs about the British Crown being involved in something known as “Green Fascist Dictatorship” and they also seem to have reason to believe that the universe is non-entropic.
I checked out their website (linked above) and there are some hilarious things in there. Apparently Barack Obama is clinically insane (which is odd because that kind of thing has to be declared in court, so it shouldn’t be hard to find a record to back it up) and is also a British agent.
Interesting reading, even if you will lose several IQ points.
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But the British royal family and most of the government are actually evil reptile-men who wear human skin and fly UFOs out of their secret antarctic base which is actually a hole in the ground which leads inside the planet, where their civilization flourishes under the watchful gaze of Hitler (who is an immortal raptor-man). At least that’s what the guy who does furniture repair in his garage told me when my parents had a chair fixed by him.
Does that mean that Barack Obama is actually also a lizard man that works for Hitler?
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Of course he isn’t. He’s a double-agent secretly working for the crab people in order to stop the complete raptor people infestation of Earth and secure this world for their own nefarious uses. The British crown are defectors from the raptor people who have arranged all this.
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Well, they seem to be taking their lead from this nutter: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_LaRouche
I’d be laughing hard, if it weren’t for the fact that some people believe this crap.
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One of the best things about the site is how quickly you can stumble across this piece titled Has Your Neighbor Been Brainwashed About Lyndon LaRouche.
They wear their insanity proudly on their sleeve.
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A few years ago one of their election policies was to build a bridge to Indonesia.
Like, an actual bridge.
I wanted them to win just to see them do it
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Oh wow
The murray darling plan is “intentional genocide, no matter how you look at it” and due to the reductions in water provided for irrigation will cause the deaths of 6 billion people world wide.
Oh and Obama is drones to kill US citizens, and the green factists are going to turn out entire continent back to wilderness. This is known beyond any margin of doubt
In this state of emergency we must unleash the power of CAPS
RUN FOR THE HILLS, WE ARE DOOMED, DOOMED I SAY
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Kind of humid in Brisbane, turned on the air con for the first time since January and my cats went nuts for it.
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I don’t know if my aircon even works. Might have to talk to the landlord about that one, the remote is rather wonky.
Still, I just have the windows open and a fan pointed at me. Does the trick.
Aside from times where I have to leave the comfort of my chair, of course.
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Age++ today.
I think I’ve reached the point now where I basically don’t want this day to happen any more. I feel like I’ve been wasting my life and gotten absolutely nowhere. 🙁
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There will not be any cake sadly. I’m trying to unfat myself.
And did the family dinner thing on Tuesday already. Unfortunately my birthday and my Dad’s birthday are less than a week apart (I was actually originally due to be born on his birthday, but I was late)
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I grade you 5/10 for your style, if only for the fact that the code variables are understandable. Where are the indents, man, the indents!!!!?!??
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You’re using spoonerims.
Only I’m allowed to use the spucking foonerisms for birthday messages. With the excpetion of blaghmangs. UNLESS YOUR BLAGHMANGS IN DISGUISE?!?!?!?interrobang!??!?!?!
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STL TR1. Greatest lazy-man programming library.
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when/if you find out do let me know, I’ve tried just about everything.
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We shall never know…
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&&&&&&&Oops. That didn’t work.
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            Test?
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Thank god we’re on page 14 now and no-one will see these failures.
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And I told Harli you could be a doctor. Oh the shame I have brought on my house….
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Nawww forget thinking too much, you can do that tomorrow. Today is cake day! Happy brithdaaaay!!
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i think you’ve successfully created a real life version of Frankenstein’s Monster… except this is Sughly’s Monster… IT’S ALIVE… IT’S ALIIIIIIIVE
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Science has proven that having too many birthdays can be fatal.
However, happy birthday good sir!
Happy birthday, man. I agree shut off the ‘ol noggin. For two years running now on my b/day I sit mindlessly in front of the TV eating snacks watching Serenity.
1st December, 1420, according to Wikipedia Henry V entered Paris.*
In honour of this event, I hope you get lucky too.
Happy Birthday, -0! Go get ’em, you old scallywag!
(* I know right!? Turns out she’s been a whore since way back when..!)
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Shag Dr. Pepper’s daughter?
(Which if my knowledge of Dr. Pepper lore is correct, was the wife of the guy who founded Dr. Pepper)
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Happy birthday! Uh…
I don’t have time to doodle anything.
You may appreciate this. http://media.photobucket.com/image/recent/cronotriggr/StickArtWIP3.jpg
If not, sorry 🙁 Hope you have a FUN day!
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I am sorry i was sleeping in your bed, i went out to see the sunrise off your glass room. A creeper saw me i didn’t see it. It blew me up and killed the windows. I didn’t have any materials to fix it either because i didn’t have my own house!
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Its okay Rocketman. *noogies you* I forgive you because its you. Also a lot of people have been sleeping in my bed recently, I don’t know why.
Probably should Trjn proof this but oh well.
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i will repay my debt i will built a glorious extension onto your house. made of dirt and wood!
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and then go back to playing minecraft?
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HA! Great call Pixel.
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I think this combination of self-awareness and laziness could become truly wonderful.
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At least you don’t insult people who jsut want to join in on the fun. Man Nos must hate me, not that i blame him it was a pretty big douche move. Wh7y don’t you guys stop me geez stevo and blaghs!
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What, no apology for kicking me?
Blaghsy was right; I went off into my room and had a sob afterwards.
Mostly because Chaos Witch Quelaag kept lava’ing me. I just don’t know how to beat her. -
i won’t apologize to you ever.
But sorry Bish, i was kind of getting tired and impatient at that point. We won by them surrendering then i was stuffed and fell asleep while leaving my computer on!
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Think about it, without me, you guys wouldn’t have been matched up with them.
#helping and #winning
It’s not “hate”, it’s just that if there’s a chunk missing out of somewhere, or something’s been flooded, or something’s been lava’d, or something’s been penised, scientific studies have shown that 113 out of 97 times, it’s been done by you.
I think you’re making those numbers up.
For the last time, I didn’t ‘penise’ those sheep! I was just helping them through the fence!
O_O
Last night I convinced Sughly to track down and watch Primer.
Everyone else should too. I want to see some minds asplode.
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I’m not sure, but I do know of a way to find out!
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If brains tasted like mango our species would be in a spot of bother…
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You could just eat regular mango like i have been.
#perks of living in North Qld and having fruit and vegie farmers as friends.
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That’ll make your brain taste even sweeter…
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I think I accidentally a word there.
Oh well, it actually works as a meta-example now. Although it should probably be slightly out of order with repeated bits as well if I really wanted it to work as a meta-example.
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This video did the rounds with a bunch of my friends from uni. One of our professors, who’s about 70, always had a cup of tea with him. It wasn’t unusual for him to duck out mid-lecture to refill.
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i got a cure for that…
it’s called COFFEE…
you should try it… if at first it doesn’t work, drink some more… if you heart starts to hurt and you can’t lift you left arm, do not be alarmed, it’s just a small Cardiac Arrest, to fix this, swap to drinking coffee with your right arm and it will go away…
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trust me… i’m in IT-
I have a can of V in my bag, but I don’t really feel well, so I’m not sure if I should drink it….
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51aHb_U8Zr0&feature=related
You can all thank me for ruining your lives later XD
I think someone changed the elevator buttons in the lobby of our building some time between now and when I arrived this morning. I swear they were different earlier. But I’m not certain and it’s making me feel nervous.
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…oh god! They’re REPLICATING!
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Does anyone else feel kinda sorry for Sughly’s creepy postman?
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I’d wear a creepy postman shirt instead. Weird people out o_o
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Darn tootin’.
I’d buy several. One for every work day.
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You hear that Sughly?!
PAYING CUSTOMERS!!!
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I’m thinking creepy face on front, running away on back?
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What? What are you guys trying to say, I dont understand
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Not Safe for Sanity:
http://www.comicsalliance.com/2011/11/30/akira-movie-synopsis-ken-watanabe/
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Every bit of news about that… thing.. makes me die inside a bit more.
I’d challenge that article’s assertion that Akira is “the most iconic Japanese film ever released in the West” though. Not when there’s films like Seven Samurai or Rashomon out there. Most iconic animated film, maybe.
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McDonalds is the most iconic fast food chain in the world.
It may not be the healthiest or most critically acclaimed. It may not be studied by culinary students. It is the most iconic.
In that respect I think Akira is the most iconic Japanese film released in the West. It’s the most recognisable in an out of the mainstream. Seven Samurai may be highly regarded amongst film buffs and fans of the genre, and in that context it may be considered the most iconic, but I still say Akira is the most iconic overall. -
I’m with NegativeZero on this one. Just sayin!
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Well I’m with Flu.
If you show someone a still of Toshiro Mifune in Seven Samurai and a still of Kaneda from Akira I’d put money on most people recognizing the Akira one.
I could be wrong.
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This.
Iconic doesn’t mean the best, just the most widely-recognised representative.
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You know what’s funny?
They could have made this movie under a different name, never mentioned it’s ties to Akira, and everyone would have liked it because it would be seen as a western homage to Akira instead of a bastardization of it.
Tonight is either going to be a Starcraft night or a Magicka night.
I have the new DLC for Magicka, so if we get 4 people together we can get some madness going (only the host needs it and I’m more than willing to host). Might even try recording it all, just because we can.
If that doesn’t work, I’ll be doing my placement matches in Starcraft or playing with whoever else shows up… or both! What a shocking concept.
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I’ve got Magicka, thought I don’t think I’ve installed/patched Starcraft 2 since I last formatted, so Magicka is my vote, I haven’t played it since it came out when it was all buggy and stuff.
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I’ve never encountered a single bug in Magicka ever.
I have encountered multiple bugs simultaneously though. Seriously glitchy game, but so much fun!
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I am keen for a bit of magicka but i want to play some LoL and minecraft as well. I am kinda keen to record it as well. I have Fraps but i will have to download handbrake to combine it.
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I want to get Xsplit working, so this would be a nice test. Just need to get the settings right.
And possibly double my RAM. Why have 8gb when I can have 16?
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I don’t understand what you’re trying to say but judging by the second syllable, I assume you mean Starcraft? :p
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Wait, I think I still managed to screw that up.
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This is a power only available to those who have been exposed to the pure horrors the internet can contain.
I have seen the pain series. I have witnessed hello.jpg and tubgirl. My mind has been broken and the fractured pieces pulled back together into something almost whole.
Once you go through that, working out how to triforce is pretty simple.
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Tubgirl…
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… I’ll marry her one day.
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I was just trying to get a ‘proper’ fixed-width based triforce because even with the proportional-width ones, it looks lopsided when rendered here :/
Another try…
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The spacing between lines makes it pretty much impossible to get it right, you can really only be close enough.
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I meant the top one appearing central with respect to the two bottom ones – the spaces in between lines is pretty much a constant afaik.
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damn wordpress, stripping out my ‘pre’ tag ಠ益ಠ
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…what DO they say?
Many things, mostly derogatory.
Oh you mean about triforces? That newfags can’t do them.
Make a work related call to someone called Fiona, as they pick up the phone my mobile makes this noise.
It’s a text message from my friend Fiona, offering cake.
I believe some stars may have aligned to make this happen. Actually, I don’t believe that but I do know that after work I’ll be dropping by Fi’s place to get some cake.
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Someone else has this phone noise makery thingy!
It’s either What or Pez, I think.
You guys are Power Rangers??? Is that why they went up to Brisbane, to check if your mechs still slotted together for maintenance and stuff?-
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For whatever reason, my computer doesn’t have the middle character of your emote. The result is rather odd.
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HOLY SHIT!
If you’ve seen The Machinist click this link! (even if not, click anyway)
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i had a japanese exchange student named Yuki who had another slightly smaller pointer finger instead of thumbs. he could handle doing everthing fine, he also dominated me at tekken on ps1 and got me really into games lol
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I worked with a guy with two thumbs on one hand.
Where he came from it was a symbol of luck and imminent wealth (or something), so he flaunted it a bit.
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My woodwork etacher at school had the same hand-toe thing.
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Sometimes I wonder, if I was to lose a part of my leg, like from the knee down, that I’d have someone make a prosthetic leg that looked awesome. Like a Gundam leg or something.
Then I think to myself that I should just be grateful that I have two legs that work just fine and go about my day.
It seems my uni has decided to block Kotaku au. Now what am I going to occupy my time with when I should be learning?
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Might check with some of the smarter dudes in here. I could be unkowingly luring you into a trap.
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My workplace blocks Kotaku, sadly also appears to block ninjacloak. Oh well, I just fire up the wireless network card they gave me. Hopefully they don’t monitor it’s data usage…
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Hooray!
i’m back from 4 nights of totally legal underage drinking!
yaaaay!
is skyrim still cool? please tell me it is!
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Why is it when you register your Club Nintendo code, it makes me want to bang my head against a solid wall?
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The registration process for those things is Nintendo Hard.
I’ve told them many times how old I am, yes I buy all my games, YES I’VE PLAYED PREVIOUS GAMES IN THE ZELDA SERIES (OTHERS OF WHICH I’VE ALREADY REGISTERED), AAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHH!
Dear TAY <3,
So… my two year old laptop is being evil and probably dying/asploding.
I wanted ('needed') a new one for SWTOR anyway, but since I'm a trembling nweborn foal when it comes to technology and partz, I thought I'd ask Kotaku's GLORIOUS PC MASTER RACE for halp.
I'm looking for a mid-range laptop with a good processor and graphics card, essentially. Ideally under $1000, and I wouldn't be doing any graphics-intense gaming (well, that isn't SWTOR). Is this possible?
But I'll probably be buying it in February, in case there's something awesome and new out then (I dunno, new graphics card releases or something?) or even cheaper old stuff.
Thanks!
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HP DV6-6146TX. Quad core i7, 8gb RAM standard, 2gb 6770M GPU (as opposed to others which have a 540M, the 6770 has faster dedicated memory and ends up being better performance) 640gb HDD, Bluray. Goes for around $999.
HP’s build quality isn’t astounding though, don’t play with it on a soft surface like a bed or anything or it’ll overheat.
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Thanks, that’s actually really helpful!
If I wanted to slightly tone the specs down in favour of it running a bit cooler (since I’ve had trouble even with this old laptop overheating on soft surfaces), is that also possible?
But that does look great for the price, it’s at least good to know approximately what I’d be getting in that price range.
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Nope, the i5/i7 just runs hot as a general issue, and GPUs are always hot.
If you’re waiting for February you might be in time to get some of the first run of Ivy Bridge processors, which are a die shrink of the current Intel line and will run cooler.
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i know people turn their noses up at them, but Acer has actually picked up their game the last 12 months and their support is great compared to the others… Toshiba has always just kinda been there… ASUS support is HORRIFIC… -
I had an Acer years ago and it was an absolute workhorse. Ran it basically to death. They might have had a quality blip but for lower end they’re generally quite decent IMO.
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I had an Asus monitor which worked perfectly. My Acer one need repairing 3 times before they replaced it.
I would go with Asus myself (bought my mother in EEE seashell for Christmas) but it all depends on what you want.
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i mean that only really matters if something does break, and i’m not saying it’s going to… but i would put my money in acer at the moment, solid build quality, fast, efficient and somewhat knowledgeable support, and i think they look perrrty… especially their Timeline X series… -
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my theory is that the ASUS support team consists of one guy, which is distributed a bag of funny coloured mushrooms and some weed at the start of his shift and his only duty is to say “Azzuuzz zzupppporrt AdamzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
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Hey, at least he’s located in Australia, right?
Actually the sales team weren’t that great. They couldn’t tell me who sold what colours where. =/ Basically it was trying and find it myself because only a few people sold the coloured ones and only of certain types. Luckily I found a nice purple one in Myer quite cheap as they were getting in new stock.
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I picked up an Acer Aspire 5742G earlier this year, and I was using it for gaming while my desktop was being rebuilt, and it performed a hell of a lot better than I thought, it was running Space Marine on high settings (granted at a relatively low resolution, but still)
The build quality in my mind is kinda average… The laptop on the whole is put together well, but the screen and surrounds flex quite a bit when you’re lifting the lid.
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Guess who just fixed his computer keyboard and can finally post something this week?
HINT: It’s me
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That’s because they’ve been bleeding money for months, which is, I assume, the reason they decided to start showing those BFF access things, brought to us by Clean and Clear or whatever. Man, those ads were annoying, they told me that shells were in or something, and that I should accessories with feathers. Feathers? Really? What next, 80s shoulder pads?
Where was I again?
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Yeah the day I tried to watch a Yahtzee vid and was greeted by an loud ad for women’s hygiene products was the day I stopped visiting their site.
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Anyone else watch that great Queen doco on ABC2 last night…? it has made me all Queen mad… listening to A Night at the Opera…
What’s your favourite gaming music? do you play a special mix or just listen to to SFX or tracks on the game? I sometimes mix it up and put music on soft with the SFX on higher…
I posted this on twitter, but:
EVERYONE THAT’S STILL AWAKE! Big W will be selling Rayman origins CE for $78! Today only! http://www.bigw.com.au/Offer/BigGameBargains
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Didn’t see this. So yeah, as below my connection died from 12am to 7am. During my entire off-peak period. I’m going to complain to TransACT today as it’s the second time this week.
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dammit why does it have to be so hard to get into UNI. i have to submit a portfolio of my works -.- i dont even own a freaking camera hence why i came to you guys!!! i must be doing it wrong
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You’re wanting to get into some filmy thing, right? Film studies, or something along those lines(I know you mentioned it, but my memory is like a sieve made of paper)?
So, get a camera from somewhere, put everything in black and white, shoot at a dutch angle, using either extreme high or low angle shots, and make the whole thing not run entirely in real time(slightly slower or faster). Intersperse shots of static environs(maybe some of the graffiti around Civic, some of it’s pretty cool) with nature (a tree, blowing in the wind), and then have some shots of people doing whatever it is that people do.
If the portfolio is asking for static images, then just do what I said above, but remove the time element.
Congratulations, you’ve just passed filmic wankery 101, any further studies should be undertaken under the tutelage of DAN!
(Dear DAN!, I just wish to say that I am not meaning to imply that I think you follow the ideas of filmic wankery, but simply that you are very knowledgeable about the field, and so would be a better person to listen to than me when it comes to cinematography.
As a side note, I had to explain what a Foley artist was the other day in Teamspeak, I hope you can understand the heart-wrenching pain I felt when I realised that not everybody has an extremely shallow degree of knowledge stretched across an excessively large number of areas.)
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best explanation of film wankery 101 ever.
im not into making indie or the arthouse stuff. if you love artsy/indie films no offence. i can watch it, but i would be terrible at it because i would probly be laughing the whole time.
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My internet died AGAIN last night. 12am to 7am it was down with no explanation at all. Sorry for leaving the game of LoL last night :'(
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I would have gone insane without internet for that long!
It was a close game anyway but we eventually won (although made some scary fuckups on the way).
Morning all! There’s something about starting a day with a good coffee, and planning to end it with a night of drink and gaming/scrubs/??? that makes Friday pretty great.
Also, Terraria’s huge update has been released. Yet another game to add to my list of things I SHOULD be playing. Any other TAYbies have it?
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Pretty much all of us have it. We had a phase for a while. I have sunk like 20-30 hours into it. Then i got a phaseblade and i was like meh i cant do any better than a lightsaber!
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Cools. Well, if this update turns out to make the game as epic as it sounds, we may need a TAY server 😛
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with your track record of jumping in other peoples beds in MC makes me concerned about your plans for ??? tonight
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Dagnabbit, my tooth is still hurting.
Well, maybe not the actual tooth, but the gum around the tooth.
Still hurts though.
Stupid wisdom tooth.
If you is so wise, why you hurt so much.
Stupid wisdom tooth.
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Barbarians don’t need wisdom… get Clubby to take a look at it, i’m sure he’ll be obliged to help
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It’s called a wisdom tooth, cause it knows that (as a barbarian) you feed off pain. It’s trying to throw you into a bloodlust.
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It’s working.
*starts frothing at the mouth*
IT’S WORKING!
AAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
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You need my help? I can operate. Let me get my trusty scalpel.
Woops.
*Let me get my rusty scalpel.
Don’t worry! I can do this blindfolded! And drunk!
Which is lucky, because I am HAMMERED! I may also be high on something. I’m not blindfolded, but it’s cool. I’ll just shut my eyes real tight. I won’t cheat.
I may fall asleep though. First, lets use some anna… Aniesth… Make-Pain-Go-Away stuff.
Lets be fair. One for you, one for me.
Ahh… So, what were we doing again? An amputation of something, right? A limb? Hahahah… So drunk…
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To anyone thinking of playing the magicka DLC i will advise you.
DONT DO IT IF YOU WANT TO STAY SANE.
We played for about a hour and a half last night and between the insanely difficult and obnoxious boss fights and the stupidly difficult puzzles that we couldn’t figure out. We pretty much had to cheat the game with trjns character to get anywhere. It seemed less about fun and more about torture. Still there was some really funny shit happening. Much funnier if you would have been watching rather than playing!
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While I appreciate the warning, this make me want to play it MORE! 😀
I’ll have to grab some of the updated Magicka content sometime. Last thing I grabbed was ‘Nam.
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Seeing as I recorded all two hours of it, I imagine that the opportunity for people to watch instead of play will come up. I’ll be doing a highlights package once we finish the DLC and we will finish it!
It’s hard, the only magicks we had were chain lightning and portal, neither of which we managed to really use effectively.
It’s probably designed so that people use the Detective Robe. So the stuff we struggled with (aside from Cthluhlu, he’s a dick) may have been easier with that. On the other hand, Smoke Bombs are awesome. There’s a reason I always use those robes. Teleporting on a whim and running faster than everyone else are both huge advantages to staying almost alive.
Until you fall down some stairs and die.
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O_O !
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*pushes Steve-O aside to hi5 Bish*
YO CUZ! I scored some fully unwell hektik rims the other night! Skyrims!
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*fistbumps the hi5*
Fully unwell, mayte!
You know you can visit a Shrine to remove your ailments, ey?
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Bish been leaving the odd comment here and there…
i guess Tech Knight when into Hibernation? maybe got a buffer overload from all Christmas related shenanigans? or god forbid he tried to dualboot windows again and are missing his MBR? -
I dunno about Bish, but I spoke with TechKnight the other evening, and he refuses to come back to TAY after the whole LoL incident last week. He feels like he was being personally attacked and said he felt just like he did at school when he was being picked on by the bullies 🙁 I tried to explain that none of it was in any way directed purely at him, but he doesn’t seem to care. He said he will be around on Steam and Teamspeak, but he wont be coming back here anymore 🙁 Poor TK.. you will be missed!
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Well then, I’ll jump on TS and give him a big verbal man-hug, and all will be well. I’ll bring him back.
I’LL BRING ALL OF YOU BACK! *shakes fist*
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i missed all of last week so all i hear is the horror stories told under the blankets with a torch, but wow must have been a shitstorm…
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man that’s fked. I’ve spoken to some other people over the last few wks who also refuse to come back to TAY anymore for various reasons… its kinda sad.
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He wasn’t being picked on, LoL was being picked on and he got all defensive and blew it out of proportion and turned it into a shitstorm. And then to pretend like he was listening to everyone’s concerns but all the while he was just spiralling down into an “everyone against me” mentality. This is fucked up.
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Gotta go with Strange on this one. No-one personally attacked anyone else. When I first joined here I was a bit intimidated by how well everyone got along, I kinda felt like Sughly’s Postman, standing outside, looking in.
And admittedly I was fairly defensive. Perhaps comments were misconstrued or whatever, that’s not important. What’s important is that no-one here should have any reason to feel bullied or like they can’t be on here. I’m sorry if this comes across as harsh but the real world isn’t nice and doesn’t care about feelings. People will always disagree on things. The beauty of TAY is that when we disagree, we can be civil, if not friendly about it.
For example, Shane and myself disagree on which Stephen King book is his best, although I don’t agree with him, I don’t think he felt ostracized either by my disagreement. TAY is a community, with many peoples thoughts, ideas and emotions. If people feel the need to ‘not come back’ because people disagree with them, then you have a lot to learn about the real world.
I’d like this whole LOL debate to be put to rest and TAY move along. Whether people hop off the TAY wagon is up to them. However it would be a shame were they to do so over a misunderstanding.
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that’s just it, everyone has an opinion and are entitled to it… the difference from TAY to everywhere else on the intertubes is that here we can actually have a civil conversation, poke a bit of fun but still respect each others opinions… i have always enjoyed being able to air my views, get some criticism and discuss rather then it boils down to “lololol u suckz for hazzing a opinion that varies from my own noob”
keep it up
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Except Pixel, he sucks 😛
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*sobs*
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also *sobs*
*inappropriate hugs*
I’m sorry man!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2ewsEKVJVA
with the inappropriate fondling we may as well get 2 and go nuts….
…watch the clip and it’ll make sense…
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STOP STARING AT ME… I’M A VIKING… IT’S COLD IN WINTER TIME
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You assume too much.
The truth* is that I went home and cried for seventeen hours and forty-five minutes.
*Truth is subjective’
‘subjective in this case means untrue
You did didn’t you? You totally did, I can tell!
*Self High 5*
You say that Splicer, but I’d like to know how the other LoL players felt about the whole thing.
So would I, please, share your thoughts…
This whole LOL thing is still brewing along under the surface so what better time to get everything out in the open and get it resolved once and for all…
It initially annoyed me that people were upset about the LoL talk. Just don’t read it? Like all the other posts not everyone cares about?
But it highlighted that there was a problem and the friendliness of the community is more important.
#my2c
Thanks Jo 🙂
I’m pretty much the same as Jo. Also, I feel like even though everybody apologised and put it all behind us etc. that a lot of the LoL players are now very wary of what they write in regards to the game.
Don’t think a single thread has started up about it this week? Coincidence? Or something.. more sinister??
Sinister? Or something more coincidental??
Was it the PunishingHand = Masturbation comments?
Good memory lol
I’m putting another call out to Brisbane people (or anyone else for that matter) who are thinking to join DAN! and myself for some gaming/booze/hotpot this weekend! I’d like to get a better idea of numbers so I know how much food to buy! 😉
Either post here, or email me at dondalinger at hotmail.
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OMG!! i KNOW THIS SONG, I didn’t know it was from Deliverance!!! I’ve been curious about this movie ever since you guys spoke of it during the Meats.
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Search youtube for Deliverance (Squeal like a pig).
That is all.
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How did you not know this was from Deliverance!?!?!?!
Oh man, disappointed…
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ouch.
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so here’s what you do… you meet up there, we meet up here, we start a video conference and it’s like it’s one giant PAAARTY!
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yes?
no?
oh well worth a try 😛
I’d love to but I don’t think I could get away with leaving D alone with the kids again so soon. 🙁
Can someone please tweet the real FatShady to let him know the Minecraft server is down? Cheers.
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I’m not interesting enough to be on the twitter-verse. Also, I have far too many distractions at work as it is.
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well I wouldn’t claim to be “interesting enough” but it is a great way to keep up with news and see what other people are talking about! do it. doooooooooo it. don’t make me use my level 10 persuasion skills on you.
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its like facebook…but more interesting people, faster, less shitstorms (iblametextlimit), less family and more accessability to people who are famous (if your into that sort of thing).
i have it but i have posted 3 times i think….lol
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THANKS CHRIS!!!
Been slowing compiling a list of music I need to grab (or re-grab) for the last week. Spiderbait’s early stuff is definitely going on the list 😀
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that collaboration band Happyland (Regurgitator and Spiderbait) was excellent. Love it so much
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It’s funny, i’m not actually the real postman that’s been haunting TAY. I just kicked this around this morning, hence the gravatar failure 🙁
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so what you’re telling me ZOMG THE POSTMAN ARE NOW STEALING OTHER PEOPLES IDENTITIES?
WHAT’RE WE EVER GOING TO DO?
CAPS
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Hahaha, I was speed skimming through TAY but this one was hard to miss. I want to, I want to! But… not sure where the best place to do it is. I feel like it kind of looks a bit… lame to have it up on redbubble or something. Ideally I’d love to do my own shirts, which is something I looked into at one point and would still like to do when I have the moneys for getting my own press and whatnot.
Suggestions/thoughts?
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http://au.tv.yahoo.com/sunrise/video/-/watch/27438695/video-games-alter-the-brain-study/
urgh. . . you know what. . . screw it, let them continue on with their goddamn fear mongering. let’s not mention how goddamn bias this segment is or the fact that they claim that every school shooting in the United States has been caused by violent video games, even the ones that occurred before video games even existed. . .
/headdesk
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I’d have to say yes. They are the minority. Because I don’t know many female gamers. Maybe I mix with the wrong people.
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specify “gamer”…
Hardcore gamers i’d say is a minority, but if you include every person that plays casually, angrybirds/farmville etcetc then i’d say no.
my partner plays the occasional game with me, from LEGO games to Halo, and sometimes Diablo, however i would not classify her as a gamer cause it doesn’t happen on a regular basis… -
An educated guess is yes, but it feels like most people (in my opinion) would say they’re like 15% of gamers. Maybe they were 15 years ago, but now, I’d say they’re probably 35% at a minimum.
I still love getting my partner to jump on my mic while I’m playing a game (particularly TF2) and watch the general reaction. Many people still can’t seem to handle “a girl on the server”, despite them being a pretty common thing.
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After reading Pixel’s post, I feel I should specify. I’m looking at games/gamers as a whole; that is, including casual and non-casual.
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I know less female gamers than male gamers. In terms of what gender plays more games. I have to say it’s probably males. But not by as much as people would think.
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I know a few girls who are avid gamers, but I only found out that they were after knowing them for years. Maybe it’s an isolated case but it seemed like they were trying to hide it, as if being labeled a ‘gamer’ would render them as outcasts to society.
Then again, where I live it probably would.
Anyways my point is I think there are still more male gamers than female, but the difference is exaggerated as females aren’t as comfortable as males are publicizing it.
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From what some female gamers that I know have told me, they’re generally not up front with that sort of stuff purely to avoid dealing with the response they get, both online and real life.
This shifts when it’s someone they know well enough. Purely an assumption, but I think it comes down to respect. When you know someone well enough, you’re less likely to make a big deal out of it (and therefore alienate them by labelling them as “different” based on their gender).-
Wow this revelation sort of surprises me, that they’d feel the need to hide it. Thanks for sharing.
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To be honest, I really hated it when they said it. What was even worse was that I understood exactly why they did hide it.
This WAS a few years back, and I think the stigmata that comes with being a “female gamer” (that term is starting to annoy me…we’re all just gamers) has reduced. Still has a long way to go, though. -
Sorry, I didn’t quite catch your point over all that sarcasm, Sir Eats-a-lot :p
Oddly enough, this reminds me of the time on a private RO server where I caused huge drama between the two largest guilds by playing as Ms. Jellopy (female priest sprites > male priest sprites). Oh the hilarity.
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haha for the record, I only adopted the alias “Sir Eats-a-Lot” because I planned to troll a lot and wanted to protect my identity for future trolling purposes. As you can see that backfired magnificently when I discovered how nice the KotAU community is.
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And then you became our janitor… :p
I’ve definitely encountered a few female gamers who have hidden their gender simply because of the unwanted attention. Which kind of feels like a self-fulfilling prophecy.
People assume that female gamers are rare, guys go crazy when they think they’ve encountered one of these rare beasts in the wild, female gamers hide their gender to avoid the unwanted attention, leading people to assume that female gamers are rare :p
Speaking in rather broad strokes, of course.
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Well a lot of the time when you’re playing online you simply assume that the other person behind that name-tag is also a man – I confess that is what I believe all the time. I believe it’s the general mentality that they remain a man until they prove otherwise. So it could be that you don’t really know how many other females you’ve encountered online in games!!
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Yup.
Every faceless, anonymous person you encounter is assumed to be a white male aged between 18 and 35 until you have been given evidence to believe otherwise. There has to be a name for this effect because I see it in action all the time.
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huh i automatically expect them to be 12 and wear their hat the wrong way around when i first bump into them… i guess that helps for when i realise who they actually are i get less disappointed 😛
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@ Trjn: Exactly, mans. Exactly ;P
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Judging by Rocketman’s reaction, I’d say Bish :p
If this doesn’t already have a real name, we should call this the Tucker effect. In reference to a joke in one of the later seasons of Red vs Blue where Church finds out that Tucker’s first name is Lavernius, which leads to jokes about Church not realising Tucker was black.
And also not knowing his first name after being team mates that lived together for several years.
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Yes.
A large and rather quiet minority, but still a minority. As long as we’re not including those Facebook and Flash games that my middle-aged female co-workers play occasionally (because then everyone is a gamer).
A lot of the marketing for games is targeted towards guys, which no doubt serves as a means to exclude some women simply because they get the feeling that it’s not “for them”. Similarly, you still have women who dislike sports because it’s a “guy thing”., which is based on similar reasoning.
Based largely on anecdotal evidence (so my own group of friends), there are a lot of female gamers who simply keep to themselves about it. In my writing group (largely female) almost everyone owns an Xbox and plays it to some extent. In the group of friends that I went to high school with (about a 50-50 split), only one of the girls would be classified as a gamer.
So I imagine that the reason that there are still girls out there who don’t play games may just be because they’re assuming that they don’t or won’t enjoy it, which is less common among guys.
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Also because games that are made specifically with girls in mind would have to have ponies, and ponies are imba :p
Even though I loathe the idea of gender targeted marketing for things that really shouldn’t be gender exclusive, ponies are still imba.
Can’t believe I forgot to throw that in my initial response.
Yes.
I grew up playing in footy club and other sporting clubs that had female netballers and hockey players and tennis (and the like) that I counted as my friends (approx 100). I would say i know of 3-5 that play pc games regularly and around 1/4 own or use a console.
If you put that into context with the 100 footballers-tennis-bball hockey players that i also counted as my friends, approximately 1/3 would be pc gamers, and nearly all own a console of some description.
games as in that shit i mean stuff on facebook and things like angry birds on tablets and phones: even steven (possibly more females…just because every facebook game i get an invite too comes from a female member of my fb)
games as in console based: 60-40 to males… my general idea maybe more
games as in PC based: 70-30 to males again, again nothing to back it up but general gist of things.
I dislike the notion that you gain more attention/ridicule for being a member of the fairer sex because its “so rare”. It doesent matter who you get beaten by all that matters is that you lost so learn from it work through what you did wrong and mostly GL;HF.
I’m sure I read somewhere recently that female gamers make up 40-something per cent… so barely a minority. (Or maybe it was the other way around, that male gamers are the 40-something per cent)
Either way, I would say not a true minority in the spirit in which the word is generally intended.
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I read that 40% somewhere too, but I think it also accounted for the games aimed at a casual market i.e. solitaire
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might boil down to social status,
i know a few females who are, but hated being labelled as, nerds…
while i’m perfectly happy and take a bit of pride in calling my self a nerd, because i really don’t give a fudge about what people think when it comes to that, where as it seems some females (i say some cause i can only speak from personal experience and i hate being duck into a hole) hate being stereotyped like that -
I love it how they have determined that. As I imagine alot of it has to do with the profiling of where and who buys games in the studies undertaken.
If it is a retail buying habits study, all that means is there will be a skew towards females from what i would consider a true reflection, as they tend to do more shopping in the places where game shops are located.
This includes mothers buying for sons and girlfriends/wives buying for their partner.
Don’t get me wrong, there are a lot of girl gamers as is witnessed by this blog, but i get very sketchy when the culture about games tends to be largely male oriented and the sales statistics say otherwise.
Wow, I must be the only one here to say No.
Unless there is a clear definition on the term “gamer”, I take it to mean anyone playing any type of “video game” format.
Nearly every single female friend and casual acquaintance I know plays some sort of game, be it a casual iPhone game or *shudder* facebook game all the way up to multiplayer fanatic.
While supposed “true gamers” like to dismiss facebook games, guess what people, they are still games, which makes the people playing them gamers.
So I say No, I don’t believe that, overal,l female gamers are a minority, unless you want to break it down into sections like consoles, computers, casual and avid players, then the stats may be different.
That is my two cents worth for the day, if you don’t like it… well…
*sticks tongue out then runs out of the room*
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I loathe the casual/hardcore gaming split and think that the terms are rather meaningless (often simply used as a means to disregard someone’ as “casual” by abusing poorly defined terms).
That being said, if you’re going to include all games then this discussion is pointless because everyone who has access to games of some description plays games of some description.
If you just narrow it down to someone who plays games as a means of entertainment instead of just to fill in time (which is really the point of those casual games), then I think it’s possible to have some sort of meaningful discussion.
If you narrow it down even further to those who just play competitively, you have can a different discussion as well.
Tangentially, why the hell do women and men compete in different golf tournaments? I can understand separating based on gender for things like basketball or swimming but golf seems odd.
The places my mind goes…
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I don’t see what the problem with the terms “hardcore gamer” and “casual gamer” is, to be honest. I see it simply as an easier means of identifying the different types of people who would slot themselves into the ‘gamer’ category. I mean, you can’t just lump everybody in and expect them all to be the same, right? From a purely competitive perspective, I use the terms to identify who has potential to be a good player and who isn’t. To me, it’s just a faster way of saying who are you are and makes thinks easier.
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It’s a poorly defined distinction that is often meaningless in discussion because there is no commonly accepted definition. People just seem to assume how they define the terms is how everyone defines the terms.
I get that there is a distinction, in the same way there is a distinction between a movie buff and someone who rocks up to see the latest Transformers movie for the explosions. But how you’ve defined it is different than how I’d define it (I prefer to go with someone who plays video games as their preferred medium) and that makes the term very hard to use in a meaningful discussion.
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But then how would you describe say, Moonglade as opposed to the person who plays the Sims once every few weeks? (not digging on the Sims, just a broad example here). I thought the term ‘casual gamer’ came to fruition as somebody who plays games casually.. or at least perceives their gaming habits as a casual thing themselves.
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For me, hardcore gamers are those that use gaming as their primary entertainment medium. So playing SC2 competitively and then occasionally dropping in for some Sims still fits that.
Similarly, someone who plays the Sims almost exclusively as their main source of entertainment would be a hardcore gamer under my definition.
So a casual gamer would be someone who mainly watches TV, reads books or watches movies for entertainment but will play games from time to time as well. Their approach to gaming is casual in the typical definition of the term.
Make sense?
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Crystal clear. I like this definition.
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That’s the problem with categorising things. The definitions change with time, and with each person. I remember some time ago “hardcore gamers” were considered mostly people who played FPSs but now people who play those are considered “mainstream” or even “casual” gamers in some quarters.
This is why I hate labels and genres.
I think it still perceived as a male dominated culture.
I’d say that they are still a minority, but a growing one.
Just look at the ratio in TAY. while not 100% indicative of the overall female gamer population, it does favour the male gamer as the more prevalent.
Personally, I hate the term “female gamer”. Surely you are a gamer no matter what’s between your legs. To imply there is a difference is to say that “Girl Gamers”, as a whole, dislike something a “Boy Gamer” would like. Like “Girls don’t like Skyrim” which is a stupid thing to assume.
There are girls who like gamestargeted towards the young male demographic. There are ones who laugh at the stupid misogynistic jokes. there are also the odd few who cry “Sexism” at the drop of a budweiser cap and think they deserve special treatment because they have a vagina, and there are myriad others in between. Same with guys. Except the vagina bit. Although I have no problems with a transgender with female equipment who identifies as a man. That’s cool. Just don’t think you’re special… At least, no more special than everyone else…
Gamers are gamers.
*Gets off the high horse* Any one else want a go?
Also, I have NOTHING against ponies! Small is cool too. I’m not sizeist…
*holds up shovel* Any one want this too? I’mma just keep digging if no one takes it…
Are female gamers a minority? Probably.
Are female gamers aa large a minority as the internet believes? Probably not
Does it matter? No, not in the slightest. By which I mean it doesn’t matter whether a gamer is male/female/alien/animal/vegetable/mineral. Not that it doesnt matter if they are a minority.
Whenever this subject comes up, I’m reminded of Kevin Butler speech at E3 last year. The main point is that we are all gamers, the other details just don’t matter. Our love of gaming should be strong enough to bring as all together, rather than make us look for other reason to drive us apart.
Yes. But not by much. And for the record (and without getting into a debate on what constitutes a “game”) I’m not including things like Angry Birds of Farmville.
I think a lot of females play games but they hesitate to call themselves “gamers”. For instance, my Mum loves and plays Tomb Raider and Prince of Persia among other things and my little sister loved to play all the Spyro games but neither would think of themselves as gamers. My older sister plays a huge variety of games but prefers to read books so she wouldn’t consider herself a gamer either.
I think of people playing games the numbers are fairly even, but of people who identify themselves as gamers, yes females are in the minority.
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Ha! “Angry Birds of Farmville” I think I just created a monster. I can almost taste the cashy moneys rolling in!
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i think this needs to be explored further… it should be an mmo… with the opportunity to attack other peoples farms, with the birds you’ve been breeding in yours… smell the monies
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Thank you everyone who wrote an answer to my question, whether long and detailed or short and succinct. I have read and re-read every single one. Thank you all for taking the time to respond to my curiosity, I appreciate the responses.
Thank god for the Taybies.
Of the five girls who work in my team three of them are gamers (as in, pre-order games for art books and back-stories etc).
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What’s with the weird epilepsy warning that comes up on the PS3 dashboard after the recent patch. What’s changed that they felt they need to add it?
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I think after the PSN hack Sony hired new legal fatcats to ensure as few people as possible sue them in the future. So they are just covering their asses.
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Yup. Not really that noticable or distracting, just weird is all. Speaking of updates I don’t know why I’m so excited about the impending 360 one. Maybe all this waiting for a Batman patch has broken me. hah.
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It’s also entirely possible that enough people have experienced seisures as a result of the XMB to warrant it.
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A lot of games have epilepsy warnings, usually in the manual (assuming they have one). Its just a precaution so they can say “Not our fault. See, look, we warned you” if someone does have a reaction.
As a general announcement, I’m keen to continue this male/female gamer topic. I just want to say that if anyone (male or female) gets offended, PLEASE bring it up politely, don’t fly off the handle. I understand that it can be a touchy subject for some, so speak up if something causes trouble.
Having said that, this is TAY. Everyone here is generally pretty good to each other 🙂
@sughly
Hey mate, any chance I can get a higher resolution picture of creepy postman for a t-shirt? If you don’t mind i’d like to get a shirt done with his image on it.
Let me know if it’s cool at:
PunishingHand(at)live.com.au
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Na, I have enough tattoos for now. I don’t have enough t-shirts though lol
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lol, always amuses me when people say “i have enough tattoos… FOR NOW”… does the FOR NOW mean that they expect to grow in overall surface area any time soon so that they can fit more? 😛
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i vote Postman, to cover the entire torso… that way you can take your shirt of and stare creepily at them… TWICE
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the eyes! they follow you around!
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Oh woah I cant keep up with the Splicer love! I just replied to your postman related shirt query above. Go up and see what I said and report back!
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Vistaprint will put any design on a t-shirt for a small charge. Seeingas how it’s a fairly simple picture(not heaps of detail), I reckon i’d get them to do it. If anyone else wanted one I could put in a bulk order…
http://www.vistaprint.com.au/t-shirts.aspx?xnav=LeftItem&xnid=_TShirts-
i recently used vista print, they actually do an awesome job… quick on delivery too, i was pleasantly surprised
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Hmmmmmmm… this is quite intriguing. Thanks for the info guys! And especially thanks for the postman love Splicer! I have to admit, he is a favourite creation of mine.
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But who watches the Postmen?
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When I was out shopping last night I chanced upon an essentials starter kit for playing Dungeons and Dragons, which my friends have been interested in taking a stab at for a few months (its the supposedly well known Red Box, or something). Looks like it could be good for a few Saturday night boredom relievers.
Anyone else ever played D&D or anything like it?
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i played a bit of D&D a while ago now, never got fully into it…
i’m still perplexed though… why would your friend want to stab it? i mean haters are going to hate but stabbing innocent starter kits?-
They have serious stabbing problems. I’m hoping that with this kit I can restrict their stabbing to their imaginations. If the box itself has to suffer for it, well, that’s okay.
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A friend gave me that for my birthday – its a nice introduction and pretty cool. I played DnD back in my school days too. its pretty good.
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NWN is actually a pretty great intro to basic DnD concepts (and Baldur’s gate, for some 2D action). Gets you to understand initiative, combat system, etc. It’s not 100% accurate, but’s it gets you started.
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Baldur’s Gate…
*swoons*i miss the miniature giant space hamster
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Boo!
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“Take heart fellow adventurers, for you have curried the favor of Boo, The only miniature giant space hamster in the Realm. My friend and companion ever since my h-h-head wound, he will lead us to victory! Onward to the Gnoll Stronghold to the west! Tarry not! We must go soon!”
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Back in the good ol university days.
Long before the Xbox or playstation 2, we had to entertain ourselves with pencils paper and strangely shaped dice.
Those were the days.
*shakes walking stick while complaining about kids on the lawn*
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all i read was:
“Back in the good ol university days.
Long before the Xbox or playstation 2, we had to entertain ourselves with penicls”which amused me greatly…
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Well that too.
What? I was an arts student and I had a lot of spare time on my hands.
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“on your hands” yep yep i get’cha… plus Uni… perfectly acceptable
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All I can say is Thank God phones didn’t have cameras back in those days.
Still, seeing as I only remember about 14 days out of 3 years, some record of what actually happened during those “lost years” might be nice. -
might be a film reel floating around somewhere with incriminating evidence… but for now you’re hazy yet fond memories of pink elephants and flying Hippo’s might have to satisfy you for now 😛
i mean i’d love to see what Clubby got up to in those years.. growing crazy hair cuts, being socially awkward, hitting on everyone… it’d be an awesome autobiography -
Actually, in my uni days I was hanging out with Bob the inflatable alien (hetro friend before any of you get any weird ideas… well it was uni… and it is the place for experimentation… wait where was I).
All the girls loved Bob.
I even got kicked out of my own room once by a couple of girls who wanted to spend time with Bob.
Lucky bastard would disappear for days at a time.
Always came back with different clothes on.
Lucky bastard.
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DnD is FANTASTIC! It’s always been seen as an “extreme nerd” thing to do, but it’s actually a fantastic social experience.
The main thing I fell in love with is the sheer freedom, compared to, say, a PC game. A simple example:
PC: You reach a town. There’s a store, an inn, and a blacksmith.
DnD: You reach a town. What do?
Man, I’ve been wanting to try playind DnD for soooo long, but I dont know where to start…. or who to play it with :'(
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Me too! I always remember thinking I would love to play it, but I didn’t know anyone who played and now I feel like it’s too late.
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I had a long response to this, but I cant be bothered at the moement.
Almost everybody plays games these days. The only difference is what type of games. For certain genres, eg FPS etc, I’d hazzard a guess that the majority of players within that genre are males.
I think the idea that the majority of gamers are male is an illusion. The games that get press are typically the big budget AAA titles that seem to be marketed toward males. So it’s understandable that the public perception would be that gaming is a predmominantly male hobby. This has similarities to another male past time. Which I could work into this discussion in a perfectly legitimate and relevant way, but I wont.
However, I’d be confident to say that overall, across all genres and platforms, the ratio of male to female would be pretty damn close.
that is all.
OK, who lives in Canberra and knows how to GM DnD 3.5 or 4? All this talk of it is reminding me of my DnD withdrawals…
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I still think one of the funniest moments in DnD was when a Dwarven Fighter failed a Fort. save and shit himself in fear, in the middle of a fight.
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at least he didn’t slip and die in his old feces
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Twas a glorious death! Speaking of which, did anyone ever look into setting up a MUD or whatever it was?
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Yeah that looked heaps sick.
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Not much, looking after my son a lot. The wife is working all weekend. Xmas BBQ with her mothers group on sunday. Ugh. They’re not gamers. At all. Not even *shudder* facebook games.
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seems like you’ll be wating time with the unconcious bit… you need to invent a primitive delivery system to cater for this during your down time
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Heaps of full sick shit, dawg.
Welbots on Saturday for chow and games and then Sunday lady time.
Also, Jack & Jill.
You all thought I was kidding.
But I’ll see it. I’LL SEE IT AND REPORT!
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Richard Wilkins gave Jack & Kill 2 stars. He only ever gives things between 3 and 5. How do you feel about this Dan?
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and where have you been? it’s seemed less energetic in here due to your absence 😛
in other words, Work not important, TAY is important
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Saturday – all day LAN comp!! Going to try and do some work later in the evening. Those reviews won’t write ’emselves.
Sunday – Going to the pool, possibly rock climbing.-
we seriously need a TAY cheerleader team to cheer you on… i imagine low cut shirts, skirts, pompoms… it’ll be glorious
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*takes away man card, then takes one from my own pile cause i realised i knew what you were referring to*
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You probably think that it’s a High School Musical reference (and I’m not giving up a man card for knowing that) but actually it’s a reference to TeamSpeak.
I renamed Private Chat 1, 2 and 3 to “Team 1”, “Team A” and “The Wildcats”.
Team 1 and Team A are Futurama references (from the Farnsworth Parabox) and The Wildcats is a reference to “Wildcats” being the most common team name to appear in American media (in The Simpsons there was a joke: “Who are we?” “The Wildcats!” “Who are we going to beat?” “the Wildcats!”).
High School Musical is just one of the many offenders in that regard.
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In hindsight, I should have kept the joke as just one reference and instead of The Wildcats gone with The Fighting Mongooses.
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*gives Stevo back mancard, takes an additional 2 off own pile for assuming it was a Highschool Musical reference*
*bursts out crying*
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Hey now, if you cry, they’ll just take away more man cards.
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*sobs*
fine take ’em, TAKE ‘EM ALL
*chucks man cards at Alexpants*
at least i still have these
*start cuddling nerd cards*
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Your tears taste of victory.
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Who are we? The Wildcats! Who are we going to beat? The Wildcats!
Aww, I didn’t refresh before replying *sadface*
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Chuloopa would be the the cheerleader captain,
Hugo would be responsible for choreography -
Step, pivot, twirl and don’t forget the spirit fingers people!
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I said `Step pause turn pause pivot step step’ not `Step pause turn pause pivot step pause’!
Hugo should be responsible for the uniform.
Revealing loin cloths for everyone!
this will only make the pivots and twirls all the more glorious… i’m sure it will lead Harli to victory
Either that or tights.
read “tights”
expected Mel Brooks…
Hugo always delivers
Awww shucks, but nope, Sughly always delivers.
I merely provide upon occasion.
I cant argue with chuloopas enthusiasm, but you haven’t DAN! or me dance yet! If they released dance central: cheerleader edition, we’d totally kill it! I’m sure elly would be a good candidate too! 😉 /me does the lightbulb!
mpw tjos O jave tp see!
wow touch type fail, *now this I have to see!
Woooow.
Sleazy hard-rock bands & beer tonight. Skyrim & Doctor Who for the ramainder of the weekend.
Speaking of which, I think any TAYbies who like sleaze and / or rock bands and / or beer and / or general shenanigans should make their way to the Roxbury in Glebe tonight.
Does anyone here own a NTSC SNES? One that takes the square cartridges instead of the rounded ones?
Hello guys, i have been doing way over my head stuff this morning. Using mapping programs and excel to plot GPS points. I have found out that i couldn’t even remember how to use excels formula function. Still learning stuff is more fun than taking insults all day. The data room is on the other side of the office so i got some peace.
In response to all this sexism talk, I have one thing to say…
hh is a complete and utter idiot. That is all.
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Haha, I dunno, not really if youre already aware that there are lots of ignorant idiots. But I have to say, Tracey’s blog on it all is not to be missed – http://zerolightseeds.wordpress.com/2011/12/01/its-not-just-one-joke-its-all-the-jokes/
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Troubling. This might sound a little cynical, but honestly I don’t have much faith in humanity as a whole bettering itself any time soon — as a big, whole collective I mean. There will always be descrimination. Always be hate. Always be apathy. That’s not excusing it or resigning myself to it, but still… can’t shake the feeling that humans inherently suck. I’d love to be proven wrong.
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I can’t remember who said it, but a great quote about people as a collective:
People are bastard coated bastards with a rich bastard filling.
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SCRUBS!
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No I know how you feel. It’s on a much less significant scale of course, but I get a similar perspective of things when it comes to cinema. Sounds like a far reach but hear me out.
I’m so over the comments I get when it comes to films and my appreciation of good filmmaking. Some of my older friends are so quick to say ‘oh you’re into arty crap, that’s why you didn’t appreciate Transformers. You don’t get what it is to sit back and just let yourself enjoy the ride’. But to me, this kind of way of appreciating film is just lazy – it’s a regression of culture and the way we respond to it.
When cinema was first around, people had an appreciation for what it was trying to do as an art form, as a reflection of people and of society, or just as good storytelling. Now it’s just an excuse to watch fake effects, cleavage, etc. I think what that says about a lot of people nowadays is a bit sad. It probably sounds ridiculous to a lot of people, but I think it reflects quite clearly on peoples attitudes and perspectives on life, and I think it’s kind of sad.
Phew, overly serious and probably TL:DR for most. But whatever! (probably going to regret hitting the submit comment button now)
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I’ve had many an argument about the exact same thing.
The short version of it seems to be that people don’t like to be challenged, the rejoice in the familiar and leave it at that.
It’s easy enough to find films and shows with depth that you can still just turn your brain off and enjoy the ride if you like. I really wish that was the norm.
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EXACTLY! I’ve probably had all the same arguments with people that you have by the sounds of it haha!
I always use Pixar as an example of this. Their films arent demanding in the slightest, extremely light and enjoyable, but with really intelligent writing and themes underlying it all.
I was just tweeting Strange about this, and she hit the nail on the head in my opinion. It’s a lack of empathy. People enjoy having as little to empathise with as possible in films. I think it’s very concerning actualy.
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Seeing as I am a Pixar fanboy, I really should start using them as an example more :p
I really have issues with Bella type characters that are considered empathic because they’re so bland and pointless that anyone can project their own feelings on to them.
There’s a misguided notion that for people to be able to relate to the character, they have to be like the character. Which unfortunately means that a lot of writing results in bland characters. In reality, I think that for people to be able to relate to characters they have to understand characters.
I have very little in common with Carl from Up, and many people are in the same boat, but anyone who couldn’t relate to him and understand why he was the man that he was probably has no soul.
It’s a tangential issue really but poor characterisation results in little empathy so the solution is to make the character as simple as possible so that the audience can project instead of relate.
It’s a little tricky.
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Very well put. Obvious case in point, Twilight. Enough said.
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I’ve noticed it with my housemate. If he isn’t like a character in some way, he doesn’t like that character. Instead of trying to understand the character’s motivation, it’s more a case of “I wouldn’t do that, so I don’t like it”. It’s less of an issue with well-developed characters.
It’s the method of projection based characterisation that people have had drummed into them from lazy writing and it makes me rather sadface.
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We live in a time when people film beatings in school yards. Encourage en masse for folks to kill themselves. Randomly stab each other in the streets. Troll strangers on the internet for kicks. Viciously rip each other apart to boost their own self-esteem. There’s definitely an empathy problem.
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Actually, by most metrics you care to use, life is better than it used to be and violent crime is down.
Yet the perception of the quality of life and the amount of violent crime is that things are significantly worse than they are.
Suffice to say, things are a little messed up sometimes.
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But that’s the thing, I don’t think this lack of empathy is a new problem. It’s just manifested In a more modern form. I think humans have always been evil, sociopathic cu-
Never mind. 😀
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Had a multi-paragraph reply written out, but it just sounded a little too pretentious for my liking so I’ll boil it down to this:
I agree, Sughly. 😀
lol! Well said 😀
Read that this morning and she makes a good point.
Something that I think is missed in all this is that when it looks like someone is making a mountain out of a molehill (like the EB ad campaign) it might just be that it was the straw that broke the camel’s back.
Unfortunately, it seems like the only way for those arguing against sexism to make any headway is for them to pick their battles to try and reduce that sort of reaction as much as possible, making it much easier for people to accept that this is a problem that people face.
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You guys are the best. 🙂
I’m actually surprised everyone complained about the first half of his “joke” but was okay with the second part about if you haven’t heard of Skyrim and you’re not an adult woman, you must be someone who beat up people in school.
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Yeah true. I didnt know who the guy was before, and the only thing I know about him now is to not read anything with his name on it.
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This is super-creepy. Because if there’s one person who has the means to easily steal your identity, it’s your Postman.
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People are finally complaining about the new Youtube layout.
I’ve been dealing with it for over two weeks now, and aside from how prominent the suggested videos are (I used to just straight up hide them and now I can’t, sadface) it seems to be okay.
At the very least, it lets me see some information that was rather hidden before, so that’s nice.
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I vist youtube quite iregularly now. I like the content, i just don’t wanna be bombared with advertising on every video i go to. Its relentless!
dawdle! is sleepy in uni summer course lecture.
dawdle! drank a double-shot large mocha.
dawdle! is bored to death by lecturer’s monotone mumblings.
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I’ve pretty much abandoned it.
I think some hardware is still not installed properly, not allowing me to play games on it at all. I haven’t got time to sit down properly and see what’s really wrong with it yet.
Currently just sitting there collecting dust.
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I see you as a super hero team made up of clones of yourself the team consists of
Sweepy Dawdle!
CAfinated Dawdle!
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OK, So i picked up Portal 2 in the recent steam sale for $9. I played the first one on XBLA when it was on sale for 600mspoints so when i heard this was a full retail release, I didnt buy it. I liked the game, just not worth 80 bucks in my mind…
Now I started playing it, I can see that it was!
Co-Op last night with my cousin was amazing. SO funny and SO rewarding.
Also, this is funny… he had never even heard about Portal before. I gifted him a copy and he played it without talking to me first… he thought it was an alien FPS and kept shooting things wondering why they didn’t die!!! LOL
Anyway, sorry its so late, but for a grand total of $20 for Portal 1 + 2 im doing pretty good, even if a little late.
Also, no spoilers as I am really looking forward to SP and co op more.
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i’ve probably spend 30 minutes just stuffing over my coop partner to many laughs… it was funny
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Has anyone out there not played through the Co-op? I haven’t and was hoping someone else out there is still as behind as I am, so that we could go through it and solve it together. It doesn’t feel the same when one person already knows how to solve all the puzzles
I’m sure life as a macro has some meaning, and my life has meaning to me (and to others, too), but I’m so lost in the pointless days and weeks I have trouble seeing it sometimes. Like today.
#feelingdeflatedtoday
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Wow wait to gloom up the place shane!
Be happy today is friday you get to go home to your wife and child and see there happy faces and you sit back on you8r recliner as your wife pours you a glass of scotch while your son fetches your slippers and a pipe. Well the first part is true anyway. Cheer up dude. -
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Can’t speak for other aspects of your life, but I personally always enjoy your posts here. Which improves my day slightly. Got to count for something.
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You know what? I was going to try and say something to cheer you up. Something about how you improve other people’s lives just by being around therefore giving yours more meaning or something, but I decided not to.
I’m having one of those days (actually, I’ve been like that all week now that I think about it) and sometimes you just need to wallow in the downs so you can appreciate the ups more.
So I’m just going to hug you to let you know you’re not alone.
*super-ginormous-helium-filled-hugs*-
Alright I’m gonna vent! I know how you guys feel for sure, I mean, I’m sitting at home filling out homework for centrelink – literally, homework, they have given me a pile of worksheets on how to write a resume and do job interviews – because I took a chance and spent a lot of my time developing my games instead of getting another job I wont be happy with. It’s got me bummed, for sure, but the support I’ve had so far, especially from you guys, has just been amazing.
And so with each day when I start to mope about how sucky this position is that I’m in, I just think of this and what I’m trying to work towards… and then it’s a bit better 🙂
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Thanks *hugs back*
It’s no big secret that I hate my job. Most days, I maintain my grip on sanity by focusing on the fact that I’m providing for my family. Some days that doesn’t work. This is just one of THOSE days.
That’s the last I’ll say about it. On with your much more cheery TAY topics please!
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Macro problems huh? Take an expansion to prevent you from depleting your available resources and try to throw some harassment in there to keep things interesting.
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It wouldn’t hurt to slap down a few extra production buildings and make sure that you have them hotkeyed.
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grrr… sick of requests at work “oh hey, I know the cut off date for this thing was 3 days ago, but here’s the stuff I need done anyway, so if you could just do that for me that would be great…”
*smashes face against wall*
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People should learn to handle their own responsibilities.
Especially when they’re paid to do the work!Don’t vent your frustration on the wall. leave it out of this.
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Nah, I’m with Morkai on this.
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Better than those windows, they are so transparent they always just trying to get you to look at them. Also so arrogant, they think they shine a light of hope in the office. WIndows are dicks!
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Oh I’m part of the team that’s supposed to be doing the job, and I don’t mind doing it, but as I said, the cut off was wednesday COB I think…
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So very familiar with this.
“We have a major project to go before a couple of the ministers and we need some research done on all environmental Impact statements for the Second Airport site at badgery’s creek”
Okay when do you need it by?
“Close of business today”
AAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHH
*head + desk = SLAM*-
Please ignore the detailed specifics of the request I just wrote.
Bah, screw it, I no longer care.
And if the person who made this request is reading TAY
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Yes, just like that.
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Tell me about it… I work as a wall in an office, and this random guy just smashed his face against me.
No reason, just taking out his anger out on me.
I’m supporting his goddamn ceiling! If it wasn’t for me the roof would fall in and he’d DIE!
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We’d both wear jeans so we could ‘back pocket’ in public.
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i have nothing, you take it two steps further for everyone one of my steps Dan!
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I approve of this.
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‘Back Pocketing’?
Front Pocketing is where its at.
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I’ve done the same data request three times today, from scratch, because my manager decides the variables should be different every time she looks at the data. And I don’t even have a nearby wall to smash my head against.
*Smashes head against partition, apologises to neighbour, doesn’t feel better*
Same here man. They’re all like, bring me 10 bear pelts, or slay 3 trolls. Seriously – they don’t even advance the main storyline either!
@Pixel from last page:
I’m doing a uni summer course for these 2 weeks, so not used to waking up before 9am since I haven’t done so in quite a while. If I’m not at uni then I have work. Can’t really get on TAY at work :\ And mostly because I haven’t been gaming at all after bawble! left Sydney, I feel out of the TAY loop sometimes…
Hopefully Skyrim arrives before Christmas so I can play it! \o/
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;3
Class starts at 10am but I take quite a while to get ready in the morning, and even though I live 10 minutes away from campus, this particular lecture theatre is further up the hill and takes about half an hour of walking to get there.Coffee can only help me a bit :\
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lol fair enough, just sad when regular TAYbies becomes irregular TAYbies…
there’s always room in the fold…
cooome back to uzzzz
Hey guys! Got a query you MIGHT be able to help me with.
I’m looking for a picture frame that will hold TWO A4 images. Side by side portrait, top and bottom landscape.
Looked on the Officeworks and Big W websites with no success. Found a few online but I’d rather see the frame before hand and decide if it’s suitable.
So, any ideas?
This MAY be related to the KKP thing.
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Check out the framed pictures sold at discount shops like the Reject Shop and the $2 shop. You’d be surprised at what sizes they have, then you just remove the picture and put your own stuff in there.
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I actually looked at the Reject Shop’s website earlier, but it doesn’t tell you much. Need to see if I can get to the mall on Saturday.
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Sounds like you want an A3-sized frame.
This? http://www.pictureframe.com.au/store/cart.php?target=product&product_id=483&category_id=100
Or is that too easy? What are you looking for again?
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this might be easier. Got an officeworks near you?http://www.officeworks.com.au/retail/products/Technology/Frames-and-Albums/Certificate/GA71874
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A3 could do the job, but a large chunk of the image would get cropped. A double A4 frame is a bit larger than A3.
More like this: http://www.frameshop.com.au/collage-frame.html&f=5
Might have to go scouting around North Sydney.
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You have a query? I’m good at SQL! How can I…
Oh…A question about pictures.
*Crawls back under rock*
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SELECT dbo.tFrame.IdealFrame
FROM dbo.tFrame
WHERE dbo.tFrame.Dimensions = 42×29.7 AND dbo.tFrame.Aesthetic IN (‘%PLEASING%’,’%COLOURFUL%’) AND dbo.tFrame.Budget = “AFFORDABLE” AND dbo.tFrame.IdealFrame NOT IN
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NO! No more SQL! I’ve had enough of it for one day!
😛
(In case you didn’t know, I did a Database Concepts Uni exam this morning…)
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Bah, I’ve been waiting for someone to say that again! 😛 Somebody said it earlier this week, too.
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Sooo I finished Skyward Sword last night, and have one spoiler-free opinion about the game. I think the lack of a large, open Hyrule to run around in really took something away from the game. I mean, I loved it still, but it really felt like this was lacking. Zelda to me is not backtracking over the same three locations over and over again for the entirety of the game.
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That is particularly one of the reasons i am not a massive zelda fan, i hat back tracking i want to keep going forward and seeing new places. I don’t want to run around the save area 50 times. about 1/4 of the zelda games i have played do this and it makes me a little whiny
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I haz to played Zelda’s. But seriously twilight princess did this fairly often. Also i am gonna be honest Hyrule field is the most pointless thing ever. Why cant i just go to each area instantly. I swear i must have wasted hours running around hyrule field. Grr
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I’m actually having a few problems with the game.
What you mentioned would be the main one.
“Go BACK to the Forest Temple! You totally missed important stuffs! LOL!”
I actually stopped playing and worked on some art because, and this SHOCKS me to say, it was getting boring.
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No its true. Look, I liked the game. As a stand alone game its easily one of my favourite from this year. But, against other Zeldas… no I’m sorry, it didnt meet my expectations entirely. The repetition of same locations felt really uninspired.
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Yeah, this has annoyed me…. I expect it from Metroid, not Zelda! As of the end of the weekend, I had finished onggyr va gur fgbez, xvyyvat gur cnenfvgrf va gur sylvat nve fcvevg guvat. Jura gurl fnvq “bu lrnu, tb onpx gb gur jbbqf ntnva cyf” naq gura svtug gung vzcevfbarq bar ntnva, V chg ba zl lnb zvat “shpx gung” snpr naq fnirq naq dhvg. V’ir fvapr znqr rkpryyrag cebterff va fxlevz.
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Dear Sughly,
I’d just like to point out that any quips I make about your taste in films is purely for poos and giggles.
Kind regards,
– Effluvium Boy
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Dear Sughly,
I’d just like to point out that any quips I make about your taste in films is purely because i mean it. LOL.
Kind regards,
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Dear Sughly,
I do like Transformers (Becuase of robots and stuff I’ve previously mentioned) and The Rock (I don’t know why, I just like it), so if we’re going to save this relationship your’re going to have to learn to accept that.
Love,
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Dear Sughly,
I watched the first 20 minutes of Hanna and i found it kind of weird .
Love,
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lol, you guys are aaaaaalright. Kind of. No but for reals, you are ok! A bit.
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Dear Shane,
Man, I thought you were cool…
If they replaced Adam Sandler and Adamn Sandler with Nicholas Cage and Sean Connery in Jack & Jill I’d be all over it. Just being honest.
Transformers… I can’t defend…
Regards,
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While we’re discussing Transformers, I genuinely believed that everyone in the cinema was laughing at how bad it was the whole way through like me. Needless to say I was scared when I found out it was some kind of strange laughter of approval. Walking out my friends were like ‘that was awesome!’. I continued to laugh at what I thought was sarcasm…
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Did you like anything about it?
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I liked the bit where Michael Bay rapes my childhood! 😀
Wait…
No…
I didn’t like that bit!!! D:
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If you mean the visual design of the Transformers, I disagree.
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that bit where they trample the lawn… God, that was painful to watch.
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lol! But… the whole thing was a bit of a joke really. I mean, how can you relate to a main character who is just intent on getting with that hot girl from school? A film that integrates Bumblebee as someone who just wants to help him get laid? An over the top kids are smarter than the FBI plot? Random editing/dialogue/character development. A complete misrepresentation of characters that were originally great, that represented solid ideas and themes, that now just represent an oops I crushed your flower bed mixed in with some resemblance of what they used to be in order to satisfy the mindless thousands.
No,I guess there wasnt anything I liked about it.
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I think even G1 Bumblebee would totally get his wingman on.
I thought the Transformer designs were pretty kickass (Not in the following films though)
I thought their characters were relatively loyal to the originals.On most other points I probably agree with you.
Seeing my childhood heroes come to life was pretty spectacular. That’s all I cared about.
I think people overestimate the depth of the original’s story and characters. I loved Transformers (still do) but I’m honest enough to admit that it was never Steinbeck.Also, I get the feeling I portray myself as some brainless film loving dufus. I’m probably more lenient than others (as a result of always playing the contrarian to my brother’s overly-scrupulous critiquing of films) but I do appreciate ‘good’ films.
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One of my main things is this:
Back when I started college and did my first 3D work I began to visualize a Transformers Live Action film with CG robots. The story I was working on wasn’t that great but I had this dream that one day I might have the chance to bring my vision of The Transformers… Of what I thought the Transformers film could be… to the masses.
Had Michael Bay delivered something half as awesome as the movie that existed in my head, I would have been happy.
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but but… Transformers the Movie (original) was epic… y u hate Transformers?
i guess you’re referring to Megan Fox the slowmotion cinematic? in which case i understand
Getting people to play Starcraft this week has not been very successful. Getting people to play Magicka has been more successful, aside from the in game bits which were far from success.
Methinks we might try to finish the DLC if we can and then I’ll go back to my quest of getting people to play SC2 with me. Also, I still have to do my placement matches this week. Might do them on the weekend.
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I have both SC2 and Magicka.
I am rubbish at the former and have installed but never played the latter (picked it up very recently when it was a ridiculously low price).
Just saiyan.
I think by the time I get home from work/etc people over east have probably already zzz/stopped playing though. :/
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We’re all rubbish at SC2 and not really that good at Magicka.
Yet I think with Magicka we are going to need those who have played it a bit. The DLC is actually rather tricky.
Still, it’s Friday. People will be on TeamSpeak rather late tonight methinks.
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I miss having my magicks.
Now I just spam QFQFSAA and QRQRSAA, occasionally casting as area of effect.
It works, but where’s the fun if you can’t call down the thunder and lightning?
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SC2 is just so daunting and hard to be actually good at. It’s made for competitive gaming and you either play it hardcore and do nothing else in your free time ever or you fail.
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It’s definitely hard, but apparently the lower leagues aren’t that terrible. I think if you’re okay with losing, it won’t be that bad …
But it really is intimidating to try and jump in.
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It kinda seems like two people trying to keep 50 plates spinning on poles and the first to drop one looses. Less about strategy than micromanagement and APM.
I think team games would be more fun, less pressure to get everything exactly right.
Unfortunately peeps have gotten me enthused about LoL again though…-
From what I’ve heard, below Diamond it’s pretty much all about mechanics. Strategy isn’t that important when your opponent is able to simply produce more stuff than you.
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Will you be on late tonight? I don’t get home till very late EST but i’ll be down for a game, provided my net doesn’t lag to hell and back.
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Just bit into my sandwich.
Part of it rubbed against my wisdom tooth.
My scream of pain was heard several miles away.
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May make more sense when read in conjunction with this
http://staging.kotaku.com.au/2011/12/talk-amongst-yourselves-140/comment-page-14/#comment-460420
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Bumped my sore tooth and I am now sobbing like a spoiled rich kid who just found out he wont be getting the gold plated back scratcher for Christmas, because he will be getting the ivory handled one instead, he wanted both God damn it!
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I’m unsure whether or not I like youtubes new layout. I’ll need to spend some more time on it before making my decision. What’s everyone elses thoughts on it?
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I’ve been dealing with it for about two weeks now.
The old way was better in most regards, especially when it comes to showing newly uploaded videos from subscribed channels and hiding those damned suggested videos. Some of it is an improvement and I don’t object to the general idea. It’s just be better if there was more than just a single column for new videos.
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Looking at page 15, I think it’s safe to say I’m going to have the highest word count in TABTOL again.
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just means you have an opinion and you’re good at wording said opinion…
with me it usually boils down to “stuff good” or “stuff bad”-
I know how to articulate my thoughts and form a reasonable argument. They’re not difficult skills to master but it’s always fun to run into people who are completely lacking in that regard.
Much better than trolling. Just be rational in the face of overbearing idiocy and watch them eventually self-destruct.
Of course, that’s not why I learned these skills but it was a strong incentive :p
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fair enough,
i’ll just adopt the Dr. Cox Caveman approach to things cause i can’t articulate well enough what i am trying to get at without making is sounds like i’m just going in circles so i adopt the Dr. Cox Caveman approach…see? 😛
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Nothing I’ve written but go further down and I linked to a reasonably lengthy article that’s somewhat interesting.
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it’d be more interesting if I were to read something written by somebody I know ;P
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Shane appears to have goaded me in to something…
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@ Sughly
Taglines for Postman shirts…
‘Have you seen the Postman?’
‘He’s seen you…’
and
‘Who watches the Postmen?’
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‘Who posts the Postmen?’ No, no that doesn’t work, damn.
Egads, it took me like fifty tries to spell doesn’t correctly there. I’m failing life over here!
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Hello! I’m back. 😀
Had a Uni exam this morning, didn’t go too badly with that.
Anyway, I’M ON HOLIDAYS NOW!!!! 😀
so on my lunch break i discovered that Matthew Reilly is signing his latest book in westfield Belconnen (third floor next too lift if anyones interested). when i say i discovered it i mean i discovered the line…that goes for ages. and then eventually walked past him and was like oh sup dude (to myself) i think he heard coz he nodded at me. now if only i had a lunch break long enough to sit in that line -.-
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When 5 Greatest Warriors came out I was planning on going to get it signed at Parramatta or Penrith, but then ended up having to work both days. Seriously not impressed.
Important question – Scarecrow or Jack West Jr?
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I’m kind of torn, to be honest. Sure the Huntsman’s an Aussie, and has a better record of keeping his team alive (slightly, this is Matthew Reilly after all). But Scarecrow… Well, he’s the freaking Scarecrow! When I think of literary badasses, he’s at the top of the list.
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You’re not longing too good man, perhaps you should take the rest of the day off? And go see a Doctor.
Doctor Reilly, Doctor Mathew Reilly.
Subtle I know.
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As someone who doesn’t actually have line of sight to a window to the outside world from his desk, I feel like saying
PRAISE THE SUN
Word count, word count….
I’m sitting here at my computer attempting to construct a wall of text to make Trjn doubt his chances in the TABTOL word count for this week, but am a bit stymied. I can’t think of a thing to write.
At first glance, it seems the obvious choice is to write about life, the biggest thing there is for all of us. But here’s the thing: life may be big, it may even be everything, but it’s only four little letters. A single word. A single four letter word.
No, it’s not life that bears writing about. Those icy comets delivering bundles of bacteria all over the galaxy are pretty cool, but they’re about as reliable as the USPS in that they only deliver once every couple of hundred billion years, and get lost far more often than not.
No, not life at this stage, but rather the bacteria. The microcosms. The building blocks of life. The little events and objects, thoughts and processes, interactions and reactions that make life what it is. For my part, life is a complex equation consisting of many disparate elements: honking horns, morning sickness, and general skulduggery… but these are elements of others’ lives, and I merely observe from outside, like that guy who sings Iris.
As far as immensely popular soft rock songs go, that one wasn’t too bad, but I prefer Bon Jovi. My wife does too, but I don’t think it’s for the same reasons. Still, I would think twice before kicking him out of bed. Maybe I’ve said too much, but I daren’t delete anything for fear of negatively impacting my growing word count.
And for what purpose? These words will disappear to the same place that their trillions of archived and unaccessed brethren have gone before them. And yet it still seems tremendously important to communicate, to put forward ideas, even if they are never noticed and cherished by the audience they were seeking all along…
On that note, has anyone read any good books lately? I read a good book a while ago, but its title escapes me now. I wonder if its author achieved everything they wanted to in life, or if they had to make sacrifices for their art, or if they were creatively frustrated at every turn all the way along. Thoughts like that make me feel a little sad, and wonder about what I truly want for my life. My four letter word.
It seems I should want the simple life: a work of toil and family values. I tried that for a while, but it made me miserable. Hollywood misled me: the path to happiness lies not in treading a single fulfilling path, but splitting yourself up and sending bits of yourself down all available paths. I sent my heart one way, my brain another. My ankles kind of miss holding my feet and legs together, but there were too many paths and not enough discreet body parts. I’m doing my best however, and learning how to work with a compartmentalised everything.
Hmm… word count word count word count.
For a long time, writing was hopelessly romanticised in my head, but now it’s cemented itself as a purely mechanical process that accesses the writer’s emotional databases like an SQL query. I used to think that words gave the world meaning (who said that first? Was it Wittgenstein? I forget), but I think meaning is far less tangible than words. Slippery and elusive, meaning means something at one discreet point in time (if time can be said to have discreet points, but that’s another very long and far less interesting story), and something completely different the next moment (for want of a better word). Now, I don’t know how I feel about writing. I still derive some level of satisfaction out of it, but I think I’ve overthought the magic right out of it.
Maybe that was my fault. Maybe that’s just how I am. I overthink things and destroy them.
A humanoid typhoon, hapless and helpless, yet ultimately immensely destructive. Oddly enough, ‘Humanoid Typhoon’ was the handle I was using when I met my wife for the first time. Good thing I don’t understand love. I hate to think what it might do to my marriage if I started thinking about that.
Writing, life, family, love, it’s all really the same when you get right down to details. Atoms smashing together at incredible speed, electrons whizzing around and the subatomic particles (some of which we probably don’t even know about yet) doing their own thing in a space far more infinite than the one beyond our home planet. Why must life be so incredibly humbling in all directions? It’s a conundrum.
Trjn, I’ve just written about 850 words. Sorry to dethrone your TABTOL. You might still win, but I’m going to give you a run for your money. Why couldn’t I have been this verbose during NaNoWriMo? I might’ve gotten more than 10 000 lousy words if I’d had the right kind of motivation and more time.
Time, time. That’s the key. It always has been. Immeasurably valuable, and yet we trade it for a meagre wage and pretend it’s worth it. Someone must be profiting from all this spent time, but I can’t imagine Who it might be. Certainly not me.
Time is elastic. Who said that? Maybe it was Scorpius. That would make sense. I’ve never found time to be particularly elastic, but then Scorpius had a bunch of skills I will never have, including the ability to shove a huge metal apparatus into his brain without dying. I never got that.
If I wanted to prove time was elastic, I would lay it out on a rack and stretch it like a rubber band. I tried it once, but just ending up wasting more time. Such is life. Eternal sigh.
1:23. Hit 1000 words. Feel better now. Thanks for reading.
Tl;dr … thanks for not reading.
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I am defending what you didn’t say. Ya-huh. I’m tryin’ to be all deep and meaningful and stuff.
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I think “stuff” may be my favourite word. It’s useful in so many different situations, especially for someone as lazy as I.
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Eww, Jon Bon Jovi. 😛
I love the word “verbose”
Scorpius! I need to rewatch Farscape.
I read American Gods last week. that was a good book. Now I need to get my hands on Anansi Boys. And finish re-reading the A Song of Ice and Fire series so I can finally read the latest one.
Sometimes I feel like a Humanoid Typhoon too. You know, I’ve never been able to bring myself to finish watching Trigun? One day I hope I’ll be able to, because I was enjoyiong it so much.-
Trigun was pretty good. The second-to-last episode is AMAZING. It’s a 10/10 where the rest of the show is a solid 7/10. That’s how good it is.
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No, haven’t seen it. I’m actually a bit confused about what it is.
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Well, it’s a movie. About Vash. And Wolfwood. Fighting. and stuff. It’s an original story that doesn’t continue on from the anime nor retell the story more faithful to the manga (Which I’d have liked to see.).
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I just knew…
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I think I feel another one coming on. The TABTOL trophy will be mine.
I might collate these into a series of ranty short stories. It would have to be called GIGO, of course. I think I may have stolen that from somewhere. Apologies to the offended party if that’s the case.
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I think if it gets to that, I’m just going to have to rest on my laurels. It took twenty minutes (including a phone call) for me to churn out the 1109 words below.
If we’re really pushing for maximum word count, I’ll have to completely abandon the pretext of getting work done today and seeing as Monday is my day off, that means that Tuesday is going to suck.
So lets not and say we did :p
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i use lynx…
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cool story bro
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Are we really going to do this? Really? A battle to see who can knock out the most words in a stream of consciousness style simply because I noticed that I have, yet again, managed to make far too many posts with many a word in them?
Okay. Sure. Let’s do that. I’m game. It’s my lunch break and I have half an hour left with which there is little to occupy my time. Well, there’s little to occupy my time that I haven’t been doing all day, aside from eating a sandwich which I’ve been doing for only a short time and have since concluded.
You want to talk about life? Well, I don’t know if I’m one to really wax lyrical about the beauty of the universe and the brevity of each person’s experience of it. We live, we love, we laugh. We die, we despair, we done on and on about pointless endeavours.
I’m rather ambivalent about all that at the moment.
Still, if write pointlessly for the sake of obtaining extra words is the game of the day, then it is a game that I can win. I like trying to beat other people at games that I haven’t really attempted before. I also like to do it at games I think I’ve mastered, particularly against those who show more ability than me. Competing against superiors is one of the best ways to learn and easily one of the most satisfying if you’re ever successful.
Well, I’m occasionally successful. So my limited pool of data might not be the most reliable.
It’s like NaNoWriMo. Last year, I took it as a challenge. There were fifty thousand words that I needed to get out of my head and doing so meant that I could consider myself a writer. Word wars were fought and I won, but it seems like a shallow victory when the end result is something approaching fifty-five thousand words of horrible prose barely holding together a story that I want to enjoy but can’t find a way to tell properly.
This year, it was even worse. It wasn’t a challenge because I knew I could beat it. The word count itself wasn’t enough for me. Instead I had to focus on telling a story that I would actually enjoy reading, and telling it in a way that would excite others. At this, I failed miserably.
Quite simply, I couldn’t find the motivation, the right way to get these words out of my head in a way that worked. Sure, I know the story. I can see most of it in my head and one day I will somehow pry it out. Just not today. Probably not this year even.
Instead, I’m trying to focus my attention on becoming better at Starcraft. Why? Well, I don’t really know. It’s just some other challenge to keep me occupied.
That’s all it really boils down to, when I think about it. Challenges. That’s the meaning of life that I should be waxing lyrical about. To find new challenges and to overcome them. That’s why I love games. They constantly present new challenges in new ways that tantalize my poor noggin into trying to become better.
Hell, if I really tried, I’m sure I could find some sort of tangible link between my need to be challenged and my absorption of random trivia.
Still, earlier today I was saying that people don’t liked to be challenged. That seems like a rather odd statement now that I’ve declared the meaning of life is to be challenged. Does that mean that I’m some sort of freak? That people like me are the exception and not the rule?
I doubt it. That would be some sort of narcissistic desire of mine that I am better than others because of what motivates me, when in fact motivation is the reason that I have never really succeeded at much.
So maybe being challenged isn’t that important. It’s fun and most definitely exciting and I doubt that I’m alone in my enjoyment of it. Yet I think that it’s some magical combination of being challenged and finding motivation that really drives people.
If you find something that challenges you in a way that you are motivated to succeed, to continue well after the initial hurdle has been jumped.
Sorry, got interrupted by a phone call at work. Where was I?
Oh yes, motivation and being challenged. That’s what I was rambling about in some fashion that should hopefully appear thought out but is really just the first thing that is coming to mind as I try to haphazardly string some words together to try and upstage those who think they can out-type me!
Being motivated and feeling challenged are not really the end game. They’re the means to an end so they can’t be the meaning themselves. That nonsense about the journey being more important than the destination is rather bollocksy if you ask me. The journey is important but where you end up matters just as much, if not more.
So does that mean that the meaning to all of this is to find success? To find success in some regard, in some fashion that is satisfying?
It seems rather vague and pointless, but this sort of rambling often is.
Maybe it isn’t success but that other “S” word I stumbled across in that succession of syllables that sufficiently passes as a sentence. Satisfying.
The point of all this is to be satisfied.
Maybe.
I definitely think that it’s a rather important feeling that suffers from some neglect.
Come to think of it, when I talk of things that entertain me, often when I can’t think of a succinct way to describe how I appreciate it, I end up saying that I was “satisfied” with it. That seems like it is barely praise, especially in the era where school report cards mark students who barely pass as “satisfactory” but I consider it rather high praise.
A book that satisfies me is a book that has woven a rich tapestry that fulfils something that I yearn for, even if I didn’t know I was yearning for it before I started to turn the pages. A game that satisfies me is one that sates an urge, that gives a happy feeling that I’ve done something, that I’ve concluded something, which I rather enjoyed.
So that’s what I’m going with here. Forget the bit about not waxing lyrical, in the end the entire point of this rambling was to conclude that being satisfied is not merely satisfactory, but awesome.
One thousand and nine words. Unedited.
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One thousand, one hundred and nine*
But if I had included the “one hundred” it would have been one thousand, one hundred and eleven.
Damn, what a missed opportunity.
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I tested the word limit of TAY a while back. It’s like 10,000-something, so as long as he keeps it under that the entire story will be viewable.
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That is information that I should not possess.
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Stumbled across this rather interesting article about how Starcraft is being studied to better understand how people multitask.
It seems that they used to use chess as the game of choice to try and get some sort of understanding about this but the skills chess players have don’t seem to translate well into other areas. They’re a bit more hopeful about SC in this regard because there are so many things going on at once that the brain’s process of handling these things makes for interesting study.
That and replays present the data from games in a way that can be studied rather well. Apparently.
Go read!
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That is quite interesting.
I liked that the way they spoke about games was not in the slightest way derogatory. It was “We may be able to get some scientific data from this activity.” not “This childish pastime may actually have some benefit.”
I’m having Wacom issues. Intuos 3 & Windows 7 64bit.
It appears to be random as to whether the pen is pressure sensitive or not. Sometimes I get a nice line that adjusts if I lean heavier or lighten off. Other times, I might as well be using the mouse.
What’s worse as it keeps changing. 🙁
Might be time to invest in an Intuos 4…. Or a Cintiq… Mmmm…
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Was going to ask you about tablets.
I want to start doodling again and thought it might motivate me. I should probably start with paper…Also, I saw a few reviews of the inkling. Seems there are some accuracy issues.
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Probably worth waiting for the second gen. Wacom 1st gens are usually a little on the iffy side.
If you want to get back in to doodling, I’d say go with an Intuos. The 4 looks like a tasty little number. I’ve had my 3 for a while and, until recently, I never had a problem.
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I have the coolest parent ever. Got home from work yesterday (an hour and a half of overtime later than normal 🙁 ) and there’s a box waiting for me. Lego Millennium Falcon. So awesome.
Not going to be able to fit it into my shelves or anything due to the amount of other crap I have around, so I’m thinking the VF-1A on my desk at work might have just been displaced.
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http://lego.wikia.com/wiki/7965_Millennium_Falcon
This one.I may be able to find room for the Valkyrie as well. Would be easier if I had a stand for it but they’re hard to find and expensive 🙁
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http://www.brickset.com/detail/?Set=7778-1
this is the one i have, fits nicely on a desk, plus it looks amazing for it’s size… i will get my hand on the full sized 5000 piece one, one day though mark my words 😛
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Our Millennium Falcon’s are clearly twins.
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that is awesome!!!! if you have no where to put it… I can you know just umm hold it for you for a ahhh little while, youknowuntilyouwantitback… or for long term ahem storage
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Harli, I find myself disturbed by your comment that there are a few people other than Tech Knight who now feel no longer welcome in TAY.
I find it disturbing because I never knew these people had a problem, therefore I didn’t get a chance to maybe help right the wrongs. Especially if, like Techy, I was one of those who unintentionally wronged them.
I speak up when I have a problem with something(like I did when I said the LoL talk bored me) and it disturbs me greatly that people may be suffering silently. 🙁
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Hey Strange! I’ve spoken to a few people who don’t really want to take part in TAY and it isn’t because of you. In fact, most of them are doing it for the very same reason you suggested leaving.
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You know what? It’s embarrassing and very stupid but I kind of felt betrayed when AP left. I’d just opened up my home to him like a week before, because he was a TAYbie, and I was already partway through my jerkin project and then he went and decided we weren’t good enough for him or something. He sucks.:P
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HEY! I’M AS REAL A DOCTOR AS DR PEPPER!
So I don’t have all the fancy letters and pieces of paper!
But you know what? I’M A DAMNED GOOD DOCTOR! SO DRINK YOUR GOD DAMNED MAGIC SODA AND THEN I’MMA LEECH SOME SENSE IN TO YOU!
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Sir, you have swayed me.
I have two cans of Dr Pepper in my fridge, from Canada. I shall take them as the doctor recommends.
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WHAT STRANGE SAID!!!!!!!!!!!!
broke my little tay heart.
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He was a noob. Didn’t have the staying power!
Geez strange why u so mean 😛 just kidding
He will come back when he is ready. He just needs some time to cool off.
Dear Strange, do not trouble yourself about it. It was not singling you out, nor should you feel at fault. You were simply expressing your opinion and that is it. I will say it again – YOU SHOULD NOT FEEL IT IS YOUR FAULT. People need to grow hides and learn. People are free to do what they want and to stay what they want.
However, I am very glad you have stayed =]
I’m gonna say this:
As a dude who never associated with Tech Knight outside of TAY, I find it a little hypocritical for him to feel attacked by anyone.
His posts, while I’m sure most were in jest, could sometimes come off as very elitist and condescending. If he didn’t agree with something, I felt his replies were always a little too personal.
I’m not saying he shouldn’t feel bad, but maybe he should re-evaluate his outlook a little if he felt personally attacked when no one did any such thing.
It sucks being bullied, trust me I know. Big time, I know. But that happened in the past and you can either dwell on it or deal with it. I decided to deal with mine and I think I’m a better person for it.
Anyway, sucks people felt they had to leave, but it sucks more that their leaving has made people feel bad for voicing their opinion.
Love,
Dan
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I agree with what you say, and as someone who was also pretty terribly bullied in high school I understand.
But I’m worried about Techy. He doesn’t understand yet. Because of his horrendous experiences he’s walled himself off from the world in armour and styled himself a robot so he doesn’t have to associate with the “humans” who did this to him. He’s also putting all “humans” in the same category as those kids, which is why he gets so defensive. In his mind, we’re all the same.
What he doesn’t understand is that in doing this to himself, he’s letting the bullies win. He isn’t the one who should be, or is, a robot, it’s them. They’re the ones with no feelings, not him. He needs to start associating himself with us, the rest of the humans, and instead shun the malicious bastards who bullied him.
I thought we were helping him by just being our friendly, sometimes bickering, normal little family and including him as a part of that without judgement, but now I’m worried we’ve made him retreat even further into his secure armour. 🙁-
Oh and by the way, I’ve nominated him for Kudos. Not to enable him, but to hopefully make him aware he’s still welcome and part of the family.
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Like I said before, poorly.
I elaborated on it a little in my wall of text above but the short version is that I just couldn’t find a good way to tell the story and my word count suffered.
I try not to swear too much here on TAY, but….
What the effing fuck?
This is not a joke. Anyone else hear about this?
@Strange: this sounds like the beginning of a Brisbane DnD group to me…
Any other Brisbane peeps want in on this? Lets get something DnD related happening…
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Dammit Harli! You made me go reread that entire chatlog 😛
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that can only be a GOOD thing
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I like to reply to memes in kind.
It’s a little hard to quote the rest of bloodninja’s works around these parts.
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If I was in Brisbane I’d totally join. But I’m not.
I’ve never played D&D in the flesh. Only over IRC. 🙁 AD&D, 3rd Edition and faux-MMO editions. 😛
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i thought Fyshwick was better?
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Stay out of my basement.
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Character creation is one of the best parts. The big thing about DnD (in my opinion) is giving your character a flaw. It defines your play style that much more. Like the time I played as a Halfling rogue who couldn’t speak Common (main language).
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badger hurling druid with a one eye and no depth perception or nothing 😛
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In 3.5, maybe call that a summon badger, give your character high grapple and strength, possibly improvised weapon proficiency…we could do it.
…Dual-wielding badgers?
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badger flail? BADGER CHUCKS!!! yeeeaaah
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I just started tinkering with creating a character for myself to try and get an understanding of the game before I drag my friends over. I wonder what kind of adventures Gorag the Voluptuous will get involved in.
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Nice name 😀
One important thing to consider in D&D is what ruleset you’re going to play under. Edition 3.5 is popular with more…I guess, “hardcore” players, while 4th Edition is designed for faster paced combat, and simplifies a lot for the players.
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i don’t care about rules, or maths, or dice… i care about badgers…
wait..
that came out wrong
What do I need to do? (Having never played before)
Because an excuse to play pretend sounds amazing.
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Not really knowing you well, or anything about you, I can safely say that you are amazing at it and should therefore play DnD all the time.
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Man I dont know, what are you asking me for!? I was just kind of hoping someone would be like yeah just do this and this and this…
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And also someone to be in charge of the game.
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Yeah, I wanna do it but I have no idea how it works or what we’d even be supposed to be doing!
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If you people are going to go through with this eventually, you must keep us informed on some of the particular highlights of your experiences.
Let it not go unsaid that when I spam, I spam in a rather interesting fashion.
Now let’s never look at page 16 again.
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*looks down*
and so it begins
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And unfortunately continues.
At least I tried to do something more than just random thoughts though. Should make it a little harder for Shane to trump me :p
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Hmm, do I respond or just live and let live?
http://staging.kotaku.com.au/2011/12/to-whom-i-have-offended-an-open-letter-from-tom-bissell/#comment-461336
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I’ve always found it funny InformedGamer always comes across as being very uninformed and bigoted.
If you can come up with a reply to put him in his place I say go for it.
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Personally, you would be wasting your time indulging this guy Strange. By the sounds of it he is way too stuck in his ways. He’s not going to accept anything you say, so I don’t its worth the effort. We understand where you’re coming from, but there’s always going to be those that can’t be persuaded otherwise
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Usually the most opinionated folks in those articles before I’ve never seen any where, like they’re waiting in the wings for this specific article before they make their presence known.
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Take two: “Usually the most opinionated folks in those articles I’ve never seen any where before.” My fingers got ahead of the sentence, it seems. 😉
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Just ignore it Strange! You’ve made a nice well reasoned, non insulting post, and they are being a big silly about it.
They won’t learn, so don’t waste your time or energy 🙂
You can’t go home again.
I don’t understand this saying. I go home all the time, and it’s still there. I think it might mean that things have changed since you left, and that the mental picture you have of your home is buried in the irretrievable past, but it’s possible that this saying is misused quite frequently.
In this context, I choose to use it as a warning to all readers: the sequel is so rarely up to the standards of the original. There are only a few notable exceptions. A lot of people would probably bring up The Empire Strikes Back as an example, but I hesitate to do so, because I keep seesawing on which is my favourite film of the original trilogy. I flip flop because each film has great strength and each film has great weakness. Return of The Jedi is overall the weakest film, but it has the scene where Luke slips to the Dark Side of the Force, which is by far the most dramatic scene in the entire trilogy… except perhaps for the paternal revelation near the end of Empire, which was pretty cool, but I personally hate it because it has spawned an entire generation of second rate fiction that attempts to shock readers and viewers with similarly contrived and ridiculous familial revelations.
And when you think about it, it really doesn’t make much sense. Why did Luke keep his last name of Skywalker? It doesn’t make sense. How could Vader not find him? After all the effort they went to to hide Leia, they just decided to dump Luke on his father’s birth world, with the same last name, and take their chances? What the hell does that mean? It was a problem that predated the new movies, but they definitely didn’t help matters. In fact, they didn’t help anything except Lucas’ bank balance.
My wife looks after kids sometimes and they said that the new Star Wars movies were way better than the originals. I wanted to weep for the future of humanity. It was the moment when I realised for sure that style has officially trumped substance. That we are the flagging final generation of quality stories and rational, reasonable, critical thinking
Anyway, you can’t go home again. Apparently this was true for Darth Vader, or else he would have found Luke Skywalker and Obi-Wan very easily. So be warned: this may or may not be as interesting a ramble as the last one I posted earlier today. You can’t go home again, after all.
And now that I know I’m writing to an audience, I can’t help but feel the integrity of the process has been compromised somewhat. I can’t decide whether to write about Chuloopa’s wang, which apparently is a topic worthy of official kudos, or whether to steer clear of the whole messy affair. I can’t decide whether to pay tribute to the fallen, whose loss is felt keenly, and whose offence may or may not have been caused by me. If it was, I think I should like to apologise. Unless I never liked them to begin with, in which case, an apology may not be forthcoming. Maybe I should use my captive new audience to pimp certain products that have come my way in recent weeks, like Sughly’s very interesting Egress game, for example. Or even my own published book, The Lesser Evil volume 1, which is tanking in sales (ranked at 5.3 millionth on Amazon, though doing slightly better on Book Depository) and is at least partially responsible for what seems like an eternal malaise in my life.
But I won’t do that.
Drive is a film that Sughly wants everyone to watch. It’s also a verb that describes the bizarre foot pumping and hand actions used to propel a mechanical vehicle. But it’s also what makes us do things that we want or need to live. In this case, it’s also an avoidance tactic: I am strongly driven to avoid thinking about my current situation (sitting in an open office plan and supposed to be working hard) by writing about how I’m driven to avoid thinking about it.
It’s a conundrum, a self-defeating purpose.
Circular references make my head spin. X = Y = X. Life equals drive equals life.
Where would we be without our dreams? I don’t know where I’d be. I can’t remember a time when I wasn’t striving, reaching, dreaming, imagining a life for myself that was different from the one I was leading. Not a complete oil change, though – what I wanted was more like a top-up. What I already had, and then some. Maybe that’s human nature. Maybe it’s just me. Maybe I got a double-dose. While God was handing out charisma, I accidentally got back in the ambition line. I think things like that quite regularly.
But then… garbage in…
I see that this is escalating into some sort of word war with Trjn, which was not really my original intention. I just wanted to see if I could blergh out a thousand words in a near stream-of-consciousness style. My favourite short story ever is an unpublished one by someone who used to be my best friend, but whom I haven’t heard from in almost three years, and it was called Garbage In (I finally remembered the reference). It makes me a bit sad when I think about him, because he was very smart, but had plenty of issues. Still I have a lot to thank him for, and he taught me a lot in the short time I knew him.
Kind of sad to think of the temporary role that people play in our lives. What do you think the chances are that we’ll all still be friends in ten years? In twenty? Will we even remember Kotaku when the internet gets replaced by the next big thing? It’s hard to say. A few years ago, I would have said it was impossible.
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Drive is also a TV series starring Nathan Fillion that only lasted a couple of episodes. I was interested to see where it was going but it was cancelled. 🙁
Also, don’t judge other people by your former best friend, there will always be people who stick with you, and these are the important ones.If it’s who I think you’re talking about, there’s more I could say about my insights into that person, but mostly I just feel sorry for him.
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Oops, didn’t mean that to sound like I was using him (and yes, it’s him) to judge everyone – I definitely know better than to do that! 🙂
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It’s interesting to see into the thoughts of someone who, in the ‘real-world’ sense, I don’t know.
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If we’re going to do this, we’re going to do this properly. Simply doing stream of consciousness is easy. You turn that little filter in your brain off and let your fingers turn your thoughts into text. The problem is that most people don’t care to read it, because they don’t care what your unfiltered thoughts are like.
Hell, I know I despise trying to read my own unfiltered thoughts, so why we try to subject others to that madness?
More importantly, people want to hear stories. If you take a man on the street and have him start talking complete nonsense about pretty much any subject that comes to mind, people aren’t going to pay attention to what he says. They’re just there for the spectacle.
But take that same man, and leave him in a desert. A black, featureless desert.
Surrounded by the swirling sands, this man has no hope of finding out where he is or how he’s meant to get anywhere.
Slowly, steadily, he tries to find his way out of this bleak, hopeless land. As time passes it feels like he is making progress, until more time passes and it feels like all he has set to achieve is futile.
His sense of self starts to fade. His purpose, if ever he had one, is lost.
All that he is, all that he knows is that there is a desert. If he can dare to escape it, he might find some purpose, some identity, some hope. Something.
But that isn’t a simple task. For more time than he can remember he has been trying to pass though. Once there was a time where he may not have been in the desert. He doesn’t know. He doesn’t even know anymore if there was such a thing as time.
It doesn’t matter.
Soon, his brain slowly winds down. He cannot think in the same way the he used to. All that can come to mind is a simple repeated phrase: “One thought, one time.”As he repeats it to himself in his mind he slowly starts to feel his sense of identity coming back.
One thought, one time.
Soon it is joined by other thoughts. He doesn’t know. He doesn’t remember. It’s all so confusing as these ideas that are both alien and familiar trickle into his consciousness.
His consciousness, something he didn’t know he had but now that he’s aware of it the idea of losing it seems absurd. How did he get to this point?
Things start to fade again.
One thought, one time.
One thought, one time.
Slowly it comes back again. This time with greater strength, the thoughts begin to restore him to what he thinks he was. Does this mean that he had died? Was the desert the end of all things or simply a place his mind had trapped him in to escape some horrors of reality?
Too much. He still is not whole. Back to what has helped bring him back to where he was.
One thought, one time.
Many thoughts. But what is this time? Why one time? Is he just trapped in a moment? Is this eternity without identity nothing more than just a brief glimmer where his mind has failed him?
Focusing on this won’t help. There is still the desert. The sand still reaching far into the distance, thinking of anything but survival is pointless. One thought or many thoughts. One time or an eternity. It doesn’t matter. Escape. Salvation. Hope.
Hope.
Yes. There is hope. The man remembers when there was more than the desert. This is not all that he has known, although it feels as though it should be.
Time to walk. Focus on walking. The man is unsteady, his body now as frail as his tattered mind.
One step, one time. Much better than one thought, one time. What an absurd notion. A thought at a time? How would anyone cope like that? The beautiful symphony of ideas is to magnificent to be without.
Another step, his posture straightens.
This is what life was like before this time. Certainty returns. The desert lightens. It is no longer this all-engulfing black wilderness with no hope of escape. Still, there is no path but it doesn’t matter, he will continue. He will persevere. This desert is nothing.
It is just a moment. A moment where the mind has trapped itself to see how great it can become after it concurs this insurmountable desert.
All is clear and the desert is gone.
Suddenly, a life returns to him. Memories as a child. Learning, laughing, growing up and growing old. In the desert it felt as though he had never lived a life but now that he has escaped, the joys of what he has experienced rain down in a cascade of ecstasy.
This man, he tries to spread word of what he’s experienced to the world. This beautiful epiphany of how great life is after experience a moment that was an eternity. People don’t listen. They see the spectacle, they don’t hear the words.
But tell them of the man, let them know why he speaks the words and they will hear. They will understand and see the beauty.
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I had a very near TLDR moment, but decided what the hell, Shane is awesome, I’m gonna read. So glad I did, that was really interesting, I should read this stream of consciousness stuff more often!
I would say in relation to being ambitious, being in a similar position myself in terms of trying to make a name for myself and my work, is that it’s tough. It’s tough to get up each day and choose to keep toiling away, working on it without any promise but your own self satisfaction that you’re working towards what makes you happy.
But I’d say this to you – you’ve finished a published graphic novel. How many people have said they want to do that and haven’t? Sales aside, you freakin’ did it. Anything else that comes as a part of that that’s trying to make you think otherwise, just forget about it. You got a freakin graphic novel published. Period.
Just remember that anyone who’s gotten success doing what they love have rarely had an easy time getting there. Just keep it up Shane!
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Children who prefer the prequel trilogy are the most compelling argument for eugenics I’ve ever seen.
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Interesting, I have no dreams or plans; I just roll with it and see how things go.
Also I find the original Star Wars trilogy impossible to enjoy due to the terrible acting and plot that seems uninspired by modern standards (probably largely because it inspired so much).
Not that I think it’s bad – in it’s day it was the best ever no doubt but Star Wars on the whole has not aged well.Also nothing is permanent. I do not see this as a problem, just how things are. I think realising this is healthy for not having unrealistic expectations.
Look back in life only to learn and remember the good times. Regrets and “if only”s are like shackles upon your mind.Also don’t worry too much about your book’s sales ranking. People are buying and enjoying something you created – that is more than most people can ever claim.
Also I should reeeealy shut-up and do some work instead of voicing opinions no-one wants to hear.
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Yeah, there was a Kotaku post about it a day or two ago. Think I’m going to have to try it out when I get the chance.
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Yeah I’m really digging the look of this. I can’t believe he made it all using GameMaker. I’m going to have to pick up a copy of that now 🙂
Also I love that he absolutely MUST dive through the window to leave the building.
I’ll throw in my 2 cents about this Skyrim joke thing. I think that apology article was overkill. I think the author saying something to the effect of “The joke was in poor taste, i shouldn’t have said it, i’m sorry” Via twitter or Facebook would have been enough.
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The thing is, those articles bring out the worst in people. Writing a long winded article like that is just asking people to respond negatively.
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Whether he apologised on Twitter or wrote a full-length one himself, there was going to be articles written about it. I for one am glad he wrote the full-length thing. It is gracious and inteliigent in a way that a tweet probably could not be.
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We’ll have to agree to disagree.
A simple apology would have been plenty.
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In the end he didn’t wee all over a sock and post it to anyone, so… yeah… there’s that.
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I think that it would have been enough apology to apologise on twitter, but the author clearly wanted to say more than 160 characters.
And if he has baked a nice apologycaek, who are we to turn it down? OM NOM NOM NOM
(plus this article will reach a lot of people who may not have received the twitter apology…)
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We have not really spoken, but I screamed like a crazy person on TS a little while ago and thought that was probably enough.-
It probably sounds like what freyr does when she is playing games.
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I don’t squeal that much!
And Flu, it would be nice to meet you sometime!
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HI EFFLUVIUM BOY
Well back in MY day Twitter was 160 characters…
Or maybe 140. I don’t remember.
http://www.dsogaming.com/news/batman-arkham-citys-highly-anticipated-dx11-patch-has-been-leaked/ — rumour has it the Arkham City PC patch has been leaked by Rocksteady. Now I’m conflicted.Leaked patch… or wait a little longer. It’s a pickle. 😀
So many chunks of text…
I might not read TAY on my phone again, so laggy & so muc scrolling (even when I’m not using the mobile theme).
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It helps to turn off the mobile theme and view it with the normal layout.
Also, sorry about the walls of text. I won’t be producing any more of them today.
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Dear Dr Huh!?,
We need to discuss this Transformers vision of yours over some beers.
Kind regards,
– Effluvium Boy
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@fled – totes agree with your coded message. Totes agree…
@Effluvium Boy – Yeaaaaaah but, youre missing the point (about saying Transformers was never deep). If you look at what me and Trjn were saying about films, its not about creating films that are all deep and thoughtful, they just dont have to be the complete opposite. They can be easy going, light films, but still treated well, and treating their audience with some element of intelligence. Such as plausible plot development, dialogue, characters, character development, etc etc etc.
Sitting in a film and feeling like a complete and utter idiot is not really my idea of relaxing.
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I think you misunderstood me. I’m not saying that the film shouldn’t have depth because the cartoon didn’t. I’m saying the cartoon didn’t have as much as people seem to think and so saying that the characters in the film weren’t up to the standard of the cartoon strikes me as a little odd.
This is the statement I was talking about:
“A complete misrepresentation of characters that were originally great, that represented solid ideas and themes, that now just represent an oops I crushed your flower bed mixed in with some resemblance of what they used to be in order to satisfy the mindless thousands”I think Optimus, Megatron and Ironside were portrayed in way that was loyal to the cartoon (possibly others, but it’s been a while since I’ve seen it – Wasn’t impressed by what they did with Jazz).
The film itself wasn’t up to the standard I was hoping for as I’m sure it wasn’t for most, but in my opinion it didn’t mutilate the originals as some people seem to believe.
As for stepping on flower beds. That sort of thing happened in the cartoons and if such robots were to find themselves in someone’s yard in real life (as implausible as it is) I’m sure they would ruin a few flower beds.The film could have been great.
It wasn’t.
But it wasn’t much of a departure from the it’s source material (in my opinion).
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Haha, ah ok yeah fair enough. Well, maybe youre right. I dunno, I just mean that, by having solid characters they were consistent. They had their principles and their attitudes and they stood by them. I dont remember much flower bed crushing or bumblebee style lady swooning going on myself. Maybe it happened and I blocked it out.
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Oh and also @Dr What – I wanted a cintiq for aaaaages, but I finally got to actually play with one recently and it… it kind of sucked. It was the newest model and still felt really unresponsive, and a bit off from where I was making strokes. I think its probably a matter of getting used to but… I dont really want to have to. I like the Intuos’ better.
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I knew it!
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*licks lips*
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Where does Medion (ALDI) brand fit into all this quality-wise? I have one that I want to give away, but don’t want to insult anyone accidentally 😛
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on a scale of 1 to 100, it comes in around 4. Maybe 3.
I had one. Once. It’s like the difference between a Game & Watch and a 3DS. The look similar and they have a similar function, and there the similarities end 😛
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Okay… on a not totally unrelated matter, anyone want a footrest? Still in its original box and never used! 😛
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Hey Sugs!
I got to use one when I was working on one of the TV shows. One of the large ones. While it wasn’t perfect, it was easier for me than using the regular Intuos.
Although I’d prefer the smaller one so I could prop it up on a sketch book. Make it feel a little more natural.
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Thats it – gimme your emails! I want to chew your ear on a few things drawing related! Om nom nom!
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Thinking of getting back on the Cider bandwagon…thumbing through my Dan’s catalogue and wow, there are a lot of ciders these days. I remember Mercury and Strongbow.
Now i’m seeing Monteith’s, Rekordling, Matilda Bay and heaps more. As well as different flavours…so tell me…what’s good????
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Heard decent stuff about Rekordling but can’t say i’ve personally tried them… but having worked in a bottleshop for a few years, it sold really well, and people kept telling me how awesome it was blahblahblah
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What is the malted liquor.(beer)
What gets you drunker quicker?
What comes in bottles or in cans?(beer)
Can’t get enough of it,(beer)
How we really love it,(beer)
Makes me think I’m a man,(beer)
I can kiss and hug it,(beer)
But I’d rather chug it,(beer)
Fill my belly up to here,(beer)
I could not refuse a,(beer)
I could really use a,(beer)
Beer, beer, beer.-
“And if i get drunk well, I’ll pass out
On the floor now baby
You won’t bother me no more
And if you’re drinkin’ well, you know
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Shit.
Now I gotta dig out my Reel Big Fish albums.
Fun Fact: They were the first band I saw live.
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Fun fact:
You and I should probably date.
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Nope. Vodka is where it’s at.
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i’ll raise your vodka
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I was going to go with Alestorm’s “Rum” but then I realised I hate rum so I’m going for the old “if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em” mentality.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOYujlASP9s
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a woman after my own heart… *swoon*
I love Korpiklaani, Svartsot are really cool too, but they’re not as… bouncy is the only way I can think to describe it. There’s also Eluveitie that you should check out.
Haven’t heard any Svartsot yet, but I do love Eluveitie and am very much looking forward to seeing them on the next 70000 Tons of Metal cruise in January. *goes off to check out Svartsot*
Not bad! I think now I will have to buy my husband one of Svartsot’s albums as a Christmas present. 😛
man, I’m so jealous of anyone that gets to go on that cruise, it has surpassed my dream to one day go to Wacken/Inferno Festival/Maryland Death Fest…
Get ALL THE CIDERZ!
Actually I’ve heard great things about a Pear cider recently. Can’t remember the brand though.
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Kopparberg? I’ve tried that one, at least. First one wasn’t bad, but it got tired fast. This pretty much sums up my general experience with most ciders, though.
Strongbow Original is my usual choice.
Magners is pretty good, more of a savoury? taste rather than fruity.
I found Bulmers a bit flat but you can chug it down really well.
Mercury from memory was quite beer like.
Monteith’s is good and I hear peeps raving about Rekordling but I have yet to try it.
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Whichever one is the super expensive one that comes in 700mL bottles and comes is Apple, Pear, or Strawberry, get that one.
It’ll cider the shit out your cider hole.
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Hahaha thanks Dan!
I think my cider hole needs a good cidering!
Reckon i’ll give the Rekordling a go and try the different flavours(Apple, Pear and Apple and Blackcurrant), then i’ll move on to a different one after that and so on and so on until I can’t feel my face…and kann noo lonnnnget tipe a prper sentens-
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the Rekorderlig ciders are really nice, but they’re really sweet, so I find I can’t have more than one at a time.
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Also, you’re a Melbourne TAYbie right? There’s a cider bar on the roof of Young & Jacksons near Federation Square. Went there when I was last in Melbourne, good stuff.
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Oh hey, if you guys get the chance, try Alize Blue and lemonade. It’s the bomb and it glows under UV light, which is always cool. Only problem, it’s a little on the expensive side but damn tasty!
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Gin & Tonic glows under UV too, next time you’re at Strike order one and impress your friends 😀
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Also if you like quality brews you DEFINITELY should check this place out:
http://www.slowbeer.com.au/Great beer/cider shop, not cheap but that’s due to the amazing stuff they bring in.
Depends on how sweet you like your cider.
Regurgadurg and Koppaburg are good but sweet as shit, so if you prefer a drier taste to your cider go for Mercury’s or even some scrumpy (the cloudy stuff, ignore the 5seeds version though) if you can track some down.
Alternatively you can tone down the sweetness of regurgadurgadurg with soda to last you longer, but of course you lose some of your alcohol %.
Montieth’s is reasonable but IMO doesn’t have anything special about it that you won’t find with the other commodity brands like Strongbow aside from a ‘Made in New Zealand’ sticker.
Rekordling Apple is average. Their Pear is awesome and if you like sweet candy-ish taste then their berry one is pretty good too. It’s what DAN! is referring to above as well.
Some of the smaller breweries have really good apple ciders. If you see it, Napoleone & Co is really good, but I don’t know how availability is. Bridge Road is quite good. Coldstream is reasonable and Pipsqueak isn’t too bad.
There’s lots of different cider variations just as there is in beer, so you probably need to find a style you like first. Still or sparkling, dry or sweet, strong or weak, apple or pear or another fruit entirely. Personally I prefer a bit of carbonation, dry and not too strong with Apple or Pear.
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Prefer it sparkling, a little on the sweet side and a bit stronger. Never really tried anything other than Apple cider so i’m kinda looking forward to these other flavours 🙂
so, I found a map of our building on our internal wiki, and I’ve started building our building (YO DAWG!) in Minecraft… good idea? or best idea?
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you must really love your work if you actually wanna rebuild it… unless of course you build it of wood and then fill it with lava… then i can understand betterer
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it’s not so much that I love my work, it’s just that it’s in a really cool old building.
well, it’s actually in an old train yard, not your typical office building…
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I don’t know…I remember a while back some kids getting in trouble for building a copy of their school in a game.
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Huh, we used to play Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory with the Computer Science & Eng guys in a map of our uni on their lab computers.
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is that the one about one of the uni massacre’s where one of the gunman had built maps similar to his uni and while doing so he listened to heavy music. and they where all like games are bad mkayyyyy metal is bad mkkaaayyy
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it won’t be public, just on my laptop until I get it built, by which point my contract will be finished here anyway 😀
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i thought you worked in a pretty awesome place? did you not recently make us all jealous because you where watching movies at work and got to meet robin williams. or did i just make a fool out of myself?
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you’re pretty close, I haven’t met Mr Williams, but he’ll apparently be at the premiere I’m attending this weekend.
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I don’t think anyone has responded to any of my ridiculously lengthy comments.
Good.
It means that nobody read them and I can sleep better knowing that people aren’t looking at text that barely counts as rough draft :p
Stupid stream of consciousness. I rather hate that style.
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Hahaha! I read one of Shane’s and was like woooaaah so cool! Then I saw you both did others and I was like awww man if I read these I’ll be here all day.
Next time you write a real long one that youre proud of, start it off by saying ‘You should really read this one Sughly’
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You know, seeing as I’m not actually proud of them.
Churning out masses of words isn’t really something I take much pride in. It’s just something I can do.
I much prefer fewer words that say something meaningful, which isn’t exactly what I aim for around these parts.
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Liar. Name me one time youve said something meaningful.
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I said I prefer it, not that I do it often :p
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My brother is the best magic the gathering player I’m ever seen, also the best RTS player of ever seen (and that’s just with a PlayStation digital pad!). I think his most powerfull single card is cromagnum… *what the Hell. I don’t even know what I was on about?
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Na not really, i’d get my butt kicked.
Na not really, never played Magic the gathering.
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My younger brother was at one point ranked third highest in the world for splatters with a Warthog in Halo 3.
Makes a brother proud!
I wonder if it’s true that Solid Snake’s continual resurrection from retirement is a metaphor for Hideo Kojima’s experience with Sony. If it is, then I feel a bit sad for him, as the Metal Gear Solid narratives are filled with frustration and a strong sense of hopelessness. If those feelings are rooted in reality, then I can’t help but feel a little off-balance. I always thought the creative arts would be a dream career, but the more I see, the less I like.
This isn’t another wall of text, just something that got me thinking, and made me a little sad.
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I think that’s more or less creative arts in a big business environment. Working on projects that involve millions are always going to have issues like this, creative arts or not.
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I actually went and checked out comparison screenies, and my god it made me depressed! But I have to say, whenever I watch one they LOOK great to me… makes me wonder how good the Jap versions must look in turn.
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As far as I know it’s only the two early films (Nausicaa and Laputa) that had the film grain removed and the levels fiddled with – the other BD releases should be identical or close to. Higher quality masters on them. I’m actually wondering if the way they suddenly jumped forward and started releasing only recent films was because they were running into issues with the original masters or something, or maybe they’re debating whether to give them the same smoothing treatment. As evidence:
See the colored pencils they’re offering with the ‘original color’ BD releases now? Look at the right side. The colors correspond to released films colors – Nausicaa, Laputa, The Yamadas, Arrietty, Ponyo, Earthsea, MAGICAL MIDNIGHT BLUE FILM, Whisper, Howl, MAGICAL GREEN FILM, MAGICAL PURPLE FILM, MAGICAL RED FILM, MAGICAL PINK FILM, MAGICAL PUKEY FILM, MAGICAL SKY BLUE FILM.
See, it was all in sync then suddenly it goes off. But this is probably bunk anyway since there’s 7 unused colors in their set but 10 un-BDed films. But I think you could probably match up some of those colors to predict some of their other releases, eg the dark blue one is probably Grave of the Fireflies, the green one is likely Totoro and the red one is guaranteed to be Porco Rosso.
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Hahaha what the hell? Pencils!
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( ´Д｀)ﾉ(´･ω･`)
You’ve probably got more cash than me as a result. Online shopping has destroyed my bank balance.
Another week slowly coming to an end.
Just two more weeks and then holymedays… er… holeadeys… um… days me no go to work 🙂
What the hell? I didnt type anything in my google search thing in the top right of firefox, and suddnely there was ‘seven samurai region b bluray’ typed in there. WHATS MY COMPUTER TRYING TO TELL ME?
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Haha well whatever it is it worked caus I went and googled it! But what the hell man, it seems like it was meant to have been released like last month or something… but it’s not in any online store! Wtf.
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A wizard has cast a spell on you that turns you into the last videogame character you played as. Who or what have you become?
So I’m undead, I guess it could be worse.
I better go light some bonfires!
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A bearded ninja wizard who dies frequently and is battling Cthluhlu.
At least I have manly pink robes.
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Why did I just have to test out Batman: Arkham City and play as Catwoman, otherwise It’d totally be Nathan Drake. An upgrade. haha.
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same anime fans might be able to help me actually
(sorry this topic reminded me)when i was a kid, i remember watching a weird Japanese anime on TV, don’t know what it was called, and i didn’t understand what was going on cause i didn’t speak english… but general gist was it was a teenage boy who inadvertently turns into a girl each time he gets water on him…
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Ranma 1/2
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I win! Yesssssss…
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A blocky minecraft version of one of the guys from LMFAO…..doing the wiggle wiggle in his undies whilst acquiring wood.
A twisted yordle. He is a master of the magical black arts, as well as a corrupter of cosmic energy. Dancing around behind a giant bear and insect thingy.
Piccolo!
I’ve been playing old DBZ fighting games on the PS2 lately. Good fun. Piccolo is awesome.
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“are… are you a yoshi? can i ride you?” -Goku
if you don’t know what i’m referring to, look up DBZ abridged on youtube… it’s amazing
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“Oh my god, Lord Slug is a…a..”
“DON’T SAY IT, GOKU! He’s a Namekian! NA-ME-KI-AN! He is not a Yoshi!”*Love that series. So much good material in there.
*quote likely 90% incorrect
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that lord slug movie was amazing…
“Hey”
“hey”
“how’s it going?”
“i’m just waiting on that green jerk to come down the stares and i’ll show him”
“neat”
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“oh”
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Do not start a quote train! We could be here for hours with it. 😛
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*Toot Tooooooot*
“i am hilarious and you will quote everything that i say”okay i’ll stop now
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DOOOOODGE!!!
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*kindles a bonfire for you* Yep, I’m my Dark Souls guy. I restored my Humanity though, so at least I’m not all ugly and Hollowed.
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Just thought I’d share that with all of you.
Please excuse me while I reply to an unrelated thread….
Awesome news, an ex Australian Fed police employee was arrested in MY suburb over the last 24 hours for having a bunch (read tens of thousands) of child porn pictures and videos.
I have a 2yo son living in the same suburb as this sick fuck! Awesome.
Forgive the swears.. but seriously… sick fuck!
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Yeah, heard about that on the radio this morning. I guess the fact that he got caught is a positive, at least.
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bastards like that deserve to be hung, drawn and quartered.
or maybe just straight up quartering. either way fuckers like that should be destroyed.
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i maintain they deserve to be;
shot in the kneecap
strung up by his gentleman bits
and roasted over a slow flame…i’ve heard it a painful way to die… not… that i’ve tried it… more then once
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I hate to be devil’s advocate in this case since it sounds pretty clear-cut, but what people like that deserve is a fair trial, which is something they can’t get if the media is all over them and people decide they should be murdered the instant they hear the accusation.
Also in this case incarceration and psychiatric care.
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As a father i’m glad they caught the guy. Also as a father i’m saddened he didn’t ‘bang his head’ on the way to the police car…
I think I actually have the mental capability to slow down time, because this last hour is dragging on endlessly…
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I have a similar power, but its speeding up time when its night and I’m playing a game but should be going to sleep.
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Are…are we Time Lords?
*checks pulse* It’s goin’ pretty fast. Could be two hearts in there…
Oh, wait, that’s my poor physical condition…
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could start a fat joke about how your mass has created it’s own orbit which is counteracting the earths and invariably makes the time slow down..
but that would be mean…
so i’m not going to-
You’re just jealous cause you’re not as curvaceous as me!
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Use it on me please, I need to get these &%*%&@*% Unit Tests done and investigate some performance regressions in our new build and it’s already 4:40pm and I don’t want to work overtime again.
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It’s 4:45 here, and that’s good enough. If anyone asks, you’re running off eastern time due to “Shut up and go away”.
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i’ve heard it can be quite hard and tinny, but once you crack it open it’s sweet sweet gloriousness
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Freyr, I have a question:
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Reply Fail!
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Woah, dont tell me that! Thats like telling a fat guy what he ate during the day before he goes to bed.
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Thems fightin’ words..!
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I’ll rant you so hard, rant you right here in the thread if you dont shut it. Rant you right in the kisser
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I was ranting hard when you posted that.
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You know, for someone who appeared to accept said challenge, you haven’t done a very good job of fulfilling the requirements.
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Plan for the weekend: Makoto Shinkai. I got BD copies of 5cm Per Second and Hoshi o Ou Kodomo / Children Who Chase Lost Voices from Deep Below earlier this week and will watch both. Been putting off watching 5cm for a long time, because it’s only been available on DVD or via piracy.
Also, construction of Lego. And then if I have time, I’m thinking I might ditch Skyrim for a while since I honestly haven’t been drawn into it that much (I get drawn in when I play it, but it doesn’t make me want to play more, if that makes sense?) I might start on Skyward Sword.
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Legooooo! Hell yeah! Every time my son pulls it out, he gets bored of it before I do. Shame really, could go on for hours.
I think I’m gonna start Skyrim. But dont tell Hugo…
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I want to get Zelda, but am putting it off until I play Xenoblade. I haven’t even started it between Skyrim and LoL.
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(The text below is completely pointless. I’m just ranting my cold black heart out. It’s probably best that you ignore it, but I thought, since I’d typed it, I may as well post it anyway.)
Last night I attended some university exhibition thingy which I apparently agreed to attend.
At the end of the night my friend told me there was another one tonight at a different uni, once again with the bizarre and completely misguided assumption that I had agreed to go.
My response was something along the lines of (trying to be polite – he’s sensitive):
“Yeeeeah… I’m not so sure about that…”
“I dunno, I’ll probably be working late tomorrow…”
“How long will it go for?”
“Hmm… well I’ll probably finish work late, then it’ll take me an hour to get there and then it’ll finish and I’ll have to get home somehow…”
“Is Chris going? No? Hmm…”
“We’ll see, but I wouldn’t bet on it”
etc.
I basically said maybe but most likely no.
He just doesn’t get it.
Text message just then: “I can meet you half way. Ride in together?”
RRAAARRRGHH! WHY WON’T HE LEAVE ME THE F*** ALONE!?!?
There’s absolutely no reason for me to attend this thing. I never went to uni. I’m not a f***ing architect. It’s not even his uni. I attended last nights even because he had some of his stuff on display and some old friends were there. He kept saying stuff like “You’re a designer, you can give me some advice”
I’m not a goddamn designer! I stare at spreadsheets all f***ing day!
He’s like a high maintenance girlfriend.
When we meet up he tells me how many weeks it’s been since we last met up. When he introduces me to other people he tells them how long we’ve known eachother (THEY DON’T GIVE A F***)
Blergh! I’m not going to stop ranting if I don’t stop now…
Eeeeend scene!
(Sorry)
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Sounds a little attention starved to me… Never a good feeling, but there’s only so much you can take…
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Just letting you know this made me lol heartily. I recall having friends like this in the past. Not sure how I managed to drop them…
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By being really antisocial, and simply refusing to associate with any of your friends?
No?
I guess that’s just me then.
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So, so, so much TAY!
Re Shane: Yep, I think it was Wittgenstein. The quote is something like ‘if we spoke a different language we could perceive a different world’.
Re: people popping up in articles about women in gaming/sexism just to rant about it, that’s the way it seems to me. Most of them clearly never post in TAY and I never see them comment on anything else.
I find it very amusing that most gaming-focused articles on Kotaku get perhaps 20 or 30 posts, on a good day, but anything that touches a controversial topic often gets over 100, with many of those posts complaining that the issue isn’t important and discussing it is a waste of time.
Japan on Monday! Imma gonna be so freezing.
@Harli Looks like that Dan guy isn’t the only person you know from Dr D, I was looking at the DLF Industry Group, and noticed that Chris Lee is a mutual friend between us 😀
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Not much, not much. I’m kind of sad that there’s nowhere to buy caffeine open at this hour that isn’t a servo, as I may have to go to bed.
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That sucks.
I just had to call my suburbs security, got them to drive past my house, had to flush out a bunch of no good kids making a nuisance of themselves on my front lawn. Good damn kids.
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To be honest, not so much kids. More drunks.
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I know I’m an hour late for this, but you have suburb security?
I find this concept… intriguing. Admittedly, I live in a suburb filled with old people(so many old people), so absolutely nothing happens, but still.
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Pretty fancy suburb.
Might hang out there… If it wasn’t for all of the security.
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Okay, back from Foo Fighters, here’s my review – thingy.
First Band, F**ked Up weren’t all that great. The lead singer sounded horrible and the crowd weren’t really into them all that much.
Tenacious D were bloody hilarious. Their between song banter was so funny that I nearly peed myself. Unfortunately I only knew two of their songs that I could sing along to, Tribute and F**k her Gently, but it was highly worthwhile.
That brings us to the main event.
All I can say is this:
If there is any other concert that I go to in the rest of my life that will be memorable, it will have to turn it up to 13.
Because the Foo Fighters went over eleven.
Yes, it was that freaking good.
My throat was sore from all of the singing I did.
Dave Grohl is honestly one of the best frontmen in music. The way he engages the entire crowd. From the fans in the front, to the people sitting all the way up the very back, they ensure that everyone got their money’s worth.
Speaking of up the back, perhaps the most memorable moment of the night came when a fan managed to make his way onto the stage, because he was stuck all the way up the back and couldn’t get to see enough of the band.
So Dave walked right up to the far end of the stage, acoustic guitar in hand, before belting into Wheels, dedicated to the fans with the crappy seats.
All in all, this concert was one I definitely won’t be forgetting any time soon.
I can’t wait to go to their next show in Melbourne when they tour.
And for those of you in the other states who have tickets, I’ll say this:
Don’t let those tickets go, because they will be your gateway to one of the greatest experiences that you will ever bear witness to.
So, if I had to give it a score, it’d be a perfect 10/10 but only because they didn’t allow a perfect 12. 😀
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Aww man! Can’t believe I didn’t buy tickets to this! Regretting it now…
Sounds like you had an amazing time, super jelly. Like, aeroplane level of jelly.
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Now I must curse the reply button, for it is clearly his fault, and not that of my stubby fat fingers that this did not reply to Freyr(Or technically it is supposed to be a reply to myself replying to Freyr, but I’m sure you understand the point)! While not increasing the number of root posts, this reply is still necessary, why?
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Something, something, words, silly reply button(I’m just using you CrazyGuy1990 because your name is there, and I honestly have no idea what you would say, so insert some more words here).
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(In a deep voice) Geez Blaghs, way to screw up with the reply button, I’d hate for that to happen to me.
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He replied to his own post, just ignore it.
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Oh right, yeah, that makes sense.
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Post, post, words, surpise at what I’m seeing, potentially a double post because my internet just exploded…
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What, what’s happening? Why have we all stopped using the reply button, I don’t understand(In this case “I don’t understand” is not in fact a question, but I’m going to let the question mark slide)?
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And this final misreply concludes the Blaghman lesson on how to extend the number of root posts, without resorting to spamming(I’m looking at you FatShady ;P), and in doing so, giving TAY more pages. And this whole sequence will barely affect my weekly score.
Any questions?
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I’m reading everything in his voice now. It’s glorious.
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Oh. TAY be broken.
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Yeah, we need someone to moderate my 6 ish posts that I posted as pretend people.
And, out of curiosity, whose voice are you using for comments?
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That… would make a lot of sense.
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Zoidberg indeed!
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Morgan Freeman and Sir David Attenborough.
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Ok, so, I’ve been watching a few of the trailers for Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning of the Thousand suns: The Peacekeeper Wars: Origins, and I’ve got a few… things I wish to comment on.
Firstly: It’s good to hear Claudia Black actually sounding kind of like Claudia Black. Not whatever the hell her voice was in Gears 3.
Secondly: Is it just me, or does it just look very MMO. Now, it’s important to note that the makers are already underway in creating an MMORPG set in the same world(and I may well be making this up, but I think they were originally one project that got split into two partway through the dev cycle), but still, from a visual standpoint, the game says “MMO” to me, in a way that I haven’t seen in a fair while.
Thirdly: It looks fun, should be good to tide me over until the next real Fable game comes out to disappoint me even further.
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I liked the voice she did in Gears 3.
I’m on the line when it comes to Kingdoms of Amalur. Everytime I hear or see anything about it it’s always about how awesome the combat system is. The combat system does seem awesome but I’m more concerned with what sort of RPG it’s going to be. Will it be sandbox like an Elderscrolls game or follow a story like a BioWare game? Will it have branching dialogue trees or will choices be made similar to the Fable games? Will it even have dialogue and choices or is it being called an RPG because it’s full of stats and gear?
I also question whether they’re getting a bit ahead of themselves by creating both a single player rpg and an mmo around this world as well as plans for more games, books, action figures etc. It would be wiser to wait and see whether people enjoy the first game before jumping into all that stuff.
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No, It’s just Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, but since it has Claudia Black I figured I’d chuck in a Dragon Age and Farscape reference…
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@Blagh/Flu
Not a fancy suburb, just one that needs security. Being right on the train line kind of attracts unwanted attention. Had to call them a couple of times since I moved in, and a few weeks back someone threw a rock through our front window. Not cool.
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Using the sweet sauce of science, I broke TAY.
I was trying to prove something, and I’d say it worked remarkably well…
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I’m a what?
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They asked me if I knew how to spell “playwright” when I went for my job at the newspaper. Brother, I know how to spell playwright. Because some people think it’s “playwrite”. WTF? OMG! LOL (i always taste vomit when i write “LOL” sometimes). Knuckleheads. Imagine doing “playwrite”. Lucky I’m not a knucklehead. Knuckleheads are knuckleheads.
Hey just wondering if anyone in TAy plays or has played Project zero, the survival horror game that uses a camera?
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it’s actually better on xbox. I was just asking as the spin off on 3DS looks like it won’t be localised =(
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I played the first one on PS2 or something. I gave it away because it was too scary. Ghosts give me the heebie-jeebies because they’re not tangible.
My farewell message is just so rambunctious. I don’t mean anything by it. But still. So rambunctious. I didn’t want it to end like this.
I didn’t even want to write a farewell message if truth be known. But I think it’s the right thing to do. Or is it? You never know whether it is or it isn’t the right thing to do. People never tell you. People never tell you anything.
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Plainview is setting sail, travelling to far off lands, journeying abroad, chasing wenches and chundering everywhere. Potentially not the latter. Plainview goes where Plainview must, and so, for now at least, this is our goodbye. All we may do now is sit, and pray for his return!
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Blaghman’s summary is frighteningly accurate! These are all things I enjoy; I’m writing them down on my itinerary so as not to forget them.
I’m leaving on Monday. But I’m too drunk and happy now to publish my sullen, rambunctious and belligerent farewell to all things.
I don’t like to use the word “belligerent”, but it really is belligerent. It’s too controversial, Strange. It really is. I don’t know why I even wrote it. It’s ungracious. It wrote itself, I claim no responsibility for it. It’ll never see the light of day; I’m lighting my next cigarette with it. I might publish excerpts later tonight. Maybe. Just the nicer things or something. I don’t know.
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Finding the most extreme hipster music video of all time will require dramatic research and powerful montage music.
Can someone keep an eye on tay while I go get a drink? Make sure Blaghman doesn’t break anything while I’m gone. Blaghman always tries to break anything.
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I would like to point out, that this is the first time I have broken TAY.
And damn, this is a humdinger of a break.
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Harli is very good at breaking all the things.
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*If i post this at 8:45 PM, I’m allowed one more beer before continuing with the hipster project. #fcukfc&k?nghipsters.
Anyone for tennis? We have tennis courts here, and a trampoline, and also a swimming pool. I mainly just smoke cigarettes on the tennis court and get drunk in the pool . . . and sleep on the trampoline. “Fitness first”, that’s what I always say.
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It’s simple enough, only the things that appear below this(at the time of posting) are broken, so you can just pretend that they don’t exist until they get moderated, any other posts which are stretched out are solely the work of a person ignoring the reply button.
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Never heard of it! Only boring people are boring. I have swimming, tennis and trampoline; or drinking, smoking and sleeping as I prefer to call them. And I’m kind of working on the hipster project, too.
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*sometimes I can be a real jackass. I mean, not as ignorant as Bam Margera’s twitter account or anything. Not that ignorant like that at all. But sometimes close. Sometimes as close as that. But the big difference is I try to be a good person. I really try. I really do.
“And if you never call me I’ll be somewhere down in Tennessee, washing away my sorrow in a cold cup of Hennessy.”
I need for the hipster project music videos to have people running around in the forest in like the way hipsters dream about.
I’m basically looking for the hipster dream captured on dirty hipster film and featuring dirty hipsters. Full hipster. I’m talking more hipster than tumblr. Like a dirtier, more desperate hipster version of tumblr, like actually captured on film. Like documentary or something.
Tonight we dine in hell-!!!!!!!
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I just watched Red Riding Hood and now I’m about to go to bed. Plainview, you should email me your belligerent farewell, it deserves to be read by someone and if it’s me then I can feel all superior and important and stuff.
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I’d be doing you a favour by not sending it to you, Strange, I really would be.
And it’s because you are so special (First Lady, etc) that I’m not sending it. If I was going to send it to anyone, rest assured, I’d send it to you. But it’s that bad that I’m not even going to send it to you.
It’s like, imagine something worse than combining Vanilla Sky and . . . maybe . . . I don’t know . . . that M. Night Shyamalan movie starring Mark “Marky Mark” Wahlberg. My farewell letter was the broken shards of the gruesome collision between those horrible, awful movies just crashing together. Boy, did I make a mess of it.
It started with this poem that was a bit like:
“And it was said in darkness on edge of daylight’s dawn: on the 14th Floor is found of wisdom’s final words”.
And then, finally, when you got to the fourteenth floor, then you found out it was all phony and the words of wisdom were just a quote from Bette Midler.
The quote was:
“Give a girl the right shoes and she can conquer the world” – Bette Midler.
So it’s like the great wisdom was just a Hollywood faux/pseudo philosophy. A throwaway line made for television.
But another thing was that there was no 13th floor. So of course you cut straight from 12 to the 14 and that was kind of a big deal, too.
If it worked, and if it was any good, then I’d want you to read it, and I mean that.
But I think it was kind of depressing. To make it all that way and just find Bette Midler at the end of all things. That’s all that was on the 14th floor – Bette Midler.
I really think you would’ve been disappointed. It was impossible not to be disappointed; that’s just the kind of story it was.
I wish I wrote something better for my last goodbye. But all I could think about was Bette Midler. I don’t even know why?
I don’t want to be remembered as that guy who did the lousy Bette Midler story that one time.
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Wow.
I think that video clip may have given me epilepsy…
And I’ll agree that it does have a fair amount of side-boob.
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Dude, tell me about it, sometimes I put a wooden spoon in mouth before I press play [i don’t think they do that anymore]. But sometimes I think that sometimes epilepsy is the price you pay for really, really good quality side-boob . . . sometimes.
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I’m not sure, as it’s not really an area of expertise of mine, but I can only imagine that there are better, more easily accessible sources of side-boob on the internet, though I could well be wrong. I guess for now we’ll have to live with the light induced seizures.
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Seizures or no seizures, Blaghman, Rhianna is the holy grail of internet side-boob.
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Jo, I don’t think so this time, old buddy. I think this is the end for old Plainview.
Before – when I went away – I kind of knew I’d be back, and so I didn’t bother with any phony goodbyes or that kind of thing.
But this time, I think it’s the end; I kind of know it’s the end. I’m not going be visiting again for a very, very long time.
I hate goodbyes, but I thought it best I stop in today and say goodbye – show my appreciation and all that kind of thing.
If I come back then this won’t be goodbye at all! And we can all laugh at that time Plainview said goodbye and didn’t mean a damn thing by it! That’s what I hope. But I don’t think it’s going to be like that this time.
Hipsters make really, really, good music videos. I feel like the hipster project has taken to me to this place like in Gran Torino where Clint Eastwood drinks so much Pabst Blue Ribbon that he ends up falling in love with his neighbours and then goes on a kill-crazy shooting rampage and kills all the bad people dead.
It’s a little bit warm tonight. I say warm, but I actually mean fc#k?ng hot. It’s so fc#ck?ng hot tonight. So fc#k?ng hot I had to break the no smoking in the swimming pool rule. Broke that rule to pieces. Don’t worry, I was careful not to ash in the pool, as the old saying goes. [probably not an old saying].
To research the hipster, I had to become the hipster. I’ve been reliably informed hipsters enjoy smoking in swimming pools and bathtubs. I also hope they enjoy Tooheys Extra Dry and Jack Daniels . . . because that’s happening also.
I can only assume this is some kind of hipster paradise and perfect for my research.
Dear Mark,
Please give my Witcher 2 prize to Bish.
He had the best photoshop that didn’t win a prize.
Signed: Plainview.
[can someone please remind Mark about this? . . . like, remind him every week or something?]
I never really know what to say when I’m leaving some place? You never really know the right thing to say . . .
\o/
Steve Holt?
I had my first ever D&D night last night. It was awesome. Anyone have tips on how to do things faster though? it took us like an hour to kill 3 wolves.
And thus it was noted, that on December 4th, 2011, Cyclone Plainview struck TAY, sending posts across pages 18, 19 and 20.
No one could have predicted the storm’s severity, leaving posters bewildered and dazed at the sudden occurrence of what had happened.
It is believed that the cyclone occurred due to the misery of a poster leaving Kotaku and in their grief, unintentionally spread posts across three pages of TAY as a fond farewell.
Fortunately, there were no injuries as a result of the storm however, grief was felt and posters began replying in an effort to cheer Plainview up.
Thanks for everything, Plainview. I’ll miss you. 🙂
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May it also be noted in the logs that my posts are still unmoderated, or potentially all deleted?
So long Plainview, I hardly knew you…
No really, I have no frickin’ idea who you were. Or are if you’re still around to read this.
Best of luck in whatever it is that you are doing. I start a new job tomorrow so I’m also starting on a new journey. We can be new-beginning buddies. Except we can’t, because you’re gone.
Farewell!
[Salutes]
Wow. I leave this house for one weekend and look what you kids do. Just wait till your mother gets home. I want you all to go to your rooms and think about what you’ve done. And no games for a month.
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I was trying to prove a point, and I killed everything for everyone forever. By which I mean that Mark will hopefully moderate these, and then everyone can see them except for the fact that we’ll have a new TAY…
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I think Mark decided that since Blaghs broke this one, we didn’t deserve a new one. Or maybe he’s in mourning over Plainview so he’s never going to let this TAY end. We have to post in this one for all eternity.
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wow, there really are posts all over the place aren’t there?
good job Mr Plainview and Mr Blaghman.
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Waddup Bish?
I bought some Roadies on the weekend (Chilli) and had to exhaust every ounce of my willpower to stop eatin them.-
I was like that with cheesy potato skins ones. Then I bought another packet last week and haven’t even opened it yet. I think I must be sick or something. 😛
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My hand had a life of its own. It just kept on reaching into the packet even though I my brain was saying no.
The solution I found was quite simple; I just put the bag out of arm’s reach (I could still reach it by leaning forward, but it seemed to work)
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Seriously F this time of the year in the A with a rusty spork…
My nose is so red and itchy and dry from constant hayfever for the past week…
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