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That’s usually where a decent father would drunkenly lay into the kid.
On a more serious note – how shit is moving? I don’t see how Bee enjoys it so damn much 😐
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It’s not the greetest. But we haven’t started yet. Selling our house is going to be shit. Hoping this other house doesn’t get sold in the meantime :\
So quite a while ago I decided to write an article in relation to things that have been annoying me about games lately. A few of the teamspeak people might remember me talking about it.
I sent it to mark for let off some steam but I think it was a bit much steam. So now I’m finally getting around to sticking it on the internet for anyone interested to have a look.
The topics are DLC, DRM and piracy.
Warning: Wall of text!
Part 1: http://wp.me/p1pUdn-f
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Yeah, I got a little carried away. Worst part is there is still soooooooooo much I just skimmed over.
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Spaghett’s Last Song Played Game
Hate Everyone by Say Anything
My train was late, there was too many people on it, and then the station seemed full and they all wanted to be everywhere I was
It made me anxious
And angry
And now, our system is down
I truly hate everyone, I also hate everything
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36 Crazyfists – can’t remember which song, but it was off Bitterness the Star. It’s been years.
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D.C.’s NOVAMEAT WRITE-UP:
— I met Sughly in the city at 2:45pm, the plan was to meet at South Bank. I was waiting at South Brisbane. This started an ill-fated adventure of missing turns, not knowing where we were going and talking about adventure games and David Bowie. (And David Bowie in adventure games.) Sughly’s so damn awesome. I appreciate the ride more than you know, friend!
— We were supposed to meat Nova at TimeZone below his hotel at 3pm. We arrived well after 5:30pm. :S Atleast the entire group arrived at once, though. Mrs. Freeze, Freeze, Sughly and I car pooled into Surfer’s Paradise. (I didn’t even get randomly king hit there, so it’s not quite as bad as you would think it’d be.)
— We all did the awkward introductions with user names and then mosey’d on over to the Hard Rock Cafe. Crazy attentive waitresses. Tasty food. Choking incidents. Pepsi girl. The Hard Rock Cafe had it all, my friends. The Hard Rock Cafe had it all. I had some shredded pork sandwich dealy. It was good eating!
— We went to Time Zone afterwards and bought a three hour pass that gave us almost unlimited access to the place. Lots of shenanigans went down here. Mrs. Freeze beating me at strength tester, everyone beating me at laser tag, getting violated by a massage chair. Good times!
— The group went Bowling. D.C. decided his only chance not to lose at that too was to not play at all. The strategy paid off. I totally didn’t lose here. NovaCascade’s got skills to pay the bills, though. Strike after freakin’ strike. :S He won!
— Wandered around Surfers for a while, talked randomly on the street. D.C. made repetitive jokes and awkward small talk. Then Nova went back to his hotel and the rest of us went back to the Freeze homestead!
— Freeze and D.C. had a live action version of TAY until 2:30 am, talking about all kinds of random stuff. Sughly fell asleep on the couch sometime earlier. The guy sure likes his snoring! 😛
— In the morning Freeze’s daughter decided to teach me how to play the My Little Pony iPad game. I’ve got no idea how to talk to kids and was on high alert the entire time. Cool kid, though.
— We saw Django Unchained. Then parted ways with Mrs. Freeze and Freeze. Thanks for the hospitality you guys, so damn kind.
— Sughly drove me back to Brisbane and I’m really, really worried that I talked too much about adventure games. :'(
— D.C.’s post meat crazy starts to kick in and begins to wonder how badly he screwed up. :S
The end!
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Dude, it sounds like you did amazing
Freeze stayed up with you till 2:30, he didn’t snatch his daughter away from you and tell her not to go near the crazy jibbering man
And you were at their house
Sounds good
Sounds good, no worries at all brother, come to NSW and meet me
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What are you talking about? They clearly all hat him and feel uncomfortable sleeping with him around.
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3 things:
-Talk to kids just the same way you talk to anyone else.
– I thought you were adamant you were not going to see Django Unchained?
– I’m pretty sure there’s no such thing as too much adventure game talk, especially with Sughly. 😛-
Sughly and Freeze conspired behind my back and made the Django plans. It was horrible. Except for getting to hang out with them and seeing an awesome movie. Otherwise? HORRIBLE. 😛
Also, I tend to swear a little and talk about ‘adult themes’ that’s not appropriate for kids. 😀
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I don’t think I’ve ever heard you swear, so yeah talk to kids the way you’d talk to me then. 😛
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Nice work!
And of course he did. He should know by now that we know what’s best for him…(Dark Souls)…. 😀
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Now someone else should totally write up some thoughts so I can read between every line with worry. 😛
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QLD MEAT WITH QLD PEOPLE
DC was a jerk, but everyone was too polite to say anything. Some people pretended to sleep, but everyone was keeping an eye on him.
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Stop worrying. Just accept it 😛
@strange @freezespreston @sughly tell DC how much you hat him.
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I hat him this much -> .
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And by “this much” I mean the empty space between the arrow and the dot.
@dc
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D: That seems like a lot.
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@dc
It’s EMPTY you doofus. As in in there’s nothing there and that’s how much hat I have for you. None! 😛
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Although in complete seriousness, if I said any thing that offended any one or came across as jerky it wasn’t intentionally at all and most likely a nervous attempt to be funny. So if I wronged you somehow, I’m sorry. :'(
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Also tell me if I did something wrong, it’s the only way I’ll learn!
Hi Taybies.
Hope your weekends were good. I saw QT’s “Django Unchained” over the weekend, and I swear I’ve never seen as much use of a particular word in a movie.
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My friend i made from school whom I hadn’t talked to for a year randomly invited me to see the movie. Thought I should probably do the right thing.
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MORNING ALL
I had a good weekend, made beer and played table tennis, was good.
In other news after seeing how reasonably priced the Nexus 4 is I am thinking of maybe possibly jumping off the iPhone4 wagon for one. Anybody have any experience with the new Nexus, I’m hearing good things but I would appreciate second opinions.
Also in videogames I killed the Hellkite Dragon, my sprinting across the bridge in a panic days are over. Now all that is left is small issue of Kalameet 0_0
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Nexus 4 is an awesome piece of kit by the looks of things.
Couple of issues with it that I’ve noticed, being no expandable storage, and the second being they’re stoopid-difficult to get your hands on. Harvey Norman has unbranded stock from LG direct, though I think they’re *very* close to being sold out, whereas you can buy it on the Google Play store for $100 cheaper or so… if you find they’re in stock (they’re not).
Put simply, if you can find one, buy it.
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I can’t personally tell you my experiences with the Nexus 4, but have a look around see what people say about it and what critics have to say about it as well. I personally think it’s a great phone and is probably one of the best android phones out there currently, it’s bang for your buck too. I don’t have it, so I can’t recommend you get it. But if I did, I’d say “BUY THAT PHONE NOW!”
Ello my good Butties!
I did nothing but eat, sleep and play Ni no Kuni all weekend and now I’m 25hrs in and oh god.
Need to focus on some more important things this week!
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You mean … Nope, don’t know what could be more important then sleep, eat and video games. Maybe drinking?
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I think I’ve been playing too much Ni No Kuni since that’s usually apparent when I show up to work on the Monday feeling way too groggy.
I found an awesome grinding spot anyways.
Merit reward spoilers & lvl 40-50ish area
Once you have both exp merit rewards you should grind the monster called tokotoko they spawn at the pathway that leads up to Perdida and give 9500 exp for each one you kill however they run away after like 5 seconds in battle so you will need a fast way to deal 350 or so damage., also if you see it on the world map don’t approach it straightaway always use Veil.
Walked into a school this morning for the first time this year. You know you day is going well when the first words you hear are “Oh thank god you’re here!”
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Even better when I can shift the blame elsewhere. Unless I’m mistaken, all our school have no Internet access due to someone in head office…
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I was really excited about going on holidays. It’s been pretty much the only thing I’ve been looking forward to for the last half of last year. But things didn’t quite go to plan.
We ended up getting stuck in Maryborough in the worst floods in a hundred years. My Aunty owns a shop in the Maryborough CBD, and she was stuck across the bridge. We ended up breaking in and emptying the shop of stock, just in case the shop went underwater. It’s lucky we decided to do it when we did, because the night after, there was about a metre of water going through it. Here’s the best picture I could find of it. See the sign with the cut off love heart on the right side of the screen? That’s her shop, Kassidy’s. She’s under water. http://i.imgur.com/LoLlab0.jpg
We were literally trapped there for 4 days, living with my grandparents. Each day my wife, my best mate and I would jump onto the RACQ website to check what roads were opens and what roads weren’t. People were constantly saying things like “Oh yeah I got from Bundy to Maryborough no problem!” or “You can totally get through Tiaro!” but when we went to actually test the roads, they were metres underwater.
We rented a beach house at Rainbow Beach for 7 nights, but three of those nights were spent sleeping at my Grandparent’s place. Of course, no refunds. On the Wednesday, which should have been our fourth day at our beach house, we finally got through. What should have been about an hour long trip over the Granville bridge, down the Maryborough-Cooloola Coast Road, we had to leave Maryborough by Tinana (which is the complete opposite direction), drive an hour south to Gympie (all the while hoping that we wouldn’t come across another flooded road), then taking the Tin Can Bay road for an hour and a half back up to the junction that met with the Maryborough-Cooloola Coast road.
So after an almost three-hour trip to do what should have taken us around about an hour, we finally got to the house. We picked up the keys, unpacked our bags (dispatching a giant huntsman spider in the process), and relaxed in the pool for a couple of hours.
When we wandered down to the beach itself, we were greeted with what looked like a warzone. There was black silt and cyclone debris scattered all across the beach, topped with a heady layer of foam. The beach was closed. On our beach holiday, we wouldn’t even be able to use the gorram beach. Excellent.
On the Thursday, I wasn’t really in a good headspace. Without thinking, I jumped into the gorram pool, with my gorram Samsung Galaxy S2 in my pocket, completely destroying it. The rest of the holiday was spent either floating in the pool, watching Adventure Time and Regular Show marathons on cartoon network, watching Discovery Science and playing Pokemon.
Helliday 2013. Next time we’re going somewhere that doesn’t flood.
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I hear the best kind of holiday is the kind that makes you appreciate your everyday life. Sounds like you had one of those \o/
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I was feeling so bad for you, I know how much you were looking forward to that holiday.
And I’m sure you tried it, but just in case: I hear putting a water-immersed phone in a container of rice can sometimes help.*supermegaginormous hugasaurus rex*
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Haha yeah already tried that one. I pretty much leapt out of the pool and shouted at my best mate, “WE NEED TO GO TO THE SHOPS FOR A LARGE BAG OF WHITE RICE RIGHT F*CKING NOW”
I’m sure in a Judd Apatow comedy it would have been funny.
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I’ve had my phone notifying me of Facebook things because that’s how Mr. Strange and I were keeping in contact while he was away.
At 1am this morning I was woken up by a FB notification. I checked and it was a friend request from Thobbe Englund, that guitarist from Sabaton. 😀
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I initially downvoted you, before I googled him and found his real name is Thorbjörn Englund. Why would he change that?!
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Apparently it’s a common nickname for people named Thorbjörn. But I’m still with you on the whole why thing. It’s an epic name.
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Thorbjörn conjures images of a glorious viking warrior.
Thobbe kind of makes me think of a willy.
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Indeed. Although I’m happy with both connotations. 😉
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Your ol buddy Spaghett has tickets to Mindless Self Indulgence sidewave in sydney on the 28th of February
I have to work the next day 🙁
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Just call in sick and say you have come down with a mild case of “death” but you should be in next week.
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Just want to say I really appreciate @dc leaving out the detail of when there was a freaking enormous huntsman in my bedroom and I hid in the kitchen and made my wife kill it. Now no one need to know of my shame.
Hi all!
How was everyone’s weekend?!
Had a 21st on Saturday night which was at the Belgian Beer Cafe in the city. It was the first time I’d been there and my god.. the beer menu.
8. Pages. Long.
So much choice! It took a while for me to actually choose one. So long, in fact, that i had someone else choose for me. Then i consumed a marvelous plate of Pork Belly. Mmmm Mmmm.
Bee’s off with her friend tonight (who’s 21st it was) staying in Ballarat for the night, meaning i have the night for myself – so now i’m stuck wondering what i should indulge myself in… hmmm..
On call this week, and the weekend was fucking terrible. So many goddamn calls. Not difficult jobs, but all time consuming. Anyhoo, on call runs till Friday, so here’s hoping that’s my punishment for the week.
Apart from working, I managed to play a pile of WoW, watch a couple more episodes of The Pacific, which I recently picked up on BD. Been meaning to watch it for some time, especially being a massive fan of Band of Brothers. 4 episodes in, and it hasn’t quite hit the same chord as BoB, but still a bit to go yet.
Managed to get a few hours of Ni No Kuni in finally, and I have to say I’m enjoying it. The art style is undeniable, it’s prettiness is a given. The gameplay is getting me, as they introduce more elements. I’m loving the familiar dynamic, equipping them, feeding them, etc. haven’t got to capturing yet, but looking forward to it.
It feels like a throwback to older JRPG’s, which I’m really digging. A world map, roaming mobs, a nice simple yet pure approach to combat, equipment etc.
I was wary of how the characters and the story would sit with me, but it turns out I’m OK with it. Ollie doesn’t really amaze me, nor does he annoy me. I’m just fine with him. Mr Drippy is also completely not irritating, and it’s nice the whole Welsh thing hasn’t been overdone.
I’m only about 3.5 hours in, and not yet ready to sing it’s praise to the heavens, but I’m really enjoying it, and that makes me happy.
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Yeah, Pacific was just eh compared to Band of Brothers.
Ni no Kuni is awesome though, WORLD MAP!!
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MY GOD IT WAS!
Personally though, I was expecting Wind Waker to be the best, but Majora’s Mask blew me away. Probably because I really didn’t expect them to play it.
Anyway, worth the $400 it cost me to watch it, and would definitely pay to see it again. -
I’m assuming this probably won’t get much love, but…
How interested would people be if, at some point in the future, there was a community playdate for Battlefield 3 and/or Call of Duty MW2/Blops2/MW3 on PC?
Quick literary question. I’m not familiar with thrillers and horrors when it comes to literacy, so my question is, is it more tension building to read those genres from a first person perspective or third person? For example, is it more thrilling/scary to read something like:
I held my breath, terrified of making a noise, as I watched in terror as a shadow appeared beneath the door.
or
Alice held her breath, terrified of making a noise, as she watched in terror as a shadow appeared beneath the door.
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Well, I guess it depends how you read it. I tend to read first person as happening right now, as opposed to a character retelling events at a later date.
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Than write it like
I’m holding my breath, terrified of making a noise, as I watch in terror as a shadow appears beneath the door.
Note: I’m joking.
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First-person present-tense is horrid. It’s the only thing that will instantly turn me off of a book.
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Do you mean like Freeze’s example of “I’m holding my breath”? Because my comment was more about how when I read something in first person, if it says “I did this”, “I did that”, I always imagine it as the character telling the audience right as it’s happening, rather than at a later date. If I were to write in first person, it would be in the way that many people apparently interpret in a past tense, though I personally would be interpreting it in the present.
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Here’s an example of the style: http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/top_right/2011/07/thanks_for_the_knife.html
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In the SciFi horror novel I’m writing at the moment, it’s told from a third-person, past-tense perspective. I have a branching narrative with three individual stories going on at once, so third-person is the best way for me to make sure I’m telling the story with the same ‘voice’.
Whenever I write first-person, the person ends up having their own unique ‘voice’ that really couldn’t go across multiple characters.
If you have one single protagonist, there’s nothing wrong with going for either first-person or third-person. Dean Koontz’s Fear Nothing/Sieze the Night novels are amazing examples of first-person tension building.
With third-person, you can convey a lot more of what’s going on outside of a character. If you write in first-person,you’re completely tied to that one singly character’s perception of the world around them. And sometimes that can be a lot more terrifying.
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Thanks for the advice. I was only planning on having a single protagonist, so maybe first person would be best. It would certainly help maintaining some mystery, as the reader would only know what the protagonist knows, and the protagonist wouldn’t know all the details about the situation at hand.
Hard to say. It can work either way. Regardless, the focus needs to be as tightly focused on the character as possible, without any kind of narrator omnipotence (as that can ruin the suspense of the moment).
In that sense, it’s often easier to be in first-person, because there’s almost no chance of slipping into an expository lapse.
Also, I have a dislike of multiple “as” in a single sentence. Ruins the flow. Also multiple ‘terror’ and derivatives.
I didn’t dare move, terrified of making a noise. The light coming in under the door disappeared, blocked by a passing figure. I held my breath as the footsteps stopped…
The above is easily adaptable to third-person.
Dear @shane
When selling a house, to avoid any heartache and stress it is usually advisable to just accept the first offer made and live with no regrets. Life will be much simpler.
Regards
Freeze
PS: I’ll give you fifty bucks.
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Good advice. But we need to get a certain amount to make the move economically feasible.
So bump it up to seventy-five. For me.
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I’ll give you a sack of gold bullion and 2 sacks of heroin
Or 2 hookers and an eightball *MSI Reference*
Or, A diamond pony and some ketamine
Or, love
Or, the phillosphers stone
Or, nothing
Your choice
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I’ll give you $50 and a copy of some book thing called The Lower Evil or something.
I hear it’s okay.
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So instead of the day after Mindless off, I will take next Monday, as this Friday it is two months for Sam and I 🙂
Sitting here, watching the clock tick slowly
Hungry and thinking about lunch
So hungry
I hat this situation
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Two months? This thing’s getting entirely too serious. I forbid you from seeing this girl! 😛
(Or, you know, congrats! :D)
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Ticket to Ride (iPhone version) is free for iOS. You can play online with Game Centre friends! I’m GreenCOD, add me!
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’tis no problem!
I’ll see if I can find it amongst my things at home, DM me your address on twitter and I’ll ship it over because David Bowie 🙂-
Holy crap, you’re awesome! So tempting, man! :S
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DC. Gets. Gifts.
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Oh, so NOW he accepts them…
(@dc)
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I fucking KNEW it. @dc hats me so much 😛
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Not a problem mate, just DM your address and I’ll send it when I can 🙂
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Thanks man. So damn kind. Something I’ve wanted to play for so long.
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Get it so I can make a copy of your copy
Edited out for double post, so I’m replacing this one with a link to the Puppy Bowl.
http://animal.discovery.com/tv-shows/puppy-bowl
SPORTSBALL DAY! (Superbowl, American Football for those not in the know, AKA a crapton of people)
Wait what do you mean the game’s already on
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Have you at least got the nfl gamecenter on? Had realtime drive chart so I’m watching that.
Going to head to the pub after halftime break. For ‘lunch’ of course
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…would that be pronounced “Superbowel?”
I was going to google a funny image for that, but don’t think it’s a good idea at work 😛
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I like how my Game Centre app opens with a giant “No Friends” written across the screen. Way to be subtle about it.
Still nothing to do
Still thinking about lunch
Reading any articles that pop up here on Kotaku
@shane was right, TAY day for sure
Morning gang!
On Friday night I had one of those ‘why is this person my friend?’ moments. Went out for drinks with some old friends and one of them spent the entire night brooding and bitching at everyone because we were half an hour late (the trains were delayed due to wet weather, so out of our control). I was tempted to just walk off and go home, but the allure of alcohol is just too much. 😛
I’m really enjoying Ni No Kuni, but I had to bump the difficulty down. This is because I died during one of the later tutorial sort of battles that come up when a new mechanic is introduced. I like the battles because it feels like you have a lot of things to manage at once, and pulling it off is great, but dying means losing money and I’m an in-game money-hoarder so I couldn’t let that happen.
I’ve been naming my familiars after TAYbies, but I don’t have many. DocWhat is the first guy you get, NotoriousR (or Notty) is a monkey-guy, Blaghsie is a green fairy thing, which probably should have been called Greenius, and Cracks is some purple guy with a horn for a mouth, I don’t know why. Naming creatures after friends is fun, okay?
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NNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
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Haha, I want pics
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I’ve yet to see a single beard in this game.
Wait, no, I’ve seen one. One beard. Not good enough, though.
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Is this that friend you bitched about to me before? 😛
I thought I was really shit at the game but turns out I went out of bounds and were facing enemies tiers above me. I could get close but could never quite beat them so I figured I just sucked :/
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I… have nothing to contribute, really.
Not that I usually do anyway, but today seems especially anti-contributory, so here’s my attempt at a contribution, so there.
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Oh, right.
I’ve *very* little to do at work lately, so instead, I’m finalising my application paperwork for my new job, while sitting at my old job. I actually feel pretty slack by doing so :S-
Worst employee ever…
Also, no more spam, promise.
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Oh, you’re awake?
I thought you were planning to hibernate with all that food you ate last night.
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I ended up going back for a fourth meal, leftover pasta with a steak (got the same again for lunch today!).
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Here’s hoping, man. I’d like a bit more meat on these bones!
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I’m thinking of taking a week off work to play Ni No Kuni. I’m not sure I’ve ever taken time off to play a game since high school.
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if not & you can avoid spoilers, I think SBS or 11 show it on free to air on a delay.
Edit: that One HD sports channel at 11.10 tonight.
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I’d be avoiding online media until that point if sportsball is your thing.
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I can always count on you in my hour of need.
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I’m just watching the game centre drive chart and highlits on nfl.com
To the pub after halftime though, sometimes it’s good to be king
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Earbud earphones or over the ear headphones?
I currently have a pair of Bose QuietComfort 15’s Noise Cancelling Headphones
Cost me 400, fantastic headphones
I am getting quite sick however, of changing batteries and carrying them around
Earbuds maybe?
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I spend two hours on the train, each way
Thats 4 hours every day
I suffer anxiety
I therefore spent 400 dollars on headphones that helps block out the noise of my train journey
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if anything that would make me more anxious that someone would steal my $400 headphones.
Also that i couldn’t hear what was going on around me… 😐-
I love not being able to hear the noise of all the scum on the train
Also, all the noises it makes
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What happened to train friends?
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They are still there
Most mornings I have been sleeping, I don’t know why but I can’t stay awake
And most afternoons there is more civvies than train friends
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Filthy train peasants.
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The train sucks man
The headphones keep the noise of the city away from me too
So many humans, so many
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I can see how the sound of a masturbating homeless man might be something you’d want to block out.
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headphones, always. Noise Cancelling earphones are pretty much same price, less bang as headphones.
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Thanks for your input Saturday 🙂
I love the headphones I have, I wasn’t thinking Noise Cancelling Earbuds, maybe just weekend earbuds, not for the train or my weekly commuting
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They would be decent for sure
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Some good noise isolating canalphones can really block out the noise; I have Brainwavz B2 and don’t hear anyone, even if a baby is next to me.
Have a look at this post and choose your price range, they recommend good ones for all types.
http://headphones.com.au/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=6206
Morning all,
Fun weekend was had basically hobbling everywhere because of a pinched nerve on friday that still hasn’t popped out … on the plus side I’ve gotten way better at hobbling. I attempted to play through some more Dark Souls, but it was basically deaaaaaath! every few seconds … had to restart and ended up in the exact same predicament. So it got booted from the xbox and I’ve been playing through true vault hunter mode in borderlands 2.
Kind of hesitant to buy dead space 3 when it comes out because I know it’s going to be a tight fortnight, money wise. But we shall see what happens.
Morning everyone.
I finished the walking own this morning. Oh god that ending.
Conclusion spoilers
It was obvious that the two shadows were Christa and Omid, why couldn’t they just show us, grrrrr.
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I have no idea what you mean,but I’m serious. You (and probably Scree) should go back and edit your posts.
I haven’t played the game and I know there are a few others as well so talking about the end and saying you hate Ben is not cool. This is changing how I view Ben when I first meet him in-game.
It doesn’t matter if you don’t think it’s spoilery, it’s not about you…it’s about me and the others who haven’t played the game. It’s not that difficult to be considerate and use the spoilertags. That’s what they’re there for.
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I think the reason they didn’t really show who it was is so the player decides who it is. Kind of an open ended story which I personally think was done really well.What did you think of the game?
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I actually never even thought it was Omid and Christa. Though I think the point is that it’s up to you to decide. Unless season 2 continues from that point and it’s just the standard cliff-hanger.I actually think they could be dead in a few peoples’ games. If you sent them back to the train to wait for you and Clem, they’re likely dead, as someone (can’t remember who) says earlier that there’s not much chance of getting back out that way. Obviously that’s complete speculation though.
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I never thought it was them either… mostly because Clem is nowhere near where I told her to be. Just assumed from the outset that it was more bad news. Fits in with the ethos of the Walking Dead universe quite well
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@scree – Walking Own =/= The Walking Dead – someone might accidentally click on it thinking it’s something else (perhaps @strange did?)
It’s not obvious. It’s supposed to be vague to leave it up to the player to decide whether it was them or not.@saturday – Saying
Benis spoilery :P.Saying that you hate him too also is a bit spoilery because it means he does something incredibly stupid enough for you to hate him. “I hate Ben” and “Ben is the worst” are my two favourite phrases EVAR but going in knowing he does something stupid will completely change someone’s outlook on him. “Oh, here’s this innocent kid named Ben… wait everyone seems to hate him…” :/(DON’T READ THE TAGS STRANGE)
(@strange)
Also all this is probably moot since no one is likely to read it back here but keep that in mind for next time!
Was driving to work today, got around the corner from home and pulled down the sun visor, because sun.
Huntsman.
What i said i said out aloud, and the exact words were “OH, F**K ME!”
I then pulled the car to the side of the ride, cautiously got out, found a container to put him in and escorted him from my vehicle into a near by bush, all the while shaking like a leaf.
Interesting start to the day, i say!
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If it were me I probably wold have shrieked and maybe caused a traffic accident.
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My housemate has a sizeable fear of spiders, and almost caused a crash while I was driving once.
Spider sprinted across the windscreen (outside) while I was driving, and while I didn’t see it – her sudden shriek and leaping almost clear across the console, half onto my side – I almost had a heart attack.
After pulling over in a side street, she refused to enter my car until the spider was located and utterly destroyed.
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If it were me that huntsman would have become a permanent part of the visor/roof, accompanied by a squeal.
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I did that with a fly. There’s currently a fly corpse in front of my Green P plate on the windscreen of the car. I use it as a warning for other flies to stay away, for only death will be found in my vehicle for their kind 😛
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You are a stronger man than me. I would have pulled over, gotten out a canister of petrol, doused the car down and then set it on fire. It’s the only way to be sure.
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Not when spiders are involved I’m not.
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I would have stopped the car and thrown my wallet & car keys at the spider and shrieked “HERE, TAKE EVERYTHING. JUST DON’T HURT ME!”
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I wondered what that guy has been up to, he hasn’t been on TAY much, guess he’s just now terrorising poor defenseless TAYbies… 😛
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Up early this morning. Had to go down to my storage place and arrange to get a driver to come around with a truck so I can put some of my stuff into storage. I’ve been slowly packing and removing all my figure collection out of my cabinets and everything looks all bare and empty and it’s horrible.
Also dropped in the application forms for a new rental place for myself & my mum which I hope I get. Further out from the city than I currently live though 🙁 Feels like going backwards a bit but not much I can do, rental prices in Melbourne are insane right now.
Made some amazing pulled pork carnitas for dinner last night after I managed to find some small tins of chipotle. I previously assumed the substance was a myth. Now I understand completely. Disappointed a bit at the lack of leftovers to have for lunch today.
I haven’t had much time for games as I spent all Saturday house-hunting and then packing, but I played some more Xenoblade last night. Nearly 39 hours spent and I’m just about to commence the Prison Island area. I tried using Melia for a bit but I find her extremely difficult to figure out how to use. It’s not obvious how I’m meant to play with her – feels like there’s an ideal sequence to her abilities but the game UI doesn’t really give you enough visual feedback on what she’s got up and stuff. Sticking with Shulk. He’s better geared for me at this point anyway. Not that it matters, I just dinged 46 so I’m outleveling everything at the moment considerably, as a result of doing every timed quest in the Eryth Sea before commencing the story bits.
Unfortunately my couch will be going into storage on Wednesday along with my cabinets and my shelves and possibly my TV (still deciding) and this may put a damper on my continuing Xenoblade plans 🙁
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The strangest thing is that the chipotle I got (which are in adobo which is even better as I understand it) were brought to Australia by way of an importer in New Zealand. The place I went to had a whole lot of specialist Mexican ingredients that were either imported via or actually made there. Seems very odd.
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I think you should read my post again because I specifically mention that I did make time for more Xenoblading.
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and this may put a damper on my continuing Xenoblade plans 🙁
Downvote for that. But the idea of less Xenoblade time making you sadface deserves an upvote.
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I will probably either move my TV into my room where my cabinets were, or hook the Wii up to my monitor. The problem is surmountable!
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Morning all!!!
@dc, Omikron was indeed AMAZEBALLS… tried to get back into it a little while ago but modern day GpUS have dropped a Z-Buffer instruction set and it wont run…
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wait now i remember, the limitation was only on systems with radeon GPU’s… nVidia cards are still ok.. i was trying to run it on my laptop which has a radeon hd gpu…. maybe i should install it on my desktop machine….
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Square-Enix is butchering it slowly.
Oh! You mean the podcast? 😛
Do we have a date when people are free? Still really want you, @Strange and @Jimu on.
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I’m not comfortable to say yes. Just got over sickness and now the boy is sick. Anticipating the Mrs to be next. :-/
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I’ll try and make time whenever everyone else is free. While daylight savings is on I just can’t really do it before 8:30 NSW time.
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I remember those days. and the days before that when it was word of mouth & all the urban legends of gaming secrets were passed around & kids spent months trying to unlock Ermac in Mortal Kombat, or get the Triforce in Ocarina of Time…
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Or that you can resurrect/save Aeris or make Lara Croft nude etc. Those were awesome. And there was always that guy in class who said they’d done it.
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I remember those days. Mind you that was just because I had dial-up when everyone else had broadband, not because I’m super old… 😛
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No way! I made notes on paper. Really, I consider it defacing. I am an anal collector of shite after all.
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I made notes. In pencil 😛
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And the imprint of those notes is there FOREVER! (anal)
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Yeah, but I get to go back and look at all my notes made from primary/secondary school and that’s pretty awesome too 🙂
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Yeah? Well…I can… WAHAHHAHHAHHHHHHHHAAAAAaaaaa… *runs down the hallway*
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But you could’ve put your notes on paper and then put them in the manual for later reading!
(@jimu)
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To be honest, I occasionally find years old game notes in boxes in the garage (@greenius)
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the magazine cheats were pretty good … the best feeling ever though was when you’d go and hire out a game from blockbuster and see that someone had already filled the notes section with cheats or hints. I always had respect for whoever did that.
I could never bring myself to write in instruction manuals, even as a kid. Usually had to rely on my magazine of choice publishing a walkthrough, or talk to friends.
Goddamn that was an awful time. I’m so glad that it’s easy to get info on stuff now.
No one else ever played the games I played so without the internet I’d never have found out most of the stuff.
Hey guys, hope everyone is well. I’m back on the Playstation Network since 2010 – wow, it has changed. I can now re-download previous purchases! Could not before! Haha.
I plan to add as many of you Taybies as I can from the TAYNAMES spreadsheet, please inform me if you do not wish me to add you. Regards.
holy crap, this is hilarious. Not sure if anyone follows the IOS jailbreak scene (remember folks jailbreaking isn’t necessarily for piracy), but the IOS 6.0 & 6.1 jailbreak is about to drop any second now, for all devices including the iPad minis, iPhone 5’s etc…
back to the point, ive been reading some of the twitter posts on the #evasi0n tag, and finding all sorts of weirdos are among us…
here is this doozie of a post…
“come on #evasi0n gv us the jailbreak mi grlfriends waters broke and im not brin’in her to the hospital without a jailbroken iPhone ;-)”
…i dont even….
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also apparently there is a jailbreak for atv3 coming very soon, just make sure you’ve saved your current SHSH blobs now, or you may run into a bit of strife
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Nah I don’t actually have an ATV, I want one to use as a Plex endpoint but not until I know I can actually do it. Also will need to set up a decent Plex server at some point because I’m running it off my NAS at the moment and it’s not powerful enough to transcode (and transcoding is necessary because I watch lots of subtitled anime and lots of it is also 10-bit h264 encoded)
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wouldnt xbmc serve you better? especially its new, much hyped about 10-bit h264 support…
its new in xbmc frodo release and works wonders 🙂
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No, XBMC is a clunky horrible abortion and migrating to Plex was the best thing I’ve done for my media.
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I love Ni No Kuni
Also, I shouldn’t play Fire Emblem because I will turn off Perma-death, so says commenter.
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If there’s an option for it, play however the hell you want!
Though, I never really understood when people turn on perma and then reset whenever someone dies. Might as well play with it off…or is there some sort of respect/renown gained by having it on?
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There’s an article on it RIGHT HERE ON KOTAKU. They say it just feels more intense I think thats why they play Perma with restarts.
But yeah, I defended no perma nad apparantly I might as well watch a YouTube vid and not play cos there is no game without it.
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It’s about the challenge of trying to clear a stage with all the people you like staying alive. Executing a perfect strategy to get everybody across the line. You can do that without permadeath, but it’s not as… rewarding? I dunno the right word to use there 😛
Not that I’m saying that’s the right way to play or anything. Including it as an option is the best thing that has happened to the series, in my opinion. People just get upset about it because this is the first (english-translated) game in the series that doesn’t have permadeath.
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I’m playing it with the English audio now and I agree with @AlexPants. It’s maybe not the best, but it grows on you. I’m liking that the subtitles aren’t so weird now although I’m still not a fan of Drippy, mun.
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I aint goin there. I am a preferer of foreign languages. Also, sound is fairly low (boy sleepin, headphones broke) so I’d be reading regardless.
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I assume the English subtitles are the same with the Japanese audio as they are with English audio? Because I can see how that would be horrible.
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It’s not that bad.
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I don’t mind Drippy, for some reason. If anything bugged me in the slightest it’d be his character more than his voice. I started with JP audio and subtitles, but I switched to English audio with subtitles off. The subtitles were bugging me. I find Drippy much more bearable without reading ‘mun’ and ‘ent’it’.
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Yeah it’s true. I find subtitles distracting though, if the audio is in English. My brain automatically reads the subtitles, even when I don’t need to. Then I realise I’m spending a measure of time looking at the lower portion of my screen, rather than what’s actually happening centre stage.
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This is one of my arguments for dubbed-over-subbed anime. then the snobby anime “purests” get mad.
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God I have friends that argue over that crap. I find I generally prefer whatever I’m exposed to first.
Subtitles are a funny thing for me. I don’t know much Japanese but I know enough that occasionally I read the subtitles and go, ‘Wait, that’s not what he said at all.’
Sometimes I like English dubs, sometimes I like subs, it’s really subjective.
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Completely agree. Sometimes and English dub can just be bad, but for the most part, dubbed means I can focus more on what’s on screen and not be reading/thinking “that’s not what he said…” etc.
At the end of the day, the best way to watch/play is however you want to watch/play. Neither is “better” than the other.
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Personally I’ve listened to enough Japanese that I find I’m actually listening to the audio and the subtitles are just giving me a guide. So dubtitles I can’t read at a glance and parse really fast to line up specific words with what I’m hearing, or subtitles where they’re obviously way off from what I’m hearing (Xenoblade has this problem) makes it a whole lot more work for me to enjoy the game.
So I’d probably have wanted to play the game in Japanese w/ subs but I think when I get to it I’ll have to play it in English because of how distracting those subs will be. 🙁
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It’s one of the reasons I fucking *loathe* those annoying Karaoke effects that fansubbers love to shit out onto the screen everywhere in anime. Doubly so when it’s an insert song. All that motion and bouncing around and stuff pulls your eye toward it and away from what’s actually going on.
I don’t generally find that I’m staring at the subs though. But I can turn off the subs and still follow a lot of what’s being said anyway, I just find that watching without any guidelines like that means I miss some of the more complicated stuff where my vocabulary isn’t good enough or where someone talks with an odd dialect or daft speech pattern, and also that I can’t really relax while doing it and sometimes my brain just actively refuses to make sense of it.
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I watched some subbed One Piece that had animated subs for character’s special moves.
Not annoying at all.
/sarcasm
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Exactly!
Yeah.
Seriously, screw it.
I know hardcore perma-death mode is all e-peen and stuff, but I don’t have the time anymore to meticulously plan and anticipate enemy moves right down to exactly where they would go to attack and for how much damage.
Hard difficulty with Casual mode on is a-okay with me.
Spent about half an hour playing Anarchy Reigns last night,
I avoided the story missions until I can give it more time, so I just ran around the opening area beating up thugs.
So to recap, within half an hour I had chainsawed god knows how many mutants in half, hijacked some sort of flamethrower hovercraft thing, and the entire map had been rushed by a swarm of giant mutant lizard guys, been wrecked by an out of control petrol tanker, carpet bombed by random air raid, and flooded with poison gas.
I like this game.
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I feel like I shouldn’t have picked Leo first! Jack is pretty cool guy. I figured since I had already played MadWorld I should another character 😛
Walking Dead Game series 2 possibility.
Last night I was thinking what the story of the second series could be. Then it occurred to me, what ever happened to Glen in the first episode? The one that goes off and looks for his friends at the end of the episode. He and his search for his friends could possibly be the main character of the next one.
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Really? I haven’t seen the show. I keep hearing its either really shit or its good so I’m giving it a miss.
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Glenn is one of the main characters in The Walking Dead show and comic.In fact, I think (comic spoils)
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I really, really like Ni No Kuni. So damn hand holdy though. Over explains things and tells you exactly what to do always.
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Turn off the guiding star. The game explains where everything is (repeatedly :P) so it’s really not that hard to play without it!
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Tidy!
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Tidy?
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I sometimes wonder if the mannerisms and language of the faeries were influenced by Clockwork Orange.
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Influenced by the Welsh
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Huh? :p
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I think it’s to make it more accessible to young players. Zelda games do the same thing. I’m hoping as the game continues it takes the training wheels off and lets us go it alone.
Red Herring details below:
Like when you have to find the red herring. I was excited at the idea of trying to find the fish myself and then, once I have the quest, the location of the fish is marked on my map.
That said, the hand holding hasn’t marred my experience so far. I’m used to it in other games.
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The hand-holding is annoying me a bit(I’m still in the first town), and this is from someone who didn’t really mind it in Skyward Sword.
WHY CAN’T I JUST LOOK AT THAT PERSON, SEE THAT THEY’RE LACKING IN ENTHUSIASM, AND MAGIC THEM RIGHT AWAY? WHY DO I HAVE TO TALK TO THEM FIRST? I DON’T UNDERSTAND.
It’s a minor issue, I’ll admit.
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this.
walk up to some dude who’s just screaming HI I AM HYPER EXCITE & ENTHUSIASTIC. why cant I just go & take his heart thing without the little Drippy guy walking me through it.& then I find a guy who’s loudly lamenting “I AM NOT MOTIVATED ABOUT ANYTHING. I WISH I WAS MORE ENTHUSIASTIC”
and then, even though I’ve performed this heart transplant 6 times already, I’ve gotta talk to the guy, then the Drippy fellas gotta open up my inventory for me & say NOW CAST THE SPELL.
Drippy, man…. I’ve done this before. Let me roll.
hopefully the tutorial ends before the 10 hour mark :/
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Haha. Oliver always seems so damn oblivious too. “I know this, wait I don’t. TELL ME EVERY THING DRIPPY.” 😛
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I haven’t played the game but if it was me, I’d definitely want advance warning of being magicked.
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Zelda games were great with it, particularly OoT.
“This guy is asleep. Hmm…maybe if you try playing THE SONG THAT WAKES PEOPLE UP or something…?”
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It seems pretty insane here. Single line of dialogue. Great, I know what to do next. Then seventeen follow up paragraphs explaining every little detail of the plan. :S
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Oh, even though I’ve got things to diss, it’s still pretty incredible.
Your copy shipped this morning, Strange! 😀
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Hello all.
STUFF!
– My dad got out of hospital over the weekend! this is good.
– Ni No Kuni. Finally got a second party member & now the combat is more interesting.
– Ni no Kuni again. Sometimes I wish the familiars looked slighty more bad-arse. Coz even at the final evolution level, you’re still basically sending This into battle against giant monsters. Sure, they should start cute, but they should at least look a bit more capable by the end.
– After recently getting a new PSN ID, I noticed something a bit odd: I accidentally registered the new ID using the same email address as the old one (I must’ve changed the email address linked to the old ID after the PSN hack last year, and just forgotten.) first of all, I’m surprised I was allowed to do that & secondly, its weird that the only difference is the local log-on name, but the two accounts are entirely separate.
– Birthday thing on the 23rd Feb at the Bavarian / Mojos. I’m gonna be sending an email around about that sometime this week, but let me know here / via twitter if you’re keen / not keen so I can get a rough idea of numbers.
– Okami. one thing I really liked about that game is how (spoilers)
you play the game for about 14 hours, get up to fighting Orochi, beat him & then it says… oh yeah, by the way, heres the other 3/4 of the game, that was pretty much just the tutorial. keep going.
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Gameplay spoilers.. very very minor.
The AI can be alittle dumb especially because the tactics system isn’t very comprehensive, bossfights are also quite difficult as a party until you get all in/all defence stances to help group defend AOE later on in the game and even with these stances half the time they decide to not defend. -
That Okami thing took me by surprise!
I always thought it was the main baddie and since U never got around to actually fighting him, I didn’t think it would only take 14 hours or so to face him.
OH MAN, SUPER BOWL HALF TIME SHOW! NORMALLY THIS SHOW IS LIKE A GIANT SPECTACLE OF AWESOME AND-
> Beyonce & Destiny’s Child Reunion
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SPOILERS DUDE. WE DON’T GET TO SEE IT YET.
Edit: (Or thanks for the warning, actually)The problem with Beyonce is that she always tries to walk it in.
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She put a lot into the live performance for sure, but it was underwhelming considering past half-time shows.
Actually, you know what? After Black Eyed Peas & Slash, I have no idea what to think anymore. 😛
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I got some awesome news today. A couple of weeks ago I got a letter saying I’ve been called up for jury duty on the 5th of February i.e. tomorrow. Because I have Aspergers Syndrome, jury duty would be difficult for me because of social skills problems and other stuff. I just got a letter saying I have been permanently exempted from jury duty. 😀
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🙂 Sounds like something that’d be stressful, man. Glad it worked out! I’ve only been called once and that was when I was in the U.S.!
Now our system has resumed functioning I can actually do some work
4 hours of nothing, boy that was fun
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I totally should!
Damn it I want justice!
Seriously though, our supervisor dolled out the daily allocated tasks, now more than half of it probably won’t get done, it’s already nearly 1pm
Damn time flies
Mostly when you are sitting here texting your girlfriend and going “Why the fuck couldn’t someone have called me and told me to stay home”
I could have even asked if I could leave work and taken some kind of leave day and gone to see Sam
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Super annoying harassment mode activate!
3rd of March! One month! There will be Taybies at Dreamworld! Pack your shit! Beg borrow steal save or whatever you have to do to get the necessary funds! Interstaters! Book your holidays and flights! Why haven’t you yet? Are you a square or something? Stop being lame! Get your ass to Dreamworld! Be the envy of all your peers! Be all that you can be? Have you organised it yet? No? Why not? I just told you to! Come on come on do it do it come on do it naow!
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I’ll be there, Freeze. Then I’ll have fun. Then I’ll go home and freak out afterwards. Can’t wait! 😀
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Brisbane is proud to have Freeze as organiser, lest we never be able to organise something without him.
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Amateur events when compared to the InNOut Shane Meat of Feb 9.
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Has he completely dropped off the map? I know he hasn’t been seen here for a while, and I’m pretty sure he hasn’t been in Twitter for ages. (although I’m not on the twits anymore)
I heard something about engagement or somesuch? Or am I just dreaming he proposed to me?
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He’s been on Facebook mostly.
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Boxing Day! The Hobbit meat!
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Oh yeah. I meant like a meat meat though. Not a trip to the movies. (in goddam 3D no less, vomiiit!)
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We had dinner and played games at TimeZone for three hours before hand. I didn’t even see the movie. You were missed, man. I’ve been to eight meats now and I’ve only met you once. 😛
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My heart is touched.
Boxing Day was just a bad time for me. Was the only day my wife had off that week and there is no public transport running near my house Sunday or public holidays.
I don’t mind making the trek from the train station home but before? You guys don’t like me that much (the smell).
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Am I the only person not on the Ni No Kuni hype train?
I dig the art style and tried the demo, and the gameplay really didn’t appeal to me. At one stage, I may have been able to justify playing through it just on the purty graphics, but these days gaming time is at a premium.
Is there anyone out there who played the demo, did not really enjoy it that much, but has since got the retail, and had a better experience?
Kind regards,
fled.
Currently inhabiting “If-they-made-a-film-version-of-it-I-would-totally-watch-it”-ville.
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YOU MONSTER! I would kill to play this right now. KILL I TELL YOU! If anyone has any serious offers to set me up with a house and a copy of ni no kuni as a reward for killing someone, you know how to get in touch.
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I can only offer for you to visit during the day and play it here. You’d have to get yourself a copy of the game first, but as soon as you have one my PS3 and TV are yours during the day on weekdays.
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You don’t even need to buy it yourself, Sughly. Play Strange’s copy. It shipped this morning! 😀
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Nawwww strange! Its ok though, im determined to make it my reward for moving and settling down finally
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It’s tough to say, the story was a little bit vague in the demo and the proper game gives you a much better insight to what’s going on, but my impressions of the combat and gameplay are still the same. :'(
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Dear fled,
I’m not on the train either. I was up all night tending to a terminally ill PS3, and it pulled out of the station without me.
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i know it looks gorgeous, but i’m just not a big fan of jrpg’s with young kid protagonists.
i prefer that they are teens or adults. i feel like i can relate more to it, and character interactions are usually better. I know that this could be the game that makes me eat my words, but yeah, not a fan of the protagonist.
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I agree, although despite that it’s shaping up to by my favourite JRPG released in the last 10 or so years
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I’m not on it either. I love Studio Ghibli’s films and think they’re visually beautiful, but I’ve never much liked cartoon graphics in video games, and I’m not that much into JRPGs.
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Me too. By the time I get around to playing my copy I reckon everyone will be past the early part of the game and into the apparently awful grind that sets in later on. 🙁
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Down vote for utter embarrasment of a joke :p
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Oh, so this time you actually downvote 😛
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GET SOME SHANE MEAT IN YA
Saturday! Not this @saturday, the REAL Saturday.
That morning. Kinokuniya. Sydney. If no one shows up, I will cry, buy some books that I can’t afford and read them on the bus home, forever alone.
That’s all I have.
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Oh man, I can’t wait to hear stories about meeting Shane! Will he stay for more than twenty minutes? Stay tuned! 😀 (I kid, man. I understand meet anxiety all too well. You’re gonna do awesome, though.)
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Pfft maths! What good has that ever done?!
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Trebuchets
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What time?
Also, are you hanging around for the Rocketman thing thats apparently happening that night?
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That night? No – I’m bussing back to Canberra late morning 🙁
There’s probably no point rocking up to Kino before it opens, but anytime after that is fair game, AFAIK. Like I said, I have no plans.
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Sorry to hear that 🙁
but at least Sydney isn’t the far end of the earth. From Canberra or Bathurst. I’m sure I’ll be there again in my lifetime 🙂
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If you book a trip to the Gold Coast next month and go to Dreamworld there will be people there hence no need to cry.
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Mid-late morning bus trip home. So the whole thing will be over in probably 90 minutes (assuming 9am start). Quick and painless.
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FIXED!
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THAT’S BETTER
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“Oh hey it looks like somebody mentioned me!”
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“Oh hey somebody else mentioned me-”
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THANKS, SHANE.
FOOTBALL!!!
it’s weird that i prefer american sports over australian ones.
but yeah, anyone watching the game now?
if so,
oh god it’s pretty bad at the moment…
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So much jelly.. i want to watch it so much
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the wonders of foxtel 🙂
and yeah, i thought baltimore would be winning, but not by this much, makes it a little boring.
and the power outage is hilarious, they are making the players stay on the field and practice!
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@shane
Sorry, anxiety and OCD kicking in, but can you confirm you will be in Sydney this Saturday, the 9th of February?
I don’t want to come to the city if not
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I had to watch it without sound. Admittedly I freaked out a bit for one part
Rhodey wearing the Iron Patriot suit … it bothers me more than it should.
Zelda book came today! It’s still in its shrink wrap and I don’t want to spoil it but I should probably unwrap it!
Also last night was weird. At about 4am there was a really weird groaning kind of sound and a bright orange light. When I got up to take a look the light went away and the noise stopped. Kinda freaky :S
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Same, but Amazon always overestimates (at least with their cheapo shipping). I assume the medium one would be overestimated too.
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Not since they started using iParcel. 🙁 I’ve had people buy the same thing at the cheapest shipping and recieve their items 1 day after me.
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… then what’s the damn point of the extra $5!? BAD AMAZON *smacks*
At least it’s tracked though 😛
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But then again, i REALLY can’t stand Beyonce.
If it was possible for women to be sexist, I would happily call her one
*removes tongue from cheek*
@shane I have already started planning to come meet The Lesser Evil on Saturday so you better be there
More info? 🙂
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Shane man, you don’t recall sending all three copies to a guy named Timothy who lived in NSW and you signed them to Spaghett?
Don’t bring them for me buddy, I have them!
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I know, but I thought you might want to remeat them or something. Honestly, I didn’t know what was going on. Maybe you lost them or threw them into the fire or something.
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Nah bro, they have a place of pride on my shelf, with my Max Payne 3 statue, my Fallout New Vegas Collectors box and the rubber duckie Sam gave me 🙂
So yes, I shall see you there
You get there at what time?
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I’m there overnight. Reason for visit is the Barry Gibb show the night before.
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I thought he was dead? 😐
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No. Andy is dead. Maurice is dead. Robin is dead (most recently). He’s still kicking. Apparently he’s already in Sydney – someone I know ran into him at a 7/11 or something. And I doubt he’s haunting a place like that 😛
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Talkin’ it up on The Barry Gibb Talk Show.
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It opens at 10am Saturday man
“Opening Hours:
Monday: 10am – 7pm
Tuesday: 10am – 7pm
Wednesday: 10am – 7pm
Thursday: 10am – 9pm
Friday: 10am – 7pm
Saturday: 10am – 7pm
Sunday: 10am – 6pm”
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Dear Citizens of Taystonia,
As you may or may not be aware there is an upcoming meat which involves Dreamworld. It is my sad duty to inform those of you who may be doing the unspeakably heinous act of not attending that there is a high chance that you will be talked about while not there.
As horrible as this sounds there is a solution. It simply involves being there. Once there you can be the one to talk about others not in attendance.
Regards
El Presidente Freeze
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Sorry Freeze, but there is 4376 km or so of “not going to happen” in between here and there.
Hope you all have a great time, and that there are no incidents involving vermicious knids.
–fled
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There’s 2277km here, apparently.
Then again, the website I used said that Brisbane was 5 hours ahead of here, so I’m not sure what to believe now.Either way, it appears that we’ll be the talk of the town, Fled!
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So This here screenshot taken from the Cyberpunk 2077 trailer.
Toward the end of the trailer, when the web address is displayed, for a few frames, a hidden message is displayed.
Highlights from this hidden message:
– what more or less amounts to an advertisement for a job with CD Projekt RED.
– “…And thats not all thats new. We are about to reveal our other project, which is much closer to being completed. And yes, it will be a fully open-world with an intense story. You can probably guess the game we’re talking about. On the 5th of February, it will be all clear.”
– that second point, in conjunction with the image I’ll link below, which was posted on the CD ProjektRED fb page, all but confirms that The Witcher 3 is being announced tomorrow.
I am hype.
Edit: Spelling.
Edit 2: Formatting.
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I’m a pretty big fan of The Witcher, so this is right up my alley.
I’m also a fan of sneaky hidden messages & ARGs, so yeah. double plus good.Edit: i am also super hyped for Cyberpunk.
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I’m currently playing through The Witcher (had a save near the end of the game previously but HD failed). It’s such a good game.
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Shameful admission : I never finished The Witcher 1.
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Yeah, when 2 was released I really got into the mood of playing it, then my Hard Drive crashed so I got disheartened. Apparently Witcher 2 is a big improvement over the first so I am super keen to play it!
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The Witcher is fucking awesome and I am so hyped to see what they do for Cyberpunk 2077 as I love cyberpunk stuff.
EDIT: CD Projekt RED are the best western RPG developer. Only Obsidian come close and their stuff is often way more buggy.
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Once upon a time I would have argued that Bioware are … that is until they got bought by EA.
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I pretty much agree with everything you’ve said.
But I’ll add that what I love about CD Projekt RED is that they treat their fans well.
Witcher 1 comes out, its not perfectly optimised, the animations are a bit off & the english dub is innacurate. RED’s response: oh ok. here, we’ve basically rebuilt the game for you. and re-recorded the voice tracks. & added some more content. also, if you’ve bought it already, its free.Witcher 2 comes out. Not many complaints at all. few months later, RED says ‘here have some more content. coz why not? also free’
probably my favorite developer.
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I’m a massive tight arse at the moment (not of my own free will)
So i’m buying these bad boys!!!
http://www.bigw.com.au/electronics/computers-office/computer-accessories/speakers-headsets/bpnBIGW_0000000284559/zipp-stereo-pc-headset-cd723mv
It’s ok, because if they turn out to be utter shit, i can just return them and get my $10 back! If they work out to be half-decent then HEADSET GET!
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Those wretched headphones that ensure everyone in your near vicinity is forced to listen your music?
I fucking hate those things.
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*breaks down in tears*
*stops crying because a tear my land on my $400 earphones and ruin them*
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DAMMIT ME!
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Hermit life is spiralling out of control. Spent the weekend out of my house. I don’t even know who I am any more. *runs off sobbing*
How goes history? Still a thing?
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Yep. There’s more everyday! Just can’t keep up with it.
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Worst. Hermit. Ever.
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lrn2hermit
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I have decided.
THIS MUST BE PLAYED AT MY WEDDING!
It’s a compromise – bee can have her pop crap, as long as it’s being covered by a metal band.
@chuloopa
My (mostly) serious list of reasons to get a Nokia. I’ll just point out that I don’t own one, this is mostly just stuff I’ve heard from reviews and so on.
Good points.
1) It’s as durable as a brick.
2) Looks considerably better than other phones on the market. (However that’s just my opinion of course :P) I also like the OS more than iOS/Android. Feels more like it was designed for mobile phones, unlike Android which often feels like a desktop OS crammed into a phone, and iOS which seems like a glorified app launcher. Not that either of those things are bad things though.
3) Has wireless charging. It’s probably a little bit on the gimmicky side right now, but it’s future proofed I guess. Also has NFC which is more likely to be widely used very soon.
4) No custom manufacturer skins. No HTC Sense/Samsung Touchwiz to mess up the phone and slow down update releases.
5) More likely to get future updates than (non Nexus) Android phones. Sure, the Lumia 900 got dropped after a year, but that’s because they moved the OS over to a new kernel, the one they use for desktop Windows. I don’t think they have anything else they could change it to in the next year or two. They’re not about to go and put DOS on it. 😛
6) Kids Corner. It’s like having a separate ‘user’ on the phone with access to only the apps you say it can have access to. Seeing as though you’re almost married, there’ll probably be mini-chuloopas (the horror) in your future within the next few years. Future proofing FTW 😛
7) Xbox Windows Phone games (like Mirror’s Edge which is a great mobile game) give you points towards your Xbox gamerscore for achievements. Also, games like Skulls of the Shogun have cross platform multiplayer between Windows Phone, Windows 8 and Xbox 360. More games need to do this.
8) Good camera. Had a few firmware issues when it first came out which have since been fixed. Great at lowlight shots thanks to image stabilisation. Also takes smooth videos.
9) Good screen. Reviews say it’s really good in sunlight. Can even use gloves or a fork on it (which you can’t do on most touchscreen phones) which will come in handy if you’re trying to find out what the weather is while freezing to death or trying to use your phone while eating 😛
10) Offline maps/GPS. I’ve heard this touted as a feature rather often, I don’t know if other phones have equivalent features. I think I’ve heard that Android has something similar.
11) Great if you use MS products/services. When you first start your phone, you need to put in your MS Account details (or make an account if you don’t have one, for things like the app store). Automatically sets up your emails/xbox account/skydrive/etc. on the phone. Using Office and skydrive is pretty cool. The skydrive integration in Windows Phone Office and Desktop Office makes it real easy to share documents between devices, edit on the go/toilet 😛
Bad Points.
1) Less apps than iOS/Android, over 100,000 apps isn’t really ‘low’ though. Good alternatives to popular ones that are missing, except for instagram. I suppose you could just take a pic and post it straight to facebook/twitter though? 😛
2) Heavy as a brick if you’re a wimpy man. I’m presuming that all the testosterone that flows through your body whenever you yell SPAAAAACE MAAAUUUREEEEEEEEEN means this is a non-issue for you. 😛
2) You’ll be ridiculed by iPhone and Android fans. 😛
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It’s probably worth noting that I actually think WP8 and the Nokia Lumia are incredibly pretty, more so than the iPhone (especially the 5, blergh) and iOS. I just don’t see enough benefit to justify changing.
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That was worth noting
I will make note that my first smartphone was the HTC HD7, because if I was getting a smart phone, I was starting in Windows
I didn’t have to change, and don’t notice the lack of apps because I haven’t been programmed to use my phone that way
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Yeah, the major issue with changing to another mobile OS is how invested I am in iOS. I’ve spent too much on apps and music to switch now.
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Which makes sense to not change
See, we can be civil about this BDKIAF
I don’t hat you
I lov you
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Pretty sure itunes music is DRM free these days. I don’t know about movies and TV shows though.
The obvious solution to the apps problem is to carrying around a Windows Phone 8 phone and an iPhone! Heck, while you’re at it you might as well carry around an android phone or two, a blackberry, a firefox OS phone, a Symbian phone, a Meego/Maemo/whatever it’s called phone and a Ubuntu phone! 😛
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Awesome. Thanks Buddy.
I don’t photograph my food, and i’m not 14, so i don’t use instagram anyway.
Also, iPhone users don’t have any right to make fun of anyone. ANYONE.
Also, phone weight doesn’t bother me – i actually prefer them to be weightier. I have a HTC Desire HD at the moment which has been brilliant for all the time i’ve had it, and it’s got a aluminium/steel/adamantium case, so it’s heavy and durable as hell – how i like my phone (and men).
The nokia certainly seems like the most appealing thing that Vodaphone have on offer for me at the moment – the Galaxy S3 is just wayyyy too big and plasticy.
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But Gaben is Internet Jesus. He wouldn’t lie to us to increase profits for his company. He loves us too damn much.
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Some individuals in my office received their company-issued HTC 8Xes on Friday. The bulk of us ordered Lumias but there’s another 3-4 weeks wait for them I think 🙁
After looking at the 8X I was almost shaken away from my initial decision, but then I remembered the battery is better. My old HTC Mozart 7’s biggest problem is woeful battery life.
Also, the iOS and Android people are doing that because they’re jealous. WP is by far the nicest interface of the three.
KINKOKUNIYA SHANE STYLE MEAT
Where? Kinkokuniya, Google it
When? 10am
Who? The DOCTOR! Ummmm @shane @powalen maybe, @spaghett and Sam
Why? The glory that is books with the glory that is Shane with the glory that is TAY, we are trying to break the fabric of the space time continuum
LMNOP
SHENANIGANS!
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MINI-MEAT (that’s what she said).
I’ll be off by 11, maybe a few minutes after. But if we actually break the space-time continuum, the sky’s the limit!
Still, you guys should make a day out of it. Harrass King’s Comics until they agree to stock my books, etc. And maybe something that has nothing to do with me. If you must…
Edit: And I will be in Kinokuniya, not that other thing.
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Well, personally I am going to stay at Sam’s on Friday night, makes coming into the city an immense amount eaiser
Hopefully I still have money
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NOPE! 😛
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Don’t make me hat you!
Who am I kidding? I couldn’t hat D.C.
I lov him
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That’s enough music for tonight!
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The fact that even if you wanted to, it’ll only be a short meet-and-greet. Meats are fun!
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Fly by night, love em and leave em. It’s me all over.
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*googles Kinkokuniya*
Oh..
Oh man..
You… you sick bastard!!!
At first i was like “hey look, and eel and some dwarves”… but when the girl walked in everything got really sick really fast…
You twisted, twisted little man.
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Hngh! That hit the spot
I was right on the edge and your comments have just pushed me over
Thank you
*lights cigarette*
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Buckets my friend, I filled them
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Man, I trie to find a relevant work safe image but I got sidetracked.
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Funny how that can happen.
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Hunting the centipedes?
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Boring through your mind, through your tummy, through your anus, EELS!
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HEY!
You’re a pirate, Jack!
HEY!
You’re screwed!
Black death is coming for you
Trapped on a Island
Lost at sea
Ship wrecked your des-tin-eeee!!!
…shit!
I own Assassin’s Creed III…I should probably remember that and actually play it some more. I think I only put about 5 hours into it.
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Navel battle
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Yeah, saw how awesome they were at EB expo.
Actually, I really need to give multi a go too. Was so keen on it before release, and then it just kinda…faded into the background.
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Whilst I strongly disagree that they are the only worthwhile part, the naval missions are indeed excellent.
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That bit where you stab the guy is good.
Also Haytham. He should have been the main character instead of Connor, Connor is Blandy McBoring.
I liked the few bits where the game was letting me actually play instead of guiding me through annoying cutscenes and trial-and-error insta-fail-if-the-game-fucks-you-up sequences. Everything is true. Nothing is permitted.
EDIT: To be fair the actual central themes of the game were pretty decent.
The whole maybe-the-Templars-were-right angle.The game was just poorly executed and I think a lot of it was because Ubisoft had like 80 different small teams working on bits of stuff and everything kind of gets blandified in the process of integrating the parts. Very mechanical.-
I like it.
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I gotta agree with the Haytham bit. Nothing against Conner, but Haytham just seemed far more interesting. Obviously wouldn’t have made too much sense following him the whole game, though.
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Spoilertags! Especially for your edit.
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Not sure if you’re serious or not but I spoilered the one thing that might be a spoiler.
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I’m sad about all these meats I can’t come to 🙁 They all sound awesome! It’s not often you come across a large group of people where everyone is into the same things you are!
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I’m having a Groote Eylandt meat tonight, tomorrow night, the night after that, and so on and so on…
You’re more than welcome to join us, all the Eylandt TAYbies get along really well.…except that Aleph guy, he’s a bit of a jerk.
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When Greenius called it a date I admit I got a little put off 😛 I dunno if I’m comfortable with just me and one other person. A group would be better!
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Greenius is a monster.
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DO IT. You’re not allowed any dessert until you do.
It’ll be a mandated man-date.
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It would be really awkward though and there’s nothing to do in Launceston 😛 Unless OnTargett wants to go and sit in Mortys or something. (He’ll understand this. Nobody else will, but he will)
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I know! I’ve suppressed my nerd side throughout high school – not because I was ashamed but because no one else was into what I was so there was nothing to discuss!
…oh and also because I was a Jock and yoo nerdz are so lame *flex*
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Yeah I never showed my nerdy side or smart side much either, so I never got to hang out with anybody that liked all this stuff! Then in college (year 11 and 12) I made friends with people who play games, but nothing but BF2/3 and League of Legends and I’m like nup, not playing!
Now that I think about it I haven’t seen any of them since August :S I should probably plan something before I move!
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Nah, don’t be silly. Leave your friends behind and never see or talk to them for years! (may or may not be what I did… oops!)
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What a dedicated friend you are Greenius 😛
A couple of them are moving down to Hobart too, so we’ll all be living close enough that I can actually see them! (I live like 30km away from them all now, it sucks) And I’m kinda sad that my best friend since grade 7 is moving to Melbourne in 3 weeks time. I see him all the time though. I’ll miss him 🙁
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Flipping hell I wish I was rich…
These Ghibli art books are amazing and the Pixar ones look awesome too!
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I have the Nausicaa one. It’s quite lovely.
It seems like they only artbookized a few of the Ghibli films though. If it was a full set I’d totally buy them all but since it’s just a handful I held off. Talking translated ones mind you, I’d guess all of them have artbooks in Japanese.
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I now have half of Porco (part 2 was removeddd nooooooo!) and Spirited Away downloaded. Had a real brief look at them.
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Vitabros: does AC3 Liberation have any DLC to speak of? I’m wondering if I should hunt for a US copy or go for the cheapest option (which may be a US copy). It’s one of the few recent Vita retail games I haven’t grabbed yet b/c I was all assassined out after AC3.
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Not sure!
#Helping
But I beat the game and it doesn’t seem like there would be any (ie. no huge missing chunks like in AC2)
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Hey, if you wanna wait a month or so I may be getting the bundle with this game. I can pass it on to you at a reasonable price or swap if you like cos me and AC don be friends.
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I was planning on going full digital with Vita. That’s possible right? All the games are on PSN?
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I’ve seen most of them on and you made the right choice going Americano if that’s your plan since they’re a bajillion % cheaper on the US store. Look into PS+ and see what games are available/going to be taken away. I’d buy PS+ now and get the games I want before they’re gone so you don’t have to buy them later. I think Uncharted and Gravity rush would be leaving very soon.
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Still not sold on PS+ I will look into it further. Net is whack at home atm (possibly flood related) so haven’t been able to investigate any PSN store or 3DS stores 🙁
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Mateeeee I wasn’t very interested in a lot of Vita games but like 60% of them were put on PS+
Uncharted, Gravity Rush, Wipeout, Lumines and some PSN ones like Knytt Underground with MORE to come. I was willing to pay a “cheap” price for most of them at around $20 but for $50-70 a year I got all of them AND more like the PS3 games PS+ also has on offer.
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Pretty sure Sony mandated that every PS Vita retail release must have a simultaneous PSN release yeah.
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Also if you’re going digital-only PS+ is the best thing to have. PS3 games, cloud saves, automatic updates & trophy sync, plus digital copies of some of the best Vita stuff.
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As I said, still looking into it. These “best” games you mention aren’t Persona or Sonic racing are they?
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I’m not sure what that question is but the Vita is also known as Persona 4: Golden machine to me!
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Uncharted: Golden Abyss and Gravity Rush. Ninja Gaiden Sigma as well recently I think. Also FF Tactics at one point, not sure if still.
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GIT OFF
I already tried offloading my copy to Negative Zero :P. I forgot Vita had the whole “no trophies on second hand thing” going :/
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and @jimu – not sure what it was exactly but tons of people were complaining about it. Something like used/second-hand Vita games not letting people earn trophies. I didn’t look into it but Googling seems to have a bunch of people whinging about it back in Feb when it launched and ways to still earn them by formatting the card. Apparently it comes up with some sort of warning saying only the first user can earn trophies.
But it also looks like you can easily delete the PSN link/game data and earn trophies again.
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NOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooooooo………………………………
Was it covered in glory or did I get zombified and put down like a rabid dog by another taybie?
GUYS! It’s confirmed!
I’ll be hopping on a plane and meating people at Kinokuniya on Saturday the 9th! Who’s in?!
BEST PAGE GET! Now everyone can see my invitation!
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But I’m not gonna be in Sydney til later that afternoon.
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Serrelliously? Awesome dude. You must really want Shane meat!
I’ll be there, but I’m going to pretend I know you, because my worst social nightmare is offending someone I’ve met before by introducing myself /o\
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WHAT?!
WILL PANTS, POWALEN AND GREENIUS REALLY BE IN THE SAME PLACE AT THE SAME TIME?!
If you’re lying I will beat you to death when I get to Melbourne for PAX.
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SO’S YOUR FACE! Suspicious beard guy.
(hurry up in Ticket to Ride)
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Oh, man. I was stunned to see only eight posts on TAY this weekend. There’s always got to be a hermit circling the wagons, Greenius. *shakes fist* 😛
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Wow! I’m surprised at all the people willing to meet me there!
Which one were we meeting at again? Orchard Road, River Valley Road, Victoria Street?
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I’ll be hopping on a plane and meating people at Kinokuniya on Saturday the 9th. Too bad it doesn’t look like anyone else is showing up and I’ll be going by myself 🙁
foreveralone
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Ghibli fans (which is apparently everyone, ever, except for me), I’ve never seen a Ghibli film, though Ni No Kuni has convinced me I need to. So, where do I start?
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And then watch Barefoot Gen afterward!
Make sure you’ve got someone on suicide watch beforehand.
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I’d say Spirited Away. It’s a really good one and not too magicaly and happyfuntimes but also not too dark and grim. It was my first one and many others’.
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It was made with western audiences in mind. I love it, greta everything. Some real scary bits for kids too.
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“It was made with western audiences in mind. ” [citation needed]
I think it’s just that it’s a fantastic film that happened during the big late-90s-early-00s US anime bubble, when there was a lot of interest in foreign and especially Asian film in general.
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Extras on the second DVD I think. I’m sure it was common knowledge when it came out.
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The second disc has Lasseter-san, Arigatou on it. Which was a sort of doco about how instrumental Pixar and especially John Lasseter was for getting Ghibli’s films over to the US and pushed hard by Disney. Is that what you mean?
Miyazaki’s films IMO have a universal appeal to them, he doesn’t need to deliberately target them at a western audience or anything.
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You could be right, maybe someone fibbed to me and I beleived them. Can’t find any evidence online.
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If you want the magical whimsy of Ni no Kuni:
– Spirited Away
– Ponyo
– Totoro
– Kiki’s Delivery Service
– The Cat Returns
– Arrietty
– Pom Poko
If you want an adventure film with bits of everything
– Laputa: Castle in the Sky
– Porco Rosso
– Nausicaa
– Howl’s Moving Castle
If you want a more serious and not at all whimsical film:
– Princess Mononoke
– Grave of the Fireflies
– Tales of Earthsea
If you want an enjoyable film about people’s everyday lives
– Only Yesterday
– From Up on Poppy Hill
– Whisper of the Heart
– Ocean Waves
– The Yamadas
Personally I think the best starting points are Nausicaa if you want to go to the beginning of it all (technically pre-Ghibli), Laputa if you want the most rounded film, or Spirited Away if you want to start with the highest profile. Mononoke is also a good starting point.
The upside is that there are no bad Ghibli films. There are a couple (the Yamadas and Earthsea) which are fine films but not anywhere near the par set by the rest.
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Note: Princess Mononoke was the first Ghibli film I watched. Laputa is my favourite. Spirited Away I would consider to be the most rounded film.
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That was my first and still probably the favourite of the ones I have seen. But I haven’t seen a lot of them
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Combining my DVDs and BDs I have everything except Ocean Waves. We should totally do a Ghibli Viewing some time.
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This is exactly the kind of response I was hoping for, thanks. I think maybe I’ll try Spirited Away first, given the high profile it should be pretty easy to find a copy of it.
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You don’t like Ghibli? Damn! Haha! If you don’t like Ni No Kuni after playing, feel free to regift it onto someone else. (Sughly?) I hope you do like it. I think you possibly might — don’t play it out of obligation, though. 😀
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It’s not that I don’t like Ghibli. I’m just not a fan. By which I mean I don’t think the shines out of their butts like most people seem to. 😛
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Any Dreamfall/The Longest Journey fans here besides me and @strange? Ragnar Tornquist tweeted this! Looks suspiciously like Zoe! Supposed to be a video of something released on Monday, U.S.-time. Prelude to a Kickstarter campaign, I think. Also Adventure Gamers posted concept art of Syberia 3 today. Kate’s totally riding an emu, which is concerning. (Though Sokal’s back as writer!)
Edit: Confirmed, Dreamfall Chapters reveal is the Kickstarter campaign! So cruel to release pretty screenshots of the world before officially getting a game funded. 😛
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I liked The Longest Journey, but pretty much the only thing I remember about it is that I enjoyed it. Which makes it good for a replay I guess!
Syberia 1 > 2, but both are good, however, I’m a bit of a Sokol fan.-
You should play Dreamfall if you liked The Longest Journey. It’s regularly on sale on GOG.com too. Almost plays like a Heavy Rain-ified version of the first game.
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So keen for home time
The house is clean
Which is good, because my mum is going to be there
I might watch Nightfall or Oldboy tonight
Either way I will enjoy myself
Who doesn’t love violent foreign language films?
So they’re making another Fast and Furious movie…
Interesting.
Are they actually going to call it Fast and Furious 6? Or are they going to give it some other silly name, like ‘Fast 6’, ‘6 Fast, 6 Furious’ or maybe even just ‘Fast Furious’? 😛
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When they’re old and retired… I can see the dialogue now.
“Slow down! You trying to get yourself killed you young whippersnapper?!” – Old Vin Diesel
“I’m only going 80 calm down”
“GET OFF MY LAWN!”
“What… the… f-?”
…Fin
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The F-F-F-F-F-Fast and the F-F-F-F-F-Furious.
The main character, Anil, is a happy-go-lucky man who grew up in the country, recently moved to try his luck making a go of it in the big smoke. He gets pulled into the dangerous underground world of Hyper Lawnmower Racing. The title is a play on the sound the lawnmowers make when starting and, coincidentally, Anil also has a stutter.
This post was brought to you by a slow Monday afternoon.
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Still my favourite remember this post of all time
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I prefer Whose Slime is it Anyway?
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I think I’ve already mentioned this 1432424312 times before, but I had intended to have the TMNT on the stools in that one, but lack of talent + time caused them to not make an appearance. The high score (131166) was not random.
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Good times…
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Bonus points if it has a “get off my lawn” one liner as mentioned above.
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Indeed, you spent the last mission in the hospital but your still alive and running the secound highest kill count. Sadly you were not magic.
Aleph, Doc What, and Numbers are also still up and doing awesome. Other TAY folk are around and filling in as backup. Tigerion died sadly.
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Still waiting to hear what happened to me. My current mindset is I got zombified by a chrysalid
and you put a bullet in my head like I was a rabid dog.I just wish you didn’t smile so much as you did so
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No you ran over to help @Chuloopa fight a battle mech thingy and were shot down by it. I managed to stablise you with a medic but then the tank next to you exploded and you died unconsious face down in the mud.
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@spaghett I kinda borked our system here at work.
You know that solitaire endgame dealy where the cards cascade down the screen, eventually filling it?
Yeah, that. Only with windows saying “CUSTOMER INVOICE” over and over and over and over and over…
Oops.
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What went through my head:
WHAT IS THIS SORCERY!? HOW DID YOU GET THE LINE UND…
Line under…
Underline…
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Old guy was in te middle of abusing me over the price of a key. A little girl not more than 4 bumped into him while walking past. Old guy turns and tells her to go die so she won’t stain society when she gets older.
I really hate this job sometimes.
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I felt bad. Negative connotations aren’t needed here.
Neither are edits, but I kinda broke that earlier.-
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Editmajick.
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I understand there was probably a very good reason to edit it but it’s like I’m missing part of the convo :P. Oh well! At least you’re not at @dc levels yet 😀
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Not sure why he edited because given half a chance I would have shanked the mofo.
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… That, that is disgusting.
I mean i say i wanna kill screaming kids all the time, but never to a child’s face.
You should’ve told him if that was the case then he should have offed himself long ago.
Old men with entitlement complexes are the worst. They’re also the most likely to be asshole drivers I find as well.
take the key back, return his money, snap said key in front of him & then inform him that he is free to go be a fuckwit elsewhere & his business is not wanted at your store.
Close your eyes, take a breath and remember the police thing is soon and you won’t have to deal with these mofos again. (Unless you’re arresting them.)
mild annoyance / thing that confuses me #535345301
Why, when booking a flight with JetStar, do they say that a booking on this flight, to this place at this time will cost $X. And then on the next page, have an extra $5 charge for having a seat allocated to you?
Sure, I can understand if you want extra leg room, you pay a bit extra, but to be lumped with a $5 fee for having a seat allocated to you? Why not just say that this booking is gonna cost $X+5 ?
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Jet star? Change sets and its another $17. Also check te baggage allowance. They default to charging you $40 odd dollars for a 23kg checked bag.
Source: My trip to Sydney.
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if you just change seats, its still $5.
if you change to extra leg room, or somewhere up the front, its an extra $15-20.& the excess baggage thing is a damn joke. My friend was caught out with that last time we flew down to melbourne.
Though I’m only taking carry on & theres a 10 KG limit there, so I think I’ll be ok.
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There’s no option NOT to have a seat allocated to you right? Assuming so, that’s potentially false advertising and I wonder what the ACCC thinks about it.
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I dont think theres an option not to.
I get the impression that the extra $5 is for having a seat at all. I wonder if they’d waive that if I offered to stand up for the duration of the flight? :p
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Fabsugar:
“Stella McCartney Stays True To Her Roots for Summer ’13”
Well it’s nice to know she’s a faithful one- although the plural in ‘roots’ worries me and kind of defeats the purpose of monogomy.
8/10 shiggys
Edit: Either way, i’m sure all the men/women/lady ga-ga’s involved will be happy with the arrangement. Ahhh modern love.
@Northern peoples @freezespreston
So planning stages to make it up to the dreamworld meat. Helps me with the planning please.
Ideas about where to stay, what to do, flights, any other tips.
I know Mrs Tigs wants just to chill and relax so access to beaches would be high on her list. Lots of food options will be important as well due to dietary issues.
Thoughts?
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I just want advice so if you can help I would say anywhere north of Tassie.
I would assume the Brisvegas people would have more info but if you stayed their on your trip and have some details let me know-
I’ll CTRL+C CTRL+V from my itinerary when I’m home tonight, as I stayed at a rather nice spot in the heart of the CBD. PLENTY of food options, and very close to public transport etc.
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Oh, man. It’ll be good to meet you and Mrs. Tigs! Can’t give any advice, though. You guys might doubt this fact, but I’m a hermit and never go out any where besides meats. 😛
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Except, you know, other countries. Oh and game shops. Not to mention JBHiFi. And then there’s your annual shirt shopping spree. By the way, when are we doing that? 😛
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Haha! Maybe soon. I’m starting to feel self-concious wearing the same three shirts to these meats. 😛
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There’s a shirt making course in my Craftsy wishlist. Maybe I can practice on you!
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Way more! 😛
Kind to offer, though. Strange is awesome.
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Surfers Paradise and Broadbeach would be the best bet. Some of the best beaches in Australia crammed full of dining options. Surfers is more touristy while Broadbeach is more classy and expensive.
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And all of Surfers/Broadbeach hotels are no more than 2 minutes walk from the beach. Plus most have free shuttles to wherever you want to go.
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The locals call it Coolanghetto.
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What sort of budget are you looking at? I know most of the places from working in all of them so I can make a few recommendations.
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Not really sure on the budget, under $150 a night would be good but could probably stretch for about $200. Lower is better providing it is still a nice place. We generally don’t spend much time during the day in the room
Looking at staying for around a weekEdit: Although I should probably check with the boss
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Thanks, much appreciated
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Dark souls Micro-Update V 1.0
Died twice already, just defeated the asylum demon. First death was nothing special, but the second? I’m playing on Xbox, and my roommate is playing games/watching TV. I walk through the white mists, and the asylum demon is looking up at me, teeth bared and eyes hungry. My mate says “at least he can’t reach you”, to which I nodded, and then it ripped my platform out from underneath me, scaring the shit out of the pair of us! Stay tuned!
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Xbox? Aw man, that’s the one platform where I can’t invade yo.. I mean, join your game and help you.
Please keep up with updates! DaS is a game where it’s pretty interesting to read the stories of others.
Dismantled my old MX Revolution mouse and found the reason that the scroll wheel stopped working properly is that it was literally gummed up with gross finger juice or whatever that gunk is that builds up inside mice. Cleaned that shit out and it’s spinning again \o/
But now I realise that I don’t have a Win8 driver to change the stupid click-to-change-scrolling-mode back around to being a middle mouse button again 🙁
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I was about to ask how you change it to the middle mouse button because last time I looked it wasn’t an option, but I must have updated setpoint and now it is. I can finally love everything about this mouse now!
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You need to take lessons from @puppylicks
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@Tigerion
Circle on Cavill ~$180pn
Jupiters Casino ~ $175pn
Ambience on Burleigh ~ $150pn
Broadbeach on the Park ~$190pn
Sun City ~ $165pn
Also have a hard look at Q1. Sometimes can be pretty expensive but it’s not unusual to stumble across some deals for ~$140pn which is brilliant for the place.
These are all single night prices and I’m sure you can find much cheaper deals (as well as much more costly). Just a rough guide of some of the places I know are nice.
I saw that TAY/Kotaku/Potaku Game Club got a brief mention on twitter this afternoon – since we’re in a new month, but don’t have a new game yet.
I did make some suggestions, but nobody responded. So I’ll try here.
February Game Club game suggestions and maybe even picking one before we’re halfway through, etc.
Psychonauts
Chrono Trigger
Dead Space
That’s what I’ve got so far. None of them fit the theme of February directly. What is the theme of February? Probably Valentine’s Day and it’s the shortest month. Anyway, let’s hear thoughts and suggestions (mostly in relation to Game Club Feb).
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People are unintentionally doing this for Ni No Kuni, though. Might be the unofficially nominated game! Probably not the best of noms, considering it’s a new release and expensive!
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Yeah. I’m enjoying Ni No Kuni, but I don’t want to burn myself out on it. My picks are based on the games Ive been playing at the moment:
Ni No Kuni -> Chrono Trigger. JRPG. It’s an older game, and has had quite a few ports and re-releases recently. Plus I’m sure people could get their hands on it just for the month if need be.
The Cave -> Psychonauts. a Double Fine game. Psychonauts is not as much of a point’n’click as The Cave, but it’s still good. It’s also available across a number of platforms, and it’s been a part of humble bundles and sales and whatnot.
ZombiU -> Dead Space. Zombie game. I put ZombiU on hold because I became frustrated, but picked it up again recently and I’m getting back into it. Mark’s love letter to the Ishimura has me wanting to replay Dead Space. So there’s that.
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BioShock!
Psychonauts is a good one though since most of us will have it from indie bundles and it’s not entirely indie/smallish like SMB
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Beyond: Two Souls? 😛
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Aww man…I don’t have my copy anymore! I tradedit in when I was broke and desperate for a new game. All the regrets.:(
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Puppylicks gave permission to pass the game onto Sughly after I’m done, maybe he can pass it onto you? 😀
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Psychonauts would be good. I’m okay with Dark Souls as well though! It’ll give me an excuse to actually sit down and play it.
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THE STATE OF TAY — 04/02/2013
— Refer to pages one to four.
Now you know and knowing is half the battle.
Suggestions on content and formatting encouraged.
(Not feeling it today. :P)
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No problem XD I couldn’t do it.
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Hi DC! Hi Scree! I’m good. You?
@dc – please don’t. Those updates were way more than any one person should ever do!
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I was joking. But man, DC did an amazing job while it lasted
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He did indeed 😀
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Pretty good, man. Post-meat anxiety is reaching critical levels, though! (Write up on page one if you’re interested! :D)
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Cheers mate. Looks like you had a pretty great time!
It’s great you keep going to meats even though you know you’ll get the post meat blues. Hopefully it’ll get less as you do more meats and become more comfortable with the idea people really do like you and enjoy your company 🙂
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He clearly did it for the kudos. Once he won, where did they go? COINCIDENCE?! I think not. CONSPIRACY.
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I did it all for the wookies!
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3rd of March! One month! There will be Taybies at Dreamworld! Pack your shit! Beg borrow steal save or whatever you have to do to get the necessary funds! Interstaters! Book your holidays and flights! Why haven’t you yet? Are you a square or something? Stop being lame! Get your ass to Dreamworld! Be the envy of all your peers! Be all that you can be? Have you organised it yet? No? Why not? I just told you to! Come on come on do it do it come on do it naow!
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Downvote for getting that song stuck in my head …grrrr
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Downvote for you thinking that’s a bad thing
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Are you serious? If so, this friendship is ovah! 😛
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evening TAYbies, a quick question for you. Is it possible to easily transfer files from a pc to xbox … I’ve got some movies I want to put on there
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You can put movies on a USB and depending on the format, it should play directly off that. Also if you set up Windows Media Centre you can do the whole futuristic streaming thing. Probably not too helpful advice, though. Hope you’re well, Tofu!
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Usb or hard drive should work. Just plug it in. It should allow you to put your movies onto the xbox
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1. Turn both devices on.
2. Sitck a finger into a usb port on both pc and xbox.
3. Watch your files be transferred via magic.Failing that, a Flash drive or a portable hard drive is the way to go.
I have something incredibly important to discuss here. Stop whatever you’re doing and take notice.
What’s happened to $7 footlongs?!? There was a sign up at Subway saying “$7 footlongs. Limited time only. ” You may be saying “But Ben, maybe it’s all subs instead of just the cheap ones?” NO! It’s just the cheap ones! Somebody said the cheap ones at their store were now $9.45!
That’s it, I’m done. Goodbye world!
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That’s weird… it deleted the bit I put at the end of “$7 footlongs. Limited time only. *something about value”
Apparently you can’t put text between arrows. Well there you go.
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Yeah – text between arrows would be read as bb code.
I’ve found that prices at Subway are not consistant across different stores too.
I usually go to the store near work or the store at the local big shopping centre, and the shopping centre prices are about 50c – $1 cheaper.
The store near home (which I don’t go to since I only get subway when I’m out) has a poster in the window for a $4 six inch with a drink. The one near work doesn’t have this.
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Po for Powalen and Pokemon. The two best things.
EDIT: Predictions! Ni no Kuni, Pokemon, Persona… I have no idea about the last three 😛
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2 votes for Persona 4
1 vote for Nopopeacabra
2 votes for BioShock
1 vote for Near, which I assume is N which is Ni no KuniNo votes for Pokemon, Catch-22 or Art books 🙁
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Dunno why, but I’ve gone on a Prince binge on YouTube tonight.
This is what kicked me off http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SFNW5F8K9Y
Tangentially related – does anyone remember that rumour about Marilyn Manson having a rib surgically removed so he could give himself oral pleasure?
I first heard that one about Prince. Then about Michael Jackson.
I never believed a word of it.
Then this one time… at band camp…
Antichamber.
$15 on Steam for probably not long, until it goes up to $20.
It’s… just get it. I want people to discuss it with, though I’m not sure we could do so episodically a la The Walking Dead, though I’d still want your opinions on it.
It’s… sorta like a puzzle game, sorta like a sensory exploration into mind-bending. Seeing illogical (Escher-esque, perhaps?) landscapes unfold in first-person is quite cool, to be sure!
GET IT AND TALK ABOUT IT WITH ME!!!
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Get it!!! DOO EEET!!!
Seriously. It’s good. Or weird. I’ve not decided yet. Hell, I couldn’t decide if one part was scaring the shit out of me, or whether I was overthinking it.
Not that it’s a scary game. It’s weird. Weirdly good. Goodly weird.
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It looks interesting but because I have enough games to play at the moment it’s on the “get it when it’s cheap” list. Free is cheapest! 😀
You may have to wait until it drops to $5 before we get the discussion going, sorry Mythalphetanullamine!
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I didn’t say I was poor, I said I have enough games to play at the moment. Why buy it now (and not play it) when I could buy it later when it’s cheaper (…and also not play it :P!).
Borrowed parents money for Wii U but got full refundU so it was just temporary.
Ni no Kuni is still uncertain. Who knows if and when I’ll get my other copy! And if I do, I could easily get around $200+ more for it D:.
AND! I’m going to Singapore next week when it’s Chinese New Year. Where the tradition (FUCK YEAH TRADITION!) is to give people money 😀 😀 :DDD
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Yup, Wizard’s Edition. You probably saw my problems with Zavvi where they didn’t despatch it, said it had “Payment Problems” and yet still fully charged me for it. Everyone was having problems with it and some pre-orders made around the time I pre-ordered, were cancelled. It turned out to be a system error and it was just unfortunate that it happened on the Wizard’s Edition which had similar problems in the US.
Because of that uncertainty and high chance of it being cancelled I just bought it locally. Intended to go with EB so I could return it but they didn’t break street date yet so just went to JB instead. Should be easy enough to sell it on eBay for $50ish and Wizard’s Edition is going for $350+ on eBay too (I paid $100). Very tempting but I don’t necessarily need the money but we’ll see…
Tradition is something about red packets bringing good luck… who knows! I think Greeks do it too for their “name day” but again, no idea why 😀
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Ni No Kuni is starting to feel a little grindy. I’m liking it, even the fights themselves. Progress is so slow, because you take a couple of steps and you fight. Can’t we all just get along, critters? :'(
Edit: The art is still mind blowingly pretty. The story and mythology are still interesting. The combat itself is pretty fun. (Felt the need to edit that in, sounds like I don’t like the game otherwise. :P)
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Yeah that’s something I don’t really like about it compared to other non-random battles JRPGs. The point of non-random battles is that it should feel like you’re not battling every couple of seconds/steps. At least make most of the enemies easily avoidable or respawn at a much slower pace. Quick respawns are fine on world maps but in dungeons when I walk down one path to a treasure chest and try to walk to the other… BOOM unavoidable monster battles are back again!
How many hours now? I’m 15:30 or so! 😀
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About ten and a half hours I think, just reached the second part of the demo. Which is:
The Old Smokey Volcano dealy.Spent a lot of time trying to catch ’em all. I’m glad I never got into Pokemon. 😛
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I hat that, IMO respawning enemies is bad design unless the game is something like Xenoblade or FFXII where grinding is inherent because it’s sort of a quasi-MMO. It just makes the game repetitive. You can really only get away with it if your core combat system is amazingly fun (i.e. if you’re Tales of Graces). You should be able to clear out the whole dungeon before it resets.
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This along with DQIX don’t feel grindy to me cos I love the combat system.
Was a little dissapointed to find that…dammit spoiler button doesn’t work on this arcane browser.
Something about monster levels…I’m sure you know.
I just emptied out my figure cabinets and moved them out of my room. I have had them in the same place for three years and have had a cabinet of some description in my bedroom for nearly a decade.
Feels so fucking weird. There’s this big empty space where my collection used to be.
Also my couch is gone as well, so I have nowhere to sit when Xenoblading etc. I might end up moving the TV through into here and sitting it beside my PC and Hermiting inside my room.
EDIT: Maybe if I turn the TV on at midnight…
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That… it answers nothing /o\
Although now I’m intrigued o.0
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You’d actually love Persona 4.
Oops, I gave it away…
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Yeah. I’m moving with my Mum as she downsizes to a smaller & cheaper house so that I can subsequently move out of home and she’ll still be able to pay her rent without me handling the bond. So in the mean time I’m putting as much of my stuff into storage as possible since it won’t fit into a smaller place and I don’t want to have to pay to move it twice.
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No deposit 🙁 Have been spending all my spare cash on stupid bullshit like video games. So renting. But that’s a few months off once I’m actually freed up to move out.
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I could never get my head around why people wanted to buy. Now that I do I see many advantages. But yeah, need them $$$$$$$$s
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When I did rent, I always shared. Single apartments are such a money sucker. A big house with a bunch of idiots is good if you can handle company.
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I want my own place. I’ve basically been in a share house with my mum and my sister for years and I want my own space where I can do whatever. And get a cat.
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So Ni no Kuni topped sales charts in the UK last week.
A JRPG at the top of the charts. That hasn’t happened since the PS2 days I think? I don’t recall if FFXIII or XIII-2 made it to the top and if they did it would be PS3 & 360 combined…
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Good news – Sequel time! Doesn’t have to be Ni no Kuni whatever world but sign me up for more pretty Ghibli games!
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Hell yes. But also it vindicates Namco Bandai’s recent attempt to push JRPGs a bit harder again and gives some hope for Xillia 2 after Xillia (I’m worried that the PS4 launching will scuttle a lot of JRPG localization plans the way that the Vita’s announcement ruined everything for PSP)
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I want thiiiis! Badly
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It looks Sooooooo painfuly good and soooounds so painfully good.
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And FF Type-0. 🙁
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I actually haven’t heard much, kinda gave up on it after it took so long. Does it sound good?
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It’s supposed to be the best FF game in years.
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That’s not hard really. I didn’t mind XIII-2 but the last “real” game was 4DS imho…Oh wait, 4heroesOf Light was decent.
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@jimu: Bravely Default is basically Four Heroes of Light 2. It’ll come eventually, the reason it hasn’t is the game’s enormous and probably pretty costly to localize (it’s extensively voiced and uses the biggest-capacity game cartridges the 3DS supports).
The general buzz was that Type-0 was on the same sort of quality par as FFX. 39/40 in Famitsu if that means anything. Moved nearly 700,000 units in Japan too, which is pretty good.
I suspect that they might end up porting it to Vita or doing a PS3 HD Remaster release and then localizing that, but Squenix’s core FF guys have all been tied up by the FFXIV 2.0 reboot (which is also why Versus XIII was delayed so long and why they’ve iterated on XIII heavily since they can re-use the engine and existing assets). The reason we didn’t see the game as a Digital-only PSP release was that PSN didn’t support multi-UMD games until about September or so last year (FF Type-0 and Trails in the Sky’s 3rd Chapter are both dual-UMD games)
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Eurogamer:
“Ni No Kuni sold out in many UK shops over the weekend – but more stock is on the way.“We have more stock going into the channel this week so check with local stores to receive your copy,” [Namco’s UK PR and marketing director Lee] Kirton continued. “We hope the word of mouth and demand for the title continues as it does prove that JRPGs are special and we invest a lot of time and effort within this genre.””
This feels Strange (Hi Strange). The game did really poorly in Japan too so if they managed to manufacture an international hit JRPG that Japan didn’t like…
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The city EB Games/JB Hifi on the weekend were completely sold out. There was a note to enquire at the counter for next shipment. Seems pretty popular here too.
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I don’t think Namco did either otherwise it wouldn’t have sold out and they wouldn’t have had the whole wizards edition debacle.
Credits are rolling! Ni No Kuni is finished!
I think I outleveled the crap out of it due to finding a overpowered grinding spot I’m pretty sure you’re not suppose to beat the game at lvl 80 lol
Awesome game, now to fool around in the post game.
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Spoilerise it cause most people might not want to see it, but how long did the game take and did you do all the sidequests? No other spoilers please, just the numbers!
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Lvl 85 -47 hours in and 3-4 hours of that would be me idling the screen and I reckon I did about 95% of the Bounties/Errands.15 hours of that or more would be grinding/sidequest/exploration I reckon if you B-Line it you could do the game in 20-30 hours.
It all depends on how much you grind really.
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Thanks! Going for the Platinum? (I probably will)
Did beating it unlock any significant amount of post-game content?
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I don’t usually play for trophies, but should I be concerned that I’ve only got two so far? 😛
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Not at all! In some games they’re stupidly easy to unlock, while in others they’re extremely hard. Do you mean you don’t play for just trophies (PS3), or achievement type of things in general? I always just play the game however I want the first time through and then I’ll look at the list and clear up any I find interesting or are easy enough to do. Very rarely I’ll check out the achievements before I finish the game :D. Don’t worry too much about it!
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Yeah, I play how I want to as well. Doesn’t really bother me, just suspicious lack of unlocking sound. 😀
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Yep it did it unlocked a TON of errands and bounties, this game definitely has another 10+ hours of postgame.
The game also makes you aware to you of the post game features after the credits.
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As I understand it, doing just the core game and none of the side missions actually makes the game a lot harder and more frustrating due to being underleveled.
That sounds actually less than I sank into Tales of Graces and is only a bit more than I’ve spent in Xenoblade so far, so I’m happy. I’ll play it once I’m done with Xeno (feel like I’m maybe halfway).
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WRONG! Sidequests don’t give EXP for completion and you just get rewards and merit badges.
And you’re probably about halfway in Xeno. Maybe less if you skip some sidequests and clean them up after you finish the game (that’s what I did)
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But sidequests often involve fighting monsters in a grindy fashion.
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I think it was more to do with sidequest rewards being EXP, Nothing is stopping you from grinding without doing sidequests!
He’s currently playing through Xenoblade whose sidequests give a butt-ton of EXP for completion and can make you severely overlevelled if you do every one you come across.
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Yeah but that gives you gear and stuff, plus you’re fighting more enemies than you would have if you were just straight-lining everything.
OH YEAH! Moar questions – I haven’t really fed my familiars much treats because it seems like there’s a x/10 sort of limit thing. How does the system work and is there an actual limit to how much you can feed a familiar?
I assume the hunger goes down by battling/leveling but that x/10 thing still remains. I also saw something about familiarity/(or some other word) and it might protect you in battle if it likes you enough?
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Hunger determines how much you can feed it and your assumption is correct battle does reduce its hunger and the higher its hunger level the more battles it takes to reduce it so you usually want to have it around the half level but its honestly doesn’t matter and the x/10 just refers to how many stats you can get before it won’t gain stats anymore the more familiarity you have the more growth limit you can have.
TBH I never much bothered with the creature cage it consumes way to much time for so little gain.
Not sure what that last sentence is about? can you elaborate?
Also my Familiar setup! be surprised by its diversity lol
Catastroceros/Demoliceros/Puss in Bouts
Catastroceros/Fluorongo/Captain Whamtastic
Catastroceros/Bone Brigadier/AdamantigerAs you see I captured alot of Dinoceros’s lol.
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…I don’t know any of those except for Adamantiger! 😛
So it’s called familiarity? Wasn’t sure what it was called in the game but I was referring to that. I think one of the tutorials said that with a high familiarity the familiar can do some extra things in battle. I’m not too sure about it though but maybe you can investigate without the fear of spoilers :).
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Monster Hunter, Pokemon, Ni No Kuni?
(Never played Monster Hunter, but the name sounds like you hunt monsters? :P)
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Poor monsters. I think the real monster here is the hunter. :'(
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Or @shane
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Have you played Shadow of the Colossus? I wrote a big thing on the morality in that game once. That even though the game is linear, you’re not absolved of your actions. That the only truly moral path is to discontinue playing the game. Something something too late at night.
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Haven’t played it. Thought Ico/SotC looked decent, though!
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GET ON IT! Two of the best exclusives evar
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Corrrection – Monster Hunter does involve monster capturing.
It’s an alternative to killing them, although it’s much harder to do. You have to weaken the monster to a certain point and capture it. Capturing usually yields more parts than a kill ‘n carve. The trick is you have no way of telling how close to death a monster is, apart from it starting to limp, which means it’s close, but you can’t tell how close.
Exactly D.C., it sounds like you HUNT monsters not capture them! Although I’m pretty sure there’s nets in the game which do stuff…
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Well you hunt these monsters to make them do your bidding, how’s that any better? 😛
(Atleast you can feed them cupcakes, I guess.)
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Nets? APE ESCAPE 4 TEASER OMFG
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Dude I’d love a current/next-gen Ape Escape! That game was madddd
Well that’s like five 21st invites already :/. 2 of them are just like whatevs “invite everyone on your friend’s list” thing and the other 3 belong to one of my good friends from high school and another two pretty good friends whom I was close to at some point (went to my year 10 Presentation dancyball thing with one of them).
I do want to see and catch up with old friends but they’re all in the city (too far!) and at night clubs and whatnot which don’t seem like the thing I’ll be into (never been because I was too young). I’ve also been getting sick of parties and whatnot since I started becoming a hermit a few years ago and I’d rather just chill at home.
Decisions decisions…
#OldManGreenius.
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Dude you should go! At least for your good friends anyway. They’ll probably really appreciate it. I have no idea what the nightclub scene is like in Melb but if it’s anything like here there will be the pubs that turn into nightclubs on weekends that aren’t bad and you might at least enjoy, but then there’s the ones where all there is is loud music and dancing which are shit and full of posers.
PS Do you drink? If you do drink beforehand because drinks at clubs are insanely overpriced.
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But the closest one out of them is named Ben and he’s the worst! BEN… PFFFT!
Very high chance it’s the extremely loud type with dancing and posers. I don’t drink and that might be why I stopped partyin’ it up like I used too. Too much drugs and drunks!
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If that’s the case then yeah I can understand why you don’t want to go. I got over peoples garage/backyard drugs and alcohol parties pretty quickly 😛 There’s only so many times you can do it before it starts getting too repetitive and lame and you start feeling like a 15 year old.
US BENS ARE WONDERFUL PEOPLE!
Actually I know another Ben and he’s the biggest arsehole I’ve ever met, so SOME OF US ARE WONDERFUL PEOPLE!
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two pretty good friends whom I was close to at some point (went to my year 10 Presentation dancyball thing with one of them).
OoooOoOOOoooh
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Want to hear a fun story? COURSE YA DO!
Back in the day of MSN chats and whatnot we’d talk quite a bit. This guy from school had a crush on her but she found him extremely annoying and didn’t like him at all, so being the kind gentleman I am, I would invite him into our convos and flirt with her and I’m pretty sure I even asked her to the dancyball thing while he was there.
I’m so nice.
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Jock*
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Who says dancyball
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Don’t question my manly levels of Jockness!
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Greenius is a big jerk.
He misled us, got our hopes up, and had a good laugh doing it.
I’m up to date with The Walking Dead TV show. It’s worth sticking with, I think. Pretty decent TV.
Greenius is a big jerk.
Call me a monster?! He’s the monster.
I’ve started installing things to my new PC. In just a day or two, it’ll all be together and I can start working on projects on it \o/
Greenius is a big jerk.
TWD game:He even hats Ben. Nuff said, amirite @dc?
I’m tired and going to bed.
Also Greenius is something something.
A big ol jerk.
Not really
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Watched the trailer, but not getting a feel for what it is. Feels much more like a tech demo for PS2-era graphics than a game trailer. What is it?
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Sequel to The Longest Journey. There’s two worlds. Stark and Arcadia. Certain people have the ability to shift between them. One is a world of science, the other is a world of magic. Something is wrong and the two are beginning to bleed together. Adventure game that plays a little like Fahrenheit/Heavy Rain. Simple puzzles built around a story!
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Does sequel demand familiarity with the original…? I have none 🙂
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It’s got a whole lot of connections, but also seen through the perspective of an outsider experiencing it for the first time — I think you’d be able to pick it up. I freakin’ love the first game, but not sure I’d recommend it since you didn’t like Monkey Island. D:
Routinely goes on sale for under five bucks on GOG. Just something to keep in mind. 😛
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The show did get better! I think it starts up again soon too.
(I hate mid-season breaks. Just plan them around the holidays instead of cutting them in half!)
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I don’t really mind them if the structure of the show fits it (i.e. appropriate cliffhanger), but definitely have a preference for shows that go right from go to woah without a break.
Shane is a monster.
Also misled us, and had a good laugh doing it (refer to D.C. leaving TAY fiasco)
I gave up on The Walking Dead TV Show but I might go back to it.
Shane is a monster.
NO U (best rebuttal)
Wooo! Now you can render more than 3 things :D!
Shane is a monster.
The Walking Dead Game (the whole thing) Spoilers:
How can you not hat Ben, HE’S THE WORST.
I’m tired and going to bed.
Also Shane is something something.
A HUMUNGO MONSTER
Just kidding! (maybe), Shane is an awesome guy who gives away like 12.4 billion games, shares his arguably funny jokes, and is an all round nice guy! Still a monster though
…and Greenius can’t reply for shit and totally noticed it just AFTER he submitted it :'(
Just cracked out the D&D game I have with the Missus and we sat down and figured out how to play it. Seemed daunting at first but once we figured it out it was a lot more simple than first glance. Also fun.
My Drizzt found the Ancient Crown from the ruins of Mythril Hall and slew Artemis Entreri with only a single HP remaining. Unfortunately Mrs. Freeze’s Bruenor was left floating face down in an underground river, one of Artemis’ poison daggers in his back.
@dc, if no one sees this after Serrels reposts TAY can you let everyone know?
TAY Free Day for Ol Spaghett gang
Not entirely TAY free, but severley reduced
Spags has got some work to do
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@shane @bdkiaf @dc Now, I just have to curb my compulsive behaviours which now incorporate TAY in my ritualistic checking…….
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Oh man, I completely forgot that there was a new Outnumbered Christmas Special in December. Guess I know what I’m acquiring tonight!
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It’s fantastic. One of my all time favourite shows. I think I’ll be rewatching it again and again as my kids get older (our near-3yo daughter is shaping up to be a Ben/Karen hybrid, too early to tell about seven-month-old son) 😛
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Okay so there is the Shane Meat on Saturday and Greenius may or may not be there/be in Singapore?
Anyone want to clue me in on what’s been happing in TAYland? Work is too busy to catch up in TAY.
There is a famous Marvel No-Prize for whoever gives me the best summary.
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3rd of March! One month! There will be Taybies at Dreamworld! Pack your shit! Beg borrow steal save or whatever you have to do to get the necessary funds! Interstaters! Book your holidays and flights! Why haven’t you yet? Are you a square or something? Stop being lame! Get your ass to Dreamworld! Be the envy of all your peers! Be all that you can be? Have you organised it yet? No? Why not? I just told you to! Come on come on do it do it come on do it naow!
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Stumble
Crawl through this crazy crazy life
A freeway drive
Follow till you don’t know why
Monday strain
A bitter pill to help you buy
Seachange stalled
There’s no way out of here alive
Don’t know why this comes to mind. Oh yeah, I think we’ve decided to push back the Bathurst move. For reasons, man. Reasons.
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I hope it’s for good reasons and not DC reasons or because your very young daughter guilted you. 😛
Kids that young are resilient and when you do move she will love it. The younger she is when you do it, the better for her as well. Changing schools is not a fun thing for kids.
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Yeah, the reasons are good. Money, practicality, shortcomings in the house we were looking at, and what would probably be a logistical nightmare in commuting. We’re gonna take some time and really plan it out properly, see if it is actually feasible.
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Omm….lette them have their eggcellent fun.
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Must. Resist. Downvoting.
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Scrambling for more puns!
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You’re truly a monster.
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@dc, I broke you fast this time. Get it?
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Dammit Shane, you poached that yolk right from me!
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Beats me, dude. Perhaps you should shell out for a decent yolk writer?
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I beg your carton?
This is a very eggcentric thread. There’s no way in shell this isn’t going to boil over.
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I was going to make a yolk about frying eggs, but it didn’t pan out.
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Oh man, I’ve got post-meat blues. :'( Might have to fix ’em by sitting in front of the PS3, playing Ni No Kuni for hours at a time!
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Worst. Hermit. Ever.
Hope it comes good anyway. Maybe more meats? Visit Freeze at work. Learn how to grind the top of your fingers off. -
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Nearly? Not trying hard enough.
Maybe Ni No Kuni spoilers re: music
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We should have a Cloud Atlas meat. It opens February 28, though. Might be too close to the Dreamworld.
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Is it shirt time yet? We could do the shirt-buying Meat. 😛
Want to do a lunch Meat tomorrow? I feel a need to get out of the house and I need to buy some fabric. I could go to the city if you wanted to meet for lunch?
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For who? 3 comic shops, 3 JB Hi Fis, 2 EBs. A vast selection of oily take away. I’m in limbo.
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You have my number!
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Oh yeah, I do. I forgot!
Okay, @dc lunch with Jimu and I tomorrow? If you refuse, Jimu will think you hat him. P -
pompom and propeller hat!
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I would but I’m still a little terrified about hanging out with Strange (or any TAYbie) by myself. Haha! 😀
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You should download the tune that plays in Zelda when you receive an item, then play it when you finish making it.
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So i did a small amount of painting last night and had a microwave meal with a lovely german beer to wash it down.
But mostly… I played Spec Ops: The Line….
Holy crap….
I’m up to the part where the water has just been completely destroyed.. and man this job is doing a great job of making me feel like an asshole.
That White phosphor scene… when it first started i was like “oh yeah.. killing lots of bad guys with a mortar, burning them all to death – no problem, CoD did this sort of thing before – sure it’s a dick thing but nothing too shocking, i don’t know what the hell everyone was so jittery about… right?
Wrong… Oh man… when you’re walking through it and people and slowly dying, it made you feel like a dick.. but… when you get to those civilians… ho-lee shit… mannn….
Why do i get the feeling by the time i reach the end game it’s going to turn out that i’ve been the bad guy all along without knowing it?
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All the feels. Amazing game.
The aquarium section where you’re fighting through to steal the water really hit home for some reason too. The Mogwai track they play during accompanies the feeling that this really is just all going to shit. It’s like omg, what am I doing? What have I become? Also, Nolan North’s character changes as the game progresses – the melee kills become increasingly violent, his voice tone changes, he swears more…. it’s just holy shit.-
North voices the player character, yeah?
I noticed the facial expressions changing last night – same with how brutal some of the melee finishes are…
It’s like he’s losing it or something – like out of sheer confusion, frustration and desperation he’s slowly being changed while all his squadmates can do is sit back and watch. -
Also, that track you’re talking about – yeah it’s the first track of the game i really noticed and ha no idea what it was, but it sounded DISTINCTLY similar to the music from (i think) The remake f Dawn of the Dead – when everything is going to shit?? I’m actually not sure if it is dawn of the dead, but it is one of the zombie movies (i think) when everything is really going to shit. That score has always creeped the hell out of me.
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This is more of a rant than a spoiler.
What do you mean “without knowing it?” Being a good guy or a bad guy is a matter of perspective. From anyone but Walker’s perspective, do you think that the actions you’ve done so far in the game would make you a good guy or a bad guy?Most bad guys aren’t moustache twirling caricatures bent on taking over the world, if it wasn’t for those meddling kids. They’re characters that believe what they’re doing is the right thing. Either because they don’t care about the effects of their actions on others or have a twisted belief that their actions are for the greater good. My freedom fighter is your terrorist.-
You know what i mean. I don’t mean the litteral real world version of bad and good that’s, as you say, a very thin grey line determined by perspective – i mean the story-book version of good guy bad guy.
I’m very much like you in the idea that there is no real good or bad, it’s all about perspective – Every time i play any warfare kind of game I am well aware that what i am doing more than quantifies me as being a bad guy – so yeah, don’t take it so literally, i’m more talking from the usual video game point of view – which it seems this game is very much trying to shake up making people think they are the hero going in, but killing so many civilians and soldiers alike somewhat indiscriminately.
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Spec ops is an amazingly powerful game and I suggest anyone who plays call of duty with the maturity to understand it to play it.
I found that i went from liking Walker to hating him through out the game.
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Damn Straight it’s a thing
PLATNUMB!
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Aw man. Just dropped my daughter off at school. She didn’t want to hold my hand walking in, hung up her own bag and drink bottle, found her name tag and put it on herself and went and sat down. I’m not needed any more 🙁
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You’ve still got one left, don’t you? Hold onto her. Or have more kids 😛
Edit: my dad said that the worst day of his life was the day I stopped running to meet him at the door after work. Starting to understand that now.
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So I went and added everyone from the PSN TAYBIE list last night. Took a while, even with a USB keyboard. It’s too bad we cant upload custom PSN avatars.
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I feel like I should put my PSN account on TAYnames, but it’s mostly pointless cause I don’t have any games on it 😛
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Yeah I added you, but I had no idea who you were. I was expecting a invite from Gorzy so I was all kinds of confused.
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Haha sorry. It does get confusing when you cannot be consistent across all platforms. I would use my Mii on PSN if I could (Nintendo on Sony hey) but now I don’t know whether to change my Gravatar to Galaga, change my name from Benny to my PSN name or an old handle – fbzbenny, or just leave everything fragmented! The madness!
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Like I said, I was expecting an invite from Gorzy but I found your first. But now i’m all good. =P
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If it makes you feel any better I’ve consistently seen him as a dickhat, mostly due to his followers.
I refuse to make the obvious comparison to religion here.
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I always thought Notch was a bit cocky for my liking. He’s more the poster boy for indie success as a whole.
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I’m watching all the videos my husband grabbed from 70K on YouTube. Not sure if I’m enjoying them or just getting depressed. 😛
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aN7kDj47XaI&list=UUy2_iZp4vSVK1-UQWXyCdNg
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We jumped the gun on page 5, but now it’s time to bite the bullet and take a real shot at this:
DAD JOKE PAGE SIX
BANG!
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I ate some glue, but I won’t tell anyone. My lips are sealed.
I’m stuck in debt. I can’t budge it.
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Why are you afraid of page 6 @dc? It’s be page 7 you should be afraid of because seven eight nine.
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The guy got chopped in half. He’s all right now.
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Wanted to look for my lost watch, but never found the time.
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Me : SHUT UP!
Dad : So’s mine, must be the weather.
My dad used to use that all the time and I hated it.
Kid: “…Might as well”
Dad: “Don’t call me muffler”!
Funnily enough, this is one my mum always used to use… and still does… *facepalm*
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I had issue with the whole falling in love after three seconds of screen time. After that I couldn’t buy any of it. Just felt contrived. Haha. Plus, why would he choose Cosette over Eponine? (Although why would she be in love with such a d-bag anyways. :P)-
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The director added that Suddenly song, I reckon that would’ve been screen time better used setting up the ‘falling in love’ thing some more. Maybe my cold black heart doesn’t understand love. 😛
I did like it, though. Some amazing production values.
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The “Falling in love” thing isn’t much more in the stage show
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Honestly, as much as I enjoyed it, that was a freaking long movie, so I’m cool with them not spending any more time on anything.
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But, but, I dream a dream, and Eponine singing in the rain, and do you hear the people sing. The whole thing was full of feels.
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Also the little people song. Bang bang and it’s over before it actually starts 🙁
Although I’ve had do you hear the people sing running through my head a lot recently, for which I blame @dc for that
Nomad’s Dark Souls Chronicles 1.1/Morning Edition!
Played through Undead Burg last night, but more on that later. On my arrival to the Firelink Shrine by way of giant crow, I explored the area, and read that one of the gifts was in the cemetery in the area. So I thought I’d go and fetch that before I did the next area. Well 30mins later I was ready to snap my game disc in a fit of rage/insanity, and took to the Internet for ideas. What I didn’t realise was that if you’re getting your arse handed to you again and again by a pair of measly skeletons it doesn’t necessarily mean you’re not good at the game. It means you’re not supposed to go there yet. Doh!
So I flipped a coin, ignored it and headed for the light. I’ve discovered I’m useless at ripostes, can’t seem to time the shield parry well enough. The Burg wasn’t too bad, took me a couple or hours, but I was farming the area around the merchant so I could level up and buy firebombs/arrows. The Black Knight before Taurus Demon bested me over and over, so I led him to where the firebomb skeletons were, and killed him with arrows – bastard didn’t drop any equipment! Then I took on Taurus. Climbed to the top of the tower thanks to someone’s message, dispatched the archers and climbed back up when I triggered Taurus. Three firebombs at him, which walked me off the tower to ground level. After some frantic rolling and a few more firebombs I bested him. Looking at a guide I shot the dragons tail off, granting me the Drake sword. Then I ran beneath, and poisoned by rats and used up all but 2 Estus. The Mecha Boar was pretty simple, dropped firebombs from the catwalk. I then lured the local Black Knight to the Courtyard, making him kill himself on a firepit. After equipping the Knight shield I’m “fat rolling”, so I’m also wearing the Boar helm. I fought my way to the Parish bonfire and called it a night.
More stories tonight if I get a chance to play!
Also @shane @strange I haven’t seen a YOU DEFEATED anywhere, it it supposed to replace the YOU WIN?
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You get “YOU WIN”? I still get “VICTORY ACHIEVED”
Be aware that environment exploits are about to get few and far between for you (I never thought of tackling the Black Knights like that, though, so nice work with those) so you’re gonna have to get okay with toe-to-toe fighting. Sounds like you’re doing well, though. Maybe I should use some Firebombs in my playthroughs. I don’t think I’ve ever thrown a single one! 😛-
Ah it could be VICTORY ACHIEVED. Don’t recall what was written on screen last night.
Yeah except for the cemetery in Firelink I haven’t hit any major hurdles. I don’t mind close up fights, but the Black Knights had such good defences my attacks were doing sweet FA damage. Will definitely have to work on timing my parrying on some easier enemies. I looked up guides for the boss, about 15-20 firebombs took care of Taurus.-
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360. Picked up prepare to die for about 30bucks.
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I’m on PS3 and I’m getting “YOU DEFEATED”, but Shane and yourself are on 360 and not. I guess mine’s the superior platform then. Shame I don’t have the superior skills. 😛
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I imagine I’d be doing better if it was more like the witcher 2. They play similar combat-wise, but the key to beating dark difficulty on TW2 was copious use of the dodge/roll button, as you couldn’t survive more than a couple of hits. I tried that here, but it drains stamina, so I can’t roll my way to victory here!
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Pretty sure this got changed in a patch (on PS3, too)… I’m guessing your DaS is not patched up, @Strange?
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It is all patched up. It got removed but it was patched back in. It’s working on my PS3 game but not these guys’ 360 games.
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Ah! I have not played it on PS3 in a while (maybe I missed the most recent patch, just going from memory here?) 🙁
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My best win against the Taurus demon was where it charged me and we both flew off the wall while I was trying to figure out what to do. Walked back up, grabbed everything I dropped and carried on 😛
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Aw man that’s excellent! I was really worried first time I fell I a ledge that my stuff would be irretrievable. Thank fuck the designers made it so it stays on the last bit of ground you were at.
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I don’t get it? Are there any drawbacks to playing hollowed? I’ve been restoring humanity whenever I can.
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Oh. Perhaps I should stop being human then! There aren’t any stay bonuses or anything for human?
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As with everything in the game, there’s a risk/reward dynamic.
Increased chance of good loot drops if you’re human. And you can summon help in battles. But you do (I think) less damage (depends on weapon) or are more vulnerable to damage (or both) or something. Also, spending humanity is hard to do, because it’s so damn rare 😛
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Howdy Tayberinos
Hope you all had a wonderful weekend. I finally started Sir Hammerlock’s Big Game Hunt, and I like the new monsters. Is anyone else still borderlanding?
Also, a tuesday morning question, apropos of nothing: What game soundtracks do you think stand well on their own? I think both Mirror’s Edge and the XIII Funk and Groove album work pretty well
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I really should play the BL2 DLC…I’ve mostly finished pirate lady, haven’t touched the other two 😐
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Another Spec Ops: The Line thing – on one of the choices you had to make… just wondering what others did?
Riggs – did you put him out of his misery or leave him to burn??? I left him to burn… #monster. But also, amo is hard to find and i didn’t want to be left with a gun with no ammo. Plus i never liked Riggs.
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That’s interesting.
I shot him. I always felt a bit mixed as to who was the villain there. He told you what would happen, you knew what the results would be, but you helped him steal the water anyway. I felt like I was just as much, if not more responsible than him. Also, he’s looking at it from a CIA-type perspective, that’s his job. It’s damage control and following orders. You, on the other hand were much more freely able to say no or to not help him. But you do anyway.The game’s very much about freedom of choice. Your character should’ve turned around and left 30 mins into the game, but you just keep going, further and further down the rabbit hole by your own choice. Even when your squadmates keep suggesting time and time again you should go home, you refuse.
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Somewhat important distinction that helps explain why I didn’t like the game:
You don’t make that choice. Walker does. There is a massive disconnect between the player and Walker, at least there was for me. You cannot turn back once your initial mission (basically a forward scout) is completed. Walker trusts people that he has no reason to trust, makes judgements based on limited to no information (and a big chunk of “I just know I’m right!”). This leads to many bad decisions that if you really had freedom of choice would not have happened.-
Agreed, but with one provision.
The freedom of choice I’m referring to is not in your control of course. I’m referring to the story itself – the bulk decisions are taken out of your hands, because if you could make them, the game would end after 20 minutes. Walker repeatedly makes these decisions and you are dragged into them, it’s just a question of how you go about it.You can’t make Walker choose not to steal the water, because then what would be the point?
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It would have made me not want to yell at him for being so incredibly dumb.
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Ok, ok. So when discussing the walking dead I’m either going to
Redacted because I’m proper fucking scared of Strange.
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You’re forgetting the sequence where Shaqueesta performed a love ballad for Katjaa, in which she rather blatantly dropped the line ‘I would kill Kenny if it brought me closer to you’. So yes, she did leave Kenny behind.
Of course, she forget the wrist watch Kenny found in the abandoned fireworks factory that lets him teleport, so he’ll probably be back.
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What about the part where you drive the train through the sewers. That was intense. I didn’t think it would fit, but then we folded in the side mirrors and it was fine.
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I was really tempted to respond in a rude fashion just then.
Please use option A.Option C is a bad bad BAD idea and will make me want to stand over your bed with my axe while you sleep so when you wake up the first thing you see is my axe hanging over your head.
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Sometimes even the names is spoilery enough. All I asked was that you be considerate and use spoilertags. It’s one button. This response is completely inconsiderate.
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I haven’t even started yet.
And it’s crap like this that’s the reason why. Every time someone spoils something that makes it even longer that I have to wait to play it so that hopefully I can forget what I’ve learned. -
For reference, nothing anyone has said in this reply chain actually happens in the game, and some of the names being used are made up.
I’d say you’d be best just jumping in rather than trying to forget what you’ve learned. There’s enough twist and turns that even with some foreknowledge of events, you’re still going to be surprised.
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I was pretty sure that was the case but the whole thing is still really inconsiderate. Especially the idea of burying a nugget of truth within rubbish. Even saying what doesn’t happen is spoilerish.
It’s not that difficult to press a button and I will never understand why people object and go overboard when asked politely to do something so simple.
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I understand exactly what you mean Strange, but as an FYI none of the events in this thread is correct, same with some of the names. You should get in there and play it!
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I’m going to wait at least 6 months. I have enough other things to keep me occupied, anyway. 🙂
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Keep in mind that means you’ll run the risk of people labelling the game as “old enough to not bother avoiding spoilers” (not here, but in general).
More than anything it’s just awesome to hear/talk about the experiences with people after you play it, so everyone here who’s finished it is craving more discussion! -
@rize
I’m far from against discussion. I just ask that people use the spoilertags. It’s one button!
People are managing to use it for Dark Souls, Ni NoKuni andSpec Ops in this TAY alone, so why the hell not The Walking Dead? -
@strange
I mean, people want you to play and finish the game so we can talk to you about it 😛
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Seriously? You downvoted my response? Yesterday when I asked him to use spoilertags there was an actual spoiler in his post. I asked him to tag it and he didn’t, instead he comes back today with this snark. My response was hardly an over-reaction.
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Whoa, whoa, whoa. Let’s chill.
Ok, I did not mean at all to insult you; it was meant as a joke. I can see how it meant as an asshole response, and I take full responsibility for that. In fact, I did redact my post a few pages back, although now I will recheck just in case. Also, original post on this page redacted because, simply put, I’m pretty scared of you, strange.
I apologize whole-heartedly.
I’m not taking back the ‘strange scares the fuck outta me’ thing, though.
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I didn’t know about yesterday, but the axe thing is still a bit much.
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Strange is pretty scary. I was terrified of her for the longest time. 😀
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@saturday
I’m not scary. I just asked for people to consider others’ feelings. And then today when it seemed nobody in TAY cared about being caring anymore I cried. That’s how scary I am. :S
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🙁 *hugasaurus*
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Strange, what matters is that I’m sorry for taking this too far, you shouldn’t feel alienated because that’s the exact opposite (the only reason I didn’t edit my original post a few hours back is because of time zone differences, and for some reason TWD is particularly easy to spoiler, ) And I’m not actually that scared of you although the axe thing is quite scary in and out of context.
So.. uh.. everything’s cool.
Please?
Cause last time I encountered a woman both angry and sad to this magnitude, I ended up in a fight and having a bar stool smashed across my back. Ok, so you’re not necessarily angry, but that example still stings like a bitch and I’d like to avoid past memories of it.
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Where’s the Rize from last week I made sad with the ZombiU spoilers! 😛 Once again, I’m sorry about that man. Felt like a terrible person for the rest of the day. Haha!
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This conversation is based on stuff that happened yesterday that I didn’t know about. Purely based on this thread there wasn’t anything I would have called spoilers.
Also, I didn’t bring the ZombiU stuff up with the intention of upsetting you, just to let you know to be careful with revealing end-game features. My apologies for ruining everything ever…😉
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Haha! You so crazy! Yeah, man. That was my mistake. You don’t need to feel bad about making me feel bad about making you feel bad. Now we both feel bad together! 😛
@rize
The axe thing was playing on an axe-murdering joke I made on the previous page.
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…how the hell am I missing everything you posted in the last 24 hours???
Apologies, my mistake entirely.
So Sam told me last night that her sister’s best friend refers to us as “Simmy”
Holy crap, are Sam and I the next Brangelina?
Also, getting work done guys, it feels good, kinda eases the anxiety a touch when I am not so worried
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Nah, nah, You seem much more like a Kimmy.
But hey, man, it’s great that you revealed your name to us. Only fair I do the same.
It’s Max.
Max Steele.
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I have no qualms with giving my real name to TAY 🙂
I think I have a couple of times….
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Fantastic Fallout 1 character
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Maaaax POWEEERRRRRRRRRRR!
He’s the man, whose name you would love to touch, but you mustn’t touch!
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Every time someone gives a couple a nickname, somewhere, something good and pure dies painfully.
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It’s fucking weird
I only met the person who designated us as Simmy once, and I don’t know why she would give us a collective name
We aren’t attached at the fucking hip or anything
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That one time, at band camp
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Was getting grilled on why I hadn’t done something
I hadn’t “completed” it because I had never done something like that before
Turns out, despite a few minor grammatical and wording issues, that it was perfect as it was
Fuck, I need more confidence in my own abilities, I was putting this thing off because I was doubting myself
And it was quite important
Least it is done now
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I like to believe that his teaching is something like this: http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2874#comic
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The past 6 years of my life and Engineering education have just been flipped upside down by this one comic.
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I don’t know why, but today is has Emilie Autumn written all over it.
I haven’t listened to her in years, but man, really digging it 😀
@spaghett! https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BCTEMEqCUAAk3Uy.jpg:large (Ni No Kuni screenshot, possible spoilers?)
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Should know that any careful allocation of names went as soon as I started getting tonnes of them. Now it’s all just random. Haha!
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Purple too. I think you said ages back that purple was your favourite colour? Could be thinking of someone else. Didn’t occur to me when naming the character, though. 😛
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Scree likes purple!
But yeah colour naming went out the window when you named the green one Powalen* :P! 😀
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*Powalen
If I knew a green one was on the horizon, I would’ve saved the name. :'(
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MetamorphosisEvolution spoilers:
It doesn’t stay green anyway 😛
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Speaking of Ni No Kuni, how do you redeem the DLC ‘tickets’ or is it obvious when I stumble across it eventually?
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It’s not obvious at all.
You redeem them in the Trials Palace thingo in the desert (after completing the trials, of course :P)
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I was going to, but it seemed weird to have all these exotic critter names and then one called Shane. 😛 I totally will eventually, though!
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Yeah, don’t do that. You could call it shanewsmith though. ShaNewsMith if you want something exotic sounding 😛
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InB4 @redartifice
dot com
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Or, you know, don’t bother. I happen to be pretty useless in battle.
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There will be a Shane! He’ll fight like a freakin’ trooper too! >:|
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I’m a pacifist. This is what a Shane familiar would do:
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I’ll make you a healer/medic type then. 😛
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That works for me. I was almost* a doctor**, you know
*actually, not really almost at all. I didn’t get too far
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Want a recommendation for a Healer type? you should capture a Toko, he is a healer and is VERY fast on the battlefield.
They look like this.
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Thanks man! I’ll keep on the lookout. That will be Shane! 😀
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Since you lot may be interested:
Official Ni no Kuni soundtrack pre-order!
It’s roughly $35.
Namco Bandai Tweeted that link so you can assume it’s the legit and only official English one. I was about to buy it at 2:30am last night but the cheapo in me figured I could just download it but the collector in me wants it and OMG WHAT DO.
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Some of the music is amazing in the context of the game, but I haven’t heard any thing I’d like to listen to outside of the game… yet…
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Battle theme and The Fairyground seem to be the only ones I really remember and that’s mostly because I heard the battle theme a thousand times and The Fairyground seemed to match the personalities of the Fairy’s.
Microsoft Excel. screw that guy.
Mild annoyance / thing that confuses me #73463426
Why anyone would think that measuring the width / height of a cell in ‘characters’ was a good idea, I’ll never know. I want a cell to be 38.5mm. but no, I cant do that. I can set it using pixels, or as a multiple of character width when using the ariel font in 11pt.
Highlights of last night’s DOTA2 actions:
Nobfrond should not be allowed to be a carry. He gets too many damned kills.
I should practise playing Pudge. More importantly, I should work out some sort of build that makes sense with him.
Oh and Blaghs continues his amazing KvK streak.
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Come on, I only had 29kills and I was only camping their fountain and instantly killing them when they reapawned.
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Nah, this was a bot game. I wouldn’t do that to anyone because I’m not a huge jerk … just an average jerk.
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Damned AFK rules. I tried to pull Luna out of the fountain for you too and she just went straight back in.
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It’s also going to take Xiao6 a long time to become Xiao8.
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So, I’m about to head off and see Django Unchained. Really looking forward to it. Also it’s Cheap Tuesday. Yay for cheaper movie tickets!
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Wow. Impressive movie. Tarantino went all out. I agree that a certain word was used a bit too much, but overall, I loved it. Tarantino’s cameo was great.
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TERA goes Free to Play today. Anyone thinking of picking it up? I’m tempted to dust off my characters again. Once I get through Xenoblade and Ni no Kuni at least.
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I did. The gameplay is standard MMO but the combat system is an action game where positioning, reading the enemies telegraphed abilities, actively dodging and blocking etc is involved. It’s not amazing but pretty fun. I cancelled my subscription after a month or two because of no one to play with though 🙁
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I have too many other things to play/do to try and pick up another MMO, which is a shame cause TERA looked like it could have been awesome.
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You’re supposed to comment with “Spot on observation in the DST timezones of Australia minus South Australia” damn it DC!
Yeah i’m alright apart from walking with a limp that’ll teach me and err yeah, I haven’t..
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Yeah i’m fine lol. Just a pain I can’t put too much pressure on my right foot lol.
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In the interest of page 6, I feel I should make a pun about a group of the walking dead being spoiled four people, but out of deference to @saturday’s fear of @strange, I won’t 😛
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OH, SO I MESS UP ONE INTERACTION WITH SOMEONE OF THE OPPOSITE SEX AND NOW IT HAUNTS ME FOREVER
IT’S HIGH SCHOOL ALLLL OVER AGAIN
😛
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Well this is damned interesting – apparently it’s a banned clip from Star Trek: the next generation. Whoda thunk there would ever be anything this controversial in a star trek show
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That was Data and Picard at their best, talking out stuff like that.
No one must know I’m a Star Trek nerd. 😛
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Spags again guys
Just sticking my nose into TAY
Albeit briefly
Mi Goreng for lunch, was amazeballs
Nearly finished daily allocated tasks
Then some other bollocks to plod along with
Yay
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What, no last played song? But how else will I inform the world of whom do not care about what song I am listening to with a questionable title now?!
Also hello.
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Yeah, Minimal TAY day because I am worried I will get into trouble at work
Fucking anxiety|
Thanks for your questions
also, Hello 😀
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Anxiety is a horrible horrible thing. All the best for the rest of your day man!
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Thanks man, thanks
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You’re welcome.
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OMG SONY, WHY CAN’T I CHANGE MY PSN DISPLAY NAME? Apparently it’s my unique identifier. Uh.. that would be my email, actually. How about helping me out transfer my purchases to a new account then? Can’t be done. I’m starting to remember why I hated you, Sony.
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just make a new username on your console, and when you register it on the PSN, use the same email address.
I accidentally did this the other week. I can still have both accounts active on the same console & any purchases made on my old account can still be downloaded by just signing in with that account to start the d/l, then played by any other account on that console.
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Can this be confirmed by anyone who accepted my friend request last night? Was/is my display name Benny? My PS3 console-sign-in-name is Benny, but I’m pretty sure my PlayStation Network name is not.
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Pretty sure that was it!
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cheers man.
@benny seems what I said above works. if you create a Benny account on your local machine & create a new PSN ID using the same email address you used before, you can have them both running simultaneously & just switch between logins on the local machine if you wanna d/l stuff from the old account.
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Okay now this is getting intense. Thanks for the help, btw.
I have to check this out and see if I can run the same email simultaneously. Makes sense though – just use the old PSN ID for previous-purchase downloading only.
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yep, thats about it.
I registered a new account the other day, but I inadvertently used the same email addy as my old account (must’ve changed it after the PSN hack last year & forgotten about it).I was surprised that I was able to do this to be honest, but it seems to be working.
oh well… good luck 🙂
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User name is just for you and your console, however, your PSN ID is your “Display Name” and is what everyone will see. So at the moment it’s benbonnici.
If you don’t like that name but used your main email for it it’s super easy to change your sign in email to something else and then create a new PSN ID with the original “benbonnici” email.
…if you know what I mean 😛
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Holy crap that’s genius. If it works.
So let me get my head around this. Purchases still need to be downloaded via the old account and Friends need to be manually re-added to the new account? Sony, I’m trying to love you, but you’re making it very hard..
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Friends, trophies and purchases on benbonnici STAY on benbonnici. However, with the PS3 you can still access content purchased by other PSN IDs as long as it’s on the same PS3. So if you made a new PSN ID you could still play the stuff purchased by benbonnici. Have you purchased much? “Greenius” was my first PSN ID but I set it to my real age, which at the time wasn’t over 18 so I couldn’t play stuff online. It was easy enough to just create a new ID (GreenCOD – which is now my main) and just use that since I didn’t have anything purchased or any trophies. Save will be locked to an account though and while some can be transferred between, most cant’.
I was rushing what I was typing before but I’ll explain it in a little more detail :). I signed up to my current PSN ID (GreenCOD) with an email address I no longer use, we’ll call it “EMAIL A”. As EMAIL A wasn’t my main email I wanted to change it to my main one “EMAIL B” in case I ever needed it (for competitions, notices and whatnot). So I went on the site and changed GreenCOD’s email to the one I wanted.
I can’t remember the exact site but I’m pretty sure it was just https://store.sonyentertainmentnetwork.com/#!/en-au you might also be able to do it straight from the PS3 as well.
NOW I hope that cleared things up more instead of making it more confusing 😀
We do support for site X, I’ll say. Support for this site is done through a middle man, I’ll refer to as dribbling shitstain. (Or ‘DS’ for short)
DS insists on ringing us at least once a day saying ‘Site X isn’t working.’
Us : Okay, DS, what’s ‘not working’?
DS : ‘Oh, I don’t know, site X rang and told me they’re not working.’
Us : ‘Have you got any more details? Like is the whole site down, what’s going on?’
DS : ‘No, I don’t know, you just need to fix it.’
*Log on to site, check server, can’t see anything wrong, everything looks fine*
Us : ‘Hi DS, looked at the site, can’t see anything wrong – can you call the site and ask for specifics? ie, get them to test if they’re still having problems?’
DS : ‘*long drawn out sigh* Can’t you just fix it?’
Us : ‘There’s nothing wrong we can see, if there’s a problem, then we need specifics.’
This happens every. single. day.
This fucking potatohead calls us with no info, says ‘It’s not working.’ and there’s no problem. Every time. Then, because he calls us so often with no info, we suggest he should start calling with more info to give us, he gets shitty. It’s also this guy’s job to call us with as much info as possible, but he continues not to, each and every time.
It’s getting really difficult to be nice to him.
It’s like taking your car to a mechanic and going ‘ITS NOT WORKING FIX IT’ What’s wrong? I DONT KNOW JUST FIX IT
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Actually not sure, I don’t think so – I think we have a service contract/agreement somewhere along the line. I’ll be talking to my manager very soon I think.
All this guy does is take a call from the site from someone who doesn’t know a lot about the system saying IT BROKE HALP and instead of getting more info, like he’s supposed to he rings us and goes IT BROKE HALP.
Maddening.
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My guess is that he wouldn’t get shitty on the phone if that was the case. He’d be all “Sure I’d love to talk to everyone a second time, and then even a third! HEEEY.”
My guess is that Site X doesn’t know this guy is a middleman.
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Yeah but if they don’t actually do anything he can’t charge X. If they just do something to shut him up he can charge.
Incidentally Site X makes it sound like a porn site.
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Most definitely they don’t know that he’s a middleman.
Of course, the fun solution would be that every time he calls up just say “oh yeah, we caught that just before you called. Should be up and running as normal now.”
See what happens.
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I actually just suggested this to my coworkers. Pretty sure it’s going to be a thing.
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“Hey guys. Site X said things aren’t working HALP”
“Oh you mean the fraying connection modules at the point of geonetrix coupling on the upper TRATA server bank? Yep, we’re on top of it. We’re going to reverse the polarity, and see how it goes.”
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“I’m done reconfuudelling the energymatron … or whatever”
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I usually just go with “Yep, we’ll sort that out” and tell them to let me know if they find anything specific that’s still “not working”.
Sounds a little lazy, but in all honesty I don’t get a call back 99% of the time.
@strange, @jimu: I’m up for lunch tomorrow as long as it’s not just me and someone else! 😀 Any other TAYbies interested?
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If you goonsacks lived in a decent city like Melbourne….
BUT NO.
WHO THE FUCK LIVES IN NSW AND THE LAND OF QUEENS?
Oh, right.
Most of you.
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Strange doesn’t hat you. DC clearly says he hats you because of Strange
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She’s been turning TAYbies against you one-by-one. 😛
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Me! Y you no tell me youre having a tay lunch??
P.S. You will probably need to sms me details, tay on this phone is a pain in the ass
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@strange! What time did you want to meet tomorrow and where? I’m kind of psyched! (I probably should play it cool, though.) I don’t care. *shrugs* 😛
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Depending on Jimu, I guess 12-ish.
We could meet at that EB you were hiding in last time.
My original plan was just to have Hungry Jacks because it’s supercheap but if it’s more people they’ll probably prefer something else. -
I asked Jimu on twitter, said that he can take his lunch break at whatever time’s good for us. Trjn’s is around 12 though. So that sounds good. Super cheap food works for me too. Haha!
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I just watched a guys review a bunch of “the most disturbing movies of all time”…
I feel kinda sick now…
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What was on the list?
Theres been a whole batch of films recently that are just too messed up for me to even consider seeing.
A Serbian Film & Human Centipede 2 are at the top of that list.-
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seriously, I dont understand why anyone would a) think making a film like that is a good idea, & b) why anyone would watch it.
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What i REALLY don’t understand is why games are always in the line of fire when there are movies around like that
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BRB, need to get a new fish curry
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Niceee…
sounds like you need this movie
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August Underground’s: Mordum
A Serbian Film.
They’re the two “most disturbing” films I’ve seen.
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I have no sense of restraint.
In other news – i should have the internet back at some point tonight! 😀
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“What are you doing?”
[Aleph crawls out from under desk, holding his camera and looking mighty ashamed of himself.]
“Oh. Uh… I’m just taking photos of you. But it’s not for me. It’s for some people on the internet.”
Edit-add: “Welcome to the team.”
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“Hi new girl. I’m just going to take some pictures of you to share with some strangers on the Internet. Don’t mind me.
Um, would you be a dear and push your cleavage up a bit? The Internet loves those things”
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Once at uni we were auditioning actresses for a part in a film dealy, friend took a picture of girl for portfolio. I told the actress it was for his own personal collection. Every one laughed. Friend was mortified. True story that… doesn’t relate at all to what’s going on in hindsight. Disregard. 😛
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I suppose I could get super-creepy and go into her employee file, noting her contact number, address and more.
…that’s really fucking wrong and I’m ashamed of even putting that here for jovial connotations.
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Oh man, the amount of information you could get is frightening.
Sorry, did I say information? I meant fired. You’d get fired. So much fired.
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I am the
KeyPaymaster.
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I dislike Ellen Page. Amy Adams is cool though.
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But… she’s a part time lover AND a full time friend!
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Ellen p doesnt belong in the same universe of discussion as Amy a.
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Haha! The initials thing makes me laugh for some reason!
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ZD was much more desirable when she was just She & Him and wasnt acting. She ruined herself by talking instead of singing
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It wouldn’t be so bad if she had more than a single damned character in her abilities.
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Haha! She was originally cast in Silver Linings Playbook as the female lead. I really would’ve liked to see that. Jennifer Lawrence was so weird and different… Can’t picture Zooey Deschanel in the role…
Looking round the room,
I can tell that you
Are the most beautiful girl in the…room.
In the whole wide room
Oooh.
And when you’re on the street
Depending on the street
I bet you are definitely in the top three
Good looking girls on the street
(Depending on the street)
You’re so beautiful
You could be a waitress
You’re so beautiful
You could be an air hostess in the 60s
You’re so beautiful
You could be a part…time…model
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But I’m just saying
I don’t think you’re special
I mean… I think your special
But
You fall within a bell curve.
Spags is bored gang
And a little down
I miss Sam, and am running out of energy or fucks to give about work today
I have done everything that was allocated to me, sure there is other stuff I can do
But, I unno
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I’m quite surprised too, dunno why but I thought that twitter would be a lot more frantic than this.
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Shiny.
Though it would seem a lot of people tweet in Indonesia as compared to Australia according to what I am watching.
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Link works for me. It’s supposed to show a map of the world and everyone’s Tweets as they happen. It’s hectic 😐
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Old ones and shoggoths, obviously.
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I think I need stronger antidepressants
Like….really soon
I still feel really anxious
Ugh!
My kingdom for a less anxious brain
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Thanks DC, You and Shane *and I guess some of the others, no names come to mind* know how I am feeling right now
I just want it to fuck off
It permeates my whole fucking life
Even when I am with Sam, it never leaves
Fuck
*A poem by Spaghett *
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…but if it’s perfect, should it not receive 10/10?
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Not unless I get paid.
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Thanks man
Fuck 🙁
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Has anyone here played Holy Magic Century/Quest 64 before? I’m playing through it for the first time in about a decade, and the magic system still amazes me. It’s so damned awesome!
So I have a pad of promotional post-it notes that I stick on the fridge as grocery reminders. The notes have the slogan “What Women Want” across the top (they’re from those Cabots ads, not whatever you guys were thinking).
So my fridge has notes like
What Women Want
Paper Towels
Dishwashing Liquid
Vegemite
It was especially funny when we needed things like dog food.
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Not really. Just write the table out on a piece of paper and good to go.
Or take a picture if lazy.
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I needed to translate something for a sidequest and used a picture but eh, would’ve been better with the book. I’m mostly too lazy to do it though 😛
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Or just look it up on the internet for bonus laze points.
Or get someone else to look it up on the internet to win the game.
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Speaking of Ni No Kuni, I watched some gameplay footage from the DS version. It’s staggeringly beautiful there too in a SNES RPG kind of way!
Man, this Ticket to Ride game is getting intense!
@sernobulus @alexpants @freezespreston @bdkiaf
😀 funtimes!
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Why does it default to make my trains green? I can’t tell the difference between the green and red trains. I’m pretty sure I have screwed up my plan because I got he colours confused. =(
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Yup, definitely screwed it up. *sigh* this game is discriminate against colour blind people. =(
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Yup, makes games that use both green and red or blue and purple as the major colours an absolute pain.
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Luckily I’m not THAT colourblind. It’s more of when you get a little bit of red around a lot of green, vice versa and just a little bit of both.
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That sucks, man. 🙁 You’re missing out. Green is awesome!
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I love that you have the time for that 😛
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Aww man :(. Yeah, I’m green in my game so it makes the player green. This is definitely worth sending to the developers – I don’t see why they can’t add a colourblind option!
So that’s why you hat me so much! 😛
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Not that I use. I believe I have an account though.
Am I missing out on bonus Ticket to Ride funtimes?!
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Nah, just an easy way to contact everyone! I thought our game messed up in the morning (as it didn’t show) but Twitter friends helped
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From the desk of @freezespreston:
3rd of March! One month! There will be Taybies at Dreamworld! Pack your shit! Beg borrow steal save or whatever you have to do to get the necessary funds! Interstaters! Book your holidays and flights! Why haven’t you yet? Are you a square or something? Stop being lame! Get your ass to Dreamworld! Be the envy of all your peers! Be all that you can be? Have you organised it yet? No? Why not? I just told you to! Come on come on do it do it come on do it naow!
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Wish I could make it to that, but money is starting to become an issue, especially with so many events on in March.
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It turns out that my friend’s wedding is on the 2nd. That doesn’t make me a no, just means that I don’t know if I’m a yes just yet.
Clock ticks closer to 4
My brain ticks closer to fried
Toxic anxiety fries it
Concentration non existant
*A poem by Spaghett*
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Upvote for upvoting me
Thanks 🙂
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Game Informer leaked the cover of their next magazine which is a giant picture of The Witcher 3.
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Yeah I see it everywhere now.
Hype!
Need to finish The Witcher 2!
Fuck, too many RPGs to play. 🙁
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I’m actually worried.
Sounds like they may have gone, people like SKYRIM (Hi @hugo) so lets make the next game like SKYRIM.
Cut the story and make it totally open world, fast travel and lots of like quest and dungeons to clear. Do what you want when you want.-
I don’t know that they’d make that drastic a shift. Also you could argue that the first two games were at least partially ‘open world’ anyway. You had something you had to do in each act, but the rest of the time you were doing craptons of sidequests and exploring and generally dicking around having fun in the setting.
They’re such an amazingly detail-oriented developer that has never ever disappointed – I’d even say they’re probably the best Western RPG developer. I’m willing to give them the benefit of the doubt.
Also this whole open world element is probably testing the systems etc for Cyberpunk too, and I definitely feel that Cyberpunk should be open world.
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Fair call.
I think you could be right in they are talking up the open world abilities of the engine rather than the actual implementation of the witcher games itself. Plus they do deserve the benefit of the doubt as I agree they are one of (if not the) best RPG devs out there.
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Hi, my name is Ashley.
I want to get involved in TAY, but I’m shy.
Also, I like the FF13 series, which seems to cause alot of arguments 🙁
So….
PS @strange, @jimu; I ‘finished’ Nier on the WE (well, ending A) – you were right @strange, it does warrant replay on new game plus!
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Also as far as liking FF13 don’t worry about that, I personally don’t think it’s bad, but I lost my save which was like 3/4 and just couldn’t bring myself to start it again!
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How does this even happen? Actually don’t answer – you might jinx me!
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My xbox died in the HD 🙁
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No!! that’s terrifying. I’d cry if that happened to me.
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@weresmurf called me a fanboy… even though I liked some of his other posts. He didn’t even know!
I couldn’t cry to my wife, she wouldn’t understand. I soldiered on with the burden of being misunderstood, alone.
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Monster!
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Eep!!!
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I mean RAWWWWWWR!!!!
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On October 12 last year – I can tell because my diary entry on that day reads:
“Dear Diary,
Today my feelings got hurt”
And that is just after my birthday, you monster.
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Hitlers got nothin’ on me.
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Oh no, I didn’t mean to make you feel worse than Hitler :O
I was just trying to join in on the ‘call weresmurf a monster’ fun 🙁
To be fair, I’m both a fan and a boy, so I’m happy to conceed a point to you on that one 🙂
Shy? Couple of people whom are shy here
@dc is one of them, he is the worst hermit ever
Welcome aboard Ashley, keep posting and post a lot
Friendly environment here and TAY is amazing
Despite my own anxiety I still love the hell out of TAY
I am Spaghett, real name Timothy
I go on about my girlfriend Sam, I play the Last Song played game *last song I/anyone was playing*
I complain
I shout Shenanigans!
That’s it
Hi Ashley!
Welcome to the jungle, we’ve got fun and games!
*ahem*
I bought FFXII-2 while on holidays, I’ve only put about an hour into it, but it sure is pretty 😀
I’d be keen to chat about it as I progress!
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Oh god I played that, I think.
It was pretty terrible, if memory serves.
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I think only 3 TAYbies have finished the game (myself, Strange and @cakesmith FINISHES GAMES?!). WE’RE AN EXCLUSIVE CLUB!
I love me some discussions so I’ll discuss it with peeps whenevs. Too bad I forgot like 70% of the stuff in it!
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Now I *have* to finish it. Elitism FTW!!!
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Welcome new friend!
Your best course of action is to just jump right in and start commenting. Also, to keep up you’ll need a lot of spare time.
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I work for Council so I got plenty of spare time 😛
I kid! Council workers work hard too (sometimes).
Actually I have to go out on site now – pro tip!: don’t try and start conversation 5 minutes before a meeting 😛
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I’m in SA at City of
Secret! Seriously what if I want to rubbish my job to you guys – I’d end up like this guy: http://staging.kotaku.com.au/2013/01/he-made-an-honest-game-about-his-work-and-it-cost-him-job/ -
Fair call. Just checking it wasn’t mine. We could be of been co-workers!
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Wouldn’t that be rad. Can you give me any hints where abouts you work, and what sort of department etc?
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QLD, Admin etc. I am THE office shit-kicker.
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Hey Ash!
I had fun with FFXIII/XIII-2. They aren’t as great compared to the “golden years” of Final Fantasy but they’re still fine games on their own!
Nier is radsauce too but the real question is… Xenoblade?
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Well i’m very interested in Xenoblade – I have the prerequisite Wii atleast.
however, i’ve got so many unplayed games I’ve made a promise to myself that i won’t buy another new game until i finsih five games I already own! Currently I’m two down, so three to go (but one of those two is Nier, which I’m gonna play again for for the ‘ending B’, so it might be a while before I add a third game to that finsihed list).
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Are you excited for the xeno title teased for the Wii U?
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Don’t ask silly questions ash! COURSE I’M EXCITED.
XENUBLADE HYPE HYPE HYPE @powalen
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Xenu…
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I thoroughly enjoyed FF13, for the record. Not Squenix’s finest hour, but a solid game that didn’t warrant even a fraction of the bile levelled at it.
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Sorry, but I was called Ash before pokemon, but virtue of it being the short form of my full name 🙁
But I do love pokemon, and loved the fact that I had the name incommon with our favourite budding trainer!
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FFXIII was like a spiritual experience to me – playing it was like meditation.
Nier was an emotional experience to me – playing it was like mainlining heartbreak at times.
Dark Souls really interests me, but although I love games/ gaming, I’m not that good at them and I think it would be too difficult for me. Thats why I love adventure games (click everything to proceed) and JRPGs (also click everything to proceed 😛 )
Morning Ash and welcome to the wide world of TAY! … it seems more awesome if you can imagine fireworks and junk going off as I say it.
I’d say that we’re all a little shy here. Right, introductions and tours and stuff.
I’m Tofu, I’m awesome and more people ask me how I taste then I’m generally used to. Fairly warned be ye, TAY can move crazy fast at times and can be kind of imposing, but everyone here is so very awesome.
Welcome! My name’s Bruce! Don’t let the username fool ya. Upvotes for Nier because Nier is amazing. I’m one of the newer TAYbies around here, and everyone is so kind. Well except for @greenius. He’s a monster. The only way to avoid his wrath is to play Xenoblade and discuss it with everyone!
(PS Name may or may not be Bruce, but mostly not)
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Pokemon cards were banned at school because the cool kids were starting fights with the nerds.
Not because pokemon cards were nerdy, but because the cool kids wanted Charizard. -
They were banned at my school too, because the cool kids just came up and took them off people!
Wanting Charizard seems like a perfectly logical reason though. Who doesn’t want Charizard?
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Hey @ash
Where you from? Which state/country? There are in-real-life meats all the time (perfect for shy people :\)
Also, check this out. You’re not a true TAYbie until you own it.
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I bet @ash is from Groote Eylandt. All the cool* TAYbies have meats here every day.
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Who am I kidding, it’s f***ing hot here, but that doesn’t stop the meats**!
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It took you 2 posts before you started pimping that. Starting to play coy with the new folk are you?
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You’ll fit in here just fine. 🙂
More self-promotion: if signed copies interest you, I’ll be at Oz Comic-Con in Adelaide (which I understand is your neck of the woods) on March 16/17 and selling books.
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I really need to get around to finishing XIII. I got to the bit where it stops being linear then stopped playing because I liked it being linear. 🙁
Welcome.
Easiest way to get involved in tay is just to be involved in tay. Respond to peoples post, answer @redartifice’s question of the week. Play the last played song game with spagett.
If you get more comfortable you will end up at a meat and become the worst shyguy/hermit around.
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So the cycle is complete and the child now knows to question everything before putting it in their mouths.
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I’m thinking about getting Rayman Origins, what console should I get it on? I’m sorta leaning towards Xbox 360 or maybe I should just go finish DmC.
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I hear that’s rather bad too! As for Origins I think they had to make some changes due to the limitations and the game looks a bit ugly. There might be a demo to try out on 3DS but I hear it’s fine on Vita if you want to go handheld.
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Either main console is fine (PS3/360) but PC is good too. Oh yeah, forgot you prefer physical copies!
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Also unless it is a Blizzard game I pretty much avoid the PC in general, HOTS hype!
But I guess I’ll side with the Xbox 360 I like the controller better.
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I got it on 360 and its rad 🙂
I boguht an extra controller with it because I thought my Mrs might play wiht me. She hasn’t 🙁 anyone wanna come ’round for some couch co-op?
Somebody just asked on the comedy channel’s facebook page if they could start making Malcolm in the Middle again with everyone the age they are now… I don’t quite know how to say that’s not going to work out.
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SAVE THE UPVOTES
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I just saw the Witcher 3 update on the home page. It looks like it will be an open world situation. I haven’t played any of the other Witcher games but this might be enough for me to jump into the franchise.
Is this the same for anyone else?
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I’ve played like 1 hour of The Witcher.
When it first came out I didn’t have a PC powerful enough to run it but I knew I wanted to play it and CD Projekt RED seem like amazing developers!
I really need to go back to it soon!
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Cyberpunk’s more of my thing, but I’ve got huge respect for CD Projeckt.
(Not to mention GOG!)
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I jumped on board for The Witcher 2 when I saw a trailer for the X360 version. It’s semi-open world. You have large areas to explore and do side quests, but once you finish a chapter the story takes Geralt to a new area. Very pretty.
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I hate sandbox games like Skyrim so if they really have stepped back on the story I’ll be disappointed. Still need to finish the second game. Loved the first one so much.
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I’ve spent a good chunk of today feeling like a bit of an idiot. On the plus side, things happened. On the down side, things happened.
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I spend all my days feeling like an idiot!
Hopefully the good things happening outweigh the other kind!
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Some friends turned up at my house, we walked down to woden (about 1.5 kilometres at a guess), then walked back home.
That was something.
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Outside and exercise?! Yuck.
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Wait until you get to the Cowlipha (play on caliph, a kind of Islamic ruler).
I like how the inns all use ‘purrrr’ in any word involving ‘pur’. Like purrrrrrefect.
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Brisbane Lunch dealy. 06/02/2013. Meet at EB Games between Queen St and Adelaide St around 12. I’ll almost certainly be around there earlier psyching myself up. Then we’ll eat food!
You guys should all have my number, but just in case feel free to DM me on Twitter.
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With mah sexay eating
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You think I’ve spent all this time spying on you through the windows and I wouldn’t pick up a thing here and there?
Speaking of, you may be missing some underwear. Don’t worry about it, ok?
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Orientation for college all day tomorrow. So excited and nervous. Seeing as though I’ve never attended any sort of educational institution before, this’ll effectively be my first day of school. So nervous.
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Wait, that’s not to say I’ve ever been in any other kind of institution!
😛
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Haha! Brave new world for Lambo. I predict delayed teenage rebellion! Also don’t get peer pressured into stuff! So damn proud. :’)
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Remember not to cry on your first day!
But good luck mang, school is fun for the social stuff!
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It’s alright to cry, stop peer pressuring Lambo! (Just call them manly tears. It makes it manlier, you see.)
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If it’s anything like my orientation was, you’ll be split up into your departments to play awkward ‘ice-breaker’ games where everybody bunches up with their high school friends leaving us loners to shuffle around by ourselves. Then you’ll be further split up into your degrees, where you realise that only 15 people enrolled and of those, only me and two others bothered to show up.
Fun!
(It was actually was kind of fun, in hindsight. If only because it put me on good terms with my degree coordinator for the entire 4 years I was there :P)
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Hey at least you probably bonded with those two people! I did the whole high school thing, group of like 7 of us 😛
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I was in the U.S. when my QUT orientation was on back in the day. To be honest, I wouldn’t have gone any way. 😛
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I think they advertised a “free gift” for mine so I totally went for it. It was a crappy calculator…
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Pretty sure it’s just orientation day for the people doing the same degree as me. My neighbour (who is the same age as me, but I’ve never met him before…*) is doing a different degree (diploma? Unsure) in sound production at the same place and his orientation day was on Monday.
*Best thing about being on acreage is that you never really have to meet your neighbours. 😛
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In primary school I was best friends with all my neighbour’s kids who were my age. But then I moved house and the kids were either a bit older or a bit younger… They’d constantly ask me to go out and play with them but I refused!
I still have no idea who they are or what their names are :P. But I think my next door neighbour with the 3 daughters all might’ve grown up hot, Regrets!
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Greenius and the wholesome girl next door!
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I liked my old neighbours though! Alex was my bestest friend along with Vinny. Alex had a sister named Sam, she was my friend too (Spaghettius)! For some reason I remember her picking up a dead bird that was full of maggots. Oh Samantha you cray cray…
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We used to move house about once every two years when I was growing up. I never had any neighbour’s kids around my age though…
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I was a hermit and stayed inside playing adventure games!
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I used to go out all the time but stayed inside playing video games when I moved. Then I’d go out with high school friends but once Uni hit I stopped even that! As life goes on, so does my hermitness.
I’m pretty sure you’re the opposite you social butterfly, you!
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They’re awfully judgemental and critical for someone who has already proved they are utterly incapable of cooking.
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On the plus side they’ll be gone very soon.
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I watched it tonight with my parents.
Was… full of vindication and malice.Another reminder not to watch television 😛
Terrible decision time: I no longer have my couch so should I bring my TV into my room where my cabinets used to sit, or should I just hook up my consoles to my monitor?
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Missed MQFT opportunity :(. Both sound reasonable to me but go with whichever one you’ll feel more comfortable playing Xenoblade on!
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It’s always about size with you, isn’t it? Honestly.
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The more inches the better!
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Bring the TV in. Consoles don’t look all that good on a monitor. You’ll notice a lot of artifacts compared to a TV. Actually I don’t think anything (even computers) looks good plugged into a monitor using an HDMI cord!
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My TV’s an old shitty Samsung one though, whereas my monitor’s a pretty recent Dell 27″ IPS panel.
I guess I could bring in the sound system as well. Hmmm…
EDIT: Actually there’s nowhere for the speakers to sit. 🙁
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An IPS monitor will be even worse 😛 They’re made for colour reproduction at the compromise of response time. A TV will always be superior for console gaming.
Edit: I should add that I’m nit picking and in all likeliness you’ll never notice unless you start looking for it.
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Super Meat Boy, Painkiller Hell and Damnation and The Walking Dead all on pause on Steam
TWD is updating to a newer format
Super Meat Boy was cheap
So Spags here plugged his Batarang Xbox 360 Controller into the pc
So MUCH FUN!
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Thanks man
Yeah, happier
It was a shitty day, I mean waking up with a headache kind of made me realise the day would be shit
But I am keen on Super Meat Boy, once my brother stops playing fucking BLOPS2
Bad news, Max Payne 3 is broken for some reason
Great news, Listening to the Nine Inch Nails Quake Soundtrack because awesome 🙂
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MAX PAYNE 3 BROKEN?!?!
WORST NEWS EVER!
(caps for emphasising my shock/horror, NOT for sarcasm)-
Yeah dude, something with their Rockstar Club thingy, I only want to play Single Player with my controller hooked up
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Pretty hungry yeah 😉 <3
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JAG –> NCIS –> NCIS: LA –> UNTITLED NCIS: LA SPIN-OFF
How many shows does this franchise need!?!
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I don’t mind NCIS either. Never liked the LA spin-off, all the attempts at banter the original show does effortlessly comes across as forced. *commence banter now*
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The whole buddy cop/bromance thing with Chris O’Donnell. Haha!
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What you got against homage to Miami Vice then? =P One of the greatest cop shows I have watched!
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SAME.
As an aside, when I originally typed the above word and punctuation, it came out as ‘SMAE>’. Weird.
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The backdoor pilot episode on JAG was even more crazily patriotic than the series if you can believe that. They toned it down a little when they replaced the female lead with Kate.
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I wonder if I have a long enough HDMI cable to connect the TV to my PC…
EDIT: not quite 🙁 Need another meter.
I actually could fit the sound system in here if I rotated my PC desk 90 degrees, but I’d still not be able to have a proper surround setup in here.
I feel bad in a game where I’m supposed to be a wizard I’ve used very little magic. Generally just take the leash off Gimp Imp and let him beat up all the things.
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Long haul boss fights I tend to use Oliver and magic exclusively. Short, regular fights I let the familiars do the heavy lifting.
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I think that’s what Gimp Imp IV’s real name is. (I didn’t save after that last horrible name so I got to fix things)
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I miss C-zerker!
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“Daddy what’s a Cantzerker?”
“It’s so cute!”
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I decided to hook my laptop up to my projector today. Hooked up an Xbox controller too. Was going to try using it as a ‘Steambox’ (I still think that’s a silly term). Started up Big Picture, selected Library and then steam crashed. So I restarted Steam and tried again. This time it gave me an error message saying I had bad drivers or something, which is interesting because the only thing that’s changed since I last tried big picture node on that laptop is that Big Picture has come out of beta and the Windows 8 trial I have on that laptop has expired. Interesting. Meant I’d have to reach over and launch games and stuff with the trackpad. Also, because the trial has expired, the laptop automatically shuts down after 1 hour of use. I haven’t gotten around to putting the full version of Windows 8 on there yet.
First game I decided to play: Q.U.B.E.
I’ve had it installed on that laptop since the Steam Summer Sale last year, but I had never actually launched it. So I decided now would be as good a time as any to try it. I launched it and decided to start by going into the graphics settings. I found out that this game doesn’t map any gamepad buttons to ‘Back’. You have to select the back button at the top of the screen then press A, instead of just pressing B like how most games work. It was only a minor niggle though.
So then I started up the game. Looking, moving and jumping were already mapped properly but when I came across the first extrudeable block, I hit a problem. The actions mapped to the left and right mouse buttons weren’t mapped to anything on the gamepad. I spent about 5 minutes trying to figure out what I was doing wrong, whether I was pressing the wrong buttons or playing the game wrong, if I had missed something earlier in the level. I eventually thought about checking the control mapping in settings and I was able to set the missing actions to the left and right triggers.
1 hour and 3 levels later, the laptop shutdown. The game was pretty fun. The puzzles were fun to solve, although it did felt a bit portal-esque in the setting and story, from what little of it I experienced.
I restarted the laptop and decided to play another game.
2nd game I played: Secret of Monkey Island.
Playing with a gamepad on a 60″ ‘screen’ is the best way to play that game. The only problem was that the How To Play menu only told how to play with a keyboard and mouse, not gamepad even though the game supports it. So I had to do a little button mashing to see what everything does. No big deal.
I played that for an hour before the laptop shut down and I had to restart it again. Also, it’s Secret of Monkey Island so I don’t need to make any comments on how good the game is 😛
3rd game I played: Trials 2 SE.
I launched the game and quickly found out I couldn’t navigate the game’s UI with a gamepad. So I played one level then closed it because I wasn’t going to keep reaching over for my laptop whenever I changed levels, etc. The gamepad controls in the game itself where set up fine already though. Don’t know if there was anything that said what they actually were. I didn’t need to check as I already knew what they were.
4h game I played: Proteus. I’d played an early alpha or prototype or something of this game last year and rather enjoyed it, limited as it was. The game had kinda slipped off my radar though, until it popped up on steam last week. I decided to buy it and them downloaded it. That was $9 well spent. Such an awesome game. So much fun to just wander around and explore and take in the sights and magic of the place. My brother asked me what the game was about and I told it was all about just exploring the island. He thought that was pretty stupid but he sat and watched me play for a while. He still thinks it’s pretty stupid but that’s just because he has no class 😛
I kept a journal of my adventure on the island and was going to post on here like we did with DayZ but then I decided I wouldn’t because it would be too spoilerish.
As for how the gamepad worked with it, t worked quite well. The game’s controls basically consist of looking and moving. You can’t save and load and exit to the main menu with the gamepad though, you need the keyboard and mouse for that. Wouldn’t have been too hard for the devs to map those to gamepad buttons though, you’d think.
I played that game for a few hours, restarting the computer about 3 times.
During all this, I came to the conclusion that the Start Screen would be great for a pc consolebox if it could be navigated with a gamepad. I’ll have to use GlovePIE or Joy2Key to test this out sometime. I think it works out of the box with the Kinect, not entirely sure of this though. That would be pretty cool too.
After all of this I decided to try playing a game on my Xbox, because my sister had gotten home and needed to use the laptop. I just beat @greenius ‘s time on Harbor Havok(?) In Trials Evo 😛
All in all, I had a fun day. The highlight was definitely playing Proteus. You should get that game because it’s good.
The End.
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Wow, I just wrote 1364 words on my phone :O
That wasn’t as painful as I was expecting it to be.
Mind you, I didn’t go through to check for errors afterwards 😛-
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…really? You didn’t notice it? 😛
Hey… I swear I’ve read this before…
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I was tired, okay? 😛
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Antichamber.
You start in what I assume is the ant(e)ichamber, the central hub through which you enter and exit the game. Puzzles are awesome, there’s very little in the way of instruction or tutorial, though the first few rooms are kind enough to let the player warm to their surroundings somewhat.
Except for the fact that the surroundings don’t make sense.
It’s almost as if it’s a first-person, interactive M.C. Escher painting. Bizarre, non-Euclidean geometry. It took me a while, but after tonight, I love it completely. The learning curve rises steeply just as soon as you think you’ve got a grasp on the logic used in past decisions, which I think fits really well. It’s meant that I’ve stopped, exited and come back at a later time, at which point things just seem to ‘click’. I’ve found my state of mind seems to differ when I’m playing, perhaps due to acclimatisation to the warped logic, or maybe it’s just the act of thinking laterally, which simply hasn’t happened for far too long, I’m afraid.
Guys, buy this game. It’s amazing, both in its simplicity and deceptiveness.
It’s a mobius trip.
Oh, we’re sharing childhood friend stories?
I used to ride bikes with the kids on my street. Everybody in the street had reasonably steep driveways, so they were fun to ride down. After seeing all of us doing it, the girl next door joined in. Went to the top of the driveway, hopped on her bike, started rolling, got scared halfway down and jammed on her brakes. Only she pulled the brakes for the front wheel instead of the back- did a full front-flip and landed on her face.
It’s funny because she wasn’t hurt.
(Intentional reply fail :P)
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One time I remember as a kid where I got into heaps of trouble was ignoring my dad’s call to lunch so that my friend could have his turn on Goldeneye 64. In hindsight, totally worth it.
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I’d feel weird someone cooking food directly in front of me. I wouldn’t know where to look. CAN’T. MAKE. EYE CONTACT.
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Usually in an okonomiyaki joint you cook your own meal at your table (at least in Osaka), but to get this cooked for you – I’d put up with all kinds of awkward!
And the eye contact thing – the cook isn’t interested in eye contact either. He just wants to get his s*** done and move on to the next order.
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The video I posted deviates pretty far from what I know as okonomiyaki, but then my experience is based on the classic Osaka version. Your linked video is much closer to what I’m familiar with.
You should definitely try it some time.
Avoid food-court versions at all costs.
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Not doing PAX Aus this year, but now contemplating doing the Melbourne Aus Comic-Con. Because @strange told me Raphael Sbarge will be there. That voice.
Was going to ask who thought it would be a good idea for me to fly across the country for this, and to meat TAYbies, then realised the massive bias present XD
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Probably. This state is so far behind that we haven’t even discovered ‘meat’ yet.
True story: Myself and @grandmasterb-funk went to the same high school. Several years apart, though. I was in year 12 when he was still in the primary school section. Yes, I checked my leavers annual and found his name in there, too. Small world.
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you’re not going to pax aus?
that means i must be the WA TAY representative!
i’ll bring a bunch of natural resources to gloat over
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It’s a GREAT idea. Also, I will be there on Artist Alley – make sure you come by and say hello and give me all the moneys.
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I figured if I got to Melbourne, I might as well skip up to Brisbane while I’m at it. What with family there and all.
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You don’t have all that long to convince me. Better get a move on, missy!
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The look of joy in your face is amazing. I want to use that image in every hostile comments section. 🙂
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Sleep time! Looking forward to this lunch dealy! Will post reminder here tomorrow and text Sughly like he asked! Catch you on the flipside, home slices!
I’m going to watch The Human Centipede before I go to sleep tonight. I hope it’s… interesting. No idea why I randomly decided to choose that out of all movies to watch 😛
I’m really getting sick of Gizmodo. Over on the US site they posted about Dell going private and Jesus Diaz says in the comments that Dell and any other PC manufacturer is completely irrelevant because they don’t make shiny bright gadgets. That’s LITERALLY what he said! Apparently all that’s important anymore is ios and Android where “the real innovation” is. Excuse me? How are PC’s, the backbone of THE ENTIRE INTERNET AND EVERYTHING TECHNOLOGICAL completely irrelevant because they don’t make a new phone every month? He has to be either kidding or completely delusional.
Gizmodo really needs to be shut down and completely started again. It really has lost its way.
*This late night rant is brought to you by a racing mind. Racing minds, it gets you every time!*
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Not much.
Just watched the first episode of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, and I nearly started crying with laughter at some points.
I fear that it reminds me a little too much of the things I made for Media back in High School…
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You mean the first episode or episode 0 which actually, chronologically, is later in the series? Episode 10 or 11 IIRC
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It’s the eleventh episode(According to the text file that came with it called “Actual Series Order?”), which yeah, is zero.
Kind of.
Because their naming conventions are weird.
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Chronologically, the whole series is weird. Season 2 eps fit between season 1 eps. Wacky Japs!
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Don’t watch it in Actual Series Order, it’s shit that way. Broadcast order mixes it all over the place and it’s generally a better watch that way (also you can probably skip most of the Endless Eight episodes because they will destroy your spirit and possibly your interest in the whole franchise)
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Yeah, I was planning to just watch it in broadcast order, it seems like far too much effort to try and keep track of where I’m up to if I don’t.
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Do make sure you see the movie as well, it’s better than most of the series.
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Alright, thanks, I’ll keep that in mind. I don’t think my dodgily acquired versions of them have the movie, so I’ll need to look into it.
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Brisbane lunch dealy today. Meet at 12pm in front of the EB Games between Adelaide St and Queen St. We’ll then go get food. DM me on twitter if you don’t have my number. Pretty informal kind of thing. I’ll be lurking around earlier I suspect, psyching myself up! The end!
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“I’ll be lurking around earlier I suspect, flirting with EB Girl.”
There. I fixed it for you.
Also, blurst kermit etc
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That’s a smile not an upside down frown!
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Sounds good man. As my phone is destroyed, I won’t be able to call you. But I might spy on you from a distance while you work your magic on the EB girl.
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I think the group’s looking like some combination of @jimu, @trjn, @sernobulus, @strange, @sughly. (Thought I’d tag you guys in case you missed the details!)
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I know that feeling man, having no money sucks. I went to apply for gov’t money but I couldn’t even figure how the fuck the Centrelink website worked so I gave up =/
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Hey Fronds, it’s Game Club time!
Since nothing else got suggested yesterday, the game this month is Psychonauts. I’ve got a save file that’s about 80% finished, but I want to try and collect all the things. This is where I’m currently at.
I also have ONE copy on Steam to give away to anyone that wants to play but doesn’t already own the game.
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Such a good game! I’ve played it about four times since its released, so might not replay but will most likely ramble about funny moments when you guys do. 😛
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Dark Souls got more votes. Y U No Dark Souls? 🙁
I already have a few different games going right now so the only way I can join in these gameclub things is if I’m already playing the game.
I also thought Dark Souls would have been perfect because a bunch of people just started/restarted the game so it would be great encouragement for the newcomers.-
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There were enough reasons to not choose Ni No Kuni for me.
It’s new and expensive. This could exclude people. I’d also be more upset if someone spoils a recent game rather than one from seven or eight years ago.
It’s single-platform. This could exclude people.
It’s a micro-managed min/max stated JRPG. This could exclude people.
It might also be too long for February. We’re already at day 6 of only 28.-
Fair points, I was just being lazy and picking something I was already playing through :P. I’m all for the smaller stuff that’s sitting on piles, as well as the bigger releases which are easy enough to get now (Dark Souls).
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I counted two unique votes for Dark Souls, two for Psychonauts.
Then I voted for Psychonauts.
Because I don’t has Dark Souls. 🙁
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I’ll be in on that.
I have a 100% game in progress but got stalled on one level where I am 1 figment short. 1 figment!If there is a dark souls monthly play through I would probably end up buying it to do so. Ideally if it came on sale and then I could get it cheaper
EDIT: I also have a copy to give away on steam if anybody wants to join in. I pretty much always have a copy in my inventory just in case somebody mentions the are interested
In case any one’s interested, The Witcher games are 50% off on GOG today to celebrate the announcement of the third game. (GOG’s owned by CD Projekt too!)
http://www.gog.com/news/special_promo_the_witcher_3_announced_get_the_first_two_for_50_off
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Ugh Winning at Ticket to Rideius *flex*
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Ugh, TakingAdvantageOfSomeoneWithADisabilityius
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Remember that time he stole his friends girlfriend and took her to the dance? Monster!
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Ugh, Monsterius
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Correktionz
1. He wasn’t my friend.
2. Wasn’t his girlfriend.
3. Not my fault I’m so amazing.
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Watching through Liked YouTube videos. Honestly, this one makes me feel happy whenever I watch it. It’s one of my all-time fave vids: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=py_30jZGUYk
Oh man, huge nostalgia hit: that TMNT article on the main page has me skateboarding right down memory sewer. Unbelievably huge major obsession all through primary school.
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Donny, Raph and Splinter! Those are the characters I played with, action figure style. My brother was Shredder and Leo. Sister was Mikey and April. 😀
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In the (early NES) video games, it didn’t make sense to play as anyone but Donatello because his bo could go through walls and floors and he had a much longer reach than any of the others.
I never had any action figures. Though I did find a half-broken TMNT van/truck/thing at a garage sale when I was about ten. That was one of my happier days 😛
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I had a long run of nightmares about being run over by those street cleaner things in the overworld 😛
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Raph and Leo are the coolest. They’re definitely the most interesting (outside of the cartoon anyway) 😛
Edit: this is not an opinion. It is objective science fact.
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Mikey.
More factual science fact. He had nunchaku. NUNCHAKU!
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I always thought Donny was the best. Blunt and required skill, easy to trip a foe over and get the upper hand. (I thought about this too much as a kid. :P)
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Youngest too. I doubt I’d have had the sway to commandeer Mikey even if I wanted to. (Donny, Raph and Splinter were always my favourites any ways!)
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I used to watch TMNT every afternoon after school when it was on. My next door neighbour was about my age, so we used to play TMNT. I was always Mikey, he switched between the rest of the turtles. I remember one year they had TMNT soft drinks and we had them for my birthday. Awesome stuff.
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I just realised that I don’t own the DVD. I really should rectify that.
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It’s out. $75 at Amazon. I’m sure I haven’t seen most of that cartoon (just the first couple of years).
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Yeah, I remember @freezespreston, @sughly and I were getting nostalgic over TMNT late last year too. Good times!
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I gotta watch that movie again. So damn good 😀
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If you end up having a booth at SupaNova this year, coop The Cave/Full Throttle/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle meat! 😛
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Idea so nice, wanna upvote twice
Edit: no awkward talk, just staring at screens. Best kind of socialising.
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Did anyone ever collect the cards? http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/TEENAGE-MUTANT-NINJA-TURTLES-TRADING-CARDS-1990-COLLECTION-131-132-MOVIE-SWAP-/110993379742
I had a decent collection, but must have dumped them all long, long ago 🙂
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Ah, but we now have a way to distinguish between the old TMNT cartoon and the newer ones 😉
the movies were always Ninja though. That was weird.
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Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles!
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Alternate universe stuff right there!
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Oddly enough, i watched TMNT 1 & 2 last week. I got the 4 movies on blu-ray a while back so I watch them fairly regularly. THEY CAME IN A PIZZA BOX! AND EACH DISC IS A PIZZA WITH A DIFFERENT TOPPING!
I found a story about Mikeys Birthday present from Raph!
“It isn’t rape if I want it Raphie…” Mikey said sadly, leaning in for another kiss.
“Raph, what about lube?” Mikey said, almost yelping as a finger smoothly slid in. “Don’t need it. I’ma make you enjoy dis without it.” Raph stated, rubbing his finger along the inner walls of his brother.
I’ll just leave this here http://www.collegehumor.com/video/5982175/the-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-use-their-weapons
True story: I wasn’t allowed to watch TMNT after a few episodes because my mother read some tract that declared it to be some devil thing that would corrupt her children and make them Buddhist or something.
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Yeah, my parents tried to keep the movie from me until I was about 8. That’s when the third one came out in cinemas I think
Morning gang
Spaghett’s Last Song Played Game
Terror and Hubris in the house of Frank Pollard by Lamb of God
Because they make me zen
And I slept horribly last night *waking up an estimated 4 times and a confirmed 2* and then seemingly, woke up with my alarm, turned it off, and went back to sleep
Do not even recall turning it off
So I got in an hour late
I hate being late, throws my whole day off
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@spaghett, my friend!
Last song played would probably be We Are the World from the North Korea propaganda video. Haha!
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Holiday – Vampire Weekend.
The vocalist for a local band told me on the weekend that my vocals remind him of Randy Blythe. Best compliment ever.
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Both blocked here at work, emailed them to ymself
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Dude, this stuff is really good!
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Such a great band
Great live at Soundwave, they are so heavy and sludgy that the speakers couldn’t handle it and packed it in at least twice
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I’m listening to.. Feels Like Home by Orianthi because she’s awesome. Her new album is out in a few weeks, i’m hoping the rest of the album has the blues/Hendrix vibe to it like the first single has.
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I want to go back to my Lamb of God
They seriously chill me out really quickly
But Orianthi kicks absolute ass!
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I have been keeping an eye on it man, checking http://www.loudwire.com
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Modern technology is the devil!
Why, just last night I wanted to sit back and play a relaxing game of DmC Devil May Cry but my plans were thwarted, thwarted I say, by the ease of which a game of DotA2 could be arranged.
If it weren’t for the assembly of people in Team Speak and that blasted Steam, I might be actually making progress in that game. Alas, I am not.
On the other hand, DotA2 is really fun. Losing sucks, especially to bots, but even after the first game where bots just crushed us, things were pretty neat.
Let’s try to guess what Sandy Cervix said that got deleted.
“Serrells Trials skills are rubbish yo”
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At least three people downvoted it before it got deleted. It’s not a fun guessing game when a lot of the contestants know the answer.
EDIT: Also, let’s try not to feed the trolls. No downvotes, no attention given after the fact. Just report and move on.
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Although I’ve just kind of assumed that particular troll was a regular TAYbie with Tourette’s. 😛
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It was actually quite disgusting
Not that I was offended by what it said
But it ruined TAY
Chatter, chatter
Horrible abomination of the English language
Chatter, chatter
It had to go and I am glad its gone
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Saw it before it got blammed, it was about sitting on his (or her?) bosses lap and farting and pooping and stuff. Typical breakfast material I guess.
Spec Ops: The Line stuff. No spoiler edition.
Played some more this morning.
I am seriously loving how these guys are looking more and more beat to hell as the game goes on. I mean, it’s something you don’t see very often in modern warfare games. These guys actually look like they have been through all sorts of hell. I’ve found myself, on more than one occasion, panning the camera around walker seeing how messed up he’s getting.
I find it to be quite awesome how his face is starting to reflect is growingly dark personality, like the man is starting to lose all shreds of his humanity the further and deeper he goes
Some pretty damn nice touches in this game, i gotta say 🙂
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So good.
I can still remember the first time I heard him roar ‘FUCKING STAY DOWN’, I actually started a little. They all look seriously haggard by towards the end. You’ll notice his voice tone start dropping as well, he tends to almost growl, it’s amazing.-
Games need to take a leaf out of their book
Yeah, i loved how they began to look messed up, they changed from being calm and collected to turning on each other and Walker begins swearing and becoming more violent.
it certainly shows up the other 3rd person shooter games
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not a story spoiler, but related to what you’ve said :
its not just their appearance that changes. the dialogue becomes more insane as well, but what i think the most impressive thing was, is that the animations for the main guy changes over time.
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After the
White Phosphorus Sceneis where you first notice they’re shifting. Suddenly their dialogue when shooting gets more aggressive and stuff.
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Purchased my 3 day pass immediately. Also, courtesy of living in Melbourne and being awesome, I am set.
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And a filthy, filthy slut.
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You know who’s an even bigger one? Chaos Knight. Oh and Multicast!
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I think I’m in Melbourne Thursday, PAXing Friday, doing something or other Saturday then heading home.
ONLY 6 MONTHS UNTIL PAX AUSTRALIA
Eeeekkk better start considering my cosplay if there is any hope for that
I’ll be there. 3 day pass, but I dunno if I’ll be able to make the sunday session.
flights are stupidly cheap at the moment as well (about $40 each way), so I’ll have to get onto that next pay.
Interesting, I got my steam key from greenmang gaming today but i think the DLC doesn’t come out until the 9th. Who would have though the DLC could break the street date.
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Odd, I could have sworn it said the 9th. I must have rotated my monitor 180• and forgot about it.
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Why would you be facing the back of your monitor? Seems counter intuitive…
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Given Nos and Numbers are both quite a few hours out of Radelaide, it may make things just a teensy bit difficult.
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Given that people travel interstate to attend meats I’m sure they can work something out 😀
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Yeah, but SA is big. Like, really big.
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The WA taybies say Hi.
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SA is big
WA is GIGANTIC. Although I imagine the TAYbie pop outside of Perth dwindles quite rapidly.
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Howdy DC!
Swapping between downtempo electronica and scary angry music today. Fun!
Oh yeah, and that ‘work’ thing 😛
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Apparently my xbox live subscription ends on march 7th….
I honestly can’t remember when i last used my gold account.. i think it was for space marine??
Sorry Microsoft, i don’t think you’ll be getting my money anymore, especially when i get so much more from PSN and i have a halfway decent computer now…
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Outside of being offered $2 for 2 months again, I won’t be purchasing Gold. I need something more than ‘play with abusive dickheads in the Halo lobbies!’ to incentivise me.
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Last time I used Xbox Live was when I subbed for a month when Halo 4 came out.
It probably sounds super cheap of me, but I just can’t justify the price of Live, not when the PSN and PC multi is free, aside from the cost of the internet, and when there’s only one or two games on 360 that have multi that interests me, and when I’d only be playing them for a couple hours on the weekend at most, it’s just not worth it.
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I keep expecting it to turn up with my mother from the amount of time it’s told me its had intimate relations with her.
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I mostly used it for iView the past few months, and the occasional game. I think mine is ending in less than a month too.
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SO VOLUNTEERS! Who wants to talk about retro stuff on Potaku!? People shared their memories the other day, but no one put up their hand to come on!
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Dead Space 3 reviews:
All over the place, even more than usual for sequelised games. Even hard to tell how much disappointed expectations of horror are skewing the scores, because some claim that it’s just not that good an action game either.
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You know the reviews are likely to be insanely inconsistent for this.
It’s an EA title, which will garner some nerd rage somewhere along the line, along with people’s feelings towards the DS series as a whole (good and bad), it’s bound to be all over the shop.
That being said, one of my coworkers is picking it up and is excited about it – he quoted two reviews which I think were around 8/10. I have a feeling this is one you’re only going to be able to find out for yourself by playing it.
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I think you’re right. Same with Dead Space 2 really.
Though I haven’t played any further than about 4 hours into the original, so I’m still some way behind the pace 😛
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In case anyone was keen, you can get The Witcher for $5 and The Witcher 2 for $10 on Steam till the 8th.
I’m probably going to grab a copy so I have TW on Steam. No more giant updating every time I install \o/
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I would definitely recommend the Witcher, such an awesome game. With The Witcher 3 coming out sometime next year now’s everyone’s chance to beat the first 2. \o/
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I got Rayman Origins yesterday, unsure when i’ll dive into it I might do a few more hours of Ni No Kuni’s endgame beforehand.
I’m pretty sure if I told you guys how much I payed for it and where I got it from I would be exiled from the community =)
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No $67 from Harvey Norman, shameless waste of money amiright, but sealed copies are one of my guilty pleasures.
The copy at JB HiFi was also $65 =/ and had a huge dent on the cover and it was alittle insulting to since Wii copies were going for $25.
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The cheapo in me cries :P! I probably would’ve gone for this for a bit more. I’ve never noticed that edition before but man, that’s a mighty fine looking edition – I kinda want it now!
And about the Australian thing, could’ve sent a message to the seller to double check although the listing makes it pretty clear that it isn’t an import.
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Why does that listing show the Education Tax Refund? I’m pretty sure that phased out for the Family Tax Benefits after the 2011 Financial year.
In hindsight I should of probably gone for that.
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No, there are education rebates available for primary and high school kids nowadays. Covers a percentage of fees, books, equipment, etc, up to a certain maximum IIRC
Edit: or maybe the percentage was phased out and now it’s a flat amount. I dunno. Something
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Yeah its been changed and not done through Tax Returns anymore which explains why I’m oblivious to it to the new one the ‘Schoolkids Bonus’
Was a fun read.
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WHY DID YOU REMIND ME?!
i really wish I had mind bleach. i really wish I hadn’t read it. I also wish you had spoilered it in the first place as it seriously grossed me out -
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What in god’s name were you looking up to find it?
Something something out of the closet something something beastiality (at its finest, I hope) something something wife and children
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You think that was bad you should have read the rest of the story.
(Incidentally I blame @jordi)
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Went and saw Django Unchained last night, and was pretty pleased with the result.
Possible spoyluhs:
I don’t think it’s one of his best, but was a lot of fun. After Inglourious Basterds, it just confirmed Christoph Waltz is fucking amazing, I love that guy – he’s so cool. I must also give mad props to Mr DiCaprio, he was amazing – played the whole southern gentleman/dandy incredibly well. On the whole, it was a lot of fun. It felt a little drawn out in some places, but some very funny moments, great performances, and some surprise cameos.
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I was wondering what was up with that part. Man, my respect for him has increased after learning that. He really did do an amazing job as that character.
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He’s just amazing in almost anything he is in. And to think in his early days most people write him off as just another pretty boy screen candy. (Including myself)
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I also thought the same.
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I did the same, he was always cast in teen heart throb stuff like Titanic, Romeo and Juliet, etc. It wasn’t until I saw Shutter Island, that I went ‘Hey – he’s actually pretty good!’
And yeah, he did cut he did cut his hand open when he slammed it down on the table. Although I doubt it was his blood he rubbed on Hilde’s face – it’s several shots later. But what a champ! Apparently Tarantino was like ‘Whu?’ but just let it roll. -
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I also like psych, that TV show is great!
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Shut ya head Greenius!
It’s a great show, and The Mentalist ripped it off!
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So. Damn. Disappointing.
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repost because reply fail:
SO VOLUNTEERS! Who wants to talk about retro stuff on Potaku!? People shared their memories the other day, but no one put up their hand to come on!
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I’d be keen to, but i’m still trying to get the net connected at the new place. When are you recording?
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Blame the new girl.Edit: New plan.
If she’s joining in, it’s okay to join in too. It’s the bachelor code.
If she isn’t joining in, take a stand and distinguish yourself from the pack.-
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But she’s too pretty to be racist. Because that’s how racism work,s clearly.
She’s not even here today!-
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She’s North Korean?
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I found a place to farm EXP in Ni No Kuni.
I suspect the next section of the game will be much easier now.
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Anyplace that has Toko’s in it, the area that has the final form of it gives 25k per Toko, Tokotoko is 9800 and Toko is 2000 exp respectively.
Locations:
Toko – Ugly Duck Island
TokoToko – pathway that leads up to Perdida
ColdToko – The Ivory Tower.-
I’m putting this in spoiler tags just because. Doesn’t really spoil anything 😛
Yeah that’s where I was thinking. My mouth dropped when I saw their second form gave me 8000 EXP in one battle. They’re rare/hard to catch though!
The dead Toko’s are being shovelled onto the Audino pile.-
I’m grinding the last one now for 25k a pop, and I did TokoToko for a long time aswell they definately show up enough to grind them despite their rarity, killing them before they run is the only concern.
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As was said, Ugly Ducking Island with the Toko. They don’t show up all the time and then they can run away on you, but 2,000 exp per win is pretty decent! Got two of my familiars to their final forms, then level 30 or so at that, and Ollie-boy and co went up about ten levels after an hour of training!-
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How many hours are you into the game? I’m only 21ish but I thought you were much lower than that. I have no idea where that place you mentioned is 😀
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I’m 25 in now!
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OMG OMG OMG!!!
YOU GUYS!!!
NI NO KUNI!!!
I KNOW NOTHING ABOUT IT!!! \o/
…sorry, i just wanted to feel like a part of the group for a moment.. i’ll go back to my straight jacket and shouting “Space Marine” like i have a very very strange form of tourettes.
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Man.. why are my page gets always so crap… why can’t it be something awesome like “I finally slept with Tia Carrera” or “I’ve beaten every game – ever!”
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Because a page get that’s too awesome makes everything else seem lame by default. You’re doing us a community service.
NOM this man
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But I’ve never had me some Loopa!
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FINE! BE THAT WAY!
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Bet you wouldn’t say that to Tia.
Favouritism 🙁
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No, I’d be hoping SHE wouldn’t say that.
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Obligatory posting
Not as busy as yesterday, but am capitalising on that to try to get some trusts set up
We were allowed to not do anything to them as Christmas was closing in, and guess who hasn’t yet sent the initial contact letter
Fuck
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I think the words you’re looking for are “Oh well, I’ll do it now/soon/later” 😛
(or maybe some people care about their work more than I do)
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Thanks Shane
Spags is just freaking out because it should have been done earlier
But, whatever I guess
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I think my first game ever was some Jurassic Park game on PS1. Either that or Ocarina of Time, not sure what console I had first!
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Replied!
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Got my copy of Steamboy on DVD today, finally getting around to watching it.
RAM came back from supplier, replaced under warranty – get to dump the shitty 8GB kit I was using temporarily.
After 3 weeks, Asus has finally decided to start repairing my laptop – it only took 5 phonecalls to ask why the fuck it’s taken 3 weeks and they haven’t even started repairs yet.
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Yeah, not happy Jan. I don’t mind it taking 3 weeks, if they need to order parts from overseas – but 3 weeks to even start it, despite multiple calls from me after the 2 week mark? Poor form.
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Sorry, should have elaborated: it’s an average repair time, and that’s not a good thing. I used to work as a middle man for that crap and most manufacturers were just crap at getting simple jobs done. New hard drive? 3 weeks plus postage time, or more, etc.
Also, still makes me smile that “not happy Jan” is still a thing 😀
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I’ve never understood why people feel the need to massively drag out repair jobs. Even in my work its amazing the amount of people who are shocked when I say half an hour because the other guy said three days.
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My guess is that people equate time and effort. A short job must be easy and therefore worth less. A three week job must cost hundreds of dollars, because they’ve clearly been working on it the whole time.
Or maybe your competitor is legitimately busy, and you are not 😛
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Other guy as in the guy who was in my shop the day before. And company prices are set in stone.
So just douchbags I guess.
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Took me two months to get the power supply replaced in my QNAP NAS when it died a while back. And then when I got it back it was missing all the special flat-head screws you need to put the drives back in 🙁
Article on the front page titled “Difficult Video Games Are Like A Certain Kind Of Sex”, written about videos games as a form of masochism, and the author is transgender.
Why the fuck didn’t they turn the comments section off for it? This is going to go downhill fast.
EDIT: I’m not saying to avoid the article, just the comments.
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I clicked on it to comment “clickbait” and then I read bits and pieces of it. I still don’t know why.
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Kermitrons comment pretty much summed up anything I could have contributed. Since it’s a comment section, I’m going to give myself 12 lashings, and then promise never to return.
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An article about Gerry Harvey being dumb and an opinion piece about gaming masochism on the same day!?
My god.
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Someone should get Serrels to write an article named “Why [insert console name here] is the best and anybody who disagrees is an idiot”.
It’ll be the perfect storm.
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Too positive. “Why PC Gaming should die in a fire and Console X & Y should just kill themselves already”
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Mention two consoles only. Because only two gaming platforms exist.
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Gizmodo does this all time. “If you don’t like X, there’s something wrong with you”
I REALLY hate that.
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I just read over it, and i really don’t think it’s all that bad so far.. i mean it’s kinda restrained, they’re just saying they don’t particularly agree.
Thing is that games are something different to everyone, so no one can really say “you’re wrong” – it’s more an “ok… i don’t agree, but that’s cool”…
It’s all perspective.That all being said, i think i did have a rather stupid look on my face while reading through it. I found the links to be little tenuous and misinterpreted at some points… but hey, that;s just me.
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I read the intro then bailed out.
Not because I have a problem with the subject or the author, I just find those sorts of articles require more attention than I’m willing to give while I’m at work.Worth a read?
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Not really. I found the central premise lacking, tbh. The author never really establishes a solid link between BDSM and games, she assumes it’s there and then builds on it.
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Felt like she was just wanting to tell everyone she’s naughty in the bedroom, then trying to form a link to video games.
I know people who are active in the BDSM community (I’m not myself) and while not intimately familiar with it, I think the conclusion is a bit off. People into such things in the bedroom usually enjoy the act itself, for various reasons. Like a role reversal – say a day to day manager might like to be dominated in the bedroom. Where super difficult games like Isaac, Dark Souls, Trials, etc are about facing a challenge and conquering it.
For a lot of us, it’s also a throwback to the old days where games were a lot more brutal. There was no tutorial, no save points, limited lives and the only way to win was to learn via repetition. Persistence meant success. That’s the key.
At the end of the day, it’s matter of opinion, but I can’t really see her make a plausible correlation between gaming and sadist/masochist bedroom tendencies at any point.
EDIT : I was only led there by the prospect of The Great Kermitron’s comment contribution, and ended up reading the article. /facepalm
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Totally.
The pleasure/pain dynamic is not equivalent to effort/reward.
Even the author admits that her struggle to get the Trials achievement was about chasing an outcome. Didn’t seem to be much pleasure mixed in with the pain of the act. I really don’t think it’s an apt comparison.
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I agree with what you’ve said. There’s a difference between the joy of overcoming a challenge and joy in the pain that challenge brings.
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Nope. I don’t know nothing about anything. Plus, I’m mic shy, which means I’d say nothing anyways.
Happy to provide an hour of silence with occasional sage grunts, but I can record that anytime and send it in.
Or I’m happy to write down my opinions and have someone else read them aloud 😛
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Just record one sage grunt and Doc can edit it in at key moments
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It’s a shame, bacuse we’re getting a pretty large amount of listeners each week. You COULD promote your upcoming book.
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Noted. I will consider it. Thanks
(I am one of those larger listeners, btw.)
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My boss wants me to go to Redmond for a few days in late March.
PAX is in Seattle in late March.
I wonder if this would be considered misuse of company resources?
http://tickets.metropolistouring.com/default.aspx?Event=32626
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD SOMEONE GIVE ME A FUCKING JOB!!!
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Maybe they should just offer up ‘Debbie Does Dallas’ as a free movie download as part of PS+
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I have both InFamous games at home – yet to play either, but slowly working my way towards it.
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I liked the first, it wasn’t the greatest thing ever but I enjoyed it.
Didn’t get around to the second though. Bought it close to release but that was also the first Shameless Gaming Month, which oddly enough, put that on my pile of shame so I could focus on games in my pile of shame.
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Arkham games aside, they do probably the best job of making you feel like a superhero without being overpowered.
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This. I remember playing Prototype and getting super bored within an hour or two because I could just do anything.
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Prototype actually gets harder later on, as things deteriorate in the city. It’s not a great game and the story is rubbish, but it was all right.
inFAMOUS had even less of a story, and I couldn’t get into the second game at all, but the first was pretty decent in terms of gameplay.
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Maybe Prototype would’ve clicked later, but I’ll never know.
My biggest inFAMOUS gripe was how repetitive it got. Great application of super powers without going overboard, but like so many other games it just became ‘go here, kill x, return. go here, collect y, return’
Started inFAMOUS 2, and it honestly looked a little more entertaining, but got distracted I think.
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Hmm I’m back, but there are like three new pages since my last post – you guys warned me that TAY moves fast 😛
So should I go back and read what I missed and comment/ post etc – or is that considered like going back in time and changing the past?
Should i just try and hop on this train as it keeps moving along?
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Oh who are the other SA TAYbies, and do you know where abouts they are? North/ south etc? Oh wow now I sound like a stalker 😛
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I’m in Adelaide. Other adelaide/SA Taybies include but aren’t limited to:
@hermesandthoth @jocon? @numbers
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SA TAYbie right here, also.
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We’re reaching critical mass! where (roughly) are you based benny?
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We might even have enough for a meat at this rate.
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First rule of TAY:
The current page is the only active page! Previous pages are old news.
Second rule of TAY:
Learn as many in-jokes as possible, and repeat them constantly.
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Who’s this guy?
And then I found $10.
Bacon.
Dammit @DC
The PS Vita has no games, and it’s a Shakespearean Tragedy.
@Chuloopa likes SPACE MARINE
shanewsmith.com
Am I missing any?
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When did my balls become a thing? I must have missed that, it was so short (that’s what she said)
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I’m making your balls a thing.
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New guy already gets it!
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Pladnimz bedda
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@greenius is a monster
@dc has reasons, man. Reasons.
@spaghett shenanigans, heroin and OCD
@scree says sorry
@strange HATES spoilers
@chuloopa is a dirty, dirty boy
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SPANK ME!
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Groovy.
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Skim (or read it ALL like some of us do/try-to-do), and be sure to keep track of the little pink number next to your name in the top right corner of the page, it’s all activity pertaining to you in comments sections.
Also, just hop on and enjoy the ride 😀
Oh yeah, you need to forget about having a work ethic if you intend to keep up with TAY – someone should really have mentioned that.
I am mildly nervous about The Witcher 3.
“Imagine playing a dark fantasy game with the same great non-linear story as in the previous Witcher titles, but now told in a world you can explore freely with no artificial boundaries,” Badowski says. “The war-ravaged world is so huge that to reach farther places you will need to ride a horse or sail a boat to get there.”
That sounds great, but only if there’s a decent story and the world isn’t as fucking bland and empty and devoid of content as Skyrim.
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I saw.
I exploded.
Then after I had finished clubbing everything in sight, I calmed down enough to realise that we all have different tastes.
I truly cannot stand straight linear games, DMC, God of War and other games like that. I desire the freedom of choice.Though “devoid of content” still makes my blood boil and a bit of steam shoot out of my ears 😛
SKYRIM!
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I think the main problem I have with Skyrim (and TES in general) is that the first person perspective and effectively mute character you’re playing with means I don’t care about them or how they work into the paper-thin story as it is, plus the actual core combat is very, very lacking and could be so much more fun.
Because I don’t have fun with the actual mechanics of the game itself and don’t care about the characters or the plot, there’s really nothing to do and the world feels empty and bland as a result.
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The flaw of open world games is, unfortunately, a poorly presented story. I’m sure there are exceptions, but I can’t think of any off the top of my head.
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I actually rarely enjoy open world games. Its almost like if I am too spoiled for choice, I can’t make up my mind on what to do 🙁 Then I get really stressed out D:
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I totally understand and I’m the same way. Paralysed by choice, basically. I need a strong narrative thread or something to pull me along. I like open world games but I need a structure to follow. If there’s nothing to work toward or anything then I choose not to play it. I also like stuff that’s linear because I always feel like I’m making progress and not having to make decisions all the time.
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Sleeping Dogs is the only recent example I can think of which combines a decent story and a solid open world. And good gameplay too.
The Witcher games were always fairly open world anyway, they just gated off where you could go at a given time.
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Agreed. Sleeping Dogs also proved to me that an open sandbox type game can be semi-serious and still entertaining (GTAIV and SR3 were polar extremes).
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Oh good news – the banana was in the console so even though the car was hot, the banana was cool 🙂
Ok, let me lay this on you: I’m 32 and only ate banana for the first tiem last year! My mum didn’t like bananas (because they are mushy) so neve rbought them and then told us kids that we didn’t like them either (not the best parenting there) so i grew up believeing that I didn’t like them! Now I have little kids and they love banana, and being babies sometimes they do silly things like try and stuff food in dads mouth. So I thought I better pretend to eat it to be a good sport and guess what…. I actually liked banana all along <_
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I don’t like bananas (because potassium. Irrational fear, I know) and haven’t eaten one for 15 years.
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*vomit*
There’s two things I can’t handle… Bananas, and styrofoam.
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Bananas are my favourite fruit. Blend one and a glass of milk together and mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Melons are pretty good as well 🙂
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i keep looking at real estate websites & then getting depressed because there’s all these nice places that I will never be able to live in.
Seriously, how the hell does anyone afford to buy a place anywhere that isnt in the middle of nowhere?
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Yeah my family is kinda pissed that it is far away, but atleast I could afford it. Similar price in the city would have had me living in the ghetto.
Oh but wait, when i lived in the city I had a fat cable connection and gamed all ngiht.
Now I’m in the country on the wonkiest wireless connection ever. No mp games for me 🙁
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the main issue I have with remote-ness is that I dont drive, so PT is a necessity, also, living more than 30 mins away from a decent venue that has decent bands is something I really dont wanna do.
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Yeah you wouldn’t like where i live then. That said, in SA/ Adelaide, even the township I live in isn’t too far from the CBD…
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OK, now I’m curious.
Gawler?
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:O pretty close man.
Need PM so I can tell you straight up. Mind you, saying ‘Barossa’ probably gives you a close enough idea.
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Tanunda.
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I thought that in this conversation, theres no such thing as a wrong answer.
But you, my friend, have proven otherwise.
:p
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get in line.
Edit: in front of someone else by preference.
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Every time we find a place that works for rental, there’s a million other people and they’re happy to resort to bribery eg offering extra rent to get the place but I can’t afford to do that 🙁
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I had that problem trying to find a place in sydney.
What I ended up doing is once I found a place that I liked, went straight from the inspection to the estate agent & gave em 2 weeks rent with the application. got it first time.
Apparently doing that sort of gives you preference. and it changes the listing to ‘deposit received’ so nobody else will bother trying.
& if for whatever reason you dont get the place / decide against it, the deposit is refunded.
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That sounds like it should be straight up illegal. The idea that you can bribe agents / landlords with extra is bad enough IMO.
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nothing illegal about it. its not a bribe. its a deposit. if you get the place, thats your first 2 weeks rent paid for. the agent doesnt get it.
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I don’t know if it would fly in Victoria though. Deposits are handled by the state government.
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even for a deposit to a private company?
anyway, maybe deposit isnt the right word. holding fee? advance? show of financial ability to pay the rent? I dunno. All i know is that it worked :/
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Spilt water all down my front, my tie is purple with now darker streaks of purple due to water
Getting work done.
Offered myself up to stay late on Friday
Found out it is only the Manager of our sector and myself on Friday
So my offer was not really needed but accepted anyway
Hopefully can get even more done then
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So do I 🙂
Welcome again Ash
as @shane said, I am Spaghett, Shenanigans, mentions of Heroin (or any hardcore drug, they interest me to reference them) and I have OCD and Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Also, I go on about my girlfriend
And food, and sometimes/ALL THE TIMES, I am worrying
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You are, nice memory to recall that from yesterday when I said it
TAY and Sam have helped me man
If you ever need TAY, it is always there
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Sam sounds nice. I wish someone gave me the advice of falling for a relaxed and calm girl….
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She counteracts my anxiety and insanity rather well
She is amazing, I love her
@greenius, he quoted me when I said “If I had a dollar for everytime I thought of Sam I would only have a dollar, because she never leaves my mind”
Sappy I know
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OMG awesome line – I’m gonna use that!
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Thanks man
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Dude I totally used your line tonight and it went down a treat! ^_^
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Dude you did??
AWESOME!
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There are these Valentine themed cherry ripes out atm saying things like “Your my valentine” on the wrapper etc, so I gave her one of those and pulled out that line, and she totally gushed! She hasn’t done that for so long.
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I must admit, I saw it on the internet somewhere and have co-opted it
Doesn’t make it any less true
I am glad your wife liked it 🙂
Creepius…
(MORE INSIDE JOKES)
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Let the love free BDKIAF
@ash, @bdkiaf love each other….. don’t tell Sam
Also, he hats me because I hat Apple products and love Microsoft
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OMG It’s a love triangle!
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Nope, no Triangle
I love BDKIAF
And I love Sam
they will never meet
You can join BDKIAF and myself if you want 😉 😛
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How the heck does does a three-way dock work?
@puppylicks
You have to believe
Also, puppies are involved
Want to make it a square?
Um so do I make it a pentagon?
Pentagram sounds sexier
OMFG ALL OF MY WANTS FOR THIS!!!
MONEY!!! WHERE ARE YOU?!?!!?
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Warhammer-40k-Brother-Hyrion-Polystone-Statue-Sideshow-/150989720234?pt=AU_Miniatures&hash=item2327b04aaa
4.5 INCHES OF IMPERIAL JOY!!!
#inbeforethatswhatshesaid
#hashtagsforharli
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It’s a good pain!
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FOR THE EMPEROR!!!
*punches Nef in the teat*
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I’m sorry, I couldn’t hear you over the sound of how awesome it is to fight for Chaos.
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Sanity is for the WEAK!
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See, you’re just bitter because the whole legion didn’t turn.
During the whole Horus Heresy the Dark Angels were one of Horrus’ most feared rivals – he was terrified of them reaching him, which is why he knew it was all over when the DA and Space Wolves weren ot to far away, even though Horus had sent the ENTIRE night lords legion to try and stop the DA, which they failer miserably and had their arses completely beat 😛 -
Continue to worship your puny corpse-emperor.
Chaos is eternal.
DEATH TO THE FALSE EMPEROR
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The Sons of Fenris they are, hardened in the forge of their harsh world, eager for battle and honor.
Loosely translated into modern phasing:
Hey guys, let’s go kick Chaos in the dick, even though there’s no challenge in it.
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YOUR PRIMARCH DIDN’T EVEN HAVE THE DECENCY TO DIE IN BATTLE
HE JUST GOT SAD AND FUCKED OFF
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#hashtagsforharlieveniftheyreoverlylongandcomplexhowareweallanywaynowimjustpaddinghaveanyofyouevervisitedLlanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogochitsinwalesandhasareallylongname
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TL: DR
At what age shoudl I try and get my boys into 40k? And yes I only want them to play it so I’ve got an excuse to play too 😛
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I’d say probably not until about 12, which is pretty much when i got into it. But get them onto gateway dru… er.. games, that will eventually lead them into 40k with relish – lots of fantasy/sci fi board based games.
Also at that age they will be able to build armies themselves and even begin painting and the like.-
Gateway like Heroes Quest and Space Crusade? With three boys, we should rock! I wonder if mum will agree to DM?
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Hero Quest and Space Crusade are brilliant. Good place to start. can be hard to find complete and reasonably priced if you don’t own them already though.
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Already got them from when i was a kid… providing mum hasn’t chucked them out when cleaning out my old room.
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What about Space Hulk? Too complex?
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Leave it to my local Macca’s to try and make bogans feel fancy.
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:O I love maccas (although if I eat it too much it makes me sick, so um yeah). i’m gonna come down your way and check this out 🙂
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Y’know, I wanna make fun of it, but maybe somehow this will magically make Maccas better, somehow.
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Getting pumped for the release of Colonial Marines, so decided to have another go at the latest AvP.
I actually found it to be more fun then the last time I played it.
I find the Aliens section to be the most fun, though unfortunately short and for some unexplained reason, I truly suck at being a Predator. No idea why, but I just cannot play as the Predator, especially odd considering how much I enjoyed playing as a Predator in other games.
As I will be moving soon, most of my stuff has been boxed up, but I will be keeping the Powerloader statue from Colonial Marines next to my tv, right up until to the moment I walk out the door.
So this turned up the other week
I am yet to read it, but it looks amazing
@ash Barossa? I’m a Kapunda boy 🙂
Also, if you want to PM, outside of TAY most if not all of us are on Twitter. List of Twitter handles is here: http://potaku.com/taynames/
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lol you sure you aren’t my cousin then? 😛 Although i suppose there might be more than 1 gamer in Kapunda
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Man, I still remember the whole thing after he got torched.
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looked like a horror movie. must have been trouble makers from freeling.
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BTW I don’t want to mislead you – I’m only a new arrival, having grown up in the northern suburbs. We moved out this way to get more space for the kids etc, although we have family in Kapunda, Gawler, Tanunda and Angaston, so it wasn’t like a crazy move.
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Nah man, no jokes here. We went back for one more and got twins. Ended up with three kids under three. Pretty sure that means the the joke is on me.
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AHAHAHAHAHA! BAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHA-oh wait you weren’t joking.
Congrats Benny! \o/
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Thank you, thank you. But the easy part’s over.
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My advice = be nice to your partner 😛
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Ouch. I’ve got a 5 year old and a 2 year old although the 2 year old makes up for tt by making enough trouble for 3 kids on her own.
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I don’t want to whinge, because the kids are cute. But the twins in particular do their mothers hea din. They are 18 mths now and into everythign, but they won’t eat so we have dramas in that space. So mrs gets stressed and can you imagine when i get home form work its like stepping into a minefield.
I keep telling myself that eldest has coem good now he is 4 so twins will do the same – family bliss in 30 months time!
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I got four nieces aged 14 to 10… they are lovely girls to me but the attitude they can give off to their mothers/ aunties/ grandmother etc.. what is this girls competing with girls thing they have going on?
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So is there a different TAY crowd at different times of the day? I mean, if I log on after work of before bed is it a totally different scene?
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Night-time sees the loss of @shane, although Nighthawk visits every now and then. This is probably also the time you’re most likely to see @f4ction.
It typically goes dead around 3:00pm my time, which I assume is when people are heading home from work.
Weekends are a ghost-town, excluding the Refresh Team (@dc, @powalen, @greenius I believe?) and I sorta lurk at all times.
@mashaa2932 goes a bit funny after midnight, he’s like our own little gremlin 😛Uhhm… That’s all I’ve got at the moment.
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Sorry 🙂
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I HAD THE NUMBER RIGHT?!
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It’s Sir_Mashaa on Twitter.
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Confuseasha.
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Ding ding ding we have a winner 🙂
Thanks Red.
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WENT TO HUNGRY JACKS AND USED THE FREE WIFI TO DOWNLOAD ALL THE FINAL FANTASY ON THE VITA!
Yes. Caps were necessary.
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Oh, I didn’t buy anything from HJ’s. I just stole their wifi.
I spent all my money on vidya gaems.
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Not bad effort – FF8 is like 1.8 gb alone. 7 and 9 are like 1.3gb-1.5gb? How long did it take?
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The Vita is still at Hungry Jacks.
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Already had US copies of 8 and 6. Just had to grab 7, 9, 5, 4:CC and Origins.
Didn’t wait for all of them to download though. Got 4 then left.
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You couldn’t! 😛
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Ouch.
D:
I’M RUNNING AWAY
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SORRY!
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I forgive you.
BUT I’M STILL RUNNING AWAY
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WHY DID NOBODY TELL ME THERE WAS A BLOOD BROTHERS PART 3?!
https://soundcloud.com/maddecent/blood-bros-iii-back-in
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Edging closer to home time
Then when I get home I get to make Beef and Black Bean with Hokkein noodles
Shouldn’t take too long, never does
Then, finally, sit at the computer and play Super Meat Boy
Then speak to Sam before bed
All in all a SHENANIGANS
*clears throat*
SHENANIGANS! SHENANIGANS I SAY!
*coughs*
All in all a good night
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I don’t actually use drugs
I thought I would just put that out there for you
Because you are new
I love Fear and Loathing, A Scanner Darkly and Requiem for a Dream for three examples
Drugs just interest me
Anyways, that was funny
You should always cook when high
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Requiem for a Dream
That Jennifer Connelly….. i loved the Labryinth!
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Dark City or GTFO.
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So the boss just called here (very very drunk) and wants to take me to LA in 2 weeks time – the day after bee and mines engagement party.. In his excitable state he doesn’t seem to be taking no for an answer which is making this very hard.
It’s for the Magic Trade expo in LA, which is basically an exhibition for clothing wholesales/distributors. One of the biggest in the reatail fashion industry.
While an all expenses pad trip to the states would usually be an awesome thing – my exams are that week.. which i really, REALLY can’t miss out on. Plus, no passport. :S
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I’ll go in your place! Except I’m pretty sure my exams would be then too :/ (EDIT: wait you clearly said 2 weeks. I’m still on holidays then!)
That’s unfortunate man, maybe swindle your way into another trip at another time? ;D
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Say “I’ll see if I can get the time off”.
Then call back when he isn’t drunk and have a proper discussion with him. It’s generally hard to have a proper conversation with a very, very drunk person.-
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That’s also what i said, and exactly what i was thinking – i’m going to leave it go until tomorrow
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Atleast you can use your passport as an excuse if her doesn’t think the exams is a good one.
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Can I be your replacement? LA & I would totally work. Just the no passport thing I think US Customs would frown upon that or something.
Speaking of PS Vitas, if anyone is interested in picking one up, Dick Smith have them on clearance(?) for $239 including Little Big Planet. *Not listed on online site – just checked. Big fat sticker at my local store, seen it at lunch. Didn’t ask if in stock though.
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Keep in mind I’m pretty sure it’s just Vita + game and not the bundle that comes with the memory card. 4GB is small anyway but it’s good to have two in case you want to do the whole “two accounts” thing! 😀
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Haha two accounts. As for memory card, I believe MSY have the 16GB M2 for ten bucks. When in stock which is never.
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Vita uses a proprietary memory card that is only on the Vita. It’s seriously the biggest pain point of the whole system IMO.
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Oh crap it doesn’t take the M2? I should do my homework!
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$80-100 for a 32GB, fun times!
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I wish it did. Sony’s super paranoid about piracy on it after the PSP so they stopped you from getting easy access to the files by going proprietary like that. In the end I think they’ve shot themselves in the foot with the decision not to use standard memory.
My 16gb is too small, 32gb is too expensive and if I upgrade I really want 64gb+ but there’s no option for that. If it was an SD variant or similar it’d cost next to nothing for higher capacity. 🙁
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Is amazon shipping them to here?
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When I bought my Vita back in November they didn’t ship the memory card. You can buy a US version for around the same price/cheaper on other sites anyway (which is what I did).
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So they ship the console but not the card? OOOKAAAY.
You’d think it would be the other way around.
(pladnims beddr)
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I think they’d have to be below $150 new for me to bother picking one up, and by the time that happens something better will be available.
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I got mine for $180 ($195 if you include shipping) and it was a pretty good bundle. Shouldn’t take too long for it to drop around that again. You need one for Persona 4!
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I’d buy a Vita but I’m struggling to keep up with the games on the systems I do have.
Hmm. Maybe I should buy one then since VITA HAS NO GAMES! #shakespeariantradegy and whatnot.
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My boss just asked me why I was laughing and I said, ‘because the Vita has no games.’
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She might. We don’t know for sure either way. The evidence doesn’t really support a definitive conclusion.
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Off topic, but did you see the list I made for you? Wasn’t sure if I was at the “that sounds good” level or “are you high?” level.
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Yeah I did, thanks for that.
Need to sit down with the missus and really work out what we are doing.
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Fellow Wacom tablet owners, do you get an error when you turn the computer on saying “The tablet driver failed” or something like that? It’s starting to get annoying having to restart the computer every time to get it to work.
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Something like that. It just lagged really bad or didn’t work whenever I reconnected it after I restart or put my computer in sleep mode. I just redownloaded and installed the drivers again each time, which only takes a couple of minutes.
I didn’t use it for about 2 weeks but used it twice last week and both times I had no problems :P. WEIRD!
Name change
That is all
Edit* Clearly, I was wrong
It wasn’t all
The Showdown Effect, anyone else keen? I myself will be preordering it tonight
Will therefore have a giftable copy of Magicka
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Something something pussy joke
Feeling lazy today.
Or something something cat’s got my tongue.
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I’ll probably be getting it as a preorder in the next 2 weeks. It looks promising AND Paradox is involved 😀
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ahhhhhhhhhhhhh…
Yep, it did.
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The Old Gods – COMING SOON!
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FOR THE EMPEROR!!!! \o/!!!!
Almost forgot – got almost an entire command squad off ebay for $10 the other day.
Evrything in it is OOP, which is brilliant because the captain in it is one i have been looking for for AGES! 😀
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/111005798916?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649
I’m looking at a Japanese cover of Ni No Kuni, it looks awesome and sorta spoilerish if you are able to put two and two together.
Reading Husic’s speech an interesting point he raises is a Treasury report on price discrimation from the large tech companies (ie: price difference over here) is costing businesses and consumers here up to $10 billion.
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Something something interesting point something treasury something something busines something…wha?
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That seems to be one of his issues.
They justified price discrimination that is costing businesses and consumers up to $10 billion and, while businesses and consumers have been waiting for the power of Treasury and even the ACCC to be brought to bear in driving out this level of inflationary waste within our economy, that hope has been for nothing. However, it has been a contrast to see Treasury move as quick as greased lightning to shore up the tax base.
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Basically they’re ripping us off with insane price hikes on goods – Australia Tax etc – then they’re using Creative Accounting Practices to make sure that despite that they must be making obscene profits off ripping us off, they pay no tax on that profit and rip us all off again.
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So when I was younger I really liked the Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers. And that theme tune? Awesome! GO GO POWER RANGERS!
I never really watched any of the samurai, ninja, space whatevers that came later. Maybe they looked lame, maybe I just got too old for it. Who knows.
But Power Rangers Megaforce looks… interesting. Why?
Edit: Seems Samurai whatevers used a verion of this but still…
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The power rangers wrist communicator noise is my sms tone. I used to use the theme as my ringtone.
Power Rangers is a strange beast. It’s one of those “so bad it’s good” shows but with colourful explosions.
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It’s still going. The actors can actually do a convincing fight scene and know what they’re doing. Therefore it’s terrible.
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The Black Ranger was a black man (recently in commericials) and the Yellow Ranger was Asian (recently dead)
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I remember that rumour.
It was someone who looked vaguely like the original Red Ranger. It wasn’t him though. Very easy to find reasonably recent pictures of the Red Ranger to compare with the porn star. Hell, the guy starred in the episode Forever Red (I think it was from Power Rangers Wild Force where pretty much all the Red Rangers came back and teamed up).
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The black man?
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The Green Ranger became the White Ranger and then the Red Ranger, before ending up as the Black Ranger.
He was also a complete dick that bullied the Blue Ranger relentlessly.
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apparently everyone involved bullied the blue ranger constantly coz he was gay.
the actor, not the ranger. though i dont ever recall if the blue ranger’s sexuality was ever referenced on the show. he may have been gay. no idea. dont care.either way, he (actor, not ranger) said he quit because of homophobia & harrasment. the producers say it was because of a pay dispute.
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More like GAY dispute…amirite, fellas?
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the was most probably a conflict of opinions regarding his homosexual lifestyle.
therefore, you are likely correct.#IntentionallyMissingThePoint.
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One of my favorite shows growing up.
There was a time, due to all the sparks whenever they got hit, that i was convinced that when filming the show they used robots for the fight scenes. Because, you know, humans don’t shoot sparks when they get hit.
So so naive…
BrisTAYbies! I showed @sughly, @dc and @strange Comics Etc in the city today, and they have Hyrule Historia for the cheapest price I’ve seen, including online. They’ve got it for $35, and they’ve got plenty in stock. They also have an online store for any of you non-BrisTAYbies too!
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If you add it to cart, it lets you calculate shipping from the Checkout to your post code 🙂
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Dat paper quality too! It’s probably the highest quality book I’ve ever come across. I love the pages that are just one big drawing, especially the big double paged one at the start. It looks amazing!
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My copy arrived today and it’s amazing.
But I have to leave it on my desk at work because my bookshelf with all my artbooks went into storage today 🙁
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WHAT! Amazon with medium shipping? 🙁
I don’t have mine yet…
Two people I know (including Ben J) who pre-ordered it from Book Depo got it already. Not happy
JanAmazon!-
Mine shipped something like a week before the release date. I think they ship on a first come first served basis and I preordered it like 2 hours after it went up for preorder. That probably attributes to it arriving already!
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I did the same for Amazon but they shipped it after release 😐
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So many words D:
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Wut? Wurds? Ma book just has a bunch o them chicken scratch pichurs what the chinese draws, darn tootin!
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Man, it was $90 at my local comic book store.
I laughed, then ordered it off Book Depository(similar price to that, I think).
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Comics Etc used to be terrible with pricing, but now they match the American price in 99% of cases, unless the Aussie distributor overcharges them for it.
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Yeah, I think they’re just a little bit high.
It was definitely “In Stock” when I bought it two days ago, so we’ll see. Worse comes to worst, I just have to wait a little bit.
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Now I dunno what to do…was gunna grab it from Comics etc., but BD is $10 cheaper…
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I guess it all depends on how much of a hurry you are in!
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They do a flat rate of $5 shipping Aussie wide too.
The managers name is James and I call him manager, he calls me Box 6
Hmm. A new series of Tosh.0 premiered a couple of hours ago. I’m patiently waiting for somebody to upload it.
I wish he’d tour Australia. It makes sense, considering it’s the only major country outside of North America that it airs in. I’d fly to Melbourne or somewhere to see him!
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His audience definitely isn’t as big here as in America, but it’s still the comedy channel’s highest rated show every week, so there should be enough of an audience for at least a few shows if they charged the usual sky high Australian ticket prices.
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Red Ranger – Recently a Fireman & EMT
Blue Ranger – Recently doing Conventions and Gay Activism
Green/White Ranger – Recently MMA fighter
Pink Ranger – Recently starred in Flashpoint and releasing albums
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Black Ranger is a successful voice actor.
Red Ranger from SPD was in a handful of comedy movies, including She’s the Man.
Pink Ranger from Time Force was Ted’s sister in How I Met Your Mother.
There are others, those are the ones I know off hand.
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Exactly.
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Funny story – we were offered that brand to distribute one time.
We laughed and laughed and laughed.
Oh how we laughed.
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I can’t exactly search for the proof that he didn’t but if you look up pictures of Austin St John from a few years back and compare to the picture from the porno that people claim is him, it’s pretty obvious that that one is wrong.
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No.
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with or without your blessing, he’ll be dreaming of red ranger rogering tonight.
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Every night.
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Had lunch with Trjn, SerNobulus, Jimu, Beardy, Strange and Sughly today. Was awesome to see them again. I have post-meat blues. (That was quick!) You guys? Best damn people evah!
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You were totally mentioned at the meat, Pow. (When we were dissing the Jurassic Park game we found in EB Games. :P)
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Came home to find Omikron: The Nomad Soul on my doorstep. Thank you @puppylicks! You’re so damn awesome!
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Be sure to pass it on to fellow TAYbies 😉
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I’ll keep it in the case when I hand it over to Sughly! 😀
It’s just like that movie The Ring, isn’t it? D:
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Yes exactly.
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Also, did you want Omikron back after Sughly and I play through it, man? Haha! Wasn’t sure and didn’t want to assume? Either way, it’s all good in the hood. So. Damn. Kind!
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Either way I’m cool, you can either send it back when you guys are done or keep hold of it if you fall in love with the game 🙂
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Thanks again, man. Appreciated more than you know!
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I have Omikron on DreamCast, gave up after the narrative dissapeared. The whole living a normal life thing is so cool and then…missions?
I should give it another go sometime.
No @s? I nearly missed this! You need to @, unless talking about me behind my back, then no @ away!
Daunting interview/interrogation with the Managing Director.
I used the words ‘synergy’, ‘streamlining’ and ‘efficiency’.
I am winnar.
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Why the fuck am I investing myself in this company again? Stress levels on high. I thought I promised myself to keep it cool until I started the new position /o\-
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At least it’s at the bottom of the page, and not a downer page-get 😀
All good, just gotta keep myself removed from the situation!
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Also, thanks, DC. Sorry to rant about shit so often, but your words are really appreciated 🙂
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Better than hearing about his trip to ‘nam, or his golfing stories, or the time his Ferrari was t-boned, etc. etc. etc.
The bloke goes on about bullshit more than I spend time on TAY 😛-
next time he starts going on about crap, interrupt him & shout, I HAVE A HIGH PRIORITY TASK-LOAD OF CAPITAL EXCELLENCE THAT I MUST SYNERGIZE.
then just swivel back round on your chair & pretend to do something. bonus points if you slick your hair back.
also, I freaking hate management speak. I totally wanted to punch the TAFE institute director when he insisted that campuses would now be called ‘centres of excellence’ or ‘educational precincts’ in official documentation.
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Legalese has its place, but by god is it overused…
It’s kinda funny though, seeing as I essentially throw in some buzzwords, and suddenly everyone’s happy.I think we’re all smiling and nodding to hide the fact that we have no idea what the fuck the others are saying. Every meeting is one big hug&tug.
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I vote for:
3.1415926535 8979323846 2643383279 5028841971 6939937510 5820974944 5923078164 0628620899 8628034825 3421170679 8214808651 3282306647 0938446095 5058223172 5359408128 4811174502 8410270193 8521105559 6446229489 5493038196 4428810975 6659334461 2847564823 3786783165 2712019091 4564856692 3460348610 4543266482 1339360726 0249141273 7245870066 0631558817 4881520920 9628292540 9171536436 7892590360 0113305305 4882046652 1384146951 9415116094 3305727036 5759591953 0921861173 8193261179 3105118548 0744623799 6274956735 1885752724 8912279381 8301194912 9833673362 4406566430 8602139494 6395224737 1907021798 6094370277 0539217176 2931767523 8467481846 7669405132 0005681271 4526356082 7785771342 7577896091 7363717872 1468440901 2249534301 4654958537 1050792279 6892589235 4201995611 2129021960 8640344181 5981362977 4771309960 5187072113 4999999837 2978049951 0597317328 1609631859 5024459455 3469083026 4252230825 3344685035 2619311881 7101000313 7838752886 5875332083 8142061717 7669147303 5982534904 2875546873 1159562863 8823537875 9375195778 1857780532 1712268066 1300192787 6611195909 2164201989…Also known as Pi
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Unfortunately, it ended up on my pile of shame due to my…anxiety of not getting the parts in time
Tabet is inserting words, blergh
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Yeah, don’t let that stress you out. Even if you run out of days, it’s one of those games where it’s fun to replay learning from your mistakes!
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I’ll try not to
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Animal crossing, De blob 2, little kings story, mad world, Metroid prime trilogy, my sims agents, no more heroes 2, project zero 2 and resident evil
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Slightly worried that I rambled too much, acted like a jerk or was annoying at this meat. If I was, I’m sorry. D:
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What have I said, D.C.?
There’s only one person who makes a fool of themselves at meats, and that’s me.
It’s my job. It’s a demanding position, but someone has to do it.
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At least you didn’t fart, and announce it to mother & child prior to stepping into an elevator…
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Maintaining composure has never been so difficult.
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I could hear nothing going on on your side of the table thanks to crowd noise…except for @Sughly speaking with @Strange son. Adorable.
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I’m a lapsed METAL head. All I listen to is Devin Townsend with the occasional nostalgia trips to 90s METAL. I was a hipster METAL head though, nothing was ever cool enough for me.
Wow… so I just went downstairs and there’s a box from Amazon sitting there. Parents said the post(wo)man just came. It’s probably safe to assume it’s Hyrule Historia! 😀 but…
I’m not really liking this new postie… the old guy always came around 2:30-3:30 and sometimes even as early as 12. He also had a badass turban and beard, and asked me how my day was! This new one seems okay I guess but she’s incredibly inconsistent and always late. I guess she’s probably new but she ain’t no turbro…
:'(
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My postie also always asks me how my day was. And what I want for tea, and lunch, and what I’m doing.
Probably because it’s my mum 😛 I love getting all my packages at like 8am! The new lady probably just takes a different route, but she sounds incredibly late no matter what direction she goes in.
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Your mum is a postwomanlady?
I’ve seen her 3 times. The first time it was 5pm, second was 4pm (“AN IMPROVEMENT!” – I thought) and then today at like 7pm (NOPE! :P)
BOOK STUFF – Lots of text :O! Paper quality is okay but I’ve seen better!
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Ya, although she does is it a car instead of on a bike. It’s pretty hilly here and houses are fairly well spread apart.
I was surprised at the amount of text in it! Then again I don’t think it’s really marketed as an art book, more just “everything Zelda” book. And maybe I need more books 😛 I’ve never seen a better quality book anyway!
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That’s cool :D. Must be awesome getting all your mail on time! :'( (jelly sadness)
I always thought it was purely an art book (with like the timeline and some sort of mini-explanation) so all the words were unexpected and sort of disappointing. However, I also love reading the text in art books because they give some insight into the design process so it’s good either way!
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One thing I don’t like
Is how there’s 60 pages on Skyward Sword and then only a few on all the other games. I’d love a more detailed look at the older games.It’s not really much of a spoiler but it’s hidden just in case.
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I would friggen love full art books for each game! But since they never existed (at least not in English) I bought strategy guides for the main console games. I still had my old school ones from when I was a kid :D. Skyward Sword was the only one I didn’t have and I was “this” close to caving in and finally buying it (despite already 100%ing the game) when Hyrule Historia was announced, so I’m glad I waited for that since it’s full of SS art anyway!
But it feels like it’s missing in my collection 😛
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Buy it anyway 😛 The more Zelda stuff the merrier! My mum made a comment the other day on just how much Zelda stuff I’m acquiring. Books, posters, games, skin for my phone, desktop background. She thinks it’s a bit excessive 😀
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@benj – the thing is, I read it had mistakes and since I already 100%’d the game I was waiting for a price drop and a revised edition (like Twilight Princess’ Collector’s Edition guide had). I just had a quick look at it on eBay after I posted that and it turns out it’s like $70 now and no revised edition :/
🙁
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I haven’t finsihed SS yet – will HH bother me?
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Not really. It’s got the designs of some of the bosses in it but there’s nothing story-wise given away in it as long as you’ve at least been to all 3 areas. It’s mostly information that wasn’t in the game and design ideas.
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Postie doesn’t even come to my house.. gotta have a PO Box instead… which is only open when I’m at work so yeah a pain for deliveries 🙁
Ours are random, but shits turns up in good nic so Im ok. Better than the old days where the postie actually bent a CD in half to fit it through the mail slot and left a package of mine randomly under the house which was only discovered by chance when a friend of a friend happened to walk that way.
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I bought an rare mint condition strategy guide off eBay and the postie bent it and shoved it in that junk mail cylinder slot :(. And now there’s a giant crease on the cover of it…
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On my!
Steam wants me to download a 1.3GB update for Psychonauts. :/
Anyone else get this? Is it for real?
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Night TAY. Things get pretty wild at night! Games are played, clothes come off, lights go out. Have I got that right?
The coloured pictures remain mostly uncoloured 🙁 I got frustrated and gave up on Issun for a while but I’ll get back to him tonight and try and at least get it fully coloured and then do some detailing.
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I’m just swinging through to say “Hi” and “Goodnight” Just jumped into bed with my laptop to watch some Persona 4 anime (ain’t Yu ‘da Boss’?)
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Thoughts on Dead Space 3 (non-spoilery)
1) YOU WANT ACTION?! WE GOT ACTION! BLAM BLOOM KA-BLAM WHAT THE HELL IS THIS, DIE HARD WITH ALIEN ZOMBIES? KIPPIE-KAI-YAY, MOTHER-
2) The weapon customization is fairly good, but it suffers from being a bit.. overindulged? it’s hard to compare weapons. There are stats involved, but with so many customizations and choices, I can imagine it easy to get swamped with what’s effective and what’s not. Then again, I’m early on in the game, so perhaps my views will change. I can imagine just dumping all the customization on one weapon, and I think this is just being a preference thing more than anything.
hello
so i’ve been playing the revengeance demo constantly for the past few days, that game is wicked sick nasty with a 360 variable ollie to a railslide.
but yeah, some people may write it of as a game with one gimmick, but it’s a REEALLY FREAKING COOL gimmick, and the sheer detail in some things is amazing. also its a console game that runs at 60fps, so it looks awesome. Also the combat is super slick.
Platinum Games you’ve done it again! Why can’t it be the 21st today 🙁
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I BETTER HAVE IT RIGHT THIS TIME OR I’M GONNA BE SO MAD THAT I’VE HYPED MYSELF UP AGAIN FOR NO REASON!
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Installing Omikron: The Nomad Soul. I hear it’s not exactly pals with ATI cards, but there’s work arounds. Won’t be discouraged if it doesn’t work straight away. So damn psyched, though!
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Nah, you guys are. Hermit life is tough. Feel pretty happy lately despite anxiety related stuff and it’s all because of you guys.
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I’m as awesome as I need to be for the task at hand.
Which task is; asking if anyone has played Proteus? Any good?How’s your good self @dc ?
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I’ve played Proteus.
I think I fall into the category of not “getting” it.
I’m not going to go out and say that it’s not a game, and I’m not going to claim that it was a waste of money, I just, yeah.
Not my thing.
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Dark souls re: Capra
Really hated this game for the last 30mins. I’m better now, but there was no way I could survive the Capra Demon fight! I kept getting caught on him or his hounds and couldn’t block more than 2 hits. I finally got him now, but on one of my return trips to the fight I died on some low level enemies near Firelink, and lost the 5000 souls and 17 humanity I had. I blame all of that on the fact there was zero manicuring room in his fucking arena and he attacks before the white fog has fully cleared.
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I hate that guy!
I could never kill him so I ended up doing a whole bunch of other stuff and ignoring him for as long as I possibly could. Think I did the Hydra and part of the skeleton place near Firelink before finally getting the courage to try him again.-
Haha yeah I was glad when I beat him. I went into the depths after that, carefully moving through the sewers, scared the shit out of myself when the first slime swallowed me up. Did a drop attack and 1 hit killed the giant rat, acquiring the spider shield in the process, which was fantastic as it allows me to wear the boar he and still roll a decent distance. Then I was roaming the sewers, and was bested by rats. I think I need a spear for the narrow corridors. When I tried to return I went another route, and was killed/cursed by something. Called it a night after that.
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There’s a bit of a cheat with him – run up the stairs and jump out onto the ledge. He keeps missing a jump attack and passes in range to get chipped down.
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Obligatory night TAY posting
Was playing Super Meat Boy
Really loving the Xbox Controller connected to the PC
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First time playing SMB? How are you finding it? 😀
I’m
cheapsmart and use my PS3 controller since I don’t have a wired Xbox one or receiver. Save me some moolah.-
Loving it, it frustrates me in all the right spots *making light of that BDSM story posted this morning*
But yeah, enjoying it
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Back into Alan Wake
The only game that makes me anxious while playing it
This from a man with two anxiety disorders
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I picked up Alan Wake for $10 new at Big W whilst on holiday in Renmark a few months ago… I didn’t even know Renmark had a Big W, let alone Alan Wake let alone underpriced like that!
I get excited by cheap games, unless you can’t tell.
Great game though.
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Fantastic game
I had the collectors edition on Xbox, still do
So when I saw it drop on Steam in the sales I jumped ALLLL over it
Seriously puts me on edge and I have to stop playing
I don’t know why
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That guy up there apparently. No not him, that other other guy.
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Picking up keys for new place tomorrow. Picking up a copy of ni no kuni put aside for me and my ps3 on the way. Plans for tomorrow have been made.
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Errrrmagerrrrd! Didnt even think of that! Ironically its a smaller place than we wanted, but still house warmupable. Just. Pretty small place actually :'(
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House, unit, duplex, apartment, cardboard fridge box in the valley. It’s all the same! But definitely not the same as a mansion!
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A friend had an 18th at his family’s home which wad basically a small mansion. Needless to say, it was fun.
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Eh, still a place of your own! A massive relief too, I’m guessing! 😀
Also, offer from when you moved last time is still there, even without a sore foot. If you ever need any help carrying stuff, don’t hesitate to ask. Extra pair of hands and all that. I suspect you’ll say no, but know the option is there!Once again, congrats man! Whoooooo!
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Woo congratulations on the new place \o/
Also I read this and I realised I never added you on PSN
or YOU never added me!
Yeah I’m blaming you for it.
Also my PS3 is not signing in atm 🙁
I guess I’ll try again tomorrow or you can add me.
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Hey man, things are good. Ish. (Edit: family is well)
I’ve moved the computer into the garage away from the TV, so I haven’t been gaming at all recently. Worst gamer ever.
Still waiting on a few things before it’s up and running (currently waiting on a SATA cable and the extra RAM), but everything else seems to be working fine! Still debating whether or not I want it to have internet access (it currently has no wireless card).
How’s the world’s blurst hermit? Another meat today! How many folks did you get there?
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@trjn, @sernobulus, @beardymcmuttonchops, @strange, @sughly and @jimu! Not a bad turn out for an impromptu meat! I was all sad on the train ride home that it was over. :'(
No internet might be a good thing for the whole writing procrastination thing. (Maybe it’s just me that lacks discipline on that front!)
Psyched for the weekend meat?
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We all have our processes. You get there early and pysch up (and flirt with EB Girls [I presume it all went well this time, or you would have delighted in telling us that you crashed and burned (so I’m assuming you got laid in the EB stockroom until you say otherwise)]) and I pretend things aren’t happening.
Edit: oh yeah, and I make jokes aimed at making others uncomfortable. Sorry about that.
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You’re a peculiar guy, Shane!
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I don’t hear any kind of denial there. Congrats, man 🙂
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Not just EB gurls, Sk8er gurls too 😉 ( @dc )
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Just be really awesome but doubt yourself, bump into ugly people and flirt with EB sk8er girls!
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there were two gurls! Casanova @DC
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Haven’t played today and I suspect tomorrow will be all about getting Omikron: The Nomad Soul to work!
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I was literally so tired all I did last night was walk from the Desert town to the base of the volcano, save and switch off. Such slow progress…
I’m not sure what you guys did to me today but I ended up with a headache that felt like Thor was inside there with Mjolnir hammering on my skull.
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That movie was worth everycent and then some. He watched it as soon as we got home andthen again straight after. He was mesmerised which meant I could lay down and try and sleep this headache away. Didn’t work, but at least while I was sleeping I couldn’t feel it. 😛
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Bring on viewings 3 to 100. 😛
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@strange, @beardymcmuttonchops Lifehacker delivers:
http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2013/02/the-best-remedies-for-common-headaches/
I carry around NanoThors in my utility belt. Sorry, one must have escaped. Just say the magic words and he’ll leave.
Man, Whisper of the Heart is such a good movie! (Not the manliest thing to admit, I suppose :P). I just like how simple it is. Perfect for those who want a Ghibli movie without all the magical fantasy stuff.
Now I’m going to have Country Roads stuck in my head again…
Just saw two of like the 20 local pet stores are hiring. Sadly not the one I was at the other day with that cute girl who served us.. Damn it!
But here’s hoping at least one of them gives me a shot. I’m guessing the 2nd one I applied for that wanted someone with also some sort of veterinary training for a retail sales position just might not consider me some how..
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Me too. Being unemployed is seriously depressing =/ Plus pets, like kittehs and puppehs and maybe awesome reptiles like snakes!
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I hear that! How will you stop yourself from slack jaw gawking at the critters all day, though! 😛
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Yes… critters…
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Reply fail!
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So what you’re saying is I shouldn’t feed them after midnight or get them wet?
Wait that was Gremlins… Not Critters.
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Well being paid is a pretty good motivator I think…
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I’m not sure if I like or absolutely hate the job I’ve done with colouring Issun at the moment.
So if it wasn’t bad enough I can’t attend Black Sabbath in April or Guns N’ Roses with ZZ Top in March I just found out Motley Crue & KISS are touring around the same time as the others. So that’s five bands that I have wanted to see for years all touring within a month of each other >.< That really hurts. I really pissed someone off in a previous life o.o
Selling my ltd. ed. Darkness 2 Darkling on ebay for some extra cash to a. clear up space and b. sustain my horrible addiction to gamer grade meth (gw products).
I’m never going to have the guy out on display, and as awesome as he is first on the chopping block.
I’ve started him at $80 – i have no idea about these things, so does this sound reasonable to any of you????
I have the buyitnow at $200, because i know even less. lol
Thoughts?
AWESOME IDEA, OR AWESOME IDEA?!?!?
Turning an Ork into the Green Goblin
http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/504229.page
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I don’t know – how are they?
Why the heck are you asking any of us?Also, HHHHHIIIIIIIIIIII!!!
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Because you lot , especially you Mr Chulloopa are some of them. I’m spending my sleep in time catching up on kotaku and seeing what you lovely people have been up to 🙂
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Cocaine’s where its at, Less Needle in arm action
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You can snort heroin 🙂
Hi, I am new, I don’t think I had started commenting here before you left
Name’s Spaghett 🙂
An OCD/Anxiety sufferer who loves to make jokes about drugs, goes on about his girlfriend and shout shenanigans
All while asking people what the last song they played was
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Meating @shane on the weekend!
Kinokuniya, never been there myself
But, I live on the Central Coast……population: TREEEEEES!!!
Edit*
SPAGHETT’S LAST SONG PLAYED GAME @ash, get into it guy!
Cut Up by Ned’s Atomic Dustbin
Differnt song by them here in this link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yan77UKYcg4
Fantastic band, you must all listen and report back to Spaghett
@bdkiaf, your music is amazeballs
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Lasts one is um a song off the Nier soundtrack… because I’m a nerd. But seriously: great soundtrack, or the greatest soundtrack? Can’t decide (probably the later).
But yeah I don’t know what the songs are actually called so I can only half participate in this game.
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It’s alright, you will improve
It’s always for me the last song that was playing when I step out of the elevator and start the work day
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Wait, fuck whatever I just said before, this is the first time I’ve gotten a page get.
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“We don’t serve time travellers,” Said the bartender.
A time traveller walks into a bar.
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Oh, yeah, and there’s gonna be a Patricia article about women in video steams and all that. Pretty good read, to be honest, but, well, her articles can vary..
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video steams? Sounds like a chuloopa-dream to me.
Edit: well, that just looks silly now that you’ve fixed the spelling.
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… did I? I’ve no clue, honestly. I might’ve, but even then I’m not sure that counted since, y’know, I was talking to myself for a whole page or so. 😛
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Welp, I think grabbing a Steam copy of The Witcher was the best thing I’ve done in gaming in a while.
I originally got the game not long after it first came out but patching up to EE whenever I went to install it took a couple of hours. Steam copy downloaded 10GB in 3ish hours \o/
Related: I may have accidentally stayed up till 2am last night playing it after discovering my save files were intact…
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In an amazing coincidence, I’m (at a guess on progress) midway through the 4th chapter, in the area around Murky Waters village.
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last night I just solved the problems between the fish people and the humans, saved Alvin from the ghost and just finished collecting mirror shard pieces.-
Think I’m literally a step behind you on a couple of quests. Gunna be smashing into it tonight. Oh, and regarding the Vodyanoi in general:
The game keeps jumping around, calling the monsters, then saying they’re intelligent and cultured, then tells you to kill a priest to scare them off, then…it’s a little confusing 😛EDIT: What the actual fuck. OK, I’ll put the tags in manually.
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You quoted instead of spoilering.
*averts eyes*
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Yeah, I hit the spoiler button and it quoted. Edited it and it did it again. Put them in manually and it worked.
Wasn’t anything majorly spoilery, just a comment on things I’ve noticed. -
I know, I read it, and had no idea what was going on. I don’t mind, just thought I’d save you a bitch-slapping from someone else 😛
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I’m actually thinking i may install the Witcher after i finish Spec Ops this weekend.
I’ve had the enhanced edition sitting there for a while unable to be played because old pc. Now has new pc. Now can has play.
I should play?
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Do it!
Some people aren’t a big fan of the combat system (I personally change between being OK with it and having a hell of a lot of fun) but it’s got a great story and the environment and setting is fantastic.
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I’m sure Freeze loves his kids too much to subject them to that any way and I like to think he likes me enough not to subject me to that either. 😛
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What’s this about scary metal? :S
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You’ll find out.
Soundwave. I thought babysitting might be a welcome ticket out of that for you 😛
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LOL, reminds me of the BBQ we had at Freezes, @DC said he was glad I was there and knew what to do with kids, cause he had no idea, when Freezes eldest was showing us all the fun games and stuff on the iPad lol.
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Same thing happened last weekend, except without you there man. I had to play My Little Pony while Sughly and Freeze watched from across the room not helping me out. 😛
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Hahahahahahahaha. That’s great. Props to them for that!
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I feel like being a dick and saying i’ll have your ticket, but I won’t. Sucks man. I am sure theres someone capable of looking after your little ones around here. I don’t know anyone that I would want to leave kids with though haha.
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Meating @shane on the weekend!
Kinokuniya, never been there myself
But, I live on the Central Coast……population: TREEEEEES!!!
Also
SPAGHETT’S LAST SONG PLAYED GAME @ash, get into it guy!
Cut Up by Ned’s Atomic Dustbin
Different song by them here in this link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yan77UKYcg4
Fantastic band, you must all listen and report back to Spaghett
@bdkiaf, your music is amazeballs, liked your band page on Facebook and posted on it 😉
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THERE IS NO LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE
Edit : Demanufacture is still probably their greatest album.
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Agreed, then Obsolete after that 🙂
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Yeah, I used to fight Obsolete and Archetype for 2nd place, but then Mechanize came out and blew my pants off.
Such a fucking tight album – Raymond Herrera and Christian Olde Wolbers aint got shit on Byron Stroud and Gene Hoglan.
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Digimortal is also pretty great… albeit a bit hit and miss.
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Light up bright fires – PVT (formerly known as Pivot).
Also, you’re a coastie?
you poor thing :p
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Where I live is quiet, there is lots of trees and not a lot of people
It. Is. GLORIOUS
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that was the problem I had with the place. there was nobody around who was into the same things I was. & commuting to sydney & back once or twice a week to see shows was pretty shit. especially getting back into gosford station at 3am when the dregs of society are crawling out of the shitty nightclubs, spewing in the gutters & trying to pick fights with anyone who walks by.
not my kinda place.
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I just prefer to not leave the house
Problem solved
I always have to go all the way to Wyong too
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<3
I had a feeling the guy who posted “Spaghett!” on our page might have been you.
Damn Right – Deez Nuts
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He didn’t respond
I assume his spook level was high
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New Angels of Promise — David Bowie
Can’t actually get Omikron to work yet, but the music is amazing though!
Morning all!
I played some more Anarchy Reigns last night.
This game feels so much like a modern take on the classic beat-em-ups, the combat feels simple so far but I get a feeling that there is a lot of hidden depth in the combat that I am yet to discover. Also this might be pretty obvious but I love the character designs. I have a thing for over the top character designs and this game has it in spades.
Now I just have to keep blasting through the campaign so I can decide which character I want to main in multiplayer 😉
Previous page repost – thoughts needed for peopel that know about this sort of thing:
Selling my ltd. ed. Darkness 2 Darkling on ebay for some extra cash to a. clear up space and b. sustain my horrible addiction to gamer grade meth (gw products).
I’m never going to have the guy out on display, and as awesome as he is first on the chopping block.
I’ve started him at $80 – i have no idea about these things, so does this sound reasonable to any of you????
I have the buyitnow at $200, because i know even less. lol
Thoughts?
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You do realise when someone bids it removes the Buy It Now option? I almost never bother with it.
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Yeah, it’s always done that, I think. Except when they had ‘reserves’ and bids didn’t exceed the reserve. But that’s an old feature that no longer exists.
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Well… that’s made the whole thing kinda pointless then, hasn’t it? lol
Oh well.
Well do you guys think the $80 start price would be fair enough, or do i need to drop it?
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I dunno, sorry. I don’t even know what it is, let alone how much it’s worth 😛
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I’m pretty sure I have played at least one DOTA 2 game a night this week. I would like to say I am getting good at it but that would be a lie.
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Such an amateur, didn’t threaten to kill me and have sex with my corpse or have sex with my mother.
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Or your mother’s corpse.
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While I love 40k etc, Games Workshop can be giant douchebags.
Apparently they’re trying to stop authors using the term ‘space marine’ in their science fiction writing.
http://boingboing.net/2013/02/06/games-workshop-trademark-bully.html
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They won’t get it. It will be another failed law-suit by them, as Space Marine is SUCH a generic term in sc-fi literature.
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Why wouldn’t they, though? It’s their insane processes that are keeping them as one of UK’s remaining profitable businesses.
The days of GW being a company for the hobbyist is long gone – they’re now as corporate as you’ll ever get, much like Apple.-
How so? Just curious because I don’t know the current details of the company – it has been many years since I followed GW things.
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I personally don’t mind this, because ‘space marine’ is kind of a silly term to describe a sci-fi soldier. It’s kind of like saying ‘field knight’ or ‘city police’ 😛
Flamebait.
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But yeah – GW are MASSIVE dicks.
I really, really hate them as a company, but the products and game systems they produce are without peer…
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Which is hilarious coming from GW. As awesome as they are they haven’t had a single original idea in their life.
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I think the Tau are pretty much their only original idea (i could be wrong) – everything else is fantasy races in space, except for the tyranid which were inspired by the works of Giger.
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in a universe in which everything happens in space, involves space travel or whatever, I think the prefix of ‘space’ is a bit redundant. what else would they be? there doesnt seem to be the need for the ground-forces / space marines defferentiation.
its like calling present-day soldiers ‘marines who stand on the ground’
Edit: in that case, can GW stop ripping off Tolkein / European mythology by using the terms Elves, Orcs, Dwarves & Goblins?
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i was always under the impression that Space Marines were built to be the all-purpose units. So there wouldnt need to be a ground specialist / air specialist etc.
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Land based. They’re just marines that happen to work on different worlds.
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Marines from Alien were Colonial Marines :p
I assume they had the ‘Colonial’ prefix coz they were part of a division who dealt specifically with incidents on newly colonised worlds before the army put a permanent garrison there.
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It really depends on what version we are talking about.
GW Space marines, as started above, are good at pretty much everything.
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I assumed that the moniker ‘space marine’ came from a time when humans first took to the skys and needed to differentiate between terrestrial and celestial marines, and that it kinda just stuck. As mentioned, if the formal name is Adeptus Astartes maybe Space Marine is just slang?
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As I posted above, it’s to do with their expertise in operations- traditionally, marines were soldiers who specialised in operations on or from ships.
Naval Infantry is the other term.
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Australian actress. Plays the lead role in Fringe.
Edit: Spelling.
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Haven’t seen that! I know she was in The Pacific as well. (Apparently does the voice acting/motion capturing for the lead character in Heavenly Sword too!)
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Havent seen all of The Pacific yet… I’ll have to get around to that soon.
As for Heavenly Sword… I wanna replay it now.
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True story: that was the second film in a uni Film Group double feature that I took my wife and very conservative FIL to (the first was some Guantanamo movie that was quite decent).
Very embarrassing – we left after about twenty minutes.
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if you get a chance to see it without a conservative FIL around, let me know what you think.
made me re-think what I thought of Tom Long as an actor.
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I’ll let you know if it happens!
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Took me longer than I care to admit to work out what FIL meant. :S
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http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/150990308425?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
MUST – WIN!
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As you should.
There is also this one
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/281060817396?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649So that;s 2 going pretty cheap so far. You should get it 🙂
I probably won’t end up being able to bid on either lol-
Blood Bowl never really tickled my junk, tbh. Got the super-duper Chaos Edition on Steam if I ever feel the urge anyway.
Thanks for the link though!
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IS that the only version you have? We were trying to get some online organised last week, but not sure if there is cross edition multiplayer allowed. The legendary edition seemed most common.
EDIT: Based on a quick google it looks like we can
We’re all using Blood Bowl: Legendary Edition (http://www.bloodbowl-game.com/index.php?rub=news-info&id=158) or Blood Bowl: Chaos Edition (the two are cross-compatible). If you have the original or Dark Elves versions, they won’t be able to play sorry.
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Pretty sure I have both actually – Legendary and Chaos Editions. Honestly I’ve hardly touched them though.
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!
TOOL AUSTRALIAN TOUR 2013 CONFIRMED! \m/
Saturday, April 27 – Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne
Tuesday, April 30 – AEC Arena, Adelaide
Friday, May 3 – Allphones Arena, Sydney
Monday, May 6 – Entertainment Centre, Brisbane
Wednesday, May 8 – Vector Arena, Auckland
Tickets on sale Tuesday, February, 19 at 9am.
Frontier Touring presale Thursday14 from Midday until Friday 15 at Midday.
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Slightly off-topic, resume regular conversation afterwards. Feel better today, Strange? Hope the headaches gone. Was all kinds of awesome seeing you yesterday.
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Supermega painkiller-resistant headache is still hanging around. I’m going to have to ask @jimu for the magic word. 😛
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Husband gets back from ditching you for 70000 tons and having an awesome time and you suddenly have a headache. I get it 😛
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He doesn’t 😛
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LIfehacker are there for you http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2013/02/the-best-remedies-for-common-headaches/
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Don’t bother looking for your thunder, it isn’t there
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That whole thing was supposed to be a quote. It looks weird now.
Brisbane’s is the day after AE And The Bad Shepherds though, so not sure we’ll be able to get my parents to babysit. Although I could go by myself (or make DC go with me 😛 ) because Mr. Strange does owe me….
TOOL regrouped? Wow. Had no idea. I remember trying to like them back in the early 2000’s, I could never get into them for some reason.
So tomorrow I go to Sydney and in five weeks I go to Adelaide. I just want to hide under the bed.
Y U NO HAVE BEDS AT WORK
Edit: just caught myself writing ‘meating’ in an official email /o\
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Necromancer here 😉
Or, Embermage from Torchlight 2, or Witch Doctor from Diablo 3
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WAR ENSEMBLE!!
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NovaCascade was pretty terrifying!
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is Nova the only sydney TAYbie you’ve met?
coz if you think he’s scary, you probably dont wanna meet Shiggy. ever.:p
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loud? yeah.
crass? sure.
drunk? only some of the time.
inappropriate groping when you least expect it? you learn to love it pretty quick.we aint that bad.
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Oh man, the number of times I’ve nearly put a Steve Holt in things is ridiculous.
Edit: it actually took me a while to figure out what the problem was with that. /o\
Really keen on meating ya Shane
Should be good to meet the man who gifted me his published works (Signed I might add) face to face
So. Damn. Nice.
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Shane.
So. Damn. Shane.
@dc, don’t forget, @shane and I are going to air trip *road trip in the sky with a plane* to you!
Don’t hat us
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Your appropriate response should be as follows:
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🙂
Note the lack of unease in those emoticons?
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Hooray, More SAbies!
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I’ve been reading Kotaku AU for years, to kill time between jobs at work etc. But now that I’ve found TAY, I’m in trouble, because its more interesting than the bulk of articles on the main site!
OK, I better go work 🙁
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No no. Stay at work but jut be really bad at your job and spend all day on TAY. Then you get paid for it.
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Fun fact: i’ve been around Kotaku for about the time i’ve been unemployed which is just on or over 3 years now. Scary coincidence or just a coincidence?
Also uh welcome, I never said that when you initially posted *throws confetti* watch out for the pointy stars they hurt when you get them in your eye..
Also, I should really stop putting it off and just orde rthis huh?
http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/Legend-Zelda-Shigeru-Miyamoto/9781616550417
You see, I feel guilty to spend money on myself!
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I was about to last night, then checked my bank account and figured I should wait a week or two. I really need to stop spending so much…
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Urgh my reply got eaten by Nidhoggr :S Basically said I’m gonna wait 2 weeks to buy HH b/c I got too many bills atm.
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I think @doc_what posted a link that had it cheaper in tays long past (a couple of pages < way)
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$35 there plus shipping.
Book depositroy is $33 inc. shipping (I think).
A few bucks doesn’t make the difference to me tbh, its more the timing. Also, between me and my wife we have ordered a dozen books maybe from book deository – most arrived fine, but ther eis always that one that came realllly late and the other that didn’t come at all that makes me nervous. Maybe the QLD comic shop would be safest bet after all….
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They ship out replacement copies if books don’t arrive – they’re very good like that. I use them all the time. Also, it’s currently the cheepiest place to get my book!
Edit: They = BookDepository
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Oh yeah I saw you on there 😛
Maybe after HH 😉
The late book I mentioned they sent a replacement then two came :S
EDIT when I say late I’m talking seriously > 3 mths.The one that never came was less than $5 so we didn’t bother chasing it.
EDIT nwo that i think about it, it probably has more to do with Australia Post than Book Depository… not like that Zavvi D:
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Just know that I’ll keep pestering until you buy a copy … and I might not even stop here. Ask anyone here 😛
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It’s true. I purchased 480 copies at double price from him and he still wants me to buy more. Keeps knocking on my windows at 3am with a box of books in his arms.
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What happened with Zavvi?
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$19 on Amazon?
http://www.bookdepository.com/Legend-Zelda-Shigeru-Miyamoto/9781616550417
ALWAYS check the other one! 😀 $28 here. It’s $19 on Amazon but you’d be paying $10 shipping anyway. You can also check Booko(dot)com(dot)au for price comparisons.
Aww yeah gang
It’s Thursday
The main manager of our little sector is leaving at 1:45 today
Anxiety will lessen
Work can get done that should have been done x amount of time ago
I have beef and black bean for lunch
And tomorrow I get to see Sam
Saturday I get to meet @shane
All in all, a pretty good end to a pretty shitty week
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Shane sent me all three issues of The Lesser Evil, and signed them to Spaghett
He also sent AVP for free as well
Shane is amazing
If he brings a copy of The Lesser Evil, I will sign it
@shane, bring a copy, I want to sign it for you
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Disappoint? Not possible, I will be with Sam, meeting someone I have befriended from the internet
I won’t be dressed like Spaghett or spook you, so won’t I be disappointing you?
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Shane will get to meet Sam
She is antisocial and thinks she is bad with social situations
Once you get to know her its fine
So, with Shane she will be silencio
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Hermit Meat!
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WHEN WHERE HOW?!
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Awkward silence for everyone \o/
You have an awkward silence, you have an awkward silence
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Sometimes I cover awkward silence with insane, off-putting ramblings!
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Why the fuck does Shane get to meat Sam and I don’t?
Dick.
Kidding. Obviously.
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Cus you live in another state
You dickshit!
Kidding, but it is because you live in another state
<3
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Territory.
And so does Shane!
What happened to you Spaghett? You used to be cool.
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@ash, some info on where people live.
The more you know, etc
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I think you’re mistaken.
She doesn’t want to lose Spaghett to me.
Too late.
Edit: WHY AM I WRITING LIKE HIM?!
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Saturday is going to be fine man
Despite my anxieties I am actually rather charismatic and extroverted
I can talk for both of us
Man, I’m still cool
You pay later! Later!
Also, really hungry and not thinking clearly
You and Shane in the ACT!
BDKIAF has already stolen me @shane
And how dare you say you aren’t a threat!
You are a dreamboat sailing on the ocean of my heart
That goes for you too @bdkiaf
Man, @saturday is going to be awkward.
I mean Saturday.
@ash, I can’t tell is @spaghett is genuinely flirting with me or not. I might be getting my heart broken this weekend.
The more you know, etc….
Oh hey, look, somebody mentioned m-
OH DAMN IT, SHANE.
OK I’m seriously going this time – even I have a concious about work (only because I know if I don’t do it, it will bite me later).
But but but I don’t want to miss anythign here (you guys are too awesome).
OK I’m gone – don’t have any fun whilst I’m gone.
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Dude, I worked out a good vibe
I TAY something, read comments, and while responding to comments on my stuff I get to comment on other peoples stuff
But I have OCD and continuously check TAY
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So, Sydney Meat on saturday. What’s the plan? Is there anything happening after @shane hits the ol’ dusty trail? Still deciding if I’m going to go 😛
(I wish I could just tag @sydneytaybies and catch everybody at once)
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There’s Rocketwarming drinks that night, so I’ll be spending the day derping around the city with Rocket and his friend, and anyone else is welcome to join us.
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Hey, I will be there to meat @shane, and then heading home
No real time for the rocketwarming sadly
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My plan is to meat for an hour or so, then make my escape to Canberra.
It will be my second-longest meat ever (that’s what she said)-
:'( I know that’s because you have to this time around, but one meat you should commit for staying a long time. Force yourself. It’ll be fun! 😀
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If I come up in November, I’ll stay for a damn week. You won’t be able to get rid of me.
Is your couch comfy?-
Haha, D.C. has never ever invited any one over to his house and probably won’t until he’s got his own place some day. 😛
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I don’t know how we’re supposed to co-op Cave, Grim Fandango, Full Throttle and TMNT movies then. I’m very confused 🙂
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We’ll go to food place and I’ll give detailed scene-by-scene descriptions. 😛
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Alrighty then! I’m still a maybe for now. As cool as Shane is, it’s a long way to travel for an hour long meat 😛
So yeah, maybe!
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I’m not kidding, I am a disappointment in the flesh. You’ve already seen my best side. If I’m the draw card, best to stay away 🙂
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There’s a plan?
Kinokuniya at opening time (10am I believe) on Saturday. The Queen-thingy-building in Sydney CBD. Shane fucks off at 11:05 and the real meat starts then.
@ash, for info.
The more you know, etc… -
meeting at Kinokuniya (Top floor of TGV, upstairs from Town Hall station) around 9am I believe.
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Apparently, the store doesn’t open until 10am. I’ll try to get there a bit early though. TELL YOUR FRENZ
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Buying manga with @alexpants! Won’t be at the rocketman thing because I have to work on Sunday.
Playing another bad game of DOTA2 would be less frustrating than trying to set up this damned Adobe account for someone else.
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On PC (guessing that they’d be roughly the same size), QC was pretty small (<1GB) While SD was quite big.
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Cheers. Going to a mate’s house on the w’end, don’t want to chew through his d’load if they’re massive.
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just checked the system requirements, QC needs about 1.8GB, SD about 16GB.
should be close enough.
Also, QC is pretty awesome.
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Cheers. I’ve put them on my d’load list but might wait til I have internet of my very own
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I am downloading them and Sleeping Dogs is 6.9/7GB, Quantum conundrum is the demo (1.5GB) and a 6kb unlock code and F1 race stars is 1.1GB
Of course like with all PS3 downloads you need double the space on your HDD for the install process. I’m sure you have enough space though 🙂
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SNACKTAKU – The I-Forgot-To-Post-This-Yesterday Edition
Take half a bag of potato gems and cook those little bastards until they’re good and crispy
Smoosh them onto bread sprinkled with grated cheese. Form sandwiches.
Toast sandwiches.
Consume.
Realise that life is actually pretty damn good at the moment.
@ash are you paying attention?
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Didn’t @mythamphetamine do that but then kinda regret it since it was pretty much just like having hashbrowns?
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Yeah, did the same thing, only I sandwiched the potato gems between hashbrowns, and then sandwiched that monstrosity between bread.
…it was about a kilo of carbs, and not much else.
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@ash, for future reference, @freezespreston is (apparently) fat, but don’t say that to his face because he’s gonna be a cop.
The more you know, etc…
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PLAYSTATION EYE
YOUR MOVE
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Scary newds for everyone! Yerr!
*never logs into PSN ever again*
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Apparently! It changed from “Payment Problem” to “Processing” and then to “Despatched”. I’ll give it 3 weeks before I complain again 😛
I hear it’s super loose inside though so I’m kinda of worried the book will be damaged. I hear the book is pretty sturdy though but people in the UK have said their boxes were pretty badly damaged because Namco Bandai can’t package it for shit :/
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:(. I don’t really care about the outer box (it’s just going to sit in the box pile) so it’s not a big deal but I just hope the book is fine D:.
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The book is really sturdy.
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So I just found out that Wednesday 13’s new album The Dixie Dead ships on the 19th (22nd for Aus wtf?!) of this month and I just saw the cover art. Whilst not bad, still it doesn’t top the Spook & Destroy EP or Calling all Corpses album covers.
Kind of disappointed in Wednesday with this album cover D= Still new music from him which is awesome!
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Well if you mean Beyond The Valley of The Murderdolls, Murderdolls. Then what you mean is bring back Frankenstein Drag Queen From Planet 13 =P
Cause Women & Children Last was a pretty lame album. I think Joey should just let Wednesday write the lyrics whilst they both compose the music. I think Joey is more suited to writing songs for a band like Slipknot, than horror image songs for a band like Murderdolls. That’s how I see it anyway.
Whilst Murderdolls was where I became familiar of Wednesday 13, he’s just much better as a solo act, his stage show is awesome. I haven’t seen Murderdolls but with Joey being a bit of a limelight hog I kinda don’t want to see a band where it focuses on an average guitar player =P He should seriously be the drummer, I vote for that. Plus bring back the old band with Eric Griffin, Acey Slade & Ben Graves (or Racci Shay, he’s a cool guy) damn it =/
No Tripp Eisen though thanks =P
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Had a morning tea thingie for the regions that got flooded this year.
\o/ for a good cause
\o/ for delicious food
/o\ for being forced to socialise with other people.
I think I just had Heavy Rain spoiled for me in the “Heavy Rain Creator: Nine Ways Video Games Need To Grow Up” article comments.
I was never going to play it, but it still leaves me with that unhappy feeling…
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I like David Cage, but at the same time I don’t really want to hear him talk about games. Just want to play what he makes damn it. I’m sorry you got spoiled, man.
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I have no real opinion on David Cage, and I have never played any of his games.
That said, a lot of when he speaks comes off as though he thinks that every single game is a stupid Hollywood style blockbuster, and that there’s absolutely no games which do anything interesting or new.
That’s like saying that every movie ever is a Holly wood blockbuster, and no movies ever do anything new. It irks me. I’m sure he doesn’t mean it in the way it comes off, but it seems insulting to everyone who makes games that aren’t that crap.
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I think he might mean it, though. That doesn’t mean it’s true, I agree. The man’s pretty pretentious. He even appeared in Fahrenheit, Hitchcock-style. (I thought that was pretty cool. :P)
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I think most of the big names in gaming tend to be like that though. Not the whole, all games are terrible Hollywood blockbuster thing, but all other games are a let down and people should be making games like the ones I’m making.
David Cage thinks more games should be like interactive movies ala Heavy Rain.
Warren Spector thinks games shouldn’t feature violence and should be more like Epic Mickey.
Cliff Bleszinski thinks more games should follow Gears of War’s way of doing things.
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But Warren Spector doesn’t think that all games shouldn’t feature violence, he just doesn’t want to work on ones that do. And saying that Cliffy B thinks more games should be like Gears is missing the mark completely, the games he’s most interested in at the moment are the complete opposite end of the spectrum.
The difference from my point of view, is that they’re saying “this is what I want in a game” whereas Cage is saying “This is what games should be.”
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David Cage is an A-grade wanker IMO.
He’s right on a lot of cases but the kind of games he makes are utter shite, QTEs stringing together cutscenes. He has no credibility because he barely even makes games in the first place.
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I was enjoying the game but had the identity of the killer (so basically the biggest plot point in the game) spoiled for me :/. Didn’t enjoy it as much after that and haven’t replayed it since :'(
EDIT: Just read the comment on the article. He pretty much spoiled it too…
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Best of all, my phone dings every time I get a notification… so now my office peeps think I’m super popular 😛
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Your phone pushes Kotaku notifications?
I didn’t know that was a thing…
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Kotaku notifcations go to my gmail (although all those emails from ‘alure media’ kinda looks dodgey – hope mrs doesn’t see that). Then my phone goes ‘oh he got an email, better ding’ and thus the ding occurs.
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Ooooh, yeah, I get it now 😛
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Really? I don’t get the emails for a few hours at least.
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It’s a setting in your profile
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Could push the emails, depending how you have the notifications set up
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How the hell did you set that up?
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Nokia Lumia 930 W8P (courtesy of work, I’d never spend that sort of money myself) –> add account, gmail… then, tell kotaku profile to notify me of everything straight away and voila!
Just don’t tell work I use the thing for reading manga and kotaku more than i use it for work 😉
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Upvote for Lumia because @lambomann007 hasn’t gotten to it already.
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I actually have a grin on my face
Thanks Red
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There is probably a Subway girl 🙂
That or D.C. finds the subway preparation process like a puzzle in an adventure game.
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Weird. I just finished Subway myself. Except plain chicken with no cheese or anything.
I’m still hungry. Dieting sucks big time.
@ash
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I’m gonna go visit mum because 1) she’ll probabbly make me lunch, and 2) I’ll try and get in her good books before asking for like 3 ngihts of baby sititng in a few months time. yes I gotta plan that far ahead.
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Had a weird in and out thing from the local sushi place. Kinda tasty but utterly pointless. Why have the seaweed inside the handroll and then require a plastic wrap around the outside to hold it together.
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That’s what I thought but it was still there. It’s like they laid out a normal hand roll but instead of rolling it with the seaweed on the outside the did it backwards and rolled it with the rice on the outside. I think there was the same amount of seaweed. Or are you saying they will eat seaweed, just not if it’s on the outside?
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That. My wife is one of those odd folk. Won’t touch it if its on the outside. Grosses her out.
People are weird.
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Shouldn’t require plastic wrap. Those ones usually maintain their structural integrity regardless of the lack of exoseaweed
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Uramaki aren’t very common precisely because they’re hard to eat. Normally they put roe or sesame seeds or something on the outside to reduce some of the stickiness.
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Yeah, this one had roe on the outside. It didn’t actually require the wrap to hold it together, i think that was more so they could handle it properly/easily.
People are weird, I’ll eat it but I’m not going to touch it????
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WHAT’S GOING OOOONNN?
My plans for the evening got cancelled so I think I might just hermit and actually play something.
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Better idea: Scale a tall building and watch over the city, keeping it’s citizens safe when the opportunity presents itself.
Fairly sure this is my first post since the meat last weekend, so obligatory “I’m not dead” post. I feel like I’m so out of touch, I have no idea whats been happening. Apparently the Witcher 3 was announced? Awesome, really should get around to playing 2. Hasnt even had its plastic wrapping removed.
Also since all the cool kids are doing it – hi @ash
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I did, had a ton of fun. I would have done a write up but its too hard to do a decent one on my phone.
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We kept you waiting for a long time, though. Haha!
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My friends were worried that you wouldn’t be coming at all. But I had faith. Nothing stops the taybies from getting to a meat… except for those pesky reasons
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Your two lady friends? 😛
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Noooooooooooova. Did that Magicka key work? If you’ve been near a computer with Steam, that is.
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I don’t think so, could be wrong though, its happened once or twice before. Being wrong I mean, not being dead. That tends to be permanent. In most cases
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Shane will be in the city in the morning and Rockets will be around all day! I don’t know the specifics though…
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Hmm, may be able to make it if something happens on Saturday night. Got suit fittings for my sisters wedding in the morning.
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New Trials riddle?
The answer is: Answers. The unattainable truth we all seek.
I’m calling it now.
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I dunno. The answer to the last one was “Questions”. A mathematical formula which leads to a drawing of a squrillel would be an actual conclusion.
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oh… Can I call another answer then?
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…Nope.
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:'(
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… see you Saturday!
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so, this whole doping thing…
It just makes me feel disappointed, yet weirdly uncaring at the same time…
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Welcome to the world of a cycling fan.
And as if that wasn’t bad enough I’m also an bombers supporter. But the AFL board are in all sorts of trouble with this and who even knows what this AFP investigation is going to turn up.
Seriously, Dead Space 3 is radically different than it’s predecessors. Some of the change is aesthetic, which is good, but the gameplay, the atmosphere, all of it different. I’m not sure if it’s for the better, unfortunately..
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I played a bit of it without having played the previous games so I was like “Yeah, this is pretty good’ but I can see why people who really liked the earlier games would be a little put off by it.
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Heh, I’m confident it’s not a good ‘dead space’ game but I’m on the fence about if it’s simply a good game. Still early on, though, so here’s hoping it gets better..
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Wait, so the DLC that Ubisoft has made is being further broken up into smaller pieces to be charged at full price each? Exactly how far will we accept the publishers pushing this crap?
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This the alternate-universe AC3 stuff? I’m not getting it. Pretty much no matter what happens. Hopefully others follow suit, or they’ll keep pushing.
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I’m waiting to see. If each part of it is worth the price of entry, then sure, I’ll happily buy it.
Odds are it will never be bought.
May get to see Sam this afternoon
If I don’t, well I am seeing her tomorrow
And I last saw her on Sunday
Being apart sucks big time
/end sadrant
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And matching tattoos!
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It may or may not be something we have talked about *innocent if not embarrassed whistling*
It won’t happen for a while though
Admittedly it’s obviously the honeymoon period, but this girl makes me so happy
So. Damn. Happy
@chuloopa, tagged because why not
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@shane
Ugh! Smartassius
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I wonder how many middle and upper managers at Harvey Norman facepalm every time Gerry speaks?
Surely they would be counting the days until he F’s off…
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Are you refering to the paid psychophants? trust me they never want him to leave as long as they have a secure job.
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Worse, HN stores are generally franchises so the store owners are getting all the Negative publicity from someone who really has nothing to do with their store.
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I can now provide the DVD! \o/
Also, if you call it fictitious again, I will cry. I was looking forward to it.-
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I thought downvotes sustained you. You need a lot of sustenance.
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It’s been so long since I saw the movie, I hoped I got that reference right! Awesome! Bodacious! Radical!
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It’s been ages since i saw it too, but i thought he said “Awesome Nova”… i could be wrong, though
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Awesome!
Righteous!
– Bossa nova!
– What?
Bossa nova?
Chevy Nova?
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Dammnnn… my nostalgia has failed me again…
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You’d be surprised, the amount of regret that filled TAY for the Month of the KFC Double was palpable.
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Oh yeah, I was one of those. It was $7.95 though 😛
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THE REGRET!
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So. Much. Regret.
That was on top of a full McDonald’s lunch too. Oh man, there are no words.
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While we’re on TMNT nostalgia (again), this clip always makes me smile (regardless of what I feel about the rest of the film). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7epzJitRoY4
But you could have saved 55c http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Teenage-Mutant-Ninja-Turtles-DVD-1990-Original-Movie-New-Sealed-/271143518587?pt=AU_DVDsBlurayDiscs&hash=item3f2169c17b
Have all the regret
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… aw man 🙁
I could’ve almost bought two soft serve ice creams for that.*manhattan shattering DAMN!*
Pre ordered The Showdown Effect last night
Digital Deluxe edition, so I think I now have a copy of Magicka to gift, I need to look into that tonight
SMB is hella fun, frustrating but nothing like BDSM
Maybe 50 Shades of Meat!
Painkiller Hell and Redemption is awesome, new graphics and seemingly new guns
Includes a tutorial level (Your raisin is a good as mine*
And going to shuffle amongst the dead tonight in TWD
after nearly two months of it being repaired, my S3 is finally ready to be picked up, so i can get rid of this horrible loan phone. i missed my s3….
What I intend to do tonight :
– Buy corn chips, mince, refried beans, salsa, sour cream, avocado
– Make tasty nachos
– Eat them
What will most likely end up happening tonight :
– I’ll eat a bag of corn chips for dinner.
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WOULD YOU PEOPLE SERIOUSLY STOP TEASING ME WITH YOUR DELICIOUS SOUNDING FOOD I CAN’T EAT!
FUCK!
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SNACKTAKU: The Sympathy-For-Freeze edition
I’m much too busy (or lazy, whatever) to get up from my desk and make food.
Man, I’m hungry.EDIT: Man, totally missed an opportunity for a “Frozen Solidarity” pun. Fuck. Bad day.
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Supposed to be losing weight and getting fit for the police force. Stuck eating healthy unfulfilling foods.
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i say screw it and have chief wiggum as your role model.
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I actually find that eating the ‘healthy and unfulfilling’ foods for long enough makes me realise how fucking horrible most of the food people eat is. It’s like re-calibrating your sense of taste. I’ve been feeling way healthier on a diet where I have lots of non-starchy vegetables and unprocessed meats and completely knock out starches like bread & rice, and after a week or so doing it I found I didn’t even miss it that much.
I did pretty healthy carnitas on the weekend for example. Slow-cooked pulled pork shoulder (salt, spices, some oranges and tomatoes, nothing unhealthy at all) with homemade guacamole, salsa made from chopped tomatoes, capsicum, lime and coriander and some chopped black olives, on lettuce leaves instead of corn tortillas. Tasted amazing, healthy and super easy too.
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You’re going to be a police man soon, so coffee and doughnuts all day \o/
Is that a US thing though? What is the Australian version?
Probably a meat pie, I don’t know.
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McDonalds give police free food here. A lot of cops actually refer to their ID as a Maccas voucher.
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No wonder they all go to Maccas then
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Ha ha awesome, I never knew that.
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The uniform has also been referred to as a discount suit
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Hungry Jacks too.
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Holy shit. Now my dinner is a war between wholesome nachos and Shane’s healthy, healthy potato gem toasted sammiches.
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Use tater gem sammiches in lieu of cornchips.
And thus, ladies and gents, Snacktaku evolved to Mealtaku: Coronary Attack Edition.
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Make okinawa taco rice instead! 🙂
Cook mince with taco seasoning
heat up some 2 minute rice
Put the taco mix on top of the rice along with shredded lettuce, chopped tomato, salsa, avocado and sour cream, cheese is also good.
Enjoy.
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This actually sounds like a smashing idea.
Intrigued.
What kind of rice do you use? Fairly partial to jasmine, but I don’t suppose it matters.
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Jasmine works well, but any rice will do.
Wholegrain is good too because it will make the meal more filling and last longer. Good for taking leftovers to work for lunch 🙂
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@benj
Alright I’ve got my new ep of Tosh.0 downloaded and my lunch. Time to watch!
*starts eating*
Oh, what’s this fat guy doing? Oh.. OH! OH MY GOD HE’S PUKING ERRYWHERE!!
The moral of this story is: don’t eat while watching Tosh.0
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Ahaha 😛 I don’t know if I like the new set or not! I think the old one is better, but he’s just as good as ever.
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@dc + @ash = D-CASH
TAY’s new boy band
It’s going to be rocking in this joint.
Join them in singing classic hits like
1. I’m from South Australia but our relationship will never go south
2. I might quit my job for TAY but never quit you babe
3. EB girl you’re the one, I’ll never trade you in.
4. I’m a hermit but I’d leave the house for you girl
5. I’ve got so much game you’d think I’m an adventure
Order now for these classic hits and more.
Call in the next five minutes and D.C will personally upvote your copy for no additional fee.
D-CASH
NB:
Oh dear, I suck at coming up with song titles.
I think I need to prepare for work.
Oh no maybe CASH’D was a better name? Who knows.
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Also we can’t forget the song that propelled the band to stardom,
SO. DAMN. PROUD
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Wait… it’s not midnight! You must’ve been working the night shift then : )
Those are amazing song titles!
But you forgot one important thing… D-CASHA! @dc + @ash + @masha2932
git in on somma dat $$$
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Hahaha just noticed that D.C. didn’t upvote it!
He’s probably just bitter that he didn’t come up with the idea himself 😛
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Bonus track:
If there’s something
On which I’m not so keen
I furrow my brow and squint,
but no, I won’t tell you what it means
I won’t tell you what it means
No, not even a hint.
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Pre ordered The Showdown Effect last night
Digital Deluxe edition, so I think I now have a copy of Magicka to gift, I need to look into that tonight
SMB is hella fun, frustrating but nothing like BDSM
Maybe 50 Shades of Meat!
Painkiller Hell and Redemption is awesome, new graphics and seemingly new guns
Includes a tutorial level (Your raisin is a good as mine*
And going to shuffle amongst the dead tonight in TWD
Addendum, going to pre order Impire as well
And am looking at Guns of Icarus Online, anyone played this?
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It looks like something that would be good but I saw in the discussion that the screenshots are the same a a year ago and no trailer of any game play.
Interested but not a pre-order-
You raise some good points Tigs
Thanks
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I hope they deliver I really hope they do
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For lunch today, I had a Roast Pizza. That is, a pizza with the leftovers of the chicken roast I had for dinner last night on it. Roast Pumpkin on a pizza? Surprisingly, notbad.jpg
@freezespreston
Ni No Kuni spoilers
Just fed the Cowlipha. Holy crap, had to turn the volume down. The sound effects! D:
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Viewed spoiler out of morbid curiosity despite not having touched the game yet.
I am now intrigued.
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I haven’t been this blindsided by a game since that part in Pokemon B/W 2
when you ride the Ferris Wheel with that Pre-school teacher and … something … happens-
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Oh man, that was so weird.
She takes you on the ferris wheel and proceeds to tell you, at length, how sweaty she is.-
I went back to that town and there was a guy there instead (Cheren the first gym leader). I completely forgot it was the Ferris Wheel (since I didn’t play for months) and I was like …oh god please don’t happen again with THIS GUY -
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If you don’t care about Ni No Kuni spoilers, here it is. Definitely NSFW. :S
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I don’t care about spoilers, but I think I’ll skip anyway, thanks 🙂
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My mum was in the adjacent room when that scene played, so all she could hear were the noises…yeah…
Whenever I look at pictures of galaxies from Hubble or whatever the star map music from Mass Effect starts playing in my head.
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It really is. That particular theme absolutely made the game for me.
I think ME1 was my most favourite game this generation.
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Actually, now that the smoke’s cleared: EA/Bioware, I am ready for a new Mass Effect. Please make it more like the first one and get a bit of that Star Trek feel back again.
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Thinking of leaving at 3:30 (as it is allowed)
I have no real need to
Just sick of being in the office
Can’t even get the cares together to do some of this work I have here
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Actually
No change in money
I work for the government
If I leave early I just forfeit extra hours
Which I accrued by working back and getting in early
No loss
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FLEX TIME IN THE HOUSE!
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So no reason to go above and beyond whats expected of you? I’m surprised the office doesn’t have huge productivity issues.
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Spaghett: I work for the government
No issue then 😛
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So am I man
Today I ran out of fucks to give
I have to stay back till 5pm tomorrow anyway
Then I will have more fucks
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Don’t let Sam know.
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Sam got me some kind of present man!
I. AM. EXCITE.
It’s a surprise
They make me anxious
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You should buy her something in return and get sad and anxious that you got stuff! 😛
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@dc, I will buy her something, its a pressie for me 😀
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You… get excited about getting gifts? D: You and I are very different people. 😛
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I get anxious about it too
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What did you get – make sure you tell us tomorrow or whenever!
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I will man, I will 🙂
Bought two cans of Passiona today, and am thoroughly disappointed. It’s probably been a couple of years since I had it, and the formula’s definitely changed.
Yes, disappointed.
Going to the supermarket on the way home for potato gems and nacho rice components.
\o/
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Intrigued!
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WHE.
And yeah, they’re pre-good!
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They’re available in ice cream float dealies too!
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we used to have that flavour at my work, when people asked me what it was like i just said “if you’ve ever had a passiona before then it’s basicly frozen passiona and delicious
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Hi I’m back.
I just listened to more Nier soundtrack, Ashes of Dreams in particular, and now I am too depressed to work.
Looking at stories on Kotaku – you ever find someitmes you just can’t mount the energy to comment on a serious article, such as the ‘depictions of arabs’ one? I’m sure I’ve got an opinion about in here somewhere, but its too hard to get to.
On a similar note, is it just me or did a big chunk of chatter re the Mike Sacco ‘issue’ disappear, particularly some of the ‘debate’ with Burnside?
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That happens from time to time. I got a few personal attacks leveled at me when I made the mistake of commenting on that dismembered torso article a few weeks back, and the next day, they were all goned. Moderators to the rescue
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Can’t avoid comments section, that’s where @weresmurf made me his bitch ;P
Nah I don’t mind a good debate sometimes, as long as it doesn’t get personal.
PS @shane you sick bastard for liking the dismembered torso!
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@shane you carebear for disliking the dismembered torso!-
carebear thanks.
I said that people can own whatever they wanted, but I didn’t want my little girl wandering into a store and seeing it, and having to explain to her that some people want to own and display statues of hacked up women.
Cue several nasty ‘bad parent’ comments :\
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For what it’s worth, I didn’t like the statue either.
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It’s a comments section. Everything’s personal, and I question both your financial standing and sexuality, sir.
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That’s OK because I am a broke homosexual.
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Well… shit.
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In Victoria, you can buy European style numberplates. Around 80% of the ones I see start with ‘VAG’.
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dunno if its a sydney thing only, but theres a company called 2 Men In A Van / 2 Men In A Truck.
basic handyman / removals setup.website is just “2men[dot]com.au”
at a guess, Id say 90% of their web traffic is looking for a completely different type of handyman.
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I just watched that Okonomiyaki video. I have no idea what it is but I want to try it. So many things! :O
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Okonomiyaki (お好み焼き o-konomi-yaki?) ( listen (help·info)) is a Japanese savoury pancake containing a variety of ingredients. The name is derived from the word okonomi, meaning “what you like” or “what you want”, and yaki meaning “grilled” or “cooked
That sounds so rad! Someone on MKR should serve that up 😛
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don’t sing it out loud B-Funk…
people will stare at you…
don’t do it…
wait…
people stare at me anyway…
because of my er… devilish good looks…
yes…
that…
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Okonomiyaki is pretty awesome. Hiroshima-style is a bit excessive though. Standard Osaka style they basically dump a bunch of stuff into the batter, fry it up and then coat it with sauce, mayo, aonori and katsuoubushi. Hiroshima-style like in that video they have a bunch of layers and it’s crazy and excessive.
Hard to make proper ones yourself because they use grated mountain yam as a binder.
Also that wasn’t bacon in the video, it was sliced pork belly.
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How are you supposed to eat it without it falling apart? It looked like the main middle bits were just noodles/bean sprouts which would probably empty out before I got to the other stuff 😛
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I’ve only ever eaten Osaka style okonomiyaki and that was pretty easy to eat. First time was when Mum’s pen pal from Nagasaki came to visit and she made it for us. Pretty good.
Second time was my first ever meal when I went to Osaka. My mate picked me up from the ariport and took me straight to “America town” (where all the cool young people hang out.)
We cooked it on the hotplate at the table with fair bit of help from the friendly staff, but most locals do it all themselves. Amazing!I still want to try the Hiroshima style though.
Edit to add – I’m told Yoyogi does a pretty good Osaka style okonomiyaki
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How come ash gets a welcome party? I’m still new goddammit. Only done 737 comments since 2010. Make that 738. I’m still fresh!
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Welcome Benny
There are so many things to tell you!
ALL. THE. THINGS.
I am Spaghett
I love jokes about hardcore drugs, my girlfriend, screaming Shenanigans! and asking people what the last song they were listening to is
Also, I am an OCD and Anxiety sufferer
Welcome
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I’m not sure I had a party as such.. people where just saying ‘Hi’?
anyway, whatever floats your boat Benny /throws streamers on @benny
“Happy 738th post!”
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BUT SINCE INTRODUCTIONS
I’M B-FUNK
I YELL ABOUT THINGS NO ONE CARES ABOUT!
LIKE SUPER MONDAY NIGHT COMBAT! REMEMBER THAT? NO YOU DONT!
I LIKE LONG WALKS ON THE BEACH, AND CATS THAT LOOK LIKE THEY HAVE MOUSTACHES, BUT IT’S ACTUALLY JUST THEIR FURWHEN I GROW UP, I WANNA BE A FIRETRUCK.
I APOLOGISE FOR EVERYTHING I EVER SAY.
I’M A LITTLE WEIRD TODAY
SOME PEOPLE SAY HOW DO I COPE WITH BEING SO WEIRD?
THE SECRET IS, I’M ALWAYS WEIRD.i think i have to calm down…
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*shakes fist* Damn you for pointing out my illiteracy. 😛
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That’s Ok, I’m no stranger to the edit button. My typing style is to mash keyboard and then hti spell check… excpet there is no spell check in Kotaku 🙁
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I use the spell-check built into Chrome. That thing is a lifesaver.
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I don’t know *how*, but your edit showed up before DCs… uhh, probably should have taken a screenshot.
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I REMEMBER THAT!
to explain to the unaware, i had a blood test coz i was sick. i was so sick that i passed out when i had said blood test.
GOOD TIMES
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Hoi!
Also Greenmang and Disc Compact. (I’m still shy of 15,000 total though, which is a little… well, I’m not sure what that is.)
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I’ve got 6K+ currently, which is a bit, considering when I started TAYing 😛
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I’ve got 16K+ currently, which is a bit, considering when I started TAYing 😛
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@greenius
It’s not done yet (obviously) but here’s what I’ve got done on Issun so far. I’m… not happy with it. It’s my first time trying to colour something in this way though so it’s a learning process I guess!
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Corel Draw has an amazing gradient tool, pretty much! An extremely complicated, but really good one.
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If I had decent internet at home, I’d play MechWarrior Online.
^^ What to you think of that statement??
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That would also be acceptable. When I moved I assumed the area I was going to would have ADSL 2+, because I naively thought that was a minimum these days… then i found out the local exchange was only enabled to ADSL1… and all the ports were full. I ended up with a wireless connection which I describe as low quota, high latency.
NVM I think i used to be addicted to online gaming and it was probably hurting my marriage. Now I watch My Kitchen Rules and Masterchef with my wife! (I miss gaming 🙁)
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Wait wat.
I live in Buttfuck, Nowhere.Where on earth are you?!
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Sadly there are even pockets in metro Adelaide without proper internet, where people are forced onto wireless :'(
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Damn man, that’s crazy! I’m amazed at hearing that.
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I’m in the middle of the Gold Coast. Only very recently got ADSL2+ no faster than 6Mbit/s. No plans in the next 20 years for the NBN to be installed in my area.
3 streets down the NBN is already up and running.
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@freezespreston I almost accidentaly downvoted you because that story makes me sad.
@mythamphetamine I did a quick google search but couldn’t find the latest stories, but this thing from a few years back shows the attitude here: metro Adelaide has blackspots and we can just wave the magic wireless wand to make them better:
http://www.oss.sa.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/154886/Broadband_Black_Spots_-_5_April_2011.pdf
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That sounds like where I am in a sense (not too far from Freeze, just over the border in NSW) the entire entire goes from NBN, Cable, ADSL2+, ADSL1 & lastly Next G which is over capacity in the areas where it’s the only option & Telstra is the only supplier of Wireless internet in that pocket.
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Seriously… @ashley hit the nail on the head with that one in saying:
“Rumour: The Playstation 4 will run on electricity.
Rumour: The Playstation 4 will be made by Sony.
Rumour: The Playstation 4 will run games.”
Is it really such a rumour? $400 seems crazy cheap for a brand new next-gen console (hi Ninty! Well done on that, btw), it stands to reason that the expected price is well above that. I… I don’t even /o\
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To be fair Wii U is more Current Gen.25 so they could easily release at that price. Any higher and it might’ve been a different story for the Wii U’s success.
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Absolutely.
In the (very short) time I had with the WiiU, it seemed more like a Wii with extra bells and whistles than anything, but still stood up on its own. It’s about as ‘next-gen’ as we’ve got currently, which is fine.My issue isn’t with the pricing as such, more the fact that (what appears to me as a) an obvious statement is deemed to be a shocking rumour. >$400 seems to me as a given.
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I would be too if it had good games I want to play announced and is region-free and still allows me to have multiple PSN accounts. Especially if it’s got PS3 back-compat.
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Holy shit! I clicked on that article a few hours ago and also thought of the whole “runs on power”, “plays games” angle :O
Conclusion: I must be ashley
But yes, incredibly stupid ‘rumour’.
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Seeya dude. i better go do that thing where you work for the last hour fo the day so you don’t feel like you bludged the whole day 😛
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Interesting. next QotSA album is gonna have the same line-up as Songs For the Deaf (that is to say, the best line-up that bands ever had.)
Shameful gaming admissions, go!
Both of my Xbox accounts have 1000gs from Avatar: The Last Airbender: The Burning Earth.
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Emphasis on “ending”
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I frown-y face at you!
N.B. The word frown looks weird to me, but I know it’s spelt correctly.
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Just think how much happier you would be if you never played it, and weren’t stuck with one of the longest cliffhangers in history? Who’s the lucky one now, huh?
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Ehh, it’s not really a cliffhanger.
Sure, there’s stuff that “HAS TO BE DONE.” But there’s nothing really super immediate about it
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I traded Red Dead Redemption only to buy it again later. And trade it again. Without ever finishing it.
My favourite game of this generation is Final Fantasy XIII-2. I also bought black mage and white mage costumes DLC so I could play dress ups with Noel and Serah.
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No don’t! I loved FF13 too! So my tatse might be different to yours.
Although it is like $20 at JB so can you really go that far wrong?
Guess depends if you like Japanese melodrama or not (I do).
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I didn’t hate FFXII, but 2 was a whole lot better in terms of variety and stuff(probably “fun” was a big part).
Didn’t like the story as much(well, as much as I can comment on it, since I’ve finished neither of them).
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Haha okay I prob won’t then.
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It’s not that good :P. It’s just his favourite game of this generation!
However, I also enjoyed (and completed) both XIII and XIII-2, and I did find it to be an improvement over XIII in almost every way. Probably weaker in story/characters and sound (voice acting/music). Some of the outfits are just stupid too 😛
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Some of the outfits are just stupid too
That’s what DLC is for 😉
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I’ll boot up the X360 and try to get past the beach at the start of the game tonight, promise.
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…I didn’t keep my promise :S
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Lame.
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Remember Galgun, that weird Japanese 360 game that involved shooting girls with ambiguous fluid to stop them from hugging you or something? Yeah. I own a copy. I’ve never actually played it and I think I may have been drunk at the time, but I own it. 🙁
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I was thinking that as I wrote it, actually :S
Funny story though, they’ve shipped me off to the other office for the week (more like month) and the ‘bathroom’ is an uninsulated shipping container with a long-drop. Holy hell that thing gets uncomfortably hot during the day.
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I’ve played with most of the iPhones, I reckon the 4/4S are the best by far. Minus the home button problem with the 4, nice one Apple using shit quality parts there!
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Just curiously, what made you want to get a 5? My iPhone 4 is supplied by work, so I don’t get choices for this, but all I could think about the 5 is the amount of bullshit I would have to go through getting it to work with docks/fm transmitters etc. Thought the “lightning” port was Apples stupidest move in some time.
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Always had iPhone, 5 came out when my contract was due for renewal so just went with what I was used to.
The 5 just doesn’t seem to be made very well. The camera no longer focuses, battery only lasts half a day lately and it gets blazingly hot with only minimal use. It actually shuts down from overheating regularly if I put a case on it. It could just be this unit but enough to cause me to start at least looking at alternatives.
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@ash raised an interesting topic: favourite game of the current generation. I would have to say Skyward Sword, despite all its flaws.
Others?
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Because you haven’t played RDR. Much much better than Skyward Sword. I’m qualified to judge given that I 100%ed both.
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I made it to Mexico, it was pretty good. Not the best.
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I also made it to mexico, then got frustrated by it being open world as per discussions in a previous thread, so I gave it back to the person who lent it to me.
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:O! Opinions and everything but I’m a huge Zelda fan. It’s my favourite game series and I went friggen nuts for Skyward Sword, but Red Dead Redemption is an amazing game 😀
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It would definitely be up there in the top few, probably alongside Mass Effect 2, Super Mario Galaxy 2 and Uncharted 2 (noticing a theme there). With Super Meat Boy and Trials Evolution as bonus picks.
If I had to pick one, um, well, it’s like picking which of my children I like best. So yeah, the first one. RDR it is.
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Red Dead is amazing.
The feel of being alone in the wilderness with just your horse and a six-shooter
Watching the sunset over the mountain range
John Marston, Gentleman cowboy
Just going to say you are both objectively and subjectively wrong and Dark Souls is the only possible correct answer.
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But what if you are no good at games? I heard that Dark Souls requires something called skill? Also, don’t you need to be a young person with quick reflexes?
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Nope. I generally suck at games, usually way down the leader boards and usually last on TAYbie games but I’ve sunk 300 hours into each Souls games.
Patience and memory. Everything’s pretty slow paced and attacks are hugely telegraphed so reflexes play no part really. Timing is by FAR more important.
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I’m no good at games or anything requiring hand/eye coordination. But I can play Demon’s/Dark Souls.
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Hmmm well I got a $50 JB voucher… who were advertising prepare to die edition for that price… but out of stock at my local? Also, what about my oath not to buy any more games until I finish 5 existing ones. Oh what to do what to do >:S
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I loved Skyward Sword, but… I haven’t finished it (ten hours in, maybe?). I found that you really needed a good two hour session to do a temple properly, and I often only get my gaming time in small doses. Hence i found my progress really slowing down in SS to the point that I started forgetting what i was up to and eventually just started playing something else. When things settle down at home (give the twins another 6 mths maybe) I will deffinatly come back to it.
A similar thing happened when i started playing Twilight Princess – got a few hours in and life got in the way. Started from scratch like 6 months later and it turned out to be one of the great gaming experiences of my life!
FF13-2 on the other hand, I found very respectful to the player by offering a ‘save anywhere’ approach. I appreciate that I am in the minority with my pattern of play, but nevertheless this feature really assissted me in getting the most out of that game.
On that note, I’ll vote #1 fav FF13-2, with honourable mention for Nier.
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JRPGs sound like your favourite genre, so which other ones have you played this generation?
Lost Odyssey, Blue Dragon, Tales games? 😀
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Silly Nob… I clearly didn’t mention Xenoblade because I’ve already asked ash about it!
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Well I got Eternal Sonata and Infinite Undiscovery recently second hand ($14 and $10 respectivly), so they are in the pile to play with. Not the best reviewed games to be sure, but niether was Nier and that blew me away. So on that basis, if they are merely fun it will have been a worthwhile investment.
I do enjoy JRPGs or quirky jap games in general, however I kinda got the wrong system for that.
Does Chocobo’s Dungeon on Wii count (rad game ;P )
Damn i kinda got a mental block atm – might have to go home and look through my collections to jog my memory.
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Yeah… those two games have middling-quality reviews for a reason. Especially Infinite Undiscovery, which has the patented Tri-Ace combination of shit writing, shit camera work in cutscenes, godawful English dub and creepy poser-porn character models that try and have an anime aesthetic while at the same time looking ‘realistic’.
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But that said it’s far better than Star Ocean 4. Primarily because no EDGE MAVERICK aka the most offensively retarded JRPG protagonist in the history of video games.
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Oh well, I didn’t expect much, impulse buys and all that 🙁
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Is that the one with like half hour cutscenes just full of talking? (I think it’s either this or Star Ocean 4)
I’m a big fan of these games and even I passed over Infinite Undiscovery. I haven’t played it either but Eternal Sonata looks really nice.
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Which system do you have?
Each main one has their own good JRPGs but very few great/amazing.
Reviews for Nier were just plain wrong. It’s flawed but also quite amazing!
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I’m not sure I can name another game I connected with on an emotional level with as much as Nier.
I have a 360 and a Wii. I also have a PC and DS.
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Get some Xenoblade into your system! You’ll love it!
Not as much as Nier I predict but definitely your type of thing. Trust me.
TRUST.
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Yeah mai frond recommended it too so 2 votes make it a must, right?
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@ash
Tons of TAYbies play and love it too but they try not to talk it up too much because they know I get excited ;D
For perspective I’ve played Eternal Sonata, Ni no Kuni, Tales of Vesperia, Blue Dragon and finished Xenoblade, Nier, Final Fantasy XIII/XIII-2, The Last Story, Lost Odyssey and probably more games I’m forgetting but Xenoblade was my favourite JRPG this generation (previously held by Lost Odyssey).
I can see why Nier is really loved too but in all honestly it does have quite a bit of flaws and feels unpolished at times (which is probably what those evil reviewers honed in on!). I enjoyed Final Fantasy XIII-2 as well but it doesn’t compare to my precious Xenoblade <3
There’s at least 3 TAYbies who started Xenoblade within the last couple of months and are currently playing it now. All 3 are enjoying it a lot.
XenoXenoXeno
And since you’re new the reason why I talk it up so much is because it gets neglected just because it’s on the Wii. I feel like it needs some more loving! I also enjoy talking up Nier since all the ‘big’ reviews make it seem terrible when it clearly isn’t!
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Mass Effect 2 or Xenoblade Chronicles. There may be others I’m forgetting from earlier in the console cycle but those 2 come to mind first
Mass Effect 2, Uncharted, Heavy Rain, Red Dead Redemption and BioShock. Impossible to leave out one of ’em. :S
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Alas, I’m on PS3, otherwise I’d suggest we MP sometime.
I know you’re not a big MP person, but the RDR MP is lots of fun.
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Is it cooperative or death match kind of dealy? Cooperative is always better when it comes to multiplayer for ol’ D.C.!
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You can coop hideouts, and I believe a few missions were added with some dlc. Just have to make sure you’re loaded into a friendly server I believe they’re called. Can’t PvP in those.
Fun fact: my iPhone auto-capitalises the p’s in PvP.
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Co-op, but you can do death matches. Basically, you get dropped in the world with others and can do whatever you like. There’s co-op missions, gang hideouts, races.
Or you can just tomahawk each other’s horses
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Nier! It has its fair share of flaws as well, but there’s no way I can look past it.
Runners up would be Zelda Twilight Princess and Assassins Creed 2. Maybe even Metroid Prime 3.
Attention Brisbane TAYbies!!
Do you like They Might Be Giants?
Do you like Batguy?
Do you like Brisbane?
If you answered yes to even one of those questions, then you need to attend the Batguy Brisbane They Might Be Giants Meat on the 8th of May! Featuring @welbot who is going to the concert with me whether he likes it or not!
I’ve booked my flights to arrive lunch time on the 8th of May, I’m gonna buy tickets to the concert that evening as soon as they’re available, then I fly home again very early the next morning. So I’m free to meet people for lunch and/or dinner on the 8th. And obviously would welcome anybody else who wants to join me at the concert itself!
Start planning, it’s gonna be meat-tastic!!
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I was answering the questions in order:
Do you like They Might Be Giants? Yes.
Do you like Batguy? No.
Do you like Brisbane? Maybe. I don’t know, can you repeat the question?
EDIT: I’ll be in Sydney anyhow, I move in April.
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Yes, I understood what you were doing, and it was very clever because you were referencing a song at the same time, and then I referred to “If you answered yes to even one of those questions, then you need to attend”. Gah. Whatever. Moot point if you’re not gonna be there any more anyway.
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And what I was doing there was ignoring your point and driving the joke into the ground.
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I will indeed do so, giving you full credit for your wit now, and probably never again after this point 🙂
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I’m still in shock about this to be honest.. but by the sounds of it, I better get used to the idea…!
I think Batguy should henceforth be known as BESTguy though… actually.. maybe not.. that’s a little close to BestBuy.. and they’re kinda crap.. SHUTUP! I had a wisdom tooth yanked today!
Anyone know where I could order lollies/chocolates online by the box?
I remember someone linking a while back a site selling a huge box of Cadbury cream eggs.
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Yes
EDIT: I should probably tell you where, huh?
Sometimes you can score good stuff from http://www.groceryrun.com.au/
There’s another place specialising in confectionery…
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Thank you! One of my work colleges also find this for anyone interested in sugar.
http://www.theprofessors.com.au/
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It might be easier finding a local wholesaler around your area. Unless you live in the middle of nowhere, then disregard this post!
There’s a Cash n Carry in Launceston that sells 1.2kg boxes of raspberries for like $10 and it’s amazing.
There’s always groceryrun.com.au (Catch of the Day, ugh). They usually have cartons available.
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Crap, sorry Bropiper, I posted two links so I’m getting mod’d.
Frozone nailed it with Confectionery Warehouse.
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Damn link limit! I always get caught out on that. usually late at night so it’s not likely to show up until the next day.
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@mawt
I’ll type it here since it’s easier for me to explain stuff. I’ll assume your main PS3 account you have at the moment is an AU/PAL one.
If you’re planning on buying a lot of downloadable PSN titles I’d recommend going with a US account for Vita since the US store has more things available, and for much cheaper. Only ‘downside’ I can see to this is missing out on trophies for your main AU account. I’m a bit of a trophy whore so that’s something I considered but it wasn’t a big decision since I don’t really buy downloadable titles.
On the PS3 you can still access and use content purchased and downloaded by other users. So you can still play the games available from US PS+ and earn trophies and whatnot with your main account. So if Megaman 9 (PS3) is free for US PS+ you can download it using your US account but still play it using Arucard (your AU account). However if Ninja Gaiden Sigma Plus (Vita) is free for US PS+ you can download and play it using your US account on Vita but not your AU account. If you try to transfer content purchased by other users, it’ll come up with an error and won’t allow it.
As for Cross-Buy, I’m not too sure how it works at the moment but I assume you’d just get a code for the respective version to redeem from the store. If this is the case then by buying a PAL PS3 copy you’d need to redeem the Vita code in the PAL store. Because of this, your US account won’t be able to access it since it only allows one account at a time and it’ll be your US one. You can swap accounts fairly easily but you do need two memory cards and it’s a bit inconvenient.
Tutorial by IGN. It’s a bit dated and I’ve never tried it but I’m sure it’s the same.
For the free games I find PAL has had better PS3 games but US has had better Vita/PSP games (so far). It varies on each region including which games are made available, how many and when they swap out. At the moment most of the major titles have been on both regions, just at different times, so it’s likely you’ll end up with most of the same stuff eventually.
This probably didn’t help at all but I was bored :P. Feel free to ask more stuffs and I’m sure other TAYbies can also chime in!
So, I spoke to my Boss and we’re not going so well. =(
if you have time, would you please upvote the Nyu media games on Steam Greenlight.
Eyri’s action
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=92915524
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Croixleur
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=114203390
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Fairy bloom Freesia
http://store.steampowered.com/app/214590/?snr=1_7_7_151_150_1
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Not so sure about the shumps, but the others look quirky enough. Also, I love anime girls, so that helps 😉
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I would suggest CTHCC and Croixleur. Both have some excellent anime characters.
To a lesser extent Fairy bloom Freesia.
Demos are available here
http://nyu-media.com/
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Wait, did these all get busted back to greenlight or something? I thought you guys already had several listed in Steam proper?
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Just Eryi’s and Croixleur is on Greenlight but we’re going bad so i’m trying to drum up sales.
I’m not the best at it though-
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This.
Focus on one, choose your target market and market it to them.
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I’m terrible at marketing. So I don’t know.
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Alrighty. Seriously considering saving some cash to replac this iPhone 5. Not entirely happy with it. Only problem is I’ve never really paid attention to what other phones are available. Only names I really know are
– Lumia 920
– Galaxy S3
– Nexus 4
Are these the ones to be looking at or is there others I’m missing?
EDIT: Probably should mention that decent photos are pretty high priority. Don’t own a good camera so phone camera is go to for nearly everything sadly.
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Aleph is good with tags!
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I’d go Nexus 4 over Galaxy s3 purely because I think the s3 is too big, but if you like bigger phones then you could put the s3 over the Nexus. The Nexus also has a stock version of Android whereas the s3 has Samsung’s TouchWiz which I personally don’t like.
As for the Lumia, well I have a Windows phone at the moment and I’m starting to get sick of the lack of apps and support for it so I’m making the switch to Android when it becomes time to get a new phone. I’ve given it a long enough chance. People keep saying “wait a while for Windows phone to grow”, but I’ve waited 2 years and nothing has changed, and I don’t see that changing any time soon.
Edit: If the camera is your priority, then the Lumia may still be the best choice.
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Android something for sure man. But if you want excellent photo’s you can’t go past the Nokia Lumia 920 with the pureview image sensor. Able to take incredible bright shots without flash is super low light.
Edit: just to show how good the camera is here’s a low light comparison between 4 of the current market smartphones; iPhone 5, Lumia 920, Blackberry Z10 & Galaxy SIII
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Yeah it is. Rumor is Nokia is bringing out a Lumia with a 41 megapixel Pureview image sensor to take 5 & 8mp shots are such high density allowing you to use digital zoom without it being all distorted, like wise being able to zoom whilst recording 1080p video and not have the digital blur.
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Ok guys my boss just left which means home time for me 🙂
Have a good evening.
@greenius I expect a full list of reocmmended JRPG’s on my desk by the morning.
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XENOBLADE IS NOW AT THE TOP OF YOUR LIST
Lost Odyssey is also awesome, feels like a “classic” FF/JRPG. Ni no Kuni also feels like a classic and while gameplay is nothing special… MOTHER FUGGINCHICKEN ‘N GRAVYGHIBLI GAEM!!!!Tales of games are pretty fun but nothing special. Tales of Vesperia is a good’n
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What part of it doesn’t fit the description of Japanese Role Playing Game? It’s an RPG from Japan.
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Where’s the batshit crazy, nonsensical story, though? 😛
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It has one! I STILL not 100% sure what it is.
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Where’s the gameplay buried beneath layers and layers of menus? Where’s the hand holding? 😛
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Most JRPGs don’t have any hand holding whatsoever :P. It actually got pretty bad when you’d wander around aimlessly wondering what the heck to do next!
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Where’s the male and female characters that both look as girly as each other!
(I’m only teasing, btw. Hope no one gets mad. I’m not fond of JRPGs, so barely even play them. Just compiling a list of stereotypes. :P)
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@dc: don’t forget the protagonist with amnesia.
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It’s 100% not what people mean when they say JRPG. From Software’s games right back to King’s Field have always been a Japanese take on Western RPGs.
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What have you got against Dark Souls?
Genreist.
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It’s a sketchy topic but I like to think of JRPGs as not just RPGs made from Japan but have that whole style to it… err hard to describe but I think of Dark Souls as either an Action/Adventure or Western RPG… made in Japan
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DARK.
SOULS.
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Only if you buy me the PC version.
Your move.
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Exactly!
No DARK SOULS
@dc has it. He probably won’t play it.
Hey fronds.
Got a drawing tablet today, so I thought I’d try and imitate Greenius, so: http://imgur.com/zhACBtg
It’s not exactly great(the scale is all off, the thing I did to try and make the dunes look more sandy makes them look like grass, its colours are a tad weird, the clouds don’t work properly, etc. etc.), but given I’m bad enough at art usually, and this was my first go with a tablet, I consider it to be good enough.
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It’s a fantastic game.
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Best 2 hours I’ve had in a LONG time.
Not sure if that’s sad or not.
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Genuinely good picture Blaggles! (better than my first attempt!)
Which drawing tablet did you end up with?
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Pretty sure your first attempt was better.
I ended up with the Bamboo Pen and Touch(3rd gen). Was considering the “Fun Pen and Touch” which is a decent hunk larger, but I figured since I’d never used a tablet before it would probably be best to start small.
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Is 3rd Gen the Black and Lime/Green one? That’s the same reasoning I had. I just saw them online so I didn’t know about the size difference but I figured it wasn’t worth the extra $70 or so.
I didn’t even know that the drawing/active area was just a tiny little bit, I thought it was the size of the tablet 😛
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It took me a lot of fiddling before I even noticed the markers for the active area…
And yeah, it’s the Black/Green one. Was considering the “Manga” for the included software, but its colours are less cool…
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My reasoning too! What made the Manga’s included software better? I looked at the list for both but didn’t really recognise or care for any of the included software 😛
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@greenius
The Manga comes with Corel Painter Essentials, which I’d be more likely to use than Photoshop Elements.
Not exactly a major thing, given they’re both limited versions of the full software, but something that made me briefly consider my choice.
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Make me!
(I probably will if there’s a group doing something substantial after Shane leaves :P)
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I’ll be there, what more do you need?
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An infinite money cheat.
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sigh, upvote.
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@alexpants @sernobulus @freezespreston @bdkiaf
…who will win in our Ticket to Ride game???
PREDICTIONS: It’s not me but I won’t come last
Pants – is this your first time playing the game? I’ve semi-played it once and came in last 😛
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Predictions are wrong. I won by a decent amount 😛
Thus my conclusion is @negativezero bought our team down the only other time I played. :’D
Bragius.
(started up another game)
If anyone else wants to play I’m pretty sure you can do more than one game at a time! :D. Just holla! It (Ticket to Ride Pocket) might still be free on the App Store.
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Did we only have one ticket? (is that what they’re called? the one with the routes)
I think that’s the main thing that let us down.
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We had two and it took us too long to complete the route because @beavwa knocked us out of the path we were going.
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What a jerk! This time I had two tickets that linked up exactly (Miami to LA, LA to Seattle) and I had a complete track down the bottom to left outline of the country 😀
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I saw you starting that and was considering blocking off one part to completely screw you over but decided not to be a troll.
I’m not sure what’s wrong with me. It’s like I don’t even know who I am anymore.
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Playing in a team meant my worst trolling / jerkplay didn’t have a chance to emerge. I can really not be a nice person in competitive games, which is why I don’t play them much these days.
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We should play Carcassonne some time. That game is basically designed around trolling.
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If you don’t make one of your routes, you lose the points you would have gained for completing it.
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…I didn’t even know I had routes.
I mean, that’s probably my fault for jumping into a game without knowing the rules.
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So you were just building random tracks? :P. Go into the Menu and start up a single player game and there should be a tutorial for it. There’s also an intro movie with a brief tutorial the first time you start up the App.
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“Woahh, is this God of War?”
“Ascension, God of War Ascension. It’s like French Canadian. There’s A, the Canadian part, then scensieaun.”
I love the random shit they spout in Workaholics.
I love seeing “Behind the Scenes/Making Of” films and I’ve recently discovered that the one included in Skyrim’s Collector’s Edition is now on YouTube, which I’m watching now!
Are there any other “Collector’s Edition” exclusive ones worth checking out? I saw that there’s a Diablo III one too!
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I enjoy behind the scenes/making of for games, films, shows, well enough, but one thing I tend to get annoyed about is how they always spend most of the time talking about things like camera angle and lighting, which is admittedly interesting, but what I really want to hear about are the characters and story, which I’ve found is almost never discussed.
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I enjoyed the Halo 3 one.
Best was the video where they played all of the Halo 1 and 2 cutscenes in order, then you can have commentary over the top. That commentary was awesome fun.-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkJpsJzfE1M this was all I could find :(. I haven’t watched it yet but I don’t think this would be the one you’re referring too. I assume you mean a 40ish minute doco?
I did manage to find a 52 minute one on Halo 2 though :D!
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Yeah, don’t think it was that one. The one I’m thinking of was included on a disc with the Legendary Edition of Halo 3. Though they might be the same. I don’t remember. I haven’t watched it in several years.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQQPamLMIP0 ? 😀
Still seems a bit short at 15 minutes though 🙁
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Don’t ask, just do! If you’re going to try a marketing push, you need to be confident about what you’re doing.
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Start with one. The winner needs to play it before they will rave about it, and all the games could be overwhelming. Perhaps have a comp where each game does to a different winner.
Or a comp where one game goes to several winners so they can talk it up amongst themselves on TAY to create hype?In short – I dunno.
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I lost weight this week! Only 200 grams, but it’s a step in the right direction. I think my body is getting used to the new healthier eating me.
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Awesome, man! Yeah, progress is progress and this is a long haul kind of deal. You’re doing excellent! Way to go!
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Ducked in to the Telstra shop near me to have a look at the phones. 920 was a nice looking phone and didn’t seem all that heavy. Perhaps the UI was a bit obtuse. The sales guy was super enthusiastic about the S3 which seemed good but a bit flimsily made. Not a nice feel at all. He also said the RAZR HD was a good phone but it didn’t really grab me.
Leaning towards the Nokia purely of the feel of it.
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This is what I’m thinking. It seems to be the more unique and furthest removed from the iPhone.
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I’ve just been playing some Geometry Wars on my Xbox and wow have I gotten rusty! I can’t get anywhere near my high scores. Sad times.
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I was okay at that game! I remember hearing about it being in Project Gotham so a friend and I would just sit there and play that more than we played Project Gotham 😀
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I got really good at it at one point 😛 I have it on DS and on my ipod touch as well and I’d play it for hours sometimes. I was in the top 100 worldwide on some of the DS levels.
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I remember feeling like a champ when I got the “Pacifist” achievement on Xbox (or whatever the one where you don’t shoot for 60 seconds is called) 😀
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Dead Space 3 people! You might want to stay off the front page for a bit. Potential spoilers in a picture, headline and first paragraph.
Not Amini though,this time Hamilton’s the culprit. It’s spreading! D:
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Saw that. What the heck is wrong with Kotaku US? Do they not know what a spoiler is or something?
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The spoiler tags that they use on the US site to stop spoilers from appearing on the front page don’t carry over when the article is posted here.
It’s just a problem because the two sites aren’t really compatible so if the person porting the post over isn’t paying attention, this happens.
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Was it like what @freezespreston did to @dc where he sent him something about hookers and a good time first time he texted him?
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You still have the text messages? I delete mine regularly to make sure I don’t obsess about whether I said any thing wrong. 😛
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Ayup. Never delete a single message. Neer know when you’ll need some
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Explains why you were able to blackmail me about the Colombians..
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Yeah man. I flushed my phone down the toilet because I wasn’t sure deleting the message was sufficient.
@greenius @scree @tigerion And all Melbourne TAYbies (surely someone can repost this with a more complete list of tags?)
Anyone up for dinner at Yoyogi in town tomorrow night?
I’ve got a yearning for Okonomiyaki, and I’m still pretty sad I missed the mega meat a few weeks ago.
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Can’t do tomorrow night, flying to Singapore on Saturday morning! 😛
Hopefully Tigs still has that list of tags but if you want I can look through TAYnames and try and remember as many as I can.
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@scree @greenius 🙁 We really should do this soon.
Greenius, how long are you going to Singapore? Hope you have a great time! 🙂
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Just a week :). I dunno, Singapore is pretty boring! 😀
Perhaps we can re-schedule it for another time? Preferably before the end of Feb as I’m still on holidays then.
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Happy to reschedule. Friday and Saturday are my free days.
Tomorrow night was just my idea of doing something off the cuff to force myself to commit.
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I want it too now! Looks interesting!
I haven’t had Takoyaki for a while too… damnit Smurfy, now I’m hungry! >:(
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Oh man! I love takoyaki too! Another Osaka specialty.
That’s it! There has to be a TAY meat in Osaka.
I’m sure we can get a Kickstarter thingo going to pay for all our tickets. Who wouldn’t want to fund a bunch of random gamers to travel to Osaka to eat stuff?@scree – Greenius says you’re good at organising stuff, so you’re in charge. Get on it! 😛
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I saw your Journey drawing, and if that’s what’s in you head then your head looks like a pretty sweet place to be. 🙂
What I’m trying to say is – you dun good kid!-
Thanks Smurfy. While I appreciate your taste in music, I feel like I should now cast aspersions on your taste in art. 😛
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i have the same thing except for animation…
like i can imagine a great scene, but no way do i have the skill to make it
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Same :/. Also with music. I can come up with an amazing song but can’t get it from my head to the real world!
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Hey guys! Does anyone here use Kotaku on their iPad? Mine loads web pages roughly, and whatever browser I’m using outright crashes if I try to load a TAY page. I’m thinking it might be whatever ads the site has. A couple of months ago I didn’t have a problem, now I do.
@benwhite any ideas?
EDIT: It works fine if I use the mobile site, I just prefer the regular site on the iPad.
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The regular site kills phones/tablets 😛 I think it’s the backgrounds that do it.
My phone crashes when I load TAY on the mobile site when the page gets really long as well. I need a new phone with more RAM I think.
Edit: Just reloaded with adblock off. There’s no big background ad at the moment, so scrap that idea.
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Yeah I can only use it on mobile with a 3rd party browser with adblock. I use Atomic on iOS for mobile and it’s still useable, but a little laggy. I should add – it’s only laggy on TAY.
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You just don’t get it. You’re only supposed to recommend Nokia when it doesn’t make sense to. That’s how the pros do it! 😛
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Well If you think a Nokia is a suitable replacement for a tablet, that’s fine by me. Go right ahead and think that, I won’t stop you 😛
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There was phone discussion! It was relevant!
Although I admit I completely forgot he mentioned tablets and that this was originally about them :P. Shhhhh!
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Well Nokia are thinking about doing a tablet =P
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Going to a wedding on Saturday.
Trying on the suit tonight before picking up from the hire place.
I think I want to wear suits more often.
Damn, but they make you feel classy.
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I’m all tall and lanky, I suspect I’d look as idiotic in a suit as I do with any thing else I wear. 😛
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I know that feeling.
Here’s me without a suit: http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20061009183143/starwars/images/7/75/JabbaPromo.jpg
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And this is me(left) in one: http://sphotos-b.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/11863_206972042942_631451_n.jpg
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His teeth are also far straighter than mine…
I knew I shouldn’t have been slack with my retainer…
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i have played the demo a billion times, and will probably play it some more before i go to bed…
excited doesn’t even describe how hyped i am.
So many people thinking of getting Nokias.
So. Damn. Proud. 😛
Now that I have that out of the way, it’s MQFT! You know the drill!
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EDIT: Also, you people just don’t get it. You’re only supposed to recommend Nokia when it doesn’t make sense to. That’s how the pros do it! 😛
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You mind reader, you 😛
I’m thinking of either Red or Grey right now. The problem with red and yellow is that you’ll only be able to set the tiles to certain colours that go with red or yellow, else it’ll look rather odd. Pretty much anything will go with black, grey or white. I kinda want a phone that’ll stand out though. Black is too common (although it does look rather smart). White is okay, but I’m not sure if I like the look of the white lumia. The grey one looks pretty cool though. I wish they had the cyan one in aus. I’d buy that one in an instant.-
I’m thinking I’ll get the black one, but it comes down to what’s in stock when i get one outright for ‘work purposes’.
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Anyone else getting Colonial Marines on 360? We should totally play together at some point. Preferably when I’m not busy, but hey, whatever.
@sughly
OMFGOMFOMGOMFOMGOMFOMOGMOMFOMOGMOFMOMFOMOGMGOMOMFOMOMOGMOFMOMFOMGOMFOMOFMOGMOMGOFMOFMOMGOFMOMOMG!!
SURVIVOR NEXT WEEEEEEEEK!
I just had a look at the contestant list
Malcolm! Cochran!! Phillip! (what a nut)
…annnnnd no one else cares :'( – YOU ALL SUCK!
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Haha! Sughly was totally psyched about talking Survivor with you at lunch yesterday. He seemed all kinds of enthusiastic.
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Its true! I havent had a proper look caus of my shitty phone net is too annoying to browse on… But isnt cochran that geeky red head guy!? If its who i think it is… I freakin loved him! He never had a chance, always got ganged up on :'(
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It is! That Harvard Law student from a few seasons ago. I really liked him too.
Malcolm from last season. And Phillip that crazy ass ex-FBI whatever guy from a few seasons ago.
There’s a few other names I recognised but those 3 are the main ones I’m interested in (mainly Cochran!)
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Just managed to look up some pics. Yeaaaah i remember crazy pink undies phillip. Also that brunette is the one that told Sugar to overdose in Africa i think. Nasty woman. And that drongo who gave away immunity then got voted off. And that asian girl was really sneaky and good at planning i remember. Maaaaan, excite!
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Nope, no beard :(! I haven’t seen anything on it. I just thought to myself “hey, I wonder when Survivor is coming back” then saw that the date was next week and the above post happened 😀
That girl from Africa is complete scum… I recognised her name. Also Russel Hantz’ nephew is there, he’s annoying. Was that Immunity one the one from the first Fan vs. Favourites? He’s so stupid :P. I don’t remember the Asian girl but I’m sure all the memories will come flooding back when I see it :D.
I’m not sure if I said it before but I watched Survivor on TV since it first started showing in Australia and watched pretty much every ep for like 13 seasons or so. Then I didn’t watch any for about 6 years (a rough estimate) and like 2 years ago I decided to catch up so I went from season 14 to whatever was showing at the time (the season with Phillip) which was about 21 or so. I watched like 6+ hours of Survivor a day for agessss 😀
SO GOOD!
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turns out that tongue-in-cheek spamvertising on Kotaku articles (http://staging.kotaku.com.au/2013/02/six-comics-you-should-get-this-week/) does great things for hit counters to my website.
Catch you on the far side of the weekend, TAY. Have an awesome everything!
Hmmm… do you read the introductions of books?
I don’t read a lot so I can’t say I’ve ever really read a book that has one but I was kinda reading one now and it got a bit too into the plot which is kind of a bummer :P. I know it’s an introduction but since they freely discuss the novel and how great it is I feel like I should’ve read it after the novel itself.
So what do y’all do with them?
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Depends on the book. I’m usually pretty strict with spoilers, but the kinds of books with introductions tend to be texts that have had a particular impact on society, and I will use the introduction to get an idea of the social context. Often enough, I’ll start reading the introduction, and pull the emergency eject if things start to spoil.
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That’s a reply fail to @dc, and my first ever page-get I think.
Classy, now I just need a couch to break in celebration…
So started a new Dark Souls game and 45 minutes later ringing the first bell.
Doesn’t seem to be much jolly cooperation going on though which is disappointing.
I blame @greenius, @dc and @ash. They should play more Dark Souls.
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I’m waiting for the PC one to go cheapo so I can pick up the DLC :P. At least I’ve finished it, unlike those other schmucks!
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Rayman Legends DELAYED UNTIL SEPTEMBER. No longer a Wii U exclusive and coming out on PS3/360 as well…
What the shit Ubisoft?!
🙁
@sernobulus
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Why this is annoying:
– it was supposed to be a Wii U exclusive and was a game many people considered buying the console for
– it got delayed (again) to coincide with the PS360 launch just weeks before it was supposed to come out (late Feb)
– PS360 versions will probably be better without the shitty touch controls plopped in the middle of the awesome platforming levelsIt was a stupid decision on their part to make it exclusive in the first place (considering the first was super multiplatform, even the Vita had it! trololo), but to do this, this close to release is just going to piss people off. Why not release the Wii U one early so it maintains some exclusivity? Probably going to cancel my pre-order and Monster Hunter it up instead…
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That’s bloody annoying.
I was really looking forward to it.
Now I’ll probably end up getting the 360 version instead of the Wii U one. Way to go shooting the new console in the foot, Ubi.
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What happened to the “this game can’t possibly be released on other consoles because it was made for the WiiU” crap they were going on about a while ago. Not to say I am against games being released on other consoles but when it delays the freaking game by 6 freaking months! Then yes I am going to get extremely pissed off. I think I’m going l cancel my preorder and just pick it up cheap. I am no longer hyped.
Ugh, Ser PissedOffulus
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Same… ugh, Sir PissedOffius!
Looking at other Wii U games there’s MH3U and LEGO in late March. Can you think of any other suitable Wii U replacements? Haven’t played it for a while and Rayman was what I was going to play…
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I suggest going onto their facebook page and complaining. big enough shit storm and it’ll change
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No, it won’t. There’s more people who’ll benefit from it rather than those few Wii U owners who are pissed off. I’ll choose with my wallet and just not buy it for a while.
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And causing Wii U sales to drop and giving them even less incentive to even bother with the platform next time.
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Probably because once PS4 and Nextbox are released Wii U will get the disabled stepchild treatment again.
Are you serious? -__-
Obviously it’s good that more people get to play it, but man that stinks. So close to release, too.
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The delay bothers me more than the exclusive thing. 🙁 If I didn’t have a Wii U, I’d feel sad that I could play Origins on my 360 but not this. At the same time though, it was one of the big titles my sister deliberately bought a Wii U for. :S
“We have a pipeline of games of very high quality coming on that machine, like Rayman Legends, which makes fantastic use of what the machine can do. [Nintendo] will make the necessary changes to the machine to make sure that it continues to grow fast on the market.”
– Ubisoft CEO
And how the hell are we supposed to take your word for it Ubisoft? You break people trust by lying about Rayman Legends how the hell can we trust him about them not being delayed another freaking 6 months so you can buy another solid gold mansion.
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Nah, the difference is the Wii U has games!
…just the same old ones we’ve been having for years and years 😛
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What if it’s like Xenoblade but has multiplayer? So still viable as a single player only game and not an MMO. I doubt it’ll be purely an MMO and if it is I’ll be sads
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As long as the multiplayer is completely optional and isn’t at the expense of the story I’m okay with that. Ideally it should be a separate mode or something.
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Yeah I wouldn’t mind that. I’m just not keen on the idea of it being a full MMO but we’ll see :P. I’ll still buy it anyway if it is just as long as it’s still good and there’s no stupid subscription fee.
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Ticket to Ride peeps!
I can’t remember who was having difficulties seeing the green properly, but I think you can change your colour! Go into settings and swipe on the picture to change your character/colour.
Hey guys/girls, a silly question – I can’t see my avatar to the left of my name. I checked my global avatar account and I have one attached. I reapplied it. I cleared out my cache. Still not sure why its not visible. Thoughts? Thanks.
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This might help but I’ve also noticed some people have missing gravatars across the Allure sites (shows up on Kotaku, but not on Gizmodo, etc.) so it could be a site issue.
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Yeah, it’s listed as G. Hmm….
Strange thing is it’s appearing on another website which uses the same system just fine.
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Is it appearing on your Kotaku profile page? If so it will appear on your comments soon. Once it took most of the day for mine to appear on my comments after I changed it.
Apart from that,the only other thing I can think of is Freeze’s suggestion.Also, hello! How’s everything going?
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Hey Strange! I’m pretty good thanks. Flat out, in general. How are you?
No, it’s not appearing on my profile page. It hasn’t for the past few weeks. Weirdly it was showing up when I viewed/used the site on my phone. Anyway, it’s not a big deal…I just like to have a little bit of personal flare! 🙂
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Kotaku must hate you, then. It’s the only explanation.
And the cure must be to spend more time in TAY hanging out with us. 😛
Maybe change it to something different and see if that helps?I am good, too. 😀 When’s your big day? I imagine things will get even busier the closer it becomes.
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Yes, more TAY would cure ALL! 🙂
I’ll try another image. Thanks for the tips.
Thanks for asking….The big day is May 27th. It’s actually OS…so quite a big international event. Fortunately we have a good team over there arranging it all for us effectively.
Edit: spelling. Eek.
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Oh wow. Sounds like it’s going to be epic. 😀
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Yes…just figured out my Gravatar situation! It had to do with linking my email login on here with the one associated with the Gravatar website, adding it and making it the primary….anyway, happy days, Strange. 🙂
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Yay! You look pretty now. 😉
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How weird. It shows up when you put your Kotaku email in here? http://en.gravatar.com/site/check Double check that your gravatar and kotaku emails are the same? 😛
Can’t think of anything else that would be stopping it. Ah well.
ps. Stick around TAY!
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Oh wow…Powalen….I only just read what you suggested, after posting my above successes. Sorry…I missed your comment. But yes, you are right about how my issue was fixed. Huzzah! 🙂
Extremely anxious Spaghett right now guys
I need Sam
I need this week to be over
This month
This life
I got an email from the Branch Manager here at work about Overpayments
Spags fucked up bad on his Acting Up position guys
Like $718.00 in money to be repaid to Estates.
So the Branch manager was like
“1)Why do you keep making simple mistakes
2) how do you intend not to in the future”
How the fuck do you answer those?
It was hard
Had to do it by close of business on Monday, and I am not in on Monday
So I did it this morning
That acting up position brought my anxiety disorders to the forefront
I am now on antidepressants
Fuck
Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck
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🙁 I’m sorry, man. There’s nothing more I can really say, except I hope you feel better and this anxiety passes.
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*brohug* sorry to hear that man, hopefully things turn around quickly and you’re back to the shenanigans yelling Spags we know 🙂
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They probably won’t until I see Sam this afternoon
I just hope this email doesn’t lead to any kind of disiciplanary action
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To Err is human.
Interesting that management chose to discipline you over email. Not really a preferred method. Unless you are a shit manager, which I’m suspecting maybe the case. I would of thought it not really good practice to start any kind of formal disciplinary actions based on an email, espicaially in a govt type situation where I would imagine they would have a formal performace coaching structure.
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I honestly don’t know what to say in a situation like this… so…
Hugs?
Hope you’re feeling a bit better soon.On the plus side, at least with Kotaku you have a place to vent your frustrations, which makes things that little bit easier – plus we love you, mang.
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*hugasaurus*
And by antidepressants I’m just going to assume you mean you’re on TAYbies. That’s what I use TAYbies for, anyway. 😛
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Love you Strange
I am actually going to the doctor on Monday to get a higher dosage
They aren’t working
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*hugasaurus rex* Hopefully seeing Sam will help calm you, as well.
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Strange……. did you just admit to swallowing “essence of TAYbie”. I gotta go to a meet then. lols
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I was hoping no-one would pick up on that. 😛
And no, not me. I believe I made it appear as if Spaghett did. Sorry, Spaghett!
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The branch manager is just covering themselves by being able to tell their higher ups they are handling the situation.
Don’t stress man and don’t take it personal. We all fuck up.
“1)Why do you keep making simple mistakes
2) how do you intend not to in the future”
How the fuck do you answer those?
1) “Because working for a numb nuts like you makes it hard to concentrate”
2) “Swap jobs with you – I’ll get your better pay and you can do all my shit for me”
^^ Would those suggestions fly?
also: /brohug
“1)Why do you keep making simple mistakes
2) how do you intend not to in the future”
a) There isn’t the appropriate checks and balances that I can use to ensure that my work is accurate
b) It is possible to work with somebody to create the required processes and checklists so that I have the ability and confidence to ensure my work is at the highest standard
A bit late but could you go with something along those lines
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OVER MY DEAD LLAMA!
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I’M TAKING THAT TOO
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You drama llama 😛
Mike Sacco story will forever be worthwhile because @zap gave us ‘drama llama’.
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You’re welcome :p
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In the vein of Spaghett’s last song game I have a different question: what was the last thing you watched?
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I always forget how gross it can be and make the mistake of watching it when I’m having lunch. 😛
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I know people think I’m nuts for this,but I’ve never understood the love for Daria. I think maybe I was too old when it was big.
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Picked up the collection on BD (which admittedly is only 6 episodes) for about $35-40. Such a great show. Haruko is fantastic.
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I think everyone was surprised by it. I had no idea Channing Tatum would be such a good comic actor.
That scene where they’re tripping balls talking to the gym teacher was fantastic.
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I still haven’t seen that. Not sure if I should, 21 Jump Street was my favourite show back in my early high school days.
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Episode 5 of Fringe.
I have no idea whats happening in it yet.
But theres lens flare. Lots of lens flare.-
Fringe gets great once the mythology kicks in. Right now you’re on The X-Files lite. Good characters, but it’ll get a whole lot better. Trust me. 😀
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Game, Ni No Kuni. Movie, Django Unchained, TV Show, I dunno. Haven’t watched any thing in a couple of days. I’ve got the new show The Americans ready to go, though.
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TV Show: Shameless (US) and/or Elementary
Movie: Whisper of the Heart
Sneakily through the window while hiding in the bushes: @alexpants-
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Or are you…
*peers out window*
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Just realised I didn’t even answer my own question. Oops. 😛
Last thing I watched was The Vampire Diaries. I’m still an episode behind. My verdict for this one was “Needs Moar Damon”.
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A tiny bit of Grimm that Mrs Tigs was watching as I left for work.
Last full show I watch was Bones
Morning. IT’S FRIDAY THANK CRAP. Not long now til I get out of this work attire and into my undies, crack open a Heinie-kan and press power on the Playstation.
I’ve barely made progress on Ni No Kuni the last few times I’ve played. I’m at a new area where the enemies are all crazy hard, I know I probably have to go back and grind up a few levels… but I don’t want to… so I end up playing for five minutes then turning the PS3 off. 😛
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The encounter once you reach Autumnia… (I think that’s what it’s called.) Think the problem might be micromanaging the party too. Not the ideal first battle to learn how to manage three of ’em. I like the game, though. Just want to get on with the story and not have to grind levels. 😛-
The encounter… you mean Shadar? If that’s the case, then that battle is purposely difficult to make it impossible to win. Don’t worry too much about it 😛-
For real! I’m an idiot! 😛
Thanks Pow. Turned off PS3 before the inevitable every time. Haha!
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Huh?
This is the one where you fight him on the sailing ship, right?EDIT:
Okay, apparently you have to bring him down to at least 50% health before you “lose”. Could’ve sworn I didn’t do that though. -
Yeah, maybe you’ve got to get his health down to a certain level or something. It’s alright, though. I suspect my characters aren’t powerful enough so will go back and do some bounty hunting quests or something. :S
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Can you set the party tactics to stay the same unless you change them? Make things so much easier having someone supporting the group and the like without having to manually set them every time?
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Do you set it every time, though? Maybe I missed a menu or something? 😛
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No :\ It should remember your tactics settings throughout all your battles.
At least, I’m pretty sure mine did…
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Hmmm, maybe I should spend more than five seconds on that screen to check. Haha. I love the game, though. Just the JRPG stuff is jarring to this Western RPG fan. Thanks man!
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Pretty sure they reset every time so I never bothered 😛
@dc – you have to “win” that battle. I thought it would be one of those ones where you have to lose but it’s not.
Have you been doing all sidequests/bounties? If you have you should be at a reasonable level and if you’re dying against normal enemies remember that the game is flawed in some aspects and WILL NOT TELL YOU when you’re “OUT OF BOUNDS” and the enemies are levels and tiers ahead of the ones you should be facing. I know many of us have wandered a little bit too far and got destroyed :'(
Just keep fighting some sea monsters around Castaway!
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@greenius: Haven’t been doing the Bounties. :S
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@greenius (may as well tag @dc as well :P)
Are you sure? I just turned on my game and it remembered the tactics settings that I changed last night. I’ve never had to re-set these settings…
Are we talking about the same thing? (The Tactics menu you access in-battle)
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(why not tag @dc too! :D)
@powalen – well I changed the tactics once and when I checked again they were different :P. I figured they either didn’t save or I must’ve failed badly and reloaded my game. I guess it must’ve been the latter :P!
So Warren Spector, while making an argument for more sensible games at the D.I.C.E. summit, has stated that immature games should not have been made and he points out Lollipop Chainsaw as a prime example.
While I agree with his desire for more games that are meaningful and relevant to us, I feel the way Spector states his case is very closed-minded and not very constructive at all.
I am all for sensible games that relate to real world issues and I would love to see more of them in the mainstream games market, but that doesn’t mean games like Lollipop Chainsaw should not exist. What the games market needs is variety, not just dumping one type of game for another.
The games industry and its fans should have an inclusive attitude and accept that there is a place in the market for every type of game for every type of person, not excluding certain types of games because they appear ‘unworthy’.
/rant
I’ll get back to work now.
Also, good morning!
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Good morning!
They need more speakers who think like you at DICE, Puppylicks. Or maybe they just need you.-
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Have you managed to get that game installed yet?
Bloody Win95 games can be tricky
I remember having similar issues installing Mechwarrior 3, for some reason the game’s Win95 optimization meant that on a WinXP machine all the APCs in the game would launch into the sky and never come back. This would not have been an issue if the mission objective for that stage wasn’t to destroy all the APCs 😛-
Haven’t got it working yet. Really doesn’t like ATI cards. :'( There’s workarounds I haven’t tried yet. I was just hoping it would somehow play straight away. I’m determined, though! 😀
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What’ve I missed?
What’ve you missed? Invoicing is *almost* halfway done, which means I’m *almost* not a week behind schedule. Funny how ex-employees tend to haunt the company once they can’t hide their tracks any more, eh?
Anyways, hope we’re all good today folks!
I need music 😀
For someone who complained very loudly they didn’t want to watch it, my son sure is mesmerised by this episode of DirtGirl World. 😛
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Your son is awesome! He was making all these weird faces at Hellscream, Sughly and I the other day. Cool kid! 😀
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Well, seeing as how you twisted my arm…
Seem to be having an issue at home as follows: If I choose an activity that doesn’t involve Mrs, so gets hurt feelings. So I don’t play any games all week, instead spend evening watching cooking shows with her (MC/ MKR etc). I start to feel really frustrated b/c what I enjoy and what relaxes me is gaming. I ended up getting snappy, her feelings ended up even more hurt. Shes got a right ol’ tmeper too so before you know it a big argument that isn’t even about the issue at hand.
Not sure what to do? I try and get her to play games with me, but she says shes too tired 🙁
Kinda considering buying a 3DS + Fire Emblem (when released here) and Virtue’s Last Reward etc, taking longer lunch breaks, and getting gaming out of my system during the day so it becomes a none issue at home.
Just basically an issue that has plagued our marriage from the start (TF2 pre hats was a big culprit) and continues to persist.
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Maybe you guys need to sit down
“Look honey, I love you, but MKR/MC make my brain bleed”
“I need to game to relax and destress”
But I wouldn’t listen to Spaghett
That guy is broken
Caustic, confused, violent, anxiety riddled, obsessive compulsive, hungry and paranoid
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I’ll say to her: “I’m more stressed out than @spaghett 8 hours out from seeing Sam!”
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Hmmm
Could you be that stressed?
Here, take my OCD and Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Then, come into work 10 minutes late because the trains fucked up *if you are Spaghett being late makes you anxious and throws off your day*
Then, read an email asking you to explain yourself
Then, tell your wife you are more stressed 😉
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So give us a rundown, what games do you have currently that you could coop with your missus on?
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Well we played through NSMB on Wii, but I think it cuased mor arguments than it solved.
We played through Kirbys Epic Yarn and that was awesome.
So I bought Kirbys Adventure… but she didn’t like it?
So i bought a second 360 controller so we could played RE6 together (she loooves RE4 you see), but the tiny split screen gave us both motion sickness.
So I bought Rayman origins… but she won’t even tyr it for some reaosn. I think RE6 put her off 360 alltogether!
She doesn’t even care about the cooking shows. Shes so run ragged after all day with 3 young children she just wnats adult company and to vegetate. Thats fine but I need to games. Seriously.
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Yeah NSMB can do that since your characters can collide and all IIRC. It causes fights more than awesome times on games like that lol. I can’t mention portal 2 coop since you mentioned motion sickness… hmmm… this sounds like quite the pickle, sorry human I’m not good with gaming and relationships combined… since I’ve yet to bring the long distance girlfriend over to live with me and game together, couldn’t really do that at her place while I was up at Portugal.
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She doesn’t understand the appeal of games, you don’t understand (or get sick of, perhaps) cooking shows. It’s a difference of interests is all, seems she just needs to understand that.
But hey, I’m probably talking crap :S
Hopefully the elongated lunch breaks work out?
Hopefully the elongated lunch breaks work out?
Well it requires a bit of an investmnet on my behalf.. so you rekon it might be a good idea? I’d hate to buy a 3DS and it turn out to be a big dissaster.
I enjoy my 3DS, though find I don’t use it as much as it deserves.
I think it would be best suited for long commutes to/from work on public transport, but outside of that, I can’t say it’s worthwhile (again, only speaking for myself here, others may/will have differing opinions).
On top of this, longer lunches will mean more time away from home, or less money at PPE, dependent on salary or such. Either way, it’s investment/sacrifice which may be seen as unnecessary.
First of all you need to make sure she understands that gaming is stress-relief for you, and those shows (which are obviously stress-relief for her) just add to your stress. Just in thesame way that for her, you gaming probably adds to her stress as she may feel like you prefer it to hanging out with her. Make sure she knows knows it’s not in preference to being with her, it’s stress-relief so that you can betterenjoy the time you spend with her.
A good way around the doing things together thing is to have a set time (for us it’s usually for about an hour,hourand a half after the kids go to bed) where you do your own thing and then after that do something together. If you play consoles more than PC and don’t alreadyhave one it may be worth it to get a cheap second TV so you can game while she watches her cooking shows.
We have a TiVo so we record MKR/MC and watch them together with the kids while we’re eating dinner, then I’ll either sew or go into the bedroom to play games or watch something like TheVampire Diaries or Project Runway that he’s not interested in while he plays games in the loungeroom. And then I’ll come out into the loungeroom and we’ll talk or watch something/play something together. That way we both get to destress but we also get to spend time together.
I also find handhelds are useful because I can use them while he’s doing something else but we can still be in the same room being companionable. 🙂
Oh and another thing that may help is to make a plan to have a “date-night” or day once a month where you do something by yourselves without the kids.
That is a very sensible suggestion, but atm she seems to get annoyed if I even look at my phone.
TBH I think there is a bigger issue here. I think her social isolation is the bigger issue, because if I wasn’t the only other adult she sees for days at a time, even a week at a time, then she wouldn’t feel so alone in the evenings.
Me on the other hand, the only time I get to myself is the drive to and from work, which is hardly relaxing.
THANKS FOR THE ADVICE EVERYONE!
I know the feels mang – I have the same issues with my missus. Part of the problem was that she had no hobbies and I had too many (football, drinking, wargaming, vidya games) and the only thing she had to do at home was hang out with me. Since it came up as an issue we put together a schedule – It’s not like I’m purely restricted to playing games on a Tuesday, but it’s easier for her to accept “it’s his gaming time” rather than “he’s on the computer again”. She has also just signed up for Netball so she has her own thing to do too.
Also, Hi Ash and welcome! You’re probably not that new, but it’s been a long time since I’ve been in TAY.
So that’s where you’ve been? That makes sense. Glad to hear you’re negotiating a compromise with her though
I’ve also been busy with Warmachine and Footy is starting up (They offered me a $250 a win so I got sucked back into playing). I do get on teamspeak regularly but it seems to be in decline lately (at least the LoLers seem to be missing).
@steve-o_the_deve-o
Yeah I want to get back into LoL more regularly, actually wanted to sign up for a 5 man ranked team with the TSers but it looks like DoTA2 is the more popular one nowadays. If anything we should duo queue cuz I feel like getting Cait practice next. Right now I feel AD carry is one of my worst roles. However, I think Jungling is not my very worst anymore since I’ve done really well with Nocturne last time I attempted a small series with him.
Yeah i’m pretty new man, thanks.
We had kinda a schedule thing going for a while but it just died out 🙁 Id did work for a time thoguht, maybe I cna rez it some how?
Good gateway to get you halfway: watch more YouTube together, things like the yogscast first minecraft series can help.
Good co-op:
Pixeljunk Monsters
MineCraft
Terraria
Good light / story / comedy driven games:
Deathspank (just the first one)
Aim more for spectator-friendly games. Dark Souls has rated well here. Also Skyrim.
Maybe try for a Mass Effect or Dragon Age playthrough with collaborative story decisions.
Not on this list (aka games I’ve received complaints over)
Trials
Shadow of the Colossus
Excessively long JRPGs
Disagreeable subject matter (for us, anything with zombies)
Hope some of this helps.
Disagreeable subject matter
Actually some of this has ramped up during my Nier playthrough… I wonder if she objected to Kaine? I’m sure I saw some sideways glances when she was onscreen.
Sorry to hear that, man. I’ve got no relationship advice though. Haha!
Let us know how it goes man, best of luck! Ain’t TAY and TAYbies da best? 😀
The 3DS idea sounds like a good one to get some gaming out of your system during the day but I’m not sure if it’ll fix everything. Best to talk with her and follow the advice of the others.
#Didn’tReallyHelp 😛
Monster Hunter 3 Wii U’s online multiplayer is region locked.
I will therefore not be buying Monster Hunter 3. And probably not a Wii U.
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Bugger. Will probably be a barren wasteland then within a few months. Any word on the state of the 3DS multi, or should I not bring that up?
One aspect of Monster Hunter Tri that I liked was playing with random massively high level overseas players.
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I’m just assuming the 3DS multiplayer will be region locked as well. Because it’s Crapcom and they seem set on making the game unappealing.
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In Dark Souls news:
Defeated Kalameet last night! Even got my sunbro-realbro @danmazkin to join my game finally, and after a few attempts we finally slew the foul beast!
Ahhh dragonslaying, knighthood’s highest calling.
And now I can put Dark Souls away, happy in the knowledge that every boss in the game has fallen to my blade.
Although I expect that one day in the future, the call of Lordran shall grow too strong once again…
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It happened to me last night. Started playing Ni no Kuni but started getting restless and it didn’t feel right. 10 mins later I’ve got a new character running through the Asylum.
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Did ya play much online on your first run?
I was undead my whole first run so I decided to spend as much time as possible in my second game as a human. Playing human is a whole other world to the game.I love that game. It would be my personal Game of the Generation I reckon 🙂
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A little bit. Mostly soloed it with help from the AI summons like Solaire. At this point every boss ill beat ill spend an hour or two dropping soul signs and helping others out.
I tried invading a few times but always felt like a dick when I killed the guy and stopped doing that.
Also Game of the Generation here. Possibly Game of the Ever.
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SPAGHETT’S LAST SONG PLAYED GAME *as a vent for anxiety, less I do something dangerous*
Surgery by Jack Off Jill
Such a fantastic, female fronted band
There are not to many female performers I enjoy
Mostly because they all end up in pop I guess
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Taurus Demon – Dark Souls OST
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Bother – Stone Sour
It’s a Corey Taylor kind of day. Unfortunately I don’t appear to have any Slipknot on my phone.
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Yes I am, I see what you mean about the different styles across the albums. Wasn’t keen when I started by I’m half way through listening to Sitra Ahra now 😀
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The last third of Land Of Canaan is one of my most favourite parts of any song ever.
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Ni No Kuni (Contains spoilers for about the 9 hour mark)
The Temple of Trials. 3 tasks. the combat one, easy. the Friendship one, requires a bit of coordination, but sure, got through it easily enough.
The Wit one though…. oh god the wit trial.
Part 1. I had no idea what I was doing. I just moved the statues around until it unlocked the door. even then, I couldn’t see any logical pattern in the order they were in. so yeah.
Part 2, pretty straight forward. move the piece to finish the portrait. done.
Part 3 though…. holy shit. I spent 2 hours last night trying to work that out. going into the Wizards book, looking up the familiars star / moon / sun affinity, trying to find a logical way that they should line up with the tiles on the floor…. nope.
I ended up getting it by randomly moving statues around until the door opened. Still couldnt see why that particular arrangement was the solution. no logic or pattern to it at all.
it was annoying.
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not i the wit trial, coz in the friendship one the bird just asked if I wanted to exit the trial area. figured that the bird would just say the same thing in the wit trial, so I never bothered.
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Yeah, that was seriously flawed. No wonder it took you so long! I didn’t think it was too hard when I did it but I remember thinking “…what the fuck do I do?!” since there was nothing to go on when you first enter the room. They should’ve said it before…
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I haven’t played Ni No Kuni because I don’t have a PS3. This makes me sad.My spoiled niece talked her parents into a PS3 for Christmas, but then said it was ‘crap’ when she found out it couldn’t play Halo. <— true story, but she was already my least favourite niece. Does prove their is no justice in the world though. -
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Q: Is Dark Souls worth picking up for PS3? Prepare to die edition? Even if I haven’t played Demon’s Souls?
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YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES!!!
Ahem.
Probably.
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A more useful answer is that Dark and Demons are only related thematically. No need to play either first.
To be honest it’s probably better if you don’t. Demons has a different rhythm to how it’s played it I kept trying to play Dark like that and not getting anywhere until I got into Darks groove.
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Benny don’t ask silly questions!
Also pick up Red Dead Redemption again (but this time no tradesies :P). I’d skip Demon’s Souls, design wise it isn’t as good so you’re better off going Demon’s -> Dark or just go straight to Dark (what I recommend).
@ash
Wifey and myself were having the same issue. We worked out a compromise where we alternate nights of watching TV or playing a board game or whatever she wants to do and me playing games. It seems to be working quite well so far.
So in light of recent news, let’s play a game. List games you wish would be put into an animated series more than Farmville!
X-Com (like MiB series)
Oh and for some inspiration:
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Battletoads is so perfect my brain assumes it already happened in some sort of shortlived series.
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We’ll do it another time when @greenius is back and @scree can make it.
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“I wouldn’t say a word till I’ve walked a mile in your shoes,
But once a mile from you,
I’ll utter what the fuck i choose,
Wearing nice new shoes”
The Streets – Going Through Hell
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Appeared as a security guard in an episode of Doctor Who. I was surprised & impressed in equal parts.
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Good actor?
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pretty small part, but Doctor Who probably isnt the best show to judge acting ability.
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D.C.’s a coward. After hanging out with you guys at the meats, I thought I’d work up the courage to ask my uni friends to do something. Suggested it. They agreed. Plans were made. I got scared and cancelled. Now they probably think I’m an idiot. Haha! :S
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I’m a crazy introvert. Just about to cancel plans of my own.
I keep trying though. Good luck with it mate!
From Page 17:
So in light of recent news, let’s play a game. List games you wish would be put into an animated series more than Farmville!
X-Com (like MiB series)
Oh and for some inspiration:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVQmYF35w74
Ideas so far:
@ash Dark Souls
@tech_knight Battletoads
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I tried to find downloads for that but no luck :/
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Wouldn’t be right to say where, but can definitely be found…
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Say, no more! Say no more!
*winkwink*nudgenudge
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Depends on how they did it. They could really swing the school kid angle and make it super light.
The graduates return to normal life and help their classmates overcome their issues.
Help the arty kids overcome their inspiration block, help the shy kid make new friends, get the fat kid to exercise, help the jock get over his fear of missing a goal, make the crabby teacher understand that because they got picked on they should take it out on all kids, etc….But I like your idea better
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Nah, haven’t seen it. Also not a huge fan of anime. I’d prefer more traditional, western animation for a Mass Effect cartoon.
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But with over 9000 ‘mons, 72 regions and and ever expanding main cast you could easily find a way to fill a season or 2. Maybe 3 maximum, wouldnt want it to get stale 😀
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PFFFT! Next thing you tell me there should be Pokemon MOVIES!
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God no. Thats just milking it too much.
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Bioshock could work or if we are going fps maybe hard reset, get some cyberpunk in the house.
I remember watching an adult animated show years and years ago that I remember as being fallout like. So that could be a go as well
Although now that I think it I could go with my standard response and say Psychonauts. Each week the team get sent out on a mission and invade the mind of the enemy and defeat them. Could mix it up and have bad guys minds as well as good minds in trouble. Helping the scared and cowardly worker gain the courage to face down his boss for committing crimes and the like.
I wouldn’t mind something like Resident Evil, but from Wesker’s point of view, or maybe Borderlands, that seems ripe for a saturday morning cartoon
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I did think that, but it would probably come across more like clone wars and I don’t think it is a great fit for an animated series
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The Witcher! I would like to see a series based off the Witcher books (mostly because I’m too lazy to read them)
Jagged Alliance. The personality’s of the mercs were hilarious.
Hurl has gone missing overnight!
Fidel: “I do nothing!”
Team Fortress 2
You’ve already got your characters
Antagonists could include Grey Mann, the other team, possible spys, that “strange lady that orders us around”
I logged onto TERA and found that my server had been merged with another one and all my characters have had their names reset. Tried re-entering the names and they’ve all been taken by other players T_T. Even variations on names that I use periodically are taken. Sadness. 🙁 When you spend hours and hours on a character and then have to change their whole identity like that it absolutely kills things for me.
Hey guys!
PAGE 18!!!
You know what that means????
…I’ve got orders to go and fill….
See you on page 19!
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*porn music*
A woman wearing nothing but thigh highs struts over to Chuloopa. Leaning close to him she whispers “Let me see your package, stud.”
Whilst he happily obliges, the initial disappointment in her face is apparent as a box containing Warhammer 40k items is shown to her.To be continued…
I love TAY… but it doesn’t pay the bills 🙁
I gotta go do some work. Catch you this arvo crew.
PS sorry for being a downer before.
I think everyone should know that Bob Katter really does wear that hat everywhere. I was just having a coffee and there he was, in the Brisbane CBD wearing a huge ass cowboy hat.
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You know where I work and you know that I have a work shirt with my company logo on it. So you know that I can’t exactly walk up to him and have a conversation :p
So I’m just going to assume that yes, he did say something ignorant.
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Chin up Spaghett. Odds are it will get better. Aren’t you meeting Sam today/this weekend? Just focus on that
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Thanks Nova
So much
I am focusing on Sam
I am also meating @shane
And there was talk of @greenius being there, but I doubt that
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If you come out tomorrow night for Rockets thing (is this still happening?) I may be there as well, just to make the weekend even better.
I wouldnt hold your breath on Greenius being there, the lazy bugger only shows up when other people drive him places 😛
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Nah dude, not for Rockets thing *as far as I know it is still happening*
Other plans, I will be there at Doc What’s proposed Laser Tag Meat though
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Laser Tag Meat? What madness is this?
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Oh man, I don’t know who that Gambit guy was on the score board, but he definitely sucked at laser tag. :'(
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It was an open invitation for people to join me!
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About to fly home from the Gold Coast 🙁 I don’t want to go back home. It’s been such a good time. Was awesome meeting new taybies , was much more adventurous at the theme parks. Why do holidays have to end? Back to work on Monday.
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Yep 🙂
First time on a roller coaster that does a loop, went on the Claw at Dreamworld and a couple of others that I would never have gone on before
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Morning all,
before I get dragged off to the pub for lunch (totally against my will) how are we all? I’ve gotten to spend my morning contemplating ghost rider and whether or not zombies could do anything more that lie down and thrash about gnawing at you.
Mild story/uncaffeinated thought time.
My housemate and I are kind of borderline obsessed with zombies, he just wants to live through left 4 dead and I like thinking up what if scenarios. I was thinking on the way to work about zombies and how they’re portrayed as slow shambling moaning beasties most of the time … but considering they don’t really use their lungs/diaphragm they wouldn’t ever moan. Then I got thinking about how their primary goal is to spread the infection, it’s pretty much their entire life goal to infect as much as possible. To the point where they will single mindedly go after anything uninfected, but how much of their limited thought process would have to go into being able to put one foot in front of the other, get back onto their feet, keep their balance while moving and changing direction while still trying to claw and bite your delicious man flesh. In all honesty, I can’t see something having so little motor function be able to get back up after being pushed down but still can’t work out how to climb over things. But what about the ones already standing? surely they’d be able to slowly amble their way towards you? … not really, they might be able to take a step before falling on their faces. So now we’re left with thrashing flailing soundless corpeses littering everything and possibly the worst zombie apocalypse ever and I want to make a comedic short about it at one point or another. Would any of the melbourne taybies be interested once I can flesh out the details a bit more?
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I never got zombies in terms of “They’re dead, meaning no heartbeat, meaning no blood to the body parts and more imporantly, no blood/oxygen to the brain” so how can their bodies function enough to even move yet alone try to eat you… without blood to the mind, massive brain damage as it would be if you were still alive, so wouldn’t they be motionless after a few minutes of death anyway, similar to being braindead if they were alive being starved of oxygen-processed blood for too long?
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Yeah … I’m still playing around with the details, but science! seems to be a good cover all answer as far as viruses and junk go.
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Yeah… in the mythical fiction area, yes undead magic can do it, cuz magic right? 28 days later-style COULD work, for a few days anyway until they go down by water starvation, since they don’t take time out to drink water.
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… I don’t remember there being any zombies in Zim. I remember there being an alternate universe full of monsters, but nothing really undeadish.
Where be this episode?
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The episode where he tries to return an overdue DVD because he thinks the FBI will track him down. The mall security guard unleashes a hoard of zombies which are incredibly useless.
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The World War Z film looks like it has an interesting take on zombies. I mean in terms of their speed.
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I have issues with world war z and it’s crazy strong snake of zombies approach … but I’ve been told that that stuff is supposed to be during the great panic and might be one of the stories being told, so it might be a bit skewed because that’s how someone swears it happened. We shall see, though
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Okaaaaay, so it looks like Ni No Kuni Wizards edition is out of the question – unless I want to spend the same amount I could spend on a new games console.
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Where have you been looking? A few sites have had it up every now and then. I know Zavvi re-listed it for 68 pounds in eBay (I think it was Europe only) and for 100 pounds on their website. No idea if they actually had stock or not though but my pre-order from them back in July says “despatched” so who knows if it’ll arrive :P.
Look around for some competitions too, like this one!
http://www.facebook.com/namcobandaigames.europe?sk=app_191382930957571&app_data
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Nah, actually before I said it was starting to annoy me. I don’t think that’s fair. The game is fine, I’m just at a part where the difficulty seems to have spiked and I’m getting my ass kicked every five seconds. I’m annoyed that it’s annoying me making me more annoyed. Not sure it’s the game, pretty sure it’s just unfortunately saving after venturing into an area I wasn’t leveled up enough to be in…
Might take a break, cause I know it’s not the game itself.
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You’re at the exact same point where I got very frustrated with the game. It gets better!
Advice:
Don’t explore. At all! Just go straight to every objective (and level up along the way if you have to). After a certain point, the game opens up and you can explore without feeling underpowered.-
Thanks man. I went back to the area before and have been exploring with enemies around my own level. Already I feel less riled up.
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Take a chillapilla! 😀
I responded on the last page but are you…
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I hate to be the voice of dissent here, especially since I make a living writing software, but can someone please explain to me why there is this feeling that game developers / publishers should be ‘entitled’ to a cut of used game sales?
If I was a musician and I released a bunch of CDs, and then someone took that CD to a used music store, I wouldn’t reasonably expect a cut of the resale of that CD. I already got my payment for the music. I’d hope maybe the person enjoyed my work enough to buy my next product new or maybe come to a concert or buy some merchandise or spread word of my work.
If I was a builder and I made a house to someone. and then that someone sold the house to the next person, I wouldn’t reasonably expect a cut of the resale of the house. If I was an author and I wrote a book, this same logic follows.
Why are games different? Every one of those used games was purchased initially, the publisher got their cut from it already.
You know what eliminating the used games market will do? It’ll mean that the prices of our games will stay artificially inflated. What incentive is there to drop the price, especially digitally? Publishers never drop the price of their stuff if they can get away with it, and one of the core reasons they do so is competing with cheaper used games.
Those things they’ve started doing to tighten the screws on ‘used’ games? Day 1 DLC, shitty multiplayer modes, microtransaction hell, retailer-exclusive preorder DLC? All that stuff will not go away if there’s no used game market. It’s here to stay and you’re still going to be expected to pay an extra $20+ on each game – after preordering it months ahead of time – to get the full experience.
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Same for music and movies but the Beatles don’t get a cut when someone sells a used copy of one of their records. They’d love that to be the case I’m sure, but it doesn’t work that way. Why should it for games?
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It’s a completely bullshit legal wording the publishers use to describe their product to avoid all sorts of responsibilities. Technically you don’t own a single game.
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Whenever I trade a game, I send 50 % of the trade in value to the developers. I just stuff that cash in an envelope and off it goes. Also, becuase you ungreatful bastards don’t do the same, I also have to send 50 % of the purchase price of a second hand game to the developers, via the same method, to make up the difference.
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Is this in relation to the “I will never buy a used game” article?
I think there are two main drivers of this, the fact the developers are going bust and a intense dislike of EB and the like.
So the perception (and reality I guess) is that money from these games are not going to the developers and they are going bankrupt which means we don’t get new games. But the games are still selling and EB is jacking up their prices while take a 300% profit on the sale of used games.
The author of the article was making a point that since they can afford it they will buy new games only, or wait for a price drop so that they pay the same amount as for a used game but the developer gets their share.As for not getting the full thing if you don’t buy new that happens with many things. You don’t get the manufacturer warranty if you don’t buy new, there if often brand loyalty gifts and the like when buying new.
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Yeah except game development funding doesn’t work the way people think it does.
Game Developer A wants to make a game. Budget is say $10 million. They pitch it to a publisher. The publisher pays that development budget in exchange for various concessions (often things like, they take ownership of the IP, and that the developer must deliver by a certain date, and so on). Sometimes they have a royalty system in place but often the developer just gets paid a fixed amount and factors in their profitability margin into the deal. Recently the thing has been that to get the full agreed amount they need to hit a certain rating on Metacritic. :\
In the case where the publisher owns the developer outright, the developers are salaried to work there.
So generally speaking for most games, your money from sales doesn’t go to the developer. When the game’s delivered to the publisher, the developer’s usually received most of their money. New game purchases are paying the publisher so they can recoup their investment in developing and marketing the game and turn a profit.
Developers aren’t going bust because of used games. Developers are getting shut down because their parent publisher is struggling or they are costing too much as a studio to run or they’re not producing games that sell well enough. The US is still in recession and the world financial system is in tatters and has been for a while. The console cycle has lasted too long. Mobile has cut a massive chunk out of the console and portable market where the traditional publishers’ power base was strongest. THQ as the highest-profile collapse recently was completely mismanaged over many years. Australian studios were being closed down because the value proposition for paying developers on salary when the AUD is at 75c to the USD is very different to when our dollar is at parity, given our minimum wage and cost of living is so high.
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Recently the thing has been that to get the full agreed amount they need to hit a certain rating on Metacritic. :\
Which si a shame becuase Nier proved at the very least that Metacritic is broken,
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Obsidian got screwed over for a whole lot of extra royalties because Fallout: New Vegas was 1 point below their target. :\ They were the ones that let the cat out of the bag about publishers using metacritic to assign bonuses.
Metacritic is the worst.
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Yeah agree with that.
I was more coming from where the “don’t buy used’ sentiment is coming from. It might not be a logical position but those two things are a big driver in people’s opinion.
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One of the differences between the current game scenario and the other examples you’ve given – you don’t have your new goods retailer directly interfering with said sale to push their own used sale quite so flagrantly.
It’s a bit of a hate – hate relationship – the retailers need that used sales revenue stream to stay viable, the publishers need the retailers for the necessary mass distribution of their new sales. As can be seen by the likes of Game and THQ, neither side is really at an advantage, it’s just about trying to tip the survival odds in their favour.
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Game and THQ were both undone by mismanagement, not used game sales or lack thereof. uDraw killed THQ.
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You left out stupidity.
My old job, we still supported Solaris 2.6. There were no customers using it but we had to keep building it because someone in sales had decided bundling our product with another one, with unlimited support was a good idea. :\
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It’s a good point you raise about the hardworking devs getting paid when they do the work, so this isn’t such a direct thing on them.
Wasn’t that long ago the kickstarter revolution was about helping out the poor devs against those big nasty publishers. Now we have a serious effort of the publishers trying to get themselves onto the good will side of the equation.My final conclusion? I’m too cynical about everything these days.
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Cataloguing some journals at work and to keep some of the series dates in my head, I have found I have started chanting them out loud.
Gotten a couple of strange (HI STRANGE!) looks from people walking past the library door.
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/02/07/david-cage-refuses-to-grow-up-says-man-in-his-chair/
This basically exactly sums up my feelings on the latest David Cage ranting.
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yep.
I loved the comparison to sheriff movies- just because there’s big dumb blockbusters doesn’t mean there’s not evolution in the medium
Is @shane around? GODDAMMIT I went and bought TMNT 2 and 3 last night because of the video link he posted. I remember seeing the first one when I was a kid but never the second. I didn’t even know there was a third. Good times.
Don’t forget that if you plan to send noms they need to be in early as @markserrels is a lazy sod and want to piss of early and go to the pub to spend time with the bub
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Dear x.
I hereby tender my resignation, effective DATE. I am happy to assist your company in the intervening to arrange a proper handover.
Kind regards
@mythamphetamine.
PS: PUBLIC SERVANT, BITCHES
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Oh, how I wish I could sign off with my handle.
Something tells me they wouldn’t quite understand though.Also thanks, that’s perfect 😀
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Have you used up all of your leave? Make sure you get that paid out if possible.
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There is no “if possible.” It must be done. All entitlements need to be paid out in full when someone leaves.
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Depends on his contract. If he has leave accrued, it should be paid out.
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But then they’d be able to Google it and see all the lovely things you’ve said about said company!
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Rad! I’d like to say tell em to go get stuffed… but I spose you better be nice about it. I mean i used to work with this asshat who i didnt think was going anywhere.. and now he is a manager where i kinda want to work. lucky i wasnt rude to him like the other guys here but he mgiht have hurt feelings about it all still.. um, oh sorry that kinda went off topic :S
Quit nicely incase you want to work there again on day 😛
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Never burn your bridges, always a good thing to remember. Even if people are asshats 😛
I’ll be double-checking my leave accruals and entitlements owing prior to saying anything, no sense in letting it go to waste 😛
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Groote Eylandt
It’s a mythical narnia-esque land off the coast of the NT.
With miners instead of fauns.
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Based off @mythamphetamine’s descriptions, it seems less like Narnia and more like Silent Hill.
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I’ll be sure to take more photos once the mist rolls in again 😀
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Groote Eyelandt. Head north until you run out of land. Then head north a bit more 😉
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Nah, still on Groote, still in the same township that I work(ed) in. The incentives package is pretty hefty though, so I’ll be able to come annoy you mainlanders more often 😀
TODAY IS A FRIENDLY FRIDAY! \o/
My copy of Devil May Cry from the comp came!!
But not only that SO DID MY $10 COMMAND SQUAD FROM EBAY!!!
LET THE CONVERSIONS BEGIN!!!
\o/
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Oh wow, yeah you don’t get the full appreciation for it until you see the large verion on your profile page. You even got your ‘warface’ on 😛
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Hes even got my little soul patch! 😀
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I share your pain :'(
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You should get back into it anyway. Paint some stuff up for fun.
Plus there are TONNES of gaming clubs around, so you can’t really use the “no one to play with” excuse 😛 lol
Also, interstate 40k meats!!!I’m hoping to have a decent army ready for Pax….
Hoping….
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Ha ha, I tried Freeze, I tried. 🙂
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I experienced her Directing a bunch of us no-good TAYbies. If she can do that then Directing anything else will be easy for her. 😀
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It appears what I had posted before about Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate has already been discussed, so I’m just using this post to say
GODDAMNIT @DC
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Region locked stuff? 🙁
Does that mean I can only play with Australians (and probably other PALs)
:'(. Oh well, I can just co-op with TAYbies :D. I was too scared to do MH3 online because I didn’t want to screw up and I had no idea what I was doing…
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Don’t get your hopes too high.
Trolling in Monster Hunter 3 is probably far more detrimental than in other games.-
therefore trolling is all the more effective. I remember a upward slash that sent people flying with the greatsword that angered many a player when I was playing regular Tri…
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Second.
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1pm.
4 hours left .
Counting down gang.
Getting more and more work.
Just trying to burn through it to get it done.
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No one talk to @spaghett until his work is all finished!
Option 2:
Everyone tag @spaghett so he gets interrupted by notifications every 30 seconds.
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PROMOTE THAT MAN AT ONCE.
@spaghett
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Damn it, my OCD will kick in and I will need all the little notification’s gone, and I will need to see what was said
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I kind of want to go put a @spaghett on every page. Maybe even in some articles. Who knows?
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For the next meat, could somebody please bring plastic balls for everybody, and written on each plastic ball could there be a random statement written in the same structured format that @spaghett writes his comments in?
That way, everybody can have spaghetty meat balls.
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I want to upvote you for the effort but downvote you because I think you’ll encourage others.
This is tough.
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Bright and happy, don’t stay out late at night to beat up random criminals and am not an orphan? I don’t deny it.
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So damn happy for Mrs. Freeze AND Freeze with the police stuff. Looks like 2013’s going to be awesome for you guys! Congrats!
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Freeze + Mrs. Freeze = Kindergarten Cops. -
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Mrs. Freeze was offered a Director job at another place and Freeze was shortlisted in the Gazette dealy! (Meaning he’s incredibly close to getting in!)
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Ooh excellent. Dictator job you say, sounds pretty good. Oh wait you said director, bit of a difference there, damn it.
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I wish I could watch it with sound
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You don’t…
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Apologies my good meat substitue
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I’ll take your apology … but now I’ll feel bad whenever I need to sacrifice yoshi mid jump knowing that she went down mid orgasm
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There’s worse ways to go.
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I am sure she finished orgasm man!
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fair nuff. So, how’s things Senor Spaghett? I haven’t really been on much due to work and I’ve missed being able to talk
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Wait a second… Yoshi is a girl?
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D: That’s news to me too.
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well … I’d assume so, what with the whole egg laying thing, kind of infers a female reproductive system.
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@tofu I had never actually thought about that. D:
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Things are bleh, worst week of 2013 so far, how bout you Tofu
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stressful, but good. I’ve been in a bit of an artistic funk lately when it comes to graphic design, but I thought up a new take on some designs I’ve been stuck on for a while, other than that just slowly going broke paying for my housemate/best friends rent and dealing with a pinched nerve all week kind of put a dampener on things. but, tomorrow is the weekend and I think things are starting to look up.
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This one time….at band camp
@freezespreston I always think of Bill and Ted when I see your name
I am Ted Theodore Logan, and I am Bill S. Preston, Esquire
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That’s where it’s mostly from. The full handle is Freeze S. Preston Icequire. My last names Winters, hence the Freeze, and the actor who plays Bill is Alex Winters, hence that half.
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It’s a mystery!
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That makes sense 🙂
I also figured
You know, the whole cop thing
FREEZE! PUT YOUR HANDS UP!
But it’s ice to meat you
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Everybody, chill!
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Has anybody seen the Korea air force parody of Les Miserables (titled Les Militaribles)
Extremely well done, if you have a spare 10 min or so check it out
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There’s this thing known as a metric fuckload of landmines that seem to be doing a decent job there.
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Interesting stuff about why they’ve not raised the BL2 level cap yet:
http://venturebeat.com/2013/02/07/borderlands-2-level-cap-increase/
Sup Nerds.
This week we embrace a new form of digital discussion.
http://dankarlszeitgeist.podbean.com/2013/02/08/dan-karls-zeitgeist-s02e17-fingers/
LISTEN, RT, POST ON YOUR WALL, CONVERT TO AN LP AND SELL IT TO HIPSTERS AS THE NEWEST THING OUT OF PORTLAND!
X-COM EU Update.
Note my best soldier is a non TAYbie and is not listed.
‘Deadbolt’ Numbers – Alive. Sniper, 64 kills.
‘Prototype’ Aleph – Alive. Heavy/Psyker, 62 kills.
‘Bonus’ Chuloopa – Alive. Support. 56 kills.
‘Hulk’ Doc_What – Alive. Heavy 49 kills.
‘Angel’ Rize – Alive. Support 17 kills.
‘Echo’ Blaghman – Alive. Sniper, 17 kills.
‘Crash’ Nova – Alive. Heavy, 11/Psyker kills.
Saturday – Alive. Support, 3 kills.
F4ction – Alive. Heavy, 0 kills
‘Duke’ Tofu – KIA. 15 kills. 14 missions.
‘Wardog’ Tigerion – KIA. 13 kills. 8 missions.
Tech Knight – KIA. 4 kills. 3 Missions
D.C – KIA. 1 kill. 4 Missions
Freeze – KIA. 1 Kills. 3 Missions
Shane – KIA. 0 kills. 1 Mission.
@Lucifer9783 @Mythamphetamine @Chuloopa @Doc_What @Rize @Blaghman @NovaCascade @Saturday @F4ction @Tofu @Tigerion @Tech_Knight @dc @freezespreston @shane
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Without a full length finger you were unable to pull the trigger in time. (please dont be upset with that comment!)
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I’m still proud of my ratio and feel honoured having served along with all these fine soldiers
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!!!!!!! 😀
I saw you had @mentioned me and my heart sank – i thought you were about to tell me i was dead! BUT I’M STILL IN THERE!!!
And 3rd (4th) overall as a medic? Hells yeah! -
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Oh name a character after me please! I don’t even care if i die, as long as it is a glorious death in battle!! just don’t let the greys probe me or anything perverted like that.
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Please don’t let me die. I’ve never survived through a taybie’s game before. Everybody playing XCOM and FTL has killed me off.
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@shane, If I text you this afternoon/tomorrow morning will you respond this time?
I promise it will be civil, I won’t try and spook you and I will use my real name
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Say hi to Shane for me tomorrow. Also tell him No. Meating. Shane. >:|
Then make sure to furrow your brow and squint your eyes. 😛
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I’m gonna go ahead and dob @spaghett in. He didn’t stop smiling the whole time, the big jerk. He passed on your big jerk message though. Hi yourself.
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bah, there is no time for civility or names. this is the age of instant information … it the extra few seconds it takes to be civil or spell things porperly whole nations can collapse! But I do admire a man who can be civil in a time where it falls on deaf ears.
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why must you torment me so, DC!
I THOUGHT WE WERE FRIENDS ON THE INTERNET!!!! *flees to his room*
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Not too bad, Tim. Not too bad.
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That’s good Dan
Your name was obvious from your Twitter handle, same with Greenius
Also the same with Alex and his pants, and a couple of others
@shane, his name is just so elusive though
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It’s Fabio
*insert sexy Fabio pic here*
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Le Funar!
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I am an enigma.
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You truly are ynefel
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Oh guess my name now!!
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Horaldo?
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I’ll just ignore you! HA! I am the winner!
Wait, at meats do you not give out your real name?
Most of us go by our usernames at meats or atleast that’s what I’ve found! (We’re aware of each others proper names, though. :P)
Isn’t it fun when people have the same names? :P. I’m still not used to “Greenius” (and variations)
Cool
I thought D.C. was a little jarring at first but now it feels right. Although when people talk to Dan! I still occassionally start to respond and feel like an idiot. 😛
I don’t think anyone’s actually asked. The last meat I went to, everyone just referred to each other by screen name.
Would you like to know my name? it’s a very underwhelming name.
Underwhelm me *yes please tell me*
For I have never just been “Whelmed”
@spaghett
… it ran out of replies.
Greetings people, I am Damien John Bradshaw. Also known as Damo … please don’t call me Damien, it’s weird and only 3 people do it.
Alright Damo
I will call you Tofu
Dazza it is!
gorram it @greenius I’d managed to escape that name. But you just had to bring it back … curse you @meanius
Meats are usernames only!
I like it, because I’ve never had a nickname before 😛
Haha! Same here! XD
@dc The curse of the 3-letter name.
Nicknames are fun!
– Spicy Joelypops
Your… real name isn’t “Powalen”?
Despite God of War Ascension isn’t the first game to be classified R18+ won’t it be the first game to hit the streets as R18+?
Sounds like a must buy.
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We can only handle mild themes. Medium themes are a bit troublesome and we just can’t stomach extra spicy themes.
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I’d like to think it’s because every summer anyone above the age of 18 melts in the humidity … it is a sad fact of life, unfortunately.
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I thought that was the fate of people who live in Alice Springs but I guess they must have a Slurpee machine there.
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Incase noone else has said it yet…
COMMUNITY SEASON 4 STARTS TODAY!!!!!!!!
It’s a pretty solid episode too 🙂 Enjoy! I did!
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Oh it’s actually out now right now!? I thought it was coming on the 10th for some reason.
Cool cool cool!
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Eh, well, I announced it started TODAY. 😛 lol!
Either way, The more recognition Community gets THE BETTER!!!!
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So, it’s nearly 4
As soon as the only other person in my sector goes, I am going to stop working
I know I went on this morning about being in trouble
But right now, I give no fucks
If I could, I would give negative fucks, or perhaps even steal some fucks so I had a surplus to hoard
That feel when it’s almost the end of the day and you just realised it was Friday.
I honestly thought it was Thursday.
@Chuloopa Your character panics alot, but always seams to freak out then kill an alien from across the map with a gun that Im sure cant reach that far.
FRIDAY!
That means it’s time to play videogame charades! (yes I just made that up)
I’ll offer a single clue, and you have to guess what game I am talking about.
Round 1’s clue is:
HAW HAW HAW HAW HAW
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Ugh, Lazyius
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Okay Correctius,
because you nailed it you get to choose the game and clue for round 2 (yes I am making these rules up as I go)
Post whenever you’re ready 🙂-
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Hah ‘kay
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IF IT WASN’T RIGHT THE FIRST TIME YOU SAID IT, WHY THE HELL WOULD IT BE RIGHT THE NEXT TEN TIMES!
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OKAY!
It’s time for Round 2 of videogame charades!
Rules are: I’ll offer a single clue, and you have to guess what game I am talking about. Winner gets to decide and post the next game and clue at their leisure.
Round 2’s clue is:
It’s a rasp!
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Okay I made that one a little too hard, sorry 😛
It was a quote I always remembered from Sam & Max Hit the Road.Ahhh good times.
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Fuck, expect a picture on Twitter
Althought the guy that plays Spaghett and myself share the same first name
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Spaghett?
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Strange first name, that’s for sure.
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No, Tim
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Tim and Eric! Oh man I love those guys and I’ve seen this bit on TV but never made the connection 😛
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Sooo jealous. I didn’t even find out about them being here until after tickets for the Melbourne shows had sold out, and flying to Sydney was too expensive.
Have you seen Tim and Erics Billion Dollar Movie? That was the most WTF thing I’ve ever seen. I get shivers when thinking about Shrim.
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Not quite yet, I need to
Also, you should be jealous
I think I died laughing
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I just ate an entire pack of vanilla creme wafer thingies, I only meant to eat 5 or 6.
But, yeah, no more wafer thingies for anyone else
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Dad buys like six at a time, there’s still plenty to go around.
I probably wont have any more.
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Yeah, thanks…
Meanius.
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Hmm, I should probably start going through all the stuff in my room and sort out what’s to be thrown away and what to keep. And when I get to the box in the wardrobe with my old toys in it I’ll probably shed a manly tear or two and play around with them for a bit and then proceed to throw them out.
It’s like Toy Story 3, only with a not very happy ending for the toys 😛 But from looking around I don’t think I’ll be bringing many of my things with me when I move next Sunday. It’s amazing how much stuff you have that you don’t realize is complete crap.
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Yeah Just throw out the crap, if there is anything in good condition you can donate it to charity as well
or
Hold a TAY giveaway if you think anything appeals to us 🙂
@chuloopa @ash Chuloopa Space Marine in all his glory! http://i1206.photobucket.com/albums/bb449/lamboman007/LoopsMarine.png
SORRY!
Round 2 was a little too obscure, so it’s time for Round 3 of videogame charades!
Rules are: I’ll offer a single clue, and you have to guess what game I am talking about. Winner gets to decide and post the next game and clue at their leisure.
Round 3’s clue is: 30 free lives, if you know what to do.
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Start isn’t part of the Konami code (sometimes it’s Select) but I’m fairly sure you don’t have to hit start to activate it, just to start the game once you’ve put it in.
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Select to switch to 2 player, Start to start the game.
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Nailed it!
I would have also accepted Probotector, which was contra but rebranded with mechs (thus better)
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Oh did ya?
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Oh god! I can’t get God of War in QLD? What am I going to do?
Wait.
I work in a NSW shopping center. Never mind. Carry on.
Everybody was giving out their names so I wanted to fit in. Here’s a picture of me on the Internet:
http://sannahaynes.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/tobias-funke-headshot.jpg
Also my morning of listening to Corey Taylor has become an afternoon of Matt Heafy (Trivium).
Edit: OH GOD IDENTITY PAGEGET!
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Are you also a never nude? I don’t believe I have met you at the conference!?
Edit: reply fail
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Urgh I gotta go home I guess. I’ll see if the hot cross buns I bought are a sufficient peace offering to mitigate any fall out from last nights tiff.
Have a good weekend all 🙂
See you Monday probably.
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I vote sere them up to her wearing only a bow tie and an arrow on your stomach pointing to your junk drawn with a Sharpie.
Make sure you tell her “I hope you’re not cross.
BAM! Instant forgiveness.
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I presented the hot x buns along with the line “the buns are cross so you don’t have to be”. Totally worked too 😀
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You obviously don’t love hot x buns as much as my wife 😛
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So, on Monday I will start a competition. Winner gets a copy of CTHCC. Entry is best joke wins. Tay will be the ones who vote the winner, but in the end what I say is final.
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Note to self, avoid TAY on Monday. (Not cause of you scree, I just know there’s going to be pages of puns I’ll want no part of. :P)
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NOPE! (To be honest the games you linked aren’t really my kind of thing. Plus I don’t tell jokes. :P) Good luck with the marketing stuff, though! 🙂
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Really? Seems to b a theme. =(
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And you made me want to play it again (so I did) and it pissed me off immensely!
UGH GOOD ONE D.C.!
@powalen – I did what you did for Tactics but despite it saying “Keep Us Healthy” SHE DID EVERYTHING BUT THAT. WHAT THE FUCK ESTHER!? DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND!?!?!?
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That’s one thing I’ve done differently. Spent ages putting a good combination of Ghiblimon in the party instead of whatever looks the most amusing. Haha!
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Of course! She healed normally when it was on “Do Anything” (or whatever the default was). She still has her Drongo which has reached its final and has Healing Tear (basic) and Healing Glow (intermediate) yet when she’s on “Keep us Healthy” she doesn’t heal AT ALL and just uses the third form Monolith (I forgot its name… Neolith?) and derps around…
Swaine heals instead but since he has low MP it’s not really effective… he’s set on “Provide Back Up”-
Maybe I notice she heals more often because every Ghiblimon she has in my game has a healing move.
I’m at a point now where I don’t even have to use provisions anymore 😛 One of my teams’ Ghiblimon has a revival move which is amazing.
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I’ve never used a single item in the game :P.
I thought about giving her all healingmons but then she’d be too weak and ___lith is an amazing tank. He Strongo has the highest M.Atk (which I assume affects healing) so it’ll be pointless if she switched to others to heal. One would assume the game is smart enough to notice it’s her only Ghiblimon with healing spells but NOPE! >:(
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I thought of that this arvo! We could organise something tomorrow/night if Cake is available? (we still need a fourth). Also, think Cake was planning to record it, and I’m contemplating a Potaku thing from that.
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Tonight? Drunk?
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Now that’s just teasing…
F-Zero X and Lylat Wars arrived, no sign of console. WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY /o\
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You want my Green and Grey controllers with the almost completely borked analog sticks? at least than you can pretend to play and give yourself a blister from the struggling the low sensitivity will cause you.
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Have a good trip tomorrow, @greenius! Hope you have fun and all that! Will you be online at all or just holiday mode?
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Are you referring to March/Late February? I’m breaking a sweat even thinking about how much that’s going to cost me.
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He has a US 3DS so can buy it right now (which I’m very jealous of at the moment! :P)
Man, I cannot wait to play this game.
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Wanna know what’s kind of weird? Making an account on another site, logging in, and having your cheese picture staring back at you!
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Man, I bet that looks a little cheesy
*ducks and covers crutch to defend against incoming assault*
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I like to check back on Community Kudos and upvote @dc since he’s doing all the upvoting and can’t upvote himself. Spreading sommadat Manly Upvote Fairyness
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Don’t worry he’ll randomly ask for it a few months from now :P. I’m still waiting for a kudos prize too but it doesn’t bother me.
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Does that mean i should tell him? I’m so confused
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If you want. It might give him a reminder to send out older stuff too but it’s up to you!
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I’m probably not going to be in this house a lot longer, don’t know my new address, and don’t want to get into weirdness with a journalist sending something to me at work given that I work at Microsoft. 🙁
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Ok here is the final update/write up for my XCOM game. Please excuse any spelling mistakes or gramtic errors I havnt double checked it proper cause lazy.
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It had been almost a year since the aliens first invaded. But finally after many long months, hard fought victories and some unfortunate losses, the war was coming to an end. The skirmish about to unfold would decide who would emerge victorious.
Earth’s finest soldiers embarked on their final mission. The squad was led by Col. Aleph. An outstanding heavy weapons specialist, humanities first and most powerful Psyker. It was only because of his abilities that this boarding could take place. Col. Chuloopa was also present having served along side Aleph since the very beginning. Everyone owed their lives to his medical skill, and whilst easily panicked he knew how to handle a rifle. Col. Rize, or ‘Angel’ as the squad had come to call her was the newest of the group. Acting in a supporting roll to the rest of the squad. Col. Doc What sat silently in the ship, he had always been second to Aleph. His own lack of psychic ability had widened the gap between them. But he was a capable gunner and could place a rocket where ever it was needed. Crack shot and team re-con Col. ‘Deadbolt’ Numbers had served in more deployments then any other soldier present. Rare was the enemy who had taken his fire and lived to tell the tale, usually not for long. Lastly Col. Pheonixchic who kept herself separate to the rest of the squad. None the less she was a valued member of the group, carrying a one of a kind weapon. Useless at any engagement over 30 paces, she more then made up for it once she closed the distance. More aliens had fallen to her then any other.
The squad landed on the ship and rushed into defensive positions, the area was clear. The set about slowly and procedurally moving through the ship. The Sectoids and Cyberdiscs that had once struck fear into them were no match for what they had become. The pushed forward through Mutons and Beserkers, they were no obstacle. Aleph even turned the aliens against each other. Chryssalids burst forth from no where but were swiftly shot down before the even had a chance to move.
They paused briefly to regroup, reload. Patch up minor wounds and assess the situation. A large room was before them. They rushed in. Out of the shadows stepped forward two Sectopods, giant alien mechs. Capable of laying down terrifying amounts of firepower. Chuloopa was out in the open, dropping a smoke grenade on himself he hunkered down and braced for impact. Despite all odds the machines missed him. Suddenly one of the mechs stepped into a familiar position, it was preparing to fire a rocket barrage. Such an attack had claimed the life of fellow soldier Tigerion only a few months before. Everyone else sprang into action, Numbers fired his rifle landing a critical hit against it. It was not enough. Rize too fired upon the mech, still it stood. Doc What ran forward bringing his Plasma Cannon against the target, to his own relief he finally scored a hit having missed every target encounted up until now, bringing the towering terror down. The victory was short lived however, one Sectopod still stood. Out of nowhere Aleph called forth an almighty psychic storm against the machine, what usually took a team effort to bring down was cast aside in one swoop like a paper bag in a hurricane.
They pushed on. Chuloopa threw himself against the next door, however it did not open. It wouldn’t open for anyone. The group split up, Numbers, Aleph and Pheonix stood guard at the door. The rest began to retrace their steps. They searched the ship high and low, they found nothing. No aliens, no switches. After much searching the came upon a room they had all over looked, once more Chuloopa burst through a the door way, this one opening. Two Thin Men scattered in fear, they were soon put down. Meanwhile back at the door two elite Mutons stepped out of thin air and assaulted the other group. Numbers and Pheonix both took direct hits from the Mutons plasma cannons, saved only by their armour. The group fired back and the two aliens fell, the door suddenly opened. Chuloopa, Rize and Doc regrouped and attended to the others wounds. This was it, only one room was left on the ship.
Activating his armours cloak Numbers crept forward into the room, it appeared empty. The rest of the squad filed in and took up their positions. It was Rize who noticed the tall slender figure looming at the other end of the room. An Ethereal, leaders of the alien forces. It spoke to Aleph telepathicly, of what they had tried and failed to achieve. How he was to succeed where they had failed. Aleph cast the voice out. The team prepared to open fire upon the fragile creature. Two more Elite Mutons stepped appeared from no where, followed by two more powerful Ethereals. Aleph reached forth with his mind and took control of one of the Mutons. At the same time Doc fired his weapon upon the other, the bolts of plasma burning through the alien. Leaving behind only a pile of ash. Pheonix bolted down one side of the room, planning to flank one of the Ethereals. Rize and Numbers both fired upon the first Ethereal, only for their own attack to be reflected right back at them. Psychic energy flew across the room and destroyed the mind controlled Muton.
Isolated from the group Pheonix’s radio fell silent. Numbers was lifted from the ground by the aliens. He hit the ground with a thud, standing up he turned to Doc and opened fire. The aliens had him. Chuloopa panicked and returned fire at Numbers. Doc ran for cover, bring his rocket launcher to bear against the Ethereal rather then his comrade hoping to save him. It misfired but still managed to damage two of the Ethereals. Rize rushed to provide Doc with medical aid. Aleph took aim and fired upon the third Ethereal, it left forth a piercing scream and slumped to the ground.
More psychic energy flew across the room, the resulting explosion caught both Number and Rize. Numbers body evaporated in the heat of the blast. Rize was was not so fortunate to receive a quick death, she flew back into the wall and lay briefly in agony before passing on.
Aleph ducked into cover beside Chuloopa, using his own psychic powers he managed to calm his old friend down. With renewed vigour Chuloopa stood up and fired upon an Ethereal, again the creature was hit but did not go down. Pheonix then appeared on a balcony above Doc, but something was wrong. She raised her weapon and and pulled the trigger. At that range Doc had no chance of surviving. His body stumbled back and fell to the floor, a horrific pooling where his head once sat. More psychic energy came from the shadows, Aleph and Chuloopa braced themselves.
Aleph picked himself up, checked his weapon. Still working. There was no sign of Chuloopa, gone the way of Numbers. Alone against two powerful alien Psykers Aleph retreated into a far corner to buy himself some time. Meanwhile Pheonixchic suddenly found herself waking up, she remembered nothing after running off to flank the enemy. She looked down in horror to see Rize and Doc lying motionless. She recognised the weapon damage on Doc’s body. Enraged she ran forth down the room once more, rounding the corner she came face to face with an Ethereal. Before it could even react she pumped the barrel of her gun and let loose two mighty blasts. The alien was no more.
Unaware of what was unfolding across the room, Aleph moved forward certain he was about to meet his end. Getting the jump on the remaining Ethereal he fired, but still it wound not die. Purple energy surged forth from the creature and his mind went blank. When he came two he was looking down upon the Ethereals lifeless body. Two large holes had been put through it, Pheonix stood over it, reloading her gun.
The ship began to shake violently, Aleph was struck by a vision of the worlds destruction. He threw Pheonix through the doorway, yelling at her to run he sealed the door shut. Pheonixchic moved as fast as she could back through the ship to their own, the pilot was already preparing to take off. They waited nervously for any sign of Aleph. “If we don’t bug out now were dead” called the pilot over the radio. The ships ramp closed and the Skyranger took off to escape the exploding alien craft. Back at XCOM HQ control monitored the alien ship. Everyone was silent. Slowly it began to move, accelerating skywards the alien ship left earth’s atmosphere and sailed past the moon. Shortly afterwards it was ripped apart by an immense explosion. People going about their daily lives looked up at the sky unaware of the sacrifice that had just been made.
Col. ‘Prototype’ Aleph was never seen again. Presumed KIA on board the Alien Mother ship, along with his fellow soldiers Doc What, Rize, Numbers, and Chuloopa. They were the finest soldiers Earth had ever known, and Aleph the most powerful human in the history of mankind. Each was awarded the highest of honours along with lone survivor Pheonixchic. A memorial was setup in their memory and slowly the world moved on. Their sacrifice remembered but with less regard with each passing year.@lucifer9783 @mythamphetamine @chuloopa @doc_what @rize @blaghman @novacascade @saturday @f4ction @tofu @tigerion @tech_knight @dc @freezespreston @shane
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But it clearly says “@Saturday” on the last line!
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yeah copy past tag from the last post shush
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dude, that was pretty awesome. I drink to my fallen brothers and sisters and kind of ghost salute pheonixchic. although, now I’m kind of wanting to give this game a shot myself to see if I can craft an epic journey like that one
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I reccomend it. Thanks for reading didnt think anyone could be bothered. I wasnt sure about it myself till I tried it at a mates place.
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Given how the game works its save files (god awful) the chances are that if that game hasnt already been erased I wont be able to access a final AAR. But know that after the final mission you likely died on 70+ kills and over 40 missions.
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Wtf? Why is there a 1.3gb update for Psychonauts on Steam? The game is years old, what could there possibly be that requires basically downloading the whole game again? :l
*cough*
TAAAAAAAAAY
*looks around*
What’d you mean? i’ve been here the entire time… I’m just the quiet guy over there…. outside the window… staring at you… from the tree… on the opposite site of the road… in the dark… with binoculars
*starts to whistle*
so erhm… ’bout that weather hey?
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nothing and everything… working, working and working… Things are looking up though, so that’s something 🙂
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Good to hear, man! You’ve been missed!
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thanks dood, i’ve missed the crazyness that is TAY as well trust me… there’s too much sanity in my life now 😛
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I am, i apologise for my absense… been a weird time for me, both physically and mentally… but hey, main thing is I’M HERE… AND FEELING BETTER THEN EVER… how’re you Scree? how’s things?
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yeah i noticed, imma have to come up with a doosey of a joke for this one….
Also she is great… energetic as ever, so i’ve found a nice walk we go on each day… it’s about 7 km and length and takes us an hour to walk but it’s amazing and she is nice and tired afterwards XD… too bad it’s been so hot the last few days though, i don’t dare taking her out when it’s that hot till it starts to get dark, and then we can’t walk nearly as far -
Yeah, the hot weather is terrible. Sid doesn’t understand that no one will take their dogs to the park when it’s hot.
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lol naaaw… we found the best thing to keep her entertained is a bottle of water we’ve frozen (all tags and other bites taken off of course)
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Well I assume he’s never had one until now and he just obtained one. That’s how he has an iPhone now.
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I got a 4. Second hand, but my sister’s taken good care of it. Pretty good so far. Only downloaded a few apps, but enjoying them.
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I bet Shane is at his Barry Gibb concert, sinking into his seat right now thinking of ways to cancel! 😛
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Ahaha I love this! http://www.gonintendo.com/wp-content/uploads/images/2013_2/IwataReggie_zpsb9836522.jpg
If anyone saw the picture of Iwata with the camera array strapped to him, well it’s been furiously photoshopped over the last 24 hours 😛
By the way, have fun on your trip dealy @greenius! I’m not quite sure how you have fun in Singapore, but have fun anyway!
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Cheers Benji, I expect lots of awesome tablet pictures from you and all the taybleties! I’m not sure how to have fun there either but I’ll find a way to derp around :P! If all else fails I’m bringing my Vita which… waitaminnit… no gaems something Shakespearen something etc.
AND if that fails I bought a book so I’ll try to read that …lol reading *jock flex*
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Reading is for squares! *points and laughs*
:O That reminds me! I finished colouring Issun at like 2am last night and forgot about it. So here’s my going away drawing for you. http://imgur.com/atCxLV1
I’ll do some detailing on the hat and clothes and have that done for when you get back. I’m thinking of drawing some kind of background as well. (I’ve spent far too long on this drawing :P) I was also going to draw Link next so hopefully I can get that done too.
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Looks amazing :D!
I keep derping around with Link pictures but I decided I’d wait a few weeks until Hyrule Historia came, which would help. I was also messing around with Issun earlier today and drew a really sketchy pic http://imgur.com/lEPHDo5
I need to work on my poses because everything has the same one! >:(
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@shane: Just watched the pilot for new FX show The Americans. Really, really good. Set during the Cold War, Russian sleeper agents. I think you’d like it!
Dreamfall Chapters Kickstarter! If you’ve got any interest in playing the first two games, don’t watch the video or read the outline. So damn spoilery. The new game sounds incredible, though!
Just bought Assassins Creed 3 freedom edition for $78 (after shipping) from EB. That’s pretty much what just the standard one sells for, but I get that cool looking figurine 😛 I know it’s a little slow getting into it, but I loved AC2 and Brotherhood so I thought I’d bite at this point.
(http://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/93405)
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What the hell happened? =P
I think today I will work on Nova’ cosplay, as long as it’s not too hot.
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I’m sorry, it ended up being too hot. probably tomorrow. Also, can you measure your head for me.
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Thanks. I don’t want to make the mask too close to your face. it’ll make you hot
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That’s 2 in one city you made it sound like there were multiple in all states and territories!
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I’ve been on holidays so long that the days have started blending together… I thought today was Monday and the last day of my holidays. But I still have three whole days left! Yaaaaaaay!!!
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But if you could you would “clean ze pool”?
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quite possibly.. I am pretty desperate lately
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Ah, Sydney. A whole world apart from Canberra. Buildings that stretch taller and further than imagination itself. A city where every street contains a crowd, and every crowd contains a smoker… where the pretty people have almost no clothes, and the unpretty people have even less.
The show last night was awesome. I don’t expect this will be of interest to most folks, but so many goosebumpy moments. Probably the best two moments were:
* when Barry started singing “I Started A Joke” (a song which the late Robin usually sang), and then halfway through the video screens kicked in and Robin was there and he finished out the song, took a bow and disappeared. Oh man, all the goosebumps. Especially spectral because I’d been in the same room just two years earlier to hear Robin sing that song, shortly before he died.
* When he gave a stirring verbal tribute to all his dead brothers, and sang the last song they’d ever written together (“Immortality”) which he said perfectly summarised their career. Amazing.
Tremendous show. And my dad loved it too.
Then today, I was toying with the idea of being the first at Kinokuniya, and even half-accidentally ended up making time for that, but instead hid out in McDonald’s with a giant thickshake and wrote some words in a notebook. Also I spent a few minutes in Kinokuniya and noticed a book called “Shenanigans” on the sale table (@spaghett)
Usual nervous blah blah irrelevance
When I rocked up at 9:45, @masha2932, @powalen and @shiggy_ninty were already there. We decided to wait there for the others, because the only clue we had of their location was “in a cafe.” We further decided we wouldn’t storm the Kinokuniya doors at 10am, because we weren’t desperate.
Shortly thereafter, @rocketman, @blaghman, @alex_pants, @gorzilla, @cj rocked up, along with Rocket’s friend, Dave (who has no @ that I’m aware of). Immediately, everyone whipped out their 3DSes for streetpass fun, leaving Rockets, Masha and myself standing there excluded from fun (jerks). Then someone noticed it was 10:02, and no one moved. Eventually Powalen lead the charge up the escalators and into the store.
Not many people really seemed keen on buying things, though. So I broke the ice by giving out copies of The Lesser Evil to folks who didn’t have them (bribes to make them like me). Toyed with leaving a couple of random copies around the store, but ended up giving them all away, so the idea kind of died.
@lambomann007 – Spaghett has a Nokia, but his is too new. Mine could almost have been entered in that Gizmodo comp for old tech, so it naturally won. Thought you might like to know.
Everyone told me that @dc said hi. Everyone agreed he is a fake hermit.
@spaghett showed up with Sam, and proceeded to demand heroin of Rocket’s mate Dave. Almost exactly how I pictured him, only louder.
@doc_what arrived late.
We left, and en route to Kings Comics (which half the folks had never been to), crowded into a 7/11 for slushies. I took advantage of the queue to say my goodbyes and didn’t get a slushie.
Shit is that the time? Gonna miss my bus. BYE
Edit: If I accidentally left anyone out, I’m sorry – I’ll edit you in when I get home. Thanks for coming out to meat with me, especially those of you who travelled distance/time (just about everyone I think). Much apprecited – you are awesome folks.
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Sydney TAYbies sound really scary. When Spaghett posted the photo, I’m pretty sure I would’ve done the Hobbit meat thing and tremble out in the corridor somewhere. :S
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Also proud of you, man! Not easy to do the whole meat thing with the fear in your heart! You did good!
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More meats on your horizon? 😀
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Probably not in the short term, but the issue was never really reluctance 🙂
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It was nice meeting you as well Shane. You’re a cool quiet guy. Also thanks for giving Sydney the honour of the longest Shane-meat(copyright 2013) 🙂
Dammit Shane! You did a meat write up, now I have to do one. Ugh if you insist 🙂
-I woke up early, prepared myself then waited for Pow
– He was meant to come in at 7.20am but he arrived at 7.30am. THE WORST!
– It was all good though since I was able to use the extra time to buy some phone credit.
– We made it to the station with minutes to spare but we still had to rush to the other platform because of trackwork. Damn trackwork, why does it always seem to happen during meats
– Anyway we were off on our Journey to Sydney and Pow refused to read my copy of game informer-did I tell you he was the worst?-so we decided to play some mobile games on my Nexus. I also promised to buy headphone splitters so we can watch a movie or something next time 🙂 I WILL NOT FORGET THIS TIME 🙂
– We played an object finding game called little things forever. It was fun but pow kept finding most of the stuff. Pow tried to play some Super Hexagon and kept dying-apparently the game is hypnotising. I did manage to increase my scores in one of the stages so there’s that 🙂
-We also played some co-op Zombie Smasher (so many finger collisions:-) ), finally we played the hilarious smuggle truck and smuggled some people over the border. Did I tell you pow was the worst? Well he kept letting the babies fall and constantly run over them. To be fair I lost a whole truck of immigrants as well. That game is weird.
– The game playing was helpful because we were in Sydney in no time. All the game shops were closed so we just walked up to Kinokuniya and waited.
SPEAKING OF KINO, SILLY @greenius FOR TROLLING FOLKS AND NOT BEING THERE ! WE EXPECT PHOTOS OF YOU AT THE SINGAPORE ONE JERKIUS.
– back to my story. Shiggy arrived and we talked a bit before Shane came over. We said our hellos and waited for the rest. (Shane’s hair is growing back people, I just thought you should know 🙂 ) Cj, gorzi, rockets, his friend David and blaghs arrived. Pants came soon after then everyone took out their 3DSs. I need to buy one for PAX.
-we went into Kino and went to the comic book section. Powalen went to the pokemon section (does the sun rise in the east?:-) ) Cj and I asked shiggy about the Zelda manga. He owns them all obviously ( does the sun…already used that one 🙂 ) Rockets told me that he has been mostly sleeping since he got to Sydney and I found Shane’s book in Kino’s system but it wasn’t for sale.
-Spaghett and Sam arrived. Finally we got to meet the famous Sam. Spaghett is loud but fun. Talked about heroin a lot. I think he might actually need some to calm down 🙂
-pants forcefully bought Pow a book. It must have been his lucky day because Shane gave him copies of the lesser evil as well. So much gift guilt 🙂 I scored copies of the book as well and Shane kindly offered to sign them all. Aww. Then I told him I didn’t like his art style and he slapped me. Not really 🙂 Spaghett told me the writing wads good so I’ll be reading them soon.
-we stood around the shop. For a bit. Doc arrived and we stood and browsed some more. We found some Disney and Pixar art books and Shane, Sam, spaghett, Cj and I talked about movies as we looked through the art books. Spaghett and I expressed our love of pixar’s Cars as Shane shook his head in disagreement.(Shane did admit to liking the tractor tipping bit-woo \o/ ) Shane didn’t hate us for long though bcoz we all agreed Pixar’s The Incredibles was an awesome movie
I NEED TO WATCH IT AGAIN AND MAYBE BUY THE ART BOOK
Also Spaghetti and Shane haven’t watched How to train your dragon. Even Sam had watched it and ‘scolded’ spaghett 🙂 Watch it you two or I’m telling @sughly
– We left kino and stood outside some more. 3DSs were unleashed once again and 2 vitas even made an appearance. Doc was keen to show off life of pixel which was cool for the 2 secs I played it. I liked how the graphics change depending on which console you choose.
– we made our way down and I shook hands with blaghs, rockets and his friend David. I must have forgotten to do it earlier 🙂 We made our way to kings comics and stopped over for some slushies. Shane took the opportunity to say goodbye and a few minutes later outside the comic store I left as well because of work.
I would have loved to stay longer but the hour and a half I was in Sydney was enough to meet everyone and made the early start worth it.
Hopefully the rocket warming later tonight is fun as well.
Now I’m on a train to work and typing all this on a tablet was not the most comfortable 🙂
I took some photos which I’ll post later.
Have a nice afternoon everyone
so @freezespreston and @mythamphetamine wait until I’m offline before dropping good news.
I STILL FOUND OUT, SO SUCK IT
Also, congrats.
PS: My bus has WIFI – techmology. My laptop is really too big for this 😛
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Freeze’s wife got an awesome new job, and so did Aleph. Freed from the shackles of their current crappy work. \o/
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Nah their type need to removed from the gene pool altogether. It’s in real need of a good cleansing.
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Back to Ni No Kuni! You guys are awesome! Did you track down a copy @sughly? Started playing yet? THOUGHTS? 😀
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Haha! Hells yeah! There’s lots of little JRPG things that are annoying me, but I’m hooked on the story, graphics and charm of the world! 😀
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A couple of years ago I investigated a stint at one of the Antarctic Stations! 😀 Then I realized I can’t cook. No mechanical skills. Can’t do science. Not on doco crew. :'(
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SATURDAY’S REVIEW OF DEAD SPACE 3
Eh.
TL;DR: Eh.
But no, seriously, get it cheap and play co-op. Only way, really.
Hope this day finds you well. Last weekend was awesome. Wednesday was awesome. Looking forward to Dreamworld meat!
The husband leans over and asks his wife, “Do you remember the first time we had sex together over fifty years ago? We went behind the village tavern where you leaned against the back fence and I made love to you.”
Yes, she says, “I remember it well.”
OK, he says, “How about taking a stroll around there again and we can do it for old time’s sake?”
“Oh Jim, you old devil, that sounds like a crazy, but good idea!”
A police officer sitting in the next booth heard their conversation and, having a chuckle to himself, he thinks to himself, I’ve got to see these two old-timers having sex against a fence. I’ll just keep an eye on them so there’s no trouble. So he follows them.
The elderly couple walks haltingly along, leaning on each other for support aided by walking sticks. Finally, they get to the back of the tavern and make their way to the fence The old lady lifts her skirt and the old man drops his trousers. As she leans against the fence, the old man moves in.. Then suddenly they erupt into the most furious sex that the policeman has ever seen. This goes on for about ten minutes while both are making loud noises and moaning and screaming. Finally, they both collapse, panting on the ground.
The policeman is amazed. He thinks he has learned something about life and old age that he didn’t know.
After about half an hour of lying on the ground recovering, the old couple struggle to their feet and put their clothes back on. The policeman, is still watching and thinks to himself, this is truly amazing, I’ve got to ask them what their secret is.
So, as the couple passes, he says to them, “Excuse me, but that was something else. You must’ve had a fantastic sex life together. Is there some sort of secret to this?”
Shaking, the old man is barely able to reply, “Fifty years ago that wasn’t an electric fence.”
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Same! I’m waiting to pick it up cheap.
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So my plans tonight went from going out and having tea and drinks somewhere nice,, to just going to KFC for tea. And nobody can see why I’m a bit upset that I’m expected to drive 30km to have KFC then turn round and go home. :l
I was looking forward to tonight, now I think I’ll just stay home.
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Yeah but there’s another one that’s a 3 minute drive away from me. For some reason I’m always the one that has to go out of my way to meet people yet they’ll never do the same and come here. They’ll happily get upset at my hesitation though.
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Reward tiers.
$10 gets you one photograph of @dc looking terrified surrounded by Sydney TAYbies
$25 gets you in-depth meat write-ups detailing @dc’s terror
$50 gets you …uh…hmmm…everything else I think of sounds too weird-
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@dc has no say in it. That’s the beauty of it!
It’s a kickstarter to kidnap someone. I’m sure there are weirder kickstarters out there.
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I’ve got gift guilt because Shane and Pants gave me free stuff.
Came home with 4 books without paying for (or stealing) any of them… D: Damn generous people.
So I agreed with @serrels article on second hand games and now theres a whole argument attached.
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I’d say that Terrak fellow just used your comment so his wouldn’t be on the next page so everyone can read his incredibly important comment.
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Dude it was so good
As you may have read in the write up’s…. Spaghett is a loud dude
Covers the anxiety
At one point I was yelling “WE ARE LOST! SOMEONE HELP US!”
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I smile and nod awkwardly. I think you guys do better!
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First person I see at a meat always gets the worst of the awkward rambling. Haha!
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You did fine Shane 🙂
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Looks like Aliens: Colonial Marines is already being sold in stores.
Unfortunately I have no interest in getting it.
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I’ve got plenty of interest in getting it, but probably won’t for a while. Looking forward to exploring Hadley’s Hope eventually if it’s any good!
Apple and Blackcurrant Rekorderlig Cider and The Walking Dead while Sam naps on the lounge
It was a good day
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I have two more only 🙁
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Told the guys at work. Planning to spend some time with Mrs tigs tomorrow working out budgets and ideas
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@bdkiaf you better have a good reason for not being here man
Damn, Weekend TAY, you aren’t exempt
And don’t come here and be like “Oh, I have a life” because thats bullshit
Glad I am employed
Because I am feeling the Just Cause 2 itch getting stronger
Amazing on my pc with a controller and custom music *whatever I am playing through Winamp*
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Was that multiplayer mod ever released? I imagine that would be one of the greatest (and hopefully most inclusive?) community playdates ever!
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This is true. I don’t think I’m done here yet though 🙂
I really wish you guys could see what the place has to offer. It would be a top holiday spot, if only it were more affordable /o\
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It has cute backpackers, hot coworkers and king hitting drunks. That’s all I know about the place.
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And Aleph… or is he all of the above?
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When I get my new phone I’ll be sure to take some photos, as they’re somewhat more accessible than video.
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Man i’m sold.
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If I can put off shirt shopping for a few months, I can cover my same three shirts with hoodies! 😀
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@strange might have something to say about that delay!
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Maaaaan hoodies are expensive, the good ones start at like 80 bucks?! Like wtf. Makes me want to stick with my Quiksilver hoodie that I bought 10 years ago, which is still as good as when I got it.
Plus who needs a jumper this far north. Only place I want warm weather gear is the west side of the great divide, where it gets to about -5 or worse in the height of winter where I have been out there.
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Haha! That’s true, I bought a cool jacket in 2011 for U.S. trip and have only worn it once in Australia and even then it was a little too warm. 😛
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I’d probably own more hoodies if they weren’t so expensive :S
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Oh man, that reminds me @dc: I have a Bioshock 2 hoodie that’s on its way to the Salvos. If you want it, it’s yours! Just say the word. It’s a pretty cool guy, M size (but fits me okay and I’m 6’3″)
Haha! You tall bastard! (Note: I’m 6,2. :P) Thanks for the offer man, but game shirts/hoodies/etc aren’t really my thing. You’re awesome to think of me, though! 😀 If you like it, why you sending it away? What gives? 😀
Not really my thing either. I won it in a Kotaku comp and never wore it. With the possibility of the big move, we are culling our possessions
Huh, it’s cooler down there at the moment than it is here and we have the humidity to battle with as well.
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It’s all relative though man. Was freezing my ass off at the Melbourne meat, whereas everyone else seemed quite comfortable 😛
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I remember when I was down there, people who I were hanging with were claiming it was “hot” it was like mid 20’s.. I was all “Uh, this isn’t hot guys… Not even close to it” and then it’s like 15 at like 12 at night and it’s cold apparently, which I found refreshing and comfortable even more so!
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I just can’t fathom why people would believe some of the shit that unfortunately gets printed in the media.
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I got to about the 2nd paragraph and was all “Nope”
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I’ve been mulling something over for the last fifteen minutes or so…
I’m hyped about Sound City, but I’m not sure whether I should buy it via digital download, or wait for a Blu-ray release… 🙁
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I thought it was already on sale as a physical format here though? That’s what their Twitter implied last week on the 2nd..
I unfortunately didn’t get to go see it at the movies since the closet one was the shit one with horrible sound and seats.
So Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters.
Not as bad as I thought it would be but still not great. Enjoyable enough. Didn’t skimp in the slightest in the gore, T&aA and foul language but in this case it kind of worked for it.
7/10
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I actually want to see that looks like fun. Just when I asked my my mates if they wanted to they were all “LOOKS SHIT BECAUSE I DON’T LIKE BEING FUN” I was lucky to get them to come see Django Unchained >_> which they ended up loving. Despite I think two of them never seeing a Tarantino movie ever o.O
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Premise looked decent, but I would’ve preferred a dark gothic story rather than an over-the-top blockbuster. Trailer didn’t appeal to me at all. Haha!
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Completely devoid of substance and the storyline is the most cookie cutter generic thing in existence but it had a cool steam punk style to it and was shot pretty well. A good way to waste 90 minutes.
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Formatting hard drives takes forever. Man, I’m bored.
@dc, we only have two episodes of Freaks and Geeks left. Getting really sad about that. Worst present ever.
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Then you can read the season two story lines! 😀 (Edit: After you’re done, I mean.)
Also, watch The Americans. Really cool new show. Russian sleeper agents during the Cold War! I’m two episodes in and am hooked! Awesome opening credits! Keri Russell is in it and has this awesome intensity to her. This ain’t Felicity. 😛
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Thanks man. Those storylines look odd, but I guess they’d have been properly fleshed out and culled where appropriate 🙂
Maybe I shouldn’t have read them just yet, huh? 😛
Will check out The Americans if/when DVD release occurs! (Assuming it’s a new TV show)
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D: READ AFTER! ARRRRRRRRRRRGH!
Damn. Sorry, man. Should’ve worded the link differently. :'(
Yeah, The Americans is a new show. Only two episodes have broadcast. It’s on FX in the U.S., they’ve really stepped up when it comes to serialized dramas. Thought of you because you like Sons of Anarchy on the same network. 😛
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Doesn’t matter, dude. Still loving the show. I’d already read the Oral History one anyway (thanks to another poorly worded link perhaps, I don’t remember #UghTrollius), so I pretty much knew where things were heading 😛
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Aw man. :'(
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Hahaha, just kidding, man. Don’t feel bad, I’m pretty good at forgetting what I’ve read, and just getting into what I’m seeing without expectation.s Pretty much everything that’s happened has been a surprise, and it’s not the kind of show (for me at least) where the surprise of the moment is the main draw anyway 🙂
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Though I’ve been thinking about it and I’m pretty sure reading the Oral History thing is what got you interested in the show.
Fled posted about the article and I rambled about Freaks & Geeks for days after. Then you asked to borrow my DVDs. Then I told you I left them at a friends house. Then you gifted me the Daedalic bundle and the Freaks & Geeks information was still fresh. The end.
Can’t be blamed for that one, but I feel all guilty any ways. 😛
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@dc you can’t be blamed, anyway. It’s pretty obvious that clicking either of those links is going to expose me to spoilers. I’m taking full responsibility for those clicks, dude – I knew what I was going to be reading. It’s really rather silly for you to feel guilty.
Let’s just talk about how Freaks and Geeks is awesome.
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Freaks & Geeks IS awesome! Linda Cardellini somehow hasn’t aged in the years since! :S
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Most shows that end before their time, I can deal with. Even Firefly, I’m okay with. But I think this one will stick in my gullet as a particularly unfair cancellation. It’s just that awesome.
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Really should’ve been a HBO/Showtime kind of show. :'(
The arc stands on its own, though.
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Went house hunting again. None of them were any good /o\
Didn’t get the house we applied for last week /o\
Spent the whole afternoon and evening playing Xenoblade \o/
I am now just about to start Sword Valley. The mountain area before it was the suckiest zone in the whole game so far. Needs more quests and more stuff to do and see, the place is so empty and has annoying enemies and no real goals except to trudge all the way down the slope. I hope Sword Valley is either really short or really good.
I basically called it regarding the Faces. Same voices as the other characters.
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Shit. right. Of course.
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I like to spend my Saturdays messing around with music. By that I mean I like to throw random notes at each other and see what sounds good. I think I’ve only ever completed 3 songs this way… 😛
Anyway, I made a new one today. You can check it out here: http://m.soundcloud.com/user7814047/see-it-move
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Not the unmanliest of phrases.
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Refresh game is slow this weekend. (Though I think we’ve posted more than all of last weekend. Those guys were asleep at the switch.)
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*hserfernu*
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*freshrune*
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*funsheerr*
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*Le Funar*
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Sleeping is giving in
No matter what the time is
Sleeping is giving in
So lift those heavy eye lids
Half-drunk stories! INCLUDES TITS and really nice girl Ben J kinda liked
So tonight turned out okay. Still went to KFC but we ended up going out a bit after. Somebody wanted to see a band playing at a bar. The band was had the novel name The Titz which I probably made a good 50 jokes out of. Unfortunately the bar is well known as the gay bar but I thought fuck it, I’ll go if she wants to see the Titz, plus I have a gay friend. Bad idea which we all realised. Some creepy old man came and sat with us and asked why we were here. One of the girls said to see the Titz and he’s like you wanna see tits huh? And pulls up his shirt and waves his hairy chest in her face, then this other guy grabbed him and started kissing him. We left.
We met a few of my gay friends music friends. They were awesome and there was a girl that was really nice who, fate would have it, is moving to Hobart for Uni next week too! We started talking and she was telling me all this stuff and yeah 🙂 Got her number and added her on Facebook and told her we’ll meet up when we get to Hobart.
Went to a better bar with them, danced like a kid in desperate need of a helmet (I heard somebody say this and lost it!) with her and her friends, and had a pretty good time.
Then gay friend told me nice girl was a lesbian. Fuck.
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And what? You’ve met an awesome person that you can be friends with once you head down to Hobart. Can’t sex her up? That’s okay! They’re still the rad person you thought they were when you were talking. Chin up, you’ve just made a frond!Actual reply:
Seems like KFC was the best part of your night, and rightly so.-
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I’ll definitely make an effort to be friends with her, but she’s the only person I’ve met on a night out that I really liked 🙁 I was just a bit disappointed. Nothing against her or her sexuality!
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That’s the spirit!
If it doesn’t work out, know that your first love of the night (KFC) will still be there for you.
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KFC will always be my one true love, always in arms reach, never shy about sharing its zinger burgers with me. It’s a special relationship we have. No matter where I go, KFC is always there to comfort me 😛
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Hey Powalen!
Sleeping Dogs has a t-shirt you can wear with a dinosaur with it.
Thought you should know.-
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Dammit! It’s way too late to respond now. Ah well:
Audino.
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I wear that downvote with pride.
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Oh man, I want to play The Witness. It looks like it’s shaping up to be awesome. Thought it was closer to release, though. Game Informer says it’s still in an early state. :'(
I suck at keeping my party alive in Ni No Kuni during boss fights. Never have troubles in western RPGs, but no matter the combination of Ghiblimon or assigned tactics, they die after three seconds. I think I might be terrible at JRPGs. 😛
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Party management and battles are pretty terrible in Ni no Kuni. Just equip the others with healingmon or tanky high defence ones. Could always bump down the difficulty or grind a few levels as well 🙂
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That’s the thing every thing else about the game is so damn easy, I don’t want to turn the difficulty down. Non-boss fights are fine too. It just seems like difficulty spikes are always around the next corner unless you grind for three hours before hand and I freakin’ hate that. 😛 I think i’td be cool to be able to pause and be all turn-based-like so I could assign instructions to all the party members, cause the AI doesn’t seem intuitive enough.
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Or go back to my beloved western RPGs. 😛
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Like Dark Souls!
Doin it rite?
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I have not played Ni no Kuni yet but I’ve heard lots of complaints about the battle system along these lines. Too much shit going on. Unless it’s Tales I really don’t like real-time systems very much.
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Hah! I saw the quietness and thought I’d post but D.C. already did so :P. Perth time is weird…
So, out of boredom I flicked over to APAC on Foxtel, and they were showing SA question time.
Imagine my surprise when I see who the speaker is:
Michael Atkinson.
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Believe me, I was just channel surfing.
I was looking to see if Speed were doing any coverage of the Bathurst 12 hour, but alas, they weren’t.
Then I just flicked through the channels and when I came to APAC, I saw Atkinson and was gobsmacked.
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Well fuck.
A few months after I buy a new car and Holden announce a new VF Commodore.
Which is all well and good but the new one looks REAL nice.
Fuck.
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Didn’t you get a free upgrade?
So who cares? You got your pretty nice car and paid less for it. Those suckers can have their REAL nice lookin’ car and pay full price.-
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Don’t think I’ve ever encountered a shiny in all my years of pokemon-ing. Not including the Red Gyarados of course
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I’ve encountered one.
At 1:30 AM while I was tired and grinding and murdering Pokemon whilst mashing A.
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Same
:'(
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Yeah that VF looks pretty damn nice. I’m in their comp which ends tomorrow to win one. I doubt i’d win though.
@Greenius: how does the collection point respawning work in Xenoblade? Is there something you can do to make the points all reappear or something?
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I think if you reset the game collectibles will respawn again after ~1 minute (they don’t come up straight away).
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I think it’s a certain amount of time or a reload, can’t remember :P. Trying to find stuff was annoying but certain points have a higher spawn point for the rarer drops. Don’t focus too much on it and just sort of pick them up on the way. There’s movement speed gems that should make it a bit easier.
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There’s some rare drops I spent hours farming. Had to keep going back to the same spot over and over hoping the stuff had respawned. 🙁
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Been really impressed by my surround system of late. It handled everything I threw at it with aplomb.
Until I just plugged my iPhone into it. Turns out the iPhone has really crappy music output. The same file on a USB stick sounds amazing. The iPhone sounds all muddy and terrible no matter how much I play with the EQ. I alway thought Apple were meant to be good at this music gig?
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To elaborate, I have no experience with using Apple products outside of 1st and 2nd gen iPods, so my opinion is as my namesake, invalid.
As a more constructive comment, with higher-fidelity equipment, you’ll be able to distinguish between lower-fi filetypes to an extent.
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The worst part of an iPhone/ipod its sound reproduction. It’s not its strong point. If it’s connected via the lightning/30 pin connector it should be bypassing the iPhones internal amp and use the speaker systems internal amp. If that’s the case then something’s up. If it’s only connected by the headphone jack then there’s the problem.
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Doesn’t work. Another point off this damned iPhone 5 it seems. New phone is looking more and more likely.
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Oh sorry, I forgot. You have to have a proper line out cable like this one: http://www.amazon.co.uk/FiiO-Line-Dock-Cable-iPhone/dp/B004M172HW
Except there aren’t any lighting ones yet, because Apple decided to be dicks about anyone else making them :l
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Haha, not a whole lot. Feeling a little restless. Keep turning PS3 on, playing for five minutes then turning it off. Hope you feel less meh soon enough!
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I am sure the electronics in the PS3 don’t like it that much haha =P
Yeah, same. Just concerned for a friend, she’s been pretty down of late and it’s affecting me to say the least I guess. Especially when it’s not every day you get told out of the blue that you’re missed and such. Didn’t realise I had made such an impact, but I guess I had.
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🙁 Hope your friend feels better.
We miss seeing you at the meats too, man! 😀 (Though it’s really only two you’ve missed. Haha!)
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Me too, me too.
Lack of money prevents me from doing a lot of things. Like having a social life. It sucks but I put up with it honestly 😛
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Nice
Ima go see if Sam is finished napping
Really hot here, even with the air con on, if she is still napping I am going to try modding Just Cause 2
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Tidy!
Happy weekend taybies. Picked up Ni no Kuni yesterday, have spent approx four hours playing and it is PROPER MASSIVE! So pretty too! Paid full price for it, but that just reinforces the discussion that great games will sell thanks to impulse buyers like myself.
In regards to the BLOCKING USED GAMES discussion I must say this: WORRY MORE ABOUT SUPPLYING DEMAND, IDIOTS! People who preordered a Wizard edition don’t want $20 credit. NAMCO BANDAI, start manufacturing more Wizard editions already! I want one! FFS.
Okay I realise that has nothing to do with the blocking used games discussion. I am getting my manufacturers, developers and publishers all mixed up. My fight is with NAMCO this time, that is all! Back to my game then. Bye guys!
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If Namdai Bamco hadn’t fucked up their orders then it’d be fine really, the Wizards Edition was always intended to be a preorder-only limited edition.
My hope is that the amazing buzz around the game in the west (it sold poorly in Japan) convinces Level 5 to do another collaboration with Ghibli. I don’t even mind what it is, new game in the Ni no Kuni universe or something new entirely.
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I just can’t wrap my head around eating meat which is lightly seared and still bloody red inside. Just doesn’t sit right with me.
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My favourite is on the rare sideof medium/rare, but I vastly prefer blue to well done. I just don’t see why people bother eating steak if they’re going to have it anything more than medium.
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I don’t really have any preference other than seeing blood reminds me what I’m eating. Never a good idea to think too much about what you’re eating. Haha!
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Just eat in the dark. 😛
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Spent the afternoon playing Tales Of Graces ffollowed by unpicking the quilting out of my Nan’s quilt (almost done, yay!) and listening to loud music through headphones while Mr. Strange played Saints Row III. There are far worse ways to spend a Sunday afternoon. 😀
Well shit. Latest Dark Souls patch seems to have changed the Capra Demon so he can come up the stairs now. There goes that tactic.
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I found when I played that every time I tried to do that tactic I died anyway.
I ended up killing him by taking one of those stamina-enhancing items just before going through the fog and wildly slashing away in the hope that I would kill him before he(or his damn dogs) killed me. 😛 -
Does he not come up the stairs already…? I thought he did. I’ve only ever played patch 1.05 though, is that the one you mean?
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When I fought him he’d come mostly up the stairs, and if I was in the far corner on the archway, he’d leap at me, fall below, and then I’d use a plunge attack. Seemed to work alright.
I was productive today. Its kind of weird.
I cleaned down the bathroom walls with sugar soap and bleach, ready to b painted.
next up after dinner is modifying the pattern for Nova’s cosplay
So I just got abused by a vegan for stating there is nothing wrong with consuming horse meat as long as it is from an animal which was bred for human consumption and was free from the drug Phenylbutazone.
He still went on to claim it being sold is “wrong” next he’s gonna whine that eating Bambi’s mother is wrong and eating the Australian coat of arms is also wrong. Also him trying to push people to be vegans is wrong on so many levels.
Not sure if this is a step up or down from his “aliens abducted me & did things to me” speech the other day to go with the government is putting radioactive material in our silverware.
I still can’t come to terms how he managed teach me for three years in IT and not go insane when I challenged his opinions or corrected him on stuff he was teaching us.
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Sounds like you like sparring with him, though! Haha, my brother’s into 9/11 conspiracy theories. Always a fun conversation. 😀
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I just like reminding him he is mentally unstable mostly. He blocked and deleted me on Facebook once because he got upset with me for telling him to grow up about daylight saving and quit his whinging.
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Haha! That wasn’t really spoilery though… is what I’d say if I read them. Totally didn’t. *shifty eyes* 😛
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Ni No Kuni’s gotten really fun again. Pretty locations, interesting story, amusing critters. I’m going to savour this until the next difficulty spike and TAY rant. 😀
Dreamfall Chapters kickstarter is 57% funded on its second day. 😀 After the Double Fine Adventure, this is probably one of my most anticipated Kickstarter games. The pitch video is pretty spoilery though — If you’ve got any plans to play the first two games, I suggest you don’t watch! There’s also an entry in the FAQ that made me laugh. (Only read if you’ve finished Dreamfall.)
A nose piercing? Really?
Hey, Zoë is an adult, she makes her own choices, we’re not her parents. And as for “hey, how can she have a piercing when she’s in a coma?” who says that particular model isn’t from some point later in the game? Because it totally is.
But we are listening, and we do care. So here’s the deal. We’ll keep reading your comments, we’ll gauge your response, and if a lot of people want Zoë to remove the stud and keep her nose clean, we will provide that option in the game. In other words, YOU might be able to exert control over Zoë and ask her to PLEASE remove the nose stud. And she might just listen.
Deal?
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I loved TLJ, so damn talky though. There were 30 minute conversations. Compelling stuff most of the time, but so wordy. There was one character I absolutely hated too. I skip his dialogue every time I replay. Haha! Some of the best adventures ever made…
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Just shaved. That means I can’t leave the house for three days, cause I’ll look stupid. 😛 Since I’ve got the PC version (thanks anonymous person!), would you recommend a gamepad for Dark Souls?
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Definitely, yes.
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Haven’t decided yet. I’ve got a bunch here that I haven’t seen before.
Fight Club, The Godfather, Se7en, Arrietty… I’ll have to flip multiple coins 😛
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Only one on that list I’ve seen if Fight Club. It was a good. A little over rated, but good. 😛
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Wut.
You haven’t seen The Godfather?
I…
Ummm.
I know that you’re bad with movies, but that is really poor. Even I’ve seen The Godfather.
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I’m not a fan of mafia stories. Haha! I like its theme song, though. 😛
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But…
It’s The Godfather.
You just watch it. It’s what’s done.
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NOPE! 😛 Not even on the list. Have no plans to ever watch it. 😉
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Dammit @dc.
Edit: I’m glad you up-voted this, D.C., because I spent about 5 minutes going through different ways of saying it before sticking with this one. I was worried that you might actually think I was offended…
Edit 2: Wait a minute, that edit was supposed to go on the “I hate you” comment. Man, I am bad at this.
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Nah, saying I have no plans to ever watch is probably the least diplomatic way I could’ve phrased it, so I was expecting some *shake fist*… 😛 (That’s probably not true too. Just doesn’t interest me, is all. :D)
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Thanks Deece! You’ve taken the ‘haven’t-seen-the-Godfather’ heat off of me! ;D
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I think it’s just a given that I haven’t seen any thing now. Happy to take the hits, man. 😛
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I think it may be best to play my cards close to my chest around you lot 😛
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WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU HAVEN’T WATCHED EVERYTHING I HAVE
Don’t worry Pow, you’re young, so I forgive you.
DeCoagulate is old, he has not excuse.
Can always take Beauty and the Beast off the list and place Godfather there instead. It’s up to you, Blaghs! >:D
I hate you.
I’m a week older than you, you whippersnapper!
😛
OLD
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You’ll have to send Mrs. Freeze in an advanced recon party. Take care of all the spider related stuff.
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It’s safe to say I’ve officially caught the Geometry Wars bug again. Not that I’m complaining. It’s one of the best things to come out of this generation of consoles!
Arcade Fire Coachella 2011. In the past month I’ve watched this about fifteen times! :S
I’ve got to say, I like the live versions of some of these songs better than the album!
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Skimmed and sampled that link.
Turns out I like Arcade Fire. Thanks @dc 🙂Vid now added as it’s own playlist, and listening to it now.
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Oh man, so in love with this band. Haha. Spend half the day resisting the urge to post lyrics on twitter. XD
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No one has ever called me that before. This must be what Dan! feels like all the time!
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Haven’t had a chance to listen to lyrics yet, but they sound pretty good. Nice pop sensibilities.
Not too saccharine, not too dark/cynical.
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Think they’ve only toured here once in ’08. :S
Some of the songs have really dark lyrics and the most unbeliavably upbeat, catchy riffs. So damn good.
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The darkest lyrics/most upbeat tunes award would have to go to the likes of Reel Big Fish though, surely? 😀
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Too bad they already have the engineers glove as a hat. Otherwise i’d totally call for the glove the penguin from wallace and gromit the wrong trousers should be a hat =P
I am so off course here it’s kinda sad.
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Man I fix payphones in the grubbiest parts of NSW(Central West). The coin is the single most filthy thing I can think of that doesn’t require some kind of hazardous warning labels. @virus__ is right though, it does wonders for the immune system.
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What the shit?! I put the freaking bird and dragon where you said to! Why won’t you open stupid door!
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Damn it Euro Truck Simulator 2, why can’t I quit you?
It’s officially my late night go to game of choice. 🙂
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