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Morning all!
Stuck visiing family most of the weekend resulted in playing a heap of post-campaign Pokemon Conquest. Starting to have a lot more fun with it now, for some reason.
Also, Monster Hunter is awesome! My only minor complaints so far are that I was hoping non-player textures would be better than they are, and some features are not explained well…or at all.
Other than that, it’s good fun! Once I pick a favourite weapon I’ll be keen for some online.
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I’m using dual daggers / swords / whatever-they-call-it. Enjoying it so far, trying to get use to the whole “no block” thing.
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The best defence is
…to not to get hit at all? 😀
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Ergo, Bowgun.
Flawless logic.
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I believe it’s R
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Ahhh, okay, I just have a red glowing ability! Yay for glow red ability! \o/
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Yeah, I believe R is the “special ability” button. Depending on what you have it does different things. I use the Switch Axe so it swaps it from Axe mode to Sword mode 😀 a.k.a the BADASS BUTTON
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EDIT: not a reply. D:
Sometimes you need to be in 2H mode to block, with the larger swords I think.
Rule of thumb is never use your weapons to block though.
I’ve given them a whirl, they’re OK.
Massively surprised by how slow (and massive) the starting katana was 😐
3DS or WiiU? Cause on the 3DS I believe there’s a guide, or rather the manual you can access out of the game. I has no WiiU so mreh.
Great Sword, man. You feel like a tank, you hit like a tank, and sending people flying in the air by ‘accident’ is great fun.
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I believe the Wii U does have a manual but I doubt it’ll be very good. There’s also in-game tutorial things you can read in the menu but I don’t know if they’re any good or they’re just the same as the ones that pop up during quests.
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No 🙁
Although they did add a lock on thing. Ummm this might be hard as I’ve never used a Pro controller but on the CPP the ZR button turns it on or not and when it’s on pressing L will no longer center the camera behind the player but focus it on the main monster
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Someone was taking about Armour having skills on them? How do I know what armour has what and can you learn the abilities in said armour?
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Why are you asking Rize? 😀
You can press Y to view the skills.
I believe you can’t learn the skills but they’re just on each piece of armour. I have no idea how to activate them but I’m going to assume that each piece has a certain % of the skill and having more pieces with that % would build it up until you have that skill whenever you wear those pieces of armour. This is probably why wearing sets is better than mixing and matching (Hinden said this on Twitter once) as it’s harder to get skills that way.
But yeah, I still don’t know how they work or what each one does but Hinden said later on in the game skills are more important than defence!
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It was more of a general question to everyone!
So what you’re saying is that you don’t actually learn this skill but your armour does?
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From what I’ve gathered, I don’t think you actually learn the skills at all. I think the skills are already on the armour so equipping them activates them.
But yeah, I haven’t read anything into it… just basing it off what I’ve seen in-game :P. Like I haven’t seen a “equip skill” or “view learnt skills” menu so I figured you don’t actually permanently learn them.
@thecracks @hindenlagen @ynefel HALP
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Makes me think of GW2 somewhat, as in current equipment defines what your character can do, not learned abilities.
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Skills are gained by equipping armour/charms/decorations. Once the total point value of a skill exceeds a certain threshold (different for different skills), the skill activates. Many of these are awesome – check the wiki. As soon as your points fall below the threshold, you lose the skill. So, good idea not to mix’n’match armour for a while.
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One of my favourites is earplugs. Monster roar = free hits.
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OOOOOHHHH, is that what that bar is under Stamina? I don’t think I figured out what that was yet…
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The bar under stamina? Which weapon? Because certain weapons have unique meters for special attacks…
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Yeah that’s different 😛
I’m using the Switch Axe so the bar refers to my Sword “ammo/fuel”
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Further to what The Cracks said: If you have a piece of armour that says Health+2, equipping this armour does nothing. To make that skill actually be useful, you need to have all of your pieces of armour have Health such that the total is above 10. If you have done this, then while wearing this armour you have the skill “Health up” (or something like that) which increases your maximum health. sometimes there are higher tiers; if you can get a sum of health +15 on your armour, then you get “Health up L” which increases your maximum health by more.
In the early stages of the game, the easiest way to get skills is to use all armour from the same set. Later on you will have more options available to customise and mix N match.
To check what armour skills you have, go menu -> page 2 -> status
cc @greenius @rize @sernobulus
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Also remember if a skill gets to -10, it will usually incur a negative effect.
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MORNInG FRIENDS!!!
so i am feeling a lot better than i should be feeling…
friday night went to sleep at 3am, up at 8am
saturday night went to sleep at 5am, up at 8:30am
last night in bed at 1am, up at 6am
so yeah. yesterday morning i felt horrible till about 7:30pm, just felt very “delayed” due to lack of sleep and was walking around like a zombie… all my bones were aching, headache, almost fell asleep whilst walking. horrible horrible feeling….slurring my words. got a half hour nap in the arvo though which must have helped in my 7:30pm recovery.
i feel like it will all come crashing down in a couple of hours… on the brightside i scored a $130 logitech sound system for $1 which is now hooked up to my pc and ps3 \o/
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Late reply is late, but I do believe it’s tomorrow. Also, I’d say it’s pretty unlikely that it will break street date, given it’s a tuesday release, and I doubt all the stores will have stock yet, but I would love to be proven wrong.
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also, (mini rant incoming) dam NVIDIA and their crappy Optimus software… it tends to use the integrated intel graphics chipset for java on my work laptop and my bros laptop, so getting really low framerates of about 15-20… assigning x64 javaw.exe to the nvidia chipset does not work… with most laptops anyway…. it worked first shot on my bro in laws machine and went from 10fps, to 120fps…
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Could you not just disable the integrated hardware? Or does that just make it fail to find a graphics device?
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cant disable the intel chipset… the way it works is that the intel chipset is always active… even when you are using the nvidia gpu, it does the rendering then copies the framebuffer to the intel chipset which outputs the image to screen… if you disable the intel gpu then you are stuck with a blank screen.
it does this to avoide having to reboot on gpu change and it is able to do this silently….
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REPOST:
So I’m coughing a lot more as the days go by :/. Does this mean I’m getting better or worse? I’m not too sure how to interpret it as my headache and my random sore throat has gone (it’s just sore from the coughing now), however, the cough is getting worse.
On the other hand I figured I’m coughing up more (green! :D… D:) phlegm so it’s a sign of my body getting rid of icky germs…
Am I right in thinking that?
Lay your knowledge on to me! Pretty please with a cherry on top?
I also probably should’ve bought and taken those antibiotics :/
Thanksss
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Also, why do all the working people have Monster Hunter? 🙁
C’mon @blaghman and @benj, help a brother out! I need buddies during the day 😛
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/o\ I keep equipping the best armour I can find, then I freaked out when people where taking about learning skills from armour. I LEARENED NOTHING!
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See above.
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I am not talking to you ever again. Obviously my response in oldTAY isn’t enough for you, or you don’t trust me or something….
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But I already upvoted it before reposting! I said I’d repost it so I’d be lying if I didn’t 😛
I know it’s an infection but I want to know whether I’m getting better or not… I’m tempted to tag our resident TAY Doctor but that’s probably abusing our friendship and her profession 😛
And getting more opinions doesn’t hurt :D.
TALK TO ME STRANGE T____________T
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Pretty sure horking up more chunkies (or oysters, as I like to call them) means you’re at the tail end. That’s how it usually works for me.
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I’m no doctor but I’d guess if you’re coughing all the stuff up then that could mean it’s breaking up and your body is getting rid of it. But like I said I’m not a doctor. Perhaps you should see a doctor.
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I saw a doctor early on (when I had a fever and a sore throat) and he prescribed some antibiotics and said to take them if I’m feeling worse by the next day. I actually felt better so I didn’t bother but slowly developed a cough (which is worsening). So I’ll probably buy and start to take the antibiotics today but I’d hate to be magically cured by tomorrow 😛
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AVOID ANTIBIOTICS!
In all honesty, odds are it’s a viral infection, in which case antibiotics will do nothing to make you better, and taking them assists in the continual weakening of your immune system/continual reinforcement of bacteria.
I’ll admit, I’m a bit paranoid in this regard(and I say this as someone who spent 2 years on continuous antibiotics), but I’d only endorse their use if you’re noticeably febrile, and experiencing some sort of nausea, delusion, or other bad symptom.
I find that, yeah, coughs can stick around for quite a while after you have a cold. By this point, you shouldn’t be infectious, but you may want to get something to deal with your throat.
Insert standard disclaimer that I am not a doctor, even though you already know that.
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How come you were on them for 2 years?
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I was on a very minor antibiotic dose to deal with rather bad acne as a teen. :/
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Morning all,
Knocked another game off my pile of shame this weekend, Armored Core V.
Spent ages fighting the final boss that showed up outta nowhere for no reason, but got him eventually.
It’s funny that the game shows it has taken some notes from Dark Souls with the multiplayer, basically you can recruit (summon) other mercs to help you out on any campaign mission for a share of the spoils, and the game has this sense of being always connected while not needing to be.
Although the story has been completed I have not touched the multiplayer all that much, partially because A) I don’t know if people are still playing and B) I would be severely behind the curve on anyone still playing the game. But I dunno, at the moment I feel like I am walking away from the game when it still has a lot to offer me, especially here seems to be a shit-ton of bosses on the map that I haven’t seen yet that appear to be co-op only.
Anybody else play ACV recently? Is the online still active? Am I missing out on what could be the best aspect of Armored Core V or should I just walk away.
Also I started playing Silent Hill 2 HD on the xbox, not as bad a part as everyone says. Not perfect but I wouldn’t call it broken by any means. And Pyramid Head still managed to get a jump out of me at one occasion, this game has still got it.
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If it’s anything like AC4A, there was still people playing that online for years after release. The only issue was you usually got thrown up against insane Japanese people that destroyed you before you knew what day it was.
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Yeah that’s what I was thinking the case would be for online.
Oh well, I always have MWO and Hawken for my online mech battle fix 🙂
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This is true.
This is due to having a half day at work, due to uni and a short work week due to Good (BEST) Friday!
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After struggling to play and enjoy games for the past fortnight I finally started enjoying them again this weekend. Naturally it was at 9pm last night though….
Sitting at the crossing in front of my daughters school waiting for the lights to change. She asks why are we waiting if there’s no cars coming. I tell her she has to wait for the green man otherwise it isn’t safe. Man goes green, I point at it and say its safe now. We start crossing and some young guy on the phone in a ute blows through the red light and misses Piper by less than an inch and catches my arm with the back of the tray. Now my arm is in agony and I had to leave my girl in hysterics at school.
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Oh man 🙁
Hope you got his licence plate and can get the police onto it…That kind of driving, especially near a school… 🙁
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Didn’t have my glasses on so there was no chance of me getting that plate. Guy didn’t even slow down. 🙁
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Is there a red-light camera at the stop?
I’m not sure where, but I’m sure you could make an inquiry with the proper authorities.Glad to hear your daughter is fine, albeit shaken.
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Jesus man. I’m assuming you didn’t get the plate or more details considering you got clipped? That’s fucked up, at least you and your girl are OK? People with phones in cars, man – it kills me. I see it multiple times, every single day. Every time I stop at the lights, I see people texting/facebooking/whatever. I see people talking on the phone doing 100 on the freeway.
Poor form.
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Fucking hell man – that’s just insane.
I swear to god that people are just getting more and more selfish/careless on the roads. It’s absolutely disgusting.
Do you think anything is broken? I hope you’re ok, man – and more so, you’re little girl.Did you happen to get the licence plate? – Granted it probably would have been the last thing to cross your mind when you had your little one with you.
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Nothing’s broken. Just wrenched the shoulder a bit at an odd angle. Just sore. More so cranky about it but not much I can do.
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BRING BACK THE PICTURE OF @SHIGGYNINTY, @DOC_WHAT AND THE OTHER TWO CHAPS! DOO EET @Mark_SERRELS!
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If you don’t know who the other two are, you don’t get to ask for the picture to be brought back. 😛
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Going to take a wild stab at you’re the guy next to Shiggy, and that you’re Sharples. 😛 Didn’t recognize you without the fro.
But I honestly have no idea who the other bloke is.
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HAII
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So it looks like Monster Hunter 3U isn’t coming to Vita or PS3 (I’m not optimistic any more, but It’s fine.)
Phil Fish — Creator of FEZ, has been getting hate for putting together some thoughts out on the 3DS and it’s optional circle pad pro. And how he feels the newest MH game would have been better on the vita, claiming the higher quality screen and the 2nd control stick standard would have improved the game play experience. — Although people have been enjoying the game without the 2nd stick, and single stick mechanics work on original PSP no worries, too.
>> http://waa.ai/Scv – The artigle at GN
>> http://waa.ai/SfG – Fish’s Twitter
What does everyone think of the Vita? C’mon guys be honest. ; _ ;
Also, someone try and sway me to get a 3DS, please. I wouldn’t mind playing some of the games on there, (Luigi’s mansion 2/MH3U/Revelations) but Nintendo let me down in the DS era, licensing endless shelves of shovel-ware next to the sparse, great titles.
End of week activity log:
So finished HotS on Friday night, and am having mixed emotions. While on one hand, the gameplay feels seamless – they’ve really tightened up the single player, it’s great – on the other hand, I felt it was far too easy, and the story was absolute rubbish.
Spoilers:
I mean Raynor and Kerrigan hardly knew each other in SC1. Sure, they flirted a bit over comms and it was clear they had a tiny bit of a crush on each other, but all of a sudden they’re like long lost lovers? I don’t get it. I can understand Raynor being all shattered after Kerrigan was betrayed by Mengsk, left to die, captured by the Zerg and converted – but HotS makes it seem mutual. Feels like they’re really reaching on that one.
Then there’s the fact the entire game was just Kerrigan going back to the swarm slowly, to achieve the power to kill Mengsk, and that was it. Sure, we got a bit of ominous stuff about this Amon, but there was fuck all to it. It’s like ‘Yay, we saved Kerrigan!’ Then, after HotS, we’re back at square one with naught to show for it but a scary name and some ominous backstory.
I guess it just felt like nothing was achieved. I found the Zerg didn’t seem to have much of an indentity either. Sounds weird, because Zerg and all, but it used to be Kerrigan was the Queen of Blades and basically a representation of the Zerg. Tireless, numberless, all that. But in HotS, she was basically just using the Zerg to achieve her own goal. It made the whole race feel very insignificant.
Then there was the missions – I didn’t like the way they were designed. Half of it was ‘control the hero with periodic reinforcements and no building’. There’s seldom any straight building missions, and when there is, there’s some sort of time limit or ‘hurry the fuck up’ constraint put on it. Really irked me.
Sounds like I’m bagging it, and I guess I am. The thing that did make it enjoyable was the gameplay. But story and mission design failed outright, as far as I’m concerned.
WoL felt so much more interesting, and satisfying.
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Got so caught up in my rant I forgot about the rest of my weekend. Saturday was spent playing a shitload of BF3 with a mate. Rest of the weekend was MH here and there, some more Breaking Bad catching up, and plotting my new cooling system for my PC.
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Yeah the Raynor/Kerrigan romance thing seemed pretty contrived, even in WoL.
Have not played HotS but I was secretly hopingKerrigan would wake up and be all “wtf Raynor, we were never a thing.” then beat everyone up and go back to pub-stomping the galaxy.-
As someone who only has vague memories of the story from Starcraft 1/Brood War, I thought the Kerrigan/Raynor romance was fairly well established. I don’t know what kind of treatment it’s been given in SC2/HotS though.
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They did not even have a relationship, it was just Raynor hitting on Kerrigan over coms in like the two missions they are both in.
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Yeah, and I’m pretty sure Kerrigan got taken and converted before anything more could occur.
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Huh. well, I guess I just read too much into it or assumed they had known each other before they “met” in SC1.
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So great that he even organises joint parties without the other guy anything! Wow, what a guy. Right..?
I played through a whole chapter of Dead Space 2 on the weekend cos Ni No just isn’t doing it for me atm.
(Dunno what it is, but I just didn’t care, so I turned it off to return when I do)
Stamping on already dead bodies is really quite de-stressful, I could really go for a bit of the old stamp-stamp right about now(Mondayitus)
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I know what it is – the game isn’t designed that great 😛
Xenoblade is still the best JRPG this generation!
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Yes but handhelds are weird when determining the generation. That’s still sorta last-gen ya know?
The World Ends with You was good too but I just consider handheld and console separately…
FINE, best console JRPG 😛
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Several times today, TAY has furked urp and I have landed here.
Weirdodd!
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And here I am again o_O
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Hello again
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Dood, I’m here again, this is an old TAY!!!
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WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY JIMUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
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What is a rage-quit called when you just quietly turn the game off because you know that if this shit keeps up you will rage-quit soon?
Cos I did that this morning. At the train station. Playing Sonic Racing.
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And an awkward walk afterward… i know the feeling, brah…
…I know the feeling..
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It’s called the “Dark Souls Rage Contingency Maneuver” or DSC — As I’m coining it now.
In the event of a foreseen rage-inducing situation, these preventative measures should be taken to protect yourself and your loved ones around you, and more importantly your controller.
1) Calmly place the controller on the closest stable, flat surface.
2) Proceed to press and depress the power button on the front of your console or computer, and allow it to shut down completely.
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That’s an adult ragequit, I like to think. Personally, I’ve rage quit enough times (violently) to know the signs and abort before physical damage or violence occurs. I usually just go ‘Nope.’, turn the system off immediately, and walk away.
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My PS2 controller actually had teeth marks on it, from where in a fit of rage, instead of throwing the controller I bit it as hard as I could.
Thank Final Fantasy VIII for that one.
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WOW!
And a Final Fantasy? Double-WOW!I’ve never suffered rage from a FF. Diddy Kong’s Quest on the other hand *shakes fist*
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Triple Triad? 😐
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Yo, @spaghett.
Played a fair bit of Cave Story+ on the WE, with 4yo hanging over my shoulder – fun times.
Thanks again Brother!
Oh but I’m up to where you fight some tracked robot towards the top fo the labryinth – I’m getting my butt kicked, and it is on easy!
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I was playing on 3DS, enjoying the hell outta it. Got to what I guess is the final level (maybe not, who knows) and kept dying due to one-hit kill falling debris. Not cool.
And then I bought a Vita and the rest is HISTORY(by Michael Jackson)…It don’t matter if you’re Black or White, den nur nurnur, ner nurnur nurrrrrr
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Morning folks, I see the Double Fine Adventure’s been announced. Oh man, it was much easier to not know any thing about it when I wasn’t a backer. Now I’ve got to be careful everywhere. 😀
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Complete media blackout. I want that magic I felt as a kid when I discovered a LucasArts adventure for the first time knowing nothing about it. 😀 Thanks though!
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I’m a backer and I knew nothign about it because I haven’t bothered to participate in the backers forums.
that said, I’m happy I saw the announcment because I like the looks of what they are showing. I’ll try and avoid the rest though.
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I wouldnt be worried. Tim has been pretty adament about not giving away basically any of the story throughout the whole backer vids. If those are safe, then news stories will be too.
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Haha! I want to know nothing about, though. An irrational amount of nothing. 😀
Don’t want screenshots or character outlines… nothing.
I want it be like the first time I saw Grim Fandango.
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I wish you luck on your quest. Maybe afterwards we can turn your story into an Adventure Game.
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Howdy Tayberinos
I had a quiet weekend, didn’t do much at all- a welcome change after the busy 6 weeks I’ve had. I played a bunch of New Vegas (as anyone who saw my #redinthemojave tweets might have seen) and read a chunk more of War and Peace- I’m now about a third through it.
A Monday Morning Question: How would you adapt a classic novel to a game? War and Peace would be The Sims interjected with a Napoleonic War simulator every now and then.
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The Stand adventure game! The Shining adventure game! The Mist adventure game! The Green Mile adventure game!
A Stephen King adventure game of his choosing! 😀
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I was about to make this joke. Adventure games for all.
You are not referencing classic literature though.
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The Stand… pffft
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One of the best books I’ve ever read. *folds arms stubbornly*
Edit: Nemesis.
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I’m going to have to check the tweets to see what he was up to and what you actually think Red is capable of doing
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WHat about all the other bits. Would the kids sneaking around be a stealth game?
Would there be like, rabid dog FPS or would it be on-rails?
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Crime and Punishment: free-roam game with morality system and side-quests. Actually, it would be pretty much only side-quests.
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I’m not disputing that, but I didn’t feel compelled to read it at the time and got distracted. I’ll prob pick it up later in the year
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Since @dc just decided classics by his own definition.
Jurassic Park – 2D sidescroller where you can choose between the raptor and Ala…
(Oh yeah, Mega Drive) :p
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Haha, I’m sorry if I screwed up the classics thing. Haha. Just assumed you meant classic in the popular, well loved book way, Red. XD
I’m not cultured in these things. 😛
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Gabriel Knight novelisation adventure game adaption! 😛
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Not to play the generic “Adventure game” card
But Don Quixote would make a great adventure series. — Non ‘Dragon’s Lair’ style though.
(Proceeds to look to see if any were made)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Quixote_%282010_film%29
Did find this, and I seriously want to watch it… Even if it’s bad.
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Oh wow, me wanty.
I thought it was going to be the Terry Gilliam film starring Johnny Depp that dissapeared due to lack of funds.
(I think they bought it back from the insurance company, so maybe it’s happening)
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Jane Austen novels: Motion control game where you repeatable hit yourself in the head with the controller until you pass out. Should capture the ‘magic’ of reading the books quite nicely
Huckleberry Finn = Oregon trail
Robinson Crusoe – Survival game in the mold of don’t starve, minecraft, etc
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Mine too, man. Mine too. 😛
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Red and DC’s wacky romantic comedy adventure
follow two gamer nerds as they learn to play multiplayer.
Valentines day 2014
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I know he’s meant to be a badass experiment and all that, but I really hope he has similar dialogue to the other Psychos in the game, that stuff was hilarious 🙂
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And the girl being Leia?
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Sure, lets roll with that.
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Yeah Mondays usually sucks a bit fat hairy one..
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so ive just gone from 15fps in minecraft to 140fps…. i figured out a way to get nvidia Optimus to like java…. funny that i spent 6 hours trying to solve this yesterday, and just had a quick idea a moment ago and fixed it in 60 seconds.
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so adding x64 javaw.exe to the nvidia control panel and forcing nvidia chipset doesnt work on most optimus systems since a specific nvidia driver update early last year.
now minecraft by default uses x64 java when its available…. so i simply removed x64 java meaning minecraft will now utilise x86 java, and i added x86 javaw to the nvidia control panel and assigned it to the nvidia gpu.
SUCCESS.
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I hate the stupid Optimus systems. Mostly because all my games default to the integrated graphics rather than the dedicated. Sigh.
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@virus__ @lucifer9783 actually, it more than likely does… optimus technology is designed to do the switching between the integrated chipset and the dedicated chipset… meaning for people who have both…. which is virtually every laptop that has a dedicated gpu these days… if it has a dedicated chipset, it more than likely has an integrated chipset too which is where the problem arises.
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Ah right, i’m using a desktop with a GTX560 😛
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ur all good then!
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Well, it was already a given with Gilliam directing. He’s just the icing on the cake!
(don’t get me wrong, I love icing)
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Holy crap, it really does! This… sounds incredible! Least it has a hell of a lot of potential.
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A lot of my weekend went to Minecraft. Some stories:
– Cake repeatedly trolled me with his admin powers, teleporting me into glass cages with TNT on top, and eventually a cage made out of TNT itself.
– built a castle out of all the cobblestone I’d been mining. I left it without lights at one point and found about six Creepers on return.
– some of my non-TAYbie-old-high-school-friends decided to jump online. They hung around in the community section for about 30 minutes before vanishing from sight. The next morning one of them sends me a video showing me what they got up to the night before – 10 minutes of sailing on a giant ocean. Apparently they did this for a full hour. Their X coordinate is over 30,000 away from the spawn. So uh, it’s good to know those guys won’t be bothering anyone on the server, I guess.
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(The only thing that looks slightly dodgy is the Universal Studios backlot. You can tell they didn’t have the budget to dress it properly and it just looks like fake buildings. XD)
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My Saturday plans of “sitting around doing nothing” turned into “get in the car and spend half the day at Bankstown” and my Sunday plans of “go out to get some more fruit” turned into “let’s do our grocery shopiping for the whole week!”.
We got a new fridge a week and a half ago, a normal sized one, so we’re actually able to keep more than two meals worth of food in it at any given time. It also doesn’t smell bad and have broken shelves.
As a result we are buying more groceries/less takeaway and drinking more juice instead of cans of pepsi max. I am hoping that this also turns into savings in the long term. The idea of spending all the grocery money in one hit and then hoping that the food we bought lasts out the week absolutely terrifies me. I’m so used to our smaller fridge that our food plans have always been very short term.
Anyway, the point is, my gaming this weekend was a half hour of XCOM I sneaked in while the wife was napping. #1stworldproblems
Morning everyone!
I haven’t played sim city in a few days because my city was going to the shit.
instead I’ve been trying to work on other things but unfortunately my broken printer is stopping me. multifunction laser, Y U so expensive?
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Printers are pure evil, I’m pretty sure they are made from the souls of puppies and kittens. To finish them a father needs to sacrifice a first born son.
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I should probably friend you on Origin at some point (I’m ShadowRize) so we can cry at our stupid SimCity residents and their crappy desires making life slightly difficult.
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Wait till I get the great works finished then I will want to invite people to my region.
echoscree-
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No, I want people to have unlimited power before I invite them D=
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Guys, guys! Ok, get this – Minecraft is fun. I literally played it for the first time yesterday. Now its all I think about…
Got it for my son after months of hassling. Then halfway upstairs he calls out ‘hey its 2 player, want to play?’. Just for a bit, I think. I will try this worldwide craze. 5 hours after he is in bed, I find diamond and squeal with glee.
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If Ticket to Ride wasn’t going to push Anna’s Quest back by six months it sounds like this will. 😛
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You’re welcome! 😛
Watched Never Let Me Go last night. I think you mentioned it after the Dreamworld meat, wasn’t until halfway through the movie that I remembered it. (If that’s what you were talking about that is. Haha.) Really damn good movie!
Depressing, but good!
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OH YES! Adore that film. Heartbreaking stuff.
When he’s showing all the drawings and everything, and theyre like ahhh nope, sorry. I blubbered away like a baby after that film. -
Aw man, I felt terrible for the girl especially. I suspected the gallery stuff mentioned at the school was to see if there was any people who could be influential artists, scientists and the like later on in life and spared. Such a good movie. I liked all the foreshadowing at the school, the urban legend of the guy who left and had his hands and feet cut off. So damn cruel. :'(Watched Dredd as well yesterday. Man, Alex Garland is a good writer! 😀
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Iknowrite! So good! Still have to play Enslaved :'(
Has it. Not played it.
Also he writes good books. Tesseract is a good example of your intertwining story thingamajig.
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Yeah, I think the novels are the only thing he’s done now that I haven’t, uh, experienced. Should though, there’s nothing he’s done I haven’t liked. (Sunshine would probably be the closest, but I really enjoyed that until the halfway mark. :D)
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Why?
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Virus__ wants to play MP with you, obviously.
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I love that the Xbox360 version supports splitscreen co-op. It’s a few versions behind the PC version and obviously there’s no modding but I always felt vanilla Minecraft was fine as it was. Now wait til you find a bunch of diamond then accidentally mine a block out from under yourself and there’s nothing but lava underneath.
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Oh lordy, that sounds like the stuff of nightmares
As is obligatory for all Minecraft discussions, this is my pet creeper that I made:
He sits on my desk at work. people pat him. I tell them this is unwise.
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I anticipated this, and hence specified gross. As in mine is not gross -_-
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Ergh, so true…
🙁
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I’ll curve your bell in a minute…
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Please.
at least buy me dinner first.
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Predictable response is predictable.
…but none-the-less enjoyable.
I’M IN!!!
TO THE MACCAS DRIVE-THRU!
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Actually had a multiplayer session with good ping recently, it was strange actually have a slight chance to hit somethign with a lascannon. Clocked up the cheevo for 5 weapon challenges.
When are we doing another exterinatus?
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I don’t know, man. Uni has taken over EVERYTHING now. It’s really starting the get depressing lol
I still want to organise that boardgame meat too – mannnn soooo much to do!
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Was eXistenZ any good? The outline sounds like it could be all kinds of terrible. (Old man director handling game related subject matter in the ’90s. :P)
What’d you think of Solaris? I wanted to like it back when it was first released but found it kind of boring. (And I’m usually a huge fan of hard science sci-fi.) I was 17, though. Might’ve gone over my head. 😛
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eXistenZ is pretty awesome. it’s a bit Inception-y & Cronenberg is all about sex & body-horror, which is used in a pretty squick way (thats not a bad thing at all).
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It’s cronenbeeeeeerg! Always good*! (*sometimes)
Also, I’m guessing you mean the remake dc? Original is soooooooooo much better.
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Oh, Solaris.
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Existenz, Dark City and The Matrix all came out at a similar time and deal with similar-y themes. Good companion pieces.
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Ohhh! Heat is great!
I’m kind of jealous you’re able to see so many amazing films back to back, and for the first time ever. I remember seeing Scream and Mission Impossible in the one day, that blew my mind.
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Yeah, it’s been incredibly awesome to watch all this stuff. I’m thinking I might slow down a little so I can take the movies in a little better. Think about plot points and the like before moving on. Also don’t want to exhaust my stockpile. (That’s not going to happen any time soon though. So many movies I haven’t seen!)
Oh, I was saying on TAY yesterday that I saw Rust and Bone opens in cinemas this week. I assume you saw it at BIFF, I thought it had left cinemas ages ago and had been checking Foxtel for it. Haha!
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You should start a blog about your movie experiences. Or at least a tumblr where you only need to write a few lines.
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I was going to, but then lately feel like I’m an illiterate loud mouth that should shut the fuck up. Haha!
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Yeah I did see it quite a while back, its been out in France since like early 2012. Then Australia got wind that it was doing well and got a delayed release. Because we are idiots when it comes to foreign films. No but the sad thing is, they will only bring over films if they think it will be profitable, which obviously makes sense. But they have to wait for awards and such to validate that, and in the end we miss out on a lot of good stuff. Cest la vie.
p.s. this m83 trailer is pretty cool, and makes me want to watch it again every time I see it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg7skcyYolU
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Might skip the trailer. Just watched the Never Let Me Go trailer out of curiousity to see how they sold it and they spoiled every single plot point. D: If it’s on the list, I’ll make a point to see it! Haha!
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@dc – Haha! Yeah fair point. Just one of those trailers that gives you chills, but maybe that could be from remembering the film too. Meh.
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Thanks though! I appreciate the link! Haha!
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It’s such a good film. hit me up when you’ve watched it
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Yeah, good.
I had no background knowledge, so had no idea what to expect.Have you seen The Loved Ones? Not a comparable film, but the drill…
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Oh no, I havent! It was thanks to that film I got free tickets to Splendour in the grass too, so I kind of felt obliged. It was a kotaku comp come to think of it! And they never announced the winner. I never got my awesome entry shown off :'(
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Bloody hell it seems that all of TAY is back on the Minecraft train (cart?) now.
And that is just awesome.
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I’ve been getting tempted, and with the sudden jump in popularity I’ll probably end up back there.
Are most people still on PC, or has there been a sudden switch to 360?
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Can I stick my hand up for not changing the sever to this Tekkit thing?
Actually I think I mentioned this the other night but I’m bringing it up again.
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Tekkit is AMAZING. It’s vanilla Minecraft, but with added awesomness. That’s if you go TekkitLite, since they stopped updating Tekkit, for reasons with mods and such.
But who can say no to jetpacks, nuclear power, POWERGLOVES! Awesome machinery, robots that do all sorts of cool stuff. The possibilities are even more endless in Tekkit!
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The problem is that Tekkit isn’t compatible with 1.5 at the moment and people have made some amazing stuff on the current server. If we switch to Tekkit you lose everything.
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Oh what, they haven’t updated TekkitLite to 1.5? Lame. That was the whole point from what I gather them releasing a “lite” version was they could keep upto date with the vanilla release more easily.
Yeah, they’re still on 1.4.7 damn.
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Even Bukkit has only had a dev version released
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HI THERE.
Terraria is cool in a “I’ll just dig a bit…. oh god how the hell is it 6am!?! o_O” sorta way. could do with a bit of a tutorial though. Spend way too much time alt-tabbing out to the wiki.
Seriously though… that game is a time sink.
To beat Enemy A, I’ll need at least Armor B, or C. to make that, I’ll need a heap of Resource D. but to get that, I need to be able to break Rock Type E. To do that however, I need Pickaxe F. to get that, I need Resource G & H. To get those, I need to be able to break open Object I, which in 99% of all cases, is encased in Rock Type E, and to do that however, I need Pickaxe F. to get that, I need Resource G & H. To get them, I need to be able to break open Object I, which in 99% of all cases, is encased in Rock Type E, and to do that…. and so on…
so yeah, I just gave up on progressing in it for a while & just started digging everywhere.
I was surprised to find out that
there is a limit to how far down you can go.
that was a little sad.
that is all.
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Spelunking in Terraria is fantastic amounts of fun. Find a new area, dig down, then just start following whatever cave, crack, crevice you run in to.
Oh, and there’s certain areas hidden underground that are a lot of fun…if you have enough armour.
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Terraria is good, but Minecraft… There’s just something about Minecraft. Being stories underground, the silence of the pick… and then the music starts.
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Oh man I was taking a lovely stroll back up to my bunker from my day of mining and one of those guys was just standing on the stairs. Scared the begeebus out of me :'(
Srsly, the game scares me man. I live in fear, wondering what every noise is. I just want to mine in peace :'(
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Yup, mining can be pretty intense. Thinking you hear sounds while halfway through mining and when you check nothing is there. D=
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Its like a freakin horror film.
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Exploring abandoned mines are the worst, you can always hear spiders hissing / scurrying around.
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Terraria has a point to it and feels more like other games. There’s more RPG elements with bosses, more armour and weapon tiers, stats etc.
Minecraft has more freedom and is better for building but I like Terraria more 😀
Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate.
So good.
Can’t stop thinking about it.
Must kill more Rathian for armour. Using my chainsword.
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But my chainsword goes vroom and chops through monster so gracefully. And my sword glows. Glowing chainsword. Seriously. Best thing.
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But do YOU glow! That is the important question.
Also as someone that has never played a MH game I am REALLY enjoying MH3U. Can’t wait to do some multiplayer stuff! =D
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Morning everyone. Watched Looper on the weekend. The story wasn’t what I expected, but I liked it. It was full of plot holes, but that’s time travel for you. There was only one part I thought was stupid and that was when Kid Blue rides towards Joe on the bike shooting at him. I mean come on. He’d previously bragged about how his gun had a good range and about how Joe’s gun had terrible range, but that it could hit anything when it was in range. So what does he do when they fight? Instead of doing the smart thing and staying at a distance, lining up his shot and pulling the trigger he instead charged towards him firing wildly and into the range of Joe’s weapon. The whole thing felt really stupid.
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I loved that movie so damn much. Cool, well realized scifi world!
Remember what Captain Janeway said. Don’t think about time travel paradoxes too much and you won’t get a headache. 😛
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Yep. I really loved the film too, I dont think its worth the time nitpicking it, it kind of deserves better than that. But that part was a bit questionable dire 🙂
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Melb (and gtown) peeps
Would anybody be interested in some boardgames at our place on the Monday of Easter persuasion?
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I would be inclined to say yes, but unfortunately i will be catching up on uni. I study all night once i’m home and i’m still behind… *sigh*
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Not only is this song awesome – it’s also about the horse in Legend of Zelda*
*it’s actually not at all… but still, you can pretend, right?
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Knew what it would be before I clicked on it.:D
<3 Anna but I’m worried she’s not going to be well enough to come to Australia in May when they tour. She’s been unwell for a while and had to miss a great deal of touring.
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Downside is, it’s my mates Steam account I am borrowing to play it, since i’m a poor ass and can’t afford my own copy still lol.
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Could indefinitely set it to offline mode, couldn’t you? My sister uses my Steam account on her computer and I just set it to offline so she can access all the games without ever going online. I played Half-Life 2 on my brothers account and did that.
Edit: Wait, that’s not illegal is it? 😛
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Last time I checked, Steam likes to check in once every thirty days. Not really a problem for one game, admittedly, but still a factor.
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Probably against Steam’s terms of use, technically, but eh. Shouldn’t be illegal, and I doubt they care enough to police it unless it’s egregious
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Yeah that’s what I am going to do haha. I also found out if you’re signed but just set to offline and your mate signs in whilst you’re downloading something if you do nothing, it continues downloading \o/
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@dc
Yeah, but if you get a blog you can mouth as loud as you like- if people don’t want to listen they can vote with their feet.
Also, I don’t think you’re a) a loudmouth or b) illiterate.
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Haha, you keep saying stuff like that but you’ve never been any thing other than an awesome guy Jimu! :S
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@sernobulus @rize (others)
I figured out how skills work but I see Cracks already answered 😀
EDIT: seems like Hinden posted too as I was writing this! 😛
But I’ll try to explain it noob to noob :P. So basically what I said before was pretty much right. You don’t permanently learn skills but each piece of armour will determine what skills you get. You can press Y (on the CPP) to see which skills that specific armour will give you and their description, and you can also check your stats in the menu to see what you’ve got overall.
So a Jaggi Armour might have +4 Attack. Pressing Y will show you what else it has and what you need to unlock any passive skills. It’ll show something like +10 Attack will give you a Small Attack Boost and +20 Attack will give you a Large one. This also works negatively so if your armour happens to have -2 Attack and it reaches the -10 threshold, then you’re going to have decreased attack 🙁
It’s much easier to get skills by just equipping sets as they complement each other and add to the same totals. I was wearing the Great Jaggi set and had 3 skills or so but removing even the head armour and replacing it with something else got rid of two of them D:
You’ve also probably noticed that most of the time two different pieces of armour can be forged. One has lower defence but better elemental resistances – I’ve found this one has no skills AT ALL D:.
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I couldn’t equip the lower defence stuff. I think it has to do with what weapon / class you currently are. I’m a sword master / whatever it’s called which means I can only equip metal / heavy gear.
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Oh really? I didn’t even know we were locked out of it 😛 (I’m a Blademaster too I think since I use a Switch Axe)
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Yeah, I think only ranged characters can use the leather / lighter gear. (I would check though as I am a total noob and probably missed something totally obvious).
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Another (completely non related) noob question. Can you go “free hunting” in anywhere besides the forest starting town area? I can go to the desert through the quest guild but I want to just derp / free hunt around that area.
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Also! Is there a way to skip a day? I when I check the hunting forecast it has a Jaggi breeding area on tomorrow which is the best time to hunt for some resources.
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No idea about the day stuff (I’m not entirely sure how days even work :P) but I’m pretty sure you can’t just derp around in anywhere other than that Moga/D.Island place. You’ll just have to stick to those resource quest things (with the Paw Pass) 🙁
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Bah! I need resources but currently there is an insect infestation thingie so there is nothing but those flying thing everywhere and I HAT THEM!!!
Maybe @thecracks knows?
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You can do ‘harvest tours’ of regions previously hunted in, which usually don’t spawn any large monsters. This allows you to go on gathering runs. No village resources, though, as they are actual quests. To leave the harvest tour, return to starting area, get pass from blue chest and stick it into red chest.
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I need to flip a .pdf right-side-up.
The scanner won’t feed it through properly because of the hole-punch holes on the left side of the paper.
Adobe Acrobat can’t do it (or can it?)
And here’s the catch: I can’t install any new programs…
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Adobe reader is craptasitc and doesn’t let you do any kind of document editing (yes, not even rotating documents).
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Yeah, but the full version of Acrobat is a paid product with the usual Abode markups in Australia. I’m fortunate enough to have it at work but most people on their home PCs will only have the free program, Abobe Reader (unless they pirated it).
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CS2 is still free. It has Acrobat. Someone with more help than me can probably even link to it
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Yeah, true. But Jimu said Adobe Acrobat in his initial comment, so I assume he has the paid version.
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Ah, I thought maybe he only had the reader version. My bad.
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10 points for reading 😀
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On the version I have here it’s under View.
Edit: No. It’s under the pages section in tools. Though I have Adobe Acrobat X Pro. So it could be different.
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I think View just flips the reading orientation (at least in my version). The “rotate pages” option under the “Documents” heading actually spins the pages.
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Yeah. I just checked again. Fixed with edit.
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Yeah, I do that, I save. I close. I reopen and…still upside down.
I can do that in Adobe Reader :-/
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Tools>Page>rotate ! WOOOOOP!
I just figured it out! and you answered me, thanks!
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I have Acrobat, so I can merge pdfs, you’d think a simple doc editor would be attached…but noooOOOOO!
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Mine seems to be a different version.
What you’re saying is what I found on google too.Cheers 😀
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A fine achievement. Though I can’t help but feel that the sun and moon are probably equally effective.
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3/5ths of your clock could also be used to advertise a gay bar.
Sell off the land underneath, let them build a bar/club, and bam, they have their sign.
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This is the ideal target for a prank. Change it to spell all sorts of naughty words :]
ps. You should replace the wood blocks with more lanterns so you can’t read what it says all the time 😛
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Yeah, but firstly I’d need to get more glowstone, and more redstone(which I am super lazy about), and because of the way I did stuff, I’d need to rewire some of the back end. And pshh, effort.
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The Other Day
That Friend: Weren’t you getting an L-shape sofa?
Me: No. L-shape won’t fit.
The Next Day
That Friend (Text): Hey, I’m at Ikea. Here’s an L-shape sofa. Is that what you want?
Me: No. L-shape won’t fit.
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There’s never a long bit when you need one – always the bloody L-Shape ones.
WHY WON’T YOU FIT, YOU L-SHAPED BASTARD!!!
ALL I WANT IS A TETRIS!!
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It’s a mystery.
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Wait.. I swear I had something for this.
Edit: Sounds like he wants to be the L to your straight piece. Best I’ve got. Sorry.
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Oh we don’t have a coffee tabel.
(We have a child’s table and chair set up.)My stupid lounge room is round the wrong way so the awesome glass coffee table I bought many years ago would have to go in sideways and that would be shite 🙁
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I don’t even want Monster Hunter on the vita anymore.
Bring on Soul Sacrifice, I say.
You’ll see… YOU’LL ALL SEE.
VITA WILL BE THE GREATEST HANDHELD GAMING SYSTEM KNOWN TO MAN.
HAHAHHAHAHHH- HAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!
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God I hope Soul Sacrifice is good. I don’t even have my Vita anymore, and I hope it’s good. Though I’m worried that this game has become the Vita’s knight in shining armor, and it’s got a hell of an expectation to meet.
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It’s cool, even if it isn’t, the Vita will have all 12 of those Monster Hunter clones that were shown at their last thing!
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in it’s defense, i found god eater (one of the clones) much more fun than monster hunter, so i hope the sequel gets translated as well.
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Yeah, even if Soul Sacrifice does fail, there will eventually be a Monster Hunter game (Capcom would have been crazy to sign anything but a timed exclusive – I actually wonder if maybe the MH4 delay was to run down the clock so to speak) and there’s some pretty competent clones too, eg God Eater.
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This… Gives me hope, somewhat.
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Fuck I loved God Eater. I made three separate trips to Akihabara last time I was in Japan with (almost) the sole intention of finding a US copy. No dice though. Ended up get it from PlayAsia though. Plus it’s up on US PSN as well.
Also, despite me ridding myself of my Vita, if a MH title did come to Vita, I’d go repurchase one in a heartbeat. I kid you not.
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SS is pretty low on my short list of wanted Vita games.
(Things could change)
Dragon’s Crown is the next big thing for me!-
I FINALLY GET IT!
The PSV isn’t dead, we just don’t get any of the great games localized!
Time to learn Japanese~~!
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Basically yeah. 🙁 There’s quite a few we’ve missed out on already. The list gets massive if you also look at PSP stuff we didn’t get.
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Didn’t know this existed, now I do, and I want to play it.
The women are drawn so… *ahem* …Healthy.
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Wild guesses — http://waa.ai/SVU
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That’s fantastic!
But no, I am a boobs man.
This scares me:
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This one looks underage, so a protect would be in order:
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This ones my fave (purely for scientific reasons)
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Lulu has tiny little titties :p
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So Ouya ships soon for backers! Actually really excited. I mean sure it’s a standard Android device for most purposes, but a Tegra 3 powered one with it’s own controller for $100? Should be awesome. Also the fact it’s entirely open and people can modify the hardware or create any software they want, going to be a lot of potential for cool shit.
I’m imagining emulator potential more than anything.
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Yeah I’d be excited if I had the money to back at the time 🙁
To me though it does kind of seem like an emulator idea you get wind of, spend all day getting shit for, then get bored of it by the time you fiddle around with it and try it out. #partypooper
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I’m hopeful that it pushes more devs to support Android in at least some capacity…like Popcap, for example.
You know what’s awesome? Left over BBQ for lunch! Nothing like a cold rissole & caramelised onions on some bread with BBQ sauce.
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Ha! I did not know this.
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Oh god! I want this nowwww! Why do you all have to talk about food all the time :'(
Caramalised onions man. Heavenly. I would eat a bowl of just them right now.
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Because food is a staple in life! and I love cooking 😛 I can share some pictures with you of what I cook if you like 😛 Just to twist the knife/add salt to the wound.
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The possibilities are EPIC \o/
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I actually knew a woman who made curried Nutrigrain.
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Happy birthday @powalen!
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Niiiicccceeeee
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@greenius
Thanks for the late replys. They fill my boring day with entertainment.
(Even if you have no idea what makes a good JRPG) :p
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Let’s get matching tattoos :p
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But you liked Xenoblade!
@jimu liked it but stopped playing because he’s lame and won’t give it another go :(. He only got up to like 4 hours or so…
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NO, I didn’t like the gameplay much at all. I heard good things about the story and that people were always overlevelled and then I got stuck because I am underlevelled.
I know I’m doing it wrong, but when right is boring, who wants to be right?
(Where did you get 4 hrs from? Did I say that? I have no idea…)
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@Jimu
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@negativezero
I know, I know. Not fun at all. Most boring sidequests ever.
“go kill a thing and hope it drops some poop” and snooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooore
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I’m sorry, Modayitus is making me extra negative.
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Don’t suppose anyone’s seen Jack The Giantslayer yet?
I have free movie tickets that run out on Wednesday and we’ve used up all our babysitting credits with my parents so I won’t be able to use them unless I see a movie during the day with my son. But there are no kid-friendly movies on yet because it’s the week before the school holidays.
Considering he’s seen Jurassic Park and Raiders Of The Lost Ark I was thinking there’s a possibility Jack The Giantslayer might be okay for him but I don’t know anyone who’s seen it to tell me what it’s like.
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The boy has seen Raiders of the Lost Ark.
You have succeeded as a parent. Send him out into the world, your job is done.
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Kind of unrelated, a friend of mine worked on the set of that film and had a horror story about Brian Singer treating the crew like poop, and Ewan being all cool and protective and putting Brian in his place. Long story short, I have a massive new found respect for Ewan, and a new found hate for Brian.
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I was just about to tell that story, saying I’ve been put off Bryan Singer forever after you told me that! Haha!
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I think he’s directing the next one. I loved First Class.
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How good was it? So good!
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It was Mad Men with superpowers. I good combination! 😀
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Still haven’t seen Mad Men. Want to. But stuff…
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Wait what? X-men: First Class was Mad Men with super powers? I’m not seeing it 😛
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@Dc
uhh by which I mean I’m not seeing that connection you’re making. I’ve seen the actual movie and loved it 😀
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Wait, what?
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@sughly, @greenius: Oh, I just meant set against the backdrop of the ’60s with the politics, style and like… plus superpowers. No ad execs. Haha. Should’ve phrased that better. 😛
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I remember losing a buttload of my respect for Ewan McGregor when I saw him in a perfume ad on TV.
But then I remembered Ewan McGregor is fucking cool and I got over it.
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He was pretty damn good in The Impossible. There might’ve been manly tears at one point. Haha!
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He was ACE in those films. Did a really good job as a young Obi Wan
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That Bay movie he was in that sucked but was decent for bay he did a good job portraying 2 guys. Well done McGregor, well done.
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The Island is probably tied with The Rock as the only Michael Bay movies I can stand, but after seeing a certain other movie recently the cool scifiness isn’t as good any more. :'(
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The Rock is the only Michael Bay movie I can stand. I think it’s because it’s literally impossible to dislike a film that has Sean Connery in it.
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And those groovy missiles with the green orbs of death are cool.
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Armageddon is my only Bay film.
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Ewwww
I always really enjoyed his Obi Wan, I thought he did a fantastic job.
I have a funny feeling he’s cool in real life, which is probably how he manages it. He always seems pleasant in interviews, and I watched that show (forget it’s name) where he went on a big motorbike expedition with one his friends. Comes across as really genuine.
Yep.
There was both the long way down and the long way round
Thanks!
He was basically the only one who didn’t come across as a talentless awkward person infront of a green screen in those films. Like he was the only one to realize that you were supposed to ham it up a bit.
Also to be fair, he didn’t have any ‘romance dialogue’ (I use that term very loosely because it refers to that super terrible exchange about sand being rough and coarse etc.) so he did have an advantage there…
Star Wars Episode III, Hayden Christensen:
‘No, it’s only because I’m so in love with you.’
Worst line in a movie, ever. As shit an actor as Hayden is, I don’t think even he could have salvage that one.
I’ve seen something of his where he was pretty great, but I can’t remember what it was.
I heard it was all George, he pushed him to be more whiny etc.
(not that he’s very good, but not 100% his fault)
It wasn’t him. He’s actually a pretty good actor in the other stuff he was in before George ruined his career and he decided to stop being an actor. There is no way you could deliver those lines well. The best actors in the world couldn’t fix crap direction and a terrible script.
Yeah, seriously… ok hold on, lemme see if I can do this justice…
Story goes that Brian was spending the vast majority of the film shoot in his tent. He was also often taking in underage boys with him, and was apparently in there with plenty of drugs, but thats another story. They would often have shots ready with crew waiting around for hours before Brian graced them with his presence, only to come out and complain about everything then go back into his tent.
So one day they had this shot where Ewan and About a Boy kid were tied up. The props people were figuring out how to do the tieing of said ropes, and hounded Brian as patiently and respectfully as possible to get his opinion. It went something like “Its fucking ropes, I dont know, figure it out!”. So hours later, and ropes being tied as best they could, Brian appears and immediately starts swearing at the props people about the ropes, like “who the fuck tied these? What the eff and eff is this!?”, and leaves set. Props people redo it, Brian comes back out, berates them again. At this point, Ewan just gets up and starts off at him. Says all kinds of stuff, about how if he wanted them done in a specific way he should stay on set and do his effing job. Brian got all defensive and was apologising (since Ewan isnt just a little crew member he can push around), but Ewan had none of it and put him right in his place apparently. Even more so, Ewan hung out with all said crew members, and apologised personally to the props people, telling them he would never work with Brian again.
There. Props to Ewan, and a ban on this film from me purely for this. Eff Brian Singer man.
edit: And furthermore, my friend stresses that films by Brian are not made by Brian. They are made by his crew. His participation was literally complaining and yelling action.
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Don’t they realise that there are nice talented people by the thousands, just waiting for their big break? Why would anyone give plum jobs to a douchebag?
Thanks for the story!
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Because they can say stuff on the posters like ‘Director of X-Men 2 and Usual Suspects’
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But how did he get THOSE jobs?
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Superman Returns does things to a man.
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@redartiface Really? Did nothing for me… o_o
I’d heard about Singer and propositioning people, but underagers? eww.
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Oh man, plus George Clooney and Jeff Bridges. That movie is all kinds of awesome – I especially like when George gets to play a slightly kooky/crazy person.
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Also Kevin Spacey!
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Yes! I forgot!
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Trainspotting is quite possibly one of the greatest movies ever made. Nothing like listening to Ewan McGregor with his Scottish accent 😀
Haven’t seen it personally, but reviews that I trust were… less than positive(a pointless, jumbled movie that doesn’t really know what it’s doing, and where every actor seems to think that they’re in a different movie).
Might be worth it for Ewan McGregor though.
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Oh, I don’t care if it’s crap, or even if reviewers think it’s crap,I more just wanted to know about the feel of it, and if I’d be forever scarring my four-year-old by taking him to see it.
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For what it’s worth when I was four my mum took me to a Jack and the Beanstalk puppet show and I might’ve cried. Maybe. The puppets frightened me. Haha!
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Hahaha! We had this place called Fantasy Glades in Port Mac, with animatornics I was terrified of. This one of Humpty Dumpty that pretended to fall, then stopped before swinging back onto the wall as he laughed maniacally still stays with me.
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One of my earliest memories is watching Watership Down when I was about 4. So traumatising. 🙁
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Oh man tell me about it! I think I was 6 or 7, and it still scared the begeesus out of me. Not a kids film, not at all.
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MONSTER!
😛Aside: That is one of my Mum’s all-time favourite songs.
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lol, dc is like Strange’s mum.
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I want to marry Emma Louise too now. Added to the marriage list. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=RWgC_k2gaxE#t=63s
p.s. Anyone in Bris care to join me at her concert in May? $25 for a ticket, pretty el cheapo, and her album is incredible. Think about it!
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I’ll go if you come with me to Adrian Edmonson and the Bad Shepherds. They’re not metal or anything like it so I think that’s a fair deal.:P
But regardless, @dc would probably enjoy himself seeing Emma Louise with you.
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I really dont think youd like Emma Strange 🙁
And I really dont think Id like Adrian XD (despite knowing nothing about him – we are too different musically)
Having said that, I am now googling him and not being close minded.
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I actually do like a lot of the stuff you listen to. I listened to a lot of things like that when I was younger. And I liked a video of hers you’ve linked before.
I have a broad range of musical tastes, I just prefer metal above all, especially these days because it makes me happy and I need that. 🙂-
Oh. Well. Ok then! I honestly had no idea, I didnt expect you to be into this kind of stuff at all! Sorry strange! I feel like this might have too many exclamation marks but I dont care! I need them to express my feelings!
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Don’t forget I even own (and love) a couple of Radiohead albums. 😀
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Errrrrmagerrrrd. You are cool, no matter what anyone else tells you!
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Are you by chance a fan of classical music @strange? I find a surprising number of metal fans are…
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I sure am. I think a lot of types of metal have the same feel to them as classical music.
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My housemate is the same way – sang in a heavy metal band, loves heavy metal, and is learning how to play Moonlight Sonata on the piano.
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So LORD – the same guys that did the “On a night like this” cover have done a HILARIOUS guitar battle video.
It’s still weird hearing Australian Accents in power metal videos to me…
Side note – i completely lost it laughing at the bassists little section.
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I’ll be seeing LORD on Saturday night and I’m very much looking forward to it. They’re always great live.
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I saw them years ago at the last Metal For The Brain. They’re so fucking rad. I was blown away.
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not a huge metal fan, but i quite enjoyed it, and as a bassist myself, i also loved that part.
I just remembered how my smoking friends used to smoke “dumpers”.
They would find old cigarettes in the ash tray, get the tobacco out and roll it up into a *new* cigerette.
(cc @gutsoup )
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O_o was my original reaction, but I guess they’ve already demonstrated apathy for what’s going into their bodies. Now I’m more o_o
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I have done this, but not often, and not in about 9 years, screw that, I grew a brain, also was pooer at the time. @jimu remember Panda used to go to the city and fill up bags with random cigarettes from the floor then bring them home and make dumpers all day.
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I did not know this. That’seven worse. At least Snow and OldSnake (you know who I mean) knew who’s mouths theirs had been in.
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I think Panda just had all the bad habits down, I remember he shoplifted a whole cooked chicked one day by shoving it in his pants, then he shared it with people, after crotch sweating on it a bit, he also used to inhale anything he could find, including lighter gas and bug spray.
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He was a supringsly good person for such a lowly drug addict.
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That’s true, I saw him a couple years ago and he was fat and friendly as ever, I think he’s off the drugs, or onto ones that aren’t wrecking him as much
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Also he was dressed like a homie,
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I feel like this is a topic that should come up more frequently:
How awesome is Ewan McGregor?
Hint: Very.
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Quite.
I’m always surprised when he turns up in films these days, it’s always “Hey, that’s Ewan McGregor”
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Anyone got some spare motivation they can send me? I have an assignment due tomorrow and I’m seriously struggling to find the motivation.
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Come on OnTargett, you can do it. Come on OnTargett, there’s nothing to it!
The feeling of handing in an assignment and having the weight lifted off your shoulders is one of the best parts of uni, if that helps?
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incidentally all of those songs are on my dungeons and dragons playlist, it helps pump everyone up during combat.
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So far all I’ve done is opened photoshop up. Havent touched any of my work at all. Needless to say, if you find said motivation, send some my way pls.
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Do it. Good things await! Good marks means good job, means good money, means MOAR GAMEZ!
Edit: more seriously, nothing motivates like routine. If you can get into a habit of spending an hour a day (or two hours or whatever) on assignments, it won’t be that hard to do them, even sans motivation.
For my part, I need a pretty freaking good excuse to not be doing a page-per-day of my graphic novel. If I don’t feel like it, I’ll stop after that one page and go play Dark Souls or faff around on TAY or whatever, but I always do that page. It’s a strong routine. -
It’s actually due today.
And now it’s worth 10% more of your final mark that it was originally.
Went to put my shoes on to leave for Uni in 10 minutes, and they’re absolutely filthy! Wtf did I do Saturday night?
I wonder if the games class will just be playing games again. I’m not in the mood for learning.
Hi TAY.
– Still no internets at home. Rang Telstra on Friday to complain. After 1 hour 25 minutes (1 hour 10 minutes of which I was getting far too accustomed to their hold music) they came to the conclusion my entire order had gotten stuck somewhere and the best approach was to cancel it entirely and start fresh. :\ No progress on this yet but at least I’ve gotten confirmation emails this time as I didn’t even get those last time. They also waived the activation fee and gave me a $100 credit so that’s okay I guess.
– We still have way too much stuff in our new house. Too much junk and trinkets and stupid shit like millions of unnecessary cables for all sorts of stuff. Need to do a massive cleanup. Anyone in Melbourne looking to get some office or bedroom furniture? Or a bookcase or two?
– My pile of shame finally got smaller! The Witcher 2 completed, finally. Such an awesome game. Controls are a bit ropey (that inventory UI is awful) but everything else about it is amazing. I love that it gives you choices where you have to choose between two things that you know will have an impact on the situation and then live with the consequences of those decisions. Really tempted to go back and play it again just to see how it plays out if I make the opposite choice. My choices spoilers: I chose to side with Roche, but prevented him from killing the king. Chose to save Triss, and let Letho and Sile both go in the end. I also had figured out most of what was really going on behind the scenes well before it was revealed at the end. Can’t wait for them to finish out the trilogy, though I’m not sure how it will be possible to have an open world given that I think the whole political situation in the North can change depending on your choices this game.
Sadly I wasn’t able to find my saves from the original game to import them and get my initial decisions carried over. I finished the first game on the Witcher path.
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I recently jumped back into playing the original Witcher, picking up where I left off at the end of chapter 2. It hasn’t aged well, but it’s still a decent game. Apparently there are two entirely different storylines in The Witcher 2, so replaying it might be a good idea.
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Yeah, Act 2 is completely different based on what you choose at the end of the first act. Really cool.
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I think it’s not two entirely different storylines. At the end of the first third of the game you make a choice to side with one character or another, and depending on which you side with, in the second part of the game is completely different. I can see how the two choices would interlock too. I’m just mainly curious how differently everything would play out if I made the exact opposite decisions. I suspect the details at the end change but the situation you end up in would be the same.
EDIT: Also, CD Project are probably the best RPG developer now that Bioware has fallen. The scope and attention to detail in what they do is amazing, and it seems they do it on a fraction of the budget too. *This* is how you design choices in an RPG.
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Was the telstra stuff a repost from old tay or are you stuck in the horrible groundhog day situation of the same problem happening again and again and them ‘fixing it this time’?
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Did I post it in Old TAY? I forget. I SPENT TWO WHOLE DAYS WITHOUT TAY. 🙁
Also it’s Telstra so being stuck in groundhog day with them wouldn’t surprise me. They have until the end of this week to get some traction on it before I go ADSL instead. That’d be cheaper and easier but I think I’m a long way from the exchange so the speed would be crap 🙁
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Pretty sure I had read that before but with Telstra who knows if this is a new issue or not. I’m right in the middle of 2 exchanges so i do get pretty bad speeds and some connectivity issues. Although at least I can get ADSL2 now, that took long enough
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It’s Bacon and Egg sandwich Monday! I am current’y shoveling one into my mouth, and it is daaaaaaamn goooood!
Because I don’t think anyone’s declared it yet:
@spaghett’s super cool and sorely missed last song played game!
Age of Adz — Sufjan Stevens
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Brother from another mother etc
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The Crysis 3 OST is still stuck in my car CD player.
This track gave/gives me goosebumps. True story.
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The Chariot – The Cat Empire
Went to their show last Thursday and damn, they still know how to make the crowd jump up and down like maniacs!
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@blaghman – thought you of all people might appreciate the efforts I went through to get my current wall http://kramsdesign.com/misc/kotaku/bbwall.jpg
Blue and red lighting man. So purdy.
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A little, not too much. Extremely pretty! Looking forward to it…. once I can peel myself away from Minecraft… 🙁
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Seriously starting to be tempted by MH3U on 3DS for the save game stuff. Do they have an ETA for when that’s working, or is it already up?
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It works, I own both copies and can happily confirm. All you need is to download the transfer utility from the 3DS eShop.
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Monday is kebab day for B-Funk and friends
also, although adobe are slimy, slimy people, i signed up for adobe’s creative cloud, as they had a deal for students for $15 a month, so i can now do assignments at home yay!
Afternoon TAY-ers!
– Due to Easter break I have to cram 6 days work into 4! Not a good news!!!
– HotS is still sitting on my desktop ready to be played, but DotA is taking up all my time (damn team games). Will probably start the HotS campaign this weekend. Been playing All Random/ Single Draft in DotA and surprisingly my win count is on the rise, lolol.
– Saw the Cat Empire on Thursday. Been going to their Melb concerts since 2006 and never regretting it one bit. Got to hang out with Ollie McGill (the keyboardist) who is also the person responsible for this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJNR2EpS0jw Unfortunately we didn’t hang back long enough to chat to the other band members 🙁
– I baked salmon with wholegrain mustard & maple syrup last night and IT WAS GLORIOUS
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Nah, the type that I use was a fairly mild one. Also you don’t really drown it in the sauce either and the Maple syrup counters the tangyness of the mustard 🙂
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Do it! You will not regret that decision. Unfortunately they won’t be back probably until the later half of this year at least…
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Also something I noticed about DOTA 2 is the alchemist says the phrase “You point, I punch” which is one of the phrases that Minsc says when selected.
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Yeah, I get it it. I was reading backwards from the bottom up and…
This style of game *SHOULD* work.
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Here’s a nice little video of an interview with Yu Suzuki, from Shenmue Dojo. This is a translated cut of the interview focusing on relevant questions http://youtu.be/mwPDFBCDM_c
http://www.shenmuedojo.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=48&t=45589&p=1037196#p1037196
And since we are on a new page I might as well repost
Considering hosting a board game meat on Easter Monday. Techie and Greenius might be able to make it, but loops hats me. Something about caring about his ‘education’ and his ‘future’.
Anybody else keen?
CC: @greenius @scree @beavwa @princesspipster @tech_knight @budgieishere @tigerion @jordi @f4ction @splicer @notoriousr @tofu @blood_apathy @dire_wolf @mcgarnical @pixel_the_ferret_viking @puppylicks @ynefel @zetrox2k @syvraen @klutar @smurfydog
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7 wonders and ticket to ride are regulars
Mrs Tigs will be keen to play one (or both) of her discworld games. Absolutely brilliant if your a fan of the series
A number of other games on offer as well-
I may get back to you, debating a pretty severe PC overhaul and subsequent gaming session on the long weekend, and depends if I have the parts by then. I don’t have much in the way of board games, but I do have Munchkin and Space Hulk Death Angel card games, both of which are pretty durned awesome.
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Ugh, that @chuloopa guy. He should take a page from @greenius and take a day off Uni to play Monster Hunter 3!
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I can’t make it, sorry. 🙁
Especially if it’s Easter Monday.
I’ll be watching Geelong thump Hawthorn again.
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WTH, why are you not in my list. Added now. Also now stressing about who else I have missed.
Think we are good, still have one of your games anyway
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You didn’t miss yourself 🙂
Is @pupplicks ‘ brother in Melb? Danmazkin I think?
@crazyguy1990 @dc
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Intrigued. but I’ll have to see how weekend plans go. Things seem all over the place at the moment.
What suburb is it again?-
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Good lord, I live in Glen Iris. Please don’t tell me you’re that neighbour I fucking hate.
IT IS YOU
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Can’t be, I’m sure my neighbours love me.
After all I share my music with them by playing it loud enough for them to hear, and really late as well, just in case they are still up and bored.
I’m the best neighbour
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Hey man! I find I don’t have a chance to get into TAY these days, but am still active on Twitter. I try and pop in here every now and then but usually 10 pages fly by between my visits. I still look out for mentions and replies.
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Ooooh, I’m gonna have to see what’s happening with the hubby so no promises at this stage, but I’s love to come!
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No worries, let me know
Also if you have any questions just post them up or to my email my username [at] gmail
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Argh. I’d love to but a) I have a tonne of uni work to do over the break and b) because it’s a public holiday it makes it a lot more difficult for me to train it (I could still drive though).
Really chomping for some board games too 🙁
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I’m not really sure what this is a reasonable response to.
Other than a severe meatball deficiency.
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I did that yesterday when I had a power outage
Granted, a trip to IKEA for me is a 5 minute walk.
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You make an excellent point. 😛
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Doesn’t matter.
You’re still JGL and still had hot steamy sex with Zooey Deschanel.
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Meatballs.
You know you must.
Incidentally, someone should make a Left 4 Dead level set in an IKEA. It’s already a maze full of zombies and random people who should clearly not be there (eg the dude in a wheelchair with his leg in a cast sticking out before him like the prow of a ship) wandering around aimlessly.
EDIT: Also whenever I think about IKEA that Jonathon Coulton song starts playing in my head.
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…whenever I think about IKEA that Jonathon Coulton song starts playing in my head.
“This is i-kea.
I’m making a note here: huge ware-house.
It’s hard to oooverstate my saaatisfaction.
Buying fur-ni-ture.
Build it myself, because, I can.” -
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Oh man, the first time I went was to a new supersize one near my work. They make you go through the showroom first, which is structured in such a way you have to cover every square inch of the showroom floor on your way to where you actually pick up the furniture. There’s no shortcuts either, you’re stuck walking through the entire thing.
Subsequent visits involved me looking online first what aisle and shelf the furniture I wanted was stored in, then shortcutting through the registers straight to the warehouse.
The people at the checkouts always grease me off like I’m cheating the system too. Fuck that, I’m not walking through your godforsaken showroom every time I know exactly what I want to buy.
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Huh? In every IKEA I’ve been to there’s always at least 2 shortcuts: 1 form the entrance of the showroom to the end (to the toilet and cafe basically) and 1 form the Office section to the bedding/carpetry.
Yes I may have hung out a bit too often in IKEA xD
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It’s like lots of little houses all over the plave followed by a giant warehouse.
They sell handy items. 😀
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You suuuuure? They have some pretty nice ones:
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Finally, I’ve been waiting & waiting & HERE IT IS!:
http://www.ozgameshop.com/ps3-games/singstar-take-that-solus-game-ps3
😀
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I have never gotten a platinum and have never gotten 1000/1000 achievement points either. 🙁 There’s one game I have I could get that full completion on in an hour or two if I could be bothered though.
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I just want one, it’d be nice.
There’s always something though, online bullshit, time-wasting crap.But the sad truth is, I’m just too shit. I tend to think I’m pretty good at a game until I see these trophies.
They really deflate any confidence I had before.I know, I’m not a competitive person, what I consider art draws me into games more than anything. But you’d think after all these years of playing games I’d have learnt something, gained some kind of skill, improved something in some way.
But no..I’m still just a button-mashing loser.Ho-hum
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I only have two platinums on PSN. (Falliout 3 and Resistance Burning Skies) Got 1000/1000 on a couple of games on 360, prolly only 3 or 4.
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I would like to get a Platinum in a game I like, y’know. Not so much a Platinum for Platinums sake but a game I enjoyed, put the time and effort in and really get that feeling of achievement.
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I’ve got a few Platinums and 1000/1000s and I think they’re all in games I enjoyed and wanted to get them for.
If I recall my first 1000 was Borderlands and my first Platinum was Burnout Paradise. I am a bit of a trophy/cheevo whore but I go for the ones I enjoy going for. Stuff I don’t like are online ones, overly grindy/repetitive tasks, or collectables zzz
FFX and X-2! 😀
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I was a bit of an achivement whore until everything started getting tons of MP achievements 🙁
Also, enjoy dodging lightning to get your platinum. 😐 Also probably grinding dark aeons to get the stuff to re-set all the stat bonus nodes on the sphere grid to +4s so you can max out everyone’s stats.
(I did a lot of that on PS2 and it was the worst)
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I did it all on PS2 and it was the best!
Why would you do it if you didn’t like it?You’re like that dood I follow on Twitter that non-stop whinges about every game he plays and has like 70 platinums.
(Actually I dint do the lightning bolts or the butterfly catching a friend did, the reat was all me!)
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Wait, really? That’s pretty impressive, I thought no one had managed that without cheating. That must have taken what, 500+ hours?
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About 370-something, if I remember correctly.
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get FFXIII-2 platinum, that was easy, or play Sleeping dogs, i platinumed that in 4 days & had fun doing it, whereas FFXIII-2 did take a little grinding.
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I haven’t even finished FF13-2. I got to the end boss and…
I don’t hate the game but I’d rather stomp dead bodies in Dead Space 2.
Morning TAYbies and gentlemen, mild amounts of story time. I was walking to work this morning and found one of those crossword scratchies lying on the footpath, seeing as no one else was around and I felt sorry for it being all trampled and junk, I picked it up and continued on my merry way. Considering my history with these things was basically I found one on the side of the road once when I was in highschool and was ecstatic when I scratched off all the letters and thought I’d won $300,000 only to be crushed when I realised I’d not scratched one letter completely (what I thought was an ‘R’ was actually a ‘P’) and every word had an R in it … I was admittedly crushed and thought the best way to deal with it was to set it on fire and let it suffer the hatred I felt for it. This may or may not have set a series of events off that ended with the kitchen curtains catching fire faster than a gas leak in hell.
Well, long story short I just won $50 bucks and the offices aren’t ablaze. It’s a win win situation as far as I’m concerned.
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Dude, that’s the worst “and then I found $50” story I’ve ever heard. You make it sound like a complaint! Props! \o/
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I don’t need your sass, Shane. I’m double figures rich, now.
Although I kind of felt bad that I got money for doing nothing, so I bought a box of chocolates for the office because my thinking is. If I didn’t have the job I wouldn’t have found the scratchie
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So, do I need a Wii U to play Monster Hunter online on my 3DS?
If not, sold. Buying it immediately.
If I do, fucking why? That’s a stupid fucking system.
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Yep, 3DS requires WiiU to play online. Further investigation revealed in addition, you need a Wii (yes, Wii) ethernet adapter for the WiiU to facilitate the 3DS’ online play. Apparently it won’t allow the WiiU’s wireless to do the job.
Fucking retarded.
EDIT : I haven’t been able to find an instance of a Wii ethernet adapter anywhere, apart from cheap Chinese jobbies on eBay. Have purchased one out of interest and will confirm if it does the job when I get it.
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I’m assuming, from a technical perspective, that the 3DS can’t host that game online very well, and the Wii U may actually take some of the load off it?
Regardless, it’s a bit shit…especially the necessity of the adapter.
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Does alright with all the other online games.
I think it does online in Japan, too. They just removed it for the rest of the world.
Capcom.
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Yeah, probably.
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It manages it just fine in Japan. Monster Hunter 3G on 3DS (JP only release) had infrastructure support. Capcom’s just too fucking lazy to give it to us shitty westerners.
I maintain Capcom hates the west with the fire of a thousand suns.
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As far as I can tell, MH3G JP required this weird setup as well? http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2013/02/monster_hunter_3_g_on_3ds_to_go_online_via_wii_u_adapter
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Well my Japanese isn’t so crash hot, and I read somewhere it could do infrastructure. I was under the impression MH3U requires a WiiU LAN connection because the WiiU’s WLAN would be tied up communicating with the 3DS. WiiU wasn’t around when 3G was released, figured it’d be different.
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Wait, I just read that article – I got MH3G on my JP 3DS mid last year. Not sure what this one is talking about. It came out ages ago in Japan. It could be title confusion though, it’s easily done with MH. Especially given JP and rest of the world releases tend to have different names.
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Wow, I thought this was a joke at first… that’s amazing.
Also, https://ebgames.com.au/wiiu-161622-Nintendo-Wii-U-LAN-Adapter-Wii-U
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That would be why I couldn’t find a Wii ethernet adapter. Nintendo just rebranded all it’s Wii accessories as WiiU now. Not that I’m lamenting the backwards compatibility, but it can be a little annoying.
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No we don’t 😛
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I know you’re joking but:
Fuck off, have you even finished P4G yet?
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Twice.
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(well I got 2 endings but nearly got the final TRUE ending)
DO YOU EVEN HAVE THE GAME.
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AM I WHINGING ABOUT NO VITA GAMES???!!!:p
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@jimu I’m not whinging I’m just stating the facts 😛
Take away ports (even enhanced ports) and Vita is left with pretty much nothing worthwhile that isn’t a dumbed down portable version of a console counterpart.
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BOOOOOOOO! HIIISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
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I want it so much!
I’ve been on the edge of buying a Wii U for ages, and did just get given $500 for my birthday. Perhaps this is what will push me over the edge.
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Yeah.. Between MH and Lego City, I’m pretty well sold. Fuck.
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One more for online play!
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There’s a store called Flipside! :O
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Sure is, home slice. Two of them, in fact.
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I was keen to get one at launch but due to the lack of games I’m waiting till Pikmin, that’ll get me to buy one, I loved the first 2 Pikmin. Also really want monster hunter but annoyed by the gay 3ds lack of online so probably won’t be getting it, Nintendo really need to stop shooting themsleves in the foot, I was once a massive Nintendo fanboy, bought every half decent game for my Wii (and some crappy ones) but then the lack of decent games led to me turning my back on my Wii & 3DS slowly, now the last game i got on my Wii was Skyward Sword (which i never finished) & Mario Kart 7 was my last 3 DS game, Stupid Nintendo, I loved you :(. My Gamecube collection is also hugeganitic
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Get Xenoblade!
Apparently the local multiplayer on 3DS is region locked too. Which killed my remaining interest in the game since I have a US 3DS.
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This is Capcom we’re talking about, remember they removed online from PSP too.
Stay Classy Capcom, stay classy 😉 You’re alright guys in my book!
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Stupid Capcom, like having 6 extra characters on the disc for Street Fighter Vs Tekken, but charging like $20 to be able to use them, and the vs mode of Resident evil was paid even though when i bought it it was a 6 kb download, so that was already there too, these are just 2 examples. Capcom may you suck up a fart that taints yours olfactory senses permanantly thus making anything you eat taste like crap, cause you been making us eat crap for years. : /
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I think I’m going to have to give up on getting Fire Emblem. Ordered US copy from Play-Asia on the 13th of February and they still haven’t gotten new stock. Suspect Nintendo deliberately isn’t producing extra copies to try and push digital sales and fuck. that. Not until they learn how to implement a proper account system for their platforms.
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Just buy it when it comes out in Aust…. FFFFUUUUUUUUUUUU NINTENDO AND YOUR SHITTY REGION LOCKING.
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Don’t get too excited for that. Dragon’s Crown will be the same sort of game done a million times better b/c Vanillaware.
Also bigger boobs and thighs.
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Wasn’t it the fastest selling Fire Emblem game in the US by a pretty big margin? Not really surprised they couldn’t keep up with demand for a sorta niche title.
Nintendo America seem to have been getting worse with stock problems in general though.
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First one they decided to actually market. Also they knew exactly how many copies were preordered and they shipped enough to fill all preorders but no extra stock. And since then they’ve made no extras. Artificial scarcity. 🙁
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If I end up in an American Gamestop (or similar store), and find a copy, would you want me to grab it for you? Might take a couple of weeks for it to be in your hands though.
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Nah, chances are I’ve got to visit our Redmond offices in April at some point so if I haven’t gotten a copy by then I’ll look there myself. 🙂 Thanks for the offer though.
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Listening to the Bastion OST, can’t help but think Transistor is going to be awesome for the soundtrack alone!
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Yeah, the concept of the game really does give me hopes for the soundtrack(also the history of the studio).
Also, it has Logan Cunningham back as the narrator, which is great.
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Bastion Soundtrack is all kinds of epic! The feel of that game is ridiculously brilliant, even if I’m not too good at it XD
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Build That Wall was especially amazing. My sister didn’t play that game until recently, but knew the song because I played it for weeks after. WEEKS. 😀
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Personally, I think I have to rate Setting Sail, Coming Home as my favourite, but then, I have a weak spot for that style of tune.
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It alternates for me, different favourite song every time I listen!
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I found another excuse to write about Assassin’s Creed. It’s a bit of a problem, that.
That one’s essentially a ‘top three’ listy kind of dealy, so if anyone wants to write their own…etc.
I’m not feeling it today. Can’t even plug Potaku well. Not that I ever do it well, but shh.
Shapes are $1.50 at Woolies. People should stock up on them.
I wonder if we could get Shapes to do a deal with us.
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I liked AC2 better than Brotherhood. *folds arms stubbornly* No Assassin’s Creed game would be on my top three list though. (Probably Mass Effect, Red Dead Redemption and Heavy Rain.)
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Red Dead Redemption would be my personal top game for this generation. I’m having difficulties with the other two. Arkham Asylum and The Walking Dead I think.
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Oh yeah, the Arkham games were incredible. D:
I loved The Walking Dead, but still feel like Telltale could’ve made it even better.
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Probably, but the soundtrack would have been really weird if it were just Arcade Fire songs.
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Hey man, my life isn’t consumed by Arcade Fire.
*Hopes BDKIAF doesn’t see Arcade Fire post below this thread*
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Man, I didn’t even think of Arkham City.
Red Dead.
Borderlands 2
Mass Effect 2
Mirror’s Edge
Pick 3
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Easy.
Arkham. Red Dead. Borderlands.
Haven’t played the other two.
That said though, that’s a testament to how strong this generation has been.
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@dc @redartifice
I have trouble deciding top games until the generation is well and truly over.And I’m often suprised by the shift.
EDIT: Red Arty Face
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I’m guessing Catherine would be in there even though I am so bad at it.
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Not trying to pick, but my user name ends with ice not ace- I’ve missed a couple of mentions from you
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For PS2, My list would probably be
Burnout 3
GTA: San Andreas
Timesplitters 2
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In no particular order (this gen):
Spec Ops : The Line
Demon’s Souls
Metal Gear Solid 4
End.
You’re welcome.
Hmm, that’s really tough. Only three, huh?
I’d have to put Dark Souls there (gameplay award).
Probably The Walking Dead (story award and emotional manipulation).
And maybe The Saboteur (art direction award and for left-field controversy) Edit: or Mirror’s Edge for the same reasons.
But that omits Uncharted, Heavy Rain, Portal 2, Arkham Asylum, and GTA V (yep, I’m confident :P)
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True Story: when I saw the list one of my first thoughts was “I’m sad more people didn’t play The Saboteur”… but then while I thought it was a good game, I couldn’t necessarily justify it in a top 3 (I hate making those sorts of lists because there’s the inevitable “what about game_xyz_that_I_forgot?” reply.
I feel slightly less crazy rating Le Sab highly now!
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I thought Sabateur could’ve been so much better than it was, but atleast it gave me the opportunity to climb the Eiffel Tower. Something I didn’t get to do in Paris. :'(
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But controversy, man. Controversy. No one will discuss your list if it’s predictable! @alexpants knew this when he chose Alan Wake! \o/
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What’s controversial about that? It’s a pretty damn good list. Although the order of the games, I suspect, might be debateable by some. 😛
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Intentional 😀
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Mass Effect 2 would be on my list. Not sure what else I’d put there though. The Walking Dead, maybe. Possibly Skyrim. One of the Portal games, it doesn’t matter which.
Mass Effect 2
World of Warcraft (released in 2004. Totally counts, even if it wasn’t on console)
I honestly don’t know what the third would be. Maybe Red Dead Redemption? I’m almost tempted to say Spec Ops.
Dark Souls (With Artorias DLC)
Street Fighter IV (Any edition, the latest one will do)
Portal
BAM!
I understand and agree with your selections. I would personally rate ME1 higher than ME2 but I think that ME2 was the more important game since it had the most cultural impact and arguably the better set of characters.
In addition to those I’d probably also want to add Arkham Asylum (tight design, brilliant use of a license and the best hand to hand combat system out there), one of Flower, Journey, Braid, Limbo maybe Bastion as representative of the huge growth in the Indie scene this generation, and Uncharted 2 (peak of the blockbuster action adventure stuff this gen). I’d almost rate Tomb Raider in there too but I need to let the dust settle from that for a bit and see if I still feel that way down the track.
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I feel that ME1 was a stronger RPG, while ME2 was a stronger shooter.
Both great in their own right, but each with some significant differences.
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You should try forgetting about them, and take a long break. Every now and again I’ll go two months without listening to the Wicked soundtrack, then I’ll remember it, have a listen, and be like “Whoah, I forgot just how excellent this is!”
Mail tales(warning: it’s a boring story, no wardrobe malfunctions this time 😛 )
I’ve been waiting for a week for some fabric to arrive and way longer than that for the Heavatar CD, so I was all excited when the parcel guy knocked on my door this morning. Alas, it was just a giant and mysterious box addressed to Mr. Strange. I was disappointed but still slightly hopeful for the regular mailman to bring joy.
But the regular mailman drove right past. 🙁
No wait, he came back and stuffed our mailbox full to overflowing! There were a few parcels for Mr.Strange, as well as a card to grab something from the Post Office tomorrow(fingers crossed for Heavatar!)…and my fabric finally arrived.
As soon as I opened it and saw it had been beautifully wrapped in green tissue paper, I forgave the lady for making me wait so long. 😛
tl;dr Now I can start my new project. 😀
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‘Spretty good!
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Eh. I got bored after an hour of it and turned it off. Life’s too short for long movies 🙂
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But it has a nose-picking scene! How could you be bored?!
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Art imitating life? Yawn 😛
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DO NOT LOOK UP SE7EN AND WHATS IN THE BOX
MAJOR MAJOR SPOILER
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I think I know, it’s one of those things that became a punchline for years after. 😀
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Dumbledore
Soylent Green is -
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He was ___ the whole time
Tyler Durden Something something
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Nope. Bloom Fine Fabrics. Only place with the Australian 100% organic jersey I needed. Had to get a sample of all the colours so I could make up a bunch of samples and see which is going to work best.
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Just realised that Ronde Van Vlaanderen will be shown live the night before board games. This will give me time to cook while I watch.
Make all the things \o/
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The grand total for my food intake today (breakfast and lunch) comes to about $3.50.
Slightly over budget.
Having no money is hard.
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yeah it sux, I was broke for nearly 5 years (every spare cent i got went to games). I’ve finally got stable work now though. Hang in there dudes, I’m sure things will work out (even though I know nothing of your circumstances). Chin up pip pip and all that
Should I make a trip to Blighttown today?
Or should I just stare at the Dark Souls disc and cry?
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You’ll cry either way. Might as well attempt to make progress.
I’m about to trek into Blighttown too.
I’ll be carrying nearly 300,000 souls with me if I go through with my current farming plans. I am totally prepared to cry.Edit: It’s really not that bad, as long as you’re careful.
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If you want souls fast once you beat a boss hang around for a few hours dropping a summon sign. You get all the souls from the boss and one humanity every time. Extremely easy to rack up souls and humanity while having fun, helping people and learning new stuff from experienced summons, especially if they summon a Sunbro.
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I used to dislike Blighttown because it was super laggy but it’s not too bad when I think about it and I’m not getting those problems on PC.
Go for it man! It ain’t no Tomb of the Giants…
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Do option A and option B will follow anyways.
Buy lots of blooming purple moss and go get the Rusted Iron Ring. Trust me that ring is essential.
Someone wish me luck so my P4G parcel arrives today!
Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease
gotta love centrelink and their processes. Today I had to visit Mission Australia (job agency kind of thing). Done this before, but still yet to understand why it happens. I walked in, filled in a form, they informed us of several ways in which jobs may be found (newspaper/internet etc., and promptly shooed us out the door, but not before telling us that they are “not here to waste your time, but to help”. Well.. I dunno what part of the phrase waste of time they don’t understand, perhaps.. all of it.. cos well.. if that wasn’t a fuckin waste of my time, I dunno what is.
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They’re not there to waste your time, hey’re there to earn their wage…which includes wasting your time.
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TAYlist for the 25th of March 2013 TAYlist – the TAY Playlist, sponsored by not asking for requests this morning
INXS – Beautiful Girl
3 Doors Down – Kryptonite
Sixpence None the Wiser – There She Goes
Pink – Stupid Girls
Tom Jones & Mousse T – Sex Bomb
George Michael – Faith
Jimmy Barnes – Ain’t No Mountain High Enough
Billy Idol – Dancing With Myself
Cold Chisel – Choir Girl
Gabriella Cilmi – On A Mission
D-12 – Purple Hills (AKA Purple Pills)
Knife Party – Bonfire
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3 Doors Down – Kryptonite!!!!!
That’s the blasted song I was trying to think of for an entire day. Were talking about songs where the AMV is the clip you think of in your head when the song plays rather than the official videoBest list
I’m curious as to why in almost all crime fiction in all media everyone but the police solve crimes. Lab techs, medical examiners, researchers and even a freaking writer with writers block always work it out while the police are, um, I’m not sure exactly what they are doing in fiction world.
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They spend their time being corrupt in crime thrillers! Don’t worry man, the drug addicted FBI agent on the verge of being kicked off the force are dependable!
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That’s cause in real life the cops are the ones doing it… More interesting that way I suppose 😛
Cops are just there for either cannon fodder or unpaid extras
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The police are just as important as the writer. When the police tell the writer to “stay out of police business” it only makes the writer work harder.
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Because crime fiction where cops solve the crimes have been around for ages and inserting non police characters into the setting helps keep things fresh?
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Because nobody robs donut stores hur hur hur
There are basically 2 main styles of police shows, those about the police and those that have a hook with a ‘expert’ who helps (The murder she wrote principle)
With something like the bill or third watch the focus will be on the police investigation, with the other style it is about the twist at the end and how the expert uses (forensics, intution, psychic ability, deduction,etc) to crack opon the case.
People watch the formulation shows more so more of them get produced.
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While not members of the constabulary, aren’t the lab techs, medical examiners, researchers etc. usually part of the police organization?
Also I think there are still fair amounts of crime fiction out there involving detectives etc. Less revolving around the general cop I suppose simply because the bulk of cases that an average police officer would deal with are fairly simple, and when they get more complicated there will usually be specialists involved.
This is basically the same question as asking why all the medical dramas revolve around trauma surgeons and stuff and not your local GP. Treating little billy’s runny nose isn’t as exciting as treating the dude with life-threatening axe wounds.
The real estate agent who looked after our old place is being upsettingly anal about condition. Apparently despite us being there three years and having done way more than is reasonable to clean the place after leaving, including getting the carpets steam cleaned, she’s raised the terrible, terrible minor staining of the carpet in one room presumably caused by a drop of cough syrup as a show-stopping fatal flaw and we’re probably not going to get all our bond back. 🙁 We don’t even remember there being stains at all, so this was a surprise.
So over it. Just want to be done with that money pit of a house.
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Real Estate agents are some of the lowest forms of life I’ve ever had to deal with. Some are really good but on a whole they are disgusting creatures.
I’ve been unfortunate in my career path to have to be involved quite heavily with them.
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I concur. 🙁
The old manager we used to have was good but for some reason we’re dealing with a different one at the moment because the usual one isn’t around, and the new one may or may not cause me to godwin myself if I describe her.
The worst thing is I need to get the bond back this week to pay my rent at the new place without having to dip into credit, because I had to buy a new Fridge when we moved due to the previous one not fitting. And because we spent extra to get the carpets at the old place steam cleaned because they insisted on it despite that apparently from a legal standpoint that’s not ‘reasonable’. 😐
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Peruse and call if necessary. Learn what your rights are and what you actually are and are not responsible for. Don’t back down and threaten to report the agent if they try to push something they shouldn’t. They usually won’t once they know you know because the fines are MASSIVE and its usually pretty hard for the real estates to absorb those fines.
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I’m not sure that this is a case where they’re pushing something they ‘shouldn’t’ because in all fairness it is damage we probably caused. It would probably be overturned or be a minimal amount if it came down to a tribunal hearing though. They’re just being officious and pedantic.
I’m thinking they shouldn’t be able to claim to get say the whole room re-carpeted because of a minor stain in one area, especially since it’s the original carpet from when the house was built in the 90s – that should be unreasonable. And since we already had the place steam cleaned and it didn’t come out I’d think that having the area shampooed or something wouldn’t make a difference.
So hopefully the landlord is more reasonable than the agent is. He’s been through before and remarked on how well we were taking care of the place.
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Did you know you can serve the Real Estate with a Notice to Remedy Breach (Form 11), too. This should be in the RTA pack that Real Estates legally have to supply you with at the start of the tenancy. Or check the Residential Tenancy Authority website http://www.rta.qld.gov.au/
You’d be very surprised to find that tenants have a lot more protection than Real Estate agents will have you believe – in fact they like to keep it that way, so they can use bullie tactics to take your bond money.Real Estate agents seem to live in a bizarro world where they think their run-down-shit-holes are multimillion dollar mansions.
Also, really they are just trying to get their propertys repaired out of the tenants pocket.
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So, yeah, anytime a Real Estate doesn’t keep up their end of the agreement, submit to them a Form 11. The most common breach by Real Estates is ignoring Repair & Maintenance requests.
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Not usually. 3-4 days if you don’t dispute anything on the Bond claim and send your bank details.
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From my experience carpet cleaning & pest conntrol from a company of the agent’s choice is mandatory and in every agreement you sign.
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Carpet cleaning is. Carpet *steam cleaning* isn’t. But whatever, we did it anyway since they said it in their checklist.
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Steam cleaning? But that’s how you get carpets professionally cleaned, no?
They pretty much just spray hot water down and suck it up (Ive done it professionally myself) is there some new kind of way?
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@greenius
Hi.
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See, you’ve done it again here, you were looking for @greenius but replied to me…
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Too busy dying to reply instantly 😛
This is not the first story I have heard of a Real Estate agent trying to keep a bond over normal wear and tear. You should fight it man!
I got one of my previous agents fired. I still wear that as a badge of honour. He was an absolute scumf-…bad person.
Hopefully you can get it cleared up with minimal money loss.
You never get the FULL bond back, it is an agent’s job to make up bullshit.
That said, there are some rules in place to totally fuck them.
When my wife was pregnant she lost the ability to think clearly and placed a hot pan on the carpet several times after causing the fire alarm to go off.
We left about 3 burn marks in the carpet.
They had to replace the whole thing (which they should have done anyway since that apartment was funky old and the carpet skanky. There was also a flood from when the million year old water heater exploded and flooded the place).
They could only charge us $300 total because reasons. Thanks QLD government 😀
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Lucky.
You would be floored if you knew how big the bond was for this place though (we had to pay extra to get it because we had a cat & dog at the time). There’s no way in hell some cough syrup stains could suck it all up unless they’re being incredibly dishonest and we’d definitely dispute that.
Hello, I finished Bastion on the weekend.
I played it a while ago but never finished it. I was inspired to finish it by the announcment of Supergiant’s next game, which looks cool. Seems I stopped playing just before the ‘final act’ of the game (i.e. when you are trying to get the last shard, just before the Ura invade the Bastion). Which was great because what I played on the weekend was the ‘cream’ of the game imo.
I found the ending to be excellent, as follows: I saved Zulf and carrying his body through a barrage of enemy fire was quite powerful. I also chose Evacuation, for Zia’s sake. Felt good d00ds.
Also in my imagination of the epilogue, The Kid and Zia get married 🙂
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Yeah, I went the same way first time, and it felt wrong to go NG+ that way. Would make more sense the other way.
I agree with everything written above in this thread.
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I feel emasculated. The games teacher brought in a BBC Micro and Grannys Garden which I was an absolute gun at in grade 1, and I couldn’t even get past the first puzzle today 🙁
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I remember having a similar experience with the XBLA Prince of Persia remake. I completed that game several times on the Master System II. The very first guy you sword fight was killing me repeatedly 🙁
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Ditto here, I beat it on the PC back in the day like it was nothing. The XBLA remake kicked my ass.
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Dark Souls help in Blighttown!
There’s a giant slug thing on a wall. I found a way to get behind it and assumed I could attack it there but my hits did no damage and I somehow slipped through to the front and got OHKO’d. Then I decided to fire arrows on it from a distance, but it’s not taking damage from anything I do.
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this. The health bar is there. After you shoot an arrow look right above it. It’s floating way above it. I think it takes about 30-40 arrows to get rid of it. I don’t think I’ve ever really encountered it and still have no idea what it is. Usually just shoot it away from the walkways before I get near it. -
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Stressful? Wait until you get to Tomb of Giants
Pitch dark oh god where is everything why are these skeleton dogs destroying me so fastand Demon Ruinsmobs of Taurus and Capra demons oh god why are there seven Taurus demons in one group-
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On this run-through? Nah.The first time I saw them? OH GOD OH GOD WHY OH WHY OH GOD WHY?
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Quiet, you!
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I couldn’t even find that passageway
Then again I couldn’t find the bonfire either so it probably isn’t surprising
So I had a couple of friends over last night and we played some GoldenEye (the PS3 remake). Golden Gun mode is so much fun.
We also played a few round of Street Fighter X Tekken, which I haven’t played in several months. Apparently there’s new DLC characters for it now. I know because they added them (grayed out) to the character select screen without me buying the pack 😛 I miss secret unlockable characters.
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I played the original Goldeneye a few weekends ago with some friends, and it was the greatest decision made that weekend.
Naturally, we made up stupid rules. Manual aim sniper rifles and slapping only was so damned funny! 😀
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the annoying part is that those characters have been on the disc the whole time, Capcom are jerks and want us to pay for them, also, what ever happened to unlocking new costumes, now they’re like, pay $20 for something you used to get for free, DLC is such a double edged sword
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LIES.
In a completely unrelated note you should buy Dark Souls. What already have it? Well you better buy another copy, you know, just incase.
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There are far too many WiiU’s in Canberra given the TAY population here.
I’m not sure whether I should read this as a comment on socio-economic factors, or if the majority of us are just bad with money(I know I’m the latter).
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You Richie McMoneybags from Snootyville East.
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Well, given Shane hasn’t bought a WiiU, him, maybe?
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Fuck, no. My gaming budget for 2013 is about minus five hundred bucks. If I get any new games this year (apart from GTA V which I pre-ordered last year), it’ll be entirely due to the kindness of strangers (hi @strange!)
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And yet you’ve never met me. Why do you hat me, D.C.? Why?
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So much hat.
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Do you think it’s worth also taking time off the following monday to recover from the inevitable PAX Pox?
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I’m taking two days off either side.
Also, I figure flights back might be cheaper mon or tues.
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Good point
*Asks himself for leave*
*Berates himself for being lazy*
*Grudgingly approves leave*
*Success \o/*
I have overdone the whole fanboy thing in this comment thread today:
Interesting to read that the original plan for the FFX remake was to use the FFXIII engine and redo the game from ground up then got canned to jazz up the original game.
Not sure if a good or bad thing.
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Good thing. Their Crystal Engine from XIII turned out to be a dog’s breakfast for porting. FFXIV was originally on it and it’s the source of a lot of that game’s issues as well.
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Yeah, its roots as a PS2 engine really show(insert my rant about how ugly FFXIII is here), so I don’t think it’s necessarily the best starting point for, well, anything.
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I understand them continuing the FFXIII series on it, they’d already done all the work.
At least the engine they’re using for that Agni’s Philosophy demo looks good.
EDIT: Also they should just use Crystal Dynamic’s version of the engine they built for Tomb Raider. Now *that* looks good.
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Yeah, I understand that they’re invested in it, and its functional enough for what they’re doing, but their next engine does look so much nicer(and not that I have any idea about what the dev tools for the Crystal Engine are like, but the stuff they’ve shown for their next one does look pretty good(even if it is all minor stuff)).
And wow, I was actually unaware that Crystal Dynamics used an altered Crystal engine. That is impressive.
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now you’ve made me think of how far i’ve got to go and how much work i have to do.
now i’m crying.
Damn you, tigs, you sexy man-beast, you!
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Either Akon’s 2000-something hit ‘Lonely’ or Team America’s Kim Jong Il’s version is playing in your mind now.
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I missed three buses in a row once because of TAY.
Thankfully it was peak period, on the major bus route for the city, but still. 3. Ludicrous.
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Ladies, form an orderly line
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AWWWW YESSSSSSSS
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It’s this season’s twist! When you come last all the other teams get to vote on how you’ll be put to death! 😛
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Brought to you by Travelosity!
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Phil could kill them all. I can see it in his eyes, he wants to.
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It’d be the local people that are always with him at the end. They always have that glint of hatred in their eyes.
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@dc – Welcome to Russia! (you stupid American swine)
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Sigh, my perfect day has just been ruined.
Soo murder is still illegal right, guys? They didn’t pass a bill today or something allowing me to kill those who do stupid/annoying shit and think they’re invincible to all forms of punishment that their actions might incur..
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Fucking neighbours kids are tormenting our 5 month old kelpie cross border collie making her bark. They think it’s hilarious, I think different. But as usual you try and say anything their “little angels” would never do that and we should fuck off and die.
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Eh, they’re proving to be just like their father. Though at their age, he was breaking into houses and cars.. They aren’t yet, they just throw stones at everything and play on the road and not give a shit about the neighbours lol.
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Sounds like you guys have to move! Not that simple, I know, but home’s supposed to be somewhere you can unwind and all that.
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They’re just deadshits. We own the house and block of land we live on. Have done for close to 25 years. They’re in a housing commission dwelling, despite the fact we have the right according to the government to live in peace with dept of housing renters, it seems no matter what official channels we go through nothing happens.
Even 2 AVO’s weren’t enough for them to step up and take action for their tenants :S Though according to the NSW Dept of Housing, any tenant caught by police manufacturing or trafficking prohibited materials is an instant termination of their lease, again this never happened.
The bloke in charge at the time for the area was corrupt, and he was brought undone not long after, but again nothing ever happened, they were told to behave and nothing more. If their kids keep up the shit though, the Ranger is only a phone call away anyway.
I know they sound like the neighbours from hell, which honestly they are when they want to be. It’s just the small shit like this at times is worse than the big shit they have caused for us in the past.
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Not all, there are some well behaved ones out there. Just it can be hard to find them heh.
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Vague teenage girl post alluding to a drama waiting for someone to ask about it? 😛
How about dem vidjyagaems?
Is this a Facebook thing again?
If so, just ignore them and move on. It’s not worth ruining your day.
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Pretty sure I only got an account in 2009. So we had a small overlap where we could have been facebook friends. 😛
But I don’t regret having an account. Your experience is affected greatly by who is on your friendlist and for the most part I don’t have to deal with a lot of the stuff other people say they experience on there.-
The problem with Facebook was me, I think. I was lonely and dwelling on the past, thinking about people who probably weren’t thinking about me any more. Made me depressed. Haha. :'(
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It’s only once you’ve spent two hours flicking through old photos of yourself, reminiscing on different times, and just wishing you could be near those people one more time, that you know you’ve got a problem.
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But do a “I’m not dead post” and when lots of your friends respond to it then you get all 😀
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Naaaaah, I got rid of that loony after I called him a hypocrite for saying shit about me that wasn’t true 😛 It’s real life sadly lol.
What happens when a crowdfunded project fails awfully?
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Crowd sourcing works on good will, momentum and community building. This guy sounds like a bastard.
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Yeeep. Doubt he deserved a cent. Seems to be news to him that it requires effort to start a crowdfunding campaign, and ohmygod people dont just suddenly start pouring into your blogs and campaign for no apparent reason? How strange and utterly selfish of them.
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hahahahaha that was a terrible video, you couldn’t read half the text because of the awesome effects he was using in the background
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@tigerion: when we go off DST next weekend, Israel also goes *onto* DST. So our meetings get significantly closer together. I think my 6:30 monday will move to 4:30.
All the trivia \o/
I don’t know a lot about Bioshock Infinite but I hope they have some gameplay moments that are affected by the weather.
A city in the sky is a great setting and it would suck if it was continuously sunny in the game like it has been in the trailers. I’d love to see the effects of a rainstorm or lightning.
Does the game have a day/night cycle or at least night time levels? I guess those of you buying the game tomorrow will let me know. 🙂
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Oh god. I just remembered I ordered it through Steam. And I have no internets at home. Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
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My new house is in a Droptus 3G blackspot. I get intermittent coverage only. 🙁 When I said I’ve got no internets at home I really meant it.
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Hack into satellite internet.
Preferably with a 1990s style video of you mashing on a keyboard.
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But to Hack the Gibson I would need a network connection. T_T It’s a catch-22.
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Damn all this recent rain.. and the fact I live near bushland/swamp-like areas. It means ALL the mosquitoes and sandflies, I swear I lose like a litre of blood just by going outside to the clothesline of an evening lol..
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Make me!
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You mean get in.
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Really thought you said ‘worth braving the elements with my pants!’, to which I was like well yeah I hope he braves it with his pants
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Haha, best reply
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Day one complete. I’m going to be do incredibly bored over the next fortnight.
The good news is that I get my termination payout in today’s pay \o/
Hooooomigod.
5 pages. You freaks. I miss it, but man! I can’t (read: won’t) play catch-ups!
Anyone keen for ARAM.a tonight, or is everyone busy Manantah Hahntah Tree-ing? (@shiggy)
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SUGHLY COME ON POTAKU THIS WEEK PLEASE! YOURE PERFECT FOR THE TOPIC!
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OKAY!
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Haha, I liked this because I had a mental image of you doing a cowboy mosey into the sunset and it made me lol
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While I am well aware of the meaning of this post, I like to believe Sid is your alter ego and you are at odds with yourself ala Perfect Blue. Err… minus the raping.
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don’t know as yet
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MONSTER HUNTER:
I’ve probably got around 17ish hours now :D… and it’s only been 3 days D: EHMERGERD
I killed lots and lots of things! Gigginox kicked my ass but I did well against Rathian and Lagiacrus :D. Both had their tails chopped off and body ripped to shreds >:). Then had a terribly embarrassing run against Barroth because my Shakalaka friend decided to run away and now I have no decoys/distractions 🙁
Are we still doing stuffs tonight?
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GAME CLUB:
Shiggy tweeted about it but I don’t think anyone responded (JERKS!). I reckon we should do it for whatever game is in that new weekly humble sale they have every Wednesday :D. Surprise factor!
And who could refuse a game for 1 cent?
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BIOSHOCK INFINITE:
I’m not feeling hyped for it at all mang. I’m sure it’ll be amazing and I loved the first few trailers but just not feeling it and I don’t want to buy it now when it’s (relatively) expensive and not play it, when I know I can get it later for cheaper. I’m currently in the process of cancelling my pre-order 😛
I haven’t even finished the first or second yet! I know I don’t need to but I think people said it’s hard to get back to the first after playing the second due to the improved control scheme and other gameplay improvements, so I’m thinking that going from Infinite to 1 or 2 would be like that.
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I’m feeling BioShock Infinite hype, probably the most hyped I’ve been for any thing since Tomb Raider. (Haha, that would sound more impressive if that wasn’t released three weeks ago. :P)
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Might watch Eternal Sunshine later instead of Heat. (Not in the mood for a long crime movie tonight.)
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Oh yeah, I’ve seen it before. Just saw it was on Foxtel and haven’t seen it since like 2007. 😛
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SO GOOD! Wasnt even exaggerating. If I absolutely had to name a fave, it would have to be that.
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Actually what prompted a rewatch was when we were talking about it at the Hellscream birthday dealy and you started talking about the scientist subplot that I had COMPLETELY forgotten about until you reminded me. D: Rewatch is required. Haha! I loved it though. Was blown away first time I saw it.
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So after reading over the first couple of pages (you guys are crazy by the way) I kinda want to join in on the Minecraft shenanigans. If I go ahead and buy it what else do I need to do to join the Potaku server?
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Nothing! No weird crazy programs like Terraria 😛 (hehe), just enter the server details and you’re in.
At least with Terraria’s case that was between us but when TAY had it’s own server up it was pretty much the same where you just enter the details of the server and bob’s yer uncle
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Oh good, thats a nice change. Can someone send me the new Teamspeak details as well. Last time I tried to log in, it said it had changed. Or maybe you just don’t want me around anymore 🙁
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I sent you a twitter message!
Sadly, most people don’t hop on TS to Minecraft any more.
Oh, I remember the good ol’ days, hopping on TS solely for Minecraft, talking to Q-bo, wearing an onion on my belt, as was the fashion at the time…
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Is there an in game chat for Minecraft? How do I yell at Cake to stop spawning creepers near me?
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There’s in game text chat.
But it lacks the glory of actually being able to yell at Cake.
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T is for chat I think but you can say all you want but Trollsmith does what the Trollsmith wants.
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Remember to leave air holes.. It’s a horrible tragedy when you forget and they suffocate and then you have a body you need to dispose of and you can never recall what sort of plastic Walt recommended from Breaking Bad to use with hydrofluoric acid.
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Speaking of Minecraft, does anyone recognise any of the following names:
obc07619
etho45
james_mcawesome
If no one recognises them, they’ll be easier to deal with, because their behaviour is getting rather annoying.
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HHHNNNNNGGH I’madouche.
Thanks man 🙂
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What’s ya MC name? Everyone isnt using handles, well some are but most are not /o\
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Pretty sure I’m Synthetiquette/Mythamphetamine/Aleph/Synthetythalephetaquetteminull.
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Ha! a’ight.
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@tigerion I can’t make it to the board games meat next Monday. I’ve got a family lunch thingy that day. I’m keen to try Discworld one day though 🙂
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Why would you upvote that DC, you monster
I’m sure we will have another one sometime, hopefully you can make that
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I upvoted this enthusiasm for Discworld cause it vaguely relates to an adventure game I once played. (Discworld Noir! You ever play that @sughly?…)
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Yip! Didnt get far though… always meant to go back. One of those ‘its meant to be good but its kind of ugly’ games 😀
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Was pretty non-interactive too. Lack of hotspots and all that. Got particularly good in the second half of the game after certain events… unfold. Not sure how it’d play today, though.
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Looks like I’m not joining the Minecraft shenanigans. Notch apparently doesn’t want my money. I’ve tried to give it to him, but if he’s not interested, then fine. *sulk*
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Monster! You only bought like 4 copies of AQ too, geez
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Three! 😀
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Be excited, man. Bioshock Infinite!
I’m expecting it to be at least as good as Marathon Infinity, and at least twelve times as coherent!
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Don’t even worry about me, man. Hope you’re okay!
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NO! We’ll worry about you just like we worry about everyone else 🙂
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I just found out, my Grandparents will be down in Canberra tomorrow, and staying for some number of days.
What is the minimum amount of time I can get away with seeing them, before playing Bioshock Infinite? Is two minutes a little harsh? I think I might bump it up to three.
Hmmm. This is quite a dilemma. Since I’m already one of their favoured grandchildren, I feel like I can’t squander the advantage I have…
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Is that the grandparent that made the ‘shorn’ pun? I think you should cancel! >:| Puns shouldn’t be rewarded! 😛
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That’s the ones.
Apparently my Grandfather’s response to my mother after seeing me shaved was that he wouldn’t want to meet me in a dark alley. :/
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Wii U is finally up and running. I’ve gone through and added everyone who has their deets on Taynames. Mine’s just BDKIAF. Now I guess I should play a game on it, right?
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Did you send the friend requests through MiiVerse? That’s the easiest way, but I’ll be sure to add you next time I’m online. Have fun, man! 😀
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No. Because I assume Nintendo’s friends system is still batshit crazy. I guess there was an easier way?
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Basically, you can add people as friends via their thing, and then they need to add you as a friend on their own thing, and then you’re both friends. But if you send it through MiiVerse, it sends them a friend request that they can accept.
I have no idea why it has 2 systems.
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I might be crazy, but do you get notifications either way now? The last two people that have added me I have got a notification in Miiverse and the regular Friend List.
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I have no idea, my WiiU hasn’t been plugged in for quite a while now…
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I got a notification the other day
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Ssssh, let him have the next couple of days or so before he reaches that shocking realization!
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I’ve had the Wii U for over a month and Monster Hunter is the only game I have on it.
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Best purchase.
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I’m surprised you haven’t tried ZombiU seeing as it’s apparently like Dark Souls 😛
(There’s a demo)
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I think somebody else told Freeze Monster Hunter was like dark souls too.
That’s how we will get Freeze to play games.
Psst @freezespreston Tetris is totally like Dark Souls.
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Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers is like Dark Souls too!
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@dc (but better)
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Much, much better. 😛
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I have had it for 3, and I have Nintendoland. And, ah.. hmm…
Super Mario Bland Edition! Which is ok with a few people I must admit.
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ZombiU is the only thing I’ve played for more than a couple of hours. Hated Mario U. I’d prefer to play the Rayman Legends demo over and over again then play that. 😀
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Haha! It gets better actually as the game goes on
Mario was soo soo lame…
NintyLand was surprisingly fun 😀
Rayman SHOULD’VE been my 3rd game…
It’s been 3 days and I’ve got over 20 hours in MH3U… D:
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I actually don’t hate it. Simplified for sure, but easy enough to navigate and kind of looks like the blog they always claim to be rather than a slick gaming magazine dealy…
Edit: Don’t particularly love it either though. 😛
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It’s just white.. From a developing point of view it’s very unattractive :S They could’ve broken some stuff up with some colour and such. I was simply just talking about the design tbh. Nothing else lol.
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I like it. I read the explanation and all the new stuff they’re doing sounds pretty cool, too.
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Sounds like they’re turning their version of TAY into something like Potaku. Community content and etc.
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I agree, it’s pretty good. Looks like they’re really trying to foster a community who are engaged with the site beyond just sniping in the comments.
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I’m not talking about the content thing, that’s cool and it’s good to see them doing it. I was simply talking about design, since its just so bland & unappealing to the eye. It needs some colour to differentiate etc..
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Oh god. So many invaders in the Depths tonight. Some with the AotA Dark spells which ruin low level players.
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D: I’m now supremely glad Mr. Strange wanted to play MLB tonight instead of letting me play Dark Souls.
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I’m just getting summoned and helping people with Gaping Dragon and showing newbies some secrets around the level. Usually is a lot of fun but there seems to be a lot of low level griefers tonight.
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MLB! Sheeeeit, I used to play those games all the time in the n64. I loved them! Why dont I play them any more? I should play them…
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So. There’s a lump in my wife’s boob. I know, usually, I’d be all like “Hey, that means bigger boob, right?” but for some reason, I’m just worried and anxious.
It might be a blocked milk duct, but she’s had those before, and this is not like them. Also, bigger.
#TayMoodRuined
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Worried and anxious. Also I ate too much chocolate tonight and feel a little ill.
How are you doing? How’s the shoulder? And the little one?
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Sore but nothing major.
Women get all sorts of lumps at times so hopefully just one of those weird woman problems that we don’t need or can ever understand that just goes away.
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Been trying to compose some sort of reply that’ll prove helpful, but I’m not really well versed in stuff like this. What I can offer is this: you ever want to talk privately, you’ve got my e-mail address. Not good at talking about this sort of stuff, but am always happy to listen!
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Thanks, man. Appreciate it. But don’t worry too much about the words – it’s a good thing to have the support of TAY. Just sharing what’s on my mind at the moment.
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Boobs are amazing, and I think the occasional lump is just nature making us stop and appreciate the boobs awesomeness from time to time. Don’t want to start taking them for granted, because boobs.
Get her to go get checked and let us know how it turns out. Hope all is well man. It’s probably nothing. I’m sending positive juju your way. *raises eyebrow* Hnnnnnghghghghghghghgn………..
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Thought you would like that one. There are a few people here who would work in the chairs (The ones who hat fun)
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Does anyone else think that chocolate covered Froot Loops would be an awesome thing?
Not as cereal, just to munch on. Like Clinkers.
Ways to get hot girls to come to your room: Get their hair dryer and tell them to come pick it up 😛
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This is how it starts, next there will be a Saw kind of situation going down. D:
Stop luring people places, BenJ!
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My room is the most inviting of places! Plus having people coming over like every day is the only motivation I have for keeping it clean 😀
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Posting this now, since I’ll probably forget tomorrow and it’s currently fresh in my mind. Just watched Blade Runner for the first time. Well, the directors cut of Blade Runner. It’s very… eighties. In this case, that’s not a good thing. It’s an okay film, but no where near as good as people say it is.
Spoiler stuff, though I guess everyone’s probably seen it already:
So, there’s that fan theory that Deckard is a robot, but I don’t buy it. At least in the version I watched there’s simply not enough evidence to support it. It’s sort of inevitable that such theories would happen with a film like that though. I do think if he is a robot it sort of defeats the purpose of the film, which is the replicas teaching a Blade Runner/human that he’s fighting on the wrong side and isn’t the good guy. That whole this is what it’s like to be afraid thing loses some impact if Deckard’s also a robot.
The film has one of the most disturbing scenes I’ve ever seen. Deckard almost rapes a woman, he totally would have if she didn’t consent in the last minute, and the thing that makes it sick is the scene is played as being romantic. A man forcibly kissing a woman, not allowing her to leave when she wants, standing over her in a threatening manner and demanding that she says she loves him and wants him is not romance, it’s creepy as hell.
Deckard’s also terrible at his job. If not for luck and the stupidity of the replicas he’d be dead. The snake lady was about to kill him till she ran off because they were interupted, stupid since it would have made much more sense to finish the job then run off, that other guy was going to kill him till replica babe stepped in and shot him, clown lady was going to snap his neck until she decided to run away and try and flip onto him again for some reason and the final guy could have killed him a dozen times, doesn’t, and then saves his life at the end. Deckard also sort of just stumbles onto at least three of the replicas rather than seeking them out. All in all, not a very good Blade Runner.
Reading the back of the DVD box it says that it took place in LA. I had no idea. I thought it was set in China. Apparantly Deckard has some inner monolog that was cut from this version, maybe that helps make him seem more replicary or less rapey? It added in a unicorn scene, which it says is great but I thought was weird and out of place. It also changed the ending. I looked it up and it seems in the original they end it with them driving through a field. I think the way the directors cut ended it was a lot better. A lot more emotional. One of the saving graces of the movie.
I can see why it’s a cult classic, because it’s weird as hell and weird films tend to become classics, but I thought it could have been a lot better. I’ll get hate for saying this, but it needs a remake. It’s a film that suffers from the time it was made in. The camera quality is poor, the lighting sucks (everything is way too dark), the sound quality is poor and of course the CGI isn’t great. A remake would fix all that, as well as potentially removing the disturbing scene I mentioned in the spoilers and allowing for better characterisation and development, which I also felt was rather poor.
Edit: Also, it takes forever to get into. The opening credits last forever, and the film has a really slow pace. The final third of the film, or quarter or whatever depending how you split it, is probably the best part and it’s a shame it takes so long to get into because if the film had been like that from the start it would have been a lot better.
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Yeah, I’m most familiar with The Final Cut, so don’t feel qualified to respond. Haha. At the same time, I found it’s a movie that gets better every time you watch. (Though you’ve got to want to rewatch it in the first place and I definitely did.)
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Looking it up, there’s apparantly been a directors cut and a final cut. I think I watched the 1992 directors cut, which apparantly had poor video and audio quality, which explains at least one of my complaints.
Might have to see if I can find the final cut version to see if it’s any better.
Actually, I think it’s the 1997 digitally remastered version of directors cut.
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Yeah, I just found the versions of Blade Runner page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versions_of_Blade_Runner#The_Final_Cut_.282007.29
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I’ve only seen the original. I thought it was pretty good. Not outstandingly great, but still an enjoyable film.
Mind you, I grew up watcing 80’s cinema.-
When it comes to 80’s films, and even late 70’s and early 90’s films, I tend to split them into two categories. There are the ones that have an eighties charm, then there are the ones that are too eighties. I feel Blade Runner fell too much into the latter category for me.
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Whoaaa. You missed so much of the point of this film its crazy. Not sure where to start, so better not at 20 past midnight :/
Totally defending this after I’ve had sleep XD
Ehhh fuckit, not getting any sleep anyways so here goes. Break it down bit by bit.
There’s an incredible amount of evidence on him being a replicant, but because of the fact that it’s subtle, with a lot of metaphoric references, its not in your face, you have to work on picking it up. A lot of that comes from his relationship with Rachael, which I’ll get into in a bit. But also because of that it technically becomes a ‘theory’, which inevitably leads to people arguing for and against, but thats beside the point. The director intended him to be a replicant, and put the information in there to support it.
Never was Roy (the escaped replicant) trying to “teach a human that hes fighting on the wrong side”. There’s no fighting. None at all. These are artificial humans who for every intent and purpose feel like they are real humans, and are seeking to quantify that. The only fighting is Deckard fulfilling his job to get rid of them as rogues. Deckard being a replicant himself then does not lessen the film in that regard, it strengthens it completely. A replicant who’s so convinced he’s human that he’s hunting down his own kind. He’s living a lie, like the other replicants, but in a much more deeper sense. They have the awareness to at least make the attempt to find life, to quantify their existence as living beings, but he’s become subdued by the so called human way of living. It’s such a complex situation, and one that says so much about how we ‘live’. So a very justified spin in the story in my eyes.Ok, the love scene with Deckard and Rachael. This scene has SO many signs, SO much character development, its crazy you missed the point in it all. They are both replicants, right? Now, the idea of the piano and the conversation about having memories, and that its all implants given to replicants – these are further suggestions of Deckard being a replicant, because of all the parallels they share here. The whole lead up to the love scene is her struggle to come to grips with being a replicant. Up until now shes been all prim and proper, everything she thought it meant to be a human. So here were seeing her trying to shed that. Shes taking her hair down, her jacket off, its all part of that pretend image of her as a human. The irony is that shes becoming more human this way, more untamed in a way. As Deckard makes his move, shes giving into it, but theres something unnatural about it – is this that final proof that she isnt the human she saw herself as? It scares her and she tries to leave the situation. Now, the ‘rape’ sentiment you so lovingly gave it – keep in mind Deckard is a replicant. He too doesnt have complete control of his emotions. Theres been a tension between them, and its come to this point. He would be just as confused and frustrated about what hes going through as her, and in the sense that she was taking her hair down to find something human and primitive, he too is acting on a primitive sense. Its the most human even of them get, because they are getting in touch with real emotion. The idea of her ‘consenting at the last minute’ is her giving into the real yet foreign feelings shes having, and finally becoming alive. It’s a boundary she overcomes as a replicant. Alright, guess I’ve rambled on enough about that bit…
The idea that youre putting down the snake lady too for not kiling Deckard is missing one of the major points – the escaped replicants WANT life. They dont seek it out. She was only killing him in self defence, and when they were interrupted she would have had little option but to flee – shes a wanted replicant. Why would she risk staying around people any longer now shes exposed? And of course Batty doesnt kill Deckard! Again, hes trying to understand something for himself, hes not teaching anyone. Hes genuinely full of life, and wants to know what Deckard’s motivations are, to test him, almost tease him, knowing he is very much more alive than Deckard, and becoming amused by the irony of it all.Ok, the setting is very much a scifi staple. They are making predictions about society and future trends, and where that might take the city at that point in the future. It’s a commentary on classes, on immigration, culture. The monologue was cut because it was cheasy, and it was a cheap way to attempt to guide viewers. They would have felt it was more rewarding and a richer experience to let the viewer take in the elements themselves. The unicorn is once again another clue to Deckard being a replicant, the biggest in the whole film. Its his dream hes having at the piano, hence why he wakes up at the end of it. It directly correlates to the notion of replicants having memories implanted in them, and explains why the origami guy knows Deckard is having that dream – he knows what memories Deckard had implanted.To say its a cult classic for being weird is such a slap in the face to all the efforts that have gone into this film. Its sad that a film that bases so much of its depth through subtext, and leaves so much for the viewer to dissect and take away from to be labelled as ‘something that needs a remake’. There’s nothing that can be done to better any element of whats already there. And as for the ‘poor effects and cgi’, this film paved the way for every sci-fi film after it. It created a look. It built the foundations of so much visual ideas in sci-fi, its unbelievable. There’s no way modern day cgi can even compare to the imagery they created in that film. In the film world, it’s integral to the genre. And to say that any act was too long meant that you were just completely missing what those acts were developing.
End rant. Also, not angry, hope it doesnt come across that way. Just defiantly defending one of my favourite films 🙂
That, and you did kind of give it many slaps in the face >:(-
I want to add on to the monologue thing: Not only is it a ham-fisted method of trying to deliver information(M. Night Shalamalamadingdong style), but it sounds like Harrison Ford is being forced to read it at gun point. Hell, it’s almost worth it, just for that.
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The book is way better than the movie (which I turned off halfway through). Deckard is pretty much not an android.
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John Noble was in The Good Wife tonight. His first role post-Fringe. Man, even when he’s not playing Walter Bishop he seems to have the skills to pay the bills. Really interesting character for such a small amount of screen time.
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The Good Wife seems like an interesting show and I want to watch it, but I have no idea who any of the characters are or what the overarching plot lines are. If only they’d advertised it as a law drama instead of a housewife drama when they first started showing it I would have been watching it from day one.
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Yeah, on the surface it looks a bit like a procedural law show, but there’s character stories and season arcs and all that. Much more than the sum of its parts. Probably the best non-cable drama on U.S. TV at the moment. (That I’m watching atleast. :P)
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Ha ha, this would have been a perfect time for one of @sughly ‘s
Why don’t you marry him then!
🙂
P.S.
I still need to watch Fringe. Now that the series is over I think i’ll watch it. I need a new external HDD though, my laptop is full .-
Fringe finished when it needed to finish too. Didn’t overstay its welcome and tells a nice, complete arc from start to finish. Definitely worth watching. Also John Noble played Leland in L.A. Noire! 😀
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You won’t like LA Noire 🙂
It’s pretty lame
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I still want to try the game. It seemed cool. Also the Shane and Pow downvotes might be saying something 🙂
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It means they’re wrong 🙂
Do you have the game? I have a copy I don’t want…
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Really? Woah, I’ll ask again tonight.
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hey you just reminded me i got up to the last case in L.A Noire and never bothered to finish it, my main complaint with it is that it should not have been open world, the driving around bits are almost pointless and the only optional stuff are some hidden cars and street crimes, I think i would have been more engaged in this game if it was done more cinematically and kept pushing the story forward.
Looking him up – I swear, I thought it was Danny Huston playing those parts in Lord of the Rings. Crazy! Thought they were the same person XD
p.s. Danny Huston is great.
1. Bioshock Infinite hype has reached critical mass. I’m in hiding, and trying to maintain low-moderate expectations.
2. The Emilie Autumn kick continues. Juliet is such a gorgeous song. Also check out “Shallot” too. By far my favourite EA songs currently.
3. Something.
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1. Same. I don’t want to have unrealistic expectations. If it deserves the hype then I’ll find out in time
2. Never heard of her.
3. Things.
Coffee time, then trying to get this assignment finished. 350 words to go, so I should be able to knock it off before it’s due. Wish me luck …
I was coughing like crazy during the night again and woke up to go to Uni but mum said I should take another day off… So, don’t mind if I do!
Although I wish I didn’t wake up so early for no reason as I couldn’t get to sleep again… :(. I actually think I woke up worse :/ (too much MH?)
Speaking of MH, I’ve already got like 20 hours D:. Had my first go of online with @sernobulus PlatinumUrchin and @thecracks and it was amazing! No lag either 😀
Soooo keen to do it again tonight after seeing how easy it was!
Some dude on reddit posted about his playthrough of The Last of Us at Pax East. It’s sounded like it’s pretty much everything I want it to be.
http://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/1ay2po/so_i_played_the_last_of_us_for_about_a_half_hour/
TLOU HYPE
BIOSHOCK HYPE
*explodes from hype*
Finding it strange I have MH3U on WiiU and 3DS, but somehow out of my 10 odd hours played, 8-9 of it has been on 3DS. I think part of it’s habit, due to spending hundreds of hours on MHFU on PSP, plus convenience. I’ll definitely be using the WiiU one for online and for the more glorious fights.
EDIT:
@greenius – I’ll be ready for multi soon, just about finished the 3* village quests. Just have to do Barroth, basically. Also, Qurupeco is a fucking dick. Not tough, just incredibly annoying.
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Yeah, but I can play just fine without it. Used to it from the PSP anyway. If I’m at home, I use CPP, if it’s in my pocket when I’m out, I leave CPP at home.
Oh, except for underwater levels, that shit’s bad enough with a CPP, let alone without.
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Small indie game. You’ve probably never heard of it.
*adjusts hipster glasses frames that have no glass in them*
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I’m sure I’ll love the game but I just don’t really want to spend $37 on it now as I’ve got more than enough games at the moment (MH is a huge time sink) and I can get it later for cheaper when I know I’m in the right mindset to play it 😀
I haven’t even finished the first two and I wasn’t feeling any hype so better to save money and not rush thing 😀
Of course Ser Giftulus could give it to me ;P
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So the Monster Hunter shenanigans was awesome last night! It’s so great teaming up with fronds to take down giant monster things! I found out I was pretty craptasitc at the game. Everyone knew about the monster we were facing and I had no idea.
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Also, I could see people getting trolled so hard by randoms in MH. I lost count of the times I got hit while trying to start my combo by the guys who all used giant two handed weapons. On one occasion @greenius sent me flying away from one of his weapon swings.
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I heard the upswing was terrible and I saw Plat flying away one time 😛
I’m pretty sure the regular swings and sword explody thing are safe though :D, thank god for no friendly fire!
Man, we DESTROYED Qurupeco! (the bird)
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I think the explosive shots makes your allies stagger just a little bit. I got hit heaps of times but wouldn’t lose health. Also I think at one point i unloaded my whole crazy combo on someone that wasn’t the monster. =P
Haha, that poor bird thing. It was just stuck thrashing on the floor for ages as we absolutely smashed its face.
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Snow bear wombat (first one we did)
Quru and Royal Ludroth (water lizard) are probably the next ones you’ll face in SP
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The only “boss” I have fought in SP is the G. Jaggi, he is easy sauce!
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Ya those would be the next ones after Azruos! (non-snow version of Lagombi)
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Man I wish that game had come out on the PS3.
Looks interesting but no way am I buying a Wii U for it.
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I’ve heard rumours about this mysterious and devilishly handsome figure… I must be sleep-TAYing again.
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Amazon has ordered a pilot for Zombieland TV series. I like Netflix way of ordering shows straight to series first rather letting viewers decide on the pilot. (If only because if it’s good, you’ll have to wait months between the pilot and the series.) http://insidetv.ew.com/2013/03/25/zombieland-amazon-pilot/
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I had my morning planned out, and I’m running half an hour behind schedule, so I won’t be at EB at 9:02 to pick up my copy. Super sadface.
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I haven’t yet finished the series myself, but I am led to understand that this works as a joke because
it’s a wrong spoiler.Edit: Runing humour by overexplaining a joke. That’s one of the things in that thing you thinged a few months back, right?
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What do you mean? It’s an entirely true spoiler 😛
I get the feeling I’m missing some sort of meta joke here.
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Is it? Like I said, I haven’t actually read the last book.
I always assumed that the death thing was a ruse, and that Snape and Dumbledore actually were in cahoots in some sort of sneaky plan.Edit: I caved and read a summary on Wikipedia. Obviously, I was entirely wrong about everything. Disregard me in my entirety.
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PIFFLE AND POPPYCOCK SIR!
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Edit: HP spoilers removed now that Shane knows the deal.
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It’s a bit more complicated than that.
It’s more about Dumbledore telling Snape it had to be him who killed him because then he would be the real owner of the superwand. Snape was always on Dumbledore/Harry’s side.Edit: Dammit, hate it when people edit while I’m in the middle of responding.
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@strange
I knew I’d miss something. I haven’t watched any of the movies since they came out, so I was going off some reasonably old memories.
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I bought the book when it was released. I think it’s fair to say that enough time has passed that I will never read it 😛
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Me too. It’s a predicament. Haha!
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Oops 😛
Sorry Shane!
Go finish the books.
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It’s not a joke unless it’s funny. 😛
Untrue. Dad Joke Page 6 begs to differ.
Dad jokes, in my opinion, are usually so bad they become funny in spite of themselves. That’s a dad joke.
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This work better for you?
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I used to sit on the main menu listening to this over and over again. Especially when it kicks in at the :35 second mark.
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Decided I was going to buy MH3U for the 3DS for the “take your save with you” stuff, but apparently that’s the copy that’s suffering from low stock levels.
EB Woden, for example, was sent two copies of the game.
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I apparently bought the last copy of it from them for the Wii U yesterday afternoon. So I guess they didn’t get a lot of anything.
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Yup, I was at the EB in the Brisbane CBD, and someone asked about it and they said they have absolutely no more stock anywhere. Although, apparently they sell download codes for it but then you would have a digital version of it.
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Yeah, forget that. Unless they change a great deal, or a game is free, I will never grab downloadables from Nintendo.
EDIT: For 3DS, I mean 😛
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Nintendo has been having really bad issues recently with 3DS game stock for anything popular. It’s quite odd.
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I have almost no idea what I’m doing in Monster Hunter. I’m only using a sword and shield because I don’t know how to equip anything else. The manual hasn’t helped at all.
That said, I am enjoying it for the small amount I’ve played. Haven’t fought anything substantial yet. We’ll see how I feel after I get hit.
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The tutorials at the start tell you the bare bone basics of the game, the more complex stuff? I just ask @thecracks.
To change weapons go to your house (the shack with the red curtain) and open your item box. There should be an option called “manage equipment” or something along those lines.
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That.. Makes sense.. I kept going to look at the weapons I could buy and it said I had one of everything but I couldn’t work out how to use anything. I will try again tonight.
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I’d say that a lot of the basics aren’t covered at all, let alone the more complicated stuff. But yeah, the easiest thing is to ask on TAY or Twitter.
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So far I know how to hit things, roll, and cook meat.
That seems like everything I’ll ever need.
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Man, I love the cooking music 😀
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Soooo tasty!
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*Seeing your team mate get pre-hits to combo charge his katana*
Mash triangle and circle.
Blahahahahah, all the last hits!
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Ask me, @sernobulus or @rize questions for basic stuff 😀
I think it’s good to ask noobs so we can explain it in a noob friendly way.
For more advanced stuff ask @thecracks or @hindenlagen as well as others 😀
There’s Wikis and guides but most of them are still being updated for MH3U since there’s been changes compared to previous games but MHTri is probably the closest
If it wasn’t bad enough that they split the Hobbit into 3 movies, they’re also releasing Extended Editions in time for Christmas.
They really are milking this for all it’s worth.
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I still think making it into a trilogy is just straight dickish. Two movies, yeah I can see that, but three?
It’s too much. They fit fucking Lord of the Rings into three movies really well. How the fuck do you need three films for The Hobbit?EDIT:
To clarify, I loved Unexpected Journey, and can’t wait to get it on BD, and see the rest of the films. I just don’t agree with how they chose to approach it is all.-
Yeah, this is exactly my point. Not said anything bad about the film, just the way they went about making and releasing it. Release the extended edition at a higher price point at the same time as all the other versions.
Did you see that the movie has retailer exclusive extra features in the US?
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It’s pretty obvious they planned to draw it out as long as possible to milk it like hell, but never the less I still really enjoyed it.
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Had a good old fashioned nightmare last night.
Evil creatures coming into my room and tormenting me and all that jazz.
I don’t know when I woke up, but the line between sleep and waking was completely blurred. Thing came into my room and sat on my desk. When I looked at it (possibly the moment I woke up) it slowly blended into the background, smiling. I was sitting there staring at the wall (or the thing) for ages, unable to sleep. It took far too long to convince me that it was all imaginary. I was thinking “But that’s what they want me to think! It’s right there!”
Terrifying.
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I used to have those, but with spiders crawling on me, I actually had one a few weeks ago, and due to the humidity of late I was itchy just where the spider had been, I had one of those I must be still asleep moments.
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Awesome. How good do you feel today?
When I started getting serious with my wife(like past the just dating stage) I started having nightmares that I had invented in my mind.
Then I’d wake up and she was real and relief…-
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All good.
At least I woke up.
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IT’S AMAZING!!!!
… i don’t have it.
… Nor have i played the first 2 games.Man i am like the biggest sinner on here…
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^ Who’s this…etc.
Tempted to buy it just for Elizabeth. Fairly interested in her from a technical perspective, and the gameplay involving her looks pretty cool.
Plus, she’s hot.
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I finally have access to a machine that doesnt block Kotaku so makes it easier.
And yes Elizabeth is an interesting character, not to mention hot.
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Based on Twitter last night before I went to bed when the embargo lifted: it’s incredible.
My main problem is going to be staying unspoilerised until I can buy it.-
I still dont know what that twist ending is for Bioshock 1.
(I’m sure Bashcraft is cooking up a spoileriffic headline as I type):p
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Parcel guy just dropped off the airbrush paints I ordered for stenciling purposes. The invoice had a smileyface stamp on it and the paints came with a bonus lollypop. 😀
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Sounds like the stuff i get from slave to painting – EVERYONE gets a lollypop with every order.
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Whenever I order sunnies from the states they pack tootsie rolls in with them. It cheers me up every single time.
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I’m a web-designer by trade, dabbling in programming on the odd evening.
I’ve heard Java is a great language for late or even post-development porting, and it’s a lot easier to learn than languages such as C.
HeartVine’s Tumblr has some great resources, and caters to the bottom level up.
http://heartvine.tumblr.com/post/17243872646/indie-game-dev-faqHere’s a Tutorials page as constructed by “the internet”
https://sites.google.com/site/vidyadevresources/tutorialsAnd for good measure.
http://content.gpwiki.org/index.php/Main_Page
Best of luck! \o/
(Edit)
Reply fail to a reply fail. \(; _ ; )/
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Morning TAYbies, as is the norm I was playing videogames last night after work. Specifically Far Cry 3 because there’s something incredibly satisfying about that bow and arrow and it’s tendency to one hit kill people … I’m sure there’s something about how all their modern weapons and body armour get munted by a pointy stick grazing their hand … personally I’m not too sure how they survived in the jungle. Anyhoo, I was playing and I came to a slightly terrifying realisation. My mum is basically Buck in every sense except the dangly bits. I don’t think I can finish his quests
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When I realised it was during a cutscene and I basically noped, dropped the controller, turned off the tv and then just sat there for a good 20 minutes. I’m pretty sure I can push through and drown the realisation in whiskey … but I don’t think I can replay the game from the start though
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I just went from mental breakdown to the universal face of wtf … good dog
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I haven’t played far cry 3 but now I am assuming that your Mum looks something like this
http://www.gaylasez.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/buck-lesbian-united-states-of-tara.png
Scrolled down to the comments in the Diablo III console article expecting to see some positivity about a good PC port.
Instead I see some master-race guy whinging that consoles destroyed it from the beginning…I shouldn’t be suprised really.
Hi avatar is a Totoro too 🙁
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Wow…that’s a bit of a shit move on their end.
Just checked, the disc copy is $43 and the limited no longer has a price while they “re-evaluate what the price should be”.
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Don’t do it!
I had a retail for $37 at Video Ezy but cancelled that to make it that one from OGS…
…but then I cancelled my OGS order 😛
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Guitar, and recently started making musics with the electronics thingies. boop beep boop wub wub chiptunes, etc.
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Used to play guitar and piano, then I was a stupid teenager would didn’t stick through with it and now I can’t at all.
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Are you trying to start a band? 😛
I used to play the piano and the flute but haven’t touched either for at least a decade.
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For some reason the first thing I thought of was dc watching episodes of Josie and the pussycats solving crimes and playing music, then running to TAY.
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That weird-ass keyboard that you had to blow into a pipe to make work and then the thing gets all full of your saliva and the teacher yells at you because they had to throw it out.
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The first time I ever went to the Port Fairy Folk Festival, the last band I saw before going home featured the lead singer using one of those saliva-powered-hand-keyboards. The band was great, I really enjoyed it, but I’ve never been able to remember who the band was or any of the names of their songs.
It has haunted me for almost 5 years.
True story.
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Look at you sparking discussion 🙂
Took piano lessons for like 7 years when I was 5 then barely played it for a few years before learning some vidya game songs in 2009 or so. I still don’t play it that much but I try to learn songs 😀
Did recorder for like a year in primary school 😛
Did oboe and double bass for like half a year each in year 7
Taught myself guitar in year 8 and played it quite a lot for the next couple of years but it’s turned into a “piano situation” where I’ll barely play it unless I want to learn a song
Morning all! So I picked up Skyrim for the first time in a long time last night. I decided to see how much I could level up by whaling on Ralof at the start. Turns out it’s a whole dang lot.
Dear Tay
I don’t see many letters on this page.
Good News: I finally got the copy of Aliens: Colon Marines that I won in the comp a few weeks back! Bad News: It’s an XBOX Copy, so I can’t play it.
Which may in fact be good news.
Regards
Alien attacking Artifice.
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Dear Red,
Try and sell that game to someone who doesn’t have the internet – they may not know.
Regards,
Person with the internet.
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Dear Ash
Given it’s a sealed copy, I’m thinking of going in to EB and bunging it on, see if I can either get a direct swap or full value on another game.
Unfortunately, at the moment I am the one without internet.
Regards
Telegramming and Smoke Signal Red.
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@greenius & other Survivor people (even @dc)
Survivor season cancelled after contestant dies.
the irony.
Edit : fixed up the link.
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Oh man. French one… I know the American one puts the people through some rigorous health tests.
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The site was down for a while, but it’s back up now so i just went through catching up. Sooooo goood!
I wanted to link some of the more amusing one, but thought it to be inappropriate.-
Yeah, considering some of the stuff in there I think it might make a few people blush until they faint… 😛
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We should start posting them on ACL forums, perhaps? 😛
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Yep. Australian and written by a lady. A gay lady at that, i’m fairly certain.
It’s like some wonderfull “up yours” to everything conventional.
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One of my favourite ones is (Spoilered for NSFW)
The one with the Appellomancer and Princess Fatherfucker-
Stone Statues is my favourite
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From @doc_what Attention game makers/software types
So say I was wanting to make a platform game and possibly try and get said game out on PC with the ability to port the game to Consoles/handhelds at a later date with minimum fuss, does anyone know where would be the best place to start?
Given that my background is in animation and the only coding I ever did was on the c64… and that didn’t even work… This is probably biting off way more than I can chew.
Reply or hit me up on the emails!
Why is the text in Monster Hunter so damn small? Even on a big TV and with my glasses on I’m still struggling to read the tiny little box in the corner.
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Right? I kind of wish it displayed on the gamepad. Or at least covered the whole bottom of the screen like every game ever.
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Yeah, it is a bit. It’s like they wanted the text box have minimal impact on your view to the point that they went a little too far.
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Yeah, it is ridiculously small. I don’t really have an problem with my sight (well not enough to need glasses) but it is kinda difficult to read the text.
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I think they just kept the same pixel size as Monster Hunter Tri for text, and other interface objects such as the map, and health/stamina bars. They didn’t survive the transition to HD very well 🙁
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You’ll soon learn that most of it is just utter crap 😛
I (and the reviewer’s in the reviews I’ve seen) have that complaint too and you’re better off just bashing A and skipping it all
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SUNOVA..!
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I haven’t played it in like a week 😛
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I havent played it in like, forever
(this time forever is true)
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*cough* Ahem…
Attention game makers/software types
So say I was wanting to make a platform game and possibly try and get said game out on PC with the ability to port the game to Consoles/handhelds at a later date with minimum fuss, does anyone know where would be the best place to start?
Given that my background is in animation and the only coding I ever did was on the c64… and that didn’t even work… This is probably biting off way more than I can chew.
Reply or hit me up on the emails!
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XNA if you’re looking at a windows platform. I’ve heard that lots of the XBLA games were made using that too, so porting to 360 should be doable.
Downside is that its no longer supported by Microsoft & I have no idea if theres gonna be a replacement.
Also, I have no idea how to use it.
theres other bits of software out there that let you design characters & tile sets & place em on a grid. my flatmate remade SMB in that one. Though if you’re able to make higher-res tiles, I’m sure you can get it looking far better.
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The obvious answer here would been Greenlight. At the least, you should look into it.
EDIT: Wait, did you mean what to code in?
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Kind of, but the downside is the software is about 1,500 bucks. Then if you want to be able to port to Android, iOS & Flash add around about another 1,200 bucks to it. But there’s also pro versions of those 3 that run run at 1,500 bucks a pop.
The free version only lets you play it in browser/on Windows or OSX from memory. Nothing else.
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There’s also just a free version of Unity. It’s limited, but it’s what i’d suggest for finding your bearings in the program.
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Hear that @doc_what ? FREEEE!!!
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I think to actually be able to publish you need an actual license or something along those lines.
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Unity, if cost isn’t an issue. If it is XNA/whatever they call it now. Start from there for PC/Xbox and working to get it on other platforms will be some work, but it’s probably the easiest option if you want pure coding.
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Yeah Unity is great and easy when you don’t fuck up the code 😛 It’s where I learnt to code JavaScript. It’s a pain in the arse at first, but oh so rewarding in the end.
Assuming they haven’t changed the agreement(Last time I read it they were still on Unity 3, not 4(or was it 2 not 3?.. They were a major version behind what they currently are)):
There’s actually a free version of Unity, available for commercial use, it’s PC only, and I’ve dabbled in it a bit, and it’s not too complex(need to dabble a lot more). It is limited though, in the sense that some features of the engine are not available on it(weird things, like real time shadow maps). That said, you’re able to upgrade your project at any time, so, if you release it on PC, and find that you’ve made a bit of money off it, you can upgrade to the various things, which should allow for relatively easy porting of what you’ve done.
That said, while I say that it’s not too complex, I say that as someone who did(dropped out of) programming at uni…
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I had it bookmarked from when I was choosing. Kinda overwhelming right? I think the xna suggestion looks fairly solid though.
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Re-post for delicious resources.
I’ve heard Java is a great language for late or even post-development porting, and it’s a lot easier to learn than languages such as C.
HeartVine’s Tumblr has some great resources, and caters to the bottom level up.
http://heartvine.tumblr.com/post/17243872646/indie-game-dev-faq
Here’s a Tutorials page as constructed by “the internet”
https://sites.google.com/site/vidyadevresources/tutorials
And for good measure.
http://content.gpwiki.org/index.php/Main_Page
Best of luck! \o/
Unity.
EDIT: Read my reply to 35 above regarding XNA. XNA is good if you know how to code already but I wouldn’t do that way without a development background, you do need to know specifics about DirectX, shaders and stuff.
If your goal is to learn to use a Console-oriented game engine to further your own career and make yourself more marketable etc, then XNA is a bad choice. Your absolute best choice is to download the free version of the Unreal engine. Unreal is industry-standard stuff.
Unity is the best option for easy development by non-technical people. Additionally the free version is pretty good, though to release on other platforms you need to buy the licenses. But it’s not enormously expensive. However I’d be careful there since IIRC you’re working for a developer part time and they probably are Unity licensees. Things get tricky with licensing sometimes.
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Cheers, man.
I’m doing concept art for a dev, but nothing technical at all so I wouldn’t be using Unity (or any other software) for anything for them.
Unity sounds like the best option ATM since I’m definitely non-technical.
I’m trying to balance the easiest engine to use and the easiest to get the end result on to as many platforms as possible. I’d say we’d be aiming for playable on PC first and then try for IOS etc. Nintendo would be a definite dream goal.
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Getting onto a Nintendo console requires you to be a registered developer and stuff. They make it super difficult because they’re buttes.
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They’ve apparently made this less difficult relatively recently (see http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/189180/Nintendos_Adelman_talks_easier_requirements_for_3DS_Wii_U_indie_dev.php ). Some of the comments say they’ve still had bad experiences… but, well, I read this recently and seemed relevant.
ping @doc_what
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I typed out a whole comment and when I posted it I was logged out. So um, let’s try that again.
There were some shenanigans on the Minecraft server last night. A small group of I-have-no-idea-who-they-were started taking things from people’s houses and claiming things and locations as their own – um, what. Then they started killing each other – eh whatever so long as they don’t hurt anybody else. Then they started hurting other people who got too close to their house for some bizarre overly protective reason – yeah okay this is going too far.
Long story short they were banned and some celebratory TNT was set off around their house because that’s what you do in these situations apparently.
The unrelated good news is that due to popularity the server limit has been upped to 20 people now.
You’d better post this this time, Kotaku. :U
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No whitelist at the moment but I suspect if weird things like that pop up again it may have to be reconsidered.
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Yeah, glad I wasn’t affected by that.
Oh yeah, I figured out where I was last night. I’m actually not that far from Nob’s place.
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I just wandered for like 15 minutes, found a snowy area and built a shack. 😛
About an hour and a bunch of lumberjacking later, I realised there was a house on the top of the hill that I didn’t see before from all the forest. We’re far enough from each other’s home that we don’t have to talk! 😀
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Haha. Oh, people. Actually I should probably check if my original house hasn’t been ransacked 😛
Did the recording of the explosion get uploaded?
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Vita Bros. (Not you, @ynefel)
Worms, Limbo, Walking Dead, FFX & X-2, and maybe Jak & Daxter Collection all coming to Vita.
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I don’t care that they don’t interest you.
I wasn’t talking to you!WHO ARE YOU ANYWAY!?
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Shittt I think I’ve caught Oliver’s flu but I have no choice but to go to Uni today to do a group assignment 🙁 I hate doing work with other people!
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I’m picturing this degrading into a cheap porn flick.
Ben J rocks up at Flu’s ready for battle.
Flu opens the door, as Ben J screams ‘PREPARE TO MEET YOUR MAKER, FIEND!’
Flu responds in the most Barry White of dulcet tones ‘Awww yeah.’*cue 70’s porn music*
Bow chikka bow wow chicky chicky.
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Good to see the level of the gutter hasn’t changed since I’ve been on semi hiatus 😛
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spread it around the people at uni. they’ll get sick & not turn up. coz you’ve got a head start, you’ll recover before they do, so when you go back to uni, you dont have to work with other people! -
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The annoying thing is there’s a lot of it in info systems. I hate it! Especially when my partner thinks I’m dumb as a doorknob.
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Tracked down a local copy of MH3U on 3DS. Now to find somewhere to make them price match it cheaper…
Got my severance pay and final paycheck today.
Hot damn, it’s a bit bigger than I expected. Like $2000 bigger than expected. Looks like I’ve definitely got my moving expenses covered.
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Nothin’ like dem Cuban cigars.
Also need those white gloves!
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I see your also brought the pizza guy and the furniture guy has just turned up with the new couch.
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I am unable to pay the rent this month. Perhaps we could come find….. some other way to pay you?
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Haha oh dear. The dog is running around the house frantically looking for mum because she went out. She gets all anxious when mum leaves the house with out here. Bloody sook of a dog.
Well, that was weird. I left my house to go buy Bioshock Infinite, and I’ve suddenly woken up, nearly 2 hours later, surrounded by boxes of Shapes(bought from Woolies, $1.50 a pop), the enormous box for my Songbird edition of Bioshock in one arm, and a copy of Monster Hunter United 3 for WiiU in my other hand.
I really need to stop blacking out…
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Sounds like an awesome blackout. Your ‘other side’ knows how you want to live! \o/
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Awesome! \o/
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similarly pioneering men could discuss their love for a cartoon pony show
That made me laugh. 😀
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*Packs imaginary suitcase with imaginary items*
Nope, That’s it, I’m done.
*Walks off into the distance*
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SUCK IT! YOU’LL NEVER SEE MY REPLY!!!
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I prefer his spelling.
Mmmm. Bread Rolls.
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My grammar has gotten progressively lazier. I used to make an effort to compose literate posts. 😛
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In my time on TAY my spelling and grammar have both improved noticeably.
My ability to form coherent paragraphs has all but disappeared, but the content within them is immaculately formed (well, alright, it’s moderately well formed (at best)).
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@sughly, @freezespreston, @sernobulus, @lambomann007, @welbot, @beardymcmuttonchops @virus__
@dc @gutsoup
So, Saturday night good?
30th it is.
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I been trying to organise a meat since last week.
@freezespreston @sughly @gutsoup @beardymcmuttonchops are in
The others listed above are maybes and if they BrisLive & are not mentioned they said no. (So no @strange ) 🙁
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@gutsoup was asking about Mana Bar, I also suggested dinner. But it’s still pretty up in the air since I only get the odd random one word reply from people.
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huh, I thought it was no good, I’m still free. Let me know if or when something is happening, The Mana Bar was just a thought but people sounded not that interested, maybe somewhere for drinks though, Didn’t you mention karaoke @jimu , that would be hilarious, I’d pay money to see you get up and sing. 😀
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I went to Karaoke with this lot many moons back. It was not pretty.
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Did you get my massages on PSN last night.
Code of Boobscess! BOOBS OF PRINCESS!!
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yep, got ur messages, I should get Boobs of Princess,
Rambling Bollocks into people’s ear…………*smirk* (I’m really mature for my age)
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I still can’t really say at this point. Waiting to find out what happens with pay, but also family.. I caught wind of something happening the other day, but not sure if it’s a thing yet or not.
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If you’re free just come, well sort you out for food & drink 😀
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fingers crossed I will be able to. Will let you know closer to the day. any final decision on where/what’s happening? That might help so I can figure out how to get there etc
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Dunno, will discuss, I’ll call you if I need to.I’ll post something now. 🙂
I’ve decided I want to learn Japanese.
Anyone got some resources to get me started??
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I’d suggest anything that isn’t “Talkman” that thing was useless, it only has phrases and no break downs of what anything means.
p.s I had too much money when talkman came out and i got it, Worst investment ever, although i do have a mic for my psp now, that isn’t usefull for anything
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I’ve been trying to learn myself for a while. I took some formal classes back in early high school but when I moved to Australia the school I went to didn’t offer it, and I stupidly didn’t investigate taking it back up at university so I’m miles behind and as a result of self-learning my knowledge is super wonky. Like I know the correct stroke orders for a whole pile of obscure kanji, but I couldn’t properly tell you the difference between the は and が particles. 🙁
Anyway here’s the plan I was following:
1. Learn hiragana
2. Learn katakana
3. Immediately stop using anything that has romaji in it (japanese words written with english letters) as it is a terrible crutch that will stop you learning the language properly
4. Start listening to heaps and heaps of Japanese stuff. Surround yourself with it. The more exposure you get the better.
5a. Learn grammar.
5b. Start building vocabulary. Personally I started doing Heisig’s Remembering The Kanji series here and keep on getting sidetracked. Need to get back to it. You learn simple mnemonics for recognizing and remembering the way to write every character and keying it with a specific word (in English) to prime your memory. As you learn the actual readings and stuff you end up with an association where you go reading/meaning -> keyword -> character and it’s much better organized in your mind.
6. …
7. Profit.Resources (google for these, I’m not linking so that it doesn’t go to moderation)
– Tae Kim’s Japanese grammar guide. Teaches grammar as rules, rather than feeding you tons of sentences without explaining how the sentences actually are meant to parse. i.e. treats you like an adult that is already fluent in a language rather than a child who is learning their first language (which is something I personally find really irritating with most structured courses)
– Anki. Flashcard software. Spaced Repetition Systems are *the* best way to learn characters and vocab.Get yourself a good Japanese dictionary and learn how to use it. While an electronic one is good, using a proper paper one actually is better for learning. Anything you look up goes into an Anki flashcard until you remember it.
Also find people who actually speak Japanese natively and talk to them. This is one of my falling-down points. 🙁 You’ll pick up bad habits and never know unless you’re talking to people in Japanese. Private tutor might help (I’m thinking of finding one soonish myself).
Also very important: if you’re learning from a girl esp. a girlfriend, don’t exactly mirror the way she speaks in Japanese if you’re a guy. There are particular words and speech patterns that are feminine and if you talk that way then Japanese people will laugh at you.
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So I now officially regret my decision in buying Simcity.
I finally got time to login after a week, had to wait at least 15 minutes for updates and then realised that half of my work from last login has been lost. “Oh well”, I said to myself, I soldiered on and noticed that whilst I had gone back to a time before I built a Department of Transport, I could still build a train station/ferries. After about an hour and a half I got my city back to almost where I wanted it. I just wanted to build a university and then move on to a city nearby where I can just focus on industry and power and waste disposal, but NO. I get a popup screen saying “Your city is no longer processing properly” and it boots me out. It then gives me the option of rebooting my city or abandoning. I press reboot as it sounds slightly less dire (there is no actual description as to what exactly this means) and it goes to a loading screen and sits there for 10 minutes until I gave up. I am REALLY reluctant to go back now.
But what about your free game? I hear you all say. Well I got NFS as I don’t mind the occasional racing games and enjoyed Forza. I had heard some decent things about this as well. The whole game is BLEH. Game has no heart at all and I didn’t enjoy my time. I’ll give it another shot but I don’t think it will hook me.
Then I remembered I bought Dark Souls and wanted to try that out. I went to open it and it said I need a CD Key. Apparently there aren’t enough going around and my steam will be updated over the next few days.
BAH!
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Wow, sorry to hear all that.
I bought XCOM (bioshock bundle)from GMG, and my key was already used when I tried to stick it into steam.
No idea how to go about getting a new one from ’em. — Besides sending an e-mail.
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I saw that bundle! I was planning on getting it tonight, that deal looks amazing! I already have XCom though so I’ll pass it along to one of you gents.
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Wow… 🙁
I think of lot of that sounds like shit luck on your end, rather than faults with the game. Still, I know how that sort of stuff can really ruin your perception of and experiences with a game. Hopefully you can get a good run of DS and SimCity soon!
Oh man, been psyched about BioShock Infinite for years and today I feel like doing nothing but stare blankly at the screen refreshing TAY.
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What about my pal Jimu too? 😀
Ask again tomorrow. I’m feeling like crap today and am in a grumpy mood. Haha.
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Good news from me is: Telling my wife I’m spending Saturdaynight with @gutsoup (someone she’s met) makes it easier for her to agree to me leaving the house.
Somehow saying: “I’m off for the evening to get drunk with some randoms I met online” didn’t have the same affect 😛
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Hooray I was passivly usefull, the best kind of usefull.
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We get a few spam emails at work but this one was just amazing:
Hello friend!
I hope that you will like to read this letter and answer to me.
My name is Larisa. I’m from Russian Federation. I’m serious woman, without
pernicious habits!
I’m looking for serious relations with good man from Australia. My dream is
visiting your beautiful country!
I’m 26 years old, dark hairs and grey-green eyes…
I’m not so tall! My height is 156 cm only. My weight is 50 kg. I’m small
woman 🙂
I’m not very beauty woman, but not ugly also 🙂 I have “GOLD” heart and open
for LOVE.
I have very good chance arrive to your country next month!
So if you wish to get relations with me, I will be very happy to get your
answer today!
I think that you have interest how I found your e-mail address. Right?
Ok, I got your e-mail via Internet dating agency… Sorry, but I don’t
remember their name…
I gave to them my letter and they sent it to you!
If you will answer to me I will write to you more about myself!!!
Also I will send to you my photo! Ok?
IMPORTANT! I’m looking for serious relations only!!! Not sex and other!!!
Please, answer to my regular e-mail: [REMOVED]
Best regards,
Larisa from Russia
EDIT: Can’t see what that quote has broken….
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Oh mAAAN, HAWT!
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There’s one from Katya in my inbox that’s titled: “You’ve said that is not married.” *scratches head*
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That’s her first mistake. I’m too frightened to talk to women, so I wouldn’t say that. I’d pretend I was married so it’d end the awkward conversation and I can go back to my hermit cave and brood. 😛
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I saw you chattin’ up that HAWT sk8y in the CBD!
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Didn’t see the original, but I’m going to assume it was one of those comments that can bring down a friendship, and treat it accordingly.
*shun*
Edit: Just kidding – I probably wouldn’t have made that silly post if I wasn’t a bit whatever today. Are you okay, man?
Edit 2: obligatory DAMNIT DC
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I’m okay man. I hope you guys are doing okay too.
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I hope so too. Thanks.
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Last nights Blade Runner ramble has made me miss writing essays in film school.
Miss… essays.
Help me :'(
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You’ve changed. That ramble made me watch part of a Blade Runner adventure game walkthrough on YouTube!
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I had it and played most of it and lost the discs in a move. My dad threw out my mint condition version of Freddy Pharkas Frontier Pharmacist too. :'(
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OUCH!
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That shit is unforgiveable. Thats what tears families apart.
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Once my mum stopped my dad from throwing out my siblings childhood teddy bears. He’s a [edit: censored]. 😛
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A whole new side of you… 😛
Edit: damnit again. Everyone, @Dc said cunt.
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You wrote essays on something you enjoyed?
:'(
I have my stupid lame essays on this and that which I do not give a single fuck about! >:(
Wait wait wait. WAIT. M83… did the soundtrack for a sci-fi film!? WHAT!? Ok, wasnt paying much attention to this film, but am totally watching it just for this alone. Amazing. http://pitchfork.com/news/50067-listen-title-track-from-m83s-score-for-the-tom-cruise-film-oblivion-featuring-susanne-sundfr/
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I thought it sounded OK, the movie I mean. Tom Cruise is blande enough to let the world shine. 🙂
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I just didnt know much about it. I saw some concept art a long time back that got me all excited, then I saw film stills and it looked kinda dumbed down Hollywood style. I will persevere now with this music though!
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Haha! The best kind of scifi. (Except for all the others that are pretty great too!)
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I hear The Lesser Evil is the best kind of sci-fi.
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I was going to send an excerpt of my scifi spec pilot to you yesterday, but didn’t. 😀
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Tease.
PS: You should totally send it.
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@shane: Kind of at a crossroads. Not sure if I should press on with it as a pilot or rework it as a standalone movie, condensing all the arcs down. Then there’s the potential for prose, but not sure it works as well that way…
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The answer is obvious.
It should be a comic.Edit: That might be my answer for everything.
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I’ve thought about that actually! XD
Would be nice to be able to control my own destiny, get something produced through sheer force of will rather than relying on other people and the like.
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The movie looked kind of cool and then Tom Cruise was in it so I can’t see it without wanting to get up and repeatedly punch the screen.
Can’t fucking stand Tom Cruise. He literally ruins films for me.
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My mum is like that except in Interview with a Vampire where he dances with the corpse of the little girl’s mother
“There’s life in the old lady yet!”I really have no strong feelings about his performances either way.
IRL he is an absolute fruitcake.
Another track. Sheeeeit, this one is particularly amazing… http://pitchfork.com/news/49810-listen-first-track-from-m83s-score-for-the-tom-cruise-film-oblivion-starwaves/
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Dear Page seven
You didn’t deliver for me, so I’ve moved on to Page Nine’s open arms.
Also, I just realised you’re page Se7en as well. WHAT’S IN THE BOOOOX?
Regards
Brad Pitt as the detective.
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No. Seven Ate Nine, and Ten is next.
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GO BACK TO PAGE SIX WITH YOUR DAD JOKES SHANE!
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Nope. They are too
evilAWESOME to be contained anywhere.EDIT: This post has been commandeered and fixed by the Dad Jokes. Toe the line, TAY, or face the consequences.
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Dear Dad
Groooooooooan
Regards
Kids Everywhere.
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My name ees Pageget Montoya, you killed my father. Prepare to dye!
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Dear Red,
If I’m to be perfectly honest, I don’t think I’ve ever seen the word “Philatelically” used before, it’s quite a good word, if not very useful, I must say.
Blaghs.
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Dear Baldie Blaghs
I collected stamps as a kid, glad to see I retained something from it.
Yours gummed on one side and perforated on the edges
Red
@sughly
Just read your response to my Blade Runner post. I think you’re entirely wrong and are completely missing the point of the movie, but I don’t want to get into a debate/argument over it. I get you defending a movie you like, and it’s something I’ve had to do more than once with people (normally in relation to the Star Wars prequels). We will just have to agree to disagree on this one.
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It’s on page 6. I watched Blade Runner for the first time and decided to make a post about it at 11.30 at night.
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But… I’m not wrong. This is actually fact, everything I wrote. It’s the directors intentions. Watch any interviews and behind the scenes with him, I’m sure he’ll talk about all the same things. There’s tastes right… it’s one thing if someone says they dont really like a film, but its another to say its flawed for reasons that are wrong, and to ignore a lot of careful filmmaking and call it badly done. Kind of being a little ignorant, actually.
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Then I’m wrong. I’ll admit that. I think a lot of my criticism still stands though. And defending the rape scene in any form is, I think, disgusting. Maybe it was the directors intent to do all you said it was, but that’s why I hate it so much and why it’s a terrible scene. It’s not about a woman embracing her humanity, it’s about an emotionally unstable girl being taken advantage of by a man who should have known better. And no, he’s a replica doesn’t defend his actions, because he doesn’t know that. The scene is increadibly disturbing, it was not intended to be disturbing, and as such it should not exist.
I’ll finish by saying, if everything you’ve said is correct, that all that was the directors intent, then the film is, to me, worse then it already was. There was a compelling story, an interesting message, and all that is lost because the director did not intend for it.
I do like the film okay, but I think it was overhyped and your defence of it has actually made me like it a little less, because Deckard being a replicant is boring and stupid.
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There’s a scene where Deckard kissed the replicant girl on the cheek. She’s not into it and gets up to try and leave the appartment. Deckard runs over and keeps her from opening the door and leaving. Then he stands over her in an increadibly threatening manner, starts to put his hands on her and demands that she says she loves him and wants him. She does this, barely able to speak, and then in the very last second she returns his kiss, which apparantly makes it all okay and totally not her about to be raped. When I was watching it I fully thought the scene was supposed to be showing Deckard as this violent and evil man, and it wasn’t until that very last bit when she kissed him back that I understood the filmmakers intended it to be a romantic scene, which is what disgusts me about it. -
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Hey now, easy there.
Isn’t the fact of Deckard being or not being a replicant being left ambiguous kind of a major point of the movie? Isn’t it supposed to make the audience question what it is that defines what makes one human? I feel like making it absolutely definitive kind of misses the point.-
I’m upvoting this, because that’s what I remember too. It has been many, many years since I last watched the movie, though.
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Yeah. I like the idea of open endedness, but it detracts from what a lot of the film is about in this case, imo.
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I feel like it’s entirely what the film is about though. You’re welcome to see it that way, but I refuse to accept that just because the director decided that’s how he intended it that makes it the absolute fact.
For what it’s worth, the screenwriter intended it to be ambiguous.
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Yeah I do know about that. That’s a different argument really though, about who has that auteur stamp on a film. It’s what drove Inarritu and Arriaga apart as a great writer/director team. Whole other debate.
Just to clarify though, the idea that what I said was factual is that those elements are in the film, and that was the intention of the director. There’s different meanings people can take from them, sure, but they are in the film and exist, and to say the film is poorly made is ignoring those elements.
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I don’t think I like that.
I’ll continue to view it the way I said above, lest the film be ruined.
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Cool, man.
That’s the best way to be.
It’s how I make sense of 60 years of superhero comic continuity. The ones I read, in the way I understood them, are the ones that count 😀
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This is my fave bit of Blade Runner
http://www.netbrawl.com/uploads/b23b2d9e0348c7ea2b06212e37a65a8b.jpg
Dear Wolfy one
I am a big fan of Blade Runner, so I disagree with your opinion but respect it.
@sughly, i think you’re spot on.
Regards
Replicant? Red.
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Dear Sughly,
Did they make you do a Blade Runner analysis in film school too? Ours was about film noir! 😀
Your buddy,
D.C.
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Dear @dc
i appear to have received your missive.
I unfrtunately didn’t get to watch cool shit like Blade Runner in year 12, I had to do the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
Weep for me
Red.
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We watched Gladiator in Ancient History. Good times!
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Haha! Ohhhh dear. Thats terrible.
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Has a beautiful score until Qantas ruined it by setting it to their ads. >:| Also, I liked Gladiator. *shrugs* 😛
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I like Gladiator too, I just mean I dont think its historically very accurate, or a good example to give ancient history students :/
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@sughly: Oh right. Haha! To be honest, I think the teacher just put it on so she didn’t have to teach that day. PUBLIC SCHOOL! 😀
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Dear Red,
Oh what I would’ve given to watch the league of extraordinary gentlemen. Back in my day I had to watch Starship troopers … we were forced to watch that movie every day for a fortnight. Shovelling coal to power the projector for 28 hours a day.
Best wishes,
Tofu
I LOVE Starship Troopers. I know it’s kind of pulpy, but that’s kind of the point. 😀
Dear Artifice of Red,
I concur with you and agree with the artistic analysis of our esteemed colleague Sughly.
Additionally I feel upset that the amazing soundtrack has not been mentioned.
Regards,
NZ
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There’s a cabaret performer who calls herself Meow Meow. Also does a bit of acting.
Nothing bad about calling yourself Meow / Miao, but I’m always gonna giggle at it.
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I should really go and take a picture of the “Dick Payne Real Estate” signs one of these days…
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Dear Dire Wolf
Stop saying you’re going to do one thing, then doing the opposite. Don’t say you’re not going to get into a debate and then proceed to defend your points.
Sincerely Dire Wolf
P.S
I thought letter writing was page 7? Or was that something else?
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If you want something, don’t ask for nothing. If you want nothing, don’t ask for something.
(There’s Arcade Fire lyrics for all occasions. :P)
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Dear Dire Wolf
unfortunately I was too late for page seven. As you can see at the top of the page, we’ve had words.
Regards
Ritin’ Red
This page sure is interesting.
DARK SOULS!
My trip to Blighttown was surprisingly short. Although I did miss a few things in the poison swamp area because I couldn’t be bothered dealing with poison so much.
@tigerion @tech_knight @ynefel @thecracks and anyone else who cares:
if you are looking for something entertaining to do on your lunch break today, head over to something i only JUST discovered. 1d4chan.
It takes everything about 40k and makes it HILARIOUS. In Wiki form!
Dear TAY,
I hope this letter finds you well. It’s been a while since we last caught up for real, and I’d love to hear what’s going on in your life. Not just the movies you see, but the deeper stuff. The feelings and other girly rubbish like that.
For my part, I’ve been pretty well for about the last two weeks. Feel like I’ve started climbing out of the dense grey fog that was setting up camp in my brain for the last six months. So that’s something. I still slip from time to time, as if being depressed is an addiction I can’t quite break, but I’m working hard to keep my head in the clear fresh air.
In less metaphysical news, my wife found a lump in her breast yesterday. We don’t know what it is, yet, but you know how it is: you automatically fear the worst. She’s got a doctor’s appointment this afternoon to get it seen to, but in the meantime, anxiety, worry and jumpiness abound. I’m stuck at work, which feels even more wrong than usual, and it’s taking all my self-control not to just start screaming in people’s faces. Everything seems petty and pointless in comparison.
Except posting “The Dig” in Scribbletaku. That’s important. And I didn’t get to do that today. Worst day ever.
Can’t think about anything else. Need distraction. Stimulation. @dc, send me that email! 😛
I’ve been typing this letter for so long that it’ll probably end up being a page-get, so I should probably sign off before my manager starts to take a look at what I’m … AAAHHHH THERE SHE IS
Sincerely
Shane
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http://www.m.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/benign-breast-lumps
TL;DR Women are weird and their hormones even weirder.
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Spoilered story for it being slightly NSFW and personal, but totes relevant:
My ex-GF had a similar lump in breast experience, turned out benign, but the circumstances of its discovery were… intimate.That was a real interesting conversation I had with her father.
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Cookie, cookie, cookie starts with C!
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@sughly @dire_wolf
You’re both wrong.
The movie was obviously stating that Deckard was a unicorn. Literally as in a horse with a horn. He just thought he was a man.
Kickstarter for a spiritual successor to Ecco? :O
And they have Spencer Nilsen doing the soundtrack again?!
\o/
If only I had spare money 🙁
Dear TAY
I feel like dying. 2500 word group assignment but yay I don’t have to go into Hobart to do it cos I’m sick and my partner didn’t want to be infected hahaha.
I also spent $6.50 on a ripoff chicken burger. For that price I expect real chicken, not Steggles tempura southern style chicken burger from Woolworths. I want my money back.
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Yeaaahhh… Ive done a few of those. I always ended up writing 80% of it to save us from getting a fail. Group work sucks.
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There was a group production thing at uni once and one of the girls didn’t show up for the majority of the semester. We peer reviewed each other and she wondered why we marked her low. We were all called into the unit coordinators office and she started crying on cue. None of us were impressed. Elevator ride afterwards was awkward. 😛
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Dear Virus___
Well that was a little deflating
Yours groaningly
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Dear Bored,
It’s only 2 underscores.
Yours in good faith,
Virus__
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The age of stupid irrelevant tacked-on crappy multiplayer crap in our single player games might finally be coming to an end \o/
Shame the Tomb Raider guys didn’t get the memo 🙁
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I’m a little scared by how interested everyone seems to be in these online shared single player games.
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Interesting that the number is going down (which is a good thing) but the aspect of that graph which is missing is a revenue comparison. Are the games hat no longer ship with it selling less. But I think maybe it’s getting to that stage a bunch of publishers have insisted on multiplayer because that’s what MW2 had so we need that to match their sales.
They have then found they have not had huge demand and have ongoing costs for hosting infrastructure and after being burnt a few times now are not insisting on it.Re: tomb raider I’m not sure what the multiplayer is like, but have heard that people are enjoying it. Might be a bit like Assassins creed, I wouldn’t have thought that would translate into an MP environment but they work out a way to do it.
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I’m just miffed that they made an amazing single player game and then are not supporting it at all post-launch and are instead loading up an unnecessary multiplayer mode with extra DLC. TR multiplayer isn’t something most players are going to want to play. Same as Uncharted or Assassin’s Creed. It’ll be a wasteland in a year.
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TAY I have missed you for three weeks. That’s because IT’S A BOY!
ALL MY GAEMS R BELONG TO HIM NOW. He just can’t play them – Study! Study! Study!
Golden Boy reference.
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This post appears to be lacking in pictures of said boy
Congrats to you and the misuss, hope both Mum and Bub are well
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Super looking kid (his blanket looks like a cape in that shot)
Nice name as well. Thanks and congrats again
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if you’re really into indie games / old games, & dont wanna touch the newer stuff, then it seems pretty ok.
just gotta see if they can get game developers working on it & sticking with it & supporting it.Also, the emulators… I dunno how they propose to include them as a feature when in 99% of cases, using them is breaking some sort of copyright law.
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I’ve mentioned it before, but I don’t really see the point of the system. I think at most it will appeal to an increadibly small niche and that it’s something that will quickly fade into obscurity once all the hype over it dies down.
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I’m actually really excited. There’s a lot of potential in this thing. Remains to be seen what comes of said potential. I backed the kickstarter and they’re apparently shipping soon.
There seems to be a lot of negativity and ‘pffft’ surrounding it, but I don’t see why. It’s not in direct competition with consoles and was never intended to be. It’s a Tegra3 powered ‘droid device for $100 with it’s own controller that’s just plug and play, and completely open source. What’s not to like?
It will sit comfortably in my loungeroom (where I don’t actually have any consoles) and likely get used for all those casual ‘droid titles, along with some of the cool games they’ve announced. Apparently Mojang will be doing a version of Minecraft specifically for Ouya as well. There’s some serious emulator potential too.
I’m most excited by someone opting for a fresh take on ‘consoles’ and offering a different angle. And why shouldn’t they? Consoles are stale as fuck (c’mon, you know I’m right) and whilst the Ouya won’t be competing with PS4/Durango/WiiU, it could encourage some new thinking.
Change is not always a bad thing.
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At this point I’m only interested in it as something running emulators or CXMB — but that can be done on cheaper hardware.
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I’m thinking that it could have some really interesting stuff released and I’m not sure that it will all be game related.
I think the connectivity will mean you will get things like apps that run as background at meats. Tied into a music service or youtube and the connectivity aspect will mean that people can queue up their fav songs or clips and the app with sort based on selections and just have a constant playlist of selections streaming.
For a music have people ‘check in’ and have a thumbs up thumbs down option to veto songs. I think that aspect of it could be really cool
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Dear TAY,
I kind of feel like an obnoxious douche, I have a deep seeded need to be one when discussing film. This is my lame way of apologising for coming across like a douche, but not for being passionate about film.
Sughly.
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Dear Sughly,
You’re awesome.
Your buddy,
D.C.
P.S. You’re awesome too, DireWolf, my Star Trek pal!
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No need to apologise. I was being equally as douchey. I’m the one who started it, I should be the one to apologise to you. I didn’t mean to get you upset or anything. Sorry.
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No need to apologise either. Just a strong difference of opinion that we both defended. Just making it clear I didnt want to be a douche about it is all 🙂
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Hey, I loved that movie, man. Really eager to see the original now too!
Still waiting on those list additions you promised. 😛
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other than changing the characters names & the country its set in, the US version is a shot for shot & word for word remake of the original. (except for one shot that was left out of the US version).
just like [REC] & Quarantine. th remake is good, because the original was good & they are exactly the same, even down to the US version replicating some mistranslated subtitles in the dialogue.
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Matt Reeves shot it incredibly well too. I liked the lighting and atmosphere. Michael Giachinno’s score was great, just like @cakesmith said. Gave a sense of innocence to scenes that were far from innoncent. 😀
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So, this new Airbourne song, it sounds great. It’s got hints of AC/DC, Sabbath AND Pink Floyd in the intro to it. They’re sounding more defined this time around too, less of an AC/DC sound all around, which isn’t a bad thing, but I dig their AC/DC sound. Also Joel the singer his vocals aren’t sounding as rough as they have in the past, this is also awesome.
I give it at least a 7.5/10
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Max Payne 3 was 3 DVD’s as well, something like 17gb when I made ISO copies of them :S I know BioShock Infinite is ~15gb in total, but that’s compressed.
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My mates Steam acc this morning wanted to keep downloading it for infinity! Seriously went to launch it and it’s timer just kept going up and up and not downloading anything.
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I had similar thing last night (about 20min?). In the ‘downloads’ tab is says ‘unpacking’ – I assume it’s unpacking/decrypting/whatever the preloaded files (it’s pretty hefty…)
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Well it was sitting on 99% downloaded and saying it was downloading but it wasn’t lol.
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Did you have it preloaded? Did you notice a distinctly separate ‘unpacking’ stage? (If it was preloaded and you did not notice the separate stage, it was probably the unpacking – I think my main game list said ‘downloading’ and it only said unpacking in the top right of the entry on the downloads list.)
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Yeah it was preloaded, but it said it was downloading sadly and wouldn’t do anything it ended up freezing Steam and all Q_Q
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I was amazed when I saw 4 DVDs in the box.
also, upvote for reminding me to go back & play it more.
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its on my list of things to finish. but i’m gonna have to start from the beginning again & I’m not feeling up to a 50+ hour commitment just now…
but I will get through it.
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Another one I’ve been meaning to play.
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I got quite addicted to the job system.
I kind of like it better, for reasons of fun. LO is more mature and those short stories elevate it above most.
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Blue Dragon is fun but nothing special. Also feels a lot more unpolished compared to LO (I prefer LO to it)
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Old school FMV adventure games had a lot. There was a whole box of ’em for Tex Murphy and The X-Files Game.
Edit: I remember Scully’s cool speech in The X-Files game installer, then the theme song played afterwards. Was so psyched! 😀 I loved that game too, wanted Craig Wilmore to appear on the main show. Never happened. :'(
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Not it isn’t, they are both exactly 12 cm in diameter
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Yeah but it was amazingly large for the time (DVD didn’t exist and CDs were considered huge) and it takes up more physical space than a 4-DVD game.
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I totally misread that & i was a bit concerned about gatorade’s marketing department until I read it again.
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I didnt have my glasses on & skimmed past it. didnt see the ‘g’ at all & misread the first word as ‘face.’
but I’m happy to hear that I was mistaken.
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Yeah, Person 4 Golden, on Vita. I’m sure it’s due at my house this week. Hope it arrives before Easter Weekend.
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I ordered my P4G, they sent it. I’m sure it’s time. But I can’t remember if they said 10 working days or infinity +1.
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I didn’t pay for that fast shipping. I just payed 50c for a box instead of a parcel.
I blame Aus Post really, it’s prolly sat in the back of someone’s van! >:-(
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Guh, I have the motivation of a mexican at siesta time and I actually have work to do. Need motivation *cue “Push it to the Limit” from the “Scarface” soundtrack
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nooo, now all the bosses have left me alone in the office, how am I supposed to work without the threat of being repremanded. Oh well, Solo office party *begins wildly riding chair around office, yelling whooooo (Archer style)*
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upvote for acknoledging (that’s some bad spelling) me 😀
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ACK! No ledging!
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Boss came back, so back to work, but not before leaving wheel marks everywhere, funny they all lead back to my office……. “ummm it wasn’t me”.
Also “You’re the best …AROUND!!…. and nothing’s ever gonna bring you down”
The song plays as gutsoup lays half asleep on the table. “PUSH IT TO THE LIMIT! Standing on the raaazors edge!”
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ha, that cartoon (the coffee one) is the perfect imagery for how i am today, the dude even looks like me :O
Withdrawels for a game I have never played:
http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2013/045/2/e/ncp4golden_yukiko_by_naughtyboy83-d5uwmnp.jpg
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My heaven place looks a lot like this!
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Oh my GAWD, high-necked track-suit tops!
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AND ALL-AROUND AWESOMENESS!!!
http://grevolt.geekrevolt.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Persona-4-the-golden-51.jpg
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The art style of this series truly is amazing.
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UNH! 😀 (can’t make words of approval descriptive enough)
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No, I’m saving myself.
EDIT: Mis-read. Sorry. Yeah, no. After I’ve played I’ll get the OST. Sometimes I’ve listened to soundtracks before playing in the past and it’s odd.
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The music is the best part though.
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I’ll get back to you on that (hopefully soon) What I heard on gametrailers was pretty amazeballs though (amazeboobs?)
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I’m saving it for later.
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BioShock Infinite time! I’ll miss you TAY. I’ll be back. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow… but soon. (Probably tonight! :P)
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HEY! I heard that they’ve stepped it up this time.
Also, Like @dc cares when there’s adventure to be had, PERSPECTIVE!-
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So much attention to detail. The artistry and atmosphere in this first part alone!
😀
That’s all I’ll say.
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SNAP!
I’m actually not a big fan of shooters. I’m kinda right now in a state of “I’m not hyped yet not un-hyped” to play Bioshock Infinite. Still, the game looks pretty and came with an awesome statue! \o/
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Rest of my order for parts to build a complete water system for my PC arrive tomorrow. \o/
Master race!
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I’ve been thinking about buying one of those closed-loop watercooling systems from Corsair when I get around to upgrading my rig. I’ve got one of their cases that has a spot at the top designed for an internal 240mm radiator.
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I started with a Noctua NH-D14, and then moved to a Corsair H80i. The H80i is great, and my 3930k is actually a really easy CPU to cool. My problem is my two GTX670’s are coping fine, but on high end stuff like Crysis 3, they run a little hot for my liking. 75 degrees is not dangerous, but I don’t like it. Will be doing a full system with a CPU block, two GPU blocks and backplates, one 120mm radiator and a 360mm radiator.
Should be awesome.
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I have a single 670 and it runs pretty cool but my CPU recently has been hitting really high temps and I’m not happy with it, but it’s an old CPU and using a stock cooler so can’t be fucked adding a new cooler when I’m probably a month or two away from upgrading it all anyway.
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I contemplated getting water cooling, then I moved to the ACT.
Not sure if that was the right move, but it certainly cooled my PC.
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Yeah I’m not really a master racer. Just on a performance PC kick at the moment. Consoles will always have a place in my life. =)
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360 copy of Spec Ops The Line $24.95 at my local 2nd hand place. Sleeping Dogs $29.95.
Money in pocket: $1.35.
Oh well :\
Reading through the Minecraft wiki to see what changes have happened since I last played.
Saw a desert well last night and thought “Meh.”. Apparently they have a 1/1000 chance of spawning in a desert area. I feel like I should have cared more.
Talk about rubbing it in!
Playsia just emailed me asking me to review P4G because I’ve “had it for a while now”
HHhhhhrrrrnnnggghh!!!
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I doubt it but maybe. The Fate stuff is fairly popular I think. Probably would have had no problems if it was last year when Fate/Zero was running (that show was amazing).
Mance Rayder looked likr more of a smart-arse in my mind
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I have no idea who the character is since I only watch the series, but that guy is an amazing actor. Yaaay!
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if you’ve seen to the end of series 2, then you’ve heard his name.
if you havent seen to the end of series 2, dont click the spoiler.
He’s the ‘king beyond the wall’ leading the wildlings that captured Jon Snow.I’m sure this guy will be great, but I cant help but wonder what could’ve been if Jimmy McNulty had taken the role…
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So Capcom announced they’re releasing ports of the old Dungeons & Dragons arcade games on various digital platforms.
For those that don’t know, Dungeons & Dragons: Tower of Doom and Shadows Over Mystara are side-scrolling brawlers in the vein of Golden Axe, but with RPG elements. One of the designers was George Kamitani, who subsequently left Capcom and formed Vanillaware – Dragon’s Crown looks like it’s basically a continuation of those games. Awesome that they’re putting out the original stuff too.
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Yeah Tower of Doom is a bit average, but Shadows was fantastic.
I just like the idea that there’s a new, good 2D sprite-based brawler being made in 2013 for a full retail release. <3 Vanillaware.
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I really wanna play that Golden Axe arcade game again with the farmboy with a pitchfork, horsewoman and giant with a dwarf on his back.
I loved that game SO MUCH!
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What’s there to discuss?
If there is one thing i have always said, it’ that we need more zeppelins in the sky.-
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I think it should also be required that if you are a successful blogger and/or podcaster you must obtain and subsequently do your work from an airship.
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#Redmentum
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Parliament should be conducted in an enormous airship. The politicians have to arrive by smaller airship which docks with it. The airship parliament should float around the country and never land.
Any politicians that act like small children get thrown overboard.
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You mean it’s not some great nebulous poorly-defined thing in the sky somewhere that solves everyone’s problems?
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Pretty sure that was the definition on every infrastructure doc I have ever seen
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I haven’t bought any new tshirts for a while.
Threadless are currently running a TMNT design contest
Point 1 may change shortly
@sughly, @freezespreston, @sernobulus, @lambomann007, @welbot, @beardymcmuttonchops @virus__
@dc @gutsoup
Hey guys, do we just wanna meet up at CyberCity again or is there a preferred restaurant someone would like to recomend?
I love Gold BBQ but it’s meat only (appropriate) and rather small.
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I’m not used to having to organise a get together. Remember the days when there was a number of people sleeping on my sofa and Fatcunt was there every day and if I wanted to socialise I just had to wake up.
I should invite Dunno. He games. And TVs. He could talk film&TV with @DC & @sughly
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Cool, any restaurante suggestionehs?
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Point 1 – I’m still trying to convince Mrs Freeze to come. If she won’t I’ll probably be out.
Point 2 – Mah’fukin Korean BBQ biatches.
Point 3 – See Point 2.
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This is a joke man, when we signed back upto them last year after being cut off our service was activated in 4 days and the modem turned up in 5..
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To be fair they re-submitted the order on Friday morning (oddly on my bigpond account thing which I can actually log into this time, there’s two identical orders listed, which may present an issue later) and so they’ve technically only had two proper days now on that order.
But actually they’ve had 20 calendar days. 🙁
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At some point soon I’m going to crack it at them, cancel the order and sign up for ADSL with someone.
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It would be expected behavior from them if it was them being apathetic with an existing customer, but I’m completely new for them and still getting issues. 🙁
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Been playing BioShock for 110 minutes and haven’t done much at all. Just taking in the detail. That sense of exploration that I had when exploring Rapture for the first time is most definitely here! 😀
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Was having so much fun exploring in peace that I was sad when the shooting part started, but that’s incredibly fun too!
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So I went to pick up bioshock infinite song bird edition and noticed a book. The guy at Ebgmes was like oh that’s the special edition guide, you get 10% off. We also have the artbook.
Me: TAKE MY MONEY!
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I’m just imagining the second the guy finishes his sentence you throw money / a credit card at his face and run out of the store. That’s what really happened isn’t it. =P
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$38 because I bought the game at the same timee
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My planned day of fun was not fun. >:)
Jack The Giant Slayer is on the NFT list. I stupidly didn’t check this yesterday and found out at the ticket counter. Anyone who knows anything about four year olds will understand how sucky that was.
So to make it up to him I told him he could get whatever he wanted for lunch. He chose McDonalds. Eww. Even worse, their new Californian Chicken burger is super-gross.
And then I told him we’d buy a movie and go home and watch it together. But when we were looking at movies and he was trying to choose between a couple of really cheap ones I spotted the 3D version of Hugo which we’d been searching for for a while so I scanned it but my son saw and for some reason instantly became obsessed with it and nothing else would do. Was a good price ($29 for 3D,regular Blu-ray and DVDpack) but we may as well have just paid for our Jack tickets because it would have been cheaper. Also, I can’t watch it with him because Mr. Strange and mini-Strange want to see it too so he has to watch it by himself in his room. Which defeats the purpose of my son and I buying a movie to watch together. 😛
After choosing the movie he started getting tired so he threw a couple of mini-tantrums and started dragged his heels on the trek back to bus stop,causing us to miss the bus and have to wait for an hour.
So my day out for a free movie turned into an exhausting nightmare. And an expensive one. Should have just stayed home and ordered Bioshock Infinite. 😛
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Sorry to hear, Lady Strange 🙁
NFT things are the worst. Worse than than McGanigal guy.*Loops hug*… the pleasant, non-worrying kind
On the plus side – HUGO!
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HUGO! I loved that movie. Visually spectacular and interesting story plot point I didn’t know was coming. (Not a twist or any thing, just hadn’t watched the trailer and didn’t know an aspect of it.) Would look amazing in 3D too, I reckon.
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I know next to nothing about it, only that I wanted to see it,and in 3D.
My son already spoilered it a bit for me, possibly. The movie was nearly finished and he started yelling for me so I went in assuming he wanted some water or something but he just wanted to tell me thatHugo’s machine doesn’t work anymore and is sad.I have no idea what that means right now(or even why he had to yell and tell me that) but when I watch the movie I’ll now be wondering the whole time. 😛-
Haha! This is almost as bad as Sughly’s son spoiling Deponia for him. Kids! *shakes fist* 😛
I feel like watching Hugo again! 😀
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I don’t think they really advertised that half of the story, it was very odd, given it’s a very large chunk of the movie.
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As someone who works at a cinema I’m glad to hear you didn’t complain.
You’d be surprised at the amount of people that will try and tell me I’m wrong. ..-
I felt bad for the poor lady. She even got up and followed us out of the cinemas to ask if we’d seen Oz. I think my son’s uber-sad face distressed her.
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Sweet! Thanks man!
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…unless youre choosing to not come this weekend because of that. In which case… yes, yes it is this weekends thing 🙂
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WIll try to go to both! I look forward to hanging out with you guys!
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Do or do not, there is no try. Actually, just do.
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@sughly, @freezespreston: Do you guys have plans for your birthday meat or is it the job of your pals to plan it for you. I don’t know how these things work. Haha.
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@dc – haha! Nooo were attempting to organise something, but poor ol freeze, I’m not being too helpful 🙁
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Dammit Tigs, why would you do something like that
Don’t click on the dishonored DLC article if you haven’t finished the main game. I have no idea why I did 🙁
So the thing Mr. Strange had to pick up from the the Post Office?
HEAVATAR!
Day is instantly redeemed. 😀
I really love how in the notes it mentions what classical piece each song is inspired from.
On the third song now and still happy. It’s a really cool album. YAY!
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Too many of those already >:(
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Yip. Need more interesting combos, like fire electric or grass fire or something.
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I played a hack of Black and White that had changed up some of the original typings. Things like Luxray going Elec/Dark, Electivire going Elec/Fighting and the best one was Cofagrigus becoming Ghost/Steel. That thing was a pain in the ass to take down. So damn defensive and only one weakness
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Grassfire
– a self combusting Pokemon!
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I feel like listening to more The National, but am saving it for when I’m in a good mood again. Haha. Don’t want to associate it with blerghness. :S
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I love this one from Macross Plus:
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Haha, just saw the imagery. Only listened to the audio before. You so crazy, Jimu! 😛
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Wha? How? That’s a great song.
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@dc
Bioshock infinite!
(No plot spoilers or anything, but here if other people wish to avoid seeing stuff)
Where are you up to? Enjoying it a lot? I gotta say I love the setting. So much lesser than three. Took me over 2 hours before I reached Elizabeth, which is like, super duper slow by my standards. Even though I already knew about it, when the quartet started singing the Beach Boys, I was smiling so hard.-
I don’t know why I tagged you while replying to you. That seems rather redundant. Tempted to replace my shame with “…”
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There are slight plot spoilers here:
I just arrived at the Station on the way to Monument Island and have been playing for over three hours. (About standard slow time for me. Haha.) That Beach Boys thing was amazing! 😀-
I’m annoyed, because there’s a section somewhere in the opening of the game that I missed, because I have a key and I don’t know where it goes, and this frustrates me.-
I used that key!…
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There’s a house with a sky light before you get to the place with the news press. You can either smash the skylight and go into the house or enter from the balcony. There’s a chest on the lower floor.
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Oh man. Maaaaaan. I backtracked back to the house with the news press, to see if I could find it, but I guess I didn’t go far enough.In an unrelated note, I just realised the name of the Quartet was ‘The “Bee” Sharps.’ Did they steal that name from The Simpsons? Geez, lazy. -
As much as I want to play I think I’ll stop until I’m in a better mood. Don’t want to ruin it!
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I think that’s fair. I hope your mood improves fast, D.C.
You should watch Beauty and the Beast. That’ll improve your mood. 😛
Edit: Holy jesus. I am so bad at typing/wording tonight.
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Thanks Blaghs! I really, really loved the opening of this game though.
Liked the light house in particular. Sense of excitement building as you climbed higher and higher and also paying tribute to the first game’s lighthouse! -
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Screw it, I’m going to play more BioShock. Haha!
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@blaghman:
Did you win those carnival games at the fair? One of them wouldn’t work for me. The prize display stayed up and I couldn’t see the targets! D:Also the graphic settings are maxed out and the game plays flawlessly except for the old timey videos. They’re all laggy and the sound broken. :'(
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Yep, over on the RHS? Pretty much just like the other shooty one ont he left except rails… and gives you the a shotgun instead of rifle. Worked ok for me, prizes were just like the rifle one.
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I have been, but I missed that room completely. I’m sad about this now.
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I haven’t stopped thinking about what it could mean since I heard it, though. Haha!
It’s like the first time I read about Grim Fandango and misread it as Grim Fandiago and thought it must be some sort of city of the undead. Haha! 😛
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Maybe we could ask Sir Serrels to replace all the front page images for the game with those baby pictures that freak @dc out so he doesn’t accidentally spoilerise himself. 😛
Good news everyone! I got my assignment in in time. Now I have to wait to find out if it gets a good mark or not. The waiting game sucks.
Fitness is painful and disgusting. Why can’t we just be fit all the time without all that horribleness that comes with it?
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Keep at it, though. If it was easy everyone would be crazy fit. It’s always good when you start seeing results.
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Man, if I was able to get fit by doing nothing, then I’m pretty sure I would be the fittest mo-fo around. I am king at doing nothing!
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You should get one of those Nike FuelBand wrist dealies. Track your progress, beat your times and all that. Might somehow make the whole process fun? (Not likely! :P)
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Actually I kind of like the look of those things sad as that is.
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I don’t really think it’s that sad – game-ifying fitness in a way that could motivate people? That’s ok! Something like paintball or lazertag type stuff might have similar effect but larger++ cost.
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Ztimulated failure. What a noob.
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I thought about getting one when I was running regularly, but figured without the smartphone componant it wouldn’t suit me.
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@fled
I’ve started using that recently, it’s pretty cool. Doesn’t motivate me to run, but if I’m going somewhere, I’ll put it on.
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Nice, not jumping through no hoops for THE MAN.
Apology for double negative.Does that mean you get caught? Are you a zombie now?
I don’t know how the game works at all, just saw it in passing and thought “hey, that’s a neat idea”.
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Nah, you don’t get caught. If you turn on the “Zombie Chase” thing or whatever, all you have to do is increase your speed when you get chased, so if you just want to walk/jog, then you can walk normally, and jog while being chased.
Edit: I should add that it’s entirely possible that you get caught and die if you don’t speed up, just that I haven’t experienced it.
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@sughly
SORRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
Have Terraria as a sorry present ;D
Although it’s totally your fault for not watching it ;P
@dc
I have no idea what to do the 6th. To be honest that’s the only weekend I’m 100% free and it seems like its been moved to a weekend where I have family commitments so awkward for me.
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The impression I get is there’s two meats, if you can’t make this weekend there will be another the week after. I haven’t left the house in three weeks, so I’m slightly psyched. Haha! Think that weekend was the only one that worked for Trjn too.
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Yeah if you mean its been moved to this weekend thats not true, this weekend is just jimus chance to get out on the drink, so were helping him. 6th as far as I know is still bday night, no?
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Ah ok. Cool. Sunday being Easter and all means I need and want to be home for the kids and not hungover. Weekend after is fair game though. No idea what though and don’t really mind. (Korean BBQ)
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I vote Korean BBQ, just hope Kim Jong Un hasn’t beaten us to it and eaten it all.
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In probably just setting myself up for disappointment. The one in Sydney was amazing but it’s probably just a one off. Only one I’ve ever been to.
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True, but I guess you gotta give it a go at some point.
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Of course! 😀
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It was the last one before the indefinite period where I will probably be gone :p The removalist is booked for between April 8 and April 15.
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They’ve changed the schedule.
It’s only going to be a ten episode run, starting September 25th (US time).-
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I’m kinda annoyed that Comedy Central are airing more episodes of Brickleberry this year than they are South Park. (I think 15, to coincide with the second half of tosh.0)
South Park deserves more episodes, but ultimately I think at CC Matt and Trey get their way on everything.
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Gah! BioWare’s going to close down the oceanic servers for TOR and transfer everyone over to US servers. TOR’s an okay game, and I still play it now and then, and one of the greatest things it has over all other MMOs is that I can play it without bloody lag, and now they’re taking that away.
Is it too much to ask to play just one MMO without lag?
Plus, you know, I’m likely to lose all my character names in the transfer.
@fled Zombies, Run looks really interesting. I get paid tomorrow so ill probably grab it and give it a go. Only $4.50. May as well try to have some fun while I’m doing it.
Okay so I got a notification in my inbox and suddenly there’s all these mentions! WHAT THE WHAT. I’ve missed like tons of events grr. Though it’s because I’ve been lazy and then My Kitchen Rules is on and then I get confused. I love competitive cooking shows.
The almighty @tigerion ; I’m going to be in Hong Kong from Friday onwards for two weeks (YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH). My deepest apologies. Also I plan 100% to return to trivia. Work has been a crazy mess and bluhbluhbluh.
@beavwa WE NEED TO DISCUSS INTRICATE THINGS AND PHILOSOPHY ABOUT TALES OF GRACES.
Sincerely,
The lazy, incompetent completely useless human being.
PS. All hail @freezespreston
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I don’t know how you young people do it. It’s like “play more games!” and then I go play games, and then they go “no you need to discuss it!!!” and then I go post and then people are like “Isn’t Survivor great!??” and then I’m like whut.
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I’m just about to finish the f chapter of Graces and I’m beginning to be sad it’s almost all over.
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Turns out my detective skills are lacking. Haha.
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Or maybe it is @sughly and he’s covering his tracks!?
Or maybe it’s @dc who’s trying to pin it on Sugs!?
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I haven’t played far yet. Just started last week and playing in short spurts. Just met Richard and he is fabulousss. Hubert is being a Brat and I want to fix him!
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Are you playing in English or Japanese? I’m assuming Japanese because Richard’s dub voice is kind of bad 🙁
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Yeah I got the preorder JP version from years ago. I’ve just been super lazy. I also didn’t like asbel’s voice actor that much (personal grudge). And I also get to dress Sophie up as Rutee!
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Bioshock Infinite.
Dat.
Atmosphere.
Holy crap, I keep needing to take breathers because I’m getting tense…
Even when I’m in an empty gorram room.
I’ve finally finished all the damn flowers on my sister-in-law’s cushion. Yay! If I ever even jokingly suggest I do a cushion cover all-over in twisted fabric flowers again someone please hit me. 😛
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Male, if that makes any difference. I was told it was a bit like Spongebob (I love Spongebob)
It’s nothing like Spongebob.
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I thought you were talking about undergarments that someone had shown you LOL. Now I see it’s some anime, sounds messed up.
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Ahahaha no, not quite 😛
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Thanks. Just watched a short clip on YouTube. Definitely nothing like Spongebob! 😛
From Wikipedia – “The Anarchy sisters, Panty and Stocking, are angels who were kicked out of Heaven due to their bad behavior. They are sent to Daten City—a pun on the Japanese word datenshi (堕天使?, lit. “fallen angel”)—a place located on the border between Heaven and Hell, which is besieged by evil spirits referred to as “Ghosts”. Under the watchful eye of the reverend Garterbelt, the two are tasked with collecting enough Heaven Coins to buy their way back into Heaven by destroying Ghosts using their powers, including the ability to transform their lingerie into weapons. However, Panty and Stocking are constantly sidetracked by their respective interests in men and sugar.” 😀Actually looks like it could be pretty good!-
It’s actually not bad, it’s just the weirdest fuckin’ thing I’ve ever seen, and that’s a tough one when it’s up against Aqua Teen Hunger Force, which actually does look like Spongebob in comparison 😛
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It’s like Powerpuff Girls with a sex addict and a gothic-sweet addict.
Hilarious stuff, especially “Death Race 2010”.
Hi all. No news today sadly. Wife’s booked in for an ultrasound on her lump in two weeks time. We’ll see what’s going on then if she can’t finagle an earlier appointment. I’ve done my page of comic for the day, and am going to bed.
Enjoy your infinite shocks of the bio variety!
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Man, must be all kinds of stressful. Sorry you two have to go through this. I’m sure it’ll be fine, though. Tough that they make you wait two weeks. Was going to send you an e-mail to check up on you but didn’t want to be pushy.
Congrats with the comic page, though.
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What DC said.
Seriously, almost word for word, except for the bit about the email 😉
It’ll be fine, mate. Women’s bodies can be all kinds of weird.-
No argument here. The current front-running theory is apparently a cyst filled with milk instead of water! 😛
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Dear TAY,
I hope this letter finds you well. It’s been a while since we last caught up for real, and I’d love to hear what’s going on in your life. Not just the movies you see, but the deeper stuff. The feelings and other girly rubbish like that.
For my part, I’ve been pretty well for about the last two weeks. Feel like I’ve started climbing out of the dense grey fog that was setting up camp in my brain for the last six months. So that’s something. I still slip from time to time, as if being depressed is an addiction I can’t quite break, but I’m working hard to keep my head in the clear fresh air.
In less metaphysical news, my wife found a lump in her breast yesterday. We don’t know what it is, yet, but you know how it is: you automatically fear the worst. She’s got a doctor’s appointment this afternoon to get it seen to, but in the meantime, anxiety, worry and jumpiness abound. I’m stuck at work, which feels even more wrong than usual, and it’s taking all my self-control not to just start screaming in people’s faces. Everything seems petty and pointless in comparison.
…etc…
I’ve been typing this letter for so long that it’ll probably end up being a page-get, so I should probably sign off before my manager starts to take a look at what I’m … AAAHHHH THERE SHE IS
Sincerely
Shane-
Oh, sorry to hear that. Thanks for the update. Stay strong and here’s hoping it turns out that you had nothing to worry about.
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Thanks, man. We’re doing okay. Keeping all our rabbits’ feet out for luck.
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I love Elizabeth in BioShock, but sometimes I feel like she’s rushing me. Haha. I love taking my time looking around and she always moves on ahead and I feel like I need to follow otherwise trouble might find her. 😀
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She can take care of herself. Not to mention that you can get her a good lot of exercise by walking five metres in one direction, then turning 180 degrees, and walking another 5 metres back.
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Anyone else having weird animation glitches with characters too, like it skips, uh, frames or something?
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Yeah, its animations are kinda janky, doesn’t seem to have any sort of blending(or, more likely, the way it blends animations is just sort of bad).
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That’s… sort of a relief. Haha. Was going to change graphic settings and all that, but I didn’t want to because everything else runs flawlessly at Ultra. Still odd though.
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I’m not having any glitches, and I think Elizabeth is wonderfully animated, but yeah, the animation blending for the AI isn’t that great.
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An interpretation of a day in the Allure Media offices:
http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q260/co13r4/1349755980237.gif
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It’s on the list, Sughly. I don’t need Dave and Mageret telling me what to do, though! *takes movie off list.*
😛
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Meat?
Bone?
It’s giving me an idea!
http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q260/co13r4/1349755980237.gif
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Speaking of hitting:
http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q260/co13r4/1349755980237.gif
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Alrighty. Sent a bunch of friend requests. Some have already been accepted. O_o. You guys are fast.
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I assume I’m one of them?
You’ve probably seen it but there’s adding as a friend through the friends list and sending a friend request through MiiVerse.
They’re two different things and the latter will send the other person a notification and they just need to accept for you to become BFFs but the former is like a 3DS one so both people need to add each other. The instant ones are when the other person added you and you just needed to add them.
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*thinks about still not having the Wii U on the nets. Realises Wii U is downstairs. Leaves it for another day*
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I have tomorrow off without the wife or kids around so I get to sit here and play Monster Hunter until the small hours then do it all again tomorrow.
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See next page.
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I did, I tried to reply there and got kicked back to page one. So I replied to @greenius again. He’s gonna kill me for all the pointless page one replies.
(PPsssst Don’t tell @greenius I said that)
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Joins the can’t sleep club.
I suspect reading the Calvin & Hobbes collection I bought from @greenius wasn’t the greatest of ideas. 😛
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That’s always fun!
Also worth noting that I read that as “Come at me Monday!”
Adrenalin will get you through the day!
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Damn right it is!
Speaking of Monday. I don’t really remember Monday other than I hung out with @freezespreston haha.
Yeah i’m guessing thats what will happen and when I get home my body will be all “LOLNO You can stay awake until 3am now!”
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It will. Just hope your neighbors don’t’ stab each other when you finally try to get some rest. That’s what happened to me last time. I ended up on 4 hours sleep over 3 days.
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Aww nah they can stab each other. It would do the world a huge favour ^_^
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Damnit I hate telstra!
some of the TeamSpeak people probably remember my internet was being weird the last couple of nights and as of last night it was basically unusable.
I’d tried all the basic things like turning it off and on again, making sure it wasn’t just my computer etc. Got home this morning and it was that bad that when I tried to google a speed test site to see how slow it was going google timed out.
Lost patience and called telstra tech support and after 5 min of going through all the automated prompts to talk to an actual tech support person I go through switching it off and on again (I understand why they make you do it again and don’t just take your word for it, I’ve done customer support) then she resets the connection on the telstra end (not sure exactly what she did here and I was too tired and happy the internet is working again to ask) it’s fixed and running as well as it ever has.
She asks when the last time I cleaned out my computer, did a performance check. Next think I know she’s trying to sell me some tech support insurance so I can get help connecting my phone to my modem and whatnot. It felt like one of those friggen pop up ads that say “your computer is slow. Runn this scan and we can boost it by 200000%%%!!!!!!! for just 14$ a month!
ARGH!
Worst part is I know there’s plenty of people out there who’d fall for that. I despise you so much telstra you don’t even get a capital. Damn necessary evils.
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What the hell is “tech support insurance”? Do they just stop taking your calls unless you’re paying an additional subscription fee? :\
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From what I could gather it’s basically paying a fee to get a discount on tech visits to your house if you need telstra to come and fix your computer because you keep trying to plug the network cable into the usb drive and the Bluray keeps chewing your VHS cassettes.
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I don’t think it’s even directly for telstra products. I think it’s so they can sell you telstra products for non telstra stuff. Kind of like if you paid the NRMA so when you had a flat battery and were stuck in the middle of nowhere they’d turn up and charge $150 (that’s $50 cheaper then normal!) to paint racing stripes on your car and tell you to go for a walk and find a battery place.
I might be being overly cynical there though.
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I’ve had several jobs where I’ve had to fix systems that had the telstra anti-virus and optimization software on them. The only solution.. remove the software. (suggested course of action from telstra techs lol)
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At least Telstra actually got around to connecting you to the internet at some point. Still waiting for my Cable modem to be delivered 🙁
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hopefully it’ll be worth the wait. I’d never had cable before and it’s so fast compared to my last places internet. Well, most of the time it is.
Telstra hasn’t actually been as bad as I was expecting. Just annoying. Though they did charge me for late payment when they stuffed up and wouldn’t take my money. Then when they told me they’d taken the late payment fee away I discovered what they’d actually done was charge it in smaller amounts over the next several bills. Pretty sure that’s actually illegal but they’d worn the fight out of me by then.
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Apparently someone tried to deliver a package this morning and it was carded because no one was home /o\ I bet it was the modem.
The stuff-arounds and everything have been terrible but I think in the end it’ll be worth it once I get it. My old place had poor wiring somewhere and Telstra lost their pit so couldn’t fix the issue. I’d get between 4 and 5 megabit on a router reboot but over a period of about 48-72 hours it would drop off slowly and by the time it got really noticeable it’d be down to around 2. Plus latency in MMOs and stuff would go up and up 🙁
Assuming everything works out with Cable it should be a 100mbit connection. Download all the things* \o/
* up to 500gb of things
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I should caution you that it most probably won’t be 100mb. We get about 35mb here though one of my colleges did start off getting about 70mb but that apparently dropped to 50mb when he got foxtel installed as well.
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I hear that a lot of that is because the default configuration of the router isn’t very good. But I’m aware it varies by location.
Right now though, I get no signal at all on my modem. Dunno if they just haven’t provisioned it yet or what 🙁
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Am quite ready for this week to be over. Work has been a bit crappy this week, but mainly because I want to play BioShock/Thomas was Alone/watch new Doctor Who/Game of Thrones/Walking Dead finale. Also sleep. I both love sleep and hate how necessary it is.
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Not to mention saturday is international Table Top gaming day.
This is quite an auspicious week for geeks I must say 🙂
CJ’s super fun but not really 2 hour work stint.
I missed my alarm woke up late with 15mins to get ready for work and get there (Its a 20min walk) then my nose wouldnt stop dripping. Then it embarissingly happened while serving a customer. Then I made white hot chocolate and went home able to get a lift because my mum hadnt left for work yet. Now im here. yay…
Monster Hunter online last night went…well, it didn’t go. No one could connect to the servers for some reason. I’m guessing there was server maintenance or something…
On the bright side, loaded up my save on my 3DS and was seriously impressed. The game looks and plays almost exactly the same as the Wii U version. My only gripe is that, as I don’t have a Circlepad Pro, camera controls are done with the same hand as movement which was annoying but manageable.
Oh and I think I finally decided on a weapon…loving the lance and starting to get good with it.
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Blaghs has learned how to play the bagpipes, which is something I haven’t tried yet. Contemplating learning either that or getting good at ranged and healshot so I have better group presence, rather than being just another damage dealer.
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Yeah the bagpipes are cool, was reading some stuff about them on the Monster Hunter Wiki, the horns actually look pretty complex.
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I’m pretty sure if I ever play in a group, my presence will be “runs away like a scared little girl” and “spends three hours crying in the corner.” So whatever you do, you’ll be ahead of me.
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Haha, atleast if you have the horn you can run to the corner, buff everyone, then cry. =P
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Have you ever tried to play a horn while crying? It’s a pain.
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On MHP3rd PSP — I’m using the lance at the moment, after coming off Katana and Great Sword.
It’s different, It’s nice.
I switched to the long sword last night. Not sure I’m digging it, doesn’t seem to be enough variety. Unless I just don’t know how to use it, though the manual seems to indicate there isn’t a lot to do with it. Might try the gun lance or switch axe next time I play.
Also, fuck underwater combat. That shit is awkward as fuck.
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Gunlance is interesting but I didn’t play around with the shot much. Haven’t tried the switchaxe yet.
I don’t mind the long sword, but the attacks are very centred and slow so it felt difficult to land hits…most of the time I would tap R (wide arc swing) to slow down the enemy so I could aim and get off the poke-uppercut-slam attack.
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Yeah, I find I’m spending a lot of time missing a shot, rolling, repositioning, missing, rolling, repositioning, hitting. I wouldn’t say it’s a lot of fun.
Edit: The switch axe does look interesting though. I think I’ll try that next.
From the wiki:
standing around and looking at your marvelous Switch Axe in Sword mode does little to slay your target.
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(and @bdkiaf)
I’m not sure if you know but that R move with the Longsword is its special one. You have to wait for the bar to change up so you can do more than one attack with it and if you hit the monster with the final hit of the combo it goes up a tier and does more damage 😀
Still complicated though 😛
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I haven’t looked yet, but I have a 3DSXL so not sure if that means it’d be easier or harder to find one.
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I preordered a CPP for my XL through EB – shipment didn’t rock up until yesterday lol.
However, it makes a massive difference. Makes the game relatively easier when you don’t have to fight the camera.
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You can put a d-pad panel on the touch screen, and place it on the right, so that you can use your right hand for camera and left for movement.
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GOD DAMN IT.
I knew that via the Wii U and didn’t think about doing that on the 3DS.
Cheers man 😛
Good morning TAY — Potential Bioshock spoilery if you’ve been under a rock for the last few months.
My Bioshock Infinite download finished at about 8pm last night, I also had a GPU update so I didn’t really start playing ’till about 8:30 -ish
But I’ve gotta say… That game is incredible.
Colombia is vibrant and full of life and movement, and the game play is solid. The hit-markers are annoying but I didn’t check if they could be turned off. (Maybe in 1999 mode?)
I didn’t even get up to Elizabeth’s introduction before turning the PC off. But I still felt fulfilled in my session, albeit short.
Walking around the street, enjoying the superb artistic direction, the outside world is bight and full of movement and life, and the insides of buildings, and especially where conflict is found is dark and at points, legitimately scary. It’s the good atmospheric contrast that I knew and loved in the first two games, but thought would be missing in this installment.
The music and sound is incredible too, barbershop trios singing on a ship, chatter of the NPCs, kids playing on the street. While it’s sometimes hard to hear it over the magnificent score of the game, it’s there and It’s great.
It all sucked me in… ‘Till I got sleepy.
I’m so glad this game came out pre- long weekend, because I’ll get to really sit down and play this gem.
And I also apologize to people who got the game boxed on PC, and found about the steam and the broken patching/install the hard way. 🙁
The bit where the protagonists gets the Devil’s Breath vigor, and all the skin burns/melts off his bones… I was in awe and shock.
Oh oh oh, and the three people watching the singers on the ship. The man and woman dancing, and the guy on the side with a dead look on his face. Even the NPCs have subtle stories to tell. ~~
TL;DR — Mornin’ TAY. Bioshock’s a good game, mate.
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Don’t want any spoilery info but does it follow on from bioshock 1 & 2 or reference. Considering getting it but wondering if it is worth finishing the first to or if you can just jump straight into infinite
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Bioshock Infinite’s timeline begins in 1912, 39 years before rapture opened in 1951 and the first game set in 1960.
I’d recommend playing it in the order they were released. 🙂
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All this talk of MH3U is making me want to resume playing MHTri again.
And all this Bioshock Infinite talk is making me want to start up my copy of BioShock 2.
No I’m not being nonconformist I just have debts to pay, so I’m limiting my purchases to a minimum 😛
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Well. That’s what I get for bragging about my day off and staying up super late. Just got called into work.
Several words are running through my head and most of them ultra swears.
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Sorry to hear that, man. You’re a more conscientious worker than I, but would the phrase “No, I have plans” fly?
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It would. It’s what everyone else would say. But I always feel like I’ve done something wrong when I do. 🙁
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But but but I went out and bought a Wii U and monster hunter so we could play it today :'(
YOU LIED MAN!!
Guess I’ll just have to return it and go to work myself 🙁
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So, coming along this Saturday night to spend time with your pals @sughly & myself???
And also meeting the dashing @gutsoup ?????
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OH YES!
@gutsoup and myself have invited along a fellow gamer that works for Bris31 so you and @Sughly can get into a big TV discussion while me and gutsoup sit quietly in the corner.-
D: Maybe you didn’t hear that I was an anti-social hermit. I’ll probably be hiding outside, peering through the window.
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But TV convos, I heard somewhere once you liked to partake…where was that?
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I always feel like an imposter when talking to other film/tv people. Haha.
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You’ll be fine with …FractalJester(?), he’s an odd champ.
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He’s one of those guys that you have no idea how much shit he knows cos all he talks about is old 80s movies and such.
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In the folds of your broken memories
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Is that a reference to a thing?
You know my memories shot, right?
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@jimu – no references, just my own amazing sense of humour
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*swoon*
Also, this interest you?:
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@jimu – nehhh. Snes Harvest Moon is the only Harvest Moon
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Oh, OK. Never interested in any of the newer ones?
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@jimu – nope. Tried them, I reckon they always miss the point of the snes one. They make it too convoluted, they need to streamline it more. And have unlimited time at night. Do any of the newer ones do that? Caus that shit is necessary.
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I’ve never even played one
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@jimu – get the snes one on emulation and become amazed. Sooooo good. So so good. Also I love that this is still going, its like our own little corner of the internet 😀
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Ha ha! I keep forgetting and coming back and being all “what the…oooooooh, riiiight THAT convo”
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Could be better. Family still fighting amongst themselves, girlfriend having issues getting a job and running low on money to be able to keep going with her studies, having to work late on some nights due to problems that need to be fixed urgently, and I’m seeing people I care about badmouthing the company I work for and with good reason… not much reason to feel good at all today tbh…
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It’s one of those days that are happening more frequently now, that I go back into heavy depression mode and think to myself “What the frack am I doing all this for, and why?” This is kind of why I’ve been avoiding TAY commenting, not just cuz I’ve been busy with work
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I’ve been feeling kind of down lately too, man. It’s not good…
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Haha, think I’ll give the list a break this week. Just play games and lots of ’em. (Or just BioShock.)
Finally got into Dark Souls last night! It stuffed around so much with “downloading profile” for Microsoft Live and other rubbish that in the end I only had ten minutes to play, which consisted of me getting to the first bonfire. Looks awesome and really like how it controls.
I really hate the way gaming is going these days though. Every mofo wants you to have some ridiculous profile of some sort with them, or for you to download their ridiculous store. Ridiculous.
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PS3 copy makes no such demands. Put it in and play. If connected to Internet everything just works without any effort at all.
Clearly the superior platform.
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Yes, graphics is where it’s at (says the guy who can’t handle the hazy visuals of Xenobladder)
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Maybe I should rephrase that, it has no difference on how the game looks, but in how the game feels.
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Or have I been confusing the word frame all these years?
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BTW, pal. You coming along this saturday?
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Yeah but that doesn’t really make the picture LOOK better (like say in the extreme case of a HD texture pack) it makes the game feel smoother. I think your Xenoblade comment kinda knocked my off what you really meant.
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Where’s it all happening? Don’t want to be out too late on account of I will probably get stabbed on the Beenleigh line.
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1st, They are both visual things. Sure they are different but end of the day, it all happens through the eyes.
2nd, Cyber City for a start (same as Dan!s karaoke night) and then either Mana Bar or Karaoke depending on votes.
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Yeah, you’re right man, as I said your Xenobladder comment knocked me off track. Also, not to sure about going to the city for dinner, I usually enjoy sharp instruments on the outside of my body.
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Sharp instruments? I don’t understand
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Beenleigh train line isn’t the safest of train lines.
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You know what I mean. Visuals, you pedantic, crunt!
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You know it.
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Oh reeeeeeeeeeeeeally? *seductive eyes*
All jokes aside I think this is a pretty legitimate argument against PC gaming. At least consoles severely reduce the bloated obstacles to allow you to play a game.
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It’s getting to be not so these days.
Every time I spark up my second hand copy of Dead Space 2 it takes way too long to contact the server only to realise I don’t have an account and then prompt me to give them money.Easy fix is to leave the internet off when I play, I know.
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Also with the coming PS4 always online thing, I feel that consoles will become just as bloated as PC’s
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Yeah I guess I remember something like this everytime I turned on ME3. But it wasn’t TOO bad, as it was always fairly quick.
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The last few times I’ve fired up an xbox / ps3 game, the system and title updates it drags through makes me think it would have been easier on PC.
I am being Vita-spoilt this year! 😀
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Shop around. Look for a special. I managed to get mine for $250 with a 4GB mem stick and little big planet Vita.
I’ve seen them as cheap as $200, these are of course WiFi versions. Personally I wouldn’t bother with 3G, don’t see the point.(BTW I have a 4GB mem stick and a code for a downloadable Little big Planet Vita for sale…CHEAP!)
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how much u want for mem stick?
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Dunno, we’ll work summin out though 🙂
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BTW, you’re still “borrowing” my 1BG PSP stick… 🙂
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I was trying to work out how to combine “Et tu, Brute?” and “Too much” but it reads really awkwardly.
#ShakespeareanTragedy
(Edit) – Reply fail~~
Something to talk about… Hmm, Okay!
Legend of Grimrock 2.
Loved the first game, anyone excited for the 2nd installment?
I think it’s hard to improve on something that’s so great already…
Anyone want a bleach wall scroll? I have two, one from the first season and one from the second. The one from the first season part of the plastic down the bottom is broken.
anyone want it?
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I friggin love Bleach, and I don’t care what anyone says about that!
I am actually in love with Rukia though. In that I would marry her if she was real. Also she kinda looks like my wife when i met her when she was 17….
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I used to, but i got fed up with the fillers.
I’m not sure if i can send the wall scroll through the post, but i’ll have to heck, if so, want it?
One has Rukia in her school uniform and the other with her in the white kimono-
OMG Rukia wall scroll?
OMG when Mrs realises I have fantasies about anime girls (who am I kinding, she already knows).
BTW I watched the anime and I didn’t mind filler because I didn’t know any better. But now I’m really enjoying the manga (where’s chapter 531, Kubo?)
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She knows from all the love pillow cases with strategic holes you kept making her put over herself at private time?
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Did you know love pillows are actually quite expensive?
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They had a Link cuddle / love pillow at my closest Game Traders.
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How do you know this? ;D
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When i dressed up as Madoka the stall ownr wanted a photo of me with the love pillow of the same character. I saw how much they were and so was very careful with it
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Both feature rukia and Ichigo. sorry to make it sound like they were both just rukia
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You mean the anime? Because I’m rocking the manga atm (up to abut chapter 450) and loving it!
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Yeah, anime. So much damn filler! I should probably switch to the Manga.
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Its really good!
I haven’t even watched the anime (apart from the odd episode here or there). Basically when Bleach anime ended I started reading the manga from where it left off. A guy at work was like ‘oh you are reading Bleach? You shoudl read Naruto too”. So i did and loved it. I only started a few months ago and as I said I’m 450 chapters in, so it has been quite addictive.
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I recently caught up on Naruto Shippuuden from about ep 30 through to 297 or so (probably more out now but I have no internet) and I found a guide someone had written that explained which eps were filler. Just skipped all the filler bits. Much more enjoyable.
I have so far overslept every day this week. Fortunately I was only late by five minutes on Monday and have made it in at my usual time yesterday and today, but I can’t understand why I’ve been completely sleeping through my alarms.
I should probably try going to bed earlier.
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Yeah, I used to do that. Needed one of those screeching demon of hell alarms.
But even then I would just incorporate it into my dream, often it was a truck reversing.
Then there was the period where I would switch it off, go back to sleep because I was so tired and at the time I was sure I’d get back up soon.Then I had a son.
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I’ve got a talking alarm. It’s the only kind of alarm guaranteed to wake me.
“It’s time to get up. The time is 6:20
“It’s time to get up. The time is 6:20
“It’s time to get up. The time is 6:20…”-
My alarm this week has been my wife noticing I’m still in bed when she gets back from the bathroom at 7:10am. If she didn’t pee like clockwork at the same time every morning I’d be completely screwed.
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Oh wow, Canberra is the FUTURE :p
I’ve actually set mine to radio so it doesn’t wake the wife.
I have it on a station where a woman tells some kind of stories.
At 445 in th AM, a woman suddenly telling a story is surreal and freaks me the fuck out.I wake up quicksmart.
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My phone (though currently its primary purpose is clock/alarm) is over a decade old. The future is yesterday in Canberra.
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Ok check this rad night:
1) Finally realise how to use harmony chains properly in Eternal Sonata – damage output increases by like 500 % (in my defence, i bought it 2nd hand sans manual, and they don’t give you heaps of guidance in game),
2) Couldn’t sleep so stayed up and all these TAY people couldn’t sleep either so it was like a support group,
3) Mrs couldn’t sleep either so when she got bored of her ipad um ere surprise sexy time
4) Get an email at like 1 am from book depository saying my copy of Hyrule Historia has shipped.
I hope I have more sleepless nights if they all turn out that good ^_^
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I had that spoiler the other night!!! So was not expecting!
Surprise sexy times are the best sexy times
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“Awaiting stock”
Still… Better than the “special order” status yesterday that basically translated to might never get it.-
I processed 3/4 of the transaction and mine said it was in stock…maybe there was one and it was taken, or something 😐
In the mean time, I’m gunna try out the touch D-pad for MH3U and see how that goes.
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I’ve always had trouble with JB online with shipping things. Took like a month for me to receive some DVDs I ordered.
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I’ve never understood the complaints about the Playstation controllers. I feel really strange and awkward trying to use an Xbox one, the PS ones just feel right.
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Given I’ve been using PS controllers since I was 12, I don’t get it either.
Only thing that threw me off about the PS3 controller is that it’s lighter than the PS2 one.
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I’ve been playing various Sony consoles since somewhere around 10 and I never really liked the controllers…didn’t help that the first side-by-side comparison was the N64. I loved that controller!
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N64 is my benchmark for controllers too \o/
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I loved the N64 controllers but have bad memories with them.
Those Mario Party games …
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me and @jimu used to get blistered palms from Mario Party mini games on the 64, especially that wind up shy guy, we kept competing and wrecking our hands.
* Loved 64 controller, really like ps controls, Xbox controls are made for some kind of amorphous blob with elasticated hands, IMO they are just awefull
One thing i did find a little troubling with 64 controls was the skin tray under the analog stick, that thing always filled up with bits of people
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I loved the N64 controller. Except for the analog stick. Fuck that thing. Every one I’ve owned went all loose and horrible.
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you needed to open them up every couple of months and realign the bits, I had really wobbly analogs till i worked that out, but putting the analog back together was a bitch, and the skin tray was disgusting
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I replaced all my sticks a few years ago and treat them with respect these days. They’re much better now 😛
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I got major horrible hand-twitching thumb cramps playing Demon’s Souls on the PS3 because of the PS3 controller. Too damn small for my strapping manly hands.
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See, that’s what I always hear, but I have reasonably large hands. I guess it’s just that I’ve used the Playstation controllers for around 7 years now. I’m used to it.
I find the PS controller too light after using the 360 one. I also fine the triggers a bit awkward. I suspect it has more to do with what you are used to. I’m going to have to get use to PS controls soon anyway becuase no way I’m missing this: http://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2013/11/1363248926-dragon-s-crwon-sorceress.jpg
(NSFW)
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I don’t think it’s possible to miss that.
At least, not if you’ve got, like, hormones and such
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I think the actual game looks amazing
(if anyone cares)
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game?
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Or you serious? If so Dragon’s Crown for PS3 & Vita
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Nah i was just being silly, I know of the game
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Thanks for the warning.
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sorry!
Why? Do you work with pansies?
j/k sorry I shoudl have tagged it – fixed?
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Man I would like a Vita… for Virtue’s Last Reward! I reckon Dragon’s Crown would look best on the big screen (you know, to fit it all in).
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C’moooon, maaan. JOIN USSSSSSSSSSSssss.
There’s all sorts of JRPG love to be had.
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I want PS3 for Valkyria Chronicles, Vita for VLR, 3DS for Fire Emblem and Wii U for Yoshi’s Epic Yarn… what to do??
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PS3 prolly has more shit than all of them combined.
There’s a tonne of less famous JRPGs.Vita has the JRPG power and portability. (heaps of cool shit on the PSN form PSP&PSone too)
3DS has Pokemon. (pokemon is a pretty big fucking deal)
Wii U…hasn’t impressed me yet. One day there’ll be a game for me, but that day is not today.
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Upvote for Valkyria Chronicles :D. It was a placeholder till i got XCOM. Also it’s a shame the Valkyria sequels were psp only 🙁
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@gutsoup – Selvaria Bles is my son’s step mum. I can’t post here how/ why 🙁
PS the sum total of my VC experience is the anime. I really loved the anime though. Cried hard when
Isara died.
I prefer PS controllers but I can use a 360 controller fine.
I started playing on Master System & NES, I own a Dreamcast, it’s all a step up really.
Broke my new game moratorium by trading in the copy of Aliens: Colonial Marines that I won from Kotaku. Got me some Dishonoured. It’s really pretty, but I’ve not quite got the mechanics down yet.
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I’ve got blink, but I perhaps stupidly spent my early upgrades on more health as I kept dying. I’m gonna upgrade it next
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Broke my new game moratorium by trading in the copy of Aliens: Colonial Marines that I won
That doesn’t count Brother, because @markserrels gave you a new game and you just magically transformed it into another new game.
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If he’d sent me the right ver, I wouldn’t have bothered, but he sent me the XBOX one.
As I said yesterday, probably a blessing in disguise.
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#winning
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Nuts! But @dc probably doesn’t want to see anything about it, so make sure you don’t spoil it for him ok?
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It’s alright, it’s not really an adventure game. (Also I looked at the Double Fine Adventure last night in a moment of weakness. :P)
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And what did you think? I think it loks great btw, although i’ve only seen that cover page with the title. I’m going to take a leaf out fo your book and avoid all media on the topic where possible, pending arrival fo the full product.
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That’s the only thing I’ve seen too. Didn’t watch the gameplay footage or any thing. Just the screenshot. I’m psyched. I would’ve been psyched no matter what, I suspect. 😀
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I can’t believe it’s not also on Vita, doesn’t look that taxing. Sony need to sort their shit out!
(they have a HEAP of indie games coming, I just like to whinge)
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loops effect
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it’s a pic of me, so not porn, don’t think @jimu finds me attractive 🙁
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Awww mannnnn… That is super crap!!!
It’s times like that where you’d murder those who made you have to work were it not for the fact that you’d need to work more to fill their shift.
Damn catch 22s…
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It’s a decent job, and a change of the industry I’m supporting. The people are lovely, and helping me through the amount of learning I am doing. It’s a little amazing and I feel so out of my depth. but its kool. I’ll get there.
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…run.
*deep breath*
RUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-
Foxtel have run out of good things this week. List momentum has stopped. *shakes fist* I see all the great movies repeated that I’ve already seen. This must be how Sughly feels. (Having seen everything ever made ever. :P)
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Having the pretzels I made and froze last week, put them in the oven with pepperoni and cheese on them to turn them into brunch. \o/
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You too,could be eating like this! Grab some pretzels from King Of Cakes(or learn how to make them: http://www.theoktoberfest.com/HTML/pretzel/index.html ), fill your freezer with them and take one out when you need to eat something awesome.
Sprinkle them with water and put in an oven at 180 for 5 minutes. Or cover with pepperoni slices and cheese before doing the same. Simple.
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I hate how people don’t care about spoiling stuff like this. The gameplay is fun, but the thing that keeps me pressing on is story, world and character. People should respect that.
Someone I know has been randomly mentioning plot points every time they encounter them, even little touches of detail. The person’s awesome, just a little oblivious that they might be killing surprises. D: (I’m ahead of them, so it’s nothing I don’t know… just would be riled up if I hadn’t encountered that stuff yet.)
Someone on the 2K forum spoiled BioShock 1 for me days before I even had the game. :'(
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Without spoiling DC, would you recommend playing through the first 2 bioshock games before starting infinite, or are they totally separate worlds that don’t reference each other
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I’ve not got infinite, but I’ll just say this: Play through Bioshock 1 because it’s great.
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yeah, it’s on my go back and finish list. Might stick to my don’t buy new games if you haven’t finished the previous games pledge. if the worst that comes of that is I finish bioshock then I am a long way in front
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I coudln’t finsih it because
the invisible enemies freaked me out.
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I don’t think it would matter, to be honest. Feels pretty standalone. (That could change.) There’s thematic connections and some parallels, but it seems like it’s doing its own thing. You should play those other two eventually though!
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I’m not sure when I’ll be able to get Infinite. Knowing my level of intolerance to spoilers, is there anyone on Twitter I should avoid for now? Considering avoiding McGarnical because I saw this morning the he was posting spoilery stuff.
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Well, he is the worst person on this site.
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I saw Aidan was talking BioShock stuff. (I notice he does it with TV shows too. Mentions vague plot points then puts a hashtag for what he’s talking about. Haha!) Beardy mentioned something spoilery last night too, but no one is doing it maliciously and nothing major at all from those guys. It’s just excitement. I’ve been tempted to post similar things. No need to unfollow any of those guys.
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Dunno, haven’t seen it, and cheers for the heads up. I won’t be going to the main page for the rest of today.
I get a strange ‘we’ve spoiled things for people on new release games so much we need to cover it up um yeah you get spoiled sometimes so what bro?’ defensive vibe from that article.
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I got the same feeling from reading the title. To me the title just says “yeah, we spoiled the game. UMADBRO?”.
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Not even going to read it, but if thats seriously the vibe its giving then screw them. Really, truly, screw them. That just pisses me off. I assumed they would learn from everyone complaining, but evidently they are less mature than my 9 year old son.
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I haven’t read the article but I can only assume that they are going to be say “Your life is so much better now that we ruined the game for you”. Just because the (putting it nicely) twats don’t understand what god damn spoilers are.
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No, it’s about one of the writers complaining that they’d been spoiled at the 11th hour before playing Bioshock Infinite (ironically, by a Kotaku commenter whose comment was then deleted O_o). Played through the game with a sense of anxiety, waiting for this spoiler to come true, but still had fun, so it was all right in the end.
Can’t help but feel it missed the point, just a little. Like, what it might have been like to play the game without that anxiety :\
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I read a title a day or so ago that looked so blatantly spoilerish that I just assumed that it wasn’t real. Now that I’ve seen an article trying to make up for a spoiler I now think what I read is real, so that is the spoiler for me.
Oh god there are strrange men outside my house! They have bright fluro jackets and are cutting up a tree. The also partially brought my rubbish bin in… This might be my last message before I dissapear
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No but they left the severed limbs of the tree on the ground and now different men are here and eating them
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Nah but I went to bring the bin in proper and Tomb Raider was in the mail
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Then I think you owe them an apology for doubting them
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They know that I know they exist!
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Tree bandits? I don’t know who they are … I mean, what are tree bandits?
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hmpf I have my own cool inside jokes :'(
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It was kind of random anyway. I was complaining about nt being able to mow under the tree on our nature strip
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So I get to work and the guy who had called in sick decided to come in anyway. He thinks he might go home later so the area manager wants me to stay here anyway just in case.
Ultra swears don’t even come close to describing my current mood.
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See @greenius? I don’t hate everything that comes out of Japan! 😛
So damn pretty looking too! I like when a character goes under shelter they disappear until they’re back in the rain again.
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Yeah, interesting mechanic. That video became extremely boring though when the person playing decided they needed to run around knocking over every single object in the corridor to make a point of it though -_-
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http://staging.kotaku.com.au/2013/03/pax-australia-is-now-completely-sold-out/
PAX is sold out. PAX North isn’t, though! 😀
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Still our keynote speaker, Sughly? (Just involves talking about adventure games with me from time-to-time. :P)
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Oh man, PAX North sounds awfully tempting. Who has PAX Australia got? Ron Gilbert? Pfft! What does that guy know about adventure games?
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I’m sure he’ll quit halfway through his speech too. 😛
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That gif was good, but not @notoriousr good.
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@redartifice
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Oh man, he linked a gif the other day of Frodo/Sam hugging after we had stuff in common. Made me laugh!
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Dont ya just hate it when your trying to swallow pills and you stuff it up and they start dissolving in your mouth
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No, noodles where its half in your mouth and half down your throat and you dont know if you should try and swallow it or pull it back out
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Oh god, yup. So horrible when you pull the noodle out it feels like you are throwing up (except for the horrible burning).
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Better
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You get a new found appreciation for life everytime you survive though! XD
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Always look on the bright side of life…. *whistles*
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Stuff :
Pre loaded Bioshock Infinite on Monday, got home last night to give it a go and…. no play button in steam. only a Install one. but what about the 14 GB that took 5 hours to do the day before Steam, huh? damn. So no Bioshock last night. downloaded it again & played Terraria some more.
My flatmate got bored of vanilla terraria so we decided to mod it a bit. now we have a dynamite variant that blows up an area the size of the screen, a pet zombie that hangs around our house, and I’m trying to make a weapon that turns bunnies & goldfish into suicide bombers.
/stuff
hows things with you lot?
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You seem to have bad luck when it comes to pre-loading/downloading games. 🙁
Hope you’re well, man?
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its not that bad. we’ve got an unlimited downloads plan, so thats not a problem & I’ve got many, many other things that I can be playing in the meantime. I just thought it was odd.
I’m well enough, thanks. pretty hype for the long weekend.
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Back when TAY had a server I accidentally typed it wrong and stumbled upon another server.
Another friend joined in and started blowing up their stuff and I was all D: but then I was all >:D and stole their stuff 😛
I should probably look into booking flights and accommodation for PAX Aus sometime soon, I think.
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Road trip anyone? 😛
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If interstate folks come to PAX North, I’ll let you sleep in my shed! (*might not be my shed, could be random house.)
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Yeah me too…
Yeah, i know i live in geelong, but i’m pretty sure i’ll have to pay to get back into the house with how late i’ll be getting back
Odd question – can I purchase distilled or deionized water from the supermarket? Need it to prep my cooling system.
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I do it all the time. To make sure woolies has sticky date and caramel hot cross buns instock, for instance.
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caramel hot cross buns
WHAT!?
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I read that as demonized water.
I think holy water would work better, seeing as though demons are usually associated with hell and heat 😛-
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you just reminded me of something someone told me when I was a kid.
hell is described as having lakes of molten sulphur. that puts an upper & lower limit on the temperature of hell. higher than 115 degrees, or the suphur wont melt, and lower than 444 degrees, otherwise the sulphur would boil & evaporate.
theres a description of heaven saying that the suns rays shine 4-fold brighter. using 20 degrees as an average, the temperature in heaven is supposedly about 320 degrees.
so yeah. neither would be what I’d describe as comfortable.
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I saw something like that as well. But think it was a different verse used, something about be lit with the light of 100 suns or something similar. Think the calculation had heaven at 4 times the temperature of hell.
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yeah, I must admit I was 5 or so at the time, so I cant remember specifics. I just know that it wasnt a great comparison.
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I dunno, you wouldn’t want to put holy water into the cooling system of a server. It’d kill all the daemons.
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@tigerion, the video you linked comes to mind here.
Dads use brainwash.
It’s incredibly effective.
TAY is stunned.
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All it takes is time and a bit of persistence
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pretty sure I’ve seen distilled water in woolworths in the cleaning section. Also some chemists should stock it too.
Edit: alternatively, you can make your own, which is pretty simple & cheap.
Pretty sure you can man. You are meant to use deionised water in your iron so it’s a pretty standard item.
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if in doubt check, supercheap auto or autobarn etc, they usually have that water
*contemplating how one would make demonised water, would you need a satanic priest to unbless it, or maybe a seance around a big jug of water would do it, also if holy water burns demons does demonised water burn religious folk?*
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Going to have a quick whine.
Half of the office is away either on holiday or sick, I’ve got a big site setup I’m doing remotely for the new nursecall system at a new hospital as well. It’s tedious and fiddly as shit. In response, I seem to have developed a titanic headache that drugs do not seem to affect. Can’t bail at all, cos no one’s here and I’m the one 2/3 of the way through this project, and can’t hand it over.
Hngh.
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Are you sure about that? I think the opposite is probably true. But then, less is more, so who really knows, these days?
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“Damn, nosy little pup! You get down here and take your medicine.”
Jack Torrance had anger management issues. :'(
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I’m gonna have a quick WINE
*runs windows stuff on unix*
and with that, my horrible jokes are done for the day.
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go ahead. it’d be perfectly justified.
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*fingers crossed* for P4G arriving today.
Everyone hold hands and prey with me now
(yes PREY, and I dunno, hold your own goddam hand)
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I was really pissed off about this last night. I had to kill a bunch of corpses and stamp them a lot to calm down. I even got a trophy for my corpse stamping. That was nice.
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You shouldnt be pissed off about ynefel’s loins quivering. Just dont look straight at it and you’ll be ok.
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I think the ‘last night’ bit just cemented the double entendre.
I do like that the quivering of my loins drove a person to stamp corpses to calm down.
This way, ladies.
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The old biddy that handed me the trophy was suprisingly calm
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Welp, today is chock full of boredom. The data centre that houses the ISP for work kind of went down an hour ago and hasn’t come back up, I can’t access any of the systems/websites and I have nothing to do. On the plus side, I did get paid early because of the public holidays … what are the chances I could run into jb hifi and grab bioshock infinite before everything comes back up?
1.Managed to force an answer out of the guy and I’m heading home.
2. I do not like the new google image search at all. Used to be you could just get a link to the picture itself. Now it just redirects you to the site. Why does google seem intent to strip all their features out?
3. The iPhone will automatically capitalise pretty much every company and brand name but won’t for google.
4. My closest friends wife has just gone into labour. More babies. Babies everywhere.
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Cigars all round!
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Should we take him prisoner like that clip @tigerion linked?
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Totally!
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HOME
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Hunt those monsters!
And then play some games.
PS: The Google Nexus capitalises iPad and iPod. It’s far more courteous 🙂
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Pour Some Sugar on Me – Def Leppard
Actually, nope, just changed to
Ducks Don’t Need Satellites – Kate Miller Heidke
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Excellent song choice mr Shane 🙂
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I’d guess that it’s because people use google as a verb more often than a noun? (verb being uncapitalised.)
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Or Apple are a deeply discourteous company with nothing but disdain for the non-Apple world.
Which is more likely? The logical answer, or the Apple answer? 😛
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1. YES!
2. I just tested Google image search and it did the same thing it always did: gave me a choice if I wanted to view the full image or move on to the site. O_o
3. I have an android and it sux 36 crazy dix cos it’s a tad old (no xbox smartglass for me)
4. Babies are awesome
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It’s so true. There’s no baby like your own baby.
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I just tested Google image search
May i guess that your test search was ‘girls of persona 4’??
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Nah, went with Evangelion.
I was tempted to do searches of anime ladies I’ve fallen for and post them here for you.-
You know what would be cool? New ‘conversation’, taking it in turns posting past anime loves….
Also, damn this wait for DVD rip of rebuild 3.0 🙁
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I’m waiting til they’re all done before I even start
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I’m doing them as they go. Thought I wouldn’t like ‘rebuild’ of such an influential anime, but sufficient time has past that I’m really enjoying the new take.
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Except for superfluous characters that completely diminish crucial character developments from the series and are there for apparent fanservice and to sell toys -_-
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But then you dont get to see them at the cinema. Eva at the cinema is amaaaaazing.
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Too depressing to go to the cinema alone 🙁
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@ash – not for eva its not! 😀
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DVD? More like BD.
I wonder if they’ll tweak stuff compared to the theatrical release again.
BEEDEE! Only way to go, especially so with animation. Even more especially so with Eva.
Yeah sorry, that’s what I meant.
Just saw my uni friend tweet about your high school friend having a baby. It’s all mixing together! D:
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Orly?
You never forget your first…..
http://www.picanese.com/pics/416ff8708cbf8769328049bb86c50cdf.gif
must be something about girls starting with ‘M’.
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Hard to find a decent picture of her, but I really liked Saya from Black Cat
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v322/goodbyetracyblogpics/saya.jpg-
Oooh, I’ve never seen that one!
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Apparently the manga is better, but I haevn’t gotten aorund to reading it. Got the anime box set though – the good old fashioned box set not these new fangled fatpacks :S
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YES! Big fat anime box sets are the best
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Impossible to watch this and not want to race off to see the whole series again https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJ6Nmw5S7HA
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Eva intro
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http://i1106.photobucket.com/albums/h364/ACEontheAGB/RyokoHakubi.jpg
I gotta go to lunch
To be continued! 😀
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Loved that OVA for this. Too bad it was painfully short 🙁
….and I just now discovered that there was more than the first run of episodes made, so now I know what I’ll be watching later today! To celebrate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmwVt_OU8Yo
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It gets crap after the first two seasons. Too much romance, not enough romance&fantasy
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Stick with first two, got it. I only saw the first 6 eps I think, which… is maybe season 1 of the ova? *shrugs*
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Yeah, after thaem they do movies which @gutsoup owns. He may tell you otherwise, but I am not keen.
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The movies are a bit shit, but the 3 series I’ve got aren’t bad, the middle one where Tench goes to Tokyo drags on a bit, it’s like 7 hours worth I think. 1st series is Best.
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This is a great game @jimu!
I offer waifu # 3:
http://images6.fanpop.com/image/photos/33200000/usuitakumi77-inuyasha-33205540-1024-768.jpg
I would participate if I wasn’t at work 🙁
EDIT: I guess I could just tell you instead of posting pics
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No, you gotta post pictures!
I’m at work and getting some pretty weird looks actually.
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Time to zip up, then.
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I can’t post pictures and I can’t participate from home T_T.
I shall have to be content with keeping the knowledge that my waifus > your waifus to myself.
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my waifus > your waifus
i don’t see it this way, I see it as we aren’t competing for the affections of the same girl(s). We wouldn’t want girls to come between friends, would we?
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Your logic is inescapable.
Two professional questions for TAY. One for each of my careers.
1) I’ve (kind of stupidly) taken on some work that was originally to be parcelled out among my team. I can get it done in the next hour or so. Should I submit it then and wow my boss with my speed, or should I hold onto the near-complete version and send it in at home time and buggerise around the rest of the day?
(Bearing in mind that getting it all done in one day is probably still going to earn me credit, so I’m leaning towards the second option.)
2) The release date for a certain set of ebooks is almost a month past, and there are only three days before the release date for an omnibus edition of print books becomes overdue. And there’s meant to be a brand new book being released next month. At what point does it become acceptable to start hassling about lapsed ‘deadlines’? I’ve had to chase up these guys before, and it’s never fun.
(Bearing in mind that a) the publishing schedule isn’t mine and b) this is a long-established pattern of behaviour on their part, and c) that I secretly suspect that if I do nothing, things might never happen.)
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1) Second option! If you wow your boss they will expect it from you from then on. It’s the philosophy that got me through school. Aim for average because then no one will expect things from you. \o/
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1) Hold it for the end of the day, otherwise he will expect a super short turnaround every time,
2) Just touch base and see what the hold up is, so there can be a gradual escalation of pressure on them from your end.
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2) Yeah, I know that’s the right way. My tried-and-true template goes “Is there anything you need from me for this?” and usually gets things moving a little bit. I think everyone knows what it’s code for, though, so I hate using it too often 😛
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1) take as long as possible. if you’re too good, you’ll set your bosses’ expectations too high & make things difficult for yourself in the future.
2) for the certain set of books, being a month overdue is a bit dumb if the collected version is due out soon. a quick call to see if theres been any problems / changes of plan would be perfectly acceptable.
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You’re a bad person 😛
Get in contact with them ASAP, be polite, and ask what’s been holding it up. Progressively get more pushy. Find out where they live and set their house on fire. Egg their cars. Don’t listen to all of my advice.
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Just go straight to egging their cars.
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1) Scream “No YOU do this!” then dramatically throw the paper in their face. Disappear in a puff of smoke.
2) Start your own competing publisher. With hookers. And blackjack.
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Question for Wii U people:
Now that it’s been out for a while, is the Premium console actually worth it?
Does the extra storage space get used? Are the stands worthwhile? Is that just the Wii sensor bar? Does anyone find the 10% off on the eShop useful?
Genuinely curious now that retailers are starting to bundle games with everything.
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I would say go for the premium console if you can afford it. A lot of space will be used for downloadable games and stuff like that. Saves the hassle of having to get an external HD down the track.
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Who would buy downloadable anything from Nintendo when they can’t get basic things like hardware stability or internet infrastructure correct?
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So from what I understand, the unspecified premium membership thingy at launch has just become 10% off on the eshop until end 2014. Is that correct?
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As far as I know. I don’t have a Wii U and if I did get one I probably wouldn’t get the premium as I feel it doesn’t offer much.
EDIT: I’d rather use the difference on games. Except the system doesn’t have those. #shakespeareancomedy
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Storage has and will be useful in the future, but more importantly the price difference is the cost of Nintendoland, and that game is awesome.
I still wish I could have bought a Premium in white at launch, though.
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Black Wii U is sexier but totally shows every single finger print and particle of dust that has ever graced its surface… >:(
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Isn’t the storage it offers fairly meager anyway? If you really need storage you’re going to be plugging in an external drive.
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That’s one of the things I’m interested in, 8GB vs 32GB, and wondering how much people have actually used so far.
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I’ve used barely anything, but I expect that to change once some games start requiring installs
(I believe LEGO City has to be installed to HDD)EDIT: Scratch that, I was looking at the digital copy, not retail 😛
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I’m happy I bought the premium. I wanted it in black anyway, plus the 32gb comes in handy. But if you’re going to go pure digital or buy more than 2 or 3 games digitally, you’ll need an external hard drive though.
I have 3 digital games on there because they were on sale, but the rest of my games are retail.
TL:DR – Premium is great if you want it in black and a bit of extra storage, but 32gb will hardly see you through for the foreseeable future.
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Cool. That’s pretty much what I was after – storage handy but not an all encompassing solution, plus black, plus nintendoland.
Things to take into consideration.Thank you everyone.
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The only worthwhile advantage of the Premium is the storage space, for me. The gamepad stand/charger comes in handy though.
The extra stuff is good to have, but I could live without it 😛 I dunno, it’s up to you.
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No real difference.
The extra storage space is nice but 32GB isn’t too big and you’d probably want to use an external drive anyway. I haven’t bought a single thing on the eShop (mainly because I don’t usually buy them and I’m not keen on Nintendo’s shitty ‘account’ system) but it’s good for demos I guess :P.
I like the stands but can live without them (I use the gamepad stand and charging dock).
The 10% off is pretty bad since everything is so damn expensive but I haven’t bought anything and don’t really plan to (except for maybe future 30 cent Virtual Console games I guess, but I think you need to spend $80 minimum to get the 10%).
Black is a nice colour but fingerprints show up really easily :(. I guess I prefer it over the white as the white looks a bit more cheap.
Before Monster Hunter I only had Nintendo Land and NSMB. U and I liked Nintendo Land a lot more. It’s surprisingly good for what its worth and there’s a decent amount of content in there unlike other party games. Stuff to unlock, things to do in singleplayer etc.
So with all those things considered it pretty much makes the difference in price between the two consoles and to me buying a Premium or buying the Basic and all the extra stuff is pretty much going to cost the same, or less if you skip some things (if you don’t want Nintendo Land for example).
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If you were curious about the Wii U Pro Controller for MH, you might as well just use the Wii CPP :). I’m sure most games that use the Wii U Pro controller will work with the Wii one anyway and that doesn’t have weird analog stick placement… 😛
Gamepad battery still sucks though and you can’t turn it off without turning off the console… ugh. Mine just sits there doing nothing and has died so many times while I’m playing MH using a CPP 😛
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Yeah but it still sits there flashing its blue light brighter and brighter before going orange and then blinking in my face as it dies >:(
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Does the wii u stop functioning when it dies?
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Nope, it all works fine but it’s just annoying.
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@spaghett style last song played game. Hairspray Queen – Nirvana.
@sughly style answer – I don’t listen to bands because if I do that’s at least one person listening to them and that’s too mainstream for me.
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The Riot – Little Hands Grasping
also, that was a hard video to find. but then again, they were a tiny unsigned band who released one album of demos before they split. pretty damn awesome though.
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You guys should have a listen, you might actually like it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAzR__Qdi1s
Its an album she wrote thats mostly instrumental, as a kind of homage to some of the film composers around in the 70’s, like the guy who did Polanski’s films. Very cool stuff.
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Oh wow. Really cool. Sounds like something you’d hear in the soundtrack of a Tarantino film.
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I know right!
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The friend of mine who’s having the baby today brought me tickets to see them in a month or two. Stoked.
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I saw them last time they toured early…. last year? May have been early the year before. They were amazing, Such a tight performance, the guys were clearly enjoying themselves too. I love that they’ve been a round for a long time now, and they’re still great to see. Every time.
EDIT : Supposed to be a Sughly/Freeze reply. You get the idea.
I only really get computer access during my lunch breaks since my replacement started. This means that I’m the IT guy and I don’t have a work computer.
Suffice to say, this is a bit odd.
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Yep, there has been enough interest that it is definitely going ahead
I’ll post some stuff later today once I get through this current chunk of work I need to finish
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Loves of all time, neg. ALL TIME. (you could post Astro boy if you were into that sort of thing) :p
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I just left a meeting to post this. This is because anime girls are one of the most important things in my life. Certainly they hold a greater place in my heart than work.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ePi1_NwHC04/S-Z7Ma-V4nI/AAAAAAAAA8s/iE7OSVcEmAQ/s1600/belldandy+10.jpg
^^She’s such a goddess-
I never really could get into AMG. Lack of tension mainly. Of Fujishima’s works I vastly prefer You’re Under Arrest.
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The YUA movie is brilliant. So is the rest of it.
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YUA? Rest of?
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YUA has two OVA series and three TV series in addition to the movie.
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What does YUA stand for…I’m lost.
We were chatting about Ah My Goddess right?
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I seriously love AMG, but mostly for Belldandy. Also, it is a light hearted anime so sometimes oyu need a change of pace. I will note I have the seaosn 1 box set. Got seaosn 2 on disk too, but by the time I bought it they had moved to fatpacks – woe is me!
As fun as this waifu thread is, if I really had to pick one it would probably be Belldandy – she’s just so sweet! Some people have critisised the character for being somewhat of a ‘stepford wife’, but I don’t think she gets pushed around. She just loves making people happy.
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… maybe? It’s pretty different. Light, enjoyable comedy series where the lead characters are a pair of policewomen. It’s been around for ages, he started writing the manga before AMG.
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Sounds good to me! I’m always keen to try something new.
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What detail 😀
(how come you can post that but not random google search pics?)
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Copypasta from Google Reader
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Whooaaaa… thats amazing! I wish there was something like that for a show I like 🙁
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Watch Ah! My Goddess, problem solved :p
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But I trieeeeed, didnt like it.
Want!
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Yes, but I’m being honest, I was keen.
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You sick bastard 😛
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When I was 12, a snake coming out of a hoohah was the best thing EVER!
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My first was probably Yohko from The Fantastic Adventure of Yohko, but I can’t really remember it that well any more as it’s been probably fifteen years or more since I last saw it and it was before I really got into anime. Must get around to watching it again some day.
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Cute!
I’m nearing the end of my list.
I have a sassy one for you here: http://api.ning.com/files/QcwIRNmC2evbaoI9ciXRn9ylU9Q-rqSt93QdDReDHeT0YPm1D4haFr7GZ82NE-93*sZJEKrBW-SERjClGKgQsF5jwr3SaWja/CodeGeassCC06.jpg
A always, its as much the attitude as the cuteness or sexiness. Seems I either like super sweet girls i.e. Saya and Belldandy, poster previously, or tough girls with a soft side i.e. Misato, Kikyo (posted previously), CC (posted now), and my last and current waifu (which i won’t spoil just yet). Mind you Saya fits that list to, so maybe Belldandy is the exception!
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Is she of age?
I hope so! I’ve got a soft spot for Haruhi, but haven’t posted anything for that reason 😛
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Yeah you are right I’m sure.
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Forget about stuffing yourself full of bacon deluxes or using your microwave for storing bread, this is my new favourite Lifehacker article. Holy shit.
http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2013/03/how-to-cook-and-eat-a-placenta/
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Mark posted this on facebook. I wasnt going to look at it. I did after you posted. I really REALLY wish I didnt. Oh my god… how can someone honestly eat that? How? That’s quite possibly the worst thing I can think of eating.
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I assume it helps you appear more confident. Or helps you open jars with stubborn lids.
I don’t know. Lifehacker.
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It’s not for me, but it’s hard to imagine another body part (animal or human) so hyperoverloaded with nutrients and vitamins.
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Once the outer membrane and tubes’n’stuff were gone, and it was all chopped up, it looked pretty tasty.
Before that it looked like one of the creatures out of Splice.
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It’s actually a pretty common practice. When your kid is born the hospital always asks if you want to keep the placenta.
Burying it and planting a tree over it is also pretty common.
The more I watch The Walking Dead the more I want to see a zombie series that isn’t set in America. It’s astounding the amount of guns the characters have access to 😛
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What’s the difference in that though?
Signed,
World that thinks all animals can kill you in Australia-
Well, maybe not some of the sheep
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hey, i saw “Black Sheep”, don’t count ’em out
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There’s also a BBC series starting soon set after the zombie apocalypse finishes where there’s a cure and they’re reintroduced into society. Doesn’t look bad!
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That actually looks pretty cool!
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In the Flesh is getting Slammed because there is a movie about to come out called “Warm Bodies” the plot is almost identical
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Dead Set. British Zombie Apocalypse series told from the point of view of the people trapped inside the Big Brother house. its really quite good.
They have something like 1.4 guns for each person in the country, so it kind of makes sense that they’d always be armed. I do like, though, that despite this, the franchise still frequently leaves its characters with no ammo 🙂
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I’d love to see a post-apocalyptic show like The Stand. No zombies, just urban decay and drama that’s created by people who survive. Best zombie stuff is always character stories too!
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I don’t know how current you are with the series, but:
Spoilers for the latest few episodes (this half-seasons story arc, basically :P)
I just don’t like the whole impending war aspect of this season. It just doesn’t seem like that sort of thing would actually happen, in my mind. Combine that with the Governors firepower and I just don’t really like it 😛Mini rant over.
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Didn’t read. Haven’t started watching this half of s3 yet. Gonna watch them all in one hit. Only way to watch TV 😀
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I think it is close to 0.9 per adult. I’m sure it is much higher if you did a state by state breakdown
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I’d like to see more zombie apocalypses taking place outside of a modern setting. A zombie apocalypse during the middle ages, during ancient greece, in a near future cyberpunk setting, in a sci fi setting (arguably that’s what Halo and Dead Space are, but I’d like to see more traditional zombies).
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A zombie apocalypse during a vampire invasion!
Zombie Park, where instead of dinosaurs they bring zombies back to ‘life’ (and chuck in a few dinosaurs, too).
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Have you seen “Exit Humanity” that’s set just after the American Civil war and focuses on the main character rather than the zombies, was really good IMO
Zombie zombie zombie zombie zombie. No. No more zombies. For the love of god, stop the zombies.
I don’t particularly like the Zombie Idea, because in my mind they all go down roads that all look the same, I personally prefer things that look at How society recovers from a post apocalyptic event, unfortunately the only things I can think of are anime titles… Neon Genisis: Evangellion, Texhnolyze and even Serial Experiments: Lain to a degree
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The fact that post-apocalyptic societies are a big thing in anime shouldn’t really surprise you that much. They’re arguably the worlds only post-apocalyptic culture.
Finally managed to condense my thoughts on Tomb Raider into something resembling a review.
Thinking about it all reminded me of something weird though. Why do I constantly hear people call Lara ‘Laura’? Where are they getting this U from?!
EDIT: A page get? I never get these!
Hello.
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When the first game was originally developed her name was Laura until they realized Americans pronounced it Lara. Read that ages ago, but can’t find the interview… :'( Maybe folks just think it’s American accent still and translate it back? 😛
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Her original name was Laura Cruz, I’ve read that too. So is it just people sticking to that for some reason?
Interestingly the only people I hear saying it as Laura are Americans. So they pronounced it Lara and they changed it but now they call her Laura? :p
This is one of life’s greatest mysteries, indeed.
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As an aside:
How do y’all pronounce “Lara”
Conan (and I assume Americans) says Laah-rah (emphasis on the “a”) and I say Lar-rah (Lar rhymes with car)
I guess with the American way it can sorta be Laura
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Lazza Croft, Tomb Sheila.
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I totally knew this was going to get a lot of upvotes ^_^
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I say it like Lhama but with an arrrr (R)
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Or maybe it’s Lah-rah.
In any case you’ve now got me saying Lara over and over again to myself.
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:D!
All the talk made me think of this and how I was learning to play it but gave up because I’m not funky enough :P. I can only play the first 22 seconds or so…
I enjoyed the first half of NGE but that ending and second half… WUT. Too meta for me and I didn’t understand it AT ALL :P. I hear watching the movies helps explains it but yeah… I dunno 😛
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Psssh, no ways, second half is a whole new level of awesome. Movies are awesome. Never understood what people had against them.
Also, if youve seen the movie, this song – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fw5acgqIHQE
Love it.
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My thoughts exactly! (Hope youre not being sarcastic XD)
The stuff towards the very end was so intense, so great seeing how all the characters dealt with all the blows, and how the community was breaking apart as different things came to light. So so great.
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I am not. Dead serious.
Probably the greatest anime series I have ever seen. o_o
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Ahuh. Cant imagine it ever being bettered. Paranoia Agent is about as close as it gets for me.
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Yeah, guy.
Paranoia actually goes somewhere completely different too.
I remember Lain being awesome too.FLCL is also right up there for completely different reasons.
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Would easily put both those up there too! BRUDDA! 😀
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You gotta admit, the weirdness does drastically increase towards the end. However I still enjoyed it!
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Not so much increase in weirdness as an increase in originality. So glad it went in that direction, and not into another forgettable cliched end.
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Oh yeah, the ending and the lead up to the ending will stick in my mind.
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Weird is an interesting choice of words. I’d say cerebral.
Those last 2 episodes actually occur inside Shinji’s mind.-
mmmm…. I disagree with that Idea,
I see that as the whole society reshaping itself initially to what the 3rd child wants, my theory however is that society keeps going through Human instrumentality, overseen by SELEE -
I thought it actually was in his head because somehow he was in charge somehow
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OK, Im out. Have been saving the movies til they’re all out. Seeya guys 😀
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@jimu – prepared to be disappointed though. Animation looks stunning, and some of the action scenes are definitely bettered as a result. The end of the first movie in partcular is edge of your seat stuff and makes that part of the series look tame. But… so much fiddling with story and pacing, and that inclusion of the extra pilot is completely crappy, unecessary, and just ruins a large element of Asuka’s story.
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@sughly
I’m prepared for dissapointment
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Well, it takes place after Third Impact, so I reckon it would have to be in his head. He stopped the whole instrumentality projects goal by fighting against it in the film, so I’m not sure how society would have kept going as you say? -
Ok so I need to watch End of evangellion, I’d seen Death and Rebirth and hadn’t seen end. Which then makes the reboot break my brain….
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@gingerchris86 – errrrmahgeeeerd! Watch End of Eva! Tonight!! It’s incredible. Just watching a few clips on youtube reminds me of how iconic so much of the imagery is in that film. Just mindblowingly good, imo.
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Rebuild spoilers:
There’s a strong theory that all the rebuild films are taking place post-End of Evangelion. Stuff like the fact that the Lance is on the moon along with an Eva-like thing, and it has an extra prong, the water of the world is all red as it was at the end of EoE, that the Angels got renumbered, that Kaworu seems to know Shinji before they’ve met, even that the characters feel like they’re more balanced and work through their issues faster.
I hated the End of Evangelion because of the massive shift in tone it has vs the original ending which was pretty positive. The whole film is a great big angry ‘fuck you all’ to everyone who complained about the original TV ending. There’s even bits from complaint letters they received about it during the film.
The rebuild films are amazing though.
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Yes, fuck fanboys. Bioware should have done the same thing in the extended ME3 ending 🙂
I fucking love that shit, this is supposed to be art, not choose-your-own-adventure.
I am happy to discuss the idea’s/philosophy if you want, It is one of my favourite Animes of all time
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The thing that I think people have the most probems with is the whole “Human Instrumentality Project” thing and what happens there
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try < s > But touching
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thank you, replied above :p
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Butt touching?
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Saturday 😉
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Damn and I wont be in the room! /o\
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I think we are quickly approaching that point in here XD
I will quite happily discuss this show any day all day.
I saw it a few years ago and don’t really remember it 😛
All I remember is being super confused by the ending and getting more confused as the series went on.
Thanks though!
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So when that happens is when you start trying to figure it out and failing that finding someone or something to explain it.
It’s all part of the fun.
Sure, sometimes I wanna sit back and watch a ninja explode blood and limbs about but sometimes I want a challenge.😀
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Yep. So many days in high school spent looking it up/discussing with friends/rewatching/rewatching with friends. Was all an irreplaceable experience.
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Thing is…
That shot where you see Gendo putting Adam into his hand explains the whole reason why hes sticking his arm in Rei in end of eva. Seemed VERY weird to exclude that shot from the original cut. -
All that ‘director’s cut’ stuff was added for the normal home video release in Japan. It’s actually pretty common for the broadcast versions of stuff to differ from the version that comes out for purchase later, there’s even pretty recent examples. Usually it’s just touching up the animation but often they add things in to clarify stuff.
Also about that point Gainax was out of money so they probably lacked budget, plus they were getting raked in the media by mothers groups that were complaining about how violent and explicit the show was getting.
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Yeah I get that, Im just saying its weird to take out such a pivotal shot, one that actually makes sense of a major point in the film. Which is that Rei literally needed Gendo’s arm.
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I loved that theme song. Never watched the show, but always thought it was catchy when it was on in the background.
Edit: Actually I think I just liked the first 15 seconds before the crazy kicked in. 😛
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A friendly fight? Sure 😀
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I’ll referee, Also I was incapable of talking to anyone for a couple of hours after finishing Evangelion, it broke me. I sat there until i had made some kind of sense out of it, just enough for my brain to move on.
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I think I just watched it again 🙂
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It’s one of the most interesting pieces of sci fi in existence. FYI 🙂
And not only is it great sci fi, its sci fi wrapped in a really well done examination of the human condition, like anxiety, relationships, depression etc. Basically a lot of stuff youve enjoyed in tv shows and films from what I can tell.
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When everyone says the show gets weird towards the second half, its basically because it gets a lot heavier with its characters and content, and goes to some really interesting places with them.
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this, a thousand time this
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I think weird is to be expected for any thing Japanese. Haha!
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I think you missed the point of what I just said XD
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Haha! No, I understand. I just decided to go on a tangent. 😛
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From what I understand the original finale was the way it was because they didn’t have the funds to animate, which is probably why the philosophical mumbo-jumbo sounds like it was written in rush on the back of a coaster.
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Yeah this. They made the best of a bad situation in terms of funding. No way is it mumbo jumbo, it’s one of the most interesting and original examinations of a character.
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Don’t get me wrong, I appreciate the philosophy that permeated other episodes and the series as a whole, but I think the way it was presented in the finale resulted in too much ‘filler’ being used in the dialogue, it was like Dr Seuss crashing on psychotropics.
I like the idea, but I don’t like the execution.
I think if they had the visuals to work with, they would have taken it easy on the dialogue and presented the idea more elegantly, like in previous episodes.The End of Evangelion fixed it up.
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You liked end of eva, so youre ok 😀
So many people didnt. They are wrong.
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My fave shit is and always will be those last two episodes. They just blew me away.
(I like the movies too)
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“are yo riding his bolony pony?” one of the funniest lines in ever
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They get pretty chat in the original finale. Must have been a big coaster and some tiny handwriting.
I’m still not completely convinced. Certainly they had plans for something more for the ending and ran out of budget, however the strangeness of the finale and the way it was animated and so on which gives it an unfinished look could well have been deliberate. The ending of Gunbuster has similar stuff going on, and it was very deliberate.
About halfway through the production of the show, there was a terrorist attack on the Japanese subway system that used sarin gas. For whatever reason, this caused them to rewrite things.
Then they ran out of money, which is why as the show progressed, there are more scenes in elevators where people’s mouths are blocked and other things that are incredibly cheap to “animate”.
End of Evangelion is apparently an alternate ending, it’s not in the same continuity as episodes 35 and 26. Personally, I think it’s just when they ran out of anti-depressants.
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Reminds me of a comedian talking about when they first watched the Ring.
They were watching this really intense scene where everything was just dead still. Nothing happened for good two minutes. It was this amazing, tense piece of film-making. Fantastic!
Then they realised that they had sat on the remote and accidentally paused the film.
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Only on purpose…
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Yeah I do agree. Same goes for that scene with Rei and Asuka in the elevator. As soon as Rei said something I was like ooooooo girl! You gone dunnit now!
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But that is a good point about the continuity. Thinking of it that way though…
I’d say that the last two episodes are still in Shinji’s mind. Well, technically it’s like everyone’s mind right? Because it’s about everyone becoming one. So all this questioning of characters and such, I guess it could very well be the result of the instrumentality project, and it’s Shinji coming to terms with his thoughts and emotions in order to be at peace, not just with himself but with the collective whole of everyone. Or something. TLDR – I think it’s still in Shinji’s head.
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Foreshadowed…or explainded during? I can’t clearly recall.
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Ohhh of course, yeah I forgot about all that. Then definitely this then XD
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Sort of? Please, do go on. 🙂
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I pretty much agree in whole.
I’m just unsure as to whether all the characters are part of a collective consciousness or representative of the influence of Shinji’s peers on his own consciousness.EDIT: Ignore me, I’m trying to put together a report for work and discuss the Human Instrumentality Project.
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Spoilerssss!
Yeah thats what I was wondering too, but jimu makes a good point about the ‘I am the me in your mind’ stuff, or whatever it is they say. I’ll have to watch it again, it could be construed as them talking purely about the idea that it’s not actually who that person is, its just how Shinji sees them etc. Probably not making sense any more :'(But yeah, use spoiler tags just in case dood.
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I didn’t think the movies changed the ending…I thought thelast two episodes happen inside his head and then the movies are what was happening in reality.So both are canon.
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@jimu Good call.
The Aum Sarin Gas thing causing changes to Evangelion is an urban myth that I’ve never seen actually supported anywhere. It happened six months before the series began. The budget was the big thing, plus people complaining that the show was too explicit for its broadcast time.
@ash
Because I don’t wanna be fired I won’t be posting the large breatsed woman from Love Hina
or the cat-lady from Urotsukidoji
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Lol love Hina is great 🙂 One of the great comedies IMO and the theme song is stuck in my head now hehe
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PS I found a tape of Urotsukidoji in the childrens section of my local library many years ago…. I didn’t say anythign to the library staff :S
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I rebutt your down vote with a quote from a wise man I once met:
http://staging.kotaku.com.au/2013/03/talk-amongst-yourselves-217/comment-page-13/#comment-1116125
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Oh, man. *applaudes*
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Ok brother, here’s my last one:
http://s16.postimg.org/49jahkg05/Bleachwallpaper25.jpg
She currently holds my heart, in part because there is quite a storng resemblance between her and my wife when I met her (when she was 17). Also, attitude wise there is a storng similarity i.e. Mrs isn’t afraid to tell me what for, like Rukia tlaking to ichigo. So basically sometimes I feel like I got my own little Rukia, or that watching her in bleach is a window back into time (minus the hollow hunting).
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Well, that’s not loading, gonna have to take your word for it cos my work net sux 36 crazy dix.
My wife reminds me of the smart Sailor(sailor moon) only with a more kickarse personality (my arse)
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d00d try that new link now. Also:
My wife reminds me of the smart Sailor(sailor moon)
That’s awesome 🙂 PS my fav sailor was Sailor Mars!
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Jupiter.
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Aplha Centauri
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If people are having trouble getting a CPP (normal and XL) anywhere local I spotted a couple in the JB near where I work. I could grab one and send it your way.
MONSTER HUNTER:
WE’LL TRY TO PLAY AGAIN TONIGHT.
YEAH!?
YEAH.
I’ll go see if the servers are up now…
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WHAT THE FUCK!?
“How to Cook and Eat a Placenta”
WHAT O_______________O
Surely they can’t be srs
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I clicked to see if it was legit and scrolled down a bit and saw some bloody mess (computer was loading the pictures slowly and I’m glad it did) :/
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Ditto. Birth is now even more gross to me than it was before. Thanks Lifehacker.
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Wait until youre at the other end of the person you love, and see that come out of them in a spray of mucus and blood.
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it is rather…full-on
Also, an assortment of “professionals” looking at and touching your partner…down there.
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Babies grown in tanks, that’s the way of the future. No mess, no pain, no awkwardness. Just donate some genetic material then come back 9 months later to pick your new baby up.
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@dire_wolf
9 months? Nup. Unacceptable. Drive-thru babies. That’s the future.
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BOOM TIPS IN YOUR FACE:
– FREE RESOURCE POINTS AS DLC!
– Skills are important as fuck
– Know the monster’s strengths and weaknesses-
AWW MAN IT’S IN MY EYES!
I need to do a bit more experimenting with weapon types so I can work out what I want to use properly. Then actually work out how to use it properly. I might be a bit off of online play yet.
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I knew basically nothing when I started playing online. =P
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Sword and Shield is good for beginners (what I used in Tri) but it’s pretty weak.
I experimented with the Switch Axe and Long Sword in the demo and I’ve only used Switch Axes in MH3U 😀
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I used sword and shield to start with because I didn’t know how to change weapons 😛
The switch axe sounds rad. I used the long sword last night and I don’t think I’m a fan. It feels heavy and clunky. I’m going to try out some ranged weapons tonight, since it looks like everyone else has gone with melee stuff.
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Feels heavy and clunky?
Try the great sword 😀
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Fuck, I just want to be able to swing the weapon and hit something instead of looking like a shitfaced toddler. Is that too much to ask?
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GREAT SWORD IS AWFUL
HIT EVERYTHING BUT THE MONSTER
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Oh, I hit the 4* star quests last night too, done a few already. Gobul was actually surprisingly easy.
I still maintain Qurupeco is the worst thing I’ve fought in MH3U to date. Noticed I’ve got a Rathian hunt lined up somewhere soon too.
I always enjoyed Rathalos, Rathian and Tigrex hunts the most in MHFU. Looking forward to seeing how they’ve evolved since. Although I don’t think Tigrex is in MH3U, which makes me sad. He was a bad motherfucker.
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Dude, @sernobulus. @thecracks, Platinum Urchin and I fucking destroyed Qurupeco online the other day. Literally took like a minute or so. Stupid bird fell down and we just bashed its brains in 😛
Lagiacrus is top of my annoying list because anything underwater just needs to fuck off and die…
I’ve nearly done all the 5* quests and I’m about to face Ceadus (however it’s spelt) which I think is the last boss for the offline stuff. I’m HR2 in online though 😀
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Qurupeco isn’t hard, but he annoys the fuck out of me. I always end up succumbing to the irritating monsters. The long hard fight monsters are OK, but Qurupeco calls other monsters and just has annoying as hell moves.
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To cancel Qurupeco’s calls, either attack his breath-sac-thing on his neck (red), or throw a sonic bomb all up in his grill.
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Oh, I know how it works and how to deal with him, it just doesn’t stop the little prick from being annoying.
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Oceanic 2 has the current one, I think. Unless a new one has been started that I don’t know about 😛
Do your test runs in a private region first though because you can’t delete a city easily.
Sooo I tried to get on to Teamspeak the other night… have the details changed since I was last on?
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Wait, you don’t use TS, how do you remember this stuff! =P
I’m at work right now but @blaghman might be able to message you the details through twitter.
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Oh I thought it was online lol. Simulcast it for me, I’ll be down in the far south coast of nsw
Trust me, when I do a brisbane trip you guys will know about it 🙂
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Its probably going to happen. Though neither of us have seen it in ages, so it might be a rather vague discussion.
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“And you know that bit where whats-her-face gets all up in thingos face?”
“No”
“well yeah, thats soooo important!”
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Easter Break time!!!!! Storm v Broncos on Friday! Doctor Who on Sunday! Game of Thrones and Hawks v Cats on Monday! If you can’t tell, I’m a little bit excited!
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I’ll be watching that, of course, but I know what’s going to happen there. The Doctor Who Christmas special left me going “Wait, WHAT?”
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I admit that I have never watched Mad Men. (Or Breaking Bad or Sons of Anarchy for that matter)
The trailer for Game of Thrones looks amazing.-
The three shows you haven’t seen are among the best on offer at the moment. They might even be the best three shows on offer.
Haha, on reflection I think they are!
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I’ve found my least favourite Kotaku commenter ever.
https://staging.kotaku.com.au/user/battlecattle/comments/kotaku/
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I don’t think they are necessarily violating a comments policy, they’re just a repugnant and hateful individual.
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:'(
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I still <3 you Rize!
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That’s actually kinda funny. He is like the anti-Patricia, but at the other end of the extreme-o spectrum. Going through his list of posts, every one is basically the same thing.
Maybe his GF dumped him recently idk?
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Even though I don’t like some of Hernandez’s posts, I acknowledge that a chunk of them are raising important issues- i just think she sometimes draws too long a bow.
This guy’s just gutter slime.
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In Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine, you can go to Puerto Pollo from Curse of Monkey Island and turn Indy into Guybrush! Good easter egg!
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Whoa really..? Thats cool! I remember the one in Curse where you look through the tree stump and youre in the original MI. That was cool, but yours is cooler.
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The 3D version of the Barber Shop wasn’t pretty, Sughly. It probably would’ve made you cry. Haha!
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HAHAHA! Ohhhh I see, so you werent walking around the original 2d one… yeah… I think you might be right then.
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Ewwww.
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Right? 😀
You could use a code to turn Indy into Guybrush at any time though. I did that when I was playing in the jungle levels. Also if you shoot the bazooka as Guybrush a rubber chicken shoots out.
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Haha! Ok, thats cool.
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Except you’d e playing Infernal Machine which is silly when you have the infinitely better Fate of Atlantis.
I know right. Every year it seems to get worse. I feel shitty for getting anything on selection for Ash. Feels like such a lame gift in the end.
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As in shut your ungrateful face @ash and accept Sughly’s gifts.
Edit: I’m sorry, that was mean. It’s just that your father and I work really hard to be able to afford to give you the life you deserve and sometimes it would be nice to know that it’s appreciated.
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My son is also Bort.
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Still not convinced you didn’t name him after Pokemon kid!
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I didn’t name my son after fight club either
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BradPittEdwardNorton “Jimu” Jimulan?
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Thanks Dad!
I found out about the Lord of the Rings easter egg in Borderlands 2 just this week.
It is bloody ah-mazing.
@sughly
What did you think of the comedy interviewer guys from Millenium Actress?
I heard complaints that they pulled people out of the drama, but I found they lightened the mood so that I didn’t degrade into a blubbering mess of hysterical tears.
(fuck Satoshi Kon is the best!) 😀
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Yep, totally agree. I think he deals with comic relief in a really good way. Perfect, even. They were never in the way of the drama, but added much needed relief whenever it was needed. Also they were genuinely funny, which is always good. Unfunny comic relief is the worst. Its been WAY too long since I saw MA, but I only have it on DVD – is it on bluray? If so I should rectify this asap. Only Kon I have on BR is Paprika 🙁
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Last time I saw it was the premiere at Dendy, back when Dendy was near Roma St.
I own two BluRays, one of them is Parika 😀
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I feel like a terrible person because everyone raves about how amazing Kon’s films were but I’ve tried to watch several of them and found them incredibly boring. 🙁 About the only thing I liked was that some of them had Susumu Hirasawa soundtracks.
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Not trying to push, or sound elite or some shit.
But maybe you’re coming at them from the wrong angle.
There not so much about what is happening but about why it’s happening, what motivates the characters to do what they do, what are they not saying etc.
Like, what’s happening underneath, what are they thinking, why are they thinking it.I find he was able to really capture the reality of human emotion and motivation.
Personally, I can’t find much that comes close to the emotional roller coaster ride that Kon could take me on.
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You ever see him as a correspondent on The Daily Show? Crazy! Also he was in an old show called Strangers with Candy. 😀
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He also did voice acting for some characters in Harvey Birdman Attorney at Law.
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Yeah, I’ve even seen the very first episode of The Daily Show and his mannerisms haven’t really changed at all!
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Oh shit dude. I’m not good with hieghts. I’m serious when i say my palms have started sweating like crazy looking at those photos.
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I think there is soemthing wrong with me.
My pile of shame can probably be stacked higher than I am tall. I keep telling myself ‘no new games’. BUT if I see a game I’m interested in AND it is on sale, I can’t not buy it.
Case in point: went to the shops just now to buy a light globe, among other things. Felt compelled to ‘check out JBs’, just to makes sure I ‘know what the video game market is up to’ (WTF does that even mean??).
They have the Outlands/ From Dust/ Beyond Good and Evil triple pack for $15. Not that fussed about outland, interested in From Dust b/c Eric Chahi, interested in BGE b/c want to find out what all the fuss was about.
End of the story – I walk out with three new games, which probably won’t get played for 6 mths.
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My pile of shame is enormous. I probably have more games I’ve spent less than 30 minutes on than I have finished.
I bought a Wii U the other day. Just because.
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You shoudln’t buy any more games until you have finished an agreed amount fo existing ones… even if they ar eon sale!
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Me too 🙁
Partly because I don’t finsih that many games – I get distracted by unplayed ones 😛
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My pile of shame is not only taller then me but also maybe taller then my mother as well (at the same time)
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True story, I have a copy of BGE in my steam inventory that I haven’t been able to give away on TAY
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I stacked my pile of shame once and posted a photo on here. It was taller than me too. Shameful.
I’m working on bringing it down though I guess. Sort of. I finished some games recently. But I might have purchased them recently too 🙁
Currently back to working on Xenoblade (cc @greenius)
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I was only off it because I couldn’t set the Wii up and get sound until recently when I realized I could get my amplifier from storage, plug the consoles into that, then HDMI out to my PC monitor.
Xenoblade looks like shit on a PC monitor from less than a meter away. 🙁 But I don’t care, it’s playable and I want to be done with the game.
Last night I went and got the circuit thing for Fiora from the beach on the Fallen Arm and now apparently I’m off to the Mechonis capital to punch Egil in the face. Also I am thinking that… uh… fuck. That guy with the bandanna and the white jeans and the moustache that keeps turning up unexpectedly? He’s fucking evil and probably will be revealed to be playing both sides against each other or something.
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Haha, there was one a while back about Tim hosting a game awards show and you had to find jokes. It was all kinds of awesome! 😛
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That’s the game, I guess? I’m still trying to find the right item to use with that link to make it work (now where idd I put my rubber chicken?).
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While you’re here, and I have your attention.
Bioshock Infinite:
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I’m in the Hall of Heroes, just cleared the Boxer Rebellion display. Kind of can’t concentrate at the moment. Would love to play more, but am finding myself easily distracted. Game is amazing, though. I still don’t know what this emotion is you call… love. -
I don’t know what that emotion is, either. I was hoping you could tell me(not show me though, that would be a little too gay, even for me). The Hall of Heroes bit was pretty good. I think I’m currently in the bit where it drags on a bit, which is annoying. Still worth it for the world.
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BioShock Infinite question: Every time I fight one of those fire men guys and defeat them the gun sound effect plays on loop extremely loud. Only way to stop it is to leave the area. (Which sucks, because I can’t hear whatever dialogue is said between Booker and Elizabeth. Does that happen to you? Finding lots and lots of glitches the longer I play. :'(
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Don’t know what that is, but I’ll investigate!
Also I like how we both asked BioShock questions at the same time. 😀
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We’re hopeless addicts.
If you ask Steam, I spent all day playing it(though that is a lie).
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Uh huh… hopeless addicts, ey? Finished last night :/
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How the fuck did you finish it that quickly?
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didn’t sleep much… steam tells me I’ve played it for 12.5 hours.
was a case of “oh, I’m not that tired, just one mroe bit…” on loop when I probably should have stopped
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Fair enough. I’ve got 9 hours played, according to Steam, which actually seems about right, despite that I spent all day “playing” it, while actually in the pause menu.
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I had pretty much a glitch-free play experience. Oh, wait. Once Liz flipped me a coin to buy me somethin’ pretty, and I was looting at the same time and the ‘F’ key being for both got something confused and the coin icon stayed on screen until she flipped me another one a minute later. She seemed to flip me coins very frequently.
Morning all, Mini story time while I twiddle my thumbs waiting for something to do at work.
For those who don’t know or didn’t pay attention, I run a help desk for a recruitment company. Every now and then I have to do up user manuals for various websites for employees and applicants using the system … riveting stuff. Well, one of our clients deals with a lot of visually impaired people, so their manual was about 5 times as long because it needed to be in large print. Earlier today the bosses come up and mention that they need me to do a manual, which isn’t that bad … I was worried because one of the bosses is deathly serious most of the time and he was smiling, it was kind of like a weeping angel smiling. Completely unnatural.
So smiles Mcgee says that the user manual is for this client, Vision and they need it to be tailored to users … specifically blind users. They want a user manual in braille. My brain stopped working trying to process exactly how they expected me to do this and went directly to bad puns … it’s a defence mechanism, I couldn’t stop myself from saying “Well … what if I screw up? They’ll never see it coming” Everyone’s faces go grim and Smiles Mcgee just glares at me and points to the door.
Story time was brought to you by the letter 3 and this bleh cold I’ve got at the moment.
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Nyet, while the bosses do not approve of my puns and general smart arse ways, they know I’m awesome at my job and I brought back doughnuts when I went out for lunch. Score one for bribery!
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Dunno if anyone’s noticed, but it seems EB has pulled out of the Vita market.
Sony announced 100 new Vita titles this year, which I don’t think includes PSone & PSP games but does include PS3 ports & a shit load of Indie ports.
Bad timing on EB’s part?
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https://ebgames.com.au/vita ? They’re still taking preorders on stuff and everything too… Soul Sacrifice and things.
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Super happy that during that Evangelion chat that
1. It didn’t get out of hand 😀
2. Most of my points seemed to be agreed on or backed up in some way, meaning I haven’t forgotten as much as I’d thought 😀 😀
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Debating and theorycrafting Evangelion was basically the entirety of my late teens / early 20s.
I’m off for Easter Holiday now.
Won’t be here much because I should be busy, will check in to see about our meat ( @sughly you’re in charge)
And remember, I LOVE YOU ALL (like puppies)
Have a VAINglorious Eoster!!!
Someone take my bleach shit!
2 wall posters and a small poster.
Small poster includes the school people. NO COST, just want to get rid of it
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Keep up. @scree tried to seduce me by offering wall scroll featuring my waifu, but I was strong and resisted her advances.
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No, @ash just mused on what life might be like as a single man who could do things like hang wall scrolls featuring anime school girls on his walls….
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I have an old Tenchi Muyo wallscroll (yes I’m that old) that I don’t want and can’t get rid of too. 🙁
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Ugh worst!
Pit calls Dark Pit Pitoo (Pit two) 😛
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Now that is an obscure reference haha
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Ok, i better go too. Notice I was around a lot more today? That is because my boss wasn’t in! So hard to get motivated to work when no one is there to make you feel guilty for TAY.
Special thanks to @jimu for anime girl fun!
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Dammiy, I missed this…:(
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If I could name the characters in the game I would call all of them “Hanz” because I am not childish.
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Hans and Simon.
The bad guy is John.
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Went out to get the last few things I need to start my new project. Forgot to get the image for the stencil printed, so I now have all the things I need except the most urgent one. 😛
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F4G HAXXORZ NOOB I FUKED UR MOM GHEY GAY GAHY HOMO FAG FAGGOT FAGET LOLOLILOLLL1111
Ready yet?
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@powalen
Fancy another trip to melbourne?
http://www.imaxmelbourne.com.au/movie/Jurassic_Park_3D
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Or Brisbane trip!
http://www.eventcinemas.com.au/movie/3D-Jurassic-Park
(I guess you can just go to your local cinema too. :P)
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Oh right, the whole IMAX thing. Haha. I guess Cineplex might show it in IMAX here too… maybe. :'(
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Regarding Monday, there’s a good chance I won’t have working intarnets at home by the weekend so I might be out of communication short of texts and won’t be checking TAY.
– Should I bring anything? Consumables / Games / other
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I would say the only thing you will need to bring is whatever you want to drink. Maybe ticket to ride
Should be no detours around my area, there is work being done a domain interchange that might mess some people about but shouldn’t be an issue for you.Thinking around a 1pm start, I’ll text you once it is confirmed
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As much as I would love another trip to Melbourne…
HOLY MOLEY! I didn’t even think that Jurassic Park might be shown at the IMAX in Sydney. Looked it up and it totally is. Screw you, local cinema! I’m off to the big(ger) screen!
I’ll have to see if any Sydney TAYbies want to come with me! 😀
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DRIVE BY CANBERRA AND PICK ME UP! WE CAN PLAY MARIO KART ON THE WAY UP TO SYDNEY! THERE ARE NO FLAWS IN THIS PLAN!
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Definitely won’t be over Easter weekend. It doesn’t come out until April 4th. I’m thinking some time during the April 13-14 weekend but I’ll have to wait until the screening schedule is released.
I’ll let you know as soon as I know!
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If its in April I won’t be able to make it 🙁 Have to work the next 3 weekends after Easter, and then kinda have to go to my sisters wedding on the last weekend 😛 If its still showing in May I could probably make it
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Fantasy book fronds: Brandon Sanderson. I liked his work finishing off the Wheel of Time a lot. How does his own original work compare? Similar writing style? He’s got a couple of series and some standalone stuff – if I only try one, which is the best to try?
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I’ve only read The Alloy of Law, so I can’t compare, but it was really good. I’d recommend his Mistborn series based on that, but I don’t think it’s really all that useful a recommendation, again, due to the whole “no comparison” thing.
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The Mistborn stuff seems to be a trilogy + sequel novel so I might go that way since it’s more finished. Been a while since I thought about reading books at all actually.
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I could be wrong, but I believe his eventual plan is trilogy + sequel novel(which happens 400 years later) + another trilogy(or it might be less than that) set even further into the future. But since they’re separate stories, I think it’s easier to manage the fact that he hasn’t finished his “universe” or whatever.
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Yeah his stuff is pretty great, should definitely check it out.
Have not read it yet but Elantris is apparently pretty good and is stand-alone.
Thought I’d keep playing Dragons Dogma. Man I’m confused. Why is there a wagon with a giant severed snake head on it? Why do I need to protect a dead reptile? Good god is that what my pawn looks like?
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I just wish they’d released it for PC. I feel like it was a game that would have really captured the PC RPG market and they gimped themselves in the west by sticking it on consoles.
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Why the hell won’t these pawns shut the hell up? They keep repeating themselves every 2.3 seconds or so.
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And i’m home. 7 hours of driving, fucking sunburnt, too many dickheads on the roads.
Especially the one just before north Nerang, some agro sparky, havin’ a go at us, decided he should speed on past at 120km/h+ whilst giving the finger and some choice words. What he didn’t realise was the unmarked police car that was behind us LOL. Cop pulled out and in front of us, flashed the lights and sirens at him and the dude looked like his pants changed colour to a more brown. He won’t be doing that again.
There’s a Resident Evil Super Bundle on the PSN for $99.95 which comes with RE 1-6, Code Veronica X, Umbrella Chronicles, Darksiders Chronicles and Operation Raccoon City.
If be lying if I didn’t say I wasn’t tempted.
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Uh huh. So Walking Dead Survival Instinct (by all accounts a horrible broken game) is $19.95 on Steam and $89.95 on PSN.
Wut.
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Surely after the Telltale WD game blew up and took over the world, every other team that had a WD game in production must have thought “Well this is now a waste of time”
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I remember playing a simple kids ‘Lemonade Stand’ game years and years ago where you had cost of sugar/lemons/etc and the demand/supply was influenced by the price you set. It was a little buggy – the random number generators seemed to give you at least 50% or so chance to sell at least one cup o’ lemonade each day, regardless of what price you set. The end result was, just sell at the maximum price the game let you set, make enormous profits off that single cup you occasionally sell.
I don’t think this demand/supply bug works out the same in real life, but it’s interesting that a company has decided to test it out.
I guess it’s like how the old saying goes emdashhere when life gives you lemons, try to make nonsensical profit. Or something.
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Holy shit I think I played that exact same game! I think the one I played was just called Lemonade, it was on the commodore 64. Blue screen, white text and graphics. Was freaking amazing.
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I got some coke for all of you:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Koks_Brennstoff.jpg/640px-Koks_Brennstoff.jpg
As far as settings and stuff go I love steampunk and weird places like cities in the sky.
…so BioShock Infinite sure looks pretty and mighty tempting!
But I will stay strong and I hope my brothers @alexpants @redartifice will do the same.
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Capcom just tweeted that the MH servers should be up again! OMGOMGOMGOMGOMOG GOING TO PLAY SO MUCH
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I traded in the Xbox copy of Aliens that @markserrels sent me. I remain resolute in waiting til i get back for BioShock Infinite
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I am quite honestly amazed that I’m not holding a copy of Infinite in my hand right now.
Normally I’ll be like ‘I WON’T BUY THAT GAME’ and then I own it a day later.
GO ME.
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The idea of controlling two characters with each of the sticks is interesting. Hopefully it’s well implemented.
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Anime is crowd pleasing to some. Strange went on an adventure. Shane has issues with his publishers and employers. Freeze was called into work on his day off and then told he wasn’t needed. Virus went on a 7 hour drive somewhere. D.C./Blaghs/others played BioShock. Adventures games were talked about. (Mainly easter eggs.) PAX was talked about. (Mainly PAX North.) Saturday Brisbane meat was pondered some! Zombies! And other stuff!
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I see. Interesting. Well to be fair, it was 3 & half hour drive there, then 3 & half hour drive back.. Also the smell of bio solids is still disgusting. I sure don’t miss that horrible smell.
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Cradle of Filth tickets, Bioshock Infinite Songbird edition and NIB health care cards for Sam and myself were here when I got home
And a Zelda inspired beany I don’t remember ordering :S
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You are correct sir! 😀
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But fair excuse I guess 😛
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SPAGHETT SPAM
Last song played game!! Inhuman Creation Station by cKy!!
Amazing
Also
Shenanigans
Sam
Heroin
Meth
Talking like this
In serious news
I may be not even going on Performance management
My performance has improved that much! 😀
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I’m not sure if it’s just because they write universal lyrics that everyone can relate to or something but every damn song cuts deep. Haha. D:
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Is it just me or does this have 2 upvotes but it only shows me as the only one who upvoted?
o_O
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What if they don’t have whatever you’re looking for? I know the owner is looking at it from the point of stopping people browsing and buying online, but there’s going to be times when they just don’t have things and you’ve wasted $5 for nothing.
Having to deal with difficult people is just a part of running a shop. Every other small store in the country would have to deal with the same thing. If you want an edge then give people a reason to shop there. Coming off as desperate for money is not the way to go about it.
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Yeah that’s what I said in the comments. Also if you ask a question and turns out the thing isn’t what you were after and you leave empty handed are you meant to fork over the cash? Get fucked.
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I’ve already spewed up once today thanks to horrible smelling bio solids. But after reading a Life Hacker article on cooking parts of humans, I feel really off.
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Haha, yeah there was some talk a couple of pages back on TAY. All kinds of weird. I didn’t click the article. Don’t know how the thought of eating it even occurred to someone in the first place! D:
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Put it this way, he was NOT a fine young cannibal. haha.
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Pictures really don’t do the thing justice. It’s this bizarre silky looking slop.
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Nasty.
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Because in nature, it happens all the time!
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Weird. I don’t mean to sound so judgemental either. People can do whatever they like.
Just not for me! 😀
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Oh, I think that a person doing it is pretty weird. And I totally mean to sound judgemental.
But in nature? That shit has nutrients, bro. Super good.
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It’s hard to imagine any kind of meat feed that would have the same concentration of nutrients and vitamins. It’s a pretty amazing bit of hardware. I’d have trouble eating it, though, mostly because it would (in all likelihood) have come out of the woman I love.
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All good, thanks, man. Really getting into Mad Men. Excellent show. About 2/3 through season 1.
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Can’t wait until the new season. You’ve got a week to watch the first five!
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Ah good to hear you’re on the Mad Men band wagon. It’s a well written and produced show.
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BioShock Infinite isn’t the most graphic intensive game, I can play it on Ultra on my PC (which is pretty damn rare!) but it’s the stunning art direction that makes the game. Took these screenshots on Steam. The lighting and colours and all that, freakin’ awesome. (Don’t click on any of ’em until you’ve played. Don’t want to inadvertantly spoil any thing even if they’re not specifically spoilery.)
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I think you’d like it. If you wanted to skip them though and start at Infinite you probably could as well! (Though the first is unique in its own way that this game can’t even touch. Then Infinite is unique in a way that the first game doesn’t get close too as well. :D)
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I’ve already got the first one. Paid a whole $6 for it.
I gave away the copy of #2 that I won on Kotaku. Still have all the special edition stuff that came with it though!
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What are you waiting for!? *shakes fist*
A lot of people didn’t like the second game, but I thought it was decent!
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I dunno, I started it once, but I didn’t much care for the gameplay. Might give it another go, see if I can’t get to the bottom of why people rave about it!
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That first one reminds of when you exit Tephra Cave in Xenoblade Chronicles. Its dead silent, and you walk out of a cave on to this lookout and get your first glimpse of the Mechonis Titan across the ocean. Its the first time you really get a good idea of the scale of the game and what your up against. The complete lack of any music, and only the sounds of a slight breeze give it all the more impact
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Haha. So much weirdness in those games. I played for the first time on a non-HDTV so didn’t even bother using the in-game internet because I couldn’t read any of it. Looks like I dodged a bullet. I don’t need to see that! 😛
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Well I didn’t need to go to a rival MC’s website, a fellow brother suggested I check it out and laugh at how pathetic they are lol.
And I was like
Baby, baby, baby ooh
Like
Baby, baby, baby noo
Like
Baby, baby, baby ohh
I thought you’d always be mine (mine)
Baby, baby, baby ohh
Like
Baby, baby, baby noo
Like
Baby, baby, baby ohh
I thought you’d always be mine (mine)
I present for your re-consumption my 15000th post. Congratulations, @dc
Good night all. Good night, and good luck.
Started playing Peace Walker and all of a sudden a lot of all the upcoming Metal Gear teasers are starting to make more sense (Paz for one).
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well seeing as ground zeroes seems to be pretty much all about Paz, yeah peace walker is kinda important 🙂
Well we just finished the main story line of The adventures of Shiggy Shuggy
Was a really cool like puzzle game and well worth picking up. Lots of interesting twists as you progress so there was always a new challenge
Yay another game down this year
Well, that troglodyte I pointed out earlier has re-emerged.
What an unpleasant individual.
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And he’s not even the worst of them. :/
The thing that gets me is that I honestly believe that he is entitled to his opinion, just as I am entitled to mine, and I KNOW that no ammount of reasoning is going to change his twisted little mind, so I just bite my tongue – but man, it really hurts when you bite your tongue that hard. -
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While there’s a certain values in ignoring trolls, I can’t leave some of that bullshit pass without comment
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Yup, The New Normal has been deleted from my list of TV shows and this is the last episode I’m watching. It’s too overbearing with its messages. The show doesn’t seem to be subtle with its episode themes and topics compared to say Modern Family.
Too goody goody, if I can describe it that way. Especially the little girl Shania. Ugh.
Rocky remains awesome though.
Oh well too many other good shows to watch. ,
Weird 1am rant over 🙂
EDIT: Wrong information changed. I had confused season 1 with season 2. I thought I was on season 2 and apparently i’m still on season 1. I guess i’m never watching season 2 now 🙂
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That doesn’t surprise me at all. It shouldn’t have any viewers. The cast can go on Jimmy Fallon’s show all they like but it doesn’t make it good!
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Nonetheless, I love that Kojima tried to mess with the internets. Not many games do that (if any?)
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Oh, totally. There’s a real sense of fun to whatever marketing he has a hand in. And not necessarily calculated for clickbait, either. Just fun. 🙂
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Yup! It’s part of the appeal!
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Today’s going to be an exercise in looking like I’m doing a lot without actually doing much at all.
CHALLENGE ACCEPTED.
GO! Is playing the Godfather trilogy over the weekend. They are advertising it with dubstep. Da Fuq?
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I only like the first movie in the series.
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(edit) Morning TAY~
So The Phantom Pain was Metal Gear Solid V — I’m am and am not surprised at the same time.
But is Ground Zeroes also MGS V, since the trailer had scenes from both trailers.
I’m under the assumption that GZ will be a prequel to MGSV, since snake doesn’t have a left arm in the MGSV trailer.
But will the games be separate releases? Or will they be combined in one package Ala MGS2.
Also, MGSV/GZ Speculation.
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GZ a la Tanker, PP a la rest of the game.
Speculation? Grah, we could fill a fair few pages with that..
EDIT: OH GAWDS DAVID HAYTER ISN’T PLAYING SNAKE
EDIT 2: Kojima has tweeted
“Ground Zeroes” is a prologue of “MGSV”. 9 years after that event will be “The Phantom Pain”. MGSV is constructed w/ prologue and main game “TPP”. The game play demo I presented today is the opening of “TPP” which is tutorial that starts from crawling.”
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Except when he’s Akio Ootsuka.
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Actually, Hayter tweeted himself that he wasn’t asked to play Snake at all. But misdirection is a valid theory.
I hope.
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Maybe he wasn’t asked. Maybe he was told. Or maybe he already had a multi-game contract. Or maybe he was asked to play The Boss, who is no longer going by the moniker Snake.
#EternallyHopeful
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Wait, maybe that’s why David Hayter isn’t going to be voicing him.
MGSV spoilers
“Snake” falls in a trap and then gets his mask pulled of to reveal Old Man Jenkins-
It’s the ending we’ve been waiting for.
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Then Snake wakes up and it was all a dream.
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And by all I mean all. Every MGS was a dream.
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I would have conquered Outer Heaven if not for those meddling kids!
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Hey! Listen!
Theory 3
Snake doesn’t actually talk through the whole game. He gets captured by the King Koopa and it’s up to Raiden to defeat his evil Koopa squad and save Snake.
Good start to the day!
My pay didn’t go in which means I can’t afford to do anything this weekend as now it won’t get processed until next week.
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Looks like it’s the same for me. Disappointing since work’s been pretty good about making sure this hasn’t happened any other public holidays in the last few years.
Finally got to play episode 1 of The Walking Dead, only just noticed it was availble on Xbox Live.
Wow, that was pretty damn cool, already purchased all the other chapters, so I know what I am doing this long weekend.
Oh, also played a little Sleeping Dogs, not to shabby, that will be my action fix between episodes of Walking Dead.
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So far, so awesome.
Already reached the point where I like some people and absolutely despise others.
The one phrase that has constantly been coming to my mind while playing this is;
No good deed goes unpunished.
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MONSTER HUNTER!
We had an unsuccessful first day (PlatinumUrchin and I couldn’t connect), a successful second day which involved a lot of killing, a super failed third day as servers were down! but managed to finally get online again last night 😀
Plat, @hindenlagen and I stole some eggs and killed their dragon mother… MONSTERS before some random join the shenanigans. Hinden left and @sernobulus and @rize wanted to play… so BYE BYE random!
I was testing whether the others could play the harder Hunter Rank: 2 quests before being HR2 so I picked a pretty difficult monster I needed to kill to try it out (Barioth). Nob disconnected after a while and I thought he rage quit :O and Rize got destroyed as it was his first monster and he was severely undergeared… so safe to say we got destroyed and failed 😛
I then tried to explain that monster was hard in case Nob and Rize were super pissed off and thought about snapping the game disc but luckily it wasn’t too bad for them! We then did a bunch of easier kills and everyone had fun dancing and arm wrestling WOOOO I’M THE UNDEFEATED CHAMPION!
After a couple of hours we faced Barioth again and managed to kill it! Except Nob disconnected RIGHT AT THE END and we literally killed it in the next couple of hits :(. Aww man! But like I said on Twitter, I didn’t get the parts I needed (his tail) so we can do it again! 😀
Had a crack at another tough enemy (Lagiacrus) but got our asses handed to us and I died for the first time online :'(
EDIT: Ooo! forgot to mention @sernobulus ‘s hunting horn buffs were radical 😀
The Qurupeco one did a XS heal though which is completely unnoticeable though 😛
Did you guys play much more after I left?
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WHO’S JOINING TONIGHT!? OMG GONNA PLAY SO MUCH ON FRIDAY
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Destroyed Lagiacrus last night, and opened up the rest of the village 4* quests. Was actually surprised at how easy Lagiacrus was, I was expecting it to be much tougher. Didn’t even have to dip into my pots or mega pots, managed it on supply first aid and herbs.
Managed to forge some new LS as well, got a lightning and water LS handy now, going to try and get a poison and possibly para one built as well. Nice to have some elemental variety to choose from. My personal favorites are the high raw dmg and high sharpness blades though. Nothing available that’s tickling my junk on that front yet.
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Kill or repel? I was all prepared to fight it but it was just the repel quest 😛
He’s not too bad on land but underwater stuff just sucks… I just don’t know which way I’m going to dodge
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Yeah it was just the repel. Managed to cut his tail off though – which I always try to do, even on repels. Any breakage is handy.
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I think I’ve decided on a weapon finally. It only took 3 days. Heavy Bowgun is rad. In single player I’ve essentially been using it like a shotgun. It’s awesome.
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Shit, yeah. A good bow..gunner is heavenly for a team. I remember one time fighting a gobul (puffer-fish like monster) in a swamp. He was just chilling in the water, and our gunner was like ‘hold up for a second.’ We all stand still, and the dude just starts shooting into the water and hitting the gobul with 100% accuracy until the gobul jumps outta the water so the rest of us can start wailing on him. I’m not even sure we actually went underwater once for that quest.
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I’m keen to see how it goes at range, can’t really do that too much in single player since everything I’ve had to shoot has just come at me (bro).
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Haha, yeah, Bowgun plays really differently when it comes to SP vs MP. You’re either a godsend or completely useless.
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It’s not that I missed out on the kill, it’s the fact that I missed out in the loot from an extremely strong boss. I can almost promise that I will be short a weapon / armour craft because I wasn’t there for the first kill.
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If I wanted to get basically nothing for doing something I would just go back to work instead of playing games.
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Yeah, kill/loot is pretty much the same and I meant you missed out on the loot.
I just looked it up on the Wiki and in the user voted poll it has a 5 star difficulty rating :|. Seriously though, I hope to be doing it a lot more as well as the other HR2 stuff (which has all the bosses found later in offline mode). I wonder if completing the HR2 quest add to your completion for it since you didn’t have it unlocked yet.
I’m happy to help you reach HR2 as you should only have a few HR1 quests to clear up
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I’ll be on again! I’m actually going to look into items and such and get my weapon levelled up. Armour is manageable at the moment…even with -10 lightning I was blocking all of Lagia’s hits and I was the only one to not die 😛
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Plat, @hindenlagen and I stole some eggs and killed their dragon mother
You monsters :O
When i get a WiiU and Monster Hunt, I’m going to hunt YOU
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I know the internet has always been a den of cynicism and crap, but is it just me, or does it feel like it’s gotten exponentially worse in recent years? It just seems a race for people to who can say ‘That’s crap/boring/been done before’ or the equivalent of ‘Looks photoshopped’ first.
I know we’re a little more cynical and grumpy than we used to be, and once upon a time I’d chalk it up to getting older and less patient, but that doesn’t seem to be the case anymore. It’s like everyone wants to be cool by saying something looks crap or fake. Like somehow being impressed or excited by something is a sign of weakness, or fandom, or something equally stupid.
I mean I rant about people and stupidity, but I’m not afraid to get excited about something new or something that looks like it could be a lot of fun. Games, new tech, etc, I think I’m fairly open minded on that front. I just hate people is all.
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The sad mindset I’ve got now is “Looks/seems great… what’s the catch?” which I can’t help unfortunately
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Nah it’s just that thanks to Facebook and Twitter we see it all the time now.
All the negative crap gets to me at times, but lately I’m trying to see the whole internet as one big patience exercise machine. If you can see all the crap people say on the internet and be able to be calm about it, you can handle just about anything.-
I’ve adjusted by setting some boundaries as well. I’m not on social media at all anymore, and I (mostly) refuse to read comments on forums, articles, Youtube, etc. It’s not perfect, and I’m not pretending it isn’t there, but if I don’t need to expose myself to aggravating stigma, I won’t.
I have found my happiness levels somewhat improved though. But spending any quantity of time on the internet means you’re going to be exposed at some point. It doesn’t make me angry so much these days, but it does invoke a sense of despair and disappointment at times.
I guess I just find the whole phenomenon curious. I don’t remember life being so negative before social media, basically. Hell, even my teenage years on IRC felt less negative than now. But that was 15 years ago, so I don’t know.
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I’m just really picky about where I go online now. Which is basically just TAY as a semi public forum and any MP is with people I’ve known online for many years. I don’t bother with pubbers any more 🙁
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It’s not just you. As you said, there are a whole bunch of grumpy bastards just like you.
Wuv you
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She doesn’t come to our humble corner anymore. She’s big time now. And has the grace not to come her and wallow in her own crapulence ala @sughly and @shane what with their laughing at us unimportant folk.
Uh. Whoops. Got carried away. Happy birfdae @harli.
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You still have @sughly
Edit: And @Yellowius
Edit 2: Also, it’s really hard to leave forever if people keep replying to my posts 😛
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Jerks and nerds. I’m talking the real deal. Literature. Classy and educated writer folk.
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I will let you know if I ever meet one.
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GAMES ARE ART!
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@dire_wolf disagrees
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GAMES ARE REPLICANTS!
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@tigerion Hah! I actually agree with Sughly on this one.
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@dire_wolf
Damn, guess I can put the popcorn away then
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#happybirthdayhashtagsforharli
#endlesslylonghashtagsforharlythataren’tactuallyendlessandendrightaboutnow
omg, i only just saw this! Thank you so much everyone, @f4ction @freezespreston @shane @greenius @chuloopa @dc @tech_knight @tigerion
I am humbled! Thank you thank you thank you.
Played some more Dark Souls last night. Died twice against that Asylum Demon till I figured out to use that jump attack at the start. Pwned everything else with Soul Arrows. Running around with your shield up seems like a smart thing to do as well, as a couple times a bad guy will jump in out of no where and take a swipe at me.
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If you can survive a short distance into the next area, there’s a hidden merchant who can sell you some equipment that you’ll need more than levels. But if you’re not confident, you can level up now and grind a little in the next area for the same result 🙂Also, after the next boss
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I’d recommend checking out the Dark Souls wiki if you’re up for that kind of play. It’s one of the few games where knowing what’s about to happen will help you get the most enjoyment and most experience out of the game. There’s so much that it’s possible to miss.
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Well I’ve learnt how to jump but I still have no idea how to actually cast miracles
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….you can jump?
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@phlaiman
Yep, when you are sprinting if you tap the sprint button you will jump
Don’t worry, I was much further through the game than you before I worked that out
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Level up if you have enough souls. You will always get more and one (well technically two) stupid moves and they are all lost.
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I went out for a few hours yesterday and when I came back and tried to catch up there were three pages of stuff to read. I skipped most of it. These days if you’re not around at the time it’s way easier to just start at the current page.
Oh and even though I went out yesterday and the day before, I forgot to take that swatch with me to post to you. My apologies. I need a post system like in America where you put outgoing letters into your own letterbox. Or maybe a brain that works. 😛
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I have bought so many Space Marines. Bought some base coats yesterday so I’ll give them a base soon (still have to figure out exactly what paint scheme I want for them though).
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I’m not sure yet.
As I mentioned to tigs and another mate, I’m absolutely SLAMMED with uni.
I also just got a new Tac squad from ebay, meanwhile i haven’t had the time to pick up a brush in weeks!
Man i hate uni…And what you mean you don’t know what scheme to use? Aren’t you doing BLUHD ANGALS!!!??
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Successor chapter, bro. Stock BA’s are cool and all, but I didn’t buy like five boxes of Death Company to make my ‘normal’ squads look all pimpin’ for nothing.
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DON’T MENTION THE WAR!!!
Never mind that they are now FANATICALLY loyal to the imperium, despite the whole hunt for the fallen thing. 😛Meanwhile you have the Blood Angels who are basically crazy Space Vampires.
If anything we shouldn’t be slinging stones at each other, but rather kicking the sacks of the “perfect marines”…. damn ultra smurfs haha
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Bioshock talk:
I liked the original Bioshock. I liked the setting, i liked the ideas behind Rapture; the idealistic capitalism, free from intervention. I also liked how part of the history of the world could be read from Rapture’s current state – security cameras everywhere, gun turrets, two men rising to the top and vying for total control of the city… with out a word of dialogue or written text, it speaks of corruption, dissent and violence… a world that went from the capitalism in its purest form to that of a socialist dictatorship.
however…
Bioshock Infinite stuff:
spoilers for the first 2 hours or so
Colombia…. just wow. So far, this game is far more amazing & engrossing than Bioshock 1. I went into Infinite blind. I knew nothing other than that it was set on a floating city.
first of all, the trip to Colombia. up the top of the lighthouse when these epic tones start playing in response to your signal… made me jump. reminded me of the end of Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind.
I was always told how Bioshock 1 was scary. I never got that though… Infinite however, I am finding really, really creepy. this facade of Stepford perfection, thinly veiling a horrific culture of violent racism & religious fundamentalism… its like as if you were out on a date at a nice restaurant with a fun & attractive person who smiles all the time, but they keep blinking in morse code ‘h-e-l-p. m-e.’
The more you find out about this city, the more…. wrong it feels. Why did they secede for the US? because they executed a bunch of Chinese immigrants & the US Government wanted to hold them accountable. So they ran. They’ll take all their rights, but wont accept the responsibility that comes with it.
Also, its far more violent than the first two. press ‘v’ to melee. ok, so i do. BAM holy shit! that guys head fell off o_O
damn…. I’m only 2 hours in, but this is most likely gonna make it into my top games of the year.
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I’m 9 hours in. I think that’s about 3/4 of the way through. If the game is going to deliver an M. Night Shamalamadingdong level twist, the last quarter is the place to do it. Nevertheless I really need to talk about this game.
Low Level Spoilers. Going to talk about gameplay and design here.
The game really is good looking; yet it’s disappointing to see a number of environments where corners were cut in order to show-horn the game onto consoles (through cutting back poly count, textures are still pretty). PC Mustard Race, etc, but if the game had been PC exclusive it would have been at a whole other level again.
The game is probably the most linear “corridor” shooter I’ve ever played. That’s really disappointing. I find this odd because Columbia itself appear so much more like a city than Rapture did. There’s just never any sense of moving about the city, only of moving towards your next objective through disconnected “zones”. I feel that this comes from the lack of Skyrails. The few clips I saw before launch seemed to suggest that Skyrails were integral to Columbia and Gameplay. A bunch of Gear upgrades also suggest that Skyrails are important, but they’re simply not. They’ve been usable in 3 set combat pieces so far, and none of those were “boss” fights. The only reason for any backtracking is the locked chests. These require keys, but because of the game’s linear nature, and the self contained chapters, the chest’s key will always be in the same “zone”.
The only resource management is deciding which gun you want as your backup in the case you happen to run out of shotgun ammo. Once you find the Hand Cannon revolver, it should probably be that – it one shot kills with a headshot against any basic enemy, and it’s got a highly accurate hip shot.
I don’t mind that Vapours = Plasmids. I do mind that Electricity and Fire are outright better. It was not difficult to fully upgrade Devil’s Kiss, and I can now end most fights with a single well placed shot.High Level Spoilers. Story/Character stuff here.
Lutece twins are best supporting characters. Elizabeth is not believeable.Current opinion.
In the end, it doesn’t compare to BioShock; that’s disappointing. It’s still probably going to be the best big-budget game that comes out this year (unless MGS5 is actually 2013); that’s a different kind of disappointing. The slew of 10/10 scores is unfounded.Also, the more I play, the more I draw links to Perdido Street Station/Iron Council.
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What’s up?
I suggest you hang your bleach wall scroll on some random person’s front door – who knows, you might make a new bleach fan??
It feels like Friday.
I cannot handle this tampering with my sense of time.
Quick, someone say something Thursday-ish.
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I got my payslip at least
“Hello, I’d like to pay my rent. What do you mean you don’t accept payslips as payment? How odd.”
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I have to work a 12 hour shift for late night shopping so it definitely doesn’t feel like Friday.
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ok.
man… I wish it was the weekend tomorrow.Edit: missed the opportunity for Thursday http://youtu.be/8-cepZ6K7mY
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Ah, Thursday. That takes me back to last Thursday when I watched Warrior and Take Shelter. It was a good one.
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But I wanna play MH!
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So between Bioshock Infinite and now all this MGS5 stuff when I haven’t played MGS4, I’m going to have to be super-careful where I go on the internet. Maybe even stay off it altogether for a while.
Hmm,that would be interesting,actually. Can I go a week without internet? Maybe I should try that in the school holidays.
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…to the dungeon with you! 😛
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If I Die In Battle – Van Canto
With the added bonus of hearing my son sing along. He thinks it’s called “Fly By Metal” and sings along accordingly. He also throws the horns to punctuate the word ‘Metal!’. 😀-
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I listened to that and enjoyed it much more than the last time I listened to them. Might have to check out the albumn
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Yay! I actually think it’s their best. Also, if you end up liking them, and haven’t already checked Heavatar out then you should. It’s Stefan(the guy that does the “guitar” solos in Van Canto)’s new project where he’s the lead vocalist and plays a real guitar.
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Double Life (Alias OST) — Michael Giacchino is great too. (Haha! I’m sorry, that’s enough links!)
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This game used to be for the fun. Now you’ve turned it into a commercial venture. Monster.
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To be fair, I’ve listened to them all this morning. 😛
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Also, I believe he’s cheating by posting more than one. 😛
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You guys sound mad. Maybe another Giacchino song will cheer you up? 😀
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Too busy listening to Heavatar. 😀
By the way, did you listen to my song up there? It’s safe for DCs. It’s a cappela. 🙂
Edit: just checked out your link. I’ve heard that song way too much, thankyou. 😛
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Haha! I listened, still not my kind of thing. Don’t mind me, though. I’m a music imposter! 😛
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Oh I knew you wouldn’t like it. I just wanted you to know it was safe and unscary.
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Oh god, my willpower is no match for @dc subliminal sale tactics.
MUST.BUY.T.V.SHOWS.AND.MOVIES.
Just Impolite – Plushgun
Anyone who would like a cross between the good stuff in blink 182 with the synth melodies of the postal service should check this band out, Just saying 😛
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I spoke to him last night on Steam. He seems well. He says he’s not in trouble at work any more and his productivity has gone up. Also says he misses TAY.
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Ah so just busy at work. Like me two weeks prior. Except @spaghett was like an institution here so his absence is sorely missed.
Good luck with your work @spaghett!!
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Nah, he got in trouble for using too much internet at work, unfortunately. :'(
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Oh shit! Well I’ll keep an eye out for him on steam.
PS, I’ve been there 🙁 Seem to be able to get away with it now though 🙂
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I miss you Ash 😀
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/hugs
/teary reunion :’)
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Posted this on Twitter, but: Melbournites- My brother is coming over for your comedy festival! He’s also in your newspaper today:
If you go see him, I can get his stuff out of my spare room quicker. He’s also in a show for kids if you have those, Mr Snot Bottom’s Stinky Silly Show.
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I think you meant to type http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Dark_Eldar. It’s okay though. I understand that mistakes happen.
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MY BRA IS A FACE – YOUR ARGUMENT IS INVALID!
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. A common musing is that they are ambitious, sex-crazed, easily shot down, boat-and-plane-loving pseudo-aristocrats haunted by a dark curse – ergo, they’re not vampires, but, in fact, the Kennedys.
Hahaha. This is the best codex site ever. Why have I only just knowing about this?
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You can spend a lifetime reading the best articles at this site, by the way.
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I only just discovered it a little while ago as they also have some REALLY good tactics pages that are equally informative and hilarious.
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LEGO City Undercover GET!
Waitaminute… this game has cheat codes? Cheat codes!? In a modern video game!? I don’t know what to say.
…I’ll be back later.
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I’m looking forward to playing that. My sister is buying it and that means I’ll get to play it too! 😛 (Otherwise I probably wouldn’t buy it at launch. Haha.)
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You woldnt but it a launch? I think you mean you wouldnt buy it a lunch. We all know that, considering your ability to pull any and all EB women, why would you settle for a measly Lego sort.
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@novacascade
I got the cloak back. Do you want me to take the cloak up by 10-20 centremetres? I need to know before I can start painting it.
@blaghman
If you could get me a scan of the wanderer it would be ever so helpful
Oh god, worst page get ever
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Or, Best page get ever!?
Also if you want to get into contact with Glaghmang I think he was around on Twitter.
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I AM AROUND EVERYWHERE ALL THE TIME FOREVER*! MUAHAHAHAHAHA.
*Except for those times and places which I am not.
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Sorry scree, been at work all day. Yeah you could bring it up if you want. Probably around 10-15cm would be good. That should bring to around mid-shin level, that should be great.
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Damnit. Just caught myself searching around for local 40k stockist. I already freed myself from that money sink.
Damnit @chuloopa you foul temptress.
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Black Cultist is super-cheap
Also Slave To Painting now stock 40k for a nice discount..
Just saying.Also, those new Dark Eldar?? Sooooo beautiful!
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Konami code.
It’s embarassing how long it took me to realise that the letter V could be used as a down arrow.
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Today’s the first I realised. /o\
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I spent way too much time playing that advertisement.
Oddly enough I can’t stand 7Up.
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I don’t like it when a story is pinned to the topped of the main page. I keep getting fooled into thinking there’s no new articles.
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Yeah, not a fan either. If they want to keep the pinning thing it should be identifiable as a pinned article.
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Yup, atleast highlighted or something noticeable. When the PS4 was revealed I thought there was no new posts for a day because of the top article. =P
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Send him a picture of your disapproving mum look to Serrels telling him you’re not angry, just very disappointed.
BioShock Infinite…
… has got me listening to a gospel song outside of the game. I’m not sure I care for that. Haha!
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I just like it for the atmosphere, I think. Set’s the scene nicely and says something about the characters and world. Would not listen to it otherwise. 😀
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True Grit remake…
It’s like the time I had Leaning on the Everlasting Arms stuck in my head cause of that last scene.Song creeps me out, but was good for atmosphere and setting the scene.
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Yeah I get that. There’s plenty of jebus inspired music I like, despite me having zero care for jebus or religion. Laura Marling for instance has a lot of religious references, but like bdkiaf says – good music is good music.
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Fuck that guy. There are enough presents on his birthday, he wants a cake too? Dick.
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Additionally, with what the others have said, if I ignored all music that had anything to do with religion, I would not be able to listen to… all the “classical” music that I listen to.
Then again, I do have a soft spot for some hymns and the like. I blame being in a choir.
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Circle Pad Pro XL get!
It’s freakin’ huge!
I have to use both hands the whole time.
But it’s quite fun to play with.
In your endo.
TAY! Where have you been all my life?
I’ve been AFT (Away from Tay) for a couple of weeks now, was holidaying with the family down at Jervis Bay, NSW.
What’s been happening everyone?
@spaghett Lost in Hollywood – System of a Down
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Rize you’re a genius! I actually never realised how appropriate my name was in relation to my work (I did ~800kms yesterday)!
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Haha yeah, came into work this morning, one of the guys said they did o/t. So I’m like you were probably in bed by the time I knocked off. He goes I don’t think so, I didn’t finish until 6:30.
I told him to come see me when he finishes up at 9:30 like I did. It shut him up haha
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So much work, so little motivation.
I am sure I am the only sucker who actually bothered to turn up for work in this building.
Methinks it is time for a little game of Office Chair Gondola.
So I was doing some paperwork at work when i saw an item we sell called a knob straddler. I almost spat coffee on my desk. That is all 😀
So I did a quick search of the floor I work on to see who else actually came in to work today.
Number of people usually in my department: 10 (including me)
Number of people actually in today: 2 (including me)
… I shouldn’t have come in today
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I’m actually really tempted to do that, but that would leave the other guy to do all the work if we get anything last minute.
Darn Responsibilities!
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I cant help but imagine them all somewhere with party hats on laughing about how you weren’t invited
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Unfortunately I look a little like my brother (not really, but there’s a resemblance.)… I didn’t go to parties at high school, yet some how I was known as that guy who got stoned at the party the other night and was teased relentlessly. It was my brother. Learnt lots of stories about him just by people thinking I was him. 😛
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We keep hearing about this “brother” but noone had ever seen him. Dissociative disorder?
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Could say the same about your brother. Awful convenient for him to be in Perth, huh? 😛
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I definitely shouldn’t have come in today. Just heard that a job I am on was issued to be constructed when I clearly stated it was a draft. Why don’t people ever listen. =/
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Ehhh, while this is true, I’ve a) seen it a number of times already, and b) wont otherwise have the time
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I rewatched it again recently. The amount of fan service kind of blindsided me. I swear there wasn’t that much when I first watched it.
I kept having to look over at wifey to make sure she didn’t see what I was watching.
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This is turning out to be really, really fun!
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2013/03/awesome-accountant-makes-rpg-game-inside-microsoft-excel/
Aw. My eldest daughter just called me in tears because she came last in a cross country race. Apparently she was coming fifth then fell over and ended up doing the shame run in by herself 20 seconds behind everyone else. Poor little tyke was so upset.
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I seriously hate that stuff. There’s no way around all that aspect of competition and feeling of failure at school 🙁
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Yeah. Her school is particularly bad with stuff like that though. Luckily it’s her last day there and her new school has less students total than just her grade currently.
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She fell over and everybody passed her? Wow cross country sure has gotten competitive! Back in my day (:P) cross country used to take all day because of the people at the back of the pack that slow-walked the entire course haha
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Yeah, in high school there were always people who were walking at the back and they encouraged it too (rather than taking a day off :P)
I can’t remember it in primary school but I’m pretty sure it was way more competitive…
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They are doing it wrong! When I did it I always walked it. The sooner you finish it the sooner you go back to class. =P
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Or if the technique catches on, become the winner http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAADWfJO2qM
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In all foot races, cross country or sprinting, you walk. That way when you finish in a terrible position there’s no shame because you can say that you weren’t really trying.
My opinion on BioShock Infinite so far:
http://staging.kotaku.com.au/2013/03/talk-amongst-yourselves-217/comment-page-16/#comment-1118188
I skipped about 18 hours of Uni this week because I was sick and I’m in a lecture right now and… zzzz so boring, I enjoyed my time off! >:P
Luckily my one week “mid-semester” break starts tomorrow so WOOOO! but I have an assignment due for a subject I literally know nothing about and this also means I have 8 more straight weeks of Uni :/
While sick I just sat on my ass and played Monster Hunter all day :P. I checked out my play time and since Saturday I’ve averaged like 8 hours per a day… shieeeeeet D:
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Oh man it’s so hard going back after the year break :/. I think I had like 3 and a half months of holidays.
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I had 15 months off and I was glad when Uni finally started. Doing nothing gets too boring!
But thank god for the break. I’m over Uni now.
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I’m going to play BioShock Infinite, but The Cave is still 50% off on Steam! You guys should get it! That is all!
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I ended up staying up till 1:30. Its hard to find a point where I dont feel in the middle of something. Maybe thats why I overall prefer open world games, its clear when Im just messing around.
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I find the same with BioShock, I explore for literally half an hour and quit the game, then it takes me to a checkpoint before the exploring. I realize exploring is optional and I could just run to the next objective, but I just wish the save points were placed better.
Tomb Raider is incredible. Good month for games! 😀
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Sounds like you could do with some Dark Souls 😛
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Don’t think I’ll ever play that again. Haha!
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Saying “Haha!” does not get you out of trouble. 😛
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I should commit then.
Never. Playing. Dark Souls. Again. >:|
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@dc That’s kind of silly. You said yourself you had some fun with it and weren’t in the right mood for it when you tried it.
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The more I think about it, the more I think I’ll always be in that mood when I play. Haha.
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@dc You mean the stubborn mood? 😛
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I don’t like that games still use save points. If Xenoblade lets you save wherever andDark Souls can save every ten seconds then why can’t all the other games do similar things? Games should all at the very least have a one-use quicksave like on handhelds so people can do whatever life demands of them and then when they can go back to their game they don’t need to play for half their playtime before they’re even back to where they were the last time they stopped.
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Almost all phone/tablet games do this too (apparently). Mainstream games just need to catch up!
I don’t pity that task @redartifice has of trying to mold my dual shock responses into something articulate and interesting
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Shut the hell up before I punch you in the face
The topic is how violence in games is discussed
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Position target in the centre, and pull the switch. Position target in the centre, and pull the switch. Position target in the centre, and pull the switch.
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Attempting to not think about it until it gets cheaper. Not sure how long the resolve will last.
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I don’t even have a 3DS. I’ll probably never play it. :'(
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I’ll hold out with you 😀
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Maybe you’re just restless. Go for a walk or something. You might be able to concentrate better after that.
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You’ll be at the birthday meat, right? 😀 (Night of April 6!)
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Most likely.
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http://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/98106
FREE XBOX GAMES AND A 2 WEEK XBOX LIVE GOLD TRIAL!
The games are The Maw and Toy Soldiers which I don’t know anything about but I hear they’re both alright!
It’s super easy to do too (just follow the instructions in the post) and I’ve done it twice (codes below) and I’ve claimed the games on my Australian account.
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I heard The Maw was good but it was short so I’m keen on it. No idea about Toy Soldiers though.
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The Maw Was ok. Toy Soldiers is a tower defence sorta game but you can take control of your “towers” as well as snipers tanks and planes. Its fun and depending on the level quiet challenging
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I did it again for the lazy people, so have some free codes!
73GFH-XMPMC-66GHG-VFK32-GM4RZ – The Maw
QCYHM-6M4MF-G7FW2-WV3RP-2JMJZ – Toy Soldiers
MDXMM-PVT4R-723PB-Q49JF-X8WJT – 2 week Xbox Live Gold trial
You can just claim them on Xbox.com but post if you’ve taken them so people don’t waste time re-entering a used one.
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I did it four times, so have two codes for each game and 4x trials. Haven’t yet decided what I’m going to do with them. Can I use multiple trials back to back? Terms and conditions say “nope” but I wonder if it’s technically feasible 🙂
Spare code for MAW: FDRC4-T7HCP-YWTTD-PVDQK-FDVRZ
Spare code for TS: Q4HXV-X7CVP-7WV3T-CJGJJ-XV66ZAs with greenius’ post, I’d appreciate if you let us know when you claim the code!
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So you claim Shane’s codes but not mine?
HMPF, I SEE HOW IT IS.
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Just accept it. @rize is clearly racist
against green people
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I believe you can use them one after the other but not at the same time (ie. can’t use it while you’re already on a trial)
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Sweet. I might just go and collect 30 or 40 of them then. Best use of afternoon possible.
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Codes may expire though but I dunno! Might as well try 😀
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Whoa… theyve been doing construction on a new townhouse nearby since I moved in here, but today theyre doing something which is making my whole place shudder. It’s like being in one of those simulation rides at movie world. Weeee!
Holy cow this lecture ended early and now I have like a 2 hour 40 minute break of nothingness :/
I really like this subject though and it’s probably my favourite and I’m considering doing it for a career! (finance lending stuffs)
Now who wants to TAY for a few hours with me? 😀
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I’m scared to DM you cause you’ll be all UGH GREENIUS, LOOK AT THESE EMAILS I NEVER WANT TO TALK TO HIM AGAIN >:(
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Aw man, I hope that didn’t offend you. I genuinely found it funny, that’s why I shared the screenshot. 🙁
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Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate 3DS XL without Circle Pad Pro but with Circle Pad Pro igloo nine trousers gnomes?
WHAT’S THE SECOND HALFFFF
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I think it was Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate 3DSXL With the Circle Pad Pro But…something…Circle Pad Pro…something…
…OK, I forgot 😛
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I mean I know we get electronic versions of manuals built in for some systems, like Vita/3DS, but it’s not the same. It makes me sad.
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I was quite saddened by Monster Hunter’s sheet of paper with just the controls on it…
Most RPGs are pretty good though having coloured manuals (!) with character portraits and pretty art (!!) 😀
I don’t read them but they’re cool to flip through.
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As far as Monster Hunter is concerned, I prefer having the ability to bring the electronic manual up on the controller. I definitely don’t miss having to get up and find the case to find out how to use a new weapon.
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Yeah, like most of them are digital now and I put that last bit in because I don’t actually use them but it’s cool to have something physical to flip through.
I use my phone and the Wiki/Board posts for MH info (and any other info for other games I guess)
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Seriously. The one I just got for LEGO City is a single-sheet pamphlet (with a third of it advertising the physical LEGO City sets) 😛
My first Snacktaku post … or should it be Lunchtaku? Sausage roll, satay beef pie, Pepsi Max and Hello Kitty Jelly Bellys. Yes there is such a thing. Don’t judge me.
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I have seen the Jelly Belly soft drinks around, but not tried them. They do look awesome though.
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They’re only about 80% as good as you think they are, which is to say they’re about 180% better than other soft drinks.
@sughly, it really is a thing. You can get them in ACT IGAs.
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:O !
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Probably got talked about already, but that use of Garbage’s Not Your Kind of People in the MGS trailer is so amazing.
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Shirley Manson is fantastic. She’s also pretty durned easy on the eyes. And she’s Scottish. Dat accent.
Hngh.
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After almost a year of saving up coke unleashed tokens, I finally managed to redeem them for a reward today 😛 In just 6-8 weeks time (plus shipping time) I’ll own a crappy Ice watch that I’ll probably never wear anyway. Woo!
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You have to wait for the right time. They have sale kind of things on regularly. I got a bunch of handy vouchers and an Experia Play phone from them a year or so ago.
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They relaunched the site as Coke Rewards, so I figured that it’s probably as good as it’s going to be for a while. I still have 850 points, so hopefully something else comes along other than the Coke branded stuff.
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Mini story time.
Gather round ladels and jellyspoons.
So at work at the moment the bosses are looking to hire some new developers, today was the first round of interviews and everyone was supposed to look professional … I wasn’t told this. So I rock up to see everyone wearing business type clothes and looking all proper and I’ve got jeans, tshirt, steel cap boots and a look of sheer horror on my face … which because of the lack of coffee kind of came across as amusement and confusion.
The bosses are basically telling everyone to be on their best behaviour and junk before singling out me and one of the developers and saying “I need you two to to pretend to be normal and under no circumstances say anything. We want these developers to sign the contract before realising that you’re both bouncing baskets of insanity” … both the developer and I just kind of looked at each other and grinned, proud our past work has been recognised before agreeing to the terms.
Fast forward to the interviewees being shown the offices.
They’re going around to all the little developer play pens set up and just being introduced to everyone and get a feel for the company, throughout all of this the bosses are watching me like a hawk, daring me to say something. I continue working and pretend I can’t feel them trying to glue my face shut with their minds. The guy comes over introduces himself and we start talking about various idiots we’ve dealt with … this turns into a veritable pissing contest with neither one conceding and to be fair he had some pretty hilarious and wtf moments. The bosses are mortified and I think I can see one of them trying to find something to throw at me without alerting my new nemesis … he begins unplugging a printer. I try to wrap up our impromptu contest with my ace of an idiot who spent 40 minutes trying to sign into the system by somehow ended up creating a gmail account and signing up for pay tv. The bosses aim the printer at my head, he’s not even caring about discretion any more … he rears back and my new savior concedes that I have won and moves on. We notice the entire office is flicking between myself, the boss who is holding a printer above his head and the interviewee. No one speaks until the boss puts the printer back and moves on to show the interviewee the other room.
A few minutes later the boss comes back in, glares at me for a good few minutes before muttering something about me being lucky. Turns out the guy loved the feel of the offices and was glad that there was some livelihood in the place.
END!
EDIT: Seeing at it’s easter on the weekend, the receptionist just went out and grabbed a butt tonne of chocolate to share around the offices and the boss has started flicking tiny cadbury cream eggs at me.
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Sitcoms are terrible and not funny. The fact that his story is funny means it’s not a sitcom. (Unless it’s one of those funny single camera ones.)
DC. Can’t. Tell. Jokes. 😛
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Single camera wha? …
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Traditional multicam sitcoms are on sound stages in front of studio audiences with more than one camera on the cast. I don’t find these ones to be particularly funny. Haha. Single camera comedies are shot like dramas. (Scrubs, 30 Rock, The Office, etc.)
Man, I suck at this joke thing. I’m going to go brood somewhere. 😛
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No, I think you are okay in the joke departments. I just have no idea when it comes to Films & Television. (Just FYI, I meant one of the ones not shot with studio audiences. You know, the ones that are actually funny).
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… there there dc, no brooding for you. Not on Rex Manning Day!
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Single camera comedies are still sitcoms, well some of them are.
Basically the difference is if they are shot as if they were a stage show (three camera) or if they were a movie (single camera). Most people can work out what is what based on that.
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You’re sort of right.
The reason you’re right though is that the majority of sitcoms that haven’t been cancelled in the last 10 years or so have been single camera shows. The only multi camera ones I can think of that are worthwhile are Friends and Seinfeld, and they sure as hell aren’t recent.
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CBS in the U.S. still love their multicam. How I Met Your Mother uses a multicam setup too. (Only without the studio audience.) Oh man, my joke was stupid. 😛
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Comedies currently airing on CBS:
Two and a Half Men
How I Met Your Mother
The Big Bang Theory
Rules of Engagement
Mike & Molly
2 Broke GirlsAll multi cam as far as I know. And for the most part horrible. HIMYM is the only bearable one, and even that’s pushing it sometimes.
It may not have been a great joke, but the point is more interesting than you may have intended.
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Big Bang Theory is fairly popular recent show, also Two and a Half men.
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Not that they are really funny, but they are popular.
Multicam shows are also significantly cheaper to produce, which means that they don’t need to be as successful to continue.
Are sitcoms still around? Honestly, you might be onto something there … My life is a sitcom minus the laugh track, that’s kind of sad and creepy.
Some people get boring lives, I get this
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So.. A sitcom then..?
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For some reason I associate sitcom with badly lit, multicam ones with jokes that appeal to the widest amount of people. Haha! I don’t really consider stuff like Scrubs and 30 Rock to be sitcoms even though they fit the definition. 😀
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Well that would explain why you hate sitcoms then! You only count the bad stuff!
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Looking at a list of sitcoms shot in multicam and a list of ones shot with single cam I have to say, I can’t tell a difference between them. Maybe I’d be able to with a side by side comparison, but just thinking about the shows I can’t really recall that much of a difference between any of them.
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Usually the production values seem a lot higher on single camera ones. The sets and actors are lit better, because three cameras don’t need to be shooting at once. Makes it look more ‘real’… also multicam tends to only shoot sets from one perspective. You don’t see the forth wall and all that. Also single cam goes out on location a lot more.
There’s an episode of Scrubs that shoots like a traditional sitcom. 30 Rock live episodes too.
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Well, I thought it was a sitcom but everyone was all “they aren’t funny”. I am so confused /o\
I just won’t talk / get involved in any type of talk about TV & Movies. I think that is my best bet!
Just ignore all my confusing posts. XD
@dc has just been spending too much time with @sughly and hats everything now.
It’s worth noting that I wasn’t a fan of shooting stuff in multicam at uni too. Love the control and precision of single cam set up. 😀
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It’s single camera, @dc 😉
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Single camera on @dc?
JESUS CHRIST POWALEN
Eww no thanks!
So how ’bout Tofu’s amusing story! It’s like he works on the set of a funny comedy or something! 😛
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Comedic situation, or comsit for short.
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Well, I just failed horribly. Went upstairs to help my Grandmother, as she dodders around a lot fussing, and the aim is to try and reduce her workload as much as possible. So I grabbed some stuff to take out of the dishwasher(she dries things after taking them out of the dishwasher. WHY, GRANDMA, WHY?), proceeded to herp the derp, and drop them, breaking three bowls.
I feel like I should just avoid trying to help.
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It all makes sense now
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Chuloopa I wrote you a lymerick
Cause now that seems to be my shtick
Page 18 is half through
So this next line’s for you
Boobs fart piss twat balls dick-
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You’re only human.
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I picked up Luigi’s Mansion 2 during my lunch break. It might be the first 3DS game that I finish, I plan on playing it at work next week. I may or may not have been reading Night Watch all day today.
“Ground Zeroes and The Phantom Pain are two separate games,”
KOOOJJIIIIIIMMMAA
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Not so bad – that’s not even his final form. Perfect Master Troll Kojima would release the two games on separate consoles.
Worked at the primary school again today. Sooooo much awkward!
Got approached by a kid (I’m assuming he was special needs, cos he spoke REALLY slow), but he introduced himself and asked why I was there etc.. then reached out to shake my hand… I shook it to be nice of course, but got me wondering.. isn’t there some sort of policy about not touching children or something? Does a hand shake fall in to that category too? Never had a student do something like that before.. was he some kind of undercover super school spy?! :0 PANIC!
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I think there’s nothing wrong with being polite and reciprocating. As long as you don’t linger or hang around or do anything odd, it’s fine. In fact you’ll probably look weirder recoiling in horror from a kid who just wants to say hi.
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yeah that’s what I figured. Just with all these rules these days about child protection, one can never assume. Always best to KNOW!
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ZAAAANKOKUUUU NA TENSHIII NO THEESIIS!
Havent skipped an opening yet. Totally had to google for spelling.
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Haha! I don’t understand people who skip opening credits! Sometimes they’re my favourite part of a show. 😀
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Yeah same. They get you in the mindset for the show. Always turn down the request to skip them from whatever company I’m with, despite their unhappiness about it.
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That reminds me of the episode of SG1 where they had a TV producer or something into the SGC
They start by saying they would have a big long opening sequence and the TV guy goes that’s so 5 years ago and then the SG1 statement starts but lasts for about 10 seconds -
That episode annoyed me so bad when it first aired, but later I came to realise how clever it was 😛
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HBO ones are especially good. Six Feet Under and Game of Thrones in particular. Then Mad Men on AMC.
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The Walking Dead too. And Oz, The Sopranos, and many others that I will mention here in edits.
Edit: Freaks and Geeks was a great intro, even though it used existing music 🙂
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If I’m watching a show back to back, I skipp the end credits fo the first and the opening of the second….
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I tend to skip them after I’ve seen them once or twice unless they’re really good. Evangelion’s is one that is never skipped.
why isnt the 3rd film released in Australia already?!
yes. I’m asking you, Sughly. I’m holding you accountable for this. hop to it.
not really
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Japanese BD release is on the 24th of April. It won’t hit US/Australia until months after that because Japan is terrified of reverse-importation.
Has Kotaku reported on Saints Row IV? Mighty Ape are claiming it’s been announced – I must have missed that. Anyway, it’s coming out in August.
#PerfectForPage18News
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Are you guys holding out on me? Holding some secret TAY that I’m not invited to? 🙁
That really hurts, you know.
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yeah, there was a few short articles about it last week. sort of came outta the blue that one. & releasing so soon…
i know its probably been in production for a while, but it feels rushed.
either way, I’ll be getting it.
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I’m not bothered, because I absolutely loved Saints Row 3. It looks like it’s actually using a lot of the same assets as 3, so I guess that’d explain how they pushed it out so quickly.
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I’m not saying that it is rushed, just that how it went from nothing to suddenly BAM HERES A TRAILER. SEE YOU IN 12 WEEKS.
I mean in a world where trailers have teaser trailers, and those teasers’ release dates that are teased with stills… this just seems sudden.
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Oh no, I get what you’re saying. Apparently the cancelled DLC pack was folded into this game, so they had really been working on it for a while. I mean, the CoD games come out every year and they’re always pretty well made.
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Due to alternating Dev teams each COD has a 2yr cycle. SR3 was released late 2011? So that’s 18mths. Pretty decent considering as you said they seem to be using assets from 3.
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Hooray, GTA style game that remembered to be fun.
IMO GTA 4 was the most boring GTA in history, you start as no one and end as no one with a bit of cash in your pocket, Versus, any other GTA where you start as no one and end up the Damn hell ass King of everything with cash, airports, car lots etc. Had a lot more fun with Saint’s Row 2 & 3 than i did with stupid GTA 4 (excluding online shenanigans with friends)
Mini rant over
Edit: I was impressed with the euphoria engine in GTA 4 the physics were amazing, which is something Saints Row Lacks, but still overall enjoyed Saints Row much more
Double edit: hid that in case anyone considered it a spoiler
You probably won’t see this for a while because Easter, but a fair while back before THQ imploded, at one of their investor calls they revealed that the Saints Row guys were working on a new game.
At the time it was titled “The Next Great Sequel in the Saints Row Franchise”. I’m bummed that they didn’t keep that title as it was ace and clearly in keeping with the series.
I’m with you @strange
Guys please be careful with spoilers. Of course it can be hard to know what counts as a spoiler but with many games increasingly relying on their experiences, stories and moments even something small can ruin somebody’s experience.
Especially on Twitter where people’s excitement can sometime lead to many Tweets about the game which can ruin surprises for others.
I know it’s hard because Twitter and TAY are social networking platforms where discussion is encouraged and I’d hate to be limiting discussion but I think if it’s something you wouldn’t have wanted spoiled for you don’t spoil it for others,
If I’ve spoiled anything for anyone in excitement i’m sorry. I’ll try to be more careful in the future.
P.S.
The cake Masha ate once was a lie. It is now poop 🙂
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Same. I was serious. I haven’t actually seen it.
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Still an excellent movie!
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This is why this kind of “joke” (like the Aeris one and the Dumbledore ones and the like earlier this week and all the crappy stuff people say as jokes when people discuss spoilers) is even worse than puns. 😛
Spoilers for that film:
I figured it out straight away because everyone kept talking about “the twist”. Even mentioning there is a twist is spoilery and I don’t get why people don’t see that. I’d love to have to watched the movie and have it unfold as it was intended to. -
The beauty of the movie though is there’s something to take away from it knowing the twist too. Spotting the clues and the careful way scenes have been shot. I would’ve preferred to do that on my second viewing… :'( -
They do that in Scrubs:
In the episode where Ben dies, you don’t realise it until the very end, but rewatching it you see these subtle hints that something’s not right. Brilliant episode.
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Pack it up twitter, someone has already won the best tweet award.
https://twitter.com/infernal_monkey/status/317113055018356737
YO
Mark sez:
“Hey Kotaku buddies — I need my noms in before 3pm today. Because I’m going away for the long weekend with no internet!”
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I’ve got no one to nominate, so I’ll just go with @strange, @freezespreston and @sughly again because they’re awesome. @shane again for meeting my uni friends. Awesome in a sea of awesome! Anti-nom for @greenius again for still being a jerk still. That is all.
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You did harress me about Dark Souls and Survivor for a long time. What do you expect? 😛
(I kid. You’re awesome.)
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I know. We do nothing but kindly suggest TV shows and games that @dc will definitely like and he doesn’t reward our efforts with a single nom…
:'(
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I’ll nominate @jimu for his valiant attempts at organising a meat.
Anti nom for @Gutsoup for saying nothing interesting…. ever and cause he’s a jerk-
Ugh, such a jerk.
Did you see when he gave @gutsoup an anti nom for not saying anything interesting? Fuck that guy.
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BUT STRANGE NOMS CHANGE LIVES!
(I hope I’m not the only one that remembers that being said :P)
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Wow @dc is going all the way back to page 18!
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This is an important Kotaku article that not enough TAY people have commented on
http://staging.kotaku.com.au/2013/03/all-the-final-fantasy-xiii-digital-cuddling-you-can-handle/
why?
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From the title, I’m going to assume NSFW. Also, don’t really have an interesting in FFXIII characters, regardless of whether they are cuddly or not 😛
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Dear @dc, @shane and @bdkiaf,
I ran out of down votes for you guys. Please just imagine your little counter saying ‘-5′ next to your comments.
Regards,
Ash
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Damn you tofu!
But there is one downvote you can do nothign about
TAKE THAT!
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Dear @ash,
You wanted a response, here it is:
Why hasn’t anyone written a Hernandez-esque article about the lack of men in those pictures?
That’s what you get.
Unkind regards,
BDKIAF-
touché
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I was going to comment, but I didn’t think calling Lightning a pedophile was appropriate. Isn’t Hope only 10 or something in the first game?
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There are no images of Hope from the first game in that set, as far as I can see. They are all of adult Hope from FF13-2…
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I’ve only played about 20 hours of the first game though, so he’s still a little kid in my mind.
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He’s all grown up now man. He’s got a girlfriend (and she sleeps over), an important job – he even wears a tie to work!
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I just don’t understand why other people don’t love it as much as me.
Where are all my FF13 friends??
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1000 needles!!
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I used to have a plush cactuar but my son stole him. 🙁
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Was going to buy a super cute chocobo plushie, but then realised kids would steal it (cutest chocbo from FFFables series).
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I still wish to obtain a Tonberry plush to go with the other members of my secret un-manly plush collection.
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Yeah I 100 % FF13-2… but not FF1 because some of those cheevos are damn hard!
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yeah, they called for a lot of repetition, I must have killed about 1000 adamantoises for decent xp/loot and trapazohedrons, the worst achievement was the make every weapon in the game, took for freaking ever
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the worst achievement was the make every weapon
This is the one that turned me off trying for FF13-1
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it almost turned me away, but i’m a bit of a trophy whore, couldn’t resist
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@gutsoup you are my hero now, if that helps.
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I don’t love it because most of those couples don’t work. Lightning and Fang does, Serah and Noel really does, most of the rest is weird.
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Yes yes this is what it is all about. As per my comments in the article, which couples work, which don’t and who was missing? That’s what its all about! What else do you think, Strange?
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I just think coupling people up who don’t belong is weird. I also think if the next game isn’t as good or better than XIII-2 I will cry. 😛
I will say I think Lightning/Snow works way better and is more believable than Serah/Snow ever was though….
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Yeah I’ll grant you that one. Noel would be a better match for her.
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Doooooooooooonn’tt gooooooooooo ooooooooooooooouuuuuuut in, poooooooooouuuuuurrrrrrrrriiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnnnnnnggggggggg rain!
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If you go out in the raaaaaaaiiiiaaaaaaain,
Clearly you weren’t listening as I just told you not to.
You’re grounded.
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We just had a huge blast of wind. I’m still not 100% sure that all our roof is still there *eeeek*
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When he claimed that calling something Orwellian wasn’t comparing it to Fascism, I just went
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damn. I clicked that link & was suddenly transported to the very worst type of comments section.
now I need a scaldingly hot shower & a stiff drink.
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That one just boggledmy mind. How can you call something Orwellian and then not grasp you’re comparing it to fascism?
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I think the strategy is to just throw out big, important sounding words and hope someone takes you seriously.
Synergy. Innovation. Dynamic.
Dynamic synnovation.
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That’s the greatest buzz word I’ve ever heard. I don’t care what it is you’re selling, I must have it
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OK let’s try and get some semblance of organisation going for the Monday Meat
Figure starting around 1pm and basically go through till people want to leave. Happy to organise a BBQ dinner if people want to stick about for that. I’ll have snack food and the like for during the day, probably some party pies and the like.
Tossing up on if I can make alien eggs or not, but hopefully I’ll have time for a few interesting things
So if those of you who are coming (or might be coming could let me know
a) Does 1pm work for you (or what time suits)
b) Do you want to do BBQ dinner
c) Approx what time do you want to leave
d) Any special dietary issues I should be aware off
e) What colour are your……..actually don’t worry about that one
@ynefel @velnica @scree @greenius @negativezero @puppylicks @powalen @tofu @budgieishere @tech_knight @anybodyImissedIamsosorry
EDIT: Just to be clear all taybies are welcome, the list is just the ones who expressed interest
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Yo.
Edit: Why did this auto post? I just wanted a line feed!
I am not the chief decision maker for this weekend, but if I know of any reason that might let us get there, I should know by Sunday night or Monday morning and warn you accordingly.
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No worries, but I know the boss doesn’t have access to TAY during the day. No stress, let me know when you can, even if that’s by knocking on the front door
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A. Yes
B. I’m good
C. that depends entirely on whether monopoly will be played and roughly where you live so I can look at trains and things.
D. I am Galactus
C the second. Green-
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Either DM me on twitter or shoot me an email. About 5-10 min walk from Gardiner train station and between the 6 and 72 tram lines
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Also clarification on b)
A) I’m good to partake in you BBQ feast
or
b) Thank you for the offer but I’m good, I will not have any BBQ food
or
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a) yes,
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c) 1:15… am
d) i need lots of food because I skipped lunch today so I’m hungry
e) i got green eyes. a girl in high school once said they were nice. i should have asked her out eh?-
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When i was in HS. She was quite pretty too, but I was super shy so it was never going to happen.
As an aside, I’ll never forget once the girl I really really liked came up to me one day and said ‘do you like me?’ and i was like “NO!!” and I think i really hurt her feelings. The past is the past but that is one move that I will allow myself to regret b/c it was so dumb on my behalf. i hope I raise my boys with more confidence than that.
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@gutsoup – I’m not sure if you knew or not but I was joking 🙂
Masha is developing a habit where he says sorry a lot 😀
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What happened? I got a mention but there’s no mention?
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Downvote for abuse of edit function!
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oh Ash
Sadly I’m going to have to withdraw my Monday Meat table reservation due to being in entirely the wrong state.
a) Yes, in fact I’ll come over sooner if you’d like
b) I’m up for a BBQ dinner
c) Mostly likely later in the evening
d) Nothing spicy please 😛
i’m not sure how I would get home so I may have to pass /o\
When I have a rivers license all the meats!
I’ve been sick since Wednesday last week and I think I’m getting better but have a rather terrible cough. I’m not sure if it’s contagious or not but it’s probably better to not go and get y’all sick 😛
Helpius!
Hmm, turns out bf’s parental unit is holding a bbq. As much as I’d love to come that one takes a precedence! 🙁
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You make it sound like he is more important to you than I am 🙁
Maybe next time, how do you feel about karaoke?
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Tomorrow, apparently, I get to see some new covers for my books. Continuation of the geometric theme, but a ‘much stronger execution.’ \o/ Can’t wait to see ’em. You all have to wait.
Edit: Suppose I should say something nice for a page-get. Have a great Easter everyone. I’ll be around from time-to-time, I suspect, but most of you probably won’t. Toodlepuppies.
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So like, the first one has a triangle, then the next one has a square, then the third one has a heptagon just to fuck with people?
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Latest Update in the Ongoing Saga of NegativeZero:
– Package carded for me yesterday when I got home. Went and picked it up and it was my cable self install kit \o/ All the intenets!
– Went home, plugged everything in and ran their installation CD thingie. Not responding, try later. Downstream light blinking, upstream light not on. /o\ None of the internets.
– Checked Telstra’s service status page and apparently Cable Broadband was not available in my suburb from around 11am to 2pm because reasons. My connection attempts were around 10:30am. I am thinking that given how long it takes to get through to Telstra’s phone support, either the outage was preventing my connection or I caused the outage by trying to connect and it’s all my fault. /o\ Still none of the internets.
– We had Pizza and Hot Cross Buns at work today \o/
– Last night I was digging through Ye Olde Pile o’ Shayme and pulled out Phoenix Wright: Justice for All. I stopped playing this halfway in about six years ago and I thought maybe I’d finish it. So I loaded up my save and finished off the second case. I was mid-trial and it took me a few goes to remember all the details. Started the third and I’m getting some really odd deja vu… was their a circus case or something in the first game? I feel like I’ve played this case before.
– Plans for tonight and the long weekend aside from Monday Meat: 1) Attempt re-try at setting up Cable. Check foxtel sockets if problem persists. Ring tech support. Cry bitter tears when I realize that provisioning & activations are all on holiday until Tuesday. 2) More of this Phoenix Wright business. 3) Xenoblade (obligatory @greenius mention)
– Did not find $10 yet but it’s only mid afternoon!
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Oh dear god JFA is goddamn brilliant in the last case, you really should finish that up. And no, there is no circus case in the first game.
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That last case in the first game is easily one of the best, if not THE best cases.
That video as evidence! Genius. And the scream he makes when you make that last bit of evidence XD-
T&T has the best last case because you’re emotionally invested in it, JFA’s last case was the most shocking, but the last case in the first game was simply the most batshit crazy.
You interrogated a parrot at one time for fuck’s sake
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I was under the impression that JFA wasn’t as good as some of the others.
Oddly all four cases are unlocked for me. Maybe I somehow played 1 and 3 then went back to 2? Or replayed 2? Maybe I loaned it to someone. I felt like I knew the solution to the case pretty fast but I can’t tell if it was because I’d done it before or not.
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It is, but the PW series delivers hard when it comes to their last cases (Apollo included.) JFA was nice, but Franzy wasn’t as intimidating as Edgeworth or Godot, and the cases didn’t seem as.. tension-building with the other two? *shrugs*
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TWIST UPDATE:
Text message from Telstra saying they were having ‘technical difficulties’ and were working on it and I should be connected within 5 days unless I was already connected in which case don’t worry.
BUT I DON’T KNOW WHICH CONNECTION THEY MEAN. I previously had only had texts regarding my phone line connection and that’s been working since last week.
So confused. Telstra has four left hands and none of them know what the right is doing.
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I felt tempted to say
“You must have felt like a capable seaman atop that poop deck”
But then I decided I was better than that.
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@freezespreston: Just added you on Wii U, @bdkiaf: Sent out a friend requrest in MiiVerse.
Also what’d that system update do?
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Stole your identity
p.s. I was just thinking about setting the WiiU up and adding you guys… while I was showering. Take that as you will.
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Nothing 😛
Probably just stability stuff or preparing for the big update that’s coming next month.
Hooray, I get to go home early, Thanks everyone for keeping me occupied today. And to anyone attending the Saturday meat I’ll see ya’ll there 😀
Edit: and to Everyone else, happy Easter, remember double demerit points for the weekend so keep your crazy driving virtual,
Have a good long weekend, all! I probably won’t be going anywhere though 😛 I’ve got a dinner with some extended family tonight so that should be good.
Oh, and go buy LEGO City Undercover. I can’t remember the last game that made me laugh out loud as often as this game. The cutscenes are genuinely funny! I’ve lost count of the number of movie/tv references. The gameplay itself isn’t too shabby either! I like it.
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My sister has Lego City Undercover. I will make a point of playing it after I finish BioShock! 😀
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I’ll just borrow your copies of it, Mario Sticker Star, ZombiU and Professor Layton (?)
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I have Virtue’s Last Reward to swap? 😛
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Man today has been so quiet. First time I’ve had a chance to TAY from work (such a rebel).
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Oh, everyones already enjoying their long weekend. I get it 🙁
First time in forever that I actually get a long weekend and I’m going to love it
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No I only have to go to the office on Saturday. I’ll probably work on Sunday but won’t go into the office
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I just had a long weekend from Friday-Wednesday 😀
And now I have one from Friday-Sunday (next week) 😀
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Thy heavens hath shined upon thee:
– Thou hast had a good day
– Thou hast found a good group for an assignment. The smart guy who answers questions (correctly) in the tutorial is in my group 😀
– Thou hast received his imported Monster Hunter so when he returns his local copy he doesn’t have to go without it for 5 days or so
– Thou hast probably used all those thou things wrongly, probably should’ve went with thy or thine but SHUT UP IT’S MY POST
Although…
I still have a terrible cough and probably won’t go to boardgame funtimes but… Monster Hunter all day every day for the long weekend anyone? 😀
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If you do decide to go to @Tigerion’s Happy Funtime then I can give you a lift back, I’m now living much closer to you (Wantirna South)
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Cool, I just replied to his other comment that I’ve been pretty sick since Wednesday last week. I’ve been fine these past few days except for a terrible cough which I’m pretty sure isn’t contagious but no point risking it so I won’t be going.
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Thanks though!
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It was just a bad joke.
I knew he was referring to music albums but I thought I’d ask about photo albums 🙂
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Oh right 😛
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Hell yeah, 8 days until House of Gold & Bones Part 2 is out. Sadly another 2 months before I receive my hard copy lol. Oh well I can live with that.
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Friend is giving me her copy that is coming from the official site that comes in their platinum fan package, and she’s getting a copy on release aswell and she told me she was giving me her 2nd copy from the fan package. And every time in the last few weeks I went to pre order it in store it wasn’t in JB’s computers so I gave up :S
Like my local store hasnt even had part 1 in stock for close to 2 months now.
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Oh wow. That’s fair enough, I’m just lazy and preordered on iTunes, much easier that way.
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Yeah i’ll probably pick it up on BigPond music first up if I have any of those free download codes left 😛 If not, i’ll acquire it other ways haha.
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Not much. We talked about sitcoms a little too much for some reason. Sughly watched anime. Pow’s been playing Lego City Undercover. Strange and Shane talked movie spoilers and making jokes of ’em. Tigs planned his Monday meat in Melbourne. Tofu shared an amusing story. Metal Gear Solid 5 was announced. Uh, other stuff. BioShock awaits! 😛
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Not much, just hung out and annoyed Freeze today at his store 😛 He did some engraving for me on a gift for Kat. Also caught up with my other mate who I finally got my modems back off of ha.
Everytime I seem to go to Freezes store more customers come by..
Also ran into an old TAFE teacher of mine, was sad to hear he won’t be teaching at TAFE anymore he was easily the best teacher they had in IT there.
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Maybe you can train Virus to be your replacement after you leave? (Though I’m guessing you wouldn’t give that job to your worst enemy! :D)
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It’s not a bad job and the area manager is a nice guy. It’s just the dick coworkers.
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Yeah that’s what I get, the job is pretty good. I honestly like the line of work you do there.
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Oh score! Nice one 😀 That’s always a bonus.
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I really need to finish Peace Walker
http://www.siliconera.com/2013/03/27/metal-gear-solid-v-trailer-is-ground-zeroes-the-phantom-pain/
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I like it, I started after a run of the complete series from 1 on PSone all the way through to 4 on PS3.
I skipped Portable Ops because I spent far too much time on that too recently. 🙂
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I’ve been meaning to do that for a year or so but only managed to play MGS3 HD 😛
What I’ve still got to do is Peace Walker (never played it), Twin Snakes (finished the original but never played this) and another run of MGS4 now that it has trophies 😀
Would like to do MGS2 again or Portable Ops but I don’t have PO 🙁
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THANK YOU @chuloopa! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BRINGING ME BACK INTO THIS BLOODY HOBBY. I HAD SO MUCH FREE TIME AND MONEY TO SPARE AND WAS SPENDING WAY TOO MUCH TIME WITH WIFE AND KIDS.
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Everything is freaking expensive. I used to have an easier time justifying it with the metal cast models, but when the plastic ones now cost more than the metal ones used to, I have trouble.
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I’ll say. $70 for a single squad, $30 for a non special HQ single unit, $70 for a single vehicle? That adds up quick.
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This is why i buy almost exclusively on ebay, unfortunately.
StP are pretty great, though – but are still working on getting their prices lower.
http://www.ebay.com.au/sch/i.html?_trksid=p5197.m570.l1313&_nkw=dark+eldar&_sacat=0&_from=R40Edit:
Also – you’re welcome. I knew you had to snap sooner or later. Money is over rated.
Hey @dc can you pop my email into a post for meat attendees, please?
mij 69 _ 96 jim @ yahoo dot com
Love you forever
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Well a hermit can’t be in charge. I don’t understand what @jimu wants me to do? Which post? E-mail people? Which people? *cracks under pressure, throws self infront of train.*
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I thought it was just you, Sughly and Jimus mates going?
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D: Aw man. No one else going or is everyone else waiting for birthday meat?
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I just need those handles, thanks. I don’t have your superior memory skills.
Pretty sure it’s you, sughly. beardo, guts and myself plus a new guy.I can start inviting non-gamer friends if you need more people. Do you need more people?
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Haha! Just the opposite man, terrified of new people and am worried I won’t speak or interact with anyone. Was hoping for more familiar faces to lesson that anxiety. 😛
Edit: Also starting to feel nervous and wondering if I should just wait until the birthday meat. D:
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@dc Awww, don’t pull out man, its only 2 new faces!
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@lambomann007, @welbot, @sernobulus, @trjn, @sughly, @freezespreston, @strange, @gutsoup, @beardymcmuttonchops, @virus__
Not sure who’s going, but Saturday sometime in the city!
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Serious. Unfortunately I can’t make it next day being Easter and all. If I go u for a drink then I have to stay up there which blows the next day out. Plus I don’t have a lot of spare cash so can only make one weekend. My birthday is the same as Sughly’s so the next weekend is mine too.
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Yeah cool, thanks for the reply.
I’ll try and make it out the next weekend but all depends on when the Mrs works.
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Yeah sorry man. Kinda can’t make it if Freeze can’t, you should seriously try and make an appearance next week! I’m hoping to be able to attend that.
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Pretty low chances.
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Sadfase.
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It happens.
I’ll be free next weekend but will have to devote most of my time to packing.
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Same here scree. Same here 🙁
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@dc @welbot, @sernobulus, @sughly, @gutsoup, @beardymcmuttonchops,
Hi guys
If you still want meet up for dinner and drinks this Saturday night, shoot me an email
Night starts 630 at Cyber City in Fortitude Valley, after that we vote on Karaoke, Mana Bar or something else.
mij 69 _ 96 jim @ yahoodotcom
Cheers
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It does, it was actually created for me by a friend when I didn’t have internet at all and needed to send an emergency email.
That friend looks a lot like Snow from FF13.
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Oh shit, what did I do to deserve friends like this?
Mrs Oliver said they’ll come pick me up from Launceston next week and take me back here to save my mum driving me back. That’s… quite a detour from where they’re headed for the weekend.
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Yeah, I love TAY but wasn’t sure how I’d really fit in until I went to a meat. Was convinced no one would want to talk to me again after that. Haha!
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And now you’re at all the meats 😀
Honestly I have no idea how well I’d fit in with all you guys irl, mostly because you guys all seem to know each other from your respective states so well and I’m just the dot down the bottom of the country 😛
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You’re silly. You fit in just fine here, why would it be any different in real life?
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Some are “oh wow. What did I do to deserve this?” and others are “OH GOD WHAT DID I DO TO TO DESERVE THIS D:” I’m guessing?
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hey Melbourne Taybies, do we want to go to karaoke next meat up?
We keep discussing it, but never do anything about it.
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Oh man, I didn’t think you’d be the type to do karaoke, what with anxieties and the like. (No offence, I’m just speaking from my own experience. I’d never do it. :P)
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Hit me and Chibi up if this is happening, we’ll probably come over provided the local Melb Taybies don’t bite 😀
Weight loss update: Lost about half a kilo this week. Not too shabby. Also, I made a stir fry for tea with scallops, vegies and honey chilli sauce. Delish!
Edit: Yummy page get!
@jimu: I’ll try to psych myself up. You might not know, but I have crazy social anxieties. Have to work up the courage to go to every meat. Genuine fear, man. I remember at the karaoke meat when you caught me in the hall with my phone I was in the process of texting Trjn to tell you guys I was leaving and to apologize to you all. Haha! You convinced me to go back in unknowingly. 😛
That was only my second meat though.
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Hey, man.
No hard feelings if you don’t wanna come. I understand. You’ve been straight up with me from the beginning and been really prompt with replies.If you really don’t wanna come, no pressure. Not be pushy (but I will be anyway) tell me now and i’ll make alternative plans. Apart from you now, it’ll only be you and @sughly from TAY, I can do some other shit with @gutsoup
Thanks again, bud 🙂
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I’m keen to hang out with you, gutsoup and Sughly! I really need to get out of the house too. Really was looking forward to it and then was hit with a sudden wave of anxiousness.
If Sughly’s willing to go with just us two as the only TAYbies, I probably will too. Only thing is I don’t drink so if all you guys are planning on drinking (which you damn well should if you want to…), I might not fit with the group anyways. Though even if I just come to the dinner part and you guys press on afterwards drinking, that could be cool.
If you want to make other plans with your friends then that’s cool as well and I can start the process of psyching myself up for the week after. (Don’t feel bad if you want to hang with your other friends too, cause there’ll be another chance to hang out next week!)
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Jimu and Gutsoup are TAYbies too! There’ll be a much greater percentage of TAYbies than non-TAYbies.
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There’s a reason you’re known as the first lady and it’s not cos you were here first.
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Partly because she’s so old.
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I thought she was known as Persephone?
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or Perstephanie. 😛
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Belinda.
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Alright, we’ll do the dinner as planned. Then you can head home.
If you decide to hang about we’ll all be pleasantly surprised.
How’s that sound?
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Sounds good! I’m in! 😀
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In like Flynn!
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You ever see INLAND EMPIRE? One of the best In Like Flynns I’ve ever seen
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I have not 😛
Hey folks, and people. After being shunned for Kudos despite being a baldy, I drowned my sorrows in a massive Nanna’s apple crumble. It was AWESOME. Better than winning Kudos 😀
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I had cold pizza which I made the other night, earlier because I was hungry n stuf. Tonight is some kind of chicken dish for dinner.
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You should have made hot pizza, and then let it go cold. I understand that’s the traditional method.
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Damn your logic!
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I had Mi Goreng, cos Uni student.
:O There’s a meat pie in the freezer! Can I be bothered waiting an hour for it to cook? No.
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It’s okay. I’m losing my hair and going bald fairly rapidly and no one had ever nommed me for it.
Jerks.
I really hate the way I sit around refreshing TAY like a fuckwit waiting for replies when I could be doing something fun.
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Sorry man. Didn’t forget about you, was just thinking. I feel like the biggest d-bag now. Haha!
Go do something fun! 😀
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I do that for way too long during the day. And then I remember we have notifications and feel all silly. 😛
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Oh man, just saw the coolest scene in BioShock Infinite.
Don’t read until after you’ve played the game.
Went into the cellar of a pub in a rough part of town. Found a kid who was trying to get food off the top shelf. He saw us and hid under the stairs cowering. Elizabeth spots a guitar, Booker sits down and plays while she sings. The boy tentatively comes out and accepts food.
Best moment of the game so far and it was entirely optional.
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After I’d done that bit, I was exploring the cellar, and accidentally threw a fireball on the ground, so all the dudes from upstairs charged down to kill me, and not wanting to kill them, I reloaded the game. So I got to sit through both the tainted love cover, and that song, again. Best mistake.-
Another awesome scene.
Please don’t read until after you’re finished or well into the game, just in case…
When you find that woman sitting peacefully by herself as a battle unfolds around her, singing Fortunate Son. So damn good. I listened to the entire song. Haha.
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@dc will go to the meat because I won’t be there and his Hat Machine has no off switch.
(Doofus)
So i went into the city to buy a circle pad pro XL and monster hunter.
i thought i’d have difficulty finding a circle pad pro, i got it in the second jb went to.
i had a much harder time trying to get monster hunter.
after trying 2 JB’s, 2 EB’s (in which i asked the EB guy if they had any in the 3rd store in the city, none) Target and dick smith. nothing.
it appears they dropped the ball on the units sent to Australia, maybe they didn’t expect it to sell so well?
luckily, i remembered that the 3DS e-shop usually has games available day one, and they had it on there, so i am currently downloading it.
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I think I must be the only person that plays games in my area because I’ve never ever had a problem with being able to find a game in stock at my local stores 😛 I see stacks of Monster Hunter copies around (small stacks, but still…)
Good that you finally got it in the end though!
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but yeah i’m glad i got it seeing as i was buying a circle pad pro just for it :P.
Edit: although to no surprise, i found a lot of copies of it on WiiU
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i have been lied to
(although i actaully don’t care, and kind of prefer digital downloads anyway)
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But Nintendo has a terribad ‘account’ system 🙁
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that’s my only worry, what happens if my 3ds breaks or gets stolen?
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Take a picture of the serial code at the back of the 3DS, then you SHOULD be able to prove that you once owned it and Nintendo might be able to transfer stuff for you if it ever gets stolen or broken.
Batguy went through something similar when he lost his 3DS but never took a pic of the serial code.
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@dc I just watched the latest episode of Supernatural. Why am I telling you this? It was called ‘Freaks And Geeks’. 😀
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Haha! They named it wisely! How’s that show holding up, it’s pretty far into its run now, right? I watched the first season…
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There’s some superawesome bits and some lame bits,but most of all it’s just really good fun. It would have to be, to get Mr. Strange to want to continue watching a show with two male leads and no regular ladies. 😛
You should at least watch it until the end of the original showrunner’s time. It wraps up nicely. After he left, it floundered slightly but has still had some great moments.-
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Didhe? I don’t know. I can never keep track of this stuff. I do know he left because he ended it how he planned to. The show’s pretty much in its afterlife now. 😛 But he did approve of the new arc before he left.
And I’ve been wondering if I should at least finish season one of Revolution seeing as it got a second. I haven’t been missing it since I stopped watching it though.
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Aw, man. I hate it when shows keep going for the sake of going. If a show runner is lucky enough to end it on their own terms it should just end damn it! *shakes fist* 😛
I didn’t even start watching Revolution cause you said it was dodgy when we were talking scifi series a few weeks ago. Haha! Still have the HD eps, though.
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Supernatural’s not like that, though. The “extra” seasons are adding to it properly, instead of just running it into the ground. And like I said, he approved of the new plans before leaving.
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Not sure. Combat feels a bit sloppy and uncontrolled and everything is obfuscated for seemingly no reason.
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Should download the Zombi U demo. See if it appeals to you. I could definitely see similarities with it and Dark Souls. (Although I totally finished Zombi U. :P)
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Yeah, takes a while to get used to but someone doesn’t ask or want helpful tips 🙁
@sernobulus and @rize got into it pretty quickly! 😀
And now they’re taking on badass monsters 😀
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My parents must be so glad I’m bringing them the gift of my sickness tomorrow.
I discovered the worst thing about living here. Things spread. Quickly. And now everyone’s going home for a few days and spreading it all over the place 😛 It’s real life Pandemic 2!
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Oh I wouldn’t be so sure about that DC 😛 Just between the people I know there’s 2 going to Victoria!
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I think one guy’s going back to Singapore…
We’re expanding a bit
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Oh man, it’s like that Contagion movie all over again!
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Damn us 😛
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WOOO SINGAPORE MEAT
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September 20-22nd at Marina Bay!
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That was funny 😀
I looked up a few more clips and I think I’m going to have to acquire this show… somehow… via means.-
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Because Adam Scott! (Party Down, which ended because of Parks and Rec though :l) And Megan Mullally is in a few eps too! (Childrens Hospital, married to Nick Offerman (Ron Swanson), who has been in CH quite a bit)
It’s weird how I can relate every good show back to Childrens Hospital : P
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After all, who among us hasn’t been three belt notches deep in a stiffy and on the precipice of giving old Mr. Throb Knobble a trip to the finger gibbet when an old episode of Reba comes on and you just get whisked away to Pleasuretown without even putting a touch of stress on your prostate?
Anyone else watch At Home With Julia a couple of years ago? 😛 I think the show is amazing so I’ve been watching it again.
The Julie Bishop is hilarious. http://i.imgur.com/eGP9RTI.png
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I can’t tell if you really didn’t like it or if you’re just saying that because @dc is terrible…
Urrgh – can’t get to sleep! I had class tonight, and I keep running through what we learned in my mind. Which may prove to be a good thing if any of it actually sticks.
Also, @dc @sughly , a seasonal movie suggestion. Jesus of Montreal
It’s the only movie I’ve ever been to the cinema to see twice. Admittedly, it’s possibly the only movie where circumstances offered me the opportunity to go twice, but still… I wouldn’t have gone again if I didn’t think it was worth it.
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Is that the Auslan sign language class dealy you were talking about a while back?
Jesus, eh? (I’m a godless heathen! :P)
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It is that class.
The film is about some people who piss off the catholic church, so that might just appeal to you 😉
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I thought I’d shere before I went to bed.
Mersey Valley’s sweet chilli cheese is my favorite cheese.
It’s important information!
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Nah I don’t own it yet 🙁 Soon maybe!
I’m always on Steam man, i’ll be at the bottom of your friends list though, since being Virus and all haha.
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Oh, that’s right. I forgot that you were getting it on your friends account or something.
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Yeah, I haven’t bothered lol. I’ currently downloading an actual Steam install, so I don’t have to confiscate his Steam acc to just download it. Though if I get my shit together with Centrelink i’ll probably just buy it for myself in the coming weeks!
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My body clock automatically wakes me up around 7am no matter what. I refused to actually get out of bed until 9am, though. (Even if it wasn’t unbroken sleep. :D)
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Haha, i’ve been like this of late, wake up around 6am, lie in bed surfing social media with my phone, play games on it, text, then get my arse out of bed like 4 hours later.
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I plan on doing this all weekend, don’t worry about that 😀
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I would have forgotten to turn my alarm off too, if my daughter hadn’t reminded me when I was putting her to bed last night to turn it off. Kids are useful sometimes. 😛
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Hmm, know where I can buy one? 😛
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D: That’s a little disturbing. Haha.
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You could always pop down to the local department of community services and ask if there’s a child needing a home, i’m sure they could sort you out with one!
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Saaaame! School holidays woo! I actually love them, despite other parents seeming to complain about them. Not only do I get to play games with Ash instead of all nigel on my own, but I dont have to do lamo school stuff and can stay in pyjamas all day. Bestest time.
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I love them too! True, it can be a bit exhausting by the end of them but the good far outweighs the bad.
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To be fair, exhausting is sometimes putting it mildly 🙂
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Today is going to be a good day, it has started off great. Neighbours are relatively quiet, was chatting with Kat for a few hours, always makes the day feel good and I have bugger all to do other than wash the car & truck, which is easy and it’s a nice day outside! So maybe a BBQ for dinner if I can convince the parentals 😛
Next week is looking good too, I have an interview with the Salvation Army Employment mob and then the following week one with Centrelink to finalise my stuff and get paid the monies for being a lazy prick!
Another week of waiting and another week of not getting paid. Getting a bit sick of this really. I did work for this mob 2 weeks ago, and despite my practically begging them to pay me, I now begin my easter weekend with $8 to my name. Bet you anything their normal staff have money to spend this weekend. FUCKERS! I HAVE FUCKING BILLS TO PAY!! GRRRRRRRRR
Poker Night at the Inventory 2 has a crazy impressive cast. (Borderlands/Portal characters. Sure beats the cast from the first game!)
Hey @dc – you see Kentuycky Route Zero won at IGF! That’s pretty cool! For visual something something, I dont remember. But still, had some tough competition!
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Oh wow! That’s all kinds of awesome. Still haven’t played it yet, but my brother who hasn’t touched an adventure game in years loved it and was telling me about it like I didn’t know what it was. *adventure game hipster glasses* 😛 You played it yet?
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Think I might hold off until I can buy all the eps at once!
Unrelated but still adventure game-like, I can’t wait to play Asylum. Really in the mood to play a dark Scratches style game again.
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Good choice on buying them once they’re all out. I’ve played the first one myself, and while very slick and both satisfyingly mysterious and isolatingly lonely, it’s still, well, too short. 😛
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At the same time I feel like maybe I should buy now too, if they’re funding production with the profits. :S
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Whaaaat! New Dragonball Z movie!? 😀 http://staging.kotaku.com.au/2013/03/dragon-ball-creator-doesnt-enjoy-inking-manga-but-he-does-enjoy-crazy-poses/
Not sure if you guys have talked about it, but Disney Infinity ( I DID NOT EDIT THIS FROM INFINITE TO INFINITY BECAUSE I WANT TO PLAY BIOSHOCK RIGHT NOW) looks pretty cool:
http://www.giantbomb.com/videos/quick-look-ex-disney-infinity/2300-7191/
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Looks WAY better than the first crappy teaser trailer announcement thing they made. I was all prepared to poop on the game until I watched some of the vid you linked.
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Yeah, it didn’t sound very interesting (I haven’t seen/played Skylanders), but the Incredibles ‘story’ bit looked pretty fun. As long as I can play as Frozone, I’m happy.
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Oh man, I didn’t even see we changed pages. Someone needs to put a notice at the end of the previous page! 😛 (The tables have turned!)
Going home today, which means I get to download the Monster Hunter demo on my 3ds!
I should probably pack a few more things other than electronics and chargers 😛 Clothes might be a good one.
I know I shouldn’t laugh… but come on:
http://www.triplem.com.au/melbourne/sport/other-sports/news/michael-schiavellos-pronunciation-of-danny-mainus-name-is-hilarious/
If you were asked to picture a creepy perverted pedophile chances are you’d be picturing the main character from Ha Ha Hairies on ABC2.
http://www.cartoonito.co.uk/tv-show/ha-ha-hairies/characters/boris-boo-hoo
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Bald/balding – Check
Long hair – Check
Ponytail – Nup
Moustache or neckbeard – NupCLOSE ENOUGH
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Oh man I totes thought I beat the Offline mode for MH3U but shit just got realllll
Way more quests and areas opened up and now the game is just getting started D:
I’m scared. Hold me.
(for some reason this ended up as a reply to Freeze’s comment :|)
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I figured that but I was still amused. 😀
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I’ve only done the 1 and 2 star stuff in offline…spent like 3 hours playing this morning organising items and planning for gear upgrades 😛
Also, gave the heavy bowgun a good go, and it’s not bad. I can see myself sucking with it against some of the monsters we’ve fought due to their speed…-
But no block D:
I think the ranged weapons are definitely better for online stuff otherwise monsters would just focus on you 🙁
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Not really. Mild gameplay spoilers:
Having Cha-Cha with me (who still has the original mask) means half the time they don’t focus on me.
Plus, the blocking thing isn’t a big issue cause dodge is quick, especially after shooting (sidestep). That goes well as a second choice for me cause lance has no dodge and massive blocking, so nice variation. There’s always the shield attachment for it, too. -
Ah fair enough, I haven’t really experimented with the other weapons 😛
I was fighting Barioth this morning and his quick movements and attacks were messing me up baddd, then I remembered you blocking all his hits like a champ 😀
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Yup, lance block with high stamina means I can tank to the point where my armour is generally not involved, and when it does I have buttloads of health to make up for it being average 😛
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And for those still not convinced about MH there’s some Shadow of the Colossus thrown in there!
I just fought one hugeeeeee mofo
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Pretty sure HR (hunter rank) only refers to the online quests. So all those HR2 quests we did were just because I did all the HR1 quests first.
You can do the online quests, by yourself (and with your Shaka buddy) but it’s a bit harder compared to normal Moga Village offline quests.
All the HR2 monsters we fought are 5* village quests so it’ll be a while before you get to them, so if you’re looking to face them ASAP for parts, might as well just do them online 😀
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Yeah, good point. I might organise to mark off all the 1* quests so I can see if the 2* stuff we’ve been doing is counting. If not, eh, I’m happy to fight them again. The gameplay is what’s drawing me in so far…which is also why my gear isn’t great 😛
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1*, 2* and any * village quests are different from online 🙂
Everything done offline in Moga Village are completely separate from the stuff done at the port (online). So, if you did all the HR1 port quests and unlocked HR2, then we could see if the ones we’ve been doing have counted.
…unless you meant the port quests and just said it wrong? 😛
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Haha, yeah. Such a good episode. My favourite from the entire run so far is The Inconveniencing or Summerween Trickster! 😀
Anyone who is completely up to date with the Walking Dead TV show should look at this: http://imgur.com/a/qIIsm/all
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Err…sorry? 😛
Actually, I really am sorry. Probably should have mentioned that. I guess I just assume everyone’s seen all the Toy Story movies.-
Nah was just kidding 😛
I haven’t seen 3 though. I watched like 15-20 minutes and got bored.
Yes, I am a monster.-
MONSTER! 😛
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HUNTER! 😀
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I hate all three Toy Story movies….
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Eh, I couldn’t stay focused during it. 1 & 2 were better than what 3 was.
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That’s awesome. Though i’m not upto date, haven’t watched the latest ep, but that goes to about half way through season 3.
EDIT: I’d better put that in spoiler tags, actually :\
The first two seasons where a bit of a stretch but Toy Story 3 is pretty much exactly the same as Walking Dead season 3 haha
Why do we refer to AAA as AAA? What does it mean?? Why is AAA better than AA or A? Why are AAA batteries smaller than AA? If A is the first letter and B is the second and so on, A would be the smallest letter, B would have more value, etc. Then D games would be better than AAA games (4 > 3). And if the games were 3D…
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Not unlike Dissidia Duodecim Final Fantasy, where the name gives off such simplicity in it’s meaning and form.
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Decided to take the kids to Southbank Parklands to have a play in the lagoon and wander around the markets. Been laughing at Mrs Freeze. A girl turned up in a bikini and was beyond perfect. Massive boobs, slim perfectly proportioned body. I knew she was there when wifey started ranting about how that can’t be her kid, she’s never given birth, god she’s has to have surgery, look at her muscle bound partner. Green monster indeed 😛
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Wat?
How can Mrs. Freeze be jealous of those things? Except maybe for massive boobs that could be a description of Mrs. Freeze. Fairly sure Mrs. Freeze would be prettier than massive boob lady, too.
BioShock Infinite is fun. I think I’m getting closer to the end. One thing I don’t like though is…
(Only click if you’ve finished the game, don’t want to spoil you.)
The fights with Lady Comstock. Stupid, irritating part of an otherwise awesome game.
I loved exploring Emporia and the regular fights, though.
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Agreed, those fights are dreadful. So very annoying, not knowing what I’m supposed to be focussing on, not knowing if my attacks are even hitting thanks to her health bar disappearing half the time. Ergh.-
Spoiler for near the end of the game:
Not really liking this Songbird/blimp/tower defence part. :S-
Yup. That was my least favourite part of the game. Such a downer. Send Songbird down to smash the robots as soon as they appear, and deal with the Zeppelins when you have a chance. Also, leave one guy alive and let songbird recharge at the end of each wave. Yay, super cheese!-
Done. Used possession and let the soldiers wipe themselves out. I found pressing “F” to summon Songbird did nothing most of the time. D: -
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Finished the game. All kinds of awesome, I’ll miss it. :'(
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I’m replaying it now…
Apparently my computer doesn’t like me replaying things, got up to
the first crow guy fightand then it crashed just as I picked up the bottle.Also, the game is SO much easier on Medium. I can do derp stuff, and not care.
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Yeah, I played on normal and for the most part it was easy enough. (There were some difficulty spikes, though.)
Also, this is incredibly cool!
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Challenge cup Victini with V-Create, Headbutt, Bolt Strike and Glaciate, and my opponent forfeits before the first turn. Victini wasn’t even my lead
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Only move Ive even heard of is headbutt. Where the heck do all those others come from!? They Victini only moves?
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V-create is victini signature move. Base power 180 accuracy 95 drops your speed and both defenses. Bolt strike is Zekroms sig move (power/acc both 100), and glaciate is Kyurems sig move (power/acc 65/95) Victini is the only other who can learn them I think.
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*sigh* so my mate is whining to me about 2001: A Space Odyssey and how it was shit and he didn’t get it. I told him not to watch it since he said the exact same of The Shining. I tried explaining things to him but he just sooks, can’t win or even please them Q_Q
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Yeah it’s frustrating that’s for sure. I’m going to weep if he watches A Clockwork Orange & says the same thing Q_Q at least he liked Full Metal Jacket, so uh that’s a positive at least.
Although I think he might’ve seen A Clockwork, I can’t remember. Maybe I should have him watch One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest see what he thinks of that.
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So uh, Rolf Harris is being questioned in relation to the while Jimmy Savile child abuse scandal..
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Just a heads up, the demo is pretty terrible :P. Assuming you’re like me and only played Tri for like 10 hours or so (so barely anything) and have forgot pretty much everything about MH, there’s absolutely no explanation and you’re just supposed to figure out what to do 😛
Luckily they give you all the items you need and all you have to do is just kill the monsters but yeah… :/ not very noob friendly
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Not to bad. Gone home for easter, parents have gone away so its just me and my sister. And she’ll probably be stay at her fiancé’s place most of the weekend anyway. @beavwa started showing me the ropes on minecraft today. I blame whoever started the potaku server, I’ve never played before.
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After the amount of hours I dropped into Terraria I planned on staying away as well. But things happen I guess
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Terraria buddy! 😀
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So Race To Witch Mountain was not as bad as I expected it to be. We just watched that with the kids as a special family thing. They’re going to stay with my parents tomorrow night so the Easter Bunny is making an early visit tonight.
Had a pretty cruisy day today. Got to sleep in finally, which was great, And then I was a hero for giving the kids chocolate Hot Cross Buns for lunch. Followed by an afternoon of relaxing sewing and then making bacon cheeseburgers for dinner, which we ate while watching Race To Witch Mountain. And after putting my son to bed (who pronounced it the “best Easter ever!”)my daughter asked if she could go to bed early. \o/
Now I just have to remember the Easter Bunny is supposed to be visiting early…. 😛
Making chocolate easter eggs late at night is never a good idea. Hopefully I remember this in future. Thankfully it’s just for immediate family so they won’t care what they look like as long as they taste great. 😛
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It’s been years since I’ve tried it so I was a bit rusty.
I put ground up sherbet lollies in melted milk chocolate for the kids and put it in little bunny and chick molds. But I forgot to paint them first so the shapes aren’t the most distinct.
The others went a little better though. I made peanut butter and added sugar to it to put in the middle of melted milk chocolate in egg molds for Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups-type eggs for Mr. Strange. A bit of the filling is coming out but they’re mostly okay. And the bonus is there’s loads of home-made peanut butter left over.
And I mixed chopped peanuts, marshmallow and dried cranberries in melted dark chocolate to make rocky road eggs for my Dad and Nan. These taste awesome but haven’t come out of their mold yet. I’ll probably have to give them away with the molds still attached. 😛
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Nothin, man. You?
Edit: Seem to have dropped a g though. Who’d a thunk I could spare that kind of cash? #EasterPunDay
Edit 2: These puns remind me of a barrage of wheat-related puns I just dropped on the wife. Then I got kicked out of bed. Totally worth it, though.
After watching Mad Men, we started talking about infidelity, and she said one of the characters would have sex with a box of Weet Bix. And I said, “He’s a cereal offender. He stalked it, field it up and reaped it. It was threshing around, but in the end was a-tractored to him. The corn in the next field heard it all, because they have big ears.” I have never punned so fast ever. I was very proud.
I then ended with “Weet Bix… how many do you do?” and she didn’t stop laughing for about five minutes. Then she kicked me out.-
Also nothing.
We’re caught up! 😀
(Note: It might seem like I’m ignoring your puns, but that’s only because I am.)
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I edited more in. I dare you to ignore them.
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I’m assuming she’s divorcing you now, though. Was it worth it? 😛
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Even if it comes to that… yes. Totally.
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I hate to break up a private conversation but need to explore a separate line of conversation
If things come to that Shane I recommend my friends
https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/3985780992/h1D96CE3E/
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BioShock Infinite! (Spoilers, don’t read unless you’ve finished.)
Been listening to this ever since finishing the game! So damn atmospheric and the lyrics relate a lot to the plot. (Not just the city in the sky stuff.) Then again, I might be over thinking things. 😛
So much symbolism in the game too, especially the way it starts and the way it ends.
Suppose I should get some shut eye too, so I can wake up early and psych myself up for the meat. Haha. Page 22 is all about sleeping!
Good night, folks.
so much monster hunter…
no idea why i didn’t get into the series sooner, it’s pretty damn fun, especially choosing the dual blades, which are very much my style of fighting (quick attacks, focusing more on dodges as i have no block).
although, on flying monster took me 40 minutes to beat, as it kept on flying away…
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only, and only if you can find other people locally to play it with. Otherwise, best wait for numbah four.
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Oh, I should probably add that you definitely need a Circle Pad Pro.
I semi-disagree with Saturday, it’s incredibly fun to play with friends but it isn’t 100% necessary and you can do all the online quests, offline by yourself and NPC buddies.
But multiplayer is a huge aspect and if you can’t find local buddies then you’re losing some of the fun 🙁
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Is it your first MH?
I’ve very briefly played (like probably 2 hours total) the original MH and some PSP one, and only put around 10 hours into Tri but I’m LOVING MH3U since it’s the first one I’m really playing
Since Saturday I already have like 60 hours O_O
Which flying monster were you referring too? There should be Paintballs in the Supply Box which you can throw at the monster to keep track of them for like 10 minutes or so, so when they fly away they still show up on the map so you know where they are 😀
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qerpuco or something like that? and i’ve worked out paint now 😛
and it is the first one i’ve really played properly, i played a bit of the psp one i borrowed from my friend (i’d like to say it was freedom unite 2?).
but yeah, loving it, had a go at the hunting horn, actually a really fun weapon to play.
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So I just bought King’s Quest 1 to 8 from Good Old Games.
I REGRET NOTHING!
Also, I’m rapidly remembering how frustrating these things were without walkthroughs (especially the early ones)
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Six was always my favourite, but out of those early text parser ones, four was all kinds of awesome! 😀
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Jane Jensen wrote KQ6 with Roberta Williams too! (Speaking of Jane Jensen, did you see the Moebius trailer, @sughly? Implementation looks a little dodgy, but hopefully the design and writing will elevate it… or something.)
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Ewww… that looks kind of horendous, actually. did he just say his surname was Rectum? Anyway, hope it turns out to be fun to play. Also KQ3 was de best* 😀
Text parser. Overall, KQ5. OOOOH LOOK OUT GRRRRAHAM!
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I hated that Cedric the Owl so damn much.
Yeah, I think the guy’s name is Rector. Haha! XD Looks like it’s on par with Gray Matter. Got to say I’m a little disappointed. :'(
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D.C. disappointed in an adventure game? D:
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Early Easter was a success. We usually give a present as well as chocolate and my son came running in at 7 yelling excitedly “Easter Bunny’s been! And he brought me the Jake Treasure Chest!”. Best reaction. 😀
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@welbot I keep forgetting to tell you that Jake is his favourite show. He listens to the soundtrack when he goes to bed (kind of like a kids’ Alestorm 😛 ) and some days he’ll just watch the DVDs over and over and again. 😀
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Hope everybody is well! We don’t really do anything for Easter anymore now that all us kids have grown up but it’s still a good excuse to catch up with family (but where’s my chocolate dammit!). I’m going to visit the ol’ grandparents today. Hopefully if I time my visit right they’ll offer to make me lunch ;D
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You should come to my house! I’ll make you lunch! Then we can have an easter egg hunt around town! I hear Nook is the best hider in the land!
Yu Suzuki & Mark Cerny discuss Shenmue III strategy 😀
http://www.allgamesbeta.com/2013/03/yu-suzuki-and-mark-cerny-talk-shenmue.html
BioShock Infinite spoilers!
I’ve been watching the e3 gameplay trailer. It’s weird seeing the same plot points and dialogue scattered across the entirety of the game. Like that Star Wars scene takes place somewhere else. For the most part the dialogue in that area is the same, heading to Comstock House — locations are crazy different though. I was looking forward to exploring those streets! :'(
Excellent game!
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Also I keep singing Will the Circle be Unbroken. If any one can hear me, they must think I’m a Jesus freak! XD
Eugh, wish I could feel positive about today. I really do, just would seem it’s one of those days 🙁 I have many reasons to be positive, just for some reason am not feeling it =/
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Next week will be awesome though!
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As will November
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That’s if you even show! 😛
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That’s if YOU even show! 😛
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Fourteen meats, man. Tonight makes fifteen. How many have YOU been to? 😛
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https://s3.amazonaws.com/colorslive/jpg_512x512/417226-f2Gpxnn_GzgfgNJi.jpg
Haha!
But how many times have you thought about not going at the last minute? D: also the whole “No. Meating. Shane. >:(” thing 😛
I haven’t been counting but I guess I’ll count now… 7 I think?
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15 times I’ve thought about cancelling at the last minute! 😛
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So you’re making a debut here in November? Awesome!
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I wonder what happened to King Potato in his childhood to make him such a bitter and sour dude.
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I accidentally talked to him once on another article D:
He wasn’t being entirely terrible so I didn’t realise it was him 😛
Yeah, Monster Hunter is basically unplayable without the Circle pad thingy. Fuck that, I’m not spending another $20 on it for a game I’ve already got on the Wii.
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It’s fine on land but pretty much impossible underwater. The game is a lot different though but yeah, less enticing if you have to pay more for extra things 🙁
At least other games work well with it and you could use it for MH4
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Even with the second stick its useless. Camera moves the same as the dpad in chunks which is gorram horrid.
Also being stuck in the one direction while comboing is a game breaker for me. Everything feels so clunky and awkward.
The last two days News.com.au have had stories about aliens on their front page. I love me some scifi, but when did they become the National Enquirer. 😛
@freezespreston
Thoughts on Monster Hunter?
What weapon are you using? How much have you played?
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It feels decidedly archaic and not in a good way. Games have come a long way in terms of controls and refinement to excuse this from being anything but a budget HD rerelease instead of masquerading as a newer game. Which is a shame because if it wasn’t for the controls and the stiffness of everything I’d probably be insanely obsessed with it. As it stands it just leaves me frustrated and wishing I was playing almost anything else.
That said, 5 hours in and currently using the Dual Blades. Axe was too slow and awkward and the Iron Katana is possibly the stupidest weapon ever made. The Gun Lance and Bagpipes are an interesting possibility.
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As I said above too, being stuck in a single direction with combos just breaks the game entirely.
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The only things that are genuinely bad and could use improvement are the targeting/lock on system (which is practically non-existent) and the camera (the way it locks to levels is kind if unnecessary).
What’s your main concerns about the controls? They definitely take a while to get used to and they’re not 100% smooth like other action games (ie. Dark Souls) but they’re not supposed to be. Most armour and weapons are supposed to feel heavy and slow and I wasn’t really a fan at first as I don’t like the slower weapons, but it does feel like being over 50% Equip Load and wielding a heavy weapon in Dark Souls. It’s also not like other hack and slash where it has combos, and you’ll have to time your hits carefully.
Have you experimented with all the different weapon types? One of the main faults of the game is that it doesn’t explain shit, I think there’s a manual accessible from the Wii U menu though. The Sword and Shield are pretty good for beginners but they’re pretty weak.
Have you fought any real monsters yet? Great Jaggi should be your first. The game really only starts once you start hunting the actual big monsters and it just gets better from there. Hunting them for their parts and making better gear feels great.
@Rize and @sernobulus are loving it and I’m not too sure about @BDKIAF and @Blaghman but they seem to be enjoying it (Trollghman kept hitting ME online >:( ). The start can be a bit boring and the whole game seems tough for a beginner and newcomers and I dunno what else to say other than the usual “just stick with it” but it doesn’t seem like you like it :'(, which is a shame because while some things seem flawed it’s a great game that only gets better if you’re willing to invest in it. Use Wikis, ask us for help or just Google answers and soon you’ll be hunting the big baddies with us online 😀
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This is my fourth Monster Hunter game but second one I’m genuinely playing. I’ve put like 1 hour into MH and some PSP one and only put like 10 hours into Tri (still an okay amount) so I know how tough and easy it is to just give up on it, but I stuck with it this time and now I’m already at like 65 hours :/
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Basic BBQ supplies purchased, so food is on. If you feel like eating anything specific your welcome to bring it and slap it on the BBQ.
I need contact details for those of you who don’t know where my place is. Shoot me an email at tigerion [at] google mail service or DM me on twitter
@ynefel @negativezero @puppylicks @tofu @budgieishere @tech_knight @beavwa @princesspipster @ash
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Sorry I was being cheeky when I said I was going to come. I really want to, but I’m in the worng state!
Hope my wishful thinking didn’t stuff up your catering.
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Argh, thought I replied to the other one. I won’t be able to make it Tigs, which kind of bums me out – I’d really love to be there :[
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No probs, you did reply but it was partially open ended so I figured I would keep hassling you 😉
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Why is Hitman: Contracts not on Steam? I’ve never played the Hitman games and I’ve been interested in Absolution but noticed it’s missing from the bundle (which seems pretty cheap!)
I was thinking of getting it but I’d feel like something is missing 😛
Guess I’d just skip the previous ones and get absolution later on then 😀
Aw, man. Getting nervous about this meat. What if everyone hates me. Especially worried about Jimu’s friends. They will probably be expecting someone normal. D:
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From what I have understood on TAY, if you like Dark Souls, you will be fine.
Also if you keep slicing up people’s homes, I don’t think they’ll be too happy.
Basically, you need to reclaim your hermit heritage.
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The first game has an amazing world. In some ways I preferred the atmosphere of Rapture to the atmosphere of Columbia. (Though I think the third game is much better at story telling and character.) All three games are pretty awesome.
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I think the second one doesn’t get the love it deserves. Sure, you’re going through Rapture again and it’s not as exciting the second time, but the story and characters in it are great.
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Yeah, I really liked the second game too. Particularly the section where:
You see Rapture through the eyes of the little sister.I think it’s going to be even more criticized now in the shadow of BioShock Infinite and the original, though.
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Hey guys does it sound wrong to you?
Okay, so your best mate, she makes the effort to drive 100km’s on Good Friday to spend the time with you because you & her don’t get to hang out that often and when you do it’s usually when gigs are happening. and then when you get there to catch up your friend who you have just driven 100km’s to see and spend the day and night with tells you “Oh my mums coming over early in the morning to help me with stuff” when they said they were free all day and had nothing planned, and especially since they said they were catching up with their mother on Sunday and all that.
From what I am told shit like this happens a lot to my friend when she goes to hang out with her, the friend just doesn’t seem to understand the amount of effort put in to her being able to see her. It’s pretty crap if you ask me, also from what I gather the friends mother doesn’t like her being with friends or something as well, since it sounds like she never leaves them to just hang out. Come on they’re both 26/27.. You can’t trust your daughter with her friends, my parents aren’t like that, nor is my friends mum like that, she will say i’ll let you be until your friends are gone or I won’t be back till they’ve left or whatever, you know?
Just annoys me to see shit like that happen to a friend who does so much but gets it thrown back in her face and ends up disappointed. I just feel bad, because I don’t understand how anyone can do that to someone they’ve been friends with for a decade =/ Like she seems like a nice girl and all, but jeez. You don’t treat your best mate who has done so much for you like that.
Best thing about Bioshock infinite, I start up a game with the intention to only play a little bit of it and when I look, 2 hours have passed.
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lol, only 2 hours? 🙂
I know it’s not too much either but a good game can make me play 4 hours or so without realising.
I’m still not sure how people can go like 10 hours without breaks well into the morning 😛
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I generally need to take a break every hour or so, if only for a couple of minutes. Make a cup of tea or go to the toilet, then back into it.
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I’m happy to go, but there’s no chance I’ll sing!
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Would you sing a song for me?
Something classic, and awesome?
C’mon, someone has to bring class to it (just think about it).
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Smurfy. Doesn’t. Sing.
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there is food and booze though
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I’ll sing a song for you, if you sing. 😛
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On a completely unrelated note, will you be at PAX?
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@blaghman – totally worth it Smurfy.
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@scree – I said I’d come along. Just no singing by me.
@blaghman – You should sing a song for me just because you love me 😛
@novacascade – I won’t be at PAX, but I’m looking forward to catching up for some post-PAX fun.
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@smurfydog – oh good, we totally wont drag you to a karaoke place for post pax fun 😛
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Maybe we should wait for Pax? It’ll be more expensive being at night, but it’ll be awesome
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Well the MH demo may have proved that it’s certainly not suited for 3DS (MH4 should be on Vita, seriously.), but on the plus side the Fire Emblem demo is awesome and I’m definitely going to get that!
Played some BioShock Infinite.. What the hell is the go with the sensitivity?! God damn, I don’t have my mouse set THAT high, like 1600 DPI out of like 3600, had to turn acceleration off and turn it RIGHT down in game before it felt normal :S
Otherwise, nice looking game. Runs smoothly on ultra on my GTX560.
@benj Fire Emblem has been my most anticipated game of the year so I’m unreasonably excited to be downloading this demo 😛
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I was reserving judgement until I played the demo but safe to say if you’ve been hyped for a long time you won’t be disappointed, even if it is only 2 stages 😛
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Man, that was so good. Nothing really surprised me because I’ve been watching this game like a hawk, but still 😛 Those huge character sprites and CG scenes look amazing. All the little changes to the gameplay played awesomely too. The amount of battle customisation options is excellent as well (so glad I was able to change back to the fully detailed battle info screens of previous games).
So yeah, I’m hyped 😛
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Damn, why’d you have to go and see this!? I was going to pester you on Twitter all day to play the demo!
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I have work tomorrow, so it’s time to say goodnight, and wish you all a happy Chocolate Day.
Catch! Flip! Homeslice! 🙂
Who here’s playing through Bioshock Infinite? I couldn’t really get into Bioshock honestly, I WANTED to, I might even after this again, but this has just captured me from the very first scene. Very, VERY impressive…
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It’s a rollercoaster when it comes to capturing my interest. I can’t help but draw comparisons with Dishonored, so while the over-saturated ‘merica ambiance is refreshing, the overall architecture doesn’t seem as impressive to me. Same with the plot, it can taper at times and then BAM HOLY SHIT WHAT IS GOING APLOSIONS EVERYWHERE AND SHIT.
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I dunno, i’ve played the first half hour or so and it hasn’t grabbed me. But maybe i’m not in the right head space for new games at the moment =/Like yeah it’s pretty and stuff, but yeah.
I seriously have no idea why I came back. Mum’s had it out for me ever since she misinterpreted me wanting her to piss off when I moved when in fact it was 35 degrees and I wanted a rest after making 10 trips from the car up hills and stairs to my room, so she’s been snarky about everything all weekend. She’s pissed off that I’m going to see friends tomorrow even though we’re not even doing anything for Easter and it’s the only day my best friend is free (and she’s asked like 5 times over the past week “Is Jay coming back for the weekend?”), now she says she’s getting a cold and it’s my fault. Then she gets snarky about me asking to go to the supermarket to pick up some food to take back (I literally have 1 packet of noodles left and that’s it), because I just want her to buy me food (and condoms, apparently?), while at the same time complaining that I don’t eat well enough. Oh and lets not forget talking behind my back about me to my brother.
Dads been watching Sky fucking news and the Aurora channel these entire past 2 days and got pissed off when I wanted to watch Workaholics and South Park today WHILE HE WAS ON THE COMPUTER WITH HEADPHONES ON, and tomorrow I have to see my grandparents who will just bitch and moan that I haven’t personally driven 20km to the tip while I haven’t even been here to get rid of “everything I didn’t take with me” (because apparently if I didn’t take it I don’t want it, even though I have thousands of dollars of gear still here), and grill me on why I haven’t written to them about every little thing that’s gone on (like I’d tell them 95% of what I’ve been up to).
At least no matter what my dogs will always greet me with a massive smile and a hug 🙁 Justin and Hamish mean more to me than anything else in the world. I wish I knew what I’ve done to make my parents so hostile towards me (okay, I’m pretty sure it was answering honestly that I prefer living in Hobart), but if they’re just going to keep working off of these stupid assumptions, then I don’t think I’ll bother coming back. If they’re going to beg me to come back, then the least they can do is make me feel like I’m still welcome.
(sorry for the long rant :S)
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Family. Can’t choose them, can’t ignore them and apparently murdering them all and dumping the bodies is frowned upon.
Don’t worry, one day you’ll have kids and you’ll be the lame annoying one 😛
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It’s not really being lame or annoying though (my mum’s always been kinda cool, she watches tosh.0 with me when it’s on), it’s more that it feels like they don’t even like me anymore, and not even because of what I’ve done or think, but what they think I think. I don’t expect to be treated like a kid anymore, but I’d still at least like to feel like they have some respect for me.
Eg. when she picked me up from the bus depot, the conversation started with her complaining that I’m going give everyone a cold and she didn’t want to take a day off work because she has to pay off her new car.
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Not sure why its taken me so long to play The Witcher. This game is awesome!
Best thing is I can get the second one on the Xbox and play in my natural habitat, the couch or bed 😛
But really, awesome game. I can see myself getting hooked.
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I’ve had the second one sitting unopened on my desk at home for about 18 months now. Never got around to playing it. I know I’m missing out
Wow.
Missed TAY all week I believe. Partially bcaise I didn’t seem to have time (terrible fuckign ecxuse) and partially because I was signed out and don’t know my password off-hand (password vaults ftw?)
uhhmmm, what’ve I meissed? I’m planning on taking time off work in July, and would really like to see the brisbane TAYbies again… (only because all the other TAYbies are clearly lesser pleople, or something. not really, I love you anll, but doing another multistate trip is a logistical nightmare among other thngis… I still need to visit the Perth TAUYbies too, come to think of itt.)
So far I’ve recieved feedback formr… @strange @dkzeitgeist @dc @virus__ @powalen @sughly (@kramsdesign?) @beardymchellscreambeardstericantrememberthehandlefuckimbadatthis. So yeah. Who’s keen on a July meat?
In other new… friend of mine died last night. No deatils yet, just that his father found him dead in his room between 2130 and 2300 last night. Apparently heart attack, though I suspect it’s drug-induced, although up in the air as to whether it was intentional or not. It’s ofdd. As youi cla likely tell my by terrible typing, I’m intoxicated at the moment (woo, what a surprise?!) so i don;t think its’ hit home quite yet.
canT say i’m surprised… He was a bit iff an idiot when it came to that shit. Anyway yeah, friend gone.
In other news? Uhh… Somerhing something bBisoshocl. MN, THAT game is great. i think I’m …15 hours in
? Then again, I’ve been scouring the world, so my playtime probably doesn’t reflect how faR THROugh the story I am. Still, loving it! Such a great purchase, although not without it’s faults. What the fucking fuck is up with the default mose sensitivity!?!!
Uhh, yeah… Hope everyone is well and all that good stuff. Let’s worship zombie jesus or something. Chocletate eggs atnd stuff. Yay!
Also, I kinda feel liek this guy, barging in here all unannounced and tactless like.
LOVE
I met @gutsoup! He’s awesome! Also awesome seeing @jimu again too. (We’re all from the Northside so took the same train. Gutsoup lives further from the city than me!)
@sughly’s all kinds of awesome, all of the time. That goes without saying though! 😀
Happy Easter everyone. This godless heathen is going to sleep…
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Meat was awesome. Sorry if I was all quiet this time. Had a whole lot of fun though!
Looking forward to the next one!
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Nah, man, you were speaking plenty.
I remember talk of Sci Fi, anime, Disney, Adventure games and you were totally anti-rape!
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I liked Pixar’s Cars but after the disappointing cars 2 this announcement seems strange. It is:
Disney’s Planes
Apparently the movie was supposed to go straight to DVD but it’s now a 3D theatre release. Oh dear.
Hopefully it’s at least decent.
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It won’t be.
But then, it doesn’t need to be. All it has to do is incite children to go and see it, so that they can then become obsessed with the toys. Disney and Pixar both know exactly what they’re doing from a money making perspective, and the Cars universe is by far Pixar’s most profitable.
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So, that BioShock Infine ending, huh?
Was waiting all game for the twist, didn’t think it would happen, then BAM! Multiverses, Comstock is an alternate-reality Dewitt, Elizabeth is your daughter, you have to kill yourself to defeat Comstock…
Seriously it pretty much mindfucked me, woulda been better if I wasn’t watching the credits at this time of day, but still. I think I’m gonna need to play through that last level tomorrow to try and understand it all.
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I’m not that fond of it, actually. I was spoiled ahead of time, but that didn’t make it any less shocking, but what I have a problem with is how they deal with it. Alternate Universes are pretty much the core concept behind the plot, and dicking around with the multiverse can be a pretty hefty subject; I think Infinite simply coasted on the implications of how complicated the topic is to deliver a pretty ordinary ending. The best way I can describe it is the Vader Reveal vs the Shyamalan Reveal. The Vader Reveal changed up the whole dynamic, but that was pretty much in the middle of plot, while the Shyamalan Reveal (I’m counting the good ones) Is revealed straight up at the end to deliver shock value, and often flips the whole thing on it’s head. This wasn’t a Vader Reveal, and it seemed a bit too straightforward for a Shyamalan Reveal, so.. we end up with simply killing Booker. Also, the post-credits part was great, really was.
Man, I would kill (again) for access to a Canadian JB Hi Fi equivalent.
It’s surprising sometimes how stunted store speciality competition is here.
My main two options for buying a TV/Monitor is Walmart and (as far as I can tell) a really poor equivalent to Dick Smith.
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Also, I find it odd that they’re saying the release date is the 21st of May, but JB Hi-Fi is saying it’s the 17th. Their banner for it also says it’s coming out in 2103 though…
http://www.jbhifionline.com.au/music/dance/random-access-memories/682358-
In Australia, album releases are always at the end of the week for the ARIA charts on the following Monday, where as in other countries release dates are generally at the start of the week, because their charts don’t start on a Monday. That’s the reason why most albums are released here first and at the end of a week.
So yeah May 17th is a Friday which is a typical release day for new albums here 😛 Monday or Tuesday are typical for the rest of the world.
#themoreyouknow
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If there’s ever a time for the younger generation to get vinyl, Daft Punk would be a hell of a good choice for it.
Easter TAY. *refresh*
I’ve eaten four chocolate easter eggs and I’ve been awake for five minutes. 😀
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No chocolate for me. /o\
Aside from the fact that we don’t celebrate Easter, I have a middle ear infection in my left ear and I’m not allowed to eat any dairy foods until it’s better :/-
🙁 Damn! Hope you feel better. You should go to the store and stockpile some post-Easter eggs after the holiday though. Good eatin’…
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I have an organic chocolate easter egg, that could be seen as healthy 😛 Also the more cocoa in it, the more “healthy” it is I am sure 😛
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I got given my easter egg last night, since we’d “already been to mass” (My Grandparents went, my Mother may have, I’m not sure), and I ate it all last night. :/
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It’s half an egg shell, with chocolates inside. I can’t find a better image, but the stuff inside was these: http://brunostruffels.com.au/chocolate.htm
But it was only a mini one, so there was like 5 of them…
Which is still not exactly a small amount of chocolate.
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Fancy! Haha! Just Cadbury and lots of it for ol’ D.C.! 😀
That looks pretty rich too!
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@scree I received an email from you but it only contains a link. Not clicking on it in case you’ve been hacked.
OH GOD, It can’t be? Can it?!
http://retrospectrealm.com/2013/03/28/half-life-3-confirmed-after-gdc-meeting-with-valve/
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If it’s real, it’s sort of jerky of the other developers to spoil the surprise since everyone’s waited this long. 😛
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Once upon a time the Aztecs believed, not that the gods had granted life to man… but that man had stolen it. Prometheus stole the eternal flame and something something stole the ring. I’m only saying this is not a new story. No… it’s not a new story at all…
I watched this trailer every day in 1999. 😛
Seems vaguely appropriate for Easter. 😀
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It’s umm… It’s… It’s a metaphor for how he is losing grasp on reality, and he must grab deep into the earth to remain rooted.
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Haha! One of my favourite adventure games of all-time. It was never a pretty game, though. Even at launch. 😀
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Haha, If you can get past the extremely dated graphics there’s an amazing game here, every bit as good as Sins of the Fathers. 😀
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Family coming around and I have a Pork Forequarter roasted in chilli, lime, butter and salt.
I’m amazing if I don’t say so myself.
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Oh god that sounds amazing.
Currently got a leg of lamb marinating in all sorts of tasty home grown herbs with some garlic, should be epic when done on the spit roast.
Ok… I’ve blatently ignored Fire Emblem stuff up until now, but your convo made me go off and watch some reviews. Holy. Crap. I need this. This looks SOOOO much better than I ever considered it could. (@powalen @benj @greenius @bish)
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It’s pretty good.
I mean, it’s a serious contender for GOTY depending on your tastes.
No, seriously, it’s fucking amazeballs.
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Well, the comments on this are interesting on how ill informed people are =/
I’m not a huge fan of Mc Donalds, Subway I like depending. But neither use processed beef or chicken, according to their PR and if their PR is lying, then they are in a lot of trouble here. I highly doubt either are that stupid. People are just ignorant it seems and prefer not to know the truth.
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That’s how it is with everyone when it comes to fast food. Everybody completely refuses to believe that they use actual food so they just keep ignorantly shouting “McDonalds had to add pickles so their burgers weren’t classified as confectionary” bullshit.
The worst thing is people saying the KFC double is the most unhealthy thing on earth and it’ll give you a heart attack just because there’s no bread. In actual fact it’s healthier than a Big Mac :l
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Yeeeeep. I prefer the truth not made up lies and speculation because the chain does that in another country, doesn’t mean they do it here. And a Big Mac is healthier than some of the salads served and Mc Donalds, now that is a right worry! I think it was the crispy chicken bacon and Caesar salad though lol.
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Aqua Teen Hunger Force is playing on sbs 2 on Monday nights :O Now none of you have an excuse not to watch it!
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I don’t watch TV, there’s my excuse 😛
Also not seeing it in the TV guide.. Mad Men is on at 9.30 on SBS One though.
Oh there it is at midnight, that’s a tad late 😛
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I think somewhere around midnight is its times lot in America as well haha.
Seriously though kudos to sbs for at least making an effort. They’re playing Russell Howard as well and a couple of other shows that nobody but the comedy channel would ever air. Now if they could go back to airing new seasons of South Park…
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Channel 9 bought the rights to South Park as far as I am aware =/ So like Top Gear we will probably never see it back on SBS 🙁
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It was pretty casual, just Jimu, Gutsoup, Sughly and I. Was good though. Next weekend’s going to be awesome too! We just went to Cybercity, The Valley and then into Queen St afterwards!
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Hey gang.
Dark Souls! \o/
Carted more than 270,000 souls into Blighttown to upgrade my pyromancy flame. Did all that, and then decided to attack the trainer for the extra spell she carries. Got slaughtered. But it was the quickest way out of Blighttown, because I respawned outside Sen’s Fortress, where I’d last rested. Knocked that over quickly, and am now up to the inside bit of Anor Londo. The pyromancy is making me feel a little OP. I have no idea how I cleared this so easily w/o magic the last time I played! But now I’m inside, it’s just the silver knights, and they’re not much hassle. Stay tuned. Ornstein and Smough, probably the next time I play! \o/
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You’re inspiring me try and tackle the fortress with my original character.
Although not today.
I can’t seem to wake up today. Keep falling asleep and waking feeling foggy and falling asleep again. Hope I’m not getting sick, being sick sucks.-
A lot of people hate on Sen’s, but I honestly think it’s one of the easier areas, all said. I guess that’s just my luck, though 🙂
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I have bad reflexes so
the whole trap aspect makes me mad. I hate dying to stuff like that after surviving through the tough battles.
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Nah, just want to finish the game. Got past anor londo on the ps3, but the system gave up the ghost thern… So had to restart on the 360
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Ah righto.
Agree about the magic; tried it on my second play and it felt kinda cheap. Killed Sif without taking a single hit, which made me sad 🙁
No need to read the enemy, learn its attack patterns, perfect the timing and use the terrain. Just kite and spam R1.
Did not feel like Souls really.
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I’m playing through with Sorceries for the very first time. I can’t withstand a single hit but that’s okay as I’m doing ~700 damage with Great Soul Arrow at a fairly long range. Just dropped the Titanite Demon just before the Forest in 4 shots. It really is ridiculous considering these are only mid level spells. Magic is Dark Souls easy mode.-
It really, really is. I’m feeling so guilty that I think I’m going to save the spells for emergencies 😛
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Yeah, man. Not bad thanks. How about yours? I understand you’ve added a good dose of chocolate to your diet. Sounds like you’re being slightly healthier than usual 😛
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Ok, so the in-game timer for Monster Hunter said I’ve played for something like 70 hours, which since Saturday means I’ve been playing for like 10 hours a day on average.
Holy fucking shit. O__________O
The Wii U has an activity log which would be more accurate for seeing how long I’ve been sitting on my ass playing the game as it counts time in menus, loading screens etc., pretty much the time the game has been on. I’m interested (and scared) to see it now 😛
Addictius!
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Oh, it wasn’t too bad! But in the last two months I played the Wii U for 4 hours and then BOOM!, suddenly it stops collecting dust 😀
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So green man, is monster hunter as good on wii u? Because I’m seriously considering getting one now
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I haven’t played the 3DS one except for the demos and it’s pretty much the same except for awesome online play (been playing so much with the TAYbies), second analog stick and better “HD” graphics
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I had another big post written, but I deleted it all and I’ll just say this instead.
*sigh* 🙁
I don’t think I can manage being in Launceston anymore. It’s just too depressing.
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They say you can’t go home again. That’s not really true, but things are bound to be different. You’re probably used to your independence now. One of those jarring things to be treated like a kid by your parents no matter your age. You’ll be back to Hobart soon enough!
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There’s just nothing or nobody left here 🙁 Every single one of my friends has moved now, and my parents are just intent on arguing with me. I’m not being treated like a kid, I’m being treated like a burden. Plus I won’t be able to see the only friend who came back now, because he went down to Hobart for the day with his family!
Walking through the actual city is like walking through a ghost town too. One whole side of a street is empty bar one store. There’s no purpose of Launceston even existing, there really isn’t.
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Never thought this would ever be an issue for me but the FOV in Bioshock Infinite on the PS3 is so narrow it’s giving me a headache.
Also tee hee. Columbia’s Gayest Quartet. *immature giggle*
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They sure were! 😛
I know there’s FOV options in the PC version in the graphics menu, don’t suppose PS3 has that too?
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After dc’s page get, I’m finally “acquiring” Tangled so I can see what all the fuss is about. Along with a few other movies while I can abuse my home wifi. Any other list worthy movies I should be grabbing?
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shane
— A Few Good Men
— Clerks II
— Over the Hedge
— Music and Lyricsbdkiaf
— Pulp Fiction
— Reservoir Dogs
— Anchorman
— There Will Be Blood
— American Psycho
— Warrior
— Drive
— Hanna
— American History X
— Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
— Snatchblaghman
— Beauty and the Beast
— In Time
— Lars and the Real Girlgreenius
— Ghibli Films
— Pulp Fiction
— Memento
— 12 Angry Men
— City of God
— Life is Beautifulredartifice
— Usual Suspects
— The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
— Dr. Strangelove
— Memento
— Dark City
— Heatsughly
— Pulp Fiction
— There Will Be Blood
— Blue Valentine
— Wendy and Lucy
— The Child (Dardenne)
— 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days
— Martha Marcy May Marlene
— Black Swan
— Rust and Bone
— Kid with a Bike
— Celeste & Jesse Forever
— Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead
— Babelfreezespreston
— Equilibrium
— The Sunset Limited
— Machete
— The Departed
— Black Snake Moan
— Kung Fu Hustle
— Shadow of the Vampireeffluvium-boy
— Mary & Max
— The Hidden
— District 9
— Akira
— PathologyTigerion
— The War of the Worlds (1953)
— Rango
— Red Dog
— Men of Honour
— Wasabi
— Tais-toi
— The Princess Bridetofu
— Life is Beautiful
— Battle Royale
— Proco Rosso
— Meet the Robinsons
— August Rushspaghett
— Boondock Saints
— Spawn
— Limitless
— Rescue Dawnvirus
— A Clockwork Orange
— Scarface
— One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest
— Pulp Fiction
— Full Metal Jacket
— Reservoir Dogs
— Inglourious Basterds
— Shutter Island
— Machetestrange
— Delicatessen
— City of Lost Children
— Rosencrantz and Guildsenstern Are Dead
— Princess Blade
— Volcano High
— Coralinesmurfydog
— Reservoir Dogs
— Slingblade
— Barfly
— Withnail and I
— Ghost Dog
— Amile
— Kids
— In Bruges
— The Usual Suspects
— Four Weddings and a Funeral
— Three Colours Trilogy (Seen some of it.)
— Lost in Translation
— The Last King of ScotlandJimu
— The Machinist
— Ghost in the Shellbeardymcmuttonchops
— Disaster
— Splinter
— Pandorum
— Triangle
— Rob Zombie’s Halloween remakethecracks
— The Untouchablesynefel
— The Kingdompowalen
— Rubber-
Stuff I’ve watched lately that’s good:
— Take Shelter
— Never Let Me Go
— Dredd
— Let Me In
— Jeff, Who Lives at Home
— Chronicle
— Argo
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Obviously you haven’t watched the list of the learned sophisticated gentleman ie Freeze’s list.
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Haven’t watched any thing from the list this week. D:
Taking a break, was kind of stressed out and anxious earlier in the week!
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Oh yeah, damn good movie. Not on the list because it was watched before the list existed. Might as well add No Country For Old Men and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind too. 😀 Gattaca is one of my all-time favourites as well.
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Still unsure about it, though. 😀
Note: If people have suggested stuff and it’s not updated on the list… TELL ME! 😛
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Dark City
Watch Out We’re Mad
Symbol
Q The Winged Serpent
Hellraiser series (at least the first 2)
Mac and Me
The Lawnmower Man
RAD
BMX Banditsprobably a ton more I can’t even think of atm!
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I think we have very different taste in movies! Haha! 😀
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lol this is just a small selection of movie’s I’ve seen over the years (mostly from my childhood) that I’ve enjoyed on some level. Some of them might be a bit on the silly side, but each of them has something about them that makes them worthy of being watched! If you only watch one of them, make it Symbol!
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Might I add to my list;
Inglourious Basterds
Shutter Island
Machete
They’re all good. I am hoping you have seen the first two though.
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Added! Haven’t seen any. Saw a little of Shutter Island but wasn’t in the mood at the time and put it off for later.
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Tut, tut, DC 😛
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Also if you haven’t, at least the first two Godfather movies. Part 3 is on ABC2 tonight. But that’s only optional imo.
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That’s one series I’ve never been interested in at all. Had many chances to see it through the years, but just haven’t wanted to. Haha. Thanks for the heads up, though.
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It should be mandatory viewing, it explains a lot about the Italian Mafia!
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I’m thinking I’ll add Lars and the Real Girl if you haven’t already seen it. It’s a pretty cool guy.
Jesus… I’ve seen a few of those, a few more that I’m interested in. I will put my list up once I’ve got them all.
It’s delayed I know. I don’t know what you’ve already seen so sorry if there’s some you have.
(Mostly in alphabetical order. Some of these movies aren’t for everyone)
13 Assassins
50/50
Attack the Block
August Rush
Black Swan
Blue Valentine
Contagion
Death At A Funeral
District 9
Drag Me To Hell
Event Horizon
From Dusk Till Dawn
Gran Tarino
Hanna
Inside Man
Ip Man
It’s Kind Of A Funny Story
Let The Right One In
Memento
Moon
Oldboy
Pan’s Labryinth
Red State
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Son of Rambow
The Descent
The Forbidden Kingdom
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (Sweedish or US. I prefer the US version. Mostly for Rooney Mara. HNNNNG)
The Lovely Bones
The Raid Redemption
The Road
The Social Network
The Thing (1982)
Trick R Treat
Tucker And Dale Vs. Evil (Watch this knowing as little about it as you can)
Unleashed
Zombieland
The Usual Suspects
Pandorum
Kick Ass
Will add more as I think of them.
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cakesmith
— 13 Assassins
— Attack the Block
— Death At A Funeral
— Drag Me To Hell
— From Dusk Till Dawn
— Inside Man
— Ip Man
— It’s Kind Of A Funny Story
— Let The Right One In
— Oldboy
— Red State
— Son of Rambow
— The Descent
— The Forbidden Kingdom
— The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
— The Raid Redemption
— The Road
— Trick R Treat
— Tucker And Dale Vs. Evil
— Unleashed
— Kick AssI took out the ones I’ve seen and stuff that’s already on the list, just to make it less overwhelming! 😛
Thanks man!
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Some trailers for the lesser known ones:
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I plan on reading The Road before seeing the movie! 😀
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You’ll like The Forbidden Kingdom. Journey to the West and all that.
Also Ip Man is fantastic.
And just to pile on more and make everything more unmanageable add Fearless to it.
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No time frame on the list or any thing. Doesn’t matter if it’s over whelming. Haha. (Also most of the movies people have suggested are stuff I know about and have meant to get around to. Having them recommended gives added incentive and someone to talk to after I do! :D)
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Okay then. Look up Wuxia films and just add them all 😛
Oh, with Death at a Funeral, make sure you watch the British version and not the US remake.
Oh, and add these:
The Book of Eli
Super
The Game
Sunshine
Loved The Game, liked Sunshine!
Pssst, the others originally had a five movie limit. 😛 Haha! It’s alright, though. The more the better as long as they’re actually list worthy. 😀
You never said there was a limit and asked for movies. So I recommended some 😛
Mainly went through my collection and listed the ones I like/more obscure ones.
Struggling big-time with what I believe is the final section in Bioshock Infinite.
Man, I’m terrible with FPS!
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Where you up to, Aleph? (Spoiler space and all that obviously! :D) I found a couple of boss fights in this game to be all kinds of annoying in an otherwise awesome game.
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I’ve got to protect the Hand Of The Prophet’s core from attack by the Vox Populi, and must use the Songbird to ward off the nastier attacks/zeppelins and such. For the life of me (I’ve tried and failed all afternoon, maybe 6-7 times?) I can’t seem to keep the Vox at bay /o\-
Oh yeah, I struggled with that part too. Songbird seemed unresponsive most of the time. Remember to use possession on some of the Vox too, let them take care of each other. Try to get the ship dealies before they drop off the people on deck as well. Also, it was tough enough on normal so if you’re playing on hard… D:-
HOLY CRAP I haven’t even used that.
I’ll swap the one I’m not using out for it.Playing on Normal, and it’s kicking my ass at the moment!
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I hated the Lady Comstock battles, I was playing on hard though. Looking forward to the added challenge of 1999 mode, didn’t use a dollar bill machine until late Emporia.
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I did it on hard, and my solution had a fair dose of cheese. I did it with very minimal Plasmid use because I constantly forgot that I had them. But focus on the rocket launcher dudes, but they’re a pain because their arms will often block headshots, so you have to be really careful. Songbird should be pulled down to deal with any of the airboats with the big guns on them, and sparsely used, if you can, before the other ones are able to drop guys. It’s divided up into waves, so a good way of dealing with it is to leave one guy left at the end, since he’ll do minimal damage, and let the songbird recharge. Sometimes you can even stand in the right place, and they’ll stop shooting completely. When the Mechanical Patriot thingies are dropped, let them step forward until they’re right before the middle of the drop area, and then call Songbird down on them, and I’d recommend doing this every time, and ignoring the Zeppelins unless you have a good chance. The bright side of this is that Songbird recharges super quickly when you attack the ground with him, which reduces the stress by a lot. And I know that you’ve probably beaten it by this point, but I wanted to mention this here so that you can see how much thought I put into this one freakin’ section.
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Oh man, nice work!
I ended up only using Possession once, then stuck with Shock Jockey. Turns out I was failing right at the endpoint every time, so I was fairly close anyway. Nice work completing it on Hard though man!Also… dat ending.
I kinda put it together a while before it happened, but still. Fight Club: The Game is a pretty cool guy!.
Seeing all of the different Elizabeths was a nice touch. It didn’t actually occur to me that I hadn’t been chasing the same one throughout the game until then.
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Really looking forward to it too, but can’t help but think that CBS isn’t the right fit for the show. :S
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You might well be right. But I hope to God the network has faith that the Brian K Vaughan and Stephen King dream-team know how to tell a story :\
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http://io9.com/javier-grillo-marxuach-says-theres-more-middleman-in-t-464271245
More Middleman stuff! \o/
Nova’s “Very Short Compard To DC” List of Movies that I’m planning on watching in the not too distant future.
Tangled
ParaNorman
Never Let Me Go
Its Kind Of A Funny Story (which was on my list before cake mentioned it)
In Time
Avengers plus all the lead up movies because I’m a terrible person and didnt watch any of them bar the first Iron Man
and because @doc_what gave me homework on Potaku a few weeks ago, I also grabbed the Back to the Future trilogy, since I’ve never watched them either.
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Man, people scoffed at me when they found out what movies I hadn’t seen, but even I’ve seen Back to the Future! 😛
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That was pretty much Doc’s reaction too. But he’ll have to wait a little while. Other movies on the list will be watched first
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Man some people on the while sexism thing do my head in. All those guys writing a self congratulatory wank condemning anything involving a woman and her sexuality that amounts to nothing but “All women are helpless and need men like us to save them.” They’re worse than the people they’re looking down at.
Also there is a real issue about sexism I. The industry but trivial bullshit like the GDC thing just does nothing but obscure the real issue with ridiculous stupidity so noone has to deal with the actual problem.
Gah I’m frustrated with it all.
Rantrantrantrantrant…..
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While I agree that it is trivial, the whole thing with the GDC party is mostly because after last year’s fiasco, they still went the go-go girl dancer route. You’d think that with sexism in the industry being such a hot topic lately, they may have been a little more cautious.
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American Beauty is on the list, because of Alan Ball. (Who wrote it and went on to create Six Feet Under afterwards!)
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SmurfyDog hope you’re well! No post meat blues. I feel this odd sensation at the moment that something is wrong. Tried to work out what it was and then I realized I wasn’t stressed or anxious. Now I’m starting to feel anxious about why I’m not feeling stressed and anxious. XD
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Yeah I’m pretty good. I had to work today, but I’ve got tomorrow off, so I’m taking my 3yo nephew out to the community farm to hang out with some cute animals and have a picnic and feed him chocolate before handing him back to his parents. 😉
How are you going, D.C.? Good meat last night?
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Ghost World’s on the list too! 😀 Haha! Best uncle ever.
Yeah, I’m pretty good. The meat was awesome. Think I’ve reached the stage where it’s just hanging with friends now. It’s weird to think I’m one of two Brisbane TAYbies who have met a new Brisbane TAYbie. Does that make me an old guard type now? 😀
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Definitely old guard!
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Since you edited whilst I was replying, I’ll make this a reply to avoid some inception-like edit-fest.
I’m really glad you didn’t have the PMbs today! 🙂
\I hope you can avoid falling down that rabbit hole of feeling anxious about why you don’t feel anxious. I hope I didn’t bring it on with mention of the dreaded PMBs. If I did, I am so, so sorry! 🙁-
Haha! No, wasn’t you man. I wouldn’t be D.C. if there wasn’t a significant amount of needless worrying. 😀 (Though it did take me a while to realize what you meant by PMB. :P)
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Hmm… My parents dvr’d the gourmet farmer (sbs show) and they’re at Festivale in Launceston and I just remembered I was there at night quite drunk. I hope I wasn’t filmed 😛
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Never seen it but I know the voice actress of Melia from Xenoblade is the new sidekick person thingy
woo!
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O.O you have never seen Doctor Who?! This is worse than that time @DC said he hadn’t seen X movie.. You must rectify this at once!
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I’ve got The Ides of March and The Avengers recording tonight. This week I resume watching stuff! 😀
KERBAL SPACE PROGRAM… my nephew and I just discovered this little gem on Steam. Has anyone here played it? We’re thoroughly addicted to creating explosive rocket ships now!!! Who’s got it? Who’s played it? What do you guys think of it if so?
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I had it ages ago… saw it on Steam recently, nice to see they’re asking money for it now! Never really got into it, mostly because my poor little laptop couldn’t ever handle it properly.
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Yeah, 23 dollars. To be honest, I’m ok with paying that for it. Games like this, still in development, I’m ok with supporting. We bought Minecraft when it was 5 bucks per copy in Alpha stage, best purchase we ever made, bought 5 copies then. My mate got Kerbal apparently when it was 6 dollars and in his words ‘As rough as guts and nearly unplayable’ compared to how it is now. Really enjoying it 😀 Between this and Bioshock Infinite my Uni work is doooooomed lol
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Watched Eternal Sunshine of the Spotlesss Mind again tonight. I freakin’ loved it more than the first time. (And I loved it the first time.) I think I had a better grasp of the structure and all that this time too.
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I’m put off by Jim Carey being in it. I’m not sure I could watch it without having his whole history ruining the character for me.
Also, Lost in Translation (2003) – IMDb
And “Memento”Also, I’d like to apologise for continually adding to the list. Seriously. Sorry.
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To be honest, you can’t really even tell it’s Jim Carrey, it’s such a different role. His voice and the way he carries himself is completely different. Definitely give it a shot! Lost in Translation was one of those movies no one suggested, but was definitely still on my unwritten list of I need to see that. I’ll put it under the SmurfyDog sub-heading! 😀
Edit: Wait a second, it IS in the SmurfyDog section already! 😛
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Dude, Carey is great in it!
There’s only one brief moment where he’s all “crazy Carey” but other than that he’s solid 😀
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I hate Jim Carey when he’s just being Jim Carey. Like in all his comedy roles. But the man can act. Like really act. So when he’s in a non-comedic role it’s easy to forget about his comedic persona and just believe him in the role he’s playing.
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That’s great to know. I’ll add it to my list.*
*No actual list exists, I’m not that organised. But I’ll watch it one day. 😛
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The Truman Show is possibly one of his best movies. Even though I am bored to death of it after being made watch it almost every English lesson in year 11 😛
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Decent OST too!
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Funny thing is, quite a lot of comedians make better dramatic actors than they do comedic actors… ironic or what?
Robin Williams, Billy Connoly, Jim Carrey, Bill Murray, Gene Wilder, John Leguizamo (don’t believe me about him? Check out ANY serious movie he’s in)… I can’t explain why, maybe it’s because being a comedian, they’re a character on stage as well? As Robin Williams said once when he was on the morning show, ‘I’m not funny at home, I go off stage and I switch off completely.’
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Hey, that’s awesome! (And if I’m going to be completely honest, better than The Lesser Evil covers. :D)
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While my computer loads the imagine I’m going to say that it better be green.
EDIT: Nope, worst image ever.
It’s funky. I like it!
(unwanted opinions and criticisms in next spoiler)But… while I love the top, I’m not too keen on the bottom left for some reason (looks a bit messy?) and the way “The Graphic Novel – Volume 1” is slanted (makes it harder to read). But I love the whole shape bit and colour (EXCEPT FOR THE NO GREEN >:( ) contrasts though :D.
Maybe fill in the bottom left to an all black or black-grey overlap for only a few layers (like how it is against the reds) and rotate the text.DON’T MIND ME, JUST BORED…
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Looks good. It’s clean, it’s simple, it gets to the point, it’s not cluttered. Might just be my small laptop screen but the title text at the top looks a little too tall, but again it’s probably just my screen, since the other text is fine.
I’m psyched for the meat next Saturday. (Even though there doesn’t appear to be any details yet. Haha!) Still psyched! 😀
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Powalen already has a 3DS XL (red buddies! :D) and it’s great for new owners but for those looking to upgrade, pre-installed software is the devil.
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I totally would be if I didn’t already have an XL! It’s an awesome design (second only to that exclusive black Charizard one)
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But if someone wants to transfer their purchases to a console with pre-installed software, it would be deleted (so no Fire Emblem!) 🙁
Therefore it’s the devil.
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Aw man, Tomorrow’s April Fools Day. The worst day of the year. Then the next day is Aprils Fools Day in U.S. timezone. BAH! *shakes fist*
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April Fool’s Day is worth it entirely for what Blizzard always puts out. I know it doesn’t help people who aren’t fans of the studio, but umm…
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Have fun.
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I always have a laugh at what various sites put up on April Fools day. Google usually do something funny.
How funny would it be if Valve actually announced HL3 on April Fools Day for real! 🙂
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Thanks for point that out. I’d have missed it otherwise. Pyrean and I just watched it cracking up.
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Aww, I enjoyed it but after reading the comments they did the same thing last year :/
Also, Trophy cup? I clicked on the CD?
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huh… it was a trophy cup last night o.0
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YouTube Collection (DVD) Joke? or did the joke change? o_O
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I like to think it’s the closest thing we’ll get to Safety Dance for Deus Ex Human Revolution.
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Yeeeeep, I know that one with sleeping issues. I haven’t been able to get a solid nights sleep of late =/ Hope it doesn’t stay with you for long.
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Also Hitman Absolution is 75% off. Someone was asking about it a few days ago. @greenius maybe?
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I saw it was on sale but wondered why one of the games was missing from Steam/the collection
I was going to buy it too 🙁
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It’s all an April fools joke. You get to the payment Nd it charges you +75% with APRIL FOOLS! as the purchase reference on your card statement.
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Still no idea who is turning up today, hopefully somebody. Well I have 2 definites so that’s ok, just hope they are hungry if there the only ones here.
Now to get my eyeballs ready for the guests
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lol how am I tracking him down? I don’t even know his number or where he lives 😛
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Ask @dc or stalkius 😉
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I sent you a twitter message dealy asking for your address … although now it’s looking that I can’t make it. hooray for one of the dogs needing to go to the vet because I’m pretty sure she ate half a bag of rubbish
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hmmmmm I didn’t get your twitter message, are you asking random internet strangers for their address
Sorry about puppy, if you have to take care of them do so. Otherwise what’s you twitter handle, I’ll shoot my address to you so you have the option -
DM sent, hopefully you got it
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Cadbury’s “Egg’n’Spoon” is the most horrible chocolate thing ever. I’ve had one and feel sick.
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Cadbury chocolate in general is the most horrible chocolate in existence. Every time I have their chocolate I feel sick.
Even since they switched back to just a cocoa butter recipe after having a palm oil & cocoa butter recipe, it still isn’t as nice as proper milk chocolate that isn’t overly sweet and has awesome flavour.
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Nope, in 2009 they received a lot of backlash and they promptly withdrew it apparently. Either way their chocolate is still shit imo 😛
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Hopefully never. I’m quite enjoying having the day off and getting paid for it thank you very much.
So Survivor TAYbies may have a giggle at the fact that Iateyourpie is trolling @PSheppardTV on twitter currently. No idea who he is, apparently a special agent that wrote a book or some crap?
Anyway, the dude’s boiling up big time.
Game of Thrones! I’m looking forward to it. It’s on Foxtel two hours after the U.S. premiere, but it’s also one of those shows I need to see in HD. So I might, uh… [redacted] it…
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Don’t have Foxtel in HD. Game of Thrones can’t be watched in standard definition. It’s against the natural order of things… two hours after U.S. release or not… 😛
(Also got The Ides of March, The Avengers, Tree of Life and the Motorcycle Diaries to watch today too!)
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Nice additions! M Diaries is great, Gael Garcia Bernal (spelling?) is such a great actor. Also pretty sure I’ve preached it plenty, but I have a lot of love for Ides. Really really well made film.
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Ides is first up on the list! Will be the first Ryan Gosling movie I’ve seen too! 😛 I remember wanting to see it in the cinema when it was released. Can’t remember you preaching it though? Will let you know what I think afterwards! 😀
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Ah, so this is the beginning of your man crush then. As it begins in these early stages, watch Drive, and then let the man love flourish and blossom into something beautiful.
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I don’t see that happening any time soon. Haha! (The man crush, I mean. I’m okay with watching Drive though. :P) Man, what a really cool movie. Kind of reminded me of campaign mode on The West Wing, except with a focus on just one character and their arc. Really well done.
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Yeeep. Although I have no idea about the West Wing comparison since I’m yet to watch it! It’s on my own little tv list though. But yeah, great film. Really well constructed and executed.
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@sughly: Speaking of Ryan Gosling, the movie he’s writing/directing sounds amazing. Incredible cast and awesome premise.
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I’m sure you can justify it as some sort of indie game research that’ll only serve to improve your game!
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Where’s the details on the latest minecraft server? I got the urge to go have a look around yesterday, but I dunno where it’s at anymore
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First thing I did was walk a few hundred metres away from all the people. then when I couldnt see a single sign of life, I setup camp. Turns out @powalen isnt far away though. We are hermit neighbours 😀
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That’s unacceptable. You need to burn Pow’s house to the ground! 😛
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I actually snuck around and had a look. Its mostly wool. That house would burn so quick… 😀
I wouldnt though.
Or would I…?
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Listen to your heart, Sughly. Cleanse the Earth with fiiiire. 😛
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Oh man, I hate the interwebs on April Fools Day. I’m just going to watch movies all day. *moseys off*
Anyone have any good April Fools jokes?
I told my wife I broke the side rail of the bed and we’ll have to buy a new one. Got punched several times and bitten for my troubles so yeah. That didn’t work out so great for me.
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I woke up this morning and told myself I was rich! Then I checked my bank account. I am the ultimate fool.
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My wife said “I’m going to Sydney. You’ve got both the kids.” Turns out she wasn’t joking though
I like those Popsugar articles about YA novels that are becoming movies. Just learned there’s a City of Bones movie coming out in August. About damn time is all I can say.
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I finished reading the trilogy recently (Thanks @princesspipster)
saw the trailer, it looks quite good. Although I had to check the article down below to see what YA was-
Have you read the fourth book yet, or the prequels? I just finished off the first book in the prequel series and am about to start the second. The prequel was good, it has an interesting plot that’s pretty different from the stuff established in the original trilogy. The fourth book, the sequel to the trilogy, is okay. The Clary and Jace stuff is a bit boring, but it makes up for it by giving Simon an interesting story arc.
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No, I didn’t even know there was a 4th
My friend who recommended them to me told me they were probably her favorite series of books. Or certainly top 5. Speaking to her recently she thinks that the prequels are even better.
Interesting to hear Simon got a decent arc, could be worth it just for that
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Whoa, that looks quite good! I wonder though, if thats an indie title, wouldnt there be some copyright issues here? Seems a little too similar to fatal frame…
Still, looks good!
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It is similar to Fatal frame but as long as none of the character or the camera is the same 9remember it’s called Camera obscura in ff) it should be fine
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Yeah… just seems like a very grey area. I mean, on the one hand, its about young Japanese girls finding ghosts through cameras, exactly the same. But then again, there’s a hundred and one first person shooters about big men with guns shooting aliens. So yeah… cant really judge this one for stepping into another devs boundaries.
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Apparently it’s a cross between Indonesian and Asian so its not exactly the same.
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Ehhhh, apples and oranges though. It has an extremely similar look and feel to it.
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True, but Nintendo owns the rights to fatal frame now, not Tecmo.
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The Amazing Race. The Good Wife. GAME OF THRONES.
Monday’s the best day for TV and we’ve got Mad Men next week! 😀
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You’re still sick? :'(
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*coughs in D.C.’s direction*
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We played pandemic, it could have worked 🙂
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Most of the characters are well written. Especially Elizabeth. Don’t think I’ve played a game where the sidekick character is actually a joy to have around. Just had a scene where Booker was playing a guitar while she sang to a child and gave him an orange. Was a nice bit of levity to the depressing atmosphere in this part. -
That’s one of my favourite moments in the whole game. Watched it many a-time on YouTube again after finishing. That kind of attention to detail Ken Levine puts into his games is awesome.
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Man I’m glad there wasn’t a spoiler in that tag! I had no idea what you guys were talking about 😛
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Yeah, I put mine in spoiler space in case knowing that this is in the game is a spoiler or something. (Too vague, I think. Just in case though. :D)
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If you’re going to discuss is further though it’d probably be better to let people know you’re talking about Bioshock Infinite. There’s a lot of on-edge people surrounding spoilers for this game! 😛
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That’s what the first spoiler space was designed to do! Haha!
I agree though. Wouldn’t want to inadvertantly spoil people.
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You mean I wouldn’t be upset if everything I have ever worked for suddenly and violently went up in flames, leaving behind nothing but a burnt patch of misery and despair? Of course I wouldn’t be upset!
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Isn’t this the same Pow who wanted to set things on fire after playing that game a few weeks back? 😛
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Burning down my Minecraft house is much worse than burning down my real life house! I don’t have diamonds in real life!
EDIT: (Please don’t burn down my real life house either)
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I was only ever joking pow pow!
Or was I…
*makes sure it is clear he is joking to avoid his own house/diamonds being burnt down*
edit: Or should I say, neighbourino! 😀
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@sughly Oops, wish you’d have told me you were joking earlier!
(I kid :P)
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@greenius, @smurfydog: http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2013/04/greatest-dad-ever-creates-calvin-and-hobbes-nursery-complete-with-tree-fort/
I still don’t know what a Calvin and Hobbes is, but I remember you guys talking about it?
http://au.gamespot.com/news/ubisoft-gamers-want-assassins-creed-every-year-6406193
:S
Quality or not, over exposure ain’t good…
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Yeah, I don’t expect to watch it until tomorrow anyways. Would be cool if I could just watch it on Foxtel, but think it’s worth waiting for HD.
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SD. When I started downloading it the HD one wasn’t up. HD doesn’t matter too much for me for GoT since I buy the Blu-Rays anyway.
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Game of Thrones is the only show I must watch in HD. Shot so nicely and all the cool visuals and on location stuff. I’ve got them on Bluray too, but there’s nothing like watching a show like this in HD for the first time.
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Yeah, certain things just work better in HD and it’s hard to go back after!
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I have limited downloads, so I can only really justify HD for animated things. The difference never really bothers me for real stuff.
Edit: Also, it’s not worth the wait for GoT. Yes, I’m impatient.
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I did see Gravity Falls in HD for the first time the other week. Holy damn, it looked so good. (I usually always get HBO stuff and scifi stuff like Fringe in HD, other shows on a case-by-case basis.)
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Booo! Boo to you, sir
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http://i.imgur.com/DayWWwQ.png
@sughly @greenius
You guys jelly of the seeders of the 2 rips I am looking at? 😛
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… hmmmm…
HMMMMM….
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Only downside is you need to keep a good ratio 😛
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Doesn’t mean it’ll download any quicker 😛
I’m pretty sure Telstra limits the download speeds during peak hours over here so it’s only ever quick during the night/morning
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Actually yeah it will, for me. I get max speed at all times from my connection, which is just shy of a megabyte a second..
They don’t limit speed, it’s what the network can actually handle with the traffic. Obviously the more people online using bandwidth, it is going to result in stressing the network and everyone getting a slower peak speed.
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I meant that doesn’t mean it’ll download any quicker for me 😛
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What’s your max speed according to http://speedtest.net & whats the max speed your download is going at currently? If it’s less than what speed test says, then yes it will go faster.
Also Telstra don’t limit speeds unless you go over your monthly limit or are one of those lucky souls to be in the area they’re trailing throttling P2P traffic speeds.
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So it turns out if the PSN signs itself out while playing Bioshock Infinite the trophies disable and the counters for them reset themselves instead of unlocking.
Mildly annoying.
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It randomly stopped counting towards achievements on my game too.
Luckily I don’t really give a shit about them =P
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I like some of them because they give me a motivation to try things I wouldn’t usually. Like getting kills with certain weapons. Usually I’d stick with shotgun and hand cannon but I’ve playing with other guns now just to get the challenges and have fallen in live with the carbine now which I didn’t like at first.
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I like the carbine and the Shotty
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Oh man, Game of thrones.
Man, the changes from the books are getting kinda big now. Not saying it’s a bad thing, but it’s interesting. I guess, the suspense over who Selmy is just wouldn’t work in the TV format, but still. Interesting.
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Noones going to look at that until tomorrow, and then we will have forgotten to reply. So there! Enjoy it on your own, you SD pleb >:(
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Blaaaaaa! (man). I could too, I just choose not to. *sticks out tongue*
Some of us have standards. *throws nose up into the air*
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And some of us have watched the show. 😛
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HD brings the world to life! You’ve just peered through a blurry window! 😛
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Do I really need to see their dodgy 3D effects in HD? 😛
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This argument is going nowhere. Because you are wrong Blaghs.
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@sughly
I think everyone here will agree with me, I’m afraid. It’s just so laughable how you can’t accept the truth.
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I can’t tell the difference between HD and SD most of the time. 😛
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@blaghman What do you mean? Truth of what? I just prefer HD to SD :/
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dat scenery, man
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@sughly Ahh, feigning ignorance to try and weasel your way out of the fact that you’ve lost? Oh, how sad. I expected more of you, really.
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@blaghman I dont even know if youre trolling me now or not :/
Yes, most people will get SD. No, I dont really care, because I prefer HD and will wait, and believe it’s worth the payoff to wait. Whats even going on here, I dont know :'(
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@strange – lol there’s a clear difference through my young eyes 😉 (winks with long eyelashes)
@sughly – Blaghman just being Blaghman!
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@sughly
“This argument is going nowhere. Because you are wrong Blaghs.”
You started this war, Sughly. You can’t escape from it now. Tens of thousands are dead, millions are injured. And all because you couldn’t control yourself. You had to call me “wrong.” An objective statement, for a subjective view.
Now look on what you have wrought, and weep.
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Jane Campion’s Top of the Lake mini-series is really good and atmospheric. Elizabeth Moss from Mad Men’s in it. Doing an NZ accent. 😀
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Oh has that started!? Looking/getting right now if available. Trailer looked all kinds of awesome.
edit: 3 eps! I can only see ep one in HD :'(
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UKTV is two episodes in, I think U.S. networks are three episodes in!
I was talking about how Australian/NZ accents don’t sound as dramatic at the dinner the other night, but I take that back… this is incredibly good. Shot really nicely too.
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Just realized something screwy, UKTV and BBC are airing different versions than Sundance in the US. (Six episode season vs. seven episode season.) Watched the first two instalments on UKTV and got the Sundance version of the third episode and its first fifteen minutes are the same as the end of episode two on the other version. Just thought I’d give you the heads up if you’re going to be downloading.
I think it’s the exact same content, just edited differently. The other versions are longer and that’s re-edited to make an extra episode for the U.S. version. You should be right as long as you’re watching one consistant version and not alternating between the different networks. (U.S. is ahead of the others any way, so you might as well stick with that.)
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God dammit @sughly…
I opened that .gif this morning, and forgot to close the tab. Come back, 7 hours later, close a tab, AND GUESS WHAT WAS STARING BACK AT ME!!!
Back in Orange with a bunch of new movies to watch, and a ton of new material for Project Nova. Now that I’ve been away from it for a few weeks, I’m not overly happy with where its at. I may end up scrapping a lot of the video work I’ve done and restarting it. Time will tell.
First on the list of movies is Tangled. Lets get to it
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Did I say that? I don’t recall saying anything like that…
😛Yep, 2 components, music and
lyricsvideo. I’m happy with the music, I just have to get the video to work with it. The music is more of the focus, but if I can get both to work well together, hopefully it will end up better than the sum of its parts
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I’ve already been working on it on and off since September last year. Really didn’t think it would take this long to finish. But then I haven’t done anything on it since the end of January… Wow, didnt realise it had been that long
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Scary how time gets away when you can’t work on it every day. I just realised it’s been almost a year since I wrote anything in my woefully half-finished post-per-day novella The Tube 😛
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Watched the first 2 episodes of Homeland last night, not bad. It has captured me to say the least. Will probably have watched both seasons by the time the week is out then I am gonna re-watch all of Dexter before Season 8 in June. Fun times ahead.
Also the new album by new band Gloryhammer is quite awesome. I suggest everyone get it.
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puppy is good, vet found no obstructions or anything after eating a bag of rubbish … she’s still an idiot though and tried to eat an easter egg last night that was up on a bench, we caught her before she could eat any of it, but we’ll be training her and having a chat to the owners about it.
Score one for dog sitting!
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Better than expected after a day by myself with the kidlets. Younger one’s first full day away from mum, but he barely missed her. Can’t decide if I’ve won parenting or not, because now it means I’ll have to do this more often 😛
How about you?
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I’m good man! 😀
Watched Ides of March and three eps of Top of the Lake. (A really well written mini-series by Jane Campion that I think you’d like a whole lot!) Also ate a whole lot of chocolate.
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It’s going well. Just enjoying a quiet night at home.
Trying to watch BBC’s Africa-it’s awesome get on it-but I keep getting distracted.
I’ve been doing this a lot lately. 1hr shows take double or triple the time to watch because of me getting distracted.
🙂
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The board where he writes the sandwich of the day is great.
I love that show. Louise is awesome.
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It’s a great show regardless. Most of the puns are in the background-in building signage and all that so if puns really bother you you can ignore them. The stories and characters are funny.
Try an episode. 🙂
Bob’s burgers and Archer are two of the best animated shows on TV at the moment. So funny.
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Yep, got back at about 2 today. I’m all good now, I’m happy here 😛 About 5 minutes after I got back Oliver and his mrs came to say hi and I spent the next 6 hours with them.
We’re pretty damn cool driving around Hobart at night with the windows down and the music blasting, haha!
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As good as I could. Mum got upset (again) that I didn’t need her help with anything but what can you do. That’s just something she’ll have to cope with.
And thanks man 🙂
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Currently flicking between the FIA GT Championship on Speed, and Chelsea vs Man U in the FA Cup on ESPN (Go Chelsea!).
See you all tomorrow!
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I remember when I was younger my friends and I would always play a game of PES or FIFA if one of our teams didn’t win an FA Cup or premier league match. We also used to play prediction matches before a world cup fixture.
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This is random, but as i was listening to that I thought to myself,
“I’d really like to hear DC’s wedding playlist.”
I don’t know why but that thought just crossed my mind.
🙂
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@DC @Sughly
I started GoT downloading then grabbed dinner. After dinner I watched it in glorious HD. Not sure why it took you guys so long.
@Blaghman
Not a big fan of the changes from the books. Most of them appear to be an excuse to show off more boobs. Although I do get why the Ser Selmy thing wouldn’t work given that it’s a visual medium and the viewer would recognise him.
@greenius
Me and Chie are a thing now SO BACK OFF!!
I watched the beach scene where old mate lost his bikini bottom and nearly choked to death laughing. I haven’t enjoyed an Americano dub of anything this much in a LOOOOOng time
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It’s alright I’ve got Yukiko
…and Chie
…and Rise
…and Yumiand more I was working on but ran out of time :'(
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Is it poss for me to two-time? It just didn’t feel right.
(Iam am 30 and emotionally involved in teen drama ) 😀-
I feel horrible but I read somewhere there were no negative side effects and an extra funny scene
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Ahwrrr…2nd playthrough I guess :-s
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