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Haha, I know of a couple of dogs that are the same. =P
Looks like you’ll have to train him to use door handles, or create complex system of ropes and pulleys that will automatically open the door for Sid.
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A complex system of ropes and pulleys? Is Sid… a midget?
Oh my god, it explains so much.
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DARK.SOULS.
I made a lot of progress on Dark Souls fist weapon run this long weekend. I beat: Spider Boobies Lady, Big Metal Jerk and Fatty Hammer Guy + Skinny Spear guy! Right now Punchymcpunch is in the Demon Ruins trying to get the flame weapon ember so I can have my Flaming Fists of Fury!
I came to the conclusion over the weekend that Nintendo have wasted enough of my time and money and I won’t ever be bothering with them again. All the good will from my childhood has been completely consumed by them.
Goodbye Nintendo. I’d say its been fun but that would be a lie from a good while ago.
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The N64 was the last time I remember Nintendo being ‘Nintendo’. However they stuck with cartridges one generation too long and lost me to the glory of the PSX. I was seduced away from the N64.
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The all encompassing, awe inspiring Nintendo of my childhood jumped the shark with the Gamecube as far as I’m concerned. The new one serves a unique, niche purpose though.
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If the Gamecube jumped a shark, it was because it was the awesomest thing to do.
Aside from the lack of third party support, the GC was by far the best console of its time!
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I honestly never really played the GCN because it totally didn’t interest me. I was too engrossed in Playstation by that point. It’s a shame. The N64 was brilliant, but at the same time really just showed me how backwards and stubborn Nintendo was at the time. The choice to stick with cartridges was one of the biggest nails in the coffin that was the death of Nintendo as a main contender.
I have heard brilliant things about the GCN and some amazing stories of people’s fond memories of it.
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I think one of the greatest things it did was refuse to be something other than a gaming console. When I think about the sheer amount of crap that’s been tacked on to consoles these days (browser, Twitter, music player, pay TV, etc. etc.) it makes me wish the GCN was more popular.
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I think the refusals and insistence on doing things their own way was and still is kind of Nintendo’s biggest problem. I think Nintendo being different was a forced outcome more than an intentional one. They gambled with the N64 and GCN, and by the time they’d realised the outcome of those gambles (I wouldn’t say they failed) they found themselves in a different market to what they used to be. By that time, Xbox and Playsation had run away as the clear leaders in ‘mainstream’ gaming.
To Nintendo’s credit, they didn’t try and fight it, they embraced it. Thus came the Wii. Although the WiiU seems to make it clear to me Nintendo’s intentions of wanting to head back to the way things were. It’s less….. unconventional than the Wii. I don’t think it means they’re directly competing with the Xbox/PS giant, but I think they’d like to eventually.
I miss the days of Nintendo being king. I mean there was Sega, but it always felt like Ninty had the inhouse title power, and all the 3rd party titles to support it. Now they just feel like that slightly weird cousin that shows up at family gatherings, and while he’s completely harmless and everyone gets along with him, he’s just a bit different.
I think it’s good that someone’s doing something different to PS/XB, but it still makes me sad it ended up this way.
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I agree. The GameCube is severely under-rated. I had all the consoles of that gen and even though PlayStation will always be my greatest gaming love, I loved that little Cube so much.
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Hang on… the Gamecube was part of the same era as the PS2, not the Playstation.
While I greatly enjoyed the five or so games I had on the system that really made it worthwhile, there’s no way it’s a better system than the PS2.
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I am aware of that. Which is why I said Playstation. Not THE Playstation, PSX or PSOne. Playstation as a family is my greatest gaming love. But I still loved the Gamecube better than the PS2.
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Fair enough, I misinterpreted your comment. I liked my Gamecube a lot but I only had a handful of games on it (though they were games like Tales of Symphonia, Metroid Prime and Wind Waker!) whereas I had over a dozen on Xbox and upwards of eighty on PS2, so for me the other systems offered a lot more.
That said picking between them is a bit of a favourite child situation. PS2 had tons of JRPGs, Shadow of the Colossus and Okami, Xbox had Halo, Panzer Dragoon Orta and JSRF, Gamecube had the ones I mentioned. Even the Dreamcast was a fantastic system with some amazing games. I don’t think I could pick just one as a favourite that gen.
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I think the whole generation was my favourite.
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PS2 had more games and a DVD player. There was nothing wrong with GC, it certainly beat Xbawks but Ps2 was my winner that gen 🙂
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I really think the DVD player went a long way to winning that war. I personally preferred the GC, but can see why the majority went ps2.
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I wouldn’t have had a DVD player otherwise. It would have been a choice console or player.
But yeah, I love Metroid Prime & Wind Waker but I spent much more time playing FFX, X-2, Onimusha and Silent Hill 2 & 3.
This. The PS2 was awesome. My favourite console so far.
All this is just a matter of personal preference though.
The GameCube is up amongst my favourite consoles of all time. Was a brilliant little system that was with me through the most difficult time of my life.
The Wii was a pile of shit though and the Wii U is a joke of a system that isn’t even worth the cost of the power to turn it on.
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Sorry dude. I’ve got a killer headache and I really don’t want to be at this job anymore so I’m in a foul mood and being undeservingly aggressive.
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If you think about it in terms of Nintendo trying to catch up, it makes more sense. I honestly think that’s what they’re trying to do with the WiiU. I think more original titles will come, bearing mind mind it’s only, what, 5 months old? Nintendo want a piece of that mainstream market they lost so long ago. They need those titles that even though they’ve been out on other systems for X amount of time, they’re established titles and include Nintendo in the market again – even if it is a little late to the party.
It’s a slow claw back to being taken seriously again. I’ve been very wary of Nintendo for years, and have freely mocked the Wii, but I think the WiiU is a step in the right direction. I’m fairly happy with my WiiU purchase still, and am optimistic for what it will bring in the future.
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too little too late imho. But you never know, only time will tell. 🙂
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Yeah I agree, it’s a huge ask, but baby steps and all. They have to start somewhere.
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All good, having any emotion involved when talking about gaming is always a good thing. It means you still have passion for it!
I think the big difference between you and me with the Wii U is that I’ve had a supremely positive experience with Monster Hunter (online and offline). It’s a shame you didn’t really enjoy it. Have you tried it online yet, or tried more of the different weapons?
The Wii U is a real problem for them. I feel like they’ve basically decided to become completely irrelevant in the home console space. Wish Nintendo would leave the hardware & infrastructure to Sony or someone who can actually make it work properly and go software-only.
Handhelds have been consistantly great. I presume you just mean consoles? If so, I’m pretty much the same atm.
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I also love YOUR 3DS :p
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I also love my 3DS. If you had’ve told me a year ago it’d still be in my life when the Vita wasn’t, I wouldn’t have believed you. So much to like about it, and it’s getting a decent catalog of games going.
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Morning!
I built a giant Link statue on the Potaku Minecraft statue. There are viewing platforms on his nose and hat. You can find it over by all the pixel art. It’s pretty rad and y’all should stop by and visit 😀
How is everyone else doing?
@Greenius I’ve filled a 200 page sketchbook with video game art. ARTBOOK GO!
@doc_what
(Game of Thrones)
Yeah, some of the changes from last season, like the lack of the Reed’s, was a little odd(and not something I was a fan of), but I think it will be interesting at least to see what other differences the changes cause down the line. Qarth being a good example of where a lot was changed(at least partially for budget reasons, from the look of it).
So.,. do any Hawthorn fans think that Kennett is being a complete idiot?
Dumping a coach that got you all the way to the grand final last year, just because of a loss in the first game of the season is the biggest overreaction to a situation I’ve ever seen.
If anyone from Hawthorn needs to be shown the door, it’s Kennett.
“Top Chef Canada
The category is: Food”
Good work on pinning down a precise culinary subject, Canada.
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Ooh, is that back on? I love Top Chef Canada. None of them seem to be able to cook but they love to swear and argue. 😀
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Howdy Tayberinos
Hope you all had a great long weekend
I went to an international TableTop Day event on Saturday, I was introduced to Ticket to Ride (which is pretty good), Pandemic (which is a cool co-op game), Lords of Waterdeep (A D&D flavoured Euro-game) and StarCraft Risk (kekekekekeke).
Twas good fun.
I also did some family friend stuff and played a good chunk of Dishonored.
A Monday Morning Question: What’s your favourite Board Game? I’ve only played it for a year or so but I quite like Carcassonne.
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Ticket to Ride for me.
Didn’t get to take part in TableTop Day but we did go to a board game store on Pitt St this weekend. I can see myself buying oh so many games from them, including Pandemic and Starcraft Risk :p
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A single tear for the Giant Bomb Nintendownload express :-‘(
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After playing it yesterday with Tigs and NegZero and drawing 2 Epidemic cards in 3 rounds, I officially hate Pandemic.
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Note to techie, when researching contagious disease close the door to the research facility when you leave
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I think Carcassonne with the Rivers, King & Scout, Inns & Cathedrals, Traders & Builders, and using the 2nd Edition rules. Abbey & Mayor expansion is also okay.
Specifically Carcassonne is best when played with a few people who know the game really well. We would play with a river variant where tiles are randomly drawn from the river set until the end of the river is drawn, rather than placing all the river before capping the ends. This made it a lot more dynamic.
I specifically call out 2nd Edition rules because the third edition rules broke the best part of the game (building large cities) by changing the scoring rules for farmers and small cities. In 2nd edition, each field is controlled by one player and that field gives points for every completed city it touches. Additionally 2-tile cities are worth only 2 points. In the 3rd edition they changed this around so that fields and small cities are the best approach, whereas in older versions especially with the expansions, the game would generally involve a mega-city or two 20+ tiles that everyone would fight over and many mid-size cities 5-10 tiles, so in the last third of the game there would be a rush toward strategically capturing fields.
None of this sort of gameplay emerges without the expansions, the game simply doesn’t last long enough, and the new scoring rules instead makes early fields and tiny cities a far too viable strategy and I feel that’s counter to the idea of Carcassonne.
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I really enjoy 7 wonders, find that is a really good game for newbies and experienced players to enjoy together.
Acquire is another on I really like. After playing pandemic I think I like it, will need to play some more to be sure. Might have to research co-op games more thoroughly
I am at work.
I have to do work.
This sucks. I thought my last few days here were going to be spent sitting back, relaxing and reading.
So my Easter weekend ended up being me and my brother in law playing F1 2012 co op… It was amazingly good fun and we ended up playing for roughly 10 hours (whoops)…
its also occurring to me that I may be addicted to this sport a little bit :P… What did everyone else get up to?
I accomplished a great deal this weekend. It actually felt like a holiday for once.
One thing I did not accomplish was to buy myself something to eat for breakfast. So starving. I’m a doofus. 😛
Walking Dead finale was okay, Doctor Who was likable but not great, and Game of Thrones was Game of Thrones.
Oh, and I started playing Max Payne 3. It was also okay.
I’m beginning to think I’m just underwhelmed by everything because I’m old. 😛
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Walking Dead (Spoilers up to episode 14 of season 3):
Loved the first half of this season. Thoroughly and completely underwhelmed by what I’ve seen of the second half of the season. Woodberry is not an interesting place, and it really should be. The Governor isn’t interesting, and he really should be. It’s like they set up this really fascinating situation, and had really not much idea how to pay it off. Also, a whole episode about Andrea? That’s almost rage-quit-worthy on its own.-
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That’s the one I watched last night, so I can confirm it does exist. Honestly, it should have been a ten minute subplot of another episode. This season is really dragging.
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Is anyone else having problems loading TAY/Kotaku? Sometimes taking a few minutes to load, then it’s fine, then doesn’t load at all…
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No. Nothing here.
It’s purring like a thing that purrs.
What does that even have to do with load times?
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It seems to be whenever I reply to the latest comment thread.
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I’m here cause I was told I had a reply… 😛
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Sorry, didn’t realise it had bumped me back
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No worries at all!
@greenius
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@dc
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@freezespreston
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@alexpants
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WHY ARE WE ON PAGE ONE RIZE?!
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@alexpants Well, @jimu started it!
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TAY STARTED IT! with it’s ERRORS!!!
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Nothing is as bad as a platinum though.
They squeeze the front cover art into a tinyer box slap some cheap silver ink around the outside and often remove all the art from the disk!
I fucking love a good piece of artwork on my artwork.@dc @sughly @freezespreston
Posting this here because fuck TAY and it’s errors
@greenius
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Nothing is as bad as a platinum though.
Took ya long enough!
SHOUL SHILVA
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MORNING EVERYONE!!!!
How was everyone’s long weekend?
Mine was pretty nifty – spent most of it studying. but also got a little painting in as well as family easter dinner at my dads place. OMG BBQ FTW!!!
Also went out on saturday night – went to a pool hall in geelong which was fun because Bee was drinking. She put two and two together and hit me in the face with a pool cue. She maintains it was an accident, but i know better.
We then went to a newish bar in geelong call Barzar. Awesome name right?! Welll they have an upstairs area WITH FREAKIN BOARDGAMES!!! There was hungry hungry hippos, jenga, uno, connect four, monopoly…. so what do we play?
Scrabble.
Because that’s the insane thrill seekers we are.
Needless to say I won (gloat gloat gloat) but the INCREADIBLY slow pace and concentration took ALL of the buzz out of the alcohol.
On the plus side – SCRABBLE MASTER!
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ALSO!!!
BEE AND I WENT TO SEE OZ THE GREAT AND POWERFUL!
IT WAS BOTH GREAT AND POWERFUL!!!
Seriously – really enjoyed it – but Mila Kunis was a realllly bad casting choice. Eye Candy =/= good idea all the time.
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I think I said something along the lines of everyone played their parts well, especially Franco and Weisz, but Mila Kunis seemed like she was in a high school play.
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Franco was pretty great – as was JD.
But yeah.. Kunis… yeah i just don’t know…Hilarity ensued, however, when one of the witches poped up from the broken window – the kids behind us were so scared that is started raining popcorn on us. Haven’t laughed that hard in a while.
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I haven’t seen it, but playing her voice in my head makes me think that’s what she’d be like in any movie.
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I really really really didn’t like Oz.
The cynical tone, the average plot, the awful script, not a single decent attempt at acting and not a single likeable character really put me off the whole thing.
Hullo!
Man, I didn’t do anything for April Fools because I’m not creative enough and the only person around to prank is my mother which isn’t very fun 😛 If only April Fools day was today! She bugsprayed a massive spider last night and put a container over the top so it couldn’t run off overnight. I would have taken the dead spider out and flipped the container 😛
Didn’t do much else over the long weekend. Dinner with family, visited my grandparents (where I exchanged tech support for lunch), etc. Pretty quiet.
New Doctor Who was good! Not the best episode, but I like the new companion. I’m actually kind of sad that this will be Matt Smith’s last season (if that’s even true?). I’ve grown to like him as the Doctor… Was it ever confirmed he was leaving? All I can find is confirmation that he’s staying, but it is April Fools… (Good to see @mythamphetamine watching the series too!).
The Walking Dead Finale was pretty alright too! There’s a couple of things I really didn’t like, but overall pretty cool. What I didn’t like:
Spoilers for Walking Dead Season 3 Finale:That the Governor is still alive. I don’t want him to come back in season four… What’s worse is that he’s such a huge villain now that they can’t just ignore him or kill him off early in the fourth season, they’ve got to spend the entire season on him. I just want him to go away and get back to “Us vs Us (vs Zombies)” like season 2 😛 I also really don’t like Carl. Moody teens are never good in any movie or show. They’re the worst 😛 I liked everything else though! Especially the black couple who stayed back. Hopefully next season we get to see more of them (and that Karen(?) woman who survived)
I watched the Melbourne comedy festival on sunday night, too. I think I know what happened to @shane now. He’s been brainwashed: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leUuxsPsxa0
Also, LEGO City Undercover is fantastic. Funniest game I can remember playing. So much to do! Beats Hunting Monsters, that’s for sure ;D
EDIT: Wow this post turned out much longer than I was expecting 😛
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Man – i would have let the dying spider go and replaced it with an unharmed spider
That way, when your mum returned, UNKILLABLE SUPER SPIDER OMGWTFBBQ!??! -
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I stupidly read your spoiler even though I haven’t watched the ep.
The black couple are major characters in the comic. Tyreese especially. So I kind of figured, right from the start, that they’d end up joining the group. Even though the show doesn’t follow the storyline in the comic, it’s kind of spiritually in line, so I feel like I already know about 75% of what’s going to happen 😛Edit: Also, I haven’t been brainwashed! I have always been like this. Or at least, that’s what they tell me. For some reason, I can’t really remember…
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Sorry! Probably shouldn’t have put the big spoiler in the first sentence 😛 Hope you still enjoy it!
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There are three children talking at me about different things at the exact same time.
How do people manage parenting?!
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For the most part badly. Though there are some who are exceptionally good at it. I think they’re aliens or something though, a human is just not capable of that kind of stuff I swear.
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I find nodding and just agreeing while repeating back the occasional phrase works well.
Not just with the wife either.
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You’re a novelty. If you were their parent and spent every day with them they’d eventually realise how truly boring you are and pay less attention to you.
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This morning feels like a Deep Purple morning \o/
Also hi everyone, I feel actually good this morning. As opposed to yesterday where I wanted to murder everyone who spoke to me..
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Black night is indeed a long way from home.
I’ve got some eluveitie going at the moment. Inis Mona is just wonderful
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Peachy keen – apart from being back at work and STILL being swamped by study.
It’s ridonculus!
Why were you in a punchy mood yesterday? Daybeforeweekdayitis?-
Well day started out good, then noisy neighbourhood ruined it, put me in a shitty mood and no one let me play BioShock Infinite in peace D= lol
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I think that’s a very good reason for apocalyptic scale of murderousness.
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Yeah I thought so too lol.
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Okay so I am certain eBay some how target emails at me for stuff I Google :S Just got an email about cheap brand name tyres, come on seriously? Last time it was Brother printers which I had been searching, now tyres? This is a little weird.
The weirdest thing is my eBay email isn’t the one I use for my Google account either and I never use my eBay account as well, and it’s not even signed in what the hell. Does anyone else get their kind of specific marketing from eBay? It’s only started happening since I made a purchase back in January as well.
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Wait, C is for cookie?! I thought it was for something else.. Fuck, the lies I have been living /o\
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Yeah, pain in the fucking arse. Maybe I should just use whatever that non saving of anything mode is Firefox has that no one uses for anything but porn.
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Well according to that it’s on so, beats me.
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Thing is most of the time I get the emails I have already sourced and bought the product somewhere else, worst marketing ever!
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The marketers don’t care – it costs them next to nothing to do it after the initial set up.
I’m pretty sure it doesn’t even work half of the time – doesn’t stop them though haha-
If nothing else, it’s blocking opportunities for ads by competitors.
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I set up my auntie’s eBay account using my email address (she has no idea how to even turn on a computer), and got an email about cheap brand name tyres. I haven’t been searching for tyres at all…
Hi
I hope everyone had a relaxing weekend and is doing well.
i went to the sunsine coast, it was pretty okay.
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Rockets!
Did I see on Twitter you’ll probably be here on the weekend or was it April Foolin’?
We have a goodbye you traitorous Bunny/Happy Birthday Freeze and Sughly Meat happening so it would be great timing. 🙂-
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i will see. im not sure what im doing yet but dinner might be nice.
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Saturday day isn’t very good for me. There’s sportsball on. Saturday night works just fine though.
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So could those staying at my place for PAX let me know who you are? I’ve lost track. No issues or anything, just want to look at hiring a minibus or something to get us up since LAZY.
And hi and stuff! I played Civ V until 4am then jumped back from 8am until just now. MY MIGHTY VIKING HORDE KILLED EVERYTHING. Now I have 7 hours or so until Defiance is out and I can be one of those MMO people again (:|)
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I can help with the transport side of things if minibus might be too hard?
I’d love to have the house invaded by TAYbies, but i’m not sure Bee would be as keen LOL
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I AM a mansion. But no, I wiiiish I had a mansion
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Pretty sure that organising a minibus instead of leaving people to their own devices is the opposite of lazy.
Just saying.
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I’m not sure where I’m staying for now but if you’re offering put me down as a maybe.
Thanks btw.
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Well, I was gonna stay in the city or something, but I just had a look at my bank balance, so it looks like your place it is! Wooo, party at F4ction’s!
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You should start up a motel 😛
Have any room for me? I can sleep on the floor (I’ll bring my sleeping bag).
Don’t worry, I don’t bite 😛-
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Nah, you don’t have to worry about that. I barely talk in real life. The QLD TAYbies can attest to that 😛
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Oz the great and powerful has Bruce Campbell.
Bruce. Effing. Campbell.Does Bioshock?
No?
I didn’t think so.
Move along. Move Along. *waves hand*
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They just want attention, I am sure of it. If they manage to nuke anything other than themselves or some water the US will more than likely just destroy them. N. Korea don’t exactly have any or many friends to back them up, even China is slowly walking away from them. So they would actually be stupid to do anything involving nuclear warfare.
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The Walking Dead season finale talk/rant mostly.
So I liked the last 2 episodes, just watched them last night. With Rick & co with all of Woodbury’s citizens it might make for an interesting 4th season. I know the show hasn’t been perfect, but I still find it enjoyable for some reason.
Ranty bit.
But god damn, my mate the one who doesn’t understand 2001, said to me “why the fuck did they not just shoot him in the face” in regards to the Governors decision to gun down his own people. Like uh, dude.. It’s a natural reaction called shock, they did not expect their trusted leader who they thought was going to protect them to just gun them down in cold blood, of course they’re just going to stand there and do nothing because they don’t know what the fuck to do.
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One thing I didn’t like (SPOILERS):
It took Andrea so damn long to get out of her binds. She was sitting there for ages looking at a dead guy while doing nothing! If she had’ve actually tried to escape she would have lived 😛 So dumb.But yeah, can’t wait for next season.
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Yeah it did. Kind of glad she is gone but at the same time I did like her presence she was pretty awesome.Should be a good season if they continue on how Season 3 has been!
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It’s okay, man. Next time you think about spending a weekend away from the internet and TAY, you’ll know better! 😛
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Probably should start organising this weekend.
People start throwing out good places to eat in Brisbane starting…..now.
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Hey everyone! Pow’s paying to fly us all down to Sydney this weekend and opening up his home for accommodation!
He is an awesome guy.
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@trjn @sernobulus @dc @sughly @strange @dkzeitgeist @beardymcmuttonchops @jimu @welbot @lambomann007 @virus__ and everyone else I’ve forgotten who others can fill in.
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South Bank food places are a little suck. Except this pizza place which makes rather awesome pizzas, but is kinda expensive.
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price is an issue around those parts.
How is it any harder getting into the CBD?? @sernobulus
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Any train that stops at South Bank should stop at Roma St, Central or The Valley too, right?
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Yeah I like the idea of the city, more places to go, easy transport etc
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I better dip out of this discussion since I prolly won’t be there… oop!
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There’s a wonderful place I know with magnificent Golden Arches, an artsy and modern style stone-brick interior, with a quaint little cafe inside that even Oprah endorses. The bar staff are the friendliest of people who strive to make sure your meal and experience is unforgettable. There is a dress code though, so dress appropriately.
Now that’s a new one.. How can someone who is not my friend on Facebook send me game requests? I removed her because of the game requests and she’s my mates ex who doesn’t talk to me. Not that I have an issue with that.
So Persona 4 Golden arrived Thursday afternoon. Person 4 Golden has utterly consumed me. Totally & utterly.
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It is, it really is. I will be buying 3 from PSN when I’ve had my fill.
So, so good.
(teen drama, I am totally sucked in)
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Just be aware that 3 isn’t as good as 4. 3 was where they came up with the modern Persona formula (1 & 2 are different) and 4 they took everything in 3 along with tons of fan feedback and developer feedback and refined everything they could.
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but persona 3 portable is fantastic, because they then grabbed the improvements they put in persona 4, and added it to persona 3!
also shooting yourself in the head to summon monsters is so goth
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Yeah, I know.
Spent the morning reading about the series on Wikipedia.
I’m gonna work my way backwards depending on how much I care.3 Portable seems to be decent, only 20 American dollars on PSN. If I dig that, I’ll try for the 2 that got a PSP upgrade, if I dig that etc, etc..
(and I’m sure if I’m down with 2 psp, I’ll be able to handle 2psx from psn.) 😀
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Nah I’m just jealous, game looks darn good. I’ve been eyeing off the series a long long time, really love the art style.
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Listen to some music on youtube…duuuuude.
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SO GOOD!
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Chie, anybody steps between us and I WILL FUCK THEM UP!!!
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I woke up last night to find that my left eye suddenly felt like it was super dry and was stinging like hell. That wasn’t fun. It’s still hurting a bit this morning.
@tigerion I actually just found out the fifth book in the Mortal Instruments is also out, and the third and final book in the prequels.
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Yeah, she is, or was, since the last prequel has released. A new book in the series has come out pretty much every year since she started writing them. Wikipedia tells me she’s also planning on a new trilogy set five years after the Mortal Intruments and featuring all new characters.
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Four days with no internets 🙁
Xenoblade \o/ I have now clocked 80 hours. Probable endgame spoilers:
I almost ragequit the game fighting Disciple Lorithia or whatever her name is. That has to be the most aggravating fight in the game so far. I was under leveled and trying to use a party of Shulk (DPS), Sharla (Heals) and Fiora (Tank – I dropped Dunban for an Agility-build Fiora as she has more HP, similar avoidance and hits like a truck so can actually hold aggro off Shulk even without any taunts). Was barely scratching the boss and I couldn’t touch the adds that it spawns. So I realized that I was probably supposed to take Ether-damage characters i.e. Melia into the fight, which makes sense given the boss. I’d only ever brought her in as a secondary character when I didn’t need heals so hadn’t really done much with her. Got her some good gear then grinded to 78 from about 70 or so on those gorilla monsters in Bionis Leg, using a party of Melia (controlled), Riki (tank) and Sharla (heals), then dropping Riki for Fiora because Melia was pulling aggro too easily. Holy shit. I understand now, Melia is basically the best character in the game as long as someone else has aggro. Plus once it clicks (and I think once you have some levels in her Arts so you have some cooldown reduction) the summon & fire thing really starts to click. I’m basically casting a pair of buffs as appropriate (usually water & earth) then just summoning and immediately firing bolts and winds. After beating the boss I was stuck on – still hard even outleveling her – I’ve basically been going around grinding stuff. Managed to beat some mobs that were red to me with the Melia/Fiora/Sharla trio even. But now I’m trying to find a good leveling spot to get into the mid-80s so I can continue questing. I guess I should probably finish the game too, but the grinding is so much fun again that I kind of don’t want to.
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I don’t know whether to upvote this or downvote it.
So i did both. Luckily for you it ended on an upvote.I hate no internets.
Our internets is super slow due to being in a new suburb in geelong – but still better than none. -
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Hooray! Melia really is an amazing character if you can keep aggro off her, like you said. She can do great damage. The AI controls her terribly so you really have to control her yourself to see any benefit. Glad you branched out!-
I think *all* the characters have bad AI. They seem to just spam attacks basically at random.
I’m also noticing a lot of slowdown recently. Framerate dips and stuff. Sometimes abilities just don’t go off for no reason (very annoying with M since there’s not a lot of visual cues toward what elementals she has up) also there seems to be a lag between her firing off one and the slot being open – there must be some kind of invisible global cooldown on her stuff. Or maybe it’s animation-limited. Anyway seems a bit broken sometimes.
I would totally play an MMO which had her combat system as a class. That’s what it really feels like. Maybe the rumors of the Wii U ‘X’ game being an MMO / Monster Hunter game won’t be too bad.
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I like turn-based combat too. But I wouldn’t want to play Xenoblade with it unless they significantly redesigned the game.
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I dunno, didn’t get that far cos the cobat bored me. It was like boring Dragon Age Orgins crossed with boring FF12 meets boring online blergh.
In other words: Bori…not my thing.
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The TV show looks interesting and Bear McCreary is scoring it, I also like the idea of a TV show and MMO tied togehter. Not interested in MMO part though.
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I’m intrigued, but then I just remember that even if it’s awesome, I’ll get tired of it and move on relatively quickly.
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As pretty much every single MMO does, apart from WoW. Some amazing MMO’s have come and gone yet somehow WoW persists, despite having no real new content for at least 4 years.
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http://tvline.com/2013/04/01/under-the-dome-stephen-king-cbs-video-spoilers/
First trailer of Under the Dome, Brian K. Vaughan’s adaption of Stephen King’s book. There’s spoilers and all that.
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One of the sets looks exactly like I pictured it in my head when reading the book! D: Julia Shumway looks much younger than I thought she was in the book, but the rest of the casting seems great.
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Hard to tell with these ‘behind the scenes’ hype trailers. The book was good. Brian K. Vaughan is good. Casting is good. Hopefully this’ll be good. 😀 (Though CBS is home of procedural cop shows and multicam sitcoms. And now an out-of-place scifi serialized drama. :S) Don’t worry about all those dodgy shots of the Dome too, that’s just the book cover…
Directed by Niels Arden Oplev, the guy who did the Swedish version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Is he decent?
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No I meant more or less those shots of them walking through the woods, all ‘whoa whats happening’, but it was like 2 shots to be fair XD
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Haha! There are a few scenes like that in the book too, but mostly at the very start! 😀 Some cool stuff happening out of context, especially with those two teenagers. One of my favourite arcs from the book.
Don’t mind me either, I’m a King fanboy who always gets too excited about adaptions of his works even though there’s lots of terrible ones out there. This could be a Mist, Shawshank or Green Mile, though! XD
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I really enjoyed Tommy Knockers as a kid and that airport in time thingy…
I knew they weren’t well made but I didn’t care.Mist is fucking ballsout amazing!
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Hells yeah, I think I’m the only guy who preferred The Shining mini-series to Kubrick’s version too. 😀
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I couldn’t go there, Kubrick’s I saw at a young age (far too young) and nothing can touch it so I didnt bother.
But I can see TV shows being able to flesh out more points than a movie can.
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I think a good mini-series just needs writing and budget, that’s always where the dodgy adaptions are let down.
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I actually preferred the mini series, but its been a while since I watches it, whereas I’ve rewatched Kubricks recently and appreciated it a lot more. Sooo… need to revisit the mini series to know for sure 🙂
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@sughly: Maybe it’s best NOT to watch the mini-series again, if it’s any thing like The Stand mini-series, it’s not going to be pretty. 😀 I haven’t seen it in a long time either. I did like the Kubrick version though, just missed the slow burn, well realizedness feel of the other version.
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You can watch that then, I’ll watch this. 😛
Edit: Oh man, that sounded oddly defensive. Haha! That was a common criticism when the book was released, even though his concept pre-dated The Simpsons movie. Just one of those coincidence things, I suspect. Also it’s a common enough premise that it doesn’t matter if it sounds similar superficially, it’s like zombie movies I guess… what you do with the characters and how you differentiate yourself is what matters.
Some of the arcs in the book are really cool. There’s a group of kids who have their own little adventure going on. There’s likable characters. Mystery about one of the towns locations. I really, really loved the book. (Probably the most The Stand like thing he’s done since The Stand. :D) Huge ensemble of characters.
I hated The Simpsons movie, btw. 😛
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Yeah, I don’t really think it ripped off The Simpsons, I was just making a joke. People being enclosed in a dome is a pretty common fantasy/sci-fi setting. Everything ever is a pretty common setting. What matters is the characters and the different twists people put on their own work to set it apart from the others.
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Sorry for my response, man. Haha. Got carried away. 😀
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Just so you know, I didn’t take any offence at what you wrote, nor have I ever taken offence at anything you’ve ever written. Your language choice and use of emoticons makes me read everything you say like you’re really happy and have a smile on your face, and it’s a pleasure to read something written in such a joyful manner (man, that sounds super lame of me, but it’s the truth).
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Phew! 😀 That’s usually the case, sometimes I worry I write too quickly without checking and that it comes across as fightin’ words or something.
Edit: Thanks! 🙂
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I’m thinking I’m so excited about this because it’s the next best thing to the HBO The Stand series I want to see so damn bad! 😛
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Comic version? Surely you mean original version?
I like Ex better, I didn’t know until I finished it though. The ending fit Ex better for me, Y felt like a TV show that had no proper end…but then it did, which is good, but Im whinging about good comics so I’ll shutup…
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I… thought it was a comic? There’s more than one version? D:
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NO yeah sorry.
I misunderstood.Is a comic, may be a movie soon (should have been a TV series)
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MONSTER HUNTERRRRRRRR
it’s a fun game, so now i am going to my friends place, then we are gonna organise our PAX trip, then we shall play monster hunter, it shall be glorious.
Internet update:
– I now have two cable modems because Telstra has signed me up twice apparently. 🙁 Looks like I’m calling Billing tomorrow morning. 🙁
– My cable still doesn’t want to connect. Send light flashing, nothing in receive. I don’t know if that means that my cable isn’t connected correctly (I opted for self-install because the house already had fairly recent-looking foxtel & telstra cable plugs in the house) or if it means that the cable service hasn’t been connected at Telstra’s end i.e. it’s not ready for activation yet. 🙁 Looks like I’m calling Tech support tomorrow morning too. 🙁
– I have still got an active account with my old provider (iiNet) and they have ADSL2 in my area, with open capacity. Seriously considering telling Telstra to take a hike and just doing a relocation with iiNet. Though then I imagine I’ll have to fight with Telstra to get them to cancel the two accounts they’ve apparently opened. :\
Should I post about this on Whingepool or something so I don’t have to spend hours on the phone? 😐
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Whingepool isn’t going to help. The way I see it you’ve got two choices – you persevere with Telstra and tell them to get their shit together, or you say ‘fuck you guys’ and go to iiNet, or anywhere that isn’t Telstra.
Of course the problem I can see is it sounds like you’re assuming the existing cable connection is connected or even working. I reckon if it’s not, they’ll charge you through the ass to come out and get it working.
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Whingepool is actively monitored by customer service reps of all major ISPs. There’s a reason people go there to complain, it’s another approach that can get results.
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Yeah except I can fire & forget a whingepool post but calling Telstra last time – when they created the current fuck-up as part of fixing the previous fuck-up – had me sitting on the phone for an hour and a half.
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Often, the people on the phones aren’t the people who can guarantee the results. The people monitoring Whirlpool tend to be the people who can get directly in touch with whoever can handle your issue.
Not a certainty but it is worth trying. At the very least, there will be other people on the forum that have had similar experiences and can help work out what steps need to be taken. I actually like Whirlpool quite a lot, it’s a useful resource.
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The people on the phones are random drones in the Philippines who have no ability to fix anything at all and will just bounce you around other divisions where you have to re-identify yourself and re-state the problem over and over.
That’s assuming you can pass through the first hurdle, which is getting through that goddamned fucking phone system that requires you to tell it what you want but only responds to specific things and can easily put you in a loop or transfer you to the wrong division so you wait in a queue for ages only to be put back into another queue…
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Yeah I’m thinking there’s a good chance that they’ll just say “oh we’ll have to book a service call” so the guy can come and plug something in that’s been unplugged at some point if that really is the problem. Thing is that’ll cost me an extra $180 or so and possibly take several more weeks and I’ve had no internet service – I’m in a 3G dead zone too – for a month now. Though the upshot has been that my Pile of Shame has shrunk…
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If the service guys finds the fault lies on Telstra’s side then it’s free.
Seriously, chase up iiNet…the worst result is that you get an active line.
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You’re misunderstanding. iiNet have nothing wrong at all, they were my ISP at my old house and I haven’t cancelled with them yet. It’s not a phone line issue. My phone now works perfectly.
Telstra’s Cable isn’t working but I don’t know why yet. I did get a text on my phone from them on Thursday saying they had a technical issue that was stopping ‘my connection’ from working and they were working on fixing it. Also on Thursday Cable & Foxtel was down for about five hours in parts of my suburb, then there was Easter. So theoretically it might be the network. The thing is, I’ve never received texts from them about my Cable, only about my home phone, which they also didn’t set up correctly and I had to ring faults and get them to connect at the exchange because it hadn’t been done. Text just talked about getting ‘my service’ connected and so it could have been a junk text about the phone but that’s been connected and working for a while.
ARGH. So confusing. 🙁 You’d think this sort of thing would be routine and easy. 🙁
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It’s far simpler, and FAR cheaper.
I love PC’s and consoles equally, but sometimes I realise how much I’ve spent on my computer and I feel silly.
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A friend of mine described building a PC as ‘computer LEGO’ 😛 It just looks way complicated in photos like these!
I’ll build a PC one day!
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That’s fairly accurate, cause half the fun is in the building part.
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It’s actually far simpler than you’d think. The cooling system was complicated, but building any normal PC ain’t. Most PC enthusiasts just try to make it seem more complicated than it really is so it sounds cooler. There are some fundamental rules to follow, like being static electricity conscious, etc, but it’s not much.
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And also to make sure you avoid re-kafoobling the energy motron.
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Lest your juxtaposition be bamboozled by positronic FUBAR ultralink.
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Building a PC used to be hard. Back when you had to set your jumpers and so on, when components would just not be compatible with each other randomly and there were a million and one different components to set, then interrupts to program and all that other bullshit on the software side.
A simple PC now is trivially easy to build. Attach the CPU to the motherboard, cooler to the CPU, RAM to the motherboard, screw it into the case, attach the power cables and the switches / LEDs (hardest part honestly) and then GPU if you have an external one. Turn on, boot windows installation, sit back and let it do everything for you. Maybe install a driver disk for your motherboard.
Everything clips together only one way and everything is super easy and I reckon even a novice could put one together in a few hours if they were careful. Even faster if they had someone else around to teach them.
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And don’t forget how a lot of stuff is colour coded these days! Back when I was making 286DX’s it was hard, now it’s apples.
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“simple” HA HA HAA HAAA. *wipes tear from eye* Oh, dood.
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Other updates from the Gaming Life of NZ:
– So I got to the third case in Phoenix Wright: Justice for All. And I knew it immediately as I’d already played it. Fairly sure I have played the fourth one too. So I’ve actually finished the game way back and not remembered that I finished it. Not sure how that happened. Maybe I started with this one and then went back to the first one and never finished that. Or maybe I finished both. Dunno.
– Started playing Radiant Historia and that game is pretty interesting. Like the character art a lot, the story seems intriguing but not far enough into it to tell for sure. Not sure how I feel about the combat yet. The music in the starting town is very Chrono Trigger. So much so that I had to find out if the music was by Mitsuda (it isn’t – it’s Yoko Shimomura, who was one of the Xenoblade composers which might be why the music seemed very familiar too)
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Radiant Historia is great. Excellent time travel mechanic. I really loved it… but, didn’t finsih it because I kinda gotta stuck at a point and cbf grinding 🙁
maybe I should pick it up again now that you are playing too.
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It took me a second to figure out that you weren’t, in fact, reporting on the gaming life of New Zealand.
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Oh radiant, I forget about that and am too scared to commit $$$$
I wish my r4 card played newer games so I could see if I want to buy it or not.
Also, Sands of Destruction.-
I’ve only heard good things about it and I liked what I played so far. Turn-based combat which would be a plus for you.
I think it’s pretty rare now though?
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Yeah, I heard good things too, but sometimes games just don’t click for me, even after they check all the boxes.
There are games that are totally removed from my usual loves (Half Life 2) that I like a fair bit. (not that I ever finished HL2, but that’s more the fault of my steaming pile of 360 remains than my lack of trying)
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You know what’s rare on DS that I can never find a well priced, trust worthy copy of? Resident Evil Deadly Silence.
Somehow over the years I never kept a copy of RE1 and that’s the one I like best (I know this because of R4) and I can’t find the fucker.
Ho-hum
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I think mine’s a pirate of a pirate of a pirate. When I follow the link to the site provided on the box and update to the latest firmware that matches my card, it dies every time.
Actually, I reverted it back to what came in the box and it’s never been as good again.
Shame really, was the ultimate demo device.
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Played Fire Emblem demo on Sunday.
Then for a laugh, tried playing it again on the insane/highest difficulty. Eventually made it through the prologue after around 20 attempts.
I want this game. Now. What retail solutions are others using to get this game?
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Oh! I forgot the demo had higher difficulties! I’ll have to play it again tonight. Glad you liked it though.
And yeah I’ll just look around on launch day for the cheapest price. Big W has been good to me lately so we’ll see. Vooks usually does a bargain round-up for major releases which is helpful.
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What is this, like a voting system? Thats a cool idea! Though… that means its not officially going to be made then? At least not yet?
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Needs 10,000 votes, after which time Lego review it. It’s how the BttF DeLorean and Minecraft Lego got approved.
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GAMES WORKSHOP ARTICLE?!?!
OH YOU BET YOUR BIPPY CHULOOPA’S ALL OVER THAT SHIZ!!!
*zzzzooooommmm*
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I’m enjoying it too. Attempting to use a monopoly position to screw over customers is a very short term plan. They have competition, once people start turning to the competition, GW will have to adapt or die.
At the current rate, it looks like “die”.
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Isn’t it amazing how much more interesting all this stuff becomes when you actually know about monoploies, competion and short-term/long-term business planning.
Ahhhh commerce – so much fun!!!But yes, i think die would be very close to the result. That being said, i expect them to actually come to the brink before turning the ship around. The thing is that they know that the brand has enough equity that they can beat it with a stick and it will keep ticking.
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They should probably take a look at how Wizards of the Coast adapted to the changing market over the last decade. WotC has two major games that dominate their respective areas (Dungeons and Dragons for D20 games and Magic: the Gathering for trading card games). They have had more competition than Games Workshop but still manage to be market leaders.
I honestly don’t understand Games Workshop’s approach at the moment. They seem to be determined to try and get as much money from as few customers as possible instead of getting their product in the hands of as many customers as possible. The latter seems the most preferable, seeing as that’s how they got into their market position to begin with.
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Why are they advertising for products they don’t know the price of and can’t pre-order. I don’t get it.
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oh I see now… I dunno, but EB have done the same, except they stuck a random guess as to the prices on their site ($900 for the console).
they’ve even done it for games that havent been (officially) announced yet (mario / zelda games for the Wii U). -
Can you hand them money at EB? cos OGS doesn’t provide the option.
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pretty sure you can. though if (more likely when) the price is announced to be less than $900, i think there might be a bit of awkwardness if people have paid it off… so yeah… probably wasnt a great idea to open pre-orders so early.
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I’m not entirely sure of the policy, but I’m pretty sure if you’ve paid off more than the price of the whatever, you get the money back, in fictional magical “store credit” dollars. Then again, if anyone’s stupid enough to actually pay off the whole thing now, then umm… I’m sure I had a point here somewhere.
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@blaghman: that’s probably not a bad thing though. If you’re a die-hard SDF member or something and you know you’re getting the system day 1, you’re probably also going to buy some of the launch games. $900 down-payment on what’ll probably be a $500-600 system and 3-4 games.
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Yeah, I was going to mention that, but then I didn’t. True Story, and then I found ten dollars.
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@blaghman :-O
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see I told you they are doing FFIV for PS4, :/
Remakes pfa, I don’t have enough time to keep up with current releases. 🙁
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I don’t mind remakes…but they just did 2 for that game …
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http://www.ign.com/blogs/nsonic79/2013/04/01/final-fantasy-vii-hd-for-ps4-confirmed
That’s all I could find.
You have a link to 4?
@sughly, chaaaaaange your miiiiind.
(you should at least get it for the free X-2 on PS3, since you didn’t play that awesome game with ATB battles!)
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always loved the intro to that game. the ruins of Zanarkand always struck me as very pretty back in the day, & now the HD version is even better. I’ll be picking this one up for sure. & its a good chance to try & play through X-2.
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I’m super keen, these are must buy Vita games imho. I don’t care that they’re seperate on Vita in the slightest.
I spent so many hours on these on PS2 and plan to do the same now on the train! 😀
Woooohh000ooo!!!
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FFX was my first JRPG… & its still one of the best I’ve ever played. Spent so much time with it back in the day & I’d happily do the same again.
now if only they could give us a solid release date….
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I was really dissapointed they went full turn-based instead of ATB at the time.
Didn’t stop me from playing for 200 hours though.I’d rather they get it right before comitting to a release date. The vids I’ve seen on all the wrongness of Silent Hill HD scares the shit outta me.
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I can’t recomend X-2 enough either. It gets fobbed off and payed out a fair bit I’ve noticed recently. I can’t understand why. It is a solid game that rivalled the original in some respects.
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I still don’t get it. What do people have so many issues with their sexuality that they can’t handle a little Grrl power in their games?
I knew what I was in for. I was at EB in the morning on day one.
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I think I still have the art cards they handed out with preorders at EB somewhere. Never finished X-2 though because I actually found the combat too hard.
The way I see it is that FFX-2 is what would happen if Final Fantasy and Macross were thrown in a blender together. Saving the world / universe with the power of pop music.
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Ha ha! Yeah, I have those cards stashed away, I find them every few years. Was planning to frame them and put them up but like I care anymore.
You found the combat hard? Really? I don’t remember there being anything difficult and you could grind etc if needed.
I played through 2.5 times. Got stuck trying to manipulate mini-games on the third try :-/I don’t think the music is that important to defeating the evil by the end. Maybe I’m forgetting but I thought that bit came to it’s conclusion in the Thunder Plains. But yeah, same I idea sorta, kinda. 😀
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I had to turn the speed down and set it to wait instead of active IIRC. I just couldn’t play fast enough. Preferred the FFX combat system which was more tactical with the move delays and stuff.
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Pretty sure I played on wait, some of those later bosses were just nuts.I like the idea of wait, there’s still alittle worry you can fucjk things up but you know you can sit in a menu and make the right choice, I’ve generally only gone to Active on replays of FF.
I bought the playguide and there was no coverage for the hidden dungeons at all. Fucking rip of a guide. It helped get me some of the hard to get dress-spheres but I imagine I would have figured them out on my own.
Heading down the bottomless dungeon and fighting bosses with massive HP was getting too hit & miss for me. I never did make it down the bottom, which is a shame.
Doesn’t matter, I’ll use gamefaqs this time and get some tips.
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I did play a fair bit of X-2, just never got around to finishing it. Main thing that I remember about it was that, for the most part, it seemed far lighter in tone than X did (sure it also had its darker parts as well). & given that I played them back-to-back, I think having the same characters with a totally different vibe was a bit jarring.
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I was so keen on the lighter tone. I thought that was a great choice. I guess I’d been playing since 7 and had gone back to older games so I was used to things changing every now and then.
(so good) 😀
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To get over the fact she
fell for a dead man who liked to wear shorts that had had a run-in with edward scissorhands, Yuna forms an idol group with Riku (who now has ridiculous hair) and a lesbian stereotype.EDIT: Also Tidus is Meg Ryan.
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He was Meg Ryan??
I thought that hair was good in an FF way. Fantasys should have fantastic elements and not just in the bewbz area.
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I did 😀
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What, formed an idol group?
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totes, sistah *airsmooch*
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My brain was running slow and I edited that comment way too much. Now I have no idea which edit it is you’re replying too.
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Life on Mars is a good final edit anyways. 😀
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hey dude, yeah was good meating, Good to meat people with common interests, keeps those awkward silences at bay.
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Even if Jimu can’t make it, you should think about meeting the larger Brisbane group this Saturday!
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this. jimu a dad.
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Is your wife working on that night? What’s your mum doing? She’d be a good babysitter
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My mum is fucking nuts and has locked herself up in nutsville with a bag of nuts.
It is nuts.
You remember my mum, right? That outgoing loud woman? She doesn’t “like going out” apparently.
Doesn’t talk to anyone rarely answers my calls. She seems to be suffering from some form of paranoia. Won’t talk to anyone but me (rarely) and her bro in Japan. -
Have they picked a day? She works Friday night. The reason wouldn’t always be baby sitters, me going out drinking writes off the following day, I usually have a list of shit to do.
Thats why I organised the Easter meat cos losing a day to extreme nap wasn’t as bad.
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Maaaan, no new games for pixel for a while :(… Wifey has had to quit her job because idiots… At least she is now a lot happier mentally instead of being constantly run down! Keep telling her we will be fine on one salary and she finally took the plunge… Don’t know why I’m telling you guys all of this but you’re usually pretty rad (yes rad, I’m totally bringing it back)
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Idiot management and yeah work place bullying… Basically shit happens, gets reported and never dealt with… Plus shea been with the same company of 5 years, they keep saying how far she will go but then never offers a development opportunity despite her applying for various positions
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Boos Miller.
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I shame myself as an adventure gamer when I say that’s as far as I ever got in that game. 😛
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I finished it \o/
I cheated in one bit though. The randomly generated swamp maze. I would go and get the vulture whistle and the magnet first because I mapped out the forest maze to get to Canuck’s hut without the benefit of the poo trail from the Witch’s bats. That way I could go up the river in the boat to visit the witch and then skip navigating the maze.
Anyway if you never got past Boos then you didn’t even visit the Great Underground Empire of Zork. To get past Boos you need to drink him to death – literally. Keep accepting rye from him, propose toasts and then tip the stuff out before ‘drinking’ from the glass.
It’s a four-part toast. “Here’s to us. Who’s like us? Damn few. And they’re all dead.” After the third toast you ask him for his keys because he’s too drunk to drive. Then you get rid of him with the last round of drinks and he’ll disappear and the trapdoor he was sitting on would be revealed. Unlock it with the keys and you can go down to the Great Underground Empire.
I suddenly really want to play that game again. Anyone know if it’ll run on modern systems at all?
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It’s on GOG if it comes to that, all their games work natively.
I never actually owned the game. Was on a school computer, alas.
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Hey dude, single income living can be tough, but (depending on debt circumstances) totally doable if you budget right. Good luck, and huzzah for mental health.
Time to replay some classics, methinks. What’s first up?
Edit: Am currently planning a bit of a cull of my gaming collection. Will keep you in mind!
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Weeeeeeell Soul reaver has indeed been collecting dust, so time to brush up on that… And trust me I’m not worried about money, I wanted her to quit for months and are very proud that she finally did it 😀 also… HI @shane aka handsome Australian version of me, how is ya?
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Oooor, we could just throw spare/unwanted games at him.
HEY PIXEL, HOW BOUT A COPY OF DARK SOULS ON 360?!?!
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PS3 copy you say?
Hmmm. 🙂
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You want it, man? I offered it to @dc, but he threw my charity back in my face.
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He’s a [censored].
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The other c-word 😛
I got you back, though, man. Got you good.
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Charming gentleman who makes some wrong choices at times (LIKE NO SURVIVOR >:( )
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Sure. If it’s not too much trouble. Woooo \o/
Maybe post it to me when you do the other giveaway you’re planning. I don’t know if you get a discount on posting a bunch of stuff at once 🙂
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No discounts 🙂
But it’s yours when I get around to it. Might need your address again. Can you email me please? shane at shanewsmith dotcom
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If you’re seriously never going to use it, or just feel like lending it to me, I might finally come good on those favours I promi- erhm I mean… Yeah… Soo dark souls ey? 😀
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Do you have a PS3? I can throw some games at you
What does your wife like to play?
Giveaway engaged.
TAY UNITE! or something 🙂
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That’s very nice of you mang, but unfortunately I do not own such a fancy apparatus :P… I also didn’t intend to turn it into a Pixel charity auction, but the kindness of you guys overwhelms me
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Don’t worry about it. Just happy to help.
Good luck, at least your wife is happy now. 🙂
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YOU HEARD HIM.
PIXEL CHARITY AUCTION IS A GO!
Well that’s a bit shit. Wasn’t the idea of transferring her job there because here was rife with that crap?
At least she has helpful information for anyone looking to work for that company, I guess…
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Pretty much, didn’t pay off… Ah well, it’s all good :D… Also you should come to Melbourne… Because: me 😛
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At this stage I’ll be down during PAX, but I need to start saving a whole heap so not many trips planned for a while now.
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What do you mean you’re bringing it back? Rad never left.
Also not knowing the specifics it sounds like you’ve probably made a good decision even if it makes things tougher short-term. Sometimes you need a push to get out of a tough situation.
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I used to draw on the cover of my note pads so that they read “Note Rad”. I thought it was hilarious for some reason 😛
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That was pretty much my mentality, and mental health is a helluva lot more important then any kind of financial security… Family first and all that 🙂
Thinking of reading Cormac McCarthy’s The Road soon. (Wanted to see the movie for a while and Cakesmith suggesting it the other day reminded me I should get on it.) Read the first couple of pages on Amazon and although I like the imagery of his writing style, it’s a little weird to read. Any one else find that? I’m sure I’ll get used to it though!
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Probably my favourite book I’ve read, fyi.
I love the writing style. It’s definitely different, but it clicked for me right away, I reaaaally like it. Not sure if its something youll get used to if you dont like it? I suppose it would?
Also, I have a lot of love for the director, but the film doesnt compare. It does the best job it could, but as the old cliche goes, book is much much better. Also I dont think the boy is anywhere near young enough in the film.
Also All The Pretty Horses is another great book of his. Was enjoying both Blood Meridian and Suttree, but his writing was a little harder to process in those, and didnt end up finishing either 🙁 Will have to go back and try again one day soon. Last edit I swear.
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Oh, no. It’s not that I don’t like it. I really do actually, it’s just from time-to-time I had to re-read sentences to grasp what it was saying. Maybe that’s just me being illiterate. 😛
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Yeah I know what you mean, and why I couldnt get through all of those other 2 I mentioned. He writes sentences a hundred times longer and denser than The Road’s XD
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Read some more of the sample and already I seem to be ‘getting it’ better, so I think I’ll keep it on the list. It’s been a long time since I bought a book, though. A long, long time! 😀
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bookdepository! So cheapo! Love it.
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This site @greenius showed me is pretty good as well.
It’s a price comparison website for the major online book sellers.
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Persona 4 Arena? I don’t know any game with a name like that.
(P.S. I’d probably relent and buy it if they had the UK GAME preorder bonus here – they’re getting a vinyl record with some of the music from the game on it)
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I had a look for that Vinyl and I think it’s instore only 🙁
You won’t be buying because of region lock? Not a huge deal since they localised and released worldwide imho.
I was thinking about hitting up English rellies for a copy but the only one I think I can trust to get the job done right had a fight with my mum and blergh…I only own 4 Vinyls but fuck they look good when they do. CDs can suck a bum (I own a bunch and never use em anymore) (not that I’d use a Vinyl, don’t have a player, but preeeeeeeeeeeetty)
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No, it is a huge deal. They shouldn’t have region locked Europe out of the US release.
I have a Japanese PS3. The Japanese version offers no English text. Ergo I cannot play the game ever. Even the PSN release is region locked despite that you can only buy it on a specific region PSN. :\ The situation is straight-up bullshit and Atlus deserves to be ashamed of themselves, as does Arc System Works for delaying the PAL release repeatedly for close to a year – we were originally supposed to get the game a week or two after the US. Every release they’ve ever done in Europe has been the same. I waited for so long for BlazBlue and Arcana Heart 3 that by the time I got them everyone I knew in the US had stopped playing and I haven’t even taken them out of their packaging. 🙁 Never again.
I’m 100% boycotting the game. I could get the 360 release – I originally planned to anyway – but after the whole release debacle I don’t think anyone involved deserves my money.
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Bah, Im gonna have fun *neenerNeener*
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Currently being dicked around by our former landlord for the bond monies so I can’t afford new games anyway.
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meanimu. 🙁
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Nah, man. Best of luck with all that moving bullshit. Hopefully you’re in a place you can stay in longterm because there’s always that sort of shit.
It took me way too long to get internet or phone in my last place because Telstra are retarded.
They were actually pretty good at the customer service part that time but totally clueless at sussing out the problem. Seems they cut their own line down the street because they employ…I dunno, idiots?
@negativezero
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I’m not a huge fan of fighting games but I want to find out what happens to my buddies!
I also got the P4 anime cuz reasons.
I still need to finish the game though :P, I play it like once a month now a days 🙁
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I love the olde fightin gaemz but dont play them a lot these days, a story based one with rpg elements though…
I have *ahem* aquired said anime, will watch, judge then decide on a purchse.
When you say finish the game you mean the extras right? Not the story?
so Samoan airlines are gonna be charging for flights based on how much passengers weigh.
as a sorta tall, skinny to average sized person, who still weighs somewhere between 85-89Kg… this is bullshit in my opinion.
some 4 foot tall, hugely obese person who takes up twice as much room as me, still pays the same?
hopefully no other airlines take this up.
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In terms of fairness, I don’t really have a problem with the concept, but for a totally honest system, I think it should be a “total” weight price, including luggage. You pay based on what your travel costs the airline in terms of petrol.
Fair =/= good necessarily, but it’s closer to a fair fare than ‘traditional’ arrangements.
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i think, in some cases, its unfair.
someone who was born tall, through no fault of their own, even if they’re not overweight, is gonna be heavier than a shorter / fatter person & be charged more. its disadvantageous (is that even a real word?) to some people because of things out of their control.why not something like a standard fare of $X for up to 80Kg + $Y for every Kg over that?
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Not all fat people are lifestyle-abusers either. Gotta say it.
There’s no perfectly fair system (flat fee is good for larger people, and the scaling fee is good for smaller people), but one based on dispassionate maths is as close as any.
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no, of course not. but they’re being treated as such by that pricing system.
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I dunno man, it’s kind of telling that it’s a Samoan airline floating this idea. A people who, by and large, are genetically predisposed to be larger. I don’t think it’s necessarily discriminatory or accusatory.
Edit: though it does lend weight (edit 2: pun intended?) to the theory that this is an April Fool’s thing.
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Surely the system as it is now and has always been works. You have different people subsidizing others through various means. Meals on flights, luggage etc.
Also, no sympathy for airlines given massive global profits. (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-20/airline-profits-to-top-10-billion-on-improving-sales-outlook.html) for those who would say “nono I saw on Today Tonight how hard done they are”)
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If I ever get treasure, I’m going to hide it on the top shelf! 😛
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hopefully….
though I had heard of this idea being floated by a couple of other airlines a few weeks ago.
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I just don’t see it working, ultimately. There will be calls of discrimination et cetera (and what about those with defined medical conditions etc?).
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And making people hop on a scale at the airport? Humiliating and time-consuming. Not to mention the people who’ll say “But the scales at home said…” and start a big stink to save themselves $5 on the fare.
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Yep. Lawyers would have a field day.
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Today Tonight would cream themselves.
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what about frequent flyers resorting to amputations to save money?
in a world where someone sells a kidney to buy an iPad, this isnt too unbelievable.
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I’d make a fortune selling edible helium-filled balloons!
There’s a statistically higher rate of obesity in Polynesian people I think – they definitely often seem to be larger and chunkier in build generally, probably one reason why they’re so good at Rugby – so this doesn’t seem to be completely implausible. Fact is if your plane has say 300 people on board and on average each is 10kg over the weight of an average person, you’re moving 3 tons more mass and that means carrying more fuel.
However if this isn’t an April Fools joke and is actually serious, I’d probably have couched it differently – put rates up but give people a discount if they’re flying with less baggage.
That Bioshock Infinite article about Commander Shepard has a spoiler that while relatively minor would have completely ruined a character for me.
Just putting it out there.
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Yeah, they’re starting to get to that point where they’re assuming everyone who reads Kotaku has played the game. I hate it when they get to that point. 😛
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Serrels articles is equal to kotaku community
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Yeah, there are some good apples out there.
I just think a lot of people in the industry forget that the bulk of their customers are not.
When you get a game free then zoom through for a quick review before the next, are you really the right person to be saying if it’s worth the price tag?
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No way man!
Your waifu links outweighed any damage your anti-waifu links did 😛
I’m just getting pumped at work today – yes it is as bad as it sounds!
I got a lot of gaming done this long weekend and I’m keen to post about it. Tomorrow I guess. (then everyone can tell me I’m wrong 😛 )
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Getting smashed at work too, keep seeing threads i wanna throw my 2 cents into but no time. I swear every day i get new duties. Just had a meeting with bosses who have basically made up a whole new role, decided they should hire someone for it, then by the end of the meeting they’d decided that I can do it on top of my current job. Sometimes being competent is a curse. I just wanna play Videyo gaeymes
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Next ep of Top of the Lake is released today. It’ll be the halfway mark of the mini-series. I mentioned it on Easter TAY, but if you guys like ensemble mysteries… you should watch!
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I still have no idea which version of the series I started downloading 🙁 Was going to watch the first ep I got, but wanted to make sure I got the longer one…
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The Sundance ones go 45-50 mins, the BBC/UKTV ones go 60 mins. The editing is much better in the longer ones, but the U.S. is an episode ahead. (It’s not too different, but it fades to black routinely for commercial breaks where as the UKTV/BBC one doesn’t. Also the running time obviously.) Don’t think anyone is uploading the BBC/UKTV ones anyway.
I’m just going to watch the US ones I think.
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Sorry man, I’m confusing you I think. Hasn’t even started airing on BBC yet. Only other place it’s aired outside of the U.S. is UKTV on Foxtel and that’s only up to episode two.
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Haha, no no I appreciate you giving me the heads up on it! I think youre right though, seems like its the US version everywhere. Just watched the first ep, really good stuff. Obviously a strong angle on the whole gender equality thing.
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Holly Hunters GJ character frightens me. Haha! Elizabeth Moss is insanely good. I like how well realized the setting feels too.
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Hey, @harli just posted this on the facebooks – “I am appearing on TV tonight! Tune in to ABC2 at 8:30pm (Sydney time) for a special episode of Good Game, where I’ll be talking about gaming in the 00’s!”
Awesoooome!
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I once talked about Katie Holmes earnest weariness in Batman Begins with Harli. She seemed nice!
True story! 😛
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Maggie G was decent though. Could’ve been a lot more jarring than it was, but she made it her own. I would’ve preferred Katie Holmes too, though.
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Someone should throw a reminder out at like 8:15, cause even if I set an alarm I will somehow not hear my phone or something.
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Hey all, shameless plug but more importantly you can WIN FREE STUFF.
In the latest episode of the University of Trials, I have a competition open only to Australian and NZ residents. You can win a copy of Trials Evo, a Trials Evo shirt and a Trials Evo hoodie. To enter, simply do something creative relating to trials, muisic/video/art etc etc… no rules, just have fun. As the show is just starting out, i don;t have that many aussies follwoing so support s much appreciated, and there may not be too much competition so chances of winning is high 🙂
Can’t linky at work sorry, but University of Trials on YT, Semester 1 Class 2. I know there are a few Trials fans around here so be sure to enter.
Cheers,
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Ok I appreciate the other links but this one made me laugh 😉
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Shane wrote a graphic novel for the Trials competition?
Geez! I guess he has already won 🙂
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Shane writes the best book of funnies.
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When you say copy of the game does that include the PC release? If so I am very interested! Since I don’t have one of the fangled Xbox thingy ma jigs.
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Sorry for the late reply but yeah man, PC copy of the game. Physical copy too as I understand it. 🙂 Spread the word and get people to contribute something. I want to show some of them in the next class. Cheers,
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Awesome! No need to apologise some people unlike I have a busy life 😛 I shall enter if I can think of anything haha.
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haha. Glad you liked it man. Had that idea for years tbh but never had the time or the place for it.. was just an excuse to finally record that song. 🙂
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gotta love penalty rates, I worked at a pub years ago, worked 2 public holidays in a row. Used the extra money to buy a new tv and 2 new games and didn’t touch my standard wage. whoo.
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Geez thanks AdBlock, all of a sudden it is now allowing popups, on websites. Not cool. Was fine this morning, come home and it’s now like this. Do not like.
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Now make a list of all the people that posted in TAY so far this week and rewrite all of the comments as if they were written by the next person on the list.
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If it’ll seal the deal, Cassidy will be there!
In all seriousness, I hope you’re not riled up. Saw you weren’t in the best of moods earlier. Don’t mean to add to that. 🙁 Would like to be able to offer more suggestions, but in all honesty the only places I’ve been to in a long time are with you folks. Not well versed in going places. Hermit!
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Haha. Not riled up. You can visit Carrot Highway on your own though.
As far as what’s actually happening I don’t know Brisbane at all. All I can input is Asian and spicy are good. Also Korean BBQ.
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When it comes to that, I have no idea what to suggest. I reckon there’s people better equipped. @trjn? @welbot? @jimu? Guessing all you guys will know better city places for asian? I do have to confess though, I’m not sure there’s a lot of Korean I’ll like… as far as asian goes, I kind of prefer Thai or Chinese.
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Hmmmm, maybe I could bring the Mrs & boy along for Korean BBQ on Saturday night.
I’ll discuss this with the Mrs tomorrow(she already left for work).There’s a couple of decent places in the city, the one we went to last time was a buffet with a do it yourself BBQ.
I’ll have a chat and see 🙂
@freezespreston
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@jimu – pretty sure you didnt read all of my post XD
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Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?
Don’t like dumplings? Dont like Korean. dood, you are broken and need a thump! 😛
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@Sughly have to tried Korean BBQ? It’s pretty fantastic. Marinated meats that you cook yourself.
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@jimu – Food shouldnt be that watery! Blergh ok ok, Korean BBQ then
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Fear not teh korean food, for it r teh yummp!
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Yeah I only know a couple of places in Brisbane or South Bank and they’re a bit pricier than most Meats need to be. I am definitely up for Korean BBQ though. Been trying for 5 years to get Mr. Strange to take me.
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Man, I’m psyched for this meat. Will be good to see all you guys again!
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Noones listening to me! :'(
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@sughly Cos you broke, gurl :p
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@sughly We’re not listening because you’re being silly. If you like thai and chinese food there’s no reason why you shouldn’t like korean.
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I know a top notch bbq place at sunnybank!
It might increase my chances to go if it’s there too. It looks like I’ll have enough to buy food, but I wont have enough for petrol and parking etc if it’s in the city or the likes
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Man that bioshock. Want to keep playing but cannot.
On the upside I decided to play it on normal difficulty rather then easy. Haven’t been dying too much so I’m quite proud of myself.
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I played on Normal too, wasn’t too challenging at all but I didn’t mind. (There’s an occassional difficulty spike though.) Insanely good game!
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All the Persona games seem to be 50% off on PSN US.
Decisions, decisions…
( @negativezero @greenius )
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I already own all of them except the PS1 re-release of the other Persona 2 game.
Get P3P if you’re done with P4G. Try playing with the female protagonist, it’s more interesting IMO.
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The other Persona 2psp?…the one that wasn’t localised?
I have cash on there to grab 3, debating about the PSP2 because who knows, but it’s normally 30 :-s
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@greenius and Survivor peoples. Is the current season the Fans vs. Favourites one that’s showing on GO? Because if so, I watched a bunch of catch-up episodes today that my TiVo recorded on the weekend. I needed something to watch while I was sewing that I didn’t really care about so it was good timing.
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I think it is. They were wondering why Greenius was downloading it when he could watch it on free-to-air!
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Oh man, from the way they were talking I expected it to be awesome but to be honest I was really bored even though I was sewing at the same time. 😛 All the other seasons I’ve seen have been way more interesting.
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I used to have a cool friend named
BelindaStrange, has anyone seen her?Did you start from the start? D:
I think it’s been a pretty interesting season so far!
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I think its at its most interesting point now, since…
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(perhaps spoilers if you’re not up to date?)
One post-shuffled team still dominates, and by a lot more (challenges are no longer close)😛
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Pretty sure you’re only like a couple of eps behind
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Yeah but despite that, still lots of fractures. And merge coming up now anyway.
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Hey, stop downvoting me! At least I’m watching it. And discussing it with you. Go downvote @dc, he hasn’t even watched it. 😛
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Sensual massages
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I saw a nanosecond of that in the “previously”section. Looks like I missed out on the best episode. 🙁
That was crazy D:
PERSTEPHANIE!
lolol
Ooo… Guillermo Del Toro talking up Alfonso Cuaron’s new scifi film in a big way. Could be all talk, but this is Alfonso. Exciting! (@dc) http://www.firstshowing.net/2011/del-toro-says-alfonso-cuarons-sci-fi-gravity-will-be-mind-blowing/#gsc.tab=0
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Yeah, after Children of Men even that horrible teaser trailer was enough to get me psyched for this! We’ll have to have a Gravity meat! 😀 Can’t get that page to open though for some reason. Just white screen. :'(
Edit: Oh man, got it working. Sounds awesome. Could be hype, but I’m a Cuaron fan and a scifi fan who’s had a soft spot for Sandra Bullock since Speed. Sign me up! 😀
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Haha! Speed’s almost the only thing I liked her in, but it left an impression on a young DC. I think she’s a little like Angelina Jolie, really inconsistent in choosing roles — but when she’s good, she’s really good. I used to not like Clooney, but he’s done some awesome stuff lately. I think this movie is going to be all kinds of awesome! 😀
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Does Angelina Jolie ever take roles in anything other than action movies?
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Wait, really? She’s done heaps of non actions…
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She was excellent in Girl, Interrupted, The Bone Collector and really good in Changeling (Even though I think it had lots of pacing problems.)
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Yeah Changeling was a bit of a let down, but she was great. Totes agree on Girl Interrupted, such a great film.
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Oh, well, I’ve never seen (or heard) of any of those.
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I’m not angry. I’m just disappointed.
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Put Girl, Interrupted on your ‘list’ for a long time it was my favourite movie.
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@dc – Agreed. Winona Ryder, sooo good. Too bad she hardly does anything these days. Was excellent in Black Swan, about all I can think of of late.
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@sughly: Yeah, she had a small part in J.J. Abrams Star Trek as Spocks mother. Lots of people hate Alien Resurrection, but I thought her and Ripley made an excellent team!
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@dc – reading up on imdb, seems she has been in a bunch, but theyre all just straight to dvd kinda deals. Some look ok, most look terrible. One with Michael Shannon! Looks ok. ‘The Iceman’, true story about a contract killer.
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I have a soft spot for her hair in that witch movie with Nicole Kidman and Aidan Quinn.
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Hahaha! What was that again? I just remember that stupid poster with them both grinning all suggestive of their witchy ways haha. Ahhhh, the 90’s, what a decade.
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Practical Magic, I think?
Er, guys. Isn’t it @sughly’s birthday this weekend? Seems like he should have somewhat of a say.
That said he should try Korean BBQ. I’ve had it once and it’s mostly BBQ’d meat which is hard to go wrong with.
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Yeah hey wait, I’m not being silly! >:(
No but with that said, it’s not like I have other suggestions, and there’s a big consensus for korean. I’m happy if the group going are happy!
And Thai and Chinese are totally different from the Korean I’ve had so far!
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Yeah, I know you’re not being silly. To be honest I was probably being silly. I blame @jimu. He’s a bad influence. 😛
And I really don’t care where we go as long as it’s not a seafood-oriented place and I don’t have to choose it.
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Haha! Do you share my hatred of sea food? 😀
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Yep. Seafood is yucky.
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Agreed. Makings of an even more beautiful friendship! 😀
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Aww man,now I almost feel bad for telling Greenius to downvote you! 😛
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SO gross. Shouldnt eat weird things crawling around in the sea moments before its on your plate.
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Considering I’m allergic to seafood it could be a terrible choice.
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Don’t over think this. Go with the first thing that enters your head.
What’s your favourite movie?
Gattaca.
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Well the first thing that popped into my head was Gattaca because I just read it 😛
It’s not my favourite movie though.
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Watched that again on Sunday night and loved it even more the second time around. The structure seemed to click with me a little better. Good choice! 😀
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Yeah, I didnt really know what I’d seen the first time I watched it. Subsequent viewings of this are WAAAY better, since you can actually keep up with whats going on XD
Having watched it so many times now, it’s hard to see how it’s not easy to follow. But I remember it being so. I remember…
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Haha! I thought the same thing. I wondered if I was just stupid the first time through. 😀
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BioShock Infinite. Done & dusted. Great game.
I love Elizabeth, she’s possibly best companion to have come up in a game of recent years. Would love to play from her point of view.
That ending though, Elizabeth being Anna and Dewitt also being Comstock, what the hell man. I didn’t see the Comstock one coming but I saw Elizabeth being Anna coming from a long way away like half way through the game, when Dewitt is going on about Anna.
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I was actually the other way around! Saw DeWitt/Comstock a mile off, but Anna/Elizabeth wasn’t so apparent for me, I think.
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I failed at working out both of them. :/ Replaying it through it, it’s so freaking obvious, but no, all the clues I ignored… About the only thing I “got” was the moment they mentioned “Anna” I was like, oh, the thing on his hand is for Anna Dewitt. Oh, and the Lutece’s being the same person(well, different versions of), I got that pretty quickly, even though I missed the bit right at the start where the statue flips between the two of them.Edit: And yeah, I feel like the strongest recommendation I can give for it is “I’ve bought the Season Pass for it.”
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Yeah there were some things that are obvious if you’re looking but not so obvious if you’re not. I over looked a fair few things, as first I thought the AD thing on his hand was to do with something not relating to his daughter Anna Dewitt, but something more to do with him being the false shepherd heh. -
for the pendant, did you pick cage or bird? I picked bird (I think most would have actually. Free bird, free spirit etc) although toward the end the idea of the cage was flipped on its head. I can’t recall the specific reasons, but it fit so well.-
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Yeah, I did the same. Other questions: Who did you throw the stone at(I chose the couple, I wanted to stay incognito, not that it helped). What did you do with the guy in the thing? (I tried to interrupt him, and my hand paid that price(bit that annoyed me, in some of the first person segments the cloth on his hand is missing)). I think there was another choice somewhere, but I can’t remember what it was…(maybe more? Whatever.) -
Yeah I threw the rock at the black girl & tried to get the blokes attention even though I thought I was about to be in a world of shit. I didn’t have that happen I noticed the cloth on my hand everytime it was in shot. Maybe just a bug on your end?I must say for a game where recommended requirements states my GPU is the one they recommend. it handles ultra settings fine :S
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Threw the stone at the announcer (or tried to). The couple recognized this later on and thanked me.
The guy in the bank? I let him finish his piece, then requested the tickets. My hand paid the price.
Uhhm, can’t recall other choices.
Picking up the guitar was a beautiful reprieve from the violence ensuing overhead.
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I’m always like “oh yeah I’ll re-watch the previous season(s) before the new one airs!” but I never do 😛
Once again I’m not remembering anything for Game of Thrones Season 3 😀 (never read the books)
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They are a bit, but for the most part I feel like it works well. Sometimes though, yeah, it gets ridiculously… draggy…
I don’t think that’s the word I’m looking for, but by Jove I’m going to stick with it.
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He has that odd fascination with characters lineage that he writes pages and pages about for no real reason other then he can.
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I…
I like that sort of stuff. I find it fascinating…
I am a terrible, terrible, nerd.
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There’s good reason why you’re not remembering anything from season3 of Game of Thrones, since that is what just started airing.
Hahaha! I knooooow, as soon as all these people started popping I was like ah crap, what was he doing? But… didnt she run off with him? Whys she there? And… who the heck was that guy in the previously on bit? I vaguely remember that scene but nothing more T_T
And then I drank my beer and watched anyway.
TAY!
Who am this guy?
Missing you
Love Spaghett
Finished Bioshock, good thing I can PLAY IT AGAIN !
That or GTA IV
Mkr stuff
okay I am getting to the point where I want someone to punch Ashlee and Sophia. Josh and Andi went to sudden death because thy were cooking outside their comfort zone. Ashlee and Sophia appear to stuff up tonight cooking outside their comfort zone, karma much?
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Yeah I’ve always wondered how well they’d do if they had to cook a specific cuisine of a different culture. They’re really good at cooking the food they grew up with but seem a little limited in their knowledge otherwise.
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Err…spoilers. I’m an episode behind. We record it and watch it with the kids the next night while we eat dinner.
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Haha yeah, to be honest this place was probably the last place I expected to be spoilered for My Kitchen Rules. 😀
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Sorry again. I’ll spoilerise everything from now on.
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Every time you guys talk about this show, I feel like saying something TV snobbish about it… then I remember I was employed by a reality show and was happy once. 😛
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Happy? Once or twice, it could’ve been a lesser shade of sad though.
😛
I worked on Big Brother when it was on Ten!
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was it fun?
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He liked censoring the janglies.
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Yeah, felt like I had a purpose and was good to be on the crew. Liked using my uni degree for something useful too. 😀
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Being able to cook well outside your comfort zone is the mark of a good chef. Some of them (Jake and Elle, Jenna and Joanna) have proved time again they are capable of that. If Josh and Andi couldn’t do it than they couldn’t do it. Which is why I dislike Ashlee and Sophia as they refuse to and I have a sneaking suspicion they are incapable of.
I’ll punch them.
They’re not even all that terribly good.
SE Asian is hard to do excellently, easy to do passably, so I do not begrudge them that.
However, they seem unable to cook ANYTHING ELSE AT ALL. And those chicken wings last night were nothing special.
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I’ve considered it seriously in the last twelve months.
Wouldn’t mind owning a big little gastro pub.
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I love pub food. I’d rather have that then take away
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I didn’t click the spoilers but are you thinking of entering? If I didn’t have to appear on TV I’d offer to be your teammate. 😛
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I considered it, never really went as far as finishing the application.
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I was going to do the original Masterchef. But then I got pregnant. Not sure I’d go the MKR way,it seems to be more about drama than cooking. I’d love to watch you on it though, from what I’ve seen of you talking about food you’d annihilate the competition. 😀
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I watched it tonight while waiting for Good Game. I really, really want to eat cauliflower soup now 😛 My mouth was watering.
Out of curiosity @dc, what with the violin talk, you much of a Sigur Ros fan? They have four girls dedicated to strings (who have their own band, Amiina, which is also great and worth checking out), so strings play a big part in all their music. The untitled album, technically “( )”, is their best in my opinion, with this song being one of my favourite all timers – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQsPv4FMyLg
Video is pulled from a doco on them called Heima, which is just stunningly beautiful to watch. Recorded them on a free tour they did through Iceland, with lots of amazing cinematography of the scenery there. edit: Wait, no thats not the video from Heima haha! Still, great performance.
edit: If anyone clicking the link is impatient, go to around 6:30 when it changes pace. Just incredible stuff.
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Oh well, not my issue.
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Rubbish. I’ve tested this theory, and it’s not true.
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Only song I’ve heard from them was the Jimmy Fallon thing you posted yesterday. (Didn’t like it!) Really like the instrumental stuff in this video, though — instruments that sound like instruments. Hooray! 😀
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Ohhh man, that Jimmy Fallon song is incredible! Maybe preaching Sigur Ros here is a lost cause :'(
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Also, why does the guy singing look like he’s in terrible pain? Is that his normal singing face or just for this song?
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Ohhhhmylordy, it has THE greatest build up ever, but I do understand those not used to Sigur Ros will watch 30 seconds and click on something else XD
When it builds up and explodes at the end, gah! Saw it live, had shivers the whole time.
edit: the explody bit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYShhTuScLg&feature=player_detailpage#t=444s
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I watched the whole thing. I figured if it took that long to get going it must actually go somewhere. 😛
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Yesss! I got someone to listen to Sigur Ros! And? That ending right! Right..?
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It stuck in my head and is making me depressed. Why is all your music pretty and depressing?
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Because life is pretty and depressing!
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I feel better about my life then. Not pretty but not depressing. 😛
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I love being able to watch that clip and say “I’ve been to that country, and its amazing”.
I’ve had Sigur Ros recommended to me by a couple of friends, and what I’ve listened has been pretty great, but I’ve gone out and bought/downloaded any of their stuff. Any recommendations for specific songs or albums? Or just get all the things?
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We miss you too!
Are you coming to the goodbye Bunny/Happy Getting Older Freeze and Sughly /Hello Rockets Meat on Saturday night? We may be doing Korean BBQ somewhere in the city.-
This is the first I’ve heard of it, and I’d love to! Is there some form of news letter of digest I can subscribe to to get BrisMeat updates? 😛 (Kidding, I’m just way out of the loop these days 🙁 )
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We definitely need one of those!
And yeah, I just rely on people tagging me here or on Twitter. For all I know there could be secret Meats every day. 😛
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Damnit! Seriously, I don’t even remember what I was thinking of before but I thought of that Will Sasso lemon thing…
cannot unsee… >:P
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Hell’s Kitchen Nightmares Iron Top Chef Cafeteria Throwdown Ultimate Cookoff Challenge.
CREME FRAICHEALITY!
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fyi, I went back and read your GoT thing after seeing the ep XD
But then it was about the books and meant nothing to me :'(
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The danger of Spoiler Tags. Later on I wished I’d typed “I’m just typing this to annoy Sughly and D.C.”
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I simultaneously love and hate you
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Oh man, what a great episode.
Denerys is still my favourite. 😀 That guy she bought the slaves from was the first person who requires a stabbing so far. I’m sure there will be more! 😛-
Yeah but she still kind of walks around like she has a stick up her butt.
Needs more Arya! And Bran too. Stark ftw.-
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I also get the sense though that she is willing to kill more and more people to get there as time goes by :/ But honestly, my favourite thing about the show right now is the Jon Snow thing with the girl. I love her character, and makes for an interesting cash with Jon’s. Also his whole infliltration thing is really interesting too. Tense stuff! -
Yeah, I agree! I get worried everytime someone messes with Denerys too, that it’ll be the thing that pushes her into crazy kill everyone mode. Guess that’s not the greatest quality in a leader. Haha. Yeah, Jon Snow’s awesome, though I always feel compelled to say “You know nothing, Jon Snow” whenever he’s on screen. 😀 I like Sansa too. I don’t understand the hate for her. The handmaiden is interesting too.
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I only have one criticism of the first episode. Shae and Ros got more screen time than Arya, Bran, Theon, Jaime and Brienne combined. I also didn’t like that we missed out on Arstan Whitebeard and Strong Belwas 🙁-
That’s the beauty of not knowing what’s supposed to happen. You won’t miss it. I think structurally it’s better to save some of these characters for their own episodes too. I’d prefer substantial arcs for these characters than throwaway scenes. Balancing a huge ensemble is always tough for these kinds of shows.-
True that. But I am progressively finding myself liking the show more than the books. I’ll be interested to see how the future season will go about trimming the filler that the last two books were filled with.
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So Kotaku keeps coming up with “No data received” errors when I try to reply to certain comments (@jimu comments >:P)
@jimu – Story, but I believe it’s new content added in for Golden.
I’ve already seen two main endings but there’s just more :O! Keep multiple save files because they came out of nowhere for me.
@strange – That’s true! I’m sorry for downvoting (not really >:D!), but I want you to continue watching the show and discuss it with us 🙂
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I just figured I’d do a new game plus if I hit and ending.
I prefer to play a game through blind all the way then look up a FAQ to see what can be done differently.
Hrrrnnnggh, don’t tell me things, now my confidence is wavering!!
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I’m pretty addicted, haven’t been this addicted to a game since Black2.
Portability really helps me get sucked in, because of life etc the long gaps between plays on home console pulls me out of the world :-/
I was totally in love with Ni No Kuni & when I came back I was so MEEEHHH.-
Persona and Disgaea I think are the two home console JRPG franchises which benefit the most from being portable.
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I mean that there’s something about the games that seems to really benefit from being portable. I think part of it is being able to suspend & resume whenever. But also I think they’re games where the story is easy to remember because it’s fairly simple and boils down to you doing the same things. The fun of Persona is in the minute-to-minute decisions you make while playing. You’re constantly making significant choices.
Meanwhile the Disgaea games I find work really well in bites. You can play out a battle in maybe 5-10 minutes which makes it a great portable experience. Plus it looks less dated on handhelds 😛
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Oh OK, I see what you mean.
My life has the opposite effect, because I find it hard to get a lot of hours on the home console there tends to be huge, sometimes multiple week long gaps between plays.
On a handheld, I can definetly get in over 2 hours a day.So say, Ni No Kuni was on a handheld (I know it was *sigh*) I definetly would have finished it by now. What has actually happened is, life interupted (no complaints) I didn’t get back to it for two weeks, in which I had lost momentum and I decided to play Dead Space 2 instead because I was in a totally different headspace and needed to stomp corpse.
These conversations are interesting for me, I remember how I used to play like you lot years ago and makes me realise WHY my gaming habits have changed 😀
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I rarely have time to play anything at all. 🙁
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Really? You seem to have finished more games than me this gen.
Or are you part way through like me?
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@jimu: I haven’t finished many RPGs. Most of the stuff I finish is shorter.
The big reason my pile got out of hand like it has is that I was a WoW addict for probably three years total.
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Oh yeah, WoW. I avoided it. Lived with a WoW addict.
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Oh awesome, i’m being followed by a fan Twitter account which is run by a rabid teenage fan girl of one of my favourite guitarists. Awesome. All I am seeing is “OMFG he is so hawt” and such tweets.. Kill me.
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That’s not the point. I don’t get why they have to go and follow everyone who might just once mention a “keyword” Infact in recent times (this year) I haven’t even mentioned anything that would be of a keyword for them to pick it up and follow me. Twitter needs to get itself straightened out with these spam followers. It’s bullshit that i’ve blocked close to 1,000 spam accounts. Even if my account was private they still try and follow you.
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Actually for all you know they could be data mining what you tweet. Most of them tweet malicious links, as well, so yeah they are harming people.
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Private account! 😀
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Which to me is pointless, I tried it out for a month when I first got Twitter but then realised it circumvented what I actually got Twitter for. Which was not to stay in touch with friends but to follow musicians that I like and inspire me and it’s rare they follow back and if they don;t follow you they can’t see any tweets you tweet to them.
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That makes sense, I’m an anti-social hermit, so I like having my own little walled garden. People who want to follow me can, but I don’t need to worry about outsiders seeing what I ramble about. 😀
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Yeah well we are all different. Plus Twitter is an outlet to get an opinion voiced, the hash tags and having the right people follow you can really get what you want to say out there.
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I love the SPAM bewbz 😀
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You’ve been having a lot of problems with people lately, getting angry and stuff.
Maybe you need a tech free, people free holiday of some sort.
Just relax all alone with your pets and breathe
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
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Yeah, I sort of agree. You have seemed a little agitated lately, Virus.
Shouldn’t let people rile you up so much! 🙂 Not worth angering up the blood. 😀
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I always have problems with people, I despise bullshitters, time wasters & especially liars along with dishonest people. I come across too many of them. I can’t actually do that, I can’t go anywhere I have no money, I am relied on at home for a lot of tech stuff, and I generally have to deal with people in day to day life since I don’t prefer to sit at home in the dark and do nothing. If I had the money I would’ve already made sure I was off to Download which is , but given the fact I can’t do anything without being interrupted in my day to day life it’s hard to get away from it all.
Warning: rambling employment/future thoughts.
I think the last time I was really active on TAY was before Giftsmas. Before I started my new role at work. In the past 6 months, things have been crazy. I’m in a position now where I literally don’t have any free time to goof off or scratch my butt. It’s been crazy stressful, but very rewarding too. The role originally was to develop business proces documents/training resources to help all our staff across the state learn how to use a new system that’s being implemented. As well as developing video tutorials etc.
But in the last couple of months, things have kind of escalated. Our help desk for this new system is just one person, and that person is the worst kind of person you’d want to deal with at a help desk. They blame everything, even systemic build issues on user error, and are dismissive of any issues people bring to them. There’s talk that the help desk role might migrate back to our centre, where the position actually belongs. And there’s talk of bringing the position back without the person who’s currently operating in it. It’s been insinuated that my director would like to put me in the role from all the positive feedback we’ve got from our offices over the state.
But at the same time, a field role has just come up in our Moreton regional office. A PERMANENT role. At a higher level than my current substantive position. That job closed on the 25th of March, and I applied for it. So I’m at a really weird point right now. I love what i’m doing right now, and I’ve done this permanent role before. It wasn’t the most rewarding thing I’ve ever done, but it’s at a higher level and it’s permanent. Permanency is not something that a 20-something dude who wants to buy a house can really pass up. I’m just worried that if I go through the interview process, get the permanent job, the help desk job might then get advertised, then I’ll go through the exact same process and only end up doing a month or two at one office before transferring back to the one I’m working at now.
I also feel an attachment to my job I’m doing now. I feel like I’ve built my own success up from nothing, and I would just feel… wrong about abandoning it now when there’s so much more to be done.
Anyway. In other awesome news, my wife just got a job in the same building that I’m working in, but with a different department. It’s full time, no weekend work, no fluctuating schedule… and she’ll be earning the same amount I have been. So we’ll finally be able to wipe our debt out and get everything back in the black.
#Blogtaku
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Congrats to Mrs. Beardy! Hope everything works out for you too, man! (I gots no advice, so I won’t pretend that I do. Haha!)
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Not entirely the same situation, but I had similar thoughts when I was moving out for this job in Orange. I had been at Coles for 8 years as a casual, the team there really was my second family. I had never really considered getting a different job when I was going through uni/tafe because I was in a position where I knew how everyone worked at Coles and I was as near to the “top of the food chain” as you can be as a casual. I knew if I went anywhere else I’d be starting from scratch. I was in a position at Coles where I could go to Jenny (my dept manager) and say I’m going overseas, see you in a couple of months (with plenty of notice) and I knew that my job would be waiting for me when I got back.
That was the strangest part about starting a new job was the fact that all of a sudden I was the new guy again, I hadn’t been in that position for years. But thankfully my team here is pretty good and I’ve slotted in pretty well. I knew I was getting to the point, especially having finished tafe, that I needed to get out and find a permanent gig, as much fun as the people were I was damn sure I didn’t want to be at Coles for the rest of my days. But I still make sure I go in and visit everyone when I go home. You just have to decide which will be better for you in the long run. And then hope that you end up being right in your decision 🙂
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I had something similar happen to me.
My very first job was working at the local cinema. I started there when I was in year 10. I worked through from 2004-2009 when unfortunately, the cinema burnt down (not my fault…I swear). Luckily I was also working part time at EB Games so still had a source of income. When the cinema finally re-opened a year later, they gave everyone their jobs back (or at least offered them back, a few people declined).
Then after another year of working at the cinema and EB Games I decided it was time to do something with my life. So I quit both jobs and got a full time job/traineeship working in IT. 12 months went by, I finished my traineeship and quit the job I hated (it was the job I was working when I joined TAY). When I quit, I had already made my mind up that I was going to move to Sydney, but was still a couple of months off moving and needed money. So I went back to the cinema. It was literally a case of sending my old manager a message and asking if there was anything available and him telling me to come in and sign the paperwork that afternoon (which I didn’t have to do anyone because I was already on the books). The thing was, they knew I’d only be hanging around for 2-3 months yet they still gave it to me. Being 23 at the time, I’m also not the cheapest person to employ.
In the end I was only back there for 3 months before I finally had the chance to make the break for Sydney. And yet I know, if for some reason I ever went back to Warrnambool, that job at the cinema would still be there if I wanted it.
It’s a strange feeling. I made lifelong friends at that job and really did consider it a second home. When I moved to Sydney and drove here, the assistant manager came with me for the hell of it. It’s amazing how attached you can get to your place of employment. Especially when you enjoy it and are surrounded by good people.
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Oh, and if anyone wants to see what a burnt out cinema looks like:
http://i.imgur.com/J1l6ESU.jpg
Side note: this was the theater that wasn’t actually on fire. All smoke and water damage.
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I know exactly what you mean. Its kind of sad when I think the insane number of people (and number of insane people) I’ve seen come and go through Coles. But I know that if I ever was in a really bad way Jenny would have me back in an instant. There’s that core group of people that I’ve worked with for years that I know I could ask for anything and they’d give it to me, no questions asked. A lot like TAY really.
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What if you were to ask for a Colobus Monkey?
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I’m sure they’d find a way…. Or they would find a picture of one, give to me and say “There. Thats as close as you get. Now stop asking for silly things” 😀
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Find a chance to talk to your director about this, see if he can do a bit more than insinuate and let them know you want to own your successes. More information is more good.
Congrats to Amber for the new job too.
I’ll be over tomorrow night so you can check out my car, although seeing how things are going you might be able to consider buying a good one instead :p
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Same, might grab a bite to eat and then head over. I’ll aim to get there around 6:30-7 unless you want me to try and be a little earlier?
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Nah man, whenever sounds good. Around 7 would probably work best for us.
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Started working through my list of movies. Watched Tangled last night, and ParaNorman tonight. They were both pretty cool guys. Not sure if I’d put Tangled right up there with my personal Golden Age of the 90’s but its damn close. And I may or may not have been tearing up when “I See The Light” started playing. Ssshhh, no one has to know
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I sincerely think if I objectively took away the nostalgia and all that, I’d like Tangled more than Aladdin. (Which is saying something. I LOVE Aladdin.) I suspect the animation won’t age any where near as well, though. :'( Damn good movie!
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I dunno, some of the animation in Aladdin hasn’t aged that well. While Carpet is good 90% of the time, the rest of it there’s a weird disconnect, and that like, first person scene when escaping the cave is terrible. So yeah, all my criticisms are at the 3D side of thing, since it’s pretty primitive stuff.
Although, I think the cave still works, at least, he didn’t make me cry a little inside last time I watched it.
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I think it will take longer for me to care about it than it took for Aladdin. Then again, now that I think about it, Aladdin is almost as old as I am…
You may be right, and that makes me frown.
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Haha! That’s crazy, I remember seeing Aladdin in cinema with my mum and sister. 😀 Old man D.C….
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I think you mean “Babby Blaghs.”
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Aladdin is pretty good, but I’m pretty sure without Robin Williams and the Genie, nobody would care anywhere near as much about it. Amazing songs though, probably among the best Disney have ever put out
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Aladdin and the Lion King back to back are unarguably the peak of Disney’s traditional animated films.
And ParaNorman! Say something nice about him, he’s feeling left out and deserves it ^_^
Both such good films though!
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Spoilers for anyone who hasn’t watched it (which you totally should)
It was a great movie. I liked the idea behind the curse, how it was never really about doing anything to the town, moreso about really punishing the judge and the witnesses. Courtney Mitch and Alvin were a bit eh to me, but I did like it at the end were Mitch tells Courtney about his boyfriend. That was very well done. Neil was a great character though, very funny.Pretty incredible animation. Hard to believe it was all done with models. And the facial expressions were amazing
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Got crazy serious at the end. Haha. Mrs Freeze and I were talking after the movie and noted how the audience went dead quiet for the last half hour. 😀
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@scree re: MKR
(Which means no @strange allowed)
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About time. Hope they get those smug smirks wiped off their faces.
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You should have heard Mum. Feel like having a celebration.
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I just watched yesterday’s episode.
So glad Ashlee and Sophia didn’t get the people’s choice like they expected to. I’m a bit mad at the other three teams who didn’t want to cook Asian and just let them boss them around though. Stand up for yourselves, people!
I do wonder though how much is staged. Surely Ashlee and Sophia couldn’t really be such horrible people?!
Tofu’s super mini story time
Morning TAYbies, to combat the slight funk that my room has due to the paint being old as balls, I went out and got one of those automated air freshener dealies … it’s doing the job, but I keep forgetting that I’ve got it and every 20 minutes or so it goes of and I freak out because it sounds like a cat hissing. I’ve fallen out of my chair twice … my housemates found out and haven’t shut up about it
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Haha! Freeze has one of those things on his shelf of gaming collectables. I was admiring them and then was sprayed in the face. True story. 😛
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A place I worked in had one of those just around head height next to the urinals and it would scare the crap out of me, standing there minding my own business when …….. HISSING FLORAL FACIAL SPRAY, then I’d walk around smelling like cheap woman’s perfume for the day.
@dc I imagine if I posted on a year old TAY, you would still find the comment and upvote it haha
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I have a plan one day, to stalk D.C. and upvote everything he says, regardless of content.
Then he’ll know how it feels.
Edit: I’m also kind of tempted to do a “talk like D.C. day.” But there’s so much more to it than the reminiscing, self-deprecating humour, and penchant for adding “Haha” on to the end of statements where he’s worried that the person might take it seriously…
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Rain Man-esque stalking/filing. Posting in old pages of TAY. Colobus monkeys! There’s so much more to imitating @dc than what’s on the surface. Haha!
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You forgot about constantly editing his comments.
Or was the editing of your comment a commentary on DC”s constant editing.
We will never know will we Mr. Subversive?
or should I say
SUB-BLAGH-SIVE
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So apparently my Telstra cable is finally working. Sort of. I tried to activate the modem and activation failed. But then it works anyway. Strange (hi @strange!).
It may have been working all weekend. I just needed to connect it to the one socket in the house I hadn’t tried connecting it to because it was in a crazy place. Turns out that’s the one that works. 🙁
Still have to ring Telstra and complain about the fact they sent me two modems (and presumably charged me for two account setups & modems). Bet they’ll cancel the account that works. 😐
Also looks like a visit from an electrician (luckily my landlord here is an electrician so this will be easy) to get the cables swapped around or something and run some cat 6 so I can have a wired connection. Currently using a USB wifi dongle. Blergh.
Bioshock Infinite
Protecting this core is doing my head in. It’s so weak and Songbird rarely seems to be available 🙁
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Yeah, that and the Lady Comstock fights were my least favourite parts of the game. I used possession to get the people on deck to take each other out. Stupid tower defence. -
These are my tips for the fight: http://staging.kotaku.com.au/2013/03/talk-amongst-yourselves-217/comment-page-24/#comment-1123474
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Just watched the Californication season 6 finale. Right in the feels. When I go online, people seem to be complaining “oh where did the boobs go? Wish they’d stop hiring women who won’t get naked on screen” and it upsets me. For me, the show was always a pretty sophisticated look at love and relationships, and much stronger storytelling when no one is naked.
I don’t think anyone else here has ever identified themselves as a fan of this show, so I’m going to widen the topic under discussion.
A show or movie that you like, but that you think other people completely misinterpret or miss the point of?
My answers:
Californication
Sons of Anarchy (@virus__ we have discussed this one before, I think)
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I’m not sure if it’s misintepreted, but a show that’s definitely dismissed really quick is Treme…
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The Venture Bros.
That show has one of the most intricate and deepest mythos in all television ever and is insanely smartly written. Definitely have to watch it all in order.
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Jurassic Park: The GameAnything niche that people don’t want to give a chance for whatever reason.
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I don’t know if this fits but Girls.
It’s a really smart show with great writing and themes, Sometimes though people over-analyse everything about it.
I wouldn’t say it’s missing the point of but just too much analysis.
Maybe @sughly can explain it better 🙂
P.S.
Just adding this since it’s a TV topic but people should watch Enlightened, great show. It has this really weird feel-I can’t explain myself tonight- especially season 1.
What! I just found out it was cancelled after 2 seasons. 🙁
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Not so much misinterpret, but my parents were completely baffled when they watched The Matrix. They had no idea what was going on. Maybe its a generational thing, but it wasn’t that hard to understand… was it?
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Not sure about miss the point or misinterpret, but Gilmore Girls is a guilty pleasure and nobody I know seems to understand why on earth I would watch it.
I watch it because it’s a kind of fantasy world. The great relationship between parent and child, the cute little town they live in, the rich grandparents.
Then of course there’s the pop culture references to bands and books etc – they even had one of my favourite musos, Grand Lee Phillips play the part of the town troubadour.All that, and the Mum is pretty hot too 😛-
Yeah that show was way smarter than a lot of people gave it credit for. I’ve never understood why so many people thought of it as a “guilty” pleasure though. No need to feel guilty,it was awesome. 😀
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Yeah, it really was awesome 🙂
Edit; Not really sure why I think of it as a guilty pleasure. Perhaps because I’m a grown man and we’re not ‘supposed’ to watch these shows?
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You have a point there. I guess it really was thought of as a “for girls” show which would explain why boys/men find it to be a “guilty” pleasure rather than just a pleasure.
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One of my top five shows of all time. Incredibly rich and clever dialogue and subtext.
My brother won’t give it a chance because it’s not a man’s show.
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My brother gave it a chance because his wife made him 😛
That’s also why I have access to the whole series on DVD. 🙂Sister in law FTW 😀
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FLCL
my friends are like “it was random and only 6 episodes long wtf”
and i’m like
no
edit: i could go in depth on my analysis of FLCL, but a TL;DR version is basically it’s a story about growing up
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FLCL’s not random, but you do need to be willing to dig a little to figure it out.
Another one that goes even deeper into the seemingly weird and random like that was Melody of Oblivion. Dig in and it’s actually a heavily symbolic exploration of what it means to grow up and become an adult in Japanese society.
I think that anime does random and clever symbolism really well. There’s a lot you can do with an already abstract medium like animation which you can’t do in other media. Plus there’s been multiple commercially successful anime productions that have pulled it off, where in western animation due to the general idea that ‘cartoons are for kids’ that sort of thing is relegated to a much more arthouse niche.
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I can think of a few games like that (DARK SOULS! Resonance Of Fate) but not really any shows or movies off the top of my head.
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Just thought of a show,
Workaholics
First impressions of that show scream frat boy humour and it is far from it. A hilarious show that’s well written and just generally fun.
Can’t wait for the next season.
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Yeah people really get the wrong impression of SOA, sucks but oh well. I also think a lot of people misinterpret Dexter as well.
I stopped watching Californication after season 3 sounds like it’s gotten better tbh.
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I stopped partway through season 3, and then by chance caught the season 4 premiere on TV, and it was really quite good. Stuck with it and season 4 was as good as season 1 in the end. Still going strong now. (And I still haven’t seen all of season 3 :P)
Edit: yes, Dexter is another good example.
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huh. Post credits scene. So the Booker that refused to get baptised still existed but the Comstock that resulted from the baptism never did exist so never took Anna? Which means Elizabeth never existed, only Anna?I think?
My head hurts.
Too many gosh darned realities to keep track of-
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No, not a dream. Dreams exist. None of it ever even existed in the first place. I mean it did but then it didn’t. Comstock was never “born”. Nothing happened dream or not. Technically Booker wouldn’t even have any knowledge of any of it.Also are you reading spoilers for a game you haven’t finished?
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Major BioShock Infinite ending spoilers…
The ending couldn’t exist if it wasn’t for the events that led up to it. It wasn’t for nothing… -
The while thing has left me feeling pensive and weird. Rare thing indeed for a game to affect me so.
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I’m reading spoilers for a game I might play one day so far in the future that I won’t remember them. And even if I do, game spoilers don’t really bother me. I guess I’m weird like that.
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One by one their seats were empty.
One by one, they went away.
Now the family is parted.
Will it be complete one day?
Will the circle be unbroken?
By and by, by and by.
Is a better home awaiting,
In the sky… in the sky?
I may or may not have listened to 3 versions of this song on repeat for the last 4 hours…
Grimm has had some lame episodes but the latest one was up there with the lamest. As soon as I saw it was about a game I knew it would be bad. I was hopeful for a second when they had a female lead dev on the game but she was a bimbo who didn’t write her own code and slept with half her team. So awful.
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That reminds me I need to catch up with that show. It had a lot of miss episodes last time I watched so I stopped for a while. Also the face only CG which is endearing at first gets boring every few episodes so I stop but I always return.
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I got halfway through the first episode before I couldn’t take it anymore and have never looked back.
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The first half of the first season was terrible but then it got really really good for a while.
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@markserrels and @harli were both on Good Game tonight. Interesting look at the last three decades of gaming.
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The Oar has been lost.
Some say that Hugo keeps it as a back-up in case Clubby should ever fail him, others say that Pixel dropped it over the side in the 2012 Sydney to Hobart viking-boat race.
Personally I think that @mythamphetamine used it as a torch to fend off the masses and defend the generator. 😛-
I was told that @rocketman had it/lost it 😛
I’ve only heard tell of the legend. I dare say I shall never live to witness its greatness in person, regardless of my valiant efforts to defend generators.
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I have my suspicions that Rocketman lost it…
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A good episode. Still considering but think I need to side with bajo on this and say 90 was the greatest
GOD DAMN MINECRAFT! So many shiny things found in the cave. Got lost. So many spawn things killed. Ultimately, shiny things taken by spider spawn :'(
Whole night wasted. Siiiiiigh.
Staying home tomorrow – have picked up my son’s cold. Regardless, I suppose I should get some sleep. Now have a nice long list of a bunch of new shows I will probably never check out, no matter how interested I might be in them!
Edit: oh no, a goodnight page get. Man!
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DUDE!
I ALSO HAVE A COLD
i did not get it from my son though, because if i did, then that would be weird, because i don’t have a son…
well at least i don’t think i have a son…
Was about to go to bed when I got an email from PlayAsia telling me that Radiant Historia was finally back in stock. $45 later, but still a damn sight cheaper than I’ve seen it anywhere else.
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OoooOooohh.
No, no. I won’t. I just bought Persona 3 last night and there’s Guacamelee this month and Muramasa soon and Dragons Crown and ARRRGH! Fire Emblem! Pokemon in October! So much handheld GLORY!!!
Without going into spoilers, I’m almost getting a headache trying to keep track of Bioshock Infinite!!!!! But at least now the title makes sense 😉
Finding Nemo sequel announced; It’s about Dory, and is titled ‘Finding Dory.’
Blah Blah Blah Pixar is horrible because sequels blah blah blah It’s going to be a good movie nonetheless and better than Cars 2 but what isn’t better than Cars 2
Still a bit weirded out that David Hayter won’t doing Snake for the next MGS. I mean, the dude practically is Metal Gear Solid in the West. In many cases I’d buy the ‘needs a freshen up’ with regards to casting, but not for such an iconic character, I don’t think.
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I want to believe it’s another Kojima trick. I know it’s almost certainly not, but I feel better about it if I keep holding on to that hope.
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Unless they’re casting Kurt Russell as Snake/Big Boss/”V”/Whoever the main character REALLY is, I’ve lost interest in MGS5.
I even signed an online petition to bring back Hayter.
AN ONLINE PETITION!
here’s the link 😛
https://www.change.org/petitions/kojima-productions-bring-back-david-hayter-as-the-voice-actor-for-snake-in-mgs-v-
I’d probably play it if he was voiced by Kurt Russell.
Or Gilbert Gottfried. Either one, I’m not picky.
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I’d actually almost forgive the lack of Hayter if it was replaced with Kurt Russell using his Plisken voice.
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A voice actor? Dood, I feel you, but there’s no way I’m missing out on the glory of a Kojima production over a voice actor.
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You’re probably right. Kojima has earned an awful lot of trust here, so I’m sure whatever the plan is it’ll be fine. It just feels a bit odd at the moment.
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I’m not keen on the idea, especially since oldmate’s available and the Japanese actor hasn’t changed. But there is no way I would skip out on it for that piddling reason.
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I think they went about it in a shit way. I think Kojima himself is overrated and what he brings to Metal Gear Solid is usually “a mess”. I get that he was innovative back when Metal Gear was first released and even with MGS, but these days it seems to be more of the same with minor enhancements. And the stories are pretty cringe-worthy. There are a few things that make MGS great, and to me one of them is David Hayter. Some voice actors I don’t care about, and replacing them wouldn’t bother me. This one does, and the lack of a reason and how they went about it makes it worse. I’ll happily skip the game at release with no Hayter. If it turns out the main character, referred to as “V” in the trailer turns out not to be Big Boss (which seems likely) I might pick it up on the cheap. Hayter has done a lot for Metal Gear solid over the years, not JUST voicing Snake, and so far Konami/Kojima are being dicks, or at least, appear to be. I think there’s more to this that will become clear in time.
/ENDRANT
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A mess? Ok.
I have a lot of fun with all the games, gameplay, story etc. The replay value is usually great.
The first time through I may be a little uncmfortable. I’ll get over it fairly quickly I imagine.I guess I just rate the entire series higher than you gameplaywise? Dunno.
Just, I mean, end of the day, the voice acting adds up to a much smaller percent as to why I enjoy my time with the games.
Having played through those free Metal Gear games (extras in MGS3) I realised that Kojima wasn’t innovating quite as much as we all thought back in the PSone days, the way the story was presented and some ideas, sure. But the main game mechanics were the same as the last Metal Gear only in a 3D environment instead of 2D…and I wasn’t bothered. Really he’s just been refining and adjusting what he came up with because of limitations way back when making MG1 on MSX.🙂
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Morning TAY — I finished season 2 of Game of Thrones last night.
I’m glad I got it on blu-ray, the quality of the show is incredible.
Just depressing that one of the greatest compositions of the series, “Mother of Dragons” is left unheard until the last 10 minutes of the last episode of season 2. — But it was worth the wait.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61-WS5nm_kc (Sounds incredible on a loud set of speakers)
Now Season 3 has started, I’ll either need to wait till it’s out on Blu-ray or be a filthy pirate and watch it online, because I can’t really justify the cost of an Austar/Foxtel sub for one show…
▬ I guess Game of Thrones appreciation time?
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I don’t feel even remotely bad for pirating the show, because the moment a season comes out on BD, I purchase it. Did it with S1 and S2, will do the same for S3.
I don’t watch enough TV to justify a payTV service, and I think there should be other ways of watching our favorite shows. For example I was buying Walking Dead episodes off PSN when they came out for a while there. They came out about a day after the states, and only cost about $4 each, which I think is fair.
They’ll discourage piracy when they make the shows easier to obtain in a timely fashion for a reasonable price. Until then, it’ll get pirated to buggery. There’s a reason Australia is so high on the GoT pirating charts. It’s because we get shafted on just about all media types in this country. If it’s not delayed, it’s overly expensive or some BS exclusive.
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I’m the same (Although I haven’t picked up season 2 yet).
I’d like to be able to pay for the show instead of pirating, but I won’t pay for a download. Needs to be a tangible, hard copy that I can hold in my hands in order for me to fork over cash. Maybe I’m just old.
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I most definitely need the hard copy in my hands as well. Which is why I end up with the seasons on BD, it’s the best possible version I can get. The only reason I tolerate downloads is because it means I can watch it until it comes out on hard copy.
The hard copy is always my final goal though. I’ve been in transition from DVD to BD for about a year and a half now, gradually culling out all my DVDs and getting BD versions where possible.
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I could really get behind a system where I pre-order the Blu-ray box set but that gives me the capacity to stream new episodes as they are released via the HBO website or some other streaming service via my TV or Xbox.
That way they get their money, I get my discs, and I don’t have to wait 3-5 months to see what happens.
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True. It does seem like the most reasonable thing they’ve done yet.
I think it’s Australia only as well, because we’re all such dirty pirates.
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I felt season one just couldn’t give quite the same info dump a book could, so the same stuff happens but less details are given.
Also, they seem to like Littlefinger more on the show and the hooker doesn’t exist in the book(I think there are some similar scenes or the same message is given in other ways using multiple hookers)2 seemed to deviate more, even excluding important characters that I hope will show up later but also have an affect on some character motivations.
(PHEW, spoiler free!)
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I haven’t read the books but my understanding is that even in episode 1 of s3 they have shifted things around and introduced some characters early that didn’t show up until nearly the end of the third book.
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Really? I didn’t notice…
Even so, whatever they did in season one was less different than season 2 imho.
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Yo, lots of gaming over easter.
Summaries to follow.
1. Finished Eternal Sonata.
Minor to mid level ending spoiler:
The ending is a fairly long in engine cut scene. However, one part I’d like to mention is as follows: Shortly after defeating the final boss you are treated to a scene that lasts in my estimation at least ten minutes. During that time, main characters from the game come out in procession, and against the background of a black screen face the camera and speak to the player directly. They then, one after the other, lectured me about how I live my life, suggesting (amongst other things) that I am not sufficiently motivated and am too apathetic towards the world’s problems
Truely a bizarre experience.
PS don’t not click the spoiler just because you haven’t played/ finished the game now. Ask yourself “Am I really ever going to finsih that game? Really??” If the honest answer is no, then click the damn spoiler!
Also, there is two parts during the end cutscene, one more significant bonus bit post credits, that aren’t subbed, so if you are playing with Japanese language track enabled then your guess is as good as mine what they were talking about.
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I finished it because I did enjoy it a lot
Major spoilers
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I enjoyed it quite a lot and am glad I stuck with it (because it did get a bit grindy during the mid portion of the game). I loved the final act though because I was dropping massive harmony chains and felt like a boss.
I don’t get the ending at all though. Part of my likes that it was obtuse becuase it feels consistent with the rest of the game.
Ours is not to quetsion why, eh @scree?
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Wheres the fun in that??
ITT @scree and @ash try to work out WTF Eternal Sonata ending means:
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GET OUT.
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I will. Enjoy your boring games *walks out the door*
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I have gotten to the point that I agree with you and @powalen: Xenoblade is the best JRPG this generation.
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I say that all the time for two main reasons:
– Xenoblade is damn good
– There’s not much competition😛
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Not much competition? PFAH!
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There really isn’t though. Nier, Tales of Vesperia, Valkyria Chronicles. Stretching a bit you could probably bring in Graces, Lost Odyssey, Resonance of Fate, maybe The Last Story. If you expand further to stuff that released during the same window but on portables and on last-gen systems you get Persona 4 and some PSP & maybe DS stuff (eg Radiant Historia, some of the Trails games)
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That’s a fairly long list there.
“Stretching” I totally disagree with. And of course I include handheld games, just because they don’t match up timewise? No. Dragon Quest IX is this gen’s best.Say what you want, think what you will but I love that game.
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Morning all! Soon daylight savings ends and all of the east-coasters will be on the same time schedule again. Hooray! I really like daylight savings though… 😛
In other news, I played the Fire Emblem demo again last night in Hard mode. Boy-o-boy am I rusty 😛 The first map was easy enough but I got demolished in the second map because I kept making silly mistakes (it doesn’t help that I was trying out all of the new features at the same time not knowing what they would do 😛 ‘Paired Up’ my healer and couldn’t find a chance to unpair her for the rest of the mission…). Anyway, only 17 more days to go until release! 😀
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Wow really? When I get sick of MH I can FE! Might as well not play the demo then because it’ll just make me want the game more 😛
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When I get sick of MH I can FE!
There is a very big flaw in this plan … You need to actually get sick of playing MHU.
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My sister has claimed the TV for most of this week (She bought Rune Factory on PS3).
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Oh! I forgot I bought that too 😛
Should probably play it one day…
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Too soon! I’m drowning in handheld games now!
I was gonna day one this but now…I dunno.
I still want it, the only reason I’d day one it now is so I don’t miss any free DLC.
I prolly wouldn’t get around to playing it for a while…
This is a shock, so much JRPG goodness recently, I am drowning in it, DROWNING! (in a good way)
So I’m looking to purchase a new headset. I want something I can use with the PS3 as well as PC etc. Any one have any suggestions?
2. Finished Snow’s DLC in FF13-2 “Perpetual battlefield”
Kinda tricky until you know how. I’ll admit I needed some hints from online to workout some specific mechanics of this fight. However, once he is ‘defeated’ (quotation marks used, because really it’s a friendly fight afterall):
Instead of accepting Serah’s offer to come with her and Noel (which he can’t due to magic restraints anywaay), he says ‘nah I’m gonna stick around and hangout with these guys…”
So, instead of choosing to party in the Coliseum with:
http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20111029135429/finalfantasy/images/c/c6/FFXIII-Lightning_CG.png
or
http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120309012104/finalfantasy/images/d/d5/Jihl_Nabaat_XIII-2_Battle_Render.png
he chooses:
http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120405221060/finalfantasy/images/1/1c/Ultros_XIII-2.png
and
http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120405220709/finalfantasy/images/1/15/XIII-2_Typhon.png
WTF is wrong with that guy???
So, being the last thing for me to accomplish in the game, and with 85 hours on the game clock, I uninstalled FF13-2, probably never to be played again.
Bring on Lightning Returns!
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Requiem of the Goddess is mandatory imo
Other than that, I only got the ‘story’ DLC (i.e. Sazh’s and Snow’s), although Snow’s is really just a Coliseum battle, so not much story there.
I love the battle system in FF13-2, it is so much fun for me. However, the characters and their stories is what motivated me to play, so i didn’t see the point in paying for Caliseum battle DLC. (I did buy some costumes though 😛 )
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I know people said ‘Oh its BS that the ‘end‘ of FF13-2 is DLC’, but really there is nothing wrong with walking away after finishing the main game IMO BUT if you want a bit of extra story before LR:FF13 then you will find that in her DLC.
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I didn’t grab it because I was under the impression that that dlc wasn’t the end anyway. 😛
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WII U MONSTER HUNTERSSSS
@rize @sernobulus @ynefel @thecracks @hindenlagen @mawt @shiggyninty @blaghman @bdkiaf
Can you do me a favour and check your in-game play time compared to the Wii U’s activity log time?
Just wondering if anyone’s else is really different, last time I checked it was something like 95 in-game but 77 through the activity log. I like knowing how long I spent 😛
Also we should totes play more <3 (NEVER UPSWING BLAGHMAN)
I assume Freeze is selling it? 🙁
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Or 77?! I don’t knowwwww
I did skip BioShock, LEGO and WeeGees and been on something like a 11 day break
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You clearly have far too much MH time.
I only just beat the Great Jaggi on the weekend. Bowgun is rad, beat it while only taking a couple of hits.
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Nice! Game is just getting started once you start hunting proper monsters 😀
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I figured that was the case. Even so, I was still enjoying myself before the Great Jaggi, so I’d say I’ll be okay.
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The game is STILL opening up for me. There’s still new monsters at my point and Rize, Plat and I just took on the flagship monster of the game (it’s in the intro movie) last night and got our asses kicked 😛
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Give me about 90 hours of play and I’ll be able to assist 😛
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Most of that was from singleplayer (village), multiplayer/online (port) is a lot quicker. I think Rize only has like 20 hours but we’re basically at the same point in multiplayer.
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I get sent flying from players more often than I do monsters. I’m tempted to go back to lance just so I can auto-block you 😛
EDIT: Do you play on 3DS too? That may explain the discrepancy?
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Nope! Although at one stage it was pretty close and I think the activity had it higher…
Plat’s the one who send erryone flying 😛
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Just a Wii U, but I don’t think the patch has come out for the game which allows you to do that.
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I think you also need some Wii cable to get it to work too which is stupid, something like it doesn’t run if your Wii U is connected to the internet through wireless?
Some people were complaining about it
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lol, my WiiU playtime is probably about an hour or two. Up to about 25 hours on the 3DS though. Just rescued Kayamba/killed Duramboros and have 2 quests left on 5 star. (guessing more 5 stars will unlock though, it’s less than a page worth)
Currently trying to build many different types of LS, so sitting back and doing some farming for now too. I always try and have one of almost every dmg type in my inventory eventually. Makes life inifinitely easier in the long run.
Last time I checked I was at 35 hours. So I’m probably at about 45 now.
Only 3-4 hours of that would have occurred on the Wii-U, most of it is on 3DS.
Mine will have a huge discrepancy, as I play often on the 3DS. Unfortunately, I may not be able to get online in the next fortnight. I’m moving house, so packing, tidying and whatnot. There might be a period where I have no access to the net. Thank god for the 3DS version! Keep inviting me though, I may be able to sneak on for a hunt or two.
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Done!
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Wait…. who’s this guy?
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I feel like I just offered up a prayer to the gods 😛
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3. Tried to play my compilation
of Outland, From Dust and Beyond Good and Evil
but… you can’t install games on compliation disks apparently 🙁
Why is this a problem? Because I have a X360 Elite, which sound slike a Jumbo Jet when it is spinning the disk drive. Seriously I played the first 2 levels of From Dust but had to stop because it was just too noisy.
So yeah, I’ll throw this out there: Any TAYbies with a X360slim who wants a copy fo the above mentioned games whihc have only been played for 10 minutes, let me know 🙂
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I have a shitload of comics…which I guess you don’t want since you just gave me a boxfull…
Urrrm, I guess I have some games I don’t want too. Prolly dunno, errrrr.
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Dude I’ll just send it to you. Atleast then someone can play the damn thing.
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Mwahahahah just wait until I come to collect 😉
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From Dust FTW! I spent so much time on the last level just building and destroying stuff, Loved that game, just wish they expanded on the concept.
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Yeah sounds great. Stupid that you can’t install – so dumb!
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4. Started Last Odyssey
I can see why some people say it is the true Final Fantasy of this generation. I spent 2.5 hours in the first town alone.
Totally got wiped by the first mini boss though, despite not fleeing from any battles etc leading up to it… so i guess a bit of grind is in order.
The play session was like having and awesome entree and main and a restreaunt, but then getting served a burnt desert 🙁
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The first boss is like the hardest in the
game because you HAVE to grind to stand a chance.It was my favourite JRPG this generation before Xenoblade :-). LO feels very classic and like the FF that never was.
And those short stories :’)
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The short stories elevate the game above others for me. They’re not only well written/translated but the use of the music and hazy pics is amazeballs.
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You don’t need to grind, you just need to have linked to the right character for the right abilities. But yeah, that boss battle is most people’s least favourite bit of the whole game.
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Problem I have is that monster is doing more damage in one hit that what my heals heal, if that makes sense. So even if it turns into a battle of attrition I loose 🙁
Oh BTW I kinda suck at games, so maybe someone good wouldn’t have to grind, but its time for me to get my grind on!
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how I handled that boss
have Seth & Kaim in the front row, have them guard every turn to minimize damage to Jensen in the back. Have Jensen spam fire bombs / flame spells. if anyone gets low on health, have Seth heal em (shes got slightly higher magic than Kaim, so heals more effeicently).if you’re around level 10-11 you should get through that well enough.
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Oh well, there you go. I was just having Seth and Kaim attack with Jensen healing, and tried a few permutations of that, with no luck.
My level is as you say so i guess I haven’t quite mastered the gaurd mechanic. Kinda feels like you loose a turn by using it atm so I might be missing somehting.
I need a break before I hit Nier again so I might try your strat in Last Odyssey tonight 🙂
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Not trying to sound like a dick…
I don’t ever remember having to use guard in that battle or many others…
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I used it a fair bit. at least until I got elemental rings for the physical attackers & they became better at exploiting elemental weaknesses.
mainly used it when physical attacks were less effective than magic ones & needed to keep the casters alive.
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guard in LO I found to be really important.
coz its the HP of the front line that determines how much defense the back line has.
eg if the front line has 100% health, the back line will only take 10% damage when attacked, but if the front line take damage & therefore reduce their GC, then the damage taken by the back line rises.took me a while to get my head around that & how to effectively use it in strategy.
generally, my tactics for the early to mid-game were tojust put the characters with high HP in the front, casters in the back.
if an enemy is weak to magic, then have the front line guard & heal while your casters do their thing.
if the enemy is weak to physical attacks / has elemental resists, then have your back line heal while the front line attack.its when they mix it up it gets tricky. :p
Edit: spelling.
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Xenoblade? Pfffft HA HA HAH! As if that MMo wannbe is better than a turn-based from the Gooch! *tee hee* :p
Dood, I love this game!
I don’t remember having to grind even though that boss was a killer…I think new tactics?
It just keeps getting easier though until the DLC boss which has a very specific way to be beaten (Like one set of moves which I may have been missing or something, it was dumb I gave up, my save file is lost)
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YES! Games have been scientifcally proven to be 9.5x more fun if you have soemone to talk to about them 🙂
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360, I told you about it and Blue Dragon many moons ago, along with Mass Effect.
You could borrow them off me…if only you had a 360.
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if only nothing, I will never own a microsoft console. I’ll play PC games, but microsoft have no business in the console industry. *shakes fist* ruining Rare… 🙁
*maybe I’d get one if they made Blast Corps 2…… maybe
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I think Rare were on the way out anyway really, they certainly were never as good as Perfect Dark.
From what I can tell, most staff had already gone on to other things (Time Splitters) and M$ was the straw that broke the camel’s back.There’s a fair few games exclusive to 360 that are amazing.
Also, for a while LIVE was the better choice for online console gaming, really, everyone else is doing it better now in answer to M$s earlier efforts (remeber how well PS2 online went).If I were you, I’d let go of the fanboyism and just enjoy some good games.
If I didn’t give up on 64 back in the day, I never would have played FF7, Soul Reaver, Vagrant Story, Resident Evil 2, Parasite Eve…..
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that coupled with the fact that in the early days of DLC xbox were paying companies ridiculous ammounts of money to keep dlc exclusive to xbox for a time, they just really got under my skin. You have no business making consoles 😛
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They still do it. I just wait.
I wait for the disk version in most cases anyway.
Still haven’t touched Skyrim.
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I’d be keener on Killer Instict 2.
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Little Bugger, I’ve got 2 german shepherd pups who kept getting out, one of them actually climbed about 2 meters up a tree once and jumped over the fence, our yard looks like a concentration camp because of all the fencing and wire, have had to rebuild the fence about 4 times, now it’s so sturdy I can’t get past it. They can be persistant. I guess that’s what i get for naming my pup Kratos, as no chains can hold him.
p.s he broke a choke chain yesterday, i thought i’d try one to see if i could get him walking better, i never wanted to use one but he’s crazy, but he broke it so back to the Halti
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The halti’s are better anyway. it’s better then the choke chain. trust me. One of the dogs at the dog park is a weimaraner. The owner used a choke chain but it did nothing. She changed to a halti and now it’s a hell of a lot easier to walk the puppy. (it’s huge though)
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yeah, I really wanted to try anything but a choke chain, I had this weird collar that would only tighten up so much so it never choked him, but he pulled really bad, switched to a lupi, they’re no good, was like rope cutting into his legs/chest, didn’t like it at all, halti seems the best though & walking him separate to the other one helps a lot, they play up for eachother.
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Have you tried a head harness?
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no? are they different to a Halti? I have been making progress with the Halti, and walking them seperately shows me that he knows exactly how I want him to behave (he is almost perfect alone, he heels, stops at roads and sits without me telling him to), just shows me he doesn’t think i’m boss I reckon & he’s showing off for his girlfriend.
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oh right a halti is a head harness. I used a gentle leader for Sid
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So we had a couple of friends over last night – and after playing a couple rounds of The Club (which was terrible!) we decided it might be funny to try Demons Souls.
Now that game has been sitting in my pile of shame for a while, so i thought it would be fun to play pass the controller with a game that would rape us.
We chose a hunter and were on our way.
First things first – holy crap we were completely lost!! Neither of us had ANY idea as to where we were going and got raped a couple of times.
Mannn i think i need to go back ans start it again by myself… looks like it could be an interesting game.
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That’s pretty much how it is. You get lost and are completely oblivious as to what to do. At least for me
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So it turns out that trying to update my resume using a different program than the one I made it in results largely in broken formatting and sadface. Looks like I’ll have to acquire MS Word on this computer before I can really get this done. Bugger. That was my grand plan for the day, to get that done.
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Use Microsoft Office Web Apps. Just upload the doc to skydrive.live.com, open it and edit it from there. That’s what I’ve been doing recently because I’m too lazy to install office 😛
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5. Got ending B in Nier
… then went and got ending C too.
Explored the options sufficently at the end of the 3rd palythrough to undertsand what Ending D will require of me. I’m super freaked out. Nier people know what I’m getting at.
Man I’m seriously considering going for 100 % on this game. Has to be one of my fav of this generation.
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Watch it online! I don’t like the idea of it 😛
No, I will see it through to the bitter end.
Basically when i was first presented with the option, I tried to sacrifice myself to save Kaine, but it said ‘are you sure becuase choosing this will do the bad thing‘so I was like omg no and backed right out of that and just put the poor girl out of her misery insteadPS @greenius you ar elike the best perosn on the internet because you have played everything so ther eis no game that I can’t talk to you about 😀
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Ugh, Bragius
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you’re alright. I reckon you just have more free time! :p
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I love you for doing that. I went all the way and got all the endings. So satisfying. Amazing game.
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No I don’t cos my save got lost and I still haven’t re-restarted from the very beginning. I did purchase the DLC though…which I aont played.
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Yeah, I know I know. I heard about that. That would be fine had I actually earnt it. Instead my treesiddy died and I cried but then I got a new one.
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DAMN YOU PILE OF SHAME!!!
I hear so many people say how great this game is, but i’m still yet to try it.
How long do you need to spend on each play through?-
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What? Ok
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That’s a spoiler?
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I knew before it happened to me and it didn’t negate from the experience any. Just trying to help out Chuloopa’s Pile Predicament.
I hid it just in case…but I don’t understand this one (I’m normally a spoiler anti)
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The first playthrough is regular game-sized, and the subsequent ones are much shorter. Once I finished it the first time I’d seen all the endings by a few days after that. But you are doing yourself a great disservice if you finish it once and don’t at least play it through one more time.
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My game clock is at 28 hrs and I have got 3 endings.
I raced through for ending B and C.
I’m going to seriously take my time with D though. To savour the story one last time and also do some side work to get certain achievments.
There is a secret achievemnt for finishing the game within 15 hours, so seems like I’ll have one final race through after all.
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Ni No Kuni, still plodding my way through, doing all the side quests as I go.
Spoiler tags are too fiddly on my phone, so as far as my progression goes, I have Travel now.
Now I have the soundtrack stuck in my head. Mostly the over world music.
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I approve! Reading about everyone’s love for games, now its my turn! Love me some Ni no 😀 Ummm… thats all I wanted to say.
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So after getting an unexpected $300 bill in the mail yesterday (from my daughter’s Public school WTF!? ) I’ve come to the realisation that I won’t be able to buy Bioshock Infinite any time soon. Which means my chances of surviving unspoilered until I can buy it are slim to none. 😛
So I was wondering if someone who has it on a console would like to lend it to me when they’re finished with it? I’m willing to pay for the posting of it to me. I could also lend something in return, I have a lot of games here. Hey,whatever happened to Shane’s TAYLend thingy?
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I considered it but being a new release game and only having an hour or so each day to play,it would be more expensive than buying the game itself. 😛
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It… disappeared or something. I didn’t think there was a whole lot of interest, tbh. Only one person besides me put a list of games up! 😛
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UNEXPECTED $300 BILLION IN THE MAIL OMGOMGMGOGMOMGOMG!!!!!
I genuinely read it like that at first… how is that even possible? As for BioShock I’m not getting it for a while too so STAY STRONG and we can avoid the spoilers!
Persona 4 Golden update
I just got all the clues and am going to save the man/lady detective. I would have preffered she and punker to have been a gay couple but whatevs…
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Naoto X Kanji is fine.
It’s already manly man who likes “girly” things and young girl who wants to be a boy.-
Yeah I get that, and Im down with it. But there isn’t enough representing goin on for homosexuals (maybe I’m playing the wrong game?)
I thought that’s what they were going for, that he was a secret gay but after I heard Noata speak I was all, waaaaitaminute, and now this experiment? Yeah, I see.But, not a real complaint, this is the best game I’ve played in years, makes me wonder how I totally missed Persona for so long.
I think I saw 3 on the shelves back in the PS2 days…maybe. I used to pick up random JRPGs back then too, like Star Ocean 3. Who knows.-
Agree.
It’s a missed opportunity, but still not altogether bad. Kanji still gets nosebleeds on the school camp, and he seems at least curious about his attraction to Naoto before her identity is revealed. I’d say it’s still more progressive than anything BioWare has done.-
Ha ha! Yes! This, so much.
Everyone always talks about how engaged they are with their Shepard, I love ME but I never cared that much.
This game I am so emotionally involved with, I couldn’t two-time Chie because it felt like the wrong thing to do.
I laugh harder than I have for any game or movie or comic that I have enjoyed for a looong time.
I can’t believe a translation has been done so well. Not just reinterprting what they originally said but how well they tweaked it for a western audience.Such a good game.
All the Persona related shit is good too, I really enjoy those lessons that discuss Nietzche and friends.
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Chie would probably break your kneecaps and then make you treat her to steak every day for a month.
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Much like my real life wife. 🙂
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I applied for a new apprenticeship to be a electrician.
Also spending lots of time sitting watching terrible TV my solution to this is to do weights faiirly often. This is countered by the fact that im prone to bored eating.
my ebook reader broke too so i cant read.
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I guess they did but i havent any actual books to read.
and going into bookshops i cant remember what i wanted to read, too many choices.-
Really? That’s all part of the fun, or accidently coming across a book from a favourite author you didn’t know existed. (the book not the author)
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its more of a paralyzed by choice situation.
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Man.. i am the worst for bored-eating.
Bee is at me all the time for it.. it’s so hard to shake, though – especially since most of the time you don’t even notice it.-
I notice that i do it because i actively try and stop myself. The worst is when im just watching tv and want to do something while im watching something i have seen before.
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http://staging.kotaku.com.au/2013/04/talk-amongst-yourselves-218/comment-page-5/#comment-1128309
link back to my post further up the page that just got approved (too many links).
Um, nothign that special but you know, now everyone knows exactly what went down with my easter gaming!
Morning. That’s all I’ve got.
I’ve got BioShock Infinite on PC too, Strange. Otherwise I’d totally lend it to you. :'(
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Both!
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This 101 80’s hits cd is the best thing that’s happened to me. Even better, the first song is ‘Call Me’ by Blondie. #callmeisbestblondie
edit: I’ll make a copy just for you @dc XD
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It was kind of a rhetorical question, but I guess you’ve got me there.
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Houdini — Foster the People. Masha and I were talking about the SSX OST last night and this has been stuck in my head ever since. The song makes me feel like snow boarding. 😀
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I’m not mocking you, D.C.. I’m simply upvoting posts from a stellar and upstanding member of the community(no sarcasm there, no, seriously, stop adding sarcasm to things). How is it my fault that you’re a wonderful person?
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DAMMIT Glahmang!
Stop being sarcastic!
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You looked further into them? Theyre a decent band! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReJ5p458DoY
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Houdini’s the only song I know and I suspect I like it so much from hours and hours of skiing down mountains. 😀 Otherwise far too happy for my liking. Haha!
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This song also was engrained in my head during the game. 😀 I suspect you’d like the OST.
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Ahhhh yep, I freaking love this song 😀
Except that its a wonky remix of sorts. Original is better. Wait what is this… every video I click has the same version. Why’s it all different to the album, this is messing with my brain :'(
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Maybe it’s like About Today from the Warrior OST. Different mix on OST than the EP.
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Yeah seems like it. Went back and got the cd out just to make sure I wasnt going crazy 😀
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One of the songs that immediately makes me think of SSX 🙂
SSX 3 also had a great soundtrack too.
In fact most of the EA sports games I’ve played have been great for discovering music.
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Haha! See @strange, I dont just listen to pretty and depressing – I also listen to pretty and happy! Sometimes. Rarely.
Digital Sea – Thrice
Very much associated with water, good listening for a rainy day like this. Also very peaceful. I am Zen Pants.
Jenny Biddle – Sweet Tooth
Jenny Biddle is a indie musician located in Melbourne. Some of her stuff has a teensy bit of a country/folksy vibe to it but it’s still pretty nice – and I generally HATE country. You should give her a try and if you like what you hear consider buying her latest album, Hero in Me.
/friend plug
Missy Elliott ft. Ms. Jade & Ludacris – Gossip Folks
Man, what happened to Missy Elliot? She was great.
Haven’t heard much talk of LEGO City Undercover in here. Nobody really playing it? (I know Pow and Shiggy are at least!)
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My sister bought it for her Wii U while I was playing BioShock. Looked fun enough when I saw her play. Not sure that ’70s cop parody feel is for me, though. (Wasn’t a fan of Lego Indy and Star Wars either.)
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Sooo true. Lego games have always felt really clunky to me too, despite me really wanting to give them a go.
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I always thought 2p co-op was fun cos you can fuck around and fuck up as much as you want and it wont matter, perfect for co-op with a younger loved one 😉 *wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiink*
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Minecraft is the best for that that I’ve found. Last time he was here we played a solid day of it, which I’ve never been able to do with any game with him, lest one of us get bored of it before then.
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Kewl, Does that do split screen on 360?
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@jimu – yep!
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I wasn’t really a fan of the previous Lego games aswell, but Undercover is great. So many funny moments and I’m only on something like chapter 4.
I haven’t even seen most of the movies the game is parodying (is that even a word? It doesn’t sound right :P) and it’s still the funniest game.
It’s the best LEGO game I’ve played!
I’m playing it any chance I get! Although my sister bought rune factory on the PS3 so she has had full control of the TV for this week.
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Surprisingly no 😛 But I’m sure that will change once I know what day I’m going…
EDIT: It costs $31 to see it at IMAX and they only have two sessions per day! D:
This is brilliant and, to me, applies massively to Spec Ops: The Line
http://oglaf.com/abyss/1/
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Considering this is OGLAF, I’d guess this is more than likely nsfw. Not a chance I’d go to that site at work.
Edit: This comic is reasonably okay, contains swears and man butt.
DO NOT BROWSE THE ARCHIVES AT WORK!
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Boobies and penars and buttsex.
Best comic ever.
Almost makes up for the fact that this is apparently an alternative to Trudy Cooper ever finishing Platinum Grit. 🙁
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Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh Platinum Grit *bows head*
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That comic is SFW but it’s probably not a site you want in your browser history if you’re at work.
Edit: Well, it has foul language and slight man butt.
I need to play spec ops the line.
Not because of this comic though. Because of what everyone has said about it.
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it’s $36 on PSN easter egg sale atm, but it’s bundled with Duke Nukem Forever, why, why oh why would you bundle a decent game with a shile of pit game. DNF made me have sad face. I beat it in 2 sittings and then thought “I wish i didn’t waste my time” I even bought the special edition, was too fanboyish about it, didn’t care that everyone said it’d be bad. I loved the first 2 levels then the rest was filler, bad, bad, filler
when you got to fight the last boss from duke nukem 3d as the first fight I thought, this is going to be amazeballs, expecting some kinda epic final fight, but….. same boss new arena, whaaaaa? -
@shane: Amanda Tapping will be at Melbourne Oz Comic Con, you should get one of the TAYbies to take over her booth and then meet her and then geek out about Stargate’s early seasons! 😀
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Maybe… 😛
I’m actually not excited about meeting celebs. I’d be more tempted to get an absentee pack, even if I’m there. At my first con, I got the staff to get my autographs for me 😛
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Yeah, I’ve never really been a fan of meeting celebrities either. If it’s Joss Whedon or someone, I might change my mind. Would prefer meeting writers to actors anyways.
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What did it say?! I hate when I leave TAY unattended and I come back to all these edited DC posts. I didn’t even get a chance to call him a doofus! D:
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Nooo you shouldnt feel bad. Blaghs obviously had no ill intention, but I get where you were coming from too.
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Well now I’m just curious.
You can’t offend me, D.C., after all the crap I’ve put up with over my years, you would need to get into my deepest darkest history to have even a chance of putting me off. This is one thing that I can guarantee you should never worry about.
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*throws food*
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work annoyance #537363
hmm…. boss asks my colleague to look into what sort of camera would be good to get for the library. he says to me ‘i dont know much about cameras, so could you do it?’ ok. fine. spend an hour or so looking & comparing & come up with a decent pick.
boss comes back, says ok. colleague disagrees & comes up with all these specs he thinks it needs.
motherfucker, if you’re gonna just complain about what I pick, do it your-goddamn-self.
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I have way too many. I usually haven’t finished the previous year’s by the time Easter comes around again. 😛
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They’re all cheap now. Mr. Strange impulse-bought some last night at the supermarket because they were being sold off supercheap.
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I’m tryign to ‘get fit’ so i got all the easter eggs mum bought me (she goes nuts) and brought them into work and gave them away. Now ppl here think im great, and dont even relaise that it is regifting because you know no body could amass that much chocolate my accident.
I can’t go to the markets to buy pretzels because my daughter needs me to take her to play volleyball with her friends. I feel weird taking a bus on a Wednesday in the opposite direction of the city.
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Hmm. I’d always assumed, based on just hearing its name, that Treme was a show about a Trireme that wasn’t very good at spelling.
I am rather disappointed.
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Treme’s one of the oldest suburbs in New Orleans! The show’s set post Hurricane Katrina — rebuilding, finding happiness and pressing on in the face of struggle. Jazz music too. Haha!
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OHHHHH, that’s Treme. Yeah, thats the show written by the Wire writer, David Simon. I meant to watch that before now and forgot! Sooo, yeah. Well, fyi, watch the Wire then I guess. Probably will like it.
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Red loved The Wire and didn’t like this so, here’s hoping you like Treme too. Haha. One of the slowest burn dramas you’ll ever find. Takes a long time for any thing to happen. Really huge cast of characters too that it interweaves between. Sometimes it can be frustrating when you’re really interested in one arc and they keep cutting away from it. 😀
Also there’s this one girl who plays the violin that I like a whole lot. Haha!
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To be fair though, The Wire does the same. I’ve never seen a slower slow burn than season 2 of The Wire, but the payoff at the end is incredible.
And apparently Koreans and Italian-Americans make good babies.
Also that whole deal with huge cast of characters, interweaving between? Exactly like The Wire.
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Oh man, The Wire only restarted on Foxtel about three weeks ago. *shakes fist*
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Also from time-to-time you see landmarks from Gabriel Knight! When Jackson Square was in an episode I might’ve looked for a mime. 😀
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Bumping this because poor ol @doc_what got neglected and I’m sure someone has an answer…
So I’m looking to purchase a new headset. I want something I can use with the PS3 as well as PC etc. Any one have any suggestions?
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I have the Turtle Beach XP500’s which I use in both. Not high high end but still sound a hell of a lot better than standard TV and PC speakers. Wireless always wins for me as well. Overall I’m happy with them.
Of course Sennheiser RS220’s are the definite way to go 😛
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dear @doc_what,
my ‘not turtle beach’ suggestion wasnt very constructive, so to make up for this, try Sennheiser U320bit pricey, but they’ll do the job.
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The F was Fire Emblem.
I was returning monster hunter on Wii U to EB (I bought it again during the 20% off JB were doing on Friday). I had planned to exchange MH for either Weegee or Fire Emblem pre order. They were sold out of Weegee. 🙁
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It’s a lot of fun, really enjoying it so far. Only problem is, it only gets a run when Monstar Huntar gets pried out of my 3DS, which is incredibly rare.
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Having not played it, how would I ever know if I hatted fun or not?
I think it actually has a fair bit to do with the steady stream of quality JRPGs recently. I just don’t have time.
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MEK TIEM!
Take a break from the JRPG’s, and in all seriousness, it’s a fun little game. Actually it’s not even that little, there’s a fair bit in there.
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Nooope, I already bought the JRPGs. There’s no way I would stop having fun and playing games I already own and go out and buy a new one.
In time I may pick it up cheap in a sale or pre-owned.
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Narrow minded Jimu.
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Eh?
I own a turd load of Ninty games. This is a penny pinching situation.
(I even play those goddam FPS that I hated so much last gen these days)
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You hats differing opinions 0_0
Hey guys.
Went to the Salvation Army Employment Plus mob today, was expecting it to be an interview, but was really just filling out forms and given some tips when applying for and chasing jobs.
Also the day started out great (texts with Kat always make for a good day!) and has gotten even better. I don’t feel as stressed as I have the past week. Things are finally looking up for me it seems. which is nice given what the past 4-5 months have been like.
Also purchased a new printer so hoping that doesn’t cause stress. I only walked into Dick Smith to buy blank DVD’s walk out with a brand new printer and set of inks for a bargain price.. Dad & I had been looking for a new printer and this HP seemed to tick all the boxes we were after, relatively cheap ink replacements, 250 pages of B&W text, 350 if colour is included, wifi, few other things & my uncle kept recommending it since he has the model before it.
Downside to today, my right leg is aching really bad around the calf muscle D= I have no idea what I did to annoy it though..
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What printer did you buy exactly. I’m struggling to work out what printer to buy Mrs, so copying you woudl be easiest.
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HP Deskjet 3520, 99 bucks at Dicksmith, we got 3 colour cartridges and a black thrown in for a discounted rate as well, over all seemed like a good deal. It’s also one of the only printers that come with a USB cable now, if you need one.
I Just set it up and it’s rather easy, just gotta install software for the damn wifi though which is lame.
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Sounds like your calf is being a cow.
Ha.
Haha.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA…..Ha…Haa…HaaaaaaaOk.. i’ll leave
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So there’s this guy I’m friends with on FB (I don’t really like him, but he always sorta looked up to me in high school), and he spent $3000 and waited 5 months to get a full Batman suit just so he could run around Launceston pretending to be Batman and takes photos of himself in Kmart :l
What a massive waste of money.
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Nooooo! Maybe if he was actually into cosplay and that, but plenty of other people pretend to be Batman just for kicks without spending 3 grand on it!!
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You think that’s a waste of money? This one guy spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on his Batman outfit so he could run around getting in punch-ons with criminals.
Fucking Bruce Wayne.
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The most important thing in life is to be yourself.
Unless you can be Batman. Always be Batman.Sounds like he took that saying too far.
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I have never understood this saying. Aside from having money, there’s not a lot about Batman’s life that I’d want for myself. His tortured soul and frequent beatdowns, not to mention a massive rogue’s gallery of total psychos who will go to almost any length to see him dead.
Also, it’s a weird costume, even on a good day.
#JokeRuined
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Because you’re BATMAN
What part of this aren’t you getting?
Seriously, it’s basically childhood wish fulfillment. Being Batman means being proactive, empowered, and always on the side of right.
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I disagree entirely.
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You could pay a hooker to dress up as your fave Waifu and do nasty things with you in the kitchen for that much cash.
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I was actually watching Good Game ^_^
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This. I’m doing it in Visionaire Studio now, which is an easy enough switch from Adventure Game Studio, made purely for more porting (PC, Mac, and most likely Android and iOS) at higher resolutions. Switching to something like Unity is not really feasible.
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My copy of Hyrule Historia finally turned up today! Yay! It’s a lot bigger than I thought, despite the fact that I have already seen it in store a few times. Weird.
I also watched the first episode of The Americans (@dc).
Seems like a pretty cool guy, and I really like its soundtrack. Only problem is that I have problems staying focussed for an hour…
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I keep wanting to post about how the Japanese version of Hyrule Historia is so much smaller but couldn’t think of a way to do it without the innuendo 😛
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Just an FYI, I discovered Gametraders in Tuggeranong has a bunch of copies. I think they were $45?
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i know fully understand why monster hunter is so popular.
played it with my friend yesterday and had some of the most fun i’ve had in a game for a while.
we ended up taking on a Lagiacrus, which at my level is pretty far off, and although my friend had beaten it solo before, it’s still a difficult boss (and it’s harder in multiplayer).
it took us a while, and we were just about to beat it, we had no more lives left and then my friends ds runs out of batteries…
so it’s just me and this super powered boss. but somehow, through sheer will and determination, i beat this thing (it only had about 30 more hits until it died).
me and my friend literally started yelling we were so happy, he didn’t even care that he wouldn’t get any credit. We still did it together.
so yeah, monster hunter with friends is awesome, and we may have convinced more friends to get it as well, so hopefully four player will happen.
oh and we have decided Wednesday is monster hunter day.
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The level of satisfaction and accomplishment to be had in Monster Hunter is second to none. The only that even comes close are the Souls games.
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I think I’m so unforgiving of it because I got it on the Wii U. I probably should have gone for the 3DS version. The fact that it controls and feels completely like a portable game is throwing me because it just does not work on a console. It it’s frustrating me to no end.
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MH definitely works much better as a portable game, hence why 4 will be a 3DS exclusive (until they release a new version of it on vita or something which is likely to happen).
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I’m loving it on the Wii U but it doesn’t need to be on the Wii U at all.
All it’s doing is making me wish it was on the Vita…
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MH multi is way better than Dark Souls.
EDIT: I meant “…than Dark Souls’ multi”, but from my perspective it is better than the whole game.
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Greenius ruins Rize’s experiences in both! 😛
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THE WORST.
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I want to do local soooo bad, but none of those lame “real life” friends like it 🙁
Good thing I have online though and it’s so fun!
There was a massive boss battle I was doing solo in the offline Village quests and I quite literally beat the quests with a few seconds to spare because as I dealt the final blow, it the timer hit the limit. BEST FEELING! It’s also great when you finally kill something and get all the parts you need to upgrade/forge 😀
@ash
I have already *ahem* aquired P4 Anime. I will watch as soon as I’m done with the game.
Rise? PFAH! Chie all the way!
(you really need this game in your life, you will be able TO DATE RISE!!!!) #waifu
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the anime was good, the only problem i felt about is was you could see they had a bit of difficulty with having the main character talking.
even though he’s the main character, he still doesn’t seem as well developed of a character as the rest (which makes sense since it’s based on a game where relationships with other characters are important).
my only hope is that they fix that problem in the persona 3 movie, and give the character a bit more personality. However i’m not saying that the main character in P4’s anime doesn’t have a personality, it’s just he seems a little… off to me…
Edit: also Yukiko is best #waifu
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HA HA! Riiiiight.
You don’t read American Super Hero comics then I take it? -
i dabble, but yeah, sometimes they do make me angry…
i just didn’t wanna watch something set in a world i really enjoyed that doesn’t really matter.
if that shit was cannon i’d watch it in a heartbeat
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Wait…so you want non-canon?
In SH comics, everything matters to the point where you sometimes can’t understand why characters are doing a thing…until it suddenly doesn’t, so disregard 30 years of continuity.
And then they do these alternate Universe stories that are sometimes better than the main universe and you wish it mattered.
Anyway, after years of that shit, I just take what I can get. So if there’s a cool new story out about some chracters I love, I’ll take it, canon or no 🙂
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sorry if i was unclear
i want canon, the idea of something not actually existing (in a universe that doesn’t exist…) just makes me feel apathetic towards it.
it’s as if i am wasting my time watching/reading it if it doesn’t matter.
it’s also why i hate filler arcs in anime.
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@grandmasterb-funk
Firstly: Screw your hard to type username 😀
Secondly:
I never really presume animations of things I like are canon, if they are, nice suprise.Filler anything is the worst.
(2nd episode in both seasons of Sherlock UGH!)
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These pretzels ARE MAKING ME THIRSTY!
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I wonder why the sky is blue?
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I am so hungry for a hotdog right now
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ww should move this discussion to email. Also, lets edit out our above comments.
You and @jimu just pulled the biggest @dc edits ever
WHAT DID THESE SAY BEFOREEEE
They said [redacted]
That was a stupid side story, not a proper adaption. It was really really boring.
Persona 3 *is* getting an actual adaption later this year though, as a film.
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Oh yeah, will check it out and decide for myself after completing P3 😀
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To be honest, I’m a little dissapointed P4 anime is an adaptation, I played the game, why would I need to watch it?
I’ll check it out.
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You mean dating?
I thought you could carry stuff over to new game plus…or is that only P3…or am I mistaken entirely?-
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I’m melting, I’M MELTIIIIIIIIING!!!
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And I’m pretty sure S.Links don’t carry over, just stuff like which Personas you’ve unlocked.
And I know you want to go in blind but keep multiple save files!
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I’ve had no luck with the punker. I have no idea where he even hangs out.
I only have one save file.
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And Adachi, he’s always busy >:-(
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I always kept at least 2 or more saves and whenever I saved I rotated between them. I think I have like 7 😛
Just whenever you get an ending don’t overwrite your original save and save in a new file because they come out of nowhere and will take you forever to reach again.
By punker do you mean Kanji? He’s in that Prac Building level 1 or outside the textile shop on non-school days
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Yeah, everytime I’ve seen him he wasn’t up for socialisin’
I see him rarely. Most days I do a full run about everywhere to see who’s available. I was keen on doing as much as poss. I’ve had no luck with him
Rise has been on the team for a shorter time and I’m already past halfway!
She’s gotten further than headphone neck because I hardly see him either, but at least I do see him. -
Oh yeah! I forgot but there’s something you have to do with him first before you can trigger it. I was in the same boat, waiting for him to open up.
You have to talk to some normal looking students and they’ll talk about bullying which will trigger some events. I can’t remember which ones so just talk to everyone when it isn’t raining.
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@greenius I just talked with everyone in school when it wasn’t raining TWICE, trying to get clues on man/womanface
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I think I’ve seen him once in each location, the school and the market I visit often
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Just saying, maybe you might want to use some spoiler tags (also @jimu, @ash). Some of the characters don’t become available to develop until a fair way into the game and you guys are potentially spoiling the surprise.
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@ash is talking about the anime, he hasn’t played the game.
I will endevour to unspoilerise in future.
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Oh. That’s okay then I guess.
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You already outer yourself re Chie :p
Poor Yukiko, her aura of perfection makes her unapproachable, so she gets no love from guys like us.
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Chie is just more attractive.
I like Yuki more than Rise, Rise gets all in my face with obviuos come-ons. Not keen.-
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I am a hipster, if you show too much interest I’m not interested. If you show too little, I am not interested. 😛
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@jimu, I’m totally indifferent to you.
^^ does that get your juices flowing?
PS now I get your Chie love – it’s the badges isn’t it?
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1. The Jacket
2. The kung Fu
3. Meat eating
4. Not TOO girly
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I got low self esteem so I need a girl like Rize who will pump me up.
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@ash She does have the best haircut 🙂
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@rize is a girl?
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Oh and I also played blind but looked up FAQs after I got the ending because I had no idea there would be more (it’s pretty much impossible to go further without knowing how, it’s so hidden)
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Yeah, once I saw an ending I’d do the same I imagine.
I’ll remember to keep the old save then.
Dark Souls \o/
Cleared out Anor Londo of its treasures. About to take on Ornstein and Smough. Think I’ll try them solo with pyromancy. Should be fun.
Edit: page-get proves its superiority over other games.
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Been there done that. Want to clear it quickly-ish this time. It took six hours of trying and a 45 minute battle last time 😛
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I thought you never got past Anor Londo?
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Yeah man. I beat them last time, and then had to stop almost immediately after that!
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There’s a punchy monster in Monster Hunter!
He’s hard… :/
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I need to get back into playing that, it’s been about a week. I took a few steps into Sen’s Fortress and thought ‘nope.’ Also, I have heard…things…about O & S. So, looking forward to that later. D:
Actually that reminds me – I need a new sword. The Drake Sword seems pretty much useless now because it doesn’t scale. Any recommendations?
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I like the normal stuff like Long/Broad but there’s probably better stuff out there.
You could just go for the Lightning Spear inside Sen’s!
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Well, I have been playing all wrong then 😛
It’s the best weapon I have v Silver Knights
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Well, your first option is to upgrade the Drake Sword a coupla times, at it does scale through that.
I chose to get the Lightning Spear in Sen’s, which is an easy way to get a highly upgraded weapon, it’s +5(I think) now, and is doing me pretty well(not that I really know where I’m up to).
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I would probably not upgrade the drake sword, it costs Dragon Scales which are fairly hard to get (unless you are going to do multiple runs) and a lot of weapons will easily out damage it when reinforced/enchanted just a little.
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It’s not that hard to farm the drakes in their little valley, but yeah, I would tend to agree that upgrading it isn’t really worth it.
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Top of the Lake! Just watched episode four, it’s really compelling. One of the best mysteries I’ve seen in ages. So much atmosphere. Lots of suspects with different motives.
Edit: Only three eps left. :'(
Well I just spent the past 2 hours looking for a retail disc of the first Bioshock.
Seems like its not going to happen.
Why the hell did I trade all my games? Younger me was an idiot.
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Isn’t it included with Infinite? Or is it one of those “needs the disc to play” installations?
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It is? I more want the case sitting on my shelf next to the others. It’s an empty spot that’s annoying me. I REALLY wish you could buy the Mass Effect Trilogy separately for that reason as well. Why can’t I have 1 in a box?
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It is. I’ve repurchased a lot if games I traded in in the early days purely because I got ones later in the series. Also wifey got me MGS4 again after I got the HD collection because I was pissing and moaning about it but it was the Platinum version and part of my brain breaks everytime I see it.
Poor girl meant well and I can’t buy it again because ill probably hurt her feelings.
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🙁 The BioShock I see at JB are the platinum ones too, alas.
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I remember @jimu wanting the slip case edition SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO badly
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eBay!
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I know that feel. I had Curse of Monkey in its original box, but I think it ended up with my brother. Somewhere along the line I bought a bunch of boxed games, and it was amongst them, but its the ‘Lucasarts classics’ version. Makes me sad everytime I see it on the shelf :'(
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Haha, I’ve got the same LucasArts Classics version and I bought a second copy too which is just this purple DVD case with small box art on it. :'(
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My pokemon FireRed is a reissue…I pretend it isn’t.
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Techincally most of my LucasArts games came in the Adventure Archive collections, which make ’em basically reissues any ways. (Got a few like Sam & Max, Full Throttle and Grim in original boxes though.)
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Nothing is as bad as a platinum though.
They squeeze the front cover art into a tinyer box slap some cheap silver ink around the outside and often remove all the art from the disk!
I fucking love a good piece of artwork on my artwork.@dc @sughly @freezespreston
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Me too, Jimu. Me too. :'(
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Platinum’s were created by someone that hates joy and happiness.
That Batman quote about some men wanting to watch the world burn was originally about that guy.
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@freezespreston
I hear he also invented the po-up ads…
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Most of my PSone collection
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I can sympathize with this, one of the most irritating things in my collection used to be that I had US copies of Xenosaga I and III but the PAL LE release of Xenosaga II – we never got I or III here, only the shitty middle game. The gaps used to drive me nuts.
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That was wack…almost as bad as us getting Parasite Eve 2…at least that stood up on it’s own though.
I’m pretty sure it was, I remember reading about it and I planned to get it on PS3 so I could have and play through all 3 (back then I only had BioShock 2 on PS3 but now I have 1 and 2 on PC and want to get Infinite on it)
But I get what you mean about the case thing, I’m the same :(, does that mean you’re not open to getting that collection with 1 and 2?
Wehave two copies of Bioshock as it was before we moved in together. Do you want one? It’s a metal tin version.
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o_O really?
I’m more than happy to buy one off you guys if you didn’t want both.
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We’re trying to streamline ourcollection and get rid of the doubles so you’d be doing us a favour. Pretend it’s a birthday present.
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I could also swap you a non-platinum version for your platinum version of MGS4 if it means that much to you.
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I wouldn’t wish that on anyone 😛
It’s really a non issue. Just me whining mostly.
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STOP KILLING ME WITH YOUR KINDNESSES!
Doesn’t ozgameshop sell 1&2 on one disc on PS3 fairly cheap?
Or are you after it singley?
EDIT: OUT OF STOCK 🙁
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i know right, one of my friends bought Bioshock from them for like $20, i thought he was lying, but then i found it in my local Crazy Clarks and thought, what’s wrong with them, are they defective
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I think my second DVD drive has bitten the dust 🙁 it doesn’t wish to read disks now =/ I know it was burning them with errors the other week. Blah. Which is kind of an inconvenience at the moment since I require use of both of them D=
I suddenly have a bad case of the wanties
http://www.amazon.com/Stephen-Talking-Voco-Alarm-Clock/dp/B004GBGDVE/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top
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Ohhhh haha, I didnt upvote earlier because I thought the link said Stephen Hawking alarm clock, and I was all errr no thanks.
I would totally get one too! Except it might make me hate Stephen Fry. Which would be a terrible thing.
Woo, finally getting my air conditioner fixed!
Only took a bunch of emails, a letter of complaint, and a notification of intention to take to the tenancy tribunal over a period of 4 months!
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My air con broke in September. I decided to stop running every day until I got it fixed. I haven’t ran since September. 😛
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Yes, now that it’s fixed I can admit it! I broke your air conditioner, it was me! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
MY EVIL PLAN IS COMING TO FRUITION!
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I bought a new ‘top baffle plate’ for our combustion heater yesterday becuase the existing one had a hole burnt through it :S
It was expensive and heavy, kinda like the wood that fuels the damn thing 🙁
Okay, so I keep getting this Trend Micro ad, to the right, and it tells me to mouse over to find out who Jenny, the twelve year old really is.
Aside from the fact that this makes me feel like a paedophile, I’m slightly worried about the picture it brings up. It says that Diesel is 57. He looks more on par with my late-seventies Grandfather. What has he been doing to himself all these years to look like that? Drugs age you, but christ, I’m surprised he can man a keyboard, let alone be coherent enough to pretend to be a 12 year old. With his drug addled body he probably wouldn’t even be able to kidnap a child, he’d probably break his hip in a strong wind.
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I think I’m having a “Manic” day. I blame chocolate.
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I also remembered the perfect video for @dc. Man, you’ll just love this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bLhv-aQ5YY
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Haha! They’ve got red hair! 😀 That’s all I took from that video cause I stopped it when the chimps had the look of murder in their eyes.
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Oh yeah, there’s also this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1WBs74W4ik
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I really should stop. Also, a sensitivity warning should probably be applied to both of these videos. They’re fascinating, but yeah, om nom nom wildlife (Chimps are jerks).
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Gah! Just remembered I didn’t trade Bioshock in. Pretty sure I gave it to Jordi
I feel better knowing that. Thought I did something stupid with it for a bit.
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BioShock Infinite will be fine on the shelf by itself. If it was a numbered sequel it’d be weird, but there’s no indication that it’s even a sequel.
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I dislike the fact that I’ve done work this week. That isn’t how it’s meant to happen. I’m meant to be slacking off and watching Young Justice.
Admittedly, I have been watching Young Justice anyhow. Multitasking and all that.
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No more Young Justice :'(
Why does this keep happening to good shows? WHY?!?
Made the mistake of having a look at what is replacing it…
*shudder*
I am not sure I want to live on this planet anymore.-
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Ooooh wait, Space Hooker…does that have Justice in the title?
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There was a tie-in comic for the show using Earth 16 (the Earth for the show). The show really doesn’t match New 52, it’s a different continuity that tends to focus on people being reasonably new to the hero gig (Supes looks like he’s in his early 30s in the first season, Robin had been the Boy Wonder for about 4 years and whatnot).
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So like the new 52…
I just thought there might be a comic to fill the void.
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Edit: You’re right, I did forget to upvote you questioning Greenius on the “C.M.” title. It was a silly mistake on my part, particularly since I was almost as interested as you undoubtedly were as to its meaning.
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I’ve already told you, D.C., I’m not mocking you.
If you feel the need to interpret it that way, so be it, but understand that I do it mostly because I’m jealous of just how genuine a guy you seem to be. I can’t manage to be nice to everyone all the time, so it saddens me to see how easily it seems to come to you.
You have your own criteria through which you decide whether or not something someone posts is worthy of an upvote. I simply decided that for today, everything you posted deserves it, because you’re always so free to hand them out.
I don’t mock nice people, D.C., at least, not on purpose, but if you’re really offended by it, then I’m sorry. Not sorry enough to stop, because I already made a deal with myself for today, but sorry enough that I wish you could see just how good you are.
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This is all far too serious, so: No homo.
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I knew it, but I would recommend stopping it when he comes back 🙂
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Nah, I’m sorry man. I’ve overreacted.
Truth be told, I just kind of have low self-esteem and worry what people think of me, read between lines that ain’t there and all that. You guys shouldn’t have to worry about that crazy inside my ‘ol noggin and I’m sorry I projected it your way. Hope I didn’t make you feel bad.
I genuinely think you’re an awesome guy and I spent the entire time worrying that I offended you. Hope that’s not the case. I should’ve known better that there wasn’t any malice. Just had a feeling of anxiousness that increased with every post. Haha.
Thanks for the kind words too. 🙂
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Also, now I feel stupid wanting an upvote just to make sure we’re all good! XD
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I told you man, you can’t offend me.
I know you tend to read a little too much into things, so I probably should have been more considerate of all your feelings and junk, but instead I kept going, when it was pretty obvious that it was irking you. But that’s because I’m a jerk. 😛
Ask anyone here, they’ll agree with me in this matter.
And if they don’t, I’ll hit them, thus proving my point.
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@dc – the dude upswinged me with an axe in Monster Hunter!
Jerkghman
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You upvoted the mocking post? You truly are a monster! 😛
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This was not a decision taken lightly by the “Department of Blaghman” (Henceforth referred to simply as “Blaghman”). Situations as they were led to a lot of back and forth within the group, however we decided as a whole, that it was in the nation’s best interest, as it were, for “Blaghman” to show support in this case. Singling out examples, and saying that they can be excluded for this reason, or that, shows an internal inconsistency that “Blaghman” could not allow. Hindsight may prove us wrong in this regard, however at the time it truly seemed like the best course of action. Given the public reaction, we may hold a public forum to discuss the future of such actions, so we urge you to pay attention to the internet, in case you are able to attend such a function.
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Sweet, I’m umming and ahhing, do I really need a facecover?
That artcard would be nice though.
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Whoa wait, dlc missions? I didnt feel like I was missing out from the Wii one to this until you said that :'(
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Four new characters, four new sets of missions each.
Portability (work from home? rassumfrassum)
Better visuals
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It also has a dedicated jump button instead of pressing up. Massive gameplay difference as that was one of the only control issues it had.
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Oh wow, yeah that was a dick place to have jump. I remember now.
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And errr, controls are FULLY remappable 🙂
@sughly
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Better visuals would be a selling point for me. Does it really though? I mean, I dont actually know the vita output, but is it that much better than a 480 output from Wii? Genuinely asking
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I have no idea what it’s output is, but shit looks fuckinh nice&smooth.
Sonic Racing Transformed(which I remember you dont like but) looks really, really nice. I can’t see any major difference from the PS3 version.I was a little shocked by the clarity of the screen. Looks even better at night.
PSone titles look better too (I think that has a lot to do with shrinking an image designed for a 90s TV down to that size but there is also tweaking that can be done, I prefer to turn off smoothing and enjoy games in all their blocky glory)
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The Vita’s only 980 x 544, so it’s still noticeably sub-HD, but better than the Wii. Also has the advantage of (in theory) its rendering resolution being its screen’s resolution, so you don’t get all the artifacts of an upscaled image.
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My eyesight must be shot…I thought it was HD :-s
(Oh that’s right I wear glasses)
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The Vita’s screen is very pretty. It makes sprite-based games look amazing.
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@blaghman yeah this is more or less what I was thinking might make the difference, as in rendering to the screen res. I imagine with a game like this it would end up looking a lot more vibrant and sharper on the little vita screen. HNNNNGGGHH!!
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@Jimu
The screen of the Vita is really, really nice, which helps to disguise the resolution. As it stands, if you’re holding it about 35cm from your eyes you’re hitting the point where it could be considered a “retina” display (that’s at a rough guess, I can’t be bothered doing the maths), so the resolution doesn’t matter that much.
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@blaghman I guess I do kinda hold it about that far away, varies on position (Laying back on sofa, sitting in a chair)
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http://www.siliconera.com/2013/03/27/how-muramasa-rebirths-four-vita-only-dlc-characters-play/ better explanation.
The Nekomata and the Ninja both sound interesting to me. Not sure about the Farmer and the Oni.
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WAAAA! I want this :'(
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HEY HEY HEY! Mine included that link! >:-(
@sughly
If you do feel the need to indulge in a Vita, promise me you’ll sign up for an American account. (or buy Little big Planet off me) :p
I remember you asking on Saturday and I can’t remember if my drunken ramble was a good answer…
American because cheaper online games?
@jimu??
Snake?
SNAAAAAAAAAKE!!
@sughly
It’s alright, I had a one-up 😉
Yes, cheaper games in general plus DLC…and a wider range of games.
If you don’t care about Trophies then physical media is region free 🙂
@sughly: American account because they generally have better availability of portable stuff. Whole crapload of PSP games you can’t get on the PAL store, either because no one can be bothered, or because they just haven’t released them (eg Corpse Party).
Okay so i’m scared this printer was extremely easy to set up, including the wifi aspect of it, it also has email printing, which is awesome. So I can email jobs to it. It just works. This isn’t meant to be how printers are I swear! Either way I welcome this change.
Edit: it also does duplex printing as standard, this is amazing.
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Perhaps it’s a more insidious type of printer than the regular type.
Actually, here’s my printer fun fact: My previous housemate and I had a $40 laser printer. We worked out it would be more economical for us to buy a whole new printer each time than to buy ink for our existing laserjet.
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Haha, I think you or someone else has said that in TAY before. At least with this one it’s only about half or so to replace the inks which get 4x as long as the inks that come with the printer.
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Yeah, twas me.
It’s always the trick with printers though, unit might be cheap but the ink is $$$$
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Yeah, forget the printer they can screw you for you money! That was like the Epson we had previously 70 bucks for inks it was a 30 dollar printer or whatever. Piece of shit as well, 50 pages per set of inks or something..
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Cheap printers run on the Gillette model. You buy the razor / printer for cheap then pay more over its lifespan for the blades / ink.
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Sort of. We are pretending to be girls from Persona 4, and are trying to see if my Rize can seduce his Chie, or visa versa.
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Oh. Ah… cool…
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So I’ve started thinking a little bit about the place of “Swagger” in the development of a species, you’re going to have to bear with me here, this could get weird (spoiler tagged due to length).
I saw a Magpie yesterday, who had a horribly crippled leg(broken in multiple places). I was walking out and about, and saw it sitting under a tree, and at first I thought that it was glaring at me in that way that they do, but it sort of hopped towards me a little, and I noticed that its left leg was looking rather, well, mangled. Feeling rather sorry for it, I gave it some bread(white bread though, which is undoubtedly terrible for a Maggie), and walked off. I know it’s a pretty bad thing to do, but I really wasn’t sure of the best way to deal with an injured bird, particularly one as common as a Maggie.
Still, as it stands, if it manages to beg food off of people, it has the capacity to survive(it could probably still find other food to eat as well, I’m not too sure), but does it have the capacity to breed? Odds are, it’s still functioning where it counts, but it probably wouldn’t look all that great as a prospective partner, due to the crippled(probably soon to be “missing”) leg. This is fair enough, survival of the fittest, and so forth. The bird was stupid/unlucky enough to lose its leg, so it’s not “fit” enough to breed.
But then, we’re rolling off the idea that “evolution” only occurs through genetics(Or I guess, the “improval” of a species). Looking at animals in the wild, you can see that the smarter ones usually have behaviours that they are taught, and that have existed -and been refined- for generations. s it stands, Magpies are actually pretty smart. They’re not going to go cure cancer any time soon, but while they do seem to lack any advanced language, they’re the equivalent of a four year old(more or less) when it comes to analysis, memory, and that sort of thing. Magpies are even quite good at telling humans apart. So they’re not completely stupid.
Additionally, Maggies tend to breed as couples(sometimes. Umm, it’s complicated. They also sometimes exist as couples within a larger flock, or as groups with “co-operative breeders.” Yeah, it’s complex.), and will usually look after their young for a year, which gives them a lot of time to teach. So, if the Maggie I saw was injured by something stationary, or something that could be easily replicated, it would stand to reason that it would be advantageous to “the species” for it to survive, and breed, for it to pass on the knowledge of what injured it to its children, so that they could avoid it. As such, the bird would probably need to have immense amounts of swagger to pick up chicks(YYYYEEEEEEEAAAAAAHHHHHHH), making “being cool” a useful trait.
This whole thing falls out the window of course if said Maggie is part of a flock which it cares about, which would usually require it to be the uncle or aunt of potential chicks. But let’s pretend I didn’t say that. It could also be a bad idea, as if it ends up reliant on humans for food, and it teaches its chicks that, then you’ve got a whole host of other options. Oh, and the breeding thing is probably reliant on it being a male bird. I’m not sure exactly how Maggies choose mates, but like most animals they’re probably considerably less picky if they’re choosing a female.
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Swagger is a double-edged sword though!
While it can be useful in confusing the opponent, it also raises their attack! -
Comment #2:
You totally got outsmarted by that Magpie. It just got a free meal for pretending to have a broken leg!
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If it was pretending, then it did a freakin’ good job of it. That leg was at 170-odd degrees off of where it was supposed to be. :/
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I don’t think it’d work that way. Acquired behaviors like that aren’t genetic unless you’re playing Assassin’s Creed.
Also birds are very picky about mates. Just being able to survive by scavenging / begging food wouldn’t necessarily make the animal more attractive as a mate.
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“and will usually look after their young for a year, which gives them a lot of time to teach.”“for it to pass on the knowledge of what injured it to its children, so that they could avoid it.”
Also:
“it has the capacity to survive… but does it have the capacity to breed?”
“it probably wouldn’t look all that great as a prospective partner, due to the crippled(probably soon to be “missing”) leg.”
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Just realised… I have a pass to go to Dreamworld for free now and I’m at home like a sucker. Why am I not at Dreamworld right now..?
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Can those passes be used on school holidays?
Also work ethic! Anna’s Quest! Top of the Lake catch up! 😛
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Ahhh…. yeaaahh… work ethic…
*looks at after effects, realises I’ve updated about 20 assets to hi res in a days work*
Assets that were already completed and just needed to be imported :'(
I need motivation! Drugs! Someone give me drugs pls
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Ah, After Effects, that takes me back. That could be an impressive number though, if you don’t tell us otherwise. Haha!
Edit: Oh man, you told us otherwise in edits before I even posted. *shakes fist*
Edit 2: Also just checked, I think the annual passes can be used even on school holidays! 😀
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Encouraging my desire to go to theme parks instead of fulfilling my desire for drugs is not helping
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@dc is such a bad influence!
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Keeping my friends off drugs is a noble cause! 😛
Then again I do like adventure games and drugs might make him make one quicker…
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I wouldn’t recommend using them then though, given the crowds. The horrible, horrible, crowds.
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Woo, one copy sold! Better get back to it!
edit: Haha, that sounds horribly sarcastic XD Which it was. Just, not meant to be so horribly so.
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One copy UNSOLD!
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Oh… well… guess its back to lounging around on the internets then…
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I think it’ll be tough not to pick up and buy the game every time I see the box on shelf! 😀
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Just watched my first Walking Dead episode, just whatever was randomly on Foxtel — it was the season three finale. 😀
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You’re going to hate me for this, but I totally feel like this deserves an upvote, just for the fantastic level of, well, something, going on. I don’t know the right word.
My recommendation for the show is to watch the Pilot, and then imagine what potential the show would have had if it had ever been greenlit. Such a shame there’s only the pilot. Such. A. Shame.
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Haha! Sorry Blaghs. Yeah, I downloaded the entire first season in HD when it first aired because of the Frank Darabont connection. Decided it was only six or so episodes so I’d wait until it all aired. Then the controversial reviews started coming out. Then Darabont quit. :S
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I didnt even like the pilot. There is no hope for me, it seems.
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I think you might like the Telltale game. Maybe. We seem to have the same issue with Telltale and I liked it, for what it’s worth…
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Ah yeah, Doc gifted them to me on steam since he had them already. Just havent installed them yet :3
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Too much words, all you needed was:
“ADVENTURE GAME!”
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Sort of. 😛
Edit: I guess if I consider Heavy Rain an adventure, this is one too…
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Yeah fair enough, the ones the governor shot in the middle of the road were!Give it a proper watch dude.
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Season 3 spoilers:
Andrea always shat me off and I was happy to see her go. Character always bugged me. Came off like a silly little teenage girl that couldn’t figure what she wanted.
I love the walking dead! Remember when;
that guy killed that zombie
Oh and that other time when;
that other guy got eaten by zombies.
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I know, but I wanted to be watching that one instead. Haha.
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I think it’s great that the show and game are totally different. It means they can both be a let down totally separately! But eh, the only downside to The Walking Dead is part of Season 2. Otherwise it’s an alright drama show set in post apocalyptic Georgia. Though I reckon it should only be a 12 episode season not 16. But that’s my opinion. The story could be told in fewer episodes that is for sure, because 2-3 episodes in season 2 & 3 are certainty JUST filler, nothing more.
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But Daryl.
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Daryl is awesome, I agree. Not sure what you’re getting at otherwise, Scree 😛
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Alright drama show.
But Daryl. D= Is awesome.
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I lol’d at the first two sentences XD
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Well I haven’t played that show tie in they’re calling a game and I have no intention to =P
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@virus
It’s meant to be awful
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I noticed the Governor guy doesnt look Mexican or whatever he is in the comic. Actually he doesnt anything like him. Why is this! One of you, answer me.
Also this is what a friend of mine posted on facebook as their sole response to catching up on all of Walking Dead – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_O1hM-k3aUY
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Potential spoilers:
I agree. Latinos with eye patches are also far more intimidating than bitter skinny white boys with eye patches.-
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As do I. My comment wasn’t indicating I didn’t.
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Wouldn’t you if all your friends were dead, your mum was banging your dad’s partner from the police force & you don’t have any thing like TV, video games or even music to keep you amused 😛Carl isn’t too bad, in season 1, he is a little shit in 2 for the most part and 3 well he’s totally different for the good I reckon.
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@virus
Season finale spoilers
Except when he totally killed that 15-16 yer old that was trying to hand over his weapon. I understand his reasoning but he seems to really dislike that Rick brought back the frail and helpless fro woodberry
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Good work on capping me there Telstra. Especially since according to your website earlier I was 6gb off my cap for the month. At least it resets in 2 days I guess haha.
LAST GAME YOU WERE ‘ADDICTED’ TOO AND COULDN’T STOP PLAYING?:
Currently Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate for me and it was probably Borderlands 2 before it. While I like a lot of games I hardly find one that really ‘hooks’ me which I play for hours on end without realising it.
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Ni No Kuni or Tomb Raider. I loved BioShock Infinite, but wasn’t in the right mindset. Kept on playing in ten minute bursts and all that. Those other two games saw hours pass like crazy.
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I’m not sure whether games aren’t as good or I’m just not feeling it but I generally only play for like hour or so bursts :/
I did play Ni no Kuni a decent amount before it got annoying (:P) but I like to think 4 hours or so is my addicted range 😀
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I think The Walking Dead was November, but that’s one series I played non stop. I planned to play one a day, but that didn’t last. Also the Deponia games I played in day long sittings, that was December I think.
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You played TWD when it was all out didn’t you? I did one episode a day for the first four but the few day wait for the last one was terrible D:
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Yeah, Shane gifted me the episodes a week after the last ep came out I think. Was all kinds of generous!
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Prefer this! 😀
But love the Fairyground theme too 😀
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I love this! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjAAZkUTY7k
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Kind of gives me goosebumps at the 2min mark especially. 😀
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I can’t remember when this played but I liked the music in all those final few cutscenes 😀
The ones with the same melody as the overworld theme!
When did this play again? (spoilerise it) and what was that song you kept linking a few months ago which you always said was a Spoiler for the game? 😛
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Ni No Kuni major spoilers:
It was that song. It played when Oliver and his mother were briefly reunited after defeating Shadar. I realized the song doesn’t really spoil that, but I was worried the comments would. -
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@dc ewww not that terribad vocal dubbed rendition! (the Japanese one is okay though 🙂 )
The one I’m thinking of is an instrumental one played during those “flashback” scenes. I think it had piano? I really liked that one 😀
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Wait so playing 4+ hours in one go counts as being addicted to it?
Then it would be Xenoblade. I played 25 hours of it over Easter.
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That’s what I use to classify it as my “hooked” range. Mainly because I find it hard to play for more than 1-2 hour or so burst at a time so when a game gets me going for 4 hours in a row (which is rare) then I’ll consider myself hooked.
Minecraft! Still am right now! Before that, Ni no Kuni. Before that, Theatrhythm.
Think I’m around 90 hours on Ni no. Just got to finish that alchemy stuff, but going into spawn areas over and over to get the right familiar appear, then hope they drop the right drop, gets… tedious.
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Sameeee D:
But I’ve already finished everything on Ultimate… *sigh*
#Bragius
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Yeah well, well… I’ve only got a few to go! Only now I’m going to be terrible and wont be able to get them :'(
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I think I played around 80 something hours. Was great while it lasted and did most of the post-campaign stuff, but had no desire to get all the trophies and do stuff like that. Haha!
Would be Dark Souls
It didn’t last long but when I first ‘got the game’ I was always in a rush to get home to play more
WoW.
It terrifies me to think about how locked into that game I was now and so I hold back on everything else. Generally speaking when I play games I play in long, intense bursts lasting multiple hours so I’m already predisposed toward MMO addictions etc.
GAMES YOU’VE COMPLETED THIS YEAR?:
I know we’ve done this relatively recently, but have you added more to your list? 😀
— The Cave
— Zombi U
— Ni No Kuni
— To The Moon
— Tomb Raider
— BioShock Infinite
I think that’s it!
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It’s to defuse a tense situation, make the intimidation look less intimidating. 😛
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But I forgot what else I completed 😀
Probably:
– The Cave
– Okami HD
– Pokemon White 2
– Ni no Kuni
– Super Meat Boy
– Persona 4: Golden
– Super Hexagon
– Ridiculous Fishing
– Far Cry 3
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Ehhh… ahhh… this will be sad I know it…
– Ni no Kuni
– 999
– Picross E (for about the 5th time… it’s my bedtime game)
– Picross E2… thats it XD
I’ve started a lot more however!
– Primordia
– Chaos on Deponia
– Virtue’s Last Reward
– The Dark Eye – Chains of SatinavWhat do I win?
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I suppose the sooner you complete it, the longer the wait for Goodbye Deponia. (Especially since they all just seem to be a chapter of one long story.)
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They totally told me when that game would be finished too and now I’ve forgotten XD
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For some reason I assumed it was October, but I don’t think they’ve actually said any thing about release dates. Hopefully the German/English versions are released at the same time again!
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Yeah, the Eng of Deponia was a looooong time, but Chaos wasnt far off at all.
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If you want more proof @blaghman is a jerk he gifted me the first Deponia which forces me to buy the rest if I really like it >:(
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Chaos on Deponia is my favourite. (Though it took about an hour to warm to the sequel for some reason. Once I did, it was great.) Thought Rufus’ voice was off in the second one…
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I LOOOOVED 999, so I cant understand why I havent really started this properly yet. I literally watched the opening cutscene, saved, turned off. If its half as good as 999 I know it’ll be great.
Lessee here.
– Halo 4
– Dishonored
– Ni No Kuni
– DmC
– Super Mario Etc U
– Tomb Raider
– Naruto Shippuden Ultimate Useless Sakura Simulator: The Re-Sakura-ening; Ridiculously Long Name 3
One day:
– LEGO City
– DARK. SOULS.
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I haven’t gotten anywhere near that far, but:
I started playing it the other day, and I was like, I know, I’ll play one more fight, and then quit. I then had Naruto going up the Raikage and fighting him, then all the cutscenes there, and all the Sasuke fighting, and then more cutscenes, and more Sasuke fighting, and then even more cutscenes, then some more freaking fighting, and then finally I reached a save point(after another cutscene). And I don’t know whether it has auto saves as well or anything, so I was just stuck there, watching this all in disbelief. -
It will only get worse.
Once the war starts, there really isn’t any clear spot to stop and take a break. I tore through the second half of the game in one day because of that. It was both fun and annoying! Boss battles are good fun, though.
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Kojima.
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I’m really bad at remembering, so:
To the Moon.
Bioshock Infinite.
Tomb Raider.
The Cave.
Things that I’ve maybe finished this year, but it may have been last year:
Alan Wake’s American Nightmare
Little Inferno
Splinter Cell: Conviction
Probably some more.
Maybe.
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Pssst. BioShock Infinite! 😛
Edit: Wait a second. That was on the list. My illiteracy has been proven once and for all. See @greenius? See @shane? Who’s not illiterate now?
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Don’t worry, I’ve edited it, so now you can go back to your original comment, and nobody will be any wiser!
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I thought about covering my tracks and making it seem like I wanted to talk about it! 😀
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That’s the way I interpreted it after seeing that Jerkghman already said it but you’ve missed your chance 😛
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Haha, that’s crazy. I was hooked, then again if Dark Souls proved any thing we like games for different reasons. 😀
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It’s allowed.
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Yep thats it. Thats a list of every game I’ve completed this year. Its a pretty long list, I know you’re all jealous of my ability to beat so many games in such limited free time.
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So do I believe me. I should just take all my RDO’s from work in one hit, go home, lock the doors and just blitz through it in a week…. But that will never happen :'(
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Bu it’s only 1
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But one is more than none!
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Spec Ops: The line
Containment: The Zombie Puzzler
Space Marine
Overlord II
The Adventures of Shuggy
– Assassin’s Creed Revelations
– Assassin’s Creed 3
– Ys
– Ys II
– Tomb Raider
I feel like there was something else too.
I could probably finish Xenoblade this weekend but I’m grinding like crazy to do side stuff in it still.
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I think I beat it around 90 hours? Or was that level 90?
One or the other 😛
But I beat the game first before going back and clearing up side-quests and beat ‘everything’ at 112 hours.
‘everything’ because some old bastard said something like “am I old?” and you’re supposed to say “Yes” to trigger his sidequest and I said No which meant I missed out on it and only realised hours later 🙁
Farcry 3
Ni No Kuni
Tomb Raider
Nearly God of War: Ascention (Ikeep playing too much Battlefield 3 so this is taking much longer than it should)
Man that’s a small list for me.. curse you new Job, although money can be good.
Mkr stuff
No Strange allowed
So the bitches are at it again. I think it’s the fact that they are so condescending that really rubs me the wrong way. Not saying good luck back is incredibly rude. It may be a competition but there’s no reason to not be nice
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@freezespreston
The Asians may have won, but considering the reception that Josh and Andy got, they’re really the losers. No one clapped for them, rather it was just awkward silence
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I regret not getting the Songbird version of that game. The fact I couldn’t afford it helps me sleep at night, but the art book, OST and statue would’ve been nice… :'(
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I could have afforded it but I wasn’t all that interested in it to start with.
I am a horrible horrible person.
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Shhh, you’re not allowed to talk about it. I want to buy it, but I have no money.
Edit: Wait. I have the one that came with the Songbird edition. I am so bad at this.
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Is there a seperate art book? I know Mass Effect had the small one with the CE version of the game and then the retail one…
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I got the songbird edition, but I’m not a fan of small A5 sized Art books. The bigger A4 art book I ordered seperately came in today, it’s awesome:
http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/Art-BioShock-Infinite-Irrational-Games/9781595829948
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Yeah, but you’re not allowed to talk about it. I told you that already.
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IT’S ALMOST AS GOOD AS HL2: RAISING THE BAR
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YEAH!
NOTHX SMALL THE LAST OF US ART BOOK, GTFO
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Just watched the Monster Hunter 4 Trailer… omgggggg the Charge Axe looks rad, I MUST HAVE THIS!
@Dc it has monkeys! I WILL KILL THEM.
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Can you play that? I got it with God of War Ascention but it said i won’t have access until the end of the month :(. What a stupid idea, let’s advertise that you’ll get a demo if you get GOW, then make it unavailable for several months. Just trying to drive up sales for GOW.
*end mini whinge*
Oh man, since talking Treme this morning there’s a song I want to hear that’s not on the OST and not on YouTube. DVDs haven’t been released yet either. Downloading the ep again for three min song. 😀
When I first decided to learn how to handstitch a few weeks ago I stitched a heart-shape thing to learn how to negotiate both inner and outer points. My son liked it so much he asked if he could have it.
He calls it his “Love” and says it protects him from bad dreams because it means I love him. He won’t go to bed without it. He goes to sleep holding it against his heart. To have something that meant so little to me that I was going to throw it away mean so much to him is scary, but very awesome.
I keep seeing ads for “Celebrity Splash” and crack up laughing every time. Just the funniest/silliest concept for a show I’ve ever seen. It’s almost like something you’d see in the background of a satire on tv broadcasting. It’s like 30 Rock but it’s happening in real life!
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Haha! Remember that MILF Island episode of 30 Rock. That’s probably my favourite episode to this day. All that Survivor parodying…
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I don’t find TV shows making fun of other TV shows funny because I dont watch enougfh TV shows and dont get the TV show humour 🙁
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I keep wanting to be morally objected to what’s wrong with tv shows these days when I see/read about this show, but I just can’t 😛 It’s just so ridiculous.
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This is kind of fascinating. A scarf that sat on my car’s parcel shelf for three years. Note the sun bleaching. The other side is almost immaculate, while the side that was exposed to the elements can barely be distinguished as having previously held colour.
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We have moments of insanity. You know, pretty much any moment sports or politics are involved.
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Hahaha, oh yeah Queensland and it’s sport..
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Argh! After 15 months of doing nothing, I just can’t find any motivation to open Word and actually do any work on any of these assignments! Does anyone have any motivation tips for an extremely unmotivated person who would rather be doing anything else but assignments? Especially when they include accounting, and programming in Java in a way I completely disagree with.
I guess I could always make a start on reviewing a game for the games unit (And do you think it would be a good idea to do Okami, or would my rabid fanboyism get in the way?), even though that’s the very last thing due for the semester… At least it’s interesting. I’d be happy to do all the work if it was the slightest bit interesting.
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Heh, I’ve been there. The only way is to force yourself to start.
…It’s just easier to say that than to actually do it 😛
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It’s true. Sometimes I’d do anything, even writing, to avoid another painful failure in Dark Souls 😛
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You can always leave sarcastic comments in the code where you disagree with the Java programming style. 🙂 That might motivate you to get on with it.
(Just remember to take them out before you submit your assignment) 😀
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I hate learning relatively advanced java over the past couple of years and being made to go back and do it in the most primitive way possible because “we haven’t learned that stuff yet”
Well I have! If it gets the result in half the lines what’s wrong with it? The last lecture we were taught about for loops ffs!
Just as annoying is that we’re meant to comment like everything in the code. I can understand if it’s a big file some commenting comes in handy to know where you are, but when it’s a 25 line file there’s absolutely no need to comment anything.
Oh well, at least I just got one prac test out of the way. Took a whole 5 minutes. I know other people have been getting stressed over it though.
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Sounds like you just have to grit your teeth and get on with it.
At least you know what you’re doing and can knock off a test in 5 minutes, even if you know what you’re being asked to do is inefficient.
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I dunno, so long as the sarcastic comments show that you understand the code, you should be right.
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Honestly, waiting for motivation is just an excuse. Either do it, or don’t. That Yoda was really onto something. If you sit around waiting for inspiration to strike, you’ll be old and grey and in the same place.
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Okami is an interesting game to discuss because it’s visually stunning and generally an amazing game, but it also has some really flawed stuff – for example it’s way too long, it has repeated bosses which gets annoying (you fight the Yamata-no-Orochi like four times) and it has some annoying spikes in difficulty too. Specifically the last one of those block enemies that you have to hit exactly the right points in sequence within a very small timeframe (I think in the original JP version you wrote out a Kanji character on them).
Also localization issues, eg why the fuck did they decide to make Waka talk with a French accent?
EDIT: For reference, Okami is one of my favourite games ever.
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I remember them explaining this somewhere, maybe in the artbook? They had a convoluted explanation that boiled down to them wanting to underline that he
is from another world or whateverand also he kind of talks with a strange speech pattern in Japanese so they localized it as a French accent. It just seems so out of place though.
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I have assignments to do too and I have to start looking for jobs… I don’t even know how the fuck to do that…
But here’s the worst advice ever. Know that you have to get it done, whatever you do just know that it needs to be done. Don’t put it off forever, sure push it away until the last minute but at least get it done.
I procrastinate so much but I don’t really regret it :P. I know there’s stuff to be done but I don’t want to do it so I simply just don’t do it. It’s terrible but then that last minute “oh fuck, I HAVE to get this done” helps me concentrate and actually get it done. 😀
WORST ADVICE EVER
Ugh, Bioshock Infinite is such a ripoff of Skyward Sword. Floating sky city. Giant angel statue. Female companion.
Wake up, people!
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95% of the intense dislike I have for it comes from the damn controls. If it could be played with a game pad without the damn waggle mechanics if probably love it.
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My entire Wii experience minus Mario Party
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1 point! If they’d cooked the eggplant just a little longer Ashlee and Sophia would be gone. Worst.-
or even just let the damned curry finish cooking. I did giggle when the only reaction to them winning was a lone trailed off clap by one person. Then everyone ignored them for the baby thing.
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I feel weird discussing My Kitchen Rules of all shows, but…
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Really, Send me your postal address, I’ll hook you up 🙂
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I feel like watching a movie, but everything on my DVR goes over two hours. Feel like something around 90 mins or so. 😀
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Remember that time you linked Sughly that picture of the woman and he opened it in front of his son. 😀
Freeze’s unexplained links are to be questioned! 😛
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*hurtadorablepuppy.tff*
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It’s imdb. Fairly sure you’re safe.
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Sometimes, I agree. He is a wildly erratic filmmaker. But all the elements came together to make film nirvana in this one.
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Ehhhhhhhhhh XD
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Film snob.
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I knew what this was going to be before I clicked on it. I don’t care – still love the movie.
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Oh yeah – sorry, I sometimes forget I have a pretty unique set up.
I only have a CRT TV but I have a BluRay player hooked up to it which has access to YouTube, iView, SBS on Demand etc. (Sort of like having a CRT smart-TV) Since SD is all I know, YouTube looks fine to me on the telly.-
I suppose I could use the PS3/Wii U as well!
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You could, but it would probably look pretty bad if you’re used to HD.
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All the movies I watch are from Standard Definition Foxtel anyways. I’m used to it too. 😀
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Well, with that in mind, there’s a ton of full moveis on YouTube these days.
There seems to have been a massive slow down in take-downs in the last 12 months. (There was a Giz or Lifehacker piece about this a couple of months ago)
Pure speculation here, but it’s like rights holders have finally realised that if you really enjoy a movie you watch on YouTube, there’s a good chance you’ll go out and buy it, unlike if you torrent it, where you’re more likely to just think “I already have a copy I can watch so I won’t buy it”.
So letting content stay on YouTube may actually slow piracy and help sales. Maybe. Time will tell.
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You’re right, there’s a whole damn lot of movies on there. Just watched the start of The Mist again. 😀
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I don’t believe you! 😛
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If you don’t get any enjoyment out of it I’ll concede defeat and never recommend anything to you ever again! I really think you’ll like it as somewhat of a film buff 😛
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Film buff? I likes me some movies, but I think a real film buff would’ve seen some movies through the years. XD Movie imposter!
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Film Enthusiast
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MOVIE. IMPOSTER. >:|
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Ninja Turtles movie.
Or Dollman vs the Demonic Toys. That one’s only about 50 minutes IIRC and is well worth it.
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Ninja Turtles is amazing. I remember my mum taking me to see it when I was five. I had one of those Dixie Cup Ice Creams as a movie snack and we sat in the front row. Really liked April’s take on the brothers when they were at the house regrouping. Good movie!
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http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/will-arnett-joining-megan-fox-432515
This doesn’t bode well to me. 🙁
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Uh… oh man, this keeps getting weirder and weirder.
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Directed by Bay from a script by the MI4 guys?
What could possibly go wrong?
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Those writers were on the writing staff of Alias back in the day. They were pretty good too. I was expecting MI4 to be awesome because of that. 🙁
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Hell, it was directed by Brad Bird. Brad. Freakin’. Bird.
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D.O.A. (1950)
No, I’m not talking about the shonky fight film.
It’s a film noir about a man who reports his own murder to the police.
Brilliant stuff.
http://archive.org/details/doa_1949
Oh man, two hours have passed since I posted that. I could’ve watched a two hour movie. Instead I did nothing. 😛
Dark Souls \o/
Lautrec the Guilty has been punished. Then I faced off against O&S, having summoned SunBro. But he never showed up when I passed through the fog gate. Whattajerk /o\
I did some damage, but ultimately. Alas.
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I summoned a Sunbro against the Iron Golem earlier today. He charged in immediately with a jump attack. Which missed. He went straight over the edge. 3 seconds after entering the fog gate. *Picardfacepalm.jpg*-
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Nooooo! Solaire is mah bro!
He just left you there because you rebuffed his advances at the Anor Londo castle fire didn’t you?
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\o/
I finally got some Dark Souls time again as well.
Took on the Gaping Dragon and got YOU DEFEATED! on the third try. This is way better than my first character who took an uncountable amount of tries. I got him down to where he had only one hits worth of health left and he jumped up and back down on me because I rolled the wrong way. Usually this was an instakill move but this time I got lucky and survived. I had only a sliver of health left and no estus so I had to get up and spam the attack button hoping to get a hit in before he got me again. He had his arm up to attack me but I got in first. Barely. I almost gave Mr. Strange and I both heart attacks! 😛
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Went to get the “EXCLUSIVE LAST OF US DEMO!” promised in the God of War Ascension special edition.
It’s currently just a countdown timer until its available.
58days 4hours and 58 mins.
Sad face.
Walking Dead Season 3 Finale:
I think I’m done with this show. It’s deviated from what made the series great to me, and I have been thoroughly bored by the last eight episodes. But at least I got to see Andrea die. Perfect place to finish it. \o/
Also, why bring survivors back to the prison? They already know the north wall is collapsed and there are always zombies in the prison. Woodberry has walls at least as defensible. Why not just stay in Woodberry with everyone? A place with supplies and licktrecities? Strange choice.
Walking Dead farewell:
The pilot episode is still the outstanding one in my mind. Followed by pretty much all of season 2, which I thought was just brilliant. The end.
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Isn’t there a new show runner for season four? Might be worth waiting to see the direction he takes the show. (Though he wrote the finale. :P)
Edit: Oh wait, the finale was written by the old show runner.
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It was by Glen Mazzara, the old show runner. He worked on The Shield, one of my all-time fave shows. Oh well.
Despite what I said, I’ll probably be back to check out the next season.
But what I really can’t wait for is the next Telltale instalment 😀
Edit: that’s what happens when I take 10 minutes to type a short answer. You already fixed it 😛
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I’m looking forward to Darabont’s Lost Angels! (What’s he like as a show runner. Was the first season Walking Dead season decent?)
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The first episode was just brilliant. It looked and felt like a movie and was just full of amazing moments, visceral, thought-provoking, and emotionally manipulative all.
The rest of season 1 was okay, but nothing special.
Season 2 was when it took off in my estimation.
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Hells, yeah.
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It was definitely slower. There were entire episodes with no direct zombie interaction of any kind, IIRC. That was fine with me, because apart fromAndrea, I quite enjoyed the characters and their tensions in season 2. And the long, slow build-up had massive payoff in the end, and it was a structural success.
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I’ve said all this before but I’ll say it again for Shane’s sake!
All of Season 3 Walking Dead Spoilers
I didn’t like the Governor and his arc at all. I really don’t like that he is still alive. That means that next season he’ll be the main villain again because they’ve set him up to be so evil they can’t ignore him. The zombies took an even further back seat in this season which I also disliked. I think the show is at its best when it is a single group against the world like in Season 2 (which is my favourite overall season :P). I hope it goes back to that next season. They’ll have the chance to bring in lots of new characters to the group so there’s a chance!
Having said that, I still get a lot out fo the show so I’m willing to stick around!
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I agree with a lot of what you said (and appreciate the repost). The Governor didn’t do it for me; neither did Michonne. Apparently, both of them have made it into some “greatest characters ever” list in the world of comics. I dunno what happened on their journey to the small screen, but something went pretty badly wrong. Pretty much everything that happened in Woodberry thoroughly disinterested me. I agree: small group vs the world is where it’s at. No redshirts. (Now they have a whole busload of them, damnit :P)Internal tensions (we are our own worst enemy stuff) is what has always made this franchise shine brightest, and there was just precious little of that, this season.
In the comic:
When Rick went mad in the prison, they replaced him as leader of the group. Shame they couldn’t take the same kind of creative risk in the show. :\
Apparently it takes 8500 Rythmia to unlock FFVIII movie on Theatrythm. FFVII is the only movie left unlocked at this stage.
Level 32 hardcore character dead. *sigh*
I guess that’s time to call it a night. Sleep well tay
Hey @dc, I’m done, the comments that aren’t upvoted can remain that way.
Thank you for only freaking out twice, and apologies for the mental scarring. 😛
I learned a lot. Like, it’s really hard to sit here and upvote all the time, and I should know this since I used to be like that with comments. Ah well.
Edit: I may do a scientific report on my study though. Expect it to be grade 10 quality.
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Just for that D.C., later today(Fake fake time) I’m going to post something to show you all just how troubled I am.
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For a minute there you were listening to Foster and the people and it was good.
I guess you can’t keep Arcade Fire down.
🙂
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Interesting note: I just learnt how to make words into links minutes before I posted the comment above
🙂I’ll see if this works again.
This is a nightcall from masha to DC,
Escape from the underworld that is Arcade fire
You can do it, could this be the day?
The day you’ve changed ?
You are no longer an animal driven by habit
but an unorthodox soul
A warrior!
A Masha poem. 🙂
P.S
I was just having fun, not dissing Arcade fire. Also this took too long to do-adding the link stuff. God!-
Did this post go into moderation? Or are we allowed post multiple links now?
Actually, I can find out myself.
Edit: links added, and removed. This is all still being moderated.
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We are still being moderated.
Surprisingly Ben was awake around 1am and was able to take the comment out of moderation.
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There you go @shane. F. Scott Fitzgerald, Thomas Hardy, Victor Hugo, Goethe, Pushkin, and Dostoevsky all had bizarre sexual fetishes involving feet.
You know what needs to be done I trust?
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Not to worry, I’ll toe the line, even though it’s probably not the sole reason for their success.
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Going to get some shut eye! Catch you on the flipside, home slices!
Hope @sughly and @freezespreston have damn good birthdays tomorrow.
Enjoy the last few minutes of 27 and 28. 😀
Well I actually got some work done tonight. The trick was to just forget about the accounting one for a while. There’s no point wasting time worrying about it and looking at it blankly when there are other ones I can quite easily do in the mean time. So I got a test done and made quite an effort on the programming assignment. Yay me!
And now I’m trying to write a shopping list, although with all the people offering to cook for me I dunno if it’s really that necessary 😛 I think they’re trying to tell me something, but I’m not 100% sure what 😛
Apparently, it’s happy birthdays to @sughly and @freezespreston. Hope your days are filled with cringeworthy puns and other embarrassingly humorous events.
Edit: for your birthdays, I give you news of a Finding Nemo sequel, still 2 years away. Unsure how I feel about this.
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Happy Birthday @sughly and @freezespreston!
In response to @shane’s Finding Nemo comment: Marlin should really consider getting Nemo tagged or something if he’s going to keep going missing.
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At the risk of derailing this thread into fishy discussion,
apparently the movie will be about Dory, with cameos from others.-
I heard on the radio yesterday that Ellen had signed up to play Dory again but I hadn’t realised the movie would focus on her. That’s cool. Dory was the best character in the original film.-
For some reason, I always empathised with Marlin, the crazy overprotective father. Not sure why that is…
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Because you’re secretly a clown fish?
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Who lives in a sea amenemenoenmenoenee
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Yeah someone picked up on the sequel yesterday, @saturday I think. I hate this news, with a passion.
R.I.P Lucasarts! You’ll be missed
here’s to hoping that the rights to Grim Fandango gets picked up by someone… I still believe that The Land of The Dead is one of the best realized worlds of the 90’s and I would love to revisit it in a new game… Doesn’t have to be the same characters (that story was nicely closed off) but there is so much room for more stories there
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I still remember playing Secret of Monkey Island on the Amiga. I would’ve been 10 years old at the time, and that game had a huge impact on me. I still remember running around trying to learn all the insults and retorts and scribbling them down on a piece of paper.
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I’m quite saddened by the news, but do hope also that the Licences that I knew and loved as a child can be picked up so I can love them again as an adult.
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I was most pleased when I played the Telltale Sam and Max and Monkey Island games – they nailed them perfectly. Was super pleased to not only have more of my favorite formative games, but also the fact they didn’t completely fuck it up.
Here’s hoping someone else picks up the other LA licenses and does them justice!
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Such sad news to wake up too. LucasArts was one of the biggest game company around the 90s and I grew up with a lot if there stuff (MM, Sam and Max, DotT, etc…) I was also looking forward to a couple of their new Star Wars games.
Sad news. =(
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@sughly? @freezespreston? Birthdays?
HOLY SCREAMING HAPPY SHITFUCK GODDAMN BIRTHDAY YOU PAIR OF GLORIOUS DICKMEN!
Seriously.
Happy birthday.
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I support your motion.
Knowwhatimsayin? 😉
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Hypothetical question:
If your saliva was explosive when not in contact with your body, how likely are you to lick your fists then punch people/the ground/animals/everything around you, whilst being a great big jerk about it?
If you answered “very”, you just might be a Brachydios.
MONSTER HUNTER!
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Would my hands explode? If so, probably not. Unless it’s a very special occasion.
#missingthepoint
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So, say I punch someone, as soon as my hand is no longer in contact with the saliva on their face it explodes? Sounds good. I’d be such a jerk.
What if I sneeze?
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It ends poorly for the people hitting you with swords.
Very, very poorly.
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I have a sword and I didn’t die
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That’s primarily an axe!
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Happy birthday @sughly and @freezespreston!
Here’s your gift – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOLqGxuvf08
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I put that on TS last night, you could tell when everyone hit the opening title bit. It’s SO GOOD.
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And manly. So very, very manly.
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HAPPY BIRTHTAY @sughly and @freezespreston.
May you both have excellent days and sexcellent nights 🙂
This is great news!!
Um, no wait, the opposite of what I just said….
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its sad, but I think i can see why Disney would do that.
They wanted the Star Wars IP. they got it. now because of the… less than awesome image Lucas himself has left that company (after the dodgy reception ep1-3 got, endlessly editing & re-releasing the other Star Wars movies, Crystal Skull etc… I think they’re just trying to show that they’re not associated with him much anymore & they’re trying to put distance between George Lucas & themselves.
but is sucks that 1313 is gone.
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I think it might actually be a perception thing. Disney are wanting to keep their releases ‘family friendly’ and 1313 looked like a violent gritty game.
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Then why not just publish it under one of their many other names?
Starship Troopers was made by Touchstone pictures, a subsidiary of Disney.
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I was thinking the same with Miramax, but I imagine the’ll keep the entire Star Wars franchise Family friendly. 🙁
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did you see that movie “John Carter” that was disney, reminded me of Star Wars a little (clone wars) that wasn’t bad and had a bit of violence and adult themes,
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I did, thought it was awesome. But I belive 1313 would have gone further down the adult path.
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Because it is star wars
The need to carefully control the perception, not only because of the movies and other games but because of the associated merchandise and toys. It doesn’t matter who releases it it will be 100% associated with star wars. Releasing it as a blade runner game would be fine as there is no danger of ruining the star wars toy cash cow
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boo, there’s no hope for another Installment of Rogue Squadron or Battlefront :(. I thought with disney money there’d be “A New Hope” for these titles. erm bad gutsoup, that was an awefull joke. I’m leaving it there anyway 😛
In memory of Lucasarts, I’m reposting the thing that Birthday Boy and I wrote about Adventure Games a while back
http://potaku.com/2013/01/14/duel-shock-adventure-games-and-episodic-releases/
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Was at first, but with all the past and future team stuff, I started losing interest a little.
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What about Uncanny? I like the team as
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Reading the new Uncanny alongside All New may help All New be better. Bendis claims you don’t need to read them both, and sure they make sense alone, but they are two parts of one story really.
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Early reviews of the Ouya are quite disappointing. Unsurprisingly. Biggest issue that appears to be confirmed is lag. More reviews of the Ouya as a dedicated HD media device are needed.
Oh hai, @35 et al
I tried that boss in LO last night.
Tried using fire ring on Kaim. Tried using guard in front row and flame spell attacks from back. tried a few different permutations of guard/ healer/ attacker.
Died every time.
Is there an easy setting for this game? Maybe I selected a too hard a difficulty (i.e. not easy) when i started, and can’t change part way through.
at this point I’m prepared to aknowledge my inadequacies and restart on easy 🙁
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HI ASH!
dont think it does have a lower difficulty setting unfortunately.here’s another strategy from the LO wiki http://lostodyssey.wikia.com/wiki/Grilgan
it is a tricky fight, but you’ll get there. took me many many tries when I first played it. that guy is probably one of the hardest bosses, if only because you run into him so early. after beating that fight, the game becomes a bit easier for a while.
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Last night I felt really sad about this, but after reading your link I’m totally psyched and am going to try again tongiht!!
Also I tried to change a door nob, because the existing one was making grinding noises and also it was our bedroom door and with 3 little kids we kinda wanted a new one with a lock.
Anyway unscrew the old one, take it out, screw in the new one, rihgt? Well bugger me if I can work out how the old one wa sput together but I couldn’t get the frigging thing out. I got the slide/ latch bit out but the two knobs either sid eof the door are joined together somehow and nothign I did seperated them. This also contirbuted to my saddness.
So yeah i basically suck at Last Odyssey and Home handyman work.
Amusingly, i’m going to grind in LO (to lvl 15 as per the link’s suggestion) and IRL (I’m going to cut the f’ing door knob off wiht my angle grinder!).
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I hope you stick with it. All this LO talk has given me a really powerful urge to replay the game. Maybe I’ll listen to the soundtrack instead though, I don’t think I have the time to replay it.
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Which boss are we talking about here? The only one I couldn’t beat was
The Immortal.God damn I love that game.
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It’s my fault I should have qualified the spoiler. Don’t worry, it ruins nothing and the track there is so convoluted that you’ll probably forget by them time you get there and be surprised all the same.
Are we talking about the first boss on the mountain? I think I struggled with that the very first time I played so I grinded a little bit back at the bottom of the mountain. It didn’t take long.
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Now that I think about it, the last time I played LO I just put Kaim and Seth at the front constantly defending/throwing potions and Jansen at the back doing attack spells.
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Oh maaan, I never did that, totally forgot, d’oh.
Well theres another reason to spark it up again!
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Are you serious? :O Apparently my local cinema isn’t showing Jurassic Park 3D. Even though the last time I was there they had a big cardboard display advertising it. Ugh! I might have to go see it at IMAX this weekend or I could miss out. I can’t imagine it getting a very long run.
Anyway, I talk entirely too much about this topic 😛
Downloaded a couple of new shows last night because my download cap resets tomorrow. Dead Like Me (which someone recommended who I can’t remember), Spy (which I’ve been trying to find for ages) and Dead Set (I think it was @35 that mentioned that one). Tried to find The Middleman too (@strange) but couldn’t… I’ve also got the third episode of The Americans that I said I would watch to go as well (@dc). So yeah, that’s me set for a while!
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Dead Like Me is a pretty cool guy. The first season much more so than the second. And the telemovie was okay, but had some systemic shortcomings. I might have recommended that.
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I’m glad you got Dead Like Me but I’m very sad you couldn’t get Middleman. everyone needs to watch that.
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Am I the only one who is really creeped out by the sleeping baby pic @markserrels is using for the While You Were Sleeping posts? It’s the body. The way it’s curled up and the fluffy towel or whatever it’s on and everything makes it look like some kind of formless worm thing, like it has no limbs or they’re all twisted into the wrong places or something. Lump of formless flesh with a cute sleeping baby head attached.
Preferred when it was puppies.
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no you are not. it looks really uncomfortable. either the kid is a contortionist & can dislocate limbs at will… or its actually a puppet. I dont think i’ve ever seen anyone ever willingly lay in that sorta position.
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I think @dc gets creeped out by it too. But because it has no clothes on.
I have no problem with it. Babies really do like to lie around in some weird ways.
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Simultaneous birthdays… Have those two ever been seen in the same place together? Is there something they’re not telling us?
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I’m sure one of them is aging backwards, because of that scene in Curious Case of Benjamin Button. The dates match up! D:
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The first diary entry read out loud in that film is the day I was born. Interesting movie trivia! Kind of. Well, to me.
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I still like that Tron came out the year I was born and Tron Legacy came out the year my son was born 😀
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Listening to Dmitri Shostakovich’s music in preparation for an essay. I’m thinking that if he’d been born 50 or so years later, he would have done some great work on game soundtracks. Which brings me to a question: If you could have any composer/songwriter/musician write a soundtrack for a game, who would it be?
Edit: By the way, for me it would be Lalo Schifrin, who composed the theme to Mission Impossible, the soundtrack to Enter the Dragon and the Dirty Harry movies, amongst many others.
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Skrillex.
Ha, just kidding.
Daft Punk. Trent Reznor. Jack White could probably do some pretty interesting things.
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…so long as Quantic Dream had some good writers on board too :3
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oooooooohhhh…
@dc
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Sughly and my first interactions were sparring about Quantic Dream. I can defend them like crazy too, but he’s not wrong. Cage isn’t terrible, but he could be better too. 😀
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Game developed by Quantic Dream, soundtrack by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, written by Christopher and Jonathan Nolan? That work for you?
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Sign me up! Omikron with Bowie seems really cool, but really dated. Should’ve waited for that collaboration until they had Heavy Rain technology. (Though I guess Bowie probably wouldn’t have done it these days. :P)
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It may have slipped my mind that he has already done stuff on Quake and blops. Oops.
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I think he’s half the reason I loved the original Quake so much. He created such an amazing atmosphere.
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And back when the Quake CD was a dual mode data and audio disc. You could bung the Quake CD in your CD player and listen to the soundtrack.
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That’s the only PC disk I own for that reason.
What about this one: http://staging.kotaku.com.au/2013/04/talk-amongst-yourselves-218/comment-page-9/#comment-1131672
Or was I too subtle?
I…have no idea who that is. Which is probably why it went over my head.:P
Google!
Tent Reznor’s Black ops theme was a bit meh, very minimal, i was expecting really gritty industrial stuff, don’t know why they bothered he could have done so much more for them
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You sir, just get cooler and cooler.
PS they should make a Ziltoid game,
PPS I met Devin in the late 90’s and he signed my Ocean Machine CD 😀-
I went to a Devin signing when I was so poor I never bought anything and slept on friend’s sofas.
I got a friends poster signed for him just so I could go up and see him close-like.
Years later when I had a job I couldn’t go to the SYL signing because I had to work, but @gutsoup ‘s sister took my rare edition of their self titled album and they complimented her choice.
I own far too little of Devin’s albums 🙁
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The signing I attended was for Terria, which I went to the concert of. These days I’d prolly spend the cash on the album rather than the gig. I stand by both decisions as I enjoyed the gig at the time but wouldn’t as much these days (nerdad)
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I just pretend to be cool, I’m really a nerdad
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True story: Because Ziltoid album is funny, it took me a few months to really realise how amazing it is.
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Devon is the Man, both signings i went to he got up and walked around and got pictures with people, such a champ, u should get more of his recent stuff @jimu, I think you’d like a lot of it, a lot more melodic and there’s a chick singer on a lot of tracks and she’s awesome, except for the redone version of Hyperdrive, Devon’s version he sings it in a nice soothing voice but the chick’s vversion she yells too much (my only complaint about her, beyond that awesome)
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Dude, you know I have it all. We’ve spoken about this. I just don’t have the *CDs*.
I prefer the version with the female vocalist remember?
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Last time I was at your house (yeas, *that* house, it was that long ago) You put on the easy listening album for me because I said I couldn’t hear it properly over the sound of the bus/school girls
Also, Devon is what Where’s Wally eats. (Luncheon Truncheon) :-p
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you mean Red Dead R……….. something else 3? Please not Redemption 2.
though I would love to see the next RDR set mainly in mexico with a score done by Chingon.-
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line dancing only.
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I’ll miss LucasArts and it’s sad, but they weren’t the same company that made the games I loved as a kid. All the people who made them had moved on. The company had been in some weird limbo for a long time now. I was hoping they’d turn it around. Oh well.
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And Double Fine and Telltale, basically all the alumnus from back in the day are still making good games.
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Except for Lawrence Holland. 🙁 Totally Games has fallen off the radar completely, the last good game they released was X-Wing Alliance in 1999. For Lucasarts. 🙁
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It’s more that they still own some very cool IP that’s now probably going to sit in the Disney vault and only get trotted out when they want to sue someone.
That said, Land of the Dead in Kingdom Hearts 3 would be awesome.
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LucasArts weren’t exactly using the IP anyway, I think there’s a better chance Disney will let people licence them. I feel better about Disney having the LucasArts IP than Activision having the Sierra IP. 😛
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Holy damn, today is going slowly. Think I’ll be taking an inappropriately long lunch break today!
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My lunch break will be spent going to the department of transport and getting a copy of my car’s registration certificate. Fun.
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What Blaghman said!
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What Greenius said!
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Morning everyone.
The more I play bioshock Infnite, the more I want to remake the Elizabeth costume I made. Now I can see the details better, I can see what needs fixing. and now I want to fix it.
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There’s a few things I need to fix which i might put up on my blog later.
I can count 4-5 things that are wrong so rather close
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yeah I’m pretty happy with how it turned out, but i’d love to re-do it and get it as close as possible to the image in the game
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I am imagining you playing Bioshock Infinite just staring at Elizabeth like some creepy old perv.
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A bit. I’ve looked up her skirt and tried to zoom in on the corset, both at the back and front
man, if I wasn’t making a costume it would b horrible
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And now I’m remembering XvT, and all the hundreds and hundreds of custom missions that I installed. The amount of time I poured into that game is ridiculous by today’s standards. No less than a dozen joysticks gave their lives.
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All the LucasArts guy animations. The mysterious music that played at the start of Monkey Island.
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TIE Fighter is one of the best games ever made. It’s gameplay is timeless and aside from the graphics the game has simply not dated. The use of iMUSE music in it is something that no one has replicated anywhere near as well since then either – the way the soundtrack reacts to what you’re doing dynamically. You’re cruising around and nothing’s happening, then it builds into the rebel fanfare as some X-Wings jump into the area and the music ratchets up and then you enter combat and it gets all tense and exciting and then it dies back down and then you complete your objectives and complete the mission and the imperial march starts playing and you feel like a fucking badass.
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I loved the tension between the primary objectives and the optional ones from the Emperor’s Hand. And when they contradicted each other… so damn cool.
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Potaku!
Tonight we sit around and just generally talk about games. No topic.
Anyone want to join Shiggy, Alex and myself?
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WHAT HAPPENED BLAGHS!?! WHAT HAPPENED?!?
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I decided to follow through with my threat, and upvote everything D.C. posted. He decided that I was mocking him, and ran away forever, leaving me with no choice but to kill myself to restore his honour, and to pay back the offence I had caused.
Crazy times.
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YOU’RE NOT FAT ENOUGH TO WADDLE OFF!
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I REALLY AM, LYIUS!
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That’s why it’s even funnier!
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Fuck Quantic Dream.
All of Arcade Fire’s songs sound the same.
Adventure games make me want to punch a baby.
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… for making me feel stuff.
… and that sound is good.
… as long as it’s a solution to a puzzle.
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Well played..
The EB girl is infatuated with D.C. because he is the absolute pinnacle of masculinity and handsomeness.
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Who doesn’t afraid of anything!
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Man, this LucasArts thing didn’t really make me feel any thing… until I went into the LucasArts Memories article. :'(
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I don’t care. LucasArts never made anything worthwhile anyway.
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You’d punch a baby to further yourself in a game?
MONSTER
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Near the end of Chaos in Deponia…
Rufus totally turned a family of dolphins into cat food. D:
@dc @sughly @powalen @masha2932 @phoenix
Tweet me when Survivor is up
THANKSSSSSSSSSSSSS <3 xoxoxoxoxo
Due to some serious boredom, I decided to upload something I wrote a while ago to my blog.
So, for anyone’s enjoyment, I present one of the rare articles that Pants would not allow on Potaku. I wear this badge with pride: http://blaghman.wordpress.com/2013/04/04/lint-a-review/
This is probably not safe for life.
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I tried to convince him to put it up for April Fools. Obviously, I failed at that to the detriment of the entire internet.
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OH DAMNIT
I was going to put this up on April Fool’s per request by @35. I’M SORRY 35 I FORGOT
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well… at least its now out in the wilds of the internet, where lint enthusiasts looking for an in-depth assessment of your navel gazing, have access.
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Le sigh. Just as things start to look slightly more positive, something had to bring the positivity in my life crashing down. I’ve been asked to vacate my house by the 27th of April. Despite the fact that I’m actually up to date on my rent etc. So yeah.. Sorry @batguy .. not looking like there will be a bed for you to crash on at this stage 🙁 I might be living on the street when you arrive. Will let you know if anything changes, but for now, it’s not looking too good 🙁
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Damn, that sucks. As I always said, though, don’t worry about me – where I’m going to stay for a couple of nights in May should be the least of your concerns. I’ll find somewhere. Worry about you!
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I’m sick of worrying about me! I just want a little bit of stability from at least ONE area of my life! Not too much to ask is it?! 😉
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I’d love to be able to run through it in co op, cause it’d be great fun! Of course, it’s squad-based AI only…
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Someone needs to tell Studio Ghibli to hurry up and announce their next batch of Bluray releases. It’s been four months since the previous ones came out and I want to know what’s next so I can preorder.
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I was going to make a “Powalen on LucasArts closing” joke here but I can’t find the right gif to express my thoughts.
It doesn’t help that most gifs you find on google come from teenage girl tumblrs 😛
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I am somewhat jealous of @Notorious_R & @effluvium-boy ‘s skills when it comes to finding suitable gifs / other images.
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Notorious has the skills to pay the bills!
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Notoriousaur is Gif Master.
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true. but your speed & accuracy with them is still impressive.
Above post has been edited to reflect this.
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One tries one’s best.
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Dickman.
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@ynefel Eh?
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@effluvium-boy
Page 8 reference.
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@ynefel I see.
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10 MILLION DILDOS
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Oh, I was wondering who you’d killed. Forgot about that guy!
Did you do any research after the fact to find out who he was?-
I remember he had some…book. Something about absolving sins. Where sins equates to hitting NPC’s.
So basically, of all the NPC’s to kill, probably not the best one. 😛
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I wish you could take his book, and then just write your own name in it to absolve your sins, or something.
That would be the best.
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He did drop the book when he died, so…
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Same group who did the classic theme to Lain Serial Experiments. I can’t get both damn songs out of my head.
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Oculus Ex Inferni – Symphony X
It’s looking more and more likely I’ll be going on 70000 Tons Of Metal next year. \o/
Booking just opened for veterans and the first couple of bands have been announced. Symphony X is the only one I’m interested in so far but I haven’t listened to them for ages so I thought I’d put them on.-
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Looks like we’ll be going together. I’ll have to keep an eye on the weather and go on an interstate trip by myself next time Queensland weather looks awful. 😛
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Acoustic Live Exclusive Arcade Fire Limited Edition Performance of the Moon Theme?
You might be right! 😀
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Heat’s still my favourite and The Stars (Are Out Tonight) and Where Are We Now and Valentine’s Day. 😀
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Oh yeah, well Soviet Arcologies! *runs*
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Marge, Get. My. Gun.
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http://www.siliconera.com/2013/04/03/bravely-default-flying-fairy-will-be-localized-for-the-west/
This better not be bollocks!
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Lost LucasArts on his birthday, but gained Bravely Default! Sughly’s day will be a roller coaster of emotions! 😛
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They will screw the name, I am not keen. Us JRPG fanatics like a little Japanese flavour in the titles of our Japanese games.
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Wait, so are you saying you don’t want to spend 96 minutes watching Pow?
I think you need to check your priorities, friend.
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That’s more of a @greenius thing…
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Wahh?
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Creepius. 😛
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Disturbing Creeper 😛
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I’d watch 96mins of Pow, soooo dreeeeeeeeeeamy. *swoon*
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Not getting hyped until there’s OFFICIAL confirmation!
And not just “the West” but PAL regions as well D:
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I’d seriously consider getting a US 3DS for that game.
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@freezespreston @blaghman
I regards to you conversation about reading game of thrones and finding them ponderous/draggy I thought this was appropriate
Edit: animated but NSFW
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http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=136433118 seriously. Submitted by Ghostlight who were the UK/EU publisher. Pretty unexpected.
(Fair warning: video with loud music plays immediately upon loading the page. 😐 Also animu)
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Nope, need to buy a game first. I can’t even try to make friends.
I deleted steam now anyway, the only reason I joined was to upvote Anna’s Quest.
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I wonder if it works if you get gifted a game
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I also have a random copy of magicka that appeared in my inventory if he would like that. Just add me as a friend @jimu
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I can’t, I can’t do much of anything.
If you want to gift me games I will barely play, you will have to find me.I’m either Jimu
Jimuhsien
Jimu_Hsien
HsienJimu
Or variations, I can’t remember. Failing that, I’m on Doc’s friend list and possibly Ruffleberg’s.
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Another day of poring over Dark Souls wikis. Add 5 hours to that tally. Wasted day. I just want to go home and smash Smough and Ornstein!
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And I’ve watched every episode of Young Justice before, doesn’t mean that my day has been wasted.
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Get what you’re saying. I do.
But to me, this feels like a waste of time, just a compromise activity to help the dragging day drag a little slower. I presume you don’t feel like that about Young Justice 🙂
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Fight!
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I’m saving my aggro for Dark Souls, tyvm.
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I feel that way every time I read about a game instead of just playing it.
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Sometimes that stuff complements a game, though. After I watch a movie I always read about behind-the-scenes stuff and all that. I find it fun! 😀
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Yeah, sure. But I’d still rather be playing.
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Why would you waste your day doing that kind of rubbish? Next time take the day off work so you can spend all your time focusing on what’s important!
God damn it ebay.. stop tempting me with your $30 Devastator squads. You know i can’t handle bargains!!!
All my money from selling all the OLDER crap is almost gone!! What do you want from me?!?!?!
Oh… that’s right… MONEY!
*glares*
Oh yay, accounting in 20 minutes. Holidays over 🙁
And I’ll be the first to say it, tosh.0 is really going downhill this year. It doesn’t help that they’re doing 2 15 ep runs instead of 3 10 ep runs like they usually do either. I thought he’d nailed his act in seasons 3 and 4, but he’s taken it a bit too far this season.
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Fair enough 😛
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As a big fan you’re blinded by bias 😉
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Ahahaha yeah that’s true! I’ll still keep watching it, but I’m gravitating towards The Jeselnik Offensive now. Some bits make tosh.0 look like a kids show. (9/11 babies, shark party, Casey Anthony)
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hmm, just got e-mailed a voucher from the PSN for the new Total Recall movie…. why. What has psn done that they’re bribing me? Why am I always suspicious of free things
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I didn’t mind it for a straight action movie, there was some fun fight scenes(spoiler)
But as a remake of Total Recall? Noooooo, they kinda didn’t really bother with the mystery of reality part.
Where they knock they ex outta the lift and then she suddenly burst back in a different spot was well done.
The ex was way hotter than the new girl, just like the original movie, so they got one part right … -
yeah that’s what i thought, whooo…. awww. They know I won’t watch it unless it’s free. On another note new PS+ content today, we get Okami HD, The Cave and LOTR: War in the North. I’ll go see what all the fuss over The Cave is about tonight.
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The Cave is designed to be played three times, but there’s a lot of backtracking if you do. A lot. Still really fun and creative. Definitely feels like a Double Fine game!
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Don’t play through it again in a row unless you really, really love the game because it’s quite literally the exact same puzzles, give it a break before going through it again 😀
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The interconnecting parts are the same puzzles, that’s true. The character specific areas are different though. 😀
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But you’ll have to replay two!
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You can balance it, though.
Playthrough one: Hillbilly, Time Travelling, Twins
Playthrough two: Adventurer, Scientist, One you’ve used before…
Playthrough three: Monk, Knight, One you’ve used before…You’re technically replaying two of them, but it’s spaced out better so it won’t feel as backtracky. 😀
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Or pick two you’ve already done for the third playthrough and pick a character who has their stuff before them and then NEVER PLAY AGAIN
😛
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*Rpgs sony’s marketing department and t-bags the remains* dip dip potato chip, dip dip potato chip
Give me a good movie voucher *folds arms and glares*
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This game sounds awesome and this is a good interview about it:
http://www.destructoid.com/interview-social-networking-gone-bad-in-remember-me-250624.phtml
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I still think it’s cos no DQ fans wanted an MMO:
http://www.destructoid.com/dragon-quest-x-wii-u-opening-sales-are-really-bad-250722.phtml
Also, “Turn Square-Enix’s frown around”? What? To the back of their collective head?
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Cos’ I get what that guy is sayin’, but I’d presume DQs popularity in Japan would sell Wii Us.
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I think that’s what Squenix and Nintendo were banking on. But I’m honestly not that surprised. It’ll probably have a long tail but the install base for Wii U is tiny.
If Squenix wants DQX to do well I think it needs to be on PC.
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Yeah, most MMoers are PCers. Not too many WiiU filled Net cafes, that I ever heard of anyway
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This console transition period sure has been rough. We’ve lost two major game publishers that have been around 20+ years in the space of about 9 months, first THQ then Lucasarts. Squenix looks like the Titanic just after it hit the iceberg. EA are struggling. Everything’s being consolidated and the AAA games are going as risk-averse as possible. Kind of depressing.
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are squeenix struggling?
i mean, sure FF has hit a bit of a snag, but they’ve got a few great western franchises under their belt (tomb raider, deus ex, just cause).
i’m unaware of their situation in japan however, is it bad over there?
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That’s not good about Square Enix, considering they’ve made a concerted effort to make games like Tomb Raider and Deus Ex: Human Revolution. Really creative and ambitious stuff.
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I always forget TR and HR are Squenix games. For some reason, I have trouble imagining the company creating anything other than FF or other JRPGs.
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No sarcasm. That was more a reply to Neg. It always sucks when a company starts making really good games and struggle afterwards. 🙁
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okay cool, i wasn’t sure hahaha
some people have said lots of stuff about tomb raider not being that creative (i.e uncharted rip-off) and i wasn’t sure whether you were being sarcastic about it 😛
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I loved Tomb Raider and really liked the direction it took. Differentiated itself from Uncharted. Probably closer to Arkham Asylum than Uncharted. 😀
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Yoichi Wada’s been thrown out as CEO.
Sleeping Dogs undersold their projections. They only sold 1.5 million or so copies
Hitman Absolution undersold their projections. They only sold 3.8 million
Tomb Raider undersold their projections. They only sold 3.4 million (apparently they expected to sell closet to 6!)
So basically there’s games that are selling really well, but that Squenix has massively high expectations for. That usually means they’re struggling badly. Meanwhile the Japanese side is slowly killing them – FF XIII was incredibly expensive, FF XIV was a huge flop and they’re redeveloping it from scratch, DQX is way below their expectations. Versus XIII hasn’t been seen from in several years, Type-0 never left Japan. They didn’t have anything to show but a year-old tech demo at the PS4 conference.
Squenix appears to be an absolute shambles right now. I think they’d already have sunk if it wasn’t for Eidos. The fact they weren’t at the bidding table for THQ is another sign they’re in trouble as well – some of THQ’s stuff would have lined up really well with them.
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Their expectations really were ridiculous. Tomb Raider, maybe in the long run, but the numbers they predicted for Sleeping Dogs and Hitman were genuinely impossible. Like, twice what they actually sold.
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I think the answer’s obvious, they need to start combining their franchises. Cyborg Lara Croft battling bald assassins on an island full of floating crystals with a black and gold filter applied to everything. 10 million copies sold within a week.
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I never asked for this
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I’m not sure the situation is nearly as dire as all that. In terms of what THQ and LucasArts had done in the last few years, the industry really hasn’t lost a whole lot. In fact, Luke has an article up at the moment regarding LucasArts which I kind of agree with. All they’ve really done in the last few years is sit on valuable licenses which could have been used to make fantastic games. I’ll be very surprised if Disney doesn’t make good use of those now.
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THQ wasn’t a loss? 🙁
Metro, Darksiders, Saints Row, Company of Heroes, Dawn of War, Space Marine…
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Eh, not really.
That’s not taking anything away from what you’ve listed. All of the properties which are worth anything will be or have been bought up by more competent publishers. I find it difficult to care too much about THQ’s demise when they couldn’t turn a profit on what they had.
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But THQ was screwed over because of the U draw, not because they were making games people weren’t buying and enjoying. I think it sucks that one bad investment doomed the entire company.
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*cough*squenix*cough*ffxiv*cough*
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You know more about it than anyone here I think, do you think they’ll be able to turn a profit with their revamped FF14?
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As an alpha/beta tester I’m under NDA and can’t say.
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They did turn a profit I think, just not enough of one to cover the massive debt they’d accumulated through terrible management decisions
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I downloaded it recently(ish) and I keep meaning to play it but keep forgetting. How are you finding it?
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Seems like a pretty cool guy, especially for free.
Pretty much Diablo but as an instanced MMO. The gems being your skills thing is a cool twist.
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I’m pretty sure that @beavwa had a character
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I don’t think so.
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Are you playing on singapore server?
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Whichever, toons are not server locked.
My dude is named Zaejin if you wish to add me and do stuff.
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Have a character, have only played through to chapter 2 since the final character wipe after closed beta.
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Both myself and @princesspipster have had accounts for a little while, if we’re on over the weekend, would love to join in.
Can’t make any guarantees with Minecraft and Monster Hunter and Ni No Kuni all vying for that spare time as well.
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TAY’s been kind of slow today. I’ve been thinking of stuff to start conversations, but I’ve got nothing. Haha! Do you guys like stuff? What movies you looking forward to? XD
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Pacific Rim is probably the only movie in the near future which I feel like I need to see in cinemas.
Aside from that, I’m a very apathetic fellow.
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There’s stuff that Sughly’s recommended too like Trance (which is in cinemas today) and The Place Beyond the Pines in May. Both trailers looked decent.
Olympus Has Fallen looks okay in an action blockbuster kind of way!
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Yeah, but how many of them are a Guillermo Del Toro movie about big robots punching what essentially amount to the Great Old Ones?
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You make a good point!
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What movies are out this year? I know there’s Iron Man 3 and The Wolverine, and another super hero film (Thor 2 or Cap 2 or something). Is The Hobbit part 2 also out this year? Oh, also City of Bones movie in August. This is the first time I’ve been excited for a movie based on a YA series since Harry Potter, cause for once I’ve actually read and enjoyed the novel.
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Go play a game, I hear Monster Hunter is pretty cool!
Or maybe watch a show, Survivor!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Yeah, Nob! >:(
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I was going to play MHU multi but I see I’m not invited.
That’s cool, there’s plenty of solo activities I can do … like cry myself to sleep.
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Since when? :O
Lately I’ve just invited HR3 people because HR3/4 quests require HR3 😛
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The Dark Souls ship has sailed for @dc.
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A ship infested with plague rats and scurvy I want no part of. 😛
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All this peer pressure crap (which I am aware is all a joke) really lowers my opinion of the game :-/
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hey is MHU3 worth getting on the 3ds if i have no friends to play it with? I really want it but won’t bother if it’s no good single p only. I don’t have a Wii U
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MH3U on 3DS is only multiplayer via adhoc (local) wireless without a WiiU and an ethernet adapter for it.
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Hunting and such is obviously much better with friends but there’s enough to keep you occupied and there’s plenty of fun to be had in singleplayer alone. I think I’ve got something like 110 hours played and probably 70 or so would be singleplayer (I have no idea how long exactly but I’ve done quite a bit of it)
Have you played Monster Hunter before?
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Play the demo. Without daily multiplayer, the game can go stale really fast, or hook you for pretty much ever.
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The demo is terribleee
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I was considering but I think the game is nigh on impossible without help…and I don’t see you in person nearly enough
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It’s not that hard without help :/
Perfectly soloableee
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Not what I’ve read, and why would I trust Freetimeius??? :p
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right, will give it a miss for now probably, never played any MH before but always liked the look of them, not sure why i never did get into them. With any luck I’ll have a Vita and a Wii U soon. If not soon by tax return time at the latest. Than I’ll rethink getting it, even though everyone will probably be over it by then, thanks for the advise 😀
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@greenius @ynefel @saturday
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Says who?
And I have a very valid opinion because I’ve played it unlike Someoneu 😉
Singleplayer is singleplayer, however, attempting multiplayer by yourself (while not impossible) is harder. Multiplayer is basically the same as singleplayer except the monsters are stronger (I think they just have more HP) since there’s supposed to be 3 more people bashing its head in.
So there’s no reason why anyone would want to attempt multiplayer by themselves and they can just do the singleplayer quests which are perfectly fine. I’ve barely played MH before this and only put an okay amount of time (like 10 hours) into Tri previously so I knew the basics of Monster Hunter but haven’t actually done anything and I found the game to be fine.
@gutsoup
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Plenty of people who are completely new to Monster Hunter are loving it and are getting good too 😀 (@rize!)
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Guts would be fine with it, I wouldn’t.
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Only about two months away too. Really hoping the co-op Uncharted style game will be good. Hasn’t been a really great Star Trek game since Elite Force.
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Have you played the MMO? I tried it out a while ago and it seems okay (for a F2P game), though the starship controls are a bit terrible.
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Nah, not an MMO sort of guy. I guess there’s those ship simulator ones too. I always prefer the character ones. Walking around with an away team and tricorder… geeking it up! 😛
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@dc doesn’t engage in social activities online. What are you thinking? 😛
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Myself and Pixel played a whole heap of it a few months ago…it’s pretty good fun!
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This is the End. On the other side of the spectrum of talent, The World’s End. 😛
I can attempt to make conversation, but 99% of the time it all crashes horribly in the end.
After heading back to my old neighbourhood where there was murder a-plenty (in Canada? Say it ain’t so!) I headed to a EB games nestled in the corner of nowhere on the street of nowhere in what was basically nowhere. I hit a bunch of DS cheap games which I kinda wanted.
SMT Strange Journey, 10 bucks
Pilotwings, 5 bucks
Dragon Quest V, 15 bucks
Elebits, 10 bucks
Alsoi’mgoingtoapsychiatristtommorowmorningbecauseIkindahadamentalbreakdowninthelastfewdaysbutheyIcanconfesstoitsoyeahIsupposethat’sonepointinthe’saturdayissaneenough’category.
….. Man, I’m still on the fence ’bout those games.
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I liked Pilotwings! (You mean the 3DS one, yeah? :P)
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It may be, I was chasing the joke
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Silly Greenius, DQV is very good but DQIX is the bestest
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DQV had monster capturing before it was cool!
And awesomeness through following the main character as he ages
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I know…
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Iron Man 3, Wolverine, Star Trek are my top three. Might check out Oblivion too, looks kinda cool.
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Yeah, Oblivion looks like it could be alright. Tom Cruise is nuts, but I generally enjoy his films.
Star Trek is the only one that I can think of offhand. TV is where it’s at.
Also I never get to go to the movies 😛
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So many things. We’ll see. If our finances then look anything like finances now, the trip may not happen.
Wife got booked for speeding over the Easter weekend. 6 points and $300. And this only two weeks after another speeding fine. Money is killing us right now.Edit: I am excited, but trying not to get my hopes up too high :\
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Hahaha, oh man, that’s not good 😛
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Think in the end Dad grudgingly took the points on one of them.
Worst part is, two were from the same camera, so arrived in the post on the same day. The third was from a different camera from a different police station, so arrived about two weeks later.
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🙁 It’ll be good if it happens, but no pressure or any thing and don’t feel bad if you can’t. I guess we’ll all go to Dreamworld without you. 😛
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Yeah… that doesn’t make me feel bad 🙁
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Don’t worry, I won’t be at Dreamworld #helping
This is the End looks kinda cool. I’ll probably go see that when it comes out, although I think machinima is retarded and I have no idea why it’s a machinima thing.
Other than that, I do like stuffs.
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I actually watched the trailer and it looks pretty damned funny. I had a feeling it was just going to be a dumb shit stoner/drunken fratboy movie, like Pineapple Express or something but the trailer makes it look like a lot of fun.
:l You guys know that picture I posted of the guy who spent $3000 on a batman suit?
http://i.imgur.com/Al2hpmw.png
Now I think he has an enterprising career in becoming one of those annoying “Facebook entertainers”
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Y’know, I wouldn’t put it past him that at least some of them are 😛 He’s a massive attention whore
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That works out at less than a dollar a like. Bargain.
Edit: Considering the going rate for kidneys for sick children is about 1000 likes, he could buy 6 kidneys (assuming they’re slightly cheaper in a 6 pack). I assume 6 kidneys would be worth more than $3000 on the black market. This Batman suit is paying for itself!
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After an insanely long time (about 2 months) I have finally finished the last Wheel of Time book. The first half I was wondering why they were wasting so much time, but when it got to The Last Battle it felt fantastic and perfect. As I got to near the end of the main battle, I started getting a little teary and maintained this through to the end. The series finished as strongly as it began. I have a couple gripes but they feel only minor (I would have traded some of that first half for the seanchan conversation we missed) and the saddest part for me was Bela’s death.
When I put the book down, I definitely felt like a chapter in my life had closed as well. Whilst my opinion of the books have gone up and down, I have still been following the stories for about 20 years now.
RIP Robert Jordan
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Lol, I can only imagine how intimidating this series must look to someone who hasn’t even started it. It’s a great series that’s worth your time, but remember that it was started in an earlier era of fantasy novels and doesn’t have that modern flavour that George RR Martin has brought.
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Naaah, I’m not intimidated.
I’m quite happy to jump in the deep end with stories.
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Naaah, I’m not intimidated.
I’m quite happy to jump in the deep end with stories.
It sounds really good, I just don’t read as often as I should and haven’t had a copy fall in my lap.I read all 6 Dunes.
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Wow, doubles. Do I win something?
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I want to read that spoiler, but I’ve only read up to (I think) the 11th book. I even have the 12th sitting in my bookshelf…
I really need to get in and finish them, but I’ve been a bit hesitant since Robert Jordan died and his son pulled it all together at the end…I’ve never read a book in a similar situation that I like. (Frank Herbert, Tolkien’s work)-
In my opinion Brandon Sanderson actually did a great job and pushed the series forward in a great way. He even got rid of the old annoying tropes like braid-tugging. You should really give this a shot as I think the books pick up a lot after the 11th book.
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I’ve heard good things about him
It really is just a matter of if I can get through those middle books and do I really want to start the series again
About to finish my current book, it’s worth considering
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I felt exactly the same about it. It was the ending that the series deserved. Everything worked, everything fit, and everything felt right. I was left feeling like I got a conclusive ending that answered all the questions and tied all the loose ends.
The twist where it turned out that Mat wasn’t tied to the horn any more was brilliant too. I had completely forgotten that that happened.Also loved the way that every character that was still alive and recognizable ended up having a part to play to set up something important.
The other thing I noticed with Sanderson’s stuff was that there’s a lot more detail about stuff from the previous age in there. It made me really intrigued, I’d love to see someone go in and expand on that whole setting, lay out what happened and how all the characters came to their positions and stuff. Tons of potential for a good trilogy or two there.
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Yes, that was great. I didn’t see that coming. The townspeople protecting the river was fantastic as well and gave me a huge grin.
What did you think of the very end where Rand didn’t have Saidin/Saidar or the True Power but could still light the pipe? I get the feeling he can now control the pattern in certain ways. The bodyswap thing was done well though, Rand learning all of the Dark One’s secrets made sense that he could do that.
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I also think we can infer from that that he’s gained the ability to directly manipulate the pattern. Which is pretty interesting. The body swap thing was very clever too,
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This LucasArts thing is weird. As an adventure fan, I never really thought about the Star Wars portion of the fan base but seeing the comments in the articles, these folks are just as sad about the studio closing and have their own nostalgic memories of those games. For a long time I think adventure game LucasArts fans resented the Star Wars side as a money making thing. Haha!
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who remembers Jedi Power Battles, that game was awesome, always wished there would be a sequel, but now 🙁
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He was the hardest to beat Darth Maul with, a lot of his moves were too easy to block
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I usually played co op so he was never too much trouble for me, but i could see how it’d be difficult solo, he was more of a defensive tank kinda character.
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Co-op was great, I used to play it with my brother.
Except in some of the coruscant platforming sections where you’d get separated by moving platforms
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I had that on Dreamcast and I remember it being really fun co-op but the controls being a bit crap. I think I generally used Ki-Adi-Mundi.
There was also an Episode 1 game that came out around the same time IIRC. I actually finished that eventually, it was pretty hard.
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Yeah. Its actual execution let it down a bit, but it wasn’t terrible.
On the other hand it was no Republic Commando either.
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yeah that episode 1 game was decent, i liked how they mixed up the gameplay, 1 level as a jedi then a guard, got to weild a lightsaber then be all pew pew with blasters. Good fun.
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@dc I’ve been pretty busy at work today and for some reason every time I finish a task I get the song from Beyond Good & Evil when you’re racing hovercrafts in my head. It’s the crazy one that keeps saying “You’re the Winner”. I freaking love that games soundtrack.
Also this was directed at you (dc) because of your Avatar 😛
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I’ll have to give it a listen when i get home, I have no sound at work. my work PC is about 1000 years old, I think the case was chiseled out of stone and the circuitry is help together with mud and pitch.
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I assume you bought double the amount you actually need. Half for packing and half for popping now!
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Did you also obtain the game I refer to? Or talking just generally how we are awesome at being adults?
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just generally, we know how to have fun. 😀
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Doctor Who fans:
I may have joined you earlier in criticising the new opening for Doctor Who, but I just discovered something. It could be far, far, worse.
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I’m not a huge fan of the opening, but I like the part where the Doctor’s face appears in the cosmos. I think that’s rather cool. Gives him a bit of a godlike image.
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That is easily my least favourite part of the opening. It somehow manages to feel so… banal? Contrived? I don’t know. Stupid? Yeah, that’s the word I was looking for. Wait, wait, no. “Lame.” And not in that fantastic way that Doctor Who just is, but like, it’s a horse, that is lying on the ground, three broken legs, and you just want to put it out of its misery.
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Diff’rent Strokes, and all that, I guess.
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I get what they’re trying to do. It’s like “HISTORY” and “TIME” and “SCIENCE” and “DEVELOPMENT” and “SPACE” and all that, but it’s just so very bad.
Edit: Though I can forgive them some missteps thanks to what the new companion looks like.
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There’s too much going on. Too many explosions and space magic. It no longer feels like you’re actually traveling through space, whereas the last few intros made you feel like you were traveling through some sort of time vortex.
Edit: My sister used to have a friend who looked like that. She’s not as attractive as his last one though (but I admit, like almost every guy I have a soft spot for red heads).
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I never really found Amy Pond attractive. I could see it from an objective stand point, but she did nothing for me.
The new one however reminds me of a girl I had a crush on in High School…
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Does he randomly recruit companions for a specific reason or do their stories just happen to intertwine or something? Is there a need for them?
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I think it was mentioned once that they help keep him in line and from losing his humanity (or Time Lordmanity as the case is).
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The companions are an important “grounding” point for The Doctor. Their role from a character perspective is to make sure there’s always a more human element there to guide The Doctor.
From a plot standpoint, they’re usually just people he meets, who he picks up because he’s lonely, and they go on adventures together. Looking through the reboot: Rose Tyler is basically just “there.” If I remember correctly, she works in a store, and is bad place, bad time. So she joins up. Mickey Smith is her Boyfriend(initially), and he later on joins her and The Doctor on some adventures. They also meet Captain Jack Harkness who is also a time traveller, and he joins them for some adventures(most of which aren’t shown in the TV series).
So, all of those are mostly coincidental meetings(it’s Jack’s fault that The Doctor and Rose end up at the right time to meet him, but it’s still a coinkydink that they meet).
Comparatively(considerable spoilers for the latest season, you have been warned):
The newest companion turned up as an important character during the first episode of this season, helping The Doctor(and the companion’s he’s with) to make it through a Dalek planet. She also dies at the end of the episode. She was even more important in the most recent Christmas episode. Where she died at the end of the episode. So now The Doctor went through time to search specifically for her(well, not really, but shut up it will do as an explanation), and she’s the new companion. So this one definitely has the whole intertwining thing going.Oh, and I almost forgot River Song. She’s The Doctor’s Wife. Some of the time. Time travel is complicated. They’re both going in the wrong directions.
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What’s stopping them from stealing the TARDIS? 😛
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A lot of people don’t seem to like River Song but I really like her!
EDIT: Why are upvoting DC? You don’t know who I’m talking about! haha (Watch Doctor Who with us :D)
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@dc
The TARDIS is a very complex machine. Firstly, she’s supposed to have six people pilot her(or was it eight?), so the fact that The Doctor can do so at all is quite a feat. That said, River is able to pilot her, so that point’s a little moo(it’s a cow’s opinion).
But, as you can see from my phrasing, the TARDIS is not really an “it.” The TARDIS is sentient, and alive, and should(emphasis on should) be able to stop anyone else from controlling her.
Edit for @powalen:
Yeah, I quite like the concept of River Song, but I felt like the execution was a little too rushed. I know it did go for quite a while, but it feels to me like it would have been better to really drag it all out(as stupid a phrase as that sounds).
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@powalen: I’m upvoting Dr. Corday from ER!
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Can be both or neither 😛 Sometimes he just runs into them one day and is like “Hey I’m an alien lets go into my small blue box” and other times there’s a mystery going on or some other reasons that they team up for.
They’ve been trying to change it up each time!
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She’s in Xenoblade <3
Play more Xenoblade!
My entry into that BioShock contest isn’t a haiku, so I think I’ve disqualified myself from winning, but I had fun writing it, so I’m happy.
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I reckon 8 entries is prob enough for me, although I’m pleased I managed to incorporate “Americana” and “Sewage” into responses.
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Dammit! I was gonna say him but didn’t! /o\
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I’ve been at work since 8am and will continue to be so until 8pm.
Also I have had no lunch, not even a drink of water and haven’t even seen my wife and kids today.
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Another 2.5 hours until home.
Just going to have to wait until Saturday night 😀
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It’ll be all kinds of awesome! Carrot Highway’s never let any one down! 😛
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I’ll always be going your way down the carrot highway DC.
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Matthew McConaughey’s signed on as the lead in Christopher Nolan’s Intersteller. Interesting choice.
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That was me being diplomatic. 😀 I’m sure the Nolan’s know what they’re doing. He’s apparently been doing some good stuff lately too, but I haven’t seen any of it. Haha.
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WORKWORKWORK. Seriously. Yesterday? 4x4ing to get to a super-remote area for client extraction. (I totally made that sound far cooler than it was. I drove an uncomfortable car in uncomfortable weather for an uncomfortable length of time)
Today? LET’S HERD CATS \o/
Tomorrow? Iunno, actually. I really like the fact that I don’t know for certain just what the day will bring. It’s… nice. And also bizarre, considering I’m an AO2.
@blaghman, @powalen: You guys see this? http://collider.com/doctor-who-animated-series-concept-art/
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Oh man, the potential.
Now to live it through in my mind, as though it was made, and it was actually good.
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Glorious.
Hey everyone.
man, I am so tired.
Sid nicked off and I went looking for him for two hours st night =(
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After Mum came out to look for him with me that he appeared to follow us home. So I have no idea where he was.
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That’s good to hear!
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I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t. I’m weeks behind The Amazing Race cause I don’t feel like watching it and I technically like that show. 😛
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I know it ain’t Survivor! 😀
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Arcade Fire are on it, I swear!
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That’s making me rethink this whole Arcade Fire thing! 😛
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Survivor Spoilahs
🙁 at Dawn crying
😀 at green tribe
Haha at tribe naming, they didn’t show it last season (or the one before) which was sad. It was just BAM new tribe name…
I shouldn’t watch this challenge while eating dinner…
Cochran’s cocky dance is amazing
Haha Erik…
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You actually watched it on TV? Wow!
Anyway, great episode!
The eating challenge was hilarious! Loved how much Eddie struggled with the duck egg. Coughing and spluttering everywhere haha Cochran has gone from someone who is just kinda there to someone I really like after this episode.Also, bahahahah! Bloody Corrine. Funniest blindside vote ever. She sees all these votes for Sherri and is like 😀 then slowly slowly she goes 😀 🙂 😐 :O D: So funny. I’ll kinda miss her and Phillips fights though 😛
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lolwut? No, I downloaded it! It finished a few hours ago but I saved it for dinner 😀
Did you watch Cochran’s original season? I loved him in that (until he fucked everyone up), so he was always one of my favourites coming into this season. I love Dawn too!
Corrine is such a bitch but I loved that blindside too haha! Hey, did Jeff say she’d be the first member of the Jury or not? Did you see her original season? She said some really nasty things as a Jury member 🙁-
The only person I remember watching the original season of is Eric. I seem to remember the blonde girl’s face as well (Can’t even remember her name now haha) Andrea! Had to google that… (Which is weird because apparently Phillip was in the same season as her and I don’t remember him at all 😛Anyway! No, nobody mentioned jury members yet.
EDIT: It’s just weird because it looked as if you were live-updating as the episode aired on tv! 😛
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OHHHH MY LORDY!
One of my fave eps ever, for reals. That was amazing! Loved Dawns speech at the start about needing to be a player to win. Loved Cochrans immunity win. Big game moves by Corinne which are always fun to see. But then that glimmer of hope with Dawn… and I was like talk to Cochran, talk to Cochran… and she did! SO HAPPY! Knew Cochran wouldnt let that go down. Ohhhhh man. Amazing. Big moves outplayed by even bigger ones. AND the dudebros are on the outs. Hopefully for good. Probably not. But I can hope!
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Horrible soulless beings being horrible and soulless.
Actually I can see why you like it. You liked Jersey Shore after all.
Totally watched it.
Awesome challenge. Almost wanted them to say okay to splitting the votes so that they would be guaranteed the numbers to get rid of Sherri, and then go to town on the other favourites. But then again, I just want Philip out and for someone to be all like “Pretty sure that’s NOT what Boston Rob would have done, ya jackass.”
Happy Gilmore reference…
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According to IMDb you guys share a birthday with Heath Ledger and Robert Downy Jnr.
Yeah, D.C.’s got too much time on his hands. :S
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Weight loss update: Lost 1.8 kilos this week. Had Honey Soy Chicken and Veg with Hokkien Noodles to celebrate. Woot!
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That was a general apology for anyone who felt it was 🙂
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Suck a fart Grilgan – you’re dead!
thanks @35 u r a bro
Ps I didn’t realize the immortals in your team just get up after a turn of KO (although admittedly it makes sense). Previously I was desperately trying to res them – guess I should have read the manual!
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Well done man! That guys a bastard.
From now on its a bit better with its pacing, so you dinner really come up against anything you haven’t had time to level up for.
Also, something i kept forgetting when i played for the first time: always have your immortals learning a skill from an item & linked to a mortal & keep rotating the items once that skills been learned.
it’ll make things easier 🙂
Edit: spelling. goddamn autocorrect.
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Hi Thirsty. I’m Uncle Freeze.
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It feels wrong to downvote you on your birthday. 🙁
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Wait until after midnight and come back then 😛
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I like how @dc actually did that
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You know, I’m leading people into a chance to continue the quote from The Incredibles, and you just had to ruin it.
I am so disappointed.
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“Where’s MAI SOOPAH SOOT?!!!”
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“Diamonds are like boys. Keep looking until you find the one you love…at Michael Hill.”
Because girls go looking for boys at Michael Hill…
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if a rich, single man is hanging around a jewelry store usually marketed toward women, I dont think he’s the sorta guy thats gonna be interested.
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I was thinking more that a woman would have to steal him from another woman that dragged him there
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thats just mean :p
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Probably, but gold diggers.
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I’m just going to assume the happiness is due to the herbs…
😛Also, Happy Birthday (Apparently it’s your birthday today?) \o/
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Heath Ledger? Oh he’s dead so I guess that doesn’t count (R.I.P.) :'(
Happy Birthday Robert Downey Jr.!
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I’m one of those suckers that believes in spending a bit extra for computer chairs. Here’s hoping you got an awesome one.
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http://media.officeworks.com.au/ims_docs/4F/4FF40F5BD9AF50D0E10080000AF11387.JPG
Surprisingly comfortable and the covering feels really nice.
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Mad Men is what we’re watching at the moment. Just started season 2, so some ways to go yet. After that, it’s a bit up in the air. Might check out The Wire.
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Man, all the feels in the last ep of season 1:
The scene where he’s pitching the marketing campaign for the Kodak wheel was unbelievable. Not a dry eye in the house, and I think quite possibly the most honest moment of the entire show so far.-
The whole Peggy thing was mind blowing when I first saw the show. Didn’t see that happening at all.Early season two spoilers:
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After careful consideration, I won’t be clicking. Sorry, man 🙂
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That’s okay. Not entirely sure if it was in the season premiere or a couple of eps after, that’s why I seperated it from the other spoiler… to give you the choice. 😀
Edit: Just checked. It’s a little later in the season. Sorry, don’t click. :S
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Generic analysis:
A unique show. I can’t even put my finger on what this show is about… and yet, it still feels like a unified piece. There’s something pretty special going on under the surface, and at the moment, I’m having a bit of difficulty deciphering exactly what that is. Mad Men will require multiple viewings, I think, because the small bits of subtext I can decode are fricking amazing. -
@shane –
I know exactly what you mean. I kind of find that sometimes it’s good to not know, or to even try and put your finger on it when it’s like that. When there’s something instinctively right about it, I find I’ll just kind of be happy that thats all it needs to be. This is coming from years of analysing every single second of every scene of film and tv too, analysing is ingrained into me, so I’ll always be doing it too. But I have a similar reaction to Mad Men, and I’ve learnt to run with it for the most part. That being said though, the show has made for some great dinner table discussions with differing opinions 🙂
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Just watched that scene you mentioned again. Made me feel sad. 🙁
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But so damn good.
Kind of a puzzle piece scene, and exactly what we’ve waited all season to see!
That scene is probably the most commonly referred to scene in the show
So I (sort of) had a thought. Don’t worry, I’m fine, it’s stopped hurting.
Anyway, ages back I participated in a weekly musical appreciation thing, which was anime-themed. Basically every week there was some kind of theme or category (like ‘winter’ or ‘cityscapes’ or ‘piano’), people would nominate ten pieces from various shows (one nomination per person, max one per show unless there was a specific reason to allow a second) and then we’d listen to them vote for our top three the following week.
I think there’s a few people here who are into game music so I was wondering if anyone would be interested in running something similar in TAY, but game focused so every week isn’t about how good Yoko Kanno is (spoiler: very).
Probably would have to coordinate and maybe run it off TAY (maybe Potaku?) since the constant stream of new posts & pages would make discussion harder.
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If it went on Potaku I’d just find some way to make Yoko Kanno win every week.
Oh wait, it wouldn’t be anime, it’d be games. Well I’d still find a way!
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Went exploring on the Minecraft server a bit. Found @powalen’s third house, then a sign:
‘Follow the sandstone to @sughly’s house!’
It was like a bread crumb trail!
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Who put a sign to the hermit house? Man, someone needs a crash course on the hermit way. Don’t give directions to your home! 😛
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@trjn
Going to start concreting things. Maru Korean BBQ Restaurant on Elizabeth St sound good?
@dc can tag the rest. He won’t forget anyone 😛
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@freezespreston, @sughly, @virus__, @strange, @sernobulus, @welbot, @trjn, @lambomann007, @jimu, @gutsoup, @beardymcmuttonchops, @rocketman
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Yeah its ok, I honestly dont have anything major against it, and I like that theres a majority consensus for it 🙂
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Works for me.
On a sidenote, I still have @strange ‘s copy of Carcosonne. Should I bring it to the meat or drop it off sometime this weekend?
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Bringing it would be handy. We’ll be out most of the rest of the weekend.
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Okay, I’ll do just that.
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7:30!?
AT NIGHT!?!?!
I’m not a young man anymore! But I suppose you are what you eat. LOL!!!!11!1!!
Twitter me details please.
So I’ll be withdrawing from college tomorrow.
I’ve kinda had enough of it all. Constantly studying and barely having free time. All the late nights and early mornings. Not being able to keep up with all the work and getting not really good grades. Not having time to work on my super secret project or any other ideas and projects I have is driving me insane. Plus I don’t think I actually need this degree. I mean, what I’ve studied so far had been helpful and has cleared up a few things I was unsure about in programming, but you don’t need a really in depth degree in game programming to be able to make games these days. It’d be a lot easier for me to teach myself what I need to know when I need to know it, which is what I was doing before. Plus did I mention that not being able to work on my super secret project is driving me insane? That has the potential to become something really big and the thought of barely being able to work on it for two years just aggravates me. I didn’t realize my degree would require this much work and time before I started 🙁
Also, I’ve decided to use MonoGame for my super secret project. Now that I have a better grasp on programming I’ve been able to pick up stuff a whole lot more easily. I was checking out a few tutorials this morning (about screen states and A* path finding) and I actually knew what they were on about, which is good 😛 Construct 2 is good and all, but HTML5 games kinda suck performance wise on phones right now.
Plus I can use MonoGame to reach more platforms, including Playstation Mobile. Which will be good because then my brother will stop pestering me to make games for his vita all the time 😛
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Do you think it’s just a bit jarring after being home schooled? Either way, you’re a weird and cool sort of guy who I suspect will be able to carve out your own path through persistence and all that. Good luck! 😀
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Pretty much what DC said – it’s a huge change after being home schooled. Would it be possible to study part time? If you have found what you’re learning in this short time helpful, perhaps it may be worth sticking with it a bit longer with a reduced course load?
But also what DC said – you seem like the kind of guy who can probably make it on your own.
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It’s not like I sat around doing nothing all day when I was homeschooled 😛 That’s called Natural Learning (people who do that are weird…)
The stuff I learnt from what I’ve studied so far I think I would have learnt about on my own in that time frame had I not gone to college. The way I’ve being going with learning all this sort of stuff is that I started off with a bit of programming, and I had a good grasp of the basics. Some things were still confusing but I still got a HD in the Introduction to Object Oriented Programming subject in the previous degree I was doing via distance somehow 😛 I then started using Construct and Construct 2 where all the ‘programming’ I had to do was drag and drop scripting, which taught me a good deal about how game programming and logic works, plus I had an idea of how you’d do that sort of stuff in normal programming. I was going to try learning XNA or some other thing like that before I started my degree, and I probably would’ve learnt what I learnt from college on my own while doing that. I think I might just get a few books on the things I want to learn about, that would probably work better for me. (This programming subject I’ve been doing is based on a book that I’ve gotten out of the library before, but I didn’t know enough about programming back then for it to make sense whereas it probably would now).-
Perhaps I should have made myself more clear – I wasn’t suggesting you study part time because you’re not up to the demands of full time study, but rather to give you more time to devote to your own projects.
You said yourself
what I’ve studied so far had been helpful and has cleared up a few things I was unsure about in programming
and it could be useful to you to maintain that study but at a level that allows you to continue your own thing too.Perhaps even try part time study as a trial for the rest of the year so you could see how it works out for you. Of course, if during this trial your own project proves to need your full attention, and you’re still not finding any benefit from part time study, then make the full decision to leave.
Having said all this, I have no idea what your secret project is, and delaying it may defer an end to world hunger or war or something 😛 Or it might simply mean the difference between you being the guy who does this thing and someone else beating you to it.
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Haha, I knew what you meant. I was just joking around 😛
But yes, it is mostly about being the guy who does this thing before someone else beats me to it. Without going into much (any) detail about it (because it wouldn’t be secret then :P) what I’m working on has the potential to at the least be a good gimmick that makes me a lot of money, or at the most revolutionize the entire game industry. So yeah, I kinda want to be the first to do it.
Secretius knows all about it though 😛
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Thanks 🙂 Yeah, it has been a bit jarring. I’ve always been used to going at my own pace, going faster or slower on certain topics of I needed to (mostly faster though :P). It’s mostly the having no time to work on my own projects that’s made me want to quit the most though. It kind of feels like I’m trying really hard to take off and run across a field to some treasure of metaphorical relevance to this situation but all this study is holding me back and caging me in. I don’t really want to be like that for the next two years when I now think that all that study is unnecessary.
Plus I don’t mean to boast or sound like I have an inflated ego, but I think I have the potential to be like Bill Gates or Steve Jobs or one of those other people that made it big without having a degree.
But anyway, I’m going to take the rest of the year (or at least the next six months) off and focus on nothing but making games. Then I’ll see where I’m at and think about studying again. Hopefully I’ll be mega rich with my own private jet and a supermodel girlfriend by then though 😛-
Just don’t forget us 😛
It’s great to see that you’ve confidence within yourself. As an uneducated outsider, I’ve no real leg to stand on here, but isn’t that partially the point? Anyway, you’ve shown us what you can do, and we’re here to back you man. Go for it!
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Don’t worry, I won’t forget about you guys. Unlike some other people that have gone on to be big and famous *cough* @harli @jflamestar *cough* 😛
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Good luck, man. If you’re sure that’s the right move, then go for it!
I know what it’s like to have a major project on the shelf begging for your attention.
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Pfft, what sort of project have you ever worked on? Its not you’ve gotten a novel published or anything 😛
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University has a few other benefits aside from the degree itself. You get to meet like-minded people and build up a network of peers that could be pretty valuable when trying to break into the workforce.
Not only that, but the stuff you learn after the first year tends to be much more in-depth than what you’ll typically be able to learn by yourself. Sometimes you don’t know that you need to know something.
I’m not saying you shouldn’t leave, just know what you’re giving up. Hell, I dropped out. Twice. Not the smartest thing I’ve ever done but I’m just not the formal education type.
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Yeah, the getting to know other people was one of the main reasons I wanted to do this course in the first place. But I’ve left it open, so if in a years time this whole thing hasn’t worked out too well, I’ll go back and start studying again.
Also, this is the second time I’ve dropped out of a degree too 😛
Maybe consider deferring for a year rather than pulling out altogether b/c you mind change your mind later.
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Yeah, that’s what I’m doing actually. Not completely withdrawing from the college altogether. I’ve got 7 years to finish the course.
University is about teaching you the ability to learn on your own.
It also gives you an extremely useful piece of paper when you leave and want a job. It signals to an employer that you can commit to something and finish it. That piece of paper gets your foot in the door, later on your experience is what counts, but the paper itself is valuable because of that.
Programming courses at University don’t teach you the first thing about actually working as a programmer. Straight out of Uni I was a pretty reasonable achiever – stayed for an honors year in CompSci. I knew Big-O notations, lots of algorithms & data structures, specific things like Huffman Codes and data compression…
I couldn’t operate a debugger properly and had to be taught to debug things halfway from scratch. This wasn’t unexpected by my employer at least, but the first year or so of my job was when I realized that four years of Computer Science had taught me nothing about how programming works in the real world.
Unrelated: Tell me more about MonoGame. I’ve got my own little pet project – resurrecting an old tile-based RPG – and been looking for a good framework that’s easily portable. Unity is too 3D focused, and I was originally developing something using Qt but it’s such a business-oriented framework that it was too rigid for the UI I needed to lay out and stuff.
Ah man, sorry to hear that it didn’t work out.
I guess it’s better to act now rather than do something you regret. Like me for example, I don’t even like or care about the degree I’m doing yet here I am doing it. But the way I see it is while I don’t necessarily like Business, I hate it less than other things 😛
I can’t speak for your College or course but for me it’s a lot of self learning and it really doesn’t feel like I’m learning anything useful. If you feel like you can learn just as much by yourself (or more) then by all means, go for it!
I like that I know what your super secret project is (unless it changed? D:) 😛
Good luck with everything though!
God dammit @ruffleberg… I’ve just bought a rubiks cube.
Here’s hoping I learn to solve it, and not throw it against the wall in a fit of rage and spatial ineptitude.
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That’s what I’m worried about.
I bought a competition-quality “Zhanchi V” cube, and not a Rubiks branded one… partially because it’s apparently a much nicer cube in terms of mechanical movement, but primarily because it was $15 with free shipping as opposed to $12, with $15 shipping or so. Seemed to make sense 😛But yeah… I realise this is an impulsive purchase. I hope I get some use out of it, unlike my 3DS. I get the feeling that my impulsive expenditure rises the longer I stay on-eylandt without a break.
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I got one of those about seven years ago. Messed it up completely straight away. I solved it last year (after cheating and looking at ways to do it on the internet :P)
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You realise that the proper ones come with instructions on how to solve them in the box, right?
It’s not cheating to look up the various formula used. It’s all about mastering the patterns.
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Removing the stickers is a terrible way to do things. Much easier to deconstruct and reconstruct the cube (just turn one side a little bit and pop off the corner piece with something flat like a key or screwdriver).
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Myst is a great way to torture yourself. If nothing else, it tought me not to attempt Riven without a walkthrough 😛
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I got bored and some saw YouTube tutorial a few years ago. Of course I didn’t have a cube back then so I downloaded some 3D Rubiks Cube program and solved it through there…
It sucked 😛
So I bought a cube and using the power of my awesomeness it slowly spread throughout the school and most of my year 11 grade were solving cubes in class for a good few months.
Influentialius
Dark.Souls.
So, the armour I was basing my fist only weapon off (Thorns Armour) has bugged and will not spawn. Kinda depressing, I was looking forward to using it. =(
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Dark Souls
Ornstein and Smough kicked my butt again. I think this fight would be easier if I wasn’t trying to get Ornstein’s soul.
Ugh, fluius. It’s taken me more than 2 hours to do my daily page. Four times the usual time. Need Panadol and sleep. Night gang! 🙂
A MOBA game with 3 teams? Sure, why not?
It’s a Chinese game going into beta, so I doubt we’ll ever get to play it over hear but damn is that an intriguing idea. Also, it’s based on Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
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While I do thing the, uhh, saturation, that the MOBA market is getting is a little ludicrous, this is the sort of stuff I like to see. We need to shake this shiz up!
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Oddly enough, it turns out that the original game (Aeon of Strife) was a 3 player map. So someone thought of three way battles before coming up with the 5v5 dynamic we currently have.
Bizarre.
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This is making me miss the W3:tFT game I played that was like DotA, except it had above ground and below ground(well, water technically, and abilities were altered by which one you were in), and as well as spending money on items you could spend it on upgrading creeps, or the base.
It had no idea of that little thing called balance, but it was damn creative for a DotA clone.
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I miss the War3 custom maps. Starcraft 2 got a lot of things right but they still haven’t got that right.
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it kinda reminds me of a wracraft 3 mod called something like footman (or footsoldier) frenzy ( i really can’t remember what it was called.
but yeah it was basically a free for all dota (1v1v1v1, 4 bases each).
i remember you could play as a sheep
it was rad
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Yeah, footman frenzy was a lot of fun, there’s also a SC2 equivalent, but the magic is gone!
Because it’s set in space. And there’s no magic…
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TAY nights comment:
Playing Lost Odyssey,
Think “Gee, Seth’s tits are big”,
Meet Ming…
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I really need to start playing that again. My attention wandered once the game seemed to forget there was a story and just started meandering around aimlessly.
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I don’t find that description very appealing. I might end up quiting where you did if the is the case. Ming’s tits are too big for my tastes anyway, and although Seth’s hips swinging when she walks is damn sexy, she isn’t otherwise my type. Um that’s why we play JRPGs isn’t it??
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The last disc is where the game gets pretty epic and you spend about 90% of the disc doing sidequests (ie. levelling up in a temple). I think I spent more time on that part than the rest of the discs put together.
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Good god. Found an ancient old MP3 player from Highschool in the 90’s (64Mb. I was king with that much portable storage). The music I used to listen to :O
Can’t believe I can still sing along to that after over a decade has passed.
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More Cave.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=__obh4w6tD8And this concludes trip down memory lane. This is all the thing held.
Amazing.
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Some nostalgia on your birthday is not bad. Embrace it 🙂
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Nothing wrong with some Nick Cave. Happy Birthday 🙂 (sorry I’m technically a little late)
My own trip down memory lane is that I saw Kylie join Nick on stage to sing this at the Big Day Out several* years ago 😀
*many
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I think you would’ve beat me up in high school. 😀
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I recently found some mix CDs I made about 11 years ago. Holy shit my compilations made no sense. I felt like I had to make every mix CD a cross-section of my tastes, so you’d have Dicks Are For My Friends by Mindless Self Indulgence up against the opening music for Great Teacher Onizuka, and the last track would be something like Beer by Reel Big Fish.
Oh dear, for his art assignment, my friend is butchering the Zelda theme song. I don’t know if we can be friends anymore… You don’t mess with the classics.
Home with sick wife and sick baby today. /o\
Home with sick wife and sick baby today. \o/
Always look on the bright side of life *whistles*
Well, I have my first Indonesian test today. It’s a listening test, so hopefully not too much of a problem. Wish me luck.
Morning TAYbies.
So… Video games.
I’ve been playing Luigi’s Mansion 2, it’s much better than I had first thought. It’s also pretty funny at times. Oh, and while I was… insomniac… I bought Trials Evolution. Man oh man, I spent 4 hours on the trial version trying to get gold medals. It’s hooked me in already.
So, how is everyone else?
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Hey!
Luigi’s Mansion 2 is pretty great. I need to play it a bit more. Only up to the second area.
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Hey!
I take it by that first word of your post you might have played the multiplayer. I haven’t tried it myself, but do any TAYbies play it? I’ve heard it’s fun for playing and griefing.-
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Thank you for showing me this.
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Anyone ever heard of a game called Evoland before? Just came out on steam. It sounds pretty awesome http://store.steampowered.com/app/233470/
Description: Evoland is a journey through the history of action/adventure gaming, allowing you to unlock new technologies, gameplay systems and graphic upgrades as you progress through the game. Inspired by many cult series that have left their mark in the RPG video gaming culture, Evoland takes you from monochrome to full 3D graphics and from active time battles to real time boss fights, all with plenty of humor and references to many classic games.
I think I’m going to have to buy it.
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It’s an interesting concept, and is similar if not the same as a freeware game called Genetos… Although the genre is SHMUP instead of RPG.
I had a lot of fun with this game, and you can find it on Tatsuya Koyama’s website.
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I played the demo/basic version on the website, and it felt like that old Atari game Adventure. I didn’t think much of it, but I haven’t played the full version which seems much more fleshed out. If you end up buying it, could you tell us how it is?
Morning, it’s temporarily cold.
Also, five days til Rise of the Guardians is out on Blu-ray!
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@freezespreston
I saw you got Ross Noble tickets, I actually saw him last night. He spent an enormous portion of the show reciting Shakespeare as Daleks. He also said Shane Warne has 5 penises. Like a hand. I guarantee none of this will be in your show.
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Oh man, you’ve never seen him before? He doesn’t really have a show in the traditional sense. There are a couple of things he’ll say that are planned, but the vast majority of it is unscripted. Most of the time he’ll start talking about something, think of another thing, then be reminded of another thing and 30 minutes later he’ll eventually come back to the first point.
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@doc_what
I want this Spider-Woman shirt!:
http://www.comicsalliance.com/2013/04/04/captain-marvel-t-shirts-we-love-fine-kelly-sue-deconnick/
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When you get so fat you needed two? :p
Also, that seemed like a thing I posted a lot longer ago than the 5th
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Morning, TAY!
I finished LEGO City Undercover last night. Brilliant game! If you’ve ever liked the previous LEGO games then you’ll love this one. Graphically much better than I was expecting (especially that last scene. Woah!) and the city is much better realised than I would’ve thought. Tonnes of cars and people walking around. I’ve still got heaps to do though. I finished the story in about 30 hours, with only a 48% completion stat 😛 There’s so many collectibles in the city it’s not funny (and once you fully upgrade the gamepad scanner they’re not tedious to find like in some other games). This game gets the Powalen stamp of approval. I recommend it!
Oh, and I found and watched the first episode of The Middleman last night, @strange 😀 Really liked it! Very enjoyable.
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Hnnngh, I want to buy a Wii U just to play that game. But money 🙁
Have you played Lego Batman 2 or LOTR? How does it compare to those? I think LOTR is my most favourite of all the Lego games.-
It’s my favourite so far (though the only one I’ve played all the way through is Harry Potter and most of the first Star Wars one). I like that it’s not tied to a movie license so it’s free to draw inspiration from everything. I lost count of the number of action movie references 😛
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DARK SOULS.
Found a fatal flaw in my glass cannon Mage build (56 Int 28 Dex 8 End 10 Vit currently). Those sons of a motherfu– gosh darn Silver Knights with the Dragonslayer bows. I can’t do enough poise or physical damage with a weapon to stop him firing again point blank and the spells are too slow to fire off. Normally I just steamroll the guy but its proving difficult at the moment. Many swears have been had.
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If you time the roll right you can dodge arrows shot at you. It’s what i did in my current Punchymcpunch run through.Rolled through an arrow
He got his melee weapon out
I paried and kicked him off the building.-
He’s not even talking about Dark Souls.
This is just what he does on a normal day when he goes to the top of buildings.-
I love to parry jerks in real life and then kick them off buildings. It’s my favourite passtime.
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@greenius @negativezero
I hugged Rise cos she was crying…it said we were intimate, I felt sick to the stomach because I’m with Chie.
Watta GAME!
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Forgetting someone?
/reads first spoiler
/understands why you didn’t tag meHANDS OFF MY GIRL @jimu!!
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Ahhh, sorry. I was only trying to comfort her in a troubled time…
Also, didn’t think you’d wanna know til you played. 🙂
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Oh really? Thought you would have had one playthrough done & dusted already. I was a late bloomer 🙂
So addictedd, dunno how you can step away!
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I got distracted by being broke and also spending all my spare time finding a new house to live in and moving there. And also it was looking like I was going to have to spend a week or so away in Redmond so I wanted to save it for then.
Probably will get back to it once I polish off Xenoblade.
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This guy got his priorities straight!
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straight & backwards.
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Just say what month you’re at before the spoilers so people have a vague idea when it is and if they’re up to it or not 🙂
Luckily it wasn’t too spoilery!
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Imagine I KILLED YOU ALL!
(dood, I understand, do I really have to colon pee a death threat?)
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I don’t know what month I’m at but IIRC I just finished Kanji’s dungeon.
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Drinking some coffee!
Not sure if the milk is still ok…
I’m sure my colon will let me know soon enough, anyway.
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Oh mighty Chuloopa, heard anything about the Ultramarines movie that came out recently?
Instabuy or ultramegamusthavenowbuy?-
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It came out around the same time as SPACE MARINE i think.
You can already watch the full thing on youtube.
It’s pretty terribad – i haven’t even bothered watching all of it… oh god.. .the animation.. iT BURNS USSS!-
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Eeeeeww…
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I know, right?
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Oh lord, I think I’m gonna be sick.
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Pretty horrible, isn’t it??
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Aside from bad animation?
Kinda, yeah.
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I should defuse this before it turns into a fist fight.
Soviet Arcologies. *runs*
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http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GEClzTQ1DYs/T6f2IIdbg9I/AAAAAAAAAJM/cjQC_gjleLk/s1600/Meat58.jpg !!!
Edit: I need to learn how to post short links… lol
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go to http://www.bitly.com paste in the long link & it’ll give you a shortened one that you can c&p wherever you need it.
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[a href=”www.YourLinkGoesHere.com”]Words to make a link[/a]
just replace [ ] with < >
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Literally the only thing I remember from web design in high school.
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its the only thing i remember from software / web design in high school that’s still used.
all about the CSS now.
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CSS is fucking rad, my partner does design stuff in her spare time. CSS absolutely blows me away.
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@bdkiaf
hell yeah CSS is awesome. so much cleaner to use. my co-worker, who has taken it upon himself to maintain the libraries webpage, doesn’t use it. and its pretty shit. everything is inside nested tables, he formats using ” ” or whatever it is.
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Web design was fucking basic when I went, fucking basic.
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@spaghett now works shackled to his desk, with a big burly manager behind him with a whip keeping him on task.
He’s being perfomance managed becase he spent too much time on the internet.
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Happened to me a few years back, it’s probably for the best. Sometimes we have to admit there’s a problem.
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and here you are…
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There’s a difference between time on the internet and too much time on the internet. My current employer treats on-the-clock internet usage as an open secret and doesn’t care as long as we’re discreet and get our work done.
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sorry, I should have colon peed
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I figured you had your tongue in cheek but I felt it was important to explain anyway because I very nearly added exactly your comment to the end of my post in the first place. 😛
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Death Is Just A Feeling (Alternate Version) – Avantasia
From their brand new album which arrived yesterday. I don’t think they should have put that song on there though, it’s one of their best from a previous album so now instead of listening tothe new one, I just want to go back and listen to the old one again. 😛
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NOOOOOOOOOOO. Let it end with Peacekeeper Wars. Please. It’s ten years on – it had its fairytale revival.
So, the next Xbox is rumoured to require an Internet connection to start games. I don’t really play consoles all the much, except for exclusives (something something master race) but I assume a lot of console users will be a little pissed off if this rumour turns out to be fact.
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Apparently there is a 9 minute grace period before it pauses your game and forces you to reconnect. That could be … irritating
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Yes, very much so.
If it turns out that it will be an always on requirement, Hugo will be bidding a final farewell to games.
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PS4 looked pretty great at the reveal too, I could be happy being a one console guy instead of all console guy if it’s any thing like this generation. (Mostly same games, just with the better exclusives on the PS.)
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Yeah, I’m not really sold on this generation. Remember when consoles selling point was that it played games? Now it’s getting all this extra crap and playing games almost seems like an afterthought.
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Actually this s why I bought the WiiU (well that and fanboyism). It was sold as a game console, not a Bluray/Mediabox/twitter/Facebook monstrosity that can play games as a secondary purpose.
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I actually don’t mind some of the social networking stuff of PS4, sharing screenshots, seeing friends profiles and the like. Works well enough on Steam. Just depends on the balance and all that though.
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WORST.HERMIT.EVER
Seriously though, as each generation goes by Microsoft & Sony keep trying to make something like a PC but not a PC.
… Why not just buy a PC.
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That works for me! Something like a high end Steambox that doesn’t need Steam. Haha. The best parts of console gaming (sitting on couch with controller in hands) with the best part of PC gaming (graphics, customization)… 😀
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HDMI output => TV then you can play PC games on the couch. Hell, with Steam big picture mode it makes all your games playable without using a KB&M.
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Haha, good point. Way my house is setup at the moment would require moving the PC about and in some ways I’m a lazy guy. 😛
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I like the BluRay in PS3.
Otherwise the rest can GTFO
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Master Race
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For sure, if I could play Uncharted, The Last of Us, Red Dead Redemption, Heavy Rain, Beyond Two Souls on PC. 😀
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Why do you make me cry dc 🙁
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Your tears sustain me!
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Downvote for more sustenance
Where’s all the good ones? :p
They’re all good. Not a terrible JRPG in sight!
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@DC
Well, good. I wouldn’t want to see any of the bad ones listed, would I?
I don’t know, all the problems the PS3 had with the fallout games and SKYRIM! not sure if I can trust their consoles, as these take up the bulk of my gaming time.
I men seriously, I would be a quivering gelatinous mass of hate, rage and sorrow if I had bought SKYRIM! on the PS3
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It was mostly because they struggled to optimise the game for the Cell architecture. With Sony going for a much more standard one for the PS4 I doubt that is going to be a major issue again.
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I liked Skyrim on PS3!
…at first 😛 Then it got slower and slower and now I have no desire to ever play it again.
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They’ve fixed it, apparently – but that took several months after release. I sold it in a fit of rage after owning it for about a week.
Do what I always do, wait for the GOTY version, Fallot NV plays like a dream! 😀
(dead serious on all points)
I played Skyrim on PS3 and had no issues until really late in the game, I was about 2 trophies from platinum when it went mad, I had all kinds of crazy stuff happen, like every time i loaded it up the horse selling dude outside the first major city kept duplicating, i have a photo of 6 of him standing in a huddle, one is even stuck waist deep in the ground, I had quest givers not appearing where they should have been, problems with not being able to interact with NPCs, random dragon carcasses dropping out of the sky, one of the last quests i did the quest giver was invisible but present, i had to go off sound to find and interact with him, really ruined it for me, i persisted until i got the platinum and put it down never to be played again since. Was strange though that it was perfect for 95 % of the game then, ALLTHEPROBLEMSALLATONCE!!
Did it get a patch then get worse?
I thought I remembered hearing a patch screwed it up so they patched the patch.
You did pretty well considering.
I played it a couple months after release and don’t recall it being patched, I think I just had Good/ Bad Luck. Still really enjoyed the game, just a shame i ended on a bad note
Considering I’ll most likely be purchasing a PS4 (brand loyalty and whatnot) it doesn’t really piss me off at all. If Microsoft want to shoot themselves in the foot that’s their problem.
Honestly there hasn’t been a single piece of information real or not that had made me even pause to consider their offering yet.
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I think the sad part is the Durango could have a feature where it shits on your floor periodically and calls you a fat asshole every 10 minutes, and people would still flock to it. Maybe not everyone, but enough still would.
the PS4 event did a pretty good job of selling me on the console, but I figured I’d wait until the NextBox announcement to see what they had to counter with…
but if these ‘internet required to start up’ / ‘no used games’ rumors are true… then I’m not sure I’d even consider an XBox. Still… I’ll wait to see what is officially announced about this before deciding.
I have this funny feeling the next gen may be my last, if I dive in at all. Handhelds will forever be a thing for me as long as they’re around, but PS4/Durango is coming off as less and less appealing the more I hear.
My PS3 has been sorely neglected over the last year or two, and I’ve been favoring the PC more and more. I’ve always played both PC and consoles in fairly equal amounts, but consoles are losing for me. I honestly think they’re becoming less relevant as technology moves faster. Graphics and hardware specs are going up at exponential rates, and I honestly can’t see consoles keeping up unless they start aiming for a 3-4 year turnover period, which will never happen. It’s not financially viable.
The other hard truth is that consoles are basically turning into PC’s anyway. Once upon a time, I played consoles for simplicity. I bought a game, and that was it. I bunged it into the console and off I went. But now we have more and more complications like always on connections, DLC, retailer exclusives, timed exclusives – all kinds of stupid shit. And always on exists already on consoles for some things. I remember with my 360 (I got rid of it 2 or so years ago, so if it’s changed, feel free to correct me) if it had no connection, pretty much my entire XBLA downloaded titles were only playable as trial until I reconnected to XBL.
There just seems to be less and less reason to own both solutions, and PC is still by far the most flexible of the two. It’s also a fair bit more expensive, but for the freedom it offers, I don’t think it’s a bad thing.
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The guy was an enormous tool but there was a grain of truth in a lot of what he said about the industry. I think his vision was that eventually it would be the 3DO model – one baseline spec made by many manufacturers. Instead it’s just that everything is converging to a standard on its own.
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I’ll probably be going 1 leisure computer (WiiU) + Master Race this gen. And then probably grab a PS4 for cheap(er) in 4ish years to catch up. The next Xbox would have to be something pretty spectacular game-wise to make me consider it honestly. The only thing on the 360 that I want (and can’t play elsewhere) is Halo…
If it turns out to be true it will be the first generation for a while where I don’t have all the consoles.
I barely use my 360 these days anyway, so I don’t think I’ll be too sad.
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I still think I’ll stick primarily with Xbox next gen and pick up a PS4 later, because I don’t want to miss anything Quantic Dream puts out. I’ve already decided to pass on the Wii U though. About the only game for it so far I’ve had more than a passing interest in is Lego city Undercover and even then I think I’ll have forgotten all about it in a week or so.
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I’m feeling very similar. Probably will end up with all of them but the next Xbox is going to definitely be the last of them I get. I currently see PS4 being my primary console next gen – this gen it was 360 until the last few years where PS3 has taken over.
The always-on requirement absolutely kills interest in the system for me. It’s going to have to have some absolutely amazing exclusives. I’ll probably get one eventually anyway but I’ll probably wait.
This generation the difference between the hardware is going to be so negligible – assuming the leaks are correct, they have basically identical CPUs, GPUs and the only differentiation is the PS4 has faster memory – that there’s no reason not to be multi-platform. And since the platforms are both so close to PC, I’d expect to see the PC market get a lot more games which would previously have stayed on consoles, eg JRPGs.
I still see Japan latching onto the PS4 and ignoring the XBox vNext, and so for me the PS4 is the better choice of system. I also feel like Sony and MS have flipped around. Leading into the current gen, Sony were an arrogant bunch of assholes that felt they deserved to be successful and Microsoft were the young upstart with a new system that did games really well. Everything shifted when Don Mattrick took over from Peter Moore and now everything’s opposite. Sony’s new system is very games-focused and developer-focused, they’re going around courting indie developers and sending all the right signals… It’s very interesting how much of a shift there’s been now that Sony are in third place instead of first.
My GI Joe comp prize arrived this morning. The bag looks pretty badass but the placement of one of the zippers perplexes me. Also there is an abundance of black rubber. I kind of felt like I was wrestling with the gimp from Pulp Fiction.
Either way, I have transferred everything from my 8 year old backpack which was falling apart and smelled kind of bad, so there’s no going back now.
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This is where Kotaku readers go to talk about the stuff we’re not already posting about. Think of it as the official unofficial Kotaku community forum.
Welcome to TAY. it gets… verbose.
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An example of a real monster thread:
http://staging.kotaku.com.au/2012/12/talk-amongst-yourselves-202/
Don’t let the amount of comments deter you. 🙂
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Path of Exile – mini review
He’s a pretty cool guy.
Started a character last night and played through the first couple of side quests and got to about level 4 and only stopped because it was midnight and I had work the next day.
Haven’t seen much of the world yet but it seems fairly fleshed out in a basic survival/shipwreck kinda way.
Still getting my head around the leveling and skill systems but can already see the potential. When your character levels you have the ability add one passive skill point into your skill tree forest. Man this thing is huge (apparently 1350 skills) so it seems to be a case of finding a skill you want and building towards that. But they are all passive skills.
Abilities and spells are not something you gain when you level, they come from gems. Socketting a gem into weapons or armour grant you the ability associated with that gem. So currently I have a targeted heavy strike, a glacial strike and an AOE freeze due to the 3 gems I have. Further down the track it appears that you can combine gem combinations so that multiple are linked. So attaching a fireball gem to my heavy strike gem will be a heavy attack that does elemental damage.
Interestingly your gems gain experience as you do provided they are equipped. Still working out if it is only when they are used or if it is constant. But I think just having a gem in a spare socket can level the gem making it more valuable, even if you are not using it directly yourself.
Visually the game is ok, kinda bleak and dull but that suits the area I’m in. Will be interested in some co-op to see how that goes.
Intriguing ideas that are well executed, will play again
Edit: Forgot to mention the classes. 6 different classes focusing on the attributes of Strength, Dex and Int. One class for each primary and then one for each combination of 2. I’m playing a Templar which is a Strength/Int class. Currently planning to sword and board with bonuses to elemental damage.
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Aww, for a second I thought you were talking about the anime Last Exile. One of my favourites.
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That looks interesting. I haven’t watched any anime for so long, I really should get back into it. And fixed season shows like this could work rather than getting burnt out watching episode after episode of Kenshin or InuYasha
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Yeeeaaaaah. I cant do those long ones any more. Those were doable in my teen days, not any more.
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@strange Last Exile: Fam, the Silver Wing. It’s set after the first series, with a new protagonist. The original cast all turn up. I didn’t finish it yet, mainly because it never really grabbed the way the original did because I don’t like Fam (the protagonist) very much. It also feels less like it’s channeling parts of Dune (I always felt like the Guild in Last Exile was straight out of Dune)
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The gems do indeed level as long as they are equipped – no need to actually use them.
Also, do you want shiny things? I have a whole box full of shiny, lower level gear I did not want to throw away.
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Maybe, I’m at level 7 now and haven’t got much stuff. One yellow shield and I think the rest of my stuff is mostly blue
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Oh man, I can’t believe I didn’t mention this already. The pre-show and interval music for Ross Noble last night was this band called Oompah Brass. They play oompah covers of popular songs. The album titles are fantastic:
-Oompocalypse Now
-The Oompire Strikes Back
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http://collider.com/benedict-cumberbatch-crimson-peak/
I’m really looking forward to this movie. I like ghost story/haunted house stuff. 😀
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http://collider.com/guillermo-del-toro-the-strain-fx/
del Toro’s new FX series sounds pretty damn great as well!
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Also, anyone seen the movie Primer? Is it any good? Was reading about Upstream Color, apparently by the same director!
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Speaking of list related matters, my Foxtel DVR exploded taking Tree of Life, American History X, The Motorcycle Diaries and Heat with it. :'(
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Haha, PSHOOOOMMMM! The ghost of movie piracy is out to get you @dc.
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I cant keep up with everything this man is doing T_T
Its best not to try either, he’ll say hes making one film, then 5 months later its on the backburner with 100 others while he picks up a new project
That being said, an old school ghost story by him would be great. Devils Backbone was amazing
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Oh, that’s the one you suggested after we were talking about The Others, right?
I’ll add it to the list! 😀
Yeah, you’re not wrong about del Toro. I always get psyched about his stuff and then nothing eventuates. 🙁 Probably best to get excited about the TV series, that’ll actually happen! 😀
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13 Ghosts was not the greatest of movies, but one thing I loved was the back story and mythology of the all the different ghosts. (Remake, alas.)
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Also, Matthew Lillard is cool.
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Matthew Lillard is a really underrated actor. He’s always in kind of shitty movies (Hackers, Wing Commander, Scooby Doo) but always does a great job bringing his characters to life.
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Reposting from last night for Day Tay:
So I (sort of) had a thought. Don’t worry, I’m fine, it’s stopped hurting.
Anyway, ages back I participated in a weekly musical appreciation thing, which was anime-themed. Basically every week there was some kind of theme or category (like ‘winter’ or ‘cityscapes’ or ‘piano’), people would nominate ten pieces from various shows (one nomination per person, max one per show unless there was a specific reason to allow a second) and then we’d listen to them vote for our top three the following week.
I think there’s a few people here who are into game music so I was wondering if anyone would be interested in running something similar in TAY, but game focused so every week isn’t about how good Yoko Kanno is (spoiler: very).
Probably would have to coordinate and maybe run it off TAY (maybe Potaku?) since the constant stream of new posts & pages would make discussion harder.
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Oh ok, yeah fair enough. But still, they get tied up enough with the stuff they do each ep already, so probably not the best place for something like that.
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I’m saying that I’d do it. Just need a place to do so because TAY will be too hard due to churn.
Potaku is a website too…
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Yeah and welcome all sorts of new ideas 😀
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I’d just squee something about Rocket Knight Adventures on the Mega Drive and declare everyone else wrong so it’s probably for the best I abstain.
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SCOTT PILGRIM OST!! Love it!
Err, the game, that is.
Other noteworthy mentions from me would be Illusion of Time (or Gaia, whatevs), Mass Effect (despite not playing it, love the music), The Dig, and Machinarium.
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I love chiptunes. SP makes me “ew”
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I love the game to bits too! And the comics! There’s nothing ew worthy here >:(
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@sughly The movie was amusing enough. I was put off by the constant barrage of SCOTT PILGRIM!
I read sites about games, comics and movies. Normally there’s some crossover but SP was all over everything.Made me sick of it before I’d even experienced it.
Unfortunate really, under different circumstances, I could have been a fan. 🙂
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I like Ananamaguchi but don’t like SP much either. 🙂
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I liked the movie except for the last half hour.
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@dc I didn’t find any characters very likable. They were all very selfish :-/
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@jimu – so wait… youre ‘ewing’ my love of something… without even knowing what its like? Jimuuuu. Tsk tsk! >:(
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@jimu @dc – honestly, I hate the movie. The movie sucks. Everything else Scott Pilgrim (game/comics) are WAAAAAY better.
And if by ‘in part’ you mean seeing the movie, really doesnt count. At all.
Anamanaguchi did the game’s music.
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@sughly But you are always so unforgiving with movies. From what I’ve seen of the comics they aren’t all they’re made out to be. When I get a chance I will read and decide for my self. But there’s just so many good comics to be read. 🙂
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@jimu: Oh, I thought they were supposed to be terrible people. Especially Ramona. Haha.
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Anamanaguchi did the music for the game. They’re basically a chiptune band. Bass guitar, keyboard, drums and a NES or Gameboy depending on the song.
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Oh yeah, Mass Effect has some great music. Most BioWare games do too. Jade Empire and KotOR have some especially memorable stuff. Gabriel Knight 3 OST is pretty great.
There’s heaps of good game music out there so it wouldn’t be too hard to pull this off.
Just do it here then, why not!
Just pull it off!
If it’s done here I need to have an actual show of hands as to who is interested so they can be tagged in the post, and then need to re-post constantly.
@neg: Sounds interesting, if it’s not too time consuming I’m keen!
@dc: it would only be time consuming for the one organizing it.
Was power failure at work then after reboot it won’t let me log back in to Kotaku :S
and I was just about to post an image of my smiling face with my copy of Hyrule Historia which just arrived…
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Can’t! Too hard via phone and stupid desktop still won’t let me. Might have to try another reboot – two wrongs make a right, right?
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So this Defiance thing is oddly entertaining. Only got a couple of hours in last night because the servers were down for a bit when I got home from work, but I’m impressed so far. I had a friend play Tabula Rasa when it launched all those years ago, and this almost looks like a more refined idea of what Tabula Rasa was trying to do. I’ve only put in a couple of hours, so I’ll have to see on it’s longevity, but it looks decent and plays well so far.
It’s not subscription based either, similar type of model to Geeled Wors 2 – initial outlay, but you can spend real money to get extra things in game. They seem largely cosmetic at this point, so as long as it doesn’t turn out to be pay-to-win, I’m fine. They have a season pass as well, so I’m assuming that’ll just cover expansions/extra content.
So far it looks to be very much about the loot, and I always enjoy that addictive loot hunting side of games like this.
Not sure about the whole TV show tie in, or how much I’ll care about it – but as a standalone MMO, I can see some potential.
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I’m keen to play Defiance, it looks really interesting. Rift was good fun, and the big open world random events were really cool. It looks like they’ve got something similar going on here. Apparently there’s a bit of a lag issue though?
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I haven’t encountered anything as yet, but seeing as it’s only a few days old it’s probably just teething. Then again, I’ve only played a couple of hours and it seemed fine.
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I got this game close to release. I have only done a few main quests and couple of side missions. The quest system is great. Every quest / event is public so helping out people on a quest you haven’t got up to or have already done still gives you an exp reward.
Also the launch has been super smooth, almost zero latency issues for me!
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Finished all the quests I can in the village (up to 5*) but the next one is locked.(Assuming it’s 6*) So, working through the 1* Tanzia quests. Only have about 2 of those to go. Soloed it all thus far.
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Ah I had the same problem, but you actually need a mask for it.
There should be a Villager request to get an Ancient Mask. Once you do it, go to the statue behind the waterfall in the farm to get it and then the next quest will become available which will unlock 6* and High Rank once you complete itI’ve done everything up to 9* Village and I’m HR4 on Port with a few HR3 left to do.
About 116 hours :P. Maybe 20 hours or so would be just derping around in multiplayer, helping out others.
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Oh, well that’s shit. Why make the 6* dependent on a Shakalaka mask quest? It’d be nice if they made the correlation clear.
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Yeah, thought something went wrong when nothing else unlocked so I did some Googling. There’s another quest like that later on but I’m pretty sure it’s optional.
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I’m wondering how far the game goes, I’m actually a little concerned, tbh. MHFU on PSP went up to HR9, and the game was fucking enormous with the amount of quests you had to do, and it was fucking hard to boot. Once you hit HR5 and maybe HR6, there’s shit there you cannot possibly do alone. Once you git G-rank (HR7+) shit got fucking real.
I hope MH3U has a similar amount of quests in it, although I’ve found it to be noticeably easier than earlier MH titles. (Not saying that to be hipster either, it’s an honest observation) While my previous MH experience would be helping a truckload, I’m still finding it a little too simple. Hoping it’s just the start of what will be a rather sharp difficulty curve, but it sounds like people are smashing the game pretty easily.
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Well you haven’t reached high rank yet (which I started to struggle on) and there’s still G-rank in this game.
However, I hear the new Slime element is pretty damn OP. I’m loving it on my weapon now but it works better in numbers rather than solo. Look up Kelbi Bow videos and you’ll see dudes standing there spamming and taking down G-rank monsters in minutes.
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Well that’s good to know. At least they still have G-rank! I want this game to kick the shit out of me and make want to snap my 3DS in half.
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The torsional rigidity of a PSP was put to the test several times with MHFU.
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I’m still reeling from yesterday’s survivor XD
I usually watch it with my sister, but shes visiting NSW at the moment. We exchanged many excited emails about it instead ^_^
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Haha @strange ‘s crazy old lady brain must be wrong because this is one of the better seasons so far!
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She said it was a boring season! :O
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So? did it warrant such an insult? (half serious, I know you just playin’)
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You act like I’m the only one to have ever said old lady jokes 🙂
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I’m a good actor, I trained Brad Putt
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It’s all good. I’m the one always talking about my old lady brain. 🙂
Not sure I ever called it crazy though, @greenius! 😛
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I wrote a big reply last night after watching the ep to you and Pow. Nobody replied T_T
Cochran FTW! Loving Dawn in this season too.
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I read and upvoted!
I mainly agreed with everything you said so didn’t really need to post “I agree.”
But let’s totes continue the discussion here:
Malcolm is becoming more of a dudebro which is 🙁 but he’s still cool! Oh no, is Andrea falling for Eddie D:, she’s so purty :3. Erik is so derp sometimes hahaAnd I always liked those two but was pissed when Cochran stupidly switched in his season which screwed poor Dawn over :(. Good to see that they’re working together again though! I have a feeling Reynold might get far because he’s smart but I don’t want him to win! Dawn Dawn Dawn Dawn! -
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I agree with Sugs, Reynold is definitely doing something, Eddie is the one that’s just following along doing nothing 😛A little bit of me hopes that her comment was the other way around and Eddie was falling for her but it seems unlikely. Nothing about Eddie seems genuine, like he’s being a dudebro to try and further himself but Andrea seems pretty smart! I didn’t really pay much attention to her in her first season, but pretty much everyone was Boston Rob’s bitch in that season 😛Oh I forgot to reply to Powalen but trust me, you would know whether you’ve seen Philip and Andrea’s season or not because Philip is memorable 😛 (not in a good way)
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I watched it.
Corinne is an idiot. And Dawn is not much better. Corinne overplayed her hand. If she’d kept her mouth shut about next vote and just been satisfied this vote had been worked out she would been fine. And Phillip is more of a threat than Corinne(because I don’t think anyone has even the grudging amount of respect for Corinne that they do Phillip so she’s a safer bet to go to the final with) so Dawn should have kept her mouth shut at least until next week. I really like Cochrane but wish he wasn’t so close to Phillip. Phillip is a condescending dick and I can’t believe they’ve let him get his way for so long. I can’t believe Sheri went along with him instead of telling Corinne after he said “If you do this then it will let me know if I can use you again”. That right there shows he’s just using you as a pawn and you’ll have no winning chance if you go along with him. They should have voted him out as soon as he didn’t win immunity because who knows what will happen next.Why is everyone so stupid!? >:|
It’s better than the previous few weeks now but still far from the best season I’ve seen.
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You take that back about Dawn! But yeah, it was Corinne’s fault for talking too much. People would want to take Philip to the end because he’s a nut and won’t get any votes (it happened before). It was better for them to take out Corinne (or someone from the other alliance) because taking out Sheri wouldn’t help them, so Dawn had to act now.
Cochran is the best!
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Also regarding Sheri:
She would have known she was on the chopping block so why didn’t she fight? Why didn’t she try and make sure Reynold or Eddie or even Mike were gone. They’re bigger threats for immunity challenges than she is, so it wouldn’t have been to difficult to get one of them gone first. She’s just coasting,not playing. She even admitted she thinks she has no chance. Why be on the show if you’re not going to fight for survival with every weapon at your disposal?
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Team YouTube need to tone it down. (Watched half an ep of The Amazing Race from two weeks ago. :P)
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Team Hockey were so herpaderp over the singers that ep, was driving me nuts. Was embarrassing, actually.Spoiler for end of that ep:
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Pretty sure they were everyone’s favourite!
It was last weeks episode, wasn’t it? I’ve only got 7 episodes so far 😛
Just read every entry in the Bioshock comp, because fuck working. Jeeeesus there are some bad entries. I don’t envy Serrels at all if this is what the compettions are like normally. That said, some of them are pretty genius.
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You can’t win if you don’t enter!
I’ve NEVER won a competition under Serrels ( :'( ) and I’m terribad at creative writing ones but I still enter anyway!
I wrote a bunch of haikus just for fun and it took up a good amount of time last night 😀
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Yeah, I’m not a huge fan of my entry, but you gotta enter to have a chance!
I’ve never won a Kotaku comp. I won a voucher from Chuloopa’s Christmas dealie though.
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One day they will have a drawing one again. One day…
Also I won 2 tickets to Splendour through Kotaku once. Best prize!
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Oh wow! How’d that relate to gaming? (Not that you were complaining, I bet. Haha.)
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It didnt relate, at ALL! Haha! It was a promotion for that Australian horror film, ummm… whose name escapes me ^_^
About a prom date, or something. And an apparently infamous drill scene. *shrugs* Had to write a horror themed death related to music festivals. Nothing to do with games XD
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@markserrels
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WERE ANY OF MINE GENIUS!?!?
PLEASE TELL ME I’M GENIUS!!!
THE ONE ABOUT KILLING A HOOKER – THAT’S GOTTA BE GENIUS, RIGHT?!
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@jimu @greenius @ persona 4 TAYfronds:
http://www.polygon.com/features/2013/4/4/4154860/persona-4-letters
This is a pretty interesting (and fairly spoiler-free) discussion on Persona.
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DAAAAARKNESSSS!
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“It takes a long time to get going”
What? The fighting? The animation and art style fucking shot laser beams in my eyes the second I turned on the game.
Jesus, do people really think this stuff? UGH!
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I haven’t had to grind once so far, I just play through as the dungeons come. Is this something that was improved for Vita? Otherwise this guy makes no sense.
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He may have been playing on too high a difficulty. But also I think they smoothed it out in Golden
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I was like 10 levels lower for the first few dungeons and that was just fighting through. It wasn’t necessarily impossible but it was pretty damn hard so I grinded up to about the same level and the whole game has been much easier.
Playing on Normal difficulty
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Yep, normal here too, never had to grind once, I haven’t even gone back to old dungeons for quests yet.
The only time I kept dying was when there would be guys with instant death magic.This is why I prefer turn-based, I really feel in control
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I found social links to be much more benificial than levels. I would have died in 1 of the boss fights
(high level social link spoiler)
If I didn’t get Chie so high that she took the hit for my main) (I hate party based games where you die if they main dies but this just makes Social Links all the more important) -
I grinded but I didn’t mind. Just went to the previous dungeon and did the Triangle Auto-Attack thing and caught up on TAY as I battled.
Extra bosses are added to the previous dungeon once you beat it
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Like Death or something? Yeah, they’re supposed to be super late game, haven’t found once since I revisited the first dungeon.
And not a spoiler at all. If you set foot in them they’ll say “There’s a tough enemy ahead”
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Hey, do you finish off every map before moving to the next floor?
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I used to but then I couldn’t be bothered towards the end so I just find the exit ASAP
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Yeah, but I just can’t be bothered 😛
Loot wasn’t that great, I didn’t need new Personas or levels so might as well just go straight for the next level.
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@greenius Laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaame
It does take a few hours before you even get to dungeon properly and do the social stuff first.
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Yes, but I was enjoying this game from the minute the intro started. There’s a whole lot more to enjoy than game mechanics.
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That doesn’t mean it doesn’t take a while to get going though. I didn’t read the article so I’m not sure what context he used it but the game DOES take a while to get started up gameplay wise, but if he was referring to the game taking a while to be fun for him then he’s wrong. I was hooked from the get go as well.
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Yeah, it’s totally just his opinion. I just could’t disagree more.
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It would be better without the dungeons?
No, it would just be a social sim…
Oh boy!
(These guys claim to be RPG fans?)
That ended rather suddenly, it starts picking up, they start asking the big questions…but they never really answer them…
Decent though.
(still stuck with only having Kotaku access via phone)
The picture of Rise near the start of that article surely concludes @jimu and my debate re Rise vs Chie…
SO F’ING CUTE!!
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I just saved that pic and might make it my phone background 🙂
EDIT: Wow she looks great on my phone lock screen 😀
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http://p-atlus.jp/p4g/v/ir5xpJYzDd08/images/rise.jpg is my lock screen on my Vita. It’s very inviting.
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I have Heather from Silent Hill 3, mainly for the colour scheme
http://a1.ec-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/55/2e832c4bfdd44dbb900f000dbf34400d/l.jpg
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You can do ‘cuter’ than that.
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Of course, nothing cute about that at all :-/
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An image of a cute anime girl >> any other image
^^ mathematically, you should change your phone background.
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And I made Chie one of my Vita BGs along with Super Metrois screenshot, Juste Belmot, Tifa & Catherine.
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I couldn’t remember if she was also an idol or not.
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Well I idolize her….
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so the scientific industries in Australia have been having a hard time recently. Mainly because a) theres not enough people wanting to get into the industry, & b) because 90% of those who do, find better jobs overseas.
to fix this, i think Cracked dot com should be part of the high school science curriculum.
any article like This… should make anyone at least interested in science just because of how goddamn cool it is.
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Hah, I just finished reading that article. I think that would encourage people to become magicians or super villains rather than scientists though.
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I really should take advantage of dating a scientist and get my Boyfriend to start doing Awesome science at home…
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I should do an afternoon of it with drinks and stuff and have people round to watch… this sounds like an awesome Idea for a weekend afternoon meat…
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If the Big Bang Theory has taught me anything it’s that scientists are allowed to take dangerous chemicals and high powered lab equipment home with them and have wacky hijinks with them.
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Slow learner? :p
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That is some cool as, wacky materials there. The memory metal is freaky, but all I can think about is nut jobs using that to prove that homeopathy is real
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And that article doesn’t even go into the fucking weird shit that goes on at extreme cold. Superconductors start to float, water in completely sealed glass containers will drip through the glass and other stuff. It’s pretty amazing.
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yeah, I’ve read bout them. my flatmate did nanotech at uni & kept bringing home stories & papers about some real awesome stuff. so cool.
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Low temperature physics is amazing. It’s like at some point you take enough energy out of the system and the entirety of the known rules of physics itself starts to break down.
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It’s cooled down significantly in Sydney over the past few days. Which is awesome, because I love beanie weather!
Red wrote a thing about LucasArts, yo.
@powalen
Spoilering just in case. LEGO City Undercover stuff
I finished the game but it occured to me that there’s still some ability missing, I think? In the later levels I remember seeing boxes with handles and I couldn’t do anything with them, kept telling me the ability was still locked. Do you know what that is/how to get it?
The mammoth collectible hunt begins!
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I’m wondering if I should hold off on the collectible gathering until I have beaten the game. A lot if the secrets I find need special abilities / costumes.
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Yeah, gather what you can along the way but you’ll need all of the abilities (one unlocks post-game) to get everything!
EDIT: It’s so satisfying to be led through a long string of obstacles that requires every ability to get to the end!
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Oh man I was going to comment on the weather! (Odd thing to get excited about discussing…) but yeah, the last couple of nights have been the best sleeping weather ever! It’s finally cold enough to use a doona 😛
Anyway, LEGO.
Haha yup, that stumped me as well. They don’t explain it in the game at all I had to google it 😛 You need to use the Rex Fury disguise in your criminal slot (you should’ve got the disguise in the last mission during the freefall, but it is missable)I’m officially at the halfway point now. 225 out of 450 gold bricks 😛
Tip to make collectible hunting easier:
Google the locations of the red bricks. There’s some really awesome ones that make everything so much easier to do (like making the colour gun not need to be filled each time you need a new colour :P) and unlimited dynamite-
Ahh that makes sense! Awesome! The first thing I did on finishing was go online to look at the red brick locations. 😛
And I was going to challenge you to a race to 100%, but you’re so far ahead of me it would be pointless!
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Woo Lucasarts!
Hey, I had a look at the stats page for my articles. That Crusader Kings one really had some legs, didn’t it?
I’m pretty sure I passed my Indonesian test. Not sure how well I did, but I’ll find out on Tuesday.
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Why’d you eat it in the first place!?
#ToiletHumor
#HashtagginPunchlines
#Useless
#KindaLikeMyExWife
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Hmmmm! The free art book for preordering Fire Emblem: Awakening from EBGames sure does look tempting.
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Ooooooh. Is there any better pictures of the art book?
EDIT: Nevermind! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6vi_0hJOWM
Hm… I dunno. Maybe 😛
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Booklet, really. The pages are big and thick, but there’s very little content.
What’s in there is nice, but I think if you can get it for cheaper, that’s probably better than getting the ‘artbook’.
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Check the video I posted! It’s a ten page art book(let). Looks like it only shows a very small handful of characters 😛
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Do me a favour, scroll down to the cards at the bottom of this article. Can anyone tell me Asuka Kazama’s breasts got so big?
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Fluoride in water? Hormones in the chicken? Body image issues resulting in augmentation of some sort? Pervert on the development team? 😀
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Really? Cos in the JAPANESE videogame she comes from, it isn’t like that.
Also, MORTAL KOMBAT.
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I like that Hernandez took the time to squeeze in a ‘not enough women’ comment in her Survival Instinct/Colonial Marines comparison article. I never got more than a few hours into Colonial Marines, but I seem to remember travelling with two people for a fair way – one guy, and one woman.
Is it just me, or does she seem to really reach on some of these things? She’s had some really valid points and well written articles: re sexism/feminism, etc, but then she just undermines all her good work by trying to take offence to anything and writing something about it.
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One of your squad members is a woman, though that’s probably a bad thing as she’s rough and tough due to being a marine, and therefore a stereotype or something.
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I know right. The alternative is to put a girly girl in that screams whenever she sees an alien and has to stop to adjust her high heels and makeup regularly. She’d also require constant rescue.
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Can’t forget that you also hang out with a superior officer.
WHO IS A WOMAN!
AND SHE MAKES A BAD CALL, WHICH IS DUE TO THE WRITERS NOT TRUSTING WOMEN. BECAUSE OF THE FACT THAT WOMEN ARE EVIL! RAH RAH RAH.
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My doctor advised me against reading Hernandez articles when I was brought into an emergency ward with a fractured skull due to the amounts of “face desks” I did while reading her articles.
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I like that commenters took the time to squeeze a ‘Hernandez is complaining about not enough women’ into their response.
One line out of a major article and you make it sound like she is going on and on about it in that piece.
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Apart from the fact in the Aliens story, Ripley is elsewhere at this point.
I think the complaint of women being ‘barely present’ is bullshit because there was women in Colonial Marines. I’m not undermining her highlighting a lack of women where it’s valid, but it’s just not true here.
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What I find highly offensive is that there isn’t more women with penises. It’s a sexist conspiracy.
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There’s prolly a whole lot more than we humble TAYbies are aware.
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MOAR!
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Fair enough
I read that differently, I thought that she was talking about the fact their wasn’t a heroine not that there wasn’t any females.
It doesn’t have to be Ripley but to me the protagonist in an aliens adventure is a woman. It’s like playing a tomb raider game with a guy. Call it uncharted and I wouldn’t have a problem, but call it tomb raider and have me control Bazza croft and it isn’t going to feel like a tomb raider game.
That was the interpretation of the comment I took but re-reading I may have taken some liberties with what she was actually saying.
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So it looks like Adam Orth, the Creative Director at MS has close to confirmed the always online rumours for Durango in the most asshole-like way possible.
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…wow, what a jerk. That’s exceptionally unprofessional.
I’m keen to see him get publicly reprimanded by MS.
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He won’t be unless he leaks something – he’s allowed to express his opinion.
Privately though, I imagine someone will have a word with him. 😛
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When people next ask me what a ‘dickman’ is, Adam Orth will be my dictionary definition.
dickman
Pronounciation : dick.manAdjective:
1. Some asshole that clearly likes praline and dick.
2. Adam Orth-
Isn’t it a noun?
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He just is. OK?
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#missingthepoint
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#keepinglanguagepure
#literaryhitler
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This guy.
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I thought about contacting him first but I figured TAY was more important.
But yes, @markserrels please draw attention to this (or update the related existing article) and enrage the masses! Unless of course Kotaku US is in the middle of doing it already.
Looks like he’s turned his account over to private. Can’t imagine why…
EDIT: Or not. Maybe Twitter just hates me.
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Last generation the thing that made me want an Xbox badly was the BioWare exclusives. Now they’re all multiplatform, so it doesn’t matter. Also Fable was a big selling point, but the third game wasn’t all that good. Never played a Halo game though. 😀
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That could be the killer. If enough people say bugger the always on and go PS4 then that is where the friends will go.
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ALways on just isn;’t even a possibility for me. The net is way too inconsistant at my house.
That’s part of that dick’s dickery, he thinks everyone should move to the City? What a rich cock!
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As Phil Fish said ‘Count your privileges’
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It’s the first time I’ve ever agreed with Phil Fish.
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I was think of you when I posted that comment
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Charging out of the gates on the defensive doesn’t exactly scream “I have confidence in this product!”
Woo, early end to Friday work!
Off to my mother’s 60th birthday, which promises to be rather interesting as I’m driving 250km with a $550 bottle of wine in my car, then getting drunk with some old people. Fun!
Have a good weekend all!
c’mon 3 O’Clock, Gutsoup wants to go home & play games, I gotta ascend to the rank of God in GOW:Ascention, delve into the depths of “The Cave” and blow up some folk on Battlefield. Game lust rising. Work Ethic falling.
Edit: <—— Bored
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yeah, same here, for some reason I was really keen when the Beta was up but have kinda forgotten about it since i got the game, that coupled with the fact i’m trying to get a replacement DLC code for the multiplayer unlocks cause they sent me an already used code, kinda killed my motivation
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The best damn folk ever. Seriously, one of the nicest groups of people you’ll encounter. You’ve already met me and Sughly too, so that should make it easier!
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My friend Joshy P will probably be tagging along since he doesn’t get out much. Dan! knows him and he’s mates with MKHoddy so I figure he’ll fit in well.
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Commence @dc panic in 3…2…1…
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You know me well, man. Been freaking out for the past four minutes.
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And this is why Freeze should not have mentioned it in advance, just surprised you/us. Too lateto freak out when it’s a surprise. 😛
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He obviously doesn’t know you well enough, he was 1 minute late with the DC freak out forecast.
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@sernobulus: I saw his tweet to DAN! on twitter, he CC’d his pal. Freakout commenced. 😛
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I’m also bringing half a dozen friends.
I’m not, I don’t even have half a dozen friends.
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Does he know that I’m friends with them?
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Eek! Strangers! 😛
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Eek! Strange*! 😛
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Joshy P sounds like a member of a boy band.
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That’s how Joshy P and Mikey W met!
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And the 2 Danny C’s.
You’d better be going, young man. Or you’ll be in trouble! Or I’ll just be sad. One of the two. 😛
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*Insert old el paso mexican girl here*
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Strange is frightening, though. Be warned. She scared me the most.
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me? I didn’t think anyone would care/ notice if I didn’t turn up… ulp O_o
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You’re Trjn’s replacement… 😛
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It’s easy. You may not always be right but you’re never wrong.
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D:
No. Replacing. Bunny. >:(
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Joking! 😀
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I dunno, he has the right build…hair’s all wrong though 😛
I will.
I used to be known as The First Lady around here so I’m pretty important, you know. 😛
‘used to be known as…’ ?
you still are The First Lady.
Edit: Spelling.
She ran for election and is now President!
I usurped her.
Y’know if MH4, God Eater 2 or PSO2 are even confirmed for a western release, (Or Vita release at all in MH4’s case) I’d rebuy a Vita.
These three titles would make me rebuy. Currently I still don’t regret selling it.
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I never actually played MH, I’m just teasing @greenius
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Was getting the 3DS one til they removed online 🙁
(Im too shit to do that sort of thing without help)
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Nope. *fingers crossed*
(I think God Eater was the most likely?)
(MH4 is fan-speculation, but I remember when Capcom announced all those GameCube exclusive RE games)
Anyway, no rush is there? If something good does come out, then get one. If it never happens then SAAAAAAAAFE.
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Yeah man. I think MH4 is not likely to be a Vita thing, but it could well turn out to be. Whereas God Eater 2 and PSO2 are definite Vita releases, just unsure about a western release, right?
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Maaan I hope PSO2 is coming. Free to play & download. Looks awesome.Too many great lookin’ Japanese games in Localisation-mystery-limbo 🙁
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Over in my camp, couldn’t of got one at a better time.
Grabbed all those FF games at 50% off.
Got Persona 3 50%
and Stranger’s Wrath at 35% off.
And this month Guacamelee!
(and Murasmase & Dragon’s crown soon, but I won’t mention them cos I do too often)
PSO2 – this is definitely coming for PC and I see no reason why they wouldn’t do it for Vita as well since they’re localizing everything anyway. But not confirmed.
MH4 – Sounds like Nintendo has this tied up at the moment. Apparently the reason Crapcom made the shift was that they don’t like working inside the confines of PSN. :\ Anyway, I expect MH4U on Vita 9-12 months after MH4, unless the Vita’s dead by then.
God Eater 2 – I actually think this is fairly likely. It’s Namco and aside from Tales they rarely sit on stuff, plus God Eater Burst was released in the west already. If Namco / D3 don’t grab it I’d imagine XSeed or Aksys or GungHo or one of the other niche publishers might have a crack at it too.
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I hope God Eater 2 is a thing, and because of Vita not being FUCKING REGION LOCKED *coughnintendocough* options will be far better.
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I saw a comment from the Final Fantasy Type-0 guy that he wants to port Type-0 to 3DS. Instead of Vita. FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFffffffffffffffffffffffff
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Oh dude.
ALL the FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff
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If I got the game in any form, I would be happy. Yes, it would be better on Vita, but 3DS version is better than no version.
(I was just reading stuff today and it seems like he often says random comments like this, there was also a comment about how nice Vita’s screen is)
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Weird, Sony were ok with reducing PSN restrictions w/ Portal 2, weren’t they? I would have thought the MH series would have had enough weight to get similar treatment :/
I saw this last night. I’ve never played a Drakengard game, but if anyone has, how similar are they to Nier, as I know Nier branched off from Drakengard? I dunno whether to be excited about this or not 😀
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Not at all from what I hear. Drakengard’s like a Dragon Flying sim slash JRPG strategy dealie (never played)
It’s so sad we’ll never see a Nierish thing from that team 🙁
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They are more similar to Dynasty Warriors games than they are to Nier. I really enjoyed the one I played though. Had no idea until I’d finished Nier the two were in any way related though.
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Oh damn 🙁 It’s weird because in an article that I read on Kotaku US last night one of the creators said this one should really be called Drakengard 4 because Nier was essentially Drakengard 3.
“That conceptual idea got tossed around a bit and eventually became the game, NieR. So for me, NieR is Drakengard 3.” (Apparently there was even an idea to call Drakengard 3, Drakengard 4.)
http://kotaku.com/drakengard-3-isnt-just-about-making-a-sequel-not-en-469640600It would be a dream come true to get another game like Nier with such an amazing story.
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I enjoyed reading the comments for that article. It made me want to go back and replay Drakengard and Nier.
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I haven’t played Nier, but Drakengard is hack & slash stuff.
The best thing about Drakengard 3 is that it’s the same creative team that used to make up Cavia. I’d assume that when Cavia got folded after Nier they broke them all up.
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Yeah, pretty much what the others have said.
I’ve played the first Drakengard and it was okay but felt really unpolished and wasn’t that great. More Dynasty Warriors hack and slash beat em up type of game and nothing like Nier. I hear the second one was alright but never played it.
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Ah, I was talking gameplay wise. I don’t even remember anything about the story, it’s been so long 😛 – I don’t think I even finished it…
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Today’s informational tidbit: there are 416 distinct syllables in spoken Japanese. English has 7,931.
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There’s entirely not enough swearbotting and feckless usage of capslock of late.
Nefbot needs to rectify this.
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Ahhh Saturdays.
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wut?
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…why? lotsa people here were saying how good it was, so I’d be inclined to believe them.
you think you could’ve done better? in that case, don’t be unhappy with it, just make whatever improvements you think it needs for next time.
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I guess that’s the dangers of cosplaying as a character from an at-the-time unreleased game.
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Anyone posted this yet?
http://www.happyplace.com/22775/game-of-thrones-facebook-recap-season-3-episode-1
Game Of Thrones Season 3’s first episode as Facebook posts. Funnier than I expected it to be.
Two hours left and I shall no longer be an employee of this organisation. It’s a really weird feeling and until this last half hour or so, it has felt like a completely normal day.
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An era that lasted two years, six months and three days.
Man, eras these days are getting shorter and shorter.
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Maru Korean BBQ is fully booked tomorrow night.
So we booked a table at Obaltan Korean BBQ which is also on Elizabeth St.
http://www.obaltan.com.au
It looks pretty nice.
@dc do your thing.
The tag thing not the stress thing.
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@dkzeitgeist, @freezespreston, @sughly, @strange, @virus__, @trjn, @welbot, @beardymcmuttonchops, @lambomann007, @sernobulus, @rocketman, @jimu, @gutsoup
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DO the thing we’re you remenisce about adventure games!
(I always find it helps me un-stress…only I use ye Olde JRPG)
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Just take your mind off it by thinking about something else.
Perhaps think about the fact that LucasArts is fucking dead.
Edit: Dammit @jimu! You’re not @dc. I’m convinced I’m never getting a D.C. downvote.
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Holy crud, The Joker looks like shit!
Very descriptive .gif name too 😛
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Speaking about LucasArts being dead, when Sam & Max 2 was cancelled the Adventure Gamers forum went nuts. This time? No one seems to be too upset about LucasArts, they haven’t even posted the news on the front page. I think LucasArts died a long time ago.
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This is what happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object. You truly are incorruptible, aren’t you? You won’t downvote me out of some misplaced sense of self-righteousness. And I won’t stop baiting you because you’re just too much fun. I think you and I are destined to do this forever.
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Exactly.
I’m now doing the stress thing about money. Korean BBQ is slightly more expensive than I’d expected. Eep!
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Exactly, it’s a shared thing and the cost comes right now.
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Right now!? *checks empty pockets*
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Yeah I was hoping there were enough people who would like the same things as me.
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That reminds me…how are you?
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wut?
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DC knows what I mean. We have a secret code. 😛
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Oooo! Like, a secret love affair for pan fried dumplings that you both share? And and, and DC went and gorged on them again and you are like I know that feel how are you? Like that?
No?
Me? I’m psyched to hang out with my pals! 😀
Why do those shirts say ” D IS C”?
I read it as DISCO, there’s an O on the kids shoulder!
@strange – OMG it was made for DC! :O
I think we’re missing the point here guys – that this picture is an amazing recreation of how dc sees all of us hanging out tomorrow. Where my upvotes at huh!?
I was worried it was an insult or mockery I couldn’t interpret. 😛
I wouldnt insult you @dc 🙁
PALS! 😀
Edit: Sorry, man. I know that. You’re awesome! 🙂
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13-20 dollars minimum 2 dishes with some of them, which is probably something some people will easily split.
I didn’t expect it to be that cheap honestly.
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Ahhh I see, I see. Knew I was missing something!
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Yeah I am! This weeks had it’s ups & downs and I intend to end it on an up. Yeah Boxing Day, The Hobbit was the last time. So yeah almost 4 months..
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Same time we saw Dan and he’s going to be there too. And Rockets. 😀
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All we need is Aleph..
@mythamphetamine so you’re coming now right? 😛
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I should try crowdfunding 😛
Then again, I kinda did that last time with regard to accommodation, which I’m forever grateful for!
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Haha!
But yeah, would be good to see you in the near future again man.
I just combined near & future into one word without realising, go me! “neature”
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@freezespreston I had a sudden sinking realisation that I didn’t specify that my copy of Bioshock I can give to you is a 360 version. I don’t know if this makes a difference but I thought I’d better let you know to save a potentially nasty surprise when I proffer it to you tomorrow night.
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Don’t cross the beams!
I realise that has zero relevance, but I was somehow inspired to quote it. WHATEVER I’ll say what I like!
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Was in the middle of typing something. Ninja’d! Glad I refreshed before posting. Your response was better than mine would have been anyway. 😀
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Hahaha! Sheeeeit. I havent actually watched it since I was a kid :'(
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Street cred questioned! 😛
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I wont sleep well tonight
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I don’t know what to believe any more. Maybe I should watch those Michael Bay movies. XD
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It’s for being yourself. You’ve been accumulating awesome-points for a while now. I feel bad for taking so long to nominate you!
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Have a buck’s weekend to go to tomorrow, up in the Blue Mountains.
Kicked off this morning, but I am a diligent office drone (and I don’t particularly want to go).
Should be interesting.
Wow, NSW Correctional Services are being sloppy this week in making sure prisoners do not stay within the confines of the correctional facilities.. THREE escaped from the Glenn Innes prison this week and there was another that escaped from Goulburn as well..
NSW Correctional Services, making sure prisoners have as much freedom as you!
Oh lol, and one of the twits that fled last night is from my area too.. All three sound like amazing members of society, from this article.
It was like the bloke that escaped either Glenn Innes or Grafton end of last year, just casually walked off in his prison greens and managed to avoid police until he made it to Queensland. He was only in for murder, nothing serious y’know.
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I have Homeland to finish, and I am hooked on that 😛 I suggest it if you’re into the whole American is #1 and the CIA is here to fuck you up, kinda show. It’s actually way better than what I am describing 😛
Then the question is if I was to watch Halloween do I watch the Rob Zombie versions or the original by John Carpenter, both are great in their own way when not compared to each other.
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I heard Homeland is kinda anti American hooha fuck you up kinda show? No?
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Speaking of Americans, you should both watch The Americans. *folds arms stubbornly*
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Haha. That show had so much potential if they got more of the setting right! It just doesn’t sit well with me a show that is meant to be set in 1980 only has aspects of the decor and stylings of then mixed in with now 😛
Also Mad Men on Monday!
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MAD MEN!
Aw, man. Shane would like The Americans. :'(
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@virus__ @dc MAAAAAAAD MEEEEEEN!!!11!1!
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Yeah I wanted to like The Americans but it was just too inconsistent with set stuff for me to not look past it.
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Well, it’s actually both. There’s the anti Americans the terrorists, then there’s the CIA, Government & FBI which are all “FUCK THE MIDDLE EAST LETS BOMB THE SHIT OUT OF IT AMERICAN IS #1!”
But yeah it’s a great show, I was hooked from the first episode which is unusual for me with shows of this sort.
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Intelligent shows? trololol!
I kid, I kid, couldnt resist.
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Oh god. That pun is so bad even page 6 would be ashamed of it.
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So Stone Sours new album House of Gold & Bones Part 2 is pretty fucking awesome. I recommend it.
I remember when I heard Stone Sour was doing a 2 part concept album I was rather sceptical because Corey Taylor said he wanted to make one as great as Pink Floyd’s The Wall. Apart from Tommy, The Wall is probably one of the greatest concept albums ever to be conceived.
So I guess that’s fair to be sceptical when someone claims they’re hoping to make an album as amazing as The Wall. Now I love Corey Taylor, but he can be a bit of an ego tripper at times, so I just passed it off as that.
I wasn’t entirely impressed with Part 1 when it came out, it took me around 10 listens to really get into it, but I also think chatting with my friend about it made me see how great it actually was. But straight off the bat I love part 2, probably because it’s just a straight carry on from part 1.
Also what irks me is my local JB HiFi do not have ANY physical copies of Part 1 or 2, hell they only have the bands first and 3rd album in stock and it was one of each, it’s been like that since about January :S Which I find odd because when a band is on tour here (Soundwave) they stock up on their albums so they can sell them.
Also I couldn’t even pre order the album with them, tried every week for a month leading upto the release which is today to order it, it wasn’t even in their computer for the stores =/ But turned out in the end my friend is giving me her spare copy that is coming with the platinum bundle from the official site.
Plus side to today’s venture to JB I found out they have Jason Newsteds EP for 6 bucks, must remember to get it when I have 6 bucks!
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I dont know about this album, but totally listening to one by some Flamestar guy which is pretty rad.
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These things always make me laugh. 😀
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that’s fantastic.
da monekey dat tawsn barules errrwhere, he be tawsn da barules @ MarioEdit:
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Today was a good day, so was last night. Something about talking with Kat that improves the day, whatever it is I enjoy it. Something like 500 texts later though I reckons lol.. Thankfully iMessage is free lol. Cause I have hit my prepaid cap (220 dollars) before texting in Australia and that was with the free texts Telstra give me between 6pm & 6am LOL.
Yesterday wasn’t so good though, damn dog got left unsupervised by mum in the morning and she made a meal out of my shoes 🙁 Thankfully it was just the laces.. But god damn it.
@sughly @dc hit me up Monday on Twitter with your emails and i’ll supply both of you with torrent file of Mad Men in 720P that will actually download and you could watch it that evening, not in 3 days time 😛
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YESSSSS!!
edit: I mean erm, *ahem*, what! How dare you accuse me of torrenting! Harumph, the nerve…
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Fuck.
@dc, @dkzeitgeist, @freezespreston, @sughly, @strange, @virus__, @trjn, @welbot, @beardymcmuttonchops, @lambomann007, @sernobulus, @rocketman, @jimu, @gutsoup
Obaltan just called us back saying they can’t take us until 9pm.
I’ve had enough of trying to organise this. Everything I do seems to fail. So either we’re eating at 9 or someone else take care of it.
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Actually I’m ok with 9. I guess others will have a problem though? I’m sorry Freeze, youve been awesome 🙁
Would make a lame attempt at looking around at stuff myself but I’m halfway out the door to a dinner date :'(
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Hey man, that was an accidental man date. It was supposed to involve Zero Dark Thirty, not candle light. 😛
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Half past midnight? Yeah it included that 😉
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Here’s hoping his date tonight involves lady folk! 😀
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Nope :'(
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Aw, man. I’m sorry to hear that. Like Sughly says, you’ve been all kinds of awesome. Definitely appreciated too, even if we don’t say it enough. Um, I dunno what to do though. I’m happy to do whatever everyone else does, but I know that’s kind of a cop out answer. 🙁
Guys, I’ve just called the Pancake Manor and made a tentative reservation for 7pm tomorrow night for 20 people (give or take – wasn’t sure of exact numbers, so I overestimated! They can deal with it if we’re a few short.)
Let me know whether everyone wants to do Pancakes at 7pm, or Korean at 9pm. If Korean, I’ll call and cancel.
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I won’t be able to make it unfortunately. Best hermit ever, amirite? 😛
Don’t worry, I’ll make it to one of these meats again one day 😛
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I’m good with either!
If I had the money I’d say let’s do both: dessert at Pancake Manor followed by Korean dinner. Backwards progressive dinner. 😀
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Earlier meal gives us the opportunity to do something else later, but like Virus says, up to Sughly/Freeze/Trjn. (I’m happy to have a later dinner too, if you guys would prefer that!)
Hope that doesn’t sound indecisive, because that’s not how I feel at all — I’m just happy to go with the group. Looking forward to hanging out with you guys and don’t really mind where or what time. 😀
Also, thanks Beardy! Options! There’s stuff like Cybercity and the like too, plenty to do. Hope you’re not feeling too stressed Freeze. 🙁
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Yeah I seriously don’t want to seem like I’m presumptuously just changing the venue – I just wanted to take some pressure of Freezeezy and give another option 🙂
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I am fine with any plans that I don’t have to make myself. Might be an early night for me though, Sunday is definitely a “shove my life into boxes” day.
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Have you checked your settings? You might’ve turned off notifications or something through either your Twitter account/app/phone notification settings
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Groceries are done. Vodka time!
I guess I’d better stop drinking for long enough to feed everyone though. Spaghetti bolognese and vodka time, then! 😛
I’m getting The Walking Dead pilot. No matter what I think of the show, I’m just going to stop there. 😀
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Oh wow, just found my portable hd from the last time I reinstalled windows and there’s a 14 episode of The Walking Dead in HD back up there! Must. Stop. At. Pilot. 😛
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@strange
Did I read the Facebook event correctly and see that you’ll be there for Pez’s album launch? Will I finally meet the first lady?!
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I dunno, I’ve met her this one time, and the jury’s still sort of… out.
*whispered* Also, I noticed something horrifying. She’s old. Like, super old. Like, crumbling into dust in a strong breeze old.
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Better than being called crazy….
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Don’t be crazy!
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I will be there! I don’t recall anyone named “Strange” being on the list though. 😉
But yes, I will be in Sydney that weekend to see Epica which coincided nicely with Pez’s launch.
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I just know things.
Or your Facebook and Twitter profile pictures are the same, so it clicked. 😛
Hanwoori Korean BBQ on Mary Street will take all of us at 7:30.
Seems interesting. Korean BBQ Buffet for $29.90pp.
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I guess this is a thing now.
@dc, @dkzeitgeist, @freezespreston, @sughly, @strange, @virus__, @trjn, @welbot, @beardymcmuttonchops, @lambomann007, @sernobulus, @rocketman, @jimu, @gutsoup
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It’s getting reviewed pretty well from what I can see so this looks good but it’s up to the majority want.
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I’m happy with whatever…I just want to see you guys, don’t care a great deal about where we’re going.
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Pretty sure I’ve been there and it’s decent. They do play Gangnam style on repeat. I was keen!
(Also, Hyunah clips on the big screen @trjn will love it!)
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Hey man, just checking, but my non-TAYbie mate is staying at our place this weekend. So it’ll be me, the missus, the bestie, and Rockets. Just wanted to make sure you know the numbers etc. All good?
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Has anyone else not been able to click and watch embedded YouTube videos?
Mildly annoying.
Solutions?
Ohhh man. How am I meant to feel when my best friend tells me he’s getting married at the end of the year? The first thing I said was “oh shit”. I don’t know what to feel or what to think 🙁 They’ll only be 20! And now I feel like I have to be a lot more mature at 19! I’m really happy for them and everything, gave his gf a big hug, looked at her photos of bridal dress fittings and everything, but I feel kinda depressed and I have no idea why 🙁
Apparently she’s been busting to tell me for the past week, but wanted him to tell me first, and I’m the very first person he’s told.
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How are you meant to feel? Happy for them. 🙂
It does not mean you’ll have to be more mature, it doesn’t even mean they have to be more mature. 😛It’s natural to feel a bit depressed though if you’re not in a relationship yourself. *hugs*
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This Oliver and American Girlfriend? (I’m going to call her Esther from now on, if you don’t mind.)
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Sorry, forgot 😛
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It doesn’t, I just feel depressed and I felt like the pressure was on me too much to say something cos I’m the first male to know about it 😛
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Just go with good old CONGRATULATIONS, that’s what’s expected.
I was always a shocker for saying the wrong thing, when I was your age some mates got engaged and I said “OK”. They were not happy.
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my friends brother got married at 20, some people just really want to get married…
and i know that feel, i get it every time one of my friends gets a girlfriend when i don’t have one 🙁
edit: the nicer the girlfriend the sadder i am 🙁depressmaster b-funk
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So I’ve gathered that this is used for a K-mart ad and decided to look it up (silly me!)
Turns out it wasn’t that bad 😀
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Not sure, some kinda accident on the track. Took 45 mins from Central to EJ. Wife handed me the boy, went to work and I caught the last bus home.
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Fucking shit of a day. Liam’s temp spiked above 40, so it was off to the Emergency Room for the day. Seven hours there, and they sent us home with no idea what’s causing the fever, and a still-too-high temperature. Drawing blood was a messy nightmare that I shielded our three-year-old from. On orders to ring an ambulance if things get dicey here.
Worst bit: while at supra-high temperatures, he had a couple of seizures which resulted in complete non-responsiveness for several seconds. Kind of like what happened when he was 11 days old, but was written off as nothing. And kind of like what happened to me when I was his age and overheated and went into a coma.
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Hope your Fridays were better than this.
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Oh Shane… I hope he’s doing ok now. I hope you and the rest of family are coping as best you can too. It must be hard watching your son like that. All our thoughts are with you. You know we’re all here if you need anything
*Strange patented hugasauruses*
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Thanks everyone. Think our air conditioning paid for itself tonight. We’re pumping it hard, and all wearing extra layers to bed. Lots of Neurofen. He’s awake, alert, playing like normal and his temperature is ‘normal’ (still too warm given the actual temp in the house, but at least he’s not in danger of more seizures).
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All of those sound like positives! Good luck Shane!
Febrile convulsions are pretty scary and unfortunately pretty common.
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Hey I hope everything is fine. I hope he’s a lot better. I can’t imagine the fear you would’ve felt.
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Can those who have others contact details who aren’t on TAY usually during weekends let people know the new plans. Looking at your direction @dc with your creepy stalker files.
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I’ve got phone numbers, but lots of people I don’t feel close enough to message. Most people have checked in here though, right? Maybe Twitter would be best. What are the new plans? 😀
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I’ll text from now on 😉
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Sorry, man. Didn’t even come up as your number. I must’ve forgot to add you to the address book. We’ve definitely texted each other before, so I don’t know why! :S
Edit: There’s Hellscream in my address book. Did you get a new number when your phone exploded?
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Nope, still the same number! Do you have a number starting with oh-four-tutu?
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Nope! Who’s number do I have? Haha! D:
We’ve texted each other before and I think I must’ve added an unknown number assuming it was yours sometime later. Glad I haven’t texted the one in the address book. 😀
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Found the characters and sense of place better in other stuff like 28 Days Later, not to mention The Walking Dead game. It’s not bad, just not for me…
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Fair enough if you think that (though I disagree). I think shows need more than just one episode to judge characters though 😛
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Haha, I don’t think I’ll press on. Didn’t really like the pilot and from what I hear it’s the show at its best. D:
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I’m not sure what the deal is with people who keep saying that. The show is fantastic past the pilot. Season 2 is almost entirely interesting character stuff.
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I really love the pilot (still think it’s the best the show has offered so far), and I thoroughly enjoyed pretty much all of season 2, and some of the first half of season 3. The rest (about half of existing episodes)… didn’t do much for me, tbh.
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What makes it the best in your eyes? I’m curious, because I really disagree.
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@bdkiaf
It was moments more than anything.
1. I loved the terror of the hospital crawl. Something unmatched in the rest of the show by sheer virtue of Rick being unarmed and clueless.2. The idea that people might be sympathetic to the undead, to the point of not being able to kill them, is an idea that I hadn’t encountered before. I really liked the way they dealt with it in the pilot, with Morgan not being able to shoot his wife, and Rick breaking into tears when making his own first kill. Really sets up some nice foreshadowing for the remainder of the show, that each kill will put their humanity at stake. Plus, they were legitimately moving emotional moments (for me anyway).3. The final scene, where he rides into Atlanta, felt so incredibly grand in scale, far beyond what should have been possible on a TV budget. And then the terror again; despite some convenient moments, the scene in the street with the tank is one of the tensest I’ve seen on TV. Loved it. Again, this hasn’t quite been matched again in the show (Though came close in the next episode with the goo-smear-walk-+-rain-then-run)4. Andrea wasn’t in it. Makes it a highlight ep by default.Beyond this, I’d need to watch it again, but I have fond memories of it. Really good kickoff for the show. Plus, extra length is always good (inb4 that’s what she said)
(Edit: That said, I’ve been exposed to very little zombie fiction in the past. Pretty much just Snyder’s Dawn of the Dead, and the Dead Rising 360 game, both of which I found frustratingly shallow. Therefore a zombie story with any pretence of emotional depth is going to surprise me.)
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All good points. Upvoted for number 4 though.
I guess it depends on what you like about this kind of stuff. Subjective opinions woo! Judging by your points, it seems like a lot of the appeal of the pilot was that it was the first time a lot of this stuff had been brought up. So the first episode is the best by way of being the first episode?
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@shane: I really wonder what you’d think of Alex Garland/Danny Boyle’s 28 Days Later. Has a much more Children of Men/plausable scifi feel to it…
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@bdkiaf, kind of. I’ve watched the rest, and there have been a few moments that equally challenged the whole notion of what it means to be human. What is life? What is humanity, etc.
1. When Sofia emerged from the barn after the Shane-led massacre. In addition to being a legitimate surprise, it was a massive payoff for about eight episodes of metaphysical debate, and character conflict, and might actually be the best moment in the entire show for me.But the pilot did it first, and therefore got the biggest reaction from me. And largely, the characters themselves aren’t much special, so when they’re not debating the metaphysical, the inherent narrative metaphors in their situation, I kind of lose interest.
The third season, for example, barely seems to touch on the notion of zombie-as-ex-human. Apart from that single scene in the town’s lab with [shudder] Andrea, the zombies were nothing more than hack n slack cannon fodder in the season. Which is fine, and necessarily inevitable (especially when you consider their eroding humanity), but it’s a direction I’m kind of disappointed that they took, because the characters themselves aren’t dead inside enough yet for my liking.I don’t think I watch this show like normal person.
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@shane
With regards to point number 1 inyour spoiler
I found it to be obvious Sophia was in the barn so that moment didn’t work for me the same way as you
And the next spoiler:There was lots of zombie-as-ex-human stuff in S3. The whole Governor keeping his daughter around and Milton’s research into how much humanity remains after being zombified just for starters. And what about Michonne’s leashed walkers?I think Season 3 was more about who are the real zombies,the ones who died and turned, or the ones left behind losing their humanity by trying to survive?So yeah,I guess I’m agreeing with you: maybe we don’t watch it the same way. 😛
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Season 2 is an exercise in frustration. It’s an adventure of unlikeable characters making stupid decisions. If any of them had a single iota of sense, it would make the show both infinitely safer, and yet somehow more interesting.
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The whole show has always been that, though. And the franchise in general, really.
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That’s true, and that’s why I fall into the “watch the Pilot and imagine what could have been if the show actually went ahead” camp. But season 2 seemed the worst to me.
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It’s not even the best episode of the show =/ Season 1 is great, but really season 3 is where the show is at.
Disagree. WAY too much Andrea.
I must be the only person who doesn’t mind Andrea even though she’s probably the stupidest character 😛
I guess you’d probably like the whole rest of the show if you didn’t like the Pilot, then. 😛
That’s crazy person logic. (Though I am a crazy person! :P)
Went and saw Die Hard.
Nachos were ingested. (Yes, I had nachos at the movies. \o/)
Movie was okay for what it was, not that I was expecting anything spectacular.
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I hope you’re talking about the latest one, because Die Hard (the original) is spectacular. Not open for discussion.
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Don’t worry, you’ll get all the man cards back and more once you experience Die Hard! 😀
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I feel like I’ve already seen them all.
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Nein!
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It’s friday night, the end of the week.
Grab some headphones, a nice cold beverage and put up the volume.
Kick your feet up and listen to some wonderful musics: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_wkJ377LzU
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I’m feeling bad now that I didn’t preorder a pretty edition of The Last of Us, as I am starting to get super hyped for it…
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Eh, I don’t blame you, the special editions available for The Last of Us in Australia are pretty lame.
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I’d forgotten how good that song is. I usually have Apotheosis and the Road of Trials on my playlist, so the rest often gets lost to the ether. Really need to go back and listen to the full soundtrack more often
Was telling my sister how I didn’t care for The Walking Dead TV show and she made a good point, it’s a good thing I didn’t watch when I originally downloaded the eps because I probably would’ve dismissed the adventure games afterwards if I had.
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I disagree. I do not think of them in the same light at all. All they share is a name and they’re both set in a post apocalyptic world. There are 2 characters in the show that are present for all of an hour in the game, so yeah.
The game didn’t make me appreciate the franchise more, I already liked it and had seen 2 & half seasons of the show, I went into the game knowing it had nothing to do with the show, so open mind & clean slate.
Done my page for the day. Goodnight all. Enjoy your weekends until next we speak.
And then, you must stop the enjoyment immediately.
Oh jeez, tonight has been an interesting one. I did not expect to be having the conversations I had any time soon (to do with what I was talking about earlier), but thankyou unlimitted free alcohol, I love you.
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ahahha nah 😛 Just… me and oliver’s gf’s best male friend were having a talk. I won’t go into details but yeah, we’re both a bit concerned to say the least. Not about what his gf wants, but what he wants. I know it’s not my business but we’re both genuinely worried about how this is going to turn out.
Then Oliver came up to get butt pies and it’s not hard for him to figure out that we were tlaking about him. The poor kid was petrified when he told me (we went on a 3 hour trip to the park and then fish and chip shop when he told me, he was nervous as hell), and he only told his parents a couple of hours ago. He’s being pushed way too hard and I’m really worried about how he’s handing this.
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He needs to enforce himself a bit. He’s too happy to just go with the flow.
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Was it him that did the proposing?
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No, and that’s the problem. Like I said, he just goes with it. That’s what’s really worrying me.
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You know women can propose, right?
I’m sure her proposing was not the problem you are referring to. At least I hope not. 🙂
With the few details you’ve given I’m assuming it’s control issues? Anyway if it is really bothering you just let him know. If he disagrees with you or if it turns out it’s just pre-wedding jitters just be there for him as a friend. That’s all you can do.
And like Freeze said below he has been married since his 20s and is still happy.
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@masha2932 yeah control issues. Not her proposing. There’s A LOT that I’m omitting, including the biggest thing that I’m not saying in public. That’s everyone’s biggest problem.
But the plans are to have a boys night tonight, so drunken concerns will no doubt arise.
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I’ll put it this way. I got married when I was 20. 10 years, 2kids, innumerable fights and countless moments of joy we’re still married and still very much in love.
I DM’d @dkzeitgeist, cause I think he’s the only one who doesn’t check TAY as much and I figure Rockets will get a heads up from Beardy and Mrs. Beardy if he doesn’t see this!
Updated plans for dinner: Honwoori, a Korean BBQ place on Mary St at 7:30pm tomorrow. (Sat 6th April)
@freezespreston, @sughly, @strange, @virus__, @sernobulus, @beardymcmuttonchops, @lambomann007, @welbot, @jimu, @gutsoup, @rocketman, @trjn
If you need my mobile number, hit me up on Twitter!
If you need more specifics you’ll have to ask ol’ man Freeze! 😀
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I’ll probably be in the city a bit earlier if any one wants to meet up before hand. Do the ol’ psych up thing.
@greenius and whoever else loves Calvin and Hobbes
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2013/04/what-if-calvin-and-hobbes-was-gritty/
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LOL! I note that I spent a good two hours mucking around with my modem in order to re-connect the xbox on the night where this Orth dimwit made it his personal mission to have gamers online all the time (never mind that 40% of xboxes have never connected to Live, ever!)
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Wooo fixed it \o/
You know I just realised, given the news about the microsoft executive, that I could have replied with : ‘
Deal with it’
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Some of the puzzles were too tough for me, if your kid solves them easily just lie to me, okay. I don’t need to know. 😛 Also, I hope he grows up to love adventure games. (And JRPGs. :P)
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He can use a touch screen better than me, but hasn’t sussed the mouse yet.
He was just saying ROBOT a whole lot and asking me to go up & down some stairs.
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Who’s bright idea was it to go and do data transfer for a customer on Saturday morning?! Yay for money! However, FUCK I’M STUPID!
Good morning Tay =D
I’m hoping to get painting and cosplay stuff done today. Hoping, so fingers crossed.
I spent 3 hours on minecraft yesterday. /o\ I still blame Numbers.
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Where do I get the details for the new server? I’ve been looking around but cannot find them /o\
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Not your fault. It’s me. Have a very close friend who lost a 3 year old who would give anything to clean up another poo filled cot. Seeing him going through that and having my own kids means those kind o jokes don’t hold well with me.
It’s really not your problem and you did nothing wrong.
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I am sorry for your friend’s loss.
Whilst not as difficult an experience as your friend, my family has experinced its own struggles. I’m not comfortable to recount them in an open forum, but my expereinces regarding babies isn’t wholey sheltered.
Also, people handle things differently. I often feel overwhelmed on the homefront, and resort to fantasy as an escape. My post was an example of this. However knowing your past experiences will allow me to be more thoughtful in the future.
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All good mate. No need to censor yourself for me. If. I get too serious feel free to tell me to stop being a tool.
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So, my hotmail account has been changed to outlook.
Thanks, Microsoft.
They can go fuck themselves. 🙁
Went to the Merrywell last night for dinner and drinks… Can heartily recommend! Good night all around! Best burger I’ve had in ages and found a new favourite beer on tap… If any Melbourne taybie finds themselves near Crown, go to the Merrywell, its pretty amazing!
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Well when you come to Melbourne
cause you are, and don’t get a choice in the matter
we’ll go to the Merrywell! Awesome stuffs-
Probably never. Haha. Though you should have a PAX Australia meat there with all the rest of the interstate folks! 😀
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http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2013/04/05/ninja-theory-working-on-something-new.aspx
This probably didn’t need an article, but even so, here’s hoping they collaborate with Alex Garland again. (I’d love to see an Enslaved sequel, but new IP is good too.)
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I like that Ninja theory always seem to be doing new stuff.
Their games are not the biggest sellers but I’m guessing they sell enough to keep the studio open and fund new stuff.
Can’t wait to see what this is.
They make very distinctive games which are good but kind of hit and miss for me.
Heavenly sword- I really enjoyed this game. And the aftertouch( when using the left stick not sixaxis) was kind of cool. The game just needed to be longer and have deeper mechanics
Enslaved- Beautiful world. We need more green apocalyptic environments. The game’s movement and combat always felt ‘off’ somehow. I enjoyed riding the hoverboard thingy though 🙂
DmC-I’m currently playing through this and it is their most sound combat system so far and it’s a very stylish game. I don’t know why I keep alternating between awesome and meh then.
I guess it’s more hit and eh, it’s ok 🙂
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I am actually pretty thankful that I can pack up my life into one big suitcase and a carry on.
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They crawled out of the trash seeking their host body, confused and enraged that you would take them away from their homes.
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There’s your hair and that dog hair. Probably best just to burn the place down and start again.
Last song I listened to was called The Nexus ( @spaghett ).
I’m listening to the lyrics and choosing to believe it’s about Demons’ Souls. 😀
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Hey man! You got House of Gold & Bones Part 2 yet? I got it Thursday night, holy shit. It’s great, doesn’t beat part 1, but damn it’s a great follow up.
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I feel like death, but at the same time I can’t help but feel happy lol. Damn awesome women being amazing to me…
Yourself?
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I just feel amazing
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Fuck yeah man!
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Wow, I thought I said some stupid shit last night in a text to Kat.. I was only half awake so I wasn’t really aware as to what I was saying. I shouldn’t have my phone in arms reach at night lol.. But apparently it was cute what I said, that was a fucking relief.
Anyway, hi guys. How are we all today? Daylight saving ends tonight /o\
HAY GUYS – Mrs Beardy and myself are heading into the city way early for the Meat. We’re leaving in about 15 minutes. Gonna bum around the city and check out the South Bank markets.
If anyone wants to join us or get in early, my number is oh four three two, 614, two nine two.
Give me a call! We’ll just be bumming around/looking at Comics Etc/Toyworld.
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Haha! Thanks man, I’ll definitely be heading in early, but not that early! 😛
Looking forward to the meat! 😀
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Naturally he would be, he never misses a meat NEVER.
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Dear @jimu and @negativezero,
Further to our recent discussion regarding Person 4 Golden, I would like to bring up Persona 4 Arena. Now that we have a release date for the PAL/ EU version, what is your interest level in this title?
Personally I am very interested, as I am quite the fan of Blazblue and its story mode. I am expecting a similarily high quality story mode coupled with fun fighting mechanics and fluid animations!
However, I don’t think I am keen enough to order the limited edition/ pre order bonus version of the game. A soundtrack which will likley be readily available via download after doesn’t really justify the added expense for me, plus the additinal digital content is a bit vague. Do you guys think the game will come down in price quickly, ready to be snapped up as a bargin from ozgameshop, which is how I got my two Blazblue titles?
If they had a version with an art book however…..
Now to digress further, I don’t think it is a conicidence that Atlus and Arc System Works have partnered on P4A, then ASW announces Project X Blaze, a Blazblue themed adventure game. I think the partnership will continue onto this title too! This is especially true when you look at early character art for X Blaze:
http://www.gamershell.com/static/streaming/48236/48236_medium.jpg
She looks like she could be Chie’s younger sister, wearing hand-me-downs and all!
Also, you cosplayed as taokaka @scree, so you must have some interest in Blazblue.. what do you think of all this?:
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:O Care to elaborate? I don’t even know which of the games I mentioned you are boycotting, let alone why!
Aleternate response:
I’ll boycott you!! /runs away crying.
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P4 arena is the first and only region locked PS3 game, neg can’t play it in English cos he gots a Japan PS3.
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@Ash I was going to get the 360 version anyway, but the region lock plus the fact they’ve dicked us around for nearly a year on something that they said would initially only be a week or two’s gap has utterly soured me.
Plus it’s a full-priced release. Fuck that noise.
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Ah well obviously she isn’t cute like Chie, I was just trying to suggest there is a certain styling there that might point towards involvement of Atlus.
PS Chie’s experession at being compared to the ‘girl in the green coat’ from XBlaze:
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I’ll prolly get P4 Arena on PS3 (hint hint), there’s no way I would ever buy a fighting game on 360 with that disgraceful excuse for a D-pad.
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I’ve heard nothing but good thing about Arena (except region lock) and I think you hit the nail on the head with the description.
The game is only like $45 on OGS, you want it for $20?
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The game is only like $45 on OGS, you want it for $20?
Yes.
I haven’t finished BB:CSX yet, so I’m still playing that. I need P4A in my life, but it doesn’t have to be right away.
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I AM SO EXCITE I DON’T EVEN CARE ABOUT HOW FREAKING LONG ITS TAKEN.
although i’m more excited by the persona 3 characters that appear in it as well!
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I am getting P4 arena and am pre-ordering it because i love the persona games.
On blazblue, I love the first one. but when I bought the second one, they had removed the ability to use the thumbstick to do some of the harder combos. This meant I could no longer play it to the point where I could progress through the story anymore. =(
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Well I prefered the thumb stick to do easy specials, as was the optional system in BB:CT, however in BB:CS they have ‘stylish’ mode. You can engage stylish mode on the character select screen, and it enables:
1) automatic combos,
2) remaped keys as follows: A = med attack, B = Heavy attack, C = Special, D = throw. So essentially the ‘easy specials’ is retained, now by using Left thumb + C (different direction input + C = different special moves, and
3) Distortion Drive or Astral Heat moves activated by pressing two buttons together eg A+D.So um yeah its a different sysetm fo sure, but still there and arguablly easier. Actually its a little too easy imo so how I’ve been playing is to do a characters first run through their story using ‘technical’ style (i.e. normal input), then when I re-do their story to get 100 % complete/ explore all arcs I use ‘stylish’ style.
So um yeah I am positive you could progress through the story mode. I am deffinatly worse at fighting games than you and I am having no trouble. Its a real pleasure actually, just focusing on the art and story, with the freedom to explore the fighting mechanics as much or as little as I like.
tl;dr @scree you should re-read the manul 😛
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I probably should =D
I remember cracking it at it. I did like Blazblue but then they keep bringing out the same game with a few new characters,-
Tell me about it! That is why I skipped BB:CS and BBCS2 and went straight from BB:CT to BBCSX 😛 Although i’m not quite sure yet what to do when BB:CP is released – do I buy at launch or what to see what more complete versions are released later? Hopefully the timing works out such that once I finish BB:CSX I can then get P4A cheap, and play that until BB:CPX (or equivalent) is out 😛
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I don’t understand why they can’t just bring out all the new characters in one complete game instead of bbcs ver1.5
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Last night when trying to sleep I had this playing really soft in my headphones. Was incredibly peaceful. A classic, but an awesome song all the same. Imagine — John Lennon.
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Who wants to play some hacky sack. @smurfydog? 😛
Haha, I’ve never been able to sleep very well, so listen to music like this from time-to-time to unwind.
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Together Wendy we can live with the sadness, I’ll love you with all the madness in my soul. Someday girl I don’t know when, we’re gonna get to that place where we really wanna go and we’ll walk in the sun, but ’til then tramps like us… baby we were born to ruuuuuun…
The Black Rock Shooter PSP game that NISA licensed years ago then sat on and never got around to is coming out on PSN this month \o/
I’ve got my first assignment of the semester due in on Monday so I decided to look at the rest of whatever assessments I have left and…
Oh god, I’ve got assignments for all of my units due in one week D:
This always seems to be the case :P. I know in previous semesters I had something like one due every day in a week or one a week (which isn’t too bad).
Luckily I’ve pretty much hit a wall in Monster Hunter and won’t be playing it too much singleplayer, so I’ll only play when others are on :D. I’m pretty sure I’ve hit the very last 9* village quest which requires me to hunt THREE G-rank monsters (I.Lagia, Brachy, A.Rathalos) in a row (thankfully one at a time!) and for those of you who know, that’s motherfuggin hard! It’s pretty much a 1 hit KO D:
Pro-crastinate, pro pro procrastinate!
Been listening to John Murphy all day at work. Kanada’s Death Pt 2 Adagio in D Minor just came on. Must…hold…back…feelings….
@35 will know what I mean.
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Wait, are you talking about Sunshine? If so, I absolutely freaking love that film to bits. Came out of the cinema shaking.
“What do you see?”Argh, all the shivers! Listening to this is making me want to run back and watch my bluray straight away.
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I thought it kind of imploded at the end. (Still loved it for the most part.) Hard scifi is good scifi.
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Nope nope nope. I’ve had this debate with others! So many people put that last part of the film down. I think it was amazing. Loved it.
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Just veered into territory I wasn’t expecting and didn’t care for as much as the first half. Still really liked it. Haven’t seen any thing Alex Garland’s written that I haven’t liked.
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And speaking of Alex Garland: @shane watch 28 Days Later! (Was going to link you the trailer, but just watched it again and remembered that the trailer is all kinds of terrible and it’s better going in without seeing it. :P)
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I think I saw it back in the day, and was a bit meh. Will give it a look one day based purely on your recommend. Our friendship hangs in the balance 😛
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Strangely inspired to play MHFU again. Only problem being my PSP is synced with my US PSN account, and my current HR7 MHFU save file is for my EU version of MHFU. Enjoying MH3U, but fired up MHFU again last night and it was like putting on a comfy old pair of shoes. =)
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“Wooo! I just killed Deviljho, time to do the very last village quest! This can’t be too bad!”
“WHY THE FUCK DID I DIE IN ONE HIT, I HAD FULL HEALTH!?”
“OH MY GOD THEY’RE G-RANK T_______________T”
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Yeah the G-rank shit is pretty fucking hard to do alone. Wouldn’t even bother, tbh.
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Yeah, pretty much the same man! Got home at 11AM, only just managed to have a shower. I finally feel human once again!
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I slept in the other community last night.
Admittedly, I was on “white corner” so it was considerably more quiet than most of the place. And yes, the perimeter was secured 😀
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It’s how I felt that time at The Hobbit Meat when DC almost didn’t show I was so cut down man.
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I was in the lobby the whole time. Hands shaking. Haha.
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I still haven’t seen The Hobbit.
Or Skyfall. FUCK YOU @AlexPants
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Wow, you’re really missing out on Skyfall man. The Hobbit is also good, but dat Skyfall.
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@virus ask @alexpants why I haven’t seen it yet.
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YEAH! @alexpants why hasn’t @cakesmith seen Skyfall or The Hobbit yet? Do you have him locked up and denying him the privilege?
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I don’t understand why people are excited about the lineup. Ozzy wasn’t the best singer that Black Sabbath had, that was Dio.
Just saw this in a piece about Black Sabbaths new album. I have to agree with it. Ozzy was their weakest vocalist by far, but he is the voice of Black Sabbath since that’s who was with them when they broke big. I love Ozzy but his vocals aren’t that amazing now he has gone so downhill, right up until his death Dio sounded amazing.
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Nope. Joshy P? I saw he actually shot their pitch video! 😀
Edit: It’s disconcerting you know about these things. 😛
Hmm, hey guys mostly those who are centred around comic books, I have a question!
There’s a US comic book mob (Dark Horse) releasing 3 or 4 comics for the new Stone Sour album that Corey Taylor wrote and they designed them or something. Can anyone recommend a site in Aus that I could maybe get these through?
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Yeah not overly fussed, the site Dark Comics deal with are dicks and won’t show me postage without putting in my debit card which needs funds on it apparently bleh!
Cheers!
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This Finn hat might be the stupidest purchase I’ve made this year.
Either that or Finn’s sword which I also just bought. Costume parties. Effort.
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Oh man, prices to hire costumes were like $100+ and I was like FUCK THAT whenever I had costume parties.
Had the laziest costumes…
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I bought Evoland last night because shut up.
It’s a pretty cool guy. Bar the crash which occurs if you ever try and use one spell on a certain enemy type…
Finished it not long ago though, and I’d say it was worth the price of entry. While it certainly appeals very strongly to nostalgia, I think it’s a good enough game to stand up on its own.
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My run through was 4 hours or so, and that’s with 95% ish completion. Would probably only be 2 hours if you ran through it.
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I’ll be in the city around 6pm, moseying about. Let me know if any one’s there around that time and we’ll hang out. I’ll be around Queen St probably…
This whole day can just be summed up as a massive rollercoaster of emotions from everyone. What did I let myself get involved with?!
Now I have to look up what these weddings roles are…
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No way would I do that 😛
I’ll help them with whatever they want me to do as well. Even though some of it’s quite boring. They feel like family to me pretty much. I spend so much time with one or both of them.
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On the positive side we went to Salamanca market and I had an amazing “Persian” lamb wrap for lunch. My god was it good.
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I’ve holidayed there twice and loved it so much. I just really miss it and wish i could come back. The only thing stopping me is my kids are too young and it would be a pain to travel with them. The thought of you just hanging out where I want to be has made me jelous!
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haha okay 😛 Tasmania is one of those nice to visit, not nice to live places really. Plus I didn’t think Salamanca market was all that good. Unless you like really weird clothing and $1000 Hobbit chess sets. Everyone makes a big deal out of it, but eh.
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Hmm Just saw new Dragon’s Crown trailer. Kinda has a Golden Axe vibe imo, rather than more like the expected Odin’s Sphere/ Muramasa. i wonder if it will be OK for solo play?
Age of Empires 2 HD has Steam Workshop support.
Someone needs to mod Galactic Battleground into this!
http://variety.com/2013/film/news/jessica-chastain-crimson-peak-1200333509/
Even more reason to get psyched for this movie! She was awesome in Take Shelter, almost like a Firefly era Christina Hendricks. 😀
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She’s great in Lawless too 🙂 Hope its on the list!
And Tree of Life. But yeah, this is awesome news indeed!
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Alright, I’ll be radio silent for a little whiles. Off to the city. Will be around from 6pm-ish if you guys arrive early. Just text me and all that. I’m pretty damn psyched. 😀
Honwoori, Korean BBQ place on Mary St, 7:30pm. (Sat 6th April)
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Awesome, he’s gone, now we get to run wild and not have to worry about disappointing the keeper of the upvotes \o/
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Maybe? I want to, it sounds amazing. If I lived in Sydney it wouldn’t even be a question.
#nocontext
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Yeaaah thats the thing. Being in Brisbane… I’ll look into it, but chances are I might not be able to :'(
edit: Thanks so much for the heads up though!
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Tales of Xillia August 6 in the US \o/
Hideo Baba confirmed they have no plans to release the Vita Tales games in English /o\
EDIT: “One of the main reasons is, unfortunately the PlayStation Vita is doing relatively poorly in North America, so it’s one of those things that if the numbers increased considerably, then it’s something we could consider.”
Shakespearean Tragedy 🙁
Boom! New National songs performed at a recent show, woo! http://pitchfork.com/news/50204-watch-the-national-perform-new-song-heavenfaced-in-berlin-plus-new-tour-dates/
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As mentioned, the record is out May 21 via 4AD (May 20 in the UK), with a massive cast of collaborators including Sufjan Stevens, the Arcade Fire’s Richard Reed Parry, Doveman’s Thomas Bartlett, Annie Clark (St. Vincent), Sharon Van Etten, and Nona Marie Invie of Dark Dark Dark.
!!!
(Though after investigating, he apparently collaborated on High Violet too!)
Parry has also collaborated with The National, arranging vocals and writing guitar parts for their songs on their 2010 album High Violet and appeared with them singing and playing guitar and double bass in their Vevo live event as well as on their Late Night with David Letterman appearance in 2011. He has joined them frequently onstage as a guest during many performances, including Lollapalooza 2010 (at which Arcade Fire also performed) and also during a brief segment of Arcade Fire’s 2011 midwestern US tour in which The National acted as openers.
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Really like the new songs too, though like I said last night. Should finish ‘discovering’ Boxer first. XD
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I clicked on D.C.’s article thingy he linked and was all “Jessica Chastain sounds familiar but I’m not sure who she is or what she’s in” so I Googled her and then I was all “let’s Google Benedict Cumberbatch”, so then I did and…
http://www.digitalspy.com.au/odd/news/a470951/benedict-cumberbatch-as-pokemon-gallery.html
So this is like the third result under “News” when Googling Benedict Cumberbatch 😛
@beardymcmuttonchops
Also, Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch is such an English name.
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I monster hunted for 4 hours. Now I’m tired… ughhhh go away Uni
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2.7 at the most.
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On the video game rating scale it’s a six, which is somewhere between “terminal disease” and “never-ending rectal pain.”
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Well, to be fair it was a story and he did tell it, so that at least an 7.9
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a.k.a worst story of the year, avoid at all costs.
Whereas an 8 would be acceptable.
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Except when @rocketman @gutsoup @dkzeitgeist @beardymcmuttonchops @jimu and whoever else I’m forgetting (Oh yeah, @welbot and @lambomann007 ) don’t turn up. 🙁
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Sorry Stange 🙁 I would have loved to be there, but it was just a bit out of my reach this week.
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Sughly I can understand, especially if it were chicken on the menu 😛
And then there’s DC’s diet, which is just awful. Yeah, I can see how they were the Spring Roll Twins 😀Glad to hear you had a good night Strange.
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They didn’t even eat the cheerios!
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“chicken” it was sceptical looking stuff 😛
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weakling
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Nob & I were the only ones who even had any.
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I take that back 😉
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It was like well marinated tender rubber..
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Korean is AWESOME. (no really)
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Went to a wedding today. I love weddings. They so happy.
Katie had to stay home because of fever baby boy (whose fever is still around – house will be freezing again tonight!).
Am exhausted. No page today. Will do two tomorrow because I get DAYLIGHT WRITING TIME.
Goodnight all. For those of you about to meat, we sauté you.
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Ha ha I almost did the same thing.
I was going, “Isn’t it supposed to be salute?”
“That seems like a word very unlikely to be misspelled though, let me read it again.”
“Ohhhhhhhhh………….”
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NSFW (not really but just in case)
Which wizard won? Because depending on your point of view either of them could have won.
@greenius @powalen Finished Xenoblade!
ENDING SPOILARS
What the fuck was going on at the end? The whole world is a science experiment? Alvis is a computer and Shulk killed god…
Oh wait, it’s the Xenogears/Xenosaga guy :V
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Not every JRPG goes into what the fuck town at the end. This one went way further than expected too. I knew things were going to get odd when I arrived at Saturn
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You can read it when you finish it <3
Do you even remember where you’re up to and what’s happening? I always forget after not playing a game for a while, especially in RPGs…
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I think I just left Mt Valac and got onto the Sword Arm Canyon or whatever its called. Just had the reveal that
The guy from the prologue that I can’t remember his name and Fiora are piloting a couple of the faced Mechon, but that Fiora doesn’t seem to remember anything from before.
If I get a lot of time, I may go back and restart and this time not get distracted and actually finish it-
I read this spoiler, even though not being anywhere near there.
Given I worked that plot point out ages ago, it doesn’t really bother me.
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You should return to see the things and stuff!
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Up at 3am waiting to log on to a pile of critical systems and update time for end of DST. Fucking not looking forward to this, some serious mission critical stuff all running SCO/HP-UX that if I fuck up, will all go sideways. Haven’t had to do this before. Kind of shitting my pants.
Wish me luck!
I was kind of hoping my post would be lost to some weird daylight savings limbo.
Turns out TAY can handle this stuff.
\o/
I’ve always wondered if couples wake each other up during daylight savings and go,
“I get to spend an extra hour with you babe”
They then look into each others eyes and wonder why they bothered waking up for that.
Their eyes will probably be covered in rheum.
I guess I get to spend an extra hour making dumb posts. 🙂
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“midnight masha” refers to the beast that awakens around, or past midnight (including and up to, early morning posts)
Anything totally cray = MM
Crazy Upswingman! Oh my god, Blaghman up at a reasonable time etc. etc.
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I am perfectly aware of what it refers to, I just wanted to- You know what, Meanius, never mind.
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Upswingman (Jerkghman)
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And with the changing of the clocks after Daylight Saving, we finally welcome Queensland back into real time.
;D
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I hate it when that happens. I can’t browse TAY when I’m having breakfast during the week anymore because it’s usually in the no-man’s-land time before it gets reposted. 🙁
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I think you’ll find we’re the ones who left our clocks alone. You’re the ones returning to real time.
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Actually, we’re returning to real fake time, from our fake fake time.
Or is it fake real time? All I know is that it’s not a poem, so it’s not teal fime rime.
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Morning all.
I have been plying loads of minecraft =D I’m hoping to do some pixel art soon, when I get enough wool
Actually, I played so much I didn’t stop until the potaku sever kicked me off
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There’s big pits of coloured sheep all over the place! Took me ages to get enough for my little Caterpie sprite though haha
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Server: Excuse me @scree but don’t you think you’ve played enough?
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D.C.’s MEAT WRITE-UP:
— I arrived in the city at around 6pm. Whole different atmosphere here at nights on the weekend. I rarely go to the city at night and it was kind of off-putting. People kept asking me for directions. I don’t know where places are, leave me alone! After around an hour of taking in the sights and sounds, Strange arrived.
— Strange is awesome. Don’t feel anxious around her any more, which is nice. Haha. We talked about stuff and she noticed that every time she got close to me I took a step backwards. It wasn’t intentional, I think it’s just the hermit fight or flight thing kickin’ in. Flights better than fighting, Strange. 😀 You’re awesome, my pal!
— Soon enough Sughly arrived and we talked about stuff like BioShock and the like. Good times. Sughly’s awesome too. We then all moseyed off to the meeting spot. Freeze called on the way to tell us their portion of the group was running late.
— We waited inside the Korean BBQ place for while, soon enough Trjn and Nobs made their triumphant arrival. Soon it was decided that the smell of food was good and we had to start eating that food before the others arrived. It might not have been the most social thing to do, but we made our choice. Don’t you judge us! :'(
— Food was eaten. I mainly stuck with the Spring Rolls, while Trjn and Strange attempted to peer pressure me with various unlabled pieces of meat that didn’t look particularly tasty. They’re monsters and shouldn’t be trusted.
— Freeze, Mrs. Freeze, Virus and Joshy P showed up soon after. It’s one of those annoying things where the table was so long that you don’t end up talking to most of the group, just because of where you’re sitting. Joshy P and I have mutual friends and I didn’t even talk to the guy all night, alas. Was really cool talking to the folks around me though. Awesome people.
— Sughly ate four full plates of food. You can’t say he didn’t make the most of it.
— After the awkward paying for food and splitting the bill part came, we left and stood outside in the cold darkness for a whiles discussing what to do next. Strange had to go. Then soon after Joshy P vanished. (Seemed like a cool guy.) Nob left too.
— We decided to go to a pub. It was too loud. I was telling Mrs. Freeze it was too loud and she thought I asked her to dance. She doesn’t know me at all. Hermits don’t dance. We laughed. Then we went to a liscenced bowling alley and I was carded for the first time ever. Apparently old man D.C. looks 18. My ID was five years out of date. I had to talk to people at the door. D:
— Beer was followed by more beer at a different place.
— You guys are awesome.
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I told Virus to tell you you were wearing a nice shirt in an attempt to cause some embarrassment but I don’t think it worked haha
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Brisbane TAYbies already know I only have three shirts, Pow. And none of them are nice. Keep up.
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Off-putting.
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It was lame. Freeze & Mrs Freeze had a shit sleep. I stayed up til 4am or something chatting with Kat cause I didn’t want sleep. eventually got an hour or two but was awake at like 7am, then continued texting haha.
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Hadn’t shaved in two weeks either. Plus the weight of the world crushed my spirit a long time ago, I assure you I don’t look remotely 18. I guess they just automatically carded everyone though.
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I’m sure that’s not entirely true. Probably just same d-baggery as usual, but you’re overreacting like you always do 😛
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I spend the train ride home thinking about how many times I cut people off mid sentence, change the subject or start rambling about myself. D:
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That’s regular conversation. Everyone does that. Did you notice anyone else doing that? No? We didn’t notice you doing that either.
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If by “d-bag” you mean “doofus-bag”, then yes. 😛
I hereby challenge @dc and the rest of TAY to cease and desist usage of the word ‘hermit’ where @dc is concerned.
I honestly don’t think you’re as big a hermit as you make out, because you keep going to meet complete strangers. Sure, you might be socially awkward or anxious, but I don’t think it’s all that bad.
Forgive me if this is a little direct, but the more you keep telling yourself and everyone else you’re a hermit, the truer it becomes. Scrap the word hermit and just be yourself! But TAYbies are best. I doubt they’ll think less of you either way.
Just a thought.
D: I don’t know how anyone can think that that delicious, delicious meat looked anything BUT tasty unless they’re a vegetarian/vegan.
I feel sad that it wasn’t a round table so I barely even saw Mrs. Freeze, Freeze, Virus, Joshy P, and Ser Nobulus because they were up the other end of the giant rectangle. 🙁
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I think even the most meat hating vegan should have found that stuff appealing. Delicious meats.
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http://staging.kotaku.com.au/2013/04/fine-art-the-beautiful-concept-art-of-bioshock-infinite/
This BioShock concept art is mind blowingly good. Spoilers, I guess! 😀
I hate commercials designed to be ‘behind the scenes’, where you can see the lights and boom mic and all that. It’s stupid. Show us the proper ad if you’re filming one. >:|
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It’s very insidious advertising. Meant to represent a warts-and-all “un-dressed-up” approach and appear more honest. I hate it too.
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It always reminds me of DFO, or the other “factory outlet” places, where they will often spend a lot of money to make it look cheap.
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I refuse to believe that Zoot reviews aren’t random casual chats with celebrities about the daily household items they use, where it just so happened that a film crew was also there in their homes.
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The Sensodyne ad is 100x worse than those. Queue out of focus shots and shaky camera! It’s terrible.
Either that or the Colgate one in shopping centres.
Actually now that I think about it all toothpaste ads just look like massive scams.
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I hate the eHarmony ones! If you wanna go to Thailand go to Thailand! I’ve always assumed she’s just a gold digger who wants somebody else to pay for the trip 😛
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That one has crazy eyes. In fact they all do. 😛
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DARK SOULS \o/
Ornsteincratz and Smoughstein are DEAD. Even took out Ornstein second (because I want his glorious soul spear [that’s what she said]). I’d be tempted to say that giant Ornstein is even a bit easier than giant Smough. Stupid wrong wikis 😛
Sup guys?
Stuff was done last night, food was eaten, beer was consumed, Guinness as well. I found out I can’t really handle the oily/fatty foods the Asians love. Though i’m totally okay with Chinese takeaway.
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I’m meant to be the token white guy at these sorts of places. It doesn’t work when I’m the least white.
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Oh right. Got ya.
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It’s impossible to avoid new Pokemon reveal spoilers. I’d have to steer clear of all Nintendo related forums and comment sections because people post it everywhere 😛 Ah well.
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I’m not even into Pokemon and some how know all this stuff, must be impossible if you’re a fan. :S
Courtnee Draper, the voice actress for Elizabeth in BioShock Infinite, apparently did some voices on the English dub of Ponyo.
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Oh wow, I just read she’s going to law school. Haha. Crazy, atleast she had an amazing last role.
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Holy crap, this actually makes Brisbane not look so bad.
Sooo glad I get a break from all the drama of other people’s lives today. Today is about me, and the TV. (And probably assignments. After V8 Supercars. Hurry up with your break F1, you’re 1000x better.)
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Fun fact I just found out. The V8’s are in Tassie this weekend and they just said that the Australian Grand Prix (before it joined Formula 1) used to be held where I lived for the first 12.5 years of my life.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longford_CircuitNow that I think about it I remember my dad always making a deal out of this.
I don’t think I’m enjoying God of War Ascension. It feels all wrong and nothing like the other games. A lot of the “puzzles” are just trial and error instadeath things, half the time the enemies are near indestructible and just there to soak up time until you get to the next point and the combat feels all
stunted and jittery unlike the flowing combos from previous games.
Disappointing. They should have left it as it was. I was happy with that.
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Whose Line is one of the worst shows I’ve ever watched. Felt like torture to sit through it. D:
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STOP EDITTING SCUM
This is missing a comma somewhere…
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Over there!
*points in random direction*
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Good seeing you last night, man. (Though I think we spoke about once to each other. Haha.)
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As in the punch will be hard, or what you’re punching will be hard? I’d recommend the former. as long as the target is soft. Like a pillow or cushion
Ok, I legitimately have no idea of what the heck this assignment is asking for and how to do it. Usually I can teach myself but there’s friggen nothing to go on for this…
Thank god it’s only worth 5% but it’s literally going to be the first thing I’ve failed at Uni but I seriously have no idea… why am I doing this!? ._. why am I doing my degree!? WHY EVERYTHING?!
WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
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Tomorrow.
I can’t learn it in time because there’s nothing for me to learn from. I’m not seeing it anywhere…
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Should’ve done film degree. It’s all kinds of useful.
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Edit: Good luck with it, man. Like you said, though — worst case? it’s only 5%! I half assed more than a couple of assignments at uni…
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Film essays were the most fun I had at uni. (that ‘honour’ should have gone to creative writing but that was unbelievably stressful in that environment!)
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Yeah, creative writing classes should’ve been more fun than they were, did not care for sitting in a circle critiquing other peoples work. Haha. I was in the class with another film guy though and we always liked each others scifi/horror stuff and the rest of the class didn’t. (They wrote more emo stories. :D)
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The worst was always that wanky person who wrote over the top flowery prose and ugh no.
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Or the ones who dealt with edgy themes, just to be edgy. Haha.
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I only did creative writing in year 12, but the way the teacher just LOVED the flowery prose irked me to no end. What’s the use of saying “elliptical absence” when “circular hole” means essentially the same thing?
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OK, I mostly didn’t like that class because of Annie Proulx…
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This is exactly how I feel with my accounting essay due next Sunday. I just keep looking at it thinking “What am I meant to be seeing here?” 🙁
We have to do an essay from a case study about Rio Tinto and we got an article and were told to pick 1 issue in it and write about it. She said she expects everyone to pick a different issue, but I can only see about 10 different issues.
*sigh* I wish the Easter break was this weekend instead of last weekend. I really just want to get away from everything right now and cuddle up with my dogs 🙁
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Yeah, but a lot happened this week 😛 Now I actually want time away. Seriously this week feels like it’s gone on for a month. I seriously can’t even recall Tuesday. I can sort of remember Monday. (And there was no alcohol involved)
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I was always kinda jealous of the living-on-campus people who had a bunch of friends doing all of the same subjects as they were. They just got together and did all of their assignments at once. That would’ve been sweet 😛
Ahhhh, uni.
People still ask me if I miss it and I erupt into laughter for the next half hour.
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It’s not even about the money, I’ve learnt more in the past 9 weeks than I did in a semester at uni.
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Aww man, get me a job pls? kthx <3
I don’t even know how I go about looking for jobs but as soon as I get a decent one, things will be all good
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The absolute worst assignment I’ve ever done…
Genuinely didn’t know what to do so I just put whatever crap sort of looks relevant in there even though it’s 100% wrong…
This reminds me of my high school days where I just didn’t give a fuck :/
27 QTE’s in a single boss fight. Every single one of them an instadeath start again.
Seriously? Wtf?
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Sounds like Uncharted Golden Abyss. Boss fights made entirely of QTEs made me want to punch babies.
This Bioshock Infinite game, its rathet good huh.
Also, seriously… this new super mario game on WiiU is totally not meant to be played co-op. It just produces frustration and saps fun. Worst game to play with your kid :'(
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Where you up to in BioShock? Amazing atmosphere and visual storytelling. I’ve had gospel songs in my head for an entire week now because of that game. 😀
Couldn’t agree more with Mario, even simple things like passing each other is annoying. (Where you crash into each other, inadvertantly sabotaging someone elses jump.) I just don’t think it’s a good game in general, coop or otherwise. :'(
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Mario can be fun in co-op, but you need the right environment.
And probably booze.
And you can’t let Troll S. Preston play.
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Because it’s lame and Rayman put it to shame!
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I played the Castle Rock level of the demo again the other day. Makes me laugh still. 😀
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If I did it’ll make me cry because of the delay 🙁
I kept my pre-order but tempted to cancel it and buy it when it’s like $5 on PC 😛
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NSMB Multiplayer is more ‘Versus’ than ‘Co-op’. So much fun in the right environment, horrible if you actually want to try and beat the game 😛
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Because as soon as you start Infinite you get to just indulge in the world. I gave Mass Effect a good day of play, and felt like I was being strung along with a bunch of people I didnt really care about, and going to planets I didnt care about. Granted it no doubtedly gets better, but Infinite has got my attention straight away.
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Yeaaaah… definitely getting over the shooting bits :/
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I haven’t bothered even caring. I fell in love with Bioshock from the trailer, got the game and didn’t get very far.
Such a cool world, so much shootening. 🙁
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http://collider.com/elysium-movie-images/
This movie sounds awesome and the basic premise reminds me of Deponia. 😀
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Sounds like the kind of scifi I like too, grounded human stories set against futuristic backdrop. 😀
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I’ll sit there, waiting for when halfway through the movie(District 9 spoilers)
it suddenly switched to being super duper violent, with bloodsplosions and stuff.Now I want to re-watch District 9. Fookin’ Prawns.
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District 9, eh. Still on the list. I loved the trailer at the time. Just one of those movies I never got around to seeing. :'(
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Oh man, it’s so good.
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SO good. Watch it nao, @dc.
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I’ll watch it when I can, man. I’ll watch it when I can. 😛
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@dc
NOW
(I watched Silver Linings Playbook yesterday, really enjoyed it! That trailer definitely did it no justice.)
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Yeah, probably one of the best movies in some time. Could relate a whole lot with the crazy people. 😀
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Don’t you “eh” District 9!
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Its great that Jodie Fosters in it too I reckon. Shes so so good, and hasnt had a good role in a long time. Hopefully she gets a good one here, I’m sure she will.
I’m strangely excited for Dead Island 2. I know the first one had a lot of issues, but it was a lot of fun in other ways. Got some serious co-op out of it with a few friends.
@dc I’m going to get a bunch of the movies from your list (including District 9) and you’re going to come here and we are going to start making a dent in it mmkay?
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i don’t know if Freeze is a Ghibli fan, but at the Jimu/Gutsoup meat, the word Ghibli Meat was repeated once or twice. Makings of a plan? 😛
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Ghibli make terrible films that people only pretend to like to give themselves some perceived self loathing hipster cred.
They don’t. I love their films.-
The blood, it was beginning to boil XD
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I’m really loving the new Stone Sour album. 25 consecutive plays and counting. I’m not obsessed no sir.
@powalen
Kotaku has an article for the new Pokemans. It’s in the picture :O
You’ve just gotta hope it doesn’t appear down the bottom/side/top so you aren’t all spoilerised, but I’m guessing you’ve probably already been since it’s hard to avoid :/
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Yeah, I’ve already seen it multiple times 😛 So hard to avoid single image information. Every website uses it as the article thumbnail and heaps of people use it as an avatar.
May as well post my thoughts!
I don’t mind the design. I like that Mewtwo is being referenced in these new games though with the whole genetics angle they have going. As long as it doesn’t end up with Pokemon fusions I’ll be happy.EDIT: Just watched the reveal trailer (if you can’t beat them… :P). Thoughts on that if you’ve seen it:
Woah, the battle camera is amazingly awesome. I love how dynamic it’s going to be. Especially at this point where it is using (what looks like) Blizzard. Love that little zoom out impact. Awesome! http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=vk_YC0MXJ-0#t=19s-
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I love how there’s 3 pictures to go through before he puts a spoiler warning just before a vague physical description via text.
Way to go.
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At the moment my backlog is all JRPG stuff really. Sitting here I’ve got Tales of Vesperia, the Atelier games (i.e. start playing Rorona again and see if I can make it through this time), Ar Tonelico III, FFXIII and XIII-2, Hyperdimension Neptunia series, Mugen Souls, Star Ocean 4, Agarest series, El Shaddai, Resonance of Fate, Ni no Kuni, Eternal Sonata.
I’ve also yet to finish Gravity Rush and P4G on Vita and have Radiant Historia, Okamiden and The World Ends With You here for DS.
I’m leaning toward Rorona actually. I need to stop buying NISA JRPG releases, I never get around to buying them. Agarest is high on my list but I’ll hold off and see if Ghostlight get it through Steam Greenlight.
Oh! I also have Ys Oath in Felghana and Ys Seven. I wanted to get through Oath before Celceta comes out in a few months on Vita.
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Hmmm can’t really recommend much except for P4, but you already know how good that is. If you didn’t like Ni no Kuni then there’s probably no point continuing with it.
I was actually gonna suggest Nier too but I see that’s not a possibility 🙁
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If I can find a PAL copy of it cheap somewhere I might consider it.
I’d have probably slogged through Ni no Kuni if the battle system wasn’t so stupidly fucking difficult.
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It should be cheap on eBay (got mine for $15), or you could just PS3 it
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My copy only runs on my JP 360 which is in storage. The mind is willing but the flesh is weak 🙁
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Thoughts on the new Doctor Who ep.
I quite liked it. Glad to see some classic “grab the girl and go off to a crazy world” stuff, rather than sitting around London/Wales. It also had the requisite amounts of rubbery costumes, and really bad special effects. The ending was a bit lame though. Also, I liked the way that it kind of tied it back into the whole “silence will fall blahblahblah” stuff, without hammering it in. Unless they didn’t mean to do that, in which case it’s a happy accident, and I’ll live in my little bubble.
Clara also remains quite attractive, and the opening titles remain terrible.
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Completely unrelated thoughts:
Why can’t all (games)companies be as good as Nintendo at music? They manage to have amazingly catchy tunes, that you usually won’t get sick of. It’s like there’s a wizard inside all of their little sound chips.
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Dude, I’m always surprised at how catchy their menu or smaller app music is (Letter Box!)
I find the Vita menu music annoying 😛
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There are tons of games companies out there that compose great music. Nintendo’s only good at making earworms. You’re basically asking why every composer doesn’t make catchy advertising jingles.
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I do not care for the whole WHO IS CLARA HERE IS A MASSIVE MYSTERY THAT WILL DRAG ON UNTIL THE FINALE OR POSSIBLY LONGER. But it’s all irrelevant because the Onion Knight is in the next episode. -
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My thoughts: GRRRARGHHH! Why’d you get the one that was missing the last four minutes, Mr. Strange?! >:(
Not cool at all. Ruined the atmosphere and now I have to wait to see the end. 🙁
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The first attempt at watching cut off halfway through The Doctor’s final words to the god-sun-face thingy while Clara’s family’s leaf was being absorbed. Not the greatest of moments to cutoff at,especially as it cut off mid-soaring musical climax.:P -
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I’m gonna have to try that some time…
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Chillies!
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MORE DARK SOULS
Went down the Demon Ruins with the intention of opening up the shortcut to Izalith, but after battling through an army of Capra Demons, found that the way was shut because I haven’t placed the Lordvessel yet. But I don’t want to place the Lordvessel until I meet the non-Kingseeker serpent fellow after the Four Kings battle and join his covenant for the Dark Hand. And I don’t want to do that until I can take advantage of my current covenant position (Chaos Servant L2) and open the Izalith shortcut. Damn it, I think I’ve done things in the wrong order. So instead of dealing with things, I went and farmed humanity in the Depths for 35 minutes. Item discovery at 410 is insane and fun. Also penicl. The end.
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Rats. Kill lots of rats. Get humanity. You only lose half your standing if you leave and rejoin do you’ll only need 15 humanity. Any reason you want to join the Darkstalkers? IIRC you have no online so the pvp stuff isn’t much use?-
I want the Dark Hand. It looks wicked. That’s it 😛
Also, yep, killing rats and drop slimes, getting stacks of shards too.
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This looks kinda fun. Will watch just for Lena Headey, that lady is proving to be a great actress. Also Ethan Hawke. http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/universal/thepurge/
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She was awesome in Dredd. He was awesome in Gattaca. Makings of the best movie ever? (Probably not, but I agree, sounds fun! :D)
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Thanks for asking, man. He’s okay. He spent the day in just a nappy and we kept the house cold with the air conditioning, and kept pumping the Panadol and Neurofen as much as possible. He’s still a lot warmer than he should be given the above, but his temperature hasn’t reached dangerous levels again. The rest of us are layered up like it’s the dead of winter, though 😛
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Hoodie temperature, you guys are so lucky! 😛
(In all seriousness, hope he gets better soon. Must be crazy stressful.)
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Dressing gown weather! \o/
No hood, sadly.We’re doing okay, stress-wise. The day at hospital was the worst. Better now 🙂
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Good to hear, man. 🙂
You wear a dressing gown? 😀 I picture one of those old timey ones from A Christmas Carol. (With the hat. Haha.)
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You know Trapper’s dressing gown in MASH? Picture that, but navy blue, and you’ll be really close.
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As someone who has never seen anything of either show, I would say that Mad Men looks more interesting 😛
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I think I enjoy the spectacle of Game of Thrones, but Mad Men has the character arcs that resonate with me and all that. Can’t go wrong either way.
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About to go to bed and watch some more StarTrek: Voyager.
I’m liking Voyager a million times better than Deep Space Nine. Which is funny because when I saw DS9 on TV I loved it and have often thought it was my favourite Trek but watching it all again recently made me almost hate it.
Hopefully I don’t end up hating Voyager too….
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I’ve seen bits and pieces of Voyager. But all I can think when I watch it is that Seven of Nine’s outfit is the single most exploitative costume I have ever seen that displays no skin 😛
We have the Borg Cube DVD set – bought it to impress my wife and get in good graces with my FIL. It was pretty much a waste of money 😛
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She’s also the show’s most compelling character, written off by many at the time because of her looks. Haha. (She also happened to be dating Brannon Braga, the shows EP during the shows run. :P) The Doctor and Seven of Nine are excellent.
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Resistence was futile! 😛
(So nerdy. :S)
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Keep phasers to stun boy.
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Mrs. Freeze and I talked Star Trek and Battlestar Galactica last night! XD
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I’ve been a bad influence on her.
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My Mum and I have been wathcing Voyager recently. It’s by far our fav series. We used to watch it when I was a teen, and she’d get home from work at like 10pm. Those days it was only at 10:30pm, so was a good chance for her to unwind. We never got to see all of it though, so I got the whole series for her! We’re up to season 3 at the moment. So good!
Sleeping is giving in, no matter what the time is. Sleeping is giving in, so lift those heavy eyelids.
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Looking for sleep is never helpful. I was given some ‘mindfulness’ exercises that helped in the short term, but in the end sleep is going to come, or not.
For me, what works best (and it’s pretty hard to make yourself do it) us just replacing ‘sleep time’ with ‘eyes-shut time’. It may not lead to sleep, but it just might.
I know I probably won’t sleep, but I’m off to catch some ‘eyes-shut time’ now. Wish me luck.
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Good luck, my hippy pal!
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Not sure if anyone will see this but anyway.
Oh dear, drinking on a Sunday night with Uni the next day. What have I become?
I can’t figure out a way to stop this affecting myself 🙁 They need support right now, especially after Oliver’s mum basically disowned him today, and there’s absolutely no way I can say no. I only found out tonight just how much I mean to them…
I never knew back in February when Me and Oliver first met and we had to chase his gf back home I’d end up in this position. It’s certainly making life interesting. There’s something to be said for single friends though.
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What kind of support? Engaged or otherwise, they’re still your pals, nothing’s really changed for you. 😀
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Emotional support really. I know nothing’s changed for me, but it can still get a bit much. Oliver was pretty hurt, and I can’t just leave him there alone when he needs somebody to talk to. I don’t really know how to word this, but he bottles up his emotions, and I’m the only person outside of their relationship he feels comfortable showing them around.
I know this should be a happy thing for them, but it really is a mess. His parents aren’t the least bit supportive, her mum doesn’t want her dad knowing, and all they have for support is the friends they’ve told.
It’ll get better soon. They’re just going through the it’s sinking in phase. Then hopefully they’ll be able to cope by themselves.
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I’ve honestly never felt more loved or appreciated in all my life, haha 😛
And thanks man 🙂 I try not to be a bastard!
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In his hut,
his hermit hut,
D.C. won’t sleep tonight.In his hut,
his hermit hut,
D.C. won’t sleep tonight.A whheeeeeeeee-oooo-wheeee-oooo- No sleep for D.C.(No sleep for D.C.)
A whheeeeeeeee-oooo-wheeee-oooo- No sleep for D.C.-
I’m sorry, but Lord Dickman of the Dickmen declared we are no longer allowed to refer or label D.C., or things related to D.C. as “hermit”
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How I wish this was a reply to @shane 🙁
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